December 1, 2025 • 32 mins
Tori’s day spirals from sick kids and unexpected pediatrician visits to surprise reunions, quirky coincidences, and heartwarming nostalgia. Along the way, she discovers “signs” that remind her to live with gentle strength - all centered around family, memories, and yes… lamb chops!
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Misspelling with Tori Spelling and iHeartRadio podcast. Oh my gosh,
you guys, it's a whole new week, whole new beginning
till the next holiday. They just come at rapid fire
till the new year, don't they. So the last couple
of weeks it's been I feel like I keep talking
(00:31):
about this, but tis the season, and here it's going
around everywhere. My kids have been sick, but it's like
they got sick again. I'm only bringing this up because
it's an interesting pattern of events that lead the way
in this story. Now, this happened last week, so the
timeline might be off slightly from my memory, but.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Hang on, keep up. Here we go.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Okay, so Bo gets sick and are pediatrician who I love,
Doctor Julia.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
We call her doctor Julia. Last name is Breckner.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I want to bring Bowen because he is sick and
I want her to swab him for you know, it's
not just COVID anymore. They test for Oh my gosh,
what do they do. It's like the flu, the I
don't know something virus. There's a million different viruses and
bacterias going around at the schools.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
You can't keep up.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
So I want to bring him in to see what
he has and if he needs antibiotics, which I hate
giving that, but if he needs it. He was getting worse.
So I go to make it a sick day, same
sick day appointment. And when I reach out, they say, oh,
this is the one day that doctor Julia is not here,
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but her brother is here, doctor Dany, who the kids
have gone to before. They're comfortable with him. I was like, great,
years ago they.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Went to him.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
So I take Bo and we go to doctor Danny's office.
And when we get in there, I said, Bo, this
is doctor Danny. You went to him a long time ago.
He's doctor Julia's brother. You'll be really comfortable with him.
And he says to me, your friends with Jess And
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I said, Jess ammer my best friend. Yes, and he
said so my daughter is best friends with her daughter, Isabella.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
And then it was like.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
You know when things come back that you are so
busy in life that you don't take notice of, but
then when it comes back up, they're like, oh, yeah,
now I remember all that. So then I'm like, oh,
that's right. And he said, yes, our daughters had their
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birthday party together this year. And I said, I know,
I was so looking forward to coming and both coming
and I got sick so I couldn't go, And he said, yeah,
I wish you had been able to come because my
mother in law. And then I remember Jess had told
me this like a year ago, missus Christopher. She was
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your teacher in school in fourth grade. And I'm like, oh,
my god, that's right. Jess did tell me. And he's like, yeah,
do you remember her? And I'm like, do I remember her?
She changed my life. I will forever remember her because
she's one of those teachers that we've all had that
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stands out to you and for me, at least in
my experience, school was really challenging. My takeaway from school
as an adult was I loved the social experiences. I
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loved some of the teachers. I loved that that was
my educational journey, But I hate that that was my
educational journey at the same time, back when I went
to school, I feel like it's so different now, but
kind of not. Now they are letting kids kind of
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lead with their creative passions. Well the more school like,
that's more a private school thing. So my kids are
in the public school system, so it's still I feel like,
not quite there yet, but heading in that direction. But definitely,
when I was young, whether it was public school or
private school, it was like academic everyone got put into
(04:55):
a box basically. And so I out of high school
thinking I'm just gonna say it. I was really done,
and I was like wow, and that stuck with me,
like the fact that I had to take math three times,
the fact that I was shamed in like an eleventh
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grader sitting in a freshman class, like oh like it
just and then the more I got nervous about it,
the worse I would do and the less I would
absorb of the information. And I think I'm just making excuses.
I'm just not good at math, Like I my second
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grader bo like his math. I look at and I freeze.
But oh no, it's not that I'm not good at math.
I think I freeze because of my trauma, Like my
school experienced trauma. My brain just sees math and I'm like,
they're all gonna laugh at you.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
That was a reference from Carrie.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Anyway, So yeah, so what was I saying? Oh but
missus Christopher was one of those teachers that really made
me feel good about myself. And gave me confidence in myself,
whereas a lot of my elementary and high school experience
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didn't provide that safe, nurturing place for me, if that
makes sense. In high school, in both schools, like in elementary,
in high school, like drama was my thing. I was
very into theater and doing all that. That was kind
of my outlet. And then I would take my love
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of that and entertain my friend groups. Like this is
going to be no shocker to anyone, but I was
friends with everybody.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Of course, there's.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Always clicks, but I could kind of be in my
friend group but easily and maneuver in and out to
get along with everybody, and that was that's a skill.
But I just like people for the most part. So yeah,
I would take like what I learned in theater class,
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and I loved Ms Nichols in high school. She was
Wanda Nichols, my drama teacher. I would take the love
of that and like during lunch and Resa's like I
would do characters for people and make them laugh and
like when we had a lot of fun, and so
that was the part I really loved. But again, like
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I definitely came out of high school thinking I'm not
a smart girl. I'm a funny girl. I'm a kind girl,
but I don't have educational smarts. That's not a word
or phrase, but that's what just came out. But so
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it's taken me along time to really realize that I
am quite bright.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Oh my god, I said it out about.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Oh with a lump in my throat, swallowing hard as
I said that. Let me just cough it out. I'm
smart their world. Oh that felt better. But anyway, I'm
gonna go back to the story. But missus Christopher was
that kind teacher that always believed in me. Perhaps she
I don't really remember, but took extra time to make
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me feel safe, nurtured, encourage me, build my confidence when
it was low. And that's a really special thing that
stayed with me my entire life. Okay, so going back
to the story, Doctor Danny, we're at the pediatrician.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Oh, sorry, it's a wild ride. You guys with me
so far?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
So I say, yes, Oh my gosh, please give her
my love, and he.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Said I will.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
So I take bow and we are driving home and
I say to my kids, oh my gosh, it's late.
I don't think I can cook dinner tonight, want me
to pick up food? And they're like, yeah, sushi. And
for the first time, Bo loves sushi. He could eat
sushi every day at night. He's truly my child. He's like,
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I don't really feel like sushi. I'm like, oh my god,
you really are sick.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Wow, Okay.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
So I say to him, what would you feel like,
I'll pick up food and he says, oh, mom, I
feel like lamb chops. What like what eight year old
says that? And honestly, like, well, I grew up eating
lamb chops. Oh my gosh, I love them so much.
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Like in our house we always had lamb chops, but
it's not a common thing like in our world now,
like like I'm cooking lamb chops weekly, even though this reminds.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Me I want to cook lamb chops. But I say okay.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
And then do you guys know when you eat lamb
chops and they have those little panties, those little paper
ruffle panties.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
They put on the end of it where the end
doesn't eat lambs. So she's gonna be.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Like, nope, nope, nope, nope.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Ah man, Eastern I'll know this Easton, You know the panties.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
What what.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
You know, the little ruffle panties that the paper they
put on the end of lamb chops so that you
don't like, quote unquote grease your hands up when you
hold them, even though it's not it's meant to be
held to eat at a restaurant.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I know those, okay too well, So.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Anyway, mint jelly. Nothing beats old school mint jelly with
lamb chops. Anyway, Bo says this, so I'm like, okay,
let's deal with it.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
When we get home.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
As we're driving home, we drive past one of my
favorite restaurants, Monty's Monty's Steakhouse. My dog Monty is actually
named after Monty's. I've been going to monty since I
was a kid. They had three locations. We go to
the one in the Valley now, but growing up, there
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was one in Westwood, so I always went there, went
with my family, then went with my friends and I think, oh, wait, Easton.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
There's one in Pasadena, Yes, or was.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Checking? I think there is.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I think the.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Original one was there, and I feel like they closed
it down.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Anyway, it closed after sixty six years in two thousand
and seven.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Wow, yes, but it was I know, and they took
the original boost and they actually brought it to the
Woodland Hills one one. So that's Monty's in a nutshell,
Like who names their dog after a steakhouse?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Me? It's that good.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
And it just holds so many family memories, friend memories
and my kids. I have been bringing my kids there
since they were little, and yeah, it's.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Just like it's tradition. So we pass.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
It and I'm like Monty's, Oh my gosh, we haven't
eaten there in a long time. Like my kid's birthdays,
we go there. Like it's Liam's favorite. So every year
for his birthday we go to Monty's. Like his eighteenth birthday,
we went to dinner with our family and his best
friends for his birthday. So we haven't been there since
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March thirteenth. Okay, So I was like, oh, okay Monty's.
Oh I miss Monty's. Oh okay, I can pick up
lamb chops. This sounds excessive, but it can be done.
And then I get home and I'm like, guys, who
feels like lamb chops?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Anyone want Monty's. They're like oh yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
So I'm like, oh, you know what I was like bo,
do you want me to pick it up or do
you want to go? And he wanted to go, so
you're sure you feel okay? So we bundled him up
and we go to Monty's. My kids get their lamb chops.
We all split it like a couple of steaks like
that was happening, and I was just like, oh, miss
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Monty's lamb chops. Then it was like such on a
whim that we decided to do this right Then as
we're leaving, literally we start to leave, I go back
to the table because I forgot my phone, so I'm
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looking around and it had fallen under the table.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Safe got it.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
But this is such do you guys know the movie
Sliding Doors Gwyneth Paltrow one of my favorite movies. So anyway,
it shows how like in life, like being can happen,
and if you were like five seconds later, five seconds earlier,
it alters the future. That sound a cuckoo, but you
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know what I mean. So anyway, because I dropped my
phone because I went back, I now walk out and
walk right into someone I have not seen since my twenties,
Linda Murray.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
She we were super good friends.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
She was my next door neighbor at my very first
apartment I moved into when I was eighteen and a half.
The door Chester, not the will Shure that I talk about,
a lot that was like a few doors down. This
was my first one. Literally have not seen her since,
oh my gosh, like my twenty first birthday. So I'm like, whoa,
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oh my gosh. I said, what are the chances? I
can't believe we're walking into each other right now, and
she's like, I know, this is crazy.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
So I say.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
We exchange numbers and have been texting ever since. But
I'm like, wow, that was such a bizarre what are
the chances? But there are no chances right, Like it
was meant to happen, so very cool. And we used
to go to Monty's and Westwood together. That's that reference
with her. Anyway, we get in the car, we go home,
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and I'm just like, wow, this has been like a
wildly crazy day of like things are happening and signs
like you're talking about signs. So cut forward the next day,
I go down to get medicine caps random I know,
to give bo medicine and I open up a drawer.
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Now in my house, well, you guys know me, well,
I'm not organized like random where things are like nothing
makes sense in my world, but everything makes sense, if
that makes sense. I open up a drawer in the
kitchen where the medicine caps are, and in the back
the drawer there's a pack of lamb chop panties, the
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ruffle panties I was describing.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Now, that's insane short of gut.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
So literally, I know, I like bought them at some
point from Amazon or something, never used, and like when
I make lamb chops one day. Growing up, we always
like my family put these ruffle panties on. But the
timing of it. I just opened the drawer.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
I see it there.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I haven't seen it since. I guess I put it
there at some point in the past, and I'm.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Like, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
But typically I'm moving so fast I wouldn't have seen,
and I like slowed down to be like look and
saw that. I was like, Wow, that's a funny coincidence.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Take note of that.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Then I went I went forward with my day. Five
o'clock that day, my brother Randy sends me a video.
We have not talked about any of this, and he
and his daughters my nieces, are making lamb chops.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
No way.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Yeah, I think it's crazy, like the two siblings have
the lamb chop thing almost more than any of the
other coincidences that the two of your brains.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
You know, Yeah, interesting, that's.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Just because you always go back to what you like
eat growing up, because it's like a comfort level, right, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Here's wal lamb chops.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Sorry, but I make other things that are like comfort food.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
It's more relatable, like my chicken fried steak.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Anyway, he's making lamb chops and I'm like, oh my gosh,
and I'm just laughing. First of all, it looked so good,
but I was like, my mouth's watering right now thinking
about them.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
But I was like, wow, that's so funny.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
And lately, my brother and I have been talking a
lot about taking time to really like I think I
talked about Halloween, Like my Halloween costume was made from
I was a pizza.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
But it came for me.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Like rushing through Target to grab something else, seeing a
dog toy and being like why does my brain want
me to stop and pay attention to that, And then
I'm like, oh, okay, that's my costume. So like, I've
really been trying to take in like random things like
is a deja vu? Is it just like add or ADHD?
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Like why am I not focused? Like or am I
supposed to be focus on certain things and take note
of them.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
That's all.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Anyway, So he makes lam chops. They look amazing and anyway,
Then the next take Bo has to go back because
hit doctor Danny says he has something. We need to
put him on antibiotics. But I want to put him
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on an antibiotic that that does not resistant to this stream, okay,
And he said, so I need him to come back in.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Is there any way you could get him back in?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
And I was like, oh my gosh, of course, Like
I'm driving a million kids, doing a million things working
and I'm like and I'm like, yep, I'll get him in.
So ruth Anna remembers this because I feel like I
had to like change meetings and stuff around that day.
I remember, yep, yep, oh boy, but my kid's health,
like they come first. So I go home and I say,
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because all the kids are home because it's you know,
the holiday break, And I say, guys, I my gut
is telling me that we should all go in and
it'll take five seconds I'm like pitching to them why
this is a good idea to maintain their health? Like
what why not just say, guys, get the car go.
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So I'm like, but I me being me, I'm over talking,
I'm overthinking, not over mommy. If I was over mommy,
I again would have said let's just get in my car.
So I said, something is telling me that we you
guys should all get a swab. Doctor Danny said, everyone
come in and since I'm going with bo anyway, we
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should go. So they all you know him in haw
but they they do it. The one that was really
resistant was your ring bear, ruth An Finn. Finn was
ruth Anne's ring bear. What year did you and Tom
get married?
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Twenty seventeen and Finn, I'm.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Gonna count on my fingers because I don't do math.
He was four wait, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Oh five.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
So Finn was five and he was the ring bear
in their wedding and it was amazing.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
He was so cute, Oh my god, it's cute.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
And he was so nervous, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
And he did such a perfect job.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
He did a great job.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
But so I like to think that Ruthanne has a
special place in her heart for Finn. I do I know,
Oh my god, you can't pick favorites.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Is that my favorite? There is no favorite. I love
them all, but he has a special place in my life.
I mean, he's my favorite.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
I know.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
I'm kidding him, railing you up. So Finn is like,
I'm not sick. I said, I've heard you cough. He's like,
I have allergies, mom, And I was like, I don't know.
Something just told me Finn is the one. Finn is
the truth and one no. Finn needs to go. So
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I'm like, okay, well.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
It doesn't matter. Let's just all go.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
So he agrees to go. Got him off his gaming
console for an hour, so anyway, we all go. All
five of them get swabbed, and doctor Danny says, I'll
have the results in a day. So the next day,
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doctor Danny texts me and he says, I'm with my
mother in law. She sends her love as well. She
said she will never forget when she was pregnant with
my wife.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
The gift that you gave her.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
I don't remember any of this, but I'm like, oh
my gosh, what was it? And he said it's a blanket,
and she still has it, and he sends me a
picture of the blanket from Neiman Marcus and he's like,
it's in my wife's like memory collection, and you, guys,
I want to pull this up to give the exact
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wording because it's wild now, just to refresh the story
in case you can't keep up, because this is kind
of all over the place in wild. Doctor Danny's wife,
her mother was the teacher that changed my life in
fourth grade. Missus Christopher, doctor Danny is my pediatrician's brother,
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and he and my best friend Jess have kids that
are best friends. Okay, I'm moving on. Okay, So he says,
this is from missus Christopher. Here is the infamous Tory
spelling blanket that I loved so much. It came in
a beautiful gift basket from Neiman Marcus with another blanket
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that was yellow and white, an adorable musical lamb and
a onesie woamb whoa lamb? What are the chances this
is like a game of charades, you guys? Or what's
that game when you like whisper the word and like
the word is the poem.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
The past word it is?
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Do you remember that I'm a cable guy that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
So he also says I have the results. Can you
get on the phone, And I'm like yes, So I
get in the phone. This guy's very funny by the way,
I can tell he's like one of mine, you know.
So I'm like, okay, so.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
I can always read people. So I get on the phone.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
And I could hear like kids in the background, and
he's like, you know, multitasking and he's like, oh, sorry,
I'm you know, I'm sorry. I'm with the kids, like,
and he's telling one like he has like young kids
and he's like telling one.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
He's like he's like, hey me, your swim diaper hand me. No, no, no, no,
you had like all of this and he was like sorry.
I was like, oh my god, don't worry. This is
my life.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
And then he goes, okay, so this is crazy, but
you have five bacterias in your house.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
And I said, well, I know.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
That, but what are the results for the kids?
Speaker 2 (25:03):
He laughed. He was like going so fast with his
crazy life.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
He took a moment. He's like, oh, that's funny. I'm
like just trying to make you laugh.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
But I was like, uh yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
So only four of them tested for bacterias in the house,
but two of them tested for two different ones. So no, no, no,
one of them tested for two different ones. Told you,
I don't do math. Here we go bring it full circle.
So there's five bacteries in the house. I have to
get Yeah, so three four kids, they're on antibiotics.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Let's just say that four kids. Wait, can I just
back it up for Oh god, yes.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Five kids living under the same roof end up with
five different bacterias.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Like, I don't get it. How does that work? Or
did he not have enough time quick because he was diapering.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
My brother asked me the same thing, and I had
to think about it, and I was like, because I'm
not basic, like I don't know, Like.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Well, I mean, how this happened to me outside of
the fact that it's you, and of course that would
happen to you. I I think I'm looking for a
more scientific explanation.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Oh my god, the poor guy was dealing with like
a naked kid in like diapers and trying to dress
her for the pool and spend time with this family.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
I didn't get into details.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
I was trying to find a pen to write all
this down because he's telling me names.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Of course, Finn has some.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Virus or bacteria that starts with an F, and I'm like, oh,
in Finn fashion, like you know, always a pun like
my kid.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
I was like, of course, I've never even heard of
this one.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
So I like, and I can't find a pen because
you guys know, I don't write anything down. Everything stays
in my brain. So I'm trying to find a pen.
I found, I found a pen, wrote it down whatever.
I had to go from room to room and read
to the kids exactly what they had. And then doctor
Danny was like, don't go down the rabbit hole of Google.
He's like, just you know, I've seen all of these
bacterias come in and out lately, a lot amongst you know,
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young kids, teenagers. Like it's just everything, it's all this
is very normal. He did say that. He said, he
just kept saying.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
You just have a lot of kids.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Yeah, my now, yeah, that's the thing. Okay, So before
I get too far away, keep in mind the word.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Is lamb Okay.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
So anyway, I tell him like, thank you very much,
have a great day.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Like all that.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
We get off the phone and this is crazy. We
get off the phone and Manty I opened the door
to come tell the kids like the results. I close
myself in the bedroom because it's so loud in the house,
to focus on doctor Danny for a moment, write all
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it down, and I now I'm like, okay, my paper,
I'm going to go tell all the kids what they have.
I opened the door and Monty is standing there. And
Monty drops his favorite toy we call his baby. He
loves stuffed animals. And I had forgotten that I got
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him this. He drops Lamb Chop right in front of me.
You remember Lamb Chop from the the Old School. It
was a character, a puppet like yeah originally right? It
was so Sherry Lewis. She famously created and performed sock
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puppet Adrian. Yes, Lamb Chop for Captain Kangaroo.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Oh wow, Kangaroo.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
I'm old same. I loved Captain Kangaroo.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Me too, Me too anyway, So but my mom was
a huge fan.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
So when we were young, she always had like the
Lamb Chop character puppet like for us, my brother and I.
So they now make it in like Petco, there's always
Lamb Chop. I don't know if people get the reference.
Maybe they're just like, oh, it's a cute Lamb, but
it literally is a take on that puppet, and I forgot.
Whenever I see it, I always buy it because I
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was just such a huge fan. So I think like
a couple months ago, I bought Lamb Chop at Petco
for Monty. Anyway, long story short, he drops it right
in front of me and I'm like, oh, it's your baby.
I'm like, no, Lamb Lamb. Oh my god, this is
another Lamb sign. What is happening? That's totally crazy. So
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have you figured out what the sign means? So I
know my brother all of this and being like the
type of brain I have, Like if you give me
a priority list, my friend just says, I always like,
if you give me a list of one to ten,
I'll focus on number eleven on the list until it's done,
like the details. So I'm telling him all this and
(30:03):
he's like, Okay, I think there's an overall sign here.
He's like, you're focusing on the details because I was like,
missus Christopher and like what this is. He's like, I'm
literally like playing this game of my life with like
connecting the dots of like what do these signs mean?
And He's like, I think it might just be an
overall sign like LAMB. So he looks up what does
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LAMB mean in your life? Not the meat like lamb? Sorry,
I just keep saying that because I know those persons
you're out with them because you don't need LAMB.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Nice. I know.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
I'm sorry, Okay, And I wish I wish it was
another reference, but it's not.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
It is what it is.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
It is. It is.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
You can't fight. You can't fight the signs.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
You can't fight the signs. Okay.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
So he was just saying, like the overall thing that
keeps coming here, like you're looking at the details is LAMB, right?
Speaker 2 (31:00):
And I was like yeah, he's like.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
So he was like, look up the spiritual meaning of
keep like when you keep seeing or getting that sign
of lamb and this is crazy, you guys. Here's what
it means if you look it up. The spiritual meaning
of seeing a lamb is about remembering who you were
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before the world hardened you and choosing again to live
with gentle strength. Like what that's got me in my tracks?
I was like, oh my gosh, this is crazy. It's like, yeah,
overall like a lot of exhausting, but fun signs, But
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like the takeaway was like, okay, like I no choke,
literally like kind of looked up and I was like,
thanks Dad, Oh I love Like I literally took that
moment because I was like, oh my god, Like, I
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don't know. It's just like a beautiful concept to think,
Like people say, look for signs that your loved ones
are around, and you know they'll be like a butterfly
or you know, like a penny things like that. But
I'm always like, is it go beyond that? And I
don't know, We don't know.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
But I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
I whatever it was or whoever it was, I was
just like, I'm grateful, thank you. So yeah, that's my
takeaway for now. So I'm gonna go rule the world.
Any questions, Just kidding
Misspelling with Tori Spelling and iHeartRadio podcast. Oh my gosh,
you guys, it's a whole new week, whole new beginning
till the next holiday. They just come at rapid fire
till the new year, don't they. So the last couple
of weeks it's been I feel like I keep talking
(00:31):
about this, but tis the season, and here it's going
around everywhere. My kids have been sick, but it's like
they got sick again. I'm only bringing this up because
it's an interesting pattern of events that lead the way
in this story. Now, this happened last week, so the
timeline might be off slightly from my memory, but.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Hang on, keep up. Here we go.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Okay, so Bo gets sick and are pediatrician who I love,
Doctor Julia.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
We call her doctor Julia. Last name is Breckner.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I want to bring Bowen because he is sick and
I want her to swab him for you know, it's
not just COVID anymore. They test for Oh my gosh,
what do they do. It's like the flu, the I
don't know something virus. There's a million different viruses and
bacterias going around at the schools.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
You can't keep up.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
So I want to bring him in to see what
he has and if he needs antibiotics, which I hate
giving that, but if he needs it. He was getting worse.
So I go to make it a sick day, same
sick day appointment. And when I reach out, they say, oh,
this is the one day that doctor Julia is not here,
(01:52):
but her brother is here, doctor Dany, who the kids
have gone to before. They're comfortable with him. I was like, great,
years ago they.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Went to him.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
So I take Bo and we go to doctor Danny's office.
And when we get in there, I said, Bo, this
is doctor Danny. You went to him a long time ago.
He's doctor Julia's brother. You'll be really comfortable with him.
And he says to me, your friends with Jess And
(02:27):
I said, Jess ammer my best friend. Yes, and he
said so my daughter is best friends with her daughter, Isabella.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
And then it was like.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
You know when things come back that you are so
busy in life that you don't take notice of, but
then when it comes back up, they're like, oh, yeah,
now I remember all that. So then I'm like, oh,
that's right. And he said, yes, our daughters had their
(03:02):
birthday party together this year. And I said, I know,
I was so looking forward to coming and both coming
and I got sick so I couldn't go, And he said, yeah,
I wish you had been able to come because my
mother in law. And then I remember Jess had told
me this like a year ago, missus Christopher. She was
(03:26):
your teacher in school in fourth grade. And I'm like, oh,
my god, that's right. Jess did tell me. And he's like, yeah,
do you remember her? And I'm like, do I remember her?
She changed my life. I will forever remember her because
she's one of those teachers that we've all had that
(03:47):
stands out to you and for me, at least in
my experience, school was really challenging. My takeaway from school
as an adult was I loved the social experiences. I
(04:08):
loved some of the teachers. I loved that that was
my educational journey, But I hate that that was my
educational journey at the same time, back when I went
to school, I feel like it's so different now, but
kind of not. Now they are letting kids kind of
(04:32):
lead with their creative passions. Well the more school like,
that's more a private school thing. So my kids are
in the public school system, so it's still I feel like,
not quite there yet, but heading in that direction. But definitely,
when I was young, whether it was public school or
private school, it was like academic everyone got put into
(04:55):
a box basically. And so I out of high school
thinking I'm just gonna say it. I was really done,
and I was like wow, and that stuck with me,
like the fact that I had to take math three times,
the fact that I was shamed in like an eleventh
(05:15):
grader sitting in a freshman class, like oh like it
just and then the more I got nervous about it,
the worse I would do and the less I would
absorb of the information. And I think I'm just making excuses.
I'm just not good at math, Like I my second
(05:36):
grader bo like his math. I look at and I freeze.
But oh no, it's not that I'm not good at math.
I think I freeze because of my trauma, Like my
school experienced trauma. My brain just sees math and I'm like,
they're all gonna laugh at you.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
That was a reference from Carrie.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Anyway, So yeah, so what was I saying? Oh but
missus Christopher was one of those teachers that really made
me feel good about myself. And gave me confidence in myself,
whereas a lot of my elementary and high school experience
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didn't provide that safe, nurturing place for me, if that
makes sense. In high school, in both schools, like in elementary,
in high school, like drama was my thing. I was
very into theater and doing all that. That was kind
of my outlet. And then I would take my love
(06:44):
of that and entertain my friend groups. Like this is
going to be no shocker to anyone, but I was
friends with everybody.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Of course, there's.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Always clicks, but I could kind of be in my
friend group but easily and maneuver in and out to
get along with everybody, and that was that's a skill.
But I just like people for the most part. So yeah,
I would take like what I learned in theater class,
(07:16):
and I loved Ms Nichols in high school. She was
Wanda Nichols, my drama teacher. I would take the love
of that and like during lunch and Resa's like I
would do characters for people and make them laugh and
like when we had a lot of fun, and so
that was the part I really loved. But again, like
(07:38):
I definitely came out of high school thinking I'm not
a smart girl. I'm a funny girl. I'm a kind girl,
but I don't have educational smarts. That's not a word
or phrase, but that's what just came out. But so
(07:59):
it's taken me along time to really realize that I
am quite bright.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Oh my god, I said it out about.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Oh with a lump in my throat, swallowing hard as
I said that. Let me just cough it out. I'm
smart their world. Oh that felt better. But anyway, I'm
gonna go back to the story. But missus Christopher was
that kind teacher that always believed in me. Perhaps she
I don't really remember, but took extra time to make
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me feel safe, nurtured, encourage me, build my confidence when
it was low. And that's a really special thing that
stayed with me my entire life. Okay, so going back
to the story, Doctor Danny, we're at the pediatrician.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Oh, sorry, it's a wild ride. You guys with me
so far?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
So I say, yes, Oh my gosh, please give her
my love, and he.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Said I will.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
So I take bow and we are driving home and
I say to my kids, oh my gosh, it's late.
I don't think I can cook dinner tonight, want me
to pick up food? And they're like, yeah, sushi. And
for the first time, Bo loves sushi. He could eat
sushi every day at night. He's truly my child. He's like,
(09:17):
I don't really feel like sushi. I'm like, oh my god,
you really are sick.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Wow, Okay.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
So I say to him, what would you feel like,
I'll pick up food and he says, oh, mom, I
feel like lamb chops. What like what eight year old
says that? And honestly, like, well, I grew up eating
lamb chops. Oh my gosh, I love them so much.
(09:43):
Like in our house we always had lamb chops, but
it's not a common thing like in our world now,
like like I'm cooking lamb chops weekly, even though this reminds.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Me I want to cook lamb chops. But I say okay.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
And then do you guys know when you eat lamb
chops and they have those little panties, those little paper
ruffle panties.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
They put on the end of it where the end
doesn't eat lambs. So she's gonna be.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Like, nope, nope, nope, nope.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Ah man, Eastern I'll know this Easton, You know the panties.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
What what.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
You know, the little ruffle panties that the paper they
put on the end of lamb chops so that you
don't like, quote unquote grease your hands up when you
hold them, even though it's not it's meant to be
held to eat at a restaurant.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I know those, okay too well, So.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Anyway, mint jelly. Nothing beats old school mint jelly with
lamb chops. Anyway, Bo says this, so I'm like, okay,
let's deal with it.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
When we get home.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
As we're driving home, we drive past one of my
favorite restaurants, Monty's Monty's Steakhouse. My dog Monty is actually
named after Monty's. I've been going to monty since I
was a kid. They had three locations. We go to
the one in the Valley now, but growing up, there
(11:19):
was one in Westwood, so I always went there, went
with my family, then went with my friends and I think, oh, wait, Easton.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
There's one in Pasadena, Yes, or was.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Checking? I think there is.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I think the.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Original one was there, and I feel like they closed
it down.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Anyway, it closed after sixty six years in two thousand
and seven.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Wow, yes, but it was I know, and they took
the original boost and they actually brought it to the
Woodland Hills one one. So that's Monty's in a nutshell,
Like who names their dog after a steakhouse?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Me? It's that good.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
And it just holds so many family memories, friend memories
and my kids. I have been bringing my kids there
since they were little, and yeah, it's.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Just like it's tradition. So we pass.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
It and I'm like Monty's, Oh my gosh, we haven't
eaten there in a long time. Like my kid's birthdays,
we go there. Like it's Liam's favorite. So every year
for his birthday we go to Monty's. Like his eighteenth birthday,
we went to dinner with our family and his best
friends for his birthday. So we haven't been there since
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March thirteenth. Okay, So I was like, oh, okay Monty's.
Oh I miss Monty's. Oh okay, I can pick up
lamb chops. This sounds excessive, but it can be done.
And then I get home and I'm like, guys, who
feels like lamb chops?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Anyone want Monty's. They're like oh yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
So I'm like, oh, you know what I was like bo,
do you want me to pick it up or do
you want to go? And he wanted to go, so
you're sure you feel okay? So we bundled him up
and we go to Monty's. My kids get their lamb chops.
We all split it like a couple of steaks like
that was happening, and I was just like, oh, miss
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Monty's lamb chops. Then it was like such on a
whim that we decided to do this right Then as
we're leaving, literally we start to leave, I go back
to the table because I forgot my phone, so I'm
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looking around and it had fallen under the table.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Safe got it.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
But this is such do you guys know the movie
Sliding Doors Gwyneth Paltrow one of my favorite movies. So anyway,
it shows how like in life, like being can happen,
and if you were like five seconds later, five seconds earlier,
it alters the future. That sound a cuckoo, but you
(14:09):
know what I mean. So anyway, because I dropped my
phone because I went back, I now walk out and
walk right into someone I have not seen since my twenties,
Linda Murray.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
She we were super good friends.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
She was my next door neighbor at my very first
apartment I moved into when I was eighteen and a half.
The door Chester, not the will Shure that I talk about,
a lot that was like a few doors down. This
was my first one. Literally have not seen her since,
oh my gosh, like my twenty first birthday. So I'm like, whoa,
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oh my gosh. I said, what are the chances? I
can't believe we're walking into each other right now, and
she's like, I know, this is crazy.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
So I say.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
We exchange numbers and have been texting ever since. But
I'm like, wow, that was such a bizarre what are
the chances? But there are no chances right, Like it
was meant to happen, so very cool. And we used
to go to Monty's and Westwood together. That's that reference
with her. Anyway, we get in the car, we go home,
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and I'm just like, wow, this has been like a
wildly crazy day of like things are happening and signs
like you're talking about signs. So cut forward the next day,
I go down to get medicine caps random I know,
to give bo medicine and I open up a drawer.
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Now in my house, well, you guys know me, well,
I'm not organized like random where things are like nothing
makes sense in my world, but everything makes sense, if
that makes sense. I open up a drawer in the
kitchen where the medicine caps are, and in the back
the drawer there's a pack of lamb chop panties, the
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ruffle panties I was describing.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Now, that's insane short of gut.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
So literally, I know, I like bought them at some
point from Amazon or something, never used, and like when
I make lamb chops one day. Growing up, we always
like my family put these ruffle panties on. But the
timing of it. I just opened the drawer.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
I see it there.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I haven't seen it since. I guess I put it
there at some point in the past, and I'm.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Like, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
But typically I'm moving so fast I wouldn't have seen,
and I like slowed down to be like look and
saw that. I was like, Wow, that's a funny coincidence.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Take note of that.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Then I went I went forward with my day. Five
o'clock that day, my brother Randy sends me a video.
We have not talked about any of this, and he
and his daughters my nieces, are making lamb chops.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
No way.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Yeah, I think it's crazy, like the two siblings have
the lamb chop thing almost more than any of the
other coincidences that the two of your brains.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
You know, Yeah, interesting, that's.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Just because you always go back to what you like
eat growing up, because it's like a comfort level, right, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Here's wal lamb chops.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Sorry, but I make other things that are like comfort food.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
It's more relatable, like my chicken fried steak.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Anyway, he's making lamb chops and I'm like, oh my gosh,
and I'm just laughing. First of all, it looked so good,
but I was like, my mouth's watering right now thinking
about them.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
But I was like, wow, that's so funny.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
And lately, my brother and I have been talking a
lot about taking time to really like I think I
talked about Halloween, Like my Halloween costume was made from
I was a pizza.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
But it came for me.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Like rushing through Target to grab something else, seeing a
dog toy and being like why does my brain want
me to stop and pay attention to that, And then
I'm like, oh, okay, that's my costume. So like, I've
really been trying to take in like random things like
is a deja vu? Is it just like add or ADHD?
(18:36):
Like why am I not focused? Like or am I
supposed to be focus on certain things and take note
of them.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
That's all.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Anyway, So he makes lam chops. They look amazing and anyway,
Then the next take Bo has to go back because
hit doctor Danny says he has something. We need to
put him on antibiotics. But I want to put him
(19:05):
on an antibiotic that that does not resistant to this stream, okay,
And he said, so I need him to come back in.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Is there any way you could get him back in?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
And I was like, oh my gosh, of course, Like
I'm driving a million kids, doing a million things working
and I'm like and I'm like, yep, I'll get him in.
So ruth Anna remembers this because I feel like I
had to like change meetings and stuff around that day.
I remember, yep, yep, oh boy, but my kid's health,
like they come first. So I go home and I say,
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because all the kids are home because it's you know,
the holiday break, And I say, guys, I my gut
is telling me that we should all go in and
it'll take five seconds I'm like pitching to them why
this is a good idea to maintain their health? Like
what why not just say, guys, get the car go.
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So I'm like, but I me being me, I'm over talking,
I'm overthinking, not over mommy. If I was over mommy,
I again would have said let's just get in my car.
So I said, something is telling me that we you
guys should all get a swab. Doctor Danny said, everyone
come in and since I'm going with bo anyway, we
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should go. So they all you know him in haw
but they they do it. The one that was really
resistant was your ring bear, ruth An Finn. Finn was
ruth Anne's ring bear. What year did you and Tom
get married?
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Twenty seventeen and Finn, I'm.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Gonna count on my fingers because I don't do math.
He was four wait, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Oh five.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
So Finn was five and he was the ring bear
in their wedding and it was amazing.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
He was so cute, Oh my god, it's cute.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
And he was so nervous, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
And he did such a perfect job.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
He did a great job.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
But so I like to think that Ruthanne has a
special place in her heart for Finn. I do I know,
Oh my god, you can't pick favorites.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Is that my favorite? There is no favorite. I love
them all, but he has a special place in my life.
I mean, he's my favorite.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
I know.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
I'm kidding him, railing you up. So Finn is like,
I'm not sick. I said, I've heard you cough. He's like,
I have allergies, mom, And I was like, I don't know.
Something just told me Finn is the one. Finn is
the truth and one no. Finn needs to go. So
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I'm like, okay, well.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
It doesn't matter. Let's just all go.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
So he agrees to go. Got him off his gaming
console for an hour, so anyway, we all go. All
five of them get swabbed, and doctor Danny says, I'll
have the results in a day. So the next day,
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doctor Danny texts me and he says, I'm with my
mother in law. She sends her love as well. She
said she will never forget when she was pregnant with
my wife.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
The gift that you gave her.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
I don't remember any of this, but I'm like, oh
my gosh, what was it? And he said it's a blanket,
and she still has it, and he sends me a
picture of the blanket from Neiman Marcus and he's like,
it's in my wife's like memory collection, and you, guys,
I want to pull this up to give the exact
(22:57):
wording because it's wild now, just to refresh the story
in case you can't keep up, because this is kind
of all over the place in wild. Doctor Danny's wife,
her mother was the teacher that changed my life in
fourth grade. Missus Christopher, doctor Danny is my pediatrician's brother,
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and he and my best friend Jess have kids that
are best friends. Okay, I'm moving on. Okay, So he says,
this is from missus Christopher. Here is the infamous Tory
spelling blanket that I loved so much. It came in
a beautiful gift basket from Neiman Marcus with another blanket
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that was yellow and white, an adorable musical lamb and
a onesie woamb whoa lamb? What are the chances this
is like a game of charades, you guys? Or what's
that game when you like whisper the word and like
the word is the poem.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
The past word it is?
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Do you remember that I'm a cable guy that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
So he also says I have the results. Can you
get on the phone, And I'm like yes, So I
get in the phone. This guy's very funny by the way,
I can tell he's like one of mine, you know.
So I'm like, okay, so.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
I can always read people. So I get on the phone.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
And I could hear like kids in the background, and
he's like, you know, multitasking and he's like, oh, sorry,
I'm you know, I'm sorry. I'm with the kids, like,
and he's telling one like he has like young kids
and he's like telling one.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
He's like he's like, hey me, your swim diaper hand me. No, no, no, no,
you had like all of this and he was like sorry.
I was like, oh my god, don't worry. This is
my life.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
And then he goes, okay, so this is crazy, but
you have five bacterias in your house.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
And I said, well, I know.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
That, but what are the results for the kids?
Speaker 2 (25:03):
He laughed. He was like going so fast with his
crazy life.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
He took a moment. He's like, oh, that's funny. I'm
like just trying to make you laugh.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
But I was like, uh yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
So only four of them tested for bacterias in the house,
but two of them tested for two different ones. So no, no, no,
one of them tested for two different ones. Told you,
I don't do math. Here we go bring it full circle.
So there's five bacteries in the house. I have to
get Yeah, so three four kids, they're on antibiotics.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Let's just say that four kids. Wait, can I just
back it up for Oh god, yes.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Five kids living under the same roof end up with
five different bacterias.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Like, I don't get it. How does that work? Or
did he not have enough time quick because he was diapering.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
My brother asked me the same thing, and I had
to think about it, and I was like, because I'm
not basic, like I don't know, Like.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Well, I mean, how this happened to me outside of
the fact that it's you, and of course that would
happen to you. I I think I'm looking for a
more scientific explanation.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Oh my god, the poor guy was dealing with like
a naked kid in like diapers and trying to dress
her for the pool and spend time with this family.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
I didn't get into details.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
I was trying to find a pen to write all
this down because he's telling me names.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Of course, Finn has some.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Virus or bacteria that starts with an F, and I'm like, oh,
in Finn fashion, like you know, always a pun like
my kid.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
I was like, of course, I've never even heard of
this one.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
So I like, and I can't find a pen because
you guys know, I don't write anything down. Everything stays
in my brain. So I'm trying to find a pen.
I found, I found a pen, wrote it down whatever.
I had to go from room to room and read
to the kids exactly what they had. And then doctor
Danny was like, don't go down the rabbit hole of Google.
He's like, just you know, I've seen all of these
bacterias come in and out lately, a lot amongst you know,
(27:06):
young kids, teenagers. Like it's just everything, it's all this
is very normal. He did say that. He said, he
just kept saying.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
You just have a lot of kids.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Yeah, my now, yeah, that's the thing. Okay, So before
I get too far away, keep in mind the word.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Is lamb Okay.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
So anyway, I tell him like, thank you very much,
have a great day.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Like all that.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
We get off the phone and this is crazy. We
get off the phone and Manty I opened the door
to come tell the kids like the results. I close
myself in the bedroom because it's so loud in the house,
to focus on doctor Danny for a moment, write all
(27:55):
it down, and I now I'm like, okay, my paper,
I'm going to go tell all the kids what they have.
I opened the door and Monty is standing there. And
Monty drops his favorite toy we call his baby. He
loves stuffed animals. And I had forgotten that I got
(28:16):
him this. He drops Lamb Chop right in front of me.
You remember Lamb Chop from the the Old School. It
was a character, a puppet like yeah originally right? It
was so Sherry Lewis. She famously created and performed sock
(28:38):
puppet Adrian. Yes, Lamb Chop for Captain Kangaroo.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Oh wow, Kangaroo.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
I'm old same. I loved Captain Kangaroo.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Me too, Me too anyway, So but my mom was
a huge fan.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
So when we were young, she always had like the
Lamb Chop character puppet like for us, my brother and I.
So they now make it in like Petco, there's always
Lamb Chop. I don't know if people get the reference.
Maybe they're just like, oh, it's a cute Lamb, but
it literally is a take on that puppet, and I forgot.
Whenever I see it, I always buy it because I
(29:18):
was just such a huge fan. So I think like
a couple months ago, I bought Lamb Chop at Petco
for Monty. Anyway, long story short, he drops it right
in front of me and I'm like, oh, it's your baby.
I'm like, no, Lamb Lamb. Oh my god, this is
another Lamb sign. What is happening? That's totally crazy. So
(29:40):
have you figured out what the sign means? So I
know my brother all of this and being like the
type of brain I have, Like if you give me
a priority list, my friend just says, I always like,
if you give me a list of one to ten,
I'll focus on number eleven on the list until it's done,
like the details. So I'm telling him all this and
(30:03):
he's like, Okay, I think there's an overall sign here.
He's like, you're focusing on the details because I was like,
missus Christopher and like what this is. He's like, I'm
literally like playing this game of my life with like
connecting the dots of like what do these signs mean?
And He's like, I think it might just be an
overall sign like LAMB. So he looks up what does
(30:24):
LAMB mean in your life? Not the meat like lamb? Sorry,
I just keep saying that because I know those persons
you're out with them because you don't need LAMB.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Nice. I know.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
I'm sorry, Okay, And I wish I wish it was
another reference, but it's not.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
It is what it is.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
It is. It is.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
You can't fight. You can't fight the signs.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
You can't fight the signs. Okay.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
So he was just saying, like the overall thing that
keeps coming here, like you're looking at the details is LAMB, right?
Speaker 2 (31:00):
And I was like yeah, he's like.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
So he was like, look up the spiritual meaning of
keep like when you keep seeing or getting that sign
of lamb and this is crazy, you guys. Here's what
it means if you look it up. The spiritual meaning
of seeing a lamb is about remembering who you were
(31:24):
before the world hardened you and choosing again to live
with gentle strength. Like what that's got me in my tracks?
I was like, oh my gosh, this is crazy. It's like, yeah,
overall like a lot of exhausting, but fun signs, But
(31:45):
like the takeaway was like, okay, like I no choke,
literally like kind of looked up and I was like,
thanks Dad, Oh I love Like I literally took that
moment because I was like, oh my god, Like, I
(32:07):
don't know. It's just like a beautiful concept to think,
Like people say, look for signs that your loved ones
are around, and you know they'll be like a butterfly
or you know, like a penny things like that. But
I'm always like, is it go beyond that? And I
don't know, We don't know.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
But I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
I whatever it was or whoever it was, I was
just like, I'm grateful, thank you. So yeah, that's my
takeaway for now. So I'm gonna go rule the world.
Any questions, Just kidding
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