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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Parenting is definitely like a sport. And I say that
because you know when you're doing a decent job. You
know when you feel like you're failing a little bit.
You know when you're sort of like staining the couch
and it's never gonna come out. And what I mean
is like, you're like, wait, whatever that argument was with
my kid, or whatever I said, or whatever I did,
(00:33):
or however I handled that, is that going to leave
a mark.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
They're not wrapped in bubble wrap. You're not supposed to
have everything be perfect for them. They're supposed to experience adversity,
as I certainly have. But parenting and doing a good job,
in my opinion, is like riding a horse, like a
racehorse it's a strong animal, or a race car. Navigating
and handling a race car. You can't just say like,
(01:00):
I know how to do it, and I did one
thing right, so therefore I could just be on autopilot.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Like you have to be on the case at all times.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
And I think that many people, understandably because they may
have many jobs and stresses and other things going on,
take the path at least resistance, meaning okay, fine, let
them let them do it. I can't even deal with it.
Buy it, feed them it, let them watch the TV,
let them do it, because you get exhausted. You just
don't know how to deal with it. Sometimes, like I
know what the right thing to do to handle it is,
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but it's like you have to manage it. For example,
I had a party this weekend, to go to a
really good fun party, like a big party, and it
was in New York and I'm in Florida. Now I
could have someone stay overnight with Brinn. She's a very
good girl and I trust her. But we're at that
age where it's the kids and the parties and the
driving and the things like that, and I'm on the
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case because I've seen things go sideways. And so it's
not that I never will go away. I will sometimes,
especially when we get a rhythm in a new environment
and a new school. But like every time I have
something I could do, especially if it's not work and
it's not like something I really should do, I don't
do it because I it's not just that you have
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to like know what to do it so that you
have to be there to execute. You have to kind
of be in there by and let your kids know
that you're asking the questions and you want the parent's
phone number, and that sometimes sometimes my daughter will be
sleeping over someone's house and I didn't even get the
phone number of the parent. Now something terrible happened, it
would be like, wait, how did she not know that
she was somewhere else? Because there's so many plans they're
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running in so many different directions that it's hard to
keep up. So I remind myself, like this weekend and
Brinn didn't get back to me, she forgot not because
she wouldn't give it to me. She usually does, but
she slept at someone's house and I didn't get the
name and the number of the parent, but I did
see that she had gotten home or left where she
was at eleven thirty. I'm just saying, like, it takes
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a lot, and that's one kid. If you have four
kids and you're trying to figure out where everybody is, Like,
that is a full time job. Okay, it is a
full time job. That's not lip service, that's not bullshit.
That's not me trying to even it out and be like,
oh yeah, mom's work too, Like a mom who has
several kids is a full time job. If you're doing
it with any version of a decent job, because it's
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honestly staying on the case because you're at certain ages,
you're in the witching hour.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
When they're little, like they're little mummies.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Like they just you tell them where to go, they go,
You tell them, yes, you have to watch it. They
don't eat glass, and that's a different, exhausting, physically exhausting,
full time job to make sure they're not just swallowing legos.
But as they get into the teen years through the
college years, I presume that's the witching hour. That's because
they're still young but they think they're adults. That's a
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dangerous thing. That's like someone who is stupid and thinks
they're smart. It's a bad combination. So they're still young,
but they think they are adults and they have all
the freedom until they get jammed up with something. So
you're trying to explain, yeah, no, you're not an expert
on driving because you have a permit, and you don't
push back on me when I say something because I've
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been driving for forty years or not forty years, almost
forty years. Like they think they know everything, and it's like,
just do the math. Get your calculator out. You've been
doing this four weeks. I've been doing this forty years,
So listen because I know more about this than you do.
So this is the witching hour, is what I'm saying.
And it's not to be on the case. And it's yes, safety,
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like I'll text my daughter and this has nothing to
do with drugs in particular or drinking in particular. It's
called you put your drink down and to have molly
put in it. Like, it doesn't happen most of the time,
neither salmonella new a toxic shock syndrome.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
But it exists. It exists.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Most things don't happen, But do you want to be
the exception? So like I find myself trying to navigate
not being annoying in a weirdo that she thinks is
just like a fatal catastrophe and be like, just like
reminding you don't put your drink down. Crazy things happen.
And something did happen with someone that she knows that
wasn't fatal or bad, but it was like an alarm,
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like a near miss. And I was glad because it
was a lesson. I wasn't glad because that was traumatic,
but like they don't know until they see something firsthand,
and then they forget. Everybody, myself included, thinks they're invincible.
I forget my EpiPen a lot of the time. It's
happened once in my entire life that I've almost died,
that I was hospitalized and literally was almost dead. But
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it happened once. So I should never forget my EpiPen,
but I do because we all think it's not gonna
happen to us. And so parenting is just like a
real thing. You have to keep just keep on it,
keep on it. And I don't know how somebody has
a full time job in four kids. That's got to
be very hard. You need a good life partner. And
if you're a single mom or dad, power to you,
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and good Lord, you need a swift, strong cocktail. There
is nothing that will make me say no more than
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my child saying.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
But they get to but they are allowed to.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Like there's nothing more frustrating to a parent than your
kids saying that, because it would be like there's no
control group, like if the two of you were if
the two if your child and all their peers were
absolute like manufactured robots where everybody started with exactly the
same hardware and same environment. You could then compare, but like,
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let's say that you are Italian and you take your
kids to Italy for the summer, or you have only
an only child so they get to travel around the
world with you, or have more toys or have a
bigger room, or you have enough money to send them
to college, or you don't have enough money to send
them to college. But every summery or on the Jersey
shore and clamming, Like, everybody has a different life, and
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so your kid coming to you to talk about one aspect.
It could be what the other kids are allowed to buy,
where the other kids are allowed to go, how late
they're allowed to stay up, how many classes they have
to take, if they have to study, if they get
to do sport, whatever they get to go to camp,
whatever it is. You can't compare because everybody's life is different.
So let's say that, like I'm really indulgent with experiences.
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Let's say we go to Europe, my daughter's been to Australia,
but like more strict about possessions, or my kid had
less screen time or more toys, like you have your
own puzzle that you've created with your child and your parenting.
So it is completely infuriating when your kid wants to
come and isolate one incident and say that person gets
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to do that or get that, and you're like, are
you out of your mind?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Does that person get to do this? Does that person
get to do that?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Like what if you're a twenty five year old mom
and you can like hang out with your daughter or
like your dad and you can like toss the football
and you're like not working or you're stay at home,
you get to be with your kid all the time,
like you could never ever compare.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
So the minute that I hear that, I.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Completely shut down and it goes from being able to
get whatever that thing was possibly or in moderation.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Two stores closed.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I'm done, period, the end doesn't matter. Don't ever bring
that up, Like are you strict? I am strict. I'm
like strict slash slightly scary, meaning I'm like, I don't
tolerate any disrespect. I hear the way children speak to
their parents, I actually can't believe it, Like I tolerate none.
I don't tolerate like that little okay, Like when you
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say something like you can't do it, okay, or like
when your kids like, you're like no and you're not
allowed to do that okay, like a sarcastic I wish
you could say my fae like I'm like no, I
be absolutely not. Don't answer me back, don't speak in
that tone like I snapped the leash the minute there's
any version of disrespect like and I mean it too.
I do not play game. I do not suffer fools.
(09:01):
I have always been like that. You must be on
the case. You can't do it once, They're not do
it for three months. It's like your closet. It's not
going to say the way it was the day you
moved in the way it was organized unless you maintain it.
Same with the inside of your car, same with everything.
So I am on the maintenance program. I am indulgent,
but I am very strict. Like I do not tolerate disrespect.
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I don't tolerate spoiled rude.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
And I can see how the path of least resistance
is easy because people have multiple kids, they have schedule constraints,
they're exhausted. You know, sometimes you punish your kid and
it's exhausting for you because you've got to be home
and deal with them. You know, sometimes you feel like,
how am I going to do this? You just want
to give in. It just is easier to just give in.
But the truth is you got to try to stay
on it. And like I've said before, sometimes I forget.
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Sometimes I'm like, wait, I didn't get the parents' information.
I didn't say you could do that, Like I didn't
make this rule. Like it can be really exhausting, especially
with other things, but you've got to find your way
to stay on the case. So someone asked me in
an interview at OnlyFans, and I thought of it yesterday
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when I was taking a walk and I saw someone
that my inner, unedited, unfiltered mind thought to myself, should
they be wearing a bikini? And the answer is yes,
they should because it's their body and their bikini. Like,
who the fuck am I? I can't put myself in
the thought control police, but like, of course I would
never say anything out louder to a friend or anything,
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but like, who the fuck am I to have a
thought like that? Even, like who's anybody to have a
thought about what somebody else does with their body and
their appearance. And it's not just that we shouldn't say it.
It's that we have to change the construct of thinking it.
Like why isn't anybody allowed to do what they want,
wear what they want? Yes, you can't say anything you
want for certain legal reasons and humane and cruel reasons.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
But like OnlyFans, for example, only.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Is a community of people that I presume subscribe, people
that pay to post or maybe don't get paid, like
their members too. They want to post pictures of themselves.
I don't know if they're all nude. I've never been
on there. I don't know what it is, okay, but
it's like not every store is for you. Not every
store is for you. I'm not going into a cigar
and pipe store. What does that mean that they're not
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allowed to smoke cigars and pipes? Like, right, if I'm
related to one, would I worry about cancer?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (11:26):
But like if you're not harming anyone else, and if
you're not really doing anything that's like extremely harmful to yourself,
Like how is it my business what someone else does
with their body, with their life, with their clothing, anything.
And I think we've just always been like this, We've
always been so judgmental. And I just open the camera
and video myself looking like a wreck. Some people probably think,
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what is she doing? Like some people that I know
don't go anywhere without makeup. People that work with me
every single day are on zooms and they put makeup
on every day. They want to present the best, They
want to look the prettiest. That's their choice. I post
my life in pajamas. Like some people are probably like,
is she okay? She'd been like captured and put into
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a mental institution? Is she is she like a prisoner? Like,
it's what I want. I want clear skin, I don't
want burnt hair. I don't want to perform every day
for other people. When I go somewhere, then I decide
I want to look good. But like it's my body,
my choice. People criticize other people's recipes. What you're choosing
to eat? Oh that looks disgusting. Okay, well you don't
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have to fucking eat it. You don't have to listen,
you don't have to watch. The good news is you
don't have to do anything you don't want to do
unless it's your job and it's at your work. I
think it's just as I get older, I'm just getting
more unapologetic and allowing other people to be more unapologetic.
They don't have to apologize, they don't have to explain,
they don't have to do anything. I don't know why
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I want to talk to you about when your pets
stay in your house or even if they have like
smell that's like not from pee but from life. So
I the other day, I love a good home steamer.
Never use the solution that they give to you, because
it will ruin everything, and it'll stain and kill your carpet.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
It's usually supposed to use just like soapy water, and.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
There's some trusted stain removal, but you have to know
which ones they are. They aren't gonna bleach your carpet
and like fan it all out and your furniture whatever.
But once you've done that and you think it's clean,
it looks clean, it's not clean until you suck out
whatever's in there. And yesterday I got a steamer, a
strong one. Don't get one of the bullshit ones. And
I think you could probably do with the vacuum too,
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but to be able to see the water being sucked
out in an actual like reverse steamer, like I'm actually
saying steamer. But sometimes the steamer. Steams makes your things
smell good or de wrinkles it. I'm talking about like
the sucker. The sucker pulls the crap out. And yesterday
I could see in the clear basin like the yellow
water from the pea that was soaked into my furniture.
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I posted that it was better than I would rather
do that and see that than go to Arimez. And
that is not even I did not start it. You
could offer me a ten thousand dollars bag at Aarmez.
I would rather sit there and see the satisfaction of
yellow urine coming out of my furniture and carpets like
I am one. Once I know it's there, I want
it out. I do not feel clean until it's out.
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I never used to feel clean until my daughter's body
would be clean, like until she was clean, until my
dogs are clean, until my house is clean. Many of
you are like this, many of you are not. But
the ones who get it get it.