January 30, 2026 • 21 mins
Kat is back to painfully relive an embarrassing story from middle school, just in time for Valentine’s Day.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
That's okay because knowing he is.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Every week I ask listeners to send in their own
stories of teenage embarrassment in hopes that their adolescent shame
could make us feel a little better. And this week
we are going to hear from Dan P. As much
as I hoped he was a robot, Unfortunately, Dan is
a human, but the voice you will hear is computer generated,
(00:48):
so unfortunately I do not have robot listeners yet. Okay,
let's jump into Dan's story.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
I grew up in a mobile home, and if you
know trailers, you know the h VAC is basically one long,
straight ducked. As a teenager, I ordered a Playboy magazine
and hid it in the heater vent in my bedroom floor.
I had no idea that the pages were glued together.
While I was at school, the heater kicked on and
apparently melted all the glue. Page by page, The magazine
traveled through the ductwork and traveled to every downstream vent
(01:17):
in the house, including my sister's room. In the living room,
my mom was home, and when she heard a weird noise,
she looked down into the vent and saw a naked
woman staring back at her, flapping in the heated wind.
When I got home from school, pages of naked women
were laid out neatly across the kitchen table with a
note that read, no video games. We're going to talk
about this.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Fuck.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Thank god it didn't start some kind of blaze exactly.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Imagine if then the trailer had. I mean, this could
have been a lot, This could.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Have ended much worse.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Dan, is it, Dan? Yeah, you're good.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Dan, don't worry about it.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
I know.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Also, Dan's still so traumatized by this. He had to
use a computer generated voice. He didn't even he wanted
no one to know this story, even though many years
have passed.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
I get it. You know what, there's a time in
our lives where these memories get cemented and like we
can't for it. Like so in my homeschool class, this
ties everything in In fact, it a nice way. In
my homeschool class, I had a crush on one of
the boys. Now this is this is a class of
maybe like twenty five kids. Okay, So in fact, Valentine's
(02:35):
Day in real life, as we speak, it is coming
is coming up next to him. So this ties and
also for that, so it was Valentine's Day, okay, and
remember I was a frizzy haired, bucktoothed TNS and fan
who often wore overalls and like hands and shirts. And
I get to class. I sit down at my little
(02:57):
desk and there's a note folded on the desk and
I open it up and it says, I my name
is Catherine, so people call me Kate. Katie your cap
so like to Kate, like I have a huge crush
on you love your secret admirer.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
Oh shit wow, And I like pulled it back up
and I'm like trying to be cool, and I'm looking
around and I'm looking around and the boy I like
is like in front of me, over there or.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Something, and he's not looking at you know, like who
could it beat? Like there were a few boys in
the class, and some of them were cute, and I
was like, oh my god, who is it? Like who
is it?
Speaker 7 (03:33):
I can't believe this is happening, Like this is like
it's like Dawson's Creek. It's like this is really happening.
And I was like so excited. Yeah, And then slowly
I hear some giggles and the giggles start to spread
and I look around and it turns out that the
whole class had written that note.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Oh no, they.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
All did it to like make fun of me. No,
And I was just like dignified, holded it and just
went on with my I did not give them the satisfaction.
I didn't leave the room. I didn't show any emotion.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
I was just like guys exactly. Ew.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Yeah, so that's a story that I remember. Oh, I
remember it more than like presenting a people's choicel word,
do you know what I mean? Like those moments really,
like at that age when your brain is still developing
and you're so vulnerable, they just lodged themselves and then
you remember it forever.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Yes, yes, absolutely, Also you were because you remember both
the extremes, the feeling of oh my gosh, someone has
a crush on me and it's like the first time
that's ever happened, and then the flips of it, which
is like the first time an entire group of people
has ganged up to make you feel like shit.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Yeah, but you know what, that boy had a crush
and ended up being my first kiss.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
What was your first kiss?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Like?
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Oh, I mean it was great. It was in the
boys locker room at the gym.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Oh so it smelled good.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Oh great, not like feet at all.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
No, definitely not like feet.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
He was like, I have to tell you something. I
was like okay, and then he kissed me and I was.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Like, did he kiss you with tongue?
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Uh? I'd hope not. I don't think so I was
like fourteen, yeah, okay. So I was just shocked and
he was shocked. And then I think he quickly like left,
and I was like huk, and I thought it maybe
it was a joke, but it wasn't because he would
then like call me at home and then like he
got me like a alsener kiss, like victorious secret, like
(06:01):
body lotion samp oh.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Those were a do you remember the stench on the
how you could smell him from.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
A mile away, strawberries and champagne. The best, just great,
the best.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Well it did work out for me after that story,
Everyone don't worry about I'm also happily married to a
very tall, handsome.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Man, tall handsome man who loves you. He does love me,
he really does.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
You mentioned something that I would like to explain because
I think our dear listeners, some of them, may be
too young to understand the horrors slash wonders of a
home phone. God, can you can we talk about how
wonderful a home phone was, but also the terror that
was having to call your crush and then their parents,
(06:52):
Oh my God, answered the phone.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
You have to be like hi, ey is Eric there?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (07:00):
And who is this? Like this is this is king
from and then you have to like make some talk
talk to them. And then sometimes if you had a brother,
brother would pick up the phone and listen.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yep, listen in yours God forbid anyone was trying to
be on the internet.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
I don't know if Penn Cottage had not modum we not.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Till I was not till pass these things. But sometimes
I'd be on the phone with somebody. It did not
be my crush, me and my best friend. I was
talking about my crush for a very long time, and
then my brother would just be like yeah, like me,
like because anyone could just pick up the phone and listen.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
And you wouldn't know, You wouldn't know.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
That's how that thing that's like in Mean Girls about
three way calling.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
That stuff went on all the time.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
It was wild.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
It was a wild time. Did you have an aim
did you have like a you have message boards of s?
Speaker 5 (08:07):
I did, and my screen name I think was like
purple Haze because I was like playing guitar at that time.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
So that's actually, oh that is cool, that's actually cool.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
Do yeah? I remember, like, oh god, chat rooms? Do
you were?
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Uh yeah, yeay, yep, yep, I remember chat room.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
But the most thing I remember is trying to come
up with what my way message was going to be?
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Oh my god, was it a song lyric? Mine was?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Of course I don't remember what it was, but I
know that I spent a long time trying to come
up with just the right away message so that so
to people who don't know what we're talking about, you
could have like a chat It was like a chat name.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
You could go into chat rooms and talk to people.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
And then when you were going to be away from
the computer, in order to let them know, you'd have
a little message that that meant you were not currently
available for speaking. Correct the voicemail that you read, yes, yes,
like a little thought bubble pretty.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Sure mind was Fiona Apple related.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Oh that's yeah, that's cool. Do you still play guitar?
Speaker 5 (09:08):
No? Because I chose long nails.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
There was a moment in time where I discovered that
I loved having long nails and you really can't. You
really can't have both. I'm ashamed to say the vanity
one out.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
YEP, I feel the same way.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
I took guitar lessons for a while, and one it hurts,
and two I like long nails, so I love nails.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
You have to let the callous if the callouses don't
develop your.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Did you ever check message boards?
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (09:43):
God, like, I'm sure you were in a handsome Oh
you know.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Do you remember? God, this is very niche Do you
remember girl dot com g U r L? I think
so this is so weird. I feel like it was
like God, I wonder if anyone I'm sure some people
listening know what this is. It was like this kind
of like Lilith Fairy, like alt Girl like website where
(10:12):
they were like quizzes and like this and that half
and they had a message board on there that I
would frequent, okay, and it was very interesting. I don't remember.
I think I started a lot of topics about Hanson
and stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
I mean, I think so cute.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
I really loved them so purely. Still do. I still
listen to their Christmas album every year.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Do you remember did you ever know of the Moffits.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Yeah, I knew of the Moffitts.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
I was in a Moffits music video were Yes, So
I love that you were in.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Like the Hansen the you know, Hanson is who the
Moffits wanted to be.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
The Moffits came.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
They were a direct descendant of Hansen, and I was
in that one, which, listen, was so much fun. I
got to like ride a tandem bike and it was
it was very it was very cool.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Dreams.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Yeah, dreams, I know, I'm true. Yeah good.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Did you have an awkward phase because I didn't see it? Uh?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
I mean I was just kind of I mean I
was a very klutzy. I was a very klutzy individual.
I mean, is it I I was always tripping.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
I was.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
But no, I didn't necessarily have like a super awkward phase.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
But I did.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
You know, my first like real public out there boyfriend
was Lance Bass, who you.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
Know, I'm a pattern here.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
I was wondering if you'd pick up on it.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I Uh, I started started young liking men who were
never going to be interested in me.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Listen, we all we all do these these things. I've
dated emotionally unavailable men in a different way.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Okay, So you know, I think there's a there was
definitely a safety feeling for me.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Yes, where that's so, that's so real.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
And I do also think it fits in with the
idea that I have always been a person who loves
for my romantic relationships for the real foundation to be
like a true great friendship. Yeah, and you have you
have time, You have nothing but time to develop a
wonderful friendship.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
If you're in a relationship with a gay man.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Correct. Well, my mom's first boyfriend also turned out to
be a gay man and they had a blast together. Yeah,
and they just I had told her a million times,
like find him, and she did find him and they
just like reconnected, which is so beautiful because they're both
you know, in their late seventies now.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Oh man, he like lives in New York.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
And they facetimed. I think. I mean, it's so fantastic.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
That's that's sweet.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I mean, for all the things we can plain about
social media, the fact that you can pretty much if
you have good intentions, this is lovely. If you have
good intentions, The lovely idea of reaching out to someone
you have always thought fondly of being able to find
them and then reconnecting with them is such a gift.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
It's amazing. That's the best thing about the Internet. The
best thing about the Internet is that, And like finding
and adopting pets, like finding lost pets or adopting animals
like that stuff is like rescuing people like that absolutely
incredible and everything else is bad.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
You love cats? How many cats do you have?
Speaker 5 (13:36):
I have two currently?
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Okay, cheek, are you thinking of getting another?
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Of course?
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Always?
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Always My poor husband, he knows that it's it's imminent.
I have two beautiful daughters, bar and lentil Oh, their sisters. Yeah,
and I dream of getting a black cat and naming
sesame you need to do. That's really cute. Yeah, I
(14:03):
would really love I. You know, I never read comments,
but I posted about my soulmate kitty when she passed away, Millie. Ye.
Someone in the comments wrote something that really resonated with me.
And I think he was a guy or what, I
don't know. They said, always have three cats. He was like,
(14:26):
because if one drops, just get another one and then
you always have three. I was like, damn, Actually there's
some logic there, because when Millie died, I was destroyed.
And I mean, like you know, you know, Yes, I
have step children and I'm a godmother, but I don't
(14:46):
have my own children. These animals are like your children,
and even if you do a children, it's the same,
feel like you just the glove is so pure.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
And I was like, if I get a third I
could have this never ending triangle cats.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
Yeah, this sounds messed up, but for anyone who's loved
and lost like this, the pain is so severe.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
It is, it's very great, and it's one of the
many things you have in common with Jonathan Taylor Thomas is. Yes,
he has cats and he has dogs, and he loves
them greatly. He does not have children of his own,
but the animals are his children, and he feels every loss.
He specifically rescues elderly animals.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Well, he takes a lot of strain.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
It sure does. And he yeah, he takes very good
care of them. But it is, it's it's painful every
single time.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
It's so I've lost a lot of people in my
life in animals, and it's it's it's comparable. They're comparable
to one another because it's when you have a person,
you can talk to that person and they can tell
you their wishes yep, and animals really can't and so
(16:04):
you're fully responsible for that the well being of that
animal at life. So it's it's life is pain zoos.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
You do a lot of work with the ASPCA, Right
is that? Would you like to shout out any particular
rescue organization that you work with?
Speaker 5 (16:21):
Oh my god, Well, I if anyone reaches out to
me on behalf of any animals or adoption and stuff,
I always post for them. I really love. Let me
get this right, because I love a lot. There's some
local rescues in Los Angeles that I think are so awesome.
Forgive the phone. There's Kitten Rescue LA Cute. There is
(16:45):
where I got my babies is called Tailtown Cats in Pasadena,
and it is a cat cafe.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
I love a cat cafe.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
So you can go and go into a room filled
with cats. What could be better and you can adopt them. Ye,
And it's run by some great people. And I got
my babies there. And there's also best Friends.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
I got my dog from best Friends.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
Best Friends is great. So best Friends has places all
over the states, but La is the one that I
go to and take lots of pictures. Well, the animals
and promote for them and stuff. They're always doing such
great work with dogs and cats. They have all kinds
of animals these places. And then where's another one Okay,
(17:34):
I think it's called oh yeah, Stray Cat Alliance.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Okay, great Stray Cat Alliance is.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
Another wonderful rescue organization. And they have you know, kittens, cats,
a lot of them. Have you know dogs do They
work with everybody. And I will also shout out best
friends because during the horrific fires, they spearheaded this unbelievable
like transportation thing for animals locally, getting them out of
(18:06):
the Palisades and Altadna and stuff like that and relocating
them to save and they opened all these pantries so
people who had lost everything could go get food and
supplies and stuff for their heads. I mean they just
and vets. That's donated all of their time to saving
these animals. Really amazing.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Yeah, there were the fires were a terrible time, but
like with all tragedies, it seems like some of the
best of humanity comes out right when.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
You need them.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
And that Yeah, I remember I was following you and
reposting some of the things you were posting when people
were trying to reconnect families with their lost animals.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Oh my gosh, but they did.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
They did with a lot of people. So yes, you
know that was really great. And yeah, like mister Rogers says,
look for the helpers.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Look for the helpers, and Zoloft is a helper.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
So off.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Yeah, thank you so so much for spending your time
with me this morning. It's just I love seeing you.
You are a ray of sunshine. You are my Zoloft.
I I see you, and I feel immediately better. And
so let's try to get lunch when I'm back if
you are still on hiatus.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Oh, I'll be on hiatus until we Okay. I adore
you and I could could be at your doorstep anytime.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Okay, let's do it.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
I would love to spend more time with you, because
it's not enough.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Oh yeah, I have to get I have to give
you your one of one as well.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
My god, I'll have to find your one one. Do
you have yours?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
I don't think I have my one of one, but
I did buy a bunch of my own cards off
eBay like a weird a weirdo.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Obviously, I have a telegram one that I gave to
my brother oh. I don't know what it means, but
I don't. I want my one of one, so this
is huge. I'm gon, I'm gonna track your one of
one down for you.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
We're gonna we're gonna try to find my one of one. Yeah, yeah,
well we'll try to find it.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Kat. Thank you so much. I love you. It's always pleasure.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
I love you, and it is never enough.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Fine.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Bye.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
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That's okay because knowing he is.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Every week I ask listeners to send in their own
stories of teenage embarrassment in hopes that their adolescent shame
could make us feel a little better. And this week
we are going to hear from Dan P. As much
as I hoped he was a robot, Unfortunately, Dan is
a human, but the voice you will hear is computer generated,
(00:48):
so unfortunately I do not have robot listeners yet. Okay,
let's jump into Dan's story.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
I grew up in a mobile home, and if you
know trailers, you know the h VAC is basically one long,
straight ducked. As a teenager, I ordered a Playboy magazine
and hid it in the heater vent in my bedroom floor.
I had no idea that the pages were glued together.
While I was at school, the heater kicked on and
apparently melted all the glue. Page by page, The magazine
traveled through the ductwork and traveled to every downstream vent
(01:17):
in the house, including my sister's room. In the living room,
my mom was home, and when she heard a weird noise,
she looked down into the vent and saw a naked
woman staring back at her, flapping in the heated wind.
When I got home from school, pages of naked women
were laid out neatly across the kitchen table with a
note that read, no video games. We're going to talk
about this.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Fuck.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Thank god it didn't start some kind of blaze exactly.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Imagine if then the trailer had. I mean, this could
have been a lot, This could.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Have ended much worse.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Dan, is it, Dan? Yeah, you're good.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Dan, don't worry about it.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
I know.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Also, Dan's still so traumatized by this. He had to
use a computer generated voice. He didn't even he wanted
no one to know this story, even though many years
have passed.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
I get it. You know what, there's a time in
our lives where these memories get cemented and like we
can't for it. Like so in my homeschool class, this
ties everything in In fact, it a nice way. In
my homeschool class, I had a crush on one of
the boys. Now this is this is a class of
maybe like twenty five kids. Okay, So in fact, Valentine's
(02:35):
Day in real life, as we speak, it is coming
is coming up next to him. So this ties and
also for that, so it was Valentine's Day, okay, and
remember I was a frizzy haired, bucktoothed TNS and fan
who often wore overalls and like hands and shirts. And
I get to class. I sit down at my little
(02:57):
desk and there's a note folded on the desk and
I open it up and it says, I my name
is Catherine, so people call me Kate. Katie your cap
so like to Kate, like I have a huge crush
on you love your secret admirer.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
Oh shit wow, And I like pulled it back up
and I'm like trying to be cool, and I'm looking
around and I'm looking around and the boy I like
is like in front of me, over there or.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Something, and he's not looking at you know, like who
could it beat? Like there were a few boys in
the class, and some of them were cute, and I
was like, oh my god, who is it? Like who
is it?
Speaker 7 (03:33):
I can't believe this is happening, Like this is like
it's like Dawson's Creek. It's like this is really happening.
And I was like so excited. Yeah, And then slowly
I hear some giggles and the giggles start to spread
and I look around and it turns out that the
whole class had written that note.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Oh no, they.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
All did it to like make fun of me. No,
And I was just like dignified, holded it and just
went on with my I did not give them the satisfaction.
I didn't leave the room. I didn't show any emotion.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
I was just like guys exactly. Ew.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Yeah, so that's a story that I remember. Oh, I
remember it more than like presenting a people's choicel word,
do you know what I mean? Like those moments really,
like at that age when your brain is still developing
and you're so vulnerable, they just lodged themselves and then
you remember it forever.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Yes, yes, absolutely, Also you were because you remember both
the extremes, the feeling of oh my gosh, someone has
a crush on me and it's like the first time
that's ever happened, and then the flips of it, which
is like the first time an entire group of people
has ganged up to make you feel like shit.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Yeah, but you know what, that boy had a crush
and ended up being my first kiss.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
What was your first kiss?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Like?
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Oh, I mean it was great. It was in the
boys locker room at the gym.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Oh so it smelled good.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Oh great, not like feet at all.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
No, definitely not like feet.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
He was like, I have to tell you something. I
was like okay, and then he kissed me and I was.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Like, did he kiss you with tongue?
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Uh? I'd hope not. I don't think so I was
like fourteen, yeah, okay. So I was just shocked and
he was shocked. And then I think he quickly like left,
and I was like huk, and I thought it maybe
it was a joke, but it wasn't because he would
then like call me at home and then like he
got me like a alsener kiss, like victorious secret, like
(06:01):
body lotion samp oh.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Those were a do you remember the stench on the
how you could smell him from.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
A mile away, strawberries and champagne. The best, just great,
the best.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Well it did work out for me after that story,
Everyone don't worry about I'm also happily married to a
very tall, handsome.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Man, tall handsome man who loves you. He does love me,
he really does.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
You mentioned something that I would like to explain because
I think our dear listeners, some of them, may be
too young to understand the horrors slash wonders of a
home phone. God, can you can we talk about how
wonderful a home phone was, but also the terror that
was having to call your crush and then their parents,
(06:52):
Oh my God, answered the phone.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
You have to be like hi, ey is Eric there?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (07:00):
And who is this? Like this is this is king
from and then you have to like make some talk
talk to them. And then sometimes if you had a brother,
brother would pick up the phone and listen.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yep, listen in yours God forbid anyone was trying to
be on the internet.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
I don't know if Penn Cottage had not modum we not.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Till I was not till pass these things. But sometimes
I'd be on the phone with somebody. It did not
be my crush, me and my best friend. I was
talking about my crush for a very long time, and
then my brother would just be like yeah, like me,
like because anyone could just pick up the phone and listen.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
And you wouldn't know, You wouldn't know.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
That's how that thing that's like in Mean Girls about
three way calling.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
That stuff went on all the time.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
It was wild.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
It was a wild time. Did you have an aim
did you have like a you have message boards of s?
Speaker 5 (08:07):
I did, and my screen name I think was like
purple Haze because I was like playing guitar at that time.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
So that's actually, oh that is cool, that's actually cool.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
Do yeah? I remember, like, oh god, chat rooms? Do
you were?
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Uh yeah, yeay, yep, yep, I remember chat room.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
But the most thing I remember is trying to come
up with what my way message was going to be?
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Oh my god, was it a song lyric? Mine was?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Of course I don't remember what it was, but I
know that I spent a long time trying to come
up with just the right away message so that so
to people who don't know what we're talking about, you
could have like a chat It was like a chat name.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
You could go into chat rooms and talk to people.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
And then when you were going to be away from
the computer, in order to let them know, you'd have
a little message that that meant you were not currently
available for speaking. Correct the voicemail that you read, yes, yes,
like a little thought bubble pretty.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Sure mind was Fiona Apple related.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Oh that's yeah, that's cool. Do you still play guitar?
Speaker 5 (09:08):
No? Because I chose long nails.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
There was a moment in time where I discovered that
I loved having long nails and you really can't. You
really can't have both. I'm ashamed to say the vanity
one out.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
YEP, I feel the same way.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
I took guitar lessons for a while, and one it hurts,
and two I like long nails, so I love nails.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
You have to let the callous if the callouses don't
develop your.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Did you ever check message boards?
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (09:43):
God, like, I'm sure you were in a handsome Oh
you know.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Do you remember? God, this is very niche Do you
remember girl dot com g U r L? I think
so this is so weird. I feel like it was
like God, I wonder if anyone I'm sure some people
listening know what this is. It was like this kind
of like Lilith Fairy, like alt Girl like website where
(10:12):
they were like quizzes and like this and that half
and they had a message board on there that I
would frequent, okay, and it was very interesting. I don't remember.
I think I started a lot of topics about Hanson
and stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
I mean, I think so cute.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
I really loved them so purely. Still do. I still
listen to their Christmas album every year.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Do you remember did you ever know of the Moffits.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Yeah, I knew of the Moffitts.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
I was in a Moffits music video were Yes, So
I love that you were in.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Like the Hansen the you know, Hanson is who the
Moffits wanted to be.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
The Moffits came.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
They were a direct descendant of Hansen, and I was
in that one, which, listen, was so much fun. I
got to like ride a tandem bike and it was
it was very it was very cool.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Dreams.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Yeah, dreams, I know, I'm true. Yeah good.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Did you have an awkward phase because I didn't see it? Uh?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
I mean I was just kind of I mean I
was a very klutzy. I was a very klutzy individual.
I mean, is it I I was always tripping.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
I was.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
But no, I didn't necessarily have like a super awkward phase.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
But I did.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
You know, my first like real public out there boyfriend
was Lance Bass, who you.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
Know, I'm a pattern here.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
I was wondering if you'd pick up on it.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I Uh, I started started young liking men who were
never going to be interested in me.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Listen, we all we all do these these things. I've
dated emotionally unavailable men in a different way.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Okay, So you know, I think there's a there was
definitely a safety feeling for me.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Yes, where that's so, that's so real.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
And I do also think it fits in with the
idea that I have always been a person who loves
for my romantic relationships for the real foundation to be
like a true great friendship. Yeah, and you have you
have time, You have nothing but time to develop a
wonderful friendship.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
If you're in a relationship with a gay man.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Correct. Well, my mom's first boyfriend also turned out to
be a gay man and they had a blast together. Yeah,
and they just I had told her a million times,
like find him, and she did find him and they
just like reconnected, which is so beautiful because they're both
you know, in their late seventies now.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Oh man, he like lives in New York.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
And they facetimed. I think. I mean, it's so fantastic.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
That's that's sweet.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I mean, for all the things we can plain about
social media, the fact that you can pretty much if
you have good intentions, this is lovely. If you have
good intentions, The lovely idea of reaching out to someone
you have always thought fondly of being able to find
them and then reconnecting with them is such a gift.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
It's amazing. That's the best thing about the Internet. The
best thing about the Internet is that, And like finding
and adopting pets, like finding lost pets or adopting animals
like that stuff is like rescuing people like that absolutely
incredible and everything else is bad.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
You love cats? How many cats do you have?
Speaker 5 (13:36):
I have two currently?
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Okay, cheek, are you thinking of getting another?
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Of course?
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Always?
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Always My poor husband, he knows that it's it's imminent.
I have two beautiful daughters, bar and lentil Oh, their sisters. Yeah,
and I dream of getting a black cat and naming
sesame you need to do. That's really cute. Yeah, I
(14:03):
would really love I. You know, I never read comments,
but I posted about my soulmate kitty when she passed away, Millie. Ye.
Someone in the comments wrote something that really resonated with me.
And I think he was a guy or what, I
don't know. They said, always have three cats. He was like,
(14:26):
because if one drops, just get another one and then
you always have three. I was like, damn, Actually there's
some logic there, because when Millie died, I was destroyed.
And I mean, like you know, you know, Yes, I
have step children and I'm a godmother, but I don't
(14:46):
have my own children. These animals are like your children,
and even if you do a children, it's the same,
feel like you just the glove is so pure.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
And I was like, if I get a third I
could have this never ending triangle cats.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
Yeah, this sounds messed up, but for anyone who's loved
and lost like this, the pain is so severe.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
It is, it's very great, and it's one of the
many things you have in common with Jonathan Taylor Thomas is. Yes,
he has cats and he has dogs, and he loves
them greatly. He does not have children of his own,
but the animals are his children, and he feels every loss.
He specifically rescues elderly animals.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Well, he takes a lot of strain.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
It sure does. And he yeah, he takes very good
care of them. But it is, it's it's painful every
single time.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
It's so I've lost a lot of people in my
life in animals, and it's it's it's comparable. They're comparable
to one another because it's when you have a person,
you can talk to that person and they can tell
you their wishes yep, and animals really can't and so
(16:04):
you're fully responsible for that the well being of that
animal at life. So it's it's life is pain zoos.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
You do a lot of work with the ASPCA, Right
is that? Would you like to shout out any particular
rescue organization that you work with?
Speaker 5 (16:21):
Oh my god, Well, I if anyone reaches out to
me on behalf of any animals or adoption and stuff,
I always post for them. I really love. Let me
get this right, because I love a lot. There's some
local rescues in Los Angeles that I think are so awesome.
Forgive the phone. There's Kitten Rescue LA Cute. There is
(16:45):
where I got my babies is called Tailtown Cats in Pasadena,
and it is a cat cafe.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
I love a cat cafe.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
So you can go and go into a room filled
with cats. What could be better and you can adopt them. Ye,
And it's run by some great people. And I got
my babies there. And there's also best Friends.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
I got my dog from best Friends.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
Best Friends is great. So best Friends has places all
over the states, but La is the one that I
go to and take lots of pictures. Well, the animals
and promote for them and stuff. They're always doing such
great work with dogs and cats. They have all kinds
of animals these places. And then where's another one Okay,
(17:34):
I think it's called oh yeah, Stray Cat Alliance.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Okay, great Stray Cat Alliance is.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
Another wonderful rescue organization. And they have you know, kittens, cats,
a lot of them. Have you know dogs do They
work with everybody. And I will also shout out best
friends because during the horrific fires, they spearheaded this unbelievable
like transportation thing for animals locally, getting them out of
(18:06):
the Palisades and Altadna and stuff like that and relocating
them to save and they opened all these pantries so
people who had lost everything could go get food and
supplies and stuff for their heads. I mean they just
and vets. That's donated all of their time to saving
these animals. Really amazing.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Yeah, there were the fires were a terrible time, but
like with all tragedies, it seems like some of the
best of humanity comes out right when.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
You need them.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
And that Yeah, I remember I was following you and
reposting some of the things you were posting when people
were trying to reconnect families with their lost animals.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Oh my gosh, but they did.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
They did with a lot of people. So yes, you
know that was really great. And yeah, like mister Rogers says,
look for the helpers.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Look for the helpers, and Zoloft is a helper.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
So off.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Yeah, thank you so so much for spending your time
with me this morning. It's just I love seeing you.
You are a ray of sunshine. You are my Zoloft.
I I see you, and I feel immediately better. And
so let's try to get lunch when I'm back if
you are still on hiatus.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Oh, I'll be on hiatus until we Okay. I adore
you and I could could be at your doorstep anytime.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Okay, let's do it.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
I would love to spend more time with you, because
it's not enough.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Oh yeah, I have to get I have to give
you your one of one as well.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
My god, I'll have to find your one one. Do
you have yours?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
I don't think I have my one of one, but
I did buy a bunch of my own cards off
eBay like a weird a weirdo.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Obviously, I have a telegram one that I gave to
my brother oh. I don't know what it means, but
I don't. I want my one of one, so this
is huge. I'm gon, I'm gonna track your one of
one down for you.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
We're gonna we're gonna try to find my one of one. Yeah, yeah,
well we'll try to find it.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Kat. Thank you so much. I love you. It's always pleasure.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
I love you, and it is never enough.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Fine.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Bye.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
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