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October 27, 2025 35 mins

Paulina wants to take baby Gigi to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade! Plus, Paulina is filling in for Keke today on Keke's Court and she's talking birthday party etiquette!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Friends, the biggest stories of the day, boy texting. It's
called snuggling. Fred, Yes, I'm aware. I don't have a
problem with a snuggle. It's just a time and a
place for a snuggle.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
You saying that word, don't don't get him started on
handholding either.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
You guys are gonna be shook.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
There's a time and a place for a snuggle, and
there's a time and a placer. There's a time and
a place for interlocked finger hand holding. It doesn't have
to be a type of like just like just sort
of like holding fingers, Like if I hold you the
ends of your fingers, that's not cupping necessarily, that's just
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
The ends of my fingers.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
No, like this, like if I grit, like if I'm
walking or whatever, I think that's kind of a g handhold.
That's kind of like come on, come hither, Come here,
Come here, girl. You know, let's not snuggle later. Could
I get too hot?

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (00:54):
You all making me seem colder than I am. I'm
not a cold human being hot. I'm hot. That's the problem. Look,
that's exactly what the issue is. I'm hot in benness.
So I've everyone been saying all over the Apps. Hot
Fret's hot in bed. They're not talking about my moves either. Jason,
this was not a good week. O, this was not
a good week. No, let me go through who won

(01:16):
and who lost, and then we'll tell you how Jason's
picks did overall, Okay, Chargers over the Vikings, Jets over
the Bengals, Ravens over the Bears, Dolphins over the Falcons,
Patriots over the Browns, Broncos over the Cowboys, Packers over
the Steelers, Colts over the Titans, Buccaneers over the Saints,
Bills over the Panthers, Texans over the four nine Ers,
Eagles over the Giants, and tonight the Commanders and the Chiefs,

(01:42):
and Jason, your picks resulting in a win loss statistic
of two out of thirteen. Oh, are you sure?

Speaker 4 (01:50):
It's not like I got thirteen right and too wrong?

Speaker 2 (01:54):
And sadly, one of the picks I think is one
of the games that already happened, And he finally listened
to you and looked up the result when we picked
the next day, so I don't even know one of.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
The already had taken place when they picked it.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah, the charge, Oh wow, Yeah, yeah, he wrote the
charges for someone.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
You know what, So I'm gonna let this one go
this week because you were traveling. Yeah, you were on
assignment of game right, you didn't have time because you
were in Miami. You're hanging out with you know, the
big celebrities down there, So I know you had other
things going on and you weren't able to really sit
down and do the normal kind of research that you
do for these.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
Correct And I was also like my head was filled
with basketball because I was learning so much about the
Miami Heat while I was there. I see, yeah, I
got to walk, I got to touch their trophies.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
You did have the golden trophies. They have golden trophies. Yeah, yeah,
I believe you're called the naysmith. Maybe that's not right.
Sounds right to me.

Speaker 4 (02:47):
A championship they have a carpeted hallway that leads to
the trophies.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Is very boocheus. Why were you in the Miami Heat
locker room? No, I need to do in the locker room.

Speaker 4 (02:54):
But the show I was working took place at the
place that they played the basketball, the Larry O'Brien Championship.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
You guys want to know about the Parsley, But yes,
I do want to know about the Parcely please this
is really bad.

Speaker 5 (03:05):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Okay, So first, the only player that actually played old
financed Jalen Hurts will run a score in no what
Jackson Smith, Jimba.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
I'm trying to say, n J I B A G
B A girl.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
I don't know where you found him, floods my basement
and it's going to catch five times.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
He was on a bye week.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
He was he was actually in Miami with you.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
I'm proud of you for knowing Jamiir Gibbs.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
I'm so proud of you.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
And you said he and his luscious hair will score
one time, but also a bye week.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
So you didn't get leg.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
Do two teams have a bye week at the same time?

Speaker 3 (03:44):
Well, who are they going to be bye with?

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Oh that's a different question, question whoever they'd like. Okay,
it's an exclusive world. They can do whatever they want, right,
That's what I'm saying. Yeah, no judgment here.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
So I need to look at five weeks.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
You look at figure out, you need to look at
AI picking these, You need to look at GPT subscriptions
is what you need to look at. You might need
that two hundred dollars. When I was talking about last week, someone,
you know, give me the subscription. I like basketball now, though,
so okay, God, I can't wait to go through all
those There's like eighty seven games a night, so that'll
be good.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
I want to get you talk about the gambling Ring.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
Oh yeah, Oh my gosh, it was Yeah, that was
the news.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
Is a movie that did?

Speaker 1 (04:28):
That? Sets you back? I know you've been playing in
those poker games with those NBA players. He got indicted
this week. Oh it was terrible. You weren't really in Miami,
you in prison. Yeah. Airports are feeling the effects of
the government shutdown around the country. They continue to experience
delays as the federal government shutdown continued. Several groundstops were
issued yesterday Newark, Boston, LA. Other airports were affected as well.

(04:50):
The Transportation Secretary says that there were more than twenty
incidents of air traffic controller shortages on Saturday. Flight awhears website,
so there were more than five hundred US flight delays
on Saturday alone. Air traffic controllers continue to work without
pay during the shutdown, so many are calling on sick
to work other jobs. Shout out to all the air
traffic controllers. We got to have you very important job.

(05:10):
I'm sorry that you're not getting paid. You're gonna get
some monster checks when this whole thing's over, just monsters,
just big, whopping huge. You're gonna be so rich. Forget
about the fact that you haven't been able to, you know,
pay your bills adequately for the last couple of months.
You're gonna be rich. It's like when the check hits
on Friday, but the direct deposit doesn't come out till, like,
you know, Sunday night or Monday, so all weekend you're like, yeah, baby,

(05:31):
I got I got big dough, but you don't because
well I have no dough because they have they haven't
pulled all the bills out of yet. But we love
your air traffic controllers and many of you who are
working well not getting paid right now. There is a
TikTok deal and it will be finalized on Thursday, apparently,
and apparently China is aware of it because they'll be
involved in the final finalizing of the deal. So that's

(05:53):
good because the deal is being finalized in China, so
I'm assuming that they're aware now of whatever we came
up with. For this. The deal was first announced last
month when Trump, our president, signaled an order allowing TikTok
to keep operating in the US under a new setup
with American investors. So that's all being finalized. Then a
French police have two suspects in custody who say that

(06:15):
they're linked to last weekend Crown jewel heights at the
Louver Museum. Authorities tracked down the suspects using their DNA.
One man was arrested at Charles Sigaull Airport in Paris
while trying to leave the country. I hope he wasn't
trying to fly to New York and there was an
air traffic controller to lay and that's why there weren't
an air traffic controllers had to sit there for a while.
They came and got him. I don't know where he
was going. Another guy went to his house I guess

(06:37):
in some Parisian suburb where both men were from. Dozens
of investigators had been involved in chasing down at least
four suspects who targeted the Louvers Apollo Gallery and a
brazen daylight raid. Fleeing with jewelry were tens of millions
in a matter of minutes. Local authorities saved at least
two other suspects remained at large. It's unclear if any
of the jewels were recovered. So can you imagine, and

(07:00):
that'd be something I would do that? You know. I
watch a lot of well, yeah, yeah, yeah, I watched
a lot of Dayline, a lot of you know, forty
eight Hours Mystery, Yes, a lot of Twenty twenty, you know,
And I don't like twenty twenty as much because it's
really more just David Mirror being David Mirror. I'm sexy hot, yeah, yeah,

(07:20):
he takes himself very it's very serious. I don't know, oh,
very very serious, this guy. But nonetheless, I feel like
I would commit the perfect crime until I like drooled
on something accidentally, you know, because I like was too
busy thinking of my perfect crime forgot to swallow drool.
Do you ever do that? Do you ever forget to swallow?

Speaker 3 (07:41):
I forget to breathe?

Speaker 1 (07:42):
I did do Sometimes I feel like I would sneeze somewhere,
I would do something or it would be perfect. Then
I'd go, you know what I haven't had in a while,
a cigarette, Let's celebrate, and then I you know, I
don't know It's like I would do something. I would
do one thing. I would do one thing that was
just stupid, you know, like the whole thing would be
perfectly planned out, and then I'd get cocky and I'd
make one wrong move and they'd be showing up at

(08:04):
my Parisian suburban house and arresting me, like they got
DNA off of a helmet. I guess now, granted, I'm
not throwing things I wore, you know, I'm keeping everything,
I'm taking it with me, but I guess these dudes
like they got DNA off of something that they left behind.
You know, that's something I would do, just something ridiculous,
and then I'd be in jail.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
I feel like it's like the Roaring twenties, Like is
prohibition coming back like this? I don't know, like a
jewel heist, really the mafia.

Speaker 3 (08:33):
Like a gamble we got poker games. It feels very weird.
Great depression.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
Yeah, well, and now we have a penny shortage because
they don't make pennies anymore. The penny shortage affecting retailers nationwide.
I never really thought about this, but I guess this
is an issue. I don't know who's still using pennies.
My grandfather died sadly many years ago. He was the
guy who always had perfect change in his pocket. He
was the only guy that I know, and my and

(08:57):
my nana had a little change purse. The only people
I knew that if the bill was twenty one dollars
and seventeen cents, they somehow had the seventeen cents or
my grandfather would make he would do it in his
head so that he got dollar bills back. Oh yeah,
he'd do the thing where it was like, you're supposed
to get eighty six cents, but I'll give you fourteen
and then you give me a dollar back. He'd do

(09:18):
this off the flaw, on the fly. It was incredible.
I don't know where he got this mathematical ability, because
I don't have it.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
I still use change because they give it back to
they give me cash to the dispensary. That's the only
time I ever get it. And sometimes it's not even
I get changed. So I still do this too. Really, Yeah, okay,
so round it up.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
Why don't you go to get right checks together?

Speaker 3 (09:37):
No, I don't have a check book that I would
never get.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
Show, but Shell, he's your check writer. She likes to
write checks.

Speaker 4 (09:41):
No, we're not doing that. My astra has like in
my car, has a ton of like change in any
drifters all the time. Okay, seven nif pennies in there.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
Yeah, so anyway, well there's this short there's two hundred
and fifty billion pennies in circulation. I guess that's not
enough because we don't make anymore as of August. Here's
what to expect when paying cash of that penny. Some
stores are rounding the total to benefit the customer, and
others are saying, we don't expect correct change. If you
have a stash, go ahead and spend those pennies. Okay,
so I don't know, get rid of them, my guess.

(10:09):
Le Boo Boo will be on a float at the
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Is that exciting? Which one the
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade? I don't know them all? The
viral Live Wait on It says the viral La Boo
Boo character just says the will be among the new
editions at the ninety ninth annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

(10:33):
Pop Mart, the Chinese company, says La Boo Boo will
be featured on its friends Giving in Pop City float,
along with many of each other characters Skull Panda and
Peach Riot. Leboobos is certainly having a moment with people
forking over thousands to get their hands on one of
these dolls. So I love this. I might be going, well,
maybe we'll see you're one of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade.

Speaker 3 (10:53):
I'm trying to sell new traditions. You're going to Detroit
for things.

Speaker 6 (10:56):
No, that's not happening, but I want to go. No,
but I want to go to New York just for that.
I want to bring my daughter and like just how
I watch the parade and then go home after you
guys know, hyperball Thanksgiving Like, I'm not, I'm in no rush.

Speaker 1 (11:08):
That's because you were always deprived of good Thanksgiving food
because your mom was an immigrant and didn't know how
to make it. Actually, you need to go to someone's
house who knows, like a pilgrim, how to make You
need to go to a pilgrim's house, Okay, and they
know what's up. You know, you need to go to
someone's house who really takes his like our friend Tony Coles.
You know who, Tony Tony Cole's is a suit in
this company. He's probably the only suit I like who

(11:30):
I adore. Okay, this man, though, has been preparing for
Thanksgiving since the summer. Wow. It takes him like an
entire weekend to make the gravy and then he freezes
it like this, guys, it's extremely serious. I think he
makes the pies like oh this is this is like
his thing. Everybody knows Thanksgiving is his thing, and he's ready.

(11:51):
And he's never one time invited me to come over there.
But I can imagine the food is stellar. Because if
you're making gravy for a whole weekend months in advance
to make sure that it's like perfect chein or whatever,
then you got it. You know, you need to go
to Tony Cole's house for Thanksgiving. I'm sure. I'm sure
he'd love to have you.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
I would love to go.

Speaker 6 (12:08):
I need experience a good Thanksgiving for once in my life,
just a good one.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
But I always I see that Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade
on TV, and I think that's that's that looks okay,
But like that, that is not what I would want
to do on Thanksgiving morning. Like I'm not waking up
at five in the morning to get on a train
with a million other people to go to the city
and then like you know, have to be cold, and
then and then watch these things, you know, down go

(12:32):
down the road. That's that is an experience for television
you can very easily just watch on TV and everything
it's I can't imagine it's that much better in person.

Speaker 6 (12:40):
It probably isn't, But I want to give it a
trib I always wanted to do that and one year
not now, But I want to see the ball drop too.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
I know that's going to be a horrible, horrible I'm
gonna wear a diaper.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
Well, you basically have to. No, yeah, you got to
be out there all day if you want to get
like a good.

Speaker 6 (12:55):
Vehicle trench coad just like drinks in there, Oh, I
have to with like pockets.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
That's another one that doesn't look like fun to me
or And I understand, you know, I certainly understand saving money,
but eating Thanksgiving dinner and then going and getting a
line at Target to go wrestle someone for a flat
screen TV like that also doesn't sound And again, you
can save a lot of money, I understand that, but
like then if I'm doing that, then we're not eating
Thanksgiving dinner, you know, like we're just we're having like
taco bell or something or maybe not that if I

(13:23):
have to go wait in line, we're having something else soup,
but I'm not going to eat an entire Thanksgiving meal.
And then like all right, put on your Parka, let's
go wait in line so we can get the switch to.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
You know, it's online. Now you don't have to do that.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
Yeah, that's true, that's true, But that's not that's not happening. Cohler.
I want to you guys think it is. They're trending
today that they make the bathroom fixtures no strangers to
the bathroom, but it has historically provided ways for people
to deal with their weights not analyzed. But now the
company is venturing into the world a personal health tech
with the Dekoda, which is a device that clamps to

(13:58):
the rim of your toilet and will analyze the contents
of your toilet bowl with health in Mind six hundred bucks.
It's a poopcam. Basically, it will use discrete optics to
track the frequency, consistency, and shape of your waist, scan
for blood in the bowel, and evacuate evaluate rather your

(14:18):
hydration levels based on your urine. And then there's a
subscription seventy bucks a year if you want to use
this thing, So six hundred bucks for the little device
and it clamps onto your toilet seat, and then sixty
bucks a year or one hundred and thirty bucks annually
for up to five members or roommates. So then we
can all log in and look at our you know,
what's going on with that stuff. You can review that

(14:38):
your health trends, daily summaries on the Cooler Health app.
They say that there's no way that the censors would
be able to sense anything but what's in the toilet bowl,
because I can see this going a ride too, which
it's like a camera staring up at my ugly butt
and I can't have that. But lord knows, if people
could take pictures of their button share them, they would

(14:59):
because now you know, people are buying crap with cameras
attached to everything. Yes, I just like what I see,
uh Mark Zuckerberg yesterday and some video these new meta
there's like a newer version of the ray band. Metaglasses
are cool. And then you wear like uh, you wear
like a wristband. And then the glasses and then like
you basically just walk around and move your arms around

(15:21):
and it does everything. Like you know, if you want
to turn the volume up on your music, then you
actually like just twist a knob. I would think maybe
someone was having a seizure or like maybe somebody was
like dealing with some kind of issue. If I saw
people just walking around just twisting knobs and they're warning
knobs there, I mean, I'm worried. But like, how hard
is it just to turn the knob up on it
or you know, click on the thing. Yeah, I don't know,

(15:44):
But why do we have to record everything? I mean,
this is interesting. I guess the older you get, the
more you pay attention to stuff like that. Yeah do this,
like don't make sure health knowledge? You can't tell me
that you'd maybe like when I was younger, I didn't.
But now like when that when that event occurs, been
a rare occasion because you know, it's just very dust.

(16:04):
It just disappears into the ether when I number two.
But when I do I do evaluate Now, Oh yeah,
I take. I mean, like I can. I'm proud of myself.
If it's like there's certain characteristics that we're looking for
you know, if you're well hydrated and you've eaten enough
fiber and like you're you're eating well, then it's supposed
to look a certain way and you're like, I did it.

(16:25):
Same with urine. If your urine's clearer, that's good, yeah,
you know, but if it's not, it's like what am
I doing?

Speaker 6 (16:31):
You know?

Speaker 1 (16:32):
And drinking enough water today? This is the kind of
stuff that people do that when they get older. You guys,
you guys do this all the time.

Speaker 3 (16:37):
If I have a ghost poop, I like, I'm so
proud of myself. That is the aim. We don't talk
about she's she's for clempsed I did.

Speaker 1 (16:44):
We don't talk about that enough.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
No, when you look down, there's nothing there, but you
know you did work.

Speaker 1 (16:50):
Yeah, yeah, I need to understand the science of that
because I agree with I don't know, but I don't
I don't know why. No, it's the best.

Speaker 6 (16:56):
Yeah, I guess it means like you ate like the
fiber and all that and it literally yeah, I went
away and it was smooth.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
I don't know. I don't know her. I think there's
I think it has more to do with the buoyancy
or like the big contact anyway, whatever, And finally, one
more poop story for you. A Sharman is making headlines
again with a colossal Forever roll. It's a seventeen hundred
sheet toilet paper roll the company claims is big enough
to last an entire month, and tall enough, if unspooled,

(17:23):
to rival the Washington Monument. It was first of novelty.
Now apparently you can buy this thirty three ninety nine.
You have to have a coupon too, which lets you
get two Forever rolls and a special stand because you
would need it because it's like, and you guys can't
see this at home, but it's like this big round.
It's ugly. It's how hard easy just to replace a
little one that's on there, Just replace the little one

(17:45):
that's on there. Yeah, the built in I don't need
it's it's huge. It's ugly. It's like if I saw
that in someone's house, I'd be like, are you okay?
Like why do you need that much? Right now?

Speaker 7 (17:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (17:56):
Like at one time, I mean I I mean I
want it just to have it, since.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
I made me that much more a special holder for
this thing. Yeah, that's where its National black Cat Day
and National cranky co worker's day, which is me before
six am most days. So it's Kiki's court, all right,
all right, the Honorable Paulina. Wow, wow, the Honorable Judge

(18:22):
Paulina in for Kiki. Uh, Judge Paulina, take it away.

Speaker 3 (18:27):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
I hit the gavel. I guess the gable has been struck.

Speaker 3 (18:31):
It's been struck helping make you proud girl. Okay, yeah,
so here we go. Are you guys ready?

Speaker 6 (18:36):
I am to your Kiki. I need your ruling because
I'm about to lose it. I throw my baby's seventh
birthday at a trampoline park. I said invites two months
in advanced confirmed RSVPs and that was twelve yeses. I
bought matching jump socks, custom cupcakes with every kid's name
on it. The whole Pinterest setup thing. Party day comes
and guess how many kids.

Speaker 3 (18:56):
Actually showed up?

Speaker 1 (18:58):
Three?

Speaker 8 (18:59):
Three?

Speaker 6 (19:00):
It's the rest hit me with the last minute, something
came up text one of their kids was tired and
another one just posted from a whole nother birthday party
at the same time.

Speaker 3 (19:07):
Oh yeah, yeah, double booked and blessed, So I cancel.

Speaker 1 (19:12):
You can't you can't play posts and stuff?

Speaker 6 (19:14):
Yeah, some people just don't know.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
Yeah, you can't. Can't be saying all I can't make
it and then show up you don't to other persons.
You can't do that.

Speaker 6 (19:19):
Come on now, now, I'm standing there with enough pizza
to feed a small village and a birthday boy asking
why his friends didn't come so Geeky or Paulina everybody else?

Speaker 3 (19:28):
Am my petty?

Speaker 6 (19:29):
If I them no or Zell request these parents for
their no show fees, or at least call them out
for their no shows?

Speaker 3 (19:36):
What should I do?

Speaker 1 (19:36):
Why y'all call them out?

Speaker 3 (19:38):
Like I'm the old Instagram you know, I can find
a way.

Speaker 6 (19:40):
One thing about me is I'll find a way square
and or anything they're saying, like text them and just
be like, hey, that wasn't cool, which I've seen people
do that too before, Like that's very.

Speaker 1 (19:50):
Mad, super rude. But I don't know what you're gonna
do about it. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (19:53):
See, this is tough because I feel that when it
comes to kids, like you can't do that to a child,
especially if the kid's excited about their birthday party and
you know everything's you know, the cupcakes and the Spider
Man themes and whatever is going on. You don't want
to disappoint a child, right, So I think at least
you can do is bring your kid, because I don't
think that'd feel good. If that was your child's birthday

(20:14):
and only three kids showed up out of twelve, the
old me would probably say, yes, call them out, you know,
send all the requests, do it all. But I think
my friends have told me recently that I am growing,
that I'm experiencing growth.

Speaker 3 (20:26):
Wow, And I know this is hard. It's hard not
to go lower than low. It's hard. It's really hard
for me. You guys understand that.

Speaker 6 (20:35):
Well.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
If you have a relationship with any of the other pimes,
I think it's okay to say, hey, you know that
didn't make me feel great, or let's talk about this
or what happened there.

Speaker 3 (20:43):
I think that's fair too.

Speaker 6 (20:44):
But I also think we should put our energy into
the ones that did show up. And if you're gonna
be at least a little petty, I would just post
something and say, you know, thanks everyone for coming to
Brandon's birthday party, for those.

Speaker 3 (20:54):
Who made it.

Speaker 6 (20:55):
And I think you should also just truly give thanks
and appreciation of those who do show up, because because
I do feel like you're focusing on the ones that
came versus the ones that didn't come.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
So financial commitment too. I mean, I will how very
much it costed to accommodate twelve kids. It's a lot
of money all the rest of it. So it's just
kind of it's kind of rude, not even I mean, yeah,
it's rude like that your kid's not there, the presence
and whatnot or lack thereof, but it's really rude for
someone to plan an event and then but I want
to know why out of twelve kids, like the vast
majority didn't show up. Yeah, it got to me, is sauce, like,

(21:25):
it's probably not the kid. I don't think this is
the parents. I don't know. That's weird. That's weird to me,
like one or two kids dropping out last minute. I
get that kids get sick or whatever gonna happen, but
why did nobody come?

Speaker 6 (21:37):
Right, You're talking about what like eight nine kids not coming?
So I do have a theory that we are in
a epidemic of people not showing up. I don't know
what you'd call that, and I've been guilty of it.
So I want to personally take this moment to hoologize
to my friend Caitlin on my left because I did
this year recently. I was supposed to come to your
birthday and you had your birthday back in August and
you had an event at your house. You had people

(21:57):
over and I was gonna come, but I never showed up.
And then I hit her with see like, hey, sorry,
I couldn't make a thing. And I know that that
doesn't feel great, especially when you think someone's coming.

Speaker 3 (22:07):
I know you didn't plan your party.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
Around me, and you brought this up because Kaylen behind
the scenes has been and it's like she's been waiting
for this moment where you were going to acknowledge.

Speaker 6 (22:20):
I just don't get it, though, Like I don't get
people to do that, and I know what happens and
we've all done it, so I'm not going to play
like I've never you know, you've done this so many
you weren't coming like before I say you didn't, but
that's all right.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
The nne of rings, she was like, sorry, I wasn't there.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
I'm like, well, no, yeah, we saw that, and it's
not right.

Speaker 6 (22:37):
It's not right, and I feel like I've had done
to me and I do it to people and one
thing I'm trying to do is be a villager for
other people. I'm really big on that right now because
I want to show up for people who show up
for me. And I think when it comes to this
kid thing, you're right, friend, one kid getting sick, it's.

Speaker 3 (22:49):
Gonna happen, right, maybe two. But I think.

Speaker 6 (22:52):
Parents truly just like don't care anymore now that their
argument is like parents are juggling so much.

Speaker 3 (22:56):
Yes, yes we are.

Speaker 6 (22:58):
But I think you can go to Timmy's birthday party
for two hours on a Saturday that you committed to
you by putting it in your calendar to show up
for this child.

Speaker 3 (23:05):
Bring your kid, to show your kid what it's like
to show up.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
That's the thing you got us like if you you
agreed to do it, so you have to show your
kid that, hey, we made a commitment and we're gonna
see the commitment through and you know, And then the
parent can't be lazy because I think you're right to
some extent, it's karma when you throw a party for
your kid. You'd be upset if this happened for a
lot of the kid. Maybe, I mean, you said the

(23:27):
kid pointed out, like where are my friends. I mean,
there were some kids there and they were They probably
had a good time, I'm sure it was. It probably
hurt more for the parent who has more perspective on
what this all means. Hey, Brittany, Hi Brittany, So this
happened to you.

Speaker 7 (23:43):
Oh yeah, so, I mean it happened to me as
the aspect of like kids not showing up. But the
big thing for me was I hired a face painter
from my daughter's party a couple of years ago and
everything was good. She confirmed the day before the day
of I put down a deposit. She was also a
tattoo artist. So ten minutes before the party.

Speaker 1 (24:04):
So the kids can choose, they could choose a face
face painting or a permanent tattoo. That's truel like the versatility.
Yeah yeah, right.

Speaker 7 (24:11):
Yeah, So ten minutes before the party, she texted me
and said that she oh, indeed and was in the
hospital and could not make it, But then an hour
later posted that she was at the tattoo Convention in
Rosemont tattooing for people to come here.

Speaker 3 (24:27):
Wow, you can't lie about it.

Speaker 1 (24:29):
Oh, you don't say stuff like you can't say stuff
like that.

Speaker 7 (24:32):
That's what I said, that's what I said. Had she
been truthful and gave me the deposit back, it would
have been fine. But she that's a big thing to lie.

Speaker 3 (24:44):
About, insane And why is that your first go to? Like,
that's insane?

Speaker 7 (24:48):
Honestly, Like, bro, you could have said you had diarrhea.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
I mean, yeah, that's a very that's that. Not only
is that very serious, but it draws sympathy out of
the people in a way that you that's bad. That's
that talking about cars the thing.

Speaker 7 (25:05):
Yeah, that's the thing that bothered me the most is
that she was trying to like make me feel bad
for her, and I did it first, of course, But
then you go and publicly posted on Facebook where I
have you as a friend.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
That's dumb because you're gonna lie. You know, everyone knows.
It takes a little while to get you know what.
I can't even tell a joke about ODC because I'm
not even going to. I'm not going to. That's that's terrible.
That is bad. You cannot No, don't lie about tragedy,
never because because you're extracting emotion out of people that
you don't deserve. And that's a bad thing in my opinion.

Speaker 7 (25:37):
And now yeah, so no, And then then I was
stuck with like a whole birthday party full of kids,
and my daughter had been asking for a face painter
for years and I was finally so excited that I
had the space and stuff to get.

Speaker 5 (25:49):
It for her.

Speaker 7 (25:50):
And yes, it was very disappointing. But also when you
have your birth well your kid's birthday party at places
they charge no show fee, right, thing is is like,
like you said, tell me, you can't make it firsthand
because people are SVP and then you mark those people
and kids down and places like you know, like fun
places or jumping places they do charge no shell fees.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Brittany, thank you for that happen. Have
a good day. Glad you called. Yeah, no, I'm yeah.
I mean you can't go Venmo. And I think you
do assume some risk when you have to have account,
you know, and you have to assume there's going to
be people that don't come. But I mean as far
as more than half of the people not coming, that's

(26:35):
super rude. But what see Venmo them like, I don't.

Speaker 3 (26:38):
Know, I think just got to let it go.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
You look, you look kind of cat's that's a bad situation.
I hate it when you're in the right, but anything
that you do that in order, like I want to
call it retaliation, but anything you do to kind of
stand up for yourself or like take a stand it
ultimately it gives people the opportunity to to to then
further sort of criticize you. You know what I mean.

(27:02):
It's a bad situation to be and when like you,
you know, I'm on the right side of this, like
I would have every right to be, Like I invested
in all these kids coming you guys, all these parents
aresvped and then none of you showed up, Like this
cost me hundreds of dollars. You should pay me back
for this, for your laziness or ineptitude or or whatever
your issue is. But then you become the person in
the friend group that build everybody for the party, even

(27:23):
though you have every right to do it. I think
you have to ask yourself, like what do I really Yes,
I get my money back, I guess, but what am
I really gaining?

Speaker 2 (27:30):
It's very easy to communicate, Like that's all you have
to do if something came up, communicate.

Speaker 3 (27:34):
If you can't go, communicate, Yeah, I think it's pretty simple.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
Hey, Ashley, hi, Hi, So just to recap here if
you're just tuning in Pauline and for Kiki and Kiki's Court.
But essentially, a woman planned a birthday party for her
kid and like ten of the thirteen kids didn't show
up after rsvping that they would, and this woman's like,
I want to call them all out, I want to
send them a bill, I want to do this and that.
What do you do?

Speaker 5 (27:57):
So I recently went to a party. A whole I
think it's the whole class was invited. It was about
twenty kids and only my child showed up. She said
that a handful did RSVP, they did not come. The
other handful just didn't say anything at all. But I've
also worked in classrooms where you have to invite the

(28:17):
whole class. So the parents send the invitations, we put
these in their folders. There are so many parents that
don't open their child's folder, so these invitations are sitting
and sitting and just not opened. So there's a you know,
a huge percentage of kids that the parents don't even
know there's a party because we don't tell the kids

(28:37):
we're putting invitations in there.

Speaker 9 (28:39):
Because that also.

Speaker 5 (28:41):
Causes you know, chaos, okay, especially in smaller kids. So
there's you know, the invitation is not even getting opened
by so many people, but yeah, it is. It's sucky
when you know, I felt so bad for the kid.
Thankfully it was at their house and he didn't really notice.
He's four or five and she was turning five, and
you know they had fun anyway. But being one out

(29:02):
of twenties, I.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
Guess it's one that nobody knew. Mad Yeah I would too. Yeah,
no one knew, that's one thing. But if everybody said
we're coming and then all these people didn't show up,
like that's that's messed up.

Speaker 3 (29:13):
And I think that's pure laziness.

Speaker 6 (29:16):
I think.

Speaker 5 (29:16):
You know, as a parent, you don't want. Yes, it's like,
oh I have to go sit at this party for
this little kid, but.

Speaker 1 (29:22):
For two hours exactly.

Speaker 5 (29:23):
It's not that much of your day.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
Yeah, and think of the impact it's having on the kid,
on the parents and everybody else too. Ashley, thank you,
no problem, have a good day. Now. Hadley is our
eleven year old contributor. Hadley calls every now and again. Now, Hadley, well,
what are your thoughts on this? Because we come to you.
Really when it comes to sort of how to how
to live our lives? And I want to know what
you Hadley, our eleven year old contributor, has to say

(29:47):
about this.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
I have to.

Speaker 8 (29:50):
Say that she shouldn't be petty because she'd be focusing
around like the kids that actually showed up. Yeah, because
if like she just circles around the people that didn't
show up, then what's the kid gonna have fun at
the birthday party?

Speaker 1 (30:09):
I think not Hadley. If we wanted to do something, though, like,
if we wanted to get back at people, how would
we do it? Do you think if we were so inclined?
Now we're not, because you're you're a much better person
than that. But if you wanted to, what would you do?

Speaker 8 (30:25):
I'd maybe, like, if I didn't have the parents' phone number,
maybe go off like TikTok or Facebook message them and
be like, hey, so what was the big thing that
came up that you couldn't come to the party?

Speaker 1 (30:40):
Right? And then you could go like maybe look at
all their social media and see what they did instead
and be like, well, it's funny because I actually observed
that you went to something else instead and you lied
to me, And now I'm gonna I'm going to extort you.
I don't know. You would never do that badly, you
wouldn't thank you for calling. I appreciate you. You're welcome
we spoking. She's better spoken than I have, and she's

(31:02):
eleven years old, so I'll just go ahead and step aside.
Let her take over the program. Hey, Tony, how you doing? Tony?
Just happened with your son's communion? You invited a bunch
of kids and then a bunch of kids backed at
the last minute. Is that what happened?

Speaker 6 (31:15):
Right?

Speaker 9 (31:16):
It was family, It wasn't all children.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
That's even worse with children. Yeah, what'd you do about it?

Speaker 9 (31:22):
But you know, and honestly, I didn't do anything. I
just felt bad for my son, and we tried to
make the best of the day. But like I said,
I ordered food for one hundred people because eighty six responded,
and you know, about fourteen people showed up, So we
just had Chinese food for months. I threw it in
the freezer, and you know, just tried to make the
best of the base.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
Just messed up. I mean, you're planning on one hundred people,
and of those eighties, some told you they were coming,
So I mean that is no small undertaking, like you
got to have enough stuff for eighty some people. Why
do you think what was the mass exodus about?

Speaker 8 (31:56):
Like?

Speaker 1 (31:56):
Why did so many people say they were coming and
then not show up? Do you think?

Speaker 9 (32:00):
Honestly, I think we've planned it too far in advance,
and then you know, coming up to the day, people's
lives they just get busy. Yeah. I mean, like, you know,
I'm assuming the family wouldn't do that to me on purpose,
but you know, honestly, I never looked at my family
the same way.

Speaker 5 (32:14):
Again.

Speaker 9 (32:15):
Oh yeah, like other events, you know, I would plan
for let's say, you know, they responded with fifty five.
I'm like, realistically, let's say thirty, we'll show up.

Speaker 1 (32:26):
Yeah, that's that's bad. Yeah, I'm sorry, Tony. Thanks for calling, man,
thanks for listening. Have a good day at a problem
as well. So Kelly's got a theory too. Hi, Kelly, welcome,
Good morning guys.

Speaker 3 (32:38):
How are you hi?

Speaker 1 (32:39):
Good morning? So what's your theory on this? The final say?

Speaker 10 (32:42):
So, I think this is across the board. I think
the social media and everything else, everyone has constant somo.
So we commit to everything right, we want to do
all the things, and we want to go to all
the parties when we're humans, and so when it gets
to that day, we're.

Speaker 3 (32:58):
Burnt out, or we're sick, our kids are cranky.

Speaker 10 (33:01):
And I think people really just need to take a
deep look inside themselves before you commit and really prioritize,
Like what are the things that are important?

Speaker 1 (33:10):
Yeah, I think you're right. I think there are. And
I have no problem with this personally, but a lot
of people have an issue saying no, they can't go me,
no issue whatsoever. I'll tell you no, that's good and
I know right away, and but be you right. People
don't want to say no. They say yes and they
think that that's a nice thing, even though they have
no intention of going, or they forget and then they

(33:31):
don't go, or they already are coming up with an excuse,
and you wind up probably hurting someone more that way
than you would if you just said, hey, I can't do.

Speaker 10 (33:37):
It one hundred percent, Like just be upfront and it's okay.
Like I don't even do big parties for my kids anymore,
just because it's not worth it. I'll have like two
or three friends, you know what I mean, And like
from the get go, that's just all we do, because
I get it.

Speaker 3 (33:51):
People are busy.

Speaker 7 (33:52):
Now everyone can spend.

Speaker 10 (33:53):
You know, you get invited when kids are small, especially,
you'll get two, three, four or five six birthday party
invitations a month, you know, and then you're trying to
do the soccer games and you're trying to do you.

Speaker 3 (34:04):
Know, this whole family stuff because it's hours to do
all of the things.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
Yeah, Kelly, thank.

Speaker 3 (34:09):
You, Thank you guys so much.

Speaker 1 (34:11):
Have a great game you took. Another thing you can
do is as annoying as it is, is you could
do the whole thing on one of those websites, you know,
you know, evite or whatever, because not only then and
then if it's a kid's party or something, then make it,
make the make the invitation public or the at least
the invitees, like for the people who are s vpdes,
they can see who else is there, and then it's
almost like there's an accountability. And then it also sends

(34:33):
out like little annoying reminders like hey, the party is
tomorrow or whatever.

Speaker 3 (34:37):
Because of those.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
Yeah, because in advance, you you it's easy to say like, hey,
in two months, we're doing this thing, and then people
will forget if you don't say one more word about it.

Speaker 3 (34:46):
And I cannot. I cannot do this any longer. I
need to say this.

Speaker 2 (34:50):
We cannot send a picture of an invite in a
text message. That is not a way a good way
for me to remember your party. Use those online things
so I can say, add to cal under because if
you send me a picture in text, I'm going to
save it and then lose it and not know how
the party is.

Speaker 1 (35:06):
We must start this some you said that to me actually,
and I didn't go to the party, and they were like,
you didn't go to the party. I'm like, well, you
didn't invite me. And then then it showed me deep
in the middle of a bunch of texts about something else,
they popped in some picture about a Halloween pop Like
what I can't do I didn't even see what that was,
Like I was, We're talking about something totally different. You
can't just spring that on me and then be like

(35:26):
where were you. I tried to guilt them a little
bit for not inviting me, you know, and then it
turned out I was invited, but it was the thing.
It was a picture of an what's he doing? That's
that's unacceptable.

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