No Doubt, Coachella and Disney Families

In this episode of The Honest to Girl Truth podcast, Nicole and Culture get honest about seeing No Doubt at the Sphere in Las Vegas, going VIP to Coachella, and being a Disney family or not.

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Okay, real quick, what is edging? What is edging? Okay, but edging is when you're like almost about to like climax that you you stop like on a guy and you know he's like, oh no, we go longer. Or or a girl, like you you prolong it, and so you're just like right on the edge. Yeah, but with a woman, isn't it then sometimes mess it up? Like sometimes if I lose it, then I can't get back there. And then I'm not edging, I'm pissy. But I'll try it. It's like the girl version of being blue bald. Totally. Haven't you had that happen? You're like right there and then they move and you're like, God dang it. 100%. Yeah. And then they just keep no, you you blew it. You blew it. We're done. She's like, he's like, will you blow it then? Speaking of blowing it, so I went to Vegas. We haven't talked about Vegas to see no doubt. No doubt. It was amazing. Okay, so I didn't put two and two together. Oh, by the way, we're at my house and we've got some construction in the back, so hopefully you guys don't hear that. She wanted to reschedule, but I was like, you catch me now or I do it now. Thank you. Um, so just hopefully we don't hear that. Um, so I was thinking Gwen Stefani. Yeah. I know, but I was thinking just Gwen Stephanie solo. Okay. And then when I saw her come out on stage because I was looking at some TikToks, she came out on stage in like old school. No doubt. No doubt. Yeah. With the pants and the hair and the way she moves. Oh, and she was doing scald. It was like so. She was dancing, doing the scald. But by the way, we've never sat like this before. We haven't? I've never sat on this side, and you're oh yeah, you can't. But in the car, in the car we are, but it at my house, you're usually. I love it. Your hair looks good by the way, I think y'all. Okay, so it looks good. So it was super fun. Um, so there was also EDC going on, which is electric, I don't know, dance disco carnival? I don't know. Did I get it? I don't know. But we're old, and so the first night we were there, it was like an EDC parade. So like the whole strip was blocked down, which made us late for our dinner reservation. Oh shoot. Which was like a nightmare, but it's just funny because we're the old people trying to get through traffic to get to like a dinner reservation. Everybody's dressed like totally scandalous. Yes. And was it what time was it? Okay, so our cab driver said it starts at 5 p.m. and goes to 5 a.m. The parade? No, EDC. Oh, I was like, the parade. Oh my god. Oh, wait, what time was the parade? It was like, it started at 6 p.m. P.M. Okay. And I think by the time we were done with dinner around 8, it was done. Oh. So then everybody was just walking the streets. So what's a parade? Like they have floats and everything? I don't know. I was at dinner. I wasn't trying to be up in there. But it was the 30th anniversary of it. Okay, that's fun. But I'm 45 almost. How has it been going on since I was 15? I don't think that's true because raves were different when we were younger. It wasn't you were paying $500 a ticket to go to a rave. But maybe you were risking your life in a gutter to go to a EDC was like a very small. You started small, like a very small niche group, and then it just grew. Because raves for doing more drugs in an old basement. Yeah. Or like a warehouse. You did not pay. I went to a rave in when I was older, and it was out in a field. Right. Like Coachella. Okay. Yeah. I never did the underground. Underground. Yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes. That's what I remember raves to be. So now it's this whole thing. Anyways, we're old, it was wild, there was a lot going on. Um, but when we were got in our Uber to come home from dinner, because we were staying off the strip, um, because it was uh cheaper. Um Well, and then you wouldn't have been able to find anything because well, so we stayed at the M Resort, which I like. We normally stay at Bellagio, but it was like triple the price for two nights. We ended up going for three. So when we got in the Uber, the cab driver was like, You guys need to go to EDC. You can go get tickets out front. That's what I was saying. Spark your marriage, and we're like, Yeah, totally. Oh, for sure. Where do we get tickets? For like a 20-minute cab ride. We get out, and Rob's like, the fuck, we're doing that. I was like, there is no way in hell you could pay me to go to a rape, literally, or spend $500 to do it. I didn't know it was $500 to go to go. For like a ticket. I don't know if it's a three-day and also three days. How much drugs do you need to be on to be able to do that for three days? Three days. Are you I can't do anything for three days. So you did Coachella. Yes, with Sophia. And we need to circle back to that because you just booked it again. I didn't drink one ounce of alcohol, it was more like um just Celsius or energy drinks, and Sophia would just have like a Starbucks at the beginning of the day, like a little refresher, and then that would just take us through the rest of the day. At one point, we did have to get her like a Coca-Cola for some caffeine. And I thought I was gonna hit up one of the coffee like pop-ups or get like a matcha, and I never did because by the time we were done, like I would hit a wall like around eight o'clock because that's when like my bedtime like is. But we were going till like midnight sometimes, and I thought, well, if I freaking drink a matcha or an energy drink right now, I'm gonna be toast. I'm not gonna be able to sleep all night. Well, when I went to No Doubt, so I don't drink espresso martinis. Rob likes them. I've always been curious. I was oh my god, I love espresso martinis. I'm obsessed now. Okay, listen, so we go to dinner the night of the concert. I'm dead tired. It's like seven o'clock. Again, I'm usually getting ready for bed. And I was like, I'm gonna get an espresso martini, but I was like, oh, I don't want to be up all night. Well, it's gonna be a late night, anyways. It was so good. So good, so good, and I still went to bed at 11 p.m. Yeah. I was still, I was like, still tired. It's like, okay, watching no doubt, she was dancing, bebopping, hopping. I was like dancing 10 minutes in, my knees hurt. I swear to God. I was stretching mid like song. She went through and she's like 50, was she, 55? I think she's 10 years older than that. What? Yeah. No. She's in her 50s culture and she looked good. I thought we were the same age. I have never felt older or uglier. She looks amazing. Tell me about the crowd. Were there young people there? Did they were asking? I feel like it was mostly people our age, 40s, 50s. I really don't remember seeing anybody young. Um, yeah, there was some, I would say mostly our age. Okay. Um, and it was very nostalgic. Yes, okay, because I heard at the sphere, people don't, you were seeing no one dances anymore at concerts. They're just like, we, because it's our age, we were dancing, we were singing the songs, like, and it was just very much like I was like 16 again. Like it was a very nostalgic concert. And then you knew all the songs. All the songs, every single one. We were dancing. Um, it was at the sphere, which was super cool. Have you seen anything there? I have not been there, but Chris and Tristan went when we were in Vegas for seven days for a dance competition. They went there. For like a they do like shows. Yeah, they did like a go to a concert there. We should. That would be really fun. He would get a kick out of that. He likes music, apparently. Yeah, he was in a band. Yeah, I had no idea. When you said Coachella, because she's booking next year. Yeah, we already booked it. Chris is going. Yeah. I was like, I didn't know any of the bands in Coachella. Because who am I gonna dance? Well, I can't go VIP now. I saw how much that was, which you bought. You can go. Did you was that for four of you? Five. Who's the fifth person? Jenny. Oh, okay. Because I saw how much she spent. I could go to Hawaii. I know. Is it worth it though? Like, how VIP does that get you? Okay, so what did you so here hear what I told Chris the other day because they uh they went to this card party thing down at the Gaylord Hotel. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So my husband and my son are both into they love to anything collectibles, but they're back into collecting Pokemon, they do One Piece, they do all kinds of things. So apparently he collects money too, because I saw how much Coachella was. Yes, yes. Um, and so he said, babe, you know, this event that we're going to, they have this VIP Elite Pass that we can get, and it gets us to all these different panels, and there's gonna be people that we've been watching on YouTube that are like the bigwigs in this industry, the card card industry. And I said, Okay, honestly, no, we're at that age that like if you're you're like they're collectors. My son and my husband are collectors, they love collecting cards, they have like their stuff that's been insured, they have stuff that they just give away. Like I said, you're gonna go to this thing and you have to experience it. So what is the VIP price for that? Like, what did he pay to do that? It was a thousand dollars. A person or total? Oh shoot, I can't remember. I can't imagine it being a person, but I can almost, but I don't know. So when you went to Coachella with Sophia, this was uh controversial around some mom. So I'm gonna talk about what I can I say. I'm happy it was. So some friends and I were talking, and they had said, Oh my gosh, culture got VIP for Sophia. How old is Sophia? 13. 13. Like, what what bar are they setting? Or that's like crazy or ever. So I came to her defense like I would any mom and was like, you know what? Who who are we to judge? I don't have a daughter. So for me, my son's into baseball. So let's say I'm at a Padre game at Peco Park and somebody says, Okay, if you You've spent a pretty penny on your boys, by the way. Oh my gosh, we went to spring training and that whole thing. So it's like if they said, Okay, if you give us, you know, a thousand dollars, Jake can go back and like meet Jackson Merrill, his like dream player. Who's to say that in that moment I would say no? Because Coachella's like a concert and not like a sport. I feel like people don't give it the same validity. He would say no if you if you couldn't do it. If I couldn't do it, you would say no if you couldn't do it because financially you'd just be like, that's a waste of money. Like that would be a great opportunity, but there's no way. And if you can, you do for your kids. If you can, and the moms that were complaining about this, PS and by the way, overdo it for all their kids. So my point was first of all, nobody's kids are hard up right now. Nobody who's talking is hard up. You spend tens of thousands of dollars on your daughter's dance, you you know, take your daughter on lavish trips to Spain and Europe or whatever. So don't judge what anybody else is doing. If you can do it, you do it. And it's all in what you're raising them behind the scenes. Understanding that, hey, you're lucky that you're able to do this. My first concert was Alanis Morriset at the Del Mar Fair. But I don't know, it's like I'm so sick of other people bashing on parents for what they do and having that judgment. When one, I see all of them doing it in this area that we live in. And two, what do you care? What do you care? It's honestly what do you care? What do you care? And to your point, like, okay, I didn't spend a thousand dollars on a VIP ticket, but like you said, I took my boys to spring training for the Padres. That's hotel, that's travel, that's tickets. They go out and they're they they have this beautiful trailer that they have and they take the boys camping all the time, and it's very nature-driven and outdoorsy. But they will stop at a restaurant, and her 10-year-old son will order a $60 plate with lobster and steak. Yeah, when we were camping. And so many other people would be like, no, you're ordering off of the kids' menu. But if you can, and that's what your son wants, you do it. Right. If it's if it's a few, and he's a foodie, the background is he wants to be a chef, like he's a foodie, he's really cute. And there's times where we do say no, but if we're on a vacation and we're, you know, like we were in San Francisco and he got we were he got like a crab, and the waitress was like, the crab, I was like, Oh, it's for like the 10-year-old. It was like $60 for this, like half a crab, but that is like a moment on a vacation. We're not doing that like on a Wednesday night. Yeah, and it really hit a nerve with me because I I don't I think you have wonderful children that are being raised with gratitude, but also don't sit there and judge when you're doing the same thing because this parent had has done concert VIP things for their nobody, no kid I know in this area is deprived of anything that I know of in our group. Yeah, so don't judge what anybody else is doing. Which we may be really surprised when you told me that because I was like, that's weird. That's and they know they know me. Yeah, they know not that I'm you know driving a Rolls-Royce or anything like that, you know. I just, but it's everybody knows that we're not like hurting. Look, and then like surround yourself with those people, where we go and what we do, and but also like they also know my daughter, like she's bougie AF. Like, she's just I think it depends, like you said, on your finances. Like, if you have the money and you're able to do those things, you do. And if you don't, you don't. And I something I always tell my kids there's always people who are gonna have more, and there's always gonna be people who have less. 100%. Always, yeah. Always. So yeah, that was a little, I got a little perturbed about that. In fact, I called my best friend and was like complaining, and she was like, Yeah, none of these kids around here are hurting for anything. Like, it's so ridiculous. I'm wondering if they were saying that because it's Coachella and like to bring a 13-year-old there too. That's what I mean. I think it was they were just like, Oh, isn't that a little too much? Because they maybe they've never gone and they've only heard stories, and they're just like, Oh, that's like I personally wouldn't do it because my kids aren't interested in it. That's my that's my point with the sports. Like, I would never do that for my boys because they wouldn't care. But I would do it for like a sporting, we do spend money on sporting events and tickets and all that is very expensive. I think you're right. I think it's because it was like Coachella, but like if your kids into that, like she had a blast. I don't know. I didn't know any of the singers except Sabrina Carpenter. I mean, Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber. We got we saw a baby. Oh, Bieber, I knew, but that was uh uh Cat's Eye, Major Laser. She there were there were so many artists that Major Laser, you knew that you know who you know who that is. I'd have to hear this song. You know, they they're like a DJ group, so they've collaborated with tons of people, so you know all their music, okay, especially from the early 2000s when we, you know, going out and partying all the time. Oh, wait, I think you played one of their songs for me, maybe. And also, how cool to do that with your daughter. Amazing. So if your kid's into it and you're into it and you can go for it. Well, and then also, like, I mean, we're gonna go again, but we didn't know we were gonna go again. We weren't sure if we were gonna like it, but if you're gonna go and swing a little bit of a lot of it. Because I don't think Tristan's gonna enjoy it. So Chris really wanted Tristan to be a part of it if he wanted to. And so I volunteered as tribute and said, if you guys want to continue past a certain time and Tristan's ready to go back to the hotel, I Can you then switch his VIP ticket to me? Yeah. Yeah, you just put on the So I've never been. So tell me, would a kid enjoy it? Like break all the stereotypes what people think Coachella would be. Like your kids? Yeah, like Tristan. Okay, see you it's not Tristan's gonna enjoy it. Okay, so my son's now getting into music. Okay. There's certain there's certain so during the day, you can go. It's so there's lots of art installations, there's food, there's drinks, there's people watching. Um, and then the music during the day, they're not going to be headliners. So if you want to watch someone specific, you're in a you know, you're you're gonna you're gonna kind of like figure out a schedule. But if you're just gonna like what's when a bieber come on, he was the last. See? So and what's that midnight? Uh right, but like right before midnight. No, but here's the thing you don't have to stay the whole time. You can go back and forth. There's shuttles all day. And are they accessible or are you waiting for it? 100%. You can take any shuttle at any time back and forth. Um, and there's also areas where you can sit. But if you're gonna go there later, don't go there. Don't go there until you're like sometimes Sophia and I didn't wouldn't get there till four o'clock. And then by that time, the sun's already going down. Um, it's not hot at all. You're like have a sweatshirt ready in your backpack to go, and then you go and get some food, and then you wash it. I think it was a cool experience for you and your daughter. It was it. And if yeah, that's it. That's if you do it, do it, and nobody should be complaining. So it was funny because Sophia, we were in VIP and then we went out to general um admission. And VIP is just like you get a couple different perks, and there's a special section for VIP. So you're not like Kardashian status, you're like, but what are the levels? There's general admission. So VIP is like in the middle because you get the perks, but you don't get all the perks. Um, you get a special special section where there's not a lot of crowd, not a lot of lines. You still have the same food, access to food, and dirt, different um like uh uh experiences. Okay. Um but general admission can't get into VIP. You have to, you but everybody else can go into general admission. And general admission is like the rest of Coachella, right? It's literally the rest of Coachella. And artist pass is what we got for um Saturday and Sunday. Those are we there's different now, there's different levels, and I just learned all of this. There's different levels of artist pass, there's different levels of VIP. So you can buy a VIP, you can get a VIP pass if you're working with a brand, you can get VIP pass if you get it from like the one of the performers or whatever. Okay. And the artist pass, there's also artist pass for influencers, there's artist pass for important people. Okay, there's artist passes for the actual performers and their crew. Okay. And so we got the ultimate artist pass where we can literally go through. So there's these emergency exits all over Coachella, all over. There's a big red and white sign, emergency exit, hundreds of them. Okay. And so I you don't really get like a like a crash course when you get your past. They're just like, here you go. And so you have to figure everything out. So at one point I go, I feel like that's like an emergency exit for the like people who have the artist past. Okay. So I said, Let's try it out because I saw people going in and out. I'm like, that's like not, you're not a police officer. Yeah. So we went up and then I said, Hey, can we go through here? And you're literally going through like back, back like no man's land, where they're all setting up like all the trailers, like behind a concert area. Yeah, like where the star trailers are and all that. All of that. And so the guy goes, Oh, let me see your your your pass. And so I showed him, and it says artist, but around the artist pass is a different colored pass. And so if you have the highest pass, he goes, Oh, yeah, you're purple, you're good. So we could go anywhere at any time. The two of us, yeah. So, and then there were catered food only for our passes. So, if you were um artist pass with the purple and like something else, you could go and get like all day catered food, all you can drink. There were um golf courts that would drive you to each stage stage if you didn't want to walk. And then for all of the experiences, there would be a couple different lines. So if there was a long line to go into this like experience and you showed in your past, you could just go past the whole line and go through. So, I mean that was cool. So, what did you buy? What's the included in your VIP? So VIP The one for and you the only thing I don't the only thing I didn't think you guys should have done is you booked it without knowing the lineup. So, what if like the second weekend's better? You already booked the first week. So it's the same lineup for first and second weekend, but the surprise artists and guests come out. We don't know who any of those are, and they could come out during the first week or the second week. So you're kind of taking a risk there. Yes, because the first week could be great, the second week week could be great. It just depends on what those people are doing right that week. So unfortunately, this time around, this Pascoachella, there were a few surprise guests, but the second week was better. Was Bieber always planned? I feel like he was a surprise. No, he wasn't. No, yeah, there were there, you'll have the headliners um for both weekends. Like, for example, Sabrina Carpenter, she brought out Madonna. And um Wait, were you there for that? No, that was the second week. See that now that now I'd be interested. And then Justin Bieber uh brought out it wasn't she wasn't a surprise guest, but she was in the audience and he brought her up for one less lonely girl. It was Billie Eilish. She didn't perform, but she was like, Oh, I did see because she always fan girls over him and like cries and like yeah, yeah, yeah. So Addison Ray was performing and she brought out um Maddie Ziegler, who's a dancer. So she didn't dance, but we knew who she was because Sophia's a dancer. Okay. But the next week she brought out Olivia Rodrigo. Okay, see, I know that name. Yeah, see, I'd be more down for like stagecoach than Coachella. I've always wanted to. I'm glad we didn't do stagecoach because you did you see the windstorm, yeah. Evacuations. Wait, from the wind they evacuated? They evacuated, like people didn't even get to perform. I also think the older I get, the more crowds freak me out. Like that whole thing. I don't know. Like you see so many stories now of things happening at these things. Um, so honestly, VIP might be a safer way to go too with kids. So I know how much you spent, but if it's for five, then it's break it down. What was it per ticket then? Probably around okay. Yeah. Now I went to Bravo Con. Three days. No, that's not bad. And I went to BravoCon, which is ridiculous, and I spent about that for a three-day ticket. So again, what you what you what you're interested in. VIP that VIP is the VIP at BravoCon. VIP was gonna be more. You get a special section. In front of the stage as VIP and artist. So you can go through these like security checkpoints and go a lot closer to the stage. And then the general admission is just like all back here. So I said we would go and just stay in the house with you. And not go. Like we're not. Look, you can take my wristband. I'm frugal with concerts. I but everybody has their thing. Like I spend my money on like travel, um, something if I really wanted to go to a concert, no doubt wasn't that much. I got it like right away. I think it was like $300 for two tickets. Wow. Um, because I did it the day they came out, and it was like, get what you can get. We ended up being close. Um, but like to do that with Rob, I would I would never because he wouldn't enjoy it at all. I need to know who it is. I'd have to really like like I would do like if Madonna was there, like people we knew. But the young people, I don't know anybody anymore. I'm so uncool with music now. I know I would like to do like a green day, blink 180. Like if they do a throwback Coachella, how fun would that be? That I would do really, really cool. See, but then I would spend $1,200 if it's like all these, because if you think $1,200 for three days and you see like, I don't know, 50 bands, it's worth it. That's what I told Chris because he had never gone to Coachella, and I said, look, if you go to four concerts through the entire year and you love music, why not just go to Coachella and spend this money and be there for three days and just bang it all out and then see new artists or see new people and you know it's just like if they did a 90s Coachella or early 2000s, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, throw in some late 90s, early 2000s. Oh now that I would say, are you with you guys? Are you listening in Coachella? We need to do that. And I would pay $1,200 for a three-day ticket for that, hands down. So that's what it is. I'm not interested in like the bands that are there. So I'm like, man, no more. With Sophia, I was just like, I don't know who these people are. But you are the opportunity to go. It's not like you woke up and was like, Do you want to go to Coach? No, no, no. It was a very unique opportunity. Yeah, so it kind of lined up, and then you ended up enjoying it. And then Chris, who I think gets a little FOMO. He does, absolutely. Then he wanted to do it, and he's gonna go VIP status because he can. He works his ass off. And if that's what he wants to do, do it. Yeah, it's it's just it's a really cool experience. I don't know if it's like people that makes sense too if you had five tickets. I love it. But there's the music that we could also sell them, right? If we don't end up wanting to go, we could just sell them and then sell them for um you know two thousand dollars a ticket. I would pay that. Like, do you remember when Eminem, Snoop Dogg, and Dr. Dre did the Super Bowl? Like, I would pay that to see them. So it's all relevant to what you're interested in. Yeah. Could you imagine if they did a tour? Why haven't they? They would kill it, cold should be. I'm sure they have, but on a concert. No, if they did a tour like they did after the Super Bowl, people would pay top dollars. Well, you know, a lot of people are coming out and doing concerts from like well, Metallica's doing the sphere, and their tickets are like 600 a thousand each. See, I would never I'm not a big I mean I know Metallica, but I'm like, and even no doubt, I had a cap. I said I would go to 300 each. Now, to me, that's like bucket list to me. No doubt. Chili peppers is another one. Like, these are bands that I'm like, I better catch them now because who knows when they haven't toured in like 20 years, no doubt. So, like, the chili peppers would be another one. You gotta catch them because they might never do it again. Um, they're getting old. They're getting old. Now I know how our parents thought, like, we need to go see the eagles, and you know what I mean? That's how we are now with these bands. Yeah, because they're gonna come out in another 20 years, they're gonna be geriatric. Yeah, it's gonna be, it seemed like the Eagles. Everyone said the Eagles they were like, or Aerosmith. Yeah, yeah. You're like, oh, it's not the same. So yeah. Instead of no doubt, it's like, I doubt it. Yeah, I doubt I doubt you're gonna get up there. She looked good though. Damn her. She will always and the guitarist um ALS. So that's so he was saying he wanted, he they really made sure he was okay. But who knows, you know. So if you're from that generation and you love them, I felt like I need to go see them. Yeah. Because who knows? And that's a fun concert because you know all the songs. Oh, I felt like I was 15 again. Like, and the nostalgic of it was so I literally felt like I was 15 again. That was really cool. Um, did Rob like it? He liked it too. Yeah, he knew the songs. He Rob is like an old man. He loves him some Kenny Loggins. Listen, he has careful. Wait, Kenny Loggins is the saxophone guy. Kenny Loggins, yes. Oh, he is. No, he lives for Kenny Loggins. When you get in his truck, he just got a new truck, and there's this big screen, and there's this 80s picture of Kenny Loggins, just total 80s, and I go, Wow, you know what makes this truck that blown-up version of Kenny Loggins on your screen. Just chef's kiss to Kenny. So no, he is an old man. He loves, he always has KRth 101 on his um radio, and he likes the 80s. And he called Coachella Chocella. Chocella. He was trying to act like he was cool, and he went, I'm gonna do Chocella. Chocella? I don't think that's where you went. I've got to be like. So he's not he likes music, but he's like me. He could listen to anything. But he's really more of an 80s guy, 80s music. Um, everything is like 80s or Kenny Loggins. Wow that he listens to. Yeah. So like we went to Kenny Loggins at the Hollywood Bowl. It was really cool. He really liked it. But he did like no doubt, it was great. I have to say, pre-Vegas, we were like on the struggle bus, our marriage, like as you get in Lowell's, and it really was great for our marriage. Just spend three days together, no kids. I mean, we're at the point in our lives where I can't even talk to him because it's always a kid, mom, mom, dad, dad, or they want to know what we're talking about, or they're talking. So it was great to be away for three days. Did you guys get in the pool and get an eye infection? No, I did not open my eyes in the pool. I actually had oh, we needed to have my thyroid. Yes, I had my thyroid biopsy biopsy before that. So when Sophia and I were at the movies, she said during the movie, during obsession, she said that she was worried because her lymph node is swollen. Oh and she started crying during the movie, and I felt really bad. Like, we got this scary movie obsessed girl on the screen, and then she's like crying about her lymph nodes, and she's like Googling it, I'm like, You gotta stop googling. She's probably getting sick. So I told her that, and so I said, Nicole just went through this, and they said it's very rare for her to be cancerous, and I said she actually had you know larger size palms, and so you just if you want to talk to her, you can talk to her, but just so just so you know, she went through it, and she thought it was cancer, and it's not. So you just it just it's gonna be okay. So but we need to talk about it because we need to have people be proactive. Yeah, so I had a well, I have a few funky nodules. I have uh three or four smaller ones that are too small to be biopsied, so we're gonna keep track of them. And then I had a larger one. All found by mistake. I went in for vertigo and they did a CAT scan, and they said everything's fine in your brain, but there's some nodules. Are those related to the vertigo? Do you think? Well, I said, like, can it mess? Because your thyroid regulates everything. Like, can that make me dizzy? They said no. Okay. They think it's like a lot of women my age are getting vertigo right now. I have vertigo, yeah. So perimenopause and menopause, I think your hormones do it. Um, which when I look back through puberty, I was dizzy all the time, like at Sophia's age. Oh wow. I was never, I just started getting it in the last few years. No, I would wake up and be like, Mom, I'm dizzy, and she'd be like, okay, just get up slow. So I think for me it's my hormones. So it was like kind of a miracle. They found it on accident. And so when I went and got a uh ultrasound in my thyroid, they do these ratings and these fucking portals. They sent me my results through the portal, and it was like T3, you know, moderately? No. You don't speak medical? No, no, they just send you, oh, you might have cancer through your portal. So then it was like four and fives. I had those like highly suspicious. So of course I go down the rabbit hole. I'm freaking out, all together two months before I get the biopsy. The Thursday, yeah. So I was leaving for Vegas. Oh, I left Vegas Thursday, the Wednesday before I do the biopsy. So they like numb you, they stick all these different needles in your neck, pull out fluid. Wow. And my husband's like, Don't do it before we leave. Like, what if it's bad news? But I just felt in my gut I needed to just get it done and move on, whether it was good or bad, because now I had two months to process. If it was thyroid cancer, it's very treatable. Nowadays they just remove the area of your thyroid that has the cancer, not your whole thyroid. So it's worried about that. So they do the biopsy. I get the results like the next day. We're in Vegas through my freaking portal, which I don't know. You told them, don't call you. Don't call me, don't get she said by California law, they have to send it to your portal as soon as they get in. Okay. It's probably an automatic automated thing. Yeah, yeah. So then I'm like, the results are in. And my husband's like, Don't open it. It's gonna ruin your trip if it's bad. Like, let's deal with it on Monday. But of course, you can't. You can't, you can't. It's your body. Like, I'm gonna ignore it. Yeah. I said, What if you thought you had testicular cancer? And I'm like, Don't look, tell me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's have fun. Yeah, yeah. So I sat down at the pool and thank God it all came back benign. Thank God I was so freaking out. I was like, I'm gonna enjoy my trip, I can move forward. So I will say it does not go detected. Nobody thinks to check your thyroid because here's what's interesting my blood test, all good. It doesn't, you can have good thyroid levels and still get thyroid cancer. Wow. It's you literally have to say, I want an ultrasound in my thyroid. That's what you need to ask for to see if there's anything funky going on in your thyroid. Wow. So, and then the other ones I will still monitor. I'm not like a thousand percent out of the woods, but I'm st and those you can't feel or see. And it's not your lymph nodes. So your lymph nodes, like those were all clear. Okay. It's um right here on your neck. This is your thyroid. So he said you could feel mine right here. I can't, but he said he could feel it. And they did the biopsy, they like went in from like here and put like the needle in that way because I was all bruised when I was in Vegas, like right here. So you look like you had hickeys. Well, I was like, maybe look like we're doing some SM or something, some like choking in the hotel. So that was amazing news. I was so excited. But yes, if you think there's anything wrong with your thyroid, push for an ultrasound. Yeah, because these doctors, you have to be your own advocate nowadays. Absolutely, like a hundred percent. They don't give up. Well, and then they're they're just not being proactive. Yeah, they're just not being proactive. They see so many people every day, they're not gonna go out of their way if it's not, you know. You just have to push because here's what I've learned. I could have, you know what they first told me when they found it? Come back in a year and we'll monitor it. And I said, no, I have so much cancer in my family, I want it biopsied. So the protocols textbook is like you wait and see. Why would I want to wait? Yeah, and that's what they do with a lot of these cancers. And then you get there and you're like, stage three, stage four, like you have to be proactive, you have to push your way. Just ask. And I've never had a doctor tell me no, ever. I've never ever had so do you just have to ask and push for it. Get yourself the whole workup and and move on. Yeah. But luckily, my vertigo's been better for sure. I haven't had any crazy. I wonder why it's better. Well, I do notice when I'm stressed, it's worse. Like, I definitely notice stress makes it worse. Um, and I think I had a bad episode, and those could last a long time. But like we went to Disneyland the other day, and I was pretty good. Yesterday. No, two days ago. Two days ago. It feels like yesterday. I'm so tired. I'm Disney. I'm hungover from Disney. I have a Disney hangover. Oh, I love it. I thought you were waiting you were you were gonna say dizzy and you said Disney. I love it. Couldn't even think, you know, they have drinks at California Adventure. We were like, we couldn't even have a cocktail. We were so tired. We were there 16 hours. You were there 16 hours? 16 hours? Okay, because we were trying to do the math, and I go, wait, that doesn't sound right. Because I thought 15 hours, I go, no, maybe it was more like 12 hours. Oh, it was 16. 16. And we did over 20 rides. Oh my gosh. So when they go to Disneyland, they do four rides in six hours. Yeah. We are not there for the rope drop. We've even stayed at California Adventure or California, the California Grand Hotel, and didn't take advantage of the early entry. Not one day. Not one day. And we go there, like we got a three-day hopper recently, and uh my son, no, my husband and my brother-in-law still had one day they'd never used really, yeah. They each had a day they didn't use did it just go to waste? Yeah, we rope drop, we have a game plan, we're on the app, we're ordering food, we're reserving lines, we're going to the bathroom and then meeting me in the front. We are double riding, like I'm in line and they're on a ride. We knock it out. All of those memes that you see of Disneyland families, that's us. And we dress up too. I'm in the Disney. I love the I love dressing up. It's that has Star Wars on. We do it right. We do it right. And we're the family that you see rolling up at one. Oh my gosh, when we went to roading, everybody ran in, and there's all these people online for coffee. What idiots. I go The Simmons. That's us. They cut first line, Starbucks. Like, we're like cutting through those. We're running to Rise of the Resistance. We've been to Disneyland and have only ridden two rides. Yeah. That's it. We go once a year. I'm not proud of, by the way, because when you without your husband, you did a lot more. Yeah, Sophia and I just recently. It's really Chris who's likes to take his own pace. You know, he's just happy to be there. He's happy to eat some food, hit the restroom, hit the restroom, some water. This is where that money thing comes into play. Because I'm like, if I'm spending that money to go there, we are open to close. We are soaking every inch of the magic out of Disney. Every inch. Chris is just like, I told him, I said, they went, they got there at probably at 7:30, got in at 8, and they didn't leave until after the parade. And my first, the first words out of Chris's mouth were, oh, I could never. I could never. He must think we're nuts. But I do have to say, the older we get, Rob the next day slept from 2 in the afternoon to six at night when he heard me come in with the takeout, ate dinner and went back to bed. I was tired. I'm still tired, but I'm a mom, so you know I didn't get I haven't been able to like nap all day. I'm gonna try to take a little nap today. Um but yeah, we do it, we go hard. Wait, have you were you like that as a kid? Did you guys ever go to Disneyland and do a little bit? I grew up poor. Yeah, I never went to Disney twice. I never went to Disneyland as a kid. No. Twice in my whole life. And I don't, it wasn't like it is now. Old school Disney in the 90s, there's no apps. It was kind of more chill. You just get in line if there's a line, you wait, you go to the next ride. It's very different. So it wasn't as busy as it is now. Okay. I literally remember going twice in my childhood, and my mom bitched the whole time, complained, it's hot, the lines, blah, blah, blah. So, okay, Chris. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, one time we went for maybe we went for a Girl Scout thing, so it might have been my third time. My mom and her friend Carrie, it was the hottest day it was summer, sat down at this restaurant and drank lemonade for three hours. Wow. While we sat there and were like, can we go on a ride? Can we go on a ride? Parents back then, they give a shit. No. They were like, bitch, it is hot. Mom is tired. Sit down and shut up. And we didn't have anything to entertain ourselves like a phone or anything. So, no, we weren't, we were like a Disney family in the sense that my grandfather worked for Disney. He built Pirates, he built It's a small world. We have a big Disney history, but we did not have the money to go. And if we did, we packed a lunch. Yeah, we had to walk out of the park to the lockers. Yeah. By the way, put the lockers in the park. Could we feel more poor that we have to leave Disneyland to go get our food in the parking lot? The lockers inside. There's lockers inside now. Not in not maybe now. When I was a kid, we had to go out. No, they were out. They were out, but now they're in. We felt like peasants, like they're in now. Dun, dun, because we need lockers and to go get our lunch. And then hurrying up. I'm telling you if there's lockers outside still, though. Because I don't see why they would demolish it or I don't I don't. We definitely had to get a locker. Yeah, they have lockers inside now. I always wanted one of those um umbrellas with your name on it. Remember the little Paris Cell umbrellas? Never got that. Um no, my the Disney of my day was different. I mean, my parents truly didn't have money. So to think of who I a ticket had to be at least $50 a person then, if they're $100 now. Yeah, maybe even less, but yeah. Yeah, maybe less. Um well, it's definitely less because you didn't have Lightning Lane, you didn't have like all of these other additional things. Bullshit. Like when we went, cars, which is always the longest line, Rob's like, well, we can pay $23 a hundred dollars extra to go on one ride. On top of Lightning, we did. We had to do it. We can't do it. On top of Lightning Lane, and then they go, Oh, sorry, Lightning Lane's not available as a group, but you can pay $21 per person and then ride it. Like, what's the point? Disney's squeezing everything out of you. Everything. And I don't like the Lightning Lane. Rob gets it. I think I mean I guess it comes in handy. You only can use it, like realistically, you can only use it. Like four times. Yeah. I was gonna say three or four times. Because they time you and you can't, and so here's the thing. It's good for like rise and the ones that get wait, you can't use it for rise. Well, no, because they'll take they they that's I've never we've never had lightning lane. We've paid, and it's crazy. We've paid a hundred dollars twice. Oh, to get on different rise. No, just to get on rise when it first, when we first got to Disneyland when that was open, they it wasn't you weren't allowed to use any type of lightning lane, so you had to pay. It was like $23 per pack. That's what cars was. And we did that for all four of us, and then we did it again the same day because we loved it. We didn't know we were gonna come back like for another year. So we were just like well, Disney is like, I said to Rob, Disney is like Vegas for kids. Yeah, money has less of a value. You know, you go to Vegas, you throw $100 down, like no big deal. That's what Disney was. Well, because it's supposed to be like a once in a year, like once a year. We want to go on the ride, let's pay. Yeah, it's a once-a-year thing. You're not, you know, unless you live next door and you had a an annual pass, right? You could just go on an off day. Yeah. Yeah. Disney's gotten out of hand. It is so we went because we had gotten some free tickets, and we still had to we still had to buy the lightning lane, and then Rob had to get a ticket. But yeah, that's saving a hundred dollars a person. But we still milked the day. We did it all. We did it all. So we're good for a while. Okay, we're gonna try and get to the maybe 10 ride mark. I don't know. I was texting her. It was like 8 a.m. I'm like, six rides, 10 a.m., 12 rides. I mean, were you? Were you keeping Chris time stamps, letting him know what was going on? So I didn't get your message about how many rides there were until later, but I told him and I showed him the picture of Jake, and I said, they had been there, they've been there since 8 a.m. Which means we left our house at 6 a.m. But see here, and then Tristan couldn't even do it. He's like, I can't, he's like, I'm tired. Yeah. I can't, I can't do it. He, we've never been to Toontown. You've never been to Toontown. I've been to Toontown. I tried to get Sophia to go to Toontown. It was just the two of us. She's like, I'm not going there. Mickey's Runaway Railroad Roadway, what's the one? It's the best guide. That's what I said. And and I even told Tristan, I said, today we are going to Toontown because we had the three-day pass. Yes. And we never made it. So what time are you leaving? Six o'clock, eight o'clock, like when's everyone? Oh, it's already nighttime, but we're not staying for the parade. We've we've stayed for the parade one time with the kids, only one time. And then we actually stayed for the water show at California Adventure with the kids. One time. Yeah. And that's as late as we stayed. We've never stayed beyond that. Even when we stayed at the hotel on the grounds. Yeah. Nine at the least. Yeah, we and they like it. They go for Jake fell asleep and then woke up when that parade started, had himself a little marshmallow Mickey, and was good to go. I know. Yeah. They're like, Can we bring a chair? I said, You can't. It's against the rules. Well, they have the VIP seats. Have Chris buy those. What are you talking about? So at the show for Phantasmic, you can pay to have the chairs in front of the idea. Yeah, you're welcome. More things to spend your money on. But here's the thing I want to do before this bucket list, okay? I want to do the VIP tour. I want to do the VIP tour, have a tour guide at Disney so you can just it's not that much. I think it's $200 a person. Someone said it's reasonable. I think it's more than that, but I listen to it. I think you should do it for Tristan's birthday and invite Jake and I. Because it's on my bucket list too. I mean, you get a tour guide and you don't wait in line. You just go and you have this button that's with you the whole time. Like, why not? Yeah. Once. One time. It's not that much. One time. I think it's a good one. I think you should do it when you. I'm gonna ask Chad G because I know it's not that much. I know people um that just normal people that would have done it. So we saw. How much is the Disneyland VIP guided tour per person? We saw Sierra with her family at Disneyland, and she had a she had a tour guide. 500 to 800 per hour. No with a seven-hour minimum. Okay, look, so five. So 3,500. For the day, basically. Ten guests. Okay, so you get to bring up to ten people. But you better bring me. Wait, wait, wait. Okay, wait. So that's not per person, that's for the whole group? I'm not you do a seven-hour minimum and it includes up to ten guests. But it says per person. Oh, I see. Okay, so what if you do the if you do the $500 hour an hour tour versus the $800? So that could be $350 to $160. So $350 a person. That's not bad. So it's not, wait, total cost. Oh, okay, yeah. Oh, that's not bad at all. I'll do it with you. That's oh, but you if it's 10 people, it's $350, but if it's less than it's more. Yeah, so you have to take us. I'm saving you money. You can't not do and by the way, that doesn't include a ticket in. Okay, I mean to get well, by that time you're paying you're gonna spend $140 for a ticket. I think Tristan wants to do that with his birthday with us. Forget the rest of them. I mean, either that or he wants to go to Japan, but we're not going to Japan. Well, I heard you could go to Disney Tokyo cheaper than you could go to like Disney World. I know, right? But that's that's on our bucket list. That's definitely on Tristan's list, is to go there. I know you guys need to start venturing out from Hawaii. Well, I it would be nice, but Tristan's not ready. He's ready for free, he's ready for Japan because that's where he he really wants to go. Yeah. Sophia really wants to go to your to go to Europe. There's no way Tristan can go to Europe. That's that's he would be bored out of his mind. He would get tired really fast. The kids want to go to Philippines with my mom. You should do that. There's no way. There's no my mom is like, have them at the fish market. Can you imagine two kids from Carl's bath? First of all, maybe they should. They would come back like no. Your mom, too, and your mom don't play. Oh no. She'd be like, just in. She's like, hold this. It's literally a live fish with its head cut off. And just and she'd be like, just in. You're fine. Stop it. No, I mean. You should do a trip with you and the kids and your mom. Well, Chris wants to go. Have you ever been to the Philippines when I was a kid? No, just well, yeah. Only I was saying if he couldn't get work off, because that would be probably really cool for your mom to go back with the Philippines. Chris has been there. I'm sure. I haven't been since I was a kid, since I was a little. Sure. He knows all the places. He has a type. 100%. And add in photos of his first homes. 100%. He's more Asian than I am. Literally. Yeah. Um, but yeah, we're we're ready to travel more. Anything else before I gotta go get the kids? 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