Ep # 194 Food, Friends, and Festivities

Robb (: 00:01

And welcome to another show. Don't get too twisted. I am Rob along with my co-host as always, Tina. How you doing, Tina?

Tina (: 00:06

I'm good, Rob, how you doing?

Robb (: 00:07

I'm okay. I'm not eating pumpkin seeds.

Tina (: 00:11

I stopped eating pumpkin seeds as soon as I saw the timer go

Robb (: 00:15

I know you did, but I am hungry and for those who don't, we always know that we record a couple of days before Wednesday. And it's Monday and it's hot as all hell here in Southern California.

Tina (: 00:28

It absolutely is. And just taking out the trash you bust a sweat.

Robb (: 00:30

Yeah.

And the funny thing is, is it it's turned so quickly. And the funny thing is, it's going to turn again quickly by the weekend on Saturday, which is my birthday. And since we're going to talk about birthdays, it's going to be 78 degrees where I live.

Tina (: 00:37

Mm-hmm

Tina (: 00:45

Happy birthday.

Tina (: 00:48

Stop it, it's going down that low?

Robb (: 00:51

At least here, I don't know about where you are, but yeah. It's gonna go, yeah, it's gonna, so it's 90 today, 93, 93, 94 Wednesday, 88, 84 on Friday, and then 78 on Saturday, and then 80, 82. So it's gonna be like in the 80s, at least we're gonna get away from the 100 degree weather. So it's gonna be nice.

Tina (: 00:54

I'm sure it is.

Tina (: 01:12

I was thinking that we were going to be in the pool starting tomorrow because it's staying hotter at night.

Robb (: 01:18

I mean, it's still hot though, like to be fair, like it's not going to be at least where I live. It's at night. It's not going to get below 65. So, you know, it's, it's, it's nice enough that you can, you can sleep with the window open.

Tina (: 01:37

Yeah, you barely need a sweater if anything.

Robb (: 01:40

Yeah, and I would say, you know, if you are, it's so hard to keep the house cool at night, you're going to sleep with a fan. It's going to be warm. So summer's here, with the exception of Sunday, it says 59 degrees at night. So, I mean, it looks like it's going to be nice here in Southern California, where, you know, let's go across the country where I have some of these other things on my app. Vegas was 107.

Tina (: 01:49

Mm-hmm.

Robb (: 02:08

right now. It's 107 right now at six o'clock at night.

Tina (: 02:12

And El Paso is 103 right now.

Robb (: 02:14

Yeah, so it's and it's but the same thing. It's it looks like the trend is going down where I used to live in Camarillo. It's really nice, like Friday, Saturday is going to be 77 degrees. I was there over the weekend, actually taking some pictures of my old roommate. So.

Tina (: 02:29

Or you.

And we didn't go to Chi-Chi's.

Robb (: 02:35

I didn't want to get caught up in any of the nonsense that was going on in this country on Saturday. I didn't, I did my best to say, cause she was going to take me, there's a really good pizza place out in Camarillo and in Valencia. If you've ever out there, it's called toppers. It's amazing pizza, super good. And I was going to go get toppers with her and I was like, look, I need to get home. I don't want to get caught up in any nonsense. And you know, if people decide they wanted to be

Tina (: 02:40

getcha.

Tina (: 02:51

Mm-hmm.

Robb (: 03:05

crazy and get on the freeway and stop it or whatever the hell. So I wanted to get home and chill.

Tina (: 03:12

Yeah, I was seeing on the news that there was different freeways that were not far from where I live and people were just acting like fools up on the freeway, stopping traffic, throwing bricks, doing all that sort of jazz. And I went out and I kind of went that way towards that.

Robb (: 03:28

fear.

Tina (: 03:34

It was a little bit scary, but I didn't see anything, thankfully, but I knew that I could run into these problems because of the news and everything that's been on. It's like, it's kind of hard not to hear about it, but luckily I didn't get into any of those situations.

Robb (: 03:46

Yeah.

Right, that's kind why I came home. So, Chi-Chi's will definitely hit Chi-Chi's though. We actually need to.

Tina (: 03:55

We need to. haven't had our podcast meeting in ages.

Robb (: 03:58

That's very true. We should probably sit down and go over some things and write down what we're going to talk about. We should do that. I'll talk off air because I do have some time coming up for my birthday weekend. I do. Maybe Friday. Hmm. We'll see. Speaking of birthdays, since my birthday is coming up, I thought we'd talk about, know, as we get older.

Tina (: 04:03

Yes.

Tina (: 04:11

You do. Mia.

Tina (: 04:17

Okay.

Robb (: 04:26

At least for me and I'm and I will tell you that this isn't. This isn't new for me, but like I don't really care about birthdays. I'm. Here's the thing, I like them for other people. I don't care about them for me. I think they're. Like I spent my 40th birthday by myself in Vegas in a brand new apartment when I lived there. Because I didn't know a lot of people, so I literally I didn't leave the house. I just. On my 40th.

Tina (: 04:35

Mm-hmm.

Tina (: 04:50

Yeah, that's kind of crazy.

Robb (: 04:56

sat down and hung out. That's all I did. My 50th, I will tell you my 50th was interres... no, my 50th was here.

Tina (: 05:01

That's crazy.

Robb (: 05:08

Yeah, that's where I live and I hung out by myself again.

Tina (: 05:13

Really?

Robb (: 05:13

Yeah, I mean my son was with me, but I didn't do anything special. I did have one really good birthday when I lived in Camarillo though. It was me. I have a picture somewhere. I'll have to find out what year it was. You know, at that time I was taking pictures of a lot of girls and it was me and like five girls in my roommate and that was it. And we made margaritas and got drunk. It was a really fun birthday. But generally I don't care. We're getting old and it's not like...

Tina (: 05:26

Mm-hmm.

Robb (: 05:41

It's not like the old days where you could, you know, a lot of people would hang out with you and you'd get tons of presents and that kind of thing. So I think as you get older, they just become a little less important unless it's a like a centennial type birthday, like a 50th. I think your 50th should mean something. I know one of my friends just had their 50th. I think they had a surprise birthday party. I don't know.

But like that one means something. I did say happy birthday to them on that day. Because I think 50 does kind of mean something. It's kind of that, you know, quote unquote midlife, even though we've talked about that a million times on here, that's not our midlife anymore. No, our midlife is 35. you know, my 30th birthday, I had a surprise birthday party because I was married at the time. I actually just walked into the house and there was a bunch of people there.

Tina (: 06:25

It's not midlife, yeah.

Tina (: 06:38

That's cool.

Robb (: 06:39

Yeah, but again, it's like one of those things where like, I would hate to be blindsided now.

Tina (: 06:46

Really?

Robb (: 06:46

Just because I yeah because I'm I like to know what's going on I would if I walked into a place I'd be like, oh fuck like great and and that and that and I know that's probably shitty to say But I just think that I'm I'm at a point in my life where it's like I would rather know we're gonna go do something like hey We're gonna go to this restaurant and we're gonna go to cheeses and we're a bunch of people are gonna meet there We're gonna have like a get-together awesome because in my head I can get

ready for it. And it's not that I'm, I'm pretty much an extrovert. I like going out and I can talk obviously. I just like to know where my atmosphere is and who's going to be around. And, you know, I just think that as I get older, I just want to know what's going on. So birthdays are a little less important. Like this weekend, you know.

Tina (: 07:25

Mm-hmm.

Robb (: 07:43

Not that it's a big birthday. Next year will probably be a bigger one. We'll be 55. We'll be seniors. We can go get discounts now. Hey, I'm okay with that. gonna I'm gonna I was funny. I was talking to somebody at work about that. I'm gonna use it for fucking everything. I'm calling the power company. I'm calling everyone that I can get a senior discount on and I'm using that shit. I'm gonna drop it every time I go into a restaurant. I'm a senior because I you know, I don't look we don't look you know, 55 year olds aren't gonna look the same. I have full sleeve tattoos and

I don't have a lot of gray hair. I'm gonna use that shit. I'm gonna pull up my ID every time. Discount. Give me that shit. Give me 10%. Whatever the discount is, I'm taking it. So I think that that might mean something. So 54 this weekend, I think what I'm gonna do is my son's girlfriend, her birthday is on the 27th of June, and I think I'll try to throw something together and do that. We were talking about, I don't,

Tina (: 08:19

You

and

Robb (: 08:43

Is there Stater Brothers in the valley or no? Are they just out here? Okay, so we have Stater Brothers fucking everywhere around here. They're everywhere. and we were me and the boy were over there one day and we're walking through we're gonna have steak and big huge baked potatoes and if If you're ever out this way Stater Brothers is awesome. They have really good meat department So we went and got some steaks and we got some baked potatoes and we're walking by and they have fresh bacon

Tina (: 08:45

Mm-mm. Just out there.

Tina (: 08:52

Hmm.

Tina (: 09:13

Hmm.

Robb (: 09:13

Yeah, so you can buy bacon by the strip or by the pound or whatever you want. And yeah, it's awesome. It's super awesome. So like, let's say you don't want to buy a whole pound of bacon for breakfast, you can go and buy five strips.

Tina (: 09:18

Seriously.

Tina (: 09:25

Mm-hmm.

That's crazy.

Robb (: 09:29

Yeah, it's really cool. So we bought some honey, um, apple bacon, and we ended up putting it on our potatoes, which was really good. Yeah, it was really, really good. But they also have a pepper bacon there. And it's like, and I mean, when I mean peppery, they put a lot of pepper on it. So I was telling the boy, I think what we're gonna do is we're gonna go buy a bunch of hamburger. And then we're gonna buy a bunch of that pepper bacon, and I'm gonna chop it in half and make it really small and mix it into the meat.

Tina (: 09:37

Mm.

Robb (: 09:57

And we'll have and then with the other half of the bacon, we'll fry, we'll fry it flat and then we'll put it on our burgers with like and then we have a Carl's Jr. Not too far from here. So I'm thinking go buy it. Get some onion rings and make our own like Western bacon burger things and you know, we'll do that or something. Yeah, something kind of because barbecue is good. It's easy. You know, you can go and cook burgers in a few minutes.

Tina (: 10:11

Hmm.

Tina (: 10:18

There you go.

Robb (: 10:26

Maybe get some pretzel buns. Yeah, they have those at the Walmart market. you're down for that, I really like pretzel buns. They're really good.

Tina (: 10:26

Very easy. Ooh.

Tina (: 10:38

I like pretzels.

Robb (: 10:40

I love pretzels and soft pretzels are the best. If you've ever been to, it's funny because his girlfriend lives up north and I guess they don't have wiener's stencils up there. It's a Southern California thing. I had no idea. So when she comes down, we'll go to wiener's stencil because she's like, yeah, that was really good the time we went. So I told her that, they also have pretzel buns there. So if you get a mustard dog on a pretzel bun, it's amazing.

Tina (: 10:42

Mm-hmm.

Tina (: 10:49

Really?

Hmm.

Robb (: 11:09

It's so good. There's something about, you know, because I love mustard and pretzels. So if you just throw a hot dog in there, it's money. yeah, it's like, yeah, it's like a it's a kiss from heaven. It's so good. So, yeah. So, you know, and they also have pretzel bun hot dog buns at the Walmart market as well. So you want to throw some wieners on the barbecue and throw them in a pretzel bun. You can make it stuff at home. It's pretty money.

Tina (: 11:10

Interesting.

Tina (: 11:17

Let's not to love, right?

Tina (: 11:23

That's funny.

Tina (: 11:36

There you go.

Robb (: 11:38

But I think that look, birthdays should mean something to, I mean, younger people. I love kids' birthday parties because they're so innocent and it's so fun to watch them. And I think, look, your parties are always great. Because you throw down, you have a DJ, and it's a crazy time at your house.

Tina (: 11:53

Mm-hmm.

Tina (: 12:06

My friends like to dance and they like to act up and everybody gets along so...

Robb (: 12:10

Matter of fact, I think it was a birthday party that that right before we started this podcast.

Tina (: 12:17

when I turned 50 and a half, because COVID was still going on at 50. And so I was like, I'm throwing myself, because 50 was hard. Because we couldn't do anything. And so 50 and a half was when I did it. And that's when we launched the podcast.

Robb (: 12:21

That's right. 50 and a half.

Robb (: 12:31

That's right.

Robb (: 12:36

That's so right. Now I remember.

Robb (: 12:41

Yeah, I think we had we had already recorded a few and had it ready to go and I think I dropped them either the right before your 50th and a half or right after it. But yeah, and that was a man that's a beer parties are see like I since I live farther away from you like I can't go and drink at your parties because I'll get a DUI on the way home and

Tina (: 12:44

Mm-hmm.

Tina (: 13:07

Yeah.

Well, you just stay.

Robb (: 13:12

I think yeah, but like staying at your house can be dangerous too, because like there's like 25 people on the couch, like everyone stays there. It's just like, it's like, it's like an old sleepover, like when you're like 12, you know what I mean? There's like, that's what I mean. So your birthday parties are like, yeah, are like 12 year old slumber parties.

Tina (: 13:26

Well, we've been doing that since we were like 14, 15 years old, acting like fools.

Tina (: 13:38

When I was single, I remember having a party here. I don't know how old I was, but it was before I was 30 for sure. And I woke up and there was four other people sleeping on my bed with me. And I thought I went to bed alone, but everybody just crashed. Like we were three side by side and then there was two people trying to lay opposite way at our feet and it was cramped and I kept getting hit.

Robb (: 14:05

Yeah, that's, that's bonkers to me. Like, yeah, no, I'm telling you, like, that was a an adventure party. Like I hadn't been to like one of your birthdays in quite a while. No, I think I did something in the 20s, in your 20s. Yeah, maybe 21. Yeah, because those were like a couple of those.

Tina (: 14:10

but it was fun.

Tina (: 14:19

Probably since I was 16.

Tina (: 14:24

Did you?

Maybe.

Robb (: 14:31

And they were always bombers like you knew you're and there's always a DJ. There's always me. There's always that's one thing. There's always music at your birthday parties. know. Yeah, well, the food is always good because, you know, there's always there's always tasty pizza here at your places. There's yeah, there's always there's always good food. That's 100 percent. There's and there's always a mixture of food.

Tina (: 14:39

Music, food.

Tina (: 14:47

Everybody brings food. It's great. Yeah

Tina (: 14:56

Yeah.

Robb (: 14:57

It's not like it's not like go to Tina's house and you're going to get Mexican food. No, there's like Mexican and barbecue and and hot dog. There's like everything you walk in. You're like, yeah, this. The plates at your house are like they remind me of like old school neighborhood barbecues where like everyone just bring some shit over there. But but so like in your case, you still enjoy having a birthday party. Or a birthday.

Tina (: 15:14

that's funny.

Tina (: 15:25

Absolutely. I think that it's important to celebrate the fact that you made it because you know, my mom only lived to be 59 so anytime you get a birthday, I'm thinking Well, that's a good thing, you know and it's good to celebrate with people that you love and want to be around and people that make you laugh and so for me birthdays are really kind of a cool time to not force everybody to get together but give everybody a reason to show up

Robb (: 15:33

Mm-hmm.

Robb (: 15:54

Right, I do believe in that. I think that that is that is a good thing. Like, because I remember I went to a couple of your what were those called? Well, you the game that you played, you had people over your house. Bunko games, bunko games. Again. Now I will tell you that bunko games are are an interesting thing to go to when there's like only two males there.

Tina (: 16:08

Bunko? Yeah.

Tina (: 16:21

Yeah, well, it's normally we do it where it has to be 12 people playing and normally it's just all women. We try to get all women but you were single at the time. I thought Rob would be great to go and do this and then my brother. Oh, yeah.

Robb (: 16:33

And a good old time, like, well, like I've said on this podcast many times, like, women are the dirtiest, most vile, you know, and, if sailor mouth on the planet, like, you women together say shit that like would make a grown man blush. And I know because I did.

Tina (: 16:43

Hahaha!

Tina (: 16:48

honest.

Yeah.

Tina (: 16:57

My friends are really outgoing and they don't care what they're saying and they love the shock value to some degree. yeah, there's nothing they won't say, but I encourage that. I do like to hear what they've really got in their heads going on.

Robb (: 17:07

Mm-hmm.

Robb (: 17:15

And I think that that's why your birthday parties are always go-getters. There's always something going on. And look, I appreciate celebrating age, and you're right, I think we should all do that more now than ever. It's like, it is kind of cool that we've made it this far, because I'm not dead yet. And that's a plus. Hey, we made it.

Tina (: 17:31

Mm-hmm.

Tina (: 17:35

Yeah. Yeah.

Robb (: 17:40

I'm just not one of those people that are just like, I don't have to do anything. Like I said, Saturday, if I don't do anything, I'm not gonna, it's not gonna like kill me. I'm not gonna be like, nah, I'll just be like, eh, it's just another day. I'm older, awesome. I do think that,

Tina (: 17:52

bother you at all.

Robb (: 18:03

I'm sure that if I was not single, I would probably at least do a little, you know, do something more. Yeah. And I'll probably like I said, I'll probably do that anyway. Although it's funny because we did Father's Day on Sunday and I love my son unconditionally and he's amazing. That being said, I paid for the movie. I paid for lunch. Like it's one of those things where you're like, it would be nice if for one day I got something.

Tina (: 18:09

Go out to dinner.

Tina (: 18:25

you

Tina (: 18:32

Mm-hmm.

Robb (: 18:33

Because I feel like, look, and I like providing and I'm glad that I've never not had my kid and I take care of him. But it is one of those things where you're like, oh yeah, I still do everything. sooner or later, it would be nice to like, oh, hey, I'm going to take you out to dinner today, or I'm going to take you for lunch and I'm going to treat. it was kind of kind of sucky. I was just like, oh, another father's day. It's like, But I also looked at it to the

degree of like, as we get older, you realize that like, at least from a dad's standpoint, or a man standpoint, you didn't I didn't see shit on the side of the road for men. There was no teddy bears or roses or anything. So it's like, and you could go into any restaurant in my neighborhood and walk right in for Father's Day.

Tina (: 19:17

Yeah.

Tina (: 19:24

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, like for me, you know, we don't we haven't had a kitchen. So the guy that's doing the work said, hey, teen, you're going to have a stove and the countertop and a sink. So if you, know, when you do Father's Day, you could actually do whatever you want to cook whenever you want to or whatever. So I was like, what? You know, because it's been a year now. So I was like, I could I could cook. I could.

Well, the sink didn't work out because there was some issue with it. No big deal. It was in. Everything was ready, you know, to go and be hooked up. But there was an issue. So we had to stop that. But the stove worked. And so I told everybody, I was like, do you guys want, we call them Pee-Lee-Lees. It's fried bread, native fried bread. And everybody in my family says yes. And they never seem to get it enough according to them.

Robb (: 19:59

All

Tina (: 20:22

So I said, okay, that's what we'll do for Father's Day. So I was able to make brunch and we had fruit and we had pilulis and all the fixings that you would put on a tostada. were all, you know, they were all on there and it was good. was a fun day. We had everybody out. We don't have a floor yet. It's still, you know, the cement, but nobody seemed to care. My cousin got to...

Robb (: 20:48

Right.

Tina (: 20:51

roll in right next to me. She's in a wheelchair now. So she was right by the stove and I could give her food and just hang out with her and talk. And, you know, my, my ex came over, which is also funny that, you know, I told him, Hey, are you going to be in town for father's day? And he said, yeah. And I said, well, then, come on over and, and have, you know, fried bread with us. So he showed up and it was nice. It's, it's weird that, you know, that I still am friendly with my ex.

Robb (: 21:14

nice.

Tina (: 21:19

because it's not normal, but it's when we're together, it's very, it's very kind. It's, good. So, you know, everybody showed up and we all sat down and we had our food and we joked and we talked. And then my cousin and I basket were basket weaving and it was just an easy breezy day. And, and dad was happy. He got fry bread and he had his family over and that's really what he wants anyway. So I appreciated it.

Robb (: 21:21

Mm-hmm.

Robb (: 21:43

Right.

And look, I think celebrating things is important. I really do. I just think that you have to know your audience, right? So like someone like me who isn't like, I really don't care. And I know that sounds shitty. But I don't. It's just like, I shouldn't say.

Tina (: 21:49

Yeah.

Tina (: 21:59

Yeah.

Tina (: 22:10

It's okay for you to not share, but it's not okay for everybody else to not care. I mean, not when I said that to you, not care, yeah.

Robb (: 22:15

Right, and I don't want to say that I don't care. It's just like it is what it is. If it happens, cool. If it doesn't, it's not gonna kill me. like I could change in two years and I might be like super depressed that no one cares. But you know, we all change as we go. But I just think that I've done it, I've been by myself for so long. You know, like legitimately.

My son is 22, he was six. So I haven't really been in a serious relationship in that long. And even when I was dating people, I think that during those time periods of me dating certain people, I don't think I had a birthday. You know, I might have had Christmas or I might have had something in between there, which I celebrated with everybody, which was awesome. But I don't think that I've ever had a birthday during those things. So

Maybe that will change. Maybe if I'm with somebody or, you know, things are changing and I have a birthday, I might, you know, decide that it is different. So, you know, I talk out of the back of my neck. But I think that. But I think that it's it is still important to celebrate those things in your life. Like I said, I will celebrate on Saturday, even if I'm it's just me and my boy and his girlfriend will do something.

Tina (: 23:39

Mm-hmm.

Robb (: 23:41

But it's not one of those things where, you know, my mom was very big on calling me and it's very bizarre to not get there that I don't get that call anymore. And like my dad and my stepmom call me, but they call me for everything. Like they'll call me on, you know, they'll call me for Easter and be like, hey, happy Easter. It's like, okay. Where my mom would probably do it only because she was with my brother.

Tina (: 23:50

that she doesn't, yeah.

Robb (: 24:07

you know, the time, like, you know, wasn't certain things she just, she, my mom would call me out of nowhere too, just to say, hey. But it is very bizarre that, that those certain things are, are weird to me that, cause she would always be, she was top notch on my birthday, no matter what. And, and it's funny because people who have listened to this, and I don't know if I brought it up in a long time, there's only two people that called me Robbie ever.

Tina (: 24:24

Hmm.

Robb (: 24:35

that and my mom was one and then you and I tried to get you to fucking stop but you refused. No, I understand that but I tried and then you kind of said no and I just gave up. I was like, okay, you just. I mean, I was like, no, I didn't because I knew that it wasn't worth it. It would have been like.

Tina (: 24:41

I don't like to not call you Robbie.

Tina (: 24:47

Yeah

You didn't even put up a fight.

Tina (: 24:58

Well, I know a lot of other Robs also and you stand out because you're Robbie. So even if I say, hey Teddy, I saw Robbie today, he'd be like, how's he doing? You know, he knew exactly who it is. Yeah.

Robb (: 25:06

Yeah. Right. He knows. Right. And to be fair, you've been doing this since 11th grade. It's not like you just started calling me. Right. It's not like you called me Robbie like five years ago. You know what I mean? Like this is a long period of time. And like I said, I kind of did just give up on it. I was like, OK, she's going to do it and I'll just let it go. But it is weird to me like now to not hear that. And the other thing that was funny about like my mom.

Tina (: 25:14

Yeah, since you didn't want to talk to me.

Tina (: 25:20

No.

Robb (: 25:36

You know, obviously she was getting older and as you get older, you forget shit or you just say my mom would always call me by my brother's name all the time. And then I would always have to say Rob. She'd go, how you doing? And I go, it's Rob. And she goes, you know, I'm sorry, Rob. It's I know, you know, it's because my brother lived down the street, like not too far from her. So she would always talk to my sister in law. And I'm sure probably said my brother's name.

18 million times a day. anytime that she would call me it would just slip through and I would giggle I thought I always thought it was kind of funny and then I would tell my dad I Would talk to my dad later on and I'm like mom keeps calling me, you know, and she he goes Yeah, it's because you know, she talks to your brother all the time. I'm like, yeah, I know so So those are like and maybe that's like another thing about my birthday. It's like things are changing so much in life

where your birthday just seems like another day. And to tell you the truth, Christmas as well. Like thankfully this past Christmas, I got to spend time with my friend and she has grandkids and I got to kind of, and I went there for like holiday and I gave them gifts and she gave them their gifts as well. We kind of got to hang out and.

That was really good for me because like it's not the same when you have a 22 year old giving them gifts like he knows what he's He's getting cash most of the time or I buy his present months before because he wants something like, I really want this and I want to get it now. OK, I'll buy it for you now. So it was fun to be around small children again who gave a shit about Santa coming.

Tina (: 27:16

Mm-hmm.

Robb (: 27:27

So I think that those are things that I really like, where you get to spend time with people who enjoy the celebration. That's why like going to your birthday party is great. And like I said, we'll do something for my birthday. Maybe on Friday I'll come down. We'll come down, come across, come over. don't know what... I guess it's unilateral where we live, right? It's kind of east-west.

Tina (: 27:27

Yep.

Tina (: 27:54

Mm-hmm.

Robb (: 27:57

I'll come West to you. And we'll do Chi Chi's or something just so I can feel like I had a birthday celebration. it's just one of those things where I think that it's important to celebrate. I don't want to sound like I'm like Scroogey about it and that I don't want to do it. I just think as you get older in life, they just become less important. Because, I'll be lucky if I make it another 10 years.

Tina (: 27:59

We can.

Robb (: 28:27

You know, and I shouldn't say that, you know. But I just think that we are at a time where you have to start thinking like. I mean, I'm OK, I made it around the sun one more year. That's awesome. But like. You know, don't I don't want to. I also think that like I hate being a burden on people. And. So last actually, you know what? Last year on my birthday, I'll say this as.

Tina (: 28:28

Don't say that.

Robb (: 28:56

I wanted to spend some time with a friend of mine and I had never had a chance to celebrate or be around her on my birthday. And I could do it this this past year. And it was awesome because all I asked for is dinner and she likes to cook. So I was like, all I want for my birthday is make me dinner. And and all I want to do is do it at your house. So I went to her house, sat down, had dinner, cooked for me. It was super awesome.

And probably one of the better birthdays I've had in a while because it was something that I wanted and it wasn't even materialistic. It was food. I actually brought food home. It was super awesome. And I think that those are the things that we need to celebrate more often is good, special moments with people, with all the people. Like I haven't seen my best friend in like a long time.

Tina (: 29:28

Mm-hmm.

Tina (: 29:50

You need to fix that.

Robb (: 29:52

Yeah, and he doesn't live very far from me. Maybe like an hour and 10 minutes away. But you know, life gets in the way with that. He's married. He also travels a lot for work. So pinning him down for a weekend sometimes is difficult because he's like, I have to fly out to this place. And and I heard he just talked to me and he said his job got moved to the Philippines. Yeah, so yeah, he works for a phone company, so.

Tina (: 29:54

Mm-hmm.

Tina (: 29:58

fixed it.

Tina (: 30:03

Mm-hmm.

Tina (: 30:17

What?

Robb (: 30:22

Now he's like, yeah, in, I forgot what month. He's like, yeah, I have to fly out to the Philippines for like three weeks. Yeah, and because of now that his job has changed, I think he works at night, which is gonna be interesting to see how what that does to his marriage. Because, you know, when you work the same schedule, you have a similar life when you're.

Tina (: 30:30

Wow.

Tina (: 30:39

Mmm.

Robb (: 30:50

When your mate is going to sleep and you're getting up and going to the office down the hallway. I wonder if that's gonna what it's gonna do to him. But yeah, I haven't seen him in a while and it's and it's important. So I have to I have to kind of say, hey, dude, when's your next weekend open and I'll make it work. And go down and see him because look, we. Birthdays, celebrations, holidays, whatever it is you want to. You know, whatever this podcast ends up being.

Tina (: 30:55

Mm-hmm.

Tina (: 31:08

Yeah.

Robb (: 31:21

You know, we're aging and I think that a small one day thing, even if it's not a holiday or your birthday, needs to be more celebrated than anything. You know, time with people, because it's hard. Like, we don't see each other, see each other, but we see each other every week. You know what I mean? Yeah, so we can catch up and if people heard what we talk about before we come on here, it could be a podcast.

Tina (: 31:32

Mm-hmm.

Tina (: 31:39

Yeah, we talked to each other and stuff.

Robb (: 31:50

because it's like generally either things that are going on that maybe we don't want to talk about yet or personal shit that's like we could share but could get us in trouble or we could share and we might piss somebody off or you know whatever it is so we're lucky that we can like toss the tennis ball back to each other every week and go okay blah blah blah blah and this is what's going on

And then of course we get together every blue moon and eat and know bullshit even more then. But I think it's important you know and whether it's a party or if it's just a small get together because those are so few and far between with some people because we can't do them because life hits us.

Tina (: 32:39

That's true. I don't know though. I really do make an effort to go see people that I want to see. So I'm always going to see somebody or spending time with somebody or having them over. I can't wait till the house is done where people could come over again because it will happen.

Robb (: 32:40

you know, and.

Robb (: 32:52

Mm-hmm.

Robb (: 33:00

yeah, I'm sure. Yeah. and you have a very nice format now. How, how the, you took the wall out and like, it's going to be a very much more open way of looking at your house. Cause you know, like people who don't have never been over there, you know, it used to be, you used to have that very, you know, smaller doorway to go into the kitchen, which is now gone.

Tina (: 33:02

you know, especially summer with the pool.

Tina (: 33:12

Yeah.

Tina (: 33:19

Mm-hmm.

Tina (: 33:28

gone. The whole wall is gone. So now it's one big room.

Robb (: 33:30

So it's, yeah, the whole wall's gone. Yeah, which is, I think, going to make for much better entertaining, you know what I mean? Where everyone can really kind of be in one room, literally, you know? And goes out to the slider that's right there. So everything will be this one big, large area. It'll be really nice, actually. It'll be kind of cool to see. Let's get in there.

Tina (: 33:51

Yeah.

Tina (: 33:57

It's getting there.

Robb (: 33:59

But you know, mean, look, I don't want to be the damper of like celebrations. I'm definitely not that person, but I just think that for me, because everyone's like, what are you doing on your birthday? What are you doing on your birthday? What are you doing on your birthday? And I'm like, nothing. Mm-hmm.

Tina (: 34:14

You've always been like this though. Always. I mean even at 16 you were...

Robb (: 34:19

Yeah, I'm just not a big fan of celebrating me. I love going to things and doing things. It's just and maybe that's just me. I'm also I don't like getting gifts, which I've been working on over the last, you know, year and a half. I've been trying to be better at that. It's just not who I am. And I'm a gift giver. I like to do things. I like to be around people and I love to give gifts. I'm I'm good at it. And I usually do things that are

out of the norm. Like you can ask some people that I've given gifts to around me and they're generally very personal gifts. Like I usually put people's names on things or I like my best friend I gave a wrestling belt to because it's something from our past and I knew that he would like it and it and it meant something and and I made some things for another friend of like

Tina (: 34:51

Mm-hmm.

Tina (: 35:07

Right.

Robb (: 35:19

there's names on things or things that mean something. I personalize things because I want them to know that and that I thought out the gift. And I think that that's, to me that means more and I'm just good at it. So.

Tina (: 35:23

You personalize everything.

Tina (: 35:32

Mm-hmm.

Robb (: 35:41

I'm this Saturday, I'm gonna do my best to kind of celebrate with, you know, the people that are in my house right now. My son, his girlfriend's coming down and like I said, it's gonna be her birthday. And I'll try probably try to make it into her birthday, because that's just who I am. Like, we'll end up doing something. I made a joke to my friend at work. Since it's my birthday and her birthday, I'm gonna throw my son under the bus and be like, hey, you're gonna take us out to dinner, right?

Tina (: 35:56

Mm-hmm.

Tina (: 36:09

You should come to ChiChi's I'll meet up with you guys.

Robb (: 36:12

I'm going to say us. I'm going say you're going to take us out, right? Your girlfriend and me, it's our birthday. You're going to take us out. And I'm sure he'll find a way out of it because it's going to cost him a fortune. But I at least want to put him under the, you know, over the grill and kind of and kind of kind of get a little something, something on it, mostly after Father's Day, because I was like, Father's Day is when you're supposed to do it. Like, you know, you know.

Tina (: 36:29

getcha. That's mean.

Tina (: 36:39

Yes.

Robb (: 36:43

But I think going forward, all of us need to celebrate whatever day it is that you find important. If it's your birthday, good, cool. And maybe I just need to open up a little bit better.

Tina (: 36:56

I think it's more than just celebrating. It's spending time with people that you want to be around. And it's putting yourself in a situation where you could have the maximum amount of fun.

Robb (: 37:07

Yeah, and like I said, maybe that's why I enjoyed my last birthday so much because I got to spend it with somebody doing something that I wanted to do. You know what I mean? And it was good.

Tina (: 37:17

Yeah, yeah, I totally get that you what you want to be around people that they you love or that are there for you your people there that are your people you know, I Talk about celebrating things and the other day I was over at my mom and dad's best friend's house and The husband has Alzheimer's and you could see he's his

Robb (: 37:27

Mm-hmm.

Tina (: 37:44

You know, he's going downhill and it's taking him rather quickly, or at least too quickly for my heart. But I walked into that house the other day and I said, hey, how's it going? He's like, hey, Teen Bean, how are you? Remembered me like, like nothing. And he's like, hey, are you on the bike today? And I said, no, I bought the car because I'm coming straight from work. And he goes, you need to get on it. This was the second time he's told me this. And, and, you know, the motorcycle I've only had.

Robb (: 37:50

Right.

Robb (: 37:58

Wow.

Tina (: 38:13

for a couple of years now. And he remembers it every time I go over there. But he also remembers to call me Teen Bean, which is something that most people don't call me, but he's always called me that. But the way we talk to each other, it's like, hey, so-and-so, how are you? And he's like, hey, Teen Bean, how you doing? So we've always done the same exact greeting. But I thought to myself, and I gave him a big hug, that just made me happy.

Robb (: 38:14

Right.

Robb (: 38:35

Mm-hmm.

Tina (: 38:43

I turned to his wife and I said, did you hear that? She's like, yeah, I was excited talking about celebrating. You know, was like that little moment for whatever it was, you know, five, 10 seconds, but it really was for me worth celebrating. I came home and I told my dad and I felt good about it. Maybe that's where we're doing it wrong. Maybe that's where you're not comfortable doing it because you're not doing it.

Often enough, maybe.

Robb (: 39:13

Yeah, that could be. Yeah, I mean, that could be totally correct. I find that, you know, something like that, what you just said is those are winning moments. Because, know. Right, and it's funny where, you know, you got to look kind of a little deeper into the psyche of all of us, right, that that came out and like it was nothing. So there's, you know, and it.

Tina (: 39:25

It broke my heart and made me happy all at the same time.

Robb (: 39:42

I know that as we get older, we're going to start losing things because I, find myself forgetting way more. And again, I've taken a lot of bumps to the head and, I'm young and I know that my future is probably not the greatest and hopefully I don't have CTE and you know, I end up living under a bridge like a troll because I don't know where my house is. but, you know, it's, it's winning small wins. think small wins are important as we get older anyway.

Tina (: 40:01

No.

Robb (: 40:12

Right? life is hard enough for all of us. And in this day and age, even worse, you know, we've talked about what's going on in the world and the economy is so shitty and you know, who knows if where we'll be in six months, if not a year, you know, I, I don't know if I'll be in the state much longer just because I'm not, I don't like it here.

Tina (: 40:13

Mm-hmm.

Tina (: 40:22

right

Robb (: 40:39

on some degree and I love it on the other. I have a love-hate relationship with the state. And I also want a simpler life. I just think it would be nice to live in a place where it's a little more simple. But I also, know, like you, everything is here. So it's difficult. And I've done it, you know, I tried two years in Vegas and...

Tina (: 40:58

Mm-hmm.

Robb (: 41:06

Every time I would come back, it just felt like, I'm at home. I'm at home. And if I move far away, the odds of ever coming back become very difficult because of money. you know, coming back to California is very difficult. I was lucky the first time. I don't think I'd be as lucky the second time.

Tina (: 41:20

Yeah.

Robb (: 41:32

But I think that's where I start thinking about the bigger things in life. What do I need to celebrate next? Do I need to get out of the state and get a fresh start with new memories and new people and see if the backside of my life is different? Or do I fight the economy and fight all these things and stay because it's the only thing I know?

Tina (: 41:51

Mm-hmm.

Robb (: 42:01

It's just difficult.

Tina (: 42:04

I don't know that if I left that I could get back. I don't think I could. Like unless, you know, I came back to my dad's house and started yet again, I don't think I could do it. So the thought of leaving and knowing the permanency of it is really scary. I just, I don't know. You can't celebrate birthdays if there's nobody around you to celebrate.

Robb (: 42:10

Mm-hmm.

Robb (: 42:26

Yeah.

Robb (: 42:30

Yeah, but I mean, it's, it is, it's scary because, but it's also to me, it's like, it was exciting leaving, you know, because it is, you know, you have a chance to be a new person and, and not have to worry about certain like, look, I couldn't, I was lucky that I left before and my son was six and my ex wife let me and other things, right?

Tina (: 42:40

I bet.

Tina (: 42:59

Mm-hmm.

Robb (: 43:00

Now, not that there's not anything holding me here, but like, like my son's in his 20s and he has a choice to leave or not, you know, with me or he has a choice to leave. you know, he might leave me and I don't have anything to look back on that way and go, you know, don't go. So, you know, it's difficult.

You know, there's things here that I love. And but there's also things here that it might be time to move on from. It's like I've lived here. I've been in California my whole life, with the exception of two years. So. I don't know, we'll see what happens, I think going forward, it's definitely that the sky is the limit, but we're also coming to a point of age where. You know. You got to shit or get off the pot. What do want to do?

Tina (: 43:30

Mm-hmm.

Tina (: 43:41

get you.

Robb (: 43:57

It's the dating world here is difficult. And I think that, you know, other states probably just as difficult, but people are different, you know. I'm going to I'm going to celebrate Thursday. I'm going to get a big tattoo on my leg. Yeah, so that'll be that's going to be my one present to myself. So I guess Thursday I'll be celebrating with the guy who does my tattoo. For for many hours, I think it's going to be another five to six hour job.

Tina (: 44:12

There you go.

Tina (: 44:20

Hmm.

Tina (: 44:26

Damn.

Robb (: 44:27

Yeah, that it makes it makes for a day. Let me tell you. And like for me, I have would. It's funny. I have an eye appointment at 8 45. And then my tattoos at 11. So somewhere in there, I have to find time to eat because you know, you've done small tattoos when you do a long, long tattoo for one, you want to eat because you want to have sustenance in you because it'll make you.

Tina (: 44:31

Yeah.

Tina (: 44:37

Mm.

Robb (: 44:52

You know, being having in pain will mess with your noggin. It'll make you want to. Yeah, it'll make you want to or you'll get sick, you'll get, know, or you get lightheaded. So usually I'll eat and then I go and buy like an energy drink and like gummy bears, something that I can. That has a little bit of sugar in it that I can toss in and just kind of chew during it. But it's going to be fun. this is I think it's going to be my last one, though.

Tina (: 44:57

Yeah, the adrenaline. Excuse me, the adrenaline.

Mm-hmm.

Robb (: 45:23

when I say that because yeah, I don't either but I'm trying to tell myself. I'm trying to tell myself this is the last one because you know, they're expensive. So

Tina (: 45:24

The last tattoo? I don't believe that.

Tina (: 45:32

too.

Robb (: 45:39

I don't know, Mostly when you get them the size I do. They're not.

Tina (: 45:39

They're very expensive.

Tina (: 45:44

Yeah, cuz my little one was $200 that I just got. How- how- what does a five hour tattoo run you?

Robb (: 45:52

About 1300. Yeah. But I also have very, very large legs. And so it's a very large tattoo. I get it basically from the cuff of my knee, so the backside where it bends, all the way to my ankle.

So it's, I mean, it's big. Like it's a very large tattoo. Yeah. And I have, yeah. Matter of fact, the guy who does my tattoos is like, he loves it. He walked in and he's like, holy shit, look at the size of that canvas. So he enjoys it. It's funny. The one that I have on my right leg, he took a bunch of pictures of. Well, he does tattoo conventions, right? So he has like a.

Tina (: 46:12

Damn. Yeah, and you have big calves.

Tina (: 46:23

you

Tina (: 46:33

really?

Robb (: 46:34

Yeah, he goes all over the place. I think he's going to Idaho sometime in the summertime. So he does all these big ones. There's one out in Oxnard he does. He did one in San Diego. Well, he has a banner made, right, for his tattooing. My left or my right leg is actually on there. A picture of my right leg. Yeah, I walked in, I was like, hey, he goes, it's a great tattoo. So I put it on there. I'm like, well, we're going to do another one. Maybe I can get on the next flyer. Yeah, so.

Tina (: 46:47

Mm-hmm.

Tina (: 46:52

No way.

Tina (: 47:01

damn.

Robb (: 47:04

It's like you got to celebrate a little bit. That's my way of celebrating. I'm going to get myself a tattoo and and enjoy being 54. And do my best to net the following year. Go in and get carted saying that I want a senior discount because I want to get carted for the wrong reason. I want him to go. You're there's no way you're 55. I go. It's wild. Have you been in a Bevmo lately?

Tina (: 47:24

Here I am.

Tina (: 47:31

Not too long ago.

Robb (: 47:32

Isn't it wild that they, you know, that they legally have to card you? Yeah. And I went in and I was like, come on. He goes, yeah, I don't, I don't want to. know you're not. I know you're over 21. Really? This one next to me is 22. He's my son. Do the fucking math. No, and they, and they have to, because they scan it. They scan your ID, which is funny to me. Although I was in a supermarket.

Tina (: 47:34

They card everybody. Yeah.

Tina (: 47:47

Yeah.

Tina (: 47:51

Right? But they can't assume.

Tina (: 47:56

Yeah, they scan it.

Robb (: 48:02

And I bought a bottle of vodka and he didn't even didn't even ask. He's like, here you go. Twenty five, you know. Yeah, he's like. I was like, yeah, thankfully, guess I know you're over. And then I and and my boy was with me and I actually said that I go, he's my son, he's 22. He goes, yeah, I go, you can card him, but you can you can do the math. It was kind of funny. So celebrate. So.

Tina (: 48:10

Just keep it going on.

Tina (: 48:18

you

Tina (: 48:29

That's funny. Yeah.

Robb (: 48:31

You know, I don't know what this podcast is about. It's just us rambling about age and celebration and getting old. So whatever it.

Tina (: 48:36

There's so much going on though, we haven't, we're having a hard time figuring out what we should and shouldn't talk on.

Robb (: 48:42

Well, yeah, because look, even last week's, I'm sure, got us heat with people. And and look, I'm not going to censor myself, but I also don't want to make it. It's it's already hard enough them going on their social media or watching YouTube or it's everywhere. And I don't know if I want to be another another source of just constant, you know, battering of what's going on in this country. You're getting enough of it.

And, you know, and look, it's funny because I had someone talk to me one day and go, your show's relationship show. And I went, I mean, it's really not. But yeah, we we have talked about it a lot. Sure. And and we're going to talk about it going forward. That's just what we do. And we talk about everything on there. And it just happens to be that, you know, my birthday is this weekend and we can talk about that.

Tina (: 49:23

yeah?

Robb (: 49:43

This is just a show about everything. But I'm really trying not to bring people down with the shit that's already on their phone. There's enough of that. And I'm going to continue to try to stay away from it. I think last week it just kind of boiled over. And I'm sure we'll talk about. Yeah, and we're going to talk about politics again, I guarantee it. And we're to talk about love and we're going to talk about, you know.

Tina (: 49:53

Yeah.

Tina (: 50:02

Last week was kinda scary though.

Robb (: 50:12

things in life and you know, this is a revolving door of nonsense that we talk about. But I'll do my best to not bring you down. But it's gonna happen.

Tina (: 50:20

Mm-hmm.

Tina (: 50:27

Breaking down. I don't think we do that

Robb (: 50:28

You know, I mean, I don't think we do either. at least I not I try not to. But yeah, is it going to happen? Of course it is. And we're going to talk about things that are going to piss people off. Yeah, probably. It's going to happen because we have opinions. Yeah, we have opinions and it's an opinion show. So so don't get it twisted. Hey, got the tagline in there right there early.

Tina (: 50:46

I don't know, I don't think we do too badly.

Tina (: 50:52

That's it.

Tina (: 50:57

Right there, the end.

Robb (: 50:58

Yeah, check us out on all the social medias. You know, we're on Facebook and Instagram, so come on there and follow us so you can see when all these crazy shows come out. And you can listen to us mostly a lot of people on Spotify and Apple because those are the biggest ones, but a lot of people on Chrome. So people are just listening to us everywhere. It's kind of interesting. Any last thing you want to say?

Tina (: 51:19

Interesting.

No, I think you should celebrate more. Have a good time. Spend time with the people that you love because we don't know how much longer we're gonna be here. Yeah.

Robb (: 51:31

I agree and and if you have broken relationships with people friend fix them I'm doing my best inch by inch now to fix broken relationships friendships talk to people that I haven't talked to in a while and you know tell them that I care even though things might not be the best situation between us

Tina (: 51:37

fix them.

Tina (: 51:59

Good job.

Robb (: 52:00

And that's all for this week. Time to eat. I'm starving. I have a headache. And I'm going to go get some really bad food for me. Maybe a big fat burger with bacon on it. All right. See you in a week. I'm Rob. That's Tina. And it's been fun. Talk to you later. Bye.

Tina (: 52:05

Go do that.

Tina (: 52:12

There you go.

Tina (: 52:20

See ya.