1 00:00:01,040 --> 00:00:06,000 Speaker 1: You hear me your confession, I can't take back el 2 00:00:06,559 --> 00:00:13,039 Speaker 1: arm Mouse Speaker, Texas seventy eight, five nine two says 3 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:15,840 Speaker 1: I was into my thirties when I finally learned the 4 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:20,720 Speaker 1: sit in sitcom stands for a situation. I thought it 5 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:24,000 Speaker 1: meant everyone's sitting on the couch while they're watching the show. 6 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:26,160 Speaker 2: Just wait till he learns what rom means. 7 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, and during this segment week, Yeah, we don't tell 8 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:33,320 Speaker 1: you to sit, stand or lay down. We won't even 9 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:35,360 Speaker 1: tell you what your name should be. You get to 10 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:39,120 Speaker 1: choose your own adventure. You do to protect your identity 11 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:41,040 Speaker 1: here in the Mass Speaker. And we've got a woman 12 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:44,240 Speaker 1: who's chosen to go by the name Tory today. So Tory, 13 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:45,160 Speaker 1: welcome to the show. 14 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:46,880 Speaker 3: Hi, how's the gollan? 15 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:49,479 Speaker 2: Oh wait, where's our kim laughter? That we were doing 16 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:51,560 Speaker 2: the sitcom fast dang it. 17 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:55,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, we're doing the dramatic edition of the Mass Speaker. 18 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:58,640 Speaker 1: So voice changer is on. You are the Mass Speaker, Tory. 19 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 1: Whenever you're ready, let's hear you're convie. 20 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:06,279 Speaker 3: Okay. So last summer I pulled off the craziest ruse. 21 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:07,600 Speaker 3: But I had no other choice. 22 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:09,200 Speaker 4: I had to do a ruse. 23 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:13,400 Speaker 2: He uses that word. Is that how you text your 24 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:14,520 Speaker 2: friends about it as well? 25 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 4: Is that how you make a gravy? 26 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:16,479 Speaker 2: Yeah? 27 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:22,240 Speaker 4: Okay, okay, okay, you pulled a ruse. What did you do? 28 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:23,040 Speaker 1: So? 29 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:25,720 Speaker 3: I'm a full time working mom. My son is seven 30 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:29,680 Speaker 3: years old. Last to lie, I had a full time nanny, 31 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 3: but she quit in the middle of the summer. She 32 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:35,639 Speaker 3: got accepted to the NYOM and she walked. 33 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:38,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're like, boom, who cares about It's okay? 34 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:40,760 Speaker 4: Education is not going to help you. 35 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:43,120 Speaker 5: Good for her, though, I know, but I hate it 36 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 5: when I have like a really good babysitter that like ages. 37 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:48,280 Speaker 4: Out, you know what I mean. It's a real job. 38 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:50,360 Speaker 2: I'm like, it's like, have you considered this as a 39 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:54,600 Speaker 2: career at the age you're working with me? 40 00:01:56,800 --> 00:01:59,240 Speaker 4: Well, now you don't have anyone to look after your kid, 41 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:01,160 Speaker 4: and I couldn't. 42 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:03,280 Speaker 3: Find a replacement that I could afford. And it's the 43 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:05,280 Speaker 3: middle of summer. I know where to put him? Right? 44 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 2: Yeah? What do you do? 45 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:07,800 Speaker 4: So? 46 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:12,640 Speaker 3: I work desk at a dentist office and I had 47 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:15,280 Speaker 3: no choice but to bring him to work with me. 48 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:18,640 Speaker 2: I mean, you just crossed your fingers. You have an 49 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:20,600 Speaker 2: understanding boss, you know, or just. 50 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:25,600 Speaker 4: Give him a knockout gas works with. 51 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:28,720 Speaker 3: But I didn't tell my boss or any of my 52 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:33,079 Speaker 3: co workers. He was sitting out in the lobby every day, 53 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 3: and you know I could keep an eye on him. 54 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:40,520 Speaker 4: Okay, you didn't put him to work like doing the suction. 55 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:49,919 Speaker 5: Seven year old comes over to me, Sweet, Why didn't 56 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:51,959 Speaker 5: you tell your coworkers or your boss. 57 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:55,799 Speaker 3: You didn't want to risk them like firing me, or 58 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:58,560 Speaker 3: like try to stay home, or just like judging me 59 00:02:58,760 --> 00:02:59,959 Speaker 3: looking like a bad mom. 60 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:03,520 Speaker 2: Okay, but don't they notice because he's there? 61 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 3: I mean, he's there every day. So I had to 62 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:13,600 Speaker 3: just give him different hats, different outfit every day. Sometimes 63 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:15,360 Speaker 3: sunglasses I would put on. 64 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:18,320 Speaker 4: Him, sometimes a Deadpool costume. 65 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:22,520 Speaker 5: Actually, if he's seven, it's not weird for a kid 66 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:24,519 Speaker 5: seven year old coming. 67 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:27,800 Speaker 4: In superhero every day. Yeah, okay, and nobody noticed. 68 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:30,800 Speaker 3: No, he had his backpack full of snacks, he had 69 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:33,560 Speaker 3: an iPod, he knew where the bathroom was. He could 70 00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:36,600 Speaker 3: like take an ass and a pile of stuffed animals 71 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:38,080 Speaker 3: in the corner if he wanted to. 72 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:40,800 Speaker 2: I mean, Dennis Office do have really good kids areas. 73 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 4: There's always boys and puzzles and stuff. 74 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:45,760 Speaker 1: Oh, I still play with the one where it's like 75 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:47,880 Speaker 1: you have the little ring that goes along the wire. 76 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:50,840 Speaker 4: I still play with those. They're so fun. 77 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 5: I raise them. Yeah, you have a better behaved kid 78 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:56,800 Speaker 5: than Jose or Jeffrey would be. 79 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 2: CRUs. Your kid is a yelling mom, that's true. 80 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:04,280 Speaker 3: I had to tell me. It's the dentist of a 81 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:07,160 Speaker 3: kungs out. You have to act like he's somebody else's kid. 82 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 3: I tell him to go play by like a woman 83 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:11,000 Speaker 3: waiting or something. 84 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:12,640 Speaker 2: Did you ever get caught? 85 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:16,640 Speaker 3: I didn't, But there was one time I almost was busted. 86 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:20,320 Speaker 3: This pudentist came out and she was like, still about child, 87 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:22,280 Speaker 3: and I'm sitting in the lobby all day. 88 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:23,599 Speaker 2: I just joked. 89 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:26,000 Speaker 3: I was like, oh, these kids, they all look alike. 90 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:33,480 Speaker 3: After a while, yeah, who knows. And then I pulled 91 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:35,440 Speaker 3: this off. For seven weeks and. 92 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:41,960 Speaker 1: Weeks with your kid at your work, I see, as 93 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:44,240 Speaker 1: long as they're not complaining or scared, like if it's 94 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 1: like I'm lost. 95 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:51,679 Speaker 2: An internship at that point, that's wild. 96 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:55,120 Speaker 3: And he spent so much time in the lobby. He's 97 00:04:55,279 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 3: reading of him now is like way above it. 98 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:03,839 Speaker 1: Every every book he's reading the other kids in the lobby. 99 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 5: Yeah, you wouldn't believe after weeks of highlights he can 100 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:08,480 Speaker 5: really spot the difference between two pictures. 101 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:14,039 Speaker 4: Yeah, he knows fifty ways to satisfy her in bed. 102 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:18,400 Speaker 2: Oh the definitely not in highlights. 103 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 4: I'm just saying he's a wealth of knowledge for a 104 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:21,120 Speaker 4: little seven year old. 105 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:24,680 Speaker 2: I mean, honestly, you've got seven weeks of free childcare. 106 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, honestly, Yeah, Brooke, don't look so happy about that. 107 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:29,960 Speaker 1: We're going to see one of the salespeople this summer. 108 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,680 Speaker 1: I'm going to be like, God, they really shrank, but my. 109 00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:35,280 Speaker 2: Kids are getting pretty big. But I got a standing desk. 110 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:36,640 Speaker 2: I think I could fit one underneath. 111 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:41,040 Speaker 1: So Torri, it sounds like no regrets for you. Are 112 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:43,040 Speaker 1: you playing the same thing for next summer? 113 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:46,520 Speaker 3: Oh, no regrets at all. We had a great summer together. 114 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:50,280 Speaker 3: I don't know if I could pull it off again now. 115 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:52,560 Speaker 4: Yeah, especially now. 116 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:53,640 Speaker 2: That he's an adults, risk it. 117 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:55,880 Speaker 5: And i'd also maybe start looking for jobs where they're 118 00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:57,080 Speaker 5: a little more family friendly. 119 00:05:57,880 --> 00:05:59,280 Speaker 2: There's some type of childcare. 120 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:01,680 Speaker 4: Did you tell her to get a new job. 121 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:02,000 Speaker 2: I did. 122 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:05,560 Speaker 5: Sounds like you, I mean, you always want to get 123 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:07,000 Speaker 5: a new job when you already have one, jeff You 124 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:09,000 Speaker 5: don't want to wait until you get fired then your screws. 125 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:11,560 Speaker 4: It just sounds like my mom, Like when do you 126 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 4: even get a real job. One of the family's friendly 127 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:18,040 Speaker 4: and you want to be the dentist next in seventy 128 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:18,800 Speaker 4: eight five nine two. 129 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:20,680 Speaker 1: If you have a confession you've been holding on to, 130 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:22,960 Speaker 1: we can hide your identity, mask your voice, and make 131 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:24,320 Speaker 1: you our next mass speaker. 132 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:26,280 Speaker 4: Your phone taps coming up right after this. 133 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:28,440 Speaker 2: Brook and Jeffrey in the morning