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Speaker 1:
[00:12] Joey, you can start with the apologies.

Speaker 2:
[00:14] Oh, what am I exactly?

Speaker 1:
[00:16] Am I apologizing for what you three did to my company?

Speaker 3:
[00:20] Yeah, you have to apologize to her.

Speaker 1:
[00:21] When I was toiling away, reviewing Oreos, talking to my crazy roommate, I didn't dream of it all building into a drug empire. All right.

Speaker 2:
[00:31] Well, here's the thing. Before the studio was the studio, it was like some sort of grow house. So like someone say that those are in the roots of this building.

Speaker 1:
[00:40] Oh, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to an intervention for Joey, Roger and Mike. I'm your host, Greg Miller. If you are unaware, maybe you've been so busy or so behind on our content. I understand. But yesterday, yesterday on April 20th, these three broke the rules of the employee handbook by imbibing in the devil's lettuce. All right. It couldn't be more clear that we had. You took a dare pledge as children. It has continued here. Did you not have dare?

Speaker 4:
[01:12] I think they phased that out.

Speaker 1:
[01:13] This would make a lot of sense for you.

Speaker 4:
[01:14] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[01:15] Yeah. I don't know.

Speaker 1:
[01:16] When I think reefer, I think Joey know what?

Speaker 2:
[01:18] Yeah. 100 percent.

Speaker 4:
[01:20] I think I signed one about not having sex before marriage.

Speaker 2:
[01:23] Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[01:25] And I'm still abiding by that, everybody. I would like to say that I have my chastity ring on right now.

Speaker 3:
[01:32] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[01:32] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[01:32] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[01:32] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[01:33] Yeah. What was their phased out? Because I was, I was, I was a dare kid.

Speaker 1:
[01:36] Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[01:37] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[01:37] I wonder when their kids are drug abuse resistance education. I believe that's what it was.

Speaker 2:
[01:48] You know, I was getting dare confused with crime. McGruff, the grass crime dog was part of there.

Speaker 4:
[01:54] He was part of there.

Speaker 3:
[01:54] He would do drugs.

Speaker 1:
[01:56] Okay. I want y'all to know. I want y'all know how much I love you and good content. And did I check on how much McGruff the crime dog outfit would be? Yes, between $2,000 and $4,000 to get the suit. I'm not half asking and I'm not half asking. I want the full blown trench coat, big old mascot head on there. You know what I mean? That would have been awesome. Did Mike? How hungover are you today from all this weed you smoked yesterday in the belly?

Speaker 3:
[02:22] Yeah, munchies set in and I ate a lot.

Speaker 1:
[02:25] It was that thing of like since I was morally against this. When I saw the wheelbarrow full of Taco Bell go in there, I was like, damn, I wish I was the best out of the wall. I'm like, there's no way they could eat it, but I know that I can't go in there.

Speaker 4:
[02:39] We ate most of it. I think there was only like two tacos left. I brought home a cold taco, ate that around 7, 8 PM. That was awesome.

Speaker 1:
[02:47] Nothing hits harder than cold taco.

Speaker 4:
[02:49] It was so good, and it was like seeping through the paper a little bit. It was so good.

Speaker 3:
[02:53] He loves that. What's wrong?

Speaker 1:
[02:55] Did you reheat it or just go cold?

Speaker 4:
[02:56] No, fuck no. Fuck no. I was watching... I was telling Joey, I was watching RuPaul's Drag Race for the first time, because what a better thing to do. What a great thing to start when you're high on 420. And I was just smacking the pen.

Speaker 1:
[03:09] Can I stop? I'm sorry. Can I stop you already? You guys have questions.

Speaker 4:
[03:12] Of course. Sorry, sorry, sorry.

Speaker 1:
[03:14] Season one or did you start with...

Speaker 4:
[03:16] Season six is what we're running out of time.

Speaker 1:
[03:17] Is that new?

Speaker 4:
[03:18] No, it's season 18.

Speaker 1:
[03:20] I can't keep up. I don't know. Way more than 18.

Speaker 4:
[03:22] Really?

Speaker 1:
[03:23] Okay.

Speaker 4:
[03:23] Yeah. We're really far in.

Speaker 1:
[03:24] How does this compare to America's Next Top Model?

Speaker 4:
[03:27] I mean, it's funnier.

Speaker 2:
[03:28] I have no idea because I've never watched either. I'm not into the fashion ones, the Project Runways, the America's Next Top Model.

Speaker 1:
[03:37] Obviously had a chokehold on America when it originally debuted. So I imbibed back then when I was doing more reality shows or whatever. And some of those things are so seared in your memory of what happened on that show. And then the other month, two months ago, brought to me within the last two months, Jen started a documentary about America's next one, right? It's it was, it was America's next top model. It was, I mean, Tyra's ended out here, but it was like, I was like, Oh, and this is the one that then this thing happens. And I don't want to say it right. And then it happened in the sounds like hot. And then they told the story behind it. And you were like, Oh my God, what a fuck. They turned this poor woman into the laughing stock of America. And it was like such a fucking horrible thing for her. Like Jesus Christ. But that's what it was when you're 11 years old. Marry is the model.

Speaker 2:
[04:21] The early 2000s are so hard to like explain that.

Speaker 4:
[04:25] And then growing up with a big, what was it? Biggest loser.

Speaker 2:
[04:28] Biggest loser. Then you have all of the-

Speaker 1:
[04:31] Hey, fatty, do it for my amusement on TV.

Speaker 2:
[04:33] Even like all of the E, like red carpet roasting. And then that's where I was so much meaner.

Speaker 4:
[04:37] Yeah. And that's where I, you know, that's my-

Speaker 1:
[04:40] That's where you cut your teeth on humor.

Speaker 4:
[04:42] I mean, I would, I would wake up. We've talked, I've talked about this on other content, but like I would literally like every single day after school, watch E! News. Like I'm talking like I'm like eight years old. I'm a little gay boy. Like I was straight up, like I would wake up early in the morning to like, to go watch the, what was the Royal Wedding? Oh, hell yeah. My parents looked at me and they're like, okay. You want to wake up at 5 a.m. to go watch the Royal Wedding.

Speaker 1:
[05:05] Roger, whatever you, whatever you're going to like in the future, we're, we support you, whatever it's going to be.

Speaker 4:
[05:11] We're ready for it. Yeah, there wasn't no surprises, but yeah, no. So I last night, yeah, drag race is great. You should start watching it. I just started watching it too. It's only two episodes in, but oh, no, I'm not going to watch it, but thank you.

Speaker 1:
[05:21] I've seen, I've seen drag race before. You know what I mean? I love RuPaul. Obviously a big supporter, a tiny chef in the beginning. You know what I mean? Yeah, that's nice.

Speaker 4:
[05:28] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[05:28] I think RuPaul was the original announcer for tiny like every season for that. Maybe every few episodes they switched out to the narrator was, but RuPaul did it for a while. We have to change the subject though. You guys broke Jesus' heart yesterday.

Speaker 4:
[05:40] Well, yeah, you don't care.

Speaker 2:
[05:41] Do we not think that Jesus maybe smoked a little?

Speaker 4:
[05:45] Yeah, it's just, it's in the ground.

Speaker 1:
[05:46] I mean, have you seen a photo of this man? He definitely, if you're rocking sandals and that long hair, that beard, you're hacking the sack and you're out there smoking. All right. Jesus was having a great time out there with the apostles.

Speaker 4:
[05:59] We had a great time though.

Speaker 2:
[06:00] We had an amazing time and that talkable hit 7 p.m. Yeah, even though we may or may not have forgotten to order Mike's.

Speaker 3:
[06:08] Yeah, there was a, you know, for us, not the biggest stoners, but like we had technology into the mix door dash really hit the wall on us. And I told Roger my order and he didn't put in my order.

Speaker 1:
[06:21] All I heard when the door opened up was Roger, you didn't get a bomb blast.

Speaker 3:
[06:25] That's what I heard.

Speaker 4:
[06:27] Well, what happened was I had to, here's what I'm, when I get high, I get very overwhelmed, right? About new information.

Speaker 1:
[06:34] And let me tell you everybody on a normal day, Roger cools a cucumber, never overwhelmed, never anxious, never worried, never concerned.

Speaker 3:
[06:45] Oh my God.

Speaker 4:
[06:46] And when I'm high, it's just, it's just worse, of course. So I'm freaking out. And as I'm on stream, that's already enough, right? Seeing the chat, seeing them react to me existing and also them knowing that I'm high, that's horrible. So I'm like, I got to protect myself. And then, of course, we're like, let's get Taco Bell. I wanted to get Subway Sandwiches easier, which is a crazy thing.

Speaker 3:
[07:05] Scarpino threw us off the subject.

Speaker 1:
[07:07] That is like the word. I, you know, as you know, I would never do drugs, but I can do what? Subway Sandwiches.

Speaker 3:
[07:15] He wanted to get real nasty, real sloppy.

Speaker 4:
[07:17] Yes. And I wanted to do a double dash. I wanted a whole thing. I wanted to get maybe that, maybe some type of burger. I wanted to figure out something. But now, of course, boring Taco Bell, Nick Scarpino. Fine.

Speaker 1:
[07:26] I think your doctor feel good, by the way.

Speaker 4:
[07:27] Sorry, doctor feel good. And then we go on the DoorDash app and I just look at it. I'm like, this is too much information. And I know myself. I get lost. I get I love a deal. I love a deal, Greg. So I'm doing combos.

Speaker 1:
[07:39] You mean Costco?

Speaker 4:
[07:40] Yeah, I'm doing the combos. I'm trying to be like, OK, well, it's actually cheaper if I do a combo. And then I get this thing, MoeVegeta Taco.

Speaker 2:
[07:45] And if I get a Coke, I get three dollars.

Speaker 4:
[07:47] Exactly right. So I'm doing that. And I looked at Mike as like, Mike, I can't do this. You need to save me right now. And then Mike, with the confidence, said, hey, I'm going to do this. And Mike's a talker when he's high. I was very surprised.

Speaker 2:
[07:57] Mike is so chatty.

Speaker 1:
[07:59] So he was buttoned up when he's not high.

Speaker 4:
[08:02] But he becomes like manager Mike.

Speaker 2:
[08:04] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[08:04] So wait, I'll stop right here. Do you guys knock it? And I mean, this is going to sound, I know we're very much like the Ghostbusters. We all go to our own corners and leave the office here. But have you not been high with Mike before?

Speaker 4:
[08:16] Me and Mike have been high. And mostly it's-

Speaker 3:
[08:18] We saw the Marvels together.

Speaker 4:
[08:20] Yeah, we saw the Marvels.

Speaker 3:
[08:21] We had a really fun time with the Marvels.

Speaker 4:
[08:23] It usually starts off with us arguing about life.

Speaker 1:
[08:26] And let me tell you, audience, these two never argue sober.

Speaker 3:
[08:30] Both of us arguing.

Speaker 4:
[08:31] Yes, it's usually us saying each other, well, we don't got that dog in us. We got to work harder.

Speaker 3:
[08:36] Got to be better for Greg right now. Right before the Marvels at 750 in Daly City. I got to be my best self for Greg.

Speaker 4:
[08:43] We've gotten high with each other maybe three to four times.

Speaker 3:
[08:46] Yeah, then we went to the Botanical Garden that one time.

Speaker 1:
[08:49] Oh, that's lovely.

Speaker 3:
[08:50] Yeah, that was really fun. Yeah, I got mad at Roger. He was touching all the plants and I got insecure.

Speaker 1:
[08:54] I did want to get arrested.

Speaker 4:
[08:55] I just touched one of them. It felt like sandpaper. It was right in front of me. I got to touch it.

Speaker 3:
[08:59] It felt good.

Speaker 2:
[09:00] Yeah, we don't really get high together ever. No, the couple times that we have, we usually, like us and Katie, will smoke and then everybody will retreat to their room.

Speaker 3:
[09:07] Yeah, that was when we were living at Kevin's house. It was like, disperse to your own room. Goodbye.

Speaker 1:
[09:11] You know, I was disappointed in myself because I wanted I, you know, I had the, I came in in my church going out fit and then I was like, I kept yelling shame here and there or whatever. And then I was like, Oh, you know what I should have done was got Mrs. T's number, gotten Roger's mom's phone number and call it FaceTime.

Speaker 4:
[09:28] That my mom, I was thinking about calling my mom. She wouldn't love that because she would be like, I'm smoking right now. And she would be like, I'm the biggest stoner out of anybody.

Speaker 2:
[09:37] Yeah, my mom would hate that.

Speaker 4:
[09:39] This is not good.

Speaker 2:
[09:41] My mom hates that.

Speaker 3:
[09:43] So we haven't gotten high together. I also haven't gotten high in a long time. Like, it's not really in my normal.

Speaker 1:
[09:49] Me and Roger got high a couple of times.

Speaker 3:
[09:53] Ran that fucking gat over. And so, yeah, it's like, I haven't gotten high in a long time. So it's come down to retirement for it. So it hit even harder. Roger saw me smoke the doobie outside. I took three hits and it was over for the next seven hours.

Speaker 2:
[10:08] That's crazy.

Speaker 3:
[10:10] That shows I was not prepared.

Speaker 4:
[10:11] Yeah. Yeah. He just immediately went. He's like, I want to smoke outside alone. I'm like, OK. And then you just.

Speaker 3:
[10:16] Well, I wasn't going to smoke inside the room.

Speaker 1:
[10:19] I do that.

Speaker 3:
[10:20] No way.

Speaker 2:
[10:20] Nick was surprisingly cool about it.

Speaker 3:
[10:22] He's so chill about it.

Speaker 1:
[10:24] Nick just wants to be quiet.

Speaker 3:
[10:25] He was post vacation. Nick of like, everything's chill, bro. I'm so happy to be here. He's like, oh, yeah, light up in here. It's like, I'm not doing that.

Speaker 4:
[10:33] It was. Yeah, because the whole fucking meeting about it.

Speaker 1:
[10:36] Nick wasn't here.

Speaker 4:
[10:38] The meeting was us kind of like walking around what Nick would think. Right. It was like, I'm pretty sure he'd be cool with vaping. Right. Like, that's the line. And then he comes. He's like, oh, no, yeah, you can smoke weed. And that's why you guys hotbox. No.

Speaker 2:
[10:47] Gameplay room. Oh, I didn't know that was an option.

Speaker 4:
[10:51] Okay, Nick.

Speaker 1:
[10:52] like he's like the divorced dad trying to be cool at the high school party. Like, it's going to do it somewhere. Might as well try to win back the favor of the children.

Speaker 3:
[11:02] Yeah, he brought an energy that I was not prepared for.

Speaker 2:
[11:05] And then you guys got super locked in on the game and Nick came in trying to have fun. But you guys were like, no, well, we also fucked it up.

Speaker 4:
[11:12] We made we got to apologize to Nick.

Speaker 3:
[11:13] We do have to apologize, but we called out Nick.

Speaker 4:
[11:16] We yelled it.

Speaker 3:
[11:16] We got we got the solid. We got unique moment of Nick not talking on a microphone, just standing and making it all about him and us. And it's like we finally looked at each other like, are you even talking into a microphone? And he wasn't. Nobody heard anything he said. And we finally we had our moment with Nick.

Speaker 4:
[11:34] Yeah, Mike and I said it in tandem at the same exact time as he's talking about nachos and green burrito. Are you even on a mic? That was when I lost it. It was right. I it was like four things happened at once. I hit the pen and I'm like higher than I've been in a very long time. And then Greg walks in, of course, immediately. And I'm like, that's that's a lot.

Speaker 1:
[11:54] What happened? I sat on you and you coughed and then you couldn't breathe. And then you I left you like that.

Speaker 3:
[11:59] I almost died.

Speaker 4:
[12:00] Well, no, I was just dying because I was coughing before this. I was like a lot. And then right after that, of course, Nick comes in with the loudest music possible.

Speaker 2:
[12:07] And then so long, so long.

Speaker 4:
[12:09] And then, of course, on top of that, he wasn't talking into a microphone. And then Mike just starts just railing him, just get it, just get to him. And it was so funny. Just made me laugh so hard.

Speaker 3:
[12:18] Yeah, we beat that poor Nick. So we should apologize because we wanted Nick in the room. We want to make him feel like he was part of it.

Speaker 1:
[12:24] Well, this is part of the ring's commentary right now. He'll never get this apology.

Speaker 2:
[12:29] It's Nick's worst nightmare because he's back from vacation. He has week plus of like pent up Nick energy. And then he's on no shows. Everybody would normally for the record to audience.

Speaker 1:
[12:41] You need to know that they were we were doing games cast. You guys were off doing something else. And Nick from his desk is like, Hey, do you have a topic for the show today? I was like, Oh yeah. When I make fun of greeting cards, but I'm like, I can do that. Whatever. He's like, Yeah, I'd love to talk about my trip like, Oh yeah. And then I an hour later, I walk out and Mike's out here and I was like, Hey, who is on the show? And I look at the show, because I even scheduled to be on this podcast.

Speaker 4:
[13:05] funny.com/store. You can get the welcome back picture. The audience has not seen him.

Speaker 1:
[13:13] Well, for the credit, we haven't even promoted this shirt, right?

Speaker 3:
[13:16] Like we did on the bus.

Speaker 1:
[13:18] Oh, he was in the bus. Okay.

Speaker 4:
[13:19] Good.

Speaker 1:
[13:21] I caught the first half of the buzz.

Speaker 3:
[13:23] We shut it out on games.

Speaker 1:
[13:24] Okay. Good. I was in the shower this morning, and I was like, wait, I did a big deal about my... When I came back and it was the joke that Tim slightly promoted that shirt.

Speaker 2:
[13:34] Yeah. Nick comes back, and normally everybody he would rile up in the office to get back into things is stuck in a room together and he's not allowed in there. It's his worst nightmare.

Speaker 4:
[13:44] I did offer him the pen, and he's like, no, I can't do that. I can't do that.

Speaker 2:
[13:48] He's usually... Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[13:49] You know what I mean?

Speaker 2:
[13:49] Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[13:49] He wants to be cool with us. You got to get down.

Speaker 2:
[13:51] Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[13:52] You got to get down with the cause.

Speaker 3:
[13:53] You got to catch him from the window of 11 to 1 a.m. after two burbans and a vape. Willing to go to the bar. That's when you can catch Nick doing something fun. Right.

Speaker 4:
[14:03] Greg, when are you doing us?

Speaker 1:
[14:05] Drugs?

Speaker 3:
[14:05] Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[14:06] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[14:06] No, I'm good.

Speaker 2:
[14:06] Never. I mean, I guess it is a drug, but it's like legal.

Speaker 1:
[14:11] Yeah. We were trying to explain it to Ben today.

Speaker 2:
[14:13] Oh, wow.

Speaker 1:
[14:13] It got mentioned. I mentioned you guys doing it. I forget what I called referenced something from yesterday's stream in that. And then it was, and Ben was like, and I, I legitimately can't even remember, but it was like, we got to the point of them, like, what is it? I'm like, well, it's like how mommy and daddy drink wine or have a cocktail. It's like that. And then I was like, it's in pill form. Cause I didn't want to talk about smoke. Smokey knows it's bad. That's too much. And I definitely want to say it's a gummy cause he's going to want these fucking gummies in my head like process. It's like, guess who?

Speaker 2:
[14:42] Like, what can I fucking say here to be done with something you're not going to be interested in, but yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1:
[14:49] No, I mean, I've smoked before I've been high before, but it was that thing where it took a few times to ever work where it was like, I can't remember if they were all with Colin, but I'm the last two times.

Speaker 2:
[15:05] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[15:05] They must have all been with Colin. And it was that one where like the time we did it, where we just walked away, had like a group, we walked around the neighborhood and did it. Nothing happened for me at that party or whatever. And then there was one day where he tried to catch me off guard. And he was like, what if you went and smoke this do we with your boy, Colin was like, okay, he's like, oh shit, really? Oh, okay. And then he gave me no prep. Nothing. I just, he just let me smoke it. And I smoked a fucking cigarette. Like I was like fucking crushing this stupid thing. And then I went into my room and it was like, I had Jen and I were long distance dating. So this is how like limited my, or like my high exposure. I went into my room and I was like, oh shit, I'm high. And I was like, I'm going to throw up.

Speaker 3:
[15:44] Oh no.

Speaker 1:
[15:45] And I went into my, my bathroom and I opened the toilet and I knelt in front of it. And then I noticed the toilet was kind of dirty. And I started cleaning the toilet and then I was like, wait, I'm not going to throw up. It's just my throat's hot. And then I was like, no, what? I'm going to go lay in bed and I laid, I put some fucking piano sound thing on and I took a fucking high ass photo of myself and I said it to Jen, I'm like, I smoke weed and I'm like, and I'm like, I'm finally high. I said it there during the break me. I'll try to find it or whatever. But yeah, but it was like that thing for me. It was just like, oh, I get it. I totally get it. But it's like, I want it. I like with alcohol that I like. I know when I'm out, how many I can have before I have to stop and sobering up and do the thing. Whereas like to get in here at this day and age to get into a brand new vice and be like, I don't know, maybe I smoke this. Maybe I'm fine.

Speaker 4:
[16:34] Maybe I go crazy whole ass father right now. Like, so yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's also tough for you to be like, okay, well, I'm going to find my edible, but I need to take a whole week to figure out what my edible is. What's my dose? Oh shit. Now I'm way too high. And I can't take care of this kid. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1:
[16:47] Yeah, I got nothing in that. It was awesome when we moved into our current place, our neighbor came over and introduced himself. And he's in the very, he's like, also, do you partake in marijuana? I mean, Jen's pregnant as shit and I don't know. Like, yeah, we've been known to. All right. Well, I grow it next door. And I'd love to bring you some of the, he brought us some weed one time that we never use. You know what I mean?

Speaker 4:
[17:09] That sucks. You've got that connect. What's up?

Speaker 1:
[17:11] Yeah. He's still, he doesn't grow it anymore. I don't think that I don't ever see him grow in it, but I assure you, he does it. I assure you he is still doing the drugs, even if he's not doing that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[17:23] Yeah. No, I, I be cleaning when I'm high. So that's why I feel that vibe of like, every time I get high now, I think it's like something happened. Because like when I was like 21, of course, I was just zoning out, doing nothing, like playing video games all day. And then like when I moved here and I moved into this apartment, I'll never forget it. I smoked weed for the first time in forever. And I was watching movie nine to five for the first time. And yeah. And I just was like, I need to start like sweeping. And I just like got up and I just started. Yeah, literally. I just I'd vacuumed, I mopped, I like did everything. And it's like, that's kind of my vibe now is when I when I smoke. It's like it was actually kind of tough for me to just sit down and just play video games because I'm like, I get up, I start pacing. I start stretching. I do yoga. I just do dumb shit. And I feel like I'm a better human being when I'm high. I don't do it often that much, but like I feel like I'm more aware.

Speaker 1:
[18:08] What is it thoughts that it's all anytime you get drunk or high and not like wasted, but I mean a little bit, you feel the weight of the world's off your shoulders.

Speaker 2:
[18:15] Well, I think it's actually when you're kind of drunk.

Speaker 4:
[18:18] No, no, no, no, no, I'm drunk. I'm like, you know, I'm laying in the bed. I'm just fucking so not when I'm high. I think it's more I'm more anxious and I'm more aware of my thoughts. So I'm like, oh, wait, I'm spending time just sitting on the counter right now doing nothing. It's like I should be stretching.

Speaker 1:
[18:32] I should make the most of these hours.

Speaker 3:
[18:34] Yeah, no, I mean, yeah, you told me, Joey. I went home and I stretched all night.

Speaker 4:
[18:38] I did.

Speaker 3:
[18:38] Yeah, I laid butt ass naked on the bed. Then I said, you know what? I'll take a hot shower. And then I ate two more dinners.

Speaker 4:
[18:49] Also, you had two lunches, a lot of food.

Speaker 3:
[18:53] And then I did a fun research project. I got deep into a Ted talk.

Speaker 1:
[18:57] I had a great time getting ready for today.

Speaker 3:
[18:58] Yeah, I just got deep into research and everything. I just love doing that. It was a fun time. I walked up to Joey late at night. I was like, I want to make nachos right now, but I'm going to eat this watermelon instead because I'm going to eat a healthy cake.

Speaker 1:
[19:12] You know, yeah, let me guess.

Speaker 3:
[19:16] Greg, I walked downstairs. I ate all the watermelon. I was like, you know what? Nachos sound delicious now. And then I was going to make a PB and J to mix with all that. The bread was bad. And I was like, you know what? I don't need a PB. That's God.

Speaker 1:
[19:28] It's God stopping you.

Speaker 3:
[19:29] I got salsa and PB and J are going to mix right now.

Speaker 2:
[19:32] Salsa and PB and J is disgusting.

Speaker 1:
[19:35] Some trash bag stomach.

Speaker 3:
[19:40] I was trying to explain to Roger when I get high, right? I don't want to eat until the munchies set in an hour, two hours later. So when it was like, Hey, let's order Taco Bell right now. It's like, Oh, well, one, I'm still embracing the high. And two, maybe I did eat in and out like 30 minutes before that. But that was just set a good foundation. I knew that I was ready to rock and I've never been more angry.

Speaker 4:
[20:03] You saw it too. That was like freshly high, Roger. Yeah, it's being betrayed live on.

Speaker 3:
[20:07] Oh, I had it in and out. What do you mean? We're going to why I said, why would you do that?

Speaker 4:
[20:11] Seriously is what I said.

Speaker 3:
[20:12] I was so betrayed.

Speaker 4:
[20:15] I was like starving myself. I just I'm a little pro. I had a small protein shake this morning. I was like, I'm literally going to wait for so much food. And then Mike just fucked me.

Speaker 3:
[20:23] It's like when you go out to drink, you're like, you got to make sure I got a good food belly. You don't want to go in there naked and like not ready to rock.

Speaker 2:
[20:30] And I mean, yeah, but I think that means like a breakfast, not like lunch or meat.

Speaker 3:
[20:34] Well, you know, 1230 is my breakfast time at this point in my life.

Speaker 4:
[20:37] We had two cheeseburgers still.

Speaker 3:
[20:38] I had a double double.

Speaker 2:
[20:39] Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[20:40] Okay.

Speaker 3:
[20:40] That's good. That's good.

Speaker 4:
[20:42] Not too cheese.

Speaker 3:
[20:43] I like the bread. You know what I mean? We talk about all the time. I just want the bread. So the bun and like, and when you want the Cain's and then you threw away the chicken, I did Cain's chicken sucks, but the bread is so good.

Speaker 1:
[20:55] You are 100% correct across the board. And I saw someone in the, I was like, you know how it is out there when you're doing the work and then you look at the chat and somebody who was like going to change Cain's only for the bread is a, you know, win situation. I was like, yes, it is. I'm like, I don't know how this is coming up right now.

Speaker 3:
[21:10] That's all I want is the bread is right. And so yeah, we had some fun. We've played some games too. Yeah. A little bit. Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[21:16] We just played a carry the glass mostly.

Speaker 3:
[21:18] Yeah. I can play any game while high. Like there's no, like, there's no, like, Oh, I don't want to play this game or that game. I think me and Roger did select the wrong game for the two of us.

Speaker 2:
[21:28] Carry the glass was a little bit Roger betrayed again.

Speaker 3:
[21:31] Well, Roger was going a thousand miles an hour. My mind was on like, if you see my camera on the left here, struggling to figure out how I even look at the screen right here, but he can play any game.

Speaker 4:
[21:40] Hi. Look at the screen.

Speaker 1:
[21:43] What do you play?

Speaker 3:
[21:45] I call it duty. Hi. Oh, yeah. This I'm not nasty at, you know? We had some fun playing this. We did some trivia games. We were bad at.

Speaker 1:
[21:54] Yeah, I saw you. You phoned Andy on a millionaire.

Speaker 3:
[21:57] Man, we did a millionaire and we're like, let's do them all.

Speaker 4:
[22:00] Oh, yeah. Joy was in the corner playing.

Speaker 2:
[22:02] I was playing power wash to me later. I finished like two and a half maps that I've been working on. What feels like forever. This is my like prime. Joey gets high and plays.

Speaker 3:
[22:11] I'm blown away that these maps are our plus long. Greg, like I checked in with Joe. I'm like, what are you doing? She's like, oh, I'm still I'm finishing up this map now. It's like an hour in. I'm like, oh, my God.

Speaker 2:
[22:21] Oh, yeah. You just and the giant barn took me probably four hours.

Speaker 4:
[22:25] Whoa, I got to get into that game.

Speaker 2:
[22:26] It's so fun. I need to do that between that and schedule one. You're just running around.

Speaker 3:
[22:31] Schedule one's great. You got to get into the movie one that I had Nick do the movie rental shop.

Speaker 2:
[22:36] Oh, yeah, I haven't done that one. I liked the movie theater one.

Speaker 3:
[22:39] OK. Yeah, it's like tiny bookshop, but with movie rentals. Yeah, I think you'll like that. You know about tiny bookshop.

Speaker 4:
[22:44] Yeah, I know.

Speaker 3:
[22:45] Yeah, they got real books in that one.

Speaker 4:
[22:46] Oh, really?

Speaker 2:
[22:47] Yeah. Oh, wow.

Speaker 1:
[22:48] Are you still playing Pocopia?

Speaker 2:
[22:50] Off and on. I played a little bit this weekend.

Speaker 1:
[22:52] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[22:53] But now it's just the like, oh, I have to do the building and I don't really want to do the building. I just want to do the catching.

Speaker 1:
[22:58] Oh, fair, fair, fair. OK.

Speaker 3:
[23:00] How are you looking on your Pocopia?

Speaker 1:
[23:02] I mean, I'm several reviews removed.

Speaker 3:
[23:05] Yeah. I mean, do you think you're done or like, hey, make my neighborhood the best it's ever happened with Pocopia is it will become.

Speaker 1:
[23:13] I need to, I want to play something on the plane. I want to play something here on the couch and I'm not on a review that can do that. It's not a game. I want to do that. And I feel like that's when it'll be, you know, back in my life on top of somebody is dropping a new Pokemon in there as a limited time event that I want to go get or whatever, checking that way, you know, DLC, if they ever do it. But I mean, I also got a lot of hours out of it, so I don't feel, I mean, it's, it's one of those games you could play forever.

Speaker 2:
[23:40] Yeah, that's one that's like an easy thing to play during whatever reality show I'm watching 100% attention to either of these things.

Speaker 1:
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Speaker 4:
[24:27] He's got a tight fun.

Speaker 1:
[24:28] You know what I mean? I'm trying some stuff. I don't know if you'll be at Lost Church on Saturday. But man, greeting cards. Let's talk about that. Insane price that they still exist. Oh, it's really expensive because nobody now supply demand. You know what I mean? Where nobody demands them. They got to try to make money off them. They're raising the price on them. It's the traditional subscription service for Xbox problem here. Where it's just hard. I thought of this because of course, yesterday I go to the mailbox birthday card in there for me, my aunt and uncle, my birthday, of course, coming up on Monday. And I'm like, right. Every time I get a greeting card from the olds, yes, I'm like, right. Greeting cards matter to them.

Speaker 3:
[25:14] Yes.

Speaker 1:
[25:14] My mom, my dad, my aunt, my uncle, they're going to send greeting cards.

Speaker 2:
[25:18] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[25:18] And I'm like, you know what? It would mean the world to them if I ever sent a greeting card back.

Speaker 3:
[25:23] Might blow their mind.

Speaker 1:
[25:24] It's coming up on 43 years and that ain't me, man. Like I ain't doing that shit. I will send you a text. I will call you maybe. You know what I mean? That's good enough. Are any of you still using? Are you sending greeting cards? So it's a greeting cards, birthday cards, Valentine's Day cards, St. Patrick's Day cards.

Speaker 3:
[25:41] Anything from that spot.

Speaker 4:
[25:43] Sending them?

Speaker 1:
[25:44] Yes.

Speaker 4:
[25:44] No, no, I'm never sending them to my.

Speaker 1:
[25:46] Are you getting them?

Speaker 4:
[25:47] You sort of. I think I'm getting them like, you know, from Lansden and I, but like that's not family.

Speaker 1:
[25:53] No, because for me, it's very much like clearly this is how that generation communicated a holiday.

Speaker 4:
[26:01] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[26:02] And so I know we're separate crate in nor do I get birthday cards for my friends. Right. The only thing that I can think of that's analog is the Christmas card where I think a lot of people still do Christmas cards. And even those like when they come from the olds and I'm not talking about Nick Scarpino, I'm talking older than that. Even that I all the olds will send the full blown. It's been a great year for the whoever in here is like, Oh my God, I don't care what this grand kid did.

Speaker 2:
[26:27] See, I love the I love reading the Christmas.

Speaker 1:
[26:30] Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2:
[26:31] Tell me about everything about none of these people I'm ever going to see.

Speaker 1:
[26:33] See, that's why I like now our generation does the Christmas card. But in our generation's fashion of just like, here's a bunch of fucking photos of us. And hey, how are you doing? I love you printed, not personalized.

Speaker 2:
[26:44] You and Jen do like anniversary cards to each other or anything?

Speaker 1:
[26:49] Yes, no. It's that thing where I don't think it's implied you will. I think if the opportunity strikes, you do like Jen's birthday just came around. Right. And like on the day me and Ben were out doing something for her and I was like, oh, grab this and you can write your name and it for mommy and I will. You know what I mean? And where did that card end up? I don't know if it made it to the memory box. I doubt it. Because again, I get these things and I'm not Jen and Ben cards, obviously, but like you may leave Ben cards. Like you raise a good point because I have like in my wall, like a post-it note from Jen, I think in my car a couple of post-it notes or something notes, she's left or whatever. But like uncle send the card. Thanks aunt, uncle's got look at the card. That's great. Right. And the recycling, you know, I get I got to get all the crap out of my house. I got too much crap in this house already. I'm well beyond saving cards. I'm saving Ben's cards from the grandparents of like the birthday card. I'm not even the birthday. I'm thinking of this Batman. Maybe it's a Valentine by Dad sent or whatever. You know what I mean? That was cool.

Speaker 2:
[27:43] Do you save homemade cards from Ben? Are you tossing those to you? Is he at that age where like he makes them at school or Ben is at the stage where he lies through his little fucking teeth?

Speaker 1:
[27:54] Oh, where he will literally I will put him in the car or get him out of the car. We get something from the car and there will be a drawing he didn't like, you know, fucking scribbly lines everywhere. He goes, Oh, I made this for you. And then I'll hear him turn into mom and say, I made this for you. You're just saying.

Speaker 4:
[28:10] There's nothing I love more than a kid lying. It makes me laugh so hard.

Speaker 1:
[28:14] That's awesome. Next time you're at the house and he comes out of the bathroom, this is going to sound worse than it is, he comes out of the bathroom and goes, do you wash your hands? And then you'll know immediately if he did or not. Because if he did, he will say, yes, smell them. Because it'll have the soap smell on it. But if he goes, yes, it doesn't let you smell them. Oh, brother, he didn't wash his hands. That kid's lying to you right now.

Speaker 4:
[28:33] I thought you were going to say he's going to tell him to you to smell them when he didn't. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. So, yeah, I think I'm similar to you where, yeah, it's just me and Lianza. That's like the only card. We have all of our cards.

Speaker 2:
[28:44] Do you do it for like birthday and birthdays?

Speaker 4:
[28:47] Yeah, anniversaries. No, not holidays. Yeah, birthdays and anniversaries. But we have like all of our stuff going back to like when we first met. Yeah, we had a recent one, which I thought was a nice like thing that maybe we should do more of, but like my mom sent like a birthday gift for Lianza or birthday card for Lianza. She was like, oh, I'm sending it to the mail. And I'm like, okay, like that seems like, it was like like a priority express ones.

Speaker 1:
[29:09] I'm like, that's expensive.

Speaker 4:
[29:10] And we got it and it was this this card and it had the writing on it. But you open it up and it was like this beautiful like flower like this, like and we put it in the living room like that pretty like it was gorgeous.

Speaker 1:
[29:20] Like paper machine, not paper shape, like origami.

Speaker 4:
[29:23] Yeah, like a fold out, like a pop up book. But it was gorgeous. Like if you see it, you're like, oh, that's just like a really nice thing to put in the living room. And I was like, oh, we should do more like, I think that's like that to get like how the world is working right now. But I think everything's like event based now and like, you know, movies have to become like these huge things that you go to and you have to leave the house. I think that's kind of like where the greeting card industry needs to go. OK, if you want it to like stay and sustain it, be like, here's something like kind of that you can use as multiple uses and not just go right into the trash. Right. I mean, we tried doing that with like the ones we open up and it fucking talks to you. I hate that shit that that became that became really annoying, really fast. Remember that was like when I was a kid, they started doing those.

Speaker 2:
[30:05] Oh, yeah.

Speaker 4:
[30:05] I was like for everything.

Speaker 2:
[30:06] I was like, I don't want to hear the ones that like never shut off.

Speaker 4:
[30:08] Yeah, exactly. Or you open it up and say, I don't want to hear Han Solo say his one line every time I open this thing. It sucks.

Speaker 1:
[30:14] Never told me the odds.

Speaker 4:
[30:15] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[30:15] I'm happy about it.

Speaker 3:
[30:16] Thanks for the support.

Speaker 1:
[30:19] I'm older than if I remember when you had your PCs at home, and then you finally had your printers at home, and then somebody was like, fucking, you can make greeting cards at home, and you could buy the templates and do that thing. You're like, we're putting greeting cards out of business, because everybody loves getting a piece of fucking paper folded in quadrants.

Speaker 3:
[30:38] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[30:39] Miss a line. Your printer is all fucked up. It's running out of yellow ink. This is exactly what I want on my birthday.

Speaker 3:
[30:47] Yeah, it's interesting because I feel like if Nick was here, Nick would say, I do this. I've been with Nick multiple times when we've gone to Target to get his wife a car.

Speaker 1:
[30:56] Well, again, wives are different. I feel like your partner is different in the same house or whatever, because there you're like putting together an event or a bigger gift. It's a meal, it's flowers, it's this, it's that. I'm trying to remember.

Speaker 3:
[31:10] But does she keep that? Like does Nick's wife look at that? No, no, no. It's like, is she chucking that a week later, or is she keeping that?

Speaker 1:
[31:20] Listen, we're in private company, and I'll tell you straight up, there are fewer relationships, I understand, less than I understand Dee and Nick. And not for like, it's just like, you want to talk about personalities. Like, you know, Nick is like, here you go. She's like, thank you. And it's not because she's a bad person or you know what I mean. I love Dee. Dee's awesome. It's just Dee is like, nice, honey.

Speaker 3:
[31:44] Yeah, that's the thing. It's like, unless you got the box that you're storing all of this in. Yeah, we all know that this is going to be like an open. I appreciate it. See you later.

Speaker 1:
[31:53] And that's fine. And I'm fine with it. But I also wonder if they know that. Do my parents and aunts and uncle think that this is getting put into a binder somewhere? And I and I again, I'm not trying to make fun of them for it. Yeah, it's just that thing of like I the greeting card section at Target would disappear tomorrow. And I wouldn't know until you you know what I mean? I didn't even know the fucking hand scanners at Whole Foods went away till I tried to use them. All right. So I was like, do you see all the ones? Yeah. I went to Whole Foods. They were all ripped out and I was bugged out about it. I googled it. It's because everybody hates being trapped and no one was using them. And the article was like, I've never met anyone. I'm like, I use them.

Speaker 2:
[32:35] Take it.

Speaker 1:
[32:35] I don't care. Fucking Jeff Bezos knows everything about me already. Take my fucking palm.

Speaker 4:
[32:41] The life hack that I've been doing now is that every single time I go to Trader Joe's, I just get one of their dollar greeting cards because they're nice.

Speaker 2:
[32:49] Trader Joe's has the best cards.

Speaker 4:
[32:51] They're really nice. They're one dollar. And every time I go, I just throw it in there. And I'm like, I have a bunch of birthday cards, just generic cards that, you know, God forbid.

Speaker 1:
[32:58] See, this is an, I mean, again, God forbid, I, again, moving away from it and just being gone from your parents and your family. I forgot that, like this stuff, they care. Like I remember being in the house and my mom had bought one of those giant, like holders that was by the holiday so that you could buy the cards and store them in there. And then you could go to like the roll of decks of cards and pull them out for people's birthdays or whatever.

Speaker 2:
[33:23] Right next to the like wrapping paper and gift bags.

Speaker 1:
[33:27] Yeah, it's in that closet in the spare room and all that shit's piled up. I'm completely lying.

Speaker 4:
[33:31] Yeah, no, I'm a card guy. I'm thinking about it. I'm like every time I go to like a birthday party or something, I bring a card.

Speaker 1:
[33:36] Oh, really? How many cards you got from Rog?

Speaker 3:
[33:39] Zero. I got a broken tooth, though. I got a broken tooth.

Speaker 4:
[33:43] That's all that was.

Speaker 3:
[33:44] Was that for your birthday? It was my birthday.

Speaker 4:
[33:46] Oh, yeah. You deserved that one. No. We went to, what was it? Beepsburgers?

Speaker 3:
[33:50] Beepsburgers for my birthday.

Speaker 4:
[33:51] And then you got a burger. And then you also got.

Speaker 3:
[33:53] We had to get chicken tenders. And I learned the lesson. Don't get chicken tenders from Beeps.

Speaker 1:
[33:57] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[33:57] Then I had a tender place.

Speaker 4:
[34:00] It was hard.

Speaker 3:
[34:01] Well, remember, Greg's birthday is coming up. So is mine.

Speaker 4:
[34:03] OK.

Speaker 1:
[34:03] Don't take it.

Speaker 3:
[34:04] We'll expect cards.

Speaker 4:
[34:05] OK.

Speaker 3:
[34:05] You want to take us to be?

Speaker 1:
[34:06] Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[34:07] OK.

Speaker 3:
[34:07] Yeah. We'd like a card.

Speaker 1:
[34:09] I mean, you've got to be.

Speaker 3:
[34:10] I'll give you a card.

Speaker 4:
[34:12] God. Then you can throw it away in front of me. That's fine, too. We can just get over this.

Speaker 1:
[34:16] I feel like that's honestly like kind of like where I'm at with it.

Speaker 4:
[34:20] I'm like, thank you.

Speaker 1:
[34:21] Just give me the blank one. Thank you. I'll give it back. You give it to someone else.

Speaker 4:
[34:25] I love that.

Speaker 2:
[34:26] So that's what we started doing in my family with like my grandma, because she gives us cards from Santa every Christmas and then Christmas cards with like money and stuff in them. And so every year we open them and we're so surprised. And then we put them back in the envelope and we hand them back to her and she keeps them free. We had this exact same argument where it's like, why are we spending nine dollars a card? My grandma's buying for like 15 or 20 people. We're like, you cannot buy this every year. We don't care enough about them.

Speaker 4:
[34:53] That's a great conversation to have.

Speaker 2:
[34:54] Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[34:55] I love that. That's awesome.

Speaker 1:
[34:56] Was grandma cool with it? Like, oh, she loves.

Speaker 2:
[34:58] My grandma is the keeper of, we're going to save the tissue paper. We're going to save all of that. My grandma is like queen of that kind of closet of like just all the stuff.

Speaker 1:
[35:07] I'm trying to be my last similar but different. I want you to know I broke free of the matrix. I'd say six months ago, maybe a year ago or whatever, where it was just like when I'm giving Ben his side of ketchup or I want the side of ranch with the wing. Maybe it was even longer, recent-ish where I was just like, I don't need to be frugal with this. We're not eating ketchup that much. I'm not using the side of wing sauce or ranch that much. Like fucking fill this ramekin with the goddamn sauce. Who cares how much I throw away? Because more than likely, you're ended with this bottle that's disgusting. It's been in there for 12 months.

Speaker 2:
[35:43] It's only half full and then you throw it away anyway.

Speaker 1:
[35:45] Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

Speaker 4:
[35:46] Never do that. I get so mad when I get a whole thing of ranch and then I only use a little bit of them. There's so much ranch that I could have been using. I mean, I could have kept.

Speaker 2:
[35:53] Are you going through ranch that quickly?

Speaker 4:
[35:57] Yeah, sometimes, yeah. You don't have to have like a ranch month. I don't have ranch in the house and then I have ranch and I'm like chicken wings.

Speaker 2:
[36:03] I do that with mustard.

Speaker 4:
[36:04] Fries, I just go crazy on it.

Speaker 1:
[36:07] Yeah, you see, I mean, this is, I guess even the ketchup is a bad example, at least in modern times because Ben is a kid.

Speaker 2:
[36:14] He loves ketchup.

Speaker 3:
[36:16] Everyone loves ketchup.

Speaker 1:
[36:16] You put, literally, you put the plate down in front of this kid and if it's got broccoli on it, he goes, where's my ketchup?

Speaker 2:
[36:21] That's crazy.

Speaker 1:
[36:22] Because he dips his broccoli in the ketchup.

Speaker 3:
[36:24] That's wicked. That's crazy.

Speaker 1:
[36:25] It's like the thing where he's eating the broccoli, I can't get back. This is a weird flavor combo, brother. I don't know what you want to be doing about this.

Speaker 3:
[36:30] He would do the ranch with the broccoli?

Speaker 1:
[36:32] I'll send you a send, no, not the broccoli, but his chicken, his nuggets, whatever.

Speaker 3:
[36:36] Okay.

Speaker 1:
[36:37] But there's the photos of him, literally the ranch thing up in his mouth.

Speaker 3:
[36:40] Yeah. Like I'm a ranch and veggies guy, but that's if I've never tried on my veggies.

Speaker 1:
[36:45] Yeah, no.

Speaker 3:
[36:46] I remember that.

Speaker 1:
[36:46] Yeah, yeah. But you have a kid's palate, so this would probably work for you.

Speaker 3:
[36:50] Does he know something I don't know?

Speaker 1:
[36:51] What are the tips you got for me, Beth? What are the streets right now with the kids that I need to be doing?

Speaker 3:
[36:56] This kid's doing something I've never heard of.

Speaker 4:
[36:57] That's a great episode of Kinda Munchies. You and Ben together and he just teaches you what he eats.

Speaker 1:
[37:01] That's awesome. That is an amazing idea.

Speaker 4:
[37:05] I care too. You will be more grossed out about normal things that he eats, and he will be about things you eat.

Speaker 1:
[37:09] Dude, no, that's locked. Let me tell you, this weekend we went skateboarding.

Speaker 4:
[37:14] What a funny day, Nick.

Speaker 1:
[37:15] We went skateboarding.

Speaker 3:
[37:15] We got to talk about this. So cool.

Speaker 1:
[37:17] Yeah, okay. If you want to go to my Instagram, there's photos of it up there, Barron. I know Instagram doesn't play well, so do whatever you got to do. But yeah, no, I finally wore Jen down, as everyone knows. If you've been following on Greg Way, of course, I have been saying for a year now, I don't know what it is of like, man, I missed out. I should have been a skater. I love skateboards and I love the sound. And now that this is all because of, yes, the video game, but also Ben going to skate parks, usually with his scooter and me being like, damn, this is so fucking cool. And every time I'm like Jen, when Ben gets a skateboard, I should get a skateboard too. And she's like, absolutely not. You're going to break your neck and break an ankle. You break the bank. And I was like, I'm not going to do tricks. She's like, it doesn't matter about trying to trick. Yeah, it's just you're going to pull a muscle and be unable to fucking pick up your gigantic son and I can't pick them up all the time. And I'm like, I find you make a good point. We had broken down, not broken. I shouldn't say a month and a half ago, maybe two months ago now. Ben finally was ready for his own skateboard. We got him that Santa Cruz deck or whatever. Took him to the skate park again. As we walked up, he's like, I can't wait to drop in. And we had to go, Oh buddy, no. Like we're going to learn how to stand on it. We're a ways away from you dropping in on a skateboard.

Speaker 2:
[38:27] Just confidence.

Speaker 1:
[38:28] Cause this kid tried to full send it on a scooter six months ago.

Speaker 2:
[38:31] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[38:31] Where we kept saying, don't go to the top of the ramp with that and he'd look back and don't do it. And then the third time he looked back and I was like, go for it. Let's see how this goes. And they went crying. We're like, we told you, we told you, you can't drop in on a scooter. Anyways though, that had happened. And it was, he's been going to skateboard park pretty consistently as we continue to get a little bit better, a little bit more confident with it. And then yeah, last week, like on Wednesday, Jen sent me an Instagram realist, like fine. You can get a board. And it was this clip that I had seen already of one of those like, you know, when you're 40, you're going to try to learn how to skateboard. And it's very important. You do rather than you don't kind of think. And it was this mom learning to skateboard at 40. And then it ending with her skating next to her daughter holding hands. And she's real small bed sides. And I was like, here we fucking go for J. Could change your mind. Rushed out this weekend, got my boy. I was shocked when Jen said, if you're getting a board, I'm getting a board. I won't be left out. And so the second photo on that Instagram, Tara said was Ben is Jen with her skateboard. And so anyways, where I was driving with this and why the munchies make so much sense is of course Ben's got a month and a half of practice on us. So the entire time we're getting our boards, he's like, don't worry guys, I'll teach you. I'll show you what to do. So when we got there, he was very much like, how are you doing daddy? How are you doing mommy? Sit back. So I can only imagine if I'm like Ben, uncle Mike wants you to come show your favorite foods to him. He'll be like, what do you think of this? Uncle Mike, how is this on the palette?

Speaker 3:
[39:58] Uncle Mike, how has that been going for the both of you now getting in? Right. The balance is the key there. Oh, how is weekend one? Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[40:05] Yeah. Weekend one again. It's what I said from the sidelines. I'm like, damn, I was meant for this. And again, to be clear, if you haven't been able to see Greg ways of this journey, I am there is no false confidence here. And like, I'm go, I never want to do a trick. I never want to drop in. I never want to have fun. I just want to, I just love the sound, the feel. And I just want to roll around the park and be able to propel myself around and the idea. And so at the end of that first session there, our first hour on him or whatever, I was happy where the progress I had made even there long way to go to where I'm just super comfortable. But even like I was talking about it of like, I had been coaching him from the sidelines of like what to do or whatever and getting into, I'm like, Oh man, I was telling him to push way too much, right? Just push once and get up on the board where I was telling like, as I'm trying to teach him and not have him break his neck on what it was, I was like, okay, so I'm feeling, I'm feeling good and it's like the next morning, I was like, I want to go back to the park today. Let's go back to the park today. Ben was like, Yeah. And then after lunch, he's like, I don't want to.

Speaker 2:
[41:06] My regular skateboards are long boards or what?

Speaker 1:
[41:10] The regular boards. Yeah, I'm using what in eight and three quarters.

Speaker 3:
[41:14] I like Jen's board. That was one I would recommend to her. Yeah, I was going to go long boards for all of you because I think you are a long board. If you're in the skate park, I think you have to be smaller than that and go towards if it's possible to throw it up there and I know it's hard, but that's second one of the carousel.

Speaker 4:
[41:27] You would have to send me the direct post.

Speaker 1:
[41:30] Oh, sure. Like a screenshot of it?

Speaker 3:
[41:33] Or just like a link. Like in my mind, two, three years from now, maybe four. When Ben's a little bit older and it's like Ben and Mom afternoon, they would be long boarding to like Frater Joe's together. Just kind of like carving. That's what I pictured Jen and Ben doing in a little bit.

Speaker 2:
[41:50] Yeah, because I think.

Speaker 4:
[41:52] I honestly picture penny boards for them.

Speaker 3:
[41:56] I think she's got the fat board.

Speaker 1:
[41:59] That's yeah, she's got a cruiser. People were asking me in my chat why I didn't get one. And my Greg way. And I was just like, listen, I've waited my entire life. And like when I was a kid and wanted to learn Ninja Turtles back to the future, my parents got me a cruiser that was real big like that. But it was like not what I envisioned. I envisioned a normal ass board like this. And that's what I got. And I got my San Francisco one that I had seen literally six months ago at a different skate shop when we were just looking around, whatever. So it's like, yeah, I want, I don't want the tricks, but I want the style and I want the feel kind of thing. And I want that option or whatever.

Speaker 3:
[42:35] And the family's got all the protective gear on right. Oh yeah. That was a non-starter to it too, which is great. I love that. Cool.

Speaker 1:
[42:41] Greg. I know it would make fun. It will make fun of before.

Speaker 3:
[42:43] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[42:43] But it was the idea of like, yeah, like when, when you have to set that example, you know what I mean for Ben and not to mention like again, I'm the brittle one. I look like fucking Frankenstein climbing on this thing right now. Like literally I'd been going 30 minutes like, all right, you gotta bend your knees. Like I'm just like all stiff on it. I'm like, all right, I got to like really get by with it. Cause that's all I want. I just want a natural little flow.

Speaker 3:
[43:04] What's the vibe of the park? I know what we went to see. Very chill. Are there people encouraging Ben?

Speaker 1:
[43:09] Anybody talking over Brad to be like, well, I mean, that's one of the reasons what it's like, depends on that when you're going or what time we've been there so many times different hours of the day or whatever. But no, every skater who's there is like super welcoming and cool about it. I've told you the story of the guy with the kickflips, right? Yeah. There was, I tell you this, Joe, when we went there before Ben got his board, but was just bringing over his scooter all the time. When we got there and he'd been playing a lot of skate at this point, he knew he knew tricks or whatever. And there were some older gentlemen there who were skating and he just kept like, I hope they do this. I hope that Jen was like, go ask him. He's like, no, he's like, go ask him. And so he walked over and like the guy's about to drop in and beds like, excuse me. And the guy looked at him. He's like, yeah, bud. He's like, can you do a kickflip? And the guy goes, Oh, it's been a few years, but yeah, I can. He came down and he started trying and failing. And he's like, listen, I I'm 45 or whatever. So 10 attempts for me is one attempt for a younger person. And like on his six or 17 nailed it in bed popped off for him or whatever. So we're looking at lessons. There's a couple of different folks around there doing, oh, that's right. The skate shop does it as well. And it's like, okay, we could come up there and do it for that or whatever.

Speaker 2:
[44:17] Yeah. I'm sure there's like a skateboarding camp coming up for is.

Speaker 1:
[44:20] Yeah. Shredders. There's a young shredders or something. It's adorable and awesome. And it's like, yeah, I'm so stoked to be back to it. And it's like, I'm very much every, like, you know, we've been doing a lot of, we got tennis rackets a while back. And so like for a while there, every night after dinner, we were going out in the park and knocking him around there. And this is very much like, well, why don't we go to that school over there where they got the ground and let's roll for a little bit and do that.

Speaker 4:
[44:45] But I'm excited for that.

Speaker 2:
[44:47] Perfect summer nights.

Speaker 1:
[44:48] It shall be some great summer nights. Just like there's great summer days here. Kind of funny because of your support. If you love us, jacking it up, talking about Nick canceling streams. We'll talk about that in a second. You should pick up a kind of funny membership, patreon.com/kind of funny, youtube.com/kind of funny games, Apple, Spotify. You can get all of our shows ad free. Get your daily dose of me, Greg Miller in a series. Call Greg way. And of course, get good karma for supporting an 11 person, 11 year old small business. Right now you're not using your benefits. So here's a word from our sponsor for the next section of our podcast. I'm taking you to Instagram and up worthy where of course we've been talking a lot about the old what you know, upward is an account.

Speaker 3:
[45:33] Okay. Okay.

Speaker 1:
[45:35] I'm going to get rid of it.

Speaker 2:
[45:36] No, it's just the way he looked at me like one of those like aggregate sharing the best of humanity with the world.

Speaker 1:
[45:42] It's one of those things or whatever. I think of it as a more positive buzzfeed. Okay. I only consume it through my Instagram feed. That's where I see it or whatever. But we've talked about the old, we're talking about this for time of the age gap here. You know what I mean?

Speaker 3:
[45:53] Coachella.

Speaker 1:
[45:54] Exactly Coachella. They have this one here. Gen X's share the college experiences that couldn't happen today and people are feeling it. Oh, I want to know how you all feel about this. Okay. The first one they have X.

Speaker 2:
[46:06] I have no idea about Nick.

Speaker 3:
[46:09] I think is, oh, we're talking about the people who actually went to college, had the college moment compared to the kids now who aren't getting now.

Speaker 2:
[46:16] Even older than us.

Speaker 3:
[46:17] Okay. Okay.

Speaker 1:
[46:18] Gen X definition is the demographic cohort born between 1965 and 1980, following baby boomers and preceding millennials. So I'm a millennial.

Speaker 3:
[46:30] Okay.

Speaker 1:
[46:30] That's right. As an 83 kid, Nick, because of 71 would be Gen X.

Speaker 3:
[46:35] Yeah. Okay. And they had a good happening college time. All right. Show me.

Speaker 1:
[46:40] There's a lot in here that I was. The first one I see is a high school one for me. I was wondering if you.

Speaker 3:
[46:45] Yeah. Lay it on me.

Speaker 1:
[46:47] Bringing floppy disks to the computer lab to work on assignments.

Speaker 3:
[46:49] Oh, no.

Speaker 4:
[46:50] No.

Speaker 3:
[46:52] That's old.

Speaker 2:
[46:53] I think we did that in elementary school, maybe, but it wasn't like anything serious.

Speaker 4:
[46:58] I remember growing up, I was like two, three. I was like, what are these things? Like floppy disks. And yeah, I was like hidden in the things. Yeah, I was super. See, I'm super past that.

Speaker 1:
[47:07] I'm old enough that when I was a kid and we got our first computer, we had floppy disks, which were the actual floppy you would do, and they went blap, blap, blap, blap. Not the 3.5 hard disks.

Speaker 3:
[47:20] Yeah, that's where my mind goes.

Speaker 1:
[47:21] Well, now you say floppy disks, and that's what it is. Yeah. And so my story on why I remember this so well is that in high school, I was the editor of the paper, right? And we were using whatever InDesign program, I don't know what the fuck it was, some knockoff, I'm sure. And when we sent our paper to the printer to be printed, you had to send in the three by five disks or whatever, the floppy disks. And since no one knew what they were doing on a technical level, and I was in charge and didn't know, I would literally send in nine to 12 floppy disks, that I had to write the order and pages on. So that when they got to whoever printed the fucking paper in another state, they would put them in and put them into their thing, and then print the thing to ship it back. Insane stuff. I remember when it was time for college, and I was already in college, but it was, okay, now I'm doing magazine design. We would be working in Adobe InDesign for all our stuff, and you had to go get a flash drive, 256 megabytes. And I was remember, I was like, I could have put the entire paper on that and sent that off if this technology had existed. And it wasn't whatever King's ransom it was now at the Mizzou bookstore to get this fucking flash drive.

Speaker 2:
[48:32] And now they just give them away.

Speaker 1:
[48:35] All the time. Thank God.

Speaker 3:
[48:36] They're throwing flash drives at you.

Speaker 2:
[48:38] I feel like we are on the other side of it now, where I feel like there was a good chunk in the middle, we were getting them for everything. And now I feel like sometimes somebody will ask for a flash drive in the office and nobody really has.

Speaker 1:
[48:47] See, that's my thing is like, I feel like we've gone too far now. Now we're used to be every, every event you went to you left with a stick and now you never get them. Now sometimes you do leave and you get the hard drive, which is nice.

Speaker 4:
[48:59] Yeah, you get the SSD, sometimes you don't.

Speaker 1:
[49:00] They will. Ubisoft gives the prepaid and send it back.

Speaker 4:
[49:03] Yeah, sometimes you get like a really like knockoff drive where it's like, oh, this is like a team move on that. Like is there is like lying about the thing.

Speaker 1:
[49:09] It's like, yeah, this is not the amount of times those things fucking fail. Yeah, like other footages grow up.

Speaker 4:
[49:13] Sometimes you get the really good call duty, call duty notes.

Speaker 1:
[49:16] They know this next one is Eugene lab is missing. Calling home long distance on weekends, using up minutes on a long distance calling card.

Speaker 4:
[49:26] I have one card on my mom.

Speaker 2:
[49:28] The only time I ever had a calling card is when I went to space camp junior high.

Speaker 1:
[49:32] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[49:33] They sent it or we had to bring calling cards to call home.

Speaker 1:
[49:36] Yeah. I had a calling card, not for long distance stuff, but I had a calling card and maybe I didn't college, but I don't remember. It doesn't matter. I had a calling card. I remember for like when we met friends were out, it was like, imagine basically having the same reason you gave the kid a cell phone, you gave him a calling card so that you could do a pay phone and pop it in and call your mom and say, come pick me up. If you didn't have, you did the call collect. Every do this one.

Speaker 3:
[49:59] So what is it? I mean, it's calling cards. Like a little credit card. You would shove it to the, no, no, it's prepaid.

Speaker 1:
[50:06] No, you wish it was that easy. At least in the original days, I think eventually it was, it had a code on the back. So you would call 1-800 whatever, collect or whatever, whatever the number for the thing was. Then you'd punch in like a 16-digit code and then you'd hit the number sign and then you'd hit the number.

Speaker 3:
[50:22] Yeah, I remember that.

Speaker 4:
[50:23] My mom did that, I think, when she was calling to Trinidad, I think a few times. I remember when I was a kid, before they had law, you just easily just set it up on your phone. But yeah, that's the only knowledge I have of that one.

Speaker 1:
[50:34] I'm skipping, I'm skipping the ones I remember. Miss Truffle a Tree has one on here that says, bringing a blank check signed by my parents to the book store to buy school supplies. Also bringing a blank check to pay for tuition. Yep, I remember that for scholastic fairs. Yeah, your parents would give you the blank check or whatever it was and send you off and there you go.

Speaker 3:
[50:52] Checks in general nowadays. Yeah. Even checks now.

Speaker 1:
[50:55] We had to go get Ben's passport. We had to go get Ben's passport renewed. And I read the fine print. I'm like, of course you motherfuckers need me to bring a goddamn check for the fucking secure state department.

Speaker 2:
[51:05] And they only let you order checks in like massive quantities. Like you have to buy like a hundred of them or whatever. Yeah. And then you're like, what the am I gonna do with all these?

Speaker 4:
[51:13] Shouts of scholastic book fairs though. I hope they're all going on. I remember I think these are. Did they? They didn't have video games for you guys.

Speaker 3:
[51:20] No, so many video game cheat books.

Speaker 4:
[51:23] Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[51:23] And Guinness World Book of Records. I bought a lot of that didn't need those. I had to have them. Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[51:29] Yeah. I remember.

Speaker 2:
[51:29] Please believe it or not.

Speaker 4:
[51:31] I remember talking to my teacher like, you know, she was Amazon like for like after I would buy it and just be like, where's my Spider-Man 2, the Doctor Octopus book that I ordered? And she's like, I don't know. You like, I gave you the check. But yeah, I got shadow the hedgehog through that once. They were like actually selling video games.

Speaker 1:
[51:47] Wow.

Speaker 2:
[51:48] That's crazy.

Speaker 1:
[51:49] No, back in my day, the coolest thing would be that it'd be like stuff. He's in there, you know, a giant pencil, get the hungry caterpillar or whatever it was. You get your own James and the giant peach peach. You know what I mean? Like didn't want any of this shit, but it was cool to have something. It's cool. That was neat.

Speaker 2:
[52:01] It was like an Animorphs book with like a holographic cover.

Speaker 1:
[52:04] Of course.

Speaker 2:
[52:04] With a cool book.

Speaker 1:
[52:05] Of course. Got bookmarks.

Speaker 3:
[52:07] A lot of goose bumps.

Speaker 1:
[52:08] Goose bumps.

Speaker 4:
[52:09] I know this is going off a tangent, but Natty brought up a good thing here. Encyclopedias, anyone remember those? Like, yeah, that's crazy to me.

Speaker 2:
[52:17] I think my grandmother still has it set in her house.

Speaker 4:
[52:19] I was reading a book and it was like someone was going around selling encyclopedias. I was thinking about that whole concept of just like having encyclopedias and like buying it to have knowledge.

Speaker 1:
[52:30] My parents, when I was a kid, my parents bought me whatever, you know, encyclopedia Britannica for kids. So they were like thinner and they were more picture focused or whatever. And this is such like a burned into my memory thing that they got this but had no bookshelf. And so they just were in the on the floor of my parents room laid out like nice, like they were there, but like just in the corner, the wall to like a little bit under the window. And I remember that we almost got caught in a tornado. And like the first thing I did when I got home was come in and go to the tea book, open it up and read about tornado. And my mom came in and was like, I knew you'd be doing this.

Speaker 3:
[53:07] That's awesome.

Speaker 4:
[53:08] What knowledge does it have? And is it like just a Wikipedia page essentially?

Speaker 1:
[53:11] I mean, way less information.

Speaker 4:
[53:13] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[53:14] I mean, the kids version and real encyclopedia less stuff too as well. But yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4:
[53:19] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[53:19] A lot of general knowledge kind of things.

Speaker 4:
[53:21] Interesting. I kind of want to like buy one, like just one issue.

Speaker 1:
[53:25] I mean, you could just go to the library.

Speaker 2:
[53:26] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[53:27] That is true.

Speaker 4:
[53:29] That is so true.

Speaker 1:
[53:30] That's not like a good. That's a good stream. You guys go to the library.

Speaker 3:
[53:32] That would be a great stream.

Speaker 4:
[53:34] It would be the boring stream of the world.

Speaker 2:
[53:36] Wow. Their library is cool.

Speaker 4:
[53:37] I don't think it's a stream worthy place.

Speaker 3:
[53:39] It would be a good fun trip.

Speaker 1:
[53:40] They'd like that. They got 3D printers now.

Speaker 4:
[53:42] It would also be fun to see like what games they have there as well.

Speaker 1:
[53:45] Yeah, that is a good point.

Speaker 3:
[53:46] Movies.

Speaker 2:
[53:47] Do you guys ever play or watch Silent Library on MTV?

Speaker 3:
[53:50] Yes.

Speaker 2:
[53:50] No, it's just Bieber was on a shout out TV show where it was like a fake library set and they had these teams trying to like do things that would like elicit a loud reaction. And if you could do it and keep it under a certain decibel level, then you would win money. But if you couldn't, then you would get like slapped or other things that will make you like yell.

Speaker 4:
[54:11] It's good.

Speaker 2:
[54:11] One of my favorite people was on it. Oh, really?

Speaker 4:
[54:13] For an episode. Yeah. It was like when he was like on the come up, but like not that big.

Speaker 1:
[54:16] I mean, like, yeah, one of the ones here I'm diving in and cheating a little bit, but Reddit Skippy has the card catalog. Did you all ever have to use the card catalog at the library? We actually went to the thing and like pulled it out and went like, okay, here's this. And then you wrote the reference number down rather than go to a computer. Oh, because I was trying to explain Ben and I were watching Ghostbusters and you, of course, the librarian scene is the opening of the movie, right? And when the card catalog comes out and the card start, he's like, what is that? And I'm like, well, well, before we can just sit down at the terminals, we have so many times to go, Spider-Man, Pokemon. You had to go there and find the subject and go, dude.

Speaker 4:
[54:51] What's the Dewey Decimal system? Yeah, I remember being taught that. And then I had such a small library in our school that never had to learn it.

Speaker 1:
[54:58] You know what I mean?

Speaker 4:
[54:59] Just walk around until you see it. Unfortunately, there it is.

Speaker 2:
[55:01] We always had them, but it was like, I have to talk to the librarian to figure out how to use them. Yeah, use them so infrequently that I couldn't remember.

Speaker 1:
[55:08] Yeah, I feel like. And that was the thing where I remember trying. And then I remember computers showing up and destroying that. So I lived the switch over there. And then this final one from this Reddit skip you one that I think is interesting. Blue Books.

Speaker 3:
[55:23] Yeah, never heard of it.

Speaker 1:
[55:24] Did you have blue books in college?

Speaker 4:
[55:27] What's blue books?

Speaker 2:
[55:28] We did.

Speaker 1:
[55:28] How do you have?

Speaker 2:
[55:29] So I think they're going back to them now, which is final exam.

Speaker 1:
[55:32] Roger, you have a final exam.

Speaker 4:
[55:33] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[55:35] What did that mean? What did you do?

Speaker 4:
[55:37] I just took a test.

Speaker 1:
[55:38] I don't know.

Speaker 2:
[55:39] But like, so for like a Scantron, I guess we're just like on the computer. Did you write an essay for a test?

Speaker 4:
[55:49] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[55:50] So blue book. So blue books, like what they were in college for me, right? Would be when it came to exam time, you would buy this blue book that you had to bring to the exam. Then you get like, the questions would be either on a whiteboard or presenter or on a piece of paper. And you'd be like, question number one is like, write a 300 word or whatever.

Speaker 4:
[56:08] I had to do this once for like a PSAT or some bullshit. And I was so fucking annoyed. I remember someone explaining this to me. Like, they're like, oh, you just have to get the blue book. I'm like, what are you talking about? Like, why do I have to do this thing?

Speaker 2:
[56:19] You know, not so similar, just similar to like a minute ago.

Speaker 4:
[56:21] Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I'm looking at this and I have so much anger and rage about having to do this thing. And I only did it once. So yeah, I don't I don't use of this.

Speaker 1:
[56:31] It was always the thing where you'd be done in your hand would cramp because for 45 minutes or whatever it is, you wrote everything possible. Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[56:38] All the information in there with like the return of AI and stuff like that. A lot of professors are going back to blue books and being like, no, you're just going to have to write this and like do it without knowing what you got. Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[56:48] So I'm confused. So you buy the blue book. And what's in the blue book?

Speaker 1:
[56:52] Nothing.

Speaker 2:
[56:52] Literally just blank paper.

Speaker 1:
[56:53] OK. And then you take that. It's just like a mini notebook, a disposable notebook. Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[56:59] It's like maybe ten pages of paper.

Speaker 4:
[57:00] OK. And then you bring it to the class and then you then you give it to a teacher. And that's how they do. OK. Got you. OK. That's cool.

Speaker 3:
[57:06] This is interesting.

Speaker 1:
[57:07] That's cool.

Speaker 3:
[57:08] I'm getting a lot of those on Instagram, but it's like throwing it back to like when I was a kid and they would show like the gym teachers closet with all the bright colored fun gym stuff, right? Like the scooter scooters, the bouncy balls, the hockey sticks. I'm like, I remember that or I had one on the tip of my tongue that I remembered of like, yeah, just are the kids cafeteria lunches with the ice cream that was in the really small plastic cup.

Speaker 1:
[57:33] Yeah, with the wooden spoon.

Speaker 3:
[57:36] Yeah, I had a better one, but those are the ones I'm getting. And then when you bring up college, it's like, oh, we had the best college time. Like when I think of my age group, the only thing you ever worried about was like possibly being in your best friend's top eight on MySpace was the only worry you ever had. No one was caring about what you were posting to Instagram. No one was hyper fixated. The biggest thing that I was worried about was how did Kelly get, how did Kelly Cole get 50 cents PIMP to play on his MySpace page? And why do I not have that? You know, like that was the only worries we ever had. It was that and partying.

Speaker 2:
[58:09] And then it was the rush to for the person with the camera at the party to get home and upload like four Facebook albums of pictures nobody gave a fuck about. And then you're just like, cool, we can only have 20 pictures in this, so that's why there's four of them.

Speaker 3:
[58:24] Just the best, the greatest times, the best times.

Speaker 4:
[58:28] And nothing.

Speaker 1:
[58:31] I remember when Facebook showed up in Mizzou, like that was a big deal. Remember your school had to be approved. I mean, don't remember.

Speaker 4:
[58:37] I know it because of social network.

Speaker 1:
[58:40] Mizzou got it early, but it was late in my college career. I think I was already a junior. Maybe, I don't know, whatever. I felt I was too old for it. You're gonna start a Facebook? I'm like, not for kids. That's for freshmen. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna be talking about whatever. Stupid, not gonna do that.

Speaker 4:
[58:54] No, I look at you.

Speaker 1:
[58:56] Never use Facebook. I hate it. Deactivated it because I hated it so much. I broke it when I added all the fans from IGN back in the day. Then I reinstituted it for Rock Band Blitz. Because I needed it for review. And now it just sits there serving my Instagram content. Anytime I show up on my fan page and I see that people are actually commenting, I'm like, what are you doing? Like, you can't tell this is my Instagram feed being fed here. I don't see any of this. What are you doing? Pull it together. Yeah, shout out. Shout out to the Simpler Times. I remember, and again, the crossover, too, of like, I was working at the Tribune after college. And I forget if I wrote the article or just, I don't think I wrote it, but it was like, one of the student groups, this is like such, not even a story, right? But it was a big scandal at the time. But there was a thing called Stripes, which was supportive Tigers riding in pursuit of ensuring safety. And what it was is it was a really great program.

Speaker 2:
[59:48] Sober driver.

Speaker 1:
[59:49] Exactly. If you were at a party and you were drunk, you could call and they would come pick you up and drive you somewhere. But the girl who was in charge of it, who was like, you know, 19 or 20 or whatever, put on our Facebook page, a photo of her duct taped at a party to a chair being fed a beer. And it was like, again, who gives a shit? It's called, you know what I mean? But that like made store. And I remember being like, oh, this social media might be trouble. Never think about how goddamn blessed I was to not have it when I was doing the stupid.

Speaker 3:
[60:17] That was the one I remember, Joe, when you brought up AI and people, the professors now, my favorite is the memes right now. The kid that stand in front of the computer, both hands on his knees. It was like back then. Paper was due at midnight 1059. I got to write a 500 word essay right now and just be locked in. No ChatGPT.

Speaker 4:
[60:35] Nothing.

Speaker 1:
[60:36] Oh, yeah, no way.

Speaker 4:
[60:37] No ChatGPT, straight bullshit.

Speaker 3:
[60:39] Here it comes. That was my game.

Speaker 1:
[60:41] Double spaced, how big can I make it? Fuck with the margins.

Speaker 2:
[60:44] Yeah, the period's really big to take up more space.

Speaker 4:
[60:48] I was goaded to just do bullshit. Just like, just I love my favorite thing. My favorite subject was always social studies because like, I could just weave a narrative. You know what I mean? You give me a few names and I'll get you there. We'll figure it out. Yeah, teacher would love it. I'm like, this is bullshit. I didn't learn anything.

Speaker 1:
[61:03] I remember there was one time in high school, yeah, where I was in the shower that morning and realize I needed to drop off an essay or whatever like a hefty paper that day and like jumped out and ran and somehow wrote a bullshit thing that got accepted just fine. I'm like, all right, don't go to school kids. Except you, Ben, when you're watching this.

Speaker 3:
[61:19] I'm excited. Yeah, I'm excited to hear the Ben stories of school. Yeah, school work and like homework coming home and papers. Like, what's that vibe going to be? What? Yeah, I'm going back to years from now. Yeah, what will the stories be from mom and dad and then like him? Yeah, or the best one. Some of the memes are like mom and I at the Michaels the night before the science fair, making sure this fucking planet thing is set up like, oh, yeah, mom was amazing to us because he was like, oh, yeah, I knew that three giant poster boards. He's like, when? He's like, tomorrow?

Speaker 1:
[61:52] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember those days.

Speaker 2:
[61:55] I'm going to be so interested on if Ben has to do a mission project still. It's like a big California thing.

Speaker 1:
[62:01] What is that?

Speaker 2:
[62:01] In fifth grade, we had to do the mission project. So we got to choose either you built a mission. So they have like mission building kits now at like Michaels, and you can pick any of the California missions to do. We also had the opportunity to do like a video movie thing. That's what my best friend, Brittany, did. I did like a scrapbook where I had to go visit like four of them. And like, what is it? I don't know the mission or the California missions. I mean, the mission district, there's like a line of them down California. And it was like all of the Catholic like stops. I don't really know.

Speaker 1:
[62:33] Oh, this is something happens in public schools too.

Speaker 2:
[62:36] I think so. I'm pretty sure every California person knows the missions. See, yeah, they're all going through. So yeah, it was like fourth or fifth grade and you got to pick one. Like I did Mission Santa Barbara and Dolores and all this stuff. And then, yeah, you essentially it's just like a big report. But a lot of people like will build a replica of them or whatever.

Speaker 1:
[62:56] Interesting. OK.

Speaker 3:
[62:57] You think Ben will do shoe box dioramas or are we done with those?

Speaker 1:
[63:00] I hope so.

Speaker 3:
[63:01] I liked that.

Speaker 1:
[63:01] I hope that's still happening. I mean, let's I mean, we all know school is a lot of bullshit, right? So you got to keep these kids busy.

Speaker 3:
[63:07] That's got to happen. Yeah, it'll be fun. The next, you know, kindergarten through fifth grade. What's the fun? What cool things are we doing? And then, yeah, when we get into middle school and high school, what is the actual work being done? How is he doing that? What kind of work are you doing with him? You know, hey, dad, let's do this math problem.

Speaker 4:
[63:23] Yeah, let's do the timetables. Now you got to sit with my core memory of school is always going to be my father and I sitting in my small ass room and him just sitting at my computer, computer looking at the timetables, me sitting on the floor. And we're just drilling it for like like like eight, like ten hour day and we're just going six times six. Okay, fuck. And we're just going through it and then like I had one day and I knocked that out one day, one day, ten hours of just us fucking that and the bike. But I'm learning how to ride a bike. We just crammed it all in one day and I did it. I learned it all in one day and the time staples.

Speaker 1:
[64:02] That's great. Yeah, I'm super excited for English. I'm excited for him for a sign. I've talked to I think a few times on this. You know, I mean, the reviewing video games professionally, right? Like I'm excited to bring that excitement that he already has for that to this and be like my hope, my plan, which I do believe I'll be able to keep up with. But the plan is when he comes home and has to read a chapter in a book, I want him to read it. And then when he goes to bed or whatever, I'm going to read it too. So at breakfast we can have a conversation, which I know will be difficult to keep up with. But I also think kids books will be fine when he gets to high school and we got to read fucking Shakespeare, a different ballpark. But it's like rather than it be what a torture that it was for me of you have to do this, which immediately makes me not want to do it, which then I'm getting no enjoyment out of the story or what's happening. I'd rather approach it as, oh, this is a cool thing we're sharing in and we're talking about in the next morning. What did you like? What didn't you like? What about this? It's not, and again, not what color was the bag? I was thinking of the quizzes I failed in high school because they were stupid shit like that.

Speaker 4:
[64:59] Because I think that's the thing that people miss out, especially with social studies, English, is just like, it's a story here, right? We get so bogged down on answering the questions.

Speaker 1:
[65:07] What year did it happen?

Speaker 4:
[65:08] For me, we had the, oh shit, what was it called? We had the book tests we would have to do. So we had to read a certain amount of books and then we would have to actually go to the computer lab and they would have for every book out there. Yeah, what was that program called? I forget. People are going to say it in the chat, but yeah, I would have to do it. I would just, of course, try to do like 15 books or whatever a semester, a year, and I would just make up shit. All the Diary of a Wimpy Kids, right? Fucking lock those in, right? Easy. But then I would just be like, oh, I watched the movie Holes. So I'm sure.

Speaker 3:
[65:32] The novelization of both.

Speaker 4:
[65:33] Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3:
[65:34] No, I could not.

Speaker 4:
[65:34] Of course not. I just failed those. Accelerated reader. Yeah, AR books was what it was. So yeah, I think that kinda fucked up reading for me for a while is that I was like, oh, I have to think about it. What are they gonna ask me? But I got to remember specific facts. No, it's just a story. It's learning about it. It's actually communicating with these characters and the story in the world and the writers and then math.

Speaker 1:
[65:56] Yeah, I mean, I hate math, but I do feel like again, starting early with the math, I'll be good for a while.

Speaker 3:
[66:02] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[66:03] Well, now they're inventing new ways to do math.

Speaker 3:
[66:05] That'll be a new way of math.

Speaker 4:
[66:07] You're going to be the old guy like back in my day.

Speaker 1:
[66:09] That's every sitcom I ever watch. We'll see though.

Speaker 4:
[66:15] We'll see.

Speaker 1:
[66:16] Everybody. That's been another episode of The Kinda Funny Podcast. If you're hanging out being saying, I can't wait to see Mike play vampire crawlers. I got some bad news for you. We went long on the games cast a little bit of games daily, a lot of the games cast. And so we ran into because of you and your fucking support.

Speaker 3:
[66:32] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[66:33] They've got to watch Lord of the Rings.

Speaker 3:
[66:34] This is their fault is right. Exactly.

Speaker 1:
[66:36] You audience, you did this. So they're doing that in there and doing the commentary. So that'll be ready for interview tomorrow. So that means no stream this afternoon as we do that.

Speaker 3:
[66:44] But wild reaction from Andy. Oh, we have to watch the extended cut. Oh, it's you. We're in a meeting.

Speaker 2:
[66:50] We're like, he was like, unless we watch the city and he's like, no, we have to give him shit on the first one asking him why he didn't ask us to watch the extended cut.

Speaker 1:
[67:00] So yeah, you made your own bet on this one audience. I apologize for that. You could have watched an air but let me just tell you, if you would have made that one, if you would have said guys watched the clerks trilogy again, they'd be done a lot quicker.

Speaker 3:
[67:10] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[67:10] You know what I mean? Better movies to worry about. This has been The Kinda Funny Podcast, each and every week for sometimes five best friends together on this table. Come and hang out and hang out and hang out. If you like that, pick up a Kinda Funny membership, patreon.com/kind of funny youtube.com/kind of funny games, Apple, Spotify, you give us 10 bucks. We give you 80 episodes a month ad free content. Your daily dose of me, Greg Miller, and of course, good karma for supporting 11 person 11 year old small business. For now, time for us to bid you adieu. Until next time, it's been a pleasure to serve you.