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Childhood Flashbacks
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You're not ready for this week's episode! We’re going back to childhood and pulling out the stories that still explain why we act the way we do today.
We swap core memories that range from wholesome to completely unhinged: sibling rivalries, staircase stunts, and trampoline games that should probably be illegal. Then we zoom out into the culture that raised us, comparing childhood TV shows and family rules around what we could watch. Expect heavy nostalgia keywords and throwbacks like SpongeBob, VeggieTales, Hannah Montana, iCarly, Phineas and Ferb, and the Disney Channel era, plus the music that soundtracked our lives from Taylor Swift to the Jonas Brothers.
We also hit rapid-fire nostalgia: favorite school lunches, best field trips, first physical media, first time getting grounded, and the backyard games that kept us outside until the streetlights came on. If you’ve been craving a funny, relatable conversation about childhood memories, family dynamics, and the weird little moments that shape your identity, you’ll feel right at home here.
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Welcome And Childhood Theme
SPEAKER_11Hey guys! Welcome to this week's episode. Today we are taking it back to our childhood, and we're just remembering all of the fantastic things that happened to us as kids and trying to uncover why we are the way that we are. So I hope you guys enjoy this one.
SPEAKER_01And uh this is just talking.
SPEAKER_09Hi guys, this is Mary Grace, and I think that the soft French fries are better than the crispy ones.
SPEAKER_04This is David, and I've eaten 50 rolls of sushi in one sitting.
SPEAKER_06This is Morgan, and the last song that I saved on Spotify is Feels Like Summer by Childish Gambino.
SPEAKER_08This is Gracie, and today's Wertle is flaky.
SPEAKER_02My name is Kennedy, and I took archery and riflery classes. So if you double cross me, better watch out.
SPEAKER_11My name is Tyree, and I don't like automatic toilets.
SPEAKER_02That is speak off. That is valid. Alright.
Homemade Videos And Vlogging Origins
SPEAKER_11Who here can give like a story that just encapsulates what their childhood was? I want to know. I want to know who you guys used to be and why you guys are the way that you are now.
SPEAKER_06I I will go first and set you guys to curve mine before this. But a core part of my childhood was my obsession with vlogging and making making videos with my brothers. Some of them were unbeknownst to everyone around me.
SPEAKER_11David Dobra got his inspiration from you. Right.
SPEAKER_06Does that mean Jeff Dyes could assume you? No, but for context, the video I just showed everybody here was there was one specific video that will live forever in my family of me just being like, Hi, my name's Marion, and this is my neighborhood. All this other stuff. And then in the background, it's my parents having a very hated discussion about the state of our house and like also I think finances at one point later on. I don't know. Really intense. Something important discussion. And I'm like, and this is my brother. And and this is my brother. So it was stuff like that. And then I also like the angles were amazing. Specifically, Ryan and I would make like scripted videos. I was a fan. I was a fan. I remember. Oh no, literally in high school. No, we did it all throughout childhood, though. There's no, no, you can't go anywhere anymore. It's gone. It's gone. It's been wiped.
SPEAKER_07Did I claw you too much?
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
SPEAKER_03About what?
SPEAKER_06No, okay. So we when we were kids, we would make like scripted like videos and stuff like that. So like we used to do like the Today Show, and we did an entire episode of the Today Show, and it's the two of us, and we like made commercials for it. Are you kidding? I'm dead serious. We did American Idol. That sounds awesome. And like we played the people auditioning and the judges. And you believe it. No, we have those. Oh, okay. The one Gracie's talking about was we made one in quarantine. No, there were three. There's yeah. I remember those ones. Yeah. In quarantine. And then they got posted to Ryan and I's Instagrams. And then I archived them after they were displayed at one of my birthday parties in college.
SPEAKER_11Which one? Like what there was one that was like really popular that everybody loved. Which one was that?
SPEAKER_06That went like platinum on Instagram's followers. No, it was like us joking about how like living together was driving us crazy. Yes. And in particular, was like having to clean out the shower drain, which was one of the biggest arguments ever in my life with Ryan. Your mom was in that one. Yeah. Shout out. And it was because we had been watching a lot of dance moms. And we were like, wouldn't it be funny just to like like we used to do, like make a video, but it's like edited like dance moms or a reality TV show. Whereas like the really hard cuts and like sound effects. So we did that. So that's why I know, or I used to know all of like the moves to in Pitch Perfect, like the full the full song that they do at the beginning. We recreated that seeing shot for shot. Shot for shot. Shot for shot. Shot for shot in the backyard of our house. Oh my god. There's there's plenty more. I'll go to see if I have any other ones to show. Vlogger in training. That was yeah, key to my development as a child. I can see it. I can see how it's changed you. Yeah. Oh, deeply. Intimately.
Sibling Fights And Staircase Chaos
SPEAKER_05I don't know. I I I I'm gonna tell it because it's a funny story.
SPEAKER_11So if you guys have funny, because I know exactly which one you're gonna say.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, you probably know. I mean, I can't think of one off the top of my head. Sorry, Maxie, if you're gonna say this. That is my sister. I think that's allowed to say that name.
SPEAKER_11But she's gonna block us after.
SPEAKER_05When we were young when me and my sister were younger, we used to do karate together. Like we we both were in the same class, we both trained together, and I'm I'm the youngest boy out of my two si two older sisters, and they used to bully the crap out of me. They were mean.
SPEAKER_11Yeah, you're the youngest, though. Of course. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05And the only boy. Well, I remember I, you know, my dad my parent both of my parents would tell him, you know, you there he's gonna like get bigger than you, and he's gonna, you know, he's gonna punk you guys, and we're not gonna we're just gonna sit there and say, I told you so. One day, it happened. I might have snapped a little because she was like she pushed me down the stairs. Like, and and it wasn't even like, oh, a couple of stairs. No, this was like a turning flight of stairs. She in that that had happened three times.
SPEAKER_06He should go down both flights.
SPEAKER_05Yes, yes. And it that was the third time it had happened.
SPEAKER_02She still keep falling down your stairs. That's the third time.
SPEAKER_05She'd hide in my parents' she would literally like hide around the corner of my parents' room and like pop out. Boom. Boom.
SPEAKER_11He'd stop at the platform, she'd walk down and push him up again.
SPEAKER_05So then, you know, after one of those times. I finally I I snapped and I chased her outside of our house, and we had a pretty big outside yard. Like, and I chased her around for so long that I inevitably caught her and choked her out until she was passed out.
SPEAKER_10Oh old were you?
SPEAKER_05I was nine.
SPEAKER_10Okay, good.
SPEAKER_05Maximum. My sister is three years older than me, so there's a noticeable difference in size there.
SPEAKER_03Holy smoke.
SPEAKER_05And I'm not proud of this story. I I j I don't I don't like it. Most of the time, my parents bring it up more than anything, and she gets mad. So she never messed with me again after that. He left her there. She came back.
SPEAKER_08She messes with me. And someone goes like, hey.
SPEAKER_05My mom went out there. Because my mom was chasing us around, but she got too tired. So inevitably, she was like, Maxie, hey, you okay? And uh she's like, Yeah.
SPEAKER_06David's like trying to make sure she's good. He's shaking her by the neck. Maxie, no, but then you know what's that?
SPEAKER_10Sorry.
SPEAKER_03You know what?
SPEAKER_05You know what's even funnier is that I remember not long after that, again, down the stairs, she pushed me down the stairs, and I remember landing so hard on my back I lost like I lost my air the air out of my breath. And she freaked out more than I did when I joked her out.
SPEAKER_01She's like, David, don't tell mom!
SPEAKER_06Don't tell mom! David, don't tell mom like I just can't get over the force with which you had to fall downstairs to go hit the landing and keep falling down the next test. No, me and my siblings.
SPEAKER_08No, a game me and my siblings would play, like we would get in our sleeping bags and we would push each other down the stairs. Like, why was that a game?
SPEAKER_01It was not a game to me.
SPEAKER_06I'm not the memory of like Ryan and I, we would take I like when I was a kid, I had what's that called with the bed where it's like the second one underneath and it rolls out of the room. The trundle, yeah. So I had a trundle bed and we would pull it out. We would pull it out from underneath my bed and sit up at the top of the stairs, and we would tie something to like the banister, and then one of us would like run up behind the other and jump on, and then like shoot down the stairs. Yeah, and try and surf down, like on the I think it's because of Saries 2.
SPEAKER_11Yeah, or one freaking way it's two, it's two. No, you're right.
SPEAKER_01It is two. No, it's so started.
SPEAKER_09I think my brother's to push me down. Yes.
SPEAKER_08Like, why?
SPEAKER_09MG, do you have one?
Innocent Kid Logic And Getting Caught
SPEAKER_09I don't have like a story that is like something we all used to do. It's more so like a story that kind of I feel like shows my personality as a young child. That was the problem as a young child. Okay. I don't know if don't be like following what told already. I don't know if it was supposed to be like a defining moment. It's not necessarily that, but I do think it shows my personality. So my dad said I was like around four when I said this, but I had him text it to me because I don't wasn't old enough to remember. But he said it was Thanksgiving, and we were at Grandy's house, that's my grandma's, and she was cooking the turkey, and the raw turkey was on sitting on the counter, and he walked up to Grandy and said, Grandy, what is that? And she said, Well, that is a turkey. And I said, Well, why is he on the counter? And she said, We're gonna cook him and then we're gonna eat him. And then I looked at her, and then I looked at the turkey, and then I looked back at her, and I said, Well, do you think he'll mind?
SPEAKER_03That's so innocent.
SPEAKER_10That's so innocent. Compared to me choking my sister.
SPEAKER_06Do you think of a mindline? I nearly murdered my older sister. She is alive. I understood that animals might have thoughts. Do you think of mine?
SPEAKER_09So that was really the only story that the only other story that I could think of was also probably around that age. I don't know. When I had gotten into like there was like birthday cake or something in the fridge, and I my parents found me and they're like, Mary Grace, like, what's all over your lips? And I was like, just lips. And I had like I had like icing all over my face. And I was like, just lips, just lips, just lips.
SPEAKER_11Just lips all the icing on there all over my face.
SPEAKER_05Did we all have a did we all have a moment like that when we were a kid? Like we got caught and we were like, no, nothing.
SPEAKER_11Mine that I got caught, and this is this is you know my story that I have.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_11And this is very indicative of I am pretty sure this is what's wrong with me. When I was a kid, do you guys remember these toys? I have no idea what they're called. I try to look it up. They have different names, water wigglers, water snakes, or water weenies. What these things. The two filled with water that you played with. So I had a lot of them, and so one time it popped. And I was like, this is a perfect opportunity to drink it.
SPEAKER_08As a kid, I know like that would taste good.
SPEAKER_11The one I have was purple and sparkly, and it had like aquatic live thing little thumbs in it. Aquatic one? Aquatic line. I think in my head, I was like also obsessed with that show H2O. So I was like, this is how I become a mermaid. I just drink some water and this will make me cool. And it only happened once, but I have never been able to live it down.
SPEAKER_01I thought you were gonna say I never like you were gonna say it like affected you in some way.
SPEAKER_11Oh, it's definitely. It definitely has. In some way, and when I came to, I mean too. It was covered in sparkles. For everybody who knows me, you know it's affected me.
SPEAKER_02That's what's wrong with me. No, I bit into a glow stick once, and I think it's like my girl's like, what did you do? I'm like, nothing. You can see it like glowing in the bar.
SPEAKER_01I think I did the same thing.
SPEAKER_00That guy from Sky High.
Oldest Kid Responsibility And Mishaps
SPEAKER_00Ball, ball knowledge.
SPEAKER_02Ball knowledge. Oh my goodness. I don't know. I was trying to think. Growing up, I was very much the oldest daughter, like in every way. I'm the oldest of, I mean, I am the daughter of two oldest children too, and like the first granddaughter, niece, all that. So I like wore that on my sleeve. That's my personality. But growing up, Brooks and Gray are very different people, very nervous, very much couldn't like do anything. So this one time we were moving from our previous house to this house slowly. So we had like had the door open, moving some stuff slowly. A squirrel got in. And if you know my mom, she would rather just be dead than being near a squirrel.
SPEAKER_05So she was like like specifically just squirrels or like small animals?
SPEAKER_02Rodents, wildlife, anything. No, I'm kidding. Cut and bleep that out. I'm sorry. Um, she doesn't like any nature, so she was freaking out. She's like, we're moving out today. She's like, unless you can get it out. Well, Brooks is crying, Gray's crying, dad's not home. And I was like, I I can do it. I mean, I was kind of forced into it, but I was like, I can do it. So we I don't even know single moments, two jobs. Again, I'm probably I'm probably Vale's age. I'm six or seven years old, so we made like this trail with our moving boxes out the door to like make a path. I don't know how the squirrel was gonna like follow this path, but we did it anyway. And it climbed up onto like the door frame above, and so my mom was like, get a broom. And so I'm just getting her the broom while everyone's crying and I'm supposed to yes, this is absolutely real. I double checked with my mom. Um and to like swat this thing out of here. So I tried, and then it did not follow the path of boxes that we made out the door. It ran into how dare it! It went into my bedroom. At that point, it's like, what can you really do? So that night we slept on the floor in this house. That was our first night ever here, it's because there was a squirrel. And my mom's like, we will not go back, and we did not, but I tried. And there's just been times like we got locked out of the house. My mom like hoisted me up through the bathroom window to like get me down, and like things that Brooks and Gray probably should have done, but I was like, I can't do it. Or my mom should have just done, but she's like, Here, I'll just throw you over the fence through the window, and then you do it. Kennedy always saying we did you do it, and I also was obsessed with like trying to construct things like a little kid, like roller skates, a boogie board, and an old car seat, and all of a sudden you've got this, you know, car that you can just wheel down the sidewalk, and you're like, look at that. Oh my god. It was like the most fun. A little inventor. Yes, I would construct we got rope in a kayak seat. Let's make a swing. That lasted seven years, it was just hanging on our tree. Not so wild. Okay. Yeah. Okay, oldest sister.
SPEAKER_06Very impressive. Good job. Very good, very good. Gracie?
SPEAKER_08Mine? I couldn't really think of a story. Oh, let me just so just say a little about my childhood. I was the only daughter in my neighborhood, the only girl. So very like I like there was a few like friends who were girls in my neighborhood. But that was like when I was really young, but like growing up, like it was just boys. And they were all like older than me. And so like I was out there playing like with them, and like I was looking like a little tomboy. But what else? I would always like want to copy them and like play with them and like want their approval, you know. But one story I can think of was one time they were we were jumping on my bed. Like my brothers were jumping on our bed for some reason, like and then my brothers kept jumping off, and like they were doing cool tricks and like the splits and like just cool things jumping off the bed. And then I was like, I can do that, easy. But like they're like way older than me, and I'm like, easy, I got it. I jump off the bed and I land in the splits, and then I stay, and I'm stuck. And I like break my legs, like spoiler alert. But I was like, just like You broke both of your legs? No, just one. Oh. And I was like, oh, like crying. And my brother was like, went downstairs, got my mom, and became she went out, got me, whatever. I was like, You're okay, you're fine, you're good. And just went on with life. Nothing. With a broken leg, nothing. And then he was like, three or four days later, my foot was like swollen, and she couldn't get like my little like sandals on for church. Oh, trying to get them on. And I was like, Mom, it really hurt. It really hurts. And she's like, hmm, maybe it's with an X ray now. Like, mind you, three or four days later. And then it was broken. Oh that's a crazy story. Yeah, but she landed the splits. I landed the split. She adjusted. I stuck it.
unknownYes.
SPEAKER_11Listen, good in the hall. Gotta hit that though. That is impressive. I missed jumping on a trampoline. Those are just the best.
SPEAKER_05Those were fun. Nah, because Kenny, that reminded the bat story, or uh, spoiler alert. I said, your squirrel squirrel reminded me of a bat story.
SPEAKER_00Oh dear.
SPEAKER_05This is the earliest memory that I think I can remember.
SPEAKER_11I already hate it.
SPEAKER_05I was like three or four years old, maybe even younger than that. I was really, really little. And
Childhood TV Music And Family Traditions
SPEAKER_05I guess we lived in this big house. I had my own room as well when I finally was like, or not finally, but I had my own room at the time. I had like everything like that. I guess my parents explained to me this bat got into the house, apparently through our chimney. Nope. And it started flying through the house. Nobody could really hear it. It was in the house like all night until my dog saw it, started barking at it, and started flying around. And it flew into my room as a kid. And I wake up because like something's hitting me. It was literally dive bombing. Did you get angry?
SPEAKER_06Did you get bit?
SPEAKER_05No, I didn't get bit. My dad just comes into the room with the colours. That's gonna be like you are a superior and he goes, he goes, get out of the blankets now.
SPEAKER_01And I do.
SPEAKER_05And I'm pretty sure there's like a video, like I can't remember. I've I can't remember if there's a video or not. I feel like I very strictly remember there's a video, but like my dad's just like swinging at it, and it's still just dive-bying me. I keep peeking over, and my dad's like, put your head under the blankets!
SPEAKER_01No!
SPEAKER_05I do remember this. He hit the bat so hard it went flying into a window.
SPEAKER_03Shut up.
SPEAKER_05But uh let's just say I am a superhero. No, but that's like the earliest memory that I had is like me being in it.
SPEAKER_06They were like being died followed by a bat.
SPEAKER_05Well, the thing is, you know, like it was like one of those like I it was Transformer blankets from the hit 2000 Transformer movie by Michael Bay.
SPEAKER_06Starring Shia LaBeouf. Starring Shia LaBouffe. Yeah, Shia LaBouffe.
SPEAKER_05Shia Booth. But they're like there were those kids' blankets, so they're super thin. So you can practically just see straight through them. So like even as a kid, I'm looking through the blankets.
SPEAKER_01See this bat dive bomb me and I'd be terrified.
SPEAKER_06And later that night my parents took me to the opera. And on our way home, we went through the back street.
SPEAKER_05We went through Crime Alley. Let's just say I'm a billionaire playboy.
SPEAKER_06David Real name is Bruce.
SPEAKER_11Oh my god. Well, that takes us right into our next segment. What are some shows, music, or just overall family experiences that was a crucial part of your childhood that you guys remember? I like Loki mentioned this. When was this? A few days ago when we were hanging out, and Morgan and Kennedy were like, save it for the pod, save it for the pot. What did I say that I watched? Johnny test.
SPEAKER_05Dude, oh my god, there's so many.
SPEAKER_08Were you guys allowed to watch Spongebob? Yeah, no, I was not.
SPEAKER_11Absolutely. I am a SpongeBob Spongebob child.
SPEAKER_08Oh SpongeBob Garley. Like, not really when I was like three, but things like my brothers were watching it, but mom's like, I don't want you to watch it. But then like, I was the youngest child, and they were like a lot of the time I was like seven, I was watching it.
SPEAKER_11Yeah. David just sent me a reel about SpongeBob, and it was one of my favorite episodes. The like when they're all on the flying Dutchman ships, and he's like scratching it. You're good. You're good. You're good. You're good.
SPEAKER_00You're good.
unknownYou're good.
SPEAKER_00You're good.
SPEAKER_08That's my favorite episode. But I I couldn't watch Cartoon Network.
SPEAKER_11So I couldn't either. Cartoon Network when you were younger was an absolute fever dream. Who remembers the show about the fast food and they were human?
SPEAKER_05Like, oh, that was something Teen Force. Hungry Teen Force or something.
SPEAKER_11I could have sworn I was an alien whenever that show came on. It was like George Lopez. You know?
SPEAKER_10You only saw that at like three in the morning.
SPEAKER_05It was absolutely what is this? It's because Cartoon Network at night turns into Adult Swim.
SPEAKER_11Yeah, that makes sense. What is Adult Swim?
SPEAKER_05It's just.
SPEAKER_11Sorry. No. Don't watch it. Don't watch it. It's adult. Don't watch it. Oh. Not like not like that, but like they're very Which is like so crazy. Because why would you go from a kid's. But a little worse.
SPEAKER_05Have you ever heard of Robot Chick robot chicken?
SPEAKER_11No.
SPEAKER_05That's what is on.
SPEAKER_11Have you ever heard of this? No. So this is what I'm saying. I didn't know how to respond to that.
SPEAKER_03Shut up.
SPEAKER_10Alright, alright, alright. We're going in a circle. Each of words, engine words. Sorry.
SPEAKER_06No, it was just the peak comedy for me as a kid was like the episode where they're like, they read a like a curse word off the back dumpster. Because it's children's show, they can't do anything, and they make like the dolphin noise over top of it every time they say it. And I literally, I think to date, that's the hardest I've laughed in my life. As a child at that episode.
SPEAKER_05Can we change it to where if we have to bleep anything? It's a dolphin noise this episode. Specifically this episode. Is that something we can do, Greg? Yeah, absolutely. You know, fun fact about the episode, it was too hard for them to fake cursing. So they actually just cursed in their characters' voices and then just bleeped it out. Like, so there's out there, you can look it up. There's literally like their original recordings of SpongeBob Patrick, Mr. Krad, Squidward, all just like straight cursing like crazy.
SPEAKER_11Oh my goodness. Were you Disney Channel Girly?
SPEAKER_09Not really. When I was really little, my favorite favorite show was Clifford the Big Red Dog. That was my favorite. I don't know. I watched a lot of Veggie Tales. Veggie Tales the Goat. Yeah, lots of Veggie Tales.
SPEAKER_05See, Spongebob would be the greatest of all time if it wasn't for Veggie Bob.
SPEAKER_06As he bites a carrot.
SPEAKER_05Way to out there like that.
SPEAKER_06They can hear even carrots. Veggie Tales is superior to Spongebob.
SPEAKER_09I watched a fair amount of Barbie too. Barbie. Yes. Yeah. Pipple? It wasn't Pipple. I didn't watch Disney Channel. The first Disney Channel show I remember watching was Jesse. Oh yeah. So I wasn't. Like we weren't allowed really to watch. Oh yeah, just like we were see. Yeah. We weren't we weren't allowed to watch Spongebob either. Because they didn't like my parents did not like how the kids talk to their parents.
SPEAKER_02Oh yeah. That's fair.
SPEAKER_10That's fair.
SPEAKER_11Spongebob, the way that he talks to his mom.
SPEAKER_09Oh, and Spongebob was too crude, my parents said. Yeah. And look at her now.
SPEAKER_08She said, Will he mind?
SPEAKER_11I'm just letting my kids watch any either. We need to protect that mindset at all costs.
SPEAKER_06When they see their daughter do that, they're like, yeah, she can never watch this name. Do you think he'll mind?
SPEAKER_09I'm four years old. Do you think he'll mind? They're like, yeah, never SpongeBob ever. Never SpongeBob ever.
SPEAKER_11David is amazing. Favorite TV show, music?
SPEAKER_05As a kid, I'm trying to think.
SPEAKER_11Family experiences.
SPEAKER_05Music as a kid. My dad was a huge Michael Jackson guy, so I w I listened to a lot of Michael Jackson growing up. A mixture of veggie tales. There's specifically this other, like very child, like very um Christian child cartoon. It was about a caterpillar.
SPEAKER_06What is that? Hermie, Herbie. Yeah, I know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_05No. But I didn't think anybody knew about that show. Every time, every time I bring it up, nobody understands it. Nobody knows it.
SPEAKER_08Oh my five, bro.
SPEAKER_05Yes, I love that guy.
SPEAKER_08A common caterpillar. That was Max Ocato. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Also, like the Disney Channel ones. My parents didn't let us watch Cartoon Network or Nickelodeon because Spongebob was on Nickelodeon, so that means all of it was bad. Yeah. But we watched a lot of like Disney and Disney XD. So like kicking it. How was it? Uh Parrot King. I love King. I'm kind of blanking on other ones. Mighty Med Mighty Med. Mighty Med, Mighty Med. Kick Patowski. Yeah.
SPEAKER_10Kick Patowski.
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Was that not it?
SPEAKER_06You know Kik Patowski?
SPEAKER_05That one? I love that one as he did. I love that one so much.
SPEAKER_06So funny. David spends an afternoon choking out his sister. I'm gonna go off.
SPEAKER_05I really hope my sister doesn't listen to this, honestly.
SPEAKER_06That's probably getting cut.
SPEAKER_05Oh, come on. That's a good one, though. But and then also like a family experience. I guess just all of us going to the beach. I always r would think very fondly on that because we've always lived in a beachy area.
SPEAKER_11So thinking back, my thoughts aren't that fond of our family trips to the beach because it was always like my mom stress packing lunch for everybody, and then we get there and we're all hot and sweaty, carrying everything onto the beach. Kids, follow me, we're this way.
SPEAKER_05Your family must have just not had it because we were always cool as cucumbers. Like my mom packed everything. We'd get to the beach, chill.
SPEAKER_10We'd just be chilling. Just be chilling.
SPEAKER_11You, Morgan, you let us let us know. Yes.
SPEAKER_06Okay, I'm so excited for what you're gonna say. I'm gonna read down one read out what I wrote down. Hannah Montana. Yeah, hiCarly, classic. Obviously, as a vlogger, I had to study. Freddy! I also had to represent Cartoon Network, so Teen Titans. Ooh, regular show.
SPEAKER_11Regular show. Adventure time as well. Adventure time, special shout out. Amazing world of gumball.
SPEAKER_05I'm sorry, but that is it. I specifically would sneak watch the amazing world of gumball because my parents. Because my parents my parents didn't like us watching Cartoon Network.
SPEAKER_02Wow. What a terrible kid. I know, I know.
SPEAKER_05But I put The Amazing World of Gumball over a regular show and Adventure Time. I think that it's so good. Sneak watching. It's so good.
SPEAKER_11Continue, Morgan, with your list.
SPEAKER_06No, and so yeah. So those are my shows. Music, Taylor Swift, we already knew. Ally and AJ. I bought the music video for potential breakup song, and I would watch that like every day of my life.
SPEAKER_11I was like they are icons. Loved them.
SPEAKER_06So chemicals react.
SPEAKER_11Uh what is the one? Into your head. Into your mind. Ugh.
SPEAKER_06Shut up. Ally and AJ. And then yeah, Rush Cal Flat's Lady A. Uh my country representation. Yes, Lady A. And then, yeah, I think my family memories. We always did growing up, all my extant family on my mom's side, we would do a beach house, like a weekend at a beach house, but in like the off-season. So it was like November, and we're all at a beach house. All aunts and uncles and cousins, everybody together. It was a lot of fun. Those are like my favorite childhood memories before those weekends. So good. Very chill.
SPEAKER_09A lot of army cube. I didn't say my childhood memories should be. I can't wait till back.
SPEAKER_11I didn't say mine either.
SPEAKER_09I didn't know if we were doing TV shows first. I forgot. But it's when you guys mentioned yours, it reminded me because we did do like beach vacations in the summertime, which were very, very fun. And then I think a lot of our family experiences were centered around baseball too. Like with my brother playing baseball, we were always at a baseball field, I feel like. And then for me personally, I was always at the horse barn. So horses, playing mobile horses. That is a lot of my childhood is being with the horses too. So I'm not sure. I don't know. There's a lot of childhood. A lot of good memories, yeah. Gary, you want to circle back?
SPEAKER_11I just I I feel when I look back, I feel like my childhood was just whimsy. Like I just remember whimsy childhood. Like I just remember eating like the honeysuckle.
SPEAKER_10We had to actually insane. That's one of the news.
SPEAKER_11That's my entire childhood.
SPEAKER_06Like we had pure joy on Gray's face.
SPEAKER_11We have a whole bunch of honeysuckle bushes in my childhood neighborhood, and there was this one tree at the corner that all the neighborhood kids would climb. It was this massive tree, and you just climb up it. And I was like, just I don't know. I would take like my journal up in the tree, like with my backpack, and I'd start journaling and just like diary. I left my life. Just like stuff like that. My hair was always frizzy. I just remember like loving summertime as a kid.
SPEAKER_09So good. So good. Also every summer at vacation bible school. Oh yes. Always my mom was like, y'all are gonna go to some churches, but that age.
SPEAKER_06You've seen the pictures of me at our churches VPS. We were committed.
SPEAKER_09And after that one was over, we went to another church.
SPEAKER_08Gracie. So good. Um, my childhood TV shows, the classic, like early 2000s. I loved Hannah Montana. Yeah. Wizards of Waverly Plays. Lizzie McGuire. Oh, chat movie. I also the Sweet Life on Deck, all this both Sweet Lives. Yes, yes, Black Cody and on deck. Sending with a chance. Yo! Shut up. Sudden of the chance. So random. So random. Stop. Okay, and now this one. I actually just started watching it again recently. Just for like it's like a little boredom TV show. Cake Boss.
SPEAKER_02The main anxiety I would get from watching that. No, I'm when they drop it. Oh. Those episodes.
SPEAKER_08Cousin Anthony. Anthony. No, I think. Oh, something about that show. It just reminds me. Like, I used to have like one of those TVs with the big backs. Yeah.
SPEAKER_10But I had like TV.
SPEAKER_01That TV went.
SPEAKER_10No, but I did too.
SPEAKER_08But I'll build it. So anyway, but I was like a Wii and like my Wii was a wee back inside of palette cable. And so, but had Netflix on my Wii. Yeah. And so I was able to watch. Yeah, I was able to watch. Specifically Netflix on the Wii?
SPEAKER_10Yeah.
SPEAKER_11So it will come back to the shut.
SPEAKER_02What? What?
SPEAKER_08Why are you going to come again?
SPEAKER_02Okay, keep going, keep going, keep going.
SPEAKER_08Fake boss on the Wii. On the Wii is just crazy. That's what I would like to go to sleep to every single night. Like, I would pick my favorite one and watch it every night and just sleep so tight. And watch three episodes, and then it's like it cuts you off.
SPEAKER_06Anyway, that is good.
SPEAKER_08I guess something childhood things I remember. I mean, playing outside a lot, we would like make like potions outside. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Whoa, that's not the memory. Once I made my neighbor, his dad had like a Jeep top cover thing, and it was like off because it's like summertime, I guess. And it was like kind of like in this weird, like anyway, side part. And then we went under it and we had like this big bucket, and we were like just putting like sticks and like nice leaves and like dirt, like just making stew or whatever. Stew. And then like we had our hands, like going back to the floor. We were like elbow deep, like mixing it up. Oh girl. And then I felt she was in it. Literally, we felt something like hard and like, and I was like, what is that? I pick it up, it's a dead bird. A dead bird drown in our stew. Because it's the stew's been there for a few days.
SPEAKER_11Like this was like that is fermenting.
SPEAKER_10That's disgusting. Disgusting.
SPEAKER_01A bird flu stew.
SPEAKER_10Anyway. Bird flu stew. Yeah. Good job, David.
SPEAKER_05Give yourself a pat on the back.
SPEAKER_08That is, yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah, so and music. I loved the Jonas Brothers. Yes. First ever condo.
Hamster Disasters And Wild Pet Stories
SPEAKER_08Jesse McCartney. Yes. Cody Simpson. Cody Simpson?
SPEAKER_11I met Cody Simpson.
SPEAKER_06You love him? Kyrie! You need to actually shut up now. She's awesome. Are you serious? She's a picture with Cody Simpsons. Maddie Healy! I know! Wait, how?
SPEAKER_11No, I just had a memory when you were talking about that. I had this friend, and I feel like it's important for me to tell a story because it's that insane. She was like the same age as me, and she lived like kind of around the corner in the cul-de-sac. She was actually crazy. And so if you're listening, hey girl, um but she was had like these pet hamsters, and okay. Showing this movie clip, pet hamsters, and she had them, and she was like, What watch me do this shaking her hamsters like salt and pepper shakers?
SPEAKER_07Shaking hamsters.
SPEAKER_11She started shaking literally the life out of her hamsters.
SPEAKER_07And they did die hamsters, Cody. No, my family had two hamsters as well. Oreo and Milky Wave, rest in peace.
SPEAKER_08We got out of my brother's cage in his room. And then one somehow it found its way outside. And we were playing like football in like our backfield. My backyard's huge, our backfield, and they just like he just picks it up, like one of our neighbors, and was like, hey, I think this is Oreo. And it was Oreo or hamster, randomly found. Then we have on the next one. Then it was like one like Sunday morning, like my brothers were getting ready like three weeks after we lost the hamsters. And then he pulled out like a pair of khaki pants from like his drawer, actually shredded, and all of a sudden he picks it up and you're just like no Oreo Mickey Way, but you're a little bit plop on the floor. It was like the dead body. And I was like six.
SPEAKER_06We also had two hamsters. Hamsters are not good pets to have when you're kids. No, because they die horrific deaths. And you want to be like so rough with them? That's the kids.
SPEAKER_01Like shaking them.
SPEAKER_06They can't handle it. We had one that was named Snowflake. It was my dad. Like we had it like set up in its cage in like the center part of the house, so it echoed up the stairs all night and it was always on its freaking wheel. And my dad was at his wit's head. And so he's like, That's it. The hamster's going outside. And so he put the cage for the hamster into the garage in the middle of winter, mind you. Oh done. No. No. It's actually with us right now. Like a goatee.
SPEAKER_01And you take it, you take it out of your back pocket.
SPEAKER_06You're like, come on in. We go downstairs to the next three. We go to the garage. Snowflake, frozen solid. Dead city, nice. And then the second hairstyle. We got the other one after that. And so, Ryan, this is the worst. This is worse. So we were there's one. No, Snowflake frozen. This is so bad. I cannot remember the name of this one. This is how bad this is.
SPEAKER_01You had to block it out of your mind.
SPEAKER_06There was one morning. The thing is, you know, one morning, so like my mom was in charge of children's church at one of the churches we went to growing up. And so she like some lady was teaching and asked for an illustration. So Ryan brought in the hamster.
SPEAKER_01Oh no.
SPEAKER_06And so the hamster had not been around a lot of people at once. He got scared and bit Ryan on the hand, and then Ryan dropped it. It was like acting weird the rest of the day. And so like we get it back in the car, and then my dad's like, you know where we're gonna go? And he could put a dolphin away for them. We're gonna go to which like I don't know how to describe it. Sorry. I don't know how to describe it, but it's like uh cafeteria barbecue was like the aura of praise. And so we're like we like we have to drop the hamster off at home first, like it's and this is the summer. And so he's like, No, it's fine. They're built they're built to live in intense weather. And I was like, they're built to live. Okay. Did you kill our last one? We left him in the car with the window cracked, and so we get back to the car and he's like struggling to breathe. And so we get back home.
SPEAKER_00Shut up. Are you gonna break again, man?
SPEAKER_06Ryan takes the hamster out, it's still like suffocating and takes it out and puts it on our carpet. This is a vipage out of everyone, puts it on the carpet and tries to resuscitate the hamster. It's on the middle of our spiral rug in the chest. It's weird chest compression. Come on, Sail. Come on, humming sales. Can I get two breaths? Give me the straw, the bendy straw. Oh, and he didn't make it. No.
SPEAKER_01Really? It's almost like you spoiled it at the beginning.
SPEAKER_11Why? I think parents just gave us hamsters to shut us up.
SPEAKER_05I never once had a hamster. Neither did I.
SPEAKER_11Guys, yes, we get hamsters now.
SPEAKER_06Now that you guys are old enough. Now that we're old enough.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, hamsters smell. Like most of those like rodent pets smell.
SPEAKER_06And then when you finally put them in the ball to like run in, it's like they weren't like in prison for years. Like you will never see them again. They're just gone. The second they hit the floor.
SPEAKER_05They've had a loving and caring environment their entire life.
SPEAKER_06Freedom! And then they throw themselves into the wall in the ball, and you're like, you're her brother.
SPEAKER_05It's like the hamster from Bolt.
SPEAKER_10That's what I was gonna say. I love that. I can have a big thing.
SPEAKER_01Speaking of my bolt.
SPEAKER_11I was gonna say, speaking of childhood pets, can you explain the story?
SPEAKER_05Uh English? Okay, all right. For the listeners at home.
SPEAKER_00We can't. We can't. There was one time Christmas. I have no idea what I mean.
SPEAKER_06We were in Kenya, and we were in Kenya. And we were like taking supplies to this family in a slum. And so we were we were walking to their home with like rice and like other stuff, and one of the neighborhood kids starts walking with us. And he like we're just like chatting to him or whatever. And then he's just like, hey, like, do you want to meet my pet? And we're like, yeah, man, sure. Like, what's your pet? And he pulls a bug out of a beetle out of his pocket that is tied to a string. And he's holding it in his hand.
SPEAKER_02And he's dry flying.
SPEAKER_10It's just not real. It's photography.
SPEAKER_06And then it's just like flying a little bit. And then he's like, watch this. And he holds the string straight above his head. And then the beetle starts flying like a helicopter wings.
SPEAKER_09This is a hot idea.
SPEAKER_06It's on video. It's on video. Noah, but literally, like, I don't know how he would have trained it to do that. His hand goes trained. No, no. But it's flying every direction. And then when it goes like this, it's just in a circle. No, his hand is still in the video.
SPEAKER_10He showed us the video at one.
SPEAKER_06He trained that beetle. That beetle was trained. That beetle was a government plant. Yes. Wait a minute. When he holds it straight above his head. See how I have to pull it away. It's just flying away. Okay.
SPEAKER_02It was cool. Let's hear about your childhood
Rapid Fire Nostalgia School And Games
SPEAKER_02in a day. Okay. TV shows I loved as a kid was Phineas and Fur, probably number one. We loved that one. Good luck Charlie was probably the second any could any Disney Channel thing. I couldn't watch Cartoon Network or SpongeBob or Scooby-Doo. Anything with like sorcery, so you're probably better with no Wizards of Waverly Places or Harry Potter or anything like that. So yeah, it was just a long list. Pokemon, anything like adjacent. It was if it was animated, probably not. Probably not. Probably not. Probably not. A music, if I was with my dad, it would be Kings of Leon or Counting Crows. Good. Um I was with my mom. She was obsessed with the Bobby Bone show. So anything that people play we would listen to that. I loved that radio show. Good. Memories would be like road trips to Canada, being with my mom's really large family. She has, she's the oldest of 11. I have there's 35 grandchildren just in our immediate family. We have to rent out campgrounds. I don't even know if 35 at all. The entire country. I'm related to all of Canada. So that it's just like sweet to like have all those people together. All related to Canada. 66. Just in controls and there. Just in general. And like growing up, my mom had like this little at-home daycare thing basically. So it was always just a like four other kids that were like basically my other siblings, and we'd just be outside all the time doing whatever.
SPEAKER_09That's what I was gonna say too, is like I feel like what I miss about my childhood, I think I'm sure y'all's were similar, is like we were just outside all the time. Yes.
SPEAKER_02No, we were outside so much. One time a police officer came up to us while we were jumping on the trampoline playing like Dead Man or whatever, and he was like, What are you guys doing like out of school? Because there's obviously like seven or eight kids with us, and it's like the middle of the day. And I was like, Well, we're homeschooled, and he was like, No. He was like, Go get your mom. So I had to like to all go. I was like, Oh my gosh, I'm about to be arrested. Like, I was like, probably six years old. I was like, oh my gosh. He doesn't believe me that I'm homeschooled. He thinks I'm lying. Also, what six-year-old is able to skip school and it's just like I'll jump on my trampoline all day? Like, that's the loudest possible activity.
SPEAKER_11I was gonna say, I'll just skip school and be in my front yard. Everyone's going where everyone.
SPEAKER_09Did you guys did you guys have like a fort that you built that you were super proud of? Because I had a couple and I was pretty proud.
SPEAKER_02We loved to play like that we were in like a plane crash and that we had to use the supplies. Bro, what were all the games back in the day? Like survival. And so we survive. Our forts were insane, and then we'd like collect like honeysuckles as our food and like try to man, those are the days. I love building forts.
SPEAKER_11One like bush like next to my house, and the way that it was shaped, you could like walk inside, and it was like empty on the inside. So, of course, that was my bedroom. You just always would play like like I don't know, family, but like family. Somebody has to die. Somebody died of some disease, and now I'm the caretaker.
SPEAKER_09I was gonna say the games were always like me at like seven, I'm like pretending to be like me and my friend, it's like pretending to be a prisoner of war. It's like my husband is like lost at sea, and I'm home with the kids, and it's like life or death always.
SPEAKER_06Uh-huh. Literally, anytime I was in a pool exclusively throughout my childhood, everyone's like Marco Polo or like like looking for the dark things you throw in there. I'm in the corner, like, if I was abandoned at sheet at sea, could I stay afloat for more? So you jump in the room. You guys are playing. I'm surviving. I will live. I will live. We will survive. Face down in the water.
SPEAKER_09No. Or when you're in your fort, you're pretending to live off the land. Like we'd like grab, we'd like grab bread from the house and made it in your life.
SPEAKER_05For some reason, I just like to go and like dig holes in my backyard. Like my mom and dad would get so mad because there'd be like a solid like two feet holes in our backyard.
SPEAKER_06David. Why? It's only like his nose up, and he's like, oh no.
SPEAKER_05Can I just say I blame my parents for uh showing me the holes movie as a kid? But great. I genuinely would just do that. Come back inside covered in dirt. Like, were you digging holes again? No. No.
SPEAKER_00Did you dig a stick? No. No.
SPEAKER_05No. No, mother. Why would you think of it?
SPEAKER_06Flips. Just flips. Just flips. One of like the unsupervised times in my life that I literally like I think about consistently was there's one time my mom was like, she would work from home like for part of the week and then go into work. So it was one of the days she was at home over the summer. And Ryan and I, I guess, were again making a video or something, and we thought it would be funny to get into her like makeup bag. Oh. And we covered our faces in like different shades of lipstick. Not like how old was it? Like, I don't know. I was probably like I I want to say eight or something like that. Okay, so Ryan was old enough not to. Oh, he was like 11.
SPEAKER_01So he knew better.
SPEAKER_06But like it was like never, it was not like trying to do makeup. It was just like stupid patterns on her faces. There is a picture of it, but I literally like my mom's not somebody that yells at all. That was one of the only times of my life that I remember her yelling at. But the best part is like we're just sitting there taking it, but we're like, our faces are still confused. She's like, why would you ever do that? So wasteful. We're like, still caught circles on it.
SPEAKER_05Mom, can you stop our makeup's running?
SPEAKER_11Why is it stinging my eyes? Some of the best, like, like you said, unsupervised times, like craziest memories are always like with the cousins. Yes. Just getting into some something crazy. Something that you probably shouldn't have. Oh, yes. But it was just like that one Marcello Hernandez skit. It's like you just get into something crazy with your cousins, and all of a sudden you're in the AC unit. In your house. And your cousins like first. I know it was me and my cousins, and we were playing like around the side of our house, and we discovered the crawl space. And we're like, this is the perfect place to play. Let's set up shop here.
SPEAKER_09No, that was actually one of the things.
SPEAKER_05There's definitely like an alligator under there.
SPEAKER_09That was one of my brother's like, well, fort. It wasn't really a fort though. We thought that space? We thought it was they were they had built this super secret fort that we couldn't find, and it was actually like underneath the house. And they were like, we finally find them, and they're like, there they are. And we chase them and we're like, we want to have this space too. And then we go in there, and there's just like a wall full of cricket spiders. And we're like, actually, the boys can have it. Actually, massive. You guys can have it. There's no real time spots in your cross.
SPEAKER_01That just made my skin crawl.
SPEAKER_06Sorry. This wasn't even like childhood, childhood. Like, I was like 14, I think, when this happened. And it was like after like Aaron had just graduated high school, was still living at home. Ryan was in high school. I think I had just started. And so we were like all like hanging out upstairs. And it's like one of those moments, like, you know, when like y'all are all at the same age with your siblings, where it's like we're actually like hanging out now. And it's not just like I have to watch my younger sibling. And so, like, I'm just kind of sitting there like this is fine. And so then they're goofing off and they start like fighting each other, like joking, like wrestling or whatever. And then all of a sudden, Aaron gets like the upper hand on Ryan and like pushes him back into his own room because the doors were open. We were like in the hallway.
SPEAKER_10Oh no.
SPEAKER_06And so he shows him back, and then Ryan's like this. And then Aaron goes down to like to the back of the hall and at a full sprint spears him onto his bed. And when he hits the bed, you hear this huge cracking shatter. Like it was like a so we're all sitting there and like we're like looking at each other. Aaron's still actively lying on top of Ryan. Like looking at each other.
SPEAKER_01Like you're all frozen in fear, like crap.
SPEAKER_06And you hear from downstairs, my dad's like, kids, if I have to come up there and something's broken, I'm not gonna be happy about it.
SPEAKER_01And you'd be like, bad news, dad.
SPEAKER_06And like they shattered, like, but if you were 14, they were old. Yeah. Yes. That makes Aaron like 19 and Ryan 17. Like grown. Aaron in prime football years.
SPEAKER_01Prime football years. 26 years old. He would have been a menace.
SPEAKER_06Ryan in his CrossFit era at school. It's CrossFit era.
SPEAKER_03Oh no.
SPEAKER_06He did CrossFit when he was 17, like senior year of high school or whatever. And so like both. Oh my god. Alright, now we cut that.
SPEAKER_00We're going on to the records.
SPEAKER_01Use the dolphin. Use the dolphin for that.
SPEAKER_11Use the dolphin.
SPEAKER_05That was good.
SPEAKER_11Oh my gosh. Rapid fire nostalgia. Oh, okay, okay. So what are your guys'? I know a few of you guys' few of you guys were homeskilled. But for those of us who are Pebnic skill kids, what are your favorite school lunch? Smiley face fries. My I always sided with pizza. Pizza couldn't beat it. Unless you didn't have money in your cord and you got like the piece two pieces of white bread with the slice of cheese and white milk because yum. They're like, yeah, you're broke. White milk for you.
SPEAKER_08Oh, literally. But I feel I hated pizza as a kid.
SPEAKER_11You hate it.
SPEAKER_08No, I like it now. That's free. But as a kid, like I would only eat like I'd eat everyone's crust.
SPEAKER_11Out of the lower your phone volume.
SPEAKER_02Thank you.
SPEAKER_06Out of the school lunches, I think pizza was always I ironically, like, so I went to private school, but we still had like this. The elementary school, it was like the same box. Because like literally that was my favorite. It was like the corn dog with the smiley fries. No, but then like when we got to like the secondary school, it was like it was fire.
SPEAKER_08Like BLTs.
SPEAKER_06No, yeah, that I had a BLT, bro.
SPEAKER_08We had even ocean dunkers. Ocean dunkers. Neither did they ocean treasures. Oh, ocean. I'm sorry, I mixed them up. It's ocean treasures and pork dunkers. Oh, so bad.
SPEAKER_05I don't know what either of those are.
SPEAKER_10What were our homeschoolers eating? Yeah, what were you guys eating? I was obsessed with flamignon. Here we go. I was the G one for the package.
SPEAKER_05Oranges.
SPEAKER_06And oranges. And oranges. Vitamin C deficiency.
SPEAKER_11What's next? What are some of your guys' best field trips if you remember?
SPEAKER_05Field trips of Jamestown.
SPEAKER_08Good. Our fourth grader just in the Jamestown yesterday, actually.
SPEAKER_06Dude. Yeah. That's like the peak like field trip for where we are.
SPEAKER_11It's fun. It is so much fun. I remember, I think it was in fifth grade, we took a trip to DC. I 100% like we were unsupervised part of this trip. And everybody brought their DSs on the bus. It was so much fun. And I'm pretty sure a group of us got lost, like in DC. And it was just scene. I think we got found, but I think we got found. I'm glad you're here. But imagine like a group of fifth grade girls with their DSs in their hands. And those in DC and those glasses with the right across. And me thinking like I'm in DC, City Girl.
SPEAKER_05How old were you?
SPEAKER_11Uh I was like 12 or something.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, City Girl. City Girl.
SPEAKER_11I think mine. I thought I was mysterious, and I just had my Bermuda shorts on and uh mine had to be Williamsburg.
SPEAKER_05I remember as a kid, it was like it was a field trip. We thought it was gonna be a vacation because we're like, yes, we could do this. Then our mom, while we're out, you know, visiting all the sites. Alright, kids, write this down. Make sure keep notes because you will get a quiz on the ride home. Alright. I was like mom.
SPEAKER_10Yeah, we were like. What?
SPEAKER_05We didn't none of us pass. So none of us.
SPEAKER_06Um yeah, I feel like Jamestown was a classic for me.
SPEAKER_02The children's museum, the bubble room. No, no, I just said shoot, I should have spoken sooner. I was gonna say that. It's okay, it's okay. I love that one. We would take like the ferry to get over there and going in that bubble, the bubble room, and like the I mean the whole thing was amazing. I love who the building room is. Also, the aquarium, the zoo, you know, just typical things when you're like like the younger you are, I think, the cooler it is. Because I like didn't do anything amazing.
SPEAKER_05I still love the aquarium.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, the aquarium is still awesome.
SPEAKER_08But when you're a kid, it's even better.
SPEAKER_11What?
SPEAKER_08Our aquarium?
SPEAKER_11Our aquarium is. Yeah, okay.
SPEAKER_08What are we doing?
SPEAKER_11What's going on here? I like the aquarium.
SPEAKER_02But it has that little tunnel where you can walk through. Sorry, uh, what I should say. And the otters.
SPEAKER_05I still go to the aquarium now and then. Because I love it.
SPEAKER_11Or even the aquarium in Tampa. I haven't been on the T.
SPEAKER_02You can touch the stingrays at our aquarium. Ever.
SPEAKER_05That's a little cool. Where can you touch stingrays? You can touch all the other ones. You can touch almost all the other ones and you have to be really committed.
SPEAKER_11It's crazy. At the children's museum, I specifically remember this like grocery shopping like thing that they have. Oh, I do too. And I loved it.
SPEAKER_02And I thought that was the coolest part, and that's like the most lame thing that there is is the grocery store.
SPEAKER_11I'm like my goal when I was an adult was to be a grocery store cashier. Good. Because of that place.
SPEAKER_06Can we go on like a podcast chill trip?
SPEAKER_11Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Can we go to like all these places we would go as a kid and stuff? I've got aquarium first and everywhere else second.
SPEAKER_11What is the first physical media that you owned? I remember I had um a VHS movie, Save the Last Dance, Lost the Outer Box, but because I watched it so much, my mom had to mark it with silver nail polish so that I knew which one it was. That's amazing.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, I had VHS movies too. Yes. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05For the Wii, I had the original complete saga of the Lego Star Wars game.
SPEAKER_06Um, my Disney Princess CD player. Yeah. And I had like, I think like Fearless Speak Now, Taylor Swift, and like One Direction's first album. I remember getting that when it came out. So good.
SPEAKER_11So let's do that. First physical media.
SPEAKER_08A lot of my like I had a lot of like Disney CDs. Yeah. Nothing crazy. Hannah Montana was a lot. A high school musical. Just brothers. Oh, I can't rock.
SPEAKER_05Did you guys ever listen? Way better than high school. What's it called?
SPEAKER_11Go, what's it called? Disney? Disney Radio, something like that? Radio Disney. Radio Disney. Okay, relax.
SPEAKER_06I didn't even want that. Mine was saw it light up in my eyes. I was like, is it called Radio Go Disney?
SPEAKER_02Mine was probably also the same with Gracie. I think the very first DVD that I owned was Wally. Good. I love that movie. That's also the first movie I saw in theater. I think it's a good thing. Good goated movie. Hotel for Dogs was my first movie. Oh, really? Yeah.
SPEAKER_11Love it.
SPEAKER_03Alright, next question.
SPEAKER_11What? When is the first time you got grounded?
SPEAKER_02Never. Uh good. Good job. No, my parents punished me in different ways, don't worry.
SPEAKER_11Okay.
SPEAKER_05Mine was uh I got grounded for burning my hand on the uh. We had like one of them tiny little ovens like on the uh on the counter. And I remember they told me not to touch the side of it, which I accidentally did because I dropped. And they grounded you for that? I burnt my hand and they grounded me.
SPEAKER_11You think the burning would be you got natural consequences and physical Yeah, I did. That is funny.
SPEAKER_06Oh, I just I didn't like I don't think I can think of anything where I was like grounded, grounded. I like I wasn't that bad enough. Like no, compared to my brothers, like they got in trouble more than I did. The one time that I did was I I think I've told this before here before, where like Ryan, we had just got an argument, and this was I was like middle school. He walked out behind me while I was taking out the trash, and then I thought he grabbed my shoulder to like apologize, and he didn't say anything, so I thought somebody was attacking me, and then I punched him full force in the throat, and then I was for like a week or two, which is yeah, uh it's hardly fair, but yeah, that that is the most I've gotten in trouble, I think, in my life, though. Oh mor you.
SPEAKER_11You might have deserved it. Don't oh don't come up behind, you know. She said you might have deserved. I was like, No, no, Ryan deserved. You just you don't deserve you you deserve everything. You don't deserve that. You don't deserve that. You don't deserve that. I think I remember I really want to say it was the only time that I was grounded. It was in kindergarten, and I wrote an explicit word on our in kindergarten? Yes.
SPEAKER_05In kindergarten.
SPEAKER_11That was the first word I think word I think I learned how to write. Tyree! Wait, which one? Which one? Uh case. David said his. I wrote it on, so there was like four desks grouped together, and so we all shared supplies, and so I wrote it on our group's box of crayons, and so I got like written up and they put the evidence in a like one of those manila. Evidence is in one of those manila folders, and they sent it home, and I write had to get my like referral signed by my parents. And so I got home. They already called my parents, by the way. So I don't know who I was pulling when I thought I could take the manila folder and hide it. I think I hid it in the crawlspace. Actually, I was like, surely they'll never find it, and I can get away with this. And my mom gets home from work and she just slammed the door. She was like, Where is it? I was like, I don't know what you're talking about. She was like, five, four, and I was like, Wait!
SPEAKER_00Wait, wait, let me tell you something.
SPEAKER_11Yeah, I had to go get it. First of all, going to get the evidence that I thought I could hide from the crawl space all the way outside, and then walking back in. Humbly. Uh but yeah, I got grounded. I don't think it was the first word I write.
SPEAKER_02I hope not.
SPEAKER_11But probably top 10 words. Right, Grace?
SPEAKER_09I don't got grounded for eating turkey. No, I don't I don't think I was ever grounded. I wasn't, I don't know. All my parents really had to do when I was little is just be disappointed and I would be crushed. But when I was really little, I remember this one time that one of the times that I did get like a spanking, and I don't know how young I was, but I think I was like really, really little quit because they were about to spank me. And I was like, wait, wait. And then I go to the kitchen like cabinet and I pull out like a Tupperware top. And I put it in my pants. And then I go back and I'm like, okay, now I just had to get my protection. I think they were just laughing at me at that point. So I don't know if I even still got spanked, but I
SPEAKER_05See, that's why I'm like nervous to be a parent and have to like discipline my kids. Because how am I gonna be able to keep a straight face if my kids do some something funny? You know what I mean? Like, oh, I gotta punch you now.
SPEAKER_09But I don't think I I wasn't disciplined a lot. I think they were just they would just talk to me and be like, Mary Grace, and I would be like Okay, okay.
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
SPEAKER_08I know, I know, I know, I know my name.
SPEAKER_09You don't have to say it.
SPEAKER_08Gracey? I I didn't get in trouble too much. My older brothers did more than I did. But I remember one time in first grade, I was like, we had like two classrooms. We would go to one teacher for like reading, like, and then like our classes would switch back. It's like two teaching, whatever. And so I went to the other teacher's classroom, not my home room, and she was low-key mean, and I was not a fan, but I was like, you know, whatever. Okay. And so we're there, whatever. We're in like our group of four. And then the person next to me was talking, and I was not. Now the teacher was talking, and I was not. And then she goes, Gracie, you need to stop talking. And I was like, Oh, I'm not talking. And then she goes, Well, now you are talking, go move your clip. I said, Excuse me. And so, like, and I had never moved my clip before. Not in kindergarten preschool, like nothing. And so I was like, So like I'd go move it. It was like a light, so it was like green, yellow, red, and so I moved mine from green to yellow in her classroom. And so, and I was like absolutely distraught. Like, I'm sure I was crying. And then and then we went to our the other teacher's classroom. And if you get your clip moved in my classroom, you have to go move it in the next classroom too. And I refused. I was like, no. And then another girl was like, Gracie, I still remember her to this day. Actually, anyway. What's her name? I should, that's a thing. And then um, and then she said, Gracie, you need your clip. And I was like, first of all, mind your business. Right, right. M Y O B. Okay. Don't worry about your own clip. Well, I gonna move your clip. Girl, your clip's all red.
SPEAKER_10Right. Well, okay.
SPEAKER_08No, and then and she said you need to move it. And I was like, I'm not? Like, I didn't do anything, and I didn't move it. And the teacher didn't make me move it. So did I actually I don't know. Stand up for yourself.
SPEAKER_11Not the now you are talking, and then like erp, hold on. Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_05I believe that would have been my first crash out as a child.
SPEAKER_02I was like David chokes out his teacher. Say it again. Say it again.
SPEAKER_00Am I talking now? You can't talk.
SPEAKER_01Deep voice too. Who's talking now, Punk?
SPEAKER_06Imagine Jack Jack and the Incredible when he gets red.
SPEAKER_02Oh my gosh. Goodness.
SPEAKER_11So last question, and we kind of already covered this, but I love talking about it. What are some kid games that you used to play? Um, I remember my grandparents had a boat, pontoon boat, and so we would go under, like you can go under in a pontoon, you can go under the hole of the boat. And so we used to play like, again, like Lost at Sea or like This sounds very dangerous. And we would go like up on these rocks. Well, you've never gone under the hole of a pontoon boat? No.
SPEAKER_02Well, then you've got no, you can't do that with a jet boat. You're gonna be sucked under. Absolutely not okay.
SPEAKER_11But the engine would be off. The anchor would be out.
SPEAKER_02Still, it's a general rule, never do that. That's how you lose limbs, but it's okay. I love it.
SPEAKER_11I turned out pretty awesome. Yeah, that's true. All limbs extreme. All limbs here. No, we would like mount up like on on the side of the shore and we would go play on these rocks. There'd be massive rocks, and they would always come back to playing house, and somebody died, and naturally. And then we transition to mermaids.
SPEAKER_06At the first death, you're still dead in this, by the way. You're not a mermaid. You have to float there on the surface of the water.
SPEAKER_09Oh gosh. No, in the ocean, it was always mermaids. Like you had to play mermaids in the ocean. But at home, it was it was a back and forth between like a life or death crisis, like I'm lost at sea, or like you're just like at home with the kids with your like fake food, and you're just like, I wonder when my husband's gonna be home.
SPEAKER_11Like force my brother, like, you be the husband, I'll be the wife, you're at work, and I'm home.
SPEAKER_02No, casting for family was like insane. You had like new names and everything.
SPEAKER_09You're just at home, like I'm just like this middle-aged mom with an attitude with like two kids with my with my like fake, you know, the fake plastic food, just like wonder when he's gonna be home.
SPEAKER_06Casting of like Shakespearean players. Or it's like all men. You're like, and you're gonna be my sister. And you're my aide. You're gonna be wife.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I'm not gonna lie, I'm kinda these are not the same games I play. I I do that with my sisters occasionally. Well, I would occasionally with my sisters, but I was like the I would even.
SPEAKER_02Ray was always the animal. He's like, I'm gonna be an otter named John. I'm like, that was like his staple. Like we all had like our staple, and he was like, I'll be an author named John. Um my favorite, right?
SPEAKER_05Well, I mean, with my friends, I played like, I guess, like more guy stuff, like we were at war, or we were lost in the jungle, like in the woods out back, or something like that. We never really played house.
SPEAKER_11It was always like when my brothers would want to play stuff like that, like playing war or whatever, I'd be like, okay, well, I'll be the wife at home. Okay. They're always trying to like. I'll be cooking dinner for you while you're at home. You guys have to come back here and then I'll have dinner ready on the table for you. Trying to combine the two worlds. So you're off at war and I'm home. So I'm still the stay-at-home mom in this scenario. And I'm the gatherer at home. And these acorns are your guys' food, so you have to come back and get food. You have to be here. And they'd be like, no, we're not doing that. Come on.
SPEAKER_09Please, I need you. If you didn't have the fake plastic food, it was always mulch. Yes, yes.
SPEAKER_01Oh my gosh. Or pine cones.
SPEAKER_06It's a one stick that looked kind of like a fork.
SPEAKER_01It's a stick with just two prongs at the end. That's it.
SPEAKER_11And here's your fork.
SPEAKER_05There was one game I did play on our trampoline where one person would lay in the middle and ball up.
SPEAKER_02Yes, popcorn, yes, popcorn, that's what it was called. We would get so hurt playing that. Yes.
SPEAKER_05Yes. It always ended up somebody would like jump, because you would like jump in and get as close as you can to that. And like somebody would end up slipping and then like falling underneath the person playing popcorn, and you get hurt. But it was super fun.
SPEAKER_11Or freeze tag. Oh. And that one punk was like, I was actually out this whole time, so that didn't count. I think. Shut up.
SPEAKER_07Shut up. What are you doing here then?
SPEAKER_05I'm not actually playing. I'm not actually, then why were you sprinting that whole time?
SPEAKER_11For fun, for fun. I haven't seek you find him under the.
SPEAKER_06He's like, I wasn't even playing. I wasn't even playing. This is the kitchen.
SPEAKER_05If you're coming home from war, he's like in the he's he's like in the corner of your ceiling, and you find him. He's like, I'm not even playing.
SPEAKER_06He's like, oh he sprays against the corner with his arms and water. Yeah, no, that's exactly how I'm rising at the point. I found you.
SPEAKER_11I wasn't even playing that round.
SPEAKER_02That is insane.
SPEAKER_11Always playing hide and seek. I always had to pee. Every time I'm like, that's so true.
SPEAKER_09Morgan, your childhood games.
SPEAKER_06Um other than like the making the videos things, I feel like on the trampoline, we would rotate between like normal like pop court stuff. There's one where Aaron, I think, is just the most accurate oldest sibling vibe, would sit in the middle, and Ryan and I would have to run around him, and then he just grab our legs and pull us to the ground. Like the whole point, he's like, okay, avoid me, but mind you, he's like six foot two at this point sweeping our legs out for hours. Like sneaking us to the ground.
SPEAKER_05He's like a he's like a Titan from Attack on a Titan. You're gonna use the people.
SPEAKER_06We're like, I'm gonna make it this time. Boom! Avoid me in the air, he's trying to jump over it.
SPEAKER_07We're still playing.
SPEAKER_06And then we just like bring random stuff to play with on the trampoline. Like one time we hit a yoga ball over the fence into our neighbor's yard because we were just like trying to throw it, and I think the noise it makes. And then you hear it splash across the fence, you're like, ooh. I'm not going next door, you are.
SPEAKER_05Because we had a neighbor who's the coolest guy ever, and one of the games we played when it snowed, he'd leave his sprinklers on, and we would all he'd let us all sled across ice. That was like one of our favorite games we played when it snowed.
SPEAKER_11That's fun. Classic. How about you guys, chat?
SPEAKER_08For me, we I played usually what we do, come home from school, we played football in the street. Yeah. And then once it got dark and the lights came off, we played manhunt. Yes. We played manhunt, oh my gosh, every single night. And like my porch was always bass. It was so nice. We wanted to get a glass of water, come back out. It was so nice. Yeah, it was really fun. And then also, like, we would play a lot of like wall ball, like a tennis ball against someone's like a neighbor's house. Like, and then every morning at the bus stop, we would play foursquare until the bus goes. Oh, foursquare! Four square was so fun. So fun. So we played that at the pool all the time. Yeah.
SPEAKER_11Good. I miss playing in the street. Did y'all ever have a green machine?
SPEAKER_08I love the green machine. I didn't know what neighbors did. Shut up. Spin that thing so quick. The green machine. You're sitting like this and like your feet are out, and you're and then there's like these two little sear things like this, and you go, and like you turn to the spark turn.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, our listeners don't know what. Look up what a green should be up look at.
SPEAKER_11If you are cool, then you know what I'm talking about.
SPEAKER_04I'm sorry, I don't.
SPEAKER_09We had a little John Deere. Like, you know this little John Deere?
SPEAKER_07Thank you, Mond.
SPEAKER_09We had to drive my little sister around in the back of it, and she's like, Yeah, y'all remember when you used to dump me out of it? We were like, So sorry. Wow, so sorry.
SPEAKER_02No, mine's the same. I mean, tramp, like in my neighborhood growing up, we were the only ones at a trampoline, so it's just like every single day we came up with that. You were on the table. We were the it family. Like everyone wanted to be a part of our trampoline experience, though we did not have a net, so Oh, we didn't either. The experiences were wild. We would like put, we had like this old punching bag that we would put up there and like try and bounce it around and like roll it on people, and you have to like jump over it. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_11We're doing American Ninja. We were, yeah, we were like out on the screen wiping trampoline.
SPEAKER_02No, insane stuff would happen. I don't know. And then yeah, family was a big thing. Again, like a tragedy. Like we used to, the room that we're in right now used to be like a screen indoor porch that was kind of like run down and crappy, so we'd be like, our house burned down, and this is all we have for white and like no tragedy.
SPEAKER_05Your parents in the other room hearing you say this. Like they're like, bro. No, it was.
SPEAKER_02That's why we fixed it. I know this. Now it's a podcast room. And now look at the podcast room. No, it's a podcast room. That we built with our own two hands. No. Anyway, I don't know. And like at Bible, like not Bible camp but like at church we do like four corners or heads up cinema, things like that. I love cheating in that game. Oh my god, shut up stacking. Why were everybody upset? I trained this is such a nerdy thing, with a lot of games and in cup stacking, because I I was peak at that.
unknownWe should play.
SPEAKER_02We should play. We have some. I got some.
SPEAKER_05This podcast episode is never gonna end.
SPEAKER_02Okay, sorry. Let's do the outro.
Closing Thoughts And Listener Prompt
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