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Streetlight Angels Podcast
Family Game Night: Building Bonds in a Digital Age
Josh and Eugene discuss the importance of making time for family activities despite busy schedules, and how games can strengthen family bonds while teaching valuable life skills.
• Different generations have different interests – from Pokémon cards to Roblox
• Many families struggle to find activities everyone enjoys together
• Simple games work better than complex ones, especially with clear rules
• Outdoor activities like kickball and cornhole can bring families together
• Family games teach resilience, handling disappointment, and social skills
• Creating household economies through games can teach financial literacy
• Extending family game nights to include neighbors builds stronger communities
• Scheduling regular family time creates consistency and tradition
Share your favorite family games with us at streetlightangelspodcast@gmail.com!
Welcome back to Streetlight Angels. This is episode 16. I'm your host, Josh Rakowski. I got Eugene Basham what's?
Speaker 2:up everybody.
Speaker 1:Got Eugene with me here Today. We got a good episode for you, as we usually do. This one is fun with the fam. I think is what we talked about, right? Yes, sir, yeah. Fun with the family. Are you still having fun with the fam? I think is what we talked about, right? Yes, sir, yeah. Fun with the family. Are you still having fun with your family? Sometimes, I mean, it's hard.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, you know, when you've had three generations of children, it's like it could, it could be like. Right now my wife is at the beach with two toddlers and I can only imagine one of them's running in one direction and the other one's running in the other.
Speaker 1:oh, my gosh man yeah, that's gotta be hard dude. So you're playing chess with one of your generations, right, and then you're changing diapers on your other generation, yeah, and then you know the likes.
Speaker 2:The likes are different too, like I remember when pokemon first came out, so that's how you know and that's. I think they're celebrating like 30 years now, dude, and my oldest is 32, yeah, and my youngest is three. So it's kind of like we would like have pokemon cards and we would talk about strategy and she's a thinker. So it's funny how even playing little games like that, yeah, like helped her, yeah, in her processing skills, where some of the games now they want to play, like roblox or you know.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, it's well, we tried and have tried and continue to try to do like board games and stuff it's just not like it was when I was a kid yeah, we do this new thing where it's like the gator game, where it's almost like you know, we just reenact something in front of them and it's usually video game characters.
Speaker 1:Oh, and then you know we would have the other person would have to figure out. There's another one called the like. Do you know your? Uh, was it? Do you know your family? Or you know your family best, or who knows their family best?
Speaker 2:okay, and it's asking general questions it's similar to uh, like a newlywed gang would be. Where do you know your?
Speaker 1:spouse yes, yes, yes, but it's for family and we played that a couple of times.
Speaker 2:And what I'd like to ask the public as well. As you're listening, think about some of the things you do as a family and just put it in a comment. Yeah.
Speaker 1:And that way, right now, as you're listening to what you do with your family, because because we're going to have a village game night one day and some of these comments.
Speaker 2:We're going to pull and be like, oh OK, we're going to have a table with sorry, because I know people play sorry. I don't know if we should play Monopoly because it could be long, you know, for a community event. You could be stuck at that table. But I think it would be fun to see what the village thinks, what they're still doing with their family, Right, you know, and some folks I know like with us whenever I go to Nashville we'll pick somebody's house and we'll have dinner there and whoever can come will be, you know, come. But I'm like I have a rule now as far as visiting family out of town. If I can, if I get to your city, then you should be able to get around the city to come see me.
Speaker 1:I'm not sure that's a good rule, man.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't go house to house anymore, right, right, except for my elders, right.
Speaker 1:So, like my, my grandmother's sisters are still living well, and so I'll visit them, but they don't drive either, so you know it's funny, you say I was just in nashville last weekend with my brother and my sister-in-law and they are a family that constantly play games, still like fart, farkel and dude, just like constantly playing a new. Every time I see them they're like oh, have you played this game yet? And I'm like no yeah you know what I mean?
Speaker 2:I never, but they play it constantly and if you keep your eye out at wal, they cycle through so many games now that they have the newer stuff on clearance every so often, so you can go and if it's something you may not like, but for three bucks it's worth trying, as opposed to $29.
Speaker 1:Bro we're so competitive. My oldest boy gets so mad if he loses. He won't play a game unless he knows he's going to win. Oh wow, he's one of those Like he will sit, watch the game, watch the game, watch the game. And if he thinks that the odds are not, you know they're against him and not in his favor. Almost every time he'll be like no, I don't want to play.
Speaker 2:Well, he's going to have to be careful going to Vegas, because it would trick him into thinking he could win Bro oh my gosh, you know what we're playing now.
Speaker 1:We all downloaded Monopoly Go. I'm going to tell you the game you should download and we've been playing. All four of us have phones and we've been sitting right next to each other playing.
Speaker 2:Monopoly Go Well, you could do that with Catan. It's very interesting. It's similar to strategy. Like Monopoly, you deal with resources and so you gotta. You first start with building a village, then you build a city. That type of deal, oh, like citizen and all that old stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, citizens, or uh, what's that called civilization? Yeah a german game designer. And they do it, you do it as a family yeah, yeah, you can have up to uh six.
Speaker 2:Oh, ok, and it's really fun, especially if you got a little thick skin and people can be cutthroat Because it's like you'll want to build a settlement right here. Now somebody else may want that same spot. Oh, I got you and now you done took their spot. It's like oh, you got the whole board that you could have built a settlement, but no, it's like, but you want a combination of like monopoly risk, yeah, but you want to cut off their resources, like you don't want them to get to where they can grow wheat or where they can have minerals.
Speaker 1:They have to come through you. I don't know, man, like there's so many opportunities out there to play, but like I'm like my wife she doesn't play many games. You mean she'll do a lot of her like solo games on her phone just to kind of get her get her head out of whatever issues she's got going on. It's kind of like a detached location, but but most of the time, like we don't, we don't have anything that we all just enjoy. I remember when I was a kid and I'm sure when you were a kid like to go bike riding with my family, right, it was so fun. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Not for us. We grew up up poor, so it'd be like one or two people have bikes and you either the rest would on one peg and yeah you know, it's like you got four or five people on one bike. It looked like everybody's going to the circus, all right well well, you know what I'm saying, like it was nice to, to enjoy and be with the family whatever we were doing
Speaker 1:you know, I have seen a couple families in the last probably couple months and you know a mom and a dad and kids out there riding their bicycles and stuff and that's amazing. You know what I mean. But even like internally in my house, we just haven't, we just don't do as much as we probably could together. Usually we get home, my two boys are playing their VR by themselves, doing something or a game or whatever. My wife is doing something else, I'm doing something else. So it's like how do you do that? Do you schedule and lock down a time and say okay, between this time and this time's family time? But then it almost feels like a dictatorship I think it's.
Speaker 2:Each family is different though, but because, like your family is active, they're like it's not only just digital gaming, it's like you got piano lessons, you got certain, you got karate. You know I'm saying, yeah, you have different. So it's not like they're just not being active, but as far as like to create those connections. If you, as one of the key members of the family, says, all right, we need more together time, then you should. But if you feel like, okay, the time we have together is good at that moment because it should be in phases, it shouldn't be like well, like some families I know, every Sunday they get together and that works for them. Sure, well, some folks their schedule doesn't permit, so it's like once a month. But as long as you know that you're going to meet up, even if it's just once a month or once every three months, I bet there's listeners out there that don't do anything.
Speaker 1:Oh no, no, I'm pretty mad. You're going to get a family together and you just feel awkward about doing something.
Speaker 2:You know why? It's because some families out there, because they haven't done it, it takes a moment, because you'll have that one person's like they would rather be somewhere else and until they start having a good time then they would rather be there than somewhere else, but because they did lose that connection. And so I know folks who feel more connected with their friends than they do their family and and that's OK. But I think you should also have that fundamental foundation that you can always find that connection back home, like you could always come back home because you know sometimes your friend life, that outside of the household life, gets, you know, a lot of turmoil, you know a lot of, you know things are not falling in place, so to speak, and you should be able and be comfortable enough to be able to hang out with your parents and your siblings and be like, ok, you know that be your reset.
Speaker 1:You should be. Yeah, it almost seems like for us. Sometimes I get, you know, everything goes crazy. And then you know we've got all the after school programs for them that they're doing, and then all this other stuff, and then, of course, now my, obviously my ventures are crazy. And then when we do have that time to finally settle down and I could be with them, I don't wanna and I just want to be like, let me just press it, that's right now, just leave me alone, let me lay here in the couch and stare at the ceiling. Same with my wife and even the boys, right, like they don't. They've been dead school all day. Then they went to, you know, martial arts, then they had Japanese lessons and they did this and this and this. And then, when it's time for all of us to have the time where we could be together, they're like nah, right, I just want to be by myself, right, you know I mean, that's hard to do, dude. Yeah, that's so hard to balance that out.
Speaker 2:And that's why I think it would be fun to like have like a village night out, in the sense of like we either have a village game night, you know, and do it maybe once every three months, where everybody brings their favorite game and we kind of connect that way. But then you could take those ideas and be like oh well, we like this one, let's take it home. You know what I mean? And that way, because sometimes, because you haven't done it like you said, there'll be, I would say, at least 60% of the people who listen to this podcast will be right there on the fence where they want to do more things with the family.
Speaker 1:They just haven't, and so that's me man yeah, I want to do more things with my family.
Speaker 2:I just don't, yeah, every time. So I don't do games with my wife that don't have clear rules because, like, we will literally not talk to each other for two days. Oh my god, because she done made up a rule because it wasn't said. I'm like, no, it's like man, I remember us playing phase 10 and I'm like the rules are clear and then, but then it leaves up to interpretation on this page, so it's almost like a gray rule. Yeah, you can make up your own rule, like okay, if we agree to it before the game starts.
Speaker 1:Yes, yeah, but usually that doesn't happen. No, you jump into the game and then you start no, no, that rule isn't that, that rule, is this Right? So then I put yeah, I put that in, we don't do that.
Speaker 2:But we play this one game called Aggravation, because the rules are clear. It's kind of like similar to Sorry, and then we would play Catan. But most any board game that has clear, concise rules we're fine. I'm like let's go to the rule book, and sometimes it's not in my favor, but at least it wasn't made up Gotcha, gotcha.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, the simpler the game, the better. Oh yeah, because of it, it's got a whole bunch of rules in it.
Speaker 2:Man, we're gonna fight yeah, these new, whether it's me, my wife whether it's me, my kids, right, there's gonna be some kind of argument.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean somewhere, yeah. But yeah, you're right, man, it's got to be as simple. At least start out that way, then get into the more intricate games like risk and monopoly. Holy cow, yeah, I've seen some major family foul outs.
Speaker 2:I don't know why people would want to play Monopoly with a five-year-old. Oh, it's going to teach them money. I'm like no, because the whole time is you're trying, you're not playing, you know, because they're not going to learn the concept of that for a while, unless they're really smart, I would be destroying that five-year-old.
Speaker 2:I'd own everything, and that's the whole point of a lot of these games is that sometimes the fun is being, you know, the boss in the sense of like, all right, I'm buying this, I'm buying that. Now you can't buy it. But like, if you dominate a five-year-old, you just like you ain't have that much fun. But if you play Sorry, everybody's on the same playing field it's a luck of the draw. That's right, you know, that's right. And some games that have more strategy to it, man, keep away from the strategy with the young ones. But then you also have, you know, outdoor stuff like Boca Ball or Cornhole Ours is Cornhole dude, yeah, we do Cornhole Pickle.
Speaker 1:I don't know pickleball and we bought a pickleball net and all this pickleball stuff. It doesn't work very well in grass, yeah, so we've been trying new games outside, especially the weather that's coming out and it's all nice and stuff like that. But you're right, the games need to happen. It's a necessity.
Speaker 2:Right, and it doesn't have to be. They have to be outside. You know what I mean. Or it has to be just really doing something together, like, even if you did watercolor, we're going to do watercolors today and you know some kids are going to be like, oh well, I can't draw because in their mind everything has to be perfect. No, this is, let's say, it's a movement exercise, just moving the brush and seeing what colors come out of it, dude.
Speaker 1:I've taken my kids' drawings that they've done and I've framed a few of them. There's some of them in my office framed, just random ones that I'm like man, that's cool. And there's one room in our house that has nothing but framed things that they've done. You know what I mean. It's real cool, whether they did it at school, whatever they did, or not. I don't know why I mentioned this. I think you just gave me the idea. Well, I think that's cool. Yeah, that is super cool. And you know there's a kids entrepreneur day coming up here in Crestview. Have you heard of that? Have you seen it? Yeah, I've actually shared the post. Yeah, dude, and oh my gosh, that's gonna be awesome because the kids open up their own stand and you know they get to be their own entrepreneur, whether they made cookies, whether they made. You know my kids. You know what my kids are doing. They're going to take all their old toys, put them out there and then, whatever they're going to, it's just going to be pure donation.
Speaker 1:So, anybody could come and donate a dollar Right For an old toy Right, that's going to go somewhere. But that dollar is a donation dollar. It's not going to, but the kids, the kids are going to learn that value it is. It's an amazing idea.
Speaker 2:I was trying to figure out what I could do that would actually justify a four-year-old. I was like, because they can't really make anything really good, that's why I'm just doing you.
Speaker 1:I mean, my boys could make some stuff, but we ain't got time for that. So there are kids that do have time for that.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:But I was just like, man, you got a thousand toys in here you guys don't even touch. How about let's go ahead and donate those, you know? I mean, try to make some money and donate. And that obviously goes to angel force foundations, where the money's going some of it. The other is going to go to amanda and her venture of creating this whole thing. Oh nice, so. So, dude, like I mean, that's village building at its finest, on the most primitive level, starting with the children, and then that is going to get my boys's brain going. The reason I mention all this is because now they're dealing with money, now they're dealing with sales, now they're dealing with entrepreneurship, the idea of having to be able to hold and talk, and you know, blah, blah, blah. We could bring that to the house and play some games that work in conjunction with that kind of stuff. Right, it's a lot of education, man A lot of education.
Speaker 2:I saw online where lady had a snack station and she had household money and they earned as they did their things around the house that they're supposed to do. They'd earn this household money, oh, and then they could just buy. It had value based off the snacks, wow, that they wanted. So it's not they, they just run up and grab snacks because they can't do that in the store, you know, and so you're right. Yeah, I thought it was pretty cool. So when you, when you said you know that, uh, them having that element of understanding money and how it works and stuff we could do that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think they earn it. And then it's just within the house, right. And then they're like at eight o'clock at night, hey, I want a snack. Do you got enough money? Snack money for that. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:And then even with even with your boys, like sometimes getting them at the door for their activity, like you know their lessons, and things like that be like, all right, well, if you're ready, that's a dollar. You know, if you're by the door ready and I ain't gotta be like, hey, come on, come on, come on, bro, that's every morning to go to school. Yeah, that's every morning, bro, it that? And you know, that might be a five dollar thing every morning because, like I had my kids at one time trained to where all I did was wake you up and then I could lay down for thirty five minutes and when I got back up they would be ready at the door and I would be ready to go. And but and that was with no reward other than this would help me out. But and that was with no reward other than this would help me out. But I know that if I had a reward system, but their reward was like certain things they didn't have to do, sure, as long as they kept their grades- up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, turning that into you know, an educational value, those games into educational values, learning process. But like my, my oldest boy, like I said, he gets super mad if he loses at a game. Right, he's a very sour, sore loser.
Speaker 2:Is this the same one in martial arts? No, this is the. I mean they both play piano. He's the artist basically.
Speaker 1:But he's the very articulate, very watch everything, learn. You know he wants to know everything, the intricacies of everything, and so both boys are kind of like this. But this my oldest takes it to heart and so when he loses he really does. But I think that's a learning, because he's going to lose in life, you know. I mean like, just like me, I lose at least once or twice every day and something. You know what I mean, but he would let it stop him and then he's just like I'm never gonna do that again right you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:But I kind of have to almost force him to do it again just to let him know that it is OK. It's kind of like riding a horse.
Speaker 2:If you fall off, you got to get back on it or the bike. I said horse because you're white and I was like well, he rides a bike, you know I went to a rodeo the other day because I'm white.
Speaker 1:We had bikes and horses.
Speaker 2:I don't know why I was like he relates more to horses than bikes.
Speaker 1:No, yeah, no, you're right. You're right, that was racist. You're right. It's like riding a bike you fall off, you got to get back on the bike and keep going. I mean, that's the most easy analogy ever. And you just brought that up by saying that. I could tell my son that, because I remember when he first fell off the bike, he walked away from that bike and it took me a long time to get his butt back on there. Now he rides by himself all the time. Right, but it did take me some time. You know what I mean. And I went on cruise and my wife was working with him to try to get him back on the damn bike. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:But, he did it. So I think, if I do, you know what I'm going to say that next time we play a game and he gets you know butt hurt and walks away, I'm going to say listen up, man, you did it with the bike, how come you can't do it with this game right here? You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:And see what he does.
Speaker 1:When he starts dating.
Speaker 2:Every girl that says no, thank you Hormones, it's just not going to be the one for him. But if he stopped, it's like he would be alone, Like you know, if he I'm not going to let that happen.
Speaker 1:He ain't going to live in my basement, bro Right.
Speaker 2:Well, I almost man, and that's crazy because we talk about our neighborhoods and our villages so much. I was man, you know, with my girls, house man. You know with my girls, and see, it's different for a guy who only has guys at the house, sure, and so I'm like man, I would rather my girls stay home. Then I've kind of had that fair mindset to where I'd rather everybody stay home and be safe, but also think of it financially like hey, if we did this like a business, it's like we all could be eating good, as opposed to, you know, like we grew up in that generation where part of adulthood was leaving home, finding ourselves and being self-sufficient.
Speaker 2:Sure, but when you look at building a proper village, if you look at it, I know a lot of people and you know a lot of people who are millionaires 10 times over and their kids don't stray too far away from the house and they end up becoming some of them I would say 80 percent of them just as financially stable in that range, and part of it is they emulate the business practices, but other part of it is that they don't have the acquired debt that it takes to become a millionaire. Yeah, you know, I mean because it's like that's from babies almost, in a sense. Yeah, it's kind of like their village, like if they're living in a house not necessarily for free, yeah, but they, you know that's one expense that can be invested, it's good, and so it's like you know way to look at it. Yeah, you know, but, and it works, you know, because I know.
Speaker 1:Now I wonder if you could turn that into a game like you were talking about right, a game within your house where you become like little miniature entrepreneurs within your household.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if we, if we did this, how would it turn out? If we did that, how would it turn out? Now, what if you did this and it's negative? What does it cost? Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:So, like if we all had, the electric bill was 200, dude that bro, you're talking about something that you could turn into a game, like an actual game, that is like maybe an application and I don't know. We're gonna have to brainstorm some more about this. Yeah, that'd be fun because, like that's, like, that's a good idea, dude, turn, turn, turn your house into a miniature business and make it a game. Don't make it crazy, you know. I mean, like I'm not going to fire my son because he didn't do laundry. You want it to?
Speaker 2:be so fun that that they're fighting to do the laundry. That's right, and or you know.
Speaker 1:But the benefit, because they could capitalize on doing that laundry by with the reciprocation of whatever benefit or value comes from it. Right, yeah, you're right. And then they're going to fight over who the one who wants to do the, to do that man. Honestly, dude, like we're going on a tangent Right and that sounds amazing, but we're trying to keep the topic. If you're a listener, get on there. Tell us what games you guys play with your families, especially if they're rare games. Do you remember your parents ever go to someone else's house to play games with them?
Speaker 2:oh yeah, I grew up in a community where rent parties had to exist, and so a rent party was like, okay, this month, this person is gonna, you know, have the rent party to help them supplement their income no way, and so what they would play is cards dang they either play deuces wild or sure say tone something like it no, it's not spades, because spades is hard to money these were always the women, the men like yeah, okay, okay okay, and so they.
Speaker 2:They wouldn't really involved in the rent parties, but like once a month and so, yeah, that was just to supplement the income. Wow, that's awesome though.
Speaker 1:Keep where they were living at. See, man, that's. That's awesome though.
Speaker 2:To keep where they were living at See man that's genuine dude.
Speaker 2:But we knew each other as far as in the village because whoever was hosting the rent party, you would go to one of the others' house, so the kids were in another house and they'd not be messed up when they get back home. Wow. So it would be a couple movies that we would watch. I mean, I probably watched Karate Kid one and two 200 times In the 80s. That was it. You know what I mean. That was a great movie for us, of course. Of course that and Teen Wolf man.
Speaker 1:Teen Wolf Back to the Future, back then. Yeah, oh, we're not going to get on that tangent. We'll talk about that another day. But you're right, dude, that's genius. Oh, we need to have that topic.
Speaker 2:They is the way they used to. Oh boy, tell me about it, man. But yeah, it was different games, but also like we would play kickball this block against that block, and they would get bragging rights for a week or a month.
Speaker 1:It depends on when we would come together again to play my son asked me the other day he goes when are you going to play Fortnite with me and Tyler again? And and then I got to thinking like man, it's been a while, honestly, since I played with them. I've just been busy.
Speaker 1:Right, and honestly, I couldn't give him an answer because I'm not going to promise you know, hey, this Sunday I'll play with who knows what I'm going to be doing on Sunday, right, but I wanted to give him that answer, but you bringing up that kickball, like I would prefer. You know right, when I was a kid I was sort of super cool that an old man was playing with us.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm the team captain. You're the team captain, that's right. We pick our teams.
Speaker 1:Dude, we should do that, man. But back to the adults playing with the neighbors. I remember my mom and dad going to play like Canasta, and I remember there was like a ladies' night where all the ladies would get together and play some random card game, and it wasn't to pay rent where I was living at. You don't know that, though that's true, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 2:If it was somebody's house, that person was the house. True, true. So they got a percentage of each of the hands, that's very true, that's very true, and so sometimes that could have been for snacks and to supplement them. Hosting.
Speaker 1:You know what I want? To play again, man, I want to start playing Texas Hold'em again. I used to love playing Texas Hold'em. I don't want to play that anymore.
Speaker 2:You have to teach me, man. I've played it on an app to learn how, as I understand, but it's like it's different when you eyeball to eyeball bluffing.
Speaker 1:Well, that's the thing, dude. A lot of people don't know this, but I'm playing. I love it, dude, because you can sense.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, you vibing the whole time.
Speaker 1:I won so much money is that cheating not? If they don't know. I never told anybody. I was an empath before you just told the world. By the way, dude, I'm about to play poker with you. I know exactly how. I can read you on a yeah, I did just tell the world dude. All my buddies that I played poker with in Afghanistan are going to be like Josh, are you?
Speaker 2:kidding me. You know what I mean. What if they ask you for a refund? They just said to you you got all these refund messages Like at least you didn't do those transactions through Venmo, right right.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh dude. Anyways, I think just having those type of games regardless is a necessity. I think that we need to bring back if you don't already have it.
Speaker 2:If you do have it, sustain it, maybe even do it a little bit more right and have a conversation about if you're not having it now, have a conversation so that you can start seeing what the interest is in your household and in your neighborhood. So that way, yeah when you meet in the middle with everyone.
Speaker 1:Yeah, try to find something you all enjoy.
Speaker 2:Absolutely Right, because some people may not physically be able to play kickball. And listen, keep it simple. Yeah, kickball is very simple. Everybody's played baseball at least once, so they understand the concept of kickball. Not with these knees, dude. Yeah, we were just talking about that. Hey, that kid may not be a good kicker, but they, they can run.
Speaker 1:That's right.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna kick this ball, bro, but your butt is running the bases no, no, I mean just keep it super simple, man, and fun, because, god forbid, dude, you, you play, you play a game like risk, and then you flip a table because you get pissed off, because they rolled a 12, back-to-back 12s and they destroyed your entire army. You know what I mean. And then now you just ruined game night, right, because now nobody wants to play, because you just got into a big old fight, right? So, keep it simple, keep it fun, where everybody pretty much wins, and then work your way up, right, I would say work your way up into a little bit more aggressive games or, as their age gets older, work your way up into that age.
Speaker 2:Or the same way work your way from you're in the house and you focus on game night for the house. That's right. To where? Now you want to do something with the neighborhood? That's right. Or the people in the neighborhood, yeah, be like, hey, you knock on your neighbor's door and say, hey, next month would you be interested in coming and playing? That's a good idea. And so they got a whole month that if they hadn't hung out with you in a while or ever, they're like, hey, we're going to play, you know. And if they have a suggestion of something that they play in their home because that's how I found a lot of the board games that are not necessarily in the black community, yeah, like we didn't have where we build villages. As far as a game, a board game that you actually do that, right, you know. So it's like it was monopoly and spades, and you know, yeah, yeah, but dominoes for sure. Oh, yeah, man, you can go anywhere in the world. And and play dominoes.
Speaker 1:That's another one I used to play with.
Speaker 2:My boy was from memphis and he taught me really how to play no, well, he probably taught you is how to talk crazy while you play. Well, that too, that's the the trash. Talking is what makes the game. No, it's like the math is. Is is like you know if you can do math, yeah, it's you know, that's fine, you're right.
Speaker 1:He taught me yeah, you're right, you're right, you're right, you're right. He taught me the, the southern slang on as the how to play. You know, slap some rocks, you know?
Speaker 2:oh man, that was such a good time they have a tournament that out to my boy mar Mario on that one dude, that's my boy. What's up, mario, we appreciate you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, man, you gave me some love on that one.
Speaker 2:But yeah, they actually have a tournament of comics who play nothing but dominoes and it's like a television series on one of the independent networks. And like they try to recruit me to do it one year but I was already booked up doing their filming time. So a buddy of mine did it and he made so many good connections and some money off of it. Like I was like, oh, but you know, that's how it is in the entertainment business. Some of the stuff you pass up is like was high value but you didn't see it. And then some of the stuff you pass up you like thank God, because the person only made 25 books and got a hamburger.
Speaker 1:Sure, yeah Well, that's some value to somebody you know eventually. But I mean honestly, keep the games going.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Keep the fun at home and out and bring it outside.
Speaker 2:Exactly.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean, because the more we do that, the more it'll be back where we're not talking about how it used to be back in the day, right, we could talk about how it is currently now, today.
Speaker 2:What we did last weekend.
Speaker 1:That's right, exactly exactly, and we just did this last weekend and it's fun to brag about and blah, blah blah. So I absolutely think it's an amazing episode that needs to be one of those that we have to hear from the listeners so that they can, you know, chime in on what they do with their families and give us some more ideas. So, you know, we can not only talk about it on here, but we can also implement that into our homes, into our villages, and then we can, we can just have fun with it, you know, like we used to um back in the day when the kids were outside until the streetlights come in.
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