Out Loud Podcast Episode 19 Recap: The Everyday Habits We’ve Normalized But Should Probably Stop

Episode 19 of Out Loud with Rob and Rachel takes a step back and looks at the everyday behaviors that have quietly become normal in our society, even though most of us know they probably shouldn’t be. What starts off as a light conversation quickly turns into a deeper and more relatable discussion about social media habits, public etiquette, and the subtle ways people seek attention or validation without even realizing it. From over-the-top gender reveal parties and vague “pray for us” posts to filming strangers and constantly documenting life instead of living it, the episode highlights how these trends have become part of our culture.

The conversation naturally shifts into suburban life, especially the dynamics you see in local Facebook groups and community forums. Rob and Rachel break down the familiar personalities that show up in every town, the neighborhood detective who always has the answers, the passive aggressive commenter, the constant complainer, and the attention seeker who stirs the pot. It becomes clear that no matter where you live, these patterns repeat themselves, and once you recognize them, you start to see them everywhere.

The episode blends humor with honest observation, making it both entertaining and thought provoking without feeling preachy. It is less about calling people out and more about encouraging awareness, taking a look at our own habits, and maybe rethinking what we contribute to the noise. As always, the conversation feels real, unfiltered, and relatable, leaving listeners with a mix of laughs and moments where they realize they have probably done a few of these things themselves.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Welcome to Out Loud with Rob and Rachel. This is what happens when two ADHD brains come together and think out loud.

SPEAKER_02 0:07

Everybody, thanks for tuning in again to the Out Loud Podcast with Rob and Rachel.

SPEAKER_00 0:11

Hi, everyone. Thanks for coming back.

SPEAKER_02 0:13

Hope everybody's doing well.

SPEAKER_00 0:15

Yes, yes. It's been wacky weather over here.

SPEAKER_02 0:17

And Rachel has a little hair sticking out against the hair. Rachel and her hair problems. I have to say.

SPEAKER_00 0:31

To please, you know, because it does get a little bit crazy because in my old age I'm losing my hair.

SPEAKER_02 0:36

I think it's the glasses.

SPEAKER_00 0:37

Well, but it's not, it's not if I had thicker hair, it would not be a problem. But because my hair falls out in clumps, um, it's a problem. So um, yeah, it's just a combination of many, many age-related things. Um, so we wanted to start today. Sorry, yeah. Age related, 50 over 50. Yeah, absolutely. The whole, yeah. I mean, it's just, you know, it's it's I'd rather it's better than the alternative. Better than the alternative. Exactly. A lot of people Ernie Anastasis. Did you hear remember him?

SPEAKER_02 1:07

Oh, I love it.

SPEAKER_00 1:08

I know, me too.

SPEAKER_02 1:09

They're all like he was like home.

SPEAKER_00 1:11

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:12

Yeah, he's like home. Like, yeah. You're safe when you hurt him as a kid.

SPEAKER_00 1:17

Oh, Ernie Anastasis. Okay. So I wanted, I thought today we would go back to our question answer thing, which I think is very cool. I first want to say something. I I have to say about the kid at the Dunkin' Donuts.

SPEAKER_01 1:29

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:30

So on my way, I have to shout out a young gentleman. I was at the Dunkin' Donuts in Lindcroft. It was next, I purposely made sure I paid attention to what strip mall it was in, so that I, if anybody by any chance is watching this um and sees or knows the parent of the child or the child themselves, that they give him a shout out, shout out. So I was walking out, and the um there were two boys walking in, probably sixth or seventh grade. They rode their bikes there. They got and the one boy walks in and then the other one holds the door and he looks at me and he says, Are you leaving? And I said, Yes. And he said, Here you go. And he held the door. And as I was walking out, I said to him, Your parents did a really good job. Let them know. So for the parents of the two young boys who were at Dunkin' Donuts in Lincroft at probably around 410, you do you're doing a great job because your kids still get it, and that's a really good thing in today's day and age. So hats off to you, Lincroft Nutrition. Woo-hoo. All right, back to our um regular regularly scheduled programming. I thought we would start with 20 things we should stop doing in society as a whole.

SPEAKER_02 2:41

Stop or shouldn't stop, you mean?

SPEAKER_00 2:42

No, should stop. Should we or should we not stop doing them? Yes, we have to just we are the arbiters.

SPEAKER_02 2:49

We are.

SPEAKER_00 2:50

We are the deciders, okay? And actually, we may not agree.

SPEAKER_02 2:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:54

We may not agree on things. So this will be very interesting and very telling. Should or should not. Number one, gender reveal parties that require explosions, fireworks, or forest fires. Should or should not.

SPEAKER_02 3:09

No type of gender reveal parties. I agree. Yeah, they're terrible. Did you see in Mexico what happened?

SPEAKER_00 3:14

No.

SPEAKER_02 3:15

They flew a plane over and was spraying out like pink stuff.

SPEAKER_00 3:19

Right.

SPEAKER_02 3:20

And a plane crashed.

SPEAKER_00 3:21

See, that's what I mean. Like, I I I yeah, there's so many I mean, why I feel like how hot. Like when what what things stay sacred anymore, right? Like, why do we have to skyright literally and figuratively every moment of our lives to the entire world?

SPEAKER_02 3:45

Like, I don't care. I just want you to have a hell how to do it. Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 3:48

Ten fingers, ten toes, you know, uh, can breathe on its own, thank God.

SPEAKER_02 3:52

And all of you know, all of those things. Exactly. And then the weird thing is with these things is that when it's a girl, it's people are often disappointed. Have you noticed?

SPEAKER_00 4:03

That's what I find interesting is that like when they post those things and then the the viewers are looking for like your the f you know, like were they really legitimately happy? Or like did the dad kind of look a little disappointed that it wasn't a boy? Yeah, you're looking at that. I know it's weird.

SPEAKER_02 4:20

A lot of times it's when it's the third girl in a row or the fourth. Right, right, right, right.

SPEAKER_00 4:24

If they're like hoping for the other another, the other gender.

SPEAKER_02 4:27

But it always seems like it's the girl. They want a girl, right? Seems like nobody wishes for the girl. Like if there's three boys, the fourth boy's fine.

SPEAKER_00 4:35

That's interesting because I just saw one where it was four boys and the fifth one they were, and it was a girl and they were excited. Even the dad was crying, so that was really nice. Um, but yeah, I don't think they those things like and how about having a whole party around it.

SPEAKER_02 4:49

We missed that general like like we just missed that, our our generation. Oh, really? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:55

Superstition.

SPEAKER_02 4:56

But now the guys are invited to the showers the CBS.

SPEAKER_00 4:59

Yes. Yes. So that's very interesting. All right. All right. So gender reveal parties, we both say should not exist anymore. It's a it's a double negative. Okay. Month-long birthday celebrations.

SPEAKER_02 5:14

I don't even know who does that. I know. I mean, I know, but I it's my birthday month.

SPEAKER_00 5:20

Get ready.

SPEAKER_02 5:22

I won't be friends with them.

SPEAKER_00 5:23

They do countdowns. What about the half birthday celebrator?

SPEAKER_02 5:28

Oh, yeah. I mean, that that's all narcissists, aren't they, though? No, I'm serious. No, I actually did a Google search before chat about the half the month birthdays. The whole month. I mean, like all the books I read about narcissism. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 5:44

All say that it's a month-long celebration for their birthdays.

SPEAKER_02 5:47

Yeah, it's usually. And every person I did it were total narcissists. Like everybody.

SPEAKER_00 5:51

Wait, but what about the half the half birthday? The person who celebrates the half birthday sixty.

SPEAKER_02 6:00

Yeah, I mean, I just can't.

SPEAKER_00 6:02

Listen, I guess if you want anything to celebrate, you can celebrate whatever you want, right?

SPEAKER_02 6:06

I mean, I guess so. But nobody cares.

SPEAKER_00 6:08

Well, I mean, uh maybe there are people in your life who care, and maybe they're willing to entertain you in the I I do, I know, and I love her dearly. I do, yeah. I love her dearly. So you know what? I don't judge. I don't judge her.

SPEAKER_02 6:24

I'm gonna judge you.

SPEAKER_00 6:27

I'm a very inclusive person. Like, come on.

SPEAKER_02 6:30

Do you even know when your half birthday is?

SPEAKER_00 6:32

But I'm a very inclusive. I would say I could figure it out. I mean April.

SPEAKER_02 6:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:39

Oh, my half birthday's coming up in a month.

SPEAKER_02 6:41

Oh my god, I'll get you something.

SPEAKER_00 6:45

Do you get half a gift?

SPEAKER_02 6:47

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 6:48

Does one get half a gift on their half birthday? Half of what they wanted when their full birthday comes around? That's interesting. All right. Oh, this is a good one. This is a really good one. Posting cryptic pray for us statuses with no explanation. Vague booking, I like to call it.

SPEAKER_02 7:07

You gotta get it.

SPEAKER_00 7:08

When you vague book and you post her, that's a I I love it. Like, why are you vague booking? You post like breadcrumbs, you drop breadcrumbs, morsels.

SPEAKER_02 7:17

I knew somebody who posted a picture that looked just like his wife, right? Okay. It was a wedding picture. And his wife is, you know, blonde and pretty, and the woman he posted was blonde and pretty, and he wrote, Rest in peace, gone way too soon. So most of the people Oh my god, that's like a friends episode. But most of the people thought it was his wife. That's what I mean.

SPEAKER_00 7:37

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 7:38

And it was it, but and then he just disappeared for eight hours after like 300 comments. Because why would he do that? Well, it's it's He did it for attention? Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:48

Did he ever come clean?

SPEAKER_02 7:50

Yeah, yeah, like fucking seven hours later. And what was his so strange.

SPEAKER_00 7:54

What what was he like? Hey, sorry.

SPEAKER_02 7:58

I had his number, but I I didn't want to give him the attention.

SPEAKER_00 8:01

So I wait, so what did he say? Hey, I want to come clean?

SPEAKER_02 8:04

I just No, no, because oh no, this is my cousin or something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:09

He was in the wedding picture too?

SPEAKER_02 8:11

No, it was just her.

SPEAKER_00 8:13

Oh, so it was so vague. It was vague booking. Vague booking. Yeah. That was a classic case.

SPEAKER_02 8:19

This was recent, too. Like this was very recent. So weird, isn't it? Yeah. That's cringeworthy, actually. That's cringe worthy. A lot of cringey people out there.

SPEAKER_00 8:30

All right. That's cringe worthy.

SPEAKER_02 8:32

I think Facebook is the not the the the uh ground zero of cringy.

SPEAKER_00 8:38

I think you could be right. I think you could be right. All right, number four, filming strangers in public for TikTok content. I don't film kids. You always tell me we need to. I don't, I don't, I mean, I if I'm gonna do stuff like that, it's not gonna be in public.

SPEAKER_02 8:52

I think what they're talking about though is filming the gym, like the diet. Filming strangers without their permission, I think.

SPEAKER_00 8:58

Yeah, so that's a no.

SPEAKER_02 9:00

It's like filming giving a homeless person food.

SPEAKER_00 9:03

Wait, so can I just tell you something that happened? And I'm not gonna mention districts or anything like that, and I'm not gonna say anything, but I'm gonna put that away for one second. Uh-oh. Speaking of filming other people in public, so there's a teacher that I am familiar with who had a student in their class um recording them without their consent.

SPEAKER_02 9:24

Right.

SPEAKER_00 9:25

And then um had the mom on speaker phone without the teacher's consent. And when the teacher went to the administration, they said that because we're in New Jersey, it's legal for right, I know. So it's just it it's just interesting. Like you're never protected no matter where you are. So like something like that is just crappy to do.

SPEAKER_02 9:48

It's only legal if it's public property. It's not legal if it's private property.

SPEAKER_00 9:52

Well, right, but if you're at a gym, that's a gym, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:54

It's totally and in a school it's public property. Well, Jim, it could be against gym's policy, but yeah, you're right.

SPEAKER_00 9:58

And schools, it's public property. Yeah, it's a public property.

SPEAKER_02 10:01

It's a public school. Yeah, but it's a private um Right, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:10

No, I mean I mean, uh that's a scary thing though, because you know what? Like, what if you what if they s like I don't even want to say it out loud because then they're gonna get ideas, but like what if they use your words in other ways? You know what I mean? Like AI and stuff like that can do some crazy stuff. I know it's not so. All right, so that that that I think don't don't don't don't videotape strangers, that's not nice at all. And maybe it's a bad hair day, quite frankly. Or like they didn't put makeup on, or like they're not wearing a bra or something. I don't know. Like, don't do it. It's rude. It's bad form, man. Just bad form. All right. Clapping when the plane lands. I'm on the fence about this one. Yes. I mean should clap when the plane lands or should not.

SPEAKER_02 11:04

I don't like giving people like credit for things that supposed to be.

SPEAKER_00 11:07

Oh my god, they just got you from one place to the other, flying above the ground in the clouds.

SPEAKER_02 11:12

I know.

SPEAKER_00 11:13

Weather, and you don't think they deserve credit?

SPEAKER_02 11:16

I guess so.

SPEAKER_00 11:17

I mean, thank you to every pilot and flight.

SPEAKER_02 11:21

I usually join in though.

SPEAKER_00 11:23

You're not the initiator.

SPEAKER_02 11:24

No, no.

SPEAKER_00 11:25

I am I have I will admit I have been the clapping initiator on multiple occasions.

SPEAKER_01 11:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:32

Especially if there's bad turbulence. Yeah, yeah. If there's if it's a bad flight, I'm I I'll tell you what, if I had room, I'll stand up and clap, man. I don't care. I will give credit for the colour.

SPEAKER_02 11:42

You can do all the clapping you want.

SPEAKER_00 11:44

I will. If it if that's what it requires, I will clap. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 11:48

She reminded me in Jamaica. Everywhere we went, like af after we went off the resort, yeah, all the Jamaicans used to call me uh Superman. Really? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:01

They thought you looked like Superman.

SPEAKER_02 12:02

Well, because I was tall, and I think I was ripped at the time. And and uh Superman, I think because it was tall, yeah. Superman, Superman.

SPEAKER_00 12:11

That one's going in the filing cabinet. Yeah. A hundred percent to come out at a later date. Thank you, Gina. For another ammunition. All right. I we've spoken about this next one. This is the bane of my existence. Uh-oh. Reply all. Oh, yeah. No, reply all emails in large groups. There's there, we've talked about this. I don't even want to waste that because it makes me angry just thinking about it.

SPEAKER_02 12:35

I'm not in the situations you're in. It's the worst thing ever.

SPEAKER_00 12:38

It's really in a in a large group like that, it's the worst thing. Especially when it's like, thanks again. Like we had another one the other day. Um a new staff member, and they were just like, Oh, you know, we wanted to welcome blah blah blah. You know, she's new to the staff, and every single person replied all really and said, Welcome to the staff. We're so happy to see you, we're so happy to have you, or whatever it is. Just reply to the person. Just reply to them.

SPEAKER_02 13:05

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:06

I don't, and with all due respect, I don't need to get 72 welcome to the staff emails.

SPEAKER_02 13:12

Yeah, you have to send it from a no reply email.

SPEAKER_00 13:15

Right.

SPEAKER_02 13:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:15

I I it's very easy. No, I don't know. Or just hit reply and not reply all. There's an option on Google.

SPEAKER_02 13:21

Right.

SPEAKER_00 13:22

I mean, you literally have to hit reply all.

SPEAKER_02 13:25

It's actually harder to hit reply all. Exactly. So it's on yes, no reply all ever.

SPEAKER_00 13:30

Never, never.

SPEAKER_02 13:30

Never.

SPEAKER_00 13:31

There's never a reason unless every single person needs the information. All right. That's a stop and think kind of thing. If there is no other person besides one or two that needs the information you are disseminating in that email, do not hit reply all.

SPEAKER_02 13:47

Definitely don't. Don't do it.

SPEAKER_00 13:49

All right. Seven destination weddings that require people to spend thousands.

SPEAKER_02 13:54

No, no, just stop it.

SPEAKER_00 13:56

I mean, I've never been married, so I I've never been to a destination wedding. I I was invited to one and I couldn't make it actually. I was very upset I couldn't make it.

SPEAKER_02 14:04

Yeah, yeah. I think it's fine if if you don't have small children.

SPEAKER_00 14:08

Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:09

I didn't I was not a mom yet.

SPEAKER_00 14:12

So it didn't, it wasn't I was busy. I actually had something else.

SPEAKER_02 14:14

I'm not sure if you're not fine arrangements for them, but uh I was invited to one, but I Oh, what if your kids are invited too? Yeah. And you're in like a I think a lot of people who do that have wealthy friends, like the people that I did it. So like everybody's wealthy in their group often, you know, so it's not a big deal, but yeah, like I I don't know. I don't like that. I do believe it's a good idea. I barely want to go to the next town for your wedding. You know, like I just I just don't want to be invited to anything. Don't invite me.

SPEAKER_00 14:43

I rem yeah, I don't either.

SPEAKER_02 14:45

I I don't, I mean especially now that I don't drink, it's like it's tough to get through.

SPEAKER_00 14:50

I know the wedding. Well, I made a decision a long time ago.

SPEAKER_02 14:53

So if I don't have to have four percent chance they're gonna get divorced anyway.

SPEAKER_00 14:56

Well, and and weddings are yeah, as a single person, weddings are hard to go to. They are, they're not.

SPEAKER_02 15:00

I know people who get married the second time or third time, and it's the destination wedding.

SPEAKER_00 15:05

Right. Yeah, that's the destination wedding I was invited to, actually. It was the second marriage for her.

SPEAKER_02 15:10

The first one didn't work out. What do you think the second one's gonna work out for?

SPEAKER_00 15:13

Well, it is. They're married and they're happily happily ever after right now.

SPEAKER_02 15:16

We'll see.

SPEAKER_00 15:17

Well, oh shit. I hope they stay happily ever after forever. All right, taking photos of food before anyone can eat. So, like when the table gets the food, you say stop. Hold on.

SPEAKER_02 15:30

Yeah. Well, don't, don't, don't, don't, uh, don't do lunch with Uncle Eddie, said I that. Because you'll never have you'll never eat a hot meal.

SPEAKER_00 15:38

I do have to say that I have done that also. I am guilty of it too. When I go to a new restaurant, and if the presentation is really me too. And if the presentation is really nice, I just say, hey, let me just snap a pick.

SPEAKER_02 15:49

Yeah, I no, I take pictures of everything. So you'll see my I'll just reach over.

SPEAKER_00 15:54

Yeah, I know. I think so. I I mean I don't think.

SPEAKER_02 15:56

I don't take the table lamp and shine the light on and make it good.

SPEAKER_00 16:00

I'm not bringing the the ring light. Like, I mean, we're not like fixing the lighting to get the food perfect, but I do take pics. I don't always post them though.

SPEAKER_02 16:08

Yeah, I never post them. I take the pictures. I know, isn't that funny? I don't either usually. Yeah. Unless it's I think I'm so quick at it that the pictures aren't good because I'm just doing a like for I just I just do it. I don't know. Okay. I'm planning on posting it. I just never understand it.

SPEAKER_00 16:23

Did you look at it and then you say I don't like it?

SPEAKER_02 16:25

No, I just feel like an idiot posting my food.

SPEAKER_00 16:28

It's another cringe worthy moment. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 16:29

And I'm not on Facebook anymore. It's more of a Facebook thing. It's not an Instagram thing.

SPEAKER_00 16:34

Right.

SPEAKER_02 16:34

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:35

So it's a different Well, it can be an Instagram thing in a lump of pictures. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's where I find people post when they've gone to on vacation or something like that, and then they're at a resort or whatever, and they post it within all of the other like that I've seen. I have a dear friend who's in Italy or was in Italy a little while ago, and she just she just posted pictures of Italy and there were delicious food pictures in there with it.

SPEAKER_02 16:58

Yeah, that I would look at actually.

SPEAKER_00 16:59

Yeah, me too. Alright, so we we think you should keep doing that because there's they're relevant. Absolutely. Especially if it's a new restaurant.

SPEAKER_02 17:06

Especially the desserts.

SPEAKER_00 17:07

Oh, that's a good point.

SPEAKER_02 17:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:09

You know what? I I have to tell you, pasta dishes to me are really I like what Yeah, you like that? Yeah, I do. I don't know why. They just always look delicious. Meat? It doesn't do it for me. All right. Uh parents fighting with referees at kids' sports games.

SPEAKER_02 17:27

Terrible. You see the two moms go at it. It went viral the other day.

SPEAKER_00 17:31

Which the one with the where they fight. Is that a new one?

SPEAKER_02 17:34

It was like two weeks ago. It was like two moms just like beating the shit out of each other. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:39

It's awful.

SPEAKER_02 17:40

Yeah. I got no room for that.

SPEAKER_00 17:43

I got no love for the people that do that.

SPEAKER_02 17:44

No.

SPEAKER_00 17:45

I really don't. I think it's bad. Bad form.

SPEAKER_02 17:47

So he's hockey parents, too.

SPEAKER_00 17:49

Oh, well, because you know, it's scrappy. That's a scrappy sport.

SPEAKER_02 17:53

Hockey moms are wild. Hockey hockey and wrestling scrappy sports. Hockey moms and wrestling moms.

SPEAKER_00 17:58

I don't know too many wrestling families, but I've known a lot of hockey families. Right, I know.

SPEAKER_02 18:03

But they're wild.

SPEAKER_00 18:04

I I I know a lot of you know hockey families, and they are scrappy. Yeah. In a good way. Yeah, yeah. In a good way. I don't mean that. I mean grit. Like I mean scrappy grit. Like, you know, hardworking, you know, year air and out in the garage, nasty smelling shit. All right. This is funny, and like I'm not sure how I feel about this next one. Restaurant staff singing happy birthday.

SPEAKER_02 18:29

No, I don't like that. No. I I warn my whole family. Don't fucking do it. Like just I'll I'll leave.

SPEAKER_00 18:37

Even if it's somebody else, or just if it's you. Let's just stop that.

SPEAKER_02 18:43

Yeah, let's just stop it. Because first you're you're asking the staff to do something they probably.

SPEAKER_00 18:48

I know, but they were trained to do it.

SPEAKER_02 18:50

I don't think every restaurant you could tell when they're not trained at some point. Well, right. They may not have been cheap.

SPEAKER_00 18:56

Oh, come on, but they when they got the job, they saw somebody running through the restaurant singing happy birthday. I mean, even at Ichiban, and they singing in Japanese.

SPEAKER_02 19:03

So if my if I had parents that were alive, like I would have it for my mom or something. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:10

That's so it should not go away fully. But I don't believe that you should sucker punch somebody with it. Yeah, no. Right. Like when we used to do at Chili's. Yeah. Not chilies, cheeses.

SPEAKER_02 19:21

Farrells, too, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:22

Farrells. If Farrells came back, I would I would have you sing happy birthday to me and everybody in my family for the rest of my life for that clown Sunday and the drum.

SPEAKER_02 19:32

That's true.

SPEAKER_00 19:32

That would be something that I would welcome with open arms, by the way.

SPEAKER_02 19:36

But I do like restaurants who have a whole vibe.

SPEAKER_00 19:39

I know.

SPEAKER_02 19:40

But some in the restaurant, they you could tell it's not what they do.

SPEAKER_00 19:42

Yeah, they're not they're not they're not great at it. But I mean I definitely think there's a place for it. Posting your entire workout routine online, I can't relate to this at all. So I got nothing for it.

SPEAKER_02 19:54

Yeah, I know. When I was running marathons, I I would post.

SPEAKER_00 19:57

Is that to hold yourself accountable?

SPEAKER_02 19:59

No, it was um so what happened with me with marathons and triathlons, uh, somebody else was posting and then inspired me to start. That's why I started running.

SPEAKER_00 20:09

Well, so then posting is a good thing.

SPEAKER_02 20:10

Yeah, I mean it does it it'll inspire the right person. Right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:14

All right, so maybe you should keep them coming.

SPEAKER_02 20:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:16

Absolutely. You're inspiring somebody.

SPEAKER_02 20:18

I think that's okay. I mean, if if if you could post, you know, the bottle of wine you're drinking, like it would be.

SPEAKER_00 20:23

Very true, or the sourdough you're you're making, or whatever. That's the newest craze. I still I still have sourdough starter in my house that I'm afraid of. I might start videotaping that for out loud and let you guys know how it goes. My daughter is skeeved out by starter because it's alive. She thinks it is alive, but like she's skeeved by it. The it grows and all of that. So I'm trying to desensitize her to it and have her join in. So we may do a family sourdough series. It should be interesting.

SPEAKER_02 20:50

I'll film it.

SPEAKER_00 20:51

Well, we'll bring it in. I'll give you some bread to if it works out. I've seen some big fails with sourdough where they open it up and it's hollow.

SPEAKER_01 20:59

That's gonna happen to me.

SPEAKER_00 21:00

It will. It's okay. I'm I'm I'm ready for it. Having separate parties for every kid in a blended family. I don't have anything to say about that, actually.

SPEAKER_02 21:09

Yeah, I don't know. Separate birthday parties?

SPEAKER_00 21:12

I never had a separate birthday party even for my family. My my mine and my sister's birthdays were only three days apart. Right. Four years and three days. So we always shared a birthday. Except for No, actually, well, I had my own like Sweet 16, but like we had she had a a cake also. So like I've never not had a cake with my sister in all every year that we've been together and able to celebrate, we've shared cakes.

SPEAKER_02 21:38

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 21:39

So I don't see anything wrong with that. I yeah, I don't I don't see anything I don't see it having I don't see that being necessary, having separate parties for everybody. That's weird. Um oh. I I have something to say about this one recording entire concerts on your phone instead of watching them. That is exactly what happened. I went to the Conan Gray concert a few weeks ago and that's exact I it was so sad to me.

SPEAKER_01 22:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:05

It was so sad to me that as an artist, you're sitting up there on the stage and half of your audience is so bored that it's like they're sitting home listening to a song that they're just scrolling through their phones.

SPEAKER_02 22:18

Right, yeah. But they're recording it, et cetera. This is, but you're on your phone in general.

SPEAKER_00 22:23

Like, why are you on your phone at a concert?

SPEAKER_02 22:25

I like a good concert.

SPEAKER_00 22:27

If if it's your favorite song and you want a memory of your artist singing the song live, I totally get it.

SPEAKER_01 22:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:34

But to videotape every single song and to be on your phone the entire time, why did you pay to go there and watch it?

SPEAKER_02 22:42

I just don't think they know how to do one thing at one time. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:45

Yeah. Wow.

SPEAKER_02 22:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:47

They can't do more than one thing at one time. That was pretty wow.

SPEAKER_02 22:50

They only can do one. Yeah, right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:53

All right. Oh, this is a big one. Using speakerphone in public places.

SPEAKER_02 22:58

The worst. The worst. Well, that one's funny because that doesn't bother the shit out of you. There's certain cultures that do it more than others.

SPEAKER_00 23:07

I know there are.

SPEAKER_02 23:07

And I I just fucking hilarious. But it's a cult. It's actually I guess.

SPEAKER_00 23:13

It's not.

SPEAKER_02 23:13

No, I'm not even making fun, but it's a cult. Some things are cultural.

SPEAKER_00 23:18

I know, but I think that's obnoxious. I don't care what culture you're from. That's obnoxious. I don't want to hear your conversation.

SPEAKER_02 23:24

No.

SPEAKER_00 23:24

Put in a pair of headphones. They're $2 at the top.

SPEAKER_02 23:27

They do it at the gym. People do it at the gym.

SPEAKER_00 23:30

Everywhere.

SPEAKER_02 23:31

Even downtown Freehold here. Like they're walking down the sidewalk.

SPEAKER_00 23:34

In the supermarket.

SPEAKER_02 23:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:35

Or even in like CVS where it's tiny.

SPEAKER_02 23:38

It doesn't even make any sense.

SPEAKER_00 23:39

Not at all. I don't understand it. All right. Office birthday cake when nobody actually wants it. You can't really relate to that because you're not.

SPEAKER_02 23:51

Back in the day, we used to I used to like it.

SPEAKER_00 23:54

I like those get-togeth when I like the people I work with. I mean, that's not always.

SPEAKER_02 23:58

I looked for somebody for 13 years. We used everybody got a cake around their birthday. Oh, that's nice.

SPEAKER_00 24:03

Expecting immediate responses from text.

SPEAKER_02 24:06

Oh, we kind of talked about that the other day. Yeah, I don't expect it.

SPEAKER_00 24:11

I don't I it depends.

SPEAKER_02 24:14

I'm I'm I'm a pretty good responder. You are a good responder.

SPEAKER_00 24:17

Um, it depends for me. If I'm asking you a question and I know you're around, I I don't know why you're not answering me, like within a timely manner.

SPEAKER_02 24:26

You know, you should answer. You shouldn't ignore it on purpose. I mean, there are there are times where um I put my phone on sleep. Well, I do that I do that all day. But no, I always answer when when I see it.

SPEAKER_00 24:37

Right. Like I I mean there are certain people that it it pops up for. I mean, you're you're on, you know, and m all of my so they're those, but even I still check it periodically.

SPEAKER_02 24:49

It's interesting too, because I I get I get credited for being responsive, which tells me that a lot of people aren't responsive. Yes. Yeah. Yes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:00

I mean, yes.

SPEAKER_02 25:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:03

It's obnoxious, actually. I find I I do. And and I I mean, and I understand that people go through things and they're experiencing things in their lives and all of that, but like I took the time to reach out to you. So just say, hey, I'm okay. Like, you know, have or going through a hard time.

SPEAKER_02 25:20

This is one of this is one of Rachel's biggest pet peeve, because this is the third or fourth time you brought this up on a podcast. I just take five seconds.

SPEAKER_00 25:28

Not in a great position.

SPEAKER_02 25:29

And I can't help but think that you have one specific person in mind. And you're hoping they'll hear this.

SPEAKER_00 25:37

No. No, because I don't think those people can handle that.

SPEAKER_02 25:41

Yeah. All right. I really don't.

SPEAKER_00 25:43

Not the people I'm talking about.

SPEAKER_02 25:44

Well, they'll throw it back at you.

SPEAKER_00 25:46

You know, I'm talking about people who don't text right back, I believe, can't handle more than a couple of things at a time, which is part of the reason that they can't. Not just the people I'm talking about.

SPEAKER_01 25:56

I got you.

SPEAKER_00 25:56

I'm talking about in general.

SPEAKER_01 25:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:58

Because if it's not being done maliciously, then you have to think they can't handle focusing on something like that at the moment, right?

SPEAKER_02 26:07

I mean it's usually it's not not uh it's not a difficult question.

SPEAKER_00 26:11

No.

SPEAKER_02 26:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:12

And very often it's just checking in.

SPEAKER_02 26:14

Yeah. Um, so that's I think what bothers me sometimes because I did take a lot that when you ask somebody like, uh, do you want do you want to go out to you want to meet up for for dinner or something and they don't get back to you right away?

SPEAKER_00 26:26

No, that doesn't bother me actually.

SPEAKER_02 26:28

Because they might be checking other scenarios.

SPEAKER_00 26:31

Not only uh as if it's like an impromptu, like tonight, like if I'm tonight, hey, when I get together next weekend.

SPEAKER_02 26:38

Oh like sometimes I'll wait because I gotta I can't. Oh no, I don't think that's bad. I don't I don't have a problem with that.

SPEAKER_00 26:44

Because you know what? I'm not my kid, I don't always know what my kids are doing next week. So for something like that, it doesn't bother me.

SPEAKER_01 26:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:52

Um would it be nice if you say, hey, let me check my schedule or I can't really nail anything down next week because there's 15 million things up in the air. So that I you know, that I can appre appreciate. Totally not responding to the text and letting it like hang in the air. I I I if I'm asking you to hang out. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:13

That if I'm asking somebody to hang out, I would hope that they would be like, oh, that's such a great idea. Let me look at my calendar. And then I'm good. Like if you need a few days to check it out, I'm totally, I don't care. I'm not hardcore like that. Turn every no turn every hobby into a side hustle.

SPEAKER_02 27:31

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's that's a problem. You gotta stop doing that. Yeah, I gotta stop doing that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:36

Do you think people think that about me?

unknown 27:38

No.

SPEAKER_00 27:39

No, because that's not my hobby, it's my career, actually.

SPEAKER_02 27:41

Right, yeah. No, I don't think so. I don't think so.

SPEAKER_00 27:44

I don't really have to be.

SPEAKER_02 27:46

I mean, I think that about myself. Like eyes on EB was more of a hobby.

SPEAKER_00 27:51

Alright. We're back. Rapid fire round of this. Now you're answering keep or cancel. No explanation. No explanation. Now matching family outfits for the holidays.

SPEAKER_02 28:12

I know, right?

SPEAKER_00 28:13

Public marriage proposals. Cancel it. Posting your kids with report cards online.

SPEAKER_02 28:22

Cancel it.

SPEAKER_00 28:25

Baby showers for the second and the third babies. For me, it depends on how many how much time in between.

SPEAKER_02 28:34

And if the gender is the same. Yeah. Cancel it.

SPEAKER_00 28:38

Cancel.

SPEAKER_02 28:38

Yeah, that's a big one for me.

SPEAKER_00 28:40

Okay. Why? Because like, why are you asking me?

SPEAKER_02 28:41

Well, the third baby, the second baby, I think it'd be okay, but the third is it's enough.

SPEAKER_00 28:45

Okay. Alright. Okay. Voice notes instead of texting. I almost voice noted you the other day because I wanted to tell you a story. I forgot. Oh my god, see, I forgot about it. And I felt like it would be, it would have landed better if you heard it in my voice.

SPEAKER_02 29:01

Oh, I like voice notes, actually.

SPEAKER_00 29:02

Yeah, I I really was going to, but then I was like, I couldn't I I forgot what happened. It didn't work out, so I just texted it.

SPEAKER_02 29:10

Some guy, some guy I know voice does. I actually like it.

SPEAKER_00 29:13

I do too. Some when it's just it's just easy. Like sometimes if I'm telling a joke, if I'm telling a story to my I have two very dear friends who I call my vault.

SPEAKER_01 29:22

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 29:22

And if I'm telling a story and you have and my voice, like I have to use like my intonation and like that kind of thing, or if I'm imitating somebody, I always send them a voice over. Like I'll do like in like minute snippets, and just it's funny. I like doing that because it's effective. All right. Um work group chats after hours. No.

SPEAKER_02 29:44

No, no, cancel.

SPEAKER_00 29:46

Yeah. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 29:47

Cancel most group chats.

SPEAKER_00 29:49

Kids having social media accounts before middle school. Cancel.

SPEAKER_02 29:53

Yeah, I agree.

SPEAKER_00 29:54

Yeah, cancel. Cancel, cancel, cancel. All right. So now let's move on.

SPEAKER_02 30:03

I gotta pull up my thing, I think, right?

SPEAKER_00 30:06

Two. Yeah. Now we're going into some level three community controversial debate topics. Okay. So these are, I'm gonna give you, this is how we're going to explain this, okay? So I am going to list off 15 Facebook or social media characters. It's really Facebook, right? Like, because that's where you have these groups and these forums, these like community forums. So we're really we're we're we're just gonna poke a little fun at it. Um at the Facebook community forums, the next door community forums, those community, you know, that everybody the neighborhood watches.

SPEAKER_02 30:53

Whether it's Facebook or next door or whatever.

SPEAKER_00 30:56

Right, right, right. Those those like apps that are for um or even like the ring. Even the ring has like people comment on the ring app. Me and my wife won't get the ring. Oh, why?

SPEAKER_02 31:08

Yeah, we just we don't we don't even track our kids. All right. Like even when we were 17.

SPEAKER_00 31:13

All right.

SPEAKER_02 31:14

Yeah, we're good for you. All right, motor privacy.

SPEAKER_00 31:18

These are the 15 characters that show up in community in suburban community forums. Okay, ready. Number one, the following lady. That's the one who doesn't respond with anything but either a period so that she comments but doesn't, or the word following, and then just pays attention as the comments roll in.

SPEAKER_02 31:49

This is a little sexist, by the way.

SPEAKER_00 31:51

I know, because it says lady.

SPEAKER_02 31:53

Because I'll I I always write following as a so it's so funny. Like, so so the post I do following was like, I'm looking for Oh, for like a handyman or something like that, right? No, no, I'll do following, like if a woman posts something. I I need I need some somebody new to wax me or whatever, and I'll put following. I do that all the time. Following.

SPEAKER_00 32:20

And then somebody's gonna be like, that's cringy. Ew. All right. Number two, the neighborhood detective. I like that one.

SPEAKER_02 32:32

That's like popping the mine.

SPEAKER_00 32:34

The neighborhood detective. You don't have to mention their names, but I mean on on Facebook groups, not necessarily, but like I know people who may not be as vocal on Facebook, but they're they're detectives in the town. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 100%.

SPEAKER_02 32:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:48

Um The Angry Taxpayer.

SPEAKER_02 32:51

Well, there's a lot of those. Oh my god. In New Jersey, at least. Yes, definitely. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:56

The HOA enforcer.

SPEAKER_02 32:58

So that's similar to the taxpayer. Yeah, it is.

SPEAKER_00 33:02

But if you live in an if if you have a homeowners association and then there's like rules and stuff, I like to call them like the mayor of your community. Right, right, right. Like we have a lot. I I mean, during the summer, we have a pool. There's a mayor. She comes and she watches everything. Oh my God.

SPEAKER_02 33:21

Yeah. When she comes when she's the same woman who yelled at you about the snow.

SPEAKER_00 33:24

No, no, no, no, no, no. Actually, that woman never comes to the pool. She never comes to the pool. This woman, I believe that she has taken it on as her job to be the pool enforcer or the HOA enforcer. So, yes, she is the mayor of my of my com my development, we like to call her. Number five, the passive aggressive neighbor. Oh, yeah. We all know that one. Yeah. Totally.

unknown 33:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:48

The town historian. You people come from my I'm sometimes the town historian.

SPEAKER_02 33:54

Yeah, I guess so. I mean, I can. Yeah, you can sometimes I throw in there some what happened back when it doesn't interest you enough.

SPEAKER_00 34:01

No, not in yeah. Only if I feel it's somebody's history.

SPEAKER_02 34:05

I mean, there's some hard. I know, no, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_00 34:07

I don't, I don't, I don't go that way.

SPEAKER_02 34:08

But they then they try to, I don't like the people who try to use it as leverage. Like they're better than you.

SPEAKER_00 34:14

Because they know the history of certain things.

SPEAKER_02 34:16

Well, you're not even sure if you can believe them or not. You know what I mean? They're doing it to win an argument.

SPEAKER_00 34:22

All right. That's interesting. What would you call that person?

SPEAKER_02 34:25

Uh I don't know. Passive aggressive, I guess. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 34:30

The pizza snob. I actually think that you can you can expand that to like the food snob. Yeah, there are some food stuff. Not just that. Like the the it's almost like they're a pizza snob, actually. Well, but there are people who believe they are like the town food critics.

SPEAKER_02 34:46

Yeah, I think I am the town pizza guy. Okay. You think you're a town pizza guy? Uh I could be if I wanted to be. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 34:53

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 34:54

Like when people tell me like Stefano's is great pizza or brothers. It's not.

SPEAKER_00 34:58

I don't really want to diss anybody.

SPEAKER_02 35:00

No, I mean, but they're not gonna hear it. We're not local, we're international.

SPEAKER_00 35:04

That's true. We're international.

SPEAKER_02 35:06

It's good pizza. But what I'm saying is It's not the best. I I can tell people who don't eat pizza.

SPEAKER_00 35:12

Yes, yes. I see what you're saying. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 35:14

That's awesome. Like it is good pizza.

SPEAKER_00 35:16

Yeah. Yeah. It depends on what's going on.

SPEAKER_02 35:17

Like I had Stephanos the other day, it was great. It was nice.

SPEAKER_00 35:20

Yeah. Actually, their eggplant parm sub is delicious at Stefanos. I like that. Actually, I think theirs is the best.

SPEAKER_02 35:25

But I know pe people who don't know pizza by the pizza they say they love.

SPEAKER_00 35:28

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right, right, right, right. I got you. The conspiracy guy. There's so many of those. OM.

SPEAKER_02 35:36

At different levels, too. Totally. Totally. There's a there are the ones that, you know.

SPEAKER_00 35:41

Yeah, but they're like potstars.

SPEAKER_02 35:42

I believe there's aliens and uh well, there's those.

SPEAKER_00 35:46

Right.

SPEAKER_02 35:46

But then there's also That's what I mean, all different versions of the other. Yeah, totally.

SPEAKER_00 35:50

The person the person who tags their husband. Oh god. What about the social media sharing couple?

SPEAKER_02 35:58

Oh good.

SPEAKER_00 35:59

What are your thoughts on that?

SPEAKER_02 36:00

We got yelled out by one the other day. Um did we? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. An eyes on E B. Oh. Yeah, yeah. No. Uh yeah, I have a lot to say about that, I guess.

SPEAKER_00 36:10

The sharing of the social media account.

SPEAKER_02 36:12

Yeah, I don't I just don't understand it.

SPEAKER_00 36:14

The meshing of the of the usernames and I always assume, I don't think it is.

SPEAKER_02 36:19

It's a trusting, but I don't I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 36:22

I I can't speak to it because I'm not married, so I wouldn't ever be sharing. I mean, I can I would never do it. Right.

SPEAKER_02 36:29

Yeah, like but I'm coming from a like I I would I would never, but you can comment on it as easily as I can.

SPEAKER_00 36:38

I mean, I I I yeah, I wouldn't do it. Yeah. What's mine is mine. What's yours is yours. And there are certain things we can share, but that's not one of them.

SPEAKER_02 36:45

Like, that's like going through someone's purse.

SPEAKER_00 36:47

Not only that, it's like expecting to go to your high school reunion with you. But I also think it's like, I don't know, it's I I equate it to like, why are you coming to the high school reunion with me? You didn't know anybody.

SPEAKER_01 36:59

Right, right, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 36:59

The people who are on my Facebook are people that I went to college with. Why would you have any interest? And like if they say, hey, reach, blah, blah, blah. And my husband is on there, he's not gonna know how to answer that. I mean, it's so weird.

SPEAKER_02 37:12

The only reason why Gina would want me to go to her high school reunion would be because I would drive her home.

SPEAKER_00 37:16

Right. You're the designated driver. Yeah, but guess what? Right. You find a coffee shop somewhere.

SPEAKER_02 37:22

Yeah, yeah. And I don't want to go.

SPEAKER_00 37:24

I know you don't. Right. But a lot of people don't.

SPEAKER_02 37:25

But not not because of reasons you don't think I want her to catch up.

SPEAKER_00 37:30

What do you mean? Why would you want to go? Yes. I don't understand that. You didn't go to high school with her. You know no one.

SPEAKER_01 37:36

Right.

SPEAKER_00 37:38

There's you don't need to say I'm yes, I'm mad. Like, okay, we're mad.

SPEAKER_02 37:42

Yeah, a lot of those are sketchy though when the spouses aren't invited. I I they're a little sketchy.

SPEAKER_00 37:46

When the what?

SPEAKER_02 37:47

When when the spouses aren't invited though. Aren't invited. Yeah, they're not invited for a reason sometimes. There's some weird stuff that happens during the after party. You never caught that?

SPEAKER_00 37:57

After parties?

SPEAKER_02 37:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 37:58

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 37:59

Yeah. All right.

SPEAKER_00 38:01

After parties. All right. That's interesting. After parties. The local business promoter.

SPEAKER_02 38:09

They may have fake profiles.

SPEAKER_00 38:11

There's so many of those. The third person talker of the local business promoter. Yeah, right, right, right. Talking about yourself in the third person.

SPEAKER_02 38:21

I went here with my daughter.

SPEAKER_00 38:23

This is the best experience I ever had.

SPEAKER_02 38:25

It's the business owner, but it's underneath a different cringy.

SPEAKER_00 38:28

Yeah. Totally cringy.

SPEAKER_02 38:30

And then but people catch on and they don't they don't engage.

SPEAKER_00 38:36

Do you think you're pulling the wool over our eyes?

SPEAKER_02 38:38

I think they think.

SPEAKER_00 38:39

Do you think I don't get it?

SPEAKER_02 38:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 38:41

That bothers me. Do you think we don't know that it's you?

SPEAKER_02 38:44

Yeah, but it's like it's like it's bizarre. I I I just get I get embarrassed with people. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 38:50

I guess that's the overly helpful mom. Or dad. Or dad, I'm not gonna be sexist.

SPEAKER_02 39:00

You can't be a little bit. That's all right. I am.

SPEAKER_00 39:02

Like the helicopter and lawnmower mom.

SPEAKER_02 39:04

Yeah. Yeah. How about the virtue singler though?

SPEAKER_00 39:08

Okay, so you have to explain to me exactly and the viewers and listeners what exactly that is. Because you've mentioned that before.

SPEAKER_02 39:14

Is like somebody who said, uh, you know, like in East Brunswick, you have a lot of homeless people, which is fine, but they come up to your cars at the stoplights. And I'm fine, I'm six foot six, two hundred and forty pounds, but I I don't want anybody coming up to my wife or even you. Right. Right, right, right, right. Like not that it might not bother you.

SPEAKER_00 39:30

I it's actually, believe it or not, never happened to me.

SPEAKER_02 39:33

Right.

SPEAKER_00 39:33

So I mean, but I'm used to it in Jersey City. No, I know. So for me, it doesn't bother me. I mean, I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_02 39:38

I don't I don't think certain people should be put in that situation.

SPEAKER_00 39:42

It can be very unherryful.

SPEAKER_02 39:48

I know. I know. Well, you know what? I don't care. Right. In that instance, I don't care what they're going through. Exactly. In that moment. Let people stop at a stoplight, not worried about anything, maybe get where they're going.

SPEAKER_00 40:00

Not have to pull up their windows if they, you know, if you're coming. Right. I I get that, right? Like there are some times where my windows are down, and if I see the situation, I'll put them up before I even get to that.

SPEAKER_02 40:09

You never heard of the term virtue single?

SPEAKER_00 40:11

I mean, I know exactly what it is. I just want to make sure.

SPEAKER_02 40:13

It's not really what it is, but but it's more like people talking about things that they really don't care about, but they're just trying to put it make somebody else.

SPEAKER_00 40:20

Or make themselves look so good in the moment.

SPEAKER_02 40:23

Yeah, it's it's like it's you know a lot of them. I do. You know, they they say a lot of great things, but then behind the scenes they're just the worst people to work for, or you know, they don't they end up not paying their employees, you know, or whatever the case may be.

SPEAKER_00 40:37

Yes, yes. Okay, the next one. The kids these days complainer. There have been a lot of them lately on social media.

SPEAKER_02 40:46

Yeah, it's funny. They raise the kids that are like they're part of the problem the way they raised their kids.

SPEAKER_00 40:52

It's so bad. The e-bikes in our town, and everybody complaining about everything with the kids. Yeah. And there's nowhere for them to go. So these kids are just acting like kids, and people just can't handle it anymore. And I don't know. I don't even know what to say about it.

SPEAKER_02 41:08

About our generation. We brag about how tough we were, how resilient we were, how much freedom we have, but we don't. But when our own children do it, do you know what I find?

SPEAKER_00 41:19

I you know what I find, uh, yeah, I find that a lot of people in our generation have very little patience for children.

SPEAKER_02 41:27

Yeah, I agree.

SPEAKER_00 41:29

Um, and I think it's interesting because as an educator, I've always been around kids, so I have no choice. And I think it's so funny when people say, God, you're so patient. And I'm like, why would you not be their kids? Like, we were, did you forget? Like, you were there. Like, I was not the greatest kid. I mean, I wasn't an asshole, but like the bad kid. I I mean, my dad used to laugh and be like, he turned to my mom and be like, What night was it? Like, she went to sleep, she was our little girl, she woke up and she's a raging bitch right now. Like, what night was it? Towards the end, he used to just be like, What night was it? That was all he would say.

SPEAKER_02 42:03

And I knew I was there from the police station more than once as a kid. See, and like three or four times.

SPEAKER_00 42:08

Right. Like, we were not the best kids. Like, I I mean, kids were bullied in our high school really bad.

SPEAKER_02 42:15

There were like Yeah, I never did that.

SPEAKER_00 42:17

No, but yeah, but when they talk about what goes on in our high school right now, yeah, it's like normal shit. That's what I'm saying. Like, it's as though they've been so far removed from that that they don't remember that what the difference between typical teenager stuff is and then like today teenager. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_02 42:35

Like But they're the same people who complain that kids don't do the stuff we did.

SPEAKER_00 42:39

I know. Because Right. Yeah, I know. It's a very um, I don't know, it's it's like a blurred line there.

SPEAKER_02 42:45

And I'll I'll go back to what I said before. Like, we never tracked our kids. Like, we have no life 360. When my kids were 14, I didn't know where the fuck they were. Yeah. So we did that purposely. Let your kids do dangerous things safely. Right. You know what I mean? And let them with a safety medical and they know they're not trapped.

SPEAKER_00 43:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 43:02

Yeah. And you know, it worked out fine. Right. You know what I mean? Right.

SPEAKER_00 43:05

I mean, I have life 360, I very rarely.

SPEAKER_02 43:07

If I had gone with the 100, no, no, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_00 43:09

Yeah, I mean, and I'm a single mom. I gotta do what I gotta do. But my kids used to take Ubers F-15, and and you just five, six years ago, that was even more acceptable. The Uber. My my nephew and niece used to take it all over the place too. I I mean, I don't know. Do you think that it's safe now? Like, I don't know how I feel about it.

SPEAKER_02 43:30

It's as safe as anything else. I mean, you know.

SPEAKER_00 43:32

I guess. All right. Um, the guy who says move if you don't like it. Or the woman who says move if you don't like it. There's a lot of them.

SPEAKER_02 43:44

Well, because they feel like you know, you shouldn't have any complaints. And but those people are usually over political, uh and they're really backing who's ever in office at the time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Totally.

SPEAKER_00 43:56

That's the dog, or I have to expand this. Dog or animal lover. You can't just say dog in our town because there's a lot of animal lovers in our town. Cat lovers, even the foxes, leave the foxes alone. We're killing their habits half. They don't know where to go. You know, there's a lot of animal lovers in our area who comment very, very um voraciously on social media. The town gossip.

SPEAKER_02 44:24

Ooh, that's probably me.

SPEAKER_00 44:26

You think?

SPEAKER_02 44:27

Well, I'm just joking with the eyes on D B.

SPEAKER_00 44:29

I would I would look at you as the watchdog, not the town gossip. You would be more of the detective.

SPEAKER_02 44:35

Yeah, I was the detective.

SPEAKER_00 44:36

Yeah, the neighborhood detective than the gossip.

SPEAKER_02 44:38

Right, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 44:39

I think you're more sleuthy about the way that you go about things. Not then then you know what I mean? You're not like frivolously talking about it.

SPEAKER_02 44:46

Well, you're taking any information that's out there.

SPEAKER_00 44:49

And also you're not talking about it just that like I think either you had a satirical reason behind it or it leads to something else. So I wouldn't necessarily call it gossipy. All right. So that we we really took a long time to explain those. I hope you remember what this what the task was. I'm going to give Facebook post scenarios.

SPEAKER_01 45:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 45:12

And you have to, I'm gonna I I don't know, how should we do this? Should I give you a number and you have to respond as that person?

SPEAKER_02 45:22

Sure.

SPEAKER_00 45:22

Okay. So let's try it that way first.

SPEAKER_02 45:25

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 45:27

If the classic suburban Facebook post, why are there helicopters over town and you were the neighborhood detective? What would your first comment be?

SPEAKER_02 45:39

What was that? I I'll cut it out. What was it again?

SPEAKER_00 45:42

So, why are there helicopters over our town? And you're the neighborhood detective. What are you commenting?

SPEAKER_02 45:49

Oh, God. That's a good one.

SPEAKER_00 45:53

What's your first comment? Neighborhood detective.

SPEAKER_02 45:57

Following.

SPEAKER_01 45:58

Following?

SPEAKER_00 45:59

Do you do your diligence? Like, how do you as a neighborhood detective? What do you do? How do you check that out? Yeah, I think that's a good idea. Like, what does the neighborhood detective go about to get that information? Because they always have the info.

SPEAKER_02 46:12

Yeah, they always have the info. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 46:15

I mean, really? Like, do they have like a rate are they? I know what I would like.

SPEAKER_02 46:19

Yeah, so I I I actually have an app because I fly drones. And I can and I can track if their airplane flies over my head, I can know if it's that.

SPEAKER_00 46:29

So you'll know why. Yeah, yeah. So if there is an airplane or a helicopter flying overhead and you're not sure why, you can just DM this guy. Yeah, there's absolutely suspicious Perkson walking down Maple Street. Oh god, there's and you are the town gossip.

unknown 46:48

Oh God.

SPEAKER_02 46:49

I would probably uh yeah, I would get a little passive aggressive with that though.

SPEAKER_00 46:54

What's the town gossip saying, though? Oh my god, there was a white man the other day. You better watch out. I warned my kids.

SPEAKER_02 47:03

I don't know. That's a tough one.

SPEAKER_00 47:05

Who do you think would be the first to respond to that one? Look at your list.

SPEAKER_02 47:10

Out of the whole list? Yeah. I think the passive aggressive person.

SPEAKER_00 47:13

Oh, interesting.

SPEAKER_02 47:14

Yeah, because that's the first thing that's the first thing that came to my mind.

SPEAKER_00 47:19

What were they gonna say? What is the passive aggressive person gonna say about a suspicious?

SPEAKER_02 47:22

Well, all the cops or somebody's walking down Maple Street, like something like that, right?

SPEAKER_00 47:25

Do you think they'd be like snarky? Yeah, snarky. Like you're like a walking. Is that how you look at the passive aggressive person as the snarky commenter? Yeah. The asshole?

SPEAKER_01 47:36

Right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 47:36

The one that you're that the one that's gonna respond with like, no shit, Captain Obvious, or like something like that.

SPEAKER_02 47:42

Yeah, the guy at our town that does it. Like that guy Craigle, he's like so passive aggressive. He's he's funny though. Yeah, it's like uh what are the cops doing? And you know, they're doing their fucking job.

SPEAKER_00 47:58

Does anyone know what they're building next to the Walgreens? What is the first comment that's coming for that one?

SPEAKER_02 48:06

But but isn't it the uh which one is it on here?

SPEAKER_00 48:09

I I would say who the first comment is?

SPEAKER_02 48:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 48:15

I would I I I I you know what the first comment would be. Angry taxpayer, I'm thinking.

SPEAKER_02 48:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 48:21

I'm thinking angry taxpayer is the first person to respond to that one. If somebody says, Does anybody know what they're building next to the old Walgreens, the angry taxpayer is gonna say, again with the affordable?

SPEAKER_02 48:34

They're putting in apartments that are not gonna pay taxes. But that even goes back to the passive aggressive asshole again.

SPEAKER_00 48:41

So then it could be a combination, like you could be more than one person, right?

SPEAKER_02 48:45

Yeah, because uh I'm just talking about our town. It's all snarky comments with things like that. You know, how about the monorail? It's never yeah, God, I know who started that.

SPEAKER_00 48:56

There is a thing in our town. I don't know where it started. Clearly, you do. Don't even out the person. I don't, because I don't want to not like them. I don't want to not like them, and if I know them, I don't want to not like them. And every time somebody responds or asks a question or anything about any kind of infrastructure in our town, one inevitably an answer or a thr part of the thread goes off the rails and talks about a monorail.

SPEAKER_01 49:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 49:24

Oh, well, well, maybe it'll come when they finish the monorail, or maybe you'll be able to take the monorail around town.

SPEAKER_02 49:30

And there's people that think there's a monorail being built in our.

SPEAKER_00 49:36

It's like when your annoying cousin told a funny story at Christmas in 1985, and they still bring it up every year because three people laughed.

SPEAKER_01 49:48

Right.

SPEAKER_00 49:48

Enough. It's not funny anymore. It's not funny. Find another five minutes of fame, find another angle. The monorail has left the building just like Fonzie when he jumped the shark in the middle of the river on jet skis. Wasn't funny. Wasn't funny, not funny.

SPEAKER_02 50:06

That's funny.

SPEAKER_00 50:07

All right, next. That bothers me actually. That monorail bullshit. Yeah. Please bring your trash cans in after pickup day. That the trash can, a whole entire topic in our town.

SPEAKER_02 50:24

Right. Was a big when we got a new one. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 50:27

We got a new trash service, and then oh my god, who was making fun of poo with which direction you put your wheels to the curb. Oh my god, it was so bad. I mean, intelligence was was was was mocked. That was big news. I mean, it was really bad. People's intelligence was mocked. People oh, it brought out the worst in people. Garbage cans brought out the worst. It really did.

SPEAKER_01 50:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 50:51

It was bad. It was ugly. It was Oscar the Grouch ugly.

SPEAKER_02 50:55

Yeah. It really was. There you go.

SPEAKER_00 50:59

This one came up recently. Kids rang my doorbell and ran away. Oh, come on.

SPEAKER_02 51:04

So that's what I'm talking about. Ding and ditch, right? What is it called? Ding dong ditch. Ding dong ditch, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 51:10

I never did that, so I don't know what it's called yet.

SPEAKER_02 51:13

No, we used to do as a kid. I I was like one of the first people who had cable in my area with a remote. With the actual handheld remote or the one that's a wireless remote.

SPEAKER_00 51:25

Okay. Wow, that's a big deal.

SPEAKER_02 51:27

We used to go to the neighborhoods. I used to go to their bay window and shut off their TV. Shut off everybody's. And then I used to just uh the guy used to get off, or the woman used to get off the turn on their TV, they sat back down for five seconds, got all comfortable, and you said shut it off. And it was a big window.

SPEAKER_00 51:45

It's literally the greatest thing I've ever heard in a very long time. Stop it. Fucking great. And he said, motherfucker. Wait, did you have a garage door? An electric garage door growing up.

SPEAKER_01 51:57

No.

SPEAKER_00 51:58

I had an electric garage door growing up. And there would be times where somebody else's garage door opener would open our garage door. And you would, and you would like I would freak out because my parents would not be home. I would be in the house, and all of a sudden the garage door would open. And it would be like, what the he that just reminded me of that. That's one of the reasons I was laughing so hard. But that's really funny that you did that. That's a really good thing.

SPEAKER_02 52:21

Like we used to do that all night, like just showing people's. But we used to just pick one half and do it. Keep doing it.

SPEAKER_00 52:28

Wait, one guy?

SPEAKER_02 52:28

One guy. Yeah, because the remotes just came out. So like people even know they were there. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 52:34

That is hysterical. Um does anyone. Oh, this this one, this one's been a recent one. Not in this vari, in a different variation. But does anyone know why the water smells funny today? Lately, people have been saying there's a smell in our air.

SPEAKER_02 52:50

Yeah, I know, I know. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 52:51

A sweet smell in the air, people have been saying lately.

SPEAKER_02 52:54

Yeah, they blame it on the dumpers.

SPEAKER_00 52:57

Yeah, it's uh who knows. That's it. Who do you think's answering that one first?

SPEAKER_02 53:01

Oh, God.

SPEAKER_00 53:02

The smell, the smell, the taste in the water smell or funny smell in the water.

SPEAKER_02 53:06

Is that the overly helpful mom? They always have the answers.

SPEAKER_00 53:11

You think? I don't know. I think the overly help, oh, the overly helpful mom. Why there's a smell in the water? No, I'm not going for that.

SPEAKER_02 53:21

That's the environmentalist moms in our town.

SPEAKER_00 53:23

We do. So that's a different. We could add that.

SPEAKER_02 53:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 53:26

That that we can add. It would definitely be the environmentalist mom throwing someone on the town council onto under the bus. Definitely.

SPEAKER_02 53:33

Could be the angry tax, angry taxpayer, too.

SPEAKER_00 53:36

Could be.

SPEAKER_02 53:36

Yeah. The detective, too.

SPEAKER_00 53:39

Reminder: dog owners should pick up after their pets. There was a big stink. This literally stink. Why do people think they can throw their dog's poop in my garbage can?

SPEAKER_02 53:50

So, how do you feel about that?

SPEAKER_00 53:51

I think it's disgusting. I don't want I'm a dog owner and I don't want anybody else's dog.

SPEAKER_02 53:56

I don't want to pick up shit. Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 53:58

I think there's dog etiquette. I think that's bad, bad dog etiquette.

SPEAKER_02 54:01

Yeah, yeah. 100%.

SPEAKER_00 54:03

I'm against that.

SPEAKER_02 54:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 54:04

I I'm really a very diligent. I I I I I'll even pick up other people's dog shit.

SPEAKER_01 54:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 54:10

If my dog poops some I know, and I and I know it it does skeeve me out. But if I'm if my dog, not I won't go out of my way to do it, but if my dog poops in the area and I'm picking up my dog's area, I pick it up.

SPEAKER_02 54:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 54:24

Because I think it's disgusting. And also, my dog got worms from smelling another dog's poop. So I don't want that either.

SPEAKER_02 54:32

I remember my kids. One of my sons stepped in, uh stepped in dog shit right before school.

SPEAKER_00 54:38

Like, yeah, it's awful.

SPEAKER_02 54:40

Like at the bus stop. I know. It's so bad. Like, there's no reason for it.

SPEAKER_00 54:44

Like, just there, and you know what? Like, in my, I don't know about anybody, and there really should be in every area of town. In my development, there are poop stations, like good gang stations. So there's zero excuse.

SPEAKER_01 54:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 54:55

Like you literally don't even have to carry it back to your house if you don't want to. I I very rarely do I come back to my house with my poop bag because I will have somewhere pass by one of those things and I'll drop it in there. There's no excuse. It's disgusting. If you're a dog owner, that's bad.

SPEAKER_02 55:12

Clean up your shit.

SPEAKER_00 55:13

Clean up your shit. Seriously, clean up your shit.

SPEAKER_02 55:15

And put your carts away at the shopping center.

SPEAKER_00 55:17

Oh, that's true. Someone parked in front of my house for hours.

SPEAKER_02 55:22

Oh, yeah, that's right. Right?

SPEAKER_00 55:23

Who's who's commenting on that one? God, that's someone parked in front of my house for hours. HOA mayor.

SPEAKER_02 55:31

Not an even. That's like the Air Angry Guy.

SPEAKER_00 55:35

You think?

SPEAKER_02 55:36

Yeah, like people are allowed to park in front of your house.

SPEAKER_00 55:39

Right, but who's commenting?

SPEAKER_02 55:40

Right.

SPEAKER_00 55:41

Who's commenting first on that post?

SPEAKER_02 55:44

Right, who's commenting?

SPEAKER_00 55:45

Uh who's responding? The town gossip?

SPEAKER_02 55:52

Town gossip, passive aggressive, or uh not the local business promoters. No, definitely not. Nothing negative that comes out of his mouth ever. Nothing. He can't say anything bad. Do you think you'll go off print? Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 56:09

Smiley?

SPEAKER_02 56:10

Yeah. Kids these days could be man.

SPEAKER_00 56:14

Alright. So we're gonna move on to our last segment. We're giving you a little bit of a um preview into what's coming next. It's called red flag, yellow flag, or green flag. We will have flags coming because I'm all about props. I'm a teacher and I love that stuff. So I am going to read something, and you have to tell me. This is suburban signals, okay? So in the community, is it a red flag, a yellow flag, or a green flag? A neighbor mowing their lawn at 7 a.m. on a Saturday.

SPEAKER_02 56:45

Red flag.

SPEAKER_00 56:46

Total, right? Bad. Bad. The neighbor who decorates for every single holiday. Lately there are those lights. They go on once. So the neighbor who decorates for every single holiday. Nowadays, they have those lights. I actually like it too. And they have seen LED lights that change with the holidays.

SPEAKER_02 57:06

I like the Indian holidays. Me too, the color of lights. I actually think it's nice. Yeah, I do too.

SPEAKER_00 57:11

I think it it's it's very um that's I think that right. Like I think it it's I like it. I think it's a homie. It makes me feel nice and like warm and fuzzy. Um people bringing their dogs everywhere. Red flag, yellow flag, green flag.

SPEAKER_02 57:28

That's a red flag. And I I do like dogs, and I like seeing dogs where I don't expect them. Like I like, but uh, because then you never know to pet the dog. Like if you're gonna bring a dog everywhere and you don't have any medical issues, sorry. I mean for a fucking minute.

SPEAKER_00 57:43

What about the strollers for the dogs?

SPEAKER_02 57:45

Yeah, yeah, but but you have to allow everybody who wants to pet the dog.

SPEAKER_00 57:49

I agree. And it better be a socialized dog. Like unless it's not, and you say, Oh, I'm trying to socialize it or something like that.

SPEAKER_02 57:55

Yeah, but but as I think it's okay. Yellow flag, but you have to allow whoever wants to pet the dog to get the dog. All right, you can't be a dog snob.

SPEAKER_00 58:05

I get it. Okay. Neighbors who don't bring their garbage cans back in for days is a red flag.

SPEAKER_02 58:11

Yeah, that's a red flag.

SPEAKER_00 58:12

Even in my development, I gotta be honest. They're and I'm I'm in a they're not that wide streets at all. Like, and we have stall parking stalls. Like, why are you leaving your garbage? Like, I there's barely enough room for us to drive through. It drives me away.

SPEAKER_02 58:25

I brought it up before the shop, the people don't put their shopping. Yeah, that's obnoxious.

SPEAKER_00 58:29

They just drop everything wherever it is, and then whatever everybody else is. Yeah. Um teenagers hanging out in public places. I think that's a green flag. I'm all about that. I'm all about that. All about that. Okay. If someone shovels your sidewalk during a snowstorm, do you owe them forever?

SPEAKER_02 58:50

No.

SPEAKER_00 58:51

No? No.

SPEAKER_02 58:53

Forever? No. No. You owe them uh something, but not forever.

SPEAKER_00 58:59

Do you have to do it back for them the next time first?

SPEAKER_02 59:03

Well, I I I think I think if you have a skill or you can help them with something, yeah, you definitely bring to the table something that you can give to them. Yeah, like a turn into a matcher, if you will. But like, I don't know. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 59:16

All right.

SPEAKER_02 59:16

Like somebody's two years ago, somebody s sh shoveled our job like because I was out of town. Oh, that's that's really nice, actually. And then uh they were having an event or something, they were all dressed up, and I took a nice family portrait or something. Yeah, but you can kind of yeah.

SPEAKER_00 59:31

That was so sweet of you.

SPEAKER_02 59:32

Yeah, but you don't have to yeah, yeah, I don't think you want to. I wouldn't expect anything if I did a some of the shit. I wouldn't either.

SPEAKER_00 59:38

I actually don't like taking things like that. It makes me a little uncomfortable. Um, all right, what about this one's interesting? I I think I I don't know how I feel about this. Kids selling door to door for fundraising.

SPEAKER_02 59:50

I'm I like it because it's just a little bit old school.

SPEAKER_00 59:54

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 59:54

I like the old school aspect of it. Okay. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00 59:57

Yeah, I don't mind it either. I'll always give. I actually think it's more compelling when they're just like.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:01

Well, I just think it's good for the kids to do it as long as there's a parent that's with them and it's totally responsible.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:06

I get it too. I I agree. All right, what about this one? This is the last one, and then we're gonna wrap it up. Someone posting ring camera footage of a sp of a suspicious person.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:16

Yeah, I think that's okay because there's some weird ones, man. People are in other people's yards, like.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:23

I know, but I have a story about that.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:24

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:25

So I agree with you. Yes, I do. But here's the thing though. I I we uh there was a situation like that in my development a a couple of years ago, and there are um Easter seals. There's an Easter seals house near me.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:39

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:39

So it's assisted living, basically. You know, and like they have like a life coach who lives, you know, who stays with them, and there's a guy, and he walks my neighborhood and he's harmless. Um, and he's maybe autistic. I don't know what it, you know, maybe autistic, whatever it is. And somebody said he was like lurking in windows. Now he's been living there for years. We all know who he is, right? And so um they posted a picture of him. And so everybody on the town page was like freaking out. And I actually called the non-emergency police line and I said to them, I know who that is, and I just want to let you know he's harmless. Like, if you want, like maybe post something on the Facebook page and just tell everybody that it's like there's nothing to worry about, like nobody's learning, you know, like and then have a conversation with his life coach and let them know, like you know, I got you. You can walk the neighborhood, but you can't, you know, go up to somebody's window and you know, like so. Yes, it was cringy, but posting the face like right away.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:45

Right, right, right.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:46

I I was like, you know what I mean? So like maybe before you post the face, like the black it out first or like blur it out so that in initially you're not you don't know the full story yet.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:57

Yeah, right. No, I got you.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:58

That so now you're like putting this kid on, like what if the cops showed up at his house? Like he wouldn't have been able to handle that well.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:04

Like no, I gotcha.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:06

So yeah, that was I was worried about. I actually was as somebody who works with people with you know special needs, I was like, this, he doesn't know that he's doing something wrong.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:16

No, I gotcha.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:16

Maybe there was something on in a TV, on a TV in the house, right? And it caught his attention. I think like that.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:23

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:24

I know other people don't, and it's not their fault, but I think that there's a responsible way.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:30

Like with the home invasions, people's cars getting stolen. I get it. I do. I totally get it.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:36

How do you feel about like the people posting the kids shoplifting in in stores in our town? Because that happens a lot too.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:42

Yeah, well, there's one particular store. Yeah, the 7-Eleven, yeah. I think it's fine. Yeah, I don't mind Matty.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:49

Because if you're shoplifting in in the store, like that's a shitty move. And like you, with all due respect, yeah, you need to be outed for that, I think. Shamed. Yeah, publicly shamed for that.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:00

They're just they're just so stupid. Right. Kids out of anybody should know there's technology on that.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:04

Did you see that new thing about those two girls in the back of the police car that were laughing and talking about being arrested when they tried to kill when they were plotting to kill a classmate?

SPEAKER_02 1:03:14

A little bit. I did.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:15

I thought yeah Yeah, I I mean I didn't watch the whole thing either, but I watched like sound bites of what they were saying. It just was so disconnected from reality. It was crazy.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:25

Crazy.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:26

That was weird.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:26

And they didn't know they were on camera?

SPEAKER_00 1:03:28

I guess not.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:30

They were in the back of a police car, so I don't know how you wouldn't know you're somewhere on camera, but maybe they didn't care.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:36

I'm not sure. I don't know whether it was a case of the city.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:38

Yeah, I saw that car across my feed. I didn't check it out.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:41

It was disturbing to say the least. Um, kids are interesting. And I want to just lay, I want to bring it one funny thing and then we're gonna let you go. We were talking last podcast about how kids don't know how to read and how they can mispronounce words, right? Okay. Funniest thing that happened this week in school. Over the loudspeaker morning announcements, a child, a student in an honors program was listing all of the events that were going to be taking place in the next month, was talking about a county in our area, and while they were reading, said, and in Essex County, and just continued to read. And I, of course, went It's Essex for people who are named. So it's spelled E S-S-E-X. Essex. For anybody who knows the rules of the English language and reading and decoding, you know that it's a short E when there are two consonants like that afterwards, like the word ass or asshole. Which these kids say all the time, which is why I'm bringing it up. Like they have no problem pronouncing all of these other bad words and using correct, you know, reading rules, but right there, an honors program, high school, they weren't called phonics. A county in our state, and they said Essex instead of Essex.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:15

So my point from last time was proven again that we need to bring back phonics and a different way of reading in this country, or at least in our area, because the kids don't get it. The whole language kids. No, it's embarrassing. So on that note, read to your kids.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:32

Read.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:32

See you next week.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:33

Bye, everyone.