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Well here it is time for John and Joe. Again, this will be our third podcast and, as usual, we have some, cleanup items to do from our last one. I think I mentioned, having a daughter and a son, but I didn't mention that. my daughter has three children, but my son has a wife and one child. She's gonna be 20 in a couple of days. Hard to believe that's, grandchildren Joe, you were pretty good last time. I don't think you made any mistakes, did you? Well, I do wanna say that, Maya, our granddaughter, was born on my birthday. What does that mean? She's gonna be 20. And I'm gonna be well into my 96, right? 96. Now we thought. With nine, six years of life, Joe and I would talk a little bit about what we did when we were young, kids growing up. So, Joe, you can start. Well, I had a lot of fun when I was young. we had a garden, we called it a victory garden. You have to realize that I was born during the depression, so we had to make our food And then we canned that food and we ate it all winter. my mother prepared the meals and I was one of three girls. So we cleaned up the kitchen and we had fun singing while we were cleaning. we just had a good time dancing around the table. And also, I had, paper dolls when I was a kid, and the way to get paper dolls from me, I had to collect soda bottles and take those to the local grocery store and get a nickla bottle. And then I saved that money and I pay, bought my paper towels. So what, what kind of hobby did you have? Well, I'm wanna get back to this dish washing. Oh, you said, you and your sister, did you have an electric dishwasher or, oh, mercy man. How did that work? One washed the dishes, one dried the dishes, the woman put the dishes away. Oh, okay. Well it was nice you had a group of people, that can help you. So both with three girls. We've made do. So this thing with paper dolls, tell me about that. No, they were in a magazine. In a book, and you had to cut the dolls out cut the clothes out, and dress them in different clothes and you made up stories when they wore those clothes. Were they like movie star people or just pictures? they were pretty, pretty, pretty like movie stars. Well, I didn't have paper dolls when I was little. We, we weren't that lucky. I had a BB gun. And, with this BB gun, I could shoot my brother and anybody else that, I wanted to Well, I'm glad I didn't live near you. you're lucky. The other thing we used to do, my brother and I would throw rocks at each other. I don't know how we survived, but, we would pick rocks and throw until one of us. Got hurt and ran into mother, then she would say, whose fault is this? And I would blame my brother. My brother would blame me. and that was the end of it. So did you, ever play baseball? you mean when I was a kid? Yes. I played softball. yes, I would play softball. not to be confused when I umpired softball in my later years, which is another story, a group of us boys and girls, played every night until it got dark, Did you ever play games like where you sit on a stoop and go up and down the stoop and that kind of stuff? No, but we played Chee with my family, Chee. we, didn't do that, but I did listen to the Lone Ranger, sky King, all those good radio shows. by the way, I still watch The Lone Ranger every afternoon on tv. Yes, he does. enjoy it. he brings a good American spirit to his show. I was thinking about. My bicycle I had goggles and a helmet like I would wear, and I looked like I was, I was a space. Ship guy. But, I finally learned to ride this bike and my dad said, well, it's time to get you a real bike. This was not a, training wheel bike, but a smaller one. I got a bigger bike and those of you who remember Western Auto, my bike came from Western Auto, had a horn, it had a ring bell, and it was a beautiful bicycle. What color was it? It was red, and I left it on my front porch. That's where I left it. One day I went out and my bicycle was gone. Somebody stole it. Oh no. So I was without wheels. my bicycle was blue, and one time I went to the local gas station to put air in the tires and I put too much air in it and the tire blew up. Mm-hmm. Well, my bicycle, we had to put patches on inner tubes all the time. That's what we used. So we'd go to the gas station and get air in it and patch it up and pump it up and put it back together and ride again. The other thing I remember. Roller skates, but I didn't use roller skates to skate on. I took these roller skates and broke'em in half, took a couple of two by fours and put one, up and down and two sideways, and put the roller skates on those sideways. And we had what we call a skate mobile. And we would ride down the hill, into the traffic on Bessemer Boulevard. it's luckily. We weren't killed, But anyway, again, that's when my mother didn't know what I was doing and, she would wonder where my skates were. And of course I didn't have'em'cause they were broken. They were on the, skate mobile. So I had skates too. and these skates were, attached to your shoes, With a key. Exactly. And you tightened them on. Yes, yes. See, we didn't have video or TV or. Stuff like that. Nothing fancy, no, nothing fancy. Only, play, with other kids and, you have to realize that we grew up after the depression, so money was very tight. We just didn't have any luxuries. I remember one time I wanted a pair of, football cleats. So I got a pair of shoes and got pieces of rubber and took'em to the local shoe guy and I said, could you glue these on? And they'll be like, football cleats. So he glued them on and I put'em on and I walked on'em and every one of'em broke off. So it was a waste of time. which football wasn't my game anyway, but I thought I would look good, but didn't do it. Well, nothing's worthwhile until you try it. That's right. You gotta give it a try. We talked about, hobbies at one time, and I think we need a whole episode, but who know us know that, I'm into pasta making now I've got all the utensils. I've got, rolling pins, mats, scrapers, spaghetti pasta, dish uppers. I've got, a pasta machine from Italy, manual that I roll out, and I have made several kinds of pasta. still experimenting with the, menu, but with eggs, the price they are. Joe won't let me experiment too much'cause I need two eggs for every test pasta batch I make. So, that pasta that he makes, we have to eat. We have to eat it or give it away, and, we freeze it. sometimes when people bring us stuff. We've got nothing to give'em. So I'll give'em a handful of pasta out of the freezer so that way we feel, we've done our good deed. we never return a bowl empty. Never. Something always in it. Either liquid. Or frozen or in a box or cooked or fruit or whatever, like zucchinis or lemons or apples Whatever we have on hand. you know, my dad was born in Italy, came over when he was four years old, and there was something on the internet that if you went to Italy, they'd pay you$30,000 to move there. And I asked Joe, when are we going? And she said, no, not me. So I don't wanna go over there by myself. I've been there, done that. But we're talking about making 30,000 bucks to just go there and live. Not worth the money, John. Well just something to think about when we get tired of living here and they're ready to move again. speaking of moving again, We're not, are we? absolutely not.'cause we had our last episode about moving and it was a pain in the neck. So we are stuck here. However, I wanna say, even though we did get rid of a lot of stuff, we are still ordering. as of today, I ordered a couple of TV trays. even though when we moved here, we gave four of'em away. I ordered two, so I don't know. It's funny what you need, right? We just needed it for some reason. Well, we play cards with a, there are eight of us in a card group, and when we have it here, four play at the dining room table, and four play at a card table. And the card table's a little small for drinks and snacks. So this isn't only playing cards, it's also eating. So we have to have these tables to eat. And talk, and then the card game becomes the least of the thing unless, the men win. which we usually don't. well, we're 11 minutes into this podcast. This is the longest we've ever done. I think it's about time we, sign off and let our faithful listeners you know who you are. who listen to us on a regular basis. We thank you for listening. Joe, you got any final words before I sign off? Well, if you are listening to us, why don't you give us a call and let us know what you are interested in hearing. Send us an email and if you know us, you know our phone number and you know, our email. So there you go. Well, thanks so much. That's it. We're got Johnny and Joe saying. Aios again. Bye-bye