Crustables & Childhood Chaos

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In this chaotic time capsule, Anthony and Nalee revisit the moments that raised them, scarred them, fed them (literally), and turned them into the competitive, petty, emotionally unpredictable adults they are today. Between playground betrayals, school lunch hierarchies, cousin conspiracies, and cultural beauty standards no one asked for, this episode blends comedy, comfort, and cringe in the most Twin Tangents way possible. 

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🥏 Recess Royalty & Playground Politics → lava tag rules that made no sense, dodgeball trauma, getting picked last, and discovering your inner “pick-me” tendencies way too early
 🍕 Cafeteria Hierarchies → the sacred race for school pizza, the mystery seasoning on those god-tier fries, lunchroom bartering, and why canned peaches tasted so elite
 👀 Cousins, Chaos & Home-Life Drama → rebe

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Transcript

Back To Childhood, Snacks And Drama

SPEAKER_00 0:48

Welcome back to Twin Tangents.

ANTHONY 0:50

Oh my God.

SPEAKER_00 0:53

Welcome back to Twin Tangents, the podcast that's basically your emotional support time machine. And today we're heading straight to childhood where the drama was real and snack time was sacred.

ANTHONY 1:07

God, we take a lot of trips down to our childhood. That is where all the drama started. Episode 26 is a wild ride through the glitter-glued chaos of our childhoods. We're talking weird family rules, questionable fashion, and the early signs that we were not quite like the other kids.

SPEAKER_00 1:29

So whether you're a PBS kids or a Cartoon Network delinquent, we're about to trigger your inner childhood and your inner child and your allergies.

ANTHONY 1:41

Do you want to say that again?

SPEAKER_00 1:43

Nah, we're good. Y'all understood the point.

ANTHONY 1:49

All right. Everybody grab your gushers, cue the Lisa Frank flashbacks.

SPEAKER_00 1:53

Oh, I love Lisa Frank.

ANTHONY 1:55

Right? The colors?

SPEAKER_00 1:56

Yeah.

ANTHONY 1:57

Let's get into it. Because some of these memories didn't age well, and neither did our knees.

SPEAKER_00 2:03

Alright, so our first segment is about recess, royalty, and playground politics. The topic that I wanted to talk about was the unspoken rules of tag, dodgeball, and foursquares. So uh of those three, what were like your favorite games? Or do you know what they all are?

ANTHONY 2:23

I I've heard of Foursquare. I don't think that I've ever played it.

SPEAKER_00 2:27

I judge you.

ANTHONY 2:28

Is it is that bad?

SPEAKER_00 2:29

No, it's fun.

ANTHONY 2:30

Oh. I mean, it's not I mean it's bad that I don't know that game.

Recess Rules And Playground Games

SPEAKER_00 2:33

Yeah. That's like our generation. But then again, I think you're in a different generation.

ANTHONY 2:39

No, I think we're in the same generation. I think we are, but you're just like you're like, I feel like those games had like phases.

SPEAKER_00 2:46

Yeah, I guess. Well, four square was the thing where there's people in obviously a square, but then there's four squares within that big square. And then you play it with a basketball. So you kind of pass it to each other, like it bounces. It cannot bounce in your square, if I remember correctly.

ANTHONY 3:02

By yeah. You lost me at basketball.

SPEAKER_00 3:05

Oh, yeah.

ANTHONY 3:06

My hand-eye coordination.

SPEAKER_00 3:07

Yeah, well, there's four squares and there's two squares. We just play it with two people. But I don't think two squares is really a thing. I think we made that up. I don't know.

ANTHONY 3:16

I could never play that game because unlike you, Nolly, I'm not a square.

SPEAKER_00 3:23

Wow.

unknown 3:24

I can't.

SPEAKER_00 3:25

Calling me a double loser, bitch.

ANTHONY 3:27

Loser, loser, double loser. What is it? Twist.

SPEAKER_00 3:31

Yeah, it's loser, loser, double loser. Yeah. Square. Yeah, it's okay. Well, be square or be there or be square. So whatever.

ANTHONY 3:41

I don't want to be square, so I won't be there. But to answer your question, when I was a kid, the big thing that I remember playing was like freeze tag.

SPEAKER_00 3:52

Oh yeah, I love freeze tag.

ANTHONY 3:54

Yeah. And red robin, red robin.

SPEAKER_00 3:58

I don't really remember that one.

ANTHONY 3:59

Or Red Rover. Red Rover.

SPEAKER_00 4:01

It's like Red Rover, Red Rover. Red Rover, Sennali Over. Oh, okay. And then they would have to catch that person, right? Like they would have to catch it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. So tag. Like, did you guys have like any rules or anything like that?

ANTHONY 4:17

I don't honestly remember. I feel like those games when we were kids, like it was just like we made up the rules. Yeah. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00 4:26

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so I know me and my siblings, we played like tag, like even when we were like low-key, like in high school.

ANTHONY 4:35

I don't see anything wrong with that.

SPEAKER_00 4:37

But like we used to go to like the park because like I don't know if kids go to the park anymore. Maybe they do, but with their parents or whatever. But like when we were younger, my older brother, he used to take us to the park and we would play like lava tag. So we cannot be on the ground. And if we were, we were only allowed like maybe three to five steps. And like everybody would always be concentrated on whoever's on the floor or like on the ground. Because if they overstep, then they're immediately like the it person.

ANTHONY 5:06

They're burned alive in the lava.

SPEAKER_00 5:08

Or I don't know if you guys ever played like tag flush the toilet.

ANTHONY 5:13

No, I can honestly say. So I never played that.

SPEAKER_00 5:16

So like if you like, I forgot I kind of forgot how we played it, but I think it was like some form of tag. And then if you get tagged, you have to kind of freeze like a toilet, and then your other teammates would have to come and flush you, and then you would you're free. And then you could run around again. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 5:34

So generational thing.

SPEAKER_00 5:36

Yeah. It's making us look real fucking bad right now.

ANTHONY 5:41

They went from playing toilet.

SPEAKER_00 5:43

Toilet tag.

ANTHONY 5:44

Toilet tag to eating.

SPEAKER_00 5:46

Or flush the toilet or whatever.

ANTHONY 5:48

Like pods.

SPEAKER_00 5:51

Fuck the eating pods. Oh, I don't even know what that was about.

unknown 5:55

God.

ANTHONY 5:56

That's when I knew that our society was in danger.

SPEAKER_00 5:59

Yeah.

ANTHONY 5:59

And they started eating the details. And then what did they start doing after that? Weren't they like snorting condoms?

SPEAKER_00 6:07

What the fuck? No, I don't know. I know some were eating the powdered like detergent. Was that a thing? I don't know. Or snorting like powdered detergent.

ANTHONY 6:17

Well, I know that they were they were eating the Tide Pods.

SPEAKER_00 6:20

I don't know. Kids are fucking stupid these days. So I don't fucking know. But and then dodgeball. I love dodgeball.

ANTHONY 6:29

You know, as much as I say I didn't have like h hand-eye coordination to play with balls. I did enjoy dodge.

SPEAKER_00 6:40

You did a big grit.

ANTHONY 6:41

I did enjoy dodgeball.

SPEAKER_00 6:42

But a tssh.

ANTHONY 6:43

But um Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:45

You what?

ANTHONY 6:47

I didn't bo enjoy dod and blow. I did enjoy dodgeball.

SPEAKER_00 6:51

You did blow, but you didn't enjoy dodgeball.

ANTHONY 6:53

I did.

SPEAKER_00 6:53

Oh, okay. I was thinking about the other thing, but eh, both works. I like dodgeball. I hated playing with my brothers, though, because you know, you're like siblings. Throw it really hard at you.

ANTHONY 7:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:06

Yeah.

ANTHONY 7:06

But I I like dodgeball, but I hated the start of dodgeball when he had to like run up to the line.

SPEAKER_00 7:13

And grab the ball real quick. Yeah.

ANTHONY 7:14

I just waited until they threw the balls and then I found one on the ground.

SPEAKER_00 7:18

Yeah.

unknown 7:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:20

Yeah. I did enjoy dodgeball. I love gym.

ANTHONY 7:22

You liked gym?

SPEAKER_00 7:23

I did.

ANTHONY 7:24

I hated gym class.

SPEAKER_00 7:25

Did you?

ANTHONY 7:26

Hated. But I mean it probably doesn't help that I was like fat and not F1.

SPEAKER_00 7:30

Well, I was fat too. But I'm very competitive.

ANTHONY 7:32

You are very competitive.

SPEAKER_00 7:33

Yeah. So yeah, I loved I loved all of it.

ANTHONY 7:37

Well, remember, I I have said like my competitiveness didn't come out till like later in life.

SPEAKER_00 7:42

Yeah.

ANTHONY 7:42

So yeah, I was not competitive at the time.

SPEAKER_00 7:44

I think I'm the opposite right now.

ANTHONY 7:47

You're not competitive enough? I'm not.

SPEAKER_00 7:48

I just about anybody anymore.

ANTHONY 7:52

Really?

SPEAKER_00 7:53

Yeah. I'm a bitter old bitch right now.

ANTHONY 7:55

Welcome to the club. One of us. One of us. One of us.

SPEAKER_00 8:01

What about you?

ANTHONY 8:03

About dodgeball?

SPEAKER_00 8:04

No, like what's what's something you wanted to talk about? Unless you're not done talking about dodgeball.

ANTHONY 8:10

I mean, we could talk about dodgeball and how I was not the most athletic, but we don't want to take that much of a detour down memory line.

SPEAKER_00 8:19

I mean, I wasn't super auth athletic too. I think we've talked about it before, but like when I started getting like when I started getting to running a lot, that's when I was like, oh, okay, I see the I see the fun in gym. Like when we were playing volleyball, I was always the person who was diving to get the ball, even though I fucking sucked. I'm like, I'm gonna hit it over the net. Like I don't get I don't care. I'd go home with like bruises on my knees and shit.

ANTHONY 8:42

Couldn't do it. I'm too much of a pansy ass. And I love diving in sand volleyball.

SPEAKER_00 8:47

Yeah.

ANTHONY 8:48

I love sand volleyball. I should go back and start playing again.

SPEAKER_00 8:51

It's too messy.

ANTHONY 8:52

Sand volleyball?

SPEAKER_00 8:53

Yeah, it gets everywhere. Oh my god, I have a funny story.

ANTHONY 8:56

What's that? What's that have to do with the price of raising China? I can take a shower.

SPEAKER_00 8:59

I don't know. I have a funny story on the side about sand volleyball. So when and Chili, if you're listening to this, you'll know.

ANTHONY 9:10

Throwing Chili under the bus.

SPEAKER_00 9:11

Well, it's it was when her and her now husband Jay, he it was when he first came into town, and we were it was I think we were we just started to get to know him, and she was trying to introduce him to us, and we went to go play volleyball at what's that that place over that has a sandwich. Wagner's. Yeah, Wagner's. And so then we were playing in again, I'm very competitive, and so then I think Jay, if I remember correctly, he was on the opposite team, and I had spiked the ball and hit Jay in the head, and it bounced off. But they think that I did it intentionally, but it wasn't like because right when he looked at me, I like threw it and then I spiked it. And it like bounced off his head, and they're like, You did that on purpose. I'm like, I did not, like, I swear to God, I didn't I didn't do it on purpose.

ANTHONY 10:00

Like aiming at no scene right out of a movie where you like meet the the best friend's significant other.

SPEAKER_00 10:08

Yeah. I didn't do it on purpose, though. I I didn't do it on purpose. I think my reaction was a little delayed. That's why it looked like I did it on purpose, but I didn't. And then yeah, it was just hilarious because Oh, he was on my team, and I think he was in front of me. I don't remember.

ANTHONY 10:22

I just know that he was either he was Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:25

I don't know if he either he either was in front of me or he if he was on the other side, but I remember I hit the ball and it bounced off his head, and they were just like, oh my god. And I'm like, I did not do that on purpose.

ANTHONY 10:36

You lime bitch.

SPEAKER_00 10:37

But yeah, it was funny. That was it.

ANTHONY 10:41

That was it. That was the end of your story?

Dodgeball, Gym Class, And Competitiveness

SPEAKER_00 10:44

That was the end of my story.

ANTHONY 10:45

Well, the thing that I wanted to talk about was like the hierarchy and like lunch food.

SPEAKER_00 10:55

Okay.

ANTHONY 10:56

I don't know how your school was set up. My school was set up.

SPEAKER_00 10:58

We had a conversation about h lunch at school.

ANTHONY 11:02

We did before, didn't we? Yes.

SPEAKER_00 11:03

But we're gonna deep dive this time.

ANTHONY 11:05

Deep dive this time. We had like our school was set up so that they had like the main lunch item, but then they also had the alternative, which was always pizza.

SPEAKER_01 11:16

Okay.

ANTHONY 11:16

And it was like a race to get the pizza because when it was gone, it was gone. And I remember kids used to like ask to like go to the bathroom before lunch just so because the the bathrooms were close to the cafeteria. In the literally in the cafeteria.

SPEAKER_01 11:35

Oh, okay.

ANTHONY 11:35

So they would like go out and hang out until the bell would ring.

SPEAKER_01 11:38

Oh.

ANTHONY 11:39

And then like dart to the front of the line, and they're like, I'll get my books afterwards. Yeah. Just leave them in the class.

SPEAKER_00 11:45

That's crazy.

ANTHONY 11:46

There's always a race to get the books.

SPEAKER_00 11:47

That's real calculator out there.

ANTHONY 11:49

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 11:50

I think my favorite, like my favorite, favorite, like lunch item was the case the triangle quesadillas.

ANTHONY 12:01

Really?

SPEAKER_00 12:02

Yeah. I loved that. I don't know why. It was so good. It was good. Yeah, and the and our personal round pizzas.

ANTHONY 12:10

Oh, those are so good.

SPEAKER_00 12:11

Yeah, like when I think about it, it tastes cheap, but it's so good.

ANTHONY 12:15

I loved cheap. I went through a phase where I would go to like Walmart and I would buy the personal pan pizzas, red baron, pepperoni. It was like two minutes in the microwave.

SPEAKER_00 12:27

Yeah, that was.

ANTHONY 12:27

My fat ass was in heaven. I'd eat like fucking a box of those on me.

SPEAKER_00 12:33

And it sounds real stupid, but I like the high school that I went to, they had like the best like um chicken Caesar salad. Like the grilled chicken was so good. Like because it's kind of like what you're thinking. I kind of forgot what I was gonna say.

ANTHONY 12:54

Chicken Caesar salad.

SPEAKER_00 12:55

Yeah, so okay, yeah. So chicken Caesar salad, if that was the main thing, they would have pizza. So I always like was conflicted on should I get the chicken Caesar salad with the good chicken or should I get the pizza? Because their pizza was really good too.

ANTHONY 13:10

School pizza was the best.

SPEAKER_00 13:11

Yeah. Oh, and they had the best seasoned fries. It was so good.

ANTHONY 13:15

No, not a sons. Like thinking about like food that I had in my school, like we didn't have a lot of good food. Like the pizza was the best. Now that I'm thinking about it, I'm trying to like remember like what things we ate.

SPEAKER_01 13:29

Yeah.

ANTHONY 13:31

Pizza corn.

unknown 13:35

Corn.

ANTHONY 13:36

I don't know why they always thought pizza and corn went well together.

SPEAKER_00 13:40

Like canned corn.

ANTHONY 13:41

Yeah, I'm assuming it was canned.

SPEAKER_00 13:43

Yeah. It's kind of weird, but I always loved the the green beans.

SPEAKER_02 13:49

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_00 13:50

Yeah. I loved it. Like every time I came, I'm like, this is gonna be a good meal. Pineapple. Oh, pineapple is pretty good.

SPEAKER_03 13:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:57

I hated the mixed fruit with the cherry. I hated that.

ANTHONY 14:01

Really? Yeah. I love that, but only if I got a cherry.

SPEAKER_00 14:03

Yeah, I hated that. I fucking blessed it. Because it's like a mix of the fruits, so it tasted weird. I love the peaches though.

ANTHONY 14:10

But I still peaches were really good. And Okay. Okay. Probably an unpopular thing here, but I need your opinion. Maybe you'll validate me here.

SPEAKER_01 14:21

Okay.

ANTHONY 14:23

Is it just me or did like school food taste better? So, like, just even like the corn or the peaches. They're canned peaches, but they tasted so much better than if you were to go to the grocery store, buy a can of thousand percent. I don't know what that it what did they lace that shit with.

SPEAKER_00 14:40

Yeah. That's how we keep coming back.

ANTHONY 14:43

I would go back for sure just for the food.

SPEAKER_00 14:45

Yeah.

ANTHONY 14:46

Some of the food anyway.

SPEAKER_00 14:47

Yeah, I had a conversation with somebody about like going to buy like school lunches. Because you know how like the what's that store here in Eau Claire that sells the school lunches?

ANTHONY 15:00

But Indian had food?

SPEAKER_00 15:01

Yeah. So we had attempted to buy like stuff from there. And when we ate it, we're just like, it's good, but it's not good like when we were in school. You know what I mean?

ANTHONY 15:11

Yeah. I do because and I haven't had any in a while. And I think we we had this conversation because I didn't know that Indian had had the school pizza, and I found that out. And I was like, bitch, I'm gonna go and buy it.

SPEAKER_00 15:24

Oh, like the breakfast pizza?

ANTHONY 15:25

Oh, there was a bagel?

SPEAKER_00 15:27

Not the bagel, but they had squared pizza pieces of pizza. Yeah, those are so good. Like, especially for breakfast, I loved eating that.

ANTHONY 15:35

Our breakfast pizza was on a bagel. It was a bagel with some sort of like breakfast sauce, and then there was sausage and cheese on it. It was so fucking good.

SPEAKER_00 15:44

That sounds so good. Oh, what does not taste the same is fucking buttered toast with cinnamon and shinnam and brown sugar. It does you cannot replicate that. Yeah. I've tried it so many times, and I'm like, this shit tastes whack. Like I'm such high school.

SPEAKER_02 16:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:01

It was so good though. Like nothing, nothing will ever beat that.

ANTHONY 16:05

Kids will never know how good.

SPEAKER_00 16:06

Yeah. There was this other thing that I really liked, but I forgot what I was gonna say. I don't remember, but now I'm celebrating.

ANTHONY 16:19

I didn't like their burgers.

SPEAKER_00 16:20

Oh, chicken, their chicken patty.

ANTHONY 16:23

Like it was the chicken patty sandwiches.

SPEAKER_00 16:26

Yes. That's what we attempted to buy. And yeah, when we made it, we're like, this shit sucks, dude.

ANTHONY 16:33

Like I yeah, yeah, I know it's not the same. I tried to get it from like Walmart, yeah, grocery store, and I'm just like it ain't the same.

SPEAKER_00 16:42

Cause it's so simple. You just need a ketchup and mayo and just the breading and the patty, and when you ate it, it's like perfection. But now you're just like, this shit sucks. Honestly, even the McChickens at McDonald's was not even as good as those chicken patties.

ANTHONY 16:57

So I, me and my cousins went through a phase in the late 90s, maybe early 2000s. Burger King, the original chicken sandwich. Uh-huh. They used to always constantly have those on sale. It was like two for five. Yeah, yeah. So we'd go through the drive-thru and go to Burger King, and we'd always get those.

SPEAKER_00 17:21

That's my dad and my mom's favorite.

ANTHONY 17:23

Ma girl, same.

SPEAKER_00 17:24

Yeah.

ANTHONY 17:24

But I just had one the other day for the first time.

SPEAKER_00 17:26

It does not taste the same. Nope. Like the crunch level of it is not there.

ANTHONY 17:31

It's like soggy.

SPEAKER_00 17:32

Yep. Yep. And I think like just the bread itself is not as like like puffy and like moist. I don't I wouldn't say moist, but like the the thickness of the bun is not there. It's like super flat.

ANTHONY 17:47

It is. Yeah. Yes.

unknown 17:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:50

Such fatties.

ANTHONY 17:51

I know. We could literally have every episode talking about food. Yeah, we could. We could talk for about food for hours.

SPEAKER_00 17:56

Yeah. But yeah, I don't know. I feel like my high school fries were so good though. There's they had like a specific season for the fries. And I try to find it like throughout the years, but can't find it. Yeah.

ANTHONY 18:13

So it's probably pleasoning.

SPEAKER_00 18:16

What is pleasing? That sounds like oh, that sounds like poison.

ANTHONY 18:20

Look for it at the store next time you go if you're looking at the seasonings.

SPEAKER_00 18:23

Okay. Pleasoning?

ANTHONY 18:24

Yeah, pleasoning. It's really good. I love using that stuff.

SPEAKER_00 18:28

I just remember the there was like there was there was like red powder on it. So I'm pretty sure it was like some kind of paprika or something. Yeah. But it was good. I was like, yeah.

Lunchroom Hierarchy And School Food

ANTHONY 18:39

Did you ever have anybody like in the lunchroom, like, did people ever like barter and like try to negotiate? Like, hey, I'll give you my fries if you give me your ice cream.

SPEAKER_00 18:48

I was no, but I was just gonna bring up a shout out to one of my one of my best high school friends. And I don't know if you guys remember, but I've talked about in previous episodes where like in in high school, like we couldn't afford the free lunch, right? So some days I would starve. I don't know if you remember that.

SPEAKER_03 19:06

No.

SPEAKER_00 19:06

But yeah, some days I would like not eat anything until I got home. But I did have a friend. His name was Shivah. Hey Shiv. We used to call him Chester, but I don't know if he listens. But if he ever does, I just want to say thank you to him because he always shared his lunch with me. Oh yeah. So I think in high school I was way too fat to share my favorite lunch with me. No, I felt bad. I will be honest, I felt bad because it's just like he shared it with me like every day. But then I all of a sudden felt like I didn't like as a kid, I didn't realize it. But now when I grew up, like now that I'm older, I kind of expected it from him, which is kind of fucked up. You know what I mean?

ANTHONY 19:50

You expected him to share his food.

SPEAKER_00 19:52

Yeah.

ANTHONY 19:53

Why?

SPEAKER_00 19:53

Well, I didn't expect it to I didn't like I didn't fully expect it, but like sometimes like I don't know how to say it. Like I don't know how to say it. It's not that I expected it, but I low-key did, but then I felt bad. But then I was also like, oh, well, he's okay sharing it with me. You know what I mean? I don't know if you know what I would mean, but I don't know what you mean. I don't know. I don't know how to explain it.

ANTHONY 20:19

But anyways, is it that you just got used to him sharing that?

SPEAKER_00 20:23

Yeah.

ANTHONY 20:23

Yeah. So that yeah, so that's fair. So you just got used to it.

SPEAKER_00 20:27

Yeah.

ANTHONY 20:27

That it became an expectation.

SPEAKER_00 20:29

Yeah, but then at the same time Like I felt bad about having an expectation because obviously it's not my lunch. But then there were times where I didn't eat because I did feel bad, or there were times where like he'd offer and I'd be like, no, I'm good, you know? Because I was like, okay, I shouldn't be doing that. But regardless, like, you know, he shared his lunch with me, and I was always really thankful for that. So yeah, and he was one of my best friends in high school.

ANTHONY 20:54

So And you don't talk to him anymore?

SPEAKER_00 20:56

We are in contact still, but we don't like talk all the time. Yeah.

ANTHONY 21:00

Well, Shiv, I just wanna It's Shiva. Oh, you said Shiv earlier.

SPEAKER_00 21:05

I know, but it's Shiva or Shiv.

ANTHONY 21:07

I'm not his friend, so I can't call him Shiv. I got it. His friends call him Shiv. Shiva.

SPEAKER_00 21:12

Yeah.

ANTHONY 21:12

Thank you for being such a nice student and sharing your food to somebody who didn't have any.

SPEAKER_00 21:18

Yeah, he was really nice.

ANTHONY 21:19

That is really nice. Yeah. Not a lot of kids do that nowadays.

SPEAKER_00 21:22

No. Never.

unknown 21:24

No.

SPEAKER_00 21:24

Yeah. I think for a moment people thought that we were an item. Because we were really close.

ANTHONY 21:30

Did you want to be an item?

SPEAKER_00 21:31

No.

ANTHONY 21:31

Let's let the cat out of it. Let's let's unravel these feelings and these emotions.

SPEAKER_00 21:36

No.

ANTHONY 21:36

Did he?

SPEAKER_00 21:37

No. Because he liked it other girls in high school. And I would kind of be like his wingman. I'd be like, dude, just go do it. Like, just go ask her, you know? But we did.

ANTHONY 21:47

And there was no part of you that was like, he's attractive. I could see myself.

SPEAKER_00 21:52

No, because I was always talking to other people.

ANTHONY 21:54

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 21:55

So yeah.

ANTHONY 21:56

Because he was a hoe.

unknown 21:57

Yeah.

ANTHONY 21:57

Once upon a time, not long ago, she was a hoe.

SPEAKER_00 22:01

Yeah, very good. But I will say though, I think something that kind of changed our dynamic, I feel like in our friendship, which this has nothing related to what we're talking about now, but um we watched two girls in a cup together.

ANTHONY 22:16

Done.

SPEAKER_00 22:17

Yeah.

ANTHONY 22:18

Done.

SPEAKER_00 22:19

And like after that, we just were like, where do we go from here?

ANTHONY 22:23

That's so gross. Speaking of fucked up kids.

SPEAKER_00 22:27

Yeah.

ANTHONY 22:31

I do not encourage any listener to go and look this up.

SPEAKER_00 22:34

I don't even think it's online anymore.

ANTHONY 22:36

Oh, I'm sure you could find it. You think so? I'm sure you could find it. Oh, but yeah, it was. Or you can find two new idiots recreating it for. Or yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:43

But yeah, so we were like looking up, we I think I went to his house because we had to do like either a psychology project or something. I don't remember. We were doing a project, and then I was asking him, I'm like, have you seen like the two girls in a cup thing? Or I think there was like there was another video of a guy in a hammer or whatever.

ANTHONY 23:01

There was two, two more. The guy in the hammer or the guy and the horse.

SPEAKER_00 23:06

I think it's the guy in the hammer. It has something to do with the nail, if I remember correctly, or a hammer, whatever. But we for sure I know that it was two girls in a cup, and I had asked him like if he's seen it, and I was like, we should wash it together because I don't know what it's about. It was fucking disgusting. I like got scarred from that video.

ANTHONY 23:25

That's disgusting. It's so gross.

SPEAKER_00 23:27

It's so gross. Yeah. And so then I was just like, yeah, that was not a good idea. And then I think low-key, like our our like our friendship wasn't weird or anything, but we were just like, this is a secret between you and I, and you and I only for the rest of our lives. Cause this shit was like fucked up as hell.

ANTHONY 23:44

And now it's a secret with all of our problems.

SPEAKER_00 23:46

Yes, yes.

ANTHONY 23:47

Our home unity.

SPEAKER_00 23:48

Yeah, it was my first time, I think that day, my first time eating a vegetarian pizza, too. So so it kind of relates to what we're talking about.

ANTHONY 23:57

Such a gross correlation to address.

SPEAKER_00 24:05

Yeah.

ANTHONY 24:06

Yeah, you're right though. There were like three videos that were like going around that were really popular. There was the two girls one cup.

SPEAKER_01 24:13

Yeah.

ANTHONY 24:13

I remember there was it was like a guy on a horse or something like that. And then there was one more.

SPEAKER_00 24:21

Yeah. I just saw the two girls in a cup. That shit was nasty. Did you watch any of those videos?

ANTHONY 24:25

I did.

SPEAKER_00 24:26

You did?

ANTHONY 24:27

I did.

SPEAKER_00 24:27

You got curious too.

ANTHONY 24:28

I did. I got curious with the two girls one cub because everybody at school is like talking about it.

SPEAKER_00 24:33

Yeah.

ANTHONY 24:34

And I was like, hmm. I wanted to be included. Yeah. Then I made that mistake.

SPEAKER_00 24:40

Yeah. Don't do it.

ANTHONY 24:42

Don't look up the guy in a horse either.

SPEAKER_00 24:45

Don't do it. Was it the man in an ice pick?

ANTHONY 24:50

The one that I'm talking about?

SPEAKER_00 24:51

Yeah.

ANTHONY 24:51

No, it was literally a guy getting fucked by a horse.

SPEAKER_00 24:54

Ew. Yeah.

unknown 24:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:56

You watched that too? I didn't watch the whole thing. How does that even happen? Aren't horse's dick like huge?

ANTHONY 25:02

That's what made the video.

SPEAKER_00 25:03

Oh. That's all gross. How do you do that though?

ANTHONY 25:07

I don't even want to talk about it. Go watch Beestiality Porn if you want to know.

SPEAKER_00 25:10

How do you do that? How do you force a horse to do that? I want to know now. You're gonna explain it to us all.

ANTHONY 25:17

Well, I'm not gonna explain it.

SPEAKER_00 25:18

I mean Like do they tie the horse up? Like, how do they force a horse to do that? Because like they got they're on four legs, aren't they?

ANTHONY 25:25

If memory serves me right, the guy was like under the horse.

SPEAKER_00 25:30

What the fuck? That's nasty.

ANTHONY 25:33

Downward dog type position.

SPEAKER_00 25:36

That's a real quick fucking no to me. Ugh, I feel sick.

ANTHONY 25:40

Okay. Anybody out there who this yeah, we're gonna get off the fat. But I'm just gonna say anybody out there who was like into bestiality porn or like into that, you're a fucking disgusting human being.

SPEAKER_00 25:53

That's like And that's how I see it. That's animal abuse.

ANTHONY 25:55

Yeah. Yeah. That's gross.

SPEAKER_00 25:57

That's horrible. Okay. Anyways.

ANTHONY 26:01

God.

SPEAKER_00 26:02

Okay, well, there's one more that I wanted to talk about.

ANTHONY 26:05

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 26:06

When you get picked last and you take it personally, like, do you feel like that affects you?

ANTHONY 26:13

Or that like I think it does affect kids and their personality, their development and growing.

SPEAKER_01 26:22

Okay.

ANTHONY 26:24

I definitely was one that was picked last quite frequently. And I don't, I I mean, I took it personally, but I also don't blame them. I was like, I was probably one of the fattest kids in my class. No, you weren't. No, I was. So it was like I I didn't blame them for like not wanting me on, you know, their team or whatever. But the frustrating part about that is it's one of those situations, and I think where it hurts kids is the fact that they can't feel like they're being included or involved.

SPEAKER_00 26:55

And the thing is like they're not accepted.

ANTHONY 26:58

Yeah. And it's like the thing is, is so if you're in gym class and they're like, all right, Nolly and Anthony, you're team captains, you have to pick your team.

SPEAKER_01 27:08

Yeah.

ANTHONY 27:09

Everybody has to get picked. So it's like what it does more harm to save somebody you don't want to pick for last than it would to just be like just pick them. Because again, everybody has to be picked, everybody has to be put on a team.

SPEAKER_01 27:27

Yeah.

ANTHONY 27:29

So it's it's like if it was like between you and me, it's like, well, I don't want them. You don't want them. Yeah. One of us has to like just bite the bullet.

SPEAKER_00 27:37

Just take it. I think that also causes anxiety because pe kids are like, oh, like what if I don't get picked? Or what if I get picked last?

ANTHONY 27:44

Like, you know, it's embed and then it's embarrassing. And it's embarrassing. And then they they do kids. I mean, I don't know about your school, but like it they do make a deal about being picked last. They're like you're they're not gonna let that person who was picked last live it down.

SPEAKER_01 27:58

Yeah, yeah.

ANTHONY 27:58

So yeah, I do agree with that, that it causes anxiety and it it is hurtful for kids.

SPEAKER_00 28:03

Yeah, that sucks. But I mean, I can relate and also not relate. I don't know. Because again, I was really competitive. So I think people in my gym class knew that I was competitive.

ANTHONY 28:14

Were you ever picked last?

SPEAKER_00 28:16

I don't think so. But I was like close to being last. Yeah, so once again, we are at Anthony's and he has little fur friends. So if y'all hear it in the background, it's just who let the dogs out.

ANTHONY 28:34

Richard.

SPEAKER_00 28:35

Yeah.

ANTHONY 28:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:39

Okay. Yeah. It's it it sucks though. Sometimes when you get picked last, you're just kind of like, again, it's that thing like, what's wrong with me? Like, why can't I get picked? Yeah. That's where you that's where the era of the pick me girl and the pick me boy starts, where they they do shit for attention and you know, I feel like maybe that's where it starts. I don't know.

ANTHONY 29:00

You know, that very actually well could be.

SPEAKER_00 29:02

Yeah.

ANTHONY 29:03

And that does that, I mean, that does make sense. That is a little illuminating now that I think about it, because it's like, I mean, for me, it was always the popular kids that are that were like the captains and shit like that, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:16

And I will say this I will say this. I don't give a fuck if you're a gym teacher, but there there is always favoritism. Like the gym teacher, you know who 100%.

ANTHONY 29:28

So I hated my gym teacher.

SPEAKER_00 29:30

Did you?

ANTHONY 29:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:32

Damn. Yeah. I don't know. I think my gym teachers were fine.

ANTHONY 29:35

Did you?

SPEAKER_00 29:36

Yeah.

ANTHONY 29:36

Didn't you say that you had a woman?

SPEAKER_00 29:38

Yeah. I had two teacher.

ANTHONY 29:39

Oh, yeah, because I gave you shit about her being a lesbian.

SPEAKER_00 29:42

Yeah. Well, I had two. Well, like in high school, my high school gym teacher. I know she had favorites because obviously I think she was like she was like captain of the she was like the volleyball captain or whatever. I don't fucking know.

ANTHONY 30:00

All teachers, gym teachers are not being singled out. All teachers have their favorites.

SPEAKER_00 30:07

Yeah, yeah. And you could tell.

ANTHONY 30:08

And I'm just bitter because I was never any of my teachers' favorites.

SPEAKER_00 30:11

That's okay, Boo. You're my favorite.

ANTHONY 30:13

Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 30:14

Although I'm not your gym teacher.

ANTHONY 30:16

Thank goodness for that.

SPEAKER_00 30:18

Yeah.

ANTHONY 30:19

Try to get me to run a mile.

SPEAKER_00 30:21

No, I'd be like, you want to go to the gym that ends with Cadonald's?

ANTHONY 30:26

Gym Cadonald's.

SPEAKER_00 30:27

Yeah. McDonald's.

ANTHONY 30:29

I gotcha. Yeah. I gotcha.

SPEAKER_00 30:30

Oh, okay.

ANTHONY 30:31

Normally when somebody asks me if I want to go to the gym, I say, whose gym?

SPEAKER_00 30:35

Oh, okay.

ANTHONY 30:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:38

That's a good one.

ANTHONY 30:39

Yeah. Alright. So recess was a battlefield. Our lunch boxes were political statements, apparently.

SPEAKER_00 30:50

But now it's time to take the chaos home, where bedtime routines were suspicious and family game night ended in tears.

ANTHONY 30:58

This next segment, home life, chaos, cartoons, and conspiracies. We're gonna talk about iconic and low-key weird moments that shaped us inside our childhood homes. Nolly?

SPEAKER_00 31:13

Yeah.

ANTHONY 31:13

What did you have for us?

SPEAKER_00 31:16

So I wanted to talk about the one cousin who was always doing too much. The one with the drama, the one with like the chaos, like the one that's always stirring shit up. Did you have one like that?

ANTHONY 31:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:31

Or did you have multiple people like that?

ANTHONY 31:33

I only have one that's sticking out in my mind, and he was kind of a little asshole.

SPEAKER_00 31:37

Okay.

ANTHONY 31:38

I'm gonna call him out right now.

SPEAKER_00 31:39

Is it the tall one?

NALEE 31:41

No.

SPEAKER_00 31:42

Okay.

NALEE 31:42

No. I feel bad calling him out.

ANTHONY 31:47

Say what you're just knowing everything we know now.

SPEAKER_00 31:49

Say what you're just my cousin Adam.

ANTHONY 31:52

He was he was kind of a little dick.

SPEAKER_00 31:54

Is Adam cute?

SPEAKER_03 31:56

No.

SPEAKER_00 31:57

Oh, okay. Damn, you really did call him out.

ANTHONY 32:03

No.

SPEAKER_00 32:03

Okay.

ANTHONY 32:04

Uh he was kind of a little asshole, and he was like when we were when we were kids, because he was one of my like immediate cousins, like me and my cousins were there was the group the core group of us that we always you know spent weekends, holidays, and like everything. He was just very mischievous. Actually, I think maybe I maybe I don't want to throw him under the bus like this, but I think I've told you a story about him before. So this is my cousin that basically shout out a basketball.

SPEAKER_00 32:37

Yeah.

ANTHONY 32:38

Pick it up.

SPEAKER_00 32:40

You have poop stories.

ANTHONY 32:42

Yeah. Okay. Let's go see.

SPEAKER_00 32:43

Spoopy Adam pants. Should I not call him that? Oops.

SPEAKER_03 32:47

No, that's fine. He definitely doesn't listen.

SPEAKER_00 32:49

Okay.

ANTHONY 32:50

But no, he was he was definitely a little asshole.

SPEAKER_00 32:54

Okay.

ANTHONY 32:54

When we were kids. I mean, I don't know. I don't like literally, I don't even know how what else to say about it.

SPEAKER_00 33:00

He was just a little douchebag.

Being Picked Last And Belonging

ANTHONY 33:01

Yeah, he was just a little preck and like always like causing trouble. And like it was anything that, like, and granted, I feel like a lot of people do this, but like, if he was told not to do something, he did it. 100%.

SPEAKER_01 33:13

Oh, he was a little rebel.

ANTHONY 33:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:15

Okay.

ANTHONY 33:15

Yeah. And I remember one time we were at his house in Arizona, and my uncle kicked us out of the house because he used to he used to do that all the time. And like, kick us out of the house, go do something outside, go play outside. And I we were in the garage for some reason. And they had these little like two by four like blocks of wood for some reason. And somehow they found a black widow spider.

SPEAKER_01 33:46

Okay.

ANTHONY 33:47

And they were like dropping the blocks in like a triangle around the spider and like trying to block it in.

SPEAKER_00 33:52

And I'm like, that's so mean.

ANTHONY 33:55

It's mean, but then I'm thinking, that's a black fucking widow spider dude. Play with the daddy long legs. I don't give a shit. A black fucking widow?

SPEAKER_00 34:04

Yeah. They ask in a dad.

ANTHONY 34:07

Yeah. I I remember I took one of the blocks and I literally I just killed the black widow.

SPEAKER_00 34:11

Oh, dude, that's even worse. You're like, bat bitch, boom.

ANTHONY 34:14

Well, I was like, I'm not playing with this thing. I don't know if they can jump.

SPEAKER_00 34:17

Yeah. Ooh, I hate too.

ANTHONY 34:18

Can you imagine if a black widow jumped at you?

SPEAKER_00 34:20

Yeah, we'd all be dead.

ANTHONY 34:21

Like for real.

SPEAKER_00 34:22

Yeah, we'd all be dead.

ANTHONY 34:23

So I was like, I don't got time for this.

SPEAKER_00 34:25

We got halfway to Shonda.

ANTHONY 34:26

But he always had like the rebel ideas. There was another time that my uncle like kicked us out, and their bedroom had a sliding door, and we wanted to play video games. It's in Arizona, it's in the desert. It was like 90s, I'm sure. What? And I remember he kicked us out and we walked out and we closed the bedroom door behind us. And we went outside and we were playing for a little bit. And then we like, like Inspector Gadget, like got against the wall of the house and like was sliding. And we slid to the sc we made our way to the screen door. Quietly opened the screen door and went inside and muted the TV and started playing video games again.

SPEAKER_00 35:07

Were they humping?

ANTHONY 35:08

What?

SPEAKER_00 35:09

Were they humping? Who?

ANTHONY 35:10

My uncle?

SPEAKER_00 35:11

Yeah.

ANTHONY 35:12

No, no. He just wants us to go play outside.

SPEAKER_00 35:14

Oh, I thought something scandalous was gonna happen. No. Oh, okay.

ANTHONY 35:18

He just wanted us out of the fucking house. And then we got caught. I don't know. My cousin Joseph got us caught.

SPEAKER_00 35:24

What a little douchebag. What a little D-bag. I know.

ANTHONY 35:27

But anyway, what about you?

SPEAKER_00 35:29

I did have some cousins who like were kind of like, I don't know, they always had drama. But I don't know. Like, I have nothing against my cousins. It's whatever. But I wasn't really close with my cousins. Like when we were little, yeah, we were close. But I think like my mom and my dad, like my dad's siblings, which is my aunt and my uncle's or my uncles, or there's a particular uncle, but they have there's like a lot of drama. So then they didn't really like us. Like I think I said in the pod earlier, like our family was kind of like the black sheep.

ANTHONY 36:01

Yeah. I remember you did say that.

SPEAKER_00 36:03

And my mom and my dad were really sheltered, so they didn't really like when we hung out, like they were really strict.

ANTHONY 36:10

But your parents were?

SPEAKER_00 36:12

Yeah. I mean, they're still strict. Like we're 40 years old and they still have a fucking curfew on us. Well, not me, but on my sisters and them.

ANTHONY 36:21

Seriously?

SPEAKER_00 36:21

Yeah, they're really strict.

ANTHONY 36:22

But your sister's living at home with them.

SPEAKER_00 36:24

Yeah.

ANTHONY 36:25

Okay. Well, but they're adults. In all fairness, if you're living under my house, you're living under my rules.

SPEAKER_00 36:31

Well that's they live with my sister. It's not their house. They live with her.

ANTHONY 36:35

Oh, well, then that changes things.

SPEAKER_00 36:37

Yeah, but I don't know. We're all also we're also really obedient. I think that's our issue. So we still listen to them. But it's just kind of like But that's a good thing. Uh is it?

ANTHONY 36:47

It is, because now like nowadays, I don't feel like a lot of kids are obedient. And a lot of kids are like rude.

SPEAKER_00 36:54

But we're 40 years old, 30, 40 years old. Like we don't need to like have that in the case. Well, yeah.

ANTHONY 36:59

I mean, at this point you probably should draw some boundaries. But I mean, at the time to have kids that were obedient.

SPEAKER_00 37:05

Yeah. But um I know that like my my auntie, her daughter, or my cousin, I guess. I know she had a lot of drama, like with everybody. I don't know.

ANTHONY 37:18

You don't know what the drama was?

SPEAKER_00 37:20

No. I think it was just a lot of I don't know, it was just a lot of drama. I don't really remember because I was a little kid. But yeah. I don't know. I don't have a lot of experiences, I guess, with my cousin. The only ones were like I did have good memories, like we would play like house and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_03 37:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 37:38

Like we would go to my aunt's house because we I only have one aunt from my dad's side. And we grew up with them with my cousins, but then like we don't have we didn't have anybody who was like really naughty. I guess the only one who was really naughty was my brother.

ANTHONY 37:54

So maybe he's a bad younger brother or my older brother. Older brother. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 37:59

My second older older brother. Like he was a he was I wouldn't say he was a bad kid, but he definitely was like not a good seed when he was younger. Why?

ANTHONY 38:08

What what did you do? Give us examples.

Home Life, Cousins, And Household Chaos

SPEAKER_00 38:10

I think he hung out like kind of with the wrong crowd. And like there was a moment where he like he wasn't into like hardcore drugs, but he like smoked weed and stuff like that. And at that time, like my dad and them didn't like that. So he low-key like got kicked out of the house, and my dad like beat his ass pretty bad.

ANTHONY 38:33

Really?

SPEAKER_00 38:33

Yeah. I mean, it's gonna sound like child abuse, but it's more of like discipline. Like, you know what we we've talked about this before? Like, yeah, I'm a firm believer in discipline. Discipline, then it compared to now, like people consider it like child abuse, whatever. Do with what you will as your child. Yeah, and so then and yeah, I wouldn't say that Pali was a bad seed, but she was pretty like rebellious to I could totally see her being like a wild child. Pali was definitely a wild child, yeah. She's definitely like calmed down, but that's right, Polly. I'm calling you out.

SPEAKER_03 39:10

Tell me all the stories.

SPEAKER_00 39:11

Yeah, but yeah, but you know, they've turned their lives around.

ANTHONY 39:15

And well, I feel like that's typical for any person, any teenager, any kid. We all go through phases.

SPEAKER_00 39:24

Some people don't.

ANTHONY 39:26

So you don't think so?

SPEAKER_00 39:28

No.

NALEE 39:29

Really?

SPEAKER_00 39:29

Yeah, some people don't go through phases. They're stuck in their childish ways. So but yeah.

NALEE 39:38

Gotcha.

SPEAKER_00 39:38

Yeah. But yeah, that's all I have to say. I and maybe that's why we're the black sheep family.

ANTHONY 39:47

But So you feel your whole family was a b like was a black sheep?

SPEAKER_00 39:50

Yeah.

ANTHONY 39:51

Like your immediate with your mom, your dad, your brothers.

SPEAKER_00 39:53

We are just all my other cousins, they all get along except for us.

ANTHONY 39:59

Yeah. Yeah. So I can relate to that because I've always felt like I've never felt fully 100% like welcomed in my family.

SPEAKER_00 40:09

Yeah. We weren't really accepted because the black sheep. Like, I think I've mentioned this before. Like my siblings and us, well, like specifically my sisters and us, we're a little bit bigger and thick, I should say. And so then a lot of my other cousins, they were skinny and thin and pretty. So, like, when we were around, like our aunts and uncles would always be. Be like, oh, like why are you guys so big? Blah blah blah blah, and stuff like that. So I think it kind of pushed us out. That's why we were just kind of like, Oh, I'd rather just not go, because if we do, we get compared. You know what I mean? It is very sad, yeah. But yeah, so to us, I think it was more of like the reason why we didn't get close is because again, we weren't really accepted for who we were, you know? But that's besides the point. Childhood trauma, all that shit. But yeah.

ANTHONY 41:56

I'm sorry, that's unfortunate that your family was like that though, because I will say that it's not just our family.

SPEAKER_00 42:04

I think it's kinda like I don't know if it's an Asian thing, but I will say that I'm gonna agree to disagree, or I'm gonna like say an unpopular opinion. I think that's probably the proper way to say it. Is that Asian culture, they are obsessed with beauty. Like if you're not pretty, then like you get looked down upon. Like, for example, like the Korean, the Korean industry or Korean beauty industry. Like if you're not skinny and pretty, then you kind of get looked up down upon. But again, I think that's like an Asian culture in general because we get sexualized so much.

ANTHONY 42:41

I'm gonna disagree with that only because that's the same thing for like white women, yeah, colored women. It's like you gotta be skinny and beautiful for when it comes to women.

SPEAKER_01 42:53

That's true.

ANTHONY 42:55

And I will give you that I do believe that like Asian women are more fetishized.

SPEAKER_01 43:03

Yeah.

ANTHONY 43:03

So I mean I'll give that to you.

SPEAKER_01 43:05

Yeah.

ANTHONY 43:05

So it's still, it's just still, it's just unfortunate when it's your own family because everybody always pleads this argument that it's family and like they'll always accept you for who we are. They're gonna love you no matter what. And they're gonna be Yeah. Blood is thicker than water.

SPEAKER_00 43:23

Bitch bah.

ANTHONY 43:24

No, sorry.

SPEAKER_00 43:25

No, sweetie, no.

ANTHONY 43:27

I'm I'm much more of a believer in like supporting and like picking like your chosen family.

SPEAKER_00 43:33

Yeah. You earn respect. Yeah, it's not given. That's me.

ANTHONY 43:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 43:37

At this point.

ANTHONY 43:38

And it's almost like it's expected when it's like just because it's family, you're expected to do things a certain way. Yeah. Live your life a certain way.

SPEAKER_00 43:53

It sucks.

ANTHONY 43:54

It does suck. That's family.

SPEAKER_00 43:56

That's family.

ANTHONY 43:58

That's right, Jesus.

SPEAKER_00 43:59

Jesus. What did you have?

ANTHONY 44:03

Well, I had wanted to talk about nicknames.

SPEAKER_00 44:06

Okay.

ANTHONY 44:07

Nicknames that may not have been very pleasant. Pleasant as a child. Did you did you have any?

SPEAKER_00 44:15

I think my mom had a name for me. But I forgot what it was. But like when I was younger, I was really skinny. I know it's hard to believe, but I was Yeah. I was really skinny when I was little. And I forgot what she called me.

NALEE 44:34

But Rolly Poly.

SPEAKER_00 44:37

I think it was I think the translation would be I could be wrong. I think my siblings know this. But I think it was like the translation would be like lizard, because I was skinny. And I was very like, eh, scormy. So what's the I don't even I don't remember. I don't remember. I know what it is, but I don't know if that's the exact thing, so I'm not gonna say it.

ANTHONY 45:01

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 45:01

But I did have nicknames though.

ANTHONY 45:03

Yeah. Yeah. Share them.

SPEAKER_00 45:05

So my sister still calls me this. Sal calls me Nene.

ANTHONY 45:08

What's that mean?

SPEAKER_00 45:09

Just I don't know. Just Nene. Like tiny.

ANTHONY 45:12

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 45:13

Yeah.

NALEE 45:13

Because you're the baby.

SPEAKER_00 45:15

Yeah. Or they would call me, which is also tiny.

unknown 45:20

Yeah.

ANTHONY 45:20

It's mind-blowing.

SPEAKER_00 45:22

Why? Because I ain't tiny?

ANTHONY 45:24

Two different ways of saying no, two different ways of saying the exact same thing, and it's like me or Nene.

SPEAKER_00 45:30

Yeah. So yeah. It just blows my mind. Yeah, she still calls me that. She has asked, Okay bye Nene.

ANTHONY 45:37

What are what about any of your friends? Did any of your friends give you nicknames?

SPEAKER_00 45:40

No. But I had my own nickname. My street name.

ANTHONY 45:48

Gave herself a nickname. Laquita?

SPEAKER_00 45:51

No, it was Happy. That sounds really stupid. I'm a dwarf now. I had that nickname for a while.

ANTHONY 46:00

I'm not called Jenna.

SPEAKER_00 46:01

What?

unknown 46:02

Nothing.

SPEAKER_00 46:03

You're gonna call Jenna?

ANTHONY 46:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 46:04

Why? Yeah, you bitch.

NALEE 46:08

What about you? I did. I had a lot of nicknames in like middle school and high school.

ANTHONY 46:20

They used to call me Ace at one point.

SPEAKER_01 46:24

Why?

ANTHONY 46:25

I don't know. That was a very good question.

SPEAKER_01 46:27

Okay.

ANTHONY 46:28

Some of the nicknames I don't really even have any reason for.

SPEAKER_00 46:31

Okay.

ANTHONY 46:32

Fuzzy.

SPEAKER_00 46:34

Interesting.

ANTHONY 46:36

Um, I think that was a mix of when I was fat and in middle school and high school, like I went through a period where I like only wore hoodies.

SPEAKER_01 46:47

Okay.

ANTHONY 46:48

And like oversized hoodies to like try and hide my fatness by making myself look bigger. But I think my hoodies, I think there was one that was like fuzzy.

SPEAKER_00 47:00

Fuzzy. Oh, okay.

ANTHONY 47:01

And then also, I know you'd find this hard to believe, but I had hair.

SPEAKER_01 47:05

Yeah.

ANTHONY 47:05

And so my hair, they would call me fuzzy. You had beautiful hair. I did have beautiful hair. Not still bitter about that. Or the person I work for who decided to not give me my hair extensions.

SPEAKER_00 47:20

Oh, baby, it's coming. Wait till we win that lottery.

ANTHONY 47:23

None of us got tickets this month.

SPEAKER_00 47:25

Whose fault is that?

ANTHONY 47:28

All of ours.

SPEAKER_00 47:29

This month? What is this?

ANTHONY 47:31

November.

SPEAKER_00 47:31

Well, my week is still coming up.

ANTHONY 47:33

Yeah, your week is still coming up.

SPEAKER_00 47:35

Jenna.

ANTHONY 47:36

You mean Heather?

SPEAKER_00 47:37

Heather, you out, boo.

ANTHONY 47:40

She's been busy. She's been having a lot of stuff go on in her life too, yeah. And I'm just like, I get it. And I keep meaning to go and buy mine, and I just haven't. So I'll do it this week. Whatever, I don't care. But yeah, so Heather.

SPEAKER_00 47:54

Not Jenna, sorry.

ANTHONY 47:56

One nickname that I had that I really didn't like as a kid was they used to call me Velcro.

SPEAKER_00 48:02

Why?

ANTHONY 48:04

I don't remember who it was. Somebody said that my hair felt like Velcro, which is that a compliment? No, it was supposed to, it was meant as an insult.

SPEAKER_00 48:12

Oh, what a bitch. Who said that to you?

ANTHONY 48:14

I don't remember.

SPEAKER_00 48:16

Listen here, you little bitch.

ANTHONY 48:17

It didn't last very that one didn't stick very long, thankfully. My aunt and uncle always call me dude. We've had this conversation.

SPEAKER_01 48:26

Dude.

ANTHONY 48:26

So that's uh my uncle still calls me dude.

SPEAKER_01 48:28

Okay. What else?

SPEAKER_03 48:30

Those are all of my nicknames.

ANTHONY 48:33

I've been called whore. I don't know if that's a nickname or not, or just a term of endearment.

SPEAKER_00 48:40

Actually, I'm gonna call you that from now on.

ANTHONY 48:42

Whore.

SPEAKER_00 48:43

Hey whore.

ANTHONY 48:43

I'd prefer if you just called me hoe.

SPEAKER_00 48:45

Or that too.

ANTHONY 48:46

Yeah. I like being a hoe.

SPEAKER_00 48:47

Oh, we know you like being a hoe.

ANTHONY 48:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 48:49

Oh, another one that my brother used to call me was nye. Yeah, and it's also tiny.

ANTHONY 48:57

Okay, so now we have three different ways of saying tiny.

SPEAKER_00 49:00

Yeah.

ANTHONY 49:01

That just blows my mind.

SPEAKER_00 49:03

Yeah.

ANTHONY 49:03

That just complicates language even more.

SPEAKER_00 49:05

Yeah. The Moan language is complicated. Don't even worry about it.

ANTHONY 49:09

All language is complicated.

SPEAKER_00 49:10

That too.

unknown 50:08

Okay.

ANTHONY 50:09

Okay, can I share? Speaking of language, I have to s I have to get this off my chest.

SPEAKER_00 50:13

Get it off your chest, boo.

ANTHONY 50:14

So I was on TikTok yesterday and I came across a video of a woman going off on a woman who was in her car on her phone speaking Spanish to somebody. And this fucking Karen just came up and started going off on the woman about speaking Spanish.

SPEAKER_01 50:40

Okay.

ANTHONY 50:41

And she said something. Okay, this actually ties into our whole trip back into high school and childhood days. So this fucking Karen said to this woman, You're in America. Like speak I hate that. Speak American. If you're gonna come to our country, speak English.

SPEAKER_00 51:00

This ain't your country, bitch.

ANTHONY 51:02

It's not your country. But I so badly wanted to, all I could think of was this bitch, you know, she probably goes to Mexico for her vacation. Yep. You know, she's not going to Mexico and speaking Spanish.

SPEAKER_01 51:19

Yeah.

ANTHONY 51:20

And why is it that as Americans, we think that we're so entitled? And the reason that how I'm tying this back into like high school, I remember in it was either Spanish one or Spanish two.

SPEAKER_00 51:33

Yeah, why have Spanish in schools? Why it ha why it have?

SPEAKER_02 51:37

Why it why we have why why we don't have Chinese?

SPEAKER_00 51:40

Yeah, but why is Spanish one of the main learning languages in high school when you guys don't want people speaking Spanish? Like make it fucking make sense. You know what I mean?

ANTHONY 51:51

Anyways, you know, I do, but I think that that's the main one that's pushed because I mean that's pretty much a close second for most spoken language in in our country. And then with us being so close to Mexico. But I remember, and I'm gonna call him out, and I have no shame for this.

SPEAKER_00 52:11

Call him out.

ANTHONY 52:12

I remember so vividly Troy Gilbertson making a big issue in our Spanish class. Like, why do I gotta learn Spanish? If they're coming to America, they bet they should speak English.

NALEE 52:23

And it's like okay. One, why are you here?

ANTHONY 52:32

Like if you don't want to learn Spanish, like why'd you take this class? And then two, why is it that we do think that because people come here that they should speak English? And not even so much about people most people who do come here can't speak English. Yeah, they speak multiple languages, they're bilingual or trilingual. Like just because you're the fucking idiot who can't learn the difference between los, los, la, el, yeah, like you can't figure your what are they conjugates?

SPEAKER_00 53:10

Yeah. I'm laughing because of our Uber drive. That's all.

ANTHONY 53:16

I know Uber. I know I know Uber. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_00 53:19

Yeah. But I'm just saying, like it's because they're ignorant. That's it. Like people are so fucking it fucking it. People are so fucking ignorant.

ANTHONY 53:28

Fucking ignorant.

SPEAKER_00 53:28

Yeah. That triggers me. Because I ever for me.

ANTHONY 53:34

And it's like going back to the TikTok video, like she was in her car having a conversation on her phone. Mind your own fucking business.

SPEAKER_01 53:42

Yeah. So stupid.

ANTHONY 53:45

So anyway, yeah, uh Velcro wasn't one of my nicknames. Fuzzy.

SPEAKER_00 53:54

Fuzzy.

ANTHONY 53:55

Ugh, that girl that I moved to California with. She used to call me poopy.

SPEAKER_00 54:00

Poopy?

ANTHONY 54:01

We were poopy and doopy. Poopy and doopy? Or something like that. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 54:08

Ugh.

ANTHONY 54:08

I know.

SPEAKER_00 54:09

Why poopy?

ANTHONY 54:10

Now it's all like Sha Poopy? Now it's all red flags. Every time I like You think about it? Think about it, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 54:17

Oh. Okay.

unknown 54:20

Um.

SPEAKER_00 54:21

Yeah. Alright. Well, now that we revisited the trauma of being called embarrassing childhood nicknames, let's wrap things up with a little reflection.

ANTHONY 54:34

AKA realizing that despite the chaos, our childhoods gave us some pretty iconic core memories. A few unresolved issues as well.

SPEAKER_00 54:45

All right, so segment three is about core memories that still live rent-free. I know this one's gonna be a long one because we are gonna have a lot to talk about. So buckle the fuck up. For mine, I wanted to talk about family road trips that were actually psychological experiments.

ANTHONY 55:04

Okay. I'm interested.

SPEAKER_00 55:07

Okay. So I think I've talked about this. We we probably talked about it in one of our previous episodes for a fact, but did you like when you guys had like road trips, did you guys ever like argue or was it moments were there were road trips core memories of like good times?

ANTHONY 55:28

My core memories of road trips are all good times. It was normally like me, my grandma, and my aunt. There were a few times that like my cousins would come with me.

SPEAKER_01 55:40

Okay.

ANTHONY 55:41

We didn't really argue, but we did have those moments where it was moments of disagreement.

SPEAKER_01 55:48

Okay.

ANTHONY 55:49

That would get my grandma a little riled up, but never anything serious that I can recall.

SPEAKER_01 55:56

Okay.

Core Memories: Road Trips And Glow Sticks

ANTHONY 55:59

As far as and for me, some of my core memories, they all obviously include our road trips to Vegas. One thing that really stands out to me is that I would always get sick in the car. And it wasn't like it wasn't what's the word, like motion sickness or car sickness. It wasn't that.

SPEAKER_01 56:23

Oh, okay.

ANTHONY 56:24

I would literally just get like physically like sweats and hot, nauseous.

SPEAKER_01 56:30

I wonder why.

ANTHONY 56:32

Yeah, I was only in the car, and then like once we got there, I'd I'd be fine.

SPEAKER_00 56:37

Weirdo.

ANTHONY 56:38

For real.

SPEAKER_00 56:39

Yeah.

ANTHONY 56:39

But I remember I would sleep in the backseat and play video games the entire time. And a a part of that core memory is that we when we would stop at a like rest area.

SPEAKER_01 56:54

Okay.

ANTHONY 56:55

So my grandma could rest, because this was when I was a kid. I couldn't drive.

SPEAKER_01 56:58

Yeah.

ANTHONY 56:58

My aunt had epilepsy. She couldn't drive, so my grandma did all of the driving.

SPEAKER_01 57:02

Yeah.

ANTHONY 57:03

So we would stop so that she would rest. Well, here I've been sleeping the entire time. So I'm like, I'm awake.

SPEAKER_00 57:08

Yeah.

ANTHONY 57:09

And of course I'm a kid and I can't get out and go like do stuff. Do stuff at the rest area. Not that there was like most of them didn't have anything to do, but yeah. So it was like I had to sit in the car.

SPEAKER_00 57:22

You must have been such a bored little kid.

ANTHONY 57:25

In the car?

SPEAKER_00 57:26

Yeah.

ANTHONY 57:27

Yeah, probably at well, I mean, I had my video games, so that tied me over.

SPEAKER_00 57:31

Um what about you? Yeah, for me, like I know I talked about like the annual like North Dakota fishing trips and stuff like that, but I uh for me, my core memories of road trips were always with my guy cousins because my dad's oldest brother, his kids are low-key kind of aligned with my parents too. So all of our kids are kind of like in the same age range. So me and my sister Mila were the two younger ones. So they my mom and my dad would always take us, and then my uncle, he would always take his two younger boys. And so then I remember this one time we were driving to go visit this auntie in like Iowa, and we were going at night, and so then we had stopped at a gas station, and um we saw that there were these, you know, those glow in the dark sticks to break it. And so then what we did was at this time we drove in my uncle's suburban, and so the kids we were in the back, which now that I think of it probably wasn't the best idea, or maybe not, I don't know. But at that time, seatbelts weren't like a super big issue because I know like what? Yeah, because we were, I think we were like maybe nine, 10-ish, but we were driving at night, and so then, you know, when we use a glow-up sticks, it glows. And so then at that time, you know, my parents, they were all in the front, they were talking, and then we were sitting in the back of the suburban, and they had put the seat down in the back so we could just kind of sit and like sleep or whatever on our way there. And so we had covered the back seat with a blanket, and then we were like underneath it, and we were like doing little raves and stuff like that. It was so fun. Like that was like a core memory for me. And so then I think every time we were all together when we were going on road trips, we always had to buy glow sticks.

ANTHONY 1:00:01

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_00 1:00:02

Yeah, so we could do that, yeah. And we would just be like that in the background. It was so fun, now that I think of it. But yeah.

ANTHONY 1:00:10

Now I wish I would have done that with my cousins.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:12

Yeah. But again, like me, I think I think this is still true too, is where like I have more like like when I was single, I had more guy friends than I had girlfriends. I don't know if if that's a thing. I don't know why that is, but I got along more with my guy cousins than my girl cousins too.

ANTHONY 1:00:33

I okay, I feel like that is very common.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:37

Is it?

ANTHONY 1:00:38

I feel like it is.

unknown 1:00:40

Yeah.

ANTHONY 1:00:40

I mean, I could be wrong.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:41

But the thing too is though I used to be wingmans for my cousins though. Like when we go to the New Year's and stuff, and they wanted to hit on a girl and then have the guts to go hit on them. I would be like, which one you like? I'll go ask the number for you.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:54

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:54

And so then when we did that, I would be like, oh hey, like, you know, my cousin over there, he's single, and you know, he wanted to know if you you're single, like, can I get your number and give it to him? And that's like super old fashioned, but excuse me. But yeah, so I think that's also one reason why that's one reason why like I get along with my guy cousins. And I was also a really big tomboy. Like, I didn't, to be honest, I didn't opposites. What?

ANTHONY 1:01:23

I said we were opposites.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:25

Yeah, I didn't like hit like the glow up or like the girl maturity because I was also a late bloomer to like put makeup on and stuff like that. Like I didn't even do that until like maybe sophomore almost junior year.

ANTHONY 1:01:38

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:39

Yeah, so I look like trash majority of the five.

ANTHONY 1:01:42

I find I highly doubt that.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:45

Oh no, I looked like trash, but I doubt that. Yeah, and so then yeah, I don't know. Like, I feel like we uh I always got along with my guy cousins, but that's definitely a core memory for me.

NALEE 1:01:57

Okay, so you brought up something for me that I want to visit, which is a little drastically off topic. Okay, excuse me.

ANTHONY 1:02:11

So you were a tomboy, you got along with your guy friends, I was the opposite. I was or guy cousins, I'm sorry. I was the opposite. I was obviously very like feminine, like being raised by my grandma, no masculine or man figure in my life consistently, uh to uh at least. So I want your opinion on this. So one thing that I still can't seem to wrap my head head around. So I had a lot of girlfriends in middle school, high school.

NALEE 1:02:44

It never failed that if I was friends with a girl, her boyfriend was jealous of me stealing her from him. And the kicker was they always thought I was gay.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:05

I don't understand that.

ANTHONY 1:03:06

I could never wrap my mind around that. So you think I'm gay, but you think that I'm going to sleep with or that I'm going to steal your girlfriend from you. I think make it make fun of it.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:15

I think with that, and this is just me totally assuming shit, making shit up in my head.

ANTHONY 1:03:21

Dr. Nolly's in the house.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:23

Yeah. But I think the reason why is because guys they get insecure when other guys are close with their girlfriends.

ANTHONY 1:03:32

Like they're so insecure.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:34

Yeah. Because we talk about things that they don't talk about. So it's I feel like it's a control thing because they don't they don't know what your cousin is saying to you. And in order for them What do you mean? Well, your girlfriends. Oh.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:49

Like my girlfriends. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:50

Like they don't because obviously girlfriends, friends, they talk about stuff they don't tell their spouse or their partner sometimes. Because obviously that's a reason why I have you. I'm gonna rant about this other person. Yeah. Yeah. And so I think it has a thing to do with obviously insecurity issues. And because of that, like control of not knowing what you guys know between your yourselves. So then they project it as an oh, well, if she's telling you all these things, she must really fucking like you. And so then they get insecure about that. You know what I mean?

ANTHONY 1:04:21

But why are you worried that I'm gonna steal her?

SPEAKER_00 1:04:24

Because they're insecure. They're stupid.

ANTHONY 1:04:27

But it doesn't make any sense. And that just goes to show that's how intelligent heterosexual men are.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:34

Yeah. Fucking stupid people. Men, I can't. But yeah, so again, that's just how Natalie sees it. But I feel like that's what it is.

ANTHONY 1:04:44

I mean, that would make sense. I just can't I like I literally I can't tell you how many times that I like would have a friend who would tell me the other thing.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:52

I'm just saying in a way where like, let's say if my significant other had like a gay friend who was a girl. I feel like although they're gay, there could still be some kind of like sexual tension. Like if it was cousin, it'd be different. But like if it's a friend, like maybe she could find you attractive, or like you could find her attract or she could find you attractive because you are feeding into her emotional like needs, or she could be like vulnerable with you.

ANTHONY 1:05:25

Okay, that makes sense. Yeah. But I mean, at the same time, that sounds like the perfect opportunity for the boyfriend to step up his game and not be such a fucking douche.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:35

Exactly. It's insecurity. That's all it is.

ANTHONY 1:05:38

Insecure little men.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:39

Yeah.

ANTHONY 1:05:39

With their big old pickup trucks and their little dictionaries.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:45

Yeah. Read your little dictionary, sir. But okay. What did you want to talk about?

ANTHONY 1:05:54

I mean, I could spend so much time on core memories that still live rent free in my head, especially if we're talking about like middle school and high school.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:04

Yeah.

ANTHONY 1:06:05

So many good memories.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:06

Yeah, I love memories. So many good memories.

ANTHONY 1:06:10

One thing that I love is I've always been like a musical person.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:17

Okay. Period.

ANTHONY 1:06:18

So I love music and I love relating it to certain things in my life or situations in my life. So I wanted to talk about that one song that just unlocks all the fucking memories. All the fucking memories.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:31

Okay.

ANTHONY 1:06:32

Are there any songs out there for you that like a thousand percent.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:35

A thousand percent.

ANTHONY 1:06:36

Let's go.

Songs That Unlock Whole Eras

SPEAKER_00 1:06:37

I bet you one time. Okay, if I say these two, you're probably gonna be like, oh yeah, for sure. For me is Big Girls Don't Cry by Fergie. Yeah.

ANTHONY 1:06:46

2000s.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:47

Yes. Such memories.

ANTHONY 1:06:49

And Oh God, now I'm thinking about like Ug boots.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:52

Yes. And what is it? Apple bottom jeans.

ANTHONY 1:06:57

I was just gonna say the boots with the fur.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:00

Yep. Yep. Those two songs are like high school, middle school, maybe middle school, beginning, end of middle school to high school. Yeah. Like whenever I listen to that, it's just like, oh, this is a banger. Okay. Yeah.

ANTHONY 1:07:16

Some of the songs from back then were they're just so nostalgic.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:20

Yeah.

ANTHONY 1:07:20

I was, oh, I went to the dentist like a couple weeks ago. And my hygienist, my dental hygienist had given birth, so she hadn't been out. And she had just gotten back. So I was like excited to see her. Hadn't seen her in however long. And she was in there.

unknown 1:07:41

Okay.

ANTHONY 1:07:42

Side tangent. Why the fuck is it when every time you go to the dentist, they always want to talk to you?

SPEAKER_00 1:07:46

Yeah. I know.

ANTHONY 1:07:48

It's like, hey, I'm like, no, I get it.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:53

Like the girl, the every fucking time. She's like asking me this question that it's not yes or no. It's like long questions.

ANTHONY 1:08:00

Yeah. Do you have big plans for Thanksgiving?

SPEAKER_00 1:08:02

I'm like, you got your hand halfway in my mouth. How do you expect me that too?

ANTHONY 1:08:05

What do you Yeah?

SPEAKER_00 1:08:10

You bring up a valid point.

ANTHONY 1:08:12

Yes. Every fucking time. So she's in my mouth.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:18

Should be the opposite, but she's in my mouth, and I'm listening to the music, and I'm just like, huh.

ANTHONY 1:08:26

Not even thinking anything of it. And then she randomly goes, she goes, So what do you think of the music today? I'm like, it was like old 90s country.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:39

Yeah.

ANTHONY 1:08:39

When I started listening to music, I started on country.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:44

Oh, okay.

ANTHONY 1:08:44

But it was so nostalgic because they played a song by Tim McGraw.

NALEE 1:08:49

God, now I can't think of what song it was.

ANTHONY 1:08:54

I can't think of what song it was, but I remember listening and I was like, Life is a highway.

NALEE 1:08:59

Is that Tim McGraw?

ANTHONY 1:09:00

No.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:01

Oh shit. Who's that?

NALEE 1:09:05

Is that Aerosmith?

SPEAKER_00 1:09:06

No, it's not Aerosmith. Life is a Highway.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:11

Who is it?

SPEAKER_00 1:09:12

It's not Tim McGraw.

ANTHONY 1:09:13

It's not Tim Maggie.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:14

I know that for a fact.

ANTHONY 1:09:15

I don't know where my phone is. I can't look it up. You look it up. But it was a Tim McGraw song, and I was like, I have not heard this since the 90s. And so that I mean that song just took me back.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:27

But as far as other songs for me, there's Graduation Day by Vitamin C.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:36

Oh. That song gives me such sad and like nostalgia. Bittersweet memories. Yes. It's like so sad.

ANTHONY 1:09:47

Strawberry wine.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:49

Rascal flats.

ANTHONY 1:09:50

Rascal flats.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:51

Yeah.

ANTHONY 1:09:52

That's it.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:52

Strawberry wine. I didn't I didn't hear that song until recently.

ANTHONY 1:09:57

Really?

SPEAKER_00 1:09:57

Yeah.

ANTHONY 1:09:58

Oh my god. Strawberry wine every single time.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:03

Yeah. One that also like gives me a lot of like memories instantly is Apologize by One Republic. It's too late. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:15

Yeah. I don't really relate to a lot of like newer stuff.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:22

Is that newer stuff?

ANTHONY 1:10:24

No, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:25

Oh, just in general.

ANTHONY 1:10:27

Yeah. Just in general. Like newer music now. There's not like a lot of stuff that I enjoy. So it's like when people ask me, like, what do you listen to? I feel like such a loser because I'm like, well, I listen to either anything that's on Z100.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:41

Okay.

ANTHONY 1:10:41

Or, you know, I'm living my Taylor Swift era.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:44

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:47

What other songs? Anything else for you?

SPEAKER_00 1:10:51

So let's see. Unlocks an era. Like, I was kind of like, I wouldn't say I listen to hoe music, but I listen to a lot of like pop music or like, I don't know.

ANTHONY 1:11:04

Like what artists?

SPEAKER_00 1:11:05

Like Birthday Sex by Jeremiah. I don't know if you know that song. Like that song is like core memory for me, Mila, and Linda.

ANTHONY 1:11:14

It's Do you care to elaborate why birthday sex is a song that is a core memory for you and your sisters?

SPEAKER_00 1:11:20

It was like the song of the summer. I think it was like 20, 20, 2008.

ANTHONY 1:11:26

Sing it.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:26

Birthday sex, as I remember.

ANTHONY 1:11:29

That's birthdays.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:30

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's your birthday, so you know you wanna ride up that song. Yeah.

NALEE 1:11:36

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:37

But I don't know. Like every time that song came on, it was just like, okay, this is what's up. This is a hot girl summer right now, you know?

ANTHONY 1:11:46

Speaking of hot girl summer, my friend Michelle, she loved her, she loved herself some pussycat dolls. When I grow up.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:53

I love, yeah, that was my buttons. That was yes, that was my ringtone for the longest time. Like, you know how like when you call and it's ringing, it always played when I grow up.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:03

I want to be famous.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:05

Yeah. So anybody I think who like knew me like during that era, anytime they heard that song, it reminded them of me.

ANTHONY 1:12:12

Of you.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:12

Yeah.

ANTHONY 1:12:13

And then um anytime I hear pussycat dolls, I think of my friend Michelle.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:16

Yeah, I love pussycat dolls. And then what else? There's like a thousand songs. At this point, I'ma just tell you whatever song gives me core memories.

ANTHONY 1:12:29

My baby cousin used to be obsessed with that um blue, a da ba-dee-ba boo-da-ba-da boo-dee. I don't know if it was.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:41

I know, I know exactly what you're talking about. Yes.

ANTHONY 1:12:43

And then he also loved Who Let the Dogs Out.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:46

Okay. Okay.

ANTHONY 1:12:48

I fucking hated that song.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:50

Oh, and it's getting hot in here. So take up all your clothes. That song was so scandalous when it played on the bus, everybody was like, quiet. Because you know, it's kind of like dirty.

ANTHONY 1:13:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:03

Yeah. But yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:07

I am trying to think of the song that me and my friend used to.

NALEE 1:13:18

Let's see. Another song for me is What song is that?

SPEAKER_00 1:13:30

Well, Rasco Flat, since we're talking about that, Life as a Highway was definitely core memory for me. But that's only because Do you want to share a core memory? From the song?

ANTHONY 1:13:41

Yeah, like what's the sort of thing?

SPEAKER_00 1:13:43

Oh well, I was it I I only it was only a core memory for me because like my nephew, he was really into cars, and that was the car's theme song.

ANTHONY 1:13:52

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:53

And like I just really liked that song.

ANTHONY 1:13:56

So when you say he was really into cars, do you mean like cars the movie or like the actual cars?

SPEAKER_00 1:13:59

Cars the cartoon.

ANTHONY 1:14:00

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:01

Lightning McQueen. Caching, ka chow.

ANTHONY 1:14:03

Never saw it.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:04

Really?

ANTHONY 1:14:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:05

Oh, it's cute. But yeah. Sorry.

ANTHONY 1:14:11

Two two things in life that I'm very grateful for and that I love every time it happens is like a song taking me back to a certain time or moment, or a smell.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:24

Oh yeah.

ANTHONY 1:14:25

Like I just can't. Like I told you that, like the random times that I'll like smell my grandma's perfume or something. And I'm just like.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:33

I think that's normal though.

ANTHONY 1:14:35

Oh, I think it's normal too. I just I'm so happy that I have that opportunity to.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:40

Yeah. It's kind of beautiful when you're like, Yeah. I remember that.

ANTHONY 1:14:45

Or it takes you right back to that moment.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:48

I think that's a very beautiful feeling. Yeah. Like as a human, I think that's such a beautiful feeling.

unknown 1:14:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:54

Yeah.

ANTHONY 1:14:55

I keep thinking now about like getting older, and I'm like, what if I were to develop like Alzheimer's or like dementia?

SPEAKER_00 1:15:02

I kind of wish I had that right now for a hot minute.

ANTHONY 1:15:06

Don't say that.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:07

I need a little dementia in Alzheimer's right now.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:11

But I couldn't imagine.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:15

That's so unfortunate.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:17

Yeah. And also, songs also trigger like sad times in your life too. They do.

ANTHONY 1:15:23

But then that also allows for the opportunity to see what growth you've had.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:30

A thousand percent.

ANTHONY 1:15:31

And how you've dug yourself out of that particular situation.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:35

Yeah.

ANTHONY 1:15:36

Like I will every time, and I will probably change the channel nine times out of ten if I ever hear this song. But the stupid A what is it, ASPA or whatever commercials with Sarah McLaughlin, and it's like in the arms of an angel.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:53

In the arms of an angel.

ANTHONY 1:15:56

I will ball.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:58

Why?

ANTHONY 1:15:59

That was a song that they played at my cousin's funeral. And that was the first funeral that I ever went to.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:05

Oh, really?

ANTHONY 1:16:05

Mm-hmm. Damn.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:07

That is legit core memory for you.

ANTHONY 1:16:09

And then the other song was If Tomorrow Never Comes.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:12

What is that? I don't think I've heard that.

NALEE 1:16:14

My I wanna say it's by Garth Brooks, but I could be wrong.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:24

If Tomorrow Never. Oh.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:26

You know what other songs, and I know you know this. Oh shit. Is Backstreet Boys.

ANTHONY 1:16:33

Backstreet Back.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:35

Alright.

ANTHONY 1:16:36

Yeah, like my cousin Mariah was obsessed with that millennium album.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:40

Okay, okay, okay. Are you who's better? In sync or Backstreet Boys?

SPEAKER_06 1:16:46

Backstreet Boys.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:47

Yeah. A thousand percent. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:16:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:49

Like InSync, they have some good songs, but Backstreet Boys. No.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:55

No.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:55

Can't compare.

ANTHONY 1:16:56

They cannot compare.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:57

They have such good songs.

ANTHONY 1:16:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:59

Like their lyrics are like they have good songs.

ANTHONY 1:17:03

Although I will say, I was obsessed with the Unsync Christmas album when that album came out, and that movie, I'll Be Home for Christmas with Jonathan Taylor Thomas came out.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:13

I don't know.

ANTHONY 1:17:13

I remember my cousin, core memory. My cousin Carrie and I went to go see that movie. And then after the movie, we went to Walmart and bought the album.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:24

Wow. That's crazy. Yeah. Yeah, I like Backstreet Boys.

ANTHONY 1:17:29

I remembered. We were in her, she had a like a Hunter Green van. Core Memory, I can remember.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:36

What's your favorite Backstreet Boys song?

ANTHONY 1:17:40

Oh God. I honestly haven't listened to the Backstreet Boys in like over 15 years.

NALEE 1:17:47

Wow.

ANTHONY 1:17:48

So I don't even I pro the only song that I know is Backstreets Back. Show me the meaning. Oh, that's definitely one. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:56

Yeah. Everybody loves that song. For me, it's kind of like the unpopular one. I don't know what the title of the song is called. I kind of forgot, but it's just it's Open Up Ya Heart to Me. You know that one?

ANTHONY 1:18:09

No. Is that an older one?

SPEAKER_00 1:18:12

Yeah, it's an older one. Let's see.

ANTHONY 1:18:15

But I will also at the same time say that I wasn't huge on ballads. So if that was a ballad, which it sounded like it was, I definitely would not have been listening to.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:27

I'm trying to see.

NALEE 1:18:30

Oh my god. Larger than life. I want it that way. Yeah, I'm trying to see. I'm pretty sure. Oh my god, this is just crazy. They're still making music?

unknown 1:18:55

Who?

ANTHONY 1:18:56

The Backstreet Boys?

SPEAKER_00 1:18:57

I think so. Oh, it's I need you tonight. Open up your heart to me and say free concert for listening. Yeah, that that song. And they're like, it's uh, I need you tonight. I need you right now. That song. Yeah, I love that.

ANTHONY 1:19:22

I don't know it, but please.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:23

I love that song. If you know that song, you know what's up. And Siberia, such a good song.

ANTHONY 1:19:30

Siberia?

SPEAKER_00 1:19:31

Yeah, it's Siberia.

ANTHONY 1:19:32

It's Backstreet Boys.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:33

You clearly are not a Backstreet Boys fan.

ANTHONY 1:19:36

I only listen to the first three albums. I feel like And I think the third one was Black Black and Blue.

NALEE 1:19:46

Or was that the second one?

SPEAKER_00 1:19:50

I feel like Siberia might be like an underrated song. It's kind of like a breakup song.

ANTHONY 1:19:57

Yeah, nobody wants to listen to a breakup song.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:59

But yeah, I love Siberia. And then I love Backstreet Boys. Like anytime Backstreet Boys comes on, I will jam up.

ANTHONY 1:20:08

Yeah, I'm not gonna lie.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:10

It's like you get that, like, oh my god, I know this song kind of thing, you know.

ANTHONY 1:20:14

I'll do the same thing for NSYNC though, because it's just it's just nostalgic for me.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:18

Ba ba ba. Yeah.

unknown 1:20:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:22

I like InSync, but I feel like they're they're not all of their songs are like hits.

ANTHONY 1:20:27

No. Yeah. No. I think they didn't have like the right moves. Like Backstreet Boys could actually dance.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:38

Too. I think InSync was more danced than Backstreet Boys, to be honest. Yeah, because Justin Timberlake, he's very like, he's very like, what is it? He has good choreography and shit.

ANTHONY 1:20:52

Unpopular opinion, Justin Timberlake's overrated.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:55

I like Justin Timberlake. He's overrated. The reason why I like him is because you could tell that it's Justin Timberlake. I think that's what makes you a good artist, is that you listen to a song and you're like, oh, I know this is Justin Timberlake. Kind of like Bruno Mars. Like you could tell that, oh, this is Bruno Mars. Like he stands out.

ANTHONY 1:21:11

But is that the music or their voice? Because Justin Timberlake does have that like higher voice.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:18

I don't know. I think it's just in general.

ANTHONY 1:21:19

Like And like even Bruno Mars has a he has a certain aesthetic to his tone.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:25

Yeah, it's the aesthetic of their music. Like you could tell that, oh, this is a Justin Timberlake song, or oh, you know, this is a Bruno Mars song.

ANTHONY 1:21:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:32

Yeah.

ANTHONY 1:21:34

Fergie had that too.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:35

Yeah.

ANTHONY 1:21:36

But I wasn't big on Fergie.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:37

Fergalicious definitions make them boys go crazy. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I feel like songs are beautiful. Like they hold so much memories.

ANTHONY 1:21:48

They do.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:49

Yeah. So.

ANTHONY 1:21:50

And I mean, music is the number one thing to bring people together.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:54

It is, yeah.

ANTHONY 1:21:55

No matter what language somebody is speaking, everybody can enjoy music.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:03

A thousand percent.

ANTHONY 1:22:06

Any other core memories you want to talk about or that we need to address in the substantial? Just in general? Yeah, just in general.

NALEE 1:22:13

Why not?

Comedy Skits, Ice Cream Trucks, Nostalgia

SPEAKER_00 1:22:14

Okay. I I don't know if I talked about this, but or maybe I have the ice cream truck. Like when you hear, like when you start to hear the sound or the smell of the ice cream truck, but it's not actually an ice cream truck. You're just instantly like, ooh, I have money. Or you look behind you, you know?

ANTHONY 1:22:34

Oh God. I remember always running for money and trying to.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:37

Do they even have ice cream trucks in email at all?

ANTHONY 1:22:39

I don't think they do, but I could be wrong.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:42

Yeah.

ANTHONY 1:22:43

We don't have one around here. I know that for sure.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:46

Yeah. I wonder if they stopped because of like kidnappings and shit. You know what I mean?

ANTHONY 1:22:51

Oh. But I mean, with that, I mean, with respect to that, like every it seems like almost every Everybody has like a camera on their front step.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:58

That's true.

ANTHONY 1:22:59

So it would be so much more difficult to.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:01

Yeah, but they could easily snash it and go. Like if there's only one kid. Are you talking about are you thinking about epilepsy?

ANTHONY 1:23:08

No. I'm thinking I was watching. It was an episode of that key Keel and Peel.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:17

Uh-huh.

ANTHONY 1:23:18

And I don't know if you've ever seen them where they dress up as women.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:22

Monica. Is that one? Where he's like, Yeah, don't follow me. I'm done with you. And he's like, get back here, Monica. I still love you. Megan. Megan! Megan! Not Monica. Sorry, Megan. Megan! Shut up! And then they're in the theater and she's like, Hello! Where are you? Hello.

ANTHONY 1:23:41

So annoying.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:42

Yeah. I love them. I watched one. Yeah, I love them.

ANTHONY 1:23:45

I should send this one to you. I watched one the other day where they were both dressed up as women and they were walking down the street telling stories.

SPEAKER_02 1:23:51

And they were like, Ah my dad, she said that to you. Yeah, yeah.

ANTHONY 1:23:55

And then there's like this creepy guy in a van, and he's like, Hey, ladies, you guys want to meet Channing Tatum?

SPEAKER_02 1:24:03

Oh my god. They're like crawling into the back of the van. I don't think he's in here. Channing, is that you? Ew. Kidnapping.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:11

Oh, yeah. That's so fucking stupid. For me, right now, kid oh, kidnapping. Right now, like ice cream chucks also reminds me of the charmed episode where they like get sucked into the ice cream chuck. Yeah.

ANTHONY 1:24:25

Oh, I should re-watch charmed. It's been a while.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:28

Yeah, I love charmed. The old one, not the new one.

ANTHONY 1:24:31

I watched the new one. It was definitely not as good.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:33

Yeah.

ANTHONY 1:24:34

I only watched it because I was low-key hoping that they would have done a crossover and like brought the original stuff.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:38

Oh, yeah. That would have been fun.

ANTHONY 1:24:40

Yeah. They missed the boat on that.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:41

Yeah. But yeah, like now that we're on Key and Peel, I cannot get this episode out.

SPEAKER_06 1:24:49

Oh god.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:49

I have two favorite episodes, and everybody knows Key and Peel are like fucking hilarious.

ANTHONY 1:24:54

They're so funny.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:56

And I'm pretty sure you guys know these skits too. The one where I always get their names mixed up. I don't know who which one is who. Like the skinny one, the tall, skinny one. I think that's Peel, right?

SPEAKER_03 1:25:06

I think that's Key.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:07

Okay. Well, anyways, the the the skinny one. Well, the tall one. The bald one. Yeah. It's the one where he's a substitute teacher.

ANTHONY 1:25:14

Malarkey?

SPEAKER_00 1:25:15

Yeah. Malarkey or A Aaron? A A Ron. Is A Aaron here?

ANTHONY 1:25:20

I will never not say A Aaron when I see.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:23

Yeah, that name. And he gets pissed and he like breaks the cardboard. He's like, I said. You know, like I forgot what he says, but his reaction is so funny. And then that's one of my favorite skids.

ANTHONY 1:25:33

That's one of the funniest ones.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:34

And then the one, this one, I don't know if a lot of people know about this one. Maybe they do, maybe they don't. But it's the episode where they both have a wife and they go over to I think Peel goes over to Key's house. And then the girls, they go and talk about the house, and she's like showing the house around. And then Key and Peel, they were talking about how one of them just got into an argument. And they're like, Yeah, she was a fucking. And then they look around and see if their wives are around.

unknown 1:25:59

Bitch.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:00

And then it like amplifies and like it goes to them sitting up in the tree. And then they're like, She was a fucking look around. Bitch. And then it amplifies to them being in space. And then they're like, Yeah, she was singing on a shit and she was a fucking bitch. But then he's like floating away in space. But I haven't seen that one. Yeah, that's like one of my favorite skills.

ANTHONY 1:26:21

I'll have to share it to you, but yeah, send that to me.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:24

Yeah, and any any Megan ones are funny.

ANTHONY 1:26:27

Megan ones are so funny.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:29

Yeah. The one the theater.

ANTHONY 1:26:31

Um I just watched one today where it was he tried to break up with her.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:35

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is it the one where he was like, come back and get your coat? And then they're like in a boat, like fucking rowing away.

ANTHONY 1:26:44

No, they're at her house and they're talking. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:47

She walks, he talks, she talks him through going back and they're like back together at the end.

ANTHONY 1:26:51

And then they're back together.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:52

And she's like, okay, so what do you want to do tonight?

SPEAKER_00 1:26:54

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

ANTHONY 1:26:56

Yeah, any of the median ones are funny. The teacher one, that is hilarious.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:00

I love the teacher one.

ANTHONY 1:27:01

My favorite one.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:02

Balake.

ANTHONY 1:27:04

Malake. Is that a malarke hair? My favorite one is the church ladies.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:08

Blake. Sorry.

ANTHONY 1:27:10

What'd you say?

SPEAKER_00 1:27:11

It's Blake. Blake, but he's like, he's like no, he's like Balake. It's Balake here. And he's like, it's not Balake, but my name is Blake. And he's like, God damn it. Yeah. He's like, Blake. Yeah. Fucking Lebesk.

ANTHONY 1:27:24

No, you're fine. Have you seen the church ladies one?

SPEAKER_00 1:27:26

Yeah, where they're they have those little hats and they're in the church pews and Satan. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hilarious.

ANTHONY 1:27:33

Dad, that one kills me every single time.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:36

Yeah. I I love them. That's what I want to do. Their life seems so fun.

ANTHONY 1:27:41

I'm gonna do a I'm gonna do a divine keel and I'm gonna rip that dick off.

SPEAKER_03 1:27:51

I'm gonna ride that.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:52

Oh my God. That reminds me of the scary movie thing that you were saying that how dirt how I talk dirty and shit. Yeah. Yeah.

ANTHONY 1:27:59

I sent that to you. Yeah, you did.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:01

I was like, okay, yeah, no, I'm not like that.

ANTHONY 1:28:03

Okay. Did you watch that other one I sent you where I was like, you have to watch the end? Because he said something in that end that made me think.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:09

You sent me a thousand things on TikTok. Which one was it?

ANTHONY 1:28:13

This coming from you.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:15

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

ANTHONY 1:28:17

Okay, let's count. Let's compare who sends what I send a lot.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:20

I do. Okay. I will give you that. I do send a lot.

ANTHONY 1:28:23

I don't remember what it was. You'll have to look at it.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:25

Yeah. But another good thing that you guys should watch if you guys like like ho like comedy stuff.

ANTHONY 1:28:32

I'm gonna put you on right now.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:33

Yeah, is what is it? Whose line is it? I love that show.

ANTHONY 1:28:39

Whose line is it anyway?

SPEAKER_00 1:28:40

Yeah, yeah.

ANTHONY 1:28:41

Oh my gosh. I used to watch that show before I went to bed.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:44

Yeah, I love that show.

ANTHONY 1:28:46

I kind of fell off of that. They came to Eau Claire here. Did you know that?

SPEAKER_00 1:28:49

Yeah, I I know. They came to Eau Claire, I think, last year. I wanted to go too. But I don't think it's the old like cast anymore.

ANTHONY 1:28:57

I think two of the guys are still on there.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:00

Oh, is it?

ANTHONY 1:29:01

I think. The I know the short bald one. Yeah. Or like yeah, him and then the tall weird one, I think, are on there.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:07

I think Aisha, the girl who Aisha Taylor. She was a host for a while.

ANTHONY 1:29:12

She was, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:13

Yeah. But I love that show. Too. So yeah.

ANTHONY 1:29:18

Melissa got me hooked. I'm watching The Floor now.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:20

So The Floor? What is that?

ANTHONY 1:29:23

It's a game show.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:24

Oh, okay.

ANTHONY 1:29:24

Which I fell asleep during the other night, so I have to rewatch it. Okay. Maybe I'll do that tonight.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:29

Okay. I did have one thing, one other topic that I want to talk about is random acts of kindness that still makes you cry now. Like, is there any shout outs to like a teacher or to like a friend or just any kind of like little thing that anybody did for you that you like wanted to say hey thank you to?

ANTHONY 1:29:55

Well, yes. So random act of kindness. I'm still, I don't know their name, but still that couple that picked us up when our car broke down on the side of the road in Sparta, Wisconsin. They picked us up and they brought us to a hotel and got us a hotel room for the night while we figured out our fucking lives. That was a random act of kindness that I'm extremely grateful for. I would like to thank that little old woman in Walmart for informing me that my friends that I did not know were in the next aisle over.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:33

Are you being sarcastic? Yeah, yeah.

ANTHONY 1:30:35

Oh remember that story I told you?

SPEAKER_00 1:30:36

Yeah, I'm like, I thought that was a mean one.

Kindness, Community, And Burnout Honesty

ANTHONY 1:30:38

Yeah, that was mean. I was being sarcastic.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:40

You're a mean one, Mr. Grunch. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:30:47

Anybody else that I want to say thank you to? I want to say thank you to anybody who has been.

ANTHONY 1:31:01

I've been seeing a lot on social media and like some of the groups that I'm I'm part of. I would like to give a special thank you to any and all people who are stepping up and like making donations and offering to help families who are in need of like food or resources. So I don't know anybody personally to thank. But like those small random acts of kindness that I've come across that I've seen, especially with the recent like discussions of like SNAP benefits being cut, I've been seeing like random people on groups offering help to anybody who needs it. And little things like that really little things like that are what's helping me get through my days lately.

SPEAKER_01 1:31:52

Okay.

ANTHONY 1:31:54

With everything that's going on in my life and everything that's going on in the world, little things like that help me. But what about you?

SPEAKER_00 1:32:04

I would just have to say, for me right now, like, I don't know, thank you to all the listeners and supporters that we've had. We've reached our 1K. I don't know if we've announced that.

ANTHONY 1:32:18

I think we did.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:19

Did we?

ANTHONY 1:32:20

Maybe we didn't.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:21

Yeah, but we reached our 1K.

ANTHONY 1:32:23

We announced it on social media where none of our followers or none of our listeners and followers decided to do nothing.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:30

We were supposed to have a drawing, but none of y'all little bitches shared. What happened to our community? What happened to support?

ANTHONY 1:32:36

Yeah. Where's the support, everybody?

SPEAKER_00 1:32:38

What's going on?

ANTHONY 1:32:39

We're gonna be doing a drawing.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:42

Yeah. Well, we attempted to do a drawing, but none of y'all bitches did nothing.

ANTHONY 1:32:47

So we're gonna attempt it again.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:49

Yeah.

ANTHONY 1:32:49

New Year's, we're gonna do a drawing.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:51

Yeah. Excuse merch that has yet to come out.

ANTHONY 1:32:55

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:56

But yeah.

ANTHONY 1:32:58

If anybody wants their chance to win some twin tangents merchandise that is not yet available to anybody in the world, please follow us on our socials. Like, comment, review, subscribe, share the hell out of twin tangents. Spread the word of our nonsensicalness.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:20

Yeah. But I don't know, I think I did have one, but it doesn't help that I forgot what I wanted to say. So overall.

ANTHONY 1:33:33

See, you should have gone first. You shouldn't have let me talk.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:35

No, it's okay. But yeah, I mean, honestly, anybody who's doing who's bringing a positive light to anything right now in the world with everything that's going on.

SPEAKER_06 1:33:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:45

Anybody who's supporting any kind of donations, any kind of like any help in general. Just anybody who's positive, you know.

ANTHONY 1:33:55

This kind of goes against what I said in like an earlier episode. Well, maybe not necessarily against, but like if you're in line at McDonald's, like pay for the person behind you. Just random act of kindness. Spreading that sort of love is what that loving kindness is what keeps it going.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:15

Yeah. Oh, I do want to say.

ANTHONY 1:34:22

I wish listeners could see my face because whenever you do that, like, oh, I did want to. My face is always like, oh no, what is she gonna say?

SPEAKER_00 1:34:29

No, no, no, no, no. I wanted to think. We had a nickname for her. I forgot. For my for my supervisor at work. I forgot the name we came up with.

ANTHONY 1:34:45

I don't remember the name we came up with.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:46

But we're gonna call her Cindy from now on. But yeah, I just wanted to thank Cindy. She sent me candles for like as a thank you.

SPEAKER_03 1:34:55

And You never sent me a picture, by the way.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:58

I know, I forgot to, but yeah, she sent me candles and then she sent me a little like thank you gift.

ANTHONY 1:35:05

A little care package. That's so nice.

SPEAKER_00 1:35:07

Yeah, it's so nice. But and then I also sent her some like nail supplies because I kind of got her into like doing her nails. I didn't get her into it, but I sent her like little gems and stuff that she could use to do her nails. And then I also sent her some little gifts in there. But yeah, it was kind of unsuspecting. Yeah, it was unsuspected. But the piano smells really good. They're bougie.

ANTHONY 1:35:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:35:31

So I was like, okay, Cindy, I see you.

ANTHONY 1:35:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:35:36

But yeah, it was really cute. Yeah, little things like that.

ANTHONY 1:35:40

Yeah, little things like that to to pick somebody's day up.

SPEAKER_00 1:35:44

Yeah, but I don't know, just be good, y'all. There's a lot of negative shit going on. There's like people are being fucking mean and stupid, like that Karen. Yeah. Do better, y'all. Be better.

ANTHONY 1:35:57

Do better.

SPEAKER_00 1:35:58

I may swear a lot, but that does not make me a bad person, okay?

ANTHONY 1:36:02

Yeah. Neither one of us.

SPEAKER_00 1:36:04

Yeah. So I think when I swear, it's just more to one, be dramatic, because you know, I I feel like I I don't swear that much, but I feel like on the podcast because I feel so much and like I express a lot of stuff. I swear a little bit. But yeah.

ANTHONY 1:36:23

I feel like I swear a lot just to get my point across. I feel like it gets my point across more, but I don't think it does.

SPEAKER_00 1:36:29

But yeah.

ANTHONY 1:36:30

I wish I could swear at work.

SPEAKER_00 1:36:32

Oh yeah. But yeah, I just wanted to say that like even though I swear a lot, and maybe some of you guys are uncomfortable with it, it's more to just emphasize my dramaticness of the point that I'm trying to get across. And you know, it just brings a little bit more Entertainment. Yeah. And entertainment into the pod. So yeah. But But yeah. Just be good, y'all. Be nice. Like, you don't know what people are going through. Just bottom line is you never know what people are going through. Just be nice. Maybe that'll help them better their day.

ANTHONY 1:37:12

I've been trying to remind myself more of that when I get these intrusive thoughts about, you know, that fucking asshole driver that cut me off, or that bitch who gave me a dirty look. In my head, I've been trying to be a little bit more conscientious of like being like, you know what? I don't know what they're going through.

NALEE 1:37:33

They don't know what I'm going through. Yeah. Like, it is what it is.

ANTHONY 1:37:37

Just I'm definitely one of those people that like sometimes I have no control over my facial expressions.

NALEE 1:37:46

Yeah, for sure.

ANTHONY 1:37:50

And things can be obvious. So like Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:37:55

Yeah, I don't know. There's just a lot of stuff going on. Just give yourself brace too.

ANTHONY 1:38:01

That's we keep saying that.

SPEAKER_00 1:38:04

I know. It's kind of like It's like a work in progress. Yeah, we need to take our own advice. I do agree that with it.

ANTHONY 1:38:10

It is easier to like give advice.

SPEAKER_00 1:38:12

Oh shit, sorry. But I'm trying to. I'm trying to give myself grace. I know I'm going through a lot of shit, but it's really hard. I think it's easy to tell people to do it, but it's hard for you to do it for yourself because it's like life is really hitting you so hard where you have no control over it. And it's really again, it's all about control. It's really hard for you to control something you can't, but then you cannot help but try to control a situation. But sometimes you can't control it.

SPEAKER_03 1:38:43

Sometimes we have to let go.

SPEAKER_00 1:38:44

Yeah, I just have to kind of let it go. And I'm trying trying really hard to let go. I think that's the thing. So yeah.

ANTHONY 1:38:53

And on that note, I think now would be a really good time to address the elephant in the room.

SPEAKER_00 1:38:59

What elephant?

ANTHONY 1:39:01

Listeners may have noticed that our schedules have been a little off in the past couple weeks.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:08

Yeah.

ANTHONY 1:39:09

Anyone who follows us on social, and again, if you don't, please do to stay up to date with everything. But we did post to socials, and we're just gonna verbalize it now.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:20

Yeah.

ANTHONY 1:39:21

Just so everybody is aware, life has been lifing for the both of us lately. And so episodes may have been delayed or just absent in general.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:33

Yeah.

ANTHONY 1:39:34

And we're not we're not trying to make a habit of it. Just we're we're both going through things. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:43

And it's been rough, y'all. 2025 has been kicking us in the ass.

ANTHONY 1:39:48

2025 has been kicking us in the ass. I think this year, December 31st, I'm taking all of my 2025 calendars, spewing some gasoline on them, and I'm setting them on fire. And I think that's gonna be my ring way of ringing in 2026 because I think that's what I need. And I'm hoping that 2026 is a better year.

SPEAKER_00 1:40:13

I'm ready to let go of all this negative energy, all the negative shit in my life, all the negative, like all the bad things, people, just everything in general. Like, I'm ready for a clean slate. I think I think it's kind of like I know it sucks because we're not like telling you guys exactly what's going on, but just know we're like going through shit. We are still committed to the pod, you know. Again, this is for life.

SPEAKER_03 1:40:44

For life.

Gratitude, Support, And Closing

SPEAKER_00 1:40:46

But I hope that there are some of you guys that look forward to our episodes every Thursday. You know, like I hope I hope that you guys are. But then again, it's also that thing of we're just really going through the ringer right now. And once we get out the other side of this, yeah, we will hopefully be able to shed some light full force. Yeah. But yeah, it's it's been really hard. Like being an adult is really hard.

SPEAKER_03 1:41:18

So being an adult is hard.

SPEAKER_00 1:41:21

Yeah, but regardless, continue to keep supporting us and listening to us. And you know, we are trying our best. Our bests, but we are trying our best.

SPEAKER_06 1:41:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:41:33

And yeah, thank you for again for your guys' c continuous support. And yeah, I thank you guys. Pretty much. I agree with you. Yeah, thank you. Thank you guys.

ANTHONY 1:41:46

Thank you, all of our listeners. And if I can ask one thing of you to help my 2026, our 2026 improve, please take the time to like, comment, and share on our Facebook posts, our social media posts, spread the word of us. No matter how stupid our episodes might be, how stupid our banter might be, our topics, anything like that, somebody's gonna enjoy it.

SPEAKER_01 1:42:13

Yeah.

ANTHONY 1:42:13

And if you can't laugh with us, hey, at least you can fucking laugh and at laugh at us.

SPEAKER_00 1:42:18

Yeah. And you if you guys have any topic ideas that you guys want us to talk about, just share it with us. We're open. Our roster for 2026 is open, baby. Yes. So let us know.

ANTHONY 1:42:33

Fill our roster.

SPEAKER_00 1:42:34

Yeah.

ANTHONY 1:42:35

But all right. So whether your childhood was cartoons and Capri Sons or generational trauma with the side of Lunchables, we see you.

SPEAKER_00 1:42:45

Real quick side tangent Lunchables was also one of my favorite like snacks. I totally forgot about that.

ANTHONY 1:42:51

I fucking loved Lunchables. I hated the pizza ones though.

SPEAKER_00 1:42:54

I think that's why I love charcuterie boards. Because it's like a bougier vegetables.

ANTHONY 1:42:59

It's the adult version.

SPEAKER_00 1:43:00

Yeah.

ANTHONY 1:43:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:43:01

But anyways, our inner child may be a little tired, a little messy, and slightly emotionally uncooked, but they made us iconicos.

ANTHONY 1:43:11

Thanks for time traveling with us today. And remember, just because it was it was weird doesn't mean it wasn't wonderful.

SPEAKER_00 1:43:18

This is Twin Tangents where the childhood chaos never really leaves. It just involved into podcast podcast content. Bye, Mm.