SPEAKER_02 0:00

The topic I wanted to talk about tonight is sleepovers. Because Ari's house was a major sleepover site. Saw the Matrix for the first time at Ari's house during a sleepover. Then Ari is kind of responsible for the death of sleepovers.

SPEAKER_01 0:20

The death of sleepovers.

SPEAKER_02 0:21

Yeah, I'll tell you why. I you invited me over one day. I brought a whole bag. You were like, Why'd you bring a bag? And I was like, oh, I thought I was sleeping over. And you were like, oh, we still do that? And then I got very ashamed and then stopped doing sleepovers.

SPEAKER_03 0:43

This almost feels like with my cousin Joey. Yeah, this almost feels like a gotcha episode where the whole point of bringing Arian was to tell him to go fuck himself.

SPEAKER_01 0:57

We've known each other for 30 years, and this is the moment that we've been waiting for. It's all come to this. I also might be getting all those details wrong. I don't remember this at all.

SPEAKER_02 1:08

I remember I remember because we watched a Stanley Kubrick documentary that night.

SPEAKER_01 1:16

If you would check out, I do love Stanley Kubrick. And I was like. Were we driving yet? Because if that's the case, you probably should have driven your ass home.

SPEAKER_02 1:28

No, no, I don't know. We weren't driving. Wow. We were not driving yet. Because I was just about to say that I remember while we were watching that Stanley Kubrick documentary, I was like, should I call my mom to pick me up? Now, the other reason why I thought sleepovers were a good topic is because I feel like me and Jake had polar opposite experiences with sleepovers. Like I loved them so much. Thought they were the best. I feel like they gave you a lot of anxiety.

SPEAKER_03 2:03

They did, but I didn't really do sleepovers at Bath Develop. My sleepover days were numbered in like middle school, which is off limits.

SPEAKER_00 2:11

Yeah, this is all part of the thing is that it's funny to talk about high school sleepovers because, as Ari told you back in the day, nobody did that. That's much of a thing.

SPEAKER_02 2:23

Yeah, I mean, this is devastating. This rocks. I am hearing a lot of talk, and I'm not hearing what years did I what?

SPEAKER_03 2:39

Holy shit. I've never seen in the history of this show, in the five episodes of this show, I've never seen Josh be so petty and so I did this to see.

SPEAKER_01 2:56

We would we Josh would was impossible to wake up in anything. So if we ever slept over 90% of the time, even as as adults who were driving in the eighth or the tenth grade or whatever it was in high school, that we had our license and sleepovers weren't still happening. Josh would sleep till like 3 p.m. You'd come over and be like, Josh, Josh, come on, wake up. And he was just impossible. So we would just leave him. Wow. And and that's yeah, I think I deserve a sorry for that.

SPEAKER_02 3:24

I don't know why, but I'm sorry to keep you waiting. That that was the whole thing with sleepovers too, because sometimes you would sleep over someone's house and they would sleep way later than you, and you would just be stuck. Sometimes there were families, whole families that would like sleep later. Remember sleeping at Nathan Andorsky's house, and that whole family slept very late.

SPEAKER_00 3:47

And I later than you.

SPEAKER_02 3:49

Later than me. I mean, I wasn't sleeping until 3 p.m. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_00 3:53

Wait, so we're supposed to probably talk about when you were seven years old and doing that sleepover, and you probably woke up.

SPEAKER_01 3:59

Yeah. Right. Nathan Andorsky left high, never made it to high school. So if we were talking about Bethville High School, we've already got a school. He went to the public school. Oh, okay. Um, Josh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry for ruining sleepovers for you. Um thank you.

SPEAKER_03 4:22

I Adam, I don't want to speak for you, but I feel like I'm watching mommy and daddy fight right now. Like this is this is so uncomfortable.

SPEAKER_00 4:29

I wonder now also if we should have uh introduced Ari in any way besides Can I do that?

SPEAKER_03 4:36

May I have the honors? Yeah, please. I mean, I know Josh and and Ari are are like long friends, but I for me as the as someone older, it was a very unique experience to watch Ari because Ari was like the quintessential cool kid of Bethtofil. I think, in fact, I think you came up last episode, if I'm not mistaken, as describing like the Bethtofila version of like the like the quintessential jock, but like also friends with everyone. Like you were so social, you were like you could fit in any group, but you were also like the leading scorer on the basketball team, and you were like banging cheerleaders and stuff. We didn't have cheerleaders. I'm sure you were outsourcing to other schools, but it was you were just like the very quintessential, like this is the kid that everyone is striving to be at Beth of Fella.

SPEAKER_01 5:26

I appreciate that, I guess. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 5:29

I I don't necessarily think sometimes the compliment goes too extreme that you stopped believing it.

SPEAKER_03 5:37

Is that what you think that was? That was real. Everything I just said was real. Were were you on the basketball team?

SPEAKER_01 5:43

I was on the basketball team.

SPEAKER_03 5:45

Would you say that you were friends with the so was John?

SPEAKER_01 5:47

Well, we're talking about it. We're back to middle school again, but Josh was on the middle team.

SPEAKER_03 5:51

He was sleeping, he was asleep for most of basketball.

SPEAKER_02 5:54

I got I got scouted for the middle school basketball team because you were six foot one at the end of the day. Speak on that, Josh. Yeah, speak on that. I was a whole foot taller than everyone.

SPEAKER_01 6:05

But I appreciate the I appreciate the introduction.

SPEAKER_03 6:08

I'll tell you what the difference is though. I think it comes down to this. I think the difference between your type of popularity and Josh's type of popularity is that if Josh or I had been in any other school environment, we would have been killed for different reasons, but we would have been killed. I think you could thrive in any school. You put you in a Pikesville high, you put you in a park, you put you in a Gilman, you thrive no matter where you go. I think you just you could just do well in any kind of academic, cool kid environment. Whereas I think I I certainly speak for I know I could not.

SPEAKER_02 6:46

You should do like a never been kissed situation where Mari and I go back to high school, but to like a normal public school and see who's who becomes more popular. Josh, you didn't know like what a triangle was.

SPEAKER_03 6:57

So I like I would make me popular. I think it would all I guess. With the with the anti-shape crowd, it's very possible.

SPEAKER_02 7:08

But movies have taught me anything. It's like the jock is or the most popular kid is not usually like the smartest kid, right? He usually needs like that sort of nerd to tutor him in all his classes, and then they do fall in love.

SPEAKER_03 7:24

But then, but so in this example, are you the nerd? No, no. He's the stupid kid.

SPEAKER_00 7:30

He's the stupid popular kid. You're the stupid popular kid, and then he's going back and falling in love with a high school girl. Oh, that sounds weird.

SPEAKER_03 7:38

Keep that on tape. Don't edit that out. That's a good premise. That's what gets us to 17 on Spotify right there. What's right below us and what's right above us? Above us. Yeah. I think office ladies are like right above us. And I think maybe serial, like serial now.

SPEAKER_02 7:59

Yeah, serial now. I think it's like right below us. Right below us. Yeah, we're definitely better than serial.

SPEAKER_03 8:05

Yeah, no, and Ari, I think you also like be we were also talking about librarians last time. I think that was a big theme. We talked about your mom. I said how much I loved her as a librarian. I think you also had like the security, I don't know if security is the right word, but like you had an in. So that that even more like, you know, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:23

I had you think your parent working at the school is an advantage to your popularity. I feel like that would actually go in the opposite direction. Uh, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 8:32

And so I had a uh I don't even know what word to use, but like my my comfortability there was probably too comfortable. I knew I knew of like I was familiar with more of the teachers. I felt very comfortable like walking behind the desk at the office. I had just more ins. And then when my mom left, and I would start getting that's when I kind of started getting in more trouble. Um, they would just call my mom. And so at that point, my mom finally had to tell the school like stop calling me and like he's your problem. So just deal with him. I ended up having to talk to Mrs. Steinberg a lot our junior and senior year. A lot of that was Will's fault, too.

SPEAKER_03 9:13

I could also see her just wanting to be near you because she had that kind of vibe.

SPEAKER_01 9:18

But I graduated with being told I was gonna be in all this trouble. I graduated never having a day of detention, no lunch attention. Yeah, oh wow, we talked about that last time. And yeah, you sound like you were a way worse kid than I was. Uh, I definitely, for how little trouble I ever actually got in, I got in more trouble than my record.

SPEAKER_02 9:38

Well, it sounds like you could also like sort of talk your way out of it, which I didn't know. I had no skill doing.

SPEAKER_01 9:43

Nobody met Dr. Brief also tried to get me in trouble one time. That was that was a whole big thing. During the wiener tournament, she she threatened to not let me play in the wiener tournament because we got into a fight over meeting. We should explain what the wiener Yeah, the wiener tournament. That's yeah, that's good stuff.

SPEAKER_03 10:00

Or we don't, or we don't, and it's just and that's just out there.

SPEAKER_01 10:04

Right. They just lined us all up in a line and said, like, let's see what happens.

SPEAKER_03 10:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:08

Uh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:09

She that's really what we mean when our we say Aura was a star athlete. He was always winning the big star tournament.

SPEAKER_01 10:16

He was a big star. She threatened to not let me play in it, and actually my parents got involved for that one really.

SPEAKER_03 10:23

Nobody spanked physically.

SPEAKER_01 10:25

There was one major sleepover senior year. I was gonna say if we're gonna talk about sleepovers for Beth of Hill, then we can talk about our senior year where we had the big sleepover at it was next door to my house. Yeah. Uh at Yedean's at Yadine's. We had the whole senior skip night. Yeah, for senior skip night. I don't I don't remember anything excited to talk about for that.

unknown 10:49

I don't know where I'm going.

SPEAKER_03 10:54

So what we do in the edit is we just stitch that with uh dating the high school person. We just stitch those together. Well, I was building uh Rolodex. Ari, this is a real question, okay? So please, please take this seriously.

SPEAKER_02 11:07

Do you think in high school I can't believe I have to give up sleepovers again? Like you guys clearly talk about it. What and he's going on top.

SPEAKER_03 11:15

I am about to ask, I am about to ask a sleepover-related question. And this is the fifth or tenth time that you stop me mid-sentence. Second. I don't know what's going on. Ari, in high school, what gender slept over your house more?

SPEAKER_01 11:32

I only only boys, ever. Never.

SPEAKER_03 11:35

I never pretend like no one else is gonna listen to this.

SPEAKER_01 11:39

I never had a girl sleep over my house. Never ever, ever. But yes, no girls.

SPEAKER_03 11:45

Back to you, Josh.

SPEAKER_02 11:47

Oh, I was just gonna say, I mean, I can't believe I have a girl sleeping over story, and Ari doesn't, but I mean it's Abby, so anyway. I feel like my dad was just always calling me gay, basically. And one night I had Abby sleep over, and I was like, we'll be like um, you know, high five or whatever. And then he got mad at me. He was like, that was so disrespectful.

SPEAKER_03 12:13

Like, I don't know where to Yeah, where do you want me to be, man? You're supposed to sneak it and tell him about it like a year later. That's what you were so that's what he wanted. He wanted to.

SPEAKER_02 12:24

I didn't tell him. It was just like Abby's coat was in the kitchen and it was there, you know. It was there at 10 p.m. when he went to sleep, and then when he woke up, it was still there.

SPEAKER_03 12:34

So how did I don't get it? You so she was just in the house and nobody knew?

SPEAKER_02 12:39

Well, I think usually she would stay late later than like my parents would go to sleep and she would still be there, and I would drive her home.

SPEAKER_01 12:49

Your dad woke up as light and was like, This girl does not respect the cleanliness of my house and reads her code everything.

SPEAKER_02 12:56

Didn't hang up with your yeah, it would be funny if that's actually what that's what he meant by being disrespectful.

SPEAKER_03 13:01

It's like Josh, did you see these wood things right here? What are they called? Uh I'm so sorry, man. Wow, this is really just like a Josh had a lot of childhood trauma episode, and yet I'm not allowed to talk about 9-11. So it's funny.

SPEAKER_02 13:13

Take a lane, buddy. Well, you're allowed to talk about 9-11. You just can't talk about it every single episode.

SPEAKER_03 13:19

If it comes up, it comes up. I don't I don't think it's a good idea. The thing is, it didn't come up.

SPEAKER_02 13:23

I literally just said the word history. Well, it's a big part of history 9-11.

SPEAKER_01 13:28

I remember I was at we were at Bethola when 9-11 happened. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 13:34

Please, please do it. What were you doing during 9-1?

SPEAKER_00 13:38

This is actually no, this is an official segment now. Yeah, 100%.

SPEAKER_03 13:42

Where were you at Bat the Filla during 9-11? I was. And Josh, you better have the sound cue up. You better have it up.

SPEAKER_01 13:49

I believe we were in the sixth grade. Uh, we were in uh when you walked into the gym left.

SPEAKER_03 13:55

You were in eighth grade.

SPEAKER_01 13:56

Oh, you know, you're right, you're right, because my brother was in college. So eighth grade, we were in the room across from what was the middle school lounge. Um, and it back then we still had the big TV like sitting up in the corner, and it was the only time in my life I think I ever had that TV on. And yeah, we were sitting, and then they just ended the day and sent all of us home, but I'll remember. Hey, good.

SPEAKER_03 14:21

Smoot, that's great, super Josh has been really into this icy tower soundboard. By the way, they're they're making a new icy tower game. I don't know if any of you know that, but I that's huge. Talk about memories. Seriously, I'd be like remaking Godfather, in my opinion. That's right. You were uh star of the lacrosse team as well.

SPEAKER_01 14:43

I yeah, I also played on the lacrosse team and soccer and soccer, Jake.

SPEAKER_03 14:47

When you were he was really popular, you were a year older than us.

SPEAKER_02 14:51

I was a year older. Are you looking down a grade and being like, God damn, that Ari is so popular? Like, I just remember like yes, yes, I was kidding who was even a year younger than me, I thought we were like babies.

SPEAKER_01 15:05

No, I remember trying being friends with Jake and like trying to be friendly with Jake, and Jake just never believed, never believed that I was trying to. He always assumed that I was not actually wanting to be friends with him.

SPEAKER_02 15:18

I was like, I mean, that because that sounds so believable.

SPEAKER_03 15:21

This is very true. Because I thought if I turn for one second, he's gonna like get behind me, he's gonna give me like a really cool wedgie, or he's gonna give me like a really cool swirly or something, and I'm gonna be like, the joke's on me because he was so cool.

SPEAKER_02 15:33

Talking about Fight Club, I mean, if that friendship happened, we'd have a real Edward Norton, Tyler Durton situation. Ooh. Yeah, you're absolutely right.

SPEAKER_03 15:43

Except like he's the man you wanted to be.

SPEAKER_01 15:48

You assumed I was doing gonna do all those things, you can't. And I don't think I but I don't think I ever did any of those things.

SPEAKER_03 15:54

You never no, you were the nicest kid ever. You were you were so nice, you were so genuine. But isn't the issue with flight club though that you can't do it?

SPEAKER_02 16:01

I only gave the sleepovers.

unknown 16:04

Nah.

SPEAKER_03 16:06

Do we let's can we just take some space, some safe space here to resolve this this trauma, this conflict?

SPEAKER_02 16:14

That'd be so great for me.

SPEAKER_01 16:16

Josh, I am sorry that I ruined a childhood staple of your life. It was never my intention in my mind. It never happened, but I believe that it happened because you said it happened, and I hope you can forgive me.

SPEAKER_02 16:29

And next time that is not a good apology. Next time you're in Baltimore, if partially apologies you should come over.

SPEAKER_03 16:35

Josh, I mean I I mean, fuck you, man. Like that was a really good apology. Wait, wait, wait, I'm not done. I'm not done. Wait, let us know.

SPEAKER_01 16:42

Because it was more and and and next time you're in Baltimore, you should come and have a sleepover, and we'll make my wife sleep in the other room, and you can sleep in the bed with me.

SPEAKER_03 16:52

Oh my god, if you do that, and we were fortunately surrounded by Ari's mountain art.

SPEAKER_01 16:58

I we okay just change of plans. We will sleep at my parents' house. That'd be great. In they're about to put they're about to put bunk beds in the room that my kid sleeps in. Oh, that's very cute. We will move all of my dad's clowns into that room. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 17:14

Does your dad have clowns, Ari?

SPEAKER_01 17:16

Oh, we can talk about this. My father grew up very, very interested in clowns and collect and still technically does collect clown statues. So when you would come to that living room, my father had almost like floor to ceiling clown statues and pictures. And I will tell you that it's horrific, it's just terrifying. And so people would come over and random people who didn't know about this wall of terror would walk into our living room and just freeze.

SPEAKER_02 17:52

And it is kind of the first thing you see when you walk in because it's the room you enter and when you come out.

SPEAKER_01 17:57

I will tell you, my parents have since sold their old house, moved to a new house, and now all of my dad's clowns are partitioned over to another room in a closet that people can't see. But when I go to work at their house and I sit in the my dad's office, I have to turn my computer a very certain way because otherwise behind me, you just see creepy clown heads right behind me, and it's it's absolutely it's the most terrifying thing of all that fucking rocks, dude.

SPEAKER_03 18:22

Um I bet even in spite of all of that, you could have gotten a girl to sleep over.

SPEAKER_01 18:28

I don't know that I I think I don't know that I was trying. I was I was very well behaved. It's disrespectful. I also my I remember I like when I was my mentality back then was like sports, try and get good grades, don't get in too much trouble. I was really very focused on not doing anything stupid.

SPEAKER_03 18:49

Well, it doesn't have to be stupid. There's I think there's responsible. You didn't you didn't have like a steady, you didn't have someone that you were just like in a classic all-American way, you're just having a steady during high school. But like even Johnson. Is that a bad question, Adam? No, no, no. I'm trying to think of all American uh, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:09

I girded. Right. I gave her I gave her my ring, she accepted. You pinned her, and we went to the sock hop together.

SPEAKER_03 19:16

That's right. Uh very different, different. Like it's funny looking back because I just like I think because I was such an incel that it's just like you just exuded so much sexual charisma that even if you did nothing with it, just to everyone else, like me, it was just like, oh, he's just he's he's coming to school, he's going to math, he's going to English, and he's gonna go home and fuck. Like, that was I think just the vibe.

SPEAKER_02 19:41

No, no, and then also devastating for you, Jake.

SPEAKER_03 19:44

And then also like devastating. Why is it devastating?

SPEAKER_00 19:46

My fantasy is crumbling.

SPEAKER_03 19:48

Yeah, I feel like it wasn't a fantasy, it was just like that was what I thought cool kids did.

SPEAKER_01 19:52

I was going to fucking theater practice and you know, but if we're also talking about like sleepovers, even just like I when other like through high school, I wasn't even like we had friends who were drinking and sleeping at people's houses because they couldn't drive home, and I didn't even really start drinking till college. So in high in high school, I would have if there was a party that I was at, which uh sure I went to party, but like maybe have a beer because I was so I needed to drive home. And I of all the people that we were friends with, I lived a little bit out of the like nobody was going past my house to give me a ride. Um, so there were times in in high school where there were parties where people got very in trouble for all this drinking, and then I got lumped into this. But my father, who to this day just sits up and he doesn't sleep well, so he watches TV. Uh, there were times where the school had called my parents to let them know that I was at a party and had been they'd reported me for being absolutely hammered. And my parents were like, We we talked to him that day and we were home that night, and he definitely was not drunk. He drove home and it and that was true. I just I got thrown into a situation I actually wasn't a part of, uh, which is very different.

SPEAKER_02 21:08

Do you think if your dad removed all the creepy clown art, he would be able to sleep better?

SPEAKER_01 21:15

No, because now they're in a different room and he still doesn't sleep.

SPEAKER_03 21:18

But that's maybe they have to be exercised, maybe they have to be exercised from the premises. Right. Maybe maybe every house they live in has dead clowns underneath until the effigies are removed.

SPEAKER_02 21:30

I mean, I out of I feel like out of anybody, I probably would have had the the I would have had the safest. Like I lived right near the main party house that Art Grade would be smoking and very true.

SPEAKER_01 21:48

And I could basically walk back to my house from from the parties that I was getting in trouble about that I'm talking about were all at that house. There was a period of time where and I Known him my entire life. He is one of my dearest friends. And my parents had to sit me down, and they're like, You need to stop going over his house because every time you go there, you get in trouble for things that you had nothing to do with. So for a for a few month period of time, I stopped going because every time I went, somehow the school found out about something, and we all got in trouble. And I I just was not necessarily really a part of it. Which again is very different than my later on life when then I just went kind of nuts when I went to college. Most of my scene college years.

SPEAKER_02 22:31

One of the reasons why I did not drink in high school was because there was a point where people made such a big deal out of it. They were like, oh, Josh doesn't drink. Oh, do you care if I drink? Oh, I feel so guilty drinking in front of Josh. Like things like that. But I was like, if I start drinking now, it's gonna be so it's gonna be too like it's gonna be it's gonna break the internet. Yeah, it's gonna break the internet. No, it's I don't know. I had it in my head that it was gonna be like embarrassing that if I started that uh people are gonna make too big of a deal out of it, and then I would be like, I don't know, embarrassed or something. Hey, sorry to trauma dump on all of you, but I mean, between your trauma dumping and Adam saying essentially zero words this episode, it's I mean, it is really well actually I I can loop Adam into this because I feel like even after the sleepover 9-11 that Ari Al-Qaeda, um I think Adam wand still slept over our my house a bunch of times after.

SPEAKER_00 23:44

Probably I mean I was also I'm two years younger than you too. Yeah, yeah. Some time on there. Yeah. That's what I think, but I mean, I mean, to be honest, it's people were I think people were sleeping over each other's houses in high school. It just wasn't a sleepover necessarily.

SPEAKER_01 23:59

That is a good point because there I can uh guarantee Josh that there were times, especially when we were in high school in in the summers, we spent a lot of time in your basement.

SPEAKER_02 24:08

And that's where I just got laid and people were like, man, can I sleep over?

SPEAKER_01 24:12

Yeah, because one of my one of my favorite memories, especially when we were, I guess we're going into a little bit into college now, but we used to, if you remember, I believe on Monday nights, you used to do crappy movie night at your at your parents' house. We would come into your basement and pick the worst movies we could find. And that was the only time at Josh's house we were ever allowed to watch a movie in his basement and make free-for-all open commentary on the movie. There was no rules about being quiet, paying attention. That's when we watched like killer clowns from outer space. That's where we saw all the sleepaway camps.

SPEAKER_03 24:47

Yeah. Let's but just really quickly what the four of us Entourage, who are who are each of us?

SPEAKER_02 24:54

Oh, okay. Well, I mean, definitely in your uh fantasies, Ari is Vince.

SPEAKER_01 25:02

I agree, but in your fantasy, but I don't see Adam's Vince.

SPEAKER_03 25:06

No, you're obviously Vince. You're obviously Vince.

SPEAKER_02 25:09

I think I think the same thing about Adam. Like every time you see Adam one, you're like, that kid fucks.

SPEAKER_03 25:16

He does fuck, but it's totally different fuck energies, completely different fuck energies. Adam is to art. If we're taking the SATs here, Adam is to art as Ari is to sports. Adam, you want to add anything?

SPEAKER_00 25:32

Put the ad on Adam. I don't I don't know if I've got uh welcome. You're really into interrupting.

SPEAKER_02 25:44

And the episode. Damn, oh god. That was a weird way to call me out. Adam, I'm curious. I'm curious. I didn't I didn't realize I've been interrupting people. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_03 25:55

Yeah, like the whole time. All right, what were we gonna say, man?

SPEAKER_01 25:58

Adam, I'm curious because it's interesting. So Jake was a year older than us and assumed that we all hated him despite us really enjoying never.

SPEAKER_03 26:10

You didn't, you didn't, but there was but there other people in the cohort did.

SPEAKER_01 26:15

Okay. Well depends on the cohort because the people that we are all still friends with.

SPEAKER_03 26:20

You were an empty cohort.

SPEAKER_01 26:21

Such a lie. But the people I know a lot of people who really always have loved you, and you just always assume that we all hated you. But Adam, yeah, I tell Jake this all the time. But Adam, I'm curious, I'm curious as somebody who had a sibling in our grade, um, who also has a cousin in our grade. That's true. So your touch into our grade was very like very close. Um, and then best friends. Right. And and uh Josh, obviously, like what was your perspective on like the older years that that were above you? Because your grade and our grade were very close. I'm not sure about Jake's grade, but like I definitely have friends still that were in your grade. Um and I'm just curious what it was like for you because it was just such a and you had such a unique perspective on it.

SPEAKER_00 27:16

Well, you know, this is why I'm a really great part of this podcast, because it's notorious that I have a terrible memory for high school and have no nothing really to contribute in any significant way. I drew I don't remember dynamics. I don't, you know, it's really wasn't my time, I would say. And uh but uh that's so funny.

SPEAKER_03 27:38

If there's one thing odd to every episode, every single episode, every single episode, Adam reminds us he doesn't remember or know anything about Babylon.

SPEAKER_01 27:48

I have I have this very odd, I would argue my my memory of all this is so very specific, and I still remember it very emotionally concerningly.

SPEAKER_00 27:59

Yeah, all you guys I feel like have very strong memories. I it when people when you get start to talk about stuff, it uh it gets I remember more stuff. But um but yeah, I mean I agree though that like uh I thought you know I I had a I say I would have this not that different of a perspective of Jake, but in a way more measured and reasonable way, I guess. Like, yeah, Ari, I thought you were I considered you a popular person. I didn't think you were a uh sex god. And uh he was, he was, he was. And yeah, yeah, I mean, I I just think you know, if you take Jake's perspective down like by like 35 to 40 percent, you get to a reasonable point of view. That's probably representative.

SPEAKER_01 28:55

I gotta tell you that when we first graduated and went, and it was our at least our freshman year of college, and I was meeting all of these kids. Granted, I went to a very small school where a lot of the kids also went to a private school. I went to a private college, so a lot of the kids came from a private school. And I was saying, like, oh, all these things happened and we did all these things. I was called a liar more times than I could until until it's somewhere, but on YouTube, there was a video that we had recorded of like a day in the life of Beth the Philip. And I showed that video to people, and even then I got accused of being a liar and being told that we had orchestrated it or set it up because once that video finished, even when we graduated, then it would just transition into our senior video or senior full-length film. And so for years, I had friends who were at college and who were like, all these stories never like it just never happened. You're lying about all this. And then little by little they'd come visit me over the summer and we would go hang out with our friends, and we would just be like sitting around drinking, and my our friends would just tell the exact same stories. And one by one, my friends would be like, I can't believe all these stories you've been telling me are true. I'm like, Yeah, yeah. And they're documented somewhere. We just don't know where they are, somewhere in the deep web.

SPEAKER_02 30:23

No, I mean it's on I took that video. It's on my I it's on my like YouTube profile uploads.

SPEAKER_01 30:31

Oh, is that where it is? Yeah, good to know.

SPEAKER_00 30:33

We got a lot of things. Yeah, that's that's that classic video of uh I feel like I've seen that video a million times too. The Hebrew teacher's the yeah, and there's the the music room.

SPEAKER_02 30:44

But no, but I showed friends in college that video, and they were like, This is crazy. The stories we could run through that I just like never would the whole thesis statement of this podcast.

SPEAKER_03 30:56

This is what the show is supposed to be. Although other than this is the show right then. Okay. This is the show. It took an hour and 15 minutes to get there, but this is the show. All right, play the music. And this has got to be the last minute of the podcast because I gotta go soon. But what let's how do we wrap this up? What do you gotta do?

SPEAKER_01 31:13

How do we wrap this up?

SPEAKER_03 31:14

I gotta go change the cheese to my bed. That's what I have to do.

SPEAKER_02 31:17

Wow, wow, we could have done better than that. I know Jake's always the change. That is the truth.

SPEAKER_03 31:21

I mean, that's just the truth. I have to change the cheese.

SPEAKER_02 31:23

Jake's always the one who tells us we gotta wrap it up.

SPEAKER_03 31:26

I try to keep us on time.

SPEAKER_02 31:27

Or you're true, because I probably could just do this for hours. I can sit and talk for another 10 hours. Me too. If we if we've started been like, you're better than any of us.

SPEAKER_03 31:39

Like you're you're infinitely better than me. And other than the fact that Adam doesn't say much, you're you're both like you have you both have the right energy, but like you are the opposite of Adam, and that you have like so many memories and so many things to add. And Adam is just so quietly, like stoically cool. And then Josh is just like fucking trauma dumping and interrupting everybody.

SPEAKER_02 32:03

And it's like I I didn't realize that was annoying this episode. Um, it's no having Ari on. It's like when Conan talks about having like Norm McDonald on, where he's like, Yeah, when I have Norm on, I could just kind of sit back and yeah, it's really it's really strange the the like stories and memories I still have from from all like the growing up in high school.

SPEAKER_01 32:29

I've I have a very vivid memory of a lot of these crazy stories.

SPEAKER_02 32:33

I remember more stuff than Jake. And I think out of the three of us, Jake is definitely the most, but I also try not to remember a bunch of it.

SPEAKER_01 32:42

I just remember Josh, I just I just remember your mom. Uh I think we were seniors, admitting to both of us that she was very confused why we were friends. She was like just like she's like, Yeah, you guys are very, very different, and it's it's amazing that you're friends. It's like I think we're friends, we've been friends for a long time.

SPEAKER_02 33:01

I it's not true. Like you've liked weird movies. That's kind of true. The whole like what's what's gate's gotta change his sheets. I almost said Sylvie. What's Sylvie? Probably because you said it so quietly. I know.

SPEAKER_03 33:19

I really, really have to change my sheets. Is there can we do a good one? Can you tell us what's gonna happen if you don't? Is there a going out song? Is there a what? Yes, there's a going out song. There's going out song. Ari, thank you so much for being on the show. This was unbelievable. I have so many notes for all of us. Another time. Ari, don't change a thing. Adam, you gotta say something. Josh, what the fuck was going on with you? Play the song. It's really weird. I'm turtle. Play the song.

SPEAKER_02 33:48

I was like, I was thinking I actually did a pretty good job.

SPEAKER_03 33:52

Yeah, you did an amazing job. I can't wait for you to do that. No, you were driving the shipboard, you know. You did amazing. You did amazing. This is also what we do at the end of every episode, Ari would. Like while it's recording, we're just like, oh, how do we do it?