Family reunions

Talk about how our family reunions have changed

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

We have it.

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Alright, another episode of Poor Clothes Dudes. Saturday night here, sitting here with uh Jeremy and Tim.

SPEAKER_01 0:08

Yep.

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And Mike. We're watching some people shoot off some boom booms out there. Jeremy came up with an idea about our ancestry, where our last name comes from, so I'll introduce myself. You know, my last name is Moore. I'm an asshole. What's your last name, Jeremy? My last name is McDaniel. From what I understand from my mother doing research, it is Northern Northern Ireland and Scottish. Yeah, yeah. And my last name, yeah, on my my father's side was Moore. Now, for you guys that don't know, me and Jeremy are cousins. Our mom, his mom, my dad were brothers and sisters, so kind of they had the same name. So uh and I have the different name, but I sure do have the Moore Times. Yeah. And my uh my mom's maiden name, she was a Miley. And then we got Tim over there. Brother, what's your last what's your last name?

SPEAKER_01 1:12

Psych!

SPEAKER_00 1:13

Yeah, but what you got your your mom and your other students?

SPEAKER_01 1:16

My mother was a McAllister.

SPEAKER_00 1:17

Okay. Yeah, that sounds German.

SPEAKER_01 1:20

It could very well be, never delved into it. Yeah. Maybe Scottish or Irish. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't I'd have to have to have any tennis. Yeah. We didn't have uh anybody that was interested in that growing up to tell us what it was. So I I don't know. Uh I don't know what's spelled D I K E, not D Y K E. Yeah. A lot of remarks growing up.

SPEAKER_00 1:46

Well a lot of times that they wouldn't have well, you had some times there where you were like guys were trying to do something online, they wouldn't take it because of your last name. Because of his last name.

SPEAKER_01 1:58

Uh yeah, you can't like if you're gonna buy a football jersey or a baseball jersey, you want to put your name on the back of it, it won't take it. I think my son said he's got a video game that won't take his last name or something like that. Uh it's kind of weird. It's just kind of you know, wife's there's certain places you can put her won't take her name. Um so yeah, I I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 2:21

I know my grandma on both sides, my dad's mom, my mom's mom always said we were Irish German. Hell of a combination. Hell of a combination to have, you know, those two. So and you know, Tim sounds like McAllister. You probably got probably some German, uh, Irish German, and then Dyke. I don't know, you know, that could be Dyke could be that could be so many things. I mean Austrian, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:47

Uh I don't know again.

SPEAKER_00 2:49

Probably more more Eastern European, probably.

SPEAKER_01 2:56

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 2:57

He might be a fucking Russian.

SPEAKER_01 2:59

He might be Romanian.

SPEAKER_00 3:02

Romanian. Might be related to Dracula.

SPEAKER_01 3:04

I don't know. I just know it's either a dam or a yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:10

Watch out. That wasn't that wasn't very loud, but I know when you're when you're when your mom and my aunt were doing that tree, we were related to a lot of famous people that we didn't know about. George Bush, we were related to him down the line somewhere. Of course, James Coburn. Of course, they're James Coburn. Well, that's because our grandma, you know, her she was a Coburn. So and then wasn't there some royalty somewhere that we kind of fell under that lineage somewhere down there? You're wasn't there something like that? Um it wasn't the king. Yeah. Uh God, who was it? So I just remember your mom showing me that before you know she came to the show. It was either the Duke, the Duke or the Duchess of Wales. Yeah. I'm not sure. Like a little maybe a little bit on the family tree somewhere down through there. James Woods, the actor James Woods. Yeah, James Woods. So but hell, everybody's got that in their family. They go back far enough. Yeah. He traced it back far enough. Hell, we're all probably related somewhere down the line, especially in a small town. Six degrees. Oh, well, just like me and uh your wife, Tim, we didn't know we were related, then we found out, you know, my Aunt Mary Ann and your wife's grandma were what? Sisters, so didn't know that. So it's just kind of crazy how you know it all yeah, you don't think about that growing up, you know, who's related to who until you get older, and then you see, find out, you know, this person and that person, you know, so it's kind of cool.

SPEAKER_01 4:41

You're going to a family union when you're younger. Oh hell, I didn't know I was related to anything.

SPEAKER_00 4:44

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:48

We don't have family unions anymore. We had one just I had one here a couple about a month ago, just my two remaining ants I had left. Yeah. They wanted to get together, so there was ten or twelve of us got together. And it was nice, it was it was fun.

SPEAKER_00 5:06

Uh you know, it's just now you don't want to see them for another year.

SPEAKER_01 5:10

Well, you know, I I don't dislike my family. I don't like my dad's side is here, my mom's side is all of Indianapolis, so you don't see them. I ain't seen them in probably 10-15 years. And the last time you didn't see them, it was a funeral or whatever, but you just don't know. They are a totally different wavelength than I am.

SPEAKER_00 5:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:32

You can tell I'm country and they're big city, Indianapolis. They're either in trouble, drugs or whatever. You know, so it's kind of a messed up situation. Well, hell, our family's all around here, and they're in the I love them dearly, but when I wish we'd stayed, you know, contact more, but you didn't. I just went to like you said, have cousins here that I ain't seen in three or three years, and they live five, ten miles down the damn road from me.

SPEAKER_00 6:01

So exactly. Yeah, I know. Yeah, speaking of that, Relato just found out, you know, that my brother got put in jail again for doing stuff he shouldn't be doing. Really? Yep. I mean Scotty got popped for I guess dealing meth, making mess, whatever. Well, he's in jail now. Probably for the rest of his life now. Him and his daughter. I think he's got an older daughter named Chloe. I think her mom was the other one that got popped with him. So but you know, he's been in and out of jail so many times, it's probably where he feels the most comfortable.

SPEAKER_01 6:40

So yeah, people like that, you know.

SPEAKER_00 6:42

I just remember growing up and you know, I'm what, seven and seven, I'm seven or eight years older than him, and I know we used to hang out with grandma. He'd always say, I want to come and live with you and grow up with you, and I think I said, That'd be cool. You know, have you there, but then you know, you as a kid like that, you you know you don't know it's not gonna work out. You just think, yeah, it'd be cool, I'll move it in tomorrow, and we'll grow up together, and shit like that don't happen. But I went to a class, uh class reunion, I want to say class reunion. Uh family reunion today on it was on my it would have been on my mom's side out there at Ping Lake and uh Yeah, seeing a lot of my cousins. Some of them most of them live locally, you know, some live far away. But it's kind of cool to see them a little bit and some of the other ones, but shit, I don't think we've had a family reunion on our side. On our grandma's side for I don't remember the last time. Well, my dad, your mom. Yeah. So I mean the la I think the last one I remember going to was out at your mom and dad's house. I was still in the army, I'm still in North Carolina because Auntie. We had one after that, I think it was at Lafayette Park. Yeah. Aunt Diane was still alive. Yeah. Um I can just remember one there at Lafayette Park. Down over there at the I think Sheila was still alive. Yeah. The clubhouse over there behind the baseball field. And our cousin Brian come walking up with that goddamn, that's gonna be a loud one. That's far away. Come walking up with that cowboy hat with all those big feathers in it. It's like, Jesus Christ. Yeah, of course we had some female cousins that were more manly than some of us. So yeah, it's not like it was when you were little, you know. You go to these family reunions that you go to, and you know, again, you know, a lot of the older ones that had passed away now are the ones that kind of kept that running. Yeah, that's gonna be loud. Yeah, shooting off fireworks across the yard. So you hear those booms, that's what it is. Happy Fourth of July. Happy Fourth of July.

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Yep.

SPEAKER_00 8:56

So uh yeah. But it was just cool having those, you know, that's where I met a lot of cousins and then grew up, Steve Colburn, you know. I didn't know Steve until we had a family reunion, and oh wow. Then you start playing softball with him and hanging out and different things, and uh, you know, I can remember getting together on little family reunions out there, you know, when uh well he wasn't a he he was Jim, you know, wasn't our grandpa, he'd passed away, but when Jim worked out there at the waterworks out there at Yeah, we used to get together out there a lot. Yeah, all the kids would get out there and slide down that big hill and get our asses beat for throwing cats in a fire. Get our asses beat, yeah. Yeah, do some stupid shit. So, of course, me and Tim's got into a lot of trouble in our adult life for doing stupid shit. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:49

So we didn't really get in trouble. It's it's amazing we didn't get in trouble. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:54

It's uh you got an excuse when you're a kid, you don't have an excuse when you're in an adult. When you're in your 20s and 25s, you don't have an excuse.

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You just do it because you want to do it.

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Might be a little liquid refreshment involved.

SPEAKER_01 10:09

It's fun.

SPEAKER_00 10:11

But it's just like you know anything else. That's your your grandparents kind of keep you know, keep the family alive, you know. When grandma more died, everybody just kind of, you know, went apart. And the same way probably with yours, you know. Most of the most of the older generation of the family stayed around here. Yeah. Uncle Owen was really the only one. The rest of us just kind of went different directions. Of course, my dad he had to go to Florida because he liked to skip bail on his kids. But then Uncle Donnie could go to Kentucky just to get away because you know Uncle Owen wasn't really the one that moved away. He went to Florida all those years. Yep. Somebody's really kicking the shit out of them over behind us. That's the background. It's gotta be somebody on the lake back here has got to be doing that. So yeah, like I said, when grandma died, you know, the kids just didn't hang out much anymore. I mean, you'd see them out and about, you know, that's about it. You know, Bobby and Eric, I'd see them out once in a great while. And uh neighbor going home, Mike. They give me a new truck, I wonder.

SPEAKER_01 11:28

I think it was Zach or John's.

SPEAKER_00 11:30

Oh. So yeah, so it just never because I can remember. Remember Grandma lived out there on the highway by the uh, not the one, not not by Toyota, but the one farther on down where uh the uh landfill is now. Yeah, well not that far down. Back a little bit by the uh it's where that I'm gonna just gonna say it, it's where that shed is that somebody spray painted Buck Obama on it. Yeah. Yeah, right there. You know, it was in that area right there. I I don't actually remember it. But I know that you all have told me about it. Yeah, you were too young, because I remember uh me and April and uh Stacy before she moved away, and you know, all that drama shit with my dad and you know her mom and but we'd always hang out there at grandma's and sit out there and talk and watch the cars go by and work in the garage or the garden with her and uh yeah. Uh I don't think you were even old enough to comprehend what was going on yet. Probably not. Yeah. Brian would come out there because I don't remember who uh uh because I don't think Jeff. Well Scott came out there a little bit when he was younger, but but yeah, it was just everybody out there hanging out and playing and pretty cool. Pretty tiny up family when we were all young, you know, like I said when grandma was still alive and then I remember all you older cousins used to kind of faded away. Give me shit and pick on me a lot and push me around. Because he was little. And then I didn't see any of you for a long time. Yeah. And then come back, and uh I'm fucking bigger than y'all now, except for you. Yeah, just my ass. Yeah. Yeah. Kind of sorry there we left Tim out because me and Jeremy related, just talking about when we were kids. So Tim's over here just staring aimlessly out the watching the neighbor pull up, the whole family from the neighborhood. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:40

So go from one driveway.

SPEAKER_00 13:43

So Tim, did you have any brother or sisters? I have a sister.

SPEAKER_01 13:46

I have a more sister. Yeah, Lisa. She just retired in April. That's all the outside. Is she around here? Yep, she lives about five blocks from me.

SPEAKER_00 13:54

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 13:55

Um I probably see her less than I do. I know I see her less than I do him. Yeah. Uh yeah, I it's I yeah. It was just me and my sister and my mom and dad. Um now, like I said, you when when the when the grandparents pass away, then it seems like the family just fall apart. That's what's happened. My grandma on my dad's side. It was the only thing you know, we were doing family reunions because of her, and when she passed away, it's they've not had one since we got a few here, but here, but nothing nothing major.

SPEAKER_00 14:30

What's sad is if you could get people to get together now, you wouldn't even talk to them because everybody would be on their phone.

SPEAKER_01 14:36

Yeah, yeah. You know, that was the one thing about my mom. You know, if you were if you were eating at her house, the phones were not there. You know, it's you know, my wife and I. She's on one end of the couch, I'm on the other end of the couch, we're both on our damn phones. You know, TV's on, but we're not watching it.

SPEAKER_00 15:01

Yeah, you know, it's just not Andy's like that, and she'll go in there and got her TV on to go to bed, and then she's on her phone. So okay, there's there's some talking about having TV on.

SPEAKER_01 15:15

Do you have to have a TV on a little bit?

SPEAKER_00 15:18

I don't, but I have to have at least a fan on.

SPEAKER_01 15:21

I have to have a fan.

SPEAKER_00 15:23

I have to have some kind of noise.

SPEAKER_01 15:24

I want it pitch black in my room, but I want a fan on.

SPEAKER_00 15:27

I have to have some kind of noise.

SPEAKER_01 15:28

Yeah, used to growing up when I was a kid, I had to have a TV on.

SPEAKER_00 15:31

But I like I said, I don't have to have the TV on. 99% of the time it's on because I fall asleep watching it. I don't want my TV on at all. I got to have a radio. I like listening to music while asleep.

SPEAKER_01 15:45

That's all I gotta have.

SPEAKER_00 15:47

Yeah. Yeah, when I was younger, laying in bed, I'd just listen to the Cardinal games on the radio.

SPEAKER_01 15:55

I was not a Cardinal fan, but you when I was single, living there in town by myself, uh, I'd go to bed and I put the Cardinals game on, and in five minutes I'd just leave.

SPEAKER_00 16:05

Yeah, exactly. It was always cool when well it was either Cardinals or the Reds. You could pick those locally, and it was always cool when they were playing on the West Coast because it'd be a 9 15, 9 30 game, and then you know, you could uh listen to it.

SPEAKER_01 16:16

We didn't have any Reds stations around here. You might have had, you know, Jasper might have had one, but WREY was the only one you get and it had St. Louis. But it was Cardinals once this is what you listen to. Yeah. Um, you know, Mike gives me shit because I I I say I'm a Reds fan, but I also like the Braves. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:32

Because Turner.

SPEAKER_01 16:34

You when cable TV came out, you know that's what you watched. You when I was growing up, you saw the Reds play. TBS or because they were so damn good TV all the time. Yeah, WGN. WGM. You had the you had the Cubs or the Braves. I wasn't the root for Cubs.

SPEAKER_00 16:49

Yeah. So then you'd have, you know, the like I said, it's it's uh kind of getting off into sports, but then you didn't have all the cable channels where every you know every about every baseball game is on. Now it's uh you know, back then you can only watch it on a Saturday and then a Monday night.

SPEAKER_01 17:10

Monday night baseball and Saturdays. That was it. Saturday afternoon baseball and Monday night baseball.

SPEAKER_00 17:14

Yeah, that was it. Whatever team they were showing, that's what they're doing.

SPEAKER_01 17:17

It was either it was the Reds or you know, uh because and the Yankees, because they were all good back in the 70s. That's pretty well, you know, we say it now because now ESPN they show the Yankees and the freaking Reds off.

SPEAKER_00 17:29

All the time.

SPEAKER_01 17:30

But but back then you watch the Reds and the Yankees because that's and and the Cardinals, that's that's who we win.

SPEAKER_00 17:36

So it's I bet they're gonna shoot fireworks off tonight. Oh, they're going to, they're unloading them now. But yeah, I mean if I try to sit there completely quiet, it drives me insane.

SPEAKER_01 17:46

Oh, I can't, it's too quiet.

SPEAKER_00 17:47

Yeah, my brain just starts to ramble. I can't do it.

SPEAKER_01 17:50

I live right on the main highway, so the fan kind of drowns that out. And if if if you would if I was dead asleep and you came in and shut my fan off, I'd love to leave it.

SPEAKER_00 18:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:00

Because I rely on that fan.

SPEAKER_00 18:03

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we kind of switched to sports, but it's still a family thing, because uh, you know, kind of growing up and you know, watching baseball, you know, and I can remember, like I said at grandma's, wherever she lived, always watching college football. Yep. And it'd either be Texas or Notre Dame or Nebraska or somebody like that. That's how I learned that Notre Dame was in Indiana. Well, that's her house.

SPEAKER_01 18:30

That and I remember listening to what was the guy that used to do the Notre Dame games all the time. They had Notre Dame highlights late night on a Saturday, Friday or Saturday night.

SPEAKER_00 18:40

Yeah, that one guy. What the hell was his name? Yeah. He do that sports like at midnight. Yeah, I can't remember what his name was.

SPEAKER_01 18:47

I can remember him doing highlights in Notre Dame.

SPEAKER_00 18:49

Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, we might be able to move our chairs out that way a little bit here shortly. And then you had uh really before it took off real big, what was that guy's name? The sports machine. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I can't think of his name. Remember, maybe that's who you were talking about, Warner Wolf. Remember Warner Wolf?

SPEAKER_01 19:09

Yeah, I remember Warner Wolf, but I I know who he's talking about the sports machine. Maybe they are gonna do fireworks.

SPEAKER_00 19:16

Maybe Air Parsegian or whatever. I don't know. Yeah, I bet they're gonna shoot them off tonight since it cleared off. So yeah, they're gonna shoot them off tonight. Yep, yep. Well, we'll have to let the girls know. Alright, well, we're gonna end this episode uh four clueless dudes there on uh and we kind of started off on family reunion and family growing up, and can we talk a little bit about sports and college football and baseball and kind of threw it all in there?

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SPEAKER_01 20:17

See ya. Happy Fourth of July. Fourth of July.