Our Obsession with Barney, The Comparison Game, & Were You A Water Only Family?

Take a walk down memory lane with Morgan and Scuba Steve. Morgan decides to orchestra the episode like she's a little kid again, asking any question that comes to mind. They start with their obsession over Barney, which leads them to talk about kids' shows today. Then, they compare the most popular businesses like Walmart vs. Target, Coke vs. Pepsi, & Home Depot vs. Lowes. Plus, they debated water only families and if either of their childhoods experienced the full spread at a restaurant. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Best Bits of the Week with Morgan.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Part one, I hang a thing with a member of
the show.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
What's up?

Speaker 3 (00:08):
Everybody? Happy weekend? Scuba Steve is joining me. What's up, Scuba? Oh?

Speaker 2 (00:12):
What's up? Putting out fires like a fireman over here?

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Oh you are a fireman? What mister fire man?

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Fire man? Fire man, the fire man.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
That little Wayne, the Wayne? Wait ha ha baby baby,
well Scooba, how are you. I've decided that we may
do this podcast in the form of a kid asking questions.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
A kid asking questions? Okay, what do you mean?

Speaker 3 (00:36):
I saw a thing online and it was interesting to
me where it was like we as adults stop asking
questions and being inquisitive, like kids are.

Speaker 4 (00:45):
Oh yeah, my son, who's seven right now, he is
in the question asking phase. And then he doesn't even
let me get to the answer of the first question.
He just died right into the next question. And then
I started to answer the first question. He's already in
the third question, the fourth question. I'm like, dude, slow
down on the first one.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
But they're so inquisitive and they learn so much, whereas
we as adults stop asking questions and.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Their brains are on fire.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Yeah, learning things. So I've decided we're just gonna ask
a lot of questions this episode.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Okay, was doing back and forth. If something comes to
your mind, we're just gonna roll with it.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
I'm rolling.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
That's how we're vibing.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
I'm rolling on Molly and I'm rolle all these questions.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
First of all, what is your favorite, third favorite color?

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Third favorite color?

Speaker 4 (01:25):
My first favorite color is blue, second favorite color is black.
My third favorite color. It's like a time between purple
and green.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Okay, a little Barney action there. Yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Love me some Barnie.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
I loved Barney too.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah, I love you you love me?

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Oh yeah, I sing that to my dog a lot, love.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
You you happy fag me to you? W don't you
say you love me?

Speaker 2 (01:57):
To boom boom.

Speaker 4 (01:59):
I met bar the first time when he was it
hadn't even been I think they hadn't even released the show.
It was like a promo for like the preview of
when it was going to come out, because there was
two different Barneys. The original Barney was like a deep
dark purple, and then and then after they got budget
and the Barney became like it started doing well. Yeah,
then they got a new Barney like the second or
third season, he was more of like a lighter purple

(02:21):
and the costume had more money involved. You could tell
they had more of a budget could start to form
into like this really cool costume. But the original guy
was scary and dark purple. And we were at Target
in Olvido, Florida, which outside of Orlando, and we were
just there one day, just shopping in like the early nineties,
like ninety two or ninety three, and they're like, hey,
you guys want to meet Barney, And we didn't who
the heck Barney was. And it was like a meet

(02:41):
and greet, like a pop like almost like a radio
station pop up, and had a bunch of Barney toys
all around him, and he was he was there, the
real Barney, and they had the kids from the show.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
They were all there.

Speaker 4 (02:50):
It was pretty wild. And I think Sandy Duncan or
somebody was the mom and she was there and we
met him and got the original Barneys. I still have
the original dark purple, scary Barney.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
I guess I was looking at photos and you're right,
I don't. I mean, I don't really remember it. It
kind of reminds me of the you know when we
all think that the Monopoly guy yeah has the monocle,
and then he didn't. Yeah, this is probably one of
those situations because I definitely don't remember the original Barney,
but I know I was watching Barney from beginning again. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
my dad used to He'd get home from work and

(03:20):
him and my mom would swap places, like he'd worked
the third shift, and then my mom would go work,
and that's how they watched us. So that's how they
raised us. So my dad would get really excited when
he came home because if he put on Barney and
meant he could take a nap.

Speaker 4 (03:31):
Yeah, while we were watching it, your parents had then
their nap shows are the guaranteed. If I put this on,
I have a solid twenty thirty minutes, so they're gonna
they're gonna leave me alone for sure.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
And that was Barney for us, for my dad, and
so I know we watched all of it.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Heck, we even dressed up.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
As Barney as kids, like that was our We loved Barney. Yeah, yeah,
but I definitely remember the pink one, don't. I don't
remember the scary one, but I'm seeing him now and
he sure is a little bit scarier than the Like
it's almost like the first one looks like a male
version and the second one is a female version.

Speaker 4 (04:03):
Yeah, it's almost like they got you know how, whenever
you do something and you like the pilot or the
first of anything, you get feedback. And they probably had
feedback from people like, hey, it's a little scary and
you know, lightening up a little bit. And then because
even like eyelashes on it and everything, they really and
the budget i'm sure increased from season one to two.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
And so on.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yeah, for sure. Did that's crazy? I didn't realize he
was different colors.

Speaker 4 (04:23):
Oh yeah, And that was before BJ and Baby Bop
and all that was like just Barney.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
Did you ever watch One of my other favorite shows
that I really loved was Out of the Box.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
That's a Disney show, And I don't know if that's
a little bit too out of the Box.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
That may have been like so they would be like
they would build all these little cardboard boxes.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
Yeah, and then they'd all walk into it and it'd be.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
Like this giant uh like four if you will. That
was full of all kinds of things.

Speaker 4 (04:50):
Yeah, I don't remember watching this one. It did come
out in ninety eight, So I mean I had, say
my sister was three, but I was at this point,
I feel like I was not home very much. I
was starting to work and get on in life. Yeah yeah,
I don't think I've seen Oh yeah, I've seen. Oh,
you know, I've seen previous for it, because I recognized
the mom and dad in here.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
Yeah, there is the song. I was like, out of
the box, yes, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
It was such a vibe. But I loved it.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
And I always thought for like the longest time that
if you crawled into a cardboard box it would turn
into like a tree fort because of that show.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
Well, it's supposed to be just your imagination, you know,
but their imagination is on screen, so they have to
actually do it exactly.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
But see my imagination. It did not work out with
the cardboard boxes. I tried. I tried a few times.
But that's what it also reminds me of.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
Wow, it's crazy.

Speaker 4 (05:31):
Look at the lady who you can't see as if
you're listening, but the out of the box lady, Vivian
bay U bay Maybe she's Filipino. Yeah, wow, she like
has gray hairs now and stuff. Whoa, this is crazy.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
It feels it feels wild. I don't know about you,
but the nineties feel like just centuries ago.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
It. Yeah, I mean it kind of almost was.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
Decades ago, but centuries.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
It feels like it's like I feel truly like I'm
one hundred years from the nineties.

Speaker 4 (05:57):
Oh my gosh, she only has like seven thousand followers.
You should be out to her and like interview her
for your podcast for take this Personally, I don't know
what the angle is on that, but but I feel
like I feel like she's obtainable.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
Yeah, it coulda be cool.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
I mean, I just love like how impactful those shows
were for us.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
Do you think there's gonna be any impactful ones like
that for your kids?

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (06:18):
You know what you think about that because there's so
much recycled stuff where either they're.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
Watching the original shows.

Speaker 4 (06:24):
We watched or they've been rebooted forty five million times,
and like original ideas are like few far in between.
So it's a great question because I'm trying to think
of like anything original. My son watches it really isn't original.
He watches Pokemon, which came out in the nineties. Yeah,
they like Jurassic Park, which came out in the nineties
and then that Drastic World, which is like a reboot,
a new version of it.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
What else do they watch?

Speaker 1 (06:44):
The only one that that comes to mind as Bluey.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
Yeah, blue is the only one, original ish one.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
Yeah, but I don't know that there's is Miss Rachel
technically because I feel like we had Magic school Bus,
which was a similar vibe to that.

Speaker 4 (06:56):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know anything about Miss Rachel. I mean,
I know who she is, yeah, but we don't we
do that.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Yeah, I haven't watched any of her stuff.

Speaker 3 (07:02):
I just see her.

Speaker 4 (07:03):
So weird if you see it watched Miss Rachel.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
I'm not gonna lie. There's been a few times I've
watched Bluey, but that was yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yeah, blooey.

Speaker 4 (07:12):
Actually, Like I mean, Miss Rachel not the crap on her,
but she's like an internet person that now is a
TV show, and so I'm sure it's like whatever.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
So it's not a true like original TV show kind
of like our nineties that we're talking about.

Speaker 4 (07:23):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, I know there's different ways
to become something now, and the Internet is a way
to become famous or make yourself go somewhere. But I
don't know, I just feel like it's like it's almost
like dating websites, like there.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
Was an ick.

Speaker 4 (07:34):
It was like, ooh, you're on Like when back my
mom was single and dating guys were like, oh, you
find them on the internet, You're a loser, mom.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
And there's like an ick to me with internet.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
Where they started Internet And I'm like.

Speaker 4 (07:46):
Oh, gross, you were on the internet. You didn't have
like you weren't properly trained or worked your whole life
with professionals to get to this place. You were on
the Internet and just someone picked you up.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
Like gross.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
I didn't know there could be a professional ick, but
here are.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah, I think there's a nick.

Speaker 4 (08:01):
I think even like in the country music industry, they'll
never ever say it out loud because it's so incestuous
and everyone wants to don't want to hurtnyone's feelings. But
I know the artists that put ten years in and
busts of their ass like Alany Wilson or a Jelly
Roll not saying they've said this, but where they put
in this long crap, this long, hard road to get
to where they're at and someone puts a video on

(08:22):
TikTok and the next morning they wake up. But it's
got ten million views, and they get a record label
and they get all these things, and then there's no
like they didn't they didn't earn it in their mind,
so they're like screw them. As you know, they'll never
say that, but I know they're like, screw that person
for never for not having to work the way I worked.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
And that's how you feel too, That's how you know.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
That's how I feel towards internet fame. Yes, exactly.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
Yeah, yeah, see I'm following. Yeah, yeah, the back on
our our TV thing, Paw Patrol, Paw.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
Patrol, that's another. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (08:50):
I feel like Nickelodeon has done a really good job
of coming out with more because Nickelodeon's always pumped out content,
you know. Yeah, and I feel like that's a Nickelodeon
paaramount property. Paw Patrol is unique. My kids U still
love that, not so much anymore. My daughter watches. Which
is funny because whenever Nickelodeon Universal comes out with something
Disney there's always this battle, whether it's Thirteen Parks or
it's their television shows or whatever. And so Disney has

(09:13):
a show called Super Kitties, and so it's the safetiest
Paw Patrol, but they're cats, and my daughter, my youngest
who's three, loves super kitties.

Speaker 3 (09:22):
So funny. It's funny to me that that's always been
a battle. It's like you have these two competitors of
kid Networks basically, and Disney's evolved and obviously Nickelodeon's evolved
to adult with Paramount. Yeah, so they've had their evolution,
but it is funny to think about that they were
just always these two competing.

Speaker 4 (09:38):
And that was it constantly Pepsi and Coke, Walgreens and
CVS homes, Bow and Low's, Disney and Universal.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
Okay, okay, this will be fun.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
Okay, what we're gonna do?

Speaker 3 (09:47):
Like, which side are you on?

Speaker 2 (09:48):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (09:48):
Yeah, yeah, so Disney Nickelodeon.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
Which one are you going?

Speaker 1 (09:51):
Uh, Nickelodeon, I'm Disney.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
See, I like Disney.

Speaker 4 (09:55):
I love Disney, but we were way more in our
household because Disney was a pre It cost more money
to have Disney at the time. I felt like in
the early nineties it was almost like you had had
to pay extra for it.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
It was on like cable. Yeah, we just watched it
on cable.

Speaker 4 (10:09):
Well, yeah, I'm a little bit older than you. There
was a time where on the box you were able.
I forget the whole setup, but there was different levels
of your cable package, and our basic level cable package
carried Nickelodeon, but in order to get Disney you had
to pay a higher premium and we couldn't afford it.
So we'd only watched Disney when we went to our
aunt and uncle's house in Tampa because they had money,

(10:29):
and so we'd watched Disney there.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
So you're telling me monopolies have always.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
Been a thing.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
Oh my god, Yeah, totally, yeah, just the beginning.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
Yeah, yeah, we're just way too deep.

Speaker 3 (10:38):
Now, Okay, so I got Disney, you got Nickelodeon.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
Pepsi or coke coke Pepsi sucks.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
We were at pepsi family ground. My mom worked at Pepsi.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
Oh gross.

Speaker 3 (10:47):
So she she, like my dad and I would drink
diet Mountain Dew Leaders all the time, and my mom
and sister would drink diet Pepsi Mountain dew Leader or
diet Pepsi Leaders all of the time, and that was
like our go to for forever. I was talking to
a friend about this because it was weird. We drank
it every single days growing up. I drank diet mound dew,
and then my mom and sister drank pepsi.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
I know, trust me, I know.

Speaker 4 (11:11):
Like when you taste it now, like you taste the
major difference with diet in regular and they're both really
bad for you. But it's even worse because artificial crap
in it.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
It's all bad now, like right now, it's disgusting to me. Yes, yeah,
but there was just one day where I just stopped
drinking it.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
Yeah, And I don't know what day that.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
Was or what caused that, but it was a weird
thing because I did it every day of my life
for years, and then all of a sudden, one day
it was just not a part of my life.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
And I try and look back on that because it
was so ingrained into me. What happened there?

Speaker 2 (11:41):
What turned off? What turned on?

Speaker 3 (11:43):
Yeah, Like I don't know if it was a moment
of the fake sugar that that was the turn I
don't know, but I was thinking about that the other day.
Random tangent. But that is why we're a pepsi family.
I grew up on it.

Speaker 4 (11:54):
We're all coke and with someone would bring over like
RC Cola or check or something like when we're like,
get that out of here, loser, because that's something about
the coke. That's the way it burns your throat, it's
going down like it's especially coke. At a theme park
like Disney, they add extra sugar into their coke and
it's even better. Oh my god, it's just it's awesome.

(12:18):
I don't drink it as much as I used to
when I was younger. Yeah, but and I but I
still I'm not like I don't cut it out completely.
I'll probably once a week have a coke and manage
just something about it.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
Just you are right, I will say, as an adult,
I've probably morphed into the Coca Cola side.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
More so because sprite.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
Okay, oh sprite's good too.

Speaker 1 (12:36):
I love a spring gives me a storry.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
I will punch you in the face. Yes, it is
nowhere near the same thing.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
No.

Speaker 4 (12:41):
By the way, you see mellow yellow and they rebranded
it and it became so is dumb. It's like you
can change that name. It's lipstick on a pig man
that think sucks.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
Oh yeah, it's been terrible all the time.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
Every time if you go to a restaurant, and like
sometimes when I would be hungover, I really wanted to sprite.
That was like my ginger ale if you will, and
I would go to a place and we have star
I'm going somewhere.

Speaker 4 (13:01):
Yeah, no, we're good. Cancel the whole order is pepsi. Okay,
actually it's not. So I'll just take water or you
can cash us out.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
We're done. We're done here.

Speaker 1 (13:10):
So I you know what I've morphed to your side
as an adult.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
Okay, cool? Good.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
What's another Walmart or what's what's Walmart's main competitive target?

Speaker 1 (13:18):
Target?

Speaker 3 (13:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (13:19):
Yeah, I mean it just depends because they're similar. But
in the sense of it, I guess depends on what
you're looking for and what you're going for as a kid.
My mom love Target, but we also go to Walmart
because it was close to the house, so we were
we were kind of like not divided on that. But
I think I've gone through seasons of my life, like
right now, I'm all about Walmart because it's much more

(13:39):
affordable as far as when you go to further grocery
side of things and all that. So I think we're
a Walmart family now.

Speaker 1 (13:45):
Isn't that interesting?

Speaker 3 (13:46):
Like you you started there and swapped, whereas like I
started as a Walmart girl growing up, like that's the
only place we ever went, mostly because we didn't have
a lot of other options for grocery stores up until
I was maybe in is like middle school, high school,
where we got a Dylan's, which is the Kroger brand,
And then we got a super Target and that was
a huge deal in my town.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
Was a super Target some things, they're massive.

Speaker 3 (14:07):
Oh it was. It was the biggest deal. And they
were right by each other, so there was competition for days.
But so most of my life and my dad still
shops at Walmart for groceries, so Walmart and then I'm
morphed kind of into now more Target. But honestly, I
Trader Joe's is probably more of my Between the three,
I think I just choose.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
Because the parking lot is a pain in the butt.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
Yeah, why do all Trader Joe's have terrible parking?

Speaker 2 (14:32):
They pick up.

Speaker 4 (14:32):
Parking lot the size of a fast food spot, like anywhere,
doesn't my Where's at? And first I thought it was
like okay, because when I first got exposed to Trader Joe's,
it was in California and it was in San Francisco,
where there's a very limited parking small lot. Everything was
all small, so I just figured, Oh, it's just because
I'm in the city, of course it's a small parking lot.
And then I went out further into the East Bay
and it was still in a small parking lot where

(14:54):
there's plenty of space. And then I was like, And
then I went down to La and I was in
went to a Trader Joe's and it was over there
somewhere like in the Hollywood area, and the parking lot
was behind the Trader Joe's and it was hell of small,
and I was like, maybe it's just like, Okay, it's
got to be a California.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
Thing, like you kept just trying to justify it.

Speaker 4 (15:08):
Yeah, yeah, Like maybe it's just because we're mad geographically.
But then they started moving out this way and I
went to one here, and I'm.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
Like, what the hell is happening?

Speaker 4 (15:15):
Why do they choose the smallest real estate to put
a grocery store? And then the parking is such a
pain in the ass. I'm like, I don't even want
to deal with this.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
I'm out. I don't go there anymore because of that.

Speaker 3 (15:24):
There is something with Trader Joe's and parking lots. But
I'm sure there's a strategy behind it. Yeah, I don't
know what it is.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
Cheaper rent maybe I don't know.

Speaker 1 (15:31):
Maybe so maybe always looking like they're busy.

Speaker 3 (15:34):
Oh yeah, some strategy behind it if they're all like that.

Speaker 4 (15:37):
Because it's a pain in the ass. So I don't
go there because of the parking.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
That's fair. But man, they have such cool, like fun
different items from all over. Yeah, it's not worth the
stress for me. But I also go during the day.

Speaker 3 (15:47):
That helps.

Speaker 4 (15:48):
Okay, even during the day, I feel like it was
a pain in the ass. Everywhere I went. I was like,
I was like, it's a great and the place is great,
great food, but man, the parking is a pain in
the ass.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
That's funny.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
I'm out.

Speaker 3 (15:57):
Okay, we have more. I want to do more of these.
We're gonna take a break. Will be our back. We're
going to start off strong with our first comparison, Low's
or Home Depot.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
So as a kid, we were a builders square family.
You ever heard of a builder Square?

Speaker 4 (16:12):
Oh? So, I don't know where it maybe local, maybe
maybe local, but it was a regional maybe it was,
and you never know. Where things when you're a kid,
because you just know it from where you're at. But
I felt like it was all over Florida and they
closed down in the nineties Builders Square. We went to
Builder Square and went to Scots which is another spot
that isn't around anymore. And it was like a Scottish
looking guy with a beard and a fo door I

(16:33):
had on top, and I remember they did not have
the Okay, so this is maybe just more of a
southern thing in the South Florida area. We went to
those a lot.

Speaker 3 (16:40):
And then were they like a Low's and Home Depot
or were they more like an ACE Hardware? Oh?

Speaker 2 (16:45):
You know what? From what I remember, it was like
in between.

Speaker 4 (16:48):
They weren't as big as a home debot, but they
weren't as small mom and pop as an ACE. Ok
So they were like in the middle of it, and
they didn't last. So apparently didn't they didn't do well
or they got absorbed or bought out. I don't know
the story behind it taking the time to jump in
that rabbit hole on the internet. But between those two,
I have to say, I know Home Depot like everyone

(17:09):
loves it, and it's whatever, more saving, more doing it's great,
but I'm a Lowe's family.

Speaker 1 (17:14):
I'm the same. We finally found our common ground.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
And yeah, and it's blue.

Speaker 4 (17:18):
I like the color blue and my favorite color. And
I just, I don't know, I just like Loads just
it seemed more inviting and clean and happier.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
I don't know. I just I liked Low's.

Speaker 3 (17:28):
No, and I'm with you, but also it was another
one of those that I grew up on. That's where
my dad went all the time. It's funny how how
much our childhood influences where we go. Just your choices, yeah,
I mean, heck, even before moving to Nashville, I was like,
there are no other choices.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
Those are that's it.

Speaker 3 (17:41):
You go to Walmart, you go to Low's and that's where. Yeah,
and we didn't have Costco. We had Sam's Club. Okay, yeah, yeah,
like those are the that's what you did. And then
I come to Nashville and like, I have choices, I
can go to different places. What does that mean? Yeah,
so I think I think that's why.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
But yeah, I still go to Low's.

Speaker 3 (18:00):
Say it's a home depot guy. So it's kind of funny.

Speaker 4 (18:02):
Okay, do you ever like have to like fight over
it or you just or who wins.

Speaker 3 (18:05):
Or closest to us, So Lowes typically wins.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
But if we go somewhere and like Low's does a habit.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
Of like home Depot would have had that.

Speaker 4 (18:14):
The problem I've had with Home Depot lately is every
time I've been there, I remember going there, like it
was about eighteen or nineteen when I worked in landscaping.
They'd have to go there a lot to pick up
because the company I worked for had a home Depot
credit card, so we had to go to home Depot,
but we'd pick up that sprinkler parts or whatever. But
and back then you like, hey, where is the where's
the screws or where is the bracket?

Speaker 3 (18:34):
That?

Speaker 4 (18:35):
Like, oh, let me and they would take you to
that aisle and show you and then like here it is.
Do you have any questions? And I was like, oh,
this is really cool. Now you go to home Depot
and you ask somebody where something is, they all hold
on a second and they pull out their phone.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
I think it's on Aisle seven and then.

Speaker 4 (18:51):
You and then you're like all right, and then the
guy just stands there and you're like, oh, so you're
not going to take me to Aisle seven. Okay, so
I'll go to Aisle seven seven and guess what, they're
not there now seven looking for something I can't find,
and I'm looking for the other idiot to tell me
where it's at and pull out the phone, and it's
also not there either. It's like, take me to the freakin'
aisle show me, because if it's not there, then you

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can then take me to where you think it.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
I don't know, it's just so frustrated.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
I think it's the same way at Low's though.

Speaker 3 (19:17):
Oh yeah, yeah, I've had that same experience at Low's.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
Or they just don't know where anything is anymore.

Speaker 3 (19:21):
Yeah, I just don't think you have the same type
of people that are employed as much anymore.

Speaker 1 (19:25):
When I get one of the older genlems, jeez.

Speaker 3 (19:27):
Yeah, they're always very like helpful and stuff. But when
you have one of the younger I don't know that
they are as equipped because it is everything on your
phone versus knowing or they had to know everything of
everywhere in the store. Things.

Speaker 4 (19:40):
You should still that's part of like understanding where you work,
that you should know where things are. Yeah, it shouldn't
go away because technology is there and it took away
your ability to remember things.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
Hey, I don't can disagree with you.

Speaker 4 (19:53):
Like when I was in my teens and twenties, I
still worked as hard as the guy who had been
there for twenty thirty years because I just had a
little sense of pride in my work.

Speaker 1 (20:01):
I know, I know I'm on the.

Speaker 3 (20:02):
Same path as you, but you left a little nugged
in there. You worked for a landscape company.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
For a while.

Speaker 4 (20:07):
Oh yeah, yeah, when I first gotten it, before I
got before I got in the radio. And how I
got in the radio was because I was in the
truck a lout listening to the radio. And I used
to work. I ran a crew, a landscaping crew in Orlando.
It was me and like five Guatemalans. We go out
there every day and we'd cut grass and weedy and
edge and do like big neighborhoods. My route was mostly

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like the really nice houses and like winter Park went
a mirror. And because I actually gave a crap about
my job, and so he gave me, like the high
dollar clients nice because I took care of him and
like did went above me on and he always got
great feedback, and so he kept giving more of the
high dollar clients, which was.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
Great because in the holidays they usually would tip.

Speaker 3 (20:45):
Okay, I was gonna say, did they tip you normally
or just during the holidays.

Speaker 4 (20:48):
I didn't get a lot of tips throughout the year,
but mostly like the holidays I would get from not everyone,
though not everyone was generous to tip, but there were
a decent amount where they'd be like, hey, here's a hundred bucks,
and it always would split it with me and the guys, Hey,
let's go out to lunch, and like, let's go hard
and let's get whatever we want at lunch, because a
hundred bucks went pretty far.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
Yeah, you know, twenty thirty years ago.

Speaker 4 (21:08):
So yeah, I did that, ran the crew and then
so then every once in a while we had like big company,
like big neighborhoods too, and we'd all the whole company
would go like tag team of a hundred house neighborhood
and do all that or do we do installs and
landscape design, sprinkler systems, all that kind of stuff.

Speaker 3 (21:23):
Nice.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
We I did that for a few years.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
Do you like doing it at your house now?

Speaker 2 (21:27):
No?

Speaker 1 (21:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (21:29):
You like, no one all goes into it, Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 4 (21:31):
Yeah, I do do it, and I did do it
for a long time of doing my own lomb but man,
it's a lot of like almost four acres, so it's
more than just like a zeroline edge weedy, blow and.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
Get out of there kind of scenario. Yeah, but I do.

Speaker 4 (21:43):
I do, like take pride and trimming my hedges and
stuff because no one can do it as good as
I can.

Speaker 3 (21:48):
Oh, okay, do you have one of those automatic yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
Power one yeah, where it has the clipper. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
Ye.

Speaker 3 (21:56):
I love watching those videos online.

Speaker 2 (21:59):
I clean them up. Yeah yeah, Well I like.

Speaker 3 (22:01):
Yard videos in general. There's actually a guy from Wichita
who has a massive account who goes around and just
mows and cleans up yards for free.

Speaker 4 (22:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
I've seen them before.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
Yeah yeah yeah.

Speaker 3 (22:10):
He was like be mowing or something like that, and
he I love watching his videos. I'll just sit there
and watch him clean up a whole yard, and before
I know it, I'm like ten lawn videos. Deep.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
That was pretty cool. I don't why.

Speaker 4 (22:23):
Pretty cool And I'm not gonna do my lawn because
do you cut your grass or anything?

Speaker 3 (22:26):
I did, Oh, you do. And then I'm at my
fiance and within like a few weeks, I was like,
you can take that.

Speaker 2 (22:31):
Over if you want, which means you will, and he did.

Speaker 3 (22:35):
He was actually really excited. He loves plans, He loves
all of that, like he loves being outside and doing
things outside with his hands. So I was like, perfect,
this is great. I'll happily pass that over to you. Yes, okay,
I did love mowing, though I felt really satisfied after
i'd get done. I hated how I felt before, like
the lead up of I have to do this, yes,
and I don't.

Speaker 1 (22:55):
But then while I was doing and after I loved
it because you can see.

Speaker 4 (22:58):
The if you watch those videos, obviously you like the
progress of like seeing one side of it all disheveled
on the other side with the nice lines, and it's
like short and looks really good. Okay, motivation, lets keep going.

Speaker 3 (23:08):
It was really funny because my family group chat, my
dad and brother in law would always send their yards,
and in Kansas you get a little bit more grass,
and we get here near the city in Nashville, so
they would have these really pretty like yards where they
had all their lines and they did all the things. Yeah,
but I'd also always send my pictures in my yard
and be like, here's mine.

Speaker 1 (23:25):
I did it too.

Speaker 3 (23:27):
I have my pretty lines, but it'd be like this,
you know for my four area.

Speaker 4 (23:31):
Like that's cute. It took you what ten minutes to
do that? He's like, we're still moentars right now.

Speaker 3 (23:34):
It's so true. But what's crazy is it takes my
dad an hour. It takes me an hour. Also really okay,
I just I got little arms, you know, and like
that weed eater just really is huge compared to It's
bigger than me.

Speaker 4 (23:45):
Yeah yeah, and it vibrates a lot, so like after
a while, your hands start.

Speaker 1 (23:48):
To get oh jello. Like the first several times I
did it, my arms would be jell o.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (23:52):
I hate weed eating. I would always have Magno. There's
the guy my crew named Magno, and he for some
reason loved the weed eat and I hated it because
it was he had always replace the string and it
was always vibrating and jiggling and her and his crap
was always spatting in your eyes. So I'd always love
to just My favorite was the hedges and edging. Ah man,
I loved edging up against the concrete or edging beds.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
And I have that nice line. Oh it just looks
so good.

Speaker 3 (24:15):
See it's the lines yeah, I don't know why.

Speaker 4 (24:18):
It's like, yes, the satisfaction of it looking clean and like,
I don't know, just put together.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
Yes, And that was why it took me about two years.

Speaker 3 (24:24):
And then I realized that they had the automatic feeders
where you could just put a string in and press
a button.

Speaker 1 (24:29):
And it does it.

Speaker 4 (24:30):
But actually, like if we're doing commercials, so we're doing
a lot eventually, like it constantly keeps going, you know,
but yeah, see, if you're doing you're a small yard,
that string could last forever.

Speaker 3 (24:39):
No, because you'd see me in the when I didn't
know the thing existed. You see me sitting in the
driveway and I'd be trying to put something together. I
don't know how many YouTube videos I want trying to
figure out that string visit. Yes, Oh my gosh. I
also had enough guys stop that we're driving by. I
was like, do you need help, and I'm like, I'm fine, I.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
Don't need I will figure this out.

Speaker 2 (24:57):
Yeah I do need your help, but I don't want
your help exactly.

Speaker 3 (24:59):
I was more frush that thing masked, Yeah, and I
was prusured the stupid thing. I hated those.

Speaker 4 (25:04):
But once you get it work and it's great because
then you all have to do just pop it and
hit the ground and then it pops out.

Speaker 2 (25:08):
But it is a pain they ask to get it going. Yeah,
it really is.

Speaker 3 (25:10):
I don't know how we walked down that, but I
liked it.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
You asked, oh it talk about landscaping. Yeah, landscaping.

Speaker 3 (25:16):
Do you ever like this is a funny thing for
me because I worked at Buffalo Wild Wings for five
years or so.

Speaker 1 (25:22):
Yeah, that was like my first job, and I just
worked my way up.

Speaker 3 (25:25):
But now, either when I pass a buffalo or I
go out to eat or anything like that and I
see people doing expo or take out, I just have
a lot of experiences where I'm like, oh, that's not
how I would have done that, or that's a weird way.
Like do you have those moments of that with landscaping?

Speaker 2 (25:42):
Oh my god. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (25:42):
When we lived in La we had an hoa, so
they took care of the grounds. We didn't have a
lot of grass because it was like a bunch of
town homes, but there were bushes to trim. That's my specialty,
and I would get so angry. I love trim and bushes,
and also something about the satisfaction of trimming up a

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palm tree or a robolini and like having that nice
fountain look and cutting off all the dead fronds and
just making it look nice and clean. And it was
so frustrating because we paid money into the HOA and
the only thing really that the money was going towards
was the landscaping, because there wasn't a lot of maintenance
in our grounds in this place, so the majority of
the money went to landscaping. And it was a scam

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because the guys would come out there and all they
would ever do was just pull out the blowers and
just blow things off and never trim the bushes. And
it was so frustrating because you walk around and everything
looks like it looks like an overgrown, abandoned neighborhood. And
so I got so annoyed one day that I went
out and bought because I didn't have it at the
time because we're living in a town home.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
I went and freaking went.

Speaker 4 (26:43):
To Lows and I bought a hedge trimmer, and I
started trimming my own hedges because they kept getting overgrown,
they were looking all crappy and because they weren't maintaining
them and growing them. Because I relative it was a
new space, so new plants, and they need to be
trimmed and kept so that way they can grow thick
and growing together. I said, this is annoying. It's been
a year. They never cut these damn bushes are overgrown.
Now it's growing up against my house, which is going

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to create problems for leaks and that kinds of stuff
and holding water and moisture. And I was like, I'm
gonn trimming and damn hedges. So then I started with
me just trimming my own hedges, and then it morphed
in to me trimming my hedges and my neighbor's hedges
because then his were getting long and growing over our
walkway and looking like crap. And then it ended up
being trimming our entire street. And then it became a
I'm going to do it on the day they come.

(27:27):
And so I was out there trimming the hedges and
they're like, hey, what are you doing. I was like,
I'm doing what you're not doing, trimming the hedges.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
Wait, did you ever get control by the hoa?

Speaker 2 (27:35):
No, because I was doing I was doing what needed
to be done.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
I know, but sometimes hoas are.

Speaker 4 (27:40):
They're very weird, yeah, and they can be like being pissed,
But I was like, you, we're paying for something and
they're not doing the job, so they're not gonna do it.

Speaker 2 (27:45):
I'm going to do it.

Speaker 3 (27:46):
Did they start paying or did they start having people
do it?

Speaker 4 (27:50):
No, they would, they would do it, but it would
be one of those things where it's like they did
it and then a month will go by and they
stopped doing it and then become a problem again.

Speaker 1 (27:56):
So I was like, this is ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (27:57):
This is yeah.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
See that's a crap thing about.

Speaker 2 (28:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (28:01):
The cool thing about when I bought my house in Nashville,
there was no HOA as far as the neighborhood, but
there was an HA between me and the house next door.
So I'm the president of KAY.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
And she's the secretary, so you know what to do.

Speaker 3 (28:17):
Then it's more like just a protection thing, like we
just have to check with each other before doing something
if we're like it's going to impact somebody else, but
both of us are.

Speaker 1 (28:25):
Friends whatever, we don't really care.

Speaker 3 (28:28):
But it's funny. I'm like, I'm the president of our HOA,
but it's literally just our house, Like it's our.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
Little shit of house exactly. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
Yeah, yeah, but ho sucks.

Speaker 4 (28:36):
They do, and then you spend that money, and then
we get mad about dumb crap and you're like, wait
a second, you're mad about the way I put my
Christmas lights up, which looks nice, but you're no, you
don't care about the fact that we pay money for
a landscaping service and they don't do anything that doesn't
bother you, like.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
It was so dumb.

Speaker 4 (28:52):
Or I parked my car out in front of my
in front of my house just for a second to
a load before I went to go park on the street, parking,
and they would I would come back ten minutes, like
they'd be a sticker in my car or a note saying, hey,
you're not just the park here. And so I knew
that person was on my street or somewhere close enough
by to do that. And I'm like, yeah, listen here
a woman, Karen, like I know who you are. Like,
so you're mad about this, but you're not mad about

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the way this place looks like. And you can control
that by telling the landscape company, yes, tell them to
do their job, and if they don't hire another one
that will or pay me to do it.

Speaker 3 (29:23):
It's so true, though, like ajoys are, they're a special
kind of something.

Speaker 2 (29:28):
It's a scam. Yeah, such a scam.

Speaker 3 (29:30):
Most things are. Yeah, I've gotten older, I've really realized
that most things are a scam. Like we're worried about
the people that are calling us trying to scam us.
Not everything else is a scam.

Speaker 2 (29:38):
No, it really is.

Speaker 4 (29:39):
And like all these apps, it's a scam. We basically
have gone back to cable, and now it costs more
than cable.

Speaker 3 (29:44):
Oh my gosh, don't get me started on that, because
if one of the prices rise one more time, I'm
about to quit all of it. Yeah, and just be like,
I'll see you guys in the next.

Speaker 1 (29:52):
Century or two.

Speaker 4 (29:53):
Point of doing these was because it was a sticket
to the man f you cable, and now we're going
to do it in a more affordable way and give
you access everything whenever you want it. And now it's
greed has taken over like always, and now we're spending
more money than it would have cost to have freaking cable.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
It's so stupid, it is.

Speaker 3 (30:10):
Don't give me because also insurance also, like somebody had
told me that you could get money back because we
went and stayed at a hotel when our power was
out and it was like, oh, home insurance should cover that. Yeah, yeah,
well I called they don't cover power outages. What I'm like,
if you're not supposed to cover Like, They're like, well,
it was still habitable, so you could stay there and

(30:34):
you could get.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
Heat source from somewhere else.

Speaker 3 (30:36):
And I'm just like, have you ever stayed in a
home that's thirty five degrees and.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
You want to tell me it's habitable for a week? Yeah, Like,
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (30:45):
So I didn't end up fighting that battle too hard
because I was just I was so annoyed that I
pay for insurance for what reason?

Speaker 4 (30:52):
Oh yeah, that happened to us in Florida during the hurricanes,
and it was like we paid My mom paid the
insurance home insurance for like twenty thirty years and never
took a claim. And then the first time we would
take a claim, it was like something to do with
the roof of a couple of shingles missing and a
little bit of leakage from the front door. And then
they went around. Several companies went around and canceled at

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people's policies and left the state of Florida because they
had to finally pay out it's like they've you've collected
billions of dollars all these years and then weren't having
to pay out. And then the one time you had
to pay out, which, by the way, that's the point
of insurances to eventually pay out at some point. So
the one time you had to really pay out, they're like,
how we're not we're not We're actually canceling and we're
leaving Florida. You're like, that is so messed up. And

(31:35):
for a while a lot of them are gone and
no one controlled it, no one, No one fought them.
You couldn't fight them. The government didn't step in, and
the insurance companies won. I'm like, that's such a freaking scam.
What a scam to pay into a system and then
when you ask for it back at some point you
can't get anything back out of it.

Speaker 2 (31:51):
Like what, that's the whole point of insurance.

Speaker 3 (31:53):
Yeah, and then you walk down the line of you
have car insurance, home on insurance, and health insurance.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
And you're scams. It's a freaking scam. Did be an
adult is hard? You know, it really is. You learn
a lot about the world that makes you kind of sad.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
Yeah, man, scams and greed. It's what it comes down to.

Speaker 3 (32:08):
This is why we were going as children during this podcast,
I was going back to some young days.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
Yeah, give us some hope. But nope, it's okay, we're gonna.

Speaker 3 (32:15):
Kick a break. We'll be back. Speaking of our families,
We're gonna get off of our scam topics because I
think we could talk about that all right. There there
were you guys, a water only family or a pop
an app's family pop and apps. Yeah, like when you
go out to eat, would you get water only, you
get your meal, you'd go home, or would you be

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able to order soda okay we call it pop okay
or appetizers and then you'd have your meal.

Speaker 1 (32:42):
Like what kind of family were you?

Speaker 3 (32:43):
Because it's kind of the Internet has divided us into
two people.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
Well, we didn't go out much, but when we did
it was I felt like it was like once a
quarter and it was like it was the whole deal.

Speaker 4 (32:51):
Like we were going to Olive Garden or we were
going to Chili's or somewhere and it was the whole thing.
It was like we're all getting sodas, we're all getting
an appetize as. There are two and then ordering the
meal and sitting there for a while, maybe get desserted,
get to go and go home.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
Like it was.

Speaker 4 (33:06):
It was a full We were taking advantage of that
time slot and eating it up as long as we
could and doing everything because we weren't going to be
there again for another three or four months. Yeah, so
it was like a luxury that I have major luxury
and now and now I put which is funny because
now we can afford it and go to places and
now we're just more kind of like a water and
food and we're out. We don't really do advertisers and

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we also don't eat as much too.

Speaker 3 (33:27):
I feel like when you are out with your wife though,
are you a water only?

Speaker 1 (33:32):
Are you more apps for everything?

Speaker 4 (33:35):
Okay, we dive back in when it was like going
out with my papa, and we did it like we
like it's like, okay, we're going out. We don't we
only go out once a month. The same kind of mindset.
So let's we're ordering drinks, order and.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
Soda and water and appetizers and entrees and desserts like
we were stuff in our faces because we're not going
back again for another month.

Speaker 3 (33:54):
Is not funny.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
Yeah, but with your kids. It's water only kids.

Speaker 4 (33:57):
Yeah, it's like that water food and get the hell
out of there as fast as.

Speaker 3 (33:59):
Poll asn't say is it more though because of how
young they are right now and maybe at some point
that might not be the case.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
Yeah, they're ticking time bombs.

Speaker 4 (34:07):
You only have a certain window of them being good
and patient and then eventually got to get the hell
out because then everyone's like looking at you and and
we're not. I mean, everyone does their own parenting, but
we're not one of those families where it's like shove
a phone in front of their face so that way
we can have a dinner. It's like, my are their kids?
This is how kids act, This is how kids are
going to be. And sorry, but they're not like running

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all over down and like bothering people. But they're you know,
they're they're they're bothering us. We're having to constantly like
go between three kids. But I'd rather them be kids
and eventually acclimate to going out and doing things than
to be a zombie and just being thrown something to
get them to shut up. And then it's for me,
it's frustrating and annoying because then if I'm sitting down
eating and trying to enjoy my dinner. I got some

(34:52):
asshole or some I got some guy next to me
with this kid on an iPad and it's blaring on
full blast, And how is everyone numb to that volume?
And I'm over here trying to enjoy my dinner and
I'm hearing them listen to Bluie or Miss Rachel and
I don't want to hear that. Turn it down or
turn it off. Just pairing your kids for a little bit,
they're gonna get rambunctious and crazy.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
They're like, Oh, I don't have to deal with it.
Deal with it. You had kids.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
It's a hot take.

Speaker 4 (35:15):
I like it, though, Yeah, turn the damn phone off.
It's also disrespectful. I come from a military family, and
in my household growing up, it was the whole like,
no hats at the table, you know, use your manners,
no one's.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
Watching TV or anything. It's like you're fixated on the
moment of the meal, and so the like, if my
grandfather were alive and saw people with phones at the
dinner table, he would lose his mind and he would
tell you.

Speaker 4 (35:39):
He would tell you you're an awful parent. He just watch
those damn kids. Quit having the technology. Watch your kids
and they'll give excuses. And he's like, you can get
me excuses in the world you want. And that's why
you are who you are.

Speaker 2 (35:49):
Because you're full of excuses.

Speaker 1 (35:50):
And I'm like, damn, all right, Grandpa. Kind of hard
he did.

Speaker 4 (35:54):
If we were crying, he'd be like, I'll give me
something to cry about, and you reach for the bell.

Speaker 2 (35:58):
I'm like, oh no, never get her.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
Right out right out. We're fine. God. And he was
in the military.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
Yeah, he was a military guy.

Speaker 4 (36:05):
Yeah, so he came from out upbringing him just kind
of like respect, discipline and being kind to others. But
also you know, he was kind, but he was not
afraid to speak his mind because in his mind he
was the way way he thought was how society should act.
Be decent, be kind, be respectful, be present, be in
the moment. And in a world of phones, I know

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he would be like, this is stupid. Put your phone down.
You're here for thirty minutes to an hour. Just no,
don't be involved in that for a moment.

Speaker 3 (36:34):
Why can't you? Also, I mean, one of my favorite
things as a kid when we went to restaurants was
to play on the color things that they'd give us,
Like I loved those coloring.

Speaker 2 (36:41):
Yeah, my kids do that.

Speaker 4 (36:42):
They get the We always ask for the kids menu,
and they spend the first ten minutes coloring.

Speaker 2 (36:46):
We guys, we played tik tac toe.

Speaker 4 (36:48):
That's how we occupy our time versus just shoving the
phone in the front of their face and ignoring them
and then doing whatever it is you're doing. But the
coloring is amazing. That's what we do that constantly, and
then it's entertaining them and it's.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
Fun for the parents. I feel like my parents were
always like involved with us when we were doing it.
They were helping us. Yeah, they do the word search
of the puzzle or whatever was on there.

Speaker 2 (37:09):
Yeah yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (37:09):
So I mean, again, I don't want to tell people
what to do, but maybe open your mind a little
bit and maybe you're one of those parents that gives
the kid the phone and just to shut them up
and it's easy. Yeah, it is easier, but then it
also then becomes a problem of you've now trained your
kids to always want the phone, and that's.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
Also difficult to rip from them.

Speaker 4 (37:25):
But I think it's worth giving it a shot and
kind of taking things back to the nineties and doing
the coloring and watching them, and yeah, it's stressful, but
that's part of being a parent, you know. It's a
little bit stressful, it's chaotic, but you will fast forward
ten years from now and you're gonna be like, crap.
I wish I would have been a little more involved
or and like hung out my kids versus just shoving

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technology in their face.

Speaker 3 (37:49):
Well, and honestly, as a server, it was always fun
when I got the tables where the kids were really
interactive and I got to have fun with them and
bring them ice cream because they were excited and they
were engaging with the conversation. Yeah, I had plenty of
tables that also they were giving them tablets and they
were sitting there. I had a mix of everything, yeah, right,
But I always love the tables where the kids were involved.

Speaker 1 (38:09):
It was fun for me.

Speaker 3 (38:10):
And I know there's probably a lot of people out
there that are servers that don't feel that way, but
that's part of it.

Speaker 1 (38:16):
The whole point for the server is.

Speaker 3 (38:17):
To interact with people, and you get to engage with kids,
and kids sometimes are the best part about the job,
you know what I mean, Like the fun, right, Yeah,
they're the fun those in regulars. Those are typically your
two fun moments or highlights of a day.

Speaker 4 (38:30):
Yeah, and I hate going to restaurants now and they
have that damn tablet on the table, like we can
go to All Guard or whatever the games, yes, And
so they'll walk and like, oh, can you play with that?
And I go nope, and I'll take it. I'll put
it on the table next to us, or I'll flip
it upside down. And then when the server comes, they're like, oh,
you can order. I'm like, nope, I'm ordering with you.
You're the server. I'm not ordering on a freakin tablet.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
You're here. I don't say these.

Speaker 3 (38:51):
Things, but then you probably hate it when it was
the QR.

Speaker 4 (38:53):
Codes, because oh my god, I can't stand it. I
couldn't stand the QR codes.

Speaker 1 (38:56):
Those are pretty brutal.

Speaker 3 (38:57):
I don't mind the tablets as much because at least
it's like a screen for it to order on.

Speaker 1 (39:01):
Like the QR codes were pretty brutal.

Speaker 4 (39:03):
That was brute, Yeah, because then you're on your phone
and then look at your phone and then I don't know,
it's a whole thing. But I hate the tablets and
then I'll put them on another table, and then they
still have to pay on that, which is fine, you
can pay on that like a register, but the kids
are not playing on that, by the way, they're not touching.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
It's gross. Everyone's touched. It's disgusting. And uh no, we
used to.

Speaker 3 (39:21):
Have There was a restaurant we used to go to
called Players growing up, okay, and it was really funny
because in each booth you had a teeny tiny TV.
Do you remember the TVs that had the back Obviously
they weren't flat screens, but also that were just so
little and they were like the size of.

Speaker 1 (39:36):
Your head kind of was there. Each booth had them.

Speaker 3 (39:39):
And we got so excited to go to that place
because we didn't care what was on TV. It was
just we thought it was really cool and novel that
you could have this little screen at your table. And
now I think about now and how excited we were
about that. Yeah, and now they were playing like sports,
sports games were on it.

Speaker 1 (39:56):
It was it was like a sports bar.

Speaker 4 (39:58):
Okay, so your personal TV of whatever's yeah, and you
get to watch it.

Speaker 1 (40:01):
But it was just this teeny tiny TV that was there.

Speaker 3 (40:04):
And we loved going, but I didn't really watch sports,
so like I was just excited that it was like
a cool thing that not a lot of restaurants.

Speaker 1 (40:09):
Had, would have ye because it's unique and different.

Speaker 2 (40:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (40:11):
But now I think about all the restaurants now and
all of them have ah.

Speaker 1 (40:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (40:16):
That just like gave me a flashback of like this
is obviously we're in the future.

Speaker 2 (40:20):
Yeah, the evolution of it.

Speaker 3 (40:21):
Yeah, But back then I was so excited. There was
this one restaurant that had you had your own individual
little TV's and it was in the wall.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
It's cool, and it was like this was so wild,
so futuristic.

Speaker 3 (40:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (40:30):
But even but one thing that I missed though, I remember,
you know Johnny Rockets, they have the jukebox thing at
your table. Yeah, you can't. You can't do it anymore.
It's just it's a dummy. It just sits there.

Speaker 1 (40:39):
I went to actually work, No, I went there.

Speaker 4 (40:41):
I used to go to them, like back in two
thousand and one too or whatever when they were newish
in my area. You used to like they would give
you quarters or nickels, whatever it was, and you'd pick
songs and you got to play the songs off that thing.
Now I went to one a couple of years ago
at the opera. Mill's mom and I was sitting down.
My son's like, oh what is that. Oh, it's like, oh,
it's a jukebox. Ohd on I have some change? Let
me get some for a server. And I say, hey,
do you have like a hey, I have a dollar?

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I can I have some quarters or a nickel whatever
it is. She's oh, that doesn't work anymore. I was like,
oh why, She's like oh.

Speaker 2 (41:10):
And then I was just like, Okay, I don't even
want to hear it.

Speaker 3 (41:12):
Yeah, they took it away.

Speaker 2 (41:14):
Yeah, why though it was so much fun.

Speaker 3 (41:16):
I don't know. I don't know that it was.

Speaker 1 (41:18):
I know what you're talking about.

Speaker 4 (41:19):
You get to pick the music was in around and
then you like waited around for your song.

Speaker 2 (41:21):
Oh my god, there's my song. I picked it.

Speaker 1 (41:23):
Yep, that's so cool.

Speaker 3 (41:24):
Yeah. Johnny Rockets was good too.

Speaker 2 (41:26):
Hell yeah it was. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (41:27):
Well we were I mean on your flip side, we
were mostly uh an apps and pop family. Okay, but
that's also like you said, like, we'd eat fast food
a lot.

Speaker 1 (41:37):
I had so many happy meals growing Oh yeah, that
was my that was what we had.

Speaker 3 (41:41):
Happy meals. Sometimes we'd go and eat Wendy's. This was
back before I was a vegetarian. I'd get chicken nuggets
from Windy's all the time. Yeah, I loved that.

Speaker 4 (41:49):
Did your mam ever chase the beanie babies at mcdonald'shen
those came out?

Speaker 3 (41:52):
Oh yeah, you know in our storage room we got
Happy Meal toys, we got beanie babies, and we got
the other one. There's one other thing that we collected
from like our fast food thing.

Speaker 1 (42:02):
Yeah, and we have.

Speaker 3 (42:03):
Bins of them.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
Yeah, it's like my mom she kept them all Why
would you keep these? I remember?

Speaker 4 (42:07):
Ever at the Christmas time, they'd always do boy or girl. Yeah,
how many boys and girls you got in the car?
They always got two boys and two girls, all right.

Speaker 2 (42:13):
Cool, So they'd be like two hot wheels and two barbies. Yep,
that was a thing.

Speaker 3 (42:16):
We have those too.

Speaker 2 (42:17):
Yeah, those were so much fun.

Speaker 1 (42:19):
Yep, there's still bins of them. They're still in the
storage room.

Speaker 2 (42:21):
That's crazy.

Speaker 3 (42:22):
Yeah, I wild. So we spent a lot of time
going to those growing up too, and which dot Kansas
When I grew up, like the we had Pizza Hut,
Taco Bell, Olive Garden, and Applebee's and then it's a few,
like local restaurants. Yeah, it wasn't really until I got
to middle school, high school where they really started adding
different restaurants and different things. So like, we had our
few that we went to, but man, those few that

(42:44):
we went to when we when we could go, we
would go and we'd have pop and we'd have appetizers,
and I always get dessert because I was a dessert girl.

Speaker 2 (42:52):
Yeah, I love dessert.

Speaker 3 (42:53):
I used to even I would eat desert first when
we go to Applebee's.

Speaker 1 (42:56):
Oh really, I would get dessert first.

Speaker 3 (42:58):
It became my thing, okay, because I would always be
full by the time dessert came. And I didn't want
to be full because the stir is what I wanted.

Speaker 4 (43:05):
So he didn't care about your meal. No, so you're
full for your meal, but not for dessert.

Speaker 1 (43:08):
Does there always came first?

Speaker 4 (43:09):
Remember when Taco Bell used to sell chocoate tacos, Oh, yes,
I do.

Speaker 2 (43:13):
What the hell? Why would you ever remove an item
that was so good?

Speaker 4 (43:15):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (43:16):
I don't understand that.

Speaker 1 (43:16):
I don't know why they haven't brought that back either.
They've brought back the Mexican pizza.

Speaker 2 (43:20):
Yeah, a lot of their like Come on, guys.

Speaker 3 (43:23):
That one does shock me. They haven't brought that back. Yeah,
I do love I still love the cinnamon twists.

Speaker 2 (43:27):
Yea, cinnamon twists are amazing. Those are really good.

Speaker 3 (43:30):
They were. There was a song when I went I
went to cheer competition. Don't ask me why, but there
was like a chance we learned that was like guacam
moly cinnamon twists. And now it's in my head and
it's literally from a cheer competition.

Speaker 2 (43:44):
I've never I didn't cheer though.

Speaker 3 (43:45):
So right, but like it was about Taco Bell, Yeah, yeah,
and it was out a cheer competition yeah, or maybe
a cheer camp. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (43:51):
But so now every time I go to Taco Bell, I'm.

Speaker 3 (43:54):
Like, welcome Moly cinnamon.

Speaker 1 (43:56):
Twists, Like yeah, okay, lady, I do it in the
garden or any food or not. And I think there's
even more to it, but yeah, it was. It was weird.
I've just had like a weird thing where I've been
remembering a whole.

Speaker 3 (44:08):
Lot of stuff.

Speaker 1 (44:08):
Maybe that means my memories, Like again.

Speaker 4 (44:11):
Yeah, I remember like bubble gum bubble gum dish dish,
how many pieces do you wish? And you'd be like
three you go one, two, three, and then it hit
you and it split the two and a bubble gum
bubble them dish. And then if you basically went from
the fist together the two fists and then down the
one fist, and then if you got knocked again, then
you were out.

Speaker 2 (44:27):
And it was a whole thing going around the room.
Remember that.

Speaker 3 (44:29):
Thank you for bringing that back in my brain.

Speaker 1 (44:31):
Yeah, I didn't realize I knew that, but yes I do.

Speaker 4 (44:33):
And mash mansion, apartment, studio or house. Yeah, they picked
like who would you marry and what.

Speaker 2 (44:40):
Would you have?

Speaker 3 (44:41):
I was gonna marry Brad Paale a lot, a lot,
and I was gonna live in a shack with him
a lot of the time. Then there was the did
you ever have the down by the bank so the
hanky pank and wear the ball?

Speaker 1 (44:53):
Okay? So oh you might, and so do you okay?
So everybody's as different.

Speaker 3 (44:59):
I did have do you on this a while back
because it was going viral and I was like, oh,
I need to share mine.

Speaker 1 (45:03):
So this is how mine went.

Speaker 3 (45:04):
Okay, down by the banks and the hanky panky war,
the bullfrog jumps from bank to bank, you where the
EEPs ips oops, ops and a hay flipper Deilliana kerplop.

Speaker 2 (45:12):
Well I've never heard that one right ever, right.

Speaker 1 (45:14):
Ever, And apparently all these different regions had different ones. Yeah,
so what's yours?

Speaker 4 (45:19):
Some mon was down by the hands of the handky
panky with a bullfrogs jump and then I think it
was a e I oh you your mother smells and
so do you.

Speaker 1 (45:28):
That's funny.

Speaker 2 (45:28):
Yeah, that was e I owe you your mother smells
and so do you.

Speaker 4 (45:31):
But we came from like an area where everyone was
like this, and everyone like it was like Florida was
a mixture of like New Yorkers coming down and then
transplanting beause they like they're like, oh, Disney's awesome. You
mean we could live here and not be in that
cold weather in the snow and go to the theme parks.
So like we had like a lot of hard hardcore
kids that were like dissert like that. This thing was
like big in our area.

Speaker 1 (45:51):
Wasn't that show on MTV?

Speaker 3 (45:52):
Also at the time, the your Mom Battles, Oh yo, mama,
like it was like rat battles, but most of it
was like your mom jokes.

Speaker 4 (46:00):
Yeah, think it was even called your Mama or or
mtb O Raps was a TV was a show, but
then there was a it was the battles with like
Nick Cannon and all that.

Speaker 1 (46:06):
Yes, yes, yeah, yeah, I just remember a lot of them.
I mean you're wild now, yes that's what I was called. Yes,
yeah yeah, yeah yeah, but yeah that's fine.

Speaker 3 (46:14):
Is that funny about it? Down by the Minx.

Speaker 2 (46:16):
Yeah. I didn't realize there was different versions of that.

Speaker 3 (46:18):
I really thought like, I was like, mine's the only
one I know this, and then there was everybody came
out of the woodwork having different ones.

Speaker 2 (46:23):
Yeah. I never heard of yours ever? Right you were
you were going and I was like, what language is
she speaking? Right now?

Speaker 3 (46:29):
I know?

Speaker 1 (46:30):
Did you ever do the Cat's Cradle thing to the
the Cats.

Speaker 2 (46:33):
In the Cradle the Silver Spoon and then little Song?

Speaker 4 (46:35):
But no, there was it was like uh the strings, yeah,
like the Eiffel Tower, put your hand in ye you
put it in there and.

Speaker 2 (46:43):
Yeah yeah yeah we did it all the time. That
was like really big in elementary school for us.

Speaker 3 (46:46):
What were those called?

Speaker 2 (46:48):
I don't know, because because they just.

Speaker 4 (46:50):
Gave us a piece of yarn, like in third or
fourth grade, and you like put it with your hands
and do all kinds of stuff and make a spiderweb,
put it in there and ooh and it would come
out like, well, how'd you do that?

Speaker 3 (46:59):
So cool?

Speaker 2 (47:00):
Yeah, was so much fun.

Speaker 3 (47:00):
Did you guys also have cups at school where you
did the stacking cups? No?

Speaker 2 (47:04):
I didn't do the cups.

Speaker 3 (47:05):
That became a thing. I think it was like my
freshman year, maybe eight or eighty year. But they're stacking
competitions of cups.

Speaker 2 (47:11):
Oh, because that whole cup song.

Speaker 3 (47:13):
No, this was before cups, okay, Like this was like
a there was people who would nationally compete in stacking competitions.
Oh my god, this is a sport for like a
hot minute. I don't know when what time for that was.
But you had like there's like four cups on the
botto three you'd make a pyramid. Yeah, and you'd have
to stack them the fastest and you'd have to re
stack them and you would buy like you'd have your

(47:35):
own stack of cups that you'd bring.

Speaker 1 (47:36):
Really, this is the thing.

Speaker 2 (47:38):
I never heard of this.

Speaker 3 (47:39):
You've never heard of it.

Speaker 2 (47:40):
What were you in?

Speaker 1 (47:41):
Gosh? I want to say maybe it was when I
was in middle school.

Speaker 2 (47:44):
Okay, so I was already like an adult at that point.

Speaker 3 (47:46):
Yeah, let me bring up a stacking cup challenge because
and I even like pitched this for the show because
I wanted us to have a stacking cup challenges. I
thought it'd be fun. But this is what used to be.
I'm showing scuba on the internet because this you to
be so popular.

Speaker 2 (48:01):
Yeah, we didn't stack cups.

Speaker 3 (48:04):
You then, like they would glow in the dark. You
get different colors, you could have like your own. It
was like a basketball, but like you had stacked cups.

Speaker 4 (48:11):
I think at that age we had we had cups,
but we were playing like beer pong. Yeah yeah, but
this was like you're playing beer pong in eighth grade.

Speaker 1 (48:20):
Yes, I lived in Kansas.

Speaker 2 (48:22):
You guys were bored.

Speaker 3 (48:23):
Yeah, we have a whole lot going on.

Speaker 1 (48:25):
Okay, So like they even you can see a decorate
and it was like you would time it.

Speaker 2 (48:28):
Oh wow. So like these people are stacking them fast
and unstacking them and restacking them and putting them in things.

Speaker 3 (48:33):
Yeah, you put them in different periods and you have
to go the fastest. Like the whole point is to
be the fastest, and there's different levels.

Speaker 4 (48:40):
Holy crap, the sky is like moving those cups so fast. Yeah,
we didn't.

Speaker 2 (48:44):
It's like he has his own like a basket like
you said, like he has his own football or basketball
or his whole baseball set up with his bat and
his glove and everything. Yeah, we didn't have that at all.
I don't even know what that is.

Speaker 3 (48:53):
That's funny. I wonder if it was also a regional thing.
I swhere people were competing nationally, Like there'd be people
going to these petitions.

Speaker 2 (49:00):
Okay, I never heard of it.

Speaker 3 (49:02):
Stacking cuts, yeah, I bet I could find them at
my parents house somewhere.

Speaker 2 (49:05):
Like your your original set.

Speaker 1 (49:07):
They glue in the dark dark.

Speaker 3 (49:09):
Yeah. They were like a white, like the lime green
kind of color. Because then at night they'd be like
bright yellow okay, or like when it was dark.

Speaker 2 (49:18):
That color whatever color that was yellowish.

Speaker 3 (49:21):
And I think my sister had a pink one, a
hot pink one, okay.

Speaker 1 (49:24):
Thing For several years, you guys were bored, Okay, you know,
we found ways to entertain ourselves.

Speaker 3 (49:32):
I just message, it's not wrong, all right, Well, skip,
but thanks for joining me and hanging out. It's fun
walking down memory Lane with you. It was.

Speaker 2 (49:40):
Yeah, it was a great time.

Speaker 1 (49:41):
Are you happy with our how our child questions panned out?
That was good.

Speaker 3 (49:45):
Yeah with that, Yeah, I just really let us go
whatever wherever the wind took us.

Speaker 4 (49:49):
I like how they had a whole thing set up.
We did it for a little bit and then it
became a comparison for a little bit.

Speaker 2 (49:53):
Yeah, and it was like I liked it. It was good.

Speaker 1 (49:56):
Yeah, we got bounce around. That's how we got to
start being more inquisitive in life, exactly, the bouncing all. Yeah,
be a little ping pong ball. Tell peop where they
can find you.

Speaker 4 (50:03):
You can you find me on Instagram and reluctantly on TikTok,
which great on there.

Speaker 2 (50:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (50:08):
Well the thing that's why TikTok though, is people are
like all buttered about it now and they're like, I'm.

Speaker 1 (50:11):
Not doing TikTok anymore.

Speaker 4 (50:12):
I've deleted my app because because like the US owns
it now or owns a portion of it.

Speaker 3 (50:16):
The US does own it, and there was a period
of transition where when the US owned it, it was
just kind of a dumpster fire, a lot like when
there was a transition from Twitter to X.

Speaker 1 (50:27):
Yeah, X still is quite a dumpster fire.

Speaker 3 (50:29):
So I'm home. Sorry. I basically died there.

Speaker 2 (50:33):
Yeah, I know, I saw it.

Speaker 3 (50:35):
I was like, it was not.

Speaker 1 (50:41):
Cigarettes. Listen, that cold there just doesn't work with my life.
I hate it too, and my scan it drives all
up all the things.

Speaker 3 (50:47):
What was I saying? I was talking about.

Speaker 1 (50:48):
TikTok and transformed.

Speaker 2 (50:50):
Yes, is this recently, like within the last couple weeks
or something.

Speaker 3 (50:52):
Yeah, yeah, So they transitioned ownership in the last I
want to say, it was like the last month. Yeah,
And within that you've seen like complain online about having
zero views and nobody's seeing their stuff. I think a
lot of what happens when transition an algorithm happens, it's
like the transition of ownership. The algorithm changes and they

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decide whoever the new ownership is is like I want
to do it my way, and they change everything kind
of the whole thing. So I don't know if that's
what's happening with TikTok right now. We don't know like
a whole lot about who bought it. We just know
that it got it has American ties now, whatever that means.
So I think it'll be interesting to see over the
next six months what actually transpires. But I used to

(51:35):
people are still on it. You have a lot of
people who leave apps. There's a lot of people who
left Instagram when it was making all of its changes,
and then people still go back. So still do it.
But it'll be interesting to see if TikTok holds its
same value now that the US owns it, because the
algorithm is different. It's going to be a different company
that owns it, much like what we saw happen with Twitter.

Speaker 4 (51:55):
So they don't you can't buy the algorithm moment. They
don't sell that. They just sell you their rights to
the name of what it is. Because I remember for
a while there they're like, we're getting rid of TikTok.
It's going away completely, and then they're and then they
were like no or not we love TikTok. It's like
what do you want to do with this thing? Or
you wanted or you don't want it, And then now
they do want it and.

Speaker 2 (52:11):
They got it well.

Speaker 3 (52:12):
And that's what's hard is we don't quite know what
they bought, right, Like, did they just buy so our
data is in the US now, did they buy multiple
shares that allow them to have impact over the algorithm,
did they buy what our geolocations can be like we
don't really know. At least I haven't done like a
deep dive to find out what that all was. I

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haven't seen a lot of stories on it yet either.
It was more just like.

Speaker 1 (52:37):
Us TikTok good.

Speaker 3 (52:39):
It's kind of like what I saw, and then everybody
experienced a lot of things with that, so it's it'll
be interesting. It'll be interesting to see what happens over
the next year or so and if it really changes
or if it just was like a momentary where we're
we're fixing this and we're trying to make sure all
the data is now in the US and okay, back

(52:59):
to normal.

Speaker 4 (53:00):
I have noticed, though, like I don't really use it
much like look at other people's stuff.

Speaker 2 (53:04):
I just post mine and move on. But I did
notice for a while there.

Speaker 4 (53:07):
I mean, it was getting to the point where it
was so annoying, and it was all these videos and
people coming on there in their car, by the way,
which I don't know what the whole deal is of
people shooting videos in their freaking car, especially while they're driving, Like,
good lord, get off your f and phone.

Speaker 1 (53:19):
You're driving a fucking You're.

Speaker 4 (53:20):
Driving a freaking car, Like drive the damn car. You
wanna know what traffic sucks and there's accidents cause they're
on your damn phone. Just for thirty minutes. Don't use
the damn thing and just drive. But everyone wants to
shoot videos when they're driving. It's the dumbest thing ever.
And I'll go through it. Some times I comment, I'm like, hey,
how about you just drive? And everyone's like, oh, you're
a loser. I'm like, no, you're a loser. You're on
your phone looking down instead of at the road. You're

(53:42):
gonna hit and kill somebody. You're the idiot. And by
you supporting that idiot, you're an idiot. Yeah, but my
algorithm was full of people driving in their car is
going like, you gotta post on TikTok three times a day.
I post on TikTok three times a day. I got
a hundred thousand hours. Here's how you do it. And
it was all these videos that people been like, you
gotta post every day, you gonna post every day, you
gotta post every day. I post every day, post three
times a day, post three times a day. And I

(54:03):
was like, why is my algorithm telling me to post
three times a day. I don't have time to post
three times a day.

Speaker 3 (54:08):
No, And again that's the algorithm like wigging out. It's
having a moment because you shouldn't you You should be
getting a bunch of things that are similar. Like if
you're interacted with one, yeah, then of course it'll pop
up more. But once you interact with something else, yeah,
then it like bounces back. And that's why I say,
I don't know quite what's happening on.

Speaker 2 (54:25):
Now that's all over the place.

Speaker 4 (54:26):
And then I come in on one came brown video,
and now I get a bunch of cane brown stuff.
And then and then I come in on something else
and I get all of that. It's like, why can't
I get a mixture of like everything?

Speaker 2 (54:36):
What do I get?

Speaker 4 (54:36):
Just because I can interact with one thing one time?
It becomes inundated with that crap.

Speaker 3 (54:41):
Well, and there's a big question of are we going
to get content from other places because that was a
big part of why people love TikTok because you were
seeing things from other countries you were interacting with internationally,
if you will.

Speaker 1 (54:51):
And now that's a big question of are we.

Speaker 3 (54:54):
Going to seed some of that same content? Is content
gonna change? There's just a lot there's a lot more
questions and there are answers. Right now, let's TikTok and
the same thing happened with Twitter. I mean there's still
a lot of questions with Twitter. What's happening? So who knows? Yeah,
welcome to my digital talk with you.

Speaker 4 (55:12):
Yeah, you can find me on Instagram and TikTok. It
is Scuba Steve Radio all one word Scuba s tv ideo.

Speaker 3 (55:20):
But to that point, keep posting, Okay, just you should
always post until it decides to die, right, Like, you
never know.

Speaker 1 (55:29):
Transition is always hard.

Speaker 3 (55:30):
Change is always hard with anything, but particularly with social
media app So don't stop posting just because of people
being like, I'm not going to be on it anywhere.
There's still people on it. There's millions of people on it,
so there's still millions of people you can reach. You're
always going to have that when change happens and people
are gonna be like, I'm not doing this, and I'm
gonna do this, and I'm going to this app and
I'm going here whatever you're comfortable with, go and do

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those other ones, but still stay on those because you
have there's nothing that hurts you to keep posting on
those until TikTok one day decides.

Speaker 1 (55:58):
To be completely irrelevant. Yeah, that's just the truth of anything.

Speaker 3 (56:02):
Because everybody tried to say that about Facebook when Instagram
came into the picture, when Twitter came in the picture
in snapchat, it was like Facebook's irrelevant. Facebook is still
the biggest social media that exists because you have multiple
generations on it.

Speaker 2 (56:15):
Yeah, totally.

Speaker 1 (56:15):
Yeah, and that's just how it is.

Speaker 3 (56:17):
But you have a lot of people who'd like to say, like,
don't use that, or we're not we shouldn't be doing that.
But Facebook is literally still the biggest monster that exists
out there. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (56:27):
I don't even touch Facebook. I just don't.

Speaker 3 (56:30):
I have a Facebook page like my my personal one,
like a business one, and it's got almost forty thousand followers. Yeah,
and you would think like, Okay, my generation isn't on there.
There's people that would be on Facebook.

Speaker 1 (56:41):
No, they're there.

Speaker 2 (56:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (56:42):
You just have to be willing to use something that
you're not used to to try it, and that's what
social media is all about.

Speaker 2 (56:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (56:48):
So that's why I say keep using TikTok okay until it's.

Speaker 3 (56:51):
Dead in the ground, okay, and then once it's dead,
you can bounce off and be like, hey, moving on
the next one, next one. Yeah, it's no different than
Snapchat had that same thing happened too. Snapchat has kind
of found its way back, but it's really only found
its way back with the younger generations. You still have
some older people using it just for their friends, not
really for content, if you will. Yeah, but people make
a lot of money off Snapchat content.

Speaker 2 (57:12):
Really.

Speaker 4 (57:13):
Yeah, Okay, I've never touched Snapchat because that one originally
started as a way to cheat, because it was the
way to send stuff back and forth yep, and then
if you were to screenshot it or do something with it,
it would alert them like, oh sorry, I can't cheat
with that person anymore. So I was like, I really
can't get behind an app or a product that had

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the basis of, you know, cheating, cheating.

Speaker 2 (57:37):
I'm like, after that, that's stupid.

Speaker 1 (57:39):
I was the same way.

Speaker 3 (57:39):
Snapchat really burned me in a lot of ways, so
I like, in college, I quit using it.

Speaker 1 (57:43):
But I do know that a lot of people use
Snapchat like there.

Speaker 3 (57:46):
Snapchat has its own for you page now, have its
own content that people specifically put on Snapchat, and people
still use it to communicate. So it's still there, it's
just not as functioning as it used to be. And
that's that's what will happen, and that when you actually
see that full is when you can decide like, we'ren't
doing it anymore. I will, but we're not there with
TikTok yet.

Speaker 2 (58:04):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (58:05):
All I was like, you could just text me that
or just text me the video.

Speaker 2 (58:09):
You don't have to put it through an app.

Speaker 1 (58:10):
Yeah, but people like disappearing.

Speaker 3 (58:11):
There's something about fantasy of disappearing messages so dumb, you know,
but you can also do that in text messaging.

Speaker 2 (58:17):
Now, make them disappear, yeah, totally. Yeah, yeah, you do.

Speaker 1 (58:20):
There and send it like it never happened exactly.

Speaker 2 (58:21):
Yeah, So what are we doing here?

Speaker 1 (58:23):
All right, we're getting out here.

Speaker 3 (58:24):
You can also go follow a show at Bobby Bone
Show and goodbye, everybody, have a good weekend.

Speaker 1 (58:29):
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