Childhood Summertime Memories - 05.15.25

The countdown is on for summer, and there are things that we miss about summer when we were kids. No school, no homework, outside fun, running in the sprinklers, eating ice cream, etc…What did you love most about summer when you were kid?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, guys, so the countdown for summer is on. Okay,

(00:04):
there are things that we miss about the summer. Lots
of things that we miss about the summer. When we
were kids, no school, that's a no homework. We could
go outside from morning till the street lights came on,
running in the sprinklers. That was one of my favorites,
eating ice cream, et cetera, et cetera. So what were

(00:27):
some of the favorite things, I mean, your most your
greatest memories about the summertime, how much you loved it
when you were a kid.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
You know what?

Speaker 3 (00:36):
You know what was what was very memorable for me
because we I hung around her a lot. Is my
grandmother making ice cream on the front. Oh, something I
had not done before. I remember the first time I
saw it happened. I was like, so we're just gonna
crank this bucket and in a minute we've been in
the half. You just keep cranking. That's what you do.
Don't you worry about nothing else.

Speaker 4 (00:57):
You get crank, but put that salt in there.

Speaker 5 (00:59):
That without that, don't forget that.

Speaker 6 (01:04):
Wow, I love experienced that wowl.

Speaker 4 (01:11):
Neverget bluebell, forget hogging. Does all of that?

Speaker 5 (01:15):
Yeah, that bucket was cold, yes, really yes, yes, and
so creamy Carlo, so creamy.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
My mother and my grandmother made homemade ice cream. De Yeah,
it was just delicious. Okay, running through the sprinklers. I
used to love that. But yes, little black girl, don't
get your hair wet.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
In the summertime. We didn't have any rules.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
We didn't care.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Don't get your hair, hide and go seek then when
it got dark.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
But what.

Speaker 5 (01:55):
Yeah, I love the last day of school though.

Speaker 4 (01:59):
It was so much fun. On the last day of school.
You got out early.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
It was gonna be.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
One fight now, it was gonna be at least one
fight the day last day. Yeah, but it was. It
was just a regular fight.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
You know.

Speaker 4 (02:12):
It wasn't right today. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
No, it's overweight, it's over Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
And the most girls did was pull hair. That's what
That's what they did.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
Pull your hair. Maybe at your school ship, Yeah, at
my school, pulling hair. It went down in my pulling
hair and scratching, scratching I missed as a kivy road trips.

Speaker 6 (02:38):
Everybody getting the many vans and I'm saying we're just
being passed out from the man.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yes, Yes, Chicken sandwiches in aluminum for man, it's still
a little warm.

Speaker 4 (02:51):
Yes, I got one for you.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
I got one because I know, I know we all went.
I know we all went at some point Vacation Bible School.

Speaker 4 (03:00):
Oh yes, yes, go ahead, Carola.

Speaker 6 (03:09):
That's why I had my first kiss.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
That was in there. Yes, he saw all that in
about Jesus. You're in there kissing.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Right right, ju yo.

Speaker 4 (03:21):
His name was Barry.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Her name, Her name fit in at Vacation Bibic School.

Speaker 6 (03:26):
Her name was Joy Joe.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
Mine is older than y'all's. Oh my god, what pig
piggy piggy God, Peggy was pretty bore.

Speaker 6 (03:42):
Yep, yep, my first kiss and Byron hair braces.

Speaker 4 (03:46):
Mine was Mitchell Mitchell. That's old Mitchell's. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah, Now Shirley in Houston.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
The one thing we the one thing that we look
forward to in the summer was going to this amusement
park called.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Astro World like that.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
Yeah I heard of.

Speaker 6 (04:04):
You had had your cocaine with you too, And I
was trying to get a job there every summer and
I could never get hired.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
All my friends got hired.

Speaker 6 (04:13):
All the other people, like especially the boys. They worked
a parking lot and they were stealing the money.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
Call it the biggest thing I remember.

Speaker 4 (04:23):
Anything A job.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
Extra World closed at midnight.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
My mama did not care at ten thirty when I
come by here, If you ain't about this light, that's
your behind.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
And I promise you that.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
I promise you this is gonna be your last Astra World.
I don't talking about nobody else parents picking them up
at midnight.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
You out here at ten thirty. When I get out here,
you're

Speaker 4 (04:46):
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