Summertime Memories

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, guys, it is summertime.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
We all know the Generation xers and baby boomers had
to follow certain summertime rules to survive our childhood. So guys,
let's reminisce talk about our favorite memories. You know, when
our parents had no idea where we were, what we
were doing.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
We could play outside all day long, all day could
we had two shirts? Yeah, ride our bikes anywhere? No,
because it is time. We we was adults at seven.
We was wrong. We take care of ourselves. We was adults.
We had We were latchkey kids. I had, I had,

(00:40):
I had my own cup, I had my own ride.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
It was a bike. I get around, I go play,
and I come back and I'm getting my full day
of work.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Not my job.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Sandwich on your own, you're gonna get you up to
gelp okay.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
I mean I knew how to cook at eight eight,
eight years old, I was cooking. Clean up really well,
clean up that house. Yes. At eight. See, I had
a wagon.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Man that was my job. Hind wagon had a wagon,
a goal, a golden fly with the gates on it,
the ones with the railings.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
That you put around both sides.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
You couldn't play in my wagon wasn't no dragging each
other down the street, pushing none off. This was a
work wagon. I won't talk about money. Yeah, I woke up,
got my wagon, went out looking for pop bottles. You
turn in pop bottles, get too sick. My goal was
to get fifty pop bottles before lunch and fifty after.

(01:42):
I was trying to make two dollars a day, full
blown hustle. Might stopping ball a little bit, play a
little game at the playground. But I got to get
to this wagon. But I couldn't pull my pop bottles
over while I played. I had to drag them to
the store and turn them in because they're because they'll
take you pop bottle.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
When you were doing this, because you had the day planning,
so you had to do the pop bottles.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Did you have to tell your family, your parents, especially
point A to point B.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Where you were going. Did they know where you were
during Well, I had no weight, with no cell phones. Yeah,
that's what I'm saying, So you.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
Know I had free reign to hustle the whole neighborhood.
I was hustled. I was just walking, man. I ain't
had no hand, no car, I just walked.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
I did have a bike walk but my block. Yeah,
but I had to.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
I couldn't ride the bike with the wag okay take
wagon by myself, so people knew me. Hey, little Stevie,
I got two pop bottles, yes, ma'am.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Oh wow, so you were were early. They helped you.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah, get your hustle on. Did you guys ever go
like to your friend's house. We would go to the
basement and play records and dance.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
And all that that you all do. Yes, yes, yes
to the neighbor that was on the weekend, Yeah, we was.
We ain't have no basement store sharing in Texas. Oh
yeah we did.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
I had basements yeah, uh huh, oh we're down there playing.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
We would.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
We would be in the basement and imagine we had
girls down there.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
What's going on now? What is happening? That's better than
my son?

Speaker 3 (03:19):
Yeah? Yeah, we'll be over there laying on the pile
of clothes, acting like we're on.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
The date, practicing.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
Yeah, man, we're full blown. I wanted a girl so
bad my whole life. I never went through the phase
why I didn't like girl. I always thought they was
just fantastic.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
All right, Well, now coming up at thirty four, minutes
after the hour, we're going to talk about Father's Day
and a lot of the fun activities that you can
do on Father's Day.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
You know, right after this, I'm sighing. Will see. Right
after this, you're listening Morning Show