October 2, 2025 • 18 mins
Did you used to get away with things in school? Fred and the 13 discuss. Plus, Keke is frustrated with Big Tim!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, So I guess more schools are cracking down
on cell phones, which is not surprising because they're distracting.
And I can't imagine having gone to school and everybody
had a phone and the texting and looking at you know,
whatever you're looking at, and not to mention all the
social media distraction and TikTok and everything else. I feel
for the teachers, I really do. And a lot of
you listen to us, I know, because it's like, as
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if it's not hard enough to get him a kid
to pay attention, now you've get all these other things,
computers and iPads and it's like an old fart now.
But like, honestly, we didn't have that. I mean, it
was like you had to either not pay attention or
pay attention. Those were your choices. And then sometimes we
get to the computer lab, the computer lab which was
a room with all the computers in it. And for
those who don't know what that is, but then then
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that would you were supposed to use a computer then.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
But then when you lab lab, no, I forgot it
was because it was a laboratory.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
That's why. However, a lot of schools have cell phone
bands in place. I guess during school hours at least
eighteen states to The goal is simple, keep kids focused,
but gen Z has found a clever way around the rules.
Instead of texting on their phones, students are flocking to
Google Docs, turning what was once a boring writing tool
into a digital chat room. Well that's like Paulinis diary.
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We use Google Docs for Paulinas diary. She just writes
down every single thing she did every day.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Today's thought is I leveled maybe pants, But I didn't
write that down yet.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
No, yeah, okay, well if you could get that on there.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Immediately, she had her bowel movements for us. You know
it's tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
No, no, it's amazing. Hopefully on Friday.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
No, I don't know every day, so come.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
On, we do know. Yet, as a matter of fact,
they do. That's not even a joke. During plass, groups
of teens will open a shared document and type back
and forth, erasing and editing in real time, much like
Aol instant messenger chat rooms that that their parents once
used in the two thousands. The workarounds spread quickly on TikTok,
where students show off their secret group chats hidden in
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plain sight on school laptops. For them, it's not just rebellion,
it's a revival of Y two K era internet culture,
and that everyone is amused. Teachers and parents worry that
the hack could lead to cheating and bullying and more distraction.
This is dangerous to me because now you've got multiple
people's thoughts in the dock as if you know before.
Now this is going to sound really old timing, but
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like in the nineties, you would write on paper and
pass the note on paper, and then a teacher might
grab it and read it and sometimes read it out loud,
but that would be between two people, and it was
only as much as you could put on a small, little,
tiny little corner of paper that you ripped. Now we're
going to have the whole narrative is going to be
in there.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
We were writing lists of our crushes and the teachers
got ahold of them.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
It was so embarrassing.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
But we were ranking the voice like that we had
crushes on yeah, and they run them and no, it
has to be so fun. We used to rank the teachers,
you know, like cuteness. Why was the Spanish teacher always hot?
Like I don't know that's true?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
And hot? We had hot Spanish teachers had no, yeah
we did, and you're right, yeah we did. Actually but
a five, five, five, nine, one one or three five.
I asked the question before some of you guys got here,
but it was what do you remember a rule being
in school that you had to work around for? And
I was thinking about this because I don't I don't
think we got away with much in school. But there
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were there, just weren't many of us. That was the
problem is I graduated with forty two people. They were like,
what does that mean? There were one hundred and twenty
kids in the high school. Like they knew if you
weren't there because they could physically see, like they where's Christopher?
Where is he? You know? Because there were like ten
people in every class. I mean, so if you weren't there,
you know you did. Now college was different. I mean,
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the professor would really have no idea if you were
were not attending at all. But what comes to Mike,
because you said you knew you thought of some right away?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Oh yeah, I was great in high school.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
So what was it? What were the work runs? And
I want to know from you guys so you can
call intact the same number.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Yeah, when I got a car.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
I used to drive myself to school, but I was
stopping get a little breakfast from McDonald's first, and I
would always be late. So what I would do is
call ahead as my parent and say, hey, Kiki is
going to be late today?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
No can I can? I ask an insensitive question, do
they know your parent was dead? Well?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
No, they have a guardian.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Okay, I wasn't just that I didn't know if they
didn't get the message. You know, they didn't get the
message living on the street, so you were able to
use your mom's name and.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Said she was to let you know she's going to
be late.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
No, hold on a second, now, Kiki, that that would
have been kind of a hack because like, if the
school hadn't known, you could have signed everything and you
could you could have gotten away with this. How come
she never comes to any of her activities?
Speaker 4 (04:34):
No, I was using my sister's name, but I would
call it.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
So you were doing the same thing. You were just
using a person who was resident.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
And you know, I would sign myself in every time
and the kids. This is going to sound really old,
but when we first got cell phones, they were really
thin raizor phones, and I used to hide it in
between my textbook. The textbook is a really big book
we had to carry around.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Right, I love that we have to explain it. Do
they even? This is going to make me say even
more old time. I don't mean to, but I don't
have kids, so I have no reference. Do they even
have books anymore? Is everything on the iPad or computer? Like?
Do you? Because I remember we had to go and
this was in the two thousands. We had to go
to the bookstore and we had to there was there
was you'd go there like on the week before school started,
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and they're the teachers. There was like a list of
all the books you needed for every class. And I
was probably like five hundred dollars. I have no idea
how much. And my mom had to buy all the
books and we'd carry out just boxes and books from
the bookstore. You know. It was like my God. And
then you could sell the books back at the end
of the day, that part and then you could, you know, whatever.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
You didn't give your mom the money, did you? No?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
I also pay for my own books, O me and
me my fast food check. But then at the end
of the year, whatever, I'm over here standing like wh
wants a book. I got it for cheaper.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Yeah, but then just everybody then everyone could afford an
iPad then, because I mean those are expensive, so I
mean if you can't, but I realized the iPad could
get us through, you know, potentially all of high school
or all of whatever. But but you know that's a
thousand plus dollars one time. And then you did you
just download all the books? Is that how it worked?
I think?
Speaker 5 (06:09):
So they're given the kids think pads and iPads now, oh.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Think they give us thinks. Yeah, same thing. We're just
like school. So I hate Carrie Hi Hi carry So
that you used to pass notes in school, Well.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
We would have a notebook and it would just go
pretty much from girl to girl and you would just
pass it around during the day or during the week, and.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
It was all there.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
And then we would oh god, that sounds get caught. Yeah,
that sounds really dangerous. That like you know, you've you've
got volumes of people's thoughts in there.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
Yes, yes, it got pretty bad for a while there,
but it was fun.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Do you still have any of those notebooks? Because that
would be really interesting. I think to go back, like
if you I found a note or a yearbook, from
high school at my house last time I was there,
and I read the things that people wrote in there,
and most of it was like, you know, have a
great summer, so you know, you know I need this
teazy stuff. Yeah whatever, But it was like, oh, man,
you know, I think Becky wrote a heart on it.
I could never get Becky never get with me though,
(07:10):
So why did you write a heart in there? But
I mean that would be funny to go back and
read it. Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
One of my friends has them, so we've gone back
and watched or ride them.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
But yeah, okay, it was wild, okay, fair enough, thank you, Carrie,
having good day? Okay. So you would sign yourself in
and out, absolutely, and then what else would come to mind?
Speaker 4 (07:28):
I have my phone in my textbook.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
And then I was a class president, so I abuse
that tremendously. So every time I would be in the
hallway roaming, They're like, what class are you supposed to be?
And I'm like, oh, I'm doing something for student council
and I would just walk past.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Like we used to that with basketball because we'd have
to leave early to go to like away games, and
so we but apparently we had to leave like two
hours before the early right because we had to, you know,
and we were terrible. But it was like, oh yeah,
we gotta we gotta film study, Yeah, we gotta go
stretch out or whatever. It's like, no, you don't teach
for like, it doesn't matter what you do, you're not
gonna win. But okay, go ahead. It's like we were
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so bad. We were Yeah, but we used to do
stuff like that. Oh yeah, yeah, we got it. Hey, yeah,
but it's noon. The game is at seven o'clock time. Yeah,
I know, but we got to get going because we
got to get on the bus and it's at least
forty five minutes away, which is that's gonna take it
forty five minutes. Hey Jenna, Hey, good morning.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
So how did you get around the rules at school?
Speaker 6 (08:26):
So I would pretend that I was sick, and I
would go to the bathroom and put my head onto
the hand dryer for a little bit, and then I
would go to the nurse's office and tell her that
I don't feel good. She would always put her hand
on her head first before she touched that temperature, and
then she would call have a plate out, and then
she'd call home. Why so lam that is brilliant.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I would always just put my hand on my head
and try and make my head warm, thinking that somehow
that would make my temperature grow up like but usually
they would feel your head and then they'd stick at
their mammady in your mouth, you know, to see, and
then you would be like normal because that thing didn't
work what you just did to your head.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
That's smart. The dryer, the lady, the nurses probably.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah, oh my gosh, she's so hot. And then the
problem is I say, oh my gosh, she's so hot,
like we're going to hospital. You're like, no, even I
just stuck my head in everything. Never mind, that's smart.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
Yet you always no for filling. I had first and
I have five siblings. I like you guys want to
get out of school.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
I like it. I like it. Thank you, Jenna. I
have a good day. Uh, you got it. My kindergartener,
someone texted, has a chrome book. It weighs half as
much as he does and he has to bring it
home every day. O, your kindergartener has a chromebook? What
do you what do you like?
Speaker 5 (09:38):
They come out of the womb knowing how to use
the phones.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Yeah, they're creepy, like Yeah, no one has talked them.
They just know that's true.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
All the books are digital, and so is the syllabus
and study peck. You have to pay for all of it.
It's still very expensive. Well yeah, you know, you know
they didn't get around that. You know, they didn't get
around making money on this, Like even though they don't
have to print it anymore, you know, they didn't get
around that they're still making money on this stuff. I
went back to college to the age of twenty seven
now and everything is online, six ebooks. I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Wow, it's so interesting because when my sister broke her wrist,
she was kind of screwed because she still wrote a
lot of stuff down.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
So I wonder what she was writing.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Then.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
What the kids must not know is that most teachers
have access to what the students are doing. I can
see what every student's doing on their chromebook. I can
close out of tabs, I can look at their open
docs and track the history of everything that they've typed. This,
heck is not so sneaky or effective. So you had
crazy You went to Catholic school, so you had crazy rules.
Speaker 7 (10:35):
Jason, Yeah, it was more like how you get around
like the uniform rules because like your hair, like for
guys couldn't be touching your ears, like they had to
be shorter than that. So we would like tuck our
hair like behind our ears so that when it would
always be the lunch line, so when everyone was lining
up for lunch line, they would chuck to make sure
that every piece of your uniform like like was according
to code. Oh, like you'd have a belt on every day,
(10:58):
so like thank goodness, know, thank god. So I would
like untuck my shirt a lot, so it would sort
of like fold over so you couldn't see my But
I wanted to wear slide, so I made sure that
like my pants were long enough so that you couldn't
see that I didn't have a back of my shoe
because that was part of the uniform.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Like it was crazy. Wow, yeah, you were so sneaky,
like you were so bad and slides right and now
everything right according to Jason, But it turns out you
were a miscreant. It turns out that you were just
constantly breaking.
Speaker 7 (11:32):
The rules we have, like guilt somehow still got in
you know, that's sure.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
And my mom went to Caelic school, like been the
what I guess would have been the sixties. Uh yeah,
I guess it was the sixties and they were nuns
were like mean to her. It was nuns and they
were mean to her. They were very mean. I think
they had rulers and you know, all kinds. It was
a different time. Yeah, yeah, it was a whole different time. Now. Yeah,
everyone's got a chromebook. I guess you're right. You would
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think that that would make everything less expensive, but apparently no, No,
they got to work around for that too. They talk
better than the excited. These are the radio blogs on
the Fresh Show. It's like we're running in our diaries,
except we say them aloud. We call the blogs Kiki's
got one go.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Yo, dear blog.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Okay, have you guys ever experienced this in a relationship
where your partner is doing something with great intentions, but
you really wish they would stop.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Yes, okay, Okay, I'm not alone.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Okay, because this latest issue we're having is at my house.
My lawn care company who has been amazing, We have
a great relationship until last week when I asked them
to do a little extra clean up in the yard.
I pay them and I get a call. I'm on
my way to the wedding that I went to, and
it's the line care company saying, we can't service your
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lawn because we got stung by a bee and we
can't come back into you ensure that there are.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
No more bees in your yard. I'm like, you're the
long care company. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
You probably like a pest You gotta call pest people.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
I just feel like, if you cut grass for a living,
you should have a procedure in place for a book,
you know, Like, how don't how?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
I don't think they got to get rid of hives.
I did call a hive guy.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
I said, is there a high did you going?
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Like?
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Did you bump into a hive? He's like, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
It just was a lot of bees. I'm like, so
where are they located, sir, I don't know. I got
stung by a bee?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Okay, you know, yeah, a little more information would be helpful,
Like where they're living, you know where they're setting up shop,
you know where their new little apartment complex. This would
be helpful, Right.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
So I got home and we checked for the bees,
and nobody. We didn't see one bee in sight, you know,
And I understand some people are terrified of bees.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
And you get stung, you freak out, and then what
long care is not for you if that's the case.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
But I thought maybe I was being unreasonable, but clearly not.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
I think you so I know your biggest fear.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
And I feel seen and heard because I couldn't wrap
my mind around your You work in line care and
you're running from a.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Bug like that. I don't understand.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
But anyway, it's a but, like what you want me
to do?
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Anyway.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
So once he decided he was no longer cutting my yard,
I said, okay, whatever, I'll find a new company. In
the midst of the conversation of finding a new company,
Big Tim decides that it is his time to shine
and he wants to go purchase a brand new lawnmore
and he is just going to take care of our yard.
And I love that man with all my heart and soul,
(14:32):
but line care is not his thing, and I don't
want him to do this. I don't want to leave
this in his hands. I don't want to I feel
like this is bad for our future marriage, Like I
don't want you in charge of.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
This just because he would do a bad job, or
he will be consistent, or all the things Okay, So
if you think that it's just easier for you, you won't
have to nag him, it'll look it'll look better. You
just think that this is something better left for the professionals. Yes,
And I don't disagree with that, Like I don't know
that I need to be out there doing that stuff either.
Like I think, I think by the time we bought that.
I've said this a million times in my case, by
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the time I buy the lawnmower and the edger and
and all this stuff, and then and then I got,
you know, the blower, and then I got a you know,
I don't know, plant stuff and seed stuff and whatever
I should. I just just sounds sexual. But it's not
the blower on the edge. And but I'm just saying,
I hire somebody, and it's just I'm better. Everyone wins.
(15:25):
And that's how you feel.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Yeah, do you.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Feel too, like this is like a marriage thing, because
Hobby did the same thing.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
He bought the lawnmower, and like.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
You said, Fred, all the gadgets and accessories that came
with it, and I still got, you know, senor Tino
coming over to cut my grass. And I love him
because I'm like, listen, your family, Like I let him
in out the house whatever he wants. I'm like water
because I to me, it's just a headache that I don't.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Want to if you got senior Tino, then why did
you buy all the.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Stuff because he bought a house.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
So Hobby was like, well, I'm the man of the
house and I want a lawnmower. And I love that
for him, like we all like projects, right, he uses
it once in a while, but then I don't know,
I just feel it's just so much easier to call.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Somebody to come do it, and they do a way
better job. Thank you, way better.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Okay, so you neither one of you want your men
no rolling the lawn. I know you don't want Shane
washing your underwear. There's so many things you're obssed with
watching your underwear.
Speaker 8 (16:14):
But okay, the phrasing our house is sometimes we're a
little too helpful because like I'll have like a return
sitting out, you know, and but I won't put like
the final thing in the bag, and he'll already have
taken it to FedEx, you know, like he tries to
be one step ahead of me, or like the whites
will be in a pile to do the laundry and
he'll put them in, but like they needed to be
spot cleaned. I'm like, let's just stick to our areas
(16:34):
and we'll be got, you know.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Okay, all right, don't try to get ahead.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Of this crazy brain. You can't do it right.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Understood, Jason. I feel like you're the guy who has
to do the thing.
Speaker 7 (16:44):
I love cutting the grass, and if I can do it,
Tim can do it.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Bro You're consistent about everything in your life. You are
not going to miss anything. But you if you said
it days to cut grass every Wednesday day.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Saturday about Jason said, when I describe him to people,
he's a guy who doesn't miss anything.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
No.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
So yeah, no, I would trust you to do it
and do it well. But I enjoy it. You also
have to do it in order to keep a roof
over your right. You are the professional in that house.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
So it's fulfilling when it's done to be like, wow,
I did that. So I can see like why he
would want to. He does so many great things. I
just I don't want you to do it.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
I don't. I hate when he cleans.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
I don't like when he cleans, you know what, And
he's doing it with the best intentions, So it's like,
how do you tell them no, like, don't do that.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Yeah, I guess that's hard because you know they're trying
to help, yes, and they want and I'm sure subliminally
they want, you know, sort of the help credit, right, like, look,
I'm contributing, see, but they're not doing it the way
you want him to do it, so they're not really
getting the credit. So you may as well just have
somebody else do it if you have the means.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Exactly kikky.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I go through after and refold the hand towels, I
remake the bed after every time. I'm like, I'm just
following you around, you doing everything, and he's so proud
of himself. I wait for him to leave and I
redo it on you.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Oh. I feel like if I, if I ever, you know,
live with somebody that and I had the means, I
would hire people to do these things so that there's
just no argument between us about who's doing more or
the other of it. It's like, guess what, neither one
of us are doing it because we got someone to
do it. So I don't want to hear that you
think you're doing more of it than I am because
you're not doing anything because we got a guy and
a girl, you know what I mean. So like there's no,
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we're not going to compete it. Oh well I do
more cleaning. No you don't. We got the cleaning person
for that. So that is one least thing that we're
going to argue about.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
Love that.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
I think it's an I think it's an investment in
our future. I feel like the long guy might be
an investment in his lifelong sustainability and happiness. You're exactly
All right, So I guess more schools are cracking down
on cell phones, which is not surprising because they're distracting.
And I can't imagine having gone to school and everybody
had a phone and the texting and looking at you know,
whatever you're looking at, and not to mention all the
social media distraction and TikTok and everything else. I feel
for the teachers, I really do. And a lot of
you listen to us, I know, because it's like, as
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if it's not hard enough to get him a kid
to pay attention, now you've get all these other things,
computers and iPads and it's like an old fart now.
But like, honestly, we didn't have that. I mean, it
was like you had to either not pay attention or
pay attention. Those were your choices. And then sometimes we
get to the computer lab, the computer lab which was
a room with all the computers in it. And for
those who don't know what that is, but then then
(00:41):
that would you were supposed to use a computer then.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
But then when you lab lab, no, I forgot it
was because it was a laboratory.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
That's why. However, a lot of schools have cell phone
bands in place. I guess during school hours at least
eighteen states to The goal is simple, keep kids focused,
but gen Z has found a clever way around the rules.
Instead of texting on their phones, students are flocking to
Google Docs, turning what was once a boring writing tool
into a digital chat room. Well that's like Paulinis diary.
(01:11):
We use Google Docs for Paulinas diary. She just writes
down every single thing she did every day.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Today's thought is I leveled maybe pants, But I didn't
write that down yet.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
No, yeah, okay, well if you could get that on there.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Immediately, she had her bowel movements for us. You know
it's tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
No, no, it's amazing. Hopefully on Friday.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
No, I don't know every day, so come.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
On, we do know. Yet, as a matter of fact,
they do. That's not even a joke. During plass, groups
of teens will open a shared document and type back
and forth, erasing and editing in real time, much like
Aol instant messenger chat rooms that that their parents once
used in the two thousands. The workarounds spread quickly on TikTok,
where students show off their secret group chats hidden in
(01:56):
plain sight on school laptops. For them, it's not just rebellion,
it's a revival of Y two K era internet culture,
and that everyone is amused. Teachers and parents worry that
the hack could lead to cheating and bullying and more distraction.
This is dangerous to me because now you've got multiple
people's thoughts in the dock as if you know before.
Now this is going to sound really old timing, but
(02:18):
like in the nineties, you would write on paper and
pass the note on paper, and then a teacher might
grab it and read it and sometimes read it out loud,
but that would be between two people, and it was
only as much as you could put on a small, little,
tiny little corner of paper that you ripped. Now we're
going to have the whole narrative is going to be
in there.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
We were writing lists of our crushes and the teachers
got ahold of them.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
It was so embarrassing.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
But we were ranking the voice like that we had
crushes on yeah, and they run them and no, it
has to be so fun. We used to rank the teachers,
you know, like cuteness. Why was the Spanish teacher always hot?
Like I don't know that's true?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
And hot? We had hot Spanish teachers had no, yeah
we did, and you're right, yeah we did. Actually but
a five, five, five, nine, one one or three five.
I asked the question before some of you guys got here,
but it was what do you remember a rule being
in school that you had to work around for? And
I was thinking about this because I don't I don't
think we got away with much in school. But there
(03:16):
were there, just weren't many of us. That was the
problem is I graduated with forty two people. They were like,
what does that mean? There were one hundred and twenty
kids in the high school. Like they knew if you
weren't there because they could physically see, like they where's Christopher?
Where is he? You know? Because there were like ten
people in every class. I mean, so if you weren't there,
you know you did. Now college was different. I mean,
(03:36):
the professor would really have no idea if you were
were not attending at all. But what comes to Mike,
because you said you knew you thought of some right away?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Oh yeah, I was great in high school.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
So what was it? What were the work runs? And
I want to know from you guys so you can
call intact the same number.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Yeah, when I got a car.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
I used to drive myself to school, but I was
stopping get a little breakfast from McDonald's first, and I
would always be late. So what I would do is
call ahead as my parent and say, hey, Kiki is
going to be late today?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
No can I can? I ask an insensitive question, do
they know your parent was dead? Well?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
No, they have a guardian.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Okay, I wasn't just that I didn't know if they
didn't get the message. You know, they didn't get the
message living on the street, so you were able to
use your mom's name and.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Said she was to let you know she's going to
be late.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
No, hold on a second, now, Kiki, that that would
have been kind of a hack because like, if the
school hadn't known, you could have signed everything and you
could you could have gotten away with this. How come
she never comes to any of her activities?
Speaker 4 (04:34):
No, I was using my sister's name, but I would
call it.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
So you were doing the same thing. You were just
using a person who was resident.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
And you know, I would sign myself in every time
and the kids. This is going to sound really old,
but when we first got cell phones, they were really
thin raizor phones, and I used to hide it in
between my textbook. The textbook is a really big book
we had to carry around.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Right, I love that we have to explain it. Do
they even? This is going to make me say even
more old time. I don't mean to, but I don't
have kids, so I have no reference. Do they even
have books anymore? Is everything on the iPad or computer? Like?
Do you? Because I remember we had to go and
this was in the two thousands. We had to go
to the bookstore and we had to there was there
was you'd go there like on the week before school started,
(05:17):
and they're the teachers. There was like a list of
all the books you needed for every class. And I
was probably like five hundred dollars. I have no idea
how much. And my mom had to buy all the
books and we'd carry out just boxes and books from
the bookstore. You know. It was like my God. And
then you could sell the books back at the end
of the day, that part and then you could, you know, whatever.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
You didn't give your mom the money, did you? No?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
I also pay for my own books, O me and
me my fast food check. But then at the end
of the year, whatever, I'm over here standing like wh
wants a book. I got it for cheaper.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Yeah, but then just everybody then everyone could afford an
iPad then, because I mean those are expensive, so I
mean if you can't, but I realized the iPad could
get us through, you know, potentially all of high school
or all of whatever. But but you know that's a
thousand plus dollars one time. And then you did you
just download all the books? Is that how it worked?
I think?
Speaker 5 (06:09):
So they're given the kids think pads and iPads now, oh.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Think they give us thinks. Yeah, same thing. We're just
like school. So I hate Carrie Hi Hi carry So
that you used to pass notes in school, Well.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
We would have a notebook and it would just go
pretty much from girl to girl and you would just
pass it around during the day or during the week, and.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
It was all there.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
And then we would oh god, that sounds get caught. Yeah,
that sounds really dangerous. That like you know, you've you've
got volumes of people's thoughts in there.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
Yes, yes, it got pretty bad for a while there,
but it was fun.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Do you still have any of those notebooks? Because that
would be really interesting. I think to go back, like
if you I found a note or a yearbook, from
high school at my house last time I was there,
and I read the things that people wrote in there,
and most of it was like, you know, have a
great summer, so you know, you know I need this
teazy stuff. Yeah whatever, But it was like, oh, man,
you know, I think Becky wrote a heart on it.
I could never get Becky never get with me though,
(07:10):
So why did you write a heart in there? But
I mean that would be funny to go back and
read it. Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
One of my friends has them, so we've gone back
and watched or ride them.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
But yeah, okay, it was wild, okay, fair enough, thank you, Carrie,
having good day? Okay. So you would sign yourself in
and out, absolutely, and then what else would come to mind?
Speaker 4 (07:28):
I have my phone in my textbook.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
And then I was a class president, so I abuse
that tremendously. So every time I would be in the
hallway roaming, They're like, what class are you supposed to be?
And I'm like, oh, I'm doing something for student council
and I would just walk past.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Like we used to that with basketball because we'd have
to leave early to go to like away games, and
so we but apparently we had to leave like two
hours before the early right because we had to, you know,
and we were terrible. But it was like, oh yeah,
we gotta we gotta film study, Yeah, we gotta go
stretch out or whatever. It's like, no, you don't teach
for like, it doesn't matter what you do, you're not
gonna win. But okay, go ahead. It's like we were
(08:04):
so bad. We were Yeah, but we used to do
stuff like that. Oh yeah, yeah, we got it. Hey, yeah,
but it's noon. The game is at seven o'clock time. Yeah,
I know, but we got to get going because we
got to get on the bus and it's at least
forty five minutes away, which is that's gonna take it
forty five minutes. Hey Jenna, Hey, good morning.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
So how did you get around the rules at school?
Speaker 6 (08:26):
So I would pretend that I was sick, and I
would go to the bathroom and put my head onto
the hand dryer for a little bit, and then I
would go to the nurse's office and tell her that
I don't feel good. She would always put her hand
on her head first before she touched that temperature, and
then she would call have a plate out, and then
she'd call home. Why so lam that is brilliant.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I would always just put my hand on my head
and try and make my head warm, thinking that somehow
that would make my temperature grow up like but usually
they would feel your head and then they'd stick at
their mammady in your mouth, you know, to see, and
then you would be like normal because that thing didn't
work what you just did to your head.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
That's smart. The dryer, the lady, the nurses probably.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah, oh my gosh, she's so hot. And then the
problem is I say, oh my gosh, she's so hot,
like we're going to hospital. You're like, no, even I
just stuck my head in everything. Never mind, that's smart.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
Yet you always no for filling. I had first and
I have five siblings. I like you guys want to
get out of school.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
I like it. I like it. Thank you, Jenna. I
have a good day. Uh, you got it. My kindergartener,
someone texted, has a chrome book. It weighs half as
much as he does and he has to bring it
home every day. O, your kindergartener has a chromebook? What
do you what do you like?
Speaker 5 (09:38):
They come out of the womb knowing how to use
the phones.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Yeah, they're creepy, like Yeah, no one has talked them.
They just know that's true.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
All the books are digital, and so is the syllabus
and study peck. You have to pay for all of it.
It's still very expensive. Well yeah, you know, you know
they didn't get around that. You know, they didn't get
around making money on this, Like even though they don't
have to print it anymore, you know, they didn't get
around that they're still making money on this stuff. I
went back to college to the age of twenty seven
now and everything is online, six ebooks. I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Wow, it's so interesting because when my sister broke her wrist,
she was kind of screwed because she still wrote a
lot of stuff down.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
So I wonder what she was writing.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Then.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
What the kids must not know is that most teachers
have access to what the students are doing. I can
see what every student's doing on their chromebook. I can
close out of tabs, I can look at their open
docs and track the history of everything that they've typed. This,
heck is not so sneaky or effective. So you had
crazy You went to Catholic school, so you had crazy rules.
Speaker 7 (10:35):
Jason, Yeah, it was more like how you get around
like the uniform rules because like your hair, like for
guys couldn't be touching your ears, like they had to
be shorter than that. So we would like tuck our
hair like behind our ears so that when it would
always be the lunch line, so when everyone was lining
up for lunch line, they would chuck to make sure
that every piece of your uniform like like was according
to code. Oh, like you'd have a belt on every day,
(10:58):
so like thank goodness, know, thank god. So I would
like untuck my shirt a lot, so it would sort
of like fold over so you couldn't see my But
I wanted to wear slide, so I made sure that
like my pants were long enough so that you couldn't
see that I didn't have a back of my shoe
because that was part of the uniform.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Like it was crazy. Wow, yeah, you were so sneaky,
like you were so bad and slides right and now
everything right according to Jason, But it turns out you
were a miscreant. It turns out that you were just
constantly breaking.
Speaker 7 (11:32):
The rules we have, like guilt somehow still got in
you know, that's sure.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
And my mom went to Caelic school, like been the
what I guess would have been the sixties. Uh yeah,
I guess it was the sixties and they were nuns
were like mean to her. It was nuns and they
were mean to her. They were very mean. I think
they had rulers and you know, all kinds. It was
a different time. Yeah, yeah, it was a whole different time. Now. Yeah,
everyone's got a chromebook. I guess you're right. You would
(11:57):
think that that would make everything less expensive, but apparently no, No,
they got to work around for that too. They talk
better than the excited. These are the radio blogs on
the Fresh Show. It's like we're running in our diaries,
except we say them aloud. We call the blogs Kiki's
got one go.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Yo, dear blog.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Okay, have you guys ever experienced this in a relationship
where your partner is doing something with great intentions, but
you really wish they would stop.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Yes, okay, Okay, I'm not alone.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Okay, because this latest issue we're having is at my house.
My lawn care company who has been amazing, We have
a great relationship until last week when I asked them
to do a little extra clean up in the yard.
I pay them and I get a call. I'm on
my way to the wedding that I went to, and
it's the line care company saying, we can't service your
(12:50):
lawn because we got stung by a bee and we
can't come back into you ensure that there are.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
No more bees in your yard. I'm like, you're the
long care company. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
You probably like a pest You gotta call pest people.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
I just feel like, if you cut grass for a living,
you should have a procedure in place for a book,
you know, Like, how don't how?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
I don't think they got to get rid of hives.
I did call a hive guy.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
I said, is there a high did you going?
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Like?
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Did you bump into a hive? He's like, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
It just was a lot of bees. I'm like, so
where are they located, sir, I don't know. I got
stung by a bee?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Okay, you know, yeah, a little more information would be helpful,
Like where they're living, you know where they're setting up shop,
you know where their new little apartment complex. This would
be helpful, Right.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
So I got home and we checked for the bees,
and nobody. We didn't see one bee in sight, you know,
And I understand some people are terrified of bees.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
And you get stung, you freak out, and then what
long care is not for you if that's the case.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
But I thought maybe I was being unreasonable, but clearly not.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
I think you so I know your biggest fear.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
And I feel seen and heard because I couldn't wrap
my mind around your You work in line care and
you're running from a.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Bug like that. I don't understand.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
But anyway, it's a but, like what you want me
to do?
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Anyway.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
So once he decided he was no longer cutting my yard,
I said, okay, whatever, I'll find a new company. In
the midst of the conversation of finding a new company,
Big Tim decides that it is his time to shine
and he wants to go purchase a brand new lawnmore
and he is just going to take care of our yard.
And I love that man with all my heart and soul,
(14:32):
but line care is not his thing, and I don't
want him to do this. I don't want to leave
this in his hands. I don't want to I feel
like this is bad for our future marriage, Like I
don't want you in charge of.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
This just because he would do a bad job, or
he will be consistent, or all the things Okay, So
if you think that it's just easier for you, you won't
have to nag him, it'll look it'll look better. You
just think that this is something better left for the professionals. Yes,
And I don't disagree with that, Like I don't know
that I need to be out there doing that stuff either.
Like I think, I think by the time we bought that.
I've said this a million times in my case, by
(15:03):
the time I buy the lawnmower and the edger and
and all this stuff, and then and then I got,
you know, the blower, and then I got a you know,
I don't know, plant stuff and seed stuff and whatever
I should. I just just sounds sexual. But it's not
the blower on the edge. And but I'm just saying,
I hire somebody, and it's just I'm better. Everyone wins.
(15:25):
And that's how you feel.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Yeah, do you.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Feel too, like this is like a marriage thing, because
Hobby did the same thing.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
He bought the lawnmower, and like.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
You said, Fred, all the gadgets and accessories that came
with it, and I still got, you know, senor Tino
coming over to cut my grass. And I love him
because I'm like, listen, your family, Like I let him
in out the house whatever he wants. I'm like water
because I to me, it's just a headache that I don't.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Want to if you got senior Tino, then why did
you buy all the.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Stuff because he bought a house.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
So Hobby was like, well, I'm the man of the
house and I want a lawnmower. And I love that
for him, like we all like projects, right, he uses
it once in a while, but then I don't know,
I just feel it's just so much easier to call.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Somebody to come do it, and they do a way
better job. Thank you, way better.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Okay, so you neither one of you want your men
no rolling the lawn. I know you don't want Shane
washing your underwear. There's so many things you're obssed with
watching your underwear.
Speaker 8 (16:14):
But okay, the phrasing our house is sometimes we're a
little too helpful because like I'll have like a return
sitting out, you know, and but I won't put like
the final thing in the bag, and he'll already have
taken it to FedEx, you know, like he tries to
be one step ahead of me, or like the whites
will be in a pile to do the laundry and
he'll put them in, but like they needed to be
spot cleaned. I'm like, let's just stick to our areas
(16:34):
and we'll be got, you know.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Okay, all right, don't try to get ahead.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Of this crazy brain. You can't do it right.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Understood, Jason. I feel like you're the guy who has
to do the thing.
Speaker 7 (16:44):
I love cutting the grass, and if I can do it,
Tim can do it.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Bro You're consistent about everything in your life. You are
not going to miss anything. But you if you said
it days to cut grass every Wednesday day.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Saturday about Jason said, when I describe him to people,
he's a guy who doesn't miss anything.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
No.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
So yeah, no, I would trust you to do it
and do it well. But I enjoy it. You also
have to do it in order to keep a roof
over your right. You are the professional in that house.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
So it's fulfilling when it's done to be like, wow,
I did that. So I can see like why he
would want to. He does so many great things. I
just I don't want you to do it.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
I don't. I hate when he cleans.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
I don't like when he cleans, you know what, And
he's doing it with the best intentions, So it's like,
how do you tell them no, like, don't do that.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Yeah, I guess that's hard because you know they're trying
to help, yes, and they want and I'm sure subliminally
they want, you know, sort of the help credit, right, like, look,
I'm contributing, see, but they're not doing it the way
you want him to do it, so they're not really
getting the credit. So you may as well just have
somebody else do it if you have the means.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Exactly kikky.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I go through after and refold the hand towels, I
remake the bed after every time. I'm like, I'm just
following you around, you doing everything, and he's so proud
of himself. I wait for him to leave and I
redo it on you.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Oh. I feel like if I, if I ever, you know,
live with somebody that and I had the means, I
would hire people to do these things so that there's
just no argument between us about who's doing more or
the other of it. It's like, guess what, neither one
of us are doing it because we got someone to
do it. So I don't want to hear that you
think you're doing more of it than I am because
you're not doing anything because we got a guy and
a girl, you know what I mean. So like there's no,
(18:23):
we're not going to compete it. Oh well I do
more cleaning. No you don't. We got the cleaning person
for that. So that is one least thing that we're
going to argue about.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
Love that.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
I think it's an I think it's an investment in
our future. I feel like the long guy might be
an investment in his lifelong sustainability and happiness. You're exactly
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