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May 19, 2026 11 mins
What is the earliest childhood memory that you have? Joe says that you're probably not going to start remembering things until the age of 6...

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This portion of the Joe Show podcast is powered by
Fair and Faarah, Tampa accident Attorneys. What is your earliest
childhood memory and how old were you?

Speaker 2 (00:16):
You know what? Actually, let's do that now.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Eight hundred and four Ohn nine ninety three, ninety three,
you could text in it ninety seven seven two zero.
What is your earliest childhood memory? Because only about nine
percent of Americans say that they can remember anything that
happened to them when they were six years old.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
Really yep, oh my god.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Forty one percent say that their memories. And this is
what's crazy that they really start to like really remember
things when they turned about sixteen years old. Nah Diah,
I think that that's a little bit too long, but
forty one percent of Americans say that that's what it is.
So what is your earliest childhood memory? Katie looks most excited,

(01:09):
So we're just gonna take it to Katie.

Speaker 4 (01:11):
I was three, Okay, I was three, and my little
brother Joey was just born, and I just remember him
laying he was like on a blanket or something. Mom
was like changing his diaper and I saw the little
black belly button thing.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
Lost it because.

Speaker 4 (01:27):
It was so scary to me. I asked my mom too,
I'm like, am I making that up? And she said
that I really was very scared of it. No, kiddy, Yeah,
the little umbilical cord. Yeah, why do you think you
remember that moment? Is it traumatizing?

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Oil? Is that it was that a story that was
like told a lot when you were a little kid, because.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
I remember asking my mom about it. Dude, that's like
my only three year old memory. But I just remember
the little gross and Bulford thing and I was not
having it horrifying, and then I grew up loving scary movies.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
So who knows?

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Three years old?

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Do you remember anything else when you look back on
that time or is that really la? Is it like
the belly button?

Speaker 4 (02:02):
I remember kindergarten, so I was like five, What do
you remember about kindergarten. I used to get in trouble
because you know, you'd play house, because you'd have like
play time.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
And I was always wanted to be the dog.

Speaker 4 (02:13):
Right on brand, just tar and ass like all over
like on all fours and barking. And my kindergarten teacher,
Miss Sloan, did not like that, so she told me
that I needed to calm down.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
You I was thinking that you were going to say,
like I wanted to be everyone's mom, so.

Speaker 5 (02:33):
Yeah, me too.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
I was like pushing them around. Yeah you were the dog.
I wanted the dog.

Speaker 6 (02:37):
Iways barking and biting everybody.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
I was in How old are you in kindergarten?

Speaker 3 (02:45):
I think five and six.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
I was in kindergarten when I lost my dinosaur lego.
I talked about this before on the show, but that
was a very traumatizing moment, and I still want to
find that lego when that I have that lego. For
some reason, I remember that. I remember being at an
NBA championship when the Detroit Pistons beat the La Lakers.
I remember Luke Walton hitting the three with about like

(03:08):
two minutes left, and then a black lady behind me going.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
It's okay, baby, we still gonna win. And we still
did win. Yeah, we still did win.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
I remember like some elf looking man, he wasn't an elf,
more of a wizard, walked up to me after they
won as the confetti was falling, and he said, remember,
this will never happen again.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
It has not.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
It has not. They haven't even come close. I remember
getting lost at Disneyland and I don't remember my age,
but my parents purposely lost me. I've told that story
before too, But sometimes I don't know if I remember
things because I remember them, or if my parents told me,
or if it's photographs.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
It's trauma.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
That's fair.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
You never forget the trauma.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Although I was talking to someone about trauma and someone
said something to me where they think that I went
through things and I don't remember them because I blocked
them off.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
That could also be a possibilit A lot of people
do that.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
And apparently there are things that you can take that
make you remember them. And I kind of want to
go because they say it's healing because they say that
sometimes you have defense they realize you have. Yeah, my
uncle uh I almost said his name, but he doesn't
want me to say his name, does it? And he
says that it's helped him a lot.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Well, Ashley, let's kick it to you.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Right after we talked to Hannah, because Hannah says that
she was four and she remembers something when she was four.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Hannah, first, Yeah, how old are you?

Speaker 4 (04:30):
Hi?

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Hi? I'm oh my gosh, how old am I?

Speaker 7 (04:33):
Twenty seven?

Speaker 1 (04:34):
Okay, so you remember something that happened to you when
you were four?

Speaker 2 (04:38):
What was it.

Speaker 7 (04:40):
Yeah, we were living with my grandparents. My parents were
really young parents, and we were about to move into
a house. So we were all sleeping in like the
same king sized bed and I woke up in the
middle of the night to my uncle's over four foot
iguana crawling up the bed. Oh oh and yep yep.
I woke up my dad like in tears, like its bed. Dad, Like,

(05:03):
you have to stop it. And I've been scared of
reptiles ever since.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yeah, that'll do it.

Speaker 6 (05:08):
That will that would definitely do it. Oh my goodness.
Remember I remember being in preschool. I remember being in
preschool because my grandmother was the teacher. And I remember
all the kids having to go to sleep, and Hi, Grandma,
can I stay up and get snacks? So I would
stay up and she would give me up. I used
to love pears, so she would cut up pears for

(05:29):
me and put them in a little bowl.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
And I had to be like four or five.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
Your grandma was your teacher, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
My preschool teacher.

Speaker 6 (05:37):
Everybody's taking necks, they're pulling out their cots, nobody wants
to go to sleep, and I'm just like fake laying
down and she's like, all right, come on.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
I remember my grandma taking me to Toys r US
so we could get tech deck dude.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
But I don't remember how old I was.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
What's a tech deck?

Speaker 5 (05:52):
I don't know either, Katie, tech deck. Let's see, ladies,
tech deck dudes were the best day. You could still
buy tech decks. You could still buy tech decks. They're
just finger skateboards. But tech deck dudes were a thing
where they were thumbs. They looked like they had closed.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
Dudes are back in your day, you just didn't have
them because you were cool enough.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
Sid What do you remember?

Speaker 4 (06:19):
I was I think three or four or I was
turning four, and my mom complained.

Speaker 7 (06:24):
One day that she was tired.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
Of the Jehovah witness knocking.

Speaker 4 (06:27):
On the door.

Speaker 7 (06:29):
So my dad said, I'll take care of it, and
sure enough, when he knocked on.

Speaker 8 (06:33):
The door, my dad ripped open the door, screams.

Speaker 7 (06:36):
And bled, and then slammed the door in their face.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
Well, that would definitely be something I don't remember.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
You don't need a no soliciting sign for that.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
When you bring it up to mom and dad, do
they deny it or do they go, yep, we did it.

Speaker 4 (06:52):
Mom usually gets a very embarrassed face, and my dad
just like, yeah, that's.

Speaker 3 (06:59):
Not proud Dad, to go down.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
Listen. I don't like solicitors anyways.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
No offense to anyone who solicits when it's religion, because
we can't hate on your religion because then you send
an email and we have to do an on air apology.
But you're weirdo if you go door to door. Uh sid,
thank you. Jed remembers probably something.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
He definitely remember something something remembers.

Speaker 6 (07:24):
And I was living in Korea. He does for sure,
but he also has a great memory, so he probably
remembers actually being born.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
I remembering.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
I don't remember how old I was, but I remember
saying shut up and my aunt putting soap in my mouth,
and my mom like.

Speaker 3 (07:47):
You know I got the white people, wow.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
Not my mom. I remember my mom like.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
I remember being in another room being like because my
mom was going off on my off.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
Like you's soap in my son's mouth.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
Ready to kill her.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
And then I thought I could say shut up now,
and then I said it and my mom.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
Was like, I'll put soap.

Speaker 3 (08:10):
What happened if the kids?

Speaker 1 (08:11):
So I might be why I don't remember too much
because all of a sudden, I loved eating soap. Jed,
what do you remember, buddy? I gotta know from Jed?
What does he remember?

Speaker 2 (08:22):
In my bed?

Speaker 1 (08:23):
Is?

Speaker 2 (08:23):
It's Asian? If I had to guess, what do you remember? Now?

Speaker 8 (08:28):
This is gonna be very dark.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
I remember.

Speaker 8 (08:33):
Well, no, because I remember when nine to eleven happened.
I was five years old, and the reason I remembered
it is because my dad. I got it out of
school early and my dad took us to McDonald's.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
I don't remember nine to eleven, really, I don't.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
I was in the seventh grade.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
I believe six or seventh grade.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
I was because it happened two thousand and one, which
means I was five.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
It's five years old almost.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
We had TV's in the class. I was watching to
go Down. Then we gotta let go out of school early.
I was like, what's going on? Get home, sit in
the living room, my appearents.

Speaker 6 (09:08):
And it was all on the TVs, all on TVs.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
I remember American Idol doing I'm proud to be an American.

Speaker 8 (09:16):
Also remember oh first Pistons.

Speaker 6 (09:18):
Game was I'll never forget Going from nineteen ninety nine
into year two thousand and thinking we were going to
just like blow up.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
That though.

Speaker 3 (09:28):
Yes, my lot people did what it got. We got water,
we got food. It was like, we're not gonna be
able to leave the house, no way.

Speaker 4 (09:35):
Yeah, your tuters are going to shut down, stop working
right Literally.

Speaker 8 (09:40):
My dad was telling me about that too. They had
infomercials to buy your own uh bunker, your own doomsday
bunker shut up. Yeah, like two am, but the two
am you get those, you know, get your one night
hundred by bunker now or whatever it was. Swear to god,
it was a real thing back in like ninety eight
ninety nine. They were all preparing unreal. Also, remember going

(10:02):
and seeing Barnie Live. I Love You.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
I don't remember this, but I know what happened. I
broke my leg because of rug Rats Live. Really because
I guess Angelica ran out and said hey brats, and
I got excited.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
I jump, I jumped up on the chair and it
was right.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
And then my parents when they took me to the hospital,
thought that they were they thought that they had to
pull Yeah, they had to pull my mom into another
room and be like, what's going on. She's like, well,
he's special and he really likes the rug Rats.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
And they're like, yeah, but did you do anything?

Speaker 1 (10:35):
It was the chair and they're like, yeah, I know,
did you hit him with the chair And they're like no,
it was leg wrapped or yeah, oh yeah, but I
don't remember it.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
I remember the story, remember the story. It's interesting.

Speaker 5 (10:48):
Now.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
I just want to do four hours. We're going to
move on.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
We're gonna move on, Yeah, one more time. Only nine
percent of Americans say they actually have a memory from
when they were sex. I think I think some of
those memories happened when I was six, But then again,
I don't remember. Yeah, all right, hmm, what's so funny?

Speaker 2 (11:12):
Just laughing it's a good topic. I don't laugh like
a dog.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
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