Jack went to the water park and noticed several young men wearing socks. At first we thought this was gross but now it somewhat makes sense. Jack also has a gripe about the drawstring holes in his "swim trunks."
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As I continue to try to drag the conversation right
away from politics because I can't take it anymore.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Yes, that's fine, I'm done.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
I asked this question earlier, and I don't know if
anybody has the answer. At the water park yesterday with
the kids, I noticed a fair number of gentlemen, not
a lot, but it was a dozen dudes wearing socks
at the water park. Does anybody know is that become
a thing. It seems extra gross to me, although it
(00:28):
doesn't really make sense that it's gross.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
No.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I mean, on one hand, it's I assume those the
sweaty socks you wore in your shoes and now you're
wearing them in the water parks. You're basically washing your
socks in the water that I'm about to get in
my eyes and my mouth. But your feet are gross
and sweaty too, and you put your feet in the pool.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
So and there are other body parts to be named
as not named.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
As I say, for some reason, it's off putting to
see guys walking around on their socks in the water.
It's sick, and mostly guys wearing blacks. I think it's
because it so you don't have to walk on the
hot cement. So you're wearing socks. I think that's why
people are doing it.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Mostly are we're talking like like mid calf length most commonly,
or like the ankle or no show or what length
was popular.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I don't know. I'm not the sok sock connoisseur that
you apparently are regular socks. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Okay, so that would be like mid calf, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
But some of the people who were wearing the white sox,
you know, white socks, they are noticeably grungy, and it's
just disgusting to look at the dirty white socks on
your feet in the water that I'm about to get into. See,
I think the black socks, guys, that's your pro tip,
that's your hack. They've done it.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
They've noticed your the white sox get horrible, so now
they rock.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
The black disguising how disgusting it is. But again, as
I contemplated, I realized it's not really actually grosser than
your sweaty feet and as Joe mentioned, other body parts
going into the pool and getting washed, and then we
all just float around in the human soup that is
(02:10):
a water park, and the pools public pools and water
parks are, if you think about it for even a
few minutes, are so gross. It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Any of us go oh, yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Mean it's because it's just disgusting.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
If you think about the hygiene habits of children are
not Yeah, children are one thing.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
It's a lot of the adults. You look at that adult, Oh,
would you climb into a bathtub with that guy or
that woman? Would you? Even you wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
There's a bunch of guys.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
And women there. There's no way you could sleep in
a bed with them. You'd be too disgusting to lay
next to that person in a bed. You'd want to
be like way over on the edge, hoping they don't
touch you. Yeah, you're getting into the pool together and
like the water. They're washing their cell themselves in the water.
That's on gross Again, if you think about it for
a couple of minutes, you can't go.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Well, that's why I say, that's why hotels are Hotel
pools have so much chlorine in them. You could dissolve
a corpse in them.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
More put in more.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Well in the water parks, don't they pretty aggressively filter
the water and chlorinate it. In the rest of it.
I'm sure it's fine.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Well, clearly it's fine. Nobody dies or gets sick or
anything like that. But it is pretty gross to think about.
I mean, there's some disgusting.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
People at water parks, right. Oh lord, we've outlawed the
use of that phrase and inflection henceforth. I know, right,
what was I gonna say?
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Oh, my kids are grown, I have no reason to
go to a water park, and as you mentioned, teenage
girls and thong bikinis is the last thing I needed
for a variety of reason. Yeah, but my memory the
last time I took my kids was that I careened
down the various water slides and a couple of times
like I dropped or switched positions with something, and I
(04:04):
whacked my head because I have a very large head,
and I mean it would take like an NFL lineman
to resist the g forces with a noggin of mice eides.
But that's what I remember, hitting my head hard and thinking,
don't pass out, don't pass out.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
My final note on the water park, when I put
on my swim trunks to go, I can't believe they
haven't fixed this problem through all the years. But the
string on one side had gone in the hole and
there's no getting it out. They just that pair of
shorts is ruined. How have they not come up with
a way to keep that from going in the hole?
A knot or something, the stopper of some sort of
(04:40):
what you haven't fixed this problem since I was a
little kid. But anyway, so I couldn't tie my shorts,
so they're really loose, and there was a very good
chance they were to kind of come down at some
point if I weren't paying attention, and I thought everybody's
got a cell phone, I'm gonna get a picture of
my shriveled twigginberries and my white looking legs. Oh boy,
(05:02):
it's gonna be on Instagram, so delightful. Yeah, luckily they
didn't happen.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
I bet there was a guy in the year thirteen
hundred saying, honey, the string just went in my buckskin breeches, right,
is there any way to get that out?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Or by big monk hood cloak fing exactly?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
It's still vexus mankind. Yeah, And I want you to
know that using the term swim trunks totally does not
make you sound really old.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
What do most people say? I don't actually know what
would you say, Michael, I would have said swim trunks too. Well,
you're yeah year old Anton. Is there terms?
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Maybe I'm out of line here. What do you call them?
I don't know, just shorts. You're the shorts.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
You don't call them swim trunks, No, I call them
board shorts. Hey, go get your swim trunks, guys.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
And wait a half hour after lunch so you don't
get cramps.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Oh boy, I didn't realize I was doing that, all right,
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