Backyard Games & Disappearing Trends

It's National Backyard Day and Dangerous Dave talks about the top backyard games and cornhole has taken the top spot. Plus, things that have disappeared over the past decade that no one has really noticed like affordable streaming services and writing checks.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
He's deeper in the den with Dangerous Day, Well happy
National Backyard Day. I would think it would be closer
to May than necessarily middle of March, because well, I
guess middle of March is kind of nice for people
down south, but not so much for us. And whether
you plan to hang out in your backyard this weekend
or not, maybe you're going to wait a month or two.
Ranking the ten best backyard games based on fun, accessibility,

(00:24):
and overall popularity. See if you agree. So the go
to game now is a corn hole. Cincinnati gets credit
for coming up with the modern version in the nineteen sixties,
but it's also a patented similar game with square holes
all the way back to eighteen eighty three. Next to
cornhole is bachi. It's good for multiple people. You can
play it anywhere. You don't need a legit bachi court.

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You can play it on a patch of grass, just
an open space. Whatever makes you happy with fle ball
is also in there. Guy Connecticut made a backyard baseball
possible when he came up with it in nineteen fifty three.
Two end touch. It's flag football, but even better. Kickball
is on the list. Horseshoes, badminton, ladder toss in there
or Norwegian golf as a lot of people like to

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call it. It's been pretty popular in the last twenty years.
A mailman in Pennsylvania has sold the idea. In two
thousand and five. The latter he came up with was
Ladder Golf LLC. It started selling sets. Laundart still making
the list, however, there's a more safe version where they're
just round. They don't actually have points. Remember the old
jarts as a kid. Croquet was on the list as well,

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But doesn't anybody just play catcher frisbee anymore? Not a
backyard game though, according to this list so best top
back yard games. I guess we'll start moving towards that.
Right now, you could probably still have a snowball fight
deeper in the there's a new list online of things
that gradually have disappeared over the past decade without people

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even noticing. The first thing that's surprising about ten years
ago is twenty fifteen doesn't feel like that long ago,
but Donald Trump running for president. The first time we
met Caitlyn Jenner, New England Patriots were embroiled into Flightgate.
The most viral story was the dress some of the
things that people say have slowly disappeared since then. Some
of the better ones include a good old eight hundred

(02:11):
dollars beater car that would actually run and drive, fairly
priced streaming services, small independent hardware stores. Everything has become
planned obsolescence. In other words, it's built to wear out
a real life person, answering business, telephones, other things that
have gradually disappeared over the past decade. Nobody noticed. I
think a lot of people notice some of these things.

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Twenty four hour businesses. I guess the pandemic killed bad,
didn't it. Coins on sidewalks, toys and cereal boxes, people smoking,
critical thinking and reflection, physical checks as payments. I think
I write like two checks a year now. Ownership everything
is rented, leased, or subscription based. Now, somebody said, glaciers.
Another person said, my hair. Talk about ownership rented, least

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or subscription based. Now. Remember when you used to buy
software and you'd get the software and it would be
yours to keep. Now you have to pay for it
every year. What's going on there? I mean again for
another episode of Deeper in the Den with Dangerous Dave
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