October 2, 2025 • 19 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):
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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
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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 if it's not hard
enough to get him, I can't to pay attention. Now
you've got all these other things computers and iPads, and
it's not like an old part 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
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were your choices. And then sometimes we get to go
the computer Labah, 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 that would
you were supposed to use a computer then, but then
when you.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Lab lab, no, I forgot it was because it was
a laboratory. That's why.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
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 Paulina's diary. We use
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Google Docs for paulina diary. She just writes down every
single thing she did every day.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Nice.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Today's thought is I leveled maybe pants, but I didn't
write that down yet?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
No, yeah, okay, well if you could get that on
there immediately. She had her bowel movements for us, you know, No,
it's true that tomorrow. No, No, it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
It should be hopefully only on Friday.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
No, I don't know every day, so come on, so
we do know.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Yet, as a matter of fact, they do. That's not
even a joke. During class, 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 their parents once used in the two thousands.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
How old are we?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
The workarounds spread quickly on TikTok, where students show off
their secret group chats hidden in plain sight on school laptops.
For them, it's not just rebellion, it's a revival of
Y two K era internet culture. And not everyone is amused.
Teachers and parents worry that the hat 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
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dock as if you know before.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Now this is going to.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Sound really old timing, But 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 cloud. 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 5 (03:09):
We were writing lists of our crushes and the teachers
got ahold of them.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
It was so embarrassing.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
But we were ranking the boys, boy like that we
had crushes on yeah, and they run them and oh 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 2 (03:28):
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 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 what comes to Mike?
Because you said you knew you thought of some right away?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Oh yeah, I was great in high school? So what
was it?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
What were the work runs? And I want to know
from you guys, so you can call intact the same number.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Yeah, when I got a car, I used to drive
myself to school, but I was stopp and 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 2 (04:36):
Now can I can? I ask an insensitive question, do
they know your parent was dead?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Well? No, they have a guardian.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Okay, I wasn't just I just I didn't know if
they didn't get the message. You know, they didn't get.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
The message living on the street, So you were able
to use your mom's name and said she was let
you know she's going to be late.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
You know, hold on a second, now, now, now, Kiki
that that would have been kind of a hack because like,
if the school hadn't known, you could have signed every
no you could, you could have gotten away with this.
How come she never comes to any of her activities?
Speaker 6 (05:07):
No, I was using my sister's name, but I would
call it.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
So you were doing the same thing. You were just
using a person who was funny.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
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. A textbook is a really big book
we had to carry around, right.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I love that we have to explain it. Do they
even And I know this is going to make me
sound even more old timey. 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?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
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 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
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we'd carry out just boxes of books from the bookstore.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
You know, it was like, my god.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
And then you could sell the books back at the
end of the day, that part, and then you could,
you know whatever.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
You didn't give your mom the money, did you. No?
I also pay for my own books. Oh, I mean
my fast flood check. But then at the end of
the year whatever. I'm over here standing like, who wants
a book? I got it for cheaper.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yeah, but then just everybody then everyone can afford an
iPad then, because I mean those are expensive, so I
mean if you can't, but I realized the iPad could
get you 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?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Is that how it worked?
Speaker 6 (06:41):
I think? So they're given the kids think pads and
iPads now, oh think they give us.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Thinks ye, same thing We're just like school. So I
hate carry hi Hi carry. So that you used to
pass notes in school, Well, we would have.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
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 it was
all there and then oh.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
God, that sounds get caught.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Yeah, that sounds really dangerous, Like you know, you've you've
got volumes of people's thoughts in there.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yes, yes, it got pretty bad for a while there, but.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
It was fun. Do you still have any of those notebooks?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
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,
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so why did you write a heart in there?
Speaker 1 (07:45):
But I mean, that would be funny to go back
and read it. Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
One of my friends has them, so we've gone back
and watched or read them, but.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yeah, okay, it was wild, okay, fair enough, thank you Carrie.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
Having good day.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
So you would sign yourself in and out, absolutely, and
then what else would come to mind?
Speaker 6 (08:02):
I have my phone in my textbook. 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, like, oh, we used.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
To die 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 got a film study. Oh yeah, we gotta go
stretch out or whatever. It's like, no, you don't, and
teachers are like, it doesn't matter what you do, you're
not gonna win, but okay, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
It's like we were so bad.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
We were bad.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yeah, but we used to do stuff like that, Oh yeah, yeah,
we gotta hey, yeah, but it's noon. The game is
at seven o'clock to night. 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.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Hey Jenna, Hey, good morning.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
So how did you get around the rules at school?
Speaker 2 (08:59):
So?
Speaker 7 (08:59):
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 chucked that temperature, and then
she would call I have a plate out, and then
she'd call home exam.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
That is brilliant.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
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 mamady 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 1 (09:36):
That's smart. N Yeah, oh my gosh, she's so hot.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
And then the problem is like like, oh my gosh,
she's so hot, Like we're going to hospital. Like, no,
I just stuck my head in everything. Never mind, that's
smart yet you always.
Speaker 7 (09:50):
Know for filling my head first. And I had five siblings.
I'd like you guys want to get out of school,
go to that.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
I like it. I like it. Thank you, Jenna, I
have a good day.
Speaker 7 (09:57):
Thank you guys for having me.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Uh you got it.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
My kindergartener, someone texted, has a chromebook. It weighs half
as much as he does and he has to bring
it home every day. Your kindergartener has a chromebook.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
What do you like? They come out.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Of the womb knowing how to use the phones. Yeah,
they're creepy, Like yeah, no one has talked them.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
They just know that's true.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
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 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 at the age of twenty seven now and
everything is online, six e books.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
I don't like it.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
Wow, that's so interesting because when my sister broke her wrist,
she was kind of screwed because she still wrote a
lot of stuff down, So I wonder what she was writing.
Speaker 7 (10:49):
Then.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
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 try 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 1 (11:08):
Jason.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
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.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
So we would like tuck.
Speaker 8 (11:19):
Our hair like behind our ears so that when it
would always be the lunch line. So when everyone was
lining up for lunchline, they would check to make sure
that every piece of your uniform like like was according
to code.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Like you'd have a belt on every day, so like
thank goodness, I know, thank God.
Speaker 8 (11:33):
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.
Like it was crazy.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Wow, Yeah, you were so sneaky, like you slides right
and everything right according to Jason, But it turns out
you were at miscreant. It turns out that you were
just constantly breaking the rules.
Speaker 8 (12:05):
We have the guilt somehow still got in.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Well, you know, that's sure.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
And my mom went to gothic school, like been the
what I guess would have been the sixties. Uh, yeah,
I guess it was the sixties and today 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.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Now. Yeah, everyone's got a chromebook. I guess you're right.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
You would think that that would make everything less expensive,
but apparently no, No, they got to work around for
that too.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
They talk better than the excited tell me.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
These are the radio blogs on The Fresh Show It's
like running in our diaries, except we say them aloud.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
We call them blogs. Kiki's got one go yo, dear blog.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
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 1 (12:59):
Yes, Okay, Okay, I'm not alone.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
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 lawne 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 no
more bees in your yard. I'm like, you're the lawn
care company.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
I don't at people.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
I just feel like.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
If you cut grass or a living you should have
a procedure in place for a book, you know, like,
how do I don't.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Think they got to get rid of hives? A hive? Guy?
I said, is there a high it? Did you go?
Speaker 3 (13:52):
It?
Speaker 6 (13:52):
Like, did you bump into a hive? He's like, I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
It just was a lot of bees.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
I'm like, so where are they located, sir, I don't know.
I got stung by bee.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Okay, you know, yeah, a little more information will be helpful,
Like where they're living, you know where they're sitting up shop? Yes,
you know where their new little apartment complex is will
be helpful.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
Right. 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,
and you get stung, you freak out, and.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Then what lawn care is not for you if that's
the case.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
But I thought maybe I was being unreasonable, but clearly not.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I thank you, Caleb.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
So I got your biggest fear, and I feel seen
and heard because I couldn't wrap my mind around you're
you work in lawn care and you're running from a.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Bug like that. I don't understand.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
But anyway, a fee, but like what you want me
to do?
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Anyway.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
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 it is his time to shine and
he wants to go purchase a brand new lawn more
and he is just gonna take care of our yard.
And I love that man with all my heart and soul,
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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.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
I don't want to.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
I feel like this is bad for our future marriage.
Like I don't want you in charge.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Of this him to do a bad job, or he
won't be consistent or all the things. Okay, so 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,
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by 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 gotta, 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 lower on the edge and seeing things. But I'm
just saying I hire somebody and it's just I'm better.
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Everyone wins, and that's how you feel.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Do you feel too, like this is like a marriage
thing because Hobby did the same thing.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
He bought the lawnmower, and.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Like you said, Fred, all the gadgets and accessories that
came with it, and I still got, you know, Senortino
coming over to 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 want.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
To if you got Seniortino, then why did you buy
all the stuff?
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Because he bought a house. 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 somebody to come do it and they do
a way better job.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Thank you, way better Okay.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
So you neither one of you want your men no
rolling the lawn. I know you don't want Shane washing
your underwear.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
There's so many things I don't he's so obsessed with
watching your underwear.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
But okay, the phrase in 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 him in, but like they needed to
be spot cleaned. I'm like, let's just stick to our
areas and we'll.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Be got, you know. Okay, all right, don't try to
get ahead of this crazy brain. You can't do it, understood, Jason.
I feel like you're the guy who has to do
the thing.
Speaker 8 (17:17):
I love cutting the grass, and if I can do it,
Tim can do it.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Bro You're consistent about everything in your life.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
You are not going to miss anything if you if
you said a day to cut grass every Wednesday Saturday.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Something about Jason when I describe him to people, he's
a guy who doesn't miss anything. No, So yeah, no,
I would trust you to do it and do it well.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
But I enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
You also have to do it in order to keep
a roof over your professional in that house.
Speaker 8 (17:47):
So it's fulfilling when it's done to be like, wow,
I did that, so I can see, like not why
he would want to.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
He does so many great things. I just I don't
want you to do it. I know, I hate when
he cleans. 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 2 (18:05):
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 them 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 1 (18:21):
Exactly, Kiki.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
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, be doing anything, and he's so proud
of himself. I wait for him to leave and I
redo it all.
Speaker 7 (18:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
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.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
No you don't. We got the cleaning person for that.
So that is one last thing.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
That we're going to argue about that. 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.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
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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
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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 if it's not hard
enough to get him, I can't to pay attention. Now
you've got all these other things computers and iPads, and
it's not like an old part 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
(01:05):
were your choices. And then sometimes we get to go
the computer Labah, 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 that would
you were supposed to use a computer then, but then
when you.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Lab lab, no, I forgot it was because it was
a laboratory. That's why.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
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 Paulina's diary. We use
(01:44):
Google Docs for paulina diary. She just writes down every
single thing she did every day.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Nice.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Today's thought is I leveled maybe pants, but I didn't
write that down yet?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
No, yeah, okay, well if you could get that on
there immediately. She had her bowel movements for us, you know, No,
it's true that tomorrow. No, No, it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
It should be hopefully only on Friday.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
No, I don't know every day, so come on, so
we do know.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Yet, as a matter of fact, they do. That's not
even a joke. During class, 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 their parents once used in the two thousands.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
How old are we?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
The workarounds spread quickly on TikTok, where students show off
their secret group chats hidden in plain sight on school laptops.
For them, it's not just rebellion, it's a revival of
Y two K era internet culture. And not everyone is amused.
Teachers and parents worry that the hat 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
(02:47):
dock as if you know before.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Now this is going to.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Sound really old timing, But 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 cloud. 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 5 (03:09):
We were writing lists of our crushes and the teachers
got ahold of them.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
It was so embarrassing.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
But we were ranking the boys, boy like that we
had crushes on yeah, and they run them and oh 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 2 (03:28):
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 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
(03:49):
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
(04:09):
the professor would really have no idea if you were
were not attending at all. But what what comes to Mike?
Because you said you knew you thought of some right away?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Oh yeah, I was great in high school? So what
was it?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
What were the work runs? And I want to know
from you guys, so you can call intact the same number.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Yeah, when I got a car, I used to drive
myself to school, but I was stopp and 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 2 (04:36):
Now can I can? I ask an insensitive question, do
they know your parent was dead?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Well? No, they have a guardian.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Okay, I wasn't just I just I didn't know if
they didn't get the message. You know, they didn't get.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
The message living on the street, So you were able
to use your mom's name and said she was let
you know she's going to be late.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
You know, hold on a second, now, now, now, Kiki
that that would have been kind of a hack because like,
if the school hadn't known, you could have signed every
no you could, you could have gotten away with this.
How come she never comes to any of her activities?
Speaker 6 (05:07):
No, I was using my sister's name, but I would
call it.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
So you were doing the same thing. You were just
using a person who was funny.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
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. A textbook is a really big book
we had to carry around, right.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I love that we have to explain it. Do they
even And I know this is going to make me
sound even more old timey. 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?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
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 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
(06:02):
we'd carry out just boxes of books from the bookstore.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
You know, it was like, my god.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
And then you could sell the books back at the
end of the day, that part, and then you could,
you know whatever.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
You didn't give your mom the money, did you. No?
I also pay for my own books. Oh, I mean
my fast flood check. But then at the end of
the year whatever. I'm over here standing like, who wants
a book? I got it for cheaper.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yeah, but then just everybody then everyone can afford an
iPad then, because I mean those are expensive, so I
mean if you can't, but I realized the iPad could
get you 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?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Is that how it worked?
Speaker 6 (06:41):
I think? So they're given the kids think pads and
iPads now, oh think they give us.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Thinks ye, same thing We're just like school. So I
hate carry hi Hi carry. So that you used to
pass notes in school, Well, we would have.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
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 it was
all there and then oh.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
God, that sounds get caught.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Yeah, that sounds really dangerous, Like you know, you've you've
got volumes of people's thoughts in there.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yes, yes, it got pretty bad for a while there, but.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
It was fun. Do you still have any of those notebooks?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
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,
(07:43):
so why did you write a heart in there?
Speaker 1 (07:45):
But I mean, that would be funny to go back
and read it. Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
One of my friends has them, so we've gone back
and watched or read them, but.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yeah, okay, it was wild, okay, fair enough, thank you Carrie.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
Having good day.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
So you would sign yourself in and out, absolutely, and
then what else would come to mind?
Speaker 6 (08:02):
I have my phone in my textbook. 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, like, oh, we used.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
To die 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 got a film study. Oh yeah, we gotta go
stretch out or whatever. It's like, no, you don't, and
teachers are like, it doesn't matter what you do, you're
not gonna win, but okay, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
It's like we were so bad.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
We were bad.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yeah, but we used to do stuff like that, Oh yeah, yeah,
we gotta hey, yeah, but it's noon. The game is
at seven o'clock to night. 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.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Hey Jenna, Hey, good morning.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
So how did you get around the rules at school?
Speaker 2 (08:59):
So?
Speaker 7 (08:59):
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 chucked that temperature, and then
she would call I have a plate out, and then
she'd call home exam.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
That is brilliant.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
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 mamady 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 1 (09:36):
That's smart. N Yeah, oh my gosh, she's so hot.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
And then the problem is like like, oh my gosh,
she's so hot, Like we're going to hospital. Like, no,
I just stuck my head in everything. Never mind, that's
smart yet you always.
Speaker 7 (09:50):
Know for filling my head first. And I had five siblings.
I'd like you guys want to get out of school,
go to that.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
I like it. I like it. Thank you, Jenna, I
have a good day.
Speaker 7 (09:57):
Thank you guys for having me.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Uh you got it.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
My kindergartener, someone texted, has a chromebook. It weighs half
as much as he does and he has to bring
it home every day. Your kindergartener has a chromebook.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
What do you like? They come out.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Of the womb knowing how to use the phones. Yeah,
they're creepy, Like yeah, no one has talked them.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
They just know that's true.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
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 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 at the age of twenty seven now and
everything is online, six e books.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
I don't like it.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
Wow, that's so interesting because when my sister broke her wrist,
she was kind of screwed because she still wrote a
lot of stuff down, So I wonder what she was writing.
Speaker 7 (10:49):
Then.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
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 try 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 1 (11:08):
Jason.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
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.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
So we would like tuck.
Speaker 8 (11:19):
Our hair like behind our ears so that when it
would always be the lunch line. So when everyone was
lining up for lunchline, they would check to make sure
that every piece of your uniform like like was according
to code.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Like you'd have a belt on every day, so like
thank goodness, I know, thank God.
Speaker 8 (11:33):
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.
Like it was crazy.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Wow, Yeah, you were so sneaky, like you slides right
and everything right according to Jason, But it turns out
you were at miscreant. It turns out that you were
just constantly breaking the rules.
Speaker 8 (12:05):
We have the guilt somehow still got in.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Well, you know, that's sure.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
And my mom went to gothic school, like been the
what I guess would have been the sixties. Uh, yeah,
I guess it was the sixties and today 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.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Now. Yeah, everyone's got a chromebook. I guess you're right.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
You would think that that would make everything less expensive,
but apparently no, No, they got to work around for
that too.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
They talk better than the excited tell me.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
These are the radio blogs on The Fresh Show It's
like running in our diaries, except we say them aloud.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
We call them blogs. Kiki's got one go yo, dear blog.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
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 1 (12:59):
Yes, Okay, Okay, I'm not alone.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
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 lawne care company saying we can't service your
(13:23):
lawn because we got stung by a bee and we
can't come back into you ensure that there are no
more bees in your yard. I'm like, you're the lawn
care company.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
I don't at people.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
I just feel like.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
If you cut grass or a living you should have
a procedure in place for a book, you know, like,
how do I don't.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Think they got to get rid of hives? A hive? Guy?
I said, is there a high it? Did you go?
Speaker 3 (13:52):
It?
Speaker 6 (13:52):
Like, did you bump into a hive? He's like, I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
It just was a lot of bees.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
I'm like, so where are they located, sir, I don't know.
I got stung by bee.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Okay, you know, yeah, a little more information will be helpful,
Like where they're living, you know where they're sitting up shop? Yes,
you know where their new little apartment complex is will
be helpful.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
Right. 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,
and you get stung, you freak out, and.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Then what lawn care is not for you if that's
the case.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
But I thought maybe I was being unreasonable, but clearly not.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I thank you, Caleb.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
So I got your biggest fear, and I feel seen
and heard because I couldn't wrap my mind around you're
you work in lawn care and you're running from a.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Bug like that. I don't understand.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
But anyway, a fee, but like what you want me
to do?
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Anyway.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
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 it is his time to shine and
he wants to go purchase a brand new lawn more
and he is just gonna take care of our yard.
And I love that man with all my heart and soul,
(15:05):
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.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
I don't want to.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
I feel like this is bad for our future marriage.
Like I don't want you in charge.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Of this him to do a bad job, or he
won't be consistent or all the things. Okay, so 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,
(15:36):
by 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 gotta, 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 lower on the edge and seeing things. But I'm
just saying I hire somebody and it's just I'm better.
(15:57):
Everyone wins, and that's how you feel.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Do you feel too, like this is like a marriage
thing because Hobby did the same thing.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
He bought the lawnmower, and.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Like you said, Fred, all the gadgets and accessories that
came with it, and I still got, you know, Senortino
coming over to 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 want.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
To if you got Seniortino, then why did you buy
all the stuff?
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Because he bought a house. 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 somebody to come do it and they do
a way better job.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Thank you, way better Okay.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
So you neither one of you want your men no
rolling the lawn. I know you don't want Shane washing
your underwear.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
There's so many things I don't he's so obsessed with
watching your underwear.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
But okay, the phrase in 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 him in, but like they needed to
be spot cleaned. I'm like, let's just stick to our
areas and we'll.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Be got, you know. Okay, all right, don't try to
get ahead of this crazy brain. You can't do it, understood, Jason.
I feel like you're the guy who has to do
the thing.
Speaker 8 (17:17):
I love cutting the grass, and if I can do it,
Tim can do it.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Bro You're consistent about everything in your life.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
You are not going to miss anything if you if
you said a day to cut grass every Wednesday Saturday.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Something about Jason when I describe him to people, he's
a guy who doesn't miss anything. No, So yeah, no,
I would trust you to do it and do it well.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
But I enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
You also have to do it in order to keep
a roof over your professional in that house.
Speaker 8 (17:47):
So it's fulfilling when it's done to be like, wow,
I did that, so I can see, like not why
he would want to.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
He does so many great things. I just I don't
want you to do it. I know, I hate when
he cleans. 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 2 (18:05):
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 them 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 1 (18:21):
Exactly, Kiki.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
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, be doing anything, and he's so proud
of himself. I wait for him to leave and I
redo it all.
Speaker 7 (18:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
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,
(18:56):
we're not going to compete it. Oh well I do
more cleaning.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
No you don't. We got the cleaning person for that.
So that is one last thing.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
That we're going to argue about that. 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.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
You're exactly
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