June 26, 2025 • 18 mins
Remember when summer meant biking until the streetlights came on, catching fireflies, and dodging the neighbor’s terrifying dog? In this nostalgia-heavy episode, we’re throwing it back to the 90s—when summer was sticky, chaotic, and absolutely glorious.
From PEI farm adventures and popsicle brain freezes to street hockey and reading under a box fan, Lisa and Josh swap stories of childhood freedom and the moment summer stopped feeling like… summer. Adulting hit hard—but we’re still trying to reclaim a little of that old-school magic (minus the mosquitoes).
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- Why 90s summers felt limitless
- The chores that weirdly felt like adventures
- The exact moment summer changed forever
- Can adult summers ever hit the same?
- The unexpected joy of crafting your own traditions
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi everyone, welcome to Brother, sister.
Whatever.
I'm Lisa, I'm Josh.
Do you remember those endlesssummers as a kid?
You know popsicles, sprinklers,no bills.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
From Kool-Aid to cold brew, from cannonballs to back
pain.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Yep, pretty much, let's start with our weekly what
if?
Okay, Josh, so would yousurvive being a kid again in
like a 90s summer?
So no phones, no AC, just, youknow, bikes, mosquitoes and like
some random slip and slide.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I think so.
I loved summers like that yeah,I mean, you know, I think, I
think as an adult we kind ofrealize we took it for granted
absolutely.
I don't know how many eye rollsI made when someone would say
like you know, oh, you grow upfast, or blah, blah, blah, and
(01:01):
I'm like yeah, yeah, you know,or whatever, but it's so true.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah, but the expression youth is wasted on
the young you think, but as akid you think adults have it all
.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
And it's true.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
It's not.
We have it all in terms ofbills and you know work
schedules and stuff like that.
But no, the fun is the first togo very true fun is the first
to go.
I loved like the uh summersthat we spent like in pei yeah,
(01:38):
me too so like I remember thesummers, like when we were at
home and stuff, it was always itwas still fun.
We always got to be outside andstuff it was always.
It was still fun.
We always got to be outside andlike do things and it was
different well, we had to.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
We didn't have a tv we'd get in trouble if we were
inside.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Yeah, like mom would actually like kick us out yeah,
yeah, or else we have to dochores so we're like okay, we're
going out yeah, so it was kindof like.
It was kind of like that vibeof like just being out and and
like just being bored outside,if we wanted to.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Or if we didn't have anything to do.
But like the summers in PEIwere like really fun.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yeah, well, on the farm.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah.
And like as we got older we gotto go to like the beach with
friends and stuff like that yeah, it got more lenient.
But like riding on the tractorwhen they were like doing the
fields of potatoes and stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
That was fun.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yeah, strawberry picking Even that, oh,
strawberry picking, but eventhose things like it seems like,
oh yeah, you got to do, youknow, potato fielding, like
whatever it was fun it waswhatever it was fun.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
It was fun.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
It was fun, it was just, it was different.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Well, yeah, we came from the city.
Yes, I mean, you know WestIsland, yes, but we came from
the city to that, but also itwas just us there, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Like Mom and Dad weren't with us.
We even had of freedom.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Yeah, mom and dad would give us money so we could,
like I know, do our own thing.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
It's so fun I almost.
It kind of makes me sad when Ithink that my kids won't be able
to have that.
Do you remember Candy?
Yes, Terrified, I rememberCandy the big.
Was it a Doberman?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I think it was a Rottweiler.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Oh my God Scared the shit out of me.
I hated leaving the house.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
I love that dog yeah no shit, you love that dog, even
though it got nipped in theface.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Oh, did you you didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I don't remember that yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
What was the ultimate summer day for you?
As a kid, if you could think ofyour perfect day, for me it was
definitely reading havingsomething cold, like a popsicle
or an ice cream, maybe likegoing out like we used to do
bike rides a lot, like it's afamily and stuff like that, or
like going to the mountains tothe park or beaver lake or stuff
(03:58):
like that.
Remember those days that thosewere like.
When I think of that, I thinkof that as like epic summer,
like me.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I think uh probably have to be hockey and football
with friends.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I remember I was in a street hockey league, you know
yes, I remember you playing uhstreet hockey all the time in
the front of the house.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah, you know, I just loved sports.
Don't know what happened, butyeah, every so often now I pass
by one of the basketball courtsand I'm like, ah, I should buy a
basketball, you know, and justgo do some cardio at the same
time, go do some cardio at thesame time.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
I remember baseball games, dad being an assistant
coach or a coach or something.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
For T-ball, my T-ball league, T-ball yep.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
And I would go all the time.
I had no choice, but whatevs?
I think I had a crush.
Oh, that's what it was.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Anthony, I went.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Anthony, because I had a crush.
Oh, that's what it was, anthony.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
I went Anthony.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Because I had a crush on one of the player's older
brother.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
His name was Anthony.
Maybe he was the oldest personon the league.
Yeah, and he was older.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but that'swhy I went.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
It's coming back to me now.
It's like they made me and I'mlike, no wait, they didn't make
me because I felt like I enjoyedgoing.
Why did I enjoy going?
Oh, yes, Crushes, oh the joy.
Summer sleepovers we never hadsleepovers.
We weren't allowed to havesleepovers.
No, that's not true.
We weren't allowed to havesleepovers.
(05:43):
No, that's not true.
I lie.
When I was younger, you werevery young, like under five.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
And we were still Jehovah's Witnesses.
There were a couple of girlsthat we were allowed to have
sleepovers at each other's house.
That's true, but it was onlythem.
Like mom, specifically, I feellike was a little bit more like
reserved, like didn't trust alot of people.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
She always wanted to, like, make sure we were safe
and stuff.
So yeah, it was very rare.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I think nowadays I'm too trusting.
You know, I kind of overjudgedsomeone who was like oh, I don't
want so-and-so to sleep overbecause of like Jet okay and I
was like, so like he's a boyyeah, okay, and I was so like
(06:33):
you know, like what the hell youknow, but you know what I
remember, I was so judgmentalabout that.
but then I started lookingonline like there's a lot of
like shitty things that happenwhere these kids think or
everyone thinks it's allcopacetic, and then, like 20
(06:55):
years later you hear that, likeyou know, they're fucking still
in therapy because they wereyeah molested or this or that so
yeah it's messed up.
You know like now I'm a littlebit more reserved, I have to
admit you didn't have a lot ofsleepovers, eh not that from
what I could remember no no yeah, I had a lot of friends, but I
(07:18):
just the sleepover wasn't reallyuh, I think it was a lot more
of like a girl thing.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I think boys like went out played and then came
home, yeah, and like girls wasall about like let's sleep over,
let's like do our hair or yes,nails or whatever makeup yeah.
So I don't think we it was alot more you know we'd stay out
late, play like until we couldbarely see the ball.
You know.
(07:45):
That's true, like you couldbarely see the ball, I remember,
you know.
I don't know if I'm just solike grouchy, you know, but like
I don't want fucking sleepovers.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Oh well, no, that's a whole other issue too, but yes.
You issue too.
But yes, you know, that'sprobably that's why mom didn't
let us have people over she'slike I have enough to do with
the two of you.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Yeah, you know, like uh, when when found had some of
her friends over, oh my, god,it's a lot eh you know, I mean,
uh, the screaming, and you knowit's just like, oh my god, oh my
gosh.
I mean there's times where I'mjust like, no, not this time,
please.
You know, just no one.
(08:29):
Yeah, yeah, you know.
And, and like when fallon has asleepover, huh, like you don't
understand, fallon is so posh,you know.
So like Fallon will have likenot one friend, it's like five
of them, you know, and they willall want you know their makeup
(08:52):
done and they all want you knowthis, and that you know.
And then, of course, one isleft out, and then that one's
crying, and then you're there,one is left out, and then that
one's crying, and then you'rethere, like what's going on?
Well, no, everyone has to.
And you're just like oh my gosh, I'm exhausted and I'm not
doing anything.
I'm exhausted and I'm not doinganything.
(09:15):
I don't know how their motherdoes it and I don't know how.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
like no yeah, you have to have a certain kind of
uh, a certain level of patienceand resilience to make it
through things.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
I don't know if it's because I'm sick right now too
that I'm like, you know, butlike oh.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I can't no so when did summer stop feeling like
freedom and start feeling likelogistics?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Well, hands down when you have kids.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Yeah, because, like I mean, listen, I'm going to ask,
I'm going to defer to youbecause I had my first kid at 21
.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Right, so I didn't really have too too many years
of like you know I can't compareto that, but I would say
probably when summer stoppedbeing fun yeah, was um summer
school.
You know like now everything Iknow now about me I realize that
I have certain learningdisabilities.
(10:24):
Okay, and so you know, the wayI compensated was by being, you
know, the class clown, the idiot, the you know troublemaker, etc
.
In school.
Take attention away from thatthing and put it here Right you
know troublemaker, et cetera.
In school.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Take attention away from that thing and put it here.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Right, you know.
And so because of that, youknow, every year was you got to
go to summer?
You failed, you failed, youfailed, you failed.
And so every year it was summerschool.
So like, and you know as a kid,because it's like, what summer
school is like a month, yeah, orlike you know.
(11:01):
So I mean you still had, youknow, a month of nothing, right,
but like to you that was likethe end right.
So I feel like that was a bigthing for me.
You know where I was kind oflike.
You know, summer's not funanymore, that's true, I forgot
about that.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I had to do summer school one summer, uh, but I
opted out.
I was like, fuck it, I'll justdo I'll.
I'll do like I moved on tograde 10 and I'll just do the
grade 9 math oh shit I was likeI'm not doing summer, I would
have done that option if I could, yeah.
But, but now, but what aboutlike as an adult, like when did
summers?
(11:40):
Because you like, like I said,I kind of had a kid pretty early
.
So my summers I was adult, Ifelt adulting, like I was
adulting, even like younger thannormal.
Do you know what I mean?
Yeah, even like younger thannormal.
(12:01):
Do you know what I mean, likemost people have their twenties
to, like you know, be child freeand like, do fun things still,
even while adulting.
So when, when was it for youthat it stopped being fun?
Speaker 2 (12:11):
I don't know if fun is the right word.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Okay, so what would the word be then that you would
use?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
I don't know.
I stopped being stupid.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
It was after New Year's.
I know that's not summer, butit was every year of just
getting drunk, doing crazythings, no care in the world.
Drugs, you know, all the way upuntil all the way up until
(12:47):
Psyche.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
So it was around so late 2000s.
Late Is it late.
I think it was like mid.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Mid.
Okay, so like 2005-ish.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Yeah, because I've been doing dog training for 20
years.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
I started dog training when Saiku.
So that would be it.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
It might be just under 20 years, but yeah, so I
would say around then.
That's when I started realizinglike okay, fuck, like you know,
like I need to.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
You got to change some things.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I remember that summer.
That summer, I think threetimes I woke up in the middle of
nowhere, had no idea where Iwas.
My pants were down no, I'mkidding, no, but I woke up like
in, like a ditch or you knowjust head first into the grass.
(13:43):
You know, like I wake up, I'mlike whoa fuck.
You know, like what the fuck?
You know, and yeah, and it wasthat leading to a really really
bad new year's.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Yeah really bad new year's Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Yeah, really bad new years.
And then it's like a switch.
I woke up and I was like, okay,I'm not going to live like this
anymore.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Interesting.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
And then that's literally when everything
changed.
Started trying to beingadulting more and like.
Yeah, no, relationship-wise Wowokay.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
I'm trying to like put all that yeah relationship
wise, there's only like four.
Oh, doesn't sound like I had 30, I should probably not say mine
.
All right, moving on question,for you would and then we'll
move on to this or that Wouldyou trade one perfect childhood
(14:37):
summer?
So think of our best summer askids for one adult summer with a
nanny, a chef and no work.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
So basically a paid vacation.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Yeah.
Would, you switch it?
Would you give up that reallycool kid's summer if you could
have a summer with a nanny, achef and no work?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
No, I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
No, I don't think so either.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
No regrets.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Because the kids would still be there.
A nanny, a chef and no work.
Okay, I guess that means thatsomebody would feed me, take
care of my kids and I wouldn'thave to work.
Exactly I don't know, Iwouldn't have to work Exactly I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I don't know if I'd want to do it.
What about?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
you.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
No, no way.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
No way.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
No, there's very little.
I regret.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Okay, let's do some this or that.
Okay, josh.
All right, okay, so I'll startoff.
Freezy pops or fancy cocktails.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Fancy cocktails Lemonade or iced coffee.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Iced coffee.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Fireworks or fireflies, fireworks, fireworks,
oh well, summer job.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Or fireflies, fireworks, fireworks, oh well
summer job or summer schoolSummer job I'd rather make some
money, money, money, bike ridesor road trips.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Road trips Sunburn or mosquito bites.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
I'm going to take mosquito bites.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Fair.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Sunburns are not fun.
No, I've had enough of those.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
A pool float or a pool noodle.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
A pool noodle.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Yeah, yeah, board games or card games, I already
know.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Ooh, board games, of course.
Okay, one more each, let's see,oh josh, water balloons or
water guns I do like waterballoons, water balloons really
yeah, I would have thought you'dgo for guns yeah, I would
normally uh grilling or chillingchilling.
(16:55):
Obviously, james is the grilleryeah, that's it oh shit, well
listen.
Summers then versus now.
I feel like we have a lot moreresponsibilities, a lot less fun
, but yet at the same time, fun,but yet at the same time
(17:22):
nothing that can't be fixed witha nice glass of rosé sitting in
the backyard just chilling.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
And the difference is that when we want, we can
create our fun.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Exactly, that's the power of being an adult.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
You know, that's true , yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
It's very true Words of wisdom from Tao disciple Josh
.
All right, well, we want toknow what's one summer thing
that you did as a kid that youwould love to do again now as an
adult, or one thing that youwould like to get rid of and
(17:58):
never do again?
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Speaker 2 (18:20):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Okay, so have a great week, guys, and we'll see you
next time.
Bye.
Hi everyone, welcome to Brother, sister.
Whatever.
I'm Lisa, I'm Josh.
Do you remember those endlesssummers as a kid?
You know popsicles, sprinklers,no bills.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
From Kool-Aid to cold brew, from cannonballs to back
pain.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Yep, pretty much, let's start with our weekly what
if?
Okay, Josh, so would yousurvive being a kid again in
like a 90s summer?
So no phones, no AC, just, youknow, bikes, mosquitoes and like
some random slip and slide.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I think so.
I loved summers like that yeah,I mean, you know, I think, I
think as an adult we kind ofrealize we took it for granted
absolutely.
I don't know how many eye rollsI made when someone would say
like you know, oh, you grow upfast, or blah, blah, blah, and
(01:01):
I'm like yeah, yeah, you know,or whatever, but it's so true.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah, but the expression youth is wasted on
the young you think, but as akid you think adults have it all
.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
And it's true.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
It's not.
We have it all in terms ofbills and you know work
schedules and stuff like that.
But no, the fun is the first togo very true fun is the first
to go.
I loved like the uh summersthat we spent like in pei yeah,
(01:38):
me too so like I remember thesummers, like when we were at
home and stuff, it was always itwas still fun.
We always got to be outside andstuff it was always.
It was still fun.
We always got to be outside andlike do things and it was
different well, we had to.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
We didn't have a tv we'd get in trouble if we were
inside.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Yeah, like mom would actually like kick us out yeah,
yeah, or else we have to dochores so we're like okay, we're
going out yeah, so it was kindof like.
It was kind of like that vibeof like just being out and and
like just being bored outside,if we wanted to.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Or if we didn't have anything to do.
But like the summers in PEIwere like really fun.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yeah, well, on the farm.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah.
And like as we got older we gotto go to like the beach with
friends and stuff like that yeah, it got more lenient.
But like riding on the tractorwhen they were like doing the
fields of potatoes and stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
That was fun.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yeah, strawberry picking Even that, oh,
strawberry picking, but eventhose things like it seems like,
oh yeah, you got to do, youknow, potato fielding, like
whatever it was fun it waswhatever it was fun.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
It was fun.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
It was fun, it was just, it was different.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Well, yeah, we came from the city.
Yes, I mean, you know WestIsland, yes, but we came from
the city to that, but also itwas just us there, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Like Mom and Dad weren't with us.
We even had of freedom.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Yeah, mom and dad would give us money so we could,
like I know, do our own thing.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
It's so fun I almost.
It kind of makes me sad when Ithink that my kids won't be able
to have that.
Do you remember Candy?
Yes, Terrified, I rememberCandy the big.
Was it a Doberman?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I think it was a Rottweiler.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Oh my God Scared the shit out of me.
I hated leaving the house.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
I love that dog yeah no shit, you love that dog, even
though it got nipped in theface.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Oh, did you you didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I don't remember that yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
What was the ultimate summer day for you?
As a kid, if you could think ofyour perfect day, for me it was
definitely reading havingsomething cold, like a popsicle
or an ice cream, maybe likegoing out like we used to do
bike rides a lot, like it's afamily and stuff like that, or
like going to the mountains tothe park or beaver lake or stuff
(03:58):
like that.
Remember those days that thosewere like.
When I think of that, I thinkof that as like epic summer,
like me.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I think uh probably have to be hockey and football
with friends.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I remember I was in a street hockey league, you know
yes, I remember you playing uhstreet hockey all the time in
the front of the house.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah, you know, I just loved sports.
Don't know what happened, butyeah, every so often now I pass
by one of the basketball courtsand I'm like, ah, I should buy a
basketball, you know, and justgo do some cardio at the same
time, go do some cardio at thesame time.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
I remember baseball games, dad being an assistant
coach or a coach or something.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
For T-ball, my T-ball league, T-ball yep.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
And I would go all the time.
I had no choice, but whatevs?
I think I had a crush.
Oh, that's what it was.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Anthony, I went.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Anthony, because I had a crush.
Oh, that's what it was, anthony.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
I went Anthony.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Because I had a crush on one of the player's older
brother.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
His name was Anthony.
Maybe he was the oldest personon the league.
Yeah, and he was older.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but that'swhy I went.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
It's coming back to me now.
It's like they made me and I'mlike, no wait, they didn't make
me because I felt like I enjoyedgoing.
Why did I enjoy going?
Oh, yes, Crushes, oh the joy.
Summer sleepovers we never hadsleepovers.
We weren't allowed to havesleepovers.
No, that's not true.
We weren't allowed to havesleepovers.
(05:43):
No, that's not true.
I lie.
When I was younger, you werevery young, like under five.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
And we were still Jehovah's Witnesses.
There were a couple of girlsthat we were allowed to have
sleepovers at each other's house.
That's true, but it was onlythem.
Like mom, specifically, I feellike was a little bit more like
reserved, like didn't trust alot of people.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
She always wanted to, like, make sure we were safe
and stuff.
So yeah, it was very rare.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I think nowadays I'm too trusting.
You know, I kind of overjudgedsomeone who was like oh, I don't
want so-and-so to sleep overbecause of like Jet okay and I
was like, so like he's a boyyeah, okay, and I was so like
(06:33):
you know, like what the hell youknow, but you know what I
remember, I was so judgmentalabout that.
but then I started lookingonline like there's a lot of
like shitty things that happenwhere these kids think or
everyone thinks it's allcopacetic, and then, like 20
(06:55):
years later you hear that, likeyou know, they're fucking still
in therapy because they wereyeah molested or this or that so
yeah it's messed up.
You know like now I'm a littlebit more reserved, I have to
admit you didn't have a lot ofsleepovers, eh not that from
what I could remember no no yeah, I had a lot of friends, but I
(07:18):
just the sleepover wasn't reallyuh, I think it was a lot more
of like a girl thing.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I think boys like went out played and then came
home, yeah, and like girls wasall about like let's sleep over,
let's like do our hair or yes,nails or whatever makeup yeah.
So I don't think we it was alot more you know we'd stay out
late, play like until we couldbarely see the ball.
You know.
(07:45):
That's true, like you couldbarely see the ball, I remember,
you know.
I don't know if I'm just solike grouchy, you know, but like
I don't want fucking sleepovers.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Oh well, no, that's a whole other issue too, but yes.
You issue too.
But yes, you know, that'sprobably that's why mom didn't
let us have people over she'slike I have enough to do with
the two of you.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Yeah, you know, like uh, when when found had some of
her friends over, oh my, god,it's a lot eh you know, I mean,
uh, the screaming, and you knowit's just like, oh my god, oh my
gosh.
I mean there's times where I'mjust like, no, not this time,
please.
You know, just no one.
(08:29):
Yeah, yeah, you know.
And, and like when fallon has asleepover, huh, like you don't
understand, fallon is so posh,you know.
So like Fallon will have likenot one friend, it's like five
of them, you know, and they willall want you know their makeup
(08:52):
done and they all want you knowthis, and that you know.
And then, of course, one isleft out, and then that one's
crying, and then you're there,one is left out, and then that
one's crying, and then you'rethere, like what's going on?
Well, no, everyone has to.
And you're just like oh my gosh, I'm exhausted and I'm not
doing anything.
I'm exhausted and I'm not doinganything.
(09:15):
I don't know how their motherdoes it and I don't know how.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
like no yeah, you have to have a certain kind of
uh, a certain level of patienceand resilience to make it
through things.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
I don't know if it's because I'm sick right now too
that I'm like, you know, butlike oh.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I can't no so when did summer stop feeling like
freedom and start feeling likelogistics?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Well, hands down when you have kids.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Yeah, because, like I mean, listen, I'm going to ask,
I'm going to defer to youbecause I had my first kid at 21
.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Right, so I didn't really have too too many years
of like you know I can't compareto that, but I would say
probably when summer stoppedbeing fun yeah, was um summer
school.
You know like now everything Iknow now about me I realize that
I have certain learningdisabilities.
(10:24):
Okay, and so you know, the wayI compensated was by being, you
know, the class clown, the idiot, the you know troublemaker, etc
.
In school.
Take attention away from thatthing and put it here Right you
know troublemaker, et cetera.
In school.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Take attention away from that thing and put it here.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Right, you know.
And so because of that, youknow, every year was you got to
go to summer?
You failed, you failed, youfailed, you failed.
And so every year it was summerschool.
So like, and you know as a kid,because it's like, what summer
school is like a month, yeah, orlike you know.
(11:01):
So I mean you still had, youknow, a month of nothing, right,
but like to you that was likethe end right.
So I feel like that was a bigthing for me.
You know where I was kind oflike.
You know, summer's not funanymore, that's true, I forgot
about that.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I had to do summer school one summer, uh, but I
opted out.
I was like, fuck it, I'll justdo I'll.
I'll do like I moved on tograde 10 and I'll just do the
grade 9 math oh shit I was likeI'm not doing summer, I would
have done that option if I could, yeah.
But, but now, but what aboutlike as an adult, like when did
summers?
(11:40):
Because you like, like I said,I kind of had a kid pretty early
.
So my summers I was adult, Ifelt adulting, like I was
adulting, even like younger thannormal.
Do you know what I mean?
Yeah, even like younger thannormal.
(12:01):
Do you know what I mean, likemost people have their twenties
to, like you know, be child freeand like, do fun things still,
even while adulting.
So when, when was it for youthat it stopped being fun?
Speaker 2 (12:11):
I don't know if fun is the right word.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Okay, so what would the word be then that you would
use?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
I don't know.
I stopped being stupid.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
It was after New Year's.
I know that's not summer, butit was every year of just
getting drunk, doing crazythings, no care in the world.
Drugs, you know, all the way upuntil all the way up until
(12:47):
Psyche.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
So it was around so late 2000s.
Late Is it late.
I think it was like mid.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Mid.
Okay, so like 2005-ish.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Yeah, because I've been doing dog training for 20
years.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
I started dog training when Saiku.
So that would be it.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
It might be just under 20 years, but yeah, so I
would say around then.
That's when I started realizinglike okay, fuck, like you know,
like I need to.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
You got to change some things.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I remember that summer.
That summer, I think threetimes I woke up in the middle of
nowhere, had no idea where Iwas.
My pants were down no, I'mkidding, no, but I woke up like
in, like a ditch or you knowjust head first into the grass.
(13:43):
You know, like I wake up, I'mlike whoa fuck.
You know, like what the fuck?
You know, and yeah, and it wasthat leading to a really really
bad new year's.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Yeah really bad new year's Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Yeah, really bad new years.
And then it's like a switch.
I woke up and I was like, okay,I'm not going to live like this
anymore.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Interesting.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
And then that's literally when everything
changed.
Started trying to beingadulting more and like.
Yeah, no, relationship-wise Wowokay.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
I'm trying to like put all that yeah relationship
wise, there's only like four.
Oh, doesn't sound like I had 30, I should probably not say mine
.
All right, moving on question,for you would and then we'll
move on to this or that Wouldyou trade one perfect childhood
(14:37):
summer?
So think of our best summer askids for one adult summer with a
nanny, a chef and no work.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
So basically a paid vacation.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Yeah.
Would, you switch it?
Would you give up that reallycool kid's summer if you could
have a summer with a nanny, achef and no work?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
No, I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
No, I don't think so either.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
No regrets.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Because the kids would still be there.
A nanny, a chef and no work.
Okay, I guess that means thatsomebody would feed me, take
care of my kids and I wouldn'thave to work.
Exactly I don't know, Iwouldn't have to work Exactly I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I don't know if I'd want to do it.
What about?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
you.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
No, no way.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
No way.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
No, there's very little.
I regret.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Okay, let's do some this or that.
Okay, josh.
All right, okay, so I'll startoff.
Freezy pops or fancy cocktails.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Fancy cocktails Lemonade or iced coffee.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Iced coffee.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Fireworks or fireflies, fireworks, fireworks,
oh well, summer job.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Or fireflies, fireworks, fireworks, oh well
summer job or summer schoolSummer job I'd rather make some
money, money, money, bike ridesor road trips.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Road trips Sunburn or mosquito bites.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
I'm going to take mosquito bites.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Fair.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Sunburns are not fun.
No, I've had enough of those.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
A pool float or a pool noodle.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
A pool noodle.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Yeah, yeah, board games or card games, I already
know.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Ooh, board games, of course.
Okay, one more each, let's see,oh josh, water balloons or
water guns I do like waterballoons, water balloons really
yeah, I would have thought you'dgo for guns yeah, I would
normally uh grilling or chillingchilling.
(16:55):
Obviously, james is the grilleryeah, that's it oh shit, well
listen.
Summers then versus now.
I feel like we have a lot moreresponsibilities, a lot less fun
, but yet at the same time, fun,but yet at the same time
(17:22):
nothing that can't be fixed witha nice glass of rosé sitting in
the backyard just chilling.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
And the difference is that when we want, we can
create our fun.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Exactly, that's the power of being an adult.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
You know, that's true , yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
It's very true Words of wisdom from Tao disciple Josh
.
All right, well, we want toknow what's one summer thing
that you did as a kid that youwould love to do again now as an
adult, or one thing that youwould like to get rid of and
(17:58):
never do again?
Uh, so feel free to comment.
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Speaker 1 (18:19):
Come on Like who wouldn't?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Okay, so have a great week, guys, and we'll see you
next time.
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