S2E7: Friday Night Was for More than Videos!

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Megan Bennett (00:00):
I'm Megan Bennett

Lesley Meier (00:01):
I'm

and this is Gen X Women Are Sick of this Shit.
Hi, Lesley!

Look at us.

What's happening?

Megan, what's going on?

Hey, we're sitting.
We're tall people, we are.

I know We've got our chairs up real tall.
We're feeling quite.
We're feeling ourselves.

Because we're so tall we can't do that on camera.

No, I mean like in a vibe-y kind of emotional, an
emotional way we could have oneof those kinds of websites we
could.
And we could post pictures ofour feet To be fair.

it would be very unhappy.
I'd be very unhappy if nobodytuned in.
Then I just wouldn't postpictures of my font People pay
for.
To be fair, I'd be very unhappyif nobody tuned in.

Then I'd be like aw, I just want to post pictures
of my font.
People pay for that.

Gorsh Welcome, welcome, welcome, hey.
New set, new set, look what youdid New digs, look what you did
.
I did.

I did.
It looks cool.
I went shopping.

It looks super cool.

I hung out at Midland Antique Mall in
Indianapolis, Indiana, for anumber of hours.

We're antiques,

yep, no, no.

We're vintage.

We are well-seasoned, we are vintage.
Spent three or four hours.
I sent you a lot of pictures.

You did.
There were some very cool,funky things I really like.
Or four hours I sent you a lotof pictures.
You did.
There were some very cool,funky things.
I really liked those orangechairs, they were cool.
Those were amazing Space chairsyes, they were definitely nice
Lava orange.
Yes, those were wacky.
I liked them.
They looked like they were froma 70s-born palace Exactly which
?

is probably a good reason not to own them.
Uh, there were some red chaiselounges that were furry, that I
really enjoyed.
I was like how can we record apodcast laying down on chaises?
And then I was leaving andwalked past this delicious
vintage 1970s bar, 1970s homebar.

It's cool

, it is it was sold by Sears and Roebuck
evidently

it is fly, I don't know.
Yep it's totally tubular.
It's totally tubular, rad.
Cheers!Megan Bennett: Uh, I guess I
should drink this.

That that's pretty tasty.

So you have whiskey with us today.

Yeah, because we are recording the Friday night
before this goes live, becauseit's been a little busy.
Yes, and I said let's do anepisode about Friday nights, and
so it's Friday night and we'reold people.

So we may as well , have a little whiskey and also
a bar and we have a bar.
So we're like, we're, we'reopening the bar.
Exactly.
It's the first night that thebar is open, so this is great.
This is really cool, welcomeand we have cool stools.

That's what's.
That's.

That's why we're tall why we're super tall and
our sign shows up better, sowe've got our sign back here and
if you're listening cool, noneof this matters none of it
matters, just know that we arewe like it.
We're vibing in a 1970s bartype of arrangement that will
get enhancements.
I'm sure we'll have uh, we needa lava lamp.
Yeah, we'll do, you know weneed like weird shit like that.

So black light posters, I don't know we might
get like a hanging light, thosekind of like stained glass, if
we find one of those, um, thoseoil lamps, the ones that have,
like the uh, like an aphroditein the middle.
And then there's strings withthe oil like the hot oil?

oh fuck, I would like.

Yes, probably hurt somebody if nothing else, we'll
get one of those like kind ofrocky red glowing candles that
they had on the tables of everyrestaurant.

Oh, that's cool.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I think, you could buy those atlike Gordon Foods or something
still.

So that's cool.
We'll have some of thoseAwesome Levits Anywho, yes, and
we are having a little sip today.

Yeah, so tell me about this whiskey before we get
started here.
Yep, yeah.

So quickly.
This is a release from Keeper'sHeart, which is in Minneapolis,
Minnesota.
It is a distillery in theUnited States that blends Irish
whiskeys with American whiskeys.
The master distiller there isBrian Nation.
This is way more than anybodywill care about, unless you are
a massive whiskey person.
They recruited him fromMiddleton Distilleries in

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Ireland.
He came over like right beforeor right in the middle of the
pandemic and they've opened anincredible place.
So this is a blend of Irish andAmerican whiskey.
But the reason we're talkingabout it today is because it was
the Indy GAA, the GaelicAthletic Association's release
for their 20 year anniversaryand you used to play for them

I did.

What did you play?
Young Megan Bennett,

Young Megan Bennett, I was old at that point
.
That was after my roller derbycareer, in which I did not break
anything in roller derby.

Not even your coccyx.

Well, I bruised it pretty damn.
Okay playing dodgeball onskates, um, but I did break my
finger playing hurling, which isum not curling, which a lot of
people make that mistake.
A hurler with an a with a hfuck all to do with ice right,
it was hurling hurling um and uh, it was great.

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Like we in indianapolis, we havea pretty big irish community
yes, as you well know yep, and alot of these guys and gals uh
come out for the gaelic gamesand it's uh hurling camogie,
which is the all women's versionof hurling and and hurling.
Just for those of you who arenot familiar, it's considered

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the fastest game on grass.
You've got a cool like flat oaktraditionally oak mallet thing.
It's called a hurl.
It's got like a little hook onthe end kind of.
It's got like a little hook onthe end kind of, and you use
that to lift the slitter, whichis a ball that's a little bit
off size of a baseball with areally like.

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Anyway, this is way moreinformation than you know.
Oh no, there's so many gooddirty jokes to be made.
Oh, about the hurling, theslitter.

Fast grass hurling yes, yes, it is Irish.

Double entendres.

Fair point.

Nautiness yeah so , and everybody's drunk when
they play.
That's not 100% true.

It would be unsafe , but sometimes there's some
beers there.
There's a community beer chest.

If you're done playing, you drink.
Yes, anyway, it's super fun.
It's set up sort of like soccerwould be, or, you know,
football as we should call it.

Yes.

And anyway it's really, really fun.
And then the women's version iscamogie.
And then there's also Gaelicfootball, which is the same
basic rules as hurling, justwith a like soccer ball type
thing.

It's awesome we watched some Gaelic football.
Last year we went to thetournament.

Yeah, multi-state tournament.
It's super welcoming.
So if you're just a little bitcurious and you want to go check
it out, everybody would love tohave you just show up.
It's a blast.

And this bottle that the Indie GAA released is
available at the Snug Snug inIrvington if anybody's
interested.

It was a.

Surly darkness stout barrel release.
So it matured its last like 30months in a stout barrel, it's
pretty tasty.
It's lovely.
Yeah, I like it, but this isn'ta whiskey show.
It's not.

This is a pissed off Gen X chick show, but God
damn it.
We like whiskey and what's moreand why the fuck not.

Yeah, exactly.
What's more Gen X than whiskey?
Nothing, probably not, not much.

So we were going to talk about who died.
Who died?

this week.
Well, I think our gossip right,this is our hot gossip.
Here we are.
Our bullshit was what we justdid.
Yeah, so we did that.
Hot guys who died this weekcheck it off.

Uh well, kind of a big guy.
A big, well, small guy.
Important title important.

Big title, small man, small man.
Big title, title uh the pope,pope francis, zip, zip up.
That's a nod to saturday nightlive uh yeah, so pope francis
passed away.

I'm not catholic.
My daughter went to catholicschool, though I'm not either.
My family was catholic like waycatholic back in the oldie days
, my grandmother on my dad'sside okay well, I had two great
aunts.

Both were nuns so that's how catholic.

I didn't know that, and then yeah, and then uh
, my great, my grandmother on mydad's side, super catholic, um,
do you get like a cape whenyou're a super?

catholic is there.
How do you and then my great,my grandmother on my dad's side,
super Catholic.
Do you get like a cape whenyou're a super Catholic?
Is there?
How do you designate that?
A pin, maybe a?

super, sc, sc, super Catholic, I would get a
pin.
She was the first lay teacherat Our Lady of Lords, which is
the Catholic school that mydaughter went to for elementary
school.

And when you say lay teacher, what do?

you mean by that?
She was not a nun.

Not a nun.

Okay, thank you.
Not a nun, see, and I'm, ooh, Isound Catholic, don't I?
No?

jokes there to be made?
No, whatsoever.

Anyway, so, pope Francis.
Big deal globally Born incemberof 1936, became the pope march
13th 2013.
And are you surprised at howlong that's been?

because I feel like they just, like the smoke,
came out of the sistine chapelnot too terribly long ago right,
this 12 years was shorter than,but I think, the person who was
the pope, prior Pope John Paul.
No, tell me.

The German guy.
He was German, the German.

Pope, the German Pope, pope Benedict, yeah, thank
you.

And then John Paul was before that.

Okay, yeah, he was also a small man.
He was a really long time.

That was John Paul, thank you.
And then Benedictict wasshorter lived he's.
Yeah, the jokes I just can't.
There's 12, I know there's alot, so you hear something funny
.
So buca di beppo rest in peace.

Uh, but the, the italian restaurant oh, yeah,
yeah, okay, I was like take meon this journey, I will will.

Okay, so Italian restaurant.
We have them in Indianapolis,or had them in Indianapolis.
I think there are other places.
I'm pretty sure Like anyway,there are places besides
Indianapolis.
Yes, that is true.
Yes, I just I don't fuck Anyway.
So so this restaurant has it'sall like family style and
everything.
Yes, and there's one room thatthey call the Pope Room, or I

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don't know if they call it.
We call it when we would goAmazing and we would bring
friends and we would do ourFriendsgiving, which is the day
after Thanksgiving Right on.
So we'd be at the Pope Room andthe reason we called it that was
in the middle of the table on aLazy Susan was the head of the
Pope on a lazy.

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Susan was the head of the popeso not not the real head of the
pope.
Okay, thanks for clarifyingappreciation.
Model of the head of the popeand three-dimensional just
sitting there in a glass or andyou can just turn box and you
could turn it.
So the pope was always watching.
The pope would see if you wereeating too much spaghetti.
You could, you know, turn itand guilt people I guess that's
too much tiramisu?
You know, I don't know, butanyway the pope could bless you.

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The pope would change.
So when benedict took over fromjohn paul, all of a sudden
there was a different pope head.
It's just I love that.

You know that?
I've never noticed that I'vebeen, I assume, in that room.
That's know that I've nevernoticed that I've been, I assume
in that room.
That's incredible that theychanged the Pope and fucking
hilarious.

Pope's head.
So you know, right now did theytake?
I'm not sure if they're stillopen, but the one downtown was
open, like recently.
I don't think it's closed.
I have no idea, I can'tremember.
But now that Pope francis'spast, did they remove?

his head, or is it still?
Sitting there like theheadspace waiting for the next
pope head to be headed.
Not be headed, but headed likeyou have to re-headed.
Are you re-headed when youbecome a new pope?

I don't know.

They beheaded the pope, there we go.
That's why it felt like a longtime.
John Paul II was the pope from1978 till 2005.
That was nearly my wholefucking life.

No shit, that is a long, so that is why this one
felt brief.

Long popedom, there we go.
Good to know, yep, if there wasother information.
We're supposed to shut up nowthough.

I don't, you know what we could talk about.
The pope for a good guy?

Yes, I think he was a good guy and started
saying important things that Ihope continue to be said about
the value and inherent worth ofhuman beings and you never know
Right Like the next pope couldbe like completely different.

We have no idea.
Be the anti-pope.
Well, I mean, he's probablystill the pope, he's just Anti
popesta Pope on a rope.
Oh God, we're probably going tohell.
I'm not even worried about that, Not either.
But you know, I have to believein that in order to get there,

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but you know there are peopleout there who are like shut up,
you two.
You're really pushing your luck.

I mean, they will have turned us off already.

You are pushing your luck there they'll.

They will have turned us off already.
You are pushing your luck there, ladies.
So there we go.
All right, just acknowledgingsomething important, because the
pope is forever and always aconstant in the world, for good,
hopefully, and not for bad, butwe don't know.
Agreed never know.
We'll talk about it next timeas soon as we do know, right?
We should stop talking aboutthis right now.
It next time as soon as we doknow, right?
We should stop talking aboutthis right now.

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It's Friday night and we had areason.
We had a subject.

A reason for the season.
Yes, well, let's take a breakreal quick and then we'll come
back and we'll talk about.

Holy.

Jesus, yes, thank you.
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And we're back,

and we're back.
It's Friday night, friday,friday Friday.
We'll sell you the whole seat,but you'll only need the edge.

These stools are kind of just an edge.

I have one cheek solidly on this stool and the
other one's kind of like.
I don't know free-falling.

They were reasonably priced.

I like them.
I think they're great.
You picked them out.
They're not uncomfortable.
You did great.
I love them.
I'm glad I like the bar.
Good job you Welcome back.
Hey, welcome back.

Let's do this, salanta, salanta.

So maybe we're a little loosey-goosey here with
our conversation because we'vebeen drinking whiskey.

I mean mean it's Friday.
It is Friday night and we'vehad five sips and I dumped half
of mine on my left that's justthat's just color, color
coordination.
That is not at all what.
I was trying to say what was Itrying to say?
I don't know.
That's just coordination.

I think coordination, poor coordination
that's where we are, but we havea topic we do because it's
Friday night, so we were talkingabout what.
Friday night and Saturday nightlike what that was like when we
were wee lasses in the 80s andearly 90s Very early 90s and

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like what did you?

do like in middle school and high school on the
weekends and I'm guessing thatthose two time periods were very
different.

Let's say, middle school was like sixth, seventh,
eighth grade okay, so juniorhigh, I think, and I, so I post
in the facebook group.
I did ask the question becauseI was curious, like, and what
was interesting about this, thislittle experiment, was the
number of people who said likethat they did when they posted
about stuff that they did.

Yep, it was totally triggering memories for
me of shit that I did, too likeI was like oh, I completely
forgot about that but uh, juniorhigh, like middle school,
junior high, roller skating wasa big thing okay, okay, the
roller rinks yes, we wouldroller skate like every Friday,
but we would go with my school.
Oh weird, okay.

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Well, I went to a really weirdfucking middle school.
I guess.
There were like 50 kids in thewhole school, from preschool
through eighth grade.

Yeah, montessori we were oddballs.

So we were, I'm not we had a small bus and they
called that the short bus.
We're not gonna say that,because that has a different
connotation.
It does but and is not kind sowe had a small bus and there
were maybe 12 of us that wouldgo, but we roller skated like
every friday afternoon at theusa skate on the west side okay,

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oh, that was a, that was a goodone.

So, and then?

there would be like some birthday parties that
got held there and that kind ofthing.
So that was sort of like my,but there was no nighttime stuff
.

So the only time that I would ever skate with
with people from school is wewould.
We would have roller skatingparties.

So that would be like you would the the.

It was elementary school, I think, more than
junior high, um, so that went upto sixth grade for me and they
would like the school would rentout for, like the fifth and
sixth graders, uh, roller party,roller skating party, and if
your grades were of a certainlevel, then you would be able to

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go.

Oh my gosh.
So it was used to likecategorize.

It was motivation , it was supposed to be
motivation.

But really, if you had like a learning disability,
you just felt like an asshole.
Yeah, probably, but it's okay,we didn't know any different.
No, we didn't, this was allnormal.

But that was just inspiring you to.

You know, do do better so you can go to the
roller skating party, but yes,we would have roller skating
parties overcome that dyslexiajust by trying really hard right
.
That exactly sorry, my computerwants to see my face it's
really you don't do math youknow well, yeah, so middle and
that was like mostly sleep kindof sleepovers, like not a ton of

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stuff.
I didn't, I didn't do it.
But I lived middle school,lived really far away, I was not
in the city at all.

So it was a lot of.
I did a lot of sleepovers likeeither at my place or I had a
couple really good friends thatlived around the corner, like
not too far away, and we woulddo sleepovers and stuff here,
but yeah, yeah, middle schoolwas pretty low key, yes, and
then the wheels fell off in highschool well, like they do.

I mean there's more independence.
So what was, what were weekendslike in high school for you?
And there's probably adifference between like your
freshman and sophomore year andthen like junior and senior year
.
Yeah, and my memory is so mushythat it's really hard, and
we're talking about like weekendnights in Indianapolis in the

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80s man, there used to be allages clubs in the 80s.

What was that one called?
There was one.
There was one in Beach Grove.
There was.

I had friends that used to go to all the time.

I never went I went once or twice but that
music was not my, that was notmy jam right on heard.
You know, that was not my jam,so I god, I can't remember what
it was called, uh, but yeah, sothere was an under 21 club.
And then, of course, you know,like all good things take only
takes a couple people to screwthat up, oh yeah, well, I mean

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because they were.

I mean alcohol was like wildly available in all of
the things oh, you could walkinto a so funny 7-eleven.

That doesn't sound right no off it does.

I'll spend too long looking for it.
But yes, I remember that thoseexisted, but I was never allowed
to go to those kinds of places.

Yeah, I only like I said, I think I only went one
or twice.
One or twice once or twice andit was not uh, you know, it just
wasn't my thing.

But what was your thing?

oh man.
So we started I want to say itwas probably my sophomore year,
ish, maybe uh we started goingto rocky horror picture show.
It was every.
I want to say it was everyfriday night, maybe.
Where was it?

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Uh?
So there were two places.
You could go to lafayettesquare and they would have it,
or you could go to uh thegeneral cinemas at east gate.
No shit, yeah, I wonder where Isaw it.
I remember going.
I was a freshman in high schoolwhen I saw it I went many, many
times like yeah, many, likeprobably too many, and one of I

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can't remember which theater itwas, but one of the theaters,
and I got shut down for a lengthof time because somebody drove
a motorcycle through the screen.
No shit, yeah, yeah, so that's.
I was not there that night, I,I just remember.

How did they get it in?
I have no clue.
That's the real question.
Did it come in the back door?
Did somebody let?

them.
When Eddie said, you know, yeah.
When Eddie said he didn't lovehis teddy, yeah, I mean
seriously, no, fucking shit.
So that got shut down for alittle while and then I think it
might have been done forever atthat theater and then I think
it might have been done foreverat that theater, oh sure.

And then you know we had to go to a different one.
That would have been the mostmetal thing ever, though I know
right, totally Like you wouldhave been like that's the
fucking coolest thing I've everseen, man oh.

God, that's awesome.
God, josh Bannett, I love thatyeah.

So Rocky Horror is ?
I was a freshman and I wentwith my youth group because my
youth minister at the time sheknows who she is just knew that
all the kids loved Rocky HorrorPicture Show and she loved us.

Oh, she didn't know the show, though no, she
loved us and believed us.
Oh, she didn't know the show,though no, she loved us and
believed us, but honestly, likewe didn't.

When you're watching it as a young person,
you're like this is just fuckingcool.
You're not thinking about anyof it it doesn't have no Adults
apply such dumb meaning to shit.
None of us were like caught upin that and so no.

If anything, you were just watching it going.
What the fuck is going on?

here because so many parts of it are so
confusing.
But then it's also just likeamazing and like I mean you kind
of got like.

You kind of got like frank's like super hot,
like was super attracted to youknow, you got like that oh, and
some of the jokes I mean, andboobs and stuff like that.
You were like okay, you knowbut right, but it wasn't like it
wasn't deep, you were.

No, it was not deep, not at all, not for 14, 15
year old kids so so she took usand god lover stayed like, and
everybody knew, we knew all thethings we had to bring toilet
paper, toast, all rice, like webrought everything Squirt guns
and the whole bit.

Yes.

And she like facilitated us bringing all this
stuff, like this was the thing.
So we all went.
Oh my God, I love it.
We watched the whole thing andthere were a few kids who left,
who were uncomfortable, and soshe did go out and like sit with
those kids, and I think shefelt like she had to go out.

Yeah, I would be so curious to know and, like,
left you all to your own devicesTo finish.
So, like.

To her credit, she was just like nope, this is the
choice we made.
It was for a lock-in, this iswhat we're doing, and so we're
all going to stay here and didnot pull us out.
There was no like lecture aboutit.
I don't know if conversationswere had with families or if it
just happened and then we justwent on with life, and it was
never mentioned again, but itwas it was amazing.

I love it so much .

We had a great time, so that was that
experience for me.

My freshman year of high school, so good.

Yeah, so freshman year things had to still kind of
be facilitated, Like I didn'thave friends who drive.

Yeah.
Or drove at that point.
Yeah, did you do sports?

weekends, so we only had as they make a face
about it.
Yeah, I know why would you dothat.

So yeah, in high school the high school that I
went to we had a.
I was a, I was a freshman andwe had a big named football guy.
Should I say the name?
I'm gonna say his name, so itwas jeff george um and he was a
senior, I think, when I was afinal, whatever he played for
the colts right he played forthe colts so football was like a

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real big thing.
Like everybody was likefootball, so that was the Friday
night.

Thing.

And I did not give a shit.
I think I went maybe to one ortwo games and I couldn't even
tell you why, like it literallymay have been because I was
forced to, because a teachersaid we had to be there.

Oh, like you get extra credit for showing up or
something like that yeah,something dumb like that.
Everybody goes to the footballgame tonight you get 10 points
yeah or it had something to dowith a boy.
I don't know, maybe.

But I was like, anyway, but funny story about
him.
I'm going to spill some tea.
I don't know where Jeff is nowI I presume he's doing well, but
in high school he, his mom, wasmy elementary school secretary,
oh okay.
So I knew her, um, and I won'tsay her name.

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She was a lovely lady, um she.
He apparently got hurt on thefield and she ran out in the
middle of the game on the field.
Oh, bless her heart.
And that nearly destroyed hiscareer because they're like dude
.

your mom should not run the fucking field, your
mom should not go out on thefield.

Yeah, anyway, bless her heart.
Bless her heart, bless hersweetheart.
Anyway, she was a doll, butyeah, and she just loved her kid
.

She was just worried.

She did yeah, she was just concerned.

She wanted to kiss it and make it better.
It was not a good thing.
Moms don't run out on the field.
Don't run onto the footballfield.

You'll probably get them kicked out or
disqualified or whatever itwould not be a good thing.
Or teased mercilessly.
Oh, that's also true.

It doesn't matter, you're alive.
I just want to make sure youare okay.

Mommy, you'll be fine.

Yeah, similarly, I think I went to one football
game.
It was my senior yearhomecoming game and that was
because my friend was in thelineup for homecoming queen.

And she won.

And she was alternative, wow, so it was kind
of a big deal yeah she won thealternative girls never won and
like we were.
We didn't know that that's whatwe were, but but she was also
like, universally likable.
She was probably one of themost liked people and was so
sincerely kind like it wasinsane, so it was really great

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so we went to support her andand that was my probably my one
and only football game yeah,that sounds like the right
person won.

then what did we do for fun, fun.
Well, after so at least for me,like on Friday nights, the
games would end and again Iwasn't going.
But I knew that the cool placeto hang out after that was Noble
Roman's Pizza.

So we would go to like.

it was a place called Cherry Tree, but it was
like the Noble Romans pizzathere, and that place was booked
.

It was really cool .

Yeah, and super fun and so like.
And everybody from everyfreaking walk of life was, you
know, at Noble Romans eatingbreadsticks because that's all
you could afford to do.
Sure, fair, and always lookingat the menu and thinking,
someday I'm going to spend $99and get that breadstick and that
bottle of Dom Perignon, thatSomeday I'm going to spend $99
and get that breadstick and thatbottle of Dom Perignon.

That was on the menu.
Baby 99 bucks.

I think that everybody Seemed like a shit ton
of money $99.
$99.
The markup on that Dom.

Perignon was probably 500%.

That Dom Perignon had been hot and cold and hot
and cold, and hot and cold.

That shit probably tastes like piss.

It was really awful.

Yeah, where else did you go eat in high school on
the weekends?

Oh, that's a good question, like when you said
that it made me think of acouple things that I had not
thought of in forever.

Well, there was like a Steak and Shake close to.

I went to North Central, so there was a Steak
and Shake up there?

Yep, and a McDonald's, yeah.
But I also remembered do youremember Perkins?
Oh yeah, 24-hour diners.

Hell yeah.

And the bottomless pots of coffee or tea.

Heck, yeah, we would go there, yeah.

Or like I didn't like coffee, then Bottomless
pots of tea, yeah, and oh, wewould also go to coffees on
downtown.
That was like my junior senioryear.
I had a psychology professorthat was a musician and he would

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play gigs there and then wewould go.
And then one of my boyfriendsin high school had a band and he
had gigs there so we would go,okay.

I don't know where it was.

I'm sure I could look it up on the internet.
But that was kind of cool.
So the abby there and then umthe coffee house in broader bowl
.
Oh my god, I'll have toresearch it for a hot second,
but we would go hang out thereokay, okay, we did.

Uh, we didn't do perkins, we did denny's oh right
, and Denny's was right in alittle strip mall area that was
really close to one of myfriend's houses.
Hi, dawn, I think you'relistening.

Hi, dawn, that's so sweet.

So yeah, so it was.
Man.
Denny's was like the hot place,so same kind of deal.
You know you could get twomoons over Miami pretty
affordably Amazing.
And yeah, Denny's was a big,big place, you would just get
all kinds of like cheap asssnacks.
Yeah, there was also a place inFountain Square, which is just

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south of Indianapolis.
It was a little sketch back inthe day, but it was called the
Pepe Grill.

Oh fuck, yeah happy it was a big deal.
Yeah, I think it that was.

I was later, before I could go to peppy.
So it was just a little, alittle farther out of my, my
range, my driving range oh yeah,yeah, I didn't even know
fountsware existed.

Yeah, as a young person, you were way up on the
other side of town.
So very north, I was very north.
I think it was Cafe Espresso,that's not right I don't know.
That doesn't make sense.
My friends in Broad Ripplewould hang out there all the
time.
So yeah, sort of, I guessactually in high school Broad
Ripple was sort of a hangout too.

Broad Ripple was the coolest place.
That was where I spent themajority of my friders and
saturday nights, because there'sno question that's where all
the skaters were.
That's where there was a placecalled the castle, which was it
was actually like a watertreatment plant or whatever, and
you'd have to climb down a bankand it totally illegal to be
there and we did it anyway, andunder the bridge yep, under the

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bridge, rainbow bridge, lots ofI mean lots of dumb punk kids
out being yes punk kids, that'sif people didn't know where I
was.

Though if people did know where I was, I was at
friends houses, legitimately, oh, and we were both doing theater
, so we did shows, yeah, so thatwas a whole situation, right
that would really cut down on mybroader bowl hanging out time
right, yep, so from rehearsaland then we're doing
performances, and then afterperformances we'd go hang out at
each other's houses and therewas a lot of monty python being

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watched.
Okay, yeah, because I could seethat you would know the whole.
You know it all sketch and youwould just do all of the
sketches sort of sort of like ayou know sing along.
Lots of musicals were watched,everything you know.
That was the layman's phantomof the opera, like if you were a
theater kid, and it was did allthat stuff for sure.
Oh my god, what's his name?

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The guy that did all the things?

andrew lloyd weber thank you, jesus.

This is your name today, producer tim.
Thank you, jesus.
Andrew lloyd weber you knowwhat's in my brain.
Stephen Sondheim did writemusicals, did not write Les Mis.
I get my theater card revoked.
It's okay, especially my 80stheater kid card.

But then if you talk about Sondheim, you have to
talk about Into the Woods,which is the worst musical ever.
Okay, maybe not ever.
I don't think it's that bad.
Maybe not ever, ever.
Okay, maybe not ever.
I don't think it's that bad.
Maybe not ever, maybe not ever,ever.

Oh, I don't know.
I think lots of people wouldfight you on that one.
Maybe, I don't know what theywould put in that category.

I really don't like that one.
But, whatever it's my, you knowthat's an opinion.

That's, these opinions being expressed are her
own.
These are my own opinions.
It so those are some things.
Okay, yes, other things.
Did you ever go on dates?

uh, so I had a blith brand, okay, uh well, not
a couple boyfriends.
I had a boyfriend my freshmanyear.
His name was donovan.
I adored him.
Um, donovan was older than me,so he would go up to a place in
Muncie, indiana called the noBar and Grill.
Okay, which was, it was under21, but it was again just a

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little too far out of my range.
I think he might have had to be18 to get it.

I can't remember 18 over places.
That would make some sense.
Okay, you had an 18-year-oldboyfriend.
He was cute too.

Um, he's super cute.
Anyway, he had a mohawk, he hada blue mohawk and he would come
over to my house and I wouldhelp him get the mohawk up and,
uh, sprayed and everything, andthen he would go off to the no
bar so you didn't have.

you had a A hair date.
My boyfriend used me to do hishair before he went out.

He bought me a teddy bear for my 16th birthday.
He was like I don't know.

We were like it was boyfriend light, it wasn't
like you know.

And then I had a boyfriend for many years in high
school and it was interestingbecause he was not at all like
me, which was okay, it was sortof like the polar opposite.
So I had friends that werealways like what are you doing
with him and I, you knowwhatever.
But now you know, I don't know,we still talk.

(37:05):
He's a great guy, that'sawesome yeah are you friends
with?

like or acquaintances still with most of
the people you dated in highschool yeah yeah, I would say so
yeah uh, but I don't.

I don't keep in touch with a whole lot of people
in high school but just youknow, there's a handful.
There's a handful of peoplethat I've kept because they're
awesome, they're fun, they'reawesome and there are people
that I think about that I justlike, really really enjoyed,
like the people I I was talkingto you about playing penny poker
, my friend sean.

Penny poker was the best and like we would just
hang out my husband was talkingabout that.

They would play poker in the basement.

It was great yeah, and we would.
Just we were like such goodkids, we weren't doing anything.

I didn't drink in high school, I didn't either I
was like I didn't either, and Isay that and people don't
believe me.

I never drank, never drank nope college was
different yes, but in highschool I just didn't.
I was having a great fuckingtime.

Yeah, I did not care about drinking, never went
to like wild parties.
How boring is that?

but never did not at all.
Never got arrested, never didanything crazy like that my
whole senior year I playeddungeons and dragons like almost
every friday night okay yeah,but we were like cool, yeah,
people wanted in.
I bet we did not let them, theywere not allowed we did I mean
we were like going at like I wasmore mobile, we had cars, we

(38:26):
could do things at that point.
It was a choice to do that wedid the mall a lot.

That was the other thing.

So if we weren't like, if we weren't being, you
know, hanging out in broaderbowl hooligans, we weren't being
hooligans.
We would be at the mall beinghooligans okay um and then you
know, we all had jobs too, likeI had a job, go eat hula hands.
I do remember eating there athula hands?

yeah, so we would .
I would have a.
I had a job.
Oh, what did you do?
Uh, well, I think I was workingat the.

Well, I worked at the record stores, mostly, okay,
so, yeah, it was a pretty coolplace, so that's the thing we
would visit our friends at theirjobs yeah, oh yeah, on friday
night.

Yeah, if you weren't working, you'd be
hanging out with your, with yourfriends.
Yeah, absolutely, I had areally good friend that worked
at tracks, records and tapes atthe fashion mall, so we would go
up there we would see, tyler,it was a good time.

And then I worked at tcby yogurt, because you
can't just say tcby, you have toexplain that the y means yogurt
, right?
Designer shoe warehouse, dsw.
Uh-huh, I do those things.
Make me ATM machine.
Okay, I think we get it.
Uh, so I would.

I was like slinging yogurt in the
summertime I worked at the pool,it was a lifeguard.
Were you working at tcby when?
When they had the outbreak,like the listeria outbreak, that
shut them down for like a while?

it was pre that it was still really super popular.
So it was probably like 89, 90,okay, maybe 91, that I worked
there, uh, but I did get robbed.
Oh there, someone came in with agun but I didn't realize it
because I was up front likechanging the trash liners and

(40:07):
somebody had come in and therewas like a hooded sweatshirt
over their face and they had oneof my co-workers and it was
like this tassel, but thesweatshirt looked like the
sweatshirt of my other co-worker.
It was just a red sweatshirt,and so I was I like was doing my
shit up front, and I looked upand I was like you guys stop
fucking around, and I like wentback to my business and then

(40:28):
they went back to the back,unbeknownst to me what.
I realized like 20 minuteslater, when it was silent I
think it was probably like fiveminutes I was like where did you
guys fucking go?
Yeah, and I was like startedand I heard them in the freezer
in the back, my two othercoworkers, and I was like what?
And I opened it and they weretotally freaked out.
And then, when I like kind ofthought, I was like oh, that

(40:52):
person had a gun, but I justdidn't take it in at the time,
like you don't think this ishappening and nobody's screaming
.
So interestingly, though,there's more to this story, god.

What did you do on a Friday and Saturday night?
I called the manager.

We called the police.
Yada yada yada.
The investigator literally wasa detective in a trench coat
Like sort of the.
Uh, not matt yeah like thematlock vibe with the brown kind
of.
So he, like they spoke colombocolombo.
There you go, thanks.
They spoke to all of usseparately and what I think in

(41:29):
retrospect, and what I thinkthat they were trying to prove,
is that it was actually theassistant manager had set the
whole thing up and that the guysthat I worked with might have
even been in on it.
That was the theory because,like, the back door shouldn't
have been opened, like we just Idon't remember if that policy
changed.
Whatever we took our trash outat night and that's how they got

(41:52):
in.
Somebody's waiting right besideour back door at closing with a
gun to get in shit forabsolutely could have.
But that red sweatshirt wasvery specific and I was like,
yeah, that seems a little weird,but I think he had his
sweatshirt.
It was.
They were trying to, like,create this big case.
My co-workers were not thatsmart so I don't think that that

(42:14):
would have happened.
Well, you were all high schoolstudents.

I mean, if you were in on it right, like that's
a pretty risky thing for, likeyou're a absolutely you're the I
don't I don't even know theterm that I'm thinking of, but
you're oh, the like the loosethread or whatever right like so
that to me says that it wasn'ta like a it wasn't.

It wasn't a setup kind of thing, and all you
really got was probably like 200bucks.
That's a lot of money back then, that's fair, absolutely.

You didn't have those safes that you drop shit
in.
You know, I don't think we did,probably not.

I mean probably not, maybe like I don't know,
stuck it in the shoe box.
I don't know, but in theshoebox.
I don't know, but that was andI mean that did happen on a
weekend.

It was on a friday, saturday.
I remember being so in chargeI'm using quotation fingers.
Oh yeah, for like jobs that Ihad where I would have to take
the deposit.
Like yes, like a big like thosethose big, thick kevlar kind of
bags that locked I have to putall the deposit in, yeah, and
then walk down to like the bankand deposit like who the would

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trust a 17 year old doofusthey're just like go here's all
the money go.
Deposit that there were norules.

I could have been knocked over the bean and we
were supposed to have a run offwith that time.
We were 17 according to ourfamilies.

That's how it worked so you said that you, you
didn't have a car.
No, do you remember when yougot a car?

Okay, yeah, not until college.
Probably not until, like, mysophomore year of college.

Okay, so I had like an old car of my
stepmother's.
It was like some sort ofOldsmobile hatchback thing, yep,
and it had bald ass tires and Ishould have died about six
times over.
I'm pretty sure heardunderstood.
Yeah, that was my college car.

That was my mobile .
There are a lot of politicsaround me not having a car in
high school, oh, but okay,that's for another day there's
more story.
So no car but boyfriends andthen friends who drove Okay.
So, you kind of like get pickedup and you go do fun shit.
Okay, I do remember going tothe movies.
I do remember movie ticketsbeing like $2.75.

I stole a rope like one of those red velvet
ropes from a movie theater oneSaturday or Friday night.

What were you going to do with said rope?

Well, it hung in my room forever one saturday or
friday night.

What were you going?

to do with said well, it hung in my room forever
, like I just, yeah, well,because it was like this big,
thick, velvet ropes and I havelike a little hook thing so I
like hooked it and then hung iton my bookshelf and it was cool
I had a one-way sign.
My, it was cool as fuck.
My grandmother was like what is, what is that?
I'm like it's nothing don'tworry about it.
Don't worry about grandma nowask me how I got the rope.
How did you get the rope, megan?

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I had a very long, uh, denimtrench coat, as one does in the
80s particularly, and I wrappedthe rope around me a couple
times and walked right out withit a movie theater rope.

They were probably like who the?

fuck steals a movie theater room.
I know and what I'm sad aboutbennett.

Did megan bennett stole that room?
I did what?

I'm sad about is that I don't still have it, and
I'm pretty sure that mygrandmother sold it in a in a
garage sale.

Fuck no, I love your grandma and fuck your
grandma.

She sold a lot of good shit everything.

Damn it, grandma, I know damn it, movie theater
rope.
Okay, there we go.
So.

You know what you can get back?
What oh?
A big denim trench coat.
Look at that, they're trending.

That one is $170.

I can promise you that my trench coat was not
$170.
Oh, that one's kind of sharp.
I like that one.
The women's casual doublebreasted long denim trench coat
oh, I'm sorry, trench coat.
Jean jacket trench coat on eBay.
Which one, the one, the bigpicture there.

Oh yeah, that's kind of cute with the black
dress.

Well there you go .

Who knew, with those denim heels.
There you go.
I am probably not going to gothat route, but so, going out in
the 80s you asked a couplequestions.
You've got like a little bit offeedback from people in the gen
x.

Women are sick of this shit facebook group I did
and uh, some, you know somefolks like amanda davis boris
says that she did blockbusterand dominoes.
Oh, fun blockbusters, of course, love that.
Uh, let's see don levy jenkinssays she was cruising and cosmic
, bowling movies and mall, ofcourse, yeah, I remember cosmic

(46:45):
bowling.
Yeah, that was in beach grove um, I was in a band during the
fall, it was football.
Or I was in a band during thefall, it was football, I was in
band.
We didn't have all the marchingcompetitions the kids have
nowadays, but Friday nights wereat the football game.
So that was Sandy Baker.
Oh, right on.
Lots of people saying that theyjust cruised.

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So people cruising up and downstreets for multiple hours.
There's all kinds of thatCollege parties keg parties on
the beach.
Somebody says it's pretty coolRoller skating from middle
school, for sure.

If we lived near a beach, oh my God, not just
Indiana Beach.

It would have been the best.
So many beach parties.

I would have probably been drinking then In
cornfields in Indiana.

So, to that end, there were a lot of people
having parties in the woods.
Okay, like.

Lot of people having parties in the woods,
okay, like lots of peopleParties in the woods, parties in
the woods Just in general, outin the woods.

Yep.
So Kelly Turner Kennedy sayshanging out in the woods with
friends and a half a barrel ofbeer, rock stars.
I mean lots of that.

And I know for a fact, like cruising in small
towns with the town squareabsolutely Because you would
like go to sports, and then youwould go cruising Yep In
Indianapolis a little bit less,but I mean Broad Ripple Avenue
was kind of the place.
Yes, that's true that you wouldlike drive up and down and you
would see people all and theCircle downtown, circle downtown
.

Yep, and that area that's just south of the
circle that has like a lot ofbars.
Yeah, this was in the 90s.
There was like a 24-hour cafethat was in that same block and
they had a lot of board games.
You could go in there and get,like go in there a little blotto

(48:30):
and then sit and have a boardgame.
Where was that?
It's called the Red Eye Cafe.
That just came to me.
Oh wow, good job, just pulledthat out of my hiney.
But yeah, that was I love thatthat was pretty cool, that was
pretty fun um a lot of peoplesay like a few people saying
that they watched mtv whilebabysitting oh, that's what
started this whole.

(48:51):
That's why we're here.

Yeah, we were going to talk about saturday
night, friday night friday,friday we were like what about
like a friday night videos kindof episode, just like, what did
you do on friday night?
Did you watch friday nightvideos as a young?

human, occasionally my um.
My jam was sunday nights with120 minutes mtv okay, and tv is
minutes.
That's why Mondays were alwayshard, so awful.
But that's how I learned aboutnew music.
I remember.

When did it come out?
It started in 86.
Okay, right on and Friday NightVideos, I think aired in 1983.

I think that's right, which is amazing.

And it was on NBC.
We didn't have cable for abillion years because I lived in
the middle of nowhere, so thiswould have been the closest
thing that I would have gottenwould be Friday Night Videos.
And what I found interesting,that history down there, dick
Ebersole produced it from 74 to81.
And he co-produced MidnightSpecial with the series creator,

(49:53):
bert Sugarman.
I'm pointing and reading likepeople know what I'm doing.
He left from Midnight Specialin 81 to take over executive
producer of co-creation withLauren Michaels Saturday Night
Live Babies, which I foundfascinating.

Yeah, that's very cool.
I thought that was great.
Yeah, small, small, tiny littleworld.

I know right.
Very cool, Well, hey it'sFriday night and you have Friday
night planned.
I do.
I'm going to go have somedinner with some friends.
Enjoy, enjoy your Friday night.
Enjoy your dinner with yourfriends.

I will.
I will.
This was fun.
You have a good Friday nighttoo.
I will.
Cheers One more.
Let's finish this off.

Here All right Till next time, leslie.
You have been listening to GenX.
Women Are Sick of this Shit.
Hey Megan, hey Leslie.
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