Do You Remember

Back in the day, there were summer activities that you loved to do.  Which ones were they?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, guys, it is officially summer now and it's hot everywhere.
So think back when you guys were a kid. What
did you do during the summer to pass the time?
There was no cable TV, there was no cell phone,
there was no internet, no computers, none of that. So
what did you do? What did you do? Junior?

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (00:20):
First of all, we had to do every day. We
had a mission. Every day we had we had to
go on our mission. And we was on. We was
climbing tree. We were Star Trek and I was Captain
Kurk That's who I was. And so we in the
tree and the Klingons was coming. We had to fight
them off every day. That's that's what we had imagination.
That's what we did. Yeah, I see my best friend

(00:41):
for Sean Brown. I definely I still love Sean Brown.
Me and Sean Brown getting that tree and I'm telling
you put the shields up in the front. We need
the shields. That was important. You had to have him. Yeah, boy,
that's what that was serious, Star Trek coming and we
left Scottie too, all of us did. Yeah, we did that.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
What did you do Tommy?

Speaker 4 (01:03):
Oh my god? The day was long? So you did
a whole bunch of one day. We started out with
B B guns. You're gonna start out with that. We're
going we're gonna shoot birds. That was that was, that's
how we would start off. We got Yeah, we never gold.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Hit the bird.

Speaker 4 (01:18):
The birds was safe, trust me, the birds were safe
for us. We could never hit the bird. Uh what else?
And then we're gonna we're gonna take our bikes. We're
gonna jump ramps because you know, we build a ramp,
We're gonna jump around.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
We're gonna do all that.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
But when the evening came, like about five thirty six
and getting dark, that's when we started.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Playing hide and go.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
And then when it got real dog got close to
getting dark, it changed from hide and go seek, hide
and go get it. But them girls was fast.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Boy, that was fun.

Speaker 5 (01:55):
That sounds fun. That sounds a lot of fun.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Did you guys do stuff like get the water hose
and run through it and all that?

Speaker 4 (02:01):
We used to do that really really, my daddy came home,
so y'all gonna quit running my water like that and.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Using up my good trash man.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
Yes, slide slipping, we had slipping slide wait before that
game came out oh yeah, doing that.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
We had a lot of a lot of lot of fun.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
Yeah, we did, we did. We did so much.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Sureley, can you double dutch?

Speaker 4 (02:26):
Can you? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (02:27):
Double dutch?

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Uh so we did.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
That double dutch. We were outside, we played jacks.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
I couldn't get past or my hand. I coordination. You know,
if one.

Speaker 5 (02:40):
And three were over here, I get the three, but
that one I could not get it before that. Yeah,
but the bat and the ball, remember the little ball
that was on that Yeah, the pad I could get.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
I could do that. Now that was me with that.

Speaker 5 (02:56):
I hated.

Speaker 4 (02:57):
I hated to see that. Hold.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Young people are listening, going like, what are they talking about?
But these were fun games for us. This is what
we did. We didn't have internet.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
Oh my gosh, did you play man?

Speaker 3 (03:14):
We played for Keith boy Man. You sure hate to
do your best marble.

Speaker 4 (03:19):
Boy?

Speaker 5 (03:20):
That's fine, go ahead, girl.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Well, growing up in Chicago when I moved, you know,
I moved to Houston, I was a teenager, young or
twins so to speak. But I don't know about y'all,
but in Chicago, playing cards is very very serious. Been
with and all that. You know that our parents and
aunties and they was teaching us at a young age.

Speaker 4 (03:42):
We were playing with.

Speaker 5 (03:44):
Chicago.

Speaker 4 (03:46):
I started out with pity pack and then.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
You worked your way up at old Man.

Speaker 4 (03:52):
Yeah, and then they start when they get you the
spades and gets seers.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
And.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
Then that's what I stopped because they were just too
serious that I couldn't concentrate that heart anyway.

Speaker 4 (04:07):
That was fun right there. That was all day.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
Yeah, me and my great grandmother, that was out there.
We used to play. That's when Monopoly was really big.
On Friday nights at the house of my great grandmother's house,
Monopoly fifteen people last all night long in the summertime.
That's what we did. And I would cheat her that
she couldn't see I was cheating her because if she
made me mad, I would put on Electric Company. She
never got boardwalk if I was corning to the bank,
and she never got your blind grandmother?

Speaker 4 (04:33):
Was your great grandma was playing Monopoly?

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (04:36):
Yeah, she could count the boy she knew, but she
rolled height. You tell her what she rolled. She knew
what she's supposed to be, but till I told her
where she was gonna be at your electric coming seive,
You feel good about yourself cheating your great grandmother.

Speaker 5 (04:47):
I had to blind what you don't know for today.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
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