EITM: Back In My School Days 5/8/24

We could smoke barefoot in the snow.

Episode Transcript

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The only thing that I thought ofwhen I saw this that came to mind,
Like I think it was only duringmy freshman year of high school and
then it changed was smoking. Yes, like you could go outside in the
like like in the there was onesection of like the playground. Yeah,
and the just the yard behind theschool where you could smoke. Lake Braddock

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had a smoking lounge the first wait, a smoking lounge or a smoking area,
like did you have to go outside? Yes, it was outside,
but it was called the smoking lounge. It was outside and you had to
be in high school. But Iknew plenty of eighth graders who used to
sneak out there because all they smelledlike when they came back into social studies
was Marlboro lights. The yes,oh, here you go. This was

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another one that dealt with smoking inNew Jersey. If you had a parent
signed permission slip or a well forgedone, you could smoke outside between class.
You only had five minutes, likebetween classes. That's not a lot
of time. But I have thisslip that says I need to be able.

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Could you imagine your kid comes toyou and goes, hey, will
you sign me a slip so Icould go outside and smoke between classes?
Could you even pull that off?No, because they would I was gonna
say, like, maybe you couldargue, like, there's no way you
could argue that for their health theyneed to go outside and smoke. No,
And this is obviously all free,tobacco free campus, right, yeah,

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right, No, That's what Iwas gonna say. That you wouldn't
even be able to do that nowbecause you can't have any tobacco on campus.
Could you imagine that though having aparent sign off on that well number
one, having a parent signed offat number two, that it was okay?
No, But like Diane said,it was a lot more lenient and

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less was known. Were you ableto? A lot was known? It
just was kept out of the public'seye. Were you ever able to like
in my school? The answer wasno. But was there ever a day
or an area where you could?And this when when you mentioned like tobacco
free campuses, would they ever letyou dip in class? Like could you

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have a spit cup or a bottlein class? And they would let you
dip in class? I never sawit. I mean I never saw it
either, but did that I alsowouldn't think that you could get a permission
slip to go. Uh, maybein a room that if you were too
high, you could just go sitand let that buzz come down. Maybe
in certain classes, like I neversaw it in any of my classes,

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but you definitely saw the ring onthat back pocket of your leviy'es. Oh,
we had plenty of kids that hadthat that definitely dipped. Yeah,
you want another cigarette one. They'renot all they're not all tobacco related,
but your eye was drawn to that. When I was in elementary school,

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there was a demonstration in my classroomon the dangers of smoking where the person
doing the demonstration would light real cigarettesand put them in the mouths of mannekins
that showed what it would do tohuman lungs from smoking. I guess they
didn't think about secondhand smoke in thosedays. How could you get the demonstration?

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How could you even do that?So is this a specific mannequin schools
could buy that showed the lungs inflate. So we have resussa annie and smoking
sally, But how could you imaginethey come in and go, hey,
listen, we're gonna show what itdoes to the lungs, and instead of
going imagine if you smoked. Instead, we're gonna light cigarettes and put them

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in the Mannikin's mouth. That's unbelievableto me, so funny, unbelievable.
Where am I going, Kristin?I love these. I love these,
And there's some of them that Iwish existed. That's hysterical to me.
Some of the smoking ones, theor some of the other ones you haven't
gotten to. Oh, some ofthe other ones I haven't gotten to.

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But if you well, like there'sthere's another one like that. That's something
that exists now that never existed backlike back in the day. If you
want to flip it right, daycarein school. I was going to say
the same thing. Daycare in schoolnever exists. You went to the trailer,
Yeah, no, you went wehad pods, but yeah, that's
where you went to the pregnant pod. There was the pregnant pod and the

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drug pod, and those were kidswho got busted for drugs and instead of
like expelling them, they would sendthem to the drug pod. But then
there was the pregnant pod. Iwent to the student service center. By
the way, I'd bring that backthat I would bring back. I'm sorry
line too hi early in the morning. Hello, Yeah, Hi, who's

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this? Hi? This is Iam doing well? Thank you? What
can I do for you? Iwas calling because when I was in middle
school, like seventh and eighth grade, everybody smoked back in the day,
and there was a woman whose solejob was to stand outside the girl's bathroom
and say, girls, please don'tsmoke, Please don't smoke, And then

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they would go into the bathroom andsmoke and come out and be like,
no, no, we didn't smoke. Thank you for that. I know
you smell it on me, butI didn't smoke. Thank you, Yes,
thank what's the girl next to me? But that was her sole job.
I'd always felt so sad for her. That one's good. That's good,
all right, very good, Thankyou, ma'am. Thank you.

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Let me go to line five.Hi, Elliott in the morning. Hey
this me, Yeah, Hi,who's this? Hey? This is Jake
from Kansas City. Hey, what'sgoing on? Jake? What can I
do for you? Sir? Hey? Look, I'm like, I'm forty,
so this is a while ago.But I could chew the top off
of the popcn and take it intoclass just to spit in it. To

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lose weight for wrestling, oh wait, so but so not for dipping,
but to cut weight for wrestling,they would let you bring a spit can
in, Yes, like spit allday long to make weight, just to
spit in. Now, Jake,you'll remember Diane's husband wrestled in high school

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and his coach would let them wearlike those hot plastic suits and then would
tell him to go sit in ahot car and masturbate just to lose an
extra ounce or some you want towin districts or not technical technically illegal but
second technically illegal. By the way, do they thank you, Jake?

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Do they still do that for wrestling? Like? Is it still that like
that hardcore to cut weight. Oneof my friends is a coach, and
he said it's not as like popularand obvious, but the kids are using
the same methods that their parents beatingit in a course, No, I'm
just saying, like, like,you're definitely like spitting in cups and you

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don't drink water, You swish itaround in your mouth and spit it out
because God forbid you take in anounce, right, Yeah, no,
no, no, And I getthat about cutting weight, but doesn't it
seem like it would be dangerous?No? I mean, Scott survived,
He's fine, the jake survived,But like it would just be so frowned
upon to have a kid do thatpublicly. Yeah, privately totally fine,

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well not totally the rough, butyeah, publicly, like oh yeah,
that's h Elliott. He's got it. He can't swallow his own saliva.
And I signed this permission slip.He's got to go whack it in the
car of churs. I remember sittingwith my friends at lunch and they would
be sitting there and just like spittingin bottles, got to make weight.
In my high school, not thisisn't me, I'm reading another one.

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In my high school, my friendpierced my ears for a demonstration speech in
front of the class. What wasthe demonstration? I was probably they don't,
no, no, but it wasprobably like public speaking where it was
like where like where it's like youhave to speak to the class and do

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a demonstration so that you're comfortable speaking. And she piers somebody's ears. They
do say one girl passed out watchingWhere am I going? Like six?
Hi Elliott the morning, Hey,good morning, how's everybody? Hey,
I'm doing great? Who's this justin? Yeah, what's going on. I

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was calling to tell you all thatback when I was in middle school,
they did actually hunt her education andtaught us, you know, everything about
getting our hunting license, and theybrought in shotguns into the classroom to demonstrate
on how to properly handle them.That will never happen again. Yeah,
no, that won't happen. Likeevery so waffa, we'll hear about teams
that had like like like five likelike gun unsafety stuff like that, where

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people could keep them in their locker. But yeah, no, you're right,
that would never happen again. Thatwould never happen. Right now,
let me give you another thing youalways have, like the gun racks in
the back of the windows of pickuptrucks with their guns in it. Hey
does let me Hey, thank yousir. Let me give you another arena.

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Were there any were there any fieldtrips that took place back in the
day that would not take place now? Hm, I got a good one
right here. I feel like someschools have gotten away from like the overnights.
Oh yeah, no, that's true. Was like we never got to

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do an overnight, but I knowthat some places did. It wasn't the
destination so much it was just wecan't vouch for what these kids are doing.
Well, what's the thing that thatyour that your son did that everybody
in Montgomery County does outdoor? Right, But that's that's a sleep away field
trip kind of a multi night It'slike I told you last year, apparently

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it's a rite of passages. Thisyear, the big to do was one
kid was handed out melatone and gummies. Parents are not happy. But that
still goes on every year. Yesit does. And I mean and listen
and like you said, like anybodywent to school in Montgomery County, that

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is a thing like that was itthat? Nobody I know ever did that?
Like nobody I know ever. Butif you're if you're like I didn't
know that existed. My kids didn'tgo to school in Montgomery County, that's
an eye opener. If that's parentstold us about it, and we were
like, well, yeah, Iget why they don't do that anymore,
it would make total sense. Absolutely. My high school class had a trip

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to a mortuary. They showed usthe inside of a crematory him while a
body was in Oh my god,WHOA that's a great one. That's a
great one. Uh. Let mego to line six. Hi, yelliead

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the morning. Hey, yeah,just men, Hey, what's going on
dude? Hey, this is Bobybud Ah. Yes. Hey. When
I when I was in school,which was a long time, I graduated
nineteen seventy six. But our haweenteacher, a buddy of mine, she
would give us cigarettes and they passedto go to the bathroom to smoke it.

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Wait a minute, school, yourteacher gave you cigarettes and let you
go smoke y us. She knew, she knew we needed a cigarette,
and she'd give us a pass andshe say, you know, go smoke
your cigarette and then come back homeroom. Wowry. That was before we

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had this. That was before wehad the smoking allows in school. Where
did you where'd you go to school? High school? Very good? Very
good, Thank you sir, Thankyou with y'all. Another field trip one?
Okay, in sixth grade, Iwonder, I wonder if this well,
let me do it first. Insixth grade, we had a field

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trip to a brewery to see howbeer was made. In sixth grade,
would that be back in now aslike an entrepreneurial trip? Now, think
of how prevalent breweries are now,I know, but they're sixth graders the
Okay High School. Even worse,they're still underage. Of course they're under

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age, but they can go toplaces. I know, but I think
that would I think they would belike, there's a hundred other places we
could go. Who picked a brewery. I don't think that would fly.
So you don't think, like likemelissam oleg Lonok, yep, you don't
think they ever host field trips.I do. Here's here's Jim the brewer,
and he'll tell you about how thisis done. This is the all

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like, this is how we doit. Yeah, how's that different than
going to a restaurant with a bar? They have field trips? I oh,
Montgomery County again has this spot.I think it's in Bethesda that a
lot of schools go to where youare exposed to the inner workings of a
restaurant. Oh really, so yousee everything from that's smart the money side

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of it to the actual preparation andcooking side of it. So they they
definitely use food and beverage, justnot alcoholic. Let me go to line
two. Hi Elliet the morning,Ellie, good morning, good morning class.

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How are you hey? I'm doingwell? Thank you? What can
I do for you? Good?I got two quick thanks for you.
Number one, I went to apretty rural school where it was junior and
senior school together. Everybody there.If you had dudes walking around, even
some chicks walking around with cups,light broke out, they would not have
to take to throw that at eachother. They didn't care. Yes,

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it was nasty, it was nasty. That's good, and that's good.
You're talking about things that wouldn't flygoing back into like elementary school days,
and I think this is the inverseof what you're talking about. But they
used to make people strip down totheir underwear, go in front of a
doctor, bend over and do thescoliosis technique. Do you remember that.

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I mean, we had to dothe scoliosis. It was a combo test.
It was scoliosis and lice. Butwe did it in like we did
it in Jim and in Jim wewould have to wear like shorts and a
T shirt. So we did itin that, but nobody was you did
it in your underwear? Oh mygod, like three tones in a row,

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three years in a row. Theymade us go in and everybody's standing
there awkwardly, and the doctor's likeokay, and you're like, what the
hell? It was much like abunch of preaching over in white to get
the the doctors going very nigh.Yeah, definitely remember that in gym.
And then getting weight in front ofeverybody too. That's a caliber. Yeah,
uh here, give me, giveme the fatty part of the back

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of your arm. That was Thatwas an esteem booster. But wait,
so would they do they not dothe scoliosis test anymore in school? If
they do, they don't make themdisrobe by the way I would be.
I wouldn't have I don't care thatit's underwear. Like if my kid came
home and was like, hey,we had to get in our underwear test

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for scoliosis, I don't think thatwould throw me off. You know where
my mind immediately went is great,all when I bend over and the underwear
against pulled taut on my on mypush all the kids are going to see
a landing strip, great streaks andthat aut to me? What about shirts

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and skins? That's but you can'tdo that anymore, that's mortified Like that
would be again, I didn't goto Oh no, I don't want to
be in my underwear but I wasalso one of the few people that would
shower for like at the end ofgym, like I didn't care. No
you did, arm arm leg leg, No you didn't. With that thing
out, I had no problem,but I would be I would be horrified

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that you were going to see streaks. All I can picture is Portland may
do they do the yes? Dothey do? They don't they They wouldn't
even weigh you in front of somebody, now would they? Now why.
I'm sure there are coaches that doit still, but as you said,

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uh, that's a that's a dyingbreed Mitch Corn with coaches now, Like
one of the ones that they wrotewas the hold on, where is it
the guy who got knocked out?Knocked out? Yeah, hold on,
hold on, here we go likepunched. No, in ninth grade,

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I got knocked out during football practice. They just gave me some smelling salts
and sat me on a stool.Normal. Yeah, Like I feel like
that that would have been very normal. Yeah. I feel like the ambulance
is at the elementary school quite abit for getting knocked out for head injuries.
Right, No, but I meanthis is like head injuries are getting
knocked out head injury. You definitelydid not go home for well, you

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just walked off. Yeah, Imean they maybe you went to the nurse's
office to get a like to getsome ass for in But like that was
it. Because I remember Chuck Taylorgot no not Chuck Chuck Wilson. Chuck
Wilson. He got knocked out.He broke his nose playing playing football,
like just not not on the team. This was just like in the in

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the in the playground. Yeah,he broke he fell while somebody was running
as their foot came up. Hefell forward, broke his nose and got
knocked out. He didn't go home, he came to it, just stayed
at school. Here's a cigarette,shake it up. I never lived anywhere

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where there were tornado drills. Ifeel like we had them in Michigan.
I bet Kristin had him in Ohioand during a tornado drill, what would
you do? I felt like yougot into the cloak closet right as it
was called, just like a huddlein there, and they did. The

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whole aim was get in there asquickly as possible and like hunker down.
Would they put anything over you toprotect you? I don't think so if
there was a tornado drill or anactual tornado, all of the students would
move to the hallway. The girlswould kneel down, and the boys would
lean over the girls to protect them. That's weird. I've never heard of

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that. Well, look at chivalryat work. That's awesome. No,
you face me and I'll lean overyou. That's weird. Where am I
going? Kristen? Like seven,Hi, Elliot in the morning, Good
morning, Elliot, morning class.Hey, what's going on? Dude?

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Nothing much? Back in second gradehere in Montgomery County, they gave all
the kids knives and peelers and wepeeled apples and made apple sauce in class
second grade? How many injuries withknives? Hey? What did they do?
Like? What did they do forhomech Now like I'm like, my

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kid had to take like I can't. They didn't call it home ec but
whatever it was, and part ofthe semester was cooking and he took it.
Did they not use knives? Probablyteaching how to sew eral neutral clothes?
Say ours was like cooking and sewingthe I don't think it was sewing.
I don't think that was the otherhalf. But my the younger one

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didn't have to do it, butthe older one did. At Yorktown,
And I told you he used tocall Menino all the time and go,
hey, am I doing this right? Or he would put the teacher on
with Minino. I knew some friendswho took gourmet foods, the which was
essentially just all cooking. Right.No, but that's fine. But are
you using knives? We did,But I'm a little older than your son.

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The but you were allowed to usea knife, Well, how else
was I going to get the garnishright? For the I made a like
a like a ship out of vegetables. The did you really a lot of
toothpicks? Hi? Elliott the morning? Hey, who's this? It's Mike.

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Yes, Mike. What can Ido for you? Mike? Yeap
lost, No big deal. Letme go to line two. Hi,
Elliet the morning? Is this me? Yeah? Hi? Who's this?
It's Hi? I'm Mark talking aboutschool trips. When I was in seventh

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or eighth grade, I was atthe Jewish Day School of Montrose. They
took us to the Empire Cusher chickenfactory, a slaughterhouse the one. The
one thing I remember is the chickenslined up on the conveyor belt. One

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chicken escaped and ran between a girl'slegs. Oh my god. They they
tried to make it up to usby taking us to Hershey Chocolate factory afterwards.
Could you have a thank you,sir? Thank you? Slaughterhouse wouldn't
fly? Did you you guys haveWe didn't have this. Did you guys

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have in high school or in middleschool? Did you guys have a Future
Teachers Club? I don't think so. What is that? It was a
club for based on what I wasreading, for kids who later in life
wanted to study education and become ateacher. No, this person as a
member of the Future Teachers Club.In seventh and eighth grade, we were

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sent to the lower grades to coverclasses until a substitute arrived. And all
it took was going to that clubonce or and you were going to be
twice a month. And then here'smy other two favorites. In junior high
I had a teacher who would regularlypass around a hat for us to put

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money into to buy treats for theclass. Well, that I'm all right
with. As soon as the hatwent around and everyone contributed, one student
was selected to sprint across the streetto the store and get the treats for
everybody in the class. You usuallyfrown on leaving campus. And did you
guys have a custodial burn pit?What a custodial burn pit where they would

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burn stuff? My elementary school hada cinderblock burn pit about twelve by twelve,
directly behind the cafeteria and beside thekids bike racks and playing fields.
Our janitor would toss trash from thecafeteria, like empty milk cartons and burn
them every single day. What Airbornehas, It's just plastic. Those kids

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are sick now, yeah, they'refine. We were outside. Oh my
collar soft? Wow? Oh pushMary further back. Could you imagine telling
that custodian there's now nut free tables. I burned the table. Jeez,