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Speaker 1 (00:00):
How do you cancel camp?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I agree, I feel like that is rough on families
that need to go to work. I mean, you'll handle that. Hopefully.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
More of the options are like I'm sure they're scrambling
to find space to put kids indoors, you know.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Yeah, but if they're canceling a camp, Christian, will you
do me a favor? Will you find me somebody who
has kids that go to any camp. I'd love to
find one that's asleep away also, And I don't care
if it's a week, I don't care, if it is
a month, I don't care if it's the whole summer.
Like there's some like we've talked about that in the past,
the people that go away for like a month or
(00:35):
six weeks, Well, you can't cancel.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
That, no, I mean that they like, you're gone.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
You have to have accommodations in case a heat wave
strikes while you're there.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yeah, it's called outside.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
No, they don't want them outside, You want them inside.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
They have activities inside. They're not in like tense no.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
No, but you sleep in like cabins or something, or
like like little shift barracks.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
But you don't just sit inside all day you go outside, but.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
They would need to keep them in doing like the crafts. Yeah,
and I.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Didn't sign up for craft camp.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
We also don't want to death on our hands. That
could hurt word of mouth.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
But what do you do?
Speaker 4 (01:18):
What do you do if it's like a week long
camp and they start canceling it?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
What do you do? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
You mean it's just not a sleepover, it's just all day.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Yeah, yeah, well, or or like it doesn't even have
to be like county run.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
It could just be.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Like and I don't want to name one because it
makes it look bad, but like there's like private people
that have not people but companies that.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Run camps, the martial arts places.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Do it?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Do they really?
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
And it's not even like you're doing taekwondo all day.
They have other activities, even take kids to other things
like splash parks.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Do they really?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I thought that would have all been.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Like like a master roum just keeps you in there
and you train all week.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Well, now you will, Now they've got they want to
split it up up. That's a lot if you were
doing because you can pick up your kid after work,
so you're dropping them off at eight in the morning,
seven in the morning, and then at six and they've
only been doing karate all.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Now, that'd be awesome, now the great well, great training. Yeah,
let's get you good.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Kids got the attention span to do that.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
That's why you make them do different things.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I think middays they show like a movie.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Oh so these are like babies, No at.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
All, these are like middle school kids.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
And are you serious?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Possibly beyond obviously there's not as many because those kids
may be able to stay at home alone. But you're
totally screwed today if you get a note from your
camp and you're gonna have to call in tel work.
I can't come into day by the way. Also, you're
going to cancel camp? When do I see my refund?
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Well?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah, hopefully they would be able to do that.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Oh no, there's no hopefully Seriously that camps cost a
ton of money. Camps are very expensive. Where am I going?
Kristen Line four? Hi Elliet at the morning?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Hey who's this Hell?
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Yes, sir, Hey, this is this is Kevin.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yes, Kevin, what can I do for you?
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Uh? Talking about people that had kids in camp? I
just dropped mine off about two minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
What what camp. What kind of camp are they in?
Speaker 5 (03:15):
So it's just like a basic wreck through the county.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
But what do they do? What do they do?
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Like?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
What what are they supposed to do?
Speaker 5 (03:23):
I mean I dropped them off at this elementary school
and they keep them busy, I don't know, doing all
kinds of crazy games and stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Yeah, games aren't crafts. If there's if there's take them there?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Hey what what?
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:38):
What are they to the pool on Tuesdays and Thursdays?
And they usually take some sort of some sort of trip.
I think they're going to like sky Zone and they
get a water parks. They take them a bunch of places.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
That's cool. Hey, what are their rules on cell phones?
Speaker 5 (03:54):
I think they have a cell phone or a tablet
time and like the kids aren't allowed to screen share
or some thing. But it's like a designated time.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Because that was the other thing I was reading. You
know how many camps are going no cell phones at all?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Oh, they don't want them brought at all.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
No, a lot of them go no cell phone.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
This's got to be a new thing where there's no
cell phones and not just like you'll you'll pick your
kids up later today, right.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Yeah, I'll pick them up back to I get off
work like three thirty four.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Yeah right, okay, so I mean listen, seven thirty to
three thirty not the end of the world. But like
you said, your kids get to bring them. There are
a bunch of sleep away camps, no phone, nothing, that's ridiculous.
Well how do you manage like they did in the nineties. Yeah, okay,
well you know what, Like back in the eighteen hundreds
they did camp with no electricity.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
But I'm your parents are like, listen, I'm paying all
this money to send you to this sleep away camp.
You can sit on your home, sit on your phone
at home in your bedroom for free.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah, but what about designated timing?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Can kids access a phone in like the office if
they need to a home?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Well, they're not going to prevent them from an emergency.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Oh I'm no, it's no contact correct.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Yeah, I mean I guess if I guess if they're
really being babies, then you then they'll let them call.
But yeah, no, there's no like no phones, no phones
at all. So yeah, you can't be you can't be
like a cry baby and try to get to use
the phone. That's not going to happen. Like the like
my older one, the only one, Hey, thank you sir.
(05:33):
The only camps that that the older one did were
hockey camps, and that was some of them were like
no phones, no phones.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Well also the context of a hockey camp, you are
out on the ice. Yeah, it's not like you can
go hide under a tree and no.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
No.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
But also well two things. Number one, you're not on
the ice all day.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Like some stuff is classrooms, some stuff is training and stuff.
But it was also sleep away camp, so like they
would be gone for a week.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I didn't realize that.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Yeah, so they would finish dinner and you could, like
during the day, you can't, like you're not bringing your
phone to the bag.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
But then after dinner would they do like a movie
at night or something like that, like some of their
phones group activity.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Yeah, it's called get on your phone.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Yeah, watching watch hockey videos or get on Instagram or something. Now,
the younger one did do I don't even remember what
it was, but he did like a week long sleep
away camp where you couldn't you couldn't bring a phone,
but they would they had a phone there where they
got to call home once a week, and I don't
remember what that was, but that was like the same
(06:34):
thing where it was like you slept in cabins and
like you showered in.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
The creek or whatever. I don't know what it was.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
But they got they got one phone call home a week,
but they couldn't bring phones and if they if they
like it didn't happen to my kid, but like somebody
in his cabin was like a real.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Baby, and so I mean they got homesick.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Yes, and so they kept trying to like they had
to pull him out of the cabin because he was
keeping everybody up crying all night.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Oh my god, yeah, damn the oh. I'm saying that
it is sad, but.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
You got to get over it. You got to get
over it.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
You just don't know until you maybe feel it out
how you're going to react. For a lot of those kids,
it's the first time ever away.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
I understand that.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
But then and then you're it's like they haven't even
been to a sleepover, and they're like.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Well, go away for a week.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
The well, I don't know if that. I don't know
if that kid had ever been to sleepovers. But the
but like the parents are flipping out because they're like,
well what if what if my kid is a baby
and he needs to call home, and they're like, that's
not how it works.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Jeez. I felt bad. I got word from the cross
country practice drop off this morning at five point fifty
five that my son was the only one who very
obviously had his medical form. Oh and my wife said
he he looked like a freshman at my form.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Not a baby, though, not a baby? Can he run
with his phone?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Wasn't crying? He has on a he has on a
runner's belt.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
The Diane, you got me?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
I know, but do you ever see cross country kids
using those? Put it under your shirt?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
The hey, what's that?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (08:15):
What's that? Lump?
Speaker 6 (08:15):
You have.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
My runner's belt? My runner's belt.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I wasn't sure for practices if kids were going to
have their phones on them?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
No, no, Well what about for music?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
He does? Yeah, you can't have headphones on.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
No, we'll just go through the speaker on the phone.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Just wake up all the night song.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
No, somebody runs ox and then they're in charge.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I doubt it's a freshman, not even he hasn't even
gone to school yet.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Hi Elliott the morning, Yeah, Hi, use this. Hey what's
going on? Dude?
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (08:55):
Not much.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Camp oh yeah, do you have one that's going I do.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Yeah, she's going into July to four age campus but
Mountain that's cool.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
How oh but how long that sleep away? How long?
How long? Long?
Speaker 6 (09:12):
Monday to Friday? So drop her off Monday morning, figure
up Friday evening.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Do does she get phone access?
Speaker 4 (09:20):
No?
Speaker 6 (09:20):
They I went when I was in middle school in
high school, and then it was like if you got
caught with your phone, uh, they called your parents to come.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Get you away.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Yeah, they were pretty strict about it.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
I don't know if there's still that strict about it, but.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
I know it did.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
They do not let your kids bring any electronics at all. Yeah,
no electronics. No, of course iPods aren't really a thing anymore.
But no iPods, no MP three, no tablets, no nothing.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
I was going to ask, like, can you bring can
you bring a Bluetooth speaker? But what am I hooking
that up to?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Nothing?
Speaker 5 (09:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (09:55):
Yeah, but they do a really good job of keeping
them busy. You know, you up, get in line, you
go to breakfast, and then it is all the way
until the time you go to bed. They have activities planned.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Yeah, and that last activity is Instagram. Hey, what is
your kid? Is your kid bringing a And you may
not want to say publicly, but a lot of kids
will bring a BP.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
She's luckily she's going with both of her cousins, so
she should be you know, she should be very secure
feeling there.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Oh yeah, BP. Oh, god means blood pressure. That's the
only universe, kid, those are the.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Pressure.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Don't call it BP.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Well, I didn't want to say it in case the
camp counselors are listening.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
It's the type of kid who has this medical card.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Oh my god, on the street, I have to check
my blood pressure every three minutes.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
One of my insulin level drops.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Oh Jesus age, can I bring that?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Note?
Speaker 4 (11:03):
They were saying, I was reading about one camper A
thank you, sir, I was reading about one camp. First
of all, kids bring burner phones like crazy, So it
would be like it's like because like there's some places
where either A like it sounds like four H doesn't
dick around where you can't bring them at all. Yeah,
But then there's some places where you have to drop
them off and they put them in like.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
One of those zoup bags or whatever it is.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Yeah, in case there is an emergency and we can't
get the baby to stop crying. Where they will they like,
or once a week, you can use your phone to
like call home. But so they'll go, here's my phone
and they'll do it. But then they have that's they
have a burner phone. So well, oh they give them
a burner phone.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Yeah, but then if you get caught with that, you're
getting kicked out.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Okay, well, don't get caught. Okay, don't get caught. No kidding.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
I've been sneaking stuff around everywhere. I just finished school.
I was sneaking my vap in there. Now I'm doing that,
they said. They also busted a kid who came in
and they thought the kid was being really cool, like
he brought a book to read. He brought like some
Harry Potter book or something something that was thick enough,
and all the counselors were like, oh, you know what,
good on that kid, Like he brought a book probably
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like if he starts getting anxious, he'll read, or maybe
that's just his comfort to go to bed.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
And the kid was great until the very end of
the week.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
So like pickup was on Friday, and they said, like
Thursday evening, the Harry Potter books started vibrating.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
So what it was like sliced out in the middle.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
He cut a hole.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
The pages out his books are thick, buried his phone
inside the pages of the book.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
I was like, that kid is genius.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Pretty good now that that's a kid, Like I don't
what is that like boy state or something.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
That kid's the governor, Like that is smart.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
So this this question. I never went to camp.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
And by the way, all the all the like the
camp run the people who run the camps are like
after the second day, the kids really enjoyed being disconnected
from all of the electronics and they play and they
run and they're outside.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Do it well, yeah, no kidding, because you took it
away from them.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
They've got no other option.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
By the way, I'd be great without coffee if I
had no access to it.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Now, you wouldn't be great.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
But I want coffee. I'd probably have such a headache
I'd be crying like a baby.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
But obviously, when it comes to screen time, there's efforts
on parents beff schools, and clearly camps, whether it's tablet's
phones or I'm assuming smart watches are in these bands.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Oh yeah, you can't bring your Apple watch in.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
But back when, like my friends were going to camp,
and even before that, could you not have like a
discman or a walkman? Was it no electronics?
Speaker 1 (13:41):
I don't I mean I never went.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
To camp, neither did I. None of my friends did either.
They like sleep away.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Oh, I definitely had friends who went to camp. But
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
So I see this through that screen lens where it's like, yeah,
it makes sense. It's almost like a mental health retreat
as well. But has this has no electronics just sort
of been the rule so early on.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
You could have brought like a walkman or an air
pod or something like that, you wouldn't have been able
to bring those.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Probably he got me thinking when he said no iPods?
I was like, well, how far back does this extent?
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Was it?
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Was it a blanket roll? No av either no or
not to stay? You no electronics?
Speaker 4 (14:17):
But like what about what about like like could you
have brought could you have brought like a boombox?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Like these kids need to be able to hear the
show that should be blaring through the system.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Are they getting a good coverage in the woods?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
The yeah, I mean the signal strong?
Speaker 4 (14:37):
What is the and what do you do for like,
what do you do for and listen, I know a
lot of people do it, but I just what do
you do for jew camp? Like those kids go away
for months?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Weeks?
Speaker 6 (14:47):
Right?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Yeah? Months months?
Speaker 4 (14:50):
And it's not just Jews, but Jews do it a
lot like Northeast Jews do it a lot.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Actually didn't Maybe he's no, maybe he's uh posted, but
we know Josh went those camps, right or did he
know about them and just never get to go? I forget.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
I bet he'll tell us no, No, I bet Josh way,
because didn't Josh say that's where he learned to masturbate.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
I feel like you've you've pushed him on that.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
A lot of Jewish kids learned to master abate at
sleep away camp.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
But was he not allowed to have any electronics or
did you have to sneak them in? What books? Was
he cutting out the middle of?
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Yeah? God only knows. Could you imagine though seeing that?
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:30):
No, here we go because he was shoehorn in there.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
How to he definitely went.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Remember he.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Was the Color War captain.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Right, that's right?
Speaker 4 (15:40):
And then a lot of like like Dorcas, he was
also King Dorcas, and I bet was Josha, baby, did
he cry his first night away at camp?
Speaker 2 (15:50):
I don't think he's ever told us that, but it was,
didn't he?
Speaker 1 (15:53):
But he learned how to masturbate.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
It's coming back to me now. I believe he was
one of those eight weekers.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
That's a long time. Were you not allowed to bring
a phone? Eight weeks? And that's that's cruel and unusual.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Josh says he was allowed to have a boombox?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Was it one, like did everybody get to bring one?
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Or was it just like the cab Like did you
have to write a letter to your cabin maids?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
It's a lot harder back in the day to arrange that.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Yeah, that would suck. That's why you need phones. Yeah,
Jesus put me in the group text already. Hi Ellie
in the morning?
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Yeah, Hi, who's this?
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Hey? Hi?
Speaker 7 (16:35):
This is Noel?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Hi, Noel? How are you lovely?
Speaker 7 (16:38):
It's a great morning?
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Yes it is. Did you go away too? Did you
go in a camp?
Speaker 7 (16:44):
Yeah? So in Minnesota the Concordia Language villages and Bomingjin.
You can go for two weeks or you can go
for a month. My mom liked to send us for
a month, but you got credits for so like if
you went to Spanish camp for a month, you get
credit for Spanish, French, German, whatever it is that you
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went for, but you get completely immersed. They would take everything.
My dad tried to sneak in just a pack of gum.
So much trouble.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Now you pay, that's fine. Can I jump in here
for a second now? The Midgie Two things. Number one,
Bamidge has a great college. The University in Bamigi is
freaking awesome. Bamidgie during the winter is also where they
test car batteries to see how they drew in the cold.
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My kid, my younger one, actually looked at going to
a goalie camp in Bamidgie. That was a week long
where you would go to camp. But then they also
had like lakes and stuff like that, Like a lot
of water around Bamidgie.
Speaker 7 (17:53):
But Tyler is a lot of water everywhere in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Great legs.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
The but now Tyler is pulled up the Concordia website.
I hope a lot of those kids didn't break their
glasses playing basketball.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
She said, these are language villages.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Language camp.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
No, the language villages, so they immerse you and whatever
language you want to learn, so they take away everything
you have, so the friends, but you can't and you
do have school all day. So over the loudspeakers you'll
hear chicken chick chicos. So then you have to go
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to school.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
What is that? What is that?
Speaker 7 (18:43):
It's it's saying hey everybody, Hey kids, it's time to
go to school.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (18:52):
I mean it's cool.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
No, it's not.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
It's like school.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Hey, what did you do this summer? Oh? Dude, I
went to an amusement park.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
I went to my cousins in Orlando. I smelled weed
for the first time. What did you do?
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (19:14):
I got to spend pesos in the book Astorra.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
What is this weird fight happening?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Whoa maya with the brooms?
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:23):
What are they doing?
Speaker 4 (19:24):
So these these two Dorcases they are They're wearing Canadian
flag capes over their shoulders.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Now I know you were in the Spanish immersion, but
what's going on here?
Speaker 4 (19:35):
And they got on dumb French berets and why are
they fighting with brooms?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Sorry I'm cleaning. We use it to learn to learn curling.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Sorry, roller coaster?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Yeah, what is this?
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Well?
Speaker 7 (19:52):
I mean the one thing is is I did lose
weight for a little bit, because if you can't say
the food on the fluit on the on the table,
you don't eat. If you can't sit past them. In
the late ship book before, you don't get any milk,
you don't get any bread.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
And I'm guessing I'm guessing they don't make it easy
and do like in Chilada like it's probably all like hardcore,
like like Mexican food.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
It wasn't not always because they did. I remember eating
a lot of oatmeal because I didn't eat any oatmeal
and I was hungry a lot night.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
What a horrible camp?
Speaker 5 (20:31):
Now, Mom?
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Can I please come home?
Speaker 1 (20:33):
No, that's why. That's why.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
By the way of all camps, I get why this
one doesn't have phones.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
I get it. Nobody you would I would you just
sit up all night and cry?
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Wait?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Hold on, yes, Tyler, Well you're not sitting up all
night and crying. Camp songs and daily skits are an
integral part of the village experience, including at mealtimes, as
are jokes, games and weekend dances.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
What jokes and what jokes are you even?
Speaker 7 (21:02):
I don't really remember any jokes, but we did a
lot of singing and then at the very end, you
have to put on a big play with your classroom.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
So is the architecture in these villages meant to also
represent whatever country you are cosplaying.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
No, it's this is there's no bugs play there, but
it's just some of the structures very permanent.
Speaker 7 (21:31):
So Kyler I went to obviously the Spanish ones where
he lived in these little hut take things and we
had to sweep, we had to do all kinds of
stuff to keep the bugs.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Out there from me.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
Well, she went to French camp and they were in
these beautiful places.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
There was carpet.
Speaker 7 (21:51):
She would send me pictures. She's like, She's like, if
there were any bugs in here, I think I would die.
We have air conditioning.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
I'm like, what.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
You sweating so much?
Speaker 4 (22:06):
You didn't keep those glasses up on the bridge of
your nose.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Come o, Saint d s loser. Ain't nobody in that
camp learn how to mask?
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Good?
Speaker 2 (22:20):
It's like a castle. That's the French one.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Oh, the French one is nice.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Those were for the rich people in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Wow, yeah, look at that.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Dang.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Wait, those are all the villages.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Yeah, German, French, Spanish, Norwegian, Russian, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Chinese,
Japanese English.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Put me in that one.
Speaker 7 (22:49):
Like all the counselors are like people in college that
all have been going to these camps and speak almost
fluent whatever language they're they're there to teach you.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Did you ever go back as a counselor?
Speaker 7 (23:04):
No, because I can.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Hardly speak Spanish.
Speaker 7 (23:11):
Well, my mom and my mom sent us every year
for years years. But like we're from a small town, Moorhead,
right next to Fargo. I don't know if you yes,
I mean we didn't. Nobody would speak back to us.
I mean we did have a decent Hispanic population, but
nobody would speak Spanish to us. So we would come
come back home.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
And because what you were speaking really wasn't Spanish like
you were, you couldn't do it.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Look at weird now, Lilia, this, oh my god, that
is from the Spanish village.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
I'll tell you what it was.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
It was good.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Chica. They are on the right. They have been the
hottest thing going.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
That's one of the many dances.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Well, they have maccarina.
Speaker 7 (24:00):
You know what you learn prayers, so you learn like
the morning prayer, the prayers
How do you cancel camp?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I agree, I feel like that is rough on families
that need to go to work. I mean, you'll handle that. Hopefully.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
More of the options are like I'm sure they're scrambling
to find space to put kids indoors, you know.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Yeah, but if they're canceling a camp, Christian, will you
do me a favor? Will you find me somebody who
has kids that go to any camp. I'd love to
find one that's asleep away also, And I don't care
if it's a week, I don't care, if it is
a month, I don't care if it's the whole summer.
Like there's some like we've talked about that in the past,
the people that go away for like a month or
(00:35):
six weeks, Well, you can't cancel.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
That, no, I mean that they like, you're gone.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
You have to have accommodations in case a heat wave
strikes while you're there.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yeah, it's called outside.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
No, they don't want them outside, You want them inside.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
They have activities inside. They're not in like tense no.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
No, but you sleep in like cabins or something, or
like like little shift barracks.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
But you don't just sit inside all day you go outside, but.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
They would need to keep them in doing like the crafts. Yeah,
and I.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Didn't sign up for craft camp.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
We also don't want to death on our hands. That
could hurt word of mouth.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
But what do you do?
Speaker 4 (01:18):
What do you do if it's like a week long
camp and they start canceling it?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
What do you do? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
You mean it's just not a sleepover, it's just all day.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Yeah, yeah, well, or or like it doesn't even have
to be like county run.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
It could just be.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Like and I don't want to name one because it
makes it look bad, but like there's like private people
that have not people but companies that.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Run camps, the martial arts places.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Do it?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Do they really?
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
And it's not even like you're doing taekwondo all day.
They have other activities, even take kids to other things
like splash parks.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Do they really?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I thought that would have all been.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Like like a master roum just keeps you in there
and you train all week.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Well, now you will, Now they've got they want to
split it up up. That's a lot if you were
doing because you can pick up your kid after work,
so you're dropping them off at eight in the morning,
seven in the morning, and then at six and they've
only been doing karate all.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Now, that'd be awesome, now the great well, great training. Yeah,
let's get you good.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Kids got the attention span to do that.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
That's why you make them do different things.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I think middays they show like a movie.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Oh so these are like babies, No at.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
All, these are like middle school kids.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
And are you serious?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Possibly beyond obviously there's not as many because those kids
may be able to stay at home alone. But you're
totally screwed today if you get a note from your
camp and you're gonna have to call in tel work.
I can't come into day by the way. Also, you're
going to cancel camp? When do I see my refund?
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Well?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah, hopefully they would be able to do that.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Oh no, there's no hopefully Seriously that camps cost a
ton of money. Camps are very expensive. Where am I going?
Kristen Line four? Hi Elliet at the morning?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Hey who's this Hell?
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Yes, sir, Hey, this is this is Kevin.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yes, Kevin, what can I do for you?
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Uh? Talking about people that had kids in camp? I
just dropped mine off about two minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
What what camp. What kind of camp are they in?
Speaker 5 (03:15):
So it's just like a basic wreck through the county.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
But what do they do? What do they do?
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Like?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
What what are they supposed to do?
Speaker 5 (03:23):
I mean I dropped them off at this elementary school
and they keep them busy, I don't know, doing all
kinds of crazy games and stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Yeah, games aren't crafts. If there's if there's take them there?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Hey what what?
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:38):
What are they to the pool on Tuesdays and Thursdays?
And they usually take some sort of some sort of trip.
I think they're going to like sky Zone and they
get a water parks. They take them a bunch of places.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
That's cool. Hey, what are their rules on cell phones?
Speaker 5 (03:54):
I think they have a cell phone or a tablet
time and like the kids aren't allowed to screen share
or some thing. But it's like a designated time.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Because that was the other thing I was reading. You
know how many camps are going no cell phones at all?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Oh, they don't want them brought at all.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
No, a lot of them go no cell phone.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
This's got to be a new thing where there's no
cell phones and not just like you'll you'll pick your
kids up later today, right.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Yeah, I'll pick them up back to I get off
work like three thirty four.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Yeah right, okay, so I mean listen, seven thirty to
three thirty not the end of the world. But like
you said, your kids get to bring them. There are
a bunch of sleep away camps, no phone, nothing, that's ridiculous.
Well how do you manage like they did in the nineties. Yeah, okay,
well you know what, Like back in the eighteen hundreds
they did camp with no electricity.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
But I'm your parents are like, listen, I'm paying all
this money to send you to this sleep away camp.
You can sit on your home, sit on your phone
at home in your bedroom for free.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah, but what about designated timing?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Can kids access a phone in like the office if
they need to a home?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Well, they're not going to prevent them from an emergency.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Oh I'm no, it's no contact correct.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Yeah, I mean I guess if I guess if they're
really being babies, then you then they'll let them call.
But yeah, no, there's no like no phones, no phones
at all. So yeah, you can't be you can't be
like a cry baby and try to get to use
the phone. That's not going to happen. Like the like
my older one, the only one, Hey, thank you sir.
(05:33):
The only camps that that the older one did were
hockey camps, and that was some of them were like
no phones, no phones.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Well also the context of a hockey camp, you are
out on the ice. Yeah, it's not like you can
go hide under a tree and no.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
No.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
But also well two things. Number one, you're not on
the ice all day.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Like some stuff is classrooms, some stuff is training and stuff.
But it was also sleep away camp, so like they
would be gone for a week.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I didn't realize that.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Yeah, so they would finish dinner and you could, like
during the day, you can't, like you're not bringing your
phone to the bag.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
But then after dinner would they do like a movie
at night or something like that, like some of their
phones group activity.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Yeah, it's called get on your phone.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Yeah, watching watch hockey videos or get on Instagram or something. Now,
the younger one did do I don't even remember what
it was, but he did like a week long sleep
away camp where you couldn't you couldn't bring a phone,
but they would they had a phone there where they
got to call home once a week, and I don't
remember what that was, but that was like the same
(06:34):
thing where it was like you slept in cabins and
like you showered in.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
The creek or whatever. I don't know what it was.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
But they got they got one phone call home a week,
but they couldn't bring phones and if they if they
like it didn't happen to my kid, but like somebody
in his cabin was like a real.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Baby, and so I mean they got homesick.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Yes, and so they kept trying to like they had
to pull him out of the cabin because he was
keeping everybody up crying all night.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Oh my god, yeah, damn the oh. I'm saying that
it is sad, but.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
You got to get over it. You got to get
over it.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
You just don't know until you maybe feel it out
how you're going to react. For a lot of those kids,
it's the first time ever away.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
I understand that.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
But then and then you're it's like they haven't even
been to a sleepover, and they're like.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Well, go away for a week.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
The well, I don't know if that. I don't know
if that kid had ever been to sleepovers. But the
but like the parents are flipping out because they're like,
well what if what if my kid is a baby
and he needs to call home, and they're like, that's
not how it works.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Jeez. I felt bad. I got word from the cross
country practice drop off this morning at five point fifty
five that my son was the only one who very
obviously had his medical form. Oh and my wife said
he he looked like a freshman at my form.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Not a baby, though, not a baby? Can he run
with his phone?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Wasn't crying? He has on a he has on a
runner's belt.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
The Diane, you got me?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
I know, but do you ever see cross country kids
using those? Put it under your shirt?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
The hey, what's that?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (08:15):
What's that? Lump?
Speaker 6 (08:15):
You have.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
My runner's belt? My runner's belt.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I wasn't sure for practices if kids were going to
have their phones on them?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
No, no, Well what about for music?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
He does? Yeah, you can't have headphones on.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
No, we'll just go through the speaker on the phone.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Just wake up all the night song.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
No, somebody runs ox and then they're in charge.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I doubt it's a freshman, not even he hasn't even
gone to school yet.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Hi Elliott the morning, Yeah, Hi, use this. Hey what's
going on? Dude?
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (08:55):
Not much.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Camp oh yeah, do you have one that's going I do.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Yeah, she's going into July to four age campus but
Mountain that's cool.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
How oh but how long that sleep away? How long?
How long? Long?
Speaker 6 (09:12):
Monday to Friday? So drop her off Monday morning, figure
up Friday evening.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Do does she get phone access?
Speaker 4 (09:20):
No?
Speaker 6 (09:20):
They I went when I was in middle school in
high school, and then it was like if you got
caught with your phone, uh, they called your parents to come.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Get you away.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Yeah, they were pretty strict about it.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
I don't know if there's still that strict about it, but.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
I know it did.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
They do not let your kids bring any electronics at all. Yeah,
no electronics. No, of course iPods aren't really a thing anymore.
But no iPods, no MP three, no tablets, no nothing.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
I was going to ask, like, can you bring can
you bring a Bluetooth speaker? But what am I hooking
that up to?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Nothing?
Speaker 5 (09:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (09:55):
Yeah, but they do a really good job of keeping
them busy. You know, you up, get in line, you
go to breakfast, and then it is all the way
until the time you go to bed. They have activities planned.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Yeah, and that last activity is Instagram. Hey, what is
your kid? Is your kid bringing a And you may
not want to say publicly, but a lot of kids
will bring a BP.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
She's luckily she's going with both of her cousins, so
she should be you know, she should be very secure
feeling there.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Oh yeah, BP. Oh, god means blood pressure. That's the
only universe, kid, those are the.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Pressure.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Don't call it BP.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Well, I didn't want to say it in case the
camp counselors are listening.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
It's the type of kid who has this medical card.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Oh my god, on the street, I have to check
my blood pressure every three minutes.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
One of my insulin level drops.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Oh Jesus age, can I bring that?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Note?
Speaker 4 (11:03):
They were saying, I was reading about one camper A
thank you, sir, I was reading about one camp. First
of all, kids bring burner phones like crazy, So it
would be like it's like because like there's some places
where either A like it sounds like four H doesn't
dick around where you can't bring them at all. Yeah,
But then there's some places where you have to drop
them off and they put them in like.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
One of those zoup bags or whatever it is.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Yeah, in case there is an emergency and we can't
get the baby to stop crying. Where they will they like,
or once a week, you can use your phone to
like call home. But so they'll go, here's my phone
and they'll do it. But then they have that's they
have a burner phone. So well, oh they give them
a burner phone.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Yeah, but then if you get caught with that, you're
getting kicked out.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Okay, well, don't get caught. Okay, don't get caught. No kidding.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
I've been sneaking stuff around everywhere. I just finished school.
I was sneaking my vap in there. Now I'm doing that,
they said. They also busted a kid who came in
and they thought the kid was being really cool, like
he brought a book to read. He brought like some
Harry Potter book or something something that was thick enough,
and all the counselors were like, oh, you know what,
good on that kid, Like he brought a book probably
(12:10):
like if he starts getting anxious, he'll read, or maybe
that's just his comfort to go to bed.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
And the kid was great until the very end of
the week.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
So like pickup was on Friday, and they said, like
Thursday evening, the Harry Potter books started vibrating.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
So what it was like sliced out in the middle.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
He cut a hole.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
The pages out his books are thick, buried his phone
inside the pages of the book.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
I was like, that kid is genius.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Pretty good now that that's a kid, Like I don't
what is that like boy state or something.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
That kid's the governor, Like that is smart.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
So this this question. I never went to camp.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
And by the way, all the all the like the
camp run the people who run the camps are like
after the second day, the kids really enjoyed being disconnected
from all of the electronics and they play and they
run and they're outside.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Do it well, yeah, no kidding, because you took it
away from them.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
They've got no other option.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
By the way, I'd be great without coffee if I
had no access to it.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Now, you wouldn't be great.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
But I want coffee. I'd probably have such a headache
I'd be crying like a baby.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
But obviously, when it comes to screen time, there's efforts
on parents beff schools, and clearly camps, whether it's tablet's
phones or I'm assuming smart watches are in these bands.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Oh yeah, you can't bring your Apple watch in.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
But back when, like my friends were going to camp,
and even before that, could you not have like a
discman or a walkman? Was it no electronics?
Speaker 1 (13:41):
I don't I mean I never went.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
To camp, neither did I. None of my friends did either.
They like sleep away.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Oh, I definitely had friends who went to camp. But
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
So I see this through that screen lens where it's like, yeah,
it makes sense. It's almost like a mental health retreat
as well. But has this has no electronics just sort
of been the rule so early on.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
You could have brought like a walkman or an air
pod or something like that, you wouldn't have been able
to bring those.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Probably he got me thinking when he said no iPods?
I was like, well, how far back does this extent?
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Was it?
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Was it a blanket roll? No av either no or
not to stay? You no electronics?
Speaker 4 (14:17):
But like what about what about like like could you
have brought could you have brought like a boombox?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Like these kids need to be able to hear the
show that should be blaring through the system.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Are they getting a good coverage in the woods?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
The yeah, I mean the signal strong?
Speaker 4 (14:37):
What is the and what do you do for like,
what do you do for and listen, I know a
lot of people do it, but I just what do
you do for jew camp? Like those kids go away
for months?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Weeks?
Speaker 6 (14:47):
Right?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Yeah? Months months?
Speaker 4 (14:50):
And it's not just Jews, but Jews do it a
lot like Northeast Jews do it a lot.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Actually didn't Maybe he's no, maybe he's uh posted, but
we know Josh went those camps, right or did he
know about them and just never get to go? I forget.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
I bet he'll tell us no, No, I bet Josh way,
because didn't Josh say that's where he learned to masturbate.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
I feel like you've you've pushed him on that.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
A lot of Jewish kids learned to master abate at
sleep away camp.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
But was he not allowed to have any electronics or
did you have to sneak them in? What books? Was
he cutting out the middle of?
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Yeah? God only knows. Could you imagine though seeing that?
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:30):
No, here we go because he was shoehorn in there.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
How to he definitely went.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Remember he.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Was the Color War captain.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Right, that's right?
Speaker 4 (15:40):
And then a lot of like like Dorcas, he was
also King Dorcas, and I bet was Josha, baby, did
he cry his first night away at camp?
Speaker 2 (15:50):
I don't think he's ever told us that, but it was,
didn't he?
Speaker 1 (15:53):
But he learned how to masturbate.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
It's coming back to me now. I believe he was
one of those eight weekers.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
That's a long time. Were you not allowed to bring
a phone? Eight weeks? And that's that's cruel and unusual.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Josh says he was allowed to have a boombox?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Was it one, like did everybody get to bring one?
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Or was it just like the cab Like did you
have to write a letter to your cabin maids?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
It's a lot harder back in the day to arrange that.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Yeah, that would suck. That's why you need phones. Yeah,
Jesus put me in the group text already. Hi Ellie
in the morning?
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Yeah, Hi, who's this?
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Hey? Hi?
Speaker 7 (16:35):
This is Noel?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Hi, Noel? How are you lovely?
Speaker 7 (16:38):
It's a great morning?
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Yes it is. Did you go away too? Did you
go in a camp?
Speaker 7 (16:44):
Yeah? So in Minnesota the Concordia Language villages and Bomingjin.
You can go for two weeks or you can go
for a month. My mom liked to send us for
a month, but you got credits for so like if
you went to Spanish camp for a month, you get
credit for Spanish, French, German, whatever it is that you
(17:08):
went for, but you get completely immersed. They would take everything.
My dad tried to sneak in just a pack of gum.
So much trouble.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Now you pay, that's fine. Can I jump in here
for a second now? The Midgie Two things. Number one,
Bamidge has a great college. The University in Bamigi is
freaking awesome. Bamidgie during the winter is also where they
test car batteries to see how they drew in the cold.
(17:40):
My kid, my younger one, actually looked at going to
a goalie camp in Bamidgie. That was a week long
where you would go to camp. But then they also
had like lakes and stuff like that, Like a lot
of water around Bamidgie.
Speaker 7 (17:53):
But Tyler is a lot of water everywhere in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Great legs.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
The but now Tyler is pulled up the Concordia website.
I hope a lot of those kids didn't break their
glasses playing basketball.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
She said, these are language villages.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Language camp.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
No, the language villages, so they immerse you and whatever
language you want to learn, so they take away everything
you have, so the friends, but you can't and you
do have school all day. So over the loudspeakers you'll
hear chicken chick chicos. So then you have to go
(18:39):
to school.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
What is that? What is that?
Speaker 7 (18:43):
It's it's saying hey everybody, Hey kids, it's time to
go to school.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (18:52):
I mean it's cool.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
No, it's not.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
It's like school.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Hey, what did you do this summer? Oh? Dude, I
went to an amusement park.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
I went to my cousins in Orlando. I smelled weed
for the first time. What did you do?
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (19:14):
I got to spend pesos in the book Astorra.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
What is this weird fight happening?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Whoa maya with the brooms?
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:23):
What are they doing?
Speaker 4 (19:24):
So these these two Dorcases they are They're wearing Canadian
flag capes over their shoulders.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Now I know you were in the Spanish immersion, but
what's going on here?
Speaker 4 (19:35):
And they got on dumb French berets and why are
they fighting with brooms?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Sorry I'm cleaning. We use it to learn to learn curling.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Sorry, roller coaster?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Yeah, what is this?
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Well?
Speaker 7 (19:52):
I mean the one thing is is I did lose
weight for a little bit, because if you can't say
the food on the fluit on the on the table,
you don't eat. If you can't sit past them. In
the late ship book before, you don't get any milk,
you don't get any bread.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
And I'm guessing I'm guessing they don't make it easy
and do like in Chilada like it's probably all like hardcore,
like like Mexican food.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
It wasn't not always because they did. I remember eating
a lot of oatmeal because I didn't eat any oatmeal
and I was hungry a lot night.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
What a horrible camp?
Speaker 5 (20:31):
Now, Mom?
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Can I please come home?
Speaker 1 (20:33):
No, that's why. That's why.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
By the way of all camps, I get why this
one doesn't have phones.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
I get it. Nobody you would I would you just
sit up all night and cry?
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Wait?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Hold on, yes, Tyler, Well you're not sitting up all
night and crying. Camp songs and daily skits are an
integral part of the village experience, including at mealtimes, as
are jokes, games and weekend dances.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
What jokes and what jokes are you even?
Speaker 7 (21:02):
I don't really remember any jokes, but we did a
lot of singing and then at the very end, you
have to put on a big play with your classroom.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
So is the architecture in these villages meant to also
represent whatever country you are cosplaying.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
No, it's this is there's no bugs play there, but
it's just some of the structures very permanent.
Speaker 7 (21:31):
So Kyler I went to obviously the Spanish ones where
he lived in these little hut take things and we
had to sweep, we had to do all kinds of
stuff to keep the bugs.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Out there from me.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
Well, she went to French camp and they were in
these beautiful places.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
There was carpet.
Speaker 7 (21:51):
She would send me pictures. She's like, She's like, if
there were any bugs in here, I think I would die.
We have air conditioning.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
I'm like, what.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
You sweating so much?
Speaker 4 (22:06):
You didn't keep those glasses up on the bridge of
your nose.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Come o, Saint d s loser. Ain't nobody in that
camp learn how to mask?
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Good?
Speaker 2 (22:20):
It's like a castle. That's the French one.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Oh, the French one is nice.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Those were for the rich people in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Wow, yeah, look at that.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Dang.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Wait, those are all the villages.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Yeah, German, French, Spanish, Norwegian, Russian, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Chinese,
Japanese English.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Put me in that one.
Speaker 7 (22:49):
Like all the counselors are like people in college that
all have been going to these camps and speak almost
fluent whatever language they're they're there to teach you.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Did you ever go back as a counselor?
Speaker 7 (23:04):
No, because I can.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Hardly speak Spanish.
Speaker 7 (23:11):
Well, my mom and my mom sent us every year
for years years. But like we're from a small town, Moorhead,
right next to Fargo. I don't know if you yes,
I mean we didn't. Nobody would speak back to us.
I mean we did have a decent Hispanic population, but
nobody would speak Spanish to us. So we would come
come back home.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
And because what you were speaking really wasn't Spanish like
you were, you couldn't do it.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Look at weird now, Lilia, this, oh my god, that
is from the Spanish village.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
I'll tell you what it was.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
It was good.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Chica. They are on the right. They have been the
hottest thing going.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
That's one of the many dances.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Well, they have maccarina.
Speaker 7 (24:00):
You know what you learn prayers, so you learn like
the morning prayer, the prayers
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