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Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfP9qhI4MnilAy_k6E30-7A/join Darren Carter, also known as "The Party Starter," is an American stand-up comedian and actor born in Fresno, California. He has been entertaining audiences for over 20 years with his unique style of comedy, which blends observational humor and physical comedy. Darren Carter's hilarious Instagram Reels, TikTok videos, YouTube Shorts, and podcast have helped him amass over 300,000 followers worldwide. Carter's comedy career began in the 1990s when he performed at open-mic nights in Los Angeles. He quickly gained recognition for his energetic stage presence and relatable humor, which led to appearances on popular TV shows such as "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," "Comedy Central Presents," and "Premium Blend." Over the years, Carter has released several comedy albums, including "Shady Side" and "That Ginger's Crazy." He has also performed live all over the country, including at The Comedy Store, The Laugh Factory, and The Improv. The film “Holy Cash” and also his Dry Bar Comedy Special will be released this year. In addition to his comedy work, Carter has also acted in a number of films and TV shows, including "Be Cool," "Who Made The Potatoe Salad," and "Love Chronicles." He also hosts his own podcast, "Pocket Party," where he interviews fellow comedians and shares stories from his own life. Carter is known for his high-energy performances, infectious laughter, and ability to connect with audiences of all ages and backgrounds. He continues to tour and perform regularly, bringing laughter and joy to fans across the country. When Carter is home in Los Angeles, he can be found going to Guitar Center with his teenage son and watching him play every instrument in the building until they get kicked out. Keep moving forward and do something positive for yourself everyday. Thanks for watching my comedy clips, Pocket Party Podcast and Vlogs. Have a great day! Every time you tell someone about me, share a video, or click the "Like" button It helps. So THANK YOU! Have a great day and keep shining! 🔦 TELL ME YOUR THOUGHTS IN THE COMMENTS! Please LIKE, SUBSCRIBE and SHARE! 😀 How to support the channel and my comedy/podcast/future projects: T-SHIRTS: https://merchlabs.com/products/party-starter-tee?_pos=1&_sid=6349d02a1&_ss=r&fbclid=IwAR29QYj_btsOQmeO12hHrCz0ZfOFP-C7dvTfYTHeUNlcl_FYLS34MZaO6MI PODCAST: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/darren-carter-pocket-party/id1373544111 INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/OfficialDarrenCarter/ VENMO: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=2968123317682176187 PAYPAL: http://www.darrencarter.com/donate/ CASHAPP: https://cash.app/$DarrenCarterComic CAMEO: I'm also on CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/officialdarrencarter and get personalize birthday/anniversary/Holiday or roast shout out. SUPPORT ON iTUNES: Support On iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-party-continues-live/1116906835 Start That Party! PocketPartyPodcast@Gmail.com Book surprise Zoom calls, order signed photos, become a guest for my podcast and more 🔦 TIK TOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@officialdarrencarter My son Austin's Music Channel: AusTheBassBoss Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR3TL3nnhJcHXhJfw2tIEFw

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Oh, dude. You know what I did the other day
was so at Thanksgiving, I went home and I was
playing one of my family members and we were playing scrabble,
and dude, she was, yeah, I get to the point where,
you know, she was doing play by place scorekeeping. She's like,
you're a head by three points. Oh, now I'm a
head by five. And I'm I'm like, let's just can
we just do this at the end? You know, So

(00:24):
she got up to use the bathroom, and of course
that's what I got. I put all my tiles. I
had like q w X, like, you know, all my
bad letters, and I reached in the bag and I
started grabbing s's and e's and blank tiles. But I
don't even care. I tweeted about it as a joke.
And then and we kept we kept playing, and then
my wife goes, oh, Darren's cheating at scrabble. And then

(00:48):
she goes, how do you know, she goes, he just
tweeted about it.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
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(02:56):
Here we go, Body of Mind. I've done it for
a long time. It's so funny because behind the scenes,
I'm like, okay, okay, let me get it down. Happy
feet one and two, Happy feet to Matt teav I
already know this stuff, but it's like when it comes
to like broadcasting it, you don't want to mess it up,
you know.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yeah, yep, this.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Is my buddy, Johnny Sanchez, Johnny, how are you hey?

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Darren Darren Cartier, that's what I call him. I've been
calling him that for I don't know, twenty years. I
don't know why, but way back I just used to
leave him in the message and I'd always go Darren
Darren Cartier for some reason. Anyway, I am good, thank you. Yeah,
we don't need I mean, we know each other well

(03:39):
enough that it's like, credits are great, But I think
the main thing is, you know, a probably the amount
of shows we've done together, which would probably be a
little more astounding than anybody's credits, because at this point
you figure we've probably known each other right around twenty
four years, twenty two, twenty Somewhere between twenty two and

(04:02):
twenty four. I would imagine, Oh, well, I saw you
for the first time at GOT at that Gotham room, Johnny.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
I tell my listeners, I've been doing comedy for six years.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
You know what's so funny? You know what, You're so
funny because as I was saying that, in my head,
I'm thinking, oh, wait a minute. Knowing Darren, He's like,
I don't really talk about that. I don't really talk
about the years anymore. That's so funny. I remember years
ago there was another comic we know him, uh, and
he would he would say that that comic stop giving

(04:35):
the years after fifteen, because if you're still doing things
at fifteen and you know, see whatever, but if you
get the you know over twenty some people.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
React weird to that, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
Like they'll just be like, like, you ever go on
the road and then you're meeting some comic for the
first time, They're like, so, how long you been doing it?
And if you say, you know, if you say something
like oh, yeah, man, twenty three, twenty four, really, I've
never heard of you until now. Exactly, I've never heard
of you. Wait, so what happened? Oh, get out of

(05:10):
the green room, get at it here.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
You know, they're like looking at you like a cautionary tale.
They're like, what did you do that? Because I don't
want to mess up, Like what did you do? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (05:21):
Let me. It's almost like they start asking the questions
of the what not to do? Right, yeah, not that
to do? Well, what did you what happened when I
went through this and went through that?

Speaker 3 (05:32):
Da da da uh huh, And they're just.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
Like writing it down, going okay, But it is. It
is weird, man, because you know everybody, But then again,
at the same time, everybody is one one booking, one
show away from literally instant success and fame and whatever.
I mean, we we saw that with you know how
long Tiffany Hattish went at it and then you know,

(05:56):
she got the little sitcom and then she got that
breakout roll and and then it just changes everything changes
the trajectory. So but anyway, that was funny. I had
a feeling you were going to say something.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
You're like, I've known Darren and dude, I remember. Somebody
goes how long you've been doing it? And I go,
I go ah, I start yeah, I mean like I
started in nineteen ninety and then they're like, damn, I
wasn't born till two thousand and one or whatever, you know,
and you're likely you could be like, oh, you could
just be like I mean, I did do the Tonight
Show in the early two thousands, but I really wasn't

(06:30):
taken it serious until twenty fifteen.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Well you know what. You know what's funny about that too.
I remember doing I did some This is a few
years back, but I did a I was at the
ice house and some young kid came into the call
from Ryan swinehert Dude, man, I watched your Comedy Central special,
which came out in two thousand and one. Okay, He's like,

(06:57):
I watch your Comedy Central special. Dude, I watch it
so many times I can't. Oh my god. I was like,
I was like eight. I go what And then he's like, yeah, man,
I'm twenty you know, he was like twenty three, twenty
four or something, and and he's doing comedy and we
share at the stage. She's like, I just can't believe.
Can we get a photo? Because I mean, I can't

(07:18):
tell you how many times I watched it as a kid. Man.
You inspired me. Oh, and it's a big compliment, you
know what I mean. It is great. But at the
same time, you know, we're counting, you know, I'm counting
the years. He's to him, it's like, hey, he's meeting
you know, and meeting somebody that inspired me to do
stand up. But to me, I'm like, Okay, you were eight,

(07:38):
now you're twenty.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
Yeah, dude, somebody told me, how about does you ever
have like a grown ass man with creases in his
forehead from being out in the sun. He's like, I
grew up watching you and you're like, dude, you're like forty,
how did you grow up watching me?

Speaker 2 (07:55):
Exactly Like, but it just goes I mean, it goes
by I so quickly, I think, I think, you know,
I do remember at least taking Argus Hamilton's advice a
little bit, but early on when he said, look, you're
only young and hot in Hollywood once. That's only gonna
happen once. As far as young and hot, you know
what I mean, Like, I mean, with with you know,

(08:16):
being popular, having heat, not looks or anything. And I remember,
he goes, don't you don't need to go on the
road yet. Stay in town now while you're young, because
there's roles for you. They're easier, it's easier. They're all
gonna want you to come in and audition. They're all
gonna And you know, he was right, man. And you know,
I mean I had a development deal and I got
on some TV things here and there, and then you know,

(08:37):
after a little bit late, you know, when I was
in my thirties, and when is when I really started
hitting the road like hard, you know what I mean.
But but I you know, I did listen to him, argus,
he was right because he goes, you're gonna miss out.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
It goes by so fast that if.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
He goes, if you go out on the road and
you're not out here in la he said, before you
know it, you know, ten twelve, thirteen years ago, buy
and you're not the young kid on the on the
on the circuit, you know. And he was right, man,
I mean, it does go by so fast, right then?
How fast is that? Absolutely? Hey?

Speaker 1 (09:09):
I was speaking of time going by fast and just
the passage of time. I love this. I uh. We
were supposed to do a podcast a couple of days
ago with Brian Holtzman and something came up and I
just saw the photos on Instagram. It's amazing. Tell tell
people what you what you want? You and I are
from near the hometown. I'm from Fresnoy, from Hillarry. Tell
us what tell us about all that? I love this

(09:29):
love story, happy ending.

Speaker 3 (09:31):
Yes, it's great.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
Yeah. So my my mom and dad are selling you know,
today's there's sixty second wedding anniversary. They got married on
this date in nineteen fifty seven and they had met
a year right around the year. Matter of fact, I
called my mom to get the fact. I wanted to
make sure I got the story and the facts right.
She's like, literally, it was a dance in August or
September because they only dated a year they got married,

(09:53):
you know, so it was August September. There's a dance
going on, you know, at the Tillerry Memorial Building. And
then it's what's more interesting, you know. I didn't want
to write too too much, but my mom was. It
was a Saturday night and they were Her friend is like, hey,
we're gonna go to the dance, and Hilary, because my

(10:14):
mom is from lindsay Okay. So she's like, no, my
mom really didn't. You know. She's still like that, not
much of going out too much. She was like that
when she was young. So she's like, no, I don't
feel like it. And plus she was like, I don't
fast dance, you know, I don't like the fast dance.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
And they're like, come on, it's gonna be a fun dancer.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
So they true her friend convinced her to go out
that night.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
Dude.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
So when we were at our family reunion at that
same hall just in October, and you know, I had
to ask my dad and go, okay, where were you got? Oh,
she was sitting. All the girls were sitting on chairs
up against the wall over here, he goes, And most
of the guys were over here standing because we wanted
to dance, and the girls would sit, the guys would

(10:58):
would stand, you know, and then walk over. And he said,
and my dad literally re enacted it there and he goes,
I was right here, he goes, my friends are right here.
They were already with a bunch of his buddies and
he uh, he said, He turned around and he saw
my mom. He didn't know her because she was from Lindsay,
and you know, being in a small town like Hillarry,

(11:20):
they all kind of knew all the girls because they
went to school together and they grew up. So I said,
my dad said, he turned around and go, oh, oh, man,
who's that and then like, I don't know, I don't
know who that is. So my dad was very popular
dancer in the fifties, used to get it in competitions.
He would dance with his sisters. They would win.

Speaker 3 (11:38):
And was this really really popular guy.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
Your dad was, I remember you're seeing some photos. Not
to interrupt, but he was a I believe he was
the I know he's the military and used to used
to be a boxer. He's in shape. Was was he
in any of the wars he served?

Speaker 2 (11:53):
He got he got drafted for Korea in nineteen fifty eight.
Now the war was already over, but you know, there
was always conflicts going on, so he was. He did
a tour of a little over fourteen months in Korea.
But that was in nineteen fifty eight, after they had
gotten married. So my mom was pregnant and normally and
my dad was already he was like man, I was

(12:14):
already twenty three years old, like they normally drafted eighteen
year olds.

Speaker 3 (12:18):
He's like, what am I doing here?

Speaker 2 (12:19):
You know? And so he wasn't there for my dog.
For my sister's my oldest, the first child. He was
overseas when she was born.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
Okay, so he's good at fast dancing. He sees your mom.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yeah, it's right, sorry, So so he you know, he
was very popular with the dance. So fast Dance comes on,
he walks over, and I always thought this was the
funniest thing is I still keep trying to picture it.
But he goes, he goes with my mom. He's like, hey, hey,
you want to dance, And he had kind of had
his hand out and he was already starting to walk

(12:55):
like he was already leaning towards going towards the dance
work because a lot of the girls knew he could
dance dance, and they wanted to dance with him. So
he starts, you know, he's assuming and he's kind of
leaning away, and then he just hears no, no thing,
and then he said he turned on. He goes, what
what she goes? My mom goes, no, I don't want

(13:15):
to dance, and then my dad goes, really, and then
she said, yeah, I don't.

Speaker 3 (13:19):
I don't like to, you know, she explained. She goes,
I don't fast dance.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
And I'm like, oh, okay. Well his friends are all
standing over there waiting, right because now they see that
she said no, so they're waiting. They can't wait for
him to come back so they can make fun of him.
I mean literally like out of a movie. So he
decides to sit next to her. He's like, I'm not
walking back over there. So he sits down and they
start talking and they tell you more fast songs, more

(13:43):
fast long. So they sit for about three, four or
five fast songs and they kind of, you know, they're
getting to know each other. And then a slow down,
slow slow song comes on and that's when I goes,
well you want to dance to this one? And then
my mom goes yeah because she told me. She goes,
you know, once we started talking, you know, I could
tell he was nice and you know, he was being

(14:05):
he was being courteous, and you know, so they got
up and that was the first time.

Speaker 3 (14:10):
They had, you know, they danced.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
And then that was in nineteen fifty six. So here
we are at the family reunion, which is sixty three
years later, because you know they date that that was
when they met.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
Do you have any idea what slow song it was?

Speaker 2 (14:26):
Oh? Oh, I would you know? I feel like I
asked my mom and I don't think she remembered, but
but they but the song they danced at their union
was over the Mountain. There was a there was a
fifty song called over the Mountains across the Sea because
that was one that reminded her of my dad because
he was you know, he had gone overseas or whatever.

(14:48):
So they typically always danced to that song. That's what
my mom wants to now that night. I don't know,
that's a great question. I'm gonna have to find out.
I think I'm pretty sure she's I feel like we
asked and she can't remember what the song was. So
at the reunion, this is sixty three year almost sixty
three years to the month that they had actually met

(15:10):
each other, and they go out and they dance on
the same floor, the same hall from sixty three years. Wow.
So I mean it was just great.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
A dry eye in the house, oh.

Speaker 2 (15:23):
Man, it was everybody was videotaping in and and then
and then it's just my chance I had gone to
I had been there a couple of months before, and
I had to take my dad to Lindsay for something,
and that's when I asked him about that burger stand
which they went on their first They went on the
double date, right, because the friends set them up so
and my mom didn't want to go by herself anyway,

(15:44):
so so she the friend, her friend went with my
dad's friend something like that. And I remember my dad
telling me. He goes, yeah, it's Bob's Bob's Burgers in Lindsay,
and then my mom goes, you know, it's still open.
And so when I went took my dad a few
months ago, I said, hey, where's that burger be there?
It is right, we were there, and so I took

(16:04):
photos of it, which I posted, and then I went
in there. I had to eat in there, right. I'm like,
I went in there and I it's new owners. They
weren't around back then. But I introduced it to my dad.
I said, he was here in nineteen fifty six on
it and when he met my mom on their first
double date. And so so I posted the pics of
the of the Bob's drive and so I trust me man,

(16:26):
I wanted to post that after.

Speaker 3 (16:27):
The family reunion, like I just wanted to.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
But I said, no, I need to wait till December
and then post the story and then being at the
same place.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
Like, I held off because I just felt like it
would it was a better moment to show everybody. You know,
But this is so funny about my mom. Dude. I
had to call. I said, oh, I better not post
unless I ask her. So I told her I'm going
to post a couple pics. I go. But here's the
main question. Because I have the video of them slow dancing,
and I watched it and I loved it, and I

(16:58):
was like, oh my mom, I go, so do you
want me? Can I post the video or do you
want me to take a snapshot? I could take a
photo of it and and just show you guys dancing.
And she, of course, my mom, dude, same as nineteen
fifty six. Probably no, no, no, no, no, no, don't don't
not the video, not just just just do a picture.
It's like, oh, okay, so I wanted the video on there,

(17:22):
but she's very private and and but she she allowed
me to tell the story. She was like, yeah, I'm
okay with I'm okay with the you know, with the
story and and everything like that. So that's great. Yeah, dude,
I mean that's a long long time, you know, four kids,
nine grants, nine grants something, I think and then like

(17:44):
now I think they just had their Like that's awesome.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
What do you think the key is to like a
long relationship like that? When you see something with your parents,
is there do you do you see something that maybe
people what do you see something that maybe people could
take and learn from?

Speaker 2 (18:00):
Well, you know, I would say this was the interesting
thing about how because it was so different back then.
But you know, my dad's thing was you stay at
home and raise the kids, and I'm gonna work. So
my dad was always working and working extra and sometimes
two jobs, sometimes side jobs on the weekends, just so
that my mom didn't work. Okay, now, I don't know

(18:20):
if that makes any difference. You know, it's a different generation.
But you know, he spent a lot of a lot
of years, man, a lot of hours. Every day, you know,
we would see him, you know, just like dinner time,
you know, early in the morning. He always had labor jobs,
you know, factories, and he worked in construction and he
pulled plastering and all that stuff. So he really worked hard.

(18:43):
But you know, but it's funny to say that because
when he back when he sort of said to himself,
I'm not going to work anymore. And he was already
in his seventies when he stopped working, like he kept
going for a long time. And then we remember he
actually said he goes, he goes, Yeah, man, your mom
and I have been bickering a lot. And then because

(19:06):
they finally had a like a lot of time together.
You see what I'm saying, Like it was there was
now he was around the house and she was just
because she hit it was her house as far as
like everything she does the cleaning and she puts everything
where it's supposed to go, and my dad just kind
of goes leaves stuff out. It was little things like that.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
It's like when you're in a crowded restaurant, you gotta
be like behind you on the corner coming around, and
all of a sudden, she's like, wow, you're always in
the way. Yes, So I think a big tip that
I get I tell people is give each other space.
You know, you gotta kind of yeah, yeah, yeah, I
mean how many times you hear about bands breaking up
because bands just no matter how much money, they just
can't get along.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
And they're and they're in close quarters. These these guys
are rehearsing, you know, a few times a week in
a small little space. And and after a while, why'd
you do that? Why did you hit that note? I
thought we weren't doing that anymore, you know what, you man?
You know, they just all of a sudden, it just
blows up, you know. So, But I feel like that
thing where you know that that's rare nowadays, dude, in

(20:10):
this generation, in this.

Speaker 3 (20:11):
Day age, for a mom to stay home and raise
the kids.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
I think, you know, I think what you said is great.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
Though.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
It's like the way the kids know their love, they're
taking care of their enough pund off to some stranger
babysitting them, you know. I mean, I listen, I know
people are in predicaments, but it's uh.

Speaker 2 (20:27):
Of course, yeah, some people they yeah, they have to
they have to do it. In the modern day, it's
sort of that way anyway. But I think on a
more loving kind of thing, I feel like they were
just a good match because it's almost like they came
from the same upbringing. They came from two big, poor families,

(20:50):
big big family. My mom there was eight, my dad
there was thirteen. Okay, so I think they related a
lot to that. I think their upbringing is very, very similar,
and I just think they appreciated each other and the
American dream. I mean, it's kind of like, you know,
they always it's a small town area, so you know,
houses are definitely affordable or whatever. But but still, you know,

(21:12):
they always had the house, and they always had things
and and just hard work. But I think it was
kind of the relating to each other's similar families, I
think is what I feel like that they have this
this this interesting kind of bond like they they're they're
so similar in many ways, which is real interesting.

Speaker 1 (21:34):
You know, like what was Christmas like growing up in
the valleys?

Speaker 2 (21:39):
Well, you know what's what's great? But I miss and
this is why I love going up there. It you know,
always gets well, as we said, you being from Fresno,
you know, all the big city boy over here and
maybe hilarry so but that stretch on the ninety nine
and you know, it gets really cold in the valley.

Speaker 3 (21:59):
People probably don't this.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
I mean, it gets to freezing temperatures and stuff in
the you know, not snowing and everything, but it gets
really really ice cold out there.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
It gets ice cold, it gets foggy, and and the
farmers have to have those big fans that blow on
the oranges so don't freeze over.

Speaker 2 (22:17):
I was just gonna mention, you know, when I say freezing,
and when I think of freezing, I immediately think of
the citrus industry and the oranges and lemons and limes,
because when it gets too cold those I always do
feel bad for those farmers. Like you said, they're putting fans,
they're watering them down, they're trying to keep the frost
off of them.

Speaker 3 (22:36):
They lose their crop.

Speaker 2 (22:38):
And people don't realize how cold it gets, and the
fog is so heavy and thick. But one of my
favorite stories of it was kind of a foggy night
and it's not even coming from me.

Speaker 3 (22:50):
It's it's my sister and my cousin.

Speaker 2 (22:52):
And my sister went down down the road to my
cousin's house, and I mean they swear to this day
there they were walking outside or walking back into them,
and it was semi fog.

Speaker 3 (23:04):
It wasn't like super bad, but it.

Speaker 2 (23:06):
Was you, and they heard some bell some jingling and
some bells, and they were like and they looked up,
and they swear to this day they go, we we.

Speaker 4 (23:16):
Think we still are convinced it was Santa, because they
were around thirteen at the time, okay, thirteen fourteen, and
they said they just saw a light up.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
I don't know if someone was had a balloon and
was playing a trip. I mean, I don't know what
it was. To this day, I'll still ask my cousin
when I whenever I see them at a get together,
I'll go, all right, let's talk about.

Speaker 3 (23:39):
This Santa thing. And her and my cousin was there.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
My sister lives and her will both go, I'm telling
you we didn't exactly see him, but we.

Speaker 4 (23:47):
Know it was Santa.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
But what a great the valley for me was, you know,
we that was back when everybody had fireplaces, you know
what I mean, like real fireplaces, not.

Speaker 3 (24:01):
These little warming things. But you know, we're throwing logs of.

Speaker 2 (24:04):
Wood in and you know, watching it pop and burn
and and all that stuff. And but you know, I
kind of miss the you know, the excitement of the toys,
and you know I haven't when you've gone through this
with your son, and and and my daughter's Oh this
is Austin.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
Austin is twelve years old.

Speaker 2 (24:24):
Okay, yes, God, he's just and he recently just like stretched.
You could just see it.

Speaker 1 (24:29):
Yeah, he looks. It's funny. He stretches the perfect word
because he looks long like you see him look like
he's thin but stretched.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
Like it's weird because I saw one video. It's like
you see a video one day and then you catch
up on another one a couple of weeks later or whatever,
and you're just like, WHOA, when did this? When did
this spurt happen? I mean, it literally happens over days,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (24:50):
And I think it was the photo when he was.

Speaker 2 (24:52):
Performing that when he played the piano, when he played
in Yosa Doka. There's a photo.

Speaker 3 (24:58):
I think that's the one when he was on stage
or something.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
I just was like, whoa, he just hit that that
stretch man. You could just see it. So but you know,
as you know, growing up in this era as opposed
to the toys and games and stuff.

Speaker 3 (25:15):
That that you know.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
We had. I mean, you and I are from the
era where arcades first with video games and then and
then I remember the home. Remember Atari came around, and
that was the biggest thing. We didn't have one, but
had some friends. I was always going to other people's
places for stuff.

Speaker 1 (25:34):
I don't know about you, but yeah, for that, we
got lucky. I got the Atari twenty six hundred, and
I remember playing Space Invaders, and you know, like it
was the best, like at home to be able to
play video games. I was in junior high and but
I gotta be honest, that's pretty much where video games
ended with me after that. I kind of I'm not
really into like the modern video games.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
I don't know about you, no, no, no no. I
only played when I go to arcades, I only I
played Galica, and I play play you know, Defender and Centipede,
and I play all the ones from the eighties.

Speaker 3 (26:06):
It's what I stick to.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
But that was a big deal. But the funny thing
is when when you look back at those was always funny,
how you you're we would we would have hit the
uh remember we would hit the fire the shooting button
really fast, but it would only really go Yeah, it
didn't matter.

Speaker 3 (26:22):
It's like we should have just held it down.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
I don't know why we did the fast hitting but
video games. I feel like, uh, you know, I just
happened to see something recently, even for the girls. I
was walking by.

Speaker 3 (26:37):
I was at a Walmart.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
I was at a Walmut looking for something for my
daughter in South Carolina, and I saw this new super
high tech easy bake oven. Oh wow, I mean you
should see these things now. It's like it's almost it's
like a crock pot.

Speaker 3 (26:53):
It's like a pressure cooker or something.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
I mean, it's it's nothing like what those girls, you know,
trying to make you.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
Think it actually works or it's still pretend.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
Well didn't I weren't the original ones. You could actually
make a little a little cake.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
Oh man, I don't remember. I just remember the name
of an easy bake oven. I don't know what it
actually did.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
I think you could put some stuff in there and
then and then, but I don't know. It was like
a little bulb in there. It was just a bulb.
Maybe it was fake. But these it looks like you
can actually make something.

Speaker 1 (27:22):
You can Actually games were lame when you look back,
like we're like, hey, look at light Bright. Remember light Bright?

Speaker 2 (27:29):
Well do I remember light Bright? Let me tell you
something that's one of those you.

Speaker 3 (27:33):
Know, some of those ones that you never got.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
Okay, so for some reason, and this was the only
reason why I wanted light bright.

Speaker 3 (27:42):
I was a big fan of Kiss at the time,
and Kiss when they would spell their name was with
those lights.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
Remember, oh yeah, and I that's all I wanted it for.
That's the only reason I wanted light bright was to
be able to spell kiss and then like, you know,
keep it like that in my room. My mom never
got me that one.

Speaker 3 (28:02):
There was another one. I don't gonna remember this one.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
Remember shoots Away?

Speaker 1 (28:08):
Oh I do remember shoots Away.

Speaker 2 (28:10):
Shoots Away, you like drop little things down. It's kind
of like a little plane or a helicopter.

Speaker 3 (28:14):
I can't remember exactly what it was.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
And the bottom thing rotated and you're supposed to like
hit a release button and then it drops on the
you know. And she never got me the shoots Away.
Isn't that weird when you would ask for things and
get them?

Speaker 1 (28:27):
Dude? I know you make a Christmas list because I
used to love getting the Sears catalog, the wish book,
and I just sit there and dream about the one
that I always wanted, and I never got a green machine.
It's like the big wheel, but I wanted the green machine.

Speaker 2 (28:40):
You know, It's so funny because everybody wanted a green machine,
and I was totally happy with the big wheel. Whenever
I rode somebody's green machine, I didn't like the moving
the levers back and forth.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
Oh see. I think it's because I got to ride
one once and I'm like, this is way better, Like
oh wow, but you like, the big wheel didn't have
a lot of traction. It would slip.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
Yeah, that's true, you were sliding around a lot. But
I but I also ended up with that one. It
was the brand new series at the time that had
the brake on the right hand side, so you would go,
you would go, you would go, and then you would
pull on that brake and then you would spin because
that one tire wasn't rotating anymore and so it would
put you in a in a spin. But everybody wanted

(29:26):
the green machine, and I remember I was like, uhl.

Speaker 3 (29:29):
With my my, my big will for some some weird reason.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
But I mean things were I think the other thing
that's kind of that strikes me as a little odd,
not odd, but just I feel for the kids. Or
it's when we had our hot wheels and all of
our cars and all that stuff. It was we made
all the sound effects, you know what I mean, Like

(29:55):
we were the ones Eve.

Speaker 3 (29:57):
If it was a motorcycle that we had, we were
you know, are the ones you know, well you love motorcycles.

Speaker 2 (30:03):
Think about it. There there's the toys now the sound
effects are on them.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
Oh it's interesting.

Speaker 2 (30:11):
Yeah, So there's you know they have they have the
siren already, they have the engine, the noise of the motor.
So I feel like I noticed kids don't. The only
reason why my daughter makes sound effects is because I
do them. So she'll she'll do something sometimes. But for
the most part, I'm watching kids play with their toys

(30:31):
and they're not being as creative because it's it's doing
it for them.

Speaker 1 (30:36):
Yeah, And I think that now I don't even know
if there are toys that most of the toys now
are all like bluetooths and uh, you know, like apps
on your kids. Get this new for your iPad. It's
an app that does this game. And then it's not
like not like like like back back in our day
brick and mortar stores, you'd walk into Toys r Us
or Arthur's toy store, you know, and you pick up

(30:57):
a metal you know, it was made of metal and
had some heaviness to it. They're like, yeah, there's a
real thing, you know, like a real fire truck that
was heavy and it had you put I mean it
was great. It was a big fire truck and that
was exciting.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
You know, you you made me before you just said
fire truck. I was about to say to tell you,
how about those yellow dump trucks that were made out
of solid and after a while you put your knee
in the back of the bed of the the and
you could just like push it, you know, to me.

Speaker 3 (31:26):
With your knee in the back or what.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
Yeah, but they lasted for effort. It was solid metal.
I mean now they're.

Speaker 3 (31:35):
Plastic and they I mean, it's just the quality.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
But one of my favorite games and and and we
weren't real big board game people. We had a monopoly
like everybody else and stuff that, but we did I
remember I got a battleship right this was before even
the electronics.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
Oh remember that, you suck my battleship that game.

Speaker 3 (31:53):
You stuck my battles Yeah.

Speaker 2 (31:55):
So what I would do when I would play my
my one sister, because her and I fought a lot
she's the one that's just the next one above me.
So I just had to beat her, like that was everything.
So I would you know what I would do? Remember
the little tug boat.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
Oh yeah, the one that's only like it only takes
two pegs.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
It takes two too. I would I would hide. I
would hold that in my hand, so she would. And
I remember even one time, fine, she's like, you know,
e twelve missing.

Speaker 3 (32:25):
She's like, do you have all of them on there?

Speaker 2 (32:27):
I go, yeah, of course I do. I'm not gonna
what are you talking about? And then I would end
up winning, and then before she would look at it,
I would put the tugboat somewhere where it fit, where
there were you know, two little prongs so we could
fit in the.

Speaker 1 (32:44):
Oh dude. You know what I did the other day
was so at Thanksgiving, I went home and I was
playing one of my family members and we were playing scrabble,
and uh, dude, she was, yeah, you get to the
point where you know, she was doing play by place scorekeeping.
She's like, you're a head by three. Oh, now I'm
a head by five. And I'm I'm like, let's just
can we just do this at the end, you know,

(33:05):
so she got up to use the bathroom, and of
course that's what I got. I put all my tiles
I had like q w X, like you know, all
my bad letters. And I reached in the bag and
I started grabbing s's and e's and blank tiles. But
I don't even care. I tweeted about it as a joke.
And then and we kept we kept playing. And then

(33:25):
my wife goes, oh, Darren's cheating at scrabble. And then
she goes, how do you know, She goes, he just
tweeted about it.

Speaker 3 (33:36):
Yeah, oh that's hilarious.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
That is See, we didn't do a lot of scrap
you know, it's really weird.

Speaker 3 (33:44):
I'm a good speller too.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
I don't know why. I don't know why we didn't
have scrabble. We just did.

Speaker 3 (33:49):
It was mainly Monopoly.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
Battleship and god what other what other we didn't do.
I always wanted for Atigo. There was a board game
like Strategy or Stratigo.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
Oh yeah, yestig, I remember that. How about Connect four?
I'm a big Connect four guy. I love it.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
Okay connect for well, yeah, we used to play a
little bit of Connects for Yeah.

Speaker 3 (34:11):
Yeah, that's fun.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
That's a fun way that's still fun, you know, you know,
you know by the way they have that game. I
don't know if they have it at night time, but
during the day if you ever, if you're at the den.

Speaker 3 (34:22):
We went there on a Sunday one day and they
had board.

Speaker 2 (34:24):
Games out oh andy, they had Connect four. So I
was playing with my friends and I were having drinks.

Speaker 3 (34:31):
And playing Connect four.

Speaker 1 (34:35):
Yeah, I remember. I walked behind the laugh Factory one night,
this is like years ago, and there was some guys
that do the ballet for the not Jerry's Not Not
for green Blasts. But there was a night club over there,
and oh yeah, and the guy goes, hey, Connect four gues.
He goes, let's play a dollar a game, I'll bet you.
And I think I lost like eleven dollars because I
was like, I must win and then and then but

(34:57):
it was super fun. And then of course, like I started,
I bought the Connect four game. I bought that after
that and like, I'm gonna start practicing, and I got
pretty good at it. And by the time I got
good at it, I went back and the nightclub had
closed and the guy was gone.

Speaker 2 (35:15):
Dude, that's so funny. So it's almost like you were like,
you know Rocky too, you know what I mean, like, yeah, yeah,
all this training and all this training and then oh
the guy the cloth.

Speaker 3 (35:27):
That's hilarious. So it was almost like a revenge game
that would have been great.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
But yeah, man, uh but I do I do notice that,
you know, my daughter, it's the things talk and the
I mean even even those hatchables where you it's the
big egg and the and the and the little stuffed
animal eventually hatches, but you have to keep rubbing it.

Speaker 3 (35:52):
You have to keep it. You gotta put some blankets.

Speaker 2 (35:54):
I mean, it's really trippy, you know, and then a
little by little and we're talking over hours and takes
hours for those things to hatch and then it just
cracks and then it pops out and then it starts talking.

Speaker 3 (36:06):
And I'm just like.

Speaker 1 (36:08):
Is it cool or boring? Because I don't know if
I have to have the patience for that.

Speaker 2 (36:12):
Well, she she was getting frustrated, definitely, and we're like,
oh man, how much longer?

Speaker 3 (36:17):
And you know, it says to just keep rubbing it and.

Speaker 2 (36:19):
Hold it, and you can you could feel.

Speaker 3 (36:21):
It like it would vibrate a little bit, and you're.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
Like oh, sometimes and then you get one little tiny
crack and you'd have to wait.

Speaker 1 (36:27):
Oh my gosh, that's like me trying to get Wi Fi.
I just I get frustrated, you know, you ever have
like bad service, You're like come on, and you're like
you and the computer won't connect. I mean that's just yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (36:39):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (36:40):
Some of these things are there a little much where
I'm just.

Speaker 2 (36:44):
But she did, she did say she for Christmas, she
wanted to go back to Basic that American doll, American
girl doll that that are real popular. So at least
she's gonna go to like the Basic. Oh no, those
things are crazy expensive. It's ridiculous. I'm like, let's just
get you some more barbies, like you don't need, you
know what I mean? But oh well, what are you
gonna you know, what about Marbles?

Speaker 1 (37:06):
Did you like Marbles when you're a kid?

Speaker 2 (37:08):
I did, man, I remember. I remember going to school
with a pocket full of Marbles.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
Yeah, dude, I love it.

Speaker 2 (37:14):
Man.

Speaker 1 (37:14):
You know, Marbles was huge in the nineteen twenties, and
it was popular up until I want to say to
like the eighties. Because I brought up Marbles to a
millennial comedian and he's like, dude, how old are you?
But I'm like, I thought it was, and I looked
it up and I realized like it was. It had
a resurgence when you and I were growing up, Like right, yeah, marbles, yeah,

(37:35):
steely Yeah, boulders and all that.

Speaker 2 (37:37):
Yeah, the steelys, the steelies were awesome. The key, the boulders,
and then the cat eyes. Oh yeah, yeah, there was
the tiger. There was like the tiger one that looked
like tiger stripes. What's really weird that you're bringing this up.
I was in Walgreens about I mean, this was literally
three weeks ago or something, and I'm looking around looking

(37:57):
for second or Wiles they were, and see, uh, a
bag of marbles and then I go, wait, are these
two buying these for kids?

Speaker 3 (38:09):
And then right below that was a bag of army men.

Speaker 2 (38:14):
Just regular old plastic army men like we had growing up.
And then so I took some pictures of it. And
then on the other side of they're all het they
were hanging on this. One thing on the other side
was remember those they looked they were made out of
metal and they looked like a rocket and you put
a cap in one of them. You put a cap

(38:35):
and you threw it up and the front, the nose
of it was so heavy that it would always land
back and then it would pop right. They had there.
They had those there too, at No, not Walgreens, CBS,
right here across the street from me. And I took
pictures of them because I was gonna post so funny bring.
I was gonna go to, are parents buying these for kids?

(38:59):
And what are they doing with those there? There's no
way they're selling.

Speaker 3 (39:03):
They were all there by the way.

Speaker 2 (39:05):
There wasn't any missing, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (39:07):
Yeah, maybe they've been there since the eighties. Dude, what
about cap guns? Did you ever get a cap gun
and you'd load it up with that red?

Speaker 3 (39:15):
I don't know that red a little the little red.

Speaker 2 (39:17):
Well, wait a minute, there was two different types of caps.

Speaker 3 (39:20):
There was the paper one.

Speaker 2 (39:21):
Remember the paper one that kind of went more like.

Speaker 1 (39:24):
It was like I'm picturing the red that you would
kind of you'd kind of thread it in there and
it was had like a little black gunpowder or whatever,
and you'd scratch with your thumbnail and it would sting
and it would pop off like fire.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
Yeah, you could that's okay, that's the paper one. Yeah.
We would after a while we would say forget it
and we would just use a nail or something and
make the little fire thing. But how about the ones
later on that were plastic that were round and they
fit right. It was like a cylinder and it fit
right into the little cap gun and you could shoot
off like eight. Wow. Remember those the little red that

(39:56):
they were red plastic, not paper. They weren't.

Speaker 3 (39:59):
They weren't the paper one anymore.

Speaker 1 (40:00):
I think that was nicer. Like I don't think I
really got ahold of those.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
Yeah. See, this was the next level. I remember because
we were like, oh man, now you could It was
like a revolver.

Speaker 3 (40:09):
It was like it was like a Colt revolver.

Speaker 2 (40:12):
So you just stuck it in into the little revolving
thing and you just like a little pistol and you
closed it and then as you shoot, it rotated and
so each one went pop pop pop pop, and then we.

Speaker 3 (40:23):
Just take out the cartridge.

Speaker 2 (40:25):
It was way better than the paper They had moved up,
you know what I mean, they had moved Oh you
know what, now I don't want to I think I
know what I'm gonna get you for Christmas. You ever
got one of those?

Speaker 1 (40:35):
Yeah, you know what? I I got a uh what
about skateboard? Was a really good gift I got one year,
and it had the fins on both sides, so you
could really pop it up and and do some one
of those.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
Yeah I had. I had a little red one that
had the had the had the thinner wheels first, and
then I remember a yellow one with when when the
when the wheels got really wide?

Speaker 3 (40:57):
Remember the big wide wheels.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
Yeah, man, I I wrote a lot. You know what,
I realized I didn't know this. I had I rode
the skateboard wrong all those years.

Speaker 1 (41:07):
I think I did too. What did you put your feet?

Speaker 2 (41:10):
I put my foot in the back, Me too.

Speaker 1 (41:12):
I'd put my right foot on the back of the skateboard,
me too, Me too, and then I and then I
used my left foot, and then I I bring up
my left foot. Nobody's riding it like that, nobody.

Speaker 2 (41:23):
I don't know who told me what to do, because I.

Speaker 3 (41:26):
Know it wasn't my dad.

Speaker 2 (41:27):
My dad had never skateboarded, so I don't know if
I just assumed and just started on my own. I
think I just taught myself. But I remember all my friends.
After a while, they're like, what are you doing? You
got it. Your foot supposed to be up towards the front.
You push and then you put your left leg on
the in the back. And I've always seen everybody do it,
and I was like, wow, I was doing it wrong

(41:48):
that whole time.

Speaker 1 (41:50):
Man, It's so funny you said that because I thought
of that the other the day I was at a
cross I was at it in my car at a
crosswalk and this guy skated across and uh, and I'm
like that thought came into my head. I'm like, I
I've never seen anybody do it like I did, and uh, yeah,
you know what though, I really wasn't into the tricks
like I that wasn't something that you know, like some
guys love to skate even into their thirties and forties,

(42:10):
and I'm like, I kind of I think I stopped
skating and then I did a TV pilot I think
when I was like thirty, and I went and I
was skating around Burbank and I hit a rock and
I went flying and I put my hands out and
I got scraped up and I'm like this sucks. I'm
not doing this again.

Speaker 2 (42:27):
No, no, no, you know what it was for some
reason with skate With skateboarding, it just seemed like it
took way more effort than like all the pushing. I
didn't feel like I would go far enough right like
a bike, you know I was. I mean, I rode.

Speaker 3 (42:44):
I still ride a bike to this day. I love bikes.

Speaker 2 (42:47):
But I remember getting burnt out on the skateboard after
I only had too and I think I must have
been I think I think by junior high, I was
done with the skateboard junior high.

Speaker 1 (42:57):
I think I was trying to think, what what's the
lad I think the best invention, uh, for as far
as like a toy or a tech toy or anything
like that, I think would probably be now like from
because there was there was like nothing for a long time,
in my opinion, and then when they came out with
like cell phones and iPads and iPhones and computers, and

(43:20):
like you're to me, that's like the best compared to like,
you know, everything else is kinning eh. And then all
of a sudden, bam, you've got music. This is you
can edit video, you can make a camera out of this,
you can.

Speaker 2 (43:29):
Do Yeah, that's true, it's huge.

Speaker 1 (43:31):
I mean, what does it get, Like imagine if don't
you think that's like probably one of the best gifts,
like like as far as a modern, like crazy wild
thing that it can do a million things. I mean,
I mean, I mean, put yourself back at being like
twelve or thirteen and someone's like, you could have this
dump truck or you could have this device that does
all this stuff and you can ask it questions and

(43:53):
it'll give you answers and you it'll stream any show
you ever want.

Speaker 2 (43:56):
Right, Yeah, yeah, that's a big lead, dude. The smartphone,
like they said, that's that's one of I mean, just
think where we would all be if that had they
had not come up with that and we were all
just on sort of like regular cell phones, yeah, you know,
blackberries and things.

Speaker 3 (44:15):
So I mean that was that's just a huge shift,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (44:21):
It just changed everything for and I couldn't even imagine
growing up as a kid and having all that at
the tip of my fingers.

Speaker 3 (44:28):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (44:30):
But but yeah, man, I mean it's really nice that
we did grow up on a time where we didn't
have that where when you know, I mean, there.

Speaker 1 (44:39):
Is some solitude to when you're like, all right, Mom,
I'm gonna go out and like come back in when
the street lights come on. Well, now, I.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
Was thinking about it because you know my daughters, she
just it's kind of riding her bike now without the
training wheels, but of course, you know, it's like okay,
go up to the block and back, and you know,
we're you know, like watching her the whole time. And
I was just telling my mom this not long ago,
and I was going, wow, because my mom's always been
a worry ward. I was like, Mom, we were riding

(45:09):
all the way across town. Now, glad that this was
already when we were twelve, and you know, but still eleven, twelve, thirteen,
it's not like, you know, anything could have happened. And
I just we would be gone all day and we'd
go all the way across town UNTI Larry and we'd
come back and my mom was like, yeah, I know,
we just didn't choose it. But you guys all went

(45:30):
and packs, you know, like there was always three, four
or five, six of us on bikes together, which is man,
when I look back at that, dude, that was probably
I mean, because the bicycle was was the freedom that
was your first taste of freedom going even going around
the block. I remember when my parents were like, oh, yeah,
you can go around the block, but just stick around

(45:50):
the just going around the block and then like stopping,
and then my friends and I would like, you know,
mess around and joke with each other because our parents
couldn't see us from there. Like even that was a big,
big free Uh it was liberating, you know what I mean.
It was like, dude, it was great.

Speaker 1 (46:08):
How about this when I used to have a bike
and I'd go around the neighborhood and then we had
two big empty fields by my by my house that
I grew up, So, I mean, looking back, it probably
wasn't that big, but as a kid, it was like
an adventure. You know, you're out there on those trails
in the field. It was amazing.

Speaker 2 (46:26):
We were we about two blocks from us, was all
open fields when.

Speaker 3 (46:31):
We were, you know, living in Hilaria at that time.

Speaker 2 (46:33):
And same thing, dude, the people somebody from before, whoever
they were, they'd made you know, motorcycle trails and stuff
by by riding their bikes back there. And and so
there we were jumping dirt, little dirt mountains and I
mean it was just it was just so great to
be able to be on our own and then you know,

(46:55):
and then just ride back. I remember eighth grade I
was I was riding still, riding my bike because I
had a I was the school was at least three
or four miles away.

Speaker 3 (47:04):
So I didn't want to walk it. I wrote it.

Speaker 2 (47:06):
And then isn't it funny how one person can get
in your head? Right on my seventh grade year, there
was a I had a backpack that had the Incredible
Hulk on there.

Speaker 3 (47:17):
Okay, and then I remember some kid. I was riding
my bike by him, and he's all, you.

Speaker 2 (47:23):
Got an Incredible Hulk backpack. You're in seventh grade. You
have a little kid anymore, which is crazy because nowadays
everybody wears superhero stuff.

Speaker 1 (47:34):
Oh he did, like thirty five year olds exactly.

Speaker 2 (47:37):
So I remember I went home and then the next day,
my mom's getting I go, No that I'm just gonna
carry I'll just carry him while I ride my bike,
and then carried my books because I didn't want to
wear I didn't want to use that backpack again. And
then in eighth grade, I was riding my bike at
the beginning of the year, and then again some other

(47:57):
kid saw me and he was like, you're riding your
bicycle to school, dude. You're in eighth grade, dude. So
I stopped riding my bike, dude. And that was like
a three mile walk, yeah, dude, so we would all.

Speaker 3 (48:14):
I would walk with my front you know.

Speaker 2 (48:15):
I ended up I hated it, especially in summertime, you know,
summer or when it's hot and hilarry, We're walking in
the heat and walking in the cold, dude, Like and
the fog, yeah, and the fog, and I would have,
you know, much rather rode my bike. But you know
that you get to that point where other kids are like.

Speaker 1 (48:32):
Remember when we use our imagination, Like you'd put like
baseball cards in the spokes to kind of make that
motorcycle noise.

Speaker 3 (48:38):
That was the best, man.

Speaker 2 (48:39):
Those are that that was and you wanted to do
you know, both of them, you know, the front and
back tires. Yeah, it made it sound like a Harley,
but oh dude, those are that was.

Speaker 3 (48:51):
Like, I mean, all all that stuff was.

Speaker 1 (48:54):
I've tried to find the bike that I got when
I was a kid, Like I can picture it. It was
brown and it had a number on it like in
the m HM that but I can't find it. And
so I've looked at some of the old Montgomery Ward
bikes from that era Sears kmart because I figured that's
probably where they got the bike. But I can't, you know,
I've come close to it, like it might have been
an offshoot of it probably wasn't Mongoose, but it was

(49:14):
probably like a generic brand of Mongoose whatever. But it
was a cool ass bike. I can picture the knobby
tires in the seat and yeah, the whole thing.

Speaker 2 (49:21):
You know what I have. I bought myself one of those.
It's a replica of the Sea of the Sears catalogs.

Speaker 3 (49:30):
They replicated them.

Speaker 2 (49:31):
They they basically, oh, can you send me the bra
section please. So I think it's I think it's called well,
the name is kind of weird. I don't like the
name of the book, but it's called it's called Boys
Toys of the I think it's sixties, seventies and eighties.

Speaker 1 (49:51):
Oh it's fun.

Speaker 2 (49:51):
So it literally lists you can go through. I mean
you just see the ones from the sixties. Dudes, all
these robots and they're all listed at the price that
they were listed.

Speaker 3 (50:01):
And then it's really cool.

Speaker 2 (50:02):
In the late seventies because all of a sudden, you
see all this Star Wars merchandise. Oh yeah, and I
found one of the bikes that was my first bike,
which was a Huffey. So one of these days, what
we'll do, because I still have that, I have that catalog,
is we should meet up somewhere and you and you,

(50:23):
I'll let you go through it and you see if
you can find your bike.

Speaker 1 (50:28):
Oh that would be cool, man, that'd be great.

Speaker 2 (50:30):
Hey.

Speaker 1 (50:31):
I was kidding too about the bra section. Do you
remember that when you're a kid though, and you look
at the Sears catalog, Yeah, it was like it was
like a Playboy for church kids. Y.

Speaker 3 (50:40):
Yeah, I remember that.

Speaker 2 (50:42):
I remember look at it this because they would sometimes
have the lady in the brae. That's so funny. But yeah, dude,
and then man, we didn't even touch on hot wheels
and but like.

Speaker 1 (50:56):
Yeah, well we'll save that for another podcast.

Speaker 2 (50:58):
Did you uh well do part two? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (51:01):
I remember, you know, Christmas vacation was always a big
deal to like, you know, because that was like two
weeks off and one year. I remember in eighth grade,
I took that two weeks and I learned how to
do I learned how to do two things, ride a
unicycle and juggle.

Speaker 3 (51:18):
Oh wow, yeah, because.

Speaker 1 (51:19):
I remember I would uh. I mean I might be
confusing the unicycle thing. Maybe I'd already done that, but
like I remember not giving up on the juggling I had.
I took the socks I had three. You know, you
took three socks from my sock chow. And I just
practiced and practiced and practiced and practiced until I finally
got it down.

Speaker 2 (51:35):
You know what, man, I I still can't do it, Darren, Really,
I still can't do it. And I have tried and tried,
and something is in my brain and I can do two.
I can do judo problem as soon as I get
that third one up. And I've had people that juggle

(51:56):
show me it's like it's real. Look ready when you
do that then you go and I it's something happens
in my brain, dude. I the motor skills just will
not My own motor skills won't allow me to do it.
And I that's one thing I always wanted to learn, dude,
And I have tried and tried and tried, and I
just it just doesn't happen.

Speaker 1 (52:16):
So what about what about whistling. Can you whistle?

Speaker 2 (52:20):
Yeah, I can whistle, but I can't do whistle like you,
the real loud one because.

Speaker 1 (52:25):
The whistling is another I think a life skill. I
think that a person should be able to have to
where they can, you know, if they need to get
someone's attention, or they need to a car's driving by.
I used to stop, you know, like if someone drove
past me, I could whistle real loud and they'd hear it.

Speaker 2 (52:40):
Yeah, you know, I told you. My dad does it,
you know, but back then that was how they communicated
with each other, you know, in the fifties and everything.

Speaker 3 (52:48):
They'd whistle from down the street. But my dad does
it like you do.

Speaker 2 (52:52):
But he doesn't.

Speaker 3 (52:53):
He doesn't need fingers.

Speaker 1 (52:54):
Man, Wow, No, that's next level.

Speaker 2 (52:57):
It's and I was like, and he.

Speaker 3 (53:00):
Told me, but see this is probably the problem, is
he talking.

Speaker 2 (53:03):
I mean, I can do the regular whistling, you know,
you know all that stuff, but not the big whistle.
So I was like, here, what do I do that?
Because now, no, you don't need your fingers.

Speaker 3 (53:11):
And then uh, I said, well, I see everybody else
use their fingers.

Speaker 2 (53:14):
You know, they cup them in like the letter C,
or they use two separate pinkies or whatever, and he goes,
he goes, yeah, But for some reason, my dad's my
dad's thought process was like, here's but what if you're
you know, you're outside working and you got shit all
over your hands, and then you got a whistle with
your friend and you put your put shit in your
in your mouth, you got dirty shit in your mouth.

(53:35):
And I was like, oh, okay, when is that can happen?

Speaker 3 (53:44):
When is that going to be happening to me?

Speaker 2 (53:46):
So he always said he was, Yeah, a lot of
my friends did the fingers, but I learned without because
I didn't, you know, I didn't want to have to
use my hand and if they.

Speaker 3 (53:53):
Were dirty or whatever.

Speaker 2 (53:54):
Then again, we're talking about somebody who's who's always working labor,
you know.

Speaker 1 (53:58):
What I'm saying, ancient oil and working with pesticides, and
you're like literally thinking of doodo. You're like, I'm at
the La County Fair and I had some goat crap
in my hand exactly.

Speaker 2 (54:10):
He literally was talking about all that right there, Any
of that could have gone into his mouth. So yeah,
he learned how to do it from without, But man,
I wish i'd learned that I think that's really cool, man,
And nobody really knows. Men don't know how to do
that anymore.

Speaker 1 (54:24):
They don't, they don't, man. And it's like, that's why
I taught my son how to whistle, and and he's
still needs to little work on it. But it's uh.
I told him it's a life skill. You gotta have
basic dude skills, you know.

Speaker 2 (54:34):
Let me let me ask you this. What is what
does he use?

Speaker 3 (54:36):
Does he use his his two pinkies?

Speaker 2 (54:39):
Does he use his two index fingers? What does he use?

Speaker 1 (54:42):
Right now? He's not able to do that, so he's
still learning.

Speaker 2 (54:46):
Yeah, oh oh, but isn't he learning?

Speaker 3 (54:49):
Isn't he learning with the fingers though?

Speaker 2 (54:51):
With the fingers right?

Speaker 1 (54:51):
Well, it's funny. I did a video with him. I
go and literally he was going like that. I go, dude,
you need to do what if you have to like
you're you gotta do it loud? And he goes and
he raised his book.

Speaker 2 (55:04):
I'm like, oh, come on, you know, I'll never forget
one of one of Pablo Francisco's. Uh. The only reason
why this joke made me laugh is because as a kid,
before I learned how to whistle, I used to used
to do this, but he would. He would used to
impersonate that they had this Indian character that worked at

(55:25):
some store that that whistle when he when he when
he spoke, he had a whistle at the end. Yeah,
And he's like, let me and let me get to
this where you. As he's talking, he goes. But then
when it was time to whistle, you see a girl
and he's like, look at that girl. Whoo woo. He
went like that, And I always laughed because when I
was a kid, I didn't know how to whistle yet,

(55:47):
so I would go whoo whoo at a at a
young But anyway, I uh, I mean, it's never too late.
I could still probably learn. It's just gonna you know,
I have the time to do all all that.

Speaker 1 (56:05):
But I know, see that's what I'm saying Christmas vacation.
When you're a kid, you got you got time to
learn how to whistle. I'm going to learn how to juggle.
You know, we got to teach ourselves something. Now we
have to learn to do other things, you know what.

Speaker 3 (56:17):
You know what, I like that idea.

Speaker 2 (56:19):
So when my daughter, my daughter's going to get out
here on the eighteenth, she's out here until January tenth,
and I have been wanting.

Speaker 3 (56:27):
I know she likes magic.

Speaker 2 (56:30):
I think I need to I'm going to get her
a little magic set there you go and see if
she could make See if she can learn some some
magic tricks before she goes back to school, so she
can show her. That would be great.

Speaker 3 (56:43):
I mean at eight they have little.

Speaker 2 (56:45):
Kids for eight year olds, right of.

Speaker 1 (56:46):
Course, yeah, absolutely, And there's like little tricks that little
kids can do that are sleight of hand and stuff,
right right, Magic tricks are great, a great icebreaker. Like
you know, I've hung out with Jimmy Schubert and people
don't know that he knows magic. And then he'll have
a uh uh you know, like a balloon or whatever
that's not blown up, and I don't know. He just
does like these jokes out of nowhere and people are like,

(57:07):
how did you do that? And it's it's really interesting.

Speaker 2 (57:09):
Well, I'll tell you.

Speaker 3 (57:11):
I remember this is back when I was.

Speaker 2 (57:13):
Single, and and uh, I'll never forget this sky.

Speaker 3 (57:16):
It was back when I used to hang out with.

Speaker 2 (57:19):
John Cardinelly and he and I would always go to
Barney's Beanery and you know, we're over there. We're always
trying to make girls laugh, trying to make girls and
I'll never forget this. One night, this dude came, some
dude was in there, and he he had all these
little sleight of hands. He had cards, he had little thing,
he had little little balls where you know, they just
disappear in your hand. And dude, he had these girls.

Speaker 3 (57:43):
In the palm of his hand.

Speaker 2 (57:45):
And I remember thinking, I mean, these girls they loved
they were you know what I mean, you could just
see that they were you know, that's just I hate them.
That's how he was picking up girls, dude, because they
they love did they were like, oh my god, this
is so you are so o the Yeah, we got
to hang out.

Speaker 3 (58:04):
Again, of course, you know what I mean. And I
just like, oh, look at this dude, and think about it.

Speaker 1 (58:09):
He brought all that with him to the bar right exactly.
And it's like and it's just an icebreaker with you know,
like with in the bar situation or just you know,
it's cool to have little things like that. But Johnny Listen, man,
it was great having me on the podcast, and uh.

Speaker 2 (58:25):
Yeah, thanks for the thanks for the five minute podcast.

Speaker 1 (58:28):
I know, dude, you and I get going. It goes
I told Johnny and we'll talk for five and I
go maybe ten, and here we are. Man, this is
a full episode. You just you just yeah, you just
had your own episode, buddy.

Speaker 2 (58:41):
I think I think Darren tricked me. Guys. I just.

Speaker 1 (58:47):
Once we go down memory lane. Man, it's it's not
even a podcast. It's just talking. It's awesome.

Speaker 2 (58:51):
It's it's endless, the amount of stuff we could we
could still talk about. I mean, just because we're from
the same era too as well. I mean think about
TV shows and movies and I mean, you know, I
mean it's it's endless, dude. So but anyway, do you.

Speaker 1 (59:08):
Have any words of wisdom or any special Christmas wishes
for our holiday wishes for our listeners?

Speaker 2 (59:14):
Well, you know what, you know, today was just thinking
about my mom and daddy and even even talking to
my mom a little bit, like like, hey, Mom, I mean,
doesn't it just seem like yesterday? And she's like, you know,
it just you don't think sixty two years or you know,
well sixty three when they met, but sixty two for
wedding And she's like, you just you don't think that

(59:38):
just sounds like forever. And yet she goes it does
feel like it's gone by so fast and just zipped by,
you know what I mean. And yeah, she said she
even said that when people used to talk about, you know,
being married for twenty five years or thirty five years,
you know, they would all go, oh, well, well will
you even be around really? You know, and I said,

(59:59):
did any but even bring up the two thousands, you know,
back in the fifties, And and my mom and dadd
be like, oh, we were like, man, we'll never see
those years, you know, like and it's gonna be crazy,
and we're gonna be flying in cars. I mean, you know,
they're the imagination back then, they were there.

Speaker 3 (01:00:18):
They will be up in space.

Speaker 2 (01:00:19):
All the time. I mean, if you think about the fifties,
do when they got married in nineteen fifty seven, think
about what the mentality whether they hadn't even gone to
the moon yet, so like, you know, the mindset.

Speaker 3 (01:00:33):
Of of everybody was just like wow, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:00:36):
So I would say, well, you know, just talking to
them today, I kind of just kind of going, man,
we all get busy, you know, try to put especially nowadays,
got to try to put the phone down for a while,
you know, I shut it off every now and then
you know what I mean, I actually just turn it off.
And because these little moments, man, people people are not

(01:00:59):
they're not they're not taking each moment with their families
and appreciating their parents or their kids or which is
great that you spend so much time, you know, with
your boy that that's just fantastic because you know it's
you know you're gonna look back. You have all that stuff, dude,
you have. You have this whole history, this whole you recorded,

(01:01:21):
you know, everything that you guys can look back on someday,
which is fantastic. So now that's different, you know, having
a phone to record, to capture moments. Of course, that's fine.
I'm talking about people who are sitting there on social
media while they're fit, while their family's at the you know, table,
eating Christmas dinner or something.

Speaker 1 (01:01:39):
You know what I'm saying saying I totally agree about.
I made a conscious decision a few years ago not
to do that, man. And I also say, you'll never
catch me in a crosswalk on my phone like people.
I say, if anyone ever sees me in a crosswalk
looking at my phone, I'll give you five bucks. I mean,
I'm kind of cheap.

Speaker 2 (01:01:59):
But no, I told people, I said, I if there is,
there's already been a couple, especially.

Speaker 3 (01:02:04):
Across the sunset right here.

Speaker 1 (01:02:05):
Now you know what I'm gonna update, Andy, You forget
that five dollars. What should I say if they catch
me in a crosswalk? What's the reward? They can know?

Speaker 2 (01:02:11):
You don't want to be giving out too much, but
just say you I'll never be on my phone.

Speaker 1 (01:02:14):
I'll never be on my phone on the crosswalk. So
I don't care if you guys catch me on a
cross in a crosswalk on my cell phone, you have
permission to run me over. Yeah, I'm just kidding. I'm kidding.
I'm kidding.

Speaker 2 (01:02:26):
So so get this man. You know I always cross
the sunset right here across from the laugh factory and whatever,
and it's people are not paying attention to pedestrians, and Dared,
I'll tell you there have been at least a handful
of occasions because as I start to cross the street,
I'm watching everybody because you know, some of those people
are on their phone while they're driving. So and I

(01:02:46):
I'll tell you right now, if I had been crossing
the street the way other people do with the phone
in my hand texting, I would have been hit already
five times ago. Wow. So I don't cross.

Speaker 3 (01:02:57):
It's one thing I do.

Speaker 2 (01:02:58):
I don't cross the street anymore. I don't texting, and
I don't even text and walk at all. I don't
do anything on my phone when I drive. Now, you know,
I just go. I don't really need to talk and
I definitely don't need to be texting or anything like that.
So you know, it's like just try. I mean, shut
the phone off every now and then, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:03:19):
Like that I'm gonna shut that because usually like during
the holidays or whatever, I'll put in the back bedroom
or I just will be away from it. But yeah,
why not shut it off.

Speaker 3 (01:03:28):
Just and you know what else too? By the way,
let me let me throw this out.

Speaker 2 (01:03:31):
There's just people listening for the parents who go to
the park and parks and stuff. I don't write out
to water time, but it's gonna you know, in southern
Cali you can go to the parks almost all the time.
But there I sit there and I watch. I have
to say, statistically, it's more moms than dad's. But I'm
a numbers guy, so I keep track of this stuff.

(01:03:51):
But the moms get there and the kids to go
start running around and playing, and they're on there. I
saw this one mom. She did not look up from
her phone for well over an hour. Her daughter started
playing with my daughter, and they actually moved to a
different section. Okay. They were in one sand one sand,

(01:04:12):
little sand playing area with the jungle gym and the slides,
and they went over to the other one. This is
the one at Bilboa Park, okay, which is pretty big.
And I was like, you know what, I'm not going
to say anything.

Speaker 3 (01:04:24):
I'm just gonna wait and see. And it just so
happened that her mind.

Speaker 2 (01:04:27):
I was keeping an eye on him because I put
my phone in my pocket when I go to the
parks so I can watch my daughter and I can.

Speaker 3 (01:04:33):
Watch her play, and I can also enjoy watching her play.

Speaker 2 (01:04:35):
By the way, Okay, so they were like underneath this thing,
so they were even a little hidden. Finally this mom
looks up and then I could just immediately see her
start looking around, looking around. You see the panic, And
I'm thinking to myself, and I'm not exaggerating, Darren.

Speaker 3 (01:04:54):
It was somewhere between forty five minutes to an hour.

Speaker 2 (01:04:56):
Okay. She did not look up from her phone. So oh,
she starts to get up. Oh, now she's looking for
her daughter over there. You can see it about it.
I was like, I'm still gonna wait. You know what,
I could have yelled from across. I said, no, I'm
gonna wait. Then she's actually and that starts walking sort
of to it, and I go, hey, your daughter's right
here with my daughter. Okay, oh hey, what are you doing? Oh,

(01:05:20):
don't do that.

Speaker 3 (01:05:21):
And I wanted to go, no, you don't do that exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:05:24):
Well, Johnny, thank you for that heartwarming Christmas story.

Speaker 2 (01:05:28):
Yes, anyway, No.

Speaker 1 (01:05:32):
No, I'm joking, dude. That's a great lesson, you.

Speaker 2 (01:05:34):
Know, share just enjoy the family and friends or whoever
you're spending it with. Some people aren't gonna do with family,
but just whoever was close to you.

Speaker 1 (01:05:44):
You know what. I saw cartoon years ago, and this
is one of the things that really hit home. And
the cartoon showed like, let's say twelve or thirteen family
members around the Thanksgiving table or whatever, and it showed
everyone looking at their phone except for Grandma and uh,
and it said it said, one day, you're gonna look
up from your phone and someone you love isn't going
to be there.

Speaker 3 (01:06:03):
Yeah, that's really good. That's really good.

Speaker 1 (01:06:06):
So you know, I swear you it's it's not one
of those it's one of those things like you said,
you want to capture the moment, but like don't just
you know, we know the difference between doing something important
and then scrolling wasting time.

Speaker 2 (01:06:17):
And exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:06:19):
I talked to a buddy the day. He's like, he's like, oh, dude,
I got a delete. I gotta get off YouTube. I
just get there and tee off on everybody in the comments.
And I'm like, what are you doing? I go, are people?
Are they You're teeing off on them? Are they teeing?
He goes, Oh, they're teeing off on me. I'm teeing
off on them. And I go that sounds kind He goes,
I know, dude, it's pathetic. We're grown men on a
Sunday just teeing off on each other online. Man, what

(01:06:39):
are you guys doing? Let it go get outside anyways?

Speaker 2 (01:06:42):
I yeah, yeah, yeah, anyway, do that and and and
uh and you have So for everybody out there, have
a great holiday season and joy enjoy it.

Speaker 3 (01:06:53):
Man, it's slowed down a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:06:55):
And because before we know the New Year's here and
then everybody's back on track with I gotta get busy.

Speaker 1 (01:07:00):
Do you have a favorite Christmas song?

Speaker 2 (01:07:04):
Yeah, it's it's it's tough, that's that's always a tough
call for me.

Speaker 3 (01:07:07):
But I still have to lean towards Silent Night.

Speaker 1 (01:07:10):
Oh I love it, but I like so many. I
like when I think Elvis, I think Blue, you know,
Blue Home.

Speaker 2 (01:07:15):
Blue Christmas Dude. And I also loved the Little Drummer Boy.

Speaker 3 (01:07:18):
I've always loved that song.

Speaker 2 (01:07:20):
But there's so many.

Speaker 3 (01:07:21):
But there's something about, you know what it is.

Speaker 2 (01:07:23):
Whenever I hear Silent Night, I think that's the song
that they would always sing we would leave our midnight
Mass when we used to go to midnight Mass with
my grandmother, and that was always the last song they
sang the choir as everybody left church on Christmas for
Christmas midnight Mass. So I think there's something there with it,

(01:07:45):
because when I hear that song, I just I get
flooded with just childhood and my grandmother and those and
the cold and hilarry coming out and it's freezing, and
you know, then we go back to you know, and
we go to sleep, and we'd wake in well we
to open our gifts after midnight pass Dude, isn't that crazy?

Speaker 1 (01:08:04):
Wow? See, we would do ours like eight o'clock Christmas Eve.
No Christmas Eve?

Speaker 2 (01:08:10):
Oh wow.

Speaker 1 (01:08:11):
But now my wife like now we do it. We
do Christmas Eve, but we do it like like five
thirty or six because the kids are you know, they're
gonna be asleep, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:08:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:08:19):
Yeah, but then we always always saved that one for
Christmas Day.

Speaker 2 (01:08:22):
They're all they all go to bed. So ear I
just feel like it's see twelve, So is he still going?
Is Austin still going to bed at like nine? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:08:30):
We give him bedtime, and I mean sometimes we slip
past that, and especially during the holidays, a little bit
past that. But you know, he's he's well rested, and
he's you know, he's up at six thirty, sometimes earlier
in the morning, sometimes sometimes later. But but it's great.
We don't have the video games all that stuff like
out for him. So what he does is he gets
up and he starts playing on that piano and and
he puts the little headphones in so he doesn't even

(01:08:51):
disturb me. So I'm and mom, sometimes if he gets
up early and and then he goes to his base,
and that way he can look back at his childhood
and he's learned an instrument, not just you know.

Speaker 3 (01:09:01):
That's fantastic.

Speaker 1 (01:09:02):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:09:03):
Well listen, I'll see you.

Speaker 3 (01:09:04):
We're gonna see I'll see you next week.

Speaker 2 (01:09:06):
I'll see you probably next week twice because I imagine
you're going to go to the Black Factory Christmas party, right.

Speaker 1 (01:09:13):
Yep, Christmas party and then okay.

Speaker 3 (01:09:15):
And then the next day we do the podcast.

Speaker 1 (01:09:17):
Yes, oh yeah, we'll do the podcast together. It'll be great.
And dude, thanks for coming on the Pocket Party podcast.
And and uh man, happy holidays to you and your family.
Marry Christmas. And what about Tomali's. Did you guys do
the Tomali's this year?

Speaker 2 (01:09:29):
Yeah? No, my mom buys him. Now you know, my
grandmother used to make him years and years ago.

Speaker 1 (01:09:34):
But dude, that's my favorite. I love Tamali's.

Speaker 3 (01:09:37):
Yeah, Tamali's are so good, my mom. They get them
from these people that make them.

Speaker 2 (01:09:40):
And so so I know, once I get up there
on the i'll probably go Christmas Day. Christmas morning is
when we'll probably head up, take my daughter and it'll
be Tamali's. Dude. So you know, I'm I'm I'm eating
better now just so that I can.

Speaker 3 (01:09:57):
I can kind of, you know, pick out.

Speaker 2 (01:10:00):
A little bit. Yeah, you know, we're all gonna put
on a little bit of a few pounds over the
over the holidays.

Speaker 1 (01:10:05):
So oh yeah, you can't help it. It's cold and
when when there's warm food, it's like you just got
to eat it.

Speaker 3 (01:10:09):
Oh my gosh, I can't wait.

Speaker 2 (01:10:12):
All right, Darren, thanks again, buddy, thanks.

Speaker 3 (01:10:14):
For having me.

Speaker 2 (01:10:15):
Thank you. I'll see you later, Okay, take care. Thanks
Johnny Bye, Yeah, you got it, buddy, Bye.

Speaker 1 (01:10:20):
That was Johnny Sanchez. How great was that, Johnny Johnny Sanchez. Well,
thank you guys for listening to this episode of the
Pocket Party podcast, and thank you for everything. And don't
forget to hit that donate button. If you want more
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And I want to thank MF. He's a monthly donator. MF.
You're the man. Thank you, mister Flores, thank you so much,
and everybody else who's donated, you guys are the best.
And uh, get your Jolly's we're done with this interview.
Look at you. You made it all the way through
on the episode with Johnny Sanchez. Thank you Johnny. I

(01:11:05):
feel good now, man, I gotta go back and find
that bike that I grew up with. Where is it?
Oh man? So many good memories. What a feel good
phone call that was. We have more bonus episodes coming.
Let us know what you think. Or to Apple iTunes,
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