October 8, 2025 • 40 mins
One mom's regret is our joy to debate, but is she the WORST MOTHER EVER? Also, why is Dan afraid of his wife's skincare routine? Rebekah confesses her love for something that most people hate, and we revel at news of an unexpected comeback. This is Unsolicited episode 4.
Hot takes, bold opinions, and wild stories. Laugh and cringe with Rebekah Black and Dan O'Malley as they say what needs to be said, even if no one asked. We react to, comment on, and laugh at wild stories from Reddit, the news, surveys and polls, and our personal lives. No relationship is off limits.
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Hot takes, bold opinions, and wild stories. Laugh and cringe with Rebekah Black and Dan O'Malley as they say what needs to be said, even if no one asked. We react to, comment on, and laugh at wild stories from Reddit, the news, surveys and polls, and our personal lives. No relationship is off limits.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You didn't ask for it, but you need to hear it.
Hot takes a wild story and some very dark confessions.
We're going to say what needs to be said today,
even if no one asked. She's Rebecca Black, I'm Daniel Mallley,
and this is unsolicited today, Rebecca. We start with a
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lost child. A lost child at a birthday party has
Laura Rodriguez feeling like she's the worst mother in the world.
But is she will be the judge.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Of that, like the worst mom ever. I took my
daughter to a birthday party and I asked them if
is it okay if I do a drop off and
run an errand and I'll be back, and she said absolutely,
you can definitely leave her here. I said, okay, what
time is it party going to be over? And she
said five. I got there at four point thirty. It
was at a roller rink and nobody was there. My
daughter was alone, and I said, where is everybody? Like
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the party room was locked, it was dark, it was locked,
and I said where is everybody? She said, everybody left?
And I was a what do you mean everybody left?
She said, they're gone, and my baby was there alone.
Thank god, there was another friend there that wasn't associated
with the party. They just so happened to be there,
so she had her to like buddy up with. I
called this ma eight times and she did not answer
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my phone call. She did not she didn't answer my
text messages or anything. So I talked to the manager
and I said, what time did they leave? And they
said they left an hour before that before that, so
that would have put them at three point thirty. Like,
where the fuck are you? How do you not know
where the kids are?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
In the party?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
I asked Ashley, and I said, did you eat? And
she said no because they didn't announce for food, they
didn't announce for cake, and they did not announce for presents.
And I said, did you see her open presence? She
said no, they didn't never said to come open presence.
So now I feel like the worst mom ever because
I trusted this other mom, which was my first mistake.
Is I trusted her and asked if I could drop
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her off there, and I should never done that. I
should have never done that.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Is she the worst mother in the world, Rebecca.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
No, because then my mom would be the worst mother
in the world. We're I was born in the eighties, man,
I got left everywhere all the time. Calm down, lady,
your kid is okay. She was at an hour. She
was left for an hour at a roller rink.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Please, I've lost count how many times as a child
I was left at a roller rink by my parents
and and and and newsflash, there wasn't a birthday party. No,
it was just here.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
This was literally every Saturday morning for us. My parents
would drop me and a friend off at the Good
Times roller Rink in Garland, Texas. We would stay all
day until somebody came to pick us up. Nobody cared.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I feel like that should be the town motto for Garland.
Good times in Garland.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Yeah, a lot of good times happened in Garland, let
me tell you.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah. Okay, So I feel like we have established that, No,
she is not the worst mother in the world. She
is certainly welcome to feel however she likes. However, there
are plenty of examples in history that would prove she's
just being hyperbolic here. Now that being said, should she
have trusted the other mother with her child?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
That's the good question, I think. Is this just a
random other mom that you didn't really know very well?
You didn't seek out a friend to say, hey, can
you make sure my kid is watched while I'm gone
and run this errand real quick. I think that's a
little strange.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
That's why I asked the question, because this is the
fascinating part as a parent. How much should you trust
another parent when it comes to supervising your child and
be in charge of their safety? Right? And this is
where obviously the generational divide happens. The great irony is
this mother is not much younger than us. She may
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in fact be around your age. Even so she herself
as a child may have been left places and clearly
she turned out mostly okay, yeah, at least physically find
that We're aware. But it's amazing how even though we
grew up in this way, we refuse to have our
children go through the same experiences that we did. So.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
But I think it's not because she's trying to keep
her kids safe by any means. I think it's like, oh, man,
when I was a kidd and I had to wait
an hour for my parents, it was so annoying and
so frustrating, And so she's literally only doing it so
her kid doesn't have to wait around on.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Her what I love in this is in her video,
it starts out very ominous. She's like, my child was
alone and there was no one watching her, right, and
then it devolves into party etiquette. She was not told
when the cake was going to be handed out. She
wasn't told when presents were happening. Okay, these are two
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different things. To be upset agreed, and being left alone
in a public place is not the worst thing I've
ever heard of. But I'm sure as a parent you
want that information ahead of time.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Of course, again, who is this parent that she just
willy nilly left her kid with? This Obviously somebody she
didn't know, because wouldn't the parent have texted like, hey,
guess what, we're closing up shop early on this party.
Come get your kid. I can't I can't stay very
long to watch them. So again, that is kind of
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her fault for not like vetting the parent that's going
to be watching her kid.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
While she runs an errand heer some of the follow
up in a story on People magazine. Given that her
daughter does not have a phone yet, she had no
way of contacting her directly. Okay, Lauren recalls, I immediately
looked for Ashland. I saw her on the rink and
I asked her where everyone was. She said everyone left.
Her daughter had apparently found a friend she knew. We
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knew that part from the video. Laurence spoke with the
rink manager, who informed her that the party had ended
nearly an hour before she got back. He said they
were a messy group. They were all trying to get
outside with their skates on, and he had to tell
them they couldn't take their skates outside of the party room.
So the party took off their skates and proceeded outside.
That's where a gift was going to be presented to
the birthday girl.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
However, Ashland had gone back to the room after skating,
found it empty and assumed the party was over. Once
the host noticed Ashland was missing, she reached out to
Lauren around four twenty four pm, texting, did you come
and pick up Ashland? I haven't seen her in a while.
By then, Lauren had already returned to the venue and
called the mother eight times, as we heard in the video.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
So just miscommunication on all parts here.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Yeah. Lauren also says she finally responded via text and
said that she had lost her phone in the parking lot,
and that the reason she's texting me and not calling
me back was because her phone was at two percent.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Okay, I mean that could be a lie, but whatever,
that's not aven the issue.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
The host later told Rodriguez they were at the rink
until five thirty, but Lauren questioned this, asking if she
was there till five thirty, the why wouldn't she approach
me while I'm frantically looking for my daughter's shoes and
speaking to a management Because have you been.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
To a roller rink? It's insane, or at least it
was back in the day.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Like it's chuck e cheese on Yeah, it's chuck e
cheese on wheels.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Yes, I'm like, you literally have an arcade on one side.
You have a million children everywhere. It's wild. It's the
wild West.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Some of the comments on her TikTok video, which is
amassed millions of views, why are we leaving our children
unattended in public spaces? Don't you think the mom of
the birthday child had enough on her plate that day. Ultimately,
it's your responsibility to make sure that your child is safe.
Run your errand some other time and then others rallied
behind Lauren the task running the errand running mom saying
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maybe it's just because how I grew up, but as
a millennial with three kids, I would not expect the
parents to see stay at my kid's party. To me,
the standard is to drop them off and pick them
up after. I would be keeping track of every child
being the host.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Thank you. That is exactly what I was thinking. I
was like, since when did it become the norm for
the parents to also be a part of a child's
birthday party? That's insane. Let your kid have two hours
to themselves with their friends and have a good time.
You don't need to be on top of them all
the time.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
I'm glad you brought that up because I saw a
story recently and there was a study done with Jen
Alpha and I think, even to a certain extent younger
gen Z, because what's one of the big complaints about
kids these days? All they whenever we see them, what
is it, it's always facing a screen, They're on the phone,
they're on a tablet. They don't go outside, right right.
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They have reasons for that. According to this study, those
kids said part of the reason why they don't do
those things is because they can't get away from their
parents because if they try to go outside and play,
the parent insists on being there. If they try to
go to some function, the parent insists on being there.
The only time they say that they can get some
space from their parents is if their face is in
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a phone.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
That is the saddest thing I think I have ever
heard in my life. Like kids need freedom, They need
to be able to explore and think for themselves and
figure out how to do stuff on their own. You
cannot baby them all the way through life. This is
what creates like that everybody get a trophy thing. I'm
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one of those people. I can't stand it. Yeah, like
I'm sorry, if you didn't do good, you should be
told that you didn't do good, and like, let's see
how we can fix it.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Yeah. I still remember I played soccer for all of
a year and a half, like third and fourth grade,
and I still remember at the end of the first season,
we're at Pizza Inn and we're having a pizza party
for the end of the season, and I was like,
why we were awful? We won two games.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
You don't deserve pizza.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I don't deserve pizza. And then near the end of
the pizza party, they started hanging out awards and true, Oh,
I swear to God everything as a kid, Oh, this
gets terrible, as like everyone on the team got an
award for something not to brag or nothing, but I
got most intimidating that I'm kind of proud of because
that had nothing to do with record. But as a
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nine year old, I knew the pizza party for the
end of a season where we were sub five hundred
was awful and undeserving. But then when everyone got a
I know, I know, a participation trophy on a job
well done for the whole year, I thought this is ridiculous.
As a nine year old, I knew it was stupid.
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I remember telling my mom, they throw that away. I'm
not keeping that. That's dumb.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
How is it possible that you, as a nine year old,
had more logic than a mom who's our age.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Well, there's two ways to look at it. One is
I'm a genius.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
You're like I'm ahead of my time. I was just
always that smart, inquisitive, wise child.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yes, and a trailblazer. The other, well could also be true,
is that this mom is just really, really ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
I think she's really ridiculous, like, calm down, your kid
was at a skating rink. What are the odds that
really anything terrible is gonna happen. I mean, worst case scenario,
they break an arm, and.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
I can tell you right now, as a fourteen year old,
I broke my arm and they stuck me in the
stands until my mom showed up. Dame, same thing will
happen at the roller rink. They'll either pull you from
the side, give you some soda and popcorn, or they'll
just leave you on the rink, leaning up against the wall.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
And that's why they have the referee guys on skates.
It's to clean you up off the floor and put
you to the side.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
It's fine, it throw you on the carpet.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
It's exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
We are back to unsolicited Rebecca. I have a confession to.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Make it ooh more.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Yeah, I am terrified of my wife when she puts
on one of these.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Oh it wasn't just your wife.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Not just my wife. No. I feel safe and secure
with my wife in general, but when she puts on
one of these, a hydrating skincare mask, I am absolutely
terrified of her.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
I think I have that same one.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
The peach and Lily Glass skin, Gensen Collagen Mask, Illuminate,
pors Firm, Hydrate, and Newish.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
I love it. She didn't have to send me the
link on that good.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
You can terrorize your husband.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I already do. Why did these the same masks?
Speaker 1 (12:57):
It's okay, So then let me ask you this. Why
do the hydrating skincare masks have to look like you're
wearing someone else's face.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
I don't know what else they would look like anything,
anything else but what you have to be able to
see and breathe. So you have to have the holes.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Make it a shoe. I don't care with holes. Make
it a flip flop, so that way it doesn't look
like you're wearing somebody else's skin as your own face.
Just something where I know that is like silly, like
a shoe that would be silly and funny. This looks
like you're wearing somebody else's face, and therefore I'm terrified.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
How is the shoe shape going to fit your face?
It's not about fit, right.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
It's not about that anymore. It's about my own safety.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
I'm sorry, excuse me.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
It's about feeling safe on my own couch.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
I mean, would it help if it had, like if
it was more colorful and not just like the fleshy
tone that you can see through.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Yes, it would help, because this looks like a hyaluronic
Michael Myers.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
I mean that's exactly what it is.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Yeah, it's scary.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
I've got one that's scarier than that. I'm gonna send
it to your wife and she can surprise you with it.
Oh come on, mine's a zombie one and it actually
will like shrivel your skin up and make you look
like a zombie.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Why would you want that?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
I don't know. It's just as something with the capillaries
and the blood flow. It's supposed to be helpful.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
How is it You've got an entire gender watching The
Walking Dead thinking I'd like to look like that.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
It's only for a limited time, and then once you
take it off, you look refreshed, like you've just had
some botox, and it's delightful.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Mm it's terrifying. That's what she have you.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Is this your first experience with the hyaluronic mask.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
It's like the third or fourth that I can remember,
because I feel like I might have had more, but
I might have repressed.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Them or blacked out so bad that, Yeah, what a
weird fear.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
By the way, I don't think this is weird. If
you were to watch the new ed Geen story on Netflix.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
That's coming out, you want to see that.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
You'll realize it's not, as you know, silly of a fear.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Okay, do you know who you're talking to right now?
You know I have another podcast, honadaf Right. Okay. We
talk ghost stories, we talk skin walker stories, we talk
about all of that. We talked about ed Geen and
his fetish with making skin lamps and all that good stuff.
It doesn't bother me. Maybe it should.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I think it should a little like if you go
to home and say, where's your skin section? Please?
Speaker 3 (16:05):
I'm not even joking right now. I did a Halloween party.
This is a company halloween party back in my radio days,
and we decided to do a haunted house. And I
was in charge of a room which was the skin room.
And it was like we had a guy in a
mask with like a hyaluronic mask on type situation who
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was sewing skin, and we made like skin hanging from
the ceiling and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Bonus points if the skin was from the sales manager.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
I wish God.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
No, all right, So here we go. Here's an unsolicited
marriage tip. Before you walk into a room wearing one
of these, give your husband a warning or not.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Record that and put it on YouTube make lots of money.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
All right, fine, choose one of those two, but don't
go down the middle and just terrify me for the
fun of it.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
That's what wives are supposed to do.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
And you want to know the irony with these masks. Yeah,
it hydrates your face, but it looks like it sucked
the life force out of somebody else's.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
I mean, I hope that's what it's actually doing. Do
you know how much it costs to keep your face
looking good in this day and age.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
It's very expensive. So you let her have her thirty
dollars face masks.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
You know what. I'm fine with it. I'm absolutely fine
with it. I appreciate the effort. I realize, as a
forty five year old man that her doing beautification things
are not necessarily for my benefit, but for her own
self exactly. Yeah, this is her journey, Dan, Yes, and
I want her to explore that, and I'm fully supportive
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of it. Just leave it in the other room.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Have you seen the ones that look like animals. Those
are way scarier. No, yes, they have ones that are
like tiger. It's like a tiger face.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
You know what. I think I'd be okay with that.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
No, you would not, I'm telling you, it's so much worse.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Well, I'm okay. Look, let's either the Michael Myers, you know,
leather face version, or she comes into a room looking
like Grumpy Cat. I would take grumpy Cat.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
I mean, if Grumpy Cat existed, that'd be cute. I'd
wear that.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Well he did, he passed away?
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Well I know, but I mean.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Yeah, I mean they managed to license all sorts of
things of Grumpy Cat's face. I think there's an opportunity here.
You do a grumpy Cat hyaluronic face mask, and I'd
be okay with you walking in the room with it on.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Ooh, what if she got one that was your face
printed on it?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Okay, I quit. We are back to unsolicited, and it's
time for confession number two. Rebecca, you love something that
most people hate.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
That's true, and it would be the dentist. Dunt dunt dumb. No,
you're not a fan.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
If you have gone through the things with dentists that
I have gone through in my life, both as a
child and very recently as an adult. You might be
on my side, but I'll hear you out.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
I just think it is the most like luxurious, non
luxurious thing that you can possibly do. Does that make sense?
Like I can't believe rich people haven't kind of like
common deeared, this is like, oh yeah, I have a
dentist and they brush my teeth for me daily one time?
Does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (19:46):
One time I got a bill and I didn't feel
that way.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
But I just feel like it's like, what better feeling
is there to have somebody else brushing your teeth, raping
them clean, flossing them for you while you sit there
and just enjoy.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Okay, I see where you're coming from. I always assumed
the dental assistant was assisting the dentist, but you see
the dental assistant as assisting you.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Oh, I mean, I guess I kind of put them
all in the same category. And I don't know that.
I've had a whole heck of a lot of actual
dentist visits. Gotcha, I have gray teeth. I love the dentist.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
How can you not because my first trip to the
dentist involved me getting the hook in the roof of
my mouth like a big mouth bass.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Oh. I mean yeah, that'll probably ruin you pretty quick.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
That set me up for a whole lifetime of failure
at the dentist.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Oh I'm so sorry to hear that. Because if I
would buy like the dental tools and take them home
and use them on a daily basis, if that was legal.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
I think you can. I think you can buy some
of them on Amazon, maybe not all of them. Yeah,
you can get the I saw a movie once where
keep in mind, in this movie, the woman was trying
to they were trying to portray this woman as so
crazy mm hmm that she did her own like cleanings
every night.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
I think that's where I would end up. I'm not
even kidding. I would get obsessive and then you'd be like,
where's Rebecca. Oh, she's in the bathroom cleaning her teeth.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
I shouldn't have wasted all that time giving you a
psychopath test when I could have just asked you if
you like going to the dentist.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
I know, right, And sometimes like she'll give me the
special treatment, which is there's like a sand blasting version
of the whatever the you know what I'm talking about.
To freak you out with.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
That noise, I refer to that tool as the power washer.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Yeah, it is the power washer.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
It is a power washer for your teeth exactly.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
So they have one that is a cut above and
it's an actual like it's like a sand blaster, and
they come in hot with I don't know what it is,
and they like are spraying your teeth like you would
powersh a wall. Yeah, and it's messy and it gets everywhere,
but then oh my, got your teeth feel amazing. Afterwards
they're like slippery.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
I hate it. I hate it. I hate it because
I got the hook in my mouth. I got the
hook in the roof of my mouth my very first
time at the dentist when I was five. That was
the only cavity I've ever had. And then I got
a little bit older, and as you know, being in
radio for a number of years, you start out very lean.
Didn't have any insurance, and I certainly didn't have any
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dental insurance, not that that really does you much good anyway,
And it had been a while since I'd been to
the dentist, so I went in for a cleaning. They
proceeded to give me a deep cleaning in my entire
mouth with no anesthetic whatsoever, not even the little topical
gel that deadens you a little bit. Long story short,
I spent an hour and a half white knuckling it
in a dental chair as they scraped underneath my gums.
(23:07):
I'm pretty sure CIA agents have broken under less torture
than what I had to endure. And then I didn't
go back to the dentist again for quite a while.
And then I learned I have periodontal disease. Oh no,
So then I have to go in for the deep
cleanings and time pretty regularly. And then most recently I
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had to go in for the deepest of deep cleanings
where instead of just going up underneath the gum line
isn't enough, where instead they get they open your gums.
As my periodontis called it, she gently reflects the gums.
What I called is she fillats my gums, exposing the
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roots of my teeth and cleaning them very vigorously.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
How do you even do that, like cut upwards?
Speaker 1 (24:08):
I don't know. I didn't look in the reflection to
see she actually told me. My periodontist told me, you
can google it. I don't recommend you do that, but
you can google it to see what it looks like.
I'm like, I'm good and I'm fine with blood and
guts and stuff, but with teeth and eyeballs, I'm out.
Leave me alone.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Oh, the eyeball thing is very real. I've had Lasik surgery,
but I will not watch the surgery because I would
have never gotten it done.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Yeah. No, I've long said that's like, I feel like
I would have made a good spy, except for if
they start to come at me with any sort of
dental or eyeball torture or ear. Basically, any major problems
I had as a kid are now sensitive as an adult.
So if you come at me with anything eye, mouth,
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or ear, I'll sell out the entire country. I don't care.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Like, I will give you information I didn't know you needed.
I will make up information.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
I'll be like Chunk in Goonies. I'll tell you about
the time I cheated on a math test in third grade. Yeah,
I'll give it all. I'll give it all away, all
the secrets.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
I mean, I think I would probably do the same
thing if somebody's like legitimately torturing me.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
You get that, So anyway, I see the dentist as torture.
You see it as a lovely spa like experience.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
It is absolutely and the best part is at the
end of every visit you get a parting.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Gift toothbrush, toothpaste, and floss.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
It's my favorite thing on the planet. My guest bathroom
is filled with toothbrushes from the dentists.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
We need to raise your bar of four party favors.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
What you don't think that's a good parting gift?
Speaker 1 (25:49):
More dental tools? No, yes, you want to give me
a parting gift at the dentist, give me some money back.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
That'll never happen.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yeah. So that's the reason why I I don't like
the dentist. It started out bad and it's only gotten
worse through time.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Oh I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
That does suck, and I don't fault you for it.
I'm glad ish that you have a positive experience at
the dentist.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
I will say if I have anything negative to say
about my most recent experience, which was last week, is
I was a little annoyed that she didn't tell me
I had good teeth sooner like, I'm here for the
compliments as well, and They're always like, oh my god,
your teeth are amazing. There's no plaque. You take such
great care of your teeth. And they're always like, do
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you use this? What is it a super cybersonic sonic care?
And I was like, yes, I do electric toothbrush, have
for twenty something years.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
But yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
It was like thirty minutes in and she hadn't even
been like, oh, your teeth are so clean.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
See, most people go to the dentist for a cleaning.
You're going for validation.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
I think I might be It's the one good thing
I have going for me in my life right now,
is your teeth teeth? Well?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
It really is kind of an optimist point of view.
I could be really down to the dumps, but if
I just smile, I'm reminded that I have beautiful teeth.
We are back to unsolicited after a very lively discussion
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and the realization that I don't think Rebecca and I
could be more diametrically opposed on a topic than dentistry.
I think it's important that we find some common ground goodness.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Because I was feeling really bad about rubbing it in
your face that I love the dentist.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
You should you should apologize, and I expect some type
of gift.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
I was like, would you like my teeth?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
I was just gonna ask for some really soft cookies.
But if let's share some good news.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Okay, I'm your vie.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Even ll Cooljay would call this a comeback. Toys are
Us is opening new stores.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Yeah, come on, scream a little. You know your inner
child is so excited about this.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
I am. It hurts the smile because of all the
cook the work I've had done, But I'm genuinely excited
about this. I was genuinely sad a handful of years
ago when word came out that Toys r Us was
closing all of its stores. And I know somewhere the
child in me was worried about what they were gonna
do with Jeffrey.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Yeah. Absolutely, Poor Jeffrey's probably been in the closet, cooped
up somewhere. Now we get to let him out.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Yeah, or worse like, maybe he ended up on you know,
some hunter's living room wall. Oh he's like.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
At a furry party, just walking around in a Jeffrey costume.
A sad Jeffrey, Yes, sad Jeffrey. Please.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Well, the good news is the next Verry party is
going to be a happy Jeffrey.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
That's right, because they're going to be opening like thirteen
thousand new Toys r US stores, and like real stores,
not just like the three shelves that they have at Macy's.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Oh okay, that is good news.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Like I don't know if you've seen those. We went
last Christmas because we heard that Macy's had opened a
Toys r US And no, it's not real. It's literally
an aisle of toys that it was like picked over
that nobody wanted. Very disappointing.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Oh that's sad. That is so sad.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
It truly is so now that I know that they're
actually going to have a real toy store opening up,
that we can actually go and play with all the
toys prior, because that's what you're supposed to do.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Yes, right, it's called indoctrination, the good cume. So what
you did as a child is you went to Toys
r US and you played with things, and then your
parents would buy the things.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
That was training for when you became an a adult. You
went to the car lot and would test drive a car,
so then you would then have to buy the thing exactly.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
And you know when the Internet started and then like
Amazon became where you can readily access toys at any
given moment. This is where the toy stores went wrong.
They never added on to the actual store to make
it more enticing for children to come in and parents
to come in. Like, wouldn't you put a playground in
that thing?
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Oh? Yeah, absolutely, likely the.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Mall playground or a Chick fil a playground. I would
put that in the middle. We would have toys open
so that you could play with them. And then I
might even go as far as have like a little
lunchy area, maybe a bar if the mom wants to
get a cocktail while their kids are playing around in
the play sets. That's the smart thing. That would have
been the smart thing to do.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Just look this up. Toys r Us, with its partner
Go Retail Group, plans to open ten new flagship stores
and twenty seasonal holiday shops by the end of the year.
They already have some stores, some global flagship stores open
and operating. So this is outstanding news for the world
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to have Toys r Us back. And there's one additional
wrinkle to this. If you could bring back something from
your childhood, what would it be, Oh.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
I think my first thought is going to go way.
Do you remember the TV show Double Deer?
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Okay, so it did come back for a hot second,
had a new host and Mark Summers was the announcer
or whatever. But I would take it a step further,
and I'm going to take like the physical challenges and
the obstacle course and make it like a tour thing.
Take it on tour around to different cities, right, and
you could participate. You pay a lot of money to
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participate in the obstacle course. I love this idea, Like,
wouldn't you pay to go through some giant toe jam?
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Out of context, no, but in this context absolutely.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Yes, right, Like give me the giant nose. I will
root around this slime for the flag and I would
pay an infinite amount of dollars to do so.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Oh god, that sounds like so much fun. It's just
like a nostalgic American Ninja or not an American Ninja
that's a horrible movie franchise. It's it's it's a nostalgic
what's it called the workout Ninja show?
Speaker 3 (32:27):
American Ninjina Warrior.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
I was close. It's it's like American Ninja Warrior but
for your nostalgic.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Sorry, that's my dog.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
He's excited for it as well.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
He's like, take me to Toys r Us.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
He'll be your partner for Doubledare all right.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
With the news of Toys r Us coming back into stores? Dan,
it's your turn. What would you bring back from your childhood?
Speaker 1 (32:54):
I'm selfish, I say bring back all of it?
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Oh, I would agree.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Yeah, So what I want is make Toys r Us
a retro wonderland. It's no longer for kids of today.
You can have a little bit of that, that's fine,
but make Toys r Us a retro wonderland. Sell all
the things that we wanted as kids and can finally
buy as adults. So you can have all the stuff
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that we wanted as kids in that store from twenty
thirty forty years ago and buy it now.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
I love that idea. What are you I've already got
my money on an easy BAKEO and what are you
going for?
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Oh? That's solid. Any kind of an arcade thing, like
a sit down multi thing. I mean you can buy
some of those things someplaces, but being able to go
into a Toys r Us. Yes, from my childhood and
as an adult, max out my credit cards and go
home so happy. Yeah, it's just not.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
The same, Like you need to be able to go
into the store and touch it and play with it
and all that good stuff. Plus the batteries are on
the shelf on the way out, like it's just it's
so perfect.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
It was, it was perfect, and you can bring that back.
And I think, I really do think you need to
mostly ignore kids of today and what you think they
want and play to the adults now based on what
we wanted as kids. So yeah, we want to go
into the Toys r Us. That was Oh God, remember
that feeling parking at Toys r Us. Oh walking I'm
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getting chills thinking about it. Ye, walking into I just
got them again. Walking in the front door, the Toys
r US sign over the top. You're walking in and
it's a toy Wonderland. I still remember it because almost
all the Toys r Us stores were laid out the
same way. The far left lane in the back was
where you could go to see all the new video games. Yeah,
and that's where you could pick your title, take to
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the front and they give it. So all the things
that I wanted that you wanted as a kid, we
can purchase as adults. And then when you make your
way towards the front of the store with your per
just this or to pick up your larger items and
or video games. That's where the gift certificate stand is
for your kids for the roadblocks, gift cards and all
that kind of stuff. In addition to it, hopefully your
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kids would also appreciate going into an actual toy store
and playing around.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
How could you not like when they have them on display.
It's something for you to do. I just remember, man,
when you pull up in that parking lot, it was
like you knew today was going to be a good
day because you had a reason to go to Toys
r US. And it wasn't just for that one thing.
You also got to see whatever else was on the
market at the time.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Yeah. It was weird too because my grandmother sometimes would
make a deal with me because on Saturdays she would
want to go kill some time and she would say,
do you want to go shopping today? I like, no,
I don't want to go shopping with you and go
to dealers and have to find clothing cart things to
hide in and whatever. She would say, Okay, we go
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shopping and I go to this place or that place.
I'll take you to toys r us afterwards. I'm in Grandma.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Absolutely, it's the ultimate bribe. Like you could get your
kids nowadays to do so many things like make the bed,
sweep the floors, and then we'll go to toys r us.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Yes, and I'm a little envious of you that you
were bribed as a child. My mom did not believe
in bribery. She ruled with an iron fist. It was basically,
you do this or I'll hit you. Okay.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
I mean there were definitely, I'm sure some of those moments,
but yeah, no, my dad was the briber, not my mom.
I would say, He's the one that would be like,
I'll pay you not to do this, and we'd be like, okay.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
I think one of the first things I might buy
would be all the old school video game systems.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
Oh yeah, Like give me like an Atari, yes, or
a Nintendo six not sixty four, just the original Nintendo
man mm.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Hmmmm, the Super Ninto. I mean really all I mean
I even had Sega at one point, Like being able
to go and buy all the things either that I
had as a kid. All right, that might be a
little weird. If forty five year old man with a
castle of gray skull.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
And a he man, No, I promise you there's a
group for you.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
It's not marriage.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Yeah, they're definitely not Mary, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
So maybe not buy all the things I had as
a kid and replenish them or replace them, but instead
buy the things that I couldn't as a kid man.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
I always wanted a big wheels or is it the
which one was the battery operated like the jeeps that
you could drive around that was big wheels.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Right, that was big wheels. And I never had one
of those either for a couple of reasons. One was
when I was a small child, we lived in the country,
so we only had like a like a fifteen foot driveway,
so it really just me in a big wheel just
it would have been little Dandy doing circles.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
Was it like your dad just like go get on
the tractor.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Kind of? I mean it was like, it's either going
to be me and a big wheel doing really slow
donuts in the driveway, and if I ventured out beyond that,
then it was pasture or gravel.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
And despite their looks, big wheels are not off road capable.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Uh No. And I learned my lesson the hard way
on that as an adult. So this is a hilarious story.
My nephew got one when he was like four, so naturally,
after he's done riding around on it, all of the
adults are like, how much wake and that old? So
I think the biggest it's like one hundred and fifty pounds,
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and I was like, oh, it's on. It's happening. So
what did I do? Get on the big wheels and
I'm driving it around and my brother just happens to
have a trailer hooked up to the back of his
truck with like the ramp. So I'm like, I got
this er, and I'm headed up the ramp and I
get all the way to the top of the ramp
and he goes no more and then flipped, oh no,
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and rolled back all the way down to the concrete.
My poor nephew was like, are you okay? A couple
of cruises, little blood? No, biggie, Oh my god, that's hysterical.
Still want one, though.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
As you should. You should be able to go into
a Toys r us and get that same one and
you can relive that memory.
Speaker 3 (39:28):
I'm like, zero lessons learned give me another one.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Yeah, let's do this again. And the good news is
when you bring back all these toys are stores, we
can finally get Jeffrey off the streets.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Oh yeah, that's really the biggest thing. This is like
a Jeffrey campaign. We need to save Jeffrey. We have
who knows what he's been up to the last ten years.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Oh it's dark. They're gonna do a whole Netflix documentary
on Oh though it's it's it's really really probably ugly,
ugly stuff. But hey, we're all we're getting the store.
We're back open. Jeffrey's going to open it and we
all can be toys rus kids again.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
I don't want to grow up.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
I'm a toys rus kid. No no, no, no, no, no, okay.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
Ron bikes to you games.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
I don't know the video games.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
Yeah, it's the biggest toy store there is. Do you
know the rest of it would be your toys?
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Do you want to grow up?
Speaker 3 (40:26):
Do you want to grow up? All?
Speaker 1 (40:28):
Right, so we can bring back the stores, but my
memory is a lost cause
You didn't ask for it, but you need to hear it.
Hot takes a wild story and some very dark confessions.
We're going to say what needs to be said today,
even if no one asked. She's Rebecca Black, I'm Daniel Mallley,
and this is unsolicited today, Rebecca. We start with a
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lost child. A lost child at a birthday party has
Laura Rodriguez feeling like she's the worst mother in the world.
But is she will be the judge.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Of that, like the worst mom ever. I took my
daughter to a birthday party and I asked them if
is it okay if I do a drop off and
run an errand and I'll be back, and she said absolutely,
you can definitely leave her here. I said, okay, what
time is it party going to be over? And she
said five. I got there at four point thirty. It
was at a roller rink and nobody was there. My
daughter was alone, and I said, where is everybody? Like
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the party room was locked, it was dark, it was locked,
and I said where is everybody? She said, everybody left?
And I was a what do you mean everybody left?
She said, they're gone, and my baby was there alone.
Thank god, there was another friend there that wasn't associated
with the party. They just so happened to be there,
so she had her to like buddy up with. I
called this ma eight times and she did not answer
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my phone call. She did not she didn't answer my
text messages or anything. So I talked to the manager
and I said, what time did they leave? And they
said they left an hour before that before that, so
that would have put them at three point thirty. Like,
where the fuck are you? How do you not know
where the kids are?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
In the party?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
I asked Ashley, and I said, did you eat? And
she said no because they didn't announce for food, they
didn't announce for cake, and they did not announce for presents.
And I said, did you see her open presence? She
said no, they didn't never said to come open presence.
So now I feel like the worst mom ever because
I trusted this other mom, which was my first mistake.
Is I trusted her and asked if I could drop
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her off there, and I should never done that. I
should have never done that.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Is she the worst mother in the world, Rebecca.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
No, because then my mom would be the worst mother
in the world. We're I was born in the eighties, man,
I got left everywhere all the time. Calm down, lady,
your kid is okay. She was at an hour. She
was left for an hour at a roller rink.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Please, I've lost count how many times as a child
I was left at a roller rink by my parents
and and and and newsflash, there wasn't a birthday party. No,
it was just here.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
This was literally every Saturday morning for us. My parents
would drop me and a friend off at the Good
Times roller Rink in Garland, Texas. We would stay all
day until somebody came to pick us up. Nobody cared.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I feel like that should be the town motto for Garland.
Good times in Garland.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Yeah, a lot of good times happened in Garland, let
me tell you.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah. Okay, So I feel like we have established that, No,
she is not the worst mother in the world. She
is certainly welcome to feel however she likes. However, there
are plenty of examples in history that would prove she's
just being hyperbolic here. Now that being said, should she
have trusted the other mother with her child?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
That's the good question, I think. Is this just a
random other mom that you didn't really know very well?
You didn't seek out a friend to say, hey, can
you make sure my kid is watched while I'm gone
and run this errand real quick. I think that's a
little strange.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
That's why I asked the question, because this is the
fascinating part as a parent. How much should you trust
another parent when it comes to supervising your child and
be in charge of their safety? Right? And this is
where obviously the generational divide happens. The great irony is
this mother is not much younger than us. She may
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in fact be around your age. Even so she herself
as a child may have been left places and clearly
she turned out mostly okay, yeah, at least physically find
that We're aware. But it's amazing how even though we
grew up in this way, we refuse to have our
children go through the same experiences that we did. So.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
But I think it's not because she's trying to keep
her kids safe by any means. I think it's like, oh, man,
when I was a kidd and I had to wait
an hour for my parents, it was so annoying and
so frustrating, And so she's literally only doing it so
her kid doesn't have to wait around on.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Her what I love in this is in her video,
it starts out very ominous. She's like, my child was
alone and there was no one watching her, right, and
then it devolves into party etiquette. She was not told
when the cake was going to be handed out. She
wasn't told when presents were happening. Okay, these are two
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different things. To be upset agreed, and being left alone
in a public place is not the worst thing I've
ever heard of. But I'm sure as a parent you
want that information ahead of time.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Of course, again, who is this parent that she just
willy nilly left her kid with? This Obviously somebody she
didn't know, because wouldn't the parent have texted like, hey,
guess what, we're closing up shop early on this party.
Come get your kid. I can't I can't stay very
long to watch them. So again, that is kind of
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her fault for not like vetting the parent that's going
to be watching her kid.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
While she runs an errand heer some of the follow
up in a story on People magazine. Given that her
daughter does not have a phone yet, she had no
way of contacting her directly. Okay, Lauren recalls, I immediately
looked for Ashland. I saw her on the rink and
I asked her where everyone was. She said everyone left.
Her daughter had apparently found a friend she knew. We
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knew that part from the video. Laurence spoke with the
rink manager, who informed her that the party had ended
nearly an hour before she got back. He said they
were a messy group. They were all trying to get
outside with their skates on, and he had to tell
them they couldn't take their skates outside of the party room.
So the party took off their skates and proceeded outside.
That's where a gift was going to be presented to
the birthday girl.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
However, Ashland had gone back to the room after skating,
found it empty and assumed the party was over. Once
the host noticed Ashland was missing, she reached out to
Lauren around four twenty four pm, texting, did you come
and pick up Ashland? I haven't seen her in a while.
By then, Lauren had already returned to the venue and
called the mother eight times, as we heard in the video.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
So just miscommunication on all parts here.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Yeah. Lauren also says she finally responded via text and
said that she had lost her phone in the parking lot,
and that the reason she's texting me and not calling
me back was because her phone was at two percent.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Okay, I mean that could be a lie, but whatever,
that's not aven the issue.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
The host later told Rodriguez they were at the rink
until five thirty, but Lauren questioned this, asking if she
was there till five thirty, the why wouldn't she approach
me while I'm frantically looking for my daughter's shoes and
speaking to a management Because have you been.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
To a roller rink? It's insane, or at least it
was back in the day.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Like it's chuck e cheese on Yeah, it's chuck e
cheese on wheels.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Yes, I'm like, you literally have an arcade on one side.
You have a million children everywhere. It's wild. It's the
wild West.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Some of the comments on her TikTok video, which is
amassed millions of views, why are we leaving our children
unattended in public spaces? Don't you think the mom of
the birthday child had enough on her plate that day. Ultimately,
it's your responsibility to make sure that your child is safe.
Run your errand some other time and then others rallied
behind Lauren the task running the errand running mom saying
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maybe it's just because how I grew up, but as
a millennial with three kids, I would not expect the
parents to see stay at my kid's party. To me,
the standard is to drop them off and pick them
up after. I would be keeping track of every child
being the host.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Thank you. That is exactly what I was thinking. I
was like, since when did it become the norm for
the parents to also be a part of a child's
birthday party? That's insane. Let your kid have two hours
to themselves with their friends and have a good time.
You don't need to be on top of them all
the time.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
I'm glad you brought that up because I saw a
story recently and there was a study done with Jen
Alpha and I think, even to a certain extent younger
gen Z, because what's one of the big complaints about
kids these days? All they whenever we see them, what
is it, it's always facing a screen, They're on the phone,
they're on a tablet. They don't go outside, right right.
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They have reasons for that. According to this study, those
kids said part of the reason why they don't do
those things is because they can't get away from their
parents because if they try to go outside and play,
the parent insists on being there. If they try to
go to some function, the parent insists on being there.
The only time they say that they can get some
space from their parents is if their face is in
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a phone.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
That is the saddest thing I think I have ever
heard in my life. Like kids need freedom, They need
to be able to explore and think for themselves and
figure out how to do stuff on their own. You
cannot baby them all the way through life. This is
what creates like that everybody get a trophy thing. I'm
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one of those people. I can't stand it. Yeah, like
I'm sorry, if you didn't do good, you should be
told that you didn't do good, and like, let's see
how we can fix it.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Yeah. I still remember I played soccer for all of
a year and a half, like third and fourth grade,
and I still remember at the end of the first season,
we're at Pizza Inn and we're having a pizza party
for the end of the season, and I was like,
why we were awful? We won two games.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
You don't deserve pizza.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I don't deserve pizza. And then near the end of
the pizza party, they started hanging out awards and true, Oh,
I swear to God everything as a kid, Oh, this
gets terrible, as like everyone on the team got an
award for something not to brag or nothing, but I
got most intimidating that I'm kind of proud of because
that had nothing to do with record. But as a
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nine year old, I knew the pizza party for the
end of a season where we were sub five hundred
was awful and undeserving. But then when everyone got a
I know, I know, a participation trophy on a job
well done for the whole year, I thought this is ridiculous.
As a nine year old, I knew it was stupid.
(10:47):
I remember telling my mom, they throw that away. I'm
not keeping that. That's dumb.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
How is it possible that you, as a nine year old,
had more logic than a mom who's our age.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Well, there's two ways to look at it. One is
I'm a genius.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
You're like I'm ahead of my time. I was just
always that smart, inquisitive, wise child.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yes, and a trailblazer. The other, well could also be true,
is that this mom is just really, really ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
I think she's really ridiculous, like, calm down, your kid
was at a skating rink. What are the odds that
really anything terrible is gonna happen. I mean, worst case scenario,
they break an arm, and.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
I can tell you right now, as a fourteen year old,
I broke my arm and they stuck me in the
stands until my mom showed up. Dame, same thing will
happen at the roller rink. They'll either pull you from
the side, give you some soda and popcorn, or they'll
just leave you on the rink, leaning up against the wall.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
And that's why they have the referee guys on skates.
It's to clean you up off the floor and put
you to the side.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
It's fine, it throw you on the carpet.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
It's exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
We are back to unsolicited Rebecca. I have a confession to.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Make it ooh more.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Yeah, I am terrified of my wife when she puts
on one of these.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Oh it wasn't just your wife.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Not just my wife. No. I feel safe and secure
with my wife in general, but when she puts on
one of these, a hydrating skincare mask, I am absolutely
terrified of her.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
I think I have that same one.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
The peach and Lily Glass skin, Gensen Collagen Mask, Illuminate,
pors Firm, Hydrate, and Newish.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
I love it. She didn't have to send me the
link on that good.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
You can terrorize your husband.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I already do. Why did these the same masks?
Speaker 1 (12:57):
It's okay, So then let me ask you this. Why
do the hydrating skincare masks have to look like you're
wearing someone else's face.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
I don't know what else they would look like anything,
anything else but what you have to be able to
see and breathe. So you have to have the holes.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Make it a shoe. I don't care with holes. Make
it a flip flop, so that way it doesn't look
like you're wearing somebody else's skin as your own face.
Just something where I know that is like silly, like
a shoe that would be silly and funny. This looks
like you're wearing somebody else's face, and therefore I'm terrified.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
How is the shoe shape going to fit your face?
It's not about fit, right.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
It's not about that anymore. It's about my own safety.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
I'm sorry, excuse me.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
It's about feeling safe on my own couch.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
I mean, would it help if it had, like if
it was more colorful and not just like the fleshy
tone that you can see through.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Yes, it would help, because this looks like a hyaluronic
Michael Myers.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
I mean that's exactly what it is.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Yeah, it's scary.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
I've got one that's scarier than that. I'm gonna send
it to your wife and she can surprise you with it.
Oh come on, mine's a zombie one and it actually
will like shrivel your skin up and make you look
like a zombie.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Why would you want that?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
I don't know. It's just as something with the capillaries
and the blood flow. It's supposed to be helpful.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
How is it You've got an entire gender watching The
Walking Dead thinking I'd like to look like that.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
It's only for a limited time, and then once you
take it off, you look refreshed, like you've just had
some botox, and it's delightful.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Mm it's terrifying. That's what she have you.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Is this your first experience with the hyaluronic mask.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
It's like the third or fourth that I can remember,
because I feel like I might have had more, but
I might have repressed.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Them or blacked out so bad that, Yeah, what a
weird fear.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
By the way, I don't think this is weird. If
you were to watch the new ed Geen story on Netflix.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
That's coming out, you want to see that.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
You'll realize it's not, as you know, silly of a fear.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Okay, do you know who you're talking to right now?
You know I have another podcast, honadaf Right. Okay. We
talk ghost stories, we talk skin walker stories, we talk
about all of that. We talked about ed Geen and
his fetish with making skin lamps and all that good stuff.
It doesn't bother me. Maybe it should.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I think it should a little like if you go
to home and say, where's your skin section? Please?
Speaker 3 (16:05):
I'm not even joking right now. I did a Halloween party.
This is a company halloween party back in my radio days,
and we decided to do a haunted house. And I
was in charge of a room which was the skin room.
And it was like we had a guy in a
mask with like a hyaluronic mask on type situation who
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was sewing skin, and we made like skin hanging from
the ceiling and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Bonus points if the skin was from the sales manager.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
I wish God.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
No, all right, So here we go. Here's an unsolicited
marriage tip. Before you walk into a room wearing one
of these, give your husband a warning or not.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Record that and put it on YouTube make lots of money.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
All right, fine, choose one of those two, but don't
go down the middle and just terrify me for the
fun of it.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
That's what wives are supposed to do.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
And you want to know the irony with these masks. Yeah,
it hydrates your face, but it looks like it sucked
the life force out of somebody else's.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
I mean, I hope that's what it's actually doing. Do
you know how much it costs to keep your face
looking good in this day and age.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
It's very expensive. So you let her have her thirty
dollars face masks.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
You know what. I'm fine with it. I'm absolutely fine
with it. I appreciate the effort. I realize, as a
forty five year old man that her doing beautification things
are not necessarily for my benefit, but for her own
self exactly. Yeah, this is her journey, Dan, Yes, and
I want her to explore that, and I'm fully supportive
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of it. Just leave it in the other room.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Have you seen the ones that look like animals. Those
are way scarier. No, yes, they have ones that are
like tiger. It's like a tiger face.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
You know what. I think I'd be okay with that.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
No, you would not, I'm telling you, it's so much worse.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Well, I'm okay. Look, let's either the Michael Myers, you know,
leather face version, or she comes into a room looking
like Grumpy Cat. I would take grumpy Cat.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
I mean, if Grumpy Cat existed, that'd be cute. I'd
wear that.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Well he did, he passed away?
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Well I know, but I mean.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Yeah, I mean they managed to license all sorts of
things of Grumpy Cat's face. I think there's an opportunity here.
You do a grumpy Cat hyaluronic face mask, and I'd
be okay with you walking in the room with it on.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Ooh, what if she got one that was your face
printed on it?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Okay, I quit. We are back to unsolicited, and it's
time for confession number two. Rebecca, you love something that
most people hate.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
That's true, and it would be the dentist. Dunt dunt dumb. No,
you're not a fan.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
If you have gone through the things with dentists that
I have gone through in my life, both as a
child and very recently as an adult. You might be
on my side, but I'll hear you out.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
I just think it is the most like luxurious, non
luxurious thing that you can possibly do. Does that make sense?
Like I can't believe rich people haven't kind of like
common deeared, this is like, oh yeah, I have a
dentist and they brush my teeth for me daily one time?
Does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (19:46):
One time I got a bill and I didn't feel
that way.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
But I just feel like it's like, what better feeling
is there to have somebody else brushing your teeth, raping
them clean, flossing them for you while you sit there
and just enjoy.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Okay, I see where you're coming from. I always assumed
the dental assistant was assisting the dentist, but you see
the dental assistant as assisting you.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Oh, I mean, I guess I kind of put them
all in the same category. And I don't know that.
I've had a whole heck of a lot of actual
dentist visits. Gotcha, I have gray teeth. I love the dentist.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
How can you not because my first trip to the
dentist involved me getting the hook in the roof of
my mouth like a big mouth bass.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Oh. I mean yeah, that'll probably ruin you pretty quick.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
That set me up for a whole lifetime of failure
at the dentist.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Oh I'm so sorry to hear that. Because if I
would buy like the dental tools and take them home
and use them on a daily basis, if that was legal.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
I think you can. I think you can buy some
of them on Amazon, maybe not all of them. Yeah,
you can get the I saw a movie once where
keep in mind, in this movie, the woman was trying
to they were trying to portray this woman as so
crazy mm hmm that she did her own like cleanings
every night.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
I think that's where I would end up. I'm not
even kidding. I would get obsessive and then you'd be like,
where's Rebecca. Oh, she's in the bathroom cleaning her teeth.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
I shouldn't have wasted all that time giving you a
psychopath test when I could have just asked you if
you like going to the dentist.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
I know, right, And sometimes like she'll give me the
special treatment, which is there's like a sand blasting version
of the whatever the you know what I'm talking about.
To freak you out with.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
That noise, I refer to that tool as the power washer.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Yeah, it is the power washer.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
It is a power washer for your teeth exactly.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
So they have one that is a cut above and
it's an actual like it's like a sand blaster, and
they come in hot with I don't know what it is,
and they like are spraying your teeth like you would
powersh a wall. Yeah, and it's messy and it gets everywhere,
but then oh my, got your teeth feel amazing. Afterwards
they're like slippery.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
I hate it. I hate it. I hate it because
I got the hook in my mouth. I got the
hook in the roof of my mouth my very first
time at the dentist when I was five. That was
the only cavity I've ever had. And then I got
a little bit older, and as you know, being in
radio for a number of years, you start out very lean.
Didn't have any insurance, and I certainly didn't have any
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dental insurance, not that that really does you much good anyway,
And it had been a while since I'd been to
the dentist, so I went in for a cleaning. They
proceeded to give me a deep cleaning in my entire
mouth with no anesthetic whatsoever, not even the little topical
gel that deadens you a little bit. Long story short,
I spent an hour and a half white knuckling it
in a dental chair as they scraped underneath my gums.
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I'm pretty sure CIA agents have broken under less torture
than what I had to endure. And then I didn't
go back to the dentist again for quite a while.
And then I learned I have periodontal disease. Oh no,
So then I have to go in for the deep
cleanings and time pretty regularly. And then most recently I
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had to go in for the deepest of deep cleanings
where instead of just going up underneath the gum line
isn't enough, where instead they get they open your gums.
As my periodontis called it, she gently reflects the gums.
What I called is she fillats my gums, exposing the
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roots of my teeth and cleaning them very vigorously.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
How do you even do that, like cut upwards?
Speaker 1 (24:08):
I don't know. I didn't look in the reflection to
see she actually told me. My periodontist told me, you
can google it. I don't recommend you do that, but
you can google it to see what it looks like.
I'm like, I'm good and I'm fine with blood and
guts and stuff, but with teeth and eyeballs, I'm out.
Leave me alone.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Oh, the eyeball thing is very real. I've had Lasik surgery,
but I will not watch the surgery because I would
have never gotten it done.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Yeah. No, I've long said that's like, I feel like
I would have made a good spy, except for if
they start to come at me with any sort of
dental or eyeball torture or ear. Basically, any major problems
I had as a kid are now sensitive as an adult.
So if you come at me with anything eye, mouth,
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or ear, I'll sell out the entire country. I don't care.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Like, I will give you information I didn't know you needed.
I will make up information.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
I'll be like Chunk in Goonies. I'll tell you about
the time I cheated on a math test in third grade. Yeah,
I'll give it all. I'll give it all away, all
the secrets.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
I mean, I think I would probably do the same
thing if somebody's like legitimately torturing me.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
You get that, So anyway, I see the dentist as torture.
You see it as a lovely spa like experience.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
It is absolutely and the best part is at the
end of every visit you get a parting.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Gift toothbrush, toothpaste, and floss.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
It's my favorite thing on the planet. My guest bathroom
is filled with toothbrushes from the dentists.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
We need to raise your bar of four party favors.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
What you don't think that's a good parting gift?
Speaker 1 (25:49):
More dental tools? No, yes, you want to give me
a parting gift at the dentist, give me some money back.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
That'll never happen.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yeah. So that's the reason why I I don't like
the dentist. It started out bad and it's only gotten
worse through time.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Oh I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
That does suck, and I don't fault you for it.
I'm glad ish that you have a positive experience at
the dentist.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
I will say if I have anything negative to say
about my most recent experience, which was last week, is
I was a little annoyed that she didn't tell me
I had good teeth sooner like, I'm here for the
compliments as well, and They're always like, oh my god,
your teeth are amazing. There's no plaque. You take such
great care of your teeth. And they're always like, do
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you use this? What is it a super cybersonic sonic care?
And I was like, yes, I do electric toothbrush, have
for twenty something years.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
But yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
It was like thirty minutes in and she hadn't even
been like, oh, your teeth are so clean.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
See, most people go to the dentist for a cleaning.
You're going for validation.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
I think I might be It's the one good thing
I have going for me in my life right now,
is your teeth teeth? Well?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
It really is kind of an optimist point of view.
I could be really down to the dumps, but if
I just smile, I'm reminded that I have beautiful teeth.
We are back to unsolicited after a very lively discussion
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and the realization that I don't think Rebecca and I
could be more diametrically opposed on a topic than dentistry.
I think it's important that we find some common ground goodness.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Because I was feeling really bad about rubbing it in
your face that I love the dentist.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
You should you should apologize, and I expect some type
of gift.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
I was like, would you like my teeth?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
I was just gonna ask for some really soft cookies.
But if let's share some good news.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Okay, I'm your vie.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Even ll Cooljay would call this a comeback. Toys are
Us is opening new stores.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Yeah, come on, scream a little. You know your inner
child is so excited about this.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
I am. It hurts the smile because of all the
cook the work I've had done, But I'm genuinely excited
about this. I was genuinely sad a handful of years
ago when word came out that Toys r Us was
closing all of its stores. And I know somewhere the
child in me was worried about what they were gonna
do with Jeffrey.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Yeah. Absolutely, Poor Jeffrey's probably been in the closet, cooped
up somewhere. Now we get to let him out.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Yeah, or worse like, maybe he ended up on you know,
some hunter's living room wall. Oh he's like.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
At a furry party, just walking around in a Jeffrey costume.
A sad Jeffrey, Yes, sad Jeffrey. Please.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Well, the good news is the next Verry party is
going to be a happy Jeffrey.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
That's right, because they're going to be opening like thirteen
thousand new Toys r US stores, and like real stores,
not just like the three shelves that they have at Macy's.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Oh okay, that is good news.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Like I don't know if you've seen those. We went
last Christmas because we heard that Macy's had opened a
Toys r US And no, it's not real. It's literally
an aisle of toys that it was like picked over
that nobody wanted. Very disappointing.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Oh that's sad. That is so sad.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
It truly is so now that I know that they're
actually going to have a real toy store opening up,
that we can actually go and play with all the
toys prior, because that's what you're supposed to do.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Yes, right, it's called indoctrination, the good cume. So what
you did as a child is you went to Toys
r US and you played with things, and then your
parents would buy the things.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
That was training for when you became an a adult. You
went to the car lot and would test drive a car,
so then you would then have to buy the thing exactly.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
And you know when the Internet started and then like
Amazon became where you can readily access toys at any
given moment. This is where the toy stores went wrong.
They never added on to the actual store to make
it more enticing for children to come in and parents
to come in. Like, wouldn't you put a playground in
that thing?
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Oh? Yeah, absolutely, likely the.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Mall playground or a Chick fil a playground. I would
put that in the middle. We would have toys open
so that you could play with them. And then I
might even go as far as have like a little
lunchy area, maybe a bar if the mom wants to
get a cocktail while their kids are playing around in
the play sets. That's the smart thing. That would have
been the smart thing to do.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Just look this up. Toys r Us, with its partner
Go Retail Group, plans to open ten new flagship stores
and twenty seasonal holiday shops by the end of the year.
They already have some stores, some global flagship stores open
and operating. So this is outstanding news for the world
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to have Toys r Us back. And there's one additional
wrinkle to this. If you could bring back something from
your childhood, what would it be, Oh.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
I think my first thought is going to go way.
Do you remember the TV show Double Deer?
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Okay, so it did come back for a hot second,
had a new host and Mark Summers was the announcer
or whatever. But I would take it a step further,
and I'm going to take like the physical challenges and
the obstacle course and make it like a tour thing.
Take it on tour around to different cities, right, and
you could participate. You pay a lot of money to
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participate in the obstacle course. I love this idea, Like,
wouldn't you pay to go through some giant toe jam?
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Out of context, no, but in this context absolutely.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Yes, right, Like give me the giant nose. I will
root around this slime for the flag and I would
pay an infinite amount of dollars to do so.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Oh god, that sounds like so much fun. It's just
like a nostalgic American Ninja or not an American Ninja
that's a horrible movie franchise. It's it's it's a nostalgic
what's it called the workout Ninja show?
Speaker 3 (32:27):
American Ninjina Warrior.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
I was close. It's it's like American Ninja Warrior but
for your nostalgic.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Sorry, that's my dog.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
He's excited for it as well.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
He's like, take me to Toys r Us.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
He'll be your partner for Doubledare all right.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
With the news of Toys r Us coming back into stores? Dan,
it's your turn. What would you bring back from your childhood?
Speaker 1 (32:54):
I'm selfish, I say bring back all of it?
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Oh, I would agree.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Yeah, So what I want is make Toys r Us
a retro wonderland. It's no longer for kids of today.
You can have a little bit of that, that's fine,
but make Toys r Us a retro wonderland. Sell all
the things that we wanted as kids and can finally
buy as adults. So you can have all the stuff
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that we wanted as kids in that store from twenty
thirty forty years ago and buy it now.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
I love that idea. What are you I've already got
my money on an easy BAKEO and what are you
going for?
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Oh? That's solid. Any kind of an arcade thing, like
a sit down multi thing. I mean you can buy
some of those things someplaces, but being able to go
into a Toys r Us. Yes, from my childhood and
as an adult, max out my credit cards and go
home so happy. Yeah, it's just not.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
The same, Like you need to be able to go
into the store and touch it and play with it
and all that good stuff. Plus the batteries are on
the shelf on the way out, like it's just it's
so perfect.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
It was, it was perfect, and you can bring that back.
And I think, I really do think you need to
mostly ignore kids of today and what you think they
want and play to the adults now based on what
we wanted as kids. So yeah, we want to go
into the Toys r Us. That was Oh God, remember
that feeling parking at Toys r Us. Oh walking I'm
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getting chills thinking about it. Ye, walking into I just
got them again. Walking in the front door, the Toys
r US sign over the top. You're walking in and
it's a toy Wonderland. I still remember it because almost
all the Toys r Us stores were laid out the
same way. The far left lane in the back was
where you could go to see all the new video games. Yeah,
and that's where you could pick your title, take to
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the front and they give it. So all the things
that I wanted that you wanted as a kid, we
can purchase as adults. And then when you make your
way towards the front of the store with your per
just this or to pick up your larger items and
or video games. That's where the gift certificate stand is
for your kids for the roadblocks, gift cards and all
that kind of stuff. In addition to it, hopefully your
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kids would also appreciate going into an actual toy store
and playing around.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
How could you not like when they have them on display.
It's something for you to do. I just remember, man,
when you pull up in that parking lot, it was
like you knew today was going to be a good
day because you had a reason to go to Toys
r US. And it wasn't just for that one thing.
You also got to see whatever else was on the
market at the time.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Yeah. It was weird too because my grandmother sometimes would
make a deal with me because on Saturdays she would
want to go kill some time and she would say,
do you want to go shopping today? I like, no,
I don't want to go shopping with you and go
to dealers and have to find clothing cart things to
hide in and whatever. She would say, Okay, we go
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shopping and I go to this place or that place.
I'll take you to toys r us afterwards. I'm in Grandma.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Absolutely, it's the ultimate bribe. Like you could get your
kids nowadays to do so many things like make the bed,
sweep the floors, and then we'll go to toys r us.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Yes, and I'm a little envious of you that you
were bribed as a child. My mom did not believe
in bribery. She ruled with an iron fist. It was basically,
you do this or I'll hit you. Okay.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
I mean there were definitely, I'm sure some of those moments,
but yeah, no, my dad was the briber, not my mom.
I would say, He's the one that would be like,
I'll pay you not to do this, and we'd be like, okay.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
I think one of the first things I might buy
would be all the old school video game systems.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
Oh yeah, Like give me like an Atari, yes, or
a Nintendo six not sixty four, just the original Nintendo
man mm.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Hmmmm, the Super Ninto. I mean really all I mean
I even had Sega at one point, Like being able
to go and buy all the things either that I
had as a kid. All right, that might be a
little weird. If forty five year old man with a
castle of gray skull.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
And a he man, No, I promise you there's a
group for you.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
It's not marriage.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Yeah, they're definitely not Mary, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
So maybe not buy all the things I had as
a kid and replenish them or replace them, but instead
buy the things that I couldn't as a kid man.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
I always wanted a big wheels or is it the
which one was the battery operated like the jeeps that
you could drive around that was big wheels.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Right, that was big wheels. And I never had one
of those either for a couple of reasons. One was
when I was a small child, we lived in the country,
so we only had like a like a fifteen foot driveway,
so it really just me in a big wheel just
it would have been little Dandy doing circles.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
Was it like your dad just like go get on
the tractor.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Kind of? I mean it was like, it's either going
to be me and a big wheel doing really slow
donuts in the driveway, and if I ventured out beyond that,
then it was pasture or gravel.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
And despite their looks, big wheels are not off road capable.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Uh No. And I learned my lesson the hard way
on that as an adult. So this is a hilarious story.
My nephew got one when he was like four, so naturally,
after he's done riding around on it, all of the
adults are like, how much wake and that old? So
I think the biggest it's like one hundred and fifty pounds,
(38:43):
and I was like, oh, it's on. It's happening. So
what did I do? Get on the big wheels and
I'm driving it around and my brother just happens to
have a trailer hooked up to the back of his
truck with like the ramp. So I'm like, I got
this er, and I'm headed up the ramp and I
get all the way to the top of the ramp
and he goes no more and then flipped, oh no,
(39:08):
and rolled back all the way down to the concrete.
My poor nephew was like, are you okay? A couple
of cruises, little blood? No, biggie, Oh my god, that's hysterical.
Still want one, though.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
As you should. You should be able to go into
a Toys r us and get that same one and
you can relive that memory.
Speaker 3 (39:28):
I'm like, zero lessons learned give me another one.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Yeah, let's do this again. And the good news is
when you bring back all these toys are stores, we
can finally get Jeffrey off the streets.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Oh yeah, that's really the biggest thing. This is like
a Jeffrey campaign. We need to save Jeffrey. We have
who knows what he's been up to the last ten years.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Oh it's dark. They're gonna do a whole Netflix documentary
on Oh though it's it's it's really really probably ugly,
ugly stuff. But hey, we're all we're getting the store.
We're back open. Jeffrey's going to open it and we
all can be toys rus kids again.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
I don't want to grow up.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
I'm a toys rus kid. No no, no, no, no, no, okay.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
Ron bikes to you games.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
I don't know the video games.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
Yeah, it's the biggest toy store there is. Do you
know the rest of it would be your toys?
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Do you want to grow up?
Speaker 3 (40:26):
Do you want to grow up? All?
Speaker 1 (40:28):
Right, so we can bring back the stores, but my
memory is a lost cause
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