September 12, 2025 • 8 mins
We go through a thread of things we had to go through as kids to see if the new generation would be able to make it through even just one day
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So things are definitely different these days.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
You know, the way kids are growing up today, it's
just different, you know, it is what it is. I mean,
our parents did the same thing that they said, Oh yeah,
we're back in my day growing up, walking them to
school barefoot, up in the snow, up the hill. But yeah,
we always rolled our eyes. Well whatever, dad, you know,
you don't know. We have it so hard, and you know,
(00:25):
it's just different. And so the way we grew up,
the kids now they would have no clue what the
heck is going on, and they wouldn't even know how
to navigate how we grew up.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I'm not saying one way is better or worse. But
am I going to say kids are a little softer now?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Got a doubt? I think though. It's interesting.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I feel like when my parents were older, times changed,
but they didn't change as much. I feel like technology
has changed so much faster that they have.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
A lot more advantages than we did, way more.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Because when I was a kid, we didn't have cell
phones yet, we had color TVs, but like, there wasn't
that it wasn't that big of a difference from when
my parents were growing up. But then technology has really.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Just what it is crazy to think about the stuff,
you know, like we would be out, I just make
sure you're you're home before the sun is down.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
They didn't have a way to get a hold of
me that had no idea what I was doing. The
same with me. Yes, and you're older than me.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I mean I was, I was, I'm a I graduated
in five. But it's the same thing. But now, forget
about it. My sister has, uh something in my nephew's
shoe that tracks referee is all the time or something
ye attack or something.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
So it's just different.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Or you do the thing where your sky you just
hang out with your daughter and her friends all twenty
four to seven.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Yeah, you don't need a track. You're the tracker that's
literally attached to the shoe shoe.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
So yeah, things are different. And I just think that
kids now they couldn't survive, no, when we were growing
up and the way we were brought up.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
It's crazy, Eddie.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
I don't remember how I got around without Google without Maps,
Like I don't, like, I can't believe I did that. Yeah,
Like I drove around for for for for a while
without Google Maps or Apple Maps or anything.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
There's a Thomas Brothers. I just knew where I was going.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
You would have to take the Thomas Guide and then
map out your trip and then write it down on the.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Right down or you go. Like the big thing was
map Quest. Well, eventually we didn't know that.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
It was like, Okay, you're gonna go three lights down,
make it right, two lights to the left, seven eleven
because I know any street names.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Yeah, oh no, yeah, it's so true. Well, there was
a whole thread that went viral of things that we
survived as kids but would quote emotionally destroy kids today.
Top of the list mentioned a zillion times dodgeball.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
In gym class.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
See that should be still engine but they are so
my son God comes home and tell me you played dogeball?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Really, but there are it's I don't think it's the same.
Different you could target people like that dodgeball. He's played dodge.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
He's one of the greatest games ever invented. It makes it,
It doesn't. Without dodgeball, we get a softer society.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Well, you know who is the main reason why dodgeball
doesn't exist anymore?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
We don't sitting next to.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Her, why we don't need dodgeball that's it's aggressive.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
And who do you think, who do you think was
first out every time? Like sky? Like kickball, you get
hit with the kickball?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Aggressive, yeah a little bit so then football god forbid?
Uh yeah, you want to know why Trump's president?
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Well, at least with football, you're tackling the guy with
the ball, like the goal is to go after the
ball the goal, and dodgeball to eliminated people is to
slam people you don't like first, like.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
If you're just good.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
So I used to have this gym teacher, mister Austin,
and we'd be playing dodgeball.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
And with the glass break whenever they.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Freestone and mister Austin didn't like when there was like
a goggle girls standing in the side, so he'd blow
the whistle, but they would be paying attention. He'd take
the ball and I'm not kidding you, he would throw
it at their heads a million miles an hour and
it would slam off the wall and they would get
freaked out and then he'd go continue.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
It was insane, dude.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
I miss him beers, yeah, started.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
And we were all so bummed when he left the school.
But I don't know now that I come to think
of it. He probably got fired down left.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Another another thing that we survived that would a emotionally
destroy our kids today is when you have an assignment
doing school, like a writing assignment, you would have to
write multiple drafts by hand. You wouldn't just get.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
To type one and go back in and edit it.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
No, well, I didn't type anything. Having to do an
outline of something. Oh, I want to vomit thinking about that,
I'm like, why do I have to do that?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Let me just do the thing? Yeah's start an outline
thought about it either, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Once you've brought that up, I was like, Yeah, your
paper and you had to get all your references from
all the different books you used.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
That's awful them, that's great.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Another thing that would destroy our kids today is if
they had to go all day at school without a
water bottle.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
You know, you had to drink out of the fountains
and it was disgusting and burning hot and taste like minerals.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah, but whatever, that's the wa.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
I'm in the middle of this hot tether ball games
we survived. Yeah, I wasn't walking around by Stanley.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
What the hell they wouldn't be I don't even think
we were allowed to have stuff like that because as
a weapon.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
You know, it would be a distraction.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
And now every every kid has a water ball and
if you forget it all, God forbid. K.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
I don't think I think I would go a whole
school day with Barry trigging anymore, except for at lunch.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
I drink that little fruit punch thing at lunch and
then I'm good. I dreamed Capri pre Capri, those little
ones and they were in the plastic.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Water colors.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Yeah, you know, our kids would not survive the slowness
of dial up internet well yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Or just connected. I'm almost on al.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Yeah, almost almost having to deal with not knowing something
like somebody asking a question and nobody actually having the answer,
and that's okay, that's not a thing today.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
They just look it up immediately.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Being hot boxed in a car with both parents smoking cigarettes.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Yeah, man, yeah, that is very different now.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Or in a plane, I'd sit in the smoking section
with my dad.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
There's no wall, there's no filtrating.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Non smoking section. At a restaurant, it's like just two
tables over.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Well yeah, a plane, think about an airplane, for can
you believe that there was a smoking seat.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I didn't know that. That's too young for too old
for me. Yeah, I didn't get there.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Yeah uh, nothing was on demand. You actually had to
like be home at a certain time.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I wanted to give you missed something you were done?
Oh for sure, yeap.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Having to call your friend's house and talk to the parent,
do small talk with somebody.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah, no, yeah, I'm doing well, tyler, okay, great?
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Oh god, no caller ID, you're just answering the phone
blind dude.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Russian Roulette.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
And the final thing that we had to deal with
that would destroy kids today is ordering something from a
catalog and then waiting.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Six to eight weeks.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
For actually I would buy I would east I had
the East Bay catalog.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
I don't know that it was a sports catalog and.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
You'd buy baseball gloves, baseball stuff, and I have to
order it from that catalog, and it would take like
weeks to get.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
The man Sears.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Although when that Christmas one came with all the toys,
oh man, that was big time
So things are definitely different these days.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
You know, the way kids are growing up today, it's
just different, you know, it is what it is. I mean,
our parents did the same thing that they said, Oh yeah,
we're back in my day growing up, walking them to
school barefoot, up in the snow, up the hill. But yeah,
we always rolled our eyes. Well whatever, dad, you know,
you don't know. We have it so hard, and you know,
(00:25):
it's just different. And so the way we grew up,
the kids now they would have no clue what the
heck is going on, and they wouldn't even know how
to navigate how we grew up.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I'm not saying one way is better or worse. But
am I going to say kids are a little softer now?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Got a doubt? I think though. It's interesting.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I feel like when my parents were older, times changed,
but they didn't change as much. I feel like technology
has changed so much faster that they have.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
A lot more advantages than we did, way more.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Because when I was a kid, we didn't have cell
phones yet, we had color TVs, but like, there wasn't
that it wasn't that big of a difference from when
my parents were growing up. But then technology has really.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Just what it is crazy to think about the stuff,
you know, like we would be out, I just make
sure you're you're home before the sun is down.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
They didn't have a way to get a hold of
me that had no idea what I was doing. The
same with me. Yes, and you're older than me.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I mean I was, I was, I'm a I graduated
in five. But it's the same thing. But now, forget
about it. My sister has, uh something in my nephew's
shoe that tracks referee is all the time or something
ye attack or something.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
So it's just different.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Or you do the thing where your sky you just
hang out with your daughter and her friends all twenty
four to seven.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Yeah, you don't need a track. You're the tracker that's
literally attached to the shoe shoe.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
So yeah, things are different. And I just think that
kids now they couldn't survive, no, when we were growing
up and the way we were brought up.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
It's crazy, Eddie.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
I don't remember how I got around without Google without Maps,
Like I don't, like, I can't believe I did that. Yeah,
Like I drove around for for for for a while
without Google Maps or Apple Maps or anything.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
There's a Thomas Brothers. I just knew where I was going.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
You would have to take the Thomas Guide and then
map out your trip and then write it down on the.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Right down or you go. Like the big thing was
map Quest. Well, eventually we didn't know that.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
It was like, Okay, you're gonna go three lights down,
make it right, two lights to the left, seven eleven
because I know any street names.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Yeah, oh no, yeah, it's so true. Well, there was
a whole thread that went viral of things that we
survived as kids but would quote emotionally destroy kids today.
Top of the list mentioned a zillion times dodgeball.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
In gym class.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
See that should be still engine but they are so
my son God comes home and tell me you played dogeball?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Really, but there are it's I don't think it's the same.
Different you could target people like that dodgeball. He's played dodge.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
He's one of the greatest games ever invented. It makes it,
It doesn't. Without dodgeball, we get a softer society.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Well, you know who is the main reason why dodgeball
doesn't exist anymore?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
We don't sitting next to.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Her, why we don't need dodgeball that's it's aggressive.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
And who do you think, who do you think was
first out every time? Like sky? Like kickball, you get
hit with the kickball?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Aggressive, yeah a little bit so then football god forbid?
Uh yeah, you want to know why Trump's president?
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Well, at least with football, you're tackling the guy with
the ball, like the goal is to go after the
ball the goal, and dodgeball to eliminated people is to
slam people you don't like first, like.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
If you're just good.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
So I used to have this gym teacher, mister Austin,
and we'd be playing dodgeball.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
And with the glass break whenever they.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Freestone and mister Austin didn't like when there was like
a goggle girls standing in the side, so he'd blow
the whistle, but they would be paying attention. He'd take
the ball and I'm not kidding you, he would throw
it at their heads a million miles an hour and
it would slam off the wall and they would get
freaked out and then he'd go continue.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
It was insane, dude.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
I miss him beers, yeah, started.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
And we were all so bummed when he left the school.
But I don't know now that I come to think
of it. He probably got fired down left.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Another another thing that we survived that would a emotionally
destroy our kids today is when you have an assignment
doing school, like a writing assignment, you would have to
write multiple drafts by hand. You wouldn't just get.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
To type one and go back in and edit it.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
No, well, I didn't type anything. Having to do an
outline of something. Oh, I want to vomit thinking about that,
I'm like, why do I have to do that?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Let me just do the thing? Yeah's start an outline
thought about it either, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Once you've brought that up, I was like, Yeah, your
paper and you had to get all your references from
all the different books you used.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
That's awful them, that's great.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Another thing that would destroy our kids today is if
they had to go all day at school without a
water bottle.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
You know, you had to drink out of the fountains
and it was disgusting and burning hot and taste like minerals.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah, but whatever, that's the wa.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
I'm in the middle of this hot tether ball games
we survived. Yeah, I wasn't walking around by Stanley.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
What the hell they wouldn't be I don't even think
we were allowed to have stuff like that because as
a weapon.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
You know, it would be a distraction.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
And now every every kid has a water ball and
if you forget it all, God forbid. K.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
I don't think I think I would go a whole
school day with Barry trigging anymore, except for at lunch.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
I drink that little fruit punch thing at lunch and
then I'm good. I dreamed Capri pre Capri, those little
ones and they were in the plastic.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Water colors.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Yeah, you know, our kids would not survive the slowness
of dial up internet well yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Or just connected. I'm almost on al.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Yeah, almost almost having to deal with not knowing something
like somebody asking a question and nobody actually having the answer,
and that's okay, that's not a thing today.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
They just look it up immediately.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Being hot boxed in a car with both parents smoking cigarettes.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Yeah, man, yeah, that is very different now.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Or in a plane, I'd sit in the smoking section
with my dad.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
There's no wall, there's no filtrating.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Non smoking section. At a restaurant, it's like just two
tables over.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Well yeah, a plane, think about an airplane, for can
you believe that there was a smoking seat.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I didn't know that. That's too young for too old
for me. Yeah, I didn't get there.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Yeah uh, nothing was on demand. You actually had to
like be home at a certain time.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I wanted to give you missed something you were done?
Oh for sure, yeap.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Having to call your friend's house and talk to the parent,
do small talk with somebody.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah, no, yeah, I'm doing well, tyler, okay, great?
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Oh god, no caller ID, you're just answering the phone
blind dude.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Russian Roulette.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
And the final thing that we had to deal with
that would destroy kids today is ordering something from a
catalog and then waiting.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Six to eight weeks.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
For actually I would buy I would east I had
the East Bay catalog.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
I don't know that it was a sports catalog and.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
You'd buy baseball gloves, baseball stuff, and I have to
order it from that catalog, and it would take like
weeks to get.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
The man Sears.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Although when that Christmas one came with all the toys,
oh man, that was big time
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