Why is it that every kid going to school, in especially high school,
they're nervous and intimidated that they're going to number one, get lost, You're
gonna get beat up, some bigger kid is going to steal your lunch money.
That was more of a middle school junior high thing. Yeah, the
seventh grade middle school was junior high. For me, they called a junior
high. So it was seventh, eighth, and ninth grade, and the
seventh graders what they call them scrubs. I don't know why they call them
scrubs that, oh, you're a scrub, You're a scrub. I was
so nervous that the bigger kids were going because you know, like there's a
big difference between a seventh grade kid who is tiny and their voice hasn't changed
and a ninth grade kid who has started to develop facial hair or you know,
like started to develop their bodies develop or whatever. And we were really
I was really worried that the older kids were going to bully and make my
life miserable as a seventh grader. They didn't. There was just as many
miserable seventh grade assholes as there were ninth grade. I never had a problem
in middle school. Yeah, we didn't either, but we were in a
weird phase because we transitioned to a bigger high school. So middle school changed
from seventh to ninth like yours did, and then it became sixth to eighth,
and so I was in this weird transition of where like we went from
fifth grade to then middle school instead of doing sixth grade elementary, okay,
And so that was like a huge change for us because I was like,
I'm not old enough to be in middle school yet, like I'm too young.
I should be still going to the elementary school. So that was like
the big intimidating factor for us. But yeah, I do remember having a
fear of like everyone's going to be so tall and so big and whatever.
And I don't know, I grew probably decently early. Like my height,
I'm an average height, but I wasn't that short getting into high school,
you know. I remember one really weird incident in probably seventh grade or eighth
grade gym, And this is going to sound weird, but I don't care.
I'll risk it. So we're supposed to take showers after gym class,
and I don't even think they do that anymore. I don't think so.
I think at least when I was in high school, it was an option,
like you could take one if you want it, but they did not
make you, okay, because when I was in junior high it was basically
required because you were going to go get under jim clothes, go play volleyball
and floor hockey and whatever, and they didn't want you to go back to
school and stink the rest of the day, so you were supposed to take
a shower. I never did. I don't remember how I got out of
it. I always because I did not want to be naked in front of
the other boys. I didn't want to be because you know, you're worried
about your body and his my body, like his body and whatever. I
remember one time, probably in the first couple of days of school, this
kid who was like a good acquaintance of mine, but he was definitely more
mature. He gets out of the shower and he's got full on pubic hair
yea, and the rest of us apparently did not. I know I did
not. So he gets out and he's got like hair under his arms,
full on pubic hair, standing there naked and looked like an adult. And
I remember looking another friend of mine named Chris, and Chris's face could not
comprehend what he was seeing. I had seen my older brother naked, so
I knew what a naked guy looked like. Chris was a ghast at this
kid that we knew seventh or eighth grade with a young man's body, and
it blew him away and it was like, WHOA. I still remember that.
I mean we definitely once again. I don't think in middle school we
had to take showers, but that was definitely when everyone was developing. And
I do remember playing sports with girls, so we were always changing in front
of each other. And I just remember this girl, Courtney, was like
very big chested, super early, and she was so skinny and tiny,
and then she had these big boobs, and I was like, how did
that even happen? Like how did that? It feels like it happened overnight
for her, And so I remember like not coming into my body more until
high school. So like it was weird seeing those people in middle school and
then a lot of people didn't develop as much until high school. I think
it's really true because at that age, you know, everybody develops. That
some girls get boobs in I don't know what, sixth grade. Maybe some
girls get boobs in ninth grade. Some boys voices change early, some boys
still have a little kid voice in tenth grade. I remember my voice was
changing. I think the beginning of tenth grade. I think because I remember
the first day of band they were taking roll call. It's like okay,
David here, and my voice cracked and my friend looked at me and laughed,
and I think some other kids turned around and looked at me and laughed
too, but not like openly like ha, just more like, oh,
that's embarrassing. Yeah, because it does suck when you're in school and everybody's
changed. By the time you get to high school, you're like, in
a tenth or eleventh grade, you've pretty much developed, you know what I
mean. There's not a lot of kids that are like in eleventh grade that
their voice hasn't changed, or they haven't gotten boobs or whatever, so it
all kind of equalizes. We were talking about this earlier, the first day
of school when you wore new clothes. Yeah, and we weren't poor.
We talked about like not having a lot of money, but we weren't poor.
We would go down to kmart or Sears or whatever and buy back to
school clothes. But I remember wearing those clothes. I had this shirt.
It was like a T shirt made out of like nylon or some weird fabric
that had a picture of a guy in a parachute on the front. Why
that was made into a shirt, I have no idea, but it was
my yearbook picture in eighth grade. And I can still smell the way that
shirt smelled. And I was so proud of that shirt. And when I
came home from school, I took that shirt off because if I was going
to go clean out the chicken houses, I was not going to clean about
the chicken houses in that shirt. And then I'd like put it away and
then I don't remember, but I would not wear it except to school.
Yeah, and that was it, And that was really it. Did you
have like a special outfit that you wore, Not really, because we did
have a lot of clothes. Like I always stole my older sister's clothes.
So I had probably five shirts from Hollister. I rotated and stuff. Yeah
it was Hollister, maybe something from Abercrombie here and there. But I always,
I don't know, I would steal my older sister's shirts quite often without
her seeing I'd like change before like I would see her, because I mean
we did have one year where we weren't in the school together because she was
in high school I was in middle school. So I would like change into
the clothes as I was leaving and she had already left for high school,
and then change before she got home. So I felt like I had like
more clothes than I did, but I didn't, so I always was wearing
everything I had. Let's talk about school lunches. Did you buy your hot
lunch or did you bring a sack lunch. We did sack lunches because I
Flon would say that it was like you were rich if you had a sack
lunch, But that was not how it was in my school. You were
rich if you could like get the hot lunches. But I know that there
was like financial assistance for people with hot lunches too, So I always had
a bag lunch. I never got un once like a quarter. Maybe that
was it, Okay, I there's another thing. When did you stop carrying
a lunchbox to school? Did you have a lunchbox when you were little?
What was it and what year did you stop carrying to lunch box to school.
Oh. I don't remember exactly what was on it, but it was
pink, and I want to say I probably did it through elementary and then
middle school I started doing the paper bag lunches. Yeah, that sounds right.
In elementary I had a Harlem I had a Harlem Globe Trotters lunch box,
and I think I had a Scooby Doo lunch box. My brother had
a Star Trek lunchbox. But you carry them to school until maybe fifth or
sixth grade. Then you notice your friends don't. And then if you carry
it to school middle school, you look around on day one and go,
oh my god, I can't bring a lunch box because nobody is carrying a
lunch box anymore. Yeah. I also in elementary school you had if you
had hot lunch, you had no choice. It was whatever's on the menu,
and they put on the little compartments like you got your spaghetti over here,
and your green beans over here, and your apple sauce over here,
and your milk over here. But in junior high, oh, Jenny,
it was glorious. It was al cart and you would get pizza, cheeseburger,
chicken, sandwich, potato, chips, zingers, all kinds of crap
garbage food if you had the money for it, and it was your choice
of what to get. I remember in middle school there was like the regular
hot lunch line, and then you could go to the left and there was
like things you could pay with like actual cash money, and they had curly
fries in that line. So every once in a while I would go splurge
and get myself some curly fries because they were so good. That was that
was it for me. I remember our pizza air Academy Junior high school was
actually pretty I mean really good for school pizza. But I was just even
then surprised that they sold junk at school because they did have They had,
like I don't know, zingers and ho hoes and cupcakes and things like that.
I think, if I remember right when Alison went to Chascop High School,
I think they had a Burger King or a taco bell inside the school
cafeteria. I think. But and you'll have to answer this one, if
you know. I think they got rid of all those because people didn't like
the fact that their kids were eating fast food for lunch. So they're like,
oh, I'll give them shalots. Make sure they have shallots and plenty
of chicken and broccoli. So I think, let me know, send me
an email and let me know. Do they still have fast food in school
cafeterias and if not, when did they take it out? Yeah, we
didn't. We didn't have that growing up. But I'm trying to think if
our high school had anything similar, Like, was it actually it was an
actual like employees were making whoppers and stuff like a burger king or I think
so? I mean interesting, I really think so. I mean I was
never there, but I know that they had like garbage, not garbage that
is not garbage is delicious, but you know what I mean, food is
surprising. Do they have pop machines in schools anymore? Because when I was
a kid, they had pop machines into schools and you can get like a
root beer or doctor pepper or pepsi or coke or whatever. I don't think
they have pop machines or soda machines in schools anymore, do they? I
don't know. They answer to that. They did when I was in high
school still, but I don't know if they do anymore because that I think
health and like your view on food has changed drastically since I was even in
high school, so I wouldn't be surprised if they don't have it anymore.
You know what's interesting. Not sound like the old guy in the room,
but I am. But there was not as many I think obese kids when
we when I was a kid, and I think the reason is because screen
time. Because kids now, again this is something I don't want to sound
like I'm the old guy complaining and I'm not, but kids don't go out
and exercise as much. Because back when we were kids, you could watch
TV, but then your mama would come by and say, turn that goddamn
TV off and get outside and get some exercise. Well, now you're on
your screen and you're not out getting the exercise, so you're not working off
the Doctor Pepper and the curly fries exactly. I felt like when Andrew and
I went up to this cabin this weekend, I told myself not to spend
a whole ton of time on social media because I was like, this is
like I need to go back to my childhood where I was literally outside all
day every day until the street lights came on and then I had to come
inside. I mean obviously different in the winter, but I just wanted to
get back to that, like not relying on quick dopamine hits from social media,
like I have a beauty, were on a lake in a cabin having
a great time, and I shouldn't be going to social media to have fun.
And I think I did a pretty good job. I posted like a
couple of things here and there, but for the most part it was just
like one quick reel I put together that I did and then like a few
stories and stuff. But I tried so hard to not like consume it,
Like I posted some stuff on my own, but I didn't sit and scroll
and consume. I didn't open TikTok once this weekend. Good nothing. I'm
looking at my screen time. Pull up in your screen time on your phone.
God, here we go, as you're listening to the show. Pull
up in screen time on your show on your phone. My daily average for
last week was shocking six hours and thirty nine minutes a day. I don't
believe that. I don't think it's possible, but that's what it says,
six hours and thirty nine minutes a day. I don't know if that counts
like having open iHeartRadio or what. I really don't know, but I can't
imagine I was doing six hours every day. God, I mean, I'm
not far off at six I'm higher than you. I'm at six fifty nine.
But I'm trying to figure out what it is. Because here's my thing.
I don't watch TV very much, so I think my consumption of stuff
does come mostly from social media when I'm looking at a screen. I really
I go a week without ever turning a TV on. That's like how it
is in our house. So I'm not trying to defend myself because I just
don't understand why it's so high. If it's because I work out every day
and you Spotify and on the iHeartRadio app and stuff like that, but I
don't know why it's so high. Yeah, and I don't even know either,
because it used to be, like a year ago, my screen time
i'd look at it be like three hours and thirty minutes a week. I
will say that I am on Instagram scrolling and on Facebook scrolling a lot more,
watching reels and watching little things on my phone than I used to.
But six hours plus that's crazy. Okay, what about you? What do
you remember about your first day of school. What do you remember? Do
they have pop machines in your kids school or your school? Did they have
a taco bell in your high school? What did you bring sack lunches?
What year did you stop bringing a lunch box? What lunch did you have?
Got all kinds of things we can talk about, and then what about
your screen time? What is your screen time? Saying I'd love to hear
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