Speaker 1: Oh no, don't just your TV sets or computers or
Speaker 1: tablets or whatever sam a TV sets. So what I
Speaker 1: did there, I'm James Junior, and this is fifty plus.
Speaker 1: I'm doing a video version. I usually do audio and
Speaker 1: I just sometimes I do video sometimes I feel like it.
Speaker 1: I feel like doing it today. So when you check
Speaker 1: out all my All my weekly every Tuesday, fifty plus
Speaker 1: comes out new episodes audio where we get your audio
Speaker 1: podcast but occasionally do video. Uh. And part of me
Speaker 1: is kind of you know, inspired. I'm fifty plus, clearly,
Speaker 1: and I don't know much. I don't go to school,
Speaker 1: and I don't I'm not in high school, not like that. Clearly.
Speaker 1: Do they still do your books? I think they do right,
Speaker 1: But are your books really important? My brother I WoT
Speaker 1: this the other day because all your books were you know,
Speaker 1: we didn't have social media and ast I don't think
Speaker 1: with social media we're talking about your books. We're talking
Speaker 1: about reunion because I know my class had a reunion recently.
Speaker 1: It's a small group, but they had I mean I
Speaker 1: had a large class with a small group. Still get
Speaker 1: you know, one part of this Facebook check group whatever
Speaker 1: they get together. I noticed that as you get older
Speaker 1: fifty plus, they'll combine years just because a lot of
Speaker 1: us are gone, or it's just easier that way. Just
Speaker 1: that a couple of years. I haven't gone any of
Speaker 1: my unions, so I've gone any of ten twenty. I
Speaker 1: have high school for a reason. But what what yearbooks
Speaker 1: we're talking about? Your books are snapshots of your year
Speaker 1: in school? Right? A yearbook? This great? So I was wondering.
Speaker 1: I was wondering. This is my father's from nineteen sixty seven,
Speaker 1: which is Maillards High School, and my mother was there too.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, So I can find my father in here.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's in a bunch of these things. But
Speaker 1: let's see. So that's winter sixty seven, see right, I
Speaker 1: mean in my yearbooks, I lost mine in fire. So
Speaker 1: I'm on a year books that I have at home.
Speaker 1: Got some uncles in here, and one of these he
Speaker 1: went to high school. The chanced to my mom. My
Speaker 1: uncle's in several these. There's a lot of organizations. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll trying to see if I can find really quick,
Speaker 1: but they just, oh, here we go. Well, no, they
Speaker 1: only did the seniors. That's really interesting. They only featured
Speaker 1: the seniors. Okay, Well, anyway. So on social media, you
Speaker 1: can have your class, your school gam page, your class
Speaker 1: gar page, you grab a page. Are you talking about
Speaker 1: the kids talking to their lives all the time? Now? Reunions?
Speaker 1: Do we need them? Because basically you can stay friends
Speaker 1: or in touch with someone if you're a younger dreation
Speaker 1: now from elementary to adulthood. At this point, for me,
Speaker 1: it was finding people after all these years that have
Speaker 1: connected us. There's certain and I'm talking to certain ones.
Speaker 1: I want to talk to you anyway. So I was like,
Speaker 1: it's almost like I don't need a reunion. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know in person, the same thing is it's online.
Speaker 1: But in many cases it's fine. I can just talk
Speaker 1: online and see each other and see what's going on,
Speaker 1: and that's good. So I don't know, so I said
Speaker 1: just something. I was just I was kind of thinking
Speaker 1: about that as we get older and now in this
Speaker 1: day and age where everything's that everybody's sharing everything. My
Speaker 1: people are on social media too, and everybody everybody's on
Speaker 1: TikTok and Instagram and Facebook, Twitter, every thing. So it's
Speaker 1: like you kind of can post your updates before it's
Speaker 1: like I haven't seen you in ten years. Oh, I got,
Speaker 1: how are you? So when I have my my my
Speaker 1: tenure reunion, I graduated, so I go to twentiears after
Speaker 1: this this thing, twenties after this, I graduated eighty seven.
Speaker 1: So in my ten years in ninety seven, they're no
Speaker 1: social media. My twenty years two thousand and seven, my
Speaker 1: Space was happening and Facebook was just happening. That was it.
Speaker 1: It came to my thirty year in twenty seventeen or
Speaker 1: whatever I was I was, I was like, I almost
Speaker 1: was gonna go ye. But by then I had actually
Speaker 1: connected with a lot of folks from high school that
Speaker 1: I wanted to. I didn't want to talk to anybody.
Speaker 1: I didn't know. I was just couldn't reach out of
Speaker 1: high school. And that's the thing too, A lot of
Speaker 1: us don't have the girls us rus will get out
Speaker 1: of it. So I was like, okay, but will it
Speaker 1: become obsolete at some point? I say, the unions are
Speaker 1: always if you liked your high school, your college, or
Speaker 1: I just go whatever. The reunions are necessary. Want me
Speaker 1: if you want to meet in person, have human contact.
Speaker 1: We never lose community context. Obviously we need it. Then
Speaker 1: you should do it. But I don't know I'm just
Speaker 1: I'm just very like you know, for me, I'm good,
Speaker 1: all right, just little thoughts because it actually started from
Speaker 1: a conversation of kids don't rite cursive anymore, and we're
Speaker 1: like we do they meek or Zo, I'm James I Junior.
Speaker 1: I'm drifting west and I'll talk to you next time.