In this inaugural episode, we follow the story of two childhood friends who first met on the sunny beaches of South Padre Island in 1995. Despite coming from different High Schools, these two kids quickly hit it off and formed an unbreakable bond that would carry them through the ups and downs of life.
As Jimmy and Jesse grew up and moved into early adulthood, they faced mediocre challenges - navigating school, starting their careers, and ultimately starting families of their own. But no matter what obstacles they encountered, they always knew they could count on each other for support and guidance.
Now, years later, we catch up with Jimmy and Jesse as they reflect on the incredible journey they've been on together. With laughter, cringes, and plenty of nostalgia, they share stories of their favorite memories, the lessons they've learned, and the joys and struggles of parenting.
Through it all, one thing remains constant: the unbreakable bond between these two childhood friends, who continue to inspire and support each other through every twist and turn of life's journey. Tune in to this heartwarming episode to hear their incredible story of friendship and resilience. It's bussin.
If you've want a topic covered in the show, send us a line! dadzruspodcast@gmail.com or visit us on all your favorite social platforms.
In this inaugural episode, we follow the story of two childhood friends who first met on the sunny beaches of South Padre Island in 1995. Despite coming from different High Schools, these two kids quickly hit it off and formed an unbreakable bond that would carry them through the ups and downs of life.
As Jimmy and Jesse grew up and moved into early adulthood, they faced mediocre challenges - navigating school, starting their careers, and ultimately starting families of their own. But no matter what obstacles they encountered, they always knew they could count on each other for support and guidance.
Now, years later, we catch up with Jimmy and Jesse as they reflect on the incredible journey they've been on together. With laughter, cringes, and plenty of nostalgia, they share stories of their favorite memories, the lessons they've learned, and the joys and struggles of parenting.
Through it all, one thing remains constant: the unbreakable bond between these two childhood friends, who continue to inspire and support each other through every twist and turn of life's journey. Tune in to this heartwarming episode to hear their incredible story of friendship and resilience. It's bussin.
If you've want a topic covered in the show, send us a line! dadzruspodcast@gmail.com or visit us on all your favorite social platforms.
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In this groundbreaking new podcast, the hosts, Jimmy and Jesse, struggled to figure out today's podcasting technology. Also how they met on Spring Break 1995. This is. It is happening. Oh!
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Oh. Thought I thought there was an intro.
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This is just us recording all. That's all. The magic happens later, Jimmy. All. All that comes after. I don't know, dude. I've never been on this side of it. I'm always on this side just driving and, you know, listening to a podcast. Yeah.
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I'm
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never. Dude, are you
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nervous? I'm so nervous. You know what?
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You know, I'm really angry because there's literally. As I first hit this record button, my wife walks in and she's trying to, like, make me read her lips in sign language because I'm like, it took
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me. It's it took us. Well, how many weeks? When do we start talking about doing this? Easter in every good idea is a good idea until you act out it in a second. I hit record, my wife comes in, she's like, I'm gonna take a truck. I'm like, uh,
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okay,
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but you know what? No, this is awesome because this is what the cast is about. Don't have that problem.
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Oh my gosh, you got
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you got technical problems watching you do get ready for this was
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again watch like my parents trying to program their VCR. Uh, let's do intros. How about that? Let's start. Let's start it off. Right.
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Oh, guess we're good. 1s Oh, you want me to go first?
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Yeah, it's Jimmy and Jesse. Show your first.
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1:29
Well, you know what we should have done mean. I'm glad this is just the first show, because there's going to be hiccups. There's going to be bumps. There's going to be laughs. Hopefully Jesse doesn't cry.
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I mean, geez, if that isn't the worst thing you
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can do on camera with a man, it's probably cry. It's not. There's nothing wrong with it. I cried
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watching Top Gun one
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and two, but I haven't watched number two. You caught it in the middle of it yesterday, and he was in a white uniform, and he was hugging his own chick.
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I don't even know where to start. Well I'll start.
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My name is Jesse. I go by fat salmon. But for all my friends out
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there, we'll go with Jesse. And maybe
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if you really get to know me and call me
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tuco,
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I'm a married dad at three.
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Whoa. I 1s don't
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even like that story, too, because
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there's lots of stories. Does
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girlfriend in high school?
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Oh, we do need to go back to the
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way back time machine. So
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I've been married almost 25 years.
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I got three kids. They're about to be
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24, 22, and
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then 13 cars stuck in there. No one thought I was all done. And
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I'm doing this so I get a chance to talk to my good buddy Jimmy, also known as Hearty Handshake. Go ahead, tell the crowd who all
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2:52
about yourself. Jimmy. Wow.
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You're the only one that knows about Hardy handshake. You usually honestly around these parts. It was because, believe me, I'm not even close to that anymore. It's awesome. Awesome.
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This kind of like Frank the tank. It's like
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back in the day, guys. Yeah. It was. Well,
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it's funny because it rhymes, but,
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uh, my name's Jimmy. I'm doing this. I'm here with Jesse. I'm a 46 year old single dad. I was married four years, divorced six now, and have one kid. Aladdin is an only child on this side of the world at his mom's house. You guys have two sisters. So when he comes here, I'm like a mini fraternity house. Sometimes.
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Yeah. So, guys, guys, it's the guys. Bachelor pad. Yeah. My wife, she's. She's adamant that I have to get girl dads on the show. And I'm like, all right, they better be funny, though.
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You know what, though, as being a single dad, I am blessed that I got
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a boy because with him being an only child, there's a lot of downtime here, a lot of a long time. So he likes to have his friends stay over. You know, when it's my weekend and he's over you now, imagine if I was a single dad with a daughter.
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That poor girl would not be able to have any girls stay the night because of. Society nowadays, you know what I mean? Oh, we had one single dad. I can't let my girl go over there. That's what I think.
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Oh, again.
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Literally never crossed my mind. And somebody just said, that is
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your. Is your child
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chosen his gender? Yeah. And is that a thing?
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Well, if I don't start bringing
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more, my three boys have chosen their gender. So if I don't
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start bringing more women around them in the house, they might be a little not. There's anything wrong with that.
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Not that there's anything wrong with that. That's right. Hardy. Hardy. All right.
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Just so you know. So let's go.
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I'm gonna set a foundation here. I want to tell you need to get a chair.
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Very uncomfortable. No. All I hear is, like,
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you banging around. Is that your
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bag? No. It's this. No. And then the cord to the
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5:12
right. Yeah, mine. Mine's tight. So? Just so the audience knows.
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Oh, there we go. Can you still hear? Still
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hear you. You're good. Oh my God.
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No. Just because I'm adjusting, I'm apparently was. You sent me the harder one to put together. You did that on purpose.
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5:31
We need him for the ten on that one. I want to talk a long time about you in in deliveries and setting up technology. Before we get there, we got to set
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the foundation. And because all my friends here in. Just for those that don't know, yes, I'm in Illinois and you're in Michigan,
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5:51
and we should do like a Saint Louis versus Detroit or
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a guess, you know, I'll be living
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in Chicago for a while. So Chicago versus Detroit, it's going to be great.
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6:02
But really, we
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really live together
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in Michigan when we're a
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kids. For a short
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amount of time now, we've been friends at an almost 27 years. We really got to tell these folks how we met. Yeah,
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that's honestly probably where my logic change or the
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like when? Are you serious? Like changing
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moments even. Kid, you gotta keep the light here, man. We're just getting started. All
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right, so I'll say this. So here, there I was back
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in time. 1995, April. And
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you know, we're down River Street rats. And this is
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Detroit. That's the thing there. Can't hate another road. Oh. Eight mile.
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No, man. There's like stuff
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below zero mile. You know,
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we're downriver. So you got a whole crew. Kids, high school kids.
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I went to Taylor Kennedy, Taylor Kennedy High School and went to Southgate Anderson. And
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somehow one of our besties shout out to my boy Pete, 1s his I think his mom was like a travel agent. Someone's mom was a travel agent on the side. And they needed they were planning a spring break
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trip, you know, this
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1905. And they're like, they needed ten people. And they had their eight core group of friends, and they needed like two extra filler people that would pay to get in. Right?
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Am I wrong here? Now what
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what what I think what happened is two people back or couldn't get the money together or got in trouble at school, they needed two people to
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fill in. You probably
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know that's how I got in. I know I was in like, I was like, bring the relief.
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Oh my God. So you're probably right. And we're going to have to we're going to have to reach back to that
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crew and find that out, man.
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Because now think we were sympathy invites I know I was. So I save up months washing dishes. You know you're working at Taco Bell and I pay this money, you know, and we're going
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to spring break. We're going to South Padre Island.
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That Taco Bell.
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Yeah. And then I quit. See? Yeah. I didn't even all the time I
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worked at the Hungarian Rhapsody
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that I knew
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where I met my good boys. You know, Pete, Mike, who got me into your guys's crew to go
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to the spring break, so.
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But, yeah, did a stint at
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Taco Bell, and it's disgusting as you think. So menu hadn't really changed. At least ingredients haven't. So just just the
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food isn't. Yeah.
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8:26
No. There's a
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lot of weird stuff. I mean those those beans you eat, they are like rat pellets that just, you know, mix with hot water. All right.
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8:34
So we get we get to going to the airport and
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this is like literally my second, you know, ride an airplane in my life. And you know, you got an 8 to 8
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core group of friends. They're all there. And then they they put you in me together
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in an airplane. And you see, see you're.
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And I don't know, I know like three of them,
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you know and
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know that I'm like, sat with them at lunch. That was until this trip was really quiet. I was quiet, you know,
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didn't really do much. You're going to be
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perfect. Perfect for this podcast. You 1s know, you seem like that guy, but you sat down next to me and I hand
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to God, you look at me,
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no shit. And you're like, all these guys think they're
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9:16
going to be getting late every night. They're not getting crap. I was like, hey,
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man, I'm Jesse. 2s Yeah. And you're like, do you not remember any of
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this? How do you remember how how do you remember that?
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I don't know. It was a life changing
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moment, you know.
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No, I mean, I'm just like, I don't like I told you before this, I don't remember much
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because it was hilarious how, like to forget the funny stuff.
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They're just a 1s must. Not if I was being funny, I guess.
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What? No, he's just funny. Dude, I don't know what first impressions of me. I don't know, you don't remember? And then really, on the trip, like we spent. 1s Like two days together.
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Because. Remember. Let me, let me through. Tennis court.
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10:07
Yeah. Because we were trying to hook up with the New York girls. All right, we'll get to that piece. I will say so. First we get down there and we, you know,
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the South Padre Island.
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We take the, you know, the cab to the condos and
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10:21
we have a small claim to, well,
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we, we go into Dallas, Detroit to Dallas, DFW on a large aircraft here and then a puddle
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10:29
jumper down
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to. And then we got on
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10:33
that is a city.
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10:34
Yes. And then we get to Brownsville
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and then you got to take a
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cab. We put us all in a giant minivan, you know, essentially, and took us to their condo. And then we get there and then we had to pay $200, everybody for
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security deposit. Spoiler alert we didn't get that back. Don't think it,
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you know, not even
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close. Not even close. I know, I know at one point there was a strong across
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there is some there was
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some damage done. Yes. So the first thing we do first all is weird because it's like you're in high school, you know, and you talked about sitting in different tables, you know, like cafeteria, you know, talk to I didn't know this, but they have already like the
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11:15
the other guys had already set
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11:16
up who's staying with who they had a room for,
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11:19
for four dudes in a room for six
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dudes. And you know, it's like course, three bags. You're like, how the hell? Where are we going to
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sleep? You know, was like couches, floors, whatever. 1s Of
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course, you and me, we were we were kind of put in the the bigger room. But with the six guys, we weren't we weren't in the cool kids club. Right. And the first thing we do, we gotta go. We got.
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11:38
Oh. So let's see now, I would say the room that we had was the cool thing at the end. Yeah. Because we're the ones who got evicted. No, no we.
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11:47
Well, no. Not them. I'm just saying, like the people in that room I still talk to probably. I have a lot of that because let's say so in our room we had one Joe P you, me, I think it was
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12:01
no, P was no, P was in the cool kid. He was in the the group of four. But he
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12:06
was staying in our room the walls because we had. Yeah the five ours was the party pad where everybody would do sneak off to their. The other room is super clean and sleep there. But you know, they're taking shits in our room. That's how that works. Yeah, but
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okay. Tell me
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talk to you about the first beer
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run. Were there 30 minutes? Well, we were let's see driving there. And the taxi driver told us about the store that we could go to, which was a circle K, which are finally made it here in Michigan. Only couple years? Yeah. In
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95, we were like, what the hell is a circle K? That's like 7-Eleven,
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12:43
you know, to downriver. So
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this nice taxi driver was like, hey, you go to the circle K the guy behind the counter, his name is. We'll just go with Jose. You go up to him, you say, hey, Rosie, Pablo just gave us a ride and he would let you buy anything. You are a mobster. So our taxi cab was a minivan.
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Wealth picture 1995. The back. You know, the the Trump of that was pretty big. That thing was filled with,
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I think, 12 cases of just one light,
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ten of us and one minimum
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of animals, which will
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13:25
lead to there was one. Oh my
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gosh, I forgot about that
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part. So here we go everybody. Minimum, minimum buy in the start. Spring break 18 cans of Bud Light. And let's be honest man back. You know high school we're like dude this is the greatest beer ever.
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13:41
Anyways, what do we know? So you're right. We get there. And within the first day we we we met some girls like up there. We
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we we try to drink literally all 12 cases.
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13:55
These are 18,
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24 packs. These aren't like six packs, like all in one day.
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Yeah. No. And then you look back
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at the pictures and you're like the dad and is like, man, I really want to just take all that out the recycling. And I'm looking at the pyramids of Giza, everyone trying to make their little giant. That was cool. Oh, make a beer
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pyramid. Oh my goodness,
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the first beer beer pyramid I've ever made. At least not that I'm doing.
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Yeah. Good point. So. 1s I don't know if I want my kids listening to this podcast anyways.
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There were some. There were some girls that like above
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us that we we tried to like, party with and like one of the dudes. I don't know, man. If it was like Kevin or definitely not Joe. I'm trying to think of who I can get in trouble here. Well, let's. Without sharing last names, let's just start actually the one with us. So there was you and me. Yes, and there was.
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Pete and Ryan are the only guys I
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knew going into this. So
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I was meeting seven strangers from a
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rival high school. It's in.
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So when I met Kevin, Ronnie
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Chadwick, Bonnie
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seasoning.
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Hey, hey, that's a no last name. I don't I don't know, it's for the closest thing. Joe. Eric.
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15:10
Um. The. Danny.
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Okay. Thank you. I didn't know his first name. I call him by his last
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name. Uh, yeah.
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And then actually, there was two Danny's. So I have
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to use. That's why we use last names.
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All right. Anyways, no worries.
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Well, well, the one Danny is not even around us anymore. Like, after high school, he took off. The other one is still around. So that's the important. Oh, hell, are we
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still friends? All right, so. So I want to say it was Ronnie that took a girl's camera. Remember? We didn't have cell
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phones back then. No. And
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he started taking, like he'd go back, pretend to go to the bathroom. And there was cameras like the, you know, these disposable cameras or whatnot, and think he was taking pictures of his ass and just put the camera back. And then they were taking, like, empty beer cans and, like, toss him. We were like, eight
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15:57
stories up. Yeah.
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And that was the start of us throwing beer cans from the
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balcony into the pool area, the lobby, all that it was, you know, and water,
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water balloons. We thought that was hilarious. Well, and you want to know how we got caught? We're gonna get to that. We're
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gonna get to that. So anyways,
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so it was weird trying
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to, you know, no
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supervision. You're like, oh my gosh, what are
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16:21
we going to do? And then first time
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alone. Yeah. Then, you know, you and I, we split off from the, the massive, you know,
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group because there's nothing, you know, more approachable than ten high
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16:31
school boys walking around and saying, hey, let's go to the beach. Anyway, so you and I met some girls from
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New York, and
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of course, you know, had a high school girlfriend
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at sound like I'm not messing around. Trying to. And these
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girls were like, oh yeah, we got we got boyfriends
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too. But, you know, we were the nice guy. So we, we just end up hanging out with these, these girls for, for
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basically two days and then got bored of them like,
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16:55
all right, we're going to go off and back do other stuff than that. Okay. So when we're hanging out in their room, which was not that close to ours like it was, it was a little bit of a walk to get to them. I do remember that was a different
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building, same complex, different building.
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Dude, they made this grilled cheese sandwich.
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The reader was out. It was it was so good. And I don't know, it was because I was in high school
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17:24
dehydrated and hung over
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17:27
whatever. But this sandwich was so
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17:30
good. I
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17:31
came home and tried to make that same sandwich. Not even close.
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17:37
It doesn't hit. It doesn't hit the same man. I was like, oh, these girls. I was like, I want you to be my, my, my team. Anyways, these like they're they're playing tapes for us or their boyfriend's like doing love raps for them. And I'm like, was like, you're dating rappers and they're like, I wonder.
U2
17:55
You ever wonder if any of their boyfriends that's our are on Jersey shore now? Because
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18:01
those are the kind of dudes they know. That's whatever dude.
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18:03
So yeah,
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18:05
that's oh my gosh. Yeah. They're you know GTL for life, man. And we learned about that in 95. Like I said I've
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18:13
never left Detroit. This is like a foreign planet to me. I've seen all this stuff. I will say this though, man. After we got back, kind of,
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18:20
you know, started I started 1s candle
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18:23
is a weird night, like hotels. So there was no, like, maid service, right? So after 2 or 3 days, I go
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18:30
back up to the room and hang out and
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18:32
we're out of toilet paper
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18:34
and some
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18:35
jabroni was like wiping his his ass with a towel and then tied in the shitty towel
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18:41
like, oh no. Yeah,
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18:44
I feel like it's like, oh, it's like shit. He was rooming 1s and I'm like, felt. That's my first moment, Jimmy,
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18:52
when I felt like, I'm going to be a dad. I went
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18:55
to a grocery store and got a bunch of cans of
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18:57
ravioli and food. I'm making it, you know,
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18:59
everybody else is blowing all their money on, like,
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19:01
dune buggies. You're the only one think that food
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19:05
and everybody ate your
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19:07
thing like, I'm. I'm the kid from Southgate. It's like. Like a
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19:11
dad. I don't know, man.
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19:13
Will say it was.
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19:16
Wish it would have ended out in Better
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Know because by the time the last, the last night we were there,
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19:22
we had again
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19:24
our rooms, the party room, you know. But the other room, all these jabroni just sneak off to the past, you know, pass out whatnot. 1s They got caught basically
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19:34
throwing like a can of
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19:36
beer at an empty, full can
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19:37
of beer down like a, you know, it was a missile. Almost hit some people in the hot tub. So security was they'd been looking to figure out which room all week came in. They like, they hold up the bag of water
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19:50
balloons and they're like, we got them, boys.
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19:52
This is the room. Like there's no match up forensically with the water balloons thrown from the balcony.
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19:58
A floors up all week.
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Um, I was like, guess
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they kicked us out. I was like, I'm packing up. We're all packing up. And, you know,
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these security guards are smelling like the shitty towels behind the dresser,
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and they're like, what the hell?
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After that? So
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we we got kicked out. Well, in our room, we always lie. The windows unlocked. We were like, hey, he just come out in. 1s Help yourself. I mean, we we would we would come back from the bar or hanging out at the beach and we would come in and on our pizza boxes were rule numbers and lipstick. A candle two when you get back. I mean, they would always leave little notes. But what I was getting to is so the security guards come up, they kick us all out, right? Well, us being high school kids thinking we're ninjas. So we sneak back into the room through that open window and
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we're like, yeah, we got these mothers. Well, one of the other kids that was with us, we won't say his name, but he's no longer actually around us. He get caught. Yeah, he got caught and he ran in all of us. Oh, dude.
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So then we all got kicked out.
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So yeah. So
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I, I don't, I don't know, I remember like I remember being real mad in Danny because think he was the one that actually threw the beer can. And then he was even in our room. He went back to his room and went to sleep and was in here and stuck at the bus stop with my suitcase. And I'm thinking, I'm deciding
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myself. I'm like, man, I want to throw hands. I'm so mad. He was the one. He told me later, he was coming up. He goes, and then new kid from South Gate says, shit, we're
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going, we're going to town. He was like, getting ready,
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man, you out? Did you like me at all? Yeah, and I love the guy now, man. He's probably fine. Look back at it. It was funny. Yeah. So
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the next I still got picture of us all miserable out there freezing and,
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you know, and the the
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sea tcby was security.
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So then we had. Yeah. Then we had to go back up to the hotel to meet our shuttle to the airport, and security's like, we're getting you for
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trespassing. What are you doing here? And you're like, we're sorry, bro. Our shuttles
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picking us up here to go to the airport. Is it cool? He's like, yeah,
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so mean. At least it was the last night we got kicked out. We got probably been called this night, uh, in South Padre Island because
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let's talk about lessons learned there,
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man, from that trip. Just lessons learned. Number one, I'm
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going to tell you right now, guys are disgusting. Girls are not. Because we also here's another side story. I took all these guys that barely knew
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to try to meet
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some girls that were next door at the Radisson that went to my high school. It was all the leaders and popular girls,
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and we rolled in just looking like. We're
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disgusting anyways.
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Couldn't be so. They made comment. This is why. Is that why you brought this up? No. Here's why they like Jesse. Who are those disgusting looking guys? Is this. Is this one? The story is going.
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Maybe. Listen, man, I'm. I'm killing life. Ain't got no. I ain't got no hang ups. What? My what the point
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was, was
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guys are disgusting and girls are not, because every girls room we went
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to, it smelled like potpourri, man. It was like everything was all made up and stuff. I'm like, couldn't believe it. But then again, we got giant
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beer cans, pyramids, shitty towels. Like, here's another
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thing. Here's another lesson learn, 1s uh, if
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you weigh £130
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and it wasn't me, it was another one of our friends.
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You cannot drink physically. Drank a fifth
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of Jack in 15 minutes and not nearly die. Um. He was close,
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so poor Kevin thought
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it'd be cool to drink a
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fifth of Jack. Um. And so when the
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cops came up in the ambulance came the taking the hospital 30 miles to Brown's. Brownsville. Brownstown. No.
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Uh, these Brownsville, the.
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He he got like a $1,500 medical
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bill that he had explained to his
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parents when he got home, and they kept him in a like, detox, like overnight. He said he kept all the hospital patients out because of his
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singing and stuff. I'm like, oh, poor Kevin. And so when he
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came, of course, the cops took all our beer too. We're like, thanks for the donation. These cops probably rolled all week, filled their stock, their beer fridges
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for a year, and the amount of conservation
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units can't do that nowadays.
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So yeah. So I've learned a lesson there. I'm like, I will never drink liquor
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after what I've watched him go through I mean don't. Oh my gosh.
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Number three, let's
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say sometimes it's better
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to get kicked out of a hotel than be arrested and feel like, you know, we have to talk about us getting kicked out of hotels.
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You know, some later episodes. I'm just saying, um, the other
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piece, I would say this, this
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is the most important. I made lifelong friends that are essentially low maintenance
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of all those ten guys. Or guess nine. I'm number ten if you count it. I could probably go and just call up and be like, hey man, let's
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go hang out. You'd be like, all right, man. It's been, what,
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28 years? You know, 20 years last month.
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I mean, not all of them. I'm gonna go want to hang out with, but I mean, could
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well, like I say, out of those nine, I could call out a sub. That's not
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bad. And going into that trip, you didn't know much, right? No.
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And about them and for
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we were we were fillings. Weird. We're at a scrimmage team. Yeah.
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But you know what? We want 1s everybody to do. It mean 1s we won.
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We just throw it out. Cliches like we had more fun than you. Ha ha. Anyways, they just needed us. 2s They needed us for the group discount. You're like, you know, your cell phone family plan. You're like, God, you want to put
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him on it. You know what? Let me ask you this though. So this is a podcast and it's pretty much dad versus debt. That vacation as a parent now
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would you?
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Lecture, kid, because we were there for like 13. It was 17. It was a normal spring, but it was doing. It was a long day's
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high schools, high school spring breaks were like, you
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know, they used to do like two weeks pregnant.
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Maybe it was ten. It was Saturday. That was we
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were the town. You know what? So
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yeah, I'll tell you this. When my kids were getting ready for spring break, I went with them. But it was different circumstances. I was
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I was living overseas
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and I took them to Guam. So they weren't gonna go to. What
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would I send up my 17 year old kids off to Cancun? Well,
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that's the news. I'm like, no, no,
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no, not happening. Not doing it along. Like
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maybe Cedar Point. I don't know, man. I don't know what you guys do about US
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soil. No, I'm not doing it. I'm not letting them. I'm not letting them. My kid asked me. I'm like, no, man. I'm the way to 18 Nikki overseas. And
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maybe that's the difference because we're Gen X
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and. No, I'm just saying, like. Like you
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think I don't know, there's there's no way. Maybe if you raise them right, you have make smart decisions.
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Um. It depends. God, that's a crappy answer, right? Depends.
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Well, I mean, the good news is you got four years
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to to think about, you know,
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by then, and I mean, my kid's
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idea is spring break is, you know, a 72 hour gaming session in the basement. Like, he doesn't care about Haunted Beach. Well,
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they
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all a lot happened in four years. At 13, I wasn't thinking about girls in bikinis and spring break. Young man. Making me or about
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your choosing or just
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saying, like was just one of your opinion on if, you know, do you think our parents were crazy or was it just a different
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time? Different time? Yeah. You know what happened that week. Yeah.
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The big national. Yeah.
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That was thing that was
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a Oklahoma City bombing. Yeah.
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And it was like two. Yes. Two days later I'm like,
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didn't know what people are talking
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about. That's that's the that's where
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I was in life. Like we didn't watch news or cared. Right.
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No news. And I want to say that we had the best like winning season it that season two. We knew nothing about that. Someone brought a damn Genesis with us to remember that. Oh, I don't remember that.
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Oh, you don't remember the gaming system? I got a picture, actually. Oh, yeah. Video game. Who brought that? I think Joel brought that
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because we play NHL
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hockey like NHL hockey.
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94, 95. That was like 94 NHL hockey 94 is like literally the best sports game. I'll fight you over that. Like. Listen, don't get me started on, on,
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on video games because,
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well, we'll get to hobbies and later episodes.
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Yeah. Oh my gosh. But
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yeah, you're right. Spring break. So that's how we met. And somehow, through all miracles, we stayed friends over this year. Because you know what?
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I after that spring break trip, I left Michigan
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like six weeks later.
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And I've never I've never moved
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back. I visited
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literally Michigan six times in 28 years. Is that that's wild. And and we're
U2
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still friends. I really don't know if it's because a baseball, because honestly, if there is no baseball, I don't think we would have indicated as much as we do now. It was just the owner text. I'm not good at it. Even mean I prompt you more of this this month than I have two friends who stood up in their weddings, who I would call in a jam when I'm here, like I'm horrible at texting and falling out of
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the well. Yeah, well,
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you know what? I'll wrap. I'm going to wrap this one up because I want to do the next episode and let's talk about how our paths diverse
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and how and maybe
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why we're the parents from today.
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I think that's the purpose of this podcast, this, you know, this it's kind of a test session. Guys, don't judge us on this one. It's
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just one. And like I said, every every idea is a good idea until you act on it. But you
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know, me meeting up with you at
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Easter, you're like, hey,
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dude, I'm gonna do a podcast. I'm like,
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30:25
whatever, man, all right?
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But I feel like I'm doing all this work. What did you get? What you do to me here, man,
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30:31
that was on you, dude like that. And so I didn't put you to work like, it was just. That was drunk. And. Jimmy. Jimmy, don't get drunk a lot. So I was sober
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my best. But but you took and you ran with it, like when you called me up and like, hey, blah. I'm like, shit, dude, I didn't know, like, well, I don't know. Well,
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might have just been joking, but now here we are. It's a reality and we're going to run with it, dude. And we are going
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to you know, what was really shocking was, you know, a lot of times when
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you call me, I got you on speakerphone, you know, my wife's listening in. Just open kimono. You know, 1s you make her laugh so much
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how excited you are about
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all this. And I'm like, from my point of view,
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I'm like, I'm just doing this for fun so I could talk to my buddy.
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31:22
Don't want. 2s Wait till I started telling people about all the mistakes I made as a dad. Oh my gosh, my kids. Listen. Hold on. What are your. Are your kids healthy mentally?
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Are they healthy? 1s Yeah, man. Okay.
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By my standards, yes.
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Have they made good life decisions? For the most part, that is,
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that is a depends. Depends. They could get mad at me
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31:52
because in their mind, they'd probably. Yeah, man. I'm
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31:55
made great life decisions. And I'm
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31:56
like, you have made horrible, poor choices.
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What I'm getting at here is you didn't make a mistake. If you made a mistake, they would be in a different
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path. Well,
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in life as of right now. Todd. Guess time with time will tell. Time will tell. Time will tell. My
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Maya put it this way. Asked my kids.
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The the older ones
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was like, hey, I need a pretty much. I need a list of
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32:22
off off the book like stories that are off limits. Yeah. I
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32:25
mean, and I was like, can I talk? Can I talk about x, y or Z? And they're like. And what kids like. Absolutely. No. What you think is hilarious stories was very traumatizing for me. Like, all right. So I'm like no respect that.
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And and you just and you just found
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it. Oh yeah.
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Like you don't know that.
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Well, you know, at the time anyway, it's the in the
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other kids like, hey, I don't want you to talk about this,
U1
32:49
but you can talk about this. I'm like, cool. And then my youngest,
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32:53
the 13 year old,
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32:54
he doesn't know what podcast is, so he's like whatever. Anyways. Oh,
U2
32:57
really? He doesn't know? Are you being
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serious? No, man. Here's. So here's another thing. He my wife is like, why do you put so much energy into trying to talk about single dad and married dad is like, your son wants to become a YouTuber and a streamer was good for him and he should learn how to do that. Then
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says no, you get to help
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them. I'm like,
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33:20
oh man, he's good. So he's got his older brothers helping them
U1
33:23
and but she's telling me,
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33:27
hey, if he's not going to do sports
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33:28
and stuff, you need to go help them do that. That could be your thing together. And I'm like, I like playing video games. I don't like watching YouTube of other people playing video games. And how do you think I'm going to feel about watching my kid
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stream like,
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33:44
video games? Just oh my gosh, I'm like, so guess what the secret to do at
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33:50
all you have to do is subscribe to this channel when needed. Art. You should always be interested. Yeah, there you go
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was I was supportive in spirit. So guess what? Because I've been
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married almost 25 years, I just do whatever my
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wife says and I'm going to have to go help set up his. Man was it Twitch now streaming.
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34:10
Yeah. Well, I was going to talk to you about that, didn't you? Should we get on the twitch down the line? You know what kind of feel like do is feel like. Don't know if you watch something on you watch Seinfeld. Know you don't. Okay.
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Don't watch TV hardly at all,
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but. Well, I'm just saying,
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34:26
unless it's in a 15 second clip on TikTok on my way to the airport, it's really sad feeling watching.
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Just kind of feel like right now we're Jerry and George and they're trying to do a pilot for NBC.
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34:40
Let's show that on that thing. 3s Let me go. Let me be the first to go out. Apologize to anybody listening to this. You're
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like, oh, man, I'm gonna
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34:49
tune in. I'm gonna
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34:51
tune in to the get some real life dad advice. And then we we
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find out that, hey, these guys, like, reminiscing about poopy towels
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35:02
behind the dresser. I'm like, yeah, I'll tell you what. Let's let's give a teaser. We'll put a pin on this one. A teaser for episode two, how our past diverse in the 90s and then see, see how guess I became dead
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35:19
fast as hell. Oh,
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whoa. And we'll see how our 20s were different as one of us was becoming a dad, and one of us was just being my daddy. I'm actually glad we didn't title this show in daddy's hour. That was you that.
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35:40
Yeah, it was, it was. It was a cheaper domain name, believe it or not. I'm just saying.
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Just call me daddy.
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35:47
Think I might want to. Until next time. Jimmy Johnson, we're dads. Could be dead. Jimmy's
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out. Jesse, we will see you later.