Are school supply lists are getting out of hand. Is stabbing yourself with a pencil really that uncommon? Are crocs part of your must haves for school? Let's get ready for more annoying emails from the teachers. It's back to school time.
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Hi, welcome to the Dad's Rs podcast where dad can be a dad.
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Hi, I'm Jesse, and I'm here with my good buddy Jimmy, also known as welcome back. Also
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known as also known as Burton Ernie it
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oh, here we go. Let
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you pick which one. 2s I'll just tell you what, right now, you're the one in the tub with the duck. I don't even know which one that is. 3s Rubber duck looking mother. There's rumors. I guess Sesame Street eventually is going to answer the age old question if they're just buddies or really, really good buddies. All right, so this episode we're going to be talking about, back to School. It's that time of year. Back to school special.
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Man, did this summer go fast.
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To me, it still feels like summer. I tell you what, we're starting school here basically this week, whereas I've got some friends out there posting their pictures. School already started. 1s Really where we grew up. And you still there. It was always after Labor Day. September. Right. Well,
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I talked to someone yesterday and I guess a lot of schools now are starting before Labor Day. I haven't confirmed that. But he was saying that he's been hearing a lot more schools starting before Labor Day. Which I always thought was just silly anyway because start on 1s know, you go Thursday, you're off.
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I feel like that's something that started back in the farming days at Gregarian schedule. But by law, and I don't know what it is in Illinois, but I used to know this when I was in elementary school. High school, Michigan was kids had to go to school for 282 days a year. So if you missed a day okay, you had a makeup day, so oh, man. Is that the president calling you? I heard your phone go. Off you get.
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I'm putting it on silent.
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He's such a professional. All right, man, first things first. Back to school to do list. 2s We start off with school Supply eyes. Now, you being the single dad, is this under your realm of responsibility? Because this is something I push
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off on my wife and I think she hates it. 2s It. Well, 1s I take care of it. And I absolutely hate it because if you get there too early, you don't want to be there too early. But if you don't get there in time, like, everything is picked over. You need a yellow highlighter. Guess what? There's no more yellow highlighters. You got to get, you know, and of course, the kid doesn't have anything from last year that he could reuse because it all went in the garbage the last day of school. Time to clean out the desk.
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How do you know what to get?
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Yeah, they send out a full list of things, man. Actually, I'm going to bring up his
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list. Here's the thing. What he needs the way I look at this,
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because I haven't even done that yet,
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so you don't even know you haven't done this yet? When's your son start school?
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He starts on the 20 eigth.
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Okay, then you excuse me. You're such a professional. Yeah. So you got time. So you're in that zone where you said right now, I feel like it's not too get. If you have the list in hand, you can go and get it. Oh,
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I have the list. They sent the list the last day of school. I
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tell Joni, I'm like, why are you complaining about doing this teacher's list? Because we also get the list. And it's weird because they put some weird stuff on there. Now they're doing it off Amazon, like, hey, this is for the class. Or we need a fun clock. We need lots of candy. And some of the stuff is getting really specific. Like we need Kleenex, but not like Hyper-allergenic. I'm just confused because I don't remember ever needing so much Kleenex in a classroom. But that's always on the list, right? I can't complain. These teachers can put anything on the list. And I'm like, you know what? You're about to deal with my kid, and I know my kid. For the next year, I will hook you up. But granted,
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you are right. Them, I've seen tons of. 2s People post on Facebook that are teachers. Hey, here's my Amazon List. I need help filling it.
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So when I do that, they give you the option. Do you want to gift it and be anonymous? No, I want them exactly 2s transparent. I want them to know who's bankrolling 1s this slush fund here. So, hey, you got all the cool stuff. Yeah. Courtesy of kid XYZ. Now, of course, all the poor kids are like, hey, man, your parents don't love you, I guess.
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Yeah, I'm trying to find this list. Just, I can't even
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find it. Here's the problem. We get the list, right? 1s So my son starts school this week on the 15th, 2s middle of August. To me, it's still summer, but whatever. And she goes to Walmart, and it's basically a fight. I was like, Why do you bring our son? You can go and get school supplies without his say so. And she's like, no, I want him to pick his color backpack and his folders. And I'm like, what's wrong with the backpack? He already has some sort of rule where you need a new backpack for, like, it's a new season. Like, hey, what's in dolce and cabana? I don't get it. On the part of supplies, he'll always say, I want the coolest, most expensive crap. 2s Like, he doesn't. I don't know, and I'm not even joking, and I'm embarrassed to say this. I don't even know if he knows how to use a pencil sharpener. I got to have mechanical pencils. No, man,
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I don't think any kid nowadays even knows what that is. It's probably too dangerous. Some kid probably stuck his finger in it at one point and sued the district, and now these things are gone. Oh, my
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gosh. What if he's got, like, now that are selling pencil dollars? I can't have them, too. Sharp pencil sharpeners.
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As a kid, did you ever accidentally stab yourself with a sharp pencil? Yeah.
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I still have an embedded piece of pencil in my thigh that I can
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my thigh, too. It's in my leg. I don't understand. I'm
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wearing shorts, and I'm looking at it right now. It's part of me. It's part of my yeah.
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I don't understand how that happened. Okay, that's something weird that I've never told anybody. And the fact that you asked that question, it makes me wonder how many other people out there have the same little buddy embedded in
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your skin? So.
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When you had three kids, did first day of school kindergarten, did any of your kids cry?
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I feel like this is the part where I say I'm probably not the best parent, because I can't remember if I even went. And I don't know, I might have gone. I can't remember. But I do remember my wife telling me when she would take them would be super, just bawling. And these schools, I remember they had to set up where they call it, like, I don't know, kleenex and Krispies. Like, you get Donuts and 1s Krispy. Kreme and kleenex. So these parents would drop the kids off and then cry. 1s This is such a life accomplishment. And then they're like, all right, let's go. All the parents hang out for Donuts and celebrate. And you're like, oh, my gosh. 3s When they were five, she used to love going out and getting them new school clothes where, oh, they're decked out. You get all the best. Granted, at that age, by Christmas, none of these clothes know get the fresh haircut. But then something happens over the years where she goes to Walmart. My kids like, you're not getting me clothes from Walmart. So they went to Walmart this week, and they argued over she wanted to get all the cheap supplies. And he's like, no, I want the best. And she's like, Why? You're going to lose this shit in a month. He will. 1s And it's like, constant. I just got to load up my house like I have an office and be like, all right, take what you need. The other big fight is the clothes. And I'm like, he's got plenty of clothes. And she's like, he's got clothes made for essentially the summer shorts and T shirts. I'm like, Kids wear that year round. But she's
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like, yeah. I was going to say 2s they have a rule in school when shorts can't be worn or they're able to just wear whatever
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and wear whatever, man. And then saying, I can never wear shorts in school. Now it's like, no, we want the kids comfortable and wear whatever.
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Yeah, see, my son, they have uniforms, but the first two weeks, they can wear whatever they want. But then they have a cut off, like October 1 or second week in October. No more short. Oh, my God. Has to be the uniform. I miss the uniform days of the uniform 1s because that would take away
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so much stress where I don't have to pay for seven different colored crocs.
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You remember, you get one pair
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of shoes, now
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they need crocs.
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I'm like, you wear that with socks and stuff, and it's different colored socks. And I'm like, you can get that crap at Walmart
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again. How many no, how many pairs of cracks are in your house?
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One, and they're red. 1s And that's the problem. Everyone else has got the friends. The peer pressure is ridiculous. So I'm going to have to ask my wife. I have to go phone a friend and find out just how many crocs do we have? And I could go down and ask my kid, but he's in his dungeon, the basement. It who knows? We have none. None in the house. I've never worn a pair. My son's never worn a pair.
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But he's going to need
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give it a couple of years. A couple of years and no kid's going to want to wear them. They're going to be dated. That's how it works.
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Well, what about the
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haircut? 2s Back to school haircut fight
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over that? He's getting it. I think yesterday he got it or this weekend his mom's getting it.
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Would he ever do summertime? We used to do summertime mohawks. Now the kids want their hair so long. You can never do that. Yeah,
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he doesn't want to cut his hair. That's the issue. That's the issue here.
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Well,
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they can't touch the collar, can't touch the ears.
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Also, this is part of the uniform. They got a whole it's kind of very military esque. Catholics don't mess around.
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Dress shoes. Blue dress pants. Why do you think gray. Why do you think they're so
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strict? Hair.
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Last year, they weren't so strict. I think this year they're going to take it up a notch,
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though. I just want to know why. What's the purpose? I have just clean cut, maybe.
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I mean, I want to say Jesus had long hair. Why can't
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I? Good point. Jesus. Like,
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if I was a kid, I'd be like, look at Jesus'hair.
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Okay, you can make that argument, but I want you to follow it up. But that being said, Jesus was Jewish.
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Here we go. No politics or religion. Come on.
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I'm stating facts. But again, that might be right. Oh, man, jesus is my bro.
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But see, what stinks about this uniform is you have to go to this specific store
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so prices are fixed to
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get no competition. And they're 2s skyrocketing. It's
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nuts. You know what's got to is I went to Catholic school. I've told you this, right? St. Mary Magdalene in Melvindale. But 1s they didn't have uniforms there at the time. It was just wear nice clothes. But then I moved to Southgate St. Pius. The 10th. I don't know how many St. Piuses are there. And they had these the light blue shirts and the navy blue pants, which is cool. And then you had to wear clip on, like tie, because 1s the tie that was the best part. We had to wear a tie. And I'm like, it was clip on, man. Fourth grade. Fifth grade. Yeah, right. I didn't learn to do a tie until I was in high school. But I would come to school, I wouldn't iron my clothes. I would get in trouble because they're just by the letter of the law, I'm wearing the right clothes. They're just wrinkly. I don't know, 1s if they weren't mad at me, they didn't care. But I'd always irritate them. So that's the stuff I get in trouble for.
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Like I said, this is a gray polo, so it doesn't really wrinkle too bad. Has to wear a belt and then some sort of loafers.
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You know what? I think that's a great uniform. Just a nice simple polo and pants. That way every
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it's not bad. Every kid's wearing
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the same thing. They don't have to compete with each other. Like, I got to deal with all these crocs. Every kid's going to look the same, and it's one less distraction. They can just learn. 2s And then for gym, they have a gym uniform
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sweatpants. We do that in public
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school, too,
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with the school logo and yellow or blue T shirt. So now on those days, you get to wear comfy clothes to school. So when you have gym, you get to wear your sweats or sweats shorts with your tennis shoes.
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Oh, then the kids so that's another issue. The tennis shoes now are ridiculous. So kids aren't allowed to wear public school here also have a gym uniform, and you're forced to pay whatever price they are because it's the school colors and logo. And the problem is, these kids get it stolen all the time. They have to pay for their locks, too, and to get the shoes stolen. Yeah, my son has got his shoes and stuff stolen because I can't figure out how to operate a lock. It's really annoying. 1s So by the time Christmas goes, I have to go in there and buy a whole new set of 2s shorts and all that. What's funny is some kids, they're like, I don't want to wear shorts and stuff. So they let the kids wear jeans, gym class and make them put their shorts over top of it. And I wish I was making that up, but my wife subbed classes and she goes, no, man, that's a thing. And the kids are cool with it. I'm not making
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that up. You serious?
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Yeah. They're like, any way to get around. 2s The uniform, the rules. Insane
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right now. Is this high school or junior high?
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Junior high is a story she told me.
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So, is this because they don't want to change in school? Yes, because they're embarrassed.
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Really? That's my guess. I'm speculating because why would you not? Or you don't have a lock and you're afraid to put your jeans in a locker. Okay, but it could be I don't want to get 1s know. And you're like, if a kid played that card, as in a school administrator or teacher what do you
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mean? Get naked
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in front of me? No, you don't say.
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Well, I don't think you could even address that. 1s All right, everyone out of the dressing room. Jesse's got to change. 1s How do you do that? So I guess I would leave that alone, too. I guess I would be like, I ain't touching that.
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Oh, gosh. So public school is different. So last week, my wife takes the kid in and get registered, get his schedule. Turns out he had study hall all year. He goes, no, I wanted this elective, and that elective, and it's probably something we screwed up anyways, but my wife is friends with Admin.
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Wait, back up. Hold on. 3s Shouldn't he be picking his own classes? Like, how is that your fault? That if you guys did it wrong?
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Well, he did give us a list. Like, they send home a list, we check the boxes, 1s but they don't let the kid. 2s Bring it back and have all the say. Because I think the teachers in administration don't trust the kids to pick classes because I think in the past, the parents were like, why has my kid got choir all year? I don't want this. Even though the kid did. I want him to have tech or computers or whatever. So the kid in my house, Brody, would pick, and we're like, Sound was good. We don't care. Whatever. It's junior high, dude. And then the parents would have to email it in as part of this school package. Record. When we send in the shots, the immunizations, here's my mortgage, here's my bill. We live in the school district. Even though my kids have been going to the same school, I have to redo this every year. And it's like, just approve. And that's, like, a big deal because people, they're very sensitive on where they go to school. And then the people in a school district are like, we don't want any outside cities coming in. I'm like, oh, my God. Who cares? But it's a big deal. So that being said, he goes in there last week, he gets his IDs, which we have to pay for school IDs, we have to pay for a lock, and we pay for gym clothes.
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How often do they use the school
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ID? You can't walk around without an ID around your neck, above the waist.
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Present. Okay. Like, do you need to swipe it to get into
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school, too? Just a picture. No, saying this is just and I belong here. 6th, 7th, and Eigth grade ID
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badge. Now, do you think that is because of back in our generation, we had people that were twins that were going to school for each other?
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No. 2s There's no way they would expend that amount of energy and resources because of twins. They do that because they don't want outside kids rolling in there, pretending, like, roaming the halls, posing as junior high kids that don't belong in that school. It's just a one layer of security. It's just weird.
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But 1s is that an issue? I've never heard of a kid going to
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another school. Here's the deal. It's problematic in the high school. When you get high school dropouts and stuff and they come in there and maybe they're selling illegal substances, they're causing trouble. They're worried about the safety of the child. And I feel like if they start they don't do this in elementary school, by the way, but they start this process, this behavior, habit forming things in junior high, like get used to wearing an ID badge. It just translates when they go to high school. Again, I'm speculating. It could be a whole different reason. And please, for the audience, email in and tell us if I'm way off. I don't know. I'm just guessing here. 1s Well, this is a little off topic, but I was actually it's funny that IDs came up because I was in the gas station today, and on the door they have we scan IDs.
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So in my head, I'm thinking, 3s in my opinion, it's easier now for people to use other people's IDs, right? But let's say you gave me that. Let's say there's someone that doesn't really look at pictures. They're not doing math anymore. So I take someone else's ID. The cashier scans it. I'm 18. The ID says I'm 21. But they scan. Oh, it's
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good. Yeah. You know, why did they
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just make it easier? They
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did. And then in the same token, they also made it to where the person who scanned it isn't held liable. Because I'm like it's subjective. I'm like picture is close enough, even though they didn't look at it. And I have evidence that I checked ID because I scanned it. Win win.
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Yeah, I was just thinking of that. I'm like, wow, man,
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all the issues in the world today. 1s To me, somebody trying to buy an alcoholic drink when they're 19 versus 21 is, like, such so low on my ladder of giving yeah.
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My opinion. I know this is off subject, but dude, if you're able to go serve your country at 18, you should be able to go to a damn bar and have a beer. That's just my opinion.
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Yeah, don't get me started. Neither here or nor. Yeah, don't get me started on that ramp, brother. Probably
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sensitive with you, but yeah. All right. Back to the school. Serve
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my country, and I'm forced to drive 3 hours to Canada to have a beer. The fuck is that? Well, anyways, hey, just be lucky that you were close enough
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to Canada,
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Montana. Yeah. I'm very grateful. I wasn't stationed in Texas and I had to drive to
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dude, I think Tijuana would have been better than
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Canada. Yeah. At least you could have seen a donkey show. 1s But do I want to? 2s But back to those IDs. What's crazy is let's transition to when the kids the first day of college and they get those IDs, they also have to pay. 1s For my kids to even get into their own dormitories, they had to scan an ID. 1s In this way. They had, like, a record of when kids were coming and going and in college. This day and age, they want these parents back home to feel a little safer about sending their 1819 year old kids who can't make decisions of whether how to drink responsibly.
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I'm hoping by that time, Brody's able to pick his own classes.
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Me too, bro.
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Let's be honest. I don't think I have to worry about Brody going to college or having to pick. 3s There's the first
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edit. I'm not editing that out. I want him to know where my expectations lie for him. But he talks about college. Have you ever been to oh, gosh, there's different types of parents, and you're like the type of parents that go back to school shopping at Walmart versus the ones that want to go to 1s Know. Is
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there a big difference?
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In a mom's point of view, I would say yes again. I'm speculating, ladies. See, now, when I
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was a kid when I was a kid, Hudson's was off limits. I was the Mervins kid. Oh, God, I hated Mervins. Mervins and JC. Fucking Pennies. God, I hated them. 2s I haven't heard of those stores in so many years. I'd almost have to google. They
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obviously didn't last. JCPenney. Is still around.
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Is that
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considered the low end? Because I've got to stop buying my workout there.
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Well, I think back then, 1s I'm wearing shit from ten years ago, dude. I couldn't tell you the last time my ass went into a store and bought me something new, whether it be autumn, spring suit, summer date, whatever, dude, I'm wearing shit ten years ago.
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What about Kohl's, man? My wife told me she was complaining just recently. She goes, I can't even go to Kohl's to get deals. They mark everything up triple. And then they're like, but it's on sale for still a high price, Coles. Cash too difficult,
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all that. The only way I go to Kohl's, dude, is when I'm returning something to Amazon.
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Oh, yeah. Good point. All right, so the college kids now, I go to the stores, and you could tell when the parents are miserable and they're buying all their kids the clothes and stuff because they're younger. But when they get ready for college and I've seen this this last couple of weeks, these parents show up, they're buying furniture, they're getting the mini fridges, and I'm just like, what the hell? I was like, It just got more expensive back to school. I'm like, These kids are supposed to be adults. But then I look back, I'm like, I bought my kid a laptop. Our friends of ours bought them a mini fridge as a high school graduation gift. And then the ladies get up there after they spend all this time wheeling and dealing, they got to pick their dorms and the rooms, and then they're surprised who the roommate is. They go in there, and there's this culture of decorating. The ladies, if they have daughters, they will decorate their college dorm rooms like princess bedrooms. It's ridiculous. In the
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really? I'm
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telling you, you don't know this because your son's young, but this is a thing, and I'm not making it up. And then. 2s Because I see this with my friends on, say, the Facebook, where the next three weeks, we're about to see the stupid ass back to school.
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I stopped that in, like, third grade. Like, I still take a picture
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for me. Yes,
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but I don't post it anymore. No one needs to know my fucking son's going, no, you got to hold up the chalkboard. My favorite color said, my favorite food is pizza. 2s As a single dad, my son never had that because I don't do that shit. He just had the picture with his oh, hey, Mama. Mama, sita. 2s Sorry. Your wife I
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got a special guest. My wife just dropped in while I'm in the middle of a rant on back to school post and pictures and and shit. But with the colleges, what they'll do is they'll post pictures of the decorated rooms and all that, and then you're like,
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now, are there parents out there that make their kids going into college? Hold a chalkboard.
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Oh, that would be hilarious. No, I do have friends that do that. That oh, we'll
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be funny just like we were little.
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And of course, the kids are, like, horrible. You know, the first so the first time we took Taylor to college, and that was an event for me. Like, this was a milestone for me. As know anything with the first kid is how
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old were you? 1s Oh, gosh, this is only six years ago, so okay. Yeah, I was 39.
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I was 39, and I look kind of like I do now. Man. Dope as hell. I'm carrying some stuff
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minus the earrings at that time. No,
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it's hardcore military, so I had no earrings. But was insane to me was you pull up to the dorms and they have, like, 50 upperclassmen, and they just come and help you unload everything in your truck, your van. I was living in Japan, so we had to take a vacation to come to Arkansas. And guess what? We had to buy all these furniture, like a curtain rod for their closet, because the closet didn't have doors. I had to buy bedding. I had to buy all that stuff. And it was expensive because I didn't live in Cut. So I'm in the Walmart, and I'm fighting all these other parents over. 3s Carry a bathroom tote I had to buy all these things that they needed to live. A pillow. So we got this
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a new he couldn't use an old
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pillow. He did not bring one over with him from Japan. No. We are only limited so many suitcases. Jimmy 2s Bert. I'll be Ernie. All right. 4s The kids come up the upperclassmen, and they start unloading the van. And they're like we give them the name, the room number and all that. So as we're caring, this one dude looks at me and he's got it tipped
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them. No, fuck them. He had a full grown beard and stuff. And he looks at me and goes, oh, man, dead serious. He goes, you helping your little brother move in? And I look over to my wife. I'm like, yeah, little bro's, got a big day. You see that lady over there? That's my side piece. And I'm pointing to my wife because I guess we look way too young. And I look around at all the other parents again, this is the part of the issue. Having kids. Having kids. Teen pregnancy is no joke. I look at all the other parents and I'm like, oh, my God. They look old as hell. They can't lift anything, nor do they need all this help. 1s Twist. Plot
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twist on the story. The guy's like, oh, okay, cool. Nice side piece. Whatever. Anyways. And Joni's just like, shut up. He's the dad. 1s Plot twist. Some of the kids took half of his stuff to the wrong floor, wrong room, and we had to spend 2 hours looking for it. And it's like one of the things they took the wrong room is, like, a $1000 laptop. I'm like, Are you kidding me? So then they finally found it.
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All right, back up again. Why in the hell I understand a fridge, a couch, a bed. You can't carry a freaking laptop yourself? That's $1,000. That's your fault. That's your fault if it got lost or stolen there, buddy.
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It is. 1s We are living in a culture in Japan, Pan, where everybody's property was so respected that no one would lock their doors. 2s Unfortunately, we had to get basically re acclimated. This is america. You don't take your eyes off your property. 1s So oh, my gosh. So 1s it was such a god, such a difference from his first day of kindergarten where we're laughing because he didn't know how to use scissors, to now first day of college, and he's like, oh, I forgot. Good thing I bought a pit. I'm buying bedding and we're losing laptops. I'm like, oh, my gosh. So I guess that's what you had to look forward to, dude.
U1
32:09
Yeah. A couple more years. Seven more years.
U2
32:15
Oh, gosh, I can't wait. So you know what comes next, man? When we start posting this podcast, I'm going to flood all our social medias with stupid back to school memes. I can't wait. 1s Love it.
U1
32:31
And so you said your son starts tomorrow or Monday?
U2
32:34
Wednesday. Middle of the week again. Weird as shit, right?
U1
32:38
Yeah.
U2
32:39
My wife was offered she's a substitute teacher. She was offered a full time substitute teacher literally the first day of school. Like, which teacher is calling off the first day of school? And then they're want to we need a long term sub for study hall. She's like, what's? It pay. Essentially, the state of Illinois, minimum wage. She was like, Nah, we good. She likes going different classes, seeing different kids. She won't be tied right like that well,
U1
33:05
and especially for just minimum wage. I mean, they can't be
U2
33:09
like they can get any person who passes a security background check to basically sit in study hall. Whereas to be a substitute teacher, you actually need a college degree and all that. So obviously there's more skill involved, there's better pay. So that's what she's going to do. 1s You want to get some shout outs before we close?
U1
33:32
That's your thing. You want to shout out, go right
U2
33:35
ahead. I would say I'll give a shout out to a couple, I guess a couple Detroit friends. Joe Biley. Pete. Pete Bandy. Pete. Pete never going to listen this episode because he doesn't have kids. 1s Joe's got
U1
33:51
older. I don't even think Joe listens.
U2
33:54
Well, he better because he's taking his daughter her to college and he needs to know these anecdotes. I'm just throwing that out. Yeah.
U1
34:01
So what's some advice to parents out there that have kids going to college for the first time this year from your experience?
U2
34:11
I got two. That's good. I got two important pieces of information. One, if your child has a car 1s feel like that's a mistake. I don't think you should ever give your child a car to drive around the first year of college. Just take my word. I
U1
34:28
thought
U2
34:29
that a lot of schools don't allow
U1
34:31
it. Right, that's what I was going to say. I thought freshmen weren't allowed cars,
U2
34:36
but. It goes by school.
U1
34:38
But I guess I'm sure there's ways around it
U2
34:41
true. 2s If you went to a college that was like down the street from your home, stay parked at home. But two, if it's a far enough, why would you wait college and say they do allow cars? Maybe you're gonna maybe it's like 3 hours away. Whatever. You got to drive. Teach your kids how to change a tire before they go to school. That's the weirdest thing to get 2s a phone call for. Also, get one of those magnetic locks that you can stick underneath your car, like a hideaway box or whatever, and put a spare key in there because in case your kid locks his keys in his car and you're like, they're away at college, you got a spare key back home,
U1
35:23
let them or their dad.
U2
35:25
I'm not saying that happened to me this week, but it may or may not have. And it's very expensive to have a locksmith come out and open up your car. Two, 1s those are just funny jokes. Teach your kid, yeah, change tire, whatever. Here's the most important piece of advice I would say and tell my audience and leave away. 2s Your child may or may not decide to call you one night out, two in the morning and they may or may not be inebriated. Your first instinct is to get pissed, like, why are you calling me crazy drunk? Or, you know, are you trouble? My advice to you is to not get mad or not show any emotion, because when their child is 1819, they are trying to figure out how to live, how to be an adult. And if you go nuclear and you yell at them the next time they are in trouble and they need help, they will not call you. And I'm telling you, there is nothing you can accomplish by getting crazy mad at them and cutting off that communication. So that's my big piece of advice.
U1
36:36
Well, I have some advice, too. So if you have boys going to college, don't forget to tell them to wrap it because they're going to run into that hussey. Oh, don't worry, I'm on birth control. Just stick it in. Don't ever trust
U2
36:56
it. Don't
U1
36:58
wrap it. Make sure it's wrapped. I didn't want to get women out there. Make sure you are on birth control if you decide to get
U2
37:06
dipsticked. Since we raise our children correctly, that's a conversation that's probably not needed. They're good. And your son and my sons, they know what consent means 1s and what it doesn't mean. It's good.
U1
37:24
I'm just giving some friendly advice to those kids out there leaving home for the first time, you will run into those people, oh, don't worry, 1s I'm on birth control. But I'll tell you what, when you're my age, you get the old, oh, don't worry, my tubes are tied. Don't ever trust it.
U2
37:47
Ain't nothing wrong with becoming a parent early. All right, man. Hey, for everyone out there, if you got any ideas, anything you want to hear us talk about or give bad parenting advice to, just reach out to us on Dadsr Uspodcast@gmail.com or easier just Instagram or Facebook and then, yeah, man, we give you those shout outs. We can answer those questions. All right, man, till next time. Peace.