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common. 00:04:01.759 --> 00:04:04.319 I almost asked Chris for a loan. 00:04:04.479 --> 00:04:11.759 Yes, because first he has no children he's paying for in college, and second, because he's got SpaceX money. 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:12.879 A hundred percent. 00:04:13.280 --> 00:04:15.680 So Uncle Elon, you know. 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:26.800 So, but now as we get into the things that we cherished in going back to school, I can't wait to hear the different perspective that some of us have. 00:04:26.959 --> 00:04:28.240 That's ultra the rest of it. 00:04:28.560 --> 00:04:35.759 Because I have a feeling that there are two of us that are not going to share the same advantages, let's just say. 00:04:36.079 --> 00:04:36.959 And that's okay. 00:04:37.199 --> 00:04:37.439 Right. 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:43.279 It's we hey, it's it's a unique world, and all of us bring something unique to it. 00:04:43.439 --> 00:04:44.160 So let's hear it. 00:04:44.319 --> 00:04:44.639 Yep. 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:57.279 So what the first question is what would be the one thing that you would look back on your childhood and say, that was probably the coolest thing that I just had to have and was able to have. 00:04:57.519 --> 00:05:01.439 Uh my favorite going back to school supply. 00:05:02.879 --> 00:05:07.120 Now that you've you've tasted the coffee at least, I'm I'm proud of you for doing that. 00:05:07.360 --> 00:05:08.000 Now I'm drinking it. 00:05:08.240 --> 00:05:14.000 Now you're now you can make that anytime. 00:05:14.160 --> 00:05:14.480 That's great. 00:05:14.639 --> 00:05:14.959 Awesome. 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:16.480 So would Janie like that? 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:17.279 Yes. 00:05:17.519 --> 00:05:21.439 I think anybody who even remotely likes the smell of coffee would like that. 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:21.759 Yeah. 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:23.439 That's just a that's delicious. 00:05:23.680 --> 00:05:25.120 That's a double shot of espresso. 00:05:25.360 --> 00:05:27.759 So it was one shot for you and one shot for you. 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:29.199 So I'm getting a double shot of espresso. 00:05:29.439 --> 00:05:29.600 Yeah. 00:05:29.759 --> 00:05:30.319 Double, double. 00:05:30.639 --> 00:05:30.879 Yum. 00:05:31.120 --> 00:05:31.199 All right. 00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:32.000 So what anyway? 00:05:32.480 --> 00:05:32.720 All right. 00:05:32.800 --> 00:05:38.720 So the the one thing that you would look back on and say, man, that was the coolest school supply. 00:05:38.879 --> 00:05:41.439 That, you know, all the cool kids had to have this. 00:05:41.519 --> 00:05:43.279 I actually got this or whatever. 00:05:43.519 --> 00:05:47.439 What in your mind was like, oh man, that was that was something that was special? 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:48.399 Go ahead. 00:05:49.120 --> 00:05:53.680 I remember getting a trapper keep trapper keeper folder pack. 00:05:53.920 --> 00:05:54.079 Yep. 00:05:54.399 --> 00:05:57.199 And it was pretty cool because I had a folder for each class. 00:05:57.279 --> 00:06:02.079 And and, you know, when you're in fifth grade, sixth grade, that was kind of a it was kind of a cool deal. 00:06:02.480 --> 00:06:04.399 Did you get one with a picture on it or just a solid color? 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:04.959 Just solid. 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:05.600 I got solid. 00:06:05.680 --> 00:06:06.480 Mine were always blue. 00:06:07.040 --> 00:06:07.920 When the trapper keeper came out. 00:06:12.879 --> 00:06:13.519 Mine were. 00:06:14.240 --> 00:06:15.040 Holy cow. 00:06:17.759 --> 00:06:19.360 I never even got one. 00:06:20.480 --> 00:06:21.040 They hadn't made them. 00:06:21.759 --> 00:06:24.240 If I'm not mistaken, the trapper keeper came out in like 83. 00:06:24.319 --> 00:06:25.519 And that was all I could tell. 00:06:26.639 --> 00:06:27.360 They hadn't made them. 00:06:27.920 --> 00:06:29.360 Mine, mine were. 00:06:29.519 --> 00:06:30.560 I'm never gonna get over that. 00:06:31.120 --> 00:06:32.560 Third grade, fourth grade, fifth grade. 00:06:32.720 --> 00:06:38.240 Well, my mommy got me one for science and one for algebra. 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:40.639 Did you get a new one each month? 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:43.519 But the trapper keeper. 00:06:45.759 --> 00:06:54.399 I can say without a doubt, right now, since you brought up Trapper Keeper, that's the one thing that I always wanted. 00:06:54.720 --> 00:06:59.279 Because let's face it, you were lame if you had a cat folder or a Pac-Man folder or something. 00:06:59.839 --> 00:07:02.160 But if you had a trapper keeper, you were cool. 00:07:03.199 --> 00:07:04.639 Mine was actually an off-brand. 00:07:04.720 --> 00:07:06.319 It was a frapper meeper. 00:07:08.079 --> 00:07:12.800 But that's the only thing I ever got that I really truly wanted. 00:07:13.120 --> 00:07:14.720 And we can get into the rest of the stuff in a minute. 00:07:14.800 --> 00:07:16.319 But I trapper keeper was cool with me. 00:07:16.800 --> 00:07:17.920 You had the sports one, didn't you? 00:07:18.079 --> 00:07:19.040 No, I did not. 00:07:19.199 --> 00:07:22.240 I never got a frapper keeper or a trapper keeper. 00:07:22.399 --> 00:07:24.240 I honestly never had one. 00:07:24.480 --> 00:07:28.639 Um that was uh that that was an unfulfilled wish for me. 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:30.959 Did you get the you didn't get the Radio Shack version even? 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:32.720 Uh no, Radio Shack. 00:07:32.879 --> 00:07:34.399 Because they made the knockoff everything else. 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:37.199 No, tandy, the tandy trapper keeper. 00:07:38.079 --> 00:07:38.399 That's good. 00:07:38.800 --> 00:07:41.040 No, um, so or realistic. 00:07:41.199 --> 00:07:50.319 That was um I I'm gonna go just to something that was simple, but golly, I looked forward to it every year. 00:07:50.480 --> 00:07:52.560 And that was the NFL pencil. 00:07:52.720 --> 00:07:53.759 Yeah, I had some of those. 00:07:53.920 --> 00:07:54.160 Yes. 00:07:54.720 --> 00:08:04.079 And um we had uh there was a pencil

machine in the in the office of the school, and you put a nickel in and you get a pencil. 00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:06.720 And can you give me a pencil while you're up? 00:08:07.040 --> 00:08:08.879 It'll cost you a hard nickel. 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:21.279 And they were they were a nickel to get uh an NFL pencil, and you'd turn the thing, and doggone it, if I'd get like the Chicago Bears or something, or the Baltimore Colts. 00:08:21.439 --> 00:08:21.839 Oh, that's great. 00:08:22.079 --> 00:08:23.120 That's that's you know, yeah. 00:08:23.759 --> 00:08:27.199 I always wanted a Bengals one, and it seems like I never got a Bengals one. 00:08:27.519 --> 00:08:29.120 What's the statute of limitations? 00:08:29.519 --> 00:08:31.600 Well depends on what kind of act it is. 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:35.600 Okay, if it's a felony, it's unlimited in the great state of Kentucky. 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:36.879 Yeah, oh that's not a felony. 00:08:36.960 --> 00:08:37.519 All right, go ahead. 00:08:37.600 --> 00:08:41.120 Yeah, I I if it's less than a thousand dollars, it's a misdemeanor, it's one year. 00:08:41.360 --> 00:08:49.120 I was a man of uh uh a boy of Simple Pleasures, and uh that that simple pleasure was getting that NFL pencil every year. 00:08:49.200 --> 00:08:49.440 Yes. 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:51.519 Pencils, Greg, did you get pencils? 00:08:51.679 --> 00:08:53.120 Did you get Ticonderoga? 00:08:53.519 --> 00:08:55.919 Did you get the nice yellow ones? 00:08:56.159 --> 00:08:59.200 I had the yellow number twos, not the high end one. 00:08:59.600 --> 00:09:03.039 Did you get the 2.5s that didn't work on the uh standardized tests? 00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:04.000 No, but here's what's funny. 00:09:04.080 --> 00:09:06.559 I can tell you I've grown possible. 00:09:07.519 --> 00:09:07.919 It's ridiculous. 00:09:08.559 --> 00:09:08.799 Yeah. 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:14.799 So let me I'll tell you about my pencils in a second, but I never could stand Gold Lemay. 00:09:14.960 --> 00:09:20.799 If you needed a pencil and a teacher gave you a choice pencil because they were real soft and they were really soft writing, and they were terrible. 00:09:20.879 --> 00:09:21.120 Uh-huh. 00:09:21.279 --> 00:09:22.399 I always liked the other ones. 00:09:22.559 --> 00:09:27.840 All of my pencils when I was a child were blue, navy blue, and you'll never guess what they said on them. 00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:30.080 Did they have the royalists on them? 00:09:30.399 --> 00:09:31.919 They they had the presidential ones. 00:09:32.000 --> 00:09:34.000 Did they have the presidential seal on them? 00:09:34.159 --> 00:09:37.279 Did they honestly did they have your family crest on them? 00:09:38.559 --> 00:09:40.080 No, but I can tell you what they did say. 00:09:40.240 --> 00:09:40.480 Yes. 00:09:40.720 --> 00:09:42.240 Commonwealth of Kentucky. 00:09:43.360 --> 00:09:44.799 You owned the most lame. 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:46.720 Got it. 00:09:47.279 --> 00:09:51.519 Never forget going to

surprise. 00:09:51.679 --> 00:09:55.279 We do all our back-to-school shopping at Hills in in Lexington, number two. 00:09:55.360 --> 00:09:56.000 It was called Hills. 00:09:56.480 --> 00:09:56.960 Beverly. 00:09:57.120 --> 00:09:57.679 Of course. 00:09:58.240 --> 00:10:00.240 Of course they did it in the Hills. 00:10:00.639 --> 00:10:03.759 And what they didn't get there, we'd get it at Hex, which was another like Kmart. 00:10:04.159 --> 00:10:04.879 The Hills of Beverly. 00:10:05.519 --> 00:10:08.159 Hills and Hex and Kmart and Walmart are all about the same. 00:10:08.240 --> 00:10:10.399 I think Hills was about a four steps down though. 00:10:10.960 --> 00:10:13.360 But uh, I'd always like mom, mom, mom, I want these pencils. 00:10:13.440 --> 00:10:14.960 She's like, No, I got your pencils. 00:10:15.200 --> 00:10:19.440 Um I'd get home and I'd have a stack of Commonwealth of Kentucky pencils to you. 00:10:19.759 --> 00:10:20.000 Perfect. 00:10:20.320 --> 00:10:20.559 All right. 00:10:20.639 --> 00:10:25.200 I mean, there's benefits of being the biggest landowner in the state. 00:10:25.519 --> 00:10:35.120 So what were outside of that one thing, obviously, um, let's move on to what would be the next big thing that you had to have. 00:10:35.279 --> 00:10:38.080 Now remember, we're we could talk lunchboxes here. 00:10:38.159 --> 00:10:40.639 We could talk about lunchbox, always had the brown bag. 00:10:40.879 --> 00:10:44.720 Okay, but that was gonna be what I was gonna say because lunchboxes were a big deal. 00:10:44.799 --> 00:10:47.279 Did you eat school lunch or did you pack your lunch? 00:10:47.440 --> 00:10:50.799 I uh I've got a packed lunch every day. 00:10:50.879 --> 00:10:53.120 And I'll I'll explain and you liked it. 00:10:53.360 --> 00:10:55.279 I'll explain I was the school lunch person. 00:10:55.440 --> 00:11:03.120 No, I'll explain what my lunch was because once I got old enough to make it, so when I was like eight, I had to make it myself. 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:08.639 But up until that time, I had the same, I had the same lunch every day. 00:11:08.879 --> 00:11:12.480 Uh, a fried egg on on bread with mustard. 00:11:12.559 --> 00:11:13.679 It was an egg sandwich. 00:11:13.919 --> 00:11:16.399 Okay, I like your people beat you in the afternoon. 00:11:16.639 --> 00:11:24.159 And it was cold, a cold egg sandwich, a cold egg sandwich on um call scudder bread every day. 00:11:24.399 --> 00:11:25.600 And I ain't no lie. 00:11:25.840 --> 00:11:33.440 Mustard, egg, and it was and then my mom says, you know, once I got old enough, she's like, You gotta fry this egg anymore. 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:34.720 I don't have time for you. 00:11:34.879 --> 00:11:38.240 So I started learning how to fry an egg in the morning and make my sandwich. 00:11:38.480 --> 00:11:40.080 So let me ask a question about that. 00:11:40.159 --> 00:11:41.840 Yes, I have I have lots of questions. 00:11:42.080 --> 00:11:43.519 And that's it's a brown bag. 00:11:43.679 --> 00:11:44.399 That was a brown bag. 00:11:44.720 --> 00:11:45.919 But let me ask a question. 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:46.639 Yes. 00:11:47.120 --> 00:11:47.440 Okay. 00:11:47.759 --> 00:11:48.399 Yep. 00:11:48.879 --> 00:11:50.639 Was it a hard fried egg? 00:11:50.799 --> 00:11:51.120 Yes. 00:11:51.279 --> 00:11:52.799 Oh, yes, completely hard. 00:11:53.039 --> 00:11:55.519 Like no, yeah, like brown on the edges 100%. 00:11:56.080 --> 00:11:56.320 Yes. 00:11:56.480 --> 00:11:57.200 Yum, I'm perfect. 00:11:57.519 --> 00:11:58.080 Yes. 00:11:58.240 --> 00:11:58.799 Yeah, perfect. 00:11:59.120 --> 00:12:00.799 That's the only way you could eat that egg cold. 00:12:00.879 --> 00:12:02.720 You can't eat a runny egg cold. 00:12:02.879 --> 00:12:03.200 No. 00:12:03.519 --> 00:12:10.480 Yeah, it's it it it was I I don't know that I've ever known anybody to bring a fried egg sandwich for squirrel. 00:12:10.720 --> 00:12:13.919 That was my honestly, I don't believe that I ever saw that. 00:12:14.240 --> 00:12:16.000 Or at work or anywhere. 00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:20.960 And if it was a really, really special day, I'd get a can of pudding. 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:26.159 The little cans of pudding that had the little, you know, did you ever have a can of pudding? 00:12:26.320 --> 00:12:26.480 No. 00:12:26.720 --> 00:12:28.559 I don't recall pudding. 00:12:29.200 --> 00:12:31.200 I used to have a can of pudding, and that was a good day. 00:12:31.279 --> 00:12:32.639 Like Del Monty pudding. 00:12:33.600 --> 00:12:35.279 Oh, the snobby guy. 00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:35.840 Right. 00:12:36.159 --> 00:12:37.279 So you hung out with Chris a little. 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:39.360 Of of the Monty pudding, Del. 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:39.919 Let me clear. 00:12:40.639 --> 00:12:49.759 Chris had the workers make the pudding and just take off the skim off the top, but he had the pudding skin that was delivered to him. 00:12:52.399 --> 00:12:55.120 I hated that S-cargo that I had to take. 00:12:55.519 --> 00:12:59.519 By the way, I've never heard it called Mandad Boog Boogaloo caviar. 00:12:59.759 --> 00:13:02.320 I've never heard it called Pudding Skin, but that's exactly what it is. 00:13:03.039 --> 00:13:03.840 Exactly what it is. 00:13:04.000 --> 00:13:05.360 And Jello would get skinned too. 00:13:05.679 --> 00:13:06.080 Heck yeah. 00:13:06.240 --> 00:13:06.879 That was terrible. 00:13:06.960 --> 00:13:07.200 All right. 00:13:07.679 --> 00:13:12.159 I was only allowed to take my lunch on when we had like a field trip, a school field trip like Shakertown. 00:13:12.320 --> 00:13:14.799 And then the only thing I was allowed to take. 00:13:15.600 --> 00:13:19.039 So how was to go visit your other house on the school field trip? 00:13:19.279 --> 00:13:22.559 This was this was peanut butter and honey sandwich. 00:13:22.720 --> 00:13:23.519 Oh yeah, that's good. 00:13:23.600 --> 00:13:24.399 Yeah, that's good sandwich. 00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:24.960 That's good. 00:13:25.120 -->

00:13:29.120 With uh a bag of whatever chips we had, you know, and in a not even a Ziploc bag. 00:13:29.200 --> 00:13:30.000 This was before Ziploc. 00:13:30.159 --> 00:13:31.039 It was a sandwich bags. 00:13:31.200 --> 00:13:32.480 Yeah, that had the little that was. 00:13:32.799 --> 00:13:33.279 Folded over. 00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:34.080 Yeah, fold over. 00:13:34.559 --> 00:13:38.240 And uh probably a Pepsi free wrapped up in aluminum folded. 00:13:38.480 --> 00:13:40.080 Aluminum floil around the can, man. 00:13:40.480 --> 00:13:40.960 Keep it cold. 00:13:41.279 --> 00:13:43.600 The problem is my sandwich would be cold too when I get it. 00:13:43.759 --> 00:13:46.639 Yeah, but honey and peanut butter, because like, oh, it's gonna get hot. 00:13:46.720 --> 00:13:48.720 And you and I'm like, can I get jelly at least? 00:13:48.799 --> 00:13:54.240 No, when I told when I told Ava about having the egg sandwich every day, she's like, Well, did you heat it in the microwave? 00:13:54.399 --> 00:13:54.879 I'm like, what the fuck? 00:13:54.960 --> 00:13:55.679 Microwave didn't exist. 00:13:56.720 --> 00:13:58.720 I had a cold egg sandwich every day of my life. 00:13:59.120 --> 00:13:59.440 Electricity. 00:13:59.519 --> 00:14:00.480 Why would you have a worry about it? 00:14:00.559 --> 00:14:02.720 I mean, you had to go start the fireplace at school. 00:14:02.879 --> 00:14:04.240 Now, uh, but you had a lunch box. 00:14:04.480 --> 00:14:05.440 You had a lunchbox. 00:14:05.759 --> 00:14:07.200 I had a lunchbox. 00:14:07.360 --> 00:14:08.000 Which one? 00:14:08.159 --> 00:14:10.639 Uh I had a baseball lunch box. 00:14:11.039 --> 00:14:11.919 I was gonna say, I was gonna guess. 00:14:12.240 --> 00:14:14.080 And it had the little thermos that come in. 00:14:14.320 --> 00:14:14.799 Yes, yeah. 00:14:15.039 --> 00:14:17.840 I did have one of those at one time, I must admit. 00:14:18.240 --> 00:14:20.320 99% of the time I ate school lunch. 00:14:20.720 --> 00:14:23.600 And and Fridays, the rectangle pizza. 00:14:23.759 --> 00:14:24.320 And corn. 00:14:24.480 --> 00:14:26.639 And corn was as good as it got. 00:14:27.200 --> 00:14:29.039 And we got we had fruit cocktail with it. 00:14:29.279 --> 00:14:30.720 On a on a cheese. 00:14:30.799 --> 00:14:31.759 We had a block of cheese. 00:14:31.919 --> 00:14:33.440 On a very Reagan cheese. 00:14:36.240 --> 00:14:36.720 That was the best. 00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:39.360 Sometimes we had the Reagan cheese in the lunch. 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:41.759 That was that was fantastic. 00:14:43.519 --> 00:14:45.360 Occasionally it was a cheese sandwich with mustard on it. 00:14:45.600 --> 00:14:46.720 That's because government cheese. 00:14:46.960 --> 00:14:49.120 That's because the fat content has to be a million dollars. 00:14:49.360 --> 00:14:51.120 It was awesome, is what it was. 00:14:51.360 --> 00:14:55.519 Um so but so okay, let me you work in the schools. 00:14:55.679 --> 00:14:59.679 You know why was that rectangle pizza so

good? 00:14:59.840 --> 00:15:03.039 I mean, I people try to recreate anywhere else. 00:15:03.120 --> 00:15:04.320 Yeah, people try to recreate it. 00:15:04.720 --> 00:15:05.519 It is not as good. 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:07.440 It's oh, that was so good. 00:15:07.600 --> 00:15:09.440 And I'll I'll give it, I'll give you another one. 00:15:09.600 --> 00:15:15.759 Occasionally my mom would let me eat the school lunch, and Thursdays was always cheeseburger day or hamburger day. 00:15:15.840 --> 00:15:17.039 It varied week to week. 00:15:17.200 --> 00:15:17.440 Right. 00:15:17.679 --> 00:15:25.600 That was a fantastic day because they had the you know regular old cheeseburgers or whatever, but they had fries and they were really fried. 00:15:25.759 --> 00:15:25.919 Right. 00:15:26.320 --> 00:15:26.799 Fries. 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:29.440 Oh yes, that was some good easy. 00:15:29.679 --> 00:15:31.039 What was your favorite school lunch? 00:15:32.240 --> 00:15:44.799 So when I went to my original elementary school, which they ended up closing when I was after my second grade, between second and third grade, mom would always send me with a check, and I'd have to go stand in line on Monday mornings and and give the principal my check for my lunch. 00:15:45.200 --> 00:15:46.080 A traveler's check? 00:15:46.320 --> 00:15:48.799 And I think correct me if I'm wrong. 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:50.879 I think lunches back then were like 45 cents. 00:15:51.039 --> 00:15:51.200 Okay. 00:15:51.360 --> 00:15:54.639 But mom would always write a check so she could, you know, make sure it was paid. 00:15:54.960 --> 00:15:59.120 Well, the problem is, and I only had to eat school lunch and I deduct it off their own taxes. 00:15:59.440 --> 00:16:00.320 I hate milk. 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:01.600 I hate milk. 00:16:01.840 --> 00:16:08.159 And I didn't like half the crap they cooked at school besides the pizza, but I would pick around it or beg chips off people. 00:16:08.639 --> 00:16:15.039 When I got to the new school and they started busting me to the because with all the rich kids, to all the rich kids like that. 00:16:15.279 --> 00:16:15.919 With all the others. 00:16:16.080 --> 00:16:16.240 Right. 00:16:16.559 --> 00:16:16.639 Right. 00:16:17.039 --> 00:16:18.240 With all of my fellows. 00:16:18.399 --> 00:16:18.480 Right. 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:21.200 When they sent me for the people who lived down below me. 00:16:21.519 --> 00:16:24.799 When they sent me to the rich kids school, uh because they closed my school. 00:16:25.200 --> 00:16:28.879 At least you know, um, mom would send in a check and I'd have to take it to the office. 00:16:28.960 --> 00:16:32.240 But anyhow, up until high school, you know, the pizza was the best. 00:16:32.480 --> 00:16:35.120 When I got to my high school, mom's like, you're on your own. 00:16:35.360 --> 00:16:37.440 You know, lunch by that time was a dollar five. 00:16:37.679 --> 00:16:39.120 I'll never forget when I was in high school. 00:16:39.200 --> 00:16:40.960 I was like a senior, it was a dollar five. 00:16:41.440 --> 00:16:42.720 Sometimes I would skip lunch. 00:16:42.799 --> 00:16:50.639 I still didn't drink milk, but at Franklin County at the time, and I don't know if they do or not, they had a salad line bar, a baked potato bar, a hamburger bar, and a pizza bar. 00:16:50.879 --> 00:16:52.320 All fork every day. 00:16:53.039 --> 00:16:54.720 And I that's how I don't know how county is now. 00:16:54.799 --> 00:16:55.279 And a hot line. 00:16:55.360 --> 00:16:55.919 So it's five meals. 00:16:56.080 --> 00:16:57.519 You had a hot or two, whatever the hot thing was. 00:16:57.600 --> 00:17:03.600 And I'd always go to the burger line because I love their fries, but the burger was I mean soybeans is what it was. 00:17:03.840 --> 00:17:11.119 But I would peel the bun back and put a whole bag of fries on top of my burger and eat that, and they sold water, I'd pay that out of pocket. 00:17:11.680 --> 00:17:12.880 That was the best lunch to me. 00:17:13.039 --> 00:17:14.640 Was that soy burger with fries and water? 00:17:14.799 --> 00:17:15.599 But I was in high school. 00:17:15.759 --> 00:17:18.000 Did you ever have school breakfast growing up? 00:17:18.240 --> 00:17:18.400 No. 00:17:18.720 --> 00:17:19.359 A couple times. 00:17:19.599 --> 00:17:19.839 Yeah. 00:17:20.000 --> 00:17:20.640 Uh school. 00:17:21.039 --> 00:17:21.440 Not daily. 00:17:21.599 --> 00:17:21.920 Not daily. 00:17:22.400 --> 00:17:22.640 We didn't. 00:17:22.799 --> 00:17:25.440 I I never had it daily, but occasionally. 00:17:25.680 --> 00:17:29.440 Oh, there was most days it was just a thing of cereal or whatever. 00:17:29.680 --> 00:17:36.160 But on Thursdays, the same day as the burgers, on Thursdays, they had a really good school breakfast at my elementary school. 00:17:36.240 --> 00:17:41.119 And it was eggs that were scrambled eggs, but they were like soft and kind of powdered. 00:17:41.519 --> 00:17:43.519 Oh, no, they were no, these were real eggs. 00:17:43.759 --> 00:17:44.559 That's the way they're supposed to be. 00:17:44.880 --> 00:17:45.279 There were real eggs. 00:17:45.839 --> 00:17:46.319 Real okay. 00:17:46.559 --> 00:17:47.680 And they were a little runny. 00:17:47.920 --> 00:17:51.680 And they may have even put some government cheese in them because they were just so even better. 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:54.960 And oven toasted with tons of butter on it. 00:17:55.119 --> 00:17:55.519 Toast. 00:17:55.920 --> 00:17:59.440 So it was those those scrambled eggs with that buttery toast. 00:17:59.599 --> 00:18:01.519 God, I'm mouthwatering thinking about it. 00:18:01.680 --> 00:18:02.000 Nice. 00:18:02.880 --> 00:18:05.359 So besides the food, let's get back to yeah. 00:18:06.160 --> 00:18:08.240 Yeah, so we talked about the lunchbox. 00:18:08.319 --> 00:18:09.279 I never had a lunch box. 00:18:09.359 --> 00:18:11.359 Well, I never took my lunch unless it was a field trip. 00:18:11.599 -->

00:18:12.880 What about a pencil box? 00:18:13.920 --> 00:18:15.839 I don't recall ever having a pencil box. 00:18:16.079 --> 00:18:18.000 I never had enough pencils to have a pencil box. 00:18:18.880 --> 00:18:20.319 I had to scavenge for pencils. 00:18:20.640 --> 00:18:32.559 But I I remember faintly um like a bag, like a little zippered bag that my eraser would go in there and the compass and the um Protractor. 00:18:32.960 --> 00:18:33.680 Protractor. 00:18:34.160 --> 00:18:35.359 Um, yeah. 00:18:35.680 --> 00:18:36.000 Yeah. 00:18:36.319 --> 00:18:38.160 So I never had a pencil box either. 00:18:38.400 --> 00:18:42.960 And if I did, it probably would have said Commonwealth of Kentucky, but I didn't have a pencil box. 00:18:43.119 --> 00:18:44.960 But there was a guy in the store. 00:18:45.279 --> 00:18:46.079 I tell this story all the time. 00:18:46.160 --> 00:18:48.160 So probably would have said Ashford Stud. 00:18:50.000 --> 00:18:51.680 When I was in second grade, there was a guy in third grade. 00:18:51.759 --> 00:18:53.119 I'm not going to mention his name. 00:18:53.440 --> 00:18:57.119 When he turned 16, he bought a pink Cadillac convertible, like a 62. 00:18:57.440 --> 00:19:00.160 And long hair, nobody ever messed with this guy because he would kill you. 00:19:00.240 --> 00:19:01.359 And he lived on Home Street. 00:19:02.160 --> 00:19:06.559 To this day, he's a mechanic and a drummer in a band and probably one of the nicest guys you ever meet in your life. 00:19:06.960 --> 00:19:08.799 But back then, you assumed the worst. 00:19:09.599 --> 00:19:13.039 He took a pencil box and lined it with shag carpet. 00:19:13.519 --> 00:19:14.079 That's hilarious. 00:19:14.240 --> 00:19:15.920 Now keep in mind, this is like 1980. 00:19:16.079 --> 00:19:16.480 That's pretty good. 00:19:16.720 --> 00:19:19.680 Lined it with shag carpet and drew like Kiss all over. 00:19:19.759 --> 00:19:20.720 He's a big Kiss fan. 00:19:20.799 --> 00:19:20.960 Uh-huh. 00:19:21.119 --> 00:19:22.960 And nobody screwed with that guy for that very reason. 00:19:23.119 --> 00:19:24.079 We were terrified of him. 00:19:24.240 --> 00:19:26.000 But he had shag carpet in a pencil box. 00:19:26.079 --> 00:19:28.480 And I'll never forget, I went home and told Dad, I need a pencil box. 00:19:28.720 --> 00:19:29.440 And he goes, for what? 00:19:29.599 --> 00:19:30.559 I said, I put my pencils in. 00:19:30.640 --> 00:19:32.160 He goes, You don't have that many pencils. 00:19:32.400 --> 00:19:34.000 And I said, and I told him about this guy. 00:19:34.079 --> 00:19:35.839 He goes, stay away from that guy. 00:19:36.000 --> 00:19:36.319 Yeah. 00:19:36.640 --> 00:19:42.240 How about what type of substance did you buy for adhesive? 00:19:42.400 --> 00:19:44.559 Uh you remember musilex. 00:19:44.880 --> 00:19:46.799 Did you have uh did you have rubber glue? 00:19:48.319 --> 00:19:51.759 Rubber cement, or were you an Elmer glue kind of a person? 00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:55.519 I had musilage, which was the brown snot stuff with the orange rubber tip. 00:19:55.680 --> 00:19:56.160 I had that. 00:19:56.240 --> 00:19:59.359 Yeah, where you could you'd like squish it down and rub it across the room. 00:19:59.440 --> 00:20:00.559 That's rubber cement. 00:20:01.039 --> 00:20:02.240 I I I've had that. 00:20:02.400 --> 00:20:03.680 But why couldn't I get Elmer's? 00:20:03.759 --> 00:20:05.119 I always got musilage. 00:20:05.359 --> 00:20:07.680 Well, that's the that was the fancy brand. 00:20:07.839 --> 00:20:09.039 It was not the fancy brand. 00:20:09.440 --> 00:20:09.920 1000%. 00:20:10.640 --> 00:20:13.680 You could you could roll that up and make little fake boogies. 00:20:13.920 --> 00:20:17.759 You know what's funny is I think the state probably used that, is what I was assuming. 00:20:18.480 --> 00:20:19.440 That's funny. 00:20:19.680 --> 00:20:25.279 Did you ever taste either rubber cement or fake? 00:20:25.920 --> 00:20:27.359 You never tasted Elmer's glue? 00:20:27.519 --> 00:20:30.400 No, but I would steal it from my neighbor, put it on my fingers and roll it around till my finger stuck. 00:20:30.720 --> 00:20:31.200 Yeah, of course. 00:20:31.359 --> 00:20:31.920 Everyone did that. 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:33.759 You can still feel it right now, right? 00:20:34.400 --> 00:20:34.799 Yeah. 00:20:34.960 --> 00:20:37.759 Uh what about the little pokey compass things? 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:42.480 Did you ever get into uh trouble with your compass? 00:20:43.279 --> 00:20:43.599 No. 00:20:44.079 --> 00:20:45.119 Boy, you're a lamo. 00:20:45.759 --> 00:20:46.720 You know where you went to the city. 00:20:46.960 --> 00:20:48.000 You've got to remember. 00:20:48.240 --> 00:20:48.319 Yes. 00:20:48.720 --> 00:20:51.440 I mean, here's what you're forgetting that Chris didn't get into trouble. 00:20:52.079 --> 00:20:52.559 I apologize. 00:20:52.960 --> 00:20:54.880 Chris didn't have to go to class most of the day. 00:20:55.920 --> 00:20:58.319 Look, I thought about Chris yesterday. 00:20:58.480 --> 00:20:58.960 Yes. 00:20:59.279 --> 00:21:02.880 Hallie showed me something because she's leaving to go to college next week. 00:21:03.039 --> 00:21:08.799 She showed me this thing she's got on her iPad that takes notes and then it'll summarize things for her. 00:21:08.880 --> 00:21:11.599 And I said, So that's what it was like to be Chris growing up. 00:21:11.839 --> 00:21:12.079 100%. 00:21:12.400 --> 00:21:15.440 You had the servants in the classroom who took the notes. 00:21:15.599 --> 00:21:19.680 So which reminded me, I mentioned it to you, and you made a great reference. 00:21:19.759 --> 00:21:20.079 Yes. 00:21:20.319 --> 00:21:23.440 So look, is this what it was like to be you growing up? 00:21:23.599 --> 00:21:24.000 Seriously. 00:21:24.160 --> 00:21:24.799 What's that? 00:21:25.039 --> 00:21:31.839 Rodney Dangerfield in back to school when he sent his secretary into the class and she did shorthand for the notes. 00:21:32.400 -->

00:21:34.000 No, transcription. 00:21:34.240 --> 00:21:37.039 She's on the little bloom, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop. 00:21:37.200 --> 00:21:39.599 And the professor came over and let Mr. 00:21:39.759 --> 00:21:42.480 Thorn Thornhill know this, please. 00:21:42.720 --> 00:21:43.440 He will never. 00:21:43.759 --> 00:21:43.920 Mr. 00:21:44.000 --> 00:21:44.400 Mellon. 00:21:44.640 --> 00:21:44.799 Mr. 00:21:44.880 --> 00:21:45.200 Mellon. 00:21:45.519 --> 00:21:45.599 Mr. 00:21:45.759 --> 00:21:48.799 Mellon pass this class. 00:21:49.119 --> 00:21:49.279 Okay. 00:21:49.599 --> 00:21:53.359 Is that what it was like in fifth grade when you had the servants taking notes for you? 00:21:53.599 --> 00:21:53.759 No. 00:21:54.000 --> 00:21:54.240 All right. 00:21:54.400 --> 00:21:55.519 Here's another question then. 00:21:55.599 --> 00:21:57.519 Let's talk about what you wrote on. 00:21:57.759 --> 00:21:59.359 Did you get a big notebook? 00:21:59.440 --> 00:22:06.960 Did you You have loose notebook paper, and or if you did, was it wide ruled or college ruled? 00:22:07.200 --> 00:22:08.799 So mine was wide ruled. 00:22:08.960 --> 00:22:11.039 I was wide ruled until I got to high school. 00:22:11.680 --> 00:22:12.400 Until high school. 00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:15.039 And I I'm I'm wide ruled to this day. 00:22:15.279 --> 00:22:15.680 Really? 00:22:16.319 --> 00:22:19.680 I am the only person in our law firm that uses wide ruled paper. 00:22:19.920 --> 00:22:20.240 Wow. 00:22:20.559 --> 00:22:23.200 That's a that's a fun that is a where is it? 00:22:23.599 --> 00:22:25.440 I very rarely have it fun facts. 00:22:25.839 --> 00:22:26.480 That's wild. 00:22:26.720 --> 00:22:28.400 I used wide rolled paper to edit. 00:22:28.799 --> 00:22:30.000 That is a great fun fact. 00:22:30.400 --> 00:22:32.720 Now, funny story, side note. 00:22:33.359 --> 00:22:35.119 You invented wide rolled paper? 00:22:35.279 --> 00:22:38.720 If I use lines paper, which is my notebook I use is college. 00:22:39.279 --> 00:22:41.279 You never had to use paper, your servants did. 00:22:41.440 --> 00:22:43.119 Do you know what I used in college? 00:22:43.839 --> 00:22:44.960 Yes, we do. 00:22:45.119 --> 00:22:47.359 We know lots of things that you used in college. 00:22:47.680 --> 00:22:47.920 Exactly. 00:22:48.559 --> 00:22:49.519 They're on a band list. 00:22:50.400 --> 00:22:51.039 Graph paper. 00:22:51.119 --> 00:22:52.799 I use graph paper all through engineering school. 00:22:52.880 --> 00:22:53.119 Okay. 00:22:53.279 --> 00:22:53.519 100%. 00:22:53.839 --> 00:23:04.640 And not because I used it as a graph, it's because you're drawing diagrams and doing all the and when you get into calculus and all that, it's easier to use a quadrueled graph paper. 00:23:04.799 --> 00:23:08.720 So to this day, I still prefer a blued quadruple graph paper to work on. 00:23:08.880 --> 00:23:15.759 So one of our directors in uh at Central Office actually uses uh Jamie Miller, actually, our director of special ed. 00:23:15.839 --> 00:23:18.240 I always see her taking notes on graph graph paper. 00:23:18.400 --> 00:23:19.519 But I guarantee it's quadrule. 00:23:19.599 --> 00:23:19.759 Yeah. 00:23:20.000 --> 00:23:20.480 Guaranteed. 00:23:21.279 --> 00:23:22.799 It's always the wide rule kind of guy. 00:23:23.359 --> 00:23:27.920 I I like college rule once I got into high school because I like to write small. 00:23:28.079 --> 00:23:30.240 Um, but now I can't see it. 00:23:30.400 --> 00:23:32.160 So uh I need to go back to wide rule. 00:23:32.559 --> 00:23:32.799 Absolutely. 00:23:32.960 --> 00:23:33.279 Yeah. 00:23:33.519 --> 00:23:45.920 So so in our supply clo supply room at my office, there is a huge stack of college rule legal pads, and then there's a really small stack of wide rules. 00:23:46.079 --> 00:23:46.559 It's gonna be a good one. 00:23:46.720 --> 00:23:48.240 And everybody knows not to touch those. 00:23:48.559 --> 00:23:50.480 That guy needs to use regular paper. 00:23:50.960 --> 00:23:51.440 All right. 00:23:51.759 --> 00:23:54.720 Let's talk about the big one in the the big elephant in the room. 00:23:54.880 --> 00:23:56.240 What clothes? 00:23:57.119 --> 00:23:58.000 We'll get back to that. 00:23:58.240 --> 00:23:59.279 Your vast wardrobe. 00:23:59.599 --> 00:24:00.319 Crayons. 00:24:00.880 --> 00:24:02.240 Well, look, there we go. 00:24:02.400 --> 00:24:02.960 Here we go. 00:24:03.279 --> 00:24:04.400 We had this the other day. 00:24:04.799 --> 00:24:08.880 You thought I used the I used the school's crayons. 00:24:09.200 --> 00:24:10.000 God's honest trick. 00:24:10.160 --> 00:24:11.279 Were they the fat ones or the fit ones? 00:24:11.440 --> 00:24:15.839 I didn't we had thin ones at Harold Elementary School, but I didn't have my own. 00:24:16.000 --> 00:24:16.160 No. 00:24:16.559 --> 00:24:19.440 I always was envious of people like Chris. 00:24:19.519 --> 00:24:27.680 Yes, who had the huge variety box of 128 with the sharpener built in. 00:24:27.839 --> 00:24:28.240 Yeah. 00:24:28.480 --> 00:24:35.440 Uh I mean, my favorite color that I never got the color with was cornucopia, which was this blue color. 00:24:35.599 --> 00:24:35.839 Uh-huh. 00:24:36.000 --> 00:24:39.440 And I know Chris has had doubles. 00:24:40.319 --> 00:24:43.119 It's like it's like the infamous 10 millimeter socket. 00:24:43.200 --> 00:24:44.880 You probably had like 12 of them. 00:24:45.119 --> 00:24:48.160 You know what's funny is I do have like shocking wrenches. 00:24:48.319 --> 00:24:52.160 I have more 716s and 10 millimeter wrenches and sockets on do anything else. 00:24:52.240 --> 00:24:52.400 See? 00:24:52.640 --> 00:24:53.119 Well, there you are. 00:24:53.279 --> 00:24:53.599 No surprise. 00:24:54.799 --> 00:24:57.039 So, in other words, he had burnt sienna and raw umber. 00:24:57.920 --> 00:24:58.319 100%. 00:24:58.880 --> 00:24:59.839 That's funny that you say that. 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:00.880 Yeah, of course it is. 00:25:01.119 -->

00:25:04.240 But yeah, mom would only buy me the eight pack. 00:25:04.400 --> 00:25:05.599 This is God's honest truth. 00:25:05.680 --> 00:25:07.039 I mean, eight times twelve. 00:25:07.200 --> 00:25:07.839 Yeah, exactly. 00:25:08.079 --> 00:25:14.079 And I remember walking into class and I had my trapper keeper and my I had my crayons, and I'm looking over at his cell phone. 00:25:14.319 --> 00:25:17.839 I'm like, well, Jared over there's got a got a pencil sharpener. 00:25:18.000 --> 00:25:20.079 And the teacher had the list, you get a pencil sharpener. 00:25:20.160 --> 00:25:21.119 So I got the sharpener. 00:25:21.200 --> 00:25:26.319 You know, I look over and Ridditch or Doug or one of those guys would have a pencil sharpener that had the collection thing on it. 00:25:26.400 --> 00:25:26.559 Yeah. 00:25:26.720 --> 00:25:30.720 No, I got the one I think mom used on her eyeliner or whatever, or whatever it is. 00:25:32.160 --> 00:25:32.640 Shaved everywhere. 00:25:32.720 --> 00:25:33.920 So you get all of your desk. 00:25:34.640 --> 00:25:36.960 I didn't have a sharpener of the first. 00:25:37.680 --> 00:25:39.839 No, I had to go up to the front and go, no, no, no, no. 00:25:40.400 --> 00:25:41.119 No, no, crayons. 00:25:41.200 --> 00:25:41.920 That was for crayons. 00:25:42.079 --> 00:25:42.480 Let's be honest. 00:25:42.559 --> 00:25:42.799 Let's stop. 00:25:43.440 --> 00:25:44.960 I never had a crayon jar not. 00:25:45.519 --> 00:25:48.960 Since ever on since we did movie references, the movie as good as it gets. 00:25:49.359 --> 00:25:49.599 Yes. 00:25:49.759 --> 00:26:02.000 Okay, when Jack Nicholson in the beginning of the movie is washing his hands and he's super hot water and he unropes uh unwraps one bar of soap of neutrogena soap and then throws it right away and then opens another one. 00:26:02.079 --> 00:26:04.160 That was him and his boxes of crayons. 00:26:04.559 --> 00:26:06.720 He had a new box every day. 00:26:06.960 --> 00:26:07.599 Well, let me tell you. 00:26:10.400 --> 00:26:12.880 So why did I have the eight-pack of crayons? 00:26:13.039 --> 00:26:14.880 Because you got a new set every day. 00:26:15.039 --> 00:26:15.279 Nope. 00:26:15.440 --> 00:26:20.079 The truth was, mom said you only need the basic colors. 00:26:20.319 --> 00:26:24.640 And I remember sitting there in class and the teacher's like, get your crayons out. 00:26:24.720 --> 00:26:29.200 And I reached over, I'm like, Can I borrow your peach or your blue-green or your green-blue? 00:26:29.279 --> 00:26:31.039 Or remember peach was flesh tone cut? 00:26:31.359 --> 00:26:32.319 I don't remember that at all. 00:26:32.400 --> 00:26:32.960 I had eight. 00:26:33.200 --> 00:26:33.920 I had eight as well. 00:26:34.160 --> 00:26:34.720 That's all I read. 00:26:35.279 --> 00:26:36.240 But I didn't have any. 00:26:36.319 --> 00:26:40.160 I had the schools conglomerate that were the broken ones from the restaurants, probably. 00:26:40.640 --> 00:26:41.440 Why my cherries?

00:26:41.759 --> 00:26:47.920 Why my painting ability is getting better is because I know how to mix colors because I had to come up with peach. 00:26:49.119 --> 00:26:52.640 I'll take my white one and my brown one, a little bit of red and some orange. 00:26:52.799 --> 00:26:53.279 There we go. 00:26:53.440 --> 00:26:56.480 Peach! Well, I remember mom's like, all you need is the basic colors. 00:26:56.559 --> 00:26:57.200 That's all you need. 00:26:57.359 --> 00:27:01.440 So when it came to markers, I remember having to have markers in like fifth grade. 00:27:01.519 --> 00:27:04.319 I got the felt tip, you know, the cheap blue and red. 00:27:04.559 --> 00:27:05.920 Those are the expensive ones. 00:27:06.880 --> 00:27:10.480 The fact that you have markers, just red and blue. 00:27:10.880 --> 00:27:12.079 I had red and blue and black. 00:27:12.160 --> 00:27:14.559 Do you know who uses those particular felt markers? 00:27:15.359 --> 00:27:17.200 Do you the Commonwealth of Kentucky? 00:27:17.519 --> 00:27:24.559 Do you do you realize that if I wanted a wet style ink, I had to poke myself with my compass and use my blood? 00:27:26.480 --> 00:27:28.720 All right, I got a funny story to tell you guys. 00:27:28.960 --> 00:27:31.119 So, besides our crayons. 00:27:31.200 --> 00:27:33.119 What kind of do you have big pack or little pack? 00:27:33.279 --> 00:27:36.319 I had, first of all, they were called playcraft. 00:27:36.480 --> 00:27:37.359 They weren't crayons. 00:27:37.839 --> 00:27:38.720 Those are the expensive ones. 00:27:38.880 --> 00:27:39.839 No, they were not. 00:27:40.160 --> 00:27:42.960 They were the cost-cutter version of crayons. 00:27:43.279 --> 00:27:44.160 So, yes. 00:27:44.319 --> 00:27:45.279 Uh yeah. 00:27:45.680 --> 00:27:51.279 So I was thinking the other day, I remember for some reason you you had you brought this to us, our attention. 00:27:51.359 --> 00:27:52.720 We said this was a fun idea. 00:27:53.200 --> 00:27:54.799 Talk about a personality. 00:27:55.039 --> 00:28:02.319 And I didn't realize at the time how I don't know if Gutsy or I was trying to be smart or what, but I'm in fourth grade. 00:28:02.640 --> 00:28:07.680 And at Hearn Elementary, which is now their new early learning village, it was all open classrooms. 00:28:07.920 --> 00:28:11.759 And we had a place called the Pit, which is in front of the teachers, and they sit all in this big raised-up thing. 00:28:12.240 --> 00:28:14.079 It's now their like auditorium. 00:28:14.400 --> 00:28:17.359 There is no cafeteria in Hearn. 00:28:18.400 --> 00:28:23.200 They would roll these big carts in and they'd have trays on them for lunch, and you ate at your desk. 00:28:23.680 --> 00:28:24.240 That's weird. 00:28:24.400 --> 00:28:25.200 It was weird. 00:28:26.079 --> 00:28:32.319 And the teachers would call you up by Miss Morris or Miss Crossway or Miss Whoever, you know, and you and your class goes up. 00:28:32.640 --> 00:28:34.319 Well, every once in a while they try to make

it fun. 00:28:34.400 --> 00:28:37.279 You know, if you're wearing blue, go get whatever. 00:28:37.599 --> 00:28:44.079 And I was sitting there one day, and I don't know if I was feeling feisty or whatever, and they said, uh, if you're not wearing tennis shoes, you can get your tray. 00:28:45.920 --> 00:28:46.799 You had unpenny loaf. 00:28:47.039 --> 00:28:47.759 I know, I'm sorry. 00:28:49.440 --> 00:28:50.160 Alligator skin. 00:28:51.359 --> 00:28:54.079 Did they say if you're wearing a bow tie today? 00:28:55.279 --> 00:28:55.839 I stood up. 00:28:56.240 --> 00:28:58.160 If you're wearing Dior today. 00:28:58.559 --> 00:29:03.119 It uh it um sorry, I just got a text in real quick. 00:29:03.279 --> 00:29:06.480 Um anyhow, I got up and walked to Birmingham got my tray. 00:29:06.559 --> 00:29:08.960 And I get back, and everybody's around me's like, dude, what are you doing? 00:29:09.039 --> 00:29:10.160 You're wearing tennis shoes. 00:29:10.319 --> 00:29:14.240 And I had on what we would call tennis shoes. 00:29:14.400 --> 00:29:17.200 And I said, I do not play tennis in these shoes. 00:29:17.279 --> 00:29:18.319 I do not play tennis at all. 00:29:18.480 --> 00:29:19.839 These are not tennis shoes. 00:29:20.480 --> 00:29:20.720 Right. 00:29:20.880 --> 00:29:23.279 He's got his own special outfit for when he plays tennis. 00:29:23.839 --> 00:29:24.160 Exactly. 00:29:25.279 --> 00:29:28.240 It's gotta be an all-what, because we only play on grass. 00:29:28.559 --> 00:29:30.240 That's the only way a good tennis shoes. 00:29:30.559 --> 00:29:32.720 Slazenger makes my tennis shoes. 00:29:33.119 --> 00:29:33.680 A couple things. 00:29:33.839 --> 00:29:34.880 But hang on, think about that. 00:29:34.960 --> 00:29:36.240 I said, I don't play tennis. 00:29:36.319 --> 00:29:39.359 These are not tennis shoes, these are simply shoes. 00:29:39.680 --> 00:29:41.599 All right, the teachers never said a word, nothing. 00:29:41.759 --> 00:29:42.480 All right, Greg. 00:29:43.119 --> 00:29:55.599 So what are what are not necessarily stuff you had, but what are some of your most memorable things that happened in your school time? 00:29:55.839 --> 00:29:56.000 Yeah. 00:29:56.240 --> 00:29:57.200 So I got I got what? 00:29:57.440 --> 00:29:58.319 I got I actually have two. 00:29:58.559 --> 00:29:59.119 All right, let's go. 00:29:59.359 --> 00:30:02.400 The first one I got spanked in kindergarten. 00:30:02.480 --> 00:30:02.799 Ooh. 00:30:03.680 --> 00:30:06.640 We had when I uh Harold, we had half-day kindergarten. 00:30:06.799 --> 00:30:07.599 What'd your teacher look like? 00:30:08.400 --> 00:30:09.200 Miss Parker? 00:30:09.279 --> 00:30:13.200 Yeah, she looked like she looked like Greg Dammer Valentine. 00:30:13.920 --> 00:30:15.519 Did you teach Jim too? 00:30:15.920 --> 00:30:17.359 We didn't have Jim. 00:30:18.240 --> 00:30:20.160 Our gym was a blacktop. 00:30:20.559 --> 00:30:21.279 Oh, I gotcha. 00:30:21.519 --> 00:30:25.920 But anyway, so she was mad, people were talking and stuff like that. 00:30:26.079 --> 00:30:27.599 And it was getting about lunch time. 00:30:28.400 --> 00:30:29.599 Look, I like my lunch. 00:30:29.759 --> 00:30:30.160 Yep. 00:30:30.559 --> 00:30:34.559 So I raised my hand and she called on me. 00:30:34.720 --> 00:30:38.640 And I asked her what was for lunch, and she spanked me because I talked in class. 00:30:38.880 --> 00:30:41.440 Oh boy, that's not that was not well received. 00:30:41.759 --> 00:30:42.000 No. 00:30:42.319 --> 00:30:42.400 No. 00:30:42.720 --> 00:30:44.400 Did you ever get a spanking in school? 00:30:44.880 --> 00:30:45.119 No. 00:30:45.440 --> 00:30:45.839 Did you? 00:30:46.000 --> 00:30:46.160 No. 00:30:46.480 --> 00:30:46.720 Okay. 00:30:46.799 --> 00:30:47.680 I got another one. 00:30:47.920 --> 00:30:48.240 Okay. 00:30:49.440 --> 00:30:51.599 This one was not well received either. 00:30:52.319 --> 00:30:57.440 So, you know, you've been in a classroom, you know, people start going to the bathroom and they don't really have to go. 00:30:57.839 --> 00:30:58.000 Yeah. 00:30:58.400 --> 00:31:00.000 So all these people. 00:31:00.400 --> 00:31:01.039 Second grade. 00:31:01.279 --> 00:31:02.079 Second grade. 00:31:02.720 --> 00:31:08.960 All these people, you know, we were in a unlike unlike Chris's experience where it was marbled halls and things like that. 00:31:09.200 --> 00:31:09.920 Yes, of course. 00:31:10.880 --> 00:31:15.440 My second grade was in a trailer at Harold Elementary School. 00:31:16.480 --> 00:31:18.480 And I had to go to the bathroom. 00:31:18.880 --> 00:31:22.000 Number one, not number two, because nobody does that at school. 00:31:22.240 --> 00:31:23.440 No, that's ridiculous. 00:31:23.920 --> 00:31:24.960 So why would you do that? 00:31:25.279 --> 00:31:25.920 Number one. 00:31:26.480 --> 00:31:28.240 And the teacher said, No, you can't go. 00:31:28.559 --> 00:31:32.480 People have been going people have been asking to go and they don't really need to go, you can't go. 00:31:33.680 --> 00:31:34.960 I went and sat back down. 00:31:35.680 --> 00:31:38.160 I waited about five minutes, went and asked again. 00:31:38.240 --> 00:31:40.079 She said, No, I already told you you can't go. 00:31:40.960 --> 00:31:43.039 I was a resourceful young man. 00:31:43.279 --> 00:31:46.319 I walked to the back corner, let her fly. 00:31:46.480 --> 00:31:46.880 Absolutely. 00:31:47.119 --> 00:31:48.000 This was her senior year. 00:31:48.240 --> 00:31:48.880 Second grade. 00:31:49.759 --> 00:31:50.319 I gotcha. 00:31:50.559 --> 00:31:51.519 Second grade. 00:31:52.720 --> 00:31:54.079 Not well received. 00:31:55.119 --> 00:32:01.519 And and my mother did not take kindly to me not getting to go to the bathroom. 00:32:02.960 --> 00:32:03.839 Yeah, that's ridiculous. 00:32:03.920 --> 00:32:12.000 I mean, the fact that a teacher would deny uh, you know, I mean So that's two times I now I got spanked a few more than that. 00:32:12.480 --> 00:32:14.880 But those are

those are two that I didn't need. 00:32:15.119 --> 00:32:18.799 That happened in your school district with my son when he was in uh at Bridgeport. 00:32:19.039 --> 00:32:19.279 Really? 00:32:19.519 --> 00:32:21.039 And I had a little talking with the teacher. 00:32:22.079 --> 00:32:24.720 And uh had a me and Mart Marty Lale are still tight over there. 00:32:25.359 --> 00:32:28.559 I have I have had many discussions with employees about that. 00:32:29.839 --> 00:32:31.359 My mother was not happy. 00:32:31.519 --> 00:32:36.640 Yeah, so I I I'll share, I'll share the it's a sad story. 00:32:36.880 --> 00:32:40.799 So, you know, Chris, I know you're not you so it's normal life. 00:32:41.039 --> 00:32:41.599 Normal life. 00:32:41.680 --> 00:32:42.000 Right. 00:32:42.240 --> 00:32:46.640 So I I was not very artistic. 00:32:46.880 --> 00:32:49.039 Uh I can barely draw a straight line. 00:32:49.279 --> 00:32:49.920 I tuned it. 00:32:50.079 --> 00:32:51.119 Yeah, exactly. 00:32:51.279 --> 00:33:00.319 So long story short, I um I love to I loved it when we had a coloring assignment. 00:33:00.559 --> 00:33:00.799 Okay. 00:33:01.200 --> 00:33:02.880 I love to color what you know. 00:33:03.680 --> 00:33:15.839 And it is so you would get like a little a little sheet of paper and it'd be like a a map of the 13 colonies, yeah, and you'd color in different colors for each one or whatever. 00:33:15.920 --> 00:33:16.960 Okay, I used to love this. 00:33:17.519 --> 00:33:23.200 So anyway, in second grade, I colored in this map and I was so proud of it. 00:33:23.680 --> 00:33:35.359 And then I took a black crayon and I outlined all of the states so they would have black outline to go around to differentiate them from the others, even though there were different colors. 00:33:35.599 --> 00:33:40.240 And I was super duper proud of this, and I turned it in. 00:33:40.559 --> 00:33:49.599 Okay, now when you got your your things back from the teacher, she wouldn't put like a grade on some of these things, she would put like stickers, right? 00:33:50.079 --> 00:33:55.200 And uh, if you got a you know, like a Clifford the Big Red Dog sticker, that was huge. 00:33:57.440 --> 00:33:57.920 Even better. 00:33:58.000 --> 00:34:02.000 Yeah, I got my paper back, and Mrs. 00:34:02.240 --> 00:34:13.760 Raimi, the teacher, had given me a Clifford the Big Red Dog sticker with a sheet over his head, and he had the big sad eyes, and she wrote on it, no black outlining. 00:34:14.000 --> 00:34:21.920 Oh my! And I still to this day remember that as like one of the crushing blows of negative reinforcement. 00:34:22.079 --> 00:34:28.320 Clifford the big red dog had a sheet over his head, his little eyes going through the little holes, and he had looking all sad. 00:34:28.639 --> 00:34:30.079 It's terrible, yeah. 00:34:30.639 --> 00:34:31.519 Whatever happened to her. 00:34:31.679 --> 00:34:32.239 Uh, she did. 00:34:32.559 --> 00:34:33.440 She got hit by a car. 00:34:33.519 --> 00:34:33.920 She

did. 00:34:36.239 --> 00:34:37.840 She was old as dirt then. 00:34:38.239 --> 00:34:41.440 But uh, but it was funny because her and my mom were like big buddies. 00:34:41.599 --> 00:34:54.159 My mom was a teacher of first grade in the school, and uh that year we went out to her house uh on Thanksgiving morning to drop off some food for her because her husband had died or something. 00:34:54.320 --> 00:34:55.280 Did you poop in her yard? 00:34:55.519 --> 00:34:56.559 I wanted to desperately. 00:34:56.639 --> 00:34:59.599 I'm like, You know, there was a time, Janie. 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:02.159 You you all know my wife, obviously. 00:35:02.320 --> 00:35:04.559 There she got in trouble one time at school. 00:35:04.800 --> 00:35:10.800 And I can't, I honestly can't remember if she got spanked or not, but she got in trouble at school one time. 00:35:10.960 --> 00:35:12.159 You know what she got in trouble for? 00:35:12.800 --> 00:35:14.719 Reading a book while they were talking. 00:35:15.039 --> 00:35:15.760 Oh my god. 00:35:16.400 --> 00:35:20.320 She literally got in trouble for reading a book while the teacher was talking. 00:35:20.480 --> 00:35:24.639 I I would give rewards for kids if they would read a book in their off time. 00:35:25.039 --> 00:35:34.239 The only times I remember getting in trouble in school, and I was always terrified the teacher was going to tell my parents because whatever happened in school was gonna be so much easier than what happened when I got home. 00:35:34.719 --> 00:35:37.119 I mean, let's face it, big big Keith would have. 00:35:37.840 --> 00:35:42.000 Anyhow, in second grade, I remember having to go stand in the corner for talking. 00:35:42.559 --> 00:35:50.480 Um I remember in sixth grade, I got in trouble for talking and I had to write sentences. 00:35:50.719 --> 00:35:51.199 Yep. 00:35:51.760 --> 00:35:52.800 By Miss Banasse. 00:35:53.199 --> 00:35:56.000 Sentences the sentence, the sentence punishment sucked. 00:35:56.159 --> 00:35:56.639 Well, here's the thing. 00:35:56.719 --> 00:35:58.159 I don't I mean Did you ever have to do that? 00:35:58.320 --> 00:35:58.880 Uh I did. 00:35:59.199 --> 00:36:00.960 That was a punishment my dad would give you. 00:36:01.519 --> 00:36:02.400 Five hundred times. 00:36:02.559 --> 00:36:05.119 Well, this was like a hundred times I will not talk in class. 00:36:05.199 --> 00:36:06.719 So I just went, I I will not talk about it. 00:36:06.800 --> 00:36:07.599 Yeah, yeah, actually I did. 00:36:08.320 --> 00:36:08.480 Yeah. 00:36:08.880 --> 00:36:11.360 But it was like, that's the only time I remember getting in trouble. 00:36:11.519 --> 00:36:15.039 But I will tell you again, I was the I don't know. 00:36:15.199 --> 00:36:16.480 I don't know what my parents did to me. 00:36:16.559 --> 00:36:17.679 I remember being in fifth grade. 00:36:18.000 --> 00:36:30.000 Besides giving you everything that is impossible for a human to enjoy in Franklin County back then, starting when I was in second grade and it went all the way through fifth, they had something called Pegasus, which is you're all's GT now, the gifted and talented person. 00:36:30.400 --> 00:36:31.360 Of course, of course you do. 00:36:31.760 --> 00:36:43.360 But it was called Pegasus, but anyhow, so what would happen is one day a week you would go to this other part of the school and do all this, you'd learn computers and foreign language and all this crap, right? 00:36:43.599 --> 00:36:46.719 So long story foreign languages when you were in fourth grade. 00:36:46.960 --> 00:36:47.840 Uh second through fifth. 00:36:47.920 --> 00:36:48.239 But anyway. 00:36:48.880 --> 00:36:49.280 So yeah. 00:36:49.599 --> 00:36:53.039 So anyhow, but they they don't do that in public schools, right? 00:36:53.280 --> 00:36:54.000 This one's public. 00:36:54.480 --> 00:36:55.199 This one's public. 00:36:55.679 --> 00:36:56.000 Nah, uh. 00:36:56.880 --> 00:36:57.280 Anyhow. 00:36:57.360 --> 00:36:57.440 No. 00:36:57.679 --> 00:36:58.159 So the problem. 00:36:58.719 --> 00:37:00.320 My wife's a public school employee. 00:37:00.480 --> 00:37:01.840 You're a public school employee. 00:37:01.920 --> 00:37:02.400 That don't happen. 00:37:02.559 --> 00:37:03.119 It does not happen. 00:37:03.360 --> 00:37:04.239 Anyhow, yeah, go ahead. 00:37:04.400 --> 00:37:09.599 So I'd go to this class and you would miss um all day from your normal classes, right? 00:37:09.760 --> 00:37:10.079 Yeah. 00:37:10.239 --> 00:37:11.360 And then I'd go back. 00:37:11.519 --> 00:37:19.039 Well, I remember um this is again, this is in um this was in fourth grade, not fifth grade, fourth grade. 00:37:19.280 --> 00:37:27.280 Um, and uh my teacher at the time was Miss Yeast, and I had another teacher, I can't remember her name, Baker or something like that. 00:37:27.440 --> 00:37:39.199 But anyhow, I remember coming back in and they sent out uh they sent a re uh a letter home to my parents, and we were getting ready to go to my cousin's house and for sales for the you know, hung out all weekend, the pool and all that. 00:37:39.519 --> 00:37:53.440 And they send a letter home to my parents, and the next thing you know, my dad's given given me everything he can because I am apparently extremely behind on my assignments in Miss Yeast's class and Miss Miller, Miss Miller was her name, their classes. 00:37:53.679 --> 00:37:55.840 And I'm like, I don't know what you're talking about. 00:37:56.000 --> 00:37:57.119 I've done all this. 00:37:58.559 --> 00:38:01.440 So I get yelled at, didn't get to go to my cousins. 00:38:01.519 --> 00:38:08.880 I come in on Monday morning, I grab my workbook, and because dad told me, just go see Miss Yeast and have her mark what you need to do, and then go do the same thing with Miss Miller. 00:38:09.039 --> 00:38:10.719 So I get him a workbook so they mark all this stuff. 00:38:10.880 --> 00:38:11.679 Well, come to find out. 00:38:11.760 --> 00:38:14.639 I'm sitting there going, This was never

assigned to me. 00:38:14.880 --> 00:38:18.639 This was given to us or the class when I was in Pegasus. 00:38:19.760 --> 00:38:20.639 Well, you need to do it. 00:38:21.039 --> 00:38:22.079 That's your responsibility, pal. 00:38:22.480 --> 00:38:23.920 But hold on, and I'm like, I'm not gonna do this. 00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:29.280 So I remember I walked up to Miss Yeast, and I said, Can I go see Mr. 00:38:29.360 --> 00:38:30.719 Vickers, the principal? 00:38:31.039 --> 00:38:31.280 Wow. 00:38:31.519 --> 00:38:32.320 And she goes, What for? 00:38:32.480 --> 00:38:33.920 I said, I just need to sing. 00:38:34.239 --> 00:38:35.679 So she lets me, I go see Mr. 00:38:35.760 --> 00:38:37.039 Vickers, and I sit down in his office. 00:38:37.119 --> 00:38:45.360 Here I am, fourth grade, 10 years old, and I'm like, if I'm in this gifted and talented program and I'm missing work because of it, why am I having to do double work? 00:38:45.440 --> 00:38:46.559 That makes no sense. 00:38:46.800 --> 00:38:48.159 And he sided with me. 00:38:48.400 --> 00:38:48.800 Wow. 00:38:49.280 --> 00:38:50.960 Of course, do you ever know John Vickers? 00:38:51.119 --> 00:38:53.199 No, he was like 6'9, 6'10. 00:38:53.360 --> 00:38:54.400 Was it her and he was awesome? 00:38:54.480 --> 00:38:58.159 But yeah, I went and sat down with the principal and I said, This is bull. 00:38:58.639 --> 00:38:59.280 I'm not doing this. 00:38:59.360 --> 00:39:00.400 And he sided with me. 00:39:00.639 --> 00:39:06.000 Well, I'm not I'm honestly I'm not shocked by that because of the power that your family has. 00:39:06.239 --> 00:39:06.880 Right, right. 00:39:06.960 --> 00:39:15.840 I mean, I mean the amount of uh I mean, I think that entire uh east wing of that school was was donated by your family. 00:39:16.159 --> 00:39:16.639 Ridiculous. 00:39:16.960 --> 00:39:19.679 Did you guys walk to school or did you ride the bus or your parents take you? 00:39:20.079 --> 00:39:22.880 Where you lived, I guarantee you either rode the bus or parents took you. 00:39:24.159 --> 00:39:29.440 Sherry Kahn drove the school bus and she drove like a maniac, and I rode the school bus. 00:39:29.599 --> 00:39:35.119 I usually rode with my uh mom because I actually went to the school that she taught at. 00:39:35.360 --> 00:39:42.639 I was supposed to go to the other school that was closer to the neighborhood, but since she taught there, she just wanted to keep an eye on me, I think. 00:39:42.800 --> 00:39:44.800 So you had people drive, yeah. 00:39:44.960 --> 00:39:45.920 I rode the school bus. 00:39:46.079 --> 00:39:47.760 I walked to school until they closed my school. 00:39:48.000 --> 00:39:52.079 Yeah, the school bus, uh, I think it was what what what was the brand of it? 00:39:52.159 --> 00:39:53.920 Uh Bentley, I believe. 00:39:54.639 --> 00:39:55.840 Noah It was weird. 00:39:56.000 --> 00:39:58.239 It said R R R on there. 00:39:59.280 --> 00:40:03.199 So I walked to school, kindergarten first and second, and then they started busing us. 00:40:03.360 --> 00:40:07.920 So Well, when you own so much land, it's not like you gotta walk far. 00:40:08.239 --> 00:40:13.199 Mom had to be at work by 7 30, so she would take me to school in the mornings and I'd ride the bus home. 00:40:13.360 --> 00:40:15.920 And Homer was our bus driver, I think is what his name was. 00:40:16.079 --> 00:40:18.960 Bus number 39, I still remember that, and I'd ride it home. 00:40:19.599 --> 00:40:24.079 And uh was a 39 model Rolls Royce. 00:40:24.239 --> 00:40:24.719 No, whatever. 00:40:24.880 --> 00:40:25.199 Yeah, it was. 00:40:25.360 --> 00:40:25.840 And that was terrible. 00:40:26.000 --> 00:40:27.519 Riding the bus was always awful. 00:40:27.599 --> 00:40:29.840 Yeah, they have they have air conditioning on them now. 00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:31.119 Yes, on the case. 00:40:31.440 --> 00:40:32.559 Not on every single one. 00:40:32.719 --> 00:40:33.039 Okay. 00:40:33.280 --> 00:40:35.039 But anyhow, I think his name was Homer. 00:40:35.199 --> 00:40:36.559 He was weird, he was home. 00:40:37.039 --> 00:40:45.360 I look, we didn't have air conditioning in any school I ever went to or taught in until I actually moved to Florida. 00:40:45.599 --> 00:40:54.320 So my first school didn't my first nine years of my educational teaching career were in non-air conditioned rooms right on the blacktop. 00:40:54.480 --> 00:40:55.119 So yeah. 00:40:55.760 --> 00:41:01.599 Well, I mean, in in that regard, the the apartment I had when I was in law school, yeah, no air conditioning. 00:41:01.920 --> 00:41:02.719 Georgetown College. 00:41:03.199 --> 00:41:03.920 Georgetown College. 00:41:04.480 --> 00:41:06.000 But Betsy Lane had air conditioning. 00:41:06.239 --> 00:41:07.199 I don't remember, honestly. 00:41:07.440 --> 00:41:09.199 Yeah, Franklin County didn't have air when I was there. 00:41:09.519 --> 00:41:13.599 We now Betsy Lane High School was almost a brand new school when I went there. 00:41:13.760 --> 00:41:17.039 Oh well uh but I honestly I don't remember. 00:41:17.360 --> 00:41:19.280 I mean, I don't recall it not having air conditioning. 00:41:19.519 --> 00:41:27.840 Well, since we are now 42 minutes almost into this, we're gonna have to bring this one to a close and we will bring up clothing at the at the future. 00:41:28.719 --> 00:41:31.920 But yes, congratulations on starting your new school year. 00:41:32.159 --> 00:41:32.320 Thank you. 00:41:33.599 --> 00:41:36.880 Janie is starting her 27? 00:41:37.440 --> 00:41:37.920 28? 00:41:38.559 --> 00:41:42.719 She she it is her 28th year of doing speech therapy. 00:41:42.880 --> 00:41:43.360 That's awesome. 00:41:43.519 --> 00:41:46.320 And congratulations on paying three tuitions and three rents. 00:41:46.480 --> 00:41:46.880 Yeah. 00:41:47.119 --> 00:41:47.599 Not three. 00:41:47.840 --> 00:41:54.159 Well, Roman board, so by the way, 33 years in education, 10th year as uh superintendent this year. 00:41:54.239 --> 00:41:56.719 So it's hard to believe it's been 10 years. 00:41:56.960 --> 00:41:57.519 10 years. 00:41:57.599 --> 00:41:58.079 Yeah. 00:41:58.400 --> 00:42:01.440 I mean, that's like the amount of time Chris was banned from live. 00:42:02.239 --> 00:42:02.480 That's true. 00:42:04.239 --> 00:42:04.880 We still haven't up there. 00:42:06.400 --> 00:42:09.039 I've been up there because I'm not on the band list. 00:42:09.760 --> 00:42:11.599 Feature to catch our list. 00:42:12.159 --> 00:42:14.320 You never know what or who will be the best. 00:42:15.280 --> 00:42:16.559 We gotta do college football. 00:42:17.199 --> 00:42:19.360 College football is coming up, baby.