Latest / Voice Notes to the Universe / Voice Note #131 — I've Called a Meeting and Have Decided to Be a Kid Again
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- speaker-0: I have decided that I am way too serious. speaker-1: Yeah. speaker-0: I have decided that I am way too serious. I called a board meeting with the rest of the council. And we have decided and voted upon the fact that we must we must be a kid again. We speaker-1: Okay. speaker-0: our spirit revolts. We are no longer adulting. Well, listen, because we live in this capitalistic society, we must work a little bit, right? Mm but I do declare that we are embracing being a kid again. And so I'm trying to think of all these things I used to do when I was a kid. And I used to love to read. I would read Nancy Drew. I would read The Hardy Boys. I love the I ooh I ooh I used to also sometimes read Stephen King Although s my god there's a few times though I got scared. I got scared. speaker-1: and I had to like I was like sleeping with next to me. speaker-0: The cross bitch, it was I was probably I don't like I was that young. Like I was a teacher. speaker-1: wasn't and I wasn't a teenager. speaker-0: So appropriate. Scared the shit out of me. But his books, some of them are like so long, but love them. Judy Bloom, my gosh, you so love Judy Bloom. In fact I think I think I just saw a while ago, not too long ago, that she wrote an adult book. But honestly, I've been reading kids' books. I have so much fun. You know, like chapter books, right? And one of them was Judy Bloom's book. I'm in the men Charlotte's Webb. I got that one. But I think I left that in my storage. 'Cause I can't find it. But I do have the Judy Bloom I think it what is it called? Dear God it's, me Margaret or or you know And she's with the girls and their club and they're like, We must we must speaker-1: We must increase our bust. We must do something like that. speaker-0: my gosh. but I've been trying to think of these things. I used to love to ride my bike when I was a kid. my god. We'd go everywhere bike riding. We would meet the we'd meet me and my friend. We would meet the boys at the park and like, you know, they were be on their BMX bikes and our do doing tricks, whatever. And we'd be like making out with them. It's so stupid. speaker-1: Stop a yeah. speaker-0: my god. we used to watch, you know, I guess we you know, we used to watch movies. Listen, bitch, I was not allowed. This is so fucking crazy. Like it's kind of ridiculous. speaker-1: when I tell people this, they're like, You're fucking kidding me. speaker-0: But no. speaker-1: It's fact. It's truth. speaker-0: We were not growing up, I was not allowed to watch MTV or Nickelodeon. Bitch, Nickelodeon is all about kids. Well it was a little bit different in the eighties when it first kinda came on the scene. And no, was not allowed to watch Nickelodeon or MTV. my fucking God. It's crazy when I think about that. But we used to sneak, right? We would sneak, my brother and I, always. And if we had a babysitter parents would tell the babies speaker-1: babysitter. They even my parents sitter and a lot of times my older cousin would would would babysit. speaker-0: Mm and then you know, my dad would like be like, And you know MTV and no Nickelodeon Bits we'd put that in trouble. Sometimes he was like, you know, he didn't say anything. But but I'm like, my gosh, we used to go camping when I was a kid and I like to go camping. And my mom's parents they gave my parents a little trailer, like those like that the silver bullet, but it was like this little baby thing, so we all couldn't fit in there. speaker-1: So since speaker-0: I was the oldest my my parents would would set up a tent and I'd go tent camping, so they'd be in the trailer and then I would be in the tent. But it was cool because when then when I was in everybody sleeping trailer. speaker-1: teenager sleeping on the trailer and I'm sneaking out of the tent like trying to speaker-0: Unzip that bitch so quiet speaker-1: So nobody could hear me and I'd be crawling out of my tent and going to like speaker-0: I don't know the the gazebo. It always ended up with me sneaking. speaker-1: To meet a boy, make out with a boy. Out somewhere to meet a boy to make out. my god. speaker-0: God. good lord, what's wrong with me? No, that's funny. Yeah, so trying to think of the things. I don't know, does this mean I need to go? I need to go find find a bo not a boy. speaker-1: Mean I to go find a man. I need to go find a man. Sneak off speaker-0: And take off. speaker-1: somewhere and go make out. speaker-0: I already read lots of books, but maybe I need to eat I feel like I need to e read books that are that are funner because I'm always reading for knowledge. You know, I'm always looking to learn something genuinely kind speaker-1: understand something because I genuinely am curious and I love that. speaker-0: of stuff. But I feel like I need to read more so for fun, for inspiration, you know, just to just for entertainment, just to enjoy. And you know, they say a good writer should should read, you know, you should read all sorts of different genres, speaker-1: Should read shot. speaker-0: you know? But I feel like I need to like kind of go into and explore my childhood, the fun things. good god in cartoons. Yes, Saturday morning cartoons. goodness. Used to watch Scooby-Doo. And then like when I was sick and I get to stay home from school, there was The Munsters, there was Leave It's a Beaver, there was I Dream of Jeannie, there was Bewitched I Loved Bew Jeannie. Those were two of my speaker-1: and I drew my favorite shows. I love them. speaker-0: wait and the monsters. and then Batman. But the original Batman with Adam West. Such a c speaker-1: I guess I crush on him, I don't know. speaker-0: my god, I loved Ed. And sometimes Mr. Ed would come on, but I wasn't like a huge fan of Mr. Ed speaker-1: It's like, that's boring. speaker-0: But Scooby-Doo, I would watch Scooby-Doo, and of course the price is right, right? And then as the day would go on, it would like like Matlock. speaker-1: Ugh would come on. Or whatever like, whatever. speaker-0: Or like murder she wrote, but I kinda dig Matluck and Murder She Road. I don't know. It's good. Anywho. the snorks they were speaker-1: Just like the ch speaker-0: cheap like knockoff of the Smurfs. The snorks. And the Muppet Babies. I wasn't fan of Muppet. Everybody loving the Muppet Babies. speaker-1: The big is better. speaker-0: Although I had a brother. So we used to watch Shera. And then Trans. my gosh. And Rainbow Bright and Jem. I used to love gem. That was one of my favorites. speaker-1: Wake up. I had a Teddy Ruxpen speaker-0: Maybe I could find I had that forever, but I don't think I have it anymore. my gosh. And you wanna know what I have found speaker-1: Did I found? speaker-0: is my fucking diary from when I was in like third. speaker-1: third well, maybe third, fourth, fifth grade. speaker-0: But I am dying to read it, but I already feel like it's gonna be so fun. speaker-1: cringy. I don't think I can read it. speaker-0: good lord, my god, it's gonna be so fucking cringy. I can't, I don't think I can do it. I don't think I can fucking do it. my god, it makes me so uncomfortable. speaker-1: Yeah. speaker-0: my god, now I really do have to go look at it. my god. Whatever. I don't know. I think maybe I think maybe I need to go get some cereal. I think I need to go get cereal. MM chocolate chips, some milk, and go watch some cartoons. Toodle-oo.