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A Slice of the 80s · Children of the 80s

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  Speaker 2: Welcome Back to Children of the Eighties. I am one
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  Speaker 2: of your hosts, Jim, and I am joined as always
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  Speaker 2: by the lady who never turns down a good kid's
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  Speaker 2: birthday pizza. It's Michael Holst Lindsay.
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  Speaker 3: Is it a personal pan pizza?
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  Speaker 2: It can be if you want it to be.
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  Speaker 3: That's for sure what I want.
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  Speaker 2: It can be that. It can be a showbiz pizza.
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  Speaker 2: It can be a pizza pizza from Little Caesars.
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  Speaker 3: I've never met a pizza I didn't like.
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  Speaker 2: I have, you have I have? Dominoes can go down
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  Speaker 2: the drain as far as I'm concerned.
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  Speaker 3: Oh no, really, you don't like thenoid?
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  Speaker 2: No, I like the nooid. I wish that he would
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  Speaker 2: take away my Domino's pizza. Oh.
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  Speaker 3: In my opinion, there is nothing better.
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  Speaker 2: Than then the personal pan pizza you would get from
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  Speaker 2: book Itt.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yes, but I was looking at you wondering if
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  Speaker 1: you knew what I was going to say.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, in your opinion, there is nothing better than a
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  Speaker 2: night of watching true crime documentaries.
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  Speaker 3: But we're talking about pizza.
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  Speaker 2: In your opinion, there is nothing better than a season
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  Speaker 2: long DVD playing of the Golden Girls.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, but what's my favorite pizza?
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  Speaker 2: Ccs No, Oh, I didn't know Gary the Cat was
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  Speaker 2: in here.
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  Speaker 1: Gary the Podcast Cat is in the room, and on
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  Speaker 1: your shirt he is.
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  Speaker 2: I'm wearing my Gary shirt.
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  Speaker 3: He's talking to you too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, he wants some attention. I mean, he ain't
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  Speaker 2: the only one in this house that wants some attention
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  Speaker 2: from me. Okay, I'm filled with a house full of
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  Speaker 2: creatures that want attention from me.
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  Speaker 3: Creatures, the creatures, Well, yeah, it kind of.
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  Speaker 2: Let's say you're the one chasing the rabbits today.
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  Speaker 1: I love a good pizza Hut pan pizza.
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  Speaker 2: I believe I said that earlier.
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  Speaker 3: No, you didn't say anything about pizza Hut.
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  Speaker 2: I said a personal pan pizza that you get from
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  Speaker 2: Booket and Pizza Huts the only one that did.
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  Speaker 1: But I guess I was thinking a grown up lindsay
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  Speaker 1: she would actually like to have.
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  Speaker 3: A full size pizza.
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  Speaker 2: Oh okay, so the personal pan is not is not
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  Speaker 2: what you were hoping for.
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  Speaker 1: But there's something about that chrispiness of that crust, the crunchy,
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  Speaker 1: oily goodness that's clogging my already half clogged arteries.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, listen, we can get into all this later. What
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  Speaker 2: have you got for me right now?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm here, I'm the ear.
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  Speaker 2: You usually come in with some kind of statement, some
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  Speaker 2: kind of story, some kind of issue, some kind of
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  Speaker 2: rant in today that you don't seem to have that
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  Speaker 2: you seem to be wanting to jump right into the pizza.
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  Speaker 1: I do have something I want to talk about. Do
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  Speaker 1: you know what comes with menopause?
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  Speaker 2: Lots of fear, lots of fear on my end, I'm
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  Speaker 2: now suddenly unable to sleep. Yeah, this has never been
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  Speaker 2: an issue. Then, I've been in menopause for the last
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  Speaker 2: twenty years.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yes, I know, but I've never had problems sleeping.
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  Speaker 1: I've always been If anything, I've always slept too much.
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  Speaker 1: I love to sleep. It's my happy place. If I've
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  Speaker 1: just got some free time, maybe a day off, I
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  Speaker 1: would love to just sleep. It makes me happy. Suddenly,
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  Speaker 1: now all of a sudden, suddenly, all of a.
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  Speaker 2: Sudden, suddenly, now, all of a sudden, from the Department
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  Speaker 2: of redundancy, department.
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  Speaker 3: I can't sleep. This is what happens when you don't sleep.
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  Speaker 3: It's rough because then you got a function.
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  Speaker 2: Still Nope, I've been telling you this for the past
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  Speaker 2: seventeen years, so.
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  Speaker 3: I've struggled with that.
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  Speaker 1: I have an electrical issue with my heart, which is fine,
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  Speaker 1: it's you know, well controlled, but it prevents me from
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  Speaker 1: taking a sleep eight.
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  Speaker 2: Of some sort, right, because I go to sleep and
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  Speaker 2: never wake up, and I don't want to.
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  Speaker 3: Sleep that badly.
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  Speaker 2: Fu you like to sleep long, but maybe not quite
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  Speaker 2: that long. Yes, So you've introduced me to melatonin platonin,
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  Speaker 2: And what has that done? What if we found out
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  Speaker 2: about melatonin? Apparently our melatonin, at least for you, the
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  Speaker 2: melatonin that I take from the same bottle is just melatonin.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Now, for the record, all three of us take
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  Speaker 1: melatonin from the same bottle. Right, Emmy, twelve year old
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  Speaker 1: Emmy takes one one gummy melatonin gummy.
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  Speaker 2: And she goes to sleep, and she goes to sleep.
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  Speaker 2: I take two melatonin gummies and struggle to fall asleep.
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  Speaker 2: You take one melatonin gummy from the same bottle, but
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  Speaker 2: somehow that gummy is laced with THC.
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  Speaker 1: I can't formulate words. You start acting goofy I can't
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  Speaker 1: keep my eyes open. You start walking around like a zombie. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: not rob zombie.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, a zombie.
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  Speaker 2: It is ridiculous the stuff that I have to put
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  Speaker 2: up with after about forty five minutes after you take
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  Speaker 2: a melatonin gummy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, We'll be sitting watching TV at night and I'll
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  Speaker 1: say give me my mela.
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  Speaker 2: I know, but the point is is, like forty five
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  Speaker 2: minutes later, it's like you're some kind of toddler that
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  Speaker 2: I have to take care of it.
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  Speaker 3: I know you have our time getting me up the stairs.
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  Speaker 2: It's frankly, it's ridiculous. So what does the melotonin put
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  Speaker 2: you right to sleep?
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  Speaker 3: It puts me right to sleep?
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  Speaker 2: And do you have troublesleep?
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  Speaker 1: And then from there I have really crazy dreams which
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  Speaker 1: sometimes are a little disturbing, and I'll usually I'll wake
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  Speaker 1: up at some point in the night and lay there
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  Speaker 1: for a little while.
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  Speaker 3: But it is definitely helping, and.
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  Speaker 2: It has some really strange effect on me, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 2: I had a dream that I was in high school.
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  Speaker 2: Back in high school the other day, were you naked?
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  Speaker 2: I was not naked, but it was time for pe
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  Speaker 2: class and apparently i'd forgotten my PE shorts and they
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  Speaker 2: were like, that's okay. They carry extra specifically for this reason.
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  Speaker 2: And apparently like I was possessed by Emmy because I
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  Speaker 2: was like, no, I don't want to do that, because
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to participate in PE. Now, that was
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  Speaker 2: not me as a kid. As a kid, I felt
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  Speaker 2: like PE should be every class of the day. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but for whatever reason, in my dream, I did not
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  Speaker 2: want to attend PE.
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  Speaker 1: Did you guys have the rope in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the gym that you had to climb up?
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  Speaker 2: No? No, Luckily, luckily we did not have that. I
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  Speaker 2: did see though this week that our buddy Brian from
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  Speaker 2: My Weekly mixtape had put on there about the gym
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  Speaker 2: class with the parachute.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, when you saw the parachute come out, it.
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  Speaker 3: Was a good day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was gonna be fun.
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  Speaker 3: It was gonna be day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So I wish I would have played with the
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  Speaker 2: parachute in my dream instead of refusing to wear the
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  Speaker 2: gray shorts that they had for me.
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  Speaker 3: So what'd you do? You just set it out?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, it's one of those dreams where
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  Speaker 2: like you never actually get there, but it's just always
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  Speaker 2: like stressing you out. But you never actually get to
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  Speaker 2: the thing that's stressing you out.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So I know we've talked about the Presidential Fitness Test.
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  Speaker 2: The Presidential Physical Fitness.
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  Speaker 1: Test, and how we all thought President Reagan was going
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  Speaker 1: to review our scores personal yes, and that I was
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  Speaker 1: letting him down, no doubt. So we had to do
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  Speaker 1: the We had to pull yourself up on the bar,
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  Speaker 1: and I couldn't do it. And I was too big
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  Speaker 1: for a teacher to pick me up and lift me
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  Speaker 1: up to the bar.
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  Speaker 3: So I was I was just excused from that one.
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  Speaker 2: But what did they mark down for your score? I
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  Speaker 2: was like perfect or like zero in.
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  Speaker 1: A in the A in a And let me and
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  Speaker 1: let me clarify for the record, I wasn't I wasn't chubby.
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  Speaker 2: I was tall, right, you were like you were like
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  Speaker 2: six foot three in fourth grade.
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  Speaker 3: I was actually fairly thin, but I was foot eight.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And they couldn't make the bar any higher than
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  Speaker 2: that because then the other kids wouldn't be able to
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  Speaker 2: get up to it.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I didn't have the strength. I have no upper
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  Speaker 3: body strength.
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  Speaker 2: But all you got to do is hang there. If
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  Speaker 2: you were a female, that's what I wanted to do.
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to do the female just hang there, but
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  Speaker 2: the boys had to do the pull ups.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, wait, I'm gonna let me. Let me try this again.
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  Speaker 1: I had no upper body.
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  Speaker 2: Strength, but all you had to do was just hang there.
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  Speaker 2: If you were a female, I.
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  Speaker 3: Had no upper body strength. I couldn't. I couldn't do it.
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't. I couldn't.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you didn't have to hang because you were standing.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, you're crazy.
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  Speaker 1: I had to be able to get to the bar.
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  Speaker 1: I could not, and they could not lift me up
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  Speaker 1: there because I was too tall heavy. I hate that word. Anyways,
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  Speaker 1: It's where a lot of my eating issues come from.
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  Speaker 1: Now anyways, that's not even where I was going. I
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  Speaker 1: was gonna ask you about. Do you remember the times
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  Speaker 1: in Pe when you had to do the roles to
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  Speaker 1: roll forwards?
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I hated that. I hate it.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think that's why we've all got like spine issues?
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  Speaker 2: Now, Percy? Were they were checking us for scoliosis because
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  Speaker 2: they knew what the pe teachers were doing to us?
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  Speaker 3: What was the point of doing that? Though?
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  Speaker 2: Seriously, I mean, I believe it was probably put forth
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  Speaker 2: by the Chiropractic Association of America.
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  Speaker 3: Seriously, I was terrified.
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  Speaker 2: I did not like tucking my chin up into my
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  Speaker 2: chest and then rolling over forward or backwards.
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  Speaker 1: I was absolutely terrified of doing it.
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  Speaker 2: Listen. I was just like, give me a rubber ball.
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  Speaker 2: I can play kickball, I can play dodgeball, I can
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  Speaker 2: bounce that. I could shoot baskets with it. I could
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  Speaker 2: play four square with it. All I need is a
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  Speaker 2: rubber ball to make me happy. I don't need a parachute,
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  Speaker 2: although that was fun, and I certainly don't need to
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  Speaker 2: do some kind of gymnastics type role.
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  Speaker 1: Do you remember you had to you started the rolling?
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  Speaker 1: You start had like squatting on a box.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I forgot about it.
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  Speaker 1: Remember that you would squat and get down in your
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  Speaker 1: squat and tuck and then you would start your roll.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I know what happened.
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  Speaker 2: When I squatted, you fell off and they were like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: start to roll.
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  Speaker 3: I would just hop over.
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  Speaker 2: And just this face plant.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there was no rolling.
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  Speaker 2: I don't remember actually rolling. I remember having to do it,
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  Speaker 2: but I don't remember actually rolling or how I got
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  Speaker 2: out of that. I remember we would always have the
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  Speaker 2: one kid. He would start rolling and he would just
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  Speaker 2: keep going. Yeah. Yeah. You always had the kid that
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  Speaker 2: was basically like a ball, and.
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  Speaker 3: He would like roll halfway down. He would go off.
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  Speaker 3: The matic came.
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  Speaker 2: He was the champion of that game, and he would
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  Speaker 2: roll on down the hall right, he would roll back
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  Speaker 2: the class. He'd be like, teacher, get me my math test.
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  Speaker 2: I rolled I just rolled back here. Yes, yes, it's crazy,
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  Speaker 2: it's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: And then you survived that, and you know what they
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  Speaker 1: do is a reward for you?
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  Speaker 2: You pull ups.
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  Speaker 3: Square dancing, square.
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  Speaker 2: Dancing, yes, yes, square dancing or golly, what else did
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  Speaker 2: we have to do? That sucked? Do square dancing? I
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  Speaker 2: like the popcorn thing with the parachute. I actually liked that,
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  Speaker 2: but then I didn't understand why we did the parachute.
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  Speaker 2: Then we tucked ourselves up underneath it. That was also
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  Speaker 2: because then you all get turtle headaches. Yes, because you
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  Speaker 2: can't breathe. You're all breathing everybody's carbon dioxide. Yes, it's
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  Speaker 2: all your breathing.
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  Speaker 1: You end up with a turtle headache because you're under
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  Speaker 1: their breathing recycled air.
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  Speaker 3: And that's not good. Do you think?
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  Speaker 2: Oh and then oh no, no, your reward was crab soccer.
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  Speaker 3: I don't remember every doing crabs.
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  Speaker 2: Oh it sucked.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think we had to do.
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  Speaker 1: All that rolling because of like merely rattin? Probably is
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  Speaker 1: that what it was. Because it felt like they were
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  Speaker 1: trying to make gymnasts out of us.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, come on, I don't know. How does
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  Speaker 2: one roll backwards? Do you remember how that happened? No?
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  Speaker 2: I don't. I mean, listen, these are things that I
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  Speaker 2: probably blocked out of my mind.
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  Speaker 3: How do you get started rolling backwards?
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  Speaker 2: You didn't play crab soccer with that big, giant, like
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  Speaker 2: air like ball that was so light, and you'd you'd
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  Speaker 2: you'd lean back and you get your hands back behind
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  Speaker 2: you and you'd crawl around like a crab and you'd
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  Speaker 2: kick that big giant soccer ball. I don't think anybody
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  Speaker 2: ever scored. I think it was impossible to score. You
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  Speaker 2: just kicked it up in the air as far as
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  Speaker 2: you could, but it was extremely painful. I can't imagine
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  Speaker 2: trying to do it now. I was much more limber
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  Speaker 2: back then and more loose, and now, if I tried
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  Speaker 2: to get down in a crab position, I mean, you
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  Speaker 2: may as well cook me like a crab, because I'm
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  Speaker 2: probably not getting back up.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my goodness.
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  Speaker 1: It's my understanding that our child refuses to participate in
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  Speaker 1: pe and they just let her sit it out.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that wasn't an option.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, But here, you know, in fairytale Land, she
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  Speaker 2: gets to do what she wants.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, she just sits it out.
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  Speaker 1: But then she also complains that the pe teachers never
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  Speaker 1: like her right because she.
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  Speaker 2: Sits everything out. None, track, Listen, you can't have your
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  Speaker 2: cake and eat it too. Somebody needs the teacher that well,
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  Speaker 2: good luck. Well, I got something to say.
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  Speaker 3: Oh I know you do.
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  Speaker 2: Get off my lawn.
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  Speaker 5: Did you hear me? I said, get off my lawn, Now,
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  Speaker 5: get off my lawn.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not happy. I don't like this chair, and I
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  Speaker 3: don't like this dish, and I don't like being here.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a grumpy old man.
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  Speaker 2: I don't like everything the way it is now compared
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  Speaker 2: to the way it used to be.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't done this in a long I was gonna
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  Speaker 3: say it's been a long time.
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  Speaker 2: It's been a good six to eight months since I've
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  Speaker 2: done a grumpy old man rant. But I don't believe
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  Speaker 2: this to be an old man's situation, even though I
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  Speaker 2: am an old man, So I'm not sure if you're aware.
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  Speaker 2: But I just had a kidney cut out of me
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  Speaker 2: two months ago because I had the kidney cancer. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: and now they're doing immunotherapy for me, which they say
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  Speaker 2: is gives me about a seventy to eighty percent better
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  Speaker 2: chance of it not coming back than if I didn't
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  Speaker 2: do the immunotherapy. Well, apparently in June, which was last month,
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  Speaker 2: the FDA just approved another drug that goes alongside the
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  Speaker 2: immunotherapy that's supposed to further increase the chances of it
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  Speaker 2: not coming back. Right last time I went, my oncologist
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  Speaker 2: brought this up to me and said would you like
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  Speaker 2: to try it? And I said, Hey, anything that gives
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  Speaker 2: me a better chance of it not coming back, I
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  Speaker 2: will take it. So he was like, okay, well i'll
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  Speaker 2: write you the prescription. So he was like, but it's
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  Speaker 2: going to have to be delivered to you, you can't
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  Speaker 2: go pick it up. I'm like okay, fine. So they
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  Speaker 2: called me the next week and they were like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: we got your prescription. I'm like, no, I have not.
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  Speaker 2: They were like, okay, well let us find out. Today.
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  Speaker 2: I receive an email from the insurance company saying that
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  Speaker 2: they have denied me this new drug. Yes, okay, let
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  Speaker 2: me just say this not cool. Yeah, okay, you are
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  Speaker 2: playing with people's lives here, just because you don't want
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  Speaker 2: to pay the money for a drug that's supposed to
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  Speaker 2: further increase their chances of living or their chances of
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  Speaker 2: not having a recurrence of cancer, which by the way,
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  Speaker 2: is going to cost you a whole lot more if
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  Speaker 2: it recurs. That's the thing, then it will if you
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  Speaker 2: pay for this drug.
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  Speaker 3: Let's take that into considering.
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  Speaker 2: So it's not like them paying for this drug is
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  Speaker 2: going to reduce their multi billion dollar profits of the year.
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  Speaker 2: They're still going to get billion dollar profits for the year.
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  Speaker 2: What drives me crazy is they would probably spend less
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  Speaker 2: for this drug than they do for these doctors that
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  Speaker 2: don't know me and don't examine me to turn me
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  Speaker 2: down and say it's not medically necessary for me to
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  Speaker 2: have something. Yes, if they just quit paying them and
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  Speaker 2: pay out for the drugs, it wouldn't no doubt be
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  Speaker 2: cheaper and it's not going to affect your bottom line.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: The insurance companies need to quit this crap with the
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: denials and start doing stuff that the pharmaceutical companies are
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: doing to try to save people's lives.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, make it make sense.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: I would love to interview the CEO or a VP
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: of any health insurance company on this podcast and ask
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: them why and tell them to make it make sense.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: But with all of that said, how thankful are we
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: that we have health insurance?
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: Very thankful that we have help insurance.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: There are many people out there who do not, or
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: they pay through the nose to happen, right, So we
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: are extremely fortunate, very thankful.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: But I will say that they know that we are.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Yes, but I will say this, my company pays a
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: heck of a lot for that hell a heck of
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: a lot.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: So it's not like I.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: Walked into it, or it's not like they're doing it
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: out of the kindness of their hearts. They are doing
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: it because my company pays them a ton of money,
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: and therefore they should be taking care of us and
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: not denying us and a nice.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Chunk of your pay every towards our premium.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Yes, so my company pays for a lot of it,
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: but I pay a whole bunch. Yes two Yes, so
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: health insurance company. I will not name you, but I
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: sure would like to call you out, and I sure
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: would like to meet the person who denied me, ask
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: them why, and then when they give me that bullcrap answer,
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: I'd like to punch them in.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: The nose, That's all we're asking.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, just let me function in the notes some rough stuff.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Jim it is you took it there? Well, you know what,
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: they took it there. I didn't take it there. They
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: took it there. End of old man rant.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: How do you feel?
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: I feel fantastic?
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: Now you feel better? I do good?
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: I do. Are you ready to get started with today's podcast?
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: Let's do it?
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: This is a podcast that looks back on the decade
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: of the nineteen eighties. We talk about things that were
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: important to us as children and what we look back
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: on with fond memories as adults.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: Ultimately, this is a nostalgia podcast. Why don't you tell
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: the folks what we're getting nostalgic about.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: To Okay, so today it's a little bit more of
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: what we've done in the past. We have been on
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: an adventure this past week, and then we went on
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: another adventure last summer, which we had just kind of
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: kept to ourselves, and so we're gonna talk about both
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: of those adventures in today's episode.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: They have to do with the eighties.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: It all has to do with pizza from the nineteen eighties.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: Woohoo. Yeah, because we did our episode a few weeks
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: ago about birthday parties in the eighties, and then that
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: got us on this jaunt and we were like, okay, well,
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: let's take it a step further and let's go try
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: to re experience that.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: So we were feeling a little stir crazy because you've
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: not really been able to get out in about since
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: your surgery. So we found that there is an original
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Pizza Hut not too far from us, about an hour
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: from us, and we just took an afternoon and we
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: drove up there to have us a true nostalgic nineteen eighties.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: Ex Right, and we're going to talk about that in
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: just a second. But first I got something for you.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: I know, because i'm middle aged.
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: Mane party between.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: A man. I have another nominee for the middle aged man.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: They're coming in quicker than we can.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Keep up with them, all right, So my middle Aged
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Man Hall of Fame nominee comes today from a listener.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna tell you who yet, but I need
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: you to decide whether or not this person gets into
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: the middle Aged Man Hall of Fame, or it gets
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: banished forever. I think I know what you're going to
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: do already, really, because I think you love this person
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: so much that if I nominated them for the I
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: don't know, pretty Woman Hall of Fame, you might allow
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: this man in. Or if I nominated this person for
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: the looks like alf Hall of Fame, you might let
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: them in. Or it's just any other ridiculous hall of
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: fame that I can think of. I think you love
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: this person so much that you would let them into
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: any hall of fame that I can come up with. However,
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: I do think it's a worthy contestant.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Okay, I'm so perplexed.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: The nominee for the middle aged Man Hall of Fame
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: is mister Willie Nelson. Ah, how I love Willie. I
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: know you love Willy.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: Oh wow, that is a good one because he's looked
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: sun parched for a long time.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Sun parched. Yeah, explain to the folks who don't speak
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Alpha Reddian what you mean by sun parched.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: He looks like somebody dunked him in a pool and
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: then laid him out in the sun and forgot about him,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: and he shriveled up and got all hand and hard
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: and wrinkly and middle age and middle age I mean, okay,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: but let's also remember he's like ninety something now.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: He is. He is like ninety something now. So back
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: in I think, back in the eighties, he would have
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: been like in his forties. Right, let me look up
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: and see exactly when mister Willie Nelson was born, what
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: his birth date is, what his date of birth is,
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: and let me tell you how old that man is.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: So he's ninety three.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: He's ninety three years old, which would have made him.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Which would have made him fifty in nineteen eighty three. Okay,
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: so he would have actually been a middle aged man.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: He actually was a middle aged man back in the eighties.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Here's my issue that I'm having. I am such an
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: avid Willie Nelson fan that I remember when he first
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: got started and how he actually kind of looked like
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Roy Orbison minus the sunglasses.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Okay, So is this Willie Nelson in the seventies or
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: is that in the eighties.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: That's the eighties?
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Okay? Is this Willie Nelson in the seventies? I think
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: so it kind of looks a little bit middle aged
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: to me. Let me see if I can find an
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: older picture of him. Oh gosh, I see him in
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: the fifties. Yeah, and you see what he was, only
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: like twenty something, but yeah, he very clean cut, very young,
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: very clean cut.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: Yep, that's the one I'm thinking of.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: That's in his twenties. That doesn't count, right, You got
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: to look at him in his thirties. So what about
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: this here? So this is a black and white picture,
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: so I don't know.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: Oh, he's in, he's in. You got me on that one.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: I did get you on that one.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: Okay. Now the question is are you letting his guitar in?
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: I mean, his guitar is so old that it might
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: go into the Old Age Man Hall of Fame. But
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: that was submitted to us by patreonnor Donna Peebles, So
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: I want to give her credit. She said, I would
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: like to nominate Willie Nelson for the Middle Aged Man
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: Hall of Fame. Will He kissed me in Lake Waye,
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Texas in the nineteen eighties, and I swear he looked
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: the same then as he does now.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, Donna, I tell this to Jim a lot. Donna,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: you buried the lead there, friend.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: She didn't bury the lead. She sent that to me.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: But I wasn't going to tell you that, okay until
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: you voted on Willi Hill.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: You need to know about that kiss, Donna.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: Donna, she needs to know about the Willie Nelson kiss.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: Was there some electricity?
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: There?
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: Was it too much spit? Did you use enough spit?
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: Did you get stoned from the excess weed smoke?
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: Do you now get cold sores? I need to know.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Oh no, I hope not, Donna, But do do write
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: in or whatever and let me know because.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: I'm inquiring minds need to know.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: Yes, So great job, Donna on the Willie Nelson nomination.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: He is in to the Middle Aged Man Hall of Fame.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: But come on, you're going to tell your Willie Nelson
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: story though, aren't you?
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: To all the girls? I loved them before.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: Jim took me to see Willie Nelson.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: You were always on.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Several years ago, and it was a Willie Nelson and
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: family concerts.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: It was like ten or eleven years ago. So he
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: was only he was spry and in his eighties, and.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: So this was actually his sister was there. She was
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: I think playing the piano. She has since passed away.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Other relatives he was like a wind up toy.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: He came out, played his music in double time, and
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: then left and was out there for seventy minutes total,
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: seventy maybe seven zero. Oh, he was out there for
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: an hour and ten minutes.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Oh, I think he was out there like seven minutes.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: It felt like he came out.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Like like they he was like they had really used
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: a key to wind him up, and he was a
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: little robot and he just like and he played it.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: At the microphone and do all theirs.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: I love my fa And I like how you make
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: you get mad at me for making fun of him,
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: and then you do the same thing.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Because I love him, So it's okay. I can do that,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: just like I can make fun of you. Other people can't.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: It's like you're always on my mind. You're always on
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: my mind. Time to go.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: And then and he didn't talk. We got no.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: No, no extra curricular. It was just song after song
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: after song after song finished.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: He was like, this is right back off the stage.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: It was. It was like rapid fire Willie Nelson.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: It really was. It was. It was kind of strange.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: He couldn't really leave his tour bus for that long
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: because he might lose his high.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: Oh my goodness.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: But Willie Nelson now a member of the Middle Aged
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: Man all same. Congratulations Willie.
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: All right, So, as you mentioned, are we doing, we
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: talk a trip into the gorgeous mountains of North Georgia
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: because they have a time capsule pizza hut that is
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: stuck in the nineteen eighties.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: Lindsay's going to post pictures of them on all of
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: our socials so you can check them out on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: what have you. But we literally traveled back in time
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: to go to this pizza hut and this beautiful mountain town.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: So it's right inside Dealanaga, Georgia. It's a beautiful, beautiful area.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: A lot of the Hallmark movies are filmed there, you know,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: because it's so picturesque.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: Especially the Christmas ones.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: This is called a pizza Hut classic. Yes, and let
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: me tell you, I mean it was pretty legit in
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: its decor.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: It was. It was we got the red cups. We
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: had the red cups. Yeah, they had the checkered tablecloths, yep,
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: the red booths, the red boost, the checkered glass lights
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: hanging with it. Says pizza Hut, you know, on the
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: globe of the on the what what is that on
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: the light? I don't know what to call that the lamp.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: It's not a shade, but it's like the lamp globe
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: that covers the light.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it was legit. It looked on the
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: inside exactly like I remember Pizza Hut looking now. It
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: did feel a little smaller, but maybe that's just because
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: I'm grown.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: Now, right. I think it probably was not smaller. Oh,
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: although it may be a smaller location up there than
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: it was down here in the city.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: I think it had to be somewhat smaller because as
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: a child, they had at least one video game in
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: the lobby, because I remember Table pac Man, okay. And
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: they would have had a cigarette machine in the lobby.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: Yes, they would have, so I and I bring back
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: the cigarette machines. Oh no not. And then I think
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: they would have had a jew box because Pizza Hut
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: is where we kept hearing Born in the USA over
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: and over again when I was a kid.
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: It drove my dad crazy. That was on the jew box.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: So your dad wasn't a jukebox.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: Hero, he was not.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they I was disappointed because I thought we would
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: see a jukebox, and I thought we would see a
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: tabletop game of some sort. I don't care if it
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: was a Pac Man or whatever. I thought we would
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: see a video game. We did not see that. What
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: we did see was a whole bunch of people eating there.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: It was full when we got there. What we did
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: see was us to come in and a bunch of
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: open tables, and the kid that was there was like,
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: how many and we were like three, and he was like, okay,
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: I'll be right back, And so then I went and
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: used the restroom and I came back out, and I
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: proceeded to stand there for the next twenty minutes. They
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: were short staff, so I don't blame the kid. They
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: I don't blame the kid. But then a lady comes
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: out and she's like, how many of you are there?
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: And we're like three, and she's like, oh, well, you
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: can sit wherever you want. And I'm like, why didn't
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: the kid just tell us that in the first place.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: Why did we have to sit here for thirty minutes
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: to be told, oh, just sit wherever.
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: You want, Okay? But I want to know.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Do people remember at the Pizza Hut when you would
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: first enter the little main lobby, there was the sign
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: there and It was like, I don't even know what
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: kind of writing, almost like calligraphy writing, and it says
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: something like weight to be seated or wait here to
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: be seated.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: They had that did they had in a wooden stand?
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: I mean it was legit.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: They had the world's smallest salad bar they did.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: It was no bigger than address my desk here. Yeah,
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: and all.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: They had was lettuce and onion and tomato and then
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: a bunch of yeah uh, I don't know, different types
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: of solid dressings and that's all they had.
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well what did they have on the table?
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, they had the thing with the with the
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: red pepper and the salt and pepper shakers and what
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: else was on there?
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: And the like red stained glass candle hole, Yes, a
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: little lit candle inside.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: That may be the thing that took me back to
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: the eighties more than anything. Sure that in the red
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: cup yep. Now, the red cup would have been better
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: had there pepsi not been flat.
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: It was a little flat.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: The pepsi was flat. I was expecting, you know, you
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: to take that drink in it to burnsi.
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: It did not. It makes your eyes water.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, make your eyes water. That's that's when you know,
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: it's really good. It did not do that, so that
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: made the red cup less enjoyable. But that red candle holder,
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: I swear I was back in nineteen eighty two.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: You know, looking at the picture of the restaurant here
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: that I've just pulled up on my phone.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: You know what it's missing the juke box? Well, yes,
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: look at the chairs.
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: It should be those red vinyl chairs.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: Yes, with the red back on it, the red back.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: And the black metal uh huh frame of the that's
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: the chairs that we should have there.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: Yes, those were not the chairs that were there. No, okay,
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: I want to talk about the food. Well can I
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: talk about the food?
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: He must a little to be desired, but that, yes,
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: go ahead.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: Okay. So we're sitting there and there's three of us,
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: and so I'm like, I think one pizza might do us,
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: and Emmy's like, there's no way one pizza is gonna
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: do us. Apparently she was starving. She was. Yeah, So
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: I decided, against better wishes to order the Big New
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: Yorker because I figured that's an extra large instead of
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: a large. That'll certainly fill us up. But just in
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: case it doesn't, since she's starving, the guy asked if
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: we wanted an appetizer. So I go look it over
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: the appetizer and I can get garlic bread, I can
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: garlic cheese bread, I can get bread sticks. So I'm like,
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: you know what, give us four pieces of garlic bread.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: That's what the appetizer came of us, four pieces. I'm like,
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: give us four pieces of garlic bread and then give
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: us a big New Yorker. And so the guy, so
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: the kid's like, okay, the one who told, the one
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: who had us wait for thirty minutes. So it's like, okay,
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: no problem them. So we're sitting there waiting do to
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: do to do? He brings out our garlic bread and
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: you probably could have picked my jaw up off the table.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: I look at you and ask you and Emmy the question,
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: and you guys both shush me, which I don't know why.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: Because you don't want to be rude.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: I look at you and go, is this not the
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: frozen Texas toast that we get from the grocery store.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: And that's absolutely what it was. Yes, it's that Texas toast,
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: that garlic Texas toast in the yellow box. Yeah, and
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: maybe he looks like green and red or something that's
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: got writing and it says Texas Toast garlic bread on it.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: That's what it was. They took some frozen Texas toast
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: garlic bread, put it in there oven, and then brought
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: it out as if they had made it from scratched.
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: They should they did. I can't. I can't defend it.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: You want to talk about being highly disappointed, kind of
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: ticked off a little bit, because if I wanted that,
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: I'd just went down to the Krogers and bought it
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: there and brought it home. I was looking for real pizza.
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: Store garlic bread. You didn't get it.
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: I wasn't looking for frozen Texas toast.
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: You did not get it.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: It was highly highly disappointing.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Okay, So I can I talk about what highly disappointed
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: me all the pizza that I ate. When they brought
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: the pizza, it was ginormous by the way it filled
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: up the entire table. But they set it down and
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: I realized it wasn't a Pan pizza.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: Right, which you did not expressly say I would like
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: a Pan pizza, And in fact I asked you, guys,
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: what kind of pizza would you like? And both of
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: your things was like I don't.
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: Care well because I think pizza.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: Hut, Pan, I think pizza Hut. I'm going to get
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: the cheapest piece that I can get that's going to
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: feed all of us.
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: There you go. That's what we did, and it wasn't bad,
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: just not what I had expected in my mind.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: It was good, it was decent, but I'm still ticked
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: off about the Texas Toast scarlet bread.
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: So that's that's the hang up for you.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: That's the hang up for me. And the fact that
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: we were there for what felt like a good two
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: and a half hour.
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it did.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: It took forever. They were I guess really understaffed. My
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: guess is there not run efficiently that maybe there actually
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: was enough employees.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think there was enough employees. I think
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: the poor kid that was our waiter was also the
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: front guy taking the the and may have been the
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: cook too.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: So they need somebody to come in and help them
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: with processes.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: Oh what about the little three year old that was
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: yelling with the mullet. Well, we were in North Georgia.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: I mean this kid had a mullet and what was
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: he yelling or cackling or something? He was cackling Oh
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: my gosh, it was the strangest and funniest thing heard
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: of my life.
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: That's what you see in North Georgia.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: But but let's also now weigh it against a trip
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: that we took a while back that you were so
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: disappointed with, so kind of upset by the waste of
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: time and money that we originally said we weren't even
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: going to talk about it on the podcast, right, But
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: now we've decided, since we've done this review of this
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: Pizza Hut classic.
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: We will throw in a little bit about the trip
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: we took. Was it last summer?
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: Yes, all right, folks. So here's the deal. Remember Showbiz Pizza,
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: which we talked about a few weeks ago, and the
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: rock of fire explosion in those animatronics. There are only
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: like two left in America. One of them the animatronics, Yeah,
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: the animatronics. One of them is in West Virginia, which
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure if it's an upgrade or a grade
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: from North Georgia. But we were in the Cincinnati area, yeah,
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: and we decided to go over to West Virginia because
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: there was a place that claims to be they used
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: to be a showbiz pizza. They've got the Rocker Fire explosion.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: They've got all the video games, they've got the pizza,
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: and we were like, it's on. We're gonna go back
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: to nineteen eighty three to a showbiz look alike and
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: play video games and eat pizza and watch the rocker
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: fire explosion and just have a good old time and
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: a good old concert.
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: Well, first off, I underestimated how long two and a
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: half hours can be.
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: It was a solid too ann AFOs.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: In book Kentucky Foothills in West Virginia, So I underestimated that.
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: Number two. We walked in, it was almost as if
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: the restaurant were on the moon and you were looking
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: out into space. That's how dark it was in there.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: They didn't want to pay for the lights, so you
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: as you walk through, who knows how many different bacteria
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: and viruses and parasites you're picking up on your shoes
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: in that filthy place.
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: Be nice, Oh I am.
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: I walked into the bathroom and I felt like maybe
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: that's where they had filmed the original saw.
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: It was a little rundown.
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: No, the bathroom was absolutely disgusting, and I feel like
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: I may or may not have seen Carrie Elways's bottom
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: of his leg still left in there after he crawled out.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it was a little rundown. And the animatronics,
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: it was exciting to see them up on the stage
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: and they had the full setup up there, but they
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: did not work properly or efficiently or.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna get to that in a second.
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: Oh okay, I'm jumping ahead.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: You're jumping ahead. So I used the bathroom. I washed
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: the saw off my hands, although I'm not sure how
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: good it really did. I come out emmy starving. I'm starving.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: So we immediately go to the place and we order
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: a pizza. Right, So you go up for you order
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: a pizza, They give you a ticket, they give you
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: your cups, you go fill up your cups, and you
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: go sit back down. So we're sitting back down waiting
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: on our pizza, and the rock of fire explosion is there.
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: So Number one, the curtains weren't working. So whenever they
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: got done finishing a show or a song or two,
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: the curtains never closed.
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: No, they just they just hung.
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: They just hung their just hung there. Number two, like
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: Lindsay said, they didn't work the best. Sometimes they worked,
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: sometimes they didn't, but they had animatronic technicians that work there,
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: and I was like, and I had read this online.
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, that's great. They'll go in the back
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: and they'll fix it or whatever. No, the animatronic technicians
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: are like five fourteen year old boys who were wearing
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: a gray shirt that says animatonic technician. And anytime, like
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: one of the things head falls to the side, like
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: it's got his neck broken, they walk up there and
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: push it back up.
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: They but you know, that's.
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: What the animatronic technician did.
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: They were probably from the local tech school.
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: And they're they're learning like real life, no things that
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: they need. No, not what I saw. Okay, they may
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: be from the tech school. They ain't learned jack squat
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: because all they did was push the head up. It's
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: not like they were in the back with some tools,
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: no breaking up body back in the back working with
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: some tools to get them to keep moving. I saw
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: five fourteen year olds with gray shirts. I saw those
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: as well, who were just moving a guy's arm up
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: or down. All right, the big gorilla drummer, right, he
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: was the drummer. Another piano he's the piano player. Yeah,
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: he worked pretty well. The drummer had some problems. The
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: high hat always had some problems that always got stuck.
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: So the technicians they were moving that up and down
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: a little bit. But it was highly disappointing that the
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: curtains never shut. I did enjoy all the different musical
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: songs they played. I did not remember them singing that
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: wide variety of the songs at Showbiz back when I
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: was a kid.
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: I know, I didn't either.
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: I felt like they probably had about twenty five to
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: thirty so different songs that they played. Yeah, I don't
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: know if did they add some. I don't know that
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: that's possible. I know they played a little Abra cadabra
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: by Steve Miller. Yeah, but then they called our our
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: name for the pizza, and I do have to say
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: that I felt like the pizza was pretty decent.
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: It wasn't bad, you know.
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't remember if Showbiz pizza was good
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: or not.
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: As kids, Yeah, we talked about that. I have no
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: memory of it.
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: But I liked to pretend that when we were eating
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: that pizza and it was good. I like to pretend
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: that I was back in nineteen eighty three, yes, and
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: that I was eating good showbiz pizza. Yes, so that
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: was good. The video games were all brand new, and
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: I don't want to say brand new because they weren't
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: brand new. They were old, but they were newer video games.
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: So I think that the kiddo's played now.
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: Ilieve that's where the animosity is coming from. Here with you,
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: you thought we would get to see vintage video games.
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: They claimed on their website that they have vintage video games.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: They are vintage. If you know the two thousands are
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: vintage to you.
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: I know the two thousands are not vintage to me.
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: Not when you're talking showbiz pizza. I mean, I didn't
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: go to the mall video game place to go to
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: showbiz pizza, right, And that's where I felt like I
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: was at. That was the animosity, yes, But also the
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: animosity was the filth.
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: It was.
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: It was pretty rough, and the animosity was the non technicians, yeah,
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: fixing stuff. That is where the animosity is coming from.
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: It left a lot to be desired and then it
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: only got worse because I had a two and a
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: half hour drive back to the hotel. I know, in
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: the range, I know, but you stopped halfway and let
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: me go into antiques. I did because I figured it
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: can't get any worse. Like worse look around, honey, weren't
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: the threshold of hell. So y'all see why we decided
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: we weren't gonna talk about it, but we decided we'd
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: throw it in at the end of this episode. Yeah,
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: because we're doing eighties Pizza Hut, may as well do
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: eighty showbiz pizza. Now let me ask you this, so
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: let's rank the pizzas. Okay, So first off, I'm gonna
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: rank the cleanliness Pizza Hut by a mile.
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I mean there was nothing clean about that. Showbiz.
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna rank the uh sodas now show biz
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: because I think they didn't have they didn't have the
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: red cups, but they didn't have flat pepsi. Yeah all right,
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: and Pepsi's flat enough as it is, it doesn't need
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: to be any flatter. Now, let's rank the pizza. Okay,
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go showbiz over pizza.
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm absolutely going showbiz to mean there was no comparison.
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: Well, it wasn't showbiz. Well, the place is called Billy
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: Bob's Wonderland, so it's one of two places. I think
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: the other one's like an Arizona or something that has
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: the the thing. I don't think we're going there. We're
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: not going there for the pipe folks. We'll do a
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: lot of stuff for the podcast for you, including travel
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: two and a half hours to West Virginia from this
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: Sanatti area. I'm not going to Arizonaphoria unless we're already
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: there visiting the Grand Canyon or something like that. But
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: if we do, we will rate that as well. Maybe
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: some of our West Coast friends or our Midwest friends
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: can go check that out.
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: You know what bummed me out though, that I really
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: missed that would have added to the experience with the
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: Showbiz Pizza characters that the characters didn't make that.
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: Noise when they go back.
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: Into place at the end of Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: I know, I wish I could have had that.
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, they probably really wished that they could
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: have had a place that would have passed the health inspector.
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: Oh gosh, because if uh, if you end up with
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: a parasite, it's probably from it's probably from carry Always
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: as sought off Lake.
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: Was not that bad.
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: It was filthy.
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, in all fairness, I did not use
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: the restaurant.
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: I want to say this. Here's what I want to say.
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: Had pig Pin himself walked in there, he'd have made
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: it cleaner. Oh my gosh, it would have made it
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: cleaner had Pigpin been in there.
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: Crazy man. So I remember the band when I was
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: a kid. I don't remember that.
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: Off to one side was Billy Bob and then off
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: to the other side was Rolf an Earl. You know,
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: those memories are so fuzzy because it's from like forty four,
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: forty five years ago. So the band was like on
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: the main stage, Billy Bob was on a side stage,
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: Rolf was on the other side. I feel like it
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: may have been like that in the eighties.
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: But I could. I mean probably. I mean that's how
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: it was at the Wonderland, right right.
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: So I do love the uh the gorilla playing the
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: piano though he cracks me up. Yes he was. I
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: believe they said he was a mix of Fats Domino
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: and Jerry Lee Lewis. I believe is what they were saying.
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: That's that's who he was characterized after. So I thought
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: that was pretty cool. So Fat Domino, Lewis and the
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: pizza were the good parts. The filth and the video
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: games were the bad parts. I would say that the
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: video games at Pizza Hut there were none, and they
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: were just as good as the ones in Billy Bob's Wonderland.
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: And I would say that the Pizza Hut had no jukebox,
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: so Billy Bob's Wonderland wins the music over that.
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: Okay, there you go.
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: As far as making me feel like I was in
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: the eighties, just the atmosphere Pizza Hut, Pizza Hut music,
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: and Pizza Billy Wonderland. Yeah, that's how i'd rink it.
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: Are we going back to either.
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: No, not in a million years.
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: Now we're done.
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: They are supposed to be renovating fifty or so pizza
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: huts around the nation back to the eighties and apparently
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: with some video games.
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: Oh okay, So if.
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: They bring out one of those, we will absolutely go
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: back for the podcast. We may have to do a
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: live podcast from there. That would be awesome, right, maybe
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: even interview some folks.
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: I love it.
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: Not the little redneck boy who laughed with the mullet
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: is the grip keeper? Yeah, something like that.
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: Okay, So if you've been to either location, let's hear
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: from you.
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: Yes, certainly want to hear from you.
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: Billy Bob's Wonderland in West Virginia, Pizza Hut Classic in Dalaonica, Georgia.
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: If you're one of our listeners that works at Billy Bob's,
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: we probably won't be a listener after this.
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, sorry, it is what it is. Sometimes you got
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: to do stuff for entertainment, but yeah, sometimes you but
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: y'all probably should take a mop to that bathroom and
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: maybe some lightesol.
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: But we would love to hear from you.
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: I am going to post some pictures on social media,
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: so be on the lookout for that.
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: Take a look. I'll have a couple from each place.
• 51:22
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• 51:24
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• 51:26
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• 51:31
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  Speaker 2: To to everything, absolutely right, So well you got anything
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: else to close us up?
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: I don't think so. I feel like we have ruined
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: enough businesses for the day.
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: We probably have. I hope the one that's really ruined
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: is the health insurance one.
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: Until next time.
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: I'm Jim and I'm Lindsay, and we are children of
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: the eighties.