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Romeo In The Morning 5-28-26 · Romeo In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: It was going on everybody, it's Romeo. Today.
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  Speaker 2: We talked about graduation, high school, graduation, kindergarten, middle school.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, we talked about graduations. Let's see what
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  we talked about.
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  Speaker 2: Well, one of my neighbors, he's a kid, he's sixteen.
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  I think he's sixteen or seventeen, something like that. Well,
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  one of his friends comes over and it's parked out
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  in front of his house and it's leaking something. His
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  car is leaking something. Now he's got an older car,
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  but it's leaking something. So he comes over, knocks on
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  the door. Hey, Roam, can you help me out? My
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  buddy's car's leaking. My dad's not here, you know, he.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't know what to do.
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  Speaker 2: So I go out and I look at it, and
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  it wasn't anything too complicated. It was just he had
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  a hose leaking from his power steering and he goes,
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  I go, well, let me drive it. See what's happened.
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  You could tell it's making a noise of power steering.
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  And I go, he at your power steering it's leaking.
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  He's like, oh yeah, we just had that fixed. He goes,
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  I actually have a bottle of power steering fluid here
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  in my car, so we fill it up. I go,
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  you could probably drive it home, but I wouldn't drive
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  it too far right. So the funny part about it
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  was the he was upset, you know, he was worried
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  about it. He was kind of upsets his car.
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  Speaker 1: Man, he's a young kid. He's that's his car.
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  Speaker 2: And I was laughing, and I go, you kids don't
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  even understand. When we were kids, that was common. We
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  didn't have nice new cars like these kids get today
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  when they get their first car.
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  Speaker 1: I said.
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  Speaker 2: We all rode around me, all my friends. We either
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  had a had had had a quart of oil in
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  the car with us, or jug of water or fluid
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  for the for the power steering.
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  Speaker 1: That was just common.
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  Speaker 2: Our parents sent us out in death traps. They did
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  not send us out in these nice fancy cars that
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  had air conditioning and power steering and all these different
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  things that cars have, you know, a GPS and electronic
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  sensoring in whatever the case may be.
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  Speaker 1: We never had that, you know. I remember having a car.
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  Speaker 2: At one point I had to at least keep two
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  jugs of water with me just in case so went
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  overheat because the water pump wasn't working and you just.
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  Speaker 1: That's what she did. I wouldn't.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it felt bad for the kid because he
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  was all upset his car was messed up. But I
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  mean it wasn't that big of a deal, to be
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  honest with you. It was just a host They fixed it,
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  but I mean it.
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  Speaker 1: Was just.
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  Speaker 2: It's just funny though, the seeing this play out when
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  that was common for us. That was no matter where
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  we were, no matter where we went. You know, your
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  dad would send you out with two quarts of oil
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  and say check the oil. You got to make sure
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  the oil. Every you know so and so checked the oil.
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  Make sure you got oil and it here's a couple
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  of courts. You just put it in when you need it,
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  or our steering fluid or something cool it because the
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  radiator leaked or something. It was always something. I mean,
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  you guys know what I'm talking about, right. It just
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  seems like back in the day, man, our parents didn't care.
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  I don't know if they cared. They couldn't afford I
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  don't know what it was, but it was no big deal.
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  Rolling around with power steering fluid. To put it in
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  your car when it needed it was not a big deal.
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  Already four two four or seven to seven. So we
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  were talking about cars. Man, back in the day, you know,
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  we had cars. One of the neighbor kids, his buddy's
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  car was having was leaking some steering power steering fluid, right,
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  So the kid was carrying it with him. His dad
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  told him to carry it with him, you know, just
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  in case. And so it was leaking and we ended
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  up So we were laughing because he was a little
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  upset about it, and because that's just the way it
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  was when we were kids, man, you always carried something
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  just in case.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of us had cars that we had to carry.
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  Speaker 2: Oil or water or some sort of fluid to put
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  in it if it went down, or because there was
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  a leak or something that, you know, and that's just
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  was light already. Four two four, seven to seven eight. Romeo,
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  it's funny that you say that. There was a time
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  when I was a kid when my starter didn't work.
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  So my dad told me just always back in or
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  park on a hill until we can get the money
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  to get you a new starter.
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  Speaker 1: So every time I went somewhere, I would have to
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  back in.
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  Speaker 2: So I could push started, or park on a hill
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  so I could push start.
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  Speaker 1: The car. It was great. It was great. I mean
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  that's just what. That was life, man, that was life.
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  Speaker 2: These kids today have no clue because they all want
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  these fancy cars that are brand new and got everything
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  in them, and if you break down, somebody shows up
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  and fix it, or they don't break down. Actually, but
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  that's the Back in the day, that's what you did.
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  You had a car that had something wrong with it,
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  and you, I mean, Bernie, oil was the worst. You
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  always used to have to drive around with a couple
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  of quarts of oil on you, just in case these
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  kids will never know.
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  Speaker 3: Go ro what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: So when I turned eighteen, my dad gave me a
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  nineteen ninety two MTV Moms.
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  Speaker 5: Of Man, Yes Man.
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  Speaker 6: And not have you shouldn't get the reverse.
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  Speaker 7: On, so all you had was just drive and neutral.
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  Speaker 1: And your dad knew this, right.
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  Speaker 3: Knew that.
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  Speaker 7: He used to tell me a make sure no one
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  portion in front of you.
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  Speaker 6: You guys would have to be pushing it back.
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  Speaker 7: And then he gave me a box of fuses and
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  he's like, I guess I heads up miss you a
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  few sometimes.
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  Speaker 8: So let me tell you.
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  Speaker 3: It was a death trap.
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  Speaker 9: Help me.
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  Speaker 6: One of the best cars I ever own man had
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  a great time to have at How awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Is that that parents used to send their kids out
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  in straight death traps with with parts.
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  Speaker 8: I didn't be like, and if you're really really in trouble,
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  call me.
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  Speaker 3: But that's only if you're.
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  Speaker 6: Really really.
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about these cars that we drove back when
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  we were kids with death traps. Man, we always had
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  to carry something with us oil, power steering fluid, water
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  so that wouldn't overheat. Well, one of the neighborhood kids,
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  his buddy's car was leaking power steering fluid, and his
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  dad told them they knew it, but the kid.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of was freaked out about it. I was like, no, man,
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  that was just.
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  Speaker 2: When we were your age. That was regular, common common practice.
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  You roll out with whatever parts you need when you're
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  driving your car. Our parents just sent us out in
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  some of the worst of the worst. They didn't care
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  already four two pot four seven to seven E.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning Rome.
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  Speaker 2: I remember my first car was a nineteen ninety Geo Storm,
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  ugly as hell stick shift. No one taught me how
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  to drive it. It's it drive it. It sat there
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  for months. I finally got up one day, tell myself
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  how to drive it. Okay, So what does that have
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  to do with the what we're talking about the fact
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  that you used to have to carry something with you,
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  whether it be power steering fluid or oil, or talking
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  about the fact that the cars we drove our first cars.
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  You know, I used to have to carry Blake brake
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  fluid with Mike because my Master cylinder was always jacked
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  up or something.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. It was good times.
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  Speaker 2: Man already four two pop four or seven to seven.
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  Speaker 1: Text me here, Hey, Rome. My uncle had an old bwick.
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  Speaker 2: It had tags, but it had a short in the
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  battery post.
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  Speaker 1: Wires, and he let us use it.
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  Speaker 2: But if we didn't remember to take the post off
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  the battery, it'll die. So we had to always carry
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  jumper cables with us. And then I remember I was
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  I was at my friend's house in his insurance person
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  came over. Oh, his insurance person came over and parked
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  the and parked in the driveway.
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  Speaker 1: She came out.
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  Speaker 2: We heard her start her car, but she sat there
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  for ten minutes. She said no reverse, so she stuck.
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  She stuck her feet out and started to push the
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  car backwards. We all got in pushed her car out
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  of the driveway. We asked him what have and she
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  said the reverse never worked? So I said you, I said, why,
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  you just didn't park park out on the street by
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  the curb so you didn't have to back up, back up.
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  But she did what she had to do. That's pretty bunny,
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  that's pretty well. That's how you rolled back in the day. Man.
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  You you wanted a car, you didn't care what was
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  wrong with it. You figured out how to make it work. Man,
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  already four two by four or seven to seven. Hey,
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  row the grapevine still has the water tanks on the
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  side of the road if you're overheating. Any need to
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  add I haven't. I guess I haven't paid attention. Worrian
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  hot what's going on?
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  Speaker 6: Throw me on? Every car that I ever owned up
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  until responsible adult has been a bucket.
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  Speaker 1: Well, okay, I.
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  Speaker 6: Remember I used to have. One of my first vehicles
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  was ftn.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, I had one of those. Those things were.
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  Speaker 10: Junk, junk.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 10: The driver's side door would not shut. Sometimes it was locked,
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  and you had to drive with your hand out the
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  door holding the door shut. Imagine on the freeway driving
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  like this, And it was and my.
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  Speaker 3: Parents knew about it.
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  Speaker 7: Too.
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  Speaker 3: The window didn't roll down.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Piers didn't care.
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  Speaker 6: It was a struggle, but you know, we were so
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  eager that one to drive that we didn't care. And
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  I not until I understood you get what you pay for.
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  Most of these cars we bought were juice vehicles. Someone
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  of the Alfis charms. We thought we got a good
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  deal for fifteen hundred dollars. Really it was.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, krisa junk absolutely.
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  Speaker 6: Right now, he wants an Audi or a Range Rover.
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  I said, you must not want to drive. We're gonna
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  be We're gonna be saving for this for the rest
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  of your life.
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  Speaker 1: You know that's hilarious.
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  Speaker 6: But he's wait, and he's waiting, so we hold out
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  on that.
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  Speaker 3: Take Yeah, riding the.
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  Speaker 6: Bus, So he's right, second year of college riding the bus.
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  Speaker 1: Good friend early for by four seven to seven roam.
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  They still have the water tanks.
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  Speaker 2: Uh there am uh oh.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a truck driver.
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  Speaker 2: I used one like last year. My semi overheated. I
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  didn't know that. I remember.
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  Speaker 1: I remember seeing the water.
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  Speaker 2: Truck, the water tank so on the Grapevine, I don't
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  remember seeing anymore. Maybe because my cars don't ever heat now,
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  so maybe that's what it is. I will tell you
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  a funny story about going over the grapevine. This is
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  the story for those of you that don't know, and
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  a lot of you younger guys won't know this. The
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  grapevine used to be a conversation when you were traveling
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  from up north and coming down to La. The grapevine
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  was a conversation about Okay, are we gonna make it over?
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  Or is the car gonna go over heat? It wasn't
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  as easy as it is today now. Maybe for you
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  folks in Bakersfield it was always easy, but it was not.
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  I remember a buddy of mine, he owned You guys
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  don't even know what a you go is?
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  Speaker 1: Look it up, Google it you go.
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  Speaker 2: He had a you go and we were having the
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  conversation as we were coming through Bakersfield, are we gonna
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  make it over the grapevine?
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  Speaker 1: In this thing? Is it gonna overheat?
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  Speaker 2: I mean you, it was literally a couple of rubber
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  bands and you wound it up and it went. We
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  made it over, though I think we did have to
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  stop for water. Though I think that did happen. Graduation day, right,
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  A lot of high schools are graduating today. I actually
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  went to a graduation last night over at Ridgeview High
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  and man, a bunch of champs. But what would you
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  it rained? The rain came down. It wasn't too bad.
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  I guess it's supposed to rain tonight for graduations as well.
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  But it rained a little bit, not too bad. But man,
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  what are you gonna do?
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  Speaker 7: Right?
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  Speaker 2: You're graduating. You only get to graduate high school once.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna do it rain, shine, sleet, snow.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever the case may be, right, you and your you
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  and your family are gonna want to do with the ceremonies,
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  celebrate and have a good time.
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  Speaker 1: And it looked like everybody had a good time. It
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  was a nice.
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  Speaker 2: Graduation, to be honest with you. But I do I
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  have some questions about graduations. A couple of things are
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  why did they start so late? Why aren't we starting
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  graduates if you're gonna do it, and why are you
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  doing it on Thursday?
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  Speaker 1: Does anybody have these answers? I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I want to say when I graduated high school it
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  was on Friday night, if I if I'm correct, it's
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  a little fussy. I can't remember it, but uh, I
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  want to say it was a Friday. Actually, that's notun try.
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  I remember what happened, I just don't remember the day.
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  I want to say it was a Why are you
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  not having graduations either Friday about five or six, probably
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  five's probably the best, or Saturday mornings? Why did they
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  do it on Thursdays? That makes no sense to me? Whatsoever?
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  And why are you doing it at seven o'clock or
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  seven thirty? I think the one I started was seven
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  thirty last night at Ridgeview. What why at seven thirty
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  or seven o'clock? Why why aren't you starting at five?
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  Five o'clock's on a Friday? And it's perfect that it's
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  perfect because Friday you can get it a couple of hours.
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  What's the graduation take two hours? Maybe you get it
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  done in two hours. By seven, you and your family
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  can go out and have dinner, maybe have a little
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  get together at the house, and then the kids can
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  go out and graduates can go hang out with their
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  their friends and enjoy their their graduation night.
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand.
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  Speaker 2: I don't understand who's uh, I don't understand who's planning
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  this nonsense? I mean, do you want I'll help you,
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  guys plan a structure that benefits everybody when it comes
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  to these graduations, so you don't inconvenience anyone already four two, five,
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  four or seven to seven. The other thing that came
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  up is, you know this graduation at I was at
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  last night wasn't over till after nine o'clock. How are
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  you supposed to go with something to eat aftern And
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  that's the other thing. The restaurants. There was only two
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  restaurants that I know of that are open, uh after
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  nine o'clock where you can get some good food. Where
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  are people supposed to go? So you're limiting I just
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  don't know. I don't understand it. So like last night,
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  Luckily you know Saunders and Social House posts stay open
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  and uh so if you're looking for I'm gonna I'm
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  just gonna help you out right now. If you guys
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  are looking for someplace to go tonight after a graduation,
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  Social House, Oh's kitchen stays open to ten and Saunder's
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  Kitchen will stay open after that. I don't know where
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  else you could go where you could have a good meal,
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  nice atmosphere and enjoy the fact that your child just
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  graduated high school with your friends and your family.
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  Speaker 1: So it just makes no sense to me.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know who's planning these deals, but to me,
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  there's a more efficient way to do it for the
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  kids and their families, so everybody can get them get
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  what they want. You know what I'm saying now, I
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  don't know what's going to happen tonight. It's going to rain,
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  I guess tonight. So I don't know what the contingency
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  plans are for some of these high schools.
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  Speaker 1: But last night wasn't bad. At Ridgeview. It rained, it
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  was still, it was still night.
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  Speaker 2: It got a little cold, little windy, but it was
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  all right, take your jacket, take your umbrella. You'll be
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  just fine, all right. I don't think they should regardless
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  of the weather. I don't think they should they should
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  shorten it. I don't think they should do anything to
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  take away from these graduates because they worked hard. These
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  kids worked hard to get out of high school, just
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  like all of us worked hard, and how we felt
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  when we graduated high school. So we'll see what happens.
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  But I'm just gonna tell you, guys want to go
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  out and eat after graduation tonight. Saunder's going to be
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  open and so a social house. I know both those places.
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  I've talked to both the owners, so I know that
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  they will be open for you guys to go eat
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  after you get out of graduation. I mean, it just
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  it's I never realized how many restaurants and bakers fell
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  close at nine o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: That seems so early to me. But yeah, I guess,
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  I guess. I guess it's not huh, hey.
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  Speaker 3: What's up room in Broll. You ain't lying, dude. The
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  way they do these things, I don't understand who's planning
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  all this, Like, you know, the late night letting them
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  everybody my girls graduated for Front Tier. Dude, we weren't
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  getting back to my house. You know, I live right
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  down the street.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I'm getting back to my house at ten
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  ten thirty because you know, the kids want to take
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  pictures after they graduate. Yeah, but you know, you got
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  two different families, and you got everybodys grandma at the time,
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  you know what I mean, just to fight one of
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  their friends, it takes them like ten minutes room because
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  there's so many people walk, you know what I mean.
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  So I really hope somebody that's listening as a part
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  of this will make it better, hopefully next year for
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  these kids, because dude, they just graduated. They don't want
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  to go home and go straight to bed.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, why do you want to go have dinner with
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  your family? You want to enjoy a little bit. And
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  sometimes the kids still want to hang out afterwards.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, it's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: My last daughter graduated.
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  Speaker 11: Room.
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  Speaker 3: They were asked over. The parents were asking, hey, well
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  are you guys going to go eat?
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  Speaker 7: I go?
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  Speaker 3: I got beaty cooking at the house. I said, I
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  let it off, you know what I mean, there was
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  nowhere to go really roam.
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  Speaker 5: And if you do go to a couple of places
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  that are open, yeah, you're gonna be waiting, you know,
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  closing time to get your get.
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  Speaker 3: In and there's so many people there.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, I really hope they they they you know,
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  I mean, they.
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  Speaker 1: Will never change. These idiots don't know what they're doing.
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  Speaker 3: It's a control of my way, you know.
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 5: Really man?
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  Speaker 1: Uh yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently a guy said, I graduated twenty years ago. And
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  then it was on a Thursday. We did five pm BC.
• 18:41
  We had over five undergraduates at VHS and still ended.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: At nine ersh five pm. Still got over at nine.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: Interesting?
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I mean seven is just too late. It's
• 18:56
  too late, you can't go out and enjoy the rest
• 18:59
  of your night. Why why would you do that?
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: I mean third? How long have they been doing it
• 19:05
  on Thursdays? All right?
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: Eight four two, five, four, seven to seven. Let's talk
• 19:10
  about graduation night? How was that a graduation yesterday? And
• 19:14
  it was a nice graduation, but just so late you
• 19:16
  can't get any you know, it ended at nine o'clock,
• 19:19
  it still wasn't over, and you can't go out and eat.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: I want to go out and have something to eat
• 19:25
  with everybody. But where do you go? There's only two.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Places in town, I mean a Saunders and Social House.
• 19:30
  Only two good places in town to eat after nine o'clock?
• 19:33
  Where else are you gonna go? That's open BJ's. Maybe
• 19:36
  BJ's is decent, it's not bad. BJ's all right, got
• 19:39
  a good food, so but they're limited.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: What are you supposed to who's planning this?
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: A graduation should start and it really shouldn't be on
• 19:50
  a Thursday. Should be on a Friday, you know, it
• 19:53
  should be Friday at five or Saturday at ten already
• 19:58
  four two, five, four, seven to seven.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Maybe they do Thursday.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Because of grad night, either Disneyland or six Flags. Well,
• 20:09
  is that when grad night is is grad night on Friday.
• 20:12
  I know kids that went to grad night last night
• 20:14
  to Universal Studios.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: So maybe maybe you're right. I don't know. I don't
• 20:19
  have the information. I don't That's why I'm asking the question.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: Rome.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: It's because multiple schools graduate, so they have them on
• 20:27
  different days before the weekend, so that way families can
• 20:31
  have parties on the weekend. People don't celebrate right afterwards
• 20:34
  because again they'll have parties the following weekend. Well, no,
• 20:38
  you don't at least go out to dinner after graduation.
• 20:42
  I mean, you got all your friends and family together,
• 20:46
  you don't go out to dinner. You can't because everything's closed.
• 20:50
  I mean that makes I guess. But if you're gonna
• 20:55
  have a party on why not do it Saturday morning?
• 20:57
  Or why not do it Friday night?
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Why not do it?
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: The perfect graduation is Friday at five, You're done by seven,
• 21:05
  seven thirty, you have your party, you go out to dinner,
• 21:09
  the kids can go hang out with their friends afterwards.
• 21:12
  I mean, that's the perfect time to do it. Or
• 21:15
  Saturday at ten ten am. You're done by noon. You
• 21:19
  can have your your lunch, your brunch, your barbecue or whatever.
• 21:24
  So what you're saying doesn't make a whole lot of sense,
• 21:27
  and is the reason people don't go out is because
• 21:29
  there's nowhere to go.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Ay, good morning, Romeo.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Past years and Delano graduation times got moved till got
• 21:41
  moved till eight thirty pm due to the heat, and
• 21:46
  it's looking the same for this year. Next week's going
• 21:48
  to be a hot one. Well, Delano graduates next week
• 21:52
  because tonight it's going to be cold and rainy.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: So I don't know.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: I guess it just makes it Thursday is not the day,
• 22:02
  Friday maybe Saturday morning. I mean, it's not efficient. You're know,
• 22:08
  it's just not efficient for families to go out. Who
• 22:12
  doesn't go out to who doesn't go out to eat?
• 22:13
  After graduation? You're celebrating alright already for two, five.
• 22:22
  Speaker 11: Four or seven to seven Professor day from the Vegasfield
• 22:26
  City School District. And I can explain a little more
• 22:28
  in detail about our scheduling. Okay, when we are scheduling this,
• 22:34
  we are not worried about what gardeners are doing or
• 22:36
  radio hosts. We're on teacher time.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Okay, that's probably true.
• 22:42
  Speaker 11: We're on teacher time. Let me do this on Thursday
• 22:44
  because Friday we want to get out of here early too.
• 22:48
  We do not care what you guys are eating. We
• 22:51
  have lives too. Consider that, Romeo, don't be throwing shade
• 22:55
  on my teachers.
• 22:57
  Speaker 10: You got that?
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Oh that that might actually be the real truth on
• 23:03
  why they don't hold it on Fridays, because these damn
• 23:06
  teachers are so damn lazy they want to get out
• 23:08
  on school on Friday. I mean, all right, eight four
• 23:12
  two bob four or seven to seven a room. We
• 23:15
  didn't Oh, oh, I forgot big boys kid graduated. We
• 23:18
  didn't leave Robo Biken till nine forty five last night,
• 23:22
  nine forty five Dignity Health Arena on a Thursday, which
• 23:29
  means it had to start. What seven seven thirty is
• 23:31
  probably when that graduation started.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: What is wrong with you people? I don't get it.
• 23:36
  I'm what am I missing? It's probably, uh, it's probably right.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: It's probably because the teachers don't want to have to
• 23:42
  work on Friday because they're all trying to get out
• 23:44
  early because school gets out early tomorrow, right for all
• 23:46
  the for the non seniors.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: That's probably why I just.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: Don't It makes no sense whatsoever. And then when you
• 23:55
  where you supposed to eat at. You know, I mean,
• 23:58
  what you want to go out, I'm not supposed to
• 24:00
  go out after graduation.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: You can't because it's way too late.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: All right, So graduations are here, we're gonna talk a
• 24:05
  little about them. I'm still trying to get to the
• 24:07
  bottom of why they do it so inefficiently for families
• 24:13
  and kids. I mean, it's just not a good deal
• 24:16
  to do it on a Thursday night.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: I went to one.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: I went to Redgew's last night, which was very nice actually,
• 24:21
  but it was on a Wednesday at seven point thirty.
• 24:26
  You know, my buddy said he got out of his
• 24:28
  kids graduation nine forty five. I mean, that doesn't seem
• 24:31
  a little unreasonable when there's a better way to do it.
• 24:37
  I mean, this is I want to say. When I
• 24:39
  graduated high school, it was on a Friday, and I
• 24:45
  think it was around five o'clock. I remember by the
• 24:48
  time it was done, my parents, my grandparents, we all
• 24:53
  went out to dinner after the graduation, and then me
• 24:59
  and my friends out after that.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: And you know they have graduation parties. Do you guys
• 25:03
  still have graduation parties?
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: By the way, I mean, we had a couple of
• 25:07
  graduation parties that me and my friends went.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: To, and that was the night. But what what do
• 25:15
  they do? When did they move it to Thursday?
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: That may our Wednesday, which is not even a bad
• 25:22
  that's not even the day of the week, is not
• 25:24
  even the bad thing.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: It's the time.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: How can you And I know people will say, Rome,
• 25:32
  they don't you know. Some of the people will say, well, Rome,
• 25:34
  you're not supposed to go out after graduation. You're supposed
• 25:37
  to go home and have a party over the No,
• 25:41
  it's fine if you have a party over the weekend,
• 25:44
  but you're celebrating the night. Am I the only one
• 25:50
  that understands this. Okay, you haven't graduate, Well we'll just celebrate.
• 25:54
  Who know, tonight's the night, today's the day you graduated. Okay,
• 26:01
  we just went through this big ceremony. You just spent
• 26:04
  four years in high school. This is the biggest day
• 26:07
  of your life up to this point, and we're gonna
• 26:13
  celebrate two days later, have a party. Two Well, yeah, no,
• 26:18
  you have all your friends and family, everybody's excited.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: You're in the moment, and.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: We're just gonna wait for two days to say, oh,
• 26:28
  we'll just have a party on the weekend. No could
• 26:31
  at least go out to dinner afterwards, at least go
• 26:35
  you know, celebrate. Do you guys not understand the concept
• 26:41
  of being in the moment of everything, And then because
• 26:45
  of the way the school does it, you just everybody
• 26:47
  goes home. And be honest, graduations are exciting for about
• 26:55
  ten seconds. The most exciting part of a graduation, and
• 27:00
  for you or me or is not listening to everybody talk.
• 27:06
  That's the ceremony. That's not the best part of it.
• 27:08
  Unless you got some great speaker that it's fun. I
• 27:10
  mean last night, the kids actually did a good job
• 27:13
  at speaking, and the principal did a really good job
• 27:16
  at speaking and very.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: But that's not really the best part.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: The most exciting part of a graduation is walking your
• 27:25
  is watching your kid walk in and watching your kid
• 27:30
  get there to pull them on walk across that stage.
• 27:33
  That is maybe a minute of time and you're sitting
• 27:39
  there for two and a half hours. So now everybody's
• 27:47
  just going to go home afterwards. No, you want to
• 27:52
  go out, you want to have some dinner, you want
• 27:54
  to talk about and celebrate and be in the moment.
• 28:01
  I don't know, they should let me plan graduations. The
• 28:06
  high schools should let me plan them. I would make
• 28:09
  them perfect for everybody. So it's graduation season and we're
• 28:13
  going through graduations right now. Hey, UF and Chiefs Fan,
• 28:16
  Why are you being grumpy of the time when people graduate?
• 28:19
  It's only one time of the year. I'm not being grumpy.
• 28:23
  What are you talking about. I'm just talking about making
• 28:25
  it more efficient for everybody to enjoy it long.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: What the hell are you talking about.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to make it better for everybody so they
• 28:33
  can go out and enjoy the heat of the moment
• 28:36
  and enjoy the fact that they just graduated, instead of
• 28:39
  making it so late that everybody has to just go home.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: And it's not about what the hell are you talking about,
• 28:45
  you moron, It's not at all what I'm talking about.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: Obviously, you need to listen to somebody else because your
• 28:50
  dumb ass has no understanding of what I'm talking about.
• 28:53
  I'm trying to make it better for everybody so that
• 28:56
  when the kid graduates from high school, he doesn't just
• 28:59
  have to go home afterwards because one every place is
• 29:02
  closed in town, so you can't go out have a
• 29:04
  decent kneal with your friends and your family and or
• 29:09
  your family and enjoy the moment. What really happens. Look
• 29:17
  at what really happens at graduation. Afterwards, everybody goes and
• 29:22
  says hi to each other, You take a few photos,
• 29:25
  and then you get.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: In the car with your parents and go home.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: You just accomplish the biggest, the biggest thing you're going
• 29:33
  to accomplish at this point in your life, and everybody
• 29:37
  just goes their separate ways after a two and a
• 29:39
  half hour sitting there. You don't have no time for
• 29:42
  you guys as a family to go and do something,
• 29:48
  have dinner, anything. I mean, you don't even really can't
• 29:54
  even really go back to the house because it's nine
• 29:57
  thirty at night. It's ten o'clock at night time you
• 30:00
  get there, So I don't know what the hell you're
• 30:02
  talking about.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to make.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: It better for everybody so that you can have your graduation,
• 30:08
  have your moment, take all your pictures, and then still
• 30:12
  go spend an intimate moment with your parents and your
• 30:16
  grandparents and your siblings and enjoy.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: The rest of the night. Hey, room, do you.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: Know how hard is to find a place to have
• 30:29
  dinner with the family after graduation, especially with so many
• 30:32
  schools I do, and the schools is not as bad
• 30:37
  as the fact that it's.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: It's so late.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: I only found two places yesterday, Social House and Saunders
• 30:52
  that are going to be open, hopefully by the time
• 30:54
  you get out of graduation with enough time to just
• 30:56
  go have a meal already four two four seven seven, Hey,
• 31:01
  goring to Romeo. My daughters eighth grade graduation is at
• 31:05
  eight am, and we have to be there at seven am.
• 31:08
  We cannot bring flowers, garlands, balloons or anything inside the
• 31:12
  stadium because it's a distraction. They don't have a cap
• 31:17
  or gown by far the worst graduation. I know it's
• 31:22
  just eighth grade, but still I don't feel like she
• 31:24
  gets to experience what it used to be.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Why is there no cap and gown eighth grade?
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: I mean I would graduation morning. Graduations are fine too,
• 31:38
  you know. I know that's but that's kind of weird.
• 31:40
  I did see they didn't allow balloons in oh because well,
• 31:45
  let's be honest, and I feel I don't understand the
• 31:49
  cap and gown thing, but I will say this about
• 31:53
  balloons or pictures. I do like the idea that they're
• 31:56
  asking parents to not I think I think ridgie. It
• 32:00
  was taking professional pictures last night, so the parents really
• 32:02
  didn't have to get up. It was a it was
• 32:04
  a better shot, a better picture than you're gonna get
• 32:06
  from the stands anyways, or from the side of the
• 32:09
  you know, from the side of the football field. So
• 32:12
  I don't think there's anything wrong with that. You can
• 32:14
  get your photos with your graduate after the ceremony, so
• 32:17
  you're not inconveniencing everybody else, And so I do agree
• 32:22
  with that. Now, balloons do get in the way because
• 32:24
  you buy those balloons, that helium balloons, and they do
• 32:29
  block people's sites, and that's not fair. There's people are
• 32:32
  so disrespectful nowadays to each other that you know, your
• 32:35
  kids more important. Why is your kid more important than
• 32:38
  the people behind you, you know, than their kid.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Is to them. So I do get that, But.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: Why no flowers or garlands? I don't get that. That
• 32:48
  I don't get that's kind of weird. That's a little weird.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: I mean I do. I do think though, why no
• 32:58
  cap'n gowns.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: It's kind of a strange thing any way, And it's
• 33:03
  not only an eighth grade graduation. Every somebody just text
• 33:07
  him and said, well, roam what do you think about
• 33:09
  these kids that graduate from kindergarten or graduate sixth grade
• 33:13
  or graduate. I think every graduation is important. And the
• 33:19
  reason I say that is that is the most in uh,
• 33:25
  that is the most important time of their lives up
• 33:30
  to this point in their lives. For a kindergarten For
• 33:32
  a kindergartener, graduating kindergarten and going to first grade, to him,
• 33:37
  that's the biggest step in his life.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: From a sixth.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: Grader going to junior high that's the biggest step of
• 33:43
  their life at this point. From an eighth grader going
• 33:46
  to high school, that's the biggest step of their life
• 33:49
  at that point. Moving forward, now they may accomplish something
• 33:53
  that's so much far more important and so much more
• 33:56
  meaningful than that eighth grade graduation in ret respect, But
• 34:01
  to this point in their lives, it's the biggest day
• 34:03
  of their lives. So celebrate it. Don't be a jerk
• 34:05
  about it. Hey, good morning, Romeo. Just want to let
• 34:08
  you know they do those graduations so late because the
• 34:12
  teachers want to hit that PTO before the school ends.
• 34:15
  What is uh? What is PTO? I don't I don't
• 34:19
  know what PTO is. That something must be what is
• 34:21
  that like overtime or something? Did they get paid overtime
• 34:24
  for graduations?
• 34:26
  Speaker 7: Uh?
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: Maybe? Yeah, I don't know.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: I it's gotta have to it's it's gotta do something
• 34:34
  with these.
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: Uh.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna guess, and I'm just gonna guess, and I
• 34:39
  don't know for sure unless some of you know. I
• 34:41
  think that the reason these graduations are the way that
• 34:44
  they are because it benefits the teachers and the district
• 34:49
  more so than the parents and the kids. I think
• 34:52
  the graduations which should be for the parents, the family
• 34:56
  and the kids, which they make it so uh inconvenient
• 35:03
  that I think.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: It's because of the teachers.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: I think it's either the teachers or the district or
• 35:07
  the higher ups. They do it because it's more convenient
• 35:10
  for them than it is for the family and the students.
• 35:15
  Which I mean, that's I can't see any I just
• 35:19
  can't see any other reason why they do it the
• 35:21
  way that they do it.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: It makes no sense to me already four two or
• 35:25
  seven to seven.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: Hey, what's up wrong? You know, I'm gonna tell you
• 35:30
  what else about me wrong? You know, I know a
• 35:31
  lot of people, don't you know, are not thinking about this,
• 35:33
  But you know, like my daughter's graduating in sixth grade
• 35:36
  and she's one of the callers of COVID baby you know,
• 35:39
  when she was in kindergarten, that's when they stop the school.
• 35:43
  So I was hoping they would do something cool for
• 35:45
  the sixth graders since they went through all that as kindergartens.
• 35:48
  But nah, it was too much under schedule to do that,
• 35:52
  to do what to uh like a little ceremony, little
• 35:55
  graduation for them, you know, I mean something special because
• 35:58
  you know, kindergarten when they graduated saw cool. You know,
• 36:01
  they do that little graduation ceremony and they didn't get
• 36:03
  to do it because they went online, you know, halfway
• 36:06
  through you know, kindergarten. But you know, shout out to
• 36:10
  my baby Groves, you know.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: One that was six years ago.
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know what I mean. I just thought
• 36:15
  they wouldn't have to bring it up. Just do something
• 36:17
  special for them, you know what I mean.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: No, I have no idea what you're talking about right now.
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: I want to see I'm a little captain. Yeah, i'
• 36:22
  rome because we graduated elementary, I graduated kindergarten, I graduated
• 36:26
  sixth grade, I graduated eighth grade.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Oh, they didn't graduate sixth grade for your kids.
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: No, they didn't do No, that's what I'm saying. Like
• 36:32
  I was with a hope that at least did something
• 36:34
  for them, you know what I mean. But you know
• 36:36
  it's a good thing. My daughter's you know, straight a students.
• 36:38
  She's a bankwet and all that.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: You calm down, calm down, you gotta go alright, get
• 36:43
  out of here already fourteen four, seven and seven, Hey
• 36:46
  roam pto paid time off?
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Well maybe, hey man.
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: I think you're right.
• 36:52
  Speaker 12: This could be like one of the most important mildstones
• 36:55
  of a lot of kids is life. So I feel
• 37:00
  like a lot of people should embrace it, especially the
• 37:03
  parents and before it, you know what I mean.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I do know what you mean.
• 37:09
  Speaker 12: Yeah, because when I got my diploma, they came in
• 37:13
  the mail man and.
• 37:14
  Speaker 6: You know, I got it.
• 37:18
  Speaker 12: But I was like, damn, I wish I would across
• 37:20
  the stage.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Oh you didn't walk across the stage. Oh no, yeah,
• 37:23
  bad behavior?
• 37:24
  Speaker 12: That behavior, Okay, it was bad behavior, nothing else, okay.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: All right, already four two four or seven to seven.
• 37:37
  I just think.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: I just I just think that there there's an importance
• 37:46
  and I know if you don't agree with me, You're
• 37:50
  an idiot. There's an importance to after this moment of
• 37:54
  graduation that you should spend some time with your family
• 37:59
  in the immediate moment of it all, more more so
• 38:03
  than a picture on the field. And everybody goes home
• 38:08
  and we'll see each other on Saturday for the big party.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: It's not the same. The party's great, but it's not
• 38:18
  the same.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: You're out of the moment, You're out of the adrenaline
• 38:22
  rush of graduation.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: It's just I don't know, I don't know. Come on
• 38:28
  you how it's going on.
• 38:30
  Speaker 11: Yeah, there's a professor Dave again.
• 38:32
  Speaker 6: And like I said, we do not give a crap
• 38:34
  about the parents feelings to swear on teacher time here.
• 38:38
  And you have to understand the availability. Okay, all my
• 38:42
  teachers are already here at school. Why not get it
• 38:45
  done a little bit of overtime? And you got to
• 38:47
  think about this. We can't have them come in early
• 38:49
  because school is still going on, so it has to
• 38:51
  be after school, after everything.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, you know?
• 38:56
  Speaker 6: And and on another hand, we throw away too much
• 38:59
  money and public schools to be donating to Romeo to
• 39:02
  have me come and figure this out for us. I'm sorry, sir.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: Well, I actually know that I'm smarter than all of
• 39:09
  you anyways, So that's why you don't want me to
• 39:11
  figure it out, because I'm smarter than you anyways.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: Hey, Rome, would you send me here?
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: If your mother or father and your son, daughter daughter's
• 39:19
  graduation doesn't matter what time it is they should be
• 39:23
  going or quit? Wait what if your mother or father
• 39:28
  and your son or daughter's graduation doesn't matter what time
• 39:31
  it is they should be going. That's not the point
• 39:35
  of the conversation. You guys are stupid. The point of
• 39:39
  the conversation is that they're doing it too late. Everybody's
• 39:44
  gonna go. But if you go to a graduation at
• 39:50
  seven o'clock at night or set like my boy, big Boy,
• 39:54
  he said he got out of graduation at nine forty five,
• 39:58
  And I'm just gonna use him as an example. His
• 40:03
  daughter's graduation got out of nine to forty five last night.
• 40:06
  Big boy is a big family guy. I'm sure her
• 40:11
  all her siblings were there. I'm sure his parents were there,
• 40:16
  and one of the best things to do, and I'm
• 40:19
  sure they're going to have a party this weekend for her.
• 40:23
  But one of the one of the things that means
• 40:27
  the most to that family is having a meal together.
• 40:33
  Would have been big boy taking his whole family out
• 40:36
  to dinner after a graduation, but you can't do it
• 40:38
  at nine forty five, so everybody just went home. The
• 40:44
  rush of graduation is a rush. It's very exciting for
• 40:49
  high school kids. When they graduate, it's the biggest accomplishment
• 40:53
  of their life. And because of the time frame in
• 40:57
  which you do it, you don't allow these kids and
• 41:01
  their family to enjoy it.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: It's rushed.
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: And you don't have time to go sit down afterwards,
• 41:11
  have a meal, let everybody talk about their stories and
• 41:15
  be caught up in a moment that is one of
• 41:17
  the most meaningful moments of.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: Your child's life and your family's life.
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: To be honest with you, because they were your mom
• 41:23
  and dad, your guardians, whoever they were just as much
• 41:26
  a part of it. Have it at five o'clock so
• 41:31
  that by seven point thirty, if you're out, you can
• 41:35
  go have a nice meal. You can sit down and enjoy.
• 41:38
  You can sit down and enjoy the moment that just happened.
• 41:43
  Speaker 9: Okay, I just wanted to say that I did I
• 41:46
  read oh nine.
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: But.
• 41:50
  Speaker 9: We didn't do anything, and I was just talking about
• 41:52
  that to my daughter, like, do you want to make
• 41:55
  sure you know everyone's there, we take pictures, we go
• 41:58
  out to dinner, do something.
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, because that's the moment. The moment is not
• 42:03
  on Saturday when oh, we're having a barbecue for you.
• 42:06
  The moment and the adrenaline is the night you walk
• 42:09
  across that stage or the day you walk across that stage.
• 42:13
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 42:13
  Speaker 9: I remember our graduation was around five and it was
• 42:18
  like a perfect time. But my family is not a
• 42:22
  family family. Yeah, we didn't do anything, so and it
• 42:28
  sucks because that's how I remember my graduation, like we
• 42:32
  didn't do anything. It was boring.
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: Like that's unfortunate. Oh that's too bad, all right, Yeah,
• 42:37
  well thanks for colling. I appreciate it. I mean that's
• 42:41
  what it should be.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: My brother graduated from college last Saturday. I got up
• 42:45
  at four am, drove to the graduation. It was at
• 42:50
  nine o'clock, nine thirty, I think bye. I think he
• 42:54
  was done by eleven. We went out and had a
• 42:58
  great meal on the water overlooking the lake or you
• 43:01
  know where we were overlooking the lake, enjoying you know,
• 43:06
  his big day.
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: He had a party the next day also but it's
• 43:11
  not the same. You know, everybody has this adrenaline Russian excitement.
• 43:17
  Have you've been to I was at a ridge View
• 43:19
  graduation last night and you could just hear the excitement
• 43:22
  with the family members and how they're proud they were
• 43:26
  their kids.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: You want to enjoy that, you know, that's the moment.
• 43:33
  Did you text me here about graduations and Romeo? So
• 43:37
  the reason they do it so late is because of
• 43:40
  the heat. Usually it's very hot during graduations and they're
• 43:44
  mostly outdoors.
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: In regards to in regards to pay, it's not it
• 43:49
  is not mandatory for any of the teachers or district
• 43:52
  staff to attend, so it's voluntary and they don't get paid.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: Well, okay, that's fair. That's fair. I mean, I guess
• 43:59
  the heat. I don't no, I just all right, hey roam.
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: I also find it dumb that my wife that my
• 44:07
  wife sister graduated high school on Tuesday, but still had
• 44:11
  to go to school yesterday and today, which is her
• 44:13
  last day.
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: My wife's oh, okay.
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: Don't you actually sign out of high school at a
• 44:24
  certain point. I believe you sign out and once you
• 44:28
  do that, you're done. So I don't think you really
• 44:30
  have to.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: Go, right, Romeo.
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, that guy complaining about his kid at
• 44:35
  the time in kindergarten. My son was in high school.
• 44:38
  Let's see about his kid at the time in kindergarten.
• 44:42
  My son was in high or was in high school
• 44:45
  now that now, that was horrible. Anyways, my youngest also
• 44:50
  is finished up sixth grade. They're not getting oh in
• 44:53
  high school, I see during the COVID time, that's what
• 44:55
  you're talking about. Okay, during sixth grade, they're not getting
• 44:58
  the ceremony. They're having what the school is calling a
• 45:03
  clap out, and it's exactly what it sounds like. I
• 45:07
  don't know what that means, but okay, I agree, Romeo,
• 45:12
  it's not the same. It's crazy. Yeah, it's just wrong.
• 45:17
  I think it's just wrong even if yeah, yeah, all right.
• 45:24
  I mean I could straighten it out for you if
• 45:26
  you want.
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: The school districts want to call me, I'll help you out.
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: Hey, rom just listening over your graduation topic, and I'm
• 45:35
  balling in tears over here because my oldest daughter is graduating.
• 45:39
  But I divorced the mom many years ago, and I
• 45:42
  didn't get invited to graduation because there's a limited amount
• 45:45
  of tickets. It just sucks because I really do want
• 45:49
  to go, but it seems like the mother doesn't want
• 45:52
  me there.
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: It hurts so bad, and I'm.
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: Just waiting hoping she calls me to tell me a
• 45:58
  ticket is available.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: Wow, that is that's awful. You're you're the father.
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: Over.
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: Oh let's see, my oldest daughter's graduating. But I divorced
• 46:10
  the mom, so are you not in her life?
• 46:13
  Speaker 5: How? How? How?
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: How have you done something better? Are you giving me
• 46:16
  the whole story?
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: And I'm just I just want this for verification before
• 46:20
  I tell you how to sneak into a graduation, because
• 46:23
  I kind of almost I kind of snuck into one
• 46:26
  last night. So and what uh And I'll actually find
• 46:33
  you a ticket for your daughter's graduation right now. You
• 46:36
  tell me the school and I might be able to
• 46:39
  find you a ticket. But uh, so are you telling
• 46:44
  me the whole story? Are you involved in your oldest
• 46:47
  daughter's life? Because if you are, how is there not
• 46:51
  a ticket available for you? You're giving me the whole story, right,
• 46:55
  I mean that's I'm just I I just have to
• 46:58
  verify already. Or two five four is seven to seven?
• 47:02
  Speaker 6: Good morning rom you?
• 47:04
  Speaker 11: Hey, what's up?
• 47:05
  Speaker 7: Well? Make make yeah, make sure you get a full
• 47:08
  story from dude.
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, more.
• 47:12
  Speaker 4: But let me tell you, if a grandma calls you
• 47:15
  with a sad story about she don't got a ticket
• 47:18
  to her grandson's graduation, had frontier, don't give that.
• 47:22
  Speaker 6: Broad net.
• 47:26
  Speaker 4: Wow, because I'm.
• 47:28
  Speaker 6: The mama that's making her.
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: Stand on that stuff.
• 47:30
  Speaker 4: You ain't gonna commit fraud and steal from your kids,
• 47:34
  your grandson for years they think that you're going to
• 47:37
  get a ticket to his graduation at the end of
• 47:40
  the day.
• 47:40
  Speaker 7: And you can smile and bring and act like you
• 47:43
  just a great.
• 47:44
  Speaker 4: Grandma, and you're not.
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: You're not.
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: People stand on that.
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: So when their tention is being taken, you not there.
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: Answer them questions and why.
• 47:57
  Speaker 8: But it's a great day, you know.
• 47:59
  Speaker 6: My graduating man, it's gonna be awesome.
• 48:03
  Speaker 4: Lessons movie, lessons, movie learned, and.
• 48:06
  Speaker 6: It will be a great day.
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: All right, Well, congratulations, have a nice congratulation.
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: All right, take your umbrella that story. I will take
• 48:15
  your umbrella because of my rain it is.
• 48:17
  Speaker 6: I gotta go get some now.
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: Umbrella sells going through the roof today and bakers, all right,
• 48:32
  what he always texting back? Hold on, he says, Rome
• 48:34
  I'm texting back. I'm definitely still involved in my daughter's life.
• 48:38
  Just the mom is still holding a grudge after being
• 48:40
  a divorced for more than thirteen years.
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: I would love for you to get me a ticket.
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: Unfortunately she lives in San Diego while I'm up here
• 48:47
  in Bakersfield.
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: Well, bro, bro, come on, you better, you better take that.
• 48:53
  You better leave tonight. What is wrong?
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: You know?
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: What I would do is if I was you, and
• 48:57
  if you're definitely, if you're on the up and up,
• 49:00
  this is what I would do as her father. I
• 49:03
  would be on my way to San Diego right now,
• 49:08
  and I would be waiting outside that graduate if you
• 49:10
  couldn't if you got and got a ticket to get
• 49:12
  in and you can't sneak in, I would be waiting
• 49:15
  outside in the parking lot for when my daughter walked
• 49:19
  out of that stadium or wherever she's graduating from.
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying, you better be there. I would be
• 49:25
  leaving now. Try to get that hustle in, all right?
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I did one rhythm of the Valley, it's
• 49:33
  Romeo or let's get these text message straight?
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: What does it say here? I was though I was
• 49:42
  at the one for elementary and her middle school.
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: Oh, this is the guy back who's saying he can't Well,
• 49:47
  you need to look, bro, if she lives down in Sandy.
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: This guy texted and said he Mary.
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: He divorced his wife thirteen years ago, and the wife's
• 49:55
  holding the grudge and not giving him a ticket to
• 49:57
  his oldest daughter's graduation. Bro, you need to just drive
• 50:01
  down there, Drive down to San Diego and be there
• 50:03
  in the parking lot.
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: I mean, there's no there's no conversation to be had,
• 50:08
  whether you get in or not. You're there. Hey, good morning, Rome.
• 50:12
  You're one hundred percent correct.
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: I know I am.
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: A Rome. Let's see here. I agree.
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: My daughters graduate today and we'll be having a reception
• 50:21
  right after at home. We'll be tired tomorrow. But the
• 50:25
  occasion is worth it, exactly, and you got to be
• 50:27
  in the moment. That's what people fail to realize. Also,
• 50:32
  this reminds me of a kinta, when families host the
• 50:35
  party months before or after to accommodate better whether not
• 50:39
  the same as celebrating right when they turn fifteen.
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: Exactly, you're absolutely right, Good morning, How what's going on?
• 50:46
  Speaker 7: No?
• 50:47
  Speaker 6: No, the further she had to move away the top
• 50:49
  to pay of the relationship with that's what that's your
• 50:51
  first time right there?
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: What are you talking about?
• 50:55
  Speaker 6: I don't think it's a good idea.
• 50:56
  Speaker 10: She said that his.
• 50:58
  Speaker 6: Family lives in San Diego. Okay, so I mean they
• 51:03
  probably don't want him around. They probably got a restraining
• 51:05
  order on this guy. He didn't send him up to
• 51:08
  get a rested Well.
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: If that's what it takes to show him what you
• 51:11
  love your.
• 51:11
  Speaker 6: Daughter, Yeah, it doesn't sound like he does.
• 51:14
  Speaker 10: But who am I to say that?
• 51:16
  Speaker 6: And I'm not to know you snuck in because you
• 51:19
  look like my pee coach, Romo. He can cask for
• 51:21
  my old wrestling coach from high school.
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: I get out.
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: Hey, ro, You're absolutely right. That fool should get in
• 51:28
  that car. He should be ready on his way to
• 51:30
  San Diego. The only stop he should be doing is
• 51:32
  getting gassed and getting some flowers for her, you know
• 51:35
  what I mean, and waiting for her outside. You know,
• 51:37
  you know how much of the mom's gonna hate him
• 51:38
  when he steals the show, when he comes out and
• 51:41
  his daughter sees him and she's like dad, You know
• 51:45
  how much the mom's gonna be so pissed off? Rohim
• 51:48
  that he's there and that he stole the whole moment.
• 51:50
  And that's what the daughter's gonna remember her dad was
• 51:52
  there when when she graduated.
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: Uh huh.
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: I mean, if you're listening, bro, you should be ready
• 51:56
  to jumping in on the on the road. Forget the shower,
• 51:59
  get the wives of new up. But bro, you should
• 52:00
  be heading over there. That's your daughter and your oldest Bro.
• 52:04
  What are you even thinking? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll be
• 52:11
  down that anybody gonna hold me back from seeing my daughter.
• 52:13
  And if I couldn't get in, I'll tell you what.
• 52:15
  I'll be right there waiting for when she walked out.
• 52:16
  I'll be first incas.
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: All right, ter man later bro, Hey Romeo, they waited
• 52:23
  for the rain to stop. That's why they started. Oh
• 52:25
  the rich you graduation? Oh okay, well I still rain,
• 52:28
  but I see okay, okay, good morning.
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: Albums going on?
• 52:32
  Speaker 7: Hey Romeo, do not win or anything?
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: No, sorry, bro, already fourteen five, four seven to seven
• 52:39
  a roam.
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: My daughter's graduation is tonight. You don't start.
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: You don't start till seven, probably won't end till nine
• 52:48
  nine or nine thirty. Go out to eat, uh nine thirty,
• 52:52
  go out to eat and since there's no reservations, probably
• 52:55
  have to wait an hour and a half or table.
• 52:58
  So I agree with you the graduation should be early. Well,
• 53:00
  the problem is where you're gonna go eat at. Every
• 53:03
  place closes at nine. You know, I talked to Saunders
• 53:09
  about yesterday. Saunders is gonna stay open tonight for graduations,
• 53:14
  probably till nine forty five or ten.
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: You know, the kitchen.
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: You got to remember when the kitchen closes. I mean,
• 53:19
  where are you gonna go? I know you got Saunders
• 53:22
  that's open. I don't know if it's both of them,
• 53:26
  but uh, the one on calif Are, the one on
• 53:28
  brim Home. Then you've got Social House I know stays
• 53:30
  open till ten. Their kitchen is open till ten. I
• 53:35
  mean Vjay's BJ's probably stays open late. You know, that's
• 53:39
  a nice place. You got to go somewhere where you
• 53:41
  can have good food and you have a lot and
• 53:43
  you can accommodate your family.
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: So those are the only three places I know of,
• 53:50
  you know. So yeah, it's rough. It's just it's it's.
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: You. Guys might think I'm crazy when I say this,
• 54:00
  but the moment is what matters for these kids that
• 54:03
  are graduating tonight high school.
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: This is the moment that matters.
• 54:08
  Speaker 9: Now.
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: The party is fine, or the barbecue on Saturday is
• 54:12
  great because their friends can come by, or your family's
• 54:15
  going to be there and you guys can all get along,
• 54:17
  but it's not their moment. It's a barbecue on Saturday
• 54:21
  for them. Their moment is tonight. Their moment is and
• 54:29
  let's be honest about graduations, their moment is very fast,
• 54:32
  it's amongst it's not a real intimate time to celebrate
• 54:36
  their moment.
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: There's a rush to it. And that dinner afterwards is
• 54:43
  really what matters.
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: For you. Your family, the grandparents, the caregiver, whoever, whoever
• 54:51
  is the most important to these kids. It's the moment
• 54:55
  after you get away from all the hooplah of the
• 54:58
  graduation and you can just all unwind together and enjoy
• 55:03
  the excitement of what just happened. And that or the
• 55:10
  restaurants in Bakersfield don't. It's not about the time, it's
• 55:14
  not about staying up late. It's about having the availability
• 55:19
  to do it.
• 55:20
  Speaker 8: Hey, Romi, I was just hearing your information on the
• 55:23
  radio about the restaurants open this FYI kept his rowhouse
• 55:27
  ain't open till.
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: Midnight Texas Roadhouse. All right, yeah, all right, well I
• 55:34
  appreciate phone call. Thank you.
• 55:35
  Speaker 10: You're welcome, right. I mean these.
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: Places, you gotta know where to go. I mean, you
• 55:39
  gotta be planned, you gotta be prepared. I think that
• 55:45
  I think it's important.
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: I really do.
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: And I think there's a lot of important even if
• 55:50
  it's just going back to the house.
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: And having cake and ice cream, as silly as you
• 55:57
  may think that is, it's important that after you get
• 56:01
  through this whole graduation, the whole two and a half hours,
• 56:06
  maybe in the rain tonight, you know, it's important that
• 56:11
  you guys spend some time together afterwards.
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: Good morning, How what's going on.
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: Today?
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: I don't have anything to give out. I'm talking about No,
• 56:21
  I'm broke. I'm broke, bro I'm broke today for seven
• 56:27
  and seven. We got to straighten out these graduations, situations.
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: For you guys.
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: I did here, by the way, that I guess because
• 56:35
  of the rain. I mean last night, like I said,
• 56:36
  I was at Reggie's graduation last night.
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: It did rain.
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: It didn't really affect anything, got a little wet, so
• 56:43
  who cares. But tonight it's supposed to rain as well.
• 56:49
  I did hear there are some contingency plans, like they
• 56:51
  might start and somebody told me that maybe they started
• 56:53
  Reggie's later because of the rain. I would start it earlier,
• 56:57
  but they made you the same thing with some of
• 57:00
  these other graduations tonight. Or they may move it into
• 57:03
  the if there's lightning. I heard there might be lightning also,
• 57:05
  they might move it into the the gymnasium.
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't know. I mean, it's tough. I say,
• 57:13
  you just thug it out rain. Little water never hurt nobody.
• 57:16
  I mean, I know you got grandmas and grandpa's that
• 57:18
  might not be able to sit in the rain. But yeah,
• 57:21
  I get it.
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: But for the most part, moms and dad, you can
• 57:24
  thug it out in the rain. Get you an umbrella.
• 57:26
  Ubi he goo going to Rome. My daughter graduated from
• 57:29
  BC and her mom just wanted in and out and
• 57:32
  go home because she was tired. I wanted to go
• 57:35
  to the yard house. It was around nine thirty. But
• 57:38
  sometimes you have to take one for the team. I
• 57:41
  feel like she stole one from my daughter. Could have
• 57:43
  been best. Remember absolutely, she stole one for It's not
• 57:46
  about you, it's about your graduate. That's who it's about
• 57:51
  back to the statement where the guy said his daughter
• 57:53
  graduated BC.
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: That's an accomplishment, it's a pretty important one. And she
• 57:58
  was too tired. The mom was too hot, too tired.
• 58:00
  Want to go in and out? You want to go?
• 58:02
  He wanted to go to the yard house around nine thirty.
• 58:06
  You know, you should just took your daughter. Let her
• 58:08
  go home. You're tired, go home. You and your daughter
• 58:11
  should have went. There's no It's funny to me how
• 58:14
  these parents act like that, And it's it's kind of.
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: Sad because I bet this woman wouldn't have been too
• 58:23
  tired to do what she wanted to do.
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: Your parents are always too tired, never too tired to
• 58:29
  do what you want to do, but can't suck one
• 58:33
  up for the team, take one for the team when
• 58:34
  it comes to your daughter graduating.
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: It's a little embarrassing. Hey, goodring to Romeo.
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: See Arvin Highest graduate graduation ceremony is at seven. Usually
• 58:45
  it doesn't finish till nine or later. By the time
• 58:48
  we leave the parking lot, it's ten and no restaurants
• 58:51
  open anymore. I really wish Arvin High would go to
• 58:55
  a ceremony in the morning.
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's what. Yeah, And you're exactly right.
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: That's the problem, you know, because you're not gonna rush
• 59:03
  your kids. You gotta let him take all the photos
• 59:05
  on the field with their friends, with their family members,
• 59:09
  because that's the moment, and then there needs to be
• 59:11
  restaurants open.
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, like I said, it's just I don't know.
• 59:19
  I don't know why. I don't know why people aren't smarter,
• 59:25
  you know already four two five, four, seven to seven.
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: Hey, Rome asked that guy what school his daughter goes to? Oh,
• 59:33
  the guy, she goes to some school in San Diego.
• 59:37
  The guy who couldn't get a ticket because the baby
• 59:39
  mama don't like him. Already four two five, four or
• 59:42
  seven to seven. I'm going through the same situation, Rome.
• 59:46
  The father of my daughter is not Let's see, I'm
• 59:50
  going through the same situation. The father of my daughter
• 59:55
  is not invited to the graduation. Reason why is that
• 59:58
  there's a restraining order and also my daughter doesn't want
• 1:00:03
  him there. Well, okay, that makes sense. He's not involved
• 1:00:07
  at all, only when he feels like being a father.
• 1:00:11
  So no, I am not inviting my ex to my
• 1:00:15
  daughter's graduation. Seems bad. Since since me seems bad but
• 1:00:22
  it is what it is. Well, yeah, but that's a
• 1:00:24
  different scenario, right, I mean if I don't know. Look, man,
• 1:00:29
  if dad or mom or grandma whoever's not involved in
• 1:00:32
  your kid's life, they can't just reap the rewards, you know,
• 1:00:36
  when it's all said and dug.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: They can't just get there. They can't.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: They can't just show up for the photo and act
• 1:00:42
  like they were a proud parent and helped your child
• 1:00:45
  get here. I agree with all of you people on
• 1:00:48
  that you should never if you were the one that got,
• 1:00:51
  if you were the one that was there for the
• 1:00:52
  ups and downs and high school, didn't stand proud with
• 1:00:58
  your kid for the photo, If you were the parent
• 1:01:01
  that was never around and didn't help out and didn't try,
• 1:01:06
  then you know what you're out.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 9: You can't.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: You can't take the photo for the GRAM and be
• 1:01:13
  the proud parent when you weren't there to do the work.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: I get it.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: The guy in San Diego, the guy who said his
• 1:01:21
  daughter's graduate in San Diego said the mom's holding a
• 1:01:25
  grudge against it.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: That happens too.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: So if you're if you're holding a grudge against your
• 1:01:33
  ex and they were there for the child and supported
• 1:01:37
  the child. Then then we got a different issue. Sounds
• 1:01:41
  like there's two different issues going on here, all right?
• 1:01:43
  Eight four two five four seven seven?
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: What did you send me here?
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 10: Yo?
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 6: Ron?
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: Wait a minute, how can I get more?
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 3: People?
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: Snuck into Stockdale High School at eight o'clock at eight
• 1:01:56
  o'clock tomorrow morning for my daughter's eighth grade graduation.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: It's in the stadium, the football stadium.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: We only get six wristbands and what and that's just
• 1:02:05
  your immediate family, not including grandparents and all that.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: Well, what do the wristbands look like?
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 3: I don't know?
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: All right?
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: A four two five four seven seven A rome. And
• 1:02:21
  on the flip side of the story, my current wife
• 1:02:23
  is pregnant and do any day. So if I would
• 1:02:25
  leave to this graduation, I will have my wife worried
• 1:02:28
  that I'm going to miss the birth.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: Of the baby.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 7: Bro.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: Just yeah, I can't help you. You you always got
• 1:02:35
  a story. I can't help you.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 7: Good morning on me?
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 10: All up?
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 7: So my son graduates to my BHS and his dad.
• 1:02:46
  We've been the war for four years now and his
• 1:02:50
  dad is every now and then in his life. So
• 1:02:53
  I am the ninety nine point nine nine perip parents.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 12: My son out like.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 7: He needs to in buy people that meant something in
• 1:03:02
  his life. You know, that helped with his pulling the
• 1:03:04
  help with everything. So he already had the people, which
• 1:03:07
  was basically more of my family because obviously sometimes it's
• 1:03:11
  more of the woman's family that helps out. But he
• 1:03:14
  is given his dad a ticket when his dad messages
• 1:03:18
  me asking me for three tickets for the graduation, and
• 1:03:21
  I'm like nope, and he goes, why not I said nope,
• 1:03:25
  Well me and my wife want to go, and I
• 1:03:27
  said nope. So he messages my son and tell my son, well,
• 1:03:29
  why can't my wife go?
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 12: You know?
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 7: And I told him, you know what, it's because it's
• 1:03:34
  for people that meant something in my life. Don't forget
• 1:03:36
  to send her pictures and videos of my graduation.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: That's awesome.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 7: It's not my my say to who gets to go
• 1:03:53
  to my son's graduation because it's it's his ticket.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 6: It's his graduation.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 8: I'm going to because I'm main parent.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 7: So he got to pick with the ten tickets that
• 1:04:03
  he got, who he wants to go to his graduation
• 1:04:06
  in this show and the heck and his dad's wife.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: You do you think the data show up.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 7: He is, but he text my He texts my daughter
• 1:04:16
  telling her he's only going to support my son. Like
• 1:04:19
  I said, he's not even a full time dad, so
• 1:04:21
  I don't really even care. I don't care.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: That's great, all right, thanks for calling. I appreciate it got.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 7: Out to my son off the twenty twenty six chest Jason.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: All right, thanks for college. All right, wait to put
• 1:04:37
  your son's family business out there. He's not going to
• 1:04:39
  be embarrassed tonight.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: I will tell you this. Does anybody surprised?
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: These are the conversations we're having in Beggersfield, exus who
• 1:04:46
  have to fight over tickets, dads who aren't in the
• 1:04:48
  in the picture, grandparents who aren't helping out, things like that.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: That's welcome to Beggarsfield. Baby.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: Let's see here height for two pop four seven seven Romeo,
• 1:05:00
  You're absolutely right. Well, my third oldest daughter graduated. Her
• 1:05:04
  mom didn't want to give me tickets to get in.
• 1:05:06
  I went there and people see me standing around, and
• 1:05:09
  I got hooked up with the ticket to get in
• 1:05:11
  to see my daughter graduate.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: But my plans were to be outside waiting.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: Well, that's what I'm saying. You gotta wait, right, you
• 1:05:18
  gotta be there if you want to be there. They
• 1:05:22
  tell that guy to stop being a weenie, show up
• 1:05:25
  in the parking lot for his daughter. Don't let the
• 1:05:27
  mother win. It's not a competition, guys. It's about being
• 1:05:33
  there for your kid.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: Damn Rome, You're making people all emotional in the early morning. Well,
• 1:05:41
  I mean, today's an emotional day for a lot of people.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: This is a mildstone in these kids' lives, in your
• 1:05:51
  children's lives.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: This is an accompliment.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: This is an accomplishment, and it's a real accomplishment because
• 1:06:00
  now some of these.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: Kids are gonna go to work. Some of these kids
• 1:06:06
  are now gonna start their lives and high school is
• 1:06:11
  is is done.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: Some of them will go to college, and you know
• 1:06:15
  they won't start their lives exactly yet. Some of them
• 1:06:19
  will go to trade schools, and some of them are
• 1:06:21
  gonna go to work. So this is it for some
• 1:06:26
  of these kids as far as graduation goes. So it
• 1:06:29
  is an emotional time.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 3: It is.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: It's meaningful. Today is meaningful for.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: All of you that are graduating high school, for your
• 1:06:38
  for your families, for your friends. I mean, this is
• 1:06:41
  a meaningful moment. So yeah, if you're gonna get emotional.
• 1:06:44
  Get emotional already, four two, five, four, seven to seven. Hey,
• 1:06:49
  rom we had a graduation yesterday and after we ate
• 1:06:51
  a taco truck because everything was closed. But that's what
• 1:06:56
  I'm saying. Even that is a moment, though, and I will.
• 1:07:00
  And that's why these people are saying, oh, no, you
• 1:07:02
  just have the party during the weekend now. But even
• 1:07:05
  that moment of you and your family going to the
• 1:07:08
  taco truck to eat because that's what's open, because the
• 1:07:12
  graduations are so late, you know what, that's still meaningful.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: It means something. Okay, you know, I guess I guess
• 1:07:21
  you know.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: Saunders will be open tonight if you guys want to
• 1:07:23
  go after graduation. I think they'll up until nine forty
• 1:07:25
  five or ten. Social house will be open to ten.
• 1:07:28
  I hear Jack's texts, something, Jake's texts, mex Set, Jake's
• 1:07:33
  whatever the steak place is going to be open. I
• 1:07:38
  think BJ's will be open. And just those are the
• 1:07:41
  only ones I know offhand. But it is very important
• 1:07:44
  that after graduation, even if it is to go home
• 1:07:48
  and have your whole family at your house, it is
• 1:07:51
  very important that your immediate family be with your graduate
• 1:07:55
  tonight after graduation for at least, you know, an hour
• 1:08:00
  so to ride that high of graduation. Let's see here,
• 1:08:04
  what did you text me talking about graduations and stuff?
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 3: Hey?
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: Rome, Oh this is the one that he said. The
• 1:08:12
  mom was tired.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: His daughter graduated BC the other night and she was tired,
• 1:08:16
  so they all had to go home.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: It was nine thirty, which is.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: That's a little selfish on your part as a mother
• 1:08:23
  to take away from That's what he said. Feels like
• 1:08:26
  he took something away, stole something from the daughter. So
• 1:08:32
  he texted me and says, oh, trust me wrong here.
• 1:08:34
  Almost did just take her and her boyfriend because they
• 1:08:37
  both graduated BC that night. I just didn't want to
• 1:08:40
  deal with the attitude. Well sorry, bro, I'm not going
• 1:08:44
  to side with you on that one. You should have
• 1:08:46
  done it. Dealt with the attitude, you know what I'm saying.
• 1:08:50
  Sometimes you parents need to understand that the other parent
• 1:08:55
  is wrong. And if you're not going to stand up
• 1:08:58
  for your child against the other parent, then what are
• 1:09:03
  you really doing? You know, sometimes you got You're an adult.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: You can handle it. Okay.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: It's not like you were standing up for a friend
• 1:09:12
  who was a jack ash. You're standing up for your daughter,
• 1:09:15
  So I can't.
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: With you, bro, That one's on you. You should have
• 1:09:19
  done what you should have done and dealt with your wife.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: Hey, roam bet you there's gonna be a bunch of
• 1:09:26
  taco trucks open though. What they should do is put
• 1:09:30
  the taco trucks should go line up outside the outside
• 1:09:34
  the stadiums, the football stadiums tonight. But there could be
• 1:09:39
  fun in that too, man, there's nothing wrong with that.
• 1:09:42
  That could be, that could be a story to tell. Man.
• 1:09:45
  I remember graduation, Mom, Dad, Remember why I graduated? Nothing
• 1:09:49
  was open, so we just ateed the taco truck. Yeah, exactly.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: What's up?
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 7: Rain? Damn Rain?
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 11: Righte and die?
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 4: I hadn't been a either, not damn Rain. Well, I
• 1:10:05
  am not going to miss my son's graduation because it's
• 1:10:09
  rain and all my hair.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: Oh don't. And there's nothing wrong with that.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: Everybody.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: Everybody should be just embracing, have a good time. I mean,
• 1:10:21
  there's no reason.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 7: I requesting might gang off, and I'm gonna come and
• 1:10:27
  just graduate in writing in and excited and springing my
• 1:10:33
  lens out.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: All right, Well, congratulations, it's an exciting moment for you
• 1:10:37
  and your child.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: I hope you have a good day.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 12: Thank you so much.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: If it rains, I mean, come on, man, it's not
• 1:10:46
  get you a jacket, Throw you something warm on, take
• 1:10:49
  you a blanket, take you an umbrella.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: Rain that rains irrelevant to me, to be honest. But
• 1:10:53
  it's not going to rain that hard anyway. So I
• 1:10:55
  think I think it's gonna be fine. Like I said,
• 1:10:58
  I was at a graduationlast night. It was fine, all right.
• 1:11:01
  It rained, Nothing.
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: Happened already fourteen four seven seven, Romeo. I remember when
• 1:11:09
  I used to work at hometown buffet and our manager
• 1:11:11
  would have a stay open late for graduation nights, and boy,
• 1:11:15
  we would be busy. We celebrated my daughter's graduation slash
• 1:11:19
  birthday this past weekend, and I broke my ankle this
• 1:11:21
  week before the week before. Did we cancel? Hell no,
• 1:11:25
  we rented those electric scooters and pushed through. Gotta celebrate graduation,
• 1:11:30
  you do.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 8: You do?
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: Gotta celebrate graduation.
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: Yo, rome College and high school graduates are old enough,
• 1:11:38
  mature enough to invite whatever parent and grandparent they want.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: Some dads just make excuses. Yeah, okay, what do you
• 1:11:49
  got here?
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 10: Rome?
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: Let me see here, Romeo, who knew this guy, this
• 1:11:57
  guy who child was going to graduate junior high and
• 1:11:59
  the mom wouldn't give him a ticket because she was
• 1:12:02
  being petty.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: So we asked around and ended up finding an.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 2: Extra ticket sat all the way at the top so
• 1:12:09
  he wasn't seen, just to say hey, wasn't seen, Just
• 1:12:13
  to say, hey, I was there for you, even though
• 1:12:15
  your mom wouldn't give me a ticket. Well, the mom
• 1:12:18
  saw him, went over, made a scene. Security ended up
• 1:12:21
  kicking both of them out, and neither of them got
• 1:12:25
  to see. Neither of them, neither of them. Neither of
• 1:12:31
  them got to see watch their child graduate. So sad,
• 1:12:34
  just so petty. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I get it. Hey,
• 1:12:39
  good morning, Romeo. Instead of Romeo Show, it should be
• 1:12:42
  Beggarspiel's novella as Everyone as drama, and today it gets showcased.
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, the problem is.
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 2: Unfortunately people are petty, I mean unfortunately, unfortunately moms and
• 1:12:58
  dads get petty with each other and they use the
• 1:13:01
  child as a pawn in their game.
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: And but normally the child figures it out and everything
• 1:13:06
  works out.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: So already forsvot for seven and seven, Uh yo, rome
• 1:13:13
  what's up? It's actually a bit sad to see. This
• 1:13:16
  is a lot of people's norms. Fatherless families are having
• 1:13:20
  multiple families. That's why fathers are important. I mean, look
• 1:13:23
  at Seahawk Lou. He didn't even make it to his
• 1:13:25
  own graduation, but he was there for his son. Okay,
• 1:13:32
  fair enough, So graduations are here. Hopefully you guys don't
• 1:13:35
  mess it up for your kids. Man, would you send
• 1:13:38
  me here?
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: Hey Rome, what is a.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 2: Part time dad? Dads go to work sometimes out of
• 1:13:42
  town to support the kids. We were only in town
• 1:13:44
  for a few days then back back at it. So
• 1:13:47
  does that mean I don't deserve a ticket?
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: I mean I don't know.
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: Hey Rome, Denny's is open twenty four hours. If that's
• 1:13:56
  what you got, that's what you've got. Okay, Hey Rome,
• 1:14:00
  we ordered food for after the graduation because we know
• 1:14:03
  everybody is going to be trying to hit up Denny's
• 1:14:05
  or whatever restaurant is left open then night.
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: That's fine if that's what. If that's what you got
• 1:14:10
  to do, that's what you gotta do.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: But don't don't screw it up, man, don't don't don't
• 1:14:17
  screw up your kids graduation. Mom and dad, because either
• 1:14:19
  your fight or your petty or you know, you can't
• 1:14:22
  work it out because you're too tired.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: Whatever. Good ONR Now what's going on and what's up?
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 8: You know, everything you're saying about the graduation, it makes
• 1:14:32
  sense to only have the people who genuinely, you know,
• 1:14:34
  have been there for you for your school, because I
• 1:14:38
  remember when I graduated. You know, I grew up with
• 1:14:41
  my mom, a single mom, and of course my mom
• 1:14:43
  was going to my graduation and my two brothers and
• 1:14:48
  I had a whole bunch of extra tickets, and my
• 1:14:51
  family reached out to me. They never reached out to
• 1:14:53
  me throughout the whole you know, Oh, am I being invited?
• 1:14:59
  And I'm lying, no one is on my invitation list.
• 1:15:02
  I don't have an invitation besides my mother and my
• 1:15:05
  two brothers, who who've only ever been there for me
• 1:15:08
  of course.
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 8: And I'm like, they're like, but why you're being selfish?
• 1:15:12
  I'm like, no, I'm not. Throughout the whole school, You're
• 1:15:14
  never bought to call me. Why am I gonna invite
• 1:15:16
  you and pretend to be happy that you're there. I'm like,
• 1:15:18
  I don't care about you. You don't care about me?
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: That's awesome, Yeah, exactly, I think you're right about that.
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 8: Yeah, so the only one who enjoyed it was me,
• 1:15:25
  my mom, and my two brothers, and I was more
• 1:15:27
  than happy. I didn't need nobody else.
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: That's cool, all right. Well, I appreciate the phone call
• 1:15:32
  day around here.
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 2: I mean, she's right, you guys, you know you guys. Look, man,
• 1:15:38
  you can't just be there for the photo op. You
• 1:15:40
  have to be there forever. She's absolutely right. And I
• 1:15:42
  like the person who said, when you graduate high school
• 1:15:44
  or college, those kids are old enough.
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: You're old enough at that point to decide who you
• 1:15:50
  want there and who you don't want there.
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: Okay, they know kids aren't stupid, they know who's there
• 1:15:55
  for them, they know who's not. So there's no reason
• 1:15:58
  to think any different. Right, Like I said, don't screw
• 1:16:03
  it up. You know, be there for your kids today.
• 1:16:05
  Don't be too tired to go do whatever when your
• 1:16:08
  kid wants to run around the football field and it's
• 1:16:10
  raining outside tonight, because they need to get all those
• 1:16:12
  photos with their kids.
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: It might be the last time to ever see those kids.
• 1:16:16
  Don't don't don't don't be a jackass, you know, just
• 1:16:19
  sit there and wait and about eating.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 2: I still think everybody you guys need to get together
• 1:16:26
  afterwards and and and enjoy the moment because graduations are hectic,
• 1:16:33
  they're long, they're tiresome for a lot of you. But
• 1:16:37
  you still can't discount it means something
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 7: Every morning, mor