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Episode Date: February 11, 2022

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And Tom, you know, set standard. appreciate Marcy and Jay. They're also getting care of packages. All they have to do is come out of the station, pick them up. Greatly appreciate we'll put those together. So we heard Mark's first date story and we heard Rico's first date story.

Mine and Bex are a little interesting. So in back east, what we do is after school ends, we would take off and go to the beach. So you go spend the week at the beach and get a house and it's probably four guys in a beach house. The house next of ours, it was attached. There were eight young ladies in that beach house. So, of course, you know, you meet up and you go, as young people do.

Right, right? You meet up and hang out and hang out. So we hung out for the week. And the young lady that I spent the bulk of the time with was from Falls Church, which was right next to us. It was right next to Arlington. And so she was like, well, listen, I don't want this to be like a summer romance. You know, just promise me when we get back, we'll go out.

And I'm like, bet. Okay, good deal. So that next week I get the phone call. Hey, there's a party, house party in false church. Why don't you grab your friends and come hang out with me and my friends? I'm like, cool. She's like, yeah, there'll be a bunch of people there. You don't have to worry about it.

walking to the house so back then most house parties would like dance parties so there's like music and people would dance and just hang out but then they're

in one corner's dancing the other corners you know beer pong and mingling quarters and caps and all the stuff right

so I'm dancing with my date and I'm in the middle of dance floor and probably two or three songs in you know I look over to the side and there's this young lady

kind of stand there and she's kind of look at me and I'm like, who's that? You know, I asked, you know, who's that? And she goes, well, oh, it's her party. She lives here. And dance a little bit more. And I'm going, I want to say something weird here,

but I think I'm supposed to be with her. And so, like, do you know her? I'm like, no. I said, but I think I'm supposed to be with her. Like, is it cool if I go talk to her? And she was like, I don't have a choice. Do I? I was like, no, not really.

That's weird. And went over and talked to her and, of course, I asked her to dance and she said, I don't. She goes, I can't dance the way you do. And I'm like, should I be offended? She goes, no, you're a really good dancer, but I don't dance the way you do. So I don't want to look stupid. That makes sense. She goes, I'm sitting here watching you dance and I, no, like, I don't dance the way you do and this would be bad.

And I'm like, well, you got to come dance with me. And I'll teach you how to dance the way I dance. and we started just kind of hanging out and talking. We talked for about two hours. Party kind of waned down. We kept talking. And we didn't even go to sleep that night. We just sat in her kitchen and on her couch and just talked.

And then the next morning, we hadn't even slapped. And the next morning, it was knocking the door to parents. bro, this is back in the 80s. Like, this is not, this was not necessarily the space I wanted to be yet, right? Like, oh, oh, your parents are coming. This might not be good at all. This isn't great. But what happened was we sat at the kitchen counter and just talked.

And they gave me kind of a casual cosign. Like, yeah, this is okay. We're okay with this. Which they had to do and was absolutely necessary because that was, usually the line for me was to find out it wasn't whether people was interested in being with me. It was whether it was going to be a cool with their family. Because most of the

spaces I was in, it was white people. You know. Makes sense. Back in the 80s. Back in the 80s. So it was like, well, I need a cosign. And they co-signed. And dad's a Navy captain. Mom's a teacher. It's a big cosign. Right. That's a huge cosine. I'm like, you see something in me.

And at the time, I wasn't doing anything special. Well, I mean, I, you know, I'd been out of college, but I wasn't, like, I wasn't doing anything spectacular. I was working with kids. But in the grand scope of it, right? And so back. In the grand scope of a Navy captain.

Right, right? So I said, well, let's go. Like, here's the deal. So she would come and watch me play. I was playing competitive, really competitive softball at times. So she would come. She was like, I'll just come watch you play softball. And we were really good, but we would hang out afterwards.

And then we would go to Georgetown and go dance. And that was. Becky. Becky was the girl standing up against the wall watching me dance and I was like, oh, I'm supposed to be with her, I think.

Like, not even knowing. Show enough. Yeah, I, hey man. So the stories are, yeah, it's always you know, an amazing thing. The Texas was, I didn't realize beer pong was around back in the 80s.

I was under the assumption. My generation created it in 2000s. No, you did not. So back then, so imagine that we would spend, so going to VCU, that's in Richmond, but my best friend was going to school at Old Dominion, which is Beachtown. So we would halt out of go to beach for the weekend. And if I didn't, I didn't have class on Friday. So I could go Thursday after class, which put me at Old Dominion at 1 o'clock.

Well, back then, they had quarter pitchers of beer. Like once classes let out, they had quarter. Oh, 4,400 clubbing. That sounds nice. Right, like quarter beers and nickel drabs. That would have been dangerous. Oh, well, well, imagine that. That on a Thursday and a Friday where people don't have classes necessarily on Friday,

that, oh, the bar was, the campus was on fire. I've always thought about how cool it would be to just flip a quarter to something. somebody and just like get something. Oh, no. Like that'd be so cool, but I can't do that now because everything's electric. You give them a dollar. They give you 20, 20, 20 beer tickets and you just, like, whenever you needed them. Yeah, but just flip it and a quarter to somebody just sounds cool.

But the other thing is, like, you'd have a table full. So we would do that. And then in each dorm, they would have kegs in the dorms. And there would be these caps. So caps is you sitting across, you know, beer, beer caps. coat caps back in the day, and you flip them. And if you hit, it goes in the cup, that person has to drink it. That's amazing.

That's Tom. I'm going to imagine that's Tom. Yeah. And you flip it. And then quarters, we would play these marathon games of quarters. We would play, man. What's the thumper? We would play the game thumper.

So the game is thumpper. How you play it? Fast as deep. And then you go through it. So you would have a signal. So yours could be like the nose. Okay, no, yeah, I know. We don't call it that.

I don't remember what we call it. And then you would give it, you would do, you'd have to do the person that gave it to you, yours, and then somebody else's. And then somebody else had to give yours, theirs, and then hand it to somebody else. Whoever they were trying to hand it to you. So somebody says, boom. Yeah. So you would play all those.

And then, I'm trying to think, there's a game called Mexican with cards. We would just, it was another drinking game. We would just, it was Merrather. And then we would do. like Touravid Pursuit came out and we would do Marathon, like beer, Trivville Pursuit. So if you missed the question, you had chugged it. Or if you got all of them in a row, you could make somebody chubbed. So we did a lot of drinking in college.

Same. We had a bunch of drinking games. One of my favorites. Well, not really my favorite. It's disgusting, but it's really fun. Kings Cup. And you just have a cup in the middle. Everybody has whatever they're drinking.

You pour a little bit in the cup. It's a big cup. Put your finger on it. Somebody calls out a number. You either take your finger off or you leave it on. If you get the correct amount of fingers left on the cup, you're out. Right. You don't have to worry about it.

Last person has to drink it. There's that. I don't know what it's called, but it's like this card game with a big can of beer in the middle, and you have to slide a card under the tab, and whoever cracks it has to chug it. Well, we play beer jenga. Is that a, is that what? what I'm thinking. Yeah.

That's dangerous. But Beer Pong, it would be frat against frat or dorm against dorm or floor of the dorm against another floor of the dorm. And these competitions, the hallways, like the main lobby in each floor. Yeah. And then the main lobby of the space. And it would just be these marathon like starting Friday afternoon, it's 12 noon. And it would go until you just, everybody just tapped out.

If I didn't go to a dry campus, I could imagine that that would have been, that would have been happening. It would have been very fun. Right. Willie says, Penny Pinschers at Elephants Eye on Thursdays in local land. Horrible beer, but good for poor U.N.K. Ks students. Rika's been there. Yes. Yes. Yeah, like this was, it wasn't the best beer.

I'm trying to think of what beer it was, but it was like National Bohemian. It was awful. But we didn't care. It's cheap, and it's beer. It was good. And I think the kegs back then cost like $12. So whatever they were making off of it, right, was crazy. and then they had at Old Dominion right across the street or around the corner from the biggest best bar was this place called Tiny Giant, which was a convention store.

But every Friday and Saturday, all day, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, all day, chili dogs, three for a dollar. Sounds awesome. End of night, like end of night. Yep. Right? Yes, sir. the Jimmy Johns and the McDonald's got work after, you know, weekends and Carney. And I'm like, there was a line, man.

There was a line. And then later, imagine a place if they sold chili dogs. Oh, my, do you imagine outside of the bars in the Haymarket? You just had. So in D.C., if you went to a bar back in the day, oh, my God. So, but this is why when people talk about, like, you know, food specificity and knowing what it is you're eating. I don't know. No, like, so Georgetown, I mean, high.

I mean, high volume. There's 300 bars. And around the corner, like at each corner, when you came out of the bar at the end of the night, there were hot dog and taco vendors. Oh, yeah. And you don't know, you don't know what was in the water. You don't know when they had changed the water. Don't care.

You didn't care what kind of hot dogs they were. Like, you didn't particularly care. The chili was, like, relative. Like, I would put chili in air quotes. Look, man. Like, really not sure that it was chili. just something to be identified as chili. The neighborhood strays have been missing.

But these chili dogs are great. And look, this is like in a health phase. And you're going, okay, we didn't even care. No. He didn't care. That's why people are like, I need to know exactly what so. I don't care what's in my food. Does it taste good?

Is it good? All right, cool. I drank from kegs that I don't know what the beer content was. I just, I'm not sure. Doesn't matter. So Gus says he loves Falls Church. My aunt and uncle lived on Fisher Drive. I know Fisher Drive.

Just as Throne Serf from Tyson's Corner, which was the big mall and like a high finance district. A lot of Fortune 500 companies used to have their headquarters in Tyson's Corner. He says it brings back to all the summers I spent back east. Love my uncle and cousins. Rest and peace to them and one cousin. Yeah, it's good, good. Um, says Craig says your story show your age. Yeah, that's the whole point.

That's the whole point. Um, Justin says, I went to school in the south side of Chicago. This doesn't tell you. This is a late night vendor. Joe's hot dogs was open from 8 p.m. to 3.m. Yes. Yes. It's like peak peak hot dogs selling out.

Oh my God. Like I, like to think about it. I tried to explain this to my daughter and she just howled in laughter because literally it's just. some random dude in like one of those with an old-fashioned hot dog cart. I was going to say, was it like super sketched like a dude just with like a with a shopping cart? Like a metal shopping cart. And he just had everything set up and he was just like get some hot dogs.

Get some hot dogs. And I mean, there was a line. 25 cents. There was a line. And at every corner outside of like these big time bars in Georgetown. And no matter what it was, it was always a line and pack. And I mean, there were dudes who were just, hey, give me the works, which, hey, you're just saying, I don't even care. That's dangerous.

Like, I don't even care. Like, they're putting, like, I don't know what was in the ketchup bottles. I don't know what was in the mustard bottles. Like the relish came out of like a tub. The tub hasn't been covered in three days. And the cheese, like the cheese. And this is, like they were grabbing it by hand, bro. It was just like hand cheese on top of the jelly dog.

Well, the hand, the thing is the hand is. has has everything else on it. So it just adds more flavor. The more things that he, so you want to be the last person in line because that hand is just covered in flavor. So really all you need for him is to grab the hot dog, put it in the bun and you're good to go.

You don't need anything else. We don't even know. It's all the spices are contained in the crevices of that hand. Like we didn't even know what was there. It was like, eh, what the heck? Let's just, let's just eat whatever.

The longer he goes, the tastier of the hot dog is. Oh, man, it was fantastic. Super Bowl squares. We're going to stick with the defenders. Two sacks, two force fumbles, Super Bowl MVP.

Who was it? Two sacks, two force fumbles, Super Bowl MVP. Who was it? We'll go away squares and close out one-on-one here on the ticket. Watch live on Facebook, YouTube, or Twitch. You're listening to One-on-One with DP on 937 the ticket and the ticket FM.com. Thank you.