The Bobby Bones Show - Our Obsession with Barney, The Comparison Game, & Were You A Water Only Family?

Episode Date: February 7, 2026

Take a walk down memory lane with Morgan and Scuba Steve. Morgan decides to orchestra the episode like she's a little kid again, asking any question that comes to mind. They start with their obsession over Barney, which leads them to talk about kids' shows today. Then, they compare the most popular businesses like Walmart vs. Target, Coke vs. Pepsi, & Home Depot vs. Lowes. Plus, they debated water only families and if either of their childhoods experienced the full spread at a restaurant. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Behind the scenes with a member of the show. What's up, everybody? Happy weekend. Scoba Steve is joining me. What's up, Scuba? Yo, what's up? Putting out fires like a fireman over here. Oh, you are a fireman.

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Well, Scover, how are you? I've decided that we may do this podcast in the form of, of a kid asking questions. A kid asking questions. Okay. What do you mean? I saw a thing online and it was interesting to me where it was like we as adults stop asking questions and be inquisitive like kids are.

Oh yeah. My son who's seven right now. He is in the question asking phase. And then he doesn't even let me get to the answer of the first question. He just dives right into the next question. And then I start to answer the first question. He's already in the third question. The fourth question.

I'm like, dude, slow down. I'm so on the first one. They're so inquisitive and they learn so much, whereas we as adults stop asking questions. And their brains are on fire. Yeah, of learning things. So I've decided we're just going to ask a lot of questions this episode. Okay, all right, let's do it. Back and forth.

If something comes to your mind, we're just going to roll with it. All right, I'm rolling. That's how we're viking. I'm rolling. I'm rolling on these questions. First of all, what is your favorite, third favorite color? Third favorite color? My first favorite color is blue.

Second favorite color is black. My third favorite color, ooh, it's like a tie between. in purple and green. Okay, a little Barney action there. Yeah. Oh, I love me some Barney. I loved Barney too. Heck yeah, I love you.

You love me. Oh, yeah, I sing that to my dog a lot. I love you. You love me. We're a happy family with a great big hug and a kiss for me to you. Won't you say you love me too? Boom, boom. I met Barney the first time when he was, it hadn't even been.

I think they hadn't even released the show. It was like a promo for like the preview of when it was going to come out because there was two different barnies. The original Barney was like a deep dark purple. And then and then after they got budget and the Barney became like started doing well. Yeah. Then they got a new Barney like the second or third season. He was more like a lighter purple and the costume got had more money involved. You can tell they had more of a budget.

It started to form into like this really cool costume. But the original guy was scary in dark purple. And we were at Target in Oviedo, Florida. which is outside of Orlando. And we were just there one day just shopping in like the early 90s, like 92 or 93. And they're like, hey, you guys want to meet Barney? We didn't know who the heck Barney was. And it was like a meet and greet, like a pop, almost like a radio station pop up.

And they had a bunch of Barney toys all around him. And he was there, the real Barney. And they had the kids from the show. They were all there. That's cool. It was pretty wild. And I think Sandy Duncan or somebody was the mom and she was there. And we met him and got the original Barneys.

I still have the original dark purple scary Barney. I was going to say I was looking at photos. and you're right. I don't, I mean, I don't really remember it. It kind of reminds me of the, you know, when we all think that the Monopoly guy, yeah, has the monocle and then he didn't. This is probably one of those situations because I definitely don't remember the original Barney, but I know I was watching Barney from beginning to end. My dad used to, he'd get home from work and him and my mom would swap places. Like, he'd work third shift and then my mom would go work and that's how they watched us. It's how they raised us. So my dad would get really excited when he came home because if he put on Barney and meant he could take a nap while we were watching it. Oh, your parents have like their nap, their nap shows. Yeah. They're guaranteed. If I put this on, I have a solid 20, 30 minutes.

So they're going to leave me alone for sure. And that was Barney for us for my dad. And so I know we watched all of it. Heck, we even dressed up as Barney as kids. Like that was our, we loved Barney. Yeah, yeah. But I definitely remember the pink one. I don't, I don't remember the scary one, but I'm seeing him now.

And he sure is a little bit scarier than the, like, it's almost like the first one looks like a male version. and the second one is a female version. Yeah, it's almost like they got, you know how whenever you do something and you, like the pilot or the first of anything, you get feedback and they probably had feedback from people like, hey, it's a little scary and, you know, lightened up a little bit. And then they even put like eyelashes on it and everything. They really, and the budget, I'm sure, increased from season one to two and so on.

Yeah, for sure did. But that's crazy. I didn't realize he was different colors. Oh, yeah. And that's before BJ and Baby Bob and all that. It was like Just Barney. Did you ever watch one of my other favorite shows that I really love was out of the box.

That was a Disney show and I don't know if that's a little bit too. Out of the box. That may have been like. So they would be like they would build all these little cardboard boxes. Yeah. And then they'd all walk into it and it'd be like this giant, like, fort if you will. That was full of all kinds of things. Yeah, I don't remember watching this one.

It did come out in 98. So I mean, I had, let's see my sister was three. But at this point, I feel like I was not home very much. I was starting to work and get going in life. Yeah. Yeah, I don't think I sing. Oh, yeah, I've seen, oh, you know, I've seen previews for it because I recognize the mom and dad in here. Yeah, there was the song. It was like out of the box. Yes, yeah, yeah. It was such a vibe, but I loved it. And I always thought for like the cardboard box, it would turn into like a tree fort because of that show. Nope. Well, it's supposed to be just your imagination, you know? But their imaginations are on screen, so they have to actually do it. Exactly. But see, my imagination, it did not work out with the cardboard boxes. I tried. I tried a few times. But that's what it also reminds me of. Wow, it's crazy. Look at the lady who you can't see us if you're listening.

But the out of the box lady, Vivian Bayou Bay. Maybe she's Filipino. Yeah. Wow. She like has gray hairs now and stuff. Oh, yeah. This is crazy. It feels wild.

I don't know about you, but the 90s feel like just centuries ago. Yeah. I mean, it kind of almost was. It's decades ago, but centuries, it feels like it's like I feel truly like I'm a hundred years from the 90s. Oh my gosh. She only has like 7,000 followers. You should reach out to her and like. interview her for your podcast for for uh take this personally i don't know what the angle is on that but

but i feel like i feel like she's obtainable yeah it could be cool i mean i just love like how impactful those shows were for us yeah do you think there's going to be any impactful ones like that for your kids yeah you know what you think about that because there's so much recycled stuff where either they're watching the original shows we watch or they've been rebooted 45 million times and like original ideas are like few far in between so it's a great great question because I'm trying to think of anything original my son watches it really isn't original he watches Pokemon which came out in the 90s yeah they like Jurassic Park which came out in the 90s and then they have Jurassic World which is like a reboot a new version of it and what else do they

watch the only one that comes to mine is blueie yeah blue is the only one originalish one yeah but I don't know that there's is miss rachel technically because I feel like we had magic school bus which was a similar vibe to that yeah yeah I don't know anything about miss rachel I mean I know who she is yeah we don't we don't do that yeah I've I haven't watched any of her stuff. I just see her. It's kind of weird if you watched Ms. Rachel as a grown-ass adult. I'm not going to lie.

There's been a few times I've watched Bluie, but that was because I put it on for Remy. Yeah, yeah. Bluey actually like, I mean, Miss Rachel, not the crap on her, but she's like an internet person that now is a TV show.

And so I'm sure it's like whatever. So it's not a true like original TV show, kind of like our 90s that we're talking about. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I know there's different ways to become something now and the internet is a way to become famous or make yourself go somewhere,

but I don't know. I just feel like it's like it's almost like dating websites. Like there was an ick. It was like, oh, you're on. Like back my mom was single and dating guys were like, ooh, you found them on the internet. You're a loser mom. And so there's like an ick to me with with internet.

Where they start an internet. I'm like, oh, gross. You were on the internet. You didn't have like, you weren't properly trained or worked your whole life with professionals to get to this place. You were on the internet and just someone picked you up. Like, oh, gross. I didn't know there could be a professional ick, but here we are.

Yeah, I think if there's a neck, I think even like in the country music industry, they'll never, ever say it out loud because it's so incestuous and everyone wants to, they don't want to hurt anyone's feelings. But I know the artist that put 10 years in and busts of their ass, like Alaney Wilson or a jelly roll, not saying they've said this, but where they put in this long, this long hard road to get to where they're at and someone puts a video on TikTok and the next morning they wake up and it's got 10 million views and they get a record label and they get all these things and that there's no, like they didn't, they didn't earn it in their mind. So they're like screw them. You know, they'll never say that, but I know they're like, screw that person for never, for not having to work the way I worked. And that's how you feel too. That's how I feel. That's how I feel towards internet fame. Yes, exactly.

Got it. I see. I'm following. Yeah, yeah. Back on our TV thing. Pa, Paw Patrol? That's another. Yeah.

I feel like Nickelodeon has done a really good job of coming out with more. Because Nickelodeon's always pumped out content, you know? Yeah. And I feel like that's a Nickelodeon Paramount property. Popatrol is unique. My kids used to love that. Not so much anymore. My daughter watches, which is funny,

because whenever Nickelodeon Universal comes out with something, Disney, and there's always this battle. Whether it's their team parks or it's their television shows or whatever. And so Disney has a show called Super Kitty's. And so it's the same thing is Paw Patrol, but they're cats. And my daughter, my youngest, who's three, loves Super Kitty's. That's so funny. It's funny to me that that's always been a battle.

It's like you have these two competitors of kid networks, basically. And Disney's, oh, evolved and obviously Nickelodeons evolved to adult with Paramount. Yeah. So they've had their evolution. But it is funny to think about that they were just always these two competing and that was it. Constantly. Pepsi and Coke. Walgreens and CVS.

Home Depot and Lowe's Disney and Universal. Okay. Okay. Okay. This will be fun. Okay. What? We're going to do like which side are you on. Okay. Yeah.

So Disney Nickelodeon. Which one are you going? Nickelodeon. I'm Disney. See, I like Disney. I love Disney. But we were way more in our household because Disney was a pre-year. was a premium. It cost more money to have Disney at the time. I felt like in the early 90s. It was almost

like you had to pay extra for it. It was like on like cable? Yeah. We just watched it on cable. Well, yeah, I'm a little bit older than you. There was a time where on the box you were able, I forget the whole setup, but there was different levels of your cable package. And our basic level cable package carried Nickelodeon, but in order to get Disney, you had to pay a higher premium and we couldn't afford it. So we'd only watch Disney when we went to our aunt and uncle's house in Tampa because they had money. And so we'd watch Disney there. Got it. So you're telling me Monopolis have always been a thing? Oh my God, yeah, totally. Yeah. This is

just the beginning. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're just way into deep now. Okay, so I got Disney, you got Nicolode. Yeah, yeah. Pepsi or Coke? Coke. Pepsi sucks. We were a Pepsi family grown up. My mom worked at Pepsi. Oh, gross. So she, like my dad and I would drink diet Mountain Dew leaders all the time. And my

mom and sister would drink Diet Pepsi Mountain Dew leader, or Diet Pepsi leaders all of the time. And that was like go-to forever. I was talking to a friend about this because it was weird. We drank it every single day. Pepsi? Growing up. I drank Diet Mountain Dew and then my mom and sister drank Diet Pepsi. I know. Trust me. I know. Like when you taste it now, like you taste the major difference between diet and regular. And they're both really bad for you, but diet's even worse because of all the artificial crap in it. It's all bad now. Like I try it now. It's disgusting

to me. Yes. Yeah. But there was just one day where I just stopped drinking it. Yeah. And I don't know what day that was or what caused that. But it was a weird thing. thing because I did it every day of my life for years. And then all of a sudden, one day it was just not a part of my life. And I try and look back on that because it was so ingrained into me. I was like, what happened there? Yeah, just what turned off or what turned on? Yeah.

Like, I don't know if it was a moment of the fake sugar that that was the turn. I don't know, but I was thinking about that the other day, random tangent. But that is why we're a Pepsi family. I grew up on it. We were all Coke. And someone would bring over like R.C. Cola or a check or something. We were like, ew, get that out of here, loser. Because something about the Coke, just the way it burns your throat,

as it's going down. Like, it's, especially Coke at a theme park like Disney, they add extra sugar into their Coke and it's even better. Oh, my God. Just pour sugar. It's awesome. I don't drink as much as I used to when I was younger. Yeah.

But I still, I'm not like, I don't cut it out completely. I'll probably once a week have a Coke. And man, it just something about it. Just. you are right I will say as an adult I've probably morphed into the Coca-Cola side

more so because Sprite Okay oh Sprite's good too Ooh I love a Sprite You give me a starry I will punch you in the face Yes It is nowhere near the same thing No by the way

It used to be mellow yellow And they rebranded it And it became so dumb It's like you can change that name It's lipstick on a pig man That thing sucks Oh yeah It's been terrible the whole time

Every time if you go to a restaurant And like sometimes when I would be hungover I really wanted to Sprite That was like my Ginger Ale if you will, and I would go to a place and be like, we have to start. I'm going somewhere else. Yeah, no, we're good.

Cancel the whole order. Is Pepsi okay? Actually, it's not. So I'll just take water or you can cash us out. We're done. We're done here. So I, you know what? I've morphed to your side as an adult.

Good. Okay, cool, good. What's Walmart or what's Walmart's main competitor? Target. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it just depends because they're similar, but in the sense of it, I guess it depends on what you're looking for and what you're going for.

As a kid, my mom loved. Target. But we also would go to Walmart because it was close to the house. So we were we were kind of like not divided on that. But I think I've gone through seasons of my life. Like right now I'm all about Walmart because it's much more affordable. As far as when you go to for the grocery side of things and all that. So I think we're a Walmart family now. Isn't that interesting? Like you started there and swapped whereas like I started as a Walmart girl growing up. Like that's the only place we ever went mostly because we didn't have a lot of other options for grocery up until I was maybe in, it was like middle school, high school, where we got a Dillens, which is the Kroger brand.

And then we got a super target. And that was a huge deal in my town with a super target game. Those things are massive. Oh, it was the biggest deal. And they were right by each other. So there was competition for days. But so most of my life and my dad still shops at Walmart for groceries. So Walmart and then I morphed kind of into now more Target. But honestly, Trader Joe's is probably more of my between the three. I think I'd just choose. Trader Joe's because the parking lot is a pain in the butt. Yeah. Why do all Trader Joe's have terrible parking? Yeah, they pick a parking lot the size of a fast food spot. Like anywhere, it doesn't matter where it's at. And at first I thought it was like, okay, because when I first got exposed to Trader Joe's, it was in California.

And it was in San Francisco where there's a very limited parking, small lot. Everything is all small. So I just figured, oh, it's just because I'm in the city. Of course it's a small parking lot. And then I went out further into the East Bay and it was still in a small parking lot where there's plenty of space. And then I was like, and then I went down to L.A. And I went to a Trader Joe's, and it was over there somewhere like in the Hollywood area. And the parking lot was behind the Trader Joe's.

And it was like, maybe it's just like, okay, it's got to be a California thing. Like you kept just trying to justify it. Yeah, yeah. Like maybe it's just because of where I'm at geographically. But then they started moving out this way. And I went to one here. And I'm like, what the hell is happening? Why do they choose the smallest real estate to put a grocery store?

And then the parking is such a pain in the ass. I'm like, I don't even want to deal with this. I'm out. I don't go there anymore because of that. There is something with Trader Joe's in parking lots. and I'm sure there's a strategy behind it. Yeah. I don't know what it is.

Cheaper rent, maybe, I don't know. Maybe, but also maybe always looking like they're busy. Oh, yeah. There has to be some strategy behind it if they're all like that. Because it's a pain in the ass. So I don't go there because of the parking. That's fair. But man, they have such cool, like, fun, different items from all over.

Yeah, it's not worth of stress for me. Oh, but I also go during the day. That helps. Okay. Even during the day, I feel like it was a pain in the ass. Everywhere I went, I was like, I was like, it's a great. The place is great, great food, but man, the parking's a pain in the ass. That's funny.

I'm out. Okay, we have more. I want to do more of these. We're going to take a break. We'll be right back. I went and sat on the little ottoman in front of him. Hi, Dad. And just when I said that, my mom comes out of the kitchen.

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Maybe local, but it was a regional. Maybe it was real. You never know where things when you're a kid because you just know it from where you're at. But I felt like it was all over Florida. And they closed down in the 90s. Builders Square. We went to Builders Square and went to Scots, which is another spot that isn't around anymore. And it was like a Scottish looking guy with a beard and a hat on top.

And I remember. We did not have these in Kansas. Okay. So this is maybe just. It's more of a southern thing in the south, Florida area. We went to those a lot. And then... Were they like a Lowe's in Home Depot?

Or were they more like an Ace hardware? Oh, you know what? From what I remember, it was like in between. They weren't as big as a Home Depot, but they weren't as small mom and pop as an ace. Okay. So they were like in the middle of it. Okay.

And they didn't last. So apparently they didn't do well. Or they got absorbed or bought out. I don't know the story behind it and having taken the time to jump in that rabbit hole in the internet. But between those two, I'd have to say, I know Home Depot Like everyone loves it And it's whatever

More save more doing It's great But I'm a Lowe's family I'm the same We finally found our common ground And it's Lowe's And it's blue I like the color blue

My favorite color And I just I don't know I just feel like Lowe's just It seemed more inviting And clean and happier I don't know I just I like Lowe's No and I'm with you

But also it was another one of those That I grew up on That's where my dad went all the time It's funny how much Our childhood influences Where we go Just your choices I mean, heck even before moving to Nashville, I was like, there are hard no other choices.

Those are, you go to Walmart, you go to Lowe's and that's where, and then you go home. Yeah, yeah, you go home here, you're done, yeah. And we didn't have Costco. We had Sam's Club. Okay, yeah, yeah. So, like, those are the, that's what you did. And then I come to Nashville, I'm like, wait, I have choices. I can go to different places.

What does that mean? Yeah. So I think that's why. But yeah, I still go to Lowe's. My fiancé is a Home Depot guy, so it's kind of funny. Okay, so you ever, like, have to, like, fight over it, or you just, or who wins? Loz is close. to us so Lowe's typically wins

but if we go somewhere and like Lowe's doesn't have it like Home Depot would have had that The problem I've had with Home Depot lately is every time I've been there I remember going there like 18 or 19 when I worked in landscaping and they'd have to go there a lot to pick up

because the company I worked for had a Home Depot credit cards so we had to go to Home Depot but we'd pick up sprinkler parts or whatever but and back then you like hey where is the where's the screws or where is the bracket that I'm like oh let me and they would take you to that aisle and show you and then like here it is do you have any questions and I was oh this is really

cool now you go to home depot and you ask somebody where something is they go oh hold on one second and they pull out their phone uh I think it's on uh aisle seven and then you and then you're like all right and then the guy just stands there and like oh so you're not going to take me to aisle seven okay so I'll go to aisle seven I go to aisle seven and guess what they're not there and now I'm now I'm in aisle seven looking for something I can't find and I'm looking for the other idiot to tell me where at and pull up the phone and it's also not there either it's like take me to the fricking aisle show me because if it's not there then you can then take me to where you think it's just so frustrating i think it's the same way at lows though oh yeah yeah i've had that same

experience at lows or they just don't know where anything is anymore yeah i just don't think you have the same type of people that are employed as much anymore when i get one of the older gentlemen oh geez yeah they're always very like helpful and stuff but when you have one of the younger i don't know that they are as equipped because it is everything on your phone versus before they had to know everything of everywhere in the store things were. But you should still. That's part of like understanding where you work

that you should know where things are. Yeah. It shouldn't go away because technology is there and it took away your ability to remember things. Hey, I don't disagree with you. Like when I was in my teens and 20s, I still worked as hard as the guy who had been there for 20, 30 years

because I just had a little sense of pride in my work. I know. Hey. I'm on the same path as you. Okay, right. But you left a little nugget in there. You worked for a landscape company for a while. Oh, yeah, yeah.

When I first got, before I got in the radio and how I got in the radio was because I was in the truck a lot listening to the radio. And I used to work. I ran a crew, a landscaping crew in Orlando. It was me and like five Guatemalans. And we go out there every day and we cut grass and weedy and edge and do like big neighborhoods. My route was mostly like the really nice houses and like Winter Park, Windermere. Because I actually gave a crap about my job. And so he gave me like the high dollar clients.

Nice. Because I took care of them and like did, went above and beyond. And he always got great feedback. And so he kept giving me more of the high dollar clients, which was great because in the holidays, they usually would tip. Okay. I was going to say, did they tip you normally or just during the holidays? I didn't get a lot of tips throughout the year, but mostly like the holidays I would get from not everyone. Not everyone was generous to tip.

But there were a decent amount where they were like, hey, there's a hundred bucks. And it always would split it with me and the guys. Like, hey, let's go out to lunch and like, let's go hard. Let's get whatever we want at lunch. because it's 100 bucks went pretty far you know 20 30 years ago so yeah I did that ran the crew and then so then every once in a while we had like

big companies like big neighborhoods too and we'd all all the whole company would go like tag team of a hundred house neighborhood and do all that or do we do installs and landscape design sprinkler systems all that kind of stuff nice I did that for a few years do you like doing it at your house now no yeah you like know what all goes into it

yeah yeah I do do it and I did do it for a long long time of doing my own lawn, but man, it's a lot of like almost four acres. So it's more than just like a zero lot line edge we'd blow and get out of their kind of scenario. But I do, I do like take pride and trimming my hedges and stuff because no one can do it as good as I can. Oh, okay. Do you have one of those automatic? Yeah, I have a gas power one. Yeah, where it has the clipper. Yeah. Yeah. I love watching those videos online. They're so satisfying to me. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I like yard videos in general. There's actually a guy from Wichdaw. who has a massive account

who goes around and just mows and cleans up yards for free. Yeah, I've seen that before. Yeah, yeah. He's like SB mowing or something like that. And he, I love watching his videos. I'll just sit there and watch him

clean up a whole yard. And before I know it, I'm like, 10 lawn videos deep. I'm like, that was pretty cool. I don't know why. Pretty cool.

And I'm not going to do my lawn because do you cut your grass or anything? I did. Oh, you did? And then I met my fiancee. And within like a few weeks, I was like, you can take that over if you want.

If you want, which means you will. And he did. He was actually really excited. He loves plants. He loves all of that. He loves being outside and doing things outside with his hands. So I was like,

perfect. This is great. I'll happily pass that over to you. Yes. I did love mowing, though. I felt really satisfied after I'd get done. I hated how I felt before,

like the lead up of I have to do this. Yes. And I don't. But then while I was doing it and after, I loved it. Yeah, because you can see the, if you watch those videos,

obviously you like the progress of like seeing one side of it. all disheveled the other side with the nice lines and it's like short and looks really good. Okay, motivation. Let's keep going. It was really funny because my family group chat, my dad and brother-in-law would always send their yards. And in Kansas, you get a little bit more grass than we get here near the city in Nashville. So they would have these really pretty like yards where they had all their lines and they did all the things. But I'd also always send my pictures in my yard and be like, here's mine.

I did it too. And I have my pretty lines, but it'd be like this, you know, four by four area. Like that's cute. It took you, what, 10 minutes to do that? He's like, we're still mowing ours right now. It's so true. But what's crazy is it takes my dad an hour. It takes me an hour also.

Oh, really? Okay. I just, I got little arms, you know? And like that weed eater just really is huge compared to it. It's bigger than me. Yeah, yeah. And it vibrates a lot. So like after a while, your hands start to get in them.

Oh, jello? Like the first several times I did it, my arms would be jello. Yeah, I hate weed eating. I would always have magno. There's a guy of my crew named Magno. And he, for some reason, loved the weed eat. And I hated it because it was, you know, I'd always replace the string. and it was always vibrating and jiggling and hurt

and the crap was always spatting your eyes so I'd always love to just My favorite was the hedges and edging Oh man I loved edging up against the concrete Or edging beds and like having that nice line Oh it just looks so good See it's something about the lines Yeah yeah yeah I don't know why

It's like the satisfaction of it looking clean And like I don't know just put together Yes and that was why it took me about two years And then I realized that they had the automatic feeders Where you could just put a string in and press a button And it does it for you like if we're doing commercial so we're doing a lot

eventually like it constantly keeps going you know but yes yeah if you're doing a small yard that string could last forever no because you'd see me in the when I didn't know this thing existed you'd see me sitting in the driveway and I'd be trying to put something together I don't know how many YouTube videos I watch trying to figure out that string

theater oh my gosh I also had enough guys stop that we're driving by I was like do you need help and I'm like I'm fine I don't need your help I will figure this out I do need your help but I don't want your help exactly I was more frustrated that They masked and I was frustrated at the stupid thing. I hated those.

But once you get it working, it's great because then you all you have to do is just pop it and hit the ground and then more pops out. But it is a pain in the ass to get it going. It really is. I don't know how we walked down that, but I liked it. You're asked, oh, we're talking about landscaping. Yeah, your job. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Do you ever, like, this is a funny thing for me because I worked at Buffalo Wildlings for five years or so. And that was like my first job. I just worked my way up. But now, either when I pass a buffalo or I go out to eat or anything like that and I see people doing expo or takeout. I just have a lot of experiences where I'm like, oh, that's not how I would have done that. That's a weird way.

Like, do you have those moments of that with landscaping? Oh, my God. Yeah, when we lived in L.A., we had an HOA, so they took care of the grounds. We didn't have a lot of grass because it was like a bunch of townhomes, but there were bushes to trim. And that's my specialty. And I would get so angry. I love trimming bushes.

and I also, something about the satisfaction of trimming up a palm tree or a Robillini and like having that nice fountain look and cutting off all the dead fronds and just making it look nice and clean. Yeah. And it was so frustrating because we paid money into the HOA. And the only thing really that the money was going towards was the landscaping because there wasn't a lot of maintenance in our grounds in this place. So the majority of the money went to landscaping.

And it was a scam because the guys would come out there and all they would ever do was just pull out the blowers and just blow things off. and never trimmed the bushes. And it was so frustrating because you walk around and everything looks like an overgrown, abandoned neighborhood. And so I got so annoyed one day that I went out and bought because I didn't have it at the time because we're living in a townhome. I went and went to Lowe's and I bought a hedge trimmer

and I started trimming my own hedges because they kept getting overgrown. They were looking all crappy. And because they weren't maintaining them and growing them because it was a new space, so new plants and they need to be trimmed and kept so that way they can grow thick and grow in together. I was like, this is annoying. It's been a year. They never cut these damn bushes.

They're overgrown. Now it's growing up against my house, which is going to create problems for leaks and that kinds of stuff and holding water and moisture. And I was like, I'm going to trim my own hedges. So then it started with me just trimming my own hedges. And then it morphed than to me trimming my hedges and my neighbor's hedges because then his were getting long and growing over our walkway and looking like crap. And then it ended up being, I ended up trimming our entire street.

And then it became a, I'm going to do it on the day they come. And so I was out there trimming the hedges. And they're like, hey, what do you? you doing. I was like, I'm doing what you're not doing. Trimming the hedges. Wait, did you ever control by the HOA? No, because I was doing, I was doing what needed to be done. I know, but sometimes H-OAs are.

They're very weird. Yeah, and they get a little finicky and pissed, but I was like, we're paying for something and they're not doing the job. So they're not going to do it, I'm going to do it. Did they start paying or they start having people do it? No, they would do it, but it would be one of those things where it's like they did it. And then a month would go by and they stopped doing it. And then it become a problem again. So I was like, this is ridiculous.

Yeah. See, that's a crap thing about HOAs. Yeah. The cool thing about when I bought my house in Nashville, there was no HOA as far as the neighborhood. Yeah. But there was an HOA between me and the house next door. So I'm the president of our HOA. Oh, really? Okay.

And she's the secretary. Oh, I got. So you know what to do then. It's more like just a protection thing. Like, we just have to check with each other before doing something. If we're like, it's going to impact somebody else. But both of us are friends. You're like, whatever.

We don't really care. But it's funny. I'm like, I'm the president of our ATOA, but it's literally just our house. Like it's our little strip of house. Exactly. Yeah,

yeah, yeah. That's it. But A. Toys suck. They do. And then you spend that money. And then we get mad about dumb crap. And you're like,

wait a second. You're mad about the way I put my Christmas lights up, which looks nice. But you don't care about the fact that we pay money for a landscaping service. And they don't do anything. That doesn't bother you. Like, it was so dumb.

Or I parked my car out in front of my house just for a second to unload before I went to go park on the street parking. And that, And I would come back 10 minutes later, there'd be a sticker in my car or a note saying, hey, you're not supposed to park here. And so I knew the person was on my street or somewhere close enough by to do that. And I'm like, listen to here, woman, Karen. Like, I know who you are.

Like, so you're mad about this, but you're not mad about the way this place looks? Like, and you can control that by telling the landscaping company. Yes. Tell them to do their job. And if they don't, hire another one that will or pay me to do it. It's so true, though. Yeah. They're a special kind of something.

It's a scam. Yeah. Such a scam. Most things are. Yeah. They usually really are. As I've gotten older, I've really realized that most things are a scam. Like, we're worried about the people that are calling us trying to scam us.

Not everything else is a scam. No, it really is. And like all these apps. It's a scam. We basically have gone back to cable and now it costs more than cable. Oh my gosh. Don't get me started on that because if one of the prices rise one more time, I'm about to quit all of it. Yeah.

And just be like, I'll see you guys in the next century or something. The whole point of doing these was because it was a stick it to the man, FU, FU, Cable. And now we're going to do. it in a more affordable way and give you access to everything whenever you want it. And now it's greed has taken over like always. And now we're spending more money than it would have a cost to have freaking cable. It's so stupid. It is.

Don't give me started on that. Because also insurance also. Yes. Like somebody had told me that you could get money back because we went and stayed at a hotel when our power was out. It was like, oh, home insurance should cover that. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I called.

They don't cover power outages. What? I'm like, if you're not supposed to cover, like, they're like, well, it was still habitable, so you could stay there and you could get heat source from somewhere else. And I'm just like, have you ever stayed in a home? That's 35 degrees and you want to tell me it's habitable? For a week?

Yeah, like, don't know. So I didn't end up fighting that battle too hard because I was just, I was so annoyed that I pay for insurance for what reason? Oh, yeah, that happened to us in Florida during the hurricanes. And it was like we paid, my mom paid home insurance for like 20, 30 years and never took a claim. And then the first time I went to take a claim, it was like something to do with the roof, a couple shingles missing and a little bit of leakage from the front door. And then they went around, several companies went around and canceled people's policies and left the state of Florida because they had to finally pay out.

It's like they've, you've collected billions of dollars all these years and then weren't having to pay out. And then the one time you have to pay out, which by the way, that's the point. of insurance is to eventually pay out at some point. So the one time you had to really pay out, they're like, oh, we're not, we're actually canceling and we're leaving Florida. You're like, that is so messed up. And for a while, a lot of them are gone and no one controlled it. No one, no one fought them. You couldn't fight them. The government didn't step in. And the insurance companies won. I'm like, that's such a freaking scam. What a scam to pay into a system. And then when you ask for it back at some point, you can't get anything back out of it. Like,

that's the whole point of insurance. Yeah. And then you walk down the line of you have car insurance. homeowners insurance and health insurance. Scam, scam. Scam. It's a freaking scam. Dude, being an adult is hard, you know? It really is. You learn a lot about the world.

It makes you kind of sad. Yeah, man, scams and greed. It's whatever it comes down to. This is why we were going as children during this podcast. I was going back to some young days to give us some hope. But it's okay. We're going to take a break. We'll be right back.

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They're there. Were you guys a water only family or a pop and apps family? Pop and apps? Yeah, like when you'd go out to eat, would you get water only, you'd get your meal, you'd go home. or would you be able to order soda? We call it pop. Oh, okay. Or appetizers.

And then you'd have your meal. Like, what kind of family were you? Because it's kind of, the internet has divided us into two people. Well, we didn't go out much. But when we did, it was, I feel like it was like once a quarter. And it was like, it was the whole deal. Like we were going to Olive Garden or we were going to chilies or somewhere. And it was the whole thing.

It was like, we're all getting sodas. We're all getting an appetizer or two. And then ordering the meal and sitting there for a while, maybe get dessert, get to go and home. It was a full, we were taking advantage of that time slot and eating it up as long as we could and doing everything because we weren't going to be there again for another three or four months. Yeah. So it was like a luxury that you have major luxury. And now, which is funny because now we can afford it and go to places. And now we're just more kind of like a water and food and we're out. We don't really do advertisers. And we also don't eat as much too, I feel like. When you go out with

your wife, though, are you a water only? Are you more apps? We're everything. And we died back in it when it was like going out with my papa and we did it like we like it's like okay we're going out. We don't we only go out once a month. Same kind of mindset. So let's we're ordering drinks. We're ordering soda and water and appetizers and entres and desserts. Like we were stuff in our faces because we're not going back again for another month. Isn't that funny?

Yeah. But with your kids it's water only. Kids. Yeah. It's like water, food and get the hell out of there as fast as possible. I was going to say is it more though because of how young they are. right now and maybe at some point that might not be the case. Yeah, they're ticking time bombs. You only have a certain window of them being good and patient and eventually you got to get the hell out

because then everyone's like looking at you and we're not, I mean, everyone does their own parenting, but we're not one of those families where it's like shove a phone in front of their face. So that way we can have a dinner. It's like, are there kids? This is how kids act. This is how kids are going to be. And sorry, but they're not like running all from down and like bothering people. but they're, you know, they're, they're bothering us. Yeah. We're having to constantly like go between three kids, but I'd rather than be kids and eventually acclimate to going out and doing things than to be a zombie and just being thrown

something to get him to shut up. And then it's, for me, it's frustrating and annoying because then if I'm sitting down eating and trying to enjoy my dinner, I got some asshole or some, I got some guy next to me with this kid on an iPad. And it's blaring on full blast. And how is everyone numb to that volume? And I'm over here trying to enjoy my dinner. hearing them listen to Bluey or Miss Rachel and I don't want to hear that turn it down or turn

it off just parent your kids for a little bit they're going to get rambunctious and crazy and they're like oh don't want to deal with it deal with it you had kids it's a hot take I like it though yeah turn the damn phone off it's also disrespectful I come from a military family and in my household growing up it was the whole like no hats at the table you know use your manners no one's watching TV or anything it's like you're fixated on the moment of the meal and so if my grandfather were alive and saw people with phones at the dinner table, he would lose his mind. And he would tell you,

he would tell you, you're an awful parent. He would just watch those damn kids. Quit having the technology watch your kids. And they'll give excuses. And he's like, you can get male excuses in the world you want. And that's why you are who you are because you're full of excuses.

And I'm like, damn, all right. Grandpa came out hard. He did. If we were crying, he'd be like, oh,

I'll give me something to cry about. And he reached for the bell. We're like, oh, we're going to, we're fine. We're fine. Gotcha.

And he was in the military. Yeah, he was a military guy. Yeah. So he came from my upbringing up just kind of like respect, discipline, and being kind to others, but also, you know, he was kind, but he was not afraid to speak his mind because in his mind, he was the way he thought was how society should act. Be decent. Be kind.

Be respectful. Be present. Be in the moment. And in a world of phones, I know he would be like, this is stupid. Put your phone down. You're here for 30 minutes to. hour. Just no, don't be involved in that for a moment. Why can't you also? I mean, one of my favorite things is a kid when we went to restaurants was to play on the color things that they'd give us.

Like, I loved those coloring sheets. Yeah, my kids do that. They get the, we always ask for the kids menu and they spend the first 10 minutes coloring. We play tic-tac-toe. That's how we occupy our time versus just shoving the phone in the front of their face and ignoring them and then doing whatever it is you're doing. But the coloring is amazing. We do that constantly and then it's entertaining them. And it's fun for the parents. I feel like my parents were always like involved with us when we were doing it. They were helping us. Word search.

Yeah. Do the word search of the puzzle or whatever was on there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, I mean, again, I don't want to like tell people what to do, but maybe open your mind a little bit. And maybe you're one of those parents that gives the kid the phone just to shut them up. And it's easy. Yeah, it is easier.

But then also then it becomes a problem of you've now trained your kids to always want the phone. And that's also difficult to rip from them. But I think it's worth giving it a shot and kind of taking things back to the 90s and doing the color. and watching them. And yeah, it's stressful. But that's part of being a parent, you know?

It's a little bit stressful. It's chaotic. But you will fast forward 10 years from now. And you're going to be like, crap, I wish I would have been a little more involved or like hung out my kids versus just shoving technology in their face. Well, and honestly, as a server, it was always fun when I got the tables where the kids were really interactive and I got to have fun with them and bring them ice cream because they were excited and they were engaging with the conversation.

Yeah. And I had plenty of tables that also they were given them tablets and they were sitting there. I had a mix of everything. Yeah. Right? But I always love the tables where the kids were involved. It was fun for me. And I know there's probably a lot of people out there that are servers that don't feel that way.

But that's part of it. The whole point of being a server is to interact with people and you get to engage with kids. And kids sometimes are the best part about the job. You know what I mean? Kind of fun, right? Yeah. Those and regulars, those are typically your two fun moments or highlights of a day. I hate going to restaurants now

and they have that damn tabout on the table like when you go to Olive Guard or whatever Yeah, so they'll walk in like oh can we play with that and I go nope and I'll take it and I'll put it on the table next to us or I'll flip it upside down And then when the server comes they're like oh you can order I'm like no I'm ordering with you you're the server I'm not ordering on a freaking tablet

You're here I don't say these things So then you probably hated when it was the QR codes because of it Oh my God I can't stand it I couldn't stand the QR codes Those are pretty brutal I don't mind the tablets as much because at least it's like a screen for it to order on. But the QR codes were pretty brutal. That was brutal. Yeah, because then you're on your phone and then look at your phone.

And then it's, I don't know, it's the whole thing. But I hate the tablets. And then I'll put them on another table. And then they still have to pay on that, which is fine. You can pay on that, like a register. But the kids are not playing on that. Yeah. By the way, they're not touching it.

It's gross. Everyone's touched. It's disgusting. And, uh, no. We used to have, there was a restaurant we used to go to called players growing up. Okay. And it was really funny because in each booth, you had a teeny tiny TV

Do you remember the TVs that had the back? Obviously they weren't flat screens but also that were just so little and they were like the size of your head kind of was there. Each booth had them and we got so excited to go to that place because we didn't care what was on TV it was just we thought it was really cool and novel

that you can have this little screen at your table and now I think about now and how excited we were about that. Yeah. Was it like TV shows? They were playing like sports. Sports games were on it. It was like a sports bar. Okay, so your personal TV of whatever's on. Yeah, and you'd get to watch it.

But it was just this teeny tiny TV that was there. And we loved going. But I didn't really watch sports. So, like, I was just excited that it was like a cool thing that not a lot of restaurants had. Would have, yeah, because it was unique and different, yeah. But now I think about all the restaurants now and all of them have them. That TVs everywhere, yeah. That just like gave me a flashback of like, this is obviously we're in the future.

Yeah, the evolution of it. Yeah. But back then, I was so excited. There was this one restaurant that had you had your own individual little TVs and it was in the wall. It's cool. And it was like, this is so wild and so futuristic. Yeah.

But even like, one thing that I missed. Remember, you know, Johnny Rockets, they have the jukebox thing at your table. Yeah. You can't, you can't do it anymore. It's just, it's a dummy.

It just sits there. Oh, it doesn't actually work? No, I went through, I used to go to them like back in 2001, two or whatever, when they were newish in my area. You used to like,

they would give you quarters or nickels, whatever it was, and you'd pick songs and you got to play the songs off that thing. Now I went to one a couple years ago at the Aubrey Mills' Mall. And I was sitting down. my son's like, oh, what is that? Oh, I was like, oh, it's a jukebox. Hold on, I have some change.

Oh, let me get some from the server. And I was like, hey, do you have like a, I have a dollar? Can I have some quarters or a nickel, whatever it is? She was, oh, that doesn't work anymore. I was like, oh, why? And she's like, oh, and then I was just like, okay, I don't even want to hear it. Yeah, they took it away. Yeah, why, though?

It was so much fun. I don't know. I don't know. It was. I know what you're talking about. They got to pick the music. It was in a ride. And then you, like, wait it around for your song.

Oh my God, there's my song. I picked it. Yep. That's so cool. Yeah. Johnny Rockins was good, too. Hell yeah, it was, yeah. Well, we were, I mean, on your flip side, we were mostly an apps and pop family. Okay.

But that's also, like you said, like, we'd eat fast food a lot. I had so many happy meals growing up. Oh, yeah. That was my, that was what we had. Happy meals. Sometimes we'd go and eat Wendy's. This was back before I was a vegetarian. I'd get chicken nuggets from Wendy's all the time.

Yeah. I loved that. Did your mom ever chase the Beanie babies at McDonald's when those came? Oh yeah. You know in our storage room, we got happy meal toys. We got Beanie Babies and we got, what was the other one? There's one other thing that we collected from like our fast food things. And we have bins of them. Yeah, it's like my mom. She kept them all. Why would you keep these? I remember ever at the Christmas time they'd always do boy or girl. Yeah, how many boys or girls you got in the car? Yep. We got two boys and two girls. All right, cool. So they'd be like two hot wheels and

two Barbies. Yep. That was like a thing. We have those too. Yeah, those were so much fun. Yep. There's still bins of them. They're still in the storage room. crazy. Yeah, I, wild. So we spent a lot of time going to those growing up too. And Wichita Kansas when I grew up, like the, we had Pizza Hut Taco Bell, Olive Garden, and Applebee's, and then a few, like, local restaurants. Yeah. It wasn't really until I got to middle school, high school, where they really started adding different restaurants and different things. So like, we, we had our few that we went to. But man, those few that we went to, when we, when we could go, we would go and we'd have pop and we'd have appetizers and not always get dessert, because

I was a dessert girl. Yeah, I love dessert. I used to even, I would eat dessert first. When we go to Applebee's. Oh, really? I would get dessert first. It became my thing. Okay.

Because I would always be full by the time dessert came. And I didn't want to be full because dessert is what I wanted. So you didn't care about your meal. No. So you're full for your meal. Exactly. But not for dessert. Desert always came first.

Remember when Taco Bell used to sell chocolate tacos? Oh, yes, I do. What the hell? Why would you ever remove an item that was so good? I don't know. I don't understand that. I don't know why they haven't brought that back either. They've brought back the Mexican pizza.

Yeah. A lot of their 90s like, come on guys. That one does shock me. They haven't brought that back. Yeah. I do love, I still love the cinnamon twists. Yeah, cinnamon twists are amazing. Those are really good.

They were. There was a song when I went to cheer competition. Don't ask me why. But there was like a chant we learned that was like guacamole cinnamon twist. And now it's in my head. And it's literally from a cheer competition. I've never heard of it. I didn't cheer though.

Right. But like it was about Taco Bell. Yeah, yeah. And it was at a cheer competition. Yeah. Or maybe a cheer camp, I don't know. But so now every time I go to Taco Ball, I'm like, Guacamole cinnamon twist. And they're like, yeah, okay, lady, what else do you want?

I do it in the car, don't worry. Do you want any food or not? Nope, just guacamole cinnamon twist. And I think there's even more to it. But, yeah, it was weird. I've just had like a weird thing where I've been remembering a whole lot of stuff. Maybe that means my memory is like getting sharper again. Yeah.

Well, so I remember of like bubble gum, bubble gum, dish, dish. How many pieces do you wish? And they're like, ah, three, you go one, two, three. And then it hit you and it split to two. and a bubble gum bubble gum dish and then if you basically went from the fists to two fists and then down to one fist and then if you got knocked again

then you were out and it was that whole thing going around in the room remember that? Thank you for bringing that back in my brain. Yeah, yeah. I didn't realize I knew that but yes I do. Oh yeah and Mash? Mansion, apartment, studio or house. Yep.

They picked like, who would you marry? And what would you have? I was going to marry Brad Pitt a lot. A lot. And I was going to live in a shack with him a lot of the time. Then there was the, did you ever have the, down by the banks of the hanky, you where the bullfrog.

Okay. E, I, oh, you, your mom, my spouse, and so do you. Okay, so everybody's is different. I did a video on this a while back because it was going viral and I was like, oh, I need to share mine. So this is how mine went. Okay. Down by the banks of the hanky, pangy where the bullfrog jumps from bank to bank you

where the eeps, Ips, oops, ops, and a hay flipper dillianna, curplop. Well, I've never heard that one. Right? Right. Ever. And apparently all these different regions had different ones. Yeah. So what's yours?

So mine was down by the hands and the hanky-panky with a bullfrogs jump. And then I think it was a E-I-O-U. Your mother smells and so do you. That's funny. Yeah, those are out. E-I-O-U, your mother smells and so do you. But we came from like an era where everyone was like dissing everyone. Like it was like Florida was a mixture of like New Yorkers coming down and then transplanting

because they're like, oh, Disney's awesome. You mean, we could live here and not being that cold weather in the snow and go to the theme parks. So we had a like a lot of hardcore kids that were like, disser, like this thing was like big in our area. Wasn't that show on MTV also at the time the, your mom battles? Oh, yo mama. Like, it was like rap battles, but most of it was like your mom jokes. Yeah, yeah.

I think it was even called your mama or MTV YoRaps was a TV, it was a show. But then there was a, it was the battles with like Nick Cannon and all that. Yes, that's what I was thinking of. I just remember a lot of them being your mom jokes. Yes. That's what it was called. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah. But yeah, that's funny. Isn't that funny about it down by the banks? Yeah. Yeah. I didn't realize there was different versions of that. I really thought, like, I was like, mine's the only one. I know this.

And then there was, everybody came out of the woodwork having different ones. Yeah, I'd never heard of yours ever. Right. You were going on. And I was like, what language is she speaking right now? I know. Did you ever do the Cats Cradle thing to the... The Cats in the Cradle and the Silver Spoon and Little Boy.

But no, there was, it was like the strings. Yeah, like Apple Tower. Put your hand in here. You put it in there and... Yes, yeah, yeah. We did that all the time. It was like really big in elementary school. What were those called?

I don't know. The little strings. They just gave us a piece of yarn like in third or fourth grade and you like put it with your hands and do all kinds of stuff and make a spider web put it in there and ooh and it would come out. You're like, whoa, how'd you do that? Oh, that was so cool. Yeah, it was so much fun. Did you guys also have cups at school where you did the stacking cups? No, we didn't do the cups.

That became a thing. I think it was like my freshman year or maybe eighth grade year, but they're stacking competitions of cups. Oh, because that whole cup song? No, this was before cups. Okay. Like this was like a, there was people who would nationally compete in stacking competitions. Wow. Oh my God.

This is a sport for like a hot minute. I don't know when, what time for that was. But you had like, it was like four cups on the bottom three. You'd make a pyramid. Yeah. And you'd have to stack them the fastest and you'd have to restack them. And you would buy like you'd have your own stack of cups that you'd bring. Really?

This is the thing. I'd never heard of this. You've never heard of this. What grade were you in? Gosh, I want to say, maybe it was when I was in middle school. Okay. So I was already probably like an adult at that point. Yeah, let me bring up a stacking cup challenge because, and I even like pitch this for

the show because I wanted us to have a stacking cup challenge because I thought it'd be fun. But this is what used to be. I'm showing scuba on YouTube. Because this used to be so popular. Yeah, we didn't stack cups. And like they would glow in the dark. You'd get different colors. You could have like your own.

It was like a basketball. But like you had stacking cups. I think at that age, we had cups, but we had cups, but we had cups. but we were playing like beer pong. Yeah. Yeah. Well, we played beer pong too.

But this was like a different... But not in eighth grade. You were playing beer pong in eighth grade. Yes, I was. I lived in Kansas. You guys were bored. Yeah, we didn't have a whole lot going on. Okay, so like they even decorate.

You could see a decorate and it was like you would time it. Oh, wow. So like these people are stacking them fast and unstacking them and re-stacking them and putting them in things. Yeah, you put them in different periods and you have to go the fastest. Like the whole point is to be the fastest. And there's different levels. Holy crap.

This guy is like moving those cups so fast. Yeah, we didn't. And it's like he has his own, like a basketball, like he has his own football or basketball or his whole like baseball set up with his bat and his glove and everything. Yeah, we didn't have that at all. I don't even know what that is. That's funny. I've never seen that. I wonder if it was also a regional thing. Could be. I swear people were competing nationally. Like there would be people going to these competitions. Damn, okay. Never heard of it. Stacking cups. Yeah. I bet I could find them at my parents house somewhere. Like your original set. Yeah, they glue in the dark. Glow in the dark. Yeah. They were like a white, like the lime green kind of color. Because then at night. night, they'd be like bright yellow. Okay. Or like when it was dark.

You know what I'm talking about. That color. Whatever color that was. Neon yellowish. And I think my sister had a pink one, a hot pink one. Okay. This is a thing for several years. Yeah, you guys were bored.

Okay. You know, we found ways to entertain ourselves. I'm just messing. It's not wrong. All right. Well, Skiva, thanks for joining me and hanging out. Thanks for having. It's fun walking down memory lane with you.

It was. Yeah, it was a great time. Are you happy with how our child questions Yeah. Panned out. That was good, yeah, yeah. Okay. I just really let us go

wherever the wind took us. I like how they had a whole thing set up. We did it for a little bit and then it became a comparison for a little bit. Yeah. It was like, I liked it. It was good. Yeah, we got to bounce around.

That's how we got to start being more inquisitive in life. Exactly, the bouncy ball. Yeah, be a little ping pong ball. Yeah, tell the people where they can find you. You can find me on Instagram and reluctantly on TikTok. You're doing great on there. Yeah, well, the thing I'm that's about TikTok, though, those people are like all but heard about it now and they're like,

I'm not doing TikTok anymore. I've deleted my app because like the U.S. owns it now or owns a portion of it? The U.S. does own it. And there was a period of transition where when the U.S. owned it, it was just kind of a dumpster fire. A lot like when there was a transition from Twitter to X. Yeah.

X still is quite a dumpster fire. So I'm hoping. Sorry, I basically died there. Yeah, I know. I saw you. I had a moment. I was like, it was not happening. I smoke in my cigarettes.

Listen, that cold air. just doesn't work with my love. I hate it too. And my skin, it dries all up. All the things. What was I saying? I was talking about TikTok. TikTok and how it's it transformed. Yes. Is this recent? Like within the last couple weeks or something. Yeah. Yeah. So they transitioned ownership in the last, I want to say it was like the last month. Yeah. And within that, you've seen people like complain online about having zero views and nobody's seeing their stuff. I think a lot of what happens when transition an algorithm happens. It's like the transition of ownership. Yeah. The algorithm changes. And they,

decide whoever the new ownership is is like, I want to do it my way and they change everything. Yeah. It's kind of the whole thing. So I don't know if that's what's happening with TikTok right now. Okay. We don't know like a whole lot about who bought it. We just know that it got, it has American ties now. Yeah.

Whatever that means. So I think it'll be interesting to see over the next six months what actually transpires. But people are still on it. You have a lot of people who leave apps. There's a lot of people who left Instagram when it was making all of its changes and then people still go back. So still do it. But it'll be interesting to see if TikTok holds its same value now that the U.S. owns it.

Because the algorithm is different. It's going to be a different company that owns it, much like what we saw happen with Twitter. So you can't buy the algorithm. They don't sell that. They just sell you the rights to the name of what it is. Because I remember for a while there, they're like, we're getting rid of TikTok. It's going away completely. And then they were like, no, we're not.

We love TikTok. It's like, what do you want to do with this thing? Are you wanted or you don't want it? And then now they do want it. And they got it. Well, and that's what's hard is we don't quite know what they bought, right? Like, did they just buy so our data is in the U.S. now? Did they buy multiple shares that allow them to have impact over the algorithm?

Yeah. Did they buy what our geolocations can be? Like, we don't really know. At least I haven't done like a deep dive to find out what that all was. I haven't seen a lot of stories on it yet either. It was more just like U.S. TikTok, good. It's kind of like what I saw. And then everybody experienced.

a lot of things with the app. So it'll be interesting. It'll be interesting to see what happens over the next year or so. And if it really changes or if it just was like a momentary where we're fixing this and we're trying to make sure all the data is now in the U.S. And then back to normal. I have noticed that like I don't really use it much to like look at other people's stuff. I just post mind and move on.

But I did notice for a while there, I mean, it was getting to the point where it was so annoying. And it was all these videos of people coming on there. in their car, by the way, which I don't know what the whole deal is of people shooting videos in their freaking car, especially while they're driving. Like, good Lord, get off your effing phone. You're driving a fucking, you're driving a freaking car. Like, drive the damn car.

You want to know what traffic sucks and there's accidents? Because they're on your damn phone. Just for 30 minutes. Don't use the damn thing and just drive. But everyone wants to shoot videos where they're driving. It's the dumbest thing ever. And I'll go through it. Sometimes I'll comment and be like, hey, how about you just drive?

And everyone's like, oh, you're a loser. I'm like, no, you're a loser. You're on your phone looking down instead of at the wrong. road. You're going to hit and kill somebody. You're the idiot. And by you supporting that idiot, you're an idiot. But my algorithm was full of people driving in their car is going like, you got to post on TikTok three times a day. I post on TikTok three times a day. I post on TikTok three times a day. I got 100,000 hours. Here's how you do it. And it was all these videos of people would be like, you're going to post every day. You got to post every day. You got to post every day.

You got to post every day. Post every day. Post three times a day. And I was like, why is my algorithm telling me to post three times a day? I don't have time to post three times a day. No. And again, that's the algorithm like wigging out. It's having a moment because you should be getting a bunch of things that are similar. Like if you interacted with one, then of course it'll pop up more. But once you interact with something else, then it like bounces back. And that's why I say, I don't know quite what's happening on the opposite. Yeah, it's all over the place. And then I comment on one cane brown video and now I get a bunch of cane brown stuff. And then I come in on something else and I get all of that. It's like,

why can't I get a mixture of like everything? Why do I get just because I interact with one thing, one time, it becomes inundated with that crap? Well, and there's, and there. And there's, There's a big question of are we going to get content from other places? Because that was a big part of why people love TikTok because you're seeing things from other countries. You were interacting with internationally, if you will. And now that's a big question of, are we going to seed some of that same content? Is the content going to change? There's just a lot. There's a lot more questions than there are answers right now at TikTok. And the same thing happened with Twitter. I mean, there's still a lot of questions with Twitter. What's happening. So who knows? Welcome to my digital talk. with scuba. You can find me on Instagram and TikTok. It is Scuba Steve Radio, all one word, S-U-B-A-S-T-V-R-I-O. But to that point, keep posting.

Okay. Just, you should always post until it decides to die. Right? Like, you never know. Transition is always hard. Change is always hard with anything, but particularly with social media app. So, don't stop posting just because of people

being like, I'm not going to be on it anymore. There's still people on it. There's millions of people on it. Of course, yeah. So there's still millions of people you can reach, you're always going to have that when change happens. And people are going to be like, I'm not doing this and I'm going to do this. I'm going to this app and I'm going here. Whatever you're comfortable with, go and do those other ones, but still stay on those because you have, there's nothing that hurts you to keep posting on those until TikTok one day decides to be completely irrelevant.

Yeah. That's just the truth of anything. Because everybody tried to say that about Facebook. Yeah. When Instagram came into the picture, when Twitter came in the picture in Snapchat, everybody was like, Facebook's irrelevant. Facebook is still the biggest social media. that exists because you have multiple generations on it. Yeah, totally, yeah. And that's just how it is. But you have a lot of people who like to say, like, don't use that or we're not, we shouldn't be doing that.

But Facebook is literally still the biggest monster that exists out there. Yeah, I don't even touch Facebook. I just don't. I don't know. I have a Facebook page, like my personal one, like a business one, and it's got almost 40,000 followers. Yeah. And you would think like, okay, my generation isn't on there.

There's people that would be on Facebook. No, they're there. Yeah. You just have to be willing to use something that you're not used to to try it. And that's what social media is all about. Yeah. So that's why I say keep using TikTok. Okay.

Until it's dead in the ground. Okay. And then once it's dead, you bounce off, be like, hey, moving on the next one. The next one, yeah. It's no different than Snapchat had that same thing happen to. Snapchat has kind of found its way back, but it's really only found its way back with the younger generations. You still have some older people using it just for their friends, not really for content, if you will. Yeah.

But people make a lot of money. money off Snapchat content. Really? Okay. It's weird. I've never touched Snapchat because that one originally started as a way to cheat because it was the way to send stuff back and forth. Yep. And then if you were to screenshot it or do something with it, it would alert them like,

oh, sorry, I can't cheat with that person anymore. So I was like, I really can't get behind an app or a product that had the basis of, you know, cheating. Cheating. I'm like, I'm like, f that, stupid. I was the same way. Snapchat really burned me. in a lot of ways. So I like in college, I quit using it. But I do know that a lot of people

use Snapchat. Like there's, Snapchat has its own for you page now. It has its own content that people specifically put on Snapchat. And people still use it to communicate. So it's still there. It's just not as functioning as it used to be. And that's, that's what will happen. And that when you actually see that full divide is when you can decide like, I don't want to do it anymore. I will. But we're not there with TikTok yet. Okay. All right. Yeah. I was like, you could just text me that or just text me the video. You don't have to like put it through an app. Yeah, but people like disappearing. There's something about fantasy of disappearing messages.

So dumb. You know, but you can also do that in text messaging now. Make them disappear, yeah. Totally, yeah. Yeah. Or just unsend it like it never happened. Exactly, yeah. So what are we doing here?

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