WRFH/Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM - Thursday Lunch: Leaves Are Falling and So Are We

Episode Date: October 11, 2024

This Thursday Bella and Jillian invite you to sit down with them for Thursday Lunch. They discuss Falling over, falling in love, falling into place. But actually just falling over.

You're listening to Radio Free Hillsdale 1.1.1.7 FM. I'm Jillian. And I'm Bella. And you're listening to Thursday lunch, where we only have one question. Do you want to sit with us? Oh, puch, oh. Oh, thank you so much for sitting with us at lunch. We would have been so lonely if you hadn't joined us for our Thursday lunch.

And we are going to tell you a story about falling. Falling down. and it was probably really embarrassing. You'd probably be about to hear about it. For those who are listening to this show for the first time, which would be everybody, because this is our pilot, this is just what it would be like if you came and ate lunch with us. So it's like you're sitting with us in Saga.

Pretend. And we're all holding hands. Exactly. I love to hold hands with strangers. So our story this week revolves around the word falling. Not necessarily falling in love, although you could have taken it that way. If you want.

I chose to take it the really old-fashioned Neanderthalic way. falling on the ground and show, never mind, we're going to get to that. Should I start with my first story? Yes, start with your story. Okay,

Bella's already heard this story because I tell everybody this story. I don't think I've ever not told anybody this story ever a day in my life because it was one of those moments that when it happens, you go, oh, oh, so it's done.

It's all over. I have to end it. So back in the day, it was homecoming. Homecoming game, sports. And Kyo has this really convenient, awesome rule where they make all the kios wear red dresses and black heels, the football homecoming game, in case our nominee for homecoming queen wins. And then we can all storm the field together in our black heels and red dresses and cheer and jump around with our friend. It sounds kind of nice in theory, but I even think in theory people understand why that's a problem, right?

I feel like we understand. So we were there. It was homecoming. Our person, I believe, did win. I believe this is, I think it was sophomore year in Mira one. And I'm in my little black heels and this like kind of tight red dress. And I start to take off into a dead sprint onto the football field. As you can imagine, my heels start sinking into the grass.

And like, wow, this is kind of hard to run on. And lo and behold, without even, before I can even think a thought, I'm prostrate on the ground, face down. Dress behind me has flipped up to my head. and I like got up and like rushed myself off. I was not laughing at this point. I was just like, dress over your head. On the ground.

So I'm embarrassed. In your face. Eating grass currently. And then I like tried to get into the circle to like jump around with the other people who were excited, but I was so unbelievably embarrassed. Then I actually ended up just walking away from the circle. I'm on the outskirts of the circle because everyone else ran and I hit the ground.

So obviously I'm the last one around the circle. And I'm like kind of jumping like, guys, let me in. Guys. I'm here too. I'm also part of it. I give up, walk sadly off the field by myself, and literally just walked home. So, Val, do you have a good phone story? That's that I guess. I can't believe you walked home. Yeah, I did. I couldn't help it.

My story is not so crazy. Crazy. But one time when I was maybe 12, I don't know, this is also the same. So I was doing tennis with my sisters and with a group of like some other kids. And I think it kind of needs to be said that right before this tennis practice, I had found out that my Instagram had gotten hacked, changed to the username Adorably Ziegler. So like a dance mom's fan account, hack my Instagram.

So I was really angry. And so there was a lot of anger in me. I don't know if I told you this, but at the tennis practice. And so we're there with maybe like, I think one of my sisters and maybe like four other girls. and this really old man is teaching us tennis and I was just I was really angry but I was low-key doing good and I kind of thought maybe I was the best

I don't know I was really like you guys like I can't even this is just too easy elementary my dear sir This is too easy someone give me a challenge You're like balancing ten tennis balls in your racket like challenge me challenge me and I was I thought I was doing really good

and so that's when something great happens And that's when the ball's coming towards me and I turn around to like hit it but suddenly the fence is there and it's very tall and it has like this mesh on it so I am going to hit the ball my face meets the fence and I slide down it

I slide down it with my racket still in the air and I had a scar I had like scabs on my face after this because the mesh like like burned me I don't really know And so I kind of slide down it, but like pretty fast. So I like almost hit my chin on the ground.

Oh my gosh. And I get up and I'm trying really hard not to cry because there's dirt and blood on my face. And Dave is like, are you okay? You're like, no. Like trying really hard not to cry and there was really blood. And everyone was like, do you want to take a break? And I was really angry. I was like, no, I don't want to take a break.

I love tennis. I love it. And I was. This is my dream. I was so embarrassed. that I don't know if this was, there were multiple reasons, but after that, I told my mom, I was like, I don't want to practice with other people anymore. You wanted to do individual solo lessons as a result?

I wanted, I kind of think I wanted to do that anyways because I was like, I'm just so good. Oh my gosh. So you use this as an excuse. It was really embarrassing because I think everyone knew that I thought I was really good and then I embarrassed myself and try, you know that feeling when you're trying really hard not to cry and like you're just kind of like like I slid down the fence on my face. I'm envisioning myself and you're in this class of people being one of the girls who's so angry that you think you're better than me and like smugly watching you smear your face down

the mesh. And that's probably it. There were probably girls in there that were like, that was the pest. Thank you God. She gets. God got her. And I got up like tears in my eyes. I'm like, I'm fine. I'm fine. And I had like a really embarrassing scab for a long time that was like here. Long time. Yeah. You need to grow up. Okay, actually speaking of embarrassing scabs, I'm crazy segue, but I actually just remembered another falling story to share with the team. I remember back in the day in sixth grade, which I don't know if you remember sixth grade, but I try not to. I went to a school called Irons. Irons Junior High School. And it was, it was exactly as you'd think it would be like really sterile. Like it was just a really sterile place to be a

child or even a prepubescent. So I lived very close to irons. I lived about two blocks away. So I rode my bike to irons every day. Every day I rode my bike to school and I would pedal up to the class. I would lock my bike with my little bike clock and then I would get to leave early with all the walkers instead of the bus people. Oh, so you're better than ever. Oh, I literally thought I was, not even thought I knew I was better than ever one. And I would hop on my little bike. I think I'd think I I rode like my mom's old yellow mountain bike to school because I didn't have my own bike. And I remember vividly like coming home one day. I'm zooming. Oh gosh.

And I'm somebody who loves a little bit of a fantasy game, a little bit of an imaginative boy. And so I'm on this bike. My mom doesn't know this part of the story. I hope she doesn't listen to Thursday lunch. I'm on this bike like standing up, not on the seat, like pedaling like I'm being chased by somebody. Like I'm pretending like I mean like, go, go, go! Go! All these are always reaching us! If I don't get home in 10 seconds

around this bend, I don't know what's going to happen to me. And so in full confidence, I take a turn so fast. Like, zoom and I'm like feeling really good. Oh, the bike skitters out from underneath me and I'm not joking. Bike slides forward and I'm sliding with the bikes

but we're parallel to the ground. And my face on like the left side of my face totally completely scraped up on this side completely scraped up i am like bruised and battered as it gets it's sliding down the sidewalk and it's like it's like rainy that's why i fell so it's just like in this slosh and i'm getting like water in my face and i'm like i am so angry and this kid walks by he goes um are you okay and i was like yeah i'm fine i just i didn't even i'm gonna call my mom though call my mom i'm not joking three times three separate her times I call my mother she does not pick up she does not pick up the phone and so I'm not even

sad or hurt at this point I'm in a rage I pick up my mom's bike and I walk at home the rest of the way I get there like I remember slamming the bike into the garage me like oh going in me like I walked in and I went I'm like at this point I start crying and I go thanks a lot mom as if she pushed me off the bike as if it's her own dang fault and she comes out she goes what happened I was like I fell and I called you three times I know I even came to get me And no one picked me up. And I'm going to hold this against you forever. And I know I said heinous things because I'm 12 and I like hate everything.

So that's a pretty good falling story if you ask me. I had a scar on my face. I had scrapes and scabs on my face for like, oh my gosh. You were just a scabby girl. A really long time. I went around class for the next week with a sign that says, yeah, I fell. No, you did. Yeah, I did.

And I had my friends sign it. No, you did it. And I would walk around the hallways holding it and be like, Yeah, don't ask me. Because I was all scraped up on the face. I didn't want people to think I had been, like, having home problems. So I was like, I have to tell them. The teacher's like, do you need to talk?

I'm just holding up the sign. Yeah, I fell. Yeah, I felt. Okay? And I remember making people sign it on the back and being like, this is so funny. I'm really glad this happened to me. You're like, I wish I got a cast.

I'm like, I really can't believe, like, such a jokester like me is so lucky as to have such an opportune thing happened to her. Yeah. Well, I have one. In fact, I think this is probably better than the first one. And it's also bike related. One time, like, I, okay, I used to live in a place that had a lot of homeschooled kids, which doesn't matter, but it does for this story because we were, like, biking was the thing.

You would get with your gang and like bike around and stuff, you know what I mean? With your gang? Yes, and I'm not kidding. You were in a biking gang? Yeah, exactly. In Florida? Where are you at? No, we didn't say that.

You probably did, though. We probably did. But I, except at this point, I was really mad because I did not have a bike because my bike was given. and my sister who deserves nothing, obviously, at this point in my life. Yeah, obviously. Which sister is this? Name dropper.

I think it was given to Gigi, so we were getting along more than with the other one. But anyways, so I'm riding my friend Lily's bike, so I'm not used to this bike. And it also needs to be said that there is a boy in our little gang, if you will,

that I really liked. And which is not cool of me because he was not cool. And, okay, so was the thing that did it for you, the swoopy hair, be honest. Maybe, I don't know. I think the thing that did it for me is that he was the only boy. Was he literally probably like 95 pounds? Yeah, he was really scrawny. He wasn't actually the only boy, but it was the only one that made sense. I don't know how else to say. Or the other boys, like, not cool. He wasn't cool either.

But, like, you know, like, anyways. But so we're all biking around. It was a similar thing where I, like, get, like, I'm not sitting on the bike. I'm like, you know what I mean. And we're kind of turning a corner and, like, I'm kind of behind everyone. Like, like, there's, like, four people and then B-I-D-I'm more behind them. And- His name was G-B-E-H.

Yeah. Oh, should I don't say that really? No, you should. I like, we can bleep it out if you want. So I kind of like try to catch up to him. And then I break the bike. And no, like I pull the brakes. Sorry.

Oh, oh. And these, like the brakes, I was just not used to it. So, and my old bike sucked, I guess, because I pull the brakes all the way. So the bike just stops. Oh. Like, it literally stops. So I go like, you, well, you can see it. But I like go over the handlebars, face on the road, except I catch myself with both my hands.

So you're doing a handstand. So. no literally and I'm like because I'm not kidding when I felt like the lower half of me was stuck on the bike like I don't know how to explain it like yeah my legs like dangling over the handlebars and but I'm like smushed on the ground as well and I immediately think I broke both I broke both my wrists oh which I did end up wearing a brace to one of my wrists to school after this because I did sprain both my wrists only on one though two sprains one brace no we only had one brace it was like a brace we had at home And I was like, I need something.

But I was like, wear this. I just picked the one that hurt the most. Which also stupid. I picked my left hand. I should have picked my right. I can't write or take a test. You're dumb. But at that point, I was like, I like school.

I want to write. Okay. Sue me. Oh, it was so terrible. He is there. Only him. So I fall and I'm like, oh, no one saw, no one saw. Because I'm like immediately like,

and I'm holding my hands like this like in front of me because I think I broke both my wrist. And my hands are like ripped up from like the literal assfall. And he comes up next to me. And he's like, are you okay? No. And I like I thought no one saw. And so immediately I'm so embarrassed.

And I like tears are streaming down my face. And he's like, I feel like he was freaked out. He's like, are you okay? What happened? What's wrong with you? Nothing happened. I'm fine. No, I literally couldn't talk.

I was like, I'm just going to go home. And I just start walking. walking, he's like, what about the bike? And I'm like, I'm, it's gonna go home. I fell. And so, he told him, I, which he literally saw because I was stuck on the bike when I fell. Like, I had to, like, army crawl off the bike. And so he, like, is like walking.

He's like, I'll walk with you. Because also we lived right across from each other. And the rest of the bike are getting is gone. And I'm like, oh my gosh. They left you from. Yes. I don't think they noticed. Honestly, because I, like, they were ahead of me and I fell.

Like, you know, it wasn't like, they didn't notice. Anyway, so he has his bike. He's dragging my bike. And I'm literally like, I was so mad that he was going to walk home with me because I have to cry. And so this, I'm literally holding both my eyes and from me. I'm like, he's like, are you crying? Why is he making it worse? I know.

Why is he asking you the way? Did you fall? Are you crying? And he's taking the bike to my house, which is not. not where it belongs anyways. So we get to my house and I think, I don't know if he wanted a hug or something. I don't know what it was. And we're kind of sitting there and I'm like, he's like, okay, like bye, I guess.

And I didn't say anything. Did you ever see him again? Oh, yeah, I saw him again a lot of times. And it was fine? No, well, I didn't like him from that on, kind of. Oh, because you were too embarrassed? Yeah, I was too embarrassed and there was one time later he tried to hold my hand and I thought I could throw up.

Oh. And at that point, I was like, oh, so I have to be a nun. And I remember telling my friend who we were friends with Allie. I was like, I thought I liked him. Try to hold my hand and I almost vomited in my mouth. Okay. A handhold is really not a reason to vom. It did something.

There's no exchange. Like, nothing's happening. And it just made me realize, no. But you, wait, okay, so I've never had. And plus I had the brace on. Oh, wait, what? He was holding my braced hand. Wait, so this is soon after you fall.

Well, I wore the brace for like two weeks. It must have been a week. Well, so he liked you back. Yeah, I guess, but I think honestly we should pick Each of us should pick a win from the stories And I think that's your win The win is he literally saw me Eat assfall on the ground

And try and he still liked me I think that's your win I'm trying to think what my win I don't know what I think my win could be that Your win is that we laugh about it now Anyway I just kind of fear

I guess maybe the win of the situation Could be that Mira won home coming queen. Like that is the win of all those stories is that yay she won. And you made a lot of people laugh telling your story. So yeah, I think that is literally one of the funniest thing that I've ever heard because I thought of you'd be like, oh, go. The dress goes over here. And I actually do remember like sliding forward a bit, like sliding like kind of backward and being like, whoa, whoa, and then falling forward and being like, are the feeling of the air? Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Also, I bounced a little when I fell. So I remember that being pretty bad. Like,

Yeah, I remember that being pretty, pretty much not ideal or awesome. Are we ready to share our ending segment? Oh, yes, yes, yes. Our song of the week. Our song of the week, if you would actually hear if you sat with us at the time. Yeah, if you sat at lunch, we would, oh, for lunch. We would, no, I didn't know if we were angry or not. No, we can be angry if you want.

But if you did sit with us at lunch, we would play you this song. We'd actually grab our AirPods crusted in the case, put them in your ears. And you'd be like, oh. Oh, and then you hear the song, and it would just be us going, hey of us to. Go ahead. Okay, my song of the week is do what you want, be what you want by Daryl Hall and John Oates. And it's not, it's not like the craziest of songs, but it's just like, do what you want, do what you. It's really good.

And I think Hall and Oates is one thing I will always associate with you. Because if you're eBay, your eBay battle. My eBay battle, I do get in eBay. Tell them what your life hack. Okay, so my life hack is that you get on this website, if you just look up eBay typos, it will come up. And you type in what you're looking for, and this website will bring up. things that are like people misspelling. Like, so for example, I put Daryl Hall and John Oates poster and it will bring up everything

that's like a one letter typo or something. And then sometimes, most of the time, they'll be either really cheap or have no bids because no one's looking up Daryl Hall and John Boats poster. Like, you know? I don't want a John Boats poster. No, I don't even know who that is. And so, to be fair, I did. The one I found did still have a bid, but it was like 20.

$12 and it was like vintage and huge. To be fair, it's actually like $8, but the shipping was like $7. But anyways, that was my hack and it was really awesome. And I do, there is an adrenaline rush and like fighting with random people. It's like, someone big $5.50. And I'm like, okay, 575. And I just keep doing that. Do you have won any eBay bad dollars since?

No, I've only won that poster. Oh. Because everything else, like, I get scared and I'm like, oh, if I do end up having to pay $30 for like a ticket stub, something bad's going to happen. I feel guilty about eBay. Like I feel guilty about the concept of bidding on something. A bidding is a little weird. It feels evil, but it's not. I don't think you did anything evil.

No, but I kind of get what you mean. I think I feel like if my mom found out she'd be really upset. That you were bidding? Yeah. She'd be like, chillian. I mean, I do think it says something about, I think I would get, if I went to Vegas, I'm getting addicted to gambling. Immediately.

Yeah, but be an easy. I'm getting addicted. I would never leave. I'd be in like thousands of millions of dollars in debt. And I would just never leave the casino and be like, my next big win is coming. Yeah. Bling, bling, bling, bling. You're describing a lot of people's real lives.

Yeah, and I just... Shout out to them. Shout out gambling addicts. Okay, my song of the week is a simple poll, but it's the one I've been bopping all around campus. No, but actually, though, if you do see me walking around campus, like, kind of jump in a little bit and, like, because I do that, here's the problem.

When I listen to music that I like in my headphones, I, like, mouth the word and dance around. I mouthed that I'll be working out straight. I look like a freak to the outside world, but to me, I look incredible and fun. No, literally. The song that's been bopping is Good Graces by Sabrina Carpenter. That like vibe in general, perfect vibe.

I love a happy song. I'm so glad people are making happy, fun music. I know. Bring back happy fun music and not, Oh, you gave me a soul. Oh, we both are two different ways. I really care which way we go, I think. Yeah, I want to have fun.

I want to walk like this. Bring back happy, jumpy, happy music. And honestly, if you see me around campus bobbing around, mind your own business. Whoa. Or you can come join me. Or you can take one of the crested AirPods out of her ear and listen. I don't listen to AirPods. I have headphones.

Oh, yeah. You're sorry. Forgot you're better than everyone. Yeah. Don't forget it next time, okay? Thanks so much for coming to sit with us on Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM. I'm Jillian. And I'm Bella.

And you listened to Thursday lunch.