Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: I feel like Gen X parents did not care about us as millennials raising us.
[00:00:08] Speaker B: That sounds like a millennial.
[00:00:10] Speaker A: No, but here to me.
[00:00:11] Speaker B: Hold on to me. You just started with your feelings.
[00:00:16] Speaker A: Twitty in the City.
[00:00:17] Speaker B: Aloha.
[00:00:18] Speaker A: I got a lot of thank yous. I don't even know if we're going to actually have an episode today. It's just going to be. I feel like a bunch of thanks, man. Like, it's.
But let's start from the beginning. What's up? It's Twitty. Twitty in the City. I'm Twitty. That's the Hawaiian comedian. What is sup? Thc? How you living, man?
[00:00:36] Speaker B: Right now I am. I'm excited about how the response we are getting on YouTube right now, dawg.
[00:00:40] Speaker A: Man, the live we did last week, which by the way, you can go check it out. It was cool. It was awesome. I feel like it was that first date when you've been like finally chatting with somebody, then you finally get to meet and hang out and it was cool, man. And you know why? Because they hit the, like, they hit the subscribe button. They did do the same. You get notified? I even got notified on my phone because we went live.
[00:01:02] Speaker B: Why?
[00:01:03] Speaker A: Because I subscribed to Twitty and the City.
[00:01:05] Speaker B: Please turn on all notifications. Just go to your settings. Click it right there. It's right at the top.
[00:01:09] Speaker A: All you might even. We didn't say this in the live, but I feel like I can say it now. You'll get a notification now. Because THC finally took his YouTube channel off, man, without even knowing it was on there.
[00:01:21] Speaker B: I'm 50, man. I'm still learning this stuff, man. You lucky I even know how to log in and remember a password on Google.
[00:01:27] Speaker A: I just. I'll say the short version. I just like how. So THC doing what he does, man, I love this guy. Trying to figure out why not people are getting notified and was only getting one or two when he went live. So what do you do when you. You go live and you actually fix it, right?
Switches it from private, whatever setting he had to public for a comedian that has been doing this for 20 something years.
[00:01:52] Speaker B: 25.
[00:01:53] Speaker A: I found out his fear going live without realizing it. And 30 people show up.
[00:02:01] Speaker B: And the 30 people that was there, you know who I'm talking to? The 30 people that showed up to that. Y' all knew. Y' all seen me come up there real quick because I did not. I did not upload it. I was like, no. And what it Was. Was. I was trying to figure out. I don't know if anybody from. I'm a Gen X babe. I'm a Gen X baby. I. I come. I'm a Gen X generation, so. And. And, you know, we knew how to, you know, record on a. On a tape.
We knew how to. How to do stuff like that. We knew how to rewind tapes and stuff, but I'm still learning different things. So I got the. The YouTube. I got the YouTube app open, and it says, you know, do your channel. Do your thing. So I'm like, all right, here it is. Here, let me try this. So I get on there, and I'm watching it, and I'm going like, 25 minutes, and I probably seen one or two people, right? So I'm like, this is.
I gotta be doing something wrong. So I was going through it, and the minute I figured it out, and I had the phone sitting down, like, I'm saying, the 20 here, the 20, 30 people that was watching me. You know what I'm talking about? I know Wildbeard is one of them because he was the first one to comment, right? And, like, he got out, and I'm sitting there looking at it, and I'm like, boom. And I went, oh. I got it set to a different type of private setting. And then I was like, not public. And I hit public. And, like, within two minutes, it was two people. And I was like, okay, all right. There's two people. And then one of them was Wild Beard. He was like, yo, what's up? What's up, Tweety? And then I'm. I'm like, okay, okay, okay, here it is. And then it was like, 12, and then it was like, 24. It got to, like. I think it was as high as.
[00:03:24] Speaker A: Like, 32, I think you said you were like, 30. 32 in three minutes.
[00:03:28] Speaker B: And that's when I just looked at the phone. I looked it right in the camera. Twitty. I looked it right in the. I looked at the camera, and I was like, yo, hi, everybody. Bye, everybody. Click.
[00:03:39] Speaker A: You know, you've had those. 30 were probably subscribers that have been itching for you to go live. You just. You gave them the worst TE's.
[00:03:46] Speaker B: I know.
[00:03:47] Speaker A: You gave. You gave the worst teas in business. Donald Trump. They were probably like, yes. Before they. Before. They probably thought what they wanted to ask you. You were like, hi, y' all. Bye.
[00:03:59] Speaker B: That live was probably 36 seconds.
36 seconds. It just started jumping. No, it was. It was a little bit longer than that, but 36 seconds to where I started. Just going, okay, the fact, yeah, I had nothing to talk about. I just got done cutting the backyard like I was trying to figure out the phone. Like I don't know if anybody else out there has ever tried to do a live video on accident. And then just started going. And you're just like, okay, I'm live now. And you're just doing the stupides thing in your yard.
[00:04:25] Speaker A: I'm surprised the inbox on the Hawaiian comedian didn't get just wracked with judge. Yo, man, what was that dog?
[00:04:31] Speaker B: You know, and that's, that's, that's what I like. Like lately like everybody's been hitting and commenting, which I love. Please keep continuing to comment. I got comments with comments and it's fantastic watching everybody talk.
[00:04:42] Speaker A: Yeah. So it was, I, it was awesome. So we're gonna see. I'm assuming it went well. We're gonna be doing more of them again. Hit the like, hit the subscribe because you'll get notified when we go live.
[00:04:52] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:04:52] Speaker A: And we'll, we'll just have a good time. If I said you didn't miss, you saw, you didn't miss that one. It's on there. It's saved. It's downloaded.
[00:04:59] Speaker B: It's downloaded now.
[00:05:00] Speaker A: This is one that was.
[00:05:01] Speaker B: Yeah, that's the one that made it, man.
[00:05:04] Speaker A: All right.
You laid it up for me without even knowing you was going to lay it up for me.
[00:05:08] Speaker B: What's that?
[00:05:09] Speaker A: So Generation X, right?
[00:05:11] Speaker B: Yes, Sir. I'm assuming 1975.
[00:05:15] Speaker A: Yeah. My dad is 62, so he would also be a Gen X. Yeah.
So you ready for this?
[00:05:23] Speaker B: Go ahead.
[00:05:24] Speaker A: I feel like Gen X parents did not care about us as millennials raising us.
[00:05:33] Speaker B: That sounds like a millennial.
[00:05:34] Speaker A: No, but here to me.
[00:05:35] Speaker B: Hold on to me. You just started with your feelings.
You just told a Gen Xer about your feelings. That's how you're gonna start this thing. So that's the wrong way to start with a Gen Xer.
[00:05:45] Speaker A: Hear me out.
[00:05:45] Speaker B: Here's my feelings.
[00:05:48] Speaker A: I know this is going to bring it back full circle.
[00:05:51] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:05:51] Speaker A: But hear me out.
And this happened because.
So my nephew playing football, I love that. As his uncle went to a camp in I forgot what state but the state doesn't matter.
But my sister in law was like here's your Apple watch. I'm giving you this access to text and I have your location.
Make sure you let me know when you're on the bus, when you stop. Like just all these check ins. Right.
I recall growing up in Frickin middle school getting told, go outside at 10am and have no check in except for the light.
If the street light is on, you need to be back.
Yeah, dog.
[00:06:41] Speaker B: That was, that was created by my.
[00:06:43] Speaker A: Generation that like, to me just that thought of.
I know my parents love it, but it was like, did that just give them the green light for me to just be out?
Because remember, had no phone, had no pager. It was just you go outside and you don't come back until you are in for the day.
[00:07:02] Speaker B: Correct.
[00:07:03] Speaker A: And I'm like, did I just get basically the green light to.
[00:07:08] Speaker B: I'll take it a little further. The light also determined on how old you was.
[00:07:13] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:07:13] Speaker B: And this is what I'm telling you. If the street light. Because the street light is set by the city and when the city says, okay, it's time for the. For the lights to come on. Yeah, the street light comes on. Now if you a certain age, like if you was younger and you was a younger one, it was like when the street light come on, you have to go in the house. I get to stand out here and wait until my dad turns on the porch light.
[00:07:33] Speaker A: Yep, that's the porch.
[00:07:34] Speaker B: The porch light is for the older kids. The streetlight was for the younger kids.
[00:07:38] Speaker A: Yeah. But to me, just the. And I remember being gone four hours and maybe my friend's mom, they called my mom or my mom called that house, but I don't recall, like my buddy Dion, his mom. I don't recall Ms. Quick telling me like, oh yeah, your mom called. She said, don't forget streetlight. I don't recall having no communication. I'd be gone at 10am and it was if you come back home, even for food or water, you stuck. So I was like, I'm just gonna starve.
[00:08:06] Speaker B: Oh, you're not coming back. Yes. Because you're not coming back and going back out again.
[00:08:10] Speaker A: It was a threat to come back home. It was a threat to check in.
[00:08:14] Speaker B: That was because from that time that you was gone, your mom just had to sit there and be like, okay, I hope they safe. I hope they're safe. I hope they're safe. I hope they're safe. And then by the time you showed up, that's why you couldn't go back again. Because it was like, your mom was like, I'm not going through this one more time today.
[00:08:29] Speaker A: Then it.
But she could have called. She knew every phone number.
[00:08:32] Speaker B: Nope. Nope. Because the only. What you mean because. Because the only information she can get, the furthest she can get is where you was and who you were with. That's it. She has no idea what you're doing currently.
Right.
[00:08:45] Speaker A: But she knows at least the checkpoint on where I'm at. I don't recall her knowing.
[00:08:49] Speaker B: You trying to put yourself in your mama's place. You can't do that.
[00:08:52] Speaker A: It's just.
[00:08:53] Speaker B: You can't do that. You can't.
[00:08:54] Speaker A: No.
[00:08:55] Speaker B: Yeah, because that's like you trying to tell me as me, as a father with my kids, that I'm supposed. No.
Every minute they gone, every second they gone. I have kids serving in the military. There's been nights I don't go to sleep at all.
[00:09:07] Speaker A: Right.
[00:09:07] Speaker B: I know they doing what they're supposed to do, but they ain't checked in yet. And it's murder on a parent. On a parent sitting there waiting for your kid to get back to you. That's why when you left and you came back, you couldn't go back out again. That's why you never left again. Because your mom was like, no, you're not doing to this to me twice in one day.
[00:09:26] Speaker A: So when you. So when you out, just. If I'm gonna be stressed, just make me be stressed.
[00:09:30] Speaker B: No, your mom has to convince. Never. You could ask. You ask your mama. I asked my mom. My mama said the same thing. Did you have to convince yourself? When I left that house that I left in the right state of mind, and I was gonna be okay because, you know, you not gonna see me for 3, 4, 5, 6 hours.
[00:09:46] Speaker A: Oh, it easily was. Let's see, left at 10. So 2 gets you to 12. And then by 6, 30 was when the lights was coming on, the street light.
[00:09:54] Speaker B: I could be 25% of my city's length away from my house, and it's still almost about to have the street lights on. And I'm trying to get back to my neighborhood on my bike before the street lights come back on. That was another thing with the street lights. If the street lights on, I better be. My dad was like, I better be able to look outside the window and see you.
[00:10:12] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:10:13] Speaker B: If I can't see you.
[00:10:14] Speaker A: If you was on the cul de sac, I should see you in the c. If you're.
[00:10:18] Speaker B: If you're. We called it a court. I know some people say culdesac.
[00:10:20] Speaker A: Like that's what I grew up on.
[00:10:22] Speaker B: You know what? I don't. I think that's an east coast, west coast thing. Back home, everything was a court because we went because it said ct.
Yeah.
[00:10:30] Speaker A: We call it the cul De sac.
[00:10:31] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:10:32] Speaker A: I don't know why, but that's just what.
[00:10:33] Speaker B: I know what a cul de sac is. But like, when we grew up, it was a court. We lived in this court, that court, this court. Meet me at this court.
[00:10:39] Speaker A: Go to the cul de sac.
[00:10:40] Speaker B: But yeah, if you was in the court by the time the street light was.
Yep.
[00:10:44] Speaker A: But it just, it just, it made me go down this rabbit hole of. There was the lack of community, there was a lack of being able to keep track of kids. Slash my generation, because there was phones. But nobody growing up had a phone unless you have. You got to high school.
[00:11:00] Speaker B: But you have to think about it too though, is that we was put in situations to where we had to be grown adults by young ages. Like Gen X. Had to. We had to. Mom and dad. Mom and dad both was working. If not, it was hard living where you were, where I was living at, it was hard. My. Both my mom and my dad worked. So it was. We had to find babysitters. Me and my two sisters had to find babysitters. We had to find things like that. But growing up in that, in that type of environment, like, I mean, you.
[00:11:27] Speaker A: Are the other thing too, like art.
And maybe it's because back then you.
I mean, I don't know, you're a parent, so you might know. It's not about the fact of. I feel like there's way more sketchiness going on now than it was back.
[00:11:42] Speaker B: It wasn't.
[00:11:42] Speaker A: I was growing up.
[00:11:43] Speaker B: It wasn't more. It wasn't more of like a sketchiness. But what it is is that you had to build trust. We had to build trust with our parents a lot faster than with the younger kids today. Like, like for growing up, your. Your mom didn't know what happened at school if you got in trouble until you came home with the note stapled to your shirt.
[00:12:03] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:12:04] Speaker B: Now your kid could be 30 seconds late to class.
And my phone will have an email, a text, a phone call from the counselor just because he was. He wasn't there by the bell.
[00:12:19] Speaker A: Right.
[00:12:19] Speaker B: If my mom had gotten called anytime that I had never got to my class until after the bell, do you know how many text mess. How many emails she would have had?
[00:12:28] Speaker A: My mom would have probably told him to turn that off.
[00:12:30] Speaker B: Yeah, it would have had to have been. But that's what I'm saying is that the, the younger generation, you guys have way more stuff to monitor where you are and what you are doing that we didn't have.
[00:12:40] Speaker A: I don't know If I like that though, I don't, I don't have kids yet. But I'm saying when I. Yeah, me growing up.
[00:12:46] Speaker B: I like the fact that the note was stapled to my shirt. I like that. Cuz you know why I. It ch. I chose when she read it.
[00:12:54] Speaker A: I think it chose when she read it. But also you.
[00:12:56] Speaker B: I.
[00:12:57] Speaker A: For me, it was a. You had. I had so much time to think about that ass whooping to the point I sold myself on and convinced myself. And also just accept what happened.
[00:13:08] Speaker B: First of all, you gotta, you gotta look at it. Is this an ass whooping the fence? Before you get.
[00:13:12] Speaker A: Nine times out of 10 with me.
[00:13:14] Speaker B: It was, it was like, is this worth me missing dessert?
Is this, is this note coming to the table before or after dinner?
Is this, is this.
[00:13:23] Speaker A: Oh, 100, bro. It's. That's why I said you had all day to figure out. Are you just gonna walk in the house? Gun ho.
[00:13:29] Speaker B: Is that what you're gonna do?
[00:13:30] Speaker A: Just confess?
[00:13:30] Speaker B: Hell no.
[00:13:31] Speaker A: We're gonna ride this out.
[00:13:32] Speaker B: And you know what?
[00:13:33] Speaker A: See how mom feeling.
[00:13:35] Speaker B: That depends on mom's mood.
[00:13:37] Speaker A: That's the other one. How when mom picks me up from practice, how is she sitting? How is she holding that steering wheel?
[00:13:44] Speaker B: But we never had. But I never had to ask. Did you hear from my school yet, kids today? My kids have asked me that more than I've ever asked my parents. Have you heard from my school?
[00:13:54] Speaker A: Did the school call?
[00:13:55] Speaker B: Did the school call? Yep. Did the school call you? Like, I mean, I mean. Yes. In the 80s and 90s before everybody gets all mad. There was a way for them to call the house. But that doesn't mean that your parents was always home.
[00:14:06] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:14:07] Speaker B: So it could have just got to the answer machine.
[00:14:09] Speaker A: But if they were.
[00:14:09] Speaker B: He was a smart kid. Some people had knew how to get around the answering machine.
[00:14:14] Speaker A: Or you knew they was going to call after school. And if he was that kid only live half a block. You wasn't chit chatting after that. You hauled ass home.
[00:14:21] Speaker B: Oh yeah.
[00:14:22] Speaker A: So you could get to that phone and pick up and be like, oh no.
[00:14:26] Speaker B: That's when you ask for help in the garage from your mom. Knowing that your mom don't ever go in the garage.
[00:14:30] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:14:30] Speaker B: Be like, hey mom, I need help in the garage real quick. And then just to get her out the house so she don't hear the phone ringing in the kitchen.
[00:14:35] Speaker A: It's just, it was just crazy to me how I just, I thought about that. The other way is how we used to transport Is the word. Our line of transportation as kids growing up, like, nowadays.
I mean, we had skateboards, but the fact they have the singles, the single. What are those called?
[00:14:54] Speaker B: I hate you Millennials on the road.
[00:14:56] Speaker A: You can't hate me.
[00:14:57] Speaker B: I hate you guys.
[00:14:58] Speaker A: I grew. I'm in that.
[00:15:00] Speaker B: You guys are in the lazy form.
[00:15:02] Speaker A: Nope. Sean.
[00:15:03] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:15:03] Speaker A: Turn that camera to me. Don't let this man fool you. I'm a fricking 92, baby. I was a bicycle only. Or my two feet were literally on my way to Deon's house, who was probably a 25 minute drive.
I walked in the middle of that guy and a Snickers.
[00:15:22] Speaker B: What I'm saying is, is that. I'm not saying that whatever situation you was in at the time of your life depicted exactly how you came up socially. I'm not saying that. What I'm saying is, as a kid, I never had an option.
[00:15:36] Speaker A: I didn't have an option until.
[00:15:38] Speaker B: I mean, the option wasn't invented yet.
[00:15:40] Speaker A: Same.
[00:15:41] Speaker B: We didn't have a. We didn't have. We didn't. 92, okay, 1999, I had a cell phone. And yes, it was a StarTac, and yes, it was a Motorola flip phone that had one tone. But 1990, 1995, 96. Yep, yep.
[00:15:57] Speaker A: Because I'm four, five years old, but I'll go 99 with you. The only advancement was no cell phone in the 70s.
[00:16:03] Speaker B: Wasn't no cell phone in the 80s. What? No. I mean, there was, but it was the size of a brick.
[00:16:08] Speaker A: Okay. So, okay, a cell phone was optionable, but also, you knowing my parents raised me like you. I wasn't getting no Damn phone at 7, 9 years old.
[00:16:18] Speaker B: Well, neither was my kids.
And I have kids that are millennials.
[00:16:22] Speaker A: But I didn't have it. The only transportation and line of communication I had, I had a bike. Which you had. I had a scooter.
[00:16:28] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:16:29] Speaker A: Did you? Yeah. You had scooters?
[00:16:30] Speaker B: I had a skateboard.
[00:16:30] Speaker A: There was skateboard. There was rollerblades.
[00:16:32] Speaker B: I have a longboard right now. I ride a longboard right now.
[00:16:35] Speaker A: There was nothing electrical with wheels to take me anywhere.
Nope. And so that's what I'm saying is.
[00:16:43] Speaker B: But.
[00:16:43] Speaker A: But transfer to. And like, I'm talking far. Like, it would be like, mom, can you drive me 10 minutes? But what I was saying is you got two feet, you go.
[00:16:51] Speaker B: What I'm saying is, is if you had the money, and you didn't have to have a lot of money, but if you had. If you had the money, I think your situation would have changed a little.
[00:17:00] Speaker A: Bit more growing up.
[00:17:01] Speaker B: No, I mean, I'm not saying that the values would have changed. I'm not taking away from the values. But now you have more options than you did the other way.
Yes, but the thing was, is that me growing up, whether it was rich or not, I still had the same options. None.
[00:17:15] Speaker A: I still had the same options.
[00:17:17] Speaker B: There's no voice. Like, there was no. There was no text message. There was none of that. None of that. If we wanted to know what somebody was, we literally had to get on our bike and ride to their house.
[00:17:26] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:17:26] Speaker B: And see where the bikes were on the yard.
[00:17:28] Speaker A: That was me.
[00:17:31] Speaker B: I think you're. I think you were growing up as a Gen Xer.
Yes. So you were.
[00:17:37] Speaker A: You were.
[00:17:37] Speaker B: You were a millennial that was raised as a Gen Xer.
[00:17:40] Speaker A: Yes, we are. That's why my generation sounds like my kids. My generation of millennials, they. We've even broke it down, bro. We don't want to be called millennials. We're pre millennials. We don't want to affiliate with a millennial.
[00:17:50] Speaker B: My daughter won't listen to CDs. She says it's garbage. She has a record player. She listens to her music on record. She's 22 years old. I got a. I got another son that would rather play retro video games. He would rather play old school, like Nintendo 64. He would rather play regular Nintendo. Like, he would rather. Yeah, he would rather. He would rather play this Snake dude. That was something on there.
[00:18:09] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:18:10] Speaker B: But, like, I like. And then my kids, they still watch old school movies, like 80s movies, Uncle Buck, stuff like that. Like, my kids love those old school movies. They're not with this new. Even though they're from that new side, they're just like, they still choose to be on that.
[00:18:22] Speaker A: Yeah, it's just. To me, it was just crazy thinking about my nephew and also the fact that I wouldn't want him out there without anything.
It was the fact of growing up without a hiccup. I think it's like, mom, I'm going. I am going to go walk for 25 minutes at 12 years old to a friend's house. And it was a. Sounds good, I think both ways for crossing the street and not even a tell Dion's mom or you call me when you get there. Just sounds good. Be home before dark.
[00:18:52] Speaker B: But see, and that's. And that's where I give kudos, like, to your mom and all that. I give kudos to Gen X parents. And this is why is it because we knew what was, what was and what was good. And what we did was, was we duplicated what was good. That's what we did. That's. And that's the only way that we knew how to parent. Because like, our parents before, they didn't give two shits about us. Any teachers like, our parents, like baby boomers. One of the things that they said that baby boomers never did with their, with their kids, like a lot. And I'm not saying I don't want somebody comment talking about my parents did I did, blah blah. I'm not talking about the large determination, the large percentage. I'm talking about the larger ds. The vast majority of of parents didn't talk about finances with their kids. That was like voodoo. Like, my parents never sat me down and taught me about finances. They never said, hey, yeah, make sure you put money here to the side in the bank. Do you know how interest works? Do you know how credit works? Do you know how stuff like that, like that was voodoo for parents. But nowadays Gen X's will. We will. We will pull our kids to the side and sit them down and be like, hey, how's your credit score?
[00:19:48] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, I didn't know how to write a check.
[00:19:50] Speaker B: You don't need this many credit cards. You maybe need one and then that's the one that you pay for gas. You keep it at a low. Like we teach our. Our parents never taught us that. Our parents was more like, dude, I hope you figure it out.
[00:20:00] Speaker A: Well, I knew how to write a check at 8, 9 years old. Why? Because I would go to the gas station.
[00:20:04] Speaker B: Oh, dude, I knew where to write my name. I knew where to write my name. By the time I was like seven years old, I knew how to write a check. I used to watch my. It was so every. I used to tell my kids that story. Like, I used to watch my mother write checks at the grocery store 12 while she put her cigarette in the ashtray so it wouldn't burn all the way down. It would just burn while the cashier would have her cigarette next to the cash register.
[00:20:28] Speaker A: I remember, I remember learning how I thought I was such a badass.
Bound like seeing my checkbook with my.
I had a checking account. It was considered like a kid until.
[00:20:37] Speaker B: You got to like the third page. Huh. Then he was like, what am I doing?
[00:20:41] Speaker A: No, I thought I was a nerd. Okay. Surprisingly or not, people that think I'm cool. I was a square. I had my shirt was tucked in. But I would literally with my gamestop gift card for $10. And then my $10 cash. And then going to 7 11, I would go home and would thrive at writing in my checkbook what I purchased that day, bruh.
[00:21:03] Speaker B: I'll tell you right now. My dad's words. My dad's words.
[00:21:06] Speaker A: I loved it.
[00:21:07] Speaker B: My dad's word. He looked me dead in the face. He'd be like, you know what? My son can't do math, but he sure can make change. And it's like, you know what's funny? That is 100%. I can have a certain amount in my pocket, and I could just walk into random stores, pull money out, know what I spend at each, and tell you exactly what's in my pocket without me.
[00:21:23] Speaker A: Oh, same.
[00:21:23] Speaker B: But if you ask me what the distance from the moon to the sun was, I'm like, oh, oh, it's.
[00:21:28] Speaker A: It's miles.
[00:21:29] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:21:30] Speaker A: Yeah. I don't get. I spent. I had a $20 bill. That candy bar was 245. That Gatorade was a $9. It should have been. It should have been $3, because it was. It was 2, $4.
[00:21:40] Speaker B: I should have exactly $8.72 pocket.
[00:21:44] Speaker A: And if I don't, then I got a hole in my pocket somewhere.
[00:21:47] Speaker B: I will backtrack to see where the.
[00:21:49] Speaker A: Hole was, because also my mom will know what I spent, and I better have that money back.
[00:21:54] Speaker B: You don't even need to show her receipt. She already knows in her mind exactly what everything costs.
[00:21:58] Speaker A: That's what was crazy. And then my mom would be mad even though she didn't give me that money. Like, I went and cut grass. She'd be more mad about my own money than me.
[00:22:06] Speaker B: I think that's where anxiety happened in our generation was when our mom used to send us to the store with the exact change. Because on the way to the store, we would build up in our head like, what if it's. What if I can't? What if it's more than that? I don't. I don't have any money. And it would come down to the penny my mom knew was like, you better give him this coupon. Give him this coupon, and give him this coupon. And you would sit there and you'd be like, all right, I got $14.22 exactly.
[00:22:33] Speaker A: And you're trying to do quick math, but you're not that good at it yet. So you're like, wait a minute.
[00:22:37] Speaker B: Then you forget about the state tax that you forgot to put on per dollar. Then you're like, wait a minute. How much goes for that? But Mom's had it.
[00:22:44] Speaker A: Down, down. Yeah. My. My great grandma Bernie's. Rest her soul.
She was a Snickers lover.
[00:22:53] Speaker B: $2 still am.
[00:22:54] Speaker A: I love $2 she would give me. And she knew every fricking time it was going to be 25 cent. And she said, don't you dare go across that street to the bowling alley and get you some M and Ms. Out the vending machine. And I'd be like, damn it, I can't even. Or I'd walk back with the Snickers, and she'd be like.
And stick her hand out for the change. Yes. Knowing I'd be walking in, she'd be like, how was it? I'd be like, oh, you know, it's so good. It was hot. But I saw Dion and Kevin. They were up there getting their. Their grandma some. Oh, that's cool.
[00:23:29] Speaker B: Get my change.
[00:23:29] Speaker A: Like, damn it. Because I was trying to build up the 25 cent. So when I went, probably for the third time in three weeks, I could then get me something.
[00:23:36] Speaker B: Nope. She knew what was coming back, dog.
[00:23:38] Speaker A: Great grandma Bernice. Don't let. Don't let that old age fool you.
[00:23:42] Speaker B: I just don't know how. Their math was always like. I was always surprised when that lady would look at me and say the exact number. And you look down. I look down like this. And she would look at me like, mom sent you with the exact mountain again. And I said, yep, here you go. And she was like, yep, you're good to go. Thanks.
[00:23:58] Speaker A: It blew my mind. It blow. It would be more scary. Did you ever have to go by yourself and your grandparents or your parent wrote you a check?
[00:24:08] Speaker B: No. No. Never went down with a check. Always went down with cash.
[00:24:11] Speaker A: I went down. I went to the grocery store with a check one time, and I.
I was so nervous because my mom filled out everything else.
[00:24:19] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:24:20] Speaker A: And she was like, I'm not sure in the amount, but she was like, you go here, here, decimal, decimal, and you're gonna write your number over a hundred and draw a straight line to the end.
[00:24:31] Speaker B: Correct.
[00:24:31] Speaker A: And I would be so nervous. Cause my mom made it sound like if you don't put that line in the middle, somebody else can put a fake number. And then I'm gonna owe money, and then that's gonna be your ass. And it's like, well, why'd you send me with a check?
[00:24:43] Speaker B: Yep, Exactly. See, that's why I don't mess with it. Send me with exact cash. Come under. Boom. Put it on the table.
[00:24:47] Speaker A: But I like that. Cause then it taught me about checks and how to write em to the point she would just give me the check.
[00:24:52] Speaker B: I would just watch her. Like I would just watch her every time we went to like jimco. There was a store called jimco before. I think jimco became Target later on but really?
[00:25:00] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't remember jimco. That's a throwback.
[00:25:03] Speaker B: Yeah, it's an old store. But I remember going in there with the. She was writing a check and I could. I just watch her write checks.
[00:25:09] Speaker A: Yeah. But I had to, I had to throw that out there. I guess Gen X did love us. They just also trusted and respected us. But it was just the thought of I would be gone for a whole day and no communication dog.
[00:25:21] Speaker B: No. I lose my mind when I, when I lose communication with my kids, I lose my mind. I sit back, I try to play it off like I don't care, but I do.
[00:25:27] Speaker A: Maybe that's why. Yeah, maybe that's why my generation.
[00:25:30] Speaker B: Because if I figure out that you like I'm. And if my kids are watching, which I know they don't because they don't even subscribe. Thanks kids.
But yeah, I'm calling them out right now just in case they watching this episode.
They ain't even subscribed. What the hell? But I love my kids to death. I do, I do. But it's so funny. It's not that we just, we just want the best for them. We watch out for them, we trust them.
[00:25:56] Speaker A: I'm just saying it. They would have been nice to, you know, call the house that you know the number to just to be like, is Isaiah there? But I guess they also knew too. If I wasn't there.
[00:26:05] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:26:06] Speaker A: Then I wasn't where I was supposed to be. And if they would have found that out.
[00:26:09] Speaker B: Done.
[00:26:09] Speaker A: Now not only are you mad, but now you mad and more stressed.
[00:26:12] Speaker B: Right.
[00:26:13] Speaker A: And that's when I probably would have got an ass whooping. That just would have been horrendous. There's, there's been, it would have been out of love.
[00:26:18] Speaker B: Yeah. There's been a lot more trust between me and my kids than me growing up.
Growing up. It was, it was harder.
There was a lot of way a lot stricter growing up for me. Way a lot stricter.
[00:26:30] Speaker A: Yeah. I think it's because like I said, like a community, not communication. Almost said the wrong word. Lack of being able to communicate.
They couldn't get a hold of you. So hit the like, hit the subscribe please.
[00:26:40] Speaker B: Hit the like and subscribe peace, kids.
[00:26:42] Speaker A: I know y' all hit that like and subscribe, man. Make pops proud. The fact is that I know they did not.
If they are watching called them out when I'm coming. When I come over to the career, I'll pull their phone. I'm gonna be the parent. Like, let me see your phone.
[00:26:54] Speaker B: You know what? I take it back. I know Joshua is and I know Isaiah is.
Yep. Guy.
[00:26:59] Speaker A: Guy isn't.
[00:27:01] Speaker B: Nope.
[00:27:01] Speaker A: Come on, dog.
[00:27:02] Speaker B: And you know, it's funny. She on YouTube all the time.
[00:27:04] Speaker A: I know she is. I don't even.
[00:27:06] Speaker B: Oh, but she ain't.
[00:27:07] Speaker A: Next time I'm at the crib. You know what? Next time we at the crib, we'll go live in the crib and we're gonna call her out.
[00:27:14] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:27:14] Speaker A: So appreciate you. Till next time, I'm twitty. That's thc. We out.
