Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Okay, when you say loyalty, that's. That's loyal friends. When they can stand there and watch you get your ass whooped by your mom and then still kick it with you the next day. Yeah, they come back and. But it's like they never like. They're like, oh, you was getting your ass kicked. They all like, you all right, man? I guess.
Everything okay.
[00:00:18] Speaker B: They are, though, okay, though.
[00:00:20] Speaker A: Like, good, man. Like, that's the only time you actually see empathy from your friends is that one moment. Because they all know. Yeah, my mama do that same shit.
[00:00:28] Speaker B: Yep.
20 in the city. Aloha, man. Okay, I gotta get into this. Mr.
Generations.
And.
[00:00:40] Speaker A: Oh, here we go.
[00:00:41] Speaker B: Producer Sean gonna put it up on display, but here you go, sir.
[00:00:45] Speaker A: Let me see this.
[00:00:46] Speaker B: Just hit the play button.
[00:00:48] Speaker A: Hit the play button. The reason why this generation is so soft is because they haven't heard this me. Why my ass just flinched.
I still got marks on my face from that. My rubber ball.
This generation out here playing dodgeball with Squish Mellows. Meanwhile, we was taking 90 mph heaters to the face with that something. Yep, yep.
I can still smell it. Yep. Yep. What?
And so. And that's. And that's what's crazy. I just walked into a store that had those red balls and I. I knew that they were coming up because I could smell them before I even turned down that. AIs, man, we used to get beamed with those things, dawg.
[00:01:29] Speaker B: So I came up in my head with my own list. Cause I feel like there are games that we played that just made us tough. I don't know why the hell we picked them as games.
And so I wanted to see what your list was compared to mine, bruh.
[00:01:48] Speaker A: There's probably a game I can't even say on here.
Oh, yeah.
You know what I'm saying?
[00:01:55] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:01:56] Speaker A: Yeah, I'll say.
[00:01:58] Speaker B: Where?
Where?
[00:02:00] Speaker A: The tear or no. Steer.
Steer, Steer the tear. Steer the tear.
[00:02:07] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[00:02:08] Speaker A: Yep. Okay. Yeah, yeah.
[00:02:09] Speaker B: Okay.
Did you ever used to play Blow for Blow or White Knuckles?
[00:02:14] Speaker A: White Knuckles. We played.
[00:02:16] Speaker B: So we called it Blow for Blow or White Knuckles. Blow for Blow was on the arm, though.
And then White Knuckles was. That's what it was.
[00:02:23] Speaker A: You ever played BB Blisters?
[00:02:24] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:02:25] Speaker A: Because BB Blisters was that. That was the game.
[00:02:28] Speaker B: BB Blisters. BB Blisters is how I got in detention sometimes between that. Did you ever slap Box?
[00:02:34] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. All day. Oh, all day. I. This is. This. These are. You're. You're talking daily routines? Yes. Yeah. You're not talking like this game.
[00:02:42] Speaker B: No.
[00:02:42] Speaker A: These randomly come up. This happened like every day.
[00:02:44] Speaker B: No. And also getting the comments, by the way. I don't even know if I was supposed to do this. I was excited about this conversation. This is Twitty in the City. I'm Twitty. That's thc. Hit the, like, hit the subscribe.
Childhood games. Dodgeball, obviously. And we're talking like the legit. Like, I remember getting implants on my face from that.
[00:03:03] Speaker A: Sometimes that ball would be flat. So we'd be out there playing dodgeball with a basketball.
[00:03:08] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:03:09] Speaker A: That's what that. It didn't matter what ball we had. We. We played dodgeball with pretty much any ball. Football, baseball, soccer ball.
[00:03:16] Speaker B: But that.
Something about that actual dodgeball, though. Hearing that, Rick. Oh.
[00:03:23] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. You ever play SWAT ball?
[00:03:26] Speaker B: I don't think so.
[00:03:27] Speaker A: It was using that dodgeball with a baseball bat. And you were playing baseball. So you actually have like your class would go out.
[00:03:33] Speaker B: Oh.
[00:03:34] Speaker A: And they would roll that thing and you would have to hit that thing. We never played that. We had SWAT ball.
[00:03:39] Speaker B: Did you ever.
So slap boxing. I hated it in middle school. Cause I wore glasses. So I was a glasses kid.
[00:03:46] Speaker A: And.
[00:03:47] Speaker B: And I hated it because anybody that got a nick of the glasses.
[00:03:51] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
[00:03:52] Speaker B: They fell off. So then everybody thought you got the slap shit out of you, right? And I used to be frustrated. Cause it's like, bro, all you hit.
[00:03:57] Speaker A: Was the glasses was the shit slapped out of you. I know what you heard. Go ahead. Yeah, yeah.
[00:04:01] Speaker B: Thank you. But I used to be mad because I was good at slap boxing. But if I leaned too slow and they got the glasses and you had everybody going, ooh. It's like, oh, he ain't even hit anything, bro.
[00:04:13] Speaker A: I think, I think 95% of why fights still, like, actually was because of all the cheerleading that was around it. Oh. Like I. I'm. I'm. I'm gonna be. I'm be 100. Anybody out there that, that knows this? If you've ever been to a school fight, like, would you like, for some reason, everybody in school knew when this fight was gonna happen. Yo, lunchtime. Be up by the track.
[00:04:34] Speaker B: You had a lot of people hyping you up too, between the times and then.
[00:04:37] Speaker A: And then it's funny because when you see the two people who supposed to fight, they was like the only two that wasn't hyped for the fight.
[00:04:44] Speaker B: No.
[00:04:45] Speaker A: But everybody else was. Like, it looked like they were selling tickets, they were selling candy already. Like, it was, it was it was.
[00:04:51] Speaker B: Going to go down. You. You for sure got. I think middle school fights had more hypeness than an actual, like, boxing arena, boxing game or max or football.
Like, you. You had people coming to you like, hey, Ayotac, you ready? You ready? I heard 12 o', clock, bro. What's going. Like, you going. You gonna give it to him? Cause you know you ain't that good at slap boxing, bro. So you better.
[00:05:12] Speaker A: Better watch out when you talk about word of mouth. Being the best advertiser. Being the best advertiser. I remember, I. People at the cafeteria that worked at the cafeteria knew they was going to fight, that was going to happen. And that was staff. Yeah, like. Like the staff knew that there was going to be a fight at 12, they give you your food and you get your foot. You going to be over there at 12.
You going to be there. If you going to be there at 12, let me know who won. I just. I just like, how you know about.
[00:05:36] Speaker B: Or you had that one that be like, am I going to see you tomorrow? Be like, what you mean you going to see me?
[00:05:39] Speaker A: You the one that's fighting. Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
[00:05:42] Speaker B: I better see you tomorrow. All right. For a pizza. Oh, man.
[00:05:44] Speaker A: We played all kind of games.
[00:05:46] Speaker B: Did you play?
I don't know why we played this game was stupid. We called it Frogs. Frogs. So basically 757 east coast probably know all about this game. I know my homie Dion that's watched this ain't Kevin. So short sleeve. You roll your sleeve up.
[00:06:01] Speaker A: Oh, and then you. You pitch. That's what y' all called it.
[00:06:04] Speaker B: Yeah, we called it Frogs. I forget what we called it. Frogs. Because it literally would lump up like a frog. Yeah, yeah.
[00:06:10] Speaker A: I forget what we call back, but.
[00:06:12] Speaker B: Yeah, basically you hit them. Either you hit him on the vein with your knuckle and your arm had to be loose, and you watched it rise up your vein. I don't know why we did it. I feel like that could have been a very dangerous game.
You know this one. This is the game. I don't know why our parents allowed this.
Sideline football.
[00:06:30] Speaker A: Sideline football.
[00:06:31] Speaker B: So you play football in the street, but if he was on the sidewalk. Sorry, sidewalk.
Basically, if you was on this by the sidewalk, there was grass. So you had the liberty to knock anybody out.
[00:06:44] Speaker A: Yeah, because they would clear the side. Yes.
[00:06:45] Speaker B: Yeah, but. Yeah.
[00:06:46] Speaker A: Yes, but that's only. That's only if they. If they didn't hit the driveway.
[00:06:50] Speaker B: Right.
[00:06:51] Speaker A: Because you. There was a lot of them that ended up on. Oh, yeah, because sidewalk was out of bounds.
[00:06:55] Speaker B: Yeah, but, man, there were some. Because my grandma's house, it was the street, and then she didn't have a sidewalk. So we always played at her house because you would just land into her yard, but then on the other side, you would forget that if you hit him too hard, she had that thin plate of grass and then the sidewalk. So if you went too hard, you would roll from the grass to the sidewalk.
[00:07:17] Speaker A: So let me. Okay, so with these older games. With these older games, let me. Let me see if. If any of this transferred from my generation to you, because I know I'm a little bit older than you.
[00:07:25] Speaker B: Yeah, you are.
[00:07:25] Speaker A: Okay. So when we worked out what we were gonna do when we were playing football, when we were playing out in the street, we were playing and we called it. Two hand touch. We called it because that's. You two ain't touching right there. But, yeah, you can push out of bounds.
[00:07:38] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:07:39] Speaker A: And you always went for, like, somebody's bush or somebody's thing. Always. You try to avoid the mailboxes, but sometimes they came into play.
[00:07:47] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:07:48] Speaker A: And that's only because the way the. The court or the streak that we was playing on was set up, it was either going to be like the street post was first down or the. The parked car, the front of the bumper first down.
[00:08:00] Speaker B: Or the mailbox.
[00:08:01] Speaker A: Or the mailbox.
[00:08:01] Speaker B: The mailbox was usually for us. The mailbox is always the, like, the start of the goal line.
[00:08:05] Speaker A: It depended on how you set field. So wherever you have the. Yeah, wherever you have.
[00:08:09] Speaker B: But those three things was going to be some, okay, street light, the mailbox, or a random car industry.
[00:08:15] Speaker A: If we wanted to be nice before, we could blitz. Right. But like, if we were coming up with our plans, if we were on offense, we're coming up with our plans. If we wanted the other people to understand on the team, this is what we're going to do. We.
We didn't have nothing to write on, so we would stand to where our back was to the defense, and we would have our players stand in front and we would do it on our chest. We'd be like, look, you. You're going to go. Yeah, you're going to go over. You. You're going to go up and you're going to go.
[00:08:39] Speaker B: Did you ever sometimes do the hand for that one person? Like, wait, I didn't see it. But like, bro, just.
[00:08:43] Speaker A: Just. Just about. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:08:44] Speaker B: And then. And then. Yep, you're going to look at me. Yeah, and then.
[00:08:46] Speaker A: Yeah, then you Always got that. But if you do that, though, if you do the hand, you always had that one person on defense, like, okay.
[00:08:52] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, always. Oh, that was me. Don't put it on your hand. I'm like, I always turned.
[00:08:57] Speaker A: I always turned around. I was like, just look at my chest.
[00:08:59] Speaker B: Go like this. Go like that.
[00:09:00] Speaker A: Now, if.
Because we didn't have a clipboard, you know what I'm saying, we couldn't write it down.
[00:09:06] Speaker B: I'm only laughing was in those situations.
[00:09:10] Speaker A: Have you done it? Cuz I know you still coach. Have you ever done that? Like, if you just had to call a play on.
[00:09:15] Speaker B: You done it on my hand. My hand is always here and here.
I even do it because I'm a defensive coach. I. I even do it like this. I'll be like, two by one, he.
[00:09:25] Speaker A: Going here, he going here.
[00:09:27] Speaker B: Got to be there.
[00:09:28] Speaker A: Now talking defense now, whether or not we was counting alligators or we was counting dots, whether it was dependent on who was on defense.
[00:09:38] Speaker B: Yeah. Because if you had.
[00:09:39] Speaker A: If you had super fast on. On defense, then you was like, yo, man, you got to count alligators.
[00:09:43] Speaker B: Yup.
[00:09:44] Speaker A: You got to count. You got to count 10 alligators before you come up in here.
[00:09:47] Speaker B: You got to count them out loud because.
[00:09:48] Speaker A: Yeah, and you can't because, like. And you can only. And you can only blitz on third or fourth down. Yeah, you had to call blitz before you came in. And I know some people that'd be like, one alligator, two alligator, blitz, and then they just come running.
[00:10:00] Speaker B: Oh, man, those.
Gosh, those rules had to be set before the game got started.
[00:10:06] Speaker A: You know, called out. You called out how many alligators, how many dots?
This is. This is first down. If you make it to here, it's first down. And I don't know, some. Sometimes people measuring their lines would go kind of little crooked, like.
[00:10:18] Speaker B: Oh, they were so off, bro. The first. I remember one time playing to get the first. First down was only like five yards, but then the second first down was like 20 yards.
[00:10:27] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:10:28] Speaker B: And then the goal and. And then one end of the goal line was like two streets long.
[00:10:32] Speaker A: Right.
[00:10:33] Speaker B: We had no other goal line was like the size of a driveway.
[00:10:35] Speaker A: You got. You got to remember, too, is that we measured by our feet. So, like, we walked with one foot in front of the other, but that depended on how big your foot was, you know?
[00:10:43] Speaker B: So it was like, yeah, we were develop. Some kids would develop more. Then you always had to have that one person on the other side that be kind of like, count with me. Like 1, 2, and then you get to 10, I'm right here.
[00:10:53] Speaker A: Then you get that. Then you get that one guy who's like, oh, I'm. I'm. I'm all time quarterback. He's. I'm an all time quarterback. But if you. But if you blitz me, I'm a run. Right? You always get that one dude. You don't want to do nothing else, but he want a quarterback.
[00:11:04] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:11:04] Speaker A: And then he's always like, yeah, but if you blitz me, though, I'm a run. And he's always waiting for somebody to blitz just because he wants to run.
[00:11:10] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, but remember, that was the rule. If you didn't blitz, you didn't blitz. You can't run.
[00:11:14] Speaker A: Run. You got. You got to stay behind.
[00:11:16] Speaker B: Sometimes made it petting was like, you can't even go lateral. You got to stay.
[00:11:20] Speaker A: You got to stay. Yep. Yeah. Within that. No matter what you. You. Well, you can't cross. You can't cross line and scrimmage.
[00:11:25] Speaker B: Yeah. No, we would even say, like, you can't even move laterally. Cause we had a rule.
[00:11:30] Speaker A: Yeah, that was mean.
[00:11:31] Speaker B: It depended on who the quarterback was. Cause you always had that one friend, man, that tried to act like they had to get every call their way. So it's like, all right, then keep your ass in that little pocket then, Mr. One to be all time quarterback. Yeah, well, that ain't fair. It is fair.
[00:11:44] Speaker A: You just want to throw.
[00:11:45] Speaker B: You just want to throw. Then you be the thrower. Then stay in the pocket. What if you blitz, bro, you know the rules. If you blitz, you free. But if nobody crossed that line, you need to keep your ass right there.
[00:11:55] Speaker A: I'm telling you, if we didn't. Like, nowadays when kids come in and they hurt, like, oh, bro, going.
[00:12:02] Speaker B: Going in. Hurt, man. She was done.
[00:12:04] Speaker A: You wasn't even. Not even that, like, her. Just hurt. It just came with it. Well, we might get hurt, okay?
[00:12:11] Speaker B: Yeah, well, for me, getting hurt was the.
Even if I got hurt, I wasn't gonna go in the house because that meant I was done for the day. Whether the injury. Like, I could have went in there because my mom would say, if you.
[00:12:23] Speaker A: Come back, that was your mama. If you come back home, that was your mom.
[00:12:27] Speaker B: You done. So I had plenty. Like, even my friends would be like, bro, it ain't that bad. It ain't that bad. Like, easy. Is it like, nah, bro, you good. You good. Cause they knew, if you go home, I ain't coming back out.
[00:12:38] Speaker A: You was my friend, dude. My friend. Me and my Friend Rick and my friend Edison and my friend Marcus. We used to. We had a friend like you that like. And it could be something as small as a little cut.
And then he's. Oh man, I gotta go get a cat. And we tell him, brad, just, just you. As soon as you walk in the house, you know you ain't coming out.
[00:12:53] Speaker B: Yeah, I'll see you tomorrow, soon as maybe.
[00:12:55] Speaker A: And that's gonna be at the bus stop trying to get to school or I'll see you at school.
And it was like, man, we had that, I had that friend. I used to feel bad. We used to, we, we. That's where we learned how to do first aid as kids. We learned because of. Cause of our friends like you.
[00:13:11] Speaker B: Hey, you welcome.
[00:13:12] Speaker A: It was like, yeah. Cause we was like, if I didn't want to go, yeah, I can't let you go in, but I can't let you. I do need some y.
I can't let you go in, cuz if you go in, then you done.
[00:13:22] Speaker B: Now, now we one person short in the catch 22. It's like, I, I got to get something.
[00:13:27] Speaker A: And that's one thing that people didn't understand about our generation, dude. Our generation, we didn't have options like when something was broke. Now we need to fix this, cuz I can't take it back broke. My mom ain't just going to go buy me another one. Like today's kids when they break their stuff, they're like, oh, mom, buy me another one. It's like, dude, my mom. No, I broke it out. I lost it.
[00:13:42] Speaker B: Yeah, dog, I saw. But that dodgeball hat, so many memories.
I don't even know if I feel like kids that play hide and seek nowadays. The hide and seeks we used to play was crazy.
I'm talking jumping over fences.
[00:13:57] Speaker A: Oh, changing. Changing outfits.
[00:13:59] Speaker B: Yeah, changing out.
[00:14:01] Speaker A: We. There was a game in that.
[00:14:03] Speaker B: Climbing trees. There's.
[00:14:04] Speaker A: There's a game that I used to play in Hawaii with all my cousins. And when we were there and we called it 1, 2, 3 is what it was called. It was just like, it's called 1, 2, 3. But it's. It's like hide and go seek. So what happens is everybody goes and hides and then one dude stays at the base and he's counting. When he counts, he goes out. Now he doesn't actually have to tag nobody. All he has to do is spot. It's like, if I see you and you see that I see me, that I see you, I can be like, 1, 2, 3. I see, Twitty. And you have to beat me back to the base. If I get to the base before you do, then you're it. Then. Yeah, you're. Until I get somebody else. And then that the. The latest person to become it after everybody's out.
[00:14:41] Speaker B: Got you. So if you spotted me.
[00:14:42] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:14:43] Speaker B: And then we race.
[00:14:44] Speaker A: Once I spot you and you know, and you know I know it's you, you better get to that base before I do.
[00:14:49] Speaker B: But if you beat me, I become the new. Yep, I got you.
[00:14:52] Speaker A: But if I tell somebody until. Until I get. And if I. Unless I get somebody else, then you're off the hook. And that person now is going to be it when.
[00:14:59] Speaker B: When the round starts over, that is.
[00:15:01] Speaker A: Bruh. We used to switch clothes because we remembered what the kids wore. So like we would come in and like I go to my boy, hey, let's switch out shirts real quick. Because they know you was wearing the green shirt. Because if they call you by the wrong name, you're automatically home free. Oh.
[00:15:15] Speaker B: Cause you gotta say 1, 2, 3, I see THC.
But if you was wearing this and I was like, 1, 2, 3. I see Twitty, but it's you.
[00:15:23] Speaker A: Yep, I'm home free.
[00:15:24] Speaker B: Then, then you don't have to run.
[00:15:26] Speaker A: Nope, I'm home free. You just set me.
[00:15:28] Speaker B: Oh, that is.
[00:15:29] Speaker A: And bro. And the, and the boundaries was the neighborhood. Like we had. We could even. And it was so funny because even back then, like the, the adults, when we were playing, the adults didn't tell us, you know, you know, get on my property or go. Don't do this. And stay away from there. Get away from there. The adults was like, there was, there was people I, I knew. My, my uncles and all them and my aunties, like their friends. They were betting on who was gonna win. They would all sit there.
[00:15:54] Speaker B: I used to jump over so many neighbors fences. The only rule was if you break it, you help him fix it, bro. They all had, we all had those. What would that probably be a six.
No, six foot. That's too tall.
[00:16:05] Speaker A: Four.
[00:16:05] Speaker B: Like a three or four foot fence. You know the carports, the easy one. Hoppers.
[00:16:09] Speaker A: Oh, you know the carports. Old school carports. Cars park underneath it.
[00:16:13] Speaker B: Just a roof.
[00:16:13] Speaker A: Yeah, it's got like a little storage. Little thing outside of the carport. So we had one like that that was out there. My uncle had all these boxes and stuff that was sitting on the thing. Right.
Why did my cousin run up over there, take a. The car. You know the car cover yeah. Put the car cover over him and put his hands up like this so that when the car cover sat on him, it looked like a box.
Look, man. The one that was. It went right past him. I was like, no way, dude. All he did was. We were so inventive.
[00:16:43] Speaker B: Survive, bro. Yeah.
[00:16:44] Speaker A: Those games, hide and go seek was like life or death when we play.
[00:16:48] Speaker B: Oh.
[00:16:48] Speaker A: Like, it was like, nah, man. If I lose, I can't be a loser. Not in this group. Not in this group.
[00:16:54] Speaker B: And then when you. Then you also. If you was the last one standing, you had an audience. You had people, like, just sitting by home.
[00:17:01] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:17:02] Speaker B: And they just. They all looking around, too, like, where is he? Where is he?
[00:17:05] Speaker A: Every game. Every game we played, we had an. An elderly. Like. Like an. One of the elders that lived in our neighborhood. Yeah. Every game we played the day before, there was one of our neighbors that would comment on that game. When they would see us the next day, it was like, man, that was first down. Like, y'. All. Y' all made the bumper. Like, I seen it. Like, he reached. He was at the bumper. That should have been first down. I'm just saying.
[00:17:26] Speaker B: I can't tell you how our generation was different, bro. Cause I can't tell you how many cars I ran into.
[00:17:32] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:17:34] Speaker B: For a first down or a touchdown, bro.
[00:17:37] Speaker A: Headlights was like this.
That big bumper was that big chrome.
[00:17:41] Speaker B: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. The bumper didn't give. No.
[00:17:44] Speaker A: Like, nowadays, it's all this little fiberglass and. Yeah, it's.
[00:17:47] Speaker B: Nice cushion. I'm surprised I don't have. I didn't have a concussion before I started playing actual.
[00:17:52] Speaker A: You might have. We might have had a few of them. We just didn't know what it was.
[00:17:55] Speaker B: Maybe that's why I didn't get one in the college.
[00:17:57] Speaker A: We just. We thought we was dehydrated. It was like. Nah, that's. That's what they told us. They was like, yo, you just dehydrated. You sure? Like, our eyes was just, like, crooked as hell. We were sitting there. Yeah, okay. I'm just. I need some water. That's what it is.
[00:18:10] Speaker B: I remember. I remember some of those bumpers, bro. Gosh, bro.
I remember. I remember getting sideline blasted.
[00:18:18] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
[00:18:19] Speaker B: And it was four. It was for first down. So you were talking about it. Mailbox. My grandma's house. You got the mailbox. I'm running towards the mailbox. And my uncle was at my grandma's house. And so the driveway was one of those little slant and then a deep slant. He was parked on the deep slant, but he had a Caddy, so the bumper stuck out.
[00:18:41] Speaker A: Ooh, El Dorado.
[00:18:43] Speaker B: I can't remember what it was. The Ville, maybe.
[00:18:47] Speaker A: Big bumper.
[00:18:48] Speaker B: Big. Yes.
[00:18:49] Speaker A: Yeah. That's a huge trunk. You can put, like, three bodies in that trunk.
[00:18:52] Speaker B: And so I had to make a decision.
Do I just accept that I'm gonna be short, or do I reach out? Cause I'm also on the sidelines. So the guy. My friend has a can just decleet me.
[00:19:05] Speaker A: Right, right, right.
[00:19:06] Speaker B: So I reach out.
He just fricking blast me. I go here, mailbox ricochet back.
[00:19:16] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:19:17] Speaker B: Right on the right on the bumper.
[00:19:20] Speaker A: And you can't tell mom. Cause if you tell mom, she'd take you in the house.
[00:19:22] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Scored, though.
Score. And then grandma came out, was like, what's that noise? And I was like, I hit the mailbox. And every. Every. That's the other thing. You had some loyalty with your friends, too. Cause they were sitting with a straight face, too. Yeah. Ms. Green. It was just the mailbox.
[00:19:35] Speaker A: Yeah. Because if they knew it was anything else, that was the end of the game.
[00:19:38] Speaker B: Well, end of the game. And then my grandma called they moms. So then everybody getting a whooping. Yep. There was community ass. Oh, yeah.
[00:19:44] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:19:45] Speaker B: Like, it wasn't like, oh, yeah, Tweety gonna get in trouble. It was like.
[00:19:47] Speaker A: No, it would happen in the front yard. Like, some kids don't understand it. You would get whooped in the front. Front yard. You get whooped in front of your friends. In front of your friend. And, like, what's crazy. This is what I thought was this. When you say loyalty, okay. When you say loyalty, that's. That's loyal friends. When they can stand there and watch you get your ass whooped by your mom and then still kick it with you the next day.
[00:20:07] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:20:08] Speaker A: They come back and. And. But it's like, they never. Like, they're like, oh, you was getting your ass kicked. They all like, you all right, man? I guess.
Everything okay?
[00:20:17] Speaker B: They are, though.
[00:20:17] Speaker A: Okay, though, man. Like, that's the only time you actually see empathy from your friends is that one moment. Because they all know. Yeah, my mama do that same.
[00:20:26] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:20:27] Speaker A: Like, and we all seen each other get whooped.
[00:20:29] Speaker B: So it's like, now that I think about it, too, the following day was also. It was also a very casual game day, too. It was like, let's just play a game of, like, horse. Yeah.
[00:20:37] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:20:37] Speaker B: Or it was never another. Another physical beat game, because they was.
[00:20:41] Speaker A: It Wouldn't even be horses.
[00:20:42] Speaker B: You took.
[00:20:42] Speaker A: We playing pig. It's three letters today. Yeah, we're gonna make it quick. We ain't even horse was too long.
[00:20:48] Speaker B: Too long, too long.
But you right though, Lloyd. Yeah. Seeing you get, seeing your friend get his ass whooped and then, yeah, you kick it when the next day it's like, look, dog, we can, we can play pig. We can just walk around the block, we can dip some rocks.
Cause that's what I thought. It became a real.
[00:21:05] Speaker A: Yeah, it became like a, it became like a Saturday morning learning moment commercial.
[00:21:12] Speaker B: So what did we learn?
[00:21:13] Speaker A: What did we learn last yesterday?
[00:21:15] Speaker B: Don't lie.
[00:21:16] Speaker A: And you know what, though? But we never took it like that, though. Like, I mean, I get it. I, I, we were probably a little outlandish with our names and the way we spoke to each other and the way we talked to each other. It was probably nothing that today's kids would actually sit there and go, and you guys were actually friends. And it's like, yeah, but it happened.
[00:21:38] Speaker B: We were good friends, I think, because it happened. So it happened equally. Yeah, Like, I probably. Let's say I got called that word 14 times. I guarantee, not the next day. In that same day, the friend that called me, that about to get it right back. Not just from me, but from my other friend. So I also knew it was like, today's just my day. It's my moment of being the person that we're, I don't even wanna say attacking, but we're, we're just getting on today. Yeah, the rotation was always equal. Equal. Yeah, like, and like you said, I think that just came from knowing, like, anybody can get it. I tell you, you just so happen to be the one today. That's good.
[00:22:16] Speaker A: I tell you, I tell you, man, the ones that really have never grown up in diversity, man, they're usually the ones that get offended the first. Yeah, the most.
Yeah, they get, they get offended the most. And then, like, I, I've actually watched people get offended for me, and I'm like, that's not even your spot to be at. Like, why are you mad for me? Like, I'm not even mad. Like, this has been my whole, like, when I grew up, where I grew up in the Bay, like, we, we were, it was a melting pot. Like, we was everything. It was, it was everything. We was, we was, we was black, we was white, we was brown, we was, we was everything. Like, everything was in the, in the middle. No, if you was racist, you had no friends because you had nobody to talk to. In my neighborhood, I had.
[00:22:53] Speaker B: We had a guy named Alex on the corner.
Semi geek glasses, but with Filipino white and his. And Japanese.
[00:23:04] Speaker A: Dude, dude, see, him and I. Him. Him and him and I, yeah, we was marking other on our test forms every time they went, what's your ethnicity? I was other for a lot of.
[00:23:13] Speaker B: Years, but, bro, he.
He was clutch on certain things. Situations. Could go to his house to kick it. He always had the newer game.
[00:23:22] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:23:23] Speaker B: But then he would always come and pick us up, Come and want to hang out, shoot basketball. That was the thing. It was almost like a trading system. Like, he was never good at basketball.
[00:23:31] Speaker A: That even carries into the adult world from that. Yeah, because, like, even my friends that. That I kicked it with that were like, you know, the nerds, the chess players and stuff like that. Yeah, they became like manager, like, of like Radio Shack and Microsoft. And I don't know how to do none of this computer stuff, but I got friends from back in the day that I can call, and they'd be like, oh, yeah, man, just do that.
[00:23:48] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, I remember exactly. I got you. Yeah, yeah, it's, man.
[00:23:52] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:23:52] Speaker B: And same thing.
You talk about counting alligators and shit. Alex was that blitzer, but he wasn't fast. So he was the one that's like, just go ahead and count to five. Like, just. Just count your head. You don't even. You don't even gotta say it out loud, huh? Cause he just wasn't that athletic that nobody thought he was a threat.
[00:24:11] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:24:12] Speaker B: But to him, he was like, I get to play and I get to hang out and I get to interact. And it's like, yeah, go get your bike. Like, we meet back in 10.
[00:24:19] Speaker A: Yeah, but we used.
[00:24:19] Speaker B: I ain't got a bike. Oh, I got you.
[00:24:21] Speaker A: And I mean, and we never. We were never offensive to be. We were never. Like, if people would look at how we were. We weren't mean to be offensive. We were mean to be competitive. Yes. And that's. And that's what it was. It was like. Because, like, we had a guy, his name was Eric, always played football with us. Fast, fast.
Fast as hell. And he used to always blitz. And I'd be on quarterback, and he would sit there like this, like, I'm gonna get you, Sean.
[00:24:45] Speaker B: Watch.
[00:24:45] Speaker A: I'm.
I'm gonna get you stuttered like a. It was. It was bad. And I told him, I said, you ain't even gonna get to three alligators before I even get rid of this ball.
Like, we talk to each other all Game. And he's coming in. He was like, how it was, he couldn't get the word alligator out for like, for like seven seconds. Because he'd be like, yeah, you got to say the whole word. Like, I'm back there just picking. Pick it.
[00:25:10] Speaker B: There it is.
[00:25:14] Speaker A: And it was funny. It was so funny because even on third down, you know how long it took him to say blitz?
I can still get it out. But if he hit that blitz and he was in, oh, yeah, I was done. I was done. He was on me.
[00:25:28] Speaker B: If he was on it that day.
[00:25:30] Speaker A: And if he was, and if he was on offense, you passed it to him. If he had one, two steps in front of anybody, you ain't catching him. Eric was gone. Eric had wheels. That was the wheels of the neighborhood. Like, he was that kid in the neighborhood where people like, you ain't gonna race Eric. You race Eric, you finna lose.
[00:25:44] Speaker B: Like, he also real tiny and light. Like, light as far as weight.
[00:25:48] Speaker A: Yeah, he was skinny, but he wasn't tiny. He was. He was my height.
[00:25:52] Speaker B: Just skinny.
[00:25:53] Speaker A: Just skinny.
[00:25:53] Speaker B: I had. We had a guy named Julius that was that way.
[00:25:56] Speaker A: And he had that step when he, when he ran. Yes.
[00:25:59] Speaker B: And never. It never looked like it was effort either.
[00:26:01] Speaker A: He was good too, because he also played little league baseball with me. So like, me and Eric, we. We stay. We was in the same neighborhood forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever.
[00:26:09] Speaker B: Like, we hated Julius because he was. He was light skinned and. And skinny and fast.
[00:26:14] Speaker A: And that's the only reason why we even said, like anything that people would think is offensive. We said it because we was being competitive. We were saying it because we wanted to push. You know what I'm saying? We wanted to be. You want to come out there and you want to be like, I can play this. All right, show me. I want.
[00:26:29] Speaker B: Show me.
[00:26:29] Speaker A: Yeah. I want that.
[00:26:30] Speaker B: And afterwards. Yeah.
[00:26:31] Speaker A: Cuz I don't want to beat you when you, when you. Oh, I'm hurt. And then, then, then what is that? I want you at your best. I want.
And if you get your best when you piss. Oh, yeah. I'm gonna piss you off before we play.
[00:26:41] Speaker B: Yeah. I can't tell you how many games we ran back. I think we could run the same game back 14 times. Oh, yeah. What was that? Oh, yeah. Winner take all. Two out of three.
[00:26:51] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:26:51] Speaker B: Double or nothing. Yep. Double on double my nothing.
[00:26:54] Speaker A: Run it back, run it back. Run it back.
[00:26:55] Speaker B: That's the 10.
[00:26:56] Speaker A: Run it back.
[00:26:56] Speaker B: You ever.
Everybody plays this game still. How many times did 21 get extended?
[00:27:03] Speaker A: Oh, because it was tied. Yeah, because it was tied. Oh, almost every game. Almost every game. Gotta win by two. Gotta win by two. Gotta Win by two. Gotta win by 2. Gotta win by 2. And it was just like, man, it was like, there's a reason why we put a two pointer in a three point spot. That's why that, that's why that's worth two points out there and it's only worth one point if you lay up.
[00:27:20] Speaker B: Oh, I can't tell you how many times. 21. Game of 21 never ended because what's.
[00:27:25] Speaker A: The highest you've ever got to. I got to like 41, I think.
[00:27:27] Speaker B: I think it was like, it was like 39.
[00:27:29] Speaker A: It was like. Yeah, it was like, it was like high 30s, like early 40s, I think it was like 42, I think is what we got up to.
[00:27:35] Speaker B: Mine was like 30. It was like mid high 30.
[00:27:37] Speaker A: It was up there.
[00:27:38] Speaker B: It was because of. Win by two.
[00:27:39] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:27:40] Speaker B: Win by freaking two. Or how about this one? Win by two.
And then each had to have a possession.
So like, if I. So because I. If I got it. Because you got it first and I won by.
[00:27:54] Speaker A: Should go.
[00:27:54] Speaker B: Yeah, I got to give you the chance, man.
[00:27:57] Speaker A: That was, that was, that was, that was the things like. Because then there was like, if somebody knew they lost, how many, how many people knew they lost, but seen the street light come on and use that as the excuse of. That's why I can't. Why I can't finish the game.
[00:28:10] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:28:10] Speaker A: To where there's all the street lights on. I gotta go home.
[00:28:12] Speaker B: So. But you also couldn't nobody deny that because we always in that.
[00:28:16] Speaker A: No, exactly. That's what I'm saying. But that was like. That was like the catch 22 rule that we was like, that's the only thing we can't argue with. Because when that street light does come on, it's not just him that's got to get back. Everybody. It's like, it's. It's. Or it's most of us. Yeah, there's. There's still that one that just be like, hey, how many. I mean, be real. Be real. How many friends you had? It's like, can I come kick it at your house first? Because ain't no, Ain't nobody at my house right now. And I'm just kind of by myself. And they'd be like, yeah, come on in. You know my mom like, you. She's cooking right now.
[00:28:44] Speaker B: Yup. Oh, bro, that was, that was A given. There was times I would show up to my bro's house. I had two of them. Dion and Kevin. Dion's the one I went to Portugal for for his wedding.
[00:28:55] Speaker A: Oh, right. Okay, bro.
[00:28:56] Speaker B: I show up to his house. His mom would just look at me just like, what are you doing? And I'm like, oh. I was. I was supposed to go home, but my mom ain't home. She'd be like, all right. And literally, my mom, she would. My mom would call and be like, hey, Don. Like, what's up, Debbie? Yeah, I'm looking at him right now.
Yeah, with that. That look alike. I see him. And yes, he is fine. He good. And then before I know it, you ever had that friend, too, that wanted to spend the night, but be like, bro, you gotta ask my mom. Cause if I ask, she ain't. She gonna say no, but she ain't gonna never say no.
[00:29:29] Speaker A: You looking at him. You looking at him. You looking him right in the face right now. I'm like, look, if my dad answers, then you gotta be like, hey, can I speak to my mom? So you gotta ask my dad. Because I can't ask my dad to talk to my mom. Like, if I call the house, I'm like, you gotta call the house.
My bro, my buddy Ricky, man, used to do that. He's like, man, I called house and be like, hey, this Rick. He'd get on the phone, he'd be like, this Rick. My mama be like. And like. Like, it didn't work. It worked maybe 50 of the time.
[00:29:57] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:29:58] Speaker A: And that's only because my. Either my mom and dad wanted to have a house to themselves for a minute, or they was just like, hey, I don't want none of the kids in the house. If he's safe at your house. And I know he's safe.
[00:30:05] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:30:06] Speaker A: And. And it was. It was mostly like that, but, like, my mom had connections with every single one of my friends moms, and they would always have that. Where you ever had your friend's mom, like, hang up the phone but not saying nothing to you, and you know in the back of your head, she was just talking to my mom.
[00:30:22] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:30:22] Speaker A: But she don't say nothing yet.
[00:30:24] Speaker B: No, she just don't. No.
[00:30:25] Speaker A: Today she go through.
[00:30:26] Speaker B: I know those conversations too doggone well. Yeah. You don't be talking. That's in that tone without. With anybody except my mom.
[00:30:32] Speaker A: You got in the record all wound.
[00:30:33] Speaker B: Up on it with that famous girl. Let me get off this line. You only said to three people.
And my mom's one of them.
[00:30:40] Speaker A: That's what's crazy, man.
[00:30:41] Speaker B: That's. That's. Man, that lingo was crazy. I used.
I had clothes over at Dion and Kevin's house.
[00:30:47] Speaker A: See, I never.
[00:30:48] Speaker B: To the point that I would say I could spend the night, but you ain't got no clothes. Me and Dion be like, oh, yeah, dude. Like, he got some in my. In my drawer. And his mom would be like, since when? Well, you remember that one time he came over and we played basketball, but then we got super sweaty, but then we had to go to that function, and so we. He left them here, and I just folded them, and I just put them in my drawer, bro. We were set up. That our parents. It was hard to say.
[00:31:10] Speaker A: My mom was adamant about me never taking clothes over unless I was doing, like, a sleepover and I needed something. But anything that I left with and get over, I had to bring back with me. I couldn't leave nothing there.
[00:31:21] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:31:21] Speaker A: My mom was like, no. None of your clothes, none of your toys. Everything comes back with you.
[00:31:27] Speaker B: Shockingly, for our. For our parents all being like that with our clothes, for some reason, they would lose track. But see, this is how we got smart, because we did it with our outside clothes, the clothes that was gonna get ripped up and probably get thrown away. So they probably just thought.
[00:31:44] Speaker A: Which was last year's school clothes.
[00:31:46] Speaker B: Exactly. They were like, it probably got thrown away, so I ain't gonna see it again.
[00:31:50] Speaker A: Right, right, right.
[00:31:50] Speaker B: Little did they know, me and Deion and Kevin over here hiding stuff in our drawers when our friends is like, can we stay over? Like, what clothes you got?
Bottom drawer. I got it. That's. That's how slick. Yeah. Oh, no. It wasn't my nice clothes. Hell no. Mom had to count on all that stuff.
[00:32:04] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. It's got to be the ones. It's got to be the ones that you're gonna take. Yeah. Yeah.
[00:32:08] Speaker B: Bro. If I was missing a sock, she'd be like, where is it?
[00:32:11] Speaker A: Yeah.
And it wasn't even about me missing clothes. I think my mom was just like, you know, like, I don't know. You might have a little accident in your underwear or something. And I don't want your friend's mom seeing that, thinking that that's how my kids are. Yeah. That's why she was always like, bring all your clothes home. Like, I don't want none of your clothes being anywhere else but the house.
[00:32:25] Speaker B: No, my mom was like, I. I paid for that. I need to know where it's at.
[00:32:29] Speaker A: But my mom Was like that too.
[00:32:31] Speaker B: Once it was in the stage of like it could. It could get torn up and then. Yeah, I'm gonna tell him to throw it away. Those are the clothes I kept over there.
[00:32:37] Speaker A: See, that'd be nice. See, but I had a friend. Not like that. Cause then like if I did that, my friend's moms would be like, what, you moving in? You paying rent? Like it's.
[00:32:44] Speaker B: Oh, I got. We got that all the time. But like you said, because we were friends, we rotated very equally that seeing.
[00:32:51] Speaker A: I guess it didn't like like most of my friends, we was all like if I walked outside of my court, like my friend Ricky's house is right to the right.
[00:32:58] Speaker B: Yeah. No, it was like if I was going over. So if Deon lived close to my grandma house. Yeah. So if I was going to grandma's, Deion was coming over. Right. And then same thing. Kevin's grandma lived like a half a block from my grandma.
[00:33:12] Speaker A: Right.
[00:33:12] Speaker B: So if he was over at. So we was all at her grandma's house.
[00:33:14] Speaker A: Cool.
[00:33:15] Speaker B: We hanging out. Then it's like ah, Dion did just get the new Madden. We should go over there.
[00:33:22] Speaker A: Right turn.
[00:33:23] Speaker B: Whose turn is it? The ass. Oh, Kevin, you didn't ask last week. You go ask Miss Quick. Can we stay? Well, I got to ask because bro, she always like you because you miss the A's and you always walk in and be like, hey, Miss Quick.
We was. Hey, Kevin.
[00:33:38] Speaker A: We was going in because Super Nintendo was out was brand new.
When me and my friends was all doing 1993, 1994, it was like 1992, 93.
[00:33:49] Speaker B: Like I was. I was Super Nintendo early 2000. So that was the PS2 days. So that it was. It wasn't like the Maddens now. It was like Madden.
[00:33:57] Speaker A: Oh, let me tell you something. Let me tell you something. The Madden on PS2 that was my. Like that. I like the PS2. Madden. Like Madden 6.
[00:34:05] Speaker B: Because that was with 06.
[00:34:06] Speaker A: Was my. Was my.
[00:34:07] Speaker B: Was my jam the COVID 06. That wasn't Vic, was it. Was it Steve McNair?
[00:34:11] Speaker A: No.
[00:34:12] Speaker B: Tennis Tennessee Titans.
[00:34:13] Speaker A: I I can't remember it sound that sound from but I think that was later.
[00:34:16] Speaker B: It was either him. McNair. McNab for the Eagles. Eagles. I feel like it was one of them.
[00:34:20] Speaker A: I think it was McNabb. It might have been from the Eagles.
[00:34:23] Speaker B: Maybe I remember.
[00:34:25] Speaker A: I'm just saying like like I. That that was. That was a. But before that like we would have Street Fighter 2 tournaments. Donovan McNabb.
[00:34:32] Speaker B: Donovan McNabb I was right.
[00:34:35] Speaker A: McNabb.
[00:34:36] Speaker B: Oh, no, I said. I said McNair first. I did throw out McNabb.
[00:34:38] Speaker A: McNair was on the Titans.
[00:34:40] Speaker B: Yes, yes. He was on the COVID at some point, too.
[00:34:42] Speaker A: But that was. That was. Yeah, Super Nintendo was. That's what we went. That's everything. We stayed at the house. We were playing Mike Tyson Punch out on Break on the first. First N.
With Contra. With. With all the. All the different. We had soup when Street Fighter 2 came out on Super Nintendo.
[00:34:59] Speaker B: Untouchable.
[00:35:00] Speaker A: Done. I remember when Mr. Kids was full of people and I. You had to wait in line just to play this.
[00:35:05] Speaker B: I remember arcades.
[00:35:06] Speaker A: But.
[00:35:06] Speaker B: Yeah, get in the DM. Or get in the DMS. Comment below or get in the DMs. Y' all follow me on social. Either one.
Childhood games that you had. Maybe we. I feel like we might have named them all. Or you might.
[00:35:17] Speaker A: Oh, no, there's more.
[00:35:18] Speaker B: I feel like we probably never play. Lava.
[00:35:21] Speaker A: Oh, stand on the carpet, bro. You got it. People were throwing pillows out on the carpet to make little islands so that you didn't touch the carpet.
[00:35:29] Speaker B: Lava. In the school because, you know, the school hallways had those checkered patterns.
[00:35:33] Speaker A: We used to play no bark when we played on the playground. No bark because the ground was all bark. So we played when we was going around and we was going from the side. You can't touch the bark.
[00:35:43] Speaker B: Yeah, Lava. No bark.
[00:35:45] Speaker A: Yeah. Bark was a lava.
[00:35:46] Speaker B: Get in the comments.
We probably didn't name some, but I guarantee, between the two of us, we have played them. That's what I'm gonna bank on. I bet most of the Games 101, if not both of us, I probably.
[00:35:58] Speaker A: Got friends right now sitting there. Sean, you ain't talking about strikeout like we used to play. Strikeout. The tennis ball against the. Against the garage door with the baseball bat.
[00:36:05] Speaker B: Gosh.
[00:36:05] Speaker A: Strikeout. We used to play butts up, which was you had to put your hands on the wall and you had to throw the ball at them. Button. If it hit that button, and they had to get up and go get it before you got to the ball.
[00:36:14] Speaker B: Wow, I forgot about that.
[00:36:16] Speaker A: They had to go run over there, grab the ball, and throw the ball against the wall before you got to the wall.
[00:36:20] Speaker B: Y. Wow. What did you call it? Butts.
[00:36:23] Speaker A: Butts up. Because you had to put your hands on the wall and put your butt in the air, and everybody got to hit you.
[00:36:28] Speaker B: Producer Sh.
[00:36:29] Speaker A: He's from the Bay, too. He knows.
[00:36:31] Speaker B: I almost forgot about that.
[00:36:32] Speaker A: What's up. What about. What about put your thumb up? What's that called? Heads up, seven up.
[00:36:37] Speaker B: Oh, God, Please get in the comments. Somebody just put in there. We said it. But somebody put heads.
[00:36:44] Speaker A: Please.
[00:36:44] Speaker B: Seven up. Oh, my God. You guys cheat.
[00:36:46] Speaker A: And look at their shoes. Of course.
[00:36:47] Speaker B: Oh.
[00:36:48] Speaker A: Oh, of course.
[00:36:48] Speaker B: Come on. You got.
[00:36:50] Speaker A: Or you gotta look to see which one rolled up the pants and which one didn't.
[00:36:52] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, the pants.
[00:36:53] Speaker A: Legs.
[00:36:54] Speaker B: Leg, too. Yep.
[00:36:55] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:36:57] Speaker B: With the case. Swiss on, probably.
[00:37:00] Speaker A: Oh, man.
[00:37:01] Speaker B: Get in the comments.
I'm Twitty. That's thc. Don't forget March. We are going to be in. Is it north or south?
[00:37:08] Speaker A: North Dakota.
[00:37:09] Speaker B: North Dakota.
[00:37:10] Speaker A: We're landing in Minot. Minot. Minot.
[00:37:13] Speaker B: Minot.
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