Your Childhood Was Cushioned, Ours Was Concrete

[00:00:02] Speaker A: Twitty in the City. [00:00:04] Speaker B: Aloha. [00:00:05] Speaker A: Twitty in the city. 15K, baby. If you want the Twitty in the City full merch set, that's what we're giving away. Once we hit that 15k, do the liking, do the subscribing. Big shout out to y', all, man. Thank you so much, man. This has been awesome. It's been fun. But that ain't like me doing a conclusion like, we gonna be done. I'm just thanking y'. All. I'm Twitty. That's thc, the Hawaiian comedian. Found him on ig. Now look at you growing up, man. [00:00:30] Speaker B: I'm grow up, baby. Coming into it, you know, that goes. That goes to us, like, you know what I'm saying? Like, I. I came in when I. When I was coming up, like, you know, we. We pass letters, right? You know, so now I'm trying to get on this social media. [00:00:43] Speaker A: I gotta ask you. Now I feel like I'm like a. What is that? Not a celebrity, a. A fan. How do we find you, thc? [00:00:51] Speaker B: Look up my name. Sean Peabody. [00:00:53] Speaker A: There you go on IG. Get that, man. [00:00:56] Speaker B: I don't even think 20 following me yet. [00:00:59] Speaker A: I don't think I am. I didn't know what you were at first. You know what it is? Before I get into the topic, you were so hard, not social, that I thought somebody, like, was a bot. I thought somebody got your photo and I thought they was a bot. [00:01:12] Speaker B: I started getting messages the minute I got on Instagram. I started getting messages from older folks and older friends that came on there. And that's they first question. Is this the real Shawn? Is this real Shawn? And I'd be like, yeah, it's me. And then they would ask me something from, like, Valeo. They were like, well, what elementary school did you go to? And I'd be like, bam. [00:01:27] Speaker A: They'd be like, oh, what's up, Sean? Yeah. You were so not. Not for that. Yeah, I had. I was like, is that really my boy? [00:01:33] Speaker B: And I got on the stand up and I got into social. I had. You know, I had the whole 5,000 people on Facebook. I had all this stuff, but it just overwhelmed my Facebook to where there was just. [00:01:42] Speaker A: Can be and I can be. [00:01:43] Speaker B: I've been off and I've been on Facebook now for like eight, nine years now. [00:01:47] Speaker A: Well, he own ig. Don't go searching for him for every other platform. You can find Twitty in the City on every platform. [00:01:54] Speaker B: Yes. [00:01:54] Speaker A: That's where we be. That's what we do. I'm glad you helped me set this up. You said growing up. Growing up, growing up. Gen X Millennials. [00:02:05] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:02:06] Speaker A: We're the toughest. Of course we are the toughest. [00:02:09] Speaker B: Oh, there's a lot of people that argue with us in that one, though. [00:02:11] Speaker A: After. After millennials, everybody else is soft as tissue paper. Correct. Here's why. I know this man five years, he been sick twice. I didn't see. I know my nieces and nephews. I got people in their 20s. I feel like every other month they sick with something. [00:02:31] Speaker B: Yep, yep. [00:02:32] Speaker A: And I'm not talking just the sniffles, like they down for the count. And I feel like our generations, the reason why we so tough and why we have this immune system like a brick is cause we had it rough just with weather being outside. [00:02:48] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. [00:02:50] Speaker A: Rain, sleet, snow, fire, didn't matter. You outside? [00:02:53] Speaker B: Yeah, get your ass outside. [00:02:54] Speaker A: And also, so being younger, trying to be tough, cold, windy. Outside, I'm in shorts and a tank top playing basketball when I at least should be in a long sleeve. [00:03:03] Speaker B: Okay. [00:03:03] Speaker A: So a little bit of arrogance, but that's what made us tough. Took one of my nieces to the playground. These playgrounds are so safety proof. [00:03:15] Speaker B: Like, no, no, no, keep going, keep going. Yeah. [00:03:22] Speaker A: I remember having the monkey bars being straight metal in the middle of summer and still putting my hands on that hot ass metal. [00:03:34] Speaker B: Everything was metal at the playground when we grew up. Everything. The slide. If you went down the slide and you had them short shorts when your legs caught the heat on the way down, that we even had. What was it like, fiberglass twirly slides that had the metal plates on the inside of it so that when you went down, you would slide out to the outside and almost come off that slide. [00:03:58] Speaker A: Duh it. And I get it. They built it to last. But they were not thinking about the kid at heart. [00:04:04] Speaker B: Of course not. [00:04:05] Speaker A: They were like, what's gonna survive for years? [00:04:08] Speaker B: And they didn't put down, like, okay, like nowadays they got play bark. They got bark that's like nice and soft. [00:04:14] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:04:15] Speaker B: Like our bark looked like they just chipped it off the tree and bagged it. And then they brought it to our playground and scattered. And they said because I had. I don't know how many times I came home with splinters from bark. Why do I have splinters from bark? [00:04:28] Speaker A: My mom used to think I, like, ran into a bush and it's like I was just on the swing set jumping. Yeah. Like, I just came out of the playground. I was Not. I didn't go to war in the forest, man. [00:04:37] Speaker B: Was you, was you that one guy that used to always go out and play at the swing set with no shoes on and his socks was dirty as hell? Cause he would never put his shoes on. [00:04:44] Speaker A: Oh, always I got toe up. [00:04:47] Speaker B: I couldn't do that in my socks. I couldn't get traction on my, on my feet. [00:04:50] Speaker A: Well, I only did it two times and my mom whipped me because we weren't. We ain't had money like that to just afford me to get socks. Right. So now it was either shoes or barefoot. So I ain't had no middle ground of using socks. [00:05:01] Speaker B: No slippers, no nothing. No slides, nothing. [00:05:03] Speaker A: It was either shoe. Cause my mom wasn't gonna have me having out there in slippers. [00:05:06] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:05:06] Speaker A: Cause then that's how you roll an ankle or get hurt. [00:05:09] Speaker B: Right. [00:05:09] Speaker A: She be mad. So it was either be barefoot or be in shoes. That was the only option. There was no. No in between. There was no Crocs. There was no. [00:05:18] Speaker B: Hold on. You going to tell me you was this kid that was wearing full size sneakers and socks to the swimming pool? [00:05:23] Speaker A: Yep. Yep. [00:05:25] Speaker B: Sorry. I'm not laughing at you. That's okay. We can laugh at you. I'm not laughing at you. [00:05:29] Speaker A: We partners in crime. You know, I got my mom. [00:05:31] Speaker B: I was, I was slippers, like slippers on everything. Polynesians, man, we just slippers. [00:05:36] Speaker A: That's your culture. That's your culture. You know, that's your culture. But yeah, man, I just feel like you look at baby boomers, you look at Gen Z or Gen Z A, Alpha, whatever they are. Yeah, they, they are forever sick. [00:05:49] Speaker B: I'm, I'm going to, I'm going to tell you why. I'm going to tell you what it is. We, even if we had to go up against baby boomers, okay, us Gen X's took what baby Boomers did. We seen what they did because we had to. We didn't have nothing else but what they showed us. We didn't, we didn't have a YouTube. We didn't have anything we could log into. So whatever these Baby Boomers was going to do it. So what we did was we took what they gave us and we made it better and we made it easier. They said, oh, this is the way we used to do it. So we go, okay, well if you just do it this way, it'll be easier. Then the millennials came and seen it and did the same thing. They took what we was doing and said, oh, but instead of it Being on tape, why don't y' all put it on MP3? We was like, what is MP3? [00:06:27] Speaker A: If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Just. Just simplify. [00:06:30] Speaker B: Analog, digital. Analog to digital right there, right? And then we got to Gen Z, Gen A, right? We got to them and. [00:06:36] Speaker A: And what happened? [00:06:38] Speaker B: They took everything y' all did. [00:06:41] Speaker A: That's it. [00:06:42] Speaker B: And I'll leave it there. [00:06:43] Speaker A: That's it. [00:06:43] Speaker B: I'm gonna leave it there. [00:06:44] Speaker A: Yeah, no, that's, that's. [00:06:45] Speaker B: I'm gonna leave it right there. [00:06:46] Speaker A: I also feel like, tell me how [00:06:48] Speaker B: they did anything better. [00:06:50] Speaker A: They did not. I also feel like everybody is quick to try to incorporate a medicine growing up. Yeah, if I had a sniffle, the classic tradition. I. I've gone the two times. I've been sick three times. Because you've been sick twice. I've been sick three times. The three times I've been sick. And when I came back to work, what did I tell you? Hot tea, honey. And I wrap my ass in the blanket. [00:07:11] Speaker B: Correct. [00:07:12] Speaker A: Everybody else is like, take this, take that, bro. You got the sniffles. You ain't dying. Just. That's called air. [00:07:21] Speaker B: That sounds like our co worker who always try to give us stuff every time we come in and sneeze or blow our nose. You're like, you know what you got to do? [00:07:26] Speaker A: No, I just let nature do its thing. But I feel like these generations now, it's like if my nose, if I can't breathe through both of my noses, I'm sick. [00:07:35] Speaker B: You know what it is? It's because they got this phone in their hand and they think that because they can Google something that that's probably what they. [00:07:40] Speaker A: Oh, God. [00:07:41] Speaker B: They sick in their little. What are they? The little. Oh, this is what I'm showing. These are. These are the sim. These are my symptoms, right? [00:07:46] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:07:46] Speaker B: Then they're like, yeah, Google says I have a pencil stuck in my throat or something. It's like, no, it didn't. [00:07:52] Speaker A: Like. [00:07:52] Speaker B: Really? That's what it told you? Like, I, I'm. Everybody is self diagnosing. And that's why they always sick. I think, I think they're always sick because they think they got something because their phone told them they did. [00:08:02] Speaker A: Yeah. And it is a mental mindset 100 because for both of us. [00:08:06] Speaker B: Why. I think, I think that's why we not sick as much. Because our mental is like, shut up. [00:08:10] Speaker A: Because you know what it is? I tell you this, we had this nice weather first time cutting the grass. Pollen just, just ran me up Allergies coming? [00:08:19] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:08:19] Speaker A: I went. I went to bed. Both noses was clogged. [00:08:22] Speaker B: Right. [00:08:23] Speaker A: My wife was like, are you okay? I was like, yeah, she has allergies. If I don't. If I wake up tomorrow morning and I'm still stuffed, I'll be concerned. I woke up the next morning, both nostrils were clear. My system just had to get reset. Yeah. It ain't panicking. It's like, bro, we've been in winter all these months. This is the first time you cut grass. [00:08:41] Speaker B: And I don't even see why. People don't even understand that. It's like you have to do it with your car every year. Right? Like, you got to go through it. You got to, you know, you got to winterize your car. What makes you think you don't have to winterize yourself? [00:08:51] Speaker A: Your body just going to be ready. [00:08:52] Speaker B: Yeah. You can't be ready for winter, ready for summer. Like, every animal goes through it. Every. Every ye. Every single one of them. [00:08:58] Speaker A: I have. I can't say it's eczema, but I get. I get bumps on my arm again. That's from when I'm outside and I've been in the sun and the grass all day. My body's like, okay, first day, this dumb ass want to be outside all day. Gotcha. [00:09:12] Speaker B: But then you gonna adapt to that like the Incredible Hulk and you go, come back stronger than that. [00:09:16] Speaker A: I ain't gonna self assess and be like, I got these red bumps on me. What does that mean? Oh, you probably been insane. You've been infected by a mushroom. [00:09:23] Speaker B: Yeah. Then I don't see you for two weeks. Cause you stuck in the house. [00:09:25] Speaker A: Exactly. [00:09:26] Speaker B: Don't want to come out in the light because you think something's gonna start growing on. That's what's wrong with the generation now. It's like they just scared of everything. And it's so much. And you know what? It is, too. It's easier to freaking scare them nowadays. [00:09:38] Speaker A: It is. [00:09:38] Speaker B: You couldn't scare us back in the day. I'm sorry. [00:09:40] Speaker A: You could. [00:09:41] Speaker B: You could, bro. You couldn't scare us. What could you do to just be, oh, man, your tongue gonna fall out. Like, I mean, they used to on. On you. When people talk about. When people talk about. Oh, they write. They write. [00:09:51] Speaker A: You can't scare us. [00:09:52] Speaker B: You can't. [00:09:52] Speaker A: That's true. [00:09:53] Speaker B: They. They put the warnings on all kind of labels. We still did it. We didn't care. You ain't scaring us. Like, we don't care. We was. We. [00:10:01] Speaker A: That is true. That it is. That is. That's the. I think that's the mindset right there. We weren't. We weren't scared to see what happened, I think because we also knew. We knew we could figure a way out of it. [00:10:12] Speaker B: I'm gonna tell you certain things. I mean, there's some things that our generations do that we don't understand. Like, I. I'm gonna tell you right now. Like, the other day, I was thinking about it, I was like, well, millennials did start the whole tide pod thing. [00:10:22] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:10:22] Speaker B: And you can't get out of that. [00:10:24] Speaker A: Can't get out of that. [00:10:24] Speaker B: I don't know why the millennials was eating laundry pods. [00:10:28] Speaker A: I don't get it. [00:10:29] Speaker B: I don't get it. [00:10:29] Speaker A: That's where I always say we. We kind of discredit the late millennials. [00:10:33] Speaker B: But then again, like my generation, you know what I'm saying, we were sticking our tongue on nine volt batteries. [00:10:38] Speaker A: That was your generation. Oh, yeah. [00:10:39] Speaker B: That's how we knew it was good enough. [00:10:41] Speaker A: You was the. [00:10:42] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. If it hit our tongue, we was like, oh, yeah, it's still good. It's still good. Oh, yeah. We was. We was out there. We tried everything. [00:10:49] Speaker A: I wonder who was the first person to do that. And it was like, it's a good idea. Yeah. Somebody had to. Yeah. Just passing on. Nobody was like, I think there's a better way to test that battery. [00:11:00] Speaker B: Right? There used to be games that we used to play back in the days was like, there's no way today's kids is going to be able to play none of these games. [00:11:06] Speaker A: Oh, no. [00:11:07] Speaker B: Like, not at all. It's not happening. [00:11:09] Speaker A: But, yeah, I thought about it the other day, man. I'm just like, yeah, they sick all the time. The playgrounds we had. The playground was ruthless. And I think also our parents didn't cater to us and, like, put us in the bubble. It was a. Are you bleeding? Are you. There's a bones poking out. [00:11:29] Speaker B: Yes, yes. And if you want me to take you to the hospital. [00:11:31] Speaker A: Yeah. For me, it was the fear of if you come back in the house, and it ain't that serious. You staying in the house. [00:11:36] Speaker B: Yes. [00:11:37] Speaker A: So it was like. You ever had. You ever had that one friend that was your hype man if you got hurt. Cause he knew if you went home, you wasn't. But. Hey, dog, you got this. You ain't gotta go home, right? You good, you good, bro. It ain't that bad. Let me see. It ain't that bad, bro. You good. You good. [00:11:51] Speaker B: My brother Rico. My brother Rico. That was him. That was him. Because he knew if I had to go in, he had to go in. Yes. So he was just, he was like, dog. Look, man, don't go in yet. Don't go yet. Just breathe, breathe, breathe. It didn't hit you that hard. We can take a time out. Let's just walk out this way. Let him walk it off. Let him walk it off. We good? We good, we good. We good. We good, right? Like, I know it's. It's only bleeding a little bit here. How many times you use somebody's shirt, somebody piece of they sweatpants or something and you just like, just put it on there? Just tighten it up, tighten it up. No. Cause if you go home, everybody gotta go home and the whole game's over. [00:12:23] Speaker A: You ever had that friend where it was bad and you knew if mom found out it was over, so you had that one friend be like, hey, go tell your mom we about to go by the lake so we can be out of range and we can try to fix this. [00:12:34] Speaker B: That's why we used to keep my homeboy's little brother next to where we would play football or something. Because if somebody got hurt, he would substitute. Dude could take a. Sit it out, sit it out, sit it out. Don't go home, don't go home. Because if you go home, you gonna raise the flag on all of this. [00:12:48] Speaker A: Oh, everybody gone. [00:12:49] Speaker B: Your mom gonna call her mom. Go call his mom. His mom, go call his mom. It's done. [00:12:53] Speaker A: Bro said he had a sideline warmer. [00:12:55] Speaker B: Yeah. One on the side. That was it. Just in case somebody got hurt. You like? Okay, man, you in? You in right now? [00:12:59] Speaker A: Well, because you also. Because if, if one parent peeked out and didn't see action. [00:13:05] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:13:05] Speaker A: Then it was a red flag. [00:13:06] Speaker B: Yes. [00:13:06] Speaker A: So it's like if. If he's across the street and he's just sitting, but everybody else is interacting, they'll just think he got out where he just took a break. You couldn't be stagnant. Stagnant was the worst way to get home. And if you. [00:13:20] Speaker B: Wait, if you got. I liked it when the playground started building bridges. [00:13:23] Speaker A: Oh, gosh. [00:13:24] Speaker B: So you could play tag and run across bridges to go. Like we play real tag. [00:13:28] Speaker A: I played my tag head on one of them bridges. [00:13:31] Speaker B: Really? [00:13:32] Speaker A: Yeah. You can't see it, but I. I cracked open. Ouch. My, my. [00:13:36] Speaker B: On the bridge itself. How did you do that? [00:13:39] Speaker A: Because it was made out of metal and I hit the sharp end because it didn't smooth that edge out. [00:13:43] Speaker B: They Never did somet Even. Sometimes even, like, they. I feel like, on playground equipment, even for, like, schools, they went crazy with metal. Like. Like. Because even the nets on the basketball hoops were metal, bro. They were chains. [00:13:57] Speaker A: Yes. [00:13:58] Speaker B: That's why I used to always think when. When somebody would make a basket and they would, like, give me my change. Because it sounded like change when it hit. Because it was like. Yeah. We was like, get my change. Okay, that's yours. [00:14:08] Speaker A: Okay, that's changed. Yeah, but, yeah, dog, everybody. [00:14:12] Speaker B: Everything was metal. [00:14:13] Speaker A: Most of my damage came because it was when two parts of the metal met. [00:14:17] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:14:17] Speaker A: And you had that one little corner they didn't smooth out. And if you hit that, you was done. [00:14:23] Speaker B: So you think back in them days when they was building it, it was just that one welder. I ain't gonna grind this out. [00:14:27] Speaker A: Trick them kids. [00:14:28] Speaker B: I hope I help all them kids get hurt. I hope they catch one of these corners. [00:14:32] Speaker A: You know what? You know what? I bet it was. I bet it was just a. It's for kids. So it ain't gotta be perfect. We just got to get it up. [00:14:39] Speaker B: Just got to look good. [00:14:40] Speaker A: It's got to look good. Look good from a distance and just be stable. [00:14:43] Speaker B: But we can't. [00:14:44] Speaker A: We can't have them swing on a monkey bar and it falls. It's got to look sturdy and durable. [00:14:49] Speaker B: You had that metal platform that had the little, like, the things for your feet. It had, like, little hooks like that so that when you got up and you had traction on them. [00:14:56] Speaker A: Yes. See, everything was metal. [00:14:58] Speaker B: They were trying to clean. [00:14:59] Speaker A: The only thing I can recall that was not metal was literally the seat on the swing. [00:15:05] Speaker B: Now they got. What is it? That rubber mat. [00:15:07] Speaker A: Rubber. [00:15:08] Speaker B: Rubber bark stuff. It's like squishy. Squishy. I don't even like stepping on it. [00:15:11] Speaker A: No, it don't feel right now, because granite. I get it. The ground is not meant to move. [00:15:19] Speaker B: Right. [00:15:20] Speaker A: Like, it makes me feel like I'll hurt myself more. [00:15:22] Speaker B: Not playing on a waterbed. [00:15:23] Speaker A: Yeah. It's not. It's not meant to give. I'm not saying that the ground's got to be, like I said, bark that's been shaved freshly off a tree. [00:15:31] Speaker B: Right? [00:15:31] Speaker A: No, but it ain't supposed to be a trampoline either. [00:15:34] Speaker B: No, no, no, no, no, no. [00:15:35] Speaker A: Because I also felt that's how you can hurt yourself. Whereas with the bark, especially though it's [00:15:40] Speaker B: firm, you anticipate that it is firm. So the way you plant your feet. Yes. So this one now is like you plant it's like, oh, yeah. It makes your knees automatically buckle. [00:15:49] Speaker A: You got a double gift. [00:15:50] Speaker B: Yes. [00:15:50] Speaker A: Whereas with the bark, it's like, okay, hit ground and then just try not to roll and just be barked up like Wolverine or something. [00:15:56] Speaker B: I tell you what, though, some of the kids ain't used to playground. So it is kind of funny. Like if I take. If I take my grandkids and you know, we're over there, but they playground or something like. [00:16:03] Speaker A: Like an old school playground or just a playground in general. [00:16:05] Speaker B: It's in right now. Like now when my kid, like my kids are out there. They got their kids out there playing with them and stuff. And like, I see them play and they fall off of something and land on that. I. I see why they make that now. I see why it's like that. I watched many a kid done bounce off their face to where I know. To where I know if it was our old playground. Oh, yeah, these were lights out falls. [00:16:26] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:16:26] Speaker B: All day long. [00:16:27] Speaker A: Do you feel like also they had. They had to soften the blow because they just feel like the newer generations just aren't. Aren't as coordinated slash learning as fast. I feel like our generation, if I fail, I learned real quick how to not do it again. [00:16:45] Speaker B: You know, like I did. [00:16:46] Speaker A: There was because there was no buffer. So, yeah, I'm on that metal swing and it's going around and around, and I want to do this one hand wee. And I fall and I scrape my face and you flip and fly. I want to get back on there, but I ain't doing no one hand again. I'm gonna be sitting there with two hands, and I probably might lean back [00:17:02] Speaker B: and be like, no, you're not. No, you're not. You're still gonna figure out how to do one hand. You just. [00:17:07] Speaker A: I'm figure it out slowly, though. [00:17:08] Speaker B: You remembered what you did wrong. [00:17:10] Speaker A: Yes. [00:17:10] Speaker B: Is what you. Is what you go remember. And you're gonna be like, oh, when I grab it, I won't grab it up here. I'll grab it down here. Yeah, this should give me a little bit more stability. That's what we did today's. They fall one time and be like, I quit. I don't want to try it again. [00:17:24] Speaker A: Yeah, and you got. And you got the softest impact. [00:17:27] Speaker B: Right? And before you get into comments to get on mad, I'm not talking about all y'. All. I'm just talking about a majority. He talking about all y', all, bro. [00:17:37] Speaker A: Can you imagine if we. We might actually have really broken something if we had this much cushion on the ground. Yes. I think we would have been. We would have been trying to do some new stuff. [00:17:47] Speaker B: Well, it's. It's. It's wrong, because I think this is what it is, is that when we fail on our playgrounds and we hit the ground, we was like, oh, I'm glad there was. I'm glad there was Bart there to help with the blow. So it was like, boom. But it still gave us enough of the blow to be like, yo, stop playing. [00:18:06] Speaker A: Stop. [00:18:06] Speaker B: Stop playing. Nowadays, it takes so much of it from. It is that I think when these kids get older and they just fall, they just expecting it to be soft and they gonna hit the concrete. And you actually. [00:18:18] Speaker A: In the concrete. [00:18:19] Speaker B: Yeah. They not gonna be ready for it because their bodies was landing on these software. [00:18:24] Speaker A: You are so true. It is. It's a setup. [00:18:26] Speaker B: Yeah, it is. [00:18:27] Speaker A: Because the older you get and the more you fall, that recovery ain't what it used to be. [00:18:32] Speaker B: They could have put seat belts in cars a long time ago. They just didn't want to. [00:18:37] Speaker A: They didn't. [00:18:39] Speaker B: What was hard about putting a piece of rope over your lap? There was nothing hard about that. They just didn't want to. They was trying to separate. It's the same thing with the playgrounds. There ain't nothing. It's just a clip. It's just a clip. There's nothing. When you get in your car today, put your seatbelt on, sit there and tell me what a great, innovative this thing is. It's just a belt. [00:18:58] Speaker A: Said it wasn't that hard. [00:18:59] Speaker B: It was. It wasn't that hard. They could have. They could have invented that back when they were stage coaches, is what I'm saying. I'm saying. I was just saying, like, you right. I think they setting it up. I think because now today's kids ain't gonna fall. They gonna expect it to be as soft as it was when they was a kid. [00:19:13] Speaker A: And it ain't. [00:19:13] Speaker B: It ain't. [00:19:14] Speaker A: It ain't gonna be. No. [00:19:15] Speaker B: They gonna think it is. [00:19:16] Speaker A: The real world ain't soft. [00:19:19] Speaker B: I. [00:19:20] Speaker A: That's why I say I think it as much as I. Sometimes I look at a plug, and I'm like, man, if I had that. But it's like, you know what? I don't. Because we got taught at a young age like this. This is what falls is going to be. No matter how old you are, this is what a fall gonna feel like. I gave you this bark, bruh, but that concrete is gonna be different. [00:19:40] Speaker B: From my dad to my friends all of my friends, we were put on daily reminders how that fall was going to be. Even if my dad didn't think I took a fall, I'm taking a fall that day. He gonna make it happen. Just to go, just remember how I felt. It's just like, dude, I remember. I remember. But every time I did fall, I always knew how to avoid. Boom. Straight to the push up stand. Something like that. [00:20:01] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:20:02] Speaker B: But my. It triggered my stuff. That's what I'm saying is that these kids are gonna fall down thinking that, oh, no, it's supposed to be soft, like I was a kid. Bam. They're gonna bounce off the front yard. [00:20:11] Speaker A: It's not funny, but it's so true. [00:20:12] Speaker B: It's. It's not. And I watch. I've seen it today. I watched these young kids playing on these playgrounds miss that pole and just, bam. Bounce off the ground. But it's funny to them. They get up like, okay, this is normal. And it's like, nah, nah. You fall anywhere else, it ain't gonna feel like that. [00:20:29] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:20:29] Speaker B: You actually need to feel what it really feels like. [00:20:31] Speaker A: I remember my. My uncle teaching me how to shoulder roll. Oh. If you're falling forward, it's like, you need to get on that side. And I'm like, but I'm gonna be scratched up. And he used to tell me, you want your face or do you want that shoulder to be scratched up? [00:20:44] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:20:45] Speaker A: And he would. And he would literally take the sand like sand. Sandpaper, right? And he would say, does that feel good? [00:20:52] Speaker B: Not hard. Right. [00:20:53] Speaker A: But he would just rub it. I'm like. He's like, that's the ground. Right shoulder. Way better. [00:20:58] Speaker B: Yes. [00:20:58] Speaker A: And ever since then, if I'm falling forward, I'm gonna scratch all. I'll scratch this up for days over my face. [00:21:04] Speaker B: Here's something for you to think about, too, is that Gen X and millennials, that they team up is so funny. It's so funny. We teamed up with y', all, and y' all can't team up with y'. All. With them. [00:21:14] Speaker A: No. [00:21:14] Speaker B: It's like, but why. Why is it. Why is it that we get. We compatible? You was raised by us. Yeah, but it's like that generation there was supposed to be raised by y'. [00:21:22] Speaker A: All. They just didn't listen. [00:21:26] Speaker B: Neither did y'. All. [00:21:27] Speaker A: We didn't, but y'. [00:21:28] Speaker B: All. Yeah, exactly. Y' all didn't listen either, but it [00:21:30] Speaker A: made sense, I think. I think this next generation is trying to be their own thing where millennials were like, okay, we tried our own thing, and it don't work. And I. I can accept that. [00:21:40] Speaker B: Right? [00:21:40] Speaker A: And I will happily go to a Gen Xer and be like, hey, you know that swing you told me about? I did try to jump. I almost got it. But that shit did hurt. So how do you land? [00:21:51] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:21:51] Speaker A: Whereas this next generation, they're like, oh, we got this rubber mat, and bam, we're fine. I don't need you. It's like, okay. [00:21:56] Speaker B: It's really like, it goes back to social media, man. Like, that stuff puts these parrots in the lights now. It's like back in the day, like, if my mom wanted to whoop me in a store, other parents would block off the aisle so I couldn't, one, run away. And two, there was no witnesses to what was about to happen to me over there, bro. [00:22:13] Speaker A: I used to always tell myself it was me against every adult. [00:22:17] Speaker B: Yes. [00:22:18] Speaker A: It didn't matter if I was going to go pee. Let me pee on the floor and laugh about it. [00:22:23] Speaker B: Yep. [00:22:24] Speaker A: Forehead, wrists. Whose child is this? My mom would be semi defensive, like, why you got my child? I just caught him in the bathroom just peeing all over the floor. God damn it. There we go. That's it. That's it. [00:22:35] Speaker B: Party over. Yes. [00:22:37] Speaker A: I can't say anything. [00:22:38] Speaker B: Nope. [00:22:38] Speaker A: I ain't got no witness. I'm done. [00:22:41] Speaker B: Nowadays, they got all of that. Yeah. They even got a lawyer before they even leave the store. [00:22:45] Speaker A: Back then, my mom and that person became friends, and I'm sitting there hoping that conversation was so long that they forgot about what they met up. [00:22:54] Speaker B: When you talking about the different generations, that's what's missing. You know what's missing? [00:22:59] Speaker A: I have. [00:22:59] Speaker B: My mom had friends. My dad had friends. I'm pretty sure your folks had friends that you met because you was getting whooped. You. You met because you messed up. And then that friend that always came over would always remind who they was to you. Yeah, it was like, hey, remember that time I caught your mom beating your ass? And it was like, yeah, I remember you. But that became my mom's best friend. That be to me because I'm Polynesian, like the mutual. My man Big Jerry out there, he know about that. But you Polynesian, Everybody's uncle and auntie. You older if they older than you, that's uncle. If they. If they older, they uncle and auntie straight up. So, like, yeah. Even the person that watched me get what became my uncle or became my. [00:23:36] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, yeah, it's. It's the whole. Takes a village to Raise a. [00:23:41] Speaker B: Yes. [00:23:43] Speaker A: I. That's what it was. I don't. I didn't know half of that village. [00:23:46] Speaker B: Nowadays, Nowadays, they keep the tribe. They keep the village out. [00:23:49] Speaker A: Yeah. As if the village is out to get them. And it's like, they. Your kid can do some. And I said, I think that's what it was. My mom knew I was a good kid, but she knew I was a kid, so she knew I was gonna have some slip ups. Yes. Even to. I'd never forget it. It was at Burlington Coat Factory, bro. I went to go pee. There was two gentlemen in there. I was using the little urinal and I thought it'd be funny to just back up and just pee and write my name in the ground. Guy saw that was like, hey, what you doing? I giggled and was like, what you talking about? Had a little attitude, grabbed me by my wrist, pulled me out, and my mom was sitting there waiting. And he's like, is this your child? And my mom got defensive. She was like, yeah, why? I called him by the urinal. Just peeing on purpose all over the floor. My mom looked at me and I knew it was over. I said, that's it. I'm gonna get my ass whooped right here. Am I gonna have a coffin? And this is gonna be the last thing I ever saw, was a nice little jacket I wanted. That was for 9.99. That's gonna be my last song Sight. [00:24:49] Speaker B: Yep. [00:24:49] Speaker A: Because my mom had that vision and she did the whole grabbing me. Thank you so much. You know these kids these days. And I'm like, y', all, do you even know this dude? No discipline, though. Because I know that's a kid and I know he gonna act up. [00:25:04] Speaker B: It's not even like, discipline, though. So your mama was doing something that a lot of parents today. You might get pissed at me right now, but I'm gonna tell you what's up with y'. All now. I am a father. I do have. I have four kids and I have four grandkids. And I'm tell y' all something. Put this straight out there, just so you all know this. [00:25:18] Speaker A: Do it. [00:25:19] Speaker B: The reason why Gen X did so good is because our generation taught us that no matter what we are taught in our house, everybody outside of the house hates you. [00:25:31] Speaker A: Yep. [00:25:32] Speaker B: Nobody teaches this no more. We taught y' all the same thing. Listen, you gonna respect what we do in this house, and this is how we do, but am I going to expect everybody on the outside of my house to hold my same values and that I'm supposed to send my K out, and now they supposed to do the same thing. Now you can't. Your values don't matter outside your house. We trained y' all to leave, just like they train nowadays. These kids are trained to stay. Now, if you're gonna tell your kid to stay home with you for the rest of their life, and they gonna live with you for the rest of your life, then that's fine. That's. That's totally fine. Just don't sit there and think that when they come out to us that we have to give them the same type of. [00:26:12] Speaker A: Of. [00:26:12] Speaker B: Of. [00:26:13] Speaker A: Of that cushion on the playground. [00:26:14] Speaker B: We don't have to do that. You did that in your house. But just because we out here don'. Follow your rules. No, we don't. We don't. We don't have to. [00:26:21] Speaker A: That's the best analogy. This. These older generations are getting that cushion on the playground, when in reality. [00:26:27] Speaker B: Yes. [00:26:27] Speaker A: Bark. [00:26:28] Speaker B: Yes. [00:26:29] Speaker A: The streets is bark. [00:26:30] Speaker B: Correct. 100. [00:26:31] Speaker A: There ain't no cushion. [00:26:32] Speaker B: None cut edges and splinters. [00:26:35] Speaker A: Ground bark. [00:26:35] Speaker B: Yes. [00:26:36] Speaker A: Take your jump if you want to do it. [00:26:38] Speaker B: Was concrete bark. [00:26:39] Speaker A: Yes. [00:26:39] Speaker B: Yeah. There was living in between. [00:26:41] Speaker A: Why in the hell did they put concrete under a playground? [00:26:45] Speaker B: Said, bro. No, it was. It was. It was. You know what? They lucky we put bark in this thing. We was going. They made everything out of metal and made everything that the metal was connected to concrete. [00:26:53] Speaker A: You said that, and now it did go concrete bark. [00:26:56] Speaker B: Yes. All day. [00:26:58] Speaker A: Why? [00:26:58] Speaker B: Because they thought that was safe. They thought that made us safe. [00:27:02] Speaker A: It was an actual area that was grass, and they sectioned it off and put concrete on purpose. [00:27:08] Speaker B: Do you remember the people that used to jump off swings and clear the. Clear the bark and end up in the concrete? We were just like, oh, that's bad again. [00:27:15] Speaker A: Who designed it that that swing would [00:27:18] Speaker B: be that close to concrete? I think when they designed it, they just thought that we was just gonna play regular on these things. We found all kind of stupid ways to do it. [00:27:25] Speaker A: I was that kid, and my life flashed before me. I got too much momentum, and, you know when you got momentum, you needed to jump when you were ascending. And I jumped when I was here. And so I went more out than up, and I just saw concrete, and I said, this is it. [00:27:40] Speaker B: When I grew up, the swings was sitting on the swing set thing that was, like, 30ft up in the air. [00:27:46] Speaker A: Yes. [00:27:46] Speaker B: These chains were huge. Yes. Like, when you actually, like, got all the way to the back, you was, like, looking above the school. Yes. You was up there. Like, whoa. Yes. Now, we did so much stuff with these. These different swings. Okay. You had four that lined up. There was four that was next to each other. So sometimes what we would do was [00:28:07] Speaker A: metal chains that ran down the pole. [00:28:09] Speaker B: Yep. So you could take two of them off to the side, wrap them around the pole. The two in the middle, you can make face each other. You sit down, put your feet in there. Somebody else sit down, put their feet on the side of you. You make a bench. Somebody can sit in the middle. You can rock it back and forth. [00:28:26] Speaker A: So stupid. That is the most you are asking for it. [00:28:30] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. No, because our feet were in the swing and on the other swing. So each person. So who was sitting there was like they was asking for it. But we also did it to where, you know, you had the ones where you sit in the swing and you can go back and forth as people were swinging forward and back. If you were sitting on a swing, the person go forward, you go behind them. And they were like, you better get from behind me. [00:28:51] Speaker A: Did you ever used to play it where they'd be swinging and you had to go through them, you had to run. Yeah. [00:28:55] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:28:56] Speaker A: That was. [00:28:56] Speaker B: I think we called it traffic. I think that's what it was called. Traffic. [00:29:00] Speaker A: Got smacked. [00:29:01] Speaker B: You ever have people actually put their foot out on purpose? Bow. You was like, aha. [00:29:05] Speaker A: Because then. Or if you were the one running through, you would grab. They change. So then when they're going, they twist around. [00:29:11] Speaker B: Every recess, after every recess, there was somebody sitting in the office with the brown paper towel and ice pack. Every single recess, there was never a recess that we left to go to class. And if you walk past the office, there was always somebody in there with the ice pack that was wrapped in the brown paper. Paper towel. You know what brown paper towel I'm talking about? I know that they can absorb so much water without even getting like damp yet. [00:29:36] Speaker A: And you know what, too? I bet you that person with the brown paper bag. Yeah, it was that person that was too competitive. And it was close to crunch time for recess being over. And they just had to try it one more time. [00:29:48] Speaker B: It was the one that tried to be first in line. [00:29:49] Speaker A: Yes. [00:29:50] Speaker B: When the bell rang, I'm get there first. And they end up biping. Biffing it, man. Straight up. See, these generations don't know what biffing means. Yeah, but everyone is biffing. [00:30:02] Speaker A: Oh, if you biffed it. And it wasn't like there was no levels to biffing. No, if you biffed it, it was like, ooh. What happened to Twitty swing set Biffed it. [00:30:12] Speaker B: What? [00:30:13] Speaker A: Doing what? [00:30:13] Speaker B: Yeah, we almost want to call your mom, check on you real quick. Hey, is Twitty okay? Right? We heard he biffed today, [00:30:21] Speaker A: dawg. I forgot about the word biffing it, bro. Yo, used to be at lunch. Yo, we're thc. He had. The nurses are. What'd he do, bro? He biffed. [00:30:30] Speaker B: He thought he. He thought he could jump over that thing. He jumped and bow. Biffed it right on though. Coming on the. [00:30:36] Speaker A: To say Biff was 0 to 100. You either didn't biff or you biffed. Yeah, there was no, like, he had a little twiff. [00:30:43] Speaker B: There's no in between. [00:30:44] Speaker A: Yeah. Yo, I forgot about that word, that. [00:30:48] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. [00:30:49] Speaker A: To biff it and to biff it on the swing set. There was so many ways to biff it on the swing set. Like you said, it was traffic. Was he jumping? Swinging? Was he trying to hop from one swing to the other? Did he try to clear that one little section on the swing set that we always say you can't do it? And he tried it, but he went too far and hit the concrete, bruh. [00:31:08] Speaker B: If we would have done our own table announcing at the playground, it would have been live. It would have been live. It would have been especially. Yeah, I would have been in two places on the playground. I'd have been one by the swings. [00:31:21] Speaker A: Had to be. [00:31:21] Speaker B: And then I'd be by that one. It wasn't a muck. It wasn't a monkey bar. It was two bars that was like this. And the girls, what they used to do was they used to throw one leg over and they would hold their knee and they would make their bodies spin over and over and over. [00:31:33] Speaker A: Oh, it was like the pull up bars. Yeah, but it was. Yeah, it was. It was only two. [00:31:37] Speaker B: Yes. And they always use the top one so that they hit and they leg wouldn't come close to the bottom. And I used to always watch them, like, how do they do that? [00:31:45] Speaker A: First of all, that little thing also was set up because at that age we could not jump to grab that. So you had to actually use the small one, pull yourself up, stand on that, and then make your way to the other or put your foot on [00:32:01] Speaker B: the bar and do that whole step and grab. [00:32:04] Speaker A: Yes, yes. So that they didn't set that up for anybody. That wasn't. At least in school. [00:32:09] Speaker B: The only reason why my arms got long wasn't because I was playing basketball. [00:32:13] Speaker A: And that's what a lot of people [00:32:14] Speaker B: say there's like, oh, you played a lot of basketball when you was a kid. That's why your arms long. It was the monkey bar. [00:32:18] Speaker A: It was on that damn monkey bar. [00:32:19] Speaker B: The monkey bars. For some reason, I don't know who they made these bars, but some of [00:32:23] Speaker A: them bars would be so wide that stretch. [00:32:26] Speaker B: Yeah. And then there was signs where we used to tell people, oh, can you skip one? How many. How many bars can you skip? How many bars can you skip? And people. I could do two. I could do two. And they'd reach. You ever had that one? That reach and miss. [00:32:41] Speaker A: And again just a finger just hits [00:32:43] Speaker B: it and they think they got it. And then bam. [00:32:46] Speaker A: How tall was that? Like up there? [00:32:48] Speaker B: Yes. You had to climb like two bars just to get to the top of that. [00:32:51] Speaker A: You know something? Back then was too tall. At my age. Right now, if I got on the monkey bars that we had back then, that fall would still be decent enough as an adult. As a kid. [00:33:03] Speaker B: There's no way these kids. No, there's no way these kids. [00:33:06] Speaker A: That is another area. I see somebody biff it, bro. [00:33:10] Speaker B: Easily. Oh, everybody biffed on the monkey bars. [00:33:13] Speaker A: That. [00:33:13] Speaker B: You notice how that word goes straight with that sentence? Everybody biff on the monkey ball. That happened all the time. Do you remember monkey bar fights? We used to swing over and you had to. You had to knock somebody off with your legs, stupid. You had to hang on with your arms. You had your legs around, stupid. You talk about biffing. If you had to let go and somebody knocked you off, you was biffing every time. [00:33:36] Speaker A: That was actually a game because everybody was on both sides and you wanted to be in line. [00:33:42] Speaker B: Today's kids can't hang with our games. [00:33:44] Speaker A: Duh. I thought the monkey bars. That area alone could have been its own. [00:33:49] Speaker B: We had so many Olympic, like, type things. We had monkey bar skipping, monkey bar wrestling. We had monkey bar. [00:33:56] Speaker A: I forgot about the monkey bar wrestling, bro. Because you could only use your feet. [00:34:00] Speaker B: You only use your feet because if not you falling. [00:34:03] Speaker A: Oh, I forgot. Dog. That is so crazy, dog. I'm done. Get. Get in the comments. Just about anything. [00:34:15] Speaker B: We used to sit on a swing. [00:34:16] Speaker A: Oh, my God. I don't know. [00:34:17] Speaker B: I don't know if you ever had, like, a girlfriend and you guys sit on the swing, but she sit on your lap, put the legs behind you. You put your legs in front that way when you. When you swinging, you push this way, but she pushed that way. [00:34:27] Speaker A: You both leaned back. [00:34:28] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:34:28] Speaker A: So you were like. [00:34:29] Speaker B: You were like. You got Two legs going this way, two legs going that way. Dog, we figured out, okay. [00:34:34] Speaker A: I can't get over the monkey bars, bro. I forgot. I took, I took some hits. I think I took more of a blow in the monkey bars than I did an actual football. [00:34:44] Speaker B: Everybody took hits on that monkey bar, so that was unforgiving. Monkey bars were unforgiving. [00:34:48] Speaker A: You ever had that. You ever had that one friend that wanted to be first and they whiff on the very first one? Oh yeah. And they want to be like, redo. Redo, huh? Get your ass in the back there, Marine Corps. [00:34:56] Speaker B: We got that one that goes up and goes down. [00:34:58] Speaker A: Goes up, goes down. [00:34:59] Speaker B: You gotta, you gotta go up and go down when you're going through it, dog. [00:35:02] Speaker A: I forgot about the monkey bars. Yo, get in the comments, man. Yeah, I'm saying it. Gen X millennials, we're tougher. You can't mess with us. Monkey bar games alone in a discussion. [00:35:14] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:35:14] Speaker A: And if you know what we're talking about, get in the comments, man. I. Yo, I wanna. Yeah, I bet I gotta. [00:35:20] Speaker B: Because right now, today's monkey bars, they, they like five feet, bro. [00:35:24] Speaker A: They are so short. [00:35:24] Speaker B: I gotta, I gotta pick my feet up in order to go across. [00:35:27] Speaker A: So short. [00:35:27] Speaker B: Oh yeah, yeah. We just almost a ladder to get up on this thing. Yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. [00:35:33] Speaker A: And it was three, three, three little steps. And then to get to the top [00:35:37] Speaker B: one, you almost had to jump. Yeah, you almost. Yep. For real. No wonder we were hooked on to the monkey bars. You had, you had. See we like nowadays if you hook on the monkey bars, you can let go and be okay. Back in the day, once you hooked on, it was like you was on, you finish or you, you fallen. What was it? [00:35:53] Speaker A: Say? What. Are you sure it's not. [00:35:54] Speaker B: Cuz you guys got taller? [00:35:55] Speaker A: No, no. [00:35:56] Speaker B: Oh, saying like there's no more. No. Cuz I went back to my old school playground and it was still tall as an adult. [00:36:01] Speaker A: Yeah, I, I kid you not though. I am 511 right now and I have a third monkey, 35 inch, at least 8ft up. I at least, I at least have to, I would have to at least semi squat from the ground to get to those monkey balls. They were tall. [00:36:17] Speaker B: Yep. [00:36:18] Speaker A: For no. And that's the crazy part because I grew up where I had an elementary, a middle school and a high school. [00:36:24] Speaker B: Right. [00:36:24] Speaker A: They put the tallest damn monkey bars for elementary, then you get to middle school and it was like they went opposite. It was like the older you got, the shorter they got. [00:36:33] Speaker B: It's kind of like you're telling them when you little, you better have high expectations, but when you in. When you middle aged, you better start lowering. [00:36:40] Speaker A: Start lowering your expectations because that impact [00:36:42] Speaker B: gonna be hurting that reality coming in right now, bro. [00:36:46] Speaker A: Ella. Anybody out there tell me I'm lying. Elementary was the tallest and the older you got, they got shorter. Shorter and shorter. I don't. The swing set got shorter. [00:36:56] Speaker B: Maybe the budget. Maybe the budget got smaller. May. Maybe the budget, the budget got small. Like, we was cool with the elementary school. [00:37:01] Speaker A: It was making it rain in elementary. [00:37:03] Speaker B: We got the middle school. [00:37:04] Speaker A: They was like, man, I mean, they [00:37:06] Speaker B: only here for a couple of grades. [00:37:08] Speaker A: They was using metal, too. They were like, look, nah, we spend all that metal over there on elementary school. [00:37:12] Speaker B: They was like, they was like, they look at middle school like we look. We don't just combine y' all with high school. [00:37:17] Speaker A: Oh, I keep saying it. Get in the comments, man. Playgrounds. What you remember if you biffed it. Oh, I need to hear them stories, everybody. If you had the word biff in a statement, they did. You ate it. They ate it hard. [00:37:31] Speaker B: And we're not talking about Back to the Future movie. [00:37:33] Speaker A: No, I'm Twitty. That's thc. Hit the like, hit the subscribe. Come on. I almost said we're going for five. That's past news. We're going for 15k. We're going 15 to get you that. Putting in the city merch pack. [00:37:45] Speaker B: Let's do it. [00:37:46] Speaker A: We out.