April 26, 2025

S2E7: Friday Night Was for More than Videos!

S2E7: Friday Night Was for More than Videos!
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Season 2

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Remember when Friday nights didn't require checking your phone every five minutes? When plans were made in person at school and then you just showed up somewhere? Megan and Lesley take us back to their teenage weekend rituals in the 1980s and early '90s, and the nostalgia hits like a caffeine rush from those bottomless Perkins coffees (or teas) we all drank at 2am.

With their new vintage bar setup as the perfect backdrop, the hosts trade stories about the weekend social rituals that defined Gen X adolescence. From roller skating parties that required good grades to attend, to midnight showings of Rocky Horror Picture Show (complete with toast, toilet paper, and squirt guns), they map the geography of teen hangouts in Indianapolis. Noble Romans Pizza with its mythical $99 Dom Perignon special, Denny's with "Moons Over My Hammy," and small-town cruising rituals all get their moments in the spotlight.

What's striking is how these memories reveal a different relationship with rebellion and fun. Both hosts confess they didn't drink in high school – not because they were straight-laced, but because they were genuinely having a great time without it. Megan's confession about stealing a velvet rope from a movie theater and proudly displaying it in her bedroom captures the perfect level of Gen X rebellion – just enough to feel dangerous without causing real harm. Whether you were playing Dungeons & Dragons on Friday nights, working at TCBY, or watching MTV's 120 Minutes instead of sleeping before school, you'll recognize yourself in these stories.

So pour yourself something delicious, settle in, and join us for this journey back to a time when weekend entertainment didn't require Wi-Fi, when malls were social hubs rather than dying institutions, and when the most important thing was just being together with your friends, figuring out this weird thing called adolescence. What was your Friday night ritual? We'd love to hear about it.

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00:00 - New Bar Setup and Whiskey Introduction

08:09 - Rocky Horror Picture Show Memories

13:32 - Football Games and Social Hangouts

22:49 - Dating and Mall Adventures

33:05 - Movie Theaters and Denim Trench Coats

43:25 - MTV and Friday Night Videos Nostalgia

50:37 - Closing and Contact Information

WEBVTT

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I'm Megan Bennett

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I'm

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and this is Gen X Women Are Sick of this Shit.

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Hi, Lesley!

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Look at us.

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What's happening?

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Megan, what's going on?

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Hey, we're sitting.

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We're tall people, we are.

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I know We've got our chairs up real tall.

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We're feeling quite.

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We're feeling ourselves.

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Because we're so tall we can't do that on camera.

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No, I mean like in a vibe-y kind of emotional, an emotional way we could have one of those kinds of websites we could.

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And we could post pictures of our feet To be fair.

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it would be very unhappy.

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I'd be very unhappy if nobody tuned in.

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Then I just wouldn't post pictures of my font People pay for.

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To be fair, I'd be very unhappy if nobody tuned in.

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Then I'd be like aw, I just want to post pictures of my font.

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People pay for that.

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Gorsh Welcome, welcome, welcome, hey.

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New set, new set, look what you did New digs, look what you did.

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I did.

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I did.

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It looks cool.

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I went shopping.

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It looks super cool.

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I hung out at Midland Antique Mall in Indianapolis, Indiana, for a number of hours.

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We're antiques,

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yep, no, no.

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We're vintage.

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We are well-seasoned, we are vintage.

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Spent three or four hours.

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I sent you a lot of pictures.

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You did.

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There were some very cool, funky things I really like.

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Or four hours I sent you a lot of pictures.

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You did.

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There were some very cool, funky things.

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I really liked those orange chairs, they were cool.

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Those were amazing Space chairs yes, they were definitely nice Lava orange.

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Yes, those were wacky.

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I liked them.

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They looked like they were from a 70s-born palace Exactly which?

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is probably a good reason not to own them.

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Uh, there were some red chaise lounges that were furry, that I really enjoyed.

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I was like how can we record a podcast laying down on chaises?

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And then I was leaving and walked past this delicious vintage 1970s bar, 1970s home bar.

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It's cool

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, it is it was sold by Sears and Roebuck evidently

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it is fly, I don't know.

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Yep it's totally tubular.

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It's totally tubular, rad.

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Cheers!

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Uh, I guess I should drink this.

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That that's pretty tasty.

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So you have whiskey with us today.

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Yeah, because we are recording the Friday night before this goes live, because it's been a little busy.

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Yes, and I said let's do an episode about Friday nights, and so it's Friday night and we're old people.

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So we may as well, have a little whiskey and also a bar and we have a bar.

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So we're like, we're, we're opening the bar.

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Exactly.

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It's the first night that the bar is open, so this is great.

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This is really cool, welcome and we have cool stools.

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That's what's.

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That's.

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That's why we're tall why we're super tall and our sign shows up better, so we've got our sign back here and if you're listening cool, none of this matters none of it matters, just know that we are we like it.

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We're vibing in a 1970s bar type of arrangement that will get enhancements.

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I'm sure we'll have uh, we need a lava lamp.

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Yeah, we'll do, you know we need like weird shit like that.

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So black light posters, I don't know we might get like a hanging light, those kind of like stained glass, if we find one of those, um, those oil lamps, the ones that have, like the uh, like an aphrodite in the middle.

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And then there's strings with the oil like the hot oil?

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oh fuck, I would like.

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Yes, probably hurt somebody if nothing else, we'll get one of those like kind of rocky red glowing candles that they had on the tables of every restaurant.

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Oh, that's cool.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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I think, you could buy those at like Gordon Foods or something still.

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So that's cool.

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We'll have some of those Awesome Levits Anywho, yes, and we are having a little sip today.

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Yeah, so tell me about this whiskey before we get started here.

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Yep, yeah.

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So quickly.

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This is a release from Keeper's Heart, which is in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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It is a distillery in the United States that blends Irish whiskeys with American whiskeys.

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The master distiller there is Brian Nation.

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This is way more than anybody will care about, unless you are a massive whiskey person.

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They recruited him from Middleton Distilleries in Ireland.

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He came over like right before or right in the middle of the pandemic and they've opened an incredible place.

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So this is a blend of Irish and American whiskey.

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But the reason we're talking about it today is because it was the Indy GAA, the Gaelic Athletic Association's release for their 20 year anniversary and you used to play for them

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I did.

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What did you play?

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Young Megan Bennett,

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Young Megan Bennett, I was old at that point.

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That was after my roller derby career, in which I did not break anything in roller derby.

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Not even your coccyx.

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Well, I bruised it pretty damn.

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Okay playing dodgeball on skates, um, but I did break my finger playing hurling, which is um not curling, which a lot of people make that mistake.

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A hurler with an a with a h fuck all to do with ice right, it was hurling hurling um and uh, it was great.

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Like we in indianapolis, we have a pretty big irish community yes, as you well know yep, and a lot of these guys and gals uh come out for the gaelic games and it's uh hurling camogie, which is the all women's version of hurling and and hurling.

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Just for those of you who are not familiar, it's considered the fastest game on grass.

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You've got a cool like flat oak traditionally oak mallet thing.

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It's called a hurl.

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It's got like a little hook on the end kind of.

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It's got like a little hook on the end kind of, and you use that to lift the slitter, which is a ball that's a little bit off size of a baseball with a really like.

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Anyway, this is way more information than you know.

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Oh no, there's so many good dirty jokes to be made.

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Oh, about the hurling, the slitter.

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Fast grass hurling yes, yes, it is Irish.

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Double entendres.

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Fair point.

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Nautiness yeah so, and everybody's drunk when they play.

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That's not 100% true.

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It would be unsafe, but sometimes there's some beers there.

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There's a community beer chest.

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If you're done playing, you drink.

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Yes, anyway, it's super fun.

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It's set up sort of like soccer would be, or, you know, football as we should call it.

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Yes.

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And anyway it's really, really fun.

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And then the women's version is camogie.

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And then there's also Gaelic football, which is the same basic rules as hurling, just with a like soccer ball type thing.

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It's awesome we watched some Gaelic football.

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Last year we went to the tournament.

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Yeah, multi-state tournament.

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It's super welcoming.

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So if you're just a little bit curious and you want to go check it out, everybody would love to have you just show up.

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It's a blast.

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And this bottle that the Indie GAA released is available at the Snug Snug in Irvington if anybody's interested.

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It was a.

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Surly darkness stout barrel release.

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So it matured its last like 30 months in a stout barrel, it's pretty tasty.

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It's lovely.

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Yeah, I like it, but this isn't a whiskey show.

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It's not.

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This is a pissed off Gen X chick show, but God damn it.

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We like whiskey and what's more and why the fuck not.

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Yeah, exactly.

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What's more Gen X than whiskey?

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Nothing, probably not, not much.

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So we were going to talk about who died.

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Who died?

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this week.

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Well, I think our gossip right, this is our hot gossip.

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Here we are.

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Our bullshit was what we just did.

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Yeah, so we did that.

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Hot guys who died this week check it off.

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Uh well, kind of a big guy.

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A big, well, small guy.

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Important title important.

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Big title, small man, small man.

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Big title, title uh the pope, pope francis, zip, zip up.

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That's a nod to saturday night live uh yeah, so pope francis passed away.

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I'm not catholic.

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My daughter went to catholic school, though I'm not either.

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My family was catholic like way catholic back in the oldie days, my grandmother on my dad's side okay well, I had two great aunts.

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Both were nuns so that's how catholic.

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I didn't know that, and then yeah, and then uh, my great, my grandmother on my dad's side, super catholic, um, do you get like a cape when you're a super?

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catholic is there.

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How do you and then my great, my grandmother on my dad's side, super Catholic.

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Do you get like a cape when you're a super Catholic?

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Is there?

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How do you designate that?

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A pin, maybe a?

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super, sc, sc, super Catholic, I would get a pin.

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She was the first lay teacher at Our Lady of Lords, which is the Catholic school that my daughter went to for elementary school.

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And when you say lay teacher, what do?

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you mean by that?

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She was not a nun.

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Not a nun.

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Okay, thank you.

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Not a nun, see, and I'm, ooh, I sound Catholic, don't I?

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No?

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jokes there to be made?

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No, whatsoever.

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Anyway, so, pope Francis.

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Big deal globally Born incember of 1936, became the pope march 13th 2013.

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And are you surprised at how long that's been?

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because I feel like they just, like the smoke, came out of the sistine chapel not too terribly long ago right, this 12 years was shorter than, but I think, the person who was the pope, prior Pope John Paul.

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No, tell me.

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The German guy.

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He was German, the German.

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Pope, the German Pope, pope Benedict, yeah, thank you.

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And then John Paul was before that.

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Okay, yeah, he was also a small man.

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He was a really long time.

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That was John Paul, thank you.

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And then Benedictict was shorter lived he's.

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Yeah, the jokes I just can't.

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There's 12, I know there's a lot, so you hear something funny.

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So buca di beppo rest in peace.

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Uh, but the, the italian restaurant oh, yeah, yeah, okay, I was like take me on this journey, I will will.

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Okay, so Italian restaurant.

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We have them in Indianapolis, or had them in Indianapolis.

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I think there are other places.

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I'm pretty sure Like anyway, there are places besides Indianapolis.

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Yes, that is true.

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Yes, I just I don't fuck Anyway.

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So so this restaurant has it's all like family style and everything.

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Yes, and there's one room that they call the Pope Room, or I don't know if they call it.

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We call it when we would go Amazing and we would bring friends and we would do our Friendsgiving, which is the day after Thanksgiving Right on.

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So we'd be at the Pope Room and the reason we called it that was in the middle of the table on a Lazy Susan was the head of the Pope on a lazy.

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Susan was the head of the pope so not not the real head of the pope.

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Okay, thanks for clarifying appreciation.

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Model of the head of the pope and three-dimensional just sitting there in a glass or and you can just turn box and you could turn it.

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So the pope was always watching.

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The pope would see if you were eating too much spaghetti.

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You could, you know, turn it and guilt people I guess that's too much tiramisu?

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You know, I don't know, but anyway the pope could bless you.

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The pope would change.

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So when benedict took over from john paul, all of a sudden there was a different pope head.

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It's just I love that.

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You know that?

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I've never noticed that I've been, I assume, in that room.

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That's know that I've never noticed that I've been, I assume in that room.

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That's incredible that they changed the Pope and fucking hilarious.

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Pope's head.

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So you know, right now did they take?

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I'm not sure if they're still open, but the one downtown was open, like recently.

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I don't think it's closed.

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I have no idea, I can't remember.

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But now that Pope francis's past, did they remove?

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his head, or is it still?

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Sitting there like the headspace waiting for the next pope head to be headed.

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Not be headed, but headed like you have to re-headed.

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Are you re-headed when you become a new pope?

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I don't know.

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They beheaded the pope, there we go.

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That's why it felt like a long time.

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John Paul II was the pope from 1978 till 2005.

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That was nearly my whole fucking life.

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No shit, that is a long, so that is why this one felt brief.

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Long popedom, there we go.

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Good to know, yep, if there was other information.

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We're supposed to shut up now though.

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I don't, you know what we could talk about.

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The pope for a good guy?

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Yes, I think he was a good guy and started saying important things that I hope continue to be said about the value and inherent worth of human beings and you never know Right Like the next pope could be like completely different.

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We have no idea.

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Be the anti-pope.

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Well, I mean, he's probably still the pope, he's just Anti popesta Pope on a rope.

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Oh God, we're probably going to hell.

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I'm not even worried about that, Not either.

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But you know, I have to believe in that in order to get there, but you know there are people out there who are like shut up, you two.

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You're really pushing your luck.

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I mean, they will have turned us off already.

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You are pushing your luck there they'll.

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They will have turned us off already.

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You are pushing your luck there, ladies.

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So there we go.

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All right, just acknowledging something important, because the pope is forever and always a constant in the world, for good, hopefully, and not for bad, but we don't know.

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Agreed never know.

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We'll talk about it next time as soon as we do know, right?

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We should stop talking about this right now.

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It next time as soon as we do know, right?

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We should stop talking about this right now.

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It's Friday night and we had a reason.

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We had a subject.

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A reason for the season.

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Yes, well, let's take a break real quick and then we'll come back and we'll talk about.

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It's Friday night, friday, friday Friday.

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We'll sell you the whole seat, but you'll only need the edge.

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These stools are kind of just an edge.

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I have one cheek solidly on this stool and the other one's kind of like.

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I don't know free-falling.

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They were reasonably priced.

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I like them.

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I think they're great.

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You picked them out.

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They're not uncomfortable.

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You did great.

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I love them.

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I'm glad I like the bar.

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Good job you Welcome back.

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Hey, welcome back.

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Let's do this, salanta, salanta.

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So maybe we're a little loosey-goosey here with our conversation because we've been drinking whiskey.

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I mean mean it's Friday.

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It is Friday night and we've had five sips and I dumped half of mine on my left that's just that's just color, color coordination.

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That is not at all what.

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I was trying to say what was I trying to say?

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I don't know.

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That's just coordination.

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I think coordination, poor coordination that's where we are, but we have a topic we do because it's Friday night, so we were talking about what.

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Friday night and Saturday night like what that was like when we were wee lasses in the 80s and early 90s Very early 90s and like what did you?

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do like in middle school and high school on the weekends and I'm guessing that those two time periods were very different.

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Let's say, middle school was like sixth, seventh, eighth grade okay, so junior high, I think, and I, so I post in the facebook group.

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I did ask the question because I was curious, like, and what was interesting about this, this little experiment, was the number of people who said like that they did when they posted about stuff that they did.

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Yep, it was totally triggering memories for me of shit that I did, too like I was like oh, I completely forgot about that but uh, junior high, like middle school, junior high, roller skating was a big thing okay, okay, the roller rinks yes, we would roller skate like every Friday, but we would go with my school.

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Oh weird, okay.

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Well, I went to a really weird fucking middle school.

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I guess.

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There were like 50 kids in the whole school, from preschool through eighth grade.

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Yeah, montessori we were oddballs.

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So we were, I'm not we had a small bus and they called that the short bus.

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We're not gonna say that, because that has a different connotation.

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It does but and is not kind so we had a small bus and there were maybe 12 of us that would go, but we roller skated like every friday afternoon at the usa skate on the west side okay, oh, that was a, that was a good one.

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So, and then?

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there would be like some birthday parties that got held there and that kind of thing.

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So that was sort of like my, but there was no nighttime stuff.

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So the only time that I would ever skate with with people from school is we would.

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We would have roller skating parties.

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So that would be like you would the the.

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It was elementary school, I think, more than junior high, um, so that went up to sixth grade for me and they would like the school would rent out for, like the fifth and sixth graders, uh, roller party, roller skating party, and if your grades were of a certain level, then you would be able to go.

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Oh my gosh.

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So it was used to like categorize.

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It was motivation, it was supposed to be motivation.

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But really, if you had like a learning disability, you just felt like an asshole.

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Yeah, probably, but it's okay, we didn't know any different.

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No, we didn't, this was all normal.

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But that was just inspiring you to.

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You know, do do better so you can go to the roller skating party, but yes, we would have roller skating parties overcome that dyslexia just by trying really hard right.

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That exactly sorry, my computer wants to see my face it's really you don't do math you know well, yeah, so middle and that was like mostly sleep kind of sleepovers, like not a ton of stuff.

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I didn't, I didn't do it.

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But I lived middle school, lived really far away, I was not in the city at all.

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So it was a lot of.

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I did a lot of sleepovers like either at my place or I had a couple really good friends that lived around the corner, like not too far away, and we would do sleepovers and stuff here, but yeah, yeah, middle school was pretty low key, yes, and then the wheels fell off in high school well, like they do.

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I mean there's more independence.

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So what was, what were weekends like in high school for you?

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And there's probably a difference between like your freshman and sophomore year and then like junior and senior year.

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Yeah, and my memory is so mushy that it's really hard, and we're talking about like weekend nights in Indianapolis in the 80s man, there used to be all ages clubs in the 80s.

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What was that one called?

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There was one.

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There was one in Beach Grove.

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There was.

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I had friends that used to go to all the time.

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I never went I went once or twice but that music was not my, that was not my jam right on heard.

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You know, that was not my jam, so I god, I can't remember what it was called, uh, but yeah, so there was an under 21 club.

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And then, of course, you know, like all good things take only takes a couple people to screw that up, oh yeah, well, I mean because they were.

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I mean alcohol was like wildly available in all of the things oh, you could walk into a so funny 7-eleven.

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That doesn't sound right no off it does.

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I'll spend too long looking for it.

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But yes, I remember that those existed, but I was never allowed to go to those kinds of places.

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Yeah, I only like I said, I think I only went one or twice.

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One or twice once or twice and it was not uh, you know, it just wasn't my thing.

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But what was your thing?

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oh man.

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So we started I want to say it was probably my sophomore year, ish, maybe uh we started going to rocky horror picture show.

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It was every.

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I want to say it was every friday night, maybe.

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Where was it?

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Uh?

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So there were two places.

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You could go to lafayette square and they would have it, or you could go to uh the general cinemas at east gate.

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No shit, yeah, I wonder where I saw it.

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I remember going.

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I was a freshman in high school when I saw it I went many, many times like yeah, many, like probably too many, and one of I can't remember which theater it was, but one of the theaters, and I got shut down for a length of time because somebody drove a motorcycle through the screen.

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No shit, yeah, yeah, so that's.

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I was not there that night, I, I just remember.

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How did they get it in?

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I have no clue.

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That's the real question.

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Did it come in the back door?

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Did somebody let?

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them.

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When Eddie said, you know, yeah.

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When Eddie said he didn't love his teddy, yeah, I mean seriously, no, fucking shit.

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So that got shut down for a little while and then I think it might have been done forever at that theater and then I think it might have been done forever at that theater, oh sure.

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And then you know we had to go to a different one.

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That would have been the most metal thing ever, though I know right, totally Like you would have been like that's the fucking coolest thing I've ever seen, man oh.

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God, that's awesome.

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God, josh Bannett, I love that yeah.

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So Rocky Horror is?

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I was a freshman and I went with my youth group because my youth minister at the time she knows who she is just knew that all the kids loved Rocky Horror Picture Show and she loved us.

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Oh, she didn't know the show, though no, she loved us and believed us.

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Oh, she didn't know the show, though no, she loved us and believed us, but honestly, like we didn't.

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When you're watching it as a young person, you're like this is just fucking cool.

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You're not thinking about any of it it doesn't have no Adults apply such dumb meaning to shit.

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None of us were like caught up in that and so no.

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If anything, you were just watching it going.

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What the fuck is going on?

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here because so many parts of it are so confusing.

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But then it's also just like amazing and like I mean you kind of got like.

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You kind of got like frank's like super hot, like was super attracted to you know, you got like that oh, and some of the jokes I mean, and boobs and stuff like that.

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You were like okay, you know but right, but it wasn't like it wasn't deep, you were.

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No, it was not deep, not at all, not for 14, 15 year old kids so so she took us and god lover stayed like, and everybody knew, we knew all the things we had to bring toilet paper, toast, all rice, like we brought everything Squirt guns and the whole bit.

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Yes.

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And she like facilitated us bringing all this stuff, like this was the thing.

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So we all went.

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Oh my God, I love it.

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We watched the whole thing and there were a few kids who left, who were uncomfortable, and so she did go out and like sit with those kids, and I think she felt like she had to go out.

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Yeah, I would be so curious to know and, like, left you all to your own devices To finish.

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So, like.

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To her credit, she was just like nope, this is the choice we made.

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It was for a lock-in, this is what we're doing, and so we're all going to stay here and did not pull us out.

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There was no like lecture about it.

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I don't know if conversations were had with families or if it just happened and then we just went on with life, and it was never mentioned again, but it was it was amazing.

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I love it so much.

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We had a great time, so that was that experience for me.

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My freshman year of high school, so good.

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Yeah, so freshman year things had to still kind of be facilitated, Like I didn't have friends who drive.

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Yeah.

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Or drove at that point.

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Yeah, did you do sports?

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weekends, so we only had as they make a face about it.

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Yeah, I know why would you do that.

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So yeah, in high school the high school that I went to we had a.

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I was a, I was a freshman and we had a big named football guy.

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Should I say the name?

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I'm gonna say his name, so it was jeff george um and he was a senior, I think, when I was a final, whatever he played for the colts right he played for the colts so football was like a real big thing.

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Like everybody was like football, so that was the Friday night.

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Thing.

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And I did not give a shit.

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I think I went maybe to one or two games and I couldn't even tell you why, like it literally may have been because I was forced to, because a teacher said we had to be there.

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Oh, like you get extra credit for showing up or something like that yeah, something dumb like that.

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Everybody goes to the football game tonight you get 10 points yeah or it had something to do with a boy.

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I don't know, maybe.

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But I was like, anyway, but funny story about him.

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I'm going to spill some tea.

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I don't know where Jeff is now I I presume he's doing well, but in high school he, his mom, was my elementary school secretary, oh okay.

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So I knew her, um, and I won't say her name.

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She was a lovely lady, um she.

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He apparently got hurt on the field and she ran out in the middle of the game on the field.

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Oh, bless her heart.

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And that nearly destroyed his career because they're like dude.

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your mom should not run the fucking field, your mom should not go out on the field.

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Yeah, anyway, bless her heart.

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Bless her heart, bless her sweetheart.

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Anyway, she was a doll, but yeah, and she just loved her kid.

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She was just worried.

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She did yeah, she was just concerned.

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She wanted to kiss it and make it better.

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It was not a good thing.

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Moms don't run out on the field.

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Don't run onto the football field.

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You'll probably get them kicked out or disqualified or whatever it would not be a good thing.

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Or teased mercilessly.

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Oh, that's also true.

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It doesn't matter, you're alive.

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I just want to make sure you are okay.

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Mommy, you'll be fine.

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Yeah, similarly, I think I went to one football game.

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It was my senior year homecoming game and that was because my friend was in the lineup for homecoming queen.

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And she won.

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And she was alternative, wow, so it was kind of a big deal yeah she won the alternative girls never won and like we were.

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We didn't know that that's what we were, but but she was also like, universally likable.

00:29:43.526 --> 00:29:56.815
She was probably one of the most liked people and was so sincerely kind like it was insane, so it was really great so we went to support her and and that was my probably my one and only football game yeah, that sounds like the right person won.

00:29:56.855 --> 00:29:58.931
then what did we do for fun, fun.

00:29:58.931 --> 00:30:05.728
Well, after so at least for me, like on Friday nights, the games would end and again I wasn't going.

00:30:05.728 --> 00:30:10.038
But I knew that the cool place to hang out after that was Noble Roman's Pizza.

00:30:10.806 --> 00:30:12.008
So we would go to like.

00:30:12.990 --> 00:30:17.550
it was a place called Cherry Tree, but it was like the Noble Romans pizza there, and that place was booked.

00:30:18.026 --> 00:30:18.990
It was really cool.

00:30:19.270 --> 00:30:21.286
Yeah, and super fun and so like.

00:30:21.286 --> 00:30:27.238
And everybody from every freaking walk of life was, you know, at Noble Romans eating breadsticks because that's all you could afford to do.

00:30:27.238 --> 00:30:39.038
Sure, fair, and always looking at the menu and thinking, someday I'm going to spend $99 and get that breadstick and that bottle of Dom Perignon, that Someday I'm going to spend $99 and get that breadstick and that bottle of Dom Perignon.

00:30:39.058 --> 00:30:39.480
That was on the menu.

00:30:39.480 --> 00:30:40.065
Baby 99 bucks.

00:30:40.704 --> 00:30:45.054
I think that everybody Seemed like a shit ton of money $99.

00:30:45.054 --> 00:30:45.957
$99.

00:30:45.957 --> 00:30:47.308
The markup on that Dom.

00:30:47.348 --> 00:30:49.875
Perignon was probably 500%.

00:30:49.924 --> 00:30:52.994
That Dom Perignon had been hot and cold and hot and cold, and hot and cold.

00:30:53.385 --> 00:30:56.032
That shit probably tastes like piss.

00:30:56.073 --> 00:30:57.155
It was really awful.

00:30:57.316 --> 00:31:00.560
Yeah, where else did you go eat in high school on the weekends?

00:31:00.580 --> 00:31:04.836
Oh, that's a good question, like when you said that it made me think of a couple things that I had not thought of in forever.

00:31:05.444 --> 00:31:08.929
Well, there was like a Steak and Shake close to.

00:31:09.230 --> 00:31:11.612
I went to North Central, so there was a Steak and Shake up there?

00:31:11.833 --> 00:31:14.035
Yep, and a McDonald's, yeah.

00:31:14.035 --> 00:31:16.878
But I also remembered do you remember Perkins?

00:31:16.878 --> 00:31:18.681
Oh yeah, 24-hour diners.

00:31:18.701 --> 00:31:19.281
Hell yeah.

00:31:19.424 --> 00:31:21.813
And the bottomless pots of coffee or tea.

00:31:21.973 --> 00:31:23.736
Heck, yeah, we would go there, yeah.

00:31:23.765 --> 00:31:41.682
Or like I didn't like coffee, then Bottomless pots of tea, yeah, and oh, we would also go to coffees on downtown.

00:31:41.682 --> 00:31:43.166
That was like my junior senior year.

00:31:43.166 --> 00:31:47.926
I had a psychology professor that was a musician and he would play gigs there and then we would go.

00:31:47.926 --> 00:31:52.787
And then one of my boyfriends in high school had a band and he had gigs there so we would go, okay.

00:31:52.906 --> 00:31:53.689
I don't know where it was.

00:31:53.949 --> 00:31:55.712
I'm sure I could look it up on the internet.

00:31:55.712 --> 00:31:56.914
But that was kind of cool.

00:31:56.914 --> 00:32:02.046
So the abby there and then um the coffee house in broader bowl.

00:32:02.046 --> 00:32:08.686
Oh my god, I'll have to research it for a hot second, but we would go hang out there okay, okay, we did.

00:32:08.906 --> 00:32:20.112
Uh, we didn't do perkins, we did denny's oh right, and Denny's was right in a little strip mall area that was really close to one of my friend's houses.

00:32:20.112 --> 00:32:21.911
Hi, dawn, I think you're listening.

00:32:22.566 --> 00:32:24.232
Hi, dawn, that's so sweet.

00:32:24.525 --> 00:32:25.469
So yeah, so it was.

00:32:25.469 --> 00:32:25.690
Man.

00:32:25.690 --> 00:32:29.951
Denny's was like the hot place, so same kind of deal.

00:32:29.951 --> 00:32:35.028
You know you could get two moons over Miami pretty affordably Amazing.

00:32:35.028 --> 00:32:40.934
And yeah, Denny's was a big, big place, you would just get all kinds of like cheap ass snacks.

00:32:40.934 --> 00:32:46.857
Yeah, there was also a place in Fountain Square, which is just south of Indianapolis.

00:32:46.857 --> 00:32:53.878
It was a little sketch back in the day, but it was called the Pepe Grill.

00:32:55.207 --> 00:32:57.546
Oh fuck, yeah happy it was a big deal.

00:32:57.546 --> 00:32:59.390
Yeah, I think it that was.

00:32:59.450 --> 00:33:01.513
I was later, before I could go to peppy.

00:33:01.513 --> 00:33:09.585
So it was just a little, a little farther out of my, my range, my driving range oh yeah, yeah, I didn't even know fountsware existed.

00:33:10.607 --> 00:33:14.598
Yeah, as a young person, you were way up on the other side of town.

00:33:14.598 --> 00:33:17.205
So very north, I was very north.

00:33:17.205 --> 00:33:20.915
I think it was Cafe Espresso, that's not right I don't know.

00:33:20.915 --> 00:33:21.576
That doesn't make sense.

00:33:21.576 --> 00:33:24.172
My friends in Broad Ripple would hang out there all the time.

00:33:24.172 --> 00:33:28.656
So yeah, sort of, I guess actually in high school Broad Ripple was sort of a hangout too.

00:33:28.777 --> 00:33:30.884
Broad Ripple was the coolest place.

00:33:30.884 --> 00:33:37.339
That was where I spent the majority of my friders and saturday nights, because there's no question that's where all the skaters were.

00:33:37.339 --> 00:33:58.128
That's where there was a place called the castle, which was it was actually like a water treatment plant or whatever, and you'd have to climb down a bank and it totally illegal to be there and we did it anyway, and under the bridge yep, under the bridge, rainbow bridge, lots of I mean lots of dumb punk kids out being yes punk kids, that's if people didn't know where I was.

00:33:58.209 --> 00:34:21.608
Though if people did know where I was, I was at friends houses, legitimately, oh, and we were both doing theater, so we did shows, yeah, so that was a whole situation, right that would really cut down on my broader bowl hanging out time right, yep, so from rehearsal and then we're doing performances, and then after performances we'd go hang out at each other's houses and there was a lot of monty python being watched.

00:34:21.608 --> 00:34:24.159
Okay, yeah, because I could see that you would know the whole.

00:34:24.983 --> 00:34:29.943
You know it all sketch and you would just do all of the sketches sort of sort of like a you know sing along.

00:34:29.943 --> 00:34:34.217
Lots of musicals were watched, everything you know.

00:34:34.217 --> 00:34:41.034
That was the layman's phantom of the opera, like if you were a theater kid, and it was did all that stuff for sure.

00:34:41.034 --> 00:34:42.978
Oh my god, what's his name?

00:34:42.978 --> 00:34:46.090
The guy that did all the things?

00:34:46.492 --> 00:34:48.094
andrew lloyd weber thank you, jesus.

00:34:49.056 --> 00:34:50.967
This is your name today, producer tim.

00:34:50.967 --> 00:34:51.748
Thank you, jesus.

00:34:51.748 --> 00:34:53.771
Andrew lloyd weber you know what's in my brain.

00:34:53.771 --> 00:34:57.699
Stephen Sondheim did write musicals, did not write Les Mis.

00:34:57.699 --> 00:34:59.972
I get my theater card revoked.

00:34:59.972 --> 00:35:02.646
It's okay, especially my 80s theater kid card.

00:35:02.666 --> 00:35:08.916
But then if you talk about Sondheim, you have to talk about Into the Woods, which is the worst musical ever.

00:35:08.916 --> 00:35:11.108
Okay, maybe not ever.

00:35:11.108 --> 00:35:11.809
I don't think it's that bad.

00:35:11.809 --> 00:35:12.291
Maybe not ever, ever.

00:35:12.291 --> 00:35:12.972
Okay, maybe not ever.

00:35:12.972 --> 00:35:13.635
I don't think it's that bad.

00:35:13.635 --> 00:35:14.960
Maybe not ever, maybe not ever, ever.

00:35:16.043 --> 00:35:16.525
Oh, I don't know.

00:35:16.525 --> 00:35:18.210
I think lots of people would fight you on that one.

00:35:18.210 --> 00:35:20.472
Maybe, I don't know what they would put in that category.

00:35:21.045 --> 00:35:22.269
I really don't like that one.

00:35:22.269 --> 00:35:24.670
But, whatever it's my, you know that's an opinion.

00:35:25.105 --> 00:35:28.295
That's, these opinions being expressed are her own.

00:35:28.295 --> 00:35:29.467
These are my own opinions.

00:35:29.467 --> 00:35:32.733
It so those are some things.

00:35:32.733 --> 00:35:34.655
Okay, yes, other things.

00:35:34.655 --> 00:35:36.179
Did you ever go on dates?

00:35:37.641 --> 00:35:42.532
uh, so I had a blith brand, okay, uh well, not a couple boyfriends.

00:35:42.532 --> 00:35:45.661
I had a boyfriend my freshman year.

00:35:45.661 --> 00:35:46.525
His name was donovan.

00:35:46.525 --> 00:35:47.525
I adored him.

00:35:47.525 --> 00:35:56.219
Um, donovan was older than me, so he would go up to a place in Muncie, indiana called the no Bar and Grill.

00:35:56.219 --> 00:36:03.938
Okay, which was, it was under 21, but it was again just a little too far out of my range.

00:36:03.938 --> 00:36:09.193
I think he might have had to be 18 to get it.

00:36:09.273 --> 00:36:11.077
I can't remember 18 over places.

00:36:11.077 --> 00:36:11.918
That would make some sense.

00:36:11.918 --> 00:36:14.873
Okay, you had an 18-year-old boyfriend.

00:36:14.873 --> 00:36:17.157
He was cute too.

00:36:18.407 --> 00:36:19.329
Um, he's super cute.

00:36:19.329 --> 00:36:32.590
Anyway, he had a mohawk, he had a blue mohawk and he would come over to my house and I would help him get the mohawk up and, uh, sprayed and everything, and then he would go off to the no bar so you didn't have.

00:36:32.710 --> 00:36:34.432
you had a A hair date.

00:36:34.432 --> 00:36:37.900
My boyfriend used me to do his hair before he went out.

00:36:38.346 --> 00:36:40.472
He bought me a teddy bear for my 16th birthday.

00:36:40.472 --> 00:36:41.556
He was like I don't know.

00:36:41.744 --> 00:36:44.989
We were like it was boyfriend light, it wasn't like you know.

00:36:45.525 --> 00:36:59.355
And then I had a boyfriend for many years in high school and it was interesting because he was not at all like me, which was okay, it was sort of like the polar opposite.

00:36:59.355 --> 00:37:03.009
So I had friends that were always like what are you doing with him and I, you know whatever.

00:37:03.009 --> 00:37:05.755
But now you know, I don't know, we still talk.

00:37:05.755 --> 00:37:08.751
He's a great guy, that's awesome yeah are you friends with?

00:37:08.932 --> 00:37:16.664
like or acquaintances still with most of the people you dated in high school yeah yeah, I would say so yeah uh, but I don't.

00:37:16.764 --> 00:37:21.144
I don't keep in touch with a whole lot of people in high school but just you know, there's a handful.

00:37:21.144 --> 00:37:35.760
There's a handful of people that I've kept because they're awesome, they're fun, they're awesome and there are people that I think about that I just like, really really enjoyed, like the people I I was talking to you about playing penny poker, my friend sean.

00:37:35.860 --> 00:37:39.635
Penny poker was the best and like we would just hang out my husband was talking about that.

00:37:39.655 --> 00:37:41.407
They would play poker in the basement.

00:37:41.487 --> 00:37:42.851
It was great yeah, and we would.

00:37:42.851 --> 00:37:46.168
Just we were like such good kids, we weren't doing anything.

00:37:46.307 --> 00:37:51.668
I didn't drink in high school, I didn't either I was like I didn't either, and I say that and people don't believe me.

00:37:51.869 --> 00:37:58.070
I never drank, never drank nope college was different yes, but in high school I just didn't.

00:37:58.070 --> 00:37:59.577
I was having a great fucking time.

00:37:59.597 --> 00:38:03.311
Yeah, I did not care about drinking, never went to like wild parties.

00:38:03.311 --> 00:38:04.333
How boring is that?

00:38:04.414 --> 00:38:06.822
but never did not at all.

00:38:06.822 --> 00:38:18.856
Never got arrested, never did anything crazy like that my whole senior year I played dungeons and dragons like almost every friday night okay yeah, but we were like cool, yeah, people wanted in.

00:38:18.856 --> 00:38:27.186
I bet we did not let them, they were not allowed we did I mean we were like going at like I was more mobile, we had cars, we could do things at that point.

00:38:27.186 --> 00:38:30.938
It was a choice to do that we did the mall a lot.

00:38:31.179 --> 00:38:32.103
That was the other thing.

00:38:32.143 --> 00:38:38.710
So if we weren't like, if we weren't being, you know, hanging out in broader bowl hooligans, we weren't being hooligans.

00:38:38.710 --> 00:38:46.936
We would be at the mall being hooligans okay um and then you know, we all had jobs too, like I had a job, go eat hula hands.

00:38:46.936 --> 00:38:50.869
I do remember eating there at hula hands?

00:38:51.369 --> 00:38:52.050
yeah, so we would.

00:38:52.050 --> 00:38:52.532
I would have a.

00:38:52.532 --> 00:38:53.875
I had a job.

00:38:53.875 --> 00:38:55.257
Oh, what did you do?

00:38:55.257 --> 00:38:56.925
Uh, well, I think I was working at the.

00:38:57.126 --> 00:39:05.775
Well, I worked at the record stores, mostly, okay, so, yeah, it was a pretty cool place, so that's the thing we would visit our friends at their jobs yeah, oh yeah, on friday night.

00:39:05.795 --> 00:39:08.597
Yeah, if you weren't working, you'd be hanging out with your, with your friends.

00:39:08.597 --> 00:39:17.786
Yeah, absolutely, I had a really good friend that worked at tracks, records and tapes at the fashion mall, so we would go up there we would see, tyler, it was a good time.

00:39:18.528 --> 00:39:26.552
And then I worked at tcby yogurt, because you can't just say tcby, you have to explain that the y means yogurt, right?

00:39:26.552 --> 00:39:28.802
Designer shoe warehouse, dsw.

00:39:28.802 --> 00:39:29.945
Uh-huh, I do those things.

00:39:29.945 --> 00:39:32.028
Make me ATM machine.

00:39:32.028 --> 00:39:33.873
Okay, I think we get it.

00:39:33.873 --> 00:39:35.255
Uh, so I would.

00:39:35.434 --> 00:39:40.114
I was like slinging yogurt in the summertime I worked at the pool, it was a lifeguard.

00:39:40.114 --> 00:39:41.940
Were you working at tcby when?

00:39:41.940 --> 00:39:46.336
When they had the outbreak, like the listeria outbreak, that shut them down for like a while?

00:39:46.918 --> 00:39:49.646
it was pre that it was still really super popular.

00:39:49.646 --> 00:39:57.420
So it was probably like 89, 90, okay, maybe 91, that I worked there, uh, but I did get robbed.

00:39:57.961 --> 00:40:17.987
Oh there, someone came in with a gun but I didn't realize it because I was up front like changing the trash liners and somebody had come in and there was like a hooded sweatshirt over their face and they had one of my co-workers and it was like this tassel, but the sweatshirt looked like the sweatshirt of my other co-worker.

00:40:18.048 --> 00:40:31.518
It was just a red sweatshirt, and so I was I like was doing my shit up front, and I looked up and I was like you guys stop fucking around, and I like went back to my business and then they went back to the back, unbeknownst to me what.

00:40:31.518 --> 00:40:37.849
I realized like 20 minutes later, when it was silent I think it was probably like five minutes I was like where did you guys fucking go?

00:40:37.849 --> 00:40:45.471
Yeah, and I was like started and I heard them in the freezer in the back, my two other coworkers, and I was like what?

00:40:45.471 --> 00:40:48.253
And I opened it and they were totally freaked out.

00:40:48.253 --> 00:41:01.001
And then, when I like kind of thought, I was like oh, that person had a gun, but I just didn't take it in at the time, like you don't think this is happening and nobody's screaming.

00:41:01.001 --> 00:41:06.670
So interestingly, though, there's more to this story, god.

00:41:06.690 --> 00:41:08.472
What did you do on a Friday and Saturday night?

00:41:08.472 --> 00:41:09.375
I called the manager.

00:41:09.514 --> 00:41:10.476
We called the police.

00:41:10.476 --> 00:41:11.559
Yada yada yada.

00:41:11.559 --> 00:41:22.646
The investigator literally was a detective in a trench coat Like sort of the.

00:41:22.646 --> 00:41:24.088
Uh, not matt yeah like the matlock vibe with the brown kind of.

00:41:24.108 --> 00:41:24.931
So he, like they spoke colombo colombo.

00:41:24.931 --> 00:41:25.692
There you go, thanks.

00:41:25.692 --> 00:41:41.518
They spoke to all of us separately and what I think in retrospect, and what I think that they were trying to prove, is that it was actually the assistant manager had set the whole thing up and that the guys that I worked with might have even been in on it.

00:41:41.518 --> 00:41:49.291
That was the theory because, like, the back door shouldn't have been opened, like we just I don't remember if that policy changed.

00:41:49.331 --> 00:41:52.206
Whatever we took our trash out at night and that's how they got in.

00:41:52.206 --> 00:41:58.500
Somebody's waiting right beside our back door at closing with a gun to get in shit for absolutely could have.

00:41:58.500 --> 00:42:06.217
But that red sweatshirt was very specific and I was like, yeah, that seems a little weird, but I think he had his sweatshirt.

00:42:06.217 --> 00:42:06.538
It was.

00:42:06.538 --> 00:42:08.469
They were trying to, like, create this big case.

00:42:08.469 --> 00:42:15.476
My co-workers were not that smart so I don't think that that would have happened.

00:42:15.476 --> 00:42:17.545
Well, you were all high school students.

00:42:17.726 --> 00:42:35.916
I mean, if you were in on it right, like that's a pretty risky thing for, like you're a absolutely you're the I don't I don't even know the term that I'm thinking of, but you're oh, the like the loose thread or whatever right like so that to me says that it wasn't a like a it wasn't.

00:42:35.996 --> 00:42:39.833
It wasn't a setup kind of thing, and all you really got was probably like 200 bucks.

00:42:39.833 --> 00:42:43.255
That's a lot of money back then, that's fair, absolutely.

00:42:43.324 --> 00:42:45.253
You didn't have those safes that you drop shit in.

00:42:45.253 --> 00:42:47.791
You know, I don't think we did, probably not.

00:42:47.811 --> 00:42:51.012
I mean probably not, maybe like I don't know, stuck it in the shoe box.

00:42:51.012 --> 00:42:56.045
I don't know, but in the shoebox.

00:42:56.045 --> 00:42:57.768
I don't know, but that was and I mean that did happen on a weekend.

00:42:57.849 --> 00:42:58.650
It was on a friday, saturday.

00:42:58.650 --> 00:43:00.875
I remember being so in charge I'm using quotation fingers.

00:43:00.875 --> 00:43:04.951
Oh yeah, for like jobs that I had where I would have to take the deposit.

00:43:04.951 --> 00:43:24.365
Like yes, like a big like those those big, thick kevlar kind of bags that locked I have to put all the deposit in, yeah, and then walk down to like the bank and deposit like who the would trust a 17 year old doofus they're just like go here's all the money go.

00:43:24.365 --> 00:43:26.050
Deposit that there were no rules.

00:43:26.231 --> 00:43:29.949
I could have been knocked over the bean and we were supposed to have a run off with that time.

00:43:29.949 --> 00:43:31.974
We were 17 according to our families.

00:43:31.994 --> 00:43:35.833
That's how it worked so you said that you, you didn't have a car.

00:43:35.833 --> 00:43:38.391
No, do you remember when you got a car?

00:43:38.552 --> 00:43:41.331
Okay, yeah, not until college.

00:43:41.331 --> 00:43:43.672
Probably not until, like, my sophomore year of college.

00:43:43.853 --> 00:43:48.336
Okay, so I had like an old car of my stepmother's.

00:43:48.336 --> 00:44:00.038
It was like some sort of Oldsmobile hatchback thing, yep, and it had bald ass tires and I should have died about six times over.

00:44:00.038 --> 00:44:01.688
I'm pretty sure heard understood.

00:44:01.688 --> 00:44:03.693
Yeah, that was my college car.

00:44:04.134 --> 00:44:05.056
That was my mobile.

00:44:05.056 --> 00:44:13.288
There are a lot of politics around me not having a car in high school, oh, but okay, that's for another day there's more story.

00:44:13.288 --> 00:44:16.704
So no car but boyfriends and then friends who drove Okay.

00:44:16.704 --> 00:44:19.574
So, you kind of like get picked up and you go do fun shit.

00:44:19.574 --> 00:44:21.471
Okay, I do remember going to the movies.

00:44:21.471 --> 00:44:24.081
I do remember movie tickets being like $2.75.

00:44:25.025 --> 00:44:31.778
I stole a rope like one of those red velvet ropes from a movie theater one Saturday or Friday night.

00:44:31.965 --> 00:44:33.445
What were you going to do with said rope?

00:44:33.465 --> 00:44:35.887
Well, it hung in my room forever one saturday or friday night.

00:44:35.907 --> 00:44:36.289
What were you going?

00:44:36.389 --> 00:44:45.106
to do with said well, it hung in my room forever, like I just, yeah, well, because it was like this big, thick, velvet ropes and I have like a little hook thing so I like hooked it and then hung it on my bookshelf and it was cool I had a one-way sign.

00:44:45.106 --> 00:44:46.992
My, it was cool as fuck.

00:44:46.992 --> 00:44:49.961
My grandmother was like what is, what is that?

00:44:49.961 --> 00:44:52.708
I'm like it's nothing don't worry about it.

00:44:52.728 --> 00:44:55.596
Don't worry about grandma now ask me how I got the rope.

00:44:55.596 --> 00:44:57.467
How did you get the rope, megan?

00:44:57.467 --> 00:45:09.539
I had a very long, uh, denim trench coat, as one does in the 80s particularly, and I wrapped the rope around me a couple times and walked right out with it a movie theater rope.

00:45:09.987 --> 00:45:11.030
They were probably like who the?

00:45:11.072 --> 00:45:12.418
fuck steals a movie theater room.

00:45:12.418 --> 00:45:14.507
I know and what I'm sad about bennett.

00:45:14.547 --> 00:45:16.313
Did megan bennett stole that room?

00:45:16.313 --> 00:45:16.976
I did what?

00:45:16.996 --> 00:45:23.514
I'm sad about is that I don't still have it, and I'm pretty sure that my grandmother sold it in a in a garage sale.

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Fuck no, I love your grandma and fuck your grandma.

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She sold a lot of good shit everything.

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Damn it, grandma, I know damn it, movie theater rope.

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Okay, there we go.

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So.

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You know what you can get back?

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What oh?

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A big denim trench coat.

00:45:41.409 --> 00:45:42.775
Look at that, they're trending.

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That one is $170.

00:45:46.105 --> 00:45:50.335
I can promise you that my trench coat was not $170.

00:45:50.335 --> 00:45:51.458
Oh, that one's kind of sharp.

00:45:51.458 --> 00:45:52.286
I like that one.

00:45:52.286 --> 00:45:58.335
The women's casual double breasted long denim trench coat oh, I'm sorry, trench coat.

00:45:58.335 --> 00:46:00.579
Jean jacket trench coat on eBay.

00:46:00.579 --> 00:46:03.072
Which one, the one, the big picture there.

00:46:03.496 --> 00:46:06.072
Oh yeah, that's kind of cute with the black dress.

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Well there you go.

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Who knew, with those denim heels.

00:46:10.715 --> 00:46:11.255
There you go.

00:46:11.255 --> 00:46:17.047
I am probably not going to go that route, but so, going out in the 80s you asked a couple questions.

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You've got like a little bit of feedback from people in the gen x.

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Women are sick of this shit facebook group I did and uh, some, you know some folks like amanda davis boris says that she did blockbuster and dominoes.

00:46:31.728 --> 00:46:34.434
Oh, fun blockbusters, of course, love that.

00:46:34.434 --> 00:46:45.965
Uh, let's see don levy jenkins says she was cruising and cosmic, bowling movies and mall, of course, yeah, I remember cosmic bowling.

00:46:46.045 --> 00:46:50.452
Yeah, that was in beach grove um, I was in a band during the fall, it was football.

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Or I was in a band during the fall, it was football, I was in band.

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We didn't have all the marching competitions the kids have nowadays, but Friday nights were at the football game.

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So that was Sandy Baker.

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Oh, right on.

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Lots of people saying that they just cruised.

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So people cruising up and down streets for multiple hours.

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There's all kinds of that College parties keg parties on the beach.

00:47:14.074 --> 00:47:19.835
Somebody says it's pretty cool Roller skating from middle school, for sure.

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If we lived near a beach, oh my God, not just Indiana Beach.

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It would have been the best.

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So many beach parties.

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I would have probably been drinking then In cornfields in Indiana.

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So, to that end, there were a lot of people having parties in the woods.

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Okay, like.

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Lot of people having parties in the woods, okay, like lots of people Parties in the woods, parties in the woods Just in general, out in the woods.

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Yep.

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So Kelly Turner Kennedy says hanging out in the woods with friends and a half a barrel of beer, rock stars.

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I mean lots of that.

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And I know for a fact, like cruising in small towns with the town square absolutely Because you would like go to sports, and then you would go cruising Yep In Indianapolis a little bit less, but I mean Broad Ripple Avenue was kind of the place.

00:48:05.431 --> 00:48:09.706
Yes, that's true that you would like drive up and down and you would see people all and the Circle downtown, circle downtown.

00:48:09.847 --> 00:48:13.789
Yep, and that area that's just south of the circle that has like a lot of bars.

00:48:13.789 --> 00:48:16.672
Yeah, this was in the 90s.

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There was like a 24-hour cafe that was in that same block and they had a lot of board games.

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You could go in there and get, like go in there a little blotto and then sit and have a board game.

00:48:33.621 --> 00:48:34.103
Where was that?

00:48:34.103 --> 00:48:39.148
It's called the Red Eye Cafe.

00:48:39.148 --> 00:48:39.831
That just came to me.

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Oh wow, good job, just pulled that out of my hiney.

00:48:41.735 --> 00:48:51.257
But yeah, that was I love that that was pretty cool, that was pretty fun um a lot of people say like a few people saying that they watched mtv while babysitting oh, that's what started this whole.

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That's why we're here.

00:48:52.802 --> 00:49:01.251
Yeah, we were going to talk about saturday night, friday night friday, friday we were like what about like a friday night videos kind of episode, just like, what did you do on friday night?

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Did you watch friday night videos as a young?

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human, occasionally my um.

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My jam was sunday nights with 120 minutes mtv okay, and tv is minutes.

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That's why Mondays were always hard, so awful.

00:49:17.501 --> 00:49:20.873
But that's how I learned about new music.

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I remember.

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When did it come out?

00:49:23.487 --> 00:49:24.987
It started in 86.

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Okay, right on and Friday Night Videos, I think aired in 1983.

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I think that's right, which is amazing.

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And it was on NBC.

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We didn't have cable for a billion years because I lived in the middle of nowhere, so this would have been the closest thing that I would have gotten would be Friday Night Videos.

00:49:41.284 --> 00:49:49.920
And what I found interesting, that history down there, dick Ebersole produced it from 74 to 81.

00:49:50.804 --> 00:49:54.775
And he co-produced Midnight Special with the series creator, bert Sugarman.

00:49:54.775 --> 00:49:57.233
I'm pointing and reading like people know what I'm doing.

00:49:57.233 --> 00:50:07.318
He left from Midnight Special in 81 to take over executive producer of co-creation with Lauren Michaels Saturday Night Live Babies, which I found fascinating.

00:50:07.358 --> 00:50:07.878
Yeah, that's very cool.

00:50:07.878 --> 00:50:08.400
I thought that was great.

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Yeah, small, small, tiny little world.

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I know right.

00:50:12.534 --> 00:50:16.454
Very cool, Well, hey it's Friday night and you have Friday night planned.

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I do.

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I'm going to go have some dinner with some friends.

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Enjoy, enjoy your Friday night.

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Enjoy your dinner with your friends.

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I will.

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I will.

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This was fun.

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You have a good Friday night too.

00:50:26.347 --> 00:50:26.889
I will.

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Cheers One more.

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Let's finish this off.

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Here All right Till next time, leslie.

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