Dr. D: The sun will come out tomorrow.

Coach A: The sun need to come out today because somebody explained to me, how y'all doing today? I hope everybody's having an amazing day. Yes, welcome to the podcast. Anybody want to explain how it went from 90 degrees outside?

Dr. D: Welcome to the podcast.

Coach A: and less than 72 hours it is brick brick brick all white bricks

Dr. D: to frigate. Yeah. There was frost on the grass as I walked my dog this morning. Frost.

Coach A: That's crazy. I was out at DC Emancipation Day, shout out to them too, and it was a little cold out there, just a smidge, just a skosh. T.I. performing at DC Emancipation Day wasn't what I had on my bingo card, but I'm not mad at it.

Dr. D: Mm. How was the performance?

Coach A: I actually did not see TI's performance in its entirety because I also went to another function. I was at 12 stories.

Dr. D: ⁓ he was outside. I said you was outside.

Coach A: I guess.

Dr. D: You know, I met TI in seventh grade.

Coach A: How was that?

Dr. D: ⁓ it's fine. He, he, ⁓ he lied to us all. He told us that like his music was like a big lie and he'd just be talking and he don't be really doing them crimes. But then like literally a couple months later, he was in jail for that time. So I felt bamboozled. But I do remember what we like, we like, so he came out and did his little don't be bad speech to us. And then we all got to come up and meet him and get autographed a TI versus TIP poster. This is in my elementary school because I went to black school and that's what we did. So we all walked up and the girl who was in front of me in line, she was like, TI, you are so sexy.

Coach A: I'm I'm sorry you had that interaction with Clifford. Mm.

Dr. D: Mind you, we're like 12. And he was like, what you know about me sexy? I do remember that. And I was just so ⁓ that she said that. All I did was give him my poster. So I didn't speak to him.

Coach A: That was was rubber band man. Y'all was talking to

Dr. D: Yeah, so he was like, yeah, would I just be saying that? I'm not really like that. That's not my lifestyle. I just do it because that's the music. And then like the headline six months later was like, no, he actually be doing them crimes. So I felt hoodwinked by him at a young age. You know, I don't know, maybe talk about something else like, no, don't or maybe like a do as I say, not as I do. But he was just like, I have just that's just cat. don't do that kind of stuff.

Coach A: I mean, what did you want him to do? You want him to tell a fifth grader in the middle of elementary school, yeah, I did all of that shit.

Dr. D: You Right, I did it and I regret it. Or like I did it and like you should not.

Coach A: At that age, you don't even know about regret.

Dr. D: Maybe, maybe not. But I was just, I remember being like, well, he just told me that he don't be doing that. So why would he be going to jail for those things? I just remember like, it was very, very soon after he told us that he don't live that life. He goes to prison for living that life. So I think maybe it was like the timing of it. And also I've just been a very, I've always been a very critical person. So I was just like, now, why would you just lie to us?

Coach A: So seventh grade or seventh grade? ⁓ you was 11, you said it right.

Dr. D: Mm-hmm.

Coach A: And that was the one and only time you seen TL. You never ran in, you never, y'all you never seen or ran into him or nothing like that when you was in Atlanta, when you was at Clark.

Dr. D: That closey. No. Waka Flocka? Yes. Never T.I. Chris Brown? Ludacris?

Coach A: Mm. Mm. ⁓

Dr. D: ⁓ those are the only ones I can really remember. But never, I never ran in, ran into TI in Atlanta. What's her name? Monica? Monica. you do, there's a lot of seeing celebrities in Atlanta is like, okay.

Coach A: Mmm. It's like New York. It's like you can see them. It's baby outside.

Dr. D: Yeah, they just be outside. yeah, definitely. And also like celebrities kids go to a lot of them go to Clark like a certain celebrity son was in my like I was his TA for a bit. So

Coach A: And who is this?

Dr. D: with her name. one of the Braxton sisters. Like Trina, it might've been Trina, Trina's son.

Coach A: Okay, I don't I don't know nothing about none of their kids like that

Dr. D: Yeah, so I'm like, Abrex, not Tony, but like one of her sister's sons with the Clark. So it's just like, yeah, you see some celebrities or some celebrity kids around there.

Coach A: Well, You know, speaking of college, I'd be seeing all of these posts ⁓ on ⁓ Instagram TikTok. scroll up on my pit, on my for you or whatever ⁓ from random or school seniors looking to to college.

Dr. D: Mm-hmm.

Coach A: And they'll post up those collages with all these schools and with them in the middle like, where I'ma go, where I'ma go. And I recently found out that they apparently don't post schools that they've been accepted to, they just post all the schools that they've applied to.

Dr. D: That's so odd to me. Because putting the logos around you implies that these are the options that you are choosing from.

Coach A: That's very odd.

Dr. D: You're not choosing from schools that didn't accept you. You're choosing from the ones that did. So why wouldn't you just put up the ones that did accept you?

Coach A: You know what else about those posts that be making me mad? Some of them use AI, like they'll put all the school names in chat and be like, chat make me a collage. When they do that, those logos and emblems and stuff don't ⁓ nowhere near right.

Dr. D: I don't know if I've ever seen it or if I've ever paid attention to realize it was like an AI logo.

Coach A: I feel like if I would have pulled one up you would be like, no they're terrible. I'm talking like wrong colors, wrong, like it's just bad. It's like girl don't post this.

Dr. D: Please, please pull one up. I wanna talk about AI so bad. I feel like it's taken me a while to form my own opinion about AI. And I have opinions that might be different from other, from other people our age. But I feel like AI is not the problem. Like the concept of AI is not the problem. It's how we are using it that is the problem. I think people are so AI itself is not bad. It's just the way we are using it so recklessly, I think is the problem. I think it needs to be a little bit more regulated, but I don't think it's inherently the problem.

Coach A: ⁓ it definitely needs to be regulated and it definitely will at some point. I don't know if we're quite there yet.

Dr. D: Mm-hmm. Right now we're just training. It's free for us so that we can train it to be better.

Coach A: It ain't free for everybody. Some people be paying their little coin every month for the triple deluxe package on the AI apps.

Dr. D: I don't need artificial intelligence that bad to pay for it.

Coach A: ⁓ Here's what I'll say as a ⁓ person in tech. think that could be very helpful and useful in making us as humans more efficient. I don't think we're quite at the point where it can replace a ⁓ all way. Like if you just put simple prompts in chat, ⁓ can...

Dr. D: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Coach A: It'll show you sometimes how. It can be, yeah, like it can be wrong.

Dr. D: Simple answers. Yeah.

Coach A: So, but I do agree with you. think that we are using it recklessly and people are using it to try to do every little thing. And it's like, if you're not even using it efficiently, the time that you spend giving chat all the prompts to try to get it perfect, you could have been did it.

Dr. D: Right? I can't like, I don't know how other people use it. I can only imagine based on what I see is like people are just saying the same kind of surface level things and getting the same surface level answers. So I think the tool is only as smart as the person using it. And I think that's the problem. That's the problem. it's not that we are, well, one is super bad for the environment. So obviously it needs to be

Coach A: ⁓ absolutely.

Dr. D: housed more effectively and not in a way that is harming people, like literally harming people, but beyond the environmental impact, I think. Stupid is as stupid as.

Coach A: Yeah, I mean, not going anywhere.

Dr. D: No.

Coach A: seems like right now people are kind of on either end of the spectrum, either they hate it or they love it. And the one thing I know for certain is that regardless of where you fall on that spectrum, it's going to be a part of your everyday life. So yeah, whether you like it or not. So either you're going to educate yourself and be prepared for that shift or you

Dr. D: Hmm. whether you want to, whether it's conscious or subconscious, yeah. Yeah.

Coach A: You gonna be one of them people who, you know, sit on their porch waving their fists at the sun, at the sky, like...

Dr. D: Yeah, I'm seeing a lot of people on my socials be like me getting left behind by AI and on the one hand I get it like haha like I'm so old I'm not choose I'm choosing not to adapt to new technology but on the other hand I think it's a time and a place I think I use chat or AI to make my make some processes more efficient, especially work related, where it's like I can just. It's like a starting point, but people use it as a starting and ending point. And I think that'd be the problem. That'd be the problem. But I also live a real life. Like I also touch grass. I think it's a balance. I lost my train of thought there.

Coach A: Yeah, I don't- AI doesn't go anywhere. It's unfortunate that... the students of all ages in school are kind of relying on AI, chat, whatever their chat they using to get them through school.

Dr. D: Mm-hmm. You know. a ⁓ study came out about ⁓ the time and point time when school districts adopted like a ratio, meaning ⁓ one young person, one computer. Like back in the day, we had computer So like ⁓ one-to-one is not a thing. But if you look on the map, I of when school districts

Coach A: Mm-hmm.

Dr. D: adapt ⁓ one-to-one technology situation and ⁓ intellectual capacity it like stops like of course you want to see increase you want to see every with every generation every year like the scores increase like young people are getting smarter faster whatever that's what you would want to see but when we implement technology it's like it was a it was stagnant for a while and then it just started to rapidly decline ⁓ so having technology all the time is not good. It's honestly, think, I think this, like that we started studying this, ⁓ like in America and like the 1960s. And it's like the more technology you implement, the less cognitive function you have. And Gen Z I think is the first generation that's not smarter than their parents.

Coach A: think that there are lot of variables that contribute to that. think it becomes very evident when you take into account social media and how social media has evolved over the years. Because you gotta think, like social media was not new to us by the time we were in high school. Like we kinda already knew what social media was. Like we had MySpace, we had all the things, right? Ayo, AIM, like we had all the, AIM is wild by the way. My God, AIM.

Dr. D: Yeah. Yeah. AIM is crazy. Were you on AIM? Were you on AIM? Oh, I was never on AIM. I had a kid's AOL account.

Coach A: AOL, yes, every day. Nah, I was in them chat rooms.

Dr. D: no, I never chat roomed. ⁓ I've never chat roomed in AIMed. In AIM. ⁓

Coach A: I was in them chat rooms. That's wild. Anyway, can you imagine? ⁓

Dr. D: But it wasn't your whole life. Like you went and played outside and then you came in and got on the computer.

Coach A: Well, not only that, not only that, so I think part of the problem is when you look at the kind of social media that we had, and when I say we, mean, millennials, ⁓ younger We were in high school, we were in college. Well, let's back up. I'll start from the beginning. The first kind of ⁓ big media boom was with MySpace. Besides like the ⁓ chat and all of that, like a site like that.

Dr. D: Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. ⁓ remember making my first page.

Coach A: MySpace, right? Yeah. And so think about how we interacted with each other on MySpace. you post your little pictures, you poke people, or maybe that was Facebook, but whatever. you, you know, that's you ping people. Yeah, you comment. Right, right. And then ⁓ like slowly started to become a thing. And it was like people posting all of these videos and blah, blah, Cool. So we had YouTube. Then, I mean, I'm skip over a lot. I'm just going to hit the main ones just for the sake of the conversation.

Dr. D: Mm-hmm. comment. You message people. Mm-hmm.

Coach A: But then, you know, we kind of transitioned from MySpace to Facebook-ish. Like Twitter came out, but at some point we were still like texting to tweet, you know what saying? Like we were still doing all of that. So Twitter, right. And when you think about the type of platform that Twitter was ⁓ it first came out, it was pretty much exclusively just tweets. Like you just type, you do 140 characters, whatever, and ⁓ send, right? Like that was it. Just a big ass chat room.

Dr. D: Mm-hmm. tweet that. Yeah. Yeah, basically.

Coach A: Yeah, and then so on and so forth, right? All of these Instagram when Instagram first came out, I'm talking about like the first versions of Instagram. It was just pictures. You couldn't do no videos. You it wasn't no stories like none of that. was just you post your picture like boom move on. But now we have evolved and it kind of started with Snapchat ish where just post these stories like these shorts.

Dr. D: Mm-hmm.

Coach A: these 30 minutes or sorry, 30 seconds or less worth of video. And then look at where everything that's happened after that, right? Snapchat. Then you had the stories that were timed. it had to be 15 seconds or something like that. TikTok, TikTok came along. Vine, even before TikTok, Vine was a thing. Everything was six seconds. ⁓ The of content, we started off with just static web pages, static images.

Dr. D: Yeah. Literally just six seconds.

Coach A: We were introduced to videos, really like real videos with YouTube, but most of the videos that people were posting on YouTube were longer than a minute. You know what saying? They were long form, longer form videos. And as social media has progressed and evolved, the videos have gotten shorter and shorter and shorter and shorter and shorter. And so those, those constant rapid dopamine hits, that is part of the reason why when you translate it,

Dr. D: you. Yeah. Thank

Coach A: or when you, you know, to loop it back to the conversation of technology in schools, their attention spans are, you have to like, that's why you got teachers jumping off of desks and doing all this craziness because they can't keep their attention long enough to teach them anything. And it's because from a JIT, their brains are trained. Dopamine, dopamine, dopamine, swipe, swipe, swipe, swipe, swipe. Think about, think about if anybody makes content.

Dr. D: Yeah, for just... just...

Coach A: They tell you like that first 3 to 4 seconds is the most important. Why? Because niggas is just gonna swipe like they don't have they don't have an enum. So you got it. Yes. Yes. That's why people do such dumb shit in the beginning of their videos. Because that's the only way they're gonna keep you there long enough for them to say what they really want to say or do what they really want to do.

Dr. D: It's an attention economy. Like that's what you get paid off of people looking for a long time. Yeah. Yeah, unfortunately. Like that's how you gotta get attention. Do you like, I'm unfortunately, this is a very pivot, hard pivot. I'm on the side of TikTok where I'm getting, you know, ads for like the TikTok shop and stuff. And for whatever reason beats me. The thing that I'm getting advertised to right now are like sticky bras or just bras in general. And so the first... you talk about the first three to four seconds, like the video be like, do your big fat saggy titties go all the way down to the floor?

Coach A: That's gonna make you stay on the video.

Dr. D: that's gonna make you watch. then they show you, or they're like literally jiggling them like, look, I'm jumping around. It's not going nowhere. And it's like, hmm, I'm intrigued. probably ⁓ might invest in that product. I get advertised the most ridiculous stuff and some of the stuff I be buying, unfortunately. I'm a ⁓ big victim on TikTok shop. Or should I say just supporter.

Coach A: Yeah, it's scary. It's scary to know kind of how we as humans have evolved in just a short time that we've been alive.

Dr. D: Yeah. Yeah. We used to be in real country. used to be coding in like the seventh grade trying to make my single ladies YouTube video start and end where I wanted to and not be so big. can see the play button so you can't click off the page. You gotta watch, you don't have no choice to stop the music because I had cropped out the, it's only these pixels by these pixels or whatever.

Coach A: You Yeah, man, we used to now you got all this vibe coding. So you just tell chat what you what you want and it'll just it's and again and again, it's not It's to the point where it is that good where you could just do it and be perfect The first time you ask it something like AI is still very new in a sense that I mean, obviously it can't read your mind

Dr. D: Mmm. Which is crazy. Right.

Coach A: But also part of the problem is because you, I'm not gonna insult anybody, but because some of y'all are uneducated, y'all don't even know how to ask questions to begin with. Y'all don't even know how to communicate to begin with. If you were a good communicator, communicating with chat should be nothing because you can explain yourself, but a lot of people don't even know how to speak or communicate. So they have trouble. You can't even do it in your day to day life. So that's why when you ask chat to do something and it don't be right because you not at, you have to say it like it's five.

Dr. D: Right. Right. Yeah. Yeah, I feel like I would imagine people are just like, make it better, make it sound better. Like, and it's like, what does that mean? Like you have to be, yeah, words mean things and you have to say what you mean, and mean what you say.

Coach A: but like... no. And that's why, that's, that's why, I feel ⁓ ⁓ guess, blessed in the sense that because I'm an engineer by training, I'm already trained to think like that. Like I'm already trained. I was taught to kind of, ⁓ as a systems engineer, you have to ask the questions. You have to think of all the edge cases. You have to think of everything that could go wrong. All the risks. Like you have to think about all of that. When you building this thing.

Dr. D: Yeah.

Coach A: So, you know, to think about it in that way and apply it to using AI, it's like, ⁓ this is easy. But a lot of people don't have that. So they struggle. And that's why all they do is make XChat to make them pictures or AI flyers, which please stop doing that.

Dr. D: cartoon flyer. please stop doing it and actually posting it. Like if you want to do it out of curiosity or even to just give you inspo, like that's my thing. Whatever comes out of AI should never be your final product. Like ever. I think like those are the, those are the things that set you apart. you can have something that's AI generated, I suppose, or like the first step in a 10 step process is AI or AI generated, supported, whatever, but If you just crank something down on chat and be like, yep, post. And then you have the logos be wrong or you have 17 fingers or you know, something, some other continuity thing that makes, that takes the person out of the fantasy of whatever you're trying to sell or promote. It's like, it's only as smart as the person using it. And so. ⁓

Coach A: Yeah. You know, ⁓ AI has also done a disservice to those who are educated because a lot of times people will talk specifically on threads. see this, but they'll talk or they'll, you know, post something that's maybe two or three threads long where they're just writing. And people are like, this is AI. And it's like, no, why everything that's written well have to be AI just cause you type like Cam Newton.

Dr. D: interview. Right. I'm assuming that's And collect the- I don't follow men on stuff, crazy. No, I have not seen anything Cam Newton has produced besides the clips that have girls in it.

Coach A: You ain't never seen Cam Newton's. You This thing. ⁓

Dr. D: but it's funny, Taylor was just saying the same thing. She says somebody like who typically writes long winded emails. Excuse me? Wait, are the, is this like a weird font? Am I? Now I know it's 420. Please don't, I don't like that. That's how we used to write in seventh grade, but worse. I used to spell my name. I don't even know how to, if I want to tell you.

Coach A: And, NARA!

Dr. D: I used to spell my name very MySpace-y. It was a lowercase d, an at sign, ⁓ a capital R, exclamation point, three, lowercase l, uppercase l.

Coach A: Okay, hold on. Wait a minute.

Dr. D: Are you about to type it out? Okay.

Coach A: need to. I need to- I'm a visual learner. I got to see. Alright, say it again. What is it?

Dr. D: And now... lowercase d at sign capital R exclamation point

Coach A: Okay. Okay. Okay.

Dr. D: Three, lowercase l, uppercase l. That was me.

Coach A: Wow.

Dr. D: Yeah, I know. That's my signature. That was my signature.

Coach A: That was your signature.

Dr. D: anything remember people used to have text message signatures i don't think i ever did that though it was kind of corny but people used to sign every text with the same like it would be like his sweetheart it'd be like hey his sweetheart what you doing his sweetheart like girl

Coach A: ⁓ yeah, them signatures? Wee. But, do you think, can you still do that? Is that still a feature? Like, if I started doing that, like just signing all my, God is love, Reverend. Yeah, exactly. I'ma look into that.

Dr. D: I hope not, it shouldn't be. It's because it's dumb. Reverend God is love. Mm-hmm. it's like an email signature, but ⁓ make sense. I don't need a text message signature. I don't need a team signature. Like everything is sent by, sent by me. Can I ask you something? What's one of the most ⁓ heinous you've seen on your TikTok recently?

Coach A: anus?

Dr. D: Yeah, or just like something of, of no- What's your TikTok algorithm feeding you these days?

Coach A: body cam footage ⁓ Well, the most insane thing actually I've seen recently on TikTok was, did you hear about that man that killed all the kids in Shreveport, Louisiana? Yeah, RIP to them. Yeah. That's the most outrageous thing I've seen on my TikTok recently. Cause what do you mean?

Dr. D: I don't know the details, that's all I know is that a man killed a bunch of That's just, it's just a culture of violence. Like I know that guy who was an alpha who killed him, his wife and then killed himself. But then all the alphas were coming up on social media, ⁓ eulogizing him, him sell. He was just a great dude. That's bizarre. And Roland Martin came out, but then he had to take his statement down because the girls were eating him up.

Coach A: Yeah, if you... you're that... Again, I am a... I'm very much a Mipha, I'm E.G.D.I. I am not Greek whatsoever. ⁓ But... Even so... If... Your loyalty to your letters... Makes you that blind? Like, it's given... Like, that gives very much cult. Cause what do you mean? This man annihilated... These people killed their own family.

Dr. D: Yeah. Yeah.

Coach A: and you comment it please. No, it's not rest in peace. It's actually not.

Dr. D: It's crazy. He actually killed someone else and then himself. But we're talking about him like, ⁓ I was just with him. He was a great dude.

Coach A: Like, so what? And you lucky you made it out, apparently!

Dr. D: Insane. I'm on the side of TikTok where there's a case of two ⁓ teachers who were messing with their students in this one high school, two women, two female high school teachers. ⁓ One caught and then another one got caught. And now it's like all the text messages are leaked. Not leaked, but you know, ⁓ came in the court documents and stuff. So people are reading the text threads between the student and his teacher. the teacher and his her victim rather where basically he was like extorting not extorting but he was she was serving as a sugar mama of sorts where ⁓ would pay the high school students to send her compliments like she would send pictures of herself and he would compliment her and she would send him like he was it was very much like a degrading type of thing like he called her all kinds of ⁓ not nice ⁓ It was weird, but now all the text messages are coming out reading like the, it's very cringe. And clearly she peaked in high school and just wants to like be a high schooler, I guess. it's bizarre. It is strange. Haley Beck is her name. One of the teacher's names. I don't know what the other one is.

Coach A: Mmm. Did me and you watch that documentary together on Netflix? ⁓ Unknown number.

Dr. D: I don't know. It's possible. What's it about?

Coach A: It was a documentary about how this girl kept getting all these threatening text messages to blackmail her and stuff like that. They were in high school.

Dr. D: ⁓ Mm-hmm. Yes, I do remember that.

Coach A: And she like, she had a boyfriend that basically she was correct. And then, well, I guess if you've never seen unknown number then spoiler alert, spoiler alert. ⁓ But it ended up being the girl's mother that was sending her these terrible text messages from an unknown number.

Dr. D: Yeah, and the person was threatening both of them Spoiler alert. No. That's crazy, like to have your mother cyber bully you basically for over a year and cyber bully you in a very like also sexual harassment kind of way.

Coach A: Yes, sexual harassment, she was telling her to kill herself. Can you imagine your mother telling you to kill yourself?

Dr. D: People are really emotional like stunted like I don't know how else I don't know what else would make you like it has to be a mental health thing a chemical imbalance somehow that would make you want to actually do those things to a kid but to your own kid is so bizarre

Coach A: Yeah. to own kid. And then when the police came to their house to confront the mother about it, the daughter was there. They were all like, it was a police officer and the mother and the daughter standing there and the police officer was like, well, we found out whose phone, whose number has been texting your daughter and like is registered to you. So you want to explain to us what the hell going on? And the daughter sitting right there and the mother goes and hugs the daughter and it's holding the daughter while the

Dr. D: So strange. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Coach A: officer is unfolding all of this stuff it's like do you know how sick you have to be

Dr. D: Yeah. Yeah, I don't know how sick you have to be. It's crazy.

Coach A: And you know how I know the daughter, the daughter gotta be fucked up. Like, gotta be fucked up.

Dr. D: Yeah, to know that you're parent.

Coach A: But in the documentary, she was standing ten tones behind her mother. She was like, I still love her like...

Dr. D: I mean, it's her mom. I don't blame, like, I mean, it's your mom, like.

Coach A: Listen, I love my mama to death, but guess what?

Dr. D: if she cyber bullied you.

Coach A: Can you imagine?

Dr. D: No, that's very new world problem. Like, my mom would, like, technology, she's on technology, but like...

Coach A: I would have known it was my mama. I'm like, why did you spell that whole word out like that?

Dr. D: Yeah. Yeah. I don't think my mom could get away with cyberbullying me because the words on her phone are so large that anybody within like a 10 foot radius would be like, why are you saying that to that girl? That's so mean.

Coach A: Not too, not too much on my...

Dr. D: Her words on her phone are so big. It's just bad.

Coach A: But like if you're okay, but if you if you got phone on your phone that's that big if you got to turn the phone up to the maximum You can't be talking shit in your like in your text messages because we can see that from the parking lot sis if you like yeah, cuz they be they got they should in 96 PT and You talk about these niggas on the plane like do you know that we can see you Martha?

Dr. D: Yeah. Exactly. That's how them racist people be getting caught. Did you see the one at the NBA game when it was like all these Mexicans and it was like a San Antonio game or something like that? It was like all these Mexicans in ⁓ the, you know, in like the, what's the front of the bleachers called? I don't know. Sitting court side, I don't know the words. But some old lady was texting like basically how are all these Mexicans affording it? like this, whatever team it was.

Coach A: What?

Dr. D: watching play was very much a Texas team. So it's like, ⁓

Coach A: Imagine being mad seeing Mexicans in a place called San Antonio or Los Angeles. Are you okay? Are you all right?

Dr. D: Correct. Like, you're mad.

Coach A: San Antonio.

Dr. D: Antonio

Coach A: San Antonio. ain't never been to San Antonio, but I have been to Texas. Texas.

Dr. D: Yeah. I have not been to Texas. I've never been to Texas, not yet. really, a few.

Coach A: few times. I've been to Texas. Yeah, I don't know why everybody moving down there. It's hot as hell.

Dr. D: I mean, Would you rather have predictable warm weather or how we're having it now where everything is like up and down? Or would you rather have it like consistent?

Coach A: I mean, besides the fact that my sinuses are confused. I don't really have a problem with it. I think it's crazy as shit, but I don't have a problem with it. I love the cold. So you ain't gonna hear no complaints out of me, but I like having all four seasons.

Dr. D: Mm. Me too.

Coach A: Like I like hoodie season. I like hoodie season. I like, you know what saying, a good fall night. I don't want to be in a place where it's 105 degrees and 90 degrees at night.

Dr. D: Yeah, the thought of wearing shorts on Christmas is crazy to me. Like I need I need it all ⁓

Coach A: It's something, it just, it wouldn't feel right. It wouldn't feel right. But, teacher's own, teacher's own. You know, I got a random question. Because I told you I was in 12 stories over the weekend ⁓ on Sunday actually. And...

Dr. D: Okay. You did.

Coach A: I'ma sound like an old, bitter person. I promise you I'm not, but like whatever, don't give a fuck how you take it. I feel like- there was a lot of strolling and I know some of the people that were there so like I can kind of gauge around the age of some of these people that were strolling and I just want to know is there at what age do you stop showing to every song that come on in the club?

Dr. D: EW I feel like after graduation it's a little OD, personally. I would say you got, if you an undergrad, if you an undergrad, okay? And also I think there's a proximity, if you are at a college function, of course, if you're at a well-known college city or something and you're just in the radius, but if you just at a random venue.

Coach A: because...

Dr. D: Hoppin' and strollin' regardless of your age, I feel like it's a little bit frustrating. It's like a commoner, if you will.

Coach A: Yeah. ⁓ know. I did take a video because like I said, I knew some people that was there.

Dr. D: That's a cute dress. You know, ⁓ and the noops. Yep. Great. Love it. Yeah, I don't know. It's been so long since I've been in an event like this. That would throw me off so bad. And only because it's been so long. That's not a frequent occurrence here. Nobody's strolling in freaky brand, Actually, let me erase that. Let's beep out the name, because I don't need to send people to my home ⁓ bar. But ain't nobody strolling up in there.

Coach A: DC, I love DC. I love DC down like we're always in forever. DC is such a special place because like you said the clubs in Philly it's not it's probably some of them non-denying Greek sororities and fraternities whatever the fuck they think ⁓ they think it's but it ain't strolling.

Dr. D: I was gonna say, why are people waiting strolling?

Coach A: seen up you asked me what's on my tiktok algorithm that i've been seeing there's been an uptick there's been an uptick of non-denon strolling on my timeline i don't like it

Dr. D: White people strolling. Uptick on the TikTok. I've seen it for people of color, like a Latino organization or Asian. And it's like, why? Why you wanna do that?

Coach A: Please, ⁓ my god, please tell me that you saw that video that came out years ago of that SG Rho. Terrible, horrible SG Rho probate.

Dr. D: No, maybe. What was horrible about it? they fall? Cause I know they did it like... ⁓ no, I don't, I don't work on... Okay.

Coach A: my god, it was like they might as well had it was the worst like it was only four of them it was only four of them I ain't no w- yo When we get off of here, I'm going show you that video. I'm surprised you've never seen it before.

Dr. D: It's possible that I have and just blocked it out. It's quite possible that I have.

Coach A: man that probate was terrible i mean absolutely horrible i forgot where it was i think it was i think it was at hbcu i'm pretty sure i'ma show it to you that shit was absolutely terrible

Dr. D: ⁓ Okay.

Coach A: At first I didn't even know that they were SG Rhoades. I was like, because there's no way y'all moving like that, SG Rhoades. There's no way y'all moving like that. But no. And I'm not shaming, listen, this is not, I just think that it's very, when you see something done a certain way for so long and then you see, because I was not introduced, I did not go to a PWI. So there were no non-D naught besides like depression rifles and stuff like that.

Dr. D: No comments. That's crazy.

Coach A: There were no non-D9 Greek organizations on campus.

Dr. D: Yeah, that sounds odd. The only reason I know about it, like the fact they're non-denied organizations is because I did like my senior research project on it in high school. Like in high school, I did my senior research project on it. And so I realized or recognized that there were white Greek organizations, honor societies, things, secret societies, whatever, that were exclusive to white men. So then of course, people do what we do and do it and do it better. And so it's just like...

Coach A: Yeah.

Dr. D: I don't know, very interesting that we're taking a Greek concept, right? Like Greek letters, Greek wording, and we're still choosing to make it black, like explicitly black American. Like you are choosing to incorporate African American traditions into your Greek letter organization as if it's a Greek thing when it's not a Greek thing, it's a black Greek thing. So it's, just find like, cultural appropriation just baffles me just in general, because that's what it is, it's cultural appropriation. But the idea of like K-pop and some of these groups, like if you, don't know if you listen to anything by any K-pop music and I, ⁓ I, if did listen to it, you would like it because it sounds like black people. Like there was a song that I heard and I'm like, this sounds like Baltimore club. Like this sounds like party music, but it's K-pop. I'm let you hear the song and speaking of things we'll do after this or maybe I can play it. Actually, I'm gonna see if I can play, you wanna hear it? and it's straight up Korean people. Not even speaking English, but the song is about... Let me see.

Coach A: I get money, I'ma stop, stop, Okay, now I can't do. But that a wass. I don't know what they be saying in that song.

Dr. D: Okay. Let me make sure my volume is up. would think this niggas.

Coach A: yeah.

Dr. D: It's good, right?

Coach A: put that shit on- put that shit on in the 410 and see what happens

Dr. D: It sounds like Baltimore club music. And I was like, I like this. And then I listened to the lyrics and I'm like, I don't, this is not English.

Coach A: Mm-hmm. That shit sound like... BRING IN THE CATS!

Dr. D: Precisely. it's like, yeah, it sounds good because they're copying off black people. It looks, well I think non-Buy people strolling looks goofy. But music, when they try to copy off the music it do be sounding good, like Justin Bieber.

Coach A: man, black people are the most imitated. Everybody wanna be a nigga, tell us to be a nigga.

Dr. D: Yep. Literally. I'm so sad. Speaking of being a nigga. Okay, I had this TikTok pulled up for a little bit. I'm gonna try to share it with you and I wanna know your thoughts. I just wanna know your thoughts. Let's see. This is a man yelling in his car. So like trigger warning to the girlies. Let me see if I can share. I'm gonna do the ⁓ corporate like.

Coach A: ⁓

Dr. D: Oops, I'm gonna share my screen. Let me know if you can see it.

Coach A: I'm share my screen. Let me know if you can see it.

Dr. D: me know if you can see it. Okay, ⁓ can you see this right now?

Coach A: I can see your screen. You're doing great.

Dr. D: Okay, so for the people listening, the words on the screen say, took this girl on a date and she ordered a beer. Yeah, I'm cool with like 100 laughing emojis. So let me see if I can play her. Can you hear that? Okay.

Coach A: Mm-hmm. bear. Oh, brother. The hell was that?

Dr. D: Okay, is it back to just me and you? Is it back to just me and you or can you still see it? Okay, excellent. That was easy. I have so many thoughts. A burr, which is why it makes it feel like he's from here. I don't know if he is, but he sounds like he's from here. But there's so much to unpack. And I think as a beer girly, maybe I don't...

Coach A: First of all, what the hell is a bar? A bar.

Dr. D: I'm not helping the stereotype, but like. feel like why are we policing what girls drink? Like God forbid I want a Stella.

Coach A: Yeah, first of all, why is you trying to veto her drink order? First of all, let me back the hell up. At the end, he said, you just wanted to get your tab taken care of. If I wanted to get my tab taken care of, I would have ordered something much more. I'm sure our beer is the cheapest thing on the menu.

Dr. D: That's right. Hello? Like, this is like the cognitive dissonance. That's what I'm saying. Like there's cognitive dissonance here. First of all, sangria with a sugar rim. What are, what are, who you been, who you been talking to? Oh, oh, you're gonna tell, you're gonna order from me you're gonna get a red sangria with sugar rim.

Coach A: Who are- who have YOU been going that way? Who the fuck said I wanna Cap- Who said I wanna Capriccio? Who said- Who said that? Who the fuck you think you're d- DATING?!

Dr. D: that like, what are we-

Coach A: You might as well got me a for a loco.

Dr. D: Like, okay, like, I mean, I think first problem is like, she was a bitch right off the bat. I wouldn't be too many bitches. Like, this bitch, like, I'm not going, I don't wanna, why are you talking about me like that? That's just a personal thing. Some people don't mind, but personally, I think it's super disrespectful. But didn't it be mad because she ordered a burr? Like, God forbid a girl with a little Stella.

Coach A: Man, order the class A as always, see what he say. You can't order, you can't do nothing. See, you can't do nothing. You can't do nothing.

Dr. D: Lake! You can't do anything. You literally can't even order the drink that you want to drink.

Coach A: So if you order, I can't... I've seen niggas order lemon drops and drinks that people call girl drinks, colorful drinks. I've seen niggas order tequila sunrise. I've seen niggas order crema. So what were supposed to... What were women to think?

Dr. D: Why is it a rule? Yes. Why you can't, but why you can't just have a beard? Like, why did that, why did it turn you off so bad?

Coach A: As a straight woman, as a straight woman, if you, if you was out what to do and he ordered a lemon drop for himself, is you gonna judge him?

Dr. D: Right. Probably not.

Coach A: You got the lemon drop and you got the Heineken.

Dr. D: The whiskey. Fabulous.

Coach A: And that's why minding your business is important, cause why did I- Let her drink her Stella if that's what she wanna do. And throw your seven dollars down on the table. The fuck is you talking about?

Dr. D: Like, it's a bi- ⁓ like, a beer is not like- if i wanted to run it up, i'm not getting a beer

Coach A: I'd have been- I'd have got a bottle, they'd have- they'd have been coming out there with the sign and sparklers. What you talking about if I want my tab taken care of, nigga?

Dr. D: with the sparklers like... I just feel like to get in your car and and yell at the internet because somebody ordered a beer and you take that as yeah she just was here to get her bill taken care of.

Coach A: ⁓ boy shut up. Y'all's probably at the hole in the wall spot anyway.

Dr. D: I wish like a beer.

Coach A: I tell you what, I damn sure paid $26 for a drink over the weekend and was not happy about it.

Dr. D: That's heinous. Like you could have got a bottle for $26. But you paid it. Oh, but did you have fun? Well then there you go.

Coach A: I did. I do.

Dr. D: Are you excited to do Pride, Black Pride? That's coming up.

Coach A: Philly Black Pro- Excuse me, Philly Black Pro- Philly Black Pro-

Dr. D: Exactly, Yep. That's what's doing me! You didn't have to do that last one.

Coach A: trying to hold it in. I tried to out it in

Dr. D: You move like this!

Coach A: Did you hear it? Do you see me?

Dr. D: And I see- I see- Yes, you see me? I see you! It was the way it like rolled up like this.

Coach A: I was trying to hold it down.

Dr. D: Yes, yes, yes! I'm finding it

Coach A: laughing at my pain.

Dr. D: Was it painful? No. You haven't been responding to any of my SpongeBob videos I've been sending you all day. I just remembered that. I sent you like 13 SpongeBob videos.

Coach A: Mm-mm. I saw them, what was I supposed to say?

Dr. D: Haha, very funny. You know, I like this heart. Any of those. So I know that you've seen it or at least they like, seen these. So funny. It's also been flooded my TikTok. It's like the background lives of like these random side characters in SpongeBob. Like it gives them a whole vibe, like what type of clothes they would wear, what kind of job they have, what they like to eat.

Coach A: You wanna know what I posted? ⁓

Dr. D: Yeah.

Coach A: Well first of all, today is 420.

Dr. D: There it is.

Coach A: On this day five years ago, I got the worst surgery of my life.

Dr. D: ⁓ Mm-hmm.

Coach A: which was a high tibial osteotomy. Well, they basically broke my leg on purpose. ⁓ I don't feel like going into detail. Look up, look it up. But they essentially broke my bone on purpose because there was an issue with my tibia and they set it with this contraption. They call it a halo, but it's like an external fixator that essentially holds your leg together.

Dr. D: That's crazy.

Coach A: And I had that on for months. Like imagine a big ass piece of metal just around your leg all the time with rods. I had six rods going through my bone, going through my tibia all the way around. Six rods and a couple pins. I got that surgery. They were not that big. I'd say like, probably like 0.1 millimeter.

Dr. D: pins? How big were the pins? How big were the pins? ⁓ that's very not bi-

Coach A: Yeah, they were like going through like my kneecap the smaller ones were but the the big rods the rods were like probably like a Half inch thick three quarters of an inch thick. They were big going through my going through my leg

Dr. D: I'm not, I'm not, I'm not.

Coach A: Maybe I can pull up a photo. Trigger trigger warning. It's not that bad.

Dr. D: ⁓ brother.

Coach A: But actually, before I pull that up, I was saying all that to say, so crazy. ⁓ ⁓ got that surgery ⁓ 4-20-2021, ⁓ posted something on my Instagram and it was two pictures back to back. I was ⁓ my way to the hospital and is I wrote. My limb specialist told me a few weeks ago that he's not sure how I was able to play basketball as long as I did. my left leg wasn't built for it. The truth is I played through a lot of pain, much more than I probably should have. That was the first post. And then the second post says, my point in telling y'all this is to remind you that your mind is capable of some extraordinary shit. 80 % of what we go through as humans is mental. It's only hard or impossible if you allow yourself to think it's hard or impossible. You can change your whole life simply by changing your mindset.

Dr. D: Mmm. That's so poetic and beautiful.

Coach A: That's what I posted on this day. Here's a proof.

Dr. D: That's so poetic and beautiful. And see how you wrote that without AI.

Coach A: Five years ago, I don't know if y'all can see that. Five years ago. Which is wild, because like he definitely did say that. I guess, again, without going into excruciating detail, I've had probably six or seven-ish surgeries on my knee, on my leg. I've torn my ACL like three times, my meniscus. Everything you could do to a knee, I probably have done it. And ⁓ finally went to a limb specialist.

Dr. D: Yeah.

Coach A: to figure out why the hell my leg was doing all of this. And they told me I had like a deformity in my tibia that was causing everything. just a few millimeters, if your bone grows a few millimeters to the left, to the right, to the front, to the back or wherever, like that's enough to throw your whole anatomy off. And it just so happens that only a few millimeters was the difference between what seven surgeries were for difference. So.

Dr. D: Hmm.

Coach A: ⁓ Anyway, I finally went to this one specialist and they did all the testing all the cat scans all the everything they measuring bones like they doing all of this craziness and He was like how long you play basketball. I was like, you know all my life. He was like it's no way There's no way Now mind you like when I played there were times were My kneecap will pop out and it happened so often that I would just pop it back in and keep playing Papa Advil keep it going like

Dr. D: Your kneecap will pop out?

Coach A: Yeah, the first time I knee, I never forget if there's any basketball players that's 30 and up, then you should know if it was in the DMV area. But ⁓ I played in a tournament called Charm City. I never forget. It was at the park school in Baltimore. ⁓ was the first time my knee popped out. Like ⁓ girl was passing the ball and I was going for a steal. And I jumped and landed on my leg, I guess weird. And all I felt was my knee kept shift. That was all I felt. Immediately hit the ground, started screaming. They called the ambulance, I got taken out of the stretcher, like it was a whole thing. And ever since then, but that was my right knee. Ever since then, right knee would pop out. Boom, boom, boom, boom, all the time. And it was like, I'm not going to the hospital every time just for them to tell me like, pop it back in, put some ice on it. Yeah, so it was like, eff it, just go on. Sometimes it will pop out and it will pop itself back in, but sometimes it will pop out and you will have to like push it back in.

Dr. D: Mm. Pop it back in. You pushed your own leg back in or somebody did it for you?

Coach A: I'ma do it. Yeah.

Dr. D: that you're really strong, mentally.

Coach A: So over time, that's why I was saying, I played through a lot of pain that I shouldn't have and probably didn't have to. But look at me now. I I don't know. But yeah, was like, I don't know how the hell you did that. And ⁓ I think happens for a reason. I didn't get to play basketball in college because of it. And so now I'm like, I don't think I was ever meant to.

Dr. D: Mmm.

Coach A: make basketball my life when I became an adult. Well, not in that way, because like I still coach. But I think playing was never my purpose.

Dr. D: Yeah.

Coach A: But I do think I had to go through that. Like had to have that experience. So I'm glad I did. But five years ago today, man, that was the worst surgery in the world. Couldn't walk. Couldn't do nothing. I had a walker. Like I felt old as hell.

Dr. D: Yeah. Mmm. But you survived. You made it.

Coach A: Thank God for more for you.

Dr. D: You love morphine.

Coach A: I love morphine. ⁓ Morphine is some good stuff. Just kidding y'all. But yeah.

Dr. D: Mmm. Mmm. Are you? I love that. Well, I love that you learn something from it and are making something positive from it, because that sounds very terrifying.

Coach A: What, the surgery?

Dr. D: the surgery and also the recovery of that can't be, couldn't have been easy.

Coach A: ⁓ yeah. That's- Anytime you have to, there are a lot of things that you take for granted in your day to day. And I think walking is one of them. Trying to learn how to walk again is a crazy feeling as ⁓ an adult. Like, it's so weird. Cause like, you already know what you're supposed to do, but your body just can't do it. It's weird.

Dr. D: Yeah. Yeah. Right?

Coach A: And you know, as a baby, it's like you learning everything for the first time. So there's nothing. But as a adult who's been doing it for 20, 30 years already to try to relearn that is hard. And it's a mind fuck. Like it plays with your mind.

Dr. D: Yeah, it's probably frustrating. Yeah. Glad you're on the other side.

Coach A: Hell yeah man. That's alright cause when we turn about 50, 50, 60, when everybody else getting their little knee replacements, mine gonna be fresh. Yeah, when everybody's knee's deteriorating, mine gonna be... Hell yeah, put some WD-40 on it and keep it moving.

Dr. D: We gonna get you a fresh knee. Mm, replete by then. Nice titanium knee.

Coach A: Mm-hmm, I can't wait.

Dr. D: To get a knee replacement. Yeah, that makes sense.

Coach A: Yes! You know what's so wild? Because I've been in hospital and in the doctor's office it's so much for my knee. I run into a lot of people who also have knee issues. They're all older. But they always, like I'll see them and it's like, I'll see them before they get their knee replacement and then I'll see them after. And then it's like, they be like, I feel so good. This is the best decision I ever made. I feel like a brand new person. I got my knees, I got my hips.

Dr. D: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Mmm. legs and hips. ⁓ that's important for you. need to be able to Tamiya shuffle, boots on the ground. Like you need your knees to do all that footwork.

Coach A: Now I have a cute be-shuffle. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And do. You crank that Soulja Boy and everything. Don't let these needs fool you. I will still do what needs to be done. If I need to get low, I'm getting low. If I need to skedaddle, if I need to squabble.

Dr. D: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Coach A: It's gon' get done.

Dr. D: ⁓ I could vouch for that.

Coach A: Don't you even worry your little head about it.

Dr. D: my big head, my forehead. You answer the phone this morning and say, hey forehead.

Coach A: ⁓

Dr. D: That's funny.

Coach A: That was the first thing that grea- that greeted me. That grabbed me.

Dr. D: It's your issue issue. That grant you so the post of both post. Past tense of Greek is great.

Coach A: Hehehehe. Hehehehe. past tense of greed is grab.

Dr. D: That's- that's all. Somebody said the first tense- I mean the pa- the past tense. best! The passage of quit was quit I'm gonna quit like I never quit before. I prefer quit over quit. Like quit being the passive quit. Like, I quit. I'm going to quit. I quit.

Coach A: I mean, shit.

Dr. D: You know?

Coach A: And this is why I would have never majored in English. Because what do you mean?

Dr. D: ⁓ yeah, conjugate, well, conjugating verbs is like, girl.

Coach A: so sick of this shit. You know, I seen this book that I really thought you would like and it was... What the hell was the book called? It was ⁓ it was like... the ultimate college, ⁓ like what you need to know before you go to college, something like that, preparing for college. But it was like, opened it, because I was curious, obviously, with what I'm doing.

Dr. D: Yeah, I would say you wrote a book that's probably better than that.

Coach A: That's why I opened it. Because it was very clear that it was old. So I opened it. And it was an English book.

Dr. D: Mmm.

Coach A: Like it was walking you through sentence structure, like all the things. I should have grabbed it, bro. I probably, I'm going go back and I'm.

Dr. D: Where was it at?

Coach A: Where? I was at some thrift store. Here. Here.

Dr. D: Here or there? Okay.

Coach A: I'ma go back and see if it's there because I feel like, well, I could probably buy, I think it was like a dollar fifty. But, yeah.

Dr. D: ⁓ That's so romantic.

Coach A: I don't know what you're gonna do with it when you get it, so...

Dr. D: And it's gonna meet some friends over there. It's gonna be have good company.

Coach A: You know what else I saw when I was in that thrift store? Damn, I really should have sent it to you. Where were you? You were out. Whatever day you went out recently.

Dr. D: What you saw when you was an actor, Win. Saturday, Sunday, Friday. I went out Friday and I went out Sunday.

Coach A: one of them days. Whatever day you went to the movies, because I remember wanting to call you in not because you were in movie.

Dr. D: ⁓ yeah, Friday. ⁓

Coach A: I saw a movie, like a DVD.

Dr. D: Mm-hmm.

Coach A: And you want to know what the movie was?

Dr. D: If it was Beyonce, what was it? ⁓ okay. Put the fist down.

Coach A: It wasn't Beyonce. running with scissors.

Dr. D: That's my favorite book in life.

Coach A: It was a DVD.

Dr. D: I need that.

Coach A: The DVD?

Dr. D: I don't need a DVD. I could probably buy it.

Coach A: What you gonna play it on? You know they had them, they had them DVD slash VCR players in there. I almost bought one.

Dr. D: I need that, I need a DVD player, badly.

Coach A: But like, how you gonna hook it up? I gotta do my research.

Dr. D: I'm sure there's all the holes in the back of that TV that can hook up a DVD player. Of my TV in the living room?

Coach A: The back of what TV? Somebody needs to make a... HDMI... VCR.

Dr. D: is that not what VCRs have already? But they got the red, green, red, yellow, white. I didn't mean green, I know it's yellow. It's red, yellow, and white. Is that not how you attach a DVD player? Is you put the red with the red and the white with the white and the yellow with

Coach A: There is so much wrong with what you're saying right now, and I don't like it. That's not- Do you know what age to-

Dr. D: No, I know what HDMI cord is, I thought you-

Coach A: You think VCRs had HDMI's?

Dr. D: Why f**k not? When the HDMI's come out.

Coach A: Do you know what the HD in HDMI stands for?

Dr. D: What is it?

Coach A: high definition.

Dr. D: Okay.

Coach A: What the fuck was high definition about our childhood?

Dr. D: It was crisp animation.

Coach A: What the fuck was a ha-

Dr. D: So, so what, what do you, how do you plug? Now, now I'm stressed. Cause how do you plug in a VCR? mean a DVD player.

Coach A: The- the- is the- is the- the- you remember these?

Dr. D: I gotta look at that. That's what I said, the red, ⁓ white.

Coach A: See, you can't even get them no more. You used to have to go to Radio Shack Circus City.

Dr. D: ⁓ RIP to both.

Coach A: H.H. Greg. You wanna know a fun fact about H.H. Greg?

Dr. D: Sure.

Coach A: I applied to work there, right? and I was going ⁓ to interview ⁓ and ⁓ remember going in up that point I had never been inside of I won't say I had never been inside of HH Craig but I never I didn't like shop frequently at HH Craig. So anyway I applied for this job I get there at the interview

Dr. D: Mm-hmm.

Coach A: And it's this black man doing the interview. And I'm like, ⁓ shit, I got this in the bag. So he walking me through, like all of the ⁓ HH Greg, ⁓ on inside, walking me through all the rooms and telling me what this is, telling me what I'm like, he ain't asking me no questions. Like none. He just telling me stuff. So he's like, ⁓ yeah. So you're going to start on Monday. And I was like,

Dr. D: Mm-hmm. What? That was the interview?

Coach A: That was the interview. And I remember, like, cause I didn't need a job, but I wanted a job. Like at this point in my life, I didn't need a part-time job, but I wanted one. So when I remember walking out of there and not even, I can't quite explain the feeling that I had, but it was very much like, rear flag, rear flag, rear flag. I was like, ain't no way. And it was a lot of commis- it was very commission based. And up until that point in my life, I had never worked a commission based job. So I was already kind of on the edge about it.

Dr. D: Yeah. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Coach A: But after that, I remember walking out of that HH Greg and feeling like this, this don't even feel right. Like I can't even, I can't even do this. And so I ended up not taking that job after I had already got it. Cause as soon as I left that interview, like they also sent me something saying that I got the job or whatever. And I remember leaving out of that HH Greg and like, fuck that. And you know where I applied next? Nike.

Dr. D: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Coach A: and we already know how that cookie crumbled. And history was made.

Dr. D: and history was made. as you.

Coach A: And then also after that, H.H. Gregg went out business, so I would have been out of a job anyway.

Dr. D: RIP. RIP to them.

Coach A: But I remember going outside the HH Grey and being like, I didn't even know they sold furniture in here. I thought y'all on this. Hmm?

Dr. D: I don't know if we have H.H. Greg here. I don't know if we have H.H. Greg here.

Coach A: Well, you don't because it don't exist no more. But back then it was like right. It was like after after Circuit City went out of business, H.H. Greg started coming up.

Dr. D: But yeah, I don't know if we had it. ⁓ And they went away. Now you just get everything at Target. Well, I don't get anything at Target, but Walmart, Target.

Coach A: Mm-hmm. Well, now you got Best Buy for stuff like that. Now you got Best Buy, but even Best Buy is starting to...

Dr. D: Best Buy, yeah.

Coach A: Like do people still shop at Best Buy for this shit? Because Walmart and Target and Amazon...

Dr. D: I got this laptop from Best Buy. but like that's the only thing I've gotten from BestBot.

Coach A: The last time I bought a laptop from Best Buy, I was in college.

Dr. D: ⁓ Well, I got this for college, But grad school, 2020 is when I got this.

Coach A: Yeah, I bought a HP laptop from Best Buy. Did I buy my MacBook from Best Buy? can't

Dr. D: I don't

Coach A: You wanna know a random thought?

Dr. D: Yeah.

Coach A: You wanna know what soda used to hit?

Dr. D: What?

Coach A: sprite remix.

Dr. D: ⁓ I bet you were gonna say Mountain Dew Co-Rid.

Coach A: That was alright. It wasn't better than Sprite Remix though.

Dr. D: I don't think I've ever had Sprite remixed.

Coach A: What?

Dr. D: I wasn't really big on soda, but I did like a Mountain Dew Co Red briefly.

Coach A: As a kid I loved soda

Dr. D: Yeah, I wasn't really into that much soda.

Coach A: I would get a Mighty Kids meal with a Coke.

Dr. D: feel like Coke is such a grown up drink. Like for a child to drink a cola product is so bizarre to me. Like that's like a grandma soda to me.

Coach A: you Nah, I'm in.

Dr. D: A happy meal with a Coke is crazy.

Coach A: Kids meal, not a happy meal.

Dr. D: I was a mighty kids meal, ⁓ Nuggets always.

Coach A: Mighty Kids Meal. The mighty kids meal was like that middle ground where it was like.

Dr. D: Then once you graduate to the 10 piece, it's up and stuck. I remember Avery who was, everybody had been like five or six at a time and he was like, can I get a 10 piece meal with a toy? Sir. That was recently actually, I think. That was over the summer. He's like, I want a 10 piece with a toy. Like, I don't know. I didn't know they did that.

Coach A: It's a wrap. It's a wrap. It's a wrap. A 10 piece with a toy. Man, the fast food toys don't even hit. I remember the last time I got my niece a happy, man, I was like, what the hell is this? We used to be a proper country. We used to get whole watches in the kids' meals. What?

Dr. D: I was just about to say, remember the Rugrats watches, the Simpsons watches, those were Burger King, I think though. But still, the Beanie Babies, little miniature Barbie dolls, we used to be a proper country.

Coach A: It don't matter! Man... We used to be a proper damn country.

Dr. D: The mini crocs are cute. I know they have mini crocs now. I've seen them.

Coach A: I, yes, I was gifted one by my niece. I do recall.

Dr. D: But those are adorable. the other ones, like, what are we doing? You're just getting a sticker or like ⁓ a cardboard picture of something. And that's not a toy.

Coach A: feel like Chick-fil-A used to give out like books, like whole books.

Dr. D: Boring. McDonald's toys used to actually do something. They would at least wind up and walk a little bit. Like something. Something. No, they just give you some cardboard.

Coach A: Want no education? They don't do that no more. They don't... They don't do that no more.

Dr. D: No.

Coach A: I just... We really used to just have birthday parties there.

Dr. D: You know, we can have your next birthday party there. We can find one that does it real nice.

Coach A: It does what real nice.

Dr. D: I think throw us a good shindig. Or maybe we can have my birthday there. Go there for lunch.

Coach A: at the golden orchards?

Dr. D: Yeah. Or not. I have to figure out my birthday plans. I'm working on it.

Coach A: I would hope it doesn't involve ⁓ McDonald's in Philly.

Dr. D: It doesn't. Currently it doesn't. It's not on the list.

Coach A: You know, the last time I went to Mexico lies. The time before last that I went to Mexico, I went to a Mexican McDonald's. It's pretty good.

Dr. D: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. ⁓ I have never had Mexican McDonald's.

Coach A: I was like, ooh, McDonald's. Give me some hash browns, huh?

Dr. D: I've had Dominican McDonald's. I've had Dominica, Dominican McDonald's. I don't think I've ever had Mexican McDonald's.

Coach A: I love going to the Caribbean and getting KFC.

Dr. D: I've never had Caribbean KFC. I've never had Caribbean KFC. We gotta go, we gotta go back now, I guess. I haven't had fast food in any of the islands we've been on.

Coach A: What? Are you nuts? If you go to the current Caribbean KFC is-

Dr. D: I bet it is.

Coach A: It's so good.

Dr. D: That's gonna be on my list now.

Coach A: KFC.

Dr. D: Caribbean KFC.

Coach A: That's why the line, like, if it's ever a cruise ship docked in one of them, the line be out the hoo-ha at the KFC. ⁓

Dr. D: Please ⁓

Coach A: If it's a Carnival Cruise ship docked on a Caribbean island near a KFC, that KFC line gonna be long around the block.

Dr. D: Please. Mmm. You need to try that.

Coach A: last time I was in Mexico somebody offered me somebody offered me cocaína

Dr. D: This episode is just... They sure did.

Coach A: I said, what? I give cocaine?

Dr. D: No.

Coach A: I must look rough. Or maybe I look... I don't know. What gave cocaine?

Dr. D: No, you don't give cocaine. I mean, I guess just because you refused the first offer. So he was like, maybe I.

Coach A: He's like, you want some weed? I said, nah, I'm good. Cocaine? Nigga! If I said no to weed...

Dr. D: Hello? No, thank you! No, no means no, my good brother.

Coach A: give cocaine? I was pissed!

Dr. D: I can't compare.

Coach A: on the in broad daylight on the sidewalk like not eight hours i think was in ensignada i think i was in ensign i was on the wrong street in ensignada as soon as i came as soon as i walked down that street i knew it was trouble so you want some weed no i'm good bro cocaine cocaine come again

Dr. D: They don't care. Listen, if you need it, I've never been there either. So many places I've never been. Mmm. Perhaps not.

Coach A: You know, you want to know an intrusive thought and probably unpopular opinion?

Dr. D: What?

Coach A: think that if you eat crunchy peanut butter, you'll eat anything.

Dr. D: Mm. Mm-mm-mm. I think I quite like crunchy-crunchy-pita-butter.

Coach A: You can eat anything, bruh. You'll eat a fetus. I don't like it.

Dr. D: That's not... WHAT?! You like crunchy peanut butter? God forbid I have a texture. I have a, ⁓ I like a little crunch.

Coach A: No? Just...

Dr. D: It gives it little bit of... You know?

Coach A: I don't think...

Dr. D: I don't buy crunchy peanut butter, if somebody had it, or if I bought it by mistake, I wouldn't be like, pilly crunchy peanut butter, I would eat it.

Coach A: I just got a sneaky suspicion that that's not what George Washington Carver wanted when he did that.

Dr. D: You don't know where he went it.

Coach A: I just...

Dr. D: feel like George Washington Cover appreciated the versatility of the P-Dut. So he probably would have appreciated it any form. Clearly.

Coach A: think crunchy peanut butter is a sin. That's like pineapple on pizza bad.

Dr. D: There were worse sins. I mean, some people like that. A little sweet and savory. I personally don't, but I'm never gonna yuck anybody's yum, personally. Now, what if I yucked something that you thought was yum?

Coach A: I am yuck. Like. What you gonna do?

Dr. D: I don't know, because you've recommended some things that have been pretty tasty.

Coach A: I mean...

Dr. D: I mean, the bacon on a cheesesteak thing, Pete, you will probably get booed out of ⁓ any cheesesteak spot here. Because ba- put it ba-

Coach A: because well duh cuz don't nobody in philly eat bacon so they already y'all y'all don't eat pork it don't be no pork on y'all fork in philly so

Dr. D: We do eat bacon. We do eat bacon. It just be, it just don't be pork bacon. People do eat, people eat pork here, but they eat it very discreetly. You are allowed to eat pork in Philly. really are. However, it's more common that places don't sell any pork at all.

Coach A: I know you're allowed to eat pork, but I'm saying... Y'all can't put no bacon on that? You was like BACON! I said woah ho ho nevermind like

Dr. D: You, mean, if you went somewhere and asked for bacon on your cheesesteak, I mean, I'm sure they would make it, but it would be like, that's what an odd thing to request.

Coach A: Put the f- Why would you deprive yourself of that?

Dr. D: I mean, I feel like a cheesesteak is, personally I like a very plain cheesesteak. So, all the accoutrements.

Coach A: You don't have to live your life so, you don't have to live your life like that.

Dr. D: I mean, sometimes I jazz it up. my mom likes it really, ⁓ mom and I think my grandma, like everybody in my family likes it really like slutty, saucy cheese steak. Like it got relish, it got mustard, got, ⁓ you know, fried onions, it got, what's that other thing? Ketchup. Like it looks really good and it smells really good. So like one day I need to go with my mom and just have her order it the way she gets it. and then have it that way. Well they also do like they my family's where where they they get an Italian hoagie and a cheesesteak and a pineapple soda and a grape soda and then they swap. So like one person has a half cheesesteak half hoagie and a cup of pineapple soda and a cup of grape soda. You gotta drink the grape soda with the cheesesteak and the pineapple soda with the hoagie. It's a whole routine. It's a whole thing. We need we're due for one of them. I need to text my mom and ask her if we could do that. It's like a whole ritual. We have to induct you into it actually. Yes you do.

Coach A: I love it. No you don't.

Dr. D: you loved all the tic tacs I you. Thanks. I'm like, why'd you, saying you text me three times. That was a secret message and a genie in a bottle message.

Coach A: exactly that genie in the bottom message. You know, it really disappoints me as an adult to see how many times Spongebob was mad in his TV show. People really just didn't take him serious.

Dr. D: Yeah. No.

Coach A: People really didn't take him serious. They just treated him any old kind of way until he snapped.

Dr. D: until he snapped, until he absolutely, until he snapped then he crazy.

Coach A: You remember that one episode when they was playing that board game and then Mr. Krabs got addicted? E-dicted. Mr. Krabs!

Dr. D: Hello?

Coach A: Mr. Krabs got addicted.

Dr. D: Hello? to use in escalators.

Coach A: to board game and he brought it to Spudgebob door he brought the table everything to Spudgebob door and he was like playing and Spudgebob was talking like Mr. Krabs please like I really don't feel like playing and then he was like I roll a dice for you then he rolled a dice he was like one two three and then Spudgebob snapped like Mr. Krabs

Dr. D: You Being so damn bad that you gotta take the game to somebody else's house and roll the dice for them. I guess it's a metaphor for like gambling addiction.

Coach A: These are the worst bad in the world. Yes. One, two, three. Master Crps!

Dr. D: Cause what? Listen, being tired and being angry that you're tired is a different type of anger. Like, let me go to sleep.

Coach A: Mist. Mr. Krabs is a cheap motherfucka unless it came to Mrs. Puff.

Dr. D: Hahaha Tricking on Mrs. Puff bad, duh. my god, I just think of her in that hat. She in that ⁓ hand one. In her canopy bed. Dresses, pearls.

Coach A: Cough like

Dr. D: Just anything. He drained his whole... She was the original Sprinkle, Sprinkle. But I don't even think she cared. I don't think she was after his... Why? Why would she do that?

Coach A: Why she ain't puff up then? Should've puffed up on Mr. Krabs. Because he was doing the most.

Dr. D: She liked it though.

Coach A: Can you imagine every time you get mad, just involuntary just blow the fuck up? Literally? Like the girl off Willy Wonka?

Dr. D: ⁓ SpongeBob. I mean, yeah, I can't imagine, but I don't know if it's tied to her. Is it tied? ⁓ I guess it is tied to her emotions. Mrs. Puff. But if she's married, if she's Mrs. Puff, how was she dating Eugene?

Coach A: you a widow.

Dr. D: Mrs. Puff. Interesting. Krabs, Mrs. Puff. Mm-hmm. a

Coach A: Gene crabs. SpongeBob was snapping when Mr. Krabs fired Squidward? and was living with Spongebob and Spongebob was like, you need to a job and Squirrel was not doing nothing.

Dr. D: He was in bed

Coach A: That makes two things in this house that don't work.

Dr. D: One drop is forever the housewife, the scorned housewife.

Coach A: He was raising a clam by his self.

Dr. D: by his lonesome while Patrick went over and watched TV. And if that's not a metaphor for patriarchy, I don't know what it is.

Coach A: Hey.

Dr. D: I think SpongeBob was like, it's supposed to be like canonically asexual. I remember that being a thing where it's like he's on the ace spectrum or he's like asexual representation because he literally is just not interested in others.

Coach A: You remember when SpongeBob was at Rock Bottom? And he was trying to go to the bathroom and he couldn't figure out which bathroom was which? That's how I be feeling sometimes. In certain places, I be like, let me wait till somebody come out.

Dr. D: Yeah. Hmm. If 2 plus 2 is 4... Yeah, it's like...

Coach A: You think you think you think you can just wait until somebody come out and that'll tell that'll give you the answer but then somebody come out and you like I Still don't have enough information

Dr. D: No. Yeah, I don't. Yeah, like just make the signs. Just have them be words. I would rather just be like urinals without urinals. Because that's really the only difference.

Coach A: I mean, I still... Whatever. I'm not even gonna touch that.

Dr. D: Like, I work in a place that has a gender neutral bathroom and It does take some getting used to. To be like, ⁓ my god. But like after that it's like you're- we're all going in here to pee. So like, it's really not that deep. But the first couple- the first few times it's like, what's a boy doing in here?

Coach A: Yeah. is really not that deep. In a place like that, it's like cool, but I can imagine in public, I know the men's bathroom's gotta be crazy looking and smelling.

Dr. D: ⁓ yeah, I imagine. I would imagine so.

Coach A: was watching this TikTok video and it was kind of walking through how men perceived when they take daughter to the bathroom. Like essentially saying, you know, ⁓ if a man has a daughter, you be okay with him ⁓ walking his daughter, his four-year-old, five-year-old to the women's bathroom instead of taking her inside the men's bathroom? Like analyzing that.

Dr. D: Mmm. Mm-hmm.

Coach A: And surprisingly people were like split on it, but.

Dr. D: That's an interesting... Thought exercise, I feel like. This might be wrong, but I think the right answer would be to send her into the women's bathroom.

Coach A: By herself.

Dr. D: Mm-hmm.

Coach A: Okay.

Dr. D: I mean, depending, like, if she's like two. But I would say like four and up, five and up, I would be like, ⁓ could do ⁓ I think a girl in a bathroom of women, adult women, is a lot safer than a girl in a bathroom of men, even with her father, personally.

Coach A: So you think that. Okay, so what about a woman and like a four or five year old son?

Dr. D: That's good women's bathroom. I wouldn't, I would not send a boy into the men's bathroom alone. I would say I can, I would feel safe sending a ⁓ boy child or a girl child into the women's bathroom. I mean, but that's why they have family bathrooms now a lot of places. like, like I remember specifically my grandfather taking us to the bathroom and it was a family bathroom. Like I don't think he's ever taken us or I don't recall ever being taken into a men's bathroom anywhere. It's either you go in there by yourself, you know how to use the bathroom, use the bathroom and come out. ⁓ it's been like a family bathroom situation.

Coach A: Mm-hmm. Yeah. interesting

Dr. D: where you're the only people in there.

Coach A: Yeah, there are people on both sides. There are some people like, under no circumstances should a man go into a women's bathroom. And then there are some people like, well, you don't want the girl to go in a boys bathroom because it's probably dirty, blah, blah, blah. They got they dicks out in the urinal, like you don't want her to.

Dr. D: I would agree. Exactly. there's so many reasons why I would not send a little girl into the men's bathroom or a little kid in general into the men's bathroom. But I've seen men be like, girl dad in here, sending my daughter, just open the door and yelling, girl dad, there's a four year old coming through or something like that. So she gon' be fine in ⁓ a bathroom.

Coach A: Yeah. Yeah.

Dr. D: I don't know if ⁓ anybody would be fine in a men's bathroom.

Coach A: You remember when you walked in on that man when he was on a cruise ship in the bathroom?

Dr. D: He was like, he was like, hold on. I'm like, I would never, I would never ever use one of those bathrooms. Like one of those random one off, like I would never, the ones that you have to swipe your card to get, no, no.

Coach A: why? You don't have to swipe your card. think the problem was that, because typically those bathrooms on the cruise ship, they have the lights outside to tell you if somebody is in there or not. But he didn't, he didn't close the, he didn't lock the door so it didn't trigger. So that's why. But like, why you don't have the door locked when you go to bathroom? Somebody gonna take your butt.

Dr. D: Right and hit that one was green. But ⁓ I, yeah, I don't like that. I would never, I'm not, I was scarred. I'm only getting into like a multiple, ⁓ actual bathroom with like several stalls.

Coach A: Hold on. Hey, well you got to go, you got to go.

Dr. D: Yeah, but he was like, hold on.

Coach A: You gonna listen, you gonna go, you gonna be right there on the lido deck. But I gotta pee, you gonna go right into that bathroom. Go go back to the room.

Dr. D: Not the single one, no I won't. I sure would. Or somewhere else.

Coach A: I'm trying to be cruising the rest of the year

Dr. D: One time you was in the bathroom, you was in the shower and I went to the Lido deck. Cause that kombucha did a number on me. And I was like, I can't wait.

Coach A: Take a picture and a number on me.

Dr. D: Like never have I ever gone up to the Lido deck because I can't hold it. And it was late too. Like it was closed.

Coach A: Mm, mm, mm, I had a question.

Dr. D: Okay, what's the question?

Coach A: What are some of your best memories from... college like that age range that 18 to 22 23 age ⁓ where would ⁓ ⁓ say best memories what are the first things that pop into your head ⁓

Dr. D: I think of our vacations, like we did some family trips around that time, the first few years of college. So I think about honestly more family stuff than friends stuff. Like I had some good memories with friends in college. me and my friend basically were like backstage. helpers at the like not a it was a competition of HBCU queens so like Miss Clark Atlanta, Miss Spellman but it was like Miss Morgan State became one of our good good friends like it was a bunch of HBCU queens but it was a pageant between all of them that convened in Atlanta and for whatever reason me and my friend ⁓ volunteered to help so was helping all the girls get ready so I think that week of like going to the hotel

Coach A: Thank you.

Dr. D: in the ballroom, getting everybody we ended up making friends of like all these queens. ⁓ That was like a core memory. What else? think those are probably like my biggest ones, but they, it's definitely like more when we came home, like me and my cousins all got these matching tattoos. Like our first winter break, when we all came back together, it was like, oh my God, we love each other, let's get tattoos. So like coming back home to family, like, cause we were, a lot of us were all in college around the same time, was always a vibe. I don't know, what about you?

Coach A: Yeah. Well, one of the first ones that popped into my head was we had a big ass snowball fight. I think I talked about that on the show at some point, but there was like a massive snowball fight one night and was ⁓ biggest and best snowball fight I ever been in ⁓ life. ⁓ was safe. The police wasn't even safe. ⁓ but I would just remember ⁓ pure joy. ⁓

Dr. D: Mm-hmm.

Coach A: Like it was just something about that, are pockets ⁓ ⁓ in your life that you just remember so vividly, regardless of how old the memory is. I remember everything about that night, everything about that snowball fight. I remember seeing people get hit in the face, like glasses getting knocked off. Like it was just a lot, but, that's good one. ⁓

Dr. D: Mm-hmm.

Coach A: Right after I graduated, not right after, but shortly after I graduated college, I went to Canada. I went to OVO Fest. So that was, I loved that. I love Toronto. I will go back a thousand times. ⁓ So that was dope. Got to see the falls. That was nice. That was nice. We should go see the falls. We should go there. But you got to see the falls from the Canada side. The falls from the US side.

Dr. D: Mm-hmm. Okay. Zero out of ten.

Coach A: Yeah, and they got a little, uh, like a little boat, tour boat situation that takes you right up to the falls. They give you a little poncho. I know you hate a poncho, but they give you a little poncho.

Dr. D: Well, I hate a fashion poncho. I don't mind a rain poncho.

Coach A: I mean you a work one cause like you by the falls it's gonna be... I should show you a picture. You don't get soaked but...

Dr. D: Did you do that? Did you get on the... Did you get like soaked? I would do that, that sounds fun.

Coach A: we should. ⁓

Dr. D: Put it on the list. Oh. I said put it on the list.

Coach A: I remember the night before graduation, that was fun.

Dr. D: Mm-hmm.

Coach A: Homecoming week was always fun. Like everything about homecoming while I was in school was just about like you just be hyped for the concert and football game and.

Dr. D: Yeah. You went to all the things. Mm-hmm. Now, your football game, was it like people was at the football game to watch the game or was it at the tailgate?

Coach A: both.

Dr. D: Ours, I feel like it was very much more the tail cake than the full.

Coach A: we would, it was definitely a lot of both. And like, I think, was used to seeing it at other HBCUs in the area, like in the DMV. ⁓ So I was to seeing it at like Howard and ⁓ I think even time I ended up at a UMES homecoming, which I don't know, I don't even remember how that happened. ⁓

Dr. D: Mm-hmm. Mmm.

Coach A: But it was something different about seeing it at VSU, like I ain't gonna lie, it was a little different, like you would see people pull up in their little RVs and... camp outside the football stadium like all of this stuff it was just so dope to me like these old ass people really just be coming back and be v nailed out like they got they got vsu coolers vsu tents vsu cigarettes vsu lighter vsu jacket vsu shoes i don't even know where you get them from like they got they just vsu'd out they got

Dr. D: Please. I love that.

Coach A: Blue and orange car interior. Like, it's so, it runs so deep.

Dr. D: Mm-hmm.

Coach A: ⁓ But yeah, Homecoming was always a movie, for sure. For sure.

Dr. D: I wish I would have done more homecoming stuff. I went to a few things. I definitely didn't go to everything. I might have did the fashion show and maybe one concert in the tailgate. Or if there were some other events that spoke to me. But generally I wasn't at the rap concert. We would do a hip hop and an R &B concert. I might go to the R &B one, depending on the artist. But a lot of them artists I'm like...

Coach A: Thank you. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Dr. D: So I spent a lot of it in my dorm, regrettably. Like I think if I could go back, would definitely do more. I would have more fun on purpose, but I just did not do that really well.

Coach A: I mean, I think everybody's college experience is just a little bit different. think people tend to...

Dr. D: Mm-hmm.

Coach A: good thing about college is that you can control how much chaos you take in. ⁓ can, there's a lot of chaos on every college campus, I would imagine, but you have the ability to choose how much ⁓ embed yourself in that chaos. And some people just, yeah.

Dr. D: Yeah, you definitely can. Yeah, you could be in the middle of it or really far away from it.

Coach A: It's very much a spectrum, like you don't have to do all the things... You could do all the things. I was definitely somewhere in the middle. I think the good thing about my college experience was that with the exception of my freshman year, I had a single. So a lot of times like I would need to recharge my social buddy. I was a very social person, but it was imperative that I had my alone time before I blow the hell up on somebody. So I always had like a constant recharge because I could just go back to my dorm and I knew I wouldn't be bothered by nobody. I didn't have to see nobody. I didn't have to do nothing. So I was able to like, I think I was able to. keep up as much as I did because of that. where I feel like if I had a roommate of four years, I don't know. Maybe, but.

Dr. D: And that's another thing, roommates. Can't really throw you off.

Coach A: They can throw you off. mean, my roommate, my freshman year was cool. I ain't had no problem with her, but I can imagine for sure.

Dr. D: beefing with your roommate.

Coach A: Beating with your roommate is crazy. Beating with somebody you just sleeping next to everyday is crazy.

Dr. D: But it is. But it is. People did it. People did it.

Coach A: But alas, we made it. Dorm living is such... it's so interesting.

Dr. D: Mmm.

Coach A: Especially depending on what kind of dorm you lived in because I've lived in Single-sex dorms. I've lived in old ass dorms. I've lived in brand new dorms I've lived in coed dorms like I live community style which ⁓

Dr. D: Yeah.

Coach A: living was interesting. Sharing a bathroom with a floor of girls is...

Dr. D: couldn't have did that, but I probably could have. I probably would have learned to adjust, but I definitely didn't want that. And I think by choosing my dorm based on just the bathroom situation set me up for, I think, not a lot of super close friendships. But that's not true. guess I could have made friends in any capacity. I think that that living, that dorm style might have just made it a little bit easier.

Coach A: Yeah. I don't know. It's cool. Communities I live in is cool, but I would, I could have lived without that part, I think.

Dr. D: Mmm.

Coach A: Now that, that, that single life... Speaking of dorms and beds and things, did you know, did you, have you ever seen a purple mattress in the store?

Dr. D: Mm-hmm, mm-mm. Not in the store. No.

Coach A: like in a box. Okay, well, Purple sells their mattresses in some stores and they'd be in a box, you know. You open the box, you take it out and the mattress blows up or whatever. comes alive. The Purple mattresses have samples in their boxes. So there's like a little hole in the box and you can pull out the little small sample Purple mattress so you can feel it. You know, it's just part of thing that they do.

Dr. D: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Coach A: There are people who go around to all the stores that have these purple mattresses and steal those samples out of all the holes in the boxes and put it together to make their own mattress.

Dr. D: brother, how many samples does it take?

Coach A: I don't know

Dr. D: That's a lot of samples that you would have to steal.

Coach A: But is it a crime? Is it a crime?

Dr. D: It seems like it is, but probably not if it's a free sample and you just take a bunch of free sample. But that kind of, yeah, that sucks for the people who want to sample it and like actually buy it.

Coach A: Right.

Dr. D: Stop laughing!

Coach A: Happy, happy, 420.

Dr. D: Happy 420. It's almost, let's say it's almost 430. It's not, it's, it's almost 421.

Coach A: Yo you are... You are BERT!

Dr. D: I'm just sleepy.

Coach A: Grandma tired.

Dr. D: Grandpa is tired. You is burnt too

Coach A: Wham wham, bitch, you burnt that. So let's get up out of here, man. We appreciate y'all tapping in with us once again.

Dr. D: No I'm not.

Coach A: We appreciate y'all. We are growing internationally.

Dr. D: We are. Shout out to all of you.

Coach A: So if you, yeah, if you're not in the US and you're listening, we appreciate that. We love you. If you are in the US and you're listening, we appreciate that. We love you.

Dr. D: Make sure you subscribe, we need some more subscribers.

Coach A: Yes, click the subscribe button so you don't miss any of the episodes even the blow bonus ones that drop I'm still trying to work on putting together a little cruise vlog situation Cruise Chronicles Cruise Chronicles So yeah, stay tuned for that and you won't know unless you subscribe shorty So go ahead subscribe hit the little bell do whatever you got to do. I don't know how I work this stuff. Y'all know what to do though

Dr. D: Yeah, from a year ago probably at this point. Cruise Chronicles. Very true.

Coach A: But yeah, we love y'all everybody stay prayed up. Stay blessed up. Everybody be safe. You have a good one. We'll catch y'all next week

Dr. D: Bye.