1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:08,080 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie, and you're listening to stuff I'll 2 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:23,759 Speaker 1: never told you. Spring has sprung here in the United 3 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:27,520 Speaker 1: States kind of as as I record this, yesterday was 4 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:30,880 Speaker 1: spring forward, which I detest with the passion, but you 5 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:34,240 Speaker 1: know that's me. Um and this also means it's time 6 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:39,239 Speaker 1: for students to flock south or to coast around the 7 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:44,000 Speaker 1: States for the annual migration that is spring break. Now, 8 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:48,479 Speaker 1: I never did spring break successfully. In heavy quotes, I 9 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:52,159 Speaker 1: somehow is never around during that time, I would I 10 00:00:52,159 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 1: would say I was doing arguably more enjoyable things for 11 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:57,880 Speaker 1: me personally, Like I took my first trip to Europe 12 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:00,440 Speaker 1: for school, um and, which was my first time on 13 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:03,760 Speaker 1: a plane, I remember. But I only managed to do 14 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:06,880 Speaker 1: the the beach spring break thing once um and there 15 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:09,280 Speaker 1: was a cold snap so there was no swimming to 16 00:01:09,319 --> 00:01:11,920 Speaker 1: be had. We, like all, stayed indoors. We did get 17 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:15,440 Speaker 1: matching airbrush spring Breake shirts, which I occasionally busted out. 18 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:18,720 Speaker 1: Another popular thing to do for spring break where I'm 19 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:21,640 Speaker 1: from is to go to Savannah for St. Patrick's Say Parade. 20 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:24,160 Speaker 1: It usually happens around the same time and if you've 21 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:28,279 Speaker 1: never been never heard of it. It is a party. 22 00:01:28,319 --> 00:01:31,160 Speaker 1: It is a huge party. My best friends did it 23 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:33,840 Speaker 1: every year in high school. UM. I only made it 24 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:36,440 Speaker 1: once and it was to march in the parade, so 25 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:40,399 Speaker 1: again not really spring breaking it. I did later go 26 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:43,160 Speaker 1: in college and I don't really have time to go 27 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:45,520 Speaker 1: into the story. Now. It's a good one. Uh. It 28 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:49,200 Speaker 1: involves the board games, Fatigo, a failed account of Billy 29 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 1: Buddy system, and dead cell phones. Um. And one year 30 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 1: I was away working or or something, UM, and my 31 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 1: friends may a cardboard cutout of my head called it 32 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:05,640 Speaker 1: the Spirit of Annie, and it appeared in all of 33 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:08,200 Speaker 1: their pictures and they tagged me and all of their 34 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:13,359 Speaker 1: pictures because I was there in spirit. Anyway, for those 35 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:16,480 Speaker 1: of you who are planning your spring break, we hope 36 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:19,079 Speaker 1: that you have a fun, safe one. UM, take care 37 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:22,720 Speaker 1: of yourselves, and here are some history facts to annoy 38 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:29,680 Speaker 1: your friends with on the trip. Welcome to Stuff Mom 39 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:37,360 Speaker 1: Never told you from how Stuff Works dot Com. Hello, 40 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:40,959 Speaker 1: and welcome to the podcast. I'm Caroline and I'm Kristen. Kristen, 41 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:43,840 Speaker 1: if I had asked you a week ago what you 42 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:46,440 Speaker 1: thought were the origins of spring break, what would have 43 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:50,519 Speaker 1: been your guests? Someone had a hose and someone was 44 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:54,880 Speaker 1: wearing what a T shirt what T shirt contest? Maybe 45 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:59,519 Speaker 1: And yeah, someone ran through a sprinkler on a beach 46 00:02:59,639 --> 00:03:03,600 Speaker 1: some and someone was serving jello and accidentally like whoops, 47 00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:06,240 Speaker 1: and lazy poured a lot of vodka into it. I 48 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 1: like it that that's creative, but it's not at all 49 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:12,000 Speaker 1: close to the origins of spring break in real life. 50 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:15,400 Speaker 1: Not not a bunch of just happenstance mistakes that lead 51 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:18,959 Speaker 1: to drunkenness and and wet T shirts. Not a series 52 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:22,959 Speaker 1: of happy accident more like one happy accident. And then 53 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:26,160 Speaker 1: once upon a time, we had the Casino Pool in 54 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:29,960 Speaker 1: Fort Lauderdale, Florida. And so backing up a little bit, 55 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:33,640 Speaker 1: I'm getting ahead of myself. It was cold up at 56 00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:37,160 Speaker 1: Colgate University, and the swim coach did not want his 57 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 1: students to get out of shape over Christmas break. So 58 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:42,800 Speaker 1: one of his students father, suggested that the team come 59 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:45,920 Speaker 1: down to Fort Lauderdale and practice at the Casino Pool, 60 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:48,840 Speaker 1: which was the first Olympic sized pool in Florida. It 61 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:51,600 Speaker 1: had been built in the nineteen twenties, and so he did. So. 62 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 1: All these swimmers come down to Fort Lauderdale, and they're 63 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 1: enjoying the warm weather and the warm welcome, and as 64 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:01,640 Speaker 1: it tends to do, we're spread among college students that 65 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:04,920 Speaker 1: this was a cool thing to do, and the spring 66 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 1: break was born. And this is in nineteen thirty six 67 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:12,880 Speaker 1: that Ingram first springs that Colgate University swim team down. 68 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 1: I had no idea that spring break. Yeah, in the thirties, 69 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:20,560 Speaker 1: even though some might say that, hey, you know, the 70 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:23,880 Speaker 1: idea of a spring celebration can be traced back to 71 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 1: Greek and Roman times with the bacchanals and the changing 72 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:30,120 Speaker 1: of the seasons and it's getting warm, let's pour a 73 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:34,320 Speaker 1: bunch of wine, um and but really in the United 74 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:37,839 Speaker 1: States it started more in the thirties. Although once you 75 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:42,040 Speaker 1: have kids going off to college men and women, and 76 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:46,200 Speaker 1: the advent of the car and the road trip, then 77 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:49,360 Speaker 1: you start to get kids getting a little frisky when 78 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:51,520 Speaker 1: they have some time off from school. But the idea 79 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:54,600 Speaker 1: of spring break and this whole let's go to the 80 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 1: beach and have a real good time starts all because 81 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:02,479 Speaker 1: of Fort Lauderdale, this casino pool and Sam Ingram, who 82 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:07,080 Speaker 1: was yeah, really really concerned about his swift but all 83 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:09,480 Speaker 1: that Christmas ham he was worried that they would get 84 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:13,160 Speaker 1: little swimmers cuts. So yeah, in six he brought the 85 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:17,040 Speaker 1: team down and by eight more than three hundred swimmers 86 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:20,600 Speaker 1: were competing in the College Coaches Swim Forum at this 87 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:25,040 Speaker 1: casino pool, and according to The New York Times, A 88 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:30,080 Speaker 1: buchan All was born. Yeah, the first mention of spring 89 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 1: Break in Time magazine happened in nineteen fifty nine, I believe, 90 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:39,719 Speaker 1: where one of the revelers commented, it's not that we 91 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:42,960 Speaker 1: drink so much. It's just that we drink beer all 92 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 1: the time, right, so keep it going. So little has 93 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:50,840 Speaker 1: changed since those early days. And then in nineteen sixty 94 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:56,000 Speaker 1: spring break really enters into mainstream culture with the Hollywood 95 00:05:56,040 --> 00:06:00,520 Speaker 1: production Where the Boys Are, which is a movie based 96 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:04,680 Speaker 1: on a book by the same name starring George Hamilton's 97 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:08,839 Speaker 1: that uh star of Yesteryear who was always so dann, 98 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:11,840 Speaker 1: always so damn. I think I have a purse the 99 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:14,760 Speaker 1: color of George Hamilton. That's actually the color. It's George 100 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:19,480 Speaker 1: Hamilton's Hamilton um. And it's about these four midwestern college 101 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:22,920 Speaker 1: girls who spend their spring break in where else, Fort Lauderdale, 102 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:26,679 Speaker 1: the first capital of spring break. And I like how 103 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:30,560 Speaker 1: the plot line revolves around all of their different ideas 104 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:34,320 Speaker 1: of premarital sex, like the main character sort of the 105 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:38,480 Speaker 1: headstrong feminist who's like prematal sex and say okay by me, 106 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:41,200 Speaker 1: And then she meets George Hamilton's She's like, I could 107 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:44,159 Speaker 1: have premarital sex with George Hamilton's. But then the moral 108 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:46,680 Speaker 1: of the story in this nineteen sixty film is that 109 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:49,960 Speaker 1: she doesn't have to do it before she's ready, right, 110 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:52,240 Speaker 1: And that is the moral of spring Break as well. 111 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:55,800 Speaker 1: Um And by the seventies, this is according to Time 112 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:59,040 Speaker 1: Magazine's Brief History of spring Break, which is very interesting 113 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:01,000 Speaker 1: and tells me all sorts of things that I had 114 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:03,840 Speaker 1: no idea about. But they say that by the seventies 115 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:06,839 Speaker 1: things started to get a little raunchier. There was a 116 00:07:06,839 --> 00:07:09,600 Speaker 1: lot of gratuitous p d A and balcony diving, which 117 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:11,800 Speaker 1: is when kids would jump from one balcony to the 118 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:14,440 Speaker 1: other to try to get to people's rooms. And there's 119 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:19,240 Speaker 1: actually a study out there about spring break syndrome, which 120 00:07:19,320 --> 00:07:22,600 Speaker 1: is referring to the number of accidental free fall injuries 121 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:26,440 Speaker 1: in the spring Break atmosphere and how they're different from like, 122 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:28,680 Speaker 1: let's say, a side impact injury of a car wreck. 123 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:32,720 Speaker 1: So all these kids getting drunk and jumping from balcony 124 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:35,880 Speaker 1: to balcony, a term was coined that reminds me of 125 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:39,440 Speaker 1: yoga drop foot. It's from the from the yoga episode 126 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:44,720 Speaker 1: where very specific injury um And then by nine more 127 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:49,000 Speaker 1: than three hundred and seventy thousand students were heading to 128 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:53,040 Speaker 1: Fort Lauderdale every year for spring break and things were 129 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:56,120 Speaker 1: getting out of control. The mayor of Fort Lauderdale started 130 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:59,720 Speaker 1: freaking out about it. Police started freaking out. In seventies, 131 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:03,280 Speaker 1: there were a number of arrests that were happening every 132 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 1: year on the beach because kids were getting out of hand. 133 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:10,920 Speaker 1: A lot of spring break syndrome spreading everywhere. People not 134 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:14,600 Speaker 1: falling off of balconies, but just just falling rights, other 135 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:17,440 Speaker 1: types of spring break syndromes. And you mentioned the mayor, 136 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:20,360 Speaker 1: he actually went on Good Morning America to publicly state 137 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:23,560 Speaker 1: that students were not welcome in his town anymore. And 138 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:26,520 Speaker 1: a former city commissioner, Robert Cox, told The New York 139 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:29,520 Speaker 1: Times that the commission voted to purchase a riot tank 140 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:33,800 Speaker 1: with a water cannon to counteract any potential student rampages. 141 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:36,640 Speaker 1: And he didn't stop there. Not only did he buy 142 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:40,000 Speaker 1: a freaking riot tank, but when he became mayor, streets 143 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:43,400 Speaker 1: were reconfigured to discourage cruising, and high end hotels and 144 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:48,160 Speaker 1: restaurants replaced the lower end student attracting dive bars and things. 145 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:52,120 Speaker 1: So the thing that I was expecting with this idea 146 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:56,079 Speaker 1: of talking about spring break for a podcast was that 147 00:08:56,160 --> 00:08:58,240 Speaker 1: it would start, I don't know, in the in the 148 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:02,240 Speaker 1: eighties or the nineties. It's something a product of MTV 149 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:06,400 Speaker 1: because growing up, MTV always had their televised spring Break 150 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:09,520 Speaker 1: weeks and it was a lot of you know, bands 151 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:14,400 Speaker 1: and drinking and wet t shirt contests. But the fact 152 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:18,440 Speaker 1: of the matter is that ever since large groups of 153 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 1: college kids have gathered in a warm locale since the 154 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:28,359 Speaker 1: late nineteen thirties, trouble has ensued. It's all swimmers, faults, 155 00:09:27,679 --> 00:09:31,600 Speaker 1: It's darn Northern swimmers. But MTV does play a role 156 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:36,199 Speaker 1: in this. In nineteen eighties six MTVS spring Break debuted 157 00:09:36,280 --> 00:09:41,520 Speaker 1: in beautiful Daytona Beach, not Fort Lauderdown. And I think 158 00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:45,040 Speaker 1: this is a really good example of popular culture feeding 159 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:48,480 Speaker 1: what goes into the media, which then feeds back into 160 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:52,880 Speaker 1: popular culture. And MTV Vice president Doug Hertzog said that 161 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:55,520 Speaker 1: spring Break is a youth culture event. We wanted to 162 00:09:55,559 --> 00:09:57,720 Speaker 1: be a part of it. For that reason, it makes 163 00:09:57,720 --> 00:09:59,560 Speaker 1: good sense for us to come down and go live 164 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:01,960 Speaker 1: from the center of it, because obviously the people there 165 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:04,640 Speaker 1: are the kinds of people who watch HMTV, so it's 166 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:06,760 Speaker 1: a cycle. Like he saw these young people doing all 167 00:10:06,760 --> 00:10:09,080 Speaker 1: these crazy things and thought, yes, we need to be 168 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:10,800 Speaker 1: a part of that. We need to put it on 169 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:14,000 Speaker 1: TV to get more people watching it to boost our ratings. 170 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:16,480 Speaker 1: And then the more people who watch MTV spring Break, 171 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:19,880 Speaker 1: the more people go down to MTV spring Break, right 172 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:23,040 Speaker 1: because it cements this idea in our our young and 173 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:25,960 Speaker 1: impressionable minds, said Hey, you know, for that one week 174 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:28,520 Speaker 1: in March or April, that's what we're supposed to do, 175 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:32,160 Speaker 1: black out every night on the jello shot. Not like 176 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:35,199 Speaker 1: what I did my freshman year of college, which was 177 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:38,720 Speaker 1: go to New York City in March. It was freezing 178 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:40,520 Speaker 1: and at the same time that I went to New 179 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:42,199 Speaker 1: York City with my friends. I don't know why I'm 180 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:46,080 Speaker 1: pointing down, New York City is up anyway, When I 181 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:47,559 Speaker 1: went to New York City and it was freezing, and 182 00:10:47,559 --> 00:10:49,480 Speaker 1: I was wearing sweaters and standing in line to see 183 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:54,360 Speaker 1: Conan O'Brien, my roommate went to Florida, and one a 184 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:58,440 Speaker 1: wet t shirt contest, which I think illustrates different perspectives 185 00:10:58,559 --> 00:11:02,679 Speaker 1: very well. The only spring break that I can remember 186 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:06,400 Speaker 1: making into some kind of occasion during college because I 187 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:09,840 Speaker 1: was I was probably working most spring breaks. UM was 188 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:12,840 Speaker 1: one beach trip that my friends and I took camping 189 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:18,280 Speaker 1: down on St. Augustine. But the way the timing of 190 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:22,520 Speaker 1: spring break was in early early March, and it was 191 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:25,920 Speaker 1: still cold, and I remember going out there sitting on 192 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:29,520 Speaker 1: the beach with my swimsuit on but wrapped up in 193 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:33,360 Speaker 1: the top towel, determined to have some fun in the 194 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:36,720 Speaker 1: freezing cold sun. And there was these wind gusts would 195 00:11:36,800 --> 00:11:41,480 Speaker 1: kick up and just blow sand all over us, and 196 00:11:41,679 --> 00:11:43,560 Speaker 1: uh and I went home a day early. Yeah. I 197 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:45,319 Speaker 1: had a similar experience when I was in middle school. 198 00:11:45,320 --> 00:11:46,840 Speaker 1: Every year I went to my aunt and uncle's house 199 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:50,760 Speaker 1: in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. Same thing. I actually got 200 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:53,040 Speaker 1: bronchitis one year because it was so cold, but I 201 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:56,480 Speaker 1: was determined to go in the pool. I am going 202 00:11:56,520 --> 00:11:59,960 Speaker 1: to have fun. And yet again we din ourselves into 203 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:15,440 Speaker 1: comics from a young age. Not on a more serious note, 204 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:19,920 Speaker 1: we do have to address the riskier behavior that does 205 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:25,600 Speaker 1: tend to go hand in hand with these spring break romps. Yeah. 206 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:27,720 Speaker 1: A two thousand and six study in the Annals of 207 00:12:27,720 --> 00:12:31,280 Speaker 1: Tourism Research found that students appear to participate in risk 208 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:34,320 Speaker 1: your behaviors in the spring break environment then at home. 209 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:36,280 Speaker 1: And this sounds like a no brainer. I mean, if 210 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:38,680 Speaker 1: you've ever been to spring breaker, won't watch spring break 211 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:41,400 Speaker 1: shows on MTV, you know that people are acting kind 212 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:44,080 Speaker 1: of crazy. Um. But they look at why this is 213 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:48,000 Speaker 1: happening and they found that it's your personal normative beliefs 214 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:53,600 Speaker 1: and situational expectations that predict your intentions to binge, drink 215 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:56,240 Speaker 1: and take part in it while you're on spring break. 216 00:12:56,600 --> 00:12:59,200 Speaker 1: So basically it's that thing of saying, Hey, you know 217 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:02,319 Speaker 1: what I'm going on spring break. I've seen what spring 218 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:06,920 Speaker 1: break looks like. Um on MTV And in the nineteen 219 00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:10,560 Speaker 1: sixty film where the boys are starring George Hamilton's and 220 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:13,280 Speaker 1: I am expecting to go down and have a party 221 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:16,920 Speaker 1: filled weekend and I'm just gonna go bonkers, right, And similarly, 222 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:20,959 Speaker 1: intentions for casual sex were predicted by attitudes again personal 223 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:25,480 Speaker 1: normative beliefs and expectations, but the actual engagement in casual 224 00:13:25,520 --> 00:13:29,640 Speaker 1: sex was predicted by prior experience with it, So you 225 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:31,719 Speaker 1: might go down thinking like, oh, yeah, I'm going to 226 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:34,800 Speaker 1: have all of this crazy spring break sex and drinking, 227 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:39,600 Speaker 1: and then your actual actions might not measure up exactly. 228 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:43,240 Speaker 1: And then the most disconcerting finding from this two thousand 229 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:45,880 Speaker 1: six study was that a majority of students who did 230 00:13:45,920 --> 00:13:50,600 Speaker 1: in fact engage in sexual activity rarely or never used 231 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:53,800 Speaker 1: condoms during spring break. Yeah, that is scary. That's a 232 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:56,880 Speaker 1: lot of unprotected sex happening with a lot of possibly 233 00:13:56,920 --> 00:14:00,520 Speaker 1: intoxicated people. But speaking of numbers, let's put some sentages 234 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:05,720 Speaker 1: around how many what proportion of students are having sex? 235 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:08,760 Speaker 1: This is a little bit dated. A n study of 236 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:12,560 Speaker 1: Canadian students from the Journal of Sex Research I found 237 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:15,560 Speaker 1: that not too surprisingly, more men than women intended to 238 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:19,920 Speaker 1: have casual sex on spring break. But when the numbers 239 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:24,080 Speaker 1: all shook out, the percentages of guys and gals who 240 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:27,120 Speaker 1: actually did it pretty similar fifteen percent of men and 241 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:30,920 Speaker 1: of women. So maybe the casual sex not as rampant 242 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:34,360 Speaker 1: as we think could be. Maybe people are just talking 243 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:38,040 Speaker 1: it up. Yeah, And one thing that researchers looked at 244 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:39,920 Speaker 1: in a in a two thousand and six study from 245 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:44,880 Speaker 1: the Journal of Studies on Alcohol was comparing springbreak behavior 246 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:48,240 Speaker 1: to normal behavior, because it could be that people are 247 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:51,000 Speaker 1: never drinking during the year and going crazy on spring break, 248 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:52,880 Speaker 1: or that they're drinking all the time and it just 249 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:56,360 Speaker 1: continues when they go on vacation. And so they conducted 250 00:14:56,360 --> 00:14:59,200 Speaker 1: phone interviews with one hundred and seventy six freshmen students 251 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:02,120 Speaker 1: over ten weeks to learn about their typical behaviors and 252 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:05,280 Speaker 1: found that the people who drank more during the regular 253 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:09,960 Speaker 1: semester are men, members of fraternities and sororities, students on 254 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:16,160 Speaker 1: spring break, and those with higher fun social expectancies, so 255 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:18,440 Speaker 1: the people who are just expecting to have a better, 256 00:15:18,520 --> 00:15:21,520 Speaker 1: more wild time in college. And they found that alcohol 257 00:15:21,640 --> 00:15:24,760 Speaker 1: used did not actually increase during spring break in general, 258 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:29,760 Speaker 1: but spring break travelers increased their alcohol use during springbreak. 259 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:32,160 Speaker 1: So is the binge week It was the wake up 260 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:35,520 Speaker 1: crack of beer instead of having coffee right and just 261 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:38,240 Speaker 1: go until you can't go no more. And that finding 262 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:40,840 Speaker 1: echoes the quote that you said earlier from time about 263 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:42,680 Speaker 1: it's not that we drink so much that we drink 264 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:46,880 Speaker 1: all the time. That's from nineteen nine. Well, and now 265 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:49,760 Speaker 1: that there's the whole thing of leaving the US going 266 00:15:50,040 --> 00:15:53,840 Speaker 1: to destinations like Cancoon where the drinking ages eighteen to 267 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:55,320 Speaker 1: make it even easier, and then you go to an 268 00:15:55,360 --> 00:15:59,200 Speaker 1: all inclusive resort and it's just fountains of mimosas and 269 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:03,480 Speaker 1: hurricane panes. That is quite a bachan all. Yes. So, 270 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:09,160 Speaker 1: now that we've covered the risks and established the fact that, yes, indeed, 271 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:12,520 Speaker 1: a lot of alcohol is consumed on spring break and 272 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:16,440 Speaker 1: has been since the dawn of spring break, let's talk 273 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:19,480 Speaker 1: about the business and of this, right, because all of 274 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:24,200 Speaker 1: this alcohol consumption and hotel stays and restaurant eating, well 275 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:27,520 Speaker 1: not eating of restaurants, but eating at restaurants, just to clarify, 276 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 1: although some of those drunk students probably have attempted to 277 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:34,920 Speaker 1: eat a restaurant shoot on a on a restaurant. Um. Yes, 278 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:38,960 Speaker 1: so this means that business is booming in these springbreak towns. 279 00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:42,600 Speaker 1: And according to the Houston Chronicle on March eighteenth, hotel 280 00:16:42,640 --> 00:16:45,080 Speaker 1: bookings for Texas Week, which I've never heard of, but 281 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:48,600 Speaker 1: I guess it's the big spring break event of Texas 282 00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:52,760 Speaker 1: of Texas which ran from March eleven to see, um, 283 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:56,680 Speaker 1: we're at capacity. According to the special event coordinator for 284 00:16:56,680 --> 00:17:00,200 Speaker 1: the South Padre Island Convention and Visitors Bureau. I really 285 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:02,680 Speaker 1: know someone who spent spring break in South Padre Island 286 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:06,000 Speaker 1: and I did not look at her pictures because I 287 00:17:06,119 --> 00:17:09,840 Speaker 1: just think they'd be crazy. And apparently South Padre Island 288 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:13,159 Speaker 1: is popping. And it's interesting, Caroline that you mentioned that 289 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:16,120 Speaker 1: you did not choose to look at her pictures, which 290 00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:19,720 Speaker 1: I'm assuming we're posted on the social network called Facebook. 291 00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:27,480 Speaker 1: Because social media supposedly is tamping down on the spring 292 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:31,920 Speaker 1: break fund. These college students who have largely grown up 293 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:36,640 Speaker 1: with social media are so aware of how easily they 294 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:40,080 Speaker 1: can be caught and broadcast doing things such as wet 295 00:17:40,119 --> 00:17:44,720 Speaker 1: t shirt contests and jello shots, that they aren't partying 296 00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:47,600 Speaker 1: as hard as they used to be. We'll see. Yeah, 297 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:49,840 Speaker 1: The New York Times identifies this as a trend, but 298 00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:52,240 Speaker 1: I question how much of a trend it actually is. 299 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:55,280 Speaker 1: It might just it might just be a part of 300 00:17:55,280 --> 00:17:58,560 Speaker 1: these kids lives now because Facebook is everything on Facebook 301 00:17:58,560 --> 00:18:00,440 Speaker 1: and the internet is I mean, it's just so prevalent 302 00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:04,240 Speaker 1: and it's all intertwined, and it might just be more 303 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:06,439 Speaker 1: of an attitude that they have now, like Okay, well, 304 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:08,359 Speaker 1: I'm still going to go down and have fun. I 305 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:10,280 Speaker 1: just don't want people taking pictures of me so that 306 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:13,560 Speaker 1: potential employers will see them, you know, because I feel 307 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:16,639 Speaker 1: like when I was in college facebook uh or I 308 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:19,000 Speaker 1: got on Facebook in two thousand four, which was my 309 00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:21,320 Speaker 1: sophomore year of college, so I still wasn't even for 310 00:18:21,359 --> 00:18:23,400 Speaker 1: the rest of college. I wasn't thinking about like, oh 311 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:25,280 Speaker 1: my gosh, someone's gonna see a picture of me holding 312 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:27,520 Speaker 1: a beer and I'm going to lose a job. But 313 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:29,720 Speaker 1: maybe it's just so prevalent now that kids are are 314 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:33,720 Speaker 1: really worried about it. And one year old bartender is 315 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:35,679 Speaker 1: quoted in the story is saying that the students she 316 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:39,280 Speaker 1: sees are very prudish and that ten years ago people 317 00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:42,480 Speaker 1: were doing filthy, filthy things, but it wasn't posted on Facebook. 318 00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:45,760 Speaker 1: So there's a little bit of nostalgia from a year old. 319 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:49,399 Speaker 1: In a commentary about that New York Times trend Peace, 320 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:53,680 Speaker 1: the blog Jezebel also brings up this issue of whether 321 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:57,600 Speaker 1: or not women women are being more slut shamed into 322 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:01,520 Speaker 1: sort of tamping down on their crew easier spring break activity, 323 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:04,040 Speaker 1: because you also have to remember the out of spring 324 00:19:04,119 --> 00:19:07,720 Speaker 1: break culture we have the whole girl's Gone wild culture 325 00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:13,119 Speaker 1: of filming pretty young women who are usually pretty intoxicated, 326 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:19,440 Speaker 1: doing some pretty sexy types of things. Right. And I mean, 327 00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:22,040 Speaker 1: I think I've told you this before, Kristen, But my 328 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:23,960 Speaker 1: dad's only advice to me when I was going to 329 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:25,840 Speaker 1: college was don't let me see you want commercial at 330 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:29,320 Speaker 1: three in the morning. So it is a concern out 331 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:31,920 Speaker 1: there that our young ladies, are young college ladies, will 332 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:35,679 Speaker 1: end up victims of girls gone wild. But this, the 333 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:40,280 Speaker 1: whole social media thing, really isn't killing spring break revelry. 334 00:19:40,320 --> 00:19:42,480 Speaker 1: I mean, plenty of people are still going. And all 335 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:45,960 Speaker 1: these articles coming out of Florida this month reporting on 336 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:50,000 Speaker 1: the spring break craziness down there basically said that hotel 337 00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:53,800 Speaker 1: occupancy is up in spite of the recession. It's incredible. 338 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:55,320 Speaker 1: I saw on I think it was from U S 339 00:19:55,359 --> 00:19:58,719 Speaker 1: News and World Report the average college student will spend 340 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:03,199 Speaker 1: a level a hundred dollars on a spring break getaway. Right. 341 00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:05,879 Speaker 1: This is in a recession economy. I couldn't even do 342 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:10,639 Speaker 1: that before the recession when I was in college. The 343 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:14,120 Speaker 1: Sun sentinelow March twelve reported that the Greater Fort Lauderdale 344 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:17,439 Speaker 1: Convention and Visitors Bureau expected about one million visitors to 345 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:21,400 Speaker 1: Broward County alone, and those one million visitors were expected 346 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:24,560 Speaker 1: to spend oh, I don't know, just about a billion dollars. 347 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:27,640 Speaker 1: So even though they're all these towns in Florida who 348 00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:30,040 Speaker 1: back in the eighties were like, enough, we don't want 349 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:31,720 Speaker 1: to be that kind of town. We don't want to 350 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:35,159 Speaker 1: have a week long disruption in our lives, they're finding 351 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:39,760 Speaker 1: ways to still attract and draw visitors, but just hoping 352 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:42,639 Speaker 1: that it's not the same like craziness that was so 353 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:45,600 Speaker 1: common in the eighties, not all that spring break syndrome 354 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:49,119 Speaker 1: and balcony hopping spreading around, right, because they're actually attracting 355 00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:52,080 Speaker 1: a lot of not just college students, but some of 356 00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:54,320 Speaker 1: the hotel people that they talked to for this article 357 00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:56,320 Speaker 1: were saying that there were a lot of convention people 358 00:20:56,800 --> 00:20:59,080 Speaker 1: and families to go down to the beach for spring break. 359 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:01,119 Speaker 1: So there's a mix. Although I would not want to 360 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:03,240 Speaker 1: be a family staying in a hotel with a bunch 361 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:07,040 Speaker 1: of springbreak college kids. I would try to stay somewhere else. Yeah, 362 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:08,440 Speaker 1: I mean, that's got to be part of the give 363 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:12,440 Speaker 1: and take of of being a tourism driven city. Um, 364 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:16,200 Speaker 1: but we've been talking all about this debauchery that goes 365 00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:19,560 Speaker 1: along with springbreak, because I think that we can pretty 366 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:23,280 Speaker 1: conclusively say that the history of springbreak has been kids 367 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:25,720 Speaker 1: getting in cars and planes and going to a hot 368 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:30,199 Speaker 1: location to drink alcohol swimmers. But there's also been the 369 00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:34,359 Speaker 1: more recent rise of alternative spring breaks, which is great. 370 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:38,679 Speaker 1: There are new options for going and using your time 371 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:41,720 Speaker 1: to improve the world in a way, whether that's doing 372 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:46,720 Speaker 1: um clean up after Hurricane Katrina, or going to more 373 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:52,480 Speaker 1: remote location to do some kind of humanitarian outreach, educating yourself, 374 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:56,639 Speaker 1: doing outward bound trips. Right and there's Breakaway, which is 375 00:21:56,680 --> 00:22:00,240 Speaker 1: a nonprofit that provides training to colleges universe of these 376 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:04,720 Speaker 1: and other nonprofits interested in creating lifelong active citizens according 377 00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:07,000 Speaker 1: to their website. And so this is for people who, yeah, 378 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:09,280 Speaker 1: who want to participate in things like Habitat for Humanity 379 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:12,200 Speaker 1: and help build houses and things like that on spring 380 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:15,679 Speaker 1: break and help better their community or you know, a 381 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:18,680 Speaker 1: far away community if they so choose, instead of going 382 00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:21,399 Speaker 1: and getting drunk. Right now, let's say that the alternative 383 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:24,240 Speaker 1: spring break is probably one of the most positive outcomes 384 00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:27,439 Speaker 1: of springbreak. Not to say that when I was in college, 385 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:30,000 Speaker 1: I did not look forward to having that week off, 386 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:34,399 Speaker 1: and maybe I did walk into this podcast a little 387 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:37,480 Speaker 1: bitter that I don't still have that time off because 388 00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:41,199 Speaker 1: I have friends who are now getting their masters, are 389 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:44,080 Speaker 1: there in law school, and this is the time when 390 00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:48,159 Speaker 1: they're all going on spring break. Now I almost forget 391 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:50,680 Speaker 1: what springbreak was like. It must have been so nice 392 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:53,119 Speaker 1: for me to not do homework for a week, be 393 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:56,879 Speaker 1: able to sleep late shivering in New York City. That 394 00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:58,800 Speaker 1: was only one year. I honestly don't remember what I 395 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:01,760 Speaker 1: did for springbreak for the rest college. So I hope 396 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:04,200 Speaker 1: that listeners will consider this our kind of spring break 397 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:06,960 Speaker 1: give to ourselves. Just just a fun little podcast trying 398 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:11,600 Speaker 1: to figure out where the strange bakan all came from. 399 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:15,639 Speaker 1: And it really just came from that son and alcohol 400 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:21,480 Speaker 1: and cheap airfare and George Hamilton's and my purse. So 401 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:24,800 Speaker 1: please tell us about what you did or currently do 402 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:29,120 Speaker 1: during spring break, uh in college, if you went wilder, 403 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:32,600 Speaker 1: if you maybe did some alternative spring break stuff. Mom 404 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:35,160 Speaker 1: Stuff at Discovery dot com is where you can send 405 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:37,680 Speaker 1: those letters. And we've got a couple of letters here 406 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:52,280 Speaker 1: to share from our episode on women's wrestling, And this 407 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:55,680 Speaker 1: first one is from Andrew, who is a big fan 408 00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:59,800 Speaker 1: of professional wrestling, and he writes in recent years, ww 409 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:02,760 Speaker 1: use hiring policy of women has been to hire models 410 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:05,600 Speaker 1: and train them to wrestle. Usually this sends up poorly 411 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:09,320 Speaker 1: in the matches are train wrecks. However, ww E has 412 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:12,120 Speaker 1: hired some women who are very talented who started out 413 00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:15,239 Speaker 1: on the independent wrestling scene, trained by themselves because they 414 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:18,959 Speaker 1: loved what they did. Beth Phoenix, Na Tayler, need Heart 415 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:22,040 Speaker 1: and Karma and w w E are good examples. Some 416 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:25,080 Speaker 1: of the models even took to wrestling well, like Eve Torres, 417 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:28,479 Speaker 1: who trains in Brazilian jiu jitsu. The independent scene has 418 00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:30,560 Speaker 1: a vast array of talent, such as Sarah del Ray, 419 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:35,760 Speaker 1: cheerleader Melissa and Mischief, whose day job consists of being 420 00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:38,199 Speaker 1: a microbiologist. If you want to check out a promotion 421 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:40,600 Speaker 1: in the U s as talented female wrestlers, check out 422 00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:43,560 Speaker 1: the Shimmer promotion, as the promotion is based more off 423 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:47,440 Speaker 1: the wrestling than sex appeal. So thanks for that insight 424 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:51,800 Speaker 1: on women and wrestling, Andrew. Okay, this is from Shane. 425 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 1: He has some thoughts to share in wrestling as well. 426 00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:56,679 Speaker 1: UM I can get behind the mixed wrestling at the 427 00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:59,040 Speaker 1: college level and I can get behind more opportunities for 428 00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:01,600 Speaker 1: girls wrestling at the high school level. I don't think 429 00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:04,080 Speaker 1: I can get behind mixed wrestling at the high school level. 430 00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:06,480 Speaker 1: And here is why. High school is a time when 431 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:09,600 Speaker 1: boys and girls are learning appropriate behavior in relation to sexuality. 432 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:11,840 Speaker 1: It is also a time when hormones are running wild. 433 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:14,359 Speaker 1: While listening to your podcast, I tried to think about 434 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:15,679 Speaker 1: what it was like for me when I was in 435 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:18,800 Speaker 1: high school. Wrestling with a girl would have posed some 436 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:22,439 Speaker 1: awkward problems. This sort of a situation is just asking 437 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:26,800 Speaker 1: for an unintended sexual harassment suit, not to mention the 438 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:32,920 Speaker 1: social stress associated. So thanks, that makes sense. I can 439 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:35,680 Speaker 1: see how there could be some some awkwardness on that. 440 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:39,040 Speaker 1: In that tiny, tiny ring or Matt on the mat, 441 00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:42,200 Speaker 1: I would say ring from Matt, you're thinking of w 442 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:46,640 Speaker 1: w E kids wrestling in the de WWI also would 443 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:51,320 Speaker 1: be it's weird deceive. Okay. Well. Mom Stuff at Discovery 444 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:53,439 Speaker 1: dot Com is where you can send your letters. You 445 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:55,920 Speaker 1: can also find us on Facebook, leave a comment there 446 00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:58,600 Speaker 1: like us if you'd like to, and you can follow 447 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:01,760 Speaker 1: us on Twitter at mom Stuff Podcast. 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