WEBVTT - Introducing: How Did We Get Weird (with Langston Kerman) 0:00:01.400 --> 0:00:06.200 Hi. I'm Vanessa Beyor and this is my brother Jonah. 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:08.479 We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood 0:00:08.480 --> 0:00:10.440 and nostalgia and how it shaped us into the people 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:12.560 we are today, who are pretty cool if I do 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:28.720 say so myself. Welcome to how did we get weird? So, Jonah, 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:31.960 thanks for being on time today. Do you remember how 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:34.239 when we used to go to school growing up, it 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:36.360 was very hard for us to be on time? Yes, 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:39.840 I do remember. Um well, before we could drive, remember 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:41.680 waiting for the school bus and we could see it 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:43.440 out the front window of our house, so you would 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:45.720 be like frantically trying to get your backpack and shoes 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:48.040 on before the bus came, and then you kind of 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:49.559 see it coming and you try to like run. We 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:51.640 have super long driveway, so you'd have to run that 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:54.120 long driveway and then if you missed the bus, then 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:57.280 our parents had to drive us school. And um yeah, 0:00:57.360 --> 0:00:59.720 I remember, just like so, I mean I feel that's 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:02.080 maybe were like so much internalized anxiety come from like 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:05.360 just like knowing any second now the bus bus is 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:07.479 going to come with it, yeah, and we would always 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:09.800 cut it super close or miss the bus. And I 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:13.800 remember once, uh, you and I had the same Doc 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:18.560 Martin like like high tops growing up. I guess I 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:20.320 don't know if you call those high tops, but the 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:23.839 same Doc Martin boots and Um, one time I wasn't 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:25.200 going to school. I think I was sick and you 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:27.240 were running really late for the bus, and you grabbed 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:29.840 mine and kind of ran to the bus half in them. 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:32.080 But then once you got to school you realized they 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:34.200 were too small on you. What's funny is I don't 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:35.680 remember that, but I think that's the kind of thing 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:36.880 that would happen to me, and I would just be 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:38.720 like okay, and I would like never. It wouldn't be 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:40.080 that big of a deal to me at that time 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:42.399 in my life. Yeah, it reminds me of the time 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:45.200 that I got called into the nurses office at school 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:49.320 because you're like piercing in your chin fell out, and 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:51.040 they she wanted me to help with it for like 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:55.360 sanitary reasons because we were related. Anyways, we had a 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:58.040 lot of adventures going to school. I remember then. Once 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:00.400 we were in high school, we were alway is late 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:03.200 because you would make us late. Yeah, well you were 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:06.200 like an honor student. Um, I was not in any 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:08.600 honors program. I and I feel like we had to 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:10.840 be at school so seven thirty in the morning, so 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:13.119 I was always running late, and I felt like you 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:16.280 were basically late to first period probably almost every day 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:19.440 because of me. Yeah, but I also felt really cool 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:21.880 being late to school because of you, or just coming 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:23.960 to school with you in general, because you would blast 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:27.440 all this punk music and it it like really made 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:29.520 me feel cool to have that, like playing out of 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:32.080 the car when I was like, you know, I wasn't 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:35.800 really a legit punk um that wasn't a legit punk 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:40.560 such as yourself, Jonah well, believe it or not. I 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:43.000 just remember like how weird it was parking in our 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:45.280 school parking lot because there would be like, right, like 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:47.160 I had like a folks like and Jetta, but then 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:49.040 there would be like super rich kids where I'd like 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:52.079 between like two Hummers and just how weird that seems 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:53.919 now for like these like sixteen year old kids to 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:57.119 have like sports cars totally. And I remember how weird 0:02:57.160 --> 0:02:59.880 it was because we would pull in and everyone was 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:03.160 it into quiet music and our car was like like 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:06.400 it was like the yelling guys, which I guess is hardcore, 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:09.160 which fan was yelling guys. They were all yelling guys. 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:11.960 It was always a song with yelling guys. Yeah. I 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:14.400 had some Yeah, our dad's friend helped us get some, 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:16.360 like twelve in speakers I had in the trunk. I 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:20.240 had a really loud right with speakers and it feels 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:23.320 so unnecessary. It was like it was so unnecessary, but 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:25.160 it got so loud. But yeah, I mean that was 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:28.679 I'd like just love listening to love music in my car, which, now, 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:30.200 what if I pulled next to the cars playing love 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:33.200 of music. It's something I cannot even imagine myself doing. 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:36.120 I'm trying to like, yeah, but it's better. I don't know. 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:38.800 You were just the coolest Jonah, And thank you for 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:41.720 giving me so much cred. No problem, I didn't even 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:44.520 know that was giving you credit. I thought you have been, 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:48.360 you have been our whole lives. So well, what a 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:51.200 sweet moment. Well you've you've done well for yourself too, 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:54.920 so don't don't sell yourself short. Thanks so much. Well, 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:59.680 let's get into our yes today, our guest today. We're 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:02.600 so was so excited to have him. He's an actor, 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:05.880 he's a writer, he's a comedian. You've seen him on Southside, 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:09.680 High Maintenance, The Boys and as Jared on Insecure and 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:12.440 his recent work on hbos Paused with Sam j. But 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:17.000 most importantly, he hosts a wildly popular podcast, My Mama 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:23.479 told me, please welcome Lankston Kerman. Wow. Can I say 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:28.960 that was the sweetest interaction I've ever I've dreamt of 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:32.680 having those interactions with my siblings of somebody just being like, 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:38.360 you've done pretty well for yourself. Too beautiful, But it's 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:40.760 it's it's Have you ever had someone tell you they've 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:42.680 you've given them a lot of Credit's a hard thing 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:45.320 to start a response to it is, and I I didn't. 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:48.640 I didn't envy your position in that moment to have 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:53.679 to come up with a charming retort. It doesn't happen often. 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:57.160 That's unprecedented. Yeah, No, it was a tough spot to 0:04:57.240 --> 0:05:00.640 be in. I too found myself to get the bus 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:03.680 to school, but I don't know that we had the 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:07.760 same bus experience. I wasn't. I wasn't often late because 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:10.560 the buses where most of the fights happened at my school, 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:13.560 and so Papa needed a front seat to whoever was 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:16.320 gonna be punching each other in the head that day, 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:20.400 and that that was always exciting. Wow. Wow, I don't 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:22.680 remember a ton of fights on the buses with us, 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:28.520 but um, I think, yeah, they're the best fights. I 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:31.400 would say of all the fights, the bus fights are 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:35.159 the best because the space is super contained and it's 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:39.280 just uh, it can only last like twelve seconds before 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:43.880 like so, either an obstruction happened, somebody's body gets in 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:46.000 the way, or the bus driver pulls over, and now 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:49.160 an adult who we don't respect is involved. It's all 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:51.880 fun right right now. Were you ever involved in the 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:56.400 fights or were you just like kind of the audience. No, never, 0:05:56.440 --> 0:06:00.920 I'm a coward. I I I instigated fight. I chimed 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:04.280 in when when it seemed as if nobody was paying 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:08.480 attention and and sort of added punchlines to whatever punching 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:11.800 was happening. But no, I wasn't. I wasn't fighting anybody. 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:15.240 Those bus drivers are definitely not paid enough to deal 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:19.240 with that. No, And and it shows they do not 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:21.799 care for the work and they do not care about 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:26.720 the children that they're transporting. Yeah, so did you transition 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:28.440 to driving to school or what was your kind of 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:32.120 high school getting the school experience? Like, yeah, I so 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:36.040 I got I took the bus through middle school and 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:39.040 then because my middle school was way further than my 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.640 high school was from from my home. And then by 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:43.520 the time I got to high school, I think I 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:46.960 I either got like rides because I would like show 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:50.839 up super early for like basketball practice or whatever activities, 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:54.840 or I would walk, uh, which I think by then 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:57.520 I had like a group of friends who was like, yeah, 0:06:57.520 --> 0:06:59.960 we'll walk a mile and a half together and that school. 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:01.920 And I don't know why that was cool. I think 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:05.720 in respect we should have happily learned, you know, how 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:07.720 to do something else. But we were like, yeah, it 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:10.760 would have walk, guys, this is nice. We were weirdly 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:12.760 not it was a rule we were not allowed to 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:15.560 walk to school. So it was like if you if 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:17.640 you we and we lived pretty close to our school, 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:19.360 we're probably like a mile and a half away from 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:24.040 our school, which actually not that close if you can't imagine, actually, 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:27.360 but like, yeah, people would. It was like it was 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:31.480 very like, you know, if you get caught walking to school, actually, 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:33.440 I don't know what would happen. I don't know. You 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:35.840 weren't allowed to leave, you weren't allowed to go to McDonald's. 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:37.400 You sneak out and go to McDonald's for lunch you 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:40.760 can get in big trouble were you're allowed to leave? Yeah, 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:43.920 we were very kind of contained. Also, this these were 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:47.320 school rules. This wasn't just like your family said no, 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:50.040 this rule wouldn't let us watch to school. It was 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:53.240 like which was there? I remember there was this one girl, 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:56.040 Caitlin Store, who literally lived across the street from the 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:59.320 school and she had to take the bus. Who isn't 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:03.400 that crazy? Yeah, she had to take the bus and 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:05.360 she was a really good student. She was maybe our 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:10.760 valedictorian or like sal, sal, I'm not going to help you, 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:15.360 but she she um, she was so she like listen, 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:17.440 you know she took the bus every day. What a 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:23.160 waste of taxpayers money? That's crazy. Yeah. And then I 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:26.240 remember for senior prank, someone broke into where they kept 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:29.000 the buses and slash the tires on all the bus 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:33.839 That was my senior year. Yeah. Did they do that 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:36.240 your year too? No? I don't think so, but I 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:38.679 think I think I heard about it. And it was 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:41.240 so great because we got to go to school late then. 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:46.079 It was so it was so and actually my my 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:48.240 friend was one of the people who did it. Like 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:50.640 there was like a group of like six guys, and 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:52.920 they were like he told me about it the night 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:55.839 before they did it, and and he was like he 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:58.040 was like and he he was gonna, I'm giving a 0:08:58.080 --> 0:08:59.280 lot of details. He was going to be at my 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:02.000 prom date. And I was like, and there was a 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:06.080 rule that like if if um, if someone gets caught 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:08.079 doing a senior prank, they won't be allowed to go 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:11.760 to prom and so and so. I so he was like, 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:13.160 I'm going to do this prank. He's like, I don't 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:15.920 think we're gonna get caught, but if we if if 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:17.400 we do, then like I won't be able to go 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:19.640 to prom. And I was like, I was like, oh, 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:21.959 I was like I'll go without you, Like I didn't, 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:29.120 I might ruin your prom night forever and always so 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:31.600 that I could be a part of a senior prank. 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:37.760 Don't worry exactly. But then the next day we went 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:40.000 to school, like like it was like on the news 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:43.199 like Orange schools are delayed two hours because like there 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:46.000 was because like the something with the busses and whatever. 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:48.959 And I was like, I was so like freaked out 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:51.079 about it because I was like, am I complicit in 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:54.120 this crime? Like I was so like freaking out. Then 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:57.600 it was I got to school. I was like loving 0:09:57.800 --> 0:09:59.720 that I knew because I kept I started kept going 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:01.599 up people and be like, who do you think did this? 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:05.480 This is wild? I'm so excited to be like in 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:07.959 on the crime that I was just like, man, this 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:10.679 is crazy, Like we better find out who these who? 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:14.240 And I knew everyone who did it, and I was 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:17.560 just like loving it. And then um, and then they 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:21.439 all did get found out a few days later. And 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:24.679 then but then the school let them go to prom 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:28.480 because they didn't want to ruin their dates prom experiences. 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:32.079 But again, as someone my focus was very much on 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:36.160 myself going like and so I remember being like, you 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:38.079 guys didn't have to do that, Like we would have 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:41.760 still all gone, I think, But um, maybe not everyone 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:45.000 felt that way because I wasn't going from like this 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:46.800 was like a friend I was going with. It wasn't 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:49.400 like a romantic like if I don't get to go 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:52.160 with him, I won't have like, oh you were fine 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:55.360 either way. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah I do. I 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:58.199 will say that I do appreciate a senior prank that 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:05.280 actually has an an effect in the world, Like it's 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:08.520 much better than I feel like for our senior prank 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:11.439 somebody like put a bunch of baby oil on the 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:14.520 main steps and just made people fall and ship and 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:18.200 it's like, Okay, well that's not helpful, gentlemen, Like let's 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:21.280 do something that actually benefits the whole of the senior. 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:24.559 It was. It was so great because I remember we 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:27.280 had like tests since I mean probably nobody else was 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:30.120 thinking as much about this because I was very into school, 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:33.160 but we had tests that like we didn't have to 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:36.360 finish them because of the time limits. Like like it's 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:40.760 sort of like academically was like very helpful too, but yeah, totally, 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:43.000 Like I remember, I think it was when I was 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:44.679 in we had eighth grade in the high school. And 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.880 when I was in eighth grade, Jonah, do you remember this, 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:51.040 the seniors put a bunch of grasshoppers like all over 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:54.600 the school and then by the time we got to school, 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:57.400 they had basically all been like vacuumed up, which just 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:01.240 felt like so sad because it was just like they 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:03.400 just killed a bunch of grasshoppers before we got in. 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:07.640 You guys just set up a grasshopper genocide real quick, 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:12.760 and everyone got their day like regular. Yeah, very sad. Yeah, 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:16.280 I remember during graduation they were like, when you shake 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:18.840 the principal's hand, put a marble in your hand, everyone's 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:20.319 going to give him a marble and then he's not 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:22.079 going to know what to do with all the marbles. 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:23.840 And like I was just like, yeah, I'm not gonna 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:26.839 do that, trying to get out of here. I'm eighteen. O, 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:32.480 thank you, thank you. Did people do it? I don't know. 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:36.160 Maybe some people did, I was, I don't, I don't remember. Yeah, 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:39.480 I hope it was just one kid. Just one kid 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:42.320 did the marble thing and tried to convince a lot 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:44.400 of other people to do it, but only he did it, 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:48.720 and and it was embarrassing and sort of awkward for him. Yeah, 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:50.400 and so that's like, where am I supposed to get Mark? 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:54.120 I don't know where you get marbles? I don't know. 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:56.240 That feels like you could have figured that out if 0:12:56.280 --> 0:13:00.520 you honestly. Feels like prime time for finding I guess 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:03.120 you're right. I guess you're right. You're right. They're probably 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:05.679 Marvel stores all around us. I bet you at that 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:09.240 time could get marbles at like a pharmacy, like a 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:13.679 little like a little fishnet bag. Yeah, Walgreen's had to 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:16.520 have a ton of marbles back then. Yeah, where did 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:21.400 you get him today? Uh? Amazon dot com. You're Daddy 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:25.640 Bezos himself, He'll send you marbles. You're right, you're right. 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:28.600 What do you do with marbles? You play a game? Yeah, 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:33.000 technically I believe the game is that you're it's it's 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:36.640 you're meant to knock the marbles out of the center. 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:40.520 That like you're it's like a competition almost like, uh, 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:45.040 what's that that the slide e ball thing? You know 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:48.240 what I'm talking about? The big like like on a 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:51.319 big like on a big like you're standing and you 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:54.760 like push the ball in the big thing. Yeah, oh 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:58.720 shuffle I love that. I love that we needed help 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:04.079 for for very popular American games. But the point is 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:06.600 Marble's is sort of like shuffle board, but it's more 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:09.439 in the middle. So like you you create a center 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:11.719 and then you you try to get your marble in 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:13.760 the center, and then you try to knock other people's 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:17.520 marbles out of the center. Is I think you're right? 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:21.720 I just remember that you remember that Marble Madness video game? No, 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:23.960 I don't. It was like a game where you kind 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:26.160 of like tilted the screen and you would like have 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:29.600 like a marble that would move around. It was pretty 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:33.520 cool game. I remember the the analog version of that, 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:36.160 not the video game, but those like cheap toys that 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:38.720 you would get where like there's a marble and you 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:42.120 have to make a uh follow the path with it. 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:45.720 I assume it's it's something similar to that. Yeah. Well 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:48.960 there's also those little remember like in when you would 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:50.880 go home from a birthday party if you would get 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:53.280 like a little bag of stuff. We we would always 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:56.480 get those little squares that like had a little marble 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:58.320 or had like a little ball in them and they 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:00.400 go through a maze and you would do you know 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:04.840 what I'm about? That's that ship? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:07.960 wonder if they still well, probably have them on Amazon 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:11.760 dot com. Daddy Bazos makes it. I worked at a 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:15.000 gift shop last year, uh, a couple of years ago, 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:18.240 and we sold like like free trade, like, um, they 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:20.720 make all that stuff. You can get it like free trade, 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:27.200 like locally made toys for kids or these local people 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:31.960 that are still carving weird mazes and then putting marbles 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:34.960 in them. I don't know. It's a good question, it's 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:37.200 a great question. I don't think I have the reason. 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:39.040 One of the reasons I think I never played with 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:42.200 marbles is because I would be so mesmerized by them 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:45.320 because I really didn't know if they were cats eyes. 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:50.240 Oh are some of them called like cat's eye marbles? 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:53.880 They look like cat's eyes. Yeah, I've heard that, Langsy. 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:56.440 To give you a little background, Vanessa, Um, we also 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:59.120 had a box collection of antique boxes just he was 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:06.040 really on to find. That's such a nice way of it, 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:09.840 and it's also a very concise way of summing up 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:16.120 a person's uh situation. Let's call it. No, no, no. 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:24.320 My sister collected boxes anyway, go on. Yeah, Like we'd 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:26.560 go on a trip and I'd buy, like, you know, 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:30.240 I get a little box that said like Florida or something. 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:36.760 Oh boy, I don't. I don't think I had any 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:41.640 collections that, uh, that even come close to collecting boxes. 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:44.400 I think I inherited my dad's coin collection and then 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:47.520 moved on, Oh that's do you still have it? Do 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:50.560 you still have the coins? No, I wasn't invested at all. 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:54.040 He you know, it's one of those things where like um, 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:57.720 where you think that you're finding something valuable because you 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:00.560 find some penny that says like nineteen already nine, and 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:02.960 you're like, hey, Dad, check this out. And then he 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:05.400 looks at and he's like, well, it's technically not worth 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:07.359 anything because it has an S on it and not 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:10.920 a D, or it isn't clean the right way, or 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:14.119 the president is facing in the wrong direction. It's like, 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:16.760 all right, man, funk off, I'm going to bed, Like, 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:19.920 what what is this game that you're playing here? Yeah? 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:23.280 I could see that being very frustrating. Hasn't been as 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:26.000 lucrative as your box collection rights always going to say 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:29.600 I would really accept most any box into the collection, 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:35.600 and you know, porcelain boxes, wooden boxes, just you know, 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:40.120 anything anything, and perhaps the box from Daddy Bezos at 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:45.160 Amazon Dot, you know. And look are the boxes all 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:48.080 still my parents, Baseman, and are they every time I 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:49.840 come home or they're like, Vanessa, you gotta get rid 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:52.600 of these boxes. Yes, but and my mom was like, 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:56.480 you can take you can take like a selection of 0:17:56.560 --> 0:17:58.320 the boxes back with you to l A and then 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:01.280 we'll donate the rest. And I'm like, I'm keeping all 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:04.760 the boxing and they're standing right here. I'm not moving 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:07.760 these boxes at all. Good luck, family. We got these 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:10.760 boxes for life, and everybody knows that We're going to 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:13.080 go to a quick commercial break, but we'll be right 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:22.600 back with Langston and we're back today. We're going to 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:25.360 talk about something that Vanessa and I were not familiar 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:28.040 with until this week, but now we're kind of obsessed with. 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:33.080 And Yes, and this was your topic lengths and so 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:35.480 thank you for that. It is the and one mixtape. 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:39.160 And for our listeners that aren't familiar with this, could 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:41.040 you maybe just sort of explain a little bit what 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:46.280 it is? Yeah, So the N one mix tapes we were, uh, 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:50.280 sort of America's introduction to street basketball. It was like 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:54.600 a bunch of random dudes who were not professional basketball 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:58.440 players at least in the traditional sense you're NBA players 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:02.600 who but we're fun and talented, like very talented people, 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:05.840 and they would they just were nasty. They would do cool, 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:11.119 cool moves that weren't even legal, uh in in professional basketball, 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:14.560 weird crossovers and dunks, and they danced in your face 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:17.200 after they embarrassed you in front of your family. And 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:19.720 I loved it. I couldn't get enough of the N 0:19:19.800 --> 0:19:23.000 one mixtapes as a child. So, like, what age were 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:27.000 you sort of when you were like peak and One fan? Uh? 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:32.000 I was probably I think I probably really found and 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:36.360 one around like eight to ten, I would say, uh, 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:40.760 and one at the time, Uh, there was there were 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:42.879 a bunch of players who were really cool. But on 0:19:43.040 --> 0:19:47.520 top of that, they also started a clothing brand. And 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:51.000 at the time, the clothing brand was really cool because it, 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:55.440 uh it was really big shirts and really baggy shorts 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:59.119 to play basketball in. You know how uh easy that 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:03.159 makes for playing basketball and uh and on top of that, 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:07.840 all their shirts had like cool uh like phrases written 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:11.240 on them, basically like trash talking phrases. So it would 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:14.600 be like you, you brick so many shots you could 0:20:14.680 --> 0:20:17.080 build a house, and that would be written on the shirt. 0:20:17.200 --> 0:20:20.160 Or it would be like you you don't dribble good 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:22.280 and your mom's a whore, and like that would be 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:25.920 on the shirt and you'd get so excited because you 0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:33.200 were ship talking in your clothes. Yeah, yeah, I was 0:20:33.320 --> 0:20:35.280 just feeling I was just thinking about how it it's 0:20:35.320 --> 0:20:37.880 a just strong move to like wear clothes that say 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:42.880 stuff on them. Yes, like in any Yeah, it's it's 0:20:43.119 --> 0:20:46.320 very daring. It's much in the way that I I 0:20:46.720 --> 0:20:48.760 and you know, and maybe it's the same as the 0:20:48.960 --> 0:20:52.560 person putting on juicy when maybe that thing isn't that juicy, 0:20:52.720 --> 0:20:56.960 you know what I mean. And you're wearing the shirt 0:20:57.240 --> 0:21:00.720 that you want to believe you can for stuff you 0:21:00.800 --> 0:21:02.879 think you can in the world, you know what I mean. 0:21:03.280 --> 0:21:05.879 It feels like you have to have so much confidence 0:21:05.960 --> 0:21:08.240 with it. I'm going to make a comparison that might 0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:12.119 not really track, but um, I live in a neighborhood 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:15.399 where there's a lot people do so much Halloween decorating, 0:21:15.960 --> 0:21:18.200 and we were outside. I was walking with my friend 0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:21.320 outside this beautiful house and it was so decorated for 0:21:21.440 --> 0:21:24.719 Halloween in such a crazy way, like more than most houses. 0:21:25.240 --> 0:21:27.440 And then the guy who lived there was like outside 0:21:27.520 --> 0:21:30.159 on his phone and he was just like on this 0:21:30.680 --> 0:21:32.640 like on his front porch, like talking on the phone. 0:21:32.960 --> 0:21:36.400 And I was like, I feel like the story isn't 0:21:36.400 --> 0:21:38.840 gonna land well. But I was like, is he so 0:21:39.160 --> 0:21:43.359