Episode 31: No Thoughts, Just Snacks

In this episode of Dad You Should Never Say That, Micah and Addie kick things off with the kind of off-the-rails conversation only this podcast can deliver — from favorite chips and random snack discoveries to the eternal debate over weird restaurant choices. What starts as a tangent about Doritos and ramen quickly turns into a full recap of life lately, setting the stage for a laid-back, funny, and very honest catch-up.

Addie shares what it’s been like coming home after her first year of college, unpacking the difference between campus life and being back under one roof with family. She talks about the freedom, the friendships, the strange dorm moments, and the lessons she learned along the way — including why making new friends in college matters more than people might think. Along the way, Micah adds his usual commentary, dad jokes, and observations, making the conversation equal parts thoughtful and ridiculous.

The episode also covers a memorable allergic reaction, a few chaotic restaurant experiences, and plenty of stories from college, dorm life, and campus culture. It’s a fun recap of a big year, a look ahead at camp and upcoming plans, and a reminder that the best parts of life are usually the people, the memories, and the stories you get to laugh about later.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Dude, I can't stop eating these. I think they're called naked Doritos. NKD.

SPEAKER_02 0:08

Oh, like the the ones that don't like have a lot of like the seasoning on them?

SPEAKER_00 0:13

No, well they have the seasoning, but they there are no artificial flavors, no colors, no nothing. It's just supposed to be like basic Doritos.

SPEAKER_02 0:20

Oh. Oh, I already talked about it. Yeah, I've had those.

SPEAKER_00 0:24

The cool ranch are really good. But I and now you can just start now finding them. Before they were like I don't know. You could find them. You could kind of find them. Uh but I'd only have to go to like special things, special places. Like only the Circle C H E B had them.

SPEAKER_01 0:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 0:46

Our Walmart and H E well, Walmart had them. But then the other thing I can't find, those Dude Perfect Cool Ranch Ruffles. If anybody's got a hookup on Dude Perfect Cool Ranch Ruffles, uh like call me or send a message on Facebook or something, because they're pretty much my favorite chip now.

SPEAKER_02 1:07

Yeah. I mean they sound good.

SPEAKER_00 1:10

Did you not have them?

unknown 1:11

No.

SPEAKER_02 1:14

I like the new the new uh like the like the switcheroos.

SPEAKER_00 1:18

That's what that one is. Oh it's Cool Ranch flavoring on ruffles.

SPEAKER_02 1:23

Oh no, I haven't had that. I had them I had barbecue Doritos, and those are fire.

SPEAKER_00 1:31

Um I saw some Doritos like Sriracha. Do you think are they good? Are they hot?

SPEAKER_02 1:39

They're like medium, they're not terrible.

SPEAKER_00 1:42

It's like they're getting hotter and hotter, like there's five different varieties of hot Doritos now.

SPEAKER_02 1:47

Yeah, well, like the sriracha and the just like the straight hot Doritos, like or the spicy Doritos, they're not that bad.

SPEAKER_00 1:53

The hot and spicy. No, there's hot, there's hot and spicy, and then there's the uh uh what did I just say sriracha? Yeah, and then there's supposed to be like a tapatillo one, which is another like Mexican hot sauce.

SPEAKER_02 2:09

Yeah, I don't know. Hmm.

SPEAKER_00 2:11

Maybe I need to go to a Mexican grocery store again and see if I can find them.

SPEAKER_02 2:16

Probably. I think we have one.

SPEAKER_00 2:18

Yeah, we dude, the fiesta uh that's down the street. Oh my gosh. It is the they have the best tortillas. They got like seven abuelas back there, like pounding them out. Um yeah, I rolled through the owls one day because I was trying to find some cool, something maybe I haven't had before. You know what's weird? They had the biggest selection of ramen ever. Why is there a giant selection of ramen at a Mexican store?

SPEAKER_02 2:50

Like I mean, were they were they were they like the normal flavors or were they like Mexican flavors?

SPEAKER_00 2:55

I think they had a little bit of both, but like I don't even know if I've seen the Asian grocery store I went to. I didn't even think they had that big of a selection of ramen.

SPEAKER_02 3:03

Oh, I've been in an Asian grocery store and they had a lot of ramen.

SPEAKER_00 3:07

Hmm. Maybe just the one I was at.

SPEAKER_02 3:10

You know what else is weird?

SPEAKER_00 3:11

What?

SPEAKER_02 3:13

We haven't introed ourselves in the podcast.

SPEAKER_00 3:15

Damn it. Okay, well, it's your turn. Tell people why they're listening.

SPEAKER_02 3:21

Hey guys, welcome back to the dad. You should never say that podcast with Red and Riot. I'm Red. The one over there is what Riot. I'm Riot. This is a podcast where the points don't matter. The points don't matter. We talk about anything, everything, and nothing all at the same time. And while most of the time we have a plan for the episode, brief outline, we never stick to it.

SPEAKER_00 3:44

Hey, we should probably change the points don't matter. I don't want to get sued by Whose Line Is It Anyway.

SPEAKER_02 3:49

I think that show's been over for 20 years.

SPEAKER_00 3:52

Oh.

SPEAKER_02 3:53

I don't think they've filmed an episode of Whose Line Is It Anyway since the 90s or maybe 2000s.

SPEAKER_00 3:58

Oh my gosh, no, because Aisha Tyler, Drew Carey, it's been like 5,000 variations of it. So actually, now I'm gonna Google that.

SPEAKER_02 4:07

When was the last episode? Anyway, this is the this is going hopefully going to be the recap episode of my freshman first year in college, which is technically my sophomore year of college, um, as well as kind of the events that happened recently since I've gotten home because those are a little crazy. Um, and then yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:31

Um, side note November 1st, 2024. Oh. Was the last episodes that were taped on the CW. And that's probably why, because what else is there on the CW?

SPEAKER_02 4:46

Riverdale's on the CW.

SPEAKER_00 4:48

What is Riverdale?

SPEAKER_02 4:49

Don't watch it. Actually, if you are gonna, it's like a it's like a high school set kind of drama, and a lot of stuff happens in a small town. It's like there's gang rivalries, there's like best friends that fall in love, there's all kinds of only the only two or three episodes, the only couple good seasons is like the first two seasons and maybe season three, and then they get into like aliens and witchcraft and weird stuff, and it's weird.

SPEAKER_00 5:15

But it's on the CW, so it's like our cousin are cousins in love or something.

SPEAKER_02 5:19

No, no, no, no. Oh no, no, that's like the neighbor next door. Okay, you would think that they're getting together, but then the good girl gets with the bad guy, not the bad guy, but like turns out to be a vampire werewolf. I don't know. I stopped watching after a minute because it got kind of weird.

SPEAKER_00 5:34

Sounds like a Twilight show.

SPEAKER_02 5:37

Yeah, okay. Um, how you been?

SPEAKER_00 5:40

Um, well, let's see. I came and picked you up from school. We had a pretty fun couple of days there.

SPEAKER_02 5:47

We did.

SPEAKER_00 5:48

Um, we got to mess with JB a little bit, make fun of him in person. Uh yeah, I mean, no, it was a good time. Came up a little early. I got to walk around, do my normal walks in the morning and at night, and saw the best that Lubbock has to offer with your meth heads and some crack hose, and uh yeah. A little scared for my life. Tried to stay where there was light just in case.

SPEAKER_02 6:18

Yep. Yep. It's a college town, but it's it's a little ghetto.

SPEAKER_00 6:24

Yeah. Um where do we go to eat? I forgot.

SPEAKER_02 6:31

Uh first we went to Chewy's.

SPEAKER_00 6:33

Oh yeah. And then we have that. We have that here.

SPEAKER_02 6:37

We went to Chewy's and then we went to Yeah, see? Came well, we went to Chewy's, we went to Longhorn Steakhouse. Is that it? Or do we go in the third place?

SPEAKER_00 6:50

Yeah, I guess that's all we did.

SPEAKER_02 6:51

No, we went somewhere on Tuesday's. Oh, went to Dave and Busters on Tuesday.

SPEAKER_00 6:54

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:55

Well, last day we went to Dave and Busters.

SPEAKER_00 6:56

Played some games, and uh we really like Dave and Busters, except this one, there's not as many games.

SPEAKER_02 7:08

Well, they're adding more. Like last time we went versus this time we went, there was definitely a lot more games. Um, but there's definitely not as many as like the one here.

SPEAKER_00 7:16

But we had fun and we had enough saved up tokens or tickets or whatever that crap is called uh for what did we win? What did we purchase?

SPEAKER_02 7:27

We got a mini pool table.

SPEAKER_00 7:30

Y'all, this pool table is probably like twenty dollars, thirty dollars at Target, and we spent probably a hundred and seventy-five dollars for this stupid thing over the course of like three different visits.

SPEAKER_02 7:43

Yeah, but it's a cool pool table. We wanted it last time we went, we didn't have enough, and then this time we ended up having enough.

SPEAKER_00 7:50

So oh, that was the like like trailer park buffet we did.

SPEAKER_02 7:56

Yeah, we ordered like so much food that we ordered appetizers and shareables and then just ate. We didn't do like individual meals, dude.

SPEAKER_00 8:05

Yeah, there was all kinds of stuff. We had stuff taken home.

SPEAKER_02 8:08

Yep. So we ate later, wait later.

SPEAKER_00 8:13

But yeah, so we did that, and uh, you know, just trying to get in the swing of the end of school stuff. I'm almost done with all of my uh things that I said told people I would do. Tomorrow, I think is my last one. Teacher of the year, celebrate awesome teachers.

SPEAKER_02 8:33

Yeah, that'll be fun.

SPEAKER_00 8:35

They should do another version of that where it's like, um, hey, come to this lunch, and then they're all fired. Like you you teachers suck. We're gonna honor you, we're gonna feed you lunch, and then oh, by the way, you're a horrible teacher, bye.

SPEAKER_02 8:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:53

I mean, am I right? There are awesome teachers everywhere.

SPEAKER_02 8:57

But it's it's really hard to fire teachers, so I know, but maybe I don't know. Like it's really hard to fire teachers.

SPEAKER_00 9:06

You've had some pretty bad teachers that didn't teach you. I have had some pretty bad teachers, and those people should be gone if they don't like it. Get out. You're molding young minds for the future.

SPEAKER_02 9:20

Sure, that is true.

SPEAKER_00 9:23

Anyway, so I gotta do that tomorrow. What about you? How's it been like being home?

SPEAKER_02 9:28

Um, well, so I've been home how many days? A little bit over a week. Okay, so we didn't film last week because we didn't really have time because we got home and then we had to unpack, and then we just we kept saying we were gonna film, and then we just never did. Because we were we're busy bees around here. So sorry about it. We're back though. Um, it's been good, pretty chill. I got to I've gotten to see a lot of my friends. I've tricked a lot of my friends into coming over saying that we are gonna hang out and then making them help me unpack. Um sorry about it, Emma.

SPEAKER_00 10:06

Um you guys didn't really do a lot of packing. There's like unpacking, there's 7,000 boxes still in the hallway.

SPEAKER_02 10:13

Only two of those boxes are mine. Only two of those boxes are mine.

SPEAKER_00 10:17

Right.

SPEAKER_02 10:17

And they're the clear ones. All of my clothes are put away. I'm I'm trying. Um, and then just kind of hung out a bunch, hung out with my best friends as much as I could, and then um while I was hanging out with my best friends, we had to take a quick side quest to the ER. Um on like two days ago, I think. We had to make a quick side quest to the ER. Um, everything's fine, I'm okay, but that was definitely fun. I'm definitely I'm still bruised for my IV. It looks like I shot myself up with heroin. Um, but yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:00

Yeah, people. If you got allergies or stuff, be really uh be really forceful on what you're allergic to.

SPEAKER_02 11:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:12

Because even these people that work in these places don't know what's in their crap.

SPEAKER_02 11:17

Yeah, because like I went, got a boba drink that like I've always gotten, and I make sure every time that the recipe hasn't changed, that it's only syrup, that it's you know all the things. Um, and then when I actually after I drank the drink, I realized that there were raspberry seeds in it. Um, if you know me personally, you know this. I don't know if I've said this, but I'm allergic to basically all fruit. Um, so I went, started having an allergic reaction, took some Benadryl. Normally that kind of saves me, but it did not this time. Um, and so I went into anaphylaxis and had to go get a epinephrine shot of straight adrenaline, um, as well as some other things, steroids, and histamines, things like that. So, yeah, if you have an allergy, please be careful and double check your stuff. And yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:06

Yeah, and it's probably maybe a good time to. I mean, Addy had that drink before, so she wasn't necessarily worried about it, even though she asked them all the time. But we had the same thing happen on our drive here, like Oh, we did, yeah. We stopped at what a dairy queen?

SPEAKER_02 12:22

Uh Freddie's.

SPEAKER_00 12:23

We stopped at a Freddy's and said, Hey, got super simple, hot fudge Sundays, something, and we said, Don't put the cherry on it. And then they still put the cherry on it. And we're like, hey, bro. And this was like, I'm not gonna call out which location we were at, but this person was the manager that made the crap. Yeah. Then she was all like, Hey, uh, well, you just need to make sure that you tell us. Well, then I said, We sat right here and said, No cherries. What does no cherries mean?

SPEAKER_02 12:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:55

And she kind of stared at us and then made us a new one. I think she was more mad that she was gonna have to throw away a Sunday.

SPEAKER_02 13:04

Well, and like because my allergy is so rare, like I've met people who have like one allergy to fruit, like one little thing that they can't have, like some people can't have like strawberries or I know somebody who can't have pears, like it's kind of like a one-off thing. It's not common to just not be able to have any of them at all. Um, and we don't really know what I'm allergic to in it. We think it's a protein in the skin, which is why I have an airborne allergy, and then it's some kind of something inside. I think it's citric acid, but who knows? Um, so it's really not common. Um, but I mean, every time I go to a restaurant like with my friends, like especially in Lubbock, um, I make sure every time I'm like, when I when we order something, or especially when we go to like an Asian place, whenever we order something or whenever we get try somewhere new, I'm like, hey, just by the way, I can't have fruit, like da-da-da-da. Like we went to Denny's the other day, and both of the people that I was with were like, hey, we want to get this mixed fruit something, pancake, waffle, whatever.

SPEAKER_01 14:08

Right.

SPEAKER_02 14:09

Toast. And so when they ordered it, I said, Hey, I have an allergy to fruit. I'm very allergic. I'm gonna get a waffle. Can everything that I have be made separately from theirs because of the fact that I have a fruit allergy? And he was like, Yeah, like it's no problem, no problem. And we had no issues. It was great. Um, but like there's sometimes when I go to restaurants and I order something like not knowing that it's cooked in pineapple juice or there's like lemon zest or orange zest. And um, so it gets it gets very difficult sometimes because it's because it's not like it's not like peanuts where everybody's like, oh, like I'm allergic to peanuts. It's like it's like okay, cool, then you know we can stay away from all the things with peanuts, but it's like no, like I'm allergic to fruit, and then I always get looks of like all fruit? Yeah, and I'm like, yeah, based on like yeah, essentially yes.

SPEAKER_00 14:59

And some are a little worse than others, just as far as like all right, so and then uh do you okay, you said Denny's. Yeah, you like Denny's better than Waffle House?

SPEAKER_02 15:12

No, we just don't have a Waffle House. I mean I love Waffle House. Waffle House might be like top ten restaurants to ever exist.

SPEAKER_00 15:24

I mean so quick side story. We went to Waffle House.

SPEAKER_02 15:31

We did go to Waffle House.

SPEAKER_00 15:33

Uh me and all the daughters. And uh we may have had the best waiter ever in the history of Waffle House. If I could tell you what location it was, but or who it was, or who it was. It may have been his first day ever waiting tables. He may have not known what the hell he was doing and had nobody to help him because we got waffles and hash browns to start off with for four different people. Like two people got waffles, two people got hash browns, and that's all we had for like 10 minutes. And then uh a random other couple of waffles showed up, and then literally it took an hour or so for all of our food to make it the table, and I'm talking like the very last thing that we got was toast. It does not take 55 minutes ordering said toast to show up at the table.

SPEAKER_02 16:39

I mean, it took us a minute to even get our drinks, and then we got like no refills really, like you know, and he was like, you know, he had great energy.

SPEAKER_00 16:47

Dude, he was TikTok dancing while when he was doing nothing when he should have been getting our food. Like, I don't even know what those things are called. Like he was his hand movements was like a Tourette's kid having a fit, but then he would like move his feet real fast. I don't know. It was some kind of weird TikTok dance, and he was just in the zone. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 17:10

Let me just say this. For so Micah got one thing, like he got some kind of scramble thing. Me and the three other girls got the exact same thing. We all got a waffle and a side, and then which is with either bacon or sausage, yes, and then me and Val added an extra side because we wanted we wanted hash browns and bacon. Um, and yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:37

My gosh, and my bowl was the very last, so yeah. Uh I mean, and I love Waffle House, it was really good once I got it.

SPEAKER_02 17:47

For sure, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:48

Um, and then once again, I think we all ate for like 60 bucks or something. Yeah, maybe he couldn't do math either, so maybe we got lucky.

SPEAKER_02 17:57

Who knows? Um, and then yeah, I mean, I still stand by the fact that the ghettoer the Waffle House the better. Um, and that one's not that one's that one's a little bit nicer, so yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:08

Maybe when you go to East Austin next time.

SPEAKER_02 18:11

Well, uh, I don't know about that one.

SPEAKER_00 18:14

Why? You said ghettoer. Food's gonna be great.

SPEAKER_02 18:17

Food's gonna be great.

SPEAKER_00 18:19

Um, but yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:24

I'm getting a haircut today before camp because we leave for camp in five days. Five day, but before we leave for camp, we have Micah's birthday.

SPEAKER_00 18:40

I'm turning 45 years old.

SPEAKER_02 18:41

Not true at all.

SPEAKER_00 18:43

Uh it's gonna be a hard 45.

SPEAKER_02 18:46

He's gonna he's getting up there, guys. He's getting up there. Um, um, the girls, we're taking him out. We have a couple surprises for him.

SPEAKER_00 18:55

Perfect.

SPEAKER_02 18:56

Um, which is funny because he's driving, so we're just gonna tell him where to drive, and he's just gonna have to trust us.

SPEAKER_00 19:04

Um nowhere where there's fruit.

SPEAKER_02 19:08

Nowhere where there's fruit. That is true. Um, but it'll be fun. We're gonna hang out, do some do some things, celebrate ya before we have to head off to campy camp. Head to campy camp. Um, which I looked. Um it's supposed to um rain the whole time you're there. No, no, well, not the whole time we're there, but it is supposed to rain Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Or no, not Wednesday, but so it's supposed to rain on Monday.

SPEAKER_00 19:46

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 19:48

But it's from like f 4 p.m. till like 9 20, and that's it.

SPEAKER_00 19:59

Yeah, but it's us, so it'll it could go around us.

SPEAKER_02 20:03

Yeah. And then Tuesday, it's only supposed to rain from 4 to 5. Which is good.

SPEAKER_00 20:10

Perfect.

SPEAKER_02 20:11

So we don't have to drive anything. We'll already be there.

SPEAKER_00 20:14

We'll already be there.

SPEAKER_02 20:15

Yeah, I think that's when we like unpack or whatever. Um, but yeah, that'll be fun.

SPEAKER_00 20:23

Perfect. And yeah, other than that, there's not really much going on since you guys are going to camp and doing all those kinds of things.

SPEAKER_02 20:35

Yeah, like me, me, the girls, and mom are going to Schlitterbahn on Sunday.

SPEAKER_00 20:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:41

Um we're going out tomorrow night, we're going to the dance hall tomorrow night. Have nothing planned on Saturday, so I'm gonna pack everything Saturday, I think. Sunday's Schlitterbahn, Monday's your birthday, Tuesday we head out. Good news is that we don't have to be there until 2 p.m.

SPEAKER_00 20:58

Perfect.

SPEAKER_02 20:59

So we don't have to like be up super early, so we can like make sure we have everything packed, and Nat can meet me here, and we can maybe go get a coffee or something on our way out.

SPEAKER_00 21:10

So, like now that you're gone from school, moved out everything other than your roommate, like missing your roommate. Yeah, what is different now that you've had that experience of being like adulting, and now that you're home? Is it does it do you feel any different?

SPEAKER_02 21:31

And something weird because at school it's like there's always kind of something you could be doing, right? Like there's some kind of assignment, there's some kind of studying, there's some kind of at least something you could be doing.

SPEAKER_01 21:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 21:44

And that's just kind of how it is for nine months. Cause like call like the call, like, as much as people are like, Oh, college is easy, like it's easy if you stay on top of your stuff and if you do all the things you're supposed to be doing. Um but I guess it's The weirdest thing in now is that I'm here and it's like I have stuff I have to do for work, obviously. But other than that, I don't really have anything that like I have to do. So it's definitely kind of weird to be like free range to kind of just hang out with my friends and do what I want. Um versus nine months of just straight like making sure that stuff is done, checking my calendar, studying, taking notes, whatever it is. So that's a little bit different. Um it's kind of weird to be like back living with y'all, I guess, because like with my roommate, we're kind of free reign. Like it's just us and our friends. So like the freedom you have in college, especially that first year, kind of feeling your first bit of like because like I had a lot of freedom in high school, like especially when I was a senior and when I graduated, I had a lot of freedom, but it's kind of different when you just have no parents around and you can kind of just ultimate freedom. Yeah, you literally have complete freedom. Like we would go to Taco Bell at midnight or 2 a.m. or whatever it was, and um, like I would go hang out with my friends until 3 a.m. and then walk back to my room. Like it's definitely weird. Um, because now it's like I have to go back to being like, hey guys, like by the way, I'm going to do this, or can I do this, or can this person come over or whatever it is? And it's not like that's bad, it's just different from how it's been, I guess, of being like, Oh yeah, just come over, or you know, whatever. I'll crack my door.

SPEAKER_00 23:31

I still think you can do that to some extent. It's just with dogs and all this other stuff, and if people go to sleep, you can still just say, Hey, uh, you know, JB's coming over.

SPEAKER_02 23:44

Well, yeah, yeah, yeah. For sure.

SPEAKER_00 23:46

So I think you've earned that ability. And you you I mean, you kind of do that anyway. I mean, yeah, people just show up and open the damn door all the time, anyway.

SPEAKER_02 23:56

Well, there's only a certain amount of people who know my door code, and it's just the girls.

SPEAKER_00 24:00

I know. I'm just saying the only person. You know. Um, so that's the only thing you kind of feel different. Is it weird not having the another person in your space all the time?

SPEAKER_02 24:12

Yeah, it definitely is. Um, just because like you grow to like your well, at least for me, I grew to love my roommate. Um, and so like not having her is kind of weird, just from the point of like you always have somebody to talk to, or like if you have a trouble understanding a topic, you have somebody to literally five feet away from you. Um I also like on nights like when she would go out, I would like literally wait up for her to get back the best that I can, and unless she texts me, like, hey, I'm not coming home. Um, we were basically married, so I that's kind of different that I'm not like making sure that she's okay and checking her location and at night, like if she's gone, like that's a little bit different. Um but I don't know. It's kind it's just it's a weird, it's a weird switch, I guess.

SPEAKER_00 25:04

Um, and it's definitely because you have a you basically have two dorms stuck together with a cafeteria in the middle, and I don't even know how many people are in that dorm. It's probably three, four, five hundred people.

SPEAKER_02 25:16

I mean, we have seven floors, two people a room, and I don't know, fifteen rooms maybe.

SPEAKER_00 25:30

Something like that. Just on your wing, maybe.

SPEAKER_02 25:33

On what yeah, on one wing.

SPEAKER_00 25:34

I would say maybe even more.

SPEAKER_02 25:37

So thirty times four is a hundred and twenty plus. Well, no, I hold on. Because we have four floors that have both sides, and three floors that have one side. So 45 plus 120 is 175 times two is 350. No. No.

SPEAKER_00 26:06

All these people now are listening and they're trying to do the math in their head faster than that.

SPEAKER_02 26:10

170 175 times. No, I said 275, right? Or I say 175. I said 175. I was right.

SPEAKER_00 26:16

350. I don't think that's right.

SPEAKER_02 26:18

That is right. 175 is a five. I think if you I think you have probably like well, 350 times two would be 700 people between my dorm and the other side.

SPEAKER_00 26:27

I think you have 10 10 rooms on a side. So one hallway would be 20.

SPEAKER_02 26:34

20.

SPEAKER_00 26:35

And then the other hallway, because you have almost have two hallways. That's so 20 as 80 people on one, 80 people on one floor.

SPEAKER_02 26:46

Times four plus sixty is two twenty times two. That's four hundred and forty people per side. So that's eight hundred and eighty in the dorm total.

SPEAKER_00 27:00

Both sides, you and that side. All right, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:05

So, man, look like a little I mean, like every time you step into the hallway, every every time you step into the hallway, every time you get in the elevator, every time you go downstairs, you're seeing a person.

SPEAKER_00 27:17

Yeah, I can see that. Okay, so if we're recapping the year, what's the strangest thing you've seen in your dorm room?

SPEAKER_02 27:25

In my dorm room or in my dorm room?

SPEAKER_00 27:27

Dorm room. Dorm room. Like, no, in your in your dorm. Oh, just your room. I don't want to know what the strangest thing is you saw in your room.

SPEAKER_02 27:36

That's why I was like, what?

SPEAKER_00 27:37

No.

SPEAKER_02 27:38

Um strangest thing I've seen. Um, there was a moment where in the elevator for like a weekend, people just kept putting um empty beer cans in the corner of one of our elevators.

SPEAKER_01 27:53

Hmm.

SPEAKER_02 27:54

That was a little strange.

SPEAKER_00 27:55

Um you think that was like a tribute? Or they were just bragging that they were drinking in the dorm, even though it's really supposed to be no drinking in the dorm.

SPEAKER_02 28:04

I don't know, if I'm being honest. It was kind of weird. Um, strange just as hard because there's a lot of crazy stuff that happens. Like our fire alarm got called a bunch, like our fire alarm went off so many dang times from dumb people just pulling it or smoking and letting the air go into it, or maybe the heater blow up once, like just the most random stuff. Um I don't know. I saw a couple guys walk from the shower back to their room and just their boxers, which is always a little you're always just kind of like that's weird.

SPEAKER_00 28:44

You're lit. At least they got boxers on.

SPEAKER_02 28:47

Well, it's like it's just weird because like you live on the same floor as a nut as girls, like you would think, but guys don't think that way.

SPEAKER_00 28:56

There's probably a couple of them that'd be like, No, I walk nude from the bathroom.

SPEAKER_02 29:01

Um, that's actually that's why there's not there's not uh cameras in our hallways, yeah. Um, because of the fact that technically it's a it's a residential space, so they can't put that because people walk nude in the hallways, apparently, which is just weird to me. Um well this okay, this didn't happen to me, but I was kind of part of it. Um my root my best friend's roommate was in their room, and she got like um, I don't say ding dong ditched because that's not the word, but kind of, I guess.

SPEAKER_00 29:34

Yeah. Um premise.

SPEAKER_02 29:36

Same premise.

SPEAKER_00 29:37

Um, and this knock on a door and run as fast as you can away.

SPEAKER_02 29:40

Yeah. But this guy decided to like put his body weight behind doing it to make a loud noise.

SPEAKER_01 29:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:47

Um, and ended up going through the door and onto my best friend and roommate's or her and her roommate's floor.

SPEAKER_01 29:53

Perfect.

SPEAKER_02 29:54

Looking up at her and going, Oh, and then running out. So that and then we like Matt was with me, so we had to go over there and like literally talk to CAs and they were like, Do you want to file trespassing charges? Whatever. And she was like, No, like I just our door might be broken. So because the door was like shut and locked, right? And he had enough force somehow to um, so that one was weird. Like ding dong niching happened like the whole time, like legitimately the whole time that we were there. It happened less on our floor, like less frequently on our floor, which was nice.

SPEAKER_00 30:32

Um but happened to a oh boys, boys are dumb. And then what else? What's the weirdest thing you saw on campus?

SPEAKER_02 30:43

Uh I saw a furry once, which was weird.

SPEAKER_00 30:47

What?

SPEAKER_02 30:48

Furry. Like a person in a costume of a of an animal? Of an animal.

SPEAKER_00 30:56

What animal were they?

SPEAKER_02 30:58

I think it was like a fox or something.

SPEAKER_00 31:00

Oh.

SPEAKER_02 31:01

That was weird. That was weird. Um, I saw a lot of really dumb protests.

SPEAKER_00 31:07

Perfect.

SPEAKER_02 31:08

Um you know, some outfits I just don't think should be worn to college, and so I saw a lot of those, which is like like okay, pajama pants, sweatshirt, good for you. Sweatpants, good for you. Jean shorts, go ahead, like some athletic shorts, go ahead. If you look like a hoochie mama, why are we?

SPEAKER_00 31:34

Describe what Hoochie Mama means in Addy's version.

SPEAKER_02 31:38

Hoochie mama basically means that like this person is going to wherever they're going, and the reason they're dressed the way they are is purely for male attention. Okay, that's to me what a Hoochie mama is.

SPEAKER_00 31:50

Alright, that's fair.

SPEAKER_02 31:52

Um, so I saw some of those, which is always kind of weird because you're like, you're legitimately walking to your 9 a.m. Spanish class. Like, why are we dressed like this?

SPEAKER_00 32:01

Like their butts are hanging out, butts are hanging out.

SPEAKER_02 32:04

Sometimes you got some like you got some underboob, you got some, you know, you got some lot of cleavage, things like that.

SPEAKER_01 32:10

All right.

SPEAKER_02 32:10

Just because like there's no reason for that, if I'm being honest. Like if you're going out, do whatever you want. But if you're walking around campus, like we have like we have, and the reason I say this is because we have people who tour our campus constantly, and we're an open campus. So you have like juniors or seniors in high school walking around campus, and that's what they're seeing. So it's just like, I don't know, it's weird.

SPEAKER_00 32:33

That would probably make boys go there.

SPEAKER_02 32:35

Well, who knows?

SPEAKER_00 32:36

Unless they're ugly. Um I mean, no disrespect to ugly people, but yeah.

SPEAKER_02 32:42

I saw a lot of just open making out around campus, which is really weird of just a whole lot of PT PDA.

SPEAKER_00 32:52

Yeah, I mean it's adult world. And I'm guessing college is still a hookup culture to some extent.

SPEAKER_02 33:05

To some extent for sure. But I don't know, our campus, I've I've seen stuff from other campuses. I feel like our campus is in some ways kind of calm, like not a crazy not a lot of crazy stuff happens on our campus. We do have like a free speech area where some crazy stuff goes down.

SPEAKER_00 33:23

Um like a circle, and you're allowed to say whatever the crap you want to in the circle.

SPEAKER_02 33:28

No, it's not a circle, it's like a it's like a passageway between the library and the student union building. Um, and it's not that you can say whatever you want, technically, it's whatever you can say, whatever you want that falls under your first amendment right in that circle.

SPEAKER_00 33:45

Anything.

SPEAKER_02 33:46

No, you can't threaten somebody, you can't threaten bodily harm, you can't like that sort of stuff does not fall under the first amendment right. You can't like we had somebody and that we had a person get kicked out of campus or get kicked out of tech this year because they threatened bodily harm in free speech, which is not covered under your free speech, the threat of bodily harm is not covered because that's in the state of Texas that qualifies as assault. Right. Um so you can say whatever you want to an extent. Like we had people up there for abortion, we had people up there for a lot of religions, like different religions, like setup booths there. We had things there for like um the liberal party of Lubbock, which we're a red, we're a red university, a red city in a red county. You're right, like all every I'm gonna say this 98% of my friends at tech are I'm not gonna say Republicans because I don't know that, but are conservative in nature.

SPEAKER_00 34:45

Right.

SPEAKER_02 34:46

So let's just say there were not many people ever really at that booth. Um but as for crazy stuff, like there wasn't anything like crazy that happened on campus, if I'm being honest. Um at least that I saw, like I've seen TikToks and stuff of like this person's walking on campus or yada yada yada. The weirdest thing is when like people from other universities would just like be walking around our dorm.

SPEAKER_00 35:10

Right.

SPEAKER_02 35:10

Because it's like how A, how did you get in here? B, why are you here? Like literally on like my last week here, there were three guys from UTSA just walking around our floor knocking on girls' doors.

SPEAKER_00 35:22

Were they doing a survey?

SPEAKER_02 35:24

No, they were trying to like hook up culture basically.

SPEAKER_00 35:29

They're like, Hey, we're here, open your door, let's make out.

SPEAKER_02 35:34

Kind of well, they were just like knocking and they were like covering the people or whatever, and there are three of them. So I legitimately texted the group chat for like our floor, and I was like, Hey guys, just wanted to let you know this is happening. Please don't open your door, right? Um it was it was weird, and it was weird because it was like three in the morning, and I was like, How are you even in here? Maybe they were looking for somebody because our outer doors, like you have to have a key card after midnight, and then to get into our side, you still have to have a key card to get in. So it was just it was weird. So I don't know if they were hanging out with a friend that was there and then like left their friend's room and then decided to just like walk the halls or whatever.

SPEAKER_00 36:13

What's that weird double date thing you were telling me about? Maybe they were doing that.

SPEAKER_02 36:20

What do you mean? A two-man?

SPEAKER_00 36:21

Two-man.

SPEAKER_02 36:23

Well, there were three of them, so they were a thropple. Um, yeah, I don't know. It was that was weird.

SPEAKER_00 36:32

Now explain to me this two-man thing before we go venture off. Okay, so you can hook up with you can you and your friend can say, hey, we're willing to double date.

SPEAKER_02 36:41

Basically, a two-man is two friends going on a date with two friends. That's what a two-man is. It's like it's like, okay, like this is me, like, this is my best friend, and then we're going out with this guy, and that's his best friend. That's what a two-man is.

SPEAKER_00 36:55

Okay, so two-man, is there a app that you two-man? Is it like two man.com? Is it no?

SPEAKER_02 37:03

So, like, on so I'm on Tinder just for funsies because I think it's fun, and I think men say funny things, so that's the only reason I'm really on it. Um, and on Tinder, for example, this is also the only reason I'm on it, is there's a double date option where double date, that's what you said. Yeah, so how it works is like you pair up with one of your friends, like me and my best friend are paired up, and then you swipe right or left on pairs that are also friends that paired up together.

SPEAKER_00 37:28

Got you. Yeah. So it's the official two-man, they just call it double date.

SPEAKER_02 37:33

Yeah. So and then and then you make and then like if you both if m major I think it has I think it's three of you have to swipe right out of the four, then you end up in a group chat with all four of you.

SPEAKER_00 37:46

Got you.

SPEAKER_02 37:47

Yeah. But a two-man is basically just best friends date, like going on a date with best friends.

SPEAKER_00 37:54

Huh.

SPEAKER_02 37:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 37:56

Well, all this new terminology I'm gonna have to study up on what all this crap means. I mean, I guess I don't really need to study up because I don't really care. I'm not on.

SPEAKER_02 38:08

I don't think I don't think you have, I don't think you'll pull a two-man if I'm being honest with you.

SPEAKER_00 38:12

Well, I don't have yeah. I mean probably can't because like all the like you have to have two single people, so yeah. There's that.

SPEAKER_02 38:24

Um So I wouldn't have to I wouldn't worry about it.

SPEAKER_00 38:28

Well, I mean, I like to be hip to the lingo.

SPEAKER_02 38:31

Well, so like me, me, Nat, and Valerie made the joke of we were gonna pull a three man, which is three on which is basically just three best friends and three best friends. Yeah, um, those are a lot harder to find.

SPEAKER_00 38:43

Three single best friends is kind of hard to find, and one of them has to be Asian, so yeah, hopefully.

SPEAKER_02 38:50

It would and that's the craziest part is our types are so different that it would be hard to find three friends that fit all three of our types. That's that would be that would be difficult.

SPEAKER_00 38:59

So, yeah. Um that would be the most hilarious thing if you could find that three-man that meant all of those things.

SPEAKER_02 39:12

That meant everything, that would be funny. Well, so there's there's a c and yeah, so it's fun. I mean, there's also like you meet a guy, your friend meets a guy, you make them become friends. Um that's not a true two-man, though. It's not a true two-man. It has a true two-man is they were already friends, or at least already knew of each other. That's a true two-man. Like they have to at least have actually known each other.

SPEAKER_00 39:34

Oh, there's lots of variables.

SPEAKER_02 39:37

Other than that, it's just like a double date of like trying to get your your man to be friends with your best friend.

SPEAKER_00 39:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 39:43

I think uh but like me and Nat, for example, have pulled two true two-mans in our life.

SPEAKER_00 39:50

Pulled.

SPEAKER_02 39:51

Pulled, yes.

SPEAKER_00 39:53

Pulled means get.

SPEAKER_02 39:56

Kind of like we we like we pulled them, like we like we did it, like we did the thing. We pulled them.

SPEAKER_00 40:02

You trapped them. No, like when like so when you pulled you fished for them and you reeled them in.

SPEAKER_02 40:08

Kind of. Um, but we've had two true ones. We did one senior year and then one this year.

SPEAKER_00 40:15

Hmm.

SPEAKER_02 40:17

And I'll say this neither of them worked out.

SPEAKER_00 40:20

Well, so um, I am betting that most of the time you're gonna have to find your individual person, and then you're just gonna have to make them be friends after the fact.

SPEAKER_02 40:31

Yeah, probably. But a girl can dream.

SPEAKER_00 40:35

A girl could dream.

SPEAKER_02 40:36

A girl can dream.

SPEAKER_00 40:37

Most of those guys that are like really tight and best friends, uh, they end up being a little gay for each other. A little gay for each other.

SPEAKER_02 40:47

Yeah, well, I mean, also I'll say this. Our the ones I'm not gonna name names, but the one that we pulled senior year, I have a picture of our two men holding hands. Um so I mean, I feel like it just comes with the territory. I mean, maybe I think in some I think in some ways it's okay. I think I think your man can be a little bit gay for his best friend. Um I mean, Zach is as like Avery's husband is a little bit gay for his best friend, and it's okay. We we and we love him. We all love Zach. Well, Zach is the group's husband, if I'm being honest. Like we had we had tea time the other night when I was at Avery's. We had um we had girl tea time with Addy, and he literally like joined in, sat, gave his two cents. It was very funny. He joined, he joined girls.

SPEAKER_00 41:32

What he didn't go and hide and draw?

SPEAKER_02 41:34

No, he came and he he uh hung out with us for a while.

SPEAKER_00 41:37

Okay, this need we need the we need an intervention.

SPEAKER_02 41:40

I think we're I think we're getting him out of his bubble.

SPEAKER_00 41:43

No, but he doesn't need to be unbubbled in tea time.

SPEAKER_02 41:47

But he wanted he wanted to join tea time. We didn't force him, he wanted to join, and you know what? He hung out with us for a little bit and then he went and painted. So okay, and then he came back to hang out with us a little bit later.

SPEAKER_00 41:57

Okay, well, you he was doing good and then he lost it when he came back. Um, because yeah, I I want the highlights of T Time, but I really just want the ammo to make fun of somebody later.

SPEAKER_02 42:11

Yeah, you don't really care about all the details, you just want to know zero detail. You want the synopsis so then you can make fun of them.

SPEAKER_00 42:18

Yes, I want the AI version so that you want the cliff notes, the cliff notes so that I know what inappropriate thing I can say to make fun of somebody. I mean, listen, listen, Linda. I've pretty much figured out my whole my gift to the world is I'm pretty quick at making fun of people. You are myself, I do that a lot, and it's not right.

SPEAKER_02 42:48

No, it's funny. We we appreciate it. I mean it's funny. The girls appreciate it because we think it's because we do it too.

SPEAKER_00 42:54

You know, I don't know if Jesus would approve of me. Well, I mean, you have a whole notebook of shit that I have said that he would not be happy about, which is why this podcast was created, so sometimes these things are good things. Yes, because we're taking the negative crap I used to say all the time, and we're trying to make a positive environment about it.

SPEAKER_02 43:15

Yeah, well, and there's a lot of stuff you said that we don't quote purely because we don't want the written evidence of it. Um I mean that goes for all of us. There's things that all of us have said that someone says quote it, and we're like, nope, you cannot quote that one. Um or like unfortunately, that one goes a little bit too far to be quoted.

SPEAKER_00 43:34

So yeah, so we're not gonna we're gonna have to take a hiatus, I guess, huh? Because you're gonna be at camp. Are you gonna be able to record at camp?

SPEAKER_02 43:44

I can record on Sundays. So we would have to move well so release dates. So normally we would release on Thursdays or Fridays.

SPEAKER_00 43:54

Okay, so we'll just change it to Sunday, Monday.

SPEAKER_02 43:57

So now it'll be Sunday Mondays. We'll film on Sundays and then we'll release on Mondays.

SPEAKER_00 44:01

Yeah, if I can get it done, I'll do it Sunday night, but if I can't then I'll I'll tee it up for Monday.

SPEAKER_02 44:05

This is your this is your notification that we're not disappearing. We're not going away just because this is like this is still season two, but it's going to be like sitting like the extension off season two of basically my adventures at church camp.

SPEAKER_00 44:20

And we don't really have seasons.

SPEAKER_02 44:23

Not really.

SPEAKER_00 44:24

We kind of call them seasons, but not really because I don't know. It's all confusing. Sometimes it's better just have one long season so you can get into the 700 you know our goal is 1,000 episodes. Oh it is yeah I'll be like 80 85 years old I'm sure we'll have really good stories by then.

SPEAKER_02 44:52

For sure. Because like here's the thing this whole this whole point of this podcast was I'm going to college and so we want to stay connected. Well after I graduate from tech I still have five more years of college so that means that you have seven at least more years of this podcast. At least we may continue on when I'm an adult it'll just change.

SPEAKER_00 45:16

It'll be like me making fun of whatever loser you've decided to date at the particular moment.

SPEAKER_02 45:26

Yeah until he earns his minimal making fun of him no I don't think there's a minimal I think you just I think you just continue and I think that they just kind of have to learn to deal with it.

SPEAKER_00 45:39

That's what all of our friends did um yes yes they all have yeah there pretty much is no uh there is no minimal minimum. Nope it's just you say something stupid attack but you know what we love you for it you make funny jokes and we appreciate that well I mean what else is a dad supposed to do exactly once you turn 18 you're not listening to me anyway so I might as well just make fun with you or at you very true and I have to give shout out to my uncle my uncle Dick and my uncle John and Joe um who put me on the path of quick wit because I think all they ever did was make fun of me and thank you thank you for you were the first grandchild so you definitely had the the worst of it well you need to say that again so all of my cousins hear you I am the first first I am the elder and all of you losers below me however many there are of me there's like or of you there's 20 something of them just remember respect your elder I don't think grandma well maybe maybe I shouldn't say that because grandma's probably gonna hear that and she's gonna light me up on the text thread I mean all I really care about is that Adrian realizes that just because you're the first girl doesn't matter I'm first so Adrian love you but you're second even though you're the first girl I mean being the first girl comes with some perks I know but I'm just saying don't no I'm just I'm just saying I was the first girl I'm not the first but I'm the first girl yeah I guess I was the first one to show up yeah no I'm one of three don't get me wrong on on your side I'm one of three but yeah um anyway and I'm not the oldest I'll say that I'm not the oldest girl or grandchild but I think I was the first one to show up yeah think if my math is correct but one day we'll have to put this all in but it's okay grandpa loves all of us equally grandpa chip yeah or I think he makes fun of us all no actually I think I get the brunt of the making fun of if I'm being honest. I think I get fun of the most well you antagonize him so he's gonna be defensive a little bit well I'm your kid I don't know if he expected anything different if I'm being honest.

SPEAKER_02 48:37

I mean I'm pretty sure me and you have had many three strike out you're out rules I got a strike last time for no reason I just woke up and apparently I had a strike no I did deserve it later.

SPEAKER_00 48:48

I guess you woke up late or something maybe he had it was like 8 a.mine a I know but he had been up for probably like three hours by then I'm not that kind of early bird yet I need to make myself it but I'm not um yeah so any other wise wisdom you learned this year from your first year adulting?

SPEAKER_02 49:12

Um don't be afraid to make new friends when you go to college like it can be scary and it can be like good news is is I went with one of my best friends so we were able to kind of break the ice together um of like having two of us and my the only problem with me and my best friend is my best friend is definitely an ex like an introvert like she's an extrovert when once you get to know her but when you first meet her she's very quiet and she just has a lot of social anxiety um and I am utterly the opposite I have zero social anxiety in any way possible but like and like your first couple like your first couple days and even weeks on campus you have the opportunity to meet so many amazing people because a classes haven't started when you move in or classes have just started so you're not really doing a whole lot like I have friends that I made at the very beginning of the semester that I still talk to today like even gone and that we already have plans when we come back so like don't be afraid to make new friends like I know that sometimes like it can be scary or whatever but also know like they're going through the same thing you're going through like they're also far from home they're also starting college for the first time like you're probably the same age ish. Like it's just important to know like you don't have to be afraid of meeting new people and making new friends at college and especially because those people can be lifelong friends.

SPEAKER_00 50:45

Well and they don't have to be your best friend like no you can have a bazillion acquaintances and and and hook up every now and then to go have dinner or do whatever it is but uh don't be I I what I'm hearing is like don't shut yourself in your dorm room yeah and and only know the people that may you have a class with like all the time because they're in your movie or whatever.

SPEAKER_02 51:14

Um like I met like my friend group was created randomly I don't even I couldn't even tell you how we started it but our friend group became a thing because we started playing spoons and we did movie nights and like we legitimately like that's how we became all friends is we randomly met each other like kind of in different areas and then we ended up playing spoons one night and then from then on we created a group chat we played spoons a bunch we played other card games we played we watched movies together we hung out like whatever it is and that was all at the beginning of the year and then we'd literally continue to do that throughout the year and at the end of the year we did the same things that we did at the beginning of the year we played spoons we watched movies we hung out right all of these things and we did that throughout the entire year um and I I honestly wouldn't change my friend group for the world I love my friends at tech they are so much fun um they are such great people um yeah and I'm not like I'm not built that way like I'm not built to like run around and go find new friends at the at the bar or the arcade or yeah it's just not my not my not my best forte I guess I need to get really good at that I was good at not like I'm good once like I feel you can be in my bubble. Yeah but that bubble could be like six months yeah well that's how Nat is and that's one of the reasons like you drag her around yeah I kind of dragged her around and like or like if I was going to hang out with somebody I'd be like hey like do you guys mind if my best friend comes and I would invite her um but I mean like my goal for this like going into this year my goal was to fill my room like fill my room with people with memories with laughter whatever it was um and I did that and so it probably made the year go by not fast but it definitely more enjoyable yeah it definitely helps especially when you're like stressing over studying and whatever and like you can just take a break for a couple hours and go hang out. Like it was it was truly a blessing to have the friends that we did. And to like we have so many memories and we have so many dumb things and like these people I definitely can see being I can be see being friends with throughout my college years of like being at tech with them. And like I said we already have kind of plans for what's next and like what are we going to do next year to like stay connected and right whatever it is um because we want to keep our friendship and because we want to stay friends.

SPEAKER_00 53:49

Well I guess the point is is uh life isn't about things it's about the people and the cool stuff you get to go do with them and the memories and stuff so I'm happy that you got to do your first year and make a whole bunch of memories and even if they were dumb 100% that's the whole point of of stuff is right do stuff every now and then just not dumb enough to like hurt you. Yeah for sure and uh yeah I probably guess I need to start I'm over the I'm over the hill next year or next week so maybe I need to start figuring out how to do that a little better. Yeah so that you know my best friend isn't this fat black dog next to me gnawing on my foot this bucket I'm telling you but he's my buddy he follows me everywhere yeah but he is getting fat he is getting a little chunky I don't even feed him that much so I gotta figure out what's wrong with him anyway um what else you got is that what she is that it I think that's it all right friends thank you for listening to the Dad You Should Never Say That podcast we are excited we're in the summer months we've almost made I think in I mean we've done nine months yeah this is episode 31 yeah so uh you know who knows maybe after you get done with school or whatever um I mean we do once a week that's not bad so tune in next time I'm sure we're gonna play a game or do something zany um this is just more of kind of like a download of what we've learned this year or any of those kinds of stuff so have a good week have a great week guys we'll catch you next week for the next episode of the Dad You Should Never Say That podcast bye