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The Bert Show — Full Show PT 3: Friday, September 11 [Vault]. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
The Bird Show. This was Shelley on Friday's show, telling us that this was going to be a pretty epic weekend for her. Well, my grandmother, she told me a story about six years ago that my mother, that there was a secret about my mother, that she would never reveal over the last year or so, this has really eaten at me wanting to know what the big secret was about my mother. So I confronted my father with it about six months ago and asked him, my father did tell me that he did hear a story years ago that my mother had a baby with her first husband and that she had given up to him because he was born clubfooted. Since then, over the last couple of months it's been weighing very heavy on my heart. And then last week I opened a fortune cookie and it said ask your mother. So this weekend I'm prepared to ask my mother, do I have another sibling? So that was Shelley on Friday. Did that sound voice just goes? I don't think so. Don't think so.
No. It was not okay. No, it's not. Yeah. It's nature, right? Hey, Shelley, how did the weekend go? Would you find out? I didn't find anything out. Anything over the weekend, but I did this morning. My mother came to my house and left the first opportunity for me to confront her. And she did deny it. She did not get very emotional, which made me think that she was probably telling the truth. However, she added a whole new twist to the situation because now the fingers pointed at my father. She said that he had an affair on her when she was pregnant with her second-to-last baby and that was back in 1975. And that the woman by the name of Carol then moved off to California and had a son by my father. Carol from California. Okay. Yes. So there is half-served women. So now I'm supposedly do have a brother, but not by her. I'm going to be a father from your dad. Yeah. Wow. Okay. Are you going to pursue that as well? I think I'm going to have to. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.
So now have a whole other confrontation. Yeah. Who do you believe more? Your mom? I believe my mother more. Okay. I've got to be honest. I'm trying to connect with everybody else that we're going to have on. So I missed the whole first part of this conversation. What happened? Her father had the affair and had a child out of wedlock, not the mother. Oh my God. God. She has a half sibling. Okay. But it's from dad, not mom. Wow. That's what mom says and she believes mom more. And then you said it. I believe mom, but I still don't know what the deep secret about my mother was that my grandmother wanted to reveal to me. Oh, that's going to drive you crazy. Yes. And it's also driving mother crazy this morning. What do you think? I think you need to get another fortune cookie. Because that's led you in the right direction the first time around. It was the after father. Yes. Yeah. If you're going to give a deep dark secret upon your death, but just say it. You know, just stick about it. The clock is ticking. Don't ask other people or say ask your mother. I just say it. Something I've always wanted to tell you.
Ask your mother. This isn't a movie. James Cameron's not in that room with you. No. Look at the way my family is too though. My aunts and uncles, everyone, there's just so much drama in my family that I couldn't understand how anyone can keep such a secret like that. Every family's got a secret. I think if you dig deep in your own family, everybody, there's something that happened that everybody, yeah, I think everybody's got a secret. In a lot of cases, you're just better off not knowing. But it might be really cool to get to know your half sibling. I mean, that meant me really a good thing. It's not close to any of my other siblings that my biological, between my mother and my father, we're just all totally different. It's like I don't have any brothers or sisters. So for me, it's a really big deal if I do have another sibling out there, we might be able to connect. Right. Very cool. Chinese takeout tonight. I know. Watching cookies. I was like, what? Yeah. Chinese fighters are the moral. Thank you for giving us the update. Good luck, Shelley.
Thank you so much. Thanks, bye-bye. Talk. This was Carol Ann on Friday. I'm actually meeting a half brother that I haven't seen since he was an infant pretty much. Oh really? That'll be cool. Well, my parents got to the worst when I was really, really, really young, probably about three or four years old. And my dad got primary custody of me and my mom had a sibling after the fact. And I remember him vaguely from when I was at age, but he lives up in Jersey and I live down here now. So I'll be meeting him for the first time. He's 21 years old. So that was exciting. Let's see how it went. Hey, Carol Ann, how are you? Hey, good morning, guys. How are you today? I'm doing okay. How are you? Great. So what happened? Well, it didn't happen. Oh. Oh. Well, apparently when he first got with me on the idea of him coming through and meeting me, he was actually at work at the time. He worked evening.
So he was texting me. And it seemed kind of funny to me that he'd be coming down I 85 in the first place from New Jersey. So I did ask him, which way are you coming down? And I asked him, like, coming down I 85, he goes, yeah, I don't know if he does know which road's what. I don't know. He ended up coming down I 95. So by the time I found out about it on Sunday morning, it was way too late to actually drive out that way to meet up with him. Oh, what a bummer. Oh, blows. He's actually coming back up this weekend. So we are way all over at this time. And we are pretty much either I'm going to go out that way and meet up with him somewhere around Savannah or he's going to teach where up this way through it on 85 and head up. Okay. Awesome. I'm still going to happen. It's got to be a little disappointing because you're I'm so fired up about it. I was I and I didn't actually find out about it until like he was talking about, oh, yeah, I'm in South Carolina. Boba Boba, where you want to meet? You know, we're already like in the process of planning it and he ends up coming out with
the fact that, oh, I'm about 70 miles from Savannah. I'm like, what? That's not the right way. It's not the right way. Where are you coming from? What road are you on? And he comes out with I 95. I'm like, oh, what do you think? In the Northern or St. George's like, you know, 50 miles by 50 miles. I think everybody thinks any cities within a state are right next to you. Yeah, I got to be right next to you. Oh, yeah. Savannah, Atlanta. There's just right. I don't know if you just misread the text. I initially asked him about it because it kind of looks like a nine and I don't know if you just skimmed over it. No, the problem is he's a guy. He's a dude. Yeah, and he's fine. I don't know. I really don't know. So hopefully this weekend it will definitely happen. We're way more all over the only way where this family can apparently. I like it. I hope it happens this weekend for you. All right. Thank you. All right. Bye bye. Tracy thinks that the virtual listener that called us Friday with the inheritance story was just a big B. Really? Yeah, because a couple of the numbers that she gave us don't work today. So she was BS and I just wanted to be on the radio.
So this was Casey on Friday and he was very excited. We are going in to have my first baby boy. What is the game plan for you once you're in the delivery room? You're going to be checking things out or are you going to be hiding behind the sheet? I think I'm going to be all up in it now. I think I'm ready to check it out. I say that. I think everybody knows what he faced down the floor. But that was Casey on Friday. Hey, Casey. Hey guys, what's up? Hey, man. How did it go, dude? Still going. Oh, you're kidding. Yeah, I'm talking to you live from the lobby of Northside Hospital. Oh, I've been there a couple of times. It's your wife and labor right now. She is. Yeah, actually, where that last client excuse us off of the room because she had a couple of big interactions there. And I know it's a family show, so I had to clear the room there for her. How long has she been in labor? Well, what time is it now?
She's coming up on 11 hours. They were inducing this, right? So they knew exactly where it started in all 11 hours. Yeah. Yeah. And you know, your producer called and I got signed off on the wife's huge bird show fan. She said, go ahead and do it. No. Give them the opportunity. But get your butt back in here. Yeah, once you go back in, good luck. Tell her, good luck. Yeah, good luck. You know, when things settle down, give us a call. Let us know everything went okay. We'll do you guys. Take care. All right, man. Oh, 11 hours. He sounded tired. I can't imagine what she sounds like. She beat. 11 hours into one that. She's speeded up. If he's been up all night, she could just hustle through that so he could get some sleep. She could have been a little more courteous about the show. Yeah, timed it better for us. It's a matter of her. It's a blast. I'm not loyal. The bird show. Hey, the bird show. I've got questions for parents here for it's only going to take a second. And I know it's really self-serving and it's nothing groundbreaking or anything. But Jeff brought up something the other day that my wife and I have sort of been
wondering about also. And we just don't know the answer to it. And I'm hoping experienced parents do know. Okay. Yeah, I was telling you that story a couple of weeks ago how Hollis and I were peeing in a bathroom stall together and he made that comment and we all laughed about it. I'm curious like for parents, when do you stop like showering and when do you stop like going to the bathroom with your kids? Now we'll take him out of the whole equation. He's three years old and he still needs help. And what circumstances did I bring this up? Because I don't remember talking about showering with kids. I was in the stall with Hollis. Yeah. And we were peeing at the same time because he had stage fright and he turned to me and he goes, that's the biggest penis in the world. So I think it's more probably an opposite sex thing. Like if you're a dad, when do you stop like showering or doing all that stuff with your daughters? Because it does happen. You guys like when he's looking like what? Dots, sons and moms and stuff for in showers together.
Yeah. I could see that more than dads and daughters. Why? I don't know. I just think it's odd. I don't think it's odd up until a certain age, but you're right. There is that cutting off point. But I think single parents have a bigger challenge, at least in going to the bathrooms or the stalls or whatever in public restrooms together. Because to me, if you're a single mom, you're not going to let your son go into a public restroom, probably until he's a lot older. You know what I mean? If you can't go in there with a dad, that's probably going into the women's room. Because I see mothers with their, you know, sons that seem seemingly seem a little too old to be in the women's restroom, but I always give them the past because I'm like, well, if I was to say to mom, there was no other option, I wouldn't let them go into a men's room by themselves. You know? Here in my question for parents, and I think it's probably like a mom to son and father to daughter question here. When do you stop showering with the kids? Yeah, that's the question because Stacey was taking showers with Hayden Hollis for a while,
and it came to some point where she's like, you know what? It just doesn't seem right anymore. And it was sort of a guess. So I'm not exactly sure what that if your kids are giving you signs to make you know, when it's not right anymore or not, one 877-588-Bert-B-E-R-T, 877-588-2378. Now, I don't remember taking a shower with my mom. I am a child. I am a child. My dad was never. My dad was never. Oh really? But no, my dad was never. Didn't you say that as an adult though, my role will occasionally happen to shower with you? Even now. Yeah. Right. Good morning Keith here on the virtual. What's up? Hey guys, good morning. Long time list on our first time caller. Thank you, sir. I have two boys, a nine-year-old and eight-year-old girl, and then a three-year-old boy. And my daughter, it was about four years old. And once you understood body parts, that's kind of when I said, okay, honey, it's time to we separate. Was there one specific thing that she said to you or just when she realized that mommy
has different parts than daddy? That's when it was time to switch it up. No, there was never one specific time. It was just, it was general. We had the boy and the girl, so they knew the differences already. And now she will not even shower with the boys at all. Oh, the boys are separate, but they will shower with the mom, which is kind of funny. The boys with the mom. The whole concept of this is so foreign to Wendy. She's like, I know it's a dad and I know it's a young girl, but it still doesn't seem right to you. No, I just think the mom, something or mom daughter thing would, is just that, I don't know, it just sounds odd to me to have a dad and daughter. It's just weird. It's just the way that you grew up. Yeah, you know, your dad didn't do that. It's different than I do. So you think it's different. Does it seem weird that mom would take shower with her son? Mm-hmm. But it does seem weird that dad would take one with a shower with. Yeah. So you're more involved in parenting these days and they're more involved in rearing the kids than they ever have been before, especially when we were growing up. That's true. Just to me, that just seems icky. Really? I don't know.
I guess maybe if it was a single dad, I would understand, but for me growing up, I don't know. Even at age like three? Yeah, I don't know. It just seems, it's not, it's just not how I grew up. You're just thinking like a little girl seeing that days. It's awkward for you. I would have been, well, maybe I wouldn't have probably remembered, but I don't know. It's just not how I grew up. Here's Shakiva. Good morning. You're on the birch show. Good morning. I think it is time for parents to stop taking showers or going to the bathroom with children of the opposite sex. When those children are able to recognize the differences in their body parts versus your body parts. You want ages there? Usually. It might be different for each child. I think it usually happens at around three. I mean, I have five children and it has the first two, our 17 to 16 now. When they were younger, they took a bath together. And then one day, I can't remember what it was my son and my daughter, but they asked me why does she have this and why do I have to have it?
And I said, it's time to separate you. Rather than explain, I'm just going to get you the hell away from each other. I don't want to deal with that question. It's definitely around three where they start to realize that we're not all the same. Oh, really? That's funny. That's like a universal time. So if you're in the shower with somebody who's like two, aren't you, is a guy constantly worried about accidentally peeing at him a little bit? I don't generally pee in the shower. I do that before I get in there. Do you pee in your shower all the time? Yep. Yeah. Like constantly. But it happens. It happens. Just pooping there too. Oh, yeah. You just dump on it on the drain. It depends on what kind of drain is in there. Yeah, I just don't think like if you're going to go to the, if you're going to pee, why can't you do it right before you get in the shower? I think that's really that's that's heinous. But why take the extra step? Why not just pee in the shower? Because it's three feet. I mean, how lazy is it? It all goes down the same drain. Do you shower your toilet? No, but I just don't understand. I have to pee in your shower. This is another conversation for another time, gentlemen. You've never been in the shower?
I mean, I've drunk probably, but for the most part, yeah, I mean, I know I got to go. So I go to the toilet first and then go to shower. Sometimes when I visit people, I pee in their shower. It's the opening tour. Hey, body. Good morning. You're on the birch show. Hi. Hi. I have to agree with the three-year-old age. My son was in the shower with me around three and looked at and said, Mom, why do you not have a no-no? So yeah, when they start noting, then I'm not going to shower with you anymore. All right. There's usually like either an inappropriate grab or a word or a sentence that makes you think, OK, that's the last time that's going up. All right. Richard, what's going on? Now, I'm excited about how you guys doing this morning. OK, sir. All right. So try to imagine this. My two-year-old, boy, three-year-old now, but two-year-old at the time loved to take that from my wife because she loved taking that from him. But one time, he was kind of tired and laid on top of her while they were in the tub and the next thing she started trusting up and down on her. What? Strange.
Pardon? Yeah. So now, at that moment, she made the decision that no more baths out all over him. That's so bad. But that's not like... He didn't know what he was doing. He obviously didn't know what he was doing, right? No, he was too. Yeah. He was trying to replicate anything. It was just the fact that he did that. That was the high opener for her. It's a baby anymore. He's a baby anymore. Yeah, you're like, I don't care what the reason is while you're doing that. But I just know that's the last time that's ever going to happen. Fascinating. I wonder what a pediatrician would say that was. I don't know. So it's like two or three. It looks like three is like about the top off age right there. There you go. Here is Todd, real quick. You're on the voice to skies. What's up? Hey, good morning, guys. Long time listen. We're going to first time call. How's your challenging rod? Say that I have two daughters. And I really didn't put an aid on it. That they're comfortable with it. And it's long as society doesn't put it in their head
that it's strong. Then they're not uncomfortable. Moms are not uncomfortable. And I don't, we as a family don't get it from anything bad. So you're obviously doing something a little bit more unorthodox. So how old were your daughters when you stopped taking showers with them? Probably about seven. Seven, really? I have a friend who grew up with a European dad. And he always walked around the house naked. Still does. Like it was just less concerns about nudity in their house. European. But I think it's different showering than just to see. Then walk it around. If you're just walking around. Right up there. Close. Yeah. OK. All right, Todd. Thanks a lot. Appreciate it. Yeah, you won't find a lot of men that have seven-year-old daughters that are still down. That's what I have on the moon. The virtue. Get it? The virtue. All right, let's bring producer Joanne in here for just a second. Producer Joanne now has been planning her wedding for how long?
Since February. Since February. Since February. Like four months? I wish we could somehow reverse the show to February and take us back to that day where you came in and how excited you were about being engaged and you couldn't wait to go through the whole process of planning a wedding and how this was going to be a beautiful magical day. Because today it's going to be a little bit different. Like you've seen the slowly deteriorating, like, excitement of the progression. Yes. Like, yeah. If you could do like a timeline and how like my face gets sadder and sadder. Oh. Everyday. Perfect. Exhaustion. It's. I don't know what it is. You know, I don't know what it is. I'm still excited about marrying Jason, but I'm not really excited about the whole planning thing. Is this, here's a question to ask here. 877-588-Bert-B-E-R-T-877-588-2378. Like is this pretty common to where at some point or another in your wedding plans, you
just start losing interest in the whole thing. Like maybe the bubble has sort of been burst that, and remember, this is Joanne. This is first wedding. So she, this is all got to be perfect because this is it. The rest of the life doesn't matter. It's about this day. And is it pretty common that you just sort of get fatigued in all of the planning and small details and having to play Kate to everybody? I wanted to ask Joanne, what was the first thing I told you when you got engaged and you were setting the date? That I would, that it was too far away and that I was going to get exhausted with the planning. It is, it is very far away because Joanne got engaged in the winter in February and she wants a springtime wedding. So I totally get that. I just want to get married in the season that they want to get married in. Totally get that. But that means it was over a year of an engagement and it just, and it just gets sort of like this lull in the meantime and then you're just kind of ready to get there. Because at first you're so excited and you're making all these big plans and then there's
really not a whole lot to do for a long time until the very end. And then it'll get busy in the months before you actually get married with that lull time in between. You sort of feel like you're stuck in limbo. And I think it's also because you and Jason are going to be living together until you get married. Right. So you're just like ready for your life to start, but you've got this long engagement still ahead of you that's just frustrating. But it's all the other little details. It's like what are your wedding colors going to be? I'm like, I don't know. What kind of flowers do you want? I don't know. Well, what are the bridesmaids dresses going to look like? I don't, I don't care. I mean, honestly, I don't care. At one point did you care about all that stuff? No. I don't think I did. And then I'm kind of like being bombarded by my bridesmaids because I've got nine of them and I should have probably only had two because all nine of them keep asking me like, oh, when are we going to go look for bridesmaids dresses? I'm like, we have like over a year. I don't know. As a general rule, are the bridesmaids more excited about the wedding than the bride or at least in your case? Well, in my case, they are. Thank you.
Because they have the opportunity to be a part of Joanna's world and anybody in the way Joanna, of course, they're excited. I'm Joanna. Here's Amanda. Good morning. You're on the birch show. Hi. Good morning. Hey, Joanna. I just wanted to say I am right where you are. I am so tired of cleaning, but then I start feeling bad because I get this great day and I'm like, why am I complaining? But still, it's like you just want to be married by now, you know? Yes. Yes. But Jason's the one who keeps reminding me, he's like, well, you know, we have a checklist, you know, we need to start going down the checklist. We need to start sending out, save the dates. And I'm like, well, then you do it. Because I don't want to. Why should Jason become a bridezilla? I don't know. We've talked to women that have dudes that are bridezilla. Yeah. Yeah. Katie Perry. Katie Perry. Right. Here is Heidi. Good morning. You're on the birch show, hi. Good morning. Joanna, like the other colors, I do definitely not alone. I'm getting married in October. And if I could reset the clock, I would alope. Completely and totally 100% alope and just get it over with.
Have you considered moving your data to make a plan? No, it's too late at this point because we've already put some all the deposits and stuff down and there's just no way to make it happen sooner. But I think our situation is also different because we just have like a craft and each and every bad thing that could happen did. But I am at October 7th, can't get here with student off. I'm totally ready for it to be here and be over with and be sitting on the beach with the drink in my hand. You want to say Wendy's suggestion and move that thing out? Well, I'm with the caller. I can't because I have a lot of family that I need to move in and I need that time to save up to fly my family in from South America, which is why another reason why it was so far away is because we're paying for the wedding ourselves. We need this time to save, put away money to fly everybody into the wedding. When are women going to get it? I mean, I think guys got the message for you guys now. I mean, because I hear conflicting messages, okay? The conflicting message is this is the most important, beautiful day of my life. It has to be perfect. But then the reality of it is I hear way more potential or future brides complaining about
the wedding than I do saying that they're actually enjoying the whole process. It's all for a whelming. There's a lot to do. And sometimes, you know, with anyone, do you guys ever do this in even if it's whatever to do list it is? There's a work to do list or a home renovation project to do list or whatever it is that you've got. If you feel so overwhelmed, you're almost like paralyzed. You can't do anything. You're like, I'm just going to sit on the couch and watch reruns of keeping up with the Kardashians. Get anything done because there's too much to do. You know, I feel like that was like, you know, you know, piles of to-do lists that stack up at home or whatever. It's the same thing with planning your wedding. You're like, it can be just really, really overwhelming and you can kind of feel paralysis in amongst that to-do list. Here's Emily. Good morning. You're on the birch show. Yeah. So I was going to tell Jordan, do not alope. It is not worth it. And yes, it's stressful, but the truth is it's your one wedding, hopefully. And you want to make the best of it. And it's stressful as it is. Just piece it out.
You know, one thing at a time, let's just be honest, say, help out with it. I went to a phase where I like made my fiancee do everything and kind of, you know, checked out for a little bit. And then I take back in and he checked out. Just try to enjoy it. But don't alope. Because this is your one wedding. Is it possible to even do that, like break it up, like you say, okay, Jason, you got the next four weeks, man. Here's what you need to cover. I think so. If I give him a list, he's really good at crossing off things off the list. But it also doesn't help that I'm really bad at being really excited about a project and then giving up halfway through it. So that doesn't help either with this because I'm really excited. This is a pattern of behavior for you. Yeah, really bad. I think I'm hitting that. All right, I'm giving up on this. I can't, you have to fit it. Like this is something you have to fit. No, no, you don't. Like, why do you have to finish it? Like why can't there be centerpieces on the table, but no little novelty, little things of M&M's with your initials on them? You don't need those details. Paper plates. Paper plates are fine. Table class, not necessarily. Oh, it takes over where? Nobody would judge that. No, no. Of course. Nobody would judge that.
It doesn't matter what they think. And that's what the day is about. Yeah, this is Joanna's day. Leslie, good morning. You are on the birch. Good morning. I was just wanted to tell Joanna. I tried to do one thing a week. I'm actually having two weddings. I'm an older bride, and this is my first wedding. I'm 40 years old. And I'm having a beach wedding in September. Just very small, intimate, but then my parents are elderly in my father's cries. Because he's only daughter. And he cried when he thought, kind of, he wasn't going to be a naked new wife. So now we're having a whole huge thing here a month later. And you don't realize when you're planning a wedding, how much it just snowballed out of control. So I was just going to tell Joanna to take a deep breath, and I just tried to do one thing a week. And in having the support of your fiancee and friends really help too. Let's talk to one virtual listener that actually pushed the wedding back.
Because she was feeling the same way you are. She's like, screw it. Let's just move it back. You don't need to move it back. Yeah, right. I'll move it up. I'm sure I'll get married. Maybe she moved it up. Nicole, good morning. You're on the Berkshire. Hi, good morning. I actually planned for my wedding to be on October 10th, 2010. But I put everything off because I was like, you know, it's okay. I can get a vendor. I can get a venue. And it'll be fine. But then I realized I have less than 80 days to get everything done. So we actually had to push the date back because I got too overwhelmed with the check lesson now. I'm being bombarded with everything. Is that right? I don't even have a dress. See, you're like, you're damned if you do, you're damned if you don't. Well, I said, I mean, everybody says it's about just about the two of you and everything. But a wedding is really a performance. I mean, you're there performing for a crowd of people. It's the truth. And that's why it's so overwhelming because all the details have to be planned and set and done. But I do think that the way that, like for instance, my parents there, wedding photos got
destroyed in a flood, unfortunately. So I never got to see them. But like Katie goes to her parents' wedding album and stuff. So if you think about one little motivating factor if you plan to have a family, sometimes it's cool for the kids to be able to see the wedding photo. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And what the birch shows adult back to school is. Well, we basically deemed today adult back to school day because we don't want kids to have all the fun. They get to go back to school, shopping for new clothes and new school supplies and backpacks and lunch boxes. And it just seemed like so much fun. So we were talking about it in one of our meetings the other week and we all got very excited about back to school and how much fun it used to be and how the new pencils smelled and how it was cool to take the new notebooks out and all of our favorite things from that back in the day. We decided today would be back to school day for adults and that we would beat the kids to the bunch. We're going to take pictures of these outfits and stuff and when he did hers earlier and it looks great and now it's Melissa's turn.
So yesterday, hold on, I'm going to take my backpack off. Oh, that's your backpack. Yes, but it has a little strap on the front so it doesn't fall off the little girl. So anyway, so I went to target yesterday. It smelled a little ting. Oh, there you go. Now I got to choose. Oh, that's cute. So I decided when I was walking through, I was going to know I was going to do high school back to school, but then I noticed there's so many things that are still for sale today that were for sale when I was in elementary school. Okay. So this is my display of the things that were still on sale back in the 70s that are on sale at 2010. Tinkerbell, yes. Of course we had Tinkerbell. So I have my Tinkerbell backpack. I think it's top notch too, man. That's sparkly. That's fancy. And then I have my strawberry shortcake because you always have to have a new toy to take to school too. So I'm a little strawberry shortcake, which again, it was so good. In 1977. All right. Let's see. I've got my Hello Kitty notebook. She does. Everybody. Hello Kitty. Yes. Back in the 70s. The enthusiasm Melissa has for this is like, I love that. Just go shopping. I just agree with you. I felt the same way as her. You did?
Wendy's eyes today. I was really excited about this. I was really excited about this. It was really fun. My spiral notebook. I had to get something rainbow, but this is very 70s looking. She says, love with the rainbow on it. And then two more things here in my little pouch. A couple more things in my pouch. When I was in elementary school, they sold triangular crayons. Do you remember these? Yes. So they don't roll off the desk. Oh, yeah. So they don't roll crayons. Oh, yeah. Yes. Very fun. What are you going to color? I don't know. I didn't get a coloring. Mommy wouldn't let me get a coloring book. Then I got my first pencils, the big fat, fat pencils. Did you know school all the way? I'm telling you because it was. Everything is still on sale. That was on sale when I was a kid. Then I got my Mickey Mouse stickers. I got my care bear stickers because stickers are very important. And then I was little. Finally, I got my Sesame Street t-shirt. Very nice. Sesame Street Wives again. It's all the characters and it says that all my homies are from the street. So there you go. So that's my back to school stuff. I did the elementary school thing.
All of our pictures of our back to school, our adult back to school clothes, and all the new accessories that we got are going to be up online later on today at TheBirtShow.com. You did a good job there at Chicago. Thanks. I'll pick yours up. I'm sorry guys. Hold on. Yeah, one more. My lunchbox. Oh, it's our first day in your lunchbox. And that also from the 70s. I think your lunchbox really did put you in a click very early in life. Like, yes, I do. Yes, I do. It was very important. It was very, very important like the guys that were coming with the Star Wars lunchbox and stuff. They were, you immediately have like a group acceptance. See, I couldn't get away with that as a kid because Star Wars was all what the boys got. I got something like, I don't know what I had. I had my little pub. Yeah, it was Strawberry Shortcake. Strawberry Shortcake. Rainbow Bride. Rainbow Bride, something like that. But now that I have the freedom of milling pizza around, I got me a Darth Vader cool charm. I used to get the lunchboxes and they had like the two silver clips on it and inevitably like three weeks into the school year.
One of the clips would bust off. So you'd have to brown bag at the rest of the year. Yeah. It was fun shopping like that though. Yeah. So I always school supplies that I'll never use. I love that. I love that. I love it. This is The Virtua.
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