Tall Girl: welcome to sense, sensibility and chaos, where we explore the mess, the memories and the moments we're still trying to live down.

Busy: I'm busy. I had a deep phase where I collected any quote I found life changing in a notebook.

WellReadHead: I'm well read. I had a dark academia phase before it was even a thing fueled entirely by black light and brooding playlists.

Tall Girl: And I'm a tall girl, I thought slamming my bedroom door was the ultimate mic drop.

Busy: Today's episode is all about the cringy teenage phase - the fashion, the drama, and the questionable life choices we thought were peak sophistication.

WellReadHead: Whether you're still haunted by your old Myspace posts, or you're wondering if you were the main character or just really, really dramatic. You're in good company.

Tall Girl: So grab your yearbooks, brace yourself for secondhand embarrassment, and let's dive into the beautiful chaos that was our teenage years.

Tall Girl: Doodoo doodloo do toodloo do.

WellReadHead: Oh!

Tall Girl: I don't know about you guys, but I'm still a teenager. So this is really I will forever.

Tall Girl: You're I am just here listening.

WellReadHead: Teenager.

Busy: That's right. I'm I'm just here to learn what happens after teenage years from you guys.

Tall Girl: I am adult shaped, and that is all. The rest of me

Tall Girl: sincerely wants to go back to a time when my parents paid my bills, and I like slept in every weekend.

Busy: We cannot be the new adults. This is.

Tall Girl: It's just not possible I should not be trusted with the things I am trusted with. Legally. Somebody made a very bad call.

Busy: Now I love seeing

Busy: parents, you especially men on videos lately, where they're singing songs to the babies that people were like

Busy: cruncking to what.

Tall Girl: You see the dad who was singing his baby the thong song, and I was just like.

Busy: There's been a couple of them, and they're just singing them slowly and sweetly. And I'm just like, How are we new adults? How.

WellReadHead: Skeet skeet skeet.

Busy: Please don't. That's not.

Tall Girl: I just can't wait till the senior home, when body glitter is still a thing.

Busy: Oh, nursing home is gonna be lit.

WellReadHead: I mean holographic eyeshadow is back.

Tall Girl: Body glitter to catch cheating husbands is back. So you know.

WellReadHead: Yeah.

Tall Girl: Is bath and body works still a thing? Do they still sell.

WellReadHead: Still exists.

Tall Girl: Cucumber, melon.

Busy: No? Well, they know, and then we'll do like their nostalgic sense.

Busy: I believe mine was cocoa. I loved coco cabana.

Tall Girl: Oh!

WellReadHead: I think mine is still in production. Moonlight path.

Tall Girl: I'm so glad I was allergic to all of those I deeply wish I could.

Tall Girl: and then I like died like I was having an asthma attack. I feel like my body was protecting me against like

Tall Girl: some really bad choices.

Busy: But that's being a teenager.

Busy: My God, if you're not doing bad choices.

Tall Girl: I will say, like, I think we're lucky that we're on the edge of digital like cameras existed. Digital technology existed. But like our generation was busy like being busy, so we didn't document every single step so like our embarrassment versus like my godchildren's embarrassment

Tall Girl: is like way different, although for a while people would digitize photos and post them to Facebook. And it'll be like you've been tagged by like a girl I went to like grade school with. And I'm like, what did you do? What did you digitize? What have you done.

Busy: Oh, no, I I've definitely done that. Not nothing crazy like

Busy: group photos, you know, class photo from an 8th grade. And it was a small class. So I you know, we had a private group. And so that was one thing, and we all made fun of our outfits.

Busy: But nothing too crazy.

Tall Girl: I mean, it was appropriate for the time. But looking back now, I'm just like, Oh, okay.

Busy: Yeah, I think.

WellReadHead: I mean.

Busy: Fashion, the most.

WellReadHead: Yes, some of us are still regretting fashion choices that we made in our teenage years.

Tall Girl: But with

Tall Girl: the confidence like you have to admire, with the confidence with which we left the house going like, and this is the day. I am the greatest person ever.

Busy: I I was disappointed. I was unable to wear jelly shoes.

Tall Girl: Why were you unable to wear jelly shoes.

Busy: Because my feet, because I was I was so tall by like 3, rd 4th grade.

Busy: And then I had the adult women suit shoe size. Say that a couple times fast to match and grown up women did not have the jellies. But then again, apparently I didn't miss much, because if they got hot

WellReadHead: oh, your feet sweat.

Tall Girl: Oh, my entire.

WellReadHead: Amuse.

Tall Girl: Felt the heat of the sidewalk, so like the plastic, retained the heat of the sidewalk. So the top of your foot was sweating, and the bottom of your foot was frying, and it was just a

Tall Girl: and you were like, well, this is what it's like to be a woman like. Of course I shouldn't like my feet shouldn't be pain-free while walking.

Tall Girl: Oh, no!

Tall Girl: Later you step into a new balance, and you're like, what the hell is this I feel no pain.

Busy: What were some of your regrettable choices? Are you thinking red.

WellReadHead: The eyebrows.

Busy: My eyebrow. Regret came later.

Busy: In a group chat with my female cousins.

Busy: and my one cousin said, Look, I don't know if I could live this down, I said. Listen, if

Busy: one of my other older cousins and I could survive the pencil thin eyebrows from

Busy: yore you will get through this, I promise I was lucky enough where most of my eyebrows came back and all, and

Busy: can't keep.

Tall Girl: I will say I'm lucky being blonde like I could never. I can't have really thick eyebrows, because I just don't have the eyebrow hair, but I also can't have ultra thin eyebrows, because depending on the sunlight half the time, it looks like I don't have them anyway. So like.

Tall Girl: thank the Lord above certain things like I was too tall for Mini skirts, because Mini skirts become belts on a tall person like there is no Mini for a tall so like the Lord, protected me over the short short skirt trend, and the Lord protected me and my eyebrows from like the over under plucking situations because it was like you've got 4 eyebrow hairs. Choose wisely, because if you pluck them they're never returning. Make a choice.

Busy: My time. And I said, Don't worry.

Busy: You can make those things thin as hell, and we're still gonna come back holding strong.

WellReadHead: Yeah, some of us weren't so lucky.

Tall Girl: Okay, I would.

Tall Girl: I know. But at the time, like when it's like, Oh, well, we can do these things. I'm like, you know how long it takes me to grow my hair to like the back of my butt, and when it gets there it will be 4 fine strands of hair, and everybody else is like. Oh, I grew it out long in 3 weeks.

Busy: Yeah.

Tall Girl: Oh, well, you always want like what you don't have, or like what the

Tall Girl: like, when the trending hairstyle is something that would not look good at you at all, but it's like

Tall Girl: my prom hair choices.

Tall Girl: I don't know what in the bouffant I was thinking, but my hair said Hello! And I'm a Texas pageant Queen.

Tall Girl: Choices were made. Aquanet was used. I didn't have much a say in it, and now I'm just like I like the dress I like the dress, can we? Just from like chin up? Just

Tall Girl: crop.

Busy: All the hair jewelry for certain events, where you would just like twist them in. And it's like.

Busy: Yeah, gem, or like a star.

WellReadHead: Butterfly.

Tall Girl: And the makeup like, oh, we should be wearing 3 layers of makeup, and it should be matte, and it should just have like layers to it.

Busy: Oh, man!

WellReadHead: Brown lipstick.

Tall Girl: Aggressively 48 somewhere in our sixteens, like.

WellReadHead: Brown lipstick.

Tall Girl: As the years come, like.

WellReadHead: Lincol comes on.

Tall Girl: Off.

WellReadHead: I think the brown that's been a bit of a comeback with like it's not brown, but like a raisin.

Busy: Like a dark raisin.

WellReadHead: That makes more sense. We did dirt, brown.

Busy: I did not. So that's all. You boo!

Busy: I did not do that.

Tall Girl: Lip liner was unnecessary.

Tall Girl: There was an aggressive amount of lip liner for a few years.

WellReadHead: Yes.

Tall Girl: Yeah, I just. I needed people to know the exact placement of my lips, and I didn't want you in any way confused. I edged those things like a qualified landscaper, like they were.

Busy: I tried at 1 point when the whole using liners that would make your lips plump up.

Tall Girl: Basically.

Busy: But the problem was

Busy: I already have.

WellReadHead: You don't need them.

Busy: I don't need that, and it just felt I'm like, Oh, my God! I feel like a bad botox like they just went boom.

Busy: and I'm like, all right. That was a 1, and done and wasted my money. There.

WellReadHead: Goldie Hawn and the 1st Wives Club.

Busy: That that's kind of what it felt like, cause it just went bloop. And I was like, why did I think this was gonna be smart?

Tall Girl: I went through that like Goth phase, where everything was black, like the eyeliner, like

Tall Girl: black on black, because, like I am an artiste. Therefore I must live in the creature of the night.

WellReadHead: I wanted to be Goth, but also Stevie Nicks.

WellReadHead: So I had.

Busy: Sure.

WellReadHead: A lot of black velvet, and witchy sort of

WellReadHead: pentagrams and whatnot. My parents love that phase.

Tall Girl: I like that. Our rebellious phase include Doc Martin's like we will.

WellReadHead: Yes.

Tall Girl: We will have arch support. We might be angry, but our Plantar fasciitis will never happen. We will never give in to that generational problem like.

Tall Girl: yeah.

Busy: If there's 1 item I can remember and like would love if I could bring it back. I had this deep Burgundy like that crinkle peasant skirt that went down to like

Busy: or the.

Tall Girl: The risk of flame at all times skirt.

Busy: Loved it with like. There was like the 2 drawstrings I would like hang down that.

WellReadHead: Nope.

Busy: Okay, a piece of like jewelry on it, or something. Oh, my God!

WellReadHead: Yep.

Busy: You couldn't tell me anything.

Tall Girl: I was very excited to move into my hippie phase, because then it just doesn't quite age the same. It's like, Oh, okay, well, all hippies kind of dress the same, no matter the decade. So I was like, Oh, okay, I have found my hippie. I still have my birkenstocks.

WellReadHead: I love my Birkenstocks.

Tall Girl: Oh!

Busy: What about collars?

WellReadHead: Oh, chokers.

Busy: Oh, good! Thank you.

WellReadHead: Yeah.

WellReadHead: Oh, yeah, I I had many. I still have chokers. I'm not gonna lie. I still have.

WellReadHead: I never quite got away from that particular. The one thing that I do miss, though, were the stretchy ones with the

Tall Girl: Oh wait!

WellReadHead: The way I designed.

Tall Girl: Hilarious. I saw those a while ago like.

WellReadHead: Really.

Tall Girl: Oh, no, they don't. No, no, they don't.

Tall Girl: Claire's is an international store that no longer exists. It was in Istanbul. You don't worry about it. You'll never find it.

WellReadHead: Oh!

Busy: The the headbands that were round that kind of zigzag.

WellReadHead: That had the teeth on them.

Busy: Only.

Tall Girl: Yeah, okay. But here's the thing. I have a bigger dome.

Tall Girl: Those things are migraine inducing torture devices, those tiny headed little women in life who are like this is a good idea.

Tall Girl: This is.

WellReadHead: I rocked the crap out of those.

WellReadHead: I love the crap out of it.

WellReadHead: Those I didn't realize. Why I was like, why do I have a headache all the time.

Busy: Big head, you dumb woman, and they are carving lines into your scalp. It's like you're gonna like plant seeds like you're like a freaking farmland like they're making rows in your head

Busy: doing this.

Tall Girl: Like part of me is glad we didn't grow up in like the big bouffant hair working woman. Kind of thing I'm like we came in a more sedate time. We had less hair product to use. Thank the good Lord for that. But, like.

Tall Girl: you know.

Tall Girl: that hair was big, like all you had to do was hold down the massive weight of it. We were like, no, we want to shrink our craniums with some kind of an elastic band metal arch situation. We just we want to have a permanent dent in our foreheads like the new gamer kids have a dent because of the headphones.

Busy: Oh!

Tall Girl: I was like, our generation has a headband divot in their skull. And it's it's not okay.

Busy: Yeah, no, I never got big into like the hairspray or all the hair products I mean even now. But but you know.

WellReadHead: I had no choice but to be down with the hair products.

Busy: No, no! Here's 1 i.

WellReadHead: Queen Helene.

Busy: Yeah.

WellReadHead: And Helene, and the the wet look.

Busy: That's the hair. Mascara.

WellReadHead: Oh, yeah, a hundred percent. Yeah.

Tall Girl: Yeah, yeah.

Busy: Would this be like a mascara that you could use.

WellReadHead: Just a just a no, I highlight. Oh, well, manic panic, obviously.

Tall Girl: Like they're banning red number 5, and it's like, No, we we use that.

WellReadHead: We're actively putting it in our hair.

WellReadHead: Occasionally Kool-aid.

Busy: Yeah.

Tall Girl: Yeah.

Busy: Yeah, hair, master, that was a good one.

WellReadHead: Hair Mascara. Yep.

Busy: So besides the clothing and the fashion.

Busy: what other fun things from your teenage cringe.

Tall Girl: I'm not going to regret any of my music choices. So we're just gonna skip over that because they're still actively in my playlist. I.

WellReadHead: Same, I regret I made. I made absolutely no

WellReadHead: wrong choices when it came to my music. They're all classic things I will never forget when

WellReadHead: Green Day's 1st album came out.

WellReadHead: as we all just collectively sit here nodding. You can't see us, but we are. We are nodding

Busy: Why are they so quiet? All of a sudden.

Tall Girl: Oh, because it was like music was good.

Busy: Every generation is gonna say that they're gonna say, you know, our parents are gonna say that people like every because that's the time

Busy: that you're young, and you felt like you were the

Busy: the, you know. No one could tell you anything you were it

Busy: so that music, whatever you've found

Busy: was gonna be the best, anyway.

WellReadHead: Yeah. But music has changed quite dramatically.

Busy: Oh, yeah.

WellReadHead: Yeah. I think we're.

Busy: Those time periods we got a good blend of

Busy: people still writing their lyrics still. And and I'm there obviously.

WellReadHead: Singer songwriters. Yeah.

Busy: Obviously, artists still do that. But we know it's not as much. It's more of a production.

Busy: You have, you know, 10,000 people creating one song.

Busy: But I think we got a great time of writers. A birth of some refined, you know.

Busy: genres that had come out, and all.

Tall Girl: Concerts were still affordable. Like

Tall Girl: rules aside, we got into bars. We got into clubs we shouldn't have been in, but concerts were like

Tall Girl: expensive like you still had to like. Convince your parents to spend money on some of them, but, like

Tall Girl: you could still theoretically afford to go to a concert. It wasn't just this like, and no offense to Taylor Swift, but like an $8,000 ticket, was just like in our day, our parents would have just been like, never like it. Just. It would have been a stadium not full of teenage girls.

Tall Girl: You could still find decent tickets for a decent price, and.

WellReadHead: Mhm.

Tall Girl: Like you could go see the music. There were so many bands in New York City you could go out and see, and it was just.

WellReadHead: It was a very sort of spontaneous thing like, there, there, you

WellReadHead: anytime you wanted to see live music

WellReadHead: in this area. It was relatively easy to do. So.

WellReadHead: It was very accessible. Yeah, and you had not just

WellReadHead: the bigger bands. But you also had garage bands that were.

Busy: Yes.

WellReadHead: Coming to the forefront, and

Busy: Yup.

WellReadHead: Even like even some of the local music, was pretty good.

Tall Girl: Yeah.

WellReadHead: So you didn't really.

WellReadHead: You had much more of a choice in what you wanted to go see.

Busy: Do you feel like when you're teenagers

Busy: that you ever got into big over the top drama?

WellReadHead: Oh, of course, that's that's what we do. Listen. Your body is literally insane.

WellReadHead: Your brain is crazy with all the hormones that are going through it yet.

WellReadHead: Drama just comes with the hormonal package like that's just.

Tall Girl: First Period. Monday mornings is where you heard about everybody else's drama, which then.

WellReadHead: And just.

Tall Girl: Like, controlled your drama for the rest of the week, and then, like your ultimate goal, was to either be at the top of the drama in a good way, or like not part of the drama in any way. So like when somebody else socially fell, you were like, Oh, thank gosh! It wasn't me. Yay.

Tall Girl: but yeah, everything is like life ending, you know.

WellReadHead: Everything's lift and death me.

Tall Girl: In the back. It's you know, this breakup will crush my soul for forever. He asked me to the dance.

WellReadHead: I will never, ever get over this.

WellReadHead: Meanwhile, 2 weeks later, you're fine.

Tall Girl: Email.

WellReadHead: Emo Poetry, in in.

Busy: And it's best.

WellReadHead: Ratty notebooks.

Tall Girl: You know those passive, aggressive posts which are always like, I'm not saying this to anybody particular. I'm just saying, you know.

WellReadHead: Oh, my God!

WellReadHead: Vague booking, as they call it these days!

Tall Girl: Oh, vague quotes, and like, you know, just specific. Just you know you know who you are. Here's a sound clip for you.

Busy: If we're talking about Post, we're going to also talk about the lovely AIMs.

Busy: Hi, amper sand.

WellReadHead: I miss chat boards.

WellReadHead: They're not the same anymore.

Busy: No, I'm not here right now. Ampersand T. Ampersand.

Tall Girl: Of course.

Tall Girl: person who went overboard and made a butterfly out of asterisk, and I was just like, no, no, no, I don't have the time you have in your day.

Tall Girl: But it was nice, because, like technology got switched off, we had texting. But texting was expensive. So it was like, okay, you're on your family plan. If you and your boyfriend eat up all the family minutes, you got problems.

Tall Girl: But like we would turn technology off and go do things.

WellReadHead: We had that privilege. Yeah.

Busy: Myspace, like page development.

WellReadHead: Oh, my God! Hours and hours and hours.

Tall Girl: Like. Oh, you're not on tumblr like I can't speak to you. I can't be with you. You're not one of the Tumblr people like what?

Tall Girl: But similar.

Busy: Even now I don't think I'm ever on it, or have been on it.

WellReadHead: Oh, I am!

Tall Girl: I have accidentally tripped over it because somebody when Tiktok was going to go away, somebody's like, Let's bring back Tumblr, and I'm like

Tall Girl: like in my head. It's like Myspace, it's gone.

Tall Girl: If my Myspace page ever comes back in its original form, I would be like I got a lot of deleting to do.

Busy: I mean, you gotta see who your top 8 were. We have to see.

Tall Girl: Okay, you used to rank people and like aggressively, just be like you are number one. You had.

WellReadHead: People used to actively.

Tall Girl: Phone companies and social media were forcing you to have like your number one contact like it should be grandma and number 2 should be mom and number 3 should be Dad. But like Number 4.

Busy: That's up for grabs.

Tall Girl: Oh! And you know.

WellReadHead: People used to actively.

Tall Girl: To like. Let your friends know where they fell.

Tall Girl: Oh, yeah.

WellReadHead: That people used to spend time actively visiting a web page that you partially built

WellReadHead: in order to be in that top rank.

Busy: Like all of a sudden, we're like frigging web designers.

Tall Girl: Everybody became a web developer. All like overnight people knew. Java. You're like, you can't tie to your shoes. How are you coding like what.

Busy: You have a page that has animated background and glitter butterflies, saying, Don't.

Busy: what is it? Don't smile, cause it happened, not because it's over, or some shit.

Busy: At a or or some stuff at the graduation time, like we gotta.

WellReadHead: Does anybody remember neopets.

Busy: No.

WellReadHead: Neopets. They were like Post Tamagotchi online pets that you? I'm sure some of our listeners will remember neopets. But it was a website that you visited, and you

WellReadHead: took care of the the pet. You fed it. You played games with it. You did. Yeah.

WellReadHead: it was not as interactive as the Tamagotchi, but it was fulfilling, nonetheless.

Busy: I also never got into the whole Sims game.

Busy: We're not.

WellReadHead: I was into it for a while that oh!

WellReadHead: And larping.

Tall Girl: A gun.

WellReadHead: I will freely admit that's 1 of the things that I regret larping.

Busy: And those people.

Tall Girl: Of guys who had the pickup line of like, do you, Larp? Let me introduce you to Larping like. Come, Larp, with me and my friends, for the weekend like it's not bad. You just have to eat twigs and sleep, you know, like, well, we leave the cars 50 miles away, because we wouldn't want technology to interfere with like the reality.

WellReadHead: We want it to be authentic.

Tall Girl: Like. Oh, my God! Oh, my God, no! Oh, my God! Like well, you know, if you're caught with a pair of cuticle scissors, we're not gonna say we're gonna kick you out, but you know, like.

Tall Girl: yep.

WellReadHead: No, it was, you know it was one of the I never played dungeons and dragons.

WellReadHead: I wasn't. I wasn't that kind of nerd, but I was a larping nerd.

Busy: What kind of marketing did you do.

WellReadHead: Vampire, The Masquerade.

Busy: Oh, that tracks!

Busy: Yep,

Busy: Yeah, that that is do on, on, brand.

WellReadHead: Yep, 100% on brand for me

WellReadHead: down to the beanie that I'm wearing right now.

Busy: Yes, no. I do want to ask you where you been, loca like. No.

Busy: some dramatic music. And what other things you think

Busy: when you think back to your teenage time, what do you.

Tall Girl: So we started with mood boards, and then my school quickly converted it to like future goals boards so like we had to create mood boards to explain ourselves and mood boards to inspire us, and then we had to create a mood board to like, explain our future, and we literally had to explain it to the school

Tall Girl: like

Tall Girl: this is Harvard. This is me going to Harvard. Here's a picture of somebody who looks like they're at university, and they're going to go to Harvard. And it just became this like.

Busy: No, thank good Lord, we didn't do that!

Tall Girl: Define yourself on a poster board, and then explain it to everybody. To justify your existence was.

Busy: Absolutely not.

Tall Girl: There was a lot of unnecessary craft, glue, and delusion.

Busy: Yeah, I think. Nothing like that. I think of having your lockers and cutting out.

WellReadHead: Teen magazines.

Busy: Teen magazines. I remember we would get the TV guide and cut out like

Busy: all since creating. Just put that up on.

Busy: I know.

WellReadHead: I still have my X-files TV guides.

WellReadHead: Yes, I do.

Tall Girl: I'm so glad I don't have to break into anybody's locker for a birthday surprise anymore. I'm so

Tall Girl: my lips are still broken from blowing up tiny effing balloons to like. It's your birthday, and we're in school, and I can't imagine that you don't know what's about to happen.

Busy: And decorating with the lockers. My God.

Busy: Yeah.

Tall Girl: You still have the X-files TV guides.

WellReadHead: Yes, I do. I absolutely do. I also have my X files, mood boards, and several magazines.

WellReadHead: comic books, books, actual physical paperback books.

Busy: I have some TV guides, but they were more because there was one that was an I Love Lucy cover.

Busy: So I had that, and I have that framed

Busy: because of my love of I love Lucy. I have another one that had. I guess there was an anniversary at some point, maybe where they were talking about the the cultural significance of the Wizard of Oz. So I have one of those.

Busy: But I had like it was because of reasons.

WellReadHead: Not because of.

WellReadHead: I still have my X-files Barbie dolls, Mulder and Scully Barbie doll.

Busy: And I will raise you. I believe I had from days of our lives the Deidre Hall, Marlena.

Busy: I think I'm not positive I had some. It was either that it was either days or lives doll, or it was like one of their Christmas

Busy: designer, Barbie dolls. Kind of things that you you know you don't take that out of the box.

Busy: It is we're gonna make our money back.

WellReadHead: No, I was. I was in the X-files fandom hard, hard.

Busy: Unless we say, like you were like, you're not still.

WellReadHead: Like, I'm not still currently rewatching it because.

Busy: Yeah. Oh, you're watching X files. Okay? Cool?

WellReadHead: But there's a resurgence. What can I say?

Busy: There was never not a resurgence for you. It was always just there.

WellReadHead: This is true. I I ride that wave even when it's low.

Busy: What do you think about when you think about lingo TV shows movies like the Pop culture.

Tall Girl: I gotta be honest like once the Sleepover phase stopped like, I don't really remember a lot of movies like

Tall Girl: if we had a sleepover, somebody like got a movie. We watched it. It was a thing like whoever. And then like.

Tall Girl: because we didn't have TV growing up like, I didn't watch TV at home. So like, I missed a lot of that. So like a lot of cultural references, I still don't get. So I don't have like an X-files. I don't have like a

Tall Girl: you know, whatever kind of thing it just.

Busy: You're not so excited. You're scared. Jesse Spano.

Tall Girl: I'm what.

Busy: She was on caffeine pills.

WellReadHead: This is better.

WellReadHead: Yeah, saved by the bell.

Tall Girl: From expo. Oh, I mean I know it exists, but I didn't.

Busy: Speak. They were trying to do a whole lot.

Tall Girl: Pinky and the brain. But that's just because I was obsessed with it. And

Tall Girl: pinky, and the brain was like the 1st one that I actually like as a yeah.

Busy: Hey? That's an odd one. But okay.

Tall Girl: He wanted to take over the earth, and it kept on failing, and I kept on watching it as like a guide to how one day to take over the world. It's instructional.

Busy: Alright. I mean, I'm still judging. But okay.

Tall Girl: And oh, Dexter Dexter's laboratory.

WellReadHead: Oh, yeah.

Busy: I didn't know that one.

Tall Girl: But they used to play clips of those. So like that was online kind of Youtube territory.

Tall Girl: But like, I didn't have a TV. So I just don't like

Tall Girl: I read books, or I went out so like people like, Oh, my God, whatever! And I'm like, I have no idea of what you're speaking so like. Now I watch these shows on Netflix. I'm like, it's new to me.

Tall Girl: Alright, what's it? ER.

WellReadHead: Oh, yes, I'd loved ER.

Tall Girl: The owner is now on the pit, and I love the pit. But I didn't.

WellReadHead: Wiley, I.

Tall Girl: Didn't remember that. He I know about George Clooney, but I didn't know about him.

Tall Girl: and some brother is like whatever, and they're like. You didn't know he was a TV doctor, and I was like.

Tall Girl: no, but the pit is quite good, anyway.

WellReadHead: Yes, it is.

Busy: Yeah, ER. I remember some of it. I remember that you know.

Tall Girl: That was like you went out like you hung out like those were the years that I wouldn't have been home anyway.

Tall Girl: I mean, like sneaking out was a hobby. If you want to know what I did in my teen years, like attempting not to be home and finding

Tall Girl: fabulous and interesting ways of just going out.

Busy: You had Melrose. that was like the the evening one.

WellReadHead: Swans crossing.

Tall Girl: What?

Busy: Remember the name. I can't remember it.

WellReadHead: Swans crossing was was

WellReadHead: soap opera. That's the word I was looking for.

Tall Girl: I was. Gonna say, it seems like something that would be on in the mid-afternoon, with like a gauzy kind of film on it, like swans crossing

Tall Girl: ladies of a certain age get a little titillated at 4 o'clock.

WellReadHead: No, but it was made for teenagers.

Tall Girl: For teenagers.

Busy: That's why.

Tall Girl: I'm gonna have to look this up.

Tall Girl: Clarissa explains. I will say, oh, yes.

WellReadHead: She did not explain everything, and I'm very bitter about that

WellReadHead: a lot. I mean she did. She did, you know.

Busy: You do not.

Tall Girl: In a world of retro she should come back and explain the rest, like, okay, 20 years later, I've got some information for you guys.

WellReadHead: Are You Afraid of the dark.

Busy: Okay.

Busy: I knew of it. I never watched it.

WellReadHead: That one's Canadian, you should know tall.

Tall Girl: I've heard of it. I haven't.

WellReadHead: In the dark.

Tall Girl: I know about the crypt keeper.

WellReadHead: Yeah. Crypt keeper.

Tall Girl: Or tales from the craft, or something.

Busy: Yeah. Tgi Fridays.

WellReadHead: And snick. Saturday night. Nick.

Busy: Hmm!

Busy: I used to also like because I was an I LoveLucy Fan.

Busy: That would be like the nick at night.

Busy: Like the old reruns from shows that our parents grew up watching or.

WellReadHead: Yep, get smart, and a bunch of random.

Busy: Other shows.

WellReadHead: 19 fifties and sixties shows.

Busy: So.

Tall Girl: Really like to this day.

WellReadHead: Same, yeah, same. I love Get Smart

Tall Girl: Rather watch, like green acres like it.

WellReadHead: I know the entire theme song to.

Busy: I was just about to say that.

Tall Girl: Tubi or something has like all these shows. And I'm like I could watch this for forever. Just

Tall Girl: yeah, Carol Burnett show and everything. I'm like.

WellReadHead: Oh, God, yeah, Carol Burnett Show was great.

Busy: I never watch the show, and I feel like I need to, because I'm missing out on such great comedy.

WellReadHead: Iconic.

Busy: My cousin's daughter, a few years back, found out my father's side of family were big. I love Lucy Fans so like my grandmother. My 2 aunts, we would all watch it together. And so recently I found out a couple years ago that my cousin's daughter was watching it. I was like what? And I was like, I have books, I have Dvds, and she's like, Oh, I can only watch so much. That was for free. I was like, hold on, I got you, and

Busy: it's I have a couple of friends who are also big fans. And so

Busy: I was an older soul, teenager. But again.

Tall Girl: Nothing from past talks has surprised most of us on this.

WellReadHead: I have excellent memories of watching Nick at night with my grandparents like excellent memories.

Tall Girl: Well here in Canada, and like from like one to 4 o'clock, they used to rerun. I dream of Jeannie. I love Lucy. Bewitched Gilligan's island bewitched like I can remember, summer afternoons being like must sit down and watch 19 sixties television.

WellReadHead: Yes.

Tall Girl: Because we didn't have a TV. So like up here, it was like, Oh, summers will be spent watching 19 sixties television.

WellReadHead: Yep.

Busy: We will be current on what happened.

Tall Girl: Look if you need to know how to starch crinoline, or you know how to like. Look cool when Bobby asks you to like, you know the what's it?

Busy: It's silly.

Tall Girl: Dance, or whatever that is

WellReadHead: Sadie, Hawkins, Sadie, Hawkins, Day.

Tall Girl: I have all these references, but that's when the woman asked the man

Tall Girl: off my unfortunate hippie phase, because it was like, Oh, okay, welcome to Gidget, and now become a beatnik.

Busy: I mean. I don't know when I might get stranded on an island, but Gilligan prepared me for some of this.

Tall Girl: Dude. I can build a coconut battery like nobody else, like.

WellReadHead: It's.

Tall Girl: Science, but I'm totally prepared.

Busy: I'm trying to think what other things that like.

Busy: I look back on my team. I don't think there was anything

Busy: too dramatic. I didn't do a lot. Not like that. Sounds like I'm like, Oh, poor me! But like I didn't get to do a lot of the typical. I think teenage things.

Tall Girl: You couldn't miss anything besides like unnecessary drama and tears. You didn't miss anything.

Busy: I had my own trauma. Thank you. It was just there.

Busy: but yeah, I don't think like. And I was in

Busy: schools where I had uniforms until college. So I didn't have to worry about the fashion so much. I mean, we.

WellReadHead: Uniforms, but there were still ways to.

Busy: Yeah, no, no, don't get me wrong. There were absolute, absolutely ways. But it wasn't, as

Busy: you know, dramatic, because that was that decision was taken out of my control.

Busy: Which, honestly, God, I wish it's not the worst thing like

Busy: like making it simple. I had choice of 2 types of skirts.

Busy: 2 different color, you know, colors. So there's 4 options X, amount of sweaters. Shirts keep it simple.

Tall Girl: Like as an adult. I would appreciate that to just be like, oh, I have to wake up and not choose as a kid that would have like that would have broken my life like I

Tall Girl: I'm wearing last week's reeboks. I can't.

Tall Girl: I will be socially shunned.

Busy: No, I I think like while there was obviously

Busy: fashion and being current luckily, where I was, I never felt like there was ever a hard oh, you're not having the most current.

Busy: Insert trend here.

WellReadHead: Yeah, I we didn't.

WellReadHead: Really have that either.

WellReadHead: That was.

Busy: That there were people who are into the trends, and they had it

Busy: where I was. There wasn't that need to pick on others. If you weren't doing it.

WellReadHead: Yeah.

Tall Girl: I think my school was much more.

Tall Girl: It was based on financial status, like there were those that had and those that didn't, and it was divided amongst like they always have the stuff, and this side always doesn't like. There were the kids who had the brand new cars, and there were kids that have the used car

Tall Girl: like you got your parents beat up Volvo just because back then people used to buy cars and keep them. Or you could buy a used car for like

Tall Girl: like the 1st kid who came to school with his driver's license driving a beater was like.

Tall Girl: And now I drive by my high school parking lot, and it's all like brand new lease cars. And I was like.

Tall Girl: your life is just so different than ours, like my parents would never spend $500 a month to lease a car for, like 18 year old.

WellReadHead: No.

Tall Girl: Me like my dad.

WellReadHead: The 1st thing that you're gonna do is get in an accident, anyway.

Tall Girl: And like steel fenders like, Go for it. This is the car for you guys like you'll survive.

Busy: I mean, we had a blend like there were people who could afford the new cars or whatnot, and that's you know.

Busy: but there was also plenty who didn't, and but no one really like

Busy: picked on others like you like, you know, you may booed and on over the new ones, but you weren't getting crazy about it. And also like my high school.

Busy: it was a regional one. So we had people who came in from all different forms of transportation. So most of the people took a train.

Busy: But you know, 13 years old getting on trains.

WellReadHead: Listen. I was on the subway and buses.

Tall Girl: I know. Yeah, like as quickly as like.

Tall Girl: But I went into the city every week like everybody's like, Oh, let's hang out whenever I'm like. I have other friends that aren't from this school, and I hang out with them like

Tall Girl: we'll be out of here shortly.

Busy: Yeah. So that was, you know, it didn't matter about the cars for that, although it was.

Tall Girl: Like when you would. We used to go into the village so you would go to a club and like one of the other cliques you didn't hang with would also be at the same club, and it would just be like, Oh, my God! Why are the cheerleaders here? How do the cheerleaders know that this exists. This is ours.

Busy: I mean, listen, if you did not come into the city in your teenage years in this area

Busy: to New York City to be specific. So.

WellReadHead: What were you even doing?

Busy: And if you didn't know.

Tall Girl: Adults I'm like. At that age I should not been in a bar. I should no.

WellReadHead: I should not have been, but like.

Tall Girl: Now I understand, like there's still places. I'm sure you could find a way, but like

Tall Girl: they used to be very, very cool with things. But then, you know, I talked to one of the guys I used to take the bus with. He was 16 underage, had stolen his dad's car, went to some party, got home like, got caught driving home drunk.

Tall Girl: The cop followed him home, and was just like, Have a good day, sir, and, like you know.

Busy: You don't.

Tall Girl: Well, he made oh, sorry, no, he made him. He gave him a Jerry can park. The car in front of the house made him walk to the gas station to get gas, because apparently Pumps didn't used to be locked back then, so he had to top off his dad's like gas tank, so his dad didn't catch him like the cop made him do it, and I was like.

Tall Girl: we live different lives, sir.

Tall Girl: he must have got to high school in the seventies, and he was just. I'm like, so wait a minute. You got caught drunk driving, and the cop just like escorted like, followed you home, and then helped you not get caught by your dad so you wouldn't catch a beating.

Tall Girl: What a different life you lived, sir.

Busy: Yeah, I think back when going into the city and the cool, you know what not cool. But one of the things you might do is go down to Canal Street to get knock off purses and look what the hell was I thinking? Just getting into a van with somebody.

Tall Girl: You an unmarked U-haul, or like that sub basement.

Busy: To the sub basement.

Tall Girl: That has a wall into the next building, that you're never going to be found again.

Busy: A minivan where only one of us at a time can go in there so like.

Busy: Stay on the street, and then you go in the car and the door shuts. And do we have any thoughts like maybe you will be taken. Maybe something horrible will happen besides getting a fake.

Busy: You know it's fair, so.

Tall Girl: You also rocked a fake fendi, and you were like, I am rocking a fake fendi. I paid $22 for this fake. You were not trying to make

Tall Girl: that there was a source pride in that, like the plastic started to break.

WellReadHead: It was 100 a sense of like I did this thing right. And I'm and I'm cool because of it.

Busy: Correct. It wasn't just it like people might say, Oh, but you have a fake purse. Yeah. But I went into New York City, and that was the flex

Busy: by myself.

Busy: Like I met them in a train like I look at some of my my younger cousins or my nieces and nephews, and I'm like

Busy: I don't wanna leave you alone in your front.

Busy: you know. Lawn, let alone put you on a train into New York City with no form of like trackable. And okay.

WellReadHead: Yeah, no, never know cell phones. There were no like.

Busy: Id.

WellReadHead: And if you did, you had a have a cell phone, or you. Your family was well off.

Tall Girl: You also weren't calling your parents to be like Hi! I'm in the warehouse district of the Bronx. Do you want to come? Get me.

WellReadHead: No.

Tall Girl: I will walk home. My Doc Martens will wear out through the bottom. I will walk through the Lincoln tunnel. I will risk certain death. I will not call you, no matter what.

Busy: And we didn't call at that point, it would have been a too expensive, so they would have been a do you? Do you accept the collect call from I'm I'm ready to come. Pick me up

Busy: like where you know you do. The the call.

WellReadHead: Collect Calls.

Tall Girl: Oh, you never did that! Oh, calling! Because.

WellReadHead: I did.

Busy: When you could. We weren't gonna be using text and and call minutes. Are you crazy? We don't have that kind of money we don't have. We have cell phone minutes at home, and you would call, collect.

Busy: And you're like, this is a calling from.

WellReadHead: I'm ready come, pick me up.

WellReadHead: Yeah, as quickly as quickly as you could. Say it.

Busy: I'll meet you by the gym.

Busy: and then your parent would be like okay and then click,

Busy: we we didn't have cell, phone money

Busy: you must have confused with somebody else.

Tall Girl: No, we would call once, just enough for Caller Id to come through. And then it was like, Okay, they knew what to do or where to go. So it was just like we paid for that 30 seconds of a cell phone call.

Tall Girl: Kids in their unlimited minutes nowadays will have no idea.

WellReadHead: No weekends, and with free nights and weekends. Afternoon. Oh, my God!

WellReadHead: Mci!

Tall Girl: I like my entire family is international. So it was like 7 o'clock. It was like we must be dinner with, but be done with dinner by 7 o'clock, because that's when the communication will start for our family, because, you know.

Busy: Or free in network. So if I call Verizon to Verizon, it's free.

Busy: But if I call Verizon 2.

Tall Girl: Dude ringtones when people's ringtones, realities.

Busy: How we.

Tall Girl: You had to sit through 45 min of a Van Halen solo.

WellReadHead: Just to talk, to.

Tall Girl: Somebody, because, like Nope

Tall Girl: like, ask what is your favorite band, and what is your ringtone? Because I'm I'm not calling you for 18 rings, just so you can listen to your favorite damn song.

Busy: Or wasn't there also the ring back where you your ringtone, you might have something but what I hear calling you, instead of just the ringing.

Tall Girl: We used to pay for music in order for people to call us to pay, to talk to us like.

Tall Girl: Try to explain that to your godchildren one day like But what do you mean? Like? Unlimited calls like? No, no, no! There was a time when every text message cost. There was a time when every phone call cost and like you would take your phone out like you were the most important person on the earth like I have a call. Somebody in this earth wants to speak to me. I have a phone call.

Busy: And add that.

WellReadHead: Your nokia flip phone.

Busy: The flip phones. I miss.

Tall Girl: Didn't have the Nokia I had.

Tall Girl: But that was also like your personality was your phone, because there were like 50.

WellReadHead: Oh, yeah.

Tall Girl: And some makes and models.

WellReadHead: Yep.

Tall Girl: Like. There was a little squad of the Nextel girls, but otherwise everybody else, like everybody, had a different.

WellReadHead: Nextel, Alltel.

Tall Girl: Had a different.

WellReadHead: Nope.

Busy: And then, when you got a week.

Tall Girl: Used to wear them on a clip on our belts or tucked into our bra, because we wanted to make sure we were going to get breast cancer like.

Busy: Hey! What was that?

Tall Girl: Choices we made.

WellReadHead: You used your bracket for your cell phone.

WellReadHead: Oh, yes, yes, I mean anything went in there that you needed.

Tall Girl: No, but like you wanted it, you wanted it to be seen. You wanted it to be.

WellReadHead: Yeah, like, if you had the flip phone, you would clip it over the top of your shirt or something like that. So everybody knew that you were cool.

Tall Girl: Like people want to communicate with me like, I'm sorry I just. I need you to know people like to communicate.

WellReadHead: I'm so important that I have a cell phone.

Tall Girl: What do you only communicate at home on a landline? Ugh!

Tall Girl: You caveman, you unloved, uncommunicating caveman!

Busy: All the texting that you had to do you had to commit. If you wanted to write.

WellReadHead: T. 9. Word, my friend Yup, if you, if you wanted to send a text message, you had to be committed to that text message. None of your qwerty nonsense.

Busy: And if you and you better pay attention, because if you forget, if you miss the letter, you have to go back 4 more spaces just to get to where you needed to.

WellReadHead: 5. If you're trying to type an S or a.

Busy: See.

WellReadHead: T yeah.

Tall Girl: No absolutely awk like oh, my God! The fact that we had so many like.

Busy: Love, this call.

Tall Girl: Away from keyboard, away from keyboard.

Busy: Use it in real life like awk, like, I, yeah, at that.

Tall Girl: Oh, my God! LOLL. LOLZ.

Tall Girl: Please don't.

Busy: I mean, I hope.

WellReadHead: My goodness.

Busy: I don't think it was too too bad compared to what I know is doing. We're doing, and

WellReadHead: I will be honest. I was a good kid.

Busy: I was, too like I didn't like.

Busy: I didn't do crazy. All right, tall girl. We'll just skip because we know the truth. There.

Tall Girl: I was a well-behaved miscreant.

Tall Girl: I just

Tall Girl: I was well behaved. I just didn't like my teen years. I wanted out. I wanted to be an adult as quickly as possible, like

Tall Girl: school is just like, Can I skip to college now

Tall Girl: like I mean, I had fun, and I did the things, but it was also just like, Do you know, there's a world where soon we'll have our own money, and we can make our own choices. And like this.

Tall Girl: this will be done.

Busy: Go back to being a child, and then no responsibility, and and all that stuff.

Tall Girl: No, no, I like this, just, you know, if I could get my parents to pay my bills.

Busy: Oh, okay.

Tall Girl: Work will be done at 3 o'clock every day, and then you'll have like an hour of homework, and then just the rest of the day is yours.

Busy: Shows of like, you know.

Busy: Alright.

Tall Girl: Like, oh, we're gonna sign you up for dance class in ceramics now, and you're gonna hate it like

Tall Girl: put me in a Tutu coach like I got this like, oh, no forced activities.

Tall Girl: Can you imagine if somebody was just like Hey, you know what I signed you up for? Piano lessons like, Oh, okay.

Tall Girl: that's not gonna the way I fought the violin the way I fought the violin.

Busy: Apparently my mom wanted to put me in piano, but there's a possibility that I'm stubborn.

WellReadHead: I can't believe that for a second.

Busy: Yeah, it's I think she's. It must be like she must be losing her memory.

Tall Girl: Kids up for instruments. They get what they get, because then you have to like, listen to twinkle, twinkle little star badly

Tall Girl: for a year, like, yeah, fine fine. I'll play this instrument, enjoy.

WellReadHead: But yeah, I I honestly, when I think back on it, I am incredibly grateful for most of my

WellReadHead: cringy years.

Tall Girl: It's not so much cringe because it like

Tall Girl: as much as people hate it like where you landed in high school kind of taught you how to survive. Like I went to a very small high school. People were incredibly mean.

Tall Girl: but it like really prepared you for real life, because if you survived high school. It was like, Oh.

Tall Girl: this! This is fine, like everything I did to sneak out. And now it's like, Oh, I can just leave my home like everything that led up to. I'm like I wouldn't go back like I'm not one of those like. Oh, I wish I could relive, you know sophomore year of high school like absolutely not.

WellReadHead: No.

Tall Girl: Those were not my glory days. Those were not my glory years.

Tall Girl: I think time is wasted on the young like they just don't appreciate like you used to have all these hours in your day that were just like free time.

Tall Girl: No responsibility time like I'd like that back. I don't want to be 17 again ever. No.

Busy: I don't necessarily want to go back to that. I would like the those

Busy: friends that you made in those years being able to live in a drivable distance, remember thinking, Oh, my God! They live

Busy: 15 min away or 2 towns over, that's so far. And now

Busy: I have, you know, friends in different countries and different hemispheres. And it's

Busy: it's like, all right. Let's coordinate you to coordinate a time so that it's not too early for both. So like I miss like that flexibility of everyone being close by.

Busy: so.

Tall Girl: My high school was incredibly small. I think we graduated with 123, so like from grade school on we were together we had to learn to get along, even if we didn't like each other. Even if we weren't within each other's clique. There was this like, we will survive together thing. And nowadays it's like, you know, if you don't perfectly align with me

Tall Girl: on 99 levels, we can't be friends, kind of thing, whereas it used to be like you do, you and I do me, and we just have to coexist kind of thing. And I'm like I miss that element.

Tall Girl: because nowadays I can only associate with people just like me.

Tall Girl: No life is more interesting when you're kind of forced to deal with everybody.

Tall Girl: even that guy who was like, Oh, my God! This band is the greatest band ever and

Tall Girl: truthfully inside your soul was crying for having to listen to the stupid CD. For the 99th time.

WellReadHead: Yeah, I think not. Just having to deal with everybody, but also having to deal with yourself

WellReadHead: and being that awkward person that you are when you're your younger self,

WellReadHead: and how that ultimately leads you to

WellReadHead: the person that you are now

WellReadHead: like. I I really am grateful for the things that I went through, the things that I had to

WellReadHead: fight against.

WellReadHead: I think I wouldn't be who I am today without those things.

Tall Girl: I think our brains are kind, and they soften like. At the time I was sure I was gonna die of like firsthand embarrassment from whatever it was. And now I'm just like, yeah, okay. I wore body glitter a little bit too much like, you know.

Tall Girl: Choices were made glitter was used. It's probably still in my lungs to this day, but, like

Tall Girl: like knowing now how dangerous it is, like my godchildren, you have to scan your driver's license like they have student ids. You have to scan in like they cannot get into a club, and I'm like that is the greatest thing ever. But at the same time I'm like

Tall Girl: life was lived when I was definitely of an age where I should not have been in a warehouse in Brooklyn at 3 in the morning, like

Tall Girl: everything about that was just problematic.

Tall Girl: But it's, you know, like the fear you had at the time, or the embarrassment you had at the time, like your brain kind of softens it, and you're like I survived. Like Yay, I have the privilege of surviving, embarrassing, or whatever but like

Tall Girl: makes me appreciate life now, more.

Busy: Yeah.

Tall Girl: At the time when he broke up with me I would have thought I was going to die, and now it's like, Oh, my God, I went out with him.

Tall Girl: Why.

Busy: Are the patterns you can now identify that you didn't realize younger. You was doing.

WellReadHead: Yep.

Busy: Oh!

Tall Girl: Will say I grew up really quickly, like I quickly discovered, like high school. I quickly discovered the art wing, and I quickly discovered I wanted to be an adult. So like I skipped over a lot of that because I just the second the school bell rang. I was out.

Tall Girl: I don't know that I would want to go back and like be a cheerleader like.

Busy: No, nothing of that nature.

Busy: Alright, I think.

Tall Girl: Yeah, because I became stubborn and pretty much like this.

Busy: You too. This is so surprising.

WellReadHead: These these 2 stubborn people. I can't imagine why we're friends.

Busy: If only there was a 3.rd

Tall Girl: Hmm!

Tall Girl: That's probably. What do you think

Tall Girl: we would have been friends in high school.

WellReadHead: Yeah.

Busy: Yeah.

WellReadHead: 100%.

Busy: I think it would have been an automatic like

Busy: blend, because I don't think that's how we were as we became adults, friends later, I think

Busy: we would have been in different things.

Busy: Red and I may have met in the theater group.

Tall Girl: I was. Gonna say, you would have been theater kids, and I don't know. Outside of like art class being forced to paint scenery. I was like. I don't think we would have been in the same hallway.

Busy: But a lot of my, I had a lot of overlap in

Busy: theater. Not necessarily that if you did the musical or the play or something, but there was, you know, the performing arts, and and there was a lot of overlap in my high school, so I think it depends on the high school we were in, because my high school there was a lot of overlap that yes, a Jock was also into art, or was doing the show or was. And so there was a lot of overlap with that. So I think it depends on what the environment was.

WellReadHead: I think that's fair in my high school. If if we had all 3 gone to my high school, yes, we would have been friends.

Busy: Same for me, apparently. Tall girls. We may have been persecuted.

WellReadHead: Probably.

Tall Girl: It's okay.

Tall Girl: No. We were.

WellReadHead: We weren't saying that you would. We were just saying that in general it would have happened.

Tall Girl: No, like the theater wing and the art wing. It was just like the art classes were on one side and the theater were on the other, like we met in the hallway. But that was like

Tall Girl: that, was it? But like that was the wing for everybody who was like, yeah, not those.

Busy: Some- some of our classes. Some of the art is in a different building, and so

Busy: there was a studio across the hallway from it to like dance, and some of the stuff like that. So there was some kind of like arts in general.

Tall Girl: Where I grew up. Like every town, every 2 towns has a high school, so, like all of our high schools, were incredibly small, so most of the people I met had incredibly small school, like small high schools. So I didn't think about it. Years later, somebody I went to Uni with married somebody they went to high school with. And I was like, so do you guys date in high school? She was like, we never met in high school I was like, how is that possible? Of the 120 people I graduated.

WellReadHead: There are schools with thousands of kids.

Tall Girl: Like, yeah, city school. She was like, literally he was in building B. And I was in building A, and we never would have met, besides being on the same graduation floor, for, like they would rent out like giant stadium or something to graduate. She's like we never would have met, and I was like that. That blows my mind because I literally know everybody. I went to high school with.

WellReadHead: Yep.

Busy: Okay.

WellReadHead: Same.

Busy: Yeah, I went to a small private school for high school. My brother went to the local regional town high public high school.

Busy: So he had.

Busy: That's true.

Busy: I think there was 3 or 4 towns that were all together, so it was several 100 in there, each class.

Busy: So we had vastly different, because I had a graduating class under a hundred.

WellReadHead: 96.

Busy: Yeah, he had several 100 so completely different. But

Busy: I think if our high school had been the correct environment to.

Busy: we would have found our way.

Tall Girl: With each other.

WellReadHead: I tend to agree.

Tall Girl: How can we deny the magnetic pole.

Busy: Oh, see!

Tall Girl: Hmm, okay.

WellReadHead: Well, that's a wrap on today's episode. Join us next time when we discuss every group chat has a chat and a subject. Let me do that again. I missed a very key word in there.

WellReadHead: and that's a wrap on today's episode. Join us next time. When we discuss why, every group chat has a chat and a subchat.

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WellReadHead: See you next time.

Tall Girl: Until then stay sensible.

Busy: Or embrace the chaos.

WellReadHead: Preferably both.