<v Speaker 1>Jared Katy and Josh One hundreds.

<v Speaker 2>Well, if you look at the calendar, high school kids

<v Speaker 2>everywhere are starting to get a little bit stressed out

<v Speaker 2>about the P word.

<v Speaker 3>Pregnancy. No rom there was always one, you know, there

<v Speaker 3>was always one in high school. Anyway.

<v Speaker 2>It's prom, you guys, and all the stress that revolves

<v Speaker 2>around prom, getting a date, getting the limo, the tucks,

<v Speaker 2>where we going to dinner?

<v Speaker 3>Who's paying for all of this?

<v Speaker 2>And it seems like over the years the expectations for

<v Speaker 2>prom just keep getting bigger and bigger and bigger.

<v Speaker 4>Oh yeah, even just how you ask someone now has

<v Speaker 4>to be a huge production.

<v Speaker 3>Composals.

<v Speaker 2>Case in point, this guy named Brecon Andrews from some

<v Speaker 2>school in Kansas, Semen High School, the unfortunately named Semen

<v Speaker 2>High School in Kansas.

<v Speaker 5>Uh.

<v Speaker 2>He reached out to the Oscar Meyer Wiener Mobile, the

<v Speaker 2>people that run the Wiener Mobile, and he talked to

<v Speaker 2>Maggie Dawson, one of the people that run it.

<v Speaker 3>They're known as hot.

<v Speaker 2>Doggers, right, the people that So he reached out to

<v Speaker 2>a hot dogger asking if they could use the Wiener

<v Speaker 2>mobile for prom transportation high school.

<v Speaker 3>It's so bad.

<v Speaker 2>It is so bad anyway, they looked into the schedule,

<v Speaker 2>they worked things around uh brecon Andrew's prom schedule, and

<v Speaker 2>they said, yep, we're going to provide you free transportation

<v Speaker 2>to the dance. A lot of people take limos, but

<v Speaker 2>this year you get to just all pile into a

<v Speaker 2>giant hot dog for prom.

<v Speaker 3>How can you like?

<v Speaker 5>That?

<v Speaker 3>Is like the Pinnacles. That's the best right there. You

<v Speaker 3>can't top that.

<v Speaker 2>But anyway, you see that rolling into school and then

<v Speaker 2>you're like nobody, you know, showing up in your mom's

<v Speaker 2>you know, cavalier or something.

<v Speaker 4>I guess the Ghostbusters car doesn't worry any So I

<v Speaker 4>can't imagine being back in high school now as a

<v Speaker 4>student worrying about prom because you got to go.

<v Speaker 3>So because it's an Instagram world right now.

<v Speaker 2>Yeah, we had a mom reach out to us yesterday.

<v Speaker 3>Her name was Melissa. Hi, Melissa, good morning, welcome to

<v Speaker 3>the show.

<v Speaker 5>Good morning. You're the sweetest in the sea. Would you

<v Speaker 5>go to prom with me?

<v Speaker 2>Is that what you said back in seventy nine or something?

<v Speaker 5>And I graduated high school in ninety seven. It was like, yo,

<v Speaker 5>let's go to prom together? Cool Marle color Yeah, yeah, yeah,

<v Speaker 5>I'm really today. That's like a big elaborate spectacle. What

<v Speaker 5>about for the kids who are shy or are not

<v Speaker 5>into performative art. It's not genuine. There's social media expectations

<v Speaker 5>my proms. In two weeks I said to my son,

<v Speaker 5>have you asked yet? No? Bruh, I didn't have.

<v Speaker 3>A Well hold on, let me let me ask you something.

<v Speaker 3>Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.

<v Speaker 2>So Melissa texted us yesterday and said something about your

<v Speaker 2>son is having a difficult time coming up with his

<v Speaker 2>promposal idea?

<v Speaker 3>Was that the gist of it?

<v Speaker 6>Yeah?

<v Speaker 5>Man, we have to find a piece of cardboard first,

<v Speaker 5>let's do the first step here, what's the cardboard? Got

<v Speaker 5>the cardboard? It's about doing it in front of people.

<v Speaker 5>He's like, well, does somebody have to videotape it? Well,

<v Speaker 5>if you're on Instagram person, I guess. But it's just

<v Speaker 5>blown out of control. She's a sweet girl. She keeps

<v Speaker 5>talking about her dress to him. I'm like, that's her

<v Speaker 5>hint that she wants you to ask car true.

<v Speaker 4>Yeah, just absolutely absolutely. You don't need a choreographed dance

<v Speaker 4>to do it.

<v Speaker 5>Like no, it turned something fun and innocent into stressful.

<v Speaker 3>Did you see the latest post?

<v Speaker 2>There was these boys that went out and rented a

<v Speaker 2>giant U haul moving truck and they plastered big signs

<v Speaker 2>on the side of that and it said like, hey, Rachel,

<v Speaker 2>will you haul my butt to prom? So their big

<v Speaker 2>thing was that they rolled up in front of the

<v Speaker 2>girl's house in a U haul truck. And first of all,

<v Speaker 2>I don't know how did they even rent that to.

<v Speaker 5>Get to rent a truck?

<v Speaker 2>Yeah, but you're right, are you a gen you'd be

<v Speaker 2>gen X? Yeah, yeah, I'm right on the I'm at.

<v Speaker 5>The end of gen X and unnecessary.

<v Speaker 2>I graduated in ninety eight, and it was the same thing, Melissa,

<v Speaker 2>you know, more or less. It was just like it

<v Speaker 2>comes down to two weeks out and then you're just

<v Speaker 2>asking your buddies, like, hey, you got any single girls?

<v Speaker 3>Exactly they would go with me. That's all. It was

<v Speaker 3>by yourself.

<v Speaker 5>Yeah, I mean, I get some find it fun and creative,

<v Speaker 5>but it's exclusionary for people who don't have the time,

<v Speaker 5>the interest, or the money or the social desire to

<v Speaker 5>do this crazy thing. But my son's like, ma, why

<v Speaker 5>are you so mad about this?

<v Speaker 3>And I'm like it, I love your accent.

<v Speaker 4>I know you sound very like like you better listen

<v Speaker 4>to you.

<v Speaker 3>I'm waiting for you to say a cuss word, so

<v Speaker 3>don't say a customerd.

<v Speaker 5>My husband asked me how many times I was gonna

<v Speaker 5>be bleeped out.

<v Speaker 3>Let's not let's not do any bleep in he is Melissa's.

<v Speaker 5>I'm just glad he's already at school and not listening

<v Speaker 5>to this on his drive in.

<v Speaker 7>So what.

<v Speaker 3>Was his plan with the cardboard?

<v Speaker 5>Then he's gonna ask her. I don't know. I'm just

<v Speaker 5>backing up from it. I'm like, all right, let me

<v Speaker 5>know when you want to go rent to talks if

<v Speaker 5>there's any still available.

<v Speaker 3>He's just going a poster. He's just holding the poster up.

<v Speaker 5>Well, like some of them say things like you're the

<v Speaker 5>sweetest in the sea, would you go to problem with me?

<v Speaker 5>Like stupid stuff like that, or like I'm sweet on you,

<v Speaker 5>or I don't know what.

<v Speaker 3>Okay, I got one. I got one.

<v Speaker 2>I posted this the other day and this woman named

<v Speaker 2>Alexis wrote in. She's obviously graduated years ago, but she said,

<v Speaker 2>at the time, my boyfriend put salted nutbars glued to

<v Speaker 2>a big poster board sign that said I'd be nuts

<v Speaker 2>not to take you to the prom. She continued on

<v Speaker 2>the note and said, problem is I'm a severely allergic

<v Speaker 2>to peanuts.

<v Speaker 3>Oh no, like app pin level allergic. And he knew this.

<v Speaker 3>I still don't understand how he thought this was a

<v Speaker 3>good idea. And that was from Alexis out in Denver.

<v Speaker 5>I'm all about the pre chocolate.

<v Speaker 3>But come on, he'd be better off to put on there.

<v Speaker 3>You take my breath away, right if she's allergic to

<v Speaker 3>the nuts.

<v Speaker 2>Yeah, all right, Well, what's your son's name? Give him

<v Speaker 2>a shout out, Melissa.

<v Speaker 5>Come on EJ. If they're not Scian. Yeah, yeah, so

<v Speaker 5>he'll get it. He's gonna pull it off, he always does.

<v Speaker 3>We're gonna make this a podcast so you can share

<v Speaker 3>it with him later.

<v Speaker 5>We'll see about that.

<v Speaker 3>Is there anything you'd like to say to embarrass this morning?

<v Speaker 5>I just did in the last five.

<v Speaker 3>Minutes the air with us.

<v Speaker 2>You are a sweetheart, Melissa. Thank you for listening and

<v Speaker 2>thank you for writing us.

<v Speaker 5>I have a good day, guys.

<v Speaker 3>You by I swear I thought she was gonna drop

<v Speaker 3>an f ready for it? We talked, yeah, yeah, we're

<v Speaker 3>ready for We're ready for it. Jenessa wrote in and.

<v Speaker 2>Said, uh, back in the day, my boyfriend thought it

<v Speaker 2>would be relatable to do his promposal at Costco. We

<v Speaker 2>went in and he got down on one knee in

<v Speaker 2>front of the five dollar rotisserie chickens, pulled a little

<v Speaker 2>sign out of his pocket that said, you're a hot deal.

<v Speaker 2>Did you go to prom with me? She said, there's

<v Speaker 2>like thirty people watching. Somebody started clapping before I even answered.

<v Speaker 2>I said yes because I panicked. I'm looking back and realizing, man,

<v Speaker 2>this was stupid.

<v Speaker 3>That's that's right at my alley.

<v Speaker 4>Though, I'm not mad at that, and I get chicken,

<v Speaker 4>Let's go.

<v Speaker 3>Did you even go to prom? Katie?

<v Speaker 6>I did?

<v Speaker 3>I went North Dakota? Was it your uncle?

<v Speaker 4>Shut up?

<v Speaker 5>No?

<v Speaker 4>I went to prom with someone who wanted to go

<v Speaker 4>with my friend, but she didn't have good enough grades. Oh,

<v Speaker 4>he took me instead, and then he took me to

<v Speaker 4>super Pumper for a hot dog before the PARTNERNS. Yeah,

<v Speaker 4>and then we went super Pumper was the gas station,

<v Speaker 4>and then we went and then after the dance we

<v Speaker 4>went and sat around a campfire.

<v Speaker 3>And then we rode a moose.

<v Speaker 7>Sails every prom I could go to, Yeah, it was fine.

<v Speaker 3>I did all the promposals.

<v Speaker 7>I was like the first generation of everybody wanted there

<v Speaker 7>on TiO, on Instagram or Twitter at the time, and

<v Speaker 7>so we had to make big deals. I remember decorating

<v Speaker 7>all the cars, going all out. We did one on

<v Speaker 7>the baseball field. I did one in the lunch room

<v Speaker 7>where I did a skit with three other guys that were.

<v Speaker 3>It was horrible. It was horrible skit.

<v Speaker 7>Yeah, we did a whole skit of asking the women

<v Speaker 7>at lunch we had with this thing called the business Lunch,

<v Speaker 7>which was everybody was there at lunch, and we did

<v Speaker 7>it in front of everybody. The girls were so embarrassed

<v Speaker 7>and then they all said yes, but that was a

<v Speaker 7>good one. That was a good problem.

<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it was. Yeah, it was bad. I'm so glad

<v Speaker 3>we didn't have to do all that. Katie Dad to

<v Speaker 3>my buddy Jeff, I was like, Jeff had a girlfriend

<v Speaker 3>at the time. I was like, Hey, does your girlfriend

<v Speaker 3>have any single friends? Yeah? He's like, yeah, who was

<v Speaker 3>so and so? And it was like two days later

<v Speaker 3>I was with some random.

<v Speaker 4>Girl exactly again. I went with someone who wanted to

<v Speaker 4>go with my friend, like yeah.

<v Speaker 3>And we didn't have a super pumper at all.

<v Speaker 2>Hikim hi, Hi, what are your thoughts on promposals.

<v Speaker 3>Tell that dog to shut up.

<v Speaker 1>I'm sorry, I'm out walking, so I'll go on the

<v Speaker 1>other side. Hey, I think they're kind of silly, but whatever.

<v Speaker 1>But my son, who's now twenty nine, uh huh, he

<v Speaker 1>made his sister the promposal.

<v Speaker 3>What why do you make her do it? I can't

<v Speaker 3>get enough of those dogs.

<v Speaker 1>Yeah. She was a volleyball coat out at a school

<v Speaker 1>in eastern Colorado, and one of the girls played volleyball

<v Speaker 1>for her, and she thought it'd be cool for her

<v Speaker 1>to come to a big high school, Broomfield hide prompt.

<v Speaker 1>So she took blue cuts because Broomfield's colors are blue,

<v Speaker 1>and in the volleyball net put cuts and spelled prom

<v Speaker 1>question mark. And then she said, I have to ask.

<v Speaker 3>My mom yea and so, and then what happened.

<v Speaker 1>Then they were at a volleyball game watching the freshman

<v Speaker 1>team play a track crowd until stood up in the

<v Speaker 1>crowd until my daughter, hey, miss hons me. My mom

<v Speaker 1>said I could go to your brother's prom.

<v Speaker 3>And then what happened?

<v Speaker 6>And so she came with my daughter our house stayed overnight.

<v Speaker 6>They went to dinner for Macaroni Girl, and then they

<v Speaker 6>went to the gym and that girl had the best

<v Speaker 6>prompt of her life. And then what happened, not because

<v Speaker 6>if they stayed at our house.

<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Okay was no super pumper at all. That's what

<v Speaker 2>a great story and it was really fun.

<v Speaker 3>It was on the edge of my seat.

<v Speaker 2>Thanks Kim, really appreciate thanks for hanging out with Jeremy,

<v Speaker 2>Katie and Josh.

<v Speaker 3>Here Denver's mixed one hundred