High School War Stories + Shorts Need To Be A Required Length | Inside The Bus

Summary

Podcast Summary: Bussin' With The Boys – Episode: "High School War Stories + Shorts Need To Be A Required Length | Inside The Bus"

Release Date: August 7, 2025

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Introduction to "Inside The Bus"

In this engaging episode of "Bussin' With The Boys", hosted by Jack Cooper, the conversation kicks off with the introduction of the podcast team: Garrett, Mitch, Jared (jp), and their new producer, Matt Malone, affectionately known as Chopzilla. The episode delves into nostalgic high school memories intertwined with a spirited debate on the ideal length for men's shorts.

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High School War Stories

The hosts dive deep into their high school experiences, sharing a mix of humorous, heartfelt, and sometimes cringe-worthy stories from their formative years.

**1. Prom and After-Party Antics

Garrett recounts his high school prom experience, highlighting the competitive spirit of dance events:

“I took my name out of the hat because I was just going to use it. And that's how I did my promposal. Because they were like, okay, J.P. the question for everybody was if you could ask one person in the world any question, what, who would it be? And what would you ask them?” ([21:08])

Matt shares his experience of winning prom king and the subsequent heartbreak:

“It was One of my best friends who won it. So, like, it was kind of, like, weird, but it was also, like, I was cool with her.” ([27:55])

**2. Sports and Rivalries

Jared and Jack discuss their high school lacrosse and golf teams, emphasizing the intense rivalries and memorable games that left lasting impressions:

“We went 300 in the regular season for golf and lost by four strokes.” ([29:33])

“We were playing Mus because at this time, it's still a club, so we're playing private schools. And Mus and McCauley were, like, the notorious.” ([30:00])

**3. Embarrassing High School Moments

The conversation takes a humorous turn as Mitch and Jack reveal their less-than-glamorous moments involving substance use:

Mitch shares a story about getting high in class and the ensuing chaos: “And then they're like, now we got to pull you from class. Then they brought me to the guidance office and they're like, for some reason I have to fill out this essay thing as like the final thing.” ([37:21])

Jack narrates his attempt to hide smoking weed from his mother: “I got dropped off. Show up. My mom always knew if I'd smoked weed, and she always thought I'd get away with it.” ([35:11])

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Shorts Need To Be a Required Length

Transitioning from high school tales, the hosts engage in a lively debate about the appropriate length for men's shorts, advocating for a standardized inseam to enhance both comfort and style.

**1. The Call for Standardization

Garrett initiates the discussion by expressing his desire to ban shorts below a certain inseam at gyms:

“The ban that I put out there on my Twitter was as of I think the end of September, 3 inch inseam shorts will no longer be allowed at gyms.” ([02:31])

Mitch supports Garrett’s stance, although humorously admits his preference for shorter lengths:

“It's nothing that I will like stand 10 to. I just like 5 inch inseam shorts. But I'm like, I stand with you.” ([03:17])

**2. Personal Preferences and Practicality

Matt and the others share their personal preferences and the practicality of different shorts lengths:

Matt discusses his college shorts and the challenges of maintaining style: “But like, you can see, like if I'm wearing like black underwear, you can see through.” ([05:25])

Garrett appreciates the versatility in Mitch’s shorts choice: “Mitch is versatile with the short game.” ([04:02])

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Ranking the "Most Chop Humans"

Towards the end of the episode, the hosts shift focus to a fun segment where they rank their top three "most chop" humans. While specific rankings are saved for future discussions, the banter highlights the camaraderie and playful competitiveness among the group.

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Notable Moments and Quotes

• Jack Cooper on Producers:

  “Our producer Matt is eerily similar to a local Internet celebrity, Steiny of the no Boys.” ([01:32])

• Garrett on High School Gear:

  “We only got like one game on the school soccer field, which was garbage.” ([08:34])

• Matt's Heartbreaking Game Moment:

  “It was the Friday night soundtrack going in his head.” ([16:31])

• Steiny's Promposal Punk:

  “I was like, I'm getting punked, dude.” ([22:45])

• Mitch Reflecting on High School High:

  “I was so scared until some like that happened.” ([38:54])

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Conclusion

The episode wraps up with closing remarks, teasers for future segments, and a light-hearted exchange encouraging listeners to engage with the podcast's social media platforms.

“Put chopped in the comments.” – Jared ([47:53])

“Thanks for tuning in subscribe like follow us on all of our socials.” – Jack Cooper ([47:46])

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Final Thoughts

"High School War Stories + Shorts Need To Be A Required Length | Inside The Bus" offers a nostalgic journey through the hosts' high school days, peppered with laughter, lessons, and lively debates. Whether reminiscing about prom nights or debating the perfect shorts length, "Bussin' With The Boys" delivers relatable content that resonates with both current and past high school students.

Listeners new to the podcast will find this episode both entertaining and insightful, providing a glimpse into the personal stories and dynamic interactions that define the show's charm.

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps:

• Garrett on Shorts Ban:

  “3 inch inseam shorts will no longer be allowed at gyms.” ([02:31])

• Mitch on Supporting the Ban:

  “I'm like, I stand with you.” ([03:17])

• Matt on High School Gear:

  “I had to buy any susky gear you see me wearing, I had to buy.” ([04:39])

• Steiny's Promposal Experience:

  “I was like, I just got punked, dude.” ([22:45])

• Jack on High School Concert:

  “I look like 18 when I was like 24.” ([46:25])

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Transcript

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[Jack Cooper]

Welcome to the only pod that is not chopped. Inside the bus you have myself, Jack Cooper. To my left, Garrett, Mitch, jp, Jared, and Chopzilla himself, Matt Malone, our new official producer.

[Garrett]

Let's go.

[Mitch]

Congratulations.

[Jack Cooper]

Congrats on getting the job. We were discussing this earlier in the shop. Our producer Matt is eerily similar to a local Internet celebrity, Steiny of the no Boys. He's local.

[Jared]

Local what?

[Jack Cooper]

Local, local local Internet celebrity. I don't know, dude.

[Jared]

I'm just national, worldwide, international.

[Mitch]

He's in, yeah, Israel, but yeah, he is.

[Jack Cooper]

We've got some things to discuss. Today we might go over Jim's stereotypes.

[Jared]

Yep.

[Jack Cooper]

We are going to go over the appropriate length for men shorts and why there should be a universal length that is not sold in stores. We'll get to that and then maybe we're gonna rank our top 3 most chop humans that we can think of. But we'll save that for the end.

[Mitch]

We should mog a little bit and.

[Jack Cooper]

Matt, Matt will be God tier so he's not involved in that. But let's just get into stereotypes. Jp, I feel like you should lead this.

[Garrett]

Yeah.

[Jack Cooper]

You share a lot of passion behind this.

[Garrett]

The other day I was at the gym and I felt moved to try to try to take a national stance on a ban that I think needed to happen. And the ban that I put out there on my Twitter was as of I think the end of September, 3 inch inseam shorts will no longer be allowed at gyms. Then by the end of December, people that wear their hats like this, like Matt at the gym, will also be banned. And the response was pretty. Was pretty decent. I think a lot of people rallied around it. I thought about saying even 5 inch inseam shorts because they don't really fit for me. But I know a couple of people around the bus wear the 5 inch seam shorts, so I didn't want to.

[Mitch]

It's nothing that I will like stand 10 to. I don't have to argue. I just like 5 inch inseam shorts. But I'm like, I stand with you. If you said five inc. Ers were out, I would. I would even stand with you. I'd still wear them.

[Matt Malone]

But what's the reasoning behind you liking them?

[Mitch]

Truly just like anything longer. Like, because I've owned other shorts too. I just feel like I look goofy in. And that's like literally it.

[Jack Cooper]

I don't feel good.

[Mitch]

No, I'm saying anything longer than five.

[Jack Cooper]

Oh, you do feel good.

[Mitch]

This is not.

[Matt Malone]

I just get a large.

[Garrett]

Right.

[Mitch]

But this isn't a take. I'm willing to be like, you should like. It's just like I like them.

[Jack Cooper]

Yeah.

[Mitch]

But.

[Jack Cooper]

Well, that's what I was saying earlier. Like they're pretty short. I don't know why. Six inch inseam shorts are not a universal thing. It goes five and then seven and then they have even eight for like the and one players.

[Mitch]

Target have seemed.

[Garrett]

Mitch for me, Mitch is versatile with the short game.

[Matt Malone]

I have. I have plenty of different.

[Jack Cooper]

What are you at today standard today? Those are seven.

[Mitch]

They're usually to his shins.

[Jack Cooper]

Are those seven?

[Matt Malone]

I don't know. These are just a large. I don't buy.

[Jack Cooper]

Oh gee.

[Matt Malone]

Yeah. I don't buy shout outs. Get a large.

[Jack Cooper]

Yeah.

[Mitch]

Or whatever.

[Matt Malone]

But like the one, the. The one pair of shorts that we're all talking about that are like. And one.

[Garrett]

That Those are.

[Matt Malone]

Yeah, those. Those are from college. They were like, like our team store. Like you had to buy them just kind of like, you know, they had like susky on them.

[Jack Cooper]

Did you have to buy them?

[Matt Malone]

Yeah.

[Jack Cooper]

Played football for the school.

[Matt Malone]

Yeah, I know. So D3. Crazy D3. They can't give you any like clothes or anything. So for Susquehanna we got two T shirts and two shorts. And those were what we worked out in an orange and a maroon. And they had your number like back here. So you had to buy any susky gear you see me wearing, I had to buy.

[Jack Cooper]

That sucks.

[Matt Malone]

Susquehanna coach Perk. You should give me gear. Because of the amount of updated gear would be nice. Because I'm wearing. I'm wearing the stuff all the time. Like you're getting free publicity. I know you guys use me for recruiting. Like shout out. Shout out my jersey right over there. Big one four. But yeah, I need new susky gear. But yes. My. Those shorts that are down to my knees.

[Jared]

When are you gonna put those in the rafters?

[Garrett]

Never.

[Matt Malone]

I love those shorts. The only thing that, like, I was gonna say the only thing that sucks about them because you guys think the length sucks. I like it. But like, you can see, like if I'm wearing like black underwear, you can see through.

[Jared]

Yeah, I was gonna say if you're wearing no underwear, then you can just.

[Matt Malone]

Hanging brain.

[Jared]

That's a long hanging brain. No shorts.

[Garrett]

It's fire though, dude.

[Jared]

11 inch.

[Matt Malone]

Dude, they're. They're legitimately down to like here.

[Jared]

Dude, they're not even like those might be. They're not only down to there. They're like balloon pants.

[Matt Malone]

They're baggy. Yeah, they're so comfy.

[Garrett]

In high school, I think it was either my freshman or sophomore year doing summer workouts. We were, all of us were so stoked to get our shirt and shorts that we were going to be wearing. And bro, I was like one of the last people to get them. And so I had some XL shorts, but even then I was like, yo, this actually goes so hard. I probably look so we had, we.

[Jared]

Had a similar thing at Mars Hill where we got our workout gear. You got your practice gear, sweats, but everyone got an xl.

[Garrett]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Depending on your height, size, universe. I mean, if you were like one.

[Garrett]

Team, one dream, dude.

[Jared]

We didn't have like a massive guy on our team weight wise. But like, everyone got Excel. So we had some dudes that are like five six, five, seven rocking long ass shorts.

[Garrett]

Kind of goes hard in lacrosse.

[Jared]

It was so. I mean, guys would end up just rolling them. But like, my sweats were xl and then if you practice and it was snowing or raining, it's so heavy.

[Matt Malone]

Yeah.

[Jared]

And you're just like, you know, the whole idea, our coach said, was like, you wear heavier gear. Like when you practice on game day, you feel a little lighter, right?

[Matt Malone]

Yeah. I mean, my favorite pair of sweatpants I have are like these black pair that I've had since like freshman year of college. They are baggy as hell. Like, I don't even wear them into the shop because they're like the heel and like the leg is Just starting to get frayed and stuff. And I know I'll just get worked for having them wearing them. But I love this. I love like cold day.

[Jared]

Please wear it.

[Matt Malone]

All right. Like how Jack loves like baggy T shirts and like baggy sweatshirts. I like that. But like, for like sweatpants and for like sweatshirts and stuff like that, I just want to be like, like a.

[Jared]

Skin tight tee and then baggy pants.

[Garrett]

He likes the viral dance videos on Tick Tock and people are in those dance studios and they have the baggy.

[Matt Malone]

I think those pants.

[Mitch]

I do like baggy pants, you know. Y' all know those brown pants I wear that are literally like triple xl. God, those are so comfortable.

[Jared]

Are they actually triple xl?

[Mitch]

No, they're. They're actually like my size, but made to look like that. But they look like buddy Sammy bought.

[Jack Cooper]

You five XL pants recently. It's like this guy who like sells them.

[Mitch]

And what do you do at the waist?

[Jack Cooper]

Fire. I think it's got a drawstring on it.

[Mitch]

Okay. So that's how mine is huge.

[Jack Cooper]

And then he wears. He pairs it with a 5xlt. He's like. I mean, he's average sized guy.

[Jared]

We might just slam me.

[Mitch]

I might have to hop on this.

[Garrett]

It's equipment issue day in high school. Not one of the best days, though.

[Jared]

I didn't have it.

[Garrett]

Really.

[Matt Malone]

What do you mean you didn't have it?

[Garrett]

Like, I'm talking about you. You just get like your jersey. I mean, stuff like that.

[Jared]

Yeah, I mean, I guess that was fun. And like, getting your practice penny was fun, but you just walked into your.

[Matt Malone]

Locker room and your equipment was.

[Jack Cooper]

Oh, we have no locker room.

[Jared]

We work. Lacrosse was a club sport. Went to state. What up?

[Matt Malone]

So you had to buy your gear.

[Jared]

Literally. The private school in Memphis, he steps.

[Jack Cooper]

Outside the box and beat the.

[Jared]

What do you do? Oh, I thought he was talking about Matt.

[Jack Cooper]

No, no, Matt Richardson.

[Jared]

Don't get me on that, dude. Hey, you don't have to do your job.

[Jack Cooper]

And so Matt just tried to speak. Yeah, he's our producer. But you're not supposed to stop just because you're full.

[Jared]

But yeah, no, we didn't have it being a club sport. Our coach, club sport. Had a. We only got like one game on the school soccer field, which was garbage.

[Jack Cooper]

Got arrested the day before.

[Jared]

Yeah, it was kind of tight. Ran from the cops. It was awesome.

[Garrett]

What'd y' all do?

[Jared]

Exhilarating. Just at a house party.

[Steiny]

Are you wearing my autograph helmet?

[Jared]

And then for golf, they didn't like, they didn't give you golf clubs.

[Garrett]

Yeah, but they give you like the polo or.

[Jared]

No, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Matt Malone]

For. I mean, in high school, like going.

[Jared]

To get your helmet type shit.

[Matt Malone]

Like going to the, like getting your helmet and stuff for football, it's like, oh, like, yo, which one am I gonna get?

[Garrett]

I had a horrible helmet.

[Matt Malone]

I.

[Garrett]

My shut bucket.

[Matt Malone]

We didn't get. We didn't get like the speeds until my junior year. We only had so many. And like, they just gave the speeds to like the players that they knew were. I. I don't think I got one my junior. No, I did. I did get one my junior year, but like, we only had like 10. So. Only 10 guys got them. Yeah, that senior year we would get more. Same thing happened in college. I. We get the speed. We had the speed and then the flex with like that little thingy on the forehead.

[Jack Cooper]

They only did you wrap in high school.

[Matt Malone]

The. Yeah, the Nike Vapors fire.

[Garrett]

I still hall of fame clothes.

[Matt Malone]

Maybe number one, the white ones I still wear for flags Today we might.

[Jared]

Have to do that as a inside the bus graphic. Like, cleat. Like pick your favorite cleat.

[Garrett]

Dude, we should all wear our cleats for an episode.

[Jared]

Click Clack.

[Matt Malone]

Just. Just come in like a full uniform.

[Jared]

Who was that kid in click Clack?

[Matt Malone]

A.J. hawk?

[Jack Cooper]

Clay Matthews.

[Garrett]

Click Clack was like.

[Jared]

That was a black kid.

[Garrett]

Yeah, it was. But what I thought like Vernon Davis. Didn't he do it?

[Jared]

It was the Under Armour commercial, right?

[Garrett]

Yeah.

[Steiny]

I don't even know you're all talking about.

[Jared]

Yeah, I think it was before you were born.

[Matt Malone]

I know. A.J. hulk.

[Garrett]

Oh, you know the brand. Under Armour.

[Steiny]

Yeah, Under Armour.

[Matt Malone]

Those were the cleats too, that we had. The spikes you had to twist in and out the papers. Yeah, no, no, the Under Armor. Oh, no, that was like the whole click like thing because you, you get that tool and you like.

[Garrett]

Yeah.

[Matt Malone]

Crank them in and then you like, you replace them and you just get these like.

[Jared]

Oh, for like.

[Matt Malone]

Like you just get these two inch plugs that will just pierce a hand if you step on somebody.

[Jack Cooper]

I had insane like high top Under Armour cleats in high school. Yes. The like, yeah, like, literally as tall as my socks are. And they were, they were honestly kind of nasty.

[Matt Malone]

They were like. I remember some, some of my buddies got them and they're like, yo, those are fire.

[Jack Cooper]

Especially for lacrosse where it's like, they already expect us to be douchebags. It's like, let's just take it up a notch.

[Jared]

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Garrett]

I was always Adidas, naturally.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Jack Cooper]

I still wrap those Adidas cleats from asu.

[Mitch]

Yeah, they gave us.

[Jack Cooper]

They're actually fire.

[Matt Malone]

Yeah, I had the, like, zeros that were like 6 ounces or whatever.

[Garrett]

Maybe those are the fast.

[Matt Malone]

But like, they. They were so uncomfortable.

[Jack Cooper]

Yeah.

[Matt Malone]

And I'm cutting it. Cutting in them. And like, you feel like your foot's about to just go through it. But I see Jared has his mic down because he can't really talk about cleats.

[Mitch]

Yeah, you.

[Garrett]

You do have a funny, like, bro.

[Jared]

Has the best kicks in here. Probably.

[Garrett]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Most expensive.

[Garrett]

But looking back, you do have a funny high school story of when you were on the track team.

[Mitch]

Oh, yeah?

[Jack Cooper]

Did I.

[Mitch]

Am I not told down here?

[Matt Malone]

No.

[Mitch]

I mean, it's a second story because that's the. The. My track career, I just. I tried out. My dad's like a big runner. He y. Everything was fast except for me. My dad's like a big runner. So I was like, you know what? Like, I'm not playing football. I'm not doing this steps. I'll do. Yeah, rep steps. Slave the day. Shout out Mike Beeman. And he. And I was. I'll do the track team. Try it out. I think everyone makes it. It's mostly like football players condition. I don't know. We were like in sixth or seventh grade. We weren't even in high school yet. Go to all the practices. I'm like, by far the slowest guy. Like, I try out for the track stuff, and they're like, you're not doing that. So then I think, like, they decided I'd do some long distance thing. But then the. The time came for a meet and they're. I mean, it's a school. It's a public school system. We have a million buses. And I'm just like, oh, what time's the meet, coach? And he's just like, we don't have enough space on the bus for you. I was like, not enough space on the bus? Like, you got enough space on the bus? And he's like, no, like, the bus is full. And then so that happens. And I'm like, that's insane.

[Garrett]

Crazy.

[Mitch]

So then I just see my friends like, posting videos on the way. The track meet half empty, but, like, they had space on the bus. I know. Shout out Coach Flanders. He's like my friend's dad. I'm like, I'm close with the guy. And then I quit the team. And then like the next week, everyone got their gear. Like, y' all Were saying, oh, so I never.

[Garrett]

I got.

[Mitch]

Would I have gotten. I don't even know how teams work. Like, would I have even gotten gear?

[Matt Malone]

I don't even know for track.

[Mitch]

Like, they got, like, uniforms and, like, I don't know what they got. And also, it sweats.

[Garrett]

At our school, you don't get cut. Like, tracking, cross country, you don't even get cut.

[Jared]

You just don't compete.

[Garrett]

Yeah.

[Mitch]

So is that what I had? Like, I. Because he didn't say, like, you're done. He was just like, you're not coming to the meet, so you could have.

[Jared]

Showed up the next week.

[Mitch]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. I just quit because I was like, so I'm just. I can't compete.

[Matt Malone]

I was just running to run.

[Mitch]

I'm just running.

[Garrett]

Like, that's how you got into rap.

[Jared]

That was true.

[Garrett]

What, to rap? Like, filming rap music videos?

[Mitch]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was trying to figure out the connection.

[Matt Malone]

Yeah.

[Mitch]

Because I. Then I just did journalism. That was my next choice. And then that's what got me all.

[Jared]

Lacrosse conditioning because golf season was in the fall, and it was amazing. Oh, we ain't run into golf.

[Matt Malone]

Was your golf season. Did your golf season start before the school started?

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Matt Malone]

So it was done, like, first week of October.

[Jared]

It would go a little longer because of, like, regionals, districts, and all that kind of stuff.

[Matt Malone]

It's warmer down here, too.

[Jared]

We did have at least one tournament before school because we would get our lockers early. And then so many times I got to leave school early because of matches.

[Matt Malone]

Yeah, we are. Our golf team was, like, done. Because in PA it gets colder, like, first week of October, and then it's like, oh, yeah, we have a golf team. They're already done. But, like, they started two or three weeks before school even started, obviously because of the summer and stuff.

[Jared]

We were nasty my senior year.

[Garrett]

What's Yalls, like, most heartbreaking high school loss, Coop. Also, side note, I feel like y' all school probably had some drip for Christian.

[Steiny]

Yeah, I kind of.

[Jared]

What was your mascot?

[Matt Malone]

What were your colors?

[Steiny]

Red and black and we were the Cardinals.

[Garrett]

Oh, that's why you're a Cardinals fan.

[Steiny]

No, I mean, I didn't. I didn't play football when I was at Fourth Christian. I did at Keller, and they were whatever. But Fourth Christian had, like, your grades.

[Garrett]

Were bad physical, didn't go through.

[Steiny]

Like, they had, like, the.

[Jared]

They had, like, sick tests.

[Steiny]

We had sick, like, blackout uniforms. Like, the matte black helmet. Oh, like, we look. We look good. Like, Yeah, I was watching, but we look Good. We had, like, those Under Armour. Like, they almost look like Texas Tech.

[Jared]

Yeah, that old template.

[Garrett]

Yeah.

[Steiny]

Yeah, they look good because we were winning, right? I don't know what they look like now.

[Matt Malone]

I was in the locker room after a game for, like, two hours with, like, three of my buddies just crying after a game. It's my senior year.

[Garrett]

The Friday night soundtrack going in his head.

[Matt Malone]

Yeah, bro. It was like. It was our homecoming year. Homecoming year. Yeah, homecoming game. And it was like, it was against a team that, like, we should have kind of. We should have beat, obviously. But it's the fourth quarter, we're driving down, we get into, like, high school field goal range. Like, it was gonna. It would be like a 40 yarder. And we had like, one of my buddies on the soccer team was our kicker. So we had like, a soccer guy that could kick the ball pretty good. I was the holder. Go out there, I dropped the snap.

[Jared]

Oh, no.

[Garrett]

Tony Romo.

[Matt Malone]

Yeah. Didn't even give our kicker a chance. Like, the odds of him making it were so slim.

[Jared]

But that's crazy. Did you try and roll out and, like, hit foul deep or some.

[Garrett]

You already know he accidentally.

[Jack Cooper]

Wait, did you. Did foul go to the same high school?

[Garrett]

Might as well have just put that.

[Matt Malone]

But, like, so, but like, he didn't. Like, it would have been like, his longest make he's ever made. Like, even in practice. So, like. But I didn't even give him a chance to, like, try. So then we went into overtime and we lost in overtime. And I'm like, this is all my fault. Oh, the reason. The reason we're not going to go 500 this year is because of me. Like, was he mad at you? What?

[Steiny]

Was the kicker mad at you?

[Matt Malone]

I don't know if he was or not. Like, he probably still thinks about it, but. Yeah.

[Garrett]

Can you call him?

[Matt Malone]

No, I don't have his number. But we went into. Went into the locker room and I was just down there for, like, me, Alec and this other kid. We were down there for like two or three hours to the point where my dad had to come down. He's like, let's go, Mitch. It's time to. It's time to go. But it was. That was. That was my. It's heartbreaking.

[Garrett]

I feel you, man.

[Matt Malone]

Yeah. And then I went up and, like.

[Jack Cooper]

Wait, aren't you supposed to schedule, like, a knockdown team for homecoming? Like, a shitty team so you win because it's homecoming?

[Matt Malone]

It was supposed to, like.

[Jack Cooper]

So, like, not to, like, add insult to injury.

[Matt Malone]

For sure. It Wasn't like. It wasn't like a knockdown team.

[Jared]

They might have been the knockdown team.

[Matt Malone]

It was.

[Jared]

It was 500.

[Matt Malone]

Yeah, we were the knockdown team for other teams.

[Jack Cooper]

Oh, really?

[Matt Malone]

Like, the team that we were playing. Like, we. It was a good. It was like a good type of game.

[Jack Cooper]

You play both ways, obviously.

[Matt Malone]

No, actually, I. My senior year, I played safety, and I played the first game, and I didn't like tackling. And then my buddy's dad was our defensive coordinator. He's like, hey, I'm gonna take you off of defense. I'm like, that is completely fine. I'm all that. But I. But I was like a punt returner, kick returner, offense. So I did everything Holder.

[Jared]

Yeah. How'd you get that job?

[Matt Malone]

I don't know. I just hands. I just kind of did it a couple times. And I could also throw in case we wanted to do. Like, I punted for a couple games, too, in case we wanted to run a fake. Like, it was just. We had, like, 30, 40 guys on our team, and there was a point where we almost had to forfeit a game because we only had 26 healthy guys on our team. Like, we were. We were that bad. It was.

[Garrett]

Jerry could have suited up with y'.

[Matt Malone]

All. No, for, like, Jared probably would have played.

[Mitch]

I feel like our team was so big in high school. Yeah.

[Matt Malone]

All the guys. All the kids played baseball who we knew were athletes. Like, they could have played football, but they were like, no, I'm not trying to lose. And it's like, well, if you help us out, maybe we won't lose. Yeah, it was like, the entire school, like, low key, hated the football team because we, like, sucked.

[Mitch]

Did I.

[Garrett]

Our team sucked, too.

[Mitch]

Did I ever tell y' all about my. My most athletic moment against Rashad Bateman in high school? No, I didn't tell you about that.

[Jack Cooper]

I can't wait.

[Mitch]

Yeah, it's. It's fake. I mean, it's a real story, but it's all fabric. It's a. It's a real story. But so, like, y' all did any. Y' all do Young Life?

[Garrett]

Yeah.

[Mitch]

So I did Young Life. And there's, like, a pageant at the end of the year. It's like one guy from each grade. I don't really even know what the point of it is. Like, it's. I don't know. You compete, and it's like, you do these certain things, and, like, the talent show portion, I don't know why I decided. I was like, I'm just Going to get like, Rashad, like, because I think I was a senior. So he just graduated and he was in town, like, for Christmas. And I was like, hey, can my talent just be like, I beat you in every sport on stage. He's like, yeah. So then I just, like, dunked on him. I like, like, caught a ball over him. And then I got was being a makeover. I gotta, I gotta find if someone has a video of that.

[Garrett]

I'm about to say there has to.

[Mitch]

Be a video because, I mean, it.

[Steiny]

Was like, in front of it, just let this guy let me win.

[Mitch]

It was like some of the dudes, some of the dudes were like, actually trying talent stuff. I'm gonna juggle. Like, I know how to do this. And I was just like, I, like, walked up there, I was like, I'm going to beat Rashad Bateman in every sport. And I just did it.

[Jared]

You've had a more athletic moment since then, though, at dad Combine. You showed out.

[Mitch]

That was. That truly was like, now my. Is this what sports felt like?

[Garrett]

We all peaked in high school. Jared is currently peaking Ascending.

[Matt Malone]

Was your Young Life thing like your Mr. High School?

[Mitch]

No, I was that too. I was Mr. Tchs.

[Matt Malone]

Young life thing and Mr. Tchs were different.

[Mitch]

Yeah. Young Life is like a Christian group pageant, though. It was called, like, Mr. Christmas something. Yeah, I honestly wasn't that involved in Young Life. I don't even remember, like, I didn't go to all the stuff. They were just like, will you do this? Because they needed one guy from each grade. Yeah, I guess I was the man. Senior.

[Matt Malone]

Did you have like a mister?

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Garrett]

Mr. Eastside.

[Matt Malone]

Were you, did you compete in it?

[Garrett]

My sophomore year, I got this. All I got was Mr. Sophomore.

[Matt Malone]

We only did like, oh, so sorry.

[Garrett]

Actually, senior year, I did do it.

[Jack Cooper]

And homecoming king and queen.

[Garrett]

Yeah. I took my name out of the hat because I was just going to use it. And that's how I did my promposal. Because they were like, okay, J.P. the question for everybody was if you could ask one person in the world any question, what, who would it be? And what would you ask them?

[Mitch]

There we go.

[Garrett]

Boy. Said, I'll ask Samantha Hamill if she would go to prom with me.

[Jared]

Oh.

[Garrett]

She said, no, no.

[Matt Malone]

Like, prom poses is a good thing. Did anybody have any cool promposals?

[Jared]

Dude, that's a great only question.

[Mitch]

One thing.

[Matt Malone]

I, I.

[Jared]

And we left early.

[Garrett]

One prom was fire, bro.

[Jared]

We went to prom and left early just to go to the after party.

[Mitch]

Oh. Prom itself was Jack and I had so fun.

[Garrett]

Oh, no, dude, it was fine. We gotta fix Yalls culture.

[Jack Cooper]

I was a sophomore.

[Garrett]

That's why I would have went to Ravenwood.

[Jared]

We freaking invented the culture.

[Garrett]

I went to Ravenwood. What did y'.

[Jared]

All.

[Matt Malone]

What was your story, Coop?

[Steiny]

Actually, mine's not even a promposal. It's like a homecoming, like, asking.

[Mitch]

Yeah, mine was homecoming, too.

[Steiny]

Yeah, this. This girl, her name was Blair. Her dad was the coach for, like, one of our division rivals. Head coach. But she went to Keller, and, like, we were cool. So, like, I was gonna ask her to homecoming. Get the sign ready. Like, I'm with my boys. They're kind of, like, hiding off to the side. I go knock on her door. The door opens to, like, their whole football. Like, the rival football team. Like, they're having a meeting. It was like.

[Garrett]

Football is in Texas. That's even more scary.

[Steiny]

Yeah. And they were good. Like, they were better than Keller. They were good. The quarterback was there as the coach's son. Like, all the skills.

[Jared]

It was just a bunch of Tyler Murray.

[Steiny]

But they all opened the door and just, like, start laughing.

[Mitch]

Oh, my God.

[Jared]

I was like.

[Steiny]

I. I thought, like, we never heard. I thought I got stood up by my friend. Like, I thought I was getting prayed.

[Garrett]

Yeah.

[Steiny]

And it was bad.

[Jared]

And then.

[Steiny]

And I was like, is Blair here? And they laughed and went and shut the door, and I was like. I almost, like, just left.

[Garrett]

Yeah.

[Steiny]

So hard, like, off to the side. I was like, I just got. I just got punked, dude.

[Matt Malone]

And then she opened the door and was, like, surprised. What's happening?

[Steiny]

Yeah, she said, yeah, but it was like, it was still. Because I was, like, it was already ruined, dude.

[Jared]

Her dad opened the door.

[Garrett]

I'd have been so.

[Steiny]

I honestly think I would have rather her dad open the door. The whole, like, Fossil Ridge starting offense.

[Garrett]

Just laughing at you.

[Mitch]

That is.

[Garrett]

Dude, that's gold.

[Steiny]

Like, when you're like. I guess when you're, like, 13, 14, they're all, like, seniors, juniors.

[Garrett]

They're the coolest people in the world.

[Steiny]

They're not from my school, but, like, they're right.

[Mitch]

Even worse.

[Steiny]

I'm just like, these are like.

[Garrett]

Yeah, these are legends.

[Mitch]

Can I get your autograph?

[Matt Malone]

The one. The one I did. Like, I was in journalism, too, and I. Like, we had, like, our school paper, and for one, like, I was like, our May edition or April edition. It's like, hey, like. And I was suit. We were suit. Like, our journalism class was super, like, close. And, like, we were friends. I was like, hey, do we Mind if I ask Hannah to prom on, like, the back of the newspaper? So they went out, like, back pages. Yeah, we did it. And, like, it was. It, like, went out to the entire school. And, like, the entire school knew that I asked Hannah to prom. So it's actually kind of sick. And then another. Another time, Another time. This was homecoming, and it was still Hannah. I put, like. It was, like, super late, and I didn't really want to think of something crazy, so I put, like, homecoming on my driveway as we were coming up. And she saw it. No, I just spelled it right. Saw it. And she was like, is that how you're gonna ask me in homecoming? I'm like, yeah. She's like, that's bad. You gotta do it.

[Mitch]

Oh, my God.

[Matt Malone]

So I had to re.

[Mitch]

Ask her.

[Garrett]

Oh, were you dating her?

[Matt Malone]

Oh, yeah. We dated for, like, three or four years.

[Mitch]

This one girl sounds great. She's awesome.

[Jack Cooper]

Homecoming was just not a thing at our high school.

[Mitch]

Yeah, people if.

[Jack Cooper]

I don't even know if there was a homecoming dance.

[Mitch]

It was big.

[Matt Malone]

Did you guys have any dances at all prom?

[Garrett]

How. John.

[Jared]

I think we had, like, a freshman.

[Jack Cooper]

Year one my sophomore year, and then. I don't think. Think I ever. I don't think I went senior year, but I went with one of the girls.

[Jared]

Jack came with us. And it was year older, right? Yeah.

[Jack Cooper]

And, yeah, we wore fitted flat bills. Flat bills?

[Jared]

I mean, like, Baltimore Orioles under.

[Jack Cooper]

I had crazy long hair that swooped over. But, yeah, it was fun. You know, it's always cool being the sophomore because you see all, like, the slutty girls who are, like, just going after seniors. Yeah. It's like, I'm here too, but for different reasons.

[Mitch]

I'm an option.

[Jared]

Yeah, but it just wasn't, like, a thing for us at all.

[Jack Cooper]

No. Homecoming was not the standard for us. Everyone just was too cool for it. I think it was a generational thing where, like, over, like, the course of 15 years, every class was like, we don't do homecoming.

[Steiny]

This could be a dumb question. Was y' all's homecoming? Like, did y' all wear, like, the girls were the big moms?

[Mitch]

Like.

[Steiny]

Oh, that's what they were called.

[Jared]

Like, like.

[Steiny]

Yeah, like the big decorative stuff.

[Jack Cooper]

We did that.

[Mitch]

They just wore the. These, like, little.

[Steiny]

The boys would wear one on their arms. Y' all know what I'm talking about. I gotta show y' all what I'm talking about. It's called, like, moms and garters, I think.

[Jared]

Do we. That sounds.

[Mitch]

Dude, our school would make such A big deal. Like, literally, like, for every dance, we would. We, like, I wouldn't even prepare this much as an adult now. We would rent a party bus. Like, everyone would get hammered on this thing. You ride around for, like, because you rent it for, like, six hours. Ride around for, like, two hours and just, like, get drunk. Show up to the dance in high school. Yeah. Just embarrass yourself at homecoming or prom for, like, an hour. And, like, everyone else, like, thought they'd be too cool. Like, they'd go to the dance, like, try to look cool. We would just be, like, drunk and, like, just jumping around, like, actually, like. And the teachers liked it. They're like. They're actually like, we. We hired a dj. They're, like, enjoying the party.

[Jared]

And then, like, we would just call.

[Matt Malone]

In your breath, literally, the water bottle filled with.

[Mitch]

Dude, there's this picture of me. It was like when I was on prom court, or I don't know what you call it. Like, I didn't win. But it's like the. Like, when you all have to stand up there and, like, you have to show up at a certain time. I. I'm just hammered. Just drenched in sweat from riding on this party bus. And, like, my parents, like, I don't think they knew I drank back then. So I have a picture of me with my family, and I'm just like. My hair is, like, dripping on my face. I'm just like.

[Garrett]

That's when the eyes were born.

[Matt Malone]

Yeah.

[Garrett]

And it was just. And then you'd go.

[Mitch]

Then we'd rent a lake house after. Because there's, like, a Lake, like, 30 minutes away. Just everyone would stay at this house. It was the best parties I've probably still ever been to.

[Jared]

Our main goal for better than prom was to get to the after party.

[Garrett]

The late. Yeah, after. After prom was. Bro.

[Matt Malone]

My. The after parties I had for prom were ass. I got yelled at for three hours after one.

[Jack Cooper]

You're like, by your girl.

[Matt Malone]

Yeah, because I want prom.

[Jared]

You're gonna. Yeah.

[Matt Malone]

Yeah.

[Jared]

You can't have all wins.

[Matt Malone]

Yeah. I won prom king that night. And then. Which was. I was on, like, I was so happy. My girlfriend at the time did not win the one picture I have. Yeah, she. She was in the back.

[Jack Cooper]

All proms work.

[Garrett]

That's how I worked for.

[Mitch]

Yeah.

[Jack Cooper]

Like. Yeah, a couple.

[Jared]

No, no. There was a female winner, but she.

[Mitch]

Independent elections.

[Matt Malone]

Yeah.

[Garrett]

And then you have to slow dance with the other person.

[Matt Malone]

Yeah.

[Jack Cooper]

Yeah.

[Matt Malone]

It was like one of my.

[Jack Cooper]

We left. We're like, let's go.

[Matt Malone]

It was One of my best friends who, like. Who won it. So, like, it was kind of, like, weird, but it was also, like, I was cool with her. And then we went to the after party, and it really wasn't much of an after party. There was, like, 10 of us who just went to my buddy's house. They had, like, a bonfire.

[Jack Cooper]

No girls.

[Mitch]

No.

[Matt Malone]

It was all, like, the dates, but it was.

[Jack Cooper]

But we couples or five couples.

[Matt Malone]

It was like, five couples. And I was in the car for, like, after party, two hours.

[Jack Cooper]

She was a movie about that field goal.

[Matt Malone]

Just getting yelled at by my girlfriend because I didn't go up and celebrate with her. And I'm like, ha. I won. You didn't. Because I had people during.

[Mitch]

Dude.

[Matt Malone]

At lunch, like, during the week leading up to prom, I had people come up to me, like, I voted for you, but I did not vote for Hannah.

[Jack Cooper]

Oh. So she was like.

[Jared]

Was she not liked?

[Matt Malone]

Not very well. Which should have been. Which should have been.

[Mitch]

Hope you're doing good in your career.

[Matt Malone]

Yeah, she's probably not.

[Garrett]

Okay, dude, this one stood.

[Jared]

Go ahead. Go ahead, say it. No, we'll bleep it.

[Mitch]

No, she still follows me. No, it's like, we're still kind of friends. I can't say. Never mind.

[Garrett]

When you drop the field goal thing.

[Mitch]

Where you wanted to dance with.

[Garrett]

Okay, I'll make sure. Because I'll be your junior.

[Matt Malone]

So I was a senior, and it was.

[Jared]

We. I was about to say we quickly got through, like, the saddest, like, loss.

[Garrett]

Yeah. Have yours.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Jack Cooper]

Share the same one.

[Jared]

We share. We share the same one, but I'll let Jack take the. The one we share. But my senior year, we came in second in golf and state and lost the state championship in lacrosse.

[Jack Cooper]

Oh. Yeah.

[Jared]

We went 300 in the regular season for golf and lost by four strokes.

[Matt Malone]

Were you the number one?

[Jared]

Who, me? No. I was five.

[Jack Cooper]

Their golf team was cracked in high school.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Jack Cooper]

They were so damn good.

[Jared]

Yeah.

[Jack Cooper]

But at lacrosse, we. We played mus because at this time, it's still a club, so we're playing private schools. And Mus and McCauley were, like, the notorious. Like, they would just trade off championships. There had never been a public school to win the state champions. And we're up 12 to nine with, like, two and a half minutes left. All we have to do is literally hold the ball and there's a box. And I don't know if it's, like, after two minutes or something, but, like, if you step out of the box, it's like a Turnover back. That happens. They go down four unanswered goals and they win in the last, like, five seconds. And it's like no one gave a About lacrosse, which is rightfully so. This game, there was a ton of people there.

[Jared]

And it was at Father Ryan.

[Jack Cooper]

It was. And dude and one of our buddies, we were gonna go to their house, like, if we won, their parents like, y' all can party. And everyone's crying like, we're not doing it. And like, an hour later, we're like, all right, we're gonna go still.

[Jared]

And the day before. So, yeah, like Jack said, we were like the public school, like, repping. And the day before, we play Macaulay. And it's a tight game, and Jack actually had, like, a pivotal ass goal to get us to the state championship.

[Matt Malone]

That's one where he, like, dropped it.

[Jared]

Caught it, bro.

[Jack Cooper]

Damn. Mitch has heard this. And my little Redding.

[Jared]

And then we.

[Jack Cooper]

It's lacrosse.

[Jared]

That next day, I swear I was walking into that field and was like, no one can fucking stop us. And that day, up until those last couple minutes, they couldn't do anything about it. And then it was gone before you knew it.

[Jack Cooper]

I don't want to put blame on anyone.

[Garrett]

Oh, Garrett.

[Mitch]

He doesn't say his name.

[Jack Cooper]

No, I'm not even saying Matt Richardson.

[Jared]

I know. Oh, I know.

[Jack Cooper]

It's on Raw singles.

[Jared]

Foolish.

[Jack Cooper]

I love you, Ross, but we should have had Madden. He was a younger kid and he was a sophomore, but he was by far better. And he was tiny, but. Yeah, yeah, he was tiny, but Ross was a really big guy, but, like, he was a senior. It was like his last game. So I think the coach was kind of trying to be like, we had.

[Jared]

A Division 1 offered freshman goalie on our team or soft whatever.

[Jack Cooper]

I don't know. He was young, but if.

[Jared]

Matt, I swear, again, no disrespect, but if Maddie Ice was in goal, it wouldn't have even been close. Yeah, brutal.

[Jack Cooper]

And then we just got to school and they're like, yeah, lacrosse is gay still.

[Jared]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jack Cooper]

I'm going to prom still.

[Jared]

Yeah, that was tough because after that game, I had to go to my senior. What was like, your graduation party? Yeah, I had to go to mine after the game. After the game.

[Jack Cooper]

Oh, yeah. I definitely came too.

[Jared]

And I just remember, like, being in the car, like, I'm not going in, right? And I just remember Butch, like, giving me a beer and just was like, take your time. And I just sat in the car and just was, like, bawling my eyes out. It hurts that beer, dude.

[Mitch]

What was yours?

[Garrett]

We got. We got second place in state championship my junior year. And soccer. Yeah, it was brutal because we were out playing the other team, but we hit the post probably six times, and they had feel that they. I don't know if they had a single shot on goal. And with two minutes left, our center back, a ball gets played over top to nobody. And it takes, like, this weird bounce. And he goes down to, like, settle it with his chest or something and just handballs it in the box. With two minutes left, they score on a pk. When they're doing the trophy ceremony, like, nobody from our team goes to grab the second place one. So I go up there. I have a photo of me just like, I didn't solo. But, dude, the worst part, like, four weeks later, we're at my friend Jeff's house, and it's me, Jeff, Mitchell, and Mitchell's the one that handballed it. And we go. We walk upstairs, and Jeff's dad has a rerun of the state championship game going on in the last minutes, like, trolling Mitchell. And we all come upstairs like, Mr. Brady, what do you watch it? He's like, oh, my bad. You know, nothing turns it. Mitchell just sees it and just walks back downstairs. Because after the game, once we lost. The game was in Columbia. Mitchell tried to walk home from, like, the whole ceremony is going. I don't earn a ride on the other side of the fence. But we did. We won the next year. And I brought the second place trophy for a pre game speech. And I was like, y' all remember this feeling from last year? I was like, screw that feeling. And I tossed the trophy. The whole locker room just starts, like, kicking it, like, never again. And we won.

[Matt Malone]

Was Mitchell a senior when he.

[Garrett]

He was a senior, but he won state his sophomore year, so he does have a ring.

[Matt Malone]

So you won state? Twice.

[Garrett]

We lost. I wasn't on varsity my freshman year.

[Matt Malone]

Oh, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.

[Jared]

We lost.

[Garrett]

Junior year. One senior year.

[Jared]

I used to love going to our high school soccer game.

[Garrett]

Dude, the. The crowd is fun.

[Jared]

They were so good.

[Jack Cooper]

Great place, for sure.

[Jared]

Yeah, all the lights were off, but on the soccer fields, you could just.

[Garrett]

Yeah.

[Jared]

Hit some.

[Jack Cooper]

One time I did. I did smoke, and I. I think I was 15. Got dropped off. Show up. My mom always knew if I'd smoked weed, and I always thought I'd get away with it. And she's like, why are your eyes so red? And I'm freaking out, and I'm like, mom, like, so Defensive. Like, I'm like, I got hit in the eye with a water bottle in my head. I'm like, checkmate. And then she's like, so why are both of your eyes literally in my bathroom upstairs? And I just strip fully naked, turn the shower. And I'm like, get out. I'm taking a shower. I. She didn't say anything about it, but I'm just panicking the whole night. And so I. We. It could have just been put to bed. Nothing be said. I go downstairs for breakfast to go to school tomorrow, and I go. I'm like, watch. I'm about to double down. I'm like. I'm like, why are we so weird? Last night, mom, she's like, I know you're smoking weed.

[Jared]

There. There was a moment Jack and I had been smoking and I dropped him off at home or whatever, and I get this random text, like a weird amount of time after. That's like, why did I get. Why do I have eyedrops? And I'm like, I was getting set.

[Jack Cooper]

Up by my mom. Text Garrett. Yeah, because I literally made Garrett after. After that. Me getting the water bottle sickness. I. The next time, I was like, gary, you have to take me to Kroger. I have to have eye drops. And so I get him. I'm like, I'm good. And she finds the eye drops and she's like, you're smoking weed. I'm like, no. I'm like, I gotta hit in the eye with a water bottle.

[Jared]

Yeah, Jack, that text, I was like, this is either.

[Jack Cooper]

Garrett was so smooth.

[Jared]

I was like, I know what this.

[Jack Cooper]

Kathy. Yeah, that's when I started calling.

[Jared]

The way. The way the text came through, I was like, this is. He needs a. A life saving moment. He was like, literally, your eyes were itchy.

[Mitch]

Your eyes are.

[Garrett]

Jack.

[Jared]

The next day was like, thank God, Dad.

[Mitch]

Tell y' all about that thing when I was high in class and I got that scholarship. Oh, yeah, I didn't hear that one. This is.

[Garrett]

That is funny.

[Mitch]

This is like something on my. I don't even know if I want to say on here, but I think I might have told my parents, but either way, they know I've smoked weed before. We. We would just hit like, dad pins. Like, I didn't do them that often in high school, but we, like, had just hit one, which is just like, so high. And I'm not good with weed at all. I don't do weed at all anymore. I'm. They all know I'm so bad with weed.

[Jared]

You should do Weed again.

[Mitch]

I should try. Not should, because the. I had the worst experiences. But I did it in class or I was high in class. I don't even remember where we hit it. And I'm sitting there and I guess like I had applied for a scholarship recently. Like, I wasn't thinking about that. Like our door on the classroom has like glass around it where you can see the hallway. And you just see like principal, assistant, principal, counselor. Like, like maybe like a student aid or something is like recording like either on a phone or like a camera. And we're all just like, what the hell? And I'm. And me and my friends are bugging, right?

[Matt Malone]

What is going on?

[Mitch]

They come in, they're like, Jared Beam. And I was like, what is going on? And they're like, you won the whatever scholarship? And I was like, uh huh, yeah. And then we're all smiling and taking pictures. I'm just. Then I forgot who I've told this to. Then they're like, now we got to pull you from class. Then they bring me, they bring me to the guidance office and they're like, for some reason I have. I don't remember the details of this because this doesn't make sense. But you have to like fill out this essay thing as like the final thing. I don't know why. You already won it. And I literally just refused to do it. Like I was sitting in there with them. I'm like, I can't do it. And they're all sitting around me, like, literally just write like yada, yada, yada. Like, this is for like a sponsored fine princess.

[Jared]

We know you smoked weed.

[Mitch]

Yeah, and then I just didn't. And like I sat there for like 10 minutes. I can't do it. I'm sorry. And they're like, like, this is however much money. It wasn't anything crazy. And I just left that room, went to my dad's classroom and he's like, oh, congrats. I was like, no, that scholarship, I didn't win it. He's like, what are you talking about? I just went to sleep in his office. Yeah, I just like laid down his office. And then he, he had to have known what was going on.

[Jared]

I had a tough high at school moment too.

[Mitch]

That was my only one.

[Matt Malone]

Crazy to go to school high.

[Jared]

Well, I was in my mind. I was already there. Fun.

[Mitch]

I was so scared until some like that happened. It's fun when you're sitting in class and you're just like, like, what the hell? And then like, that's the Worst thing to happen.

[Jared]

Just everyone comes in, in the school parking lot for the whole class. And it was not even. Weren't even smoking weed. It was like K2, like here guys.

[Jack Cooper]

Here got geeked out on spring day, bro. Almost lost them entirely.

[Jared]

For real.

[Garrett]

I just remember flatlined.

[Jared]

I don't think I could have. It was only up from there. But literally go to this parking lot getting our friend's epic avalanche and Hot Box's car. And then I get outside, I'm like, dude, I feel insane. And I.

[Jack Cooper]

This is like synthetic you get from a gas, right?

[Jared]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jack Cooper]

It's not designed to sit on the.

[Mitch]

Ground for a 15 year old boy.

[Jared]

Because I'm like, everything's starting to like move really hard. And I. So I sit on the park on the concrete and lean up against the car. And behind our high school is Granny White Park. And the trees are just like violently like moving back and forth. And the guy I'm with like, Wendy, it's just probably, probably was the guy I was with was like weirdly like he'd be talking to me but like he'd be like right here and then he'd be like over there, dude, bouncing around. And I just was like, holy. Like what is happening? I thought I was like in this forever. And It'd been like 20 minutes.

[Matt Malone]

Wait.

[Jack Cooper]

But you gotta tell when you gotta go back in the school.

[Jared]

I had to go back in and the class period had ended and then spring day started. So spring day, like the second half of school was just like free for all.

[Garrett]

Yeah.

[Jack Cooper]

Roam around campus.

[Jared]

And I told, I told my teacher, I was like, I gotta go to the bathroom. She's like, dude, like it's the last beer before spring day. Can't you like hold it? I was like, no, like, I gotta go now. That's how that was like my outfit of the classroom. But I had to go back and I'm still just like faded as. And she and I are the only people in the hallway. And I'm like nearing her classroom and she was like, how the bathroom going? I was just like, wendy, I think my shit's in there. Like, I gotta get out of here. It was terrifying walking back in there. Everyone's outside. I'm the only student in the building.

[Matt Malone]

It's even spookier.

[Jared]

It literally felt like 21 Jump street when like the like eyebrows come down to a monster. I was just like.

[Garrett]

Solo in school. It's hilarious, bro.

[Jared]

It's so quiet and I knew where all my friends were. Half of them ditched and the other half are, like, outside playing soccer. Like, you're like, damn.

[Garrett]

They're so far away, dude.

[Jared]

It. It felt.

[Garrett]

So you needed a ride over there?

[Jared]

Asked Ms. Fugate. Hey. Oh, yeah.

[Jack Cooper]

She was a chiller, though, for sure. Could have been way worse people to run into in that hallway. Like Dan Winfrey.

[Jared]

Could have been Austin Winfrey's.

[Jack Cooper]

Yeah, he was the guidance counselor and football coach.

[Garrett]

Oh, was he head football coach?

[Jack Cooper]

Yeah.

[Mitch]

And he.

[Jack Cooper]

He did the same position every day during, like, class periods. He just stood like this, and he wouldn't say anything, and he'd just knock you and, like, that's it. And it honestly sucked for Austin. I mean, just to have your dad. Yeah, we in my class alone. The principal, vice principal, guidance counselor, football coach, all had kids in my grade.

[Matt Malone]

Sucks for them.

[Garrett]

Yeah, dude.

[Mitch]

My dad being teaching, it's, like, fun. It's just an out. Like, people just skip class and go sit. My dad.

[Jared]

What did he teach?

[Mitch]

Marketing. He just told stories.

[Garrett]

Marketing? Y' all have marketing?

[Mitch]

Yeah.

[Garrett]

What?

[Mitch]

It's like, we had pathways, shout out. Cta. That's who I went and spoke to when I went to my high school. Cte, C, C, T, A, E. Yeah, ctae. I think I said it too quick. It's like the career pathway.

[Jared]

None of those cool class.

[Matt Malone]

Yeah.

[Jared]

The only one I did was, like, Home ec.

[Mitch]

And I chose Homex, like, under it.

[Jared]

Yeah, like, we just, like, would around and, like, cook horrible food.

[Mitch]

That was one of them.

[Jack Cooper]

Now you'd have definitely done media for sure. Yeah. Because I did media all four years. My senior year, I was, like, an intern, so I got paid to do all the after school shoots.

[Garrett]

Yeah, that's how it should be.

[Jack Cooper]

And I, like, my last three periods were just in media, and then I had dual enrollment, so, like, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, I had first period English. Tuesday, Thursday, no first period, go straight in to PE2, second period. Then I have third, fourth, fifth period, actual academics. And then sixth, seventh, and eighth. We're all media.

[Mitch]

It's almost exactly what I understand.

[Jack Cooper]

Why smoking weed was fun.

[Jared]

We had. We didn't have PE2 my senior year. No, it was new going in.

[Mitch]

I just did, like, college and pe.

[Garrett]

Greenville county school system did me dirty. They got me behind naval.

[Matt Malone]

My school kind of sucked, dude.

[Mitch]

You know, one of the CTA CTAE classes is, like, early Childhood development. It's like learning. Like, I guess if you want to work in the medical field with kids, specifically, it's all about, like, babies. And when I went back to my high school to speak to classes. They like put me on the schedule to talk to one of those classes. I don't know why. Like, it was mostly marketing classes and media classes. And I go into one of my. All right, like, I'm like, who? Like, who in here is interested? Like a media. And like, no one raises their hand. I'm like, what class is this? Like early childhood development? Like, what the fuck am I doing?

[Jared]

Have like the little fake babies.

[Mitch]

Yep. And at the. Yeah, that whole thing. I didn't take the class, but yeah, they had to like carry it around and sucked.

[Matt Malone]

Did you guys have periods? Did you guys have blocks?

[Mitch]

We actually. We changed it.

[Garrett]

You had both?

[Steiny]

Yeah, we did like blog schedule two days during the week.

[Mitch]

What's better?

[Steiny]

I like blog schedule more.

[Mitch]

I honestly don't even know.

[Jared]

Four classes.

[Jack Cooper]

Periods are fire 55 or something.

[Mitch]

Is periods the quick one? Yeah, I like four.

[Matt Malone]

You had four classes a day and then like we had like a flex period. So it's like you had English, social studies, gym class, and then like something else. But every class was like an hour and a half long and flex grade was like 45 minutes. And then would it flip?

[Jack Cooper]

Like the next day you'd have your other.

[Matt Malone]

Yeah, so flex. Yeah, so it was like that and then like flex period. Whenever you had flex, you'd be getting lost. The day of the week would change, the day of the week would change. So like. Oh yeah. It's like flex period too. So you go back to your second block and then just do that.

[Garrett]

It was.

[Matt Malone]

It like it sounds, but like were just in the same classroom.

[Jack Cooper]

I just don't want to be in a class for two hours in high school, dude.

[Mitch]

Halfway through my high school career, two hour class either. So chilled.

[Jack Cooper]

Oh, like last minutes.

[Jared]

Like the. Who was the creative journalism teacher? He was also like a football coach or at least on staff. Can't remember his name. Super chiller. I cannot think of his name. It's going to piss me off. But we basically just watch movies all day, dude.

[Mitch]

My dad halfway through the block would just turn Shark Tank on.

[Jared]

We watched Blade one day in class.

[Mitch]

Being like, all right, here's your marketing for today. Kevin o'. Leary.

[Jared]

Jack and I saw one of the teachers at our high school at Bonu every year. And that was.

[Mitch]

That's hilarious.

[Garrett]

That's fire.

[Jared]

Yeah, that was a fun one.

[Mitch]

Seeing a high school teacher in the wild while you're in high school is.

[Jared]

So you might have to tell the Mike Bean story, bro.

[Jack Cooper]

My first concert I went to is Bas Nectar. If you're not familiar with bass nectar. Like heavy.

[Garrett]

Like especially we were in high school. I feel like they were doing a tour cuz so many of my friends.

[Jack Cooper]

I was 15. It's a place called Limelight. Rest in peace. Limelight. It's right next to the Titan Stadium outdoor concert. Back then the IDs, you could cut out a number from the phone book and then it matched perfectly with the font and color of your id. So like, as long as they didn't actually pull it out, you could pass. So like it was 18 up concert. I looked like 18 when I was like 24. So like, do math. 15. They're like, who are you? I get in, I'm having fun, and I run into my head coach that's like my lacrosse coach. And like the next day I like go to practice. But at the thing, it's like one of those stare downs. Kind of like Garrett and his English teacher in the hallway. And we're. I'm like, I'm. And then in his head, I'm not realizing. He's like, I'm.

[Garrett]

Yeah.

[Jack Cooper]

And then he comes up to me and he's like, we're not gonna talk about this, right? And I was like, nope. And then in my head I'm like, damn. I kind of have him cornered. He's not even realizing that I'm 15 here.

[Garrett]

Like, so this is what leverage is. Yeah.

[Matt Malone]

Literally shout out, yeah. My one teacher, Mr. Herzler. He's the man still. But like, I still. I've actually just texted him earlier this week. He would just be like, yeah, we would always go hang out in his class, like before school started. And he's like, yeah, I mean that. My friends had a. Like, he called like, getting drunk and going out like a wine party. So we would come in after the weekends, like, Ms. Hurts. So you have a wine party this weekend? He'd be like, yeah. And we were like, oh, that's so sick, dude.

[Mitch]

You get drunk.

[Matt Malone]

Yeah, exactly.

[Mitch]

My dad called it Mountain Dews. Like when he was in teacher mode, he bit anyone have it. Like, he'd be like, we had Mountain Dews like this. And like, did y' all have Mountain Dews this weekend? Like, and like, it was like plausible deniability almost to talk about it in class.

[Garrett]

That's funny.

[Jared]

I got to. I gotta bounce.

[Matt Malone]

Yeah. How long we been going, Matt? Perfect.

[Mitch]

On the dot every time.

[Jack Cooper]

Three months. Chopped individuals next week.

[Garrett]

Yeah.

[Matt Malone]

Yeah.

[Mitch]

So we have time to think about it.

[Jack Cooper]

Yeah.

[Garrett]

It's a little teaser.

[Steiny]

I like that.

[Jack Cooper]

Yeah. Thanks for tuning in subscribe like follow us on all of our socials.

[Jared]

Put chopped in the comments.

[Jack Cooper]

Yeah.

[Garrett]

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