86: The Wayback #86 | Aaron Weber

Summary

The Wayback with Ryan Sickler

Episode 86: The Wayback #86 | Aaron Weber
Date: August 21, 2025
Guest: Aaron Weber

---

Episode Overview

This episode of "The Wayback" invites comedian Aaron Weber back to reminisce about his southern childhood, growing up in a family of four siblings with educator parents in Alabama. In a warm, deeply humorous, and nostalgic conversation, Aaron and Ryan traverse stories of family road trips, quirky school moments, Southern field trips, sibling chaos, and classic family mishaps. Along the way, they draw out larger reflections on childhood in the South, family dynamics, and how formative absurdity can be.

---

Key Discussion Points & Insights

---

Family Vehicle Adventures

[02:39-07:25]

• The Notorious Minivan: Aaron recounts his family’s well-loved 1991 Toyota Previa minivan, infamous for its single sliding door and, more memorably, for a legendary mishap when the sliding door fell clean off at a baseball game parking lot.
  • “We rode home with [my brother] on top of the minivan…using a bungee cord.” — Aaron, [04:23]
  • The ride home involved his 12-year-old brother riding atop the van, holding the detached door in place, while mom drove and the rest of the family helped secure the door from inside.
  • “No one beeping at you on the way home, like, ‘what the [bleep] are y’all doing?’” — Ryan, [05:14]
• Passing Down the Legend: The minivan, known as "the white knight," lived on in the town, recognizable by its missing back hubcap and absence of a door.

---

Growing Up Weber: School, Faith, and Family

[07:38-15:09]

• Parents as Principal and Teacher: Aaron’s father was his high school principal; his mother, a teacher—at times his own algebra teacher.
  • “I never thought of school and family as separate things…my dad was kind of like the king of this castle.” — Aaron, [08:17]
• Unusual Discipline Issues:
  • The “poop bandit” story: a student vandalizing bathrooms with feces led to Aaron’s dad addressing the full student body in the auditorium—a “performance” Aaron recognized as part of the principal's job ([09:11-09:51]).
  • School rivalries: Aaron’s school would dress in camouflage to taunt their “redneck” rivals until the fun was squashed by his dad, who had to enforce discipline, later admitting he still found it hilarious ([10:26-11:20]).
  • “We cheer, we don’t jeer.” — Ryan mimicking Aaron’s dad, [10:53]
• Catholic Routines: Family morning prayers included readings from the Magnificat and gratitude-sharing.
  • “Every morning of my childhood…my dad grew up that he did it, too.” — Aaron, [11:56]
• The No Sleepover Rule:
  • Aaron’s dad had a strict rule against high school sleepovers, believing it kept kids out of trouble—a position Aaron endorses in hindsight, despite its unpopularity.

---

Southern Education & Field Trips

[15:09-24:33]

• Confederacy in Local History:
  • Field trips in Montgomery, AL, included visits to the "First White House of the Confederacy" and markers denoting where Jefferson Davis was sworn in.
  • “You stand right on [the star] and you look straight ahead and it’s Martin Luther King’s church. Right there.” — Aaron, [16:18]
• School Names & Changed Identities:
  • The public schools were named for controversial Civil War figures, several since renamed as the region grapples with its history ([17:53-18:47]).
  • “How about that. They changed the name.” — Aaron, [18:24]
• Civil War Reenactments:
  • Aaron describes watching reenactments, including the Battle of Selma, and the slightly revisionist takes presented to local kids ([20:00-21:27]).

---

Space Camp, Summers, and Sibling Chaos

[21:39-29:23]

• Space Camp in Huntsville:
  • The big fourth-grade field trip was a full weekend at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL—“the brains of NASA”—where Aaron experienced simulators and dreamed of being an astronaut.
  • “Huntsville, Alabama, never gets credit for NASA.” — Aaron, [21:46]
• Family Trips: Vacations were rare—usually driving to visit grandparents in Mobile or going to Dauphin Island, which Aaron remembers in great detail, including anxiety about its steep, arched bridge ([25:41-26:07]).
• Theme Parks: The local answer to Disneyland was Visionland, full of wooden roller coasters.
• Summer Camp:
  • Attended Delta Camp in Biloxi, where his grandfather was the archery instructor; memorable for outdoor skills and shooting (not religious content), plus the adolescent thrill of seeing girls from afar.

---

Home Life, Siblings, and Hometown Vibes

[29:23-34:49]

• Sharing Rooms & Sibling Bonds: Aaron always shared a room, first with his older brother and then the others as the family grew.
• Home Economics: Family resourcefulness and frugality were standard (drying clothes outside, haircuts at home).
  • “My mom would cut all our hairs, so we never went to the barber. Just line them up, give them a buzz.” — Aaron, [30:00]
• Neighborhood Landmarks:
  • The family home on 3769 Marie Cook Drive—afternoons spent playing football in the yard, “end zones” defined by home-planted trees, memories of storms and outdoor chores.
  • “One time we decided we were just gonna dig a hole. We spent about a month just digging a hole in that backyard.” — Aaron, [33:41]
• Close Calls:
  • Aaron’s mom’s serious car accident at a nearby intersection—family heard it happen from their house ([34:10-34:43]).
• Local Geography:
  • St. Bede elementary school, and how daily routines defined Aaron’s sense of distance and community.

---

Classic Family Photos & Science Fairs

[36:07-39:15]

• Photos & Stories:
  • Aaron’s old family photos spark anecdotes—his “Marine head” childhood look, a homemade hovercraft (with his physicist grandfather’s help), and sports moments set against classic Catholic school scenery.
    • “That’s a hovercraft I built for 8th grade science. …It could hold up thousands of pounds.” — Aaron, [36:39]
    • “That thing ended up catching fire in the backyard…It was fun while it lasted, man.” — Aaron, [37:58]
  • Athletic nostalgia: “I was a force to be reckoned with back then…before kids started hitting puberty.” — Aaron, [39:00]

---

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• [04:23] Aaron: “My brother climbed on top of the minivan…We rode home with him on top…using a bungee cord.”
• [08:17] Aaron: “I never thought of school and family as like separate things.”
• [09:11] Aaron: “We had a poop bandit in high school…poop smearing all over the walls.”
• [10:53] Ryan (imitating Aaron’s dad): “We don’t jeer. We cheer.”
• [11:56] Aaron: “Every morning of my childhood…read the Magnificat…say one thing we’re thankful for.”
• [16:18] Aaron: “You stand right on [the star] and you look straight ahead and it’s Martin Luther King’s church.”
• [24:02] Aaron: “Fourth grade…they go, ‘We’re going to show you the world.’ Fifth grade…You’re never leaving the campus.”
• [33:41] Aaron: “We spent about a month just digging a hole in that backyard.”
• [36:39] Aaron: “That’s a hovercraft I built for 8th grade science.”

---

Important Timestamps

• [02:39-07:25] – Family car stories (the “white knight” minivan mishap)
• [07:38-15:09] – Growing up with educators; school incidents; discipline methods
• [16:00-21:27] – Montgomery field trips; Civil War legacy; local schooling history
• [21:39-24:02] – Space camp; special fourth-grade trips; family vacation style
• [29:23-34:49] – Home life details; childhood play; storm stories; local geography
• [36:07-39:15] – Family photos; science fair hovercraft; sibling antics

---

Final Thoughts

This episode offers a hilarious, vivid, and genuine window into Aaron Weber's Southern upbringing and family nostalgia, full of offbeat stories, brotherly antics, and reflections on regional history. Fans of “The Wayback” will find Aaron and Ryan’s rapport especially engaging, with plenty of laugh-out-loud moments and affectionate teasing, all wrapped in the show’s signature lens of wistful reflection.

---

Aaron Weber’s comedy special “Signature Dish” is available on YouTube.

Transcript

[A]

Imagine being on a vacation for a very long time. Now imagine saving money nightly while you do it. Sounds pretty great, right? With vrbo's long stay discounts, you can stay longer and save more. Our customers save an average of 10% when they book select properties for a week or longer. Just in case you needed another reason to extend that vacation book. The perfect summer getaway today with VRBO Private vacation Rentals. Your future self will thank you later.

[B]

How do you make an Airbnb?

[C]

A vrbo Picture a vacation rental with a host who's showing you every room like you've never seen a house before. Now get rid of them. There you go. No host ever. Now it's a vrbo. Make it a vrbo.

[A]

Imagine being on a vacation for a very long time. Now imagine saving money nightly while you do it. Sounds pretty great, right? With vrbo's long stay discounts, you can stay longer and save more. Our customers save an average of 10% when they book select properties for a week or longer. Just in case you needed another reason to extend that vacation book. The perfect summer getaway today with VRBO Private vacation rentals, your future self will thank you later.

[C]

How do you make an Airbnb? A VRBO Picture a vacation rental with a host who's showing you every room like you've never seen a house before. Now get rid of them. There you go. No host ever. Now it's a vrbo. Make it a vrbox.

[D]

Hey, baby, we gonna be here all day. We're gonna be here all day, baby. I like that kind of body. Welcome back to the Way Back. Everybody. Ryan Sickler here. Ryan Sickler on all your social media. Ryancickler.com thank you guys for supporting this show. This is. I love doing this. This is a really fun show. It's one you gotta watch for sure. And excited to have this guest back with back here with me today. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Aaron Weber, everybody. Welcome back in the way back.

[E]

Thank you, man. Thank you for having me.

[D]

You're welcome. Before we get into some fun stories right there. Plug it all, buddy.

[E]

Aaron Weber comedy.com is my MySpace page. I got all my dates on there. Erin Weber across all social media. I have a special out on YouTube called Signature Dish on Nateland Entertainment's YouTube page.

[D]

Go.

[E]

Excited to be here on the way back.

[D]

Yeah, buddy.

[E]

It was way better this time.

[D]

Yeah, you did.

[E]

I got it now. I got it now.

[D]

You definitely got to check out Aaron's Honeydew episode. And in that I learned that you're From Alabama.

[E]

Yes, sir.

[D]

And you've got your one of four siblings, is that right?

[E]

One of four, yeah.

[D]

All right. So I always start with this seat right here. Have you ever sat in a way back seat at all?

[E]

I have.

[D]

And you're a long time.

[E]

I'm 33.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

You're a young man born in 91. My.

[D]

Who had this car back in 91 in your world?

[E]

My mom grew up with this car. She grew up with the station wagon.

[D]

Oh, yeah.

[E]

With the back seat. But I had a couple friends at school that had the station wagon with the back. You know, we were big on. And I haven't seen it in a long time. Alabama sitting in the back of a pickup truck.

[D]

Oh, yeah.

[E]

Yeah. You do that a lot.

[D]

Yeah, yeah.

[E]

Even in Maryland.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

Just hop on the back of a.

[D]

Truck and ride around in Carroll county where the rednecks are out there. But that's illegal. That's why you don't see it anymore.

[E]

It became illegal. Yeah, I think it was. Alabama was like frowned upon. But you'd still.

[D]

They go, we wish you wouldn't. Yeah, yeah. Listen, if you got it, you buckle up and you don't worry about everybody. Yeah.

[E]

So that's mostly what we did. We didn't have. We didn't have a station wagon.

[D]

We had a. Yeah. What's your family get around? You got six people.

[E]

We had a 1991 Toyota Previa minivan.

[D]

Let's look this bad boy sliding door.

[E]

Only had a sliding door on one side. That was a famous van.

[D]

We used to call this the A. Oh, yeah, dude.

[E]

And I'll tell you, one day, that one there. One day we were at a baseball game in the parking lot right outside the game, and that sliding door slid right off the car.

[D]

What do you mean?

[E]

I mean it just like you'd open it and it just kept going and the whole thing fell off and everybody heard it.

[D]

That's a manual door too, right? That's not an electrical. Nothing's electric in this car.

[E]

Nothing's electric.

[D]

And it just kept going and dropped.

[E]

Lid all the way off.

[D]

How'd you all get home?

[E]

We. My brother climbed on top of the minivan. My brother's probably 12 or 13 at this time. We rode home with him on top of the.

[D]

No, you did not.

[E]

We're using a bungee cord.

[D]

Y' all rode home with a 12 year old child on the roof holding the door. That's true, dude.

[E]

It was only about a mile and a half. It's only about a mile and a half Up. Yeah, but that's like, a legendary story in our family.

[D]

And everybody who's inside this part here holding it. Who's holding the door like that?

[E]

My dad and me and my brother were in there.

[D]

So three of you were holding this door?

[E]

He's on the top, making sure it stays. Yes.

[D]

And Mom's driving.

[E]

Mom's driving, and my sister's in the car.

[D]

Hilarious, dude. There's a kid on top of the.

[E]

Car, and it was very public, and I don't remember. It's so funny. I don't remember anybody objecting to. There's a. There's a kid on top of the car.

[D]

No one beeping at you on the way home, like, what the are y' all do. Look at him.

[E]

There's my family right there. So that's probably. That's pro. That was our big family vacation. We took one real big family vacation.

[D]

All right, who's. Who.

[E]

I'm on the left.

[D]

Okay.

[E]

Right there.

[D]

And how old are you here, roughly? What you think?

[E]

Nine?

[D]

Okay.

[E]

If I had to guess.

[D]

And who's big bro in the middle?

[E]

So that's. That's my older brother, Foston. He's probably.

[D]

Is he tall? As.

[E]

He's about 6, 3 now.

[D]

He is big.

[E]

Yeah. My. My brother on the right, Daniel. He's now 6, 8.

[D]

Damn.

[E]

Yeah, he's 6 foot 8.

[D]

The little guy right there went to 6, 8. Yeah.

[E]

So I'm, like, the shortest guy in the family now.

[D]

Where are you in this?

[E]

That's Washington, D.C. that was the one big trip we took. That's the Washington Monument under construction. The one time we were there. What the. The one time we were there is all under construction. And, I mean, great job taking the photo. Just.

[D]

Yeah. You can't even tell the context for it.

[E]

I remember a lot about that trip. I remember we spent, like, a whole day at, like, some distant aunt's house. So bored. And then we went to, like, a museum. That was the kind of trips we'd do. Like a museum. And you'd be like, ugh.

[D]

So you're driving the Toyota up the.

[E]

D.C. oh, yeah, we drove that thing up there.

[D]

Yeah, man.

[B]

And his older brother is holding it.

[E]

On top of the road. Yeah, that's him. And that's probably about the age he was when it. When it happened. So that's actually.

[D]

I mean, he does look crazy for his size.

[E]

He's a big dude.

[D]

Grab his ass up and hold that door. Damn it.

[E]

But that. So we got. We had that minivan for a lot more time after that, actually.

[D]

Well, here's my next question. If you might remember. You get home, but you still need to get the door. You know, I've never thought about. So how did you get to wherever to get the damn thing? I don't know what we. Nobody's showing up at the house with a door to fix.

[E]

I don't remember that part of the story.

[D]

I think.

[E]

I think my dad was just like, let's just get home. I'll figure everything else out.

[D]

Yeah, that's so fun.

[E]

I haven't seen that van in forever. You know, we. We donated that minivan to like, Catholic charities in Montgomery. And every now and then we'd see it driving around town.

[D]

It would be kind of fun.

[E]

And we were like, it has to be, because I had never seen anybody else with.

[D]

That door's off. That's ours.

[E]

And I think they still had the missing back hubcap. They were like, oh, that's our. That's the white knight, we would call it. All right.

[D]

So something I wanted to talk to you about is that if you watch Aaron's Honeydew episode, your dad was a principal.

[E]

Oh, yeah.

[D]

Your mom's a teacher. They meet at school.

[E]

Very scandalous relationship.

[D]

Sure. Get engaged, you end up going to that school while they're both a principal and a teacher.

[E]

Is that accurate now? By the time I got to high school, my mom was teaching elementary school. My mom would jump around when she started having kids. She was a full time stay at home mom. And then when the kids got older, she went back to teaching. So she was. My mom was my algebra one teacher in eighth grade.

[D]

What's that like?

[E]

I was just so used to it. It's crazy. I never thought of school and family as like separate things. I know that sounds crazy, but I just always grew up. We would go to the same. My dad was kind of like the king of this. This castle that we would just go to. So I never really thought anything of it.

[D]

You never being held to a higher standard, different standard, or you yourself feeling like you. I better not fog up mom's class.

[E]

Yeah. Yeah. I was more like that with my mom than my dad, you know, because you're. You're. When you're a young boy, I think you're protective of your mom and. Yes. Right. And if anything, I'm. I'm policing the room a little bit.

[D]

For my idiot friends, you know?

[E]

Come on, it's my mom, dude. Your dad is different. You know, like when the. When the student body would get in trouble, it was my dad had to go and, like, address the school. I remember we had a poop bandit in high school.

[D]

What do you mean?

[E]

We had a guy that kept vandalizing the bathrooms with poop.

[D]

How was he smearing it all.

[E]

Smearing it all over the walls. Smearing it all over the walls. So I think after like the third or fourth instant, my dad was like, well, I gotta shock some sense into these kids. So my dad had to, like, called the whole student body into the auditorium and like, yelled at us.

[D]

Your dad had to lecture this school? Yeah, yeah. Because somebody was smearing.

[E]

Think about what you're doing to these janitors who work hard all day. Was he.

[D]

Was he practicing at home before he got there?

[E]

He's definitely putting it on.

[D]

He's putting it on.

[E]

Yeah, you gotta. There's a difficult balance where, like, I, you know, I knew my dad, so I knew. Said some of this is performative in the way that anybody has to be at your job, right? Like, I tell the story about our big rival in Montgomery, Alabama, was a school called Alabama Christian Academy, aca. And their reputation was they're like the redneck school. We hated them, dude. Hated them, dude. So when we would play them in basketball to mock them, we would all, the whole student body, dress up in, like, hunting. Hunting gear.

[D]

Is that right?

[E]

We'd all show up in camo duck calls just to make fun of these rednecks, right? So I remember we showed up and my dad walked in the gym and was like, everybody, everybody was wearing camouflage. Get outside right now. And we're all like, oh, God, I'm wearing camouflage, son. So he walks out there and he goes, listen, I understand what you're doing. We don't do this. We cheer.

[D]

We don't jeer. That was. We cheer.

[E]

We don't cheer. He goes, if you're in camouflage, take it off. Go put it in your car. If you can't take it off, go home. We're not going to do this as a student body. And I was like, God, what a buzzkill. It was so much fun until that happened. I remember, like four or five years later, I asked my dad if he remembered that. He goes, oh, yeah, it was hilarious.

[D]

But you can't. But you have.

[E]

But he put on this big show of like, I'm so ashamed of the student body here.

[D]

And so at one point. Is there a point where you're all going to that building?

[E]

Yes, there was one year where I think the age gap was. My younger brother was in kindergarten and my older brother was in Eighth grade. So we'd wake up in the morning. We did morning prayer every day at 6:30am Family Morning Prayer, the whole family.

[D]

Do you remember a prayer? Did you have a specific one?

[E]

We would read from the Magnificat, which is we're Catholic, so that's like the, the official. Listen, whatever. The daily Catholic.

[D]

I don't even know what the.

[E]

We were Catholic, read the Magnificat every day. So it's like a responsorial psalm. It's a reading. And then we'd have to go around and say one thing we're thankful for and then one thing we're going to ask God for. Every morning of my childhood because my dad grew up that he did it too. So anyway, so we do that.

[B]

Manifesting Financial Abundance the perfect partner or anything else you desire is now easier than ever thanks to the world's first manifesting mask from hisomni.com without any extra effort, the manifesting mask from Hisomni will help you remove the old limiting beliefs and bad habits holding you down and replace them with new neural pathways to start attracting what you truly desire. Get your very own manifesting mask today at a massive 35% discount and with six additional freebies from Hisomni.com, the world's first manifesting mask now available to [e-mail].

[E]

Youm don't need to be ripped. You just need the right shirt. Epic Fits gives you a clean, confident silhouette. Snug on the arms, soft on the skin, generous where it counts. And with deals like $15 per tee, they won't break the bank. Visit epicfits.com today EPIC fits t shirts that get it. Eat breakfast, get ready and then we'd all get up and go to the same same school every day.

[D]

How many total of you?

[E]

Six of us total.

[D]

All six are going.

[E]

Oh Dad's cuz my mom was teaching at that school at that point too.

[D]

And that's the same school dad was principal at now.

[E]

Yeah, but it was like elementary school and a middle school and a high school, but they were all connected.

[D]

Oh, gotcha.

[E]

Not the same buildings, but part of the same like system, right? Yeah. So it was all we'd all get up and go there. It's pretty crazy.

[D]

You ever get in like serious trouble where your parent. Do you ever get suspended? Your dad ever have to suspend you?

[E]

I never got serious trouble in school. I got in pretty bad trouble outside of school. And after I graduated I had people over at our house and we drank.

[D]

And that's not very principal.

[E]

At the principal's house. Underage drinking now, my dad. Yeah. Underage drinking at the principal's house. Yeah.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

It's not good. It's not happened. It was not good. It happened. And the neighbor, one of my idiot friends, backed his truck out of our driveway and ran over the neighbor's cable box. So my neighbor, she told me, she goes, I'll wait till about 3pm and if nobody comes over and apologizes, I'm going to call his parents. And he didn't tell us that he had did this. So I just, you know, they called my parents. They were so mad. Anyway, my dad did a very smart thing, which I recommend you do when your kids are in high school. He had a no spending the night at people's houses policy. I couldn't spend the night at anybody's house my whole high school.

[D]

And why do you recommend it? You agree with it?

[E]

If you're trying to prevent your kid from doing bad stuff.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

That's the only surefire way to do that.

[D]

I don't know about that. Kids are fucking smart. I mean, sneak out of your house.

[E]

Outside of sneaking out. And like extreme measures. It's like, that's when that stuff happens, is when you're spending the night at a buddy's house. Right. But if you have to go home.

[D]

That'S why we would go spend. I know.

[E]

Exactly. Exactly. If my dad was a high school principal long enough to know that's what was happening.

[D]

I want to talk about some of these field trips you went on because you're from the South. Now, you mentioned we were talking before this, though, and I didn't know. This is Mobile, Alabama's the original White House of the United states before the D.C. okay. Or what do you call it?

[E]

Montgomery, Alabama, was the first capital of the Confederacy.

[D]

Okay.

[E]

Not the United States.

[D]

All right. The Montgomery, Alabama.

[E]

When the south seceded from the Union, the first capital was in Montgomery. Montgomery.

[D]

Got it.

[E]

It eventually got moved. Jefferson Davis fled Montgomery dressed as a woman to avoid Union capture. And then they reestablished the Capitol in Richmond, Virginia.

[D]

All right.

[E]

But it started in Montgomery, which is.

[D]

Why I know Richmond, and I've been to the Jefferson Hotel.

[E]

Totally.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

But the early days when they were a grassroots movement.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

There's an interest. Montgomery's so interesting. There's a. There's a spot downtown, and we saw it on a field trip at the Capitol building. There's a gold star in the ground, and it says, Jefferson Davis stood here while being sworn in as president of the Confederacy. And so you stand right on that and you look straight ahead and it's Martin Luther King's church.

[D]

Nuh.

[E]

Right there.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

On the same. Like Catacorner to the wow to the star. So Montgomery's got a lot of stuff. Fourth grade was the year, for whatever reason, that was like the field trip year. Yeah. So we went, tell me what you're.

[D]

Doing because I'm a Maryland kid. And we would, you don't realize it till later where, you know, we'd be like, we're going to the Smithsonian again.

[E]

That's pretty.

[D]

We're going to D.C. again. And then you get older and you meet people out here in California who've never even been to dc.

[E]

That was our big family trip, was.

[D]

DC we would go every. But it was always that we're gonna see Archie Bunker's chair again. I saw Fonzie's Jack. That's pretty sick. Yeah, like that, you know. So where are you guys going?

[E]

We went to a lot of stuff in Montgomery. Went to the first White House of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis's house. There's a whole section in Montgomery called Old Alabama Town. And you go to his house and it was. Life was so brutal back then. I remember standing at the foot of his steps and they go, yeah, Jefferson Davis, his five year old son fell off the steps and died right here. And you're like, oh, geez, the Civil War. It's like Montgomery's the cross section of the Civil War history. And the civil rights stuff is really interesting. So yeah, that's the house we went to. And you just see where all his kids died. And then. Yeah. And then I think the story was the union was there ready to get him and so he cross dressed as a woman to disguise himself and left the city. So didn't really go out with a bang. Jefferson Davis.

[D]

No.

[E]

Are the high schools named crazy stuff where you.

[D]

Where you grew up?

[E]

I guess.

[D]

Give me an example. What do you mean? Robert E. Lee High School? There's no Robert E. Lee.

[E]

Not.

[D]

You know what? Look up Robert E. Lee High School, Maryland. Let's see. There might be wrong. There might be. It is below the Mason Dixon.

[E]

Yeah, Montgomery, Alabama. That's the one. If I would have gone to public school, that would have been the school I went to. Robert E. Lee, which I think they've.

[D]

Renamed Ku Klux Klan.

[E]

Yeah, Go to Robert E. Lee High School here. Montgomery, Alabama. Look at that, they changed the name.

[D]

Let's read the states where they have them real quick. Virginia, Louisiana, Texas, Texas, Alabama, Virginia. Texas, Texas, South Carolina, Georgia. Yes, sir. Deep below the Mason Dixon lot.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

Currently. Robert Ely. Which one is this? Baytown, Texas.

[E]

Still hanging in there. So what is the one Montgomery called?

[D]

Yeah, what's it called?

[E]

Dr. Percy L. Julian High School. Never heard of this guy. I'm sure he's a better guy than Robert E. Lee was. Whatever you're supposed to say. How about that? They changed the name. So all of the. All of the public high schools in Montgomery are named after controversial figures. I was just curious how many of these have. I mean, there's Jefferson Davis High School. Lanier, I think, was a Civil War general.

[D]

Well, I mean, you could say they're all problematic. I guess back then.

[E]

George Washington.

[D]

There's Washington.

[E]

George Washington Carver. That's a high school. Is it the peanut guy who saved the state of Alabama?

[D]

Yeah, yeah.

[E]

Complicated history there.

[D]

Every time I see that, I always think of the Eddie Murphy sketch. Do you know that one? He does, like this black history minute. Oh, here it is. He talks about George Washington Carver. You don't have to play it, but he.

[E]

From snl.

[D]

Yeah, from back when he was on SNL those days. He's doing a whole thing about how George Washington Carver got ripped off. And he's. The man who created the fucking peanut was playing records with it and. And then the peanut butter. And he got ripped off and died broke and blind or some shit. Oh, that's great. Are you doing Civil War reenactments? Are you just going to watch them? Are you partaking?

[E]

So we went to a Civil War reenact we didn't participate in. Would have been fun to do as a kid. I would like to do one as an adult, but I think that's harder to get into now. But I remember we watched a full Civil War read. It was one of those places where, like, people are dressed up like they're from that time period and you can walk up and talk to them. There was like, a blacksmith there. And then like a. And I remember I got a root beer. That was disgusting. It's how they used to drink root beer back then, where there was no carbonation. I remember just being kid hating this root beer that I bought watching a Civil War reenactment, not thinking it was odd at all. But I guess that's a strange field trip for kids to say, I think the south won. I think that we wouldn't have gone to it otherwise.

[D]

They got a little twist on history.

[E]

They rewrote history.

[D]

Just this battle, guys. I can't remember which.

[E]

It might have been the battle of Selma. I think the battle of Selma. And we've all heard the.

[D]

The.

[E]

The march to Selma, but I think there was a battle of Selma in Alabama. And, yeah, we went to the reenactment there. How about that?

[D]

Look at your memory.

[E]

Yeah, the battle of selma fought on.

[D]

April 2. Who won?

[E]

Is there a winner? Not that it matters in the grand scheme of things, but I'm trying to remember if it was. Look at the Confederate surrender. Wow. That's not how we showed it. That's not how we did it.

[D]

Didn't even get your ass beat. We quit. We got to a certain point and they go, all right. And then you just kind of. Just kind of wrapped up this point here. We're just going to move on. They surrender.

[E]

Yeah. And then the big field trip. Kind of the culmination of that fourth grade year was space camp in Huntsville, Alabama.

[D]

That's that. Well, so what's there?

[E]

And we went for a whole weekend. So NASA is in hunt. Huntsville, Alabama, never gets credit for NASA.

[D]

Everybody, you know, it's all Florida.

[E]

You know what I think it is? I think it's the line, Houston, we have a problem. Oh, everybody thinks Houston.

[D]

I'm thinking Florida, because that's where they launch.

[E]

They launch out of there for, I think, like, technical reasons. But the headquarters, like the brains of the operation, Huntsville, Alabama, are in Huntsville. Everything's named after, like, Warner Von Braun. The theater there is called the Von Braun Center.

[D]

Okay.

[E]

But, yeah, we spent a full weekend here.

[D]

Whoa.

[E]

Yeah. That was why it was the big trip, because it was like, where do you guys, like, you stay overnight?

[D]

Where do they get a hotel on the campus here?

[E]

Or just, like, I think just in the city.

[D]

So that's badass. You get to go for a weekend and what do you get to do? Like, what are they letting you guys do? Are you going up in these rockets or in these shuttles?

[E]

They have a. There's a ride there. I think that's what it is. It's called the space shot. There's rides, but then there's also. It's a lot of, like, just exhibits where you walk around. They have that thing, it's almost like a gyroscope that you climb into and it spins around 360 degrees. A lot of that kind of stuff.

[D]

Are you doing that? Are you getting in spacesuits and stuff?

[E]

Nothing that extreme. That's. That's.

[D]

Oh, that thing. Okay. That's like that. Spies like us, I remember them training in that. Where they're spinning. Yeah.

[E]

And then there is, like, a G.

[D]

Force simulator, and you get to go in that.

[E]

You get to go in that. So it was really fun. I remember that was the big. I used to love space, too. I used to be obsessed with it. So I. You know, every kid thinks they're going to be an astronaut at some point.

[D]

But then you realize, I mean, down here, I don't blame you. Yeah, that's awesome.

[E]

So that. That was the big field trip in fourth grade. I remember looking forward to that all year because I saw my two older siblings do it. And then I'm like, God, I can't wait till I'm in fourth grade. Get to go to space camp.

[D]

You get to do it every year for school.

[E]

Just in fourth grade. Oh, only just in fourth grade, that one. Yeah.

[D]

I thought you meant yearly. That was your big, like, fourth. Fifth. Just in that fourth grade.

[E]

I don't even remember going to field trips outside of fourth grade. Whatever reason, St. Bede Catholic elementary School, they were like, cram in. They go, fourth grade. We're going to show you the world. Fifth grade through senior year. You're never leaving the calendar. So you.

[D]

Reenactments of Civil War. Oh, no. See, we would go every. We would do a few of them. Okay. But every year was. So we would do a yearly to D.C. you're going once a year to D.C. and this time we're going to go see the memorials. We're going to see Jefferson, Lincoln. This time we're going to the. You know, when they would say the Mall, we're like, what? The we? I thought they meant the mall. Yeah, like what? There's a mall pack. So it's called. You're seeing the Monument. You're seeing the White House. You're seeing the Capitol.

[E]

Now, did you go to, like, the Holocaust Museum? I don't know anything that intense, I don't think.

[D]

Not for elementary school. We didn't do that. I'm trying to remember if. In high school. Yeah, yeah. Nobody believed it. There's trying to remember in high school if we did, though, because we definitely studied that in high school. But we also would go to the Smithsonian a lot, and we would go see the Air and Space Museum there. That was the closest we got to that, you know? But you also had. We would do the treasury and the Mint. We go check those out. There's so much around there, stuff that.

[E]

I'm sure you just take for granted.

[D]

And you're like, whoa. And now I'm like, oh, man, we got to see all that in Action. Yeah.

[E]

Yeah, it was really cool. That's sick, dude. But in terms of outside of school, we were not big vacation. I didn't fly until I was 17. We just. We just drive.

[D]

Where'd you go?

[E]

We drive. My. My grandparents lived in Mobile, Alabama, which is where I thought. Yeah, that's where my dad grew up. We were talking about it earlier. Yeah. The first White House. That's where. That's where George Washington and John Adams got set up.

[D]

Mobile, I knew wasn't the first us. Well, I just thought it was the.

[E]

First Confederate White House.

[D]

Yes.

[E]

Yeah. So we. We go to the beach and go down there and see my grandparents maybe once a year. And Dauphin island is an area. It's like a little island right outside the coast of Alabama. And that was the big trip right there. So you can see it's like a four hour drive from Montgomery.

[D]

And then what do you take a ferry or something?

[E]

Yeah, that's just a big bridge.

[D]

Oh, I see.

[E]

That's all. Yeah. And that bridge used to terrify me as a kid. I used to have nightmares about that bridge.

[D]

Really? Yeah.

[E]

Look at the picture on the top left. See how like it's so just. I don't even know why it arcs like that, but that used to terrify me as a child. Yeah, but that's where we would go to the beach. And outside of that, we did one other trip. Birmingham, Alabama, they have a theme park called Visionland. That's our Disneyland.

[D]

Vision Land. And I remember, is it still there?

[E]

All I remember is they didn't. All the roller coasters were wooden. It was all wooden roller coasters, so none of them flipped. So you can't flip on a wooden roller coaster. But that was our big theme park. I think we went once. We just weren't. I mean, we were all playing sports and doing stuff all summer.

[D]

There's Vision Land right there, top left.

[E]

How about that? Vision Land.

[D]

What's it say?

[E]

The rise and fall of manifesting financial.

[B]

Abundance, the perfect partner or anything else you desire is now easier than ever, thanks to the world's first manifesting mask from hisomny.com without any extra effort, the manifesting mask from Hisomni will help you remove the old limiting beliefs and bad habits holding you down and replace them with new neural pathways to start attracting what you truly desire. Get your very own manifesting mask today at a massive 35% discount and with six additional freebies from hisomni.com the world's first manifesting mask now available to [e-mail].

[D]

And Alabama.

[E]

Watch that tonight.

[D]

Yeah, it's. Oh, yeah.

[E]

I didn't know there was a fall. Yeah, dude, I think I remember this poster.

[D]

And this is where you guys would go. How far is this from your place?

[E]

Birmingham? Maybe it's hour and a half.

[D]

Okay.

[E]

Maybe a little under two hours there. Vision Land. That's so crazy. I haven't seen that in forever.

[D]

Tell me about camps. You said there was a camp you went to.

[E]

Yeah, so I went to a camp two summers. I mean, this was just like maybe two weeks. It wasn't like a full summer camp, but it was a camp in Biloxi, Mississippi, where my grandfather was the archery instructor, and so he would teach us how to do archery. It was called Delta Camp. I don't even know if it's still.

[D]

Let's see this.

[E]

Still around, but it was.

[D]

How old are you? Like, when you're going this high school?

[E]

I would say once, maybe like in fifth grade, and then once in, like, I was 15 or so. And it was like a Christian camp. But I don't remember any. Anything about that. When I think about the camp, I remember shooting guns. Is that.

[D]

What. Is that it? Camp Delta? I don't know.

[E]

They're smiling too much.

[D]

And what are you doing here? So you're shooting guns and he's the archery instructor.

[E]

I remember for the guys, it was the culture culmination of the whole weekend was you went on this big hike and then camped out a night. Then you came back. That might be at Delta Youth Camp with those hands up in the air. I didn't do any of that, but that might have been it.

[D]

I don't.

[E]

I truly don't remember, like, a Christian element to it. I remember it just being like a normal camp. Just outdoors, canoeing, all that.

[D]

Is it like you're over. You're staying overnight for.

[E]

For a week, or. I think it was maybe two weeks that we do it. And, you know, that was the age. There's girls there, too, so that's a big. You know, they're in a different cabin, but there's girls over there, so that's pretty exciting.

[D]

Tell me about growing up with four. Excuse me, three siblings. There's four of you. You share in a room?

[E]

Yeah, I always shared a room. I always shared a room first with my older brother and then. Yeah. Oh, look at that.

[D]

Look at that.

[E]

I haven't seen that in a minute. Yeah, that was.

[D]

Who's not pictured here? Who's not born?

[E]

My younger brother isn't born yet.

[D]

Okay, so that's you in the suit.

[E]

That's me with short, short pantsuit as seersucker. I mean, yeah, I was looking sharp. Worst haircut I've ever said. I mean, yeah, we were. My mom would cut all our hairs, so we. We never went to the barber.

[D]

So your sisters too?

[E]

I don't know. That's a good question. That's a good question.

[D]

They might have face like your mom. They.

[E]

They might have done something different for her. But the boys, you're like, just line them up, give them a buzz.

[D]

Yeah. Hell yeah.

[E]

And they'll figure it out later. There we are.

[D]

Is that you?

[E]

Yeah, that's me on the right. That's my older sister Cynthia.

[D]

Where are you?

[E]

Here. Do you know this is our house in Montgomery. She can look.

[D]

Talk about that, bro. Do you have property? You have land?

[E]

Did not. Did not. Really.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

So my, my dad at the time they got the house was. They're just two teachers. I don't think they're really making any money to their credit. They really did a good job. Like, I don't remember talking about really thinking about money that much growing up. But looking back, they didn't have any. We didn't have a dryer. We would dry everything outside on a clothesline, all that kind of stuff. But that. That's the house that I. I live first 16 years of my life in. I remember when we put up that fence. But That's a. That's 3769 Marie Cook Drive.

[D]

Can we look that up?

[E]

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. There's our house.

[D]

This one right here?

[E]

Yeah, right there.

[D]

Look at that. Look who's getting rid of Alfred.

[E]

Oh my God. The luck of that. When Google comes by to take the pictures, you got all kinds of crap just sitting outside.

[D]

That's the oldest one 2000, but I remember it's still there. So 2009 is still there. Wait, how far. What was the picture you just showed us?

[E]

Wait, how far is that? Is that the farthest back it goes?

[D]

That's 20, 25 in 2009. They still got on the yard, bro. 15 years they. The 16 they still got on the yard.

[E]

That is crazy, dude. And it's literally just junk.

[D]

It's like crazy. That's just what they do, the family here like that. We're just putting it on the yard. Yeah.

[E]

So I remember. So we planted these two trees right here on the left of the front yard.

[D]

This big one here over to the left.

[E]

If you, if you look to the left of the. Yeah, there Used to be two trees right there. I guess these people took down one.

[D]

Of the trees, probably cut out front, and that was.

[E]

Those were the end zones for when we play football. And I remember when they first got planted, there was a huge oak tree. You can still see the stump of it in 2009. Right there in the front, like, closer to the street. Right there. Huge oak tree. Hurricane Opal in 95 swept through and knocked that tree down. Almost hit the house. And I remember. I mean, I'm five years old. I don't think I was helping much, but I remember when that fell down. And clean up the grass.

[D]

You pushing. You ride mower.

[E]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, I. I love mowing the grass.

[D]

Yeah. Do you have a.

[E]

Like a yard?

[D]

No. That's what I'm saying. You said this isn't a lot of land, but I live in L. A now. Look, in Maryland, that's average too. But I live in LA now. That's lot a. A ton of land. Yeah.

[E]

And, you know, it's. What about your backyard? As it is big, I think if you go to the right or left, you can probably peek in there and see what's going on. But we had. It was all paved back. Like a front area of it was paved. And we had a basketball goal. Look at that. Yeah, dude, those trees were all based. We played baseball. That was second base right there, and then first base over there. That's awesome, man. I haven't looked at this in so long. Great times, dude. That's the thing with the siblings. We're just out there just doing nothing, making. Yeah, dude. One time we decided we were just gonna dig a hole. We spent about a month just digging a hole in that backyard.

[D]

No plan, like, how deep, no goal.

[E]

I mean, we were just out there digging. My parents just let it happen. I mean, they probably could.

[D]

If I looked at the wind and saw it, I would let them. They're being quiet.

[E]

Yeah, they're away.

[D]

They're right where we can see them and. Uhhuh.

[E]

So that's. That's the neighborhood I grew up in.

[D]

Man, that's great.

[E]

My mom got in a really bad wreck on Delra Road right there, which is perpendicular to Marie Cook Drive. Right there. That one going vertically. I heard it. It was so bad. I heard it.

[D]

That close to your home.

[E]

Literally turning left on the Marie Cook Drive right there. Some. Some kid, he's like 18, with a girl in his car, was trying to impress her. Tried to pass. She was turned and left, and he. She tried to Pass around her, smashed her right there in the middle of the street. We heard it as a family.

[D]

Damn.

[E]

Huge loud. She was driving home from church. Huge loud noise. And then I remember the police came and knocked on her door. My dad thought she had. She was fine. It was just like a really violent wreck. That kind of still affects her to this day.

[D]

Drive crazy.

[E]

Yeah, but man, a lot happened on this little. This area is called Dower Dowerada in Montgomery. So if you tell somebody from Dalrada's area, the air force base is close by. But dude, once you got a bike. I remember once I got a bike and I was allowed to just go off. I just ride off for hours. That's Saint Bede right there. That's where I went to elementary school here. Yeah. You know, it's interesting. I remember my dad telling me that Saint Bede was about a mile from our house. So my whole life to this day, when I conceptualize a mile, I think the trip from my house to church. Yep.

[D]

Hell yeah.

[E]

Right. And I think I looked it up recently.

[D]

Used to be one in our neighborhood. It was from the. The intersection traffic light to the McDonald's was one mile.

[E]

You think about that still exactly how.

[D]

Far that McDonald's was, bro. I know. Exactly. Like we should be hit McDonald's by now.

[E]

That's my mile marker.

[D]

Dude. Thank you for doing this.

[E]

That flew by. I'm sorry. I was having fun.

[D]

No, don't, man. Promote one. One more time, please let everybody know.

[E]

Special on YouTube. Want to see me do stand up comedy? It's called signature dish. It's on the na Land Entertainment.

[D]

YouTube.

[E]

Just type in Aaron Weber and watch 30 Minute Special. The same length as this.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

If you want to spend another 30 minutes with me and not Ryan, check out the special on YouTube. Thank you for having me, man.

[D]

This was fun. Let's look at some photos.

[E]

That photo, huh?

[D]

You got it. Have the classic. That's a marine head right there. You got a square head on you, bro. You got a jar head, bro. Look at you. I'm surprised. Were you a marine? You ever serve in our military? In a different life, I think.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

This guy's definitely got confirmed kills, this kid. Yeah, dude, his kids got confirmed. Oh, brutal.

[E]

What is that?

[D]

What is that down there?

[E]

That's a hovercraft I built for 8th grade science.

[D]

Oh, you're on. Oh, I see.

[E]

Yeah, it's a hovercraft.

[D]

Did it work?

[E]

Yeah, it worked. Unbelievable. It could hold up thousands of pounds.

[D]

Nah. And how far above the ground?

[E]

Probably Three or four inches. And you were just crazy. But yeah, dude, that's. That's the. The engine of a shop vac that my grandpa helped me put in there. And it just shoots air into a shower curtain. Let me tell you fast. Of the ball at the science fair that year.

[D]

Could you figure out how to ride.

[E]

Look at that haircut, dude.

[D]

You know, it's funny. I've been looking at the goddamn hoverboard the whole time. I haven't even looked up at that.

[E]

I mean, that is. That's an awkward time of your life right there. Seventh grade. Seventh or eighth grade. Where you're, like. You're trying to figure.

[D]

Explain how this works here. So that air is being blown into a shower curtain. It's fastened to the wood.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

And then there's little enough.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

To lift it off the ground. Yeah.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

How'd you figure that out?

[E]

A lot of weight. My grandpa's a fizzer physicist.

[D]

Okay.

[E]

He helped me with a lot of the technical stuff. And. And, yeah.

[D]

Were you able to ride it and surf it? Like you could keep your balance?

[E]

So what we did was we put, like, a rope on it so you could just. Somebody would have to pull you. And this is the hallway at the high school.

[D]

Uhhuh. That.

[E]

We went there and. And just rode it up and down the hallway.

[D]

Okay.

[E]

Yeah. That thing ended up catching fire in the backyard. My cousin. My cousin AJ Ran it, caught on fire, had a. Put water on it, and it was dead. It was fun while it lasted, man.

[D]

Yeah. Dude, that looks great.

[E]

That thing was great.

[D]

You have any more? Kirsten? There he is. Look at that, dude. Whose ball is that you're using?

[E]

What's it say on the end that says Skeneci.

[D]

That was the name of.

[E]

I think that's what it is.

[D]

It does look an eki. Yeah.

[E]

Schenecki was my friend Will's uncle. Who's the head coach of this in.

[D]

Front of a poinsettia. Backgrounds.

[E]

It's a Christmas turn because we're in the lobby of a Catholic elementary school at Christmas time.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

I mean, that's a tile statue of the Virgin Mary right behind me. Yeah.

[D]

So that is hilarious.

[E]

Where should we post up for our basketball pictures?

[D]

Right here.

[E]

Right in front of the Virgin Mary depiction on the wall.

[D]

This is great, dude.

[E]

Let me tell you, dude, I was a. I was a force to be reckoned with back then. Then on the basketball court.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

Before kids started hitting puberty and I was, like, growing. Yeah. And I was like. I was a pretty good athlete, and then. Then I wasn't.

[D]

Anyway, Aaron Weber, thank you for doing this, man. You're the man.

[E]

Thank you, Ryan.

[D]

Thank you guys for watching as well. Hey, it's a great time here in the way back. We'll talk to y' all next.

[B]

Manifesting Financial abundance, the perfect partner or anything else you desire is now easier than ever, thanks to the world's first manifesting mask from hisomni.com without any extra effort, the manifesting mask from Hisomni will help you remove the old limiting beliefs and bad habits holding you down and replace them with new neural pathways to start attracting what you truly desire. Get your very own manifesting mask today at a massive 35% discount and with six additional freebies from hisomni.com the world's first manifesting mask now available to [e-mail].