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This is Adam Griffin, and I'm here with my co-host, First, Mrs. Cassie Bryant. Cassie, where did you and your friends used to all hang out when you were in eighth grade? What was the place? I'll let you guess. Was it the mall? Yeah. Was it really? Yeah, that in like the roller skating rink. Okay. Wichita Falls Mall? Yeah. What was the name of the mall out there? It was Sykes Center. That sounds like an insane asylum. I was going to say, are you sure that wasn't inpatient rehab? It's okay. It was. No judgment here. Yeah. Center was spelled with an S because we really love deliteration. Cool. Oh, wow.

Okay. Also here, not mocking Cassie that hard, but kind of a little bit.

Is my wife, Chelsea Griffin, Chelsea, same question.

Where did you and your eighth grade friends hang?

Me and my eighth grade friends, this sounds, it sounds bad.

We hung out in the street.

We were always in the street where we were always setting up a game of street basketball, street football.

That's awesome. We were always doing hoodriding things in the street. You were living on

the streets. We were throwing M80s down the storm, storm drains.

Just explains your love for rap.

Oh, a lot of things could help explain. Some of my misspent you. No, we were in the street all the time. Just go out of the street. There we'd be. And we'd come up with a plan. That's awesome. Yeah, it was great about you, Adam. The streets. Yeah, what were you up to? I didn't have friends in eighth grade, so let's not talk about it.

Lover and private school. Is that where?

Yeah. That's awesome. Yeah, it was great about you, Adam. The streets. Yeah, what were you up to? I didn't have friends in eighth grade, so let's not talk about it. Lover and private school. Is that where? We hung out at school. We did. That was probably it. We'd walk to and from a store near school. You lived far from a lot of your classmates, didn't you? After eighth grade, yeah. Like my freshman year, I was, I commuted about 30, 45 minutes to school. So we didn't have much hang time until we drove, which will, that has to wait until our next episode. This age is when peers relationships become important, but maybe you don't have all the power in the world to hang out with each other, like you'd like to. You don't have all those resources that come from jobs and

driver's licenses. But yeah, I'm looking forward to this. This was the stage though for me that like where mischief suddenly became instead of something you got in trouble for it became the fun thing you try to do all the time. But it was like with your peers, right? M80s was a big part of my childhood. Smoke bombs, M80s. I was like, I don't know what M80s are. It's like a little

dynamite. It's like a little firecracker, Smoke bombs, M80s. I was like, I don't know what M80s are.

It's like a little fire.

It's like a little firecracker, but it's like, yeah, it's like one little bomb. And this is messed up. But I remember sometimes, yeah, I don't know, I'm not going to share this. I was not going to see what we used to do with M80s, but it did involve living things. Yeah, so did ours.

But sometimes have you found a dead something.

You can blow it out.

Person.

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