Tis the season. We are in, we are deep in Christmas season. Yeah. But I want to take us back a few

months. Okay. I want to take us back to Halloween. Which is where we are right now. Which is where in reality you and I actually are right now. My brother told me the craziest story the other day. And he was kind of just telling it like it was nothing. And I was like, wait, I'm sorry, What happened? And he's like, oh, you're right, that is crazy.

Apparently, my brother was in junior high the year that the film Colors came out, which was 1988-ish. Okay. You know Colors? I don't. Let me read you the synopsis of the film Colors. I'm already frightened, though, given the name. In this gritty police drama from director Dennis Hopper,

Oh.

Streetwise cop, played by Robert Duvall, and Hothead Rookie, played by Sean Penn,

grapple with their new partnership on the gang ridden streets of Los Angeles.

Oh, I bet that age is beautifully.

So that movie came out, and apparently the kids in my brother's school, which eventually

became my middle school, thought it would be an amazing idea to dress up as either

a Crip or a Blood for Halloween.

So my brother painted the scene of my dad dropping him off at school in the morning.

And my dad suddenly seeing a school filled with crips and bloods.

And my dad's like, what the fuck is going on here?

Where are you going?

What are you doing? And my brother had to explain, this is because of that movie.

Yeah.

And suddenly these children and their parents, to be clear, parents had to explain this is because of that movie. Yeah. And suddenly, these children and their parents, to be clear, parents had to get involved.

These are young.

These people aren't buying their own costumes.

Right.

They're 14 years old.

These are being co-signed by a parent parental figure.

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