A Force To Be Reckoned With
A Force To Be Reckoned With
230. We Should Talk More - On Not Raising Socially Awkward Kids
Remember when eye contact, please-and-thank-you, and real conversations were just... normal? These days, it feels like we’re raising kids in a world that’s slowly forgetting how to be human.
We see it everywhere—from the cashier who barely looks up, to parents missing “watch me!” moments at the playground because they're glued to their phones. It’s not just about manners—it’s about teaching our kids how to truly connect.
The good news? It doesn’t take much to turn the tide. Let your kid order their own food. Chat with “safe strangers.” Put the phones down at dinner and just talk. These little things? They add up. And they make a big difference.
If you're ready to raise kids who can look people in the eye and hold their own in a conversation, you’re not alone. Let’s build a generation that knows the power of putting the phone down and showing up—for real.
Episode Highlights:
- Culture shifts in the world.
- Raising respectful kids.
- We should talk more.
- Look up!
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Speaker 2:So last week was a little bit longer of an episode and not heavier, but more serious. This is a more practical and light-hearted episode, you know, just trying to cover all the bases, so so probably a shorter episode, more practical and more lighthearted, and I think we're going to have the title be we Should Talk More an episode on not raising socially awkward kids. So again, not pros, but pretty close.
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Speaker 2:That was mrs doubtfire so I just right now, our culture and our, we're just gonna get right to it no small talk, no jokes, no no, hit it or quit it nothing, okay, if you missed, hit it or quit it it's a song game, game everybody.
Speaker 2:We should listen to the last week of March, the episode that came out on March 25th, but what I will say is something that has become blaringly obvious and service, social skills, social cues, emotional intelligence it's all going out the window. And we could do, we could make this a really long winded episode by having all of the stats that back this stuff up on, but we didn't do that. All of the stats that back this stuff up on, but we didn't do that On why that is, and there are multiple, multiple reasons, but why?
Speaker 1:do you think is a big one, phones.
Speaker 2:Screens.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And so I it's training us.
Speaker 1:It's training people to not interact in a human to human way. Just in the last month, this AI about to make it worse, bruh.
Speaker 2:It's like. Every time I go out in public it's like where's the humanity, where is the customer service?
Speaker 1:I sound like an old, grumpy lady, but I'm just a young lady Like no, I'm not, but we're the world's last hope, because our generation was a generation born Like phones came apart when we were a little bit older. But it's like Before we move on, I just got to say one thing. I'm having a hard time like fully paying attention, because nothing with you is more attractive, I think, than when you're being. You know. You're just like speaking your mind and being bold. Yeah, thanks.
Speaker 2:Am then when you're being you're just like speaking your mind and being bold. Yeah thanks, am I doing that?
Speaker 1:right now. Oh, you were just like we're not gonna beat about it, we'll be around a bush, we're just getting right after. And it was just like, oh yeah yes, because all the time I'm like I love talking in circles I love board because that's the way wow, thanks, but okay, so you go out in public.
Speaker 2:We went to Target not that long ago and first of all I go in, go to the bathroom. Bathroom's disgusting. No toilet paper Hasn't been cleaned all day. I'm like where are the policies?
Speaker 1:and procedures here, like what is this Walmart?
Speaker 2:Then I go in.
Speaker 1:I came to Target for a little class.
Speaker 2:I go into the fitting room Clothes stacked up everywhere, nobody around to help and I this is a different time at Target. I know I sound really high maintenance, but I promise I'm not. Then I go to a different Target and a different time and I was trying something on and I asked the person working in the dressing room if they would. I was like, didn't have my clothes on. If they could go help me get another size, yeah, and they acted so inconvenienced isn't that what they do?
Speaker 2:I thought so, but apparently not these days that used to be a thing. I mean, we're not that old so then we go over to Staples, because I got to pick up business cards and, I kid you not, I'm waiting at the counter for 15 minutes, which wouldn't be a problem. I can patiently wait, except the guy behind the counter who looked like he hadn't showered in three to five weeks.
Speaker 1:That's it.
Speaker 2:You are high, high maintenance and don't get me started on the chin hair. You can't don't get me started on the chin hair, I'm just kidding you can't expect the people to have showered.
Speaker 1:Okay, you just can't expect people to be showered we have to do better.
Speaker 2:But no, the 15 minute wait. This is the thing. I wouldn't have minded waiting if he had been, if he just looked over at me and said, hi right, I'll be with you in just a minute. I'm finishing up this order. I'd be like okay, but I stood there like looking at him like at least just letting you know waiting for him to make eye contact with me so I could even see. So I could even know if he even knew I was there. So it was just not good it's.
Speaker 1:I mean when you think about it, like what is Chick-fil-A known for, when you say thank you and they're like my pleasure, my pleasure, my pleasure. Now everybody's starting to copy it, but just like a basic thing, as just being nice.
Speaker 2:It makes a big difference. Separates a food chain.
Speaker 1:So much because everyone else.
Speaker 2:Nobody has manners. Nobody has manners. Yeah, so and it's, it's like bad social skills, horrible customer service. The final example is when we had the baby in the hospital and I used to work at this hospital as a nurse and I was talking to another um girl that I used to work with there.
Speaker 2:She was a nurse as well and she's gone and moved up in the world now and the doctor pretty close, no, but um, I was just saying, man, when we worked there, it was like the cool place to work, like everybody showed up, everybody worked hard but we had, you know, potlucks, like the vibe was really good, everybody did a really good job, like it was.
Speaker 2:It was a really good experience for us, experience for the patients. We would go in, I would make conversations with my patients I know it was a very stressful time for parents and I would go ask them about their lives and where do you live, and try and make small talk and make them feel better and give them the whole experience of not just like I'm going to take really good care of your child while they're in my care, but I'm going to make sure that you feel seen and understood and like. Those are things we actually learned in college. I took an entire course on therapeutic communication, which I don't always utilize and I'm aware of it, but like Wait, you were trained in that I.
Speaker 1:I never seen that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh, I use it.
Speaker 1:Not with me.
Speaker 2:You don't even realize it when I use it.
Speaker 1:Give me an example.
Speaker 2:No, there, you have it the opposite. Yeah, that was not it. You have it the opposite. Yeah, that was not it. That did not make me feel good. I just I would be in the room with the sick baby and these providers would just come in and not even like. It was like just a different world, not make conversation, not make small talk, just come in and do their thing. And I was just like except for the doctor.
Speaker 1:It was like one doctor where she was just like yeah, she was good she, she did that to me. She kept on to me you didn't notice when she like we were sitting there, she's like God. It was kind of funny Cause it was like almost a little. It was like exaggerated and it was almost like she was talking to like children and she was younger than both of us.
Speaker 2:She was putting her hand on your leg.
Speaker 1:She kept putting her hand on my knee and then winking her eye and going. Oh, she didn't go. I was doing so the people in the podcast could understand that I was winking my eye.
Speaker 2:Oh, she was winking at you, she would go like this.
Speaker 1:She's like where's the humanity? She's like.
Speaker 2:I don't remember, like exactly this and this is you know. And like winked at me and put her hand on my knee and I was just like take it easy, lady. My wife is sitting three feet from me.
Speaker 1:She had great customer service, but you know what I'd prefer that touching your leg up and down, just copping a feel over. Could you do that again? Cold any day can you do that one more time?
Speaker 2:copping a feel she didn't do that one more time Copping appeal.
Speaker 1:She didn't do that, but I like that.
Speaker 2:Okay so anyway.
Speaker 1:But so like the glaring example to me was when we lived in California.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Was just the contrast.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Like when we moved out there like I remember being an apartment complex, I remember we were on the elevator and I'm going up the elevator and like there's the people that literally are in the apartment right next to me and I was like hey, how's it going? And they just kind of like looked at me like I was going to mug them in the elevator and it's like we weren't even in downtown LA Like that. Ok, you're probably going to get mugged.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but it's like if you say hi to people there, it's.
Speaker 1:Yeah. And then remember when we lived in the Tuscany Hills neighborhood and, like our neighbors, you didn't know each other, they didn't talk to you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but then when we lived in the canyon lake, it was like it was like a different world, little pocket of ohio yeah, like our neighbors, like hey now ohio has become california, and I always say ohio is three to five years behind california, like with style, with trends, with cars, like all of the stuff is in california, like about three years before, and then it trickles its way over to ohio. Yeah, outfits, all different kind of stuff, this is one, oh, ohio that you could have left in California the bad manners, the poor customer service, the kids that are rude. So, anyway, we said this would be a short and sweet episode and we're already getting close to wrapping up. So, because we've had enough, we have had enough of this. So here it is families and parents, even if you have teenagers and our oldest kid is about to be 13. But you might have an 18, 19.
Speaker 2:Don't lose hope. There's still hope. If you have a 0 to 10-year-old, this still matters. If you don't have kids yet, still matters. Work on it yourself, so then you can one day teach your kids. You might have nieces and nephews. Don't parent them too much, because your siblings will be mad at you. But here's what I'm going to say, and there's just a little simple things that I think that we can all work on as parents to implement with our kids. And we're doing this too, because I will be darned if my kids go out and start working at.
Speaker 2:Target and act inconvenienced because somebody asked them to go get a shirt, and they were working in the fitting room, ask them to go get a shirt, and they were working the fitting room, or if they are doing a customer service job and don't acknowledge their customer. When did it go out the window that the customer is always right? When did it go out the window?
Speaker 1:Now it's the customer is always the bad guy. Yeah, yeah, I don't agree with. The customer is always right. That's why.
Speaker 2:I paused. But even if the customer's wrong.
Speaker 1:But you can handle it with manners you can deliver a poop sandwich. Really well, you can be nice about it. Yeah and postured.
Speaker 2:But Okay, so yeah and my mind like had ADD off on another tangent and also this whole episode went off on another tangent, because the we should talk more part was like talking about how we as adults should talk more, because I do. Another element of this is I feel like with covid, we all kind of became more introverted and I know like that, I feel like that was hard for some people who, I don't know, maybe not, maybe I'm just making all this does that mean it's okay for me to linger?
Speaker 2:but like no, you know how you always linger. You know how you always tell me don't, don't know, don't know, maybe not.
Speaker 1:Maybe I'm just making all this. Does that mean it's OK for me to linger? But like no, you know I always linger. You know you always tell me don't, don't, know, Don't linger after Don't linger after.
Speaker 2:Maybe I need to listen to this episode because, like, yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm trying to talk to the adults more man.
Speaker 2:Yes, and I, I need this for myself because I I'm not good at I don't like small talk. I I'm not good at, I don't like small talk, I don't enjoy it. I mean, I will do it and I do like people, but I, I just want to just be like. I don't want to be like oh, how's your day and how are you. I just need to be like, so tell me about how your mom died.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, you just went right there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like I just I just want to be like. So what was your worst day? Like I just want to know the depths of your soul. I don't care about the weather.
Speaker 1:We should do a video on that.
Speaker 2:What do you mean?
Speaker 1:Like I'll walk around with the little camera thing you got.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And you just walk up to people like strangers.
Speaker 2:You can't do that.
Speaker 1:That might be funny. Yeah, it would be funny, but like We'll go down to the Hartville Hardware and walk around and be like tell me about the worst day of your life.
Speaker 2:But here's the thing I've lost track. Okay, and I've also lost track of some people's skills myself, because one of my favorite books it's an old book, but it's how to Win Friends and Influence People, and I think I've talked about this on the podcast before the entire concept of the book. There's more to it than this, but basically, if I had to summarize it in a couple sentences, it would be you win friends and influence people by helping that person to feel seen and getting them to talk about yourself themselves and learning about them. And that is how you win a friend, because they want to be seen and understood and heard, and you can then influence them because they like you more you can tell, we just went to a conference with kurt thompson no, this is.
Speaker 2:I learned this when I did sales in California and that's why I was so good at sales in California. I sold very well. I would go to these sales calls and I would have to drive to LA and show up in somebody's house and I really wasn't that good at sales. I hardly knew the products. I was a nurse no, I did know the products, but I would go in and I would just start making conversation and I would take the sales call would be a lot longer.
Speaker 1:That actually is sales. When you just vomit the product on somebody, that's not sales.
Speaker 2:Right, they just tell you about, like. You go in and you ask them about their house, and then you see a sign on the wall and you say, oh my gosh, my dad went to Mount Union College. You played football. And then they start telling you about their life story, and then their kids, and then the next thing you know you're being invited to their family reunion. And then they buy the product and it's because they feel like you care about them. Right, that's important. Right, we have lost that, oh for sure, we have become selfish. We've got a whole generation of ricky bobbies and we do with my hand. When you go to a sporting event, you look around. Everybody's on their phone.
Speaker 1:When you go to social events, everybody's on their phone and I'm I can be guilty of this too because small talk is just sometimes not that fun I just read this thing that this mom wrote and she was talking about how, when she went to take her kids to the park, she she said it was good, and I'm gonna get my kids out to the park. And she was sitting over on the bench and she was just on her phone all the time just letting them play. And then she decided to like do something about being on her screen screen too much. So instead she went to the park and sat and sat on the bench and didn't get on her phone, the bench and didn't get on her phone. And she realized then how many times her kid was looking over at her to see if she was like watching them, like look what I can do, mommy, like kind of a thing it's heartbreaking and it's like she was missing out on hundreds of these moments.
Speaker 1:To just reassure your kid and like yeah, let them know.
Speaker 2:I'll give you a real life example of this, and it's. It actually is heartbreaking. It just happened yesterday but maya had been under grandma's for three days, which is so great that she gets to go spend time. It's actually her great grandma, it's super special. But when I went to pick her up, she didn't see me in three days. She was so excited to see me and she hugged me and kissed me like five times and then she got in her car seat and came back out and kissed me again and then finally I got her buckled in and we were like she really wanted my attention and I was wrapped up in work stuff and like by the at the beginning of the car ride she was so excited and I miss you so much and she was talking to me and we were making conversation and then I started getting the rest of the ride.
Speaker 2:It was like a 30 minute drive. I was like answering things on my phone, responding to things that needed answered, and I just by the end long story short, by the end of the car ride she was a completely different kid. She was crying, she was like throwing a temper tantrum and I knew why it was. It was because she wanted my presence and I didn't give that to her and she was like yearning for that because she hadn't seen me. Then I got pulled into work and that's like shame on me and sometimes like you can't always say shame on me, because sometimes the reality is that our kids need to know that we have jobs and it has to wait. But other times it's like is it really necessary, or can I put my phone down and give my kid my undivided attention Now?
Speaker 1:you know how I feel and why I start crying and throwing temper tantrums. That's not true. I'm trying to talk to you and you're on Marco Polo.
Speaker 2:Oh, stop it, or Fox, no, I'm on Marco Polo. Oh, stop it, or Fox, no, my Marco Polo, I don't care. I want to say a bad word To all my Marco Polo girls out there. What did you do? What'd you say that nurse did?
Speaker 1:Winked at you.
Speaker 2:What was the noise?
Speaker 1:Anyway.
Speaker 2:Okay. So just step one, just all of us. When we're at social events or sporting events, maybe just look up and get your head out of your phone and just be a more social person, because also, these habits that we have, these are also things that our kids are observing and are thinking they're acceptable, and then it's like this is what the next generation is going to be thinking is normal and it's just not. And then here's just a few things that we've been doing with our kids really since Carter was little, and I'm so thankful now I do. I mean, our kids are not perfect. They're wild and have their own whole set of issues. We're not perfect parents, but I will say one thing is they're pretty social, and this is something that we've chosen to be intentional about since they were little. And just things that we're going to continue to implement. We've always done with Carter and Liberty and we're going to continue to implement with the little kids.
Speaker 1:I've had Maya do it too. Yeah, I have Maya.
Speaker 2:Like you're talking about ordering your own food, well, I would say, would say yeah, we can start.
Speaker 1:I thought that's what you were talking about.
Speaker 2:Like we said, we started doing that along, like as soon as they were capable of talking, of talking Like as soon as they were capable of telling us what they wanted to eat.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:We never ordered for them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we started just making them always order their own food, and sometimes they'd be like I don't know, Like when we first kind of get going, I don't want to tell them it's like okay, well, you're not going to eat.
Speaker 2:And they always ate, they always ordered.
Speaker 1:Because they ordered. I'll just tell her I'm making cheese with oranges.
Speaker 2:And then teaching them to say please and thank you. It's like a super easy thing. Do they say please and thank you in the other 98% of our lives?
Speaker 1:No, that's a whole other thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I got to ask you. We have, since they were tiny, tried to encourage them to say please and thank you. Yes, ma'am, yes sir, no, ma'am, no sir.
Speaker 2:Why did that not stick? I don't know.
Speaker 3:Some of the others have others.
Speaker 1:I felt like we've reinforced it so many times. Why did it not stick? I don't know, I don't know. Oh, there he is in the flesh himself. Come on over here. Come on we restaurant. Do I tell the waiter what you want to eat? No, who does Me? That's right.
Speaker 2:That's right brother.
Speaker 1:Do you like it? Do you like just being able to tell them what you want and have a conversation now?
Speaker 3:Yeah, because then you guys can't tell them to get water, I can tell them to get lemonade.
Speaker 1:They do try to do that.
Speaker 2:Is there anything else you want to say? What do you have to say about people not being very social or like?
Speaker 1:Like Like people being on their phones a lot, not like talking to each other, like parents at a basketball game or something.
Speaker 2:It's weird. Do you feel like, as a kid yourself, you have a phone right? Do you feel like when you look around, kids are on their phones a lot?
Speaker 3:Compared to me. Yeah, why? I don't know, I don't know why they're on their phones.
Speaker 2:No, why aren't you on your phone as much as them?
Speaker 3:Because I don't like to, because.
Speaker 3:You can tell the truth. Well, I mean, I don't like to be on my phone. I do like to be on my phone, but I also just like I'm not completely on my phone all the time, every second, every hour, like they usually. Usually there'll be a group of kids sitting together and they're all just on their phone, not even talking to each other. I don't do that. I sit down with one that's just sitting there bored. I'm not on my phone because I don't want to be on my phone.
Speaker 2:Is it because you don't want to be on your phone?
Speaker 3:or is it because you've reached your maximum screen time? No, it's because I don't, but like I'm just on their phone and they're always just like what Do you?
Speaker 2:two more questions. Do you feel like if you didn't have screen limits, you would overuse your phone, like you would get into a habit and start using it more, and more and more? Yeah, probably. And then do you see a correlation, like when you're on screens a lot this is not a trick question.
Speaker 3:No, I don't really notice. I know you're going to say if I get grumpy? No, I don't really notice it, but you guys do.
Speaker 2:You don't feel like mentally less happy or cheerful or anything.
Speaker 3:Not really, I just have short fuse often.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay. Well, thanks for letting us put you on the spot.
Speaker 1:Way to be self-aware.
Speaker 2:Right when you walk in the door from school. I hope that picked up. Well, what the heck, Sure bud.
Speaker 1:You earned a little bit with those responses.
Speaker 2:Well, there you have it. The perspective of a 12-year-old. Anyway, just really quick. So talking with friends or, yeah, just talking, and staying off your phones, having your kids order, I feel like that is such a good habit, because then it's like if you do it for them for so long, it becomes a fear, like then you all of a sudden at 12 you're like actually you're gonna order.
Speaker 1:No, now I'm scared because you, and then it's hard no, I'm not gonna name names, but one of my brothers got to the point where as like I think it was when they were in high school I remember going to like taco bell and they wouldn't order their own food. And I was like, dude, I'm not ordering your food like you can order your own food.
Speaker 2:You're almost a grown man, but yeah, yeah, anyways so then the next one, I think kind of goes into the social events. But making small talk with strangers, this is something my I mean I know there's stranger danger and we have to teach good boundaries, but but this is something my dad has always done and he's really really good at. We'll just he will just go up and talk to anyone.
Speaker 1:I think with kids maybe like controlled strangers, what I mean by that is say, you're on a sports team and you don't really know the parent that well. Like that's safe, you can talk to the parent of the kid on your team. I mean, we're around. What I mean is like Just don't get in the van.
Speaker 2:You're not, yeah. What I mean is like if you're sitting on an airplane and you're right beside somebody You're controlled your hips are already touching.
Speaker 1:You're already brushing knees. They may have fallen asleep and their head fell on your shoulder. You're smelling their laundry detergent.
Speaker 2:If you're smelling their laundry detergent, you should probably ask where they're from.
Speaker 1:And somebody keeps farting and nobody knows who it is. You're looking around, you're like oh my gosh who.
Speaker 2:Was that you? Was that you Bob?
Speaker 1:Was that you?
Speaker 2:But I have made some good friends on the airplane and my dad, he's extroverted, that's harder for me, but it's just a good thing, making people feel seen and you just never know what you're going to get from it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and you do have something on here, but it just kind of pinged it. But like having community when you have friends and you can get together with other kids, like they're usually. Like, if you think about it, anytime we get together with our friends, they're not like teaching them socialization through that, because now they're playing together, playing games outside, playing like physical games and doing activities in the, in the basement, whatever it is, and then when they come over to where we are, like we're all engaged in conversation too. So we're modeling, socializing and having good conversation yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:And then the last one. I mean we I'm sure we could have thought of more, but this is the last one I have is, and it's also something that we've done since carter was little is just telling police officers thank you for your service, or like military, and I just think that that's something that's really important. We value and we support police officers and the military and I I think it means a lot to them and it teaches our kids the value of respect.
Speaker 2:And so anytime they see somebody in uniform they go up and say thank you for your service. And now it's kind of like almost like a competition, like who's going to say it first and sometimes they won't Like.
Speaker 1:Sometimes, yeah, it depends on the mood they're in competition like who's gonna say it first and sometimes they won't like.
Speaker 2:sometimes, yeah, depends on the mood they're in but yeah, I just think that's a good one.
Speaker 1:So just little things, just just look for opportunities opportunities to, and the thing just and the thing is is that if we teach our kids to socialize in a world where people aren't socializing, they will have an advantage, more so than any other generation has ever had, because they don't have to have the best people skills. It's kind of like if you just have people skills, minimal people skills.
Speaker 2:We've talked about this to Carter a lot. Just as we sit down and have conversations with him about different things, like the competition's not that great right now. Like we've said, the customer service out there, the people that are being hired, not to like talk down on anyone at all, but it's just like if you try to be like a top tier person, you're going to stand out by a landslide and I hope that's not always the case.
Speaker 2:I hope that the gap closes and that we start raising up this generation to be equipped and well-rounded and have good social skills and great manners, and hard workers and avid learners and everything that you pray for them to be in night. What do you say? Hard workers and avid learners and gentle and kind and love.
Speaker 1:Strong, courageous, brave, hard workers, avid learners, um, and also, uh, sweet, loving, patient, kind and helpful with a servant's heart yeah, like if they could just be all those things that would be.
Speaker 2:The goal is that it's we're just in a little regression right now and that we and not blaming anybody for this regression, but that we're just all trying to figure out the impact that these screens and the Internet and social media has really done some damage, and I think there's other things too, but it's like the spiral of mental health, all of those those things.
Speaker 2:but if we try and push, to the mental health is kind of linked to it right, but if we try and strive and push our kids to, you know, improve themselves and be good people with good manners and good people skills right now, like that kind of makes them stand out per human.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And that's what we want. That's what we want everybody to be.
Speaker 1:For sure. Like, think about the server aspect, if all, if people start getting used to servers that don't provide good service, but let's just say they're still tipping them 15% and you're a server that just does what everyone used to do like 10, 20 years ago. Right, like you're getting 25 or more sometimes, yeah, unless Percent tip.
Speaker 2:Except? The problem is that the same people that are applying for these jobs are the people that are eating at restaurants, and so they're not tipping anyone. I'm just kidding, all right. Well, that's all we got for today.
Speaker 1:Well, if you want to leave us a tip, here's my Venmo.
Speaker 2:If you want to leave us a tip. What I keep meaning to say in each episode is we would love it if you would share this show with a friend, with somebody with a young family, with a newly married couple, with somebody raising up the next generation, because that is our whole hope with the podcast. You're already on that phone, you're listening to it right now with somebody raising up the next generation, because that is our whole hope with the podcast.
Speaker 1:You're already on that phone. You're listening to it right now. Just shoot a little text, man. Just throw a little text out there.
Speaker 2:We're just fun people and we want to have more fun. People listen and we just want to build a community of fun people, so all right.
Speaker 1:Stay classy, bye.