You Had A Finished Basement??

This week on Sadie and Scott, we’re talking about the things we thought meant someone was rich when we were kids.

Fridges with ice dispensers. Finished basements. Brand-name cereal. Movie theatre snacks. A second phone line. If someone had a garage fridge full of pop, they were basically royalty.

Sadie and Scott break down the childhood status symbols that made us think another family had officially “made it.” Plus, we play Rich or Ridiculous?, read listener submissions, and talk about a bizarre story involving an accidental house purchase.

It’s nostalgic, ridiculous, and probably going to make you remember the one friend whose house had all the good snacks.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_07 0:01

So for those of you who don't live in the province of Ontario but live in Canada, mo some of the provinces have what we call liquor stores. Like they're run by the government.

SPEAKER_02 0:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 0:11

I was in the LCBO today.

SPEAKER_02 0:14

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 0:15

Or as we call it the liqubow. Some people call it that. Not everybody. We call it the liquor store. In most provinces, they have a liquor store run by the government. But in Ontario, it's pretty much that's it. A couple of gas stations and stuff. But I was in there and I was like, you know what? I'm gonna treat myself to a couple of nice bottles of white wine out of the vintages section. I was like, oh, aren't I fancy schmancy?

SPEAKER_05 0:39

Did you feel fancy when you're a man?

SPEAKER_07 0:41

I did. I was like, what who who's this fucking rich fucking Costco pack, as you call me?

SPEAKER_05 0:47

Did you try to find friends in that section?

SPEAKER_07 0:49

Well, there's nobody there. It's Coburg.

SPEAKER_05 0:51

You're the only fancy one? You're the only fancy guy.

SPEAKER_07 0:54

Well, uh meanwhile, like I'm like, I'm look at the way I'm dressed. I'm not exactly wearing a three-piece suit.

SPEAKER_03 1:00

You should do that.

SPEAKER_07 1:01

I kind of sometimes will just pretend that I'm rich and just honestly, the pricing is not like it's not like you go to the shelf and it's $20 and you go to vintages and it's $150. You can find a $22 bottle. Absolutely. Yeah. Just since they haven't put it into the general list, but they got to get it into the store somehow. And they're like, oh, our price point is $22. And it's like, oh, okay. So I but it still makes you feel kind of like, oh, look at me walking out of the vintages section with a couple of I'm gonna try this. You should do it. It'll make you feel good.

SPEAKER_05 1:32

I'm gonna try it.

SPEAKER_07 1:32

It really does. Because it reminds me of like when I was a kid. And we there's one there's one part of my notes that I'm gonna say it to you, and you're gonna go, oh my god, we talked about that. And oh my god, you're totally right. Okay. So, but when I was a kid, I remember going over to people's houses. Like people, like somebody came over once and saw Joe's tequila collection. And they were like, Jesus Christ, did you guys clear out your RSPs to fucking buy that tequila? I was like, What are you saying? I can't afford fucking nice tequila for my wife.

SPEAKER_01 2:05

Oh, that's fancy.

SPEAKER_07 2:06

I'm not I'm I may not look rich. But it's coming coming out of that section or going into like uh a high-end store, and you're like, you know what, I'm just gonna treat myself. I'm I'm managing my money well and being you know being smart with it. But sometimes I just want to feel like I got a bit of the I got a bit of the Gucci.

SPEAKER_05 2:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 2:26

Yeah, see?

SPEAKER_05 2:27

You just go, you know what, just like sit on your couch and do it. Just put expensive shit in your cart.

SPEAKER_07 2:32

And then don't check out.

SPEAKER_05 2:34

Oh, I I love fake shopping.

SPEAKER_07 2:36

Really?

SPEAKER_05 2:36

I fake shop all the time.

SPEAKER_07 2:38

That is interesting.

SPEAKER_05 2:40

Like my my Wayfair account, because when you you that's fake shopping, it's probably at like $32,000. No word of a lie. I wish I had my phone to prove it. I do it with a Ritzia. I do it. I just I just check it. Fake shop.

SPEAKER_07 2:51

Now that you described that, I've done it before too. I've gone onto Apple's website and put everything that I want from an Apple product into the $32,000. I'm like, oh my god, I just I just bought an $8,000 computer that I don't need because I've already got one.

SPEAKER_05 3:09

It's slightly exhilarating. Slightly.

SPEAKER_07 3:12

Well, we're gonna talk today about things you thought were rich people things when we were kids. We're gonna focus on like you go over to your friend's house and you're like, wow, your mom and dad must be really rich. You've got X. All right, well, if you're ready to go, let's start. Welcome everyone to Sadie and Scott. My name is Scott. I'm one of your hosts.

SPEAKER_05 3:41

Hey guys, Sadie, I'm the other one.

SPEAKER_07 3:43

Hi Sadie.

SPEAKER_05 3:43

Hi, Scott.

SPEAKER_07 3:45

When you were a kid, did you think you were rich? Uh or did you have friends that you thought were rich, but they probably weren't.

SPEAKER_05 3:52

Well, they probably weren't, but yes. Yeah. Yep.

SPEAKER_07 3:55

So we're gonna let's talk a little bit about like there's rich people stuff and then there's everyday people stuff. And when we were kids, they I think it was more prevalent. Big word. It was more prevalent when you were a kid because everything was new. And if it was something you didn't have, like, okay, so I'll give you a real quick example, but we're gonna get into this because I've got some great examples. And one, okay, so when I give you this example later, it's on my list, I want you to go, we talked about that, and you're totally right.

unknown 4:23

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 4:23

So don't forget to say those are your lines.

SPEAKER_02 4:25

We talked about that. We're totally right.

SPEAKER_07 4:27

Yes. Now I forgot where we were. Oh, okay. So when I was a kid, if I went over to somebody's house, now I didn't grow up like in a my mom didn't have my mom was a single mom. My parents divorced when I was very young. Um, you know, I think my dad made a pretty good living. I never really asked to see his T4 slip, but Imagine that. But you know, he traveled and stuff like that. But my mom, you know, he paid my mom really well for alimony and for child support. He never was delinquent or anything. So he's a he was a good dad, he's a good dad.

SPEAKER_06 5:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 5:02

But my mom didn't have a lot of money. And she was doing one thing and one thing only that I probably resented her for at the time, but now I appreciate it was she was saving for her retirement.

SPEAKER_02 5:13

Yeah, good for her.

SPEAKER_07 5:14

She was just doing nothing but looking for so kudos to her.

SPEAKER_02 5:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 5:17

So, but it would when I would go over to somebody's house and they had an Atari 2600, I thought that they were rich. I was like, oh my god, your parents bought you an Atari because my mom couldn't afford an Atari.

SPEAKER_02 5:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 5:30

She bought us an Odyssey 2 microprocessor system, and instead of Pac-Man, it was some game called Casey Munchkin. It was just a total ripoff. I wish I actually I'd be rich today if she had kept that game because it's now on the used market, it's worth a fucking fortune. I bet, I bet. There are hundreds and thousands of 2600s, but the Odyssey 2.

SPEAKER_05 5:50

I don't even know what the hell you're talking about.

SPEAKER_07 5:52

It was like a little it was a game console that had two controllers, but it this it actually had a keyboard on it. But you put the cartridge in the top and you played hockey or baseball, or Casey Munchkin was their version of Pac-Man. So but if if if I walked into somebody's house and they had an Atari Wow, wow, we're friends. Wow, you guys have a 36-inch television set. Holy shit. Mine's my mom's TV's only like 20.

SPEAKER_05 6:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 6:17

And I gotta I gotta I gotta get up to change the channels.

SPEAKER_05 6:20

It's like you knew at one point in your future friendship that you'd be in the vintages with this guy, buying bottles of wine, holding hands. Right.

SPEAKER_07 6:31

I guarantee half those guys drink 50 and are fucking dude drunk on Friday before five o'clock. So those narwhales. There are they're narwhals. Yeah. All right, so you you said you you do. Okay. So you walked into a friend's house and you saw this.

SPEAKER_05 6:45

Yep, her name was Christine, and she had Is she hot? Oh, I don't know. I wasn't I wasn't I don't know. It doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_03 6:53

Uh she didn't ingram.

SPEAKER_07 6:54

Was her mom hot? Ingram yep.

SPEAKER_03 6:57

I was like, what I want to come here after recess.

SPEAKER_07 7:01

We had a neighbor built a pool. Oh, they had a they didn't just have an Atari 29600, they had a Commodore Vic 20. They were like super rich. Okay, and super dickheads. Because when I would go to their door and no, when I wouldn't sometimes because they thought I was a Costco pack or too big for the other kids.

SPEAKER_05 7:23

In our wall.

SPEAKER_07 7:24

They were calling me a big fatty too.

SPEAKER_02 7:28

Oh.

SPEAKER_07 7:32

No, they but they had a Commodore Victorian. Oh, uh, what was it? Uh there was a company called um Lennox. It's a furnace company, and apparently he was a big wig at Lennox. I don't, he was probably a fucking marketing manager or something like that in today's parlance.

SPEAKER_03 7:48

He had a what is it?

SPEAKER_07 7:50

Uh he had a Commodore Victoria. Commodore. He bought the mom was a stay-at-home mom. She didn't have to work. My mom had to work all day, every day. You know, she had a firebird, and he drove a Riviera, and they had a Vic 20, and they put in a pool. And they were assholes, they were assholes. You know why? Because when I was cam canvassing for trees for Canada with my Cub Scout troop, oh, Mr. Vale gave at the office. Well, that's impossible because we don't canvas offices, Mrs. Vale. Why can't you put in $2 for a fucking tree? God, now I'm all upset.

SPEAKER_01 8:24

Yeah, you are. You're a little heated.

SPEAKER_07 8:26

I'm getting all upset with the fucking rich people. And it's like we didn't live in the fanciest neighborhood. I guess they wanted to live inexpensively in the house. Well, they did put a second floor on their fucking house.

SPEAKER_05 8:38

Can I can I guess what you're gonna say? Where I'm supposed to say what I'm supposed to say, but now I already don't remember. Is it a waterbed?

SPEAKER_07 8:47

No.

SPEAKER_05 8:47

Oh no. That was one of them. I had a friend who parents had a waterbed.

SPEAKER_07 8:53

Oh, listen, I had a friend. Wow. He had a waterbed.

SPEAKER_05 8:56

Yeah. Todd's parents Todd's brother had a waterbed.

SPEAKER_07 9:00

Didn't he sell drugs though?

SPEAKER_05 9:02

No, just a list.

SPEAKER_07 9:09

I'm gonna go through the list and let's kind of discuss some of them. And so it's like, did you have that rich friend growing up? Did you think when you went in like a new friend? Right? You meet the new friend at school and you're like, oh, you know, let's be friends. Okay. That's how kids become friends.

SPEAKER_06 9:25

Let's play double gutch at Reset.

SPEAKER_07 9:26

I like your I like your jeans. We're best friends now. I have jeans. Sure, okay. Let's get on our bikes and ride. Remember that? So you get but then you get to their house and they have a fridge with an ice maker and water. Yeah.

unknown 9:43

Wow.

SPEAKER_07 9:44

You know what's your parents must be rich. You have a fridge that makes water.

SPEAKER_05 9:47

We have a fridge that makes water and also an ice maker, like inside. Like I don't because I don't like it at the front of it. Um, and I've had kids come over to the house.

SPEAKER_07 9:55

I don't like it at the front. You're bougie. You are you're a rich bougie.

SPEAKER_05 10:00

I have heard I have heard some of the friends that come into our home just say little comments to the kids, like, you have water in your fridge. Like, so I mean these days?

SPEAKER_07 10:10

Yeah, I'm I got a list of things that kids get these days that we thought they were the ones who made all the money, not the parents.

SPEAKER_05 10:16

Yeah, no, I I hear it in my house, just over the refrigerator, which is pretty fabulous. It does make me feel like very in the vintages.

SPEAKER_07 10:24

All right, so listen, I am going to admit that the last house we lived in was pretty large.

SPEAKER_05 10:28

It was.

SPEAKER_07 10:29

And I remember a couple of Liam's buddies walking into Liam's room going, Jesus, dude, it's like a fucking hotel room in here. He did have a very substantial bedroom with an ensuite. Um, we now live in squalor.

SPEAKER_01 10:42

Oh, yeah, right.

SPEAKER_07 10:44

But you know, you do hear the comments. Yeah, you know what? I think that if when I was a kid, I walked into somebody's house and went, dude, you guys have a pool table? Yeah, we have a pool table. If you're fucking rich, like that I guarantee you the dad's kind of sitting there going, Hey, uh, look at me. Eight-year-old thinks I'm a fucking Richie Rich. But a fridge, that that was a big thing to me. Oh, if you had another fridge somewhere else in your house, like in the basement or in the garage, really, why can you afford two fridges?

SPEAKER_03 11:20

Because, well, yeah, I guess.

SPEAKER_07 11:23

Do you remember in Back to the Future when Marty first meets his like grandparents and his aunt and uncle? God damn it, Sadie. All right, so he meets his grandparents because he gets hit by the his his great grandfather hits him with the car when he was actually supposed to hit George. Okay, that's why the whole thing happened, right? Where he was getting erased from existence, and I'm getting way too into this. And he's he's like the his uncle, who's seven, eight, nine, ten years old, says, Do you have a television? He goes, Yeah, you know, we've got two of them. He goes, Two of them? You must be rich. Two TVs.

SPEAKER_04 11:56

Two TVs.

SPEAKER_07 11:57

That to me was you guys have a TV upstairs and downstairs? Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 12:02

Nintendo, Nintendo was a big thing. Nintendo was a big thing. Nintendo first came out.

SPEAKER_07 12:05

A ColecoVision, because that was like the creme de la creme. That was like a ri I had a buddy whose parents even a laptop. Remember laptops. Well, they were like that. That was big news.

SPEAKER_05 12:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 12:17

That was you, you you knew they were rich before you saw the laptop because you saw their house and it was a fucking mansion.

SPEAKER_05 12:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 12:23

Um, we talked about pools. If they had a trampoline, now we remember we're thinking like kids. We're not thinking today, because a trampoline you could get a fucking Costco for 10 bucks, right? But if I well you guys not only have like that metal swing set that constantly comes out of the ground when you're swimming, you also have a trampoline, a real one that we like better than the one we have at school.

SPEAKER_05 12:47

You had a whoa, wait, you had a trampoline at school?

SPEAKER_07 12:50

In high school, yes, but not in primary school. No.

SPEAKER_05 12:52

You had a trampoline in high school?

SPEAKER_07 12:54

Uh yeah, we had, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 12:55

Oh, you went to a rich school.

SPEAKER_07 12:57

No, I did not. I went to a very poor Catholic school with about 900 students. We were not rich.

unknown 13:03

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 13:03

But we did have Jesus.

SPEAKER_01 13:07

So here's what you actually said that I wish, I wish the the viewers could see your face when you said that. That was perfect.

SPEAKER_07 13:15

So when I first met you, we were in your parents' basement.

SPEAKER_06 13:18

Me?

SPEAKER_07 13:19

Yes, like 30 years ago.

SPEAKER_06 13:21

Why?

SPEAKER_07 13:22

I don't know. Is this some some somebody's birthday and we were in your parents' basement? I thought that you were rich. I thought your parents were rich. Well, you too, because you hadn't moved in with Todd yet. You were still living at home.

SPEAKER_04 13:33

Wow, really?

SPEAKER_07 13:34

I thought you were No, actually, you and Todd had already moved out. Because you were a world famous Canadian actress at the time. You bought you bought a you'd already bought a house.

SPEAKER_05 13:43

At twenty-six, baby.

SPEAKER_07 13:44

I thought your whole family was rich.

SPEAKER_02 13:46

Really?

SPEAKER_07 13:46

Well, your dad owned his own business.

SPEAKER_02 13:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 13:48

And when I went down into that basement. Oh, because of the pool table? Pool table, a bar, yeah. Uh the wall unit with the big screen TV and the fucking sectional leather couch. Nobody can afford a sectional leather couch except for your dad. Maybe it's all the heash he was selling on the side, too.

SPEAKER_02 14:06

Yeah, could be.

SPEAKER_07 14:07

Your mom's running coke up and down the 400.

SPEAKER_02 14:12

In your dad's drug car.

SPEAKER_07 14:13

Your dad's drug truck from his windows business.

SPEAKER_05 14:16

He has that old uh Mercedes. I call it the cocaine car.

unknown 14:20

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 14:20

He actually looks like a cocaine dealer driving it with his like silver hair flowing in the wind. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 14:24

Okay, so I grew up, my our basement was finished, but it's not a real basement. It's like because our house was kind of a split level. And the basement was finished when the house was built. But I always knew that somebody had money when their basement was finished, but it looked like an actual. It didn't look like my basement. My basement was, and God bless my mom, I would never besmirch her. Big word.

SPEAKER_03 14:45

Bismirch? Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 14:47

So our basement was a 70s basement that was probably decorated not by my parents, it was probably decorated by the people who owned the house prior.

SPEAKER_05 14:55

Right.

SPEAKER_07 14:56

Like Wainscotting and just no full wood pan, full wood paneling and shag carpet. But if you went over to someone's house and they had the low pile gray carpet, all the walls were white. They had a built a bar built that made out of wood, not just fucking drywall. We had a bar. It was like four feet, not even four feet long, but literally made out of like two by fours and wall paneling. Like it was ghetto. But you know, you go into somebody's base, your dad and mom and you had that basement. I never thought of myself as so you know the really short gray everybody put that or Berber carpet in their basement. Yeah. It was clean. It looked like the 80s, 90s. It wasn't a 70s basement that was probably already there when your parents bought the house.

SPEAKER_05 15:44

No, they redid it.

SPEAKER_07 15:45

Yeah. So you're well, your dad's a builder, right? So and Todd's a builder, so that's why your house looks like a fucking mansion, too.

SPEAKER_05 15:51

Bob's a builder.

SPEAKER_07 15:52

Bob the builder. So I thought people with a a a true finished basement. So when my dad bought his house in the late, he bought a house in the late 80s. Yeah, I kept asking him, when are you gonna finish the basement? Because I wanted my friends to come over and hang out with that.

SPEAKER_05 16:10

When are we gonna look rich, Dad?

SPEAKER_07 16:11

Yeah. Oh, meanwhile, sorry. Fuck.

SPEAKER_05 16:14

I know. Well, next last next time.

SPEAKER_07 16:16

I'm never giving you that fucking straw.

SPEAKER_05 16:18

It's like a Canada's Wonderland cup for this.

SPEAKER_07 16:20

I'm giving you a straw. Smaller cup and no glass and no straw. Meanwhile, my dad drove a Chevette.

SPEAKER_04 16:27

Oh Chavette.

SPEAKER_07 16:28

Right? Like he was, I don't know, he'd rather spend his money going into New York or Las Vegas. Okay, so here's a couple other things.

SPEAKER_05 16:33

If you had a basement in the bathroom, what you might want to try that again. Could you imagine having a basement in your bathroom?

SPEAKER_07 16:43

Wow. You must be like Elon Musk. You've got a basement in your bathroom.

SPEAKER_03 16:48

What about a day?

SPEAKER_07 16:49

A bathroom basement. Holy rich. A bathroom basement. Like I thought that that was like Oh, but see. Your parents had a bathroom basement. No, they don't. No. In the house, then they that I in the who they've been there for like 40 years, right?

SPEAKER_05 17:02

Yeah, no, they had they don't.

SPEAKER_07 17:04

So you had to go upstairs to pee. How plebeian?

SPEAKER_05 17:06

Oh, another big word for you. Well, not for you, for me.

SPEAKER_07 17:10

Um, a spiral staircase was one thing. If you had a spiral staircase, you were super, super rich. Uh or if you had a computer room. I had a friend whose dad set up, he worked in IT. I don't even know what it was called back then because it wasn't called IT, but he had an entire room full of computers.

unknown 17:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 17:28

I was like, what the fuck do your parents do, man? Because here's the thing. Back then, yeah, things were cheaper, especially if you had two incomes, right? So if your mom was making 25 grand a year and your dad was making 30 grand a year and you paid eight grand for your house, yeah, and you bought a Chevette, you can afford a fucking big screen TV and a computer. He had like he had the phone modem thing.

SPEAKER_02 17:52

What?

SPEAKER_07 17:53

You know remember like when you wanted to get online way back before the phone down on these two little things. Yeah. And your phone would talk to what was called the DBS.

SPEAKER_05 18:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 18:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 18:04

Well, I haven't that's crazy.

SPEAKER_07 18:06

I don't think anyone I haven't thought about that since I haven't.

SPEAKER_05 18:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 18:10

Um, I always thought that if you had canned pop in your fridge.

SPEAKER_05 18:15

I was just gonna say bowls of candy or bowls of like yeah, food on your counter.

SPEAKER_07 18:20

But are like cans of pop in the fridge? Like if your dad had enough money to your mom too, if your parents had enough money to buy a 24-pack of cans of real pop, because we had six cans of the no-name pop or pop shop. Yeah, we could never have a hey pop shop is expensive.

SPEAKER_05 18:38

Well, maybe it wasn't.

SPEAKER_07 18:40

We were treated to it maybe once. Okay, but like if you had the real pop in cans, you were rich.

SPEAKER_05 18:47

Same with like Lay's chips and not like the off brand.

SPEAKER_07 18:50

We ate no name. Well, my mom didn't really buy a lot of chips because she's like, we have chips at home. I'm like, we're talking about buying chips for home. Well, they're already there. No, they're not.

SPEAKER_05 19:00

I can't with the whole chip thing. So we do the yellow no-frills bag. They are $1.47 or whatever they are. When we do a movie night, I always say to the kids that you can have you know anything, anything you want. You know, of course, fans like Miss Vickies. I'm like, it makes me so mad. Why don't you get a job? And then and then Smith likes the um uh what is it uh the Cheetos? And I'm like, again, another fucking six dollar bag. It's nauseating. I can't I hate it.

SPEAKER_07 19:30

You're you've turned your kids into a bunch of bougie bougie booze.

SPEAKER_05 19:34

It's only if we do like a treat, like a family night. That's the only time we do it. But otherwise, I just buy those yellow bags that they can crush. Which they do.

SPEAKER_07 19:44

Um here's a couple of other ones that I just kind of remembered. Um I knew someone, this might be a bit out in left field, but a van or a vehicle with a phone or a TV in it.

SPEAKER_00 20:01

Okay. Yeah. I I'm guilty. We have a uh TV in the in the van.

SPEAKER_07 20:07

Okay, so now we're to that's today, but imagine back in the 70s or the 80s and your dad drove TV it been. It would have been propped up in front of the couch. He probably had like a pedo van or something like that.

SPEAKER_05 20:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 20:21

No, but like my cousin. So we had my mom's cousin, her and her husband lived in Pecton, small town, you know, in the Prince Edward County in Ontario.

SPEAKER_06 20:33

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_07 20:34

He had a he had a van.

unknown 20:37

Right.

SPEAKER_07 20:37

He had the typical 70s van, a little bit boosted in the back, shag carpet.

SPEAKER_05 20:42

With the cool with the cool window, either like the diamond window. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 20:46

You'd get in the van, he'd be driving, he'd have a fucking Ryan Coke in the cup holder. Of course. Small town Ontario. He's driving around with a fucking drink in his hand. They lived on 15 acres. They had an above-ground pool, they had snowmobiles, they had a gr a separate garage in the back of the property. I thought they were just filthy rich. I would never say anything to my mom about it because I I didn't want to like even back then I didn't want to make my mom feel badly because she was a single mom.

SPEAKER_01 21:16

Yeah, of course.

SPEAKER_07 21:17

But I thought they were fucking rich. They weren't. He worked for Canada Post, and she was a and pardon for the to use this term, but it's stay-at-home mom? No, she was a secretary.

SPEAKER_05 21:28

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 21:29

And that's just a timeline relative, not now. She was an executive assistant. They didn't have a lot of money. They just lived in a town where not everything costs the same. Like buying 15 acres in a in a 2,000 square foot house. They had Pong. Do you remember the original Pong? Like a tabletop video game where you played tennis? Yeah. It was called Pong.

SPEAKER_05 21:51

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 21:51

They had one of those. They didn't just have it on a on a They had the actual They had the actual one that you would only ever see in an arcade. Like, you guys are fucking rich. They weren't. He worked for Canada Post. He actually got injured at work and ended up collecting disability for his most of his life. So disability paid apparently really good in the fucking 70s.

SPEAKER_05 22:12

I feel like if they had a daughter, you'd marry her.

SPEAKER_07 22:15

Just be like, No, no. My cousin actually was a complete asshole to me every time we saw him.

SPEAKER_06 22:22

Oh.

SPEAKER_07 22:23

And then about I don't know, 20, 15 years later, he and his wife were having dinner at the keg. And I walked by the table. It wasn't my table. I walked by and he tapped me on the arm as I walk by and he goes, I'm your cousin Brian. I'm like, Yeah, I remember you. He goes, just a sec. And he stands up and goes to my belly button. He goes, I'm gonna apologize for all the times I treated you like shit. I was like, I don't know, we're all good, man. Get the fuck out.

SPEAKER_02 22:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 22:52

So I'll free dessert for you. I kicked him out of the fucking restaurant. And I tripped his wife into the flower bed. Okay, all right, Scott. Um, people who ate brand name cereals. We never had, we had like, we had no name. We had the yellow box cereals. What are frout loups? What are round fruit flavored cereal, mom? They're fruit loops, just eat them. Shut up. They were literally made in the same factory, by the way.

SPEAKER_04 23:18

Cheerry rounds.

SPEAKER_07 23:20

Cheery rounds. Not cheerios. Cheery bys.

SPEAKER_04 23:24

Cinnamon toast cook.

SPEAKER_07 23:26

Did you have when you were growing up, did you and your brother and sister have brand and name cereal?

SPEAKER_05 23:31

Um, well, first of all, I didn't eat cereal.

SPEAKER_07 23:34

Oh, that's because you were having sushi and eggs for breakfast from your from your maid and the butler before they chauffeured you to school. Oh no, I actually fancy schmancy coffee.

SPEAKER_05 23:44

All right, okay, alright. Take a step back there, bro.

SPEAKER_07 23:47

No, now I'm getting angry.

SPEAKER_05 23:49

Uh, I don't remember. I don't remember at all. I remember what what's up? Oh, I missed my mouth. Uh I do remember my mom buying some really fun snacks. Do you remember buried treasures? Am I getting that right? I don't know because I was poor. The ice cream that had the little stick on it, and there was something inside. Like uh Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_07 24:16

I think we bought those for Liam once or twice. He didn't like them. It was an ice cream bar that when you got to the middle of it, it was a dinosaur or something.

SPEAKER_05 24:22

Sure, something like that. It's weird. I don't know. But I remember those. I remember um pizza bundles or like oh no, we couldn't have those. Pizza pockets and stuff. No, we were too poor for that. So maybe I did have it.

SPEAKER_07 24:34

We didn't even have pizza pizza.

unknown 24:36

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 24:36

We never had takeout. Okay. Never. Although my mom is a fucking amazing cook and an even better baker.

SPEAKER_05 24:42

Yeah, same, same.

SPEAKER_07 24:43

She's a master baker.

SPEAKER_05 24:44

Is she? She is. My mom's a really good cook.

SPEAKER_07 24:46

So we never, well, although when she was going through a divorce with my father, she was making us mints and fucking you know, potatoes for dinner. And one Thanksgiving we had fish sticks, but that had nothing to do with the fact that she couldn't cook. She just didn't want to fucking cook. Nice. But okay, I'm gonna I've been waiting to bring it up.

SPEAKER_05 25:05

Okay. I can't even remember what I'm supposed to say.

SPEAKER_07 25:08

Oh fuck, you don't remember what you were gonna say? I don't know. A sunken living room.

SPEAKER_05 25:14

Oh yeah, there we go. We have talked about it.

SPEAKER_07 25:16

You were fucking rich. Oh, yeah. You know what?

SPEAKER_05 25:19

If I could build, if I could build a house like from the ground up, I would do it.

SPEAKER_07 25:24

And you'd be bougie. Now you'd be rich. You'd be like Van and Van's buddies would come over. Yeah. And Van would be like, uh, would you like to sit in the sunroom or would you like to be in the living, sunken living room?

SPEAKER_05 25:35

It's like having high ceilings.

SPEAKER_07 25:37

Muffy, get me a martini.

SPEAKER_05 25:38

Why are you saying muffy? Muffy.

SPEAKER_07 25:42

Biff, Biff, bring me a martini, my friends.

SPEAKER_01 25:46

Make sure my drink is smoked.

SPEAKER_07 25:49

Make sure I want it smoked. And bring me one of those ice creams with the dinosaurs in them. Here's one. Going to Disney. If I had a friend whose parents took them to Disney, I'd be like, are you fucking kidding me? Bro, I still think that. We were lucky if we got to go to Sudbury to see an ant.

SPEAKER_05 26:07

Anyone that goes to Disney, I'm like, you must have lots of the cash out lap.

SPEAKER_07 26:10

Well, didn't you just recently do that?

SPEAKER_04 26:12

I didn't go to Disney.

SPEAKER_07 26:13

Or Mexico or something. Cuba.

SPEAKER_05 26:15

What are you talking about?

SPEAKER_07 26:16

Oh, that was a free cruise. Okay. So you're a Mooch, not a Richie. Having a cottage. Okay. That was huge. Your parents have a cottage. You've you're slowly look at your eyes. You're slowly realizing that you grew up bouge. I don't you're Sadie La Bouge, not Sadie the Doug.

SPEAKER_05 26:34

I don't remember having a like.

SPEAKER_07 26:37

I mean, we have I mean Oh, you have to take the boat to the cottage because it's on an island.

SPEAKER_05 26:41

Well, no, but my parents Oh, by the way, I've never been invited.

SPEAKER_07 26:44

My parents never been invited. Don't skip past it. I've never been invited.

SPEAKER_05 26:47

All right. I've looked you in the eyes long enough. You've never been invited. Stop with that face. Um it's not my cottage to invite FYI. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 26:56

Really? Because Henry and everybody else has been.

SPEAKER_05 26:59

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 26:59

Anyway, having a cottage.

SPEAKER_05 27:01

My parents got that cottage when they were like 50. They were like my age. I was old.

SPEAKER_07 27:05

They had money.

SPEAKER_05 27:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 27:07

That doesn't matter that they you were older.

SPEAKER_05 27:09

I think they bought it for like 60 something thousand dollars, and they were like they bought it around a uh like a fire pit with the with the people that were selling it.

SPEAKER_07 27:19

They bought it around a fire pit. So they bought the fire pit and there just happened to be a cottage there.

SPEAKER_05 27:23

They happened to be at um a cottage they go to, and it was like, yeah, we're gonna sell and what do you want for it? Like it was a weird transaction. Yeah, sure. Yeah, you know, that's how my lawyer that's how it happened.

SPEAKER_07 27:34

They're many lawyers does your dad have on retainer.

SPEAKER_05 27:38

I don't know.

SPEAKER_07 27:40

Well, here's the bigger one.

SPEAKER_05 27:41

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_07 27:41

If you had a cottage in a boat, okay, you were a big time, big time. I remember we my buddy and I went up to our other buddy's cot parents' cottage. Parents' cottage. He was just a guest as well, really, but he obviously, you know, why don't you come up to my cottage? Boat, jet skis, barbecue on the deck at a cottage. We didn't have that. We had a fucking you basically had to go into town and get charcoal.

SPEAKER_05 28:08

Where was your barbecue?

SPEAKER_07 28:10

It was on the deck.

SPEAKER_05 28:11

So why?

SPEAKER_07 28:12

No, no, at a cottage.

SPEAKER_05 28:13

Oh. Where else are you gonna put it?

SPEAKER_07 28:16

Uh you don't afford one because you can't afford a fucking cottage, Sadie.

SPEAKER_04 28:21

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 28:21

You afford a cottage and then you buy a $2,000 fucking barbecue.

SPEAKER_06 28:25

Oh.

SPEAKER_07 28:26

Fuck me.

SPEAKER_06 28:27

All right.

SPEAKER_07 28:28

His his dad owned his own business.

SPEAKER_02 28:30

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 28:30

His mom was stay-at-home, but like they fucking they had the moolah.

SPEAKER_02 28:34

The mama.

SPEAKER_07 28:35

They had the the cheddar.

SPEAKER_02 28:37

The cashier. How many times you got the dollar bills. Dollar bills, bro.

SPEAKER_07 28:43

Um, here's one that's a little bit more minor.

SPEAKER_03 28:46

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 28:47

Um, but parents who bought movie theater snacks.

SPEAKER_03 28:51

Ah.

SPEAKER_07 28:52

We're gonna sneak them in. Oh, yeah. That's too expensive.

SPEAKER_03 28:54

I'm still uh you still do that.

SPEAKER_07 28:56

I still do that. And that's just on principle. That has nothing to do with the fact that you're bouge.

SPEAKER_05 29:01

Yeah, no, I yeah, no. I do it every once in a while. We'll go all out. But yeah, say if I'm I'm taking like a bunch of kids, because I'll do that for the kids. Like, you know, they have a sleepover. I'm like, oh, we'll take the kids out for a movie. No, I pack. I at least do like the juice boxes and like go to the dollar store and get the candy and stuff, and then just buy the popcorn.

SPEAKER_07 29:20

All illegal, all way against corporate policy.

SPEAKER_05 29:23

It's already a hundred bucks to bring them off. It's kind of ridiculous.

SPEAKER_07 29:27

I don't think the last time I went to the movie theater to see a movie was Top Gun Maverick. What was that, six years ago?

SPEAKER_05 29:33

Yeah, I thought you always went to the movie.

SPEAKER_07 29:34

I fall asleep now because they put in recliners. Okay. Liam's constantly elbowing me, Daddy, wake up. I'm like, don't fucking hit me.

SPEAKER_05 29:42

Don't tell me he does not call you daddy.

SPEAKER_07 29:44

You say, hey, wake up. I'm like, you fucking nudge me one more time, and I'm gonna launch you across this theater.

SPEAKER_05 29:50

I'm gonna press your recliner button and you're gonna go go gas it.

SPEAKER_07 29:53

Flip you over. Well, okay, so now let's progress kind of into our teenage years because you start to gain a more intelligent view of what things cost. Uh-huh. Like, for example, if you had a friend whose dad drove a Cadillac, you had to think he was rich. Is he a lawyer? Is he a doctor?

SPEAKER_05 30:09

Or even like a just a uh like a what am I trying to say? A convertible.

SPEAKER_07 30:13

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 30:14

Yeah. Convertibles were a big thing.

SPEAKER_07 30:16

Actually, my dad had a convertible, but it was a cheap car. It was of crazy. Oh, come on. Give him some. It was a company car. They're like, what do you want? He's like, I want a LeBaron convertible. And they're like, okay. Ridiculous. Everybody else was totally jealous of him, though.

SPEAKER_01 30:30

Yeah, you loved it.

SPEAKER_07 30:31

Actually, his next company car, as a little aside, his next company car, the you do you deal with a leasing company. So they basically say to you, here's what you're allowed to get. Yeah. Right? Here's the category that you can get at your level of job. Yeah. And come most companies don't give company cars anymore. They just give you a car allowance, right? Yeah. Go buy your own fucking car. But it was um, they're like, he's like, Well, what do you have? She's like, Well, you're allowed to have, or the person on the phone was allowed, you're allowed to have this, this, this, or this. And he's like, Well, what about that car? Well, that's used. So technically, yes, you can have it. And it happened to be a Cadillac. It was the nude design Cadillac. They were smaller, they weren't these big boats. It was the late 80s, right? Every other person at my dad's level complained that he got a Cadillac and they didn't, because they were driving like a Malibu, you know, or like a like a Impala or something. Where's my car? Where's Tom get a cat? And he'd be like, it's got 60,000 kilometers on it. I actually am saving the company money because it's cost us less money, right? So anyway, all right. So I always thought that people were really rich. If I walked in their house and well, this is early mid-80s. Mid-80s, I was already in my 30s, though. Built-in microwaves. That was a big thing. Not just sitting on the corner of the counter, like the big monstrosity. Built in means your kitchen is built around that fucking thing.

SPEAKER_05 31:55

Yeah, no, that's a good one.

SPEAKER_07 31:57

That was huge. Um matching dishes.

SPEAKER_05 32:02

What?

SPEAKER_07 32:03

Matching dishes. Like your mom broke out the match.

SPEAKER_05 32:05

You didn't have matching dishes? Are you of China?

SPEAKER_07 32:09

No, no. Now we do. And it was my parents' China, which my mother never used because it was her wedding China, and my father left her, but the whole other sort of if they had a kitchen island, I thought they were rich. Oh, okay. Because that means their kitchen was bigger.

SPEAKER_05 32:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 32:22

That was a huge thing. Yeah. What did your friends have?

SPEAKER_05 32:25

Oh gosh.

SPEAKER_07 32:27

Um was there anything you remember? Like we had that one friend whose mother and father were fucking super rich. Like their house was 8,000 square feet.

SPEAKER_05 32:36

Yeah, I mean, I have a friend like that too, without naming her, but um I would say like a massive garage with like hydraulics like that could lift up another car.

SPEAKER_07 32:50

Right, and park another one underneath it. I never even saw that. I I was not running in the same circles as you, clearly.

SPEAKER_05 32:57

Yeah, yeah, which is crazy.

SPEAKER_07 32:59

We didn't even have we had car ports.

SPEAKER_05 33:01

Right.

SPEAKER_07 33:01

Oh my god, you have a garage door? You have a garage with a door on it? Right, you must be rich. Or even like a little bit as a fucking lean to.

SPEAKER_05 33:08

Or like a like um a bar area in their like just a prep area with a prep sink in like the other side of the kitchen.

SPEAKER_06 33:17

Right.

SPEAKER_05 33:17

That's like really close to the um, what do you call it, a pantry, like a walk-in pantry.

SPEAKER_07 33:22

If they had that, right? Like or a butler's pantry.

SPEAKER_05 33:25

Yes, you know where I'm going with this. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_07 33:28

They were filthy rich. Never knew that. Never knew that. Never did. I did did a group.

SPEAKER_05 33:32

I'm literally looking for their son.

SPEAKER_07 33:35

Bye-bye, Ty.

SPEAKER_05 33:36

Where's he at? He's only 15.

SPEAKER_02 33:38

I don't care.

SPEAKER_07 33:39

I remember I started dating a girl whose parents lived in a condo.

SPEAKER_04 33:43

Oh.

SPEAKER_07 33:44

And the condo had a movie room and a billiard room and a pool. And I was like, what the fuck? This is like, and you have a like, I had to go through a guarded gate.

SPEAKER_04 33:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 33:55

A literal person had to call up to allow me to go into this building. I was like, geez, this is fancy schmang.

SPEAKER_03 34:02

It's Fort Knox, man.

SPEAKER_07 34:04

It is. Um, what else? Kids that went to summer summer camp. If you if you're like, what do you do in the summer? Oh, probably drink out of the hose and get poison ivy in the woods. What are you doing? Oh, I'm going to summer camp. Did you go to summer camp?

SPEAKER_05 34:19

I went to summer camp once.

SPEAKER_07 34:22

There we go. And actually Shady is bought.

SPEAKER_05 34:24

No, I went to once. I went once. I was 15.

SPEAKER_07 34:28

15. What do you do at summer camp at 15? I went once when I was 10, and it was a charity. We got it for free.

SPEAKER_05 34:34

It was an art camp.

SPEAKER_07 34:35

Oh, God. Yeah. So there was a lot of heesh and sex.

SPEAKER_05 34:38

No, there was not.

SPEAKER_07 34:40

A lot of heesh and sex. We were a good girl.

SPEAKER_05 34:43

No. Well.

SPEAKER_07 34:44

Actually, it was the Bible camps that were fully headed.

SPEAKER_05 34:46

Yeah, I was gonna say. We were good.

SPEAKER_01 34:48

We were we were we were good.

SPEAKER_07 34:51

Um here's one I remember being invited to a birthday party, and it was somewhere else besides McDonald's. It was like a bowling alley, like they rented out a bowling alley. I was too old for Chuck E's. Like I wasn't going, I wasn't being in when Chuck E. Cheese came to Canada, I was already in my 40s.

SPEAKER_05 35:11

So I wasn't getting invited. I went to Chuck E. Cheese when I was little.

SPEAKER_07 35:14

So when we we I was too old when Chuck E. Cheese came around. It was like we got to go to the bowling alley. If they rented the bowling alley, the whole bowling alley? Well, three or four lanes. I'd usually get in trouble because I'd end up throwing something in a gutter.

SPEAKER_03 35:28

I have seen you bowl.

SPEAKER_07 35:30

Not bad with 10 pin. I suck at five pin. Yeah, I'm not used to holding such small balls.

SPEAKER_03 35:37

That's what she said.

SPEAKER_07 35:39

Uh what else? Oh, skiing. That was expensive. That used to piss me off.

SPEAKER_05 35:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 35:44

What are you doing this weekend? Oh, my parents are taking us skiing.

SPEAKER_05 35:49

That's why I haven't even taken my kids skiing. I can't afford that. It's crazy.

SPEAKER_07 35:53

But when we start to translate it into today's terms, if if I if if my buddy was like, oh yeah, we go skiing every weekend, I don't think he's rich. I really don't. That and the fact that he drives a fucking 15-year-old Subaru, he's just a cheapskate and prefers to spend money on certain things. But he's not a he's not a lesbian, and neither is his wife.

SPEAKER_05 36:17

He could be trapped in a man's car.

SPEAKER_07 36:19

But he doesn't have a pool. He just he paid off his house in fucking 10 years. Like, but he's not rich. But so skiing to me doesn't say rich anymore. A finished basement doesn't say rich.

SPEAKER_05 36:29

Can we pause for a second?

SPEAKER_07 36:30

Literally, or figure out.

SPEAKER_05 36:31

No, no, no. I my blood sugar is dropping. I need to eat something. Oh. Like I'm starting to shake and get grumpy. Can I run downstairs and just grab like the nuts or something?

SPEAKER_07 36:42

Yeah. These nuts?

SPEAKER_05 36:44

No.

SPEAKER_07 36:45

Oh god.

SPEAKER_05 36:46

Not now. Put these on because it gives me a headache. I hate glasses.

SPEAKER_07 36:55

Hey, if you want to get rid of glasses, get cataracts like me. Is your bum gonna get wet?

SPEAKER_05 37:01

I actually do have a little cataract starting in the house.

SPEAKER_07 37:04

Oh, go see my guy. Knees, hips.

SPEAKER_03 37:09

Oh, cataracts.

SPEAKER_07 37:12

Yeah. Blood sugar. We're back. Sadie had to boost her blood sugar. So we're back. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 37:18

I was, yeah, I was fading there. If you couldn't tell, I was starting to like, oh God, get me out of here. I am getting my ass is getting wet. Oh fuck, my ass is really wet. That's right.

SPEAKER_07 37:31

Why did you put the glass on the chair in the first place?

SPEAKER_05 37:34

I don't think I did. I mean, I might have. I I actually was feeling a little crazy. So I might have.

SPEAKER_07 37:43

Alright, so you can survive?

SPEAKER_05 37:45

No.

unknown 37:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 37:46

Alright, so a couple couple other things. Before and then we're gonna play a game.

unknown 37:51

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 37:52

But here's some things that started getting a little bit more fancy schmancy the older we got, and you still thought that people were rich when they had call waiting on caller ID. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Or they had a cordless phone.

SPEAKER_04 38:04

Yes, cordless phones, everybody.

SPEAKER_07 38:07

They were sitting by the pool. Yeah. Muffy, bring me the phone. Beef snaked in the pool again, Muffy. If they had a printer beside their computer, like the big white computer, not just a Vic 20 anymore. And now we've got we gradually got better and they had an actual computer.

SPEAKER_05 38:24

Oh my god, phones with call display.

SPEAKER_07 38:27

Yep.

SPEAKER_05 38:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 38:29

I remember the first time we got that. It was it was commonplace then. But before that, if you walked into somebody's, I walked into a buddy's house, his dad was an entrepreneur. Dude, I can tell who's calling. He's like, Yeah, it's called it's called visual call display. So cool. Oh, pardon me. Yeah. You know, fucking Richie Rich.

SPEAKER_05 38:47

Yeah, so cool. Um and you could see everyone that had called just to make sure your friend, you know what I mean? Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 38:55

We kind of mentioned this, we kind of mentioned this with um, oh, I remember I had a friend. You could answer the phone through his television set. What? I don't even think you can do that nowadays.

unknown 39:04

What how?

SPEAKER_07 39:05

I have no idea, but you could answer the phone through his TV.

unknown 39:09

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 39:10

He never actually demonstrated it, so maybe he was full of shit. A little bit full of shit. But if they had a printer or internet before anybody else, if they had a camcorder, that was a big thing too.

SPEAKER_05 39:24

Yes, that is a really big thing. I remember my wish my parents did, because I would I want to see what I was like as a child.

SPEAKER_07 39:31

I have no video. I have no zero video. Neither do I. No, I have like stupid photos.

SPEAKER_02 39:36

Yeah, me too.

SPEAKER_07 39:37

And there's no like you can't even tell what your voice sounded like. Because that would be the thing. It's like, oh my god, listen to my voice. Yeah. Well, that was. I remember my dad worked for a company, and there were like three other guys that were at the same level as him. And then their boss wouldn't, and they all kind of lived in the same town.

unknown 39:55

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_07 39:56

And you we would go over to each of their houses, and I'd be like, Why the fuck do they have all this nice stuff? And you haven't even finished your fucking basement. Like, what the fuck is going on? You're driving a Chevet, he drives a Cadillac. You guys have the same job, you're just in a different department. Uh-huh. Like, what the fuck?

SPEAKER_01 40:14

Did you repropriate him?

SPEAKER_07 40:15

Like, did you actually Well, no, because I knew what he was doing. He was fucking going to Vegas every other weekend to fucking play blackjack or New York to go see and play Muffin. That was his thing. That's what he spent money on. He didn't spend money on his fucking kids. Fuck him. Oh, I'm just kidding. I love you, Dad.

SPEAKER_03 40:30

That's a whole different episode.

SPEAKER_07 40:32

A TV with picture in picture, even like back then in the 80s, early 90s. Well, that doesn't matter, but if you knew somebody who had a TV that did that, oh, didn't impress that don't impress me much either. Uh big stereo system was a big thing.

SPEAKER_06 40:48

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_07 40:49

Um, a fax machine at home, that blew me away.

SPEAKER_06 40:52

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_07 40:53

All right, we're gonna play a game.

SPEAKER_06 40:55

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 40:56

Rich or regular?

unknown 40:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 40:58

Okay. So I'm gonna read you um different things, uh-huh, and you're gonna tell me if they were rich. Now, think about it in various levels of your life, but try to keep it as much as like what your initial reaction may have been. And some of them we've already talked about, okay? So but just rate them rich or regular. Okay. Here's some easy ones. Fridge with ice and water in the door.

SPEAKER_06 41:22

Rich.

SPEAKER_07 41:23

Rich. Yeah. Okay. Having a pool, rich. Lunchables for lunch.

unknown 41:28

Oh.

SPEAKER_07 41:29

That's like kind of like no, really? That's like it was like kind of a miniature charcuterie board.

SPEAKER_05 41:35

No, no, no, no. No, you don't think so? Uh-uh. Uh-uh-uh-uh-uh.

SPEAKER_07 41:40

Okay, so that was regular.

SPEAKER_05 41:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 41:44

Ordering dessert at a restaurant.

SPEAKER_02 41:46

Rich.

SPEAKER_07 41:46

Mm-hmm. We'd go to Swish LA. Can I get ice cream? No, we got ice cream at home.

SPEAKER_01 41:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 41:52

Fuck you. You know what? Since you asked, walk home. You know how many times I had to walk home from Swish LA?

SPEAKER_05 41:58

Stop it.

SPEAKER_07 42:00

Uh here's some more. Like these are, you know, a garage fridge full of pop and beer. We thought they were either. No, it's actually it's rated here as being regular.

SPEAKER_05 42:10

Really?

SPEAKER_07 42:11

So that's kind of now.

SPEAKER_05 42:12

No, that's right.

SPEAKER_07 42:13

Uh I thought you were okay. Here's I know what the answer for me would be. Having more than one bathroom in your house. Regular. Are you doing this the rest of the show with your eyes closed?

SPEAKER_05 42:23

Yeah, some time I'm I'm you fall asleep on your microphone. No, I just need to eat. I need to eat. And oh, here's one. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 42:31

A bedroom phone. A phone in your bedroom.

SPEAKER_04 42:35

Regular.

SPEAKER_07 42:36

Now, but if if your friend had a phone in their room.

SPEAKER_05 42:40

I had a phone in my room. When I was like 12.

SPEAKER_07 42:45

A bowl of tack uh you mentioned this earlier, a bowl of decorative soaps that nobody could use. Rich.

SPEAKER_05 42:52

Rich.

SPEAKER_07 42:53

A carpeted bathroom.

SPEAKER_05 42:56

First one, gross. And two, gross. No, that's there's nothing rich.

SPEAKER_07 43:03

It's funny. You know what I labeled it? I didn't label it rich or regular. I labeled it ridiculous.

SPEAKER_04 43:09

It's gross.

SPEAKER_07 43:10

No, gross. Listen, carpet in the bathroom, yes, please. Please go and check that episode, folks. Um I brought this is this is where I got a sunken living room. Oh yeah. You're totally rich. Owning a bread maker or any kind of maker. Um did you have one growing up? No. Your mom didn't have one?

SPEAKER_04 43:28

No, she did that shit by hand.

SPEAKER_07 43:30

Did she get a heash roller though? Sure did. Here's here's the big one. Okay. Central VAC.

SPEAKER_03 43:39

Oh that oh my goodness. Yeah. Totally forgot about Central VAC.

SPEAKER_07 43:43

Um that meant it was a new house.

SPEAKER_05 43:46

Yeah, that's rich.

SPEAKER_07 43:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 43:48

We had Central VAC when we when my dad built that house in Ashburn, but before that we didn't.

SPEAKER_07 43:53

All right. We're gonna do some lightning round ones, and you just got to answer really quickly. Okay. So I'm gonna go through them quickly, meaning you need Answer them quickly.

SPEAKER_04 44:01

Oh, I'm here waiting.

SPEAKER_07 44:02

Hot tub. Magic towels. Cottage. Rich. Cable in your bedroom. Rich. Freezer full of meat.

SPEAKER_02 44:09

Rich.

SPEAKER_07 44:10

Piano nobody played. A dog with professional grooming.

unknown 44:15

Regular?

SPEAKER_07 44:15

A bathroom with two sinks. Rich. A driveway with two cars. A chandelier. Spiral staircase. Rich. Big wooden entertainment unit. Rich. Camcorder. Rich. Freezer full of popsicles. Rich. Computer desk with a printer shelf.

SPEAKER_01 44:27

Rich.

SPEAKER_07 44:28

Okay, there we go.

SPEAKER_01 44:28

There we go.

SPEAKER_07 44:29

Alright, so we got some listener submissions.

SPEAKER_01 44:31

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 44:32

Amanda from Boston, Massachusetts said, I thought anyone with a fridge that had water and ice in the door. Now there might be repeats of what we talked about, but you know, everybody has the same thoughts. Ice in the door was unbelievably wealthy. I remember standing in my friend's kitchen just pressing buttons like I was visiting the future.

SPEAKER_01 44:47

Right.

SPEAKER_07 44:48

Trevor from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Welcome, Trevor, to the show.

SPEAKER_01 44:52

Hey Trev.

SPEAKER_07 44:53

If your parents bought snacks at the movie theater instead of sneaking them in, I assumed you owned a yacht. Michelle here goes Moncton, New Brunswick. Moncton, New Brunswick, Sadie's favorite area.

SPEAKER_05 45:07

Oh no, my favorite area is Sackville.

SPEAKER_07 45:11

Sorry. The women in the Maritimes love you. Michelle from Moncton, New Brunswick. I thought people with matching bedroom furniture were rich.

unknown 45:20

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 45:21

My room looked like every piece of furniture had been rescued from a different divorce. Jason, in not too far away in Peterborough, Ontario, if you had a finished basement with a TV and a couch, I thought your family had made it.

SPEAKER_02 45:33

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 45:33

Bonus points if there was a mini fridge. That's the thing. So here's the thing with a mini fridge.

SPEAKER_05 45:38

I know I want to get one for the kids.

SPEAKER_07 45:40

You get a normal white fridge in your house. Then your parents decided to maybe do a little bit of things and get new appliances because some guy convinced them stainless steel was the thing. You kept that white fridge. Now, if you had the stainless steel fridge already, but you had a mini fridge, that means you on by purpose bought that fridge for the basement. So you were rich. You had disposable income. Krista from Oshawa, Ontario. I thought lunchables were for rich kids. I had a sandwich and a bread bag and an apple with bruises. Poor Krista.

SPEAKER_04 46:12

With bruises.

SPEAKER_07 46:13

Well, she did grow up in Oshawa. Sorry, Krista, we love Oshawa. The Schwizzle, the Schwag. The Schwaggity, the Schwa. Uh Derek also agreed with us. He said having a trampoline meant money. Have a trampoline and a pool meant I assumed your dad was a lawyer.

SPEAKER_05 46:30

Yeah, the pool thing is is a real thing.

SPEAKER_07 46:32

Leanne from Kingston, Ontario said, I thought anyone who went skiing was rich. You had the clothes, the equipment, the lift tickets, the hot chocolate. It felt like a sport invented by people with second homes. I think nothing has changed about that, FYI. Oh, really?

SPEAKER_05 46:48

It's still a rich person thing to do.

SPEAKER_07 46:50

Which you and you guys go every weekend? Oh, God, no. You leave your mansion?

SPEAKER_05 46:54

No. A flame mansion. No, no. Oh, the maid cleans it?

SPEAKER_07 46:57

You have a pool table.

SPEAKER_05 46:59

I do.

SPEAKER_04 46:59

That turns into a ping pong table.

SPEAKER_07 47:01

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 47:02

What?

SPEAKER_07 47:04

Chris from Coburg, just right here, here. I should find him.

SPEAKER_03 47:07

The Coburg.

SPEAKER_07 47:08

If your family had a dishwasher, I thought you were rich. If you had a dishwasher and didn't use it, I thought you were insane.

SPEAKER_04 47:15

What about just hiring a dishwasher?

SPEAKER_07 47:17

We had a dishwasher once. My uncle bought my mom a dishwasher. But it wasn't in we could she didn't have it installed into the countertop and hooked up. You had to roll it across the kitchen and hook it up to the faucet.

SPEAKER_05 47:29

I know. I think did Blam and Papa have that? I think they did.

SPEAKER_07 47:36

She found it to be such a pain in the ass. She got rid of it. She sold it.

SPEAKER_05 47:39

Oh yeah. No, no, thank you. That should be more way more convenient.

SPEAKER_07 47:42

Okay, so here's one from Melissa in Ottawa. Kids with brand name cereal, I thought were rich. If you had cinnamon toast crunch, you were living better than the rest of us.

SPEAKER_05 47:51

Okay. I d the cereal thing is just like anatomy. Like I we didn't we I don't even think we were a cereal family.

SPEAKER_07 47:57

Oh, really? It's because you guys were having eggs benedict on the yacht at the cottage Murphy. Kevin from North Bay, Ontario said I thought people with central air conditioning were rich. So did I. Yep, totally. We never actually talked about that. We had one fan that everyone fought over, like it was a family heirloom. Yeah. So that's true. Oh, great. Here's one. Guess who this is from? I thought a Cadillac, uh I thought a Cadillac was the creme de creme the creme de la creme, Pia Sadie rules. Who do you think is that? Fucking Rachel from Texas.

SPEAKER_05 48:32

Oh, yay! I was trying to think of like someone that I actually know right now.

SPEAKER_07 48:35

No, Rachel from Rachel.

SPEAKER_02 48:38

I love Rachel.

SPEAKER_07 48:39

She thought it, she always thought if you had a Cadillac, that was the creme de creme. I'm not gonna read Pia Sadie rules again.

SPEAKER_05 48:47

Thanks, Rach. Me and Rach, you know the way back.

SPEAKER_07 48:52

Let's see if the okay, here let's let's where does Rachel live? Texas.

SPEAKER_05 48:56

Texas.

SPEAKER_07 48:58

Alright, so I'm not I I have I so I looked this up. I didn't read the entire article, and what I did was I just I just kind of googled like articles similar to being rich.

unknown 49:07

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 49:07

Or article like funny news stories.

SPEAKER_06 49:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 49:12

So I guess these folks didn't realize what they had bought. But what they did was they bought a derelict mansion by accident.

SPEAKER_06 49:20

What?

SPEAKER_07 49:21

They bought a derelict big word. Mansion. Other big word. They bought an abandoned mansion for dirt dirt cheap online, but the sight unseen. That's not being rich. Well, but it's a mansion.

SPEAKER_06 49:34

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 49:36

So but well, let's let's go through the article together.

SPEAKER_06 49:39

Let's go through the article together.

SPEAKER_07 49:41

Let's experience it together. My girlfriend Claire. No, you're too far. My girlfriend Claire and I both uh had both been to Scotland just once before. Me as a kid, Claire, for a medical school interview. I'm English, she's Canadian, and we met in the French Alps. Oh, they're already rich. Like, what the fuck? We quick we clicked traveled around Europe, got into our heads we should move to Glasgow. Wanting a project, we looked at auction auction auction.

SPEAKER_04 50:12

Oxygen?

SPEAKER_07 50:13

Auction listings found an apartment in Polk Shields Southside. I don't know whether that's probably England or Scotland somewhere.

SPEAKER_04 50:19

Sounds like it.

SPEAKER_07 50:20

Uh it needed some love, but the starting price was 10,000 pounds. Before deciding to bid, I'd spent a few nights sleeping in my van across the street from it. That's weird.

SPEAKER_04 50:31

Wait. Okay, that makes no sense that she's sleeping in her van.

SPEAKER_07 50:34

No, this is the guy. With Claire away, I ventured on the sale alone. It was my first time at a property auction. I took my seat and waited patiently. The problem was auctioneers speak fast, and this one had a strong Glaswegian accent. I would Glaswegian is somebody who's from Glasgow, by the way. I was really struggling to follow. Thankfully, a brochure on No, so he's thinking he's bidding on this little apartment. I was really struggling to follow. Thankfully, a brochure on my seat contained the details for every lot. So a lot is an item listed in a you're gonna punch me yet.

SPEAKER_06 51:07

Kind of.

SPEAKER_07 51:08

While the screen behind the stage displayed its corresponding number, I ticked off each sale as my copy in my copy as we went counting down. When our listing was next in the book, I prepared for a bidding war to erupt, our limit was 40,000 pounds. So I expected winning to be a struggle. When our property came up, something was glitching with the screen. I hoped other would-be buyers might miss their moment. As things commenced, nobody else bid. I assumed people were tactically waiting. Here goes. I thought I'd raise my hand. 10,000 pounds. You, sir. I couldn't believe when nobody tried beating my opening offer. Then a few things happened at once. The gavel fell, the screen switched on, and the bloke next to me asked in my ear, mate, have you seen that place? I looked up and it and was filled with dread. The number on the page in front of me and the one on the screen were definitely not matching, so he didn't bid on this little apartment. Someone had mentioned the last few minute additions to the set uh for to the sale and hadn't been in the booklet. The penny dropped. What did I bought? It had been the penultimate property, so I anxiously I sat anxiously and waited. The last one was meant to be for 87,000 pounds. Auction over, I disappeared as quick as I could, blah, blah, blah. When I finally spoke to Claire, so on and so forth, and they ended up buying a derelict mansion. It's massive if you see the photo of this. Now this poor bastard bought a mansion for 10,000 pounds and he's forced to renovate it. You should see the debris.

SPEAKER_05 52:44

That's not a bad thing. He's a blessing in disguise.

SPEAKER_07 52:49

Oh my god, that poor bastard.

SPEAKER_05 52:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 52:51

Just because the glitch and he read the book wrong. What can you do?

SPEAKER_05 52:56

What can you do?

SPEAKER_07 52:58

All right, we've got an issue. We have one listener review. You ready to hear it?

SPEAKER_05 53:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 53:03

This is five stars from Jen in Hamilton.

SPEAKER_05 53:07

Hey Jen.

SPEAKER_07 53:08

This is the her the username is Jen in Hamilton, all one word. Sadie and Scott somehow turn random everyday grown-up stuff into hilarious hilarious conversations. I started listening at work and now half the office listens too. It feels like sitting near the funniest table at a restaurant pretending not to eavesdrop. She didn't say anything like Rachel would say, which is Sadie rules. Alright, so your top three, give me your top three richy rich things. Actually, I'm gonna put a bit of a twist on it. Top three rich or rich things you thought were richy rich when you were a kid. Now it's like who cares?

SPEAKER_05 53:47

I'm not following.

SPEAKER_07 53:49

Okay. So 20 years ago, if somebody bought an iPad, oh my god, you're rich. Now all three of your kids own an iPad, right? So something you notice is three things you notice as a kid, or even up to let's say 20 years ago. Like no 12-year-old had an iPhone, now they all do. So you thought that 12-year-old who had the iPhone 20 years ago was rich. So three things that you thought back then was richy rich, and now you're like, man, I could buy four of those.

SPEAKER_05 54:18

Video console.

SPEAKER_07 54:19

What the fuck is a video console?

SPEAKER_05 54:22

Like a video game. Video games. Oh, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_07 54:24

Like a Switch or like a PS5 or something like that. How many do you have?

SPEAKER_05 54:28

One. Two.

SPEAKER_07 54:29

Two? Which one's two?

SPEAKER_05 54:31

I don't know.

SPEAKER_07 54:31

Is one upstairs in the parlor beside the pool table?

SPEAKER_05 54:34

I don't play them.

SPEAKER_07 54:35

Well, what are they? A PS5? A bad Xbox?

SPEAKER_05 54:38

Yeah, I I think it's an Xbox.

SPEAKER_07 54:40

Is it upstairs in the in the parlor?

SPEAKER_05 54:43

No, it's a little parlour.

SPEAKER_07 54:44

It's down in the main living the sunken living room.

SPEAKER_05 54:47

It's definitely a cell phone. I can't even think right now. I feel like extra stupid right now. Again, I think my blood sugar.

SPEAKER_07 54:59

You're super manopausal pre-mana. You're super paramenopausal.

SPEAKER_05 55:02

I need to actually wrap it up. Like I'm starting to sweat and get frustrated. Um I don't know. No, you go. I'm giving up. Tapping out. I'm so tapped out. I'm so sorry, people. I'm just Sadie out. I'm Sadie out. What are yours?

SPEAKER_07 55:18

Oh, uh the usual things. Like, um, 25 years ago, I would never think my my son would have a phone. Now he's on his seventh one, like, because he keeps fucking breaking them. Yeah, they're stupid. I love my kid though.

SPEAKER_06 55:29

I knew you.

SPEAKER_07 55:30

There was a few things that like like my dad didn't own a cottage until he was in his like sixties, right? But they scrimped and saved to dry to try to buy a cottage. But like I thought that it was bougie to have a cottage. That was the biggest thing.

SPEAKER_04 55:46

Right.

SPEAKER_07 55:46

And if your dad had a Cadillac, he was like, yes, I don't know, CEO of IBM or something like that. It was about the cars. It was a big thing for boys. I don't know if girls ever yeah, you see like you say that to me and it'd like, okay. Boys were like, you know, you girls would be like, oh, my dad drives a fucking jag. You'd be like, what the fuck is that? I don't care. Doesn't impress me. That don't impress me. So no, it was Cadillacs, it was like sports cars, that type of thing. So you ready to wrap it up?

SPEAKER_05 56:16

Oh god, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 56:17

You want to go home?

SPEAKER_05 56:17

Yeah, more than you know.

SPEAKER_07 56:19

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for listening to this week's episode of Sadie and Scott. We hope you enjoyed listening to it as much as we did bringing it to you. Don't forget to check us out on our socials. Right now we're doing the Facebook and the TikTok.

SPEAKER_04 56:30

The TikTok.

SPEAKER_07 56:31

You please, if you've got something that you remember as a child that you thought was really rich and bougie, kind of like the way Sadie lives now. Oh gosh. You sent feel free to send it to us in an email at uh starttalkingpod at gmail.com. Or reach out to us on Instagram or Facebook at Start Talking with Sadie and Scott on Facebook and Sadie and Scott Pod on the TikTok. More TikToks to come. Sadie.

SPEAKER_00 56:56

Hi.

SPEAKER_07 56:56

Are you ready?

SPEAKER_00 56:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 56:58

Rock, paper, scissors. One, two, three. I win.

SPEAKER_05 57:04

Thank God.

SPEAKER_07 57:07

I was kind of hoping. You were hoping I was gonna win.

SPEAKER_05 57:09

Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_07 57:10

So should I just draw this out?

SPEAKER_05 57:12

No, please, I need to go.

SPEAKER_07 57:18

We're over now.