BHAVNEET: I’m starting. Two. One. That’s what I got. Director’s Cut edition. Drive with us podcast.
TARANJIT: I was counting down and I forgot the three. Two.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. it’s kind of like when people say okay do you want me to count to three or do you want me to just do it?
TARANJIT: No, but…
BHAVNEET: Please count to three. Okay, one. Two.
TARANJIT: No. You know usually people when they are counting down, they go like three two and they mouth the one. I just skipped the three and went two.
BHAVNEET: It’s kind of like my stomach is flat but the L is silent.
TARANJIT: Yes.
BHAVNEET: You told me that this morning.
TARANJIT: I saw a quote. Like the thing on Pinterest.
BHAVNEET: You didn’t say that that was you. But you saw the quote.
TARANJIT: Yes.
BHAVNEET: I thought that was funny. Lots of silence happening.
TARANJIT: Well, welcome back to Drive with us because she’s not gonna welcome you this time like she always does.
BHAVNEET: I did. I said directors director’s cut of Drive with us podcast.
TARANJIT: Yes, well welcome because she didn’t literally say welcome.
BHAVNEET: Welcome, everybody. Indian movie. There I started this episode with a hair.
TARANJIT: Oh my gosh.
BHAVNEET: Losing hair again.
TARANJIT: Every time we’re recording now she rips hair out of her head.
BHAVNEET: I don’t rip hair. You making it sound like this is for good luck. I don’t rip it out.
TARANJIT: She pulls a chunk out.
BHAVNEET: My hair falls out. I’m losing hair.
TARANJIT: And she just puts it on my nightstand.
BHAVNEET: So you will have creepy dreams. I don’t know.
TARANJIT: Creepy dreams of hair?
BHAVNEET: Yeah, I keep finding hair.
TARANJIT: Stop ripping it out.
BHAVNEET: I’m not. It’s just everywhere. Well, it’s not just…
TARANJIT: So. Since we ran out of time on the last podcast because we were going on for a long time.
BHAVNEET: The last poda…
TARANJIT: On the last podcast.
BHAVNEET: Okay.
TARANJIT: Can you understand me?
BHAVNEET: No.
TARANJIT: Before you found another one. What was I gonna say? You kindof…
BHAVNEET: What were we talking about?
TARANJIT: You interrupted my thought. My cover…
BHAVNEET: We didn’t have time or last podcast.
TARANJIT: What I was saying.
BHAVNEET: We didn’t have time on the last pomp om. I just said pomp om.
TARANJIT: We didn’t have time on the last podcast to talk about this, but it went so well with the rabbit hole I was going down. So I wanted to just start this podcast with it.
BHAVNEET: So we’re going back…we haven’t gotten out of the rabbit hole. We’ve been stuck in it ever since the last episode.
TARANJIT: But we’re so close to getting out.
BHAVNEET: Are you sure?
TARANJIT: Maybe.
BHAVNEET: Okay.
TARANJIT: I think I see the light at the end of the tunnel. But I don’t know.
BHAVNEET: We are in a tunnel that has lights now?
TARANJIT: Yes.
BHAVNEET: Gosh. I thought we were in a rabbit hole.
TARANJIT: There can be a tunnel in the rabbit hole.
BHAVNEET: That is a very sophisticated rabbit community.
TARANJIT: In his house.
BHAVNEET: He has a tunnel in his house?
TARANJIT: He’s a rich rabbit. So he has a huge plot of land.
BHAVNEET: Okay.
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: Tell me more.
TARANJIT: I don’t have any more.
BHAVNEET: Of this production.
TARANJIT: I don’t know anyone.
BHAVNEET: Oh, that’s it. Okay.
TARANJIT: But I came across this forum where someone posted it was a Pennsylvania driver posted about a Maryland driver.
BHAVNEET: Wait, what? Yeah. What do PA drivers think about Maryland drivers? Because we know what Maryland drivers think of PA drivers.
TARANJIT: I don’t know how I came across this forum. But someone posted a question. There is a whole conversation going all between Pennsylvanian drivers and Maryland drivers.
BHAVNEET: Wait. Between them?
TARANJIT: They were each posting on their back and forth.
BHAVNEET: What? I need to know what PA drivers think.
TARANJIT: So someone started the forum with this question. They wrote do people…do Pennsylvania people hate Marylanders?
BHAVNEET: Because Marylanders apparently don’t like PA drivers. Or they blame everything on PA drivers. Which maybe they should look at themselves a little too because we’re not the greatest drivers.
TARANJIT: Yeah, so I mean like Marylanders…Marylanders blame Pennsylvania-ers. And then it’s vice versa PA…
BHAVNEET: Do they?
TARANJIT: According to this one.
BHAVNEET: Okay, let’s…
TARANJIT: So I have so this…should I say the person’s name who posted it like the handle? Username?
BHAVNEET: Yeah, go for it.
TARANJIT: Danwxtheman said..
BHAVNEET: Okay.
TARANJIT: In response to this guy’s question. Only when they are in PA and think the rules of the road don’t apply here. But I’ve seen people from PA do the same thing in Maryland. So he’s basically saying Marylanders are worse bad drivers in PA and PA-ers are bad drivers in MD.
BHAVNEET: So they’re like…are you saying that all the crazy people the PA drivers that we see in Maryland that we are like, oh my God, it’s a PA driver. They don’t do that in PA? Maybe they don’t because their roads are so bad that they physically can’t do it.
TARANJIT: Yes. So…
BHAVNEET: I don’t…
TARANJIT: Or it is a payback for how Marylanders drive in Pennsylvania. Then they get to Maryland and they’re like, well, I’m gonna drive like this Maryland.
BHAVNEET: Well how do Marylanders drive crazy? Is it because they’re like, Oh my god, these roads suck and they are like, what do I do?
TARANJIT: And then another person Bnepler.
BHAVNEET: Pler. B. N. P. Pler.
TARANJIT: P. L. E. R. B-N-E-P-L-E-R. They’re like, they don’t they hate New Yorkers.
BHAVNEET: Okay, well, because on the other side. So are you from Northern PA?
TARANJIT: Yeah. That’s what I was saying.
BHAVNEET: You have not experienced Maryland drivers.
TARANJIT: So I guess it really depends what part of Pennsylvania you’re at.
BHAVNEET: Pennsylvania is huge.
TARANJIT: So what about western Pennsylvania? Do they hate…
BHAVNEET: Ohioans.
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: Because Pennsylvania is so different where you go depending on where you go. Like East PA is way different than West PA. And it’s like two different countries. It seems like. So different. But. Yeah.
TARANJIT: Yeah. And then I was scrolling some more and then Marody? I don’t know how to say it.
BHAVNEET: You know how you said B-N-E. Epler?
TARANJIT: Uh-huh.
BHAVNEET: It’s probably B Nepler. Like first name last name.
TARANJIT: B-N-epler? B. Nepler?
BHAVNEET: Yeah. Like last name Nepler. First name B.
TARANJIT: Marody.
BHAVNEET: My brody.
TARANJIT: Said when they they said do…you know the question was do Pennsylvania people hate Marylanders, and she’s like when they move here or he. I don’t know if it’s a he or she.
BHAVNEET: I don’t know.
TARANJIT: When they move here.
BHAVNEET: I don’t know why you assumed it was a girl.
TARANJIT: For the purposes of paying lower taxes because people do that.
BHAVNEET: They do that. So why is that a bad thing? Huh? Do you live in PA and work in PA? Why do you have a…
TARANJIT: So ike she also continued…that’s like the first sentence.
BHAVNEET: Okay. Why is that a bad thing though?
TARANJIT: She went on to say that…or he she.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. Why are we assuming.
TARANJIT: Marody went on to say Marylanders want massive yards which eat up farmland. It just seems greedy and they don’t realize the negative effect they have moving here while commuting to Maryland. Well this person is grumpy about Marylanders.
BHAVNEET: Yes they are.
TARANJIT: Moving to Pennsylvania.
BHAVNEET: But if they…there are a lot of farms in Maryland, too.
TARANJIT: No. They’re basically saying that they hate that Marilyn Marylanders are buying land on on land buying houses on land, they used to be farms but was sold for housing to develop houses and bought a house on that farm.
BHAVNEET: So they are just…that’s not technically their fault. It is whoever developed the houses fault.
TARANJIT: Yeah, but they’re saying that these new houses are being built and they’re bigger and they have big yard and they have like two car garages and Marylanders are coming here because it’s lower taxes and they’re taking these bigger houses that are being built.
BHAVNEET: Well are you grumpy because Marylanders are doing that or grumpy because you didn’t get one? Like what?
TARANJIT: Yeah. Like are you just jealous?
BHAVNEET: Yeah. Like I don’t understand why there’s a problem so much that people are living in one state and driving to another. Because in our last episode we just talked about like people drive across…like especially around here. Maryland, Virginia, and PA. People drive across state lines to go to work all the time like even DC.
TARANJIT: Because it is more affordable.
BHAVNEET: Yeah.
TARANJIT: Well in terms of living cost.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. Exactly. Like a lot of people come into Maryland but live in like Pennsylvania or Virginia or even DC. Like…
TARANJIT: So a lot of people in this forum like the PA residents.
BHAVNEET: Yeah.
TARANJIT: Were saying how idiotic it is for Marylanders to live so far away so that they can have a big house and only to commute for two hours to their work
BHAVNEET: I don’t have a big house and I commute three hours. What are you talk about?
TARANJIT: Yeah, so I think they’re just…
BHAVNEET: Salty.
TARANJIT: Yes, that’s a good word. But I as I was going more and closer to the end of the forum, this one person, I like what she said. It was a really like well put answer and she was a Marylander who moved to PA and then I guess it was…
BHAVNEET: Now she is a PA person.
TARANJIT: No. But I think she’s done with PA and was ready to go out. So the username was talk2you.
BHAVNEET: Okay.
TARANJIT: And she said well if you know…
BHAVNEET: How do you know it’s a she?
TARANJIT: From the post I could tell the way…
BHAVNEET: Okay.
TARANJIT: Cuz when she signed it I think or something. I don’t know. The way she said it though. It was a way to tell that this one was a lady.
BHAVNEET: Okay.
TARANJIT: But I don’t have the whole thing on here. She wrote well if you know anything about traffic in DC or Maryland you could spend two hours sitting in traffic just to go 30 miles from your job so why not spend two hours go into a house that you like it may not be for you but why are you wasting your time doubting others for how they chose to live their lives? That makes no sense to me?
BHAVNEET: Thank you. I agree with you. Because you are originally a Marylander so you understand.
TARANJIT: Oh no. I just mixed this up with the other person. The next person who commented is a Marylander. Sorry.
BHAVNEET: Never mind. I don’t understand but that’s still good.
TARANJIT: The next person also wrote like a post about like why are you commenting this way is roadjimmy.
BHAVNEET: Road or rouge?
TARANJIT: Road. So I’m guessing this is a guy.
BHAVNEET: Okay.
TARANJIT: He commented exactly why someone commented about like a previous post was about like how you go to your when you live so far and go to work and you tell your secretary I have this huge house and blah blah blah This is why I live so far away and this and that.
BHAVNEET: If you have a secretary of course you gotnna live somewhere and have a big house.
TARANJIT: And this person was like your comment is exactly why I get to work and I tell my secretary I made the biggest mistake of my life moving to PA. So they like going back to this person they’re like the people there hate me because I chose to buy a house on land that a farmer decided wait oh the people in Pennsylvania hate him because he chose to buy a house on the land a farmer decided to sell to a developer I can’t wait until my house sells so that I don’t have to live around such close minded people. They can be rid of me and I can get can be rid of them. Signed one less Maryland or you have to worry about.
BHAVNEET: Wow I didn’t realize that PA drivers are so angry about a farmer’s decision to sell their land. Like it’s not even their fault. They’re just buying a house that somebody already bought from the farmer. Like it’s the developer who bought the lands fault. Not the person who bought the house that’s already built.
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: Like how is that their fault. Like what if you you didn’t even know that it was built on a farm. Be like oh, there’s a house here. It’s nice. Buy it. TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: Like how is that your fault? Like well dang. PA drivers. Not even drivers. PA people can be so angry and mean.
TARANJIT: Yeah, then…
BHAVNEET: Goodness gracious.
TARANJIT: There is one last post on here which was referring to drivers like not just people like live in PA, but a Bpp1999 put it and she was like…he or she. I don’t know who it is. This person said that many people most parts of Pennsylvania are slow moving and timid drivers. This is why drivers from places like Maryland seem rude to them.
BHAVNEET: I don’t know about that. Because are all those crazy PA drivers we see in Maryland people that originally lived in Maryland and move to be a because I don’t think they’re timid.
TARANJIT: They could be those that move there for lower taxes. And then this person went on to say if I lived in rural PA, I would see no problems with educated people moving into my community. It’s funny how the masses are never happy. No one’s happy when they live in an area with no jobs and no future. Then the area suburbanized is and no one’s happy because there’s more traffic.
BHAVNEET: Yeah.
TARANJIT: So no one’s just happy. No one’s ever just happy
BHAVNEET: Way to put on like the facts of life.
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: Yeah.
TARANJIT: I like the last couple of people who commented on this forum because they’re all like…
BHAVNEET: True PA? Like…
TARANJIT: They were just like, Why are you like…it’s their life. Let them live their life how they want to live it like…
BHAVNEET: Yeah.
TARANJIT: You have no right to tell them what to do.
BHAVNEET: If you don’t like it. Move.
TARANJIT: Yeah. Do your own thing. Like, yeah, okay. Yeah. But yeah, I thought this was a funny forum that I came across.
B; I really wanted to know what PA people like because Maryland drivers are always like PA drivers suck and they’re crazy. I don’t agree with the fact that PA drivers are timid drivers because all the PA drivers I’ve seen or not. Maybe they are in like far East or West or more North but like near Maryland, they are not they’re probably all the Maryland people that moved to PA to like, come to Maryland.
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: Which would make sense. But yeah, because if you have lived in Maryland, you know that it’s you don’t get that big of a house. Unless you’re super rich.
TARANJIT: So on a more serious note, did you hear…I don’t know if you heard about on the news or not…about the Amazon wildfires that have been happening recently.
BHAVNEET: Wait. What? Oh, in the Amazon. First you are like the Amazon, and I’m like…I’m like okay Amazon. I like how when someone says Amazon, the first thing you think of is the company that sells stuff like.
TARANJIT: Amazon Rainforest wildfires.
BHAVNEET: There’s more wildfires?
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: First people were just destroying the Amazon. Now the wildfire?
TARANJIT: Burning out of control. So…
BHAVNEET: First it was in California and now it’s in the Amazon?
TARANJIT: So they said that more than 4 million acres have been affected so far.
BHAVNEET: My gosh.
TARANJIT: And this year, there has been so many more wildfires than there has been any years. How many of you think have happened so far this year? BHAVNEET: How many?
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: Oh, it’s not just one?
TARANJIT: No. How many wildfires happened in total this year so far?
BHAVNEET: In the Amazon?
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: 20. More? 500? More? 1000? 10,000?
TARANJIT: Keep going.
BHAVNEET: There’s more than 10,000? 100,000?
TARANJIT: No that’s too high.
BHAVNEET: Oh my God, I don’t know.
TARANJIT: 74,000 have…
BHAVNEET: Oh my God.
TARANJIT: …been reported.
BHAVNEET: I mean the Amazon is pretty huge. But has it really been that like dry are people like starting…
TARANJIT: I think it is not just happening on its own. I feel like it’s also like people starting these fires.
BHAVNEET: Like alive who are just destroying it by just cutting down trees.
TARANJIT: Like agriculture purposes, industry purposes just…
BHAVNEET: That’s…Oh my God. Like so much of the world’s planets like wildlife and species live in the Amazon.
TARANJIT: The rainforest….Amazon Rainforest is basically the like world’s largest like carbon…
BHAVNEET: Well, yeah. Because there are so many trees.
TARANJIT: …dioxide like oxygen producing. Like how people say it’s basically the lungs of our planet and if we aren’t able to properly filtrate this like pollution and like our air quality, like we won’t be able to breathe and if you can’t breathe and you can’t live so…
BHAVNEET: Yeah. So stop destroying the Amazon. Like… What about the people that live there? Because there’s natives that live in the Amazon. The Amazonian people. What about them?
TARANJIT: Yeah, I don’t know. But so there’s like a lot of organizations that are getting together right now to like collect donations and stuff to help deescalate this like damage that’s happening in the rainforestr right now. But yeah, this was in the news.
BHAVNEET: What’s Brazil doing about it? Nothing.
TARANJIT: Yeah. Probably.
BHAVNEET: I liked your face when I said that.
TARANJIT: But yeah, that was my serious story for you. I’m pretty sure you didn’t hear about it. So…
BHAVNEET: No, I didn’t.
TARANJIT: So news for you.
BHAVNEET: No. I didn’t Oh my gosh. How are they gonna control that? Like so 74,000. Like, some of them had to be like small right? And they contain them. But it this like the California incident where it’s just like continuously going on and they can’t stop it? Or is it like they just had so many?
TARANJIT: I don’t know the exact details.
BHAVNEET: But now I want to know.
TARANJIT: Well go down the rabbit hole and figure it out.
BHAVNEET: Okay. Bye. See on the next one.
TARANJIT: That’s it? You’re ending it right here?
BHAVNEET: Well, you said go down the rabbit hole.
TARANJIT: Oh. So now we’re going to single co-host? We are not co-hosting now?
BHAVNEET: Yeah. She’ll take it from here and then I’ll when I come back from the rabbit hole.
TARANJIT: So on the lighter note to switch it to a funnier topic.
BHAVNEET: That was your sadness for the day. Now we’re back.
TARANJIT: Let’s bring some happiness into our world. You know how we created a genius world record a couple episodes ago.
BHAVNEET: Yes. We’re still working on that.
TARANJIT: Well, I was surfing the internet.
BHAVNEET: Hashtag I created a world record by myself.
TARANJIT: As I have been doing you’ve noticed the past couple episodes. And I came across…
BHAVNEET: You what?
TARANJIT: Surfing the internet.
BHAVNEET: Oh.
TARANJIT: I came across…
BHAVNEET: You know how to surf? Teach me. I can’t even swim. How do you know how to surf?
TARANJIT: I know how to surf the web.
BHAVNEET: Oh. Okay. Where’s your board? Surfboard?
TARANJIT: Right here.
BHAVNEET: The keyboard’s the surfboard. Oh, wow. That actually works.
TARANJIT: Yes.
BHAVNEET: Okay.
TARANJIT: That’s my surfboard.
BHAVNEET: Okay.
TARANJIT: It helps me surf. So I came across these strangest weirdest world records in the Guinness World Record for 2019. Why are you laughing?
BHAVNEET: The Guinness World Records?
TARANJIT: Oh my god.
BHAVNEET: This is how we came up with Genius. The Guinness World Records? Like…
TARANJIT: Wow. I can’t.
BHAVNEET: Like Guinness and Ferb. Guinness.
TARANJIT: Guinness World Records for 2019.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. Not the Genius?
TARANJIT: Yes. Not Genius. So the first one…
BHAVNEET: So…
TARANJIT: So…Oh my gosh. Stop making fun of me. I know I’m not…
BHAVNEET: Stop not talking right.
TARANJIT: I know. I can’t talk.
BHAVNEET: We’re gonna make our own genius world record for sounding like geniuses. So…Genius World Records.
TARANJIT: Feeple. What did I…feeple?
BHAVNEET: Yeah. Few people. Feeple. Guinness World Records.
TARANJIT: I can make a record for saying the most wrong incorrect words when trying to say something else.
BHAVNEET: Hashtag.
TARANJIT: Hashtag at the end?
BHAVNEET: Yeah, Does it work that way? We’re geniuses. So I mean.
TARANJIT: Yes. Cuz, we’re so smart. So one of the records was for the most body modifications, and this was set by Ralph. Ralph? Bucholz. I don’t know how to say his last name.
BHAVNEET: That sounds like a creepy one.
TARANJIT: How many piercings/implants does…
BHAVNEET: No. I don’t want to know that.
TARANJIT: …he have on his body?
BHAVNEET: No. I don’t want to know that. I boycott this. Nope, I don’t want to know that.
TARANJIT: Not like I’m showing you a picture.
BHAVNEET: I can see images. It’s disgusting
TARANJIT: Well, I’ll tell you the number.
BHAVNEET: Yeah.
TARANJIT: 516.
BHAVNEET: I was gonna say 500. Oh my God. Is that even possible? Is he even human? Like is their stuff left to be human?
TARANJIT: Yeah. He looked really weird.
BHAVNEET: I don’t want us to see what it looks like.
TARANJIT: I didn’t keep the picture to show you right now. I would have to re-look it up and to show you.
BHAVNEET: Because with like that many modifications like are you even human anymore?
TARANJIT: He literally looked like he was covered in like…
BHAVNEET: Metal?
TARANJIT: Yeah, it looked weird and gross. And I don’t know why.
BHAVNEET: That is not something to be proud of.
TARANJIT: But he made it…do you get anything for being in there? Like money.
BHAVNEET: Their name is just in there for Guinness World Record. I don’t know you don’t know if you get anything other than your name.
TARANJIT: Just being recognized?
BHAVNEET: Yeah. Being world renowned in that book.
TARANJIT: But does that like help you get like…
BHAVNEET: I guess it helps with publicity. I don’t know.
TARANJIT: Progress in life? Like…
BHAVNEET: I don’t know.
TARANJIT: I don’t know. But this next one was most dice balanced on a cat’s paw. And it was set by…
BHAVNEET: Wait. What? Which cat did let this happen?
TARANJIT: It was a Malaysian cat named Bibl. B-I-B-L. How many dice did he manage to balance on this paw?
BHAVNEET: A cat? Like how long…how did they even sit still for that long? For it to be like, okay, go ahead. Do it. I’m waiting.
TARANJIT: It’s literally sitting there like this…
BHAVNEET: Yeah.
TARANJIT: In the picture posed.
BHAVNEET: And they were stacked on top of each other. Like one line?
TARANJIT: Like a tower.
BHAVNEET: How did the dice stay?
TARANJIT: How many of you think?
BHAVNEET: 50.
TARANJIT: That’s a lot.
BHAVNEET: 20?
TARANJIT: Still a lot.
BHAVNEET: 10?
TARANJIT: Getting closer.
BHAVNEET: 8? Why is this even a record? The number that a cat balanced. Like I feel like people just make up the absurdist like things just so they can be in the record.
TARANJIT: Yeah. That’s why…
BHAVNEET: Like we should. We should think of an absurd random one just so we can be in it and be like we started and someone will probably beat us but will be like we were in it.
TARANJIT: Yeah, that’s what I was saying. Like what do you get from this?
BHAVNEET: We should do it. Let’s find one. So can you create your own and just be like I’d like to submit this as a world record?
TARANJIT: Maybe.
BHAVNEET: We should do it.
TARANJIT: We don’t know what their….
BHAVNEET: Because whoever thought of…
TARANJIT: …criteria is.
BHAVNEET: …the most amount of dice on a cat’s paw? Like, seriously. 5?
TARANJIT: But it’s like an accomplishment.
BHAVNEET: 5?
TARANJIT: No.
BHAVNEET: 6?
TARANJIT: No.
BHAVNEET: 9?
TARANJIT: Yes.
BHAVNEET: Cat’s have nine lives. That’s why they did it.
TARANJIT: I didn’t think of it that way.
BHAVNEET: One for each life.
TARANJIT: Oh my gosh. That makes so much sense.
B; That’s why the cats like okay, that’s enough.
TARANJIT: Wow, I did not think of it that way.
BHAVNEET: I didn’t either. But then it just happened.
TARANJIT: it just happened.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. It just happened.
TARANJIT: Genius. That’s why you made Genius World Records. You’re a genius.
BHAVNEET: Hashtag that’s why I’m a genius because I thought of that.
TARANJIT: Hashtag at the end.
BHAVNEET: At the end. So it doesn’t connect to anything.
TARANJIT: You say all that. Hashtag.
BHAVNEET: Yes. What if I did hashtag hashtag? Like hashtag word hashtag.
TARANJIT: Hashtag at the end. I don’t think that’s a thing. But just…
BHAVNEET: Genius.
TARANJIT: Just smush it between hastags.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. Genius.
TARANJIT: I wonder if that would work.
BHAVNEET: I’ll try it.
TARANJIT: Let me know how it goes.
BHAVNEET: Okay.
TARANJIT: Oh. You’re doing right now?
BHAVNEET: Yeah. Gotta know. Everyone wants to know. The listeners want to know.
TARANJIT: Right now?
BHAVNEET: Wait, I should go on Twitter?
TARANJIT: I don’t know.
BHAVNEET: Instagram? What works better? I feel like Instagram lets me see the numbers. Hashtag hashtag Oh, yeah, hashtag word hashtag has 21 million.
TARANJIT: Yeah, I told you it’s a thing.
BHAVNEET: Ha. Hashtag hashtag hashtag has nothing. So nobody better go and do this before I do it. I need to…
TARANJIT: What if you just put hashtag hashtag hashtag. pound pound pound sign?
BHAVNEET: Is that a thing?
TARANJIT: Just make triple hashtag.
BHAVNEET: Will it let that work? Hashtag hashtag No, no, I have to type letters. So maybe it wouldn’t work.
TARANJIT: One more thing hashtag for you to create. To your list of hashtags.
BHAVNEET: Aww. Genius World Record is already a thing.
TARANJIT: Really?
BHAVNEET: Yeah. There’s 204 public posts.
TARANJIT: Can I see? What did people post about it? Can go to it?
BHAVNEET: Can’t click it. This is on the post you silly.
TARANJIT: You silly.
BHAVNEET: I was gonna say goose. But that’s already a thing. That’s not original either. You silly not original.
TARANJIT: What Genius World Records are out there?
BHAVNEET: I’m checking. I’m checking.
TARANJIT: You’re taking too long.
BHAVNEET: Genius world…genius wad. Oh my God, wait. That’s not even a…I think people accidentally misspelled Guinness. Because they wrote breaking world records at Met Life. Hashtag something hashtag genius world record.
TARANJIT: So they just misspelled it?
BHAVNEET: So they just made themselves look funny.
TARANJIT: So it’s not a…
BHAVNEET: Yeah. Hashtag 10,000 people wearing pajamas. Hashtag genius world record. I think people just don’t know how to spell Guinness. So.
TARANJIT: Yeah, cuz when I type when I searched for genius world records in Google it just redirects me to Guinness World Record.
BHAVNEET: Okay. What is this breaking a bunch of watermelons with his head? That’s a waste of food.
TARANJIT: Oh. Speaking of food. The next one’s a food one.
BHAVNEET: Okay.
TARANJIT: So you know how in a in our last not last on a recent episode we are talking about food eating contests?
BHAVNEET: Yes.
TARANJIT: So this year a guy named Kevin S-T-R-A-H-L-E. Strahle. Strahle. He made a record for the most powdered donuts eaten in a minute.
BHAVNEET: What was that? 40?
TARANJIT: 9.
BHAVNEET: That’s it? Wait. What? Nobody could beat that? Nobody probably knew it was a thing.
TARANJIT: How many do you think you could eat in a minute? Powdered donuts? In a minute.
BHAVNEET: Is that kind of like saltines and you can only eat so many?
TARANJIT: I want…speaking of so many. I want to come back to that because I want to tell you something. But how many of you think you can eat?
BHAVNEET: I am surprise that…I guess because nobody has heard of this one. Because I feel like you…
TARANJIT: I feel like it dries your mouth. Like you’re just like kind of like peanut butter.
BHAVNEET: Oh yeah. Because you are like…
TARANJIT: Yeah, so eating 9…
BHAVNEET: What if you just swallowed it? I’m pretty sure someone…that was her. Not me. That was the weirdest noise ver. But no. Because like I feel like someone has to be able to eat more. Like why has nobody eaten like 10? Only 9?
TARANJIT: In a minute. Like you have to try.
BHAVNEET: Yeah.
TARANJIT: In 60 seconds. How many do you think…
BHAVNEET: I want to know who can eat like…somebody out there has to be able to eat more than 9.
TARANJIT: How many do you think you could be in a minute?
BHAVNEET: I don’t know. I haven’t really eaten powdered donuts.
TARANJIT: Probably even won’t get through like 2.
BHAVNEET: I don’t know. I feel like in a minute I could probably eat like three.
TARANJIT: I think I would struggle to get 2.
BHAVNEET: I feel like three.
TARANJIT: Now we gotta test this
BHAVNEET: Yeah, let’s get powdered donuts because I like powdered donuts.
TARANJIT: I do, too.
BHAVNEET: Let’s get the cinnamon one.
TARANJIT: No, we have to just get powdered donuts. I feel like cinnamon wouldn’t work.
BHAVNEET: So…Can we combine our scores?
TARANJIT: That would give us 5.
BHAVNEET: No no, no. Most powdered donuts eaten in a minute by two people Hey, that’s a new record. We should do that and submit it. And be like well you did it with one person. We did it with 2. Feeding each other. Om. Nom.
T; They will be like no. Not two.
BHAVNEET: Well why? That’s so weird. So can anyone do that? Like most graham crackers eaten in a minute like what anything?
TARANJIT: I guess.
BHAVNEET: I’ll do it. We’re gonna submit something.
TARANJIT: We are?
BHAVNEET: Yes. Just see if they accept it.
TARANJIT: Good luck with that.
BHAVNEET: No. But then it is a whole thing because they have to like come and watch you do it and they have to record it. It’s crazy. I feel like our college tried to do a world record once with like exercise balls.
TARANJIT: Yes.
BHAVNEET: The largest like yoga class or something. Exercise balls.
TARANJIT: Did they make it?
BHAVNEET: I have no idea. Never checked back. Probably not.
TARANJIT: Probably not.
BHAVNEET: Because they were just like everyone come out to try and like help I don’t know they actually because they would have totally like publicized that everywhere if they did.
TARANJIT: That’s true.
BHAVNEET: But they didn’t. So I guess they didn’t make it.
TARANJIT: So you know how you were talking about saltines. When I was at the tech center in high school and during one or our…
BHAVNEET: Cuz that’s a thing.
TARANJIT: During one of our lunch breaks, this one kid was like have you heard of the eat this many saltines in this much time?
BHAVNEET: Isn’t it only like 14 or something is a most that anyone can eat at once.
TARANJIT: Yeah, so they were like something…he was like let’s he’s like watch I can do it and then he like got some. Like a bunch of people had order lunch from the cafeteria so they had packs of saltines. So he took everyone’s saltine crackers asking them.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. Which they only have like 3 or so.
TARANJIT: So he took everyone’s packs of saltine crackers, opened them all so he was ready and then someone started the timer and he like didn’t he was so close but didn’t quite make it. So he’s like again. So then went he went up to a cafeteria lady and asked for like X amount of packs of saltines.
BHAVNEET: And they just sold him saltines?
TARANJIT: He was like I’ll pay for it. And then she gave it to him not questioning it the first time but then like other guys at our table were like I want to try so they’re like one by one they were going up and getting…
BHAVNEET: They were probably like what is going on?
TARANJIT: And the lunch lady is like refuse after X amount of times like she’s like…
BHAVNEET: Because they have to give it with the lunches.
TARANJIT: No she was like why? What is going on? And then like that I think one of them ended up saying well the reason and then I don’t remember she was like oh okay and gave it or she stopped giving him but…
BHAVNEET: Oh. I feel like she would have just gave it then.
TARANJIT: That was a that was a lunch.
BHAVNEET: I want to know what the max number is because I feel like I saw it because I feel like we tried to want to like oh yeah there’s no way that you can eat that many because it’s so dry because it our salt eens.
TARANJIT: But yeah.
BHAVNEET: There are eens that have salt. Saltines.
TARANJIT: They are teens that have salt?
BHAVNEET: No.
TARANJIT: Oh that they are salty?
BHAVNEET: Is it salt that has…no. It’s teens that have sal.
TARANJIT: Salt.
BHAVNEET: They are eens that have salt.
TARANJIT: What is…
BHAVNEET: Who is Sal?
TARANJIT: What is Sal?
BHAVNEET: You said they are teens that have Sal.
TARANJIT: Who is Sal?
BHAVNEET: Anyone seen Sal? I don’t even know who Sal is but once you know who Sal is. Have you seen him?
TARANJIT: It’s like where’s Waldo. Where’s Sal? Where Sal. Where Sal.
BHAVNEET: Where’s Sal teens?
TARANJIT: Oh my gosh. I don’t know how to transition into this. I’m just gonna go this direction.
BHAVNEET: Okay, we have uh.
TARANJIT: Shifted gears. Which relates to my topic.
BHAVNEET: Okay. I was gonna say we rocket ship launched.
TARANJIT: We shifted gears. I think I told you this story. But I was coming home one day and it was raining and…
BHAVNEET: As it does a lot.
TARANJIT: It has been raining a lot recently because of the hurricane. But it was raining really hard and I was coming home and there was…I was on the main road and I was going straight and there’s a car sitting on side road trying to turn turn on to the main road but going the opposite direction. So he would have had to cross in front of me to turn and they look like they’re about to go. There was a gap between the car and me the car in front of me and me enough for them if they went originally when the first cut when the car and for me when they would have made it they like were starting to go, but then they hesitated and stopped. And then like as I got super close these like, Ah, forget it. And they went and I thought I was going to drive straight into them. Like I…
BHAVNEET: I hate how people…
TARANJIT: I was coming…because I was coming fast.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. And I was like it’s raining so hard. I can’t slam the brakes because then I will lose control. So I was just like, don’t hit him. Don’t hit him. But then like I just like I don’t like saying curse words, right? So I was just like idiot. Like idiot. That’s all that came to mind.
BHAVNEET: Just see this big flashy light saying idiot. Idiot. Idiot. Like you have this sign that says idiot alert. Idiot alert.
TARANJIT: An arrow towards the car. But like I want to go like honk the horn in that moment because I’m like, I actually was like, honk horn.
BHAVNEET: That’s good.
TARANJIT: But I hit the horn and no sound came out.
BHAVNEET: Your car’s like no.
TARANJIT: My car is too polite.
BHAVNEET: I’m too busy trying to save you. Okay.
TARANJIT: It’s like I’m polite. I don’t yell at other people.
BHAVNEET: What was that for?
TARANJIT: It’s his yelling honk.
BHAVNEET: Oh, okay. I hate how people will like hesitate and then decide to go at the last possible second like you missed your chance.
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: Just wait. I especially hate it when like they do that. And there’s nobody behind me and it’s like you could have waited one more car. You waited this long. If you’re gonna go you should have done it like five seconds ago. Why are you doing it right in front of me?
TARANJIT: I…it was more scary, I guess because it was raining really hard. And I couldn’t really slam on the brakes as much as if it was dry road. I wouldn’t have more control.
BHAVNEET: Did you have a shoulder?
TARANJIT: Yes, but it was raining so hard that I didn’t want to like…
BHAVNEET: Swerve?
TARANJIT: Yeah, but it was kind of like not a steep hill but a little bit of incline. So I was able to just barely you just barely able to go and I was able to slow down enough to not hit him
BHAVNEET: Yeah. Were there other cars coming like behind you or the other way?
TARANJIT: Behind me. Yes. The other direction.. No.
BHAVNEET: Like, they should have just waited. You were about to cause like a how many ever car pile up and add to the Maryland statistic of accidents. That’s crazy.
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: I don’t understand. Like if I hesitate. Then it’s like well, I hesitated too long now I just gotta wait.
TARANJIT: Yeah, then I just wait. And then I’m like. I could have went way far back there. But now I…
BHAVNEET: Well now I can’t because they are right here.
TARANJIT: It’s my own fault.
BHAVNEET: It’s also because I don’t like hit the gas very hard. So it’s like if I got in front of someone, it’s not gonna happen. I would probably just barely pull on to the shoulder because I’m not making it. I like like, I’m so glad when people like this one person though, pulled in front of me. And I was like, Oh my God. And I was going like 60 and I was like ahhh. So I was like starting to hit the brakes, but then they pulled in front of me. Then they moved over to the shoulder immediately so that I could go by them. So I’m like thank goodness that you moved over because we were about to have some not fun times. But I was like that’s okay. someone pulls over but like at least they moved to the shoulder but they did that little too close for comfort.
TARANJIT: Yeah, it’s a little like, why are you doing that?
BHAVNEET: Yeah, like I you may want that thrill but I don’t. I don’t need that adrenaline rush.
TARANJIT: You had a…you struggled there with the word.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. I don’t need that adrenan-an-an-line rush.
TARANJIT: Adrenaline.
BHAVNEET: The powder from the fake powdered donut got stuck to my throat like people butter and then I like adrena-al-aline rush. Because it’s like a-d-r. So adrenaline rush.
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: Oh yeah. You say it.
TARANJIT: Adrenaline.
BHAVNEET: You sounded like you emphasized. Adrenaline.
TARANJIT: Adrenaline.
BHAVNEET: I got some adrenaline. Would you like some adrenaline? Okay, start going. 55 and I’ll pull in front of you.
TARANJIT: What accent are you doing?
BHAVNEET: At the last possible second.
TARANJIT: Now you changed.
BHAVNEET: Like a kid. Adrenaline rush.
TARANJIT: Adrenaline.
BHAVNEET: Adrenaline. What is adrenaline?
TARANJIT: Now it sounds like you’re some other person that doesn’t really know like English is their first language.
BHAVNEET: Gosh. Adrenaline. That wasn’t funny. Why is your nothingness hurting?
TARANJIT: My nothingness?
BHAVNEET: Yeah, cuz you pushed into that’s not where your teeth are. So it’s just like your empty cheek.
TARANJIT: Cheeks are right here.
BHAVNEET: You just squished your whole face.
TARANJIT: You know…
BHAVNEET: My cheeks are right here.
TARANJIT: This whole section are my cheeks.
BHAVNEET: Why are you patting it so fast?
TARANJIT: It feels good.
BHAVNEET: She’s massaging her cheeks.
TARANJIT: But speaking of how my car was polite, we have another commuter story. But this one ends with a complete audience and cheering. So here’s the commute story, as told by Drew from Nostalgia Blast.
DREW: Hey, Brian. So the other day, I was driving around Akron in Ohio. And they have this thing over here in Akron, it’s called the porch rocker festival. And every year they have like 52 different porches where different bands play and it gets really busy at times, they don’t shut off the roads. And people just kind of line up in front of the porches to watch the bands. But when there’s a popular band, like the overflow might go into the street. And like I was trying to drive around, I was trying to drop off my sister -n-law because she was meeting my brother-in-law again, and we and she was kind of navigating me around Akron or whatever. So we pulled down this one street, and there’s cars on the one side and then we get all the way down to the end of the street. And there’s a huge crowd of people all in the street.
BRIAN: So crowd on one side cars slamming the other not a lot of space?
DREW: Yeah, so not a good situation. And I’m driving slow because I’m afraid of someone like running out from behind a car or something. But anyways, I’m going down the road. And then this lady speeds like she’s trying to beat me even though there’s like a quarter mile of cars, there’s nowhere for me to go. And I…
BRIAN: And you are already going. You’re already up the road?
DREW: And I have a taxi behind me. So you know how taxi drivers are. So we come like face to face to each other, like maybe a foot between our bumpers and we just stopped and I just kind of shrug and look at her and mouth. I have nowhere to go. And she just like looks at me and she like gives me this. Like this hissy fit side.
BRIAN: She can’t believe this is happening.
DREW: Which is just instantly Yeah, just instantly ticks me off. And she pulls out her cell phone and just starts acting like she’s texting.
BRIAN: Like looking down. Not even looking at you?
Drew: Yeah, not even acknowledge me.
Brian: And there’s no cars behind her?
DREW: No cars behind her there’s actually a spot where she could back up and get out of the way so I could go past her but she refuses to move and the crowd kind of seeing my predicament I I guess they felt bad for me. They kind of like moved back to give me room and they’re all annoyed too because they’re trying to watch one of their favorite bands or whatever. So they move and I just start slowly pulling around this lady.
BRIAN: Like up onto the sidewalk or just in the space of the crowd?
DREW: Onto the sidewalk. So as soon as my car like our driver side, windows are right next to each other. I stop. And I look at her. And I wait. And eventually she looks up from texting at me and I give her the middle finger and the entire crowd erupted incheers. I’m mouth. You know what I signed to her and she just had this look on her face. And then when the crowd cheered, it was like the first time I ever got cheer for giving somebody the middle finger.
TARANJIT: So Drew’s story reminded me of the predicament we were in when we were at Walmart where we were trying to go down the aisle and this guy started backing up and both had nowhere to go.
BHAVNEET: Except for we literally had nowhere to go. He could have backed up.
TARANJIT: He…I feel like we said this on a past episode we explained the whole story but like if he started back up and notice there’s cars if I was in this situation, I would have just pulled back into the parking space and waited.
BHAVNEET: Yeah.
TARANJIT: But no.
BHAVNEET: Like people are so much like me first. Me first. And that is kind of their situation that they have but plot twist not really plot twist. But like the ending was kind of like…
TARANJIT: I can’t believe people cheered.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. It’s like wow, you got a whole like, was it like a concert or something like that?
TARANJIT: It was a festival.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, listen to this music. You got them to all be like, Let’s cheer for this guy. Instead of the people we are listening to and moves for you. And then like yeah, I can’t believe that the lady’s solution to causing the traffic jam pretty much was let me just pull up my phone and pretend like I’m texting and maybe the problem will go away.
TARANJIT: Yeah, he can figure out what to do. I’m gonna stay right here. And…
BHAVNEET: Iif I don’t see him, maybe he won’t be there.
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: Like, how did you think that was a good idea? Like all he had to do was back up.
TARANJIT: What would you have done in that situation?
BHAVNEET: Honked.
TARANJIT: What would that have accomplished?
BHAVNEET: Be like the angry driver from the other commute story that Elliott shared and go out and start knocking on the window. Be like, excuse me, let me give you a lecture until you back up. Probably won’t do that. But yeah.
TARANJIT: So I think he ended up driving…
BHAVNEET: He like…
TARANJIT: …onto the…
BHAVNEET: Sidewalk.
TARANJIT: Would you have done that?
BHAVNEET: If I had to. Yeah. I wouldn’t do the little ending part that he did, but I would have been very angry.
TARANJIT: That’s what I was gonna say. Would you have shown your anger to her? Obviously not the way he did it.
BHAVNEET: The whole time you’re going, just hold your hand on the horn and stare at her as you drive by.
TARANJIT: Like those um memes that people make or like those posts that people post of people going so slow, and you just like stare at them as you pass.
BHAVNEET: One hand on the wheel. One hand pushing the horn and slowly turn and watch her as you drive by with an angry face. And then only like let go of the horn once you’re 10 feet down away from her.
TARANJIT: That would probably annoy all the people who just cheered for you. They would probably go boo. Because…
BHAVNEET: Or if they were what they didn’t cheer until he was passing.
TARANJIT: Yeah
BHAVNEET: So. Okay, so or you could get one of those people to be like can you go knock on her window and be like move it lady. I need you to all mob her and make her backup.
TARANJIT: Just push her car.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, get one person tell her to put it in neutral and start pushing it. Everyone just or just all mob and start walking towards her like angrily and then she’ll start backing up and then just keep following her until she backs up enough so that you can get out of the way. Get these people to help you.
TARANJIT: Yeah. They already looked like they were on his side.
BHAVNEET: Yeah.
TARANJIT: Well sound like they were on his side. I didn’t see it.
BHAVNEET: A lot of ways that it could have gone but at least he got out and like at least everyone realized and moved and let him go. The sidewalk hopefully wasn’t that like high or anything that he could easily like go on to it hopefully.
TARANJIT: Yeah, interesting.
BHAVNEET: I’ve never heard any situation like that where someone’s like, oh. I’m in a predicament. Let me just start texting or pretend I’m on my phone.
TARANJIT: This is a very like unique different story that I wouldn’t have expected it.
BHAVNEET: Like who did she start texting. Was she fake texting or fake or what she liked text someone and be like, Oh my God now I’m stuck in a like a jam.
TARANJIT: Like this guy.
BHAVNEET: And I can totally back up but I don’t want to. Like maybe if I don’t look at him. He’ll disappear.
TARANJIT: Him.
BHAVNEET: Him.
TARANJIT: The way you said it. If I don’t look at him.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, I was trying to be like that, you know, like…
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: Snotty accent.
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: There’s an accent called snotty. And I tried doing it. It didn’t work, so.
TARANJIT: What accent do you have? The snotty.
BHAVNEET: But Yeah. Nostalgia Blast Podcast. If you are a 90s kid or because the 90s are coming back.
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: Are so into those 90s. Like, I don’t know everything about the 90s because the 90s were awesome, you should check out Nostalgia Blast Podcast. And if you still haven’t gotten enough of the 90s just by thinking about it, here’s a Promo
DREW: Hi, I’m Drew.
BRIAN: And I’m Brian.
DREW: And we are the host of the Nostalgia Blast Podcast, a conversational podcast about everything 90s. From intense Pokémon card trade debates to the long lost days of summer vacation.
BRIAN: We do our best to bring you all those warm, fuzzy, nostalgic 90s memories we all wish we could experience again.
DREW: The Nostalgia Blast Podcast available now on iTunes, Spotify, and more.
BRIAN: Look for us on your favorite podcast listening platform. New episodes available every Wednesday.
TARANJIT: So since we had a story right now from Nostalgia Blast and we just heard what their podcast is about which if you’re interested, check them out. I started to surf the internet.
BHAVNEET: Oh my god. Here we go again. Not going down a rabbit hole. We are surfing now.
TARANJIT: And I came across this article that was called 48 reasons 90s kids had the best childhood. And I pulled it…
BHAVNEET: I think there is more than 48.
TARANJIT: But this BuzzFeed article just listed 48. So I picked out some from there and I just wanted to like I guess reminisce, reminisce?
BHAVNEET: Yeah, I feel like when they…
TARANJIT: About.
BHAVNEET: …say like 90s early 2000s because it’s all like one big lump.
TARANJIT: So it started with number 48 which was like because we tasted heaven. What was this heaven?
BHAVNEET: What?
TARANJIT: Number 48 is a reason why we had it best.
BHAVNEET: We tasted heaven?
TARANJIT: Yes. Where are they referring to us tasting heaven? What is this heaven?
BHAVNEET: No ideas.
TARANJIT: Dunkaroos.
BHAVNEET: How is that heaven?
TARANJIT: Because there are amazing so like.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, when did they stop those? Because I remember when we the only time we had that was when we went to New York to someone’s house and we would just wake up in like the middle of the night and be like I want Dunkaroos.
TARANJIT: I think they are back. I think you can buy them.
BHAVNEET: They are bringing everything back.
TARANJIT: I think you can buy them now.
BHAVNEET: But I mean I feel like that that’s the only time we had them. We would wake up in the middle of night and be like who wants Dunkaroos? I want Dunkaroos. Literally just a bunch of cream like lots of sugar. Lots and lots of sugar.
TARANJIT: In 2012, the last pack of Dunkaroos were sold.
BHAVNEET: Oh man. They have the very last pack.
TARANJIT: And it says that thus, Canadians traveling across the border to the U.S. could sign up to smuggle the discontinued Dunkaroos to adults. They were dying for a taste of nostalgia.
BHAVNEET: So it’s an American thing?
TARANJIT: I don’t know if I feel like they brought them back. I don’t remember
BHAVNEET: I feel like because they’re so did they get rid of them because they’re so bad for you?
TARANJIT: Maybe. A lot of stuff all the foods we had and candies and stuff we had growing up or aren’t good.
BHAVNEET: Not good at all.
TARANJIT: But we survived.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. We turned out okay.
TARANJIT: Number 42. I’m skipping around because I didn’t…48 is a long list to go through. So this one said this is how we had fun in the classroom.
BHAVNEET: Oh my god did you ever play four corners?
TARANJIT: That was well what I was going to talk about but this one was seven up.
BHAVNEET: Oh yeah seven up, Okay that was more fun.
TARANJIT: Did you enjoy playing this game?
BHAVNEET: Yes.
TARANJIT: Well did you like being the person who was up or the people who were sitting down with their thumbs up?
BHAVNEET: I kind of liked being the person who was up and be like can I be sneaky? And will they not guess who I am? And as I’ve heard people be like oh somebody’s hand was really warm. Oh my god your hands cold or your head was wet. It was wet. And then, like some people would totally cheat and be like I saw your pants as you walked by.
TARANJIT: No, but some I’ve noticed push two peoples thumbs down.
BHAVNEET: That’s cheating.
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: Because then more people will stand up than that are up there, and then you’re like wait what?
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: I like being able to like see if I was sneaky enough and go behind the person. And like I would walk past someone else that got had their hand pushed down but I was walked behind the person I want I was going to go push push their hand thumb down. But I would do it from the back where they totally cannot see me. I would walk the long way around to the front where they had no they could not cheat and look at my shoes or anything.
TARANJIT: I hated it when I was like the person who had to push the thumb down and I would push someone’s thumb down and they just kept it.
BHAVNEET: Rejected. I don’t want to go.
TARANJIT: And then I would push it again and they were like, wait did someone push my thumb? So I push it a third time.
BHAVNEET: I think at that point you give up and go to somebody else.
TARANJIT: But then I’m like what if they ended up putting it down, and be like, oh wait. Someone did. And then I push someone else’s and then now there are two people
BHAVNEET: I think you are way too gentle. You’re like, touch and they are like was that the air? Or did someone touch my thumb?
TARANJIT: No, but the second time I pushed it.
BHAVNEET: Arg. Go down.
TARANJIT: Not that hard, but like you know, like more noticeable.
BHAVNEET: That’s funny. I haven’t had that happen, but that game was fun. When someone pushed my hand it was really hard. Because it’s like I don’t know.
TARANJIT: I have had someone shove my thumb and I’m like…
BHAVNEET: Ow.
TARANJIT: Ow.
BHAVNEET: Alright, which dude did this?
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: I like being the person and seeing if I could sneakily like push someone’s thumb and they wouldn’t guess.
TARANJIT: Yeah. And then four corners was another game we played
BHAVNEET: Yes, I kind of forget how it went?
TARANJIT: I forget how you played four corners. I think someone like had their eyes covered and then they like count and you have to like run.
BHAVNEET: And then they pick a corner and then whoever’s in that corner, they are out.
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: That was kindof like…I liked seven up and then um. My one teacher, I don’t know how many teachers do this but my history teacher in like seventh grade really love playing this game where like we would all stand around the edge of the room and throw a ball.
TARANJIT: That’s what I was going to talk about. Like what was that game?
BHAVNEET: I don’t even know what it is called but like we would have this little yellow like foam ball and we would throw it across the room and if you missed you’re out and like well sometimes it’ll be like okay, it’s history related if you catch the ball I asked you a question because review and if you get it wrong, you are out. And then sometimes we would just play it at the end of the period and be like oh class is almost over. School’s almost over. Whatever five minutes All right, let’s play.
TARANJIT: What was it called? Something ball. Like everyone was like let’s play blank ball.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, I forget what it’s called.
TARANJIT: But was it the person who threw it who would be out if the person…
BHAVNEET: No. If you missed.
TARANJIT: Missed catching it you would be out?
BHAVNEET: Yeah, you miss catching it. How you can’t control it if they can’t catch the ball.
TARANJIT: Yeah, yeah. Okay.
BHAVNEET: No, those games are fun. Seven up was pretty fun. Rejected. That’s all I could think of now. Well, I’m pretty sure people could have guessed it with you because you rarely very lightly like tap their thumb. Because I could just see you being and then they’ll be like Oh, it was you you were very gentle.
TARANJIT: People did not guess me.
BHAVNEET: Really? Because you are too gentle.
TARANJIT: One time somebody guessed me because they saw my clothes and they cheated.
BHAVNEET: Cheated. Yeah.
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: Did they say that they saw?
TARANJIT: Yeah. They were like I saw this person.
BHAVNEET: See that’s why because I’m like I would walk by people who had their hands down. I made it very tricky. I’m like I want to walk by you and I took the long way to the person and I took the long way back where they can’t see me. So I’m like guess me now.
TARANJIT: Guess me now.
BHAVNEET: But some people really cheated and then they would guess. But it was fun. Those were the fun games.
TARANJIT: And then here’s a number 34 is the…
BHAVNEET: Now it’s just like oh, you have five minutes. Just go on your phone.
TARANJIT: I know.
BHAVNEET: That’s not fun.
TARANJIT: Number 34 is not fun.
BHAVNEET: Uh. Oh.
TARANJIT: Butt scooters. They called them butt scooters. Remember those scooters.
BHAVNEET: Butt scooters?
TARANJIT: I guess cuz you’re not…you’re using your butt.
BHAVNEET: We used to like roll on our stomachs. And…
TARANJIT: Oh my God. My hair would get caught in that all the time.
BHAVNEET: Yes.
TARANJIT: So I hated those things.
BHAVNEET: I like enjoyed it until this is Elementary School. Oh this is fun and then I got on it and my braid just got stuck in it and I like literally wrapped in it and I had this scooter and I’m like unwrap. Unwrap. Unwrap. And I’m like I’m not doing this again. And I literally had to put my braid…
TARANJIT: I had my thumb ran over to the point it started bleeding.
BHAVNEET: I had to like put my braid in my shirt. Tuck my shirt in. Look like a doofus.
TARANJIT: But tucked shirts were the thing back then.
BHAVNEET: No. I had to tuck my shirt just so I could put my braid in. And then like this was not fun. And then I also hate it because I was not physically like what’s the word adept I don’t know. I wasn’t very good and I couldn’t like one of the things that we did a lot of relays and that was pretty cool but I’m not this was elementary school and I was not very like as physical as other like fit as other elementary school kids were. But one of the things we had to do was like with the scooter you had to like push it with your hands and run behind it and I could not do that to save my life. Like I could not. Cuz I would push like too hard or what and it would just go. Can you see me? Little me just like I kept falling on my knees and it hurt. And I’m just like let me just crawl. I was like I can’t do this. It was so sad and I’m like I never want to do this again because I don’t I couldn’t get the right like angle I’m supposed to push on the scooter and I would push to like far ahead of me and then I just go like fall. Then I would be like ow. And then I fall like a baby Giraffe or something.
TARANJIT: Oh my God. Baby giraffe.
BHAVNEET: Yeah.
TARANJIT: Oh my gosh.
BHAVNEET: Have you ever had that? Or could you do that? I would have rather…
TARANJIT: I don’t think I had that.
BHAVNEET: I feel like I would have rather been like slow and be able to do it then constantly keep falling. But did you remember that one thing where like we would have the big colorful parachute and then it’d be like one. Two. And then you would all throw it up and just get under it and sit.
TARANJIT: Like a dome.
BHAVNEET: Yeah and make a dome. And then it would just slowly fall on your head.
TARANJIT: Do they still do that nowadays like in gym? Like do they still do that? Or is that done?
BHAVNEET: I don’t know. Because then we would also be like if we didn’t go under we throw ball in the middle of like, bounce it. It was fun. We did the fun.
TARANJIT: And then triple dip club.
BHAVNEET: That was the best. I loved triple dip club. Is that like…did a lot of people do that? I felt it was like elementary school around the like not just us it was a bunch of people that did triple dip club.
TARANJIT: I think so.
BHAVNEET: If you don’t know what triple dip club is. Figure it out.
TARANJIT: Figure it out. I am not going to tell you.
BHAVNEET: No. It was really fun. It was like you start out with…
TARANJIT: A big.
BHAVNEET: …a big ball. Yeah, like kind of like the ones you used to play Foursquare with. If you don’t know what Foursquare is. That was how you got competitive in elementary school.
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: Like that was like Cherry Bomb. Like cherry bomb.
TARANJIT: Show shiners.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. Like this is how you got your aggression out in elementary school. Play Foursquare. But you would start out with one of those big balls. I think it was like a kickball like the bouncy ones you used for kickball. So you start out with that and there’s like three lines I think. Where you have to like you have to hit it and not let it bounce but you to like catch it.
TARANJIT: I think. I don’t remember.
BHAVNEET: A certain number of times at each line and each line was a little bit further back.
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: And once you could do it like I guess like 10 times in a row at one line you move to the next one back and then you go the next one back and once you do that then you go to the medium sized ball and do the same thing and once you can do that you go the very tiny balls like a tennis ball I think.
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: And then you do that and I loved that.
TARANJIT: And then you got to like sign your name on each like ice cream shaped…
BHAVNEET: Yeah.
TARANJIT: …scoop on top and then you know on each level.
BHAVNEET: I could do that forever. Like that was so much fun. I really enjoyed that. But you didn’t get to do this thing in elementary school. But I forget what it was called, but um. It was like speed stacking. Was that what it was called? I think that was what it was called. But like that was so much fun. Where you had to like quickly stack the cups.
TARANJIT: Oh yeah. We didn’t do that. That was something new.
BHAVNEET: I know they started that when I was like almost out of elementary school. But that was so much fun. I really enjoyed that. And we did a lot of jump roping. So whenever we did jump roping. I’m like jump rope. I can do this forever. Ready? Ready? Double cross. I can do the cross jump.
TARANJIT: You were like really excited and then just dead stop. I could just cross jump.
BHAVNEET: We also did with the little like…what are they called. With the little scarf things. We did like juggling and then we had balls and we did juggling and we did like a lot of fun things.
TARANJIT: We had a lot of stations of things.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, we even had a rope like at one point where you did like the swing rope.
TARANJIT: Yeah from one like mat to another.
BHAVNEET: Cuz they had a they had a whole relay set up around the whole entire gym where you had to like climb those like rope net things like up one side and down the other.
TARANJIT: What was that one game in middle school gym where you play where they have those mats set up?
BHAVNEET: Barricade ball.
TARANJIT: Oh my God. I hated that game.
BHAVNEET: I hated that because of the people that were in my gym class were so mean otherwise I thought it was like a fun like the concept of the game seems really fun.
TARANJIT: It would be fun with people you would enjoy playing with. Not with like…
BHAVNEET: Not with the mean bullies that were in middle school. Like that was not fun. Purposely trying to hit your head wearing glasses. Excuse you.
TARANJIT: Excuse you.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. Not fun. It was fun when I got to like get them out or like you know you get that sweet sweet revenge being the non-athletic person and they are like super all about like only about this sports and that’s it. Sometimes not up mentally but um.
TARANJIT: They’re not up mentally?
BHAVNEET: Yeah. They’re not up mentally.
TARANJIT: They’re asleep up there.
BHAVNEET: Sometimes, yeah it seemed like it. So it was a sweet sweet revenge when you got those little moments of like haha got you now what. Barricade ball was not fun because those middle school and middle school gym was just not…
TARANJIT: Yeah. Elementary school gym was better.
BHAVNEET: All about fun, because they wanted to get you to exercise but be fun.
TARANJIT: But be fun.
BHAVNEET: Yeah.
TARANJIT: You’re not fun. Be fun.
BHAVNEET: Remember one of the gym teachers would always dress up when we had like the fun runs and stuff or like the play days, whatever they were. He would dress up as like I forget like he would wear like a little skirt thing.
TARANJIT: Some character.
BHAVNEET: Yeah.
TARANJIT: It was a whole character like story. Backstory.
BHAVNEET: It was funny. Like I every time we would see I was like, oh my god.
TARANJIT: Yeah, I forget what their names were. But yeah. Good times.
BHAVNEET: Yeah.
TARANJIT: Wow. We spent a lot on that point.
BHAVNEET: Because I really…
TARANJIT: I have this huge list. But I’m like…
BHAVNEET: What did you not enjoy that?
TARANJIT: Yes. Yes I did. I want to go play those games again.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. One time they had they had this little storage closet, obviously where they kept everything and then they had this whole like relay thing set outside the whole gym. But then they also had a station in there.
TARANJIT: Which where you went in with a flashlight.
BHAVNEET: It was a scooter thing, but it was you were in the dark.
TARANJIT: You were butt scooting.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. Not not stomach scooting. So it wasn’t bad. But you were in the dark. And you had a flashlight. And you had to do something. And I don’t remember but it was like, oh my god. It was fun for some reason.
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: This is also coming from someone who the two of us who would turn off the light and play random things in our bathroom.
TARANJIT: So we enjoyed being in there.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. We enjoyed being in there cuz…
TARANJIT: Is that what inspired us to do that in our bathroom?
BHAVNEET: Oh, I don’t know. Maybe. But,I don’t know. We were our imaginations were rampant as little kids as most little kids are. I don’t know about now because they’re always on the phones. But yeah, that was interesting. Next 90’s point.
TARANJIT: 21. I skipped from whatever number we were on to…
BHAVNEET: 42 to 21.
TARANJIT: 34 to 21. Kid pix. Remember that? When we had computer class and you would go on the computer and there’s like, you know, it’s called Kid pix where you could like draw and stuff.
BHAVNEET: I didn’t remember the name. But I kind of remember.
TARANJIT: And also, there was this game we would always play when we went to the computer class. It was uh…
BHAVNEET: Yeah.
TARANJIT: Something and hounds. Something and hounds. Where it was like a it was like a game…
BHAVNEET: Yeah, kids today would not be impressed by the games that we played on the computers because they were very like slow in terms of pixels.
TARANJIT: Okay. Computers were just coming out.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, I know. But we were like, Oh my God.
TARANJIT: Now everyone has a computer in their house. Back then like if someone had a computer, you were like oh my God, you have a computer.
BHAVNEET: Whoa computer. But yeah, I don’t remember. That was where I fell in love with the media centers and books.
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: Not the computers. The books.
TARANJIT: Do you remember? Have you ever played MASH? Did you play MASH in elementary school?
BHAVNEET: Sounds familiar. What was it?
TARANJIT: So we would play this during lunch all the time. Where it’s a game where you have four categories. Like who you’re gonna marry? Who? How many kids will you have? Which house would you live in? And what’s the last thing, what house you would live in? And what car would you have? So it’s kind of like you have these four categories. And you pick random things for each category. And then you pick a number and you go through and keep eliminating until it determines your future of who you would marry…
BHAVNEET: No. I never done that. It doesn’t make any sense.
TARANJIT: You never played that game before?
BHAVNEET: No. It doesn’t sound like it makes any sense. I don’t understand.
TARANJIT: We would play it all the time during lunch.
BHAVNEET: I don’t understand.
TARANJIT: It’s four categories. And you would have…
BHAVNEET: Is that the one where you have this thing?
TARANJIT: No. That’s fortune teller.
BHAVNEET: Okay, I was gonna say.
TARANJIT: It’s a piece of paper and you would write marry. And then you would have four names under there. And then you would ask that person who they’re like say I was we’re doing national…
BHAVNEET: You would put random people?
TARANJIT: You would pick like two people like you would really like one person that you really wouldn’t like, like, we’re just random names, right?
BHAVNEET: Like people that are playing or just random people in the world?
TARANJIT: Random people.
BHAVNEET: Okay.
TARANJIT: And you…so you would fill four names under that. And then so like its to predict who would you marry? And then you for number kids you pick four random numbers. Like 1, 100, 50.
BHAVNEET: Oh my God.
TARANJIT: Yeah. We picked like crazy numbers.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. I know.
TARANJIT: And then like for a car, you would list four cars. And then for the house part because it was MASH. It was like mansion, apartment shack or a house that’s like the four that would fall under it. But like you could always change it up if you wanted to. But that’s like, that’s the four that fall under that category.
BHAVNEET: Then what?
TARANJIT: And then you pick a number. So like if you picked eight, right?
BHAVNEET: Uh huh. How did you pick eight?
TARANJIT: Just pick any random number.
BHAVNEET: Because there’s only four options.
TARANJIT: No. If you pick eight, so then I will go 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 cross. Then I will go 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and keep going until there’s one left in each category.
BHAVNEET: But what if you had like two in one and one in one and you said the number and you went back to the one?
TARANJIT: You skip over the one you already crossed out and you keep going.
BHAVNEET: No, no. You only have one…
TARANJIT: Oh. You keep going.
BHAVNEET: One left in the category.
TARANJIT: You pass that.
BHAVNEET: So then you just go to the next one?
TARANJIT: Yeah. And then you keep crossing until there’s one left and then it will be like oh, okay, so now this is was like you would marry this person you would have this many kids you will live you’ll drive this car and you would live in this.
BHAVNEET: Maybe I did play it but that doesn’t stick out to me.
TARANJIT: I was gonna do it with you. But we’ve been going on for a long time. So maybe next time or we can do it real quick if you want.
BHAVNEET: No. I don’t understand.
TARANJIT: No?
BHAVNEET: No I don’t understand.
TARANJIT: Well you don’t have to understand anything. You just need to answer my questions.
BHAVNEET: No, that’s okay.
TARANJIT: She doesn’t want to know her future.
BHAVNEET: No, I don’t want to MASH. What was your favorite 90s game…
TARANJIT: Memory.
BHAVNEET: …experience in elementary school gym class.
TARANJIT: I want to hear those stories.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, what was your favorite part of elementary school gym class like did you do triple dip club? Did you get? Did you get to go into a closet on a scooter? That makes it sound so creepy. But it wasn’t okay. Did you get to do rope swings, speed stacking, all that stuff? Let us know because I will always be okay with reliving the 90s because it’s coming back. So obviously we did something right. So let us know. And you can connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram. Not in that order. Exactly.
TARANJIT: Wait. So they can’t do it in my order?
BHAVNEET: I mean you can. Whatever order you like.
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