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Let's get unhinged. What's something from high
school that you were very proud of, you know, doing,
participating in having happened?
What's something you're very proud of?
It doesn't have to be academic. It can be, maybe it's sports,
maybe it's just social. Maybe it was just something that
happened in that time in your life that you're like, you're
fine with people knowing about. This time I feels like giving
myself a pat on the back and that feels weird.
Yeah, you haven't done that at all in this podcast.
Yeah. Not in this episode yet.
Jeez, let me walk. Up to it.
Seconds in, you're right. OK, so I will say I, I think
throughout my high school career that I didn't.
I was never in a clique, but I feel like I was friends and I
had friends in like various different groups of people.
So like, I was friends with the jocks, I was friends with the
nerds, I was friends with like teachers aides, I don't know,
like just all the different groups of people because I mean,
I, I still hear it to this day of like, oh, Julie was so nice
to me in high school or like, you know, she was friendly and,
you know, looked out for people. So I, I think that's the thing,
like I didn't belong to 1 clique and that like, I had a tight
friend group, but it wasn't like I was excluding other people
from engagement and communication.
Yeah, you. You could you could jump those,
those imaginary fences. You just alluded to something
and I kind of want to like go a little further, if you don't
mind. You say you still hear it today.
Like more and more people are saying it and it's truer and
truer. People are saying Julie was good
with everybody. Explain that.
Well, not today, but like, so whenever our parents were
selling our childhood home, there was a, a couple my age
that were, they had moved in across the street and our dad
went to like go talk to him or chat to him or something.
And, and apparently I graduated high school with this guy and he
was like, Oh, Julie was so nice and like very welcoming and all
that stuff. I was like, oh, that makes me
feel good. Really.
Nice. And even whenever I talk to like
some high school friends today, it doesn't happen all the time.
But they're like, yeah, you know, it's just I was easy to,
like, connect with and talk to you back then.
Today. Don't call me.
Yeah. Right, right.
I mean at some point, like hearing from somebody from back
then is just weird. Yeah.
Probably not OK. No.
Yeah, Well, I, I asked because came across a a news item that
was kind of local to our area the other day.
OK, so somebody from Rowlett, Yeah.
You know that that area, a suburb of Dallas, was traveling
internationally and they were in Japan.
And we're in a vintage shop.
They're looking around, taking it in.
Like you can imagine what you're doing when you're in Japan.
Eating sushi. Oh man, Hell yeah.
Sucking my head, walking into doorways.
Yeah, probably. But they go to a vintage shop
and they're like, hey, let's see what's what's up.
And looking through the clothing rack, they come across a leather
jacket from their high school. What?
Yeah, leather jacket from Rowlett High School.
And you know, you can picture it.
It's, it's a leather, leather jacket.
It's got the leather, it's got the fuzzy and it's got the big R
on it and all that stuff. And they're like, wow.
And so they're taking pictures of the thing.
They're not going to buy it. I guess they could have bought
it, but like it was way, way expensive.
So they're taking all of these pictures of it and posting it on
the socials. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,
wait. You said it was way expensive.
Incredibly expensive. Should I take my letter jacket
to Japan and sell it? Yeah, well, I'll, I'll go a
little more into the store and you can, you can figure it out
from there. So come to find out like through
looking at, you know, various Marks and, and you know, details
on the jacket, they figured out exactly whose it was.
Oh. So you know some somebody that
graduated? I'm like imagining like ACSI
episode of like running DNA and finding hair fibers.
And like, like like zooming in on on like the the band, you
know, Insignia on the jacket enhance.
Enhance Enhance. Enhance, damn it.
There's. No time.
You know what all this AI bullshit.
They should just be making an enhance button, you know.
That's what AI What is a? Big glowing green enhance button
and everything I'm looking at. I should just hit that button
and it gets better and better and better.
Hold on now, I just want to create an AI tool that all you
do is like you upload a a picture and you just keep
hitting the enhance button and AI keeps building the image for
you, right? Probably making a lot more
money. That's going to end up in a
trial, like in court somewhere and be like, listen, it was a
joke, Please don't do this. I, I think that's where it's all
going to go. If, if, if there's a God in
heaven. So they, they figured out the
jacket, they found the owner like, wow, it came from this
year. Not too far, not too long ago.
The jacket was in a resale shop in the States, and the owners of
that shop, you know, they, they became part of the news story.
Oh, wow, Wow. This crazy thing happened.
How did Rowlett jacket end up in a Japanese vintage store?
The owners of the US shop said that, yeah, occasionally
somebody from that part of the world, their wholesalers, they
come in and they buy up a lot of stuff because they can get it
much cheaper over here. They take it back over there and
they saw it and it's like genuine letter, all this crazy
stuff it and it's from this exotic part of the world and
it's part of their weird ass culture and like, Oh yeah, this
is crazy. I love it.
Sorry. Exotic part of the World.
Rowlett, TX. Yes, I mean like for a lot of
the world, Texas is a fairly exotic and bizarre and kitcheny
place. I would.
I would agree with that. We are.
Yes, quite.
I will say whenever I was visiting friends in Australia
several years, several years ago, one of the guys was going
to be heading over to Fiji as just like a weekend trip type
thing and was like, you're just going to go to Fiji for a
weekend trip. And that's whenever they
explained to me like going to Fiji for Australians, it's like
us going to Mexico from Texas. And I was like, oh, OK.
Like one of the guys was like he he kept losing his flip flops on
the beaches of Fiji so he had to keep buying new flip flops
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Well, though, this this whole thing was like, hey, that's like
not, not a huge mystery as to how this item from this really
kind of small suburb of Dallas ended up in some Japanese
vintage shop for like 3X. You know, the the price.
But that gets me to the question.
What's something that you would like really hate for someone to
have dredged up from that period of your life and it's show up on
the other side of the world and somebody goes, wow, how
interesting to find this. And they take their pictures and
they're posting on social and they're doing their online
research and like it belongs to what would you hate?
Like, what's something that you would hate for somebody to find?
It's not from high school, it's from middle school.
OK, what's happening? And it's any of my school
pictures where I had a perm and I tried to do the high bangs
with like the Hairspray because like those are mortifying
pictures. Why did our mother let me leave
the house like that? Because you insisted on it.
You know, well, I saw a lady at a bar the other night.
I was in DC for work and I saw a lady across the bar and she had
my hairstyle for middle school. And I I got PTSDI was like, oh
honey, no, no, no, no, no, no, you can't do that.
You you like approach her and go.
How could you do this to me? Like how much?
Would you want? Hairspray.
Tonight you. You harmed me.
How much Hairspray did you pack or did you use to do that?
Because I know how much it took me you.
Took like Aqua network. Like, honestly, I know that
there's photos that show up on the dark web and, and all that
stuff, but it's also people that they try to go from modeling
jobs and there's nothing salacious about the pictures
that they take. But then someone takes their
head and then puts it on a not safe for work image.
And then they use that in other parts of the world and stuff
like that. But pardon me is going like if
someone were to take my middle school picture.
And there's, there's a Simpson episode where like, Homer finds
his face onto like a detergent box from.
I think it's yeah. And I'm like, if someone were to
take my face from middle school and put it on some type of
advertisement and people would be.
And also like in one of these middle school pictures, I think
at some point I was missing a tooth.
But I was like, oh, that was so bad, So bad.
Yeah, you do kind of hope those two, those two things kind of
offset each other. Yeah, well, many people will
focus in like the general nose and eye area.
The hair is up here, the gap in my teeth down there.
Let's focus on the eyebrows. I really, really locked in on
the eyebrows last night. Yeah, but like going going to
like the high school era duly I will say like it would be kind
of embarrassing because I don't we didn't really like our tennis
uniforms that we had to wear for tournaments that they were
supplied by the school. So like, it's whatever the
school had and that's what we wore and they were kind of.
What was not? What did you not like about
them? There were newer fashions at the
time, and this was like old school and like, and also like
somebody the year before had worn it like it was.
Yeah, like it was all clean, but but if someone again running the
CSIDNA and going Julie and six other girls wore this thing and
I'm like. Enhanced.
Don't do that. Yeah.
So I want to say like, so we graduated late 90s and our
uniforms were probably from the early 90s, if that gave you like
a reference of how ratchy and uncomfortable they.
Were the most you could hope for from the the white parts of it
would be clearly off white. Very much off White.
Yes. Yeah.
What about you? What?
What from that arrow? If someone were to like, if it
were to end up in an overseas vintage shop and asked a lot of
money for it, you would be like, hold on, wait a minute.
Never had a leather jacket. I mean, I did.
You have one. Oh yeah.
Oh, yeah, of course I hung out with all the good people, Yeah.
Jake I was a smart nerd that happened to make varsity tennis,
I think my senior year. I don't think I was on it.
Maybe I was on it junior, but I was like my leather jacket was
for academics. I think I, I could have gotten
one either like football or academics, but and like I
started like I didn't want one, but like feel like our parents
were like, you got to get 1. And I started looking through
the, the, the catalog going, OK, we'll add this crap to it.
Add that crap to it. Take all these boxes, not
realizing that was like increasing the price.
Yeah, we're like, yeah, hurt Donuts.
Yeah, let's put tassels all down the sleeves.
Let's can I get a, a clown horn on there?
Can I get like the flour that squirts water?
Jacob's got a Letterman jacket with the fringe.
It needs to be like a leather cake.
And then I saw like, OK, here's what it's going to cost.
Like, oh, I don't want one. Forget it.
Yeah, you know. Never well and also in also in
Texas. What do you do you wear it for?
Like legit wear it for maybe two weeks out of the year.
Maybe this time of year and that's it.
Yeah, like you don't really need to wear a Letterman.
And also because we were stupid kids, you still wore your
Letterman jacket year round. You just sweat it underneath it
profusely. I think I will.
I think for me it'd be like middle school.
Also, it'd be the jacket I wore year round regardless, like you
just said, because I was like, you know, I'd like body
dysmorphia and I wanted to hide. And so I wore this giant bulky
jacket with a black faux sheep wool collar and it was denim
denim jacket, black faux sheep wool collar.
Probably didn't smell great. No it didn't.
Again, I'm getting PTSD right now you're explaining.
Like you. Did not.
Smell good? Yeah, between me and Aquanet
lady over here. Sorry.
Aquanet Lady sounds like a superhero.
I'll. Take Aquanet lady, that'd be bad
to show up because honestly, I didn't think I wore that thing
with enough regularity and in the enough long conditions that
they probably could just enhance button twice and finding up DNA
that they could trace it back to me.
Shango he had. He was going through it.
Do you think like overseas vintage shops, like, as their
shoppers are going through things, do you think they sniff
the sheep's like, like, oh, this, this smells like American
boy? You know, I, I really appreciate
the ACT though that you went for there.
I think that was really cool that you did that.
I didn't do a strong any type of country accent, I just tried to
do something different than the one I.
Got the best thing you can do when you're trying to do an
accent? Just go go pirate every time.
Horror, yeah. Oh, it smells like American boy,
it smelled. Like, it was dragged from the
sea three days ago. You know, it's like, that's your
Japanese, like, Yep. Yep.
But it's not good. Yeah, I mean, like, like you and
I go to a vintage shop and even if it's not the most exotic
stuff you still like, is it fresh?
Did they render this, You know, So, yeah, no.
Interesting, interesting kind of story that came up recently
about how small the world can really be, which I think is kind
of a nice reminder in light of all the stuff that makes the
world sing far too large. Cool to think that somebody's,
you know, Goodyear ish type giveaway could show up across
the world with a kind of three 4X markup and have a lot of
really great appeal to somebody that finds it really charming.
Well now I'm thinking about like how can I collect several
Letterman jackets, put them in my large check in suitcase and
go to Japan and just pay for my Japanese trip with reselling to
vintage shops? Honestly, honestly, like it.
That's a great point. If you're going to make an
international trip and you got stuff you want to get rid of,
holy crap, we need that. We need to talk about that on a
different episode. Yeah.
You got stuff you want to get rid of and you're going to pay a
baggage fee anyway? Load it up in there.
Oh no, I don't pay package fees. Wouldn't you have some kind of
tip? Get get your status on your
airline. God, I can't.
I don't know if we can handle any more flex in in one episode
we we we reach Max flex capacity.
Again, in high school, I was a much better person than I am
today. Yeah, I don't know that anybody
would get along with you now. No, now I'm like, listen, I sit
in first class, do not talk to me and do not look in my
direction. Look, I've been sufferable for a
decent part of my life. Now it's time to be
insufferable. Yeah.
Yeah, but I'm good with that. That's what I got.
Hey, I love it. You got a leather jacket?
Go sell it to a pirate. Yes.
Look, I. Don't know where to go with
that, but I I like it. I love this story.
It was good one. I appreciate bringing it.
Yeah. Bye.