Dom and Jeremy
Skate City Baby 9-23-24
You're listening to a Dom and Jeremy podcast, Your Boys in the Morning on Mix 100. After a week off, I am back in the saddle and refreshed and, as I say, tan rested and ready. It's been a good week. We'll catch up a little bit later about some of the stuff that went on with the Magical Mystery Tour, and we'll just get caught up on some other stuff that's going on. What'd you do this weekend? Anything fun? A lot of fun stuff. I did something that I have not done since probably 1990-ish. Early 80s, maybe, or check that late 80s, early 90s when I was doing roller skating lessons back in the day. Oh, yeah. Lessons. Oh, yeah. That's what mom signed me up for. That's what mom signed me up for. The old skate city. I didn't know they had lessons. Yeah. I took lessons, man. I took lessons. So I haven't roller skated since back then, and the kids on Friday night were like, "Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Come on, Dad." And I had the freakin' time of my life roller skating on Friday night. Is it like riding a bike? It was so fun. Is it the kind of a thing where you never forget? I hopped right back on. I was doing just fine. I did great. I only felt once. You back were skating. I didn't go that crazy. I only felt once because I grabbed Nick Knack and tried to swing her around me, and she tripped me. And that was the only time I went down, but with that being said, it was great being out there with the kiddos, and it was super cute doing that with my wife. It was actually quite romantic going around the skating rink with sweet Nick Knack. It kind of felt like we were dating. She's a rock star. She strapped roller blades on. She used to be a blader back in the day, and she was zipping around that rink. No problem at all. The entire night I kept going past her, asking her to homecoming, which got a little old by the end of the night. But every time I saw her, I was like, "Please go to homecoming with me." It had a very stranger things vibe too, I will say, like being in the dark roller skating rink with the neon lights flashing and the music going, I was like, it felt like something was going to go down a little bit. But it was also very nice to see a bunch of kiddos out there actually getting exercise and doing something besides sitting on their phone, you know, and they were tearing it up out there. It was a lot of fun. So we are thinking about getting a family membership. Thank you very much. How much does that cost? I think it's only like 10 bucks per person, and it's good for certain times, which would be the times that we want to go when it's a little quieter, you know? So yeah, and the kids now want roller skates for Christmas, and I kind of want a pair of roller skates. So is that making a comeback? I don't know. Or did it never not go away? Maybe it never went away, and I just was out of the loop. That's the thing. It's like, wow. That's the thing. Like, I don't know. I mean, it was full, it was busy, and I'm going to be talking to some salespeople here. I want to do like a mix 100 roller skating night, and I want to get listeners out there and tear it up. So fun. I hope that's in our future, 100%. That would be fun. My memory of roller skating never was given lessons, but we all had roller skates when we were kids, and it was the kind that you just adjust, you know, with a little key thing or whatever. Okay. Anyway, we had a mostly unfinished basement with a furnace right in the center of the basement, so it created a natural circle around it. So the neighbor kids would come over, and we would do old school roller derby down in the basement where we would go in circles around that thing and shove each other into the wall and shove each other into the boxes. That's good entertainment right there. Do all of that. And then I did do roller blading in the 90s, and you know, my memory of it is that with roller skating and roller blading, I was pretty good except I never was really expert at the most important thing of all, which is knowing how to stop. Yeah. You just fall down. Especially with roller blading. You just fall down. That got dicey. I went down on roller blades multiple times. Yeah. It'll happen. I posted a picture of actually me laying on the roller skating rink floor on our Facebook page. If you want to check that out. Don't get up. Don't get up. I look like a flailing fish laying there. I get an idiot. Well, that's good. You know, Tom, we had a really good time. It was a great time. And then on another side note, I will say we had a junior cheerleading game on Saturday. And then from there, we went down to micro center down by your old house. Yeah. And my son bought a 3D printer. He has been hounding us and hounding us for months and months. What's the first thing he made? Tom, he made like a little school head and a little boat and a little cat. I'm going to tell you right now, it's the coolest thing ever. It's really, really neat. It's remarkable technology. It really is, man. Crazy. And we had to have the talk about, you know, how it melts the filament, which is plastic to create the little objects. I'm like, buddy, you got to run a fan in your room because I don't want you huffing all the plastic fumes. Oh, safety man strikes again. Safety first. Don't be huffing plastic fumes. So I asked you how much the roller skating was. How much does a 3D printer? What does that cost? He has been saving up for months and months and he bought kind of a upper lower end one and it was about 170 bucks. Upper lower end. So you got the lower end, you got a middle grade and then you got the Mac Daddy ones that are like four, five, six thousand dollars. So just between the lower end and the middle, yeah, and it actually looks really good for what it does. It's really neat. So of course he's printing out a bunch of stuff and he's going to go around the neighborhood and try to sell it to everybody. Sell it to his buddies at school and like what? Those specifically right now, the school heads, he's got these schools that he's making and he's like two, three bucks. All of his buddies at school probably want one of these huh, so he's trying to recoup his money immediately on this little business man. I love it. I love that. (dramatic music) [BLANK_AUDIO]