ramble [Music] [Music] welcome to best friends back all right the show where two high school best friends try the best friend thing again i’m nakin hawaii fad and i’m stevie when levine and today we are going to talk about the height of high school responsibility civic duty and the closest i’ll ever come to public office student council this girl was president um well before we begin and you gave it such a nice intro might we add to the listeners at home our friends you are here in real life i’m here i was getting really sad just seeing you on zoom so i decided to no i’m here for work other work yeah for work shooting something that’s cool i like seeing your face in hd 4k it’s nice yeah right yeah i feel like there’s there’s a little bit more i can work it’s nice and kind of weird not your face your face is not weird but like the practice physically yeah like making a real eye contact do you think that you’re gonna you’re going to [ ] everything up yeah more nervous around me because i’m just so close yeah are you gonna well you’ve already told me that my hair looked ugly and that you were afraid that my pants were gonna fall down so i feel pretty comfortable sagging wearing sagging overalls to be fair i did tell you that i bent over and my butt butt prack was out this morning which is fine when you’re at home and not within your birthplace at mythical right i would like to state for the 17th time everyone listening please do not show your butt crack when you’re at mythical yeah we’ve had so many times we’ve had so many problems actually in all honesty it’s a real like grip g e like camera oh right man thing there’s there’s been a lot of like me behind the monitor and all of a sudden there’s a boy butt crack like you know as they’re setting something up i’m i’m sorry but yeah that’s why boy butt cracks are a whole other thing right they have a girlfriend it’s so it’s just there’s always some like hair involved oh speaking of butt cracks and i well i didn’t mean to like give the visual so hard to this but i did figure that since the last episode we talked about stuff down below yeah we could go back down below because i have a i have a situation i need your help on not like i don’t need you to love to help you when you’re down below let’s hear it okay so are you familiar with poo pourri yes okay for those of you who aren’t it’s a spray that you spray over the toilet water before before you poop that like captures the scent down in the water now we use poo pourri here at mythical uh if you want if any poo pourri people are listening please shoot us an email and let’s let’s make a poo pourri spot together which is not how i think you say that so in our bathrooms here we usually have a little thing of poo-pourri and we have a new office manager who just started this week and we have two bathrooms that don’t have poo-pourri i just want to stop everyone’s okay it’s her first week do you want to put her out there like this well that’s what i’m saying is oh oh no it’s not her it’s my fault that the poopery is not there i want to be clear but like in terms of who to ask oh but that is a very awkward interaction to have with someone like it’s nice to meet you and plus when i introduced myself she was like i obviously i know who you are so i’m like okay how do i transition this into i need some poopery in the bathroom this is like because the implication is unique i need it you need it this is what you do which i do from time to time i don’t know if this is a reveal if there are any men listening to this no i mean it’s not because you poop you just want it oh because she wasn’t we didn’t want to go back you tell her hey rhett and link are pretty nervous to bring this up with you but they noticed that we were running low on poo pourri so for them could you order something that is really good advice yeah what do you mean this is like this is what i do for everything it’s like someone i know needs really needs zach needs super plus tampons they did institute a um wipes in the bathroom policy direct i believe direct from link he was owning it for for years that that was his request yeah i don’t think they’re wipes in the bathroom now oh it’s because we have a bidet days bidets bidet yeah jamie and i were just talking about bidets that’s a that’s a a bold appliance yeah to have in a like a workplace bathroom yeah i mean we talk about the bathroom i guess more than most people do i did uh i sent out a general slack that we are a toilet paper going over household not under household because someone kept putting the toilet paper in where you pull it from under and i thought that was inappropriate and that as the executive here i needed to say something it’s my role but we but don’t have any poo pourri in the bathroom so if you are listening please help me anyway okay talk about students i want to say one thing that i am really kind of excited about is okay um last week i told you i was on my period yeah i’m no longer that’s great but that would be a medical issue excited last week when you texted me and you said that you got your period well can we clarify that like we were texting about other things no you texted me to say hey just wanted to let you know that i’m on my period and you know what i think that means i think that it means this friend thing is working oh you think it’s like not a psychical thing it’s just a telepathic through yeah like yeah it’s sometimes right i think that i think a medical fact cycles are starting to sink and we need to ask your sister i’ll add that to the list we’re compiling a list of questions uh for negan sister who is a ob gyn i think my sister expects more of me you know when i like ask a question she’s like how do you not already know this she’s so well because you never saw the american girl book i was talking about there you go i think actually maybe it could help you even now i think we should order one i think we should order one for the bathroom at mythical did you have did you guys have like a lot of reading material growing up in your bathroom we always had like lots of chicken soup for the soul reader’s digest we had so many it’s a nice not in my bathroom because i couldn’t read you know for a long time i just looked oh you pictures of illustrated chinese time you had your own bathroom growing up not like my personal my sister and i like our bathroom please just rolling in with money from my own personal bathroom in which i read american girl books uh and and because i couldn’t read i couldn’t run for student government well i appreciate you saying that because student government was a big part of my high school experience tell me tell me like i don’t what was your motivation and is this something that started in middle school or is this just like a high school it did start in middle school my eighth grade year and i really don’t remember the result of the election eighth grade year i remember running that means it went poorly i blocked it it’s high it’s highly likely that i didn’t win but i remember my eighth grade campaign i was really excited because i thought it was so creative um it was she’s so fresh and so clean clean vote for negin oh it’s the imagery it was the outcast album that’s cool i thought it was cool the problem is i feel like halfway through the campaign someone told me that that line was had like a was problematic it was problematic it was in uh there was actually oh you i still don’t know what that means i don’t understand it could be different parts of you that were clean but that’s okay whatever it was somebody said something and i remember i was thrown and therefore like oh my god i was immediately i was like oh my god yeah all these posters are all over high school and that’s all i remember so anyway student council student government was in my mind i was like pretty naturally disposed to leadership positions is that what you what did you want out of student government you were like i want to make policy no like were you like i’m i i want to be a part of student government because then i can be involved in what we do yeah oh yeah yeah that was it yeah yeah yeah i loved i mean i loved being part in charge the school yeah and like doing yeah i mean i’m sure being in charge was a big part of it but like i’ve always been like if there’s something that can be done i want to do it let’s do it why wait around but i think i was also like you know i don’t i don’t think it was so deep yeah at that age you just wanted retribution for your horrible like clean vagina posters in middle school i think yeah but i’m really surprised that i went to a new high school where i knew like two people and i still chose to run for president okay so you ran for president freshman year yeah were you you and i think it was what was your election his like so you were you won president freshman year every other week i don’t know if i could have run for i don’t know if there was a freshman year president let’s just say you did but i any gear that i could run i ran and i ran for president okay because what else would you run for and so what years do you remember you you could run for treasurer treasurer would have been a more strategic position like have my hands on the money [Laughter] sure but no ever let’s say sophomore junior senior year i was student body president yeah yeah well i will say that i maybe was refreshed on that recently because i found this 2006. oh my god oh my god senior edition of grimsley senior high school wait what is this called what is the newspaper called can we check out this very creative photo yes friends the cover photo is a photo of a rear-view mirror in in that mirror you can see grimsley so this is looking back remember you said it was like the classic classic looking high school yes there you go you know they’re just i mean they are listening to our podcast right now and not looking at it but yes it does look as i like windows but the reason i said something about this is because when you open it reflections is the first page and who who’s there what am i doing with my arms and you have uh you’re next to the erected sign good choice elected or erected erected i believe it’s a one of the buildings was erected and you were like let me pose next to this erected sign god i’m so happy there’s a picture of me out of a pants a skirt suit [Laughter] we can read some selections from your reflections but you did talk about some pretty lofty uh numbers raised you also do talk about the pope and i oh oh you end in a anchorman quote and i’ll also tell our friends that there is a fade to the newspaper that makes me feel old it’s like an archive newspaper it’s like has that yellowing to it that like old newspapers have where did you find this my mom has your mom done this to you yet she made me like every well they moved out of their their house that i grew up in but she would continuously force me into taking things from my room childhood photos of myself which i thought was very rude it’s like do you not want to look at me oh she wants to like teach them not trash them she just wanted to get rid of things and so she was like pushing on my sister like here are your things and me and so for a period of time every time i went home she would have like three boxes of stuff and be like take this away or throw it away or whatever and so this newspaper i guess she had kept which is great because this podcast she kept all these like random things and then i picked the things that i wanted and put them in like a file folder so i have a file full of things and this was one of them the only reason i would have kept it i guess would be for you did you send them in and not me because i am nowhere to be found okay well this whole student council thing is normally something that would be like in the recesses of my memory who needs to think about student council 15 years later but a few months ago someone reached out to me on facebook and i got a message from son of a gun okay i vaguely remember who that is okay i’m picturing just a boy yep he texts me saying hey i’m writing something it’s kind of like a memoir and you’re referenced in it and i’m wondering if you can improve your alias oh and so lucinda melvin i should have and so immediately i haven’t heard from this guy in years probably a decade and he has and had a reputation for being like a [ ] stir at school okay all right so really smart guy what was your relationship with him he like how did you know him well okay we were classmates uh we were in the same like philosophy class or something like that but his real claim to fame is that he was my opponent in the student body election so somebody’s thinking about student council all these years later somebody is in fact he wrote an entire chapter in his memoir about the student council election and so he’s asking me to approve my alias and do his credit he is letting me review this chapter okay and he said he’s like i just want to be upfront about the fact that i’m writing this why did you need an alias like what oh i’ll tell you what i knew the alias because he was accusing me of not really winning the student body presidency he was saying that it was a fraudulent election which i take major issue with because i had a history of winning okay so well we’re not too sure about eighth grade to be fair we don’t know yeah but it seems like since eighth grade yes i was going into it with openmind i was nervous reading this okay because he was like hey just what you had no idea i had no idea but as soon as somebody says i want you to approve your alias i’m like why do i need to be hidden oh so i was so i was really i was like kind of hyperventilating i was like what is this guy gonna write because he’s a loose cannon and of course he writes that he’s sure gonna get bubbly so he he writes his whole chapter i’m reading through it and he’s reminding me of some great detail so thank you son of a gun for the trip down memory lane so he says that i was president every year so that’s great okay okay every year and he wanted to run originally for senior class president okay not student body president okay okay but two other people were already running for senior class president and you had no opponent and apparently i had no opponent okay for student body president because people were smart and so his odds were better that was such an evil villain like so his odds for winning were better student body president because he was just running against me okay versus but he hadn’t been on student council no no okay yeah but you know he’s a confident guy total anti-establishment guy so there’s an appeal i get it if there was a movie being written about this election a lot of people would like him okay sure yeah right they would they would go for the underdog yeah but he says in it that apparently i found him to be a genu quote a genuine threat okay enough that people came up to him to try to see if he was serious about it and then seriously discouraged him from running so apparently like you and liz i had a pack of cronies apparently yeah that were trying to that’s interesting pressure him and i don’t know why yeah you would be my muzzle for sure [Laughter] so all of this i’m like gosh none of this happened according to me okay but wait but it because it goes beyond that right like so he’s claiming because he’s broadly claiming election fraud which you have not broached yet because all you’ve just used your intimidation tactics first i want to make sure he doesn’t run great but then he chooses to run and then this goes into the whole campaigning stuff do you remember anything about i don’t counsel campaigns like that so i was going to say in middle school actually i think i was i mean granted there were 12 people but i think i think lucinda melvin and i i like doing it i love how you do real-time adr we ran together and i pretty sure she was she ran for president i ran for vice president which makes a lot of sense and i remember we were in we drew ourselves like in a school bus and like she was driving the bus and i was like in the back yeah but i don’t remember i want to say it was probably like ride with us but maybe like ride with us without an age you know like that type of it was the same we weren’t claiming that our vaginas were clean but it was the same like style yeah so in my mind the artwork for like the middle school campaigns it was ridiculous so it stands out but i don’t remember well i don’t remember like a campaign that you ran or like posters being anywhere there were posters there were i mean so my brother had like a catchphrase and stuff i had a catchphrase i think after my eighth grade experience i toned it down and they became a little less influenced by music okay like but i don’t know i don’t remember what the i don’t remember what my i don’t remember what my slogans were but i remember humor has always been a little bit of a yeah i see stephanie pulling down my campaign posters carefully folding it’s for my archives um i’m gonna have to oh my god so we had later with these 15 years oh so anyway there were there were i know i remember people would pass out you had those remember those like um little small rectangular adhesive things that you would use for addresses and people you would pass up okay those things and people would put them on their shirts yeah that’s the other word for it it’s stickers i think it was i think there was a rule that we couldn’t pass out food or like treats basically yeah apparently it was using intimidation but not bribery and i’m sure i always use some kind of humor right to make it and give yourself that credit give me that credit [Music] [Music] the the election um speeches used to be a big thing like those were an opportunity to perform it was not a normal speech but then our senior year they outlawed perform performances to make it more serious way you can sway people with your talent keep your talent unlocked deep here to alan on and make this a meritocratic election i really wish i remembered any of your performances or your posters but wait before we lose the [ ] of it all oh after you had the intimidation how was it fraudulent it’s fraudulent because apparently everyone voted for him and not for me and he knows that yeah because a teacher or two told him that their informal public poll in class shared that more people voted for him than for me i’m like yeah that’s a great way to draw conclusions what yeah like a teacher would be like who voted for nadine why would that happen i don’t know why that would happen and also do the teachers have alien teachers that’s not true i i i’m gonna go out on a limb here and i cannot remember any of your posters any of your speeches most of our teachers names but i really don’t remember anyone asking me who i voted for well it was just i mean just reading this chapter also just brought me back to how important all of these things felt at that moment yeah you know like winning being part of this group just everything felt so consequential yeah in high school well also because it’s like probably felt like a direct judgment of like did people like you and did you think they were capable and then people trust you yeah yeah totally and so when i read it and i was just reading his his take on everything i was i’m not gonna lie i was a little bit hurt because i was like what has my whole high school history been a sham maybe i didn’t win because he wrote this thing okay you know what in like i’ve had a couple months to deal with this okay and now it’s really funny but when i read it i was like oh my god i’m only gonna say this line because it’s about me i’m not gonna pull out his other stuff he said the presidency was going to be the culmination of her high school governmental career a feather in her cap as she applied to ivy league schools ew that the way that line is written gives me like major ick i don’t like his word choices and i don’t like the way that it i don’t like you son of a gun and if you’re listening to this podcast which you probably are really oh because popular girl number two probably listens and now you’re in your head about it and now you think all are probably our haters we can get into that um no i don’t i don’t oh whatever okay well this is a great promotion i gotta say one thing about the speeches so he talks about the speeches okay um there’s one guy that go that’s running for like vp and he manages to include some kind of antic in his thing his name is ben but he puts on like a little bald cap and it is ben diesel so there’s some fun going on i think ben did okay great i think ben did i would vote and apparently son of a gun goes on stage and he gets pulled off stage because he deviates from his speech he was such a loose cannon do you remember the administration i recall it a little bit okay the administration had him like check his uh his speech ahead of time and he deviates from it and people like go wild in his account again right everybody has him on their shoulders and he’s doing a great job and he felt bad for me in the book he says he felt bad for me because i had to go after him and he wishes he’s a gentleman about it he wishes i would have gone first so i could have had my moment but i read one of my yearbook entries and somebody said i loved it when you went on stage and said sup oh that’s how you began so apparently that’s cool that was [ ] cool that is a cool vibe that is a cool vibe ben diesel and a sup totally it makes sense i did watch my jam you could see me winning so yeah so he claimed the election was rigged and i wasn’t the rightful winner and it’s just taken me what did you say to a dark place and i asked him thanks yeah it was pretty much that he said my um current like alias for you is beautiful iranian girl from harvard and i he writes that and in the career in messenger i write lol and he’s like don’t worry that’s just for now i’m like okay i was like um yeah if you could just make it pretty general don’t include my ethnicity or where i went to school that would be great good luck on the book and i congratulated him because i’m like it’s a big deal to write a book i was like great job just keep it general though that’s very big of you but then afterwards i went into a tailspin of like what the [ ] is this going to do to my future presidential career oh yeah you said in the intro that it that was the closest you’re ever going to get to politics like i mean they’re very different in a lot of ways yeah but like did you ever have these like dreams of like and i’m going to get into politics and that’s why i have to do this no i don’t think i ever wanted to be in politics i always liked the idea and i liked like running things and making decisions and like i have a follow-up question because i realize i don’t understand what you did in student council yeah good [ ] question no i really don’t because i know it’s like the volunteer like the volunteering raising money thing which i read in the um newspaper and then um like dances and stuff yeah student council was basically from what i remember it was planning large social events like our school dances we helped with like school spirit related things and in one case my senior year i was enlisted to say something to the school because there was apparently a cheating epidemic there was a cheating scandal really do you remember this i never cheated really yeah i can’t recall ever cheating why don’t you swallow so hard oh i won’t put you on a blast um yeah there was some cheese i don’t remember no maybe i cheated maybe i cheated guys i don’t i remember someone cheating off me my freshman year of course because you were the beautiful iranian girl who knew she was going to harvard yeah so there was some cheating scandal and they asked me to go on to the we had like a we had a television a school channel and they asked mr peace i remember asked me to go into this room and they recorded me i mean how embarrassing i basically had to be like guys we’re better than this what the [ ] am i doing telling my fellow classmates like we shouldn’t cheat yeah but it got so bad that there had to be a televised address and so i had to do [ ] like that i you know i come to recall i was going to cheat and then i heard you and i saw you and i you were so compelling the way that you said it i’ve been called a motivational speaker i put that cheating back inside me i said no no no no no don’t don’t do that syracuse university oh god everything felt so important everything felt so important did you i i believe reading i was reading something about some kind of um well okay we can i want to get into this yeah i’m just going to dump the rest of the paper on the ground yeah this one i’m really bad at newspapers apparently if you want to put it out in front of you uh now it’s too far away from my face okay well why don’t you what do you have let’s go let’s go into this okay you said my fellow whirlies as i excitedly x off the days left before graduation i fall victim to the nostalgia of the years gone by more specifically the truly defining four years the senior class has experienced obviously defining because we can totally remember all of them i remember when i first came oh this is interesting this made me question math i remember when i first came to grimsley in 2003 maybe i was just wrong it’s 2002 fall 2002 pretty sure i started fall semester okay you said i was excited and anxious about the prospect of attending a school where i knew no one i went to mendenhall and the thought of where i could have ended up still gives me nightmares then you say i really say you said that and then you said cough rival school cough she was funny you really hated our rival school i guess oh speaking of our rival school i don’t did i tell you this our our new producer logan her mom went to rival school logan told me that this morning and i’m not kidding we you’ve just ruined the reveal but i didn’t tell her something hi logan by the way when you told me your mom went to rival school the first thing that went through my mind was i hope we didn’t say anything bad about rival school i don’t understand what there is to say really that’s that’s oh you have an opinion on what i have an opinion okay obviously i have an opinion you wrote about it in the first three sentences briskly walking through the doors of the main building i recall realizing how small i was in comparison to my surroundings wow oh maybe that’s why i hit on all these points maybe that’s why you were standing next to the erected sign because you cannot believe that you realized that you were so small in comparison to the erected sign oh oh you do touch on um okay you get really deep looking back we may remember these past four years as some of the most defining ones which you’ve already said in our international history yes ranging from issues concerning globalization and terrorism to the international response to natural disasters and the destruction of civilizations 2002 to 2006 which you go back to 2002 has proven to be a tumultuous period in our history the year 2002 was a year of new beginnings for many of us the class of 2006 experienced its first go home freshman at the pep rally oh that was scarring for you then you go back into football here the one football game i went to yeah and my memories were as we rushed the field at the grimsley rival football game and the numbers 4114 easily rolled off the tips of our tongues anytime we pittingly looked and laughed at or talked to a pirate which is the rival school mascot you are such a hater hater’s gonna hate i feel like that was part of the assumed role of any kind of um student council representative an appropriate amount of hatred for the rights um yeah and then you end with an inspirational to those who will be leaving at the end of this year i encourage you to reflect upon your experiences and take with you the wisdom gained through high school while remembering that wisdom must still be nurtured in your future i wish you the best for what may lie ahead for those of you who have yet to graduate live it up because as ron burgundy so eloquently states an anchor man you’re all kind of like a big deal oh my god oh my god i hate myself no i think it was great i mean i think that the photo next to the erected was a mistake oh wait the senior class president also was standing next to an erected sign i don’t know if it was it okay maybe be the same sign from a different angle maybe we only had one erected sign and you guys were like let’s get it direct that word wasn’t in our it didn’t exist it didn’t exist it wasn’t a funny thing and no one was getting erect no and it was a rough year for the world i i mean there’s so many great things in this way i went for again oh there’s some really great poems in here that i just i know that no one else is enjoying the the newspaper is called the high life the high life well that’s weird that’s your name okay well super interesting stuff here thank you [Music] [Music] so one of my recurring nightmares is showing up to a class and realizing that there’s an exam i haven’t studied before or realizing that you know i have a final for a class i thought i dropped basically yes yes unprepared yes yes me having some large responsibility that i’m unable to fulfill and i basically was in a living version of this when one of our classmates from high school alumni man messages me in 2016. so this is 10 years after we have graduated okay and he says hey nakeen have you thought of anything for the reunion yet i guess quote technically that’s your job but i figured you’re probably busy saving the world oh holy [ ] and were you i mean no i wasn’t saving the world i was working for a university and i probably felt like i was saving the world at the time but one kid at a time but i cannot tell you the talespin they sent me into because i was like what because you didn’t know that was on your list of dudes i did not know that there was an alumni man in student council or he just was like a good patron of this he was a great patron he’s a great alumni he was just like active guy in school i don’t think he was in student council but he loved grammar he just was like wanted a reunion personally and he was like who can give me one apparently it is well known that the student body president is responsible for planning post-grad events i did not know that i don’t remember that being in the job description when i applied and so he says this and i’m like oh my god this is my nightmare somebody expects me to fulfill a job that i have no knowledge of yeah so we’re interested one i’m living in more interest in doing i’m living in san francisco at this time not north carolina and something was going on where i also i think i i don’t know what was going on but it was like a stressful time at work okay and and life and um so i’m like oh i didn’t know that that was a tradition i’m so sorry can you tell me more can this random random ass kid who wants the reunion tell you more about the job that you’re supposed to yeah i mean like he’s coming he’s telling me hey this is what the expectation is but like i’m just trying to catch up here so interesting and then he said yeah so technically that’s who’s in charge of planning it the student body president um usually it’s a collaboration i’ve had a few people asking me about it since i did this since i did the six three year reunion sixth year yeah apparently there’s a six year reunion so i was just trying to update them so this made me think oh [ ] now a few people are wondering why the [ ] i’m not doing my job and so basically i don’t i don’t do this job i can’t do it wait and it gets sorry can you he messaged you in 2016 which was the year that we were supposed to have the 10-year reunion asking me are you going to order that year yeah are you going to plan you didn’t even have okay you think i needed a full year heads up i don’t know because i don’t i’ve never been to one of our maybe we haven’t had him we had a six year one apparently that’s weird i didn’t know that i didn’t go you wouldn’t have gone anyway i know right i know but now i’m i’m knowing that pissed that you didn’t plan something well alumni man and a few other people from our school end up planning an event okay and there’s a whole facebook group for it and they’re raising money because they’re going to donate this money to a scholarship so all really great stuff i donate to that and at some point they’re writing stuff on the facebook group and i’m like hey guys like i wish i could make it this year thanks for making such a big effort to make this all happen on the on the facebook page for this reunion okay and this guy that’s on the committee writes it’s fine it’s fine it’s fine but the best thing you can do right now to help is just pay at least twenty dollars for the scholarship so i’m being cyberbullied but you already donated i mean i’m not telling people i don’t i know i’m not like hey guys did you see how much money i could stream in 2016. it’s fine but the best thing you can do is pay 20 to help for the scholarship and then alumni man to his credit comes to my defense and he’s like hey man she donated a lot already and the guy responds not really but who is this fool i don’t know but clearly it doesn’t i disappoint it or it is a dragon yeah i don’t want to drag him well tell me anyway cyber bully you don’t know this person either well [ ] you cyber bully he says it and i’m like okay so this guy is clearly the most annoyed that i haven’t fulfilled my responsibility yesterday well who is he going to reunite with not me because i don’t know who the [ ] is hey i appreciate that thank you i don’t go on right now should i go on this group and comment well i wanted to go on the group i think it’s been disbanded like they closed the group they closed the group god but they gave me it gave me a lot of like that gave me a lot of anxiety and when i was researching for this for this episode i go to my conversation with alumni man and i scroll through it and i realize there’s been a history of him asking me if i’m planning something oh but you didn’t see those messages i i did because i respond to him i just didn’t remember it because it happened so long ago he’s been telling you to prepare you this whole time yeah since 2012. he’s been saying stuff about reunions in general not like the 10-year big ones just like hey like the first time he reached out to me in 2012 he asked me to say something at the reunion you know what i want to say is alumni man not son of a gun should have been student body president alumni man has been really [ ] doing the damn thing yeah he has been trying to keep everyone together but also to my credit i think that like alumni coordinator and student body president are two very different positions yeah two different skill sets and i wish i hope that the grimsley student council of current times yeah has created an alumni position i think that would be a really smart thing for them to add to plan for the future it makes me sad what was the six year reunion well i remember going to one i remember going to one at nadi greens that that bar downtown um and it was really fun so thank you alumni man if you’re listening to this i look forward to coming to the 20th reunion that you plan oh we’re um we should go would you go would you go to our union oh my god and my my anxiety level yeah shoot up what would be like what is that worst case scenario well let me tell you when we found out that popular girl number two follows the mythical instagram account yeah you gave me a freaking heart attack because popular girl number two was the one who was running her little hand up my leg and i have not talked to her since then and the idea of going to a reunion i would go but we’d have to romeo and michelle it yeah yeah yeah and i mean like latex with fur the helicopter situation yeah yeah and we would also tell our friends that our fathers were the inventors of post-its yeah yeah yeah i know a few people listen because they’ve reached out to me and the ones that have reached out haven’t had a positive experience with the podcast always obviously but do you think people would like not like us as much because oh god see i hate that i don’t like i also think that people don’t give a [ ] i think that’s the other thing is that that’s good we would walk in like hey and for you they’d be like oh that’s the freaking [ ] that didn’t plan the reunion and fraudulently won the student body election then you’re like and they’d be like and who’s that girlfriend of her who’s that like little butchy lesbian that she’s with and honestly i’d be really weirded out by seeing like yeah we haven’t seen her in years we haven’t talked to her in yeah forever and you know i’m like is it because i’m gay is that why i don’t that can’t be one i don’t think so i think i think it makes sense that it’s a reason that you think about because it’s a significant thing that happened to you mm-hmm but but really should be not to the how are you she’s like oh you’re a lesbian i didn’t even know maybe she doesn’t even know maybe she doesn’t even know does your mom like that she should my mom post on facebook and it’s like a little update maybe your mom can let her know um okay i’m proud of you i am proud of you because i didn’t think you would ever be interested in going to reunion i’m not interested in going would i would you go okay and i like answered as if i was being forced and i said yes am i interested in going no right you’re interested in going i love reunion well you don’t love planning a reunion oh i’m sorry those are the same things planning an event and going listen i wasn’t interested in planning it because i felt so far away from grimsley i felt so disconnected from it what’s our next one 20 probably 20 23 i think yeah 23. um a half year i felt disconnected but i’m honestly talking about high school more makes me like super curious i don’t like it i don’t like it no no no no i would want to go i would want to go or would they be take zach and cassie i think that would be really fun oh my god yeah uh oh that would be 2026. we have four years we have four years and by that time we get our act together is the biggest podcast in the world people will then they will have gone back they will listen to all these episodes and then you know yeah then we’ll be welcome yeah all right i learned a lot here today um mostly that i am going to um be living in fear for the next four years about our own reunion all right thanks for listening to best friends back all right before we go i did want to tell our friends about and you box i don’t think you’ve heard about it our new um food publication from mythical that we’ve been working on for a long time behind 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