Welcome to Good Mythical More. We’re going to get to know the crew by hearing some of their borderline unbelievable high school stories. They might be lying. No, but they’re not lying. And that’s what makes it so awesome. Uh, but first, we’re going to try to guess the definition of the word renegazoo. Ranny Gazoo, like granny without an R, without a G. And then gazoo, like kazoo with a G. Renie gazoo. Ren gazoo. Ry. This is such a weird word. This is a Celtic word that means like fiasco. I think it’s the maze that science mice run in. Put them in the raiki kazoo. Ramy kazoo. Yeah. Yeah. I agree with that. Now, what is it? Yeah. Nonsense or foolishness? Close. Well, we need to own this term. Come in, guys, for a little Ramy Kaz Ranny. Ranny Kazoo. Ranny Kazoo. Randy Kazoo. We’ve got Tally, Leonard, and Nicole. And for the first time, we got a new one. We’ve got Andrew. Watch out. Hello. Watch out. It’s Andrew. Please watch out. Andrew is going to be uh joining us on Good Mythical Weekend soon as part of the Everybody slide up. Thighs. thighs. All thighs touching. Okay. Your own thighs should be touching, Andrew. And then everyone else is touching everybody else’s thighs. So, keep on coming on up. That’s right. This feels adequate. Everyone’s thighs are touching. So, okay. So, you all went to high school. Whoa. Separately, but Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Right. Well, that’s impressive. Educated. C Can we be told the city you went to high school in before we look at the things? Uh, well, it’s not. You’re not matching. Yeah, we are. I thought you were ranking. We’re ranking. Oh, we’re ranking. So, you can you can freely know the cities separately. Now, I don’t want to know. Yeah, I was going to say, is that something you want to know? Cities. Well, now I want to know the cities. That’s how you said it. What are the cities? Well, I grew up in a county, so Stafford County, Virginia. Stafford County, Virginia. Yeah, we went to a county school as as well. We didn’t go to a city school. Okay, that’s fair. And I grew up in a town. Yeah, tellard Colorado. It’s a small town. Oh, yeah. It’s a ski resort town, but it’s a town that people have heard of. It is famous, but my graduating class had like 25 kids at the only public high school in an hour radius. So, it is very small. Yeah. Very, very small. Small town. Wow. Yeah. But it is famous, but a well visited town. Yeah. A well toured town. Yes. So, is it like athleisure town or? Um, it’s a ski resort town, so it’s like half the people there. Everybody’s wearing yoga pants. Yeah, you have to. That the city does issue those. Yeah. City issue yoga pants. Yeah. Okay. All right. Well, I’d expect you to start doing that. Well, I’m I’m That’s That’s why I’m starting actor. That could be your identity. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I did I My car is full of pants for everyone. So, yeah. Right. Is that why you do a podcast outside? Because you’re so granola. Yeah. Exactly. I I don’t want to be confined by walls. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. It’s very consistent. Me, I like being inside of walls. Um yeah, I went to a city school which is a neighbor Decar which is a neighborhood in Atlanta but also its own city. It’s kind of like Burbank. Yes. Decator. Yeah. Decatur high school. There’s a lot of Decaters in the United States but Georgia. But that’s the one. That’s the one. Yeah. Decator. That was probably a big high school, right? Actually, no. It was like 800 students. It’s gotten bigger now, but when I was there, like uh it was we had a little small class of like maybe 150 or something. Okay. All right. More than 25. Jeez. All right. Um, and I got some follow-ups for later. Sorry, Nicole. It’s okay. It happens. I said I got some follows for later cuz Nicole’s talking now. It’s my turn now. Actually, uh, I’m from a small town outside of Detroit called Gross Point. If you’ve ever seen Virgin Suicides, that’s me. James is also from there. Really seen it. Gers Point. Gross. Like Gross Point. It’s French. Gross point. Gross point. The only thing I I don’t want to visit a place that’s got the word gross in it. Honestly, I don’t want to watch a movie that’s got the words virgin and suicide. It’s a copa. It’s a classic. What about Virgin River? Oh, true. I’ve only watched it over my wife’s shoulder. Uh, Tally, do you want to do you want to tell us? Oh, should What’s the best way to do this? Producers. Yeah, let’s hear this. You want us to read and they’re just like gonna Yeah, maybe cuz you guys wrote these, right? So like these are the exact words you want to say. So maybe it’s a reading and then a confirmation situation. You just kind of react to it. Make faces. All right. At your athleisure. I’m going to read I’ll be reading this excerpt from Tally to Tally. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. Okay. This happened at a high school in my town and it made local news and many memes later on. A student decided to run across the football field in a banana costume and our town went bananas. Crazy. It’s a good joke. He was That’s why everyone laughed. Yeah. Thanks, guys. He was suspended from school. Students from all of the schools were making merch. Free banana man. The school itself removed bananas from the cafeteria. What? And were insanely strict about people wearing yellow. All of this led to a segment on the local news where a longtime reporter, Pat Collins, Yep. Pat Collins, if you know him, you know him. Interviewed the kid while wearing a grape costume. Hold on. Pat wore the grape costume. Yeah. Wait, wait. Are you saying that this is a clip that exists? See right now? No. Wait. Brian got suspended for wearing a banana outfit. I said banana outfit. And running around the field during the halftime of the football game last Friday. School officials accused him of being disruptive and disrespectful. Frankly, I don’t see what all the fuss is about. Why did you decide to do that? I just wanted to make people happy. Did you realize it would come to this? Not at all. Not at all. Are you sorry? I guess so. That’s Pat Collins. Pat. That is the Pat Collins. Whoa. Pat Collins is is a good guy. It made memes like Did he get reinstated because of Pat’s work? What did he get suspended? Yes, he got suspended. He got It was like a short suspension. I don’t know how long the guy was out of school. Like five minutes. I mean, but what kind of school was this? Like this was like a public high school. I see. But they were He ran at halftime. At halftime. Like at first I was thinking it was during I mean you saw the footage. There wasn’t anything going on on the field. That’s crazy. It’s like the Stryand effect. Like them drawing attention to it made it much bigger than it needed to be. Yeah. Right. I mean, you got you got to get Pat in a grape suit to to solve this crap. What did Come on. What did Banana Man go on to do? Great things, I assume. I have no idea, actually. You haven’t kept up with him. I wasn’t friends with him. Oh, well, but he was a local celebrity. Seems like everyone was friends. You know, Tally, when she graduated, she split. Your turn. Oh, he’s not wrong. Okay. I’m just I’m sorry. They took bananas out of the cafeteria. Yeah, that’s crazy. We got to acknowledge too too much. This didn’t happen at my high school. It happened at like our local like our my rival high school. And so I knew about everything going on over there cuz like it was a talk of the school was just like nervous about like if other schools were going to join in. Were we going to lose our bananas? Right. Yeah, kind of. Honestly. Yeah. Even for talking about it. Yeah. Yeah. It’s going to be so low potassium around here. Okay, so we’re going to move on to Leonard. Andrew, you’re new. We’re going to save you for last. Remember remember those classic TV show movie food fight scenes? Well, those happened at my school. You think they wouldn’t have given us a champagne glass full of Hershey kisses at prom, but they did. and we proceeded to throw them and start another food fight at the Weston in downtown Atlanta and got our school banned from all downtown hotels. They had to replace their carpets from the amount of chocolate that got mashed into it. Yeah, classic food fight. I was there for a couple of them. I was always upset cuz I was trying to eat. Uh it was wild. They gave us little flutes full of sh Hershey kisses. I was talking to my friends about it. I was texting some friends like, “You guys remember this?” Apparently cakes got smashed into the carpet. Like food got smashed into the carpet. There was like this crazy bill that our high school had to pay the Weston in Atlanta and we got banned from every hotel. It was prom 2005. And I shouldn’t have said that. Now I’m old. How about 90s? Yeah. Um, you got banned. That’s stronger than bananas getting banned temporarily, right? But did a local news celebrity have to dress up as like a smooshed cake? No one dressed up as a Hershey kiss. And uh but the next year they had to have like prom in the cafeteria. It went from like the Weston in downtown Atlanta to the cafeteria. We had the prom in the cafeteria every single year. That was as good as it got for us. We didn’t know you could leave the school for prom. I love the image of like an epic food fight happening and Leonard is just like angry eating his dinner. Just like mad that everyone’s doing this and having like That was good jello right there. Please throw at my mouth. Please. Also, Hershey kisses are like the worst food fight food. Like you have to hit hard. Yeah. I also forgot we hit some people who were staying at the hotel. People got hit who were staying at the hotel. We were like high up and they were throwing them from like the floor. Yeah. High school teenagers. Oh yeah. Hershey kisses, they’re drunk. Like come on. Terrible idea. Decator. Andrew, what was your problem like with just a class of 25 people? Uh, I didn’t go. Yeah, because I was the unman. There was 24 12 couples in me. Literally the we drafted like a like a game, you know, we had two captain. The two hottest people were the captain. It was a whole thing. Anyway, um, wow. I kind of believe that. No, it didn’t happen. All right, but we’re still going to save Andrew’s story for last. Okay. And how what how are we ranking these? Like the one that you’ll be thinking about when you go to bed tonight. That’s a good That’s a good way. Grape interviews Banana Man. Hold on. Hold on. I got two more. Pretty interesting. I’m just saying it’s pretty interesting. You don’t have to lobby yet. If you’re lobbying this early, that’s a bad sign. Hey. Okay. You’re pree you’re doing a preemptive strike against Nicole and Andrew. Yeah, Nicole. Yeah, if I hurt, when I was in high school, two of my friends had older brothers that were much cooler than us, and we always wanted to hang out with them. They finally invited us to hang out with them. Parking lot of our high school, coolest place in town. Somehow, we got into a big debate where one guy claimed that if you ran over your foot with a car, but it was going really slowly, it wouldn’t hurt. You’d be fine. Yeah. Everyone started volunteering to have their foot run over. But when a guy got behind the wheel of his Jeep, everyone chickened out. For some reason, I decided that it was my job to prove these silly boys wrong and stuck my foot underneath the wheel. Oh no. He backed up very slowly. Oh my god. And wouldn’t you know it, it didn’t hurt at all. What? Hey, were you wearing Doc Martens? Uh, steel toes. Most likely Adidas if I have to guess. Maybe a sandal. I don’t know. So, let’s take this to the parking lot. It didn’t hurt at all. There’s pressure, but like it’s because the tire physics goes over your foot and and distributes the force. Like, it’s cuz it’s rubber. I think it’s more about Nicole. I mean, I think I think a number of squirrels I’ve seen on the road would disagree. It does cuz you’re going fast. No, but if you run over a squirrel slow, it’ll kill it. Oh, god. It’ll squeeze it out like a toothpaste, too. But would it was going fast of your foot? It would It didn’t It didn’t break her bones. How why would it break a small animal’s bones? Wait. Wait. The thing is, how cool did you seem in that moment, Nicole? Because that seems like a really cool high school moment. I wanted it to be cooler. They were kind They kind of moved past it pretty quick. I took a real Let Let this linger. Let it linger. Yes. Like the cranberries. To answer your question, if if a human foot was made out of a squirrel, there’s like 100 bones. I’m not finished. It would It’s the guts and all the organs. But all the guts and the organs move around. So I would No, your foot just her foot was smooshed, but it’s resilient. It’s just But she said it didn’t hurt at all. Versus like it was smooshed. A brick. A balloon versus a brick. A balloon’s going to pop. A brick. A squirrel’s a balloon. And this metaphor that I just This was a full Jeep. It wasn’t one of them Fisher Price Jeeps. Full Jeep. But the It was unzipped. So, okay. Top down. Top down. Well, we’re gonna have to try it. Nicole’s first in line who’s got a Jeep who is a squirrel. Um, no. All right, Andrew, here we go. My friends and I all met this random adult man from LA on the street. Good start to any story. Who claimed that his brother worked for Microsoft and he could send us all free Xboxes. Yeah. Okay. Oh, wow. He ended up doing that and over the course of the next few years randomly bought tons of very expensive electronics for over 30 kids at my school. I think I personally received about $20,000 worth of stuff from him while I was in high school. A laptop, Bose speaker sound system, TV, etc. He was a strange guy, but never tried anything creepy. And no one to this day has any idea why he did this. What? Yeah, let’s bring him in. Yeah. So, you know, we met this guy on the street and he was like, he asked us a couple questions. He’s like, I’m doing a documentary about kids in a small town, which definitely was not true. And then was like, “Oh, my thanks for answering my questions. Could I give you guys some Xboxes?” Xbox had just come out. He’s like, “My brother works for Microsoft.” We gave him our addresses. Then afterwards, we’re like, “Maybe look.” Okay. Yes. We agreed that afterwards that was a bad idea, but this is such a small town that like everyone knew where everyone lived. If you really wanted to know someone’s address, you could just like watch them walk from school to their house, so it wasn’t really that big of a deal. Then he ended up we forgot about it. Then months later, we all got these Xboxes in the mail and he was like, “If you ever need a new game, send me an email.” Then he we would email him regularly whenever a new game came out. He’d send us these new games and then he just proceeded to buy me and all my friends electronics for the rest of my high school career. What? Yeah. I don’t know. And And he never filmed you. He never did. No, no, that never came out. His brother, he never talked about his brother again. Like, those were clearly lies. So, he definitely wasn’t honest. And my friends and I started carrying knives whenever we would hang around him just in case he hung out with it. He He visited town once a year for the film festival and he would just buy us anything we wanted. It was really weird. And you were carrying You’re using the Yeah, we had knives. Yeah. You’re using the term buy things. Yeah. Wasn’t this guy stealing things and then giving them to kids? No, we saw him use a credit. He was on. You would see him buy them. Yeah. We he’d take us to like the store and he just pick anything he wanted. It was very strange. He was basically a sugar daddy, but I mean maybe he wanted to do something creepier but never did. I I will never know. I feel like there’s like some bureaucratic something where the mayor was like buy these kids. Yes. I mean it was an initiative. Yeah. There was something he did where he had he claimed that he worked for Warner Brothers and had like expense account. Again, I don’t know if anything ever said. Did you ever know his full name? I did know his full name. And have you Googled him? So, he did. I hadn’t thought of him in over a decade. And then he emailed me during like the scariest time of the pandemic when like you were afraid of everyone. He was like, “Hey, Andrew. I thought about you the other day. Your name popped into my head and I searched you on on Google and I saw so much stuff came up.” And then he’s like, “I was wondering did you do you still live at is your phone number still not like get all the information from my past?” And I was like, he’s like, “I’m wondering, does your mom still live at this address? I thought I’d go by.” It was just very creepy. And I was really scared. And I was just like, “Hey man, no.” Basically just like, “I don’t want to talk to you.” God, what is this guy up to? Yeah. I don’t Is this is Is his email account like an AOL account or is it coming from No, it’s Microsoft.com. His email was AOL.com. It was AOL. Uh, it was AOL and it was in the name, which isn’t really very um comforting. I’m sorry that mine is borderline like creepy and elite. This is like a reverse Stephen King story. It’s like a small town where things happen to kids. Yeah, that could be the case. That could be the case. Maybe he’s an elf. Based on my criteria of um I’m going to be thinking about this when I go to sleep. Yeah, Andrew wins. I’m sorry. Andrew wins. Andrew has won. I think I I think I am going to be thinking about your foot. Yeah. Thanks. And whether or not it’s real. Yeah. We’re going to We’re going to have to do that. I do have planner fistalitis, whatever it’s called in the fasciitis. Fasciitis. Only in one foot. Yeah. Oh, you got to get It’s time for another runover. Yeah. I think it’ll flatten it right out. I was a runner. My mom worked at the General Elect General General Electric plant in Lynchburg and they it was like the they were having the like big I don’t know company picnic thing and they had one of those trains in the parking lot was being pulled by a tractor and I was like oh it didn’t have doors it had like chains so I stuck my leg out to try to go with it. And then I fell out and got ran over by at my mom’s job and I have this big scar on the back of my ankle. Oh. So it it cut it How old were you? I was like eight. Oh, that’s embarrassing. That’s acceptable though. 18. Okay. So, now it’s really uh I mean, what did you do again? One of them happened at their my actual high school. Yeah, that’s true. It’s just crazy high school stories. That was the most That’s true. This is just in a parking lot. You run over somebody’s foot. Come on. That while they were in high school. The high school of my parking lot trying to impress seniors when I was a sophomore. Wow, that’s a high school. Lot of high school words there. Yeah. Nicole, sophomore, senior. Nicole’s number two. Wow. And then I mean it’s not at Tally, it’s not at your high school, but high school football. Pat Sullivan, what’s his name? Pat Collins. Pat Collins. Pat Collins is the man. He’s awesome. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. I’m kind of sad. I don’t know if he’s actually alive now, though. Classic food fight. Yeah. Too normal. Yeah. I need a weird creepy dude knowing where I live. I’ve seen too many food fights. A new episode of Good Mythical Weekend is coming your way tomorrow morning. Be sure to tune in. Trevor, in a butt. Yeah, in a butt.