GMW 53: Revealing Our Cringey High School Photos

Good Mythical Weekend. How cool were you in high school and would you let these people decide? This is, show me your cool. We have all prepared PowerPoint presentations that encapsulate who we were as high schoolers. Each presenter wants to convince the group that they were actually very cool. When we’re done presenting, everyone else will get to give a grade from A to f, A for the coolest, F for a total dork. At the end, our cool GPAs will tell us who was truly the coolest. Sound good? Yeah. Yeah. I’m thinking B plus right now. Nice for me. Mm-hmm. Okay. Alright, well I guess I’ll go first since Chase has already given me a grade. Mm-hmm. This is me. Jordan Myrick. Whoa, Whoa. Spelled with an A. Yay. All right. It spelled with an a, you guys know it. Um, this was me in high school. This is a photo of me in a community theater production of Les Mis. I played a prostitute. That’s awesome. Yeah. This is a photo that I took at a St. Vincent concert because I was very into both photography and concerts. As you’ll learn during this show. My GPA, I can’t remember because it was very made up. I went to a school that had a lot of AP and honors classes, so I had like a four point 12 GPA. I thought you were saying made up like it was gonna be, uh, like, oh, you got a, a rainbow. For sure. Really? You thought I went to gay high school? No, that’s not why I said rainbow. Um, I, um, yeah, I can’t remember. So I had very good grades. I was a bad test taker, but a good student. So you’re a nerd. No. Not cool, right? This is what this is, right? I have to be cool now? My extracurriculars, I was involved in community theater. I did not do theater at school my first two years of high school because I went to a Catholic school and they were only allowed to do Christian productions. What? For example, Grease with no kissing. So it wasn’t like about Catholicism? No, it wasn’t about Jesus whatsoever. It was just like shows, you know, in love with all the kissing taken out. And I wasn’t interested in doing that. I was looking for as much kissing as possible in high school. So I joined community theater, as I pointed out. That’s cooler than regular theater. Yes. And then I moved to Los Angeles my junior year of high school and I joined the indie music club. Ooh. Yeah. What, what, what does that mean? Well, it means absolutely nothing. Uh, so I graduated from high school in 2011. Okay. And at that time it was kind of like if you thought you were like cool and different, any band you listened to was an indie band. Mm-hmm. That’s not what that means. Um, they asked me what my discipline was. I didn’t understand that question, so I told them nothing. My style. I shopped at Goodwill, Urban Outfitters and Anthropology. I later went on to work at Anthropology as soon as I graduated from high school. Wow. I did not make one single cent because everything I earned, I spent on Zoey Deschanel style dresses. This is a photo of my feet at the beach. Are those shoes from Goodwill, Urban Outfitters or Anthropology? These are Cole Han shoes and I don’t remember where I got them. This is La Jolla. They are cool. I feel like I can recall that style. Yeah. Of, of dress in high school. And you could see it, the jeans, they’re thin, they’re slender jeans. Single cuff going? Yes. That’s not a double roll. You’ve got a single. And we like that, or no? Well, I do a double personally, but I like the single as well. I think it works here. Okay, great. I love that. My style, I often wear dresses, high socks, band T-shirts, Mary Jane’s are flats, which I can’t wear anymore because I’ve had orthopedic surgery on both my feet. Wow. I always had bangs my whole life ever since I was born, except for the first three months that I worked at this job. Other than that, I’ve always had bangs, and I really did look a lot like I was trying to be a Zoey Deschanel impersonator. As you can see in this photo, I’m wearing a giant owl necklace. Wow. Any other millennials in the house? Oh yeah, this was before I got Hollywood veneers. This is also like the Zoey Deschanel before New Girl when she was taking like edgier roles. 100%. So I was a Zoey Deschanel fan from the band She and him. Mm-hmm. A band that she did with a musician named M Ward. Seems pretty indie. Wow. Very indie. Yeah. My social life. Here’s me with my high school improv team. What are those? Is it kinda like, what are those dildos, those are the legs of a doll. Please grow up. Um, I got my driver’s license the day I turned 16. I was infatuated with being able to drive myself around. I drove an old large black Mercedes-Benz from the eighties that I had received from my grandma’s friend for free. That’s pretty cool. That’s awesome. I bet some wild things happened in that Mercedes They did when I was in it. Yeah. I wasn’t expecting a handshake. I didn’t know, you know? Alright, alright. Note taken. Um, my friend group, I feel like, I didn’t tell them this specifically, but they did write it. I think we all thought we were cool. We were going to concerts. I lived right down the street from a concert venue and I was there a lot, saw a lot of bands, pretty cool. Once again, did a lot of community theater. My most famous role I was La Fu in Beauty and the Beast. If you’re not familiar. That’s the smaller Rotan gentleman. Mm-hmm. That follows Gaston around. That’s, and I will say, I do think it kind of helped the trajectory of my life because up until then I’d been getting kind of like normal roles for girls and then I got a call from my community theater director and she was like, listen, Jordan, you’re very funny. But you are not great at singing and your energy is a little different from the other girls. Um, so she clocked my gay ass very early and um, she was like, we’re gonna give you a different role. We’re gonna have you play a role that’s traditionally played by a man. And it really made me be like, wow, I’m getting a lot of attention for being funny. And now that’s what I do for a living. Um, do you have any footage of you as La Fu? I do. Would you like me to send it to you personally? I think so. I think you’d like it. I think so. I was extremely proud of myself, uh, when I did it. Aw, awesome. La Fu takes chops. I really respect that a lot. That guy. Thank you. Yeah. I did end the curtain call of every presentation by coming out and taking my hair out of the ponytail and shaking my head. I’m a woman as if to reveal. I am not in fact a boy. Are you surprised? As if they couldn’t tell by my absolute rack. Um, I was personally all over the place. I went to a lot of parties and did a lot of things that I can’t talk about on this show. I, you know, I grew up in south Florida, moved to LA junior year of high school, all big cities. Kind of cool, right. Kind of cool places to live. I think the stuff that you’re not wanting to talk about is also pretty cool. Like that stuff you’re just like, yeah, I can’t even talk about the parties I went to and the things I did. Building a lot of like, um, model RC cars. Yep. All kinds of RC cars. We were doing all kinds of things. We were certainly racing. Let’s see what else we got going here. I was really into going to the beach concerts, thrifting. I was very into photography. Here’s some more kind of cool photography I did. I had a mammography camera. Once again, any millennials in the house, they were like fun, weird cameras that took different types of pictures. So this camera put two images on one 35 millimeter printed photographs. Wow. Cool. I was doing 35 millimeter photography. Wow. You were like in your own dark room too. Absolutely not. I was dropping that shit off at Walgreens. I did do improv in high school, unfortunately, and that was me. Wow. Wow. Alright. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, so you didn’t do any like high school theater? It was community theater. I did high school theater when I moved to LA. Okay. I was in a production of a play called For the Love of a Pig. I did get the lead, which felt very cool ’cause it was, and it was right after I moved. They didn’t remove kissing? Or anything? No, there was actually a bunch of kissing. Oh. Um, a man, which was kind of not what I was trying to do. When you did improv in high school, was that in LA or was that before LA? Before LA I started doing that in Florida and it was long form improv and we did a lot of festivals. That immediately dictated the grade improv. Not in la. Okay. But, but it was really, it was long form. And it was really cool and I did a lot of festivals, like Chicago Improv Festival. I opened for the Upright Citizens Brigade Touring Company at the Miami Improv Festival. Ooh, don’t take my desperate energy now for an example of how I was in high school. No, I think I got it. I think I, I think I know how cool you were. Alright, let’s see my score. Leonard. You had a higher score. No, Leonard, not the, not the Florida improv. But then the long form brought it back up and then so I gave you a B plus. I’ll take it. Thank you Leonard. I appreciate that. B plus, I also gave you a B plus. Okay. Yeah, I think you were, you were cool. I think there was just a couple. Like nerdy ish things. Sure. So just bring it down a little bit? Absolutely. Yeah. Uh, I gave you just, I gave you a flat beat, huh? Okay. Yeah. I, there wasn’t really, I was thinking about a plus or minus. Yeah. But just a flat beat felt good. The fu was big for me. The long form Florida improv was not as good for me. So I think that’s how I arrived. At this conclusion. I understand. Alright, well thank you for your generosity and your care. I really appreciate it. You’re very welcome. Yeah. Alright. Hey everyone. It’s me, Trevor, and I’m, I’m scared. I’m nervous. I don’t know. I’m so nervous. You’re do great. It’s like I’m, this is giving cool kid giving presentation. You’re like, oh, I didn’t do well. Yeah. I’ve been given a presentation so long. Okay. First slide. Academics, GPA 3.7, which I think is the coolest GPA that you can have because it doesn’t make you a nerd if you have like a 4.0. But it’s also not like too bad. Um, I feel like I was smart and then I had a rough, rough patch there in my junior year that kind of brought it down. But we don’t need to talk about that too much. I’m not gonna focus on my mental health issues too much here. He works through them and we’re, yeah, we’re good. Yeah. Yeah. We’re totally good now. 100% healthy. Uh, okay. So I was captain of the basketball team. Oh, nice. Um, yeah, my, my junior and senior year I was captain of the basketball team. So I played a lot of basketball, other sports things. Uh, I ran track in high school, but I had jumping events. Uh, I jumped six foot 10 in high jump. That’s so tall. Nobody in here is a track and field fan. That’s pretty high. That’s cool. That is pretty high. That is pretty high. That’s higher than you want. Just so everyone, you know, everyone comments. There’s probably gonna be people. I don’t think I can jump higher than I am, so that’s pretty, that’s impressive. Wow. Yeah. Um, I was the student body, government vice president. As a joke, because here’s the thing, me and my best friend Nick, uh, we were like, man, wouldn’t it be hysterical if we ran for student body government? And then we did. And then we won. Oh, I hate that. And then we had responsibilities and it sucked. So he was the president, I was the vice president, and we didn’t really get anything done. There was a lot of red tape. We were trying to do cool things. We couldn’t get it done politically, but we did manage to get, for whatever reason, they allowed us to skip school. We were like, Hey, what if we just took the student body, like government and we just skipped school for a day and went to the zoo? And they said, yeah, and then we skipped school, but nobody told our teachers or anything. Like we didn’t tell ’em. So everyone was wondering where we were, and we were just at the Boise Zoo. Wow. So, okay. I grew up in Idaho, by the way, so that’s a big thing here, not in LA at this time. Don’t get me started on the Business Professionals of America. This was a thing that we did, and I don’t know if it’s a thing in other places, but it was like a competition, like schools would have teams and we did like a whole like business plan. We were given an assignment and our assignment was to create. A hockey team, like we were going to the NHL and proposing a new hockey team. What state we would have it in, like we created a whole design and like reasons, like population metrics, all that stuff. And then we gave this presentation. This was like a state like competition, like we went and competed against other people. I didn’t know that high schools had a capitalism club. That’s crazy. Yeah. Yeah. We were bus business professionals. I didn’t learn anything and we didn’t win, which is kind of cool because. That’s, you know, so lame. Right. The business professionals of America. And we did it as a joke again. Did you do everything in high school? Ironically? No, actually we had a lot of fun. I read the morning announcements over the speaker. Um, every day. You did it all, man. You did everything. Yeah, that’s, I was doing a lot of stuff, A lot of extracurricular and then theater and choir. I was also part of those. Wow. Choir. You could imagine me, sort of like a Troy Bolton type figure, you know, captain of the basketball team. Also a vulnerable theater kid would sing. We did The Lion King and I, uh, did, can you feel the love tonight? Pretty emotional. There were some tears from you in the crowd. Crowd and for me, uh, did you base. A lot of these extracurriculars on Troy Bolton. Where is that? Is that a choice to model your life? It just sort of happened like that. Okay. You know, and that’s the thing about, you know, being cool is that you either got it or you don’t. Can I ask what, what plays or musicals were you in? My senior year, I was, I think there’s actually photos of it later you’ll get to see. Um, but I was trinculo. In, uh, Shakespeare’s the Tempest. Okay. And I did this really awful, like Mike Myers, like Shrek voice the whole time. And I wore this little gold and, and black like. Jester kind of outfit with tights. It was really good. You’re gonna see it later. I think. I think it’s in there. Next slide. That’s me. Uh, people held up a giant si of my face at basketball games, so that’s me. Wow. You must have been really cool. That’s crazy. Yeah, really cool. It’s really cool. People gotta know, Jordan, you’re really, what’s that look? You know, you wanna know what I’m actually thinking? Yeah. I’m thinking about who you’re the exact guy in high school that. I would’ve been like, who can I pretend to have a crush on that is like nice and normal and not too like telling, do you know what I mean? And I would’ve been like, I’m obsessed with this guy. You know what I’m saying? Because you’re like tall and you’re cute and you’re funny. You seem nice, cute. And I would’ve been like, you know, I personally haven’t met you, but you really nice. You really nice. But you know what I mean? Like you seem very nice and wholesome and like, I feel like you would’ve been nice to me in high school. I think that was one of the things, because of all the extracurriculars that I did, I was like kind of friends with everyone. I was just around a lot of people. So I think I was nice to everyone. Drop it in the comments if Trevor was mean to you in high school. Yeah. Um, style, A lot of jeans and flannels hoodies underneath. Classic Idaho stuff. Classic Idaho. Classic Idaho stuff. Zoomies, urban Outfitters, American Eagle, you know. Next one. Okay. So let’s talk here for a moment about these photos. No. So this is at two different homecoming dances. Um, when did you hit your growth spurt? This is me in my freshman year. Oh my God. And this is me in my senior year. Wow. Uh, as you can tell, I put together a pretty crazy fit here. Um, I didn’t quite know what. To what to wear at this point? Yeah. This fit Looks like when a kid, uh, colors in a coloring book. Like Yeah, soy. Yeah. I don’t know. My parents, like, I was just going through the store and I was just grabbing stuff and they’re like, okay, kid. So with the suspenders, pretty, pretty damning. That’s my brother. Hey Matt. We couldn’t get the release to have him in. Yeah, you wouldn’t sign off for the show. Yeah. Um, so then this is my senior year homecoming. And this is my best friend Nick. Uh, and we were matching Tiger and poo onesies ’cause we were fighting the power. You know, we’re going to homecoming together instead of asking girls. Yeah, we went to all of our senior year dances together and like I get why everyone thought we were gay. Yeah. Like, I understand it. But yeah, we also didn’t have prom. We called it junior, senior banquet. It’s like a Christian school thing or something. Prom has sexual undertones or something. That’s the reason they gave, um, so I was on the homecoming court. There were like six people that were on the homecoming court that got voted on. So I was like, again, popular and cool. People voted for me. Yeah. It is crazy though. I mean the facial difference here. Every time I see this photo, I think there’s no way that’s actually me as a freshman. Yeah. Yeah. I look like, I’m like, I’m 12. Like just a couple of years difference between, and the dicho between the two fits is like a superhero and his arch nemesis. Yeah. My brother not cool at all. I like don’t even have all my teeth here. It looks like you look like, Hey, my friend wants to talk to you. Damn. Also, yeah. Didn’t have a date to my Frenchman. Yeah, I love that. So then social life. I was 15 when I got my driver’s license. ’cause in Idaho you can get your learner’s permit at 14 and a half. Wow. Whoa. So all them farm boys gotta get driving them trucks or around or whatever. Um, okay. So that’s me and Nick again over there in different matching onesies. We were sharks that day. Okay. Um, yeah, and then that’s me in the Philippines. I went and played basketball in the Philippines. Was this with who? Well, okay, so we went my basketball team and, and went and put on a basketball camp for like children that lived in the slums. Those were just kids that wanted a photo with a quirked up white boy. I think so significant others. Oh, okay. So I didn’t have any girlfriends or anything official, but I, I was like what I call a Christian school slut, which is where I was just kissing a lot of girls, you know. Just kissing though. Just kissing. Well, you know, kissing some, you know, some. Some, some hand stuff that affects us some, so thank you. Yeah. Much honesty. Pretty much right up to the line. So, uh, but without being sinful. Got it. Okay. Yeah. Without breaking that sacred vow to Jesus that I made friend group friends. I was friends with a lot of people, you know, I was in a lot of groups. I was in smart people classes, so I was friends with smart people. Played basketball, so I was friends with basketball. I just love the line. I was popular. I was popular. It feels like such a dumb thing to say, but like. By definition, like I guess I, I was popular. People liked me and I was friends with a lot of people. I mean, they printed your own face. They printed out, yeah. A big version of your face. Yeah. So there’s me, that’s the photo, that’s the Shrek, as you can see, impress. That’s Shrek. So I’m actually wearing a dress over my outfit right there, because at some point in the show I put on a dress. I can’t tell if there’s a pickle in my bosom. But there was a pickle in my bosom at some point throughout the show. That was kind of a running bit that we were doing, that I was doing. So this is a lip sync battle, uh, that we did. It was like some sort of fundraiser thing. I wasn’t supposed to be in it, like the football team did one, like there were groups of people like got together and rehearsed and did these really elaborate things. And then the person that was organizing it, I was just there watching and they were like, Hey, we have like. An open slot, like someone went like fast, they were like, would you want to do something? So I went into an empty classroom for about like five minutes and I decided to do, um, part of your world from Little Mermaid. And then I just went on stage and like fully improv that whole song, lip Sync, and it was really emotional and special and there were tears in the audience tears. And in what state was that? Improv, Idaho. Hmm. But it wasn’t like it was me improvising, you know? It wasn’t official. I wasn’t a part of an improv. So it wasn’t long form improv? No. I don’t know the runtime on part of your world. I wanna say it’s somewhere like two 40. I have the video. I can show you the whole video if you want later. Perfect. Yeah, if anyone wants to see that. And that’s me in high school. Wow. Ever. I feel incredibly vulnerable right now. That was crazy. Yeah. That was weird. It doesn’t feel good. Um, anyone have any questions? No. I feel like I got a full picture. Wow. No questions. I, yeah, I think I No, what your grade is. All right. Uh, I’ll start first. Okay. You got in. A plus. Wow. Oh a plus. That’s, let’s go. Oh my God. I bet it was the high jump. It was the high jump. Yeah. You got an A. You got a a. Very solid A. Yeah. I give you an A minus. I think you were really cool. Thank you. I think you’re really cool. Thank you so much. Oh my God. Wow. It awesome. Everyone from high school. You hear that now it’s my turn. Leonard, you’re gonna notice a very stark difference between me and Trevor’s. First of all, black and white photo. Oh, you were old. Yeah. No filters at all. Black and white photo. You were old. Yeah, I was old. Um. So GPA, I don’t remember this shit, man. Um, it was a long time ago. I was in the threes. Listen, my high school. Situation was a tale of two different stories. My freshman and sophomore year, I was in Lynchburg, Virginia at a school with 1600 students. I was like a smart kid. I had taken high school classes in middle school, so I was like a grade ahead and stuff. And then I moved to Atlanta for my junior and senior year, and I basically had enough credits to graduate high school, like my junior year. And it was a stark difference in between the, the first two years to my second two years, my life. So at the first high school at EC Glass, we were like a theater high school. I remember like my freshman and sophomore year, we raised $75,000 each year ourselves. For our budget. We did nine productions every year. We had a black box theater, and we had a main theater. We taught theater tech classes like. Yeah, my freshman year I was in Civil War. We were like the first high school to do Civil War off Broadway, and I was Frederick Douglas and I could not sing, and I hated singing like solos. So we had someone else, I think a white person sing my solo for me because I did not wanna sing. I could sing in chorus, I could sing along with everyone, but I did not wanna do solos. And in my sophomore year we did Les Mis, but we did Les Mis with a turning stage. Yeah, that’s what they had on Broadway. We did with a turning stage. And I was mistaken John Valon because the lead was a black guy and he was John Valon. Um, we were kind of the same, the guy who gets arrested. I thought about that with Le Mis, uh, lacrosse. I did that in Atlanta. That was the, that was a different thing. But I was a big theater kid. It was, uh, it was cool. I did like the morning announcements. I was a very. Big energy, fun, goofy kid. Improv. Improv. No improv. No improv. But since I was a big, fun, boisterous kind of class clown kid, I did go to detention every now and then. There was one time where there was this game where it was like you would throw quarters down. And like they threw down the heads and I threw down the heads. Then I won. And if they threw down the heads and I threw down the tails, they won. And I had a bunch of quarters in my pocket and they fell out in class. And I guess a bunch of kids had been playing, I wasn’t playing at the time, but they were like, go to the principal’s office for gambling. And I had to like explain to the principal that it was like I had been gambling earlier, but not at that moment. And I did not get in trouble, but I’ve gotten some attendance also from seventh to 11th grade. I did not miss a day of school, so. Wow. Yeah. So were you so healthy? Yes, very healthy. I never get sick, like I don’t rarely ever get sick. It’s kind of crazy. What do you think that is? Being poor. Couldn’t afford it. Um, what I wore. Lot of hoodies, lot of hoodies, a lot of graphic tees, a lot of baggy tees. Self-conscious, fat kid. I always got in trouble for always wearing a hat. I always had a hat on. Walking through the hallways, as soon as the bell rang, I put the hat on hoodies. Halfway through high school I stopped wearing pants fully. Wow. No pants. I didn’t wear pants for like 10 years. It was kind of crazy. Just straight, short. Yous up. Shorts. Just shorts. Just shorts All tops. No bottom. Just shorts. It was just the bagginess I was asking. It’s not on here, but I also wore a lot of the like three button down polo shirts. Mm-hmm. It was a big polo shirt guy. Look at me. Look at that goofy ass kid right there. And then, let’s see, social life. Alright, so this is where things are kind of different with the. The friend group. First two years, I’m a, I’m a theater kid. All my friends played football and stuff like that. Then I go to a new school in Atlanta with only 800 students and they’ve all known each other since they were like in kindergarten. So it was kind of wild. Everyone at this new school smoked weed. I remember calling my, I live with my dad. I remember calling my mom and me. I’m like, mom, everybody smokes weed. Even the nerds smoke weed. Like I, like, I don’t know what to do. I dunno what to do. And, um. Uh, everyone at the school thought I smoked weed because I was so goofy. Like, I was so goofy. It was like everyone’s mission at the school to be the first person to get me to smoke weed with them. Wow. And I didn’t smoke weed until the end of my junior year and it changed my life. Uh, that’s me. And what’s funny is you see right here, Leonard Smith has no regrets his four years at DH. Everyone thought I went to this high school. Everyone thought I was raised in Decatur and went to Decatur that I just like fit in so well. They were like, remember back in middle school? I was like, I wasn’t here. I was not. I was not there. Even in the yearbook. They got it wrong. Thought I was there all four years. I was not. But that just shows you how good. Of a cool person. I was that I had made so many friends in this tight little, small high school group, and I, and I fit in really well and people liked me. Um, look at that hairline. Okay. That’s a good look at, oh wait, that’s in color right there. That’s crazy. Um, so, uh, I go to Atlanta and things change. I am taking a bunch of classes that I don’t need to take. I took construction three times. I took drafting, I took graphic arts, I took photography. We had some interesting classes at my high school, and I was just like, I’m gonna, I have to. Come, I gotta take classes. I’m already a year or two ahead in a lot of these subjects. I’m gonna do it. And um, I started drinking at the beginning of my senior year of high school, which I guess was a late bloomer. And we were at this place called The Ruins and everybody was drinking at the ruins. And apparently the police got called and everyone’s scattering, everyone’s running. And I was like, oh no, my bottle of Pepe Lopez, which is like a $10 bottle of the cheapest tequila you could have, you could find, and like went back to get it. And I couldn’t find the cap. And I slipped and I fell and I’m hiding in the bushes. And then by the time I finally get outta the bushes and make it out to like where everybody parked, no one was there. Everyone had left. And I was just by myself out in the middle of the woods and I had to get on the MARTA bus, the Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit Association bus. In Atlanta, Georgia, and blessed back home. Uh, that was an embarrassing story for me. Um, there we go. Wow. Quick, any questions that they probably have a lot of questions. No questions. All right, thanks. Um, I don’t know anything about lacrosse. Like how did you, how was your lacrosse? Uh, lacrosse, I, um, was very self-aware. I’m not gonna be a professional athlete. Why I don’t need to play sports in high school? I don’t care. But lacrosse, I was like, all right, this is more fun. And I played lacrosse and I had some skills from like in Virginia, you know, it was kind of bigger up there. So I naturally was kind of good at it and I liked playing it. So how did your first crush in high school, like receive you having a crush on them? I had a lot of crushes. Okay. A lot of crushes in high school, and I don’t think I really told them ever. Okay. I had a couple girlfriends, like in Virginia, no girlfriends in Decatur. I was, yeah, I was just a big crusher. I was a big romantic, but I was a big, like, I’m gonna keep it to myself. Okay. Oh, thank God. This is, was I cool guys? I’m gonna give you a c plus. All right. I was gonna give you a higher score until you told us that everyone left you in the woods. Yeah. Um, that to me kind of said a lot. Yeah. It either said that people didn’t care about bringing you or they forgot you were there. Forgot. Yeah. But I personally would’ve thought you were. An a if I, if I had known you and you could have, you could’ve put that on there, but I couldn’t. I had to be honest with you, you know? Okay. You know I love you. Okay. I did forget about you being left alone in the one when I gave you an A minor. You were, you were pretty cool in two different schools. And I think that’s, I was, that’s something that’s an accomplishment. I was, yeah. That’s pretty cool. And you know, taking into account, you getting left alone in the woods, I also gave you a name minus, because you know what? Sometimes cool people get left behind in the woods and that doesn’t take away from the fact that you’re cool. So, hey, you know what? You need something else to you. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. What? You know what? Yeah. It is cool to get left alone in the woods. All I’ll take it. Alright, we’re done. Thank God. Hello Sharks. Hi Chase. Uh, I was very cool in high school. And I’m Chase, so let’s take a look at how cool I was. Um, I had a pretty good GPA, whoa, around 4.2. I had some aps early on that kind of helped me out. And then I, I coasted a little bit. Senior year I was really good at coasting through Spanish ’cause I spoke it. Early and often with like my grandma and some ants and so then I could just get like kind of solid bees the whole time without trying. And then the aps just kinda helped me out a lot. And I did water polo, which you can see there. Water polo is an impressive sport. Yeah, that is a very impressive sport. Thank you. And you look really strong there. You look. Thank you very much. There was a really cool photo of me, uh, after a game where I had like a, a just scratch all along my torso from one of the other players and I couldn’t find it, but it was like the most fat ass photo that I had from high school and I was really bummed. I believe you that that exists. Thank you. Thank you very much. Um, I did TV production, uh, where we made like a morning news show. I was the executive producer. It was totally just. An easy a class and then it became my career. I was gonna say, how’d that work out for me? That’s fun. Uh, it was actually really cool. The, our teacher was amazing. Uh, I still talk to her and like help her out. They’ll do little film festivals and she’ll call alumni in and other people from the industry since it’s here in LA to like grade them and stuff. And then she took a bunch of us seniors, uh, to Sundance in 2011. Wow. We, we had to help pay for the trip, but she was like, let’s take you guys since you love all this stuff. We saw movies and I saw. Uh, a documentary that just like totally changed my mind on like, okay, this is actually really cool and impactful. I think I wanna do potentially this as like a career. Um, what documentary? This is a little depressing. It’s called How to Die in Oregon, and it was about the assisted suicide that you. Can take if you have a, an illness that is terminal and the entire audience was just bawling their eyes out. It was very powerful. And uh, the very priest who came with us to Sundance didn’t like that we saw that movie. Very cool. And why did a priest come with you? He was one of our college counselors. I went to a Catholic school. Oh, y’all? Yeah. Yeah. Christian as schools man. I don’t remember if they removed any kissing from our place though. I am pretty sure there was at least one kiss. Wow. Lucky. Yeah, that was pretty cool. Also pretty cool was my discipline record. I got one detention for the lamest thing ever. Too many tardies. Uh, ’cause once I got my license, I just slept in then was late to class. Um, for style. So we had a school uniform, a Catholic school uniform, but outside, uh, of that, uh, there was this kind of long shorts and very long socks. That’s you, but, but you could see a couple inches. Yeah. That’s a photograph of you. Wow. Can you see it? No, it’s incredible. Um, yeah, so, uh, I don’t know why this was a style that I thought was popular. I think it was mostly just me that was doing the real long shorts and the real high socks. Black specifically had to be black socks, had to be black socks, and then yeah, blue, blue vans. And then in school I was just our regular uniform plus either Blue Vans or Toms was a very big mm-hmm. Into like the Toms era. And these are, were your two girlfriends? No, these are two girls I went to middle school with. Um, this was at the Catholic Parish school, like fair festival that they do. And we went back to that festival ’cause we were like, oh yeah, we’re pretty cool. We’re in high school now. We’re just gonna like walk around like we own the place. Um, and I had a crush on the girl in the middle. We went on one date and, uh, even though I said, let’s go on a date, she was like, sure. And she brought like a bunch of other girlfriends to our movie, uh, which very clearly meant that it wasn’t really gonna be a date, but it was really cool. We saw Mama Mia, uh, moving on. That was a brutal detail to add there. Yeah. Yeah. Let’s not help your score. Let’s change it with some pretty cool photos of me blonde. Yeah, so at some point in high school my hair started going brown, but I couldn’t tell because I was playing water polo. So the sun and the chlorine had me blonde until pretty much winter break. Senior year I came back and my hair just started darkening over that break. When I came back, a lot of the kids were like, why’d you tie your hair brown? And it was just ’cause it was becoming its natural color that probably had happened a few years earlier. But yes, I was blonde and I kind of look like a different person in all of these photos. Yes, you do. Yeah. Um. Yeah, that was another, another thing, like my face just kind of changed shape consistently throughout high school, middle school, uh, and even a little bit of college. That’s really cool. Oh, thank you. Yeah. I was a, yeah, I was a chameleon. That was a very cool thing about me was that I always looked different. You wanted to find me on the playground. Couldn’t tell who I was. I thought world farming. Photo on the right. You’re so nonchalant, like off guard. Oh, thank you. That was, uh, my water polo team went to Hungary one summer and we played a bunch of teams that were like internationally. We played Germany, Egypt, Hungary, Croatia, uh, it was really fun. Hungarians played some of the best water polo in the whole world, and it was, uh, very humbling. We were not very good compared to these other teams, but it was a, an awesome experience. Everyone went all over the world. We went to the Fort Lauderdale. Science museum and that is the only field trip I went on. Why did y’all go to all these other countries? Private school? Yeah. I guess it, it was private school. Um. I don’t know. I was so in, in my Catholic school, there were like kind of two echelons. There were like the rich Catholic school kids and then there were all the rest of us that were on scholarships. So every time one of these trips would come up, you were on scholarships. My family, we would do like, uh, I did a bunch of fundraisers to try to get me to go on these trips. I was like personally going out and like selling like chocolate bars and stuff to try to get myself. To actually hang out with my teammates and with like the TV production team. Otherwise I wasn’t gonna make it to those trips. Wow. Wow. But yeah, and I was rocking a lot of just like water polo tees and board shorts and quick silver tillies, packed sun Urban Outfitters. Just kind of like surfer skater vibes that looks like. Completely different. The other two I could kind of see, but that looks like a, that, I’m not sure that’s you. I’m 90% sure that’s me. Mine, but yeah, I’m pretty sure. Um, all right, so now that’s you social life on your wedding day. This is senior year. Um, this was senior year prom. I got my driver’s license at 16 and had one girlfriend. This is her. She went to a different school. She went to an all girls Catholic school. I had a few dates with others. I had a lot of crushes. It was very similar. Leonard was pretty much like a romantic who just had like a lot of crushes and a lot of girls. And there was like the one girl that I had a big crush on too. Every time I tried to be like, I think I like you, she would like run off and talk to other friends because I think she like saw it coming. And so it was, uh, yeah, it was, uh. Uh, but anyway, uh, I, I like this photo because you can’t really tell, but I think everyone can tell that I was standing on a ledge, so I looked taller than my girlfriend. Man, you’re trying to convince us you’re cool. Wow, Jordan, I don’t like the look that you’re convincing me. No, it’s really sweet. I, I just, I feel for you, you know. Is she, is she, was she taller? ’cause she’s wearing heels here. We are actually the same height. Okay. Uh, but she was taller, uh, for the date with her heels. In the heels. Yeah. Okay. No, I love it. Thanks. Thanks. It’s just sweet. It’s cute. You know, the vulnerability here is really cool. Yeah, I think it’s nice. I just don’t know how to cool it up anymore. I just have to present you what the, what my life was. I liked that you didn’t try to pressure her to wear flats. Uh, no. I wanted to match her dress. I, like, I asked what her colors were for the tie. I wanted her to look, you know, as beautiful as she wanted. That’s cool. As it, and. But also because we went to a different school, I did have some people who thought that she didn’t exist. Sure. But you don’t know her. She goes to a different school. But she did. Nah, nah, nah. We’re not even trying to convince each other that we’re cool. We’re trying to convince the people out there. Oh. All right. So other things about my social life, I really was kind of popping between a bunch of different groups. It was like water polo. I ate lunch with water polo all year round. The TV production team or just kinda like a bunch of other random kind of groups that I would hang out with. I don’t, I really vibed with the, the stoners, even though I was like very scared to smoke weeds. I hung out with a lot of those donors too. People used to think I was high all the time ’cause uh, I, and you think I needed a lot more sleep than I actually got. Mm-hmm. So, uh, I would just kind of. Float around amongst all the different groups and, um, get accused of being more high than I I had ever been. ’cause I hadn’t smoked weed until senior year. And when I finally did, I remember going in like, a bunch of my friends paid 20 bucks. I mean, they, someone went to a dispensary and got like weed, oil to make brownies themselves. And then, um, they all ate the brownies a day before I got mine, and they got way too high. And so I got really scared and I held onto mine for like two months and by the time I ate it, there was like zero effect. So I just stayed in my room and I was, because I was really nervous about how high I was gonna get. And I like went on iTunes and rented a few, like fun stoner comedies. And I just watched them completely sober until like four in the morning thinking like, it’s gonna kick in, it’s gonna kick in. And, and there’s me with some people to prove that I did have a social life. See, this hair is crazy here in the waterfall photo. Yeah. This one to, that one is wild. Yeah, those are probably like five months apart. What, where you can really just see how my hair went from blonde to brunette. Uh, as soon as I stopped being in the pool every single day. No, I’m loving that hair there. Thank you. Cool hair. Um. And that was me showing you my cool. Okay. Okay. I’m feeling all a’s, I don’t know. That’s just the vibe I’m getting. I gave you a B. That feels very nice. Thank you, Jordan. The ledge, the standing on the ledge brought it down a little bit, um, from a higher score. I think once again, I honestly, we all kind of seemed like we were like. Social floaters, friends with a lot of different people. I think all four of us would’ve been friends in high school, so yeah, I personally would’ve thought you were a plus school. But I think standing on the ledge, some of the stuff was giving B a little bit. Mm-hmm. I also gave a B. Oh, wow. Yeah. Thank you. Big B. Big B business over here. Okay, everyone, I erased a minus. And to be fair, I did that as well. I put a B, all of them erased their minuses, but I can’t say anything. Y’all gave me 3 B minuses. Here’s the thing. I don’t think that you were, and it’s because I don’t think you were a B minus Cool. In high school. I think that the way that you presented your information to us today wasn’t, you didn’t do yourself justice. You think he’s a B minus now? I think that if I didn’t know Chase of mine. Yeah. You’re, I think that’s what he’s saying. No. Um, I, I think a b. Yeah. A B, I think you’re cool. I would’ve been friends with you. Thank you. Well, yeah, you were friends with everyone. Yeah, but I appreci appreciate that, Trevor. There’s nothing wrong with getting all B’s. That’s what I got. Yeah. Thank you. I appreciate that. I appreciate everyone erasing their minuses. That was very kind. Alright, well with a cool GPA of 3.89, that means Trevor is our winner today Big Trev. You’ll be memorialized in a special yearbook photo on the Mythical social channels. Where you’ll be named most likely to be coolest. Thanks to our crew for letting us see your embarrassing pictures, and we’ll be back here next Saturday with another all new episode of Good Mythical Weekend. Bye. Tune in every Saturday to watch Good Mythical Weekend where the fun continues all summer long. Plus get to know the crew even more on the Mythical socials.

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