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Episode 7 - High School Stories: Scandals, Pranks and Controversies with Jacob Lawrence
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This week we are joined by real-life Fire Fighting hero and longtime goofball Jacob Lawrence. We discuss what it takes to be a firefighter, life in the station, and learn a little bit about the history of these brave men and women. But, Jacob wasn't always the hero we see today. He grew up as a rambunctious child and this week we draft the best prank to pull as a kid.
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Introduction to Jacob Lawrence
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Speaker
Gonna find my baby, gonna hold her tight Gonna grab some afternoon delight My motto's always been
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good afternoon delights I'm your host Matt Latimer and it's a good day to have a good day I'm just trying to bring you a smile on this Wednesday but I couldn't do that alone so I brought on a very special guest firefighter and hero mr.
Relocation and Border Life
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Jacob Lawrence how are you doing tonight Jacob
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I'm doing great. It's great to be on the show. Thanks for having me. Yeah. We've been waiting to get you on for a while now. You're too busy out there putting out fires and saving lives. Yeah. Yeah. It's nice to stay a little busy, but, you know, love what I'm doing. So it's been a fun ride. It's been a fun journey down here in Charlotte so far. Yeah. But you're not even in Charlotte anymore. You're a South Carolina boy now. Yeah. We made the we made the crossover the border to South Carolina, but I could literally walk to North Carolina from our house, which is kind of cool. But yeah, we are in Fort Mill, South Carolina.
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Nice, has anybody come down to visit you yet? Yeah, we've had a few people. We've had ships come a couple times. Oh man, who else? Hey babe. Oh yeah, first your brother came. Who else?
00:01:33
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Marty went to the lake house for your birthday. Yeah, Marty hasn't been to the house but he's came to Charlotte. Marty came to the lake house for my birthday and then he also saw me at my old house in Charlotte. Him and Chris came and visited my old house in Charlotte. Okay, so we got a couple people.
00:01:49
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's been good. Of course, Spencer. And yeah, we need more. We need more friends down here to come see the Carolinas.
Fire Service Career
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I think it's time for you to move back up to Columbus. You think so? I think so, man. You could work at fire station number two. Yeah. Busiest fire station in the country. Columbus fire station number two. I think it is. It was at one point. I don't know if it still is. They fucking redid the whole thing, dude. They put like 40 million into making a new station and everything. Super nice. Right downtown. Wow.
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That's pretty cool. I did not know that. I know they're staying pretty busy. It sucks. You got to be a paramedic there. I don't want to be a paramedic. Oh, you have to be a paramedic in Columbus? Yeah. So I would have to go back to school and become a paramedic because all of them, they're all ALS trucks. Like down here, we have a third party ambulance. They're called Mecklenburg EMS Agency. So all their ambulances have paramedics on the ambulances and then our fire department, we're all EMTs.
Mischievous Childhood
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Okay.
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Actually transporting anyone to the hospital we just yeah you're just on site right yeah do we get there much quicker than the ambulances if there's more fire trucks in the city versus the ambulances alright jacob now i know a lot of people listening they know you but for those of you that don't want to tell people a little bit about yourself how you grew up what are some of your hobbies you know where you like as a kid.
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Well, grew up in the fine state of Ohio, in Dublin, Ohio. Loved being mischievous, you know? That's one way to put it. Yeah. Had a group of friends that like to, I guess, just goof around. Just be a little silly goose and mess around in the neighborhoods. And we sometimes would find ourselves getting into some trouble. But, you know, I had a good support system and friends on my back to help me steer me in the right direction to kind of get me out in trouble. Other than that,
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You know, just grew up playing sports just like any other kid and loved hanging out and just living life. That's true. Now, you know, when did you make the move down to Charlotte?
Firefighting Path and Business Venture
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In 2016 is when I moved to Charlotte. What prompted that move? Primarily the fire service. I finished up my fire academy in Columbus State Community College.
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And I took those certifications and came down to Charlotte, where I started applying to the city of Charlotte as a full-time fireman. And it took me five years to get hired. It was super competitive. Oh, wow. Yeah. In the meantime, that's where I got onto a volunteer department called Long Creek in Charlotte. And I worked as a volunteer for a few years. And then I finally got hired with Flint Hill, which is a small fire department in Fort Mill, South Carolina. I worked there for three years while still volunteering.
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I finally got hired with Charlotte and also work at Pineville Fire Department, which is another volunteer fire department. You know, you can pick up like 10 hour shifts, 14 hour shifts, or 24 hour shifts, kind of nice, just based off your schedule. You just pick your off days to work at that part time job. And then kind of honestly started my own business down here in Charlotte, which is a crazy thing to
JL Modern Designs
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think about. I never thought I would ever be doing something like that. And what is that business?
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do cabinet painting and accent walls. You know, we just did our own DIY accent wall with the help of Mr. Mike. Oh yeah. Right on. What'd you do? So we did like a board and batten wall. So we did verticals going up. We got like six verticals behind our TV and then we have a base running across the top and then we have two different sections, like one coming 18 inches down from the top and one going 18 up from the bottom to kind of create that look and then painted everything new color and all that.
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Yeah, dude, that is the most popular accent wall that I make. Yeah, I figured Brianna's like, let me finish. She was like, our wall looks like an Instagram page. I was like, yeah, sure. Shout out Instagram. Shout out if anyone wants to give me a follow on JL Modern Designs on Instagram. That's my company name. JL Modern Designs, everybody. OK, get out there. Tell them that the commission sent you. That's right. So I mean, how many how many of these jobs you could do in a week for JL Modern Designs?
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and we're still up and coming. So it's probably about maybe two a month. I get two jobs a month, you know, either painting cabinets or an accent wall. The cabinet paintings, it takes me two weeks just because of shift work. You know, I'm in and out of the firehouse. Yeah, you can't do it full time. Right. Yeah. A whole project takes me, you
Firefighter-Police Relations
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know, two weeks just, you know, back and forth and everything. So it takes up most of the month, obviously, if I get one cabinet job. But yeah, we stay pretty steady. The winter months are slower than the, you know, spring and summer months.
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Is it just you or do you have other people that help you out? It's just me for the accent walls. And then I got one other guy that helps me prep the kitchens. I work with him. He's at station 42 with me and, um, he helps me prep the kitchens on days that I need them. Okay. Well, that's good. I'm proud of you, man. How far are you willing to travel for the people down in the South Carolina area? Cause you know, we got Jacob and Jen Knave and they lived in Charlotte for a decade. So they got a lot of friends listening to this podcast from the Charlotte area. They need to drum up some business for you.
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Right on. I mean, yeah, we're willing to travel, for sure. Yeah, we love serving all the Carolinas, really. You think I'm like an hour? You were willing to travel four hours? Get out to Asheville? What's your distance? Oh, man. Maybe not Asheville. Maybe not Asheville. That'd be tough. That'd be tough to talk my, uh, the guy that works, that helps me out to travel four hours. Okay. So we're looking at maybe an hour tops. Yeah, probably an hour tops, for sure. An hour within the Charlotte area. Yeah.
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Okay, that's fair. That's still good range. Pizza doesn't deliver an hour away, so you got them beat. All right, now Jacob, when I'm watching all these firefighter shows, they got a lot of beef with the police. So what's that like in real life? Are you guys actually going at it with each other at these sites? And is there a disdain or are you guys just brothers in arms trying to save lives together?
Thrill of Firefighting
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So it's funny you asked that. There is definitely, we definitely show our respect on scene and everything. And I don't think there's any bad blood between any of us unless someone really goofs and then we have to fix something. We definitely like to talk some shit once we make it back into the truck and just say how incompetent they are or something that they messed up on. But other than that, there's been no brawls. I've seen a lot of Instagram videos of some firemen yelling at some cops. But we haven't had any of that experience
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down here with me so far so okay that's good for firefighting what is the biggest fire that you've ever had to be a part of then kind of what's that like when you do have to go into a fire what's your mindset like so it's super uh it's super eerie man it's something where i'd be lying to you if i said that i'm not nervous you know going into a burning building you know everyone still is no matter how many years you've been doing it but it's one of those things is it's an adrenaline rush and it's i feel like you got to be like kind of an adrenaline junkie
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smoke all the way to the floor, you're crawling around trying to find the orange glow and all you have is your sense of touch and hearing. Pretty eerie, but it's an awesome job. It's just cool, man. It's just something you can't really explain until you kind
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to love it.
Personal Life and Marriage
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of do it. Hey, well, I'm glad that you love it. I definitely would not be running into a burning building. Yeah. How's EJ feel about you being a firefighter?
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Um, she's a strong woman. I think she's all right with it. I don't know. They hasn't expressed any, you know, anything bad about it, but I'm sure she gets a little nervous when I'm gone for 24 hours and there's a fire that breaks out or whatever. How many fires would you say you put out in like a given week or month? Oh man, we've been slow. We've been slow these past few months. I'd say in my career, 30, 20 to 30. Okay. So you're only putting out two or three a year. Yeah. That's not terrible. I mean, at least it's not like you're putting out a fire every single day.
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I mean, we want it to be. Of course, we want people's stuff to burn up or people to get hurt. But like we train for a job that we want to do every day. It kind of steps going into work and you don't get a fire. You know, we're all wanting to do something. You know, that's why we signed up for this job, right? No way. I've seen so many of these shows, you firefighters, you know, you're having your pancake breakfast, you're playing basketball outside. Yeah, we like
History of Firefighting
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to have our fun to nowhere. Yeah, don't don't forget that part. But we do like our fun.
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What's like the worst chore to get in the firehouse? I'm assuming, do you split chores? Yeah. So we kind of have our, uh, so at my station, we have two sides of the station. One side is like the living area and the kitchen and then the bays in the middle. And then the other side is like our dormitory where we all sleep.
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the weight room, the locker room with the shower. So we have two trucks that are stationed in my truck. We clean the living quarters side to where we all sleep in the weight room, the locker room. And we kind of, since I'm like, I'm the new guy, I'm the rookie, I do all the cleaning as much as I can. Like, of course, other guys help out, you know?
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But I try to do all the cleaning as much as I can. I try to put away the dishwasher, clean the dishes, you know, just picking up, kind of just doing your basic home chores because, you know, that's a third of your life is spent in the firehouse. So you got to, you know, treat it like it's your own home. And then you come home, you don't clean anything. And E.J.'s wondering what the heck is going on. I try to tell her, like, they are cleaning all day. The last thing I want to do is come home and scrub a toilet at her house. Like, I'm sorry.
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And she gives me crap for her, but she gets it. She gets it.
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I'm going to tell her not to let you off the hook. I know. OK, you got home life, you got work life. I need to find a balance, right? That's what they said. No, there is no balance. You just got to be 100% go on both of them at all the time. My argument is like, so EJ, you don't want to come home and work on resumes all day. That's what she used to do as a recruiter, is read people's resumes and fix them and whatever. And it's like, when you're off, you don't want to be like, yeah, just send me your resumes, guys. I'll fix them for you. It's like, no, heck no. You don't want to do that all over again.
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No, but if you needed a resume fix, she would do it. She would. You know, you're right. She would do it for me. Now I'm going to start cleaning more toilets for her. Good. At least do like the grimy dirty stuff. Yeah.
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So you guys, you've been together for a couple of years, but you've been married for about six months now. Yeah. Has that felt any different than before? What's Mary Life like for you? No, everyone keeps asking me that because we are newlyweds. But no, it is pretty much the same. We've been living together for three years now, so now we're just married. She's changed her last name right now. That's a process to go through. I didn't realize how crazy that is of a process. Huge pain in the butt. Yeah.
00:12:09
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Only thing that's changed really is that we have a joint bank account. We have our own individual and then, you know, one together. It's just for bills and stuff. That's the really only thing that's changed, honestly. But yeah, everything's great. That's good. I'm happy for you, man. Yeah. Thanks. Were you ready for some afternoon delights place at the table? Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it. All right. Let's learn a little something. Now, Jacob, I don't know when you do fire fighter school, do you have to learn about the history of firefighting at all?
Fun Facts about Hydrants
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Yeah. Yeah. We learned, we dabble in the history a little bit. You should know everything that I'm about to tell you then. Oh, okay.
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we're going to learn about some firefighting origins. Okay, pop quiz nose, here we go. Oh yeah, for nearly as long as civilizations have existed, we've attempted to fight fires. And a Greek man from Alexandra named Sytobus built plans for a basic hand pump to squirt a water jet, but the plans were lost until the year 1500.
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Now in ancient Rome, they began developing these firefighting capabilities, kind of the same ones around this same time after numerous catastrophic fires. Roman Emperor Nero, he was one of the first to use fire bucket brigades made up of slaves in 60 AD. Not only that, but he would also have these units use ballistas to fire at buildings and tear them down in advance of fires to stop the spread. How would you feel about that going into a building with either a hand pump on your back or a bucket?
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We would not get a lot of work done. I can tell you that. That doesn't seem like the best option. Now, what if they gave you like a cannon, an actual like cannon, and you could just get in front of the fire and shoot a cannon at the buildings and knock them down to stop the spread?
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That would be awesome. And any day of the week. Alright, that's where you got to pitch your higher ups. Now in England, they suffered a ton of great fires for about a 500 year period from 798 to 1212. But none of them were as large as the Great London Fire, which started in a bakery on Pudding Lane
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and burnt down two square miles of the city of London, which led to the country establishing its first organized firefighting system. So then these people came over, the pilgrims landed in America, and they continued their firefighting ways. But the firefighters were really just members of the community. It wasn't a job. They fought valiantly against most of the flames, still just using buckets for whatever reason. In 1736,
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A young Benjamin Franklin established the first dedicated fire brigade in Philadelphia. And these brigades were made up of volunteer firefighters. Ben Franklin became the first fire chief in the United States. And some of the other volunteer firemen, they included George Washington, Alexander Hamilton,
00:14:39
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John Hancock, Sam Adams, and Paul Revere. So these fire agencies were actually paid out by American insurance companies and they rewarded the brigade who could ever put out the fire. That's who would get the assets. Like whoever could save their assets, that is who the insurance companies would pay out. These firehouses, they didn't just hire people because they could put out fires. They also hired them because they could protect carts and fight other fire brigades. So if two firehouses showed up to one fire, they would fight each other so that one could put out the fire in order to get paid for the insurance.
00:15:08
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insurance money. You know, it's funny. This is the first thing you just said that was actually in our textbook. All the other stuff I've heard before. Yeah. Nice. Sometimes I know what I'm talking about. Look at that research. Now the first professional fire brigade made up of fully paid firefighters was established in 1853. You know where that was at? Was it in Pennsylvania? No, close. It was in the great city of Cincinnati, Ohio.
00:15:33
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Oh, Cincinnati. Okay. Yep. Cincinnati, the first fully paid fire department. Today, fire departments, they've expanded their services to include other non-fire related issues and they do public safety needs, vehicle rescues, EMS services, professional fire departments protect about 68% of the US population. Oh, good. So there you go. Yeah. That's a little bit of the firefighter origins there for you. Yeah, I like that. I got a little fun fact too, so. Oh, I'm ready. Give it to me.
00:15:59
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So like coming up to a fire the second-due engine company will grab the hydrant But you hear a lot of guys say over the radio that they're gonna get the plug where that term came from A plug was when they had you know a bucket brigade and like hand pumpers. They had water mains
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but the water mains weren't, you know, metal. They were made out of wood. So all these water mains that are made out of wood, there would be signs up in all these neighborhoods or next to the street where there'd be a sign that said, you know, water main. So they had shovels that they would have to go dig all the dirt to get to that wooden water main. And then they would drill a hole into that wooden water main. So water would be coming out once you make that hole. Right. And that's when they would fill either their hand pumpers or their buckets to go put water on the fire.
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But once the water was out and they're done, they're cleaning up, they would go grab a literal, like, cork plug and show it in that hole and beat it with a hammer. And then they would cover it back up with dirt and then put a sign that says plug here. So that's to have, you know, another fire that comes up. They don't have to drill a hole. They just kind of get out of the way, pull the plug out and they got water that.
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that fast.
Childhood Pranks
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So that's where the term plug comes from for modern day hydrants, which is kind of cool. That's pretty interesting. Yeah. All right, Jacob, you ready to get into this draft? Let's do it. Now we mentioned that you were a pretty, uh, pretty rambunctious child. Yeah. You know, you love to get into some mischief. So there's only one thing that we could draft and we're going to draft the best pranks that we used to pull as kids. How would you like to go first or second?
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Let's go, let's go second and go second. Okay. Now this is a classic for me and my friends and it's my personal favorite because it doesn't really actually hurt anybody. I'm going with post-it noting cars. Okay. I don't know if you ever did this one. No.
00:17:39
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Okay. So back in high school, me and my group of friends would go and get, I don't know, 10,000 post-it notes and 10 of us would roll up to a friend's car. And this is like, if they chose to hang out with their girlfriend over us or a different group of friends, or they said that they were sick or something, or if we were just bored, drive up to their house at the middle of the night, like nine, 10 o'clock at night, that's when we would strike.
00:17:58
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and you would put post-it notes over the entire car, over the windshield, over all the doors, everything. And the key to it was if you, some people, they would go and they would go like top, bottom, and then they'd stack the post-it notes on top of each other, but then you could remove them faster. So you work from the bottom up and then you have to remove every post-it note individually from your car. Genius.
00:18:18
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Our best prank that we did with this one was one of our friends went to go hang out with the new girl and he didn't tell us until like an hour before, like half hour before. So we're like, okay, it's time to go get him. I called his little brother to grab his spare car key and meet us at the girl's house. So he shows up, we're about halfway through the car, hands us a spare car key. So we get inside of his car and post a note.
00:18:38
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the entire inside, all the seats, the steering wheel, the inside of his windshield, all the inside of the windows, everything. And he had a pickup truck. So we got the inside of the bed of the truck, all the shit. He said he came out and he spent like 40 minutes just getting stuff off of the windows and everything so that he could drive. And then he opened up his car door and realized that we did all the inside too. And he left that house at like midnight.
00:19:00
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When we were about 75% of the way done of doing this, our friend's car, the girl's mom pulls up into the driveway and sees us posting, noting everything. And we're just like, please just don't tell them we're out here. And she was like, don't worry, I won't say anything. I never told them. That's pretty good. That was our classic one. All right, Jacob, what was your favorite prank? I guess the thing that we enjoyed the most was TPing houses.
00:19:30
Speaker
Which sounds crazy, saying it out loud. You went with the classic. We love vandalism. Did you TP specific houses, like friends and stuff, or were you like a bully and you TPed kids that you just wanted to be mean to? I guess it was sometimes it was friends' houses, sometimes it was like friends' little brothers' friends' houses. Okay, yeah, that makes sense. Stuff like that, yeah, yeah, yeah. Never just like, we're gonna go get the little nerdy kid that everybody picks on.
00:19:55
Speaker
Yeah, no, no, no, that's, yeah, that's just crossing the line, man. Come on. That is crossing the line. Okay. I just want to make sure. I just want to make sure. No, we weren't that mean. We weren't that mean. What was your best teepee? No, man. I do remember it, but I don't know if I should say it. I'm going to be incriminating myself. I remember like... All right.
00:20:16
Speaker
I'll share a little bit of details about it. It was one of my, I won't say any names, you know, but it was one of my best friends at the time, little brother's friend. And we TP'd the house. I mean, we probably had two packs of 48 rolls. I mean, so much toilet paper and a bunch of eggs, a bunch of fruit loops, a bunch of forks. No, you ever do the forks? Yeah. Don't fork people's yards, people. Yeah. Don't, don't do it. Don't do any of that stuff I'm about to say.
00:20:45
Speaker
shaving cream that was a big thing remember doing that the shaving cream on the on the driveway and it would we just love brighten big old penises on people's driveways and it would stain into the concrete for like weeks yeah stay there once the shaving cream dried my pranks were much more mild yeah
00:21:04
Speaker
this one was bad this one like we this was the icing on the cake for everything and we kind of we never touched this ever again but the last thing we did to this house not to the house was called works bombs and do you remember those man i remember works bombs i remember you getting in trouble for using works bombs this was this house so a works bomb i'm actually not going to tell what it is so people don't do it
00:21:27
Speaker
I know we got a big following group. Yeah, let's just don't even look that up. Nobody look it up. Yeah, we keep it PG. But anyways, we did these work spawns and threw them on the front yard, right of this house. And we just took off run. And I mean, we were sprinting. We probably made it three quarters of a mile away from the house. And they finally popped off. And we heard him like clear as day. And we're like, Oh, no, that was bad.
00:21:49
Speaker
So we make it home. We're like, yeah, whatever else fun blah blah blah We all go to bed and we wake up the next morning to my friend's mom kicking us saying what the heck did you guys do last night? There's cops out front asking us questions blah blah blah and she is pissed and rightfully so we were 15 16 at the time 15 yeah, and the cops were at the front door and my friend's little brother he was I think
00:22:15
Speaker
I don't know, 12 and completely just folded under the pressure of the cops and said, yeah, it was us. We did. We teepied the house and did the little works bombs. And from there it was a, uh, it was a disaster to deal with. It was, it was a good learning experience. Yeah. People don't do that. Learn from Jacob. Don't be like me. Jacob, like I said on Marty's episode, you're the reason why I probably didn't get in trouble. Yeah. When I was growing up, I didn't do any of this because you kept getting in trouble. Yeah.
00:22:44
Speaker
I have a much more harmless one for, or no, that was just your first pick, right? Okay, give me your second pick. A second prank pick? Yeah, we're doing five. Five each. Oh, five? Oh, Lord. Yeah. How many you got ready? I got three. Okay. We'll do three. I'll take a couple extra. Or if you think of any on the fly. All right. Well, I could tell you another story about just our mischievous actions. Water ballooning. We used to throw water balloons at vehicles. What were we thinking?
00:23:11
Speaker
Don't do that people don't do any of these things But anyways, there was a there was a little fence down in our cola sack at the end of Rachel Drive I mean, it was a perfect fence It was like three and a half feet tall You could easily look over the fence and throw anything you want water balloons was our favorite thing to throw and right when you threw it You could duck down behind the fence and no one could see it, right? There's multiple times where we would throw a water balloon think it's just a regular car and it was a cop car
00:23:37
Speaker
And we've we've hit multiple cop cars with these water balloons and we immediately like obviously don't see it at night until it passes you and to the water balloons out of your hand you're like oh no you wish you could take that water balloon back but you can't and you got to roll with the punches and the consequences so we would definitely we would run away but there was this one time actually involved Chris
00:23:58
Speaker
And we hit a cop car and we all just scattered like roaches. I mean, we all went our own separate ways and we're hopping fences, going through yards, whatever. I wonder, I'm sure Chris remembers this, but he jumped the fence and jumped down and he landed in a koi fish pond.
00:24:19
Speaker
And at the time we were split up, so no one saw him. But until we all, you know, got back to our, you know, rendezvous point, I just want to call it that, whatever. And we're like, Chris, why the heck are you so well into a koi fish pond? Good times. Yeah, it was good. I'm going to give the people a prank that they can pull, Jacob, for my number two pick. Yeah, don't pick my prank. This is the classic shaving cream feather. Okay. All watched movies like Heavyweights and Mighty Ducks. So we all knew this prank and it didn't disappoint
00:24:48
Speaker
You have a sleepover. You got that one friend that's a heavy sleeper that always falls asleep like two hours before everybody else. So what do you do? You get a little feather and you put shaving cream in their hand and you tickle their nose and eventually they're going to take their hand and they're going to try and itch their face. And the best is like when you get them and they basically slap themselves across the face with a handful of shaving cream. That is a classic one.
00:25:10
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I got another classic one that is great. It'd be like a sleepover of 10 people and you're the last two or three people to fall asleep. So the majority of the people don't know what's going on. It's the cellophane toilet seat. Have you ever done this one? Yes. I did this at Otterbein in our dorm room.
00:25:25
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You wait till everybody falls asleep. You take cellophane. You get it really, really tight around the toilet. Really tight so that it looks like there's nothing there. It's like an invisible window. And at night, somebody's going to go in there and they're not going to be able to see that cellophane because they don't turn the light on because it's 12 a.m. And when they go to take a pee, it's going to hit the cellophane toilet and then just are bouncing everywhere off all the walls. And I don't know. Once you start peeing, it's really, really hard to stop. Yeah. And then they just got to clean up the bathroom.
00:25:54
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It's funny you said that you just jog my memory of another of a good prank. Actually me and Chris did. Okay. Is this your third pick? Yeah. Along the same line, we're in our dorm room and we had our building. It was all guys on the bottom floor and then all girls on the top floor. And you would need a special, you know, key card to swipe in to the top floor. And, uh, there was one night Chris and I, uh, we got in cahoots with a female on the top floor to let us in cause she knew what prank we wanted to pull. And so she kind of,
00:26:21
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let us know the ins and outs of everything upstairs. And our prank was to get a super long piece of rope and tie all the handles together on each individual door. And our hope was that they would all be locked inside of their room. So when they go to wake up for class at 8am, they couldn't get out of their dorm room.
00:26:42
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Did it work? We don't know. Honestly, we don't know. I think we oversight and then we wanted to wake up early and see if people were walking out. But I don't think it worked. I can't really remember. But we tied the shit out of these doors and they were and they were tight. And so I don't think people made it out. But but yeah, it's it's still unknown. But that was one of ours. That was that was pretty funny. It took us hours to complete it. And nobody came out of their door at that time to like check anything. No one did. Sometimes we heard we were like listening inside the door to see if we hear any
00:27:11
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You know moving around but uh you have no one came out. No one came out to see what was going on Yeah, you need it. That's when you needed like the ring cameras and
Education and Book Recommendations
00:27:18
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stuff. Yeah, so you could you could watch and see it Alright Jacob, give me pick number four. Oh pick number four This is uh, this will be a wintertime pick. So, you know how? Everyone loved to decorate their house, you know during Christmas and stuff. Well, we we enjoyed ruining those decorations I know
00:27:44
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uh ej gets it yeah so uh one thing we'd love to do with these decorations people had a reindeer just like a family full of reindeer on their front on their front lawn and uh we would love to sneak up to these houses and pull the reindeer you know out of the out of the grass and make the reindeer hump each other we got a lot from from doing this it's not even a prank this is a dumb thing that kids do yeah
00:28:12
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Oh, Jacob, I still have so many good ones left. Do you? Oh, I can't even think of myself. Oh, I have so many. Okay. Number four here. I don't even think that you could pull this one off anymore because of like smartphones and having 50 different ways to message people. But back in the early 2000s, when you had to type, you know, each number four times to get to the letter T and that kind of way of texting and no smartphones, the classic number switch. This is when you're new that your buddy had a crush.
00:28:39
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or some girl's number in his phone that he really hadn't talked to in a while or anything, you would get into his phone because nobody had locks. They didn't have locks on your phone. If you got somebody's phone and opened it, it was open, then you could do whatever you wanted. You'd go into that girl's number, delete it, change it to yours or one of your buddy's number, and then start texting them. And you do it like when you were in the same room with like a group of like six people, and he's sitting there texting this girl and has no idea that you and all the rest of your friends know that he's texting you.
00:29:05
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You just flirt with them and everything a little bit and then you go, you let that go for like two or three hours and then you tell them the truth. Some people were cruel and they'd go for days. That's pretty good. That was the classic numbers, which I definitely, you couldn't do it today. No, heck no. Absolutely not. It'd be impossible. You'd be message, texting them and then they'd get a Snapchat from that same person. They'd be like, why are you texting me this weird stuff? Yeah.
00:29:26
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It'd be impossible to pull off but back in the day the number switch was great. Yeah, that's pretty good I got two here that are up the same alley. Okay for my number five pick I think I'm actually gonna go with the number six one over the number five because you've already mentioned enough mischievous stuff Yeah, and you're gonna be mad that you didn't think of it. Okay There's no way you haven't done this. I'm going with the classic poop dollar
00:29:48
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If you've never done a poop dollar people, okay, you take, you find a piece of dog poop and you find now you'd probably have to do $10 bill, but back in the day, you do like a dollar or a $5 bill in your neighborhood with your friends and you wrap a little piece of dog poop in it and then you put the five on the ground somewhere. So it looks like it was like a lost $5 bill. And then you just watch people walking around the neighborhood or if you go to the mall or some other place outside, you wait for these people to bend down and when they pick up a dollar, they're picking up a piece of dog poop in their hands and it gets all over them and you yell poop dollar at them and then run away.
00:30:21
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That's so funny because it was a very popular thing in high school and that transverse into college. You guys did the poop dollar in college? I owe you when I was there for only one semester. But yeah, I owe you, man. Spencer said there'd be poop dollars everywhere. And he's like, dude, if you ever see money on the ground, do not pick it up no matter what.
00:30:40
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Poop dollar's a great prank, man. It's so good. It's such a classic. Did any other jog are you gonna end at four? I think I'm gonna end at four, man. Okay. I got some honorable mentions. We'll keep going over. You're gonna be mad that you didn't get these ones. Okay. Here's the other one that I was gonna pick that also involves poop. And I know that you know this one because we all watched Billy Madison 50 million times as kids growing up. We loved Adam Sandler. And it's the flaming bag of dog poop. Yeah. You play ding dong ditch. You run up to somebody's door. You light a bag of dog poop on fire. Ding dong ditch them. They run. They come out.
00:31:10
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and put on their shoes really quick or whatever. And you hope that they stomp it out. They got hot flaming dog poop all over their shoes. Oh, man. This is why I can't have kids, Matt, because they're going to be just little devils and they're going to make hell. But now EJ will keep them in line. Yeah. But I deserve it. It's karma. I need to go through as an adult or as a parent. What would be karma is having like Chris teach them all of these pranks to pull on you. Yeah. Guess what your dad used to do.
00:31:41
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All right. The other one that I got, another classic is the toothpaste Oreo. I've never done this one personally, but I've seen my friends do it to their siblings. You just take an Oreo, you cut out all the cream, and then you take white toothpaste and you fill it in the Oreo so that it looks like it's still just a regular Oreo. And then you can either put it back in the sleeve or like if you get a big plate of 12 or something and you try and get your sibling to eat that Oreo and then they take a bite into it. And instead of being an Oreo, they're eating toothpaste.
00:32:09
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You know what? I think EJ used to do that to her little brothers. Yeah, I used to do that to David. That's her little brother. Nice. That's a classic. EJ, get it? I told you, it's a classic.
00:32:27
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Uh, the last one is with the new design of sinks. Sometimes this one is like, it's like impossible now. Cause they've made the actual sink nozzle, like the spray gun. But when the spray gun used to always be like down on the sink, you take a rubber band, you turn off water, you take a rubber band and you wrap it really, really tight around the trigger of the gun. So that when somebody would walk up to go do the dishes, Oh, that's a good one. They flipped on the sink. It would, the gun would turn on and spray all over them. That is an excellent one. You know, I actually might have to do that here at my house. Okay. Did she just hear the whole plan now?
00:32:58
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She doesn't listen to the podcast. She better. Yeah, I know. Everybody out there better be listening to Afternoon Delights. All right, that's our draft, Jacob. Nice. How are you feeling about your choices and ruining the youth of America listening to this podcast? Saying them out loud, you're like, man, what happened to me as a child? I was... But you know, it made me the man I am today, so.
00:33:21
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This is what led you down the path to being like, you know, I need to be a firefighter. I need to give back and help people for being such a little piece of crap. It all comes full circle. All right, Jacob, I know that you're a big book lover. Yeah, moderately. So for Afternoon Delights Book Club, do you have any recommendations for the listeners out there?
00:33:38
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I am a huge, huge, huge fan of Red Rising. SHIB got me introduced into those, and man, I wore those books out. Love them so much. Now, I haven't started Lightbringer yet. Okay, I won't ruin it for you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, don't ruin it for me, but I feel like I gotta catch up, because it's been so long since I've read the other ones. Like, I need to spark note it, or maybe I just started over the whole trilogy. Rejog your memory. Yeah, there's so many characters and stuff to remember.
00:34:03
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absolutely love those series big fan of dark matter read that a few years ago that's a great book yeah ready player one i feel like this is kind of like the books all of our friends read it kind of is and now i'm reading uh recursion which is kind of like a sequel to dark matter i guess not really but i just buy the same author
00:34:22
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And your recursion is really good. I'm enjoying it right now. So yeah, I guess those would be my four recommendations for anyone. Yeah, you're not the first person to recommend. I let you do it because I felt bad for you. I made everybody else pick different books. That's why I let you keep going. Every single person that has read the entire Red Rising series, their suggestion has been Red Rising.
00:34:41
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Yeah, dude, it's so good. I've been trying to tell Brianna that she's tried to read it a couple times. And I'm like, you just, I'm like, you have to get halfway through the first book and then you're hooked. What does she like? Um, I don't know if she's read a sci-fi book. She kind of likes fantasy. She likes like the court of thorns series and stuff. That's the more fantasy romance, not like us fantasy, like the really, really nerdy fantasy. She likes like the, basically it's normal, but then it's got like some fairies and like a little bit of magic and it leans more romance.
00:35:06
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I got you. Okay. Yeah, I've been off my book game lately. I've actually about to finish up my bachelor's degree, dude, believe it or not, in like three days. You're going to be a college graduate? I'm going to be a college graduate, finally.
Episode Conclusion
00:35:18
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It only took me 12 years.
00:35:21
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So you're a doctor, right? Better late than never. Yeah, I'm two doctors by now. What's your degree in? Fire administration. Is that so that you can like, do you have to get that to become a fire chief or some other like level in the department? Yeah, to promote up, you need a bachelor's degree. But if you have a bachelor's degree, they pay you an extra 10%. So... Okay, so you can get an automatic 10% pay bump and then now you can get promoted up to like a captain or something else. Yeah, way later on in my career. But yeah, that would be the next steps for sure.
00:35:49
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All right, Jacob. Well, we're running out of time here. I'm glad that you could come on and be a guest. I think a lot of people are going to enjoy your episode. You've been a real, a real sunshine on a rainy day here in Columbus. That's good, man. Thanks for having me. I enjoyed, I enjoyed my time here, so I hope everyone else did. Yeah. Thanks for joining us. Thanks out there to everybody listening. I'm your host, Matt Lattimer, just reminding you to keep on smiling. See you guys.
00:36:12
Speaker
I'll be to St. Goodnight I hate to go and live this pretty side So long, farewell I'll be to St. Andrew I do, I do to you Andrew, Andrew