Ricky's Big World
Welcome to Ricky's Big World, the podcast that blends mouth-watering food, Southern charm, and the unique perspective of Ricky Bartlett - double-leg amputee, radio host, and actor.
Recoded live from Pizza World Iowa's vibrant kitchen, join Ricky for entertaining tales, laughs, and a glimpse into Southern culture. Whether you're a fried chicken enthusiast or seeking a good chuckle, Ricky's quick wit and infectious personality make each episode a joy. Ricky's Big World is a podcast that's as irresistible as a hot slice of Pizza World's famous pizza!
Ricky's Big World
Risky Games of Yesteryear: Diving into Lawn Darts & More!
Welcome back to another hilarious episode of Ricky’s Big World! This time, Ricky and Jeff dive deep into the dangerous games of their childhoods. Remember lawn darts? Yes, those perilous projectiles that led to their ban in 1988. Dive into nostalgia as we recount tales of reckless fun that would surely make any modern parent cringe! Get ready to explore the wild side of childhood games and find out why Ricky ended up at the doctor’s office more often than school!
Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction to Dangerous Childhood Games
0:33 - Discussion Begins: Dangerous Games and Lawn Darts
1:06 - Ricky’s Personal Lawn Darts Story
2:10 - The Banning of Lawn Darts and Its Consequences
3:10 - Safer Lawn Darts? Modern Versions Explored
5:22 - Why Some Classic Games Are Banned Today
7:10 - The Dangers of Dodgeball & Its Variations
9:46 - Debate Over Modern Kids’ Resilience and Game Safety
11:03 - Games That Shaped Us: From Red Rover to Tether Ball
14:00 - Childhood Mischief and Games Gone Wrong
19:15 - Wrap-up: Reflecting on How These Games Influenced Us
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We’ll leave the porch light on just in case you want to sneak out for some old-school game time—just watch out for those lawn darts! Until next time, stay safe and keep gaming like it’s 1988!
Ricky: Howdy y’all, so on the next episode of Ricky’s Big World, we’re going to spill all the tea. Oh, you talking about where you know it’s like that and you flip it over? Well, okay, that game. Yes, we also used to play that, but which one are we talking about? Hold the bike, back in the Pizza World caverns behind the test ovens and in reality, next to the bathrooms, it’s Ricky’s Big World.
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Ricky: Hey, welcome back to another episode of Ricky’s Big World. I got my buddy Jeff here with me. Evidently, Roxanna wants to talk about games we used to play as kids. I think she just wants to hear about somebody getting hurt.
Roxanna: Yeah, that was really sadistic. We started talking about childhood games you guys used to play, and then Ricky started to say a story, and I didn’t want to hear it, but I could tell somebody gets hurt.
Ricky: Well, that was kind of the point. So, Jeff, lawn darts, that is basically banned now.
Jeff: Yeah, okay, yeah, I don’t think it’s legal to buy. I think it needs to be population controlled.
Ricky: So, darling, we were outside one time in Columbus, Georgia at Coop Creek, and somebody brought the lawn darts back. This is back in the late ‘70s, early ‘80s, and they were sitting there, and of course, they’re throwing them, and everything. Of course, somebody doesn’t want to do it like that; they want to throw them up in the air, watch them, and then giggle and run.
Roxanna: Okay, pause, for the people that don’t understand what you’re talking about. Lawn darts, like, is it like a dart like a dart dart?
Ricky: It’s a big old dart, big old needle on it with some fins, and it got the aerodynamics. You throw it, and it’s supposed to, you got two different kinds, like one hit a target, or they’ll have rings on the ground, and you’re supposed to throw it up so you throw it up and into the ring. So, like, this is automatically, it’s kind of like horseshoes.
Roxanna: Dangerous horseshoes?
Ricky: That’s a good example. Dangerous horseshoes, just with like a long needle type. And a lot of times, there’s somebody on the other side of the field.
Roxanna: Who made this up?
Ricky: I don’t know, but people, I guess people thought it was fun. Us kids just started throwing up in the air, the heathens that we were, and seeing who gets impaled and going to the doctor that day and not going to school by it was kind of like a giant game of chicken too ’cause you got to, you got to stand around in a circle, and then you throw it up there, and then whoever leaves first…
Roxanna: Yeah, yeah, it was… I looked it up ’cause I wanted to know like when they banned it and stuff, so they banned it December 19th, 1988.
Ricky: Really?
Roxanna: Due to the number of injuries and deaths it caused, especially among children. You’re welcome. The ban applies to lawn darts with elongated tips that are intended to be used outdoors and that are designed to contact the ground tip first, so lawn of a plant right.
Ricky: So as of 2024, though, a modified, safer version of lawn darts with a blunt tip design may be purchased.
Roxanna: That’s ‘cause children are weak; they can’t take me in. I saw an ad on it. We used to take it, and we would take the impell if one went in our shoulder; we just brushed it off and then went, maybe went to the doctor the next day, got a tetanus shot. With that, you had to finish the game.
Ricky: That’s right, or you got ridiculed the rest of the school year. But my uncle got caught in the middle of it, and so one was up in the air, and you could hear them too, and it impaled his hand and went…
Roxanna: Straight through?
Ricky: Straight through, and what stopped it was the fins on the end.
Roxanna: Oh my god.
Ricky: And so he had this big old long dart coming out. He had to go to the doctor about it, but he was laughing about it, and he said, “Put some whiskey on it; it’ll be all right, just yank it out.” Well, you couldn’t yank it out because that metal tip, it would have ripped the bone. I mean, had to go like the way that it…
Roxanna: Yeah, and luckily, though, the doctor was able to unscrew it from the inside of his hand or do something.
Ricky: Oh my god, that was so gross. So apparently, it caused three children to die, but there were approximately 675 people visiting the emergency room due to injury.
Roxanna: Bounce around. The most common injury sites were the head, at 54%, 54% of people were ‘cause you’re looking up.
Ricky: Hold up, you can buy this on Amazon right now.
Roxanna: 17% in the eye, and 11% in the face. They are selling on Amazon.
Ricky: 54% of patients require hospitalization. I don’t know if I don’t know if we can show this. This is an Amazon ad for you can buy this on Amazon, $8.99. Yeah, hold on, wait, wait.
Roxanna: Aluminum?
Ricky: Let’s see. Let’s go over to see if they show danger. They got a danger sign so you can’t sue them. This is like from the ‘60s. That’s so dangerous.
Roxanna: It’s crazy. I’m going to buy some. I have it here by Monday.
Ricky: We are not educating people to purchase this and play.
Roxanna: No, we’re educating people. We’re just letting them know where to go find it, a banned game.
Ricky: This is a banned game.
Roxanna: Playing it with sharp education. Do you know what game really surprised me that was banned? Dodgeball.
Ricky: Okay, dodgeball was so funny. If I see a picture of a dodgeball, I can smell the picture. I can hear it. It rings in my ear to this day, and it’s a sound because I constantly got hit in the face with…
Roxanna: Yeah, it’s that rubber ball sound.
Ricky: Yep. You know what, look though, at the end of the day, okay, you know who’s going to succeed in life and who’s not. Kids are soft kitten. Why they banned that, I have no idea.
Roxanna: Just ‘cause there’s… I mean, just ’cause your forehead is on one side of the room, the rest of the body is on the other.
Ricky: Well, probably ’cause mama got this imprint of the logo on the forehead from PE class and said, “Walk around advertised for somebody for free,” so…
Roxanna: There are variations of dodgeball still being played.
Ricky: Um, but it looks like it was only banned in some school districts.
Roxanna: Ah, oh, so some schools, other schools are actually still doing it.
Ricky: Yeah, so it’s like in, uh, 2004, Massachusetts banned it, Maryland in 2001, New Hampshire, and Austin, Brexit.
Roxanna: Oh, see, I had a comment. I’m glad I didn’t make that comment right there.
Ricky: One Texas not being from the south because you didn’t say no southern states.
Roxanna: Exactly, okay, I see southern states, we ain’t going to worry about all that stuff. It looks like other schools are playing like a variation of it, probably a nerf ball ‘cause it’s so soft.
Ricky: How are you going to have that game and try to make it safe?
Roxanna: Like, it shouldn’t be safe.
Ricky: Maybe you’re not. I say, “All right, well, what it’s lit…”
Jeff: He works at a tire mechanic shop.
Ricky: All right, y’all do tires as well, what is a heavy grade tire?
Jeff: It’s Continental heavy grade tire.
Ricky: All of them can have a heavy grade tire, Toyo, uh, 50 Thompson, roll a tire, let them…
Roxanna: Chill.
Ricky: Let’s see how fast they get. Some of those tires can weigh up to 50 lbs.
Roxanna: Okay, I don’t weigh no 50 lb.
Ricky: Yeah, 50 plus pounds. Your, your brother-in-law used to work for, uh…
Jeff: Goodyear.
Ricky: Goodyear. Oh yeah, ’cause he was doing those, yeah, those are huge, huge tires, semi tires.
Roxanna: You know what I haven’t seen around here? Um, tether ball. We used to get boring though, a long time.
Ricky: How did that get boring?
Roxanna: Because I was short, and all the tall people kept still slapping it, and I’m still swinging like a T-Rex with short arms.
Ricky: I’m grown now, I’m grown now, but I used to get beat. I saw his stupid ass; I hate that game.
Roxanna: You know what game I used to miss, or I miss, was like, uh, headlights. Remember headlights? You’d be out in the middle of the street at night, and then the headlights come, but you had to run.
Ricky: The headlight? Excuse me, was that a real game?
Roxanna: That was a real game. I forget when you were born, like you’re missing all the good games that we had.
Ricky: Having my seatbelt on in the car, and like my mom tells me she used to sit in the back window, and then when they would hit the brake, she would roll off the back ’cause like seat belts…
Roxanna: That sounds dangerous.
Ricky: It sounds… It was awesome. That was just great. That was very irresponsible of her to do in the back, anyway.
Roxanna: So we would all have had a great time talking about 7 o’clock after dinner. We would all, the kids in the neighborhood, get into the street, and it would be pitch black dark, and all of a sudden, a car would come, and if another kid saw the light on, well, then you die.
Ricky: But the point is, is that you know, if the light touched your foot, shoulder, anything ’cause you tried to hide behind another car, you were… You had to go sit it out because you know you did.
Roxanna: Well, we lost, so the last person standing won, and really just got bragging rights.
Ricky: But yeah, you almost got hit. We did it in the highway one time, so that was fun.
Roxanna: You’re crazy. Something ain’t right about… I’ve always said this from the get-go, ever since I first met you.
Ricky: Nothing. What I’m trying to tell you about the highway, we just bumped it up a little bit, okay?
Roxanna: It’s like with darts if we did it with, like, live launcher rockets instead of the darts, that’s bumping it up. So instead, I got on Highway 185, and we did it out there. Now, of course, the cars are going 75, 85 miles an hour, so you really had to have some speed up. Lots of people lost. That was a quick round. Where my ankle at?
Ricky: Do you ever remember playing like four square?
Roxanna: That was a safe game.
Ricky: What other dangerous games did you guys play?
Roxanna: Wow, you going to record it?
Ricky: Yeah, yeah, I mean, we got to just sit here, and we got so much knowledge. We don’t want to sit there and waste it for nothing.
Roxanna: I do. You’re good now.
Ricky: All right, sir. Okay, well, I don’t need this. I’ve been filming so many episodes the last two days.
Roxanna: Yes, and I’m tired of you. This is the last day; I feel like this could have been done over Skype or something.
Ricky: He says he doesn’t want to come back. I know he told me this last night.
Roxanna: Oh, I talked about you bad.
Ricky: Jeff, what did he say?
Jeff: I’m not at liberty to discuss this.
Roxanna: Be honest; he was tired of the drive.
Ricky: Something about the truck, he was complaining about the gas mileage of the truck. She knows all that; she ain’t asking about that; she’s asking about what I said.
Roxanna: Yeah, spill the T about me.
Ricky: Oh, I said if she wears that Winnie the Pooh shirt one more time, I quit.
Roxanna: This one.
Ricky: You know what I just realized? You had a problem with his shirt today and mine. So if anything, I think it’s just you being grumpy.
Roxanna: It ain’t me, number one. I don’t appreciate you getting up all in my face and snapping that neckbone like you just did.
Ricky: Okay, you know what, I got nothing, really, honestly to say about this right now. Um, I’m speechless.
Roxanna: That’s kind of hard.
Ricky: That’s kind of hard, okay, I got an opinion; everybody knows I got an opinion about that.
Roxanna: All right, you know what, no, no.
Ricky: All right, red light, green light at center, red Rover was dangerous.
Roxanna: No, red Rover, we ain’t talking about red Rover; we talking about red light, green light at the gas at the not the gas station, the skate center.
Ricky: Okay, I did at the skate center. You said, yeah, because they’re on skates.
Roxanna: On skates, yeah, I got you. And you would be out there at the… So explain it, Roxanna, you were at a roller rink or somewhere, and somebody goes red light.
Ricky: You stop.
Roxanna: Somebody says green light, you go.
Ricky: That’s as simple.
Roxanna: You think that’s as simple as it is?
Ricky: Do you know how many kids actually broke an ankle because of that?
Roxanna: I mean, I’ve never seen that. I remember this one kid; they were still playing that when I was a kid, so he was trying to stop, and when he tried to stop, he twisted his ankle, and it snap, El Snapo.
Ricky: El Snapo and O Turnup, I never witnessed that.
Roxanna: Well, you know, you lived in soft California.
Ricky: Soft California, soft. Now, what was the other one you said, red a, red rover, you would break a kid’s arm going through one of those things. You get one of them under chunk kids coming at you, coming in hot.
Roxanna: I give up; you would just let him through; you would break that chain, hell yeah.
Ricky: You were out; they didn’t get… Nobody wanted to play with you.
Roxanna: Yeah, how small I was back then; nobody wanted to play with you after that. You have to hold the line.
Ricky: Oh, that’s why you have to… Oh man, I was the one that…
Roxanna: Dipped out, and you know I was okay with that game because I was not getting ran over. I was always in the middle; I was always…
Ricky: Yeah, me too, I was always in the one ’cause I could hold him back; I was that kid; he was not going to go through me.
Roxanna: You are the weakest.
Ricky: Okay, I’m okay with that. Now I’m growing; I’ll stand up, but not then, I was like the smallest, go ahead and send me a photo of you, and we’ll just insert it here how tiny little Jeff was.
Roxanna: Pound soaking wet in high school, think about how big his forehead is now, and then when he was a child, he was all forehead, all forehead, and stick legs, that’s it, just walking around, I mean, looking like a prick.
Ricky: I’m feeling personally attacked about the stick leg thing right now.
Roxanna: I said stick leg, that’s what I said.
Ricky: Well, you can get offended all you want, sir, I’m not getting in the middle of your marital spat.
Roxanna: Ain’t no… They ain’t nothing about… We got divorced a long time ago ’cause you know why we quit now, custody of nothing, house.
Ricky: What’ you say? I wasn’t even listening.
Roxanna: I heard it; that’s why we not the boy, that’s why that’s why we’re not married no more, I heard it.
Ricky: I love how your daughter’s just chilling over here with this table, it’s crackling me up.
Roxanna: Does she know them?
Ricky: Well, yes, oh, okay, I don’t… She just…
Roxanna: No, she knows them. You know who else is a dangerous game that you don’t think is a dangerous game though?
Ricky: Uh, I spy.
Roxanna: Oh, I spy, yeah, I spy was a dangerous game, uh, so was uh, Punch Beetle.
Ricky: So I just taught that to my kids.
Roxanna: Huh, I just taught Punch Buggy to my kids, except we do it with jeeps instead of um, bugs because nobody has a bug anymore.
Ricky: Slug bug, no return, yeah, but that means when you don’t, when you do finally see a bug, it’s like extra, two-shot to the…
Roxanna: We do when we do find them; you get extra points, you get extra pads with the headlight out.
Ricky: Well, it’s padles; why is it called that?
Roxanna: Well, it’s not a violent game unless you really wanted to, but whenever you saw a car come without a head, that was missing headlights, needed to hit the roof, or if you wanted to switch it up, you…
Ricky: That seems like a good way to get hit by your kid or by your parents is to hit the car.
Roxanna: Well, yeah, if you piss them off enough, you know, there’s a game, it’s not really a game, it’s a gang initiation and out that if your lights are out and you flash them, and somebody flashes you, then that gang member is supposed to turn around and follow you and either do you bodily harm or even the serious ones supposed to shoot you, and that’s not a game I want to play.
Ricky: Okay, maybe that’s not… That’s not a game.
Roxanna: Junior high school. I… People flash their lights at me all the time ’cause like I have one of those cars that are newer, so the lights are so bright, everybody thinks I have my brights on.
Ricky: Do yours flash automatically?
Roxanna: They come on and off, the bright so the…
Ricky: Auto, yeah, yeah, they do, so they break down a lot. I… I have LEDs in mine, but I have to have my fog lights on, so people know that I don’t have my brights on; they’re that bright.
Roxanna: Yeah, remember when I came in with the LM50, and I asked y’all to change the lights out ’cause they were too bright, I said I want back the yellow ones, just to return it back to the original, so they did. I do like the brighter ones for like deer, which is…
Ricky: Nice, you have an extra second or two to see what’s going on.
Roxanna: That’s fine until you blind the next person on the highway.
Ricky: Well, as long as they don’t go like this, I’m all right.
Roxanna: They’re legal right now.
Ricky: Do what I said, the lights are legal right now, so there’s… I know that people were complaining about it, and they want to have like some restrictions.
Roxanna: You know what else I’m seeing too, in Louisiana, that I don’t see here is the…
Ricky: The low rider truck, the not low rider, I don’t see that squatted is huge in…
Roxanna: Louisiana, I’m saying there, that’s illegal in North Carolina right now, is it because other states too, I think Washington.
Ricky: Why is it illegal?
Roxanna: Because it’s a safety thing, you can’t see.
Ricky: Oh, I see, yeah, okay, and it, and I’ve heard you…
Roxanna: Hardly ever see that here, in California, you see it a lot.
Ricky: Well, I’ve heard there’s school districts, especially with all the kids, it’s not redneck enough up here yet.
Roxanna: It’ll get here, you know, it reminds me of… No, ’cause… No, it reminds me of a dog with worms, scratching his butt across…
Ricky: The carpet, it is the s thing dragging, or itchy butt, you got an itchy butt, going to drag it…
Roxanna: Across, that’s what they’ll squatter truck, and the people who drive it, I don’t get it, I don’t think I… I don’t get…
Ricky: Do they think that it looks cool, is there supposed to be a functionality?
Roxanna: I think it looks…
Ricky: Dumb, why would you spend all that money, but it’s the same people who put like non-regulated tires on them, those little thin tires, what are you going to do with those, you can’t go out in the woods with them, so what’s…
Roxanna: Ghost in a Graveyard.
Ricky: Didn’t you say that earlier, ghost in a grave, is basically like tag at night, but you can’t use flashlights or any of that…
Roxanna: Stuff, then you just run at full speed at someone, that sounds so dangerous.
Ricky: Actually play it in an actual graveyard, that right there, when you… When there’s nobody around, and somebody slapped the mess out the back of your head, that’s illegal, can’t be playing in a graveyard.
Roxanna: I’m just saying, we did, we had played that in the graveyard.
Ricky: You’re a rebel, what about kick the can?
Roxanna: Wes, what you going to do, stub your toe, I’m just wondering, did you play it, did you play it?
Ricky: Game, no, because my ADHD, if you were real gangster, you played shoeless.
Roxanna: Okay, you did it best, no socks on, no nothing like that.
Ricky: Man, when you got cut, and you got that tetanus shot, don’t say nothing.
Roxanna: What about sardines?
Ricky: Sardines, sardines, what?
Roxanna: I don’t know that one, dude, I don’t know that one, it’s like hide and seek, but only one person hides, so you got 10 people chasing one.
Ricky: Yeah, that don’t, do you watch…
Roxanna: Young Sheldon?
Ricky: Uh, a little bit, there’s an episode where they play Sardines, but…
Roxanna: They do it to get rid of him, and he… He’s like, “I’m the king of sardines.” ’Cause they just leave him there, and he falls…
Ricky: Asleep in a closet, I think they wrote that into the show, I don’t think that’s real, it’s just funny, no, it’s a rogue game, is it a real game?
Roxanna: Yeah, you play…
Ricky: Sardines, uh, I don’t know what that is, but I know a game that I watching, it’s…
Roxanna: Not worth playing.
Ricky: Yeah, you ever played, uh, shut your mouth?
Roxanna: Shut your mouth, it’s to see who can shut…
Ricky: Their mouth the longest, we…
Roxanna: It’s called While grandma watches…
Ricky: Her stories, what other stuff did you guys do, uh, well, it’s dangerous nowadays, but…
Roxanna: Drink from the hose, how is it dangerous?
Ricky: It’s not danger, I don’t know, I drank from the hose the other day.
Roxanna: People think that it’s dangerous right now, they’re scared, on a hot day, it’s…
Ricky: Dangerous when you turn that pipe on, you start drinking straight from that, did you guys ever do crazy things like car…
Roxanna: Surf, or… Yes, you did, yes, on a…
Ricky: On a Samurai, on a samurai vehicle, I never…
Roxanna: Did an Isuzu, is it Isuzu, Suzuki, anyways, I think Suzuki Samurai, uh, they, when they…
Ricky: Tried to say, “Hey, if you can’t afford a Jeep, then we got this tinier model, it’s…
Roxanna: Called a Suzuki Samurai.” I have y’all got any in the shop, and they were big, big back in the late ’80s, early ’90s, real…
Ricky: Big, and uh, I… I tried to surf on it, but because…
Roxanna: The uh, center of gravity is so bad, and maybe I was just too fat, it flipped with…
Ricky: Me on it standing on it, and I was lucky enough to and agile enough, evidently to…
Roxanna: Walk across to the door ’cause when it, when it flipped, I walked across the door and jumped off, and uh, hit my forehead on the…
Ricky: Curb, it was nice, I want to just say what I got from that story was Ricky was agile.
Roxanna: I was agile, that’s what I got from…
Ricky: That story, I was very agile out there, yes, when, how, how long ago…
Roxanna: Back in the late ’80s, early ‘90s, that’s what I said, I was agile, light on your feet, on the feet that I had, yes, the feet…
Ricky: That I had, thank you very much for bringing the foots up, that’s what I was trying to get at, see…
Roxanna: Why I didn’t want to bring him on the show, I’m so sorry, it’s all right, it’s all right, the rest of us are just enjoying…
Ricky: It, well, we’re not enjoying it, we’re just, we’re with you, is that right, oh now, now talking about standing…
Roxanna: Okay, I like, I got to feel the aha this morning, I asked him, I just realized like…
Ricky: He s this is where we sit, and I asked him the other day, I was like, “Oh, is it inappropriate that we sit you right next…
Roxanna: To feet?” Right next to feet, oh, that is disab, diabolically disrespectful, I like…
Ricky: It, and a crotch, a furry, like, what’s your favorite board…
Roxanna: Game as a kid, like what kind of board games and stuff were you playing, shoot and ladders, there was that, uh, Monopoly…
Ricky: That one that had the little pawn looking things that were, they were blue and red, yellow, yellow, and uh, what the…
Roxanna: Heck is that called, that was Sorry, it was Sorry, dang a boy, add a boy…
Ricky: I played Sorry, um, yesterday, yesterday with, with group one grandma, really look…
Roxanna: At that, still alive and well today, grandma, though, so you hear that, I know what you’re talking about, not with the…
Ricky: Pool kids, I know, sorry, well, our generation created that, so there’s, there’s that, you won’t, boggle was pretty…
Roxanna: Cool game too, uh, we had to press the thing and start, and yeah, um, I didn’t do…
Ricky: Good at that game, i, I was playing poker in elementary school and uh, and bones, i…
Roxanna: Was playing bones too, what’s bones, dice, yeah, throwing dice, throw dice, and um…
Ricky: Dominoes, bones, dominoes, okay, that, that was cool game, you know what, but that’ll get you killed, yeah, you got to remember…
Roxanna: Where he grew up, it wasn’t the wholesome place of Cedar Rapids, all right…
Ricky: She don’t know about these terms, did I grow up in the Watts or something, Friday…
Roxanna: I did grow up in the projects of Columbus, Georgia, and they were rough, you don’t go out at night, where you, where…
Ricky: You from, he apparently went out at night to ditch cars with headlights, that’s ‘cause I went out with the gang members’ kids, he…
Roxanna: He had, he had backup, he had backup, I was family, okay…
Ricky: I’m the, is that the thumbnail for you…
Roxanna: What you getting, wait, hold on, we’ll do it like this…
Ricky: Great, jeez, what, put your hoodie on, put your hoodie on, if you don’t stop, put…
Roxanna: Your hoodie up, let’s go, put your hoodie up, no, let’s not, let’s get this under…
Ricky: Control, you started this, this little party, I didn’t think we were, we were…
Roxanna: Going to start into the project aspect of it, hey, whenever you get him and me together, you, truth, all possibilities…
Ricky: It’s the truth, I mean, you know, grew up in the projects, I had to, so you know, government cheese was a thing, you know, we…
Roxanna: Played a game of government cheese too, we used to play, how far can you throw the government cheese, and why would you…
Ricky: Waste that, because we were kids and didn’t care, but mama and we, yeah, that…
Roxanna: That was the end result right there, can you outrun a rear end whooper…
Ricky: Twice, so you get a second one, you don’t get, if you run out, try to outrun the…
Roxanna: First one, you’re going to get another one, well, not, okay, the whooping’s true, but the cheese, no, you ain’t going to…
Ricky: Stand in line with that again, and you got to wait a whole month before you can get more cheese, that was the…
Roxanna: Best, did you eat government cheese, I remember the taste of that, I, I haven’t for a while, somebody tried to say that…
Ricky: Velvita was government cheese, it is not, that was…
Roxanna: It is not the same thing, that was the pinnacle of cheeses, you, you, if…
Ricky: You got something with Vita, you knew it, you had money, and somebody was robbing you, [ __ ] house, you knew you were eating…
Roxanna: Velvita, we had that, creaminess, is delicious, I remember, we used to make, um, uh, what…
Ricky: Was that game, we, we did with the stove, we would cut the, I can’t believe I’m saying this, Paul, we would, you know how…
Roxanna: You, oh, the cheese, back to the cheese really quick, it tasted like a cross…
Ricky: Between Vita and American cheese, it says, no, it didn’t taste like the M, who wrote…
Roxanna: That description, but they lying, it’s not, well, it says that it was the process of…
Ricky: The excess cheese and dairy surplus we had, so it wasn’t quality cheese at…
Roxanna: All, no, it was like, okay, here’s the rear end of the cap, really, so it didn’t taste…
Ricky: Like, like American cheese and Vita mixed together, no, oh, in fact, it’s funny if you…
Roxanna: Look at, if you look at Velvita cheese today, which Velvita cheese, by the way, Velvita, it is a wonderful cheese, and we…
Ricky: Love it, it’s delicious, velvita cheese, though, comes in a box, maybe like get big, okay, government cheese comes in a block…
Roxanna: That we would use as a doors stop too, you cannot get in that house if that cheese was sitting on the floor, so and a…
Ricky: Lot of times, you had to walk from the, the government center that gave you the cheese, back to your house, and your back…
Roxanna: Hurt because of it, plus other work, you got, did you ever use Vita for fishing…
Ricky: I used turkey, my family always used Vita to catch fish, really, it was always fish…
Roxanna: Food, I never heard that, gassy fish, that’s why they got all the bubbles, if people, if people are listening, I want to know, like what type of fish bait were…
Ricky: You using, ‘cause Vita was like, that’s all I’ve ever heard, I always use, uh, even…
Roxanna: Today, I use either ground turkey, um, or some other kind of meat that’s…
Ricky: Heavily seasoned with garlic and onion because the scents, especially catfish, they like the real spicy stuff…
Roxanna: They snatch that stuff up, real, plus if you get the type of turkey that you see in the store where it’s in waves, the…
Ricky: Wavy kind of turkey that’s ground up, all right, that makes great because it’ll wiggle in the water a little bit, plus…
Roxanna: With the seasonings, it catches, did you guys fish a lot as kids too, yeah, I didn’t, yeah, you didn’t, you didn’t, I…
Ricky: Did, you have a lake around there, or…
Roxanna: No, we had a little, uh, little creek, but I…
Ricky: Mean, they always have like, say it again, a what, a little creek, a creek, or creek, what, creek for another people, creek for…
Roxanna: The, no, it’s not creek, who says creek, like, is that a southern, is that a creek…
Ricky: Okay, well, in California, we don’t say that, but what do you say then, creek, creek, okay, well, good for you…
Roxanna: Do you say freak when you say freak, no, it’s just creek, I have to, when I’m being in front of people at work…
Ricky: Well, that’s freak, you know, you call him a freak, dark, dark, oh, you talking about something different…
Roxanna: R E A K, freak, he went off on a, he’s talking about a different word, I went…
Ricky: Off on language because you going to sit there and call it creek when it’s spelled C R E A K, creek, don’t call it…
Roxanna: Creek, that’s like saying, how do you spell that again, how do you spell that again, c O, C R E K, A K, e K, all right, e, creek…
Ricky: Okay, okay, the double E, I’m going to dive into this, okay, that’s, you know what, that’s fine, I, excuse me, I apologize, I…
Roxanna: Made a mistake, rock me to hell, all right, so, C R E…
Ricky: Creek from this one, that’s fine, see, that’s what his…
Roxanna: Problem is, he’s always, he’s got to jump on one thing, and he’s got to constantly just dive into that, he started jumping…
Ricky: On, who, I’m just trying to say that when you spell something this, but don’t say…
Roxanna: Crit, okay, crit gets on my nerve, it’s not the way to say this thing, nobody asked you a question anyway…
Ricky: Always then, they know to create your little home if you call where you from…
Roxanna: What, I forgot what you, I forget what you talking about, where are you from again, I…
Ricky: I let the old married couple go too long, I pretty much grew up here, number one, ain’t nobody no old married couple…
Roxanna: Go ahead, go ahead, what’ you say, I was born in Hawaii, but basically grew up here, you were born in Hawaii…
Ricky: In Tawana, when did you leave Hawaii, when I was 6 months old, oh well then, yeah…
Roxanna: He got dual sense too, hey, you haven’t, have you been back, no, I…
Ricky: Haven’t, was it actually Honolulu, no, I was born on Pickham Air Force Base, okay…
Roxanna: Where’s that island, Honolulu, Hawaii, okay, so, Aahu, he was born in Aahu, yes, dude, you…
Ricky: Got to go, I, I keep hearing how your auntie has some, uh, some time share land…
Roxanna: There, but what’s that got to do with you, they ain’t got nothing to do with you about my way, my auntie got her stuff, or me, I’m just saying if we go, then we got…
Ricky: Somewhere to stay, and then Disney, the Disney resort, Disney, there is a Disney resort, yes, and my auntie’s place is next…
Roxanna: Door, Disney, we’ve been asking Disney, like basically for 40 episodes now, well…
Ricky: Get me on the horn with somebody, I, I’ll know somebody who knows somebody, please, please allow this little po, little…
Roxanna: Amputee to go to Disney because I wasn’t able to get past the parking lot, and if I could please go to Alani, the Disney…
Ricky: Resort, that’s beautiful, and I have seen it up close, I sure would appreciate that, I want to thank you very much, please…
Roxanna: Okay, we ain’t talking about Jeff, we talking about Roxanna and me, you see how he’s pushing me out, you see how he’s…
Ricky: Pushing me out, I’m, I’m going to be that lynch pin, it’s his podcast, I can’t, yeah, this says Ricky’s big role, not Joe, I…
Roxanna: Think we need to cut the light, and I heard you trying to get my show out from underneath my foots, what foots, the foots…
Ricky: I’m, I’m about to kick right up straight up your rear end, I didn’t say nothing about nothing, and that was your idea on…
Roxanna: The last time I was with you, it was your idea because you kept whining about it, well, I didn’t whine about, do I just take…
Ricky: Over your, your show, I should take over your show, b-roll footage, I wasn’t whining about nothing, he was whining, I…
Roxanna: Think we need to cut back to the previous episode, cut back to whatever you want to cut back to, bro, I don’t know…
Ricky: Why you came up here, you getting on my damn nerves, and who asked you to be here today, you, yeah, I did, I did because I…
Roxanna: Would hear you whining if I did, so I have to, you must not love me no more, I would, for all of our text messages to…
Ricky: Her so she can pop it up on the screen on you, next episode, and say what, I’ll disrespect a…
Roxanna: Topic, not this mess, I forget we were talking about childhood games…
Ricky: How the hell did we wind up here, how about Be the Foot, okay, that’s a great game, be the Foot, what about Bloody…
Roxanna: Knuckles, you ever play Bloody Knuckles, I sure have, oh, I played that as a kid too, you know about that, you ever played that…
Ricky: Mhm, we had that, even still as I was a kid, how did y’all play though…
Roxanna: Do you play it, have you ever played it, I have played it, but it’s been a long time, that hurts, yeah, but you…
Ricky: You gained some good knuckles…
Roxanna: There was that, what was that game where you’d slap somebody, did you guys not do that, was that just…
Ricky: My generation, where you would slap them if you slap them, you get slapped and beat back, so we have to be careful, no…
Roxanna: Where you slap it, the hands, yeah, I, oh, you talking about where you know it’s…
Ricky: Like, like that, and you flip it over, well, okay, that game, yes, we also used to play that, but we were disrespect…
Roxanna: Disrespectful, yeah, this Bobo shot, you ever play Bobo, ‘cause you do this, cussing animal, yeah, it’s…
Ricky: Called red hand, red hand, oh, it’s kind of like pencil, remember pencil break game…
Roxanna: Oh yeah, you do the number two, and you get the knuckles…
Ricky: Did you ever play pencil when you were in school, take the pencil, you hold it, then the next person has their pencil…
Roxanna: And they have to try to break it, and you only get like two or three shots, but a lot of times, you get your knuckle, it’ll…
Ricky: Hit your fingers, come in like this, some folks like Jeff will do it on purpose, so…
Roxanna: Any other games, uh, thumb war, oh, thumb ware, that wasn’t…
Ricky: You could break, no, you can break somebody’s finger with that, you could, but I usually was smart enough to see them…
Roxanna: And say “No, I’m good.” Especially when you snap it back, and when they’re trying to do it, some people snap back, and you…
Ricky: Get your own eye out, you…
Roxanna: Probably cheated when you use your thumb to hook them in there and hold them in, we don’t…
Ricky: Have to get late, that was cheating, this is a violent episode today, you picked…
Roxanna: This one, man, I think you should have thought this one through, this is a cheat, now, now I’m…
Ricky: Going to know, I’m going to cheat if Carter doesn’t, you can’t cheat, you can’t cheat, you got to, you got to keep them…
Roxanna: Locked in like that and just use your thumb, but there’s ways of doing it though, to where you know it’ll help you…
Ricky: Win, you know, put, put, yeah, your angle, your angle and your force of weight into…
Roxanna: It too, so when they’re trying to do you, uh-uh, no, we ain’t doing that, you got to get that little like somebody come up on…
Ricky: You on the street, you know, you got to puff it up, well, look here, that’s another episode of Bricky’s Big World, I got to…
Roxanna: Thank Jeff for being here today, you know, it got on my damn nerve, uh, we’ll leave the light on, I’m so proud of you…
Ricky: Remembering, we’ll leave the light on, and the front door unlocked, unless your name is Jeff, please come back through…
Roxanna: The service entrance in the back, thank you very much, in fact, don’t come back at all, you…
Ricky: Delivering anything, then you’re allowed here, if not, don’t, I need to apply for a…
Roxanna: Job, please.
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