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1:22

Hello everyone, and

1:25

welcome to another episode

1:28

of Sleep and Relax ASMR.

1:35

This episode, somehow I'm

1:37

already out of breath before I started. That's

1:41

what happens when you get older. That's what I'm noticing. You

1:43

know, like these

1:46

past

1:47

few months have really reminded

1:49

me harshly about the

1:51

realities of just

1:54

getting older. Well,

1:57

let me finish the intro before I wander off.

1:59

So today's episode, as

2:02

you can kind of already tell by the lack

2:05

of an intro being

2:07

properly executed, just

2:10

gonna do a little random ramble.

2:13

This is still,

2:16

as of recording this episode, my favorite

2:19

type of, you

2:21

know, episode to record. I think it's fun to kind

2:24

of just allow my,

2:27

my brain to wander off to

2:30

wherever. Obviously if you've

2:32

joined along for rambles, you know that typically

2:35

I start on one topic

2:37

and then I kind of just, you

2:39

know, work my way around

2:42

random things. And sometimes I end up, you

2:44

know, landing, you

2:46

know, something I'm there for 25 minutes or 30 minutes. But

2:49

something tells me that I won't be

2:52

one of those. Anyway,

2:55

I mean, I'm already on the topic of

2:58

aging and,

3:01

you know, the day, I will go from a

3:03

nap, first and foremost, when I was younger,

3:07

and I don't want to give you the impression

3:09

that I'm, you know, geriatric, you

3:12

know, I'm not 50 plus or 60 plus or anything.

3:17

Nothing, you know, not that there's anything wrong with

3:19

being, you know, that age. I'm just

3:21

saying I'm, I'm

3:24

not there yet. But that

3:28

was sort of one of the first clues as

3:30

to, okay, I really am starting to get older.

3:33

Like when my Saturday afternoon

3:37

is

3:39

like ideally no

3:42

longer reserved for group

3:44

activities, but really just to rest and

3:47

relax and like record

3:49

this podcast. That

3:51

was a good sign.

3:54

And I've been getting

3:56

into napping recently,

3:58

which for me, me a shocking you

4:01

know in my younger days like the

4:03

idea of a nap was just like

4:07

I could go to bed at 4 in

4:10

the morning and wake

4:12

up at 6 it's

4:15

not true

4:17

I mean heck when I was younger I used to

4:20

when I was like 12 years old one summer I got

4:22

into the worst sleep routine

4:25

imaginable

4:26

I was

4:29

going to bed around

4:36

no

4:38

kidding like an early night for me was like 3

4:41

in the morning I mean that

4:44

was a reasonable time for me

4:46

to finally you know

4:48

decide to

4:50

turn off the lights and go to sleep

4:55

but sometimes it was like 4 a.m. 5

4:58

I mean it wasn't unfathomable I

5:00

mean there

5:03

were times where you know it was 7

5:06

and I don't know why I was just still

5:09

awake and then I would go to sleep and

5:12

then for a little chunk

5:14

of time there

5:17

it was almost

5:20

like how late could

5:22

I sleep in and I think my

5:24

record was I look like it to 30

5:28

I look back at that and I wonder why I'm

5:31

grateful that you know my my parents

5:33

and my grandparents

5:36

kind of allowed me to you

5:38

know hang

5:40

out a little bit that one

5:42

summer because you know usually during my summers

5:45

I was active

5:49

doing something you know I was baseball

5:54

camps or when I was really little

5:56

I remember doing a zoo camp

5:59

which heading into

5:59

it I really was not excited about at

6:02

all but I actually

6:04

had a dream not too long ago that

6:09

I don't remember I'm not

6:12

sure if I was necessarily in the

6:14

camp again but it was

6:17

something sort of reminiscent

6:19

of the camp and so I

6:22

remember

6:26

in that

6:28

camp I was with like

6:30

a new couple of kids there so I think

6:33

that's what made it more fun you know

6:36

my parents before they would put me in a camp

6:38

you know they would never tell me so

6:41

it's like school would be over and

6:44

then sometime

6:46

usually probably

6:48

after you know a couple

6:51

days few days week whatever they were

6:55

just kind of wake me up at 7 in the morning

6:57

or whatever time I had to be up

7:00

and it would you

7:03

know just tell me hey you got to go to summer

7:06

camp and again usually it was

7:09

sports related and you know

7:12

baseball yeah

7:14

I was usually

7:19

baseball

7:22

when I was very young so different

7:26

variations and then I

7:30

want to say I was I don't

7:34

know I've

7:38

been six seven years old

7:40

maybe eat the oldest

7:42

when I did

7:46

the zoo camp and that was one of those camps

7:48

that again can just

7:51

get randomly woken up and it's

7:53

like hey put on these clothes you

7:57

want to camp and you know I didn't

7:59

know

8:00

that any of their kids were gonna be present

8:03

that I knew. But

8:06

I remember it being like a great time. I

8:08

remember,

8:10

you know, as most kids do,

8:13

you know, it's like they do something fun

8:15

and then I kinda convinced myself

8:18

for a brief moment in

8:21

time

8:22

when I was seven or eight or whatever

8:26

that I was gonna do something

8:28

related to animals. You

8:31

know, it's like, oh, I kinda wanna work in a zoo.

8:34

I love animals

8:35

and I dislike animals on

8:37

the contrary. I

8:39

do love animals, but

8:41

you know, I

8:43

quite literally never expressed

8:45

an interest in going

8:47

to another one of those camps. I never volunteered

8:50

for anything animal

8:52

related. But at the very

8:54

least, I will always have that,

8:56

you know, really fun and positive

8:59

memory of attending that camp.

9:03

And I remember one

9:07

day I gotta fix the electrical

9:09

here in

9:11

the good old recording

9:14

studio. Light keeps flicking

9:16

or not off.

9:18

But yeah, I think the most memorable part about that

9:21

particular summer

9:23

camp was they brought up this

9:26

massive boa constrictor

9:28

and, you know, we're kids, so

9:31

it's impossible for us individually

9:35

to hold it. So I kinda remember, you

9:37

know, we had camp

9:39

counselors on either side and

9:42

then we would take a picture with like

9:45

eight of us kinda

9:47

like holding up the stakes. That

9:52

was cool. I remember my mother being mortified,

9:56

absolutely

9:58

mortified.

10:00

by the idea that we did that

10:02

because I think she saw the picture after

10:04

it's kind of like we made little postcards

10:08

for our parents and

10:11

I think I don't remember seven

10:14

or eight so come a little bit of slack here if

10:16

you please get it yeah

10:20

she was she was mortified one way or another

10:22

either I told her or

10:25

again there was a

10:28

you know a postcard or whatever that we made and

10:32

I

10:34

remember living the

10:36

experience of holding it up

10:39

and then my mother being very pissed

10:41

off

10:44

I'm trying to think what else I

10:46

did that camp for some

10:48

reason I remember almost perfectly like the

10:50

layout of the room you know we would

10:53

kind of get dropped off and

10:55

then they had

10:57

like maybe seven to ten

10:59

you know circular tables you

11:02

know I think it was like four or five kids

11:04

per per table I

11:08

think they let you kind of pick your own

11:10

seating so you know how it is by the

11:12

end of the first or second day you really have colleague

11:14

here

11:16

your group of people

11:20

and it's interesting how I can kind

11:23

of remember the room and I can remember the

11:25

boa constrictor photo

11:28

op

11:30

but I don't remember really

11:32

much just

11:37

that it was again a really good time and then

11:39

I remember

11:43

you know so it must have been like the timeline

11:45

here must have been that I did that when I was like

11:47

six or seven because

11:49

I started getting into sports like eight

11:52

nine right around there and again the first

11:54

sport definitely was baseball very

11:57

heavy into it didn't play

11:59

anything else until

11:59

I thought it was probably like 11

12:02

or so.

12:07

So after that summer of claiming

12:10

I was going to work with animals

12:13

for the rest of my life, I

12:15

very promptly forgot about that

12:19

career path and just started focusing

12:21

on sports.

12:22

I did a bunch of

12:25

different ones. You know, baseball

12:27

camps by the time I was 8 or 9.

12:29

My dad didn't let me

12:33

really have time off otherwise.

12:38

The retrospect is good. I mean, I think

12:42

school's tough, you know, but

12:45

I don't think there's any reason. If

12:47

you can, if you have an interest in something, you know,

12:50

I think it's good. You know, if you can afford it, obviously.

12:52

I think it is good

12:54

to have

12:57

them doing something productive in

12:59

the summers. In this case, you

13:01

know, I got decent at baseball and

13:05

team sports. You kind of built that and then you build,

13:07

you know, like a sense of confidence

13:09

and something that, you know, you're

13:11

spending a lot of time working on.

13:19

I think the most memorable,

13:21

clearly the theme here for this

13:23

episode is summer

13:26

camps, which I have at this

13:28

point.

13:30

No clue how I

13:32

sort of started on this topic, but

13:34

here we are. I

13:37

originally was starting to ramble about

13:40

getting older and

13:43

age and, you know, perhaps

13:45

another symptom of getting older is, you know, my

13:48

memory retention just continues

13:52

to get worse and

13:54

worse at this point, I guess. So I, again,

13:57

have no clue how we got on this.

13:59

definitely

14:02

one of the most memorable baseball

14:05

summer camps. I forget

14:08

the name of it but I remember one of the coaches

14:10

very vividly and I don't know why.

14:12

I think I

14:16

think I remember him because I

14:20

think he played professionally

14:22

and he claimed that he had played with

14:26

George Brett or something and

14:31

that kind of voice really stuck

14:33

out to me this notion that I was being

14:36

coached by someone that I assumed

14:38

was playing professional

14:40

baseball. I'm sure he did but you

14:43

know for all I know he played with George Brett like in

14:45

high school or college or

14:49

it could have been like an adult league you

14:51

know.

14:53

So that coach always stuck out there being like wow

14:56

this guy's a legend.

14:58

And again you know it's not to say he was a

15:01

bad ball player he's probably good. It

15:05

also really sticks out to me how you

15:08

know the camp coaches it was

15:12

basically a mix of high

15:14

school and college players

15:17

that were you

15:19

know volunteering. When

15:24

you're eight or nine or ten

15:26

years old you know they seem like real adults

15:28

and now I think about it's like those were kids like

15:31

those were kids teaching kids and

15:34

of course a high school baseball player especially

15:37

a very prolific one you

15:39

know college players different story but

15:44

you know that's a level that of course they can

15:47

teach eight nine ten

15:50

eleven year old

15:51

you know young baseball players

15:53

but

15:55

same thing you know those were they

15:58

were adults to me. It's

16:00

amazing how perspective is reality, you

16:02

know, or your perception is

16:04

reality. Yeah,

16:07

because now you see him, it's like, oh, they're just high

16:09

school kids teaching even smaller kids.

16:12

But yeah, it's like, well, this guy's

16:14

a legend. This guy's betting 385,

16:17

you know, with the

16:19

high school here. It

16:22

was like a level of, you know,

16:25

competence. It's like as a kid, you can't fathom

16:27

it. It's like, whoa, this guy's playing college baseball.

16:31

And obviously it's a great feat. You know, the point

16:33

of this segment of my

16:35

useless ramble is not, it's

16:38

obviously not to suggest that, you know,

16:40

playing college baseball is not an

16:42

incredible feat. It obviously is. It's

16:45

just to say how, you know, as a

16:47

kid, again, it's like everything gets

16:49

amplified to the S degree. You

16:52

know, it's like, whoa, this guy

16:54

plays community college baseball. This

16:55

guy must be like, he's

16:58

going to be a professional baseball player pretty soon. And

17:00

obviously it's just not, you know,

17:03

it's just obviously not the, the, the

17:06

likelihood, the likely scenario.

17:09

Another baseball camp, I remember very

17:12

vividly was a pitching camp.

17:15

You know, my dad always, because I'm lefty, my

17:17

dad always wanted me to get

17:20

into pitching. And

17:23

there's something that

17:25

only as an adult, now do

17:28

I sort of

17:29

reflect on and say, I would

17:31

have never been able to have been a competent

17:33

pitcher. And

17:36

that is

17:38

in the flow of the game. So, okay,

17:42

how do I describe this?

17:46

I think

17:48

for, for me, my,

17:51

you know, the

17:53

type of athlete, I think I was, I was

17:55

at my best when I was being more reactive

17:59

and which is, that's why.

17:59

being

18:02

a position player where

18:04

I'm fielding and hitting

18:06

obviously pictures at youth levels also

18:09

hit but

18:11

as I get older you know and now it's probably it's

18:16

probably more common that you

18:19

like middle school high school pictures

18:21

are no longer hitting but you

18:24

know

18:25

fielding the ball is very different you know when I'm when

18:27

I'm reacting to a ground

18:30

ball

18:31

and I have to you you

18:34

know cover first base which is my primary position

18:38

or field it or it gets

18:40

into the outfield and now I have to be

18:42

the cutoff man so I can you know relay

18:45

the throw to home or third base or wherever

18:47

the ball is

18:54

and then hitting right hitting is just you're

18:56

being you're reacting to what the

18:58

pitcher is throwing you I think in those scenarios

19:01

I felt very comfortable and

19:03

I felt very competent but

19:08

the problem I had with pitching was

19:11

I would get too into my own

19:13

head

19:14

like I remember

19:17

you know I was throwing very hard for

19:20

my age group the first couple years

19:22

I played

19:23

so you know for that for

19:25

that time when you're eight nine ten

19:28

years old

19:29

it's a massive advantage

19:31

like if you can throw like I

19:33

was throwing 10 to 15 miles per

19:35

hour faster than most kids

19:37

you know like like

19:41

at that time it was probably typical in

19:44

our age group for most pitchers

19:46

and you know you had exceptions that were you

19:48

know they're probably playing professionally today or

19:50

did

19:53

you know but that eight

19:55

nine year old range you

19:57

know the

19:58

kids are throwing anywhere between 30

19:59

40 miles an hour, 44, 45.

20:05

You know, but by the time I was eight or nine, I was already throwing

20:08

probably 50, 55, 58, somewhere

20:11

that range. So, you know, I was

20:13

just able to generate a

20:15

lot more speed behind

20:18

my pitches. And so I didn't

20:20

really have to think much because, you

20:23

know, I had a huge advantage. And so basically

20:26

what would happen was the

20:28

first year, well,

20:30

first year and a half, maybe two years as

20:33

pitchers, as I was throwing so fast,

20:36

most kids were kind of swinging without

20:39

realizing what they were seeing.

20:43

Once you hit, once you hit like 11, 12 years

20:45

old, 13, it's game over. Like

20:49

once your teenager is completely changes. And

20:53

for me, once I got to like 11 or 12,

20:56

number one, other

20:57

kids were starting to catch up

20:59

and they were throwing in some cases close

21:02

to my speed. It wasn't, you

21:04

know, it wasn't crazy to

21:06

go to a baseball tournament and

21:10

face a pitcher that was throwing 55, 65. You

21:13

know, I think

21:14

the, the, I

21:16

remember facing one team,

21:18

which we beat them. So at

21:21

the end, no harm, no

21:23

foul. But

21:27

yeah, we, we played a team twice

21:29

that the two best starting pitchers,

21:31

you know, were both

21:34

launching, you know, 65

21:36

mile an hour.

21:37

Yeah. Rock attention, you know, to

21:40

get 12.

21:43

And

21:51

by that time, it's like you have to be

21:53

more thoughtful. You know, I can't just,

21:57

I can't enter a game. I was never starting

21:59

pitcher. I was always a receiver. leave pitcher. Because again my

22:01

preferred position and definitely where I was better at was as

22:04

a position player, not a pitcher.

22:08

But every now and then, you know, coach,

22:11

you know, would know that I was working on pitching

22:13

and, you know, he was, you know,

22:16

aware of like, goes

22:18

on again in my recording studio.

22:22

So,

22:24

you know, whatever. He would make a determination that,

22:27

you know, he wanted me to pitch. And

22:29

again, by the time I'm 11 or 12, it's like,

22:32

maybe I'm throwing 55 or 60. But

22:37

batters now

22:38

are disciplined enough to know that, you

22:41

know, it's a bad pitch, you know, it's weight. You

22:43

know, when you're nine, kids are just, they're hacking

22:45

and everything. So

22:47

it was very typical for me at like nine

22:49

to throw again, 50 or 55 miles

22:52

an hour. And the pitch would be nowhere

22:54

near the strike zone. And the batter

22:57

would swing because they're just praying that

22:59

they hit it because otherwise it can't hit. So

23:01

I gloss sometimes pitch three innings and

23:04

it'd be nine strikeouts.

23:06

You know, it'd be literally I'm striking at the

23:08

side. But

23:10

kind of making a

23:13

really irrelevant point and

23:15

a short story into, you know, an incredibly

23:18

long one, which is I think

23:21

my specialty in general. Now

23:26

as an adult, I can recognize that I would never I

23:28

would have never

23:30

been successful as a

23:33

pitcher, if only because

23:35

I'm not good at being

23:37

in

23:38

any sport. I don't

23:40

like to be the one that is sort of

23:43

being proactive with my decision making. I

23:45

don't want to. That

23:47

puts me too much into my own head. If that

23:50

makes sense. Like again, a pitcher needs to be able to

23:52

sort of stay calm and sort of look

23:55

at each batter and the situation of the game. And

23:57

with that, I'm going

23:59

to

23:59

start with the

23:59

them right because

24:01

you know

24:02

if you got three pitches you know a very

24:05

typical stable of pitches as

24:07

a youth player is you know obviously your

24:11

your fastball your change-up

24:14

and then your curve or

24:16

slider you know but you

24:18

know and sometimes it's just basically a two-seam or

24:20

four-seam and a change-up you know it's very

24:23

typical as well but

24:25

still you know I never really developed

24:28

pitches per se like I never really learned

24:31

how to

24:33

understand the game at that level and so

24:36

it kind of

24:37

was you know if you're a pitcher you're forced

24:40

to consider all of these things

24:42

and sometimes you've got good stuff sometimes your stuff is

24:45

bad you know like

24:48

I remember probably my worst outing

24:50

as a pitcher I was 11 and I

24:54

think I gave up one hit you know so

24:57

it wasn't so much that I was giving up a

24:59

lot of hits but I think the next

25:01

kid I hit I

25:03

hit him with a pitch the next

25:05

kid I think I struck out the

25:08

next one I think popped out and

25:10

then the next one I think I walked I think

25:12

I walked too straight so

25:17

you know I was putting like a high-pressure

25:22

situation and for me I felt like

25:24

I was really failing the team so I

25:26

was getting too much into my own head and

25:29

I remember

25:30

towards the end of that outing

25:33

which might be the last time I pitched honestly

25:36

you

25:37

know cuz I didn't really pitch past 11 or 12

25:41

I mean I didn't play baseball too much longer after that anyway

25:44

for different circumstances

25:47

you

25:51

know I remember it's like all eyes are on

25:53

you you're the pitcher so literally

25:55

the the play is starting you

25:58

know with

25:59

with you releasing that ball and

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I almost like lost consciousness.

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I enjoyed like a state of flow but it wasn't

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a good state of flow. It was not

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a state of flow that was like when

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you find something you're passionate

26:16

about and you're kind of just working

26:18

through it like in harmony. It

26:20

was more like I

26:23

was almost like blacking out and

26:25

I was throwing

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you know because I was so nervous

26:29

I felt so

26:31

uncomfortable and

26:36

you know again I think this is something very typical with a

26:38

lot of youth kids is

26:40

a reason why it's difficult

26:42

to be a you know top top top level pitcher

26:45

you know you really have to have you

26:48

know a very specific

26:52

mindset and sort of

26:54

ability to

26:56

you know have good stuff and also a mental and

26:58

emotional side of the game which

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I just I never would have

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developed you know I just think I

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it's it's not where I was comfortable I liked I liked

27:08

reacting to the game I was a very good hitter

27:12

as a hitter it was very easy for me to understand

27:15

the count and you know

27:17

to sort of

27:18

see habits from pitchers but once

27:22

I was on the other side it was very

27:25

tricky but anyway to finish this story

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I don't know how we got in I always talk about my

27:30

I promise I'm not someone that's just like always

27:33

discussing his youth athletic career

27:38

you know I didn't really have many other hobbies growing

27:40

up so you know a lot times I default

27:43

to it

27:44

and then it's funny how like this

27:46

particular story I'm telling now all

27:48

these stories of the summer camps and

27:52

my insight

27:54

as a youth baseball player and my

27:57

brief stand of the pitcher like I don't think about

27:59

it unless

27:59

recording so

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Anyway, like I was saying, I

28:05

think the last time I pitched so I Came

28:08

into the game. I'm pretty sure

28:10

I already had two ounce but I had hit

28:13

one batter I had walked and I'd walked

28:15

at least two I

28:17

walked two in a row I think and

28:19

like I just totally lost control of my pitch,

28:22

you know, like I didn't feel like I had I Didn't

28:25

feel like I had any sort of

28:27

Control and so that was causing me

28:30

a sort of like panic internally and

28:32

then as I was winding up the pitch I was

28:34

kind of like

28:37

Going with instinct but again,

28:39

it wasn't a good

28:41

Like oh, I'm in the zone and

28:43

I'm seeing everything perfectly was like I'm

28:47

like blacking out Internally

28:49

like when the ball is about to release my hand. I'm

28:52

not really conscious about it. I'm just hoping

28:55

And I'll never forget that I

28:58

Somehow the count was

29:00

somehow three and two. So three balls two strikes

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It's called a payoff pitch. It's basically, you

29:06

know bases loaded three two, you

29:08

know, it's a high-pressure situation

29:13

You know because obviously the kid hits a double

29:15

all the runners price-pouring if he's

29:18

a grass lamb that's beyond

29:20

embarrassing and demoralizing for your team You

29:23

know if you walk them it's like the cycle continues

29:26

of you know, when am I getting out of this hitting and Three

29:30

two, I'll never forget

29:32

my catcher. He was a right-handed

29:35

Batter I'm

29:38

a lefty pitcher

29:40

And I remember my catcher asked

29:43

for a fastball inside and I

29:45

kind of wind up I Throw

29:48

it through it hard as hell

29:49

and I remember the

29:52

Ball just like perfectly

29:55

gliding, you know

29:57

perfect inside corner

29:59

of the plate like

30:03

as perfect a pitch as Anyone

30:06

can throw

30:07

like like my catcher put his glove

30:10

in a specific spot and

30:12

I just nailed it exactly

30:15

perfectly And I

30:17

remember after I threw it and I struck him out.

30:19

I struck him out looking You know again, it was

30:21

you know, it's a tough pitch to hit, you

30:23

know a fastball inside on the hands and

30:27

you know my control had been All

30:30

over the place. So of course, you know, the

30:32

batter was probably hoping I just throw

30:35

another ball and walk him

30:38

But yeah when that was done I Am

30:40

I coasting like Wow great pitch. He

30:43

told me something like that like like incredible

30:45

pitch and I had

30:47

no idea Like how

30:51

he'd I've gotten there, you know, I was I

30:53

was hoping praying there

30:55

So anyway that that's how I know

30:58

Without a shadow of a doubt that even had

31:00

I continued playing There

31:04

is

31:05

zero chance I would have ever

31:08

been a good enough Good

31:14

enough picture.

31:17

So now you know Now

31:21

I'm looking at the time this morning

31:25

I'll tell one more summer camp. I went to that

31:27

was very memorable and I won't call it quits for

31:30

some reason at like I

31:33

Want to say 12 years old? Yeah,

31:37

I think was 12 for some reason when I was like 12 I

31:40

had a summer where I didn't really do much like

31:43

I don't remember why I Didn't

31:45

really go to any summer camps. That's

31:47

why I was able to like sleep in really late

31:50

and you know I don't wake up at 2 in the afternoon

31:52

or whatever But

31:55

I remember seeing a friend of mine and he

31:58

was going this really weird summer

32:00

camp I remember the name

32:06

it was like call like high-five or

32:08

something like that it was basically

32:10

like a teenager camp

32:14

just for like teenagers I think

32:16

but we didn't do anything it

32:18

was the weirdest it

32:21

was genuinely like the weirdest camp

32:24

imaginable like it

32:27

was like this old

32:30

old country club

32:32

and the

32:33

kids would report there for like 8 a.m.

32:35

or whatever 9 a.m. and it was

32:38

just me my buddy and he was the one that's like hey listen I'm

32:40

going to camp just come along I don't

32:42

think I paid for it yeah

32:45

I don't think we paid for it I think my friend

32:47

was like here look I have an extra shirt just wear

32:49

it stay

32:52

over my house and you

32:54

know my dad will drop us off that's

32:57

pretty much what we did like like

33:00

I hung out at his house I remember

33:02

we watched some horror movie

33:06

he was like a friend of mine that

33:08

like

33:10

we were very different but we

33:13

were such good friends you know in retrospect I think

33:15

about it I'm like well like he and

33:17

I were so different in

33:19

terms of like our upbringing and and

33:22

sort of like our idea of fun sometimes

33:24

and like our views

33:26

on life and stuff but yeah your kids

33:29

you know and he was a very good friend to me I have to say so

33:33

I remember we watched a horror movie I remember being like

33:36

why the heck like we're like 12 dude I don't want

33:38

to see this like I would

33:40

I didn't care much for it and

33:43

then I remember we

33:44

stayed up to like two

33:47

I think we were like playing with

33:49

Yu-Gi-Oh cards or something like whatever

33:53

just fun you know pre-teen

33:56

stuff and then yeah we woke

33:59

up

33:59

and he passed me a shirt. He's

34:02

like, just wear it, it won't say anything.

34:05

And for basically like four or five days, that's

34:07

what I did. I just went to a summer camp. As far as

34:10

I remember, you know, maybe if I asked my mom, she'll be

34:12

like, no, we had to pay for it.

34:15

But as far as I remember, it was literally just

34:17

me showing up to this camp with

34:20

my buddy, kinda like incognito, not

34:22

knowing that, you know, I never registered.

34:26

And again, we didn't do

34:29

anything. I

34:32

don't remember doing anything. I

34:34

remember sitting in like a conference room where

34:37

you kinda like congregate all the kids, all

34:40

the campers.

34:42

It was probably like seven year olds to

34:44

like 14 year olds, something

34:46

like that.

34:48

And just legitimately, I can't

34:51

remember if we,

34:53

I don't remember going to a pool. I

34:55

don't remember playing sports. I

34:59

think they advertise it as being a sports

35:01

camp, but it was no sport

35:03

in particular. So I do think one

35:06

day we played flag football, if

35:08

I'm not mistaken.

35:11

But I feel like now I should

35:13

ask that buddy of mine. We haven't

35:15

spoken in a long time, but I feel

35:17

like reaching out to him just to ask him what did

35:19

we do in that

35:22

summer camp.

35:24

So anyway,

35:26

I have hit my limit for now.

35:32

Fortunately, I have to run out and do a few

35:34

errands. I hope you enjoyed this very random

35:37

ramble discussing summer

35:39

camps in my baseball youth

35:41

career and why I would never be a very competent

35:43

pitcher as an adult. Questions,

35:47

comments, concerns, you can always reach

35:50

me at hello at sleepandrelaxasmr.com.

35:55

That's all for this episode. Thanks as

35:57

always for listening and

35:58

take care.

35:59

Thank you.