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Beasley Digital
  • 4/17/2025
Dave & Chuck the Freak talk about the horrors of going back to school shopping and the tracksuits they used to wear reminds Andy of the time his went up in flames next to a heater.

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00:00uh what's not good to hear for a lot of kids is back to school talk
00:08yeah and even though i've been out of school for years i don't like it myself yeah i tell you it
00:15puts me in a bad mood every time i don't know why i mean i should be happy my kids are get out of my
00:21hair and they'll go back to school i love it when school's not in because the traffic is lighter
00:26when school's in that's my only complaint because it's like chaos yeah with traffic um it gets worse
00:33back to school shopping was that something you looked forward to or dreaded well i dreaded i
00:38dreaded it because that was like i would have to go to the oh you know and now i'm getting bad
00:42feelings the byway and i'd get my jumpsuits you know i just look at my own kids
00:49holy crap our kids are so much luckier they are so our parents chuck our parents didn't have like
00:57any money right my parents were fine oh your parents my parents were not they didn't have
01:01tons of jack but my dad worked my mom worked my parents both had and they didn't have a ton
01:06of money to spend enough to not buy me a dollar pants they weren't a dollar dude i had dollar
01:12pants no i've never even seen pants for a dollar byway it was a place growing up in canada you
01:18could go down there it was like made of tissue paper this is what they were they were like
01:24off-brand pants so instead of being like adidas they would say like tracks oh no but they would
01:33be like the same style it would say tracks and then how they were a dollar the tracks logo was
01:42messed up like when they screen printed it or whatever it messed up so then they were like oh well
01:48we can't even sell these as tracks because it's screwed up so now it's a buck and the
01:56look at those boy it was the knockoff reject store it was the knockoff reject store wow still open
02:04and no they closed down they closed down but they were right downtown hey chuck how are you man
02:10hey how's it going guys we're good hey when i was a kid my mother used to buy me these ridiculous
02:17nylon almost plastic running suits uh they were horrible oh yeah where the school got picked on
02:26and you'd have to wear them to gym too and i remember sliding across the gym floor and every
02:31time you would slide the thing would melt it would just melt you know what i saw it was something way
02:37back in the day on like 2020 or something because i was always a young newsman at heart and they uh
02:41they exposed how cheap these were and how they caught fire would cause major damage and i was
02:46terrified where my cheap tracks would be like get away from the flame oh yeah my dad had to put me
02:50out because they they suited me up in a windbreaker outfit oh yeah nice blue purple and uh it was like
02:57blue magenta with some yellow oh yeah very nice yeah it was real nice and then you know what i wore
03:02underneath it too just for good measure yeah a nice white turtleneck
03:06windbreaker my stupid perm like hair turtlenecks were a thing for a minute my grandpa had this heater
03:16in the garage and i had walked by it and i just walked by it man and the thing what happened
03:22he knew what was gonna happen oh yeah yeah i got a heater in the garage and i remember just like
03:30what you gotta do working on stuff that's pretty cool and i walked by it and the thing ignites dude i was
03:36like two feet away from it
03:38like angry hot
03:40so they had to stop dropping roy
03:46yeah my dad was like get down boy
03:47i'm like
03:48puts my leg out
03:51oh my god
03:53it's true though man those things you were like
03:57the human torch
03:58yeah it was purple and pink and i would have been
04:01entombed in purple and pink
04:02chemical fabric
04:04the only thing that would have been left was my turtleneck
04:08because there was no burning whatever that thing was made out of
04:11it was a combination you just casually said my dad had yeah my dad had to put me out
04:14yeah
04:15he did
04:17he did
04:17what would have been left is your white turtleneck
04:19yeah
04:19oh that's one of the only thing that would have been left
04:22and some curls
04:23yeah
04:23what a tragic crime scene
04:27it's true
04:27I'm so glad you're okay
04:28yeah my dad and my grandpa were working on stuff
04:31like what are you doing
04:32holy shit
04:33you've been steamy in here huh
04:35it sounds like a classic you catch fire scene in a movie
04:38somebody get help
04:41I'm seven
04:42you guys are irresponsible
04:44yeah
04:44please
04:46please
04:47when my
04:48when my dad
04:49was like bam bam bam
04:50with a giant dad hand
04:51yeah
04:52when my brother said his
04:53him
04:53his self on fire
04:55he had the same type of nylon pants on
04:59and they just fused to him
05:01that's what happened
05:03that's what happened
05:04he made clothes like that
05:05there were no standards
05:07there were very little standards
05:09my brother was trying to take his burning pants off of himself
05:14and they were fused to his leg
05:16oh
05:16well that's what I was like
05:17I was like
05:18Jesus
05:18I remember looking at the pants afterwards
05:20like
05:20holy god
05:22why would you ever put these on me
05:23do not care about my survival
05:26yeah
05:27you're just a human torch
05:29oh man
05:30and it's purple
05:31you guys hate me
05:33like what are you doing
05:35this guy said
05:35I had a friend with those cheap pants too
05:37standing around a bonfire drinking beer
05:39they shrink wrap to his legs
05:41yeah
05:42they were stuck to both legs
05:44but they got close to the fire
05:45I just think about how funny
05:47the whole scene
05:48where I caught fire
05:49must have been
05:50like how it looked
05:51because my grandma
05:52or my grandpa
05:53and my dad
05:53were like man's men
05:55you know
05:55yes
05:56and what they were doing at the time
05:57was they had invented this log splitter
06:00they invented it
06:01built it from scratch
06:03welded it together
06:04and it was a hydraulic log splitter
06:06that would split logs
06:07they were working on this thing
06:09and then I'm walking around
06:10in a purple jumpsuit
06:11with a perm
06:11like
06:12and my legs start smoking
06:14I'm like what a scene
06:17that must have been
06:18like
06:18oh hold on a second dad
06:21my son is on fire again
06:23put him out
06:25god damn it Andy
06:27green bean
06:29I was like oh
06:30no that's
06:30we could have lost green bean that day
06:32yeah
06:32oh there's a bunch of stuff
06:33I barely survived my childhood
06:36oh yeah
06:36my parents were like
06:37we gotta watch that one
06:39huh
06:39oh
06:41oh
06:41oh