Speaker 1: What did your family do growing up that you now
Speaker 1: realize was very, very weird? Brook and jewel in the morning.
Speaker 1: And as we know, everybody's family is a little different.
Speaker 1: Some families are extremely competitive and turn everything into a contest.
Speaker 1: Some families are super affectionate and greet each other with
Speaker 1: open mouth kisses at every occasion, and even some families
Speaker 1: are more reserved and only speak to each other on
Speaker 1: holidays or mandatory court dates. That's means, yeah, those are
Speaker 1: the kind of families I like. But no matter what
Speaker 1: type of household you lived in, chances are when you
Speaker 1: were growing up, you thought that everything your family did
Speaker 1: was totally normal because you didn't know any better. But
Speaker 1: then you grow up and you meet some other families
Speaker 1: and it makes you realize, wait a minute, my family
Speaker 1: wasn't so normal after all. We did some really weird things.
Speaker 1: And recently, a survey asked thousands of people across the country,
Speaker 1: what's something that your family does that you once thought
Speaker 1: was common practice, only to find out that it's not.
Speaker 1: And here are some of the best responses. Number seven,
Speaker 1: a woman in Oklahoma said, went to a friend's house
Speaker 1: when I was seventeen. She asked her mom for a snack,
Speaker 1: and her mom brought out a huge raw white onion
Speaker 1: completely slathered in mayo on a plate. Is disgusting, it says,
Speaker 1: and her and her sister just went at it with
Speaker 1: their forks and knives like it was filet mignon. Oh
Speaker 1: my good lord, it says. I still think about that
Speaker 1: from time to time. Yeah, they obviously thought that was
Speaker 1: perfectly normal to be eating a huge raw white onion
Speaker 1: slathered in mayo and their friends and they're like, uh,
Speaker 1: I don't want to hang out with these psychopaths anymore.
Speaker 1: What kind of breath was going on in that family?
Speaker 1: I say that is more than what Listering can handle.
Speaker 1: Number six, A guy in New Mexico said, every year,
Speaker 1: my family had a tradition of going into the backyard
Speaker 1: and earning the old calendar. What we'd all stand around
Speaker 1: it and watch it like some kind of ancient ritual.
Speaker 1: I thought every family did that until I asked my
Speaker 1: friend in sixth grade if he had burned his calendar yet,
Speaker 1: and he looked at him like I was crazy. That's
Speaker 1: really funny. Yeah, It's like after the New Year, you're like, hey,
Speaker 1: so happy New Year. How did the burning go? My
Speaker 1: family's burning was amazing. My family did black eyed peas
Speaker 1: on New Year's Day. You'd had to eat black eyed peas,
Speaker 1: and yeah, that means we did that too. Oh you did. Okay,
Speaker 1: A people didn't do it. People tell that too, are like,
Speaker 1: what are you talking about. No, it's a common tradition.
Speaker 1: Black eyed peas supposed to bring you good luck. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and sometimes you don't have time to soak him overnight,
Speaker 1: so we would just swallow one hole like a dry one. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: that's the weird part. Number five, A man from Missouri said,
Speaker 1: in my house, we had something called naked family fun time.
Speaker 1: Is this a therapy session we need to get into?
Speaker 1: There was nothing sexual about it, but every week there
Speaker 1: were a few hours set aside where the entire family
Speaker 1: didn't wear any clothes in the house. I'm not even kidding.
Speaker 1: We do our chores naked, play board games naked, and
Speaker 1: I always thought it was something other kids did. We
Speaker 1: stopped playing when I turned thirteen, and I was honestly
Speaker 1: disappointed for a few weeks that naked family's fun time
Speaker 1: was gone. I guess, like, you're probably more confident in
Speaker 1: your own skin. I don't know my family was weird,
Speaker 1: really weird. And my dad was naked all the time,
Speaker 1: like way too much. Like there was a hallway that
Speaker 1: I used to call like the naked freeway because you
Speaker 1: just be walking down it. And then he burst out
Speaker 1: of a door naked walking down the hallway. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, you might be close with your family, but
Speaker 1: you don't need to be naked around him all the
Speaker 1: time just to prove that you're clothes. It was weird.
Speaker 1: These are the weird things your family did growing up
Speaker 1: that you thought was totally normal at the time. Number four,
Speaker 1: a woman in Tennessee said, my dad had a thing
Speaker 1: called daddy tax at meal time. It's where me and
Speaker 1: my sister had to give our dad ten percent of
Speaker 1: our lunches and dinners because he said it's the law.
Speaker 1: I just accepted it. Eventually, I realized he was an
Speaker 1: evil food genius. Hey dad, just get more food on
Speaker 1: your plate and let your kids eat, all right? And
Speaker 1: I like how the parents get the past just because
Speaker 1: they're a parent. He was an evil food genius. He
Speaker 1: was lying to you so he could steal your fooling.
Speaker 1: But hey, it's food that he paid for, so I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, yeah, I guess it really is his. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Number three, a guy in Pennsylvania said, in my family,
Speaker 1: we had mandatory cuddle time. Oh, I want to make
Speaker 1: mandatory cuddle time with my kids. Just force them to
Speaker 1: be my kids forever. It says, every day, around noon,
Speaker 1: our mom would call all the kids into the living room. Me,
Speaker 1: my older brother, and my younger sister would all lay
Speaker 1: down together on the floor and spoon with my mom
Speaker 1: for thirty minutes until we were allowed to go back
Speaker 1: out and play. Oh my god, that mom needed love
Speaker 1: so bad, you guys, Yeah, mom is weird. Number two,
Speaker 1: a girl in Michigan said, growing up, my parents always
Speaker 1: made us name any meat that we ate so we
Speaker 1: would have more respect for the animals. Oh okay, so like,
Speaker 1: if you have chicken, you name it Carl. Yeah says
Speaker 1: for example, we'd have to name our hamburgers our chicken McNuggets,
Speaker 1: and we'd have to say thank you Albert for letting
Speaker 1: us eat you tonight. I think that's kind of nice
Speaker 1: and respectful. It also goes on to say, I was
Speaker 1: really upset when I finally realized that most people don't
Speaker 1: do this. Yeah. I was at a friend's house once
Speaker 1: and I asked her what we were having for dinner,
Speaker 1: and she said lamb chops, and lamb chops was legit,
Speaker 1: their pet lamb that they used to have in the yard. No,
Speaker 1: it wasn't in the yard anymore. If you didn't know.
Speaker 1: Brooke grew up in a town of like a hundred people,
Speaker 1: and so having a lamb live in your front yard
Speaker 1: totally normal too. And the eating it maybe not normal,
Speaker 1: but having a lamb in your front yard perfectly normal.
Speaker 1: And the number one weirdest thing that your family did
Speaker 1: growing up that you thought was normal, it says. My
Speaker 1: parents told me that hato chips that were misshaped and
Speaker 1: folded and half were lucky. Oh, I got the lucky
Speaker 1: potato chim so we would make a wish on the chip,
Speaker 1: and to make it come true, you smashed it against
Speaker 1: your forehead. Dude, I want to instate that in my family. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it would basically want to eat a lot of
Speaker 1: potato chips. It goes, Honestly. I finally found out that
Speaker 1: it was strange when we had a party in elementary
Speaker 1: school and I kept smashing doritos into my face. The
Speaker 1: teacher sat me down and called my parents to ask
Speaker 1: if I was okay. You know, I think Tim is
Speaker 1: having a problem. I don't know what it is, but
Speaker 1: he prefers smashing food in his face rather than eating it.
Speaker 1: Is everything, Okay, I just imagine the kid too yelled
Speaker 1: out lucky Chip Yay. Are obviously some strange childhood stories,
Speaker 1: but I know that our listening audience probably has one
Speaker 1: that are even weirder because I've met our listening audience
Speaker 1: and yeah, you guys are pretty weird. So text in
Speaker 1: seven eight five nine two. What's the strange thing that
Speaker 1: your family did growing up that you thought was completely
Speaker 1: normal until later in life you realized whoa we were
Speaker 1: kind of weird? Seven eight five nine two. Take a call. Next,
Speaker 1: it's Brook and Jewil in the morning. Text in at
Speaker 1: seven eight five to nine two. It says, my mom
Speaker 1: used to pet me with an owl wing when I
Speaker 1: was bad. Cleanse my soul. It's Brook and Jewil in
Speaker 1: the morning, and we're talking about families, you know, those
Speaker 1: weird people that you have to hang out with whether
Speaker 1: you want to or not. While you're growing up. You
Speaker 1: all kinds of whacky stuff together, and sometimes the wacky
Speaker 1: things that you do at home you think everybody else does,
Speaker 1: but then you realize later in life. Wait a second,
Speaker 1: nobody does that my family is really as strange as
Speaker 1: I've always thought they were, Because we just read a
Speaker 1: survey from thousands of people asking for the weirdest story.
Speaker 1: Is that they realized were actually strange when they got
Speaker 1: older and met more families and were like, not every
Speaker 1: family pets their kid with an owl feather. It's hard
Speaker 1: to keep up with the text messages right now, everybody's
Speaker 1: family is strange. Yeah it is. There's so many coming in.
Speaker 1: Let's just go to the phones right now. Hello, Brook,
Speaker 1: Jubil the morning. Who's this? Hi? Sharina, Sharina, And what's
Speaker 1: the weird thing that your family that you didn't realize
Speaker 1: was weird until you got older? So there were many,
Speaker 1: but this one stands out. When I said that elementary school,
Speaker 1: my mom would pack my lunch and for my sandwich,
Speaker 1: she would make me pineapple and mayonnaise sandwiches. Wad like
Speaker 1: that was that something that you won't I didn't know
Speaker 1: any better, but I figured, you know, my mom made
Speaker 1: my lunch, I can't bring it back, and so I
Speaker 1: would try to trade it at cool but but nobody
Speaker 1: wanted to trade with me. No, there was one kid
Speaker 1: you just didn't talk to him. He was probably in
Speaker 1: the corner, very quiet, very creepy kid in the corner
Speaker 1: that would have trade you for that sandwich. But nobody
Speaker 1: was gonna want that sandwich. It doesn't sound that bad
Speaker 1: to me. I mean, it's it's kind of weird. But
Speaker 1: you want to try to be okay, Yeah, you want
Speaker 1: to try. I kind of want to try. Nothing okay
Speaker 1: about that? Which nothing okay about that? I feel like
Speaker 1: that's what miracle whip tastes like. It is pineapple and
Speaker 1: mayonnaise put together. Hello, Brook and jewel in the morning.
Speaker 1: What's the thing that your family did that you didn't
Speaker 1: realize was weird until you got older. Well, every Christmas
Speaker 1: morning we would all wait to go to the tree
Speaker 1: together to check out the gifts under the tree, and
Speaker 1: we always noticed an unflushed poop in our toilet every
Speaker 1: Christmas morning. It was weird. And yeah, yeah, and you
Speaker 1: know we would be like, oh my god. And there
Speaker 1: was even like snow on the floor and bloom trins
Speaker 1: and you could you could like hear my dad in
Speaker 1: his room. He burst off laughing, you know, and it's
Speaker 1: like he'd say Oh my god, Danna forgot to plush again.
Speaker 1: It was the ritual to have a Santa poo left
Speaker 1: in your toilet. Oh my god, Oh my god. I
Speaker 1: mean I believe this for years. For years, I would say,
Speaker 1: real impressive on your dad's part to time that out
Speaker 1: correctly every I can't imagine how he did this every
Speaker 1: every Christmas. Hopefully it didn't like save it from the
Speaker 1: day before and set the whole thing out. We're talking
Speaker 1: about when people finally realize when it was weird. Did
Speaker 1: you get to a certain age where you like talk
Speaker 1: to your friends and you said, Hey, did you guys
Speaker 1: see the Santa poop from you? Oh? Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I used to always talk, you know, like mention
Speaker 1: you know, Sanna ever poop in your toilet? Yeah? My
Speaker 1: friends looking at me like, what are you talking about? Yeah,
Speaker 1: don't be a bad kid. He's leaving a lot more
Speaker 1: than cold this year. Okay. My mom, every time she
Speaker 1: was constipated and she couldn't do the job, she would
Speaker 1: call me and my sister into the toilet and we
Speaker 1: would each choose one leg and we would push down
Speaker 1: on her leg and she was like one, two three,
Speaker 1: and she go and we don't go and we would
Speaker 1: help my mom push. Dude, she's mortified that you were
Speaker 1: sharing that. Yeah, is weird. It was weird when I
Speaker 1: was ten and I had a friend over and my
Speaker 1: mom was in the bathroom and I literally yelled, Mom,
Speaker 1: you need me to come in there and help you.
Speaker 1: And he's with, what, I go, you ever helped your
Speaker 1: mom plush? And he's like, what are you talking about? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that would have been a big realization or talk about.
Speaker 1: You don't go into the bathroom and push down your
Speaker 1: mom's legs so she can go to the bathroom when
Speaker 1: she's constipated. What kind of weird family do you come from?
Speaker 1: Get out of here. I thought you were my best friend.
Speaker 1: I don't even know you'd leave And I just like
Speaker 1: picturing myself as a mom being like all right, kid,
Speaker 1: push push. That was it. That was a family of
Speaker 1: its family bonding at its best right there? No, definitely
Speaker 1: not no. Hello Brook and Jewel in the morning. Who's this? Hey?
Speaker 1: Who's this is Erica? Erica? Do you think you can
Speaker 1: top Jose's story that he just shared about the weird
Speaker 1: thing that his family used to do that he didn't
Speaker 1: realize was weird until I don't know about that, but
Speaker 1: this was pretty weird. So when I was growing up,
Speaker 1: and mind you, this was all through like middle school,
Speaker 1: high school, my family. Whenever any of us would yawn
Speaker 1: while we were yawning, our parents would stick a finger
Speaker 1: in our mouth. Do that in my house, like currently
Speaker 1: we do that. I need to what my husband does
Speaker 1: it to me and I bite down on his finger
Speaker 1: because it's so annoying, right, Like, I would never do
Speaker 1: that now. But so I was in college and my
Speaker 1: boyfriend was yawning and I stuck my finger in his
Speaker 1: mouth and he looked at me terrified. Yeah, it's just like,
Speaker 1: what are you doing right now? And I just I
Speaker 1: was laughing, and that got very serious very fast. He's like,
Speaker 1: that's not normal. He's like, I'm leaving you. It's over.
Speaker 1: Keep texting in seven eight five? What's the weird thing
Speaker 1: that your family used to do that you didn't realize
Speaker 1: was weird until you got older. So I don't have
Speaker 1: a ton of time, but I do want to take
Speaker 1: another call. Hey Martha, what's up? Hey? So, back when
Speaker 1: I was younger, during New Years, my family, right at
Speaker 1: midnight we would pack. We wouldn't pack. We would have
Speaker 1: an empty suitcase, and right when it hit midnight, we
Speaker 1: would run around the outside of the house a couple
Speaker 1: of times, and it would signify that we were like
Speaker 1: trying to travel that year. I would ask all my
Speaker 1: friends in elementary school and they were like, no one
Speaker 1: does that, And I was like, really, you don't like
Speaker 1: that means you to travel that yearly vacations, yeah, or
Speaker 1: then you don't take one, and then they're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was it. We traveled there well, outside of the
Speaker 1: house and in the back end we traveled