Episode 4: Lovers and Friends
Audio Transcript

SPEAKERS – Hayley Smith-Rose and Becca Howard

Becca  00:04
Welcome to Fever Dream Diaries, a show where we unpack the time when our jeans were low and our hopes were high. My name is Becca and I’m here with Hayley. We are on episode four of our adventures in high school. So let’s unpack

Hayley  00:18
At this point in our lives we’ve lost a high school election, we’ve tried to hide from the police at a high school party, so Becca, you could say we’re really having an experience of a lifetime.

Becca  00:30
I would definitely say so.

Hayley  00:34
In high school there were just so many, dare I say cast of characters, that played such an important role in these experiences that I feel like it’s time we dissect those relationships and how they affected our lives. So this note I found I think I added a P.S. to every note – people leave out the PS now

Becca  00:53
oh my god, you’re right. You could have just included that in the note

Hayley   00:58
I could have, but why not give you a special treat for after?

Becca  01:01
I used to always think it was P.S.S. And then I found out it’s like P.P.S. and I had failed

Hayley  01:08
Oh it’s P.P.S?

Becca  01:10
it’s like post post-script.

Hayley  01:13
That’s valuable information for the good people. I called you Oprah a lot.

Becca  01:21
I was obsessed with Oprah.

Hayley   01:21
This letter. I addressed it to Oprah. And I believe I’m talking about Cory, we talk about this man in every episode. And at first when we started this, I didn’t realize what a big part of my experience in high school that he contributed to, but now I’m like, why aren’t we still friends? It’s kind of messed up.

Becca  01:39
I also realized I went to college with them.

Hayley  01:43
Wait that’s a big piece of the puzzle.

Becca  01:47
Yeah I definitely saw him at like parties at college. It feels like so long ago that I don’t even feel like I have seen him in decades.

Hayley  01:59
Like I haven’t seen him in decades. For sure. So this note I say: Oprah okay, I finally made a final decision. I’m over him. I don’t like him anymore. Finally, I’m so pissed he lied about going to BG. Yeah, I’m just gonna say that he’s gonna know immediately. But you know what, again, I’m shameless, continuously. WTF. I was mad about that all day. But not because I like him. It’s because he’s my friend. I didn’t want him to leave. And obviously, I don’t want any of those BG skanks to have him. Why was I so aggressive? They were not skinks. They were 14 year olds. Like I didn’t need to say that

Becca  02:38
You just like really didn’t want to have any sort of threat to your relationship. So I understand. You are able to control the chaos at North, you were not going to be able to control him at BG

Hayley  02:53
You’re not wrong. I go on. I seriously think Senora is gone for good. I pray to God. Okay. Before I continue on with this, I feel like the topic of Senora has been brought up so many times. We haven’t really dived into who she was in our lives

Becca  03:12
So I was doing a deep dive into my Gmail account back in 2006. I was writing my mother daily emails about my life. That was my original journal.

Hayley  03:25
You know, that’s fair, though. Becca, if you think about it, this time, we weren’t really texting in the same way. Like technology didn’t exist in the same way. So you were emailing your mom, like who’s to question that?

Becca  03:35
It’s not a big deal. I mean, that was just the info and the emails I used to send her. Okay, I had searched the name Senora in my email, and a bunch of emails came up, okay, now I’m specifically warning her in these emails about Senora, so let me just read you like a quick summary of this one. Hi, mom. How are you? How was your day gone? Oh, I was so cute. I’m in intro to business class right now. It’s my least favorite class. Guess what? they’re bringing my Spanish teacher back. She’s an awful beast. But the lady that they had lined up can’t get her degree for a while and I guess that’s too long to wait.

Hayley   04:20
Also, like added we have so much information regarding the situation.

Becca  04:26
It gets better. Senora Sylvie, the Spanish teacher who’s wicked nice, came into our room today to ask us for any suggestions for when our teacher comes back on Monday. We made a list that filled the entire board. We all hate her so much. But I’ve been really trying hard in all my classes this year. So I think I’ll do good on my progress report. Well, I just want to say hi and I missed you so much. I’ll call you later when I get home. Love you. Becca

Hayley   04:51
This is honestly sweet as hell also I feel like in a way you cleared my name a little bit because I get along with most people. In the fact that I didn’t get along with the Spanish teacher

Becca  05:04
this is so true. I also came across these notes from you and I

Hayley  05:09
Oh, those can’t be good.

Becca  05:13
We kept talking about the little children. Does this ring a bell to you?

Hayley   05:20
the fact that I had to rack my brain because that could have applied to multiple situations. But I do know what you’re talking about. So I remember our Spanish class is where was it? Do we both befriend The Fourth in Spanish?

Becca  05:34
He was like, technically in my class. You weren’t in this situation. But we just made it a running inside joke for like the rest of high school.

Hayley 05:45
So I think you should tell the story since you were actually the person involved.

Becca  05:49
Okay, this is a moment where the Fourth someone we mentioned last episode, a good friend. He was the whole reason for her mental breakdown. He was collecting candy. I really think he had actual candy and he ignored her request to sit down and shut up and was walking around the room during class just handing everyone candy

Hayley storm  06:12
to little children

Becca  06:14
when he got called out by her he just said, “What? Why? These children want candy.” and I feel like we just rolled with that and that was why we loved him because he made this woman have a breakdown where she cried and left

Hayley  06:26
the fact that I remember this like it happened to me but I no it couldn’t have is alarming.

Becca  06:32
The fact that I imagine him in like a red riding hood costume with like a basket. Like throwing it out into like handfuls into the audience of children.

Hayley  06:51
You know what, let’s paint that picture because that’s what it was in my heart it was and we still have that memory. The moral of the story and what we needed to get to is we didn’t like Senora because she didn’t accept how much we needed candy and wanted the candy from the Fourth. But we digress I conclude this note with haha Tupac question mark like why so it was a relation to Tupac here?

Becca  07:12
how much we loved Tupac

Hayley 07:14
I guess but like I don’t know why he’s in the middle of this it also says Cheetahlicious which I feel like is another thing in every note I love you Becca and I’m sorry for getting you in the middle of this

Becca  07:24
I love being in the middle of it. I was there to stir the pot

Hayley  07:28
boys suck. I need to hook up Miss Howard with someone I owe you. Oh my god just tell me who and you got it. I was like Becca tell me any man you want at this school. I say man, and I mean again mean boy little boys now in retrospect. I will hook you up no questions asked. I was like okay, yeah, you want it? You got it. Okay, how you

Becca  07:58
It was like wheeling and dealing relationships back in the day. It’s like okay, you’re a single man. You’re a single woman perfect. We’re gonna connect you make babies make it happen. the issue here I never thought about the fact that kids in our grade were like banging it out

Hayley  08:14
it just was not us. So I continue on if you want to be with me, baby there’s a price to pay I’m a genie in the bottle. You got to rub me the right way. I didn’t know what that meant.

Becca  08:23
You were talking about being a genie who granted me wishes

Hayley  08:30
I was a genie. Yes. Haha yep, yep. For definitely cheetah Oh my God. P.S. Jane was drunk off Fanta at my party. Somebody spiked it

Becca  08:52
Dude, I have a photo of Jane chugging Fanta after this party because we had like a running joke

Hayley  09:03
In the last episode, we talked about how she was drunk off vault. Now she’s drunk off fanta. Although it does kind of felt like she actually was if someone spiked it. What the hell?

Becca  09:12
We’re just joking about that as if it’s a normal thing.

Hayley  09:15
Oh my god, the vault. That’s a picture we’re definitely gonna post. We’re not using names but we’re shamelessly gonna post pictures of all these people.

Becca  09:24
Blacking out nothing, no I’m sorry. This picture was taken and I’m sorry about that. But it happened. I have some uncomfortable photos when I just pulled up photobucket.

Hayley 
Okay, oh my god. Oh my god. Why am I naked? Okay, um, why am I like flashing you in this photo? Honestly, I was a skinny legend.

Becca 
Also, this is I’m sorry, we’re going off tangent, but this is definitely in the elevator.

Hayley  09:58
Trapped in the elevator. We got stuck in an elevator freshman year and we made the most of it. We had the best time probably anyone’s ever had trapped in an elevator.

Becca  10:06
Wow, our photoshoots were a dream.

Hayley  10:11
There’s so much gold and I can’t wait to share with the world. Well, maybe some things don’t need to be shared. I loved that fur hat in high school. Someone recently came at me because they thought my eyelashes were mink. This is really off the beaten path. But first of all, do you think I can afford mink eyelash, like thank you for thinking that I could even afford that but also what the? like what? I didn’t even know it was an option.

Becca  10:35
That’s like when this woman comes up to me in my Corgi puppy and she starts giving me crap for not rescuing a dog. Well you know there’s so many dogs out there that need to be adopted and it’s just really hard that there are people still breeding dogs you’re shaming me for being a responsible pet owner and adopting a dog

Hayley  10:56
You didn’t adopt your dog did you?

Becca  11:00
Well I guess I bought her. But she didn’t know I purchased this dog. She just showed up to me and she’s like, she didn’t know that. You have a designer puppy and you’re a bad person.

Hayley  11:19
You do have an adorable puppies. So, she’s at least onto that. But yeah, like I’m not wearing real fur. I couldn’t afford real fur nor do I think I even would actually wear it if like I wouldn’t and I love animals. I’m not trying to do that but I was just like damn

Becca  11:33
Well thank goodness we have things like fake fur and synthetic diamonds so that we have all these unethical practices. Impossible possible burgers are delicious.

Hayley  11:45
If PETA wants to sponsor us

Becca  11:47
We don’t want PETA to sponsor us. They’re crazy

Hayley  11:51
Well we don’t want PETA on our bad side either. I hope you know I’m sorry that Becca bought her dog but outside of that we love animals.

Becca  12:00
I’m sorry that Hayley has mink eyelashes.

Hayley  12:03
I don’t even know what that would be like

Becca  12:06
I feel like it would be uncomfortable.

Hayley  12:09
You know what? That’s great if they look that real. I digress. Fuck the haters. Fur hats were all the rage for me – faux fur hats in high school. I’ve really rocked the hell out of those. But did I have an obsession with Cory in high school? Yeah, yeah, I did. You know what, in our own ways we both did. And did I want the BG skanks to stay away. Yeah, and I still do. And, you know, I think we should also add that Cory is happily engaged man. He’s thriving, and he’s doing fine. And we couldn’t be happier for him. He’s a grand person. So I hope that nothing in these letters makes him feel any type of way because he’s a star in our eyes still, nonetheless. And we were just dumb. Specifically me, I was just like a dumb 14 year old saying these things like, oh, I don’t want to go out like, you know, just talking like that

Becca  13:13
It was a lot of pressure for where we were at. We wanted to have freedom and independence. And he was like, truly he was holding you back. He was. Do you remember like I mentioned in another episode that he was my bus buddy? But there was a specific day where we felt like we manifested you and I manifested a trauma on someone else.

Hayley  13:38
So okay. What Becca is referring to is this young woman who – I don’t even know why I didn’t like her in high school.

Becca  13:45
I just was like, Yo, that girl is crazy.

Hayley
Yeah, I think I was just riding that train with you.

Becca
And trust me, it was not wrong.

Hayley  13:52
And I held on to that stance and would to this day nonetheless blindly but we did manifest her getting hit by a bus. I will say she’s fine.

Becca  14:02
Was immediately fine. Yeah. She was injured but it wasn’t bad

Hayley  14:11
Yeah. And it also wasn’t Regina George status. It was very delicate for what it could have been.

Becca  14:18
I think you didn’t like her because she was trying to get with Cory. She was one of those skanks. and I gave you a heads up this girl is gonna be a problem. So we got to get rid of the problem and you know, manifest an injury. It’s really messed up.

Hayley  14:39
We had nothing to do with the incident. We maybe talked about her getting hit by a bus once and then it did happen like the next day, which is very weird and strange.

Becca  14:47
Cory got on the bus crying. And I remember holding my phone up to the side of the bus and whispering to you and I remember it being like Haley something happened. like we made something happen. And you were like what? And I’m like Cory is crying. Everything’s okay. I’ll tell you when we get there.

Hayley  15:17
Again, a fair because that’s quite pretty traumatizing. I think that any witnesses they were

Becca  15:22
I’m pretty sure he saw her across the street and get hit.

Hayley  15:27
Again, I’m laughing because she’s fine. Yes, I wouldn’t be laughing if she wasn’t fine. She’s fine. She’s thriving, I can assume. I mean, I don’t know her anymore. She’s fine.

Becca  15:36
Just a funny little note from high school that I just remember about us was we were really dark we would stay dark stuff like that and did not understand it’s like you can’t joke about someone getting hit by a bus. That’s not okay.

Hayley  15:54
If you’re gonna start opening the vault. You’re going there our dark jokes. I think it’s time that we reveal maybe arguably the worst thing we did not school.

Becca  16:01
Yeah, I agree. And I know where you’re going because I literally found the poster. Oh my god

Hayley  16:06
So you know, we’re out here saying how we don’t know why Jane doesn’t want to really be friends with us anymore. You know, she’s getting drunk off bolt and my party’s apparently drunk off banter. We’re best friends. We ran for a high school election together. This girl literally was actually my best friend from elementary school. Jane, we had been friends for wicked long time she introduced us and for some odd reason, as we sit here as adults, and we’re like, why does this person not really want to be our friend anymore? Why’d we grow apart? Maybe it had something to do with the fact that we consistently would say things like Rest in peace, Jane Doe, but we’d put her full name

Becca  16:41
I’m cringing so hard

Hayley  16:44
One day, I don’t know what came upon us. But we decided to post on Facebook. This was a time when Facebook just started to because we were pretty young.

Becca  16:53
It was when you had notes that you would like posted a note as your status. It wasn’t even like a status. It was like you would post your schedule for the year.

Hayley 17:04
Sure. And everyone would see it and we created one of those. And it said rest in peace with her full name and people are freaking out. They think she died. Understandably. They think she’s dead

Becca  17:10
and we’re cracking up. Like it’s not funny is your best friend dead?

Hayley  17:17
We think this is the funniest thing ever. And I don’t know why. And we took it further than that, Becca. So we did the status. We did a poster. We recently dove into our photobucket, which we will again, we’re gonna share a lot of these gems on our social media pages. But we wrote RIP Jane Doe actual full name multiple times. And why were we not reprimanded for that?

Becca  17:49
there are so many things looking back that it would have saved me down the road to just be chastised as a 14 year old

Hayley  17:57
We didn’t need to be doing that. No. And I think that is a big reason to do with why we’re maybe not as close anymore. Not even just that specifically. But like that behavior. We were obviously just like kind of singling her out as the third wheel to really dissect it. Oh, this is like a reckoning because I think you and I just got really close. And she was kind of the one maybe more different from us. And it was a dark time back.

Becca  18:24
I know I wish we could go back and do things a little different.

Hayley  18:28
Okay, if she is at the reunion, we need perhaps record with her permission, because I don’t want to violate her any more than I clearly already have. But I’d like to ask questions, and really more importantly, apologize.

Becca  18:45
apologize, this is a long time coming.

Hayley  18:48
She’ll probably laugh it off, because I will say you know we’re making it sound really serious. But I’ve seen this person multiple times, including just last year in public. And it’s been a great experience. We catch up. We’re very friendly with each other. There’s no apparent hard feeling. She seemed really excited to catch up with me as well. Maybe there should be, you know what, there should be.

Becca  19:09
That’s the thing. Just because people are kind enough to forgive us doesn’t mean we did the right thing. It doesn’t mean we deserve the forgiveness by any means. And we were also in our own crazy hot messes in that time. So I don’t blame myself. I don’t blame you. But now we can look back and be like, wow, we were kind of crap.

Hayley 19:36
We can’t create this podcast and not admit to the horror that we did. And that was one of the things, so I digress. I have another note here from the Cory era

Becca  19:49
Oh, thank goodness. Yes, I’d love to hear

Hayley  19:53
OMG Reba I don’t know why I called you Reba

Becca  19:56
So I’m probably gonna guess it’s because we watched Reba McEntire, and my grandma when I was a kid always wanted me to be named Reba. So I probably mentioned that at some point.

Hayley  20:20
It’s a strong name. A single mom who works too hard, who loves her kids and never stops. With gentle hands and the heart of a fighter. That’s you. You are a survivor.

Becca  20:23
I hope to never be a single mom in her state because she had that pregnant daughter and went through tough times

Hayley  20:32
Reba had three kids the daughter Cheyenne who got pregnant in high school but also Kira and Jake, why do I remember this so vividly? Great American TV right there.

Becca  20:45
Um, yeah, so we love Reba.

Hayley  20:50
So that’s why we do also love Reba McEntire. Anywho I digress. It says I’m currently watching Cheetah Girls Amigas, cheetahs, friends for life. That is seriously like the best movie ever. legitly

Becca  21:03
Oh my gosh, wow

Hayley 21:04
Becca we’re spies together. I felt so sneaky. I think he got jealous when we were hanging out with his BG friends. Oh, well, they were cool. And now I get all this sneaky insider information. So just for reference, we’re obviously talking about Cory here. Actually, I think I’m kind of over him, which is good. I go so back and forth in all these notes. I’m so glad we have Senora Hunt. She’s Oprah-Licious. Like what does that even mean?

Becca  21:38
We loved Oprah

Hayley 21:42
Yeah. In fact, I’d like to point out I crossed out cheetah so it looked like I was going to write cheetahlicious but decided to go with the Oprah-licious option. I love that. Um, this was an interesting find, and I think leads us to talk about Cory in his big situation and what that means. So BG was the private school in our town. Was it a Catholic school?

Becca  22:05
Yeah, it’s like where the rich kids went?

Hayley  22:09
Yeah, you pay to go there, whatever. And Cory came from a private middle school. So I think naturally, a lot of his friends went to the private high school just he didn’t. So he still had that connection to BG So you two were bus buddies, me and him were lovers and friends? hard to say, hard to say. But we would hang out with his friends from the private school of which we didn’t fit in with at all. I mean, we barely fit in our own high school.

Becca  22:38
I’m pretty sure the first time we met them was at a BG versus North game, which very much makes sense. And I remember there being like a moment where we had Cory introduce us because we needed the intel. we were good at making friends. So we knew the best way to get in with Cory was to get in with Cory’s gang. if you want to be my lover you gotta get with my friend I get with my friends

Hayley 23:02
I used to love football games. I never watched a lick of football. But you would find me it every every one through like junior year. Yeah, consistently. That was a big part of our high school experience. So we should definitely have a time talking about those. But we got so infiltrated. Is that a good word? into his big relationships that we actually ended up going to one of their school dances?

Becca  23:30
Yep. Oh, were we unwelcomed. The nuns, the girls, the judgment

Hayley  23:34
the judgment all around from everyone involved. So of course Becca and I come through with our denim – Would you call it a miniskirt?

Becca  23:42
We were probably wearing jean skirts that were up above our knees.

Hayley  23:50
Let’s be honest, I don’t mean this in any offensive way, but 14 year old girls are dressing way more scantily than we were.

Becca  23:57
I’m pretty sure it was literally I can remember that Aeropostale t shirt I was wearing that was up to my neck. I did have big boobs. So just automatically they’re gonna think I’m a slut there, because you know, there’s nothing I could do about that. But we were walking into that auditorium like sheep into the wolves den. Absolutely.

Hayley  24:14
Absolutely. And it took mere minutes for the nuns to start trying to kick us out because of our outfits. Literally. I think they said our shorts too short. We just we kept hiding from the nuns. I actually remember this. We kept trying to run away from them. So they wouldn’t notice that we were still there.

Becca  24:36
Oh my gosh. And it was like a tiny auditorium at this private high school

Hayley 24:40
I believe was a religious school as well. Like I think it was religious. The nuns kind of showed me that

Becca  24:55
Yeah, like the day thing that I never expected because we went to public school

Hayley  25:03
you know at our public school anything went

Becca  25:07
walking into a cafeteria you know lights off 8pm on a Friday and I you’re about to get fucking wrecked. you might be sober as fuck but you’re gonna have grinding up on you

Hayley 25:20
Oh my god the grind train. so yeah that’s the difference between our high school dances and BG. so that’s what we were used to. there’s a picture I’m sure I can easily find this in the yearbook of a grinding train in our cafeteria and I am in it and I’m not proud to be in it but I am in the grind train swept up in the in the moment and there were so many people in this grind train because it’s just like what people were doing you know you have a conga line no this was like a ratchet conga line

Becca  25:49
A conga line but with your genitals and if you think about it like we were all horny we’re wearing dresses like guys are all probably boners everywhere, everywhere. if you would turn on the lights and videotape that can you imagine? You’d be arrested. I think the teachers that were there just letting that happen must have felt pervy as hell like

Hayley  26:13
you know what? I’m getting the karma that I deserve because now I DJ high school dances occasionally and I see things that I cannot unsee and every time in my head the first thing I think of is I deserve this because of what I must have put people through

Becca  26:31
Can you imagine seeing yourself as a DJ just like at the DJ stand just watching this small version of you

Hayley  26:37
see so many young girls who I equate to being like exactly how I was at that time and I’m just like, god bless you sweetheart. You know what? keep following your dreams and maybe one day you’ll be the DJ at high school dance.

Becca  26:48
I love it! full circle

Hayley 26:51
between that and all the annoying requests I’ll get I’m like I was probably that girl making all those annoying requests so I am getting karma sent back to me on a regular basis but yeah needless to say the BG dance was different they did not have grind trains. They did not want us there.

Becca  27:10
What music did they listen to?

Hayley  27:11
a good question. I don’t even remember there being music. Let’s just assume there was none.

Becca  27:17
The lights are on. everyone’s just drinking punch. or do you remember the dances in eighth grade? Hayley and I did not know each other until ninth grade but we went to the same middle school. The hallowed halls of Elm Street. Do you remember those dances at the church?

Hayley
Oh, yes. St. Joe’s. I got weird at those days dances. The first time I ever danced with a boy so you know we talked about him? We were innocent in terms of like obviously we weren’t not having sex. We were not drinking or doing drugs at this time. But I will always shake some mass and that has been a motto of mine since the moment I came out of my mom’s womb

Becca  27:56
Hayley is out there shaking ass on stage at the kids modeling competition

Hayley  28:01
always. if there’s an opportunity to throw my ass I’m gonna throw it and you better catch it

Becca  28:06
And I’m here to support it

Hayley  28:09
At the eighth grade dance, I probably did grind with boys a little bit, but that wasn’t even what it was about. It was about being

Becca  28:21
It was a chance to dance with your girls. Because our middle school did not have dances, understandably. we needed a place to gather so this church out in the boonies would throw these parties for everyone and it was very strange because it wasn’t the same vibe as BG where the nuns are there you know watching it was like anything goes

Hayley  28:43
anything goes dude, you know what’s crazy? I ran from the cops one time at one of those dances. Why did I need to run from the cops in 8th grade? I was with Jane, not our number one Jane, but the other Jane, who we ran with in the Quad Threat. Jane, um, we went to a dance together and she told me to run so I did and I just don’t really think it was necessary. But I think we were enjoying kind of pretending to live a life of danger at that time. It was definitely not necessary.

Becca  29:17
Jane to my memories with her were always being kind of crazy. Honestly, like, yeah, she had older siblings, whereas we were much more innocent. Right? You had older siblings

Hayley  29:28
My siblings weren’t the corrupting kind. My sisters are 12 and 13 years older. So by the time I was that age, they were full fledged adult. They weren’t trying to corrupt me, thankfully

Becca  29:37
Jane was living in a small home with her older siblings who were ready to throw us whatever they were doing. There was a lot going on in that household for sure. First time drinking there, my first time hanging out with boys in a weird RV. Oh dear. They had a pool and I got the worst sunburns on my life. They’re just those type of high school memories, like the more reckless kind, where I feel like you and I were just way more wholesome when we hung out

Hayley  30:07
As much as we talk about these crazy things that occurred, we were always pretty wholesome. At the end of the day, especially, and again, not to trash the young girls of this generation, but it was just a different time. Now, I think it’s just less wholesome. It’s unfortunate because there’s just so many more pressures from social media and things like that. But it’s true that you know, we really were wholesome. And I still again will throw ass at any second, so that’s who we were. That was our essence. And we graduated eventually, from all those dances to the Amber Room. Oh, it was kind of like our grand finale of high school. Did you go often?

Becca  30:46
I went multiple times to the point where it’s engrained in me

Hayley  30:51
So there was this place called the Amber Room in our hometown, and it was a club but certain nights would do or 18 and under was it Thursdays eight teen and under nights. So it wasn’t like we were sneaking into a club it was for people our age. And again, that’s where really I would just dance with a sober fool. Yeah. Oh, absolutely. I would just dance and have myself a time at the Amber Room. But that is a theme in our friendship is us just trying to frickin dance have a good time. With Dan any school dance any underage nightclub? I’m there. I’m sorry, Bg that our skirts were too short, that probably led into why me and Cory never worked out

Becca  31:32
That’s true. I feel like his Catholic upbringing and just really, he was engrained in that. Yeah. In a different way.

Hayley  31:43
He could have never handled me and I don’t mean that in offense to him. I’m just a lot, you know, a lot of energy. A lot of this in in retrospect, you saw like, we’d be together today. I think I saved him from himself. He’s like, wow, dodged a bullet there.
Imagine if we were high school sweethearts, and were like married today.

Becca
I mean, this would be a very different podcast. Imagine if me and Andy were high school sweethearts.

Hayley 32:18
Exactly. That’s crazy. And you know what? Shout out to Cory’s fiance because we’re obsessed with her low key. She doesn’t even know anything about us. And we don’t know her. We’ve never met her in real life. But just from social media. She’s so cool. And I hope she’s at the reunion because honestly, I’m gonna talk to her more than I’m gonna talk to him. I mean, that interview, we need that interview that and to see what she has told him. You know what we’re about to really just unlock every door at this reunion, because that’s what we were sent here to do.

Becca  32:49
We’ve got the keys, baby, and it’s these notes. It’s these notes. And we’re cracking open the vault. I’m ready.

Hayley
The Vault

Becca
Vault is like the theme of this.

Hayley  33:01
We have a couple of months to go until the reunion so I think it’s in our best interest to continue to go through these entries and see what we can find to kind of maybe get ahead of any situations that we might encounter.

Becca  33:19
We haven’t even delved in past 2007, girl. There’s a lot of nuts to crack open here. As far as the Photobucket, the Facebook

Hayley  33:29
oh my god, not the MySpace. As we learned that has been wiped

Becca  33:33
I know I’m like, can I reach out to Tom? Tom, just for a day can you unlock it so we can just get what we need? literally we never appreciated Tom how we should have. He was everyone’s first friend.

Hayley  33:44
We never gave him the respect that he deserved and that’s why he’s done this and we deserve it.

Becca  33:49
Can you imagine if there was a Facebook friend that ended up being Mark Zuckerberg and we call it Mark? We love you mark, you’re so helpful.

Hayley  33:58
Mark Zuckerberg just doesn’t hold the same level of power

Becca  34:02
the social network I mean, how can we forget

Hayley  34:06
I know, but Tom will forever hold a special place in my heart and let’s just continue on to the next…

Becca
On to the next…

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