The Internet Changed Kids Forever | Derrick Stroup

Added: 2026-05-16

[00:00:00]Y'all give it up for everybody you've seen so far. It's been A FUN SHOW.

[00:00:03]>> [cheering] [applause] >> I DIDN'T KNOW PEOPLE Joel's age ate Grape-Nuts.

[00:00:13]No, I'm serious. The fact that he had like a hot bit about it. I go, "Let me tell you, man. I don't know if you've ever done that in a nursing home, but you you could close on it in a nursing home."

[00:00:23]No, I I mean they they'd be carrying you into the street. YOU GO, "THANK Y'ALL SO MUCH." I MEAN I MEAN PEOPLE THAT HAVE NEVER HAD STOOD IN YEARS WOULD STAND UP.

[00:00:32]THEY GO, "MY GOD, WAS THAT A GRAPE-NUTS BIT?

[00:00:36]THAT'S UNBELIEVABLE.

[00:00:39]MY GOD, MAN. I've been looking for a fiber comic and I found him.

[00:00:43]I found him. I found him. I found a fiber comic.

[00:00:48]Thank God.

[00:00:52]You're a Derek as well? I am. How do you spell your name? D E R E K D E R E K We got a privileged Derek up here.

[00:01:02]>> [laughter] >> Let me tell y'all y'all's accent you wouldn't I got a D E R R I C K. You know what I'm saying? Hey, come on, man. Come on, man. THAT'S GOT A LITTLE SOUL IN IT.

[00:01:11]YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?

[00:01:12]>> [laughter] >> D E R R I C K I'M going to catch a buzz and freestyle at the house party. You know what I'm saying? I'm going to go, "No, lay it down. Let me get in one more time."

[00:01:21]D E R E K is going to call the cops on THE HOUSE PARTY.

[00:01:25]>> [laughter] >> YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? I GOT TO TELL HIM, MAN.

[00:01:32]But you got a better metabolism, man.

[00:01:34]I'd switch names to be able to eat what you eat. You know what I mean?

[00:01:38]Any games I haven't mentioned that y'all played growing up?

[00:01:42]Lawn darts. I'm a little I'm a little young for lawn darts.

[00:01:45]But I mean I'm glad. I don't know I mean y'all's generation's tough, man. Y'all were drinking lead, not wearing seat belts.

[00:01:53]Just throwing darts at each other.

[00:01:55]I've Googled lawn darts because it gets brought up at shows and I mean all you'll see Google lawn darts it'll be a 12-year-old with a dart in his head.

[00:02:03]And they're like, "Lawn darts were controversial."

[00:02:07]Any uh any other games y'all can think of?

[00:02:09]>> Guess who? Monopoly. Capture the flag.

[00:02:12]>> All right, hold on. Hold on.

[00:02:14]Y'all did some board games, which is uh they are fun. But I'm talking about like running around outside some OF THE PLAYGROUNDS.

[00:02:24]HOLD ON. HOLD ON.

[00:02:26]HOLD ON. HOLD ON. CAPTURE THE FLAG IS A FUN ONE because you don't need anything.

[00:02:31]AND YOU KNOW WHAT? HERE'S SOMETHING THAT WE DON'T THINK ABOUT. DO YOU KNOW WHAT the internet did? IT BROKE UP KIDS INTO SOCIAL CLASSES BECAUSE DIFFERENT ELECTRONICS CAN BE AFFORDED BY DIFFERENT FAMILIES. BEFORE THE INTERNET, WE ALL PLAYED THE SAME GAMES. THE ONLY WAY YOU MISSED OUT IS IF YOU DIDN'T GET TO THAT CUL-DE-SAC ON TIME.

[00:02:48]>> [laughter] >> BUT IF YOU WERE THERE AT 6:00 P.M., YOU WERE PLAYING WHATEVER GAME THAT we were playing that day. AND THAT'S WHAT I THAT'S WHAT THEY WHAT'S BEEN TAKEN AWAY FROM THEM. NOW, THESE KIDS THEY DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE GOT THE MONEY, YOU PLAY THIS GAME. IF YOU'VE GOT THE MONEY, YOU PLAY THIS. LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING. WE PLAYED CAPTURE THE FLAG WITH PEOPLE THAT HAD FREE LUNCHES AND THEIR PARENTS HAD two boats. And I mean that's something we got we should bring back. You know what I mean?

[00:03:12]Anyways, I mean I thought we were going to march into the streets after that one. I got to be honest.

[00:03:17]I felt like I don't know that's not part of the show. I JUST GOT fired up about kids' games.

[00:03:22]I GO, "WE'RE GOING TO PLAY FREEZE TAG AND IT STARTS TONIGHT."

[00:03:27]ALL RIGHT, LET'S GO.

[00:03:31]NO, BUT REALLY BUT REALLY, YOU KNOW, I uh I think I made some sense there, but uh Capture the flag falls into that because everybody can play capture the flag.

[00:03:42]Doesn't matter who you are. So, anyways, any other games? Not like Monopoly, it's you know, games Kick the can is a fun one. Uh if you have nothing. Uh I I I would like to say as a '90s kid we had a little bit more than just the can.

[00:03:57]Uh Even though it sounds electric, boy, I mean I got to tell you. I mean that that's a game that that people have brought up to me and that's you couldn't play that in Colorado. I can tell you that. You'd have four hipsters SHOW UP.

[00:04:09]"PICK UP THE CAN."

[00:04:11]>> [laughter] >> THIS IS HOW WE LOST THE DINOSAURS.

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