School's Out! It's Summertime!

For GamerDude, summertime was always the best time to be a kid. No school, no responsibilities; you got to do pretty much what you wanted to do. In this episode, GamerDude takes the podcast outside, just like his teachers used to take class outside during the last few days of June. He tells stories about the day-trips he and his friends took - by themselves - to Hacklebarney State Park, and the side trip to the local dairy farm for ice cream. He talks about using his lawn-mowing chores to give him an advantage in the neighborhood games of tag, and the various "swimming holes" he had as a kid, from Hemmings Pond, to Camp Washington, to the local community pool. He talks about the difference between hanging out in the summer when he was a kid, and how it is now, and how his generation of "helicopter parents" has changed summer for kids, and not necessarily for the better.