The Five Co-Hosts Answer Fan Mail on Childhood Punishments, Favorite Foods, and Dumbest Kid Moments

Honoring Military Heroes

• 🇺🇸 The show begins by honoring military heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice for freedom, marking Memorial Day.

Childhood Punishments

• 💡 Dana recalls being disciplined with a wooden spoon and a fly swatter.
• ⚡ Jesse mentions mowing his dad's croquet wicket, which led to an accident involving their poodle.
• 🧠 Greg shares an experience of being paddled seven times with a wooden paddle in second grade, followed by his mom using the belt for embarrassing the family.
• 🔑 Kennedy recounts being grounded for sneaking to a Republican convention while her parents were Democrats.
• ⚠️ Jesse was suspended and expelled for a classroom incident involving firecrackers and threatening a teacher.

Favorite Foods for Life

• 🍪 Kennedy would choose her mom's gluten-free chocolate chip cookies due to celiac disease.
• 🍠 Harold would opt for sweet potatoes if weight were not a concern, otherwise ice cream and chocolate chip cookies.
• 🥩 Dana would eat steak every day.
• 🍕 Greg would choose pizza for its versatility.
• 🍤 Jesse would eat shrimp to tease Dana, despite a past aversion.

Best Books Read

• 📖 Harold names The Bible and 1984 by George Orwell as life-changing reads.
• 🏞️ Jesse consistently chooses The Hobbit.
• ⏳ Dana frequently reread A Wrinkle in Time as a child.
• 🌍 Kennedy highlights An Essay on Man by Ernst Cassirer for changing her worldview, and also mentions Blood Meridian.

Foods Refused

• 🥣 Jesse refuses to eat soup in public, finding it embarrassing for men to slurp.
• 🚫 Kennedy will eat anything, including unusual animal parts and a drink in Zimbabwe, but refuses gluten.
• 🫒 Dana refuses black olives and is allergic to shellfish.
• 🦞 Greg refuses lobster due to how they are treated.

Dumbest Childhood Actions

• 🤸 Dana regrets choosing gymnastics over piano lessons, believing it would have changed her life.
• 🥃 Greg accidentally shattered a $10,000 bottle of rare whiskey from his grandfather's secret bookshelf.
• 🛹 Kennedy suffered a concussion after dropping in on a halfpipe at the MTV beach house.
• 🚬 Jesse recalls smoking cigarettes with a friend after buying them from a machine, leading to his friend never speaking to him again.