The Double Digits crew is back with their self recorded and self produced podcast, and you're in for a real treat, because not only does this episode contain the usuals (book recommendations, trivia, question of the day, etc) but it also contains a hidden snort, AND a secret cough!

This episode is barely even an episode. Coming back from February vacation, we only had half of The Lounge Crew, so we pressed record and man, it was a HOT MESS. So much so that we all collectively repressed our memories of even recording it, and just found it on the SD card while getting ready to record a new episode.

We agreed that we shouldn't bother uploading it.

But then we did.

Don't say we didn't warn you.

JP, Julianna, Hisham, Peyton, Braden, Vanessa, and Bobby meet up in the Makerspace for the first episode of 2025.

Q: How many times does Haylie use the word "like" in this episode?

A: All of them.

In this episode the Double Digits crew play some Trivia, Would You Rather, Bad Dad Jokes, and answer the Question of the Day.

In this special episode of The Lounge, Bobby swipes the host seat from JP, and talks to Vanessa and the Youth Leaders about their experiences in this summer's Youth Leaders program. In this episode we cover the basic of the program, the application and Orientation process, what the teens thought of the College Visits, Speaking Workshops, Field Trips, Volunteering, SAT Workshops, and everything else that happened as our summer program started to ramp up.

Check back for next week for our Recap of weeks 4-7 when things REALLY got busy.

We're not going to lie. This episode is sheer lunacy.

Val secretly slipped a bit into her "Val Explains Slang to the Olds" segment and it took everyone a minute to catch on. Eventually we moved on to once again cover the important topics. Fighting Gorillas only armed with a sword? check. Aggressive Turkeys? Check. Super jacked chimpanzees? Check. When it comes to chinese food what's more important, quality or quantity? And Vanessa shocks the world by disclosing she has been eating the grossest bagels in the history of food.

We were going to attempt a description here, but this one was normal for about 3 minutes, until we hit our first Would You Rather question, and then...we just never got this train back onto the rails...and just kept getting weirder.

Still is.

You've been warned.