{"id":154,"date":"2018-07-17T02:25:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T02:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/17\/weve-been-friends-a-long-time\/"},"modified":"2018-07-17T02:25:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T02:25:00","slug":"weve-been-friends-a-long-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/17\/weve-been-friends-a-long-time\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;ve been friends a long time&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">&nbsp;&nbsp; People always say things like &#8220;I&#8217;ve know them forever&#8221; or &#8220;We&#8217;ve know each other our whole lives.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Well, for Barry and I, that statement is true. We go back not just to high school or grade school&#8230;we go back to our mom&#8217;s being pregnant with us at the same time. While Barry has a few months on me, we really have known each other and been friends our whole lives.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&nbsp; Sure we may have drifted apart as we moved in different circle in high school, and we both took different paths after leaving our hometown, but we always stayed in touch, always remained friends. Always been there for each other like brothers.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&nbsp; When it was time for me to start putting the motion to this project together, one of the first people to respond was Barry. And his response was perfectly timed, as I was starting to feel like I was biting off more than I might could chew. Then the light bulb went off above my head, and I said to myself, &#8221; hey, why not ask your oldest friend in the world, who just happens to be a audio engineer extraordinaire to come and join me in this crazy project?&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&nbsp; As you may have guess he agreed. What&#8217;s weird is that Barry also had the burning desire to start a podcast.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Coincidence?<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Synchronicity?<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The planets aligned?<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">What ever the answer may be, we are thrilled to be working together on the What&#8217;s Yet Weird Story? podcast and can&#8217;t wait to hear all your weird stories!<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-Krm7JeAIyJQ\/W01ToJFhfdI\/AAAAAAAAjCs\/4VWll5CkDU8hgLyB8yD21Bc2s5uLnDz_gCHMYCw\/s640\/IMG_20180702_211446_140.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">My 4th birthday. That&#8217;s me on the upper left, and Barry cheesing it up on the bottom right.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-Krm7JeAIyJQ\/W01ToJFhfdI\/AAAAAAAAjCs\/4VWll5CkDU8hgLyB8yD21Bc2s5uLnDz_gCHMYCw\/s1600\/IMG_20180702_211446_140.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\">  <\/a> <\/div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-QwZ4-SkB-0E\/W01TopFgfAI\/AAAAAAAAjCw\/W7B4e1zmLT4m7ryMCvICmT2myseXg5cJACHMYCw\/s640\/IMG_20180702_195052_000.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">8th grade graduation, Adam on left, Barry on right.&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-QwZ4-SkB-0E\/W01TopFgfAI\/AAAAAAAAjCw\/W7B4e1zmLT4m7ryMCvICmT2myseXg5cJACHMYCw\/s1600\/IMG_20180702_195052_000.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\">  <\/a> <\/div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-T4NW9Iooghg\/W01TpJnop7I\/AAAAAAAAjC0\/VN6JSrRm2loW6h1fsjrlb_8UrohfeIb6ACHMYCw\/s640\/IMG_20180623_203611_876.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">High School art class, Jr year. Barry on left, Adam on right.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-T4NW9Iooghg\/W01TpJnop7I\/AAAAAAAAjC0\/VN6JSrRm2loW6h1fsjrlb_8UrohfeIb6ACHMYCw\/s1600\/IMG_20180623_203611_876.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\">  <\/a> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; People always say things like &#8220;I&#8217;ve know them forever&#8221; or &#8220;We&#8217;ve know each other our whole lives.&#8221; Well, for Barry and I, that statement is true. We go back not just to high school or grade school&#8230;we go back to our mom&#8217;s being pregnant with us at the same time. While Barry has a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/17\/weve-been-friends-a-long-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We&#8217;ve been friends a long time&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}