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Charlie Berens | January 30, 2026



2024 was a blast, here’s to a happy new year 🥂

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  1. @alexhickenbottom2820

    January 30, 2026 at 10:44 pm

    I grew up in the nineties, my first Elementary school was K-2 and it was an older building, my brother and I were the last two classes to go there before it was closed. The playground equipment was from the ‘50’s or ‘60’s. We had metal monkey bars, a merry go round that should have been deemed dangerous, a hot metal slide and character bug rides that were mounted on top of car coil springs buried in the ground, those were fun! We got some new swing sets one year, the chains used looked like log chains and the seats of the swings were, I swear recycled steel belt radial tires. I know this because some kids were screwing around one day trying to throw the swing over the top bar, I happened to be walking by too close and it comes down square on my head, almost knocking me out. I still have the bump on my head from that! No way in hell kids nowadays would go through that.

  5. @Ashley-j8f

    January 30, 2026 at 10:44 pm

    Perfect description of the play ground when I was a kid..burned your butt on the slide..if you fell off any thing it was a bloody scrape from the old crumbling asphalt..your wound had to be cleaned out.😂

  9. @sandyhale1205

    January 30, 2026 at 10:44 pm

    I'd love to see a skit on kids whose folks let them climb trees at the park. No adults, about 7 kids, at least one would fall and break his collarbone. My brother Tony broke his 2 years in a row. Boy, we gave him heck for making the park off-limits!

  10. @cinemaocd1752

    January 30, 2026 at 10:44 pm

    I've heard a lot of fake David Attenborough's in my years watching youtube, and yours is the best. Well done. Also tall the hunting openers, and then "loon" and the guy was like "you kill a loon, I'll kill you." I feel that.

  12. @debrakaye9945

    January 30, 2026 at 10:44 pm

    There's a book, The Design of Childhood by Alexandra Lange. It has a chapter about the evolution of playgrounds. For those interested, look up adventure playgrounds. They grew out of bombed out areas after the blitz.

  17. @Emperors_Holy_Inquisition

    January 30, 2026 at 10:44 pm

    I remember, over hear in sa, going to the park with my dad, i go to play on the metal castle, basically monkey bars on steriods, and there was bascically fresh blood on the tar (asfalt), told my dad. My dads response. "Well just dont step in it, and if you fall dont land on it." Im raising my kids the same.

  22. @DaTrixie

    January 30, 2026 at 10:44 pm

    Myles weight throws me ever episode (sorry for mispell hun aint dang ol onown ah man named that and busy watching the the St. Louie fires out my eindow, so sorry but yall dang ok? Reckon the hubby knows ah fella about bear to hare to bear stuff eh? Eh yall figure it out)

  27. @RocamboleMan

    January 30, 2026 at 10:44 pm

    I love and laugh at so much of what you do Mr. Berens, but having ratchet straps in your store… ratchet straps Charlie! – is killing me dead. It's okay, I'm an idiot. And I'm feeling well trained for when I come across some mid-westerners. Clearly I'll need to take a lactose pill …

  38. @NotAGepard

    January 30, 2026 at 10:44 pm

    The playgrounds that were designed to hurt you and make you 99% dead but somehow mot die are my favorite. They were supprisingly fun and I would a hundred percent recommend it to any kid above 5 years old. For me, I thought it was cool that the unsafe playground was the big one that had 2 swing sets, lots of wooden towers that would give you splinters, bridges, 4 metal slides, 2 janky tires wings, that gravel that you had to be careful of because you could and would slip and snap your ankle in half and screw up your face, ect. That playground was the shit back then and it was seen as the “Go away mom! Dad said I could go on the big boy playground and do whatever I want so I’m gonna do that! You can’t stop me!” playground.

    I’m definitely letting my kids play on that one when mom says no.

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