The America I Grew Up In. Jeff Allen

[@larryeisenberg1895]

I remember my little brother sledding down "dead man's hill", knocking himself out and his friends brought his unconscious body home on that sled like a fallen Gladiator hero on his shield!

[@lifewitholga_]

😂🤣😅

[@annahappen7036]

That's awesome!

[@roseh143]

The visual of ur story is amazing..I can see it all..what a time we lived in

[@yacubhassan8327]

Good all days 😁😎

[@heaththompson3834]

AWESOME....WITH YOUR SLED OR ON IT... THOSE WERE THE DAYS!

[@Tony-ot4mh]

Wow genuine humor without vulgarity, just listen to the genuine laughter he creates. What a treat

[@davidtaylor8002]

"You don't need yo use 4 letter words to be funny." - Red Skelton.

[@ladaha1]

That is one of the standards at the Drybar comedy club.

[@AScrapOfKindness]

The minor cuts and scrapes are long forgotten, but the physical scars of my adventures bring a smile to my face. What sense of exhilaration and fun my childhood gave me! I thank my parents for picking me up, brushing me off, saying "ha! that's nothing", and sending me back out.

[@kdhovis8665]

I was #100 👍

[@SneakyCheeseThief]

Yes indeed! ‘Rub some dirt on it!’ is the best parental response to childhood ‘misadventure’. I broke my left wrist twice, my right wrist once, my left leg once and my right ankle once. I’m happy, healthy, generally well adjusted adult. And I loved every minute playing outside as a kid.

[@lisadooley3872]

Thdxbll3 that’s what my dad says when a football player gets hurt and he used to tell me that as well

[@slyfoxx2973]

I've said for some time now that if you don't have at least one visible scar from childhood, you probably weren't doing it right.

[@markk3504]

You bet @SoK ....... we used to hear from my parents, and we said it with our kids ..... "the bone isn't sticking out, get back in there!" LOL.

[@HosCreates]

I remember the metal slides ! They were tall and fun but boy did they hurt like hell in the summer ! Anyone born before '95 remembers the dangers and thrills of: merry go rounds , teeter toters and the ball on the string and pole. Thanks for the laughs!

[@timpoferl5405]

Amanda H tether ball

[@HosCreates]

@@timpoferl5405 thanks ! Sleep deprivation sucks for memory ! I loved tether ball!

[@douglasherr4725]

Amanda H born before 95, I was born in 58. I remember, great times. So glad I'm not a kid today. Today it's all about safety, forget about the kid being a kid.

[@TravisGinther]

Amanda H yes I remember those slides hurt and burned like a mother

[@HosCreates]

@@TravisGinther ooowee they sure did ! My brother had 2nd degree burns once. They had to bandage him up like a mummy !

[@davebeals1718]

Laying in the back window of a 71 Duster while traveling, putting pennies on railroad tracks, putting playing cards on bike spokes, throwing snowballs at passing cars....the good ole days.

[@vjohnson6464]

Amen.

[@Surfer041]

That sounds awesome m

[@paulredinger5830]

Your not lying! We used to sit in the bed of the truck on the way to the beach, or just about anywhere.

[@oliviamoore6678]

Tying a string across the street at night and watching people screech to a halt 😁

[@davidsullivan2318]

Been there ...DONE that.... 53 Buick.

[@chrischappell9824]

This man speaks the truth, no swearing and makes people think, laugh and remember when life was your fault if anything happened to you. Let people be people.

[@naydorsey1398]

Omg he is speaking nothing but the truth 😂😂😂 his delivery is Great 👍🏼 sooo funny

[@firesign4297]

👍👍

[@judywright4241]

Nay Dorsey --That slide memory was the best, those slides were great and we’d use sand to make them faster.

[@freddiebutler3972]

I like this guy

[@becarefulwhatyoufish4764]

Why can’t we have great delivery in hip hop/rap songs anymore? Seems like everyithing else provides you with high quality entertainment except current rap music.

[@melissaowens5103]

Me: I laughed too much and so hard during the whole set 🤣! You: What's too much? My body: my ribs hurt, I peed a little, tears was rolling, my stomach muscles started burning, my teeth kept flopping down but best of all I turned my spare tire into a 6 pack.

[@analoguejerry9066]

Summer evenings, playing ball, not noticing the growing darkness, then all of a sudden snapping out of the game's reverie, realizing it's completely dark, heading home for supper.

[@SUN-it6rf]

Loved growing up in the 60's and 70's !! PURE UNADULTRATED FUN !! 😊😊

[@loveandlight1953]

Freedom! Mom said go out and play in the morning and sometimes didn't see us until dark. We used our imagination and had the best time of our lives!

[@carljansevanrensburg2440]

Thats the way we grew up and I'm 52 now. Strong & healthy. My parents always said they will not have party when I turn 21, but have a church service praising God IF I reach 21.

[@MontagZoso]

Ha ha, we are the same age and I totally get what you mean!

[@Infection3d]

Growing up was risky! 😁😃

[@Surfer041]

Mom and dad sound awesome

[@marydirrienzo4812]

I haven't laughed that hard in a long time!!!! AND NO vulgarity!!!!! Excellent and so identifiable!!!

[@veragrig8645]

“We do dumb things, thats how we learn not to do dumb things!”

[@michaelhill1256]

@Vera Grig Amen!

[@Pluviophile218]

That's exactly right. and you stop a bully by standing up to them.

[@stevenwiederholt7000]

@@michaelhill1256 I'm 73, STILL working on it. :-)

[@garsonhedrick3420]

I think I cried laughing at the slide story - - I was born in 74' oh how I wish my boys could have experienced that kind of freedom

[@izzylandyt]

Garson Hedrick weee papa weee papa 😂 I’ve been on those steel slides he’s talking about 🤣

[@taj356]

I was born in 74' also, and I can remember it like yesterday those darn sliding boards that were super hot in the summer. We had a sprinkler at my playground and before we would try to use the slide, we would go into the sprinkler, get really wet, and go down with our towels under our bottoms! We did have the black "safety foam" squares put under the swings, slides, etc. But in the summer, those foam squares made the play areas really hot! Then when we were big enough to go in a public swimming pool, we did just that or go to a friend's house that had one of those nice swimming pools that you can fit on the front porch or lawn. And the car seat I remember was a lime green colored small chair-like device with metal bars/padded arm rests that there was a certain way to be strapped in. When me and my sister were infants, Mom would sit in the backseat holding us with a lap seatbelt only. And those pleather carseats in our 73' Buick LeSaber which were black were super hot in the summer that when wearing shorts, it was pure torture! Eventually Dad got the red fabric seats put in which were awesome! Those were some awesome years me and my Sissy had growing up together! I really feel bad for kids that have to grow up in today's world, especially if their parents aren't teaching their children by God's order. A lot of kids today are not reared to know Christ and how important it is to be rooted in Him at the age they are able to understand what He is all about. If God is present in your lives, it makes living a lot better. Jeff knows! Nice video that brought a smile and chuckle when I needed it most. Thanks Mr. Allen for the trip down memory lane!! ❤❤😝😝

[@catherinesiler2190]

Idk where you live in the country but if you ever make it to Independence, Ks, (about 30-40 min from the Oklahoma border, I think) go to Lion’s Park. They still have the old stuff! There’s a structure that has 4 old metal slides that have got to be at least 12 ft high. Can’t remember for sure. They’ve installed new stuff, too. But the old stuff is still there. For a town in the middle of nowhere, it’s actually a really cool park! There’s a little zoo and a nice pool, too.

[@smoochesTina]

There were 3 of us kids in the backseat of my Dad’s Thunderbird in the 70’s. When we went on long trips, we’d leave in the middle of the night. Therefore, my older brother would be asleep on the seat with his pillow, my little sister in the floor (made comfy with pillows/blankets on either side of the hump) and I’d be up in the window. Sure...we’d all end up in the floor a time or two when Dad would hit the brakes, but I wouldn’t trade those memories for anything.

[@MontagZoso]

Agreed, I would not trade them either. I am another person who was a bleeding, scraped up kid in the late 1970s and I am glad I grew up when I did. Good times for sure and I can relate to your story about kids getting knocked all over the car. Of course! Been there! :D

[@heaththompson3834]

Ya riding on that "shelf " on the back window was the best. Rode up there until I was too big to fit.

[@Fremen1971]

Yep, another 70's child here. We had a big Ford station wagon that had these two hidden fold up seats in the very back that we 3 kids took turns riding in on our vacations. I don't remember ever wearing a seat belt as a kid, though I could have used them in a couple of the car wrecks we had over the years. We also used to ride in the back of my dad's (or just about anybody else's) pick-up when we went to town. No thought given to the danger. Kids today are prisoners to their parent's fears. It's a shame. We have a thing called "free range" for certain animals, but not for our children anymore.

[@smoochesTina]

Fremen1971 We also rode in the back of everyone’s pickups back then and we also eventually got a “wood paneled” station wagon. It also had the 2 fold up seats in the back AND it came with a table that we could set up between them. It had a magnetic checkers board and magnetic pieces to use on it so they wouldn’t slide around while the car was moving. Those were the days. As far as today’s kids, they’re all sickly all the time. I don’t remember any kids being treated for ADHD back then. No peanut allergies, no gluten issues and definitely no dairy sensitivities. I think parents today hold back certain foods from their kids and make them wash their hands every time they touch anything...to the point where their bodies don’t have the ability to fight off certain things or become sensitive to those foods. We drank out of the hose in the backyard, walked around barefooted outside, picked berries, apples, etc...and ate them right then...no washing them off first. Our immune systems are much tougher for it. I’m rambling and probably not making much sense, so I’m gonna stop now. lol

[@Fremen1971]

Nah, you're not rambling at all. Just stating some truths and indulging in a bit of nostalgia with us.

[@AlaskanBallistics]

"She threw me back like a trout" bahahaha

[@mroldpueblo7879]

We used to fight to see who got to ride in the back of the station-wagon. CO and rear-enders be damned.

[@bushranger51]

As an old fella of 72, Jeff's memories were pretty much the norm here in Australia back in the 50's and 60's, the hot metal slides and I mean really egg frying hot, the swings that were 12 foot high with the seat hanging a foot off the ground with no safety harness just hanging on to the support chain for dear life, going down to the town pool in summer with no parental supervision and a lot of other cool stuff that the kids of today wouldn't even dream of doing, life was simpler in those days. My parents didn't care where I was just so long as I was back for tea (supper to you Americans), they didn't mind how dirty I got as long as I wasn't wearing my school uniform on weekdays, I could go on forever about how things were back then, Gee I miss those days.

[@bikemaurice1953]

So refreshing to have a funnyman who's not vulgar #_#

[@tonytobit1446]

You cant handle vulgarity

[@KijoButterfly]

It really is.

[@becarefulwhatyoufish4764]

*Tony Tobit* It’s that everybody else is vulgar and his style different but still funny.

[@louiseanderson3619]

Totally agree Bike Maurice

[@danielmann5427]

@@tonytobit1446 - Does it take some kind of maturity to handle perverse talk? What you can't handle purity? Your easley swayed by the norm? Any fool can talk with vulgarities.

[@kellypenrod2979]

I'm 62, and I Want my America back too! Sooo many good memories of when FUN WAS FUN!! BUT, I think we were a lot TOUGHER back then.

[@missg.5940]

Kelly Penrod l am 62 too, and l want my Canada back as well. When was the last time you saw a kid with scabby knees? Didn’t we all have scabby knees about nine months out of the year?🤓😷🇨🇦

[@KathyJewell-m6p]

It will never happen with electronic toys😢

[@alphabeta4028]

You just want your youth back (you don't really care which generation), that's all it is 😂

[@SoapinTrucker]

I grew up in the 60's and 70's, thank God!!!!!!!!!!!!! Steel skates, 4 channels of TV, and board games! Backyard picnics and camping, rotary dial phones, and a slide rule! Lunch at Woolworths, Bell Beefer at the fire pit, and popsicles! I could go on......

[@evonsal9644]

Hey what’s good

[@coryburns9161]

Black and white t.v. no remote control,yes rotary dial phone 8 track tapes no vcr,a lid or a baggie ful not quarter ,half or ounces , old cars that were safe no unleaded gas no seatbelts

[@taj356]

What city did you grow up in Mike? My sister had those steel wheeled skates with the key, etc. She was born in 69' and I was born in 74'. We had one of those Pong games that you could only play on a black and white TV. Then came Atari! I don't recall the make and model of the Atari we had, but it was one of the most awesome game systems, and then Intelevision, Activision and Coleco vision systems followed. Donkey Kong, Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-man, Pitfall, etc. Those were the good old days!!

[@heidin8248]

This is absolutely hysterical, I had tears streaming down my face. I remember waxing the slide so we could go even faster lol!

[@AKHWJ3ST]

We used to throw sand on our slide to make it slicker!

[@johnw2026]

Anybody but me remember the old station wagons that had the 3rd row rear facing seat?? I LOVED those cars when i was a kid! Dad had 2 of them. I guess the only bad thing about them was no rear heat and air, at least in the ones we had. The back seat got very hot in the summer, and stayed fairly cold in winter.

[@mgmail7279]

They were torture if you were in the backseat and the drunk driving adult driving the car you were in cut someone off. The evil looks you got, with no escaping! I was once in Hungary with my diplo brother in law cutting everyone off. The car had the diplo plates so all the Hungarians were cursing my niece and I stuck in that back seat!

[@johnw2026]

@@mgmail7279 whats diplo?

[@mgmail7279]

@@johnw2026 Oops, sorry - diplomat.

[@downbntout]

YAAAASSS

[@thomabb]

Those were awesome. We used to fight over who got to sit back there. The rear window was power so mom used to run it down for us so we would get all the exhaust fumes. It kept us quiet on long trips.

[@TheToneBender]

I remember this one big rusty slide. It was massive and it literally swayed in the wind. Good times

[@mgmail7279]

So fun! Burns and all.

[@readthebible67]

Funny, yes, but TRUE!! I survived....barely....

[@oneloveonelife2221]

, wax paper and cardboard baby😃

[@downbntout]

The ones in Centralia WA were wavy. So it was eee-Drop-eee-Drop all the way down. About 35 feet high

[@4Stanzas]

@@oneloveonelife2221 "wax paper and cardboard baby" The greatest combo ever. We used to keep them in the back of the car in case we came across one of the old great slides. Alas... they're all gone now.

[@Pb-ij4ip]

I spent a good deal of my formative years in a very small town. I don’t know where he got it, but one day my dad brought home a HUGE slide. It was easily the tallest in town and it was all metal. And then he told me and my brother to sit on a sheet of wax paper when we went down. It was AWESOME!

[@roseh143]

Wax paper IS the trick for metal slides....I can remember bringing large pieces of it to school to slick the slide up...good times ❤

[@MontagZoso]

Your Dad is awesome!! I hope you have been able to remind him of that famous day he brought home that monster slide. Cool!

[@Pb-ij4ip]

MontagZoso, it has probably been 30 years AT LEAST since I last used that slide. I suppose every day between then and now has been an opportunity I’ve failed to take. Today I took that opportunity, thanks to your comment. I even found out where it came from! Thanks!

[@debofChrist]

@@Pb-ij4ip happy for you!

[@MultiLisa10]

Cool Dad!!!

[@brianschultz5696]

My cousins lived on a farm. The house was up a steep hill on one side of the road and the barns were on the other side. In the winter, we would get on our sleds and go flying down their driveway hoping no cars were coming along road. You could not see either direction until you got close to the road. If you were on a collision course with a car, we would bail off our sled. If you were going fast enough your momentum would take you all the way up a hill to their big barn across the street or you could choose a different route and go all the way down to their milking parlor. Great memories.

[@InnannasRainbow]

As my mother said to me and my brother, so I said to my children,"If you aint bleeding out, there are no broken bones poking through your skin and no organs hanging out, quit crying and go play!"

[@Cathy7167]

Our mother said if you need stitches, I’ll stitch you up otherwise just come in the house and put some peroxide and don’t go to sleep if you hit your head to hard.

[@joshhunter8789]

What about internal bleeding

[@RCMartin27107]

That was my America too.

[@allentanner9290]

OOOOOOOLLLLD!!!

[@danielskrivan6921]

I remember riding in the back of my Dad's pickup. Wasn't a big deal at all.

[@jackdupp3181]

Wow! I was just going to say the same thing. We would ride in the back of his Datsun pick-up, on the interstate, heading to the stock car races, and of course he'd always have a beer between his legs. That was the 70's.. Right or wrong, that's the way things were.

[@1205sdr]

Kids with a pickup truck or a fast car were always the most popular. You could put 6-8 teens in the back with cooler hidden under their legs and cruise all night. I remember riding with my father-in-law in the 90’s and he saw a truck full of kids going down the road and he exclaimed, “Call the cops, that’s dangerous!” My jaw hit the floor. Our dog jumped in the bed every time I cranked the truck; he thought it was his truck. He rode hind legs on the bed front paws on the roof of the cab and nose in the wind. When we got to town he guarded the truck. Never taught him any of it, that was what he decided was his job. I loved that dog and that truck.

[@JohnSmith-uu3rm]

I used to fill the bed of my 64 Chevy stepside pickup with hay and take my six kids for rides on country dirt roads while drinking quarts of Budweiser and smoking a bowl.... with credence Clearwater revival playing on tape...... good memories!

[@KweKanata]

I rode in the back of our pickup truck with sleeping bags to go ice fishing with my cousins in the middle of winter in Canada. We had a blast! I feel sorry for kids today, society has trained them to be afraid to live. We got dirty, sweaty, scraped and bruised. You were so cool if you got stitches! We camped in the backwoods behind our house in treehouses we built ourselves. We only came in when we got good and hungry. I am glad for my childhood.

[@rch7284]

Jack Dupp that’s great! We went to the races riding in the back of a ‘68 Chevy pickup a few times. I was only 10 years old!

[@largemarge1603]

1960, hunting with my Uncle Billy Gene Albright in his 1950 Chevrolet pickup. He rounded a bend on the gravel logging road... and the passenger door flew open... taking me with it since I had my elbow out the rolled-down window. I swang out with the door, then swang back in on the straight-a-way. These days, I verify the door is latched prior to going hunting with Uncle Gene...

[@carollynch8319]

The entire playground at my elementary school was cracked asphalt. We used to stand up in the swings and when we got high enough we’d jump off. You lost if you didn’t land on your feet. Kids busted their heads, broke arms and legs and skinned knees. Nobody padded the ground you just got suspended if were caught. There was a wooded park at the end of my block with a creek in it. Kids used to catch crawfish and frogs. The creek had a little bend that created a little pond with a small island the middle. We used to cross on the stones and play with our Barbies o the island. Nobody bother us. As long as you were home before the street lights came on you were good.

[@morehn]

But here's the thing: kids nowadays are going to tell their kids how their parents let them out of the house like the Michelin Man and how lucky they are to still be alive

[@corbinsuarez4718]

We used to line up the kids in from of the swings and see how many people we could jump over flying off the swings. My buddy tony and I were always going back and forth with the record until I had 12 kids in my line and the yard supervisor said that’s it. We did put a mark on the ground where the last kid ended and I jumped just to see and I would of cleared him

[@B1izzardHawk]

90s kid here. We didn't have padded rubber on my playground, just gravel. I feel it was a good compromise. It wasn't asphalt, so you didn't get a serious injury, but it still got the point across to maybe not do that again.

[@ginaf2103]

🤣🤣 true! Back in the 60's I flew over my bike handle bars a few times -- no helmut on. We laughed and got back up

[@juliarobinson1432]

I'm only 32 and still have the scars from flipping over the handlebars! Mom put a bandaid on and back out I went! Lol

[@GOTTshua]

"You OK?" -- Yeah. *laughter* "Dude, that was so cool!"

[@bradhaines3142]

i remember when i was like 5, not long after training wheels came off my bike riding around, there was a speed bump on the street that was abnormally steep so i did wheelies on it. well one day that wheelie got a little carried away and turned into half a flip. handlebars landed on my throat, seat on my berries, full weight of the bike right on me. had no one around so i had to get up and walk myself home. was on that bike the next day, still no pads. learned to not do wheelies so high anymore

[@AKHWJ3ST]

@@juliarobinson1432 Bandaids cured everything!

[@ramblingrose6967]

This guy,is funny :) So true our seat belts were the arm ,Dad in the front and Mom in the back .That went out the window with the station wagons .We would roll around in the back but the cars were built like tanks back then .

[@mgmail7279]

You got arms! Gee, your parents cared. I got my father's cigarette ashes blowing into the black window when he flicked them out the front!

[@nancyhowell4505]

@@mgmail7279 You're the first person I've heard of that experienced that too! Sometimes those ashes were still hot, oww! 🚬

[@maddanl353]

Most of my childhood memories involve my father looking at me and asking, “Well did you learn anything?”

[@elenarodriguez922]

I almost feel blessed that my preschool class was given the privilege to have an insanely tall metal slide on our playground. That thing was awesome. Sure, it burned our legs when we wore shorts, but we had so much fun it was worth it.

[@chrisflocco8084]

Grew up in the early eighties and I'm glad that I metal slides and all the cool stuff.

[@happyreaper9892]

I fell down from a hill and cliffs many times when I was a kid. And every time I see my scars I can say " it's happiness " 😁

[@amyentampa]

I laughed so hard my face hurts! My kids never got to 'ride' those slides but I did!

[@joanneweiss3864]

I'm 61, omg this is all so true, no lies! The slide LOLOL 🤣 🤣 and the car....my sister & I would climb into the back of our station wagon!!!! Dad would tell one of us to "go in the back" if we started fighting in the back seat!!!!😱😱😱😱

[@BekBek60]

Omg best comedian in a while..I needed that laugh 🤣🤣🤣

[@gsdfan8455]

Haven’t laughed this hard in a while, I need more of this guy!

[@embfixer]

If you make it through childhood without a few scars, you did it wrong! One of my favorite memories as a kid was when we found a wooden spool that the electric company had left in a field. We removed a few slats, lined it with pillows, found a hill and had kids lined up like it was Disney Land.

[@FawadBilgrami]

Those are above and around mid 30’s are the last few who can relate to these. The memories are priceless.

[@Elemiriel]

I'm 27 and from a small town, relate to every word :)

[@FawadBilgrami]

Katherine Hamar I guess the small towns didn’t adopt the technology as soon. We have really taken away a lot from life for the next generation(s)

[@DieselsandOutdoors]

Jeff Allen is great he has some good clean funny bits and they are true to life

[@debraj.thomas661]

My mom had a Hornet auto. The back window was bubbled. My sister and I could lay in the back window ledge. When we sat on the leather seats and my mom would take a turn,we would slide to the other door. What a blast! Then when we're tweebs, preteens. We would go sledding at night at Whitfield's hill in Topsfield with the rest of the neighborhood. My dad would knock us off the 6 man tobagon before we got to the river at the bottom so we wouldn't drown! Great times and wonderful memories!

[@brigitteschultz1552]

We had a sledding hill called Garbage hill, there was the bunny side the medium side and the suicide, it was great, took my kids and nephews there also.

[@milfordcivic6755]

I made so many trips to the emergency room as a kid, they knew who I was. And he's right, you learn by doing dumb things. Can't save everyone and you cannot blame everyone for not saving you.

[@flenif2247]

Its called "thinning of the herd". Only the smartest survive

[@frankensteinlives5451]

I remember bicycle demolition with friends. Swinging on vines from the trees. Jumping off the roof of unfinished houses. Acorn fights. All kinds of things that would get you a visit from some government agency today, no doubt. But we all turned out ok. Yes I'm 56 also.

[@missg.5940]

Frankenstein lives you mean like going to the park ten houses away at the end of the street with just your friends ALONE without hovering mommies armed with purell? Before Covid of course! Age 62 😷🇨🇦

[@maggsbufton1969]

We had crab apple and walnut wars...they stung when they hit, but they weren’t lethal..and We rode horses bareback ....without helmets....Girls playing 🏑 field hockey...we were vicious...we didn’t have shin pads..I still have divots in my shin bones ... and I lived...it just made me more crafty and faster on the field! They would call us FREE RANGE kids now...unsupervised by parents .....because we were allowed to walk to the corner store, go to the beach, or the park or school by ourselves to play...( swimming, frisbee, crab apple wars, tackle football, soccer , baseball, broom ball ..whatever..., ) ...as long as we were home by 6:pm for supper...we were good. When the street lights came on..you GO HOME...AND GO OUTSIDE AND PLAY was every mum’s motto!

[@stogie0608]

I was born in 85 and am glad I was able to experience those metal park jungle gyms and metal slides, on a hot sunny day they would get so hot. Good times.

[@PolishX]

The 80's were the last days of real childhood without cell phones and computers in every home.

[@seanmartin7342]

Born in 83. I remember those 6 story slides that melted your skin in the summer. Wouldn't want it any other way, kids these days think fun is sitting infront of a tv. Fun back then was you didn't come home til the street lights came on or you heard your mother yelling out the window

[@allwhatilove914]

I'm from 84 and was born in Brazil. Take everything he said and add some snake hunting through the bushes, climbing the highest trees and making friends with monkeys until they become your personal pet and that's what we lived. My baby brother at 2 years old once found and hided a small coral snake in a shoebox for days to play with until mom found out and freaked out. Yes, a very dangerous mortally poisoned coral snake as a toy for a 2 years old. And today's kids are afraid of cockroaches and just see animals in the zoo...

[@yesitsme2053]

94, still did all that 🙌🏽

[@erinstanger416]

I agree. I grew up in the 80’s and we had a lot more freedom then. Plus if you got hurt your parents would just tell you to walk it off.

[@jackdupp3181]

Atari was the beginning of the end of friends playing kickball and wiffle ball and tackle football on the snow covered streets..

[@maxhughes7810]

I’m 16 right now and every year something on the playground in elementary school would get taken away because it was “dangerous” to the point that we had nothing to do it was really sad actually.

[@electrichellion5946]

Max Hughes I hear ya Max. Saw the same thing happen at my kids place.

[@Elemiriel]

bored kids are dangerous. They never think about that though.

[@missg.5940]

Kids at our school aren’t allowed to wear scarves in the winter...choking hazard. Apparently frostbite and hypothermia aren’t that dangerous in canada🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🤔😷🇨🇦

[@missg.5940]

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[@paulleeamory]

I imagine that recess kind of feels like a prison yard now.

[@teop7887]

So true. Sad isn't it? I agree, the 80s were the last great decade.

[@MERISI001]

I was a kid in the 50's and would go to Cottons Park in Romford in the UK. There was a big slide and we would take a sheet of grease proof paper from the bread wrapper and sit on it down the slide. By the time we were half way down we were just about breaking the sound barrier. You could always tell the brave kids as they had grazes in their chins from going down head first, flying off the end and landing on their faces. Great days.

[@joleneangelicsingarrett5837]

This is so true... Im only 36 but the stuff we did and learned... Basically our goal was just not to be the reason for a new warning label as we got older... Lmao... Xoxo

[@treetrain]

35 and amen !!!!

[@AM-xi1lh]

Yeah!!!!!!!

[@TheNo1BandDad]

My goal was for my mom and dad to never find out. I didn't want the spanking that I knew would come. Hahahahajaha

[@joleneangelicsingarrett5837]

I remember this barbie that came out when i was lil and of course i thought it was cool bc it had roller blades and had these sparks that came off it... It's the first toy i remember being recalled... I think... The news showed this barbie going thru gas on cemet and catching on fire... I remember being like "who is doing this w their barbies!?!?" lol xoxo

[@spiceyourspace]

I am 36 & experienced all the things he mentioned! I just told my kids about falling off a raised bank onto river rock gravel in a kindergarten playground & busting my forehead open. The teacher had to pull pieces out of my skin amidst all the blood, but we went back out to play a few days later just being more careful.

[@masalinas8219]

In elementary school, we had swings close to a tree. We would swing and once we got high enough, we would launch ourselves off the swing and catch the lowest branch on the tree then let go and jump down. It was such great fun and the teachers never stopped us from doing it. I think they secretly liked watching us and cheered us on. I can't tell you how many times I had to dig small gravel out of my knees the times I missed the branch. Good times.

[@orangecrush5512]

One of the best comedians out there right now. Great stuff!

[@stonecoldwwe13]

Love this guy!! I'm 50 and grew up in the 70's!! All he said so true and funny!! My youngest sister is 63!! Kristen Rivera

[@brucejohnson6393]

My dad never talked about his past. I could understand why, cause the old man grew up in the depression. All I know is that I probably had the best childhood growing up like that and this guy proves it!

[@downbntout]

Okay at LAST I've found my all-time fav comedian.

[@abgorden]

You won't be disappointed! !!

[@MrDJS444]

Me too! I love good standup so I’m not sure where he’s been hiding all these years but I’m glad I found him.

[@jjryan1352]

His line about teenagers being God's "revenge" is epic.....see how you like it to create something in your own image and have it ignore you all day!

[@0221serendipity]

"We had a six story solid steel structure!"🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂Had to pause it because I was laughing SO hard!

[@taj356]

Wow!! Sounds scary!

[@essiefowler9775]

Could listen to you all day hilarious

[@IntrepidFraidyCat]

Jeff Allen...always a favorite!👍😜

[@pyroman6000]

70's/80's kid here, and I remember all of this! Like one day discovering that if I got going fast enough, the back pedal brakes on my Schwinn would lock up my back tire and unleash a satisfying SCREEEECH! that sounded like a car about to hit something. My friend's Mom especially liked that... (they lived on the corner of a busy 55 mph road. She'd come running out of the house expecting to see a crashed car- then get REALLY steamed when she saw it was just us on our bikes, lol) Or jumping out of the barn loft into a pile of straw. Sometimes you'd bounce off and land on the floor with a bone jarring THUD! Then just get up, dust off your jeans, and go do it again! On car trips out West in our Suburban, my brother and I would ride in the way back so we could lay down, or make goofy faces at passing cars.

[@GOTTshua]

We would write signs for the people driving behind us to read.

[@macpduff2119]

Love it! Yes a steep steel slide twice as high as the grownups with a Summer temperature hot enough to fry an egg :-). I remember being a 5 year old absolutely terrified. The swing also came in two sizes. The adult or teenage swings were soft rubber seats with chains that seemed 30 fit high. Does everyone remember the carousels? 8 of the very young kids sat on it while a couple 5th grade boys made it spin around until everyone flew off or threw up. Great fun. We weren't coddled

[@jhitchcock5503]

Oh my favorite school trip our adviser said us down and said "Don't get arrested and if you're on the news, it better be for saving puppies from a burning building." Best trip ever. :)

[@anitajinfla9762]

I'm 56....bring back OUR America !! Lol 😅😅😅

[@HeathDewey]

Oh, you mean the America before the boomers ruined it. Yeah cool

[@deltamiloandtheginger443]

It started turning right after his generation so kinda seems like it was also his generation that thought it was dangerous and started changing statutes and legislature 🤷🏼‍♀️😂

[@LadySufferogette]

58 here. Ahh, good times lol.

[@depaola63]

Same here ! BEST ERA !!

[@susiebear3316]

AMEN!

[@Bullzeye1000yds]

OMG! Jeff you are GREAT! Mercury, lead paint, asbestos ceilings in school. Jumping "Stingray" bikes over cement and asphalt. Digging forts that were 6 feet deep and having one of our 35 year old dads crawl in and tell us we did a great job. WOW! BB gun wars, throwing machetes at trees,... It's amazing we are alive. No, that's not right. It's amazing what we LEARNED!

[@thomashughes_teh]

Skateboards were planks of wood, thin, short, and had metal wheels that would slip sideways under the wrong forces. They also had pointy fronts for spectator ankle "stimulation". Sometimes we had to climb a fence onto a garage roof just to get to the first branch of a good climbing tree. Bicycles had huge shifters between the seat and handlebars.

[@mannaman]

Thomas Hughes You forgot the 10foot plastic sheet from army supply when you tied an 8foot cord from each corner to hold on to. A good 30-40mph wing gust would melt those petals right off, but you got home early from school!

[@MontagZoso]

Yep, I still remember speeding down the hill on our street on top of one of those old school skateboards at age 9 (circa 1970s), with zero padding or helmets or any of that stuff, which was not a thing back then...and crashing face first at the bottom of the hill, picking gravel out of my face, limping back up the hill, getting BACTINE sprayed on my bloody cuts by Mom, who of course did not blink an eye. Builds character! I love it! And yes, hot metal slides that peel your skin off in summer when you sit on them and the slide was about a mile down and just as high. Ah, memories! :D I would go back and do it the same way in a heartbeat.

[@281cobracar7]

Yeah, I remember those metal wheels. Don't hit a good size stone in the road or you'll make it to the bottom of the hill before your skateboard.

[@williambonbright8985]

I grew up in the 50-60’s and wouldn’t trade my childhood for all the iPads in China. Friends, bikes, BB guns and slingshots, pocket knives, snowball and crab apple fights, pick up sports with so much freedom! Wow!

[@WindowPains]

I remember when I was a kid, our playground had this big metal pole with three chains hanging from the top. On the end of each chain was a handle bar. Because there were only three chains, one kid would get two handles and the other would only get one. The point of the “ride” was that you would hold on and someone else would push you until if you let go, you’d go flying off into the sunset. That was so much fun, getting hurt cause you’re hands were too sweaty so you fell off. Or when others fell off, especially if they were the one who only got the one handle. Sometimes, if you were too close to the swinger, you’d get hit by their body. Even though we’d get hurt, (sometime seriously injured) , that was THE hands down, most fun contraption in our park. Before they took it down... 😔

[@rjeffery5291]

Malisita Fox oh yeah we had one on our playground. It was so much fun to play on those and the big old wooden merry go rounds. Kids today missed all the fun stuff

[@gregthompson5759]

Jeff you’re the greatest ! Can’t wait to meet you in heavy … my favorite is how you found Jesus … an amazing testimony

[@annahappen7036]

I mean I did grow up roaming acres and acres of woods alone/with other kids dodging 8 kinds of poisonous snakes and climbing trees a high as we felt like going that day and I survived, loved every minute. I'm from rural Mississippi and I guarantee you that's how kids roam and play to this day.

[@mgmail7279]

Thanks to that old Louisiana chef who used to be on telly, I read your last line as "I gar-rowan-tee".... Good to know some freedom for fun still exists!

[@jjryan1352]

Heaven is following a creek through the woods.

[@karenmorris-taylor2714]

We learned a lot on those play grounds. We learned how to play well with others, who your real friends were, the consequences of our actions and how to have fun without an electronic device in our hands. Kids today pick up their phones, put their ear buds in and walk out in front cars.

[@clairefriend743]

This dude is my favorite ever oml

[@numanuma20]

Claire Friend I've listened to him a lot.

[@donnakearse2503]

I watched your whole routine. My America. You are hilarious!

[@blackbutterfly6872]

Man that slide was awesome! My kids got to go on the same one i torpedoed off of lol. Seeing them fly off like I did 🤣. The good times😏

[@phenyovictorsako4173]

"... And look how I turned out😁" strikes a pose

[@BabyGirl18069]

I laughed so hard because he brought back fond memories of me having to get sutures from a injury on a metal swing set.

[@johnellison3030]

Man, how true is this sketch. I done all of that when I was a kid as well. Nothing like the 1970's.

[@bluzcompany2293]

We did not realize how good we had it .

[@maggsbufton1969]

You don’t miss what you had until it’s gone.... And SO MUCH IS GONE.

[@davegoldspink5354]

This fella really is hilarious really love his work. Thanks for sharing. Fun fact a fella I knew years ago mixed brake fluid and Chlorine in a glass jar and screwed the lid on. To this day 30 years later we still laugh and the fella is still known as Blowup Brian. All jokes aside growing up in the 60s and 70s and even being Aussie I can pretty well relate. When your kids need safe spaces, participation trophies for sport and need full body armour to go outside you know the world is pretty well messed up.

[@stevenwiederholt7000]

One of the things I learned early on is in Summer/weekends Do Not hang around the house. Because mom WILL find something for you to do. Whatever that is, it is Guaranteed not to be anything like FUN.

[@daisybuchanan8205]

This bit sent everybody to a nostalgic trip back in time, the good old days.

[@numanuma20]

Best comedian out there out of all the other dry bar comedians.

[@zenawarrior3012]

I have watched this guy’s comedy routine before and he is the best! He’s hilarious 😂. You can’t have too much of Jeff Allen.

[@Shawnx-jb7sv]

Those were great times here in Beautiful British Columbia, Canada too! Good times and great memories! GOD Bless y'all! 😁

[@Actionnelll]

My dad use to have a 1990s Chevy Blazer and I use to sit in the storage area in the back. We were 5 kids and I never had problem with it. It was comfortable, Good Times. :)

[@jolynngood2746]

My siblings and I used to get a cardboard box and glide down the stairs in it. Sometimes when our older brothers knew one of us had started down, they would shut the door at the bottom of the stairs. We had a lot of fun. I really feel sorry for kids today.

[@MontagZoso]

Awesome, I did that with my sister! Cardboard and a staircase, good times! No brother shutting the door at the bottom to mess with us, but...that would have been okay too. ;)

[@the5thmusketeer215]

That resonated with every one of us over a certain age! 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦❄️🤧🔥🤒💥🤕 I REALLY LOVE this channel! It has THE BEST collection of very talented, hysterically funny & WHOLESOME comedians, but it also has a truly warm, sincere & charming community of viewers, which is self-evident from the comments section. Heaven will be full of such people... Gentle folk, who knew how to love & share life, laughed along with one another, respected and appreciated one another... 😇🤝😇🤝😇

[@LC-le9ew]

I know, and we did not have rubber mulch on our playgrounds back then, either! Just cement or dirt if you were lucky!

[@MontagZoso]

Or sharp gravel! :D

[@lisadooley3872]

Yes

[@vulcanbespock]

Ours had asphalt paving

[@lisadooley3872]

If you were lucky but that was the fun part

[@brandonriggs1788]

Don't forget the goatheads and other thorns. Getting that in the hamstrings sucked...but it made us stronger.

[@billheuber5884]

Jeff Allen!! My new favorite comic!! Everything you said I lived! Crap that was funny!!

[@1205sdr]

Ironic, today’s kids are so protected from injury and death they no longer value life. Sad but true.

[@thebrownsvilletxprophet5907]

So true.

[@gardensofthegods]

The Brownsville ... they are so protected that a lot of them don't even look up from their cell phones when they're walking across the street when they get off the bus .. They just automatically assume no car is going to run them down .

[@soumendas]

This is the fourth video I just watched since started early this evening. You are fresh breath of air. So simple and emotionally relatable. Respect ✊

[@downbntout]

My Mom had a signal for us three kids, three car horn toots. As long as we were within earshot we had the whole town.

[@bonniecamp6562]

OMG! I can't stop laughing! He nailed my ENTIRE Childhood!!!

[@denischabriddell986]

I love Jeff Allen 🙏🙏💖💖

[@MikeBrown-ex9nh]

I'm 69 and grew up when kids got to be kids, and band aids and bruises were just a natural part of it. This is some good comedy.

[@copperhousefarm4794]

I remember those days! I'm 60 years young, when I was a baby there were no car seats! I asked my mom what did you do. She said either we hold you or if I was by myself I laid you on the car seat. I'm still here to tell you about it.:) I do see the value of car seats.

[@1buddyclubs]

The good old days!! Jeff you tell it like it is👍

[@dart318swinger]

“I like old coke better than new coke. ‘Cause it’s old like me.” Laughter and applause.

[@taj356]

dart318swinger: Funny you should mention "Old Coke"! That stuff actually had cocaine in it as an active ingredient. Then Coca Cola Syrup came out for when we had stomach bugs!

[@denisewhisler5536]

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE IT!!! The comparison from then to now is priceless!😄👍👏 I wanna go back

[@rvnmedic1968]

One word: Lawyers When I was 7, I was on the monkey bars and jumped off - landed on a small board that had a nail sticking up, then into my foot. My mother took me to the doctor and I had to get a Tetanus shot. No lawyers, no mothers demanding removal of the monkey bars, everything back to normal.

[@evonsal9644]

Hey what’s good

[@rvnmedic1968]

@@evonsal9644 Everything and Nothing...

[@evonsal9644]

rvnmedic1968 you look familiar

[@evonsal9644]

[phone] text me

[@rvnmedic1968]

@@evonsal9644 Message me on my KZbin account if you are legit.

[@LaszloVarga-msc]

I’m fresly operated with my stomach. I started this video because I was sure I can watch it without laughing. FAIL. I literrally almost died laughing so I’ll continue in 1-2 weeks when it will be safe :D This guy is fantastic!