Our parents didn't even know where we were. We jumped on our bikes in the morning, came home for lunch, and then in for dinner. Then we go out at dusk and catch fire flies. Of course we stay within shouting distance. Those were the days.

Every playground was made of blazing hot metal in the 60’s 70’s and part of the 80’s! 😂

We played dodge ball. With slightly deflated balls, which would bend your nose when it hit you at about 300 mph.

We used to come home from the town park bruised,scratched,bloody. Backs of our legs burned from the slide. We would roll down a hill in the trash barrels. The good old days!😂 Connie G.

We used to make sure to gain momentum on the swing, not to go around it, but to jump from the highest point and see who would land the farthest. smh. I still wonder how we never broke bones or wound up in the hospital.

Rusted metal and splintery wood. Omg the jeans thing 😂😂😂

No joke, I had a classmate in 1st grade that went flying off our metal swing set on the playground while trying to go as high as he possibly could. When he landed in the sand he received a compound fracture in his wrist. When we were back in class he called out to the teacher about “the red stuff” getting on his project. She flipped her lid when she noticed it was blood. I remember it like it was yesterday. Poor kid! That playground was the best though! My favorite was the concrete sewage pipes we had for climbing on and through. Talk about HOT in that Arizona heat. 😆

I remember playing yard darts. We would see how close we could get them to the other kid's feet. I was good, I don't have any scars. 😁 Those things were sharp. And the Mom sayings, I don't want to hear a word when you get hit with one of those. But my favorite is "if you break your leg, don't come running to me" lol I want to be young again

I can still remember the pain in my arms from Red Rover…and the condemnation of peers if you were the breaking point.

So funny 'cause it's pretty much the truth. Our parents philosophy was " Betcha won't try that again."

Oh, but the monkey bars. Such fun, and they were on plain old dirt. If you fell, you got hurt. The school nurse fixed a lot of boo-boos. Not many ambulance runs, 'cause we mostly walked it off. Ah, good times.

Reminds me of Jeff Allen’s skit about his grandchildren going down the slide an inch at a time screaming “WEEEE PAPA WEEEE”

I haven’t laughed that hard in a while. Brilliant set.

I don't remember wanting to swing all the way around. What I wanted was to get the farthest after jumping of at the highest point. I also remember wearing shorts on those metal slides, bad idea but I did it anyway.

The metal slides were SO tall....

I think he understands that self-esteem doesn't come from others, it comes from your own self so those gold stickers definitely do not to boost your self-esteem the same way achieving a goal does

He's soo funny. I laughed out loud alone. It's funny because it was absolutely true.

This dude's hilarious

The trick to making those metal slides slick was to toss a handful of gravel up it before you climbed. The dust would be dry lubricant, made for the fastest ride on the playground.

This guy hit it on the head! Great routine!

It’s interesting that I still experienced that as a millennial but in Moldova, former part of USSR. It was 1994-2000 and we still had metal slides, wooden and metal playground structures and climbed water pipes. Boys climbed garages because they were usually a separate structure- like a row of garages completely separated from buildings

I had that metal slide attached to my swing set back in the 60's lol. This guys hysterical 😂

Roger Radley, Awesome! Hysterically funny! Got to see more of this comedian's videos!😂😜🤣🤪

Yep! 500 degree Fahrenheit slides, monkey bars that would destroy you on the way down if you slipped, the merry-go-rounds that would sling you off into orbit if you didn't puke first, and the one nobody has mentioned yet - the seesaw which would give you a vertebrae fracture when your "friend" jumped off. And don't get me going on suicide missions down the sledding hill in the summer in a homemade go cart made from scrap wood, baby buggy wheels, a piece of rope to "steer" it, all held together by 4 rusty bent nails.

You didn't mention the steel merry-go-round. What happens to 15 kids at 20 mph, and no railing !! Go ahead, tell THAT story.

Young kids, just know that there is A LOT OF TRUTH in this show. It's ALL TRUE!

Lmao...Merry go rounds....metal and wood! 16' metal slide...16' high swings that were concreated into the ground....yeah good times!!!!

Thinking I just found my new favorite comedian...memories...

I was born in 1952. My house had the park right behind us with all the swings and the slides and the teeter totter’s in the monkey bars, so I’m totally enjoying your comedy because we had a great childhood not like the kids nowadays.

Ahhhh the good’ol days!

😂"Like your working."🤣Yep, more please.👍

Gravel and lava hot metal

Oh the memories 🤣🤣

Crushed it, brother Radley!!!!😅🤣😂

this is so true . my sister was on a swing in the 80s and she swung so high , she flew like superman off the swing . but she was fine . probably a bit of scratch and that was abt it . the good thing was the playground was filled with grass.

I grew up in those times,still remember a younger kid losing part of her finger sitting on the middle of the seesaw.

Oh man, the way he describes those details!!! Loved your set! Great work! Keep making everybody laugh :D

Takes me back. We had pop bottle rocket fights . Good times

Excellent, lol, Excellent! When the metal sliding board wasn't sliding all you had to do was take wax paper out with you and start buffing up that metal and you were speed racing to the bottom again!!

I laughed hard at this one!!

Burned my butt sliding down.😅100 degrees.😢no more😮😊

Non stop laughing! Love this guy - great set.

Very funny! I'm pretty sure I remember people running around and shocking kids after going down the plastic slides during my elementary school recess. There's a big build up of static electricity after you slide down one of those. And monkey bars and things to climb on do help kids learn to balance. Learning to fall correctly should be included in physical education.

Thanks! Great stuff! I grew up that way too. You brought back painful but good memories. Lol

You never see kids climbing trees anymore or a kid just sitting in one after climbing it to the best sitting in the tree spot.

Great routine. Grew up in 70s and 80s with metal slides, monkey bars, swings with big chains and flimsy plastic seats. Riding bikes all day, getting lost in the woods, building tree houses with nails and splintery wood. We had awesome neighborhoods growing up with lots of kids around. And we used to traverse the busy streets end of school year to the local zoo and park for a picnic and to ride bumper cars and other who-knows-how-long-ago-inspected rides.

This guy is amazing I’m dying😂😂😂

“Stupid should hurt.”

This is so accurate!

We had a plastic slide and they can be dangerous too. Don't grab onto the under side of the slide or you will slice your hand open. If you are heavy it will bow and collapse in the middle. And if there was a chip in the slide and a piece of that was sticking out that would snag your shirt and would be nearly choked to death. And electric shock just by touching it.

Everytime I hear stories about the metal slide of death I swear I can feel the experiences as if I was just on one of those things. I am so glad I am a younger Gen Xer who got to experience the more fun and dangerous playground equipment. 😆

We learned cause & effect, and consequences of our actions. One playground game I never hear about is Crack the Whip. It seemed I was always the poor kid at the end who went flying. 😅

So so true, and we never gave safety a thought, we healed in a day or two. And that metal merry-go-round we got to going really fast. All back when kids could be kids. If we got hurt, it was called "growing pains" in the '60s (pre seatbelt days). Thank you, Roger, for pulling out the time machine. It was fun to travel back in time. Again, Thank You.

We rode bikes down the rode knowing a barbed wire fence was. Great fun😂😂😂😂

Yup. Growing up in the 70s and 80s it was all burning hot metal monkey bars and slides, and swings all on asphalt 🤣

Hilarious! (Also, Nice to see a gentleman, my age, who hasn't let himself go...)

Need the entire special 😂😂

So true, hot metal and asphalt. Those were the days.

Omg how well can we all relate to the old playground stories?? Lmao. ..but he forgot that there'd also be broken glass on the ground from the teenagers who were there drinking the night before

So spot on

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 '& you never saw that brother again' so hilarious

GENERATION X: *_"We've all been there!" Yep! We were tough kids!_*

I experienced those steel monkey bars and slides that were as hot as a frying pan! Good times!!!

Very funny and delightful to watch. Those were the days.What a handsome,stunning looking man!

My sister, my older sister, literally did fall swinging so high that she went right over and around fell onto the gravel had to be taken to the hospital. We weren’t sucky Poohs, like the kids are treated nowadays.

Born in 1962, I am so familiar with the metal playground. Our metal slide worked really well. It also had a hump in the middle so that when you hit it just right, your butt didn't touch the slide for a fraction of a second. 😂❤

I think that last joke touched the young man in the audience. Looks like he got a painful visual. Looks like he can keep it to himself. Good kid.

When he talked about going up the slippery metal ladder, my knee instantly started to hurt. And it was right in the spot that the step would bang against my knee when I slipped on the ladder. I remember that pain well! 😂

Ah, yes. Dodge Ball...the game where if you didn't want to get hammered by the ball, you just learned to run faster! 🤣 We used to dare each other on the swing set to see who could swing the highest AND jump from the seat at its highest point. Our teachers NEVER once told us to stop and NO ONE DIED! We'd get that Merry Go Round as fast as we could get it to spin. No one flew off. I went to a rural school so our equipment was on dirt. We played TAG aka Touch And Go too. We played flag football with a skosh of tackle involved. Sadly, Dodge Ball and TAG have been determined as too violent to play and there are no more Merry Go Rounds because they too are considered dangerous. It's beyond ridiculous! We used to swing out of the hayloft and in mid-air hope we weren't going to overshoot that big hay pile. I know I did several times. We used to swing on a rope and land in the river. Let kids be kids. My Grandma and Mom both used to tell overprotective Moms, "They bend before they break. Stop hovering." 😁 ~ APRIL LIPKE

Roger Radley you're so descriptive in the funniest way 🤣 👏👏👏

We had the flying gate & the flying swing. Dangerous & so fun. Split my lower lip open (bit it falling)on the metal monkey bars, 4 stitches. Still wear that scar with pride!! Use to ride the rollers (were the milk cans came down) at the local creamery on the weekend!!!

This was GREAT and what memories! Born in the 1950s I grew up playing on all these things that could burn you, rip your skin off, break your bones or knock your teeth out. Good times! And because we weren’t content with just that we had a brook and an enormous culvert behind our house in “the woods” where you could go rafting into it in warm weather or sledding into it when the brook froze. You could go miles through that culvert and end up a town away and fall through the ice if it wasn’t solid enough. It’s fun and adventures todays kids will never have, so sad

THIS is hysterical. For my childhood in the 50-60s and my kids in the 70-80s

More like gravel

Those were my times. The merry go round was a killer!

Man! How accurate! Remember the metal Merry go round that would sling us into orbit till the gravel stopped us and we had the scabs to show off!😅

We used to get strawberries on our legs and butt from the hot slides. Also the merry go rounds where we would hang off with our heads down, lol. We survived!!! Parents were hanging out socializing and smoking, they only bothered with us when we came crying. The good ole days for sure.

This guy needs a 40 minute special

I went FLYING off a merry-go-round! I landed so far away, the kids cheered. Got some serious road rash 😂

I LOVE HIM! I laughed so hard!

I remember swinging on the " swing set " and when I swung backward, I also leaned forward while in the swing. I don't need to tell you . . . . . . . . . I fell out of the swing, *right on my face ! ! ! ! !* . 😒🙄

My husband worked for a company that took out the old metal playgrounds and put in the new plastic ones. He brought the old metal one and we put it up. We had the swings, jungle gym, teeter totter, merry round out in the backyard. We were the most popular house on the street. He didn’t get the slide but we had a metal ladder going up into a tree that also has a tire swing. We had a big pile of dirt that the kids dug up and messed with . We had bon fires and homemade peach ice cream for birthday parties. We went out peach picking first which was fun too. As they go older there might a dozen or so teens dueling with “light sabers” they’d made. The kids were good and they policed themselves since they knew I’d shut them down if there were problems. I enjoyed it and I knew most of the local kids even as they got older. That is a great protection to keep your teens safe. My kids knew they could make me the bad guy to save face if they were being pressured to do something stupid. The other kids knew I would beat their as$. I still have all that equipment. I’m thinking of selling it if I find the right buyer. Someone who lets kids be kids. I also showed my kids how to safely use hand tool. I felt it was important to know which kid needed to wear a helmet most of the times as early as possible.

This is my first time seeing him…I had to search thru the comments to find his name. They really should put the comedians names along with the title DryBar. Roger Ridley! Hysterical!

Even though I was born in '99, I lived in rural Kansas with a park that was built in like the 50's or 60's right across the street from my house. And I had 8 siblings so there was all types of tomfoolery going on. There was a jungle gym completely made from metal that idk how many times I bumped my head on. And the metal slide was the best to go down in the rain because you did get shot like a rocket.

He brought back memories of the good old days. Iife was good

3:50 swing all the way around. I was that kid? Weren't you? Get over and around. The slack left me guessing. So I sometimes had to jump. In the dirt. Great times.

Those really were the good days of life 😂 6:25

Ahhhhhh, memories of the 50's and 60's. The "good old days"!

He is spot on! 😂

I really enjoyed this set he was right about the playground

Too funny. I was one of those kids that tried defying gravity on the swings, I however had a good grip but it was a jolt when the swing came down to a quick stop....and yes it was logging chain bolted to a plank.

Roger, I just brought up my wine through my nose! 😂 This was so freakin' hilarious! Thanks so much.

You forgot one important thing. On the slides we would take waxed paper and go over it with that. Boy did it really slide after you waxed it. Thanks for the memories.

We would take pieces of waxed paper with us to the park, sit on them and go down the slide to make it slick. Then sit back and watch other kids go rocketing down and skid along the dirt at the bottom.

HILARIOUS!!!! I definitely remember those metal slides and all the other "safe" equipment.!

Laughing hysterically... this is what it was like growing up in the 50s

I laughed until my sides hurt on that ending.

Hes hilarious. Took me right back to my childhood of metal monkey bars and metal rocket monkey bars. We did have fun though. 😂😂😂😂

I remember in the 50’s we were seeing who could jump out of the swing and go the farthest. The winner complained about his foot hurting, but we decided it wasn’t broken as he could wiggle his toes. The next day I went to his house and he had wires holding the bones of his foot together.