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Did you guys have favorite sports teams, sports heroes from the Metropolitan Area?
Scott - Me, personally, I was a Mets and Giants fan.
Mark - So, of course then, I liked the Yankees.
I think I liked the Giants, too, at the time and I still do but, Mets just didn't do it for me.
Mets, Yankees indicative of the sibling rivalry perhaps as you grew up?
Scott - Not really.
Mark - Just, yah, just in, just in that regard I think.
You guys went to Mountain High School.
How are twin brothers received?
Was there anything in particular,
anything notable about the way your classmates treated you?
Scott - You know, we didn't, we don't have any other siblings
so we don't know anything differently so it's, you know, with nothing to compare it to,
you know, I don't think we were, you know, we didn't, we didn't feel any different and..
Mark - We weren't the only twins in the school.
There were John, John and Mike S__...
S..., yah.
...who were a couple years older so, and they were identical twins
as well so it was kind of like a...
Scott - But back...
Mark - ...a little bit more common.
Scott - But back then, you know, twins and, you know, multiple births were less common
than they are today so, you know, I don't, you know, at the time I think those,
those two guys were the only twins that I knew.
Did you hang out with those guys?
Mark - A little bit.
We were both, on the swim team and the track team together and Scott and I both kind of took
up pole vaulting on the track team and the coach we had wasn't particularly interested
in it so we actually learned it...
Scott - Um huh.
Mark - ...from John and Mike S__.
You know, the subject of twins is always fascinating to people.
They, they either do or do not understand what twins are all about.
I'm just wondering, was it difficult growing up knowing there was a little clone
of yourself right, right, living with you, playing with you, going to school with you?
(chuckle) Scott - Like I said, you know,
we didn't know anything differently and, you know, he's not my clone.
Mark - You know, a lot of times people would ask, "So what's it like to be a twin?"
and my, the response I would usually give is, "Well, what's it like not to be a twin?"
I mean, it's just, it is, it is just what it is.
Scott - It's more like it, he's my brother but we just happen to have the same birthday, to me.
Did you guys take the same classes?
Did you, did you have the same, similar academic interests as you went to school?
Mark - Yah, I think I took the harder classes 'cuz, you know,
he just, he had a hard time with those.
Scott - You know, I, I, you know,
I think we just naturally gravitated towards similar interests because, you know,
maybe it's somewhat genetically based but also because we were always, you know,
exposed to the same things growing up and I think that somehow, you know,
drives what you're, you're interested in.
So, you know, as far as, you know, maybe academic stuff but also what kind of sports
and other interests were, were similar because of our, you know, similar upbringing.
Mark - And I, you know, throughout high school I can only remember
of being in one class together...
Scott - Spanish.
Mark - ...it worked.
Okay, then, two, Spanish and Biology in twelfth grade, AP Biology.
Scott - That, they tried, you know, in elementary school
for instance we were never allowed to be in the same class.
I don't know if that was a, a school system policy or it was, it was my parents' desire
but that was never, that was actually, you know, prohibited.
And then later, like in junior high and high school,
it was very rare for us to be in the same class.
Did you guys double date, further confuse the social situation?
Mark - Never.
Never thought about it.
Deliberately or just by coincidence?
Mark - Well, I think, you know, it's, you know, if you have any brothers
or sisters you probably didn't go on double dates with them
and their girlfriend or boyfriend.
It's kind of like the same thing.
It just...
Mark - I would think it's a little bit odd.
Scott - I don't think I've ever gone on a double date with anyone, so...
Did you ever pull pranks in school by impersonating each other?
Mark - Actually not one time.
Mark - And I think it was because very early on we would get a lot of pressure to do that
and we just didn't want to, you know, go with the, the peer pressure.
I mean, I, I would say almost weekly, somebody would say, "You guys should do this.
You guys should switch classes.
You...", you know.
So we, you know, very early on we just said, "No, we're not going to do that."
Who's got the better sense of humor, speaking of pranks?
Scott - I don't know.
Mark - That's, that's for somebody else to decide.