Well, hey guys, how's it going? I'm doing great.
How are you? I'm doing okay. I'm Clarissa. I'm
Courtney. And this is 30 Dirty and Dying, your
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This is the pregame to the finale. So, you know,
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finale because Courtney has worked really hard
on that. Yeah. So that's coming next week. We've
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Bam. Look at us. Look at us. So this is our season
of favorite things, and we're closing it out
with our favorite things. And one of our favorite
things to do, obviously, is Back in Time. So
what if we had a whole episode of just Back in
Time? That's what we're doing today, guys. Oh
my god! Spoiler alert. No, we love Back in Time.
Back in Time is honestly one of the things that
started the podcast. When we were talking about
what we might do for a podcast, we were like,
what if we went... back in time and revisited
it started with our cringe social media because
we've just got an abundance of it oh yeah uh
and then it expanded into all millennial nostalgia
and it's one of our favorite parts of doing the
show i mean i love it i've learned a lot me too
it helps reawaken our memories it helps teach
us things that we might not have known that just
weren't in our atmosphere especially me because
i don't know history oh god don't call it history
it is don't call it shut up yesterday's history
it's not my favorite thing That's not my favorite
thing, that it's history. Don't say that. So
we're going to do an ultimate trip back in time
this week. And it's going to be for the entirety
of the early 2000s. And what I defined that as
just for, I don't know. Pre -2010. I did 2000
to 2005 -ish, actually. Oh, okay. I was thinking
2009. Yeah, that's normally what I think of it
as well, but I just thought to give us a little
bit more parameter so it wouldn't get too overwhelming.
Too buck wild? Too much favorite thing. I thought
I should limit us. We do good with limitations.
So I gave us from 00 to 05. Okay. So really just
that Y2K sweet spot. So we're going to talk about
a lot of things to do with 2000. through 2005
the early 2000s our memories um have i talked
about when i talked to my therapist about my
issues with throwing up yeah um it's at the end
of a recent episode so recently okay we threw
it in at the end okay well i just had another
okay hold the phone guys another one of our favorite
things courtney's therapy tales so i i went in
there right so i was like did you figure out
how to fix me I'm officially stealing that whenever
I go back to therapy. Hey, did you figure out
how to fix me, Dr. Brenda? And she said that
a good way to help you get over phobias is exposure
therapy. I was like, I'm not throwing up. And
she was like, well, there's like levels of it.
I'm not just going to be like, throw up. bulimia
be bulimic and her her example was a uh a patient
who um is afraid of ladybugs okay i'm like weird
but okay hey but i mean i'm weird too so freak
it's fine i get you i'm a dude he's a dude she's
a dude we're all dudes yeah how the exposure
therapy works for that is like the first thing
you do is imagine a ladybug and then you would
draw a ladybug And then you would be in a room
with a ladybug. Okay. I hate to cut you off here.
How the fuck are you going to do this with vomit?
I was like, am I going to draw throw up? What
do you mean? I didn't do exposure therapy ever,
but I don't know how that would work with. It's
such an interesting phobia slash obsession. I
think it's an obsession more than it's a... Maybe,
so she, we had like talked about it a little
bit more than the last time. She was just like,
what about throwing up do you not like? Yeah.
And I'm like, that's a good question. All of
it. I've tried to ask you that like 40 times.
You've never given me a straight answer. I have
no real answer. No. So... We fear the unknown.
Fear the unknown. And the unknown at this point,
throw up. And I told her, I was like, the majority
of the childhood that I actually do remember
involves me throwing up. Those are the memories
I remember. I think we're getting somewhere deep
and dark. I've not been doing great with my mental
health recently. And some of it is my own shit
and my own, like... I was in, like, a depressive
episode for a couple weeks, and then I started
to come out of it, and then I got overwhelmed
with feeling again, and then my OCD was like,
hey, remember me? So I started obsessing over
a few things. Last night was rough, I'm not gonna
lie to you. So it's just been a... But some of
it is the world, because as soon as I pick my
head up out of, like, I've been in a depressive
episode from my own devices, I'm like, oh. Yeah.
Combo. So where's the reprieve? Right here. Yeah,
guys, this is your reprieve. This is your reprieve.
We're going to take an extended trip back in
time because everything sucks. All right. All
that to say everything sucks. So we're taking
an extended trip back to the 2000s. But before
we do that, we have to do the prologue. The other
back in time. Yeah, the real. The pre -2000s
back in time. Well, if we're going to do an ultimate
trip back in time to Y2K, we would be remiss
if we didn't visit, make a little pit stop. And
party like it's 1999. Obviously, this was right
before the world was supposed to end. So, a lot
was going on. People were having fun. People
were getting ready for the end. I think this
is the only, well, not the only, but maybe the
first time in our lives, at least in mine, I'll
speak for myself, I guess. that I can recall
there being, like, a real doomsday situation.
Like, I remember there being that, like... Like,
my parents didn't think the world was gonna end.
No. But I remember just in general... Because,
you know, at that age, I was, like, kind of getting
hip. Like, oh, there's a society out there. You
were five. Yeah. Well, I was five, and also I
was... I grew up in a kind of isolated place
before this. So around 99, I was kind of, like,
around more people, and... Getting a feel for
the world around me. Bummer. But I remember there
being this air of, like, doomsday prepper vibes
for the first time maybe ever. I just, the only
thing I remember was, which I've said before
every time that we've done 99, Grandma made us
turn all of the electronics off. Yeah. Well,
they had the sticker, which is on our collage
this week. What are you gonna do? But no, so
99, the world was gonna end. The millennium was
coming. I think the promise of the future, if
it came, I expected there to be a lot more silver.
Interesting. Every time there was anything futuristic.
I almost said the Flintstones. Wrong one. No.
That's the opposite. Yeah. The Jetsons. Yes.
Yes. Or, like, I mean, think about it. There
was all those videos from, like, Britney Spears
and Sink, whoever. There's all this chrome and
these weird outfits and a bunch of fucking lasers.
And I really... I expected more of that, and
I'm disappointed in us as a society. I expected
flying cars. I didn't even want that. I just
want silver puffer vests. On the reg. I was gonna
say, you can wear silver puffer vests. I understand
that, but I want them to be readily available.
I want them to be - Readily available. Available.
I want them to be everywhere. They had them at
Target, like, not too long ago. I know, but,
like, you have to wait for them to be like, oh,
we're dropping a silver NSYNC fuck -me -up collection.
Can't it just be the everyday collection? I kind
of want our merch to be the Silver Fuck Me Up.
We'll do it. I don't know when, but one of the
rounds of merch we do will be the Silver Fuck
Me Up collection. So get ready for that. But
no, I just, there was a lot of the futuristic
idea and that was reflected in kind of everything
that I can remember from music, movies, TV, like,
it was sort of everywhere. Speaking of music,
movies, TV. Digimon. Digimon. Digital monsters.
Digimon are our champions. Change into digital
champions to save the digital world. Oh yeah.
Courage the Cowardly Dog. And that was a mindfuck
and a half. That was a lot. It was a lot. I really
enjoyed it. That should have been my parents'
first sign that perhaps something was amok. Amok,
amok, amok. The Law and Order SVU came out. You
know, I never realized I recently tried to watch
the whole thing. So I started from the top. I
did not realize that Mayhem was in it. The guy
who's Mayhem on the Allstate commercials? Yeah.
He's in the first season. Who is he? He's like,
I don't know. He's just like a cop. I don't know
any of their names. Wait, which? You said Law
& Order? SVU. Okay, yeah. I watched. Yeah. Man.
Back in the day. But yeah. But no, so he was
there before Ice -T. Oh. So he's, I don't, I
think he was only in the first season. Hmm. But
I could be wrong on that. Bluetooth was introduced.
It revolutionized wireless communication by allowing
devices to connect without cables. Huh. That's
all it says. Interesting. Napster? Well, yeah.
I think in like 98 to 99, so probably in between.
That's when we got the, the Mac. book that had
the thing on the back oh well no the macbook
that was the clamshell yeah and then also the
desktop that had the back that was colors yeah
and like transparency kind of the i think the
desktop might have come out in the earlier night
but it was still going but the the laptop 98
or 99 i feel like so that was what you were seeing
everywhere which we did not have mac money we
know No, the first time I think I saw one was
on Lizzie McGuire. And I was like, this is banging.
Where can we get one of those? And we didn't
get a computer for a couple more years. The Wi
-Fi Standard was released. What is that? The
802 .11b Wi -Fi Standard. Making wireless internet
more accessible and setting the stage for the
connected world we live in today. Invader Zim.
Dragon Tales. it's almost time for dragon tales
come along take my hand let's all go to dragon
land house hunters started house hunters really
yeah i have a great if anybody wants it um drinking
game that i used to play in college for house
hunters and i've played it since but but it'll
fuck you up so you need to be ready and have
some water obviously bet drinks on which house
they pick okay that's pretty standard but also
When they do their little intro thing and they're
like, this is my... You pick a thing that they
say that is their non -negotiable or what they
really want. Because if you notice... Open concept.
Yeah. They'll repeat that same shit constantly.
So you pick a phrase. You each pick your own
phrase. Or you can do different rounds where
each person picks a phrase based on the episode.
And every time you hear them say that phrase,
you have to drink. Jeez. Yeah. Fight Club came
out. First rule, Fight Club. Don't talk about
Fight Club. Second rule, don't talk about Fight
Club. And there's some more. 10 Things I Hate
About You came out. Also, The Matrix. That just
reminded me of Miley Cyrus. The 7 Things I Hate
About You. Fair. Yeah. Yeah. And The Sixth Sense.
You love me, you like her. You make me laugh,
you make me cry. I don't know what you decide
to buy. See, now that I'm associating the song
with The Sixth Sense. Because I just said The
Sixth Sense also came out. Yeah. So now I'm thinking
of ghosts singing that song with that little
boy. And that would be chilling. I see Hannah
Montana. Wait a minute. The little boy is Haley
Joel Osment. Emily Osment is in Hannah Montana,
right? Look what we just did. Look what we just
did. A cursed full circle. I really loved The
Sixth Sense. I watched it way too early. I was
very afraid that there were dead people everywhere.
There are. Yeah. That's what made it scary. I
realized I was right. Speaking of. Oh, God. You're
going to love this. I don't know that I am. So,
you know how in my odd childhood where we would
go to Dairy Queen and then the cemetery? I didn't
know that about the outings. So, Dad would take
Sissy and I to Dairy Queen. Okay. And then we
would go to the cemetery. He would give us coins.
He would give us a coin and we would have to
find a headstone. With the date on that coin.
Anyway, so now we associate ice cream with cemeteries.
Duh. So the moral of the story is on Sunday,
I was out with my friend Amanda and Mike. And
we got ice cream and I was like, man, I just
really want to go to the cemetery now. And then
the next day on Monday, Sissy texted me and she
was like, we're getting ice cream. I think we're
going to go to the cemetery like day right after
each other, right? Like we have not talked about
this. I think we should. And with songs. What
do you think? Anyways, let's go out with the
Billboard Hot Hits of 1999. Number one was Believe
by Cher on the Billboard. Do you believe in love
after love? A lot of these songs came out in
98, but I guess they were just so good. Baby
One More Time. That album came out. You know,
the one where she's coming out of the crystal
bead curtain. Yes. That's the album. I had it
on cassette. Nice. Yeah. That whole album came
out and Baby One More Time was the lead single.
My loneliness is killing me and I, I must confess,
I still believe. I want it that way. Tell me
why ain't nothing. I don't know the rest. About
a heartache. Tell me why ain't nothing. Now,
if it was playing. I could go for it. I could
go full balls to the wall. Slide by the Goo Goo
Dolls was still topping the charts. Destiny's
Child, the album Writings on the Wall came out.
Say my name, say my name. When no one is around
you, say baby I love you. That's all I got. You
not playing games. Something like that. It's
something game, right? Yeah, it's gotta be game.
I think so. But anyways, yeah, that album came
out. There were still four of them. Every Morning
by Sugar Ray. Every morning. Corner of my four
-post bed. Mambo No. 5. A little bit of Monica
in my life. A little bit of Erica on my side.
A little bit of Rita's all I need. I didn't know
this. Is there a Mambo No. 6? I don't know that.
the instrumental mambo jazz dance song the instrumental
version is like from the 50s and then lubega
nothing makes me want to leave 1999 more than
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with what we're doing next. So let's get into
the 2000s. Let's get into the early 2000s. So
we just kind of want an episode where we just
talk about our favorite things and our favorite
memories about the 2000s. So I do have some cards
here just to help us conversationally. Okay.
But I feel like these are just conversation starters.
Okay. So just topics and we can talk about whatever
they bring up for us. Perfect. I love that. So
I'll let you pick something first. Players. So
I want to say, do you remember those bracelets
that like hurt your hair, like pulled your hair
so bad? The, what did they say? Italian charm
bracelets? Yes. Yes. Do you see that they're
back? No. I saw them. Yes. They're back, baby.
And I started wearing mine because I kept it.
I mean, I'm sure mine is somewhere. My mom probably
has it. No, I had one. I hated it. But speaking
of, I had my favorite piece of jewelry was from
Claire's. And it was an OG charm bracelet, if
you will. Okay. And they had this thing for a
while. I haven't been able to find pictures,
so I don't know if it just wasn't that popular
or people didn't like. Because there wasn't anything
special about it other than just being a charm
bracelet. But you could buy your little charms
at Claire's. And I mean, mine was probably 15
pounds by the time I was done with it. Before
Pandora did their thing? Yeah, this was like
early 2000s. I was in probably elementary school.
But is it similar to that of a Pandora bracelet?
Is that what you're talking about? No, no, no.
It was literally like an old school charm bracelet.
Like just a silver bracelet and like a little
necklace clip and then just like a dangly charm.
Okay. And I lived for that thing, and I would
go and pick out charms all the time. I'm trying
to remember the charms I had. I had a basketball.
Love that. Because that was, I loved basketball.
I had a soccer ball. Okay. I decided I wanted
to play soccer because I played it at recess
a few times, and then I quit before the first
day was over. my mom was very mad she bought
me a lot of equipment i did play soccer for a
whole season i didn't i played it for a whole
30 minutes um i loved the snacks after practice
i didn't get that far i was like i need to leave
um so i had a soccer ball i had a it was a big
duck but it was like glittery and i i fucking
loved that um i had i think a guitar on there
teardrops on my guitar yeah you know um i had
it was i think i had a dog maybe a cat also a
frog that was similar to i just liked the charms
like some of them were about my personality or
whatever well what personality do you have as
a kid that small you know you're just making
it up you're figuring it out i just really they
were glittery and they were like kind of oddly
colorful like everything was at that point in
time and it was like every single little you
know, chain link all around the bracelet by the
time I was done had a charm on it. Like, I was
jacked with my charm bracelet from Claire's.
I love that for you. That was one of my favorite
things that I remember ever getting from Claire's.
I liked collecting the whatever we said it was.
The Italian charm bracelet. The little square.
So, like, I wore it recently, so I think I remember
all of them. I had a K, because duh. Duh. And
I had everything symmetrical, so I had to have
two hearts. And then I had, because those were
the end caps. Oh. With the two hearts. Okay.
So it had to be like symmetrical. That makes
sense. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I had a cross because
Jesus. Oh, yeah. He was part of it. You remember
those? I feel Jesus in this Claire's today. Remember
those like weird monkeys that everyone loved
like back in the early 2000s? Are you talking
about Bobby Jack? Yeah. Yes. Do not call him
weird. I had a Bobby Jack monkey. Love it. I
had a cat. Of course, duh. I think I had a soccer
ball because I played soccer. Nice. Your symmetrical
thing, you would have hated my charm bracelet.
It was type B personified. It was a fucking mess.
That just goes to show how OCD I was before I
even knew. See, I was OCD as a child, but not
in that way. I didn't need it. And I'm still
not. I don't need everything to be perfectly
ordered or perfectly symmetrical. I think I had
to buy them in, like, twos because I couldn't
have an uneven amount on each side between. The
hearts. Yeah, no, that was not my, that was,
that was not my plight. It wasn't. Because I
am kind of like chaos in a bottle, but there
are things that I need order on and it doesn't
make any sense because it's obsessive and compulsive.
So yeah, that was one thing. I had most of my
shit was from Claire's though. Yeah, I feel like
I had a lot of stuff. I had a lot of those, you
remember the picture frames they would sell?
Oh yeah. And I had several. I had one that was
like BFFs with my frenemy. I had a frenemy in
elementary school. Okay. We'll call her Kathy.
She was a bitch. But she invited me to everything
and wanted to be my friend. And I kind of wanted
to be her friend, but we had those frames, and
she was the picture in that frame. And we had
matching, because you had to have the matching
frames. Duh. The bracelets. I'm sure I had a
BFF bracelet with her. I had a BFF necklace with
one of my friends. That was Spongebob. Okay,
I had a BFF necklace with actually probably who
my best friend was. I'll call her Mary. But we
did not get it from Claire's. We got it from
a Christian bookstore that my mom stopped at
when she had stayed the night and we were taking
her home and my mom had to stop and pick up an
order. So we saw this best friend charm and it
was just a heart that went together. And I think
there was a small cross on it, but yeah, I had
that. I had, um, a bunch of the, I had a bunch
of basketball shit. Cause you remember the sports
stuff was like, there was basketball, there was
baseball, there was soccer, there was even, uh,
there was cheerleading for sure. And there was
something like of every single item for that
sport, like with all the fur and the glitter
and the neon that you could imagine. And I had
all the basketball shit. So I had a couple of
frames and things like that. I think my glasses
case, which was covered in green fur, and said,
like, basketball babe, was from Claire's. I'm
almost positive. I got my ears pierced at Claire's.
Me too! And then they immediately got infected.
I got two holes pierced at Claire's. Never had
my ears pierced since. I don't wear earrings.
I have three holes in each ear. Nope, just the
one that I hear out of. I still want to get my
nose pierced. I always wanted my belly button
pierced, but I'm like, but I'm fat. Yeah, I didn't
want to do that. And I don't think I should do
that. I did have a few pairs of earrings from
Claire's. Oh, I had like a majority, 99 % of
my jewelry came from Claire's. I had like the
studs that they put in there, which I think were
just, I think they were my birthstone. I don't
know. And then I had like a big plasticky red
and white guitar. And then I had, like, dangly
little glittery cats. I love that. And, you know,
then there was too much pus. But, yeah, I never,
I did get my ears pierced at Claire's. I had
that formative experience, but I just, I never
went back. Now we just need to get a lobotomy
from Claire's. Yeah, I'm ready for that. Fuck
me up. Yeah, Claire's, if you're listening, start
giving out lobotomies. Please. We'll be the first
ones lined up. Absolutely. The last thing I remember
having, I'm trying to think of, like, Things
that I had. Well, I'm telling you, there's one
thing that I never wanted. Okay, tell me that.
I'll talk in a second. Tell me what it is. Do
you remember those, like, round, spiky things?
I had a pair. But my ears, they grew over. Yeah.
So I couldn't use them. I think I might have
gotten a necklace or a bracelet that I thought
they were bitchin'. They were so hardcore. I
was like, this is so dumb. I got a lot of that
kind of stuff from Claire's. But the one thing
I remember using a lot, I had a miniature backpack.
from Claire's, and it had, it was Tootsie Roll.
It was light blue. It was beautiful. I loved
Claire's. I would go to Claire's right now if
I could be guaranteed that they had all that
stuff from, like, when we were there. I mean,
it doesn't look any different, but it's just
like, I don't want to go in there and be disappointed.
You know what I mean? We'll do a Claire's haul.
Toys and Games. I'm trying to think. My sister
and I played The Fuck out of... Excellent inflection.
Out of Super Mario Brothers 3. Okay. On Super
Nintendo. Okay. And Donkey Kong Country 2. Yes.
She, we had like a book of all of the levels.
Okay. For Donkey Kong. You told me this story,
but go ahead. It's been a long, long time. My
sister got so pissed. She could not beat the
level King Zing Sting. Okay. She ripped the book
in half. Because she was like, she just ripped
it. I can see it. We taped it back together.
But King Zing Sting just never was the same again.
Fucks up. Oh. Yeah, see, okay, so video games,
like, I had a PlayStation 2, but I think I got
more into it a little bit later. But I was, I
mean, I was all about my Game Boy Color. Oh,
fuck me up. My Game Boy Color was like... Attached
to me at all times. Purple. I had a teal one.
Mine was the see -through purple. I'm so jealous
of you. I wanted that one. I also wanted the
yellow one that had Pikachu all over it. I wanted
that one very bad. So I had a teal one. And I'm
trying to think. My favorite games around that
time were... I had the Aladdin game. And I liked
that one a lot. I had a Harvest Moon game. It
was mid. Uh, it's nothing close to Harvest Moon
64, which is the best game ever made of all time
for anything. I want to, I'm going to Google
like popular games. Cause like, I know I'm going
to be missing some. Yeah. Cause I, obviously
Mario Donkey Kong, like those were like two games.
Yeah. See, those were never my thing, but like
I had a Powerpuff Girls game, uh, where it was
a, the focus of it was him taking over and Bubbles
was the main character. And I loved that one.
That was one I played constantly. Also, I had
the Pokemon pinball that had the battery in the
back. No shit! Yeah, that buzzed when you got
the - yeah. Oh, I fucked that one up. I had a
Lizzie McGuire game, but that one was for my
Game Boy Advance SP, which was the Flippy. Yeah.
So, I'm not sure. So we definitely had Super
Mario Land 2. Okay. I had a SpongeBob game. I
did not. But that's fun. I think I had a Pokemon
game, but I was never really super into Pokemon.
Oh, I loved Pokemon. Like, we collected Pokemon
cards, but I never played, like, Pokemon games.
I did the cards. Now, I didn't do enough of the
games that I, like, kept going, but I had the
Pokemon pinball game, and I think I had... I
think I had one more, but I can't remember right
now what it was. I had the Harry Potter and the
Sorcerer's Stone game. Yes! Yeah. Remember how
the little blobs? Okay, so I had the Harry Potter...
No, it wasn't the Sorcerer's Stone one. Okay,
mine was definitely Sorcerer's Stone because
Fluffy. The three -headed dog, I remember that
part. And I remember where you get into the actual
little levels. Like, the devil's snare and the
key. Like, I remember how to win those. It's
muscle memory, baby. I could do that right now.
So I know mine was Sorcerer's Stone. Mine was...
You sure it wasn't Chamber of Secrets? I don't
think it was on... I think it was on the Game
Boy Advance SP. Oh, okay. Then that could have
been more of them. Yeah. Yeah, I'm, like, specifically
looking at color ones. Yeah, because mine looked
like that. It might have been the Goblet of Fire.
Okay. Yeah, that would be more, like, timeline
-wise. Yeah, I think it was the Goblet of Fire.
Yeah, because I remember begging my grandma to
get it from Costco. Oh, shit. Because I was at
Costco with her, and I was like, Harry Potter,
please. Guardium Leviosa. Not Leviosa. We also,
back in the, this was probably more 90s, but
my sister and I played it forever. We also played
NASCAR 98. Okay. Often way past 98. Yeah. Um,
we played, it was destruction Derby. Yeah. Um,
we played like a racing game. We played a lot
of racing games. Okay. Well, those were popular.
I mean, yeah. And then, um, we played on super
Nintendo. We played, uh, bass fishing. And then
I also had a, uh, Goofy game. Okay. I don't remember
any part of it. I just remember it being Goofy.
Gotcha. I just found one on this little website
I found. Diva Stars, Mall Mania. You dressed
them up and shit. I had this game and I completely
forgot about it until right now. Good times.
I also played computer games. I dabbled in Sims.
Alright. Barbie Magic Hairstyler, Obvi, Putt
-Putt's Big Adventure, Freddy Fish, and the Case
of the Missing Kelp Seed. Yeah. I re -bought
them. See, I had this Powerpuff Girls game, Battle
Him, and then I think I also had the battle for
Townsville, which was Buttercup. I feel like
I might have had something like that. Buttercup
was on the front of that one. I never had the
one that Blossom was on the front of, because
fuck Blossom. Um, not video games, I guess. I'm
trying to think. I had a lot of, I was a Barbie
bitch. Oh, we were Barbie bitches. That was also
the 90s for me. It was more 90s than 1000s for
me. But I still had some in the early -ish 2000s.
I had that happy family Barbie, the pregnant
one with the magnet. I had the whole family,
the whole happy. Um, because I had a weird phase
where I was kind of like obsessed and low -key
mortified, I think, with the concept of pregnancy
and childbirth as a kid. That's weird. Yeah,
I know. Um, I just, I think I learned about it
kind of way too early, and it, like, fascinated
me, like a car crash you can't look away from.
Um, so I, when they came out with that doll,
it was right around the time that that was happening.
So my parents got me that doll. Um, so I had
that one. I had that Barbie whose waist bended.
Oh, yeah. The jewel one. I also had one that
had a raft. It was a sponge. Um, and she had
on, like, a swimming suit, but if... It changed
colors when it got wet. Oh, cool. So I remember
getting those, and that was in the... I had a
Barbie where their hair... I think it was a mermaid
Barbie. I had that one. I also had a Barbie who's...
I think I might have gotten this one in the 90s,
but I continued to play with it. She had, like,
joints. Like, her elbows bent, her knees bent.
Which was not... Obviously, most of the Barbies
didn't do that. And her leg came off. So I came
up with an entire story that she was an amputee.
Her name was Vicky. Vicky the amputee. Yep. I
had a whole story about how she lost her leg.
I think it was a... My leg! I think it was war.
I think I made it war. Was it nom? I don't know.
She might have been. I was a weird fucking kid.
It might have been that. But I just remember
that she had that. I'm trying to think of the
other Barbie. We had the RV. Okay. We had the
boat that made smoothies. I did not have that
boat. We had, like, one of the... dream houses
yeah i had the victorian one so we had the one
that it was like it opened around okay and they
it was four sections like one was outside one
was the kitchen one was the like bedroom okay
i did get in the probably in the 2000 maybe like
99 but they came out with a little boom box and
it actually picked up radio frequency um but
it was an apartment And if you opened it up,
it was an apartment. And I had that. That's cool.
I think we also had, like, a pink Jeep. Barbie
Jeep. I had a couple of the cars. I also had
the Barbie where they did a partnership with
Volkswagen. And she had a Beetle. Also did you?
Yeah. Hers was yellow. Mine was silver years
later. Silver and gold. Silver. In the future.
Um, other games. I had a bunch of real friends
and shit like that, too. We feel like in the
thousands. We just kept playing with what we
had. That's fair. The less I played with toys,
and the more I just played computer games. Same.
Those very early 2000s, I was still definitely
playing with toys, but I can't guarantee when
I got everything. It was probably in the 90s
that I got that stuff. Razor Scooter. Oh, I had
one of those. Released in 2000. I fucked with
a Razor Scooter. It fucked with me. It fucked
me up. Bop It, but that was 90s. I had the other...
They came out with a couple of those, right?
Because I had... Yeah, so they had the OG Bop
It, Twist It, Pull It. Yeah. And then they made
it into a Flick It. I had the Flick It one too,
I think. Yeah, they had the Flick It. So, you
know, you just gotta flick the bean. Gross. Why
would you ruin that for me? Dance Dance Revolution.
Something that I know you fucked with. What?
Hit Clips. I absolutely fucking loved Hit Clips.
I live for Hit Clips. My favorite one was Pink.
There you go. I also had, like, NSYNC and Britney
Spears, obviously. Yeah. I never had the little
boombox, though. I just had the basic bitch one.
That's all I needed. That's all I needed. Pillow
Pets came out in 2003. I had a Pillow Pet. I
think it was a dolphin. I didn't get a Pillow
Pet until I was, like, with Mike. Oh. Because
they still are a thing. I just put it on my bed.
I was old enough that it wasn't something I was
playing with, but I wanted it for the aesthetics.
Yeah, I mean, Furby was 98, so that extended
into the early 2000s. I had a Furby. Silly Bands?
I fucked with Silly Bands. No, that wasn't my
thing. I had a few board games I really liked,
and one that I know I got in the 2000s was Kerplunk.
I heard of that, yeah. Yeah, it's stupid. Dude,
you build this, it's like Jenga, but dumb as
hell. You build this big tube, it always comes
apart because it's made out of cheap -ass plastic,
and you put sticks in it, and then there's marbles,
and you pull out the sticks to try and not let
the marbles fall down. Dumb as hell. I also had
the Y2K -ish version of Mystery Date. And, uh,
Fib Finder. Did you play Fib Finder? No. Bro,
Fib Finder was the best. This was the best sleepover
game of all time. It was like this purple glittery
remote thing. Okay. And you would ask questions
and you would hit the button when you answered,
like you both hit the button at the same time,
and it would buzz and light up and tell you if
you were lying or not. I love this game. I really
loved FemFinder. Oh, I forgot about FemFinder.
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Now, back to the show. 2000's going on the computer.
Going on the computer. Okay. I mean, we touched
on it. So, like, Sims. I mean, I guess, like,
if we're going up to 2005. Yeah, because that
would really be when I could. Yeah, I suppose
so. Not for me, but it was definitely there.
Yeah, so I was, I mean, YouTube was happening.
YouTube started in 2005. Yeah, so I guess, I
don't know when Numa Numa happened, but I was
all about that. Yeah. So, like, we didn't get
a computer until, like, the tail end of this,
like, probably 2004, 2005, maybe somewhere in
there. And it was a desktop down in the basement.
I do remember, to bring it full circle, I had
a mouse pad from Claire's that was a big, it
was neon, it was huge, pink, and it had a basketball
on it, probably said basketball babe, and it
had a little wrist thing that was filled with
glitter water. So, there's that. But yeah, I
remember going, my main memories of going on
the computer during this time. Pinball. The pinball
game, the Galactic Pinball. Also, Minesweeper,
which I never figured out what I was fucking
doing. So, I didn't figure out Minesweeper until
recently. I never have. But I got it now. So,
like, the numbers are the squares away from the
mine. Oh. I just clickety -click -clicked. Yeah,
so did I. And I never won. No. No, I played Solitaire.
But my favorite part was when they would all...
jump and make that, and I would sit and wait
for it to be, like, the perfect one. And that
would take up a lot of time. Because you had
to do stuff that wasn't just internet, because
I wanted to be on the computer, I loved it, but
you couldn't be on the internet. Because it,
uh... The phone line. The phone line. Yeah, dial
-up. Yeah. So, Grandma gave me an hour. Ooh.
Fancy. That I could be on the internet, and that's
when I did all my Myspace stuff. I... Dolls.
Yep. I played with dolls. Not, I played with
the Z. Yeah, but with the Z. D -O -L -L -Z. Yep.
I created my little dowels. Yep. What else? Live
journal. I didn't really do that, but yes, aware.
I spent, if I'm talking about this period of
time, this is probably when I was mostly on,
you remember the Disney Channel website and all
the games, like the Lizzie McGuire game, where
you would do the nails, Miranda's Nail Salon.
And Lizzie's outfit. Lilo and Stitch, the sandwich.
The sandwich game. Fuck me up. Loved it. There
was an Even Stevens game, wasn't there? Yeah,
there was. What was it? I don't remember. I really
remember the Bueno Nacho game. I was going to
say Kim Possible. The Bueno Nacho game. I wanted
to eat that cheese sauce so badly. And then the
Suite Life of Zack and Cody, where you went into
the different... hotel hallways. Yes. Remember?
AmandaPlease .com. I think it's still active.
I did go on Nickelodeon some. Teen Nick. Yep.
I would do. And then Postopia, which was a community
created by Post Cereal. Oh, you've talked about
it before. Well, I mostly talk about Millsbury.
That's the one I was spending most of my time
on. But Postopia had a few games that I liked.
It wasn't as expansive as Millsbury. It wasn't
like a whole fucking community. But the games
on post -op were okay. You know what I did a
lot of? Addictinggames .com. Oh, hell yeah. That
was a little later for me, though. What else?
Neopets. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Neopets was a big one.
Were you the Club Penguin or not? I didn't do
Club Penguin. Neither did I. No, that wasn't
my thing. Honestly, I spent a lot of my time
on Microsoft Paint. Yeah, I did a lot of paint.
The spray paint can was really neat. Oh, yes.
I love the spray paint. I love the spray paint.
That kept me occupied for hours. Truly. That
purple place, which was the other game, you didn't
need the internet for it. And it was like, there
were these little houses. I know one was you
made cakes. And you had to match the cake. And
it had eyes. I don't know. I remember doing that.
Something you could do without being on the internet.
Yeah, we had a lot of little games. Non -internet
games that we played. Which I had already mentioned
for the... Games and toys. Yeah. I played the
chess and checkers and stuff like that. Oh, yeah,
yeah, yeah. And backgammon. All right. Want to
do one more? Yeah. 2005 music memories. Burn
me down. Oh, yeah. Burning. Burning CDs. Yeah.
I remember my first burned. mix cd sissy made
it for me okay there was okay so like i definitely
had some eminem in there yeah and then it went
from like eminem to um oh what was that band
it was like there were no words it was just music
bond and then i really liked the song from lassie
and then i had um a song from uh um fiddler on
the roof Wow. I was so proud of that mix. This
is really something. This was 100 % on. Nope.
I have something I can relate it to a little
bit. I'm going to add this to my liked music
on Spotify. Because I've got to go back to it.
I'm going to blast it. There was... Well, I'm
just going to read what they are. An all -female
Chinese musical group called 12 Girls Band. I
saw them on an infomercial, I think. Okay. And
where they were selling their greatest hit CD
called Freedom. Greatest hits. And this came
out in 2004. And I fucking begged for this CD.
And I got it. And it was pretty much all instrumental
except for some choral -type music. And I sent
you... Played us a snippet. Although I can't
find the greatest hit CD anywhere, like the album,
but I can find the songs. Because I went down
a rabbit hole looking for them a couple months
ago, actually. But it came out in 2004, so it's
live. Two CDs, no skips, swear to God. I jammed
the fuck out of that CD set. So I had that one.
I had a CD case that was also a basketball from
Claire's. Of course. And I had a CD tower. Duh.
From Walmart. I'm trying to remember what was
on it. Well, I had Hilary Duff's Metamorphosis
album. Of course. I had the Spirit Stallion and
the Cimarron soundtrack, which I played the shit
out of. Because you love that horse. I love the
music that that horse runs to. What was that
one that was... Was it Aaron Carter's that was...
red and yellow and you know i'm talking about
the cd was like a spiral yes and it was red and
then yellow and reddit you know this i can see
the cd i don't think that was aaron carter was
it not because i had his cd i think i had that
the red yellow red and yellow yeah but what's
who was it red and yellow spiral because i had
aaron's party come get it i had this album because
i remember the cover in the case no you're right
is it this one Yeah. As Aaron Carter. That's
the next one. Oh, Aaron. Which I had this one
too. I remember the cover now. Aaron. Oh, Aaron.
What are we going to do with you? I had those
both. And I remember that CD because of the colors.
The fact that you remember that that's Aaron
Carter. I just was trying to think of who else
it could be. Yeah. I also had, and I played this
one until it went out, was the autobiography
album by Ashley Simpson. And I remember the CD
and then it was black and it had like scrawled,
uh, all the track listings on the actual CD.
I really fucked that one up. I had a lot of the
now. Oh, I had a couple of those. Do you know
they're still making them? Yeah. It's like 206
or something now. Crazy. I also had, um, the
radio Disney greatest hits and it had like some
of the cheat girls on it. And then it had that
song. hey juliet i think you're fine you really
blow my mind maybe someday you and me can run
away i love that one and then 18s i want to see
if i can find that radio disney cd because um
kelly clarkson yeah i think i had at least this
one yeah i had so metamorphosis that one i had
some of these but at that point in time The Disney
Mambo No. 5 was on this. I'll Be Your Everything
by Youngstown. Reflection, Christina Aguilera
from Mulan was on this one. True to Your Heart
by 98 Degrees from Mulan. Okay, Volume 4 had
like 3LW on it and the Baja Men. and A -Teens,
Backstreet Boys, Aaron Carter, 2002, which one?
2002, this one had the Elementi, and A -Teens
did a cover of Can't Help Falling In Love, and
it was very poppy and horrible, but I liked it
then. And also that song, Pop, by NSYNC. Dirty
Pop. Yep. Now it's a good time, now it's a different
time than we knew. I listened to this, this is
the one I listened to until it, like, wore out,
because it had... 3LW, which was most of the...
Oh, it was like the Cheetah Girls before the
Cheetah Girls happened. Play Has Gone Play. And
then a version of God Bless the USA. Kids in
America. We're the kids in America. Whoa! I had
the Backstreet Boys Black and Blue cassette.
I had Britney Spears. I had so many in sync,
I can't even tell you. And then Nellyville. Nelly's
debut album. Or I think it was his debut. I don't
know. Whatever one was out around that time that
had hot in here on it. And pimp juice. I remember
that one. We really shouldn't have been listening
to that song. Well, whatever. Yeah, I mean, I
had Radio Disney and Disney Jams, and then I
also had pimp juice. A well -rounded childhood,
truly. Well, me. Learned in the 2000s how to
spell because of bananas and... Independent.
I thought you meant you hadn't known how to read
yet. Oh, no, because I was music. I thought you
were also going to say. This shit is bananas.
B -A -N -A -N -A -S. I thought you were going
to say learn to play the recorder. Oh, yeah.
Because it's fucking insane. I was in recorder
karate. Yeah, I had the little strings they tie
on the end of the recorder. Yes, I had like seventh
degree black belt. Hell yeah. I was real good
with that recorder. Yep, I could hot cross buns
with the best of them. We had a whole concert.
You know, we might have, I think I might have
blocked it out. I don't think, I never got a
black belt. I didn't learn the black belt song.
I think I got up to like brown, maybe. Now in
real karate, I got to brown belt. Oh, I didn't
do karate. I played basketball. Like I said,
I ate shit at soccer for a minute. I was a majorette.
I marched in parades. Nice. And twirled a baton
for a big portion of that part of my childhood.
hated every second of it, really. Yeah. But I
could spin that thing. Spin that thing. I was
pretty okay with spinning that thing. I learned
how to do it with a cast on. Wow. Brittle bones.
Yeah, just glass bones and paper skin. But yeah,
those were some of our memories from the early
2000s. I had fun just chit -chatting through
back in time. Yeah, just yapping. Yeah, if you
guys want us to do this again next season for
another era, maybe the later 2000s or the early
2010s or... Late 90s. I don't know. We could
do this again. Yeah. Pretty easy. And I had a
lot of fun doing it. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.
Hell yeah. If you want more ultimate trips back
in time next season. Because this is the first
time I've done an ultimate trip back in time.
Yeah, but we've been talking about doing it since
the very beginning. But we just, you know, we're
always going to be evolving as long as we're
doing the podcast. So we're open to hearing what
you want us to do. Who knows? We might just do
it. Maybe. Maybe. Make sure you listen to next
week's season finale. And, you know... We're
just taking a little summer break. We gotta take
a little summer break, you know? We've had a
great Season 7, a great season of Favorite Things,
and we're gonna finish strong. And we want you
there with us. And you can stick with us even
while we're on break, and we'll tell you how
to do that and where to look for us and all that
stuff. We might have some bonus content coming
your way, so... Oh my! We'll fill you in. But
thank you guys so much for listening. Do we have
anything else we want to end with, Courtney?
I don't think so. No? No. Okay, well, I guess...
We'll see you next week. Yeah. Bye, guys. Bye!
I like to throw up outside.