Without 9 -11, we wouldn't have the Wiggles.
Five, four, three, two, one, zero. Welcome to
the show, people. Welcome to the show. Eat my
shorts. So here is to conversation. Tranquility.
All right, welcome to the Cash Exchange, guys.
What up? All right, your through line today is
what do Tamagotchis, bucket hats, and fanny packs
have in common? Stuff making a comeback. Stuff
from a simpler time, a much better time. Stuff
from a simpler time, yeah. That is... The era
of, I did not have sexual relations with that
woman. I cannot tell you how hard I was trying
to throw... that particular line into this episode.
I assumed it was going to come up naturally at
some point. I didn't think it'd be this early
on. What was his other one? Depends on what your
definition of is is. What a fun time in this
country. Oh. Okay, so I will say that I did make
an oopsie when it came to the through line today
because fanny packs were from the 80s. In my
head it was just like a 90s thing, but my through
line today were that these three are things that
were made in the 90s but are still on the rise.
Also things that were made in the 90s still on
the rise, the two of us. So today's episode,
I was trying to decide which way I wanted to
go, if it was going to be like a generational
conversation or an early 90s, late 90s thing.
Because you were born in 92, I was born in 99.
Not that I experienced all that much of the 90s,
but... I still got to, I still think I understand
most of it. I think that a big part of that,
I think a big, like, I guess, line to where you
can differentiate is whether you remember 9 -11
or not. There's no way you remember firsthand
9 -11. No, of course not. Because you were what?
I was two. Yeah, not even. No, you were. I was
two, almost three. Yeah, almost three, yeah.
Yeah, no, I don't remember it at all. Wild times.
Um, so when I was researching this video, I was
watching, um, I was watching someone else's like,
just like deep dive into nineties culture and
stuff like that. And they were like, it's, it's
kind of blurry where you would consider like
the start and the end of the nineties. And so
they were talking about how the start of the
nineties could have been like when the internet
kind of hit its stride or whenever, like there
were a couple of other examples that they gave
that I don't remember at this point, but that
they said the end of the nineties could have
been like Y2K. Or it could have been 9 -11 or
Columbine because that was also in 99. Yeah.
And so they were talking about how these like
the kind of beginning and ending of this decade
is a little bit fuzzier than we think it is because
there's always going to be a little bit of bleed
in from the previous and to the next. So the
way that I kind of wanted to structure it was
to do a early versus late 90s. Okay. And I wanted
to start out with movies. Because I believe that
the late 90s movies are where it's at. Late 90s.
Okay. So with the late 90s, you got more of the,
like, the rom -coms kind of stuff and more of,
like, the teen movies. So you got, like, Clueless,
10 Things I Hate About You, which, for the record,
is one of my favorite movies of all time. I miss
Heath Ledger. That's based off of Shakespeare.
Faming of the True. Yeah. Yeah. That one is,
it's one of my comfort movies. It has been for...
At least a decade now. I think it was probably
one of the last DVDs that I bought. I got it
on Blu -ray on the anniversary of it coming out.
I miss DVDs. I don't miss DVDs. I miss Blu -rays.
Why don't you miss DVDs? What's the difference
in your view? The lack of quality. Oh. I mean,
I like the fact that you could physically own
it and that it would be yours forever until it
was unusable. Yeah, I mean, there's such a huge
differentiation between DVD and Blu -ray. Were
you guys ever able to find a VHS player? Uh -huh.
Yeah, Thrift Store. I'm surprised you didn't
start out that route. It was pretty early on.
I mean, we looked online, like Amazon, and they're
ridiculous. Well, sure, because they're... Because
now they're like a specialty item. And, I mean,
you're looking at like $300 for a VCR. But we
found one. It's okay. I don't really know if
it's the VHS or the VHS player that is the problem,
but there's services that you can go to that
is probably going to be another present at some
point where you can get it all digitized or you
can just buy the digitizer yourself. But I don't
know if the service can enhance what's going
on because it'll just pixelate it. The ones we
have, it's a bunch of family stuff and it is,
it'll like. Just cut out, it'll go to static,
and then it'll come back, go to static, come
back. Sometimes the audio tracking's off. Okay.
But no, all of our memories are on camcorder
cassettes that I have yet to get my hands on.
But I think that that would be a nice thing to
have at some point. Yeah? Uh -huh. Just got to
get a hold of it. Yeah, that'd be interesting.
See what the home movies look like. Yeah, we
would have it, yeah. We'd invite everyone over
and have a little... Yeah, we're going to sing
session. I don't know. I've always wanted to
hold someone hostage while we do like a slide
show of a vacation. I've seen it in every show
from the early 2000s and like the 90s and stuff.
I've seen it in The Simpsons 15 times. Patty
and Selma bring the carousel. I so badly want
to subject somebody to that. Yeah. I don't take
enough pictures for one thing for that to make
sense. Who would we? I mean, I take a lot of
pictures. Yeah. So I could subject you to that.
That's fine. I think in the case that I did a
vacation and wanted to have one of these hostage
situations, I would also just take pictures of
the worst things. This is my feet on the tram
getting from my car to the theme park. When we
went to Colorado Springs, I took the fancy camera.
And so we ended up taking probably like 200 -something
pictures. And they're real good, like high -res
pictures. But you do run into... okay, well,
this is a picture of a thing. This is a picture
two centimeters to the right of that thing. This
is another picture two centimeters down from
that thing. You want to make a complete image
in your head. Yeah, yeah. I mean, you've got
to get the whole thing. Yeah, absolutely. But
no, that's on the to -do list. I just need to
get access to the equipment that I do not have
access to at the present moment. I mean, one
of these days. Is it expensive to digitize VHSs?
Have you looked into the pricing and stuff on
it? I think you send them away. I think you can
send like five for maybe like 60, 70 bucks. Oh,
it's not as bad as I thought it would be. It's
nothing crazy. I mean, I think we have maybe
10 or 15 here. But there's also things that you
can buy that will digitize it for you. Okay.
I think the only VHS that I specifically miss
is the orange Rugrats one. The Rugrats and...
Go to Paris? I don't remember what it's called.
Rugrats in Paris? Something like that. I don't
know. The Paris Rugrats movie, the orange VHS,
was my favorite thing growing up. You also had
a lot of white VHSs. Those were Barney. Oh, yeah.
I forgot about those. I mean, they were hand
-me -downs. I think the Rugrats one was actually
mine. Probably, yeah. I don't think I was really
a Barney kid. No, Barney had made its run by
the time you were a toddler. You were real into
the Wiggles. The Wiggles are also making a comeback.
But isn't it just one of the original guys? I
don't know. I don't remember who the original
Wiggles are. I don't know if it's just one Wiggle
left. There was the Asian. Correct. There was
the tall one. There was the one that looked like
he was probably an accountant before he became
a Wiggle. And then there was the one that, I
don't know, I guess the hot one of the group.
Aside from the Asian one, you could also be describing
the cast of Whose Line Is It Anyway? The tall
one, the one that looked like they were an accountant
before this, and the hot one. Who's the hot one?
In this situation, Wayne Brady. Wayne Brady,
yeah. It's not. Ryan Stiles is the tall one.
And then Colin Mockery looks like he's still
an accountant. But yeah, no, so the Wiggles are
making a comeback. They're all over TikTok right
now. There's a female Wiggle now. Progressive.
It's called a jiggle. The three wiggles and the
jiggle. Was the Wiggles a 90s show? No. No? No,
early 2000s. I want to say, what, like 2002?
Dolly Parton was on the Wiggles? Active from
91. Okay, but when did they get the show? It
was like a touring group before they got the
show. Yummy, yummy. Fruit salad still slaps.
IMDB to the rescue. Anthony Field and Jeff Fatt
were members of the Cockroaches, a Sydney pop
band known for their good time R &B material.
What? Okay, well this says... So on IMDb, it
says that the show ran from 1993 to 2022, right?
But then it says it ran for six seasons. And
then if you go down to the list of episodes,
the first one is 1998. But then it says it aired
September 1st, 2002. Okay. So according to IMDb,
it's 2002. I've been like skimming their Wikipedia.
And the beginning of this paragraph is the Wiggles
popularity in the U .S. increased, quote, in
the shell -shocked weeks after the terrorist
attacks on New York City in 2001. So if it weren't
for 9 -11, we wouldn't have the Wiggles? I think
if it weren't for 9 -11, we wouldn't have the
Wiggles. Also, if there is a promo statement,
an audio bite from this episode, it's without
9 -11, we wouldn't have the Wiggles. I think
9 -11 makes as prominent of an appearance in
these episodes as M. Night Shyamalan presents
Avatar The Last Airbender did in our earlier
episodes. Yeah. It's been a minute since I've...
Made reference? Made reference. We got to bring
it back. We should have talked about it in the
last episode. Except I don't know if it crosses
the threshold into it's good. No. I don't know.
Did you ever watch... So bad it's bad. Did you
ever finish Battlefield Earth? No. I'm not going
to go back and watch that movie. I don't like
John Travolta. I don't like Spaceship Beep Boop.
That's from Family Guy, right? Yeah. Yeah. I...
I was watching Family Guy while I was in a hotel
last week, and that came up, and then that reference
finally clicked. Yeah. We are about love and
spaceships and beat boot. I think about it all
the time. Wild tangent. I don't even remember
where we were. We were on movies. Movies. We
started out with VHS tapes, and now we're here.
There we go. But yeah, I believe that the late
90s were better movies because we got all of
the teen rom -coms. We got Clueless, She's All
That, 10 Things I Hate About You. We got Matrix.
I think we had Pulp Fiction. I think that was
late 90s. I might be wrong on that one. Yeah.
We got Titanic, which was 90s. I think Reservoir
Dogs was 94, and that was before Pulp Fiction.
So yeah, you're probably right. And yeah, when
I was doing like the, looking into the most like
quintessentially 90s movies, I think, or the
big like cultural touch points when it came to
movies, there was also Home Alone for the early
part, Home Alone, Silence of the Lambs, Jurassic
Park, and that's when Disney had their... Like
second heyday. Renaissance. Yeah. So they had
like Pocahontas and Mulan and Beauty and the
Beast and all that. You know what the number
one grossing movie for 1992 was? What? Aladdin.
You know what the highest grossing movie of 99
was? Phantom Menace. Unfortunately. I already
looked it up. That's a good movie. It's fine.
What's his name? Lloyd... What's his name? Jake
Lloyd. Who? Anakin. Oh, okay. He went through
some stuff because of that role, but he also
was not good in that role. He also was in Jingle
All the Way and was just as annoying in that
role, too. That man is 36 now. He is, and he
looks like Anakin, but if Anakin had just been
beaten senselessly for the last 15 years, same
face. wispy mustache he looks like if anna can
only listen to semi -sonic this man looks like
he originated the meme and here's wonderwall
it's it's rough but hey uh hopefully he has come
out of the other side of his uh the difficulties
that he faced and hopefully he's better for it
now so shout out to jake lloyd i have no idea
what difficulties he faced oh he had to move
schools Because he was bullied so relentlessly
for his role in Phantom Menace. Okay. But him,
it also didn't help that he was also sharing
a movie with Jar Jar Binks, who was also one
of the worst movie characters of all time. But
you would think that might help him out because
he was worse than Anakin. At least Anakin had
a story. Jar Jar Binks was just the worst. I
have a love -hate relationship with movies that
have a character that you can tell they're just
super psyched about making merch for. They don't
have an actual plot point or anything. They're
just there, and they want to be a fun toy. What
are those things in the newer Star Wars? They
kind of look like Furbies. I don't remember what
they're called. But they're like these little
alien animal thingies. Yeah. Look like little
Furbies. And they were 100 % only in the movie
so that there could be a toy. Yeah. Okay. I was
thinking the Minions. Because in the first Despicable
Me, I'm pretty sure they were only the way that
they were so that they could be solid merch.
And then it took off even better than they expected.
So much so that they have movies and rides. And
you have a fart gun from one of them. They also
had a part of the plot. They were also part of
the plot. I know I brought this on myself. Is
it banana or fart? No, I haven't dared try the
fart one yet. It just smelled like popcorn. Well,
okay, yeah. I don't know how much you have to
drain the tank before you just get... popcorn
flavored banana but let's find out keep talking
do you think you could just like put vape juice
in that thing maybe i mean it's the same concept
i don't see why not for those of you listening
um it's a little it's a toy version of the fart
blaster that's in despicable me and it comes
in scents fart and banana the fart one smells
like buttered popcorn jelly beans and it shoots
little like smoke rings And it reminds me of
every D -bag who vaped. Maybe like the 2010s.
We haven't tried the far one yet, so stand by.
I'm about to experience this for science and
for podcasts. I don't like that this thing is
revving up. I'll listen to this. All right. We're
getting the gases built up. Oh, we're ready.
All right. And boom goes the dynamite. Do you
smell it? No. Did it hit you too high? That hit
you in the nostrils. That one smelled like cupcakes.
It didn't even smell like... How was that one?
That one hit you right in the nose. It still
smells really sweet. This is going to be the
fart one. Just straight. Let's get her charged
up. Doesn't smell good, but... It's so funny
to watch. You just get hit in the face and it
just goes up your nose. I don't know. I think
the fart scent was all hype. The banana smells
like banana. Yeah. Snozzberries. Yeah, no, it
smells fine. It's going to make a great prop
whenever we get our video going. If you say something
dumb, you just get fart blasted. So I kind of
went a different route. I did less. Oh, my. It's
smoky in here. Looking like a JRE episode. I
went a slightly different route. I did movies.
Biggest movies from 92. Biggest movies from 99.
Okay. That's how I knew Phantom Menace was number
one. Oh, so you did like specifically just our
years? Yeah. Okay. I was going early and late.
So next to Aladdin as number one in 92. You know,
the second one, guest starred, cameoed, a future
president. Home Alone 2. Home Alone 2, lost in
New York. And then the third one, Batman Returns.
Okay. So that's Batman with Keaton. Yeah. The
last one. Yeah, because he was in Batman and
Batman Returns, and then after that it was Batman
Forever. Forever with Clooney, right? No. No?
No. Kilmer. Kilmer, okay. R .I .P. R .I .P. So
the Iceman. It's a good old Doc Holliday. At
99, so we have Phantom Menace, Sixth Sense, our
boy M. Night, in his heyday, well before old.
All right, that was a good movie. I'll give you
that. What do you think his turning point was?
What do you mean? When did it all go to hell?
Do you think it was after Signs? I think he did...
Well, Split was good. I like Split. I think that
Split was good, though, because of Anya Taylor
-Joy and James McAvoy. I don't think it had anything
to do with the plot. I think it was because he
did such a phenomenal job. Yeah. As every character
that he played that I don't think that the movie,
I think the movie could have absolutely no plot.
And I think generally speaking, it kind of does.
And it still would be great. Yeah. Because it
was just like the link. It was the bridge between
Unbreakable and Glass. Mm -hmm. I did not like
Glass. I didn't watch it. I really wanted to
like it. Yeah. Did not. Right after Sixth Sense,
Toy Story 2. Okay. Which, in my opinion, is the
second best Toy Story. Okay. After Toy Story...
Three? Four. No, three. Yeah, not four. Two.
Not four. Sorry, three. I meant three. Yes. I
was agreeing with you. Okay. Cheese and crackers.
I will say, Toy Story 4 is a gorgeous movie.
The animation on it is absolutely phenomenal.
The movie itself did not need to be made. It's
real stupid. It does not need to be a fifth one.
That's another something for the sake of making
it a toy. Forky. Yeah. Literally just trash.
And they made a toy out of it and said, look
how cute this trash is. Buy it, please. They
wanted to break the fourth wall. They wanted
to make a meta joke in the age of Deadpool. Oh,
you want to buy trash? Well, here's actual trash.
Yeah. Buy it. Lotso Huggenbear, on the other
hand, fantastic merch. He smelled like strawberries.
He did. He did. Max had a Lotso. I don't know
what happened to it. He was such a good villain.
Yeah, so I mean, it's interesting that there's
a seven -year gap. So movies that came out when
I was born and then movies that came out when
you were born, and they're pretty similar. I
mean, you got... Batman, and then Star Wars,
which essentially are just superhero movies.
Yeah. You got Aladdin and Toy Story. And then
you have Home Alone 2 and The Sixth Sense. I'm
sure there's some sort of through line there.
Has Kevin McAllister been dead this whole time?
Kevin was dead the whole time. See? That's why
they left him behind is because he didn't exist.
So not much changes through the decade as far
as movie trends. Sure. As far as like the lasting
impact. Do you think that like the earlier, the
later had more of a more staying power? I think
probably the later, because I think that you
mean as far as movies are concerned? Yeah, because
the early 90s movies were real art house, real
artsy fartsy. And just they were trying to make
up for all of the cheesy like horndog stuff of
the 80s. And so they tried to do a 180 and say,
no, this isn't a movie. This is a film. And then
as the decade went on, they started getting away
from that and started making more enjoyable,
longer -lasting things. Because Batman Returns
versus Star Wars, The Phantom Menace, I mean,
Batman Returns is like... real gritty and takes
itself away too seriously it's like it's like
if uh they saw like the dark knight and they
were like no we need to amp this up like the
batman it's yes yes it was like yeah but phantom
menace is like hey um we're cool guys with laser
swords and we're just gonna slice down people
and also there's a bunch of talk about senate
hearings and votes of no confidence I talk a
lot of trash on the, like, the fact that every
movie nowadays is a prequel, sequel, or reboot,
but I didn't realize how invasive it was even
in the 90s. You've got Home Alone 2, Toy Story
2, Batman Returns, and The Phantom Menace, which
is... Star Wars 1, which is actually the fourth.
Yeah. Like, all of these are, almost all of these
are reboots, sequels, or prequels. Yeah. Yeah,
I mean, I would be interested to know what the
most profitable movie from the 90s was that was
not a prequel, sequel, or remake. Titanic. Okay,
what about one that's an original story? Like
someone made from whole cloth. By the way, don't
you think it's weird that they used that tragedy
as a jumping off point? to tell the story about
people that never existed. I think a lot of things
about the Titanic are weird. The fact that we're
still revisiting that after 113 years? 1912,
yeah. The fact that we're still revisiting the
Titanic, like, let them rest. Let it die. Turning
it into a romantic movie is bizarre enough. Time
is about to take care of that for us, because
apparently it's like... In the next 50 years,
it's going to be completely disintegrated. Yeah.
Also, for the record, Jurassic Park. Well, that's...
Based on a book. Based on a book. Independence
Day? Yeah. I mean, I think that would be the
most original story so far. So the top 10 are
Titanic. Based off an actual event. Based on
an actual event. Phantom Menace. Sequel. Prequel.
Prequel. Jurassic Park, book. Based on a book.
Independence Day. As far as we know. Lion King,
Hamlet. Yeah. Forrest Gump, book. Maybe Independence
Day is like loosely based on World of Worlds.
Yeah, just a reimagining. Sure, yeah. I would
still give it the point. But yeah, Forrest Gump,
book. Sixth Sense. Original story. Walt Disney?
The Sixth Sense is a Disney movie? Yeah, it was.
They owned, not Miramax. That's the one we're
not allowed to talk about. But Dogma is owned
back by the right people again. Yeah. Touchstone.
Disney bought Touchstone. Okay, yeah. And that's
where Disney released their more adult movies
that they couldn't put under the Disney header.
All right, and then 8, 9, and 10 are The Lost
World, Jurassic Park, Men in Black, and Armageddon.
Armageddon is one of those weird ones. Was it
Armageddon? I feel like it's one of those. Yes,
Ben Affleck, Billy Bob Thornton. I feel like
that's one of those ones that had another movie
that was exactly like it come out at the same
time. Like The Core and Deep Impact. No, maybe
Deep Impact is the Armageddon -like movie. No
strings attached in Friends with Benefits? Yeah,
that kind of situation. I'm pretty sure there
was two movies where there was an asteroid about
to hit the Earth and that they had to do something
about it. And the other two movies were they
had to go to the center of the Earth to plant
dynamite or something to re -spin the course
on mumbo jumbo like that. Okay. All right, and
on that note, let's move on to music. Okay. I
didn't do anything for music. No. This one's
all you. So the earlier part of the 90s, I feel
like this is where it splits a little bit more
because movies are kind of consistent throughout
the entire decade, but I think music changed
a little bit more. So in the early 90s, you get
the release of Nevermind. So you get more of
the grungy kind of music. Nirvana, Pearl Jam.
All that was in response to the hair metal stuff
from the 80s that kids were too cool for. And
then you get kind of the basis for the 90s version
of pop, R &B, and hip -hop because you get Dr.
Dre's Chronic. This is when in the early 90s
is where Whitney Houston gets her biggest claim
to fame. bodyguard right i will always love you
yeah which i do you think that have you heard
dolly parton sing that song do you do you think
it should have been a a whitney or a dolly song
i mean i know like whitney houston is known for
it but i think that they both brought it brought
a different uh i think they they're both sending
different messages For the same song. Okay, that's
fair. So Dolly Parton wrote that song for Porter
Wagner. Yeah. Whenever they stopped working together.
I don't really know what the breaking point was,
but I know that she wrote that song for Porter
Wagner. And just like, hers is a lot, I don't
want to say sadder, but hers. Her version comes
across as more of a friendship not lasting or
like a partnership not lasting than a relationship
not lasting. I definitely think that Whitney
Houston's version is definitely a song about
a relationship that's ending. Interesting take.
I'll have to re -listen to both of those. But
no, Whitney Houston definitely made more money
for Dolly Parton off that song than she ever
did with that song. Yeah. Probably funded Dollywood.
Probably. I mean, Dolly Parton is still an icon
one way or the other. But once we get to the
late 90s, in the same kind of style as the movies
went, how there was more of a teen -centric thing,
you get more of the kind of teen music. So you
get Britney Spears, NSYNC, all of the boy bands.
So NSYNC, Backstreet, New Kids. 98 Degrees. 98
Degrees, yeah. Which I couldn't. I don't think
I've ever listened to 98 Degrees. I think Gimme
One More Night, I think is what it's called.
That's the only 98 Degrees song I know. Yeah.
One of my friends, her mom is obsessed with New
Kids on the Block still. I don't understand that
one. I don't particularly care for the Wahlbergs
as a whole. Their burgers are meh. Wow. I stand
by it. I've never had a Wahlburger. It's gimmicky.
I tried the actual ones in Massachusetts. Yeah.
And I also tried the ones in Vegas. Both, solidly.
Do they taste the same? Or is there like the
chain vibe that comes to the Vegas one? It all
tastes like chain burgers. But very expensive
because it has Wahlberg in the name. Mm -hmm.
So, like, it's fine. It's just it's not anything
special. But they do have a bunch of, like, Wahlberg
-themed art on the walls. So you can tell that
they're, like, trying really hard to just be
gimmicky. Mm -hmm. It's run by Paul Wahlberg,
I think. Paul Wahlberg? No, not run by Paul Wahlberg.
The Iceman? Paul Wahlberger. God. Yeah, no. They're
solidly a meh family. Hmm. Solidly average. Solidly
average. In the teen pop stuff, are they actually
making a Britney Spears movie based on her book?
Because I feel like that's pretty messed up.
I keep hearing things about it, and I keep forgetting
to actually look into it to see if it's really
happening. Well, if we discuss it here, then
much like the Michael biopic, biopic, biography
picture, we might have just spoken it into existence.
I don't want to. I don't like the idea of that
being a movie. Yeah, yeah, but I mean, it's all
these things. Like, I'm sure it's going to be
whitewashed. Just like everything else was. Just
like the Elvis movie was. Just like the Michael
Jackson one will definitely be. Yeah. It's just,
it's going to be, hey, you remember when this
thing happened? Yeah. Well, it's in a movie now.
And, I mean, how up to current day do you think
they're going to go? Do you think they're going
to have some actress reenacting her crazy ass
Instagram posts? Maria River Red or whatever
it is. Huh? That's her actual, her. Other Instagram?
Maria Everred? River Red. River Red. Huh. I think
that's what it is. I'm not very up to date on
my Britney Spears stuff. I just see her on, I
just see her stuff on Twitter and people saying,
is Britney okay? No, she's not okay. She hasn't
been okay since 99. Yeah. Yeah, her Instagram
name is Maria River Red. Hmm. That's not what
I was actually going to look up, but. Now, in
the 90s, we also had, like, a weird influx of,
like, mainstream Latin music, too. And then once
that got semi -popular, then you had bands like
98 Degrees, Backstreet Boys, NSYNC all do, like,
Latin -inspired songs. Because, like, Give Me
One More Night. Yeah. Part of that's sung in
Spanish. And it's a very Latin vibe song. The
Call, I think, by the Backstreet Boys about his
girlfriend calling him and saying, no, I'm going
to be out late tonight. Don't wait up. And then
he's out cheating on her. That's also a Latin
song. I'm sure there's an NSYNC one. I just can't
think of it off the top of my head. But I mean,
that was all based off of like Mark Anthony.
Ricky Martin. Yeah. Enrique Iglesias. All that
stuff. Was Enrique Iglesias 90s? I thought he
was 2000s. I'm pretty sure Hero came out in like
late 90s. Probably like 97, 98. Also, circling
back, there is going to be a Britney Spears movie
based on The Woman in Me. It's being directed
by the guy who did Wicked and Crazy Rich Asians.
Okay. Neat. Oh, Brittany is expected to be very
involved in the film. That's interesting. I'm
curious how it's going to play out. But I hope
they do the story justice. Who's going to be
Jamie Lynn? It's going to be... They should get
someone like... I was going to make a South Park
joke and I can't remember who it is. Sally Struthers.
That's the way I was going to go too. I was thinking
like Honey Boo Boo. God, I tried to read her
book and it's so unbelievably stupid. Honey Boo
Boo? Jamie Lynn Spears. Oh. She, it reads like
she used a voice to text feature instead of actually
like typing things out. She uses more y 'alls
than I have seen in my entire life. Hmm. It's
bad. Yeah. It's bad. Did you read? Do you think
any of that has to do with all the blood rushing
to her chin? Is that why she's not all there
upstairs? The last video I saw of her was her
and her daughter. I think they're at some cheerleading
competition or something. And that thing could
cut glass. I couldn't tell you the last time
I saw anything about Jamie Lynn Spears. I'm sure
it was right after the woman in me came out.
I think that there was talks about a Zoey 101
reboot. They made it. Oh, they did? Is she in
it? Zoe 102. Is she in it? Yes. Oh. It's a wedding
for someone that was on that show. So maybe that's
why she made a little bit of a comeback there.
I don't know. I'm interested to see, like I said,
how it plays out. But everything about that whole
story is just so sad. Yeah. But hey, get that
bag. Make that money. Who's going to be K -Fed?
I hope that Justin Timberlake is Paul Giamatti.
That's my dream cast. I hope it ruins the tour.
The world tour. Yeah. I think stadium tours are
on their way out. I think that there's too many
celebrities who are just like ruining themselves.
Speaking of, I actually wanted to find some way
to loop this in. That way it's current. Katy
Perry nonsense. I am in deep. I am in so deep
on all of her ridiculousness. I don't understand
it. I don't understand the Blue Origin stuff.
I don't understand the singing in space, taking
up space. Yeah. I don't understand the coming
back and saying I'm an astronaut. I don't understand
the saying you don't really know love. Until
you've been above the earth. I don't get whatever's
going on on her tour. And I also don't get the
annoying and pretty offensive Carnival Cruises.
I think it's Carnival. Royal Caribbean. Something
with Orlando Bloom and Drew Barrymore. What?
Where he's like this refined British man and
she's just this bumpkin from America. Oh, God.
What? You haven't seen these? No. They are so
rude to Americans and just like a superiority
complex for the British in Orlando. Okay. I will
have to look that up. Hold on. Let's take a break
real quick and I'll pull it up. Actually, while
you're doing that, for the uninitiated, because
I am in deep on all of the Katy Perry nonsense,
she... tried to buy a house out from under nuns,
and one of the nuns died in court. Did Katy Perry
kill that nun? Died in court? Died in court.
So she was there to argue, let me keep my house,
and she just keeled over? Yep. Katy Perry may
have killed a nun. She also, there's a thing
in California called the Perry Act now, because
she bought a house from a man who was in the
throes of either Alzheimer's or dementia, I don't
remember. His kids, after the man died, tried
to get it back from her because he wasn't in
his right mind to sell. And they were like, I
mean, sorry, like it already went through. So
it's Katy Perry's house now. And so now there's
a Perry Act that protects elder abuse and protects
the elderly and their estate, basically, from
being abused by other people. What kind of house
was this that Katy Perry had her eye on it? I
don't know. I don't know that specific thing.
Was it just like some bungalow on the side of
the road? What she tried to buy from the nuns
was a convent. For what? She just wanted that
convent. Huh. Anyways, after this. So Katy Perry
just sucks as a human being. And she's not Catholic,
right? No. I mean, she wasn't buying it to keep
it at a convent. But she threw enough money that
the diocese got to supersede the nuns. Oh, she
bought them off. She tried to. And the nuns said
no. The thing that they had spent 40 years at
that point building, they were like, we don't
want this to go to her. We want it to be used
for the good. What about the nuns living there
that didn't die? At that point... I think they
were trying to sell it off because the two that
actually established it were the ones that were
in court, one of the ones that collapsed. Do
you think Katie saw that as divine intervention?
Hey, one down, one to go. I mean, yeah, probably.
Yeah, she sucks. A lot of the theories around
why the tour is so... which if you're not familiar,
I definitely recommend you look up any of the
videos. It's insane. She has like a ring that
goes into the crowd and goes from one side of
the stage to the other side of the stage, and
she does like the most awkward jog run, and the
dance scene is something else. So a couple of
the theories that came up whenever I was... And
deep on TikTok on this one was that originally
it was supposed to be a like women empowerment
themed tour, which is why Woman's World came
out. And then it got so much backlash that she
was like, well, maybe not. And then she did the
Blue Origins thing, which she spent an obscene
amount of money to do. And then she thought it
was going to be a space themed tour because she
was a quote unquote astronaut now. And she got
so much hate for it that she had to pivot again.
And so this is basically like what happened when
South Park thought that Hillary would win. And
so they were just like, well, shit, how do we
make a whole plot line out of this? And so the
whole the whole tour is just her trying to like
scramble to make a third thing, which is why
she's in like a video game. But she's like fighting
aliens with lightsabers and bizarre. Also, the
reason that she's so like lethargic and is not.
really performing she's just using all of her
props to like perform for her is because she's
on ozempic because it like it causes lethargy
and like apparently there's a lot of speculation
that that's why she's not performing in her in
her tour it's just because she's uh zombified
she's zombified yeah oh all right here it goes
An MSC cruise isn't just a vacation. It's a holiday
full of European style. And all the things Americans
love, too. Come on, Bloom. I need some buffalo
wings. There are a ton of football matches. Games.
Football games. But he's sad. That is a big hat.
It's American. Of course it's big. Nobody puts
baby in a corner. No. No. She just wants to dance.
You ready for some adrenaline, Bloom? I was born
ready. How high is that? So high. Holiday! Was
that good? It's a dinner jacket. Dinner t -shirt.
Privacy. Privacy. Architecture. Sharkitecture.
Dude, there's a line. Gelato. Froyo. Football.
Football. Schedule. Okay, now you're just doing
it on purpose. What a vacation. Don't you mean
holiday? My bad. We should stop now. Who is that
for? Like, isn't this something that they should
post on, like, British TV and not here? Because
I see this commercial all the time. Yeah, I've
never seen it. And it is offensive. Yeah, it
offends your gentle American sensibilities. It's
ridiculous. What toys do you remember from your
childhood? Oh, from my childhood? Easy Bake Oven.
An easy bake oven. I have an actual oven, so
I guess I shouldn't. So you don't need to cook
your cakes with a light bulb anymore? I would
love to cook a cake. I would love to cook a cake
with a light bulb. I got an easy bake oven for
Christmas from Peg one year. Nice. It might have
been like your first Christmas. Yeah. Or maybe
right before you were born. Okay. Plugged it
in. We realized it didn't have a bulb, so she
took me to the grocery store on, I don't know,
Christmas Eve, Christmas Day. And we went and
bought a bulb, and I made something in it. And
then I was using it unsupervised not too long
after. What did you burn? I got the little, you
know, the thing that you push the pan through
the other side in. Yeah. I got it stuck in there,
and it just melted all in it. That was short
-lived. No, and then after that, probably, I
don't know, early 2000s, they came out with a
boy version of the Easy Bake Oven. It was called
the Queasy Bake. I remember that. And you made
stuff that was shaped like bugs and worms, and
I had one of those, too. I don't think I destroyed
that one. No. I actually looked into it the other
day to see how much it would cost to buy an Easy
-Bake oven, just for nostalgia reasons, because,
again, I have an actual oven, but, you know.
I was at Walmart in Albuquerque, maybe, and they
had an entire end cap full of Easy -Bake ovens
that were on clearance. Hell, if I'd known, I
would have gotten you one. The original price
on them was like $50. They were marked down to
like $30. Okay. Which I think is still too much
to pay for an Easy Bake Oven. For a light bulb
and a little fake conveyor belt? Mm -hmm. It's
the experience. It is. I think that your kids
would love an Easy Bake Oven. There's no way
I would allow that to happen. They'd set the
house on fire. Sure, I believe that. I'm not
saying that they wouldn't set the house on fire.
I'm saying they would enjoy it in the meantime.
Yeah. Getting the freaking cake batter out of
the carpet. Oh, God. You do it on tile, at least.
But one thing I saw that was interesting is that
the top -selling toys for 1992, Batman action
figures from Batman Returns, Teenage Mutant Ninja
Turtles action figures, like these are the top
-selling toys. Yeah. Like the big thing on Christmas.
and the Super Nintendo. Okay. But just seven
years later, so we've completely abandoned the
action figures, and now you've got 1999, the
Furby was the number one selling toy. It's not
an action figure. It's not, but I mean, compared
to you push a button and his arm may... Got that
kung fu grip. Yeah. Versus a Furby that you can
teach to curse at you. Do they still make Furbies?
They do, yeah. Number two, Polaroid iZone camera.
Is that a toy? I wouldn't consider that a toy.
I don't know. It was the second top -selling
toy on this list that I saw. Okay. And the third
one kind of surprised me. It was Little Red Doll.
which kind of looks like a Raggedy Ann doll,
but with a smushed face. A Little Red doll? Little
Red doll, yeah. Oh, that is. It was the number
three selling toy, Christmas of 99. And then
just for shiz and gigs, number four for 1999,
we get the action figure doll, make the list,
and it's Britney Spears. Oh, okay. Barbie. A
quick segue on Barbies. Did you see when they
made the Wicked dolls and they put the wrong
link on the box? Yeah, and it was a porn website.
Yeah. I spend way too much time on the internet.
Every time we do one of these episodes, I'm reminded
of how much time I spend on the internet. How
hard is that to check real quick? Okay, but they
also made... You type in wicked .com. That's
all you got to do before you send it to the printer.
For those listening, please don't look up wicked
.com. I don't know. I don't know what the actual
website for the movie is now. I mean, usually
it's like, if it's a movie that is also, and
like, it'll be, then I got him night on the brain.
So old. So their website would be something like
old, the movie, old, the motion picture .com.
Yeah. It's not just going to be old .com. Can
you imagine what would pop up? If you just did
old .com. I feel like I might need to turn my...
Yeah, the VPN to get out of Texas. Safety filter.
Safety filter on. Just need a whole bunch of
pixelated pictures. Huh. What is it? Nothing.
It's one of those things where it's like sort
of a website, so it has just a bunch of hyperlinks
to things that might be... Yes. Can we get old
.com? Can we get old .com? Let's go to GoDaddy
and see how much this thing costs. Or should
we try to get old2 .com? Oh, it says it's taken.
By who? In case he wants to make a sequel to
that awful movie. Old 2, even older? Where maybe
she'll get pregnant even younger. I hate M. Night
Shyamalan, guys. Like four or five. For anyone,
which I would assume is a majority of the people
that haven't seen the movie Old by our buddy
M. Night Shyamalan, Shyamalan. They are on. It
turns out that they're part of a government experiment.
They go through this canyon onto this beach.
But when they go through the canyon, they're
like traveling through a portal that ages you
super fast. And so the movie starts out and there's
these two children and they're like. I don't
know, seven and eight, nine and ten, something
like that. And they have like little schoolgirl
crushes on each other. But then somewhere through
the movie, they start aging. Keep in mind, they're
eight or nine. And then they just have sex and
she ends up pregnant. And the baby grows at like
a super rate. And then all of a sudden, this
eight or nine year old in the body of a... I
don't know, 14, 15 -year -old, is giving birth
on this beach to this baby. And it is just one
of the worst movies I have seen in a long time.
And I do not recommend because I just gave you
all the plot points. And if that still appeals
to you, then maybe instead of seeing a movie,
yeah, see a therapist. All right. We're just
going to make up for the couple episodes that
I spent not dogging on M. Night Shyamalan. We're
here for it. It's a pun intended split of the
like watchable movies because like Sixth Sense
and Signs were good. Split was really good. Unbreakable
was fine. But like old Knock at the Cabin. Knock
at the... I forgot about Knock at the Cabin.
Where the plot twist was there was no plot twist.
Yeah. That's not a point against him. That's
not a... It was just like a... Oh, well. The
world actually was going to end. The village?
Didn't watch it. That's the Wallberg one? Hmm?
What am I thinking of? No, you're thinking of...
The mist? The trees. The trees, yeah. The happening.
The happening. Devil was decent. Where they're
in the elevator. Oh, yeah. I didn't know that
was him. Mm -hmm. You know what was not good
at all? What? What was it called? The movie with
his daughter. Trap. Trap. Trap was crap. I thought
it was fine. Watchers was dumb. Caddo Lake is
a movie that went straight to Max. Actually pretty
good. Okay. There's a good twist in it. That's
a good one. If you need to get your M. Night
Fix. If you need to get your M. Night Fix. Go
to therapy. I do appreciate the fact that he
resurrected Josh Hartnett, though. Yeah? Yeah.
Is he doing things now, or did he do the one
thing? He's got another movie coming out next
week. Oh, he does? Nice. Or he's Bleach Blonde.
Oh. Yeah. And he's an assassin or something.
Fight or flight. Yeah, he looks like some shady.
Another icon of the 90s. That's a choice, yeah.
Another icon of the 90s. Also from the 90s that's
making a comeback, Mission Impossible. They're
making their quote -unquote last one this year.
We'll see. Next year. I don't think it's going
to fully be over until... Spaceship Beep Boop
lets him be returned to the face. Takes him back
to Xenu or whatever, yeah. How many times do
we have to mention them before we get stalked?
Because I would like to be on the right side
of that line. I mean, they can stalk us. Yeah.
Upside. More listeners. We get more listeners.
Yeah. Downside. Everything else. Everything else,
yeah. Elizabeth Moss is going to start coming
after us. Eh. But then we just throw Danny Masterson
in their face. I forgot about him. Yeah, I've
been seeing a lot of clips from The Ranch on
Netflix. I think I watched like half the first
season. It's a really good show. The clips I've
seen. Pretty good. But I don't know if I could
get past the Danny Masterson -ness of it. Yeah.
And I'm not like cancel guy. But he's just got
a very, he's got an aura that I don't like. That's
fair. About him. We've been re -watching Raising
Hope. Yeah. And he's in an episode of it. And
like an alternate reality. Yeah. And yeah, it
just felt weird seeing him. I really liked The
Ranch when it was on. I thought that him and
Kutcher played really well together, as their
more, I guess, grown -up selves. But even Kutcher
now is optimistically a little dicey, now that
all the stuff's come out with not only Masterson,
but all the Diddy stuff. There's a lot of bad
aura around that show. And then him and Kunis
trying to... Evacuate the country as soon as
Diddy got popped. Yeah, that's... Not a good
look. Not a good look. Yeah. That 70s show was
such a big part of my childhood. It sucks so
much that I can't watch it. Everything about
that show is weird now in context. Because Valderrama
is weird and problematic. Kutcher is weird and
problematic. Asterson is a criminal. Kunis is
not necessarily on the chopping block, but she's
at least been an accessory to some weird shit.
Yeah. What about the Toph man? It's so interesting
the way that he was always kind of the outcast
of the group because he didn't do things with
the rest of the cast. And now we maybe know why.
Yeah. Maybe he was just the one, like... With
his head screwed on right? Well -adjusted, yeah.
Well -adjusted one of them. Yeah, because even
Laura Prepon has her stuff, too. Speaking of
Topher and Wahlberg, they were just in the movie...
Flight Plan? No. Flight Red? No. I don't know.
They were just in the movie where they were in
a plane. And someone along the line made the,
I think it was Marky Mark, made the decision
to go bald to make himself look even more unhinged
than his character actually, I don't know. It
was very jarring to see him bald. But it was
a pretty good movie. And then at the end, the
credits start rolling, directed. Or director
Mel Gibson. POC 2. You going to buy your ticket
early? Make sure you get a good seat. The Resurrect.
The Resi. POC 2. The Resi. You know what? I'm
going to make as much of an effort to see POC
2 as I made to see Sound of Freedom. I saw Sound
of Freedom. Yeah. It was something. It definitely
had that... It had that, what's his name, Kirk
Cameron vibe to it. Like a left below. Yeah.
Is it left below or left behind? One of them
is a Simpsons parody. The other one is an actual
thing. Left behind. But I think both of them
have about the same amount of seriousness. I
could see that. So we check everything off your
list except for technology? Clothes. Clothes.
I have fashion on here. Oh. It kind of plays
also more into like the music side of things
that that influenced a lot more of where fashion
was. So like in the early 2000s, early 90s, you
get the more of the grunge look. So like the
baggy stuff, the flannels, the I don't care kind
of outfit. The reasonably baggy. Sure. Because
towards the end of the 90s. Then you get the
juggalos. Then you get the JNCOs that had pockets
that went all the way down to your ankles. I
cannot tell you how badly I want to try on a
pair of JNCOs. Not because I want to like regularly
wear them. I don't think I could. They have them.
I'll die with my skinny jeans. But like, I just
want to try a pair on. I want to know what it's
like to be in JNCO jeans. It's funny because
you would see. All this stuff about all the things
that you could fit in your JNCOs and people would
pull out like entire CD players and entire just
all this stuff out of these cargo jeans. Yeah.
I think I might be a cargo pants person someday.
Oh, man. What? They're pricey. How much are JNCO
jeans? $260. Oh, my God. cheapest ones on here
from their actual website, $130. Can you buy
them in a store? Or can you only get them on
the JNCO website? Because I would like to try
a pair on. Let's find out. Where to buy? While
you're doing that, you also get the... In the
early 90s, you got more of that, like, 80s leftover
stuff, so you get the, like... what i would think
of as like the water cup aesthetic you know what
i mean like that i just i just saw the it was
like maybe like six months ago i saw that there
was an actual name for it i found a pair of workout
shorts a little while ago that were with that
print and i want them so bad they were expensive
because you know nostalgia is expensive but oh
jazz the design is called jazz oh okay This?
Yes. Yeah, jazz. That's just scribbles. Yeah,
it's just crayon scribbles that ruled the 90s.
Everywhere. The whole aesthetic of a Taco Bell
was jazz. The design, not the music. I'm pretty
sure this color scheme inspired the Baja Blast.
The original JNCO jeans. The original wide -leg
jeans. Well, they're based out of L .A. So you
might be able to try some there. I don't think
I'm willing to make a trip out to L .A. just
for... Hey, cemeteries and JNCO. Because you
were talking about wanting to go to the cemeteries.
Oh, yeah. There you go. Cemeteries and JNCO.
Or maybe buckle or urban outfitters. Unconfirmed.
You have to go to a buckle or an urban outfitters.
That's fine, I guess. But yeah. Workout shorts.
They have pockets. They just look so fun. They
do sell every article of clothing with this specific
pattern, so I might eventually just get an entire
outfit that's just jazz. Oh, God, no, that's
gross. Why would you put the design that direction?
The jazz goes, like, straight down the crotch.
Just points right at it. Look at this jazz. Damn,
that's a terrible choice. But yeah, so you get
the baggy, reasonably baggy things. Mm -hmm.
You get flannels, grunge. Yeah, we talked about
the Kangol hats. And the... LL Cool J. This Newsies
backward hat. I think I maybe don't know what
a Newsie is. Because that just looked like the
same... I mean, did you actually see it on a...
You need to pull up a picture of LL Cool J from
the 90s. But then you also have the buckle hat.
The buckle hat? The bucket. I meant the bucket
hat. Which 90s are we talking about? We're talking
about the 1790s. I only see this man in bucket
hats. What? Like these. Oh, okay. Yeah, that's
a Kangol. I mean, apparently they also made his
bucket hat, but they were more known for the...
The other style. I associate that with... Like
when you say Kangol, that's what they're talking
about. They're not talking about the bucket hat.
Spike Lee. I associate that hat with Spike Lee.
Yeah, same thing. So in the late 90s, you get
the Y2K inspired fashion, all of the pop princess
kind of stuff. So you get crop tops and butterfly
clips and all of the sparkly things. The chokers.
The chokers. Yeah. that's also a thing that i
think is it made its comeback and it's gone now
but it's one of the trends that i'm sticking
with forever well not forever but choker i like
chokers the uh that's when you get like the the
mtv kind of like inspiration for all of the the
fashion yeah yeah i mean that was like i know
that uh mtv was big in the It was real big in
the 80s, but I think that its actual heyday was
right at the end of the 90s. And then after that
is when it started its pretty rapid decline.
And then everything turned to just being reality
shows. All the 16 and Pregnant, the Teen Moms,
the Pimp My Ride, all that stuff. Does MTV still
do things? It's all reality shows now. I mean,
I'm sure if you catch it at like six in the morning,
you would get like actual music videos. But like,
I can't tell you the last time that I saw an
actual like well thought out music video. So
I don't, I don't really, I don't know what their
block is. It's a lot of ridiculousness. That's
like, that's like. 80 % of their block is just
ridiculousness episodes. Yeah. And then Pimp
My Ride. They tried teenage drama type stuff.
Awkward. Awkward, yeah. And Bo Burnham had a
show for... Was that on TV? Yeah. Zack Stone,
right? Yeah, something like that. That lasted
a grand total of three episodes. Tragic. But
I remember, like, getting ready for school in
the early 2000s, and I would put MTV on, see
a bunch of music videos. I remember one that,
I don't know why this is burned in my brain,
but every single morning was Believe by Cher.
Every morning getting ready was Believe by Cher.
Yeah. I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with the song.
Do you believe in love? Does that ring a bell?
The queen of auto -tune, yes. So I think one
of the things that I wanted to talk about most
was the aspect of technology. Because do you
remember a time where computers didn't exist?
No. Like where we didn't have a computer at the
home and you just get onto the Internet, even
though it was garbage. I mean, it took forever.
But do you remember a time like that? No, I remember
it like I remember it not being like a big thing
in the house. It's like I know we had it, but
it wasn't like a thing that ruled our entire
existences. But I couldn't tell you a time that
it just wasn't there. Now, our dad was very.
technology forward, and still is. And I got a
lot of that from him. One swing and a miss was
he backed HD DVDs over Blu -ray. But for the
most part, he's been pretty with it as far as
technology stuff goes. So we had a computer growing
up, but I don't remember. I mean, I remember
a time where... i just couldn't get on the internet
and like being on the computer just meant like
you were doing i don't know like tax stuff stuff
like that like not not anything for any fun purposes
i was watching i was watching a video about like
it was a deep dive into like 90s culture and
stuff and i don't know if this is true but it's
really interesting to me that they were talking
about the reason that early computers before
they did like the 90s like clear, funky -looking
ones. Mm -hmm. The earlier computers were beige
because they expected, like, everyone to be smoking,
and beige took, like, tobacco stains well. It
didn't really, like, stain it as easily. Gross.
Everything was, like, that same shade of bleh.
Hmm. Until Mac decided to think differently.
Growing up, how much of your childhood did you
spend, like, outside and not? on a screen or
not doing anything like that? I think... I mean,
I got a phone, I think, when I was, like, 13,
maybe? That's when I, like, remember getting
a phone. Mm -hmm. What kind of phone was it?
I had the Nokia. It wasn't, like, the original
brick, but it was something similar, just a little
bit more. Oh, just, like, was it prepaid? Yeah.
Or was it, like, on a plan? It was on a plan,
yeah. Same phone number? Yeah. Me too. Um, yeah,
I had, uh, technically it was like internet capable,
but I didn't have internet. Um, so like it would
have a button that I would panic back out of
so that it didn't charge you $15 charge me to,
to look anything up. I'm still adamant that one
of these days I'm going to get a flip phone.
I'm going to keep saying it until I speak it
into existence because I, i'm acutely aware of
how much time i spend on my phone yeah it's a
bummer i mean all we need is ridge or factor
or what's that one that was a huge scam the ireland
one be a lot more specific oh the by a plot to
become a lord or lady yeah um something titles
established titles established titles yeah maybe
not sponsored by them at this point but once
once that uh once that comes through then We're
going to do our flip phone test. They came out
with a, I think it's an HMD phone. So it's like
one of the Japanese brands or Chinese brands.
And it is a Barbie phone. So it's like hot pink.
It's so cute. I think that's the one I want to
go with. Okay. Let me do this. Because it's connected
to the internet, sort of. So like you can access
it for necessities and stuff, but not for doom
scrolling, which is awesome. But are you behind
the great wall? The great firewall? Maybe. I'm
okay with it. I like it. Oh, okay. It looks like
a pink jitterbug, if I'm being honest. It does,
yeah. I love it. But yeah, you can access, I
think it connects to Spotify and Google Maps,
and honestly, that's all I need internet -wise.
But it's interesting that I asked if you remember
spending time outside, and then you immediately
jumped to, well, I got my first phone when I
was like, oh, 13. Well, before that, I mean,
I would have spent a lot of time outside. But
do you do you like remember it like you could
just be gone for most of the day? Because I vividly
remember it and all the shenanigans I got into.
Quite honestly, I don't remember a ton from my
youth. Oh, I didn't mean to. Yeah. I didn't mean
to open up old wounds. Oh, it's fine. I just
don't have anything to contribute to that part
of the conversation. So I want my phone. But
no, I vividly remember when I wasn't. glued to
any kind of device and i mean those days were
long gone yeah but i definitely miss them and
i i i regret that my kids aren't going to have
that experience sure we were at uh we were at
about a hibachi restaurant last night and for
those who don't know it's dinner and a show like
you have a chef come out and they they do like
this whole song and dance while they're making
your food for you and whatever strangers are
sitting at the same grill as you and we like
catty corner to us is this mom and her two kids
and she is on her phone while she's setting up
a tablet and one of the kids already has a tablet
and so the whole time these two kids are on these
tablets she's on the phone and this chef is like
trying to get their attention and he's like doing
this whole thing he got like this flashlight
out and did like this whole nightclub thing yeah
with the onion volcano and he had to shine the
light in the kid's face to get his attention
while he's doing this and that just that drives
me so crazy and that's one of the things that
i decided from the very big like as soon as my
kids were born like this meals are important
right like some of the best conversations i've
had with my kids when it was just me and them
was when we were just at a restaurant yeah like
hey how's your day been what do you want to talk
about and Now it's getting more and more to where,
can I have my tablet? No. No, you can't have
your tablet. And it's just they always have to
be glued to a screen. It doesn't help that at
school they also stare at a tablet all day. And
I remember whenever I was in school, when I was
in elementary school, like it was a big deal
when we went to the computer lab. It happened
like once a week. We had those transparent like
all -in -one Macs, like colorful ones. And like
that was cool when we got to do that. I didn't
expect to get it every single day. And I knew
that that was just the time that I could look
forward to. And then after that, I would go about
my business and wait until the next week until
we went back. And it just, it sucks that that's
not, that they're already, they're born into
a world where this addiction is already there.
And so I try to make conscious efforts to. alleviate
that but i'm constantly fighting an uphill battle
and they end up pissed and i don't blame them
because it's it's all they've known yeah yeah
so i i think that and i mean a lot of this is
going to tie into the next episode spoiler alert
but um it's just a completely different world
from even from when i was growing up to when
you were born to you being born to when your
nieces and nephew were born yeah and just The
fact that mom, dad, nobody had any problem with
me. I could stay out from 10 o 'clock in the
morning until 10 o 'clock at night, and there
was never any concern. I would be back, and if
for whatever reason something happened, I always
knew I could contact them, but I didn't have
to. It wasn't expected. I could stay out with
my friends and just go do whatever. but that's
not a world that we live in anymore and it's
not something now if you were to do that then
you're going to have cps knocking on your door
right and so i think that i do i have a lot of
nostalgia for the 90s and i think that's why
this episode has gone on so long is because of
how important that decade was to me and just
how much i miss and a lot of it is probably just
going back with rose -colored glasses i mean
there was definitely a lot of A lot of garbage
going on. But you don't see that. That's not
the part you remember. You look back and you
think about all the good times and how those
times don't exist anymore. Sure. I don't feel
like I have nostalgia for what would have been
my version of that time period. I don't think
I have that deep kind of nostalgia for the early
2000s. Yeah. I think that things have changed
so rapidly. that there was never really a thing
to cling on to. Because if you think about the
trajectory of technology and stuff, the internet
kind of hit its stride in the mid -90s. Everything
past that has moved so quickly that there's both
too much and not enough to be nostalgic for.
And so I think that's one of the tougher things
about being Gen Z, is that you have these memories
of all of these things, and you're kind of nostalgic
for them. But they also don't feel like they
existed in a time. They were just like this nebulous
thing that existed as a transition between things.
You never got to like stop and enjoy something
because it was always replaced within kind of
a ridiculous immediacy. Nothing has any staying
power. Yeah. And that's definitely something
that came along with the internet because before
like something would happen and it would have
to be word of mouth. Yeah. And so that would
give it sustained longevity. Instead of, oh,
I just found out about this thing, but then two
seconds later you find out about a new thing.
Or you find out about this thing, oh, but there's
a better thing, and then, oh, there's another
better thing. And you're just constantly trying
to just keep up. Instead of just taking what
you have and enjoying what you have, it's just
always, well, there's something better that exists
now. And nothing has any staying power anymore.
There's nothing I can think of from the past
15 years that you look back fondly of, like even
even got like movies that were great. But then
five years goes along and oh, well, we have a
problem with this movie because of this, this,
this and this. So now you can't talk about that
movie anymore. Music. Oh, well, yeah, but they
stole this from this person. And even though
you enjoyed it, this is why you shouldn't enjoy
it anymore. Back to art versus the artist. Yeah.
Yeah. And I just, it's, it's extremely frustrating
to, to be in that kind of a situation. And it's,
it's not, uh, I have gotten to a point where
I just, I don't care. Like I like what I like
and I'm going to talk about the things I like.
If you don't like it, that's fine. Yeah. There's
going to be plenty of stuff that someone else
may like that I don't, and I don't understand.
And that's okay. But. More recently, there's
been such a rush for everyone to have this homogenous
opinion on everything. And if you don't have
that opinion, then you're just going to be publicly
castrated. And it's just it's something that
I'm sure happened in the 90s, but I wasn't privy
to. And therefore, I am able to look back at
that time and say this is was peak for me. Yeah.
Do you think that was because you were just too
young to? Have that kind of like worldly sense
about you. So you miss that kind of like naivete.
I think that was part of it. I think that I definitely
didn't understand all the ramifications of everything
that was happening. Um, like the, I don't remember
if it was on this go around or the last go around
about the Clinton stuff. Yeah. Like that, that
was a big deal, but everything that got trickled
down to me was just the joke aspect of it. Sure.
Was, was the stain on the dress. was the stupid
lines covering up what he did and when he was
asked about it. And so I do think that a lot
of it was based on naivete on my part. But at
the same time, I don't think that that's necessarily
a bad thing. I think that maybe we should have
a little more of that. I wholeheartedly agree.
And that maybe don't take everything so seriously.
Maybe don't spend so much time with your nose
in the blinds and just enjoy what you got. Yeah.
So that is my tirade for this episode. You got
anything else? No, that was all I had for this
episode. Any closing words? All right, well,
my send -off words are be all that and a bag
of chips today. That's a good one. What do you
got? I love the 90s. I don't know if I would
go back if I could. But I can tell you that the
2020s have been wiggity, wiggity, whack. And
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