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- Victoria: Welcome to the Golden Chronicles podcast. I'm Victoria. I'm the baby boomer. Actual Danielle: And I'm Danielle, I'm the millennial. Victoria: If you're joining us for the first time, welcome. If you're a return listener, welcome back. We're glad to have you. Actual Danielle: We are always so glad to have you. ⁓ this episode is gonna be a little bit different than our normal episodes. We're gonna do a summer kickoff and we're going to do some trivia, some facts, some memories. We're gonna take a little stroll down memory lane and just see what facts are different the generations, what things that we as millennials think are totally normal or totally acceptable that maybe boomers didn't think. of as or acceptable. ⁓ just a fun lighthearted to off summer. ⁓ Victoria: So, you know how we are, we have to look up the word. So today we definitely have to do our definition. So trivia, facts or details that are not well known. It also broadly describes light-hearted information that interesting but lacks practical significance or serious value. ⁓ Actual Danielle: We definitely still have to do our definitions. But of course, because we are the Golden Chronicles podcast, we're not just gonna share some random facts. We're gonna try to use these facts and this information as a way to help us better understand one another and help us better understand our connection. a little disclaimer though, these are loose, so we understand that like ⁓ not boomer, not every Gen X, not every millennial, had the same experience. But these can just give us a fun starting point for this conversation. So let's get into it. What are some things that boomers grew up without ⁓ that we may now just for granted that everybody has access to? Victoria: A color TV. We did not a color TV growing up. Actual Danielle: Did you have a colour T V growing up? How old were you when you got your first T V? Victoria: I think ⁓ my our first television ⁓ geez, I was probably three or four. Actual Danielle: And then your first color T V? Victoria: first color TV maybe eight, nine or ten somewhere in there. Yeah, it was the all the rage. It was all the rage. Actual Danielle: That's wild. Yeah. ⁓ Victoria: And also We did not have a remote control. Actual Danielle: Did you have to go up to the T V and change the channel? Victoria: You had to exercise to get to the television to change the channel. Actual Danielle: ⁓ what about like trying to get your I guess cable TV wasn't a thing either. Yeah. Victoria: What what was that? No, there was no cable T. And T V used to go off, I don't know, I think it used to go off at twelve or one o'clock. They would play the national anthem and ⁓ would be the end of the television for that day and then it would go static until the next morning and I don't know what time it came on the next morning. ⁓ Actual Danielle: ⁓ That's funny. Yeah. ⁓ I guess also like I remember this, but ⁓ this is probably super prevalent for you. The bunny ear antennas that you had to the aluminum foil antennas. ⁓ Yeah. ⁓ You had to get right right. ⁓ Breathe on ⁓ Yeah. Victoria: Go up and adjust. Yeah, you had to get him put ⁓ next to the window. Actual Danielle: Obviously no cell phones. Victoria: phone. ⁓ Actual Danielle: Yeah. Victoria: speaking of ⁓ we used to have a party line. a party was two phone lines on one phone. So you could pick up a phone and hear somebody else's conversation because it's a party line. So I could pick up my phone and hear you talking to your friend. And I could sit there and listen 'cause it's a party line. I don't know if it was cheaper ⁓ or what. Actual Danielle: Wait, is it people in your house or people like across the city? Wow. Some tea you could get from that. Victoria: No, people y you don't they might edit across the city. Actual Danielle: Okay, so tell me more about this party line. Could when you on a call and someone if someone were to like pick up and listen, did you know that someone was listening or was it like someone could be listening and you would have idea? Victoria: Yes, you had it was a shared connection is what a party line was, but you had to be mindful of the fact that somebody could pick up because if you're not ⁓ paying attention, you might miss the signs that someone has picked up and is listening. could hear a click ⁓ the phone ⁓ the that you're having with someone, the volume might be lowered ⁓ if else picks up the phone. But if you miss those clues, you won't know that someone is listening. Actual Danielle: I would live for that. I would live for that. I would be the person who is just picking up and listening to people's phone calls. Just like being a fly on the wall in other people's lives. Maybe that's my my my quirk, but I love knowing the inside workings of other people's lives. I would just be listening. Victoria: Ha ha ha. Yeah, but you may not even know who who the people are. Yeah. Actual Danielle: It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. I just wanna know like sometimes l I wanna know what are grocery shopping habits? ⁓ I'm just curious about other people's ⁓ life experiences so that would be so interesting to me. What do people talk about on the phone? I don't know. ⁓ Victoria: Ha ha ha. Now In addition to that, we didn't have voicemail back then. So if I called someone and if they were on the line, would not get a recording for me to leave them message. I would just get a busy sound. Bah bah bah bah ⁓ Actual Danielle: Yeah. ⁓ wow. I do remember when would call people like from the house phone if they were on the other line would ring and beep. you would know that they were on the other line. So yeah, so if I was you you were on the other line with Terrence or something, then your phone wouldn't I was waiting for you to pick up, it would ring and then it would go beep ⁓ and then I'd be like, ⁓ she's on the other line, I can call her back later. Yeah. Victoria: okay. Yes I kinda Okay. I vaguely remember that. Actual Danielle: So TVs. ⁓ GPS, yes. How did you go anywhere? I would be so lost all the time. ⁓ Victoria: were talking ⁓ ⁓ Ha ha traveled to Ohio and I mean your dad knew the way 'cause that's where he lived, but ⁓ we had we used ma Actual Danielle: Like knowing the way from Florida is crazy to me. Like I can barely get from downtown Nashville to my house without using the GPS. Like to go all the way from Florida to Ohio is crazy. Victoria: Ha ha ha Yeah. Yeah, and we would use a paper map and map it out map out our trip. And you'd have to stop to pull over ⁓ turn your your ⁓ dome light on to read it if it's at night to make sure you're still on ⁓ seventy or whatever interstate you're supposed to be on. ⁓ there's That's not at all it is today. I mean, ⁓ today you're told in mile, turn left on James Road ⁓ Actual Danielle: Yeah, yeah. And you're told, ⁓ there's construction for a faster route. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. ⁓ object in the road. ⁓ I do remember one time we were on a Victoria: Red light camera hat. Railroad crossing. Actual Danielle: trip. I think we were coming back from Ohio and Daddy let you drive and we ended we were going from from Ohio to headed down to Florida ⁓ and we up in Indiana or Illinois. One of those two ⁓ the wrong Victoria: ⁓ Lord. Yeah, I think I think it was Indiana over this really scary high bridge. Your dad was like, Pull over Actual Danielle: Yeah. Yeah. Victoria: I'm thinking y you know, if we had GPS that would not have happened. Yeah. Actual Danielle: ⁓ yeah, for sure. That's funny. I do remember, MapQuest too, which was like it wasn't you have to go the gas station to pick a map, but you could print the map from when I first started driving, ⁓ I remember using paper maps to like from home ⁓ the college that I going to. Victoria: ⁓ thank God for GPS, I'm telling you what. ⁓ Actual Danielle: Yeah, truly. ⁓ okay, so millennials, my generation, we obviously grew up during the transition from analog to digital, so cell phones were way more accessible my generation. feel like you probably got a cell phone when I was ten, maybe. Victoria: Yeah. Mm-hmm. ⁓ ⁓ let me ask you, when you moved out on your own, did you have a landline or ⁓ your means of communicating, was it a cell phone? Actual Danielle: ⁓ but then I think it was a cellphone. When I went to USF I think we had cellphones. I think I had an iPhone by the time I went to college. Victoria: Okay. So you Okay. landlines, your terrence. Actual Danielle: Well I remember like having a landline in my room I was in high school. Victoria: ⁓ yeah. Yeah. Actual Danielle: So I I would talk to my high school boyfriend on the landline all night long or whatever. ⁓ then I remember texting was a thing. So texting ⁓ definitely wasn't a thing when you were growing up. ⁓ But then ⁓ when I was growing up, like Nokia brick. ⁓ man, this was a thing too. got to the coolest ⁓ covers on our phones. Granted, we still have like cases and stuff now, but it was like a whole cover that could put on your phone. ⁓ And I remember like Victoria: Right. Actual Danielle: think our plan was like a hundred and fifty text messages a month. Victoria: Yeah. so many minutes. ⁓ Actual Danielle: you were like, Yeah. ⁓ so I remember my high school boyfriend same with Steven. I remember having to until like after seven, I think, to call Steven for free because we had limited minutes and then text messages, texting was so easy, but only had 150, and that was for ⁓ all four of us on phone plan. So it was like I was going way over our ⁓ hundred and fifty Victoria: Yeah. We're Actual Danielle: text limit and I remember ca we kept having conversations about how often I was texting. Victoria: Right. when Terrence moved away to South Carolina, he's like in his twenties now ⁓ we had to pay for it wasn't unlimited minutes. And Terrence, I remember one day went over and I had kept telling him, Stop doing that, stop doing it 'cause it's raising my bill ⁓ and he was having the worst day ever and I didn't know this, but I had his phone shut off 'cause it was costing me money. ⁓ Actual Danielle: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And funny that like ⁓ now it's just text messages. Like a text limit, what? ⁓ That's wild. I I mean probably sent a hundred and fifty text messages ⁓ this morning. Like ⁓ not really, Victoria: Yeah. Right. ⁓ my gosh. Actual Danielle: but definitely close to that limit. ⁓ let's see what else. ⁓ ooh ⁓ ooh. Music. When you were listening to music growing up, you probably strictly limited to ⁓ so eight ⁓ cassettes. ⁓ Victoria: Yeah. I know, yeah. And cassette. Well, eight tracks. Eight tracks when I was growing up. And there were there were actual Actual Danielle: Yeah. Victoria: musicians. Actual Danielle: Yeah. Victoria: It wasn't just soundboard techno Actual Danielle: Yeah. Victoria: sound music. It actually a person playing an instrument. ⁓ Actual Danielle: Yeah, some would argue that electronic music is musicians because they're making music using a tool, but you know, I understand. th I remember like iPods were th all the rage. ⁓ The little Zoom, I think is what it was called, a little music player. ⁓ and then iPods, and then we got iPod Victoria: Yes. I don't Actual Danielle: one with a little circle on it that you had to spin around. Yeah. And then we got the full one that had the full screen. Victoria: Yeah. Yes, Actual Danielle: and then like thinking the difference between millennials and boomers and then you think about Gen Z and they grew up, I mean they ⁓ all had cell phones and computers. I remember when we got our first computer and it was just like the family computer. I think our first computer was black and white. it was just a big old box that was sitting on the dining room table ⁓ there wasn't much we could do. I think there might have been like a typing game on it or something. And Victoria: Mm-hmm. ⁓ Mm-hmm. You know, I wanted to say about the phone, I didn't think about that until just now, but it was definitely a safety feature. men and women didn't have to stop at payphone to to make phone calls. They could pull on the side of the road, lock their door and make a phone call. Actual Danielle: Yeah. Victoria: it was much safer when cell phones came along. Actual Danielle: Yeah, for sure. I mean that's the same with like a lot of things that have evolved seatbelts, you know, helmets. Yeah. Yeah. Victoria: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We didn't wear seatbelts, what's that? This is the your mom would put her hand across your chest if she had to slam on brakes to keep you from slamming your head into the dashboard. That was your seatbelt. Actual Danielle: Yeah, just throw the just throw the car seat in the back of the station wagon. Victoria: Car seat Actual Danielle: ⁓ yeah. Right, okay. Noted. but we think Victoria: ⁓ you no you had a car seat. We did have a car seat for our babies. ⁓ Actual Danielle: Yeah, yeah. thinking about also the things that like Gen Z grew up with and and Gen Alpha have grown up with like Wi Fi. Being able to get on the internet anywhere, that's crazy. I mean, so normal for us now, but like thinking about it as a fifteen year old. I remember when McDonald's had a commercial and they were like, visit us at McDonalds dot com and I'm like, why do we need to visit McDonalds dot What information's gonna be on McDonald's dot com? And now I'm like, if a business doesn't have a website, I don't them. ⁓ Victoria: Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Right. And there were certain places that you should not try to use your phone or a computer because ⁓ it safe. not for you but for, you know, the safety of your information on your computer ⁓ or ⁓ yeah. That's true. That's true. ⁓ True. ⁓ Not a good idea. ⁓ Actual Danielle: Yeah, I mean that's kinda still true. Don't log on. Don't don't put your banking information in when you're on public Wi Fi, please people. Yeah. I think in tying this back into the core of the Golden Chronicles, a lot of communication differences that have between our generation makes sense when we start to think about fact that like generations grew up with such different to things that allow us to communicate. Boomers were way harder to reach. back in 2001, we didn't have instant access to another. ⁓ And so I think one generation grew up being hard to reach, generation is expected to be accessible at all times. And so when we start think about some of the things that we've talked about in our other episodes, we start to see how maybe the way that we were raised affects the way that we communicate and our expectation of what communication should be. ⁓ Victoria: And speaking of expectations, I know that there are some people that are older than me and even in my generation that to open themselves to the way that their children and even their grandchildren connected. ⁓ And so of the fact that they don't want to text, they want a conversation. And and right now their grandkids are on the run and their kids are on the run and would be a good thing, ⁓ but they refuse ⁓ Actual Danielle: Yeah. Victoria: and they think that ⁓ they're being denied relationship with their adult child or their grandchild, but it's not. ⁓ They're not denied. They are the ones denying the connection by refusing to open themselves up to something as simple as texting. And it's not that it's bad technology, it's good, it will keep people connected. ⁓ Actual Danielle: Yes. Yes. And think part of that is understandable, because you do want you get comfortable in the way that you have learned to communicate and technology ⁓ made communicating more convenient, for sure. One of the downsides of that is it maybe has changed Victoria: Yes. Yes. Actual Danielle: our patience or our expectations of how quickly we expect talk with one another or to hear from someone. So back in nineteen eighty six, if I were touring, ⁓ you wouldn't know where I was at all times, where you can just check my GPS and you can see ex you can see exactly where I am in the hotel, you know? or Victoria: Right. I can see your location. Actual Danielle: I can text you in the middle of nowhere where, some of the people who were touring generations me, they would have to all line up I'd have to choose between my mom and my husband. Who am I call? Because there's thirteen people behind me and we all wanna call someone we love. So ⁓ it's made communicating more accessible, but also maybe ⁓ shaped the expectation for what we expect because sometimes I don't wanna always be available. ⁓ Victoria: Yeah, I agree. And you know, going back to what I said about my mom specifically not wanting to learn to text, I'm to edit and it's for me. It's a new tech thing. ⁓ Actual Danielle: Yeah. Victoria: And it's overwhelming ⁓ it can cause anxiety. And so maybe that was the case. And so I shouldn't ⁓ you know, think of it as she doesn't want to connect, but maybe it was just too overwhelming for her something new. She'd never had it and ⁓ didn't realize simple it was and so it could just been anxiety. Not that she didn't love you and wanted to connect with you. She just Actual Danielle: Mm. Yeah. Victoria: It was too hard. Actual Danielle: Yeah. fair. ⁓ I wonder if having instant access to people has also created like ⁓ expectation for emotional responses to be quick as text responses. Because we are in the land of like instant at this point, you know, in in these generations. We're in the land of instant ⁓ gratification, instant information, instant communication. And so, has made us less patient? Has it made us more efficient? Are we expecting ⁓ unrealistic from you know, centuries old psy ⁓ physiological process that we're expecting to be as fast as the technology. Victoria: I think that that probably is a big part of it. And I think that millennials have grown with that and they've seen it speed up so quickly and rapidly that you're to follow along. ⁓ ⁓ baby and generations before things moved quite ⁓ slowly. You know, my probably didn't a television when she was a child. ⁓ Actual Danielle: Yeah. Victoria: You know, it was a radio, know. ⁓ so speaking of that, Actual Danielle: Yeah. Victoria: we were gonna ⁓ talk briefly photo albums Instagram to Facebook. ⁓ And I have a I several boxes of photographs that wanna have digitized and I have video tapes that I want to have digitized. And I think that's something new that your generation is used to ⁓ but let me tell you guys I want to get rid of these videotapes and these photos have them all digitized but somebody named Danielle wants me to keep ⁓ wants me to keep keep them ⁓ and I'm trying to get rid of them ⁓ so Actual Danielle: I do When I get my next house, when I get a bigger space, I'll take them all. I'll take them all. That's so much nostalgia. Victoria: You can have them. You can have them. ⁓ know ⁓ Actual Danielle: do you guys know how much a VCR is right now? Let me just tell you. It's like, $200 for a VCR. I'm like, yes, save those cassette tapes and those photos. Because one, when the whole internet crashes and when AI takes over and deletes our lives, I want some physical ⁓ evidence that I existed. ⁓ I was here. ⁓ Victoria: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I'll keep them I'll keep them. Actual Danielle: Yeah. Victoria: And they're they're stored away. I mean it it's not really a problem. Actual Danielle: ⁓ they are. And I just ⁓ Victoria: it's they're important. They are important. ⁓ But nowadays, instead of having a big old photo album, ⁓ I can put my photos in a digital frame Actual Danielle: my mom used to be really big into scrapbooking, so I have several scrapbooks that I just have like all the physical copies and I love that. I'm like trying and I think like nostalgia's coming back around because I feel like obviously, as we've talked about before, I work in the live events and so I'm doing concerts and stuff and I was ⁓ we had a concert last night I was walking through the crowd and there were probably thirty people that I saw that had like old school digital cameras. Victoria: Yeah. Actual Danielle: they weren't using their phones, they were using digital cameras. Now some of them were like updated versions But some of them were just like the old school ⁓ ones of Instagram, ⁓ I think that privacy has changed a lot the generations because since Facebook became a thing, you know. I feel like a lot of people were just posting everything that they were doing ⁓ on the internet and then we started realizing that there ⁓ are creeps and ⁓ we don't necessarily need to tell everybody where we are at all times because that's a liability so ⁓ even like our of privacy have changed throughout the generations. I think one of the luxuries of up before everything was on the internet was that ⁓ mistakes were way less permanently documented. ⁓ Victoria: And you definitely not judged as frequently. ⁓ Actual Danielle: Yeah, ⁓ Victoria: But that in itself is problematic because, you know, with all the technology, I love ⁓ my little My air tag. My air tag. ⁓ Actual Danielle: Your air tag? Yeah. Victoria: also people are using that ⁓ to drop in women's purses maybe even men's pockets ⁓ to find out where they is quite scary. Actual Danielle: Well, yeah. Yeah, there's definitely more risks that come with yeah, the technology and and the fact that technology is changing so quickly and not everybody is up to speed Victoria: That element. Yeah. Actual Danielle: ⁓ Yeah. Okay, so let's get a little bit more when it comes to ⁓ our childhoods. What were your summers like as boomer? Since it's the summer kickoff, let's talk about summer. Victoria: As a boomer. So for summer, we would go to the pool down street from where we lived. ⁓ we didn't have a pool at our house. There wasn't a YMCA near, ⁓ but was a community pool. ⁓ And we would go there to the community pool and I can remember ⁓ Auntie I don't think really liked going to the pool. ⁓ Actual Danielle: ⁓ Victoria: if I remember correctly ⁓ she told me that there was creature or a monster, I'm in the bottom of the pool. 'Cause she to scare me going to the pool so that she didn't have to go to the pool. ⁓ Actual Danielle: ⁓ no, and it's not like you could just Google it. ⁓ Yeah, yeah. ⁓ Victoria: Is there a monster in West Tampa Pool? ⁓ but that's what that's what we did. We would go to the pool, we would play outside more more ⁓ in the later into the evening, ⁓ know, four square, dodgeball, mother may I, ⁓ and seek, ⁓ of those games we would play during the summer months. We still had to be inside the house when the lights went on, when the street lights went on, ⁓ it was more about playing games. ⁓ Actual Danielle: Yeah. Victoria: at my house to be quite honest. mother would have a list of chores for to to take care of. When she at work, we had to clean under the kitchen sink and mop the floor and all that. ⁓ And I can nothing like summer chores for summer fun. ⁓ remember one day ⁓ my mother wanted to Actual Danielle: Nothing like summer chores for summer fun. Victoria: Clean underneath the sink. And I didn't want to clean underneath the sink. It was spooky And so I mopped floor and I dusted and I did all this stuff. And when came home, I her I showed her everything that I did. And she said, but did you clean under the sink? ⁓ I was like, damn. ⁓ And I it just struck me I didn't I didn't wanna say no, but that was my answer, you know. So Yeah what I was thinking. Actual Danielle: Yeah. But what about all of this? Victoria: So that's what we did. We j we did chores during the summer months. Yeah. Actual Danielle: Yeah. Well you were also talking about like being able to just roam freely and play and stuff that was my childhood too, being able to, you ride my bike the block and we had a little tag football that played in the lot two blocks down and I would walk to the gas station and granted we were a little bit older, but I think about like Victoria: Yeah. Actual Danielle: like, I have a hard time being like go play in the backyard by yourself, you know? Victoria: Yeah, Actual Danielle: ⁓ Like ⁓ Victoria: ⁓ ⁓ Actual Danielle: and we have a fenced in backyard, but I'm like, I I have to be sitting out there with you when you're outside. Victoria: yeah. Actual Danielle: Or ⁓ there's a bunch of kids in their neighborhood who ride their bikes out Victoria: Hehehe Actual Danielle: on the street and stuff, which is really great. I love seeing that, but I'm like, so scary to think about just sending her outside to go ride or bike with the neighborhood kids. I wanna like, don't leave the street, you know? Victoria: Yeah. Actual Danielle: ⁓ but when we were kids, ⁓ yeah, don't leave the drive. Yeah, you can ride and down the driveway. ⁓ Victoria: Don't leave the drive. ⁓ move ⁓ move the car. You can ride up and down the corridor. Actual Danielle: But yeah, crazy that when we grew up we were I mean when I grew up was Victoria: Yeah. Actual Danielle: and, ⁓ know, this is one of things that unfortunately have that have ⁓ what we think is safe and stuff and Victoria: Yeah. Actual Danielle: and, you so now You've got people like me who yeah, there's no way that my kid is gonna out of my sight for any amount of we'll we'll take a bike ride around the block together, you know. Victoria: Right. you guys also we we traveled. That's when we went on vacation ⁓ on those road trips. Actual Danielle: Yeah. Victoria: yeah. Actual Danielle: Yeah. Victoria: When we went on road trips during the summer, ⁓ it was a little different than you guys. now when I was a kid and we traveled, we would go to North Carolina and one year we went to Pennsylvania and My mom would make pound cake and fried chicken and potato salad and those are the types of things that we would take with us because we weren't welcomed the roadside restaurants Actual Danielle: ⁓ Yeah. Victoria: in the South. ⁓ We were in the South. There was one called south of the border and it was a tourist place and that was pretty much the only place that we ever stopped because they saw it was such a tourist attraction ⁓ that were people from all nationalities that stopped there ⁓ But other than that, we didn't stop at and I don't think there was things like Chick fil ⁓ A or Kentucky Fried Chicken. Or they may have been. ⁓ But it's not something that we yeah. Actual Danielle: ⁓ I'm sure there were, but it wasn't as probably easily accessible. They weren't on on every exit. Yeah. Victoria: ⁓ It on every exit ⁓ and us being black, we not have been welcome. But the was great that my mom prepared, you know. ⁓ A pound cake, ooh ⁓ you know. ⁓ Actual Danielle: Yeah. Which is way different than Mira's summer vacation experience because you know, Gen Alpha and Gen Z too. they're getting their iPads and their phones and they're able to watch movies the car and we're stopping anywhere we want to go for food. you know, still the South can be a little scary sometimes, but ⁓ but ⁓ yeah. Victoria: Yeah. Yeah. I remember one trip we took ⁓ there this w magazine where ⁓ the suggestion was to fill a paper bag with goodies ⁓ for child. So when we would take that twenty hour drive to Ohio, would be maybe eight bags in the trunk of the car. ⁓ so whenever we stopped, you guys get to pull out a bag and play with whatever is in the bag. Terrence got Legos, I think you got a book and that was before the iPad. ⁓ Actual Danielle: Yeah, I vaguely remember that. Yeah. Victoria: That before. ⁓ Yeah, so when was traveling as a child, we didn't have any of that. We food. We had good food. Actual Danielle: Yeah. Victoria: And that was that. Actual Danielle: What is like the summer snack or song or activity from your childhood that just like instantly takes you back? Anything? Ooh, Victoria: Watermelon. Actual Danielle: Yeah. Victoria: That was the thing. And maybe a fried bologna sandwich. Actual Danielle: Okay. My thing is pizza bagels, but not like the ⁓ store bought pizza bagels, but you would get us like bagels and pizza sauce and cheese and pepperoni and we would make our own pizza bagels. That is like so quintessentially summer. That is summer meal right there. ⁓ Victoria: Mm-hmm. Okay. Actual Danielle: speaking nostalgia, pop culture. I feel like pop culture is one of those things too that like ⁓ it connects It connects well links a generation. So it creates ⁓ memories Like it takes you right back to that memory. So Victoria: I was about fashion. so back in the early seventies people would platform heels. ⁓ Actual Danielle: Mm-hmm. Victoria: with goldfish the heels of the shoe. They're big. Actual Danielle: Real gold like live goldfish? Uhhuh. Victoria: live goldfish with water and everything in the heel of the shoe. And so pop culture was definitely a part of that. polyester the big thing. I mean people ⁓ it was so dangerous. ⁓ Polyester was so dangerous because it so flammable. ⁓ Actual Danielle: Polyester. ⁓ yeah. Victoria: You know, fashion definitely was different then and I think some of that's coming now. ⁓ Actual Danielle: ⁓ yeah, that's the thing about fashion. Like it just comes back around. The fact that gauchos are back in style. I'm sorry, what? Capris? Capri pants are back in style? What? ⁓ Victoria: Exactly. Actual Danielle: Yes, yeah. there's a lot about pop culture that is just so ⁓ takes you right back. ⁓ think of like millennials like Disney Channel, we think about like the Lizzie McGuire show or like they're doing a reboot of Hannah Montana. ⁓ Hilary Duff was the lead actress in Lizzie McGuire show. She's making a resurgence and so all these things that were like big pop culture are making comeback and I feel like that's just for all the generations. Like ⁓ I feel like there were things I wore or did Victoria: Yeah. Actual Danielle: as a teenager and you're just like, We used to do this too as kids. a little different but the same. Victoria: Yeah. Actual Danielle: ⁓ yeah. Victoria: Different the same. ⁓ Actual Danielle: what some things that we feel like have stayed the same throughout our generations? Victoria: I think we all want friendships and connections. Actual Danielle: Yeah, sure. Victoria: I think the only difference in that is that back in our generation it wasn't important if this is a good connection. ⁓ I the younger generations, I think that's what they they consider ⁓ is a good connection. ⁓ But think we both want connection. ⁓ Actual Danielle: Mm. Yes. Yeah. I think ⁓ Wanting to be understood and wanting to belong. across the generations that's always been Victoria: Yes, yes, yes, ⁓ Actual Danielle: what people want. ⁓ ⁓ that there one thing that stayed the same is that things are always changing. Victoria: Yes. Right. Actual Danielle: every generation definitely nostalgia for ⁓ what they used to have and worrying about the new generation and this new generation is soft. yeah, every b every generation before you has thought that your generation is soft, you know? ⁓ Or ⁓ Victoria: Yeah. Well, I wish I had my body, my same body back in the when I was younger. Actual Danielle: Yeah, I mean don't we all? ⁓ I'll never get back to my weight. ⁓ What was I? Five seven ounces. ⁓ I feel like every is they have their music and they are loyal to their music. And when ⁓ like even you were your generation had real musicians, ⁓ and I'm like, well, it easy, we have musicians too, because we're all, you know, nostalgic for our music and what Victoria: Yeah. Actual Danielle: you know, I don't understand why these kids are listening to this music. This music is also it's funny to me when I hear ⁓ talking about how raunchy some of the new music is. And like, ⁓ I'm did you ever listen to James Brown? ⁓ Victoria: Hehehehe Yeah. Not only listen, look, I mean his his dance moves. And Elvis and Elvis' dance move, which I wasn't really an Elvis fan, but his dance moves. Actual Danielle: Yeah so yeah, I the desire to be understood, the l desire be connected, those are all things that are ⁓ universal across the generations and ⁓ something that all have in common. I think Victoria: Yeah. Actual Danielle: We can all learn from one another. I think are things that boomers learned from the silent generation and that millennials learned from Gen X and that Gen Alpha learning from Gen Z. And I think you know, there's lots of things that ⁓ we can ⁓ learn from one another. I think there's lots of things that we can appreciate from ⁓ one another. ⁓ Uh-huh. Victoria: I have a question for you. ⁓ do you think as a millennial you're leaning into the generations that have come after you to see what you can learn? Actual Danielle: The generations that come after me, like Gen Z and Gen Alpha. ⁓ yes, but I feel like I'm in the place where I don't want to be left behind. I don't want technology I've have seen how quickly technology is ha has advanced and I see how, know, ⁓ in my industry, the guys who can't keep up with the technology they are getting left behind. They their jobs become few and far between and the opportunities get less and less and so ⁓ feel like I'm leaning into ⁓ Z and Gen Alpha because one, ⁓ don't want to be left behind in technology. I it scares me to be like, How do ⁓ ⁓ this on my computer. Like I I don't it scares me to be that person. Victoria: Are you picking at me? Actual Danielle: No, no, no. ⁓ yeah, it's scary to me to think about not knowing that then also ⁓ missed a lot of pop culture growing up because we ⁓ just ⁓ Victoria: ⁓ Yeah. Yeah. Actual Danielle: You know, I we ha I had good music growing up, but I wasn't necessarily listening to pop music. I watched fun TV, but I wasn't like I never got into friends. You know, we're like half of my generation that's like their go to television and I'm like I maybe have seen one full episode. And so I Victoria: Yeah, you did. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Actual Danielle: as an ⁓ adult who gets to choose what I consume, I'm like I w I like being ⁓ like it when someone makes a joke and I understand the reference. And so I'm maybe leaning into Gen Z and Gen Alpha a little bit. Victoria: Gotcha. ⁓ Actual Danielle: says things, you school and what kids are saying, Victoria: ⁓ Actual Danielle: the whole six thing that was just popular, like I wanna know. Victoria: looked it up and I still don't understand ⁓ Actual Danielle: ⁓ I ⁓ Yeah, so I just be like I want to know what's happening, I wanna know what's going on. I just I be up on pop culture and so I do feel like maybe I lean into the the younger generations just because I wanna see what's ⁓ I don't wanna be a normal mom, I wanna be a cool mom. ⁓ Victoria: Yeah. You Actual Danielle: do you feel like you're leaning into the younger generations or that leaned into the older generations ⁓ information or knowledge or skills or anything like that? Victoria: I think both I think I can learn a lot from the older generation, but I'm not intimidated by the older generation. I am intimidated by the things that I need to learn that are associated with the ⁓ technology specifically moving forward. There are things that I to do in my life. Actual Danielle: Yeah. Victoria: reaching out for three different careers ⁓ and in all three of them have to learn technology and it does cause me some anxiety when I ⁓ get in there and it ⁓ I just need the information that I need ⁓ so that I can forward with the dreams and goals and the plans that I that are gonna carry me into ⁓ my next few years. ⁓ Actual Danielle: Yeah. And I think that's so real. And I think if we across the board just remember that like we're all to learn skills, whether it's learning how to learn new technology or whether it's learning how to communicate with a new person in our life or ⁓ learning Victoria: Or parenting for you in your case. Actual Danielle: or or ⁓ learning how to be ⁓ authentic with ourselves. Like there's always new skills that we're learning and Victoria: ⁓ Actual Danielle: we're all kind of in different places when it comes to learning and living life and Just having grace for everyone's experience and ⁓ their learned lessons and and of that. Victoria: Technology is biggest thing because in my generation ⁓ the technology simple. it was done for you. You get you go from a map to a garment, to a from a garment to a GPS. ⁓ You just learn to push some buttons. You fold the map up, you put it away, you don't have to use it anymore. ⁓ Now you just some buttons. There wasn't a whole lot of tech associated with that. ⁓ But now my Actual Danielle: Yeah. Yeah. Victoria: ⁓ my goodness. So Actual Danielle: Yeah. sometimes you'll you know, or boomers gen X or whatever ⁓ say, like, back in my day we had this, that and the other and we all this stuff and and kind use it a things better back then. ⁓ but I think we can definitely try to use that nostalgia and that like ⁓ longing and appreciating the things of the past to connect us and just to that like Things are changing for all of us. And technology might be your thing and fashion might be mine or whatnot, but like all ⁓ just trying to keep up, we're all ⁓ just trying to stay connected. We're trying to learn and letting that nostalgia the memories of the past, instead of it dividing us and it being like, that's not the way we used to do it, using it to create connection and yep, understand that struggle. I understand the struggle technology because I'm having to learn a new for whatever or now I don't order at the McDonald's window, I order through my McDonald's app or whatever. Like understanding that like we're all we're all learning. There's, you know, yeah. Victoria: Right. Right. And I think as far as, you guys, the younger generation, although you can learn from from the things that did happen in our generation. And and I don't want to say this as a blanket statement. ⁓ I'm thinking that the younger generation is not trying to go back to the ⁓ my generation to learn. maybe they are. But my generation to move forward. And yeah, Actual Danielle: Well, all of us do. or you get left. Victoria: Right. so I think, know, for the baby boomer we that we can't on to old. But, Actual Danielle: Yeah. Victoria: ⁓ that becomes a little bit of a challenge. And I think there's a lot of fear that's associated with that. When they're really if I sit and think about it, it really doesn't have to be that way. Actual Danielle: Yeah. Victoria: ⁓ Actual Danielle: Yeah. Victoria: I'm taking a class and there's a gentleman who's teaching us how to the iPhone. Now I know how to use my iPhone, ⁓ but I went to this class one day ⁓ there was so much this guy taught me I did not know but I realize okay this is gonna help me to move forward. a lot of the people that live here in the community that I'm ⁓ they think I'm the techieist. No I'm not Actual Danielle: That's Victoria: ⁓ Actual Danielle: funny. That's hilarious. Victoria: No, I'm not. I'm still thinking, howdy you. I'm still calling Danielle and Terrence. Howdy you. Actual Danielle: Yes, yes. we as generations just to be willing to, recognize that things are changing and when mom calls and she's asking how do you ⁓ I'm gonna doing that with my kids one day calling her asking her, do I log into whatever? ⁓ Victoria: Yeah. Actual Danielle: So Victoria: Yeah. Actual Danielle: Yeah, I think, you know, fun is realizing how our experiences different, ⁓ but remembering the differences of our experiences don't necessarily mean disconnect. it gives us ⁓ something to ask, something new to learn, something new to ⁓ understand, and it just helps us and see one another in a in a bigger, ⁓ fuller, ⁓ more clear picture. Victoria: it definitely us to connect. Danielle had to take call, we were ready to record. Some of the terminology you used went right over my head. And as you were speaking, I'm thinking, wow, this ⁓ all of technology that she uses in her day-to-day job. And I would love to just understand, I don't have to use the equipment, I don't have to program anything, ⁓ but I would love to understand it is that she's talking about so that I can have a conversation with her, like, ⁓ how's that board going that you got? ⁓ You know, how's that ⁓ equalizer whatever the case may ⁓ And so that would help us connect that would help us to stay connected. Actual Danielle: Sweet ⁓ I that was the end of our summer kickoff episode. Hopefully you learned some new things, ⁓ got new perspective on a different generation. ⁓ Victoria: Hmm. And we're able to go back down memory lane and just to remember of the things that you held as a person. Yeah. Actual Danielle: Yeah. Yeah. We would love to hear some of the things that you hold dear from your childhood, some of the things that you find nostalgic, some of the things that you learned about another generation that just blew your mind because it doesn't make sense for your generation. We always love hearing from you guys, so ⁓ Victoria: Yes, we do. Actual Danielle: Thanks for tuning in. Thanks for listening to this special summer kickoff episode of the Golden Chronicles podcast. ⁓ Victoria: Yeah. Yeah. And thanks for cheering us on. Actual Danielle: Okay, bye. Victoria: Bye. ⁓