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Episode - 29 - GenX Core Memories · GenX Adulting Podcast

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  [Music]Welcome to GenX Adulting and today Brian and Iare going to talk aboutGenX core memories unlocked.So I've made a list of things Iremember from my GenX childhood.Brian's made a list but wehave not shared that list.Even though sometimes throughout the week Brianwould start to talk to me about his list,I would tell him to stop that weneed to save it for this episode.Is that why you've notengaged when I brought them up?Yes. Okay.I have a feeling my list is not as good asyours because I've been struggling.So I'm curious to hear what yours is and thenthat may make my list evolve.I think that there maybe a lot of similarities.Like probably some things on my list you'llsay, "Oh yeah, you know."And you'll be like,"Yeah, me too."But I didn't want to know what was on your listand I think that it's betterjust to kind of surprise each other.Because I'm curious how many we have are thesame and how many are different.We're from the opposite coasts.I grew up on the West Coast in Oregon.Brian grew up on the East Coast in New Jersey.I don't know if that'sgoing to have any bearing on it.I spent, actually my younger formative years,preschool through secondgrade in Northern California.So I was more in a very much hippie vibe,Northern California especially in the 70s.You certainly were not.No, I spent anything in my formative years.It's Northern New Jersey outside of New YorkCity and then in Jersey City, which is rightacross the river from New York.But then I spent summers in West Virginia.Right.I had a very contrasting upbringing.You did.And I would spend part of my summer in Michiganwhere my dad lived becausemy parents were divorced.Which is totally different from the West Coastvibe of California and Oregon.And New Jersey.The Midwest has its owncompletely different vibe.So we'll see.So I'm just going to start.You go first because Ihave a feeling my list sucks.Compared to yours, but you go and we'll...Yeah, I already know there'sa couple of things on here.I just know.So the first thing that comes to mind for mewhen I made this list, and it's going to beweird, but it was my favorite candy.And it was called Tangy Taffy.And you can't get it now.And so...Oh really?Yeah.So it was like a stick.When did that stop?Because I could have swornI'd have recollection of it.So there's Laffy Taffy.Yeah.And Laffy Taffy has small squares, I think.And then it has like a bigger stick that'slike, I don't know, maybe seven inches long bylike two inches wide and it's flat.But then Tangy Taffy wasmy absolute favorite candy.And all through my childhood,7-Eleven, any convenience store.That's what I bought.When I told the story on the other episodewhere I would go and pick up trash at thebaseball diamond and she would give me candy.That was one of the things she would give me.I would eat that walking home.Interesting.Like holding it just like...Is there a particular flavor?Cherry.Cherry.Cherry.It was so good.And I think the last time I had it was...Honestly, I think when we were first married,so I was probably like 23.And then it just disappeared.Do you think it's stillavailable on the West Coast?Someone has to chime in because wehaven't been back in a few years.So did you not have Tangy Taffy?I don't know.I recall us having some type of Taffy.Well, we had...So growing up in New Jersey,we used to go to the shore.Well, yeah, that's different though.That's saltwater Taffy.Saltwater Taffy.Yeah, we had that in Oregon at the coast.Yeah.At the beach.I do recall some really sugary, tangy,chemically flat type ofshit that you would eat.That's probably it.Yeah.But I wonder if that's from when we met and...You tried it?Yeah, maybe.I don't know.So I also like Charleston Choo.That's funny.That was going to...When you said...Would you say Laffy or Tangy?Tangy Taffy.Tangy Taffy.I thought of Charleston Choo.Charleston Choo.Yeah, I love those.Yeah, Charleston Choo was so good.Yeah.So those were...And then Bit of Honey.Yeah, those are good.I liked Bit of Honey.I don't...I think Bit of Honey you canget places like Bass Pro Shops.I feel like that shows up for Halloween only.Maybe.Gosh, I don't even know thelast time I saw Bit of Honey.I feel like at least when Nathan and Kai wereyounger, throwing their candy out on the carpetand going through it.Yeah, but that's like...That was almost 20 years ago.They're older now.And then I loved Hubba Bubba.Hubba Bubba was awesome.That was my...Bubble Yum.Bubble Yum and Hubba Bubba.Yeah, that was good.Those were my gums.What about Big League Chew?Nope.You didn't...I mean, I know.I knew of it.Yeah, yeah, yeah.But I was not interested in that now.I loved that because as a baseball player, as akid, they mimic the Big League guys.Of course.Yeah.Because they chewed tobacco.Yeah.It was completely accepted back then.It was.I used to chew too when we were in high school.Yeah.So I think that was more...Back then, I think it was a gender thing.I didn't know any girlsthat chewed Big League Chew.Nobody did.So that's...Yeah. So what's something on your list?Well, let's stick to the candy.Oh, okay.I would say my favoritecandies as a kid were Jolly Ranchers.Okay.And then Red Twizzlers.Yeah.You're like, you're not...Red Vines.Red Vines.Yeah, yeah, yeah.Is that a West Coast thing or just...Because we did haveTwizzlers, but I rarely eat Twizzlers.I like Red Vines.I do recall going to the movies, ordering likea Pepsi or a Coke, the big bag of Twizzlers.Or actually, we got to the pointwhere you'd sneak them in, right?You'd go to the store andbuy them and sneak them in.Yeah.And then drinking your Pepsior Coke through the Twizzlers.Yeah.Right?Would you ever do that?Yeah, no.So good.Yeah.And then what was the first thing you said?You said Twizzlers and then what...Jolly Ranchers.Jolly Ranchers.Didn't you sell those at school?I did.Yeah.I had a nice little racket going.I'd go to the Acme, which they don't reallyexist too much anymore.I don't think so.Go to the Acme.You could buy a bag for 79 cents, and then Iwould pack them up in my pockets and go sellthem for like a quarter each in junior high.I had a lot of money on me at the...You know, relatively speaking, I had bills.What's crazy is that if those kids had even aquarter or two, they could have bought theirown bag for 79 cents.Yeah.So I think it was a convenience thing.I had access.I live kind of...Yeah, you walked across the street.That's right.Where you lived.Okay.So did you ever wear wide leg pants?What are wide leg pants?Like bell bottoms?No.No?No way.Not even in the 70s.No.When we were younger.I would have picked on people if they did that.East coast.That wasn't cool.Oh, that's so funny.Okay.So when I...Maybe it's me though, but it's...So when I was in second...No.First and second gradespecifically, I remember wearing...This is in Northern California.We call them wide leg pants, but I think bellbottoms was the official name.And when you'd walk, they were so wide that itgoes swish, swish, swish, swish, like thequarter right?Oh yeah.Quarter right?Yeah.Quarter right?Like you'd hear it as you're walking.That was a huge thing.So we all wore...I feel like...I would have to say almost my earliestrecollection of bell bottomsmight be like older girls intown, but maybe it's like the BadNews Bears watching the TV show.That's how I dressed.Yeah.Yeah.Not like that show.Like that was...I think you probably didn't...Didn't you wear...Like we would wear kneehigh socks with the stripes.Oh yeah.Yeah.Yeah.Sometimes I'd wear nylon shorts.The girls did.It'd be like nylon...Like the blue...Like satiny shorts.Like satiny short shorts,even though I was young.And then the knee high socks and sneakers.Yeah.Like blue Nike's or something.Well...I don't even know the brand.It wasn't a thing.Yeah.I mean, once I got to fourth...No, fifth grade, the preppy handbook came out.Sixth grade.The preppy handbook came out.Was that a thing for you?I don't recall ever hearing that.We had a very preppy face, but Idon't recall the preppy handbook.That was huge.At least that was when Iwas in Oregon and Portland.Beaverton to be exact.The preppy handbook came out and we all worepenny loafers and we putpennies in our loafers.Wearing pink and green, like a certain colorpink and green, like Kelly green and likenot like a hot dark pink, but like a brightlight pink eyes on or now they call it Lacoste.I mean, I think it was Lacoste them, buteveryone called it eyes on.Popping the collars.Oh yeah.Pop the collars.Yeah.That was girls and boys were that.And that was the whole thing.And then jeans.I can't remember what jeans.What year was that for you?That's like sixth grade.So that's why like 80, 82, 81, 82.That was like eighth grade or ninth grade,seventh, eighth, ninth grade type of thing.I remember going into my freshman year of highschool dressed up like dressed up likepreppy.And then for the first day, second day ofschool, I think I was in sweats and the team,you know, logo type of thing.Yeah.Cause you're playing sports.But I think because you lived, I lived in afairly, um, metropolite area.And I think cause you lived in a small town ina rural New Jersey, I think in towns likethat, you guys got things a little, even thoughyou're outside of New York city, I think youstill got things a little bit later than peoplelived in, like in more suburbia.Yeah.Cause we got things like,like that, like we got MTV.That was on my list.MTV, I think it came, it cameAugust, like August something 1981.I can't remember exactly the daywe got MTV the day it premiered.I remember coming home from school or whateverday that was and watching the premiere videokilled the radio star was thefirst video ever played on MTV.I remember watching that and Iwas addicted and that's what I did.Like after school, after I get my chores doneand all that, I'd watch MTV, but I think youguys got it after us.Well, what's interesting is I have a cousin whogrew up in Jersey city.Yeah.And I remember her telling us about it andwaiting to your point, we didn't get it.I don't think we got it to like, I dunno,seventh or eighth grade, maybe six, wheneverit was, but it was after the fact.I remember her saying, youdon't have MTV and she was shocked.Yeah.You know, you, you country people.Yes.Yeah.So I think, but MTV was, that was everything.And it was just videos.It was just music.We had VJs like Martha Quinn and um, uh,Goodwin, Mark Goodwin was one.Martha Quinn.It really drove the music scene back then.Even the Grateful Dead came up with videos.Yeah.Right.Everybody got sucked into it.It changed everything because it gave us accessto, to scene, uh, who the music live, butwithout having to go like before that, youalways had to go to a concert to see them.Well, or if they performed at a variety show onTV, it wasn't even that it was creative,artistic videos.Like just creative stuff.Remember the Michael Jackson thriller video.Oh yeah.I remember watching that a Christmas dinnerwith the whole family glued in for like 20minutes.Michael Jackson thrillerchanged everything for sure.That was like a mini movie.That was a masterpiece.There's no question about it culturally changedlandscape, but, um, MTV in general,in any musician you liked, any band you likedto be able to have access to themlike that, to be able to watch a video of thesongs you like on repeat.And it was cause it was 24 seven music videosand nothing shocked me more than when MTVstopped playing musicvideos and it went into TV shows.I was shocked.Yeah.Well, aren't there like three or four MTVstations or isn't there like a classics and a,I think if you pay extra for that, but I don'teven think that one plays all music.It's, it's weird.Like VH one used to be musicvideos and then it went to.Yeah.It went to TV.Different genre though.Writers.Yes.I don't even know what it was, butit was more like soft rock stuff.Michael Bolton and well, MTVkind of got taken over by rap.I remember Friday and Saturday nights.It was all rap run DMC.And yeah, I don't even remember.They would have like metal night too.Or it was just like a Metallica and they hadthe headbangers headbangers ball.Yeah.It was awesome.And then it like kids that don't know there's,you know, there's a wholegeneration that's watched MTV as like a TVchannel to watch shows.Yeah.It's weird.And they have no ideathat that was not it at all.It was music television.Yeah.So MTV was really, it isnear and dear to my heart.It was a huge part of my childhood.I know some musicians still do videos.Like Billy strings just did one.He's done a couple, right?Um, but I don't thinkit's really a thing per se.Like the red hot chili peppers.They had great videos.Yeah.No, I think that, um, I think that Pete, theystill make videos, but it's, it'sweird, I don't know where you watch them.So that's, that's one MTV.We sound like boomers.I know what the hell's going on.All right.Your, your turn.I was thinking, okay.So on my list, um, do youremember frozen dinners?TV dinners.Is that what they're called?TV dinners.Well, I called them TV dinners.My mom, we'd go to the grocery store and wewalked the aisle and I alwayspicked mine based on the dessert.That's so funny.I think I did too.Most people did.Like I, I liked that redstuff, whatever the hell it was.Oh my God.I forgot.Was that, that wasn't like a cherry pie.Wasn't it?Well, for me, you know, like for me today, Idon't really microwave anything.Yeah.I honestly don't remember.They were microwave then though.You made them once noteveryone had microwaves right away.Like when we first got TVdinners, you made them in the oven.No.Yes.I don't think so.And then once peoplestarted getting microwaves, yeah.But I started out with making TVdinners in the oven, not a microwave.I, cause I don't use amicrowave today for the most part.I don't know if I've used one at once this yearand we, I remember nuking them.Like over nuking them andthey had the plastic on top.You'd have to cut the hole tomake sure you desert, maybe it'sthey've covered or whatever.Yeah.Maybe the meat.If it was even meat.So bad.You think about your, yourmicrowaving and there's plastic.Yeah, totally.In some and chemicals in that.Paper tray that's lined with some waxy.Well, when we first gotthem, they were in metal.That's why they went into the oven.Yeah.Okay.So you have to remember earlier than me then.Well, okay.So I had a single mom, right?Yeah.Yeah.So her and I would go and we, I'd get to pickout, it was a big deal.Like I get to pick out my TVdinners and we'd make them in the oven.And that the thing was metal.Like it wasn't the plasticor the paper or whatever.And then I think my mom'sfirst microwave, um, it was huge.And it was like $600 or something.500 pounds.It is so heavy.It's like the TVs you see.Yes.It was like life changing,obviously, but yeah, the TV dinners.And then, um, I rememberlike the fried chicken.I can still picture the way the fried chickentastes in those TV dinners.I, I, you know, a totallydifferent way of getting to these TVdinners is I'm like ourkids very selective eating.So my dad would be like, what am I going to,what are you going to eat?And I think I went in on TVdinners once and he's like, okay.So then I never went shopping.Like you did like this.It wasn't an event.It was just like there wereTV dinners in the freezer.Cause you had a turkey.Yeah, probably.But I had, I love that Turkey one with theslice turkey with the gravy.Yes.And the mashed potatoes.And we would overnuke it.So it would like burn on the sides.Yeah.It was like plasticy and that's so good.That, that must wonder whythere's a whole epidemic.Yeah.Well, you know what, back then,not everyone wasn't overweight.Like people weren'tanyways, that's all another thing.Yeah.But, um, the mashed potatoes almost tasted likeKentucky fried chicken mashed potatoes.Yes.So good.And I remember I'd get themeatloaf one, but I think that's becauseit had the brownie or something.Meatloaf.I forgot about it.I had that weird, like catchup line of shit at the top.Yes.No, I love the TV dinners.Do they even have TV dinners now?I don't know.Okay.I have, I'm announcingsomething we're going to do.So Gen X adulting is we're going to go see ifthey have TV dinners and if they do,we're going to get them and we're going to do alive and we'll have TV dinners andpeople can come in and talk to you.You're a, you're gluten free.You think you're going to pull them off?There'll be something likeI'll be able to eat something.I know.We'll get the turkey dinner.You can have my corn.There you go.You never know.Now there could be gluten freeturkey dinners with the way life.I'm going to double up.Okay.I'm going to double up on the food thing.Did you ever have steak comes?No, I did not even knowwhat that was until I met you.Really?I don't, I still don'treally know what that is.It's like super thin sliced.They said it was beef.Yeah.Not sure, but it was super sliced, super thinsliced beef that you would fry in apan with like either butter or like in my dad'scase, he'd save the oil.Cause my dad cooked.He'd save the oil in the, in thecan and spread a little oil in there.Throw a couple of steak comes on, dump a ton ofsalt and a ton of pepper.So good.So wait, was it frozen?Yeah.So you're buying like frozen sliced beef.Yeah.Yeah.That's a good way to put it.And then you would just, your dad would justtake it apart and like cook them.Yeah.Yeah.You would almost get like, cause it would belike maybe that thick or something.I don't know, something like that.And you'd kind of get a knife and you'dseparate them and then throw them in thefrying pan and do they still have steak comes?I don't know.Okay.Well, I'm gluing.I would eat some of those.I, we're going to have to go on like an old,you know, we'll do an old schoolfight some tangy taffy.In fact, if, if anyone listens to this and youwant to put in the comments.Food, you remember, we'll try to find it.Yeah.And then we'll do a live onenight with all the different foods.So, um, yeah, that'd be cool.Trip to Walmart.Maybe.Right.I don't know if I know publics might have it.Maybe target.Okay.So, um, did you watch electric company?Electric company.Which one was that I did, Idid, but I just don't remember.Um, just these funky people singing.It was like one of the show is like Sesame.So there was Sesame street, mr.Rogers and electric company.I remember it was like, like hip and cool.Yeah.Like it was cooler.And that guy wore bell bottoms.Um, I feel like he was in yellow, no orange.I don't know.Maybe I'm getting confused withyo gabba gabba cause yo gabba gabbahas electric company vibes.But, um, so when I was in daycare, uh, we wouldall sit around one of thoseTVs, it's like the wooden TV and all of us kidswould sit around it and we'dwatch electric company, we'dwatch, um, Sesame street, mr.Rogers, and also at home,at home, I would watch mr.Rogers too.Cause memory had those weird puppets that likeold, like the old people or theking and the queen, thoseweird stuff going on there.Puppets.Now that I look back and I'mlike, those are weird puppets.Yeah.Yeah.But I did love mr.Rogers.Yeah.Yeah.All his messages.I loved how he came in the OCD and me love thefact he came in and put on new shoes.He had house shoes.So he took off the shoes that weredirty and he put on his clean suit.I was obsessed with that.And then he put on a new jacket, his cardiganindoors, switch, switch,got his jacket and put on his cardigan.And I was like, yes,that's, I love that about mr.Rogers.You know, a lot of people pick on him for beingweird and stuff, right?It's kind of, yeah.He's got that reputationof just being kind of weird.Same with what's his name?The painter Bob Ross.Bob Ross.But these are kind of inhindsight and modern times.These guys are fairly wholesome, pure, pure,wholesome, decent people.Kind of could use a little more.I think so too.I love mr.So many lessons.Yeah.The, the trolley, the trolley would take you tothat land where the puppets were.You know, um, mr.Ed, I never watched mr.Ed was in the same never watched it.Why?Because of animal rights.No, no, no.I, it was just never, I never watched it.What about the Beverly hillbilly?Yes.Okay.I watched that and Iwatched, um, little rascals.Yeah.I love little rascals.It was all black and white.Yeah.Yeah.And then leave it to beaver.Yep.And I loved, I love Lucy, butall of these were black and white.Yeah.Honeymooners.No, I didn't watch that.You didn't watch that.No, that weird.I didn't watch that.I didn't watch.When I was a kid, 17th grade,ninth, whatever, we would go rollerskating every Saturday night and come home.That's a core memory.Yeah.It's a core memory.Watch with roller skate,come home around 11, 11 30 ish.Catch the tail end of a Yankee game.If it was still on watch star trek and then thehoneymooners, but I don'tremember if honeymooners was first or second,but I'd watch star trek in thehoneymooners honeymooners every night.I've seen every episode of that.Really?Yeah.A hundred percent.So star trek, I would watch like after schooltime when I'd get home,like there'd be reruns.So I'd watch, I didn't watch it like the night.Yeah.The night of, uh, no, it was okay.So the night of shows.Well, Saturday night live too.I didn't really watch thattill I got older, but I did.I remember being in second grade and SteveMartin premiered the song King Tut.Yeah.Yeah.And my parent, my mom and mystepdad were having a party.It was Northern California.I was like, margaritas were flowing.I was in my room and I had a little TV blackand white and it was on my dresser.And I remember sitting in my room and watchingthat and I was mesmerized by thatsong, it became my favorite song.Like that, that and the whole King Tut movementof like 1978 or something.Like, remember, I don't knowabout you, but it took over.Yeah.Yeah.Like in Northern on the West coast, likeeveryone was talking about King Tut.I think they haddiscovered King Tut or something.It was around that time.I think they had, I thinkthey had discovered his remains.That would make sense.Cause why else would SteveMartin be doing a bit on it?Yeah.Probably was topical.It was, but that song was awesome.I could still sing that songand his whole stick with that.But it's speaking of likeshows that I did not miss.And I think these were onSaturday night was, and it went in order.And I don't want to get the order wrong, but Ibelieve it started with chips.Yep.Loveboat.Yep.Fantasy Island.Yep.Every Saturday.I actually had them on my list.They were earlier.I think, um, actually I want to say fantasyIsland came on at nine o'clock.No, I think Loveboat came on at nine andfantasy Island came on at 10.Oh, really?It did.I remember.And cause I could stay up and watch it becauseI, um, it was a Saturday.And then I loved threes company.Yep.That was a different night.That was a week night.Yeah.It feels like it.Um, Laverne and Shirley.Yep.And happy days.Yep.Yep.Trying to think, Oh, and, um, Alice.Yep.Alice's restaurant.WKRP in Cincinnati.Yep.Love that.And I love that song.I still love it.Sometimes yacht rock will play it.And then, um, Oh, what's that other one wherethey're in a news station?Um, WKRP.No.Did you just say that?I did.They're reporters in a news Barney.Barney.It'll come to me.It's a bunch of reporters.Uh, it'll come to me.I know what you're talking about.There was also, I had on my list, um, thepeople's court or night court,whatever it was, we got a little older.Yeah.Yeah.Yeah.That's like middle school ish.You know, it's wild.We're saying all this and I'mtrying to piece it together.Like, how did I watch Saturday Night Live, thehoneymooners and Star Trek?Like what and plus Yankee games.I don't know what, how thatit's all blending because thosewere Saturday night shows.I watched Saturday Night Live every episodefrom when I was like, I didn't,I didn't want to, I would see it sometimes, butI think I was in bed by then.We actually, so this is great.Um, I guess this is a core memory, but, andevery Saturday night, my parentswould go out with my aunt and uncle.And then we'd go, and I was,this is pre roller skating days.Okay.That's how this lines up.We'd go to my, uh, Tara'shouse, aunt Lorraine and uncle,Tommy's, my cousin Terry's.And, uh, they would all go out to the bar,fairs bar and end over by room, New Jersey.And we would spend the night there and we hadthis babysitter who would watch us.Cause we're all pretty young.She was kind of mean.She was a bitch actually, but Iremember, um, but we'd all stay upand watch Saturday night live.Okay.So it was cool.So that was young.Yeah.Yeah.Yeah.I didn't think I was allowed to stay up.I mean, I, cause that was, it ended at 1am.Yeah.Because I remember once I gotolder, I would like middle school.I watch it.And then, um, but I do remember watching JohnBelushi and, um, like Rosanna RosannaDan and all that.So I think I caught itat different times enough.Yeah.What about Starsky and Hutch?Oh, of course.Yes.Okay.Dukes of hazard.Yep.That brings me to my next corememory with the Dukes of hazard.I remember recording the intro to Dukes ofhazard on like a cassette tape,like, like these up here.Like this, the song.Yeah.The song.Yeah.And that was the thing.Oh, I've seen that on likeInstagram, like Gen X beams and whatever.Yeah.The struggle of putting together a playlistthat the struggle was real.Do you remember listening to, um, Casey Kasemtop 20 count down every Sunday morning?And then you'd have your boom box.I would, and I'd take a blank tapeand I would, when it was a song, Iknew I wanted, I would hit record.So I would make a mix tapeoff of Casey Kasem's top 20.Yeah.No doubt.Yeah.And I would wait.And then you still have to stop it and you'dhave to, you know, be, pay extraattention so that you could get the beginningand the end of your song.Yeah.Yeah. I remember being a kid going to Sunday schooland then my dad usually drove usand we'd be sitting in the carsometimes and, and sitting, waiting.Instead of hopping out for the number one song.Cause it was the countdown.Oh, it was a big deal.Yeah.And I never missed that.I remember when, uh,foreigner urgent was number one.Yeah.That was a big song.Right.Oh yeah.Yeah.Okay.So did you, um, have metallunchbox, a metal lunchbox?Yeah.Yeah.Yeah.You're gonna give me aminute to think of what one I had.Dukes of hazard.I had a few because every year I got a new one.I know I had Dukes of hazard.Um, gosh, I can't think what, Oh, I wish Icould remember what other,I know for sure.I can picture the Dukes of hazard one.And can you, can you can hear that sound whenyou click the thing and you open itand then did you have athermos inside that matched?Yeah.Yeah.Yeah.A hundred.Yeah.I don't even, I didn'teven bring soup to school.I think I would fill it with water because Iwanted to use that thermos so bad.So the lunchbox was like, foryears I would get the metal lunchbox.So that's, that's what I think.That's all they made.Probably.Right. We didn't necessarily growup in a plastic generation.No.And then it switched to plasticand then it switched to plastic.Okay.So, um, do you rememberGreece being a big deal?Oh yeah.The movie Greece.Do you remember going to see it in the theater?In the movie theater.Yeah.I think we saw it for thefirst time at the Newton drive-in.Oh, wow.Yeah.I feel like I think we saw it as another thing.It was right.And I remember vividly the night we went, wewent with my mom and my aunt and myuncle, my cousins, and I remember sitting down,the movie Greece changed my life.I had never seen, I think I was in, Oh my gosh,that would have been like 1979.So that was probably what like second grade.I, um, it was life changing.I remember leaving there andnever being the same again.There was something about that movie, themusic, the magic of it.And it's still, I still cherish that movie.And I remember my, one of my good friends atthe time, Alicia, she had genes.And on the back pocket was the grease symbol.I wanted those so bad.We actually have the grease album.It's mine.Yeah, I know that I got then.I remember going with my stepdad to a recordstore and picking out thatalbum and I don't even know how he bought it,but I would listen to his doublealbum.I listened to that album every day.I can't even tell you for at least, I don'tknow, for years, like I loved that.Greece was like pivotal for me.And I, I wonder if for all Gen Xers, if theylike, if it was so monumental,maybe just girls, I don't know.No, I, I, it's absolutely.Even for boys that has an impact.I would think so.The boys, the greasers, right?And the racing and the wholewater thing and the drama and tension.This is, and then waiting Sandy and seeingSandy go from like, yes, prim and properto this, like this hot pad, some leather.Yeah.Yeah.I'll never forget when she walked up, I was madbecause I thought it was a different woman.Like I didn't, it took me a minute to realizeshe had transformed because I waslike seven or eight maybe.And I thought, oh my God,another woman's trying to steal Danny.And then it was her.And I was like, and thenthose leather pants she had on.Oh my God.So that was, that was aliving Newton John, right?Yeah.Yeah.So we all boys my age, Ithink I had a crush on her.Okay.So her and the wet Farrah Fawcett.Right.Yeah.I mean, yeah, yeah.Of course Farrah Fawcett was alittle boy's sex symbol type of thing.Suzanne Summers.Suzanne Summers.Yeah.Yeah.Cheryl Ladd, I think.Yeah.Yeah.Yeah.The Daisy from the Duke.Yes.You know, um, Bach, Catherine Bach.Okay.So Charlie's angels, thatwas on a different night.Yeah.And then, um, are you justreminding me of another one?Well, let me ask the bionic man.Yeah.Yeah.And then the woman, yeah.Wonder Woman Wonder Woman.But no, the, um, so the million dream, Magini,no, it's the million dollarman and the bionic woman member.It was Lindsay Wagner.Yeah.Was the bionic woman.I was obsessed with that.I liked the million dollar man,but I loved the bionic was that,was that what the hell's his name?Uh, Lee majors.Yeah.Lee major.So that's when it would go, yeah.And he would be like super strong and shit.Okay.What about the Hulk with Lou Ferrigno?Oh yeah.Yeah.And there's a funny thing.Uh, I saw a meme aboutback then we didn't have CGI.Our Hulk actually had to have muscles.Like those are those muscles, you know?Um, so those were all on, but then Charlie'sangels and all, I thinkthey were all kind of sex symbols.I have two.Okay.Um, one, just thinking of theplastic stuff and I had it on my list.This you probably never hada stretch arm strong, right?No.Was he red?No, he was the guys have to remember this.He was this figure.It talk about plastic.He was figure like thisrubbery shell in a body, right?It was muscular body with like blonde hair andyou could stretch them and youcould pull them in different directions.We all had it as kids.So kind of like the movie, the Incredibles.How, not even, not even close.Okay.This is straight arms.I've never heard of stretch arm strong.That's amazing.Yeah.But I bet that's cause I'm a girl.I'm sure stretch armstrong was on the West coast.Oh, no, there's any.It was like probably Hasbro or okay.Yeah.Um, so here's the other onewhen you mentioned Greece.Now I was, I can go there with Greece, but wereyou a footloose person?Oh yeah.I saw it in the theater.Yeah.Um, that was life changing.Yeah.That's what I was curious.The opening to that movie was like insane.There was like, I don't remember it.It was the song, the footloose song.And then it was like feet dancing.Yeah.Yeah.But it was tapping or something.That song is insane.That song is still so good.And that was Kenny, Kenny Loggins.Yeah.Yeah.And, um, I remember I neverheard anything like that before.I was going to stand up, butI just messed up your video.I was going to grab a cassette for people whodon't know what a cassette looks like.I'm well, I think theycan look on the internet.We have at some point we should do a tour ofthe studio to show people.We should do a live or something.Um, cause there is a wholebunch of cassettes hanging overBrian's head right now thathe's collected over the years.Most of them are grateful to bootlegs.Um, okay.So what was I saying?The Kenny Loggins.So it was a footloose, but then he also, hesang a lot, a lot of good ones.Like for Top Gun, he sang danger zones.Yeah.Danger zone.Really?Yeah.He was hot in the, inthe seventies and eighties.That was the Kenny Loggins.Uh, was he a musician or a singer?It was Loggins andMessina is how he started out.No, I love their amazing.I know down at Pooh corner.Oh my God.But then, um, then he took offwith, he had like I'm all right.And, um, this is it like awhole bunch of good songs.Why don't you sing those?No.Anyways, footloose life changing.That's what I figured.100%.I can't say I agree.I mean, I respect it, but it's not, I had afeeling it was more, I think achick flick where, you know, everyone fell inlove with, uh, Kevin Bacon.Yeah.100%.Isn't his wife the star in that?Like his real wife.No, no.Kara Sedgwick.She's in, she's in that.She was, I discovered Kara Sedgwick in singles.That may be singles, which isanother good Gen X flick that singles.If anyone really wants to know the vibe of thegrunge movement in real timesingles was filmed has what's her name in it.That has a Kara Sedgwick.It has a Bridget Fonda.Um, Chris Cornell makes an appearance in it.So does Eddie Vedder, Matt Dillon.But who's the one, the one that I liked.Who?Oh no.You're thinking of reality bites.We're known a writer.Reality bites.Another excellent Gen X flick.Oh my gosh.So relatable love reality bites.That's actually on my list.Um, what I saw today, actually, and this reallypisses me off that we were notdialed in, uh, red, hot chili peppers.Um, Pearl jam and Nirvana.I think it was, it was a triplebilling at the Salem Armory in 1992.So we were in Oregon.Yes.We were within driving distance of Salem andthe tickets were like seven,16 bucks or something in college.Yeah, we should have gone.That's crazy.Stupid.We miss the that's, that's the, where youwithout the internet, you didn't knoweverything that was going on.Not at all.You had to either get to bedialed in on some mailing list.Probably something like, I don't know how wewould find out about stuff, but yeah.No, that would have been insane.Oh my gosh.That's crazy.Okay.So I know, you know that this, Iknow this is a core memory for you.It's smoking the bandit.Oh yeah.Smoking the band.My favorite movie.I know.And then cannonball run.Oh, a hundred percent.So those had that vibe, right?I was watching those when I was like in firstgrade and there's nudity.There's like, yeah, there's a scene incannonball run where the one guywatches behind the green door, which is a porn.Yeah.Um, what was the, the, um, I'll use the niceterm, the over the larger guide.Dom de la.We yeah.Yeah.What a comedian.He was great.And then do you remember that movie?Um, convoy.Oh yeah.With Chris, Chris, officer.So do you remember that?Like truckers were big for a while.Like for CB radios.Yeah.And CB radios were like a big deal.Yeah.We had a CB radio.My dad had one and I actually want one.The CB absolutely in the car.A hundred percent for my Jeep.Okay.Anyways.Um, yeah, for we, there waslike a whole trucker thing.Yeah.It was the same time.There was a member of DJ and the bear.Yes.And then it was like somethingabout big Ben or something big Ben.I don't know.I'm maybe I'm confusing stuff, but.Oh, do you remember, um, the guy who had likeseven girlfriends, he was a truckerand he had seven girlfriends and I can'tremember the name of it, but that song.Um, yes.Oh my gosh.Somebody's going to know, but it was a truckingtrucker guy and he had seven girlfriends.It was something about, Ohgosh, I can't remember now.It'll come to me though.You know what was smoking a bandit.This could potentially be embarrassing, but mytwo of my best friends, uh, mybuddies, Matt and Kevin, and I would watchsmoking a bandit very frequently in highschool, like after school, like we'd watch it.You're still watching it.We're still watching it.Yeah.And, and smoking the bandit too as well.Right.Yeah, but it wasn't as good.The original was the, yeah.I remember going to see smokingthe bandit with my dad or smoke.I think I have a good memory ofthat as smoking the bandit too.Okay.So did you, um, have one of those viewfinderthings that you would go clicklike you look at it like, um,like, but not, oh, yeah, yeah.Like in binoculars, circulardisc pictures and you can advance.Yes.Yeah.So you could pick the type of like, you couldpick like, uh, Europe and it wouldbe like pictures of different countries inEurope and I love those.Yeah.That was like, it's great.I forgot about that.And then you didn't have abanana seat on your bike, right?I did.I had the, uh, Huffy buckaroo,uh, and you had a banana seat.Oh yeah.Okay.I forget.I had to be young fifth, sixth grade, maybesomething, but I had theHuffy buckaroo with the long banana seat andthe bar that, you know, the kind ofthe thing you could press yourass on that and then do wheelies.Oh, well, I was not doingthat, but I loved my banana seat.And so I had that when I was like first grade,second grade, third grade,I guess, did all kids bikes have banana bikes?Yeah.I don't know why they got rid of them.Banana seats were comfortable.They were so comfortable.Okay.So this is so random.Okay.So you woke up, I think most GenXers, Saturday morning cartoonswere the highlight of our lives.I was bowling.You were bowling on Saturday morning.So wait, you didn't wake up.No, I did.I did.I think I would wake up and again, a lot ofthis stuff blends, right?Cause you jump into different things over time,but it wasn't wake up and go dosome like recreational sport perse until you hit a certain age.Yeah.Like it feels like with ourkids, it's like get up and go.Right.No, but yeah, the cartoons, remember like theyhad those Olympic things.Yes.And the Smurfs were all the rage.And like the superheroes, like Superman,Batman, what was that Olympic thing?You just totally unlocked a core memory.What was like animals competing?Yeah.They were competing and they hadannouncers and they were like almostannouncing it like adults, they were probablyseeing inappropriate shit,but we had no clue.I can picture it now, but Itotally forgot about that show.We have to find out what that show was called.I love that.So I would come out, get out of bed, makecereal, probably, I think it waslike a sugar sear likefrosted flakes or something.Yeah, that's all we had.And I would sit in front ofthe TV and watch Saturday morningcartoons for like three hours easily.I feel like I would dothat and then go bowling.I used to bowl every Saturdaymorning for some age period.I don't know what it was.Yeah.And I do remember it was during the Smurfsbecause the Smurfs, everyone at the bowland all he's talking about the Smurfs.I love the Smurfs.Yeah.I was obsessed with the Smurfs.I remember when the Smurfs, all of it.Little Daisy Smurfs, whatever.No, no, no.It wasn't Daisy Smurfs.I can't remember her name, but no, I was upsetand I had all the figurines.They had Smurf figurines and I hadthem on and I would like play it.Like my Barbies.That a cabbage patch.I was never into that.My sister and cousins were.Yeah.That whole thing.I'm sure my mom was thrilled that I was notinto cabbage patch at all.So, because remember there was like fighting.Oh yeah.It was a huge deal.People were getting in.It was a big deal.No, I was into Barbie.I was so into Barbie.I had so many Barbies and Ken's and the Smurfs.I played Barbies.You played with your sister and cousin.Yeah.Oh, I would play Barbies.So that's one thing about, um, yeah, I didn'thave, I didn't grow up with siblings.So I spent a lot of time on my own and I woulddo a lot of like make believeplay and stuff.Okay.So, um, do you remember there was a Folgerscommercial where the sister likeanswers the door, this got this young man showsup the door and a girl answers thedoor and it's his sister, butthe way they're acting is weird.Like you almost would think it might've beenher boyfriend, but you come tofind out it's, it's their brother and sister.It was the weirdest Folgers commercial.I remember that.No, no recollection at all.I remember that.It was like, she made himcoffee before anyone wakes up.And then they're likegiving eyes to each other.It was very weird.So you don't remember that Folgers commercialthat was on all the time.And I remember being souncomfortable with that.Um, do you remember that commercial that was,uh, I can bring home the bacon.Oh yeah.That was, that was a perfume.Yeah.Okay.So I'm going to say likeAngelie was not something like that.Oh yeah.That lady was dancing.Yeah.Yeah.Oh, I completely remember.Yeah.That was the beginning ofthe brainwashing of what?Yeah.That's where you guys gave up your feminine.Any?No, no.It's where we had to buy into.We can do it all and took oneverything instead of demanding.Okay.You want us to go work outside the home.You need to help 50 50 in the house.The domestic conversation never happened.So that's, we've talked about this in otherepisodes, but that commercialis part of the propaganda that was fed becauseI remember watching that andthinking even at a young age,Oh, I, I, I'm going to do it all.I'm going to do everything.Actually.It's funny.You say that cause there's guys were like, youknow, she was hot and it's like, Igot to get me one of them.Well, there you go.And therein lies the problem.Yeah.And therein lies why, why the Gen X women arehitting midlife and telling the men,I'm out of here.If you don't need a hot woman who fries it upin the pan and makes money.Yeah.It does the whole thing.Yeah.It cleans your house.Got to get to it.That's your laundry.No, it would take two or three to truly do it.No, I'm there's no onecan do it all and do it all.Um, well, somewhere along the line.Yes. Somebody, somebody is, um, not getting whatthey should, whether it's at work,whether it's with your children, whether it'syour house, whether it's you got,you got me started.You got me started.I it's a whole thing.Anyways.Did you keep a comb in your back pocket?Yeah.Me too.Yeah.That was a girl.The black comb was your hair feathered.My hair was so fathered.So when we'd go to the roller rink, right?You'd go to the roller rink.You got a comb in your back pocket.You start.Yeah.Yeah.So us girls, we didn't totally, we did more oflike checking our hair, butit was part down the middle feathered.Now was yours a black comb or like a purple onethat kind of was bigger?Cause I kind of remember those two.So it was, no, it wasn't like the boring black.It had the handle and it was sort of glittery,pretty color with ours.We had the, the kind of the wider teeth andthen the narrower teeth in a way.No, no, this was just like acute comb, like a girl comb.So speaking of roller skating, I also lovedgoing to the roller rink.That's a huge core memory.One of the things I remember from it isprivatized by Hall of notes.They would play it.Oh yeah.And when it would go thateveryone would stamp their, their skates.I remember that I love the roller rink.Yeah.That was the best.Yeah.Yeah.I wish that that was a thing still.I think they're, I think they're around, but Ijust think it's such a novelty.Now it's probably so expensive.All right.Do you remember when arcades appeared?Yeah.Like we were alive when there were no videogames and then when arcades appeared.That's not true.We had the Atari 2600 and we had the, but wewere alive before all that.Pong and but we were alive before that.You know what I mean?Like we, when we were youngis when video games came up.Oh yeah.Yeah.So yeah.Atari.Yeah.Was that Pong?So Pong, but then arcades.So we at the bowlingalley, they had arcade games.So you'd bowl.Yeah.Then after bowling, you putyour quarters in and play games.It was a quarter.Doug asteroid pack.Pac-Man and then Ms.Pac-Man soup.Yeah.Yeah.But Pac-Man, remember when Pac-Man came out?That was huge.Yeah.That was huge.I was so good at it.I was so good at Ms.Pac-Man, but it was a quarter.It wasn't, we put our quarters in.It was a quarter.There were some games so thatthen they jumped to 50 cents.Well, like everything.Yeah.But I remember going to arcades and spendingtime in arcades and youwould just, you literally, what you did therewas play games for like hours.Where was, where was your arcade located?Like we had one.I was trying to, the mall, the mall.Yeah.That's the one of us.Because we would go to themall and just walk around.Okay.So orange Julius, did you have that?Yeah.Yeah.Oh, nothing is so as good as an orange Julius.They're so good.Oh, I loved him.It was like a creamsicle.Yeah.So we would walk aroundand we'd go into the arcade.We'd go to orange Julius.We'd go to Spencer's.Yeah, totally.And there was like inappropriate stuff in therethat I totally didn't know whatit was, but I knew it wasn't okay.And there was like Frederick's of Hollywood andit was like, Ooh, becauseI think that was beforeVictoria's secret really took over.I think Frederick's was our lingerie.Yeah. You know, what I liked about Spencer's wasbesides all the inappropriate shit.Whereas the black room, like, or the blacklight room, with all those coolposters, black light, black light posters.Yeah.That was a whole thing.Yep.I, that would be cool.Favorites was, uh, the Jim Morrison poster.Do you remember that one?It was the Jim Morrison black light.No, not vivid.That was so cool.I forgot about the black light room.Yeah.So would you spend a ton of time at the mall?A lot.Yeah.No, I was going to say that that's one where Idon't think the kids do it a littlebit, but they burn out of it.But we have the malls for us went from a youngage all the way up through, throughhigh school.Well, because we were thereat the beginning of malls.Yeah.Probably the mall was like abig deal because it was new.Even for, even for like our parents, probably.Oh, let's go to the mall.Yeah.No, the mall was, was everything.Yeah.The mall is such a nostalgic feeling going tothe mall and it would just be thiswonderland you could spendhours there with your friends.I feel like back then, and I could be wrong,but I feel like maybe there weremore stores that kids could go in, like middleschool, high school age kids couldgo in where now, I don't know, like, you know,there's like Lululemon and likestuff like that, where I thinkthere was more like fun stores.Well, for us, from what Irecall, we had the arcade.Yeah.Then you had like Walden books.We'd go in, spend a lot of time in there.We had a baseball shop card.I used to collect baseball cards.Um, there's none of that now.There's a record store.Yes.The record store, you'dwalk up and down the aisle.Did you have tower records?Um, tower came later, but I don't, it felt likewe had the record storekept changing for some reason.He just completely unlocked a memory for me.So in the mall, one of the things we would dois go to tower records and spendlike a solid hour easilylooking through all the albums.Like that was what we did.And on the back behind thecashiers were the new albums.Like that had just come out.So you could see what was new.Yeah.Um, tower records was a place assoon as I would get to the mall.First stop tower records.Yeah.And I would buy 45.So you remember 45?Oh yeah.I saw why we still have them.Yeah.Yep.So many 45s and you'd have to put that littleplastic desk in so you could play it.Oh my gosh.Quick sidebar on the vinyl.So grateful that just released the beacontheater in 1976 on vinyl.And we got to get it.Okay.Okay.Um, do you remember whenWalkmans came on the picture?Yep.And what a big deal that was to be able to wearyour music and walk around literally.Yeah, that's kind ofWalkman, but that was huge.And actually, um, people don't realize, well,young kids don't, right?They have air buds with, you know, Bluetooth.We had those like headphones that were not big,like, uh, like we're wearing.They weren't these.No, they were kind ofthat in between fuzzy thing.Yeah.And then there were the ear and then there werethe small ones that were like, it wasjust the metal strip andthen a small thing right here.Yeah.No Walkmans.That was like, that was it.You'd put your, your tape in there.When I was, uh, when I was in high school andwe'd go to away games, I remember Iwould listen to, I had a Walkman with theheadphones we just described.I'd listen to Bob Dylan blood on the tracks tothese games and back and forth.I listened to that album.Yeah.500 times.Yeah.No, it gave us the ability to listen to musicoutside of our home, outside of a car.Yeah.It, it allowed and choose your own musicinstead of whatever was coming on the radio.Yes.It gave us autonomy when it came to our own.Well, before that was boom boxes, right?Yep.Um, but then if you walkedaround with it, it's loud.Everyone can hear this.Yeah.This was your private experience.The Walkman gave you thathonestly was between that and MTV.I was like entire records.I was in heaven.Um, did you, um, okay.Did you remember there weresmoking sections everywhere we went?There was smoking sections in McDonald's.We actually had asmoking section at our school.Oh, for sure.Where the smokers went.Yeah.But like any place, even if you went toMcDonald's, there were ashtrays andthere was smoking airplanes had smoking.So airplanes.I don't remember.I guess they had.They did.Cause I remember I'd fly back andforth between Oregon and Michigan.It was the back.Yeah.Like that made the biggest difference is that,okay, it's just in the back.Um, every restaurant when the hostess would askyou how many people, and thenthe second question was smoking or non-smoking.Yeah.I forgot about that.Yeah.They were everywhere you went.I think that's an improvement in the world.Oh, for sure.Obviously.But at the time we were just used to that.Like no matter where you'd go.Smoking sections.Not just used to it.I remember driving and I think I've talkedabout this in my relatives carswho would smoke, we'd be in the back seatwithout seat belts and a big sedan.There's along the roads and they'd be up theresmoking and blowing it in the car.That's my mom.Yeah.Yeah.My mom smoked Virginia Slims.Um, okay.So do you, did you bite your pencil?Do you remember bite it?Like, so we'd all havethe yellow pencils, right?The number two pencils.Yeah.Do you remember biting your pencil?I do, but not, not like a, like,like just where it was all bit.Yeah.Yes, but not really.It's not a core memory.Okay.I used to bite all my, I love the way, like notthat it tasted, but justthat feeling of biting into the pencil.And then do you remember?It's funny you say that I remember the bite andthe how it broke through thepaint and then you'd get to that next layer.Then you'd move on.That kind of, yeah.Yes.Yes.Crazy.And I, and I can, I can,I can like not taste it.I can smell it.Taste it.Smell it.Yeah.Yeah.Okay.So then did you, um, go to the pencil sharpenerjust because you were boredand want to get out of your seat?But then that thing like would always be just alittle close enough to the wallwhere you'd like get your knuckles.You remember that.Yeah.Yeah, I do.So you kind of would have to like hold it anddo it, but, and it would have thatsound, but it was, I remembered, yeah,sometimes you'd be like this, but Iremember doing it and trying to make enoughnoise to be disruptive to theclass to, to be that,why does that not shock me?Why does that not do youwere Dennis the menace?There's no question about that.Okay.It's, so yeah.Do you remember how we used to like, not youand me, but how, um, we wouldslow dance in high school.Yeah.Yeah.He holds your arms straight out.Yeah.It was either that or you were like, liketotally hugging and like,like as close as you could be.I don't think I ever did the closest.No, no, maybe for like prom.Cause by then I had a girl for that.So I'm talking about middle school, but likethe, the back and forth,just one step, one step.Yeah.But I loved middle school dances.Like, so tears for fear, all theeighties, like Madonna, Prince, um,tears for fears, the pesh mode.Yeah.Like that was our Michael Jackson.That was our music at our middle school dances.And it was new.We would dance like, I would never dance.You didn't, did you go?Yeah.But I hindsight, I was tooimmature to be there and embrace it.Right.Yeah.Other kids were, I was probablymocking them out of insecurity.Realistically, but well, did boys dance thatyou remember a handful?Wait, well, when we were in fifth or sixthgrade, maybe a little earlier,we had a breakdance club.I remember breakdancing.Yes.We had a breakdance club.I wasn't in it.I couldn't do it again.It was, that wasn't my thing, but there weresome guys who were breakdancingand spinning and shit on their heads and stuff.And I remember actually at HelenMorgan school, we were in pods.Yeah.They had a pod.Here's your five classes for second grade.And here's the pod overhere, you know, down the hall.Yeah.And I remember these guys, they hadbreakdancing and, and like the whole,it was like embraced kind of like, Hey,so-and-so is going tobreakdance and everyone's watching.Breakdancing was like a bigdeal and they were parachute pants.That's what got parachute.Yeah.I had parachute.Yeah.And like the windbreaker matching windbreaker.Whatever.So I never wore members only.I had a member Sony jacket.I think everybody did.I don't know.So we did OP ocean, and then of course polo.Yep.Yep.And okay.So OP ocean Pacific guests.Yep.Yep.I remember guests overalls were.I was never into guests, butthose more of a girls thing.Yeah.Yeah.Yeah.And then eyes odds.Yeah.Um, okay.So the cologne was, um, that green polo.Yeah.I still, I still like.Okay.And then, and then your car.I was never into that.So your car was huge among the boys.Yeah.But no, to bring back tobreakdancing, I forgot that was like,we were there in breakdancing appear.Yeah. Yeah.It's so cool.Um, just going back to the fashion stuff.I had a pink Ralph Lauren, uh, polo jacket.Yeah.Like eighth grade or something.So I was all in on that.Well, that was Miami vice, right?Or had Miami vice shown up yet?I don't know.Well, no, a pink, that would havebeen preppy, the preppy handbook.When did Miami vice show up for us?Like maybe ninth grade.Yeah, maybe.Cause then it was the white linen blazerpushing your sleeves up.Yeah. So you could see your forearms.That was like a whole thing.We had a friend whose dadwas an exec at ocean Pacific.So he had all the OP stuff.Okay.And then everybody got into OP and Ralph Lauraand like polo was huge.Yes.Members only jackets were huge.Yeah.Um, sarin Getty sunglasses.I think they were right.Do you remember?No, we were Ray-Ban.We were not Ray-Ban untilprobably a little bit later.We were so Ray-Ban.They had those aviator ones.Remember they had the glasses and they had likethe, like the little side things.Yes.Yes.Maybe they were, oh, you know,Carreras like for Porsche Carreras.Okay.That might've been more the guys probably, butwhen risky business came out,yeah, it was probably changed.It was all about risky business.It was all about, uh, Ray-Ban probably.I don't remember.Yeah.I remember the black Ray-Bans.Yeah.Did you have swatch?Yeah.Yeah.And you could change the faces or something.I had a black swatch watch.I bought at the Macy's counter for $35.There you go.I love my swatch watch.And then, um, vans back then were checkered.Yep.So they were either, uh, youcould get red and white checkered,which are the ones I had.You could get pink and white.I had pink and white.Okay.I went through this whole,you went through a preppy phase.Yeah.And then, um, you wore them with no socks.Probably.Yeah.And then you get black and white.And I think you get blue and white checkeredtoo, but it was all checkered.Like the way vans is now is not how it was.Van is a shoe now.It was, it has like actual like chill styles.You can still get the checkered.Yeah.Yeah.But it has, they have clothes.That's a whole thing.But when we bought vans backthen, they were like 30 or $35.I bet the checkered ones are like 135.Probably.I feel like they were$25 or something.Oh my gosh.Yeah.I love my van so much.Um, okay.So did you on your Christmas tree, did you haveeither, um, like that tinsel decoror was it like hand, was it the ones where youwould take a string of tinseland put on your Christmas tree or was it likethe rope type tinsel wrapping?So for me, two memories would be, we had therope, the gold rope, and we'd do itas a family, you know, work it around.And then my aunt, Lorraine anduncle Tommy had the stuff you put on.Yeah.Yeah. And some families would throw kind of toss thaton, but then some familieswould do one at a time.Why?I don't know.Would you know that my grandma did it?My grandma did one at a time.And, um, I don't know.I don't, I think she enjoyed it probablybecause she had four kids and it was thetime she could be like, leave me alone.I'm decorating the tree.Did you grow up being afraid of Christmas treesburning down your house?Of course.No, I thought that was a daily occurrence.I thought every Christmas, likehalf the people I knew their Christmastree was going to catch on fire.Okay.Were you afraid of quicksand?Because for some reason we were all supposed tobe afraid of quicksand.I think I'm still afraid of quicksand, eventhough I've never seen or beenaround quicksand, but I picture it happening.Everything we watched quicksand.Yeah.Something can happen.You say that road runner andwild coyote, Tom and Jerry.Star Trek.There's quicksand in one of the episodes.Yeah, maybe.Oh no.There's quicksand in fantasy Island.Yeah.I'm sure chips had a quicksand episode wherethey had to come save them.Okay.What about the sleaze stacks?Uh, they're my favorites.Yeah, totally.Those things would freak me out.Have you ever seen that meme where they showedthe free, the sleaze stack andit's like when your mushrooms just hit?No.No, it's hilarious.And then was that the only dinosaur that wasn'ta dinosaur land of the loss.Was it dinosaurs?Yeah, but we've talked about that other one.You remember this or thatI can't even describe it.It's like a, this round thing with like, likeshaggy that was like living in ahouse and they live by a beach.That'll come to you.I can't remember the name of the movie, but, orthe show, it was like a show.And it was like this.I don't even, I can't even picture that now.We've talked about it, but.Gosh, I can't even picture that.You know, what's the trip is for us.Like Disney movies weren't a thing.Those really started, Imean, they were like Pinocchio.Remember?Yeah.But Disney on Sunday nights with Herbie, thelove bug and the Waltons.Yes.Right.Herbie, the love.I loved her be the love.Yeah.Yeah.All those movies.What about, um, the pink Panther?Yeah.Yeah.Love the pink Panther.The cartoon.I wasn't really into the guy.The live action detective.No, it was weird.You remember, uh, um, two, uh, uh, Mr.Magoo.I didn't watch that.Oh, you don't watch that.No.What about the gorilla in the window?How much is that monkey in thewindow or the McGillic gorilla?It sounds familiar.That was that when we wereyoung, like kindergarten.I don't know.It all blends, man.It's I know, but I think that waswhen we were younger, but I forgotabout her be the love bug.Remember the Waltons.They'd be like, good night, Mark.And I can I can I, I didn't watch that as muchas little house on the prairie.Oh yeah.I love little house on the prairie.I've seen every littlehouse in the prairie episode.I watch that.I read all the books.I was obsessed with that family.I didn't read the books, but I, we used towatch it was like Sunday nights.Right.Wasn't that kind of likelittle house on the prairie?Yeah.Herbie and Waltons.I think I went to bed whenWaltons, but, um, Oh, the other one,Grizzly Adams, loved Grizzly Adams.I love that show.I loved Grizzly Adams.That was a great, there's anotherone actually, um, mutual of Omaha.That was like the wild kingdom.Yeah.Well, the animals.Yeah.Yeah.That was cool.Yeah.But, um, Hey, Grizzly Adams, Grizzly Adams,Grizzly Adams was cool.I was trying to think therewas something else you said.It'll come back to me.Um, okay.What else?I wonder if we covered likeeverything that I wrote down.I'm reading it real quick.Uh, Saturday morning cards.Oh, did you ever do Columbia house where youcould buy like a bunch of tapes?I think I did it as an adult too.Yeah.Yeah.I think we changed our name or something.I think I remember doing, I think in highschool or something, I got like,what would you get like not a hundred tapes?No, it wasn't a hundred.Well, it was a lot for a penny.You know what I did actually.Um, it was something like that.It might've been Columbia house, but I got thiswhole blues collection.I've got like the Robert Johnson and thehowling wolf and all theseincredible blues artists.I have a one from that.Yeah.Something like that.Oh my God.That's so funny.Okay.Did you ever have a radio, astereo in your car that you pulled out?Yeah.A hundred percent.Yeah.I saw in my first car, my firstcar was a 1965 Apple red Mustang.I had no business receiving that car.Um, it was the most gloriously beautiful car Icould ever have wanted.It was my dream car, but I was 16years old and I crashed it twice.I had no business driving that car.But it was fast, but Ihad a Kenmore pullout in it.Yeah.And would Kenwood Kenwood.What did I say?Kenmore Kenwood.And so when I would go to like, Iwas in high school, if I went todinner, like my friends or my boyfriend, Iwould bring it into the restaurantor I'd put it in my bag.Oh, you had the room removable plate.No, I pulled the whole thing out.Interesting.No, I had the whole thingand I would put it in my bag.Interesting.And then when I get in myMustang, I put it back in.Yeah.I would take it with me.That's weird.Why?So no one would steal it.It was a removable thing.Like when we were younger, people would breakinto cars and steal shit.Yeah.Um, I had a 76 Chevy Monza andI don't even know what that is.Stock, the stock car came withan eight cylinder motor, right?Okay.And mine had a four cylinder.That's like a V8, right?It was a V8.Yeah.So instead of city, if it had the, the V8, itwould have sat flat, right?Aerodynamically designed.Mine had a four cylinder.So it faced up a little bit, totally dangerous,changed the dynamics of howyou steer, but I had a, I paid $250 for it.My parents did.And my stereo, I had a wholepioneer system and I put it in myself.Yeah.Brand the cables did.I had speakers in the doors,six inch speakers in the doors.Yeah.Then six by nine speakers in the back.Wow.So we, yeah, that was the whole thing.And that doesn't sound like a very big car.No, it was so loud.It was, it was amazing.It was just crazy.It was awesome.Yeah.That's a Mons, I get it.I don't know what that is, but that sounds likeit was a good time when she got in there.Yeah.Yeah.So did you ever, I don't know, you probablynever went through this, but, and Idon't know if this is just because of myupbringing or whatever, or if it's agirl thing, but did youever, I'm threatened to run away.Not that I recall, but not that I recall.So I would say I'm going to run away like adecent, but I think there's kids who hada normal upbringing and also did this.If they had like, we're upset with something.Our daughter.Well, yeah, that's true.She did it when she was like three.Yeah.Um, I, but one time I did, Igrabbed my white teddy bear.I love that teddy bear.I think I still have it inour storage unit somewhere.I'd grabbed my white teddy bear and like a dolland we were at my mom's friend'shouse and I left and so it wasn't even myneighborhood and I think I made it and Iwould have been kindergarten or first grade.I think I walked for five minutes and which isa long time, long time to walkfor five minutes as a little kid.And then I remember thatfeeling of, okay, I'm like far.And no one came after you.Well, no.So right as I felt like I'm far, which wasprobably like three blocks, I turnaround and my mom's running towards me.So yeah, like I, she, yeah, ran and got me, butthat was a thing is like, I'mdone, I'm going to run away.But actually that time I tried it and then youget that, that feeling like, didyou ever lose your, your mom in a store?Um, I remember like hiding under, like beingat, I think it was at Macy's andhiding in like the clothes.Oh, so you traumatized your mom.I feel like I did, but I thought it was funnybecause I was hiding inlike the rack of clothes, right?Of course.Yes.Brian, Brian, Brian.And I think they, I feel likethe store manager got involved.Nice.I don't remember if this happenedor not or if I'm imagining it, butI really think it happened.I feel like your mom hasmentioned something about this.I wish she would come on causeI, she'd have some good stories.Yeah.Oh, yeah.She probably has the tea.Yeah, she does.I remember she told a story about you didn'twant to go to dinner and you guysbattled about that and she threatened to breakyour fish tank with an ax if youdidn't go to dinner and anothertime she cut up your pants because youwouldn't go to dinner.This should have been red flagsfor me that you don't go to dinner.You know, what's funny is one time she.Yeah.Very true.She used to cut my hair attimes or like dude, like a trimming.And I remember once she nicked my ear and yourear bleeds pretty good, right?Yeah.And I remember seeing it and thenI pretended to really be in pain.I started crying.Yeah.That wasn't cool.You tormented.No.So I wonder like I was, I was the type of Gen Xkid and it could have been becausemy parents are divorcedremarried to other people that a lot.I came from cast.That's a totally different episode.If anyone's interested in that, go listen toprobably episode 13 and you'll hearmy story, but, um, so I was, I was like prettycompliant and I just, I wantedfriends and, um, so I was,I, and I followed the rules.Yeah.I think you were the opposite of that.Yeah.A hundred percent.I was an asshole at times for sure.Yeah.But you could get away with more back then kidscould get away with more back then.Yeah.Yeah.I mean, it's almost like when you ask if, youknow, did I ever run away?I can't, it's like that didn't, I don't thinkthat entered my mind ever.I don't even know any friends that did.And I feel like I know of some people thatdidn't and we're like, why?Huh?What, what is this?Yeah.You know?Yeah.So you guys were just very stable, very fine.And you were more running the show.Yeah.I feel like I ran the show kind of, you know,and I had a great, I ran theshow in many ways, not a hundred percent, youknow, but, but relativelycompared to what you're saying, you know, I hada lot of control or autonomy.Uh, but also had a good,you know, decent thing going.So do you think there's things you did though,as a quote unquote bully, thenthat now kids couldn't do or get away with orsomebody's parent wouldprobably call the school over.Yeah, probably.What were some of the things you did?I don't want to sell myself out, but I will saythis, like, you know, I wasthinking about this because, you know, you'dplanted the seed, but we used tosnow throw snowballs at cars.Yeah.Um, you know, as when it snowed, it was like,cool, but wait till it actuallywe didn't wait till it got dark.Uh, we used to throw eggs at cars.Mm-hmm.Um, that was always fun.We would do ding dong ditching.Yes.And that was fun too.Yeah.I'm glad kids still do that.Yeah.You know, mischief night,we would TP houses, trees.So we TP, like when we would have a sleepover.I like a girl's house.We would sneak out like the girl.We would, all of us girls wouldsneak out with a bunch of toiletpaper and we would TP houses.That was the thing.I don't know.What is it?Yeah.We used to take soap and put it on windows ofcars and, you know, right.Things are just like really cover like thefront window and shit like that.You never did that.Oh, that was never did that.I don't think I ever threw.I never threw eggs at cars.I did throw eggs at houses once.Yeah.We did that too.We were TPing and I was like, Oh my God.Yeah.Now did you put rocks in yoursnowballs that you threw at cars?No.Okay.So you didn't go that far.No, we didn't go that far.Did you ever steal stuff?Yeah.Like from like a, like a seven 11.Yeah.Yeah.Seven 11 or like the ACME or whatever.Yeah.Not from people.Candy.Yeah.Candy.A Jolly Ranchers.I would steal those a hundred percent.So that was all profit.A hundred percent profit.Yeah.Yeah. Yeah.So how would you steal?Where would you put it?All right.So we had that I had this, well, you couldjust, I had this eyes odd jacketthat had hand pockets like this, right?You put your hands, like a kindof put your hands through here.Yeah.And you could kind of do that.Like hoodies are.Yeah.Like a hoodie, a hoodie.Yeah.Great example.I remember there was a hole in the pocket.So once the whole created, Iwas like, rip it a little more.You could shove a whole bag inthere and just wrap it around.Oh my gosh.Yeah.Were you the only one that did that?Or were you doing it?Did they ever catch on thatwe're missing stuff every timethis group of kids comes in?Well, it wasn't like a group thing.You do like one friend.Yeah.Yeah.Yeah.It's not like you go andjust clear out the place.You know, you gotta be,well, people do that now.No, that's what I'm saying.This is very, covert shitin your pants the whole time.And you don't think you're goodtill you can't see the store anymore.How many times did you do that?I don't know enough to remember it.Did you sneak into movies?Yeah.Yeah.Without buying a ticket.Yeah.Yeah.Well, but like, uh, who was,who was telling us Lou, right?Yes.In one of our previous podcast.People, I had a friend who worked that.Okay.Yeah.And they'd like, they'd let you in.You'd go knock on thedoor and they'd let you in.Yeah.Would you prank call?Oh, absolutely.So what were some of the, do youremember any of the prank calls?Things you'd say?No, we would prank call, but, and when we firstdid it, it was like your fridgerefrigerators running, youbetter go get it or something.It was like dumb jokes like that.But then it just was like breathing.Yeah.Or, um, saying like, just, I don't know what itwas, but we would prank call a lot.Yeah.A hundred percent.Because there was no caller ID.It was all landlines.And no one knew.Well, there was a way to where you could blockyour line because caller ID cameout, but there was a way you could punch a codein and not show your number.Yeah.That's later.Yeah.And when we were middleschool, there was not a caller ID.Yeah.That was more high school.Like, um, uh, what do you call it?A phone where he can recorda thing like leave a message.Yeah.The voice machine melt.What's it called?Uh, the, the answering machine.Answering machine and answering machine.So I remember when answering machines showed upand I think that was likehigh school with the landline.And I remember it was a big deal.So like the message, like sometimes as, as Iget, we got more comfortable.We play music and likesay, Hey, leave us a message.Like it would be like a whole production.It would be a production.I don't recall that.Yeah.That sounds like you and your mom.The for the answering machine.Or I could just do it.Like she would let me takeover and it'd be like, youreached that, but I wouldhave like bells and whistles.There was like a director's cut.It was a whole thing.I had fun with that with theanswering machines and then it switchedto voicemail on cell phones, but the answermachines were cool becauseyou'd come home and it'd be blinking.It's blinking.And you're like, we got messages.We actually had one too.That told you the number of messages you have.Yes.You have nine messages or something like that.And then you listen to it.And do you remember when it first,the more the same person who justscrewed up leaving the first message.Like, what?Yeah.Do you remember when theyfirst came out, it was on a tape.It was like a little, a little micro cassette.And so there were times like, if your tape gotmessed up, you lost your messages.Like that was the whole thing.Yeah.Do you remember, um, like having to share thelandline with your family?Oh, yeah.So you'd get like, did you and your sister everhave to battle over phone time?My sister actually got her own number when shewas in like, like ninth grade orsomething.I remember kids who would have that.And I was like, wow, you got your own number.I remember I had my own phone in my room inhigh school, but I did not have my ownnumber, but I had my own phone.It wasn't just sharing the line.It was making sure no one picked up the linewhile you were talking.And listen, listen, you're talking to yourgirlfriend or your boyfriend.No, that was the whole thing.A hundred percent.But I remember when I finally got a phone in myroom, I didn't have to sit out inlike the living room and be onthe phone or like, I'd take it.You, the whole cord could,I could go in the garage.So I'd pull it into the garage and I'd be onthe phone in the garage.So that was the whole thing.Do you remember always thinkingthere's going to be a nuclear war?Yeah.We grew up in that.Remember that movie Red Dawn?Red Dawn.Yeah.I mean, we grew up in the cold, cold, cold war.Yeah.Yeah.But we literally, we would do drills and we'dhave to go under the desk.Did you ever do that?I don't remember that.Yeah.We would do that.Like if we were going to get bombed by anuclear bomb going under the desk iswhat's going to save us.That's what we thought.You know, it's interesting.So I was up in Birmingham a few years ago withNathan and Ben, and I actuallytook a picture cause there was a sign on abrick building of saying like nuclearshelter.Yeah.You don't see that too often.No, no.And it was like nuclear shelter and it's likepointing down here, going to thebasement.Yeah.No.And I remember there were like,there was a movie called Red Dawn.No, that one.But then there was a TV moviecalled like the end or something.Like propaganda for sure.But no, but it was likea Hollywood movie, right?Yeah.Yeah.Yeah.But it was about the end ofthe nuclear war happening.I remember that.I wish I could remember the name of that movie,but Red Dawn, Red Dawn is such aGen X movie.Yeah.Okay.So, so there's a group of movies, Red Dawn.Um, the outsiders.Yeah.That's a great movie.Breakfast club.Yep.Yep.16 candles.Tex.What?Tex.I don't remember that.That's with Matt Dillon.So the woman that wroteoutsiders, I see hidden.She wrote Tex.She wrote that was then thisis now they made movies on that.So that was like a whole, whole genre.So you didn't the outside.Did you read the outsiders?I actually read part of the outsiders.I'm not a big book guys, you know, but I'veseen, I've seen the movie at least,you know, a bunch of times.I love it.Yeah.And then, um, pretty in pink.Did you ever see pretty in pink?Yeah.Yeah.But it doesn't really resonate.So that there was that whole John Hughes genre.And then, um, because that's breakfast club,those are more girl movies.Probably.I remember like St.Elmo's fire, St.Elmo's fire.That's all that's in the same.Yeah.Um, say anything.That's where he holds the boom box up.John Kuzak outside her window.That's iconic.So that's what me, all those women thinkthat's, you know, we should have expectedthat we didn't, but that's what we should haveheld held to is hold theboom box at our window.I would say I was more oflike an animal house guy.Yeah.Uh, the wall love the wall.Yeah.But I'm talking.Yeah.Yeah.I guess.Yes.The wall.That's a whole thing.Yeah.But yeah, usually you're like,and the blues brothers.I love the blues brothers.Okay.Revenge of the nerds, that whole, and that'sone of those series where, uh,they did like 20 of them.But in the first several were pretty good.I think it was just two, but okay.Police Academy.I was just about to say that.Yeah.That had a bunch.Okay.Rocky.Rocky.Yep.Okay.I personally think I love Rocky and Rocky too,but my Rocky is Rocky three.Funny.You say that.Yeah.Mr.T.I think it's because that was like, we werethat a little bit old enough to reallyappreciate it.Which Rocky did they fight the Russians in?Rocky four.Okay.So I saw Rocky four in a movie theater in WestVirginia, more content.Yeah.And you know, the whole place is going crazy.Go get them.Rock.Yeah.The whole place.The place is screaming.Yes.It was amazing.Yeah.It was good.No, that was, and then, um, Terminator.Yeah.The whole series.That's our, that's our time that that's Gen Xthis time is terminator.What's the other one?First blood first blood.Right.Yeah.That's the lone Rambo Rambo Rambo.Like all of that.Yeah.So you really think about like the first moviesI mentioned the outsiders in thatgenre and, and John Hughes and that genre andthen Rocky and series and the Ramboseries and keep well, before you wrap it up.So Friday the 13th, Halloween.So we, we had Halloween, like we were therewhen all this stuff came original.Yeah.Yeah.These were not remakes.Yeah.These were newly createdmovies, screenplays, everything.So yes.Um, we had Friday the 13th.We had Halloween and wehad nightmare on Elm street.Those were like our big and it just jaws.We were the generation.Yeah.I'm just kidding.We were the generation of jaws.Yeah.We were the generation ofget the shit scared out of you.If you turned on the wrong channel.Yes.True.Really?So true.Yeah.That is so true.Did you ever see piranha?Hell yeah.Like I saw it in a drive-through.So my mom and my stepdad were watching themovie in front of them.They brought me with them to watch that movie.I turned around and watched piranha.I think I was six.Yeah.And I was horrified.My best friend had a redbelly piranhas as pets.Oh my gosh.Awesome.We'd go to the mall.Yeah.I goldfish.Yeah.Come back and feed them.Oh my gosh.You know, they go crazy like the movie.Yeah.Crazy.Yeah.No, it is.I remember thinking like I'm going to have atime in my life along with thequicksand I will encounter piranha.You know, now that we live in Florida.Piranhas survive here.Yeah.And we don't have a piranha population that I'maware of, but they survived on.Yeah.Oh, do you remember there was like a TV movieabout ants that killed, like theyswarmed people and killed them?Does that sound familiar?I don't know.I just remember there's a scene in the moviewhere a little boy falls in adumpster and the ants get him and kill him.I was watching that.I think I was six, seven.So ants, then that was awhole thing to add to my list.Remember like a revenge of the body snatchers.I didn't see that one when I watched it later.I think that came out and it was 3d.I think that's what they did.It was a 3d movie and I think itwas revenge of the body snare andsomething of the body.Close encounters of the third kind.That was alien.Oh my God.Do you remember ET?Yeah.The phenomenon of ET.Yeah.Oh my God.Like you can't duplicate that.You cannot culturally duplicatethe phenomenon of ET Raiders of theLost Ark, that whole thing.I wasn't told the end of that.Really?Not really.There was Star Wars.Star Wars.Like we're the generation of Star Wars.Yeah.Think about that.And, and Raiders of the Lost Ark.Yeah.All of that.So you look at everything we just talked aboutall those movies and you compare itto what is being offered in theaters for thelast 10, 15 years, 20 years.Yeah.It's like a joke.Yeah.It's a joke.Like there's nothing that it's so few thatsomething comes out that's of suchquality and originality as what we got in theseventies and eighties and nineties.I would say those three decades really put outsome of the most iconic movies and itmade it worth, it made it worth spending themoney to go see a movie.Of course it wasn't as expensive as it is now,but it made it worth it where there'sreally nothing at this pointwhere I'm like, yeah, that's worth it.You know, it'd have to be something big.I can't even think of, Idon't watch movies anymore.There's no entertainment value to me.No, but it was that just, and I don't eventhink our kids really like we were,it's they're not like a movie generation.No.Like how we were.I don't think I could be wrong.I don't know if the millennials feel this way.I don't know if Gen Z islike a movie generation.Like it was such a part of our culture.Everything it feels like, and I'm semi ignoranton this, but it feels like there'ssome message or some political bend or some,it's not just some creativeimagine that thing, like it has an agenda.It's got an agenda.It feels like, yeah, I don't know, but even,and like I said, there were, wedidn't really have Disney movies.We did.They were the older ones, like the Pinocchios,the Cinderella's and all that.But that whole phenomenon of like the real big,like beauty and the beast andLion King, that was morewhen we were in college.Yeah.And that's when Disney really ratcheted it up.Yeah.Um, remember like Arthur?Yes.Remember that show?That was such a good movie.Yeah.Yes.There's so many, you really, nine to five, nineto five was a great movie.Nine to five.That was with Dolly Parton.Oh, Dolly Parton.Yeah.And that's when womenwere entering the workforce.It's, it was such a good, such a good movie.Is it Willy Wonka?Well, yeah, there was WillyWonka and the Chocolate Factory.They've remade that a few times.Like Johnny Depp was one.And then, um, I'm just trying to think back tolike the Richard Pryor movies.Oh, and even stand up comedians, right?Stand up comedians.That was great.Completely.Yeah.I don't know what the right term is politicallycorrect, right term is, butthe shit they would say was just wrong.There is raw.Yeah.Okay.So we had, um, we had Richard Pryor, we hadEddie Murphy, like all in their prime.Yeah.Um, to me, like Chris Rock's kind of close.He's, he's done pretty well.Right.What about George Carlin though?Oh, I mean, that man was brilliant.Amazing.Yeah.Oh, you just made me think what about like, um,Private Benjamin with GoldieHan and, um, and she made a couple of movieswith Chevy Chase that I loved.Like they were like a little duo for a while.Yep.Caddyshack.Hello.Totally.And meatballs.Yep.Caddyshack and meatballs.And then did you ever see little darlings?What's what is that?That was with Christie McNichol.That was like kind of racy a little bit.I think so.I had a crush on her as a kid.It's totally inappropriate.Like, well, of course, if you look back now,but, um, blazing saddles.Just before I forget.Saddles.And then what about all the Mel Brooks movies?Yeah.There's a great, thehistory of the world part one.Those are great.So inappropriate.I remember being like five.I don't even know whatever it was.So funny.Yeah.The world.What's his name?The weirdo.Uh, was it not?Robin Williams.No, no, no.He's not weird though.The real word.What do you know?Uh, something that the guy who'd married like a15 year old or something.And the guy in New York, um, Oh, Woody Allen.I was never a big Woody Allen fan.I was never, uh, like I wasnever really big into his movies.I think, I don't know.He did well, but yeah, no, he, there'sdefinitely a huge following, butI was never really, but hejust think about all that.I don't know.I, and this could be just the Gen X or in metalking like you guys don't know whatwhat, like how it was, but it was just so much,it was so quality and I, I don't seeit now, but again, I don't know.Think they're like, are we just being nostalgicand thinking that somethingwas cool and it really wasn't.And I mean, it's cool cause we think it's cool,but is that just not happening today?Well, I think, I think what Isee is a lot of remaking of that.So I, I, I see a lot of attempting to remakestuff from the seventies, eighties,nineties, and like the star Wars thing, theyjust keep continuing, continuing,continuing, but, um, I don't know.I haven't seen anything like super original.Even Titanic was amazing and Schindler's list.Those are like nineties movies.Shawshank redemption.Um, so anyways, but just we, we were ageneration of a movie culture.Cause even reality bites, which is such aphenomenal gen X movie.We, we just, that was part of our culture.I don't know if it's asingrained in the Gen Z culture.I don't know.I really don't.I know our kids will sometimes go see a movierarely, although I will say,um, our older son was therefor all a Harry Potter and love.And then our both, our kids loveHarry, the Harry Potter movies.And, um, they are older to love the Lord of therings, especially our older sonloves the Lord of the rings.Those are quality original movies.But again, those were made in the early 2000s.So I don't know.That's why I say I feel like in the last,especially 10 years, I'm not sure.Cause even the American pie movies were good.Yeah.Those are, those are good movies and those arelike what late to early 2000s.So something I feel the first one was, Ithought the second third, what was theother one we like with, uh, a dude in Texas,uh, the 1976 schools out for summer.Oh, days and confused.Yeah.That's a classic.Yeah, of course.And then you have Talladega nights.Yeah.You know, like Ron Burgundy, acre man.Yeah.So, but again, that was over 20 years ago.Yeah.So I don't know.I don't, I don't know.I know.I know.But we had some good movies, but red done thatbrings us back to red on red done.I can say for myself, well, after I watchedthat movie, I 100% believe that that isgoing to happen and that I will experience it.I thought that was part ofour culture as a nuclear war.It was a reality that we lived really untilwhat the Berlin wall came down.Yeah.And then we thought, Oh, okay.We're not going to get bombed.So our son was at the UFC fightsin Miami and he saw the president.Yeah.When I was in college, I think itwas maybe sophomore junior year.I went and visited my friend in grand rapidsand I went to a Berlin wall.Uh, what's the right word ceremony.It was, they were giving the bura piece of the Berlin wall to thelocal, uh, place there in grand rapids.Yeah.Yeah.Gerald Ford was the president.Okay.Right.He was a president.He was, he did the whole thing.Yeah.It was pretty cool.No, that's cool.It was cool in toothbrunts.We got, I got to see Gerald Ford probably 30feet away at most and a pieceof the Berlin wall got knockeddown, which was very nostalgic for us.Cause they showed videos of people tearing itdown and you know, it was.It was interesting.No, it's, it's a, it's a historical thing.No.Do you remember, um, were you, I don't know ifit reached you because in Portland,this was big, but like the punk rock scene,like the sex pistols, like that city.Okay.So I remember I'd wear it.We'd have like in downtown Portland, likestorage, you could go to,and it was all like punk stuff, but I wouldwear like the high tops and he'dlike cover them with color and was Sharpie andstuff like it was a whole thing.I didn't do that.Okay.Yeah.We went through that for a little bit.What grade?What age?It was like maybe sophomore year.Yeah.I was by then I was more into the dead.See, I didn't get dead.I didn't get that until end of sophomore year.Okay.So this sort of a, maybe this is maybe likeninth grade into sophomore year,but the sex pistols and that whole punk rockscene, that was all really big.Yeah.So I wouldn't have been familiar with any ofthe sports at the time.Like, I mean, I knew the Harlem Globetrotters.Remember when we were growing up, the HarlemGlobetrotters were a big deal.They were a huge deal.Yeah.Um, and then I feel like the Dallas cowboycheerleaders were a big deal for a while.That was like a whole phenomenon, right?Yep.But I don't remember anything else with sports.Like what would have been the teams?For me, it was the Yankees.I remember becoming a Yankee fan in 1977.So I was six years old,become a lifelong Yankee fan.Um, the Raiders were good back then.The Steelers were good.Yeah.Yeah.You know, the Dodgers firstYankees was a big rivalry.Um, what about, um, boys were the hated team.You know, we had.Oh, were they?Oh yeah.Everyone hated the Cowboys.What about, um, uh, the refrigerator?Yeah.Uh, William, the refrigeratorPerry played for the, the bears.Yeah.The bears number 72.And then back then it was Jim McMahon.He had the glasses andeveryone would give him shit.And he's like, I have an eye condition.I need them.Whether it's true or I assume it is, but theydid the Super Bowl shuffle.Yes.I'm with the bears.I remember that.I remember that.And then, um, I remember thebears member on Saturday Night Live.DeBares.Yep.Yeah.Yeah.Yeah.Okay.So I remember that, but I was probably morelike when we were in college.So another thing, what was really cool for us,I remember being a young kid andbeing at like watching Mike Tyson fights onlike Saturday afternoons when he wascoming up and he was a kid and he was knockingthe shit out of people.Yeah.Come out and it's like, allright, you gotta watch Mike.And he would knock out men in seconds.Yeah.And he was so much fun to watch.It was awesome.I knew nothing about that.Oh, it was amazing.I remember watching that as a kid.The other thing too, as a kidwas magic verse bird, right?I remember that.Right.That was always that.Yeah.And then I remember Michael Jordan coming out.Jordan came along.I remember watching Jordan as a kid and Jordanput up like 65 points and theystill lost and he was their team.And then eventually theybuilt a cast around him.Yes.And they, you know, I remember that.I remember that.But, um, I can't, I don'tremember like the Superbowl.Was it a big thing?Probably because I am a dad at the house.Like, uh, she's the 49ers, Joe Montero.Yeah. Yeah. I remember that.I remember that.Yeah.Yeah.Yeah.Okay.Okay.Yeah.So I guess I, if it got really popular inmainstream, I remember it, butI didn't follow it.Yeah.Yeah.So I was a sports guy.Yeah.You know, I was all in.I loved sports.Yeah.I've, you know, trackedeach pro team and all of that.It was fun.Yeah.Yeah.No.I mean, I think that, um, so I think we prettymuch had very similar experiences.There's just a few deviations there.I think it's interesting.If you think about why probably because, um,culture is very cultivated, right?And TV, everyone watched TV.Back then.Yes.I don't really watch TV anymore.I watched the masterstoday, but yeah, off and on.Yes.But TV really drove things.So, you know, it's the news and then all theprograms we talked about.Yeah.And then the music, it was the top 40 untilyou, well, but not really.Cause I listened, I had older friends, so I waslistening to the doors and thestones and, and, and other bands like that.Yeah.Led Zeppelin.Yes.Um, AC, DC, all theseother bands that were not.Necessarily top 40, but the culture was verycultivated across the whole country.It was contained.It was contained.It was a contained culture.Yeah.And you're right.Everyone was watching TV.Like everyone experienced theMTV phenomenon at some point.Yeah.And everyone, we all had, yeah, you're right.Because the internet's made the world smallerby connecting us to the world.But we're not all similar.We're not all having this.I wonder if kids nowadays arehaving as similar experiences as we did,because it's just so vast.Now, you know, it's funny as I think I told youthis, but one of my friends onFacebook has a freshman in high school up inNew Jersey, and they posted a picturelike a lacrosse picture of something.All those kids look like all the kids down herewearing the same clothes.Yeah.All the same haircut.Yeah.All that same vibe.So that's a trip.And that could be the connectingthem to with from social media.Yeah.So maybe social media is now the TV.Probably, you know, as far as like connectingthe scrolling, the, the, yeah,the culture, the connecting the culture wherefor us, and maybe that's kind oftaking the place of like movies too, in a wayis, is you to have been social mediaand all that, I don't know, but you're right.Like if you look at social media, the kids, theboys all kind of have the same haircut.You know, though, if I think about it, Iremember being in fifth grade and wehad the teacher's Mr.Spice and during, I don't know, whatever, someopen time during the middle of theday, we'd maybe it was rainy or whatever.I don't even know, butwe'd be able to play music.Yeah.And I had friends who had played the Beatles.Yeah.I never really went, was into the Beatles.And I was in AC DC fees backthen Zeppelin, AC DC stones.And so when they got the recordplayer, they'd play the Beatles.We'd play AC DC.And so, but I bet we all watched little houseon a Prairie or whatever, right?The same shows, maybe there's, so there's thiscommon theme with deviations.And I think that's, we'll always be.And it's how it is today.Probably.It's so funny.You say that because when I wasin sixth grade, my teacher, Mr.Hausmann, he's so cool.Um, he's a doctor now, like Dr.Hausmann, but, um, he had a record player and Iwould bring in all my 45s.And I was like the DJ.And I think other kids would sometimes bringstuff into, but I was so obsessedwith music and we, and when I didn't play mystuff, he would play stuff.It was, it was so cool that he did that.Yeah.You know, I think, I think more teachers, I dosee it on social media.Teachers playing music for their students.Yeah.And I think most more teachers should do that.Cause especially the younger kids,cause it can be calming for them.But that's a core memory for me.Like that was a positive thing.Oh, that reminds me, didyou guys play four square?Not really.We played kill the guyin football and your boy.That was a boy.Okay.So the girls played four square, four square.We played dodgeball dodgeball.Yeah.Dodgeball was huge.Yeah.So we played four square.We played dodgeball.Um, you didn't play red Rover, right?We talked about this another episode.We played red.That's where you hold, hold your arm.You guys didn't play that.Do you guys play tag?Yeah.Yeah, of course.Yeah.We would play tag.We play hide and go seek or hide and seek.I don't think we played hide and seek.Can you ever play kick the can?We played kick the can.Like when we would be, when I was, when my dadlived up north and I would hangout with like kids up there, we play kick thecan in the neighborhood.I can't tell you how, what the rules were.I can either now that I say it, but I thinkkick the can for us is whatour kids play when they play.Um, remember when they were younger and theywould play outside manhunt, manhunt.No, no, manhunt, manhunt is more like hide andseek where you go hide.Yeah.And somebody counts to like 60 orsomething and everybody goes hide.Yeah.Hides.And it would either be like one person's it orlike a, maybe a couple, Ithink, you know, where I grewup, we could, we could hide.Yeah.Right.And cause it was all trees.It was, you know, we could hide.And if you didn't want to befound, you weren't going to be found.Yeah.Yeah.So then the person person belike, all right, I give up.And then you'd have to swap upand then what was kicked the can.I don't remember.I just remember like, it was like, you would, Idon't, I can't even describe it.Just remember you had to kick the can orsomething, but then you ran or something.Like you kicked the can and ran and then maybetag somebody or something like that.Now did you have tether ball?Uh, yeah, but that wasn'tlike, I love tether ball.Oh my God.I would hit that thing.Okay.So did you ever have to climb a rope to the topof the ceiling of Jim and allthat was below you was a mat that was likethis, that maybe this thin.It was a standard wrestling mat.Yeah.Like two inches thick.Okay.And, but you had to climb a rope.I never made it.I love that shit.Yeah.I never made it to the top.I don't think they do that.If they do that, the, the matter is.Yeah.And it sure is liability.Yeah.The whole thing.Do you remember, did you ever get hot lunch?Uh, like at school.Yeah.Oh yeah.I used to remember the period.Oh yeah.It's like that square square.Yeah.Okay.So that was all the same.I didn't really like that.I don't know if anyone liked it.I think it's just like, uh,you can remember the taste of it.I didn't, I wasn't into it.I grew up in New Jersey.We had real pizza, like thin crust.This was like, yes.I know.I'm trying to think what else they serve.That was like a common thing.I would get, when I was akid, I'd get PB and chase.I'd get the peanut butterand jelly with chocolate milk.Yeah.And then feel like that's all I ate.I remember tater tots and tater tots.Tater tots were so good.Corn dogs.We had corn dogs.I never had those.Uh, I actually never had a corn dog until wemade it to new move to Oregon.Yeah.We used to have sloppy Joe's.That was my favorites.Yeah.I thought those were disgusting.Oh, they were gross.So you played the recorder.Yep.Not well.No.Did you have music class?Um, yeah, but it wasn't great.I still remember the teacher.She wasn't, she didn't, we didn't drive.I don't feel like you jived with any teachers.No, there was, there had to have been some.I think you were a menace.No, no, that's not fair.I think so.So our music class, our music teacher was cooland you could go in there andplay all different types of instruments.I remember our music class.There were auditions, I think to be in theschool play or the musical, right?To sing at the thing.And I remember, no, like in the auditorium orthe lunchroom, the cafeteria.Yeah.And the parents, you know, it was Christmasshow that kind of thing.Yeah.Back then it was Christmas.Now it's holiday.Um, and, uh, I remember there were like, cometry out and sign up and get thegoods on what's going to happen.I remember myself and a handful of my buddiesshow up and she's like,she just said no to you right away.But she was like, you guys are not serious.You're here just to get out of your class.You know, tell me, is that the case?If that's the case, you need to leave.We're like, all right, whatever.Oh my God.So she knew, she's like, absolutely not.So did you take home?Um, in seventh or eighthgrade, I actually really enjoyed it.You liked home.What did you like about home?Um, the lady who taught it was super nice.It was an older lady.Super nice.Um, I actually made a pillow, a black pillowwith, um, it was a Billy Idol pillow.So it was like white letters.You know, you had to cut it andsew it and stuff it and all that.Yeah.I made a pillow.I made a hamburger.I think it was a hamburger.Okay.Did you have wood shop?Yeah, that was my favorite.Yeah.I only took it once.I think, but I made acutting board, which we still have.Yes.I need to fix that.They should still offer home.I can move up in class.I'm I'm, I think it's, Iunderstand, uh, having technology classes.And I think that's important, but I think thereneeds to be a balance and I thinkthey should bring back home back.And I think they should bring back wood shop.I think it's criticalbecause think about it, right?I was a menace probably for most of my classes.But when I got to wood shop, I loved it.Yeah.Home. Mac.I loved it for whatever reason.Home Mac.I mean, I was like, yeah, butthey know it's stereotypical.It doesn't make sense, butyou were using your hands.You were like doing something where you weren'thaving to sit and listen or read.You could actually do something.We actually had a plastic class too, where, um,they had sheets of plastic,different colors, and you could make things.So you'd have to use the jigsaw or the band sawand cut a pattern and then goover to like the sanding machine or the lathe,then to the buffing machine andstuff.Yeah.I mean, I made like spoons or some spoons, butlike a spreader or something.Really?Yeah.We hadn't, we didn't have anything like that.No, we had wood shop and wehad, um, uh, home and tight.Oh, typing class.Oh yeah.We had to take typing class.I think kids should have to do that.Still.A hundred percent.I think they should definitely, so many kidsjust type with their fingers.You know what it is?I think it's almost like those other classestap into, they just, there'sdifferent parts of your brain and use.So like for me to go to a math class, it'slike, uh, but to go to like woodshop, that's yeah.And stuff.Yeah.No, I think it's a great wayto grab those kids like that.So I think they should still,did you ever have a pet rock?I don't think so.Oh my God.I told, I had, I had a few.Really?Oh yeah.I love my pet rocks.Did you have a rabbit's foot?Oh yeah.Yeah.We would win a rabbit's foot at that.So every year there was acarnival in town at the church.You went to it, the heart lady, the Lakechurch, and you would win a, uh, uh,rabbit's foot for doing some, it's somethinglike either fish or rabbit's.But what color was your rabbit's foot?I think I had one every year.It's like wider.Okay.So yeah, I feel like, I feel like mine waswhite, but I can't tell her.I had, I had a pet rock thatI loved and a rabbit's foot.And I remember I wouldwin goldfish at carnival.I'd keep those things alive as long as I could.Yeah.Did you collect anything?Um, you know, actually I hada baseball card collection.That was pretty expensive.We still have it.Oh, we do.Yeah.Yeah.You're right.I forgot about that.I actually had, and this is funny.This is part of that gen X piece.Probably.I had a matchbook collection.Of cars.Oh, no.Of matches.Yeah.Yeah.So when we'd go to the, arestaurant, I'd get matches.Yes.If we, and a place has had matches.Yeah.That's just another thing.Right.Yeah.Restaurants.My, I think I would play with them.I would play with the matches and light themand light the whole bookon fire and throw it out.And you sit like that.Yeah.Yes.Yeah.You not, Gen X notsupervised just lighting matches.I feel like I was supervised by uncles or auntsor whoever that are like, Oh, that's cool.Whatever.Um, I remember, I think my mom had a glass jarthat she had a bunch of match.I think that was a thingyou would grab matches.Everyone had matches.Yeah.You just take them.Yeah.A hundred percent.Yeah.I used to collect stamps or stickers.Oh, everybody had a sticker collection.They got a sticker book.Yeah.Yeah.I was all about the stickers.Yeah.I'm trying to think other than Barbies andstuff, but I think stickers was my main thing.And then the pet rock and the rabbit's foot.Yeah.I'm sure there was something else.What, what pets did you have as a kid?Dogs.That's it.Oh no.And a goldfish.Yep.I think that's it.You never had, you knowhow like we have a fish tank.Yes.Multiple fish tanks.Yeah.Multiple fish tanks.No, no, nothing, nothing required maintenance.Maintenance dogs.You had, you had dogs.Yeah.We always had dogs.Yeah.Yeah.And, um, and I really haveany hobbies other than music.I think that was my main hobby.Was music.I don't even know what a hobby would be.I, I used to fish a lot.Yeah.That's like a hobby.Yeah.You played sports.Played sports.I played sports a little.Um, my hobby was surviving.Yeah.I mean, my, another, well, a collection wouldhave been once I got into the deadand collecting cassettes, right?That's, yeah.Well, no adults, please.You, you, you have multiplehobbies and own all the things.You're a serial hobbyist.Yeah.So I always say it's your way of hoardingbecause hoarding runs in your family.It's more of a coped.Yeah.There you go.Well, you marry a Gen X woman.You need to cope.Yeah.That's yeah.Oh, and vice versa, dude.Yeah.But yeah.So I think, I think we covered it.That anything I can't think of anything elseright now, but if we think of morethings, we'll do a part two.With, I know I am.I am too.Anyone to, you know, I would love, I would loveto know if anyone heard someof this stuff and was like, Oh yeah.And remembered.The only other thing I can think of would be,um, the merry-go-rounds, the, the,what the hell is that called?The seesaw.Oh my gosh.The teeter totter.Yeah.The teeter totter thing.That was so dangerous.Totally.And then you dip andsomeone would fall and get hurt.You'd laugh and you'd go, totally.And then what about the spinny thing?I think it was the best.And then like you'd hang your head off of it.Yeah.Oh my gosh.You think about that now.Yeah.And all of our playground equipment was metal.Yes.The slide was metal.So when it's hot, being on swings and gettingas high as you can and jumping off.I didn't, I didn't jump off, but the slide,when you go down the slide, it was hot.Oh my gosh.It would burn your thighs.And then the jungle gym was metal.We used to hang from it or thehandle, the bars we would hang.You do the monkey bars.I would get blisters.Yeah.I get blisters on my hands.There was everything was metal.Yeah.You know, when, and as youknow, I grew up around action park,which they made the movie on.Yes.So it's the Alpine slide, thewater slides and all that shit.And that's a whole other, someone died there.I think of multiple times.Sure.Yeah.Then they finally shut it down.Well, yeah, I don't, Idon't, yeah, I don't know.There were multiple injuries per day.Yeah.I don't know if there were, I don't recalldeaths per se, but I'm surethat one person died.They did a documentaryon, I think someone did die.Did you go to it?Oh yeah.It was like a daily, not daily.Uh, it was 30 minutes away.It was up where the spot was.Right.So yeah.Yeah.So you went to action park and you wouldactually go on the rides.Oh, a hundred percent.Yeah.Like the rides that they eventually shut down.Well, you know, they, if you watch the movie,it's a very accurate depiction.They would try different things.Like they showed that one where you go in andyou're, you're like the human, right?You're not on and you go like this.I never did that, but the Alpine slide, theswing that launches you into thewater, the like go-kart things, bumper boats.Yeah.So that was something you did in the summer.Oh yeah.It was action park.Yeah.Yeah.We did another one.We had Tomahawk Lake.I don't know if you evertook, you ever take the kids?Yeah.Cause I heard someone died there.So I wouldn't take them.I don't know if I don't recall that, but it'spossible, but that was fun.Someone drown.You'd get a mat.I think we'd do it on a mat.I think, I think so.Or maybe you just went on your skin, but youhad to walk up to the top and theyhad two things and it would take you down intoa pool of water and that was fun.Yeah.Now we, I got hurt a few times on it, but wedidn't have the, we had that one thingin Portland, it's like a Knott's Berry farmtype thing, but I can't rememberthe name of it.It'll come to me.We did everything dangerous like that.Yeah.We had a lot of things.Yeah.Not that I can think of.Yeah.We had people would ski up on Mount hood and gosledding up there, but, um, no,nothing, nothing I can think of that's.Action park was, uh, was action park in thesummer and it was a ski place.Yeah.Yeah.Yeah.Yeah.No, you're, you went to the place that theymade a documentary about.Yeah.And honestly, I mean, they, Idon't think they embellished.No, it didn't sound like it.It didn't seem like it at all.So you watched it, right?Yeah.Yeah.No, I thought it was hilarious.Yeah.So we actually had the Playboy club too.You did.So from across action park, you could lookacross and there was a Playboy club.Yes.We'd go to that as kids.What a time.Yeah.Action park in the Playboy club.That's and on that note, that's a great way toroute because Playboy was a big thingtoo.Playboy bunnies.Yeah.That was a big thing.You know, the other thing I, um, I don't thinkthe kids do it today because theydon't need to, they can just goon porn hub or some other website.But we used to, um, get playboysor wheeze or hustlers or whatever.Yeah.You know, remember we go into seven 11 or, andthere'd be like a cover, youknow, so you couldn't see it.That was a whole thing.My buddies discovered that they just threw awaythe old, uh, what, uh, issues.Issues.Yeah.Yeah.So I never dumpster dive, but I think they didfor porn for Playboy and stuff.Yeah.Porn.That was the porn back then.That was Gen X porn.That's hilarious.It is funny.Okay.So I think on that note, we'll, we'll stop.Um, but if we, uh, if we get enough memoriestogether, we'll do a part two of this.So hopefully for anyone listening, this was anenjoyable, uh, trip down memorylane and unlock some core memories for you.And if you have any others, please leave themin the comments because italmost feels like a lieand people could interact.Actually, that might be a good thing to do iswe'll do a live on this stuff too.With our TV dinners.Also, if you have any good snacks or, um, foodthat you ate as a Gen X or pleaseleave that in the comments, because we wouldlove to pick up some stuff andmaybe do a Tik TOK live or Instagram orFacebook live, something like that,or film, do something.So anyways, hopefullyeveryone had fun with this.We certainly did.And we will see you next time.Bye.