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What We Miss About Life Before Social Media · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Cubby, Christine and Kristin hanging out with you on this Monday.
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  Speaker 1: And as I mentioned last hour, Toy Story five I
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  Speaker 1: saw over the weekend, so to produce a Christen with
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  Speaker 1: her kids and my kids. We saw it yesterday and
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  Speaker 1: it was a beautiful movie. And it's pretty much like
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  Speaker 1: life before social media. Yeah, because Toy Story five follows
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  Speaker 1: Buzz and Woody and Jesse and the gang as they
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  Speaker 1: face their biggest threat yet technology modern technology and the
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  Speaker 1: iPads and all that and devices everywhere, and you have
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  Speaker 1: a whole thing about just life in general, Christine, before
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  Speaker 1: social media for devices.
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  Speaker 2: I kind of like this. It's just a post on
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  Speaker 2: threads where women were called out my girls who remember
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  Speaker 2: life before social media? What do you miss? And I
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  Speaker 2: like a lot of the responses, Cubby, because I get it.
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  Speaker 2: Magazine subscriptions, the joy of coming home to your fresh
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  Speaker 2: issue that month and pouring over it endlessly till the
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  Speaker 2: next one came. I remember like summertime taking them to
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  Speaker 2: the beach was like that was a big deal.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember seventeen magazine. Not for me, but I
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  Speaker 1: have an older sister. I remember seven. For some reason,
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  Speaker 1: that stands out in my memory as seventeen magazine coming
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  Speaker 1: in all the time, and they were stacked up everywhere,
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  Speaker 1: and my sister was always reading seventeen.
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  Speaker 2: And my mom always had Glamour. We always had Glamour,
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  Speaker 2: We had l magazine. We would get Vogue sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I remember Vogue being remember Spiegel. But that's a catalog,
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  Speaker 1: that was a catalog.
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  Speaker 2: What were you doing there?
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  Speaker 1: Actually the Seniors catalog got me through a few moments.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure you were learning some things. Other things that
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  Speaker 2: we miss love letters. I had a whole box of them.
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  Speaker 2: That's a that's a quote. Yeah, not knowing things the
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  Speaker 2: minute they happened, like it was okay to not know
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  Speaker 2: every single thing. A lot of people are saying I
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  Speaker 2: missed them all, even though some of us still go
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  Speaker 2: no real money, just twenty bucks, two friends of food court,
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity. Not being attached to your cell phone, right,
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  Speaker 2: it's so true, right, not living on the phone, and
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  Speaker 2: like to tie in with that, going to a concert
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  Speaker 2: and really being in the moment and not feeling like
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  Speaker 2: you have to film.
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  Speaker 1: It because you're never gonna watch it.
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  Speaker 2: You're not take a concert.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever gone back and watch it?
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  Speaker 2: No? And I always think I get these great moments,
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  Speaker 2: and no, I'm truly enjoying yourself without having to worry
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  Speaker 2: that someone is recording you.
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  Speaker 1: Uh huh oh, that's true too.
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  Speaker 2: That's a big eie originality. Everybody looks the same now,
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  Speaker 2: acts the same, similar opinions. Can't read again, I'm quoting.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not saying these things, but a lot of that
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  Speaker 2: is taking place because of social We're told how you know,
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  Speaker 2: how to do our makeup, how to style, how to talk.
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  Speaker 1: Even were you a big phone person before social media?
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  Speaker 1: Did you talk a lot on the phone. I used to, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like it, especially at night catching up with friends.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, that's one of talking to my friend on the
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  Speaker 2: phone for an hour until one of our parents told
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  Speaker 2: us get off the phone so they could use the phone.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, your mom or dad would pick up the
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  Speaker 1: phone line and say something through the phone right out
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  Speaker 1: of the room.
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  Speaker 2: Right just getting together and going to friends' houses. I
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  Speaker 2: miss how present people used to be when we got
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  Speaker 2: together we were actually together. I missed going to Blockbuster and
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  Speaker 2: finally finding the movie that you wanted to rent. You know,
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  Speaker 2: wasn't guaranteed it would be there. Memories, that's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of fun stuff.