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What Makes You Old, According to Today's Kids
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Are you ready to feel old? Because we sure do now! Kids say the funniest things and this is no exception. Get ready to laugh at this week's episode!
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Transcript
Birthday Celebrations and Intro Song
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This is our podcast song. It isn't very long. Yay. Happy birthday, Sarah. Thank you, Christina. We're recording on Sarah's birthday. She's so generous to have time set aside on her birthday, the day of her birth, to record for Laughing with Ginger's. I feel really special.
00:00:29
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Well, I feel special to get to spend time with you any day of the week, my feisty redheaded friend. But for those of you who don't know, our intro song is a spin on Christina's mom's
00:00:45
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Jill, if you've met Jill Curry, shout out to her birthday song. So they came in and started singing it and I wasn't looking. So I didn't know that they were doing it. And I was like, did I accidentally push something?
Podcast Theme & Roles
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And this is our intro.
00:01:02
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I do know there's other versions of that birthday song out there. I owe some friends that sing it to me, but a different version. It's not actually Jill's song, but we can call it that. I mean, we'll call it Jill's song because it means the most when it comes from her. Yeah, that's true. That's true.
00:01:26
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Well, anyway, where are we at? Thanks for tuning in. Thanks for tuning into Laughing with Ginger's. I totally threw us all off with the happy birthday. Um, this is the podcast. No worries. You read heads with loud, loud, share crazy stories, play games and spread Salinas and joy. That little celebratory sparkler over there is my partner in crime on the Laughing with Ginger's podcast, Christina Curry.
00:01:56
Speaker
And birthday girls, Sarah Elephant and my co-host of Laughing with Jingers. I wish I had a noise maker. I would definitely be obnoxious about it. Oh, my God. Yes, you absolutely would. You all would be deaf. If you were wearing headphones, it would have been game over immediately. I feel like just a blanket statement, maybe don't wear headsets with Laughing with Jingers. You can get a little
Funny Parent-Child Interactions: Tech & Trends
00:02:26
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little loud. I didn't do any work today. And it's not even my birthday. Like this should have been the opposite. But I am I am very clueless as to what's happening today.
00:02:44
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So today I brought things that kids say that make parents feel outdated or super old. Ooh. OK. So I pulled these down from Twitter. Oh, Twitter is super on point with the trends. I'm going to pull over. So it's not so much a game.
00:03:14
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So much a game as in an exercise for making us feel old as f. Oh my God, I am ready for I can't wait to hear what the kids are saying these days. Oh my God. Okay, so here's the first one. This one comes from domestic goddess. And it says me as in mom or parent. What's the sweet number on that address? Eight year old. It says hashtag 301.
00:03:46
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Parent, before hashtags were born, those were called number signs. Oh my God, that is adorable. Or the pound symbol because it was on the phone. Yes. Yes, exactly. That was when people started calling them hashtags. I think it was in college when people started calling or like right after and
00:04:12
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I was like, why are we calling these hashtags now? What happened here that these need to be called something different? Couldn't it have just been pound? Where did hashtag come from? Why? I think Twitter. I think Twitter. It's possible. Yeah. It feels like where it would have come from because Twitter came out before most of the social media platforms. Yeah.
00:04:39
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Very clearly they came out like in a big way in 08 because they were like launching during South by Southwest and I was in Austin at the time and I remember like that was like the talk of South by Southwest in 08. Everyone was like Twitter this, Twitter that and I'm like what's this Twitter and I totally joined.
00:05:01
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Yeah, I mean, it was free. I don't see why you wouldn't at that point. I know why you wouldn't know, but.
00:05:15
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Yeah, but Facebook, oh my God, I said it wrong three times. You're like an old mom. I know, now I'm like 10,000. Did not have hashtag observance until recently. Yeah. And even then like your wall was private and stuff, you know, it was different. Is it even called a wall anymore?
00:05:39
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Um, no, is it Myspace? They called it a wall, but Facebook, I don't even know. I don't know. Um, okay. You ready for another one? Mm hmm. This one comes from at cheese boy 22. Me, is your friend coming or what? 16 year old son. I don't know. He's not answering my texts. Me, why don't you call him?
00:06:09
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Son, I don't know what that is. Kids don't call these days, huh? No, they don't. They don't. In fact, there's a funny. Oh, yeah, I like if I call, it's because I really need to like I'm standing in the store and I have a question and you've asked me to pick something up for you. Yeah.
00:06:36
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You're my parents. Yeah. Like it has to have like a serious reason or like I can't find you and we're walking around in circles looking for each other. You know, podcast movement, Christina. Yeah. Yeah. That calls for a call. All right. Eight year old who's singing this song? Me, Britney Spears. Eight year olds.
00:07:05
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Oh, OK. Is she still alive? Me. Oh my God. He just like the guy in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade turns to dust and blows away in the wind. Oh, poor Brittany. Oh, she is still alive, kid.
00:07:33
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I cannot imagine how many people I did that to my parents about. Oh, yeah. Some 30 year old seemed so old, like 70, you know, like you have no confidence in your little. Oh, yeah. Yeah, for sure. OK, I asked my five year old what if she wanted to tape a TV show? She looked confused, then went to a drawer and brought me the Scotch tape.
00:08:02
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I am officially obsolete. Oh, my God. Can you even tape TV shows anymore? No, but it's like what we we still call those. You would still say that VHS tape. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. Yeah. Yeah, I mean.
00:08:26
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I get it. I could totally see myself pulling that same silly move. Yep. Yeah. That's an answer to the term.
Nostalgia: Blockbuster to Redbox
00:08:36
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I know. I know. Okay. This one comes from at sarcastic mommy four. My husband and I were talking about the old days of going to Blockbuster. And then my son said, what's a Blockbuster? And I was sad. He never knew the pain of waiting for someone to return the movie you wanted to watch.
00:08:56
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Oh my God, or the rent of late fees. Oh my God. Yes. You got it back like 10 minutes too late or like you'd go up to the desk and you were just like really hoping that Jaws had been returned and like it was in the return box and they just hadn't put it back yet. And they were like, Nope, it's just Terminator.
00:09:19
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Oh my God, I actually got money back because there was a lawsuit to Blockbuster because they were charging people late fees that it wasn't like they weren't doing it like right. And I submitted like my account to that class action lawsuit and got, you know, $15 back.
00:09:44
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Wow, look at you. That's like two beers. I know it is. Well, back then, maybe three. Yeah, I was just thinking that they were probably 32 ounces.
00:09:59
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Oh my gosh, dad rented a movie last night because I'm at my parents right now for the holiday season. And he's like, Oh, it's 399. I guess I'll rent it. He thought he would be able to have it for like a month, but they only let you have it for like 24 hours. And I'm like, at least there's no late fees that's going on top of that, you know, 399 rental. Yeah, that's true.
00:10:24
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No risk of those. Oh my god. And you didn't have to leave the house. I mean remember when Redbox came out and that was like such a novel idea? Oh my god. I know the movies came to you and you just picked each time and yeah. So fun. I watched way more movies back then.
00:10:46
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Me too, because you could just like watch it and then you would send it back and you get another one. I guess as soon as you sent it back and they received it, you'd get another one right away. Yeah, yeah, it was sort of like in your face. Here's the movies that are coming out. Here's what's happening now. I feel like I barely watch movies. Yeah. Like it was a thing. I mean, blockbuster and like find a movie for, you know, the weekend.
00:11:14
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Oh, yeah, it was like an activity. And then you'd watch that movie like three times at least. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. So weird. Anyways, okay, next one. Yeah, what activities do you do with your kids now on a Thursday or Friday afternoon? Give them an idea to involve getting popcorn. Oh, yeah, the popcorn and the candy. Oh my god, so fun. This is like a nostalgia episode.
00:11:42
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I'm glad it's not making us feel bad. It's just making us feel nostalgic.
00:11:49
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You know, when I was a teacher, I have so many stories about like, because I taught darkroom photo. So I have a million stories about darkroom photo, but one of them being that I accidentally whipped out the word ditto in class one time. I was like, yeah, here's a ditto because that's what they used to call copies.
00:12:18
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And it didn't occur to me that they wouldn't know what that meant. Oh my God, you're an agent. I didn't even know what that meant. Remember the purple copies? Yeah, like a carbon copy? No, it was like, you only got them at school. But it was like a purple, like there was purple writing.
Teaching Outdated Tech to Kids
00:12:42
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There is a machine that teachers had to turn. Yeah, I remember those. I totally remember those. Yeah. That's a ditto. Crazy. Yeah, that's a ditto. I didn't know that.
00:12:59
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I used to also have kids who would think that the little box on the back of your film camera, your 35 millimeter, where you would put the speed of the film and the brand because you needed to know if you could take it through the X-ray machine at the airport or whatever. It's important you have to set the camera for the
00:13:18
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so that you can actually meet her and blah, blah, blah. Anyway, read the light. So they would think that that was the LCD display and they wouldn't understand that it wouldn't show the picture after they took it. So for the first three months of school, half of my job would be consoling students that exposed their film because they would open the back of their camera to see the picture they took. Oh, no. And then they ruined it.
00:13:48
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And then they would be like, Ms. Hardenstein, because that was my name at the time. I swear I didn't open it. And I'd be like, there's only one way that it gets exposed. You opened it, kid. Don't lie to me.
00:14:04
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There's no way that this, and they're like, maybe it wasn't advancing properly. No, then it would be clear instead of black. And then they'd be like, well, I checked it in the closet to see with all the lights on. I'm like, that's not dark enough. You need a black box. You need a black bag, or you need a black room completely devoid of light. Anyway, I digress. I have so many of those.
00:14:33
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Okay, so this one comes from at grant Tanaka. Son, how old are you? Wife, 39. Son, wow, people used to die by that age back in the day, right?
The Obsolescence of Old Media
00:14:53
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Can I turn his room into a pool hall?
00:15:00
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Oh my God. It does sound old when you're a kid. Well, also when we were kids, they used to have over the hill parties when people turned 40. Oh my God. Yeah. Thank God they don't do that anymore. Well, maybe they do. I didn't. Yeah, I'm not. Nope. Spoiler alert. Today's my 40th birthday. Oh, you're over the hill.
00:15:27
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Over the hill. Yeah, they used to have like all of these like, what were those calendars? The far side calendars. Oh, yeah. They would have all the cards that had like jokes. Yeah, banners, t-shirt, plate like paper plates, paper cups, everything. Yeah, it's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. OK, this one comes from Angry Raccoon 2.
00:15:57
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Someone else had angry raccoon one and zero and nothing, I guess. Husband, have you seen the cassette that goes in this case? 11 year olds. What's a cassette? Husband hangs head. Me hangs head. Oh, yeah, those are obsolete.
00:16:23
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Do you still have any cassettes? No, definitely not. I don't even have CDs. I don't even have a way to play a CD. Oh, I got to my car one time after a concert and someone had put a CD. This happened a couple months ago. Someone had put a CD in my window wiper. I literally have no way to even listen to this. Not even in your car? No. My car's like a 2019.
00:16:54
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Oh, yeah, so is ours. But I can't. I thought I couldn't. But actually, now that you're saying that, I remember a conversation where Angie pointed out there's this tiny, tiny sliver where you can actually put a CD in, which I didn't even. Yeah, you just kind of ignore it. Yeah, I 100 percent just ignored it and didn't even notice. That's what it's funny, because recently we were like looking at something and I was like,
00:17:22
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Does our car have a CD player?" Felipe was like, I don't know. So I went out and looked. Yeah, it's very thin and super hidden. It's a thing that you wouldn't know is there until you're looking for it. Yeah, remember when you used to play a CD, you would have to take your Walkman CD player, your Discman, and you would have to sit it down in the console and put a tape
00:17:51
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that was connected to the earphone jack into your tape deck. And then it would just still skip constantly and the batteries would always die. I would put tape on the top of my CDs to keep them from skipping so much. I'd layer scotch tape on the top of the CDs.
00:18:10
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Oh, my God. So weird. We're old. We are old life. OK. This one comes from six underscore pack underscore mom. My kids don't know how good they have it with iPhones. In my day, we had to collect from. Wait, hold on. Sorry.
00:18:36
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You kids don't know how good you have it with, I find that hit play six times to try to find the right spot. In my day, we had to call collect from a payphone and kids, what's a payphone? Oh my God. It is rare that you see those these days.
00:19:06
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Um, yeah, I, they are actually putting a pay phone. They're putting pay phones in some city. It might be New York. Um, and it's going to be free to use them. Oh, that's kind of fun. Yeah. Like if your phone dies, it's nice to be able to use a phone. Yeah. Yeah. Don't know anyone's numbers now. No way. I barely can remember mine. Yeah.
00:19:35
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I don't know any number. I know Felipe's. I don't know Angie's. I don't know my mom's. I don't know anyone's. But like back in the day, I had like a dozen memories. Yeah, I still know my best friend Lauren's because it's the same from high school. That's so crazy.
00:19:58
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Yeah. And I know how loud. Yeah. I know if he leaves because it goes to our our points at the grocery store or whatever. Oh, that's a really good way to remember it. Yeah. Yep. OK. This is from at outsmarted mommy.
00:20:25
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Today, my husband turns 40. Our four-year-old asked how old daddy is today, and when he told him, he said, Holy cow, does he know God? Oh, my God. Oh, no. Maybe this one.
00:20:48
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I don't know how to say this person's handle, so I'm going to skip it. This one says, after explaining the concept of, quote, rewinding the tape in the VCR, unquote, to my kids, I feel as though the sex talk is going to be a breeze.
Children's Views on Parents' Music & Tech
00:21:10
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Oh my God, did you see that meme of the ring? That's not on this one.
00:21:17
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where this woman tweeted and was like, I think it was a woman, tweeted and was like, we're 10 minutes into the ring and I've already had to explain what a payphone is, what a VCR is and what microfiche is. What other horrors will the ring bring?
00:21:42
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Oh my God, that's funny. It's so dated. I didn't even realize. I think she goes to the library to use the Internet. Whoa.
00:21:59
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Yeah, you might have to rewatch it. I rewatched it after I saw the meme because it made me laugh. And I was like, Oh, I should see what like is outdated about it. I love spotting like outdated tech in movies. It's really fun. All right. So this one is kids see me dancing and singing along to Green Day while cooking. Kid one says,
00:22:27
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How does she know this song? Kid 2 says, because she's old. I mean, they are old. That's true.
00:22:37
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I can't even remember the last time they had a new song. Are they touring? Are they alive? Yes, I saw them in my early 30s. They're really good live, so fun. Yeah, and they're still pulling a huge audience. I have seen them live, but I think I was in high school. Yeah.
00:23:08
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They're really cool actually because they'll let people come on stage and play the instruments and slowly like that and they're known for this and so people are like up in the front trying to get up front to be called up to play the drums or the guitar or whatever and then all of a sudden no Green Day people are on the stage and it's all like kids out of the audience and then they let them like leave and I think they give them the instruments too.
00:23:37
Speaker
Oh, that's cool. I know. It's really fun. I like that. Yeah, it's really cool. Anyway, great day. Love them. All right. This one is from at Danny counselor. I just lost an hour of my life explaining to my daughter why phones used to have cords. If I have to explain VCRs, I may lose a second hour.
00:24:07
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Oh my God. Remember those like super duper long cords that like for me it was my mom would use to talk to her siblings and like walk around the house and like do all the cooking and stuff and it was just like the longest cord on the planet. I used it to pull the phone into my room so I could talk to my friends with you know no one listening.
00:24:34
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because the only plug would be in the kitchen or the living room. You need to pull it all the way into your bedroom. You needed that super duper, obnoxiously long cord. Yeah, it was like 15 feet. Yeah, it was ridiculous.
00:24:54
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Yeah, my mom could like reach everywhere in the first floor. She could like do the laundry that was like three rooms over. Yeah, winning. Oh my God, being tethered to the wall. The senior thesis I spent five months writing is on a floppy disk that my six-year-old is currently using as a coaster. I can't believe she finally remembered to use a coaster.
00:25:24
Speaker
Oh, floppy disks. Oh, man. Those had a bit of an evolution when we used them. They were like legit sort of laughing and then they got hard. That was Apple made them floppy because Apple doesn't like to have anything that's compatible with other people's stuff. Yeah.
00:25:49
Speaker
That's why their plugs are different. They like to isolate you so that you have to have brand loyalty or you have to throw everything you already have out. Jerks. I sit here with my iPhone, Apple Watch, and my MacBook Pro.
Celebrities and Aging
00:26:06
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And your iPhone. That's all right.
00:26:14
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Okay, this comes from Sarah Says Stop, spelled like my Sarah. No age. Go you. Go Sarah Says Stop. Me, this movie was out when I was young. See that kid actor? They're an adult now, my 10-year-old. Obviously, this movie is from back in the 1900s. Me, feels so old that I decay into a skeleton and crumble into dust.
00:26:46
Speaker
The 1900s? Oh my God. It is weird seeing actors and actresses who are aged and you remember them being young.
00:27:00
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Oh, totally. It's, it's so weird. Or like ones that I was too old to even have heard of. Like, a great example of that is Dove Cameron. So like in Episode Three or something, we had Bonnie J. Wallace, her mom on because she's a friend of ours and also a redhead. So obviously we have obviously got to got to bring on all those redheads. So
00:27:28
Speaker
She was like, for the longest time, she kept saying like, dove this and dove that. And I'm like, I don't know who you're talking about. And then she would tell me whatever the show was that she was on. And it was two twins. She played twins of herself or they played twins of themselves. And I had never heard of it. I don't think you had either. No, no, no, no.
00:27:56
Speaker
Of course, I then did look Dove up. But that is when you really feel old is when the celebrities that are like the actors or actresses or
00:28:13
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singers, whatever, because now Dove does a lot of singing and stuff too. When they had a show that you were too old for when they were kids and now they are adults who are like real life adults. Thank you.
00:28:28
Speaker
Right. Well, when I mentioned Dub's name to my like younger, like Nora's young cousins who are, you know, like 10 and 12, they screeched at the top of their lungs, knew exactly who it was. Couldn't believe I talked to her mom. Like it was like I was God for the day. That is so funny. Yeah. Yeah. And I had no idea.
00:28:59
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Yeah, I mean, we just like. Yeah, we we were too old for that. Whatever that show was. There wasn't even a I don't think there was a Disney channel when we were. There was there was a Disney channel at the end of our childhood, I think, but it was like you had to pay a really big premium to get access to it and you had to already have like a certain cable hookup.
00:29:25
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Yeah, I definitely didn't have it. I had the Nickelodeon thing happening for me. Yeah, we didn't have it either. And we had Saturday morning cartoons. So good. Yeah. Okay, this one comes from being Yalisa and
00:29:46
Speaker
They say, watching Mickey Mouse Club with my kid and Mickey just called a record player an ancient machine. Oh my God. From now on, I'm going to tweet in hieroglyphics. An ancient machine. Oh my God. Damn you, Mickey.
00:30:08
Speaker
Oh my God, you are not so fine, but you did blow my mind. Okay, this is my last one, and I think it might be the best one on the list, up for debate, but this one is from at the dad, and it is, my kid just referred to the newspaper as the floppy iPad.
00:30:39
Speaker
Yeah, that one's the best. Floppy iPad. Oh, bless. Floppy iPad. Oh, my God. It's so good. It's so good. How about that? Oh, my God. Eat my shorts.
00:31:01
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Oh, yep. Oh, man. Well, that was fun. I know. It was a fun trip down memory lane. It really was. The whole point was like, we're old people, but it was enjoyable. A little walk, a little skip down memory lane.
00:31:24
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Yeah, and thanks everyone for going along with us on that nostalgia trip and joining us on Laughing with Ginger's. We love having you listen to our silly podcast.
Podcast Conclusion & Listener Engagement
00:31:36
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00:31:44
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00:32:10
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