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The Good Old Days: Our Favorite Picks
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Join us as the 28th Angle Crew takes a nostalgic trip down memory lane! We're spilling all the tea on our favorite childhood TV shows, bands that shaped us, and the snacks we couldn't live without.
What were YOUR favorite things growing up? Drop your answers in the comments—we'd LOVE to hear what made your childhood awesome! 👇
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Transcript
Casual Greetings and Weekly Catch-up
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The 28th Angle Podcast.
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Hey guys. Hey. Hey. How's it going? What's up? happy wednesday yeah happy hump day i don't know if she'll have fun her thing or not she hasn't she hasn't said once this season wasn't i i didn't know if i was gonna continue on but i guess i have to you guys brought it up so just this one happy hump day there we go yeah so how are you guys what's up anything new anything fun
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Not really. No, not really. Just living my busy life. I went and signed up for our gym and I'm just going to add to that busy life, I guess. I don't know. Yeah. she She had like an hour in her day or her week and now she just wants like 10 minutes or so. So she's but she said, why not? Put that down a little bit. You know what i mean?
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An hour? Way too much free time. Who needs it? Not Heather. Nope, not her. What are you going to do with the rest of the 10 minutes? you have any plans for that?
Dealing with Back Pain
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Yeah. It'll probably be spent driving. Yeah, probably. I'll be late this time because of it or something. I don't Oh gosh. This ship is so busy. It's insane. I know for real.
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Um, just to notice if I look miserable or unhappy this episode, I'm not my back. It's just killing me. Um, so I will have a heating pad and I will be sitting here chilling.
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Um, so don't mind the heating pad. Yeah. Don't mind how I look and how I, my face might look today. um I was moving stuff in the garage and lifting boxes when I really shouldn't have bed. But you know what? some just If I don't do it, who's going to do it? So I don't know what I'm supposed to do here. you so sure No winnings.
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um But yeah.
Childhood Activities and Cultural Differences
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Okay, so is yeah today's episode, it's going to be not really a game. i guess we're just going to ask each other a bunch of questions about like all the fun things we did when we were kids. So that's 80s and 90s. And I guess you guys were teenagers in 2000, right? So i mean, if you want to go that far. was out clubbing, as we all know, in the the year 2000. So won't be answering those. No, I'm kidding. Yeah.
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so yeah, so it's, it should be interesting to hear the difference because, you know, I'm growing up in Canada, small town, and they grew up here in, I don't know a small town. Do you guys grew up in a small town too? Not really. I don't know that I would consider a small town. I mean, it was, it was smaller. It's not like Orlando big, you know? yeah Okay. Well, we be had our population was, i think, 18,000 people.
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I mean, I don't know facts like that about ours. Oh, Well, it's one... Two high schools. That's all we had was two high schools. Well, in elementary... mill ah Well, whatever. We'll get into that. Anyways.
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But I think it'll be... It'll be a fun kind of throwback or, you know, people, a lot of people that listen are probably around our age and, you know, can also relate to a lot of things. So I think it'll be interesting on the side that me and Victoria, you know, obviously twins. We were born the same time. We, we literally were connected.
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Literally the same experiences. whole life. So I think it'll be cool to see our perspective of each of the questions. was going to say, yeah. It'll still be different. We'll still have like different sides of it, different perspectives. And even if it's the same exact story or she was there for and I, you know, things like that. So yeah, it'll be interesting. So shall we get into it? Yeah, let's yeah let's get to it.
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Let's go. Three best friends twist and spin. Victoria, Heather, and Shelly let the fun
Nostalgic Snacks and Candies
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begin. Stories to tell, laughs to ignite. It's a 20.
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All right. So who wants to start the first question? Heather, you go. um went last time. Okay. All right. All right. My first question is what snacks or drinks did you guys live for back then?
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Like maybe something that's not around nowadays type thing. I mean, it can be around nowadays still, but. I think the biggest thing for me was squeeze-its like that I remember.
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Like hardcore. It's funny to me because that's the first thing that comes to my mind is squeeze-its. Now those still exist, but I really think they're the same. They are different. I think they're different. But they're not. They're different.
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They're different, but they're not. Yeah. Squeeze-its, Shelly, are like... They're like little small drinks that come... Like little juice that comes cheap plastic containers where you twist the plastic cap off and you squeeze it in your mouth. Nowadays, it's Kool-Aid. It's Kool-Aid. Squeeze-its.
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I don't know it was Kool-Aid when we were little. It might have been. It definitely wasn't called... definitely didn't say that if it was... For me, I don't really know what i but snacks. I really like... um my grandma would always bake a spice cake if you guys ever had a spice cake before it's different but i feel like i've tried one but definitely definitely tried it as a homemade growing up no it was really good it was really good but i don't know like ketchup chips you know always loved those um definitely can't get them here like that brand
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I don't
Childhood Freedom and Curfews
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know. Just candy, I guess. Suckers and lollipops. don't know. You guys call them suckers? You call them lollipops? Cow tails. I remember cow tails a lot. You can still get those, but yeah. I know. remember eating those all the time.
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yeah We called them suckers back then, I guess. yeah They're not as good now. these suckers They're disgusting now. don't know what I mean. Fizz pop. are ph Fizzy things? i don't know. There are these little... I'm still ignoring us.
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What? No, I heard you guys about... Do you know what cow tail is? No, I have no idea what a cow tail is. Have you ever tried them? should what We should try it. We should give one to Shelly and try it. Wait, no. What is it? What is it? I don't even know what's in it. yeah I don't even know what it's made out of. I could not tell you. Maybe I have tried it and it's like a different name or something. Maybe there's a Canadian version of it.
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It's got caramel on the outside and a creamy center. i like caramel. It's weird now. It's not like the caramel you think of type of caramel.
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It's like the fakest caramel. Yeah, that's what it tastes like, fake caramel. Like, I don't know. I definitely didn't even know it was caramel. Oh, i know I know the candy that I loved.
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Big toes or Bigfoot. They're like, they taste like sweetest...
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Well, it had a big toe on it, but and it was a big foot. but my You could still get him Actually, my brother sent me a huge bag of them. I think I showed you guys a picture. This was like last year. he sent me like a huge bag of them.
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that true I don't think that I can think of any that aren't around today, though. Like. yeah Most of them have come back around or... i was going to say, I feel like... But they're still... They don't taste the same.
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They've added way more preservatives and stuff and chemicals. Like Doritos 3D, they don't make those anymore. And those were a thing. I never tried.
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Aren't they like bugles though?
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Yeah, but do they even still sell bugles? Bugles are different. They sell bugles too. Yeah. Yeah.
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Anyways, um so how late did your parents let you stay out? And did they actually know where you were? so white how old are we talking here? Because in elementary to probably the ninth grade, I had to be home by the time the streetlights came on.
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So what was that, like eight, nine nine o'clock? And then high school, I think I had a curfew. But they... um
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They didn't know where I was always. <unk> in high school. In high school. um I don't remember us having like a curfew. i do think we were like supposed to be home before dark.
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But like I don't think that was a strict deadline. Yeah, I think as like kids, like little kids, i don't even know how old, what, nine? We were about nine. Yeah, nine, ten.
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We had like the whole run of the neighborhood, so we used to just... yeah the neighbor's house i mean i don't think she i don't think they ever knew where we were exactly she just knew we were in the neighborhood wherever all the bikes were around yeah well we had horses we didn't have bikes yeah yeah wherever the horses were parked no i don't remember having a deadline either I mean, probably by dark, but I don't think we ever followed it.
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And as I got a little older, she definitely never knew where I was. she and i ever And I was never where she thought I was. I think to me it was more like we went home because our friends had a curfew or had a like ah time where they had to get ready for school the next day or something. Pretty much. So it was like whatever whoever's neighbor's house we were at, whatever time they had to get their rid of their friends, that's when we went home. and So, like, i don't know. Yeah.
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So, yeah.
Favorite Childhood Games and Imaginative Play
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And, yeah, as we got older, it it just got worse and worse, I think. We weren't, we maybe not, we were maybe not the best teenagers. So.
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I think we were pretty good compared to some. No, we were We were, kind of. But, yeah. I was an angel. Typical teenagers, maybe. I don't know. Yeah.
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um well What were your favorite outdoor games before phones and tablets took over?
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Favorite outdoor games? I don't know. We rode our horses. like I mean, that's what I remember. We just... Got on our horses and went riding the neighborhood.
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I was going to say when we were, we did play like cops and robbers when we were little with the the neighborhood kids. And we used to take our Husky and tie him up to a wagon and ride him around and say mush. Mush.
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Oh, man. But he loved it. He loved us. He loved us so much. He did not. He loved it. He had a great time. We used to also go camping a lot though.
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Like we went camping at the lake with all of our horses often. So we would hold the back of our um horses tails and make them run or gallop. Yeah. So we were like right on the water.
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Yeah. One of us would be on the horse. One of us would be skiing on the tail. Yeah. That's well. So it's a good time. I'd say a couple of my favorite games.
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I used to play Red Rover. you guys ever do that? Yeah, we played really at school. I was going to think we were first at school. Well, we did.
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Maybe. Yeah, maybe I'm thinking that But then as you guys were talking, I just remembered one of the games I used to always play. like I don't know if you guys, if it's a thing here, or back in the day, like school patrols.
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Did you guys ever have school patrols where they wore the construction style vets? And you know they had the flag. They're not vests here, but... They would go like this behind their back. like They would...
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put their arm out like this, you know, and the kids would go They're like crossing guards, but it was kids i don't know that did it. Yeah, no. We didn't have all that. The kids while were volunteers, but you had to be like ah the top grade of the school. So was like grade seven, you were a school patrol.
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yeah So I wasn't old enough. I wasn't old enough. So i had a, I remember, you remember those um batons with like the glitter inside? Mm-hmm.
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You know, you learn yes yeah that was my flag. And then we would just play in the parking lot of this one apartment building we lived in. I think it was like eight. It was so dumb.
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But that's what i we did. We rode around on our bikes. and Alistair's in fifth grade this year. and So he was able to sign up for safety patrol if he wanted to be. And his reason why he did not want to try out for safety patrol was because he wanted to be able to run in the hallways.
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So. if that tells you anything about my kids. Wow. So he he didn't want to have to follow the rules and be an example. So he didn't want to sign up.
Blockbuster Memories and Early Gaming Experiences
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And you know, when it came time to sign up, I wasn't, I don't think I was at that school anymore because we moved and the school we went to didn't have it.
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Yeah. Anyways. That's funny. The next question will be, do you remember renting movies from Blockbuster? And what was your go to if you remember it?
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Oh, yeah. I remember every every Friday or even on the weekends, we'd go to Blockbuster, grab a movie. Actually, Tony and I used to do that, too.
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ah We would go around movies. But being a kid, um my go-tos were always like...
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I don't know. They had a deal where 10 movies for $10. So we get like a lot of like rom-coms and stuff, like Me My Friends. Jeez, that's a lot of movies. Yeah. um I mean, we watched a lot of movies.
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um But you had them for 10 days, too, so... and um yeah a movie day and another thing used to always do was rent video games from blockbuster and yeah i'm like oh it's the weekend you know i'm gonna rent this game and try and play it you know um i remember definitely remember going to blockbuster a lot um and well maybe not a lot maybe every other weekend or every weekend or something Movies, I don't know.
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i don't really remember particular movies. I just know, like, me and her, and Heather were not, ah maybe not obsessed, but we loved Mary-Kate and Ashley. Maybe because, I mean, obviously, because they were twins and we were twins. Yeah.
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So probably anytime Mary-Kate and Ashley had a movie out, we definitely rented that watched that. Yeah, I do remember renting those. But I don't really remember specific movies otherwise either. Yeah, I don't either.
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even now Even when I was married, when I first got married when I was young, we still had a blockbuster down the road. so we i Even as, I guess, an adult, I was a young adult. But as an a young adult, I still remember going and renting movies.
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games and movies and stuff. I couldn't tell you what rented, but were still able to. Yeah, exactly. It was usually the new releases, whatever movies came out, we'd always go and rent, like Tony and I, that we'd have a movie date.
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Yeah. That's crazy. I don't remember doing it as an adult, ever.
Saturday Morning Cartoons
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Really? Yeah. It's weird for sure.
00:16:10
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I don't know when the last blockbuster... closed in Virginia, like in Alexandria where we lived. So my question, my next question is actually kind of closely related then.
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What's the first video game or console you remember playing? Nintendo for me. Oh, I did play a little bit Atari because my brother had one, but ah mainly Nintendo.
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Mario Brothers. I think the first one I remember playing like for me specifically would be Super Nintendo. But we did have a Nintendo. We did have an Atari. We did have yeah like those things around. I just don't know that I played it much. I don't remember.
00:16:54
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So the first one I remember, so but I definitely played like a Nintendo and Super Nintendo and all that. And I remember like a Sega specifically too. but like the first ones that I remember like for us specifically was like a birthday present where we got a ah Nintendo 64. Right?
00:17:15
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That's what it was. I remember walking up to the house. We lived in like, we had like three or four acres because we had horses and stuff. So our driveway was really long. And I remember her, me and her were walking home one day and we just seen like people in the house, like noticing us and then rushing and grabbing things. And, and we were like, what are they doing?
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And like come to find out like later on, obviously, that they were playing our video game system that they bought us for our birthday. i remember and that. And they were rushing to put it all away. So we didn't see it coming home.
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my So, yeah. And I think obviously it was the Mario that came with that. And then 007 GoldenEye. I think those are the top two childhood games that I remember playing a lot of. So, yeah.
00:18:00
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Yeah. Yeah, maybe it was sort Super Mario Brothers, like the original one, the old school one, and Duck Hunt. I do remember Duck Hunt. We had the gun. We did too. 007, though, we played a lot of. though Yeah, we did. We played a lot of that.
00:18:21
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Which is funny. Alright, my question. ah What TV shows are Saturday morning cartoons? Were you Was your absolute must watch. Like you had to watch it every Saturday morning.
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That's when the best cartoons were, by the way. I remember watching cartoons, but I don't remember like being obsessed with any specific one. I think like Looney Tunes is what comes to mind. And I remember watching those, but...
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I don't know that we woke up and watched TV that much. I think we woke up and went outside lot. Yeah. we We woke up and went outside with our horses or, you know, we had chickens at times and pigs and, you know, who knows what, like our friends, neighbors, we, I don't know.
00:19:07
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I don't, I, and this is like ah obviously a huge thing. People are always like, oh, Saturday morning cartoons, Saturday morning cartoons. And I'm always like, like, I honestly don't remember Saturday morning cartoons like Saturday morning cartoons to me is a thing because everybody else makes it a thing not because it was a thing for me like i don't remember a single cartoon yeah I mean I guess we we did watch Looney Tunes um the only thing I remember actively like watching and waiting and being excited for was like full house and like home improvement we did watch Rugrats a lot
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we just what We did. just don't think it was Saturday morning. I was going to say, I just didn't know if that considered like a Saturday morning cartoon type Yeah, I don't even know. like That was more like Animaniacs, like stuff like that.
00:19:54
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and In my opinion, I could be so wrong, but yeah. Well, so Saturday morning cartoons when I was growing up was probably different from you guys because there wasn't a lot of channels.
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We didn't have very many channels, um but I would watch... The Smurfs was my main thing. I love the Smurfs. I actually collected stuffed animals when I was growing
Teenage Music Obsessions
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up. like my parents My mom must have a picture somewhere um where I had like shelves, like bookshelves full of so like almost all the Smurfs. like it was It was crazy.
00:20:27
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I remember watching Smurfs and Care Bears. Is that a Saturday morning cartoon thing? Care Bears and Teddy Ruxpin. don't know if Teddy Ruxpin was so Canadian. couldbi I mean, I've heard the name before, but...
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gem is that thing she was a rocker no i've never heard of that and strawberry shortcake like i was teaching strawberry shortcake and rainbow bright i mean that was a big thing but i don't know that was before that was before our cartoon watching times yeah but i do remember care bears and smurfs was huge i do remember watching those but i don't remember being like excited to get up Saturday morning watch it. Oh, yeah. where I was up early, like eight, seven, maybe, watching cartoons.
00:21:13
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All I can assume is just like today, I like to sleep. yeah And that we probably rushed right outside to go play with what our horses and dogs know yeah yeah it so yeah so the next question um do you did you ever record songs off the radio and get mad when the dj talked over it i definitely recorded songs off the radio but i don't think i ever got mad and it wasn't a okay back it up just a little bit
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Growing up where I lived, we had one radio station and it was country. That was it. And it wasn't even FM. It was Yeah. Okay. So the difference between is the sound quality. So we were lucky if a good country song came on the radio.
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And then i think when I think when I was my teenage years, ah we, we then got FM. So I don't know. So yeah, I did, I guess record some, or actually me my friend made, uh, our own radio station.
00:22:30
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That's how small it was. Well, like, I mean, nobody. would like to find those tapes, man. That'd be so funny. we definitely I definitely recorded songs off the radio um all the time. we used to make our own, seat you know, tapes and CDs and all that stuff.
00:22:48
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I don't remember ever getting You used have to call and request the songs and then wait it to come on so you could record So you could record it. That was a nothing. I don't remember being It was thing for us.
00:22:59
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yeah don't remember think maybe annoyed like oh dang it i didn't hit recording time or i missed it or you know things like that but um yeah have you guys ever recorded songs off a movie i remember i had like a i've never done that recorder and footloose the original footloose i loved all the songs but like it didn't have the soundtrack so i just record it like you know played the movie and just record it from there no So you can hear like the cheering and like all the talking and stuff like that. Yeah, it's ridiculous, but I did that.
00:23:36
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Yeah. And then as we got older and phones came out, we used to like record like our voicemail songs from the radio. Yeah. so Oh, really? it Yeah, remember doing that too.
00:23:48
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Yeah. um Obviously like right very first when like cell phones came out and stuff. I never did that. Never even thought to do that. it was before you could like pay for it and then now it's just free think nobody ever checked yeah no nobody even wants it it's kind of funny um okay actually my questions kind of just go with the rest of them so it's funny what bands or artists were you obsessed with as a kid or a teenager Uh, for me, it was new kids on the block first obsessed had, uh, Jonathan Knight's poster in my locker.
00:24:28
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all of them, I guess really. And then as I got older, it was like different types of music. So, and now the Backstreet Boys in my twenties, I think I liked the Backstreet Boys.
00:24:44
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Yeah, mine was definitely Backstreet Boys. Um, But I don't know. Yeah. So it was definitely Backstreet Boys first. I mean, my wall was, me and her shared a room. So it was, my half of the room was covered.
00:24:58
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No empty spaces available. All Backstreet Boys. um And then from there, it's yeah, hers was in sync. So half the room was in sync. The other half was Backstreet Boys.
00:25:09
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Yeah. And then from there, which I think is where you're going with it, from there it kind of like went over to corn and like Limp Bizkit and all that stuff you were going to say. Yeah, yeah that's exactly what was going to Like as we went become teenager like more actual teenagers, like it turned into like Kid Rock and Limp Bizkit and
Fashion Trends and Mishaps
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corn. Like we were really obsessed with corn and even like Slipknot and just a lot of Marilyn Manson for me, um because, you know, obviously, obviously I think there's a question coming up that'll, I'll get into that part too. But like, um,
00:25:44
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Yeah, it turned more rocker vibe and we started kind of getting our style and going that direction. Although the Backstreet Boys never left me. it was just more of a rock vibe style.
00:25:56
Speaker
Yeah. I think I started going... to merge together yeah i think I started like when I became a more like closer to graduating, i was more the 80s hair bands and like metal like that and alternative. Like I was just loved everything.
00:26:17
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Oh, GNR. I love guns and roses. So yeah. was before my time. Yeah. Same.
00:26:27
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They were around the nineties. No, they were. I'm yeah. They were around obviously. um ah My turn. Oh, yeah. ah What fashion trends did you rock proudly back then and regret now?
00:26:44
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I definitely have no regrets now. So I guess that doesn't really fit the question, but um I was definitely a don't even know what you call it. A rocker.
00:26:56
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ah Gothic. I had my big giant JNCO pants and. And my black. Where it would rain and I'd have water up to my knees with my pants.
00:27:11
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um But I loved it. had piercings all over her face. Piercings all over, yeah. um When I got to high school, I started wearing black lipstick and black eyeshadow. You know, very gothic with my appearance. Very, very, very gothic. um Fishnets all the time.
00:27:33
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I feel like I had my gothic moment, but it was never to like your extent. It never really stuck around, I guess. I don't feel like I had a specific... don't know.
00:27:44
Speaker
I think I did dress like preppy for a while. Yeah, I was going to say, i think for a little while you were like really preppy, but I don't know that it was your style. I feel like you were just maybe trying things out.
00:27:54
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like Yeah, I don't know. I don't know because she had blonde hair and she also permed it. So it was like really... preppy and curly and she wore like white and flowery stuff and I'm like I don't know who she is like the opposite I don't know it was the devil and angels yeah person so I don't really know what I had I don't even know my style that I had but I remember like grade eight it was like grade eight
00:28:30
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we used to have We used to like tease our hair to hear, like have the fan, like big hair.
00:28:41
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yeah like your traditional 80s because remember, I was 10 in 89. It was probably like when like 13, 14. That style it probably like you know when i was like thirteen fourteen that style was still there.
00:28:56
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like in 95. I remember the girls like their hair was like, and the higher you, you got it, the, I don't know, the more hairspray you had, like, just the hairspray itself, you know?
00:29:10
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but yeah, I just remember that. And the makeup, man. It's crazy to me because it's like, the teenagers these days are like kids these days. And I know this is brought up a lot anyway, but like, I don't remember caring about my hair or like doing my hair or you know mean? Like, obviously I brushed it, but like kids these days are so like,
00:29:30
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I don't know. They'll curl their hair before they go to school. And I'm just like, I don't know. I don't know any kid that did that in my age when I was a teenager. like oh Maybe there were. just didn't know about it. Like we had crimped hair.
00:29:44
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We had crimped hair. We had curly hair. Yeah. Like you did it all. I had to up. my hair was permed, I didn't have a choice but to get up and do that. Yes, that's true.
Prank Calls and School Memories
00:29:52
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i mean I had to get up. You had a routine. yeah Yeah. Oh, I always wanted a spiral perm.
00:29:56
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And one time, sorry, mom, love you. One time my mom got somebody to give me a perm, but it was like really, really, really curly, like really short curls.
00:30:10
Speaker
But I had longer hair, so it didn't look like a spiral. Isn't what a spiral perm is? No, no, no, no. It was like, I don't know. It wasn't it wasn't as nice. it It wasn't as nice as a spiral perm.
00:30:24
Speaker
I don't know the difference, if I'm being honest, so... <unk> all the seconds remember come to mean I just remember i I remember some girls in my class had really nice hair like the spiral and I wanted that and when I got my perm it didn't look like that at all. It didn't do that.
00:30:44
Speaker
Is it my turn or yours Heather? don't remember now. It's Heather's turn. Oh, I didn't realize it was. um Okay. My next question is, did you ever prank call anyone or use 69 and it backfired on you?
00:31:01
Speaker
Yes. and All the time. I'm curious if people nowadays, like kids nowadays, even know what Star 69 is. I bet they don't. but Is it still thing? I think it is.
00:31:13
Speaker
Are landlines still a thing? like I don't even know. They are. Landlines are still a thing. Do people use them? No, probably not. Her dad has one.
00:31:24
Speaker
um I don't know if I've ever pranked called maybe a boy a light.
00:31:31
Speaker
Oh, we used to prank call people all the time. All the time. prank call them and ask them if their refrigerator's running? You've never done that, Shelly? I don't know. i know we used to have a girl.
00:31:42
Speaker
i think she liked my brother. She used to call the house all the time and like heavy breathe and then hang up. Like was constant. Creepy. And we found out who it was and then we're like, we know who you are. doing that kind of thing. Please stop.
00:31:57
Speaker
Yeah, but I mean, I don't. yeah We used to have afternoons where we just that's what we did. You just probably call people all afternoon. Really? We just dial random numbers. My parents phone like at mom and dad's house was like in the living room kitchen area. So if I got on the phone, they'd hear everything.
00:32:15
Speaker
Who you calling? Our family worked. They didn't. I was going to say, I mean, ours did too, but they didn't care or they weren't there. My family worked too, but I'm just saying. like They were probably more like, they're just kids being kids. like Yeah, who knows?
00:32:33
Speaker
I don't know. I don't i don't remember... prank calling. I am curious is if our family or parents are you know, whoever's house we were in at that time. Cause I remember us doing it a lot at crystal's house.
00:32:45
Speaker
Um, For some reason. remember doing it a lot like as a younger kid though. At like Mammal's house. Our grandma's house. yeah i mean i do too but like I'm curious if they remember hearing ever hearing us doing it. And caring. Or they just didn't know we ever did it. I'm curious about that too. That's funny. but yeah We would dial random numbers.
00:33:07
Speaker
Say random things. Sometimes conversations. Sometimes not. yeah i remember We did it a ton actually. I don't remember... Do you remember having that that Tickle Me Elmo thing?
00:33:19
Speaker
And we used to put that in the prank calls thing? Yeah. Yeah, I think so. We used to use Tickle Me Elmo and prank call people with it. We used to do all kinds of random things like that. Like, I don't know.
00:33:33
Speaker
But yeah, I remember. yeah It was funny. I remember it backfiring on us, though, to answer that part. No, I don't. It must have been fun having, you know, that built-in best friend.
00:33:44
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, I think that's something we've always said, yeah. We've always been like, we didn't i need friends. We had each other. like ah just got tormented by my brother. I mean, we did, I guess, eventually, obviously have our own best friends or have our own friends. But like, we were still always, especially as younger, it was just like, no, I have a best friend. Like, I don't need you. Go away. I don't need you.
00:34:10
Speaker
but No, it's fine. I'm just going to play with my sister. So, yeah. yeah we I think that's probably why we just always had fun together.
00:34:22
Speaker
Yeah. so who were you in school? Like, the class clown, the quiet kid, a trend troublemaker. Who were you in school?
00:34:35
Speaker
I was always, always, always the quiet kid. Always. Yeah, me too. I was the quietsh quiet, shy kid. um I think I was always the quiet kid too.
00:34:49
Speaker
But then it was like once I started dressing gothic and wearing that, like I was also kind of the goth kid. You know what i mean? Like is that a... i was never like in the popular crowd.
00:35:03
Speaker
Like I was never friends with the most popular kids until like... until grade 12 graduating years when everybody was like, there was no like oh you're you're jock you're a nerd you're whatever there was like no lines everybody was cool with everybody well that was it it's that that part's always funny to me i'm trying to stop the cat in front the camera say hi to the podcast say hi um that part's always funny to me because i think it's it's like i don't me and her we're not me and heather we're not like popular necessarily
00:35:45
Speaker
But like, because we were twins, it was also like, oh, the twins, oh, the twins. So it's like, did everybody know us? Yeah, because we were the twins. We were twins in school.
00:35:56
Speaker
So it was like, everybody knew about us because we were twins. yeah But were we like popular by the traditional term? Not really. But then there there was a time where I feel like it did get that way and then we were kind of like bullies and we were not nice to a lot of people.
00:36:12
Speaker
um I could see that. Oh, can you? i'll show in Wow, Wow. I thought it was more in like younger years yeah um i think like right before teenage years really were just really mean to like our neighborhood kids in school like in our neighborhood um which i i don't know sometimes they deserved it but honestly i feel a little bit bad about it so yeah if you still exist i'm sorry no wow they could be watching they used to get off the bus and run straight home because they were scared of us they didn't want to mess up they didn't want us to mess with them yeah wow mean we're not like that anymore i promise you guys they're not tried and if they tried to like walk home we would have like all of our friends block the road
00:37:05
Speaker
Oh my God. Across the road so that they were stuck walking the entire way home. And we lived out like we had, you know, there's a houses with a bunch of acres. So it was like, it's a decent walk home. Oh yeah. It was a long walk home. Wow. Wow.
00:37:24
Speaker
wow wow right. We would definitely not be friends growing up. That's for sure. There's no way. We were mean. as younger kids. That was like fifth grade.
00:37:35
Speaker
like I was going to say, but that was like probably nine or ten. and it didn't last long. Like, honestly, i think a couple years went by and we're like, dang, we were bullies. Like, why were we we like that? i't really I don't have a clue why we were like that, but I really do think it was because we were friends with the whole neighborhood and then they moved in. So they were like the new kids and all that.
00:37:56
Speaker
That doesn't make anything OK. And we should have welcomed them. No. yeah and let them join our friend group i don't know why we were like that obviously we were but yeah we i'm sure we had a reason somewhere or something inside of us was but i'm glad you are not like that now yeah now we couldn't be more opposite i feel like you know
00:38:20
Speaker
So yeah, that's think they're a little choosy with their friends. drill into my kids not to bully. like I drill
Coveted Items and Youth Differences
00:38:26
Speaker
it into their head. Me too. And it's because I know that's how I was when I was in school. And I'm just like, don't be like that. But then like Wayne is the opposite. So it's like, can I hope my kids just settle in the middle because, you know.
00:38:36
Speaker
Okay. My question. ah What was the cool kid item everyone wanted? so yeah, you guys answer first.
00:38:51
Speaker
I really don't remember. um i know Tamagotchi is listed as one of those things and I think it was and we've definitely had them. Yeah, I mean, I differ from loving Tamagotchi's and me wanting one and us having one, but... um Maybe we never realized it was the cool kid thing because we always had it. I don't know.
00:39:11
Speaker
and never I never one. don't remember. i don't think they were a thing when I was growing up.
00:39:17
Speaker
don't remember them being a cool kid thing, but I don't remember... And I do think that is why I wanted one, but like, I think maybe, I mean, obviously we were a little spoiled, I think, because of our grandma for sure.
00:39:30
Speaker
So it was the cool kid thing and we wanted one, but we knew we'd get one. So like, I feel like it wasn't a big deal, if that makes sense. oh yeah Oh, you're those kids. Yeah.
00:39:42
Speaker
um For me, there's a few things that I wanted. One, I wanted that plastic foam where you seen all like the inside of it. Yeah, I used to have one of those. Yeah, I remember you telling me. I can't remember we talked about it one time.
00:39:55
Speaker
I never got it. I wanted i wanted I'm going buy you one, Shelley. Okay. I wanted acid wash jeans because that was popular. I never got any. um There was bubblegum jeans, they were called. they're like They had little ridges in them. i don't know if you guys had them.
00:40:12
Speaker
I did get a pair of those. um These hypo shirts they had. All minor clothing type things, but... just got a full list of things she didn't work on, apparently. These hypo... Like, now I wouldn't want it, because, like, you know... But they were hypo shirts. I can't remember what they were called... Like, exactly what were called, but... They were, like... They would change color...
00:40:38
Speaker
they would react to the heat of your body. I don't know why I wanted them, but they're like really bright colors and stuff like that. And sun ice winter jackets, because those things were expensive. They're ski jackets, but they were so nice because they were like bright colors and everybody who had money had them. I didn't have it. So I was going to say, I just want to make it clear that we were poor as well.
00:41:04
Speaker
like We did not have money. So that statement I probably just said sounded worse than it was. My grandma would just work her butt off and give us her every last cent that she had to get us whatever we wanted from her. like yeah So she was just that kind of person. like She would work however many hours a week she needed to work.
00:41:23
Speaker
to just see us smile and be her last daughter. She was a housekeeper at the hospital. So it's not like she went to work and didn't have money. Yeah. She literally was a housekeeper at the hospital.
00:41:34
Speaker
So, um, i after that note. The only other thing I remember is like, I don't know if you remember, Heather, that shirt that you wore that had like little diamonds that stuck out of it.
00:41:44
Speaker
It was like one of those really super, like it looked really small and you stretched it out and it like, it was a really weird shirt. Those were like really popular and and all that. I remember that. I wore that to a wedding, I remember. I think I a picture of my permed curly hair with that shirt on. With that shirt on, yeah. That's the only other thing that comes to mind for me.
00:42:04
Speaker
um Although I guess like, Maybe JNCOs would, I don't really know. JNCOs like fit in that category? Because and don't, not everybody wanted them. so because they was just back then It was just your crowd. Yeah. Cause I have never heard of those until I met you.
00:42:26
Speaker
That's so weird. Like never, ever. Like, I don't even know if Canada even had them like Canadian people. In the 90s, did you ever hear of JNCO pants? Which is funny because any of my friends that listening or that listen or that I even know, you could ask any one of my friends that I have communications with, do you know what JNCOs are?
00:42:49
Speaker
And every single one of them would say yes. Like without a doubt, every single one of them would say yes. So it's funny. Yeah. Um, okay. Is my turn or Heather's?
00:43:00
Speaker
No, it's mine. We're doing our last round of questions. so um, these are more like, they're I guess they're just a different type of, anyways, you'll see. Um, so what is something kids today will never understand?
00:43:16
Speaker
So I had to like, think about this. Well, I'll let you get, do you guys have an answer? Yeah, I have one. Go ahead. So I think the first one that comes to mind to me is not having internet.
00:43:27
Speaker
Or like access to information right away. Yeah. Like at the drop of a hat. would Like my kids do not understand the thought of not having a phone or a tablet or like internet connection. Like that's just, it was like, I must've been a dinosaur if I existed before then. like Yeah. but you had If you had to do a book report or if you had to do any kind of studying or whatever, or any kind of research you had to go the library.
00:43:57
Speaker
You had to get a library card and go sit at the library.
Growing Up Then vs. Now
00:44:01
Speaker
yeah Um... I guess like landline phones maybe. i mean, no, that's, they don't really. end um my friend My mind first went to like the radio, like with us having to call and request your favorite song on the radio. And then you had to sit around and wait to listen wait that to it. Kids nowadays have never had to sit around and wait for a their favorite song to come on. If they want to play it, they just put it on their phone and move on. yeah
00:44:30
Speaker
Yeah, that's true. So no that's what my mind went to. Or if somebody releases a new song and you want to listen to it, they can just go click and play it. You know, we had to either wait for the CD to come out, go buy it, wait for it to come on the radio or release on the radio.
00:44:45
Speaker
Or if you couldn't afford the CD after the artist released CD. Yeah. Then you just don't know what ah what the songs are. yeah Yeah. They would never understand that. That would like blow their mind. Or Thursday nights. Maybe kids wouldn't understand. Like Thursday nights for us, um we would go the mall because the mall was open until 9 o'clock. And when you're a teenager, that's where I grew up. That was pretty much the only thing you did is Thursday nights, you would have dinner with your family.
00:45:14
Speaker
Then your friends would go and you guys would go to the mall and walk around the mall for like three hours. Just walking around. Kids that. Yeah, kids still do that. Oh, do they? Yeah. I think that's still... I mean, some of them, not going to say them. mean, we didn't shopping. We just walked up and down. Yeah, I mean, we did that too as a kid, and I think kids still do it now. Yeah, my kids did it.
00:45:35
Speaker
Maybe not to the extent that we did, because they have more to do. Overall. I only think that's because, yeah, we live in a different world type thing. Yeah.
00:45:47
Speaker
But I think, yeah, they still do it. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I mean, they don't buy anything. They just go. And that's what we did. We just went around and walked them all. Another thing is rewinding tapes. Videotapes. yeah. They would never. I mean, yeah, that kind of falls under the same category. Or even cassette tapes. They wouldn't even know how to play one. Yeah, exactly. Walking around with a CD. Yeah. Make sure doesn't skip.
00:46:10
Speaker
That's funny. All right. So final question then. Do you guys think growing up in the 80s and the 90s made us tougher or just more creative with boredom? i do feel like want it I do feel like it made us tougher, but I almost don't want to use like those terms because I think it was just the way our parents were raised and then the way they raised type thing. don't really...
00:46:39
Speaker
Yeah. I don't really think tougher is the right word either. um it was just ah like, to me, I just feel like it's uncomparable. Did it make us more creative with boredom? A hundred percent. Like we could play a game out of nowhere or make a game up whenever we want it to, or just sit and do nothing because sometimes that's what you had to do.
00:47:01
Speaker
um Whereas kids these days, they really just sit and do nothing, not have a phone, a tablet, a just like you know i don't they don't know that they struggle with that um but on the other side of that like growing not that growing up these days aren't any easier like there's just a whole different set of yeah like having everything be watched everything be monitored your reaction as a teenager like i'd be terrified i'm so glad there was no mobile phones or right internet when i was growing up like i'm glad i couldn't text send text pictures to my friends or my boyfriend like no thank you like yeah i would not have wanted that in my teenage life like that's gotta make it harder like
00:47:49
Speaker
to some Not harder than ours, but just harder as a teenage growing up. The bullying aspect online and stuff. Oh, yeah. That's cyberbullying. Skyrocketed. Yeah, that's just... I couldn't imagine. like I was bullied in high school, and i couldn't imagine it would be like 30, 40 times worse if it was like on online and not knowing who it was. Because when you're bullied at school, obviously whoever's Yeah, you know who it is You know who it is, so Yeah. I mean, and I agree. Like while we talked about being bullies earlier, there was more, way more years that we were bullied than we were actually bullies. yeah
00:48:28
Speaker
And I, that's honestly probably what happened is we were bullied for a long time and it just kind of pushed us to be bullies. And then we kind of grew up a little bit, realized it, but, um, yeah. Like imagine having a phone to do that with during that
Trends That Should Stay in the Past
00:48:43
Speaker
time. Like, Oh no, that sounds stressful. So yeah. No,
00:48:50
Speaker
um Okay, my last question. um What's something from back then that probably shouldn't come back? Probably shouldn't come back. That shouldn't come back. something from I really didn't think about this question, but so i don't think I have an answer.
00:49:09
Speaker
The only thing I can think of was like it was more of like a fashion thing. Maybe they still have it. I don't know because I'm not no fashionista or whatever it is. um It's shoulder pads.
00:49:21
Speaker
If you remember on certain things you wear, they added big bulky shoulder pads to your jacket. those are definitely still a thing. ah They're really bulky.
00:49:32
Speaker
They're not as bad as they were. And they're definitely still like there's times where they come back, but I've seen them. Yeah. So they're still around, but I do hate them and agree that they should never come back.
00:49:47
Speaker
ah I have a quick story, just a funny little story. I mean, we could always go back to like floppy disk and stuff. That stuff shouldn't come back. Oh, that's true.
00:49:59
Speaker
i mean, I don't know. Yeah, because if you touch the middle of it, of the floppy disk, I think it was corrupted, right? Yeah, probably. um Yeah, definitely think we should stick with the new technology. Yeah. Now, USBs are much easier. Yeah.
00:50:18
Speaker
Anyways, all right, go ahead, tell your story. My story is just kind of silly. with It was about shoulder pads. I just remember i um I had a resident when I was working at a nursing home many, many, many, many many years ago.
00:50:32
Speaker
um She walked out of her room in the morning to go down for breakfast. And she had her shirt inside out. And all I could see her walking down the hallway, because, you know, it's like dim lit because it's early in the morning, was her shoulder pads going like this in the wind.
00:50:51
Speaker
was just the funniest thing. And I'm like, ah, your shirt's inside out. So you had to fix it. But yeah, that's just funny thing I just remember seeing. That's funny.
Episode Wrap-up and Farewells
00:51:01
Speaker
All right. So I think that's going to end this round, right? Everybody. know Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's quite the episode.
00:51:08
Speaker
You guys had fun. It was kind of interesting hearing everybody's answers. Longer than why we anticipated. But that's okay. I think so. Yeah. All right. So, well, thank you guys for hanging out this week.
00:51:21
Speaker
We appreciate you guys being here and we'll see you again next week. Bye. Bye. Thanks for the laughs, the time we spent Every word, every moment, man Take it in, let it tangle Always remember, look at life from everywhere