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Katie Parsons: 0:01

Hey listeners, it's Katie, and welcome to a special edition of generation between this is our first clips episode. We've recorded 50 episodes and counting, and we wanted to flash back to a few of our favorite moments so far, starting with the opening of our very first episode. Enjoy Has anyone ever made you want to throw your pager out the window? Tell MCI to cut the foam pole, break your lease so you could move well, if you relate to the first two things in those lyrics, you might be a xennial Hi. I'm Katie and I'm Danny, and you're listening to generation in between a zennial podcast. And today we're talking about the once mighty pager or beeper, if you prefer. But before we get into that, let's talk a little more about this podcast and the term zennial, which I have to admit, Danny, before I asked Google to pronounce that for me, which is a totally xennial thing to do, by the way, I always said xennial, but and hopefully some of the listeners also do that. And hopefully I'm not the only person on the planet that did that. But can you tell us a little more about what that even means? I can. So your mispronunciation is actually on point, because a zennial is technically the generation that is sandwiched in between Gen X and Millennial. So your pronunciation error makes complete sense. Katie, so Gen X is 1965 to 1980 millennial is 1981 to 1986

Dani Combs: 1:36

so a zennial is 1977 to 1983 these are all birth years. PS, by the way, so we were born a little too late to kind of identify with Gen X, but we were born little too early to identify with those millennials. I've seen it described as we had a analog childhood with a digital adulthood. Oh my gosh, that's so perfect. I know, right? Yeah, so putting x in there sort of makes sense. Since we have our Gen X friends right before us and our millennial friends right after us, I like calling myself an xennial or a zennial more than saying an elder millennial, which I have said before wrong. Doesn't feel right. So well, so let's tell our listeners just a little bit more of like, where we sit in that zennial span, starting with you and your birth year. All right, so I was born in november of 1980 so I guess I'm kind of right in the middle of that, of that zennial time frame there, 1980 here's some key points. Pac Man was released in the arcades. Remember those? It was the highest earning arcade game of all times. Wow, which I already knew that because my husband is a retro video game collector. So Iraq invades Iran, initiated the Iraq Iran war. John Lennon was shot, and Mount St Helens erupts, killing approximately 57 people. Kind of a historic year for a lot of reasons. You hit on a lot of things there. Well, I was born in May of 1982

Katie Parsons: 3:11

and that is also the same year that the compact disc, or the CD, was introduced. Steven Spielberg released et which became the highest grossing film of the decade. Good year for releases, because Michael Jackson's album thriller became the best selling album of all time. And also, apparently the Falklands War started. But I don't actually know what that is. Was that in the Falklands? Is that a place

Unknown: 3:38

someone help makes you sound smart, though, exactly. And neither of us was born in 1981 but when I was researching these points, I just thought I would touch on that too, because I was kind of a big year. Princess Diana and Charles met. Space Shuttle Columbia launched successfully, and also the first reported case of AIDS happened in the US, which is definitely something xennials grow up knowing about, and something we're definitely going to talk about on this podcast on a different episode. So that's just a little bit more about us and our time frame.

Dani Combs: 4:13

Hi guys. This is Danny, and the next clip is a fan favorite as well as one of our favorites, it was from our candy taste testing episode.

Unknown: 4:26

Things got a little kooky, I guess so. Enjoy our infamous candy anklet clip, Candy necklaces, oh yeah, should be extended to candy bracelets. Of course. Did you ever wear the candy bracelets as anklets? You can't eat them.

Dani Combs: 4:48

I guess that's a starburst cocktail here. Oh no, you

Unknown: 4:55

would do that if you didn't want to eat it. Would you ever eat it? Because now that I'm thinking about it, that. Close to the ground your foot, All right, guys, just like men in black that I didn't say anything about candy anklets. All right, moving on, or give it a try this weekend. Who knows? Try. Let us know, unless you're as any all like us, because in your leg, we'll probably cramp up.

Katie Parsons: 5:19

You'll have no circulation. Please don't okay. So this was kind of weird, because I went to maybe five or six sources looking up the history of it, and for some reason, Candy necklaces have this mysterious start.

Unknown: 5:36

Weird. No one, nobody wants to take credit for this travesty, has claimed inventing them. They're like, I'm not saying that's weird. A few sources said maybe somewhere in Northern Europe, no one knows the answer to this, what's going on.

Katie Parsons: 5:55

So Oh, my God. They did get popular in Europe first, and then they hit the worldwide scene in the late 1950s they're still pretty easy to find. Yeah, you can get them just about anywhere. But the idea of wearing candy around wrists and necks or ankles

Unknown: 6:15

is is not as popular as it once was, because, you know, it's not the most sanitary, so disgusting. It's and like, and then it like, the colors come off on your skin, like you would bite a piece off and put it back on your neck. And then it'd be like, and then, just like, biting them off the string, I know. And then, yeah, so, but I did bring some, and I feel like these, from what I remember, these kind of tastes, like sweet tart like sweet tartish. Now you do have one. What I remember with these Katie like, when rave culture was big in the 90s, people wore these to raves. I don't remember that, because it would maybe they still do. I mean, there's still ravers out there nowadays. So let me know. I think that it was to keep like because you're sweating so much, because you're dancing and it's hot and you're sweating, and this would give you a little sugar boost, like it does when you're running. Are we putting these on, or are we just trying these put them on your ankle? Katie, let's go, oh oh, my God. I don't know. I'm putting it away. I'm just gonna put it on my wrist. Okay, because I don't want to put it over my hair. Smell it, do? I have to? Oh, it smells so bad. Okay, what color are you gonna do? I don't know. I'm gonna do pink, pink and yellow. Okay, I'm gonna do blue. I'm gonna do blue. How do you even do this? I think you go like this, write it. No, what are you doing? Apparently, I do candy necklaces and bracelets, completely wrong. I'm gonna actually put my nose. No, that's wrong. Okay, put it okay. All

Dani Combs: 8:01

right. We gotta do it on our wrist. All right, okay, this is ridiculous. If this episode actually makes it so error,

Unknown: 8:10

the sound your ears broke her candy necklace. I tried to do a double loop bracelet. Oh, my God, what a mess. All right, let me just eat one, and then while you talk about the next one, I could clean up. I haven't tasted mine yet. No, let's do it. I just mean, when you get to that point, oh my god, I swear this is the silliest. All right, let me see. I'm gonna try the orange try not to choke, like I'm literally like a squirrel, like gnawing. Look it, because you have to suck it doesn't just bite off that mine broke. I just have, like, a handful. Actually, it doesn't taste bad. I'm like, No, I can't do it. I can't do it. I can't I'm trying to nibble it off my wrist. Katie's like, handing me one that she wrecked on the floor. Okay, all right. Again, I cleaned my floor. Oh, sorry, that was, like, right in the microphone. That was Jenny eating candy necklace beans. It tastes like, um, Smarties. That's what it tastes like. Yeah, I think that tastes pretty good. Actually, I am not a fruity candy person. I can live without that in my life. Okay, that's all I have on candy, the mysterious candy neighbors.

Katie Parsons: 9:32

What's the point of having a podcast if you can't? Fan girl, a little bit. Check out some of our introspection on Celebrity Culture on our Britney Spears episode, I split this into three topic areas, and again, it will talk about Britney, but we'll talk about some other celebrities and events as well as we go through the first one, I really wanted to talk about that I've been thinking about so much, so much, and not just with Brittany, with other people. It's. Since the whole free Britney scenario from a few years ago, when all the fans were trying to get her released from her conservatorship from her father. And I don't know if the fans were successful, but her lawyers were successful. It's this idea of the abuse of fame, and if you've heard the phrase, you probably know where I'm going with this. But if not, it's just this idea that celebrities or well known people are commodities to us, and that we are able to access them at will and speak about them however we want, and that in a way they deserve it or they ask for it because they're in the public eye, which is pretty messed up. Yeah, I agree. So I often think about this too, when I think about Princess Diana, and we're gonna cover her in another episode, if you're listening to this, in 2025 that episode is probably live, so go find it. But this hunger to see more of her, and the capitalism behind that, because with Diana, she was the first person that a paparazzi got a million dollars for a photo of. So then it sets off this domino effect of, Wow, I can make all this money taking pictures of these people in their private moments when they're chasing them in a car, and literally led to her dying, being killed. Now, Brittany is still with us. Thank you, Sweet baby Jesus. Yeah, but she's had some close calls. Oh my gosh. And I would say she's not in the clear. No, by any means, that's multifaceted, but has to do a lot with the access that everyone, family, fans, internet, which we're going to talk about now.

Dani Combs: 11:47

If you love hearing amateur performers sing TV theme songs and old 90s tunes, you'll love these next two clips of us doing just that. If you know this, you're gonna get it quick. Okay? If you've never watched the show, it's gonna be blank staring, which is what my husband did. Okay, all right, and it's got lots of sound effects. I'm gonna be whistling. Oh, okay, geez, okay. All right, here we go.

Unknown: 12:15

Oh no, I have to giggle. I'm not the best Whistler, so hold on, you. All the fans know this. Hold on. What is happening. This is great. Seeing your face. If you're a fan, you're, you know what I just you're already like, screaming it. Okay, what is it? X Files. Oh. X Files, okay, okay, okay. There's only two people to guess on that show, right? So it's molder, yes. Scully, correct. David de cuffney, uh huh. And I can see her face, but I can't think of her name. What is her name? Jillian Anderson. Jillian Anderson, okay, so this one, were you an X Files fan? No, okay, I knew that. Like cultural reference. Yes, I know who they are, but so it aired september 1993

Dani Combs: 13:16

to may 2002 Wow. Okay, I did watch X Files. Now, I'm not, I was not like, a, like, dedicated die hard fan, like, I know some of y'all out there, like, big old like, Muller Scully peeps, and that's great. I want, this was one. I was like, I want to go back and rewatch

Unknown: 13:37

little bit different mine. Now we're in the 90s, and we're gonna finish the lyrics to this one, so I'll sing it, and then when I stop, it's when you go in, all right? And then we'll see if you even know the artist and all that. Excuse me. Here we go, me, me, me, me, okay, wake up the dawn and ask her why? A dream. Her dream, she never dies. Wipe that tear away now from your eye, slowly walking down the hall faster than a cannonball. Where were you while we were getting high? Yeah, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. And who is this and what that's oasis. Oasis. Do you remember the name of the song? You will find me, Champagne Supernova in the sky. Champagne Supernova by oasis. Oh, nice. So that infamous Oasis song, the original title was actually wishing stone, which lame. It's pretty lame compared to Champagne Supernova. The song was written by Noel Gallagher, who has said he's in the group. It's about an imaginary friend who's gonna come and save you from yourself, aka champagne. If you know Danny, you.

Katie Parsons: 15:00

Know she loves a good cartoon. And if you know me, you know I'm a bit skeptical. Listen in as Danny tries to get me on board with the Snorks in part one of our Saturday morning cartoons episodes. Snarks, okay,

Unknown: 15:19

and I, I am gonna play the song, and then I'll explain to you what Snorks was about and what they are. And now I can't find my links to my watching on mute, pulling up the music. I'm pulling up the music opening, yeah. So ready. I'm ready. Okay, here comes guys. So okay, all right, wow. So you can see the picture.

Dani Combs: 15:59

I'm watching it too. So all right, so for those of you out there listening who have never heard of this cartoon, I'm gonna explain to you what it is. So the Snorks, some of the stuff I typed is like an official description, which is hilarious. So here's one. The Snorks are a race of small, colorful, anthropomorphic sea creatures that live in the undersea world of snorkland. They have snorkels on their heads, which are used to propel them swiftly through the water. They also play music, and when they're excited, it makes a Snork sound. What? Okay? Are we just going to pretend that Snork is a word, yeah, just like, we're just gonna insert what they are, yes, okay? Because, yes, because of the Snorks, the snorkels on their heads, so they're the Snorks. So the Snorks actually, in snorkland, underwater, they have much of the same technology as contemporary humans, okay, like, adapted to their own, like, aquatic environment. So they use clams as money. They wear clothes. I saw that, yeah, you know. So it's kind of like they adopted a lot of the human things. Y'all we love to snack. In fact, I have some right here as we're recording, um, which is why we just had to follow up our candy episode with one on xennial snacks, tongue tattoo. Anyone. The funny thing is, let's see. Well, you can pick out whatever flavor you want, but the funny thing is, Katie, what does it say it has with it? Fruit roll ups with tongue tattoos. Yeah. So that became, like a big thing of marketing too, where you could, like, lick the fruit roll up and put a tattoo on your tongue. I Cooper actually just told us that kids at school still do that, but they lick them and stick them on their arms. So that's disgusting, and something elementary kids they're gross about Here you go. Yes. So the flavors you can pick from are blue RAS raspberries, strawberry blast or tropical tie dye. Part. What do you take? I don't I just grabbed one. Oh, okay. Oh, I have blue raspberry. I'm just gonna grab one too.

Unknown: 18:13

And I have something else I don't know. Okay, so we shall try and do these tongue tattoos. Is there directions? Like, I don't know how to do it. Yeah, I don't know it says, choose it, stick it, show it, okay, so I guess we stick it. Okay, that is so funny. I need a shirt that says that. No, I'm just kidding. I would never wear that. Actually, I would, but it's really just, oh boy. This is, Oh, you got the tie dye one accidentally. Oh, boy, oh, I literally pull it off of here. Well, you have to, yeah, so you know how I'm gonna show you the way I used to eat this as a kid. This is so, but I'm gonna do my tongue tattoo first. Okay? I think you just go like this, ready? Literally, oh, I took it off the solo fan. Well, let's see what happens. All right, should be okay, huh? Ah, didn't work. All I see is blue bar. I'm wrong. You guys. Did mine work? Yeah, well, I licked it now. Oh yeah, I could see it. Did? You know what it was? It was blue. Something was a shape. It was a peace symbol. Okay? It was a shape. Let me try. So, yeah, you just imprint your tongue on the thing. Um, while she's doing that, I'm gonna tell you about the way I used to eat. These is so gross and such, like a weird kid thing. I am, like, I was a weird kid, guys, that's all right. I mean, I'm a weird grown up. So it checks I was gonna say, you turned out great to all you weird kids out there. My mom used to always say weird. A weird. My mom used to always say weird people make life more interesting. So, you know, say that to you. Well, she's weird too. So our whole family's weird. I love that. Well, I don't know. All right. Katie is making a. Mess. I don't know what it's gonna try. I just going for it. So, all right, here we go. Some tattoos are funny? Is it a penguin? It's a flower. I was like, That's a weird choice for a fruit roll up. This one's like, off the side. Now, yeah, I kind of don't have any other Okay. Well, I can see why. That's fun. Okay, so those were, like, really popular in the late 80s, early 90s, the fruit roll up tongue tattoos, which I guess are now a thing. They're back. The thing about fruit roll ups is there's no non messy way to eat them. True, you get sticky no matter what you do. This is how me and my friends in elementary school used to eat these. Okay, I'm gonna describe, unless you're describing, ready. It's so stupid. This is how we used to do it. I'm not actually gonna eat this the way I used to. I'm just gonna show you. Okay, so she's wrapping it around her index finger and then and pressing on it, so it's like sticking to her finger, like a tube, or like a really long finger. This is so gross. So we would,

Dani Combs: 21:04

we would make these like giant, long, pointy finger things where we would take it and roll it over our pointer finger, and then it almost looks like a big, like witch finger. You remember those witch fingers? And then we just eat it. I'm not gonna actually do this, because it's actually disgusting. We would eat it from our finger, and then we just lick it and eat it off of our finger. Elementary kids, man, they're gross, innovative, though. I will say, Okay, so maybe it was just me and my friends. So I am gonna eat the tip of the finger. Okay,

Unknown: 21:42

I don't is the tip I don't love fruit roll ups. Did you just say Jessica, what's better than a fresh new notebook, pens and Lisa Frank stickers, putting them all in your Trapper Keeper. Listen in to this iconic moment from our throwback school supplies episode. And little pro tip, if you haven't listened to that one yet, you have to listen to the whole thing, because at the end, we sniff markers so and I have to say his whole name. So when e Bryant Crutchfield, he began regionally, test marketing the trapper keeper in 1978 so what he did was he thought it would be useful to insert a little feedback card into each one. Okay, so I think he did this in the Midwest. Somewhere, kids who purchase a trapper keeper received a slip that promised them a free binder if they mailed in their comments. So approximately 1500 cards were returned. Okay. And under the question, why did you purchase the Trapper Keeper rather than another type of binder?

Dani Combs: 22:56

Oh, my God, here's what respondents said things. Okay. These are direct quotes, and this was an interview that he actually did with a company. He did pass away a few years ago, but and so this is he kept these, and this is what some of the responses were. So kids said things like, I heard it was good. My girlfriend had one. My mother got it by mistake, but I'd seen it on TV, so I decided to keep it that just like a whole statement, okay, instead of taking the whole thing, you can take only one part home, okay, functional. There we go. Because they keep your papers where they belong. They're really great. Everybody has one but crutchfields. Favorite Comment came from a 14 year old named Fred, and he kept the paper right. Wow. Fred wrote that he had bought the Trapper Keeper rather than another binder to keep all my shit, like papers and notes.

Unknown: 23:58

I love this kid. Oh, my God. I mean, yeah, right, because that's why you got a trapper keepers to keep all your shit, and it doesn't fly out all over the place, right? Exactly,

Dani Combs: 24:14

even if you aren't re watching the whole first season of Dawson's Creek like us, there are some things about the show that are just universal. So check out our guest, Carlos, first thoughts on the teen classic. So we've talked about how I use smiley faces and frowny faces to rank things. Katie uses hearts and red X's. Carlos, what did you use? I use fire and ice. I love this. So

Unknown: 24:44

I feel like, what an episode to bring that. It is, it's, it's the perfect one. Okay, so what we generally do is start happy and then go to the shit. So, pretty much, yeah, pretty much. So we'll start happy. So what was your first fire? I.

Carlos Jimenez: 25:00

My first fires, good looking cat. Everyone in the show is hot,

Unknown: 25:06

everyone, it's true, literal. And was the dad in the show. Dad wasn't in this one. The plot line went, there was they went away for couples therapy. Oh, that's right, either of his parents are there in this episode to look him up. But pacey's brother. Is that the name?

Carlos Jimenez: 25:21

Yeah. I was like, I put here hot brother cop is gay with a hot emoji.

Unknown: 25:31

So that's funny.

Katie Parsons: 25:35

We are huge Princess Diana fans around here. So it was so special having Amanda Hornberger as our first guest to talk about her stunning portrayal of the princess in the regional premiere of Diana, the musical. Here's a clip of Amanda talking to us about why that role was so important to her based on then the research that you did in reading the book, and just probably people you've spoken to since taking on this role and people talking to you about it. What do you think are some things people get wrong about Diana, and I'd love to hear from you too. Danny, after that, since you said you had to revisit your own thoughts on maybe things that you thought weren't actually the true case. Yeah, but what do you think Amanda,

Amanda Hornberger: 26:17

I feel like I have a few things on, like, kind of opposing ends of the spectrum. So I'll start with people think that she was a saint. She was not. She was a hot mess. Express as most humans, which is why we love her like she's relatable that makes her better, like that makes her more relatable, more amazing for the fact that, just like the rest of us, she was messy, just like the rest of us, when she was in love, she did things she regretted later, yeah? Like, I mean, but she she literally pushed her stepmother down a flight of stairs, yeah? Like, like, she did some stuff that was not great. Y'all. I mean, they made up later, oh, made up later. But, like, she was a person just like everybody else. And I think sometimes people elevate her to a level that isn't fair, um, and people do that a lot with people who are that level of famous and that can that's part of the problem. That is part of what kills these people is you think that they are not a person, and therefore you don't have to treat them like they're a person. Yeah. I think that deifying someone is just as harmful as like abusing them, yeah, in some ways. So I think that's what people get wrong, is they want to elevate her above the level of humanness that she's due and then on the opposite end of the spectrum, I think there are also people who will fling mud or make up stories that aren't true when you really look into them, one of the biggest that I found actually was like her relationship with James Hewitt, beautiful relationship, and people treated him terribly still do. They were together for five years in a very beautiful relationship. Wow. I mean, he was even going to meet up with her. Had talked to her on the phone like shortly before she passed, like they had a beautiful connection, friendship, romance, and I feel like that whole chapter of her life has been really reduced to drama and scandal, and when you really hear what happened between them, you root for them. At least I did, like, Yeah, and so I think it's kind of nice to know that she had that type of love at one point, and it was actually the whole media circus of their relationship surfacing that separated them.

Dani Combs: 29:08

Big. Thanks to my husband Troy for coming on the show to be our second guest and to school us in Nintendo lore. Katie really loved what he had to say about finding the best games when he was a kid, and she had a very wrong guess about an iconic video game character's name. So be sure to check out this two part episode on Nintendo and hear some clips from both of them. What would make you buy one game or another? What would be the final determiner. Well, it's weird. You know, you kind of learn as you go along. But if, if there was a game that was published by Nintendo, I usually knew that it was like a banger, because that's what all the good games were. I.

Unknown: 30:00

So Stay, stay with me. So that was one criteria. The other thing really got her going, alright, let's go. Let's go with it. The other thing is the like, the box art on the back of the box, there'd be, like, screen captures and stuff. So you could kind of look and read about it and be like, Hmm, I can imagine this being really cool or whatever. Then, like, we have to talk about Nintendo Power. A little bit of trivia on the Legend of Zelda. This first one is easy. I know that you know this, so I won't answer. Okay, what is the main character's name? Oh, it's not Zelda. No, oh, that's a princess. Oh, that's what they're trying to save, right? That's why I asked that, because it's kind of a comment. Literally, it was just reading the back of that too, and it was probably on there. Did it start with the T? No, it starts with an L, I don't know. Lyle. Lyle, no, go ahead. Danny, Link, yeah. Link, l, I n, C, I was gonna say l i n, k, okay, my bad. I thought it was L, I n, C, shame on me, and I'm laughing at you for saying Lyle, okay, so that was the easy question. Where were you when Power Rangers debuted? Our guest Carlos explains the first episode of the classic show. I'm gonna give you the origin story of the first episode. Okay, yay. We all know how it all started, okay here in America, so two astronauts decided to go to the moon,

Carlos Jimenez: 31:48

and they find a moon dumpster. They called it a dumpster. It does not look like a dumpster, like a dumpster on the moon base, just it looks like this little canister, but they called it a dumpster. I don't understand. Moon trash can. Dumpster. Got it for real. And in that dumpster were the villains. The main villain being Rita Repulsa. I was waiting. I remember, we love Rita. We are a Rita Stan

Unknown: 32:18

Rita Repulsa, that's amazing. Rita Repulsa, so she was in a trash can on the moon. She was in a trash can. Amazing already. Why have I not watched the show more? I don't know. This is completely a standing Sally

Dani Combs: 32:30

Katie's like and I'll pass were there Snorks?

Carlos Jimenez: 32:37

They were not Snorks. So you have nothing to worry about. The Snorks were under the sea. They were not in the match. Silly me. All right, so Rita in the trash comes out. She's been released after 1000 years, 10,000 years. I'm sorry, child, you better get it right. Hold on. Katie's gonna text you later. After 10,000 years, I'm free. It's time to conquer Earth. 10,000 okay, I had to replay the theme song in my head. So she's been in this trash can for 10,000 10,000 years. So she's pissed, yes, so she's she's very upset. And so now the alarms go off. Alarms go off. Zordon is now, you know, oh, no, what's going on? And alpha says it's Rita. She's been released. So now zoranan has to call upon five teenagers with attitude, okay, five teenagers with attitude, because they will save the world. Yes, you know. So then it goes into the scene of the teenagers in a youth center. Have you guys ever had a youth center? Yeah, is that, like, like, a YMCA, right? Ish, yeah. Like they had, they had weights and things, but they also had, like, just one balance beam for Kimberly to show off her skills, you know, a loan balance beam and do all your trading here, right? So, yeah, so they had a youth center. They were all in there doing their thing, you know, together, yeah, okay, well, some of them were, like, paired off, you know, like, Zach and Jason were the martial artists. So they were got it practicing. Kimberly was doing her thing on the balance beam. Trini was doing her little who saw thing, you know, martial arts thing, and you know, so it goes into that scene. Then all of a sudden, there's an earthquake. It's Rita. She has finally made it to Earth or near Earth, and then Zordon just beams them to their command center. Okay, okay, wow, yeah, they they call it teleporting. They teleport to their command center. Then Zordon explains to them why they're there. They don't believe it. Obviously, they're teenagers and. And they're like, ah, yeah, whatever you know. So he gives them all of their stuff, like, This is who you are. This is the zord you're going to be commanding when you need them call upon the power and yada yada yada. So they don't believe him. They walk away and leave the command center. Well, you know, after all that's happening, they're still talking like, well, he could have at least teleported us back into town. So now they have to walk all the way back. And Rita sees them and then sends out her putty patrol. I love the name of this. Yes, the putty patrol. They are literally made of clay. They're made of putty. Shush. Okay. Now Google again. No, I just Googled because I couldn't remember what she Oh, she's iconic. I know I do

Unknown: 35:46

the one picture I'm looking at. I know it's not her, but like, she kind of is giving Kristen Chenoweth in Descendants, yeah,

Carlos Jimenez: 35:57

one picture, yeah. Okay, so they're made of clay, all right, yeah. So they're made of clay or putty, and they're made into this machine that turns them into animate objects. They are now sent to earth to fight these rangers and destroy them before things get completely out of hand for Rita, because she's trying to conquer Earth. Okay, yes. So they they fight the Rangers, the Rangers don't win. And so now they're like, well, zornon gave us these powers to use. Let's use them. And then they have their first morph in the first episode, very, very first morph. Then they go into town where Goldar, who is Rita's henchman, is now waiting for them to battle. Are you even an evil person if you don't have a henchman, right? Or several, or a body patrol, or a putty patrol, weird storm trooper is made of clay, right? So then Golda is there, waiting to fight them. They fight. Then Rita takes her magic wand, throws it down to earth, and that's how she makes them grow, and she uses the line magic wand make my monster grow. I was hoping you would do voices. I can't do the voice like Barbara Goodson, who is the voice of Rita, gotcha. I cannot do her voice very well, but I did attempt, I think that was pretty damn good. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. So obviously the Rangers triumph. They win. They go back to the command center. Then everything is all hunky dory, and then you get the Power Rangers right. There you go. Okay, so basically, after that happens, do when they go back to the command center. Are they now, like, a different vibe, because they left like, Oh, this is weird, but correct. But now, are they like, Yes, oh, yeah. Crazy. Stuff's going down now, so guess we better do this, right? Yes, exactly. Well, some of them were kind of like, well, we were chosen, so we should do it okay, you know? But after they did win and everything had happened, they were like, You know what? We can do this. I love and we shall, and we shall show for a very, very, very long time. But of course, to throw, to throw a little 90s wrench in it, yeah, at the very end. And I love this scene, because it's Kimberly, and she goes. So everyone's like, yeah, we can do this. We can do this. And Kimberly's like, I don't know you guys, my hair gets all tangled up in the helmets. I can't do this, and they go, no, come on. She goes, nah.

Unknown: 38:33

Think about your favorite celebrity now, imagine giving them a gift in person. Our guest, Jen did just that with her superstar obsession, Reba McEntire, and it paid off. Check it out, Reba had a fan club, right? So, and you know, all you had to do was, and I don't even think you had to pay so it was, it was free. You just like, Yeah, you had to fill something out and mail it in. Because, you know, we didn't have, like, the Internet back then, right? So, but once you joined you, you got a quarterly newsletter mailed to you in the mail which had, like, all of her, like, you know, news and what's happening and pictures and all of this stuff, right? And we'll actually get back to these newsletters in a little while, because I'll have another story about what that led to, yeah. So anyway we, we would get these newsletters, and also as part of the fan club, if you were had tickets to a concert, you could sign up once a year to go backstage for a meet and greet with Reba, right? Can you imagine? Yeah, well, she ended up. She ended up, and I don't know exactly what year, but she did end up stop stopping it, because it got to the point where there were so many people backstage, like you couldn't even have it backstage anymore, like they literally would have it in the concert venue because there were so many people there. And. It ended up being like, you know, there were hundreds and hundreds, if not a few 1000 people. And like, she'd sit up there and, you know, she'd take a few questions, and that was about it. But when it first started, like, when I first started going backstage, they were pretty small. This one probably had maybe, I don't know, maybe 100 people backstage or so. That's small. It pretty small when you when you consider about it. Yeah. So anyway, this was in so the letter was from April, so I know I went to see her in March, and her birthday is in March. So, and of course, being this super fan that I was, I would watch every interview I could ever find, we'll have to talk, remind me to tell you about my riba room and all of the stuff I have anyway, so, so in these interviews, she would talk about someone had asked her one time, like, you know, do you collect anything? And she had said, Well, I really like, like centerpiece bowls for my table, which is so 90s and 80s, right? Yeah, I like bowls to put things on my table. Yeah. And on top of that, she also owned a thoroughbred farm. So now we're also going to go back to some nostalgia of the hallmark store, right? So here I am as my little used to be like a fancy place where you get Yes, yes. So here I am as my little 16 year old self in the fancy Hallmark store looking for a present for Biba, right, that I'm going to bring to the meet and greet, because it's her birthday, when I go see the concert, can you please help me cashier at homework so, so I end up finding this centerpiece bowl that has thoroughbred horses on it. And I'm like, Oh, yep, that's it. I don't even know. I spent all my money on this damn bowl, which God knows it probably ended up God knows where this bowl I wrapped it, carried it with me with a birthday card. The whole concert. I love this. Backstage after raised my little hand, told Riva that I had a birthday present for her. I brought it up, of course, the big burly security guard steps and steps forward and is like, I'll take that, right? But, but he, he opened it with her, kind of like from a from a safe distance, which never happened today. Yeah, yeah, ever. But, you know, she, she was, thanked me for it. So it was amazing. Blah, blah, of course, I had included a birthday card, which, of course, in case Reba ever wants to reach out to me, because we're going to be BFFs. I put my address in there, right, right, exactly. So, about, I don't know, a week, a week and a half later, I am checking the mail at my house. And now the first thing I saw, I remember, the first thing I saw when I pulled this out of the mailbox, was, was the back of the envelope, which this particular thing it, and it just says Reba, and it has a Nashville address on it, PO Box, right? That was the same symbol you would see on fan club related material, right? Yes. So, like, when you got logo, it was her logo, yeah, basically, right. So I saw that, and I'm like, Oh, I got something from the fan club. And then I turned it over, and there's like, so I'm trying to describe it for you. There is, like, a drawn picture of Reba on horseback with a cowboy hat on with and she's like, throwing a lasso. And the lasso is like, where you can write the address for where you're sending this, and it's handwritten my name and address, right? And I'm like, What in God's creation is this, right? So I tell you, I pull this out of my my little 16 year old self pulls this out of my mailbox, and my heart is beating so fast, my hands are sweating. I'm like, shaking. I'm like, What is this, right? So I open it up, and it is her own personal stationery, and so on the front of it is, now she's off the horse, and she's like, sitting on a rock writing her little letter, right? But you open it up and it says, and it's dated, April 10, 1994 right? Dear Jennifer, exclamation point. She even spelled my name, right. Thank you so much for the beautiful dish. I love it. I hope you enjoy the new CD and the book, because at that time, I believe it was the, it's your call, album, that was coming out. And her, her autobiography, Reba my story, and it says, Love, Reba McEntire, all handwritten. Why is 80s and 90s nostalgia so strong? Our guest Patrick and Dina of shiznit explain why younger folks like them gravitate toward this time period. Well, I think for me, that the anchor of the vibes for the 80s and 90s would have to be nostalgia. You think about it. I personally don't feel like the 80s truly ended. You know, in 89 it leads into the next, you know, the early 90s go with it, yeah, raised by, you know, 80s people, yeah, you know. So why not have that, you know, nostalgia tied to it for me. So it's super nostalgic to be like, Oh my gosh, yeah, that was a cool outfit, mom, that you wore. Oh my gosh, I remember, like, at my parking back on birthday pictures, videos, or whatever the case is. I'm like, she killed it. Shout. Up, mom,

Patrick Phillips: 45:02

yeah, I definitely have to agree with that. There's something very powerful about nostalgia. And when you become an adult and you have an like, adult money now, yes, I'm like, Oh my gosh, I did want that toy when I was younger. Yeah, I can have that right now, right now. I can choose to, like, fill because we have a game room. It started out as just video games, but it has slowly turned into, what an end all be, all of just all 80s, 90s, 2000 stuff. It's like a museum, kind of, it kind of, we did bring a couple things from we will be showing, telling, yay, cannot wait. I can't wait for that. So excited. Yeah, it's, it's, it's just cooler. It's got, like, such a big vibe. I mean, I'm just like, staring at your back, oh yeah,

Unknown: 45:48

personality, so it was very saturated, I you know, and I think too, like, even though you weren't part of, like, our generation, you're able to look back on the things that we look back on it with fondness and be like, Man, I wish I had that. Like, we didn't have cell phones until we were almost grown adults like that. They weren't even a thing the internet. Like, I remember the first time we had dial up, like, I use it, and I used to type papers on a typewriter, like, yeah. And I think that like we were the last people who did that, like we really were. We really were. And so I think maybe, like, even though y'all weren't there, you can appreciate, I think it's almost like, this is really gonna age me. Oh, is like when we looked back on our parents generation, like this, like, you know, the hip like, 69 salaries and stuff, yeah, like, man, like that, they were the last people for that kind of vibe. So I know my parents still tell stories of when they would hitchhike every Yeah, my dad, early 70s, like, all across the country and just whatever. And no, I don't want to go out and like, hitchhike. I think that's a terrible idea. I value my personal safety, but correct? But it is that idea of just like, wow, you were like, young adults, and you weren't like, Oh, I gotta go college. I gotta whatever. You were just like, let's just see where the road takes us, you know. And again, it's not like, I really, actually want to go do that or that. I did want to do that as a young adult, but they though the things they did there. Yeah, I can have nostalgia for that, even though I didn't do it, yeah, you know. And appreciate it and want to know more about it, you know. Anyway, I also love that the two you love the esthetic from the 80s and 90s. Yes, because that, as you can see, looking around our little space here, especially me, like, I never left the 80s. I just stayed there. Just stay there. I mean, like, I mean, my bag, my hair, my Yeah, nail everything, and you guys appreciate it like Patrick and Dina. Let me just tell y'all, and you've met them a few times now. Do they not always look so hip and always look great, always great and thoughtful. I feel like I'm not a thoughtful Oh, my God. They are user, yes, like, but it's effortless. They just put stuff on and y'all look so cute, thoughtful, but not pretentious. Yes, the difference, it's not but yeah, for anybody who's listening that knows Patrick and Dina in real life, you're gonna be there to be like, yes, absolutely. So, like, right now Dina has on a really cool Sailor Moon crop top, little crop top. And it's like a tie dye effect too. But then it's got the earrings so dangle with the star and the bunny and the banana and glasses. And we've got a gecko, oh, my god, Hawaii that, uh, Patrick's wearing, and jean shorts. And, uh, like us space a it's geometric. He's geometric. Yeah, I love it. Love it on his apple watch or smartwatch. So it's just like, Yeah, I mean, look at your glasses. How cute are their glasses are so cute. Like, I feel like I couldn't get my contacts in. So I just, can we come back? Just come on our podcast for us to talk to you about how wonderful you are, wonderful you are important to say that because you guys don't just appreciate like you, like, live it like you. Live it like you have rooms in your house. Let's like your business they do have like, unfortunately, we have to have like, full time real people jobs like a so hopefully one day, your hobby can become your your your passion can become your job. Agree, which is what? Katie has 1500 jobs, so she could do that. So eventually, hopefully, just the ones I like, so maybe eight of them, right? I can do 15 or whatever. That's my goal. But you do like you lit like you are, a walking advertisement before fun vintage things, 100% like, literally, and I think too, like, that draws people. I noticed this at 90s fest. Yeah, there were a lot of people set up, and some of them were really great. Some were like, and some of them just like, didn't seem to have a passion for what? Yeah, they're just stuff. Like, it was just like stuff, and it's like, maybe it's cool stuff. Maybe you buy something, maybe you wouldn't, but you guys, it was, like, a whole vibe, yeah? And I'm guessing where your booth is. Now, it's that way too. So when you come in, it's not just like, let's look at the stuff, and this is cool stuff, but it's like, I want to be part of this situation. We definitely, like, took the extra thought in preparing our booth, because you walk around an antique mall, yeah? White pegboard. Yes. We love our neighbors. Yeah. We're like, let's paint it yellow and purple right now. Work on it and it's, it stands out. You can't, right. Love it. When we were painting it was like, the day that people can come in and just restart, yeah, you know, customers around, and they would all stop, and they're like, that's a loud color. And we're like, that's the point. Yeah? Like we're noticing. Yeah, I love it. I love that so much.

Alexey Del Castillo: 50:53

Power Rangers cannot be contained to just one episode. Y'all. That's why we invited another expert to the show here, Alex a explains the intense appeal of the Power Rangers. This Power Rangers that we know here, about the teenagers with attitude in Japan, was the season of Super Sentai that right? Yeah, so Power Rangers, which is really cool. Segue, has its basis in what's called tokasatsu. And tokasatsu is where pretty much everything started in like 1903 to 1933 okay? It's called Live Act. It's a live action show that relies heavily on effects. That's what tokusatsu usually means, okay? And that's in Japan, yes. And so it, it was. It's an umbrella that spawned Super Sentai, which is a team of heroes that fight monsters and bad guys. There's common rider, the lone hero who's the strongest, who does the thing. Spider Man was actually a tokusatsu character at one point. Yeah, Japan love Spider Man so much. They gave him a show, and he had his own Megazord at one point. It was so, yeah, it's really cool. So tokusatsu started all this, and then Saban sees the show. Goes, Oh, I really, really, you know, Carlos touched on this. I really think this would be hit. And it was, and Saban had access, because we actually found out that he developed a lot of music for those kids shows, right, like the GO, GO gadget. Oh, yeah, Carlos did say that. He did. He did. He was like, he's like, Y'all will love this pizza trivia, which we did, because I love inspectors. I do too, and so that is super neat. So because of that, he saw this show. And what's really funny is another circle back I had to touch base on. Oh, is it Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. What's really fun is you can see that they didn't get all the props for the show. So if we're shooting the American thing, if you're watching the Green Ranger, watch his shield, the golden thing on his chest, the shield, watch it. You can tell when it's American footage and Japanese footage simply because a the location they're in, because the buildings are Japanese. But also watch it because in America they didn't have, they couldn't get the shield. So it's this flimsy, like aluminum with like Velcro straps thing. And then when he's fighting, it's this, like, hard metal, gold thing. And you're just like, you're like, Wait, so it's like, DIY, yeah, yes. It's like, cosplay. It's like, a bad cosplay.

Dani Combs: 53:21

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