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Generation In-Between: A Xennial Podcast
Xennial co-hosts Dani and Katie talk about their analog childhoods, digital adulthoods and everything in between. If you love 1980's and 1990's pop culture content, this is the podcast for you!
Generation In-Between: A Xennial Podcast
Care Bears, ET and Wayne's World: Xennial Trivia is Back
Can you remember the names of all of the Care Bears? Do you still have Lollapalooza FOMO?
If your favorite ride at Universal Studios is STILL E.T. for nostalgic reasons, you might be a Xennial. And we are too.
Join us for a spring break edition of the games Like, Totally 80s and Hella 90s.
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Hey listeners, welcome to a special edition of Generation In Between, because we are playing 80s and 90s trivia. We know you guys love these episodes and, with spring break on the docket and some tech difficulties we've been having this week, we thought you know what? We're just going to go unscripted or unscripted, unscripted, unresearched, unresearched. I would like to emphasize that these are our guesses. I know and see how many we can get right and how many you guys at home can get right, and let's be full stop honesty. Yep, let's do it. The reason we have to do this today, guys, is because we had bullshit tech problems for hours on end last night, which then took away precious recording time, also took away research time for Katie to finish the episode. She was researching and Katie's out of town next week. We don't have time, so we have to have something. We have to have something, and you know what. This is where we get a lot of our ideas, though I know we do. We ask different music questions or book questions or whatever, and they do generate ideas for us. I keep waiting for a question about the ET light up finger. I cannot wait to find that question. Oh, shout out to our weird ass toy, not weird ass toys. You'll hear about that Weird toys of the 80s and 90s. Y'all go check it out. That's a fun. That was a fun episode. That was a really fun episode. Okay, y'all check it out. All right, cool. So I'm going to be asking Dani questions from the game like totally 80s, yes, and I am asking from the game Hella 90s. Y'all can find these through your local retailer. I will not mention the one online that we're trying to avoid using right now. Yes, but go find these somewhere else. But find them somewhere Somewhere in person would be preferable. I bet you you can find them. Now I'm trying to think of like a giant place. There's nowhere. But if you find a local place, ask them to order it for you. Yeah, yeah, that's a good idea. Yeah, okay, let's do it. You're gonna love this first question from the 80s box and you're gonna know the answer. Okay, I'm predicting. All right, I'm here for it.
Speaker 1:What color? Care bear was cheer bear. Cheer bear was yellow. It says pink. What? Oh, damn it, damn it. How dare I get a care? But no, cheer bear is. That's the pink one with the rainbow. And then fun shine bear is fucking yellow. How dare, and guys. It's literally in front of her. It's right on my notebook. To be fair, they're both on there. I know they are, damn it, but there's a fucking sun on the damn yellow bear. I jinxed you when I predicted that you would get it right. That's my fault. How dare I? But now we know who two of the bears are, and I know Grumpy Bear, obviously because he has a rain cloud. And Good Luck Bear because he has a rain cloud. And good luck bear, cause he has shamrock, a shamrock or a clover or whatever that is Shamrock.
Speaker 1:I don't know this guy. There's a purple one, but he was not around in the eighties. The purple one, I don't know, purple's my favorite color. He wasn't in the eighties. Okay, he's like guys, contemporary care bear. Yeah, okay, all Well, dan, in the nineties.
Speaker 1:We're not doing so great, but we're doing great because it's recording, so I'm happy. Oh, this is fun. Okay, what show is this? And there's pictures. Okay, okay, I'm going to show you and then I'll explain it to the audience. Okay, okay. So there's a picture of red swimming trunks, there is a red bathing suit, there are people running on a beach and there is a? Um, a life-saving raft device.
Speaker 1:Show youtube, oh sorry, okay, youtube, if you're, if you're watching ta-da, so the answer is baywatch. Baywatch, yes, did you watch that show? I've seen episodes. I don't know that I like religiously watched it, but I liked that show. I feel like baywatch was one I would just turn on like, because, remember, the reruns were in syndication forever. I think that's when I saw it, like on Fox. Remember, they were like on syndication All the time. But you know who I like love nowadays is Pamela Anderson. Me too. Oh, my God, y'all need. I've only watched bits and pieces of her documentary. That's on Netflix. You should watch some of it, like I.
Speaker 1:Just her whole thing with not stopping wearing makeup is huge. Yeah, I mean for her especially. Yeah, I mean a lot of people don't wear makeup on the regular basis in real life, like that's not a big deal. But for her to be on red carpets without makeup, photo shoots, tv shows when she was on Drew Barrymore's show, who I also love so much, me too, nobody wore makeup, wow. And for those of you who are maybe male identifying and you've never felt that pressure to be put together and have makeup on, I cannot imagine being in the spotlight all the time, because I feel like that just on a normal life, right, right, yeah, I can't imagine being in the limelight and feeling like that all the time. Yeah, it is. I mean, makeup is literally a mask. Oh, yeah, right, which I love. I love makeup. There's nothing wrong with that, and I think that, should she decide to wear makeup on a red carpet again or whatever, that's fine too. I think the whole point of what she's saying, especially after a life that really has been so manufactured from a beauty standpoint to now sort of reverse engineer that, and not even when she's a young person, yeah, when she's an older person, to be like, yes, I may have worn this or done this or had this done, but like no more, right.
Speaker 1:And you know what broke my heart when I heard her talking about the sex tape scandal. Oh, my god, like that, somebody broke into their house and stole that Wow, so literally personal property. They filmed that as like an intimate together, like for themselves. Wow, they filmed that for themselves. And then to have that taken and exploited, oh, I just, I know, I just. It makes me sad. So, anyways, okay. So Baywatch, okay, baywatch. Maybe we need an episode on Baywatch and an episode on Pamela Anderson, maybe we do. I think we do.
Speaker 1:Okay, let's see what's on the back here. Oh, you have to draw a picture. We're not going to do that, but it was ET that you were going to have to draw a picture of. We were just saying, oh, did it? It's too late. Katie's like I do not want to draw no pictures. I'm fragile today. I would love to see you draw ET. Oh, my God, maybe when we turn the camera off, I just will. I please do. I would love to see that we should both draw it, oh God, separately. Okay, and at the same time don't look at each other's and then be like, oh shit, all right, it's happening, good times. So instead, you know what I have for you, my favorite Okay, spelling bee 80s.
Speaker 1:Spelling bee. All right, just spell the name. You're actually always really good at these. No, you get three tries. All right, steven, okay, oh, but I don't remember if he's a P, h or a V. I can't, even I can't picture it. You know how, in your head, you can like picture both and I don't know which one's right. Well, what about just the last one? All right, well, no, no, I'm going to do it. I'm just going to. I'm just going to go V S, t E V E N S, p, I, e L B E R G. You got it right. Okay, he's a V, he's a V, nice job.
Speaker 1:Steven Spielberg, yeah, film director and dream maker. Dream maker and also Dawson Leary's number one inspiration. Yeah, I mean, he's amazing, he is. He is Speaking of ET. Yeah, that was weird, speaking of ET. They're not even the same card.
Speaker 1:Okay, so we went to OG Universal Park for the first time. My kids went for the first time I have been, but I hadn't been since the late 90s. Troy had never been. We did not go to Islands of Adventure, we went to the OG Park and I was so excited that the ET ride's still there and like, literally bursting with excitement Cause it still smells like the eighties. You know you've been on it and we walk in Troy's excited Cause you know you're like in the thing and like, and then you see the bikes coming and so we get off of the ride. We're like, oh, that was so great. And my kids are like that was the dumbest ride that we've ever been on and they were like that is worse than Peter Pan. They hate the Peter Pan ride, they hate it so much. But the reason we love it is because it is nostalgic. It is the movie's nostalgic.
Speaker 1:I remember going on that ride being like oh my God, and you know where he pops up out in the basket and my kids and the music oh yeah, they've got the score playing and that was like you know where you could ride through. A movie was like a big deal. Oh yeah, now kids are so spoiled with like VR and, like you know, it's not that exciting. It just looks like a bunch of dumb crap like that people put out, but to us it's still. I remember the fascination, yeah, how far along we've come with like animatronics and you know, all the new rides that disney comes out with is like leaps and bounds past all of that. Yeah, and it hasn't been that long.
Speaker 1:No, it is kind of wild and that's what I sort of like about the older rides too and disney and universal the disney. It's getting hard to find any of those older rides anymore. But um, yeah, that it is kind of like they're not I don't want to use the word bad, but like they're like so bad that that's like nostalgic. Well, they're antiquated. They're antiquated. The only old ride at disney I do not enjoy is the um, um, oh, my god, what's the one in epcot with the where it's walt talking? Oh, something, that's tomorrow's something.
Speaker 1:Carousel of Progress. There you go. I don't like that one Carousel of Progress. Why not? Well, because it's like women and all these super like typical gender roles, and I don't like it. Yeah, that one's definitely antiquated, oh yeah, but that's why people like it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know it smells like the seventies, it does, and even though they tried to like kind of update it in the eighties, it's still not. Still not, no, anyway, whatever, okay, back to the nineties. Back to the nineties. Yeah, a lot of pictures. Hold on, hold on. Oh, I'm giving you math. Okay, oh, it's easy. Though, okay, 90 style math. Number of pints none the richer, okay, minus. Number of non-blondes Okay, why am? I can't remember if it's four non-blondes or three non-blondes. Oh my god. Okay, I know it's six minus.
Speaker 1:Would it help if we sang the song? Maybe think of the video. Do you remember the video? Yeah, okay, so what did it say in the bottom left hand corner? It's four. So I think it's two, right, right, yeah, I don't know why I was like is it three? I don't know like I froze. It's the jeopardy moment, right, where you just freeze like you know it but you don't know it. Okay, but I got it right. I love that song. That's a song I will sing anywhere anytime, and it is so bad. I was about to sing it and I was like, yeah, no, I'm not, I'm just, I'm not gonna make anybody listen to that. Yeah, they're awesome, okay, I know. Oh, this is a good one and this is a throwback to our.
Speaker 1:You know, I'm going to give you a question about gum. Oh, geez, because our candy episode somehow turned into Katie brings all the gum she's ever chewed in her whole life. Okay, so make sure you listen to that one Candy taste testing. Yeah, so make sure you listen to that one candy taste testing. Yeah, okay, which bubble gum brand touted it's no stick gum as having big bubbles and no troubles? Big bubbles, no troubles.
Speaker 1:And it was sugar, trident, I know it's no stick. You said no stick, no stick. Right, did you just say it didn't have sugar? Did you say that? No, what? Which bubble gum brand touted it's no stick gum? I already got it wrong it's having big bubbles and no troubles. Oh, I was thinking Okay, trident doesn't have bubbles. What my brain did, right there was, it heard no stick, thinking, okay, because of my history with orthodontics, no stick, sugar-free, doesn't stick into your teeth, so for some reason. But that means, like you mean, it doesn't have a stick. That's bubble tape. No, but that was a good guess. It's Hubba Bubba. Oh, I got that.
Speaker 1:Hella wrong, hella wrong from like, totally wrong from the 80s. Oh, did we do hubba bubba? We did you brought in the gum. Yeah, that's the gum that tastes so good for 0.5 seconds, correct, correct. And then you're like chewing wax or whatever, and it's like some old military term hubba bubba, yeah, oh, I don't remember that. Yeah, like when I researched it.
Speaker 1:Speaking of y'all need to start playing a fun little game called count how many times danny says i't remember that in an episode and if you want to play a drinking game, make sure you're at home because seated in some place safe, with some snacks nearby. All right, back to the 90s. Well, I've got no, none, right, wow, none, wow, that's that kind of day for me, that's OK. Get things wrong here, get them right everywhere else. That's what I say. That one, okay, all right.
Speaker 1:So you have to guess. This is like we're playing taboo, right? Okay, so you have to guess a word and I can't say several words. So, like there's words, I can't describe it to me, but you can't use some there's words I can't say and I'll tell you what they are when I'm finished. Good, okay, this was a musical gathering.
Speaker 1:Okay, that happened obviously in the nineties, with lots of different artists of a particular genre Lilith Fair, lollapalooza, lollapalooza, we'll count it because, but I couldn't say alternative music, perry Farrell concert festival or stage. It wasn't that hard. No, I figured it was one of those two Lollapalooza. You know my Lollapalooza story, right, I feel like yes, but also, no, I had tickets. Okay, so I waited in line at a ticket master not for like a long time, cause it was music festivals, you didn't have like particular seats got my tickets at a JC penny.
Speaker 1:My mom was like, yeah, you can get them, because I was only like 15. I didn't drive yet and it was. I may have been 14. I don't remember, I think 14 or 15.
Speaker 1:And my mom had a friend whose daughter used to babysit me when I was younger and she was like a senior, I think in high school. I thought I was still, I think it was an eighth grade, maybe going into ninth grade, cause it was in the summer and she was. She was like, well, I think Jennifer's going, of course Jennifer. And she's like, let me see if you can go with her, because I can't drive. And my mom was not about to go with music festival and she was like, yeah, yeah, that's fine, whatever. So I went and bought my ticket. I had some friends that bought tickets too. We're going to meet there whatever Couple weeks before the festival.
Speaker 1:Her mom tells my mom yeah, jennifer doesn't want to bring her anymore, so I didn't get to go. I have these tickets. I still have them somewhere. Never got to go, oh my God. And I'm like I never would have let my teenage daughter do that. Like, just back out last minute, she's your babysitter, but I think she was just. Well, she was my babysitter. Obviously not when I was 15, but I see what you're saying, you know what I mean, like. But I think she just didn't want me to cramp her style, I'm sure, which is fine, but then you should not have said that it was too late Because you literally bought tickets, literally had the tickets, and I didn't go.
Speaker 1:Oh, that makes me sad, I know, and have you ever gone then? No, okay, I've gone twice in Chicago. Really, yeah, lame. Now, I mean, I went to plenty of music festivals. Yeah, you did, I did, but Lollapalooza was next level. Everybody that was a teenager in the 90s wanted to go to Lollapalooza, of course, hello, oh man, I know that makes me sad, fucking lame. All right, well, let's see if this question can bring you back. Okay, I think this one's hard, but maybe you won't, because you watched a lot of TV. I did. You might know this one.
Speaker 1:Put these Huxtable kids from the Cosby show in birth order, from youngest to oldest. But there's only five. Wait, birth order youngest. So the youngest will go first. Yes, vanessa, denise, sandra, theo, rudy. Okay, so, rudy, vanessa, then Theo Denise, sandra. Yep, I know, nice, good job. You didn't even have to tell me the names, I would have been able to do it. I was actually thinking that I was like maybe I could have not, but then I wanted the listeners to hear it.
Speaker 1:I loved that show. It's a good show. Theo was my favorite. Oh, I know, he was justie. His comedy was just so good, like I don't know. His comedic timing was. Timing was great until raven simone came on, oh, as olivia. She's so adorable, she was such a talented actress from such a young age, so funny, so, so funny, so good, funny.
Speaker 1:I also like claire huxtable. I do too. That's kind of how I do my parenting. Like, honestly, no, you are not gonna come in here with talk like that to me and no, you will not. And I, yeah, no, I mean, I totally can see, see it, you are a claire love it, you totally are. Yeah, I loved. I. I love that show too. It's too bad. It's like so tainted now but we won't get into that. Like you can't really enjoy it now, even though those characters are, I know, awesome. Anyway, we'll just move on from that. We're just moving on all right back to the 90s. You're kicking my ass over here, by the way, so far, damn, we'll see what happens, my ass.
Speaker 1:Okay, I don't want to do spelling. I want to do another fun one. Hold on, you don't want to do spelling. I don't want to do something fun, not spelling. Well, spelling is not fun. Oh, okay, okay, all right, oh, this might be fun. Okay, okay, hold on a second.
Speaker 1:It says one player named something from the category below. Next player must repeat what was said in order and add a new item. This we could do together. Okay, um, until somebody gets it wrong. But who's gonna check us? That's the problem. We could just do it. Let's see how long we can go, and we can't have any waiting time.
Speaker 1:90s movies no hesitation, no hesitation. Why am I already blanking out? Okay, ready. I don't know, I'm scared, I am too Ready. Go, beethoven.
Speaker 1:Beethoven, can't hardly wait. Schindler's List no, you have to sit. You already messed up. Oh, you didn't listen to the directions. You have to repeat. Okay, you have to repeat it. Let me try again, starting over, but we'll just go from what we already said. Beethoven, okay, can't hardly wait. Schindler's List Okay, beethoven Can't hardly wait. Schindler's List, wayne's World Beethoven, can't hardly wait. Schindler's List, wayne's World, wayne's World, 2. Was that the 90s though? Was it not? I am OK, all right, we'll leave it for now. All right, we'll check. Beethoven can hardly wait. Schindler's List, wayne's World, wayne's World to Tommy Boy oh, ok, beethoven can't hardly wait. Schindler's List. Beethoven, beethoven to Tommy Boy no, what I miss. You said 2, tommy Boy, wait. No, what'd I miss? I said Beethoven. You never said Beethoven 2. That is one. Alright, done, we're done. I win that one.
Speaker 1:Wow, there are so many more 90s movies. Also, why were those? Beethoven and Schindler's List, that's it. And Wayne's World 2, because you already said one, so you gave me the hint. That was really embarrassing for me. I didn't play the game right. I also just don't seem to know movies about dogs or sad things. Schindler's List, I mean Beauty and the Beast came out in the 90s, it's okay. A League of their Own was the 90s.
Speaker 1:It's the Jeopardy syndrome where your brain just it's like that when you ever first try improv, yeah, like when you first try it and you're sitting there watching other people do scenes and you're like, oh, yeah, okay, I'm ready. And then you get up there and it's like what, not a thought in your brain, you can't, and it's like hello, because it takes time. I'm just making you feel better here. Thank you, all right, I say we each do one more question. Okay, good, let's do it here, we go. All right, that's a stupid one. I don't want to ask that one. Okay, oh Okay. This is a throwback to our Nintendo episodes. Nice and Troy would know the answer. Let's see if you do. Okay, put these Mike Tyson, punch out opponents in the order that you fight them on Nintendo Entertainment System.
Speaker 1:I don't know this, but I'll guess there's four of them listed Soda Popinski, king Hippo, glass Joe and Mike Tyson. Well, mike Tyson is last, correct. Soda Popinski, what are the other two? Hippo and glass joe? All right, glass joe is that first, then soda poppinski and then hippo almost it's glass joe, king, hippo, soda poppinski. So I guess soda's like almost as tough as mike.
Speaker 1:Y'all remember the story about Soda Popinski? Yeah, how he used to have vodka Wasn't his name. It was something Russian, yeah, and they changed it because it was kind of a cultural stereotype. And also he was like drinking alcohol. Oh yeah, in a children's game. Oh yeah, that too. So the one I didn't want to read you, but maybe you'll know it.
Speaker 1:What color was the geography category in the original version of Trivial Pursuit? I don't know, that's boring, isn't it great? That's why I said it. This is stupid. Blue Well, that's, I guess, for like water Geography. But that's not geography, that's oceanography. Oh, it should have been green. Geography is land. Yeah Right, I'm just saying one of my only C's I got all in college was in geography, and the other one was in geology. Everyone, okay, so nothing GEO for you.
Speaker 1:I graduated magna cum laude. I would have graduated summa cum laude if I would have made a B in one of those classes. Oh no, sorry, okay, going right back in that box. Okay, all right. Notice, it was not a math class that I got a C in. No good job. Well, I was an elementary ed major.
Speaker 1:I don't take a lot of math. The math wasn't too advanced, didn't have to take a lot of math. Fair, okay, all right, hold on, here we go. Oh, you're not going to know that. It's an X-Files and I really want to ask you that. Ask it. Well, now I lost it. It's okay. If I don't know it, shit, all right.
Speaker 1:Here's one about Okay, what product advertised its consumption with the simple slogan got blank, fill in the blank. Milk. Yes, got milk. That was too easy, that was pretty easy. All Dot milk yes, dot milk. That was too easy, that was pretty easy. All right, let me give you this other one.
Speaker 1:Okay, according to the US government, what was the most popular baby name for boys in 1990? All right, you ready? Oh, I get multiple choice. Yeah, oh, good. I think you probably could have guessed this though. David Seth Dylan or Michael Michael Dylan or Michael Michael. Yeah, yeah, michael didn't go out of fashion until like way later and it's still ever. It's still like the top 10, for sure. Yeah, yeah, still a lot of Michaels in the world Mike, mikey, michael, michael, yeah, I probably would have guessed Michael, honestly. But also like let's go back to this milk slogan for a second.
Speaker 1:Yes, sometimes the most simple things is what sticks and is the most memorable. Yeah, like I wonder how many things like sitting in that advertising room, you know like I'm picturing all these men with glasses of milk being like okay, we need to like up consumption of milk, we need a snazzy slogan. Yeah, who was like? I'm just picturing like some young executive being like how about got milk Question mark? And they're like that's it. Yeah, but we still remember it. 2025. We do. I mean, it's one of the it's like one of the most successful marketing campaigns of all time.
Speaker 1:Remember Wendy's? Where's the beef? Yes, the old ladies, where's the beef? My God, just do itike. Still going strong, still going strong. What's another simple one? Um, beef, it's what. It's what's for dinner? That's another one I don't even know there's. There's other ones, though, that are like very, because didn't that beef commercial have that um, popular, like symphony song.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying. I do know exactly the one you're talking about. That's like the old west kind of what is that called? There's a name for that one. It'll come to me later another one come fly the friendly skies. Oh yeah, american airlines. I actually don't know what airline. That was delta. Right, is it delta? Yeah, you're right, it's delta. Look at, I've watched a lot of tv with me so I saw a lot of coverage. Trust me, it's Delta. Well, anyway, that was fun.
Speaker 1:Trivia Well, you obviously kicked my bootay Today, I did, but next time we do this, it'll probably be you. Did I only get one right? I think so. Oh, my God, you got like one two. Well, I beat you on that 90s. I was terrible at the 90s movies and that's really sad. You got like six right. Okay, that's pretty good, that's really good, that's pretty good. Look, I needed that little boost today, got that win today. I needed it.
Speaker 1:And listeners, of course, you guys probably all got all of them right Because you're at home listening, kind of like when you're at home watching Jeopardy, and you get them all right. I'm sure that you guys are the same and you're so smart. You are smart, you're amazing Even the people who weren't born during these decades. I know no stuff, know these things. But it's also not as like pressure filled when you're just guessing along and yelling at us on your AirPods Right. Then when I'm staring at you saying Wayne's World and you say Beethoven 2. Wayne, it's wrong, beethoven too, wow. Okay. Well, anyway, thanks for listening.
Speaker 1:Make sure you leave us a review, share us with your friends, join us on Patreon, where we do pop extra trivia on sometimes, yes, which is a lot of fun, and make sure you are subscribed to us on YouTube. Even if you're not going to watch us, it's okay to watch us, though. Just turn us on in the background, or you don't have to Give us a few views, it's okay, we're also fine with that and just get people like yourselves on the podcast to enjoy it. I don't know what she's saying. I use all my brain energy. I'm like we're getting them on our podcast. Is that what we're doing? I don't know. It's like, yeah, getting them on the podcast. Get them on the podcast. All right, thanks for listening guys. We'll be back with a regularly researched episode next time. We will. Thank you so much. All right, see you next time. Bye.
