Nostalgia That Hits Like A Song

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Cold Open And Awkward Banter

SPEAKER_01 0:43

Thanks so.

SPEAKER_02 0:46

Are you really ever ready? Never. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 0:50

Just kinda like, I like that shirt. I'll get ready.

SPEAKER_02 0:54

Dad. Established 2025. Just dad. Just straight up, straightforward, you know. Do y'all do y'all call your dad anything other than that? Do you call him like any special name or anything? My dad's dead.

SPEAKER_03 1:13

The timing on that.

SPEAKER_01 1:21

Sometimes I listen to his voicemail and wish I could call him something.

SPEAKER_04 1:26

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:54

I was not. That might be the funniest thing you've said ever. I was not ready for that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:04

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 2:05

But no, I don't, I didn't call him like Jesus' neighbor.

SPEAKER_02 2:11

Golly. There you go. My goodness. What's up? What's up? What's up? What's up? What's up? What's up, everybody? Welcome back to a brand new episode of the Almost Brothers podcast. On today's episode, as always, Richie Rich. Yes, sir. Ta-ta.

SPEAKER_03 2:25

I'm feeling awkward now. So I'm just trying to cruise on by. Who else is feeling awkward?

SPEAKER_02 2:31

Trying to cruise on by. So oh man. How are y'all doing today?

SPEAKER_03 2:36

Oh good.

SPEAKER_02 2:37

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:38

I'm sleepy.

SPEAKER_02 2:39

Oh, seep's. I slept horribly last night. I just could not sleep. I slept well. I've just been busy all day. Yeah. Yeah, it's been a good, uh, good, interesting week. Good interesting week.

SPEAKER_01 2:51

Yeah, I had the flu all week.

Setting The Theme: Why Nostalgia

SPEAKER_02 2:53

No, the flu had you. It had me in the death group. Ugh. Rough week. Yeah. Well, on today's episode, we're gonna be talking about nostalgia.

SPEAKER_01 3:02

Nostalgia.

unknown 3:03

Man.

SPEAKER_02 3:04

Why it's so powerful and why it's such a big thing, especially nowadays. It seems like you know, nostalgia for 70s, 80s, 90s, early 2000s stuff is kind of has this big boom. You know, so uh what are some of the things that y'all kind of kind of have on your mind on some of the stuff that you see here? Like for me, it's even smells. Like I'll smell something and instantly be taken back to a moment when I was a kid.

SPEAKER_01 3:28

I saw a concert coming to Memphis in March, and this goes right along with nostalgia because these these groups are coming back from back in the day. And this group, this it's new edition, okay Boys to Men and Tony Braxton. Um wow, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 3:45

So you were a teenager right at that time, anyway, right? When they were really big. No. Oh Lord, you have to go a little further back. Oh he was in his 30s. Oh man. Yeah, thanks. My bad. My bad.

SPEAKER_03 4:01

So you were okay, my yeah. He was in the he was in the workforce, by the way.

SPEAKER_01 4:05

See, when was when was Boys to Men big? Like that was probably early '92. Wasn't that eight? Oh.

SPEAKER_02 4:10

I mean, they they were out, you know, before then, but I know kind of early 90s.

SPEAKER_01 4:14

I was in my 20s.

SPEAKER_02 4:15

So you were close. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 4:17

I was joking. Never mind.

SPEAKER_02 4:19

Yeah. Boys to men, man. I'll tell you what. Boys to grandpa's. So, like probably grandpa's. Right.

SPEAKER_03 4:30

They're probably they're probably nearing great-grandpa's now.

SPEAKER_02 4:33

I wonder how much of their audience is newer fans, younger fans, and how much is just like, you know, 58-year-old ladies. Right.

SPEAKER_01 4:43

I'm not I'm not as familiar with new edition, but boys to men, I was a huge fan.

SPEAKER_02 4:47

See, I think new edition was before Boys to Men, so I think that they they were really big.

SPEAKER_01 4:52

Was that the uh Bobby Brown new edition? Is that him? I believe so. I believe so. Um so I I I I remember Tony Braxton Unbreak My Heart, that whole hit she had. But Backstreet Boys is where it was at for me.

90s R&B And Call‑In Radio Memories

SPEAKER_02 5:07

Oh yeah. So they started in 1985, Boys to Men. Yeah. Yeah. Started with uh Motown. Motown Records. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And then what'd you say, new edition? Yeah. So I remember like I remember these names, but like it was from my parents. So it it kind of came from them because I was I was a little too young when they I rem you know, I remember uh like it's so hard to say goodbye, you know, like the boys to men. Like, y'all remember back when when yeah, that's right. Y'all remember when like oh yeah, yeah. So new edition was before then, so like 1984, you know.

SPEAKER_01 5:43

Right around the same time.

SPEAKER_02 5:44

But I do all remember when you could call in, and Tyler, we know you don't remember, but when you could call in and like request a song dedicated to somebody.

SPEAKER_01 5:55

Yeah, I remember they had a station called SL 100. It was Pillow Talk.

SPEAKER_00 5:58

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 5:59

You'd call in and then you'd be there with your tape player wait for your song to play, hit record.

SPEAKER_02 6:05

Oh yeah. And then I remember when when like ring not not ringtones, but phones had the ability to have ringtones. Oh yes. And we would record. Yep. You recorded up at the radio.

SPEAKER_03 6:17

Shut up, shut up.

SPEAKER_02 6:18

Yep. Hold up, hold up. Hey, this is Mike. Sorry, I can't come to the phone right now. And then you turn the music up and then, yeah, oh yeah. Man, that that takes me back because you had to catch that stuff at the right time. It's like movies. You had to catch it at the right time to be able to record it or to be able to watch it. So it was like, okay, you know, uh Nickelodeon, this movie is is coming out. Speaking of, we just watched uh Good Burger the other night. You remember that movie? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 6:46

Welcome the Good Burger, homo, the Good Burger.

SPEAKER_02 6:50

Can I get uh just a Good Burger? That'll be eight bucks. Like, what? That's just a burger. All right,$250.

SPEAKER_03 6:57

I haven't watched that movie. Gosh. The kids picked it out. That to have been at least 12-15 years since I saw that.

SPEAKER_02 7:05

It's so funny. And then me and Jamie were talking about all that and some of these childhoods.

SPEAKER_03 7:09

I was watching that not like last month. Yep.

SPEAKER_02 7:12

What was what was your show growing up? Like your have to watch show growing up. Because we're really gonna show our age difference here, us three. So what was your yours and yours?

SPEAKER_03 7:21

What age range?

SPEAKER_02 7:23

Man, let's do I feel like I feel like nostalgia really hits around like 10 to 15, 16. I think 16, you kind of start liking new things because you're you're older, but like say 10 to 16. Oh gosh, yeah, this will really show our age differences.

SPEAKER_03 7:39

Oh yeah. Well, well, Richard can't say because they didn't have TV back then.

SPEAKER_01 7:43

Um He's like, my favorite actor was Charlie Chaplin.

SPEAKER_03 7:49

That's what I was about to say.

SPEAKER_04 7:50

Charlie Chaplin.

SPEAKER_03 7:51

That's what I was about to say. Yep. Little cramp. What did you say? 10, like 10 to 16?

SPEAKER_02 7:56

Yeah, like 10 to 16, right around that. Yeah, right around that age. Give me a moment. Yep. Give me a moment, y'all go ahead.

unknown 8:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 8:04

Well, so I remember TGI Friday.

SPEAKER_02 8:10

Oh, it's best lineup, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:12

So we're talking about full house, um, family matters, all that stuff. That was an amazing. So my mom always called me the TV guy because any any night of the week I could tell you what was coming on and when. Yeah. Nothing's changed. I still know everything. Right, right. That's a now, yeah. But just uh and of course the Saturday morning cartoons that I liked are completely different than what than what y'all probably you know. Well, me and you kind of had the same stuff, yeah. The He-Man, the Transformers, G.I. Joe, that sort of stuff. And then it went off the rails at some point with like Courage the Cowardly Dog and all that crap. Oh, gosh. Yeah, see, I don't remember that. Okay. That was terrible stuff. What? That was the stuff that my kids watched. Blasphemy. Are you oh, so you lie? Is that what you you had some Courage the Cowardly Dog? Courage is his generation nonsense. Yeah. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 9:11

That's okay. Because I was like, I've never, I don't think I've ever heard of my kids watched Courage A Consider. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, yeah, okay. Uh oh, Lord. Oh, the disappointment in Tyler's face right now. Yeah, that's you're faming that generation.

SPEAKER_01 9:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:30

Anyways.

SPEAKER_01 9:30

I can agree with y'all on SpongeBob. There we go.

SPEAKER_02 9:32

Oh, that's beautiful, beautiful. It's kind of like Spongebob's is kind of the rug rat of now. Yeah. It just kind of seems to be cool throughout a few generations.

SPEAKER_01 9:44

When you you mentioned all that, do you remember Doubledare?

SPEAKER_02 9:47

Yes. The game show with Mark Summers. So I there was a video game that you could play that was Doubledare. Yeah. And I I've been looking for, and man, yeah, I remember the I don't I can't remember what they were called. It had a specific name where it was the green thing that you won. It looked like a piece of the wall.

unknown 10:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:06

And I can't remember the name. It's like a Craig, I can't remember the name of it, but that was the game show, man. It really was.

SPEAKER_01 10:13

MTV's remote control. Yeah. Remember that game show?

SPEAKER_02 10:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:17

That was a cool show.

TGIF Lineups And Saturday Cartoons

SPEAKER_02 10:18

See, I remember one of the shows I watched on on MTV, which I was probably too young to watch, but it was it was it was when I oh yeah, I was sneaking. She had not in. No, I'm I'm um it was um it had Jenny McCarthy. It was a the dating show with her on it, and that was kind of when you know, you start as as a young teenager, you start getting your first like TV crushes. So like Tapanga and the the Pink Ranger and and uh Jenny McCarthy on and I can't remember the name of it, but it was a dating show.

SPEAKER_01 10:52

I remember uh um a publication she was a part of. Yeah. Jenny McCarthy was there it doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_03 11:05

So anyway, Tyler, what you got? What you got? Um I can I can remember uh it was a little before when I was 10, but Power Rangers. Yeah huge okay now now when that even that bridge is like round years well well which one yeah so the the the one I can remember the most was oh it was the like it's there's like there's Turbo before that Mighty Morphin Power Rangers was the original from the 90s. It was like that's the one I watched. It was gosh, what was it? Let's see, let's see. Um it was like it was the one where they first it was like um almost like their animals or whatever were like jungle type animals. Uh yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 12:03

Alright, let's see, let's see. Okay, so you have are you talking about beasts? There's Power Rangers Space, there's Power Rangers Turbo, Power Rangers Lost Galaxy, Power Rangers Cosmic Fury.

SPEAKER_03 12:15

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_02 12:17

Uh Jungle Fury, Dino Thunder.

SPEAKER_03 12:21

Maybe it was Dino Thunder.

SPEAKER_02 12:23

Here's them in order Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Alien Rangers, Zio, Turbo in Space, Lost Galaxy.

SPEAKER_00 12:31

No, no, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_02 12:32

I do remember Turbo. Turbo, yeah. I do remember Turbo. Uh Lost Galaxy, Light Speed, Rescue, Time Force, Wild Force, Ninja Storm, Wild Force, Wild Force is the one I remember because I remember having the Red Ranger. Dude, there are literally 15 different Power Ranger shows. I'm surprised it's only 15. Wow.

SPEAKER_01 12:52

Well, and they did movies also.

SPEAKER_02 12:54

Yes, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. That was like my peak teenage years. Yeah. Was during when when like that movie came out and Ivan Ooze. Yeah. Man, it was so good.

SPEAKER_03 13:07

Had that on VHS. Yep. Another show that I remember when I was older, it was it had come out and was popular before like I actually started watching it, but Boy Boy Meets World. Oh my god. And I still watched that. I'll still watch that.

SPEAKER_02 13:22

Yes, every day after school, Boy Meets World was something I wanted to watch every day. Like I thought Corey and what was it? Um, what's his brother? Uh Sean was his friend. Eric. Eric. I thought Eric was so cool. Yeah, so cool. Man.

SPEAKER_03 13:38

Well, his his character changed so much in between like the like between uh from season one, he was the cool old older brother, and then like season what season three or four? Yeah, he was the one. Maybe when Corey was in high school, yeah. He was like, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 13:53

Yeah, he's just like doing some dumb stuff. Feeding anything? Oh my gosh, yeah. Talks with squirrels. So before, yeah, it's so dumb. So before school, it was always uh Save by the Bell.

SPEAKER_03 14:05

So while I was getting ready, say oh I freaking love Saved by the Bell. What's your one?

SPEAKER_02 14:10

Do you like the what was the one after after school where they were like the college years?

SPEAKER_03 14:14

The college year. So so I think I talked, yeah, I talked about the Save by Bell before. Yeah. Kind of like the whole thing. It's so weird. Yeah. But the I think for me, prime saved by the bell was um, it was after obviously after season one when it was actually saved by the bell. They were in Bayside. Right. Yeah. Um I want to say it was it's the year that they were seniors for the first time in high school. Yeah. Because I thought it was so weird because they graduated and then, oh hey, look, we're third senior year. Yeah. But it was the first senior year. I think that was season five, I think. Yeah. Four or five. I think that was probably their best season.

SPEAKER_02 14:56

Yeah, because they had college and then they what was the one where they they were at the beach, like the beach play.

SPEAKER_03 15:02

That was that was that was during the series, the high school series. I think that was before their senior year. Yeah. Maybe. That one was pretty cool.

SPEAKER_01 15:12

Do you remember the Zach and Kelly wedding movie?

SPEAKER_02 15:14

I watched that last year. Yep, I forgot about that. I rem like I vividly remember the breakup. Like the Zach and Kelly breakup. It was crazy, like outside the dance, and like, dude, bro.

SPEAKER_01 15:27

Man, hurt my heart.

SPEAKER_02 15:28

Oh my gosh, man. Yeah, so that was always before school, and then we would rush home to watch TRL after school. Yeah. So you you could get home. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:16

We did like when I was watching TRL come coming home, we're watching TRL, was right at the tail end of TRL. Like I I don't remember what they had on the very last showing, but I remember the last showing.

MTV, Crushes, And Teen TV

SPEAKER_02 16:29

Do you ever watch like like sometimes like on Facebook Reels or Instagram or TikTok, it will pull it will like this day in 2005. Here's the top ten songs on TRL. I will sit there and listen to every one of them and just like, ah, yeah. Let the nostalgia wash over you. I mean, because we would we would rush home because if you could get home fast enough, you could catch like the top three. You know, the top three, top two, and then get to see who was number one on TRL. Man, it was what a time to be alive.

SPEAKER_01 16:59

We only had a few channels because we lived out in the country, not because I'm old. Everything was the country when you were. So we only had a few. Let them lie to you, folks. So by the time I got home, because I rode a bus for an hour to get home, because I lived in the country, not because I was old.

SPEAKER_03 17:18

Reiterate. To be fair, I also run the bus.

SPEAKER_01 17:22

As soon as I hit the door, it was Maury Povich that I was. Oh, yeah. Okay. Before Maury Povich just did paternity suits.

SPEAKER_02 17:30

Well, even that, remember when like those those like hosts like that were everywhere. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 17:36

It was like Maury and uh Montel and Ricky Lake. Yeah, yeah. Well, I remember coming coming home and uh Ellen would be on. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 17:45

Oh yeah. See, that was after Yeah, that was after my time. So yeah, once you hit 16, 17, it was like your your interest changed. So like you're oh, I'm too old to watch that stuff now. So you kind of switch over and change. But I know there was a lot of shows I just never got into. Just never that were huge shows. Right.

SPEAKER_01 18:06

And I just never and that's like One Tree Hill. You know, you always talk about it.

SPEAKER_03 18:10

I never heard of it. Yep. Yep. Never heard of it. I don't think I did either growing up. And it and because it came out what years?

SPEAKER_02 18:17

It came out in 2004, I believe, was first season, and then just on from you can tell you the release date.

SPEAKER_03 18:22

Yeah. Yeah. I was like, so I would because I was 2004, I was seven.

SPEAKER_02 18:27

Yeah, that's what I was about to say. I think I think y'all were both probably just missed it. We're just a little bit. Right, right, exactly. Yeah. So so by the time you got to the age to watch it, the it kind of died down. I was and then you were just too old.

SPEAKER_01 18:42

Probably, well, I was born in 77, so whatever. I don't do math. Yeah, so stop that. It calmed down.

SPEAKER_02 18:50

You're as old as Star Wars. Like, what that thing is. Oh, wow. Yeah. Star Wars came out in 77. I'm just saying, I'm just throwing that out there. Oh man, yeah. And some of the even and what that's one thing, good thing about streaming is now you can kind of relive some of these shows again and w and watch these. Like um, we started watching um oh my gosh, what was it the other day? I started supermarket sweep.

SPEAKER_01 19:14

Oh, yeah. Remember that? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:15

Did you ever get to get no? No. Yeah, and it's like it's like you're yelling at the D, grab the ham, grab the ham, it's worth more money. And it's like, so we're we're kind of watching some of these shows. I started re-watching He-Man, the original animated TV show. Um, you know, I started watching um X-Men 92, you know, stuff like that, is is Batman Beyond and stuff like that. And it's like, wow, this really it just hits something in your brain to where it's just like, this is awesome. I really love this stuff.

SPEAKER_01 19:47

Well, and I I brought up TJI Friday earlier, but I was talking to my kids just the other day.

SPEAKER_02 19:55

I forgot there was a restaurant. I completely forgot about that. The lineup on Friday nights.

SPEAKER_01 20:00

And they tackled some real stuff back then, you know, racism and teen sex and drugs. And I mean, they tackled a myriad of 30-minute episodes.

SPEAKER_02 20:10

Yes, yes, you know, with commercials.

SPEAKER_03 20:12

Yeah. That reminds me of a show that I watched uh right around that you know, 13 to 16, Degrassi. I know that was so basically that was a a teen soap opera drama that it took place in Canada. And you know, they they hit issues like school shootings, drug abuse, bullying, suicide, all these, all these things, and it was uh, you know, it was meant for you know kids, you know, 12 to 18. Yeah. And it was and I'm pretty sure they're still making that show. And that it was I want to say mid-2000s that they started making that show.

SPEAKER_02 20:50

I was about to say, because I I I was at that age where I was a little bit too old to so I didn't catch that one. Like I've never seen an episode and I've always heard things about it.

SPEAKER_03 20:57

It's um I want to say probably the first 10 years of it are good because that's uh I think that's when obviously you have the original characters, and up to that, I think that that 10-year mark is when you still have some of those original characters and some upcoming characters that are tied in with the original characters, so you still kind of have those original storylines and those relationships, and you're not dealing with like, oh, just new because it's kind of one of those shows where they just keep adding new characters, new characters, new characters, and kind of like Grey's Anatomy. There's only one or two of the original characters in Grey's Anatomy right now.

SPEAKER_02 21:37

Yeah, so do y'all do y'all like when they remake like some of these shows that y'all really love? Do y'all like when they like remake or just keep going and kind of beating a dead horse and keep it going for you know, there's some shows that's 20 years, right?

SPEAKER_01 21:51

I I I mean, I'd have to hear a specific example because some of them, I mean, they're hit or miss, obviously.

SPEAKER_03 21:57

I mean, like this, you know, the Simpsons, how long 30 plus years.

SPEAKER_01 22:01

Yeah, are they still making new episodes?

SPEAKER_03 22:03

I think so, yeah. Wow, yeah. Oh, they're pretty sure uh Scrubs, they're bringing back back Scrubs.

SPEAKER_02 22:08

Yeah, that's a and that's a that they're probably pushing 25 years, you know. They yeah, it's like I've never seen that show.

SPEAKER_01 22:14

I know what it is, but I've never seen it.

Power Rangers Eras And Movies

SPEAKER_02 22:16

Like I've watched I know like 90210, they had the original, and then they did the new generation, you know. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:23

Well, and I I forgot about those shows. Yeah, that Melrose Place, all those, all those shows. I watched those. I love Beverly Hills 90210.

SPEAKER_02 22:32

Yeah, and that and that was that was at my I was a little bit too young, but then I watched like 90210, I watched the new one. So like the whatever they're whatever it's called now, and and really enjoyed. I was like, man, I probably it's right up my alley. I'm sure I would love those shows. I just never Melrose Place never watched it. Yeah. Um, so some of those really big.

SPEAKER_01 22:50

They were very soap opera-y.

SPEAKER_02 22:52

Yeah. Yep. Yeah, so it's like, man, if if you could go back and and rewatch, we're gonna go movies. So if you go back and re-watch one movie like from your childhood all over again with no recollection of anything that happened in it, what would it be? Just to watch again for the very first time and just be amazed all over again, what would it be?

SPEAKER_00 23:15

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 23:16

Yeah, tough. Just like one that just absolutely grabs. You and like, oh my gosh, I wish I could watch this with a claim slate all just one more time, just all over again. The bench warmers. Wow. That's one that's a good movie. It's a good movie. I didn't see that. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 23:37

I like it. To me, uh at the age that I watched it, I think that came out when I was probably about 14 or 15. Uh at the time to me, that was just prime slapstick company. It's pretty funny. It's pretty funny. It's so stupid. Yeah, unfortunately, I have a little concept. Like every funny moment's like, that is so dumb.

SPEAKER_02 24:00

It really kills me when like the robot is is like making cra he can make any kind of sandwich you want. He's like, I'm gonna get real crazy.

SPEAKER_03 24:08

I'll have a turkey. Um regular sandwich. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:14

Yeah, that's a good one. That's a good one. Bench warmers. I like it.

SPEAKER_01 24:17

I I think I would like to which it it's from later, but it's still something that I feel nostalgia for, and that's the Harry Potter series. I wish I wish I could experience all that because I thought those were probably the most no pun intended, the most magical books series and movie series. I think they were really phenomenal.

SPEAKER_03 24:39

Let me add one more, because I do remember this one vivid vividly. Vividly. Vividly. Uh Revenge of the Sith. That's a good one. Uh that was the only one. Or like it that gets Oh no gosh. It's the only one that that I did see when it first came out.

SPEAKER_01 24:57

Which one is that on the board up there?

SPEAKER_03 24:59

It's the uh right behind his head. Right behind his head. Oh, okay. The third one. That's the bigger reveal. Episode two came out in didn't it come out in like 2001 or 2002?

SPEAKER_02 25:12

Yeah, I think I think episode one came out in 2000, and then I think episode two came out in 2002. And episode three had to be like 2008 or something. Yeah, 2003 or 4, yeah. Something like that. Yeah. I know the originals were like 77, 79, and 80 or 81, somewhere right around there. But what do you got?

SPEAKER_01 25:33

What do you want to experience?

SPEAKER_02 25:34

Oh, mine, mine would be, man, I remember, so this isn't my pick, but I remember really, really vividly, like yesterday. I remember when the Lion King first came out in theaters, and we were in Boston, we were visiting family, and I remember my dad was gonna take me. So we we we took off, the family was just hanging out, but but dad was like, I'm gonna take you to go see this movie. So we went to the theater and they were sold out. I was devastated, like crying, absolutely devastated. So he's like, Well, what we'll do, we'll go to Blockbuster. I'll let you rent a movie, okay, to make you feel better. Like, okay, cool. So we went and got ice cream and we went to Blockbuster. And I remember renting the original Mario Brothers movie.

SPEAKER_04 26:15

Oh, yeah. With John Liquisamo. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 26:18

And I I loved it. I really, really loved it. And it and it kind of got me away from that being upset because I didn't get to see the line. I mean, I was so pumped. But I remember sitting in my aunt's room on the floor watching the Mario Brothers movie. And I just I love that moment of getting to do that and and just the memory of being so devastated and then getting to watch this movie and fell in love. And it's a t it's a horrible movie. Terrible.

SPEAKER_01 26:41

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 26:42

I mean, it is just it's bad. Terrible. But I I just remember that moment and that memory that that goes with it. But if I could re-watch a movie for the first time all over again, it would be so many to choose from. I remember the fear I had watching Alien for the first time.

SPEAKER_01 27:08

I've never seen Alien. Really? I can actually experience that.

Saved By The Bell Deep Dive

SPEAKER_02 27:14

Yeah, like I can experience that now for the first time. I I remember that moment. I remember like my family was big on on watching movies. So I remember like laying in the floor, sleeping while they were watching. So I got to like kind of watch movies through through what they were watching. But I remember that first time watching Alien. That would that would be because the the the graphic because that was in the 70s, you know, that was made in the 70s, and it's like I just remember that. Oh my goodness great, this is really happening. It's like, you know. So that was good. First Star Wars, that would that would be one I wish I could I could kind of go back and rewatch. But yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:54

Well, something I heard I saw I follow this lady on Facebook Reels, and it's things you will only understand if you grow up in the 90s. Oh, I love it. Yeah. And she was talking about Mario, and she said that he was never meant to be a plumber. That was never part of his character or whatever, and it was just and even the overalls is just because it's just because it had to be pixelated something because of the original graphics.

SPEAKER_02 28:20

Do you know the first game that Mario ever made his appearance in?

SPEAKER_01 28:24

Donkey Kong.

SPEAKER_02 28:24

That is correct. Oh, yeah, I do remember hearing that. That is correct. That is correct. Yep. Yep, yep. Um and and just what is it about these things that just click in a memory and you just remember 'em.

SPEAKER_01 28:37

Yeah. And it is.

SPEAKER_02 28:39

Back when times were simpler.

SPEAKER_01 28:40

A lot of times. Man, right. A lot of times you'll remember something and you will, it it'll it'll trigger how you were feeling, what you were doing, where you were, where you were living, who you were with. Yeah. I mean, it's just all of the all the things that come back to you.

SPEAKER_02 28:56

It's like um like the birds chirp certain birds chirping, you just kind of, man. Yeah, I don't know being a kid. I remember being a kid just kind of the no? No?

SPEAKER_01 29:08

You're the only bird chirp guy. You're a fruity little kid, weren't you?

SPEAKER_03 29:15

I remember any ten year old be like, the birds chirping outside and all this and that.

SPEAKER_01 29:24

That's rough.

SPEAKER_03 29:27

Now here's here's another one uh kind of on that same topic. Instead of movies, video games.

SPEAKER_02 29:34

Oh yeah, for for sure, Mario Bros. I remember, I remember two things. I remember being in a Blockbuster, not sponsored by Blockbuster, but I remember being in a Blockbuster and I don't think they can sponsor anyone anymore. And the first and I don't know if I've ever had this experience with a video game again, but I remember on the screens where they had like previews, you know, of stuff coming up. And I remember Star Fox, the video game, like playthrough, was coming, and and it was the first 3D. I'm like, oh, what is it like? Talking on the 64? Yes. It blew my mind watching like the graph. I'm like, it'll never get better than this. What it's 3D, it looks very cool. Yeah, I love that game. And it it blew, I remember that moment, it just blew my mind. It really, really did. I remember the first time I ever took a thumbstick in Mario 64, and he went in a circle because it was left and right before then, you know, it was left, right, up and down, and he went in a 3D circle, and it just it blew my mind. I'm like, wow, what are we doing? You know, so those things, and then I've of course I've got which I brought, I brought Luigi today just up here to kind of hang out. To me, Luigi.

SPEAKER_03 30:49

Why? No. Um You're a Michael, yeah. Uh wow. Um, right. Well, because I don't know how you got confused about that.

TRL Countdown And After‑School Rush

SPEAKER_02 30:58

And I've got a I've got a very I've got a very distinct story on on just I always loved video games growing up. Like I had an NES and all that, but I but the time where video games became something a little bit more was when I was in the hospital. I think I've told y'all this story, but I don't know if I've told anybody who listens uh to the podcast. But you know, I was in the hospital, my my appendix burst and I almost died, and I was in the hospital for a while, and and I just kind of fell into this depression, didn't have any friends back then, and I had a few few people coming to visit, but I fell into this deep depression. This nurse noticed I was kind of you know going through it. So they wheeled in a CRT TV. So for those of y'all that don't know, this is a TV with the big butt coming out the back. Okay, well, that's the thing coming out the back of the TV. That's the rest of the TV. Yeah, so it was on a cart, so she wheeled it and it had an N64 on it. And I got to sit there in the hospital while I was sick and just play Mario. And I it it just it literally lifted me out of this depression. Right. And it became something to where now video games aren't just something I do in a past time, it became something that became very, very real. And it was like a friend, it was something I could do to feel connection to something. Yeah, so it was the moment that I really, really fell in love with video games as a way to unplug while yet being connected to something. You know, because I didn't, like I said, I didn't have that. I didn't have friends, but I felt like at that moment, whoever made this, I was connecting with them. Yeah, you know, so it became like a real a real thing in my life. So that was that was my turning point in video games where I'm like, oh no, this is something that's gonna be a part of my life for the game. What game did you say it was? It was Mario 64. Yeah, and uh yeah, just wheeled it in. It was all connected, you know, on this cart, and I just got to sit there in the hospital and play it, and it was it was fantastic.

SPEAKER_01 32:53

Is one of the only one consoles I've never played. Really? Yeah, I don't see that.

SPEAKER_03 32:57

That's the first one I I played. Really? Yeah, that was kind of your kid, your your gaming star. Yeah, because I'm um my grandma had the 64, and I would spend the night at her house all the time. Yeah. So I played Star Fox, I play the the Mario Mario 64. Mario, yeah. Um I remember there was a Pokemon game where you took pictures of the Pokemon. A Pokemon Snap. Yes. Yep. And I said that real fast though, didn't I? I remember uh we had a Goldeneye.

SPEAKER_02 33:25

Yeah, Goldeneye 007 on 64, yeah. That was the one that was a classic one.

SPEAKER_03 33:30

I think that's the only ones I can remember. Remember Bird Hunt. We had that bird hunt or duck hunt, sorry. Okay, yeah, yeah. Some kind of bird shooting. Yeah, some kind of bird shooting. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 33:40

What was your first like gaming oh gosh, like like console or or kind of well my the first console that I played, Tyler, shut up. Not because he's old. Wait for it. Wait for Atari. No, no, sticks and rocks.

SPEAKER_01 33:58

Was an Atari. Yeah. And I remember playing Spider-Man on Atari, and it was it was laughable to today's Spider-Man, obviously, but it was pretty amazing then. But the first console that I had was the original NES.

SPEAKER_02 34:14

The NES. Yeah. Man, that that was the first one that I yeah, that I had. Well, we had an Atari, but I didn't that was kind of my parents. I didn't really own that one. But then the NES is the one that they got for me for Christmas.

SPEAKER_01 34:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 34:27

And um, oh yeah, Duck Hunt, Mario, Tetris. I mean, kind of the trifecta, just Mario, Tetris, and Zelda was kind of the first three that I played on the NES, and it was Well and I I did the same, you know, I would rent games.

SPEAKER_01 34:40

Yeah. So I'd I'd rent them, play them, take them back, rent them more, you know, it's what Track and Field and and Spy Hunter, and I mean, just I mean, there are all kinds of Rygar and I mean it and then of course the Super NES, I I thought was an incredible leap. Right, right. Back then the leaps were huge, yeah. From from that to that was was just amazing. And now to play Xbox, it's pretty mind blowing. Yeah. From you know, from anybody that's played any amount of gaming, you know, over the years, it's like that's insane.

SPEAKER_02 35:14

And Ty, you got to experience like the the renting games, right? Like were there still rental stores then? Oh yeah. I that that alone can unlock some memories. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 35:24

Well I remember the um I would rent the games that weren't like really the storyline games. Yes, essentially, but I remember the the first real storyline game that I rented and finished before it was due was Star Wars of Force Unleashed. Oh, there you go. Okay. And uh that was a real good one. Oh, and well Lego Star Wars, but I mean Oh, that's so fun.

SPEAKER_02 35:56

Which I know you're a big fan of Kingdom Hearts too, right?

SPEAKER_03 35:59

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, how did I forget that? That one of my favorite video games growing up was Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts 2. Um, the I remember the first game that I really got uh hooked on uh the first PlayStation was Tekken 3.

SPEAKER_02 36:18

Oh, I remember Tekken. Tekken was a good one, yeah. That was when you sit with buddies and just like all day long just go back and forth. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 36:26

Well, you got Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, you know, all those. Yeah. I was never a big Street Fighter fan.

SPEAKER_02 36:32

Oh, that was the first, yeah. That was the first fighting game I got into, and it was and even the movie John Claude Van Damme and the movie, it's like it's the corniest, the most terrible, and it's like, I love this, this is amazing.

SPEAKER_01 36:44

Another one coming out this year.

Streaming Old Favorites And Life Lessons

SPEAKER_02 36:45

It looks really good, it looks absolutely cheesy and corny and exactly what it should be. I'm ready for it. Yep, and which we've got that. We've got the new Mario movie that's coming out. I mean, there's a lot of that kind of old school nostalgia that's kind of re-the Sonic movies, did really great. Yeah, yeah, they were good. So, man, that's it's a lot of those. I wasn't I wasn't a Sega guy either. Uh okay, okay. I loved, I I love the console war kind of debate because when you're growing up back then, what you got is what you defended. Right. It had nothing to do with what was. You gotta rep your set. Yeah, yeah. So it's like whatever your parents gifted you with. So I had a buddy, Kyle, that he would, he would kind of get every console pretty much. So like I would have like I'd have uh, you know, uh um SNES. Well I'd go over his house, he'd have a Sega Genesis and a Sega Saturn and a SNES, and then he'd have all the so I got to kind of test and play all the ones, and and I fell in love really quickly with Sega, and I I ended up with my own money. It was the first console I got to buy. I got a Sega Dreamcast.

SPEAKER_01 37:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 37:53

And still to this day, love it. Love it, love it, love it. I I've got to go pick it up from dad, so I've got it in storage, so I'm gonna hook it up and play.

SPEAKER_01 38:00

I don't think I've ever played a Dreamcast.

SPEAKER_02 38:01

A Dreamcast? Oh, they're so so good. And I bet with Nintendo, you said the 64, I guarantee there's more that you haven't played on it. Yeah. Uh just because some of them kind of flew under the radar of something like uh like GameCube.

SPEAKER_01 38:15

No, I don't think I played GameCube.

SPEAKER_02 38:16

So like a lot of those, and then you have like the DSs and the 3DS and and uh Wii, Wii U, you know, something like that.

SPEAKER_01 38:23

I did play some Wii, which I'm not a like a huge gamer. I enjoy gaming just but I'm not the kind of guy that's gonna sit for seven hours and play a game.

SPEAKER_02 38:33

Man, and I'm I'm the opposite, like you say, you're not really a story. Oh, I am a all about the story, all about it, man.

SPEAKER_01 38:40

Yeah, I am. I love it. That's why Red Dead is I love Red Dead.

SPEAKER_03 38:44

And I think I think it was more of an age thing for me because I could definitely do that. No, I I'm I don't remember the last time I actually like the last time I had I I honestly I never had my own consoles. I think they're they're my brothers and I just played on them.

SPEAKER_02 38:59

Yeah. Um did he ever hit you with the you're playing, but your controller's unplugged and you're just sitting there thinking that you're playing as the little brother?

SPEAKER_03 39:07

No, because uh uh uh a four-year uh age gap does something and the older brother doesn't want to play with the younger brother. So the younger brother has to wait. Yeah, uh I'm looking Richard, I'm looking at your your canvas thing over there, and I see poison look with the cat dragged in.

SPEAKER_01 39:27

Yeah, it's good stuff.

SPEAKER_03 39:28

That was the Talk Dirty to me was the first song I learned on electric guitar. Oh, yeah. Oh, wow, okay. And then Every Rose has its thorn was the first song I learned on acoustic. That is a fantastic song. I remember the first CD I ever bought with my own money.

SPEAKER_01 39:42

We haven't even talked about music. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 39:45

It was Kid Rock. Oh, okay. It was my the first album I ever bought with my own money. I remember purpose? Yeah, went to Walmart and bought my I remember buying it. Yes, yes, yes.

SPEAKER_03 39:58

I sure do. I guarantee it wasn't like he's walking by the CD, he's like, oh my gosh, I gotta have this. He went to Walmart for that.

SPEAKER_02 40:05

Oh, a hundred, oh yes, just for that. Move out of my way.

SPEAKER_01 40:07

I need Kid Rock. He was actually there for Mariah Carey CD. Were you? Yeah, they were sold out.

SPEAKER_03 40:15

Were y'all into the he's there grabbing the Mariah Carey? And a guy walks by like, oh, oops, my bad.

SPEAKER_02 40:23

Like, this is what I meant to not Mariah. I meant to I meant to grab Kid Rock. Like, that's not even close to the right one. Uh were y'all in the were y'all into like burning CDs? Remember that era? Oh man. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 40:37

Lime wire and all that.

SPEAKER_02 40:38

Oh my gosh. Greatest way to give your your just your just every virus on planet earth on that computer.

SPEAKER_03 40:45

100%.

SPEAKER_02 40:47

Yeah. Man, I remember that. And we had like we had burnt CDs, and then I would do where I'd put the artwork in front of the CD in the C D case and have it all in that man house. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 40:59

I was this is this is what I love about music is there is no gap between me and Tyler when we talk about music. Yeah, that's true too. Yeah. Because Tyler knows all of the music. All the music that's on this tape thing up here, he knows it.

SPEAKER_03 41:12

Because I I can see REM, I see Poison, I see who's uh Metallica.

SPEAKER_02 41:18

I just bought okay, so they're on the way out. I just bought two band t-shirts.

SPEAKER_01 41:23

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_02 41:23

Tears for fears.

SPEAKER_03 41:25

Oh.

SPEAKER_02 41:25

That's right.

SPEAKER_03 41:26

Unfamiliar.

SPEAKER_02 41:27

You you probably know their their big song is Everybody Wants to Rule the World. Oh, yeah. That's Tears for Fears. So I bought that one. And I bought a radio head. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_03 41:39

Oh, interesting.

SPEAKER_02 41:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 41:42

Did either of those people actually have a concert? Yes. Just checking.

SPEAKER_03 41:46

They just they just did their one song and left.

SPEAKER_01 41:50

They opened for somebody else.

Remakes, Long‑Running Shows, And Reboots

SPEAKER_03 41:52

You remember uh when uh VH1 did those shows like like that because that's what it reminds me of One Hit Wonders. Yeah show with all these they're not like real like maybe D-list celebrities would go on there and talk about them. And like that's that's what reminds reminds me of it was like they did one called One Hit Wonders where he just talked about bands. I always like the behind the music. That's that's the one I was thinking of. Great stories.

SPEAKER_02 42:20

Yeah, and I liked uh MTV Unplugged. I like that a lot.

SPEAKER_03 42:23

I would literally go to bed, turn on VH1 Classic, and because Metal Mania would come on at 11 p.m. And I would fall asleep to that. Remember the commercials in the middle of the night that would come on like the the like Yeah yeah yeah, it's like or or you wake up and George Lopez is jumping in slow motion. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_02 42:47

It's like yeah, it's like it's like uh yeah, like uh smooth hit uh 2001. Yeah, all the best smooth hit for the most delivery, yeah. And you're like, what is going on right now?

SPEAKER_03 43:05

It's the funniest thing. He is remaking he like dresses like a cheapest thing, he's got like a like a like a spatula. Like it's like a mop head as a wig.

SPEAKER_04 43:21

Yeah, it's so funny.

SPEAKER_03 43:23

It's like he'll like cut between like him as the narrator and him as like uh what's the uh Michael Bolton? Yeah, and it cuts back to him while Michael Bolton's still singing, he's just there just smiling real creepily. And it's it's funny because it's so accurate.

SPEAKER_02 43:38

Like we were like uh Yeah, I know one of them was he was dressing up like um Oh my gosh. What is the band that sings that uh Mr. Jones? Mr. Jones and me. Um is it County Crows? No, I don't think so. I can't remember the name, but their lead singer had the like short dreads, so he's in that making that video, and it's like he really does look like him right now. So funny.

SPEAKER_01 44:01

Yeah, that's gonna bug me now.

SPEAKER_02 44:03

Well, and music does the same thing, it just hits something, and you just like, man, it just takes you back to some time and Garth Brooks The Dance.

SPEAKER_01 44:12

I remember because at Bendy's they had a pool table.

SPEAKER_02 44:15

Well, me and uh my friends Bendy's video, so a video store, yeah. Yep, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 44:18

Well, they had a laundromat with a pool table in there, and me and my friends would they had a jukebox. We'd go in there, play that song, and just I mean, we'd put it on repeat. I just love that song, and we just hang out and play pool, and it that's one of the memories that I just misplaced it.

SPEAKER_02 44:33

There's no place like not even just movie places to to rent, but there's no places like that anymore. The arcades are kind of gone. I mean, they're they're here and there, they're still exist. Right.

SPEAKER_03 44:44

They are, but it's like there's no like not not like the local, like there's like Dave and Busters, no big chains like that. Or like you go to the mall and they have Bendy's.

SPEAKER_02 44:53

They had I remember the Pac-Man machines, you know, that you could go in and man, I'd have a big stack and just play Pac-Man while mom was doing laundry, and you could rent movies, you could play pool, and I mean this is just like you just played there because you didn't get beat up like that. Yeah, that's exactly why'd you have to bring that up?

SPEAKER_03 45:09

I like uh Man uh the bowling alley in Dexter. Yeah, I like that they have a they solid arcade. Yeah, I've never been there. It's they had they they brought in like they have some older pictures. Ball machines have some of the older games. They got some newer stuff too. And they're cool. Um, I think it's AJ Moreland. He's he just revamping the whole thing, but he like really revamped the arcade section. Awesome.

SPEAKER_02 45:33

Man, that's what we were listening to. Like a song came on or something the other day, and Jamie was talking about the skating rink. And I'm like, you know, you your memory and my memory of that was so different. Oh my gosh, this song came on all the time. We used to love it. I'm like, yeah. I'd be over in the corner.

SPEAKER_03 45:50

That's over there in the corner staring at Jamie. She's out there couple skating, and I'm in a corner. In the corner, be like, we're gonna have children named Zeke, Zaley, and Aliyah, and you don't know it yet.

SPEAKER_02 46:03

It's like myrrh.

SPEAKER_01 46:07

I'm sitting there thinking that's the song that was playing when Roger dumped a frosty on my head.

SPEAKER_02 46:12

Like, literally, you when you watch these movies from the 80s and 90s, and the kid is getting but that was me. Like, he was Ralph Macchio. I remember, I literally remember. So they had pool tables at the at the skating rink, and you know, you put your quarters out. That's like saying, I got next. And I remember I had quarters up, and these two kids were playing. They were, you know, maybe 14, 15. I was probably 12.

SPEAKER_03 46:36

And they probably said buzz off.

First‑Time Movie Magic We Wish Back

SPEAKER_02 46:38

Oh, they go, Hey, hey, you. I'm like, yeah. And I'm like, think, hey, you're next. You know, your quarters. They go, these are your quarters. I'm like, yeah. They like shoe them off.

SPEAKER_04 46:51

It's good.

SPEAKER_02 46:52

Just like yeet them off the edge. It's like, you're not playing. And I'm just like, go pick my quarters up. Put them in a uh Mortal Kombat machine and go play them. My bad, my bad. What I meant to say was screw you, pal. Thanks, guys. Y'all have a good have a good time. Have a good time. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 47:11

You ever watched a movie called Can't Buy Me Love? Yes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 47:15

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 47:16

That's a fantastic movie.

SPEAKER_03 47:18

Jamie made me watch that one. I don't know why, but that the title is similar. It reminded me of Nick Cannes' movie, Love Don't Cost a Thing. I remember that one too.

SPEAKER_02 47:27

That one still things real corny. Man, speaking of, like, Love Don't Cost a Thing. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 47:34

Yes, it does.

SPEAKER_02 47:35

It was very, it was it was very confusing in these times. You had one song come out that says Love Don't Cost a Thing. And you got another song that comes out that goes, What have you done for me lately? Ladies, we are confused. Which is it? Is it Love Don't Cost a Thing or What You Buying Me? Like, I'm so confused at this. Like, I don't want no scrubs, Love Don't Cost a Thing. Snap.

SPEAKER_04 47:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 47:58

I'm so confused at what to do here. Um, which group you listen to? Shoot. And I remember so growing up was when Michael Jackson was was big. He was at his peak, and I remember dancing around the room and and and with your one glove on. I'm getting really big into going back to theaters for these re-releases of movies like Ninja Turtles last year. It was their 35-year anniversary, so they re-released it in theaters. So you get to experience something that maybe you didn't get to experience growing up. Right. Because you didn't get to go to theaters a lot, you know. So it's been pretty cool. I went and went and watched The Mummy, and and man, it's cool to watch these things. We we all went to watch um Lord of the Rings. Lord of the Rings. Yeah. That was cool.

SPEAKER_01 48:43

I love 80s action, like Lethal Weapon, that kind of thing. So that's what I would like to watch. Is some good ones. Some 80s action.

SPEAKER_02 48:51

Favorite lethal weapon on three. One, two, three, four.

SPEAKER_03 48:55

Four. We did it at the same time.

SPEAKER_01 49:00

There's delaying the microphone. Real quick. I don't know how to fix it. I loved it. I love Jet Lee made that movie.

SPEAKER_02 49:07

Jet Lee and then um Chris Rock. Yeah. The addition of Chris Rock, I think, was so funny. Like the whole movie. Mel Gibson knows. It's his it's it's his son-in-law and and it's uh spoiler alert. Dude, oh yeah. Wow. If you haven't seen that, I don't know, right? So I won't watch it. Dude, it's so funny. So he's like, he's like, yeah, he's like a son. In law enforcement, you have to do and he's like hinting the whole time with it. So funny. Great movies. But yeah, man, uh, it's it just really just hits the spot. And lately I've really been, really been on a kick of just watching some old shows and old mo old movies, and and uh and for you know, of course, I collect all this stuff, so just seeing it and thinking about the moment when I was a kid with those things just kind of makes your day better.

SPEAKER_03 49:59

I know one uh memory that that's like the core of nostalgia for me is Spyro.

SPEAKER_02 50:08

Oh yeah, okay. Spiro on PlayStation Yeah, man. Yeah, I remember playing. I'm unfamiliar. Yeah, so he was a little dragon, yeah. Yeah, that was a good remember when Skylanders were huge? No. I've been back into collecting all the you don't remember Skylanders? You were probably too old. You were definitely too old. So that was He was too young. He was no, he was too old. This was old. So Aliyah was this was when she was a kid. So um a few years, so you were probably a few years past that because she was probably 12 or 13 when they came out. But they're just little toys, and you scan them.

SPEAKER_03 50:43

Now I do I do remember seeing that.

SPEAKER_02 50:45

I never I never did, but I do remember seeing it came with a little portal, and you just scan them into the game and your figure scans and and it shows up in the game, and it was really, really cool. So I've been back into collecting those and getting those together, so it's pretty neat.

SPEAKER_01 51:00

You know what I hate about nostalgia when somebody when someone when somebody I looked up to as a child loses their mind as an adult.

SPEAKER_03 51:09

Oh yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 51:10

Yeah, I could see that.

SPEAKER_03 51:13

Yeah, yeah. Not Mickey. I uh no who's uh what's that one guy's name? I don't know. Uh Corey Feldman. Oh my gosh. He Corey Feldman is Pauly Shore.

SPEAKER_01 51:32

I'm the comeback, comeback king. I love Pauly Shore and so much.

SPEAKER_03 51:38

What is his name? Yep. What's the end? I don't know because he's he's uh an older, so I don't know his work. Don't know his repertoire. He's he's kind of known as just being a crazy guy.

SPEAKER_04 51:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 51:53

It's not and it's not Steve Martin and what's the other dude from SNL or two wild and crazy guys.

SPEAKER_02 52:01

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 52:03

Oh my gosh. Randy Quaid.

Mario, Donkey Kong, And Memory Triggers

SPEAKER_02 52:05

No. No. He went out. Yeah, he went out. Gary Beusey. Oh, that's the one. Yeah, that's the one.

SPEAKER_01 52:13

Or buttered sausage. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 52:15

What about buttered sausage?

SPEAKER_01 52:18

Yeah, he's crazy. He was in the original Ethel Weapon.

SPEAKER_02 52:20

He got out there. What I don't like about nostalgia is when you watch something that was like the greatest thing ever, and you rewatch. Yeah, and it's like, oh, this is kind of terrible. And not like terrible, like I still like it, but like just certifiably terrible.

SPEAKER_01 52:36

I I it not because it's terrible, but I I remember watching Stand By Me when I was a kid. Yeah. And you know, I had that vague memory, and I was like, man, I really need to watch this with my kids. It was such a good movie when I with your kids. Oops. Got halfway through, and I'm like, yeah, we're not gonna watch that.

SPEAKER_02 52:54

Yeah, it's it's yeah, it's it's like, oh gosh, okay.

SPEAKER_03 53:02

I I can kind of understand that. There's a movie I remember watching as a kid, Warriors of Virtue. Yeah, I don't know that. Yeah, I don't know. So basically it's a it's uh I was big into like the the kung fu uh martial arts movies. I was making the martial arts back when I was a kid. Um so basically the story is there's this kid and he um he like falls down this like sewer thing or whatever and ends up in this other realm where there's these warriors, these martial art warriors, and they're kangaroos. Yes. Okay, yeah, okay. And I I remember watching it, I mean, I remember it now being you know of importance to me as a kid, and I and I watched it within recent years, I'm like Yeah. It's kind of out there.

SPEAKER_02 53:54

Yeah, this wasn't very good.

SPEAKER_03 53:55

Yeah, it was a car is it like animated? No, it's live action.

SPEAKER_02 53:58

Oh gosh, okay.

SPEAKER_03 53:59

It's yeah, it's it's from the 90s. I wanna say it was probably like maybe nice between 96 and 99, maybe earlier than that.

SPEAKER_02 54:08

Man, y'all remember when Ninja Turtles 3, they went like Kung Fu old school, like China, and like that was my favorite one. Man, it was just like such a twist.

SPEAKER_03 54:17

It's like, yeah, that was Japan. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 54:19

That was that was my favorite one. What? Okay, all right. Yeah, so speaking of, it's a 35-year anniversary this year, so in the next like three weeks, I believe, uh Secret of the Ooze comes out in theaters re-releasing. So I will be there. Not front row, because I don't like front row. You gotta go middle, middle. Yeah, middle row, middle section.

SPEAKER_03 54:41

I like I love the um the Cape Theater. Yeah, because you know, uh, because they have them kind of divided in sections where that middle, middle, there's no one, it's it's it's a walkway there. Yes, yeah, there's no one sitting in front of you. Yeah, like the the next seat in front is like six feet in front.

SPEAKER_01 54:57

I thought the I thought the Jonesboro Theater was sectioned off weird.

SPEAKER_02 55:01

I think yeah, kind of. Yeah, which they have the recliners there, it's really nice, but yeah, it's like it's three sections, you know, but it's like I don't know, it's just it goes up so high, that's one thing. So you're almost like looking down if you're at the top.

SPEAKER_01 55:15

Well, and it's that'd be pretty cool, honestly.

SPEAKER_02 55:17

Kind of just looking straightforward.

SPEAKER_01 55:19

The oddest thing I saw was it's five seats in a row.

SPEAKER_03 55:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 55:22

Like it's a break. Yeah, and then yeah. Oh, that is a little weird. When you buy tickets, you you think two at a time.

SPEAKER_03 55:28

Yeah, you know, it's kind of Imagine being the fifth wheel on that date.

SPEAKER_01 55:31

I was that's all I'm about to say. It literally was. I had to sit on the next row down.

SPEAKER_02 55:38

Yeah, because it was it was we got how many tickets did we get all at once? Like six tickets at once, yeah, or five tickets at once, and there was only seven seats left in the theater, and the other two were just single, like random. So it was the only other seat near all of us. So it was like it was me, Jamie, DJ, Holly, Dylan, uh, Dylan, and Richard. Yeah, and all of ours, we got the row because we got the last seat, so we were all in one row, and then just one more, like up, like boom, boop, man, yeah, just boop.

SPEAKER_01 56:08

That's all right. I still got to watch the movie. It was it was really good.

SPEAKER_02 56:11

I didn't like the 45 minutes of Peter Jackson before I'm like get to the movie.

SPEAKER_01 56:20

Yeah, but like these are great stories. Let's let's go ahead and show the movie.

SPEAKER_02 56:24

Let's just hurry it up. Let's hurry it up.

SPEAKER_03 56:25

Yeah. Um what about uh did y'all go to like any concerts as a kid?

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SPEAKER_02 56:33

Yeah, most of my concerts as a kid was Christian concerts, so I didn't go to like any any actual like. You went to you went to see uh Pillar and Delirious. I did. I don't like how he said, first of all, I don't like the accuracy. I'm sorry, DC talk. No, never saw D, but I saw literally saw Pillar and concert like probably eight times. Oh god. Oh yes, oh yes. Pillar, I remember Skillet when they were like techno rock.

SPEAKER_03 57:03

Yeah. When when Charlie River had that weird hair.

SPEAKER_02 57:07

Saw them in concert disciple and all these, all these because there was a pretty big scene when when I was in youth of these Christian concerts around here. That was a little too far back. That would be your did you ever see Stry?

SPEAKER_03 57:20

Because that was they were like Christian band? Striper is like the Christian hair band. Like imag uh uh I'm trying to think. Imagine you know the band Wasp? Yeah, no, it's it's Wasp, but well, okay.

SPEAKER_02 57:33

Think of think of uh what was uh or or or Brett Michaels and the and his poison. Think of Poison but Christian, like headband, long fluffed out hair, and and like glam rock. Oh yeah, yeah, but Christian, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 57:46

So I had a chance to see RO Speedwagon, Poison, oh, and somebody else in their peak. Yeah. Gene R. No, it wasn't because I'd have killed somebody for tickets back.

SPEAKER_02 57:58

Man, that is man. But it ain't felonies.

SPEAKER_01 58:01

They were they were in Memphis and I got so mad at my mother because she wouldn't let me go with with some friends of mine, and as an adult, I'm like, I would never let my children without me. Yeah, yeah, uh huh. I was like, yeah, I get that now.

SPEAKER_02 58:18

And a whole nother state. Right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 58:20

So love you, mom. I guess I was mad at her for a long time.

SPEAKER_02 58:24

She man. That's so funny. But yeah, it's it's cool to kind of relive some of those things and just have those moments. I didn't either, man.

SPEAKER_03 58:35

I like apparently you did. You went and saw Pillar eight times.

SPEAKER_02 58:40

Well, I mean, like I said, that that was kind of because I mean like Pillar literally played at TRC.

SPEAKER_03 58:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 58:45

Yeah. You know, so like this was they played a few times at the Rogers Theater, and and you know, so seeing them, and it was our youth group, like that, like we literally went to that all the time.

SPEAKER_01 58:55

I didn't grow up in church, so I didn't I definitely didn't see any of those guys.

SPEAKER_03 58:59

My first concert was from the opening acts, Rev Theory. They were they were up and coming. Um Three Days Grace.

SPEAKER_02 59:14

And they're good, but yeah, I'm not big on anymore.

SPEAKER_03 59:17

I once their self-title album, anything after that? Not a fan. Not a fan whatsoever. And then well, I saw Avenged Sevenfold like two more times after that.

SPEAKER_02 59:35

You had some like a band or something that you were super into, but then you just like after a while, just like, nah.

SPEAKER_03 59:44

That's literally me with Avenged Sevenfold after their self-titled album that came out in 2010.

SPEAKER_02 59:50

Yeah, I think. It's like, oh, that's terri- what was I thinking? That's terrible.

SPEAKER_01 59:55

No, because I I mean, I like what I like. Yeah. You know, even because I have an eclectic taste. So I mean, I like anything from country to rock to pop, even some rap. I mean, I did some of it, but I like what I like.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:09

So the real the first music I remember like really being into, y'all would probably not guess what I what I listened to. First band or like type of music? Uh kind of both.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:21

Hmm.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:23

Because I feel like you would be out there. Because I feel like it would surprise you.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:30

I wouldn't say boy bands. That wouldn't surprise me. I'd I'd I'd be able to do that. I do like the good boy bands.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:36

You're not in a boy band.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:38

I mean, I'm in a band with males. So I mean a group of guys. Yeah. Man band. Alright, what you got? Uh I I remember like this is really the first.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:55

The second favorite.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:59

The the like the first music I remember being into, and this was due to my brother's influence. Chingy. Oh, okay. Uh uh Lloyd Banks. Yeah. Uh no, G Unit.

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SPEAKER_02 1:01:14

Just the way you say it. You know, G Unit. These are like up in here. These are like St. Louis style Nelly. Like rappers and yeah. Okay, okay, okay. Yeah, so that was probably, yeah, that was probably what, 2009, 10, somewhere around there. Oh, that was early, like 2002, 2003. Okay, I can respect it. I was a big Nelly fan when he first came out and I liked Nelly a lot. Cheney was at uh the camp in Buffalo uh last year. So randomly that's like you hear like Sykes in the rodeo and it's like you know who's gonna be at the camp this year?

SPEAKER_03 1:01:52

Lord Yin Yang twins. It's so weird. It's random. Not the yinchus is like, yeah. What was yeah, what was their the yang twins? What's what was their like biggest? Yeah, let me think um it something booty. I can't remember they gosh dang it. It doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:15

It really was at the Sykeston Rodeo.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:19

Yeah, Nelly was at Sykston Rodeo. I remember Brett Michaels was there, and it's just random. I think it's so weird.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:26

The rodeo they have yeah, yeah, they have hip hop and rappers.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:30

Yeah, they didn't used to. I mean, that's only been in the last few years that they've just it's just random. Yeah. I saw Montgomery Gentry at that rodeo one year. You don't know who that is. So I know that is uh I'm trying to think of one of those songs.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:43

Oh, no, no, no, no, that's Thompson Station. Um doesn't matter. No, no, no, no, no, no. Give me a second, give me a second. Okay. Montgomery Drury. Uh uh, you find out who your friends are, right? Yeah. Nail it.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:01

Well shut up.