Sofa Talk: Reality, Romance, and Retro Reflections

Get ready for our Middle Ageish Sofa Talk, where we touch on celebrity couples and then dive down the rabbit hole of the Mandella Effect. What if we told you that the Monopoly guy never had a monocle, or that the bears are actually called the Berenstain Bears? Intriguing, isn't it? 

Finally, grab your ticket for a nostalgic journey back to the 70s and 80s, where we were adjusting the rabbit ears on our TV's and the colors of appliances were something to behold. And as a cherry on top, we look forward to our chat with the 'King of Calm', Tom Cronin. He'll be enlightening us next week on how meditation can help manage our energy better. So have a listen and be ready for a ride full of laughs, revelations, and a healthy dose of nostalgia.

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Speaker 1 0:02

Welcome to the Middle-Age-ish podcast, authentically and unapologetically, keeping it real, discussing all things middle-age-ish, a time when metabolism slows and confidence grows. Join fashion and fitness entrepreneur Ashley Badosky, former Celtic woman and founder of the Lisa Kelly Voice Academy, lisa Kelly, licensed psychologist and mental health expert, dr Pam Wright, and highly sought after cosmetic injector and board certified nurse practitioner, trisha Kennedy-Roman. Join your host on the journey of Middle-Age-ish.

Speaker 2 0:38

Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of Middle-Age-ish podcast. I'm Trisha Kennedy-Roman and I'm joined here today with my co-host, ashley Badosky, lisa Kelly and Dr Pam Wright, and you are joining us today for our sofa talk, so welcome, hello.

Speaker 3 0:52

I'm so glad to be back. Yes, oh my goodness, I missed you guys sitting in safe light lobby waiting for my window, my windshield, to get replaced.

Speaker 4 1:02

So it's never a phone no.

Speaker 3 1:05

So missed you guys. We missed you too. We missed you. It was very quiet. I'm sure I was actually surprised that I didn't get like a little group text like the next day hey, ashley, we've decided to make you just like you know how, like on things, you're like, you're just like a friend of the cast. I was like I think, I think it's good it's gonna happen.

Speaker 5 1:27

No, we missed you.

Speaker 4 1:28

No, we missed you a lot Just not the same. Do you have another good week?

Speaker 5 1:34

Yeah.

Speaker 4 1:34

It's crazy.

Speaker 3 1:35

Busy, it's so crazy. I yeah, it's crazy. We had to New Orleans tomorrow. Oh yeah, going for some beignets and a hurricane, not the weather-related one.

Speaker 4 1:47

Oh good, the beignets Cafe du Monde. Yes, that's so good. Oh, they're so good.

Speaker 3 1:53

I am so freaking excited because, you know, I just love everything Ghost stories.

Speaker 4 1:59

Oh yeah.

Speaker 3 2:00

Energy and the liquid version of hurricane. Oh, we could all bourbon streets.

Speaker 2 2:07

Exactly.

Speaker 4 2:08

Yes, you have to go to Brennan's when you're there. Oh, yeah, very nice. Yeah, I love Brennan's.

Speaker 3 2:14

Yeah, because we're staying when Michael didn't want to stay on Bourbon Street. But we're like in the financial district.

Speaker 4 2:20

Well, lovely so yeah, the French Quarter is amazing. It's just. It's so architecturally beautiful. Oh, it's lovely. Oh, no, it's lovely.

Speaker 3 2:28

I am so excited yeah, like literally because I'm going to be at the studio tomorrow morning. I'm going to be like bouncing off the walls.

Speaker 4 2:38

Oh yeah, Well, I mean, football is so prevalent now that Taylor Swift is dating.

Speaker 5 2:42

I know, have you seen all the memes? Yeah, you can't miss it.

Speaker 3 2:47

Wow. So I mean I mean how brave of Travis Kelsey, because I mean let's just be super honest, they pay it off. I think the I mean the own like she wrote that really sweet song about Taylor Lautner but all the other ones. Like you know, it's going to happen Like it's like well, as long as they don't do bad things, I can see this one lasting. It would be super cute. So you guys, I've bought the catching Kelsey.

Speaker 2 3:14

Is this with him and his brother? No, it was him in 2006. After this whole Taylor Swift thing, I just bought the season of it because I was like who is this dude? So in 2016, he did catching Kelsey, which was like he was like the bachelor and it was 50 women from different like each day Shut up and he narrowed him down?

Speaker 5 3:32

No, I didn't know that either. So what happened?

Speaker 2 3:34

then Well, I'm not, I haven't finished the end of it. I'm like, I'm like on episode five, well, obviously they didn't make it.

Speaker 5 3:39

Yeah, he picked someone that was not the right pick.

Speaker 2 3:42

Well, an ex-girlfriend that he most recently had that I, I like, sort of researched him after I saw them together, Cause I'm like this is kind of interesting, but she wasn't on this so clearly. Whatever happened, with.

Speaker 1 3:50

That didn't work out.

Speaker 2 3:52

But he's actually he's pretty funny.

Speaker 3 3:54

Well, there the podcast that he has with his brother is hilarious.

Speaker 4 3:58

What's the number one pot? Well, I don't know whether that's just this week. It's the number one.

Speaker 3 4:02

Yeah, that's valid. But they are so funny, interesting, Like they're just in their mom.

Speaker 4 4:09

She's. I remember her in the Super Bowl last year with her shirt, so I knew who they were before I just don't know how you don't love them.

Speaker 3 4:17

And then, like his older brother's wife is so down to earth and funny. She was on a couple of the podcast. It was hilarious, so I mean good for them.

Speaker 2 4:28

It was cute, san Taylor Swift with his mom, and like she's so close to her mom, I thought that was kind of sweet.

Speaker 4 4:34

Oh, the reels today on Facebook though I was laughing where the girls are all sitting and going. Oh my God, his career is going to be so good now and all the husbands are going no, we had a career.

Speaker 3 4:46

Oh, that's right. That was like the joke, what like that's the thing, yes, I had heard that on the way home. I mean I hadn't been on social media today and I was like what are they talking about?

Speaker 1 4:55

Like oh no, it's a joke Like they're setting the husband up.

Speaker 3 5:01

Yes, they're literally losing the mind, are you crazy? He's a superstar, but for football.

Speaker 2 5:06

We know even that they and after the game you know they rented out the restaurant for them all to go to, and I've seen that she did it and then he did it. So I'm kind of curious who did it? Because everyone just assumes it was Taylor Swift. But it's not like that guy couldn't do it.

Speaker 3 5:18

And how about them pulling off and like this convertible? Like can you imagine? You come up to a red light and you look over and there's Travis.

Speaker 5 5:26

Trawl Taylor.

Speaker 3 5:27

Swift. I mean what?

Speaker 4 5:29

The two of them together as a couple to me look normal, right. They look like if they lived in a small town. That's who they they'd be dating. He used the, you know the college or the high school quarterback. Is he a quarterback?

Speaker 3 5:43

No, no, he was a quarterback until when he got kicked out, because I've kind of done a little bit of research too, because I'm like this is fascinating to me. So I know exactly Him and his older brother went to Cincinnati and then he got kicked out and he was quarterback Right and then when he came back, quarterback position was not an option it was full, and so he became a tight end.

Speaker 5 6:08

Oh, wow, he's great. He had a great game. So like, well, of course he's going. Taylor, you can't be like. Taylor Swift is watching me.

Speaker 3 6:15

I'm going to have the biggest superstar singer right now in the box with your mom. Oh, yes, you're not gonna drop about your past.

Speaker 4 6:26

Exactly, do you think, though in the huddle they like they figured that out. They're like you know. Let him know, will you? Let me just see this.

Speaker 3 6:32

Well, did you? Did you see Patrick Mahon?

Speaker 4 6:34

He was cute, I love him and he was like he

Speaker 3 6:38

was. I think it was so cute, I don't know, I do feel like it's like the most genuine, like these are just real people that are superstars. And did you see?

Speaker 5 6:48

that she. They had to get her out in the popcorn machine, Like there are people like waiting for them, like at the, at the gate or whatever. And then there was a popcorn machine that went by and people were like Taylor Swift, just leaving the popcorn machine. But she does that on her.

Speaker 3 7:00

She does that on her show. Yeah, she'll go out in like boxes, but I think she did.

Speaker 5 7:04

Because people were waiting, and then it's.

Speaker 3 7:06

That's the one like can you imagine if you're pulling up to a traffic light and you look over and here's this convertible with, oh, Travis Keltsy, and then you look in your like that kid, wait what? I mean they wouldn't be able to drive. Like, how did that even work? I want to know that story.

Speaker 2 7:21

But I loved it because it was like I probably went up for most normal, just her cheering at a football game, Like I thought she just she did look really. Yeah, she looked like you know, like you, cheering at your son's football game Like she just like a normal person getting excited football game. I thought that was cool.

Speaker 5 7:33

Whatever can be normal for a super celebrity. Where the cameras were on her, she's cheering at her. So bad for her, but I was like oh good.

Speaker 3 7:40

But just for them for, like, actually going public, because, I mean, if you think about it, they're two very well known names and she's lately been super private because the public has ruined a couple you know yeah. And.

Speaker 4 7:56

I think it has to be harder, though, to try and keep it a secret. Probably Like that has to be harder than dealing with the public all the time, I think trying to hide something that's so true, yeah, there's no way you could go to that game. There's no way she could go to that game. Oh my gosh.

Speaker 5 8:10

No yeah.

Speaker 4 8:12

No, even in disguise.

Speaker 2 8:14

It's just been distinct.

Speaker 4 8:19

You know it's her straight away.

Speaker 3 8:22

Well, I just think it's cute.

Speaker 4 8:24

I hope this works for her I just think it's super cute.

Speaker 2 8:27

I hope she doesn't watch Catching Kelsey, though, because it's gonna take some time.

Speaker 3 8:30

She just needs to stick to the podcast, because they're hilarious. I'm scared. I've never heard it.

Speaker 4 8:35

But I saw.

Speaker 2 8:35

Jersey sales have gone up like 400% or something, but there's a swifty effect.

Speaker 4 8:39

So apparently voting has gone up. So she apparently at one of her concerts the other night she said something about can you all please go out and vote, and apparently they had 120,000 new voters.

Speaker 5 8:49

Yeah, so my daughter. They're cheering this year as Taylor's with so they have her music. But it's funny because you'll watch. You know what's going on, but the very end is the dance and it's to. You know the haters gonna hate. I'm gonna shake it off, and so it's, but everybody just starts clapping in the audience. Like from other teams or whatever.

Speaker 5 9:06

It's just like that song. I think just her music resonates with people. It doesn't matter, I don't know Young and old, it's just funny because you look around and everybody's just clapping to that song and I'm like oh interesting.

Speaker 4 9:16

What I discovered this week. I was a huge Madonna fan.

Speaker 3 9:20

I was growing up Borderline Looked. Oh, I love Borderline, I love yeah.

Speaker 4 9:24

But today I was sitting in the car and so you know we're so spoiled now when you look up the lyrics of songs. So, like everybody knows, the lyrics to Taylor Swift songs because if you play it on your Apple music, you can hit the text and you get to see what all the words are. So when we were kids, though, that wasn't the case.

Speaker 4 9:39

On the album. Yeah, but I didn't have the well did I have the album? I don't know if I had the album, I don't even remember, but like a prayer was on the car today. So you know, I used to think it was just like it used to be and I was listening today and obviously my speakers are better on my car now than they ever were on my house. It's no, it's just like a muse to me. It's a muse to me and it was clear as day today and I was like interesting.

Speaker 3 10:04

Okay, but is that not the funniest thing? Cause that can like, that happens all the time, like from the like lyrics back in the 80s and you sing along and you and then you actually hear them and you're like wait what?

Speaker 2 10:14

Yeah, what? Yeah, I thought that's what I thought I was too. Speaking of that, have you guys ever heard of the Mandela effect? Yes, mandela, mandela.

Speaker 4 10:21

Mandela.

Speaker 3 10:22

Have you seen the movie? No, I should know what this is.

Speaker 4 10:25

I should too, but it's where you think things are so like emojis. There's never been a burglar emoji, but everybody thinks there is a burglar emoji Harry Tessam at this all the time.

The Mandela Effect and Parallel Dimensions

Speaker 2 10:35

That's one of the things that spelled away that it wasn't. You need to watch the movie the Mandela effect.

Speaker 4 10:39

Okay, I didn't know it was a muse, it is so good, you have to watch it.

Speaker 5 10:42

Where is it on?

Speaker 2 10:42

Netflix. I mean, it's an older movie, it is so good. It was funny cause Corbin and I watched it one night and then we went and found like the Bear Stea Bears book and then we start we get ourselves so freaked out Like what's real, what's not real, you've got to watch it. Oh wow, I'd love to watch it, but it's where it's almost like there was like a glitch, Like, and so like we all like I can't, Jiffy Can't remember.

Speaker 2 11:01

There's several different ones, like Google Mandela effect, but watch the movie, it is so good. But it's where you know in your head how you saw things.

Speaker 1 11:08

But then you look it up and it's not. But then it's not that it's completely different. It's like in the movie.

Speaker 2 11:12

It's all like we're like kind of like living in different like, it's like one.

Speaker 3 11:16

Parallel dimensions yes and one glitched.

Speaker 4 11:19

It's so crazy, but then you know I believe in all that. That would be surrealism. It's called the Mandela catalogs and analog horror web series.

Speaker 2 11:27

I'm trying to think of some of the things. Is that the same as?

Speaker 4 11:28

the Mandela effect. There's one about a clock that we think somebody's holding.

Speaker 2 11:33

Like the Monopoly guy, you think he had a monocle. He didn't have a monocle. He didn't. You look, go get your Monopoly game. He doesn't have a monocle. No, shut up.

Speaker 3 11:40

No, I agree, I was thinking he does. Yes, he did Go look at your. Monopoly.

Speaker 2 11:45

Is it maybe the?

Speaker 3 11:45

new McDonald's, go, find your.

Speaker 2 11:49

Monopoly game. It doesn't have it. So, corbin and I, if we watched it we went through and we were looking at all. We went and got the Monopoly game, we got Bernstein Bears, it's all.

Speaker 4 11:55

Okay, here I've got a few. I'm telling you right now it is a 53 Mandela effects here.

Speaker 3 12:00

Okay, hold on. It's a glitch in the parallel universe. Okay For sure.

Speaker 4 12:04

Oh, hold on a little. Okay, go back, I'll find it while we're talking.

Speaker 5 12:08

That's why it's kind of like social psychology, where they're like you can see an accident and everyone will report.

Speaker 4 12:13

Oh, something different.

Speaker 5 12:14

Yeah but the Monopoly guy, but yeah, I agree.

Speaker 4 12:17

I would see it the same way.

Speaker 2 12:19

I mean it.

Speaker 4 12:21

So people swear that there was a Jiffy peanut butter back in the day.

Speaker 2 12:25

There was. No, there wasn't.

Speaker 4 12:27

It was only ever Jiff Jiff. You're combining Jiff with Skippy. Ah, that's probably right, so Jiffy wasn't a thing. Okay, so it's Looney tunes, not Looney tunes wait what. So it's. The cartoon was spelled as tunes like T U.

Speaker 1 12:45

N yes.

Speaker 4 12:46

Oh, and not T O O N S Never. And people think it was Looney tunes, when it's actually Looney tunes. We say that differently as well, because we say tuna, we don't say tuna, tuna. Okay, so the Bernstein bears didn't exist.

Speaker 3 13:00

Wait what?

Speaker 4 13:01

Yes, I did the lovable cartoon bear family actually spelled their last name with an A the Bernstein bears. Not yeah not E I, it was a I. Okay, so here's another one. Ashley did curious George have a tail.

Speaker 3 13:22

Curious George. Yes.

Speaker 4 13:25

No, he never had to tell Really. Yes, and that it says are you freaking out? Let's move on.

Misconceptions and Childhood Games

Speaker 5 13:32

I don't want to move on. That is really creepy.

Speaker 4 13:36

I think we all know this one was a sex in the city or sex on the city sex in the city, from the city and what.

Speaker 3 13:48

Series like in the city. I mean because I wanted to be Carrie Bradshaw. I wanted to be able to wear to to down 5th Avenue exactly with heels, with high and not like a tank top, like I just.

Speaker 4 13:59

They weren't having sex in the city, it was sex and the city.

Speaker 3 14:03

But I was thinking sex in the city, because all women had sex all the time.

Speaker 5 14:09

The city, and this one, this one.

Speaker 4 14:11

I'm not so sure actually, because it says how do you spell for breeze? The spray F.

Speaker 3 14:17

R E B R E E Z E for breeze. It's not, not a double I don't know that's a, no, no, no, f?

Speaker 4 14:27

E is right, it's whether there's a double E in the breeze parts yeah apparently there's no really yeah. It's a breeze. Let me see that would be two E's.

Speaker 3 14:37

I gotta put my glasses. Here we are guys, yep for breeze.

Speaker 4 14:43

That's interesting. That's the wrong spelling. It's this fella. I'm gonna go home check my for breeze. I can check that one I just got a bunch of okay, so Oscar Meyer or Oscar mayor.

Speaker 3 14:57

Meyer, oscar Meyer.

Speaker 4 14:59

Hey, I suppose.

Speaker 3 15:01

Like what is it, mike Meyer?

Speaker 5 15:06

Is the wire with the song why my millennia has a first name. Is it our? Let me have a second name is M a y.

Speaker 1 15:13

E.

Speaker 4 15:13

R, so it's a Y. I thought it was.

Speaker 5 15:17

As soon as you started singing right, I was like I know this one cuz there's a song about it.

Speaker 4 15:28

Is there? Is there or isn't there a tee in sketches no?

Speaker 3 15:32

no, it's not Right ch.

Speaker 4 15:35

It's good, trisha what?

Speaker 2 15:36

say you, I'm gonna say the opposite, cuz one of us is wrong.

Speaker 4 15:39

Yeah, no, there is, there's no T.

Speaker 2 15:41

I know tea it's sketches with ch girl, we got one right cheers.

Speaker 4 15:48

These go on forever. Okay, but I monopoly man and his monocle.

Speaker 5 15:53

Okay, so what is it if it's not a monocle?

Speaker 2 15:55

What is it?

Speaker 3 15:55

anything that is not. She does that. I'm telling you guys. Someone's no one, someone is screwing with us.

Speaker 4 16:01

No, it says here monopoly man and his monocle, or more like the fact he doesn't have a monocle. This, as some suggests, might be simple confusion between him and the planters. Peanut company mascot Mr Peanut.

Speaker 3 16:14

Peanuts. Peanut is not in monopoly. You know what I bet someone is just doing all this stuff to screw with us. No, they're changing their changes. I'm gonna be like, oh no, it never happened.

Speaker 4 16:25

I know.

Speaker 5 16:25

Trisha's like I've looked at that.

Speaker 4 16:27

So funny oh this is the other famous one as well fruit of the loom logo. Did you have a cornucopia behind us?

Speaker 5 16:38

Yeah, that's the grapes, grapes yeah.

Speaker 4 16:41

Yeah, it didn't have a cornucopia behind us?

Speaker 5 16:43

I didn't think so.

Speaker 4 16:43

No.

Speaker 3 16:45

I always thought that that was so weird, that it was fruit.

Speaker 2 16:48

I wouldn't know the name, cornucopia. That's pretty impressive.

Speaker 4 16:50

I wouldn't know about cornucopia yeah.

Speaker 3 16:52

Yeah, I just thought it was super inappropriate to have grapes.

Speaker 2 16:56

So you have this hard.

Speaker 5 17:01

The whole thing was just wrong.

Speaker 3 17:06

Seriously, like I always thought I'm like someone in marketing is having the biggest laugh every time they see the tidy whiteies. And then there's like grapes.

Speaker 5 17:19

But that was in the commercial.

Speaker 3 17:20

I know, but can you even imagine like you look at it and you're like, okay, someone got paid a lot of money and they are laughing all the way to the bank because they are Associating your tidy whiteies with greats our fruit of the loom and Ireland was only t-shirts.

Speaker 4 17:36

We never had underwear. Oh, we have tidy whiteies, but not only don't stores are pennies, yet no, not for the loom.

Speaker 3 17:45

Well, because Irish are like they're smart, they don't wear underwear. Well, there's that, and they don't want grapes on their logo.

Speaker 4 17:54

Yeah, it was. Yeah, yeah, I mean seriously. Yeah, I mean those grapes could be seen as hemorrhoids too.

Speaker 3 18:03

I would love to know if there was ever an interview with that marketing person. Now like in today's time when you look back.

Speaker 5 18:14

No, they might have a banana. No, no, no. I'm gonna say it's all bananas.

Speaker 4 18:18

Let's see, let's see, let's see, let's see, I haven't got a clear, I'm gonna cut it.

Speaker 2 18:20

I don't have a clear, no, there is no banana.

Speaker 5 18:22

Yeah, I didn't think so.

Speaker 4 18:23

No banana, that would be a little too much Just grapes on some lettuce, on an apple. Lettuce, lettuce. Well, I think they're lettuce. I can't see.

Speaker 3 18:32

There's no way. It's lettuce, there's lettuce. It's a banana, there is lettuce. Yeah, there is lettuce.

Speaker 4 18:38

Oh my, A fluffy bum.

Speaker 5 18:39

Well, it looks like it looks like lettuce. I feel like I'm confusing them with a Kool-Aid commercial, you know, with a big red bean.

Speaker 3 18:45

I love Mr Kool-Aid and he would just like come busting through and he was always happy oh we didn't have Kool-Aid in Ireland. You didn't drink the Kool-Aid. No, we don't have.

Speaker 5 18:54

Kool-Aid? No, we don't have Kool-Aid. Don't drink the Kool-Aid.

Speaker 4 18:57

No, that was a phrase that was lost on all of us. Yes, because we didn't know what that meant.

Speaker 2 19:00

Yes, oh, you missed out. Yeah, that's the best thing ever as a kid.

Speaker 4 19:04

Kool-Aid. Oh, we had things. We had other things. We did play curbs. What was that? I think it was just a doublet game. I'm actually really scared now. We had two really great games. So you stand on, like because all our roads, you know, are small roads, and so you stand on one curb and the other curb and you'd like throw the ball and you used to try and get the ball to like ricochet back to you, and that was one point.

Speaker 2 19:25

If you like throw it back at the curb For the dodge ball.

Speaker 4 19:27

I didn't think the high-press it. Well, it's only two people.

Speaker 5 19:30

I mean it was like, yeah, you're trying to hit it to the curb, so it'll unbalance back.

Speaker 4 19:33

And then we used to play ball against the wall. Did you ever do that, like with two tennis balls? No, oh, we used to do that and there was a whole bunch of games and like you had to like put it under your legs and over and under, and it was very cool.

Speaker 5 19:43

That's interesting.

Speaker 4 19:44

Yeah, yeah, it was a real city center game because there was nothing else to do Like ball against the wall.

Speaker 3 19:50

I loved that, though it was so much fun.

Speaker 4 19:51

I loved that yeah.

Speaker 3 19:54

Funny. I know the things we did when we were little.

Speaker 4 19:55

Yeah, four square I don't know what's four square. I don't even know Four seven.

Speaker 3 19:59

Tetherball Did you guys ever do tetherball?

Speaker 2 20:01

Tetherball scares me. No, well, it should it scares me.

Speaker 1 20:06

I mean, the thing that I remember the most about the game is that where we'd hold hands and you'd say like red rope, red rover, and I was always called Trisha over because I was so little and so I was like trying to bust through, so I was always the first one called it.

Speaker 3 20:15

I was a terrifying game, the fact that we didn't dislocate a shoulder. Did you guys play that?

Speaker 2 20:19

Yes.

Speaker 4 20:20

I think we I don't think I ever did, but I do. Oh, my gosh Call Red.

Speaker 3 20:23

Rover. We did that in PE. Yeah, no, pe was that, it was dodgeball and it was like that. Remember that movie, dodgeball.

Speaker 4 20:31

That, oh yes.

Speaker 3 20:32

It was legit Like we went psychotic oh wow, they still play dodgeball in school.

Speaker 2 20:38

It? Did you guys do the parachute thing? Oh my gosh. Yes, I love. That was the best.

Speaker 3 20:44

That was so much fun. Yeah, that was elementary school so fun.

Speaker 2 20:47

In PE we had like a giant parachute and you'd like lift it up and then everybody could like get down and get underneath of it. I know, and it would, that was like a big PE game.

Speaker 5 20:55

I am pretty sure that I am not imagining that I say we had square dancing.

Speaker 3 20:59

Oh, we did. Oh, no, we learned. No, we learned how to square dance.

Speaker 5 21:02

Yes, Is that true, or am I just no?

Speaker 3 21:05

we did, we did actually.

Speaker 5 21:06

We did actually Square dancing.

Speaker 4 21:09

Well, not square dancing.

Speaker 3 21:11

And you had to dress up after you learned all the little dances. But everyone had to do it.

Speaker 5 21:15

Can you imagine them going to school now and be like you're going to square dance the entire like PE classes?

Speaker 4 21:19

These might help them get into a line or a semi-circle.

Speaker 3 21:23

You're not wrong, I did I actually think it would actually be beneficial. I agree, no, I agree. No twerking. I just can't imagine we're going to square dance.

Speaker 5 21:33

That rhythm gymnastics. Remember the whole like oh my gosh, yes.

Speaker 2 21:37

I thought it was just yeah, I thought I was so coordinated and I just wrote.

Speaker 5 21:41

Look at this rope. It's like a rope yeah, it's like a rope on like a stick. No, but the rope you had to climb, did you guys have?

Speaker 2 21:46

to do that oh yeah, yeah, and pull-ups, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 21:49

That was in front of your entire pee.

Speaker 5 21:51

That was the um test the president's fitness test and you had to like do the flex arm hang.

Speaker 3 21:57

And you had to stay there. For what? Yeah, we just had to do it like part of our PE grade, and I mean, like the girls were like what now?

Speaker 5 22:04

Yeah, so the guys did pull-ups and the girls had to do the flex arm hang. So you had to hang there with your chin over the bar for like a minute Both.

Speaker 3 22:10

I think I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.

Speaker 5 22:14

I just remember thinking like I'm going to win everything else with that, yeah.

Speaker 3 22:18

It's just yeah, in sixth grade probably not, I know it is crazy, but yeah, the rope where you would have to climb it, I know.

Speaker 2 22:24

That's horrible I think the red rover is pretty awful. That's a awful game, yeah.

Speaker 3 22:28

I mean seriously, like again the fact that we did not dislocate someone's shoulder.

Speaker 5 22:34

I remember, but see, I remember it kind of differently. I remember that if you were really strong enough with your partner to like not them, not let them across, some people like would flip around and actually like land on their back.

Speaker 1 22:45

Does that make sense?

Speaker 5 22:46

Like they would go like a 360 over and on their back and it was scary because they didn't get through, but they were like completely on the ground.

Speaker 3 22:52

I didn't have this. I don't remember that happening. I mean, I just know what you're talking about.

Speaker 2 22:55

That does happen, yes, but if you're running to me, I'm just going to let go, yeah exactly, but they were.

Speaker 5 23:00

I mean people would be like you're not going to buy, so they would just like they'd fall on the ground.

Speaker 3 23:03

It's just like the old swing sets when you would go and you tried so hard to go over.

Speaker 4 23:07

Over over.

Speaker 3 23:08

Yes, and they would go even imagine and that they would lift like the swing sets would lift up a little yeah.

Speaker 4 23:13

Did you have those random things? I love that.

Speaker 5 23:17

But they were always on concrete.

Speaker 3 23:19

I have an artist.

Speaker 4 23:19

So like everybody would have skimmed, yeah, they were on concrete, they were metal.

Speaker 3 23:24

Oh, yeah, yeah. Like you would get going like you would jump on it and you would be hanging off of it.

Speaker 2 23:29

Yes, I think people sued people less then, so now it's a lot safer.

Speaker 4 23:32

Oh, they absolutely did Exactly.

Speaker 3 23:34

I've seen that it's she's on YouTube and it talks about Gen X and like just how, like you know, like just the whole generation was like you. I mean, you didn't come home till five.

Speaker 2 23:45

Exactly.

Speaker 3 23:47

We didn't get to like the people that have like we're still alive. I mean, yeah, like it was she is. I have to pull it up. She is absolutely correct and hilarious when she's like talking to a millennial and she's like what? Like? Anyway she's hilarious. She talks about nobody was gluten free. No, I mean, we couldn't come crying to our parents, because they're half the times why we cry.

Speaker 3 24:10

They didn't want to see us until five and I mean out the streets running to people like house from house to house to house, just like we didn't come home until the street lights came on.

Speaker 5 24:22

They had no idea where we were.

Nostalgic Reflections and Excitement for Meditation

Speaker 4 24:23

Nothing was going on, yeah, like there wasn't, like you know, all star soccer, baseball, whatever I do think, though, like it's very rare, I know, when I was growing up, there was always no matter where you went, there was always a child lost somewhere. I need to go. Can the mother of so-and-so please come pick up your child to customer service.

Speaker 3 24:44

But you never hear that.

Speaker 2 24:45

You never hear that now. No, because you'd be terrified. Yeah, I'm excited now, oh yeah.

Speaker 3 24:49

It's only like. That's what I've always wondered. Like so did like the bad people like so? We just didn't hear about it in the 80s.

Speaker 4 24:58

I mean, I do think there's a lot of us. I do think there's a lot of you didn't hear. It's only now when you listen, like if you're listening to podcasts on everything that happens now happened then. It was just you didn't know about us.

Speaker 3 25:09

Yeah, because I mean, I remember, like that's the thing, like that all their TVs would go off at 10 o'clock, but it would say parents, do you know where your children are? Like it, and then they would have the peacock from NBC Come on, and then it would go to white noise. You know what? At 10 o'clock.

Speaker 2 25:25

I feel so old because I did. You guys have that like we put a hanger in your TV and it like maneuvered or anything.

Speaker 4 25:31

Yes.

Speaker 2 25:31

Like it sounds like so old when you say that, but it's like I remember that.

Speaker 3 25:35

We used to have to hit the side of the TV and there was no remote control, like we were the remote control for our parents.

Speaker 5 25:41

Yes.

Speaker 3 25:42

It was like, hey, I want to go watch CBS or NBC or what, and the?

Speaker 4 25:45

smell of the static of the TV. Do you have that? Did you have like the static on the TV and like you could smell it and taste it? You can, but you could like, but you could feel the electricity. Yeah, you could kind of taste the static, I knew that's bad.

Speaker 5 26:00

I'm sure it was. I think that's what's wrong with me.

Speaker 3 26:04

And everything, everything was green.

Speaker 5 26:06

This did you have green and green Green appliances?

Speaker 4 26:11

green, green, I mean watch a dryer. Yeah, late 70s. Yeah, it was all our in the 70s.

Speaker 2 26:16

well, yeah, late, 70s, and then it turned to mauve and blue and a orange orange was a big one too Really. Oh, my God Orange.

Speaker 3 26:23

Then it was like the Laura Ashley thing, where it was like they had like peachy, mauve and blue and like that was us in Springfield. I have no idea.

Speaker 5 26:33

I just remember the green, green, green, everything was green. Yeah, we had a yellow. This yellow was the color of my mom and dad's cabinets. I remember that the yellow and it was either yellow or that green.

Speaker 4 26:42

Yeah, that's 70s.

Speaker 5 26:44

Oh, 70s earlier.

Speaker 4 26:46

And then comes back, then comes back.

Speaker 5 26:48

I'm waiting for the green to come back.

Speaker 4 26:49

The green to come back.

Speaker 5 26:51

But life is so much longer. It's probably out there and you're going to spend $10,000 for a dishwasher, because it's going to be there green, but you hate it. I know Like you're going to die.

Speaker 4 26:59

Well, when we lived in New York, the first year we lived in New York, scott went out and bought all the stuff for the apartment because I wasn't there, and he went to Creighton Barrel and everything we had was this green and orange. And so that was the first year. Yeah, I still had the lamp. I threw it up when we moved the space from our old space to the new space for the Voice Academy, but I had this massive green lamp that was that color and he had all that.

Speaker 3 27:21

I was like, oh, my gosh, you're like honey. Where are?

Speaker 4 27:23

you, I was ready to kill him.

Speaker 3 27:25

Seriously, that's when you're like were you drunk?

Speaker 4 27:28

Oh no, no, he's really good, he's really good. Oh, that's right.

Speaker 1 27:31

You did, he would be great.

Speaker 4 27:33

But we have total opposite-taste. Gots like modern industrial. Oh no, I'm like Shabby Sheik. Yeah, they totally don't agree. I want old, he wants new. It's like oh.

Speaker 2 27:44

That's a Scott and I are my Scott.

Speaker 4 27:46

Yeah, see, it's a Scott, it's a Scott thing.

Speaker 3 27:49

Yeah, not shared Scott.

Speaker 4 27:51

Not shared, scott yeah.

Speaker 3 27:52

No shared Scott.

Speaker 4 27:53

Not the Scott that gave her the best record ever.

Speaker 5 27:56

Yeah, that's her, scott, I told him that when we were about to.

Speaker 3 28:00

We were going to tell you about that one.

Speaker 4 28:01

I was like oh wait, let me tell you.

Speaker 3 28:02

Yeah, you're like you. You're funny, I might get some messages.

Speaker 2 28:05

Was it just me who was panned too. Yeah, I know.

Speaker 4 28:09

Oh, hey here we are.

Speaker 1 28:11

Yes.

Speaker 4 28:11

It's the Australian, you see. Which our next guest is Australian as well. Yes, I'm super excited about it.

Speaker 2 28:16

We were talking about it, so our upcoming guest next week is Tom Cronin who is the. They call him the King of Calm with Meditation. Oh, my god, I need that and we yes, I'm super excited to talk to him because he's been just around the world talking about meditation and has a meditation app, written several books, so he's going to be. I think he's fascinating.

Speaker 4 28:35

I think this might be the only guest that would be excited about it if he could put us to sleep.

Speaker 3 28:39

Yes, that's so true. Yeah, because when I was listening to him speak interviews and stuff I actually really need, oh, yeah, I really do think that I am to a point where I absolutely need meditation. And just how do you bring that crazy energy down?

Speaker 4 28:58

I think you have to live the crazy first though. So, like, even listen to what he used to do, like him, I think you have to, because then you don't know, yeah, stockbroker. And I think you have to, I think, to get the real benefit of us, because you don't, how do you know otherwise If you were a super calm person anyway?

Speaker 3 29:14

Yeah, you're like what I need it. I see how you turn your brain off, because like I can go like yoga or I can like I can get in that, but then my hypnotherapy that's what you need, see, I stress myself out trying to meditate, because then I'm trying to meditate and stop thinking, stop thinking, stop thinking, I know like.

Speaker 4 29:29

You're supposed to be quiet, you're supposed to be calm, you're supposed to be like visualizing water and I'm just like, oh, I'm not doing any of that stuff and then I get stressed out.

Speaker 5 29:37

That's why I like hypnotherapy, because you're like more, it's just more relaxed.

Speaker 3 29:40

Ok, so we need to talk about that too. Yeah, we need to.

Speaker 4 29:43

Well, we need to talk to a hypnotherapist.

Speaker 3 29:45

I'm a hypnotherapist as well. I'm certified. Yes, although we need a full.

Speaker 2 29:49

you need to tell us all about it. Hypnotizing yeah, we need a full session.

Speaker 4 29:53

We should interview you, yes.

Speaker 5 29:55

But it's very relaxing.

Speaker 3 29:56

We're going to do it.

Speaker 5 29:57

Because I'm like you the meditation with, where it's like OK, listen, and like listen to what else you hear in the room, and I'm like, oh my god, I hear the air conditioning.

Speaker 3 30:04

I hear the birds chirping.

Speaker 5 30:05

Four doors down. I hear that at night, so I don't need to.

Speaker 3 30:08

Yeah. So I'm actually really, really excited Because I do think that finding that calm yes Is super beneficial. Oh my gosh. Absolutely we all need it.

Speaker 2 30:21

So we're going to look forward to next week.

Speaker 5 30:23

Every day on the big screen, we're talking to the king of calm, Tom Cronin.

Speaker 2 30:26

Oh my gosh Cheers.

Speaker 5 30:28

Nice Cheers. There's nobody. Have a great week, stop talking. Have a great week.

Speaker 1 30:33

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