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Nostalgic Musical Memories: A 90s Game Show Adventure
Remember those 90s hits that defined your childhood and teenage years? The Cajun Mamas sure do! In this laugh-out-loud game show episode, these Southern podcasters put their musical memories to the test, attempting to finish lyrics from iconic 90s pop and country songs.
From Britney Spears to Garth Brooks, TLC to Celine Dion, the hosts demonstrate their lyrical knowledge (or hilariously lack thereof) while reminiscing about the soundtrack of their youth. You'll find yourself singing along as they tackle hits from Ace of Base, the Spice Girls, and Alan Jackson, complete with impromptu performances and debates about whether certain lyrics were ever correctly understood.
One particular highlight involves the revelation that a friend had spent years thinking Alanis Morissette was singing about a "cross-eyed bear" rather than "the cross I bear" – a confession that will have you thinking about all the lyrics you might have been singing wrong for decades! The friendly competition creates an atmosphere that feels like sitting around the kitchen table with old friends, sharing memories tied to the music that shaped a generation.
Throughout the show, the hosts inject their trademark Southern charm and wit, transforming what could be a simple game into a nostalgic journey that reminds us how deeply music becomes intertwined with our life stories. Whether it's recalling dancing to "Summer Girls" by LFO or belting out Celine Dion's power ballads as children, their authentic reactions and personal anecdotes create instant connection with listeners.
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what's the next line? Of the cross side cross side my friend andrea, shout out, andrea lejeune. She always thought it was cross-eyed bear that you gave to me welcome to coffee talk with occasion.
Speaker 3:Mamas, grab a cup of coffee, settle in and let's dive into real conversations about life, motherhood and a little inspiration to brighten your day.
Speaker 1:Welcome to Coffee Talk with the Cajun Mamas. We got another game show episode for y'all.
Speaker 2:Game show edition that bow tie is still nice and sharp, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Making me want to drink some wine, the cork, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Should have a fancy drink with that, the bow tie. It just goes all right. Before we get started on the fun, we would like to have to say a big special thank you to blue plate mayo for being the official sponsor of coffee talk with the cajun mamas so exciting for us.
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Speaker 2:Alright, Alright, good morning. What's the theme of this? Tell us.
Speaker 1:This game show is Finish. The Lyric 90s edition we got this in the back. I'm so excited about this. I'm glad it's not guess who wrote this song, because apparently I can't. I'm not very good at that, but we got it yeah maybe I'll do that next time.
Speaker 3:Oh, if you like, in the game show series.
Speaker 1:Please let us know, because we are having way too much fun with it so we hope you do, but we wanted to give you something a little more, a little different, a little different, all right, okay, so I have a combination of pop and country. I'm just going to roll with it, okay, yeah, okay, just like our playlist.
Speaker 2:Sometimes you get Reba, sometimes you get Juvenile. Let's go.
Speaker 1:Different things on the playlist. Mm-hmm, all right. So Different things on the playlist, all right. So now the rules are you got to finish the lyric. You can't just say the lyric, you got to sing it because that's funnier. Okay, right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, got it.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 3:Do we both just do?
Speaker 2:this or we have to take turns.
Speaker 1:There's got to be a score, right?
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, we'll take turns Maybe the first, like you're going to say it and then we both have to answer, like whoever gets it first gets the point. Yeah, yeah, I think that's how it should be. Let's do that.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay, ready. Here's the first one Under the pale moon. For so many years I've wondered who you are. How could a person like me care for you All right?
Speaker 2:Why do I bother? It's ace of base. Yes, but yeah, why do I bother? It's Ace of Base.
Speaker 1:Yes, I saw the sign. Sarah gets the point. That's a basic Ace of Base. Basic Ace of Base. We could do. We could do like three points per and then you got to do the artist and the name of the song.
Speaker 3:No, Okay, so if a whipper butt too bad then what?
Speaker 1:Okay, it's too much.
Speaker 2:Okay, but for the next one I say you can't sing it.
Speaker 1:I need to hum it, you need to say it, you need to say it.
Speaker 2:Say the lyric. Okay, that's good, that takes out all my fun Well. I'm sorry, but she knew it because of the tune.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:If you wouldn't have sang it, she might have not guessed it.
Speaker 1:All Okay, if you wouldn't have sang it, she might have not guessed it. All right.
Speaker 2:Just say the words.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry, but I had all these impressions ready to go.
Speaker 2:They were hot. Okay, but you sing so good that I mean I caught the tune but I couldn't finish the lyric. But I knew what song it was, so it's halfway. How about this? If we can't guess it, you're going to sing it.
Speaker 1:Okay, and then we guess All right Okay.
Speaker 2:Poor. Thing.
Speaker 1:Okay, Because just saying it, you know like we might not get it. Her daddy says she ain't worth a lick, he ain't worth a lick.
Speaker 2:When it comes to brains, you got the short end of the stick. He's young, and then she just don't care. Okay, good job. She's in love with a boy. Who would she follow anywhere, tommy? Oh, yes, okay.
Speaker 1:Tommy, okay, next one. Oops, the music's banging and the light's down low.
Speaker 2:Oh.
Speaker 1:Oh, oh, this is tough. One more dance, and then we're good to go. Yes, what is it I don't know what it is, though Sing it for me, yeah, sing it Music's banging and the lights down low. Just one more dance and then we're good to go. Oh, waiting for someone. Christina Aguilera, I knew the words, but I don't get the point for that Genie in a bottle. Yeah, I don't get the point for that. Huh, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you knew the lyric.
Speaker 1:Okay, there is so much a man can tell you, so much he can say.
Speaker 2:I like it better when you say it. I think it's so much funnier. It's like so robotic.
Speaker 1:Say it again, I'm going to use it in a sentence so much a man can tell you, so much he can say Remain my power, power, my pleasure, my pain.
Speaker 3:Yes, y'all both get that one good seal see, I'm gonna start saying the name.
Speaker 1:It's okay, it's okay, it's fine. Okay, it's not fair to deny me.
Speaker 2:Dang. That's all I did. Is that not enough? That's all I did.
Speaker 1:Okay, let me give you a little more, and I'm here to remind you of the mess you left when you went away.
Speaker 2:It's not fair, oh Alanis.
Speaker 1:Morissette.
Speaker 3:Oh, that was way too much To deny me.
Speaker 1:What's the next line Of the cross-eyed bear Cross-eyed, my Cross-eyed bear, cross-eyed, my friend Andrea Shout out Andrea Lejeune. She always thought it was cross-eyed bear that you gave to me. Yo, yo, yo, I don't know.
Speaker 2:Whoa, oh y'all A song and a story.
Speaker 1:I like that. Okay, well, you couldn't be that man I adored. You don't seem to know, seem to care, what your heart is for, what your heart is for, and I don't know him anymore. There's nothing where we used to lie. My conversation has run dry. And that's what's going on oh, lying naked on the floor.
Speaker 2:Yes, I'm torn. Natalie Imbruia Very good. Okay, that was good, sarah. How did you get that from them words? I don't know.
Speaker 1:Because that was my favorite song when I was a kid.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she was like three years old and like you, know how ross does.
Speaker 1:Naked butt, naked butt, or she would like, okay. Every other word is uh-huh, yeah, okay, oh, could it be that you are at the crib with another lady? You are so good at this, like it's taking me too long, oh man.
Speaker 3:She's not giving me any clues either.
Speaker 1:No you just you just should know this.
Speaker 2:I just should know this.
Speaker 1:You knew dream.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't even know what that was, because I had to sing it, you know. Yeah, dream, yeah, I don't even know what that was, because I had to sing it. You know, yeah, it's easy when you hear the tune, it comes to me, but just the words it's not coming to me. Give me some hands.
Speaker 1:Well, I can sing it. Where's your hand? No, no, no, she wants to sing it. She wants to sing. So bad, then she's really going. You Lower the bar, okay.
Speaker 2:I need a point on the board.
Speaker 1:So here's the story from A to Z.
Speaker 3:You want to get with me. You got to listen carefully. You got M in the place. Y'all both got that.
Speaker 1:I don't know the words, but I like them in your face.
Speaker 2:You're not going. We have dancing going on too. That was the Spice Girls, in case y'all didn't know, we need to make sure people understand.
Speaker 1:Because people might be watching this and they don't know, they have never heard the Spice Girls. Yes, well.
Speaker 2:I pity Wanna be oh sad. Spice Girls Listen, I'm going to tell y'all the names and artists of these songs, so that way you can make a playlist. Okay, this will be a great playlist a great playlist.
Speaker 1:Maybe we'll get chris to record us singing these songs for you.
Speaker 2:Make a cd oh, lord help, I'm gonna let laney take my part.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'm going to let Lainey take my part. A CD, okay, you're lagging, this is going to be too easy. Oh Well, good, cole, get it, then you shush. Don't say anything. Okay, I won't say nothing. Okay, blame it all on my roots.
Speaker 2:I showed up in boots, ruined your black tie affair.
Speaker 1:Who sings it? Garth Brooks. Good job. What's it called Blame?
Speaker 2:it all on my roots no. Friends in low place.
Speaker 1:Very good I got a point Yay, showed it, yay, yay. I still remember when 30 was old that's a sad song.
Speaker 2:I always make me cry old, my biggest fear was oh, that's, I wasn't thinking of that one he had to go very good, that is strawberry wine I still remember when that song came out and I started singing it and my mama was like, are you singing? And I'm like Something about innocence and all lost my innocence and stuff. It's under the strawberry moon or whatnot, or the moon, whatever strawberry wine, yeah, yeah, but it was something about the moon. And she was like what are you thinking?
Speaker 1:I'm like I don't know, I didn't know what was happening in that song. Could you imagine Brynn singing that? Yeah?
Speaker 2:I mean, it would be like that, though it would be like that she wouldn't know, but anyway, yeah, great song.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, it is a great song. Okay, y'all ready. Mm-hmm. What started way back in third grade, when George Strait used to sit next to Emily?
Speaker 2:Lou Hayes Check yes or no.
Speaker 1:Yeah, very good. I couldn't think of the name of the song. Switch that one up a little bit, you did switch it up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I like that. Almost turned into a Jeopardy question.
Speaker 1:What is Check yes or no? Who was George Strait Say? You will say you won't. Say you'll do what I don't. Say it's true, then do me, c'est la vie.
Speaker 2:I couldn't think of the tune on that one who sings that S?
Speaker 1:Club 7.
Speaker 3:Bewitched.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:Bewitched yes.
Speaker 1:Bewitched. I think I saw them whenever they came with.
Speaker 2:I thought that was the Spice Girls. No. That was the same time though, right, c'est la vie, they British. Well, the Spice Girls were too.
Speaker 1:No, I'm saying Spice Girls are British. Oh, okay, like they couldn't know another name Wearing my six-shooter riding my pony on a cattle drive Next line.
Speaker 2:Stealing the young girl's heart.
Speaker 1:Very good.
Speaker 2:Who sings it? Almost said Toby Mac, toby Keith.
Speaker 1:Toby Keith Woke up in New York City in a funky cheap motel. Yeah, I was so excited when they did the Ricky.
Speaker 2:Martin dance. What's the next line? Oh, okay, say it. Say it again. What was the first part In a funky, cheap motel?
Speaker 1:Next part.
Speaker 2:She took my heart and she took my money. There, you go, you got that.
Speaker 1:I didn't know that one Girl. She must have sent me a sleeping pill.
Speaker 2:I just remembered the music video Ooh Ooh.
Speaker 1:That was a risky, risky, risky, okay. Okay, got a scrub checking me, but his game is kind of weak. Oh, got a scrub checking me, but his game is kind of weak and I know that he cannot approach me Because I'm looking like class and he's looking like trash Can't get rid of me no, oh no.
Speaker 2:I don't want your number. No, I don't want to get rid of you. That is TLC. That is TLC. That is TLC.
Speaker 1:We'll give you both the point.
Speaker 3:Oh, thank you. Okay, very good, very good.
Speaker 1:I like how you come in with the people you know, oh, the name, the artist, yeah. This is a fun one. All right, let me hit one that I have already. Okay, so I'm trying to hide it so that no one knows, but I guess it shows when you look into my eyes. All right, name the artist Coda. That's the BSBs, not String Boys, what's it called?
Speaker 2:As Long as you Love Me Very good, okay, all right.
Speaker 1:Next up, we got. Oh, this is one of my faves. Don't say that that gives me an edge. You got the edge anyway probably when you take a sip, you buzz like a hornet.
Speaker 2:I hope this screenshots our face for this right now. That's the.
Speaker 1:Okay, when you take a sip, you buzz like a hornet.
Speaker 2:I don't know that's not helping me. She said that's one of her favorite songs. I don't know that's not helping me. She said that's one of her favorite songs. I don't know what it is. Speak. Don't sing it yet. Speak the next line.
Speaker 1:That's what I'm trying to get y'all to. Okay, y'all gonna just name the song this time, okay.
Speaker 2:Wait, you telling me if you say you think we're gonna know it From the next line we'll know it, we're gonna take a sip you buzz like a hornet.
Speaker 1:Billy Shakespeare wrote a whole bunch of sonnets. Oh Sonnets, I knew my way. Abercrombie and Fitch, I take it, if I had, I hated that song LFT.
Speaker 2:It's LFO, lfo. Yeah, lafayette, lft. Wait, let me think of the name of this. Take it if I had one wish For the summer, yeah, summer. Summer Girls Summer Girls I did not like them.
Speaker 1:Steal your honey like I stole your bike. I did not like them. Steal your honey like I stole your bike. That's the one. I should have, that lyric that was I'm sorry.
Speaker 2:That was the time to be alive millennials.
Speaker 1:Y'all know what we talking about.
Speaker 2:Oh, yes, absolutely.
Speaker 1:I finished crying in the instant that you left. I finished and I can't remember where or when or how, oh, my Lord, and I banished every memory you and I have ever made.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, you just busted out Celine Dion. Yeah, golly, what's the name of the song? All right, celine Dion, don't ever bring that the name of the song.
Speaker 1:All right, celine Dion, don't ever bring that one by me.
Speaker 3:Or any other millennial. It's all coming back to me now.
Speaker 1:TikTok and it was like millennials were in their room doing.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, and the fan was blowing on them. That was a trend for a while. That was great Before anybody could see it.
Speaker 1:Huh, she was so good.
Speaker 2:Oh, I love her, the power of love. Oh, I love her so much I had all the CDs.
Speaker 1:I would like to see her in Vegas one time. Oh, if y'all do that, I'm going.
Speaker 2:I'm going. Did you see the documentary on her? No, she's got vocal troubles. It broke my heart.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it broke my heart Aw yeah. Yeah, it broke my heart, but yeah, any Celine Dion lovers out there, let us know in the comments.
Speaker 2:Baby don't misunderstand what I'm trying to tell ya. Oh, don't misunderstand what I'm trying to tell ya, I like how you just start singing it, just hoping a tune will come. You were actually pretty close on the LFO, don't misunderstand what I'm trying to tell you.
Speaker 3:Look, I like how you did that.
Speaker 2:Baby, baby, don't misunderstand what I'm trying to tell you.
Speaker 1:Speak the next line, please. Every time you look at me, my heart is jumping. It's easy to see.
Speaker 2:It's a Britney Spears song. My heart is jumping. It's easy to see. It's a Britney Spears song, my heart is jumping. It's easy to see. You drive me crazy. I just can't sleep.
Speaker 1:I'm so excited I'm in too deep. Oh crazy yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she can't stop.
Speaker 1:I got a Baby get up. She can't stop. I got a microphone in front of me.
Speaker 2:That was the one I really wanted to impression.
Speaker 1:Okay, all right.
Speaker 2:You can do a good one. Show us your Britney. Show us your Britney.
Speaker 1:Oh, you want me to show you yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh, my Britney, she's already halfway there, so surprised you asked you need a lot, but like the old Brittany not the Brittany right now with the dark eyeliners on Poor baby.
Speaker 1:Let's got to get Brittany together Go ahead.
Speaker 2:Go Lainey, this is your moment.
Speaker 1:Now it's just too much. Okay, the pressure's too much. Maybe I'll just bust it out later.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah Do that.
Speaker 1:All right If too much. Okay, the pressure is too much. Maybe I'll just bust it out later. Yeah, okay, do that. All right, if you drink, don't drive. Do the watermelon crawl very good? Okay, we did that one not long ago, that's probably just fresh on her. All right, tracy bird. It was the other tracy, the other tracy guys. We almost out that's okay.
Speaker 2:Do we need some? We about good on time, so yeah okay, way down yonder in the chattahoochee it gets hotter than a hoochie coochie.
Speaker 1:That's alan jackson see, I was thinking I never knew how much that money mortar meant to me and I learned who. It was a lot about living and a little about love. But you didn't go with one of those lyrics, you went straight into the hoochie-coochie.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you went to the hoochie-coochie.
Speaker 1:First, yeah, you're right. Okay, okay, last one. Oh gosh, I don't want to make this the last one, it's got to be a good one. Oh, I know that's a lot of pressure, because I hadn't thought of that song in forever.
Speaker 2:And yeah, what was? That like share, do you believe?
Speaker 1:doesn't love share. I can feel something inside me say I really don't think you're strong enough now. That was another one.
Speaker 2:You got that one down friend.
Speaker 1:That one. That's a good one. Me and Lainey loved Moonstruck. Have you ever seen that movie?
Speaker 2:With Nicolas Cage.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, one time a long time ago. Yeah, it was good. I love it Over by the wall.
Speaker 1:Bring me the big one. Okay, here's one. Couldn't understand how to work it out. Couldn't understand how to work it out.
Speaker 2:Couldn't understand how to work it out. Not country no, not country Okay.
Speaker 1:I couldn't understand how to work it out.
Speaker 2:It could be that you just make it sound so good. Couldn't understand how to work it out. It could be that you just make it sound so good.
Speaker 1:Couldn't understand how to work it out. What's the next line?
Speaker 2:I don't know that song, it's just the way that she talks.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry, the correct answer is once again, as predicted, left my broken heart open Broken heart open and you ripped it out.
Speaker 3:Sugar rape, that was horrible.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, something so deceiving.
Speaker 3:Who is the host?
Speaker 1:to finish the lyric oh yes, I believe it.
Speaker 2:Oh, he was the host. To finish the lyric Turn me around again.
Speaker 1:Shut the door. Baby, Don't say a word. I love it. All right, thank you again for being a great game show host, absolumo.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 1:If you liked our game show, let us know. If you didn't, don't tell us anything, because we had fun, just everybody could just scroll on.
Speaker 2:If you have a suggestion for another topic type of game show, maybe our music category? Let us know. We want to accommodate all types of interests. All the music, just don't ask us to do sports trivia, because we would not know nothing. Yeah, you would hear this.
Speaker 1:A lot and nobody likes to hear that I was going to try to make a cricket sound.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's one. Guess that animal, guess that animal, guess that sound. Oh yeah, that could be another one.
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