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Episode 18: Millennial Nostalgia Trip w/ Kayla Becker and Vanessa Curry
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Kayla and Vanessa take a deep dive into millennial nostalgia, exploring the toys, snacks, technology, and fashion trends that defined their generation and are now considered "vintage" by Gen Z.
• Candy bracelets, Tamagotchis, and toys like Bop It and Skip It that were playground essentials
• Cell phone evolution from Nokia bricks to Sidekicks, and how phones went from tiny status symbols to the massive screens of today
• The comeback of millennial musicians like Backstreet Boys, Spice Girls, and Nelly who are still performing their hits decades later
• Movie and TV reboots including Freakier Friday (which popped) and Mean Girls (which flopped)
• Snack throwbacks including Warheads, Kool-Aid, and discontinued favorites like Squeeze-Its
• Fashion trends cycling back including low-rise jeans, skirts over pants, and chunky belts
• Physical signs of aging despite feeling mentally young, like pulling muscles doing simple tasks
• How millennials are navigating the strange experience of watching their childhood become "vintage culture"
Magic Eight Ball says millennials will age "without a doubt" gracefully as we continue to embrace our nostalgia while moving forward.
Millennial Check-In and Friendship Bracelets
Speaker 1hello, millennials and losers. Welcome back to milk and honeys. I'm kayla becker and I'm vanessa curry, and last week we teased that we were going to talk a little bit about what it was like being raised as a millennial back in the day, because it's been very apparent lately, especially to the Gen Zers who follow me on social media, that I am old now. Isn't that a weird feeling? Yes, I don't feel old, we're not, I do. My body feels a little old, my mind doesn't feel old. Yeah, I mean, I always say age is just a state of mind and I do feel young. I feel like it is weird because I feel like I'm 10 years younger than I am. Same right. Then, when I meet someone 10 years younger than me, oh, I'm like oh, you are. Yes, it's just it's, it's you know what it is. It's always just life experiences that make it so different. Okay, that's fair. That's where I feel. I feel as though I am that person now that is like oh well, just wait until you do this X, y and Z and you'll feel like I'm doing that. People used to tell me that I'd be like yeah, right, whatever, and no, it is true. I think that's the biggest difference of just mentally. We've gone through a lot of more life experiences. We feel like boomers at this point, but we're going to go through Literally. I'm going to hit this mic 10 times. If you're listening and not watching, you hear like random thuds Vanessa's not hitting me, I'm just hitting the mic. We're going to go through like all of the things that millennials know Snacks through. Like all of the things that millennials know snacks and games and pastimes and music.
Speaker 1But, uh, before we get going, I did want to give you something that I thought you would really appreciate. I'm scared and I just thought you'd want to wear a little candy candy bracelet. These can be our, our friendship bracelet. How cute. We all remember wearing these growing up. You know, oh my god, we're officially BFVR. Y'all remember these, right? I'd like sit in class and like I mean, someone talks to you. You're like what BFVR snack? Yes, oh my God, let me show these to kids. They don't understand that these are so cute, also so unsanitary, but like, but like, love, whatever, whatever. I know we were so intense. I feel like I never get sick as an adult. I get sick twice a year, maybe because of how unsanitary we were as kids.
Speaker 1We got all of our immune systems built up because yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, I'm going to bring out things that are going to make us feel old throughout this episode. This is so cute, Isn't it? Can you never take it all If you, yeah, I'm going to eat all the candy. I'll just keep the string, because that's really when you know you're a BF. We'll get the necklaces too. Yes, we have to get, like, the necklaces with the broken heart. Yes, and you get the best and I get the front. Yes, or BFF, whatever. Yeah, the little like yeah, you know what would be funny, milk and honey symbol candies. And then we can like sell them to you guys, and you guys would buy them. You know, buy them for top dollar.
Speaker 1Um, okay, so last week you talked about you went to the magic castle. Yes, and it got me thinking. I was like well, wonder if I can learn a magic trick in time for this episode and like impress vanessa with like a card trick. Stop, well, I practiced a few and I couldn't do it. Okay, I did think this would be an easier way. We all remember our, our magic eight ball. Oh, we sure do, honey.
Magic Eight Ball and Childhood Toys
Speaker 1So I think we should start and close out this episode asking the question to the magic eight ball. Okay, would you like to do the honors? Sure, okay, how about you ask the question and I'll shake it? Okay, is Milk and Honey's going to blow up and be a household name on podcast listeners everywhere? My reply is no, it's broken. We're sending it back. We got to do two out of three. We always did that Two out of three. Better not tell you. Now, let's do one more. Okay, you know what you. Now let's do one more. Okay, you know what, april, I'm going to do one more. I think this is. This is why we don't have them anymore. This episode's over. Let's see. Cannot predict. Now, I'm done with you.
Speaker 1Is there anything in there that says yes? Is there any good thing? There's only so many sides. We're off to a really bad start. You may rely on it. Okay, we'll take that one. We'll take that one. It says yes, that's what it says. Oh, that was, um, that was not, that was not what we. Maybe it's because it wasn't made. Uh, you know, back then, back then, I need to go. It's got to be different now it does.
Speaker 1Well, I went on the internet because I wanted to buy, like the bop it and skip it. We all remember like skip it, skip it. We all have like messed up ankles because you'd always like the Bop it and the Skip it. We all remember like Skip it, skip it. We all have like messed up ankles because you'd always like knock your ankles out. And I went on Amazon to buy these toys and you can't buy them on Amazon. They don't exist anymore. Well, bop it's do, but it's a different Bop it. Yeah, the one that you got the other day. I was like that's not a Bop it. I don't remember it looking like that. It's like that looks like a free, like a spaceship. It's very like minimalistic bop it, like we want the one that looks like a dildo, yes. And so I went on to ebay and there was a section under vintage toys, so I bought it's a bop it and a skip it and we're gonna have to play with it when it comes out. We are, we are, we. You guys will definitely see that for sure.
Speaker 1Yeah, what was your? What was your favorite millennial toy? My favorite millennial toy, honestly, probably was a Tamagotchi. You like a Tamagotchi. I loved a Tamagotchi, which is funny because my nine-year-old niece just got one from a vintage store, I believe. I don't think she got it. She knew what it was. I think you could still buy them now because I was looking it up. I think you could still buy them now because I was looking it up. But I do think she may have bought it at like a thrift store or something. But don't quote me on this. I'm actually just talking to my sister, so don't quote me on this. But she has one and she was asking me how do I use this, how do I do this? And she pulled it up and, oh my gosh, just seeing it through a screen, I remember getting it taken away in school and, uh, you know, we weren't, we weren't allowed to bring them to school because, you know, like hello, you had to feed it.
Speaker 1You had to, you know, make sure it was sleeping and go to the bathroom. And so I'm in class, we're all in class, kind of, you know, checking our little Tamagotchis, making sure they're not dying. And yeah, it was just funny because my niece was like why is it still crying? I just fed it and I go, you eat like 70 times a day, so your Tamagotchi is still hungry. You just got to feed it again and she's like, okay, I don't want to get it. I don't want to get one now. Honestly, when I saw it I was like I want it.
Cell Phones and Technology Nostalgia
Speaker 1But again that and like furbies were oh my god. Furbies oh, so creepy, but love, and what were the things we got that you could like grow the, the hair, ch-ch-ch-chia, the chia pet, oh my god. But yeah, I like lately, and it's funny that your niece has one of these, because how did you know what it was? I'd be curious to see. I mean, I feel like now my niece wouldn't, she just wants her iPhone. That's the only thing she really wants to play with. How old is your niece? Again 14. She's at that age where it's like I did too, that's what I wanted. I mean I was allowed to have.
Speaker 1We didn't. We didn't have like good ones. All we had on it was snake and uh, snake and tetris. But oh, on the phone, yeah, what was? Did you have a cell phone in high school? I did. Yeah, it was, but it was one of those. No, I think it was a nokia and it was just like that round. It looked like a little, yeah, like a infinity symbol, sort of okay, and then it had like these, like rubbery, the little butt, yeah, condoms like almost that you could change the color and it had a hard antenna, not one that went up, but just like a little hard one. Man, it's so funny phones.
Speaker 1I remember in high school the rich family in our, uh, the wellburns they own the cabinetry, the cabinet making factory, whatever but she came in with a gold razor phone and the razor phones were like so hot back then. You know, you had money and especially the gold razor phone or the pink one, yeah, and I wasn't allowed to have a cell phone until I graduated high school. What, yeah, we weren't allowed to have them. But you lived in a smaller town, small town, and we didn't have a cell tower. Anyway, I told we had the walkie-talkies, yes, the little walkie-talkies, southern Link, beep-beep.
Speaker 1But what was your favorite? My favorite cell phone I ever had was a Sidekick. Yeah, I had the Voyager, which is kind of similar. What was that? It was this way, oh, and you flipped it like this. Yeah, that was my first phone when I was able to have a phone. I still do this like a sidekick, you know, you just like I would flick it, put it down, flick it up, put it down, flick it up and yeah, it's like that's. Maybe that's why my anxiety hit after, because, like you had something like a little anxiety thing to just like yeah, flick it, like yeah, and I would rhinestone the back, of course, the whole nine yards. It was really back then.
Speaker 1We wanted our cell phones to be like so small and sleek and now it's like these. I mean, this is, this is a brick. Like I can't even I can't hold it in my hand. I feel like use two hands to like type like how did this happen? Have we changed into?
Speaker 1I know android now has a flip phone. They do, yes, right, and it's. And it's weird. It's like you, you flip it open and it becomes one screen. And I've seen it. It does actually like it looks cool, looks cool, but I'm I'm never leaving an iPhone. No, sorry, I wonder how many people go from like when you swap from Android to iPhone. Like I wonder if that's like yeah, because like no one is going from iPhone to Android, let's be honest, no, but if you are, why Tell us why? Like, I want to know Because, yeah, a friend of mine gave me her Android. I'm like, I don't know how to work this. I'm not learning what. Back to being a millennial. I'm too old to relearn things or to learn new things. I don't want to have to learn new technology.
Speaker 1What was like the dumbest toy that you got an injury from? Definitely Skip it. Yeah, like it was so painful. I'd like I want to go again because it has the ticker on it. And so I had to win on the playground and have like the most skippets Thought I had all this like coordination, I have none.
Speaker 1We built stilts one time Out of what. Yeah, we had like these high sticks and then my uncle would nail in other little pegs and so we were like walk around with them. My mom did it, my grandpa did. At the time everyone would try it, um, and I definitely. I, I definitely like fell a few times and probably scraped my knee from that, but it was so fun, though we were dangerous. Back then, stuff like like I didn't know how to skateboard but we had this big hill and so I would sit on the skateboard and like wipe out without fail every time, scrape my knees. But I feel like back then you scrape your knees, you get up and you just go and do it again. Yes, right, yeah.
Speaker 1My mom would always say put some ice on it, even if you're bleeding, just put some ice on it. Put a bit, put a band-aid on it. You could be having like half your skin. Yes, you need a skin graft, but no, we're not just, we're just putting ice on it. That's how it was.
Speaker 1I still have this big scar on my knee from like running. It's like it's kelo's keloided, and I was going for a jog and there's like bat gravel and I tripped and fell. My dad was running behind me, didn't even know he was there. I fall. I hear laughter, like this big laughter. He saw me like wipe out All the rocks went up into my knee. I mean the amount of blood and my mom was like, just yeah, put some ice on it. I probably if I have perfect legs, but, mom, because of you I have a deformed kneecap because you made me put ice on it. I know till this day I want to get a tattoo of like a little ice, a little melting ice, for my mom, because it is so funny.
Speaker 1It's like a running joke, like just with our family we're like, ah, put some ice on it. Oh you're, you're literally gushing blood. Just put a bandaid. Yeah, put a bandaid on, and that's like different with, like boomers and like millennials, yes. And then now Gen Z's, they scrape and it's like, oh my God, like all the priests, yes, hospital, we're dying, are we're dead? We're already dead, yep, yeah, it's crazy, it is um, it's been funny lately, like especially being on tiktok and seeing all the comebacks of all these, like bands like uh, genuine and the yin yang twins have been doing performances over at sea world and it looks like they're you guys, it looks like people's like pawpaw is up there on stage grinding and like hip thrusting.
Speaker 1But can we talk about the audience? Though? The audience is, they're twerking, they're getting lit. And this girl I was watching this one TikTok and this girl's like didn't we cancel SeaWorld? Like they're like we were mad at SeaWorld a few years ago. She was like I'm sorry, I was wondering where this was because she didn't know at first. And then she goes we're with Free Willy, we're at Free Willy's house singing Ying Yang Twins, and everyone in the audience is literally lit AF. Can I say AF anymore? I don't even know. Is that not cool anymore? I don't know if it's cool anymore, but I don't know On. I don't know if it's holy mormon, I don't know, on this episode, because it was ever the hell we want. That's true. That's true, that was.
Speaker 1I mean I would want to see them. I really actually want to go. I mean, I've been watching the videos and it's like, literally it's like someone's grandpa's up on stage and like we remember obviously yin yang twins, of course, like homecoming dance and on the bench, because you were freak dancing at the time, you know, get tapped on the shoulder, but yeah, they're all coming back. We see 98 Degrees. You saw the bless their hearts. Nick Lachey, I just hold on you guys. I just and these are not my comments, okay, but it's just sometimes the comments, I mean I always go to the comments first, of course, when you see something that you know is going to be be bad, you have to. Yeah, and I just I feel bad because, like, obviously, love them, love nick lachey, like watch the video. You know you have to watch the video, but it's like people were saying it took me 10, 10 views to realize this wasn't a tribute band, yeah.
Speaker 1Then someone said why are they singing in lowercase? And then someone said it's giving low back pain. There's like, there's like a part in the dance where they're supposed to do like this, like high kick, and you see, them all just do this little shuffle and just like. But that's what I'm saying. Our minds are still young, but our body is like I don't know. But that's to me.
Childhood Injuries and Parenting Styles
Speaker 1I mean they're older than I, mean they're like they're not 10 years older than us. No, they're like, no, they're not 10 years older than us. No, they're like no, I think so. Yeah, you think they're 10 years older than us. I think they're probably like, yeah, 10-ish, because we were kids when they were all coming. Yeah, because I was like, for sure, literally in my living room learning the dances when I was in elementary school, and they were already teens.
Speaker 1Yeah, I mean, people were still like, vibing and living for that, for that like I, you know what. Like they're still selling tickets, get it. Yeah, exactly like they're selling tickets, and some people who are present time trying to sell tickets can't sell tickets. So it's, it's true. I gotta give it to them. The only person that, like I can't give it to you, though, is Justin Timberlake.
Speaker 1Are you mad at all that I I, the whole, like everyone's mad about Justin Timberlake and not singing? I just, I just feel like he's just up there, he's literally putting the mic down on the stage. I just saw one clip. Was it the whole concert he's doing? No, pretty much he keeps just letting them sing and there's everyone saying why did I pay for a concert for me to sing? Yeah, I want you to sing. And he's just kind of there, he's kind of phoning it in. He just feels like he doesn't really want to be there, and if you don't want to be there, then don't. I guess he's got to pay the bills. Exactly, it's like what else is he doing? Now he has Lyme disease, right, which you know, that's kind of code in Hollywood for maybe something else. Yeah, yeah, but I don't know that.
Speaker 1I remember, of course not Not that, neither is 90 Degrees, but still like they still were giving life, like they used to have choreo. You know, they're still trying their best and they do look happy to be there. Yeah, you know, I mean even the Backstreet Boys. The Backstreet Boys, they're killing it. Backstreet Boys, they're still doing choreo. Yes, they may be a little slower, but it is so cool. And I just I I started crying a little bit. I just I looked over at Ozzy and I was like this is so nostalgia. Like I'm, I was more of an NSYNC gal, but still I mean it's the same era. You know, I still liked the Backstreetreet Boys and I still knew basically all their songs that they sang, of course, um, and it was just really awesome to see and the visuals that they had. Because they they're doing it at the Sphere in Las Vegas. I want to go so bad.
Speaker 1It is just so fun and everyone really really gets into. The first uh concert that they did or the show that they did, they had everyone wear white. It was like a little thing and then everyone just kept doing it. So everyone wears all white to their concert and and I'm telling you like 97 of the people are wearing all white. They're all. And I think we live in this very nostalgic time. I think people are just, like you know, grasping onto that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and it was, it was awesome, they were great, I loved it. I mean like, like they're still ponying around the stage, you know there. Yeah, it was just, it was really fun. And they they did a, you know, like a montage of their families and stuff and they most of of them, if not all of them are buried and like have kids and stuff. So I know one of the guys had his family there, so they were in one of the booths like when you kind of like recognize that your parent was like this massive global superstar, like if it ever, if you ever recognize it or it's like I think they do, probably in school, that's true. If you go to school, oh my god, like, yeah, I mean, probably their, their classmates don't recognize it, but like the parents of the, for sure, for sure, but it's still interesting, it's just, yeah.
Millennial Musicians Making Comebacks
Speaker 1And then another person that we have to talk about is nelly. Fratato girl is getting it, she is killing it. Yeah, I mean, people obviously were saying negative things about her weight. Don't let people just have her. Yeah, but but most of the people are defending her. Yeah, when people say, talk about her way and they're like this is a natural, voluptuous woman, this, yeah, and she's different than 25 years ago. Gorgeous, she's up there. You know, her voice sounds just the same, exactly the the same, if not better. And she's just. I was like you go, glenn Coco. She seems so lovely. She seems so lovely. She seems like a fun and cool, down-to-earth, real person. Not that I know her, but that's what she seems like. I feel like it was problematic. I feel like we haven't heard stuff about her ever really.
Speaker 1Well, I was a little emo punk rock kid, believe it or not, and so, like the simple plan, you know they've released a new album like 303. Of course we see blink 182, love create. You know, like I, this guy, warming my, like heart seeing all these, oh yeah, these little, these little punk bands, oh yeah, coming back. It's, it's so fun and anytime I listen to it, I just I'm in dire need of my duct tape wallets and my bands that I used to wear my little chain, yes, my bracelets.
Speaker 1Yes, I had all the. Do you remember those bracelets? Did you like wear like the different colors? Yeah, the jelly bracelets. And then they meant something Like if someone came, oh, yes, and broke like, yes, if they they had love, kissed you, yeah, or sex was the black one. So I wore I mean, I was a virgin at the time, but I wore all black. Of course I wanted to see my. Of course I've seen some things it was the jelly ones too that there was like two bracelets that you would connect and it would be like that you'd pull it apart and then put it on and it kind of had. It was like connected, right, that's what you're talking about. Yeah, but they had like four different. Yes, they had different colors. I could bring those back too. Good times.
Speaker 1Yeah, no, it's been fun seeing all of these musicians kind of come back. Avril Lavigne she never really went away, though she never went away, I feel like she but the fact that she's still here and singing songs from 2002 that everyone still like just is obsessed. Anytime complicated comes on, I'm just like, all right, everybody like stop, yeah, what are like some songs or like bands like that, like if they come on today or if you saw them today, you'd be like, well, I'm wearing their shirts. I was gonna. I was like I was heating you up for that one. Yeah, thank you, you threw it, I'm catching it. Um, are you spice girls? Spice girls? Duh, like spice girls, okay, okay, so he brought this in today. Okay, this was my. Are you a Spice Girls fan? Spice Girls, duh, like Spice Girls, okay, okay. So, yeah, he brought this in today. Spice Girls Okay, this was my first concert. That's amazing. This is from the concert.
Speaker 1Okay, my sister took me with her boyfriend at the time and one of my like best friends in school and she was Sporty Spice and I was Victoria, and I was Victoria. I was posh, you know, like very posh, just like I could see that, figuring it out, I made my mom or I didn't make her. I asked my mom to go buy me a little Gucci dress, aka from target Um, and I wore the little Gucci dress, or the little Gucci dress, and I remember making her cut it shorter because it has to be short, and then, so like, there was one point where I was like, mom, it has to be a little short. She goes Vanessa, this is as far as I'm going. Okay, you are 12 years old, you are not like, and she did cut it for me because, you know, we grew up in the dance world, so, like, I was already used to wearing like boy shorts and whatever. But obviously my mom's like, how cool is this? Like, oh, I'm so happy that you kept that, that I kept this and it's just like. It's just, I'm just obsessed and I still love them till this day.
Speaker 1And when's the last time they toured together, I don't know, but they weren't together for that long. It wasn't no right, it was like only a couple of years. The spice girls were the spice girls and then they kind of went on to their own thing and come back for like reunion. Yes, people like even me like I feel like I often think they were together for like 10 years, yeah, and I don't think so. I think maybe it was like even like five to seven, I think it was. I'm gonna google this, maybe I think it was less.
Speaker 1And, uh, I have heard rumors that they may be doing a tour. They may all be coming back to do a tour. So if that's the case, I will be doing a world tour with them, will you? You're going to all of them? No, no, no, not all of them. I mean I would love that, but no, definitely I would. If I cried at Backstreet Boys, I'm going to pass out. I'm going to be one of those girls at, like the Michael Jackson concerts where she was like sweating and like I love you so much and then she like passes out because she's so yeah, that'll be me.
Speaker 1What about you? What's like one band or artist or something that if you could see right now, I mean I probably like Simple Plan or like Green Day, you, I mean I probably like Simple Plan or Green Day. I loved Green Day back in the day but it was hard because growing up in my house, my parents, my super religious household, they didn't really let us listen to any secular music. So if I wanted to, I'd have to go to my friend's house and I remember Jesse McCartney or Dream Street and learning all the dances and whatever. So I think definitely more the emo side. And there's a music festival in Vegas when we were a young, festival, yep, and so a lot of times they do bring these bands back there and I've been and I freaking just go. I mean, 12-year-old Kayla is back. Yeah, you know, got the purple tips and the yes, love it, okay. So not just music. Also, we've seen a lot of reboots when it comes to TV shows yes, we have, and movies. So we're going to play a little game called Popped or Flopped, okay, and we're going to see if we think they popped or flopped as far as reboots go. So, gossip Girl Were you a Gossip Girl fan?
Speaker 1I was definitely a Gossip Girl fan and you're friends with, yes, yes, leighton Meester, who was Blair Waldorf, blair Waldorf one. And only Did you watch the new one? She was amazing. I tried to watch the new one. I couldn't get into it. Yeah, I couldn't. I mean, and it's funny, I didn't watch Gossip Girl like right when it came out back in the day. I kind of got into it a little bit later, a little later, same. But I recently just rewatch the whole season again, just to just to watch it again. But yeah, I try, I tried to get into the new one and unfortunately I think it was a flop. I agree, and obviously um hbo agrees, because they cancel it. Yes, but yeah, it did. It did suck, yes, and you can't some things you just can't recreate and the original gossip girl is just too good. So it's just too good, it's it is.
Speaker 1Oh man, what a time, what an era. That was one of the best, what an era. Okay, so what about, um? Did you watch iCarly back in the day? I didn't watch iCarly back in the day, uh, did you? I watched a little bit. I feel like it was a little later, like. I feel like I was almost like my little sister, yeah, because I I think I was already like out here, yeah, when iCarly started to to pop off. I think it was a little later, um, but it got canceled too. They did a little. Icarly started to pop off yeah, I think it was a little later, but it got canceled too. They did a little iCarly revival and it got canceled. But was it with the same people? I really don't know. Oh, okay, I really don't know. I feel like they I don't know Must have been, but either way, it didn't survive. It flopped. I'm wearing my shirt right now.
Speaker 1Mean Girls Yep, the original movie, such an iconic millennial movie, 100 out of 10. 100 out of 10. Again, could not be replicated, in my opinion. I saw the musical. I love Renee Rapp. She's a Broadway, you know. I feel like she thrives in the Broadway stage. I think this movie was a massive flop. I have heard great things about the musical.
Speaker 1Yeah, um, the movie, I'm not gonna lie, I, I couldn't even watch it. Okay, yeah, to me it was a flop. I couldn't even watch it. Yeah, it was terrible. I, I was gonna watch it because there was some people who were in the past film that were in it, I believe.
Speaker 1Yeah, they brought back, like tina fey's character and but I just, yeah, I don't. I just don't know. I just it didn't capture me to want to even turn it on. I don't want it to be a musical. Yeah, I guess that also, and I'm weird with musicals as it is, I'm not a big fan, but like the way they did it on Broadway, yes, yeah, obviously I would go see it on Broadway for sure. But, like on, my sister saw it on Broadway, loved it. I think she's seen it multiple times actually on Broadway and loved it.
Speaker 1Um, but, yeah, for the movie, I, I just yeah, I I just thought it was a little a stretch, yeah, yeah, and I think most people kind of felt that way yeah, no, oh, but this one, okay, fuller house. I only watched full house. I never watched fuller house. I loved full house, fuller house, for it's a freaking. What does it say? Pop, popped, popped off. Popped off Positive Pop means good. I was going to say I didn't explain that at the beginning of this game. I was going to say bop, but that's not right. Actually, I was going to name it bop, oh, bop, whatever Good or bad, I say popped, okay, so it's great. Oh, popped off duh. Um, yes, I loved fuller house. Uh, I still, I think isn't it still on, like, aren't they still fuller houses? Yeah, fuller house. Um, my nieces is.
Speaker 1It ran for five seasons, okay, yeah, so ended in 2020, okay, yes, yes, so it went for a long time. I mean for a remake? Yes, pretty big deal, and I don't know, I I loved it. I loved Fuller House. I loved Full House Me too. It's not as good as Full House, obviously, but I will say I watched it, okay, and I liked it. Maybe I'll put it on the TV in the background you know, it's a little cheeky. Yeah, all right, beetlejuice, yep, and it was one of those movies.
Reboots: Popped or Flopped
Speaker 1When they were going to remake it, I was like you can't remake Beetlejuice, right, I think I was proven wrong. I love the new Beetlejuice, same. I thought they did such a good job, same, you know the way they casted it. Yeah, there was a lot going on. I think that's my only complaint. Same, I liked Beetlejuice, yeah, I mean, again, it's never going to be the same. No, it's never going to be as good as the first, or you know the original, at least having Michael him still as Beetlejuice, exactly. If they had recasted him, it would have been a big flop, exactly. But he's just like so consistently great and funny and like he is Beetlejuice, yes, yes, else can be Beetlejuice.
Speaker 1Oh, freakier Friday. So have you seen it yet? I watched it and I would love to go watch it again. Really, you loved it, I freaking loved it. I was worried about this one because you know Well, yeah, look, lindsay Lohan not only looks amazing, her acting is amazing, she seems just different, more grounded, she seems a little bit more like the old Lindsay that we had. Yeah, she looks, oh my God, she looks so good. You know, jamie Lee Curtis is just phenomenal.
Speaker 1And the amount of cameos that are in the Freakier Friday, is Chad McElmurray back? Yes, that was in my first Crushes. It's just, it was so good. Even the band in the first one, the girls come back, they're back. Yes, oh my God, it's so good. Okay, I laughed my ass off. I cried, because there's emotional parts in it too. And then it's just so nostalgic when they start, you know, playing music again. Maybe I'll go see that tomorrow.
Speaker 1And I heard in an interview I don't know if it was Jamie Lee Curtis saying this or somebody else but they were saying wouldn't it be fun if they did the freakiest Friday and that would be the third? Okay, and that will be with, like the grandchildren, yeah, oh, that'd be cute. You know, I was like, okay, I'm like, I'm, I'm buying tickets, I'll be there, I am locked and loaded, I am in, I'm ready because I'm gonna watch that. I, I enjoyed it, I thought it was great. I've heard good thing.
Speaker 1I haven't heard any negative reviews about it. I did hear some negative reviews but, ah, screw them. Whatever I am, there's probably gen z, yeah, or I don't know. Just, they just don't like lindsey lohan, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1There could be different things, but to see somebody come back like that, like her, who was one of our favorite actresses back when we were kids and stuff, and it's really inspiring To see like all the lows We've literally seen all of her lows. She's one of the only celebrities from that time because they were all kind of like, you know, going down that little hole, yeah, who really did come back in a good way and like better than I could have ever expected. We still see like poor Amanda Bynes, who is still like, struggling. We all remember the Amanda show and she was Britney Spears, you know, yeah, and I've seen, like you know, unfortunately, you know, unfortunately, you know, aaron Carter, like a lot of these kids, jamie, you know, yep, yeah, no, it's, it's, it's really nice to see her back on the screen and doing well, you know, because I know she's probably she's had some projects that did not do well in the past and she's tried and whatnot, but yeah, her, her and Jamie Lee Curtis's chemistry is just, yeah, unmatched and it's just.
Speaker 1I'll go watch it with you again. Yeah, I mean honestly, next week we'll go see it. Yeah, it is so good, I love it. So please go watch it and go support because, yeah, yeah, there was like. And then when they started like playing music, yes, all the millennials in the theater Start singing. No, yes, but are just like dancing and like, everyone's looking at her, like I want to go up to you and wait. It's like it was just so good. It was so good.
Speaker 1Remember the Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen that she did? I would watch that again if that came back with her. We should put it on your TV tonight, we should. What was that song? That girl was a teenage drama queen, so good. Oh, we love you, lindsay, we're glad that you are back. Yeah, same, okay, you probably don't have much to say about this next one.
Speaker 1No, I have not the Final Destination movies. No, I don't know if this really counts because they're not like remakes, they just keep doing them. But I had to throw it in there because the Because the very first Final Destination movie was the best one of the franchise. I saw that one Up until the most recent one. I feel like the ones in between are really cheesy terrible acting, terrible CGI. But the one that just came out, bloodlines a few months ago, I think, was really good and that was one of the first horror movies that kind of got me into horror.
Speaker 1My sister worked at Blockbuster so I got to go to Blockbuster and she'd help me like, do we all know me Blockbuster? If you don't know, look it up. Look it up, it was a four red box. Even red box is like ancient. Yes, that was that was. That was such a cool thing.
Speaker 1Let's go to the red box and pick some movies. I know now, god, it's crazy. What a difference in. Now. It's this like, literally, let's pick a movie, what's next? What happens like? What's the next? I think it's like holographic, like they're like 3d, or it's just like it's just up there and you're just like watching it.
Speaker 1Or the vr. I think people doing like watching like a vr where they're kind of in it. Vr is wild. I know that's insane. I went and did one of those vr zombie shootout things. Yeah, I've, I've done that. It's terrifying. I was like crawling on the ground so I was scared. It's scary, it's really scary, but you really think that you're dying. I know the zombies are running towards me. I'm like you can move out of the way, kayla. I'm like no, I'm getting eaten. Speaking of getting eaten, bad transition.
Speaker 1We're going to talk about snack throwbacks. Snacks, like not considering like these. Yes, they still taste the same, by the way, I know I didn't even have one. I think my favorite was the blue. Oh, break your teeth. Oh, can you hear that? It's a different recipe. They were more chalky back then. I feel like, weren't they? I feel like they fell off. Yeah, they probably took something out of them. That was like killing us.
Speaker 1Well, you know what I just found out? Alex in there told us that one of my favorite candies as a kid was Warheads. Remember these? Yep, I sure do, the little Warhead challenges. Yeah, and he was informing me that apparently the parents were complaining. Apparently, whoa, there's Hold on. Oh, oh, never mind. I said 50 calories, like 50 calories per one? No, it's per one, it's per four. Oh okay, I was like, wow, um, she, um. So they're not as sour anymore.
Millennial Snacks and Candy Throwbacks
Speaker 1So I kind of want to put this to the test. Okay, what flavor do you like? What's in there, empty, it's closed, it's empty. So we have? That's crazy. I'll do what's a. What is the green one? Apple or something? Yeah, it's apple. Okay, I'll do that one. I'll do it. Actually, I'll do an apple too, so we can like get the same sourness. I just want to see. You guys, I can already feel my you start sal. My tongue is just like getting all watery. Okay, I just want to say, because I loved, because before you couldn't, because the challenge now is okay, can you put one in your mouth and not make a face and not make a face? So let's see if it's even a challenge.
Speaker 1This is so sour, this one's definitely sour. Okay, oh god, oh, my god, okay, whatever they took out, um, good, good, that's probably for the best. Okay, it goes away quicker. Oh, my eyes are. Eyes are watering. Okay, yeah, so it's already gone. Yeah, mm-hmm, okay, that mm-hmm. I have to spit it out now. Also, that one was actually pretty sour. That was really sour. Your eyes are watering, so are mine. Oh my God, we did good for a second. I want to see if I can find the original recipe one somewhere. Wow, wow, that one got me actually, maybe Apparently, I think.
Speaker 1Also, this got me through anxiety, because they say if you're feeling anxious, just throw one of these in. Really, it kind of takes your energy away from what you're feeling anxious Because you're thinking about something, okay, which makes sense. Remember when we used to throw these in our water too I don't know if I did that or like your soda, like 7-Up, you would like put it in your 7-Up? And Uh-uh, yeah, were you a 7-Up fan. Coca-cola, okay, coca-cola all day, every day. I did Mellow Yellow. Remember Mellow Yellow? Yes, so bad, that's just as bad as Surge. Yeah, it's basically like Surge. Surge looked like you were drinking like melted burgers. It's so gross, but so good.
Speaker 1My school was in, like the trailers that I talked about before, and so all the ramps, and so there were vending machines outside, and so so many kids would drop their quarters and they would go through the you know. So I would spend recess going underneath and collecting all the coins that had fallen just so I could buy Mellow Yellows at school. Stop, so my parents wouldn't let us drink them at home. Stop, so I would have one to two Mellow Yellows every single day, along with, remember, in the vending machine those disgusting red sausages, hot dogs that were in like the pouch, that had all the juices in them, that and a mellow oh my god, that and a mellow yellow was my snack every day. Oh my gosh, oh yuck. I know there's no telling what's in those. Yeah, my, I I did. I mean they, they're still around technically, but the lunchables was, was my thing. Yeah, I still love the pizza lunchables. Yes, um, definitely, like, don't make you feel great after, but it feels good while you're eating it. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1What else, oh, flintstone, the Flintstone vitamins. I still take those. I don't like swallowing pills. Do they still have them? I thought they were discontinued. They don't have the Flintstone vitamins. I don't think so. I thought they did, or maybe not still exist. Why did they discontinue? Was it because? Why did they discontinue that? I don't know. I don't know. I know like there was an issue with like vitamins because kids would eat them, think they're candy and like it's unhealthy to eat a whole thing of vitamins. I wouldn't just eat one Flintstone vitamin, I would eat like five, which probably isn't good for you.
Speaker 1What was your favorite so going to? We would bring our own lunch. Do you have experience like the public school cafeteria food? I did in high school, okay, and I would always get like a burger and fries. Yeah, that would be my thing. Like our high school had the best French fries Really so, yeah, but I still would make my lunch a lot of the time. You'd take it Like I would always make a tuna sandwich and chips Interesting like option for a high school cook.
Speaker 1Like I love a tuna sandwich now and I would make it myself. Okay, sometimes I would make it for like my boyfriend in high school too. Like here's your lunch too. Wow, domesticated. Yeah, you know, we had like our school. We had like the square pizzas and the brownies day was my absolute favorite day. I still think about those pizzas. They're like so soggy and then it's always like with like the really greasy brownie and we would like barter. Like it was always like a barter system, like in the cafeteria. Oh, yeah, yeah, we did that too. We definitely bartered. But yeah, in elementary school we didn't have that. We, we, I'm pretty sure we made our own. And then, I don't know, these are still around too.
Speaker 1But pocky sticks, did you ever eat those? Which ones, pocky sticks? Pocky sticks, um it's, it's like an asian candy, but it's uh, basically like a little like a stick, and then it's dipped in chocolate, like halfway through. Maybe they come in these little red boxes. Yeah, I think.
Speaker 1I don't think I ever ate, okay, yeah, I don't know. I feel like, because I went to school with predominantly Filipinos, that was their candy of choice or their snack of choice. Oh, okay, that would make sense, and so we would always. Whenever my dad would buy me a couple boxes or something and you would go on the recess and everyone was like, can I have one? Can I have one? Oh, then you could like trade, but yeah, but sometimes you wouldn't trade. They were just like, oh, can I have one? And you're like, no, because these are mine, I don't get these all the time. Yeah, but if someone always had Pocky sticks and they would always give me one, I'd always give them one, of course.
Speaker 1Oh, yeah, what was your like if, today, one of those snacks came back? Like for me, I loved a Go-Gurt, like Go-Gurts were like. I hated Go-Gurts, you hated Go-Gurts. I think they're still around. I would freeze them and so it was more like a oh, like a Popsicle, like a Popsicle. For me it would be Squeeze-Its probably horrible and you would twist the little. It was plastic and it had a little face on it. Yeah, when you squeeze it, oh, my god, I forgot about those. Are those still around? No, I thought people choke on those. Like for sure, I always put them in my mouth. Yes, no, I. Yeah. I think the last one I had was maybe like 2000, in like 2010 or something like that. But squeezes were everything I loved squeezes. There's got to be so bad the coloring of them. It can't be happy for you.
Speaker 1I mean, we drank Kool-Aid. We literally would get an ouch of freaking Kool-Aid. I mean, I know it's still a thing, but like thinking about, that's what we drank every day. We'd put Kool-Aid in our beverages and also on our hair. Did you ever dye your hair with Kool-Aid? No, that was big too. Like we would like dye our hair with Kool-Aid. I never knew you could do that. Yeah, you want to do it. Yeah, it'll come out easy. Next episode will be covered with like purple and like pink hair. It's because we did Kool-Aid on it.
Speaker 1Oh my gosh, what are some other things coming back is really funny. Like I saw a mannequin at the store and they had like a skirt over jeans and I'm like that we wore that, yeah. Also, I just saw on socials that this girl was talking and was like hey guys, I just figured out this way how to like wear a belt differently. She, she steps back and she's wearing like a, a shirt and then a big fat belt over the shirt, over the pants. And I'm thinking to myself the comments are hilarious. They're like gen zers. Here we go again thinking they're inventing something. No, honey, we've been doing that. And that was barf central city.
Speaker 1The big tan leather belts that were like circle, with like the studs around them, yeah, and you just put it right over your waist. You put it right here. It's like not even on the widest part of your hip you would put it. Or you would wear a shirt and then like, put the belt right here. So it's like you're not even cinching your waist, you're actually accentuating your big rib cage, so you're not doing anything. Like the belt had no purpose. No purpose, um, and it was and yeah, and then you know it's like I saw, I just was like girl.
Fashion Trends: Then and Now
Speaker 1Everyone in the comments is like you did not just think you invented, you didn't invent this. This is not. But I mean that's why we said fashion repeats itself. Young girl was like I'm never gonna dress the way my parents used to dress, but like it is a, it's a real thing and like I do feel like we always gave credit for that. Yeah, like if we were dressing in like sort of 80s. You're like, oh, my gosh, this is like what they did in the 80s. Now it's like, oh, look at what I just invented. It's like no, mom, let me borrow her vintage. Exactly like this is from this. Because I love the 70s fashion is always my favorite. Yes, um, what other? What are other?
Speaker 1Some like things that we used to wear, though that were like I feel like you kind of have this. I feel like you're so good about kind of mixing your fashion. I mean, you're a model, so I think you're good with fashion. But like I, I just think that the the over like the christian odyssey did you ever wear? No, I know, yeah, yeah, where it's just like there's like pattern everywhere. So like rhinestones everywhere.
Speaker 1Um, it's like excessive logo mania. Yeah, just every like I just I just did that with apple bottom, apple bottom jeans. I had like the apple bottom jacket that just said Apple Bottom all over the place, with the Apple Bottom on the butt. Or if you were wearing, you know, hollister or Abercrombie or whatever, you had to make sure the logo had to be there, Otherwise you weren't cool. You weren't cool and it doesn't count if, like, not everyone knows. I just it's like, if I funny thing, just I mean obviously like Von Dutch juicy tracksuits, um, you know the butterfly clips. Yes, oh, my gosh, everybody.
Speaker 1Low rise jean. I was so happy when high rise became it because I just that's the way my body is. I'm like, thank god low rise jeans are gone, but now like skinny jeans. I saw you rock very cute outfit, but you had the capris out the other day. Yeah, so I do love a good capri.
Speaker 1I never thought I'd put them on again. I swear I never thought I'd put them on ever again, to be honest. But I did put them on and I was like, okay, this is kind of cute. It took me back, but also, yeah, it took me a lot to like, put them on, yeah, like, oh my god, yeah, because as kids, it wasn't like as kids, oh my gosh. Like, like that. And pedal pushers yes, all the pedal pushers with the ankle, so it just like cut off right at your ankle. It's just so ugly. It was just so bad. It was just, it was just not.
Speaker 1I had the ones that like had the zippers so you get to be shorts. Oh, oh, yes, you had the thruple. They're like from limited too, and we would be able to like the short, the, the drawer, and then, and then the or the, the flooded they call them flood pants, or flooded or floods or something like that. That was crazy, but I do see, I do think that the low-rise jeans are still an iconic thing. That's also coming. Yeah, it's already back, but it was not a thing for a few years.
Speaker 1Like for a long time, everyone was wearing high-waisted that goes up to your belly button, yeah, and I was happy with that. I was too, but I don't know. There is something. I mean, I love me a good. You look so good in a low-rise, jean, thank you, I think you also have to start in like, you know, my little, I have. No, I have a very short torso, which I think which would make you look good in low rise. Maybe I'll go home, look in the mirror and try some on. Maybe I'll bring mine over. Next episode I'm gonna wear now my new personality. I'm only wearing eventually, with kayla we're at a funeral. You can't wear low rise jeans like now. This is, this is who I am now. No, yeah, I, I definitely. Yeah, I love it, but yeah, it's like.
Speaker 1It's like, just like you know we think about like red carpet stuff too. It's. You know, ashley Tisdale was somebody who, if you look at every single one of her red carpets back in the day, she is literally the identity of a millennial. Back then, uh, she, she rocked the, the jeans with the skirts we all know exactly that picture the, the Kango hat. You know she was the everything. She's the epitome of like that millennial era on a red carpet. But then also we remember Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears with the denim on denim Tuxedo, the J-Lo with the green Versace dress, like the deep dress. That dress will always be there, just iconic, like. We had so many iconic moments, though, that we have to give it to them, but they were a carpet, like back then and now it's funny.
Speaker 1Now, people with the red carpet, I mean it's a completely different like. Oh, yeah, you know, it's like like the met. You know it is like look at zendaya every time she hits red carpet versus, yeah, little ashley titsdale back then. But she, but she, but that was fashion back then. That's what was. That's how different fashion has like jumped Like that's why we were wearing it. You know what I mean. But yeah, I mean like, if we're doing like a millennial aging check-in, it's like, yeah, people are now having to wear earplugs when they go to concerts and things like that. And that's when I realized, oh yeah, we are. I know it's like this realization. We got to protect our eardrums, I know, but no, but even so, the other day I was texting someone Like I have younger, like much younger siblings and like whatever.
Speaker 1But yeah, I always write LOL after everything and it's like almost like a. We do it as like just to make sure you're not, you know, not saying anything offensive. Lol, yes, but like that's gone. We have to stop saying lol behind sentences. Apparently that is no longer a thing.
Speaker 1Posting a photo of your food at lunch isn't a thing anymore. I still do it and I will forever do it. I'm not stopping. I want people to be jealous of the eggs benedict that I got for brunch no, nope. But that's not cool anymore.
Speaker 1I mean peace signs everyone always makes fun of like peace signs. That's such a millennial thing. But also it's like back in the day we weren't doing this, we were doing this. Yeah, we were sideways, we were so cool. As we age, we're turning this straight up. What's next? I think that might be a gang sign, but it was this. Yeah, the duck lips. The duck lips were so like, and I just remember my mom saying you're going to look back one day and be like I wish I didn't do that. It's not that I wish I didn't do it. I just laugh, though, because it is funny. It's so ugly. It's like every photo when I go through.
Growing Older and Feeling Nostalgic
Speaker 1Like man, I got to piss like a racehorse. Did you ever? Did you not ever say that? But that sounds like a phrase my grandpa would say. But I feel like we said it too. Like man, I got to piss like a racehorse. Apparently can't say that anymore. We can't say that anymore. I guess that's. I'm putting it back into my vocab in my rotation. Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 1But like, when was the moment for you that you realized, okay, I'm, I'm probably, I'm probably older now I'm, and I thought I was doing a really good job because I was trying to learn TikTok and learn trends, and so I stopped doing the trends? Because of that, I'm like this is probably like what my parents felt like when they were trying to, like, be hip with social media. No, so that's why. Yeah, she literally was like, call me cringe and that really hurt my feelings. So I hope she watches this.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, she's probably going to say get a whole episode of this cringe Aunt Kayla. Yeah, literally, she's so mean. Why are kids so? Why are we so scared of little kids? I don't know, it's such a weird thing because we were them once too. Yeah, I know, for me, I started to feel old when I one day I got into my car and I put my seatbelt on and I literally pulled the back muscle. Oh yeah, and I was like, oh, cool, great, I love. That Never happened before. Yeah, never has happened before. But here we are or knees, knees, popping, all of like. You know, this is never mind Getting it low. I was going to say something else. If I get it low, I may not be. Well, yeah, so this was fun rehashing being a millennial. I honestly just feel worse about myself now. But people are going to say this episode was so cringe. It was so cringe. I think most of our viewers are millennials. Yeah, so they're going to really appreciate it.
Speaker 1Okay, so, before we go, we'll do this again. Hopefully it's going to act right this time. But so should we pick one toy, one band, one snack and one trend to resurrect? Yeah, so what would yours be? My, my, obviously like Bop. It Love for that to come back. Spice Girls duh, need them to come back and I don't need. We didn't like talk about this. But Butterfinger BBs oh, I remember they were like little Butterfinger balls. Basically, I did love and I I miss those. I did love and I miss those I did love. They don't exist anymore. They don't exist anymore. No, they don't. We should go to one of those vintage candy stores, because sometimes you can find all of that stuff there. Ooh, yeah, we should.
Speaker 1All right, we're going to try this one more time, okay, and we're going to ask it Will millennials age? Gracefully, that's all we want to know If it gives us a negative answer, we're throwing the eight ball out, without a doubt. And I know that's right, honey. Without a doubt, yes, and you know what, what, vanessa? What? Having two millennials as the ingredients to the best tasting tea you'll ever have. Yeah, right here in this room is Kayla Becker and Vanessa Curry. That's right. We'll see you next time. See you next time. Bye, bye. We're so friends. Bye, kayla.
