From Cabbage Patch to Furby: The Weirdest Toys That Define Generational Childhoods

Why toys from the past evoke such nostalgic memories — and how their dangers and designs reflect their era.In this episode, Andrew and Kathryn explore the evolution of childhood toys, contrasting the innocence and risks of older toys with today's safer options. They reminisce about popular toys, safety concerns, and how playthings reflect cultural attitudes toward childhood, creativity, and danger.

• The nostalgia and chaos of Cabbage Patch Kids and other 80s toys
• Dangerous toys from the past: lawn darts, stretch Armstrong, and more
• How safety standards have changed in toy manufacturing
• The influence of media and marketing on childhood play
• Toys that spark creativity and mental patterns—Yo-yos, Spirograph, and sand tables
• Electronic toys of the 80s and 90s: Teddy Ruxpin, Speak & Spell, and the Talk Boy
• The cultural impact of toys: collectibles, conventions, and viral trends like Stouffer’s Pizza

Timestamps: 

00:00 - Welcome and episode overview 

01:13 - Nostalgia for Cabbage Patch Kids and childhood toy craze 

02:42 - The cultural commentary on toy marketing and promoting parenting stereotypes 

03:47 - Personal experiences with toys: favorites and dislikes 

04:40 - The chaos surrounding toys like Rainbow Brite and Care Bears 

05:43 - Emotional attachment to dolls and nurturing play 

06:57 - The significance of toys made by family, and attachment to childhood possessions 

09:29 - Toys that would never be made today: Stretch Armstrong, lawn darts, and dangerous classics 

10:54 - Childhood risk-taking with toy guns, lawn darts, and injuries 

12:24 - Safety evolution in toys and toy recalls: safety vs. creativity 

13:19 - Classic toys like SkipIt, Pogo sticks, and clown balls 

14:39 - The fascination with kinetic and patterned toys: sand tables, Spirograph 15:52 - Dangerous outdoor toys: clackers, slap bracelets 

16:36 - Cheap toys like water ring toss games and Etch A Sketch limitations 

17:41 - Iconic toys revisited: Light Bright, Tinker Toys, and година 

18:44 - The enduring allure of design and patterns in toys 

19:44 - The magical appeal of robotic toys: Teddy Ruxpin and talking electronic toys 

21:02 - Vintage mechanical toys and early electronics: Simon, Speak & Spell 

23:03 - Collecting trends: cereal prizes, McDonald's Happy Meals, and trading cards 

24:52 - The cultural impact of toys: memorabilia, conventions, and pop culture niches 

26:41 - Creepy and unusual toys: Furbies, trolls, Boglins 

28:11 - Viral toys and hazards: Squirmies, Mr. Bucket, and the dangers of lawn darts 30:39 - Toys that cause annoyance and the evolution of kid-aimed gadgets: Gack, fart toys 

32:23 - Kids' toys vs. adult entertainment: gags, gherkin products, and nostalgia 37:09 - The influence of iconic brands: Lisa Frank, Strawberry Shortcake, and nostalgic smells 

42:17 - The allure of scents, collectibles, and enduring toy memories 

47:07 - Pogs, baseball cards, and nostalgic trading culture 

49:30 - Classic outdoor toys: Big Wheels, slip n’ slides, and the limits of fun 

54:38 - The safety and innovation in outdoor play equipment today 

55:37 - Toys from different generations and family relics 

56:23 - The craftsmanship behind toys: Yo-yos, yo-yos tricks, and homemade toys 57:26 - Wrap-up: engaging the audience to share their favorite toys and childhood memories

And remember — share your favorite nostalgic toy in the comments and join the conversation!

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Welcome in to another episode of the well. This is episode 27. I don't know why I can't ever remember the numbers. It's really a problem. But I'm Drew.

SPEAKER_00 0:08

I really don't Drew. I'm Kat.

SPEAKER_01 0:10

And welcome to the I Can't Remember the Episode Numbers episode. So episode 27 today. So Kat and I were talking the other night. Since we talk every night, shocking. We we actually live together and talk to each other. We were talking about toys and kind of the the change that has occurred from toys when we were kids to toys to what our kids played with. So and we were reminiscing about the toys we used to love to play with.

SPEAKER_02 0:38

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 0:40

And one particular toy came up for the first topic of discussion. And we'll start here today. Cabbage Patch Kids. Cabbage Patch Kids was my goodness, that had everyone in a chokehold. It was all the rage. There were lines, fights. I mean, when you got the inside scoop. Oh yeah. I so I'll tell a quick story about cabbage patch kids. My sister wanted a cabbage patch kid, and I'll never forget. I think my dad went to New York. He went somewhere. It was New York or somewhere else, like in the tri-state area, and got a cabbage patch kid. And I'll never forget it was like such a big deal because they were so hard to get. And it was the I even remember what that thing looked like. I didn't like it. I wanted to like pull its head off because that would have upset my sister, and that was all that was my sole purpose in life. But she had the it was the bald baby, didn't have any hair. It was like, I don't think it was called the premi. Didn't they have the premies though? It wasn't a preemie, but it had it was bald, didn't have any hair. It was just like very baby-ish. I don't know. Yeah. I never understood the craze. And then, you know, they came with the birth certificate. That was well, hey, nothing wrong with playing with dolls. But the birth certificate was wild, right? Didn't you adopt them? Didn't you you became the adopt? Yeah. So it was just, I mean, I guess on a adult level, you think of it, why are we promoting our young children to to mother and father kids? It just, you know, I get it. It's but you know, if you think of it from that angle, it's kind of like yeah, let's promote pregnancy like that.

SPEAKER_00 2:19

At least, I mean, that's not what I thought about.

SPEAKER_01 2:23

So tell me what you thought of did you ha did you have a cabbage patch kid?

SPEAKER_00 2:27

I did. I did have one. Do you remember it? Multiples, yes.

SPEAKER_01 2:31

You were fancy.

SPEAKER_00 2:33

I had like two or three, but by that point they had been out for a while. So but the I you know it's funny, I actually didn't like them as well as I liked some of my other baby dolls. I was really into baby dolls and stuffed animals like crazy. I loved stuffed animals. More so than I like dolls.

SPEAKER_01 2:54

You were pretty young. I mean, Cabbage Patch Kids, I think they came out in 83.

SPEAKER_00 3:00

Yeah, so I wasn't that old.

SPEAKER_01 3:02

A bit young.

SPEAKER_00 3:04

Yeah, but I I liked other dolls more than those.

SPEAKER_01 3:08

Yeah, I just I just remember the madness around that. I think if there wasn't so much craziness around the cabbage patch dolls, I don't know if they would have been as revered as they are today, or as such a nostalgic memory, because literally people were beating the crap out of each other to get these silly things.

SPEAKER_00 3:29

I mean, it was a lot of toys are like that though. Like my buddy, my sister, those are big.

SPEAKER_01 3:36

My buddy, my buddy, and we like to climb up a tree. Care Bears. My buddy, care bears. Well, let's let's not jump the gun. I know. I was having fun. You just totally I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_00 3:47

Continue your song and dance.

SPEAKER_01 3:49

No, I don't want it anymore. I don't want it. I'm done. I'm over my buddy. I never liked my buddy. I hated those commercials, they drove me nuts. That song was just embedded in your that's another song that lives rent-free in your head once it's stuck in there. And the commercial was annoying, you know? Like you're not swinging, you're not climbing a tree with the doll. The doll isn't climbing the tree.

SPEAKER_00 4:10

I I would. As a child, I would take that doll everywhere.

SPEAKER_01 4:15

I thought it was false advertising. Whatever. I'm allowed entitled to my opinion. You can love my buddy. You have at it. I'll buy you one. Catherine's birthday is coming up, so everyone make sure you there was one on Facebook.

SPEAKER_00 4:28

Which is really weird. Yeah. Which is weird because we've been talking about it. The phone is listening. But yes, I I would collect them all.

SPEAKER_01 4:37

So tell me about your your I don't know how to phrase this without it sounding really creepy. Did you have I'll I'll try it this way. Did you have like emotional attachments to your dolls? Were there, you know, certain dolls that that you coveted more that were like for tea parties, and then you had other dolls that you would drag around the house because, you know, they were, I don't know. Like, was there a nurturing quality that you always had certain dolls that you wanted to nurture, other dolls that you just wanted to play with?

SPEAKER_00 5:04

I treated them all equally. I loved all my dolls and my stuffed animals equally, and I would set them up on the bed, all of them, and that's where they would sit and wait for me when I get home from school. And I was really big into magic, like creating a magical world. Like I was really big into imagination. So I was always playing with my stuffed animals or my dolls, or and always I always had one with me. So it didn't matter which one it was, I always had them. And then I used them all for tea parties or like putting them in my little baby stroller or sleeping. I would get all of them and sleep with them all at night, and they never fit all on the bed. In the morning, some would always fall off the bed and always felt bad.

SPEAKER_01 5:52

That's interesting. So you felt bad if if so you thought your dolls had feelings.

SPEAKER_00 5:56

Yes. So quick story. When I was probably like, I think I was I played with dolls or like stuffed animals and dolls until I was probably like eight or nine. No, yeah, about 10. And when I was like I must have been six or seven, my mom had made me some dolls for a dollhouse that she and my dad had made me for Christmas. And I took one of the little dolls to school. It was a little girl doll, like tiny, maybe like the size of your hand, doll house size. And it had little red braids for the hair, and it had a little tiny outfit on, and it was like I loved it so much. And this girl, and I don't remember who it was. All I remember is I was in the library and she took it from me. And I about had a fit. Like I was about to like hurt someone if she didn't give me my doll back. And I was so angry and so sad that she grabbed the doll and didn't like handle it delicately and then wouldn't give it back to me.

SPEAKER_01 6:59

So, how'd you get it back?

SPEAKER_00 7:00

So she finally gave it back to me, but I remember like thinking to myself, I'm never bringing my stuff to school again. People are mean. So, yes, I was very attached to my my stuffed animals and my dolls. And I was happy for other people to play with them, they just had to be nice.

SPEAKER_01 7:16

So there were rules of engagement to play with your dolls.

SPEAKER_00 7:20

Got it. It was like, don't tear the hair out, don't rip up the clothes, don't bother, like, you know, crap it up. Basic, like, you know, politeness, courtesy. Don't cut it.

SPEAKER_01 7:30

I just remember and disclaimer, I had a younger sister, so that that's why I I have a tendency to know about certain dolls. But the yarn. They used to use the yarn for the hair. Yes. A lot of the older dolls. Cabbage patch, rainbow bright. Maybe it was Rainbow Bright with the red braids that came down. Was it the red braids?

SPEAKER_00 7:48

No, Rainbow Bright had a ponytail.

SPEAKER_01 7:50

Who was the one with the two red braids?

SPEAKER_00 7:52

That I don't know. There was a cabbage patch. And then there was maybe that's what it was. Maybe it was that's what I was thinking of. But there was a redhead with braids for cabbage patch.

SPEAKER_01 8:02

We have to we have to talk about some of the toys that would never be produced today as well. So like stretch armstrong.

SPEAKER_02 8:11

Which I don't remember that one.

SPEAKER_01 8:13

Like filled with toxic waste and used to like pull them apart, like stretch them, and he had I don't know what was inside of that thing, but it was like this weird kind of corn syrup-y goo, and you always tried to break it. You actually set out to that was the goal was to break it. And it was it was not easy to break. And I remember that's weird. We filled it up with water once.

SPEAKER_00 8:36

Oh, yeah. That's funny.

SPEAKER_01 8:38

And tried to pop it, but man, what whatever was inside of that could not have been like safe for children. Probably not. I don't know if you probably don't remember these, but like even toys like Transformers, which we talked about, were die cast metal, right? Like probably not the safest for kids. Lawn darts, lawn darts. Do you remember lawn darts?

SPEAKER_00 9:01

They were the Was that a nerf brand?

SPEAKER_01 9:03

No, no, nothing nerf about these. So they were about this big. I would say they're about a foot, foot and a half, and they had they look like a big dart, and on the tip was this big metal spike, and you would throw them, and you would basically have to get them in a circle. Like you would throw them towards some. So think of it as like cornhole. You had to get the dart in the circle, but it didn't drop in anywhere. Yo, these things you could kill somebody. I'll never forget. My brother and I were playing lawn darts at my stepmom's house. My stepmom had two boys that were older, like my stepbrothers were a little bit older than us, and my stepsister was a lot older. So my stepbrothers were kind of hanging out just watching us because we were young. And my brother took that lawn dart and threw it, and it went right through the driver's side window of somebody's car. Shattered it, just completely shattered it. And this was like one of the first toys I ever heard about being banned. Like they actually banned this from being sold. They were just what a stupid idea. But I feel like toys back then just had a level of danger to them. I mean, my parents were not huge on any sort of guns or or like weapon toys. My mom was kind of like a hippie type person, so she didn't really like anything violent. But when I got my hands on like a BB gun or an airsoft rifle, oh my gosh. Bro, I I was like fricking cowboying it up, just shooting everything I could find. I even shot one of my friends behind the ear. So that was lovely. Anything that was dangerous, I feel like we had access to as children. So did you have any dangerous toys that you remember that were like you couldn't see, you wouldn't let your kids play with them today?

SPEAKER_00 10:46

Honestly, I can't remember. I I'm pretty sure I didn't. Most of the things that I played with were electronic, you know, it was dolls, or it was some kind of thing that you could turn on. Like I was really fascinated with toys that you could like that had special features of like you had to turn it on or wind it up or push a button. I was really into like the mechanics. So no, not really. I mean, the bow and arrow is probably the worst thing, but it didn't even, it didn't really do any damage, you know.

SPEAKER_01 11:23

Talk to me about the skip it. You brought up the skip it the other day.

SPEAKER_00 11:26

Well, yeah, that was one of my favorite birthday gifts I ever got for my birthday. I think I was probably six or seven around that age, and I had a birthday. Home birthday parties were huge back in the day. I mean, they probably still are now, but everybody had a home birthday party where it was at the skating rink. So I had a home birthday party, a friend of mine brought a skip it. And that was one of the, you know, it's so crazy, and I'm sure other people might feel like this. You have a memory and you can feel the memory. I feel the the heat in the summer off of our driveway, our like gravel driveway, and doing the skip it in the driveway and the sound it made, the plastic, as it you skip, like you put it on your ankle. It's a little ring, you put it on your ankle, and there's a little plastic extension, and at the end of the extension is a counter, like it's a ball that has a counter on it, and it counts how many skips you skip. So you have to swing it around. It's like jump roping with yourself. And mine was pink, and I absolutely love that thing. I also was really big into pogo sticks, so I love doing a pogo stick.

SPEAKER_01 12:39

What was the fascination with pogo sticks? I you know, I had the yeah, uh because they were frustrating, but I had the one where it was the ball and it had like it almost looked like Saturn. So there was a ball in the middle, and then you it had like a ring around it that you stood on and you could hop around.

SPEAKER_00 12:55

Oh, okay. We had those at school. I don't remember.

SPEAKER_01 13:00

Pogo ball. That was called a pogo ball. Go figure.

SPEAKER_00 13:03

Oh, yeah. I I got a pogo stick, I think, as a birthday gift one year. And I remember doing that in the driveway as well. And I was I was actually really good at the pogo stick, but I didn't i I lost interest pretty fast. I think after that year, I was like, eh, I'm not gonna do it anymore. And I don't know what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_01 13:21

I got in trouble on the I I had to get rid of mine because like our driveway was kind of needed to be redone, and we kept like jumping, and it the pogo stick would leave like indents in the driveway. So my mom didn't like that.

SPEAKER_00 13:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:35

Especially on a hot summer day, it would just kind of sink in there.

SPEAKER_00 13:39

Yes, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:40

That do you remember clackers? There were these two like acrylic plastic hard balls, and it was on a string, and you would hold it between your fingers and you would smack them up and down. Like literally, you could probably break every bone in your hand if it hit you.

SPEAKER_00 13:54

I wonder if that was the precursor to the handheld one. Do you remember the handheld one? It might be.

SPEAKER_01 13:59

You remember with the handle? Yeah. But where are you talking about?

SPEAKER_00 14:02

This one you swung around and the two two balls would hit each other. Like I can literally remember that.

SPEAKER_01 14:09

I remember where you would go up and down with it and the it would like swing up and down like this and go whack, whack, quack, quack.

SPEAKER_00 14:16

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 14:16

So those those toys were like again, these toys are just the level of danger we occurred.

SPEAKER_00 14:23

How about how about the really cheap things that entertained you? Did you ever get those little tiny, I don't know what they're called. They're like little aquariums, like games, and it would be water and you'd have to push the buttons to get the water to shoot the rings up over where it's supposed to go.

SPEAKER_01 14:41

Yeah, or the maze.

SPEAKER_00 14:42

That was such a huge thing as like a party favor.

SPEAKER_01 14:46

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:46

Yeah. Or the maze. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 14:49

Those were good. Those were good. And then uh what else did I have on my list here? You know, you had the etch a sketch and you would watch the commercial for etch a sketch. They'd make like these you could never produce this kind of imagery. So that was always I was always bored with that. Yeah, after like five minutes, it was yeah, it was no longer fun. It was just no longer you just couldn't do a whole lot with it. So correct. And speaking of kind of things you turn on, I won't say it because it makes you mad. Light bright.

SPEAKER_00 15:19

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 15:19

No, I was gonna say something else, but anyway, keep it moving. Light bright.

SPEAKER_00 15:24

Gotcha. Light bright, yes. Yes. I loved you know, it's it's so crazy thinking back now. Most of the toys that I played with, I always learned about them from classmates and and TV shows. I don't know why. I never really I always figured out like people would give me gifts for birthday parties, and that's how I'd learn about a toy. So Light Bright was one of those things where I saw it on TV. I remember seeing the ad and I was like, Oh, that's so cool. I want that. And I think the moment I got it, I was like, that's kind of boring. Like you basically put the things in and you light it up, and then what? You're done.

SPEAKER_01 16:00

God, I loved it. I could never get enough.

SPEAKER_00 16:02

Did you put did you like change things out a lot?

SPEAKER_01 16:05

Like the little the light bright that I had probably was you know, predates your light bright. You had the black construction paper that you would put on it, and it it would have the design, some of them, and you could so yeah, I I don't know. I was fascinated with putting those pegs in there and having it turn into something. So that that didn't bore me. That and spirograph. Do you remember spirograph?

SPEAKER_00 16:29

I love the spirograph.

SPEAKER_01 16:31

Oh my gosh, with the pen, and then you would could do all those different designs.

SPEAKER_00 16:34

I was I think Was that the vibrating pen or was I don't know what you're talking about, but no, okay.

SPEAKER_01 16:41

Yeah, spirograph was these plastic cogs. Yeah. You would like put them inside and it would make different patterns. You would put the pen in different parts of it, and it would you would kind of draw in a pattern. It's I think it's what's created kind of this fascination for me with patterns. Like I love patterns, like the way people think in a pattern, the way you draw in a pattern, the way you drive in a pattern.

SPEAKER_00 17:04

Is that what you got that table with the pattern making in the sand downstairs?

SPEAKER_01 17:09

Yeah, I love that table.

SPEAKER_00 17:10

Describe what the table is. It's like an adult toy.

SPEAKER_01 17:15

I don't know if it's a toy, but it's like a coffee table and it's round, and basically it's got a magnet in it and a ball, and it's filled with sand, and you can program it to make designs in the sand. My dad had this, like, it wasn't a zen garden, but it was something with sand on his desk. I've always been fascinated with that. Even a Zen garden, just the way you can perfectly make the lines. I don't know if you're those were big too, like the Zen Gardens at one point. Everyone had a Zen garden on their desk with a little rake, and you just kind of I really didn't like that. That or the metal ball clacker thing where you would it had like the five and you would do doot doot do you all that stuff was at the natural wonder store I used to go to in the mall when I was an agreement. Well, what about Simon? Did you ever play with Simon? The four-color Simon says.

SPEAKER_00 18:08

I did not. I I got to a certain age, I think I was like 12, 10. I must have been 10, and I pretty much didn't play with toys much anymore after that. Yeah, but this would have been and it was technically in a board, it's technically a game, but I never had I never played a lot of games. We played Clue, we played Monopoly, we played Shoots and Ladders. If that, I did a lot of Chinese checkers and marbles.

SPEAKER_01 18:36

You didn't play Mastermind or Battleship?

SPEAKER_00 18:39

No, no, I didn't. I didn't so remember my sister was eight years older than me, so I didn't really have anybody to play with after she went to college. And I didn't really have a lot. I had neighborhood kids when I was younger, a lot of them that I would play with, but as I got older, I didn't have any. What about Connect 4? Never played Connect 4 that we played a lot of at school growing up. I remember the commercial, yes.

SPEAKER_01 19:04

Pretty sneaky sis.

SPEAKER_00 19:06

I could see it in my head. I do. Yeah. It's funny all the ads you remember.

SPEAKER_01 19:12

Pretty sneaky sis. Man, how about do you remember those octopus? It was like these little octopus or octopi, whatever, and you would throw it against the wall and it would crawl down. It would be like those were some of my favorite.

SPEAKER_00 19:25

Absolutely love those little like slime creatures. And they would always come in party favorite.

SPEAKER_01 19:31

Yeah, and it would be a dirt sponge.

SPEAKER_00 19:33

They would, especially if you did it outside. I remember it would get like rocks and dirt all over it.

SPEAKER_01 19:38

Game over outside. But that that brings up another kind of interesting topic that we we can take a little detour of the toys, but it's still toy related was cereal toys. The stuff you got in the cereal box that probably is not allowed today because it's all a choking hazard. So these little like you would literally, I used to get in trouble. I think that's why my mom stopped buying cereal with toys in them. Because literally, if there was a toy in that box, you were eating the cereal. You were not or you dumped the cereal out just to get the toys. That's right. Always. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:23

That was hard though, because you know, you want that instant gratifying. Talk about instant gratification for kids now versus then. The instant gratification was buying the cereal box, getting home, and digging your little grubby hand down into the bottom of the cereal box. And sometimes they would put it in the cereal, and then sometimes they would shove it down underneath the bag. It depended on what it was.

SPEAKER_01 20:44

Well, I'm talking about cutting out the UPC codes and having to mail them in. So you had to have get like a certain amount of UPC codes. So you want to talk about not having instant gratification. I mean, that was you had to work. You would eat a lot of cereal. And you were always bugging your friends, be like, yo, save if you going for that. And if not, save that UPC code, hook me up.

SPEAKER_00 21:06

Yeah, I'd always have to be like, Mom, can you buy more cereal? Can you buy more the I remember the only thing that we ever did a mail-in for. I'm sure I did it for other stuff, but I can't remember what they were. The one thing that I do remember mailing in the UPC things for labels for, and the little like I think I said it was like$2.99 or whatever it was for shipping. My dad absolutely loves orange juice and anything having to do with like oranges. Sorry. Well, they had a Tropicana watch and a Tropicana radio, and the radio was in the shape of an orange that had a straw sticking out of it as the antenna. You know, I still have that thing and it still works. Wow. Thirty thirty plus years later. He was like, I want to get the Tropicana watch. It had a black band, it almost looked like Like a swatch watch had a black band, and on the inside it had Florida's orange, like an orange in it, and then the the little hands on the clock were straws, green and white. And that's I remember getting that, and that was the coolest thing in the little radio in the shape of a big orange was so cool. Did you ever do you remember anything you ordered?

SPEAKER_01 22:22

I don't remember anything out of the cereal boxes. I think for me it was it was the magazine drives that I was always like, I gotta sell a bunch of magazines because I want that stupid like frog phone or you know, one of those things. That that was the big thing. What was it? I don't think it was Publisher Clearinghouse. I for Reader's Digest, maybe that's what it was, like magazine drive. I just remember the magazine drive every year. And I remember the, you know, you just walk around the neighborhood knocking on random doors, asking people if they wanted to buy magazines. That's so funny. You know, we're like 12 years old, right? So yeah, man, what what a time to be alive. But so so going back to to toys or continuing with toys, do you remember some of the weirder toys, like really kind of creepy toys? Anything jump out like Furbies. Furbies were weird.

SPEAKER_00 23:14

I never liked Furbies. I didn't like trolls. I remember when trolls came out, and I know some people will bash me for it. I thought they were the weirdest looking things. I don't even remember how old I was. I was young, and I was like, these things are creepy, and they've got weird. A lot of kids are like, oh, the hair is so cool. I just thought they were weird. They were like ugly little creatures. Yeah, I feel so mean saying that.

SPEAKER_01 23:39

Furbies were just weird because they would just randomly start talking and making weird noises, and it was just a creepy thing, and they were crazy, they were hard to get. I remember trying to get one. It was super hard to get.

SPEAKER_00 23:53

I was gonna like, oh yeah, I remember those. They were very popular.

SPEAKER_01 23:58

Yeah. I remember the noise too, and it would be in its eyes. How about the worm on a string? Do you remember that? It was like this fuzzy worm, and it you would kind of dangle it, it would be like a magic trick.

SPEAKER_00 24:13

No. Oh no, I actually don't. That looks weird. That looks kind of gross.

SPEAKER_01 24:18

If you if you could figure out how to make it, you couldn't see the string, so it looked like it was like kind of floating in the air. So it had a magic quality to it. How about boglins?

SPEAKER_00 24:29

I remember the name, but I I don't remember those very well.

SPEAKER_01 24:32

They were like the rubber monster heads in the cage. I never played with those, but it kind of lived in under your bed mentally.

SPEAKER_00 24:40

Reverse, reverse. I gotta I forgot one thing, two things actually. So Tony the Tiger, Frosted Flakes, they had a cereal box. They had a toy in there, and I was telling you this, I think the other day. It was a Tony the Tiger, a tiny one that you would put into a two-liter bottle of water, like a Pepsi or a Coke bottle, and it would shoot, like it would go down and then it would shoot right back up. That was like a huge thing. And then Cracker Jacks. Do you remember Cracker Jacks? Did you ever find the toys? Yeah, there was always a prize in there. I hated Cracker Jacks, but I wanted the prize, so we always bought it. I didn't like caramel.

SPEAKER_01 25:20

Yeah, I I didn't like Cracker Jacks when I was a kid because of the peanuts. But I like I like Cracker Jacks now, but there was what was it called? Fiddle Faddle? My mom always used to eat this called fiddlefaddle, and I did like that.

SPEAKER_00 25:34

All right, continue with your creepy toys.

SPEAKER_01 25:38

So mad balls. Do you remember mad balls, the eyeballs, brain monsters as like inside the ball?

SPEAKER_00 25:45

No.

SPEAKER_01 25:45

Those were creepy. I'm trying to think what else I had. Do you remember this thing called Mr. Bucket? It was a bucket and it would run around, it would like move around and spit balls out everywhere.

SPEAKER_00 25:55

I don't remember that one. These are kind of like obscure, or at least obscure to me.

SPEAKER_01 26:01

I don't think it that super obscure, but it's it was weird.

SPEAKER_00 26:04

I remember. I do remember that. I never oh, you know, I no, I didn't play with that. That was 1991. Were you playing with that?

SPEAKER_01 26:13

No, but I remember seeing the commercials for it. So and and like I feel like the what was it called? GAC. Do you remember that? Did Travis where you would squeeze it and it would make fart noises? It was like the the stretchy, slimy stuff that always was making fart noises.

SPEAKER_00 26:31

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 26:31

I feel like toy manufacturers, and they probably still do this today, they literally made toys, and the use case was if it pissed the parent off, it was a winner.

SPEAKER_00 26:41

Mm-hmm. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:42

Like if it bothered the the adults in the room, it was a like Bopit, right? Like Bop It was super annoying.

SPEAKER_00 26:48

Oh my gosh. Yeah, it was. Bop it. Hit it. Did you do puzzles a lot?

SPEAKER_01 26:53

No. My mom loved puzzles. My mom always was doing puzzles. She just, I don't know what it was, but she loved puzzles. I didn't love doing puzzles.

SPEAKER_00 27:03

In kindergarten, we used to have the wooden puzzles, and they would come on you could stack them in trays. So you could pull them out and they would be wood pieces. They weren't like super complex, but I actually really enjoyed doing those. But as I got older, I didn't like puzzles so much. I'm not good at mysteries. Like puzzles or mysteries? Yeah. Anything like that. I mean, I can do a puzzle, but anything horrible.

SPEAKER_01 27:30

That was a puzzle like a mystery. That's wild. I never thought it.

SPEAKER_00 27:33

That's I don't even know how that correlates, but you gotta figure out it's like reasoning, kind of like when you go to the escape room. You gotta collect the clues. But this piece looks like it goes with this piece. That's how I see it. Hey.

SPEAKER_01 27:45

Be quiet, don't question me. I will never question you again. Ever. Now I lost my train of thought. I was gonna ask you something. Did you have toys? Okay, we're moving on from puzzle the mystery solution of puzzles, puzzles equating to being mist mysterious or solving a mystery. Bom bum. Did you have toys that you didn't have and your friends did, and you would always want to go over and play with their toys, and they would kind of they would let you, but they were kind of like yeah, you get limited access.

SPEAKER_00 28:16

No, they never limited access. I never had the cool toys. Never. My friends always had better toys than me. My one friend, who, if she listens, she'll know I'm talking about her, had the Nintendo game that was the sand volleyball. And then there was another one that that we liked to play. It was like paper, oh, it was Paperboy. And then I had another friend. I went to a birthday party at her house. She had all Barbie stuff, and I'll never forget she had a wind-up Barbie telephone, like a tiny, tiny one that you put in a little Barbie house, and it was like vintage looking. And it had, I was fascinated with wind-up toys. Loved. I still love wind-up toys. I like how it works. So yeah, everybody always had better toys than me. I had now I did have, I did have some things that other kids didn't, but I was very territorial, surprisingly. I was not very, I didn't like to share because my mom made a lot of my toys. So she made these big bears for me that I would play like tea party with, and my dad made my dollhouse, and you know, so I I felt very emotionally attached to those. Like I'll give you an example. My mom cut her finger one time in the kitchen, just like a pairing knife. It was a tiny little cut, and I balled my eyes out when I was like five because I thought my mom hurt herself really bad. So I was very I was very like, you know, if someone gave me something, I took really good care of it, or if like it had meaning, it it touched me deeply as a child. That's why I was so sensitive. No, I'm not sensitive anymore.

SPEAKER_01 29:49

I know I'm kidding. Hardened.

SPEAKER_00 29:53

Life does that.

SPEAKER_01 29:54

So I didn't it's weird. I didn't have like a lot of action figures growing up. I don't know why. The one thing I loved, there were those little green army men with the parachute, and you would throw them up in the air.

SPEAKER_02 30:07

Yes. I had loved that.

SPEAKER_01 30:09

I would throw them out the window. I throw those things everywhere. I was just fascinated by the parachute.

SPEAKER_00 30:16

Me too.

SPEAKER_01 30:17

That was probably the only thing I was able to like smuggle in the house. But one of my oldest friends, and if he ever listens, he'll probably know who I'm talking about. He had like all the cool action figures and he had some of the coolest Star Wars stuff. And I would love going over to his house because I didn't have any Star Wars stuff. He had all this cool Star Wars stuff. He had the X-Wing Fighter, he had the gosh, I can't think of it right now. The thing that would hover over the sand.

SPEAKER_00 30:44

Yeah. It may come back.

SPEAKER_01 30:46

No, it wasn't a hovercraft.

SPEAKER_00 30:47

I know.

SPEAKER_01 30:47

But it was he had that and he had G.I. Joe's, which I always wanted to play, you know, G.I. Joe. So yes, like He-Man, tons of He-Man action figures. So definitely I would go over there and get my fill of the things I did. Interesting.

SPEAKER_02 31:03

I don't know why.

SPEAKER_01 31:04

I just I don't know why my mom just didn't. We didn't buy, I didn't have a lot of I had weird toys, but not a lot of not a lot of anything that was violent. Wasn't allowed to have like violent things in the house.

SPEAKER_00 31:17

Or maybe she just didn't think to buy it, you know.

SPEAKER_01 31:20

Oh, any particular I mean it was the only thing I was begging for that stuff. Uh kidding me?

SPEAKER_00 31:25

Maybe okay. Well then she just didn't like it. I remember being three years old at my the very first house I can remember. And we had gone somewhere after school, my mom, my sister, and I, and she uh wherever we went, she bought me those parachute guys, and I went upstairs to the second floor window, and I was throwing now. Talk about dangerous, right? Like you're promoting kids to like take these things up to high heights, the higher you go, the better, because the parachute's awesome, right? And my goodness, I love that, and I loved kites, and I would kites were huge for me. The Frisbee, like Aerobies, that was later, huge, really into that. I did not have a lot of action figures myself. The only action, I wouldn't call them action figures, I kept every toy from McDonald's Happy Meals. Like I still have the box today, a box of all the Happy Meal toys. Cut like those are, I will never part with them. I used to love playing with those things. And then Kroger used to sell the in the toy aisle. They used to have like they were very trendy, like they would sell a lot of like cool toys. So new kids on the block were huge back in the day. I was really young, and they sold all the new kids on the block Barbie doll, the guys, you know, like little little figures. And I collected all of them. They were like$9.99. Still have like the little orange typed sticker on it, you know, on the box. But yeah, those are really the only action type figurines that I ever had.

SPEAKER_01 33:01

New kids on the block. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_00 33:03

I know and I love the guy.

SPEAKER_01 33:07

Big into New Kids on the Block.

SPEAKER_00 33:08

Oh, she would have liked the the little dolls.

SPEAKER_01 33:10

I think she would like to do it.

SPEAKER_00 33:11

And I'd pair them with my Barbies.

SPEAKER_01 33:14

I don't think I she was a little bit older at that point.

SPEAKER_00 33:18

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 33:18

Like who was the one that fell off the stage? Oh yeah, tons of posters. Fell off the stage and like broke their arm. She she wore black, like nothing but black. She was mourning the Are you serious? Oh, that's funny. Oh my gosh. Heather will definitely not be happy that I said that on the podcast, but it was that's hilarious. She was funny. And yo, I used I used to just make fun of is is not strong enough of a statement, but wow, did I I had a field day with her and that new kids stuff. She was absolutely awestruck. And yeah. But any case. So what about some of the more electronic toys? Did you have a Tamagotchi?

SPEAKER_00 33:55

I did not. One of my most favorite electronic toys, Teddy Ruxpin and Grubby. When I got those for I got those two separately. I got Teddy Ruxpin first. And again, remember, I was really into stuffed animals and and like imagine them coming to life. So Teddy Ruxpin getting a Teddy Ruxpin with the tape, the cassette tape, and it would read the story to you. I mean, I couldn't have been happier. And then getting his sidekick grubby, most amazing gifts ever, just magical. I just I had so much fun with those. And then I got a little play set later that was the balloon that they would get in, and you would inflate the balloon, and you had the figurines and that would get on the ship. It was the coolest thing ever.

SPEAKER_01 34:41

Yeah, I didn't play with Teddy Ru Teddy Ruxpin was if I was playing with Teddy Ruxpin, it would have been weird. But I remember the commercials. I remember the commercials. I mean, I I remember it being a very cool kind of new thing, like it that automated, I don't know, audit, yeah, robotic.

SPEAKER_00 34:59

Very Disney like.

SPEAKER_01 35:00

Yeah, and like you said, having a stuffed animal come to life was you know, that was magical. It was especially so that was super cool. And even if you go way back, do you remember like speak and spell?

SPEAKER_00 35:13

Yes, I do.

SPEAKER_01 35:14

Or spell and speak. No, speak and spell.

SPEAKER_00 35:16

Speak and spell it.

SPEAKER_01 35:17

And I'll never forget the voice.

SPEAKER_00 35:19

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:20

A T. Right.

SPEAKER_00 35:22

So But it's it's really crazy to think about those types of toys compared to now, and everything is just so advanced now, you know. And back in the day, it was like if you if you got it to talk at all, that was a big win, you know, no matter what the voice sounded like. And now everything's like, choose your voice, the Englishman, the Japanese woman, the you know, the British boy, the So why does why does the world feel dumber?

SPEAKER_01 35:49

I feel like maybe we should go back because those you had those were harder to use. I mean, you had to like it was not very intuitive.

SPEAKER_00 35:58

Yeah. It was it was cool. It was really cool. And I had this like go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 36:06

Go ahead. No, no, go ahead. You had this.

SPEAKER_02 36:08

No, no, you go.

SPEAKER_00 36:09

I had a phone and it you could dial Mickey and Minnie and I remember those. And Donald Doug, and you could talk to them. And I wished with all my might that it was real. I just had such a fascination with things like that.

SPEAKER_01 36:24

Those were fun.

SPEAKER_00 36:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 36:26

Yeah, I remember those. Although it got boring after a while because it was like the same loop. You didn't really have a lot more to talk about or you listen to. But it was still cool. It was definitely still cool.

SPEAKER_00 36:37

Memorable. Because you didn't really have a lot of stuff like that.

SPEAKER_01 36:40

Yeah. Do you I don't did you have this? I was fascinated with this too, magic sand, where you would get like a bowl with fill it with water and you would pour the sand in there and it would make it would kind of stack on itself and it came in different colors.

SPEAKER_00 36:55

That reminds me of those. My sister really loved these. They were those little tiny sponge figurines that you would throw in the water and they would grow. And it one was like grow a boyfriend. That was the one my sister had. And it was like a guy in boxers, and he on the boxers they had like hearts on them.

SPEAKER_01 37:16

It was just like that's awfully risky.

SPEAKER_00 37:18

No, you know, it was funny. There was a time period, I guess it was like through the 90s, where you could go to the store and buy these like greeting cards that had hunks all over them. They still have them today, but I feel like that was super prominent back in the 90s, is that you would have all these like toy, like like, I don't know, toys or like gift items or greeting cards that had hunks all over them. I really do think it was like a hunk, like a hot guy. Hunk.

SPEAKER_01 37:48

Hunk.

SPEAKER_00 37:49

Trying to, I'm trying to articulate a hunk. Hey, he's a hunk. Hubba hubba. So yeah, and I would always get my sister, I know I'm digressing, but I would always get her greeting cards that had like hot guys on it, and it'd be like happy birthday from the firemen, you know, and it'd be like four firemen on the front cover, and they'd be shirtless and have on like their fire marshal outfits.

SPEAKER_01 38:13

Did you ever have a talk boy?

SPEAKER_00 38:15

No, what is that?

SPEAKER_01 38:16

That was like a portable cassette recorder. That was fun. Coshball. Do you remember the kosh balls?

SPEAKER_00 38:22

Oh gosh, no.

SPEAKER_01 38:23

Or couch kosh.

SPEAKER_00 38:25

Oh, yes, I do. I didn't have a talk boy. I I do remember that though.

SPEAKER_01 38:29

The Couche balls were like insane. Everybody had those frickin things.

SPEAKER_00 38:34

Hacky sacks.

SPEAKER_01 38:34

Everyone's throwing it. Yeah, hacky sacks were a big deal. Moon shoes. Do you remember the moon shoes?

SPEAKER_00 38:39

Oh, yeah, I had I had some. My mom got them at a yard sale for me.

SPEAKER_01 38:43

That's cool.

SPEAKER_00 38:44

They were hilarious.

SPEAKER_01 38:45

Hacky sack was fun. I don't know if you ever played. I did. I wasn't very good. You used to play in college. I wasn't very good either.

SPEAKER_00 38:52

That's when I knew I wasn't good at soccer.

SPEAKER_01 38:53

Yeah, me either.

SPEAKER_00 38:54

Because you had to use your feet, you know, to some people were really, really good. I was never I was good at juggling. I could juggle. I could still juggle.

SPEAKER_01 39:03

No, you can't. I've seen you try. Wow. So I wouldn't consider that I would consider that dropping, not juggling. How about the easy bake oven? That was a big easy bake oven.

SPEAKER_00 39:13

Yep. And I loved like fake kitchen food, you know, like a little kitchen. I was really into that.

SPEAKER_01 39:18

I used to have a kitchen set, and it's probably partly contributed to my love of cooking. I'll never forget. I had this kitchen set. It was like this little kitchenette, and it had a frying pan. You could put the frying pan on this on the burner and you could put the bacon in the pan and it would sizzle. It would make the sizzle noise.

SPEAKER_00 39:39

Yes, I did have something like that. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 39:41

I was I I could play with that for hours.

SPEAKER_00 39:44

Yeah, that was good. Again, I like things that worked or that made noises. So that was really cool.

SPEAKER_01 39:51

I'd be curious, are the easy bake ovens the same today? Do they still use like a high wattage light bulb? I always thought it was interesting. You're putting this high wattage light bulb in this plastic box with all these plastic things, and it can't be that fine.

SPEAKER_00 40:06

But it's crazy because it I mean, they've had that forever. It's still pretty much the same. Like when Becca was little, we bought uh got our one and she loved it. Oh, I was gonna say one thing that I forgot to mention, and I know everybody almost everybody knows this. Lisa Frank was huge back in the day. She did all like these crazy color, like puppies and cats, kitty cats, baby animals, and shiny, iridescent, everything, everything was sparkle. Like that's the world I want to live in. I still love all her stuff.

SPEAKER_01 40:41

Squirmies, that's what they were called. Sorry. The worm on a string was called squirmies.

SPEAKER_00 40:46

Okay. I was I still don't. Do you remember pogs?

SPEAKER_01 40:49

Yes, but it wasn't a little late for me in the game with pogs, but I remember them.

SPEAKER_00 40:55

I remember them. I I never participated, but I never got it, you know, like what the point was. But a lot of people love those.

SPEAKER_01 41:01

Wasn't that what like they were traded them?

SPEAKER_00 41:04

Yeah, you did. You did. You traded them.

SPEAKER_01 41:06

I mean, I grew up going back to like the late 70s, early 80s. My dad got my brother and I like all the fillies, the entire baseball set for every Phillies team for like seven years. It was awesome. And we used and I used to love doing this, and I was talking about this on another podcast. We used to flip baseball cards, and you know, you would I forget why we would do it, but we would flip, and you that was a way to get someone else's card or lose one of yours.

SPEAKER_00 41:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 41:35

And used to go into like 7-Eleven and pick up a pack of cards, and you know, of course, you would devour the gum. The gum was the most important thing in a baseball card. And then you would thumb through the cards, and half the time, I mean, collecting was different. You didn't really think about it as a collectible. So I I wish I still would have had those baseball cards because some of them were actually black and white, probably worth something, but they all burned in my house fire.

SPEAKER_00 42:02

Did you play with a big wheel?

SPEAKER_01 42:04

My favorite toy ever. Still to this day. The big wheel.

SPEAKER_00 42:08

Amazing.

SPEAKER_01 42:10

I used to wear the tires out all the time, and I'd get so upset. I would be so upset, so sad. Because it's game over after that.

SPEAKER_00 42:21

Yeah. There was no traction.

SPEAKER_01 42:22

A hole, you'd have a hole in the tire. Like I'm talking, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 42:26

That's right.

SPEAKER_01 42:26

Wear through, especially when you use the the spin-out handle. Like you remember you used to be able to pull the handle up and it would lock that back wheel and it would spin you around. I mean, big wheels. I think we talked about this on an earlier episode, but we did big wheels, sit and spin. I mean, the sit and spin, like talk about a terrible toy that would just cause you to vomit. I mean, but you had fun. I remember that big rubber ball with like the handle in the center, and you used to sit on it and jump bounce around. My brother used to remember the name of it.

SPEAKER_00 42:58

What was the name of that thing? Which that was man, I love that. We used to get those out at during gym class when I was little.

SPEAKER_01 43:06

Uh, let's see what the interwips. Hoppity hop.

SPEAKER_00 43:10

Oh, okay. I think I remember it being called that. That's true.

SPEAKER_01 43:14

De hop. Yep, that's exactly what it was.

SPEAKER_00 43:16

I'm sure you didn't play with my little ponies, but those were huge. No. And strawberry shortcake.

SPEAKER_01 43:22

I feel like my little pony is takes on a whole different meaning now with like the bronies, the the brony conventions and people dressing up as My Little Pony. Shout out to anybody that, you know, does that. No, no shade. I just I feel like My Little Pony is it might be a little tainted now because that's the image I get. But um very interesting to see what has spawned from our generation as far as conventions and such. But no, I didn't play with My Little Pony. I didn't play I used, I will say I have to admit a secret.

SPEAKER_00 43:51

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 43:52

I did go in and smell my sister's strawberry shortcake dolls.

SPEAKER_00 43:57

Did you? I did. That's hilarious. I didn't resist. I mean, it did smell amazing.

SPEAKER_01 44:03

That plastic strawberry smell is a forever memory. You'll never forget that smell.

SPEAKER_00 44:08

Honestly, I don't know how they got it to smell that good for that long because I remember getting a strawberry shortcake like 30 years later, like maybe 10 years ago. And it still smelled like strawberries. I'm like, what in the world did they use on this thing for it to smell this good for like centuries? It is wild, right? Like, how do they get the strawberry shortcake?

SPEAKER_01 44:38

Because you'll even go into like a thrift store and find like a box of toys, and it would be in there, and you just you're always inclined to smell it. And it's like it still smells the same. It has not changed. And even it's like super old. It still has a faint smell of it.

SPEAKER_00 44:53

The iconic strawberry shortcake smell, often associated with strawberry shortcake, is created using synthetic fragrance chemicals embedded and baked directly into plastic during manufacturing. I mean, that's brilliant. I mean, we knew that, but still, I mean, it's insane that they were able to get that recipe for that scent just perfectly.

unknown 45:16

It's wild.

SPEAKER_01 45:16

What about care bears? Loved Care Bear Bear fan.

SPEAKER_00 45:19

Big Care Bear fan. Yeah. I love that it had the little heart on their rear ends.

SPEAKER_01 45:25

Yeah, see, I wasn't a care bear. I also absolutely attested the cartoon.

SPEAKER_00 45:31

So I never watched a cartoon. I was always I watched the or I I love the toys, but I never watched the cartoon.

SPEAKER_01 45:38

Yeah. Did you so what about like did you ever play with like anything nerf or like the super soakers?

SPEAKER_00 45:45

I did. I really, really loved water guns as a kid. Anytime so we didn't have a pool growing up, but my neighbors had pools, and I would go over there and they would have all the toys the rafts, the squirt guns, the balloon water balloons, loved water balloons, the dive sticks for the pool, anything related to the pool, couldn't get enough of because we never had it. So I loved it.

SPEAKER_01 46:14

So one of the favorite outdoor kind of events is when either you or your friend pulled out the slip and slide. Do you remember the slip and slide?

SPEAKER_00 46:23

Oh yeah, my neighbor had one. It was never long enough.

SPEAKER_01 46:27

And you would always reach the end and get like some sort of grass burn. Yep.

SPEAKER_00 46:31

Right.

SPEAKER_01 46:32

But you were always you were running back up and you would, I mean, literally, you were diving full speed on this plastic like tarp that just has running water on it. And you could level up if you put like soap on there. And then it would be. Do they still make joy?

SPEAKER_00 47:17

They do. Yep. My mom used to buy joy all the time. And we would squirt it all over the slip and slide. I mean, I couldn't get enough of that stuff. It was just so amazing.

SPEAKER_01 47:29

That is wild. Yeah. Well, this was fun. This was a good kind of run down toy lane. So I'm curious if anyone else has any cool toys that they remember that we may have not hit. There's tons more we could see.

SPEAKER_00 47:42

And it could be from any era. Like, you know, not just from ours. Like I there are toys that I found in my I think I talked about this in the last episode. I would go to my grandmother's house in Nashville, like right outside of Nashville, and she'd always have all these really old toys in these this chest of drawers in one of the extra rooms. And I found a couple of my mom's toys. Do you remember the little wooden handle that had the wooden cup on top and the string with the ball?

SPEAKER_01 48:10

The string.

SPEAKER_00 48:10

Yeah. So like there were tons of toys that I would find, you know, from like my mom's generation or my grandmother's generation. So I would love to hear everybody's.

SPEAKER_01 48:22

Yeah, that that's you just sparked a quick memory. So my dad loved the paddle board with the pink ball on the string.

SPEAKER_00 48:29

Well, I love that too.

SPEAKER_01 48:35

My gosh. I love the young. He taught like I used to be able to walk the dog and do the triangle and do the pendulum and a bunch of cool, like a bunch of cool stuff with yo-yos. Loved playing with yo-gos.

SPEAKER_00 48:49

So I did, I did too. That was really fun. Easy toys.

SPEAKER_01 48:53

I just the creativity that you could do with some of this stuff was just like usually you don't think about a yo-yo as other than just kind of doing the up and down, but there's a whole like bunch of tricks you can do with yo-yos.

SPEAKER_00 49:08

Right.

SPEAKER_01 49:09

It was cool learning and and teaching yourself some of those things.

SPEAKER_00 49:12

So it was. It was entertaining, you know, because you you gave us like we would get a toy like that as a gift, and you would spend your time trying to perfect it, you know.

SPEAKER_01 49:22

Yeah. Yeah, master it, right? So there was there there's still that desire today in in adults.

SPEAKER_00 49:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 49:29

But in any case, this was a good episode. So thanks for taking a trip down toy memory lane with us. And as Catherine alluded to, let us know uh what your favorite toy was from any generation. Pop in the comments. We've been getting some great engagement over on our Reddit feed. So shout out to the Gen X Reddit feed. You're all awesome with all the engagement. Our frozen pizza pizza, our Stofers frozen pizza is still going viral. So shout out to Stofers for helping us go viral. But in any case, so yeah, make sure you like, subscribe, follow. It really does help the channel. And we appreciate all the engagement that's been going on. And uh, we know that the holiday's tomorrow, so happy Easter and happy Passover to all that are celebrating. And uh, I guess that's that's another episode of the Well in the Books. So thanks for joining us. Yeah, I'm Drew, and uh, who knows what we come up with next, but we'll see you for the next episode.

SPEAKER_00 50:21

See you soon. Bye.

SPEAKER_01 50:22

Bye.