Nostalgia for the Early 2000s

Close your eyes for a second. You’re at the mall with no real plan. Somewhere in the food court, a song by Nelly is playing, and you know every word. You don’t have a smartphone. You don’t need one. Life, somehow, is exactly enough.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:14

Welcome to the Cashley Show. We are Kevin and Ashley.

SPEAKER_01 0:18

Hello.

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We started this podcast after recent tragedies to take a break from negativity and discover the good things happening all around us. Today we are talking about nostalgia for the early 2000s. The early 2000s mixed bold fashion, memorable music, and the start of new technology. Flip phones, hanging out at the mall, and pop culture moments made this era unforgettable for a whole generation. Ready for this?

SPEAKER_01 0:44

Yeah, but I think people were hanging out at the mall as well before the 2000s.

SPEAKER_00 0:47

Yeah, but I think it's like the last of the generations.

SPEAKER_01 0:53

Yeah. After about 2010 or so, 2008, okay. Malls have been dying.

SPEAKER_00 0:57

Yep. First up we have Y2K. What did you do for Y2K?

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Just prayed.

SPEAKER_00 1:05

No, you didn't.

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Got no lies.

SPEAKER_00 1:07

Those are lies.

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I think we stored like some water and food and stuff like that. That's all we 'cause like the grid was supposed to go out or they didn't know, and like all this different stuff, right? And so didn't know if you're gonna be without water, electricity, stuff like that. But I don't think we really did a whole lot.

SPEAKER_00 1:27

I don't remember my parents doing anything like that. My friend's parents actually got a hotel room for us, so we stayed at a hotel that night. What? New Year's Eve.

SPEAKER_01 1:37

Kind of irresponsible parents.

SPEAKER_00 1:39

Well, if it all goes down, you guys enjoy the hotel room.

SPEAKER_01 1:42

Yeah, they're like, we're not gonna get billed for this, so it's fine.

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Next up we have Justin and Brittany Spears were still together. They broke up in 2002.

SPEAKER_01 1:55

Man. I feel bad for those guys. Yeah. They were the it couple. Like Jen Franson, Brad Pitt.

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Yeah.

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Like that.

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Yeah. For our generation.

SPEAKER_01 2:05

Yeah, it's too bad.

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Next we have the iPod.

SPEAKER_01 2:10

Wait. Go back up. Go to Didn't Brittany Spears just get pulled over for DUI recently? Yes. And didn't Justin Timberlake just get pulled over for DUI, like within the last year?

SPEAKER_00 2:20

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 2:21

Maybe they are together.

SPEAKER_00 2:22

I think Justin's been pulled over twice now.

SPEAKER_01 2:25

Well, I think so is Britney. Maybe it's good that they broke up.

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Next up is the iPod. Came out in 2001. So going from like the disc man to the iPod was amazing.

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Game changer.

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Seriously.

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Changed your life.

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You couldn't bump that disc man or the song skipped and scratched the CD, and this came out. It was the best thing ever. Anything else for that one?

SPEAKER_01 2:55

Just the the interface, right? Because it's just like the circle on the front. You're like through the menus and stuff and clicking.

SPEAKER_00 3:03

Yeah, there was a secret thing when it stopped working. Because there was no off button. So you had to like do like bottom, middle, and top at the same time until it shut itself off. It was right. And he definitely needed a power button. Next is low-rise jeans with a tube top. This was my favorite thing. Was the best. Next, Apple bottom jeans.

SPEAKER_01 3:27

Yeah, that is very the early 2000s.

SPEAKER_00 3:30

Yeah, and they were not cheap. Apple bottom jeans. I tried to look at buying them one time and they were more than I could spend for jeans.

SPEAKER_01 3:36

Yeah, I don't know if I ever actually in my life saw apple bottom jeans. Because it's like a brand, right? Yeah, I don't think I ever actually saw any in real life. I don't even know if I actually knew what that was from that song when I was in high school. Yeah, singing along with that song. Apple bottom jeans. I thought it just meant like around derriere in some jeans.

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Alright, next is the Von Dutch trucker hat.

SPEAKER_01 3:59

What even was Von Dutch? Because you used to have some of these.

SPEAKER_00 4:02

I don't know what happened to it. Loved that hat.

SPEAKER_01 4:05

Why? Like what is Von Dutch?

SPEAKER_00 4:06

I don't know. I think I don't know what it is. What does that mean?

SPEAKER_01 4:09

Von Dutch? Is it actually Dutch? Von because that's like part of the last name, like Van Winkle. So it seems like it would be. American multinational.

SPEAKER_00 4:17

It's named after Kenny Howard, aka Von Dutch, an American artist and pinstriper of the custom culture movement. After Howard's death in 1992, his daughter followed Ed Boswell to produce items using the Von Dutch trademark logo. I know Ashton Kutcher used to wear von Dutch hats probably in the early 2000s too. When he was doing plant. And also in the Cars movie, they say something like Von Dutch style or something like that. Oh they do.

SPEAKER_01 4:46

I've been yeah, it wasn't saying I meant more like I don't know anything about that.

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Next up is the juicy Valor tracksuits. They say juicy on the butt. Do you remember those?

SPEAKER_01 4:58

Why? Why would it say juicy on the butt?

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I loved the clothes that had words on the butt. Like I have a hard rock hotel. Not remember.

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The hard rock cafe.

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I loved all the things that said stuff on the butt when I was in the early 2000s. Loved it.

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Why?

SPEAKER_00 5:14

I don't know. I just did. Still would wear it. Yeah. But I feel like I never grew out of this.

SPEAKER_01 5:19

You never stop being 17. 18.

SPEAKER_00 5:23

But I know I can't wear stuff like this, so I don't. It's inappropriate.

SPEAKER_01 5:26

You could wear it at our house. Just wear it. Yeah. Wear it inside. Be who you want to be in the safety of your home.

SPEAKER_00 5:31

It's not really a mom thing to have words on your butt. Next up is the Ug Boots with mini skirts. Love this too. Also, can't wear it anywhere. A lot of girls wanted to have their belly buttons pierced after the pop stars did it.

SPEAKER_01 5:46

Like who?

SPEAKER_00 5:47

I'm pretty sure Brittany Spears had it. I would say probably Christine Aguilera.

SPEAKER_01 5:51

And so like just pierced like a ring? Or they put like a diamond stud. So instead of a belly button, you have like a troll diamond. Didn't trolls used to have that? Little troll dolls?

SPEAKER_00 6:00

Yeah. Brittany Spears, Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan. I thought Christine Aguilera had it too. Anyway, yeah, they would have. See, Brittany's got a diamond. Lindsay Lohan has a diamond.

SPEAKER_01 6:10

A belly chain?

SPEAKER_00 6:11

I had the belly chain. Anyways, next we have the rocket dog shoes. Did we do this one before?

SPEAKER_01 6:17

I don't know. I don't know what these are.

SPEAKER_00 6:19

I had they're like a much bigger soul than regular tennis shoes. I had white ones. Loved them.

SPEAKER_01 6:24

So they just made you taller or what? Okay.

SPEAKER_00 6:26

I want to be taller.

SPEAKER_01 6:27

Well, sure. You're you're tiny.

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The next rocket.

SPEAKER_01 6:31

Why are they called like that's just the brand rocket dog? Rocket dog.

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Next one is layered tank tops. Also loved this too. Good luck. Good lux.

SPEAKER_01 6:41

Yeah, you got layered tank tops with shoes that make you tall and the belly button ring and a von Dutch hat. You were the 2000s. I was. I loved it.

SPEAKER_00 6:50

Loved the 2000s. Great. Toe socks. Love the toe socks.

SPEAKER_01 6:54

I had a pair of toe socks. A couple of them.

SPEAKER_00 6:56

Yeah, you still do.

SPEAKER_01 6:57

Yep. Not necessarily love them. Just takes a lot of work. Get your toes in.

SPEAKER_00 7:00

Yeah. And I got them, I think, to make my feet warmer, but it really makes your toes more cold because they're separated from each other.

SPEAKER_01 7:07

Yep. Yeah, just like gloves versus mittens.

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Next we have hairstyles. So have the Justin Bieber look.

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Yes.

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I don't know why everyone loved this one. It wasn't my favorite. This one might have my favorite for boys, the faux hawk.

SPEAKER_01 7:19

Yeah, with your boy.

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David Beckham always had cool hair. And the frosted tips.

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Yeah.

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That was popular.

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What's that guy's name? Mark McGrath.

SPEAKER_00 7:29

Is that who that is? Did you ever have the frosted tips? You used to do the faux hawk.

SPEAKER_01 7:33

Yeah, and I bleached my hair for a while. I don't know if it necessarily be like it would grow out, and so then I guess they would be tips.

SPEAKER_00 7:40

This classic ponytail with the two strands in the front. Apparently, this is called antenna bangs.

SPEAKER_01 7:46

Antenna bangs? Not the best name.

SPEAKER_00 7:48

I used to do this too.

SPEAKER_01 7:50

Yeah, I this I like this look.

SPEAKER_00 7:51

Yeah.

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Yeah. And probably because that's when I grew up.

SPEAKER_00 7:54

Yeah.

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So yeah. It's just comforting to me. It's reassuring.

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The next one is bumpets.

SPEAKER_01 8:00

So now they care. This was like a Utah thing, because I don't think I had ever heard or seen anything about a bumpet or anything like this. I mean, probably it wasn't just Utah, right?

SPEAKER_00 8:10

Right, because this is uh Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:12

In in California, I don't think I saw or heard or anything about any of this. And they came to Utah and like all the girls have like this bump in the back of their head, like they knock on their heads on stuff. Bunch of goose egg girls.

SPEAKER_00 8:24

I never used the bump it, but I did have big hair. You just rat it.

SPEAKER_01 8:28

Yeah, just rat it out for a while. Sure, that's great for your hair.

SPEAKER_00 8:31

That's great. The next one is the poof. Yeah, I did this one. Up front. This is the bump butt to the front? The front bump? The front. Next one is MySpace. You had MySpace. MySpace. I did have MySpace. Why? Well, I wouldn't have social media if it wasn't for this podcast.

SPEAKER_01 8:48

So that's Yeah, but the MySpace was back in early 2000s. So this is before you were so conscientious.

SPEAKER_00 8:54

I didn't really care. The next one is Hollister and Abercrombie were the coolest places with dark stores full of cologne and staff who looked like models. Guys just standing at the front of the door with no shirt on. One time it scared the daylights out of me. Because I thought it was a mannequin and then he moved.

SPEAKER_01 9:13

I was like, oh that would be fun.

SPEAKER_00 9:18

Well, because we had to drive far away for either of these stores. So it wasn't like I went there often. Like I went once in once a year, maybe, maybe twice a year. So I wasn't used to having a live the half naked man standing outside the front door. That's weird. The next one is the Delia's catalog. I have no idea what that is.

SPEAKER_01 9:42

Like it's 1970s and Sears sent you a book to order things from. It was but in the 2000s?

SPEAKER_00 9:48

Why? Because there wasn't like online shopping. If the mall doesn't have stuff you like, you have to go for catalogs.

SPEAKER_01 9:54

Yeah, I mean, the only catalogs that I really remember is like the Toys R Us catalogs.

SPEAKER_00 9:58

Oh really?

SPEAKER_01 9:59

And like stuff like that, like around Christmas time. I don't know if I remember catalogs.

SPEAKER_00 10:04

Maybe boys don't care as much, but there was a lot of girls' clothes catalogs, but this Dilias was a very popular one at the time.

SPEAKER_01 10:12

Okay, Delias, huh? Is it still around? No.

SPEAKER_00 10:14

Oh sorry, Delia's matter of guess to me because they wouldn't have clothes that I would wear anyways.

SPEAKER_01 10:18

The juicy buns clothes.

SPEAKER_00 10:20

Yeah, they probably don't have stuff like that. The next one is pixelated selfies. I actually had a picture on here. Let me see if I can hurry and pot them. Oh, like you?

SPEAKER_01 10:29

Oh, of me. A selfie I took in the early 2000s?

SPEAKER_00 10:31

I think it was 2000. It said 2008, but I don't know if that's right. This is your pixelated selfie. It's not super pixelated. That's not. But it's not clear either.

SPEAKER_01 10:39

Well, sure, it's not like a 40 megapixel picture, but it's not bad.

SPEAKER_00 10:43

Someone taking this picture.

SPEAKER_01 10:44

I still have the yeah, I still have that blue that blue coat I wearing on the bottom.

SPEAKER_00 10:47

Is this your little handheld video camera thing?

SPEAKER_01 10:50

Yeah. That would like have a USB that would like flip out the bottom so you can plug it in.

SPEAKER_00 10:54

And it's covered in like black tape.

SPEAKER_01 10:55

Flip yeah, because it has a little red light on the front of it to let you know it's recording. And if I'm trying to record people secretly, you gotta cover up that.

SPEAKER_00 11:03

Why were you recording people secretly?

SPEAKER_01 11:05

Because I put it places at work to like try and catch people in the back room or whatever. Stuff like that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:11

But did have a lot of silly videos.

SPEAKER_01 11:14

Yeah, I think we recorded us doing stuff. It's in like Google Photos, videos of us like jumping over mill crates and stuff. Like we were so cool.

SPEAKER_00 11:23

Early 2000s. So cool.

SPEAKER_01 11:25

Yeah, yeah. And I think I think Joshua took that picture. Oh really? He was moving out of that apartment.

SPEAKER_00 11:30

It's funny. Next one. Flip phones that only had back facing cameras. Trying to do a selfie and you have to turn it backwards and try to take push the button to take the picture and then it always mess up. You turn it around. Remember this? Huh? Yeah. It was awful.

SPEAKER_01 11:43

Yep, always trying to get a picture.

SPEAKER_00 11:45

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 11:45

Like, yeah. For the longest time, like phones didn't even have lights on them. Yeah. Right? Like I remember an app in the app store that just lit up and made your whole screen white. Like for the first iPhone. That was the flashlight because they're like there was no light on the phone.

SPEAKER_00 12:00

Oh, that's funny. I don't remember that. Alright. The mall was the main hangout place.

SPEAKER_01 12:04

Wait, let's go back to flip phones. So, like, yes, flip phones, but they it was like super cool to have phones that do all sorts of things. Like Travis had a phone that was like not flip open, but like spin. So it's like it was a hard phone, and then it would like rotate the front, it would like rotate off, right? And I had a singular wireless one that wouldn't flip, like it would just the front of it would like slide up and shoot up, like slide up, yeah, and then then you could T9 text and then like and like push it back down. So it's like it was super cool. All these phone companies were like trying all these different things with with phones, right? And like the razor flip phone that one was super big for a while.

SPEAKER_00 12:40

Yeah, the razor was a good one. I think mine was pink.

SPEAKER_01 12:43

Yeah, I think they were targeted to women. I think most of them were pink.

SPEAKER_00 12:46

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 12:46

Yeah, they had some black ones too, but I was thinking there was too. They were mostly, I think, for women because they're like these like slim little slim flip phones.

SPEAKER_00 12:54

Stick in your low rise jeans because the pockets were so small, can't fit anything in them. Alright, next we have the mall was the main hangout place. I remember just going to the mall with my friends and just walking around. Yeah. Met a boy there once in high school. Yeah. On a Sunday.

SPEAKER_01 13:11

On a Sunday. Did you guys go to a dance together?

SPEAKER_00 13:13

No.

SPEAKER_01 13:14

Yeah. The mall was fun to run around in. But yeah, I also didn't buy anything, which kind of explains why they started dying. If you're just walking around and never buying anything.

SPEAKER_00 13:23

Never had any money. Minimum wage was pretty low.

SPEAKER_01 13:25

Yeah, four dollars.

SPEAKER_00 13:27

Can't afford anything. The live strong bracelet.

SPEAKER_01 13:31

Yeah. Remember these? Yep.

SPEAKER_00 13:33

Big. The next one is skate and surf clothes.

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Yeah, DC shoes.

SPEAKER_00 13:39

Yeah, Hurley, right? Oh. And what's Roxy? Oh, I loved Roxy.

SPEAKER_01 13:45

Yeah, Roxy's a girl version of Hurley.

SPEAKER_00 13:47

Roxy. I did a lot of Roxy clothes.

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DC shoes were big.

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Some DCs.

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Me too.

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Alright.

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My mom always wanted to buy me vans or airwalks, but I wanted DC's.

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The next one is blow-up furniture.

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I never had any of this.

SPEAKER_00 14:02

I had a blow-up couch in my room. And I bought had glow in the dark paint. There's actually still some in that room. Actually, I painted it on the door so it didn't come off at my mom's house. And I had a black light, like I was some sort of drugie, but I was not.

SPEAKER_01 14:15

I just you just lived in that world?

SPEAKER_00 14:17

I just liked glow-in-the-dark paint and blow up furniture and black lights to show your glow-in-the-dark paint. Yeah. And drugs. No, I never did that. Oh. Next one is Microsoft Paint.

SPEAKER_01 14:28

I still use Microsoft Paint to this day.

SPEAKER_00 14:30

I don't even know it was a thing anymore.

SPEAKER_01 14:31

Oh yeah. Yep. They tried to make a new version, like Microsoft Paint 3D, which is like a low-end Photoshop type thing. I don't know how many people use it. Like I still just use paint. Like I just need to put something down and I need to draw on it or do something with it. Like resize it or cut something.

SPEAKER_00 14:48

I mostly use a Mac, so I don't know about Microsoft Paint.

SPEAKER_01 14:51

Yeah, I guess you wouldn't.

SPEAKER_00 14:52

Uh next one is roll on body glitter.

SPEAKER_01 14:55

I used this so much.

SPEAKER_00 14:57

I did this and then we'd go to the club.

SPEAKER_01 14:58

Oh, me too. I just had rolls and rolls.

SPEAKER_00 15:01

Can't be sparkly and smells good. Yeah. It's good. Yep. Good stuff. Just gonna dance, you know. Next one is Taylor Swift was a country artist.

SPEAKER_01 15:13

That was a long time ago.

SPEAKER_00 15:15

She had that super curly hair and now it's straight.

SPEAKER_01 15:19

Does she straighten it or did she curl it?

SPEAKER_00 15:21

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 15:22

Like what what her true self looks like?

SPEAKER_00 15:23

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 15:24

I wonder if she knows.

SPEAKER_00 15:25

I'm sure she does. The next one is wearing sweatbands with your outfit.

SPEAKER_01 15:31

Even though you're not sweating.

SPEAKER_00 15:32

And he liked band-aids on his face too.

SPEAKER_01 15:34

Yeah, what was that about?

SPEAKER_00 15:35

It was just his style.

SPEAKER_01 15:36

That's not style. That's weird.

SPEAKER_00 15:37

Nelly can do whatever he wants. I liked Nelly. Still like Nelly.

SPEAKER_01 15:40

Yeah. Is he still making music?

SPEAKER_00 15:42

Yeah, he seems to be more doing stuff with country artists.

SPEAKER_01 15:46

Probably because Taylor Swift moved in on his territory, so now he's gotta go to country. Yeah, maybe. I mean, wasn't that the name of his album though? It was like Country Grammar.

SPEAKER_00 15:53

Yeah. Yeah. Alright, next is the backwards or upside down visor.

SPEAKER_01 15:59

Trying to catch rain or something. I don't know. I think I did this, but mostly as like a joke.

SPEAKER_00 16:04

Oh really?

SPEAKER_01 16:05

Just like I also for like now and then I would wear two polo shirts with my collar flipped up.

SPEAKER_00 16:10

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:11

But mostly to be ironic and funny.

SPEAKER_00 16:14

The boys did the collar flip up when I was a senior in high school.

SPEAKER_01 16:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:18

Remember that one?

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Layered polos to go along with your layered tank tops.

SPEAKER_00 16:21

The boys had to have layers too. And next we have dresses and jeans.

SPEAKER_01 16:26

That's why people had to wear sweatpants. They're packing on like three shirts. They're hot and sweating.

SPEAKER_00 16:32

The next one's dresses and jeans.

SPEAKER_01 16:34

I'm actually kind of okay. This went away.

SPEAKER_00 16:36

Yeah, it's not cute. This was super weird style. I don't know if I ever did this.

SPEAKER_01 16:40

Yeah. To me, it just looks weird. It does look weird. Like your why do you why is your shirt so cute?

SPEAKER_00 16:45

Yeah. The next one is renting DVDs from Netflix.

SPEAKER_01 16:50

Yep. I did this till the bitter end. I was like, I'm not stopping. I'm hanging on with the DVDs.

SPEAKER_00 16:55

We're not a block blockbuster anymore. You had to get them from somewhere.

SPEAKER_01 16:59

Right.

SPEAKER_00 16:59

I just wanted to go buy 'em.

SPEAKER_01 17:01

Yep. And then they shut down. I didn't have a choice.

SPEAKER_00 17:05

Took it away from you.

SPEAKER_01 17:06

So if anyone knows of a DVD rental service, let Kevin know. So I can sign up. Give him my money.

SPEAKER_00 17:14

Survivor debuted May 31st of 2000.

SPEAKER_01 17:18

Wow, 26 years ago.

SPEAKER_00 17:20

I think on there on like Survivor 50 or something.

SPEAKER_01 17:24

Yeah, I think they do like two or three a year or something. I don't know. I even back then I didn't really watch Survivor.

SPEAKER_00 17:30

I don't know if I ever watched a whole season. I know when I lived with my dad, I think that's one of the shows we watched was Survivor.

unknown 17:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:38

Maybe we watched a whole one then.

SPEAKER_01 17:40

I don't even know if I've seen a whole episode of Survivor.

SPEAKER_00 17:44

Yeah, that's right.

SPEAKER_01 17:46

I did watch what was the name, Bear Girls. Oh yeah, Bear Girls was there was another guy that was kind of like Bear Girls. And then Naked and Afraid.

SPEAKER_00 17:55

Yeah, you and our daughter watched that one.

SPEAKER_01 17:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:58

Seemed kinda kinda weird too.

SPEAKER_01 18:00

Well, no.

SPEAKER_00 18:01

You guys didn't watch Naked and Afraid?

SPEAKER_01 18:03

No, we watched like Netflix has a show, like Alone.

SPEAKER_00 18:07

Oh yeah, you guys watched it alone.

SPEAKER_01 18:08

Something like that. Yeah. I didn't watch a show about being naked and afraid with my daughter.

unknown 18:12

Sorry.

SPEAKER_01 18:13

I mean it's the same type of show.

SPEAKER_00 18:16

Your version wasn't naked. Sometimes, but yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:20

No, the show that I watch is right. Like there's like 12 contestants, maybe. Right. And they're all they have like they just go out and they drop them all off around like a lake or whatever. Right. Pretty sure it's called Alone.

SPEAKER_00 18:31

Yeah, alone sounds right.

SPEAKER_01 18:32

Yeah, and whoever lasts the longest, basically whoever takes the longest to starve to death is what. Yeah. And people last a really long time. I yeah, anyways, we don't need to not about this what this episode's about.

SPEAKER_00 18:45

Okay. Next is the International Space Station became operational with its first crew November 2nd, 2000.

SPEAKER_01 18:52

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 18:53

I don't think I knew that. I thought it was much older than then.

SPEAKER_01 18:56

Yeah, I think it's just for me at the International Space Station's just always been around. It's just kind of, yeah, it's like the moon. I don't know. The moon's up there. ISS is up there. Maybe, yeah. I don't like I don't remember like the ISS launching or right, like any of this stuff in the news.

SPEAKER_00 19:14

Yeah, me neither. Alright, next up we have snacks. The Hershey Kissables. I don't remember.

SPEAKER_01 19:20

They have a little candy shell. Is that what they are? Yeah, candy. Almost like MMs.

SPEAKER_00 19:23

Mini kisses.

SPEAKER_01 19:24

Yeah. I remember these and they're I remember them not being good.

SPEAKER_00 19:27

Oh really?

SPEAKER_01 19:28

Yeah, like cichlets. But like worse. Not good.

SPEAKER_00 19:32

I'm not a huge Hershey's fan.

SPEAKER_01 19:35

Yeah, their chocolate's kind of I don't want to.

SPEAKER_00 19:38

Like a lower grade chocolate. Yeah, it's not great. Next is Fruit Loop cereal straws. You remember these? Nope. They're just like made out of cereal so you could like suck the milk out and at the same time.

SPEAKER_01 19:49

It's just a long tube of a fruit loop that's just stretched out. That's interesting.

SPEAKER_00 19:54

Yeah. I don't know how they worked, like if they just like collapsed before you got to the bottom because there's like a milk up.

SPEAKER_01 20:00

Yeah, probably get soggy down at the bottom. My guess is they didn't work super great since they're not still around. Because like Pop Tarts, those are still around.

SPEAKER_00 20:08

They work great.

SPEAKER_01 20:09

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 20:10

The next one is Trix yogurt.

SPEAKER_01 20:13

I do remember this. Basically just food coloring. I'm not sure how much yogurt is in there.

SPEAKER_00 20:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:18

People mostly just red dye, blue dye.

SPEAKER_00 20:20

I yeah, I don't I remember seeing them. I don't remember if I ate them, but people online were very passionate about their Trix yogurt. So apparently some people loved them. The next is the yogurt burst cereal. Do they still have this? I have no idea. I don't know if we don't eat cereal anymore.

SPEAKER_01 20:38

Yeah, what is this? Like some of the This is cereal that has like yogurt that bursts in your mouth when you crunch it?

SPEAKER_00 20:44

No, I don't know what's called burst, but like these pink ones are like strawberry yogurt on them.

SPEAKER_01 20:49

And then there's a regular like a yogurt-covered pretzel?

SPEAKER_00 20:52

Yeah, but Cheerio instead.

SPEAKER_01 20:53

Okay. Well that's less weird weird than me biting into a crunchy cereal and having it squirt yogurt all over my mouth. Sounds disgusting.

SPEAKER_00 21:01

The next one is the jet puffed fun mellows.

SPEAKER_01 21:05

So they had always wanted these four flavors. Right, because these are just marshmallows you just eat.

SPEAKER_00 21:11

So they're orange strawberry Is that lime and lemon? Lemon?

SPEAKER_01 21:16

That's like five. Oh, there's two strawberries. Okay. I was just looking at five five pieces of fruit. I was reading this over here.

SPEAKER_00 21:22

So it says orange strawberry, this says L-I-M-O-N, Limon, and lime. All right. Next one is the Pop Tarts Marshmallow Hot Coco.

SPEAKER_01 21:35

That's weird.

SPEAKER_00 21:37

The inside is covered in marshmallow. That seems too much.

SPEAKER_01 21:41

Yeah. Yikes. Yeah. Well, that shows why they're not around anymore.

SPEAKER_00 21:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:45

Even those of us from the two thousands. I'm like, ugh.

SPEAKER_00 21:47

Yeah. We ate lots of garbage food.

SPEAKER_01 21:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:50

The next one is the Harry Potter beans. Bertie bought ever every flavor beans. I remember my nephew got these for the first time.

SPEAKER_01 22:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:00

Oh, these were awful.

SPEAKER_01 22:02

Are they meant to be gross? Like yucky jelly bellies?

SPEAKER_00 22:05

Yeah, they think this was the original. Right?

SPEAKER_01 22:08

I don't know. I was never really into Harry Potter.

SPEAKER_00 22:10

I think this says sausage right here.

SPEAKER_01 22:12

Sausage jelly bean?

SPEAKER_00 22:14

Yeah, I thought this was the one. Wasn't Bernie Birdie's Bots like you had like the gross flavor and a good flavor? Like that was the original one?

SPEAKER_01 22:22

Yeah, I don't know if it's called Birdie's Bots, but yeah, like there were two. So like the buttered popcorn and then like I don't know, boogers or something. Yeah. Because it looks like this they look exactly this one.

SPEAKER_00 22:30

This one says booger, which looks like the pear. This one looks like it says black pepper. Yeah. So it seems like this. I think this was the original. If I'm wrong, sorry. But I remember my nephew getting these and I played it with him. It was horrible.

SPEAKER_01 22:44

Whether you're getting a good one or a bad one?

SPEAKER_00 22:45

Yep. Never played it again. The next one is 3D Doritos. Yeah. Do you remember these? I do. I don't remember these.

SPEAKER_01 22:52

Yeah. They were fun to like pop in your mouth and like crush.

SPEAKER_00 22:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:55

Yep. Really, they're just like a bugle with the end closed off.

SPEAKER_00 22:59

Yeah. So they have like just nacho cheese and the classic ranch one, whatever.

SPEAKER_01 23:05

Yeah, I think nacho cheese, maybe they maybe only had nacho cheese. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 23:08

Really? The next one is the gummy lifesavers. These were kind of weird.

SPEAKER_01 23:14

Yeah, I ate quite a bit of those. They always came in like a weird plastic container. It's like long and like super, super noisy, like crinkly plastic.

SPEAKER_00 23:22

Yeah. Alright. And lastly, we have Easy Mac.

SPEAKER_01 23:26

I don't know if I ever really ate Easy Mac. Kind of grossed me out.

SPEAKER_00 23:29

Uh Stacy ate this every single day at work for lunch. Yeah. Every day. I I ate it a couple times, but mostly.

SPEAKER_01 23:37

Were they hers? Like, did you steal hers?

SPEAKER_00 23:39

Oh no. Oh. But I yeah, that was not my favorite. We'll probably stop there. Oh no, I have to do music. Music. We have Faith Hill Breeze. Oh yeah. That was a good song.

SPEAKER_01 23:49

Mm-hmm. Yeah, Faith Hill was huge back then.

SPEAKER_00 23:52

Yeah. Next one is Bless the Broken Roads by Rascal Flats.

SPEAKER_01 23:56

Yeah. Like Country was really big. And I I guess maybe like I almost want to call it like New Age Country. Yeah. Because like Rascal Flats, that's some pretty loose country. Yeah. Think of country. Yeah, so even Faith Hill a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 24:08

Yeah, they're more like RB country.

SPEAKER_01 24:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:11

The next one is Redneck Woman by Gretchen Wilson.

SPEAKER_01 24:16

She ain't no high class broad. Is that that song? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:19

She's like four wheelers in the mud and the river.

SPEAKER_01 24:22

If you showed me two pictures of two women and one of them was Gretchen Wilson, I wouldn't be able to She looks totally different now. Well, you like I don't think I've ever I'm sure I've seen Gretchen Wilson. I but I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 24:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:36

Yeah. But that song? Yeah, I loved that song too. I'm not I'm not a redneck or a woman, and I loved that song. I have no idea who Gretchen Wilson is.

SPEAKER_00 24:44

Very catchy.

SPEAKER_01 24:45

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 24:45

The next one is Lone Star Amazed.

SPEAKER_01 24:48

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:49

This was like huge song. Next one is Pink. There you go.

SPEAKER_01 24:54

I don't know if I know this song. I like Pink, and I don't care who knows it. Yeah, she's I think she's a very talented artist. I don't know if I know that song.

SPEAKER_00 25:01

You'll know this song.

SPEAKER_01 25:01

As soon as I hear it. Oh, sounds like Scrub. I don't know if I know this song. Really? I'm like waiting for the hook or whatever. I don't know this song. I don't know if I've ever heard this song.

SPEAKER_00 25:11

Next we have InSync. Bye bye bye. Bye bye bye.

SPEAKER_01 25:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:16

That was a big song.

SPEAKER_01 25:17

And that was the song that they wrote like after they got off that label, right?

SPEAKER_00 25:21

Oh really? I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 25:22

I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure that was like the song that they wrote for that.

SPEAKER_00 25:26

That's cool. Next one is Cisco Incomplete.

SPEAKER_01 25:29

I don't know if I know that song. I know a different Cisco song.

SPEAKER_00 25:31

Yeah, I didn't add that one because obviously. I liked Cisco.

SPEAKER_01 25:34

Sis06?

SPEAKER_00 25:35

Cisco.

SPEAKER_01 25:36

I'm looking at it. So Sis06. It's an O and that's a six. Is this from 2006? He's wearing a lot of leather or pleather or whatever that is. Seems uncomfortable. And hot and noisy. Moving around. I'm just imagining like the all the leather rubbing up against each other. No, I don't know. I didn't go to the clubs all rolled up and glitter like you did.

SPEAKER_00 26:02

There would used to be a club that we could go to.

SPEAKER_01 26:05

Like 18 and over?

SPEAKER_00 26:07

Yeah. That is not 18 and over, Ashley. You just were like, I forgot my ID, and then the bouncer would ask you for your birthday, and I would tell him a birthday that made me 18, and they would let you in.

SPEAKER_01 26:20

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:20

I guess I was probably 17, not 16, probably. They don't do that anymore. Don't do that.

SPEAKER_01 26:24

Do they even have 18 older clubs anymore?

SPEAKER_00 26:27

Probably not.

SPEAKER_01 26:27

Yeah, I don't think so.

SPEAKER_00 26:28

This this actually, this club was I don't know if it's still a club, but when I went there, it was a club my mom went to when she was dating when I was young. It had been there for so long.

SPEAKER_01 26:39

Whoa. Generational.

SPEAKER_00 26:41

And it is it was a dump. Okay, next is Country Grammar Nelly.

SPEAKER_01 26:47

Yeah. That that that Nelly album, that was fire, as the kids would say. Just to let them know. It was really good. It was fire. Yeah, made up. It cooked everybody else.

SPEAKER_00 26:57

Yeah, I don't say those words. Next one is the next episode, Dr. Dre featuring Snoop Dogg. This was a big song.

SPEAKER_01 27:04

Yeah. This was Nelly a little bit later? I was gonna say like next episode was like 2001.

SPEAKER_00 27:11

Yeah, I think it was 2001. So yeah, Nelly. Well, Nelly's been around for forever.

SPEAKER_01 27:16

But I feel like I was listening to Nelly like drive into soccer games and stuff. So maybe not. It doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_00 27:21

Next one is Say My Name, Destiny's Child. And then we have Miss Jackson by Outcast.

SPEAKER_01 27:28

Yeah. Speaker Box 3000? Is that what the name of the album was?

SPEAKER_00 27:32

Next one is In the Club 50 Cent. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 27:35

That was that was a very big song. Very, very, very catchy.

SPEAKER_00 27:39

Next one is What's Love? Fat Joe, Zhao Rule, and Ashanti.

SPEAKER_01 27:43

Yeah, I think Fat Joe actually has a podcast.

SPEAKER_00 27:45

Oh, does he? Yeah. Last one is Yeah. Usher, Little John, and Ludacris. I remember my nephew being little and singing this song. And now I listen to it and like, what the heck was I letting him listen to this song for?

SPEAKER_01 27:58

You were a parent in the 90s.

SPEAKER_00 28:00

Well, so it wasn't just me. I think his mom and dad let him listen to it too.

SPEAKER_01 28:05

Because it's a good song.

SPEAKER_00 28:06

He would sing it. He also would sing Dirty Deeds. That's what his dad taught him. Was it Dirty Deeds song?

SPEAKER_01 28:11

And the Thunder Chief?

SPEAKER_00 28:12

Well, not the Thunder Chief.

SPEAKER_01 28:14

Because that's the song you're talking about, right? A C D C Dirty Deeds. Right. And the Mizheard Lyrics episode that we did.

SPEAKER_00 28:19

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 28:21

Yeah, you didn't seem to catch it the first time, though.

SPEAKER_00 28:24

I did not. I totally forgot to be able to do that.

SPEAKER_01 28:26

You just totally brush it off. You're like, no, not not not the Thunder Chiefs.

SPEAKER_00 28:28

Yeah, I thought it was like some S and L C. I totally forgot that that was an episode we did. I'd done a lot of episodes. The Thunder Chiefs. That's what we really miss. Not frosted tips or flip phones, not Delius catalogs, not even the two strands of hair framing your face. What we long for is a slower pace of life that, at least in our memories, felt a bit more human. Remember, even a small act of kindness can be someone's beacon in their darkest moment. Choose kindness every day. Reach out to someone today. You have the power to change a life. Be the signal of hope this world needs.