Why is Everyone's Obsessed With 90s Nostalgia

This week on Inspired by the 90s, we’re taking a hilarious trip back to one of the most chaotic — and character-building — childhood eras ever.

We’re talking about the things today’s kids would NEVER survive: staying outside all day without checking in, drinking from the hose, prank calls, no Apple Pay, no participation trophies, and being forced to watch Maury or Jerry Springer when you stayed home from school.

We also unpack how parenting has changed since the 90s — from emotional awareness and mental health conversations to more active fathers and the reality of raising kids in a technology-driven world.

Plus, we play a nostalgic game of “Guess the Price” comparing everyday costs from 1995 to 2026… and some of these prices will absolutely shock you.

If you grew up in the 90s, this episode will feel like one giant flashback filled with laughs, memories, and reminders of why our generation is built different.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:00

I'm Kristen Marie.

SPEAKER_02 0:01

And I'm Brandon Reed. And we're back with Inspire by the 90s podcast.

SPEAKER_03 0:05

So we were just talking about in part one about how today's kids could not survive the 90s. So now we're back with part two and we're kind of continuing on with that. I feel like we had so much character development in the 90s that I feel like times are just so different now. And I feel like just some of the things that like today's generation couldn't handle. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, I feel like even like we literally grew up with like we're the last generation, like our generation, millennials, we're the last generation that's like in the middle. Like we know life without cell phones, and then life like with cell phones, and like life without internet and life with internet, which is crazy when you think about it. And they say we're the what did they call it? Like basically, like not like we're the best generation, but we're the most like versatile generation because of that. Oh, because of seeing this stuff and seeing it.

SPEAKER_02 0:59

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 0:59

Like we seen the iPod, and then we seen the iPad. Like, you know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_02 1:03

Like, we know just imagine you couldn't do nothing on it but listen to it.

SPEAKER_03 1:07

Literally, literally.

SPEAKER_02 1:09

I don't even think it had games.

SPEAKER_03 1:10

No.

SPEAKER_02 1:10

Nah, it was straight music.

SPEAKER_03 1:12

And then they came out with iPod Touch like a while later that was kind of like an iPhone, like at a cheaper version, but like, nah.

SPEAKER_02 1:19

I like the little wheel.

SPEAKER_03 1:20

Yeah, the little wheel. They don't look like can they bring those back? Like, people have been trying to get them to bring those back, and I'm like, that's crazy.

SPEAKER_02 1:27

But the only problem is I can't connect it to the car because oh wow. It don't it didn't have USB. Nah, it had regular USB, right?

SPEAKER_03 1:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:37

My car got USB C.

SPEAKER_03 1:39

Yeah, my car got USB C too. They don't even the new cars don't even come with the the freaking regular USB no more. Mine don't got none of those at all. Like there's none in the whole entire car. I'm like, dang, what if that was all I had today?

SPEAKER_02 1:52

Remember we used to put the tape in there? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:54

With the Oxcord? Yes. And that's right.

SPEAKER_02 1:56

I remember having one of those.

SPEAKER_03 1:57

Or there was like this like radio transmitter thing that you could plug into the the lighter thing. Oh, I remember like, yeah, you could connect your phone that way to like, or your iPad or something, or iPod or whatever.

SPEAKER_02 2:08

I think I had one of them once I got my first, my second car. My first car, I had the tape.

SPEAKER_03 2:13

That's crazy. But then my second car had the little transmitter thing that you plug into the and even like the those cases full of CDs and you had to imagine you trying to drive down the highway and you're trying to do some.

SPEAKER_02 2:37

Once you find it, you gotta take the disc out, eject the first disc while holding the wheel.

SPEAKER_03 2:42

Hold it like that. Pick that one out, put it back in the screen. Like it's very technique to it. See, this new generation, they would get fed up and they would scratch it up and they would break it. They don't they don't have no patience.

SPEAKER_02 2:55

Yeah, even with like stuff like video games, like my youngest, I he he got a PS4, and for some reason he just don't get the concept of the disc. Like, bro, you can't just put that on the floor. Like, it's not gonna work anymore. You can't just sit it on the counter. Like, no, put it back in the case.

SPEAKER_03 3:12

The funny part though is I remember our generation used to do some crazy stuff with the disc. Remember when it wouldn't be working, people like just flush it down the toilet. That worked. And it would just switch it around and then you throw it back in, and all of a sudden it worked.

SPEAKER_02 3:25

You had to do the combo. Sometimes you gotta put the toothpaste on. Oh, hello. Well, no, first. Yeah, you're gonna do the breath thing first. Breath thing, don't worry, you st you're hitting it with the toothpaste. Toothpaste is supposed to feel the cracks. I don't know if it did. You hit it with the toothpaste, put it in the toilet, flush it, wipe it off. It's it's gonna be working.

SPEAKER_03 3:44

And then when you think about like the cartridges too, and people spit all in them. Spitting and blowing all in them, it's crazy, and then sticking it back in an electronic device is crazy.

SPEAKER_02 3:53

I had to show the PS that the other day because his PS4 disc was not working because it was on the floor. I said, bro, you gotta you gotta wipe it off. He said, What you mean? Wiped it off, put it back in there. At first it said, unable to read. I said, Hold on, bro, we gotta try it again. I'll put it back in there, it popped up. He got hype. I'm like, yeah, see?

SPEAKER_03 4:14

That's crazy. Then sometimes I feel like you would get it working or you think it's working, the PlayStation logo pop up, but then it'll just malfunction and not do nothing else and you stuck on that screen.

SPEAKER_02 4:24

That when it freezes and you thought you had it.

SPEAKER_03 4:27

Bruh.

SPEAKER_02 4:28

The worst thing toilet when I had to go through the toilet process once or twice. Y'all tried the alcohol and the peroxide too?

SPEAKER_03 4:37

Try that. That's doing too much. Maybe I don't have patients like the new generation. Like then, you know, games. If the toilet didn't work, it was over.

SPEAKER_02 4:44

Ah. See, it got to the extreme because then stores start coming out with the sander. You take it to the GameStop, they sand your discs down and get the scratches out of it. Now it works again.

SPEAKER_03 4:53

I ain't never seen that before in my life. My only GameStop experience is like turning in stuff that was partially broken and they would take it anyway. You know what I'm saying? Like, you know how like GameStop would take anything.

SPEAKER_02 5:05

Back then, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 5:06

Yeah, like they would just take anything. They did not care.

SPEAKER_02 5:09

The sander was cool. You would have to go to like Hollywood video to use the sander machine. But then your disc would get shorter and shorter as you keep sanding it. All of a sudden your disc is definitely. Once the disc get floppy, you know your game over with. You didn't did too much. It's boneless.

SPEAKER_04 5:23

At that point, it's boneless.

SPEAKER_03 5:27

Get a new one. At that point, games was like $15 or $10 at that point. Or you could rent it.

SPEAKER_02 5:33

You know what? We used to rent them and not take it. I'm about to say, think about it.

SPEAKER_03 5:37

Imagine if somebody just rented it and swapped out the disc. And then I feel like people probably did do stuff like that.

SPEAKER_02 5:44

Yeah, I used to go to my cousin's house and the game, like the PlayStation game, would have a sticker on it that say uh family video, property of. And like they had the game for years.

SPEAKER_03 5:54

So like and they owed probably $20,000 in the fees, and they just had no idea. And it was like, oh well, it was worth it. I got a few years. I feel like other stuff like this generation wouldn't be able to handle too is like um, I feel like the in our generation there was no participation trophies. There was no runner up trophies.

SPEAKER_02 6:21

Like no, if you didn't make the team, you didn't make the team.

SPEAKER_03 6:23

That too. I would never forget. Now they just be putting everybody on the team.

SPEAKER_02 6:26

Like, yeah, and they make multiple teams too.

SPEAKER_03 6:29

Yeah, like there's an A and B team. No, if you sucked, you just sucked and you just wasn't on the team.

SPEAKER_02 6:34

And it's I think it's tough too, because now as I'm watching these sports in these different things, I'm uh like you could watch the A team and watch the B team and and realize that they just randomly pick characters. I say characters, my goodness. They randomly pick players that that the coach wanted.

SPEAKER_03 6:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:52

Because I've seen people play on the A team that not to say anything about their skills, they just might not be at a certain level as a kid. I just watched dominate in the B team. Yeah. So it's like, it just doesn't make sense. Just make one big old team with 20 kids on it. That's what we did.

SPEAKER_03 7:05

Seriously, at this point. I remember um when my son first started playing rec ball too, and we missed a lot of the practices because it was like really far away, and he played like three sports at a time. And I remember when the dads was complaining in the meeting, he was like, My son made it to 80% of the practices, and there are kids that didn't even make it to half of them, and my son's on the bench. Like, okay, if your son made it to 80% of the practices and they still put him on the bench, they ain't got nothing to do with nobody else.

SPEAKER_02 7:31

It kind of makes you think like you might have to spend some of that time in training.

SPEAKER_04 7:36

Like, no, literally, like that's maybe the dad was trying to train them.

SPEAKER_02 7:39

Sometimes the parent try to train, and we might have played a little bit back in school, but we ain't got the same skill set as a real trainer.

SPEAKER_03 7:48

No, seriously. I feel like coaches was harder back then, too.

SPEAKER_02 7:52

Yeah, my coach used to get in my face. I'd never played in my face.

SPEAKER_03 7:54

Yeah, coaches used to scream. I remember they fired a coach one time for smacking a bowl of cereal out of a kid's hand. And I'm like, I'm like, he was sitting there eating the cereal while the coach was talking. He said, and they fired him for it. Yeah, no, no, that's just no, sometimes you need that tough look.

SPEAKER_02 8:11

My coach used to get in my face, I'll never forget it. I wasn't aggressive enough. I was a smaller kid, barely a hundred pounds. He was in my face, like, get aggressive.

SPEAKER_04 8:22

I'm like, I'm trying. Now you crying. Now you crying. Like, get aggressive. They throwing me out the way. I'm like, I'm trying.

SPEAKER_03 8:38

Uh see, but all right, but back in that day it wasn't no participation trophy shooting. Either you just, hey, it was just you, it is what it is. Either you get aggressive or you ain't gonna win nothing.

SPEAKER_02 8:47

But man, one of the most aggressive coaches I had. This is this is getting ready to get so dark. One of the most aggressive coaches I had. We had a great season. We was undefeated, and he died during the season. It was tough. And he he was a mean coach too, but he was a great coach.

SPEAKER_03 9:05

Dang.

SPEAKER_02 9:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 9:07

That's crazy. But y'all still was undefeated after he died, or y'all started losing after that?

SPEAKER_02 9:11

No, we was cooking.

SPEAKER_03 9:12

So he really had anything to do with him.

SPEAKER_02 9:15

But he instilled that in us. So then once he was gone, it was like, nah, we gotta win. Coach ain't yelling at us for no reason.

SPEAKER_04 9:22

I am screaming. That is crazy.

SPEAKER_02 9:25

This is young too, like seventh grade. You know, we traumatized.

SPEAKER_03 9:29

And the bar. Oh yeah. Now I know what you're talking about. Yeah, that was traumatizing. Dang, dang. I mean, he wasn't my coach, but just him dying, period, was like, yeah, that was, yeah, that was crazy. That's funny. I mean, that's not funny. That's that's crazy. Um I feel like this new generation, too. I feel like they always swear they're like bored in the car. Like my kids, but it's so boring in here.

SPEAKER_02 9:50

Like, it's because of the electronics.

SPEAKER_03 9:52

Yeah, like you literally have an iPad in your hand. I had to stare out the window and pretend I was in a music video.

SPEAKER_04 9:58

Did nobody else do that? What a sad song. Come on, you know, like lean against the window.

SPEAKER_02 10:05

RB song. That's hilarious.

SPEAKER_04 10:16

Like, um, I'm in a music video. Like you're in a uh I know somebody else knows what I'm talking about.

SPEAKER_02 10:22

I know what you're talking about. I can do it in the car though. Like I would do that at home in the mirror in the front room.

SPEAKER_04 10:27

Like, you know the big window that you staring out the bay window.

SPEAKER_02 10:32

Like with the blind kind of close, just like let it burn.

unknown 10:38

No.

SPEAKER_02 10:38

I'm talking about Usher. You probably single. These are my confessions. And don't let it be raining outside. Now I'm really that's what I'm thinking.

SPEAKER_03 10:49

I'm thinking in the car, it's raining, the rain coming down. I'm leaning my head and I'm singing the song and I'm I'm in a music video. My kids don't know about that.

SPEAKER_02 10:58

I think it's because we was just, our imaginations was really.

SPEAKER_03 11:01

Well, there also wasn't anything else to do. Like, like, literally, you just had, and then my kids be like, play such and such. No, you're gonna listen to my music while I'm driving.

SPEAKER_02 11:11

They be like, oh, can you play this person by this person? No, we had 99.1 WS.

SPEAKER_03 11:16

Whatever they played is what you was listening. It's four of my CDs that I have in here. That's it. Like, no.

SPEAKER_02 11:21

And the CDs, oh, I guess we kind of had that with the CDs because you just put the CD in there.

SPEAKER_03 11:25

No, but they, I'm telling you, you're busy driving. You can't be flipping through 16 different CDs.

SPEAKER_02 11:30

I thought to the past and they're like, hey, what a ludicrous CD.

SPEAKER_03 11:34

Like, that's that's character development right there, man.

SPEAKER_02 11:37

And some of them CDs, I didn't even write what songs was on it. So like it's three C three blank joints that you gotta. Ah, I I I think that chingy on this one. Let me try this first.

SPEAKER_03 11:47

No, literally. I remember when I was like, when I was um going to college too, I remember I used to make um like these mixed CDs, which is crazy because that was like not, I mean, it wasn't that long, it was like at least 10 plus maybe 15 years ago. But like I would make mixed CDs when I would be on my way to drive because I'm like, dang, I want to be able to listen to different stuff, like without because you know, nothing was connecting to it back then. All I had was a CD player in the car. I didn't even have a tape or nothing, so I couldn't even connect the phone or nothing. And so like I would just make these mixed CDs to listen. I make three of them so I would have enough that would get me the whole drive down.

SPEAKER_02 12:22

Three CD, how many songs are you putting on there? Well, it's let me see.

SPEAKER_03 12:25

It's an hour time frame on there. I think it had an hour on there, so I don't know, maybe like 15 or 16, 18 on a good one if there was a few short songs, you know.

SPEAKER_02 12:33

Because songs back then had two verses. Nowadays they don't do two verses, so like back then the song will run you three minutes apiece. Yeah, at least nowadays a fire song is gonna be done in a minute and thirty.

SPEAKER_03 12:45

You know what else I used to do? Which is so random. I used to sit with my headphones on and I would listen to the radio, and I would put a cassette tape in there, and I would record songs that I really liked so that I could listen back to them later.

SPEAKER_02 12:59

That's cool.

SPEAKER_03 13:00

No, literally, I don't think it's crazy to think about.

SPEAKER_02 13:03

But that's that that's time. I used to do that with movies though, like put the VCR in, like dunk contest song, hit record real quick. I don't watch that.

SPEAKER_03 13:11

That is crazy though, because think about it. Like stuff just came on when it came on, and it'd be like the new episode of And you gotta watch it right now. Yeah, the new episode of Girlfriends is premiering at 8 p.m. Yeah, and it was like it may come on again at like midnight or something, but it's like if you don't catch it at that time, yeah, then you'll never see it.

SPEAKER_02 13:30

Yeah, I mean, unless they just had a day where they was doing a marathon, but the marathons was rare. Like that was like on the weekend at the end of the month, you know. I'm saying, oh, we're doing a marathon this Saturday of and then you can sit and watch it.

SPEAKER_03 13:41

But other than that, it's like if you wasn't tuned in right then and there, and people used to put a tape in the VCR and set it with a timer or something to like record it or have somebody at home, hey, hit record on my show so I can see it when I get home is crazy what you think.

SPEAKER_02 13:57

When cable first started getting serious too, like with D VR and stuff, they had it on that too.

SPEAKER_03 14:02

That was correct. Like, yeah, D VR was a game changer though. Yeah, because it was like you could just set it, like, okay, I want to watch this, but I'm not gonna be home at 9 p.m. And then you come back home and watch it. I remember one time I was so excited to see some movie that was coming on. I set it for the DVR. Bruh, the DVR ran out of space. Yeah, and so it only recorded like 20 minutes of it, bro. I was man.

SPEAKER_02 14:22

And just think you ain't gonna never see that again.

SPEAKER_03 14:25

No, literally, I was like, you just gotta wait until they show it. See, this this new generation wouldn't be able to handle no stuff like that, bro.

SPEAKER_02 14:30

Yeah, because everything too accessible. Like the YouTube shorts, they just watching. Watch. I seen the clip the other day. This dude asked a little kid, he was like, What cartoons you be watching? He was like, What's that? He's talking about YouTube shorts.

SPEAKER_03 14:42

I'm like, No, for real. What? What's that is crazy? I remember when I showed um, so sometimes I'll go on YouTube and I'll type in Saturday morning cartoons, and you can literally yeah, and I was trying to show my daughter, and you can literally watch it. It shows the commercials and everything from like back in that day. She was like, This looks blurry.

SPEAKER_04 15:00

I'm like, what? This is primetime television. This is blurry.

SPEAKER_02 15:06

I was like, We'd be trying to go back and show the kids like different shows that we watch. And like, you used to watch this. No, literally. This is crazy.

SPEAKER_03 15:13

Some people say Rugras gives them a headache now. Like the way the camera angles used to like like follow the babies around, they'd be like, Yeah, that gives me a headache. I'm like, what the heck? No, seriously.

SPEAKER_02 15:25

It's because the YouTube shorts it ain't strengthening their eyes up. That's what it is.

SPEAKER_03 15:30

Well, you know what's funny is they say that like the rush of being able to continuously watch something like that with no breaks is actually doing detrimental things to their brains.

SPEAKER_02 15:41

Like I know it's doing something to me. Because now when I watch YouTube, I can't sit on the video for too long. If you're not getting to the point, I gotta go to a new video. And I was not like that until social media got to the point where everything's so. Okay, wait a minute.

SPEAKER_03 15:56

I so I've been doing that. I thought there was nothing wrong with that.

SPEAKER_02 16:00

Maybe then.

SPEAKER_03 16:00

Here's the thing though. I'm like, if you're not getting to the point, I'm not about to watch no 40-minute video.

SPEAKER_02 16:05

So like I feel like I used to be able to really lock in on something though.

SPEAKER_03 16:09

But like, why if they're not talking about nothing? I don't want to keep brain rotting myself. So I'll just be like, next video. Like, if they don't get to the point, like I want to see the point. Now that now that you say that, though, I'm like, dang, I guess that is kind of bad.

SPEAKER_02 16:20

I'll be trying to sit down and watch it.

SPEAKER_03 16:25

Yeah, I have to give myself permission to get back on Facebook and stuff after a while if I like use my two hours.

SPEAKER_02 16:31

Reason why I realize that is because now you like you know when you get ready to lay down, you're like, ah, let me just put something on. Like just to put something on while you get ready to lay down.

SPEAKER_03 16:38

When you're about to lay down?

SPEAKER_02 16:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:41

No, I have to do that when I'm eating. Not when I'm about to lay down. I can't watch nothing when I'm about to go to sleep, so I'm gonna be lights out. That's gonna make me sleep instantly.

SPEAKER_02 16:48

If I have the TV off and I get ready to go to sleep and it's silent, I'm thinking too much. I gotta have something going so that I don't think about it. That's crazy. That's I probably should say that loud.

SPEAKER_04 16:59

Dang, that's all I'm gonna shoot. Are you okay? See, that's the problem. Yeah, you do YouTube.

SPEAKER_03 17:09

And now you need some noises. No, I'm about to eat. I just need a good show to watch while I'm with my food.

SPEAKER_02 17:14

I sit down on my plate and I'm your fluored by the time you find it.

SPEAKER_03 17:19

Well, I start eating, and then by the time the show starts, I'm done.

SPEAKER_02 17:21

Like yeah, then you're like, oh, that's it.

SPEAKER_03 17:23

Yeah, and then I cut it off. But if I turn on a show before bed, I'm gonna be asleep. Like, I'm just gonna be I don't know. It makes me so tired. Like when people are just talking and stuff.

SPEAKER_02 17:34

Like, it's a routine too, because I'll if I'm doing Netflix, right? I'm watching Netflix, I'll be like, okay, what episode am I getting ready to click? Because I know when I wake up, it's gonna go past three more episodes. So I just have to remember where I gotta go back to.

SPEAKER_03 17:46

Which is crazy because at first they didn't have that. Are you still watching? You'll wake up and the whole season will be over. Or the or through all three seasons, it would just keep going.

SPEAKER_02 17:54

I have no clue where you left off on.

SPEAKER_03 17:56

Yeah, no, literally, you gotta literally go all the way back to figure out where you was fell asleep at. Um I feel like this new generation too. I feel like they their clothes and stuff have no like personality to them. My my son's school had like a sports banquet. Literally 90% of the kids had on a hoodie, either a gray hoodie or a black hoodie, and either gray or black sweatpants. And they had on Nike socks and they had on Uggs. And I was like, they look like little robots, like they all have on the same exact thing.

SPEAKER_02 18:30

It's funny because I was finna say maybe it's about the brands, but I feel like it was like that with us too.

SPEAKER_03 18:36

Like, yeah, but I feel like ours was like like how you dress determined your like personality type. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_02 18:44

Yeah, yeah, I can feel that.

SPEAKER_03 18:45

I can feel that like it was literally like however you dress determines your personality type in a sense of like if you was dressed in all black or something, you either was like a gangbanger or you was like an emo. You know what I mean? Or like, and then it was like the basketball people that had on like hoodies and stuff like that, or you had like the girls that was going getting trying to figure out where it was going.

SPEAKER_04 19:15

I don't want to call them hoes, but they had on short skirts and whatever, like you know how to dress like a hooker. Yeah, or hooker is crazy. I was trying not to say that.

SPEAKER_02 19:32

But yeah, no. But when you like you'd see somebody's outfit and you'd know what's going on. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_03 19:37

You know exactly what's going on. Like you can tell they all look like little clones of each other, and then you're probably looking out there like, is that my kid right there in the gray? They all got the same hairstyles and stuff too. Like, it's just like there's no like no swag or nothing to it. It's just like all the same, and it's gray and black. Like it's just like bland.

SPEAKER_02 19:55

My kids wear color stuff, but it's all like a brand. Like, there's no like uh except for my youngest, because you know he likes to be like, yeah, the younger ones don't care. But like my older kids, it's just like a brand name and like pants, like Adidas shirt and some pants, or like champion shirt pants.

SPEAKER_03 20:12

My uh, my youngest, she's six, she was like, I need Nike socks. And I'm like, girl, why do you need the Nike socks? No, literally, they're like $20, $30 a pack. And so like I got her some and I got her some colorful ones because it was like, no, we doing that. You ain't about to be wearing the white Nike socks every day because you still play on the playground and you don't give a crap.

SPEAKER_02 20:31

So like you know, then we gotta share the pack too. Like, yeah, me and I thunder that I don't even know whose socks I have on right now. That's they're probably my kids.

SPEAKER_04 20:45

It's like, hey, we pay for $30, we're gonna have to do that.

SPEAKER_03 20:49

Literally, dead serious. That's crazy, but no, for real. I do feel like though, I feel like the two of us too, compared to like where we came from. I feel like we're raising like suburban kids compared to us being like hood kids. Like we really came from the trenches for real. Like, and I feel like our kids are like suburban when it comes to like have you seen the TikTok trend where they be like square up and the kids be like, what does that mean? Like, you know, like they really don't be knowing. I feel like my our kids are like, they're a little in the middle though, you know, like they have some hood experience.

SPEAKER_02 21:21

They probably got some hood cousins or something, like they know, they know when we go to family members' house, they it's it's a little bit different than it is at home. So like they know things because of going to like family members' house, but like, well, it ain't yeah, it ain't the same.

SPEAKER_03 21:37

No, literally, literally though. Like, I remember I took I took my kids to visit my dad. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 21:43

And my dad My dad was dating a prostitute at the time. I'm not even joking, bruh.

SPEAKER_03 21:53

And then we was like, we gotta go pick, we gotta go pick old girl up, or I gotta go talk to old girl up on the postcard. I'm like, I don't even know her name. I'm not even joking. She's like 20 years joking at him. And so like we we go around the corner to pick her up. It's like this random house. And my dad's like, hold on, let me go find her or whatever. And she comes outside, and I kid you now, she's a crackhead. And I'm like, and my kids are scared. And they're like, she's gonna get in. I said, no, she's not. Like, she's not getting in. Both of y'all can walk back around the corner, like, you're she's not gonna scare my kids, bro.

SPEAKER_02 22:27

Like, she's not getting in here. I do feel like when I was younger, seeing the crackhead was normal.

SPEAKER_03 22:32

Yeah, but my kids are scared as they don't know any crackheads for real. And the crackheads these days are not like the crackheads back in the day either. The crackheads back in the day was kind of cool. Now people be like slumped over. Like, they be trying to scare you.

SPEAKER_02 22:45

Whatever drug it is to where they still be on their feet, but the top half of their body be hanging.

SPEAKER_03 22:51

Yes, that's what drug is that? Because that's like that's not the type of drugs they used to have back in our day. Back in our day, you could get somebody to clean a whole house and cut to a yard.

SPEAKER_02 23:01

But like people was just handling it better.

SPEAKER_04 23:09

The topics is better. It's crazy.

SPEAKER_03 23:12

Maybe they just is big for it. They're starting upping the doses now or something. Now people be getting too much.

SPEAKER_02 23:17

Like, yeah, yeah, I don't know. That's rage. Yeah, my kid, man. My kids would freak out if they seen something like that.

SPEAKER_03 23:24

That's what I'm saying. Like, they was like, nah. I'm scared of that.

unknown 23:27

Yeah, they're like I'm scared.

SPEAKER_03 23:29

And I was like, she ain't getting here, bro. Neither one of y'all getting here at this point. Like, no. Y'all can both walk back around the corner. I'll wait. Like, no.

SPEAKER_02 23:38

Yeah, our our kids definitely ain't built for the stuff that we I remember getting on the bus as a kid.

SPEAKER_03 23:43

Yeah, like my kids ain't never even seen a bus.

SPEAKER_02 23:46

The bus is where I've seen like a real pimp before. I had never seen that before in my life until I got on the bus.

SPEAKER_03 23:53

The funny part is I had his women when I was a kid. For real? Yeah, he used to have these girls like dressed like Playboy bunnies and stuff like that, passing out Halloween candy on like Halloween. And he always had a bunch of women at his house. And he was old. He was like 60s or 70s. Nah, he had some pimped out Cadillacs and stuff like that. You got Garfield so messed up.

SPEAKER_02 24:15

Oh, his name is Garfield.

SPEAKER_03 24:17

Yes, he absolutely wouldn't be on the bus. I can tell you that.

SPEAKER_02 24:19

Nah, I might have had a blue grade.

SPEAKER_03 24:21

He built a makeshift park next door to our house. Like made out of like pieces of steel and like tires. It even had a fake basketball rim that he made with like some wood and stuff like that. It was a whole made-up park. They literally tore it down.

SPEAKER_02 24:36

He was giving back to the community. You said they was passing out the candy and he built the park for y'all. Yes, that's about it.

SPEAKER_03 24:45

I didn't have no bad judgment on people that was pimping. I mean, I really didn't know what he was doing at the time. But as I got older, I was like, that's sneaky.

SPEAKER_02 24:54

That's crazy. Yeah, the one at the bus stop wasn't building no playground for us. He was upset with his women. I don't know what they did to him that day, but he was not having a good time.

SPEAKER_03 25:02

Oh my God. See, our kids couldn't handle nothing like that.

SPEAKER_02 25:04

And I just looked for my butt. So I said, yeah, let me get back home. My mom be looking for me.

SPEAKER_04 25:10

Oh my god. No, literally. Let me get out of here for high end up being next.

SPEAKER_03 25:16

Next to Victor. You know what's funny too? Is like I feel like this is gonna sound so crazy. But I feel like there wasn't as many, or maybe there wasn't, it wasn't as publicized, like people being missing. Like I feel like it was more of like a scare back then. Like if somebody was missing, it was like, oh my gosh, now there's probably like 40,000 missing kids or something.

SPEAKER_02 25:39

When I go mommy, I'd be like, whoa.

SPEAKER_03 25:42

I'd be using that to scare my kids. I told Brooklyn, yeah, those are the people that didn't listen to their mommy.

SPEAKER_05 25:50

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_03 25:53

It is though.

SPEAKER_04 25:55

I mean, that's you had to look on here.

SPEAKER_03 25:58

You listen to your mommy, you wouldn't be on the missing person list, I'm telling you. If it worked, I do feel like there's some positives too, though. Like I feel like the way we raise our kids now, um, like us millennials raising kids now is like they have more emotional intelligence and like more emotional awareness. And even like mental health. Like, I feel like mental health, like back in the day, you'd be like, I'm depressed. Depress them dishes. Like, there was no like you couldn't have nothing wrong with you.

SPEAKER_02 26:30

I don't want nobody to take this the wrong way. I love my mom, but one day I said I was depressed, and she said she was gonna call the police.

SPEAKER_03 26:45

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 26:46

And I straightened up.

SPEAKER_03 26:48

No, seriously, it was very like the 90s was very just deal with it. Like, no, you you can't be depressed. You have dishes to do, like we just didn't have to do that.

SPEAKER_02 27:04

I've heard that one multiple times.

SPEAKER_04 27:07

No, like it was not depressing.

SPEAKER_02 27:11

There was no time for mental health back then. You know, everything's okay.

SPEAKER_04 27:15

We all depressed, like I mean, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 27:21

No, literally. Now it's like it's definitely taken more serious, I feel like now. By our generation, too, because we know what it was like for somebody to be like, you alright? Yeah, shake it off.

SPEAKER_02 27:32

Like uh, whenever something happens, I'll be like, How do you feel? Yeah, and then I'd be like, I just ask like questions, try to see, you know what I'm saying, what they're thinking about, how they like how their feelings are doing. Like, what do you really feel like? Yeah, no, and is it anything I can do to help to, you know, um kind of like help you through that?

SPEAKER_03 27:50

Yeah, no, definitely. I feel like too, um, they say that our generation, like the millennials, are more active fathers. Like, I think um, I was looking up the statistics and in 1982 it says 43% of dads had never changed a diaper, and now it's like 90%, 97% of dads do diaper duty, which is crazy. So now dads, that was just like changed no diapers, and the moms just like, all right, like, but see, that was a different time though. Money was different because really the moms didn't have to go to work, and like if you ain't now imagine both of us going to work, you're gonna have to change some diapers. Yeah, yeah, like there's no way.

SPEAKER_02 28:27

Changing diapers ain't really it ain't really that bad unless you got one of them one of them one of them blowout joints. Then it's kind of like, but it usually be pretty quick for me. Yeah, I'd probably change a diaper in like 15 seconds.

SPEAKER_04 28:43

Not even timing it yet. Super dad over here. Well, I'm just six kids.

SPEAKER_02 28:48

I just know by the time you then they up walking around. Like, yeah, that was quick.

SPEAKER_03 28:53

That's hilarious. You got a lot of boys too, though. So like if you don't hurry up, then if he gonna peed on you, like so. You gotta be you gotta be quick with it.

SPEAKER_02 29:02

And when you like when they get to that age where it's like one, one and a half, they want to keep flipping over.

SPEAKER_03 29:07

So you gotta that is hilarious, yeah. Um, it says too that like only three percent of de single dads, the only three percent of parents, like single parents were dads back in 1993. It is crazy though, because honestly, when I think back, I really don't know that many people back then that had a single dad that was like taking care of them. I'm not saying it didn't exist, but like that was like super rare back then. There's a whole lot of single moms, and not a lot of people.

SPEAKER_02 29:33

It was nine times out of ten, you probably lived with your granny before. Like I've heard of people being raised by their granny before being raised just by their dad. But Kyrie Irvin was raised by his dad.

SPEAKER_03 29:44

Yeah, that's true.

SPEAKER_02 29:45

That's cool. I just found that out the other day. That's why it's in my mind.

SPEAKER_03 29:48

Yeah, his mom passed away.

SPEAKER_02 29:49

I didn't know that. I just know he was raised by his dad. I found that out like a day ago.

SPEAKER_03 29:53

Yeah, yeah. Um, and now it's like 25% of single single parents or single dads.

SPEAKER_02 30:00

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_03 30:01

Yeah, that is wild. I was like, dang, that's like that's a big jump though. Yeah, and they say like literally our generation are like one of the most active like fathers. I think probably because I feel like a lot of people in our generation grew up probably without a dad, so it was like, I ain't gonna never be like that, you know, and like really changed that dynamic.

SPEAKER_02 30:17

And too, it's just I feel like when you it's I don't understand not, you know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_03 30:24

Like it is, yeah, that is crazy to think about.

SPEAKER_02 30:26

Because like you made the kid, like you might as well have fun with it.

SPEAKER_03 30:29

Like ever since I become a mother, no one has ever had to tell me to be a mother. Yeah, like you know, like ever in no circumstances, like every day I have woke up and mothered.

SPEAKER_02 30:39

Yeah, like ever since I had.

SPEAKER_03 30:41

There's no option, like I don't think yeah, like there is no other option.

SPEAKER_02 30:44

Like, don't get me wrong.

SPEAKER_03 30:47

When my kids are gone, I have me a great time. Oh, yeah. But ain't nobody ever had to tell me to wake up, like to be a mom and to do the mom things and to do everything that I can to give the best life to my kids.

SPEAKER_02 30:58

You know, uh where I learned that, I think I I don't remember where I was, but I heard somebody uh what made me like really feel like that is somebody had told me um it was just like a saying where it was like, you know, the kid didn't ask I mean, of course they always say the kid didn't ask to be here, but they were like, it you owe them this. Like they didn't like you're not doing it just because you had like you owe them this. You brought them here.

SPEAKER_04 31:21

You should have pulled out Seriously, we didn't you know rapture like people in tears that they was in tears on the last one too. Somebody was like, bro, I was crying laughing at work for 20 minutes.

SPEAKER_00 31:56

Like we just getting started.

SPEAKER_03 32:00

Okay, speaking of crazy things to say, um, there's some things that were like normal in the 90s that I feel like are wild now. Like, I never realized that like before 9-11, they just didn't really have airport security. So you just like pulled up to the airport and just got on a flight and was just like la la la la. Like you didn't go through the no, they didn't have any of that. That is crazy when you think about it.

SPEAKER_04 32:25

Like, we ever just willy-nilly getting on flights, and they was just like, eh, whatever.

SPEAKER_02 32:29

I did not know that, but then again, I didn't. I the first time I traveled on the flight was after like grown. I was like 20 something by the time I really, you know, I got a chance to travel. So like I I did not know that. No, for real. I was like, that's no mega detective.

SPEAKER_03 32:45

No, nothing. Like, you could have just I'm like, no wonder they were able to carry out that attack. It was easy. Like, that's crazy. It was easy. That is crazy. I did not know that. Of course, just anything. You probably didn't even have to.

SPEAKER_02 33:00

They didn't even look through the bags.

SPEAKER_03 33:02

I don't think so. Man, they was doing their sneaking all types of drugs and everything. You probably didn't even have to hide it. You just grow along with your carry on, they don't even care. They just blah blah blah blah.

SPEAKER_02 33:13

They ain't gonna check.

SPEAKER_03 33:14

I remember when I was leaving um Puerto Rico, they had a scanner that was like, do not take pork, and they check your bag to make sure you're not stealing pork from there. You know, I was like crazy, that mangoes, I think, or something weird. Like, and I was like, this is top notch. Like, and they just didn't have none of that back then. You was just smuggling in and out whatever you wanted, whatever you that's I did not know. That's probably how so many people got here too, because like they didn't care. They just all right, well, get on your flight.

SPEAKER_02 33:42

Like, yeah, I don't even need to see your ID, just get on your flight. No, literally, just go.

SPEAKER_03 33:48

Um, I feel like too, like, sitting in the back of pickup trucks where like we used to sit.

SPEAKER_02 33:53

We used to do that.

SPEAKER_03 33:54

We used to sit in the truck. Me and me and my cousin Coop, we used to sit in the trunk of people's SUV because we was like all small. They'd be like, all right, all four of y'all get back there.

SPEAKER_02 34:02

Yeah, it was normal. I mean, maybe it shouldn't have been, but like that was normal. I would as a kid, that was like a thing. Like, it didn't matter what size car you had, we're all going.

SPEAKER_04 34:11

No, literally.

SPEAKER_02 34:12

And if we got to sit on the lap, if we gotta sit on the floor. You remember the cards they used to have with the seat in the front seat in the middle?

SPEAKER_04 34:19

I used to sit up there.

SPEAKER_03 34:22

That is crazy when you think about it. Um, I feel like too, we used to do a lot of like prank calling.

SPEAKER_02 34:30

Yeah, that was heavy.

SPEAKER_03 34:31

I remember one time me and my cousin Kuba again, we used to prank call the same person and ask them if the refrigerator was running.

SPEAKER_02 34:38

He he was sick. I know I know, I know he was angry.

SPEAKER_03 34:41

And no, he used to answer every time. And I'm like, why don't you just stop answering? And they would just still answer every time, and then we forget about it for a couple weeks, and they'd be like, Oh, let's find that number again. What was keep calling?

SPEAKER_02 34:54

Place you was calling, like a red, like a company, like a somebody's house.

SPEAKER_03 34:57

We just picked a random number in the phone book. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 35:00

They didn't have to call our stuff.

SPEAKER_03 35:01

He was just doing anything. We used to call the radio station too.

SPEAKER_02 35:04

And asked them was their refrigerator running.

SPEAKER_03 35:06

No, we used to just talk to it was this dude named Big Slim that was like a radio host. And he anytime he was online, I was like, I'm calling up there, I'm calling up there. He used to just answer, and I don't he knew who I was too. Like, and then I met him in person one time at like a 5K or something like that.

SPEAKER_02 35:21

It was like, I was a person who's like, this call, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 35:24

He was like, she always calling the radio station. He was like DJing out there, and I was like, Now I used to just call the radio station and just be online talking, like prank calls was a huge thing.

SPEAKER_02 35:33

Like you used to just use a call.

SPEAKER_03 35:35

They just don't even do that no more. I guess the people as soon as you just call it. So can you not call star 67? Can you not call star 67 now? There has to be a way on iPhone to call us a like a private update. Because sometimes you can only pop up like unknown caller or like private caller. But ain't nobody gonna answer that. And if I say scam lightly spam like, yeah, as soon as you get a call like that, you like in your pocket. Like now the new iPhone update, I would call somebody and it was like, state while you're calling, and this person will decide if they want to answer. I'm like, That's fine.

SPEAKER_02 36:12

The call screen and things, yeah. I like that. I'd be like, hold on, what they calling for? Hello? They'd be like, oh, with the voicemail. Uh no, I'm here. I'm here.

SPEAKER_04 36:23

Nope, click. And as soon as they come on, I'm like, nope, you play too much. Click. Like, I'm not waiting for that.

SPEAKER_03 36:31

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_02 36:31

Because I never set that up. One day I just got on there and was like, this person is calling because woo woo woo. I'm like, ah, maybe I should answer this. Hello?

SPEAKER_03 36:41

That's crazy. I'm too impatient for stuff like that. I'm not about to wait. Because it's like, we'll we'll let them know why you're calling and they can decide if they want to answer. No, I'm gonna decide if I'm gonna wait.

SPEAKER_02 36:51

All right, can I give y'all a different message to tell people?

SPEAKER_03 36:54

Because, like, hold on while we get it. There could be some other ways for them to say, but as soon as they go, they can decide if they want to enter. Nope, I'll make the decision for them. I'm hanging up.

SPEAKER_02 37:03

What is this? Even like they upgraded it to where you could uh record your phone call, but then be like, this is being recorded.

SPEAKER_04 37:10

Why would you tell them?

SPEAKER_02 37:11

Yeah, I'm obviously trying to record this without them knowing, yeah, yeah. Which is crazy too, but it's it's like I didn't want you to tell them I'm recording.

SPEAKER_03 37:20

Yeah, no, definitely. I feel like when I think back, the wildest thing about like back then that is the stuff that we ate. Like, I was thinking about this last night. You know those kid cuisine?

SPEAKER_05 37:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 37:38

It was like a puddle, but it was a brownie after you cooked it in the microwave and it was like corn and mac and cheese and like chicken nuggets. That is disgusting. Yeah, who was feeding me that?

SPEAKER_02 37:49

Make me think it's hot. What ingredients did y'all put in this brownie for it to be frozen? And then we take it out and we put it in the microwave, and now it's not frozen anymore.

SPEAKER_03 37:57

And it's a cooked brownie now, all of a sudden.

SPEAKER_02 38:00

And sometimes it'd be a little rubber.

SPEAKER_03 38:02

Something about that don't feel right.

SPEAKER_02 38:03

Heat it up for too long and start getting a little rubbery. Something about I used to tear them up, but you heat it up too long, and even like spaghettios, like I used to tear them up.

SPEAKER_03 38:15

Yeah, I did, but like now I'm thinking back and I'm just like, come on, man. Why was they feeding the ravioli?

SPEAKER_02 38:22

I still eat ravioli to this day. I'm not.

SPEAKER_03 38:24

I used to until one time, man. I had it as an adult after not having it for years. No, I wasn't nothing in it. I was woke up in the middle of the night throwing up, and I was like, it probably was that ravioli. I'm like, I don't eat stuff like that no more. My stomach cannot handle it.

SPEAKER_02 38:38

Yeah, it probably got my stomach was getting hot.

SPEAKER_03 38:45

One time you came over and uh you was like, man, I'm starving or whatever. I was like, oh, we got ravioli and pizza rolls and chicken nuggets, and we ate all of it together in a bowl.

SPEAKER_02 38:54

And I think we had Doritos.

SPEAKER_03 38:56

Yeah, and I'm like, that's disgusting. Like, we just used to be eating anything.

SPEAKER_02 39:00

We had iron stomachs back then. Like we could eat whatever, and nothing really mattered. Nowadays, no, literally it's a select man. I know as soon as I eat something, I know what's gonna happen. I can I'm gonna tell you before it even Yeah. Because I know I'm not supposed to be eating.

SPEAKER_03 39:18

Especially like some Chipotle or something. I'm like, oh, this gonna Yes. I like the red sauce though. And it burns when you eat it, so I know it's gonna hurt later. And I'm just like, this is this, it might be worth it.

SPEAKER_02 39:31

I'm like that with milk. I cannot drink milk.

SPEAKER_03 39:34

I was about to say you drink milk.

SPEAKER_02 39:36

Nah, but sometimes if you get some Oreos, you gotta have a drink. I don't care what's going on.

SPEAKER_03 39:43

I'm not drinking, I'm mad lactose intolerant. I am not drinking milk.

SPEAKER_02 39:46

You're not dipping your Oreos in milk?

SPEAKER_03 39:48

First of all, I don't even eat Oreos. Listen, they too chocolatey. Like it's like too much. They give you all that chocolate in that little bit of cream.

SPEAKER_02 40:04

I don't like those though. I feel like that's a little bit too much cream.

SPEAKER_03 40:06

That's too much stuff in there. That's too much cream in there. See, like that's my favorite kind.

SPEAKER_02 40:13

See, I get the regular Oreos, give me a little glass of milk. I'm probably gonna fill it up about this much, and then six seconds of cookies.

SPEAKER_03 40:20

After you're gonna drink it?

SPEAKER_02 40:23

No, no, no, it's overweight.

SPEAKER_03 40:25

So you just wasting it to dip it in the cookies.

SPEAKER_02 40:27

That's why I only try to put about this much in there, but sometimes you over.

SPEAKER_03 40:30

Do you drink the milk after your cereal?

SPEAKER_02 40:34

Not anymore. Not anymore.

SPEAKER_03 40:36

See, that is crazy. Like, at what point do we become adult adult to the point where we're like when you start tearing your stomach up?

SPEAKER_02 40:43

With the cereal, I know it's gonna tear me up anyway, but the more milk you add, the worse it gets. So it's like after that surface level of cereal is gonna be.

SPEAKER_03 40:51

What flavor of cereal do you eat? Because I feel like I'm like a real adult. Like I like honey bunches of oats. You know what I'm saying? Like, that's like top tier. What the hell are you eating then?

SPEAKER_02 41:02

It's only one kind of honey bunches of oats I get. The regular tan box. So other than that, I'm good.

SPEAKER_04 41:07

No, you're not the crusty strawberry ones. Oh no, I mean not no banana nuts.

SPEAKER_02 41:12

My number one cereal is cinnamon toast crunch. There's nothing that's gonna be that. Okay, I'll give you cinnamon toast. Second, Reeves's puffs. I don't like the the feeling on those.

unknown 41:22

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 41:23

You know what's funny though? They really do have like an odd, like, they are really good. They do have like an odd. Even if you was to try to like, even if you was to try to like drink the milk afterwards, like it has like that feeling.

SPEAKER_02 41:36

When you get when you get the I don't mean it's enough, man. Let me tell y'all before I say I love Reese's. I love the brand, I love everything that they come out with. But when you get done eating them, it tastes like you kind of like you lick the candle or something. Like, you know the texture of a of a candle, like the waxy feeling. It kind of feels like that damn mouth.

SPEAKER_04 41:53

It do kind of do.

SPEAKER_02 41:54

But they're good though. They're good. I just don't like that feeling. Yeah. So I can't put them so much. Okay, so what's really two then? Uh my number two is probably Captain Crunch.

unknown 42:05

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_02 42:06

Or fruity peppers.

SPEAKER_03 42:07

See, but Captain Crunch give me the same vibe as the Reese's puffs. It's something wrong with your teeth afterwards.

SPEAKER_02 42:12

Like Yeah, the roof of your mouth is like they good, but like I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 42:18

Especially if you was to eat the you gotta eat the one with the berries. Because if you eat the ones without the berries or something, your whole mouth is gonna be m- No, they be like blue and red.

SPEAKER_02 42:26

You like the Oopssaw berries kind.

SPEAKER_03 42:28

No, not all berries. All berries is crazy.

SPEAKER_02 42:32

So you still got the little yellow squares.

SPEAKER_03 42:34

Yeah, yeah. But if you eat just the ones with just the yellow squares, they cut your mouth up real bad.

SPEAKER_02 42:39

No, they all cut your mouth up, regardless. They are dangerous.

SPEAKER_03 42:42

Which is crazy.

SPEAKER_02 42:43

Yeah. Yeah, I'll probably go Captain Crunch second, Fruity Peppers third. Fruity Peppers fire to me. But you gotta eat them fast.

SPEAKER_03 42:52

Yeah, no, that's like two minutes. No. That's gonna have your stomach hurt. Trying to scarf it down in two seconds because it's gonna be soggy as hell is crazy. Oh my god. Even when I think about hot pockets, too. They would just used to be stuffing stuff inside of anything. Like those hot pockets.

SPEAKER_02 43:14

How hot it had to be for it to be done. Now it's I can't eat it.

SPEAKER_03 43:18

It's burning your mouth, and you gotta hold it in a little, a little coat or something that it has to wear.

SPEAKER_02 43:28

It came with garments that you had to dress it up with so you could hold it to eat it.

SPEAKER_03 43:34

And then even then, when you took a bite of it, it still burnt your mouth so bad.

SPEAKER_02 43:40

That ham and cheese was it though. I don't know what it was about my childhood, but that ham and cheese hot pocket.

SPEAKER_03 43:45

No, some of the flavors I used to come up with didn't make any sense either. It'll be like taco cheeseburger or something, or like you was spiritual. I wasn't eating it was two kinds of buttons. Hem and cheese are pepper. Um okay pepperoni though, I ain't gonna lie. Those ones did used to hit. I was eating those as an adult too, until they made my stomach curve too. And I'm like, dang, I probably shouldn't be eating stuff like this no more. I'm a little too grown for this. Like and a banquet, a banquet pot pie. I haven't had one of them and dude, those that's a good like struggle meal. That might be my favorite struggle meal. I ain't gonna lie.

SPEAKER_02 44:25

I was never a huge Popeye fan, but I did eat it. It wasn't my favorite.

SPEAKER_01 44:29

I don't have a deep freezer full of them, though.

SPEAKER_03 44:32

Those things, they was so like they was like 50 cents or like 25 cents or something. No, literally, like that was a good meal. You throw it in the oven or like in the microwave or something.

SPEAKER_02 44:44

That had that hot pocket effect. It was burning my mouth.

SPEAKER_03 44:47

It was though, because it had to be super hot. Or like sometimes you gotta make sure the dough is like cooked all the way or it'll be like not cooked and it'll be like climbing on the inside.

SPEAKER_02 44:55

Because the little bowl wasn't even really foil, it was like half cardboard with like a foil sheet on the top.

SPEAKER_03 45:03

It was, which is so crazy because you know when you put foil in the microwave, it starts to spark and stuff like that. So, like, what material is this to where it's not? It's not foil then.

SPEAKER_02 45:12

That was radiating in the hot pie.

SPEAKER_04 45:18

Alright, let's play let's play a game.

SPEAKER_03 45:22

Let's play a game where we're gonna guess prices from 1995, and then we'll say what the prices are now. So this is this is guess the price in 1995, and then we'll also look at what the price is in 2026.

SPEAKER_02 45:37

Gross.

SPEAKER_01 45:38

Fresh eggs, it doesn't eggs.

SPEAKER_02 45:42

And this we guess in 1995.

SPEAKER_03 45:44

1995.

SPEAKER_02 45:45

Eggs? Like what a dollar? No, 1995.

SPEAKER_03 45:50

I feel like they like what, like five dollars now? Maybe like 60 cents.

SPEAKER_02 45:55

75 cents. You give me two eggs, dog. Let's go 75. I feel like the dollar is a little high. Let's go 75 cents. It was 92 cents. I should have stayed with the dollar.

SPEAKER_03 46:09

Well, you gotta be the closest to it without going over. Okay. So you still gotta stuff like that. What's the okay? So what's the average price of an egg of a dozen eggs now?

SPEAKER_00 46:17

$3.50. $3.50.

SPEAKER_03 46:19

I don't know. I feel like they be like four or something now. That is crazy though.

SPEAKER_01 46:24

It's one gasoline, a gallon of gas.

SPEAKER_03 46:27

Oh, a gallon of gas.

SPEAKER_02 46:28

In in 1995? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 46:30

It probably was like a dollar or 99. I'm gonna go 99 cents that way I don't go over.

SPEAKER_02 46:36

And it's three now. Four now. Let me go 60 cents.

SPEAKER_01 46:42

It was a dollar nine cents.

SPEAKER_03 46:44

You know what's crazy? I remember gas being 199 under Obama. Like when Obama was the president, I remember being 199. So how did it get to be about six dollars now?

SPEAKER_00 46:55

Because our president likes to blow stuff up. Yep. Tis factual.

SPEAKER_02 47:06

Anyways, movie tickets.

SPEAKER_03 47:09

Ooh.

SPEAKER_02 47:09

Oh, we'll be at about eight, eight movies nowadays for an adult, it's what, nine, like twelve.

SPEAKER_03 47:16

Yeah, I feel like it'd be like $13, $14 to go to the movie, especially they got the chairs and it's super expensive now. Like, yeah, they you paying for them chairs and like we took like six people to the movies when they was like a hundred something dollars. Like and then we then we bought like a hundred something dollars in snacks because everybody got a slushie and a thing of popcorn and like yeah, that's $300. No, which is crazy. Okay, so back in 1995, I remember we used to have a dollar movie theater that had played the old movie. So I'ma say RP. Five dollars maybe.

SPEAKER_02 47:59

Nah, that's probably too low. Seven dollars. That's $4.35. Mmm. About five dollars a pot.

SPEAKER_03 48:09

Yeah, that's it.

SPEAKER_02 48:09

That's a Wonderland. So hey, my sub be cheaper.

SPEAKER_03 48:12

Oh my god. Wonderland be having bed bugs. That's what you pay for.

SPEAKER_02 48:17

I'm not gonna lie. One day we went there in the winter to see a movie and it felt like we was watching it outside. But it was cheap though. Like, so we just cooked.

SPEAKER_04 48:28

My toes was cooked. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 48:31

The regular price award now is uh $12.50.

SPEAKER_03 48:34

$12. I feel like it's more than that.

SPEAKER_02 48:38

The T D movie is $15. No, literally. So it went from four to twelve?

SPEAKER_00 48:43

Yeah. In like 30 years. I range the seats. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 48:50

Now they be selling meals too. They be having like chicken tenders that you can buy. They didn't used to have some.

SPEAKER_02 48:55

They got some mozzarella sticks.

SPEAKER_00 48:56

They be bussing. I ain't gonna lie.

SPEAKER_03 48:59

What else we got?

SPEAKER_00 49:00

Uh tool hipper. 12 rolls.

SPEAKER_03 49:04

Ooh.

SPEAKER_00 49:05

That was probably like that had to be two between three dollars or something back. This one's like an in-between. It's like a from between. That's the price of this price.

SPEAKER_03 49:15

Oh, dang. Well, let's try to guess the highest price then.

SPEAKER_00 49:17

Let me go about five bucks.

SPEAKER_03 49:19

I'm gonna say three dollars.

SPEAKER_00 49:20

12 rolls?

SPEAKER_03 49:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 49:21

Five bucks. Uh $2.99. Oh wow.

SPEAKER_03 49:26

Dang.

SPEAKER_01 49:27

It's like between $199 and $2.99.

SPEAKER_03 49:29

$199? Bro, a pack of 12 rolls of toilet paper would be like $20 now.

SPEAKER_01 49:36

Between eight to $14. I don't know what rolls they give for $14.

SPEAKER_03 49:41

That's one ply. Or something. That can't be a big thing. That could be the store brand. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 49:47

The great value brand. Our family.

SPEAKER_04 49:53

Our families.

SPEAKER_01 49:57

Alright. A McDonald's Big Mac meal.

SPEAKER_02 50:01

In the 90s, I I say $5. It's some because now let me think. Big Mac, I say the meal?

SPEAKER_03 50:08

It'd be about $2. No, because cheeseburgers back then was probably like 45 cents or something. So like the meal is probably only like three something. Yeah, I would say like $3.

SPEAKER_02 50:20

I'm gonna say five. Yeah, you're so close.

SPEAKER_01 50:22

Uh $2.99.

SPEAKER_03 50:23

Dang. And that's $15?

SPEAKER_01 50:28

It's like $9.50. Yeah. I swear it's more man. But yeah.

SPEAKER_03 50:31

$9.50 for poison is crazy.

SPEAKER_02 50:34

But it's good poison, though. The thing too is it's like, just think, $3 got you. That sandwich is about this big.

unknown 50:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 50:45

Is that a large fry or a small fry? Uh I would imagine it's like a medium. Yeah, it's like a medium. They was eating good.

SPEAKER_03 50:52

But even then they used to get them like the little those little cheeseburgers or whatever. They used to get those for like 60 cents or 45 cents or something back then. I remember one time my favorite story. My uncle be telling the story about how he told he took everybody. He'd be so mad. He said, Don't tell nobody else that story, but I don't care if I'm telling anything. He took my cousin and all her friends or all her cousins or whoever to McDonald's. He was like, alright, y'all, everybody get what they want. And then everybody started ordering stuff. Why do you only have like three dollars? And so like he made everybody run out to the van and look for change. And then they split like just four cheeseburgers.

SPEAKER_04 51:31

And just but like he still only had like three dollars, but they was able to split like four cheeseburgers. Now three dollars couldn't get you. Yeah, no, that's one.

SPEAKER_02 51:40

One McChicken is about three dollars. Really there.

SPEAKER_03 51:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 51:44

That's you add a little extra cheese on it, nah, it's over.

SPEAKER_03 51:48

Y'all eat cheese on that?

SPEAKER_02 51:49

No, I know somebody who do, but I don't.

SPEAKER_03 51:52

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_02 51:54

Somebody looked at me crazy, man. I was like, you don't put cheese on your McChicken? I'm like, nah, the mail's barely making it.

SPEAKER_00 52:06

I'm hungry, dog.

SPEAKER_02 52:09

It's the convenience, man.

SPEAKER_03 52:12

It's just as fast as every other fast food place.

SPEAKER_01 52:15

Look, man.

SPEAKER_03 52:15

If anything, Chick-fil-A is more convenient.

SPEAKER_01 52:18

It was close. Because it was close.

SPEAKER_02 52:23

I'll give you that, but that's about it. Well, it gets bad because like I want a full, you can't even get a full foot full no more.

unknown 52:29

No.

SPEAKER_02 52:30

No, you got the $5 bag, the $6 bag, and the $8 bag. It was okay when it was $4. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_01 52:42

Alright, next one is Doritos standard bag. I'm assuming like the regular bag? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 52:48

Like the normal bag, not the family size. Doritos now are like $6 a bag. So I can only imagine.

SPEAKER_02 52:54

If the little thing was a quarter, the big bag had to have been a dollar five.

SPEAKER_03 52:59

I'm gonna say a dollar seventy-five or something.

SPEAKER_01 53:04

It's a dollar ninety nine.

SPEAKER_03 53:07

That's crazy. That big bag is six dollars now.

SPEAKER_01 53:11

Yeah. Yep, like $5.20, $5.24.

SPEAKER_03 53:15

Like you have to buy it on sale or you can't afford it. Like, literally.

SPEAKER_02 53:19

When you go for a party, you get chips for a party, you get threefold bags. That's what?

SPEAKER_03 53:25

That's like $30. $30. That's insane. And then kids be sticking their hand in and everything, be dirty. Like it's just like, bro, come on, man.

SPEAKER_02 53:34

But not rolling the bag.

SPEAKER_03 53:36

Yeah, like everything's stale.

SPEAKER_01 53:39

Alright, uh, frozen pizza. What's that?

SPEAKER_03 53:43

You know what's crazy. When I think about like Jack's pizza, which is like that real flat one, yeah. Like, those ones used to be like, I feel like they used to be like 10 for 10. And now they literally be like $6 a piece. And it's like the pizza is this thin.

SPEAKER_02 53:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 53:59

Like, that's crazy. Even Tostinos. Remember, Tostinos used to be the little circle.

SPEAKER_02 54:04

The square joint.

SPEAKER_03 54:05

I ain't gonna lie though, those still ain't really went up. Tostinos is about the realest people next to Arizona T. They bought the realest, the realest person.

SPEAKER_02 54:13

One reason why I know is because my son loved them. Like when it comes to frozen pizza, that's the one he's gonna ask for.

SPEAKER_03 54:19

That's my guilty pleasure. I got those in the freezer right now. Those is fire. Those is fire.

SPEAKER_02 54:23

Yeah, just make sure. If you don't burn the bottom, it's gravy.

SPEAKER_03 54:27

Okay, I'll say frozen pizza used to be a dollar. Or uh 99 cents.

SPEAKER_02 54:31

129. 250. Dang, why we feel like this? Yeah, I don't know. It's still taxable.

SPEAKER_03 54:38

Maybe we was eating the the the raggedy brands, and that was what they what'd they cost now? Six dollars?

SPEAKER_01 54:44

Uh $7.99.

SPEAKER_03 54:46

$7.99 for a frozen I'm not supposed to be cheaper. I might as well get one from Papa John's. We might as well get a hot and ready out the incubator. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_01 54:58

Alright. Uh Air Jordan ones. Honey.

SPEAKER_03 55:03

They probably used to be cheaper than that. They probably used to be like $50.

SPEAKER_02 55:08

Nah, that was about a bill, I think, when they first came out. $65.

SPEAKER_03 55:12

$65? Yeah. That's how much they be for the plug. They're like $200.

SPEAKER_01 55:17

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 55:18

They're like $220 now.

SPEAKER_00 55:20

Right, no money.

SPEAKER_03 55:21

That's crazy. $65? That was probably a size. I wonder if that was like a kid's size back then. $65.

SPEAKER_02 55:30

$65 might have been it. And then maybe once he started winning rings, they like, ah. That is crazy.

SPEAKER_03 55:38

That is crazy when you.

SPEAKER_02 55:40

Wow. I remember the East Bay. And the East Bay, that's probably because when East Bay came, that's when they was resept about a hundred. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 55:48

Man. I don't know. The 90s was just different, bro.

SPEAKER_02 55:51

Like. Yeah. And you could get everything. Like if you wanted the Jordans and you could afford them, you could get them. Nowadays, they'd be like, ah nah, we only made X amount of pairs. So.

SPEAKER_03 56:00

Yeah. The crazy part. I remember this one dude, I had this friend named Kenneth, and I remember he was telling me how he used to just walk in the store and just buy any pair of shoes like all the time. And then he was like, he was like, I would, my mom would drive me to Chicago. He was like a real sneakerhead, like way back in the day. He was like, my mom used to drive me to Chicago to trade shoes with people. I was like, I'll trade a pair of shoes for like $100. He was like, now people be wanting $600 for a pair of shoes and stuff. And I'm like, bruh, that is crazy. Like, stuff is hyped up. Like, I wonder what our dollar now is, or what our dollar back then is like worth now. It's gotta be like one dollar. Like the ratio gotta be like one dollar. Then it's like eight dollars now or something like that.

SPEAKER_02 56:39

Like back then you could you could a little 20 or do a little something.

SPEAKER_03 56:42

No.

SPEAKER_02 56:43

Now whatever anything you want to do is at least $20.

SPEAKER_03 56:47

$100 is a new thousand dollars.

SPEAKER_02 56:50

That's crazy. We need to bring it back a little bit. Like, what can we do to get these prices back? To get these prices back.

SPEAKER_03 57:00

The funny part too is I feel like I'm making the most money and then I've ever made in my entire life.

SPEAKER_04 57:06

I'm not the brokest that I've ever felt. Like I'm just like everything is so expensive. I still can't afford it.

SPEAKER_02 57:13

Don't sometimes it feel like you get into the bag and you like, ah, I'm then. When you look at the bills, you like, what? No.

SPEAKER_04 57:23

It's not making sense. It's crazy.

SPEAKER_02 57:26

And I still think Apple, I know it only be once a month, but a part of me just feel like I be getting a charge multiple times a month.

SPEAKER_04 57:35

If they just ate your lunch, if they eat your lunch every single week and you just so mad.

SPEAKER_02 57:40

Eating my account up, I'd be like, yo, didn't y'all just charge like a week ago?

SPEAKER_04 57:44

Literally.

SPEAKER_03 57:45

Give me a second. Man, who are you telling? But um, I don't know. I feel like those experiences that we had in the 90s really shape who we are today. And even how we go forward with our kids um in the next generation, um, it's dope. I mean, we we might have been slightly traumatized, you know, we weren't allowed to be depressed, but it's okay. We survived, and you know, look at us now, we thrive. We might be a little broke because times have changed and the money ain't money in, but I mean it kind of is what it is.

SPEAKER_02 58:12

I think the best part about it is how our parents used to be like, ah, this was only this much. And this was like this. We can do that now.

SPEAKER_03 58:20

And like back in my day, I bought a house. Girl, house was three thousand dollars. Now houses are 250,000.

SPEAKER_02 58:27

And like I've been telling my kids, like, man, my first apartment was $500 a month.

SPEAKER_03 58:30

No, literally.

SPEAKER_02 58:31

$500 a month, easy. And I I was struggling.

SPEAKER_03 58:34

I paid $1,300 now. Like, bruh. It's crazy how times have changed. And that's crazy because we live in an affordable area. People really in New York be paying like $4,000 a month for a check. Yes, a room in the hallway.

SPEAKER_02 58:51

It's ridiculous. I will never forget my first apartment because it was it was $500 and I would work 40 hours and make $240 every 40-hour check. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_03 59:02

Yeah, that's crazy. That's wild to think that people were surviving on that. And at the time, that probably And I was working hard too. Seven something an hour. Seven something an hour is crazy. The funny part though, the parties, apartments are now $1,300 instead of the $500. And $725 is still the minimum wage, is the craziest part about all of that.

SPEAKER_02 59:24

Off that 40-hour check, it took me two of them to make the to make the uh rent, and then the other two was paying the bills. I even had no car yet. I was on a bike. What the heck? Bring them $500 apartments back. Not for me, but for the generation.

SPEAKER_03 59:47

Man, I feel bad for this generation. They're gonna be living. Our kids probably gonna be living with us, too. At this rate, apartments are gonna be $2,000 by the time they're trying to get their first one. Yeah, you won't need a full-time job, a wife, and a um a small loan of a million dollars from your family.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:03

I understand it too. Hey, you wanna stay with me as long as you got something going, that's fine. That's fine. Because ain't no $500 apartments for you to look for. So, hey.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:14

Man. Well, I feel like I don't know. We raising the next generation, it's in a whole new world, but we're doing our best.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:22

We just gotta adapt as we go as these prices keep getting higher and higher.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:26

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