90s for the Win!

A cozy robe, a household mystery, and a headline you can’t unsee set the tone for a wide-open conversation that lands right where our hearts live: the 90s and the art of patience. We start with unclaimed underpants in the guest room and a family group text that gets way too real, then veer into a "chilling" cautionary tale about a port-a-potty, the rule of hovering, and why some stories go instantly viral. From there we geek out on everyday tools—erasable pens, grip grooves, and why the right pen can make or break your to-do list—and dig into hair perfume, scent layering, and how teenagers turned fragrance into a hobby.

Fresh air becomes a theme when we talk about “burping” the house, a simple German habit of opening windows to clear stale air that doubles as a reset ritual. That sparks a conversation about respect and labor inspired by a couple who hid 100 toy ducks to “test” their cleaner. We call for generosity with people and discipline with our environments, then pivot to a surprisingly wholesome craze: kids trading tiny acrylic animals with “CEOs,” money guys, and security staff guarding their playground empires.

The second half turns full nostalgia. We remember 90s optimism, TRL, Pop-Up Video, AOL dial-up, answering machines, and regional fashion that existed before algorithms collapsed taste. We talk TV and rom-coms, mixtapes and burning CDs, the spontaneity of walking into whatever movie started next, and how patience shaped who we are. Along the way, you’ll hear our highs and lows—disintegrating boots, a sick but recovering pup, the bliss of a long-overdue haircut—and a quiet defense of paper lists, planners, and the small tools that keep us grounded.

If 90s culture, everyday productivity, and warm, funny storytelling are your jam, hit play, subscribe, and leave a review with your most vivid 90s memory. What would you bring back: the mixtapes, the answering machine, or the patience?

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Transcript

Low Energy, Cozy Robe Vibes

SPEAKER_01 0:06

Hi, thanks for joining us today. It's Nora. And Nora. One of us is quote unquote low energy today. And that Nora said, perhaps it's a good thing. I feel like sometimes I'm a little hyper. Does it ever interrupt you?

SPEAKER_00 0:22

Good thing when your podcast co-host is low energy?

SPEAKER_01 0:25

30 seconds before we start recording. Are you freezing? No, I'm not freezing. I think I'm just like, I just want to be wrapped in a blanket. Okay. Or a scarf. Or the new robe that my mother-in-law sent me. What? Why? Well, she's really nice and felt bad about all the eye stuff that I'm going through. Yeah. And sent me a barefoot dreams robe. That sounds dreamy. Oh my gosh. I opened it on and I opened it and put it on over my clothes.

SPEAKER_00 0:52

Like a house. Yes.

The Guest Room Underpants Mystery

SPEAKER_01 0:55

Oh my gosh. It was a dream. And the sleeves are really long. So you can like put your arms inside it. Oh my gosh. So that's where I'm at. Great. Great. How are you? Okay, we're trying to solve a mystery at our house. Oh. I love a mystery. Yeah, we um have a pair of underpants. Uh oh.

SPEAKER_00 1:16

That were found in the guest room that no one can claim.

unknown 1:20

Oh no.

SPEAKER_01 1:22

Are they men's or women's? They're women's. Oh my. I asked Brian if he had something to tell me. Are they bigger than a piece of paper? No. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:37

I mean they're bigger than a post-it.

unknown 1:39

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:40

Bigger than a piece of paper. Sorry. I didn't want to, you know.

SPEAKER_01 1:47

Do they cover both cheeks? Oh, okay. Small under very small underbands. But they're cotton. Oh, okay. And they came from Victoria's Secret. Oh, okay. And Ryan found them. Oh. So I'm pretty sure he doesn't have a friend. I don't know why. I feel like those have to be a teenager's. So I sent a picture of them to my I'm on a thread with my two teenagers. Can anyone claim these? Oh, sure. And my daughter sent back a million crying emojis. And my son went radio silent. And I proceeded to give her a couple suggestions of maybe girls that have slept over. Yeah. And she said, Nobody said they're theirs. I said, Of course they won't. Nobody's gonna claim those. My dad found your underpants. Are they yours? He'd be like, no, nope. So my son continued, stay radio said. Oh no. And as you can imagine, our text got a little silly. Yeah. And then when I got home, when he got home, I said, you know, do you know the owner? Have you had any guests over? Like, no judgment, just trying to solve the crime. It's like, you cannot be sending pictures like that to our phones. Oh, they're just underpants. Yeah. It's like everybody wears them. It's like you send a picture of somebody in them.

SPEAKER_00 3:06

It's like she showed up online. If my daughter and I were dying.

SPEAKER_01 3:16

Oh no. It's just like brmm. Yep. Like, you have to stop doing that. Like I do it often. Right. Like we often find underpants photos. Daily underpants photos. But yeah, we still don't know the owner. Wow. Yeah. Do you still have them? Yeah. Oh. Do you want to see them? No. They're mine. Are they Wilma's? Little doggy thumb. Little doggy thongs. Wow. It's our new product. Maybe those would be popular. Because it's very stylish now to have your thong showing.

SPEAKER_00 3:50

Oh, it is?

Porta Potty Freeze Fiasco

SPEAKER_01 3:50

That's a new style thing. Yeah. This woman at the Golden Globe, she had like a diamond one. Oh like how they used to have in the 90s. Your thong showing. Not me in the 90s, but other people. So maybe people would want that on their dog. Who knows? Speaking of that region on the body. Yes. Did you hear about this guy in Michigan who froze to a porta potty? Yes. You did? No. Number one. Oh ha ha. Funny. Who sits on a porta-body? Hover. Hover. You let no part of your body touch that thing. Especially not your buns. Grody. That's what happened. Oh no. And as I was reading the article, you know, I was all in. Man, too. He doesn't need to sit down. Well, he did. Oh, he did. Okay. Sorry.

SPEAKER_00 4:42

He had to yell for help once he realized his cheeks had adhered to the seat. And as he quote unquote put another guy who was there to drop off the girls.

SPEAKER_01 4:58

Was he on a work site? Yeah. Oh, okay. That makes sense. Oh, bless him.

SPEAKER_00 5:02

He's working outside and but he did suffer frostbite. But is expected to make a full recovery.

SPEAKER_01 5:10

Oh man, that is brutal. Embarrassing. And embarrassing. Embarrassing mostly because you sat down. Because you yeah. Yeah. You gotta work that out so you're not pooping at work. Especially if you need a port, if it's a porta potty as your only option. He must have been in a real pickle. Oh, that poor guy. Yeah. Now everyone at the work site knows his business. That's I would be so embarrassed for Ryan. Oh, God. Can you imagine? Because he probably had to go to the hospital. He did, the paramedics had to go. Yeah. Because I'm imagining the scene from a Christmas story when he gets his tongue stuck to the flagpole.

SPEAKER_00 5:47

Oh, and all his parts are this forever.

SPEAKER_01 5:51

Because you can't cover up. That means his pants were on the floor. Well, his pants were down, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 5:58

So it was like all his stuff.

SPEAKER_01 6:00

Oh, it was out. Oh, so cold. Everything. Was it just his bum? Why is that more than that? You can't see a bum out.

SPEAKER_00 6:10

I didn't really think about it until now. Unless he had like those like draft door, like with the long underface.

SPEAKER_01 6:20

I don't know how it works for boys. No, no, no, everything.

SPEAKER_00 6:30

You're referring to his shins?

SPEAKER_01 6:32

Yep. Cold knees. Oh, his knees are freezing. He's freezing his knees off.

SPEAKER_00 6:43

Nor I got new pens. That's your segue. I saw them over there.

Hair Perfume, Fragrance Trends

SPEAKER_01 6:52

Okay, so they say gobble or something. Grabby. Grabby. Oh. My son told me about these. He said, Mom, I know we really like pens. They're erasable pens. They look like pencils. So I'm kind of like thrown off a little bit. I don't know how I feel about them. I like the way they write, but I don't like the grooves. They have little indentations on the body, I guess, of the pen. The shaf. The shafts. And I don't know if I think I prefer a smooth pen shaf. Because I don't hold my pen properly. You don't? No. I don't. And so this is messing me up. I do hold my pen properly. And it's not, is it egonomic? What's that word? Ergonomic. Yeah, it's not ergonomic. It's not uh. It's not right. It's funky. So because I hold my pen properly and my middle fingers. Oh, I guess. No. Because I hold mine like in a fist. Yeah, you do. I never noticed that about you. So it's partly sometimes it's if I hold it just right, it kind of does hit like on my ring finger where I usually get a little callous if I'm doing a lot of writing. But I don't know. I'm not totally sold on these yet. They I think I like my original erasable pens better. I would say I don't believe a kindergarten teacher was involved in the design of this pen. Probably not. I do like that it's a little bit triangular. I like the color for the grip. And I like this clear eraser. It's a good eraser. It's pretty like for an erasable pen, it's it's good. The only thing it's lacking is the grooves are in the wrong places. Because I have these other erasable pens by Frixen. Or no. Yeah, it is Frixen. And they have like a little rubber bottom, like where you hold it. And I like these erasable pen. I think I'm gonna s oh, that one's dead. Because I've used it so much. Hold on. We both have the same name. I don't want I don't want you to judge it by that one here. Yeah, that one's skipping. That one's running out of ink. No, I like these. These are nice. I feel like that's a more comfortable. That's a risk to buy an erasable pen. How come you bought these? These first ones. They were on I think they were on wire cutter. Oh, of course. Because you know, I don't do anything without consulting wire cutting first. Oh, does wire cutter have anything about hair perfume? Hair perfume. It's a whiskey. Do you know what that Rio or what is it called? Yeah, the Sol de Janeiro. Sol de Janeiro. Body mist, but hair perfume is. I have some. Hair perfume? Yes. It was given to me as a gift from Stephanie on behalf of my godson. And Stephanie said, I don't really know what this is. Grayson said it was good. And I was like, is this a body mist? It's for hair. Yeah, I had no clue. And they the reason it's hair perfume versus regular perfume is because they don't put alcohol in it. Oh, because you don't want to put alcohol in your hair because it dries it out. Correct. So like even if style has a list of top 10. Like I had no clue. My niece just got some for her birthday, too.

SPEAKER_00 10:06

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 10:07

Is it also because people aren't washing their hair every day?

SPEAKER_00 10:10

I don't know, but wouldn't it fight with your actual perfume?

SPEAKER_01 10:13

I don't wear perfume, so I'd be good to go. But I would think that's a problem these days because I feel like most teenagers are all about the fragrance.

SPEAKER_00 10:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:22

I know some of the younger people I worked with at Apple, they were like, I wear this, I layer it with this, that, and the other thing. And I was like, dove. Dove and lotion. For my high schooler who takes after Sheila and wears Chanel perfume now. Amazing. Well, she's the one buying it. I don't know. I'm torn because I'm like, at least it smells good. At least it smells good and it's not gonna give her a rash. Do you wear perfume every day? I do. Okay. I wear brewery. Oh, that's a good one. Yeah. I used to wear one and now I even forget what the brand is because I copied it off my friend Tu Yang because she always smelled really good. It came in a red bottle. Ooh. Sounds sassy. Yeah, right? It's sassy. I really, really liked it. Maybe I'll start wearing it again. Does it ever expire? Because I think I've had the same bottle for 10 years. I guess you could spray it and we could see. We could find out. Yeah. All right. I'll give it a whirl. Sounds good. Maybe you seem to smell better. All this time? Yeah, it's just in like a drawer in my bathroom. You've moved. I know multiple times, yeah. And I keep bringing it with me because I think it's mostly full. I don't know why. I've just never been a perfume thing. I think Bath and Body Works ruined me. Oh God, cucumber melon? Yes. I think I'm scented.

unknown 11:37

Frisia.

Burping The House And Fresh Air

SPEAKER_01 11:38

I think that was the purple one. That was your jam? Yeah, Frisia, cucumber melon. Gingham was their blue and white checkered one that was like trendy. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, this is a terrible transition. Do you ever burp your house? It's very big in Germany. B-U-R-P? B-U-RP. And you know how I feel about burping. I know. I hate it. I think it's disgusting. It really grosses me out. But this is a thing. It's called house burping. Or if you're in Germany, it would be called Luften. You burp in your house. You burp your actual house. Your house is the one that's burping. Which really all it is is airing out your house. They said that you every for a few moments uh minutes each day, you should open a door or the windows in your house to burp it, get rid of the stale air. I do burp my house. You do. Yeah. Okay. No matter what season. I gotta get on that. Do you do it at a certain time of like are you regularly? Just as soon as I think about it. You think about it. You open the window. The sliding door, the window, the side. I do it a lot. It's really good idea. And I feel like the whenever I think about it, I'm like, oh, it's kind of cold. Oh, it's cold. Yeah. Yeah. But I just like to have fresh air in here. But it's only 70 degrees in my house right now. That's where I keep mine at 70. That's one exact. Wait, speaking of houses. Yeah. Wait, speaking of houses, I read a story about this couple who hid 100 tiny toy ducks around their house before the cleaning lady came and then wrote her a note that said to ensure thorough cleaning. She had to find them all? If I was a cleaning lady, I would have been like, bye. Yeah. Goodbye. No, thank you. I'm not finding this. Is not duck hunt. I'd say like duck you. Yeah. Rock out the door. Isn't that terrible? That's horrible. I know. So how did this information get out? Did the cleaning lady?

SPEAKER_00 13:29

Yeah, this cleaning lady was like, She said she found 66 of them before leaving to go to somebody else's house.

SPEAKER_01 13:34

I would have not even tried to find that's so rude. I know. I don't like that. And why are you setting up people to fail to? And also, if you have time to hide a hundred little ducks, you can clean your own house. I agree. Are your kids collecting those little animals right now? They're like they're like 3D printed ones with little like joints. No, we've been buying them on Amazon. They're like an inch big, maybe. They're like acrylic.

unknown 14:03

I don't think so.

The Duck Hunt Cleaning Test

SPEAKER_01 14:04

And they're trading them. Oh boy. Is this a fourth grade thing or a few years? It must be John has he has a money guy. He said he's the CEO. He has a money guy to make sure that the trades are good. And then he has security. He has two security guards and then a money guy. That's oh, so they're doing this to they're like a conglomerate. They're doing this together. Yeah, but it's a whole grade. Oh my gosh. They're tiny little acrylic animals. Yeah. Don't don't have this at all. I all I keep thinking of is glass menagerie. I don't know what that means. You've got one? He gave me. Did you get a fair price? Oh my gosh. She gave me two. These, you know what they look like? Pieces for a board game. Yeah. These are itty bitty. I know. Joking hazard. Look at this one though, it has like blue. This little bunny rabbit has some detailed blue eyes, and the ears are painted. These, I wonder how the I have not, this is not on our radar at all. And I'm on either side of fourth grade. You know, I get a second grade. I have a fifth grade and we're doing that. But they're well, they must be making money off of these things. Trading. They trade. They trade. Yeah. So the the money guy, I'll be like, it's a good trade. It's not a good trade. Interesting. Yeah. So Wow. And the teachers don't mind? I guess they had no fidgets, but these are fine. Okay. They like play with them on their desks and I wonder if they like set them up like a little bit. Yeah, they do. Um You know what though? Good for those teachers to be like, you can't say no to everything. And these are, I mean, while they'd, you know, they're setting them all up, they're really probably not. They're quiet and they're fine bigger. Yeah. Yeah. They're not inclusive. Yeah, they're just you'll have to put a picture on our Instagram so people can see them. I have one other thing, but it's kind of going along with our theme, so I don't know if I want to tease it before we throw to our sponsor. I say tease it. The 90s are coming back. Fashion and a lot of other things. And now a word from our sponsor.

SPEAKER_00 16:01

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SPEAKER_01 16:02

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SPEAKER_00 17:20

It 100% was.

SPEAKER_01 17:21

That was a 90s theme. And oh, it was just delightful just looking back at the 90s. It was so fun to look back at the 90s. What surprised me was how much happened in 10 years. Like the beginning of the 90s versus the end of the 90s, they're almost like two different decades in one. It kind of made me think though, because we were about 10 to 20 from 90 to 99. Do you think every person looks back at that time period of their life and it's like, oh man, nothing beats 80 to 89 or 70 to 79? Or do you think the 90s was just special? Because they I looked it up, and there are a lot of people who have written about the 90s saying that it really was a little sweet spot in history. Yes. I think I don't know, but I would imagine that we were lucky enough to grow up in a really sweet spot. It feels like things didn't like evolve and change as much in other decades quite so much as they did in the 90s. Because what I read, it said it was post-Cold War, so people were really optimistic. It was the dawn of the internet, so it was exciting, but it wasn't taking over your life. Crime was down, people started to be more accepting.

SPEAKER_00 18:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:32

All the good things. All the goods. The sitcoms? Yeah, I wrote TV.

unknown 18:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:38

Because I wrote Dawson's Creek, Friends, Seinfeld. SNL was amazing in the 90s, but also like TRL. Pop-up video on VH1. What about TGIF? Was that more 80s? It was both. Both, yeah, but The Wonder Years, 90210. Oh, I wasn't allowed to watch 90210.

unknown 18:57

Don't bring it up, bro.

Sponsor Break: Buick And GMC

SPEAKER_01 18:58

Okay, I won't bring it up. But I can watch The Wonder Years. Um, do you remember your first AOL address? I still use it. Like, not my address, but my screen name. I can't use mine. Uh-oh. What was it?

SPEAKER_00 19:09

Well, it's not like a fence.

Why The 90s Felt Special

SPEAKER_01 19:11

Oh, because one of Al's friends has like an AOL name that I can't say on air, but I'll tell you when we get on. Oh yeah, that's funny. No, mine is Debom 0481. You're not using that as a login? Ryan has me in his phone as Debom Debom 0481. Oh, because that was your I am name. That was my email, yeah. Yeah. Debom0481 at AOL.com. Oh my god. Remember? I remember like at night, because our computer was up in my dad's office, which is really like a loft on the second floor. So it wasn't enclosed. So I would try to sneak on to AOL at night, and I'd be like trying to like quiet quiet, like the speakers or the modem. And I'm like, I definitely, my parents were picking their battles. They knew I was definitely on it. But it was so loud. Yeah, and it didn't dominate. Us because it was just like getting started. Also, you couldn't be on it because we didn't have a dedicated phone line for our modem. So if we were online, calls couldn't come through. Oh, right. And so my mom and dad would be like, cut off. Well, even like phones in the 90s. One phone line for your whole family. I know. We mean it worked though. I did have my own line. But still, like but also like getting home and checking your answering machine. Yes. It's like, oh my God. But could you like I think now like my kids picking up the phone and be like, mom, you have a phone call? Like, that's so crazy. I know. I kind of miss it though, because that's I think that's part of the how my parents met my friends. Oh, on the phone. Yeah, on the phone. And I don't think kids know how to talk on the phone. No, some do not. Have to like coach my, especially my younger ones. Like if their grandparents call or other aunts and uncles, I'm like, ask how they are doing. My kids, I think, because we were in when we moved here, spent so much time on the phone with either like my brother or because my mom and dad have been different places, they're pretty good on the phone. Oh, that is good. It's important. You gotta learn it. How about the phone book? What? What? But I think that's why we're more patient. Our kids have no patience because they just like look it up. Remember the did you have directories for school? Oh, yes. They were stapled together. Yeah, we had one that couldn't leave the phone table. Yes, that, and then the parish had one with people's family photos in it. Oh, so you could look up your crush. You can look up people in like the whole families. But it was like they would only do it every five years or so. So some of the pictures are pretty old. Oh, that's funny. Wonder if my mom still has. I was talking to somebody recently about that. But my mom would keep every single directory because she's like, you know, people graduated. I don't have their address anymore. And I love the the app, but this has been a problem for me where I'm like, shoot, I don't remember that guy's name. Like I know the wife's name, but not the husband's, and then I can't. Oh, you mean if they graduate, if they leave, or then I'm like, shoot, now I don't have your address. There should be like an archive button on directory spot. A hundred percent. The other thing about the 90s was like the trends ranged so like the range of the thing. There was something for everyone. There was. But so and and I was talking because of the 90s trivia night. I was talking to my team about this. I feel like every teenage girl, and my sister, it was my sister and sister-in-law. Every teenage girl is essentially wearing the same thing. Like they all have like gold hoops. Yes. Like now, now. And I think that's because they're all looking at the same trends, the same TikToks, the same trends. Like it's all right there. When you didn't have social media and the same like algorithms or the whatever it is, you could be looking through, you know, you could be at the limited, you could be at the gap. I think you did more shopping as to what you liked rather than what was put in front of you. Also, it was interesting growing up in two different places, the trends. Yes, Chicago. You saw way different stuff. Like rugby shirts were really big here. Yeah. So when I would come home for Christmas break, I had rugby shirts. Or like in Scottsdale, hang 10 short, like baby doll shirts were big. So but those were not big here. I've never seen one of those in real life. Guest jeans were really big. Did you no? No, guess what huge in Scottsdale. But like well, I'm trying to think, like grammar school limited high school Abercrombie. Yeah. You know, but it I it was like a shirt with like a button down over it. Like that was I wore a lot of it. In like the late 90s, we were all going to business meetings. All like business casual and twin sets, what?

unknown 23:53

Totally.

TV, AOL, And Phone Culture

SPEAKER_01 23:54

Remember this purple and black twin set that I was like, oh, this is scandalous. But I liked the early nineties. The early nineties fashion? No, just like life. Oh, just life in the early nineties. Yeah, it was good. Like rollerblades, mixtapes, all the 90s candy. Love all the mixtapes. Oh, yeah. Remember Coke 2 and Clear Pepsi? So I rem I didn't I don't think I ever had either of those, but I remember them coming out.

unknown 24:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:22

Did you like Clear Pepsi? Was it like on the regular? I think I liked it all. I was like, what a nerd I am. How different it was for us. Like we would have to like look in the card catalog. I moved the two. Oh, you did. Yes. Like just research how patient you had to be and check out all your books. And oh, those are from the reference section. We couldn't check those. Check them out. So you had to take your notes and then you had to, you know, put them back on the in the return shelf and do your research. And I remember in high maybe high school or college when it was like, wait, there's an online encyclopedia, and I can just print this out. That it was like Were you an early adapter? Mind blowing. I think I did. I remember teachers being like, you can use one online source, but the rest have to be real books. And now high schools don't even 11 printers.

SPEAKER_00 25:14

You know.

SPEAKER_01 25:16

I'm grateful to have grown up when I when I did because I feel like I remember what it was without it. I know what it is with it. And I have the patience of a child who was born without it. Same. Yeah, I like the decade I grew up in. I remember my mom had a cell phone, like a Zach Morris cell phone. My dad did too. And it rang and she didn't know how to pick it up. You had to send. On the flip side, we got a landline, one of those tin can phones. Oh, you did it. And my daughter was like, How do you turn it off? I was like, You just what did you tell me about this? So I had seen this over the summer, and I was like, ooh, I kind of like this. I ordered it in July and I knew it was gonna, they were like, We're back, we're back ordered, and so we got it in December. And so it's basically an internet phone number. You get like a Google phone number. Numbers? Yeah, it looks like it looks like a tin can and it works just like a landline, but it goes through the internet. So I have a phone number for it. It's free. So if you had a tin can phone, we could call each other free all we want to do.

SPEAKER_00 26:20

But is it ever core? Like is it connected to your wall? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:23

Yeah. And but we paid for a service because grandparents don't have a tin can phone. So if you want to call outside of the tin can network, you need to subscribe. Okay. I forgot how much it is, but it's not a lot. No. We haven't used it a ton, but I also feel like we've been so busy. I think it's gonna really come in handy in the summer. And I think more people are starting to get it. So I think it'll be fun for Rose and her friends to have one. To have it and call. Especially for girls. I don't know, maybe I'm stereotyping, like be fun for her to call her pals and not be on a watch. Yeah, I just got rid of our landline last year. Yeah. I was one of the last We had it in our closet house, but in our new I was like, this is silly. But I used it. I like to talk on it. Mm-hmm. Well, something about having just like the handset. I mean, now I just go on speakerphone or I put my AirPods in, and that's comfy cozy, but and I just like to call the house. Right. I but even my parents who still have a land, like, I'll call the house, and neither of them answers. So then I'm like, well, now I gotta call you on your cell phone. It was such a great decade for rom-coms. Yes, it sure was. Sliding doors, sleepless in Seattle.

SPEAKER_00 27:36

Sliding doors, I've never seen that. What? Nora? Gwyneth Peltro? No. She plays two different people.

Fashion, Regional Trends, And Patience

SPEAKER_01 27:43

You've gotta see it. Okay. And IQ with Meg Ryan. Oh my god, those are my biggest. Those are your favorite movies. Two favorite movies. Sleepless in Seattle, Sliding Doors, and IQ. You've got mail? Oh, that's so good, too. That's a good one. That's a good, like right on the brink of the internet. Well, I also think because we didn't have streaming, like again, we were talking at the 90s trivia night. You would just be like, we should go see a movie. What's playing? I don't know. We'll just go out. Let's go and see. Let's just go see. And my brother worked at a movie theater and he said people would come all the time and be like, What's the next movie that's showing? And that's just what you're like, let's just go to the movies and see what's on. And I kind of missed the spontaneity of that. Yeah, I miss it's just the 90s feels so nostalgic. And even in college, like you had to make plans before you went out. And I had so many nights where it was like, these people didn't meet up. I ended up at a different party. Like because there was no where are you? It was like, well, I'm here now.

SPEAKER_00 28:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:39

Did you have a cell phone in college? Not until senior year. Okay. You did. I did my freshman year, yeah. Okay. Would you but did a lot of people like were you able? But to T9 text? Oh, no, no T9. No, just calling. Just calling. Yeah. Nobody was texting friends. I didn't have a purse, so I couldn't bring a phone out. Friends had sidekicks. Oh, the the slide up ones. But yeah, no, it was a great decade. It was a little couple of little scandals here and there. Some famous crimes. You know, no decade is without its blemishes. There was a funny table at Trivia Night that they were amazing. Like the The White House. The White House. Yeah, is that what they were called? I think they were 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. And they went for it. There was a Janet Reno, there was a Monica Monica Lewinsky with Bill Clinton, Hillary, Linda Tripp. And they won Best Costume, which they should have. Because they not only did they commit, but it's not like those costumes are also like, wow, you look the best I've ever seen you. Right. Oh my God, it was so fun. Well, you guys had a great costume. I was happy with Arthur. Yes. It was all we were Tom Hanks from, we were all different Tom Hanks movie characters in the 90s. But what was funny was there was a whole table of alumni from my high school class there.

SPEAKER_00 29:59

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 30:00

And so I went over there and I was, I was dressed as Woody in the Toy Story. Like talking to people about their children and catching up. And I'm like, I'm dressed as a cartoon cowboy. It's a conversation. I was talking to one of my kids' teachers, and I'm like, I have to at least take this hat off. It's just a good looking Woody.

SPEAKER_00 30:20

Well, thanks.

SPEAKER_01 30:22

Maybe I'll wear that costume more often. It was I had to pull my old skinny jeans out. Yes, kind of felt good. Yes. Yeah, the 90s were a good time. Well, thanks for taking a walk down memory road with us. Should we launch into highs and lows? My low is that my boots fell apart on the triffian night. Did I so I've had these for a while? I was like, I've had them for five years. And Al goes, you've had them way longer than that. The bottoms, the rubber part of the bottom, they're tall. They like probably go below my knee. I love these boots, R-A-P, because all they're in the garbage can. No, I know I have a gun. No, they disintegrated. Oh, like the I looked on the ground and I thought someone had tracked mud in, but it was all the rubber from my boots crumbling off the bottom everywhere. I went.

SPEAKER_00 31:13

Did they freeze?

Movies, Spontaneity, And Pre-Streaming Life

SPEAKER_01 31:14

What happened? I mean, I haven't worn them at all this winter. So they've been in my closet for a year. But it was like the like it was so cold when you were walking. I mean, it w it was like a remarkable mess. Like everywhere, like, and then we went to Kenny's afterwards. There was like crumbly rubber at Kenny's. I and then when I threw them out and I looked, you could like it was apart. Okay. Time for a new pair of boots. Yeah. They might be 10 years old. You're a decade old. Decades old. Oh, but no, I'm trying to find the exact same boots. I really liked these. You're not gonna find them. No, I'm not. But you'll find a more updated version. I guess so. You'll be fine. Alas and a lack. My Loisin is funny. Okay. My dog gets sick. Oh she's fine enough. Sweet Wilma. Yeah, she's fine enough. She gotta she went to the groomer and got all cleaned up and settled right here next to me. She's the key. She's in good shape now. Yeah. Poor thing. What about your high? My high is I'm getting my hair cut on Friday. I have not got it cut since June. Yeah, you you've been on a run here. I can't make it look decent unless it's curled. It's not curled. And it's so necessary. It's gonna feel so good. A new haircut always feels good. I don't know why I always wait so long in between haircuts. I just need to make an appointment when I leave. Yes. Because even if I do end up having to reschedule, it'll just be for the following day. Yeah, you're not gonna be like in two months. Yeah, you're not gonna reschedule it. I'm looking for something because that was part of my high. I saw you, Volina. Sorry, I didn't mean to be rude and not listen, but I my high is I had bought for Rory a long, long time ago this pad of paper that it's like a sheet of day, and you're supposed to write down like your to-do list, like da-da-da-da-da, what you want to do. And then it also has like a thing you can track your water. Like, did you go outside? Like, did you talk to a friend? Like all kinds, it's like a little plan your day thing. And I have been lamenting that my post-its won't stick on the back of my new phone case. Well, that no, this is way too big. But is it like the size of the underpants? It's a yes, it's a sheet of paper. Okay. It's like an eight and a half by eleven piece of paper. But the past three days I've used it and it's been remarkably helpful. Except for today, because I forgot it at home. But it's really kept me on track. And has it made you do some of the things just to do this? It has because I was like, I don't know if I'm gonna have time to do that. I was like, I have time to do it. Just go do it so I could cross it off my list. Oh, a list you mean? Yeah, there's a to-do list on it. Like this kind of list? Like you just make a list every day? Like this day? Yeah. These? Mm-hmm. What do you usually do? Usually I put it on my phone post. You don't normally do this? I have one for every day. See no. Mm-mm. And then I was kind of using my phone, but I don't like to use my phone. I like to do it on paper. Yeah, if I have to this is every day. I just this. I mean, I used to on my phone, but then I lost that ability. So I I've been one of these. A planner?

SPEAKER_00 34:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:28

I'm I'm liking this. I don't know, I have to show you. I thought I brought one. Well, oh, I know where it is. It's in my script for the musical that I'm okay. I to do lists are I mean, because I always do a to-do list, but I just lost the vehicle for which to make it. Paper. Paper. I need a special paper. But anyways, it's made me very happy. Right. Well of course. So did Trivia in my new robe. I had a lot of roses this week.

SPEAKER_00 34:54

Yeah, you did.

SPEAKER_01 34:56

And your eye's getting better. One of them. Is it? One of them. I'm just gonna wear a patch. Okay. I told you one of the musical kids called me out. Mrs. Taylor, is something wrong with your eye? I just went, yes. Yes, there is. It's been like this for a while. I don't think it's getting in any better. This poor child was like, ugh. I was like, it's not contagious. And then they relaxed a little bit. And if you don't listen, your eyes are gonna look like this at you. My villain eye, evil eye.

SPEAKER_00 35:26

All right. Anyways, goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye.