May 29, 2025 • 11 mins
From layering multiple tanks to printing out a map instead of using your iPhone, Jess is flying solo and giggling her way through some submissions from the crew all about things they used to do that would make you do a triple take in 2025.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Call it what it is with Jessica Capshaw and Camille Luddington,
an iHeartRadio podcast. Well, Hello, Hello, hello, and welcome to
another episode of Short and Sweet. Today, I am flying solo,
(00:26):
just Jessica or jess for laughs. Or what's another Jay
situation we could come up with. See that's where I
really miss the jelly to my peanut butter, because she
would have come up with that third thing and I
was just left hanging with my own self. This is
going to be an episode about nostalgia. We're going to
talk about things that used to be normal, maybe a
(00:49):
decade ago, maybe two decades ago, or back in the
day that would be extremely weird or stick out to
us here.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
In twenty twenty five. I actually want to do a roup.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Since we're doing it a little differently, I want to
go a little differently.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
I want to do in reverse order.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Let's hear from the crew first, and then I will
share some thoughts of my own.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Taylor wrote in having.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
To watch all your favorite shows at specific times each week.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
I remember this.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I remember tuning in and like racing to get places
so that you could be in position, and you also
needed to make sure that you had your beverage of
choice or your snack of choice at the ready, because
you couldn't pause it and you couldn't leave in the
middle of it, so you had to wait for commercial
breaks too, to like, you know, go get anything or
use the restroom or all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
So, Taylor, I understand that paula.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Waiting for your parents to get off the internet to
make a phone call from a landline. Do we even
have landlines anymore? And the answer is no. I'm always
surprised when I go to a hotel and they have
actual phones. And then but I'm also sort of disoriented
because I'm like, well, who do I text? If you
don't have a phone. I gotta have some way of
(02:04):
getting a hold of you, but I don't. I'm left hanging.
Emma wrote in printing directions off Google Maps when driving
in your car.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Okay, Emma, I see, I.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
See that, and I raised you having a Thomas Guide
in your car usually situated.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
It was so big.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
It was this giant map situation that had many, many,
many pages, and it was it had an index so
that you could find the place that you were looking for.
But then there were it was there were like bar
graphs and you had to look for which quadrant each
thing was in. It was very, very complicated and definitely
not something that you should ever do while operating a vehicle,
(02:46):
so you would have to plot your route you got
in the car. Let's just say that we are blessed now,
Raymond said, using Google instead of chat GPT.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I get that. I get that.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I mean, I still use both, but I get that.
Julia said, paying with just coins. You know, I am
irritated by coins now. I actually don't even know what
to do with them.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
I try.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I find them to be annoying when I get them,
but I know that they're valuable, and so I don't
want to get rid of them. But at the same time,
I don't know what to do with them, and so
then they just end up in my life in like
a cup holder, a pocket, a tray, something like that.
But yeah, yeah, I remember when you used to just
pay with coins. Angela said, making a Facebook photo album
(03:36):
or writing on your friend's Facebook wall. I never had
a Facebook I never had a Facebook page. There were
I remember there were lots of fake ones, and I
remember calling my lawyer because I was like, there's someone
saying that they're me but they're not me, and what
should I do? And there were so many of them.
As soon as you'd get one taken down, another one
would just pop up. So I just I just opted
(03:57):
out of the whole thing. Ruby said, running to the
toilet during commercial breaks. You can just press pause. Now
what did I just say? I just said, that's exactly right.
You would have to wait till the commercial breaks to
go the bathroom, but now you can go.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Whatever you want.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Jen said, I did this layering tank tops? Why did
we wear five on top of each other? I don't know,
I don't know. It was a trend. And here's the
thing that I can tell you, Jen, It'll be back again.
I don't know when, and I don't know why, but
it will return. I promise you this. Katie said, having
(04:32):
to buy a new CD instead of streaming it. Yeah,
I remember CD buying. Yeah, I mean I even remember
when they came in these extra large paper containers.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
It was like you would go to the.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
CD store and it would just be huge, and then
half of it didn't even have anything in it, so
it didn't even make sense. And then it graduated to
just being like a tiny little paper sleeve over the
actual CD, and then I thought I was really in
the money when we would burn in our own custom CDs.
And then again now CDs are like a punishment. When
(05:06):
I find them, I'm like, what do I do with this?
Where would I even play it? Ashley said, doing homework
with books.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
And a dictionary. You don't still do homework with books
and a dictionary.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
I guess you don't write your computer and everything's inside
of it, So there you go.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Okay, that's the cold, hard truth.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Catherine.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Going to a store like Blockbuster and renting a movie
that would be weird. Now, Wow, that would be weird
and also take a lot of time.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
What are we doing with all this extra time?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Hollie said, posters on your bedroom wall?
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Why not have them? Now? No one has posters. Isn't
that art? Now? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Uh, Jamie, looking up movie showtimes in the newspaper, you
just took me back.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Yes, that's where they used to be.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Wow, that one just messed me up. Okay, yeah we did.
We used to go get the paper and look up
the movie showtimes. I feel like I should say, like,
I'm not I only paid a quarter for backcorn. Lauren having
to hit multiple buttons in order to text one letter
that yeah, I guess that was true when you had
the Nokia phones with the with the one button yeah,
(06:34):
verse three letters.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
That was not fun and again took a lot of
time Abby circling items you wanted in a magazine or
catalog to show your parents what you wanted for Christmas. Yes,
anyone remember the Spiegel catalogs, no money at all. Little
Jessica would sit there with Grandma Bev and we would
go through the Spiegel catalog and we would tally up
(06:55):
all the items that we wanted to see just how
much it would cost to get everything on your wish list,
and it was always completely undoable. Bianca going to a
club with a digital camera, just a digital camera. I
guess they're kind of coming back now, they should. It's
a better quality. Stephanie, I was really shook when the
kids I babysit didn't know what a Nintendo or we was.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
They don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Don't people still have like Xbox? I guess it's all
digital and streaming now. Huh ooh okay.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Danny not being reachable twenty four to seven. I think
that that was something we should return to. Kate downloading
music to put on your iPod. Yeah, and then making mixes.
Devin asking someone to roll down their car window by.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Doing the cranking motion.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Do you all even know what that is?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
It's like when you put your hand out and you
do the cranking motion because the windows used to quite
literally roll down.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
That's funny, That's very funny.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Nina hiding in the closet to talk on the phone
with the cords stretched across the house.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Yeah, I don't remember that.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I just remember the cordless phones where if you went
too far away from the base, they would start creating
It would start creating static, kind of like cell phone static,
and you were just garble and you would you drop
your call and that would be a huge bummer.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
All of these resonate.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
With me, and I think it's so interesting because there's
so many things that would be weird in twenty twenty
five that I completely grew up with. I mean, I
wasn't quite in the like go like you know, the
story of moms and dads, moms and moms and dads
and dads saying, you know, go out and play and
then come back for dinner. Like that wasn't my generation.
(08:45):
But I did have a bit more freedom and no
one could call me. I wasn't tethered to home, but
I definitely was still part of the generation where they
definitely kept tabs on you. I think it'd be kind
of funny if I were too, though, say to a
gen Z kid that they had to get out a
Thomas Guide and you know the map that I described
(09:08):
a second ago. I think that they would be very
confused by that. It would seem like I was sending
them on like a treasure hunt or something. And I
do also remember having to memorize phone numbers. Speaking of phones,
you'd have to memorize phone numbers. And then I mean,
how many great movies or stories were born of like
losing someone's phone number or writing it down on a
(09:30):
piece of paper, or not memorizing it correctly.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Love Lost.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Think about all the things that could have been, and
then I think about now the things that were doing.
I think it's often times I'm like, how will this
be made easier in the future, right, like how will driving?
I mean, how could it be any easier? I mean,
they already have self driving vehicles, so I mean, and
I also do think about that cartoon the jetsons because
(09:58):
they used to fly. And that's the only thing that
I can imagine being any different about the way we
get around is that we have subways from trains, we
have underground, we have them on the ground. We have cars,
we drive them, we are driven. We have the auto
the self drivers.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
So really the.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Only place that is left to explore is the air.
So maybe we'll have jets and mobiles.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
I wonder about dating like I never I can't imagine
having dated in a dating app world, the gamification of
romance and love. But that being said, I feel like
so many relationships now are born of texting each other
or writing back and forth, and then that kind of
(10:49):
harkens back to the good old days when you'd send
a letter by pigeon, right.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
I don't know, I'm making that up, but maybe I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
So maybe we all just experience life, and some things
are like on boomerangs, where you throw it out and
it goes as far as it can go and then
it comes back again. It's like trends like me wearing
my multi layered tank top and talking on a landline.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
I don't know, just throwing.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
It out there Anyways, please let us know your thoughts
about things that would be very strange today that were
completely normal to you, and we can keep this going.
I very much miss my partner in crime, but the
show must go on. Thank you for being here today
with me, and I'm going to call this the end
(11:34):
of the episode.
Call it what it is with Jessica Capshaw and Camille Luddington,
an iHeartRadio podcast. Well, Hello, Hello, hello, and welcome to
another episode of Short and Sweet. Today, I am flying solo,
(00:26):
just Jessica or jess for laughs. Or what's another Jay
situation we could come up with. See that's where I
really miss the jelly to my peanut butter, because she
would have come up with that third thing and I
was just left hanging with my own self. This is
going to be an episode about nostalgia. We're going to
talk about things that used to be normal, maybe a
(00:49):
decade ago, maybe two decades ago, or back in the
day that would be extremely weird or stick out to
us here.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
In twenty twenty five. I actually want to do a roup.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Since we're doing it a little differently, I want to
go a little differently.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
I want to do in reverse order.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Let's hear from the crew first, and then I will
share some thoughts of my own.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Taylor wrote in having.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
To watch all your favorite shows at specific times each week.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
I remember this.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I remember tuning in and like racing to get places
so that you could be in position, and you also
needed to make sure that you had your beverage of
choice or your snack of choice at the ready, because
you couldn't pause it and you couldn't leave in the
middle of it, so you had to wait for commercial
breaks too, to like, you know, go get anything or
use the restroom or all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
So, Taylor, I understand that paula.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Waiting for your parents to get off the internet to
make a phone call from a landline. Do we even
have landlines anymore? And the answer is no. I'm always
surprised when I go to a hotel and they have
actual phones. And then but I'm also sort of disoriented
because I'm like, well, who do I text? If you
don't have a phone. I gotta have some way of
(02:04):
getting a hold of you, but I don't. I'm left hanging.
Emma wrote in printing directions off Google Maps when driving
in your car.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Okay, Emma, I see, I.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
See that, and I raised you having a Thomas Guide
in your car usually situated.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
It was so big.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
It was this giant map situation that had many, many,
many pages, and it was it had an index so
that you could find the place that you were looking for.
But then there were it was there were like bar
graphs and you had to look for which quadrant each
thing was in. It was very, very complicated and definitely
not something that you should ever do while operating a vehicle,
(02:46):
so you would have to plot your route you got
in the car. Let's just say that we are blessed now,
Raymond said, using Google instead of chat GPT.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I get that. I get that.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I mean, I still use both, but I get that.
Julia said, paying with just coins. You know, I am
irritated by coins now. I actually don't even know what
to do with them.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
I try.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I find them to be annoying when I get them,
but I know that they're valuable, and so I don't
want to get rid of them. But at the same time,
I don't know what to do with them, and so
then they just end up in my life in like
a cup holder, a pocket, a tray, something like that.
But yeah, yeah, I remember when you used to just
pay with coins. Angela said, making a Facebook photo album
(03:36):
or writing on your friend's Facebook wall. I never had
a Facebook I never had a Facebook page. There were
I remember there were lots of fake ones, and I
remember calling my lawyer because I was like, there's someone
saying that they're me but they're not me, and what
should I do? And there were so many of them.
As soon as you'd get one taken down, another one
would just pop up. So I just I just opted
(03:57):
out of the whole thing. Ruby said, running to the
toilet during commercial breaks. You can just press pause. Now
what did I just say? I just said, that's exactly right.
You would have to wait till the commercial breaks to
go the bathroom, but now you can go.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Whatever you want.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Jen said, I did this layering tank tops? Why did
we wear five on top of each other? I don't know,
I don't know. It was a trend. And here's the
thing that I can tell you, Jen, It'll be back again.
I don't know when, and I don't know why, but
it will return. I promise you this. Katie said, having
(04:32):
to buy a new CD instead of streaming it. Yeah,
I remember CD buying. Yeah, I mean I even remember
when they came in these extra large paper containers.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
It was like you would go to the.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
CD store and it would just be huge, and then
half of it didn't even have anything in it, so
it didn't even make sense. And then it graduated to
just being like a tiny little paper sleeve over the
actual CD, and then I thought I was really in
the money when we would burn in our own custom CDs.
And then again now CDs are like a punishment. When
(05:06):
I find them, I'm like, what do I do with this?
Where would I even play it? Ashley said, doing homework
with books.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
And a dictionary. You don't still do homework with books
and a dictionary.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
I guess you don't write your computer and everything's inside
of it, So there you go.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Okay, that's the cold, hard truth.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Catherine.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Going to a store like Blockbuster and renting a movie
that would be weird. Now, Wow, that would be weird
and also take a lot of time.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
What are we doing with all this extra time?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Hollie said, posters on your bedroom wall?
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Why not have them? Now? No one has posters. Isn't
that art? Now? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Uh, Jamie, looking up movie showtimes in the newspaper, you
just took me back.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Yes, that's where they used to be.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Wow, that one just messed me up. Okay, yeah we did.
We used to go get the paper and look up
the movie showtimes. I feel like I should say, like,
I'm not I only paid a quarter for backcorn. Lauren having
to hit multiple buttons in order to text one letter
that yeah, I guess that was true when you had
the Nokia phones with the with the one button yeah,
(06:34):
verse three letters.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
That was not fun and again took a lot of
time Abby circling items you wanted in a magazine or
catalog to show your parents what you wanted for Christmas. Yes,
anyone remember the Spiegel catalogs, no money at all. Little
Jessica would sit there with Grandma Bev and we would
go through the Spiegel catalog and we would tally up
(06:55):
all the items that we wanted to see just how
much it would cost to get everything on your wish list,
and it was always completely undoable. Bianca going to a
club with a digital camera, just a digital camera. I
guess they're kind of coming back now, they should. It's
a better quality. Stephanie, I was really shook when the
kids I babysit didn't know what a Nintendo or we was.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
They don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Don't people still have like Xbox? I guess it's all
digital and streaming now. Huh ooh okay.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Danny not being reachable twenty four to seven. I think
that that was something we should return to. Kate downloading
music to put on your iPod. Yeah, and then making mixes.
Devin asking someone to roll down their car window by.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Doing the cranking motion.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Do you all even know what that is?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
It's like when you put your hand out and you
do the cranking motion because the windows used to quite
literally roll down.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
That's funny, That's very funny.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Nina hiding in the closet to talk on the phone
with the cords stretched across the house.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Yeah, I don't remember that.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I just remember the cordless phones where if you went
too far away from the base, they would start creating
It would start creating static, kind of like cell phone static,
and you were just garble and you would you drop
your call and that would be a huge bummer.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
All of these resonate.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
With me, and I think it's so interesting because there's
so many things that would be weird in twenty twenty
five that I completely grew up with. I mean, I
wasn't quite in the like go like you know, the
story of moms and dads, moms and moms and dads
and dads saying, you know, go out and play and
then come back for dinner. Like that wasn't my generation.
(08:45):
But I did have a bit more freedom and no
one could call me. I wasn't tethered to home, but
I definitely was still part of the generation where they
definitely kept tabs on you. I think it'd be kind
of funny if I were too, though, say to a
gen Z kid that they had to get out a
Thomas Guide and you know the map that I described
(09:08):
a second ago. I think that they would be very
confused by that. It would seem like I was sending
them on like a treasure hunt or something. And I
do also remember having to memorize phone numbers. Speaking of phones,
you'd have to memorize phone numbers. And then I mean,
how many great movies or stories were born of like
losing someone's phone number or writing it down on a
(09:30):
piece of paper, or not memorizing it correctly.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Love Lost.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Think about all the things that could have been, and
then I think about now the things that were doing.
I think it's often times I'm like, how will this
be made easier in the future, right, like how will driving?
I mean, how could it be any easier? I mean,
they already have self driving vehicles, so I mean, and
I also do think about that cartoon the jetsons because
(09:58):
they used to fly. And that's the only thing that
I can imagine being any different about the way we
get around is that we have subways from trains, we
have underground, we have them on the ground. We have cars,
we drive them, we are driven. We have the auto
the self drivers.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
So really the.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Only place that is left to explore is the air.
So maybe we'll have jets and mobiles.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
I wonder about dating like I never I can't imagine
having dated in a dating app world, the gamification of
romance and love. But that being said, I feel like
so many relationships now are born of texting each other
or writing back and forth, and then that kind of
(10:49):
harkens back to the good old days when you'd send
a letter by pigeon, right.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
I don't know, I'm making that up, but maybe I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
So maybe we all just experience life, and some things
are like on boomerangs, where you throw it out and
it goes as far as it can go and then
it comes back again. It's like trends like me wearing
my multi layered tank top and talking on a landline.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
I don't know, just throwing.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
It out there Anyways, please let us know your thoughts
about things that would be very strange today that were
completely normal to you, and we can keep this going.
I very much miss my partner in crime, but the
show must go on. Thank you for being here today
with me, and I'm going to call this the end
(11:34):
of the episode.
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Camilla Luddington
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