December 29, 2020 • 45 mins
It's been 20 years since the millennium and OOD wants to get into it! From the bubblegum pop, to the tamagotchi pets, and all the Y2K mania in between, the girls are digging through their blinged out time capsules and honoring the early 2000's. So put on your apple bottom jeans and your plastic Melissa shoes cause we're going back in time in style.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to You Down, a production of Shonda land Audio
and partnership with I Heart Radio. That terror of them
being like, will arrest you stolen music? I did not
care lot Wire just let you steal it, and then
they just gave your answer virus. I'm like, I got
all the music, but I definitely destroyed our computer, right.
I don't know what happened, mom? What's going on? Everybody? Everybody? Yeah,
(00:34):
welcome back to You Down, a podcast where for funny
honeys come together to talk about what's going on in
the culture. I'm Yasmin, when I Watkins, I'm Ashley Holston,
I'm Shakira, and I'm MOMMYA afora. But collectively we are
known as Obama's the other Daughter. We could all use
(00:59):
a break from the chaos up today. So on this
episode of You Down, we're going back in time to
the era of bubble gum pop and asking are you
down with the millennium? From Tomagotchis to Brittany and Christina
to the craziness that was y two K. We want
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to take a walk down memory lane and share some
of our favorite moments from the ninety nine of the
two thousands, but before we party, like it's a group
checked in. What are you guys loving and what are
you hating this week? You know what I'm hating, y'all
the pressure of New Year's resolutions. Last year was the
(01:42):
first year that I actually cut resolutions. But um, this year,
you know, with the pandemic and everything, really there's been
some stagnation and now I feel like I gotta pick
up and do some overtime for these resolutions. For It's
that's a lot of pressures here. I know, it's about
pressure feeling myself. I mean, I get that I do.
(02:05):
What's the one that you stuck with to make Traveler probably?
Oh no, that was that was two thousand nineteen. When
I do this year, y'all? O my bus. I finally
got my bus to create a tiny home. So I
did just really huge. So like, don't minimize Yeah, no,
it's not I'm not trying to minimize it. But guys,
I didn't like I didn't sell my script. I'm not
a superstar. Um, I don't have a million dollars in
(02:27):
the bank. That was my not yet and I feel
like you really made some inroads into making that happen
this year. So don't play yourself short girl. No I'm
not playing you know this is for comedic effect, y'all,
but really sorry and right you are worthy. We had
some of the same goals, ash I think we were like,
(02:50):
we're gonna make a million dollars a year. Me looking
at my bank account, like, well, well, you know what
the stars did? You shoot for the moon? You land
among the stars a little more money than I did
last year. So that I really love the idea though,
of like, even if your resolutions don't come true in
that exact timeframe, to be like, this is what I
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want for my life, and to really hone in on
that thing, and then to actively make steps towards making
that thing happen, which you really did this year, Ashley, Like, yeah,
I'm not shipping. You know how you put a picture
of yourself up and you're like, man, I gain a
little weight. I'm like, I'm a fitness journey, and then
everyone tells you how beautiful you are and how you
don't need to do anything. That's that's ok. Mother, you
(03:38):
were us. Um, it's been a great year. But I
guess I'm going to say something. I mean, I'm not
hating this that much, like safety first, of course, but
in my mind for the New Year, like a resolution
I made for myself is that I'm going to be
celebrating and somewhere warm every New Year. And with cob It,
(04:01):
well I might just be so we're not that worm
and listen, just step. It's going to be more than
most of the kind I know. But you know it's
not Bally. I actually see you know my heart. You
know my heart and you know where I'm at. And
in my mind I literally have been like Bali next year.
I think we were in Thightland and I was like,
(04:21):
I'm gonna be in Bally, like like focus on where
your at, enjoy the moment. No Bally. And then nope,
I'm not going to be in Bali because they are
very close. I even looked on the website like, well,
what's the restriction, like I can take a test, maybe
I'll do fourteen days in quarantine. Was like, we don't
want you. They're like even with a fourteen day quarantine,
(04:47):
let's get a passport and I can marry me a
Balin meets me. That is so extreme. Just to do
New Years on the beach a whole after barage, that's
setting a goal thank you, Thank you. Madness is setting
a goal and sticking to it, thank you for the support.
So that's that's sort of where I'm at, Like, dang, y'all,
(05:09):
it was a good year, though. I love that you
two times you were like it was a good year,
and I just think about how many people are gonna
be like, oh, what was it? I mean it was
you Actually, no, it was a rocky year overall for
the world. Yeah, you don't. You know, we talked about this,
reconciling with the fact that, you know, during this pandemic
(05:29):
we got this podcast, and so it has been conflictingly
for me, a good personal year, but so much ship
going around outside of it. It's just like, am I
supposed to feel good? Yeah? Not wanting to be like
this was the best year in our career. However, I mean,
has Obama's other daughters it really so thank you God,
(05:56):
thank you God, verse we appreciated. Yeah, I feel like
this end of the year is the first year that
I'm like, oh my girl, let's keep going, you know,
Like it's not like that. That's what my subconscious was
saying probably every year in l a prior um. But
I just feel like I set some goals. I got
(06:19):
my first real writing job, Like this year was although
the world was quite literally on fighter, it kind of
still is. Um I am. I'm optimistic that as we
progress with this new administration and the way that feeling,
like how it feels to live in America is going
to change in this next year. So I'm really excited
(06:42):
for that. That's what you love, what you hate. Well,
as we round out the end of this love hate,
I think is certainly reflection of all of the things
that I love and all of the things that I hate,
because it has been, like you were saying, this whirlwind
successful last year for o D. Like we're coming up personally,
(07:04):
like there's just so much to celebrate, and I really
feel like I've been on this roller coaster of like
really high highs of like oh my god, wildest dreams
come true ship and then also god damn, this must
be the eighth circle of hell. Like O D knows this,
But I was caring for my father really from the
(07:28):
summer when we got this podcast and started recording up
until his recent passing. And I'm not gonna lie, this
was one of the hardest years to both witness black
death on a loop, the way that black folks are
impacted by it, and particularly state sanctioned violence, and then
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you know, to witness black death on a very personal,
very personal level. I'm not gonna lie. This year it
was harder ship and I'm still on girl, It's okay.
It's just like I've had so much anxiety, just like
I'm really looking forward to a second of a break
to just process everything because um oh damn, we were
(08:14):
going to keep this light in fun. You gotta feel
what you gotta feel, y keep it. I feel like
I'm skinning into the finish line of this year. Guys,
let's just go on and make it over to see
what happens there. It's just yonder. I see it, I
(08:37):
see it, reaching out for it. Let's run together into
the sunset, all of us in our different journeys and
our journey together. This year has been a crazy year,
but I mean, I'm grateful that we're all still here
and we're still going forward like an optimistic for next year.
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And I feel like it's fitting that we're going into
new year, new beginnings because this topic this week is
the millennium, which is exactly twenty years ago. Because technically
the millennium was two thousand and one, which I didn't know.
I thought it was two thousand. What comes to mind
is is hear and unlick it? Remember when Will Smith,
(09:20):
why do We Love You So much? Wilson come on
the show reference you, but literally had that song about
the millennium. You mean the Willennium, Thank you for the
correct one, the will llennium um And we're twenty years later.
(09:40):
Crazy that happened. Quick, Lord Jesus. But before we get
into that, let's take a quick break. Welcome back, y'all.
(10:01):
It's how I'm to walk down memory lane. So let's
get to it. Okay, where were y'all at during the Millennium? Okay?
So um, I was just made aware that the millennium
is considered two thousand one, But do you guys consider it? Yeah,
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so like we're just gonna disregard sciences. Yeah, we know
what it is. So going into two thousand, I was
in seventh grade because I can literally remember Charmaine Wiggins
Millennium shirts like it was a big deal to be
sparkly and silver. I was in fifth grade and on
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the eve of the Millennium, my neighbor had a party
and I'm like, that's really crazy that nobody was concerned
enough to be like, well, what do we do if
this go was down? Because I feel like they would
have found us and we would look like the Heaven's Gate.
People like you welcomed it, right, But yeah, I was scared,
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but my parents weren't, so I wasn't going to go
to the store. I feel like you have to clarify
what you're talking about because some people don't know what
why K is. Oh yeah, I was in a writing
class and I mentioned why t K and these girls
were like, what is that? Like a music group? Oh?
Why was this phenomenon? In? Like that? UM scientists and
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technologists believed that when the clock struck midnight on January one,
two thousand, everything would stop working because computers would not
be able to recalibrate and keep counting past nine. So
people were freaking out. This sounds like the craziest plot
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to a movie, Like we would not write this movie,
we would not go to see this movie. No, it's
just you with a bunch of pancorn and your grandma's face.
But I heard that it actually like the one person
that Y two K really impacted, there was a guy
who got charged dollars for renting the general's daughter. Like
(12:19):
there was like something wait what he rented a movie,
but the system did something where it was like your
movie is like a hundred years overdue. I mentioned they
gave him a hard time too. I met. They were like, well,
the computer says, it's our policy. Man, I can't reverse
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the charge, right. But I remember the days of like
Blockbuster and like going with my dad and like we'd
pick out like the movies we're gonna watch. Um. I
was in middle school at the time, wearing chokers every day.
Uh happened with two ponytails on the side of my head.
(13:04):
Oh man, man, I wasn't in a into chokers, but
I did the butterfly clips. Actually, lusy, my hair never
looked right, but I bought them. Mom didn't look righty
that I'm just ply them right up. I was in
fourth grade and Karen was in the womb. I you
(13:25):
just started making your own snacks, Lucky. I started cooking
stove and like first grade, so what yeah, prodigy over here? Really,
I mean just like my mom is a sickle mom.
She was at work. If we want to eat and
I want the food to be hot. I better know
how to make some dad on eggs on my own.
(13:47):
Otherwise I just learned how to heat up something in
the microwa yesterday. Go hey, yeah, breag about it. He
had to cook put your so But no. I remember
my mom's friend, Miss Tina. I think she had a party.
She was dating a man named Tyrone and called her
(14:10):
own had been out already for a little bit, but
like they were like, we're gonna go into the New
Year's singing calls ron Erica and it was creepy. And
I think I had like a sip of champagne and
I was like, I get to drink It was probably
apple cider. Were you aware of what hit UK was like?
(14:30):
Were you nervous? I remember I was nervous because people
were nervous, but like I wasn't best heared like my
mom didn't really believe that the world was about to end.
I didn't think about it then because I don't remember
my parents being crazy about it, or anyone like any
adults around me really being crazy. I think I learned
from the media that it was like an issue. But
(14:52):
looking back on it, I realized that all my extended family,
like my father's um, sister, and brother. We all got
together in Myrtle Beach for that New Year's ninety years
and on a family zoom recently, the younger kids were like,
were we, you know, trying to prepare for something. Were
you all scared? And my family was like, yeah, we
were shook. If we were going to die, we're gonna
die together. But I remember that being really fun New
(15:16):
Year's even, Yeah, it was great. I feel like that
was still around the time. My mom was at UCSD
when we were growing up and my dad was still
here in l A. So we were always back and
forth and I think it was my dad's weekend for
that New Year, and I feel like we were trust
in church, tearing for the Holy Ghost. That's where we
(15:37):
normally were. I know, we used to go to church
for her for New Year's all the time, and that
was because it's just like, it's already late, I'm tired,
and I don't want to be preached at midnight. I
really don't like falling asleep. Well, if if the year
turns and we die, at least at the House of
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the Lord, that's my dad logic to this day. But
the past couple of years we've been like, let's actually
pop bottles in the house, and yeah, I would much
rather be in the house on New Year's than out
at church. Um. But most of them, when I would go,
I would fall asleep and it wouldn't be a big deal.
And then we go home around one in the morning,
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just feeling groggy and like why were we here? Why
be sleeping? Are there anythings from that era that you
guys miss, like, or what do you miss the most?
I guess I'd say my tamagotchi and or my nano
pet or polly pocket pollypockets, like a little things you
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can put in your pocket, something about the fun of
Like I just I remember I really really wanted a
nano pet, like all my friends had one, and you know,
single mom as well. I couldn't really get like I
And I remember one of my friends drew me a
nano pet on a cardboard box and was like, here
you go anyway, sweet gesture everyone, A little poor girl
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couldn't have that. I would have been it is such
a sweet gesture, but I would have been so livid,
like me, this little thing, I can't even really play
while they play with their right you take this call one,
give me yours. I really loved there was a trend
where you could see through electronics and then they were
(17:33):
like Neon colors in the back, so like the Max
were the big thing. But I never had an Apple computer,
but I had a CD player. When I tell you
how the CD player was bombed, it was like see
through on the front, but then the back was like
an opaque Neon blue. And I took that jang with
me everywhere. My sister had a lime green one. I
love that little CD player. The thing I missed the
(17:55):
most is probably the combination of Rap City, the Basement,
One of six in Park and R because the music
was great. The music was amazing, and it's literally like
the black culture starter pack, or that's what it was
for me. Yeah, one or six and Park t R. Oh,
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those two specifically, I just remember them being so much
a part of after school culture, like you're running home
to see and I think middle school was a time
where you caught the middle of TRL, so you didn't
get to be home enough for the start of it
to be like running from the bus like I got
to see what the top um. Yeah, I loved it.
(18:38):
Carson Dalely, I wanted to be a VJE that was
like the coolest thing that you could be at the time,
Like an mt D VJ that was just like like
you go, you get your dose of what you need
to know to talk about it in the lunch room
or whatever to do, and then go on your Mary way. Yeah.
(19:00):
I love the music of their I mean my first
CD was Britney Spears and Brandy. I think I told
you guys, and then now that's what I call music.
Was like, my damn Yeah, we used to My mom
started dating this guy and we would go to Costco
and his gift to me would be the new nown
CD and I would just CDs in the cart like
thanks Mr Mark Mark Right, it was so amazing. I
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also just remember it kind of being the dawn of
reality television and I was so into the Osbourne's. Oh
and I loved Kelly Osbourne. I still love Kelly Osborne.
But I don't know what it was about seeing like
this very weird family for in the real world. Yeah,
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they were like a tether for Run's house, would you say,
Like that was like what all the white people get
to see a really wealthy black family that functions and
then the rest of us get to see British people
who are not prim and propa. I feel like all
of my consumption was based off of my cousins because
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after school I would go to their house and if
they watched t r L, then we were watching t RL.
But there was like one TV in the living room
that we all shared, and I feel like that's why
I like, I didn't consistently watch anything like not just
like I'm like whatever they're watching. Oh, we're watching Sailer
Moon today. I mean there were times where I'll be like,
(20:32):
you're really just gonna watch Dragonball D and Seer Moon
for this many hours? Oh my god, car had that
whole section. I loved Sailor Moon. Yeah, Sailor Sailor Moon
was like a five am I gotta get ready for
It's the only thing on It was the main event.
I was forced into a whole bunch of Pokemon and
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Dragon Ball Z and Sailor Moon. I enjoyed it eventually
because I had no choice and I don't want to
read a book or I can go downstairs and use
their computer and play Carmen san Diego. I feel like
we touched this a little bit, but I do love
this question, Um, if you made one, what will we
find in your millennial time capsule? Definitely some of those
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bomb mass platform sandals of the Steve Madden ones. That's it. Wow, yes,
so think what their platform I mean, it's the first
thing that came to mind. I was like, I loved
those platforms. I felt so tall and cool. I was
just like, you can't tell me. Meanwhile, I was like,
can y' all chop off? I feel like those for
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me at least stemmed from Lizzie McGuire's fashion, like her
um capris with those platforms shoes like that look was
like the look that I wanted so bad. Yeah, and
so I would have in my time capsule. Remember when
everyone was wearing bandana BA shirt and then it had
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a shirt and a matching that little bee was looking
for the shirt though that triangles cute? I want it,
But the triangle one that used to wear in your head.
I used to wear those all the times, those little
that was like my version of the butterfly clips because
I couldn't put butter in my hair. I think I
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would add the Lord track suits as well, and a
DVD of the Simple Life. That was a phenomenal show.
And the way that it was a phenom to Yasmin's
point about those Juicy the Lord track suits, those always
gave me anxiety because juicy was on the booty and
I knew my booty wasn't juicy and juicy, and let
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me tell you it wasn't. It wasn't, but they were
they were pretty cute. I don't think I ever had
a pair with the words on the but that I
wore like in public. I had one pair of shorts
that said like cutie on the butt. But like, I
don't know, what's self cautious that like a problem that
would be like kids are like little boys, little black
boys are gonna look at my button and they're gonna
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feel like they have full access to it, because let
me tell you right now, it's problematic in middle school
grabbing booties, like coming over to girls and feeling like
you can just touch up on them. I don't know,
I know. I used to wear those little spiky ear
rings that were like gummy but they had spikes and
they had a bunch of colors and I think they
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like the punky kind of they were kind of punk rocks.
I was at Spencers, so like I would had like
this punk rocky I don't even know because it was like,
but also you want to wear Hollister, but you like
wear the ross Vergeon. Hollister made Hollister those little those
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little skirts with the three layers that were one inch something.
I hope that never comes back. And I know that
it is. Is low rise jeans. Oh they're back. I
know you told me about it like two years ago
and I was like, I'm going to ignore that to highways, highways,
(24:17):
I know. I was like, I just found highways the jeese,
but the low rise jeans with butt crack showing and
the thong and what um, yes, yes is another revolutionary moment.
Our introduction to Drake Jimmy Yes to the thongs. My
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friend and I had a song and it was like
no pocket on the book jeans, No pocket on the
book jeans. Do you remember those jeans with no pockets
on the butt that made people's but look like uh,
some sort of doughnut like they were just like not
flattering like Bongo brand, but they would just be like
really sexy low rise to accentuate your butt with the
(25:03):
center scene kind of cupping your butt um, and they
had no pockets you might wear it with a center
leather braidened belt. Oh. I did have a pair of
jeans with no pockets like that. I had an apple
bottom pair of apple jeans boots with the fur apple bottom.
It just was the apple cup and it just says
(25:23):
apple bottom on it. And I worked at a clothing
store in high school called Jimmy Jazz and as you
can Jimmy Jass in Demo Urban where Demo before spinning
full paychecks on apple bottom jeans and dry on and
dry on was later baby fat sad. I want our
(25:54):
bootleg or flare jeans. I'd never seen them anymore. They're
coming back right now. Yeah, I feel like those bell
bottoms are bad. I love bell bottoms. They were my jamute.
Were you guys ever into like the d C at
me BILLI bong of it all at that time. They're
like brands, but they're like skate or her brands, Like
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I was a pac Son girl. You could find all
of those things where it was my first job. Thank
you at each really remember Bolcom being a big thing
in the Beach commune in the same world, I mean,
Lahoya was definitely Hella, like uh, that sort of surfery vibe,
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but I never really fit into that. I didn't either,
but I still tried to participate. Like when I had
my Avril Levine and right exactly that whole phase. It
was like, yeah, I'm just in my fields and I
like shop at When Ashley Simpson show came out, she
(27:00):
had a reality show. She had this hairstyle that was
just like kind of messy but also really put together
and like it was in her face and my sister
did it one day and it was beautiful. It was
great her immediately, and then we were two black girls
at school with Ashley Simpson and Hair Cook. I really
would love to see photographs. I know there's this one
(27:25):
picture and it's like is it I don't know if
it's a black girl and she has like a nose
ring and she looks like she's a part of Green
Day and like like any of those punk rock bands,
and it was just like kids in two thousand and Yes, hey,
nobody told them to do this and everybody she just
(27:47):
had like so many feelings and the only way to
express them is through my music. Yeah, those Jelly wrist bands,
you guys, remember those thin single Jelly Live strong a sham.
Those bands. They really got us because they were putting
(28:07):
any in everything on those bands and we were like, yeah,
by a hundred of them. Student Council two thousand four.
Breast cancer, Yes, absolutely, what would Jesus do? Yes? Please?
That makes me think of the jelly shoes like Melissa's.
Is that where they were called were not see through? Shoot?
Why and people wear socks with them? Your socks aren't you?
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And you know your feet were just hot inside of room.
I feel like they like existed at Rainbow for a
long time before because I used to go to rain
Like who didn't go to Rainbow? But like Rainbow, Rainbow
was like my first Fashion Nova. Yeah, Rainbow is like
(28:52):
the original Fashion Nova. And like the prices were right,
they were so low, they were so low, they were
so low. It was like three six nine, except is
not the store was late. Did you guys ever have
they probably sold them at Rainbow, those like net shoes
that were like foam and they would come in every
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single color and know what you're talking about, Oh, the
flippery they were. Slippers, slippers were everything. They were always
at the hair store, always on the very front of
the hairstore, next to the lip busy still at the
hair store. They are very much. I had a bright
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orange pair and I had a bright orange fake designer
back that I would carry with, so I was looking
real cute. Also, seventh grade reminds me of Foo Boo.
It was the first time I had a Foo Boo
jacket and it was like the coolest guy in school
had the same jacket. And I remember when I got it,
people were like, Ashley, where do you like? I was
(29:55):
doing my come up moment. I was wearing it. It
was hot, it was May, and I'm like, no, so
got my football? Football was important? It was that era.
So were there any inventions that you guys predicted would
exist by now? Like I remember like seeing zenon Girl
(30:16):
in the twenty one century being like, oh, it's gonna
be so futuristic. It's something super girl natic, it's love
so nuntic. You're not knowing the word automatic, it's automatic
girl automatic. I mean, I don't know why we all
(30:39):
thought the future was going to be so metallic. All
the primary colors would go and it would just silver,
it would just be chrome um. But something that I
was very upset with when it arose was the selfie
stick because I was the original selfie stick. Literally all
your friends getting together for pictures. Who got the longest arm?
(31:00):
Ashley Ashley is taking a picture, and then when the
selfistic came out, I was just like, you're dummy. I
definitely thought that there would be camera phones and we
would see examples of them, like in Smart House or
like The Jets, and you know, like and even Fresh Prince,
like they had an episode where it was in the
future when baby Nikki was born, and like when life
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would be like when he was older and they had
like a TV in the wall that you were talking
to someone. Little did we know that TV would be
your phone, right, that's how we would be video chatting
with people. I was sure we'd have flying cars by now, right,
hovers at least like individually what those bird things are,
(31:43):
but flying, yeah, they got him. We just don't can't
afford it, I'm sure. And his baby yeah, but mommy,
and you're mentioning Smart House made me think of all
the things that Smart House did get right. Um, the
automatically appearing food when you ask for it. It's like
(32:04):
that's Postmates exactly. It appears, just not in the form
that we thought it would wait, Okay, so are there
any predictions for the next millennium, Like, what do you
think it's gonna be? Like, I think we're gonna have
the option to live on a different planet if you
(32:26):
have enough money. It ain't gonna be for the common Yeah,
I can see that. Um. I'm hoping we saved this planet. Um.
Otherwise it's gonna be I don't know. It's gonna be
rough out here. I think that's water. Like when I'm
in Ghana, I feel like I see how commodities like
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power and water. In a few years, that's how it's
going to be here. Like it's gonna be way more
expensive to like have your power on all day long,
and like people will be watching more like what's plugged
in and stuff because the price of oil is going
up and everything like, and that's not going to be
pretty wet. It's like your government sanctioned water for the week. Yeah,
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it's crazy as you're talking about that, because I watched
this documentary they were talking about water and power in
other countries and how everyone tries to emulate what America
does and what we do is not efficient for any
other country because there's way too many of them. And
just in like getting into tiny homes and sustainability. I'm like, oh,
it's like it's as simple as like a composting toilet.
(33:35):
But now that they're so far gone with like throwing
trash and they but I do feel like other places
are don't. Like um and that zac Efron documentary. I've
really loved how they were doing it in Iceland, like
everything they even boil, like eggs and food in the soil.
(33:55):
They were baking bread in the soil where it's like
lava level hot. Like there you using the resources on
the land, And I hope that it spreads to I
know it's spreading to other countries, but I hope it
eventually gets to the USA, especially with solar power and
how it's so accessible now, Like maybe ten years ago
people were like in twenty years everything will be solar.
(34:18):
But it feels like it should be moving faster than that.
I think the issue with solars like it's hard to
harness it. Like we can gather all of the solar power,
but we don't have the batteries big enough to store
all that. So that's the issue. I just watched that
(34:40):
we made a survivalist like like just like us learning
from you how to survive the comic. I feel like
Octavia Butler did predict a whole bunch um. She totally did,
especially the aspect of the erasure of black women. But
that's a whole another well. I was like, my hope
(35:02):
for the new um is that we have defunded the
police and black people are still alive and thriving, And
you know, I hope that what we do now makes
a difference at some point in the future and right now.
But I'm like, hopefully we ain't still battling these same
things that we've been fighting the dawn of time, you
(35:24):
know what I mean. But okay, millennium Lightning round. Are
you guys ready for this? Yeah? Okay, all right? Number
one jagged out a pretty ricky go pretty? Are you kidding?
It's five? It's a great song, guys. But let's get
married as a classic? Yeah, jacket Edge got classics, pretty
(35:47):
ricky guy, pretty dirty. Well, look, I ain't need to
move the funk right now. So I said, all right,
I didn't even know what fucking was when I was
listening to not at all. Well, I learned it in
all of Okay, y'all's the hard one in Bay Boys
(36:10):
and sat Boys. Oh it's in sync. Oh the way
is all I have to give from the boy bands,
but overall in sync like back to Boys, you got that.
I remember learning the choreography to Bye Bye Bye with
my cousin and I'll get around and it was amazing.
And also Batchery just doesn't have a justin timber Lake.
(36:32):
You know, I think people will trash right now. They
just they just didn't They didn't have both both very
great band. Well, okay, this one might be a little
bit harder. Brittany or Christina. That's a Christina for me.
What Brittany had the bangers, Christina got the voice. We
can have them both, right, But I will say that
(36:53):
I Brittany, stop more hits. I'm wearing my Brittany shirt
right now, so y'all know where I'm staying. Were a
shirt that says, if Brittany could survive two thousand seven,
you can survive today, you can through it. I just
feel like Christina was a vocalist. She was ye is
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And that was like my first concert ever at the
Minnesota State Fair. I was crying and my mom is
so annoyed because so overwhelmed. Yes, do you know what,
you'd be with your friends and be like, oh my god,
like I'm gonna die, Chris, I'm dying because I feel
like if there was ever footage like from that era,
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like whenever I see those concerts with their little girls
crying and you're like, like, I can imagine you there, mommy,
and like one of the only black girls, just like
I'm not happy with me. That's openly weeping. Okay, what
about Napster or lime Wire? Napster, I'm wire Master. Really,
(38:02):
I'm a Kaza because I was the big one. Actually,
we have taken me back. It should have been Kauza
or lime Wire. Actually, you're lime Wire was definitely my
jam so short lived because and remember they would be like,
you have over one million dollars of stolen music on
(38:22):
your being, like we'll arrest you for stolen music. I
did not care. Love Wire, just let you steal it.
And then they just gave your answer virus. I'm like,
I got all the music, but I definitely destroyed our computer, right,
I don't know what happened. Mom. I would we would
always be downloading all kinds of That's hilarious. Oh man, guys,
(38:47):
this is so fun. We have to go back, and
I think we do. I think someone needs some advice
from us, So I think we got to help someone
out in this era duty calls. But first we're gonna
take a quick break. Welcome back, Welcome back, A secular
(39:19):
listener summing by I want to mommy what you got
for us? Today's letter reads, Dear O d my home girls, Slash,
the only person I hang out with now because of
this pandemic, has a major problem and I don't know
how to properly address it. She got masked breath, y'all.
(39:42):
Her breath be smelling like a dragon's ass when she
take that mask. These people be clowning. You know they're
friends before COVID. I never smelled her breath, at least
I don't remember it's smelling so dang. It's something about
her breath hibernating in that man's hibernating is unbearable. Um.
(40:10):
I try to keep my six feet, but she is
my core buddy. How do I tell her that her
breath is constantly hotter than the block without hurting her feelings? How?
Friend of the dragon, Friend of the dragon. Why is
the first thing that comes to my mind? Unleased? The
(40:30):
dragon from the Cisco Thong song album. Maybe you should
get her some like breath strips or some gum. It's
temporary fits. You could just carry less sine and offer it,
you know, like you who is out here offering jugs
(40:52):
of listerine A curious Okay, I'm sorry to poopoo you suggestions,
but I think it's the same thing as a breast
strip because Let's makes breads strips, so there you can
just create the liquid with your own saliva um and
they're much stronger, I think too. So that hit hit
it in the back of the throat hopefull. But what
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if she is like, no, I don't want it, because
that is let me tell you. I had a friend
in high school who I was trying to give her
a gum, and every time I would ask her, would
you like some gum? She would say no. And let
me tell you, I don't offer you dumb unless you
need it. So that is something for every listener to
take in. If someone offers you gum, please politely taking
or ask because sometimes my stomach hurts if I chew
(41:37):
too much. Come so I would be like, wait, is
my breast stank offering? And tell them the truth because
sometimes they'll be like, oh, it's no, it's not trying
to be polite. No, it's a little at a little
stank um. Friend of the dragon, I feel like the
biggest piece of advice I can give you is to
maybe lead with less jokes, because clearly got your friend's
(42:00):
breath is hibernating. I've never heard that. It's larious block right,
I'm like a friend of a dragon. Please pursue a
career in comedy, you know, but you know, be thoughtful
when you tell your girl that her breastinks, because nobody
likes to be told that something is wrong with them
(42:21):
or something is offending anyone else, So handle with care.
But it's nothing wrong with telling your friend the breastink.
You should be able to tell your girl, and she
should appreciate the tip, because I mean, people have different
sensitivities of their ego and whatever. But a good friend
would tell you something like that and not be coming
(42:42):
at you crazy. So I hope she can receive that
through the filter of this is care, not trying to
save my own Yeah, not care, not clown. She could
have halitosis too, that is a thing. Oh, y'all. I
just learned about, Like I've known about scraping your tongue,
(43:02):
but like, and I have an actual tool for it now. Yeah,
I just got one too. Sounds like a friend of
the dragon, you know. Just come at your girl with
care over clowning number one. Um, maybe get her this
tongue scraper. Nobody wants to smell stanky brand. I don't
really human when you're unleashed the dragon. We hope that
(43:27):
helped and it helps you through your new year. We
so appreciate y'all tune in and please remember to share
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at ice letters there. Yeah, we can't wait to see
you guys in the new year. It's been a wild
ride and uh, we'll kick you with you in the future. Defeated. Whoa,
(44:20):
it's so bright here, all right, y'all, We'll see you
next year. Bye Bye You Down is a production of
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Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you listen to your
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Welcome to You Down, a production of Shonda land Audio
and partnership with I Heart Radio. That terror of them
being like, will arrest you stolen music? I did not
care lot Wire just let you steal it, and then
they just gave your answer virus. I'm like, I got
all the music, but I definitely destroyed our computer, right.
I don't know what happened, mom? What's going on? Everybody? Everybody? Yeah,
(00:34):
welcome back to You Down, a podcast where for funny
honeys come together to talk about what's going on in
the culture. I'm Yasmin, when I Watkins, I'm Ashley Holston,
I'm Shakira, and I'm MOMMYA afora. But collectively we are
known as Obama's the other Daughter. We could all use
(00:59):
a break from the chaos up today. So on this
episode of You Down, we're going back in time to
the era of bubble gum pop and asking are you
down with the millennium? From Tomagotchis to Brittany and Christina
to the craziness that was y two K. We want
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to take a walk down memory lane and share some
of our favorite moments from the ninety nine of the
two thousands, but before we party, like it's a group
checked in. What are you guys loving and what are
you hating this week? You know what I'm hating, y'all
the pressure of New Year's resolutions. Last year was the
(01:42):
first year that I actually cut resolutions. But um, this year,
you know, with the pandemic and everything, really there's been
some stagnation and now I feel like I gotta pick
up and do some overtime for these resolutions. For It's
that's a lot of pressures here. I know, it's about
pressure feeling myself. I mean, I get that I do.
(02:05):
What's the one that you stuck with to make Traveler probably?
Oh no, that was that was two thousand nineteen. When
I do this year, y'all? O my bus. I finally
got my bus to create a tiny home. So I
did just really huge. So like, don't minimize Yeah, no,
it's not I'm not trying to minimize it. But guys,
I didn't like I didn't sell my script. I'm not
a superstar. Um, I don't have a million dollars in
(02:27):
the bank. That was my not yet and I feel
like you really made some inroads into making that happen
this year. So don't play yourself short girl. No I'm
not playing you know this is for comedic effect, y'all,
but really sorry and right you are worthy. We had
some of the same goals, ash I think we were like,
(02:50):
we're gonna make a million dollars a year. Me looking
at my bank account, like, well, well, you know what
the stars did? You shoot for the moon? You land
among the stars a little more money than I did
last year. So that I really love the idea though,
of like, even if your resolutions don't come true in
that exact timeframe, to be like, this is what I
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want for my life, and to really hone in on
that thing, and then to actively make steps towards making
that thing happen, which you really did this year, Ashley, Like, yeah,
I'm not shipping. You know how you put a picture
of yourself up and you're like, man, I gain a
little weight. I'm like, I'm a fitness journey, and then
everyone tells you how beautiful you are and how you
don't need to do anything. That's that's ok. Mother, you
(03:38):
were us. Um, it's been a great year. But I
guess I'm going to say something. I mean, I'm not
hating this that much, like safety first, of course, but
in my mind for the New Year, like a resolution
I made for myself is that I'm going to be
celebrating and somewhere warm every New Year. And with cob It,
(04:01):
well I might just be so we're not that worm
and listen, just step. It's going to be more than
most of the kind I know. But you know it's
not Bally. I actually see you know my heart. You
know my heart and you know where I'm at. And
in my mind I literally have been like Bali next year.
I think we were in Thightland and I was like,
(04:21):
I'm gonna be in Bally, like like focus on where
your at, enjoy the moment. No Bally. And then nope,
I'm not going to be in Bali because they are
very close. I even looked on the website like, well,
what's the restriction, like I can take a test, maybe
I'll do fourteen days in quarantine. Was like, we don't
want you. They're like even with a fourteen day quarantine,
(04:47):
let's get a passport and I can marry me a
Balin meets me. That is so extreme. Just to do
New Years on the beach a whole after barage, that's
setting a goal thank you, Thank you. Madness is setting
a goal and sticking to it, thank you for the support.
So that's that's sort of where I'm at, Like, dang, y'all,
(05:09):
it was a good year, though. I love that you
two times you were like it was a good year,
and I just think about how many people are gonna
be like, oh, what was it? I mean it was
you Actually, no, it was a rocky year overall for
the world. Yeah, you don't. You know, we talked about this,
reconciling with the fact that, you know, during this pandemic
(05:29):
we got this podcast, and so it has been conflictingly
for me, a good personal year, but so much ship
going around outside of it. It's just like, am I
supposed to feel good? Yeah? Not wanting to be like
this was the best year in our career. However, I mean,
has Obama's other daughters it really so thank you God,
(05:56):
thank you God, verse we appreciated. Yeah, I feel like
this end of the year is the first year that
I'm like, oh my girl, let's keep going, you know,
Like it's not like that. That's what my subconscious was
saying probably every year in l a prior um. But
I just feel like I set some goals. I got
(06:19):
my first real writing job, Like this year was although
the world was quite literally on fighter, it kind of
still is. Um I am. I'm optimistic that as we
progress with this new administration and the way that feeling,
like how it feels to live in America is going
to change in this next year. So I'm really excited
(06:42):
for that. That's what you love, what you hate. Well,
as we round out the end of this love hate,
I think is certainly reflection of all of the things
that I love and all of the things that I hate,
because it has been, like you were saying, this whirlwind
successful last year for o D. Like we're coming up personally,
(07:04):
like there's just so much to celebrate, and I really
feel like I've been on this roller coaster of like
really high highs of like oh my god, wildest dreams
come true ship and then also god damn, this must
be the eighth circle of hell. Like O D knows this,
But I was caring for my father really from the
(07:28):
summer when we got this podcast and started recording up
until his recent passing. And I'm not gonna lie, this
was one of the hardest years to both witness black
death on a loop, the way that black folks are
impacted by it, and particularly state sanctioned violence, and then
(07:48):
you know, to witness black death on a very personal,
very personal level. I'm not gonna lie. This year it
was harder ship and I'm still on girl, It's okay.
It's just like I've had so much anxiety, just like
I'm really looking forward to a second of a break
to just process everything because um oh damn, we were
(08:14):
going to keep this light in fun. You gotta feel
what you gotta feel, y keep it. I feel like
I'm skinning into the finish line of this year. Guys,
let's just go on and make it over to see
what happens there. It's just yonder. I see it, I
(08:37):
see it, reaching out for it. Let's run together into
the sunset, all of us in our different journeys and
our journey together. This year has been a crazy year,
but I mean, I'm grateful that we're all still here
and we're still going forward like an optimistic for next year.
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And I feel like it's fitting that we're going into
new year, new beginnings because this topic this week is
the millennium, which is exactly twenty years ago. Because technically
the millennium was two thousand and one, which I didn't know.
I thought it was two thousand. What comes to mind
is is hear and unlick it? Remember when Will Smith,
(09:20):
why do We Love You So much? Wilson come on
the show reference you, but literally had that song about
the millennium. You mean the Willennium, Thank you for the
correct one, the will llennium um And we're twenty years later.
(09:40):
Crazy that happened. Quick, Lord Jesus. But before we get
into that, let's take a quick break. Welcome back, y'all.
(10:01):
It's how I'm to walk down memory lane. So let's
get to it. Okay, where were y'all at during the Millennium? Okay?
So um, I was just made aware that the millennium
is considered two thousand one, But do you guys consider it? Yeah,
(10:22):
so like we're just gonna disregard sciences. Yeah, we know
what it is. So going into two thousand, I was
in seventh grade because I can literally remember Charmaine Wiggins
Millennium shirts like it was a big deal to be
sparkly and silver. I was in fifth grade and on
(10:48):
the eve of the Millennium, my neighbor had a party
and I'm like, that's really crazy that nobody was concerned
enough to be like, well, what do we do if
this go was down? Because I feel like they would
have found us and we would look like the Heaven's Gate.
People like you welcomed it, right, But yeah, I was scared,
(11:09):
but my parents weren't, so I wasn't going to go
to the store. I feel like you have to clarify
what you're talking about because some people don't know what
why K is. Oh yeah, I was in a writing
class and I mentioned why t K and these girls
were like, what is that? Like a music group? Oh?
Why was this phenomenon? In? Like that? UM scientists and
(11:35):
technologists believed that when the clock struck midnight on January one,
two thousand, everything would stop working because computers would not
be able to recalibrate and keep counting past nine. So
people were freaking out. This sounds like the craziest plot
(11:56):
to a movie, Like we would not write this movie,
we would not go to see this movie. No, it's
just you with a bunch of pancorn and your grandma's face.
But I heard that it actually like the one person
that Y two K really impacted, there was a guy
who got charged dollars for renting the general's daughter. Like
(12:19):
there was like something wait what he rented a movie,
but the system did something where it was like your
movie is like a hundred years overdue. I mentioned they
gave him a hard time too. I met. They were like, well,
the computer says, it's our policy. Man, I can't reverse
(12:42):
the charge, right. But I remember the days of like
Blockbuster and like going with my dad and like we'd
pick out like the movies we're gonna watch. Um. I
was in middle school at the time, wearing chokers every day.
Uh happened with two ponytails on the side of my head.
(13:04):
Oh man, man, I wasn't in a into chokers, but
I did the butterfly clips. Actually, lusy, my hair never
looked right, but I bought them. Mom didn't look righty
that I'm just ply them right up. I was in
fourth grade and Karen was in the womb. I you
(13:25):
just started making your own snacks, Lucky. I started cooking
stove and like first grade, so what yeah, prodigy over here? Really,
I mean just like my mom is a sickle mom.
She was at work. If we want to eat and
I want the food to be hot. I better know
how to make some dad on eggs on my own.
(13:47):
Otherwise I just learned how to heat up something in
the microwa yesterday. Go hey, yeah, breag about it. He
had to cook put your so But no. I remember
my mom's friend, Miss Tina. I think she had a party.
She was dating a man named Tyrone and called her
(14:10):
own had been out already for a little bit, but
like they were like, we're gonna go into the New
Year's singing calls ron Erica and it was creepy. And
I think I had like a sip of champagne and
I was like, I get to drink It was probably
apple cider. Were you aware of what hit UK was like?
(14:30):
Were you nervous? I remember I was nervous because people
were nervous, but like I wasn't best heared like my
mom didn't really believe that the world was about to end.
I didn't think about it then because I don't remember
my parents being crazy about it, or anyone like any
adults around me really being crazy. I think I learned
from the media that it was like an issue. But
(14:52):
looking back on it, I realized that all my extended family,
like my father's um, sister, and brother. We all got
together in Myrtle Beach for that New Year's ninety years
and on a family zoom recently, the younger kids were like,
were we, you know, trying to prepare for something. Were
you all scared? And my family was like, yeah, we
were shook. If we were going to die, we're gonna
die together. But I remember that being really fun New
(15:16):
Year's even, Yeah, it was great. I feel like that
was still around the time. My mom was at UCSD
when we were growing up and my dad was still
here in l A. So we were always back and
forth and I think it was my dad's weekend for
that New Year, and I feel like we were trust
in church, tearing for the Holy Ghost. That's where we
(15:37):
normally were. I know, we used to go to church
for her for New Year's all the time, and that
was because it's just like, it's already late, I'm tired,
and I don't want to be preached at midnight. I
really don't like falling asleep. Well, if if the year
turns and we die, at least at the House of
(15:58):
the Lord, that's my dad logic to this day. But
the past couple of years we've been like, let's actually
pop bottles in the house, and yeah, I would much
rather be in the house on New Year's than out
at church. Um. But most of them, when I would go,
I would fall asleep and it wouldn't be a big deal.
And then we go home around one in the morning,
(16:20):
just feeling groggy and like why were we here? Why
be sleeping? Are there anythings from that era that you
guys miss, like, or what do you miss the most?
I guess I'd say my tamagotchi and or my nano
pet or polly pocket pollypockets, like a little things you
(16:45):
can put in your pocket, something about the fun of
Like I just I remember I really really wanted a
nano pet, like all my friends had one, and you know,
single mom as well. I couldn't really get like I
And I remember one of my friends drew me a
nano pet on a cardboard box and was like, here
you go anyway, sweet gesture everyone, A little poor girl
(17:11):
couldn't have that. I would have been it is such
a sweet gesture, but I would have been so livid,
like me, this little thing, I can't even really play
while they play with their right you take this call one,
give me yours. I really loved there was a trend
where you could see through electronics and then they were
(17:33):
like Neon colors in the back, so like the Max
were the big thing. But I never had an Apple computer,
but I had a CD player. When I tell you
how the CD player was bombed, it was like see
through on the front, but then the back was like
an opaque Neon blue. And I took that jang with
me everywhere. My sister had a lime green one. I
love that little CD player. The thing I missed the
(17:55):
most is probably the combination of Rap City, the Basement,
One of six in Park and R because the music
was great. The music was amazing, and it's literally like
the black culture starter pack, or that's what it was
for me. Yeah, one or six and Park t R. Oh,
(18:18):
those two specifically, I just remember them being so much
a part of after school culture, like you're running home
to see and I think middle school was a time
where you caught the middle of TRL, so you didn't
get to be home enough for the start of it
to be like running from the bus like I got
to see what the top um. Yeah, I loved it.
(18:38):
Carson Dalely, I wanted to be a VJE that was
like the coolest thing that you could be at the time,
Like an mt D VJ that was just like like
you go, you get your dose of what you need
to know to talk about it in the lunch room
or whatever to do, and then go on your Mary way. Yeah.
(19:00):
I love the music of their I mean my first
CD was Britney Spears and Brandy. I think I told
you guys, and then now that's what I call music.
Was like, my damn Yeah, we used to My mom
started dating this guy and we would go to Costco
and his gift to me would be the new nown
CD and I would just CDs in the cart like
thanks Mr Mark Mark Right, it was so amazing. I
(19:27):
also just remember it kind of being the dawn of
reality television and I was so into the Osbourne's. Oh
and I loved Kelly Osbourne. I still love Kelly Osborne.
But I don't know what it was about seeing like
this very weird family for in the real world. Yeah,
(19:48):
they were like a tether for Run's house, would you say,
Like that was like what all the white people get
to see a really wealthy black family that functions and
then the rest of us get to see British people
who are not prim and propa. I feel like all
of my consumption was based off of my cousins because
(20:11):
after school I would go to their house and if
they watched t r L, then we were watching t RL.
But there was like one TV in the living room
that we all shared, and I feel like that's why
I like, I didn't consistently watch anything like not just
like I'm like whatever they're watching. Oh, we're watching Sailer
Moon today. I mean there were times where I'll be like,
(20:32):
you're really just gonna watch Dragonball D and Seer Moon
for this many hours? Oh my god, car had that
whole section. I loved Sailor Moon. Yeah, Sailor Sailor Moon
was like a five am I gotta get ready for
It's the only thing on It was the main event.
I was forced into a whole bunch of Pokemon and
(20:57):
Dragon Ball Z and Sailor Moon. I enjoyed it eventually
because I had no choice and I don't want to
read a book or I can go downstairs and use
their computer and play Carmen san Diego. I feel like
we touched this a little bit, but I do love
this question, Um, if you made one, what will we
find in your millennial time capsule? Definitely some of those
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bomb mass platform sandals of the Steve Madden ones. That's it. Wow, yes,
so think what their platform I mean, it's the first
thing that came to mind. I was like, I loved
those platforms. I felt so tall and cool. I was
just like, you can't tell me. Meanwhile, I was like,
can y' all chop off? I feel like those for
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me at least stemmed from Lizzie McGuire's fashion, like her
um capris with those platforms shoes like that look was
like the look that I wanted so bad. Yeah, and
so I would have in my time capsule. Remember when
everyone was wearing bandana BA shirt and then it had
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a shirt and a matching that little bee was looking
for the shirt though that triangles cute? I want it,
But the triangle one that used to wear in your head.
I used to wear those all the times, those little
that was like my version of the butterfly clips because
I couldn't put butter in my hair. I think I
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would add the Lord track suits as well, and a
DVD of the Simple Life. That was a phenomenal show.
And the way that it was a phenom to Yasmin's
point about those Juicy the Lord track suits, those always
gave me anxiety because juicy was on the booty and
I knew my booty wasn't juicy and juicy, and let
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me tell you it wasn't. It wasn't, but they were
they were pretty cute. I don't think I ever had
a pair with the words on the but that I
wore like in public. I had one pair of shorts
that said like cutie on the butt. But like, I
don't know, what's self cautious that like a problem that
would be like kids are like little boys, little black
boys are gonna look at my button and they're gonna
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feel like they have full access to it, because let
me tell you right now, it's problematic in middle school
grabbing booties, like coming over to girls and feeling like
you can just touch up on them. I don't know,
I know. I used to wear those little spiky ear
rings that were like gummy but they had spikes and
they had a bunch of colors and I think they
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like the punky kind of they were kind of punk rocks.
I was at Spencers, so like I would had like
this punk rocky I don't even know because it was like,
but also you want to wear Hollister, but you like
wear the ross Vergeon. Hollister made Hollister those little those
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little skirts with the three layers that were one inch something.
I hope that never comes back. And I know that
it is. Is low rise jeans. Oh they're back. I
know you told me about it like two years ago
and I was like, I'm going to ignore that to highways, highways,
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I know. I was like, I just found highways the jeese,
but the low rise jeans with butt crack showing and
the thong and what um, yes, yes is another revolutionary moment.
Our introduction to Drake Jimmy Yes to the thongs. My
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friend and I had a song and it was like
no pocket on the book jeans, No pocket on the
book jeans. Do you remember those jeans with no pockets
on the butt that made people's but look like uh,
some sort of doughnut like they were just like not
flattering like Bongo brand, but they would just be like
really sexy low rise to accentuate your butt with the
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center scene kind of cupping your butt um, and they
had no pockets you might wear it with a center
leather braidened belt. Oh. I did have a pair of
jeans with no pockets like that. I had an apple
bottom pair of apple jeans boots with the fur apple bottom.
It just was the apple cup and it just says
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apple bottom on it. And I worked at a clothing
store in high school called Jimmy Jazz and as you
can Jimmy Jass in Demo Urban where Demo before spinning
full paychecks on apple bottom jeans and dry on and
dry on was later baby fat sad. I want our
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bootleg or flare jeans. I'd never seen them anymore. They're
coming back right now. Yeah, I feel like those bell
bottoms are bad. I love bell bottoms. They were my jamute.
Were you guys ever into like the d C at
me BILLI bong of it all at that time. They're
like brands, but they're like skate or her brands, Like
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I was a pac Son girl. You could find all
of those things where it was my first job. Thank
you at each really remember Bolcom being a big thing
in the Beach commune in the same world, I mean,
Lahoya was definitely Hella, like uh, that sort of surfery vibe,
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but I never really fit into that. I didn't either,
but I still tried to participate. Like when I had
my Avril Levine and right exactly that whole phase. It
was like, yeah, I'm just in my fields and I
like shop at When Ashley Simpson show came out, she
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had a reality show. She had this hairstyle that was
just like kind of messy but also really put together
and like it was in her face and my sister
did it one day and it was beautiful. It was
great her immediately, and then we were two black girls
at school with Ashley Simpson and Hair Cook. I really
would love to see photographs. I know there's this one
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picture and it's like is it I don't know if
it's a black girl and she has like a nose
ring and she looks like she's a part of Green
Day and like like any of those punk rock bands,
and it was just like kids in two thousand and Yes, hey,
nobody told them to do this and everybody she just
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had like so many feelings and the only way to
express them is through my music. Yeah, those Jelly wrist bands,
you guys, remember those thin single Jelly Live strong a sham.
Those bands. They really got us because they were putting
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any in everything on those bands and we were like, yeah,
by a hundred of them. Student Council two thousand four.
Breast cancer, Yes, absolutely, what would Jesus do? Yes? Please?
That makes me think of the jelly shoes like Melissa's.
Is that where they were called were not see through? Shoot?
Why and people wear socks with them? Your socks aren't you?
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And you know your feet were just hot inside of room.
I feel like they like existed at Rainbow for a
long time before because I used to go to rain
Like who didn't go to Rainbow? But like Rainbow, Rainbow
was like my first Fashion Nova. Yeah, Rainbow is like
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the original Fashion Nova. And like the prices were right,
they were so low, they were so low, they were
so low. It was like three six nine, except is
not the store was late. Did you guys ever have
they probably sold them at Rainbow, those like net shoes
that were like foam and they would come in every
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single color and know what you're talking about, Oh, the
flippery they were. Slippers, slippers were everything. They were always
at the hair store, always on the very front of
the hairstore, next to the lip busy still at the
hair store. They are very much. I had a bright
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orange pair and I had a bright orange fake designer
back that I would carry with, so I was looking
real cute. Also, seventh grade reminds me of Foo Boo.
It was the first time I had a Foo Boo
jacket and it was like the coolest guy in school
had the same jacket. And I remember when I got it,
people were like, Ashley, where do you like? I was
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doing my come up moment. I was wearing it. It
was hot, it was May, and I'm like, no, so
got my football? Football was important? It was that era.
So were there any inventions that you guys predicted would
exist by now? Like I remember like seeing zenon Girl
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in the twenty one century being like, oh, it's gonna
be so futuristic. It's something super girl natic, it's love
so nuntic. You're not knowing the word automatic, it's automatic
girl automatic. I mean, I don't know why we all
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thought the future was going to be so metallic. All
the primary colors would go and it would just silver,
it would just be chrome um. But something that I
was very upset with when it arose was the selfie
stick because I was the original selfie stick. Literally all
your friends getting together for pictures. Who got the longest arm?
(31:00):
Ashley Ashley is taking a picture, and then when the
selfistic came out, I was just like, you're dummy. I
definitely thought that there would be camera phones and we
would see examples of them, like in Smart House or
like The Jets, and you know, like and even Fresh Prince,
like they had an episode where it was in the
future when baby Nikki was born, and like when life
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would be like when he was older and they had
like a TV in the wall that you were talking
to someone. Little did we know that TV would be
your phone, right, that's how we would be video chatting
with people. I was sure we'd have flying cars by now, right,
hovers at least like individually what those bird things are,
(31:43):
but flying, yeah, they got him. We just don't can't
afford it, I'm sure. And his baby yeah, but mommy,
and you're mentioning Smart House made me think of all
the things that Smart House did get right. Um, the
automatically appearing food when you ask for it. It's like
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that's Postmates exactly. It appears, just not in the form
that we thought it would wait, Okay, so are there
any predictions for the next millennium, Like, what do you
think it's gonna be? Like, I think we're gonna have
the option to live on a different planet if you
(32:26):
have enough money. It ain't gonna be for the common Yeah,
I can see that. Um. I'm hoping we saved this planet. Um.
Otherwise it's gonna be I don't know. It's gonna be
rough out here. I think that's water. Like when I'm
in Ghana, I feel like I see how commodities like
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power and water. In a few years, that's how it's
going to be here. Like it's gonna be way more
expensive to like have your power on all day long,
and like people will be watching more like what's plugged
in and stuff because the price of oil is going
up and everything like, and that's not going to be
pretty wet. It's like your government sanctioned water for the week. Yeah,
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it's crazy as you're talking about that, because I watched
this documentary they were talking about water and power in
other countries and how everyone tries to emulate what America
does and what we do is not efficient for any
other country because there's way too many of them. And
just in like getting into tiny homes and sustainability. I'm like, oh,
it's like it's as simple as like a composting toilet.
(33:35):
But now that they're so far gone with like throwing
trash and they but I do feel like other places
are don't. Like um and that zac Efron documentary. I've
really loved how they were doing it in Iceland, like
everything they even boil, like eggs and food in the soil.
(33:55):
They were baking bread in the soil where it's like
lava level hot. Like there you using the resources on
the land, And I hope that it spreads to I
know it's spreading to other countries, but I hope it
eventually gets to the USA, especially with solar power and
how it's so accessible now, Like maybe ten years ago
people were like in twenty years everything will be solar.
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But it feels like it should be moving faster than that.
I think the issue with solars like it's hard to
harness it. Like we can gather all of the solar power,
but we don't have the batteries big enough to store
all that. So that's the issue. I just watched that
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we made a survivalist like like just like us learning
from you how to survive the comic. I feel like
Octavia Butler did predict a whole bunch um. She totally did,
especially the aspect of the erasure of black women. But
that's a whole another well. I was like, my hope
(35:02):
for the new um is that we have defunded the
police and black people are still alive and thriving, And
you know, I hope that what we do now makes
a difference at some point in the future and right now.
But I'm like, hopefully we ain't still battling these same
things that we've been fighting the dawn of time, you
(35:24):
know what I mean. But okay, millennium Lightning round. Are
you guys ready for this? Yeah? Okay, all right? Number
one jagged out a pretty ricky go pretty? Are you kidding?
It's five? It's a great song, guys. But let's get
married as a classic? Yeah, jacket Edge got classics, pretty
(35:47):
ricky guy, pretty dirty. Well, look, I ain't need to
move the funk right now. So I said, all right,
I didn't even know what fucking was when I was
listening to not at all. Well, I learned it in
all of Okay, y'all's the hard one in Bay Boys
(36:10):
and sat Boys. Oh it's in sync. Oh the way
is all I have to give from the boy bands,
but overall in sync like back to Boys, you got that.
I remember learning the choreography to Bye Bye Bye with
my cousin and I'll get around and it was amazing.
And also Batchery just doesn't have a justin timber Lake.
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You know, I think people will trash right now. They
just they just didn't They didn't have both both very
great band. Well, okay, this one might be a little
bit harder. Brittany or Christina. That's a Christina for me.
What Brittany had the bangers, Christina got the voice. We
can have them both, right, But I will say that
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I Brittany, stop more hits. I'm wearing my Brittany shirt
right now, so y'all know where I'm staying. Were a
shirt that says, if Brittany could survive two thousand seven,
you can survive today, you can through it. I just
feel like Christina was a vocalist. She was ye is
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And that was like my first concert ever at the
Minnesota State Fair. I was crying and my mom is
so annoyed because so overwhelmed. Yes, do you know what,
you'd be with your friends and be like, oh my god,
like I'm gonna die, Chris, I'm dying because I feel
like if there was ever footage like from that era,
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like whenever I see those concerts with their little girls
crying and you're like, like, I can imagine you there, mommy,
and like one of the only black girls, just like
I'm not happy with me. That's openly weeping. Okay, what
about Napster or lime Wire? Napster, I'm wire Master. Really,
(38:02):
I'm a Kaza because I was the big one. Actually,
we have taken me back. It should have been Kauza
or lime Wire. Actually, you're lime Wire was definitely my
jam so short lived because and remember they would be like,
you have over one million dollars of stolen music on
(38:22):
your being, like we'll arrest you for stolen music. I
did not care. Love Wire, just let you steal it.
And then they just gave your answer virus. I'm like,
I got all the music, but I definitely destroyed our computer, right,
I don't know what happened. Mom. I would we would
always be downloading all kinds of That's hilarious. Oh man, guys,
(38:47):
this is so fun. We have to go back, and
I think we do. I think someone needs some advice
from us, So I think we got to help someone
out in this era duty calls. But first we're gonna
take a quick break. Welcome back, Welcome back, A secular
(39:19):
listener summing by I want to mommy what you got
for us? Today's letter reads, Dear O d my home girls, Slash,
the only person I hang out with now because of
this pandemic, has a major problem and I don't know
how to properly address it. She got masked breath, y'all.
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Her breath be smelling like a dragon's ass when she
take that mask. These people be clowning. You know they're
friends before COVID. I never smelled her breath, at least
I don't remember it's smelling so dang. It's something about
her breath hibernating in that man's hibernating is unbearable. Um.
(40:10):
I try to keep my six feet, but she is
my core buddy. How do I tell her that her
breath is constantly hotter than the block without hurting her feelings? How?
Friend of the dragon, Friend of the dragon. Why is
the first thing that comes to my mind? Unleased? The
(40:30):
dragon from the Cisco Thong song album. Maybe you should
get her some like breath strips or some gum. It's
temporary fits. You could just carry less sine and offer it,
you know, like you who is out here offering jugs
(40:52):
of listerine A curious Okay, I'm sorry to poopoo you suggestions,
but I think it's the same thing as a breast
strip because Let's makes breads strips, so there you can
just create the liquid with your own saliva um and
they're much stronger, I think too. So that hit hit
it in the back of the throat hopefull. But what
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if she is like, no, I don't want it, because
that is let me tell you. I had a friend
in high school who I was trying to give her
a gum, and every time I would ask her, would
you like some gum? She would say no. And let
me tell you, I don't offer you dumb unless you
need it. So that is something for every listener to
take in. If someone offers you gum, please politely taking
or ask because sometimes my stomach hurts if I chew
(41:37):
too much. Come so I would be like, wait, is
my breast stank offering? And tell them the truth because
sometimes they'll be like, oh, it's no, it's not trying
to be polite. No, it's a little at a little
stank um. Friend of the dragon, I feel like the
biggest piece of advice I can give you is to
maybe lead with less jokes, because clearly got your friend's
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breath is hibernating. I've never heard that. It's larious block right,
I'm like a friend of a dragon. Please pursue a
career in comedy, you know, but you know, be thoughtful
when you tell your girl that her breastinks, because nobody
likes to be told that something is wrong with them
(42:21):
or something is offending anyone else, So handle with care.
But it's nothing wrong with telling your friend the breastink.
You should be able to tell your girl, and she
should appreciate the tip, because I mean, people have different
sensitivities of their ego and whatever. But a good friend
would tell you something like that and not be coming
(42:42):
at you crazy. So I hope she can receive that
through the filter of this is care, not trying to
save my own Yeah, not care, not clown. She could
have halitosis too, that is a thing. Oh, y'all. I
just learned about, Like I've known about scraping your tongue,
(43:02):
but like, and I have an actual tool for it now. Yeah,
I just got one too. Sounds like a friend of
the dragon, you know. Just come at your girl with
care over clowning number one. Um, maybe get her this
tongue scraper. Nobody wants to smell stanky brand. I don't
really human when you're unleashed the dragon. We hope that
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helped and it helps you through your new year. We
so appreciate y'all tune in and please remember to share
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at ice letters there. Yeah, we can't wait to see
you guys in the new year. It's been a wild
ride and uh, we'll kick you with you in the future. Defeated. Whoa,
(44:20):
it's so bright here, all right, y'all, We'll see you
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