May 8, 2025 • 21 mins
After MTV decided that music videos were a thing of the past, the network decided to create and air a ton of new original programming. The early 2000's saw critically acclaimed series such as 'Date My Mom' and 'Room Raiders'. Brady and Dan go back to the golden era of television to discuss.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I don't know about you, but I'm feeling twenty two.
This is Brady one more time. I'll look back on
all things nineties and two thousands, the movies at Baby,
the music. Then may see that is.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
This chicken what I have?
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it
says chicken by the sea. Here's your host, Brady Broski.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Did you get did you get the last one? Or okay,
I didn't know if you were Jessica Simpson. How can
I got so dumb?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Yeah? Yeah, both of those things. Yeah, No, it's tuna.
It's chicken.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Actually, I think she's been said in that clip chicken
buy the sea, which is not even what it says
on the cannon.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Yeah, she wasn't even reading properly. Anyways. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome,
This is it.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
This is the Nostalgic podcast, the most nostalgic podcast on
the Internet.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
I just I just made that up. No, we won
that award. It's official official. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Uh yeah, I'm Brady, part of the Brady one more
time in this is my partner in crime, the Kickball King.
What a guy who witnessed a female C three po
get naked over the weekend, as did you, as did
did all of us.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
And my favorite part of the Empire strips Back our
outing over the weekend is the fact that in our
friend group it was it was eight of us, and
this was all the women's idea, right.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
We had nothing to do with it. We were just like, okay, fine.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
A burlesque Star Wars show where women are naked and
it's Star Wars theme.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Hmmm, I don't know, okay, yeah, we reluctantly went along
with it.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
It was tough, it was really hard Star Wars burlesque show.
It was actually pretty amazing. The Empire Strips Back, You
forget a chance, definitely worth worth of tickets. So here
he is my my partner crime like imagine, Like I mentioned.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
You imagined me, I'm real, I'm here.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Well, I have your Moniker here, and that's what threw
me off today. It's determined Dan Ginze Okay, yeah, I
like it. I have a different name for.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
You each Yeah, you're gonna run out of de adjectives.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I am yeah, Yeah, we're talking a fun one today.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I'm excited for this.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
I brought up the topic fashion. Finally, fashion is gonna
have to hold.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Although I do know.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I just got an endorsement request for Abercrombie, as you
say that, which is funny because that is definitely this
era of fashion for me.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Well, speaking of this era, I went to the final
day that Forever twenty one was open a couple of
weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Are you being serious?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Yeah, got a pair of shorts for five dollars. Everything
was eighty to ninety percent off.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Rip Forever twenty one.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I didn't shop it Forever twenty one until, like I
was definitely not way past the age of twenty one.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
It's called forever twenty one. That's the idea. You're still
You're still twenty one forever.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Right, Abercrombie was definitely for twenty Oh yeah, no, yeah,
no I would.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
I would feel it's interesting that you're an endorserve for them,
so I won't say anything.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Oh no, no, they're requesting I won't get it. Yeah,
but I should because I worked there. I worked there.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Tell me about that. I went there one summer because
I wanted to get the discount, the employee discount for
back to school close solid move, So I bought all
the back to school clothes and then I never showed
up after that day.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Maybe I shouldn't end Abercrombie. What a story to tell
in your endorsements.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Hope.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
That's a good pitch. That's a good pitch.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Hey, guys, it's Brady for Abercrombie and Fitch where I
worked until anymore and then I quit silent, but you
you started silent quitting quiet, quitting quiet quitting.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yes, yes, yes, anyway, the era is early two thousands
on this episode, specifically, we're talking TV shows on MTV.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Love It two thousands.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I thought like two thousand and maybe two thousand fourish
love It.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yeah, that was like peak MTV, fully saying we are
not just about music anymore.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Okay, Wendy, when did you start watching MTV? How old
were you doing?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
So we got Kate, we didn't get My parents got
our household cable as a birthday present for me when
I was like fourteen fifteen.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Time out, time out, time out as a present for you.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Yeah, well may they and my sister were happy about it.
I remember they rapped probably they wrapped a TV guide
and that's how like that was the gift I opened up,
and that was like to tell me that we were
going to get the channels in the guide. So I
have memory, but I have memories before that, Like I
remember my first MTV memories and I'm curious to hear yours. Yeah,
my first MTV memories because we did not get cable
(04:36):
growing up until I was well into teenage years, was
sneakily watching Beavis and butt Head, which is still a
show that's back and it's still being made and is
still hilarious in twenty twenty five. But I remember watching
Beavis and butt Head at my friend Michael's place when
I would go over there because he had cable, and
it felt like this scandalous thing we were doing in
(04:58):
the basement.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Because MTV was pretty risky for preteens anyways, because they
were trying to be that cutting edge obviously television network. Yeah,
that was the whole foundation of MTV. When it started
playing music videos. A lot of the music videos our
parents really didn't want us to watch. They probably didn't know. Yeah,
I'm gonna say the same of the shows too. You Sorry,
I want to hear yours, But did you have you
(05:21):
watched the New Beaves and but heeaded?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
No, you need to watch it. Really, it's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
So instead of just watching music videos, they watch like
TikTok and Instagram videos that have gone viral and comment
on today's society. Just just watch a few, Okay, you'll
like it.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I don't know, because the whole premise was the was
how cheesy the music videos were.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Yeah, but now they're talking about how cheesy like this
thing that mister Beast is doing is.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Or whatever, but whatever, modern modern crap. But it's it's hilarious.
It's hilarious. Yeah, I don't know. I'm predicting that. I'll
give a shot. I think you'll like it. I think
you'll come around. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
No.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
My first memory was probably similar to yours, watching at
a friend's house.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Okay, and it was it was music videos.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
And then became obsessed when I started obsessing over music
because here we are network that just plays videos, oh
and gives you the news at like the mom of
the hour, the really important breaking Kurt Loder, who we
just realized turned eighty unbelievable. So so yeah, so I was.
I was all in on MTV. Then the shift happened.
We talked about it on the reality TV episode that
(06:25):
we did.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
The shift happened right around Real World.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
The ratings started to go up the less videos they played,
So then they started all this more original programming. Fast
forward late nineties, get the TRL era, yep, got kicked off.
So they're still playing music videos exac right, but still
you know, they were dabbling and other things, and the
two thousands coming, it felt like there was.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Like a boom of these Really.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
At the time, they were fun and they were relatable
for us because it was the people that were on
these TV shows were around our age, but they were
really looking back a little bit older for you. But
they were really kind of cheesy like they they also
seemed like they had a script as well, Like none
of these room Raider people, right, were really.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
They were definitely hamming it up for the camera. I
mean right, there was yeah, yeah, it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
So what's the what's the first TV show when I
when I mentioned this topic to you, it's the first
TV show that you thought of?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
I mean, well, so I have one that I have
personal memories of as a teenager. But before I get
into that, I mean I would say the one that
when you talk early two thousands MTV. I mean, I
think the thing the game changer for them was the Osbourne's,
Like that show blew. That was O two was when
that premiered, Ok, and I mean that show that was
(07:40):
like one of the highest rated shows on all of cable,
and I mean it was. It was starting to compete
with some network shows back in that day, and I
feel like that was everybody was talking about it. I
feel like that the Osbourne's blowing up was probably what
led MTV to be like, let's come up with a
bunch of other reality shows involving celebrities like uh then Newly, Yeah,
(08:03):
which would be another one, Laguna Beach Punked.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
The Hills, Yeah with the was that the sequel to? Yeah? Yeah,
I think that's right, the Osborne's I did not even
think about that. It was big.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
I if we I bet that was the most watched
MTV show that decade.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
I'm almost certain. Oh it's gotta be. Yeah. It was
a Sunday night show. I feel that's that sounds a right. Yeah, yeah,
everybody was.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I remember radio stations would play like sound bites from it.
You know when that happened because because the turn out
of Peel or a mass audience, everybody's watching it because
you wanted to see the dynamic between this crazy old
old time rocker who is actually a family man. And
you got Sharon run the show, and you got the
two kids that they could go in any direction because
(08:52):
their dad just did so many bad things as a
as a rock and roller.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
And she had what was the daughter's name, she had
a little bit of it, the Osborne.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Yeah, I had this shit, a couple pop singles, rock singles,
a bit of a career because of how successful that show.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
That's a good one, Dan, Yeah, I can't believe I
didn't even think of that. The first one that popped,
the first one that popped into my head. MTV cribs. Yeah, okay,
we got a real look, or what we thought was
a real look inside celebrities houses. Yep, there was some
controversy around it. Did you know this.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Some of those well some of the celebrities houses weren't
really theirs.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Oh that I did not know. Joe Rule not his house, Yeah,
what house was it? It's just somebody, some rich person,
obviously his house, not his Lamborghinis, because you remember they
were going out, had three Lambos and he's like, yeah,
these are my rides. There are my whips, and come
to find out he like rented them for the day.
(09:51):
But yeah, MTV cribs. Wow, exhibit remember exhibit was the host.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
He was great.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I just love that. Wait, no, exhibit was hit my Ride. Yes,
MTV cribs. MTV cribs correctly, if I'm wrong. That was
more of a documentary like they would there'd be a voiceover.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
There was no.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
I don't feel I don't feel like someone was on
camera leading them through the home.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
No, it was just the camera and they followed, They
followed the celebrity.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Yeah, it looks like it as MTV news people were
sort of anchoring it, but it was just yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Yeah, the MTV news people must have had a lot
of free time on their hands because there wasn't a
lot of news to They weren't covering the hard hitting
They were at fifty cents House instead. So MTV cribs
for me is one we mentioned newlyweds, which was Nick
and Jessica, which I know at the time the girl
I was dating.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Was obsessed with that one.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
That was like that was like cocaine and crack for
some for a female in her early ties. Like watch
because you kind of you kind of love them together,
but you hated them together at the like I thought
they were going to last forever and then like a
year later they called it quits.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
So that was one I think of particularly.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Yeah, I think for like my female friends, like for
women in that time, like nick Lache was not accurate,
but like idealized as this like perfect husband who cons
his accepts his wife's it's.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Got great biceps, and he's nice and and he's dealing
with a lot. He has a lot of patience dealing
with her. Yeah. Jackass, oh of course premiered in April
of two thousand. I mean that just turned that turned
the world upside down.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Yeah. Yeah, because they were nearly killed several people, several people,
and I feel like there's still there's still generations after
it premiered that that go back to that.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
I don't know when that show ended, but Jackasses one
about Punked, yeahs.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Yes, those were That was like candid camera to the
n degree and you know what, that's such elaborate pranks.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
That was a great I mean they had some great stuff.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
And Punked Actually really it really took off in Maine
stream kind of culture.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
It was a term. It became a term. Am I
getting pogged right now? Right? Ashton's screaming at the camera.
So good. Yeah, what else you got?
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Well, let me give you one. Yeah that, let me see.
This is this so the one that's my biggest memory.
And it's because I was like a teenager who was,
you know, thinking about relationships and dating and girls, but
too shy to talk to them. Do you remember Undressed?
It was premiered in ninety nine. It ran for three years.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
This was like a like a soap op.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
It was like an evening, like a late night soap opera.
I feel like it aired at like eleven pm. There
was always and it was very like scandalous. It was
like teen drama surrounding like relationships and sex and stuff.
And they talked about hand jobs. I'm sure they did.
That's something now you won't say on during your day job.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
No, definitely not there you go, I'd say hj as
as it's known in some circles.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Yeah, no, okay that I have this very vivid memory.
It was very like like boundary pushing for the time
and they Yeah, there was a lot of like it
was very like LGBTQ LGBTQ inclusive, very like a lot
of racial diversity in the couples, like a lot of
things that for the late nineties early two thousands were
like very cutting edge and then obviously like as a teenager,
(13:17):
like the the relationship dating sex angle like it was.
It was very much made for people like that puberty. Yeah,
this is how it is.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Yeah yeah, yeah, they were very I feel like they
were younger actors too. Uh yeah right, they worked because
a lot of times like nine o two and oh
or by older play by these I remember these kid
kids being like like my age. So I wonder if
anybody biking show undres Probably not. The acting wasn't. Uh,
(13:49):
that'd be fun to go back and watch. Actually know,
that'd be creepy if we went back.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Christina Hendrix, Sarah Lancaster, Katie Sackoff. Oh I love Kerrie
sack Off.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
That Let me tell you something about Kerry sack Off
after that, to see that second season her.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Career, yeah blew up. Yeah yeah she was.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
No, she would not have been in all those Batman
and Avatar movies had it not been for her performance
on Undressed.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
You imagine what was your claim to fame? Uh you
remember the show Undress?
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Well I do. Apparently I'm the only one that's a
good one. I brought this one up. Room Raiders was awesome.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
I love and again, this is like a very formulaic
type game show. That game show because what you were
you were actually trying to win a date.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
That is what it was. Yeah, they had a lot
of dating weird dating spinoff.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
The one thing about Room Raiders that sticks out to
me the most. Do you remember they recently kidnapped?
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Right?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Nope, like taken, wasn't it. They did do that like
in the beginning at the top of the show.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Didn't Like, I'm I'm sure it was all fictionalized, but
it wasn't that. The idea is that you're you're just
like taken out of your home, and that's nicely your home.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
That's not what pops into my head. Okay. The black
light oh.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Yeah, black shining on the sheets and the floor and
the nightstand.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
And she's like, this is how I'm gonna this is
how I'm going to base my decision on dating this
guy on what the black light shows. And that's what
it came down to, like most most of the times.
And she would like do it over his bed. Yeah,
isn't that gross?
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Look at that? Awful?
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Another dating one next, Oh, Yeah. That was when you
could just say next at anytime.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Right, everybody's on the bus. Yeah, the bus. Oh my god,
you date my mom, date my mom. There it is there,
it is. Remind me. So you literally had to.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Interview You were going out on dates with the people's moms.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
And then they they interviewed you to see if you
were okay for their son or daughter. Yeah, is that
what it was? I think so, Oh my god, it's
so stupid.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
No, I think that. Yeah, the other way, No, it's
the other way around.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
The the the person who was talking to the moms
was choosing who to day.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Yeah, it was that person choosing based on the conversations
with the moms which of their daughters or sons they
wanted to go out with.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Okay, I do remember that date my mom. Holy cow,
that just brought some stuff back. Then you get in
then you start to get into the like you said,
the Laguna Beaches and later in the decade, Jersey Shore.
I'm sure we'll do that whole own episode. My God,
My Super Sweet sixteen. Oh yeah, that was a big one. Right.
Then we had some stuff that kind of carried over
(16:30):
from the nineties True life remember the true life series,
but it would always be a really like the most obscure.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
It was true, Yeah, it was all Every episode was
like a different focus on different person or topic.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Yeah, it would be a true life. I think that
I'm a dinosaur and would only eat red food. They
followed her around and be like, oh that that food
is Do you remember that?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
That started in the late nineties, carried over that lasted
a while another. You had a whole other network, MTV two. Yeah, yeah,
which which I think came a lot. I think that
was a direct result of the fact that MTV was
playing fewer and fewer videos. They were having success with
the reality, but they were lacking the music. So along
(17:15):
comes MTV two to focus more on the music.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
One one had to be focused on the music and
the other was on the other. But it was a
little edge here. It was more.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
It was I feel like it was very very alternative,
hard rock, rap heavy. You didn't hear a lot. You
didn't see a lot of in sync and Backstreet poison.
That's my recollection anyway.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
I just found one here. I computed in two thousand
and one dismissed, Oh yeah, this is ready for the
ready for the description dismissed. One person goes on a
date with two people of the opposite sex.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
And then they dismissed one. I assume at some point. Yeah,
it's like next except without the bus.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Bradley people. Bradley Joseph was a cast member. Yeah, of course,
good old Bradley Joseph Diego Quino. Yeah, do you think so?
I have in front of me.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
The top ten TRL hits of the early ninety of
the early two thousands, the top ten the top ten
trl TRL hit of the early two thousands. Yeah, yeah,
I could probably think. You couldn't say. I would not
have guessed either of the top two, for sure. I
would be very impressed if you can get either of
the top two. This is by how long they spent
(18:26):
at number one on TRS.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Oh, okay, early two thousands. Yeah, there's got to be
a Backstreet Boys song on there.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
There is. I would say there's more than one. I
want it that way.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
That was number seven, It was ninety nine, but yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Would say Backstreet Boys.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Since you're several, I would say larger than Life.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Larger than Life was number four, But number one is
a Backstreet Boys song too, and it is not what
I would have guessed.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Everybody, Shape of my Heart. Yeah, only only song to
be number one on TRL more than fifty.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Times about in sync, Bye bye bye. Number five in sync.
That's the only in sync okay, But number two was
an Eminem song, which is also not the song I
would have guessed.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Only other ones? No, which one like Toy Soldiers? Huh,
that's rare? Interesting? Is a solid video, I guess? But yeah,
I remember it very random. Well, go ahead, rattle off
the top ten.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
So you got Shape in my Heart, you got like
Toy Soldiers, justin Timberlake, Crime a River Oka, Backstreet Boys,
Larger than Life and Sink Bye Bye bye. You had
another Eminem, the real slim Shady. Yeah, I want it
that way you got and then eight, nine and ten
are all female artists. You got a Brittany, a Christina
and a Beyonce. Can you get the three tracks?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Brittany two thousands? I would say, can't be Baby one
more Time? It is Baby one more time because it's
ninety nine? Carryover? Got it?
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Christina's probably Genie in a bottle? Nope, later Fighter Uh,
the same album?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
I think?
Speaker 3 (20:05):
What was the first single from that album? Was it
Dirty Dirty, such a good view. That was a great video.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Yeah, that solidified me being Christina. And then you said
Beyonce Beyonce solo, well not solo featured Jesse Shroud, Nope.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Solo with the featured artist featured who she's now married to?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Oh, Bonnie and Clyde, Crazy and Love, Oh, Crazy and Love.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
What year did that come out?
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Three? Really? Yeah? I thought that was later in the decade. Okay,
that's great. I like that. Thanks for there. You go ahead.
You did pretty well. You did pretty well. I'll give
you an eight and a half out of ten.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
There's really only like four artists that on TRL. They
just rotated once in a while.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
In that Shape of My Heart would have been probably
about if you if even if you told me the
Backstreet Boys have the number one TRL song of all time,
I would have guessed fifteen other songs before I got
to Shape in my Heart totally.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Okay, let's let's see. Uh, let's see what think about
MTV early two thousands. What's a show that we missed?
Were you a fan of the Osborns or Undressed?
Speaker 1 (21:08):
If you even know what Undressed was? Yeah? Like comment,
I want to hear. Hear what you have to say
about it in the comments, and we'll find out. Next time.
I'm going to watch PEVI and but head and report.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Please, I need you to let me send you. I'll
send you a couple episodes you gotta watch. I think
you'll be surprised and.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
I'll report back to see if I got that Abercrombie
endorsement as well.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Probably not after this definitely can definitely come in your life.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
But thanks for going back a time. We did it
twenty is twenty five years ago. Man, that's when it
all it all started to turn downhill.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
That is wild awesome.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
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I don't know about you, but I'm feeling twenty two.
This is Brady one more time. I'll look back on
all things nineties and two thousands, the movies at Baby,
the music. Then may see that is.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
This chicken what I have?
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it
says chicken by the sea. Here's your host, Brady Broski.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Did you get did you get the last one? Or okay,
I didn't know if you were Jessica Simpson. How can
I got so dumb?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Yeah? Yeah, both of those things. Yeah, No, it's tuna.
It's chicken.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Actually, I think she's been said in that clip chicken
buy the sea, which is not even what it says
on the cannon.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Yeah, she wasn't even reading properly. Anyways. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome,
This is it.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
This is the Nostalgic podcast, the most nostalgic podcast on
the Internet.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
I just I just made that up. No, we won
that award. It's official official. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Uh yeah, I'm Brady, part of the Brady one more
time in this is my partner in crime, the Kickball King.
What a guy who witnessed a female C three po
get naked over the weekend, as did you, as did
did all of us.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
And my favorite part of the Empire strips Back our
outing over the weekend is the fact that in our
friend group it was it was eight of us, and
this was all the women's idea, right.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
We had nothing to do with it. We were just like, okay, fine.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
A burlesque Star Wars show where women are naked and
it's Star Wars theme.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Hmmm, I don't know, okay, yeah, we reluctantly went along
with it.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
It was tough, it was really hard Star Wars burlesque show.
It was actually pretty amazing. The Empire Strips Back, You
forget a chance, definitely worth worth of tickets. So here
he is my my partner crime like imagine, Like I mentioned.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
You imagined me, I'm real, I'm here.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Well, I have your Moniker here, and that's what threw
me off today. It's determined Dan Ginze Okay, yeah, I
like it. I have a different name for.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
You each Yeah, you're gonna run out of de adjectives.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I am yeah, Yeah, we're talking a fun one today.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I'm excited for this.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
I brought up the topic fashion. Finally, fashion is gonna
have to hold.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Although I do know.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I just got an endorsement request for Abercrombie, as you
say that, which is funny because that is definitely this
era of fashion for me.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Well, speaking of this era, I went to the final
day that Forever twenty one was open a couple of
weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Are you being serious?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Yeah, got a pair of shorts for five dollars. Everything
was eighty to ninety percent off.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Rip Forever twenty one.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I didn't shop it Forever twenty one until, like I
was definitely not way past the age of twenty one.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
It's called forever twenty one. That's the idea. You're still
You're still twenty one forever.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Right, Abercrombie was definitely for twenty Oh yeah, no, yeah,
no I would.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
I would feel it's interesting that you're an endorserve for them,
so I won't say anything.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Oh no, no, they're requesting I won't get it. Yeah,
but I should because I worked there. I worked there.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Tell me about that. I went there one summer because
I wanted to get the discount, the employee discount for
back to school close solid move, So I bought all
the back to school clothes and then I never showed
up after that day.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Maybe I shouldn't end Abercrombie. What a story to tell
in your endorsements.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Hope.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
That's a good pitch. That's a good pitch.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Hey, guys, it's Brady for Abercrombie and Fitch where I
worked until anymore and then I quit silent, but you
you started silent quitting quiet, quitting quiet quitting.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yes, yes, yes, anyway, the era is early two thousands
on this episode, specifically, we're talking TV shows on MTV.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Love It two thousands.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I thought like two thousand and maybe two thousand fourish
love It.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yeah, that was like peak MTV, fully saying we are
not just about music anymore.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Okay, Wendy, when did you start watching MTV? How old
were you doing?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
So we got Kate, we didn't get My parents got
our household cable as a birthday present for me when
I was like fourteen fifteen.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Time out, time out, time out as a present for you.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Yeah, well may they and my sister were happy about it.
I remember they rapped probably they wrapped a TV guide
and that's how like that was the gift I opened up,
and that was like to tell me that we were
going to get the channels in the guide. So I
have memory, but I have memories before that, Like I
remember my first MTV memories and I'm curious to hear yours. Yeah,
my first MTV memories because we did not get cable
(04:36):
growing up until I was well into teenage years, was
sneakily watching Beavis and butt Head, which is still a
show that's back and it's still being made and is
still hilarious in twenty twenty five. But I remember watching
Beavis and butt Head at my friend Michael's place when
I would go over there because he had cable, and
it felt like this scandalous thing we were doing in
(04:58):
the basement.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Because MTV was pretty risky for preteens anyways, because they
were trying to be that cutting edge obviously television network. Yeah,
that was the whole foundation of MTV. When it started
playing music videos. A lot of the music videos our
parents really didn't want us to watch. They probably didn't know. Yeah,
I'm gonna say the same of the shows too. You Sorry,
I want to hear yours, But did you have you
(05:21):
watched the New Beaves and but heeaded?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
No, you need to watch it. Really, it's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
So instead of just watching music videos, they watch like
TikTok and Instagram videos that have gone viral and comment
on today's society. Just just watch a few, Okay, you'll
like it.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I don't know, because the whole premise was the was
how cheesy the music videos were.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Yeah, but now they're talking about how cheesy like this
thing that mister Beast is doing is.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Or whatever, but whatever, modern modern crap. But it's it's hilarious.
It's hilarious. Yeah, I don't know. I'm predicting that. I'll
give a shot. I think you'll like it. I think
you'll come around. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
No.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
My first memory was probably similar to yours, watching at
a friend's house.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Okay, and it was it was music videos.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
And then became obsessed when I started obsessing over music
because here we are network that just plays videos, oh
and gives you the news at like the mom of
the hour, the really important breaking Kurt Loder, who we
just realized turned eighty unbelievable. So so yeah, so I was.
I was all in on MTV. Then the shift happened.
We talked about it on the reality TV episode that
(06:25):
we did.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
The shift happened right around Real World.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
The ratings started to go up the less videos they played,
So then they started all this more original programming. Fast
forward late nineties, get the TRL era, yep, got kicked off.
So they're still playing music videos exac right, but still
you know, they were dabbling and other things, and the
two thousands coming, it felt like there was.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Like a boom of these Really.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
At the time, they were fun and they were relatable
for us because it was the people that were on
these TV shows were around our age, but they were
really looking back a little bit older for you. But
they were really kind of cheesy like they they also
seemed like they had a script as well, Like none
of these room Raider people, right, were really.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
They were definitely hamming it up for the camera. I
mean right, there was yeah, yeah, it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
So what's the what's the first TV show when I
when I mentioned this topic to you, it's the first
TV show that you thought of?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
I mean, well, so I have one that I have
personal memories of as a teenager. But before I get
into that, I mean I would say the one that
when you talk early two thousands MTV. I mean, I
think the thing the game changer for them was the Osbourne's,
Like that show blew. That was O two was when
that premiered, Ok, and I mean that show that was
(07:40):
like one of the highest rated shows on all of cable,
and I mean it was. It was starting to compete
with some network shows back in that day, and I
feel like that was everybody was talking about it. I
feel like that the Osbourne's blowing up was probably what
led MTV to be like, let's come up with a
bunch of other reality shows involving celebrities like uh then Newly, Yeah,
(08:03):
which would be another one, Laguna Beach Punked.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
The Hills, Yeah with the was that the sequel to? Yeah? Yeah,
I think that's right, the Osborne's I did not even
think about that. It was big.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
I if we I bet that was the most watched
MTV show that decade.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
I'm almost certain. Oh it's gotta be. Yeah. It was
a Sunday night show. I feel that's that sounds a right. Yeah, yeah,
everybody was.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I remember radio stations would play like sound bites from it.
You know when that happened because because the turn out
of Peel or a mass audience, everybody's watching it because
you wanted to see the dynamic between this crazy old
old time rocker who is actually a family man. And
you got Sharon run the show, and you got the
two kids that they could go in any direction because
(08:52):
their dad just did so many bad things as a
as a rock and roller.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
And she had what was the daughter's name, she had
a little bit of it, the Osborne.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Yeah, I had this shit, a couple pop singles, rock singles,
a bit of a career because of how successful that show.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
That's a good one, Dan, Yeah, I can't believe I
didn't even think of that. The first one that popped,
the first one that popped into my head. MTV cribs. Yeah, okay,
we got a real look, or what we thought was
a real look inside celebrities houses. Yep, there was some
controversy around it. Did you know this.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Some of those well some of the celebrities houses weren't
really theirs.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Oh that I did not know. Joe Rule not his house, Yeah,
what house was it? It's just somebody, some rich person,
obviously his house, not his Lamborghinis, because you remember they
were going out, had three Lambos and he's like, yeah,
these are my rides. There are my whips, and come
to find out he like rented them for the day.
(09:51):
But yeah, MTV cribs. Wow, exhibit remember exhibit was the host.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
He was great.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I just love that. Wait, no, exhibit was hit my Ride. Yes,
MTV cribs. MTV cribs correctly, if I'm wrong. That was
more of a documentary like they would there'd be a voiceover.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
There was no.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
I don't feel I don't feel like someone was on
camera leading them through the home.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
No, it was just the camera and they followed, They
followed the celebrity.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Yeah, it looks like it as MTV news people were
sort of anchoring it, but it was just yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Yeah, the MTV news people must have had a lot
of free time on their hands because there wasn't a
lot of news to They weren't covering the hard hitting
They were at fifty cents House instead. So MTV cribs
for me is one we mentioned newlyweds, which was Nick
and Jessica, which I know at the time the girl
I was dating.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Was obsessed with that one.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
That was like that was like cocaine and crack for
some for a female in her early ties. Like watch
because you kind of you kind of love them together,
but you hated them together at the like I thought
they were going to last forever and then like a
year later they called it quits.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
So that was one I think of particularly.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Yeah, I think for like my female friends, like for
women in that time, like nick Lache was not accurate,
but like idealized as this like perfect husband who cons
his accepts his wife's it's.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Got great biceps, and he's nice and and he's dealing
with a lot. He has a lot of patience dealing
with her. Yeah. Jackass, oh of course premiered in April
of two thousand. I mean that just turned that turned
the world upside down.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Yeah. Yeah, because they were nearly killed several people, several people,
and I feel like there's still there's still generations after
it premiered that that go back to that.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
I don't know when that show ended, but Jackasses one
about Punked, yeahs.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Yes, those were That was like candid camera to the
n degree and you know what, that's such elaborate pranks.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
That was a great I mean they had some great stuff.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
And Punked Actually really it really took off in Maine
stream kind of culture.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
It was a term. It became a term. Am I
getting pogged right now? Right? Ashton's screaming at the camera.
So good. Yeah, what else you got?
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Well, let me give you one. Yeah that, let me see.
This is this so the one that's my biggest memory.
And it's because I was like a teenager who was,
you know, thinking about relationships and dating and girls, but
too shy to talk to them. Do you remember Undressed?
It was premiered in ninety nine. It ran for three years.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
This was like a like a soap op.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
It was like an evening, like a late night soap opera.
I feel like it aired at like eleven pm. There
was always and it was very like scandalous. It was
like teen drama surrounding like relationships and sex and stuff.
And they talked about hand jobs. I'm sure they did.
That's something now you won't say on during your day job.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
No, definitely not there you go, I'd say hj as
as it's known in some circles.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Yeah, no, okay that I have this very vivid memory.
It was very like like boundary pushing for the time
and they Yeah, there was a lot of like it
was very like LGBTQ LGBTQ inclusive, very like a lot
of racial diversity in the couples, like a lot of
things that for the late nineties early two thousands were
like very cutting edge and then obviously like as a teenager,
(13:17):
like the the relationship dating sex angle like it was.
It was very much made for people like that puberty. Yeah,
this is how it is.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Yeah yeah, yeah, they were very I feel like they
were younger actors too. Uh yeah right, they worked because
a lot of times like nine o two and oh
or by older play by these I remember these kid
kids being like like my age. So I wonder if
anybody biking show undres Probably not. The acting wasn't. Uh,
(13:49):
that'd be fun to go back and watch. Actually know,
that'd be creepy if we went back.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Christina Hendrix, Sarah Lancaster, Katie Sackoff. Oh I love Kerrie
sack Off.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
That Let me tell you something about Kerry sack Off
after that, to see that second season her.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Career, yeah blew up. Yeah yeah she was.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
No, she would not have been in all those Batman
and Avatar movies had it not been for her performance
on Undressed.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
You imagine what was your claim to fame? Uh you
remember the show Undress?
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Well I do. Apparently I'm the only one that's a
good one. I brought this one up. Room Raiders was awesome.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
I love and again, this is like a very formulaic
type game show. That game show because what you were
you were actually trying to win a date.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
That is what it was. Yeah, they had a lot
of dating weird dating spinoff.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
The one thing about Room Raiders that sticks out to
me the most. Do you remember they recently kidnapped?
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Right?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Nope, like taken, wasn't it. They did do that like
in the beginning at the top of the show.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Didn't Like, I'm I'm sure it was all fictionalized, but
it wasn't that. The idea is that you're you're just
like taken out of your home, and that's nicely your home.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
That's not what pops into my head. Okay. The black
light oh.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Yeah, black shining on the sheets and the floor and
the nightstand.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
And she's like, this is how I'm gonna this is
how I'm going to base my decision on dating this
guy on what the black light shows. And that's what
it came down to, like most most of the times.
And she would like do it over his bed. Yeah,
isn't that gross?
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Look at that? Awful?
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Another dating one next, Oh, Yeah. That was when you
could just say next at anytime.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Right, everybody's on the bus. Yeah, the bus. Oh my god,
you date my mom, date my mom. There it is there,
it is. Remind me. So you literally had to.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Interview You were going out on dates with the people's moms.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
And then they they interviewed you to see if you
were okay for their son or daughter. Yeah, is that
what it was? I think so, Oh my god, it's
so stupid.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
No, I think that. Yeah, the other way, No, it's
the other way around.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
The the the person who was talking to the moms
was choosing who to day.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Yeah, it was that person choosing based on the conversations
with the moms which of their daughters or sons they
wanted to go out with.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Okay, I do remember that date my mom. Holy cow,
that just brought some stuff back. Then you get in
then you start to get into the like you said,
the Laguna Beaches and later in the decade, Jersey Shore.
I'm sure we'll do that whole own episode. My God,
My Super Sweet sixteen. Oh yeah, that was a big one. Right.
Then we had some stuff that kind of carried over
(16:30):
from the nineties True life remember the true life series,
but it would always be a really like the most obscure.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
It was true, Yeah, it was all Every episode was
like a different focus on different person or topic.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Yeah, it would be a true life. I think that
I'm a dinosaur and would only eat red food. They
followed her around and be like, oh that that food
is Do you remember that?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
That started in the late nineties, carried over that lasted
a while another. You had a whole other network, MTV two. Yeah, yeah,
which which I think came a lot. I think that
was a direct result of the fact that MTV was
playing fewer and fewer videos. They were having success with
the reality, but they were lacking the music. So along
(17:15):
comes MTV two to focus more on the music.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
One one had to be focused on the music and
the other was on the other. But it was a
little edge here. It was more.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
It was I feel like it was very very alternative,
hard rock, rap heavy. You didn't hear a lot. You
didn't see a lot of in sync and Backstreet poison.
That's my recollection anyway.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
I just found one here. I computed in two thousand
and one dismissed, Oh yeah, this is ready for the
ready for the description dismissed. One person goes on a
date with two people of the opposite sex.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
And then they dismissed one. I assume at some point. Yeah,
it's like next except without the bus.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Bradley people. Bradley Joseph was a cast member. Yeah, of course,
good old Bradley Joseph Diego Quino. Yeah, do you think so?
I have in front of me.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
The top ten TRL hits of the early ninety of
the early two thousands, the top ten the top ten
trl TRL hit of the early two thousands. Yeah, yeah,
I could probably think. You couldn't say. I would not
have guessed either of the top two, for sure. I
would be very impressed if you can get either of
the top two. This is by how long they spent
(18:26):
at number one on TRS.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Oh, okay, early two thousands. Yeah, there's got to be
a Backstreet Boys song on there.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
There is. I would say there's more than one. I
want it that way.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
That was number seven, It was ninety nine, but yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Would say Backstreet Boys.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Since you're several, I would say larger than Life.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Larger than Life was number four, But number one is
a Backstreet Boys song too, and it is not what
I would have guessed.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Everybody, Shape of my Heart. Yeah, only only song to
be number one on TRL more than fifty.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Times about in sync, Bye bye bye. Number five in sync.
That's the only in sync okay, But number two was
an Eminem song, which is also not the song I
would have guessed.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Only other ones? No, which one like Toy Soldiers? Huh,
that's rare? Interesting? Is a solid video, I guess? But yeah,
I remember it very random. Well, go ahead, rattle off
the top ten.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
So you got Shape in my Heart, you got like
Toy Soldiers, justin Timberlake, Crime a River Oka, Backstreet Boys,
Larger than Life and Sink Bye Bye bye. You had
another Eminem, the real slim Shady. Yeah, I want it
that way you got and then eight, nine and ten
are all female artists. You got a Brittany, a Christina
and a Beyonce. Can you get the three tracks?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Brittany two thousands? I would say, can't be Baby one
more Time? It is Baby one more time because it's
ninety nine? Carryover? Got it?
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Christina's probably Genie in a bottle? Nope, later Fighter Uh,
the same album?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
I think?
Speaker 3 (20:05):
What was the first single from that album? Was it
Dirty Dirty, such a good view. That was a great video.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Yeah, that solidified me being Christina. And then you said
Beyonce Beyonce solo, well not solo featured Jesse Shroud, Nope.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Solo with the featured artist featured who she's now married to?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Oh, Bonnie and Clyde, Crazy and Love, Oh, Crazy and Love.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
What year did that come out?
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Three? Really? Yeah? I thought that was later in the decade. Okay,
that's great. I like that. Thanks for there. You go ahead.
You did pretty well. You did pretty well. I'll give
you an eight and a half out of ten.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
There's really only like four artists that on TRL. They
just rotated once in a while.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
In that Shape of My Heart would have been probably
about if you if even if you told me the
Backstreet Boys have the number one TRL song of all time,
I would have guessed fifteen other songs before I got
to Shape in my Heart totally.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Okay, let's let's see. Uh, let's see what think about
MTV early two thousands. What's a show that we missed?
Were you a fan of the Osborns or Undressed?
Speaker 1 (21:08):
If you even know what Undressed was? Yeah? Like comment,
I want to hear. Hear what you have to say
about it in the comments, and we'll find out. Next time.
I'm going to watch PEVI and but head and report.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Please, I need you to let me send you. I'll
send you a couple episodes you gotta watch. I think
you'll be surprised and.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
I'll report back to see if I got that Abercrombie
endorsement as well.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Probably not after this definitely can definitely come in your life.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
But thanks for going back a time. We did it
twenty is twenty five years ago. Man, that's when it
all it all started to turn downhill.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
That is wild awesome.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
It's a pretty one more time podcast till next time.
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