Episode 5: A Gen Z’s Knowledge of 90s

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Teagan, a Gen Z high school senior, bravely attempts to explain her knowledge of 90s culture to Millennial Will and Gen X Lesli. Listen as Teagan discovers the seriousness of pogs and schools Will and Lesli on a couple things from the Gen Z world.

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Will (00:07):
Welcome to Generation Gap in the 90s, the podcast where a
Gen X girl and a millennial guydive deep into the decade that
defined us from OJ to Y2K.
VHS tapes to the dawn of theDVD.
We're revisiting movies, music,and events that shaped a
generation, or in our case, twogenerations.
Today, we have a special guest.
We are joined by a Gen Z-er.

Teagan (00:30):
That's right.
Hello.

Will (00:33):
And who is this, Lesli?
This is Teagan.

Lesli (00:35):
i This is Teagan.
She's my younger daughter.

Will (00:37):
Hi, Teagan.

Teagan (00:39):
Hello.
Teagan's a senior in highschool.

Will (00:41):
Senior in high school?

Teagan (00:43):
Yeah.

Unknown (00:43):
Okay.

Lesli (00:44):
Her life's looking up, you know.

Will (00:46):
Nowhere to go but up.
It gets so much worse.

Teagan (00:51):
I know.
Don't tell me that.
No, it's all good.
All good.
Well, thank you for joining us.
Very excited to have you.
I'm excited because I think shealready thinks I'm lame.

Speaker 00 (01:06):
Thinks?

Teagan (01:06):
Yeah, exactly.
So now she can tell the worldhow I'm lame.
Now it's recorded.
Yeah.
Now it's documented for all tosee.
That's

Speaker 00 (01:16):
right.
For all to see.

Teagan (01:17):
For all to hear.
There

Speaker 00 (01:19):
you go.
So we brought in a youngergeneration so that we could kind
of mess with her a little bit.

Teagan (01:31):
I mean, if you think about it, her life is completely
different.

Speaker 00 (01:38):
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
A hundred percent.
Um, you, so to put it inperspective, you grew up with no
internet.

Teagan (01:47):
Yes.

Speaker 00 (01:48):
I grew up with the beginning of the internet.

Teagan (01:50):
Yes.

Speaker 00 (01:51):
And you've grown up with only internet.

Teagan (01:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 00 (01:54):
Like it's always been there for

Teagan (01:55):
you.
Yeah.
The first thing we got forChristmas and you're like five
or six and you bring out aniPod.
Oh, that's right.
Oh wow.
And we shared it.

Speaker 00 (02:01):
Wow.
That was the

Teagan (02:02):
first technology we got was the iPod that we shared, and
then we got an iPad.
That's because we're coolparents.

Speaker 00 (02:08):
I guess so.
On

Teagan (02:09):
the back, it said Brennan Segan.
What?
Yeah.
We got it engraved andeverything.
Wow.
Meanwhile, that's the last iPodever.

Speaker 00 (02:18):
Yeah.
I still have my iPod, justsaying.
Yeah, I got an iPod in college,and I was pretty excited about
that.

Teagan (02:24):
An iPod?
A little, like, clicky square.
She calls it clicky square.
The iPod.
The shuffle.
You had bigger than theShuffle, though.
We had like a phone.
It was like a phone.
Yeah, yours was like a phone.

Speaker 00 (02:38):
Wait, so your first...
Your first iPod was an iPodTouch.
Yes.
It wasn't like this thing.

Teagan (02:44):
No.

Speaker 00 (02:45):
No.

Teagan (02:48):
I've never seen that in my life.
No, you freaking loser.

Speaker 00 (02:51):
Oh, okay.
So I'm thinking like we canrelate with having...
We could be iPod buddies, butyou...

Teagan (02:59):
I've never seen that in my

Speaker 00 (03:00):
life.
Oh, my goodness.
I wish...
I wish I had a charger for it.
I don't even know how to chargeit.
Do those chargers

Teagan (03:05):
exist anymore?

Speaker 00 (03:05):
So this is a dial, and you would spin it, and it
was really cool that it

Teagan (03:09):
would...
I almost said to you, was itthe one with the spinner dial?

Speaker 00 (03:11):
It was, yeah, the spinner dial.
No, I was

Teagan (03:13):
thinking of the mini version where there's no screen.
It's the clicker that's alittle square.
That's what I think of.
A shuffle.
Because that's what Mimi had.
Yes.
And then...
That's Joe Hyphen.
And then we had, like, thephone, but it was iPod Touch.
Yeah, iPod Touch.

Speaker 00 (03:29):
Yeah, so the...
This was like the latestversion, too.
It was a color screen.
You were a badass when you gotthat.
Not that it mattered.
I mean, I was like in my 20s.
You say it was

Teagan (03:39):
colored?

Speaker 00 (03:40):
Colored, yeah.
Like the screen?
Like the screen had color.
The original didn't have color.
It was black and white.
Oh, my God.
Yeah.

Teagan (03:49):
That's

Speaker 00 (03:49):
amazing.
So this is really fun becausethis was not planned.
Yeah, I wish it was...
Could be charged.
I don't even know.
I could probably...
Is it the

Teagan (03:59):
long charge at the bottom?

Speaker 00 (04:01):
It's like a...
Oh, yeah,

Teagan (04:02):
it's the one that our iPad uses.
Yeah, that's how old the iPadis.

Speaker 00 (04:06):
Okay, yeah, so it's the...

Teagan (04:07):
I bet you we have one at home.
I'll bring it next time.

Speaker 00 (04:10):
The vintage.

Teagan (04:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 00 (04:13):
They

Teagan (04:13):
sell them on eBay.

Speaker 00 (04:14):
Yeah, my first one was...
This is 160 gigs.
The first one was like...
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
I just think it's hilarious.

(04:40):
She's talking about an iPod,and I'm like, oh, that's great.
And you're like, oh, cool,she's got an

Teagan (04:45):
iPod?

Speaker 00 (04:45):
Like an iPod Touch, that's a whole different
ballgame.

Teagan (04:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 00 (04:48):
All right, that's number one.
So funny.
That is.
So what else?
Internet?

Teagan (04:57):
Internet, yeah.
Cell

Speaker 00 (04:58):
phones.
Cell phones.
What was the other thing I wasthinking?
Like an encyclopedia.
Have you ever used anencyclopedia before?

Teagan (05:08):
Like a dictionary?
This is going to be so fun.

Speaker 00 (05:13):
This really is.
It is like a dictionary.
So they came in like volumes.
You'd have letters like A, B.
You would usually want onevolume.
I think S had its own volume.
There were books.
No.
No?
No.
Yeah, and it told you aboutstuff.
So

Teagan (05:31):
like if you were at school and you were doing a
report on...
I don't

Speaker 00 (05:35):
know.
Salamanders.

Teagan (05:36):
Salamanders.
You would go to the S book andyou'd open

Speaker 00 (05:40):
it up.
Pull

Teagan (05:41):
that bad boy.
And you'd look for salamanderskind of like a dictionary.

Speaker 00 (05:45):
Like a dictionary.
But it would have a wholelike...

Teagan (05:48):
Paragraph of...

Speaker 00 (05:49):
A Wikipedia, if you will, on paper.

Teagan (05:52):
I've only...
I think I've only used that forSpanish class.
That's probably a Spanishdictionary.
But no, it had like the...
Well, she used one of thoseSpanish encyclopedias.
No, but how did the multiplevolumes you're talking about?
Was

Speaker 00 (06:12):
the second volume in French?
That's

Teagan (06:21):
hilarious.

Speaker 00 (06:22):
Yeah, so encyclopedias...
Almost kind of where they gotthe name Wikipedia, Encyclopedia
Wikipedia.
Yes, see?
Yeah.
That's how you did a bookreport back in the day.
That's awful.
I didn't...
No, it was.
And I didn't use...
I don't remember Google beingaround at all.
Like, that wasn't a thing.

Teagan (06:43):
You didn't have Google in college?

Speaker 00 (06:46):
In college, I think so.
High school, I think we used,like, Yahoo.

Teagan (06:50):
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 00 (06:51):
Commercial members.

Teagan (06:51):
Yes.
Yahoo.

Speaker 00 (06:52):
Yes.
Yeah.

Teagan (06:56):
Remember the X Encyclopedia?
It was like X, Y together, and

Speaker 00 (07:01):
it was like all skinny.
It was like W, X, Y, Z.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
But yeah, give you like anoverview of whatever you're
looking for.
Yeah.
People used to sell them.
They were encyclopediasalesmen.
Yeah, it'd come door to door.
Door to door.
That was before my time.
Yeah.

Teagan (07:17):
I think we probably got a couple encyclopedia salesmen.

Unknown (07:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 00 (07:21):
I can almost guarantee my parents still have
their encyclopedias.
Okay, so encyclopedias,

Teagan (07:26):
iPods.
What

Speaker 00 (07:31):
else?

Teagan (07:32):
What's another big thing?
Live TV.

Speaker 00 (07:36):
Live TV was, yeah.

Teagan (07:38):
Like, my kids never had live TV.
We had DVDs and, like...
Oh, I'm going to sound reallyyoung.
The square ones.

Speaker 00 (07:47):
Oh,

Teagan (07:48):
VHS.
We had those.
We had DVDs.
That's what we used mostly,like, growing up.
We usually watched DVDs.
And then we had live TVdownstairs when Brynn and I woke
up at, like, 4 in the morning.
We'd go downstairs and watchThe Lopez Show.
And then after that, we justhad Netflix and, like, all the
subscription stuff now.

(08:08):
But it's like they don't knowwhat it's like to have to run
and pee during the commercial.
Yeah.
Now I do with Hulu.
Well, you can pause it, though.
No, there's still ads.
Oh, yeah, there's ads now.
Yeah, there's commercials.
But you can pause it.
Oh, yeah.
Ew, you have ads in your Hulu?
I'm not rich like you.
Second job.

(08:30):
Does your Netflix have ads?
No.
Hashtag Hulu sponsor

Speaker 00 (08:36):
us.
Please, somebody.
I

Teagan (08:38):
just don't want the ads.

Speaker 00 (08:40):
What else do we have?
Commercials.
So yeah, you...
I mean, Hulu commercials aside,your mom and I were talking
about just last week, I think,like when we saw a show, because
we talked about sitcoms lastweek.
If you saw a show and it waslike a great episode or a great
show, you may not see that showagain for like a year.

(09:02):
Yeah.
There was nowhere to find it.
YouTube wasn't a thing.
If

Teagan (09:07):
you missed a part...

Speaker 00 (09:08):
Oh, yeah.

Teagan (09:09):
That's it.
You're done.

Speaker 00 (09:10):
So I did...

Teagan (09:13):
Oh, good.

Speaker 00 (09:14):
I saw...
It's all

Teagan (09:17):
good.

Speaker 00 (09:18):
I saw an Instagram video.
I don't watch the TikTok.

Teagan (09:23):
So Instagram reels are just reposted TikToks?
No, loser.

Speaker 00 (09:30):
I was watching an Instagram video.
There was a father...
I think it was a father and hisdaughter.

Teagan (09:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 00 (09:41):
He was giving her names of things and seeing if
she can guess what they were.
So I sent it to your mom.
I was like, this is what weneed to do with Teagan because I
want to see if she can guesswhat these things are.
Or if you know.
If you know them, that's great.
And I saw your list when youshowed me earlier.

Teagan (10:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 00 (10:01):
And I saw two right off the bat that we both had.
Pogs.
Do you know what pogs are?

Teagan (10:11):
Like P-O-G?

Speaker 00 (10:13):
Yeah, P-O-G.

Teagan (10:15):
She's smart.
P-O-G, pog.
All I can think of is like ahog, like a pig.
Okay.

Speaker 00 (10:23):
Or

Teagan (10:24):
like sometimes like pod.

Speaker 00 (10:26):
Hold on one second, I'll be right

Teagan (10:28):
back.
Oh.
If you grab a pog, I'll smackyou in the face.
Is this your prop?
Oh my God, I just told yourfilm, isn't it?
Is it not?
Can I open it?
Yeah.
Am I right?
Oh,

Speaker 00 (10:39):
no, those are pogs.
What

Teagan (10:42):
the hell is

Speaker 00 (10:45):
it?
It's a pog.

Teagan (10:46):
Are there more in there?
Yeah, there's a bunch.
Can I take it out?

Speaker 00 (10:49):
Those are my Simpsons pogs.
Be very careful.
Those were my safe.

Teagan (10:53):
No.
Oh, my gosh.

Speaker 00 (10:55):
So I grabbed those from my parents' house last
time.
Well, not last time, but awhile back.
I was there just rummaging.
And I was like, oh, mygoodness, my pogs.

Teagan (11:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 00 (11:04):
So...
My son was like, oh, I needthese, so was taking them.
And you were like, don't touchthem.
Pretty much.
I gave him all the doubles.
Oh, good one.
That's what I was looking fororiginally.

Teagan (11:14):
What is it?

Speaker 00 (11:15):
It's a pog.

Teagan (11:17):
That's a pog, Teagan.
Is it just characters andshows?

Speaker 00 (11:21):
So those in the 90s, I wish I have a big tube of
like the pogs.
So I'll give you a breakdown.
A pog.

Teagan (11:29):
You just keep saying it over and over.
It's a pog.
A

Speaker 00 (11:34):
pog was, it was game.
It's a

Teagan (11:37):
game?

Speaker 00 (11:38):
It's a game.
Oh,

Teagan (11:40):
is it a matching game?

Speaker 00 (11:41):
It's not.

Teagan (11:42):
Oh,

Speaker 00 (11:42):
you just have two?
It's a listening game.
No, I'm just kidding.

Teagan (11:47):
Like mother, like daughter.

Speaker 00 (11:50):
So you would have your pogs.
I'd have my pogs, right?
Mine were fake pogs from thedollar store.
And we'd stack them up in alittle stack, right?
And I don't have this with menow, but then you would have
what was called a slammer.
And it was a heavy piece ofplastic or metal.
You would slam the metal or theslammer on the pile and they'd

(12:15):
flip.
If they flipped over a certainway, you took those pogs and the
other person would take theother pogs.

Teagan (12:19):
Did you ever get in a pog fight?

Speaker 00 (12:21):
Pogs are all about fights.
That was it.
That's the game.

Teagan (12:25):
Because then, see, you would take other people's pogs.

Speaker 00 (12:27):
Yeah.
We traded them.
We collected them.

Teagan (12:30):
But I don't get it.

Speaker 00 (12:32):
I don't get it either, but they were my life
for like a year.
That's all we cared about.

Teagan (12:36):
You flip it over.
When you hit it, And they allflip over.
You all go for the same cards?

Speaker 00 (12:41):
No, like, you hit it with your slammer.
The ones that flip over, like,a certain way.
Yeah.
I'm actually not remembering.
Yeah.
Like, if they all flipped up acertain way, like, over, you
would take those pogs andrestack the other ones that
didn't flip over.
The next person with them.

Teagan (12:55):
Oh, the next person.

Speaker 00 (12:56):
Yeah, then the next person with the pile with their
slammer and so on and so forth.
So how

Teagan (13:00):
would you get in fights over it?
Because you could, like, youcould lose your, like, favorite
pog.

Speaker 00 (13:07):
Yeah.

Teagan (13:08):
Because, like, your pogs are in.

Speaker 00 (13:10):
You mix your pogs together.
You mix your pods

Teagan (13:12):
together.
And so,

Speaker 00 (13:13):
like,

Teagan (13:15):
let's say I, and those all fell, and so I got to take
some of Will's pogs.
But realistically, you couldhave just

Speaker 00 (13:23):
kept it, right?
She's

Teagan (13:24):
such a cheater.

Speaker 00 (13:25):
Not in the pog game.

Teagan (13:26):
Okay.

Speaker 00 (13:27):
You didn't roll with the crew I ran with.
It was serious.
It was like

Teagan (13:31):
Pokemon cards.

Speaker 00 (13:34):
Only you didn't have to be, like, intelligent.
Kind of like a...
You just took your circles andyou called it

Teagan (13:41):
a day.
It

Speaker 00 (13:42):
was really...
But in the same way as Pokemoncards, it was a collector's set.
Like, we collected them.
But

Teagan (13:49):
there were fancy Pogs, right?

Speaker 00 (13:51):
There were fancy Pogs.
There were all different kinds.
There were funny Pogs.
Fancy.
I think that's an actual Pogcontainer.
So it probably says Pog.

Teagan (14:00):
And you're right.
It looks similar to a...
I've got to put the readers on,

Speaker 00 (14:06):
Will.
Put the readers on.
It was created from, if Iremember correctly, it was a
Hawaiian milk caps.
Whoever invented them, they gotthem from milk caps, I think,
and they started the game.
This is

Teagan (14:21):
R-O-H-K-S.
That's what I thought.
I thought I was

Speaker 00 (14:26):
wrong.
Oh, then I don't know.
It was probably a...
Just a holder that I bought.

Teagan (14:32):
Don't lose his pogs.

Speaker 00 (14:33):
Those are official Simpsons pogs.
Those are the real deal, myfriend.

Teagan (14:38):
Not your dollar store

Speaker 00 (14:40):
ones?
Not my dollar store ones.

Teagan (14:41):
Where are those?
Gone?

Speaker 00 (14:43):
They're at my parents' somewhere.
I can find them.
Did you

Teagan (14:46):
buy them at Jarek's ever?

Speaker 00 (14:47):
Oh, that was a big hog place.
How long

Teagan (14:49):
has Jarek's been around?
Oh, forever.

Speaker 00 (14:51):
That was like my favorite place growing up.

Teagan (14:53):
It's been the same owner, too.

Speaker 00 (14:54):
Yeah?

Unknown (14:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 00 (14:56):
Yeah, I'd always leave there with something
awesome.

Teagan (14:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 00 (14:59):
But yeah, those were pogs.
That was the first one.
Good times.
It was literally just a thingin the 90s.
We enjoyed them.
It was...

Teagan (15:08):
As a teacher, because I started teaching in 99, so they
were still around.
They were still around, stillholding on.
It was like my desk was full ofthem for a while there.

Speaker 00 (15:20):
Yeah, so pogs.
Yeah.

Teagan (15:25):
What's the other one you had, same as me?
I think I probably know.

Speaker 00 (15:29):
Tamagotchi.
Tamagotchi.
I

Teagan (15:31):
know those.
You know those?
I know those.
Young Sheldon also.
Oh.
Damn that kid.

Speaker 00 (15:36):
Yeah, right?

Teagan (15:37):
I've only watched the first season.
Wow.

Speaker 00 (15:39):
Apparently that's the criminal.
It's like the little animalthat you keep

Teagan (15:41):
alive and you don't feed it enough or at the right time
it dies.
Yeah.
So does it actually die or canyou get a new animal after?
Yeah.

Speaker 00 (15:51):
You can restart it, I think.
Yeah, I think you, like,

Teagan (15:53):
reset it.

Speaker 00 (15:54):
But there was, like, a time where it'd be like, oh,
I need you to watch myTamagotchi.

Teagan (15:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 00 (16:00):
Like, people would ask you, like, hey, I need you
to watch my Tamagotchi for me.
My pet.
And keep it alive.

Teagan (16:05):
Tamagotchi apps now.

Speaker 00 (16:07):
Is there?

Teagan (16:08):
That you can add as a widget on your phone.

Speaker 00 (16:10):
Huh.
I have a three-year-oldTamagotchi.
I'm doing all right with thatone.

Teagan (16:16):
We didn't have reminders with

Speaker 00 (16:17):
our Tamagotchis.
That's right.
We

Teagan (16:19):
didn't have no app.

Speaker 00 (16:20):
Yeah.
We had to look in theencyclopedia and see how to keep
it alive.
No, the Tamagotchi

Teagan (16:24):
is on your phone, not like an app to remind you.
Like it's a quote-unquote game.

Speaker 00 (16:29):
Interesting.

Teagan (16:31):
Okay.

Speaker 00 (16:32):
Well, you should get one.
Let us know how it goes.
Keep us posted.

Teagan (16:36):
Oh, good one.

Speaker 00 (16:39):
How about if I...
tell you to make a collectcall?

Teagan (16:46):
I've heard of it.
I don't know.

Speaker 00 (16:49):
Okay.
Collect call was when phonecalls cost money.
Oh,

Teagan (16:55):
yeah.

Speaker 00 (16:56):
Or like if you used a pay phone, you could make a
collect call and you could callyour parents and an operator
would come on and would say, doyou accept the call from?
And then you'd be like, well,and they'd be like, yes, I
accept.
And then you could complete thephone call.

Teagan (17:12):
So then it would be on their like phone bill because
you didn't have a quarter to putin the phone or a dime.

Speaker 00 (17:18):
So the way we used collect calls were.

Teagan (17:20):
Yes, this was great.

Speaker 00 (17:21):
Do you accept a collect call for a mom?
Pick me up.

Teagan (17:23):
Yep.

Speaker 00 (17:24):
And that's how my parents knew to come pick me up
from wherever I was.
So like when we would go to

Teagan (17:28):
the mall, there was like a ring of pay phones.

Speaker 00 (17:33):
Pay phone bank.

Teagan (17:34):
Yeah.
At the entrance of the mall.
And when it was time for yourmom to pick you up.
That's what you would do.
I'd be like, pick me up byFilene's.
And then so my mom, do youaccept Filene's?
Do you accept the collect callfrom pick me up from Filene's?

(17:56):
Although I think it was G Foxat the time.

Speaker 00 (17:58):
There was a commercial.
It was 1-800-COLLECT was whatyou dialed.
So they advertised it.
There's an advertisement wherethere's an old guy sitting
there.
He picks up, and they're like,what call from?
And the guy goes, Bob, we had ababy.
It's a boy.
And the guy hangs up, and thewife's like, who was that?
And he's like, oh, Bob, theyhad a baby.

(18:19):
It's a boy.

Teagan (18:21):
I do remember that.

Speaker 00 (18:22):
That's what I was saying earlier when I was like,
Bob, we had a baby.
It's a boy.
Yes.

Teagan (18:26):
Oh, my gosh.
That's so funny.

Speaker 00 (18:27):
So that's how everybody used these.
So even 1-800-COLLECT knew.
How it was used.
Yeah, totally.
And abused.

Teagan (18:34):
So then you get it.
So then your parent would saylike, no, I don't accept the
charges.
Yeah.
Because they got the message.
Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 00 (18:42):
It's pretty great.
This is going to come back tous.
Yeah, it is.
We're going to get back chargedfor all that.
I know.
That and Columbia House aregoing to come after

Teagan (18:51):
us.
How about Columbia House?
I don't have that written down.
Oh, yeah.
Is it like coffee?

Speaker 00 (18:58):
Coffee?
Is it not coffee?
It's a good guess.
I

Teagan (19:00):
could hear that.

Speaker 00 (19:01):
Your

Teagan (19:02):
dad used Columbia House.
I don't know what it is.
I thought it was coffee.

Speaker 00 (19:08):
That's a good guess.
I know, it is.
Columbia House.
You

Teagan (19:12):
would mail in a penny.

Speaker 00 (19:14):
And they would mail you 12 CDs or tapes.

Teagan (19:18):
Or tapes.
In my case, the Gen X-er.

Speaker 00 (19:22):
Because you joined Columbia House.

Teagan (19:24):
So then you joined, it was like a club, if you will.
And you would have this list ofeither tapes or CDs that you
could buy.
And you could pick 12, and youmail them a penny, and they come

(19:45):
six to eight months later.
And then...
Just a penny?
Yes, a penny.
But the trick was you thenwere, like, married to them, and
you had to buy, like, what?

Speaker 00 (20:00):
They would send you a random.
One a month.
If you didn't pick one, theywould send you a random CD.
But it was,

Teagan (20:04):
like, obnoxiously expensive.

Speaker 00 (20:06):
Yeah.

Teagan (20:06):
Right?
It was, like, at the time, Iremember, like, $18.
Yeah,

Speaker 00 (20:10):
I remember it was, like, $20.
Yeah.
I got, like, an Atari CD, and Iwas like, I don't want

Teagan (20:15):
it.
Yes.
Yes.

Speaker 00 (20:16):
All right, my next one for you is Gak.

Teagan (20:22):
Yes.
Gak.
Like yak.

Speaker 00 (20:28):
Like a yak, but with a G.
Gak.

Teagan (20:31):
Gak.
I don't know.
Like something's gross.
I don't know.
Is it something or is it likeyou're saying something?
It's a thing.
You buy Gak.
I don't know.
Make a guess.
I feel like it's something...
I don't know what you wouldbuy.
I feel like it's something youwould say like that's gross.
Like...
Gak.

Speaker 00 (20:50):
Yeah, like that.
That's so Gak.
You're so Gak.
I don't know.
What is it?
Stop trying to make Gak athing.
Yeah, yeah, like that.
It was basically slime.
It was Nickelodeon Gak.
Nickelodeon had these things.
So they had Gak and they hadFloam.
Floam was like...

Teagan (21:10):
Foam?

Speaker 00 (21:11):
It was like foam slash styrofoam.
It had like little beads.

Teagan (21:16):
Almost like Bobbity.
Slime, but they were tiny.
Slime?

Speaker 00 (21:21):
But it was more of like a foamy kind of like,
almost like kinetic sand in away, where you could like make
shapes out of it and stuff.
Oh,

Teagan (21:31):
yes.
I know what you're talkingabout.
There was, what's it called?
It's like...
I know which one you're talkingabout.
I know what you're talkingabout.
I forget the name for it,though.

Speaker 00 (21:38):
Like, they had a bunch of, like, spin-offs of it,
whatever you would call them.
So I'm sure they still have itaround now.
I know what you're talking

Teagan (21:46):
about.
The little styrofoam balls.
Yeah.
And it was, like, it stucktogether.
I know exactly what you'retalking about, but I don't know
the name of

Speaker 00 (21:52):
it.
So it was Nickelodeon.
That was part of their toyline.
It was called Floam, and itwas, like, really cool when it
came out.
I remember...
making things with it, and itwas like, sculpt things.
I don't know.
So, Floam, Greg.
That

Teagan (22:08):
stuff, Rachel used to add to her slime.
That's the stuff that you addto slime.
That's the kind of stuff, likekinetic stands, that, whatever
the...
Gak.

Speaker 00 (22:17):
Yeah.
So I was going to say, so youcould like add phloem to Gak and
really make a mess.
Yeah, you could.
Something awesome.
Nice.
All right.
So that was a good guessbecause it is something gross in
a way.
It's slime.
Yeah.
How about, and this is stillaround, so you may know it.
Yeah.
Bop it.

Unknown (22:37):
Yeah.

Teagan (22:37):
Bop It! I've never played with one, but I know what
it is.
I remember it from GilmoreGirls.
Yeah.
During the Bad Date episode ofLuke and Lorelai, and then when
Rory and Dean got back together,they whipped out the Bop It.
Yeah, and it got nasty.
Yeah.
Dean and Luke got in a fightover it.
Yeah.

Speaker 00 (22:55):
Bop It was fun.
It was 90s Simon.

Teagan (22:59):
Bop It.
Pretty much, right?
It was like the same thing.
They made it a little bit moreactive.

Speaker 00 (23:03):
Yeah.
Did you ever play Simon withthe lights?
No.

Teagan (23:07):
No.

Speaker 00 (23:08):
That was an 80s thing.

Teagan (23:09):
That was 80s.
I loved Simon.
Like Simon Says?

Speaker 00 (23:12):
It was called Simon, and it was...
Because it was

Teagan (23:14):
kind of like Simon

Speaker 00 (23:15):
Says.
Yeah, it was just four...
It was a round thing.
Eh,

Teagan (23:20):
it's a little bigger than that.
Oh, okay.

Speaker 00 (23:26):
Let everyone know I'm widening my fictitious
circle.
There were four coloredbuttons, so it was like yellow,
red, green, blue.
And it would...
So basic, as the kids would say10 years ago.
Like one would light up and itwould go beep and light up and
you'd hit it and then it wouldgo beep, beep.

(23:48):
So you'd follow the pattern.

Teagan (23:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 00 (23:50):
And it eventually got really hard because you'd
have to remember.

Teagan (23:52):
Yeah.
One of Claire had that.
Oh, did she?
Yeah.
I remember playing that withBrandon.
Yeah.

Speaker 00 (24:00):
Clint and Brandon.
They get us.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Every time.
90s kids at heart.
Yeah.
80s kids at heart.

Teagan (24:06):
Yeah.
Why would I need a penny saver?

Speaker 00 (24:15):
Oh, penny saver.

Teagan (24:16):
Yeah.
Good one, right?
Like a piggy bank?
No.

Unknown (24:20):
No.

Teagan (24:21):
Penny saver?
To buy the things you weretalking about?

Speaker 00 (24:26):
Pogs?
To buy our CDs.

Teagan (24:31):
The penny saver was like a little magazine that would
have ads in it and people wouldsell things and if you were
looking for something, you couldput an ad in it and you would
check the penny saver.
it

Speaker 00 (24:48):
was craigslist on paper

Teagan (24:49):
craigslist craigslist

Speaker 00 (24:52):
i didn't find it it popped in my head oh you're so

Teagan (24:55):
smart

Speaker 00 (24:55):
um

Teagan (24:56):
it would come um in your mailbox right penny saver

Speaker 00 (25:00):
yeah

Teagan (25:00):
so oh it wasn't actual pennies no oh you mean it's like
you're actually saving pennieswhen you left the like the
grocery store

Speaker 00 (25:07):
yes it was like in the yes with the auto trader
yeah and like

Teagan (25:11):
you have it at your store like when you leave
there's like oh all the displaysyeah yeah yeah you you could
grab a penny saver and you'll belike, oh, I'm looking for like,
I don't know, a car.

Speaker 00 (25:23):
Yeah.
An engine for an 82 Honda or ajob.

Teagan (25:27):
Either one.
Or a wife.
Or a wife.
So essentially Facebookmarketplace, but on paper.

Speaker 00 (25:32):
That's exactly what it is.
I bought my first drum set fromthe penny saver.
Oh, did you?
Yeah.
I specifically remember my momfinding it and being like, oh.
So

Teagan (25:38):
basically everything you guys talk about goes online.
Yeah.

Speaker 00 (25:42):
Yeah.

Teagan (25:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 00 (25:44):
Yeah.
Again, the internet wasn't likea thing.
It

Teagan (25:46):
wasn't a thing.
Um, my favorite.
Okay.
So, um, her dad and I went toOneonta together and I have a
visual of sitting in like the,um, the union it was called.
And we were waiting for him toeat, to go get food and he was

(26:07):
taking forever.
And we're like, where's, whereis he?
You know?
And he came back and he waslike, guys, I was in the
computer lab and I was likesurfing the web.
And we're like, what?
He's like, yeah.
And it was like his first timesurfing the web and he found out

(26:29):
what it was.
But like Googling stuff?

Speaker 00 (26:34):
Just being on the internet.

Teagan (26:36):
Yeah.
I guess maybe he would kind ofGoogle stuff.
Although at the time...
Clarify surfing the web.
Huh?
Clarify surfing the web.
Looking for...
Yeah, looking stuff up.

Speaker 00 (26:48):
So if I remember correctly, we used to look
everything up through AOL?

Teagan (26:52):
Was that...
Or was it Yahoo?

Speaker 00 (26:56):
Yeah, there was Yahoo.

Teagan (26:57):
Because AOL you had to subscribe to.
Like, I never had AOL.

Speaker 00 (27:01):
Basically, your dad was late because he was like, I
just found endless boobs.
Oh,

Teagan (27:07):
he knows daddy.
Yeah.

Speaker 00 (27:12):
Yeah, I remember when we...
So I was in middle school.
I think I was like eighth gradewhen they brought in like
computers and like the web andstuff like

Teagan (27:20):
that.

Speaker 00 (27:21):
And there was...
Wait,

Teagan (27:23):
how far apart are you guys?

Speaker 00 (27:24):
Eight years.
Eight years.
So they didn't have any like...
You could search anything.
There was no, like...

Teagan (27:34):
Oh, there were no filters?

Speaker 00 (27:35):
There were no filters.
There was no locks.
Like, I remember a lot ofpeople getting in trouble.
Oh,

Teagan (27:40):
that's so

Speaker 00 (27:40):
funny.

Teagan (27:42):
But after Daddy came back, we went and we got our
lunch, and I was eating a Dannonyogurt.
And I looked at the side of it,and I was like, www.dannon.com.
I was like, oh my gosh, is thiswhat you're talking about?
He was like, yeah, that's awebsite.
Shut up.

Speaker 00 (28:01):
That was the other thing is I remember when
commercials started puttingwebsites on the bottom of the
screen.

Teagan (28:08):
Yes.

Speaker 00 (28:09):
And I specifically remember my parents being like,
what is

Teagan (28:12):
that?
Yes.
Because it was like, it took abit.
for it to catch

Speaker 00 (28:19):
on.
Because you did.
You had to go in and you wouldtype into the web browser,
www.whatever the website was.
I feel like I'll

Teagan (28:26):
never hear that on radio.
I feel like I've never seenthat on commercials.
www?
Yeah.

Speaker 00 (28:31):
Yeah.
Because now you just Google it.

Teagan (28:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 00 (28:34):
Just

Teagan (28:35):
look it up.

Speaker 00 (28:36):
Just look it

Teagan (28:36):
up.
You just look it up.

Speaker 00 (28:38):
Honestly, just say it loud enough, your phone

Teagan (28:40):
will bring it up at some point.
Or just think it.
It will give you.
I know.

Speaker 00 (28:48):
How about, this is probably still around, maybe, I
don't know, Furby?

Teagan (28:53):
I love Furbies! Okay, you know Furbies.
Dad used to call me Furby incollege.
Okay, so, I don't know if wehad...
We're just

Speaker 00 (29:03):
going to breeze over that.

Teagan (29:06):
Now I'm hearing what you said.
I don't know if we had, like,the real Furbies, but we had,
like, I think they were, like,the upgraded versions of
Furbies.
And when me and Brynn got themfor Christmas, we got the
Furbies, like, we had multipleof them, but there were also,

(29:26):
like, different, like,quote-unquote series of Furbies.
Okay.
So they had, like, the mousethat would run around the house.
Huh.
So we had that.
I completely forgot about that.
Yeah, those were also, like,the Furbies, like, brand, I
think.
There was multiple stuff thatwas Furby's brand, but not
specifically.
I know at Furby's you'retalking about the blinking eyes

(29:47):
and stuff.

Speaker 00 (29:48):
The freaky things.

Teagan (29:50):
That one movie.
Gremlins?
I don't know.
It's like a monster.
There's multiple of them.
Yeah, Gremlins.
So we had Furby's, but we alsohad the other Furby's products.
I totally forgot about thelittle mouse.
We had the mouse, and then wehad...
There was something else, but Ireally remember the mouse

(30:10):
running around the house.
Yeah.

Speaker 00 (30:13):
You might have just had rodents.
Yeah.
Look at that.
We're unlocking familymemories.
This is nice.
Don't

Teagan (30:22):
tell

Speaker 00 (30:23):
the whole world.
This is another one a lot ofpeople know.
If I told you GoldenEye.

Teagan (30:30):
All I think of is Michael Scott.

Unknown (30:35):
Yeah.

Teagan (30:35):
We're so proud.

Speaker 00 (30:37):
As you should be.
If I told you my friends and Iwere going to play Goldeneye.

Teagan (30:41):
No

Speaker 00 (30:43):
clue.
Oh my goodness, okay.
I don't know

Teagan (30:46):
Goldeneye.

Speaker 00 (30:46):
Okay, that's kind of what I figured.

Teagan (30:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 00 (30:49):
Goldeneye was the greatest video game ever made
for Nintendo 64.
Do you know what a Nintendo 64is?

Teagan (30:57):
I know what a Nintendo is.

Speaker 00 (30:59):
Not a 64?

Teagan (31:00):
No.
Do

Speaker 00 (31:02):
I have to go leave the room again?
Because I have one downstairs.
Do you have one in your safe?
I have one downstairs.
Nintendo 64 came out in 1996.
It was like the greatest videogame console system ever made.
So Goldeneye was...
So an

Teagan (31:17):
Xbox?

Speaker 00 (31:17):
What's that?

Teagan (31:18):
So an Xbox?

Speaker 00 (31:19):
No.
It was a Nintendo.
It was a cartridge game.
Blowing a cartridge.
No?

Teagan (31:27):
No.
Really?
No.

Speaker 00 (31:31):
I really might have to go downstairs and grab you
some Nintendo games.
What do you

Teagan (31:33):
mean cartridge?

Speaker 00 (31:36):
Oh my goodness.
All right, hold on.

Teagan (31:38):
Nintendo?

Speaker 00 (31:39):
What do we start with here?

Teagan (31:40):
This is great.
Nintendo cartridge.

Speaker 00 (31:44):
This is a Nintendo 64.
Oh

Teagan (31:45):
my God.

Speaker 00 (31:47):
The greatest console ever made,

Teagan (31:51):
okay?
You know that looks fancy tome, right?

Speaker 00 (31:54):
I'm sure, because it's not Atari.
Because

Teagan (31:56):
it's not Atari.
That's exactly right.
It's Atari.

Speaker 00 (31:59):
This is a Nintendo 64 controller.

Teagan (32:02):
That looks like a whole spaceship.

Speaker 00 (32:07):
So it's

Teagan (32:08):
just, Xbox just copied Nintendo.

Speaker 00 (32:10):
Essentially.
There's a second joystick onXbox, right?
There's two joysticks?

Teagan (32:17):
Yes, yeah.
Over here, yeah.

Speaker 00 (32:21):
I don't know if there's any games in here,
actually.
I don't know.

Teagan (32:23):
What the hell is that?
Is that the charger?
The what?
Charger.

Speaker 00 (32:29):
No, so you don't charge it.
It has to stay connected to thesystem.
So

Teagan (32:34):
what's

Speaker 00 (32:35):
that?
That's where you put a memorycard or a rumble pack.
The rumble pack made it

Teagan (32:41):
vibrate.
Oh, yes.
What?
Like, let's say you're playing,like, a motorcycle game or
something.
It's like a zzz.
Yes, exactly.
Oh, you do have a game.

Speaker 00 (32:50):
This is a Nintendo 64 game.
So it came in a cartridge.

Teagan (32:56):
So that was like DSs, just DSs were smaller.

Speaker 00 (33:00):
Essentially, yeah.

Teagan (33:02):
Because they had the little cards that you put in for
the games.

Speaker 00 (33:04):
Yeah.
So what happened is you'd go tostart the game and it wouldn't
work and you...
You blow on it.

Teagan (33:10):
Oh, and it worked.

Speaker 00 (33:11):
And it worked.
And I think it says somewherein here, do not blow on

Teagan (33:14):
it.
Oh, that's hilarious.

Speaker 00 (33:15):
Do not blow on the edge connector or touch with
your fingers.
So that was the second thingyou did if it didn't work.
You would touch it with your

Teagan (33:24):
fingers.

Speaker 00 (33:24):
But, yeah, so this is how you got it.
This is the game.
And stick that bad boy inthere.

Teagan (33:31):
You could also rent games.

Speaker 00 (33:33):
You could rent games.

Teagan (33:34):
Like Redbox?

Unknown (33:35):
Yeah.

Teagan (33:36):
Yeah.
Kind of.

Speaker 00 (33:38):
Only

Teagan (33:38):
a store.
But at the store.
Yeah.
It's like with the video storeI worked at.
You could go in and you couldrent these video games.
Radio Shack?
No.
You're thinking Blockbuster.
Radio Shack is like...

Speaker 00 (33:55):
So this was Sega Genesis.
This was before...
Sega.
That was before Nintendo 64.
It looks

Teagan (34:01):
like one of those mouse pads that he put on your

Speaker 00 (34:04):
head.
Like an ergonomically correctmouse

Teagan (34:07):
pad.
That was filled with gel.
How do you use it?
You

Speaker 00 (34:12):
press the buttons.
So you had the directions onthe left.
That was the D-pad.
And then you had

Teagan (34:20):
the

Speaker 00 (34:21):
buttons.
This was so advanced becausethere's three buttons as opposed
to two.
Nintendo had two buttons.

Teagan (34:28):
Yeah, I see them.
One, two, three.
Actually, it's A, B, C.
Come on

Speaker 00 (34:34):
now.
Get it together.

Teagan (34:36):
Sorry.

Speaker 00 (34:36):
So, Goldeneye was a first-person shooter game.
So you know what that means,right?
You see the gun?
Yeah.
So it was...
It was a, so you could playmultiplayer up to four people.
It was a split screen.
Yeah.
So, um, you know, we played onlike a 13 inch screen four ways.

(35:02):
Um, do you have your

Teagan (35:05):
own part of the screen?

Speaker 00 (35:07):
Yeah.
So each person has their little

Teagan (35:09):
Brynn and I do it on Minecraft.
Oh, how it's what we do it too.
So it's top and bottom.
So it's like that.

Speaker 00 (35:15):
And then you'd get mad at the other person for
looking at your screen.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They

Teagan (35:20):
can't look at your screen?

Speaker 00 (35:21):
Well, not if you're playing fair.

Teagan (35:24):
But it's the same TV.
Yeah,

Speaker 00 (35:27):
but you're supposed to look at your designated
screen.

Teagan (35:29):
Because then you can't look.
It'll cheat.

Speaker 00 (35:31):
It'll cheat.
Yeah.
Hours upon hours.

Teagan (35:36):
Minecraft and...
No, I played Q-Bert.

Speaker 00 (35:39):
Q-Bert was good.
So anyway, best game ever.
A lot of fistfights in mybasement over that game.
That's great.
That was a 20-minute segment.

Unknown (35:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 00 (35:48):
I do love this interview thing, though.
I

Teagan (35:51):
know.
I know.
You'll make something out ofit.

Speaker 00 (35:55):
Yeah, we'll make it

Teagan (35:56):
work.
What about Entertainment Book?
Right?
Entertainment Book?

Speaker 00 (36:05):
Special K was big on the Entertainment Book.
Was she?
Is that not

Teagan (36:07):
serial?
Special K is serial.
Yeah.
And also his mother.

Speaker 00 (36:14):
And you better honor those.

Teagan (36:16):
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
Well, when I worked atBaskin-Robbins,

Speaker 00 (36:20):
yeah.
You probably caught the wrath.

Teagan (36:23):
Yeah, I'm sure I did.
That's probably why I like yourmom.
I probably met her a time ortwo with her entertainment

Speaker 00 (36:30):
book.
I

Teagan (36:32):
was like, here she comes again.
It makes me think of a phonebook, but for like...
Entertainment.

Speaker 00 (36:38):
In a way, it was.
Okay, okay.
It was a coupon book.

Teagan (36:43):
But it was big.

Speaker 00 (36:44):
It was big.

Teagan (36:45):
It was like this thick.

Speaker 00 (36:46):
It was huge.
So it was like...
I don't want to get it wrong.

Teagan (36:50):
Yeah, no.
Was it about yay big?
It was about yay...
Yeah, but it was thick.

Speaker 00 (36:54):
It was thick.
And it was like just...
four coupons on each page orsomething like that?
Oh, no.

Teagan (37:01):
It was like eight.

Speaker 00 (37:02):
Was it that

Teagan (37:03):
many?
Because half of it wouldexplain what it was, and then
the other half, they were likelittle tickets.

Speaker 00 (37:08):
And it was a lot of like...
I remember Burger King waslike, buy a Whopper, get a
Whopper free.
It was stuff

Teagan (37:14):
like that.
So it was like a decent...
Pop loved the coupon book.
And kids would sell them forlike fundraisers.

Speaker 00 (37:22):
And they were expensive.
They were like $25.
I

Teagan (37:25):
don't know what you're talking about.
We sold...
We've sold them before for GirlScouts.
Really?
We've had something like that,like coupon books.

Speaker 00 (37:32):
You know, it is possible to be too involved.

Teagan (37:34):
I'm saying.
Yeah, we've sold like couponbooks for Girl Scouts before.
Or Jump Up for Heart.
Yeah, I'm not sure they wereentertainment books.

Speaker 00 (37:51):
I totally forgot about those.
Well, you keep using

Teagan (37:53):
entertainment books and coupon books, like,
synonymously.
Well, see, entertainment is abrand of coupon

Speaker 00 (37:59):
books.
Yeah, it was called TheEntertainment Book.

Teagan (38:01):
It had, like, a gray cover.
Oh.
And, like, they had goodcoupons, and they were regional.

Speaker 00 (38:08):
That's, yeah.

Teagan (38:10):
So, like...
It would only work at like thisMcDonald's and this McDonald's.
Oh.
But not like you couldn't takethe coupon to like North
Carolina and use it.
Oh.

Speaker 00 (38:21):
But they were like legit deals.
Yeah, they were

Teagan (38:23):
good coupons.

Speaker 00 (38:25):
Yeah.
I remember a lot of buy one,get one.

Teagan (38:27):
Yes.

Speaker 00 (38:27):
Then

Teagan (38:28):
there was like the random ones that you would never
use, like car insurance.
What do you mean by carinsurance?
Like it would be like take 5%off your car insurance or
something.

Speaker 00 (38:43):
How about skip it?

Teagan (38:45):
Oh, you're talking to the Skippet Queen.
I loved Skippet.
She knows Skippet.
Yes, I loved it.
I could probably pull up avideo right now.
The first time I used it was ingym class.
And then I asked Santa for onefor Christmas.
I specifically had a white onewith pink and purple on it.
Because her Santa rocks.
Yes.
And I literally used itprobably for the first, like,

(39:10):
Three hours of Christmas beforewe went to our grandma's.
Like, I used it for hours onend.
She was so good at it.
Yeah?
Like, hours on end.
Like, you know, like thosesuper, like, speed jump roping
competitions?
Yeah.
I could have done that with theSkip It.
Skip It.
Yeah.
I was obsessed with it.
So do you remember

Speaker 00 (39:25):
the commercial?

Teagan (39:26):
No.
I only remember the Skip It.
Yeah, which she's like, I don'tdo commercials.

Unknown (39:31):
No.

Teagan (39:32):
I only remember the Skip It.

Speaker 00 (39:34):
Skip It.
I just pictured her getting aSkip It and a coupon book and an
entertainment book.
I'm like, what is

Teagan (39:40):
this thing?
She's like, this is fantastic.

Speaker 00 (39:41):
Skip It was sweet.
I used to use my sister's SkipIt all the time.

Teagan (39:44):
Was it white and purple and pink?

Speaker 00 (39:46):
It was just pink.
It was pink Skip It.

Teagan (39:49):
Do you have bruises from when you smacked yourself in
the shins?

Speaker 00 (39:54):
I can't say I did.
You are not

Teagan (39:55):
a pro Skip It person.

Speaker 00 (39:57):
How the hell do you smack yourself in the shins with
a Skip It?
If you

Teagan (39:59):
didn't jump fast enough, you would smack yourself with
it.

Speaker 00 (40:02):
It was pretty soft.

Teagan (40:04):
What?
What?

Speaker 00 (40:05):
It was like a piece of plastic.

Teagan (40:06):
I'm sorry, what are you talking about?
No, the end was hard.
It was like a

Speaker 00 (40:11):
whole

Teagan (40:12):
chunk of plastic.

Speaker 00 (40:12):
How was that coming into your...

Teagan (40:14):
Because it would like...

Speaker 00 (40:15):
Oh, like whip around?

Teagan (40:16):
Yeah.
Yeah,

Speaker 00 (40:17):
it wasn't that...

Teagan (40:18):
Oh, so you were good.
You weren't that.

Speaker 00 (40:23):
Yeah, I was coordinated, as they say.
In my day, the skip a counteronly went up to 99.
Oh,

Teagan (40:32):
really?

Speaker 00 (40:33):
I

Teagan (40:33):
don't know.
Teagan's like, I did that inlike a minute.
No, yeah.

Speaker 00 (40:36):
Yours didn't have a counter?

Teagan (40:37):
No.
I think it did.
Did it?
I think it did.
I think I had an app.

Unknown (40:43):
Yeah.

Teagan (40:44):
Oh, come on.
Jeez.
I think I had an app that had,like, a tracker for it.
Because I remember when I,like, play sounds.
I remember I had two.
Oh, maybe you did.
I had two.
The white one I know I thinkhad a counter.
And the other one I think hadan app

Speaker 00 (41:00):
with it that tracked it.
We had acoustic skip it.
It was a whole thing.
Not electronic.
All right, well, I'm happy youknow Skip It.
I

Teagan (41:11):
love them.
I'm trying to find a Skip Itvideo.

Speaker 00 (41:13):
What about Koosh?
Koosh?
Koosh.

Teagan (41:18):
Like quinoa?
I don't know.
It makes me think of quinoa,like couscous.

Speaker 00 (41:25):
Koosh.
I don't know how to explain akoosh.
Koosh ball.

Teagan (41:29):
Koosh ball.
Koosh ball.
Oh, mumble?
No.
Oh.
Mumble's a game?
Yeah.
Yeah, no.

Unknown (41:37):
Oh.

Teagan (41:37):
A couche is, it was like, it's a physical item.
Yeah.

Speaker 00 (41:41):
It is a physical

Teagan (41:43):
item.
And I would let it hang by theone string.

Speaker 00 (41:46):
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Spin it.

Teagan (41:48):
Yeah.
I never knew the name of it,but I know those.
They had like the earringsversions of them at Claire's.
Yeah, they did.
Teagan, do you know what youwould get if you completed Book
It?
Book It?
Yeah.
Book It.
No.

Speaker 00 (42:06):
Just talking about this this afternoon.
Were you?
I was.
I

Teagan (42:09):
don't know what that is.
So, book it.
It was like a program in schoolwhere you would read, right?
And you would track it.
And you would get mom'ssignature or you would forge it.
Yes.
Yeah.
Fourth grade.
There you go.
Obviously, you would win or youwould get...
Free Pizza Hut pizza.

Speaker 00 (42:31):
Personal pan pizza.

Teagan (42:32):
Oh, specifically Pizza Hut?
Yeah.
You get the coupon and you goand you can go eat your pizza.

Speaker 00 (42:39):
Personal pan pizza.
So couldn't you

Teagan (42:40):
just lie over and over?
Was it personal

Speaker 00 (42:45):
or?
They're all personal if you.
If you try hard

Teagan (42:47):
enough.
That's my daughter.
See that?
That's really good.
No, I don't know.
So only Pizza Hut?
Yeah.

Speaker 00 (42:58):
Yeah.

Teagan (42:59):
So why didn't people just lie and just get a whole
bunch of stuff?
Oh, they did.
I'm sure a bunch did.
Oh, they did.

Speaker 00 (43:04):
Well, you only got one.
I mean, it wasn't...

Teagan (43:06):
Yeah, but couldn't you bring multiple favorites, say?
No, it didn't work like that.
Oh.

Speaker 00 (43:11):
Yeah.
There was a system.

Teagan (43:13):
Don't try to hack the

Speaker 00 (43:14):
system.
We had this thing calledintegrity in the 90s, right?
Rule following.
It was a different world.
Yeah.
It doesn't really exist inmine.
Did

Teagan (43:25):
you do Book It?
Yeah.
Did you almost say Bitcoin?
It's not like you almost saidBitcoin.
Oh,

Speaker 00 (43:31):
no.

Teagan (43:31):
Book It.

Speaker 00 (43:32):
Book It.

Teagan (43:33):
Book.

Speaker 00 (43:34):
All right, what else you got?

Teagan (43:38):
This

Speaker 00 (43:38):
is a long episode.

Teagan (43:40):
How long

Speaker 00 (43:40):
are we in?
Oh, it's 10 o'clock.

Teagan (43:42):
Is it really?
Okay.
It is 10 o'clock.

Speaker 00 (43:45):
It's not a bad thing, I'm just saying.

Teagan (43:47):
No, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 00 (43:50):
I also keep running out of the room.

Teagan (43:52):
So...
Let's say I was in the car withfriends and we had to cross the
bridge and I would be like,quick, check the floor, check
under your seats.
Why would I do that?
I have no idea.
It's usually hold your breath.
Oh, for like good luck?
Yeah.
Yeah, no.
Money?

(44:14):
Yeah.
Oh, tolls?
Yes.
Oh.
No, just easy passes.

Speaker 00 (44:22):
Did you ever

Teagan (44:23):
have a coupon book?
Are you serious right now?
Yeah, who bought a book?
It was like tickets across thebridge.
So when I went to New Paltz,you would buy a book of tickets.
And so it was like, it wouldmake it faster.
They were like for commuters.
And you weren't supposed toremove the ticket from the book.

(44:45):
But if you were a pro like me,you would tear the ticket and
stick it in the book and handthe book and they would just
pull the ticket.
Didn't have to take the time totear it.
It was a 90s thing.
So did you prepay all of them,essentially?
Yeah, so one day you'd go tothe bridge and you would pay
your toll and then...

(45:06):
That face was so bad.
Oh my God, I'm so sorry.
And then you...
You would be like, I'll buy aticket book or a coupon book or
whatever.
Can I ask you guys questions?

Speaker 00 (45:24):
sure

Teagan (45:24):
yeah do you know what a do you know what a fiend is a

Speaker 00 (45:29):
what

Teagan (45:30):
a fiend a fiend a

Speaker 00 (45:32):
fiend a

Teagan (45:33):
fiend like f fiend f fiend well i like i'm fiending
for a there you go oh yeah yeahokay like a Like a yearning.

Speaker 00 (45:49):
Yeah.
I say a desire.
Yeah.

Teagan (45:52):
Yeah.
Like you're a fiend forsomething.
You just sounded like a romancenovel.
Like Jordan, for example, she'sa fiend for Duncan.
Oh, okay.
Do people say that about allthis kind of stuff?
Yeah.

Speaker 00 (46:06):
Oh.
So if you're fiending forsomething.
Yeah.

Teagan (46:09):
But you'd say like you are a fiend?

Speaker 00 (46:11):
We would say jonesing.

Teagan (46:13):
Oh.
Do you know what a...
You know what a big back is?
A big back?
A

Speaker 00 (46:22):
big

Teagan (46:22):
back.
Yeah, you know what?
Will probably hasn't heard anyof these because he also doesn't
do the TikTok.
I'm so excited.

Speaker 00 (46:27):
I don't.
A big

Teagan (46:29):
back?
A big back.
I'm going to give you thespecific origin of it.

Speaker 00 (46:35):
I would love a specific origin.

Teagan (46:37):
It's someone so fat.
She

Speaker 00 (46:42):
spits.
Watch out.

Teagan (46:46):
Oh my god.
I'm dead.
So when someone's so fat,they're hunched over a lot, so
it creates a big back.
So they're big backed.
So you call them, you're a bigback?
Yeah, but if you just eat alot, you're also called a big

(47:07):
back.

Speaker 00 (47:08):
I saw that today in a post.

Teagan (47:11):
Did you?

Speaker 00 (47:12):
Somebody said something about a big back.

Teagan (47:14):
So it's essentially just calling someone fat in other
terms.
It's a big back.

Speaker 00 (47:20):
That's a good one.
Okay.
I want to find out

Teagan (47:22):
more.
Why didn't you guys tell methis?
I would have been prepared.
Do you know what

Speaker 00 (47:27):
Riz is?
I've heard Riz.
Isn't that like...
Oh, my God, I have the best oneever.
Next.
Like one would have Riz.
Yeah.
So they'd have the juice.
What?
No, well, only you have juice.

(47:50):
Like you got the Riz.
You got the.

Teagan (47:55):
So sophomore year, I finally learned that Riz is
short for charisma.
Oh, that makes sense.

Speaker 00 (48:04):
What's the next one?
Because you were really excitedabout it.

Teagan (48:06):
Do you know what a gyat is?

Speaker 00 (48:12):
A gyat?

Teagan (48:13):
God bless

Speaker 00 (48:13):
you.

Teagan (48:14):
Yes.
Specifically, G-Y-A-T-T.

Speaker 00 (48:20):
No.
I got nothing.

Teagan (48:23):
A gyat is referred to for a big butt.

Speaker 00 (48:27):
Like a ba-dunk-a-dunk.

Teagan (48:29):
Yes, exactly.
Like a ba-dunk-a-dunk.
Yes, exactly.
Okay.
Baby got back.

Speaker 00 (48:34):
Yeah.

Teagan (48:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 00 (48:35):
What's it stand for?
A

Teagan (48:37):
big butt.

Speaker 00 (48:38):
But what's...

Teagan (48:39):
But like...
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh,

Speaker 00 (48:43):
I know where it came from.
I

Teagan (48:45):
don't.
I just know it's the word.

Speaker 00 (48:47):
Yeah.
Damn.

Teagan (48:49):
That's exactly it.
Yes.
Yes.
I love that.

Speaker 00 (48:54):
See?
I'd be knowing things.
Right?

Teagan (48:58):
You're cool like that.

Speaker 00 (48:59):
I'm like the kids.

Teagan (49:01):
Yeah.
Do you know what Skibbity OhioRiz is?
He thinks you're, like, fuckingwith him right now.
So this is specifically, thisis more Gen Alpha, but...
A lot of people say it to beidiots, but Skibbity Ohio Riz.

Speaker 00 (49:24):
Skibbity, it's like having a lot of charisma?

Teagan (49:27):
It's just saying someone's weird.
Oh.
But say it like in a sentence.
Like...
Will just has that whole box ofstuff.
He's so skibbedy or however itis.
Why are you picking up

Speaker 00 (49:38):
my

Teagan (49:43):
stuff?
She called you out.

Speaker 00 (49:45):
Next you'll call me a string

Teagan (49:46):
bean.
I want to go in depth of whatyou said.
Do you know what asituationship is?

Speaker 00 (50:05):
Is it a...
Don't get me.
A situationship?

Teagan (50:12):
Yes.

Speaker 00 (50:14):
Is it, I'm guessing, like a friends with benefits
type of thing?
Essentially,

Teagan (50:18):
yeah.
It kind of is.
But you're not out in publicwith each other.
Oh, there's

Speaker 00 (50:25):
rules.

Teagan (50:25):
Yeah.
Oh,

Speaker 00 (50:26):
there's got to be rules.

Teagan (50:27):
Like, you're not dating,

Speaker 00 (50:28):
but you're not

Teagan (50:29):
just talking.
So you're essentially datingwithout the label.
But you don't post stufftogether.
Oh.
So like it's just between thetwo of you.
So that's like the guy and theugly girl.
Yes.
Yes.
Really?
I know what you're talkingabout.
Yes.
Okay.
Kind of, but like between likeanyone.
Monica Lewinsky was in asituation.

(50:51):
A little bit.
A

Speaker 00 (50:52):
little

Teagan (50:52):
bit.
Yeah.
Monica was in a situation withChandler before they went out
with everyone.
Oh, okay.
Oh, okay.
So it's kind of like they werein a situation ship because it
was secret.
They didn't tell anyone.
And then once they came out, itwas a relationship.
Okay.
Yeah.

Unknown (51:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 00 (51:13):
On this week's 90s News Flash.
This was something that I justlooked up while we were starting
the show.

Teagan (51:25):
What'd you find?
I

Speaker 00 (51:27):
found that there is a 90s-inspired margarita coming
to Chili's.
Like I said, I'm eitherthrowing out advertisements or
deaths.
That's all my news flashes

Teagan (51:39):
are.
Bring it.

Speaker 00 (51:40):
Let's

Teagan (51:40):
advertise the death.

Speaker 00 (51:41):
Yeah, a 90s-inspired margarita.
It is going to be...
The face of the margarita isgoing to be...
Tiffany Amber Thiessen.
No.
You may know her from Saved bythe Bell.

Teagan (51:54):
Uh-huh.

Speaker 00 (51:55):
You may know her from Beverly Hills 90210.
That's

Teagan (51:57):
where I know her from.

Speaker 00 (51:59):
So she is, yeah, she's promoting these 90s
margaritas.
Ironically, there's a Chili'sright down the street.
So

Teagan (52:09):
we'll meet there.

Speaker 00 (52:10):
I think we should plan to.
I love

Teagan (52:12):
Chili's.
They're triple dipper.

Speaker 00 (52:13):
We have a driver.
Yes,

Teagan (52:15):
they do.

Unknown (52:17):
Yes.
Yes.

Speaker 00 (52:17):
Air high five.
Perfect.

Teagan (52:19):
Like the Dundies.

Speaker 00 (52:21):
Exactly.
Yes.
Oh, that's right.
They had it in

Teagan (52:24):
Chili's and then they got kicked out because Pam stole
people's drinks.

Speaker 00 (52:28):
Oh, yeah.
We can get kicked out of this

Teagan (52:29):
Chili's.

Speaker 00 (52:30):
$6.
$6 margarita.

Teagan (52:33):
What?

Speaker 00 (52:34):
Color changing.
That's

Teagan (52:35):
so expensive.
That's actually not.
Six dollars.
Oh, well, alcohol, right?
Yeah, alcohol.
Alcohol.
What makes it 90s?
Just because Tiffany's face ison it?

Speaker 00 (52:47):
I'm guessing.
It says, Margarita is acolor-changing portal back to
the 90s.
I guess if you drink enoughtequila, you can just be in

Teagan (52:55):
the 90s again.

Speaker 00 (52:56):
You see lots of colors.

Teagan (52:59):
There's Will and me drinking, crying.
I

Speaker 00 (53:04):
just want to say by the bell back.
I

Teagan (53:07):
miss Nirvana.

Speaker 00 (53:09):
Screech.
So yeah, that's our 90s newsfor today.

Teagan (53:17):
I like that one.
That's

Speaker 00 (53:19):
a good one.
I think we should

Teagan (53:20):
go get

Speaker 00 (53:20):
it.

Teagan (53:22):
Get it.
Get it.

Speaker 00 (53:24):
I think that if we kind of plug enough

Teagan (53:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 00 (53:30):
Things.
Hashtag Chili's.
Chili's.
All right.
So I think we all learnedtonight that we can learn from
each other.
We

Teagan (53:37):
can learn from each other.
I

Speaker 00 (53:38):
learned about the Riz.
Yeah.
Our new friend Teagan.
Well, you've known her for awhile.
Yeah, I've known her all mylife.
I learned about Pogs.
Teagan learned about Pogs.
And the intricacies to them.

Teagan (53:52):
Yep.

Speaker 00 (53:54):
Lesli, you learned about...
What did I learn

Teagan (53:57):
about?

Speaker 00 (53:57):
You were here.
You were doing it.
Yeah, I was part of this.
You were there.
You were there for

Teagan (54:03):
all of this?

Speaker 00 (54:04):
Yeah.
Teagan, come back anytime.

Teagan (54:08):
Thanks.

Speaker 00 (54:09):
This was a lot of fun.
This was like our first kind ofinterview thing.
And I liked...

Teagan (54:13):
Well, and now that we've done it, I have like ideas of
like...

Speaker 00 (54:18):
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, that was a lot of fun.

Teagan (54:21):
I

Speaker 00 (54:21):
think we need to stop putting pressure on it.
I agree.
We're doing an ending and justtalk because that seems to be...

Teagan (54:29):
Maybe next time we can have an encyclopedia to show
Teagan.

Speaker 00 (54:33):
That's true.

Teagan (54:35):
An English one, Teagan.

Speaker 00 (54:36):
An English encyclopedia.
Sounds good.
Not the Spanish encyclopedia.
No, this is really cool.
So come back anytime.
Thanks.
I don't know what else we wouldhave.
Yeah, I mean...
I mean, you're going to teachme more slang, I hope.

Teagan (54:52):
Oh, I'll teach you more slang.
I'll find some stuff.
Okay.
Tell me more.

Speaker 00 (54:55):
That I will never use in my life.
Yeah.

Teagan (54:58):
Sometimes when they say it, I'm like, that's not real.

Speaker 00 (55:01):
Yeah.
I remember like a year ago,your mom texted me something
about something being mid.
Oh, yeah.
And I was like, oh, she gotthat from her daughters,
definitely.
Because that sounds like ayoung folk thing.

Teagan (55:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 00 (55:18):
Yeah.
Like, this ending is mid.
This ending is mid.
All of our endings are mid.

Teagan (55:23):
Yeah.
We'll fix

Speaker 00 (55:24):
it.
We'll figure it out.
We'll make it work.

Teagan (55:26):
We're learning.

Speaker 00 (55:28):
So, again, thank you, Teagan.
Thanks

Teagan (55:31):
for coming, Teagan,

Speaker 00 (55:32):
to pass your bedtime.
Thanks for driving your motherhere since she got her license
revoked.
As always, thank you,everybody, for listening.
Everyone who stuck with us.
Oh,

Teagan (55:49):
yeah.
We have to thank your oldteacher friend, Jen, who wrote
us a note on Instagram.

Speaker 00 (55:59):
Oh, yeah.
Thank you, Jen.

Teagan (56:01):
Yes.

Speaker 00 (56:01):
I'm glad you're enjoying it.

Teagan (56:03):
Yeah.
We were her first podcast ever.
What?
Yes.
Oh,

Speaker 00 (56:06):
that's awesome.

Teagan (56:07):
I know.

Speaker 00 (56:07):
That is awesome.
And probably her last.
Yeah.
She's like, wait, what?
Yeah, I'm not doing thisanymore.
Yeah.
Ruined it for everybody.
Exactly.
I have to give a quick shoutout to my buddy, Eric.
Eric.
Eric.
He doesn't deserve one, but hesaid he wanted one.
Well,

Teagan (56:27):
there you go.

Speaker 00 (56:28):
So, he can have one.

Teagan (56:30):
You know what?
That's really, at this point,it's like, you should just ask
us because we'll do it.
Yeah.
And then you're famous.

Speaker 00 (56:35):
Yeah.
I mean, he's a handsome guy.
Yeah.
Is he?
We'll give him that.
And my My brother-in-law,Rurik.
What?
My brother-in-law, his name isRurik.
So my brother-in-law, Rurik, Iwant to say hello to him because
I know he's listening.
He gave us rave reviews.

Teagan (56:52):
That makes me so excited.

Speaker 00 (56:53):
He did.
He said our podcast is prettygreat.
Yeah?
He said it sounded veryprofessional,

Teagan (57:00):
which

Speaker 00 (57:00):
is great because we're kind of dumb.
Yeah.

Teagan (57:04):
So Rurik, we pulled it off.

Speaker 00 (57:06):
We pulled it off.
We tricked you.

Teagan (57:08):
That's right.

Speaker 00 (57:08):
Got him.
And I told him...
We would like to have him on.

Teagan (57:13):
Was that your birthday party?

Speaker 00 (57:15):
He was.
As always, thank you,everybody.
Email us, gapofthenineties atgmail.com.

Teagan (57:22):
We're hopping on threads.
If you do threads.

Speaker 00 (57:26):
Hopping on threads.

Teagan (57:27):
Yep.

Speaker 00 (57:29):
Follow us.
Is that what it is?

Teagan (57:32):
That's what it is.

Speaker 00 (57:34):
Follow us on

Teagan (57:34):
Apple, iPod, or Apple.

Speaker 00 (57:37):
Every time.
Every time.

Teagan (57:39):
I hate you and

Speaker 00 (57:40):
your mom.
That sweet iPod with the dial.
Follow us

Teagan (57:45):
on Apple...

Speaker 00 (57:47):
Podcast.

Teagan (57:48):
Podcast.

Speaker 00 (57:49):
Spotify.

Teagan (57:50):
Spotify.
Outcast.

Speaker 00 (57:53):
Buzzsprout.

Teagan (57:54):
Buzzsprout.

Speaker 00 (57:55):
Outcast?
What's that?

Teagan (57:57):
Outcast is...
It's kind of like...
Almost like a homegrown podcasthome.

Speaker 00 (58:05):
Okay.

Teagan (58:06):
But if you...
Launch on Apple, youautomatically launch on OutKast.
Okay.
Yep.

Speaker 00 (58:14):
Cool.

Teagan (58:15):
So we're there.
I like it.

Speaker 00 (58:17):
We're on OutKast.
If you get a chance, leave areview.
That'd be cool.
I would love

Teagan (58:21):
that.

Speaker 00 (58:22):
Love a review.

Teagan (58:23):
Well, thank you, Will, for pulling out your
collectibles.

Speaker 00 (58:26):
Of course.
Of course.
And I'm not going to say itthis week.

Teagan (58:32):
Okay.

Speaker 00 (58:33):
People know I want them to donate blood.
Teagan doesn't know because shenever makes it to the end of
the episode.
I actually

Teagan (58:37):
have.
I've heard all about your blooddonations.
Okay.
Yeah.
Did you hear about plasmadonation?
I have heard about that, too.
I heard about it the entireepisode.
Uncut version.
Oh,

Speaker 00 (58:50):
she did hear the uncut version.
So I guess this week's words ofwisdom will be just don't be a
dick.

Teagan (58:58):
Yeah, don't be a dick.

Speaker 00 (58:59):
You know, it's pretty simple.

Teagan (59:01):
That's your riz.

Speaker 00 (59:02):
Yeah.
Something about Riz.
What?

Teagan (59:06):
W Riz.

Speaker 00 (59:07):
W Riz.
What's that?

Teagan (59:08):
W Charisma.
You have good Riz.

Speaker 00 (59:10):
What's the W?

Teagan (59:11):
What's W?
Win.
Like W short for win, but likeif you say W Riz, like you have
good Riz.

Speaker 00 (59:16):
I'm buying you encyclopedias.
Yeah.
Or at least a Spanishdictionary.

Teagan (59:22):
Something.

Speaker 00 (59:23):
Something.
It's out of control.
I'm not W Rizin' on anything.
Rizin' on anything.
But yeah, don't be a dick.
All right, don't be a dick.
Be cool.
I

Teagan (59:38):
think that's why we're friends, because we're not
dicks.

Speaker 00 (59:40):
Yeah.
We pretend to be.

Teagan (59:42):
Yeah.
Yes.
Have a good one, guys.
Fix this.
Bye, Teagan.
Bye.
Bye.

Unknown (59:50):
Bye.

Teagan (59:52):
Lavender.

Unknown (59:55):
Adios.