S2E5:Puppies, Periods, and Pac-Man Cereal: An After School Special

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What do breakfast cereals, women's health concerns, and government overreach have in common? They're all part of the rich tapestry of Gen X experiences that Megan and Lesley explore in this wide-ranging, authentic conversation.

The episode opens with exciting puppy news as Megan introduces her new emotional support puppy, Olive! Lesley transparently shares her recent postmenopausal health scare, walking listeners through her experience seeking prompt medical care. The good news? Everything turned out benign. The more important message? Women's health matters, and places like Planned Parenthood provide critical services for those without insurance or primary care access. (PS Lesley does know that 'Waiting for Godot' was written by Samuel Beckett - she does not have to hand in her theater kid card.)

Who died this week? The promoter of the Foreman Grill! (And Professional Boxer!) RIP George Foreman. 

Shifting gears, the hosts address disturbing trends in civil liberties, focusing on a Venezuelan soccer player seeking asylum who was detained without due process. Their passionate discussion highlights concerns many Gen X women share about government overreach and the protection of basic rights. Shout out to the beloved Chatterbox Jazz Club! (Don't be an asshole people.)

The conversation then dives into breakfast cereal nostalgia in all its sugary glory. From Wheaties boxes featuring Olympic heroes to character-branded cereals like Mr. T and Pac-Man, the hosts explore how cereal marketing exploded alongside mothers entering the workforce. Remember those miniature cereal boxes that transformed into cereal bowls? Or the excitement of digging for plastic prizes that sometimes ended up stuck to your ceiling? These shared memories illuminate how convenience foods shaped our generation and continue to influence food culture today.

Throughout it all, Megan and Lesley maintain their signature blend of humor, vulnerability, and no-nonsense commentary that makes listeners feel like they're catching up with old friends. Whether discussing serious health concerns or debating which cereal was most likely to "cut your face open," their authentic connection shines through.

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Women Are Sick of this Shit.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Hi Leslie, Hi Megan, how are you?
I am fabulous.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
That question just gets more loaded every time we
have one of these podcasts.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
I know like what am I supposed to say?
I don't know the real answer,the real answer, but
functionally in this moment,other than being a little sleepy
, I'm good.
It's Sunday morning.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
It is Sunday morning.
This is a fun Sunday morning.
I'm glad I get to spend it withyou.
Oh you gave me all the warmfuzzies.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
It's true, I'm glad you're spending it with me too,
and I know you're giving up alot right now.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
I have a puppy.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Because you have a special friend at your house.
I do.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
I got a puppy yesterday.
I feel really special.
It's my emotional support puppy.
What is your puppy called?
My puppy's name is Olive Olive.
She's sweet.
She's nine weeks old.
She slept very well last nightand I didn't, but that's okay.
I was just waiting.

(01:11):
I was like she's going to getup any second.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Oh the old mom hypervigilance kicks right back
in.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
It's like having a baby.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Just flips and you're like what's wrong?

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Any second she's going to wake up, oh my.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
God.
Yeah, I think that's half thereason that we want our kids to
move out eventually is that wecan sort of pretend they don't
exist anymore, Like in thekindest, most loving way.
But that switch is incrediblydifficult to turn off internally
.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
It's really hard.
Once there's another livingbeing dependent upon your
existence, you do have, at leastfor me, with mine out of the
house.
Now there's still sometimesthose moments where I'm like I
wonder did she make it home?
Okay, you know, and then I'llhop on my phone and make sure
that she's always supposed to bebut sure but once I know she's

(02:07):
either at her boyfriend's houseor her place, I'm fine, I can
sleep, yep.
And then I got a puppy and thenyou got a puppy yep, so got up
sunday morning, came over, sawyou and half my pajamas you look
great.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Thanks, so do you you look great for a new mom.
Oh thanks.
Did you ever get some of thoselike bizarro backhanded
compliments?
You look great for a new mom,oh you just gave birth.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Oh you look amazing your hair looks great there's
somebody who just rolled out ofbed.
When was the last time?

Speaker 2 (02:46):
you showered.
I'm like shower Shower.
We don't do that shit as aninfant.
We don't bathe anymore.
How do I leave it alone longenough?

Speaker 1 (02:56):
to go into the shower .
No, you don't, you don't, youdon't you don't Okay.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
we have a point today .

Speaker 1 (03:07):
We are doing an after-school special.
I mean in as much as we everhave a point with our.
We get to make up the rules sowe can do anything we want.
These are our rules.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Our show that is hyper-specific to our own
experience.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yes, so this one is a little bit less structured than
the others.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yes, which is funny, it's an after-school special,
that's right.
And we're going to be talkingabout I'm going to put the show
notes up at the front here we'regoing to talk about two, maybe
two things.
Definitely one thing breakfastcereals breakfast cereal because
I just ate breakfast before wegot started, and then we also
talked about book fairs.

(03:40):
Yeah, so let's go last we mightget there we might get there.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
If not, we'll tack it onto the back end of something
else.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
For sure, and then we have just some life update
stuff.
So let's start there.
You want to talk about the lifeupdate stuff?
Last episode last, when last wemet, I was having a little bit
of a medical issue somepostmenopausal bleeding and so
called right away and got allthe appointments.

(04:05):
We have a miraculous same daywomen's clinic on the north side
of Indianapolis and they wereable to get me in in like three
days and I went for anultrasound.
All of the people who assistedme every step of the way were
wonderful.
Nobody was stressed aboutanything.
So I did my ultrasound and wentand sat down for like two

(04:28):
minutes and then met with thedoctor, nurse, nurse
practitioner.
But the new step up, probablythat one.
We're going to say that.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
I was going to get there at some point.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Thank you, I appreciate that that and we had
a quick conversation andwhenever, just like the findings
of the ultrasound, uh, we wentahead and did a biopsy that day,
which was unexpected.
So just in terms of like whatyou might run into while you hit
, your mic this happens.
Yeah, um, oh.

(05:03):
And my ultrasound in my brain.
I was imagining a pregnancyultrasound yeah, you know, like,
yeah, like on your bellytransvaginal baby up in there
and I was like oh all right,okay, I'm gonna make out with
this for a while, I guess, uh,hey, a little to the right just
in terms of and like, notcomfortable, right, because

(05:24):
you're like trying to get atspecific parts.
Right, I'm gesturing.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
You're just jamming it in there Doing other things,
so it's a lot of like.
Did they have you in stirrups?
You were in stirrups too, likethe whole thing, oh yeah, lovely
.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
So I mean great.
Yeah, I'm glad it's.
You're trying to get views oflike both of your ovaries and
your uterus.
Sure, Things look differentafter the menopause.
Everything shrinks a little bitIn case you didn't know.
We've got a whole episode we do.
Clitoris just fine, in perfectshape.

(05:58):
That's not what I was there for, but I know that we're hanging
in Excellent, excellent, so gotall that done.
The bean Was not necessarilyexpecting the biopsy that day,
but it was sort of like.
I could make another appointmentand come back, which seemed
dumb, described that really well.
It is, you know, like pop alittle like thin thread up

(06:22):
through your cervix, not comfy.
And they're taking a littletissue sample, also not comfy,
but knocked all that out and Ithink it was.
That was on a Friday, so Iprobably got the results back
like it was Wednesday orThursday, so pretty quick.
Yeah, everything's fine.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
That's awesome.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
Everything was benign which is great.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
I know you were, I know.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
Well, we were all worried and it's, you know, it's
6%, right.
Like with all the likeinformation that I did have, I
was down to like 6% or less,right, you know, and some might
have even said like 1% to 2%chance, but your brain fixates
on the 6%, 6% seems like a lotof percent when you're dealing

(07:07):
with that absolutely and fromour generation, like many of the
vaccines that are available nowfor young people to prevent
uterine cancer.
We didn't have that the virusesassociated with that uh didn't
exist for us, I think they'veraised the age now to like is it
40?

Speaker 1 (07:27):
I think so.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
So yeah, so had they done that a few years ago we
would have been fine but nowwe're like, yeah, outside of the
range, right, um for that, andjust like there is a tiny.
You know, I think mygrandmother had a fairly large
uterine tumor growth and in herolder age, like in her late 70s,

(07:49):
early to mid 80s, and sheelected not to.
You know they were pretty sureit was benign, but she's she
wasn't.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
In her 80s she was like yeah, I don't want to mess
with those lady exams and thatkind of thing.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
Um, and she lived to be 93, so 99% sure it was not a
cancerous thing, but we alsodidn't experience the negative
consequences of that, if it wasRight.
So just you know, yeah.
And then my mom died when shewas really young.
So also not a lot of medicalhistory in terms of lady things,
right?

Speaker 1 (08:21):
So you just kind of hang on to that and wait to get
the news and your mind does allkinds of bad things and you go
to bad places and I'm glad thatthat was all for not all for not
, and we also have sort of likea baseline for what things look
like right now should I bebleeding?
Oh, that's really good.
You know what I mean so they'relike you have a comparative yeah

(08:43):
, and you had just started well,not just started, but you had
recently started hormonereplacement therapy, so that,
yeah, had something to do withit, right, like we think
probably like bleeding outsideof the first six months is
considered unusual okay so Ihave been on it for six months.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
It's not unusual to have bleeding in that first six
months, but what we think, basedon the results and all of that,
is just like my progesteronewas a little bit too low.
Okay, so we've upped that and,should I have any other issues,
you are going to sleep like ababy too.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
Progesterone is lovely.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
So we're going to up that and then see how things go.
Okay, good, there you go.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
Good PSA just go do the things, go do the.
It's not that it's fun.
Nobody wants to go do it.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
Nope, and I just paid my bill right, so it's money.
Yeah, depending on yourinsurance coverage.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
But women's, we have to do these things.
We've got to take care ofourselves.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
And if you don't have health insurance and you don't
have a primary care physicianright now, like, these are the
life-saving services thatPlanned Parenthood can provide
to you and you can get in therefor an appointment for a very
low fee.
They offer lots of financialsupport, like they provide vital

(10:01):
life-saving care for women.
Yep, absolutely.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
So go there.
My daughter actually went toplay parenthood in new york and
because she just birth controlissues, she wanted to get an iud
.
She got that then then expelledthat which apparently is like
can happen um you know, I guessif it, if you have your first
period and it comes shooting out, then you're probably not a

(10:27):
great candidate for it.
So now she's got, she went backto shooting out.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
That's a very good one, sorry, g.
Thanks for the info.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
But she went back in and they gave her like we don't
have it in Indiana as far as Iknow.
But she said it's like a hairtie, like this little hair tie
thing that just goes, pop itright up in there and it's like
ninety, nine percent and what Iknow.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
I just like float around up in your space.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
See, we don't have it here, it's all magic we have
like frontier medicine inindiana.
So I don't know, at best rightnow, magic medicine and we're
allowed to have.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
Yeah, so anyway, not dissing my medical care was
amazing.
Thank goodness for having allof the women that I had.
Yeah and there.
You know, there may or may notbe some people who may or may
not be actively advocatingagainst women's health right now
.
Oh, there are oh there are,without naming names and using

(11:34):
threats and intimidation againstdoctors who provide vital
life-saving care, and lawsuitsand all the things Yep, yep.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
So support those people who support women, and
that's great.
We do recommend alsomenopauseorg as a resource.
If you are having any issues,you need a provider.
You don't have a provider.
There is a provider list onthat website.
Yes, there's so many, so manygood resources.

(12:02):
If you just have questions oflike what the fuck is happening
to my body, it is a really goodresource, and I think there is a
Canadian version yes, that'swhat I was and a European
version.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
If you are questioning the validity or the
accuracy of resources in theUnited States, which you should
right now Sure yeah.
Because information is gettingremoved from pages all the time,
Although we have no reason tobelieve that menopauseorg has
been affected in that way.
There is the British MenopauseSociety and the National Health

(12:36):
Service in the UK has a lot ofinformation up there.
Of course you're not going tobe able to find providers
through there, but they do haveaccurate information.
They have the same thing inCanada.
God bless the people in Canadawho are quickly saving pages
from the CDC as quickly as theyare getting pulled down.
So there are places whereinformation is being saved.

(12:56):
Yep, there's our activism forthe day.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
I am so glad for you, though, and for me, because I'd
be very sad without you, ladyfucking suck, wouldn't it?

Speaker 2 (13:08):
it would, and then we would have to talk about do you
know what?
This podcast would be like withjust me.
You would be talking, awful,and then it would be like like
like where I was gonna fill in,and then you would just sit and
you'd be like hi, leslie, lesliepause, uh-huh, uh-huh and then

(13:29):
at one point you would like beme, maybe you would like switch
seats and you would like begoing back and forth.
This is a whole pinter play.
I think we're writing right now.
Who are you waiting?

Speaker 1 (13:41):
for, oh my god, I just give myself a marionette.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
It's a single person waiting for Godot, but you're
like playing yourself and thevoice in your brain, which is me
.
Rabbit holes, Rabbit holes.

Speaker 1 (13:54):
I'm telling you, I'm this close to crazy.
I can carry on a fullconversation with myself, but
I'd rather not.
Yeah, it's more fun this way.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
Yeah, I think so.
It's more unexpected.
You don't know what's going onin our mouths when we're
together.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
Nope.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
Hey.

Speaker 1 (14:10):
Megan yes, ma'am who died this week, well, so Last-.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
No, it was this week.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
This week, last week, I am trying very hard to stay
off of social media and out ofthe news, so I was surprised to
learn that two days ago MrGeorge Foreman, the boxer,
passed away.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
But we don't know him as a boxer.
We don't really know him as aboxer.
I mean, we knew he was a boxer,but we never saw him box.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
It wasn't like you know, he just wasn't our
generation.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
No, yeah.
When was George Foreman born?
Watch box 49.
1949.

Speaker 1 (14:49):
Yeah, so he was pretty much.
I suspect he was probably 26years older than my grandmother
or younger than my grandmother,we would have been pretty young
when George Foreman was outthere beating people up, but us
90s college age kids know himfor what Well, you tell me,
because I will admit I neverowned one, but I know that you

(15:13):
skirted some rules.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
We did.
This should go in theinfomercial.
Oh my gosh, yeah, in the worldof infomercials.
Being a college student in thevery early 90s we had the
invention of the foreman grilland there were.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
I'm looking at pictures right now.
There were very many there werevery many very many variations.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
It had just come out so it was like a really small.
It could maybe hold two pattiesokay.
So so we would use this thingright.
Oh, does this say vintage,Vintage George Foreman grilling
machine?
This is exactly what I had inmy dorm and it had this little

(15:56):
plastic drip tray and you couldcook a burger on it Now?
Did they clean that before theyput it up for sale?
Yes I mean, but literally, thisis what we're talking about,
these things.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
That's what it looks like clean.
That's it there you go they.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
so we would skirt many because you weren't allowed
to have open flame or opencooking devices in your dorm.
But we all know that sometimesyou need some snacks, you need a
burger.
We had microwaves.
We could do like mac and cheese.
I had a panini machine.
Those came out kind of at thesame time when was I in college,
91.
So we could make little girlcheese sandwiches or, upon

(16:37):
occasion, burgers.
I don't think it lasted longerthan my freshman year because
the reality was they were afucking pain in the ass to clean
I mean it looks like it wouldbe.
Yeah, these weird little forksthat you had to like push the
grease off of and you can'timmerse it in water and like
grease is going everywhere, likeit's disgusting, um, but this

(16:58):
is why did it make a good burger.
Yeah, I mean, it just cookedthings.
You know, it's just like anelectric grill, so you just
close.
It Could have been a waffleiron.
You probably could have slappeda burger in there too, and it
would have worked out okay.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
Oh, there you go, it would be the same.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
Just, yeah, just flip it over halfway through, but
they were.
I mean, I think the thing thatwe most remember about these
really were the fuckinginfomercials I mean, he was
cooking everything everythingwas cooked on a foreman grill.

Speaker 1 (17:28):
It's everything.
Later they had, like they hadstands.

Speaker 2 (17:33):
They were like you know you could, oh, like big
girls, look at that.

Speaker 1 (17:36):
Oh, they're still on amazon you too get a george
foreman, good lord grill-y grillGrill.

Speaker 2 (17:44):
So then one might wonder why you just don't
fucking buy a grill Right Atthis point, because you love
George?

Speaker 1 (17:52):
Foreman.

Speaker 2 (17:53):
You do.
I'm getting myself a George.

Speaker 1 (17:55):
Well, and then I think there was this feeling,
right or wrong?

Speaker 2 (18:00):
Producer Tim is showing us the schematics.
I don't need to know any ofthis information.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
The George Foreman grill is 27 and a half inches by
.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
How does this one work?
I don't know why Wasn't there?

Speaker 1 (18:16):
like this feeling, though, that it was healthier.
That was how it was sold.

Speaker 2 (18:21):
But they would just kind of tilt it and so the
grease just slides off, Likeokay.
I mean, the same thing happenswhen you're grilling the grease
drips down into your grill.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
But whatever your bratwurst is still going to be
fat filled, absolutely.

Speaker 2 (18:37):
Nitrites and nitrates .

Speaker 1 (18:38):
It's filled with cancer, you're still going to
die.
Eat it, but look they throwsome asparagus on there and
everything, some onions andcarrots, throw it in there.
It's delicious, it's so good.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
Apartment approved my it's a good fucking thing.
Oh, I guess that's true.
Yeah, if you got like a littlebalcony, okay, george, I'll give
you that RIP.
I hope your estate makes moneyforever.
I hope so.
On the girls.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
I think George Foreman had lots of children.
Am I making that up?
No, I think you're right.
So maybe they're going to liveoff of the millions and billions
of dollars that, george Foreman, how many?
Twelve oh?

Speaker 2 (19:21):
that's pretty good.
I said ten.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
I just found that knowledge in the back of my
brain that he had lots of kids.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
Does he have a lot of kids?

Speaker 1 (19:30):
Wow, okay, I can't remember what I had for dinner.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
They're all lovely.
Look at them.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
Well, they're rolling in.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
George Foreman real money.
We don't know that for sure.
Well, we don't.
We don't know what they got,but they are all lovely.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
So that's who died this week.
Well, I think that's sad and hehas many, many children and
hopefully they will all livewell off of the George Foreman
grill and many other things, his, his whole legacy, legacy, yeah
.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
We don't have a good conclusion to this it was mostly
just about the girls and hedied and I was like man, that is
there.
Gen.

Speaker 1 (20:06):
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It is a social club.
It's a membership-based club.
Memberships are $10 a month.
That does help support us ingrowing the platform.
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Speaker 1 (20:49):
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So what do we do there, Lesliewe?

Speaker 2 (20:59):
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We host a space for a monthlybook club.
We host trivia nights once amonth we have a live text chat

(21:22):
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That's true, um, we, the space,is able to host like weekly text
chats so that you can kind ofcheck in in real time with
people.
I would say the criticaldifference between kind of what
this space is and any othersocial media space that I've
experienced is that it is active.

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Speaker 2 (22:02):
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Speaker 2 (22:17):
So, before we talk about fun certainly yes, let's
talk about shit that we are sickof.
Oh, the list keeps growing.
The list is growing moment bymoment, mentally.

Speaker 1 (22:28):
Day to day, every time I turn on the TV or, hour
by hour, read the New York Timesor God forbid, look at social
media.
Leslie, you know what I'm sickof?
Tell me what you're sick oftoday, megan.
I am so sick of the fact thatnow, apparently, due process is
something that we're just notgoing to do anymore.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
It does not exist.
Don't need it.
Good luck.
Don't need it.
Don't get searched at anairport.

Speaker 1 (22:54):
Be careful at the airports.
Apparently, due process isn't athing anymore, where there was
a gentleman who was a soccerplayer from Venezuela, who left
Venezuela because he literallywas being tortured by their
government, comes to the US,gets registered for asylum the

(23:16):
right way, the right way, theright way.
Uh, he then gets um.
The alien enemies act meansthat somebody can come into his
house, the fbi and or and or.
They can come to your housewithout a warrant.
Yeah, they think that you arean alien enemy which is not like

(23:37):
aliens like you know it's notthat kind of alien they can go
to your house.
They can yank you out of yourhouse.
They can send you to an elsalvadorian prison, yes, without
ever going to see a judge.
Yeah, prove that.
That is, in fact, who the heckyou are like.
You are really a criminal sothis guy they claim that he is a

(24:00):
member of a of a venezuelangang.
He is not.
He is a soccer player.
He has a tattoo that they claimis a, a tattoo that you would
have as a member of this gang.
It is not.
The tattoo artist has signed anaffidavit saying that no, it's
a soccer tattoo, dude Right.
And he's now in a ElSalvadorian prison and no one

(24:25):
knows how to get him out.
No one knows anything Like he,just he's been disappeared.
And this is where we are.
This is where we are right now,and it makes me so furious
because, if we've done away withdue process, there is literally
nothing protecting anybody whois an American citizen.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
Absolutely not.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
I mean not that that means that anybody else should
have to go through that either.
It just means like when thegloves are off, man, the gloves
are off.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
So, here, we are and don't say anything disparaging
about the current administrationI'm starting to get worried
about that if you are traveling,no shit airlines and they
choose to inspect your devicesyou have to get a burner phone.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
so to go overseas, seriously, yeah, that's where we
are anyway.
I don, I don't want to harp onit, it's just something I'm
really fucking sick of.
This is just getting worse andworse and I don't know what we
do.
I don't know what happens.
Keep talking about it.
We keep talking about it untilthey.

Speaker 2 (25:30):
Dear listeners, if we're not here one week, if we
ever have to miss an episode, wewill announce it Please.

Speaker 1 (25:35):
Yeah, right, please find us in the El Salvadorian
prison or the.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
ADHD camp that we'll be.
Yeah on the organic farm.
On that note, anyway, that wasa bummer, sorry.
It's important.
We need to keep talking aboutit.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
Similar to talking about like things on a local
level, like where the truthisn't the truth anymore and
facts can be sort of inventedand things can be selectively
shared by someone who lives inour city, who is an influencer,
who set up the bartender, sheand her friends came into the
bar.

Speaker 2 (26:30):
They misgendered the bartender, they misgendered a
couple of other people.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
Yep, they said some really shitty, nasty things and
were told to leave.
And then she came back with herlittle maga hat on and filmed,
filmed everything and was thenasked to leave again because.

Speaker 2 (26:48):
And then selectively shared right and selectively
shared that part, as if togenerate outrage and to get
attention.
Uh, for, and her business,which is no longer available on
the Internet as of this moment,and, of course, indianapolis
being the fantastic place thatit is, has rallied around that
bar.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
Especially that Mass Avenue area.
They put out a statement.
It was lovely to see that itwas awesome.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
And we were down there on Mass Ave yesterday
hanging out and it's the samewelcoming place.
Yeah, it has always been, aslong as you're not an asshole.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
Yeah, don't be an asshole, don't be an asshole.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
That's the key Like we don't give a shit and you
have to, like, make an effort tobe an asshole.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
You really do, because it's not like I swear if
that person would have justwalked in the first time with a
dumb hat, like that, I mean they.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
I mean you would have probably gotten some looks,
because there would be sort of acuriosity about like why you
realize we have trans flags andyou know all the rainbows
everywhere.
Yes, like why would questions,but you're not going to be told
to not be there, correct,correct?

Speaker 1 (27:57):
you had to create that environment yourself and
they did this is happening moreand more and we just have to
stand by each other and and bethe best allies that we can for
everybody.
Fuck yeah, sister, so huh shallwe talk about?
Let's talk about something morefun, shall we?

Speaker 2 (28:17):
Breakfast cereals of the 80s.

Speaker 1 (28:20):
We're going to escape back to the 80s and breakfast
in the 80s.
So we do this is the worsttransition ever.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
It is really bad Basically.
Here's the transition.
I ate breakfast right beforeyou got here and I had some
cereal and I walked in and Isaid what if we talk about
breakfast cereals of the 80s?

Speaker 1 (28:41):
And I said fuck yeah, because I love cereal.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
I was like sweet, and then we looked up cereals and
then we had conversations aboutcereals.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
So what was so funny about freaking cereals in the
80s is, holy shit.
Every brand, every TV show,every cartoon, every superhero,
every whatever had a freakingcereal named after them.
Yes, Like there was Mr T cereal, yes absolutely.

Speaker 2 (29:13):
That's all you need to know, so is Mr T cereal.
We go way back.
Like I'm a little bit curious.
I'm certain there's a websitesomewhere about the history of
cereal like, the development ofdry cereals and cereals that are
eaten with milk and thetransition from like the 70s to
the commercialism of the 80s,which we have talked about

(29:33):
before.
Like, when was the first likebed sheet with a character?
Printed on it it was probablylike Cowboys or Howdy Doody or
something like that.
But my early memories of eatingcereal as a child, like we were
a like raisin bran family Ifucking love the fuck out of

(29:54):
raisins.
So I think I was made to eathealthy cereals, but because I
loved raisins, I was like allabout it.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
Did you ever put a little bit of extra sugar on
raisin bran?

Speaker 2 (30:05):
I didn't.
Okay, I would dump extraraisins in my raisin.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
Okay, well, the raisins are sweet, they are
sweet, so that works.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
I think that that was some of it.
I didn't extra sweeten it, butit launched from there.
Yeah, I mean, this was not theother cereals that I remember
from my childhood but that Ididn't like were Wheaties.
Oh, yeah, but the Wheaties werepopular because they would just
put there was like the athleteof the month or whatever that

(30:36):
would be on the box of themichael jordans and the yeah
absolutely uh mary lou rettonwas a wheaties girl, I think.
Right, yeah yes, we were talkingabout whether or not oj simpson
was on a wheaties box.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
Probably, probably there we go, don't know,
probably p.

Speaker 2 (30:53):
Probably Pete Rose, I'm certain was on a Wheaties
box.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
Yeah, 100% yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:57):
So maybe at some point they decided to stop doing
that.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
We should probably look a little closer at some of
these people before we startputting them on boxes, because
you don't know, Like who knewwhat's going to?
Happen.
Oh, serena Williams, venus andSerena.

Speaker 2 (31:12):
Look at that, there's Mary Lou.
Oh good, okay, so is this stilla thing that they still put
athletes on?
I mean they must right theseboxes even in the 2020s.
Oh, simone Biles, what?
There you go.
Also tells you how long it'sbeen box man, that was awesome
look, michael Jordan, itfunction has not really changed

(31:34):
in design.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
No, that logo is exactly the same, isn't?

Speaker 2 (31:37):
it.

Speaker 1 (31:37):
Oh, bruce Jenner Bless Fun.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
That's a whole other.

Speaker 1 (31:44):
Billie.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
Jean King Fuck, yeah, yeah, wheaties.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
Amazing, it is wild, that logo hasn't changed at all.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
Wait, wait, go down to the boxer, is that?

Speaker 1 (31:54):
Oh, that one's Mike Tyson, mike Tyson.

Speaker 2 (31:57):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (31:57):
I like that you can get on a weedy's box, download
the just the weedy's logo andcreate your own if you wanted to
.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
That's awesome.
We should make a weedy's boxwith our faces on it.
So talk about a cereal that wasiconic, but like we never
fucking ate that yeah I neverate weedy's I never ate life.

Speaker 1 (32:14):
I don't care how many times somebody said mikey liked
it.
I was like I don't even knowwhat this is, but I'm not eating
it.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
But when you say that Life cereal, I know exactly
what that box looks like.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
You sure do, and you can picture the commercial.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
Yes, so great marketing Way to go.
Too bad, that was one of theMikey's gone.
Oh, Kroger still exists.

Speaker 1 (32:32):
One of the by Quaker, biggest advertising campaigns
of all time, really Mostsuccessful advertising campaigns
of all time.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
I wonder, why Isn't that interesting?

Speaker 1 (32:44):
Because you and I are still sitting here on a sofa.
Talking about it, 40 yearslater, talking about it.

Speaker 2 (32:51):
So then we looked at, like this giant picture of all
of the different cereal boxes inthe world.
I think this in the UnitedStates in the 1980s.

Speaker 1 (33:03):
So the cereal thing, like it, started with oatmeal,
right Like oatmeal and like whoaOkay Shit, what was it?
There was one that was likelike a malted choco malt oh
fucking cocoa wheats Well no,this was like like a malted
choco malt, something fuckingcocoa wheats well no, this was
like a.

Speaker 2 (33:22):
Well maybe is it.
Cocoa wheat was like I grew upeating the shit out of cocoa?
Yes, it was a hot cereal.
My mom, to make it palatable,would put a scoop of vanilla ice
cream in the middle oh, thatsounds nutritious so good
Because, like cocoa eats wasreally, it was like almost
molten, like you couldn't reallyif you cooked it the
appropriate amount of time.
It was like eating lava.

(33:42):
So in order to get it cooledfast enough to eat before we,
went to school, Leslie.
It's time for cocoa lava Prettymuch she would like put some ice
cream in it and then it addedlike a little bit of vanilla
flavor and it would cool it downand I would be eating it in the
car on my way to school.
Okay, all right, that wasdelicious.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
Yeah, I think that was early.
That was like you know, thatstuff's been around for ages.
That was in the late 70s, Iremember, so I was probably 6, 7
, 8 when I was eating that, butI bet you like that cereal is
even older.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
I think that is like a cocoa wheat, because it's like
cream of wheat cereal.
Cocoa wheat's hot cereal.
Yeah, this was what I would eat.
Yeah, and that logo has beenaround forever too Since 1930,
post cocoa wheat's has been thecreamy hot cereal of choice,
enriched with five vitamins iron, and with no added salt or

(34:38):
sugar.
No added salt or sugar, ify'all want to hire me to do some
voice work for you.
I'm happy to do so.
It's delicious Cocoa Weets.
It's delicious.
It is delicious.
I love that stuff.

Speaker 1 (34:52):
So that's been around for a blooming long time.

Speaker 2 (34:56):
And it kind of comes out of like I think of that as
like porridge Right Right, yeah,old timey, old timey, old timey
cereal.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
Old timey cereal.
We had in Indianapolis.
I don't know that we still.
I don't know that it's stillaround, but there was two or
there was one big cereal factorythat's over by tell me this
this feels like a like.
I'm totally not making this up,I swear um, but they're like
it's over by iupui or india,indiana indiana university at

(35:28):
indianapolis is what it is nowbut it's on the other side of
from where we?
are yes, and it's on the westside big like metal, you know
silos or whatever, and you woulddrive past it and it would
smell like cooking cereal, likethey were like cooking whatever
okay, um, I know please look itup hand google.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
Okay, there was.
There was CirolineManufacturing Company with India
.
Oh, interesting, it's on thestate website.
We're way off y'all, I'm sosorry.
Fascinating CirolineManufacturing Company.
In the late 1800s, railroadsand new technology opened

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national markets to Midwestproducers, including Indiana.
A leader in corn products,joseph Ghent, patented
operations and devices tomass-produce flaked corn.
Gaff Ghent and Thomas Co beganmaking cerealine flakes here
circa 1880, a precursor to coldbreakfast cereal.
It was also used as a maltalternative by brewers.

Speaker 1 (36:37):
Kingmaker Foods is also in Indianapolis.
They're up in Zionsville, sothey make cereal.

Speaker 2 (36:45):
Evidently there's a reason why we're talking about
cereal.
There's a long history we can'tget away from it in.

Speaker 1 (36:52):
Indianapolis.
We can't get away from it.
So okay, as a kid.
So you were eating cocoa wheats.
Yes, what was your?

Speaker 2 (36:59):
So you can tell we were a little granola Like.
It was like raisin bran andcocoa wheats.

Speaker 1 (37:02):
You were a little crunchy crunchy, that kind of
stuff.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
But then my brother came along.

Speaker 1 (37:05):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
And then my mother had two children.
All that went out the windowbecause we had the invention of
cinnamon toast crunch.

Speaker 1 (37:13):
Okay, which is that the one that will cut your face
open uh, I don't know we can oris that the?

Speaker 2 (37:19):
who also has a fetish for cinnamon toast crunch.
He loves it so much, or?

Speaker 1 (37:23):
captain, maybe it's captain crunch was the one that
supposedly has a reputation forlike, like cutting the inside of
your cheeks probably.

Speaker 2 (37:29):
So chime in.
Let us know, I did eat the shitout of some apple jacks.
I think that was the sweetestcereal I have a oh God, Golden
Grahams, Sorry my bad.

Speaker 1 (37:38):
I have a box of Apple Jacks in my cupboard right now.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
Do you really?
I do, and I just saw.

Speaker 1 (37:42):
Sugar Crisps.
Go by with the super sugarcrisps with the little bear.

Speaker 2 (37:48):
I see that up there.

Speaker 1 (37:49):
Those were fun.
Those look like little oats.
For sure, for sure, they weresuper sweet, but they were
really yummy, super sugar crispby post.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
I like that that's amazing.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
Mine, the one that I miss right now that I I actually
went looking for to see likeplease tell me this still exists
is alphabets.
Do you remember alphabets?
I do so.
That was a post cereal as well.
Okay, gone, like you can't getit anymore, but I'm like I had a
hunker.
A hunker or a craving I washankering for a hunk of

(38:19):
alphabets.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
So that's it, though like hankering for a hunk of
cheese, was that?
Cheese yeah, and then thelittle piece of cheese.

Speaker 1 (38:28):
If we're gonna talk about after school specials,
that we should probably talk,that's the truth.

Speaker 2 (38:33):
I think that was the same.
Oh, okay, there's one.
Do you remember Cookie Crisp.

Speaker 1 (38:38):
Yes, yes.

Speaker 2 (38:41):
They look like little chocolate chip cookies right.
That was there and there werelike tons of cartoons.
We talked about this on theChristmas episode with, like the
Pac-Man Christmas, likeeverybody had a Christmas show
in the 80s.

Speaker 1 (38:53):
Everybody has a cereal.

Speaker 2 (38:55):
So there's Pac-Man, batman, smurfs, the C-3PO's, the
C-3PO's.

Speaker 1 (39:00):
Which is actually pretty clever.
Did you like Trix?
Uh, the one with the rabbit.

Speaker 2 (39:06):
Oh yeah, tricks for kids.
We didn't have it, but I doremember that, and tricks are
for kids, yep.

Speaker 1 (39:13):
We ate so many tricks .

Speaker 2 (39:15):
There were people that had lots and lots of
feelings about the monstercereals like the Boo Berry and
the.
Count Chocula and theFrankenberry.
Those went away for a while andthen were brought back early
2000s Like for Halloween right.
Just a seasonal kind of cerealthing that would come out.

Speaker 1 (39:36):
There's a Donkey Kong cereal Rainbow Brite cereal I
didn't have those A Gremlincereal.

Speaker 2 (39:43):
Did you ever eat that ?

Speaker 1 (39:44):
No, indiana Jones cereal.
Really I can't imagine that.
Look at that.

Speaker 2 (39:49):
Look, Harrison Ford's throwing a whip at you on that
cereal box.
He's like, so Whip it.

Speaker 1 (39:55):
We wonder why we're into like romanticine novels.

Speaker 2 (39:59):
now, as adults, you have a lusty Harrison Ford with
a whip on the front of yourbreakfast cereal box.

Speaker 1 (40:07):
It's only one step away from erotica.

Speaker 2 (40:09):
Basically, you just read the back of that shit.

Speaker 1 (40:11):
you're like fetishes that are my, eat my that and the
indiana cereal explains a lot.

Speaker 2 (40:18):
Oh, here we go so yeah, so inside your cereal
cereal toys.

Speaker 1 (40:24):
Cereal toys were so fun, like the crap that was in
the box yes um, the wacky wallwalkers that, oh yeah, I
remember that, those little, andthey came in all kinds of
different colors and they werelittle like octopusy guys, right
, uh-huh, with all their littletentacles and they stuck to
things.

Speaker 2 (40:40):
They were really gooey and supposedly you would
like they would climb down yourwalls, but if you were a real
asshole as a child, you wouldthrow it and stick it to your
ceiling, from whence it wouldnever come down.
And when it did, when you movedout of your house 35 years
later and somebody finally hadto tear that petrified thing

(41:02):
down Eating their cereal,minding their own business, and
it splashes into their bowl.
It left the nastiest dark,greasy spot on your ceiling or
walls.

Speaker 1 (41:15):
It's very specific, I do remember getting in a little
bit of trouble for throwing awacky wall walker at a wall.

Speaker 2 (41:21):
I mean, that's what they're for.

Speaker 1 (41:24):
The backs of the cereal boxes were always kind of
fun too.
Some of them would have puzzlesand things like that.

Speaker 2 (41:30):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (41:32):
I remember you could send away for glasses, oh sure,
like juice glasses.
So many things With, like, yourproofs of purchase.

Speaker 2 (41:42):
Just saying yes, I've eaten five boxes of your
incredibly fortified sugary cornsyrup.

Speaker 1 (41:49):
I almost still have my teeth.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
Look, you could get a free ET storybook album offer.
The disappointing thing, Ithink, through the 80s, is that
I as a child was very aware thatthe toys were getting shittier
and shittier, so that by thetime there was anything in the
box like in high school evenwe'd gone to like pure junk.

(42:13):
It's the same thing like thetoys that used to be in happy
meals.

Speaker 1 (42:15):
Yeah, I don't think there's anything good in boxes
of cereal anymore.
Is there?
I don't think there is.
I have no idea.
It was also like a way forjack's thing, like you could get
stuff out of cracker jack'sboxes.

Speaker 2 (42:25):
They're actually like were good things in there.
I mean, you know, if you're 10,it was an amazing toy right but
they just kept getting worseand worse.
Same thing with happy meal toys.
Yes, I still get happy meals.
Yes, they still have toys inthem, but they're often just
like kind of cardboard yeah, not, not what they used to, be for
sure not at all.
Do you look at?

(42:46):
All those toys I know so likefound a good picture of them.
Oh, is that like a?
There's a license plate foryour bike.

Speaker 1 (42:56):
It looks like that's a.
There's a CD Parachute, guy Arecord.

Speaker 2 (43:01):
Oh gosh, I remember those Little plastic dude with
parachute.
There is a whole day of funhappening with Parachute Guy.

Speaker 1 (43:08):
You were going to throw that thing into the air
Until he gets stuck in a tree 45million times.
Everything is great.

Speaker 2 (43:13):
Parachute Guy, and then they used to have the.
It'd be like the helicopterspinner thing.

Speaker 1 (43:18):
Yeah, the sticks yeah .
You could really entertain uswith some basic science Tiny
little piece of plastic and aplastic.
Oh yeah, oh, spoons Very goodkind of plastic.
Oh yeah, oh, spoons very good.

Speaker 2 (43:33):
Yep, get your own cereal spoon in your box.
There are so many, they'reamazing.
There was nerd cereal look, ohgood there were actual stuffies
in there, stuffies, cabbage,patch, kid cereal.
It goes on and on and on.
Do you remember?

Speaker 1 (43:47):
the uh, the little.
They still make them, but thoselittle boxes, the variety packs
, so you could try likedifferent types of cereal.

Speaker 2 (43:53):
Yes, I always thought you were like the coolest
family if you had those at yourhouse.
I functionally understand whymy mother did not buy those,
because they were insanelyexpensive, but I was like if we
were cool, we had them.

Speaker 1 (44:05):
We would have that, so my grandmother always had
them.

Speaker 2 (44:08):
And what was?

Speaker 1 (44:08):
cool is you?
Well, the coolest part of itwas you turn the box on its side
or on its back right, and thenit had a perforation on the box,
on the top of the box, and youcould open that.
And then you just open thepaper inside and you pour your
milk directly into the box.
What?

Speaker 2 (44:28):
Was it like wax?
Like the paper was waxed?

Speaker 1 (44:31):
Yep, I didn't know that I don't know if they still
do that, but that was yeah andit was on purpose.

Speaker 2 (44:37):
It wasn't like a thing that got discovered.

Speaker 1 (44:39):
You just like pop that little bad boy open and
have your cereal on the go.
I would have felt like thecoolest human ever if I had been
able to eat my cereal out ofthe tiny cereal box.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
That would have been awesome.
Yeah, I have to check and seeif those actually still are
usable that way.
But oh, there's old schoolcount chocula box.

Speaker 1 (45:00):
Yep, they've updated that art a little bit you know
somebody somewhere out there hasthat tattoo they should, I mean
maybe somebody's got chocolatewhy?

Speaker 2 (45:09):
not.
You should have that there wego um rice krispies yes, rice
krispies treats did you makerice krispies?
Yes, yeah those were reallygood, agreed.
Uh, any other cereal basedtreats?
I think that there were thingsthat you could make out of fruit
loops, sort of in the similar Ihaveops.

Speaker 1 (45:31):
I have a box of Lucky Charms in my cabinet too and
there's a recipe on the back ofthat to make a Lucky Charms Rice
Krispie treat thing AmazingWith the marshmallow stuff.

Speaker 2 (45:41):
I think too, these cereals that we're talking about
right now are in the same eraas some of the microwavable
breakfast foods.
Yeah, we talked about likeMicroMagic.
I think there was also like aFrench toast stick kind of
version.
Oh, absolutely and like apancake that you could do and
there was like microwavable eggsin a box.

(46:03):
It was gross.

Speaker 1 (46:04):
Yeah, I remember the French toast sticks, because
then it came with like a littledipping sauce of like maple
syrup, maple quotation fingermaple Not really maple, Maple
flavored corn syrup Delicious,delicious, delicious corn syrup.
But yeah, so I remember that.
And then you ate.
I remember you saying that youate those pastries, like those

(46:27):
frozen.

Speaker 2 (46:28):
Fucking toaster strudels.
Toaster strudelaster strudel my, it was one of my grandmother's
favorite food groups.
Should we always my childrenknow about toaster strudels
because they lived with mygrandmother?
We all lived together for thelast like 15 years and she loved
those things and so my kidslearned like toaster strudel and

(46:49):
you get the little plasticpacket of frosting that goes on.
So, they were little likebabies, you know, one, two,
three years old, and that waslike a treat with.

Speaker 1 (46:58):
Grandma Jean, that's awesome.

Speaker 2 (47:00):
And so they know we always have toaster strudels in
our freezer, Because every oncein a while you're just like yep,
small snack.

Speaker 1 (47:07):
We always had Eggos.
We always had Eggo waffles.

Speaker 2 (47:11):
Oh, you're just like yep you small, we always had
eggos.

Speaker 1 (47:13):
We always had.
Oh, of course, yeah, frozenwaffles always had.
So good, we had um aunt jemima,um, uh, shit, uh, french toast,
oh, frozen like frozen frenchtoast and you would put it in
the.
You would put it in the toasterthe same way that you do, like
toaster, strudel or whatever,okay, and then get it out and
then put a little bit of butteron it, and then my mom always

(47:38):
put cinnamon and sugar on top.
So this is why I'm Okay.
This is why I weigh what I weigh.
But here we are.
But that was always delicious.
I always liked that too.
That was one of our favorites.
And you always put a little bittoo much butter, so that the
cinnamon and sugar just sort ofmelts in there that sounds
amazing, delicious, well, andjust making like basic cinnamon

(48:01):
toast just like toast, you know,buttered cinnamon sugar on top,
yeah, that was like a wholesituation.

Speaker 2 (48:07):
Yeah, hot pockets that a breakfast food frosted
flakes were one of my favoritestoo oh, so they had to have
bananas on it.

Speaker 1 (48:16):
You had to put bananas on your frosted flakes
wow like banana breakfast was soinfluential.
There was lots, there were somany options and I wonder, like
why and when that happened, likewhat was it?
Was it because yes.
Our moms were now like havingto go out and be in the world

(48:38):
and do jobs and you know theyweren't sitting at home, being
able to make us like bacon andeggs and all that stuff.
Right, they were on the go andthey were like an explosion of
single moms that were out theredoing all the things For sure
and life generally was likebusier.

Speaker 2 (48:54):
Yeah, I mean, just there were after school, the
beginning, I think, of kind oflike after school activities.
Yeah, there was the beginningof like.
I know I was a soccer playerfor a little bit, I was no great
athlete.
By any means You're not goinggonna be on the weenies box, but
there were kids who were likebetter at it.
So the beginnings of like morepractices for stuff and just

(49:18):
more mental load in general forthe home parent yeah, and so the
marketing then was like hey, wesee an opportunity.
Your kids love these cartoonsand all this just high fructose
corn syrup.
We're gonna get them a cerealthat they'll eat easily in the
morning.
Here you go.
You love pac-man, you're gonnalove pac-man cereal, and sure

(49:43):
it's a convenience thing and youcan give your kids a hot
breakfast.
I was was looking at the greatstarts.
Oh my God, which was like baconeggs and potatoes all in a
microwavable dish.

Speaker 1 (49:57):
You know that that did not.
I'm sorry.
Microwavable eggs you just lostme altogether.

Speaker 2 (50:02):
Should not do that.

Speaker 1 (50:05):
But you can.
I am not on board with this atall.

Speaker 2 (50:08):
Eat it along with drinking your tab in the morning
One of my mother's favoritebeverages Tab.

Speaker 1 (50:16):
Tab and Diet Pepsi.

Speaker 2 (50:17):
Oh my God, so many things we could go down many
rabbit holes All thecompetitions, the food contests
that they would have, where youhad to collect all the things to
win the prize, to do this yes,we all know it was a scam.
It was totally a scam.
I don't know how much more wehave to say about probably not
cereals of the 80s.
Tell us your stories.
What was your favorite cerealgrowing?

Speaker 1 (50:39):
up.

Speaker 2 (50:39):
Oh my God, yes please , Do you remember a bizarre
breakfast food that we can nolonger find on the shelves?
Is there something in yourmemory banks that the rest of
the world needs to know about?
Oh, corn pops.
I just noticed because of thehat.
Oh god, corn pops, you are sogood.
They aren't even hiding it too.

(51:01):
They're called sugar corn pops.

Speaker 1 (51:04):
I know we're going to say the inside part on the
outside oh yeah, You'll die, butit's delicious it's so good, so
good.

Speaker 2 (51:13):
You're gonna love it, I.
I do think it's funny thatwe've ignored the king vitamin
box.
I'm not looking at anythingthat's like it's really
disturbing.

Speaker 1 (51:22):
Here's the thing, oh, wait vitamin I would have
ignored that on the shelf toobecause who wants that?
I'm not eating king vitaminnumber one.

Speaker 2 (51:31):
He's vitamin man and he's an old guy.
What sort of like bizarre.
Why great?
Who said you know what thekitties love old?

Speaker 1 (51:44):
men, ew, and it's a Quaker oat product, oh bad.

Speaker 2 (51:51):
That's a terrible marketing decision.
Boo, I did read, there's alwaysmore to say about cereal that
with millennials the cereal haddeclined in terms of cereal
consumption had declined.

Speaker 1 (52:05):
My Gen Z is all about it she'll.

Speaker 2 (52:08):
So I'm wondering if that's changing, because I think
our household single-handedlykept cinnamon toast crunch in
business for many years.

Speaker 1 (52:17):
Uh my, my, no milk.
My daughter can put away somecoco krispies like nobody's
business right on.

Speaker 2 (52:23):
So I'm curious if that's still true, if there was
just like a brief downturn,because, quite honestly, if you
are a busy family or a busyperson in any way, shape or form
, you can eat a bowl of cerealand under three minutes flat and
get the hell out the door I'mgonna blame millennials for
killing off alphabets, then thewhole generation.

Speaker 1 (52:44):
You're all fucking dead to me any millennials
listening to this show.

Speaker 2 (52:48):
I'm so sorry.

Speaker 1 (52:49):
We still care about you.
Please keep listening.
You fucking killed offalphabets.

Speaker 2 (52:55):
This is how myths get born and it's true, forever.
Oh, I don't blame you really.
It's fine, they'll fight back,maybe.

Speaker 1 (53:06):
We'll see.
You're just smarter, Send thecomments.
You're like you're just smarterand you just ate.

Speaker 2 (53:16):
Better than we did, that's all yeah, I mean maybe,
maybe, but you missed out by nothaving alphabets.
You did all right.
We both said that at the sametime.
I don't think we're gonna getto uh, school-astic book fairs
no we'll have to do that anotherday, but we can talk all about
that and the glory of gettingsent to school with your own
money, in fact.

Speaker 1 (53:31):
I would say people should talk about their favorite
books, Like we would love toknow.
Like mention your favoriteScholastic Fair memories?
Yeah, that would be cool sothat we can share them.
That'd be fun.

Speaker 2 (53:41):
In that same vein, like there were other like sort
of market opportunities forchildren where you get sent to
school with your own money andyou can buy things.
They were often centered aroundvery like US centric gendered
holidays.
Like there might be one forMother's Day, there would be a
Christmas one.
It didn't matter if you went toschool with people who didn't

(54:05):
celebrate Christmas, everybodywent to the Christmas market.
Who didn't celebrate Christmas,everybody went to the Christmas
market.

Speaker 1 (54:12):
So these like opportunities as young children
to like go and spend money andmake your own choices and manage
your dollars At.

Speaker 2 (54:15):
Scholastic Book Fair, though Pick out.
It was very special, yeah, veryspecial.

Speaker 1 (54:21):
Well, we'll talk about it Awesome.
In the meantime, yes, have afantastic next week you too,
sister.
I hope it's great.
Have a fantastic next week, youtoo, sister.

Speaker 2 (54:29):
I hope it's great.
I'm glad that you are medicallycleared for more of this wacky
podcast bullshit that we can dotogether Me too.
Take care of your health.
We expect puppy updates on thereg.
I will provide them.
You have been listening to GenX.
Women Are Sick of this Shit.

(54:50):
Hey Megan, hey Leslie.
What do people do if they wantto find us?

Speaker 1 (54:56):
Well, we have a website that people can find us
on, and that is genxwomenpodcom.
We also have a Facebook page.
We have an Instagram account aswell.
We have a Facebook page.
We have an Instagram account aswell.
We have a YouTube account wherewe put YouTube shorts and other
little tidbits up there.
We have a TikTok account.

Speaker 2 (55:17):
I don't talk the dick or tick the tock.

Speaker 1 (55:19):
You don't tick the tock, I do not, I barely talk
the tick.
But I did put a TikTok up.
We're explaining the internetto people again.
That's okay, though it's great.

Speaker 2 (55:28):
We need to know how the internet works.

Speaker 1 (55:31):
Can people buy merch?
They absolutely can.
We have a merch store on thewebsite itself, and we also have
an Etsy store too, which ispretty easy to find.
It's just Gen X Women on Etsy.

Speaker 2 (55:44):
And if you are listening to this podcast,
presumably you found itsomewhere.
And while you're there, give usa review.

Speaker 1 (55:52):
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at us.
That'd be great.
We'll take one, two, three,four or five, ooh, five, maybe
ten.
And also make sure that you arehitting subscribe so that
you're notified whenever a newepisode drops.
Most important, we also have afive minutes of fame that I
think we should tell peopleabout too.

Speaker 2 (56:12):
Hell, yes, we want to know your stories, your five
minutes of fame stories.
You can send those stories inon the website or you can call
1-888-GEN-X-POD and leave yourstory for us and we will play it
live in our next episode.
Yep.

Speaker 1 (56:29):
We'll listen to it on a little red phone, just like
batman that'd be cool.

Speaker 2 (56:36):
Let's get a bad phone .
I think that's it.
I think you're right.