September 10, 2024 • 27 mins
Welcome to the D-constructing Topic Podcast! In this episode, host David delves into a subject that resonates deeply with many of us: the addiction to nostalgia. From toys and TV shows to personal memories and the science behind this emotional state, David explores how and why we yearn for the past.
He discusses his own experiences growing up in the 80s and 90s, touching on iconic shows like Saved by the Bell and the beloved tradition of visiting Blockbuster Video. David also examines the psychological aspects of nostalgia and how it can both comfort and challenge us.
Join the conversation as David shares his thoughts and invites listeners to reflect on their own nostalgic memories. Whether you're watching on YouTube or listening in, this episode is sure to take you on a trip down memory lane.
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Woo, let's get it. What's going on, everybody? And welcome to the Deconstructing Topic Podcast.
My name is David, and I'm your host of this legendary podcast that we got going on.
Ooh, we making it happen. We got another good episode.
We doing our thing. For those people out there on the YouTube,
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you're going to be watching because I got a little presentation.
For those who are listening, I got you. Don't worry about it.
You got one of the more interesting topics that I want to talk about because
it's going to resonate with a lot, a lot, a lot of people.
And yeah, it's the addiction to nostalgia. That's correct.
Nostalgia is a thing. It may be a disease. Some people say, hey,
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we need a cure for nostalgia.
But you let it be the judge how you feel about nostalgia.
And basically, I got a little presentation going on there. And I want people
to, once again, hit the like button, hit the comment, share, all that good stuff.
And let me know what is that one thing that you go back in time and you're just
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addicted to, whether it's a toy, whether it's a TV show, whatever the case might
be. And I'll give you a little background.
Myself, I don't give it much of my age, but hey, that's all right. Right.
So as a young kid, as a kid growing up, I'm mostly what they would call an 80s baby.
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I mean, I was as I was growing up to young adulthood teenager, I'm a 90s. I gravitate.
I got best of both decades and two or one of the better decades.
You know, and the good thing about those two decades, anybody that could have
enjoyed the 80s, 90s. I'm sorry for the millennials.
I'm sorry. You know, these last two decades, I don't know. I can't tell you. Sorry.
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But the 80s and 90s, you know, hey, listen, I'm a little bit biased.
There's a lot of good stuff going on there. You know what I mean?
And some people argue that the 2000s was probably like the best last decade
and somewhere after 2010. Yeah.
Whatever something happened you know what i mean so 80s 90s
and there's a lot of gravitate a lot of things that i gravitate when
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i say a lot of things we're talking about toys we're talking
about you know tv shows cartoons obviously or things of that nature so let's
get on with this show shall we and you know just to give you an idea what is
and what is nostalgia and then we all take it from there oh let's make it happen
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and this is a little clip from tep talk you know You know,
once in a while I do listen to Tech Talk. It has some good stuff, some good people there.
It's always something to learn there, but it's always something to learn here
and for you to make it legendary status. That's right.
Welcome once again to Deconstructed Topics. Let's get it.
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In the 17th century, a medical student named Johannes Hofer noticed a strange
illness affecting Swiss mercenaries serving abroad.
Its symptoms, including fatigue, insomnia, irregular heartbeat,
indigestion, and fever, were so strong the soldiers often had to be discharged.
As Hofer discovered, the cause was not some physical disturbance,
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but an intense yearning for their mountain homeland.
Hmm. He dubbed the... All right, so far so good. I like it.
I'm intrigued and I'm just curious here. for those people who find themselves addicted to nostalgia,
you know, there's certain things, there's certain, you know,
I'll be honest, there's certain things about nostalgia and certain things that does hit me.
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I wasn't born in this country, so I was born in the beautiful Puerto Rico.
Is there things that I feel like those symptoms when it comes to Puerto Rico
because I miss my homeland or my mainland? land.
Yeah. There are certain symptoms where I could say, and maybe sometimes, maybe sometimes.
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For those people who were not born in this country or not born in New York City
or not born here, who might say, you know, my immune system,
maybe it's the weather, maybe it's this.
Just put yourself out there where you have gotten sick. And I know some people
that get sick like five times a year.
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And then you ask them when you farm, oh yeah, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic,
et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Mexico, whatever.
Would you have gotten sick that much if you was in your homeland?
I would tend to think that the answer would be no. I think there is something...
Kind of attached to where you're from, whether you're from another state, another city.
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Now, obviously, living in New York City is a whole different monster.
There's a lot of tension, pressure, whatever.
So I could get that. That could be in that extra little layer that we might
be saying, okay, ignore, because at the end, living in New York City is a little
different. It's a big city. You know what I mean?
But I'm just saying, perhaps there's something to that effect.
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You know? All right? Let's get on with the show. condition, nostalgia,
from the Greek nostos for homecoming and algos for pain or longing.
At first, nostalgia was considered a particularly Swiss affliction.
Some doctors proposed that the constant sound of cowbells in the Alps caused
trauma to the eardrums and brain.
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Commanders even forbade their soldiers from singing traditional Swiss songs
for fear that they'd lead to desertion or suicide.
But as migration increased worldwide, nostalgia was observed in various groups.
It turned out that anyone separated from their native place for a long time
was evolved. That's one of the points that I've made.
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I do come across a lot of people who are not from this country or not from this
city who yearn for something.
And sometimes, depending on the person, when they have that conversation like
that, they tend that the, so the conversation is not as one of the, yo man, I miss my own.
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Oh man. Oh, you know, it's not of that energy level. You know what I mean?
It's more like, man, miss, you know, my home.
And you know, when I used to wake up, you know, so see, that's one of the points
I was trying to make, but this.
In regards to, again, I've come across New York City, it's like a melting pot
of a melting pot of a whatever pot.
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So that means it has a lot of different people from different backgrounds, different countries.
And if there's one thing that I do notice is that people from different countries,
different parts of this country, they do tend to feel a certain way. So that's interesting.
Vulnerable to nostalgia. And by the early 20th century, professionals no longer
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viewed it as a neurological disease, but as a mental condition similar to depression.
Psychologists of the time speculated that it represented difficulties letting
go of childhood, or even a longing to return to one's fetal state.
But over the next few decades, the understanding of nostalgia changed in two
important ways. its meaning expanded from indicating homesickness to a general longing for the past.
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And rather than an awful disease, it began to be seen as a poignant and pleasant experience.
Perhaps the most famous example of this was captured by French author Marcel Proust.
He described how tasting a madeleine cake he had not eaten since childhood triggered
a cascade of warm and powerful sensory associations.
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So, yeah, those are the little kicks. There's something like in my experience, especially.
So once again, I'm going to emphasize that I'm in New York City.
Now, New York City, we got a lot of Latinos, Mexican, Cuban,
Dominican, Puerto Ricans, obviously.
Now at one point now this is
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interesting is there a certain nostalgia that
is manufactured or came about because of something not naturally and i say this
because let's say when it comes to puerto rican and dominican food there are
certain things that are similar and if i go to a dominican household or we have
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the party you already know dominican's yours.
You know, they got the merengue, all that good stuff. They got the rice. They got the perlil.
You know, the arroz con gandule. All that good stuff.
And I've been there a lot of times. I take that little scoop of that little
perlil, that little, you know, arroz con gandule.
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Immediately, I'm going to be like, huh, it just tastes like, you know, back home.
Now, understanding historically, we have, let's say, Dominican Republic,
Puerto Rico, Cuba, certain countries, you know, they've been under the rule
of the Spanish, the Spanish Empire. So they are similar.
How can I say ingredients out there? So sometimes I start to think that there
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are certain nostalgia that could be manufactured or just came from chaos.
So just, you know, thinking about it here, you know.
So what caused such a major reversal in our view of nostalgia?
Part of it has to do with science.
Psychology shifted away from pure theory and towards more careful and systematic
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empirical observation.
Okay. So professionals realized that many of the negative symptoms may have
been simply correlated with nostalgia rather than caused by it.
And in fact, despite being a complex emotional state that can include feelings
of loss and sadness, Nostalgia doesn't generally put people in a negative mood.
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Instead, by allowing individuals to remember personally... Okay, so that's interesting.
So I did mention the negative part aspect, but I think that part does play to
whatever it is that you're kind of missing, because, you know, sometimes I guess,
I'm not going to say I guess, but missing, sometimes I have like a negative
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thing because I'm missing something.
I'm missing this. I'm missing that. Oh, I'm missing this. You know what I mean?
Oh, I miss, you know, let's say my parents passed away.
Just use an example. I'm missing this. I'm missing $200 that I lost somewhere.
I don't know what happened.
You know, there's always that thing. So I kind of understand that. Yes, it is true.
Not necessarily nostalgia is something that's attached to a negative feeling. So, okay.
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You know, at least we're in the same page here, you know. meaningful,
and rewarding experiences they shared with others, nostalgia can boost psychological well-being.
Studies have shown that inducing nostalgia in people can help increase their
feelings of self-esteem and social belonging, encourage psychological growth,
and even make them act more charitably.
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So rather than being a cause of mental distress, nostalgia can be a restorative way of coping with it.
For instance, when people experience negative emotional states,
they tend to naturally use nostalgia to reduce distress and restore well-being.
Today it seems that nostalgia is everywhere, partially because advertisers have
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discovered how powerful it is as a marketing campaign.
It's tempting to think of this as a sign of love.
It gets co-opted by these corporations, sadly, and there's monies to be had.
And, you know, I think that we can make, you know, maybe, you know,
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I don't know if there's a show out there.
I know that there's been shows of like, it's called American Restoration.
So there's shows there that these people go out there and they buy these vintage
stuff, things of that nature.
But I wonder if there's been shows where there's people, and I'm pretty sure there have been.
And I'm just trying to think of where I've seen it, where people are addicted
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to nostalgia so much that they just like spend all their money,
you know, on just the fact that they want that feeling of feeling like,
oh, you know, nostalgia, whatever.
So that's interesting because imagine just one show and I, you know,
when just to give people an idea of people who have been addicted to nostalgia
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and they spend all their life savings.
And again, hey, listen, at the end, you know, it's what you do with your money.
But what you do with your money, if it's affecting you, let's say if you got
a family and now your family can't eat because you're buying all these Care
Bear because you grew up, you know, with Care Bear House. I don't know.
But it's just interesting.
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I definitely would be curious to see if that was the case.
There's some show where people's just losing it. You know what I mean?
Of us being stuck in the past.
But that's not really how nostalgia works. Instead, nostalgia helps us remember
that our lives can have meaning and value, helping us find the confidence and
motivation to face the challenges of the future.
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Okay so that was interesting now one of my things that are that i've said um in regards to,
nostalgia and that that was definitely a cool a little thing going on there
the other day when i was doing my research i came across a couple of things
and one of the my favorite show and i just just by the way the reason why i'm
doing one of the reasons why i'm doing this episode
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of nostalgia because i would like to
kind of spawn this into other episodes uh
specifically tied to let's say toys specifically tied
to movies tv shows uh
things of that nature and one of the things and
i came across was saved by the bell for those
people we don't remember i think by the bell save well
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it's all right because you've been saved by
the bell so saved by the bell was a show i believe came
on in 19 late 80s but it kind of progressively changed
a little bit there was two paul gosling paul
mark gosling is one of the main actors the the person that
plays screech i think also so say by the
bell was this tv show about these uh teenager in this high school i forgot what's
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the name of the high school people could remember the name of that high school
was it bayshore or bayside high i think it was bayside high so basically you
have ac slater you have of these different characters going through high school.
And they used to give it on Saturday, I believe. It was on NBC.
And I believe it was 11 o'clock in the morning. So as a young kid, I'm like 9, 10, 11, 12, 8.
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I'm not giving up my age. I'm just saying. But it don't matter.
I will grow up. Because back then, for those young listeners out there.
Saturdays cartoons and a
couple of that was like fox i believe the
cw at that time was wpix channel 11 in
new york city i believe cbs have there were cartoons that would start at seven
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o'clock in the morning you know abc so from seven to basically 11 you had cartoons
fox did the weird thing to do the 11 cartoons,
X-Men, you know, more grown cartoons, because the earlier the cartoon is,
the more childish it became.
The later the cartoon, in terms of time slot, became more adult-themed.
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That's why they had, like, the X-Men at 11 o'clock.
So Saved by the Bell came at 11 o'clock. Now, Saved by the Bell was more of
an adult theme or young adult, you know, teenager show.
Basically, just me watching, like, three hours of cartoon,
soon then watching this show which was you know live action regular tv
show real characters humans you know
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you gravitated because you kind of as a young kid wonder how
your life would be let's say once you're in high school oh yeah is it gonna
be that cool apparently for me you know
what's cool this is my high school was cool but i'm just
saying you know the other thing too is this
boom so let me
just put this up here i for those people
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who remember we grew up in blockbuster now blockbuster video
means a lot to many many many
people man many many many families
because blockbuster video was that place where back
then before there was the netflix the amazon.
Prime you know the hulu's the
disney plush if you wanted to watch let's
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say a movie that that went on video then you
would watch it you know i want to do uh what
is a video you know what is a video whatever the case
might be people some of the young people i'm pretty sure people know
what it is vhs but blackbuster video is one
of those places you know so i think there
was a one store left i believe somewhere in alaska but
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black box there is where many saturdays you
would go with your family you would drive up you know
for those who had a car or sometimes you would just take the train take the
bus rent a couple of movies you know for those who have video games you rent
a video game and all that good stuff and basically you made it a family night
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on on on you know Saturday night, if you had that money.
You would rent three movies on whether it's DVD, VHS.
So maybe you'll do a two-Saturday movie, then one little Sunday thing going on there. This is why...
Back then, the networks like the CBS, the NBCs, the ABCs, they used to have
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these exclusive Sunday movies, kind of exclusive, you know.
And when I say exclusive, they were kind of TV made.
I remember there was one, it
was an Incredible Hulk and Daredevil or something to that effect on NBC.
So, you know, just to give you an idea how TV and, you know,
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renting and the whole renting game, they just balance each other out in a sense.
Because for one, let's say Rambo came out in 1985, I believe.
If you did not have the money or whatever the case might be to go to the movie
theaters, you waited a couple of months, depending, for this to come out on VHS, videotape.
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And then later on on dvd so you
waited and then as a family you rented now when you
rent something i remember back then it could have been from
299 you did the saturdays because a lot
of places i believe blockbuster started adapting
the how can i say the the
saturday you skip sunday you return it monday
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there's a lot of mom and pop shop stores that
did the same thing too so saturday became a thing
again if you look at movies and if
you're in a household where you got money but
not crazy enough to you know let's say four people four times let's say five
dollars a movie ticket you know even back then prime uh watching a movie in
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the night whatever five dollars a pop 1980s mid 80s with the popcorn you're
talking about 30 that 30 look it's still.
Cheaper than that now it's like a hundred dollars so if
you do that versus a movie that came on
on vhs five dollars whatever the
case might be and everybody's watching it get some popcorn i remember blockbuster
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when you came in they had a section of family package for twenty dollars you
get to get rent two movies or or you get a soda you get some popcorn you get
some candies for $20, something to that effect.
So that's one of the things that I remember with St.
Father Bell, blockbuster video, mark that in my list of things that I feel nostalgic and I miss.
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Do I wish there was another blockbuster video out there and going back to the old days? No.
So I like to just get on my laptop, whatever it is, stream.
I'm good. I'm good. Just keep in mind, I'm traveling those cause morning. So maybe, maybe,
Money, I'm sorry. So, you know, I'm saving money there too. So that's another thing with nostalgia.
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Another thing here, and I, whoo, this one's pretty cool. This one is pretty cool.
So this one is like 1980s toys. Once again, I want to do like I'm going to do
a nostalgic episode just on toys in itself.
We got the glow worms here. For those people out there, 1982,
come on, man. I don't even think I was born in 1982.
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I'm sorry. Yeah, I don't think I was born in 1982. I'm just saying. Yeah, they glow.
Game Boy. Okay. I remember that always. The Nintendo.
You know, for those people out there, gamers out there in the Nintendo, you know Nintendo.
Come on. When you're in the 80s, this is like the PC, Xbox, PlayStation thing
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going on. Look, we only have one.
Well, Sega had the other. Turbo Pursuit. For those into these games,
I love Turbo Pursuit because I'm a geek on the low end.
Right here. Gabbage Paz Kid, my family household, and they never gravitated to these things.
I remember these ugly things, the Monchichi. You see, released in 1974.
That's way before my time, but they still managed to come in the 1980s. Right here.
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Boom. And look at that ugly thing. You know, there's people in downtown where
I live in New York City with dogs that look like that. And they spend $200,000 on these dogs.
Might as well just buy a Monchichi. Come on, man. Pound puppies.
Cute little things. Going back to dogs. Woo, woo, woo. Yeah,
Pop Poppies, I remember they had a cartoon that came on.
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Very popular in my time, you know, obviously. My Little Pony.
Oh, okay. You know, I'll tell you this much. So you see the hair right here?
There's a lot of girls out there. For the most part, I've seen girls out there.
99% of girls that, you know, they're My Little Pony. Maybe you got a little boy.
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If there's one thing I must say about my little pony, it's this hair.
A lot of people learn how to braid because this hair was kind of long.
So I'm just saying. See, that's a constructive damn toy that we had back then.
My little pony. People knew how to braid hair, comb hair and all that.
Three-man chest. I'm not a fan of chest, but I do remember something to that
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effect. That'll be interesting.
Three-man chess. It should be like three-people chess. Come on now.
Come on. Get it with the program.
Domino Rally, I remember the commercials, late 80s. You do the beep, beep, beep, beep.
You do all these intricates where whatever the case might be,
if you want to build something and spend two hours just to knock it down for
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two seconds, by all means. Guess who? Another interesting game.
Works in the memory. You see, a lot of these games require physical, mental,
all this stuff, stuff going on here you
know i'm just saying hey listen it
was a different time back then jenga played it
a couple of times jenga is that game that is that game that yeah
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when you get jenga you messed up and all that knocks out oh yeah you'll be the
talk of the town see it's funny because jenga is for a lot of adults who like
to drink and like to kind of mess around with their cognitive you know thing
going on there you know am i drunk yo jenga that could be that thing,
jenga jenga what happened here yeah i remember those little
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balls kush kush yeah kush
not kush come on those smokers out there simon another
game it's a memory game i remember you know red
blue boom boom boom it was a memory game ah i
think that's the game where you know
look you come across people right and just
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because you have a memory doesn't makes you smarter than
me but by damn it sometimes i wish i didn't have that much good memory but i
do but i don't think i had good assignment because it got hard after a while
ruby q come on and this is like the ruby's q you know this this is the the the
tool that some people use to see how smart you are.
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That's crazy you people know you he man he man was great you already know care but you see.
Care bear Wow care bears Care bears Teddy Ruxpin was that thing That dude that That,
kind of talk, you know, scary, scary.
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Power wheels, yeah, yeah, for those people that have money, I get it,
I get it. We have the big wheels. Come on now.
Micro machines, oh, I remember the commercial with the guy that talked a lot.
Blah, blah, blah, micro machine, blah, blah, blah, blah.
He went on micro machine, little cars, little things going on.
Micro machines is one of those things where people, you know,
they became collectibles.
So, hey, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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Whoo teenage mutant ninja turtles and a half shell
obviously one of my favorite cartoons one
of my favorite things that nostalgia is a thing
thing bicycle wheelspoke beats all
right whatever what does that mean beat hey hey hey hey relax so folks wow that's
a little bit nostalgia once again if you're on the youtube you were able to
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see in that little presentation but yeah hop on the youtube YouTube.
How about on a rumble? Watch this stuff.
But if you're going to be listening to my audio, just close your eyes.
I'll be putting the links and just think about those things and think about
what is that thing or couple of things that you feel nostalgic,
that you're addicted to.
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If you have an addiction, sadly, to something that is doing more negative to
you and you feel like you're spending more money, you're spending more time
on that, please seek help.
You know seek help because there is content out
there for nostalgia believe it or not so that's
something that you know people just got to keep in mind is
that we have an addiction to nostalgia we love nostalgia there are for the most
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part all my personal view i tend to gravitate to something positive and once
again like the ninja turtles silver hogs i could go on and on and on i'll be
be doing a different show on cartoons and nostalgia.
And yes, there are people that unfortunately either they live in a time where,
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well, I think I was too old for the 80s.
I wasn't born in the 80s or in the 90s.
I don't remember this show, whatever the case might be. It's okay.
It's okay. Welcome. Welcome to our time.
Somebody got to talk about the 80s and 90s.
I'm just saying let's make it happen alright everybody much love you already
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know this is a legendary podcast feel free to share addiction to nostalgia is
definitely a thing alright peoples I'm out of here I'm out,
I'm out.
Woo, let's get it. What's going on, everybody? And welcome to the Deconstructing Topic Podcast.
My name is David, and I'm your host of this legendary podcast that we got going on.
Ooh, we making it happen. We got another good episode.
We doing our thing. For those people out there on the YouTube,
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you're going to be watching because I got a little presentation.
For those who are listening, I got you. Don't worry about it.
You got one of the more interesting topics that I want to talk about because
it's going to resonate with a lot, a lot, a lot of people.
And yeah, it's the addiction to nostalgia. That's correct.
Nostalgia is a thing. It may be a disease. Some people say, hey,
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we need a cure for nostalgia.
But you let it be the judge how you feel about nostalgia.
And basically, I got a little presentation going on there. And I want people
to, once again, hit the like button, hit the comment, share, all that good stuff.
And let me know what is that one thing that you go back in time and you're just
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addicted to, whether it's a toy, whether it's a TV show, whatever the case might
be. And I'll give you a little background.
Myself, I don't give it much of my age, but hey, that's all right. Right.
So as a young kid, as a kid growing up, I'm mostly what they would call an 80s baby.
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I mean, I was as I was growing up to young adulthood teenager, I'm a 90s. I gravitate.
I got best of both decades and two or one of the better decades.
You know, and the good thing about those two decades, anybody that could have
enjoyed the 80s, 90s. I'm sorry for the millennials.
I'm sorry. You know, these last two decades, I don't know. I can't tell you. Sorry.
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But the 80s and 90s, you know, hey, listen, I'm a little bit biased.
There's a lot of good stuff going on there. You know what I mean?
And some people argue that the 2000s was probably like the best last decade
and somewhere after 2010. Yeah.
Whatever something happened you know what i mean so 80s 90s
and there's a lot of gravitate a lot of things that i gravitate when
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i say a lot of things we're talking about toys we're talking
about you know tv shows cartoons obviously or things of that nature so let's
get on with this show shall we and you know just to give you an idea what is
and what is nostalgia and then we all take it from there oh let's make it happen
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and this is a little clip from tep talk you know You know,
once in a while I do listen to Tech Talk. It has some good stuff, some good people there.
It's always something to learn there, but it's always something to learn here
and for you to make it legendary status. That's right.
Welcome once again to Deconstructed Topics. Let's get it.
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In the 17th century, a medical student named Johannes Hofer noticed a strange
illness affecting Swiss mercenaries serving abroad.
Its symptoms, including fatigue, insomnia, irregular heartbeat,
indigestion, and fever, were so strong the soldiers often had to be discharged.
As Hofer discovered, the cause was not some physical disturbance,
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but an intense yearning for their mountain homeland.
Hmm. He dubbed the... All right, so far so good. I like it.
I'm intrigued and I'm just curious here. for those people who find themselves addicted to nostalgia,
you know, there's certain things, there's certain, you know,
I'll be honest, there's certain things about nostalgia and certain things that does hit me.
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I wasn't born in this country, so I was born in the beautiful Puerto Rico.
Is there things that I feel like those symptoms when it comes to Puerto Rico
because I miss my homeland or my mainland? land.
Yeah. There are certain symptoms where I could say, and maybe sometimes, maybe sometimes.
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For those people who were not born in this country or not born in New York City
or not born here, who might say, you know, my immune system,
maybe it's the weather, maybe it's this.
Just put yourself out there where you have gotten sick. And I know some people
that get sick like five times a year.
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And then you ask them when you farm, oh yeah, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic,
et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Mexico, whatever.
Would you have gotten sick that much if you was in your homeland?
I would tend to think that the answer would be no. I think there is something...
Kind of attached to where you're from, whether you're from another state, another city.
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Now, obviously, living in New York City is a whole different monster.
There's a lot of tension, pressure, whatever.
So I could get that. That could be in that extra little layer that we might
be saying, okay, ignore, because at the end, living in New York City is a little
different. It's a big city. You know what I mean?
But I'm just saying, perhaps there's something to that effect.
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You know? All right? Let's get on with the show. condition, nostalgia,
from the Greek nostos for homecoming and algos for pain or longing.
At first, nostalgia was considered a particularly Swiss affliction.
Some doctors proposed that the constant sound of cowbells in the Alps caused
trauma to the eardrums and brain.
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Commanders even forbade their soldiers from singing traditional Swiss songs
for fear that they'd lead to desertion or suicide.
But as migration increased worldwide, nostalgia was observed in various groups.
It turned out that anyone separated from their native place for a long time
was evolved. That's one of the points that I've made.
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I do come across a lot of people who are not from this country or not from this
city who yearn for something.
And sometimes, depending on the person, when they have that conversation like
that, they tend that the, so the conversation is not as one of the, yo man, I miss my own.
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Oh man. Oh, you know, it's not of that energy level. You know what I mean?
It's more like, man, miss, you know, my home.
And you know, when I used to wake up, you know, so see, that's one of the points
I was trying to make, but this.
In regards to, again, I've come across New York City, it's like a melting pot
of a melting pot of a whatever pot.
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So that means it has a lot of different people from different backgrounds, different countries.
And if there's one thing that I do notice is that people from different countries,
different parts of this country, they do tend to feel a certain way. So that's interesting.
Vulnerable to nostalgia. And by the early 20th century, professionals no longer
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viewed it as a neurological disease, but as a mental condition similar to depression.
Psychologists of the time speculated that it represented difficulties letting
go of childhood, or even a longing to return to one's fetal state.
But over the next few decades, the understanding of nostalgia changed in two
important ways. its meaning expanded from indicating homesickness to a general longing for the past.
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And rather than an awful disease, it began to be seen as a poignant and pleasant experience.
Perhaps the most famous example of this was captured by French author Marcel Proust.
He described how tasting a madeleine cake he had not eaten since childhood triggered
a cascade of warm and powerful sensory associations.
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So, yeah, those are the little kicks. There's something like in my experience, especially.
So once again, I'm going to emphasize that I'm in New York City.
Now, New York City, we got a lot of Latinos, Mexican, Cuban,
Dominican, Puerto Ricans, obviously.
Now at one point now this is
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interesting is there a certain nostalgia that
is manufactured or came about because of something not naturally and i say this
because let's say when it comes to puerto rican and dominican food there are
certain things that are similar and if i go to a dominican household or we have
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the party you already know dominican's yours.
You know, they got the merengue, all that good stuff. They got the rice. They got the perlil.
You know, the arroz con gandule. All that good stuff.
And I've been there a lot of times. I take that little scoop of that little
perlil, that little, you know, arroz con gandule.
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Immediately, I'm going to be like, huh, it just tastes like, you know, back home.
Now, understanding historically, we have, let's say, Dominican Republic,
Puerto Rico, Cuba, certain countries, you know, they've been under the rule
of the Spanish, the Spanish Empire. So they are similar.
How can I say ingredients out there? So sometimes I start to think that there
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are certain nostalgia that could be manufactured or just came from chaos.
So just, you know, thinking about it here, you know.
So what caused such a major reversal in our view of nostalgia?
Part of it has to do with science.
Psychology shifted away from pure theory and towards more careful and systematic
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empirical observation.
Okay. So professionals realized that many of the negative symptoms may have
been simply correlated with nostalgia rather than caused by it.
And in fact, despite being a complex emotional state that can include feelings
of loss and sadness, Nostalgia doesn't generally put people in a negative mood.
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Instead, by allowing individuals to remember personally... Okay, so that's interesting.
So I did mention the negative part aspect, but I think that part does play to
whatever it is that you're kind of missing, because, you know, sometimes I guess,
I'm not going to say I guess, but missing, sometimes I have like a negative
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thing because I'm missing something.
I'm missing this. I'm missing that. Oh, I'm missing this. You know what I mean?
Oh, I miss, you know, let's say my parents passed away.
Just use an example. I'm missing this. I'm missing $200 that I lost somewhere.
I don't know what happened.
You know, there's always that thing. So I kind of understand that. Yes, it is true.
Not necessarily nostalgia is something that's attached to a negative feeling. So, okay.
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You know, at least we're in the same page here, you know. meaningful,
and rewarding experiences they shared with others, nostalgia can boost psychological well-being.
Studies have shown that inducing nostalgia in people can help increase their
feelings of self-esteem and social belonging, encourage psychological growth,
and even make them act more charitably.
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So rather than being a cause of mental distress, nostalgia can be a restorative way of coping with it.
For instance, when people experience negative emotional states,
they tend to naturally use nostalgia to reduce distress and restore well-being.
Today it seems that nostalgia is everywhere, partially because advertisers have
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discovered how powerful it is as a marketing campaign.
It's tempting to think of this as a sign of love.
It gets co-opted by these corporations, sadly, and there's monies to be had.
And, you know, I think that we can make, you know, maybe, you know,
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I don't know if there's a show out there.
I know that there's been shows of like, it's called American Restoration.
So there's shows there that these people go out there and they buy these vintage
stuff, things of that nature.
But I wonder if there's been shows where there's people, and I'm pretty sure there have been.
And I'm just trying to think of where I've seen it, where people are addicted
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to nostalgia so much that they just like spend all their money,
you know, on just the fact that they want that feeling of feeling like,
oh, you know, nostalgia, whatever.
So that's interesting because imagine just one show and I, you know,
when just to give people an idea of people who have been addicted to nostalgia
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and they spend all their life savings.
And again, hey, listen, at the end, you know, it's what you do with your money.
But what you do with your money, if it's affecting you, let's say if you got
a family and now your family can't eat because you're buying all these Care
Bear because you grew up, you know, with Care Bear House. I don't know.
But it's just interesting.
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I definitely would be curious to see if that was the case.
There's some show where people's just losing it. You know what I mean?
Of us being stuck in the past.
But that's not really how nostalgia works. Instead, nostalgia helps us remember
that our lives can have meaning and value, helping us find the confidence and
motivation to face the challenges of the future.
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Okay so that was interesting now one of my things that are that i've said um in regards to,
nostalgia and that that was definitely a cool a little thing going on there
the other day when i was doing my research i came across a couple of things
and one of the my favorite show and i just just by the way the reason why i'm
doing one of the reasons why i'm doing this episode
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of nostalgia because i would like to
kind of spawn this into other episodes uh
specifically tied to let's say toys specifically tied
to movies tv shows uh
things of that nature and one of the things and
i came across was saved by the bell for those
people we don't remember i think by the bell save well
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it's all right because you've been saved by
the bell so saved by the bell was a show i believe came
on in 19 late 80s but it kind of progressively changed
a little bit there was two paul gosling paul
mark gosling is one of the main actors the the person that
plays screech i think also so say by the
bell was this tv show about these uh teenager in this high school i forgot what's
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the name of the high school people could remember the name of that high school
was it bayshore or bayside high i think it was bayside high so basically you
have ac slater you have of these different characters going through high school.
And they used to give it on Saturday, I believe. It was on NBC.
And I believe it was 11 o'clock in the morning. So as a young kid, I'm like 9, 10, 11, 12, 8.
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I'm not giving up my age. I'm just saying. But it don't matter.
I will grow up. Because back then, for those young listeners out there.
Saturdays cartoons and a
couple of that was like fox i believe the
cw at that time was wpix channel 11 in
new york city i believe cbs have there were cartoons that would start at seven
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o'clock in the morning you know abc so from seven to basically 11 you had cartoons
fox did the weird thing to do the 11 cartoons,
X-Men, you know, more grown cartoons, because the earlier the cartoon is,
the more childish it became.
The later the cartoon, in terms of time slot, became more adult-themed.
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That's why they had, like, the X-Men at 11 o'clock.
So Saved by the Bell came at 11 o'clock. Now, Saved by the Bell was more of
an adult theme or young adult, you know, teenager show.
Basically, just me watching, like, three hours of cartoon,
soon then watching this show which was you know live action regular tv
show real characters humans you know
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you gravitated because you kind of as a young kid wonder how
your life would be let's say once you're in high school oh yeah is it gonna
be that cool apparently for me you know
what's cool this is my high school was cool but i'm just
saying you know the other thing too is this
boom so let me
just put this up here i for those people
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who remember we grew up in blockbuster now blockbuster video
means a lot to many many many
people man many many many families
because blockbuster video was that place where back
then before there was the netflix the amazon.
Prime you know the hulu's the
disney plush if you wanted to watch let's
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say a movie that that went on video then you
would watch it you know i want to do uh what
is a video you know what is a video whatever the case
might be people some of the young people i'm pretty sure people know
what it is vhs but blackbuster video is one
of those places you know so i think there
was a one store left i believe somewhere in alaska but
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black box there is where many saturdays you
would go with your family you would drive up you know
for those who had a car or sometimes you would just take the train take the
bus rent a couple of movies you know for those who have video games you rent
a video game and all that good stuff and basically you made it a family night
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on on on you know Saturday night, if you had that money.
You would rent three movies on whether it's DVD, VHS.
So maybe you'll do a two-Saturday movie, then one little Sunday thing going on there. This is why...
Back then, the networks like the CBS, the NBCs, the ABCs, they used to have
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these exclusive Sunday movies, kind of exclusive, you know.
And when I say exclusive, they were kind of TV made.
I remember there was one, it
was an Incredible Hulk and Daredevil or something to that effect on NBC.
So, you know, just to give you an idea how TV and, you know,
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renting and the whole renting game, they just balance each other out in a sense.
Because for one, let's say Rambo came out in 1985, I believe.
If you did not have the money or whatever the case might be to go to the movie
theaters, you waited a couple of months, depending, for this to come out on VHS, videotape.
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And then later on on dvd so you
waited and then as a family you rented now when you
rent something i remember back then it could have been from
299 you did the saturdays because a lot
of places i believe blockbuster started adapting
the how can i say the the
saturday you skip sunday you return it monday
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there's a lot of mom and pop shop stores that
did the same thing too so saturday became a thing
again if you look at movies and if
you're in a household where you got money but
not crazy enough to you know let's say four people four times let's say five
dollars a movie ticket you know even back then prime uh watching a movie in
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the night whatever five dollars a pop 1980s mid 80s with the popcorn you're
talking about 30 that 30 look it's still.
Cheaper than that now it's like a hundred dollars so if
you do that versus a movie that came on
on vhs five dollars whatever the
case might be and everybody's watching it get some popcorn i remember blockbuster
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when you came in they had a section of family package for twenty dollars you
get to get rent two movies or or you get a soda you get some popcorn you get
some candies for $20, something to that effect.
So that's one of the things that I remember with St.
Father Bell, blockbuster video, mark that in my list of things that I feel nostalgic and I miss.
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Do I wish there was another blockbuster video out there and going back to the old days? No.
So I like to just get on my laptop, whatever it is, stream.
I'm good. I'm good. Just keep in mind, I'm traveling those cause morning. So maybe, maybe,
Money, I'm sorry. So, you know, I'm saving money there too. So that's another thing with nostalgia.
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Another thing here, and I, whoo, this one's pretty cool. This one is pretty cool.
So this one is like 1980s toys. Once again, I want to do like I'm going to do
a nostalgic episode just on toys in itself.
We got the glow worms here. For those people out there, 1982,
come on, man. I don't even think I was born in 1982.
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I'm sorry. Yeah, I don't think I was born in 1982. I'm just saying. Yeah, they glow.
Game Boy. Okay. I remember that always. The Nintendo.
You know, for those people out there, gamers out there in the Nintendo, you know Nintendo.
Come on. When you're in the 80s, this is like the PC, Xbox, PlayStation thing
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going on. Look, we only have one.
Well, Sega had the other. Turbo Pursuit. For those into these games,
I love Turbo Pursuit because I'm a geek on the low end.
Right here. Gabbage Paz Kid, my family household, and they never gravitated to these things.
I remember these ugly things, the Monchichi. You see, released in 1974.
That's way before my time, but they still managed to come in the 1980s. Right here.
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Boom. And look at that ugly thing. You know, there's people in downtown where
I live in New York City with dogs that look like that. And they spend $200,000 on these dogs.
Might as well just buy a Monchichi. Come on, man. Pound puppies.
Cute little things. Going back to dogs. Woo, woo, woo. Yeah,
Pop Poppies, I remember they had a cartoon that came on.
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Very popular in my time, you know, obviously. My Little Pony.
Oh, okay. You know, I'll tell you this much. So you see the hair right here?
There's a lot of girls out there. For the most part, I've seen girls out there.
99% of girls that, you know, they're My Little Pony. Maybe you got a little boy.
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If there's one thing I must say about my little pony, it's this hair.
A lot of people learn how to braid because this hair was kind of long.
So I'm just saying. See, that's a constructive damn toy that we had back then.
My little pony. People knew how to braid hair, comb hair and all that.
Three-man chest. I'm not a fan of chest, but I do remember something to that
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effect. That'll be interesting.
Three-man chess. It should be like three-people chess. Come on now.
Come on. Get it with the program.
Domino Rally, I remember the commercials, late 80s. You do the beep, beep, beep, beep.
You do all these intricates where whatever the case might be,
if you want to build something and spend two hours just to knock it down for
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two seconds, by all means. Guess who? Another interesting game.
Works in the memory. You see, a lot of these games require physical, mental,
all this stuff, stuff going on here you
know i'm just saying hey listen it
was a different time back then jenga played it
a couple of times jenga is that game that is that game that yeah
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when you get jenga you messed up and all that knocks out oh yeah you'll be the
talk of the town see it's funny because jenga is for a lot of adults who like
to drink and like to kind of mess around with their cognitive you know thing
going on there you know am i drunk yo jenga that could be that thing,
jenga jenga what happened here yeah i remember those little
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balls kush kush yeah kush
not kush come on those smokers out there simon another
game it's a memory game i remember you know red
blue boom boom boom it was a memory game ah i
think that's the game where you know
look you come across people right and just
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because you have a memory doesn't makes you smarter than
me but by damn it sometimes i wish i didn't have that much good memory but i
do but i don't think i had good assignment because it got hard after a while
ruby q come on and this is like the ruby's q you know this this is the the the
tool that some people use to see how smart you are.
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That's crazy you people know you he man he man was great you already know care but you see.
Care bear Wow care bears Care bears Teddy Ruxpin was that thing That dude that That,
kind of talk, you know, scary, scary.
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Power wheels, yeah, yeah, for those people that have money, I get it,
I get it. We have the big wheels. Come on now.
Micro machines, oh, I remember the commercial with the guy that talked a lot.
Blah, blah, blah, micro machine, blah, blah, blah, blah.
He went on micro machine, little cars, little things going on.
Micro machines is one of those things where people, you know,
they became collectibles.
So, hey, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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Whoo teenage mutant ninja turtles and a half shell
obviously one of my favorite cartoons one
of my favorite things that nostalgia is a thing
thing bicycle wheelspoke beats all
right whatever what does that mean beat hey hey hey hey relax so folks wow that's
a little bit nostalgia once again if you're on the youtube you were able to
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see in that little presentation but yeah hop on the youtube YouTube.
How about on a rumble? Watch this stuff.
But if you're going to be listening to my audio, just close your eyes.
I'll be putting the links and just think about those things and think about
what is that thing or couple of things that you feel nostalgic,
that you're addicted to.
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If you have an addiction, sadly, to something that is doing more negative to
you and you feel like you're spending more money, you're spending more time
on that, please seek help.
You know seek help because there is content out
there for nostalgia believe it or not so that's
something that you know people just got to keep in mind is
that we have an addiction to nostalgia we love nostalgia there are for the most
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part all my personal view i tend to gravitate to something positive and once
again like the ninja turtles silver hogs i could go on and on and on i'll be
be doing a different show on cartoons and nostalgia.
And yes, there are people that unfortunately either they live in a time where,
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well, I think I was too old for the 80s.
I wasn't born in the 80s or in the 90s.
I don't remember this show, whatever the case might be. It's okay.
It's okay. Welcome. Welcome to our time.
Somebody got to talk about the 80s and 90s.
I'm just saying let's make it happen alright everybody much love you already
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know this is a legendary podcast feel free to share addiction to nostalgia is
definitely a thing alright peoples I'm out of here I'm out,
I'm out.
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