February 25, 2025 • 29 mins
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That's right, a new Nostalgia Nugget!
We are joined by friend of the pod, Mark. We talk about Blockbuster video, the fun of clothes shopping before school, trying something new and make sure you stick around and listen to our least favorite outfits while growing up.
Thank you for being a friend, join your three favorite friends, grab a slice of cheesecake and enjoyt this week's episode of Notable Nostalgia!
Make sure to leave us a 5 star review, and tell a friend about the show.
If you want to suggest a topic for an upcoming show email us at NotableNostalgia90@Gmail.com or find us at Facebook.com/NotableNostalgia
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
And what if I lost both my hands tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You could be a seat model star. I was sixteen
at the time or fifteen, and and then hook it
up with a witch and that was that. Cats can
smile apparently, whoa weird, But it doesn't always mean that
they're happy.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Now Lucy receives a call from what I can only
assume is the future winner of every acting award ever.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yeah, Jimmy Moon is a star. Her look looks weren't
part of this issue.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
He's like, I had to sell my last top hat
for Jannis.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Maybe this is not appropriate eitherther but lit's see. Hello,
welcome to notable nostalgia. We are here with another notable nugget,
gob gob Gobo.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I am Jeff and I'm Andy.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
And we're here with a special guest today, Mark.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
That's me.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yeah, so that.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
The cool thing about Mark, though, is his name backwards?
Is cram kinda No?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
It definitely it is.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
No, it's one hundred percent backwards.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
It's pronounced cram, cram, cram. We call this, we call
him cram boy.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
So I know that we were reconnecting. So I want listener,
what are your memories of me Mark as a kid?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Well, I remember you before my dad lost his legs. Oh, no,
I'm just kidding. True he found him later, are you yes?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah, because it's like one of my biggest pet peeves.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
We're finding him later like all those if they find
these limbs later, I'm so peeved.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
So what were just like a narcissistic astle? But I
am a white male?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Sure, yeah, but so what are your memories of me?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
The last couple of times I were call seeing you?
First off, we we went to the food court at
the mall in downtown anybody's or.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
We had like cell phones. We had to take the
bus down there too, which is crazy, you know.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
It was like flip phones or like those Nokia brick
phones and stuff like that. So we went there and
then we got food, and you got some burgers from
like the McDonald's there, and then you just apparently decided
that you didn't want these burgers anymore. So you took
the burger, you opened it in half, you pulled out
your bleach blonde hair some of it and put it
(02:24):
in there, closed it and walked up and said, hey,
there's hair in my burger. I would like a refund.
The two Hispanic ladies at the counter with long black hair,
were very confused and very concerned, but I think they
eventually did give you your refund. And then I vaguely
recall you walking down to like like the next like
(02:45):
two things over like whatever, the where you get like
an orange Julius, you know. And then there's another time
we were going down. We were downtown and you went
up to the ticket counter for the movie theater and
you knocked on the window and you were like you
looked at the lady, who's like, I'm in an emergency.
I really need your help. Can I use your phone?
And the lady was a little concerned, but she's like yeah,
(03:06):
So she slid her you know, old school brick phone
underneath the slit where you get tickets from, and you
just looked at her with the most sincere look in
your face, and you're like, thank you so much. And
then you just took it and decided that that phone
was your airplane for like five seconds, and you gave
(03:26):
it back to you and you're like thank you, and
we all walked away.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
And it was so fucking funny, none of us.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
What you were doing that you just we walked it
and you went right there and you did this whole
stuff and we're just all sitting there like okay, and
then you did this and left and we none of
us were sure what to do. Really, just like all
right later.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I love that so much. Like, so you're pretty much
saying that as a child, I was still like this
humanitarian hero.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Yeah, sure it might have been, but as as a
teenager you were, no, not so much so asshole.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
So on Nuggets episodes, Oh, we like to just like
chit chat about what we are nostalgic for in general. So, Mark,
what are you nostalgic.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
For your childhood that you kind of miss doing?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Wilfred Brimley, That beats oh, man, I mean so many things.
It was such a like I feel like I'm getting
older and older too because it's I'm looking back on
some of this stuff and like it was so much
simpler and so much more fun, and you know, like
you felt like you were a part of more things,
which was funny because you really didn't have as much
(04:32):
access to stuff as we do today. Sure, but I
honestly felt like I understood more things then than I
do now. Heavy, right, but like just the ability to
have to find more things in life you'd walk up
to and you'd be so naive on how something worked,
but you were so willing to commit to just going
(04:52):
headfirst into something like photography, you're writing music or playing
instruments or anything like that and just enjoying it more.
Whereas now you open up your phone with you know,
the first couple of seconds of being like, I want
to try this new endeavor, and within a half hour
you realize like this is pointless, you know, so you.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
So you're kind of feeling moreristalgic just for and I
like kind of in a way, kind of like the
lack of knowledge to let you try something for the
first time without knowing that anybody else has kind of done.
Is that what you're kind of saying? Yeah, yeah, that's heavy,
that's cool, Okay, I get that. Yeah, yeah, because I've
talked a few times about stuff like that before to us,
(05:31):
like playing music, because back in the day, we didn't
have YouTube to like learn how to play music. So
when you learn how to play music, it's like magical
and like you hear a song, you're like, oh, I
know what they're doing this time. Okay, we're talking about.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Also, I missed Beast Wars.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Oh the cartoons. Yes, dude, fucking Beastwards is one of
my favorite cartoons ever. And then for uh, so, what
my dad used to do when I was a kid.
You used to give me presents for like every holiday,
but they were cheap presents. It's not like I was
like rich. But he got me a p is it
one time for I think it was like Thanksgiving or
it was something like that. I can't remember. But also
(06:06):
my dad wasn't living in the other time. But anyways, uh,
he gave me a beast Wars doll one time and
I got it and I it was like, I can't remember.
I think it was the rat. I can't remember his name.
But we opened it and then we couldn't figure out
how to make it the rat against and my dad
tried to help, my mom tried to help. I tried
(06:27):
to figure it out. We couldn't figure it out, so
we ended up taking it back.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Did hair on it.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
First, Yeah, we put some blonde hair on it, put
it back, but no, we couldn't figure out how to
actually make the toy work. So we took it back
and got our money back because it was a Transformer.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
So I'm okay, So you am I should I be
giving you presents for Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
I wouldn't happening because I'm native.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yeah, but is that you got presence on Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Oh? Well only when my dad didn't live with us.
Oh yeah, So he was like trying to be like
super cool. But if you want to give me a
present for thanks oh, I will definitely do that.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
That's like reparations.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
It's giving him blankets.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
And what about you, Jeff, what are you?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
No? I'm nostalgic, and this is going to tug at
the heartstrings of every listener listening, all ten of you.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
From the moment before this asshole walked in here.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
So I am nostalgic for the days of yesteryear when
we used to watch movies together and we used to
go to the Blockbuster or the Hollywood Video, pick out
a movie, have it be just a whole spectacle, and
we would actually watch the whole movie. And fast forward
to today my asshole child, which I love him, but
(07:41):
he if he's not interested in a movie, even if
we are interested in it, he'll change it after we've
already got hooked to it, or what he has recently
started doing. When he's tired, he will go like get
all of his gatherings from the living room and turn
off the TV. We're still watching the movie. You're like, yeah,
(08:04):
it's time for bed. So I just missed the times
where we would make the big popcorn. We would do
like the if it was called like the Baker's yeast
or whatever, and sprinkle that on there and just like
just have it be like a thing. Even if the
movie wasn't like five star, we would watch it and
enjoy it and have fun with it, and it was
just like a thing that we did. But nowadays, with
(08:25):
like social media and everything, we're all like watching the
movie and then we're all like strolling on our phones
or looking our beans or whatever.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Or like you would like to touch on that yeaheah,
Like I remember that same kind of thing. You go
to the movie or the the you know, home or
Hollywood Video or Blockbust, whatever, and you'd pan through all
the things that go up a day on the aisles
and look at stuff. You'd get to the point where
maybe you had like three or four things, and at
this point and it's like, well, we can only get
one or two. So now you're like really thinking about, like, oh,
which one do I really want to watch which one
(08:53):
like speaks to me or which one might you know,
change the mood for the weekend. Now it's like, oh,
I really want to watch this show, and so I
find well, who's streaming it? They're streaming it. Click five
seconds into it, I'm like, eh, I'm over it because
it's just I know I can go and get it
whenever I want. Yeah, and if I don't like it,
there's a billion other things right in front of it.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
There's so much.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
It's like what you're saying, I feel like it really
ties into what I was saying. It's just like the
ability to enjoy what's right there, you know, I feel
like we take that for granted now.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Like growing up, like my dad had this thing. He
always called it the twenty minute rule. So we started
watching a movie and then within twenty minutes, if we're
not feeling like hooked, you'd be like, how's everybody feeling
about this movie? Right around the twenty minute mark? Are
we digging it or we're not digging it? Because if
we're not digging this is like when I was like,
you know, twelve thirteen, you know, like before it was
(09:43):
easily accessible for movies, but he still had that thing, like,
you know, twenty minutes this because I feel like, if
you're not hooked in the movie in the first twenty minutes,
it's probably not going to be that great. Yes, of
course there's probably one offs to where you have to
eight for forty five minutes an hour to finally get it.
But if it's a good director, a good writer, a
(10:06):
good screenplay, you know whatever, you should be interested and
excited for the for the movie within the first twenty minutes.
So growing up, I still do this.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I'm like, in the first twenty minutes are we are
we feeling it? How are we feeling? Are we interested?
And if we're not interested in the first twenty minutes,
then I'm gonna cut it off.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
And like that's like back to like the movies that
really catch you at the beginning. One of them that
comes to mind screened the original Drew Barrymore getting Getting killed,
fucking five star. I cannot stand Drew Barrymore. I hope
she died.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I hate her.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Drew Barrymore. If you're listening, fuck you, fuck you j Yeah,
you're the word hate her?
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Do you look like some fucking voice?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Yeah? You like hammered dog shit.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
You should have not married Tom Green.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
That doesn't marry Tom Green.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
She did? You know, I just watched that Tom Green
documentary and guess what, it's.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Not very good.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
He's a documentary.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
It came out literally yesterday on the twenty fourth. This
is coming out mid February. But he also was the
one who did it, which is fine. But the thing
I hate about, like the whole Tom Green documentary, which
I did enjoy Tom Green when I was a kid. Whatever,
it's fine, but the thing I disliked about it is
like so many people going like Tom Green was a genius. Yeah,
(11:17):
I guess in a way, but see, thank you, I don't.
It's the same thing with like gg Allen. I fucking
hate gg Allen. He made shitty music, He was a
racist piece of shit. Just because he ate shit on
stage doesn't make him a genius. Do you know who
gig Allen is?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
No, he ate actual poop.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Yeah, he's a punk dude that like he was all anyways,
shitty music whatever, so anyway.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Divine ate poop way before everybody else. So, but you
know who recently came out sidebar sidebar as gay. Speaking
of faggots, like Tom Green, pee wee Herman just came
out as gay. Apparently dead pee wee Herman's not dead?
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Is he?
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Oh? He is dead?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Is he dead's? And also, wow, all right, what Drew?
If you're listening, I really like doing fifty first States?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
So I okay, sidebar, sidebar problematic there. So she didn't
know each day that she was getting raped, Yes, exactly,
thank you, Andy.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
I think they think he showed her a movie and
then she was like, okay, I mean it became consensual.
I mean, I mean, how could you make I'm kind
of curious, like if there was ever a day where
you know, like he went through the whole process of
like the book and the movie. And she's like, I
love you so much and he's like, hey, cool, can
I get like a PS four? And she's like no,
and he's like, wow, we're in the nineteen fifties. I
(12:35):
don't know if you know this, you know?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
And then you're like her, Yeah, I can't stand.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Her stupid TV show she has now.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
No yeah, she SAIDs too close to her her guests,
and she has that little ross Matthew, I can't say
like that.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
She's like, oh, when I was a cute. I got
into drugs. Who gives a fuck?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Yeah, we all did drugs when we were all the
drugs were okay, so andy, what were you you nostalgic
for it?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I do kind of miss shopping for any clothes, right,
shopping for clothes before school?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Yeah, clothes, not school supplies. No, clothes are pretty dope
because I remember you'd look through everything and you'd be like,
oh man, this is gonna be fit. And I like,
for like the first couple of days, like I'm going
to walk into school and people and be like, nice jacket,
nice pants, you know, and like I'd pulled out my
you know, a binder and be like, that's a cool binder.
And every year no one said anything to me, ever.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Because they don't probably thinking the same thing. They go,
I got a cool binder, I got some cool pants.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
But they literally didn't say anything to me, Like even
during roll call, they would just skip.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Well, it's because you were the bottom mark.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Did you mark? Did you decorate your did you decorate
your binder? Like was it one of the ones that
the plastic flads that regular? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:49):
I did the whole let's get it, because I didn't
know that was the thing until I was like six
or seventh grade, probably when I was in elementary school,
all my ship was like fucking hot Wheels and dumb
shit like that. And then when I remember, I was
in fifth grade, I had a Hot Wheels notebook and
that's when like the cool like cooler kids had like
(14:09):
the ones where you put pictures in, and I was
so fucking jealous. I was like, I didn't know. I
didn't know about this what that was.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
It was like a big sixth grade thing for me.
And yeah, like when seventh grade rolled around, that's when
like what was it like five star or whatever? Have
the zip up cloth binder or whatever.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Do you guys remember like the girls in school that
would do like the Playboy bun the stuff. You're way like,
you're way too young to be going down this path. Yeah, yeah,
but do.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
You guys remember, Like I remember one of my fits.
It was like my outfits I was going in sixth grade.
I thought it was gonna look super fucking cool. It's
brand new geans like dark blue, yeah, white shoes, and
I had this button up red kind of it was
like a it was like a button up shirt. It's
not polo, it's not what's that called?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Like Henley but.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Like kind of but it was like a thin shirt.
But what's that called when you're like a tree cutter lumberjack? Yeah,
it was kind of that thing, but it was like
a thin one of the what's that called? Was like
square lines flannel? Yeah, it was a thin flannel, short
sleeve and it was red and I had a white
(15:26):
shirt underneath it with dark blue jeans and white pants.
And I was going in my very first day of sixth.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Grade jeans and white pants.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Oh I'm sorry, dark blue jeans, a white undershirt, a
red short sleeved flannel, and white shoes. I remember I
was walking in. In my head, I was like, just
like you said, I was like, damn, dude, I'm about
to get all these you were you were.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Really leaning into your carpet Manchine Rosio Donald face.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
So I was gonna say, I was gonna say, think
of the imagine what he's saying he's wearing. How is
that not exactly like the father from that Dinosaur TV?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Oh my god, yeah, dinosaurs or that God damn, I.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Want to be that guy at all. I like, so,
what was I want to have a question for? Yeah,
what was the word like you look back on and
you're like, why in the fuck did I let myself
go out of the house looking like that? What was
that fit? To have it in my head? I have
it in my head, and honestly, like if you think
for me, the thing that pisses me off my mind
is like if you just lay it out, you're like,
that doesn't seem so bad, but then when you put
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it on me, you're like, that's a mistake.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I want to go first because I kind don't hear
yours last. I feel like your's gonna be the best,
so I actually, to me personally, I feel like I
was actually are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Like like you put on a look and back then
you were like, I looking awesome, And if you saw
you today, back then he'd be like, you're a dork.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I didn't choose this, but I went to to an
aquarium and my dad was like, it's gonna be cold there,
so you have to wear sweats. And I did not
want to wear sweats, but I had to. But that
wasn't my choice. If we're talking about my choice. Honestly,
I've always felt like I always wear jeans, like a
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black T shirt. Other than that sixth grade thing, which
I did look fine in it.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
I honestly think I've been okay with what I wear
my whole life. So I don't have one specifically because
I like jeans, a band T shirt. That's what I wrote.
You go.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
I went through a phase early on, maybe sixth seventh
grade around there where dragons started to appear on my shirt.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
You remember that face a little bit.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
We're like, oh, okay, I never had dragons. Dragon started
to And I remember going shopping with my dad right
before school, and I was like, this is such a
good shirt.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Dad was like, you're right, so you should have that
dragon shirt.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
My dad was such a bully to me, which I
appreciate my dad.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
I did want to get a fat Bastard shirt one
time and my dad because I've always been overweight, and
my dad goes, I was about to go into middle
school and I wanted from Austin Powers the fat basket.
And then I goes, you know what, maybe you shouldn't
get that. He didn't tell me why, But now that
I'm a dog, I'm like, oh, because it would have
been too easy, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Do you remember that brand I heard it was called,
but it was like a big dog, kind of like
baitopin kind of.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Yeah, it's called big dog. I had some big dogs.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
I remember my favorite shirt growing up was one of
those dogs, but he was dressed as a gesture. And
my cousin Ryan, Fuck you Ryan. But my my cousin
Ryan threw a well Wear's Waldo book at me and
it cut my ear almost Oh my god, and it
bled all over my big dog shirt.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Here's any pictures of you in that dragon?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
I'm I'm sure I have dragon shirts, so if I
find them, we'll put them on our Infagram. So okay, yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Think like the one. Honestly, the two, uh, the one,
I think that I probably hated the most looking back
on it, as I would wear like blue jeans whatever
off brand, you know, van shoes that you could get,
and then I had this thing that I couldn't stop.
I would wear a white shirt and then a short
sleep button up orange shirt over that, and I thought
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that that blue and orange combo was the best fucking
thing in the world. So, I mean, any one of
those pieces, honestly on their own, are put on the
correct frame, would probably look pretty good. But when you
do it the way I was doing it. It was
a slightly oversized shirt, unbuttoned because you thought you were
gonna be like cast in Brink.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Two, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
So that was a horrible idea. But then we'll share
on top, I would tap. I would cap it with
a ball cap that was blue with a yellow brim,
you know, bill on the top, and then it was
like bright green underneath. And it was just a fucking disaster.
And I wore that ship. I would wash that every day.
I'd be like, end of the day, gonna wash my shirt,
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Gonna iron it the way I was taught iron so
it looks fresh, get between the buttons, lay it out.
I'm going to school tomorrow looking like that. But I
wore the same ship repeatedly for weeks, and not only
the like did I think this was great? I don't
know why. No one walked up to me and like, hey, man,
do you need more?
Speaker 1 (20:39):
You had a really nice hairstyle, I did, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Did you have a mullet?
Speaker 1 (20:44):
No?
Speaker 3 (20:44):
I had the bulliest of bowl cuts.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Oh, it was so much of a bowl cut, like
so pristine, it couldn't have been any more of a bulk.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
The only thing between me and a fat uh what
was that guy's name, Corey Sawar whatever his name was,
and saw off was I would instead of straight down
the middle parting it, I would part it slightly to
the left. That was it. But I was like, I
look cool, man, I'm so ready. Don't I look like
I was pulled out a little giants? And unfortunately, yeah
(21:16):
I did. But as like that guy everyone pissed on
before the actual movie started, So there's that look. And
then in middle school, like later in middle school, I
was addicted to this film.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Do I love?
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Andy showed it to me so and I was like,
that's such and they looked like fucking hard to ask,
some motherfuckers, and so, dope, I'm gonna look like that.
So you can get black dickies from the store. You
can get a black tie, you can get a black
button up shirt. If you don't know what sizes mean, though,
you're gonna look dumb. And then when you have a gut,
you don't tuck in your shirt because otherwise your gut
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hangs out. So I would wear this big, huge white
shirt and I'd roll up the sleeves because I got uncomfortable.
And then I would leave it untucked because I didn't
want anyone to make fun of me for being fat,
So wearing a big white shirt is going to help that, right, Yeah,
And then I would wear the tie, but I don't
like things really tight around my neck, so it would
be a little loose. I also didn't have like cool
(22:16):
slicked back hair nothing back then. No, no, no, I
had hair that was like down past my shoulders. So
I'm walking around like just looking like that in big
dicky black pants and a big white shirt with this
like thin, thin, loose black tie. And then I never
could get the jacket part, so it was either a
for a while it was just a black hoodie. But
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then at one point Andy's dad gave me a leather
coat that he didn't want anymore.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Oh, I forgot, and it was a biker jacket.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Now alone, not a bad look, but his dad didn't
like the little cuff things on the shoulders, yeah, so
he cut those off, so I just had the rivet
for where the button part was. He took the belt
to keep it for his pants, and then he did
something else, so it was missing pieces. And then on
top of that, it was quote unquote designer, so it
(23:04):
was just a bunch of pieces of hide sewed together
and you could see all the seams everywhere. So it
was like someone couldn't afford one piece of skin, but
they could. They were able to cobble together like eighty
pieces of skin from a couple of cows, you know
what I mean. So it just it looked horrible. And
then I walked around like what's up, guys? But then
(23:24):
like I run hot too, Yeah, why the fuck would
I think wearing a big, thick leather jacket was gonna
look good? And then what shows water the best white? Yeah,
you go to a wet T shirt contest. It's not
like you're showing up in magenta or you know, like
awkward or something like that. No, it's a white T shirt.
(23:44):
So yeah, it was a mess. And I still was
committed to that look. I multiple shirts though I wasn't
doing the same thing, but still like.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
And I was like, this is a great idea, so
really quick though, my dad did buy that jacket in
Canada and like a high class thing because he was
drunk and looked whatever. My second thing is, this is
right around the time when Avri Levine was getting really big,
Mark rocking that shit looking like a huge Avri Levine
(24:15):
fan with like a weird dude. I love you Mark, No.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Great, really cook Mark? So how long have you been
with with your with your wife.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Like over ten years over?
Speaker 1 (24:24):
What was your.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Fashion sense in style when you got when you met her?
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Did you not just hear what he said about the
Resados thing is that that's what your style was?
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Did you happen together back then?
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Now, by the time I hit like, I want to
say nineteen, I really started to seventeen to nineteen, I
started to dissolve into what I am today, which is
really like a blue jeans, shoes that don't really you know,
pull anyone's attention, a flat shirt or like a button
up shirt, and then just like here's a coat to
keep warm and a hat. Really like I went like, yeah,
(24:59):
I went from like Levine whatever he was saying, to like,
you know, suburban dad look just almost like it Like
there was a there was a slight transition of like
you started to see a little bit of that cowboy
come out. Yeah, because I did. I still have a
like a nineteen seventy five truck, you know, like an
old truck. And then I really liked the flannel and
(25:20):
I had like the what was it, the pearl snaps.
Oh yeah, yeah, I still love those kind of shirts.
But I did that for a little while, and I
grew out my beard, Like I cut my hair because I,
like I said, had long hair, and then literally I
cut it, and then I was like, this isn't right,
and then I just quit shaving. So it was just
as if I was never able to have I couldn't
(25:41):
go with a life with just the normal amount of hair.
I had to have an excess amount of hair somewhere.
So I changed it from my head, like the top
of my head to the bottom of my head.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Do you ever find yourself almost relapsing.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Into that kind of fashion, Yeah, our long.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Hair into like it like long hair, the fashion of
yester year, like getting out of like the the uniform.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Kind of sort of like I haven't really gone for
it yet, but I have been, like I really feel
like I'm, you know, a year's worth of good workouts
and a little bit of more fashion sense away from
like delving into like a like a Madman era, Like, oh,
I'm gonna have on hand a couple of different suits
and you know, ties and overcoats and the true door
(26:25):
hat like the wide brim, you.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Know, like, yeah, wait, you have a door hat.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
No almost, but like the but not like the little
like when that's not really door for what it's called,
but more like the Indiana Jones style.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you have those on the bowld.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
I'm not that far away.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
From that because the three of us we're we're almost
to the point of our middle middle aged crisis coming
to board, Like we're almost there. So I'm really excited
to see what the middle aged crisis.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
We're going to have to get some fucking Nike what
air Mac what are what are the dad Nikes?
Speaker 3 (26:56):
I'm about to get those new balances.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Deal and I told each other when we hit third
and nine, we're both getting those. That's all we're gonna wrong.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
I want to see what the jeorts are about, like
the jean shorts, oh georts, Yeah, I want to see
what that's about, George yeah, oh yeah. And maybe doing
like a one earring piercing like Harrison Wards.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
So one of my buddies, I don't know why, but
for multiple not every year, I should start doing it
every year by buddy beans, Brian Reese if you're listening,
but for his like twenty third birthday, I gave him jeorts,
and then for like his like twenty seventh birthday, I
did it. And every couple of years, I'll just give
him a pair of jeorts, which I find super fucking funny.
(27:33):
But now I'm thinking about it, I should start doing
that every year. Could you imagine him getting because like
the first year I gave it to him, he opened
him up and he's so sweet. He was like, oh,
thank you so much, but he was probably like what
the fuck, Like.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
What the fuck if you do that? Can you make it?
So every year they get progressively tighter, right just to
the point where it's like, what is the other like
the jeans with their spandex janks.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Oh wow, you were quick.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Yeah yeah, I got a few pairs and make them
slightly higher, so the point where it's just like by
the time he's fifty, bro, these are just daisy dudes,
I don't know what's happening.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Yeah, well I like this. Well, thank you for joining
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Speaker 3 (28:32):
Long dump man said. If you're taking the dump while
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Speaker 2 (28:39):
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next time, I am.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Jeff, I'm Andy Marshall, and we will see.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
You next Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
And that's a wrap for this episode of Notable Nostalgia.
We hope you enjoyed our trip down memory Lane just
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And what if I lost both my hands tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You could be a seat model star. I was sixteen
at the time or fifteen, and and then hook it
up with a witch and that was that. Cats can
smile apparently, whoa weird, But it doesn't always mean that
they're happy.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Now Lucy receives a call from what I can only
assume is the future winner of every acting award ever.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yeah, Jimmy Moon is a star. Her look looks weren't
part of this issue.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
He's like, I had to sell my last top hat
for Jannis.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Maybe this is not appropriate eitherther but lit's see. Hello,
welcome to notable nostalgia. We are here with another notable nugget,
gob gob Gobo.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I am Jeff and I'm Andy.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
And we're here with a special guest today, Mark.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
That's me.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yeah, so that.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
The cool thing about Mark, though, is his name backwards?
Is cram kinda No?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
It definitely it is.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
No, it's one hundred percent backwards.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
It's pronounced cram, cram, cram. We call this, we call
him cram boy.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
So I know that we were reconnecting. So I want listener,
what are your memories of me Mark as a kid?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Well, I remember you before my dad lost his legs. Oh, no,
I'm just kidding. True he found him later, are you yes?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah, because it's like one of my biggest pet peeves.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
We're finding him later like all those if they find
these limbs later, I'm so peeved.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
So what were just like a narcissistic astle? But I
am a white male?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Sure, yeah, but so what are your memories of me?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
The last couple of times I were call seeing you?
First off, we we went to the food court at
the mall in downtown anybody's or.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
We had like cell phones. We had to take the
bus down there too, which is crazy, you know.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
It was like flip phones or like those Nokia brick
phones and stuff like that. So we went there and
then we got food, and you got some burgers from
like the McDonald's there, and then you just apparently decided
that you didn't want these burgers anymore. So you took
the burger, you opened it in half, you pulled out
your bleach blonde hair some of it and put it
(02:24):
in there, closed it and walked up and said, hey,
there's hair in my burger. I would like a refund.
The two Hispanic ladies at the counter with long black hair,
were very confused and very concerned, but I think they
eventually did give you your refund. And then I vaguely
recall you walking down to like like the next like
(02:45):
two things over like whatever, the where you get like
an orange Julius, you know. And then there's another time
we were going down. We were downtown and you went
up to the ticket counter for the movie theater and
you knocked on the window and you were like you
looked at the lady, who's like, I'm in an emergency.
I really need your help. Can I use your phone?
And the lady was a little concerned, but she's like yeah,
(03:06):
So she slid her you know, old school brick phone
underneath the slit where you get tickets from, and you
just looked at her with the most sincere look in
your face, and you're like, thank you so much. And
then you just took it and decided that that phone
was your airplane for like five seconds, and you gave
(03:26):
it back to you and you're like thank you, and
we all walked away.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
And it was so fucking funny, none of us.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
What you were doing that you just we walked it
and you went right there and you did this whole
stuff and we're just all sitting there like okay, and
then you did this and left and we none of
us were sure what to do. Really, just like all
right later.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I love that so much. Like, so you're pretty much
saying that as a child, I was still like this
humanitarian hero.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Yeah, sure it might have been, but as as a
teenager you were, no, not so much so asshole.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
So on Nuggets episodes, Oh, we like to just like
chit chat about what we are nostalgic for in general. So, Mark,
what are you nostalgic.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
For your childhood that you kind of miss doing?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Wilfred Brimley, That beats oh, man, I mean so many things.
It was such a like I feel like I'm getting
older and older too because it's I'm looking back on
some of this stuff and like it was so much
simpler and so much more fun, and you know, like
you felt like you were a part of more things,
which was funny because you really didn't have as much
(04:32):
access to stuff as we do today. Sure, but I
honestly felt like I understood more things then than I
do now. Heavy, right, but like just the ability to
have to find more things in life you'd walk up
to and you'd be so naive on how something worked,
but you were so willing to commit to just going
(04:52):
headfirst into something like photography, you're writing music or playing
instruments or anything like that and just enjoying it more.
Whereas now you open up your phone with you know,
the first couple of seconds of being like, I want
to try this new endeavor, and within a half hour
you realize like this is pointless, you know, so you.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
So you're kind of feeling moreristalgic just for and I
like kind of in a way, kind of like the
lack of knowledge to let you try something for the
first time without knowing that anybody else has kind of done.
Is that what you're kind of saying? Yeah, yeah, that's heavy,
that's cool, Okay, I get that. Yeah, yeah, because I've
talked a few times about stuff like that before to us,
(05:31):
like playing music, because back in the day, we didn't
have YouTube to like learn how to play music. So
when you learn how to play music, it's like magical
and like you hear a song, you're like, oh, I
know what they're doing this time. Okay, we're talking about.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Also, I missed Beast Wars.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Oh the cartoons. Yes, dude, fucking Beastwards is one of
my favorite cartoons ever. And then for uh, so, what
my dad used to do when I was a kid.
You used to give me presents for like every holiday,
but they were cheap presents. It's not like I was
like rich. But he got me a p is it
one time for I think it was like Thanksgiving or
it was something like that. I can't remember. But also
(06:06):
my dad wasn't living in the other time. But anyways, uh,
he gave me a beast Wars doll one time and
I got it and I it was like, I can't remember.
I think it was the rat. I can't remember his name.
But we opened it and then we couldn't figure out
how to make it the rat against and my dad
tried to help, my mom tried to help. I tried
(06:27):
to figure it out. We couldn't figure it out, so
we ended up taking it back.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Did hair on it.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
First, Yeah, we put some blonde hair on it, put
it back, but no, we couldn't figure out how to
actually make the toy work. So we took it back
and got our money back because it was a Transformer.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
So I'm okay, So you am I should I be
giving you presents for Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
I wouldn't happening because I'm native.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yeah, but is that you got presence on Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Oh? Well only when my dad didn't live with us.
Oh yeah, So he was like trying to be like
super cool. But if you want to give me a
present for thanks oh, I will definitely do that.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
That's like reparations.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
It's giving him blankets.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
And what about you, Jeff, what are you?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
No? I'm nostalgic, and this is going to tug at
the heartstrings of every listener listening, all ten of you.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
From the moment before this asshole walked in here.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
So I am nostalgic for the days of yesteryear when
we used to watch movies together and we used to
go to the Blockbuster or the Hollywood Video, pick out
a movie, have it be just a whole spectacle, and
we would actually watch the whole movie. And fast forward
to today my asshole child, which I love him, but
(07:41):
he if he's not interested in a movie, even if
we are interested in it, he'll change it after we've
already got hooked to it, or what he has recently
started doing. When he's tired, he will go like get
all of his gatherings from the living room and turn
off the TV. We're still watching the movie. You're like, yeah,
(08:04):
it's time for bed. So I just missed the times
where we would make the big popcorn. We would do
like the if it was called like the Baker's yeast
or whatever, and sprinkle that on there and just like
just have it be like a thing. Even if the
movie wasn't like five star, we would watch it and
enjoy it and have fun with it, and it was
just like a thing that we did. But nowadays, with
(08:25):
like social media and everything, we're all like watching the
movie and then we're all like strolling on our phones
or looking our beans or whatever.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Or like you would like to touch on that yeaheah,
Like I remember that same kind of thing. You go
to the movie or the the you know, home or
Hollywood Video or Blockbust, whatever, and you'd pan through all
the things that go up a day on the aisles
and look at stuff. You'd get to the point where
maybe you had like three or four things, and at
this point and it's like, well, we can only get
one or two. So now you're like really thinking about, like, oh,
which one do I really want to watch which one
(08:53):
like speaks to me or which one might you know,
change the mood for the weekend. Now it's like, oh,
I really want to watch this show, and so I
find well, who's streaming it? They're streaming it. Click five
seconds into it, I'm like, eh, I'm over it because
it's just I know I can go and get it
whenever I want. Yeah, and if I don't like it,
there's a billion other things right in front of it.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
There's so much.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
It's like what you're saying, I feel like it really
ties into what I was saying. It's just like the
ability to enjoy what's right there, you know, I feel
like we take that for granted now.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Like growing up, like my dad had this thing. He
always called it the twenty minute rule. So we started
watching a movie and then within twenty minutes, if we're
not feeling like hooked, you'd be like, how's everybody feeling
about this movie? Right around the twenty minute mark? Are
we digging it or we're not digging it? Because if
we're not digging this is like when I was like,
you know, twelve thirteen, you know, like before it was
(09:43):
easily accessible for movies, but he still had that thing, like,
you know, twenty minutes this because I feel like, if
you're not hooked in the movie in the first twenty minutes,
it's probably not going to be that great. Yes, of
course there's probably one offs to where you have to
eight for forty five minutes an hour to finally get it.
But if it's a good director, a good writer, a
(10:06):
good screenplay, you know whatever, you should be interested and
excited for the for the movie within the first twenty minutes.
So growing up, I still do this.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I'm like, in the first twenty minutes are we are
we feeling it? How are we feeling? Are we interested?
And if we're not interested in the first twenty minutes,
then I'm gonna cut it off.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
And like that's like back to like the movies that
really catch you at the beginning. One of them that
comes to mind screened the original Drew Barrymore getting Getting killed,
fucking five star. I cannot stand Drew Barrymore. I hope
she died.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I hate her.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Drew Barrymore. If you're listening, fuck you, fuck you j Yeah,
you're the word hate her?
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Do you look like some fucking voice?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Yeah? You like hammered dog shit.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
You should have not married Tom Green.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
That doesn't marry Tom Green.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
She did? You know, I just watched that Tom Green
documentary and guess what, it's.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Not very good.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
He's a documentary.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
It came out literally yesterday on the twenty fourth. This
is coming out mid February. But he also was the
one who did it, which is fine. But the thing
I hate about, like the whole Tom Green documentary, which
I did enjoy Tom Green when I was a kid. Whatever,
it's fine, but the thing I disliked about it is
like so many people going like Tom Green was a genius. Yeah,
(11:17):
I guess in a way, but see, thank you, I don't.
It's the same thing with like gg Allen. I fucking
hate gg Allen. He made shitty music, He was a
racist piece of shit. Just because he ate shit on
stage doesn't make him a genius. Do you know who
gig Allen is?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
No, he ate actual poop.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Yeah, he's a punk dude that like he was all anyways,
shitty music whatever, so anyway.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Divine ate poop way before everybody else. So, but you
know who recently came out sidebar sidebar as gay. Speaking
of faggots, like Tom Green, pee wee Herman just came
out as gay. Apparently dead pee wee Herman's not dead?
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Is he?
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Oh? He is dead?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Is he dead's? And also, wow, all right, what Drew?
If you're listening, I really like doing fifty first States?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
So I okay, sidebar, sidebar problematic there. So she didn't
know each day that she was getting raped, Yes, exactly,
thank you, Andy.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
I think they think he showed her a movie and
then she was like, okay, I mean it became consensual.
I mean, I mean, how could you make I'm kind
of curious, like if there was ever a day where
you know, like he went through the whole process of
like the book and the movie. And she's like, I
love you so much and he's like, hey, cool, can
I get like a PS four? And she's like no,
and he's like, wow, we're in the nineteen fifties. I
(12:35):
don't know if you know this, you know?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
And then you're like her, Yeah, I can't stand.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Her stupid TV show she has now.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
No yeah, she SAIDs too close to her her guests,
and she has that little ross Matthew, I can't say
like that.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
She's like, oh, when I was a cute. I got
into drugs. Who gives a fuck?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Yeah, we all did drugs when we were all the
drugs were okay, so andy, what were you you nostalgic
for it?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I do kind of miss shopping for any clothes, right,
shopping for clothes before school?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Yeah, clothes, not school supplies. No, clothes are pretty dope
because I remember you'd look through everything and you'd be like,
oh man, this is gonna be fit. And I like,
for like the first couple of days, like I'm going
to walk into school and people and be like, nice jacket,
nice pants, you know, and like I'd pulled out my
you know, a binder and be like, that's a cool binder.
And every year no one said anything to me, ever.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Because they don't probably thinking the same thing. They go,
I got a cool binder, I got some cool pants.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
But they literally didn't say anything to me, Like even
during roll call, they would just skip.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Well, it's because you were the bottom mark.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Did you mark? Did you decorate your did you decorate
your binder? Like was it one of the ones that
the plastic flads that regular? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:49):
I did the whole let's get it, because I didn't
know that was the thing until I was like six
or seventh grade, probably when I was in elementary school,
all my ship was like fucking hot Wheels and dumb
shit like that. And then when I remember, I was
in fifth grade, I had a Hot Wheels notebook and
that's when like the cool like cooler kids had like
(14:09):
the ones where you put pictures in, and I was
so fucking jealous. I was like, I didn't know. I
didn't know about this what that was.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
It was like a big sixth grade thing for me.
And yeah, like when seventh grade rolled around, that's when
like what was it like five star or whatever? Have
the zip up cloth binder or whatever.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Do you guys remember like the girls in school that
would do like the Playboy bun the stuff. You're way like,
you're way too young to be going down this path. Yeah, yeah,
but do.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
You guys remember, Like I remember one of my fits.
It was like my outfits I was going in sixth grade.
I thought it was gonna look super fucking cool. It's
brand new geans like dark blue, yeah, white shoes, and
I had this button up red kind of it was
like a it was like a button up shirt. It's
not polo, it's not what's that called?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Like Henley but.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Like kind of but it was like a thin shirt.
But what's that called when you're like a tree cutter lumberjack? Yeah,
it was kind of that thing, but it was like
a thin one of the what's that called? Was like
square lines flannel? Yeah, it was a thin flannel, short
sleeve and it was red and I had a white
(15:26):
shirt underneath it with dark blue jeans and white pants.
And I was going in my very first day of sixth.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Grade jeans and white pants.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Oh I'm sorry, dark blue jeans, a white undershirt, a
red short sleeved flannel, and white shoes. I remember I
was walking in. In my head, I was like, just
like you said, I was like, damn, dude, I'm about
to get all these you were you were.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Really leaning into your carpet Manchine Rosio Donald face.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
So I was gonna say, I was gonna say, think
of the imagine what he's saying he's wearing. How is
that not exactly like the father from that Dinosaur TV?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Oh my god, yeah, dinosaurs or that God damn, I.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Want to be that guy at all. I like, so,
what was I want to have a question for? Yeah,
what was the word like you look back on and
you're like, why in the fuck did I let myself
go out of the house looking like that? What was
that fit? To have it in my head? I have
it in my head, and honestly, like if you think
for me, the thing that pisses me off my mind
is like if you just lay it out, you're like,
that doesn't seem so bad, but then when you put
(16:34):
it on me, you're like, that's a mistake.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I want to go first because I kind don't hear
yours last. I feel like your's gonna be the best,
so I actually, to me personally, I feel like I
was actually are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Like like you put on a look and back then
you were like, I looking awesome, And if you saw
you today, back then he'd be like, you're a dork.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I didn't choose this, but I went to to an
aquarium and my dad was like, it's gonna be cold there,
so you have to wear sweats. And I did not
want to wear sweats, but I had to. But that
wasn't my choice. If we're talking about my choice. Honestly,
I've always felt like I always wear jeans, like a
(17:18):
black T shirt. Other than that sixth grade thing, which
I did look fine in it.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
I honestly think I've been okay with what I wear
my whole life. So I don't have one specifically because
I like jeans, a band T shirt. That's what I wrote.
You go.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
I went through a phase early on, maybe sixth seventh
grade around there where dragons started to appear on my shirt.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
You remember that face a little bit.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
We're like, oh, okay, I never had dragons. Dragon started
to And I remember going shopping with my dad right
before school, and I was like, this is such a
good shirt.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Dad was like, you're right, so you should have that
dragon shirt.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
My dad was such a bully to me, which I
appreciate my dad.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
I did want to get a fat Bastard shirt one
time and my dad because I've always been overweight, and
my dad goes, I was about to go into middle
school and I wanted from Austin Powers the fat basket.
And then I goes, you know what, maybe you shouldn't
get that. He didn't tell me why, But now that
I'm a dog, I'm like, oh, because it would have
been too easy, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Do you remember that brand I heard it was called,
but it was like a big dog, kind of like
baitopin kind of.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Yeah, it's called big dog. I had some big dogs.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
I remember my favorite shirt growing up was one of
those dogs, but he was dressed as a gesture. And
my cousin Ryan, Fuck you Ryan. But my my cousin
Ryan threw a well Wear's Waldo book at me and
it cut my ear almost Oh my god, and it
bled all over my big dog shirt.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Here's any pictures of you in that dragon?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
I'm I'm sure I have dragon shirts, so if I
find them, we'll put them on our Infagram. So okay, yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Think like the one. Honestly, the two, uh, the one,
I think that I probably hated the most looking back
on it, as I would wear like blue jeans whatever
off brand, you know, van shoes that you could get,
and then I had this thing that I couldn't stop.
I would wear a white shirt and then a short
sleep button up orange shirt over that, and I thought
(19:36):
that that blue and orange combo was the best fucking
thing in the world. So, I mean, any one of
those pieces, honestly on their own, are put on the
correct frame, would probably look pretty good. But when you
do it the way I was doing it. It was
a slightly oversized shirt, unbuttoned because you thought you were
gonna be like cast in Brink.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Two, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
So that was a horrible idea. But then we'll share
on top, I would tap. I would cap it with
a ball cap that was blue with a yellow brim,
you know, bill on the top, and then it was
like bright green underneath. And it was just a fucking disaster.
And I wore that ship. I would wash that every day.
I'd be like, end of the day, gonna wash my shirt,
(20:19):
Gonna iron it the way I was taught iron so
it looks fresh, get between the buttons, lay it out.
I'm going to school tomorrow looking like that. But I
wore the same ship repeatedly for weeks, and not only
the like did I think this was great? I don't
know why. No one walked up to me and like, hey, man,
do you need more?
Speaker 1 (20:39):
You had a really nice hairstyle, I did, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Did you have a mullet?
Speaker 1 (20:44):
No?
Speaker 3 (20:44):
I had the bulliest of bowl cuts.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Oh, it was so much of a bowl cut, like
so pristine, it couldn't have been any more of a bulk.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
The only thing between me and a fat uh what
was that guy's name, Corey Sawar whatever his name was,
and saw off was I would instead of straight down
the middle parting it, I would part it slightly to
the left. That was it. But I was like, I
look cool, man, I'm so ready. Don't I look like
I was pulled out a little giants? And unfortunately, yeah
(21:16):
I did. But as like that guy everyone pissed on
before the actual movie started, So there's that look. And
then in middle school, like later in middle school, I
was addicted to this film.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Do I love?
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Andy showed it to me so and I was like,
that's such and they looked like fucking hard to ask,
some motherfuckers, and so, dope, I'm gonna look like that.
So you can get black dickies from the store. You
can get a black tie, you can get a black
button up shirt. If you don't know what sizes mean, though,
you're gonna look dumb. And then when you have a gut,
you don't tuck in your shirt because otherwise your gut
(21:53):
hangs out. So I would wear this big, huge white
shirt and I'd roll up the sleeves because I got uncomfortable.
And then I would leave it untucked because I didn't
want anyone to make fun of me for being fat,
So wearing a big white shirt is going to help that, right, Yeah,
And then I would wear the tie, but I don't
like things really tight around my neck, so it would
be a little loose. I also didn't have like cool
(22:16):
slicked back hair nothing back then. No, no, no, I
had hair that was like down past my shoulders. So
I'm walking around like just looking like that in big
dicky black pants and a big white shirt with this
like thin, thin, loose black tie. And then I never
could get the jacket part, so it was either a
for a while it was just a black hoodie. But
(22:37):
then at one point Andy's dad gave me a leather
coat that he didn't want anymore.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Oh, I forgot, and it was a biker jacket.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Now alone, not a bad look, but his dad didn't
like the little cuff things on the shoulders, yeah, so
he cut those off, so I just had the rivet
for where the button part was. He took the belt
to keep it for his pants, and then he did
something else, so it was missing pieces. And then on
top of that, it was quote unquote designer, so it
(23:04):
was just a bunch of pieces of hide sewed together
and you could see all the seams everywhere. So it
was like someone couldn't afford one piece of skin, but
they could. They were able to cobble together like eighty
pieces of skin from a couple of cows, you know
what I mean. So it just it looked horrible. And
then I walked around like what's up, guys? But then
(23:24):
like I run hot too, Yeah, why the fuck would
I think wearing a big, thick leather jacket was gonna
look good? And then what shows water the best white? Yeah,
you go to a wet T shirt contest. It's not
like you're showing up in magenta or you know, like
awkward or something like that. No, it's a white T shirt.
(23:44):
So yeah, it was a mess. And I still was
committed to that look. I multiple shirts though I wasn't
doing the same thing, but still like.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
And I was like, this is a great idea, so
really quick though, my dad did buy that jacket in
Canada and like a high class thing because he was
drunk and looked whatever. My second thing is, this is
right around the time when Avri Levine was getting really big,
Mark rocking that shit looking like a huge Avri Levine
(24:15):
fan with like a weird dude. I love you Mark, No.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Great, really cook Mark? So how long have you been
with with your with your wife.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Like over ten years over?
Speaker 1 (24:24):
What was your.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Fashion sense in style when you got when you met her?
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Did you not just hear what he said about the
Resados thing is that that's what your style was?
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Did you happen together back then?
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Now, by the time I hit like, I want to
say nineteen, I really started to seventeen to nineteen, I
started to dissolve into what I am today, which is
really like a blue jeans, shoes that don't really you know,
pull anyone's attention, a flat shirt or like a button
up shirt, and then just like here's a coat to
keep warm and a hat. Really like I went like, yeah,
(24:59):
I went from like Levine whatever he was saying, to like,
you know, suburban dad look just almost like it Like
there was a there was a slight transition of like
you started to see a little bit of that cowboy
come out. Yeah, because I did. I still have a
like a nineteen seventy five truck, you know, like an
old truck. And then I really liked the flannel and
(25:20):
I had like the what was it, the pearl snaps.
Oh yeah, yeah, I still love those kind of shirts.
But I did that for a little while, and I
grew out my beard, Like I cut my hair because I,
like I said, had long hair, and then literally I
cut it, and then I was like, this isn't right,
and then I just quit shaving. So it was just
as if I was never able to have I couldn't
(25:41):
go with a life with just the normal amount of hair.
I had to have an excess amount of hair somewhere.
So I changed it from my head, like the top
of my head to the bottom of my head.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Do you ever find yourself almost relapsing.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Into that kind of fashion, Yeah, our long.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Hair into like it like long hair, the fashion of
yester year, like getting out of like the the uniform.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Kind of sort of like I haven't really gone for
it yet, but I have been, like I really feel
like I'm, you know, a year's worth of good workouts
and a little bit of more fashion sense away from
like delving into like a like a Madman era, Like, oh,
I'm gonna have on hand a couple of different suits
and you know, ties and overcoats and the true door
(26:25):
hat like the wide brim, you.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Know, like, yeah, wait, you have a door hat.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
No almost, but like the but not like the little
like when that's not really door for what it's called,
but more like the Indiana Jones style.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you have those on the bowld.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
I'm not that far away.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
From that because the three of us we're we're almost
to the point of our middle middle aged crisis coming
to board, Like we're almost there. So I'm really excited
to see what the middle aged crisis.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
We're going to have to get some fucking Nike what
air Mac what are what are the dad Nikes?
Speaker 3 (26:56):
I'm about to get those new balances.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Deal and I told each other when we hit third
and nine, we're both getting those. That's all we're gonna wrong.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
I want to see what the jeorts are about, like
the jean shorts, oh georts, Yeah, I want to see
what that's about, George yeah, oh yeah. And maybe doing
like a one earring piercing like Harrison Wards.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
So one of my buddies, I don't know why, but
for multiple not every year, I should start doing it
every year by buddy beans, Brian Reese if you're listening,
but for his like twenty third birthday, I gave him jeorts,
and then for like his like twenty seventh birthday, I
did it. And every couple of years, I'll just give
him a pair of jeorts, which I find super fucking funny.
(27:33):
But now I'm thinking about it, I should start doing
that every year. Could you imagine him getting because like
the first year I gave it to him, he opened
him up and he's so sweet. He was like, oh,
thank you so much, but he was probably like what
the fuck, Like.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
What the fuck if you do that? Can you make it?
So every year they get progressively tighter, right just to
the point where it's like, what is the other like
the jeans with their spandex janks.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Oh wow, you were quick.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Yeah yeah, I got a few pairs and make them
slightly higher, so the point where it's just like by
the time he's fifty, bro, these are just daisy dudes,
I don't know what's happening.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Yeah, well I like this. Well, thank you for joining
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Speaker 3 (28:32):
Long dump man said. If you're taking the dump while
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Speaker 2 (28:39):
Jeff, if you're listening, please drink more water today because
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Speaker 1 (28:45):
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next time, I am.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Jeff, I'm Andy Marshall, and we will see.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
You next Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
And that's a wrap for this episode of Notable Nostalgia.
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