May 27, 2025 • 23 mins
On this bonus episode of Notable Nostalgia we talk about building forts as kids and Jeff creates a new segment! Nnnnews... We're still working on the name. Jeff gives you all some wild real news! It's serious Monkey Business!
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
And what if I lost both my hands tomorrow you.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Could be a seat model star. I was sixteen at
the time or fifteen and uh, 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 yet.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Lucy receives a call from what I can only assume
is the future winner of every acting award ever.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Yeah, Jennyman is a star. Her look looks weren't part
of the issue.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
He's like, I had to sell my last top hat
for Jennas.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Maybe this is not appropriate EI there, but let's see.
Welcome nostalgiaan nerds to another episode of Notable Nugget.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
I am Jeff and I am Andy?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Andy. What are you nostalgia for?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
I actually was. I asked my coworker today on when
she was a kid, what was she in a celvict for?
And she gave me a great which made me She
gave me a great topic, which made me think a
bunch of of stuff when I was a kid. But
she when she was younger, her and his siblings had
this like kind of treehouse that was made out of
forestry stuff. And I remember growing up in first grade.
(01:20):
I lived in these apartments and there was these huge
green bushes. But if you went like crawl on your
stomach and you found this whole like there was like
a you go left and right and there were huge bushes.
I'd probably say like the size of a house. That's
how big this whole area was. But then some of
the older kids, not like crazy older, probably like I
was in first grade, so they were probably like in
third fourth grade, but they made a whole hangout session.
(01:42):
And so I remember being a kid and that happened there.
I just remember building forts as a kid, and I
forget that. I mean, yes, I can do it at home,
but it's not nearly as cool now than when I
was a kid, because like when you were a kid
and you were in those bushes with your friends and everything,
you kind of kind of felt like older, like this
is our spot, like we finally have our spot, like
(02:04):
not like hey, pick up your whatever.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I don't know how to explain it, but it was
like our own little spot that we would all hang
out after school. And then when I was the second grade,
my friend had this treehouse that was a shitty treehouse,
but it was our hangout spot. And then so we
always had these like little cool forts growing up. That one,
I don't think kids do it as much now. My
daughters had kind of something like that growing up. But
like one, I don't think kids go out as much anymore,
(02:27):
which I totally got to be at home play video
games too. But then two, I just feel like I
wasn't the only one. I feel like a lot of
people I knew had their own forts as a kid.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yeah, I had just see my sister was up, uh,
and I we had in our childhood home. We had like, yeah, bushes.
Bushes were big, it was, and there was just a
long thing of like I don't know what kind of
bushes they were, but they were beautiful because I remember
all around these bushes were those like purple, little fucking
flowers that looked up and it was so fun. And
(02:57):
I remember, Uh, we always played with my cousins and
my two cousins and we would always play velociraptors raptors.
And I remember because Jesse, he always hung out with Brandon,
and then I was with Ryan, but Ryan usually was
the bad guy in the group.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
And do you guys make him the bad guy or Okay?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
And then so I was kind of by myself. And
I remember when one of my tasks one day we
were playing Raptors was me like in my little fort
area was to lay on the eggs were running off
and playing Imagination, and then I'm like just sitting there
in like on fake Raptor eggs. But I just love that.
(03:39):
But at the time, when when you're playing Imagination or
playing in your fort, it was your series. It was
real to you. I just love how our brains work.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah, And that's one thing. We've talked about this a
little bit in the past about like imagination. But that's
one reason I like Dungeons and Dragons so much, is
because when I look back at my Dungeons and Dragons sessions,
I don't I mean, yes, if I really think about it,
I picture us all at a table. But when I
look back, I'm like, oh, yeah, that time where his
name was Garv. He was a guard and he was
(04:10):
trying to fight this monster and he kept missing. He
had like a sword and he was a fighter, so
he should be really good at the sword. He kept
fucking missing, and then he goes, fuck it, and he
pulls out a carrot because he also fed the horses
all the time, and he was getting advantage because they
were on the ground, which means you get a roll
twice and you should hit. So he was getting advantage,
kept missing with the swords, he pulled out a carrot,
(04:31):
and he fucking stabbed him with the carrot. Finally, So
when I look back at that time, I don't remember
Tony rolling dice. I remember his character in my head
trying to stab that thing on the ground with a
character carrot, you know. So yeah, that's probably part of
the forts too, is It's just I think a lot
of the stuff we keep going back to without even
realizing is just the fun of imagination and like getting
(04:54):
out of the world that we live in, you know,
because it's really hard when you're adult, because you got
bills and you're always constantly thinking about like kids and
all the worries when you're a kid. You could just
spend an afternoon sitting on fake velosci raptor eggs.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
I would love, Like back then, I was like what
am I doing here?
Speaker 1 (05:09):
But like, all right, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
But looking back, I would give anything to lay in
the lost raptor eggs. But I'm wondering, like so Jackson's
almost fourteen. I'm wondering if when he gets back from
his mom's if we should just build a fort.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Yeah, I think so. I think it'd be fun.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Watch a movie, play some games. Yep, that's kind that
kind of and just kind of see how how it goes.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yeah, especially now that we're adults on we have money,
we could make some badass sports. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
My assistant manager she her and her husband, their child
is by Joys and they got a really good shipping
box and they made a spaceship.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Out of it. See exactly. That's dope.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yeah, it's fucking amazing. Okay, So two things. Number One,
I don't know. I'm not one hundred percent sure I
flushed the toilet when I went to bathroom last Okay,
but it's just number one. I'm like about sixty percent
sure I did not, So that's not the best odds.
Number two, is there not to sexualize everything but Dungeons
and Dragons? Is there a porn version of it? Like?
(06:11):
Can you play Dungeons and Dragons? But like, yeah, have
it be very inappropriate.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I was in this party one time, and a lot
of it like a good DM I think will ask.
It's called a session zero, you ask all the players like, hey,
how you know, like, if this is a rating thing,
are you okay if it gets X rated? Do you
want to keep it a PG? And you ask them
to get everybody comfortable? Right, So we were one with
a bunch of adults and he was a cat person
that Tobacci or something like that, I can't remember, but
(06:36):
he fell in love with.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
This huge like ogre.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Lady and she looked at the DM looked at us.
He goes, they're kissing. Is anybody opposed to this? And
then so they had their whole sex thing and they
rolled it out and he did great. He did great
in the story.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yeah yeah, oh but did they kiss or anything in person?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
No? No, no, they're just like, okay, you old great.
And then you know, she really likes strength, so by
you trying to like turn her on by like being strong,
she really enjoyed that. And then yeah, yeah this happened
before you.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Is there a way that you could as you're a
legendary dungeon master, can you could you make a game
of dungeons and dragons and where it turns into porn
like it turns into sex.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
I definitely could, but I guarantee. There's already probably hundreds
of thousands of them. Oh really yeah, there's probably books
to roll.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Dice and then they start actually fucking.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Oh yeah, that would that's I bet on pornhub there.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Is, Okay, I'm gonna have to google. Porn Hub is
like striking this lately. Like everything Pornhub is like skinny
people that are like just banging and like fake groans.
I'm so over porn. The only kind of porn I
like andy and this is for the permanent record, is
I like spoof porn, like I like Simpson porn or
like Sarah Pale and porn like that's my jam, Like
(07:55):
it's not for pleasure, but it's just for entertainment.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Yeah, that's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yeah Auschwitz porn. Oh god, there probably is. Huh. Probably
that's so horrible.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
So I'm looking up Dungeons of Dragons form, but it
looks like so far it's just people dressed, but I
don't see any actual gameplay that you might be onto
something there. If we have a full on X rated
D and D thing to where it's like the guy
has to roll if he wants to do anal or whatever,
and then she's like oh I don't want it, and
then or whatever, and then you're like, Okay, we're gonna
(08:27):
have to roll persuasion to have her, you know what
I mean? Yeah, that might be something. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I think this could be like a new kink, like
merging sex parties but dungeons and dragons.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
And then based on your character, like maybe you're like
a sex god, so then you get advantage on BJ's
or something, you know.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
And there's this group of women, primarily women that read
these erotica books that are very like centaur versus like
a human, you know, having sex with a centaur.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
He's versus.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Yeah, that's that Like when me and Jeremy are about
to get it on. That's how it is. Oh my gosh,
oh my god. The other day it was one hundred
percent just about Jeremy and it was so fun. Oh anyways,
he's not going to listen to this, or he'll listen
to it and he'll get mad at me. But who knows. Okay, Andy,
I wanted to the great that's a great nostalgia one.
(09:23):
So I'm I'll going to report back to you on
how I want to build a fort with my kid
and just see how that goes. We've done that when
we were when he was younger.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
But yeah, yeah, you know, yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I just have fun. Okay, So Andy, I'm gonna switch
it up a little bit, and I want us to
introduce listener to a new evolution in notable nostalgia universe.
All right, So it's gonna be the in in the
news or we're still working the title, but notable nostalgia
news or notable news that sounds really good.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Notable news might be yeah, but I like the notable
news news.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
So what we're gonna do is we're gonna be just
recapping news that makes sense to us or like is
enjoyable to us. So it might be nostalgic based very
loosely based in nostalgia, or it might have nothing to
do with nostalgia. Sure, and just some news that we're
gonna report on. Because I think that since we are
award winning podcasters, we are the number one Insurrection podcast
(10:23):
of all time, and then also with our viewers help
or listener's help, we might be two time winning.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
See we'll see.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
So I think the next step is to work towards
a Peabody award, and I think that we could get
I think the Peabody might be wrong is to take
on the world of journalism.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
So and and oh, I actually gonna say extreme biased because.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yeah, oh this this one that I want to bring
to you and the listener Andy is not is definitely
not biased and it's I'm gonna root it in nostalgia
to stay with me. But it was very traumatizing, uh
news that I heard on the news the other day,
so I want to report it to you all too.
So there are I'm sure if you've heard this or not,
(11:09):
let me know if you have. There are monkeys kidnapping
other species on a Panamanian island that's perplexing scientists. Sure
this type of monkey is this is like fucked up,
that's crazy. Okay, So this type of monkey if for
nostalgia lovers, the monkey that Ross had on Friends or
that was like featured on a spincer a pet detective,
(11:31):
that really cute monkey with that little face with the
long tail, you know what I mean. It's that kind
of species A monkey are kidnapping other species babies, so
like eating them. No, they're not eating them, They're not
torturing them, like harming them physically, is what I mean.
They are carrying them around on their back until they die.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
That's some of the scariest sounding in life.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
It was horrifying when I heard about.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Oh man, that's really scary.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
So scientists have been observing this type of monkey for
for a while and it's been really interesting to see
no but intended, but the evolution of this that this
type of monkey is also using tools to like crack
open walnuts and stuff or whatever they're calling some kind
of nuts or whatever. And listener, you know me, a
lot of my facts are based on like things I
(12:26):
might have heard or dreamt or just made up. But
but this is true. Google smuggle it. So so these
monkeys are definitely doing something. Yeah, and they think that
it's a new it's I'm laughing, but so horrific and
it's so factual. The scientists believe that it's either a
new cultural norm or out of boredom.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Well, I was just you know, trying to figure out
what what the reason would be. So if they're not
eating them or using them to get any food, then
I was like, the only thing I could do is like, uh, vanity.
And then I was like in my head, I was like,
I wonder if it's something to do. Like if they're like,
oh I got this type of animal back and like
no way, which I guess I'll kind of go into
like boredom and van you know, just because they're so
bored they need something to do. Yeah, so why not
(13:11):
try to look nice? That's fucking wild. That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
And there I think it was like ten plus years
ago there was Orca whales like killer whale, you know,
freely that there went through a fat, a fat of
their own where they would carry like dead salmon on
their heads, and scientists really didn't know what that was about.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
And that's another reason I don't like the ocean. Man. God,
that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Yeah, and that and that went. That went away for
a minute, but now it's back. Similar to how like,
you know, really baggy jeans were really popular in the
nineties and.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Now they're back.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
So apparently, uh, Orca whales are now a lot of
them are or something.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Essentially wearing Jinko pants or.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
They're yeah, they're like wearing hats. Oh yeah, they're wearing
salmon hats.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Why. I guess that's not too much different than us,
like leather.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Yeah, it just seems like that's really evolved.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
So this monkey thing. So I heard about this, so
I watch in the morning when I'm getting ready, I
like to like buff up on the news or whatever.
So I listen to NBC News now, so it's like
a live broadcast of NBC News on YouTube. And this organization,
I bless their hearts. They are so bad at transitions,
(14:26):
those kind of sub uh you know, subpoint to my
main point. But they go from like talking about Taylor
Swift to like the war in Ukraine very quickly, So
the female inchor is still giggling about being a Swiftie
when like the Ukraine pictures are out right. Yeah, So
I don't know if I want to play I just recently,
(14:48):
because I'm not the best with technology, I just recently
learned how to screen record, so I did screen record
a part of it, so I wanted to play it
really quickly.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Yeah, to hear it. I wonder if they do the
horrible transitions because the people's attention spans are getting smaller,
so they can't they have to just go kind of
go back and forth.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Well that, but also there was like these horrible storms
somewhere in the United States recently that killed like thirteen people,
but it also delayed Beyonce's cowboy Carter two were by
like two hours, so that their main focus of their
newscast was talking about Beyonce and not like the thirteen
people that died, cared for, or even played with.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
They're just taking them, walking around with the infants on
their backs until those infants die of neglect. Some of
the scientists believe they're witnessing something akin to a cultural fad.
Others think we're just witnessing a behavior born of boredom.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
That's you, all right, someone needs to help the monkeys
find a different hobby. All right, Matt, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Yeah, well, like did this the guy who said that
was did they not tell him what the stories were?
Because I felt like he just said that because he
didn't know what to say, Like, oh ship, I got it.
This is awful.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
But those news casters need to just say, okay, think
you can't.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Thank you for you don't even make a quip.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yeah that was not the quip, because that was very
like it's a very traumatic thing. But the idea of
these adorable monkeys are taking infants from other species and
putting them on their backs. Primarily it's other species of monkeys.
Oh sure, and just not harming them physically harming them,
not doing anything you eating them or anything like that,
(16:30):
just carrying them around while they just eventually die.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
So let's say, right now, I just tell that story
and I give it to you. What's a funny quip?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Go?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
So like, okay, you and and they don't they think
the monkeys are doing out of boredom, All right, Jeff
up to you or not you're next.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
It sounds like they're munking around.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I don't know, or I would just say thank you
Andy for that report. People, thank you Andy for that
really devastating report, Like that's fucked up. So then got
me thinking today because I heard about this this morning,
and I got me thinking about monkeys and all of
the monkeys in pop culture from our time. We have
(17:10):
the monkey arring tank or whatever it was from Jungle
Book was a villain. We have some might say we
have a boo from Aladdin. A boo tried to take
bread from starving kids.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Yeah, and he was a little narciss he was a thief,
he was yeah, and oh, then we got Planet of
the Apes and then no joke on the way to
work today or maybe on lunch, neither here nor there.
Sometime when I was hating to work today, there was
a guy on a little scooter wooder like on the
side of the road, like on the sidewalk. He had
a monkey mask on. Oh weird, picking his nose holding
(17:46):
up a sign that said Democrats or Planet of the Democrats.
So what the fuck is going on here with the
planet of the ape? Like I don't know if monkeys
are evil now, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
But like it's's was he trying to say anti?
Speaker 2 (18:01):
He was anti democrat? Like the apes are the Democrats?
But but I'm like, I'm really crushing like Jane goodall
right now, I was like, what's going on here?
Speaker 1 (18:10):
She just came to Salem? She did, but the tickets
are like really expensed.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I'm not going to go see Jane goodall I would
have the tickets, like if she brought like she came
in like writing on the gorilla, like like does she
have gorillas or dressed as gorillas? Do you think?
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Like do you every think she gets tired of talking
about because everybody's gonna ask her questions like so, what's
up with the gorilla? She's like for like sixty years.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Yeah she did. She was like a very specific niche.
She should have should have chose like a global warming
and she could go like anywhere and talk about that
or whatever. But yeah, she really chose. Like if I,
if I chose, like, my my cause in life is
going to be the what's what's the thing, like the jellyfish. Now,
I'm always going to be in the ocean.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Yeah exactly. Yeah, that's yeah, I see what you're saying. Yeah,
because you have to be there to get information. So yeah,
so I would want to be like, I don't know,
like in the like in a bedroom.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Bedroom, yeah, trio game, trying out different beds and pizza exactly,
call me crazy. I'm a pizza lover. I don't I
don't like taco.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Pizza, thank you. Okay, So I always just joke. I
always tell people I'm the Martin Luther King Junior Pizza
because I like it all fan tacoz but I love
tacos and I love pizza separately.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Don't like it to like separately equal, So Jeremy, because
I'm on this diet thing right now, it's like wildness journey.
I rolled my eyes. But Jeremy messaged me. He's like, oh,
don't get get pizza for tonight or blah blah blah.
And I was like, I don't know. You know, I'm
trying not to eat a bunch of pizza. He was like,
what about taco pizza. I'm like, yes, because I might eat.
(19:49):
He got like my favorites, like pepperoni and pineapple. If
you got that out sitting on the couch and eating pizza.
But we have to watch this situation unfold. Yeah, and
like orcas, we have to keep an eye on them.
We had to keep an eye on these monkeys and like,
see what's going on with this and the fact that
they don't know what's going on specifically blows my fucking mind. Yeah,
(20:10):
that this is happening.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Yeah, I think notable news might be where we strive
with YouTube. That might be fucking perfect.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
And you see how I brought it into the this
is this news story came into like Aladdin, Planet of
the Apes, yep, whatever it might be. Uh, Mandy Moore
sucks and then oh and then I did. Okay, So
I don't know about you. This is like a total sidebar.
Whenever I'm watching any type of show, any movie, whatever
it is. I have my phone on me so I
(20:38):
can see, like what people's net worths are, like what
other movies they've been in. I was watching because Jeremy,
one of his comfort movies is a Pretty Woman. And
Richard Gere, I'm.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Gonna guess one hundred and thirty million.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Now I look at his I didn't look up his
net worth, his middle name. I just got his Wikipedia
his middle name. No, any other guys Richard, Richard Gear, James,
No Tiffany, Oh weird. Yeah that blew myfe And I
even checked. You can't edit Richard Gears so on certain celebrities,
(21:15):
notable people bling you can edit, you can and can't
edit their Wikipedia page. I used to edit Adele's and
said that she eats babies, but now hers is locked.
But yeah, his middle name is Tiffany. This guy, the
gerbil fucker. Yeah, I don't think he fucked. I don't know,
(21:36):
but I hope he did, because like if a sheep
fucked you, that's less bad than if you fed. Sure
we can all agree on that.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
I think.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
So yeah, all right, all right, listeners, so let us
know if you're interested in more notable news, because we're
gonna bring to you anyways, with or without consent, and.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Let us know if there's a news story you want
us to do like a deep dive on and maybe
we can maybe do some kind of investigative reporting or something.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
It's a great idea, Jeff.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
I like, yeah, we need to dive into this. So
and then Andy like, we're still gonna circle back with nuggets.
I'm I'm here and there because why not? Because we
can do blue bone.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Yeah. So I think our bonus episodes are gonna sometimes
we nugget sometimes news, maybe sometimes together, who knows.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Sometimes sometimes either nothing. Sometimes you might just come out
of here and just release dead air. Yeah all right.
Find us on all social media platforms Instagram, Facebook, leave
us a five star review, and until next time, I'm Jeff.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
And I'm Andy goodall and.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Oh nice, and we will see you next Tuesday. Tell
people why you dirty get just get palls.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Up you damn dirty gettern gets up Dirty eighty Get
just dirty eighty. And that's a wrap for this episode
of Notable and Installship. I hope you enjoyed our trip
down memory lane just as much as we did. If
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Speaker 2 (23:04):
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the flip side.
And what if I lost both my hands tomorrow you.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Could be a seat model star. I was sixteen at
the time or fifteen and uh, 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 yet.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Lucy receives a call from what I can only assume
is the future winner of every acting award ever.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Yeah, Jennyman is a star. Her look looks weren't part
of the issue.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
He's like, I had to sell my last top hat
for Jennas.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Maybe this is not appropriate EI there, but let's see.
Welcome nostalgiaan nerds to another episode of Notable Nugget.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
I am Jeff and I am Andy?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Andy. What are you nostalgia for?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
I actually was. I asked my coworker today on when
she was a kid, what was she in a celvict for?
And she gave me a great which made me She
gave me a great topic, which made me think a
bunch of of stuff when I was a kid. But
she when she was younger, her and his siblings had
this like kind of treehouse that was made out of
forestry stuff. And I remember growing up in first grade.
(01:20):
I lived in these apartments and there was these huge
green bushes. But if you went like crawl on your
stomach and you found this whole like there was like
a you go left and right and there were huge bushes.
I'd probably say like the size of a house. That's
how big this whole area was. But then some of
the older kids, not like crazy older, probably like I
was in first grade, so they were probably like in
third fourth grade, but they made a whole hangout session.
(01:42):
And so I remember being a kid and that happened there.
I just remember building forts as a kid, and I
forget that. I mean, yes, I can do it at home,
but it's not nearly as cool now than when I
was a kid, because like when you were a kid
and you were in those bushes with your friends and everything,
you kind of kind of felt like older, like this
is our spot, like we finally have our spot, like
(02:04):
not like hey, pick up your whatever.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I don't know how to explain it, but it was
like our own little spot that we would all hang
out after school. And then when I was the second grade,
my friend had this treehouse that was a shitty treehouse,
but it was our hangout spot. And then so we
always had these like little cool forts growing up. That one,
I don't think kids do it as much now. My
daughters had kind of something like that growing up. But
like one, I don't think kids go out as much anymore,
(02:27):
which I totally got to be at home play video
games too. But then two, I just feel like I
wasn't the only one. I feel like a lot of
people I knew had their own forts as a kid.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yeah, I had just see my sister was up, uh,
and I we had in our childhood home. We had like, yeah, bushes.
Bushes were big, it was, and there was just a
long thing of like I don't know what kind of
bushes they were, but they were beautiful because I remember
all around these bushes were those like purple, little fucking
flowers that looked up and it was so fun. And
(02:57):
I remember, Uh, we always played with my cousins and
my two cousins and we would always play velociraptors raptors.
And I remember because Jesse, he always hung out with Brandon,
and then I was with Ryan, but Ryan usually was
the bad guy in the group.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
And do you guys make him the bad guy or Okay?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
And then so I was kind of by myself. And
I remember when one of my tasks one day we
were playing Raptors was me like in my little fort
area was to lay on the eggs were running off
and playing Imagination, and then I'm like just sitting there
in like on fake Raptor eggs. But I just love that.
(03:39):
But at the time, when when you're playing Imagination or
playing in your fort, it was your series. It was
real to you. I just love how our brains work.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah, And that's one thing. We've talked about this a
little bit in the past about like imagination. But that's
one reason I like Dungeons and Dragons so much, is
because when I look back at my Dungeons and Dragons sessions,
I don't I mean, yes, if I really think about it,
I picture us all at a table. But when I
look back, I'm like, oh, yeah, that time where his
name was Garv. He was a guard and he was
(04:10):
trying to fight this monster and he kept missing. He
had like a sword and he was a fighter, so
he should be really good at the sword. He kept
fucking missing, and then he goes, fuck it, and he
pulls out a carrot because he also fed the horses
all the time, and he was getting advantage because they
were on the ground, which means you get a roll
twice and you should hit. So he was getting advantage,
kept missing with the swords, he pulled out a carrot,
(04:31):
and he fucking stabbed him with the carrot. Finally, So
when I look back at that time, I don't remember
Tony rolling dice. I remember his character in my head
trying to stab that thing on the ground with a
character carrot, you know. So yeah, that's probably part of
the forts too, is It's just I think a lot
of the stuff we keep going back to without even
realizing is just the fun of imagination and like getting
(04:54):
out of the world that we live in, you know,
because it's really hard when you're adult, because you got
bills and you're always constantly thinking about like kids and
all the worries when you're a kid. You could just
spend an afternoon sitting on fake velosci raptor eggs.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
I would love, Like back then, I was like what
am I doing here?
Speaker 1 (05:09):
But like, all right, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
But looking back, I would give anything to lay in
the lost raptor eggs. But I'm wondering, like so Jackson's
almost fourteen. I'm wondering if when he gets back from
his mom's if we should just build a fort.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Yeah, I think so. I think it'd be fun.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Watch a movie, play some games. Yep, that's kind that
kind of and just kind of see how how it goes.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yeah, especially now that we're adults on we have money,
we could make some badass sports. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
My assistant manager she her and her husband, their child
is by Joys and they got a really good shipping
box and they made a spaceship.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Out of it. See exactly. That's dope.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yeah, it's fucking amazing. Okay, So two things. Number One,
I don't know. I'm not one hundred percent sure I
flushed the toilet when I went to bathroom last Okay,
but it's just number one. I'm like about sixty percent
sure I did not, So that's not the best odds.
Number two, is there not to sexualize everything but Dungeons
and Dragons? Is there a porn version of it? Like?
(06:11):
Can you play Dungeons and Dragons? But like, yeah, have
it be very inappropriate.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I was in this party one time, and a lot
of it like a good DM I think will ask.
It's called a session zero, you ask all the players like, hey,
how you know, like, if this is a rating thing,
are you okay if it gets X rated? Do you
want to keep it a PG? And you ask them
to get everybody comfortable? Right, So we were one with
a bunch of adults and he was a cat person
that Tobacci or something like that, I can't remember, but
(06:36):
he fell in love with.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
This huge like ogre.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Lady and she looked at the DM looked at us.
He goes, they're kissing. Is anybody opposed to this? And
then so they had their whole sex thing and they
rolled it out and he did great. He did great
in the story.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yeah yeah, oh but did they kiss or anything in person?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
No? No, no, they're just like, okay, you old great.
And then you know, she really likes strength, so by
you trying to like turn her on by like being strong,
she really enjoyed that. And then yeah, yeah this happened
before you.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Is there a way that you could as you're a
legendary dungeon master, can you could you make a game
of dungeons and dragons and where it turns into porn
like it turns into sex.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
I definitely could, but I guarantee. There's already probably hundreds
of thousands of them. Oh really yeah, there's probably books
to roll.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Dice and then they start actually fucking.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Oh yeah, that would that's I bet on pornhub there.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Is, Okay, I'm gonna have to google. Porn Hub is
like striking this lately. Like everything Pornhub is like skinny
people that are like just banging and like fake groans.
I'm so over porn. The only kind of porn I
like andy and this is for the permanent record, is
I like spoof porn, like I like Simpson porn or
like Sarah Pale and porn like that's my jam, Like
(07:55):
it's not for pleasure, but it's just for entertainment.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Yeah, that's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yeah Auschwitz porn. Oh god, there probably is. Huh. Probably
that's so horrible.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
So I'm looking up Dungeons of Dragons form, but it
looks like so far it's just people dressed, but I
don't see any actual gameplay that you might be onto
something there. If we have a full on X rated
D and D thing to where it's like the guy
has to roll if he wants to do anal or whatever,
and then she's like oh I don't want it, and
then or whatever, and then you're like, Okay, we're gonna
(08:27):
have to roll persuasion to have her, you know what
I mean? Yeah, that might be something. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I think this could be like a new kink, like
merging sex parties but dungeons and dragons.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
And then based on your character, like maybe you're like
a sex god, so then you get advantage on BJ's
or something, you know.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
And there's this group of women, primarily women that read
these erotica books that are very like centaur versus like
a human, you know, having sex with a centaur.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
He's versus.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Yeah, that's that Like when me and Jeremy are about
to get it on. That's how it is. Oh my gosh,
oh my god. The other day it was one hundred
percent just about Jeremy and it was so fun. Oh anyways,
he's not going to listen to this, or he'll listen
to it and he'll get mad at me. But who knows. Okay, Andy,
I wanted to the great that's a great nostalgia one.
(09:23):
So I'm I'll going to report back to you on
how I want to build a fort with my kid
and just see how that goes. We've done that when
we were when he was younger.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
But yeah, yeah, you know, yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I just have fun. Okay, So Andy, I'm gonna switch
it up a little bit, and I want us to
introduce listener to a new evolution in notable nostalgia universe.
All right, So it's gonna be the in in the
news or we're still working the title, but notable nostalgia
news or notable news that sounds really good.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Notable news might be yeah, but I like the notable
news news.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
So what we're gonna do is we're gonna be just
recapping news that makes sense to us or like is
enjoyable to us. So it might be nostalgic based very
loosely based in nostalgia, or it might have nothing to
do with nostalgia. Sure, and just some news that we're
gonna report on. Because I think that since we are
award winning podcasters, we are the number one Insurrection podcast
(10:23):
of all time, and then also with our viewers help
or listener's help, we might be two time winning.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
See we'll see.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
So I think the next step is to work towards
a Peabody award, and I think that we could get
I think the Peabody might be wrong is to take
on the world of journalism.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
So and and oh, I actually gonna say extreme biased because.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yeah, oh this this one that I want to bring
to you and the listener Andy is not is definitely
not biased and it's I'm gonna root it in nostalgia
to stay with me. But it was very traumatizing, uh
news that I heard on the news the other day,
so I want to report it to you all too.
So there are I'm sure if you've heard this or not,
(11:09):
let me know if you have. There are monkeys kidnapping
other species on a Panamanian island that's perplexing scientists. Sure
this type of monkey is this is like fucked up,
that's crazy. Okay, So this type of monkey if for
nostalgia lovers, the monkey that Ross had on Friends or
that was like featured on a spincer a pet detective,
(11:31):
that really cute monkey with that little face with the
long tail, you know what I mean. It's that kind
of species A monkey are kidnapping other species babies, so
like eating them. No, they're not eating them, They're not
torturing them, like harming them physically, is what I mean.
They are carrying them around on their back until they die.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
That's some of the scariest sounding in life.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
It was horrifying when I heard about.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Oh man, that's really scary.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
So scientists have been observing this type of monkey for
for a while and it's been really interesting to see
no but intended, but the evolution of this that this
type of monkey is also using tools to like crack
open walnuts and stuff or whatever they're calling some kind
of nuts or whatever. And listener, you know me, a
lot of my facts are based on like things I
(12:26):
might have heard or dreamt or just made up. But
but this is true. Google smuggle it. So so these
monkeys are definitely doing something. Yeah, and they think that
it's a new it's I'm laughing, but so horrific and
it's so factual. The scientists believe that it's either a
new cultural norm or out of boredom.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Well, I was just you know, trying to figure out
what what the reason would be. So if they're not
eating them or using them to get any food, then
I was like, the only thing I could do is like, uh, vanity.
And then I was like in my head, I was like,
I wonder if it's something to do. Like if they're like,
oh I got this type of animal back and like
no way, which I guess I'll kind of go into
like boredom and van you know, just because they're so
bored they need something to do. Yeah, so why not
(13:11):
try to look nice? That's fucking wild. That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
And there I think it was like ten plus years
ago there was Orca whales like killer whale, you know,
freely that there went through a fat, a fat of
their own where they would carry like dead salmon on
their heads, and scientists really didn't know what that was about.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
And that's another reason I don't like the ocean. Man. God,
that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Yeah, and that and that went. That went away for
a minute, but now it's back. Similar to how like,
you know, really baggy jeans were really popular in the
nineties and.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Now they're back.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
So apparently, uh, Orca whales are now a lot of
them are or something.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Essentially wearing Jinko pants or.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
They're yeah, they're like wearing hats. Oh yeah, they're wearing
salmon hats.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Why. I guess that's not too much different than us,
like leather.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Yeah, it just seems like that's really evolved.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
So this monkey thing. So I heard about this, so
I watch in the morning when I'm getting ready, I
like to like buff up on the news or whatever.
So I listen to NBC News now, so it's like
a live broadcast of NBC News on YouTube. And this organization,
I bless their hearts. They are so bad at transitions,
(14:26):
those kind of sub uh you know, subpoint to my
main point. But they go from like talking about Taylor
Swift to like the war in Ukraine very quickly, So
the female inchor is still giggling about being a Swiftie
when like the Ukraine pictures are out right. Yeah, So
I don't know if I want to play I just recently,
(14:48):
because I'm not the best with technology, I just recently
learned how to screen record, so I did screen record
a part of it, so I wanted to play it
really quickly.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Yeah, to hear it. I wonder if they do the
horrible transitions because the people's attention spans are getting smaller,
so they can't they have to just go kind of
go back and forth.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Well that, but also there was like these horrible storms
somewhere in the United States recently that killed like thirteen people,
but it also delayed Beyonce's cowboy Carter two were by
like two hours, so that their main focus of their
newscast was talking about Beyonce and not like the thirteen
people that died, cared for, or even played with.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
They're just taking them, walking around with the infants on
their backs until those infants die of neglect. Some of
the scientists believe they're witnessing something akin to a cultural fad.
Others think we're just witnessing a behavior born of boredom.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
That's you, all right, someone needs to help the monkeys
find a different hobby. All right, Matt, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Yeah, well, like did this the guy who said that
was did they not tell him what the stories were?
Because I felt like he just said that because he
didn't know what to say, Like, oh ship, I got it.
This is awful.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
But those news casters need to just say, okay, think
you can't.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Thank you for you don't even make a quip.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yeah that was not the quip, because that was very
like it's a very traumatic thing. But the idea of
these adorable monkeys are taking infants from other species and
putting them on their backs. Primarily it's other species of monkeys.
Oh sure, and just not harming them physically harming them,
not doing anything you eating them or anything like that,
(16:30):
just carrying them around while they just eventually die.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
So let's say, right now, I just tell that story
and I give it to you. What's a funny quip?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Go?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
So like, okay, you and and they don't they think
the monkeys are doing out of boredom, All right, Jeff
up to you or not you're next.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
It sounds like they're munking around.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I don't know, or I would just say thank you
Andy for that report. People, thank you Andy for that
really devastating report, Like that's fucked up. So then got
me thinking today because I heard about this this morning,
and I got me thinking about monkeys and all of
the monkeys in pop culture from our time. We have
(17:10):
the monkey arring tank or whatever it was from Jungle
Book was a villain. We have some might say we
have a boo from Aladdin. A boo tried to take
bread from starving kids.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Yeah, and he was a little narciss he was a thief,
he was yeah, and oh, then we got Planet of
the Apes and then no joke on the way to
work today or maybe on lunch, neither here nor there.
Sometime when I was hating to work today, there was
a guy on a little scooter wooder like on the
side of the road, like on the sidewalk. He had
a monkey mask on. Oh weird, picking his nose holding
(17:46):
up a sign that said Democrats or Planet of the Democrats.
So what the fuck is going on here with the
planet of the ape? Like I don't know if monkeys
are evil now, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
But like it's's was he trying to say anti?
Speaker 2 (18:01):
He was anti democrat? Like the apes are the Democrats?
But but I'm like, I'm really crushing like Jane goodall
right now, I was like, what's going on here?
Speaker 1 (18:10):
She just came to Salem? She did, but the tickets
are like really expensed.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I'm not going to go see Jane goodall I would
have the tickets, like if she brought like she came
in like writing on the gorilla, like like does she
have gorillas or dressed as gorillas? Do you think?
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Like do you every think she gets tired of talking
about because everybody's gonna ask her questions like so, what's
up with the gorilla? She's like for like sixty years.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Yeah she did. She was like a very specific niche.
She should have should have chose like a global warming
and she could go like anywhere and talk about that
or whatever. But yeah, she really chose. Like if I,
if I chose, like, my my cause in life is
going to be the what's what's the thing, like the jellyfish. Now,
I'm always going to be in the ocean.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Yeah exactly. Yeah, that's yeah, I see what you're saying. Yeah,
because you have to be there to get information. So yeah,
so I would want to be like, I don't know,
like in the like in a bedroom.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Bedroom, yeah, trio game, trying out different beds and pizza exactly,
call me crazy. I'm a pizza lover. I don't I
don't like taco.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Pizza, thank you. Okay, So I always just joke. I
always tell people I'm the Martin Luther King Junior Pizza
because I like it all fan tacoz but I love
tacos and I love pizza separately.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Don't like it to like separately equal, So Jeremy, because
I'm on this diet thing right now, it's like wildness journey.
I rolled my eyes. But Jeremy messaged me. He's like, oh,
don't get get pizza for tonight or blah blah blah.
And I was like, I don't know. You know, I'm
trying not to eat a bunch of pizza. He was like,
what about taco pizza. I'm like, yes, because I might eat.
(19:49):
He got like my favorites, like pepperoni and pineapple. If
you got that out sitting on the couch and eating pizza.
But we have to watch this situation unfold. Yeah, and
like orcas, we have to keep an eye on them.
We had to keep an eye on these monkeys and like,
see what's going on with this and the fact that
they don't know what's going on specifically blows my fucking mind. Yeah,
(20:10):
that this is happening.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Yeah, I think notable news might be where we strive
with YouTube. That might be fucking perfect.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
And you see how I brought it into the this
is this news story came into like Aladdin, Planet of
the Apes, yep, whatever it might be. Uh, Mandy Moore
sucks and then oh and then I did. Okay, So
I don't know about you. This is like a total sidebar.
Whenever I'm watching any type of show, any movie, whatever
it is. I have my phone on me so I
(20:38):
can see, like what people's net worths are, like what
other movies they've been in. I was watching because Jeremy,
one of his comfort movies is a Pretty Woman. And
Richard Gere, I'm.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Gonna guess one hundred and thirty million.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Now I look at his I didn't look up his
net worth, his middle name. I just got his Wikipedia
his middle name. No, any other guys Richard, Richard Gear, James,
No Tiffany, Oh weird. Yeah that blew myfe And I
even checked. You can't edit Richard Gears so on certain celebrities,
(21:15):
notable people bling you can edit, you can and can't
edit their Wikipedia page. I used to edit Adele's and
said that she eats babies, but now hers is locked.
But yeah, his middle name is Tiffany. This guy, the
gerbil fucker. Yeah, I don't think he fucked. I don't know,
(21:36):
but I hope he did, because like if a sheep
fucked you, that's less bad than if you fed. Sure
we can all agree on that.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
I think.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
So yeah, all right, all right, listeners, so let us
know if you're interested in more notable news, because we're
gonna bring to you anyways, with or without consent, and.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Let us know if there's a news story you want
us to do like a deep dive on and maybe
we can maybe do some kind of investigative reporting or something.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
It's a great idea, Jeff.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
I like, yeah, we need to dive into this. So
and then Andy like, we're still gonna circle back with nuggets.
I'm I'm here and there because why not? Because we
can do blue bone.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Yeah. So I think our bonus episodes are gonna sometimes
we nugget sometimes news, maybe sometimes together, who knows.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Sometimes sometimes either nothing. Sometimes you might just come out
of here and just release dead air. Yeah all right.
Find us on all social media platforms Instagram, Facebook, leave
us a five star review, and until next time, I'm Jeff.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
And I'm Andy goodall and.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Oh nice, and we will see you next Tuesday. Tell
people why you dirty get just get palls.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Up you damn dirty gettern gets up Dirty eighty Get
just dirty eighty. And that's a wrap for this episode
of Notable and Installship. I hope you enjoyed our trip
down memory lane just as much as we did. If
you love reminiscing, with us, don't forget.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
To subscribe, rate and leave a review, and be.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Sure to tune in next time for more nostalgic fund.
Notable Nostalgia was created by Ali J. Warren, produced by
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Football’s funniest family duo — Jason Kelce of the Philadelphia Eagles and Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs — team up to provide next-level access to life in the league as it unfolds. The two brothers and Super Bowl champions drop weekly insights about the weekly slate of games and share their INSIDE perspectives on trending NFL news and sports headlines. They also endlessly rag on each other as brothers do, chat the latest in pop culture and welcome some very popular and well-known friends to chat with them. Check out new episodes every Wednesday. Follow New Heights on the Wondery App, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen to new episodes early and ad-free, and get exclusive content on Wondery+. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. And join our new membership for a unique fan experience by going to the New Heights YouTube channel now!