it's all coming back: the myspace top 8, cigarettes & spice girls
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The conversation is a nostalgic reflection on early internet culture and social media use, from high school days to the rise of Facebook and MySpace. The speakers reminisce about how they once relied on physical tools like AM messaging, Facebook groups for contact sharing, and bumper stickers to connect with friends—experiences that felt personal and authentic. They describe how these platforms fostered community, creativity, and even conflict, such as friendship disputes over shared digital content like fonts or music. The discussion also explores the cultural impact of music, particularly emo and pop trends from the 2000s, and iconic shows like *Grey’s Anatomy* and *The OC*, which shaped their teenage identity. They note how social media evolved from a tool for connection to a source of anxiety, with concerns about scams, curated appearances, and digital overexposure. The conversation ends with a deeper reflection on personal habits, such as special occasion syndrome—saving beautiful but unused clothing or items—and the emotional value of simple, unrecorded moments with friends. Ultimately, the dialogue captures a bittersweet appreciation for the innocence and creativity of early internet culture, contrasted with today’s digital saturation and the desire for authenticity and quiet connection.
(upbeat music) - Welcome to Jessus Girls at his page, Katie and Sam. - Quick housekeeping. I think we're gonna go back in time a little bit today 'cause we were offline just talking about my space, about like Facebook groups, bumper stickers, hooking. - Bumper stickers. - We didn't know how good we had it. - Did we? - Bumper stickers on Facebook. I think you had to remember that. - You would search for hours to find a perfect bumper sticker to send your friends. - I just think about how like the other day we were texting in the group chat where you were like, should I get the brick? Like, should I do it? This is not sponsored. - I did get it. - She did get it. I know you lock yourself out of apps. I have the brick where I have to physically lock myself out of my phone and-- - What do you lock out of though? So like, does the brick let you do specific apps? - You can do six different settings. - Okay. - Of different apps. You could lock yourself out of your entire phone. - Parts of your phone. - Yeah, you have like different settings. I just need to lock myself out of TikTok and Instagram. So it's the only two. - Those are the only two I-- - But speaking of Facebook, I have found-- - You lock yourself out of that now too. - I need to lock the Facebook. - Why? - Because I'll be like, okay, I'm gonna go on and look at, I'm a big Facebook marketplace gal. I love to, I love to find. - I love a good marketplace. - I get that. I love to find so much in my house is Facebook Marketplace. Like, love it. But I'll be on that and then I'll be like looking and then a real will come up. And then I start watching Reels on Facebook. - Wait, my question-- - Oh. - Yeah. - Yeah. - That's how you know the algo's got you with the dope of me and it's just scrolling on Facebook. - I'm looking at dressers and chairs and-- - My question is though, when you're on Facebook Marketplace, are you on your own profile? - On my personal profile, I will never send a message. So what I will do, because it's just weird when you like-- - Well, that's what I'm saying. - So do people are like, is that-- - She's a page. - Is that page? - Yeah, is that page. I always will send it to Matt and just have Matt do the messaging. - Okay. - So I never do it. I also think sometimes not to, you know, the sexes move around, the safety, if it's a man, - Yeah, absolutely. - So I will always just send it to Matt and make Matt do it. But I search on my feed and then say, - Oh, then maybe I could do that on yours. - And yeah, like I have, you know, you can save listings. Like I'm all up on there. - I've sold a lot on there too. - I have to, we tend to just do the like, it's free. It's at the top of the street. - Yeah, that's nice. - There's like everything for free. - Yep, we have one of those too. - Yeah, so unless we, like, there's something that we're gonna go, this is valuable, we shouldn't sell it. - Yeah. - But yeah, the Facebook Reels really get me good. - You know, the pages, the boomer on Facebook. - Like, you watch this Facebook Reels page. - And then, and then I, I've liked what I was like, "It will, now take it back." - So when you accidentally like someone's photo when you're like way back, - I can't let people know that I'm on Facebook, when you're liking shit. - Like, no, no, no, Facebook, you even see you liking it. So don't worry. - Someone else they are. - There was nothing like, did you guys ever create Facebook invites? Like party invites, like back in the day in high school - I mean, how long have I made my most recent one like four years ago? - That's pretty recent. - Yeah, maybe five, but like, no, for sure, I did. - Really? - Free COVID, when we would do our annual Christmas party. It was like, before we got married, I didn't have everybody's like info and I would just send a Facebook ID. - Do you do it annual Christmas party? - Annual Christmas party. - I'm throwing you on the idea of it. - A holiday party. - I think it's really, yeah, well, yeah. It's really, I think it's really fun. - Yeah, we call it Christmas with the canals. - Do you do it? - That's cute. - That's cute. - Do you do it with kids too, or is it like close to-- - No, it's an adult party. - No, it's an adult fun party. - Instead you get your kids out of the house or do you put 'em down? - In October and say, what's the date? So get a babysitter. - Yeah, that's fun. - So yeah, where do your kids go? - No, my kids just go upstairs with our nanny, who we use to have nanny, she'll come and she'll watch them and they'll hang out upstairs and go to bed. - Cool. - I mean, they'll pop down a little bit here and they'll just say, hello. - Oh, that's nice. - They're like, they're older now. - They'll pop in and be like, hi, and they'll say, to my brother on the bike, hi, my mic. - Oh, nice to meet you. - Or our friends, honestly, are like at the kids' up. Like, they're like, we want to say hi to them. They, honestly, they fall asleep. I will say last year, my oldest center came downstairs and she's like, you guys are quite loud, just so you know. We're having a party, girl. - I was like, I thought you were sleeping. - Yeah. - Yeah, it's super fun. But I used Facebook for that, probably up until 2020, because I didn't have everybody's like info. So I would just send them a Facebook invite. That was like the time of like, I don't know. I wasn't an adult yet. I mean, I'm a paperless post. - I'm a paperless post. - I'm like, no. - Me too, but now, the scams, have you gotten scammed? - I haven't gotten one, but I've heard. - It's big. It's like, it looks like an invite to a party. It looks like a paperless post or an e-vide or any of those, and it's really just like a scam loves that. - Well, 'cause those do come through so random. - They come through with people you know, and I'll always be like, is this a scam, but then you can kind of figure out. So I could understand why those are very scammable. - Yeah. - Or like, you know. - So that's what I've been doing on Facebook. - But I loved like throwing up, like you would like see who's on the guest list and like write the bio of the party. Like there was, there's just like our digital photo albums. There's just, we didn't know how good it was. - I remember you would always make Facebook groups, so when you would break your phone, and you didn't have const, there was no, the cloud. And so you need to get all new contacts, and you like make a group. - We like fell in the toilet. - Lost phone, new phone. - And everybody write their numbers on it. - Drop your digits. - I feel like we didn't even make a group. It was just like you made a post. Everybody just left their numbers in the comments. - And someone saved. - It was unsafe. - Someone saved. - Yeah. - I don't know. - Did you ever have a blackberry with BBM? - Who did it? - You played brick breaker the whole day? - Did you ever on AM, like if there was a person in high school, you wanted to talk to it, you didn't know them. You'd have somebody give you their AM handle, and then you'd message them and say, oh, sorry, wrong person. And then they'd be like, oh. - I mean, I probably didn't know that. - They don't remember that. - They just like the move in high school. Like people would be like, do you have that boy's, whatever AM profile? And I'd be like, yeah, it's this. And then they would message them. And they'd be like, oh, my gosh, sorry. I thought I was messaging so and so and so and so. - The other hot boy in my mother's house. - The other hot man. - Yeah, and then they'd be like, wait, who is this? And then it would spark up a whole thing. - Do you remember your info? And you would have your friends in a certain order. And then when you get in a fight, you would like to delete your friend. - I never had a friend in there. - You didn't like list your best friends. - They had those like sub-profiles where you could like click on different links inside your AM profile. And you put your inside jokes with different friends on like different links. - Mine was definitely like, you know. - Mine was very coded. - Mine was coded. It was like, had some stars. And I remember I got into an actual fight with a girl, not physical fight, but like a disagreement at school that other people were involved in because she didn't like that I was using her font. Like she was like, pages using my font. And I was like, I'm not using her font. I went on the internet and found a font and it became an entire thing. - Brands matters. - Brand matters. She was just protecting her IP. - She was. - Apparently. - And it was a whole whole thing. - Is she a lawyer today? - No, she's like a realtor. She was annoying, but anyways. - I'm still holding on to it. - I could tell you. - That's a huge font on her website today. - But I remember being like, are you kidding me girl? Like I found this on some weird website. I could like, you know, take the font. - Yeah. - Do you remember like away messages? - Yeah. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Well, so like a lot of this sparked because we were talking to Gabe. We were explaining to him my space. And specifically the top eight of it all. - My function. - Yeah. - And he was asking us like, what would you do if you got to fight with your friend? They're like, how would you do that? - You'd bump it around. - You would go through trauma responses. It's what you would do. - Yeah. - I'll never forget one of my best friends got a boyfriend but me down from one to two. - She chose them to know. - It was a cardinal sin because it's like, they broke up, they broke up a month later. - I was gonna say, then what he just got removed in your back should never work. - Yeah, I coded my top eight away. So you couldn't see it. - Oh. - I don't remember a lot about the top eight, but I remember the song. Like your song was your bright end. - Oh yeah. - You got one song and one song only. - You also got the ringtone. It's like whenever I called Matt, it was chasing cars by Snow Patrol. - You know, it's all the time. - Yeah, they cost money, though. And my parents wouldn't let me do it. So what I would do is I would record it. - On like, Napster. - Yeah, that would be like so fuzzy. Yeah. - Yeah. - But there was also people who had the ring back, right? Like when you would call instead of ringing, it would like sing back to you. - That's what I would record. - Yeah, the ringtone was like different. - Yeah. - But you still had to pay for it. Yeah, we did. - It was $299. - That's expensive, by the way. - It was that you're wetting song with Matt, 'cause that would be amazing. - That would have been cute. - No, it was not chasing cars, it was a good one. - Yeah. - Yeah. - That's Grey's Anatomy. - Oh, that is. - That is. - The Grey's Anatomy finale between Denny, or not Denny, between Dr. Shepard and Finn. - Is this cat? - That is a dog's name. - What was the guy's name? - No, at the end, well yes, when she's with Denny, when he passes away. But spoiler alert. (laughs) - I mean, it's only been 20 years. - Grey's city is having a lot of fun. - But at the end, we're married at this standing there and she has to choose between Make Dreamy and Finn? Was that his name? - I think I forgot. - I'm pretty sure that was his name. And they're both like Meredith, Meredith, and then it ends like the most iconic season finale ever. - Yeah, it's played the whole time. It's so good. - I was in and out of Grey's. I mean, the first five seasons were incredible. And now it's on season like 47. - But I love Ellen Pompeo. - She's incredible. Yeah, she's a big advocate. - Grip near my mom. - Really? That makes sense. I see her from Massachusetts. - Yeah. - Yeah, when you listen to her in a podcast, she's got that energy. - Yeah. - I really, really like her. But that show, it was a little theater. I was like, what are the odds? A helicopter hit the building, and there's a shooter downstairs. Like, what are the odds? - I know, but the first few seasons were so pop-up, but like. - No, but better. The first few seasons were so, that was like the launching of Shondaland. Like all of her amazing. I feel like that's like scandal. The first few seasons of scandal were so good. - The first one, the murder one, what was that? - Had to get away with murder. - Yeah. - That was a good one for the first, it was always like, the first couple of seasons were always really good. And then it gets away for real. - Which is fair. - Which we can do. - But that's like every show, it's Sons of Nanarky. Did you ever watch Sons of Nanarky? - No. - It's like the first several seasons were really good. And then it just got crazy. - I really respect when shows are like,
like a limited series and they have their season and it's done. - That's why for Schitt's Creek, when anytime he's interviewed about it, why am I Dan Levy, right? - Yeah, and he's like, that was the perfect ending, like the characters, what they needed, and like if we would have continued or done a movie, like it would be just-- - But money talks, that's what just happened. Peaky Blinders, you guys watch Peaky Blinders? - No. - So good, it is so so good, but they just released a movie on Netflix and it was so terrible, like in the show was so fantastic. - So high-brow, and in the movie was so terrible that honestly my husband and I were like, we have to forget, we ever watch that 'cause it completely ruined the franchise. But I guess it's like, how much money are they offering people? - Yeah. - It's like the sex in the city movies. - Oh, yeah. - I didn't mind the first one that much. - I actually liked the first one. - Yeah. - People don't like it, I liked it. - I feel like a lot of it became very iconic. - I think it really did, because-- - Like did you watch the new, like when it came back, and so-- - Oh, just like this is whatever-- - Just like that? - Just like that? - I didn't. - I watched the first season. - It was so bad. - It was really hard to watch. - Yeah, it was so bad. - I didn't mind to do too much. It's like you had your time, it was great, and let's stop there. I don't know. - Speaking of an actress who will always be her character. It's like, S.J.P. is just always-- - Oh yeah, always, yeah. - Which like, not a bad person to me. - I mean, is say, that's the best. - She got the clothes, doesn't she have like-- - She has a lot of it. - A museum basically of all the clothes she had. - She got to keep certain pieces, but she talked about it on call her daddy, and I forget, but she didn't get to keep all of it, I believe, but she has pieces and she's like, she's a daughter now, right? - I'm not sure. - I think so. - So, and her daughter really goes and she's like, no idea, like the icon that her mom was. - Yeah. - Yeah. - It is. - She's a nice-- - It is, one of my songs. (laughing) (upbeat music) - Speaking of Snow Patrol chasing cars, I did look up the top 20 MySpace songs. Do you guys want to dab on them? - What did MySpace app do you think before I get into deciding if I know the songs? - I feel like Facebook took over around 2006. It doesn't set them. - It really, really took over. Like I remember you had to have a college email address when we were seniors in high school. You could get on it, but before that, you had to have your college email address. - Oh, here, how do you guys do that? - No, I actually am 2012. - Are you or 2012? - So, my graduate college later. - Are we behind us with the reading? (laughing) - Wait, you guys were born in '90, right? - Yeah. - Yeah, I was 91. - Oh, baby. - Oh, baby. - It's just a baby. - Jensy. - But, so, it was, like, when I looked up, some of these things for, if we're speaking specifically about MySpace songs, I was saying like peak millennial for us to be on it was like 2005 to 2009. - I have a guess. - Yeah. Sugar, we're going down by fallout boy. - That has to be on there. - Oh, of course, number five. - Okay, five. - Yeah. - So, yeah, it's a very interesting list. - I think it's at all, like, emo warp tours? - It's a lot of emo warp tours. There's a little bit of rap mixed in, but it's mostly, like-- - I did, like, still fly by the big timers, was one of mine. - Give us some hints. - Do you want me to-- - No, that was before then. - So she was underrated, I really liked it. - Do you want me to give you some hints? - People think she's not, remember how people thought she was dead? - Yes. - Then they think her name is something else. - A clone of hers. - She's like, why? Why, out of all people have conspiracy theories about why? - Well, she and Lyme are something, and she was very sick for a while, and then she came back, and they're like, that's not her. - But like, it's a clone of hers. - It's like the Selena Gomez, up and all. - It's so weird. - Oh, they think they're Selena, right? - Yeah, there's a lot of these. - I don't like this. And it also scares me, 'cause I'm like, is it, is it? - I know, it gets creepy, 'cause then I've gotten down rapping. - Well, we're supposed to-- - We're supposed to wait for it, is like-- - Yeah, I can't look at a conspiracy theory. - But then also then there's plastic surgery, so is it just her, and she just looks different? - Yeah, I don't know. - I really don't know. - Yeah. - Okay, okay, sorry. - Okay. - Do you want me to give you more bands, or go on the fallout boy? - My chemical, was it my chemical romance one? - What was the song from the OC? - California. - California, not on here, but great. - California. - Okay, one of the wedding songs, like everyone sings, all the white people jump up and down and sing it. - Shout? - No. (laughs) - That is true. Mr. Brightside, everyone fucking sings it. - Oh, yeah, that I really-- - Shout? - I mean, she said, white people jump up and down, literally part of the song. - Like this song? - 'Cause he's the gym, the gym, the gym, yeah. - Yeah, but we're like, talking about my space on, who's my space to be going to a shout was the song. That's a wild song to have. - That is amazing. - Everyone's like, that's weirdo. - The wedding song. - That was one of the ones where I was like, do not play that up by wedding. - I could do not. - Because it's a wedding song. - No, it's just too much. - I agree. - But I don't understand why you said that. - I understand why you said that the way I played it. - The way you described it. - But Mr. Brightside, like everyone fucking sings that song. - Oh, so if that came out, I would shut it off. - I don't like that. - Yeah, I don't like that at all. - I always like that. - Okay, similar to "Follow a Boy," we have "Panic at the Disco." - Um. - This one is, as I write, "Sin's Not Tragedy." - Yeah. - Yeah, I guess that makes sense. - Hello, goodbye. - Here in your arm. - Oh, so good. - That song transports me. - Did you guys ever go to Warped Tour? - I did not. - My cousin was on Warped Tour. - My cousin was touring on Warped Tour. - Did you go? - With who? - With who? - With what band? - What did "Defunked Band" now? - Well, what was the band? - Oh my god. - I'm blanking on the name. He's now in a band called "Ice Nine Kills" in case anybody goes into it. It's very screaming. - It turned out a little scary, too. - Clugged him. - Whoa, Joe, good job, Joe. - Yeah, good job, Joe. - Um. - What was the name of the band? - I don't know, God. - I went to Warped Tour. - I'll try and think of it. It was the Venetia Fair, that's what it was called, the Venetia Fair. - I don't know what it was. But yeah, he was on Warped Tour. My brother went, Matt took my brother. - Yeah. - 'Cause I'm not going. - Yeah, I frequent in Warped Tour. It's a big Warped Tour girl. - Where are you? - Yeah, a lot of my high school guy friends just went to the reboot of Warped Tour. - Thanks for telling me. - Oh, they didn't invite you? - No, but it would have been weird. - It was like five guys. - It was a good trip. - I was having Katie. - No, I got a girlfriend. - I saw this band not too long ago and they came to St. Augustine, Hawthorne Heights for lovers. - It's got Chargot on there. - They were not. - I think they were a little bit earlier than that. - I think they were, 'cause they were-- - Yeah, they were in the middle school. - They were my very first concert. - That was your first concert. - My very first concert was good, Chargot. And I remember my mom leaving being very upset. (laughing) She was like, what was that? - But that was just bad. - But I think they did say-- - Girl, it's the same word. - The same word. - Today, I believe so. And then there was people blowing up condoms into balloons and they were flying around the theater. - It was a bunch of middle school kids. - Yeah, she was on that. - It was middle school rock. - Yeah, she was pretty upset. And I was like, I love good Chargot. - Yeah. - I loved good Chargot. And I'm like, what an arc they've had. - I mean, yeah. They're beautiful. - They're beautiful. - Merry Christmas. - Cameras. - Yeah, the whole richie. - They, I mean, but they were stars. - I never would have-- - They wouldn't be. - If you would ask me, will Joel Madden marry Cameron Diaz? - Well, they're twins or brothers. I think they're twins. - Are they? - You guys know a lot more about good Chargot. - Never expected. - I loved good Charlant. - I was like, I was definitely more desperate. - Is it Joel who's made a Cameron or is it Benji? - I don't remember. - I can't remember. - I thought you've even another first date. - You don't know that? - Yeah. I remember I had the anthem that was a CD on my, like a yellow bright ill walk wind. It might, to the point of staying in the car. My dad was buying a car. Like, he needed a new car. So I had just got my good Chargot CD. And I was like, I'm gonna stay in the car and listen. And I just like stay in the car for three hours while he bought a car. I just went with my headphones on, just like all moody listening to good Charlant. - It was good, it was good, it was good. - That album was so good. - Did you just turn it over halfway there? - Yeah, beside. - When you went to Whirp Tord, did you have jet black hair? Was that your blonde era? - No, that was my normal hair color. 'Cause that was like also like middle school. I wasn't highlighting my hair yet. So I had dark hair, wore vans. - Yeah, of course. - Whirp Tordy. - Set a belt, did you have a set a belt? - No, I didn't do that. I was more just like into like the moody-ness of it. - Do I have a black eyeliner? - It's for her. - Oh, I hate the eyeliner. - I like the eyeliner. - Yeah, but not like both sets, top. - Just top. - Top mainly, but. - Remember when we would pull our eye down the owner? Like black. - I was like being in our eye. - Scary. - No, yeah. - But yeah, I loved Whirp Tord. I still have a high school playlist called high school fields, and it's like all of these songs. - It's weird how it can like, it like does something. - That's, I don't think it's good. - It's, I've seen TikToks on this, and I feel like therapists talk about it. Where like music has some deep, like, it transcends you. - Yeah. - It makes me feel like a moody skin again. - Yeah. - And I'm like, I'm safe. I'm married. - I have children. - I am in a loving relationship. - Yeah. - I'm not going through a break up. - I'm talking to a friend again. - Yeah, but those songs were so depressing. - Oh my dark blue, that's dark blue, dark blue, yeah. - Oh my god, you sound like it. - I love it. - Wait, what's the one TikTok trend where they're like. - They all sound so nasely. - Yeah, that's why we're good at it. - With the hair, like with the dogs. - Oh. - What did they say? - I don't, I know it's short about that. - I don't want them talking about what they're totally blanking. - No, yeah, move on. - Okay, I'll come back to it. - Okay, wait, wait, wait. - It was some songs. - Okay, metro station, shake it. - It was so good. - I used on our social media. Plain white teas, hey there, Delilah was number one. - Wow, that song. - Which is interesting that that's number one. - How many people do you think named their kid Delilah? Because of that song. - Oh, wow. - How many people got added to Delilah? - Oh, during that time, probably. - Yeah. - Yeah, probably a ton. - It was like, oh, yeah. - From the movie, I feel like that's gonna be. - How's my dog's name growing up? - Was it really? - Oh, I feel yeah. We got an Ophie. - We got an Ophie. - It's very like, literary. - Our dog's names were Shannon Ophelia. I don't know, we had some strange dog names going on. - You shake spear fans? - No. - No, but there's so many songs about, I think it was because my parents liked the song Ophelia from the '80s. There's another Ophelia song, so I think it was just from that. - Yeah. - Okay. - I just thought of the TikTok, not that you care, but it's. (laughing) - Like a dog or like a cow with the swooped hair and be like, "Because tonight will be the night." - So good. I could watch that over here. - Our parents were probably like, what the fuck?
the fuck are they listening to? - Yeah, we're just screaming in our room. - Torture. - Okay, I don't know this one, unless I need to play it. Second hand serenade, fall for you? - Yeah, what is that? - Tonight will be the night. - Oh, is that the one I was just singing? - Yeah, literally. - Literally. - I don't know this one. - I've never heard of second hand serenade, though. - It was only one hit one song. - That's what I mean. It wasn't a band that I kept going to. The fray, how to save a life. - Yeah, how to save a life. - It was so crazy. - Wow, yeah. - Yeah, so this was big. - It didn't do anything. - No. - Really? - Boys like girls, the greatest game. - Mm-hmm. - The Red G. - Ocean Avenue. - That's not on here, but did you know that's about. - Jacksonville. - Oh, really? - That was about California. - Yeah, California. - Fun fact. - What if it's one of those songs where everybody who's from a place with an archival. - That's what I was just about that. - Did Gabe fact check that? - He can look it on. - She feels confident. - She is. She's shaking me down. - Very calm. - I'm backing down. - I'm pretty serious. - She's? - The larger Jacksonville floor. - Wow. - Wow. - No, that I'm from there. Like I just lived there. - I mean, you aren't quite in now. - You are from there now. I think you have to just like own it. - I know. It's been 10 years. - Yeah, it's a long time. - It's been 10 years. - Yeah, I've lived there more than I lived in New Jersey, which is crazy. Okay, we haven't named any rap songs. So there's actually only two out of the 20 that are rap. So that's hard. - You're just gonna have to tell us. - Okay. Crank that soldier boy. - Oh, yeah. - Of course. - That was a warm-up song during volleyball. - That was a warm-up. - Like you could just see page like spike and balls to crank that. - Yeah. - Yeah. - That was a hype song. - It was. - That was on everyone's warm-up playlist. - And then this one is in the rap, I guess category. I have a beautiful girl. It's by Sean Kingston. - Oh my gosh. You remember his jet ski accident? - So do I. - Oh, I don't. - And speaking of our everyday. - I just, I feel like I remember where I was when I found out about Sean Kingston's jet ski. - Yes. - No, but he got like very injured. Everybody was really worried about him. - And then there was a whole conversation like, "Jetskies are unsafe." - Yeah. - Yeah. - Yeah, but I don't know why that was like Sean Kingston in his jet ski. - It's like Princess Diana in Sean Kingston's jet ski accident. I remember. - But he was okay. - But I remember where he was. - But I remember that he ever made, did he make music? - He never came back from that. - I have. - Somebody called me. - That's, that's not okay. Wait, were you just saying that or something? - Yeah, that's, that's not okay. - Isn't that Sean Kingston? - Yes, but she said that. - Oh, it is. - 'Cause you know, I was saying it. - I feel like everybody was doing that. - Yes. - I remember. - I think that happened. That song was after, I don't have to backtrack that. I never knew he was ever even in a jet ski accident. - Yeah. - So, here we are. Life housed you and me. That was like graduating high school, like saying goodbye at like grad parties. I remember crying. - Like the good of each, they use that song. - I was gonna say so much of the skills. Like, so much of this list came from the OC Laguna Beach. It was just like-- - Which makes sense 'cause it was that time of our life. - That's how we learned so much. - Now it's TikTok. - It used to be TikTok. - Yeah, now it's TikTok. - Yeah, I remember like listening to the OC sound track like over and over again. It was so good. - I never watched all of the OC. I watched, again, like season one or two. - I think I did too. I think I watched it. - After Marissa died. - I never watched. - Spoiler alert. - It's spoiler alert. - After Marissa died, I feel like. - I don't mean to watch it. - My friend Tussman, she's like, he rewatches it once a year. He just really likes it. - I mean, it's pretty good. - It's good for sure. - I should watch it. - Yeah. - I feel like there's certain shows where I'm like, I should watch this because it was a cultural moment that I'm missing, that everybody else. Like, I watched all of the sopranos because I felt like this feels like something that was really pivotal and I don't know what it is. So I watched all of that. - She watched it. - Yeah, I watched that when I was like, when it was live. - The sopranos? - Yeah, which-- - My parents would not let me watch that. - Yeah, it was a good parenting thing to do. I remember the ending and turning to my parents and being like, is he dead or not? It was like a child. - Remember the hype around the end of that show? - Yes, 'cause I was a part of it. - I was in the cultural moment. - I remember my parents being like, this is a big night. - Yeah, this is a big night over here. - You go to bed early. - If you miss it, you don't get to see it again. - Yeah, yeah, that's true. - You're gonna have to watch all six seasons. - That's so true. - That's the problem. Or you can buy the DVDs or the VHSs. - Yeah, yeah, but I watched that during COVID, and Matt and I were just walking around the house and being like, "Gobble ghoul." - Right now. - "Gobble ghoul." - I love that. - I love that. - I always wondered, like, would Tiger King have been what it was if it came out or, if it didn't come out during COVID? - No. - Like, Tiger King was such. - That's like a real one. Do you remember the real one that was really so? - No. - Last year, Gabe watched it. - Jim Crane. - Jim Crane. - What? - He was like, "People that kept Jim so well." - Yeah, it was really sad. - Similar. - These poor animals, it makes me so sad. - But that's the same thing with like Zeus, right? Like, Zeus was kind of sad. - Yeah, it's really sad. - Yeah, I understand, to an extent, why it's important, because like, you have kids fall in love with animals, and you get the exposure to care about the world and the earth, but it has to be in, as much of a correct environment as it can be. - Yeah. - Well, after reading that book, the octopus book. - Yeah. - From "Marketing Break Creatures." - Yeah, a great octopus. - Well, see world. - Oh. - Blackfish. - A blackfish. - It's like everything that, like, when you were a kid, it was like sweet and innocent. When you're an adult, you're like, oh. - Yeah, I'm like, that's sad. Did you guys read Untamed by Glennon Doyle? That's like her whole, the whole starts with the Cheetah, at the zoo. - I did. - You know what? - That's her whole analogy of being untamed. - As I've told you, I read a book and then, - Yeah. - Gone. - That was a COVID one for me that stuck. That one stuck in my brain. - That's good. - Yeah, that's good. All right, there's only two more on here that we didn't cover. Paramore, which, I love Paramore. - I still love Paramore. - Yep. - And then all American rejects move along. - Yeah, I'm along. - So, what a list. - That's like the sound track to our childhood, or teenage years, I guess, could say. - I don't say, yeah, not my childhood, but. - I say, do they, like, what's sweet? Like, do they make tween music now? - It's like, Adelaide. - I see, I see drums. - Yeah. I love being around, we go. - Okay, that's probably better. - What do they have? Like, what's the Justin Bieber of their times? Who's Justin Bieber? - BTS. - No, but Justin Bieber was like, the thing about when we were growing up is like, is that Harry Styles? - No, what I'm saying is they were our age. Like, Taylor Swift was our age. Justin Bieber was our age. Like, when they were coming up, it was like, I feel like you partially love them so much because you saw all your stuff. Like, that is me. Jessica Simpson, many more. They were young. - They were our age. - Now, I'm like, who is the 14 year old singer that we all love that was plucked out of obscurity in Canada? You know, we don't, does that exist? - I don't know. - I don't know. - Or we don't know. - How about Sabrina Carpenter? - She's in mid-20s, and I thought, but that's what I'm saying. It's like, I don't-- - She just looks small. - She's very tiny. - What does she say in her song? She's like five feet tall. - Yeah. - I love that song. - Her. - That's a good song. - That's a feisty's song. - She's feisty. - She is feisty. - I listened to that too much in front of my kids because my oldest was like, stupid. And I was like, okay, you got to change that. - Yeah, yeah, that would be the top one. - Do you know what you have good taste to be? - Also, I have CarPlay, so the album covers on. It's a questionable album. - That was a lot of controversy, and there was a lot of controversy. - The hair pulling. - Yeah, and again, we had it on spotifying the family room, and she's like, what is that? And I'm like, yeah, I guess we got to change this. - Yeah, we got to change it. - I'm not against what she's putting out there for art, but it's like, yeah, when you get two and four-year-old in the room, you got to kind of-- - But that's the thing. It's like, is that what 13-year-old girls are listening to? My friend was on-- - Yeah. - She works next to one of the large stadiums in Boston. And she said, the Megan Moroni concert was happening, and she said, Megan Moroni, I think. She's, I think she's a country. Oh, I don't know, many of them sang her own. But she, the girls are so cute. They're all in the cute little outfits. She's like, just like, teen girls running around everywhere. She's like, it's really sweet. So like, I think they have artists, but I just think one of the beauties of us growing up was like, oh, they were like, young kids. - Well, and we also had, like, en-sake match. I saw this morning, that spice world was coming to streaming. - I saw this morning, something about them too, actually. - It might have been the same thing. I think there was like a little bit of a press tour going on. - Yeah, well, no, it was like old news. They were like, oh, what? Mel B said, to posh spice, that almost broke up the band. Like, whatever. You know, like they're just resurfacing old conversations. Speaking of a family that was in the news a lot, was the Beckham family with the whole Brooklyn and the Beckham's. - Yes, I think there was a lot of hope that the World Cup would bring them back together. - What a weird hope. Oh, this is rallying together for the soccer team. - For the country. - Fix the family. - But he's a football player. - I know, but he's a sport. - He's married to, I think Nikola, like her family's like billionaires. She's rich rich. - Oh, really? - Yeah. - Good for her. - Well, good for all of them, I guess. They're all rich rich. - I know, I always look at my parents, and I'm like, what were you doing in the 90s when everybody's getting rich rich? - Rich rich, well, they weren't in spice girls. - They weren't in the spice world. - We're playing for the UK teams. - Which spice girl did you identify as the most? - Posh. - Sporty. Baby. - This all makes sense. My daughters really want to be the spice girls for Halloween this year, but we need-- - Are they back? My girls love them. And actually, when I dropped off the other day, another little girl in class was wearing a spice world shirt. - Oh, well, the old Navy was making 'em. - Oh, that's probably where it's from. - I have a spice girl one, too. - Yeah, it's probably for us to buy for our kids. - Yeah, absolutely. - But they, all three of them are like, I'm baby. I'm like, you can't all be baby. - That was always the fight, though. - Everyone fought over baby and sporty. - Oh, yeah. - I sometimes will go this sporty angle, but I think 'cause-- - Black girl, I've always got to be baby. - The blonde girl always got to be baby. - And then we would always fight over sporty. - Yeah. Nobody really wants to be ginger. - I like ginger, actually. - It's also a thing that came back on. You're like, ginger was a powerhouse. - It's cool. - She was another appreciated. - Yeah, I really like ginger. - Yeah. - Yeah, and scarier spice was awesome, but I think like being young and hearing scary, like I didn't want to choose that word. - Well, I also feel like posh was very under-appreciated. - I like posh. - I think they were all under- - I was posh for my senior head clean. - My senior Halloween dance, we had to dress up and we were at the spice girls. And I wished posh spice. - Yeah. - Which was very easy. - I see that. - Black dress, black heels. - She got dark hair.
like she-kness was underappreciated. - I agree, well not anymore. - Yeah, that's true. - It's probably the most relevant spice girl. - That's true. - I would have to imagine. - I would say yeah, her and me. - I don't even know. - I mean ginger spice. - What's she up to? - Well she's married to Christian Horner. - Oh yeah. - I think I know that baby's spice is birthday's January 14th, but I don't know why I know that. - That's crazy business. - I need to, I used to have a, in my bunk bed, I was top bunk and I had a spice girl's poster like on the ceiling, like two feet from my face. And every night before I went to bed, I'd be like, good night spice girls. - That's so cute Katie. - Yeah, I love that. - Were you right? - No, it's my birthday. I don't know why I thought that makes sense that I knew her birthday because her birthday is my birthday. But I don't know why I thought it was January 14th, that's weird. But that's why I really like baby's spice too. We were born in the same day, so. - There you have it. - You heard it here first. - Wait Sam, we didn't talk about you wearing a dress. - I am. - You look very nice. - Thank you. - Are you going somewhere? - I'm here in New York. - It looks comfy. - Thank you. - It is very comfy. But no, when I packed for today, I was like, I feel like I haven't worn a dress on the pod. You've worn some dresses. - I dabble. - You have two. You guys have both dabbled. And I feel like I'm just more casual. But it made me think when I was packing, so I have this thing called special occasion syndrome. Have you heard of this? - No. - You probably haven't 'cause you're not neurodivergent. You might have this. - It's when you save things like candles from when the right person comes over or a bottle of wine or a special occasion. - And then you dress and then you never use it. - Or like, I'll get like really good bed sheets. And I'm like, oh, they're like too good to sleep on. Or like, I'll get like jammies that are like really, really nice. And I'm like, oh well, I don't want to wear those. Like, it's not a special occasion. I don't want necessarily saying this dresses that, but like, do you at all know? - I mean, if I have new sheets, I'm going to put them on. - Yeah, sheets I would put on. - Yeah. - Yeah, I want to sleep in those. - And the other wise was the point of the sheets. But, yeah, I mean, I have it with outfits. Like, you know, you have a shirt outfit and you're like, that's for like a vibe, right? And then the vibe doesn't happen. And you're like, no one takes a picture. - Yeah. - Oh my gosh. - This is the other day. - It's the worst. - I was going for a mom week and one of my friends and everybody's picking their outfits. And I was like, why do we even care? We're not gonna remember. We're not gonna take a picture. No one's gonna see it. Why do we care? - I mean, it's a classic with best friends. I don't have any pictures with my best friends. I go away with my best friends all the time. We spend so much time together. Not one picture. - I would never know. - You know, not someone's close friend is when they have pictures. - When there is no paper trail. - Yeah. - Oh yeah, when you're not. - Like, I have these people I met who are like acquaintances and they're like, oh, to get a picture, am I? Oh, okay. All right. - Sure. - Okay. - Where do I go? - I know. - And then my best friends, whenever we're all together, I'm like, let's take a picture and they're like, ah, yeah. And I'm like, you guys, we haven't taken a picture together since 2014. - My last two seconds. - Please, one. - Since our Facebook account. - One of us goes missing right now. - I will say that's the thing. It's like, we took, I think we gave ourselves PTSD from the photos because there's so many photos of us in the 20s that like, we hit 30 and we're all like, okay, I'm right and all done. All done. - That's a really good point. I feel like when I was talking to my friend, she was asking like, to get used to yourself on camera all the time. I'm like, you know how many ugly pictures are on Facebook? For me in like, 2011. - Yeah. - She's like, I was rolling back on my head. Sweaty in a front house. Just like, ew. - I'm also just, I don't care. Like when people are like, let me see the picture. Like, whatever it is, whatever it is. - Yeah, post whichever one you want. - I actually don't care. - It's exposure therapy. - I don't care. - Which is great. We've done it so many times. I was like, who cares. - I've always been like that though. Like, do I see, I'm like, no, I trust you. - I used to care. I think posting on social media was good exposure therapy. - Yeah. - Like when I was a kid, I had culture, I cared. I used like, edit my pictures and shit. When I had like, bad body image. But now I'm like, whatever. - Oh, yeah. The other day I was at a kids' birthday party and the mom had cute Polaroid cameras for the kids to take pictures. My dad was like, come on, smile, and she took a cookin' under the chin. And then there was a, she had this thing hanging so you could hang all the photos. So there's just this picture of me in her home. I'm like, fantastic. Yes, love it, great. - But she sees her mom and she loves you. - That's what I look like to her. - And she loves it. - And you see those memes of like new moms where it's like looking down at your baby and then it's like their view 'cause they're like under your tent. - And you're just like me. - For a chat. - Yeah. - She's like, ah, yeah. Well, they do, they do love us. - Yes. - Special occasion. - Syndrome. - Like do you feel like that? 'Cause I do think it is more common in the neurodivergent community. - Yeah, I definitely do. I feel, I'm trying to fight it though. - Yeah, no, I'm actually trying to fight it. - I'm trying to fight it. - But I recognize it more like as a kid. Like if I got something new, especially, it's like I wouldn't use it. It was like it would sit there. And I'm like, that is weird. - Yeah. - I'm more aware of it now. - You're weird to different. - Yeah, just, you're just different. - You're not weird. But then what do you think about like getting dressed in the morning? Like you did a post about this the other day. - I'm about trying to get up before my kids. - Yeah. - Which like, you know what? - I'm just gonna take a deep breath before this one. My whole feet, just scroll, scroll, scroll. Get up before your kids, get up before your kids. You'll be happy if you get up before, I fucking know. Okay, and I wanna get up before my kids. And I try to, but even this morning, I wake up at five o'clock to get ready for the train. My baby starts crying at five o'clock. And I'm like, how did you know? - Yeah. - I think I'd like to get up early and have my alone time before my kids. - You do. - I unfortunately don't think I'm gonna get that for like 12 years, because right now, they're just all up and at 'em. They're like, if they hear a pitter-patter, they're like, mom, mom, mom, you know? So it's just like, I like to get up before my kids, but it's just not the time and place for me. So I would like people to stop telling me to do it. - Oh yeah, same. Yeah, it's also just like, I love to sleep so much. Like I just wanna sleep, but I also know it's not good for me to wake up with the kids, because then it's like, you wake up immediately. It's like, on, everybody's like, yelling and-- - My retainers are in. - Yes. - Yeah. - So it's like, try to tell 'em what to do. And I'm like, oh, well, like, you know, they can't take me seriously. I can't take myself seriously. - It's so easy to be able to sleep in our retainers. - That's fair. - Yeah, I'm the only one with that one. - When Paige eats an edible, I'll put my retainers in. - Yeah, I'll eat an edible. - She'll be in our retainers. - But I sp-- - But I saw your post the other day, and I remember being like, yes, that is so true that, if you try to wake up early, then they know, because I never wake up early. I love sleep. I'll try to sleep to the very last minute with retainers in. And I woke up early and then my daughter just, like, burst into me, and it was like an hour earlier than she usually gets up. And I'm like-- - There is a point in time I'm getting to it. We're my oldest. I'm like, having to drag out of that. I'm like, dude, please. Like, I know I'm in that phase of life now where I'm like, Jesus sucks. It's like, before I used to be like, please go back to bed. - Yeah, I know. - You're going to miss the bus. I'm that crazy mom who's like, yeah, happy, please. And I-- so that's not great, but I have both. Right, I have the Errorizer and the one who's sleeping in, so I'm just navigating all of that. But I've always been the person who's like, I'm asleep to the last minute. Like, I want to get in there as much. Even today, my alarm went off at 415, snooze to 430. And I was like, doing the math in my head, I was like, I can get to 445. And I put another one. - I snooze to 445. - But I just, if you just did it at 445, that you could just get that extra half an hour. - But then I'm scared. What if I sleep through the one? - Yeah. - I have to set 315 minute increment alarms to make sure I get up. - Yeah, that's fair. - I don't know. It's just like, there's always that fear right before a flight or before something that you're going to sleep through it. - I slept through it two times ago. - Yeah, but you made it. - I did. - By the grace of God. - Oh, I was. - Because I was. - Before you packed the night before? - What do you think? - I would hope so. - You have to pack it. - I pack like 70% of it. - Okay. - Yeah, and now we've done it so many times, rinse and repeat, like, do you set up a car? - Because I shower. - So I need like my skin care and like my whatever. So I throw on the makeup and something's charging and then the headphones. That's why I had dangly headphones last time. - Dingo dangles. - That's all I had. - Dingo dangles. - Oh. - Yeah. - I don't remember the guy owned those anymore. - But it's, yeah, but it's also like, I'm also waking up in the middle of the night right now. - Yeah. - So. - You're excused. - I don't know, that's why you're not packing a verb. - I don't know. I don't know. - I don't know. - I'm not packing a verb. - No, I'm just saying the waking up of it all. - Yeah. - Yeah. - So I would just like maybe when people online start saying to wake up early, put an asterix before and say, hey, if you have kids below five, this video isn't for you to keep scrolling. - Or, or let's give equal praise to staying up late. - What's the difference? - Like what do you mean? - Like getting stepped on. - For more. - You wake up early so you can be by yourself and be productive, have your coffee, read book, chill, in the morning. I'm just doing the same thing at night, by myself. - Yeah. - Quietly. - And you know that, like, yes, your kids can wake up at that time, but it's a different time. - It's very rare. - It's very rare. - It's very rare, like, the likelihood that it'll be disrupted is so much lower than if I wake up in the morning and try to get that in. And it's like, it feels like night time is almost guaranteed. I know it's not guaranteed, but morning is not. So because I tried to do it at the beginning of this year, I was like, on my bingo board, I am going to wake up before the kids, even if it's just 30 minutes. I'm going to read my, every is like, stop doing revenge, bedtime, stop reading at bedtime, read in the morning. - I'm tired. - Yeah, that makes me sleep in the morning. - I want to read in the morning. - So I was sitting on my, every is like, get up, get your coffee, go sit on your couch, downstairs, read it. I'm like, this is-- - I'm not already thinking about everything I got to do that day. I can't sit and read. - Yeah. - Readings for unwinding and turning your brain out. - Yeah. - Reading for me, unless I was reading that book, that made me cry. I get-- - It's so good though. - I'm kind of problem with reading, like Akatar, I would say it all night, yeah, I was saying up all night. I made a book that is like a medium book, where it's not going to keep me up, it's not going to bore me, because if it's a boring book, I just fall asleep, like immediately fall asleep. I need like that in between book where it's like, I can close it and feel at peace and go to bed. - See, Kristen Hannah isn't that for me though, Kristen Hannah keeps me up. - Yeah, Kristen Hannah keeps me up, Akatar, fourth wing, Throne of Glass, that'll help me out. - I'm so just trudging through that fourth Throne of Glass book, or third, I don't even know which one is. - What's happening? - She's on, yeah, she's with Rowan, she's finishing her training, yeah, you know, or you're at it. - I think I think you just-- - I'm trudging through the mud.
It's been a year, it's been a year and it's kept me in a reading slump because I can't get through something else. I have. But it's like I it's it's living in the back of my mind to know I have to finish it. It's like when you are doing a project a cleaning room that's unfinished and you're trying to clean other things and all you can think about is how you have this big project you need to finish. Have you ever just not finished a book? Probably. Yeah. Knowing myself. There definitely has been books. I used to feel really strongly that like if I open a book and start reading a book I will finish that book. Like I will finish it and then there was the book. I think it was like a little life. It's a really long book. I think it was that book. I just I couldn't. Yeah. I people love the book but I was reading it at bedtime and it was sad and depressing and I was like going to bed sad and I was like everybody is telling me that throwing a glass gets so good after this specific book. I just had to push through. It does. And I just like I don't think people understand I don't have the mental fortitude. I'm just I got the spine of a jellyfish. I read it in the morning. When? Yeah baby I know you need breakfast and you're screaming from you but mommy's trying to read a guitar or throwing a glass right now. I've got very willy-nilly about breakfast. I'm like I don't know go get a yoga. Go get a bar. Go get a yoga cereal. Unfortunately my six-month-old kids can't roll himself to the fridge and get a yoga. I don't have a six-month-old but the big kids I'm like I don't know guys. Make your own bottle baby. Mommy's reading. I don't know. This mommy's doing it. I like reading. I'm reading. I'll be easier. No but I don't know I feel like the clean girl aesthetic is finally going away like now like party girl aesthetic is back. I think I've talked about cigarettes on here before but. I saw a person smoking a cigarette. A young person the other day. I saw okay. All alleged that one of the reasons Taylor Swift and Kelly Teller had a falling out was because Kelly Teller posted a picture where Taylor was holding her vape and apparently that's a big no now because it's very like against the Taylor Swift image and that was like one of the reasons they got in a fight. All alleged it. That's quite interesting where did you get that was on your elbow somewhere it was on TikTok okay you know my research my research paper last time we were in New York I was like I got off the subway I was headed here to the studio and there was a girl like cutest set just came out of a workout you could tell she was like slick back and just like a smoke in a sig and I was just like wow these are like conflicting I forget where I was going with the cigarette of a cool girl cool girl aesthetic party girl oh oh during like 2020 I feel like the clean girl aesthetic really well because it was cold it we were all home we're all cleaning people were doing like there's like Sunday in life yeah where it's like green juice and like getting out and I read the book it was like the 5 a.m club have you heard about this book and I'm gonna beat one of those people that like wakes up at 5 a.m. No I haven't and it's just not for me it's not it's not for me I love sleep yeah well the queen girl that all the optimization of it all right like the the maxing of it all yeah we just do less and tired like not for nothing this is like a very like a rich white girl problem yeah it totally totally it's like queen girl what was it like matcha face I don't know don't like blaze donut face it was like there was just so many things happening I know I feel like recently my skin got like two glazed where I was like in my now in the horseshoe where it's like oily and I have to start you know what I mean I'm like where is the end of which it's two glazed that it doesn't look good anymore and I don't know I'm caught in the circle where I can't figure it out like when we did a virtual episode I went to put on like my light and I was just shining blazing and I was like this looks bad and I had to turn off the light no it makes you feel like I thought you looked great so shut the light off I shut the light off when I turned it on I was like I am literally reflective I was like that is going too far from high school we were like so mad we're so mad so dry so I was so at work age I mean I was team 10 yeah I remember that like dream mat moose that you were so good though we all were using it we were all using it and I just remember like yeah if the whole point was like you would look like a doll like you can't shine at all yeah yeah even though it was very cakey yeah not good I know sometimes I look back at photos of myself and I'm like oh no I thought it was really bad makeup I don't look at the photos you sound like my business yeah I don't know I don't do it intentionally it's like my iPhone does the little memory you know like I'll open something and I'll just be a photo of me eight years ago today yeah yeah and I'm like oh gosh yes I think my first photo on my iPhone is from 2013 I think mine that sounds about right 2013 yeah yeah it's when I was living in LA it's like a picture of me in LA with the kid I was babysitting baby page which is weird cuz I don't know like it anymore I think I just a brand can't make that though like at the time I was just nanny so like it wasn't weird back then yeah where's he now where are you man his dad was like a professional like drug dealer like not what what's a professional drug like he was his job I mean I know that most of their drugs and sturdy thing it's not like you ran a cannabis store okay you know what I mean yes yes that didn't become legal until 2016 right right right but it was his job at the time and then the mom was a model and a bottle service girl and so then I would nanny him like lately that not lots of cash and then I would get what the cash of ones he was a sweet little boy yeah sure and his parents were really nice they're probably very extroverted no neither of them were very extroverted they were very quiet but they were very nice yeah it was a really interesting experience for sure LA was a really interesting experience yeah one of my friends she nannyed for a family and the kid had a play date so she just drove the kid to the play date Jennifer Garner just like got out the house to come get the kid out of her car and she just was like frozen yeah oh I wouldn't love to be Jennifer Garner I know yeah that's what I'm gonna say Vanderpump's house once that was pretty cool was that what I sure did well cuz I worked for Lance Bass I was his intern I always forget that and for the holidays he his sister I think it was like worked at this like gourmet popcorn shop in Mississippi or where he was from and he was gifting it to people because it's like what are you going to gift to like rich people yeah yeah so you like it must be thoughtful whatever and so he made me hand deliver them to everybody and I well I had to go through like four gates I like you know I went through like the the gate at the bottom because the chugled in the hills so the gate of the Beverly Hills I was down at the bottom of the hill and then I got up to the like specific neighborhood another gate another gate at her driveway another gate at the moat you know there was just like so many gates and then there was like butlers and all like it is what you see it is what you see and I was like this is insanity yeah but it was pretty cool I mean like I was like that the popcorn yeah I also had to handle for a gift to a woman who would just give him birth a celebrity it was crazy who are you allowed to say who I'm not gonna say you can tell us off her I'll tell you guys off there but yeah like it was one of his really good friends and she had just given birth and or she was like in the hospital going to get birth and he wanted me to deliver her gift and when I walked in she was like in labor I was like I cannot be here but she was so gracious and her husband know the time yeah like he should know better well I don't know that he knew she was like actively giving birth I think it was like I wonder if he still talks to Justin that's a great question you could text and let us know yeah you think I mean they did the trolls movie together did they wait the last trolls trolls world tour they did that that was the in synchry union everybody was waiting for was he beaver was a tour the last one back band back together band together band together trolls why are you looking at gave just gave says guess oh he knows oh really I mean that's a big trolls I'm pretty good they're pretty good and they have good soundtracks went for kids movies I will get back up I love poppy yeah we talked about the other episode yeah I think they all like they kept hyping up this in synchry union in synchry union and then the reunion was them coming together for a trolls movie for me it was just when Justin got a rest and he was like it's gonna ruin the tour the world tour and the guy's like all right buddy get out of the car like okay sure buddy but then the whole like afterwards like a year later when the bike court everything was happening they released more footage of him at the jail he was like so jail he was so nice to everybody see any of that funny like he was he was being funny like he wasn't being a jerk because a lot of celebrities even like the Reese of it all when Reese was like do you know who I am like whenever it happened it's never like very good yeah his was just like which I think was funny for her cuz I think it was her like exact character in sweet home Alabama yeah when she comes back from the big city making up things that make me cry I was watching that when I was nannying once and when she sang a bite of her dog at the cemetery she never saw so fast it yeah she moved away from him so yeah it was a divorce it was a tricky well I do love that movie though that's like a comfort movie for me you can turn that on that and how to lose a guy in 10 days how it was a guy in 10 days turn those on and like how there was a guy 10 days used to stress me out because like the way she did it's so crazy yeah I was like I know like the next at the next game the first the first that's right I would watch that make oh gosh what's happening yeah but that dress the iconic dress yeah she's beautiful she's beautiful and now she's in the wasn't running point or something it's like a the Netflix show the first season was good I watched a few episodes and I fell off it was a little core corn ball yeah it was very cool quality but it's like lighthearted if you just need to like feel feel good that's my minikail isn't it I think she directed she does so many things do you know what I learned she has wrote the most episodes of the office out of anyone we're written by her fun fact really but oh yes that she was I've tried it right around yes and the most episodes it started in the writer's room and they were writing diversity day which is the second episode ever and they were like we need someone in the room that he would like Michael would actually offend will you do it and she was like sure yeah that's how she
of the show. Wow. She had an actress. She had been like acting and doing her own things and she did it up dark men, but she was there. Yeah. The Brad Pitt and, um, no. She did it. Matt and Ben. Matt and Ben, thank you. Ben. Yeah. I still think you never have a ever as the best. Oh my gosh. It's a show. It's like the college girls too. I love it. But that fell off season one. It fell off season one. Well, 'cause we're new, 'cause I like, well, and like, nope. The guy didn't come back. Her love interest didn't come back. Yeah. And that kind of, like, that's the problem. It's like, if you lose the characters, then you lose the good part. Especially the love interests. Like, you leave it on a cliffhanger, the whole, you're coming back for that. Yeah. And then she's left so good. So funny. Yeah. That's a good. And it felt so funny. It just felt like, oh, that's like, yeah, that's it. You get it. You get it. You get it. You get it. Girlfriends and you're, yeah. Like, it was so fun. Yeah. So thank you, Mindy for all that you've created. Thank you, Mindy, for everything you do. All right. I feel like we could keep going forever, but we gotta go. Bye. Bye. Bye. Thank you so much for listening to The Just Us Girls Podcast. We are so grateful that you chose to spend time with us today. If you love this episode, be sure to follow, like, subscribe, wherever you listen to podcasts. And don't forget to rate and review as well. We would appreciate it so, so much. Coming out with us on Instagram at The Just Us Girls Pod. And you can also find us on Substack at The Just Us Girls Pod.Substack.com where we share even more from each episode, little behind the scenes and all the good stuff you don't want to miss. We can't wait to chat with you next week. Bye.
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
The speakers reflect on nostalgic digital experiences from the early 2000s, such as MySpace, Facebook groups, and early social media interactions, highlighting how they shaped friendships and daily routines.
They recall using tools like AM (AOL) messaging, Facebook groups for contact sharing, and MySpace to build social connections, emphasizing the sense of community and creativity those platforms fostered.
The conversation touches on modern social media concerns, including scams, the emotional impact of curated online content, and the cultural significance of music and media like *Grey’s Anatomy*, *The OC*, and Spice Girls, which influenced their formative years.
Summary:
The conversation is a nostalgic reflection on early internet culture and social media use, from high school days to the rise of Facebook and MySpace. The speakers reminisce about how they once relied on physical tools like AM messaging, Facebook groups for contact sharing, and bumper stickers to connect with friends—experiences that felt personal and authentic. They describe how these platforms fostered community, creativity, and even conflict, such as friendship disputes over shared digital content like fonts or music.
The discussion also explores the cultural impact of music, particularly emo and pop trends from the 2000s, and iconic shows like *Grey’s Anatomy* and *The OC*, which shaped their teenage identity. They note how social media evolved from a tool for connection to a source of anxiety, with concerns about scams, curated appearances, and digital overexposure. The conversation ends with a deeper reflection on personal habits, such as special occasion syndrome—saving beautiful but unused clothing or items—and the emotional value of simple, unrecorded moments with friends.
Ultimately, the dialogue captures a bittersweet appreciation for the innocence and creativity of early internet culture, contrasted with today’s digital saturation and the desire for authenticity and quiet connection.
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Bumper stickers and Facebook groups were essential for connection and community in the early days of social media. People would search for hours to find the perfect bumper sticker to share, and Facebook groups served as a way to organize contacts, especially when phones were broken or lost, with members sharing numbers in comments.
They used Facebook Marketplace to find items and decorations for their homes, particularly enjoying the variety and affordability. They also noted that they avoided direct messaging to protect privacy and safety, instead sending messages through trusted family members like Matt.
Facebook Reels were more addictive and led to unintentional scrolling, especially when browsing for items on Facebook Marketplace. The algorithm would keep them engaged, often leading to unexpected time spent on the platform.
Yes, they created Facebook invites for events like annual Christmas parties, especially before 2020 when they didn't have full contact information. These invites were sent to friends, and the practice was later discontinued due to scams and phishing.
MySpace was a major platform from 2005–2009, especially popular among millennials. It shaped music tastes and social interactions, with bands like Fall Out Boy, Paramore, and The Starting Line becoming influential. Songs like 'Mr. Brightside' and 'California' became cultural touchstones.
The Spice Girls were a major cultural influence during their teenage years. They inspired fashion, music, and identity, with fans debating who was the most iconic. The group's legacy continues, especially in nostalgic moments like Halloween dress-ups and shared memories.
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