Feb. 15, 2025

S2E2: Love in the 80s, Romance Scams & Gamer Girls Gone Mildly Wild

S2E2: Love in the 80s, Romance Scams & Gamer Girls Gone Mildly Wild
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Season 2

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LOVE! What is it good for? Gossip and a billion dollar scam industry. Get Megan and Lesley's GenX take on lots of vital (hyper-specific to our own experience) nonsense including the following:

  • Cursing Groundhog Day (fucking winter)
  • BS and Hot Gos: Gossip about 80s celebrity couples and their influences Whose dead NOW?? Soap stars, Planned Parenthood Queen and ... Shrek?
  • What shit are we sick of today? Romance scams targeting vulnerable people - we offer resources for protecting loved ones from becoming victims because panicking alone doesn't help. 
    (34:17) - BREAK
  • GenXpert/Not an Expert Featuring: (36:57) Learn along with us about our gamer girl heritage and gaming to survive the current apocalypse.

We gotta say - this is a long one - but those GenX women who LOVED gaming will have their memory banks rebooted as we explore the timeline of console game development from the 70s to the 90s. 

Timeline of Console Gaming

AARP Online Romance Scams

AARP Romance Scam Resources

FTC and Romance Scams

FCC and Romance Scams



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Chapters

00:00 - Celebrity Relationships in the 80s

06:06 - 80s Celebrity Romances Recap

15:45 - Celebrity Deaths and Legacy Tribute

22:31 - Romance Scams

37:36 - History of Video Game Consoles

53:28 - Evolution of Video Game Consoles

01:03:01 - The Golden Age of Video Games

01:13:53 - Gen X Podcast Merch and Fame

Transcript
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I'm Megan Bennett, I'm Lesley Meier and this is Gen X.

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Women Are Sick of this Shit.

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Hey Megan, hey Lesley, how are you?

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What's up, what's up, I'm okay yeah.

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Same-o, same-o.

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It's rough.

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It is as of when this episode my God, already we're 30 seconds in.

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I have no words.

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This episode.

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Being recorded on February 2nd.

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Will air on February 15th, the day after Valentine's Day.

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Right, right now.

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We got the groundhogs.

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That's what we're dealing with today.

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Groundhog Ah truth, Today's Groundhog's Day.

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Little shit, mm-hmm, little shit, saw his.

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Groundhog Day Little shit saw his I know, Little shit saw his shadow.

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I can't say that.

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I'm Satani Phil.

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Motherfucker.

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Yeah, bundle up everybody According to the weather groundhog weather service.

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it's going to stay cold, it's going to stay cold.

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Now, as I think we mentioned in when we were talking about this podcast, I'm not sure that a groundhog takes into account global climate change.

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This is true.

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I could be wrong, I mean they might be very advanced, they probably do, in ways that we do not, as human beings, like animals, are going to adjust and adapt in reasonable ways.

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I would think so, but it probably has, fuck all to do with seeing their shadow.

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Yeah, absolutely not.

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Yeah, I don't know that they are aware of the concept of a shadow, even let alone seeing one, and what it means for the weather.

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No, they're just fucking pissed because they get yoinked out of a hole and like with all the cameras and all.

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Yeah, no well, and where are the royalties?

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Because they did inspire one of the greatest movies ever.

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It's a great movie, so fucking funny, and it feels like that right now in the united states of America.

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Every day we get up and it's the same thing, it's just worse every day, yep, it's the same, worse.

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You get up and you like, maybe walk a different route and you try to use different words, or you try to be nice, and it's just like this endless stream of news and information that we, you know, no longer have access to.

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I'm waiting for the day when we wake up and it's a different kind of, and it's february 3rd.

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We'll see what.

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Let's see that would be 2028 right, nine, nine, yeah, okay, this is a pretty long intro 28, right 9.

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29.

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Mm-hmm.

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Yeah, okay, this is a pretty long intro, it is.

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We have things we're going to talk about today.

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They're going to be fun things.

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They are going to be fun things.

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We're going to follow a format that I teased last time.

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You keep talking about that format.

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I don't believe you, here's our things Bullshit and hot goss.

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We definitely have some info Shit that we're sick of today in our Gen Expert Not an Expert segment which will be all about things we need to distract us and have for our entire lives.

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For our entire lives Video games I love it, and the arcade.

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So let's dive right in with bullshit and hot goss.

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Two parts relationships, relationships and dead people, the relationships that we have with dead people.

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There you go something this was not the way I saw this going.

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Here we are, specifically relationships from the 80s.

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We were just sort of chatting about valentine's day and like hot couples in the 80s or my god, yeah, like and, and some of the ones that we didn't realize were, I don't know, or maybe I just had forgotten.

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Absolutely, because I'm sure it was in all the tiger beat and all that shit right, but I didn't realize some of the people that were hooking up not in the 80s, uh, and because I forgot to like.

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You know how hard is it to have this page just available?

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Evidently quite difficult.

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Um, sort of in like an anti-valentine's day way, because, odds are, most of these people dated briefly or they are already divorced, although we found three couples yeah, there's a few that are still hanging out right, um, but we were talking about, oh, the very first one.

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It was Cher and Val Kilmer.

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I had no knowledge.

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I was like they went out.

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I think it's a weird couple it is a weird.

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I'm here for it.

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It's fine.

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Younger than her, unsurprisingly right right.

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so long, sonny Bono.

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I'm going with Val Kilmer I mean Cher loves men, she just doesn't need them.

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So she picks whoever she wants.

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She picks what she wants Out of a tissue box, and I love that you pulled up a picture of him with the most amazing mullet.

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Actually, she kind of has a mullet thing going on too.

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It was the thing, definitely, that's for sure.

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So that was a celebrity odd couple that I was not aware of.

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Did not know it.

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Who did you?

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pull up.

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Well, so Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, oh yeah.

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You know, kind of a long time.

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Yes, long time thing, and I love that they're still friends.

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Still friends.

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She's super supportive of him.

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I love it.

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It's great, wonderful um, and I think they went through some rough stuff right like the like, all like 90s, early 2000s I think with their daughter, and everything was a little rough okay, so then, and they came back together to be buddies, which is really cool, yeah, so that one was a fun one.

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I did know about that one, and then, um, all of the tommy lee wives oh my god, so many so heather lacklear was one yes amala anderson I think they got they were together right, a celebrity couple.

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See, this is where this is where my brain just goes.

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So those were two that we were like how, how many people did tommy league go with?

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All of them?

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answer all of them.

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Who do you?

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have there, uh, madonna and sean penn.

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Oh, that was a big one, if you remember that I do and it was like a big deal.

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That he was kind of a dick, like yes, he was a jealous this is my teenage brain remembering these things, right, it's like sort of a jealous, possessive kind of.

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That was not gonna fly for very long.

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You know, dude.

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Yes, she got very um into her own self, which is good like she came into her own and didn't need that shit no more.

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Yeah, oh, you just uh scrolled past uh sly stallone and brigitte nielsen.

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Yep, that was a big deal, mostly like that we were going through this list and I'm like I don't, was this important?

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Like I don't remember, yes, which ones were important and the only one, that one was a big one.

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I remember, I remember sly and bridget brigitte being a big thing, absolutely, and that probably because it was.

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I mean, that was like after they were in rocky poor together.

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That's why right like it was like.

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But this is what actors do, right.

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You have pseudo relationships and roles For all time.

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And then you fall in love.

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As children of the theater, we know what this is like and you fall in love, but you have so much money.

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You could do whatever you want.

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Like there's no, you can move really quick.

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Us mere mortals, without movie star paychecks, cannot do these things.

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No, we cannot, yes, we can't afford the prenups and all the things that we have to have right.

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We have to fall in love and get married next week.

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Oh, here's a good one.

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Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell.

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I love them.

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Still together.

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So cute, a wonderful couple.

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Yeah, I hope they're not jerks because I'm saying that.

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No, I think jerks because I'm saying that.

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No, I think they're probably okay, right, generally good people.

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Um, I know a lot about them.

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They're my personal friends.

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This not true.

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Sometimes we lie, um, so this, this one threw me, this one I did not know.

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Yes, matthew broderick and helen hunt went out.

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Yes, when last, when Last week.

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No, they briefly dated in 1987.

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Okay.

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I was what like 13, 14?

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I had no concept of that I wouldn't even have cared about them in 1987, because I was a young teenager.

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I was very young.

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Yeah, I probably would have been interested in like what the heck Matthew Broderick was doing, because you know he was a rat packie.

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I don't think he was a brat packer, but but we're not reliable reporters no, we're not time, time, we time is a fluid construct the only reason I am scrolling through this really quickly.

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He also dated jennifer gray oh, that was the other one.

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Thank you, he went out with jennifer gray.

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yeah, so they played brother and sister and ferris bueller's day off, and then it was like, hey, baby, oh, that's a weird way to get together.

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I mean whatever Again but you're in the theater.

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You're, you know, in a play, in a movie, in a whatever, and you have this very intense, was that?

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Paul Simon and Carrie Fisher.

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Paul Simon and Carrie Fisher, they were married briefly.

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Were they really?

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Yeah, see, this is what.

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I don't remember things, because then he married Edie Brickell.

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Are they still together?

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I don't know the answer to that.

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Is he dead?

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Is Paul Simon still alive?

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Okay, paul Simon is still alive as of this recording.

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It just popped into my head.

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I was like oh no, what if he's dead?

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Okay, paul Simon.

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Paul Simon is alive.

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Sorry, friends, paul.

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If you would like to prove that you are alive, we would love to interview you.

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He doesn't want to go here.

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If you're dead, you could just forget that we said anything.

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If you're dead, right.

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He is still living.

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He is very much alive.

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Yes, Okay, thank you.

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He is very much alive.

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I'm hoping no one would ever, ever, ever share this.

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Long live Paul.

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Simon Favorite, do you have like a couple from the 80s, 70s, 80s, maybe early 90s that stands out to you?

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That was like the couple thought was cool or impactful or important.

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Well, I mean the princess, die charles thing, it was kind of like the biggie right, like everybody but, we watched him get married.

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We, yes, followed the ups and the downs and she was like our age right yeah, our age, we could totally relate like right, she was a little older when they started dating.

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She was like 16 or something she was a child he was like 19, they just did different.

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Yeah, well, just the paparazzi was always in.

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You could not get away from the princess dive thing.

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Yeah, if you tried, yeah that's for sure.

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That was a big one.

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I think that I also remember.

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How about Lenny Kravitz and Lisa Bonet?

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Hot, super hot, god damn, did you want a scale of one to 10?

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They're like 20.

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Smoking hot they made a beautiful baby too.

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Yes God, she's gorgeous.

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Zoe right.

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Super hot couple.

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God, I don't know.

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It's out of my brain Cher also dated Tom Cruise.

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Oh my God.

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Well, is that right?

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Hang on I gotta, I gotta clarify that tom cruise and share.

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Tom cruise met share at sean pedd and madonna's wedding in 1985.

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I love her wow, she was.

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She is still a collector of men's souls, and it is my favorite thing tom cruise and share got hot and heavy.

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One of the most unusual couples that emerged from the 80s.

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Yeah, yeah if I would say so.

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I think that's pretty wild.

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I thought Prince and Kim Basinger going out was like you know I mean both cool people.

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but Prince, like, come on, it's like coolest of all the coolest.

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Well, and wasn't Kim, wasn't?

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Isn't Kim Basinger like really tall, and Prince was notoriously not tall?

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I was trying not to mention that part, but yes, Prince doesn't care.

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Prince doesn't have to care.

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That's accurate.

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Prince did not care.

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Nor does any woman care.

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Any person.

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Prince is a babe.

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He was a babe.

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Keep Prince to a single gender.

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No person would care.

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Sweet, how about this?

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How about another infamous couple, infamous?

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Yeah, not like you know, give me an infamous couple.

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Mike Tyson and Robin Givens.

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Show me a picture.

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I don't remember this in real life.

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Okay, they Is.

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There a brief, very truthful synopsis about their relationship.

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It was rough and scandalous.

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Few couples in the 1980s were quite as scandalous as Mike Tyson and Robin Givens.

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They met in early 1987.

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Okay.

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Was it like scandalous in like a violent way.

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I'm making a stereotypical assumption about.

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Mike Tyson.

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I'm going to say yes, but I feel like, yes, this is me talking out of my ass.

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We need some actual information, because we don't.

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They were married for a year.

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Okay, one year Brief, tumultuous, ended in divorce after allegations of domestic violence.

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There you go, boom.

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Sometimes the brain works, sometimes Sometimes we remember things.

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Amazing Jerry Hall, mick Jagger.

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Oh my gosh, so many fun Like Jerry Hall, mick Jagger.

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Oh my gosh, so many fun like just big time flashbacks.

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Oh, oh, this is a good one.

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What Brooke Shields Nick Cage Interesting.

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I wonder what that was like.

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I wonder if she talks about that in her book.

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I feel like she's way younger than him.

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Maybe I'm making that shit up too.

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She's our age, she's 50-something they dated briefly in 1987 before he his breakout role in moonstruck okay, so she's eight years older than me.

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Okay, so just young 20s, yeah.

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And when was he born?

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This is important 64, they're only you're apart, how?

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Oh, a year apart, how about that.

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That's weird.

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That is weird she had.

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Yes, that does not feel accurate or true.

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It doesn't In an emotional way.

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It feels like he was robbing that cradle it does.

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But not, they're peers.

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God, Nick Cage was such a freaking babe too.

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I don't know.

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I had a crush on him when I was for truths.

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Um cool, there we go.

00:14:20.755 --> 00:14:22.201
So couples romance anti-romance it's just more like gossip than anything.

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Yeah, if there's some that we forgot and you want to like, let us know who we forgot please do, because our brains are faulty and I would.

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I'm sure we're leaving out some like there's wild hundreds.

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I'd be super curious if anybody ever like waited on a celebrity couple in the 80s or like happened to see them like shopping in xyz stores no kidding or saw them at a sidewalk cafe and they're like actually he pucks his nose and it's really gross.

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And she was disgusted by it.

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They were totally bored with one another.

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There we go, so that's some bullshit and hot goss, and then, as always in this segment, we talk about people we lost recently At the grocery store.

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They just got lost, it just disappeared.

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Who's dead now?

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And you had somebody from soap opera Did.

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I, oh, yes.

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So the actress who played Monica Quartermain, leslie Charlson, monica Quartermain on General Hospital.

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She was in that role for like 50 years Longest running character an actress on general hospital.

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Wow, sad that she's gone.

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She in the more recent I still watch.

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I watch all the time.

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I don't watch real in real time, because life.

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But I record episodes and then here's here's my secret shame.

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I put my ipad up and I watch kind of general hospital while I'm like taking a shower and stuff I guess I was just playing there, so I like keep up on my

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keep up on my shows but while I'm taking a shower.

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So what you're saying is that what they're saying doesn't matter.

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It's just watching the images.

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No, I can hear them, you can't.

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It's more like hearing it and like I just oh yeah, I know it's gone, but so she is not.

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Monica's not been on the show in a really long time and you you knew like as a general hospital person you could watch like and see that she wasn't in good health, got you.

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And what's weird now is they're still talking about her like they're, they reference her like pretty much every freaking episode they're talking about monica and something that monica wants.

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Like there's a whole thing going on right now.

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I love it.

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You know that there's a whole thing so good and so.

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So they reference her all the time and like I'm like in the back of my head I'm like, yeah, but she's dead.

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Like that's weird, I don't know.

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So they haven't, they haven't written her character off yet.

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She hasn't passed away.

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They will have to come to grips with that, probably pretty soon.

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How does that work in a soap opera when the actor dies?

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But I mean, you can do anything in a soap opera.

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I cannot imagine they would recast her.

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Do you sign a contract that says yes?

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Please continue to talk about my character after they own the character.

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I'm sure we don't need to go down this rabbit hole, but, like where does that?

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money goes to her estate, I'm assuming well, I think the actress when she's done she's done, like like she's probably you know she's not making any money anymore because she's not performing anymore, right, sure?

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So and the show owns the writing and the.

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The show itself owns the character so they could recast her, but I cannot imagine that they would do that.

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She will be missed.

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She was a great actress.

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She's really good.

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I love that, though that's good enough.

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I love that.

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You know all of that and that she's been a constant on the show for a long time.

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It's, it's my secret shame it's not so secret anymore, it's out there here.

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It is guess what folks?

00:17:55.944 --> 00:18:13.239
uh, another incredible woman who passed away, cecile richards, oh, yes served as the president of the planned parenthood federation of america in its affiliate planned parenthood action fund from 2006 to 2018.

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She just died and I've seen lots of tributes and memorials.

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She clearly impacted the lives of millions of people and lots of people knew her personally and well, I got to see her speak once.

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I couldn't begin to tell you when that was.

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Sorry.

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Because you know, yeah, uh, but I do remember it being a really excellent event and she was a powerhouse.

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She was very much um there for all things women.

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She was there to support women, she was there to lift women up she was there to make sure that women had the health care that they needed when they needed it.

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So important, yeah, so she will be horribly missed.

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Um, I know that the new president of clam parenthood is rocking it as well.

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So um, you know, I think she just blazed that trail and um, hopefully you know we will.

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I would love a world where we didn't need it personally, but but I'm I'm glad that she was.

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She was there to lead us and lead Planned Parenthood the way that she did for as long as she did.

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Um, we need strong women supporting women right now.

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Just as a little bit of a tidbit, evidently she co-founded a new political action group, supermajority, in 2019 to further women's political agenda for the 2020 elections.

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So I don't know.

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I would assume that political action group is continuing.

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I'm going to go look it up because I didn't know that.

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Pretty cool.

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Yeah, and then there's one other.

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Well, there's two little ones.

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Not little ones.

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Marianne, faithfull died yeah.

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She was a musician singer.

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She passed away.

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Started in the 60s right, like music in the 60s Born in 1946.

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Died January 30th, and we were kind of listening to some of her songs just warming up for this including one where she's saying with metallica, yep so which I did not know, I didn't either, and it's very.

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The juxtaposition is pretty stark with mary ann faithful and metallica you would not put those two together normally, but it worked not at all.

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I was listening to her cover of Monday Monday by the Mamas and the Papas, beautiful voice on point, and then, as we were researching, this is the one that made me really sad and I don't know if this is really Gen X, because this movie came out in 2001,.

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But it is an important movie.

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Perry, the real life donkey, who inspired the iconic Shrek character, died.

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The donkey, perry the donkey, who was like the model for the animation.

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How old did you say Perry was?

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Perry was 30 years old Boys and girls.

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If you decide that you want a donkey, I would like to point out, donkeys apparently live to be 30 years old.

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That is a commitment, very long time.

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That is a big commitment.

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I suppose Perry probably had a good squishy life as a donkey right, Absolutely.

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Perry was a famous donkey from Palo Alto and California.

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Donkeys.

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Oh, producer Tim pulled up that donkeys can live 27 to 40 years.

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There you go Longer than most marriages, quite honestly.

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And Perry's adorable, he's got you know little photos up and yeah, I see it, he does look like him.

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He looks like Donkey.

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They were going to hold a memorial for Perry.

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His exact death date was.

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I don't know, I don't have it.

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This announcement came out January 5th, so I would assume kind of in the first couple days of January.

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Well, rest in peace, perry.

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We love you.

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Shrek's a darn funny movie.

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Rest in peace, rest in peace, rest in peace.

00:22:16.769 --> 00:22:18.816
So that's our bullshit and hot gospel today.

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It's pretty good.

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What are you sick of today, megan?

00:22:23.798 --> 00:22:27.759
Or what shit are you sick of today?

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We're going to stay on brand, stay on, brand, stay on brand.

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Well, the thing that we were talking about today, that was kind of getting our feathers ruffled.

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Things do that they get our feathers ruffled.

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We have a lot of feathers.

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Lots of feathers.

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We were talking about scams.

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We were talking about internet scams.

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We were talking about trying to protect our parents from internet scams Truth, while also trying to protect ourselves from internet scams.

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Well, yeah, like what happens when technology begins to outpace even our you know, we've kind of grown up in the middle of it, so we were able to acquire skills in our 20s when our brains were fresh, you know, but when the the new scheme, when our brains were fresh and new, fresh and pink, and specifically we were talking about the romance scam epidemic and being in the sandwich generation and having older parents who maybe Trying to keep your parents who are they were not raised when their brains were fresh and pink, with technology as much but trying to keep them from giving their social security checks to you know the hot piece of ass that they found on the internet.

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I don't know if this is accurate but a Scottish guy in New Zealand, or.

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These are snippets.

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I was reading some things that people had talked about in the Facebook group, so it's not accurate.

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But yeah, don't send all your money to anybody really Really to anybody On the?

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Internet, not all of it Right.

00:24:06.567 --> 00:24:32.776
But these scammers, they are so good at making you feel like A they're a real human being, of course, and B Like A they're a real human being, of course, and B like they, you know, they know psychologically how to kind of mind fuck you to get you to be interested and committed and want to help them and they have a really good sob story that they have crafted and used and woof it's bad.

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They're practiced and persistent.

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Um, we were looking at some websites and I found um.

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The stat came off of oops siberraio, the siberra um company, and they had made an announcement in 2023.

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They were partnering with advocating against romance scammers, aars, but they had some stats from 2022 735 million dollars scammed.

00:25:02.719 --> 00:25:06.044
That is huge in 2022 huge industry.

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I'm gonna assume that that was international, like globally I mean maybe um, because they did not specify, but it's an international company.

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So that's my human trafficked into these jobs.

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Yes, Quotation marks right Quotation fingers here, jobs where their goal and their job is to get you by text message into a conversation, yep, and you know we I don't know how many do you get a week, because I get those fucking every week.

00:25:50.573 --> 00:26:00.179
So not by a text, okay, I have never, I don't get them by a text, never gotten one that just says hey, there, or is this Alice, or some shit like that.

00:26:00.179 --> 00:26:01.862
Oh, okay, yeah, I will share.

00:26:01.862 --> 00:26:03.625
Yes, you keep going.

00:26:03.664 --> 00:26:05.013
Okay, and then I'll pull this up.

00:26:05.034 --> 00:26:06.037
Okay, and I'll read it to you.

00:26:06.037 --> 00:26:06.419
I have it.

00:26:16.711 --> 00:26:18.516
So, but anyway, these people are like that's their whole, that's get you hooked in.

00:26:18.516 --> 00:26:19.660
So you know they, they send you a text.

00:26:19.660 --> 00:26:20.382
Is this alice then your response?

00:26:20.382 --> 00:26:21.425
You know, unless your name is alice is you know?

00:26:21.445 --> 00:26:25.315
no, you have got the wrong number, yes, and then they will text you back and be like oh my gosh, I'm so sorry.

00:26:25.315 --> 00:26:27.117
Yes, I um.

00:26:27.117 --> 00:26:38.978
You know I meant to try to get with alice, who I've, you know I lost track of, and blah blah, and she lives, and she lived in such and such, and you know you don't happen to live there, do you?

00:26:38.978 --> 00:26:39.640
Or whatever.

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Then they ask you a question and the goal is to get you to have a response yeah, and then you get put into this conversation with this person and next thing, you know, if all things go right on their end, you're sending your social security check to them Dang.

00:26:57.111 --> 00:26:58.875
So there was one that popped up, but I think I deleted it.

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It was that's probably for the best it was, it was good I stopped responding to.

00:27:05.414 --> 00:27:15.178
It was really the person had like sent a text that I just ignored and deleted it was just like, um, I'm making something, something for dinner tonight.

00:27:15.178 --> 00:27:16.840
Okay, can you come at eight?

00:27:16.840 --> 00:27:18.344
And I just deleted it.

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Sure.

00:27:23.029 --> 00:27:25.769
And I think it happened again like in a week, and I deleted it again, and then the next one was well, why aren't you responding?

00:27:25.769 --> 00:27:28.116
And I finally just said wrong number.

00:27:29.351 --> 00:27:33.290
And then they came back with the thing and I was like nope, not me, you know, it was super short responses.

00:27:33.290 --> 00:27:35.553
And then they was like nope, not me, you know super short responses.

00:27:35.553 --> 00:27:37.855
And then they were like oh, you know, I'm so sorry.

00:27:37.855 --> 00:27:38.316
Blah, blah, blah.

00:27:38.316 --> 00:27:39.656
I was like not a bother, fine.

00:27:39.656 --> 00:27:42.259
And then, well, you seem like a really nice person.

00:27:42.259 --> 00:27:45.221
And I was like mm-hmm, I am a really nice person.

00:27:45.221 --> 00:27:51.809
They're like if you're ever in such and such California, let me know, I'll buy you a coffee.

00:27:51.829 --> 00:27:54.592
And I said nothing at that point, I just like left it there.

00:27:55.133 --> 00:28:03.878
But I was like it was the randomness of the things that were coming to my fan, like I'm making this for dinner, will you be there at seven?

00:28:03.878 --> 00:28:05.640
And I was super apologetic.

00:28:05.680 --> 00:28:08.582
Of course you know like, oh my gosh, you're such a nice person.

00:28:08.582 --> 00:28:09.303
Oh gosh, I was like am I?

00:28:16.671 --> 00:28:39.090
I just A was just fucking gorgeous, Like you don't really know me at all and I just, you know, kicked my dog Mm-hmm, which I did not, but you know, like they don't know anything, right, right, they don't know who you are.

00:28:39.090 --> 00:28:50.654
Well, the thing that I read, too, or the 60 Minutes, or whatever it was, was also talking about, like, the people who are in that situation, like that they are literally being forced to have these dumb conversations with you, and so I always feel a little bit.

00:28:50.654 --> 00:28:54.343
I feel a little bit I feel bad, right, for those people.

00:28:54.549 --> 00:28:54.826
And I'm like.

00:28:54.826 --> 00:28:55.753
I wish there was a way that I could like you know, hey, I'll tell little bit.

00:28:55.701 --> 00:29:03.999
I feel bad, right For those people and I'm like I wish there was a way that I could, like you know, hey, I'll tell you what I know you're probably a human trafficked, human being that's sitting on the other end of this line you know here's okay.

00:29:04.180 --> 00:29:05.041
Yeah, Are you okay?

00:29:05.041 --> 00:29:08.095
Can you send me your location?

00:29:08.095 --> 00:29:09.640
I'll send it to the local authorities.

00:29:09.640 --> 00:29:19.511
Right, we'll get you some help, like what can we do?

00:29:19.511 --> 00:29:25.855
It comes up a lot in the group, though, with with folks, um, who are trying to help their parents or, in some cases, their friends, understand that the person that they're communicating with is not who they say.

00:29:25.855 --> 00:29:31.997
They are right, they, if they're asking for like gift cards or crypto or anything.

00:29:32.057 --> 00:29:33.662
Oh, that gift card thing is like a.

00:29:33.662 --> 00:29:35.627
That's a big red flag, right they?

00:29:35.647 --> 00:29:37.432
want access to your bank account.

00:29:37.432 --> 00:29:38.795
None of that is real.

00:29:38.795 --> 00:29:43.551
It doesn't matter how convincing it is, None of it is real.

00:29:43.551 --> 00:29:50.394
Just walk it back in your mind and be like would I do this if I was in a pickle financially and needed help?

00:29:50.976 --> 00:29:58.954
Is this how I would solve this problem for myself and I know you know there's a lot of very, very lonely people out there that are.

00:29:58.954 --> 00:30:04.380
You know, parents are some of our parents, when you know if they're widowed.

00:30:04.380 --> 00:30:11.086
If they're, you know they've only got themselves and they're waiting for you to come visit them every, you know, every couple of weeks or something.

00:30:11.086 --> 00:30:21.498
Yeah, that's a lot of time to sit there in front of a keyboard and it can feel, it could feel real and yes, and it's real easy to get suckered in.

00:30:22.338 --> 00:30:32.998
I think that probably one of the hardest and most frustrating parts is pointing out the inconsistencies and trying to say, hey, you know, like how do you share that with someone when they're so invested emotionally?

00:30:32.998 --> 00:30:35.383
Right, I'm kind of brainwashed by the person.

00:30:35.383 --> 00:30:41.744
I mean it is an abusive relationship, um, so that it's even hard to like.

00:30:41.744 --> 00:30:44.531
You're kind of like cult mentality, yeah at that point.

00:30:45.212 --> 00:31:02.096
Um, it's hard to like show them reality or whatever even yeah, and they don't want in a lot of cases, won't want to know that that's their, their boyfriend, on the other end, super hot scottish guy in new zealand totes he's lost.

00:31:02.156 --> 00:31:05.702
He's lost, but we did totally like very lost.

00:31:05.702 --> 00:31:13.412
Um, we did look up some resources, just because we don't want to just freak out about this bullshit and not share information.

00:31:13.673 --> 00:31:21.819
Like to find some reasons things that people can access and the things that were shared with us federal trade commission.

00:31:21.819 --> 00:31:23.491
Believe it or not, there's information on there.

00:31:23.491 --> 00:31:29.953
There's an organization called scam watch, the better business bureau, the cyber crime support network.

00:31:29.953 --> 00:31:37.744
Homeland security still has a page up all about romance scams and like what to look for.

00:31:37.744 --> 00:31:40.917
Aarp is a great resource.

00:31:40.917 --> 00:31:42.929
They actually have like a scam hotline.

00:31:42.929 --> 00:31:47.169
It is 877-908-3360.

00:31:47.169 --> 00:31:49.538
You can just go to a plain old phone.

00:31:49.538 --> 00:31:51.576
You don't even have to send an email.

00:31:51.576 --> 00:31:53.615
Rotary dial for your phone.

00:31:53.615 --> 00:31:54.759
I hope so.

00:31:54.759 --> 00:31:56.736
That's the best way to dial.

00:31:56.736 --> 00:32:15.978
And then the National Council on Aging has a great page that has tons of information understanding the psychology of scammers, safety for sending money online, how to report things, limiting your information, contacting businesses directly.

00:32:15.978 --> 00:32:20.161
If somebody's saying that they're like oh, the one that happens here all the time is the power company.

00:32:20.161 --> 00:32:24.678
Everybody's always getting their power shut off, yeah, and you need to send $1,000 right away.

00:32:24.678 --> 00:32:30.982
So that is helpful for people who are being scammed, but also for those of you who are supporting people.

00:32:31.109 --> 00:32:38.807
My husband had an issue like not too terribly long ago where somebody called him and told him that he had an outstanding warrant.

00:32:38.807 --> 00:32:52.577
Oh yeah, that shit happens all the time and needed to go immediately to like drop off money, yep, and he actually was working downtown, which you know, right by the courthouse, and there were lots of bail bonds places and stuff.

00:32:52.690 --> 00:32:54.518
And so he's on the phone with this person.

00:32:54.518 --> 00:32:58.119
You know, he sort of had this spidey sense that something's not right.

00:32:58.119 --> 00:33:20.803
Yes, but also, like, the guy was so convincing yes, like and my husband is cynical as the day is long so he does not get bought into this shit very easily yeah, but this guy was super convincing and he ended up walking into a bail bonds place to see if they could run a report, to see if he really did have brilliant, you know, uh and a, an outstanding warrant.

00:33:20.803 --> 00:33:26.740
And so he's on the phone with the guy and he's like, hey, hang on a second, I'm at this bail bonds place, I'm gonna have him run that thing.

00:33:27.412 --> 00:33:33.153
And the guy hung up on him like immediately and he was like yep, never mind everything's fine yep, but that's a big one too.

00:33:33.534 --> 00:33:38.544
So that's happened um frequently locally to therapists.

00:33:38.544 --> 00:33:42.540
Wow, it was because our information is available.

00:33:42.540 --> 00:33:46.932
We're marketing ourselves all the time and because they don't.

00:33:46.932 --> 00:33:49.219
They don't know who you're seeing.

00:33:49.219 --> 00:33:52.993
Nobody knows who we're seeing, but they're like, oh, you missed a court appearance.

00:33:52.993 --> 00:33:53.895
You better show, show up.

00:33:53.895 --> 00:33:58.538
You know, it feels fairly convincing and it's our livelihood as human beings.

00:33:58.538 --> 00:34:06.039
So these things cycle around and it's frustrating, to say the least.

00:34:06.039 --> 00:34:07.583
Yes, there we go.

00:34:07.583 --> 00:34:09.195
So that's the shit we're sick of today.

00:34:09.215 --> 00:34:10.896
Yep, everybody, stay safe out there.

00:34:10.896 --> 00:34:12.869
Don't fall for any of that bullshit.

00:34:12.869 --> 00:34:19.699
Don't fall for any of that bullshit.

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So what do we do there, Leslie?

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We host movie nights where we live stream some of our favorites as they are available to us for group watches of films from the 70s, 80s and 90s.

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We host a space for a monthly book club.

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We host trivia nights.

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Once a month we have a live text chat prizes even four prizes.

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that's true, um, we, the space, is able to host like weekly text chats so that you can kind of check in in real time with people.

00:35:46.692 --> 00:35:58.184
I would say the critical difference between kind of what this space is and any other social media space that I've experienced is that it is active.00:35:58.449 --> 00:36:15.983


You will have to engage in it or be engaged in it by other people, so it's not like a passive consumption thing, it's like making connections, yep, and if that's what you're looking for the opportunity to meet other people, to find people who are maybe in the same similar spaces as you are.00:36:16.530 --> 00:36:24.255


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You can learn more about it at genxwomenpodcom so and so, and so I think we're going to talk about, uh, distracting ourselves.00:36:49.297 --> 00:36:50.221


Why on earth would we need to distract for?00:36:50.340 --> 00:36:52.686


all the freaking rooms right now.00:36:52.686 --> 00:36:58.530


Yeah, distractions, the things that we do to occupy our minds entertainment.00:37:00.134 --> 00:37:00.675


What do you do?00:37:00.675 --> 00:37:01.335


What's your?00:37:01.335 --> 00:37:06.148


Just your uh distraction I read your escapism.00:37:06.347 --> 00:37:17.693


An insane amount of romanticy books, romanticy yep Ripping bodices made of brutally slaughtering.00:37:17.693 --> 00:37:21.943


I mean, there is very hot sex but there's usually a lot of blood and swords.00:37:21.963 --> 00:37:27.117


Well, I just assumed that the bodices were like made of like dragon scale.00:37:27.137 --> 00:37:27.980


Yeah, it's more like that.00:37:27.980 --> 00:37:33.219


Okay, strong female main characters as super.00:37:33.219 --> 00:37:35.954


No, I won't say as, because they can get pretty supernatural.00:37:35.954 --> 00:37:38.101


I want, no, nothing real.00:37:38.101 --> 00:37:43.679


I want dragons, fairies, vampires, werewolves impossible odds.00:37:43.679 --> 00:37:46.565


Overcoming brain bubble?00:37:46.565 --> 00:37:46.971


I don't want to.00:37:46.971 --> 00:37:49.996


I don't want to have to think too much.00:37:49.996 --> 00:37:55.135


Yeah, but usually you know yeah it can't be totally vapid you want a.00:37:55.295 --> 00:37:57.541


You want a completely different world.00:37:57.541 --> 00:38:01.076


Absolutely and world building something completely different.00:38:01.317 --> 00:38:05.739


Yes, okay, cool, and that all kind of ties into life, so I think that's a go-to.00:38:05.739 --> 00:38:10.541


And then we have like I have a phone game that I play quite a bit.00:38:10.541 --> 00:38:13.090


What do you do for distraction?00:38:13.110 --> 00:38:22.735


What do you do for distraction, my distraction when things, when I need to shut down my brain, I will go down into my basement and I will play some video games Nice.00:38:23.157 --> 00:38:23.597


And mine.00:38:24.056 --> 00:38:25.637


Nothing real, like nothing.00:38:25.637 --> 00:38:31.702


You know it all has to be fantasy kind of out there stuff too, Although, although, although my favorite.00:38:31.722 --> 00:38:34.463


Yes, my current favorite video games are Assassin's Creed, sweet yeah, which are historically based.00:38:34.483 --> 00:38:36.844


Yes, my current favorite video games are Assassin's Creed, sweet.00:38:37.224 --> 00:38:37.405


Yeah.00:38:37.704 --> 00:38:40.786


Which are historically based, true, you know.00:38:40.786 --> 00:39:04.681


So, like Valid, there's a French one, there's one about the French Revolution that you can, you could just walk through France during the revolutionary period and climb in and around and on notre dame and saint chapelle sweet and like, get into the nooks and crannies and the crevices of, like these amazing historic buildings.00:39:04.681 --> 00:39:07.376


It's super cool, that's awesome, so that's really fun.00:39:07.376 --> 00:39:11.532


A tour de france, right, exactly, you might say, and then you kill people.00:39:11.532 --> 00:39:14.018


That is even more exciting.00:39:14.018 --> 00:39:15.643


Fun, um, it's.00:39:16.284 --> 00:39:24.086


You kill an awful lot of virtually virtually you virtually kill an awful lot of white men that will happen in france.00:39:24.086 --> 00:39:31.503


I'm just saying and it's kind of assassin's creeds, mo, um, yeah, so video games have always been a big thing for me.00:39:31.503 --> 00:39:32.472


I love that.00:39:32.472 --> 00:39:39.498


Yeah, like the, I'm gonna be the old granny that's still fucking playing video games I still play video games.00:39:40.141 --> 00:39:46.056


It's been a long time since I've done like a console game per se like I have a switch.00:39:46.056 --> 00:39:50.527


I did the whole animal crossing thing during covid.00:39:50.527 --> 00:39:53.896


Love it, love collecting things, loved all the lego games.00:39:53.936 --> 00:39:55.159


I wish I would have gotten into that.00:39:55.159 --> 00:39:57.619


I missed that boat and I should have jumped on a boat.00:39:57.771 --> 00:40:01.077


I was like I was a few months in and I just didn't realize what it was.00:40:01.077 --> 00:40:04.273


And then I had a friend who was playing it and I was like what is this?00:40:04.273 --> 00:40:06.340


Teach me to play.00:40:06.340 --> 00:40:09.938


Yes, so that Lego games, all those Lego games.00:40:10.150 --> 00:40:12.273


Oh my gosh, Look for every dang piece of Lego.00:40:12.273 --> 00:40:14.836


The Star Wars ones are hilarious so funny, really good.00:40:16.400 --> 00:40:17.061


Play some Link.00:40:17.061 --> 00:40:23.570


Oh yes, of course Got that out there, but you know, games didn't start in the 2000s, megan.00:40:23.630 --> 00:40:30.001


They did not start in the 2000s, no, but we, as Gen X, were so incredibly lucky.00:40:30.001 --> 00:40:31.476


We were lucky.00:40:31.476 --> 00:40:33.016


We got the video games.00:40:33.750 --> 00:40:38.385


And they started in the 70s yeah, absolutely yeah.00:40:38.666 --> 00:40:46.396


So we were talking about this, about like what we're, you know, talking about video games, and we wanted to do like a quick history, yes, of video games.00:40:46.396 --> 00:40:59.125


We can then talk about our like how fantastic the fact that you could walk into a, a place in a mall, yeah, and just throw quarters at these giant boxes.00:40:59.125 --> 00:41:11.623


Pre-consoles Like pre-home consoles, yeah, so we can talk about that, but the consoles themselves were cool, and the first one was launched in 1972.00:41:11.623 --> 00:41:13.317


It was the Magnavox Odyssey.00:41:13.750 --> 00:41:16.431


I was negative one, negative one years old.00:41:16.612 --> 00:41:20.157


So video consoles are older than Leslie.00:41:20.157 --> 00:41:22.061


That's so cool.00:41:22.061 --> 00:41:22.661


How about that?00:41:22.661 --> 00:41:24.744


That's one year, one year older.00:41:24.744 --> 00:41:29.637


So that was considered the.00:41:29.637 --> 00:41:35.704


It was designed by a team led by the father of video games.00:41:35.704 --> 00:41:46.123


My God, it was huge, massive, and they could display three square dots and one line in a monochrome black and white right.00:41:46.123 --> 00:41:47.856


So it's basically Pong.00:41:47.856 --> 00:41:49.630


That it was giant.00:41:49.630 --> 00:41:50.911


You get Pong, yeah, huge.00:41:50.911 --> 00:41:52.733


I mean, look Look at that thing, it's got a couple controllers, it's got.00:41:52.733 --> 00:41:53.893


You get Pong, yeah, but huge.00:41:54.614 --> 00:41:56.916


I mean look, look at that thing.00:41:56.916 --> 00:42:00.679


It's got a couple controllers, it's got a whole keyboard.00:42:00.679 --> 00:42:03.103


You've got the little cartridge spot for it.00:42:03.103 --> 00:42:03.882


What?00:42:04.123 --> 00:42:04.804


Are you on eBay?00:42:04.804 --> 00:42:06.445


This is an eBay.00:42:06.445 --> 00:42:07.146


This might have been.00:42:07.146 --> 00:42:09.188


This is an Odyssey 2 with three games.00:42:09.188 --> 00:42:10.929


Okay, so that was later.00:42:10.929 --> 00:42:11.349


That was later.00:42:11.349 --> 00:42:12.331


This was a later one.00:42:16.137 --> 00:42:17.583


Like I kind of want to have one.00:42:18.237 --> 00:42:28.487


There is, oh, here's a 1980 Phillips Magnavox Odyssey 2 for $3,700.00:42:28.487 --> 00:42:31.400


Zowie, Vintage Magnavox, all these Odyssey 2s.00:42:31.400 --> 00:42:33.601


There is a Yep.00:42:33.601 --> 00:42:37.626


I can't find an original original that is actually available for sale.00:42:38.815 --> 00:42:40.141


That is so, so cool.00:42:40.141 --> 00:42:44.518


But they say you know the magnavox odyssey gaming home.00:42:44.518 --> 00:42:50.228


Without this, the magnavox odyssey, you may not have had other consoles.00:42:50.228 --> 00:42:51.860


It was the the great-grandfather.00:42:51.860 --> 00:42:53.407


I love that of all of them.00:42:53.586 --> 00:42:54.148


I think that's cool.00:42:54.389 --> 00:43:01.246


And then, like I don't know if you remember, but you got the 1975 the at Atari Home Pong was the next.00:43:01.246 --> 00:43:04.818


So you had, you know, three years between the first and the second.00:43:04.818 --> 00:43:10.559


So the 1975 Atari Home Pong was the first Atari game.00:43:10.559 --> 00:43:13.971


So that's the first time that we hear Atari as a name.00:43:13.971 --> 00:43:24.769


And then you have like a couple you got in 1976, there was something called the Fairchild Channel F, and that was the first one that you had swappable cartridges.00:43:25.735 --> 00:43:25.954


Oh okay.00:43:25.974 --> 00:43:34.110


So that's when you started getting this idea of you could grab a cartridge blow the dust out, pop it in there and get a different game.00:43:34.110 --> 00:43:37.302


So a small library, it says.00:43:37.302 --> 00:43:43.221


So not very many games Pooped out, probably pretty quick.00:43:43.221 --> 00:43:44.483


Yeah, that particular one.00:43:44.563 --> 00:43:45.706


Never heard of it, nope.00:43:45.706 --> 00:43:48.103


And then the Atari 2600.00:43:48.103 --> 00:43:52.485


This is ours, right, this was 1977.00:43:52.485 --> 00:43:54.902


So the?00:43:54.902 --> 00:44:04.963


Yeah, the Atari 2600 had the joystick, okay, with a little red ball on the top Amazing, yeah, it made Atari a staple in the living room.00:44:04.963 --> 00:44:17.346


It was not the first, but it did have swappable cartridges and had this idea of an expanding software library base with it.00:44:17.346 --> 00:44:18.496


So that is in.00:44:18.496 --> 00:44:22.405


1977 is when you introduced pac-man, oh okay.00:44:22.626 --> 00:44:37.911


Space invaders, okay, asteroids, so you could play all of those from the comfort of your own home in 1977 okay, so the one that has been remade, the atari that they've like recreated, is that this one?00:44:37.911 --> 00:44:39.496


The 2600, or is it one from?00:44:39.576 --> 00:44:47.896


I think it's the later one that is like the kind of the reboot yeah, okay, yeah but this would have been the first um, the first atari, like big atari game, gotcha um.00:44:47.896 --> 00:44:54.976


And then 1976 you had the calico telstar um, because everybody wanted in on all this.00:44:54.976 --> 00:45:03.175


But calico had built-in games and it had hockey, it had handball, it had tennis, nice, so more sporty probably.00:45:03.376 --> 00:45:06.242


Okay, I'm probably not remembering it right we?00:45:06.802 --> 00:45:07.405


know right.00:45:07.405 --> 00:45:13.384


Well, well, I think and I'm I'm probably gonna mess this up, but I think calico was the one that had the ball.00:45:13.384 --> 00:45:18.500


So rather than a joystick, it had like a rolly ball were they the?00:45:18.940 --> 00:45:24.989


uh, I think centipede was that calico no, okay.00:45:25.070 --> 00:45:26.135


So thank you, producer.00:45:26.135 --> 00:45:36.259


Tim just pulled up calico had two little knobs like it looks like a flat radio right it has weird it does.00:45:36.420 --> 00:45:37.782


It looks like r equipment.00:45:38.744 --> 00:45:43.403


Yeah, so no ball, you had like little bitty joysticks.00:45:43.403 --> 00:45:50.222


That's amazing, Clearly that sucker was focused more on sports.00:45:50.222 --> 00:45:50.862


It looks like.00:45:51.063 --> 00:45:54.128


Yeah, cool, that's awesome.00:45:54.128 --> 00:45:57.103


Okay, and then 1979, you had Intellivision.00:45:57.103 --> 00:45:59.280


Yes, I do remember Intellivision.00:45:59.280 --> 00:46:00.822


My uncle had an Intellivision.00:46:03.278 --> 00:46:07.105


It was a Mattel company or a Mattel toy.00:46:07.224 --> 00:46:08.748


Yes, I totally remember this.00:46:08.748 --> 00:46:09.429


We're looking at it.00:46:09.429 --> 00:46:14.184


I absolutely played a whole lot of Donkey Kong on an Intellivision.00:46:14.846 --> 00:46:17.097


Yeah, look at that, it was probably in the 80s.00:46:17.097 --> 00:46:19.340


And then the cartridges go pop in the side like that.00:46:19.641 --> 00:46:21.706


Yes, I remember those cartridges.00:46:21.706 --> 00:46:24.320


Oh wow, the controller had a card.00:46:24.320 --> 00:46:25.063


I forgot about that.00:46:25.394 --> 00:46:30.704


And you put the little the controllers when you're not using them, just stuck right in the top of the machine like that that's pretty cool.00:46:30.724 --> 00:46:31.664


That's a nice design.00:46:31.664 --> 00:46:32.806


Yeah, it's all very compact.00:46:32.806 --> 00:46:33.969


It's not bad like tucked away.00:46:33.989 --> 00:46:36.702


Yeah, this is what we had growing up.00:46:41.934 --> 00:46:43.179


You had an Intell had growing up and in television.00:46:43.179 --> 00:46:44.222


I think they're great, so it looks like the.00:46:44.222 --> 00:46:45.487


You could tell me, tim, if this was right.00:46:45.487 --> 00:46:51.021


But some of the games were burger time dig dug also had pac-man on that, donkey kong and nfl games.00:46:51.021 --> 00:46:56.518


Oh wow, so it was the first instance of a licensed sports game hey, they had that.00:46:56.559 --> 00:46:58.663


They had, uh, they had a baseball game.00:46:58.663 --> 00:47:02.351


They had a baseball game, they had a basketball game.00:47:03.697 --> 00:47:04.753


We had an advanced Dungeons and Dragons game oh fun.00:47:04.753 --> 00:47:06.581


That would have been more in the 80s, though, yeah.00:47:06.815 --> 00:47:10.023


Yeah, but the map revealed itself as you went through the dungeon.00:47:10.304 --> 00:47:17.327


That's cool it looks like we have a little time jump between 79 and 1982, when you had the.00:47:17.327 --> 00:47:18.289


Colecovision.00:47:18.289 --> 00:47:26.259


Okay, two when you had the calico vision, so um one of the most recognizable consoles of the early 80s slightly more impressed.00:47:26.259 --> 00:47:31.213


Impressive graphics, um yeah yeah, so I recognize.00:47:31.213 --> 00:47:35.820


Yeah, that's interesting, same kind of gist to it, right as the intellivision.00:47:35.820 --> 00:47:41.108


Um, totally some titles that were included.00:47:41.108 --> 00:47:45.735


There were ladybug, cosmic adventure and venter venture.00:47:47.739 --> 00:47:52.648


So cool, I don't remember those games, but I do remember that console donkey kong right there.00:47:52.648 --> 00:47:54.659


Yeah, I know, that's what I always played.00:47:55.161 --> 00:48:00.969


And then then the biggie right then, like the great grandfather of all video games of all times.00:48:01.873 --> 00:48:05.742


Oh yeah, the OG 1985 Nintendo Entertainment System.00:48:05.762 --> 00:48:06.844


The first NES.00:48:07.505 --> 00:48:07.786


Yeah.00:48:08.487 --> 00:48:09.710


This one In 85.00:48:09.710 --> 00:48:12.603


Okay, so I was like 12 when that came out.00:48:12.655 --> 00:48:15.742


I mean, this was like everybody's Christmas list.00:48:15.882 --> 00:48:20.923


Yep, huge Were video game systems always $300, no what?00:48:21.043 --> 00:48:22.327


I think decade they were in.00:48:22.387 --> 00:48:25.963


I freaking think so matter, or were they like a hundred dollars then?00:48:26.384 --> 00:48:27.306


no, I no.00:48:27.306 --> 00:48:39.844


I want to say it was like 249 or something I could I don't know for sure, but like yeah, like I remember it being like not in a a small amount of money I mean they've always been insanely expensive.00:48:40.726 --> 00:48:48.628


In 199 dollars, jeez, in 1980, whatever, that was 85, 85.00:48:48.648 --> 00:48:59.947


I mean this is a significant amount of money, yeah so, uh, this one now introduced, you know kind of the r RPGs that you couldn't do in the previous.00:48:59.947 --> 00:49:02.409


You know video games.00:49:02.409 --> 00:49:19.143


You got Super Mario Brothers with the Nintendo Entertainment System and Mike Tyson's Punch-Out, which I can picture so, so vividly Punch-Out with like the outline of the guy.00:49:19.143 --> 00:49:20.434


You were Like you were the outline and then you were punching the solid guy.00:49:20.434 --> 00:49:20.596


I remember that vividly.00:49:20.596 --> 00:49:20.735


Punch out with like the outline of the guy.00:49:20.735 --> 00:49:23.280


You were like you were the outline and you were punching the the solid guy.00:49:23.280 --> 00:49:24.664


I remember that vividly.00:49:24.664 --> 00:49:27.731


Did you have one of these?00:49:28.373 --> 00:49:31.157


uh, we only have the atari.00:49:31.157 --> 00:49:35.663


Okay, so I just I useless information.00:49:35.663 --> 00:49:36.224


Do you want this?00:49:36.224 --> 00:49:36.925


Sure, I want this, sure I want this.00:49:36.925 --> 00:49:37.485


This is going to be great.00:49:37.485 --> 00:49:42.632


So it was the Kaleek no, and the NES system was $199 in 1985.00:49:42.632 --> 00:49:47.574


It would be $583.69 today.00:49:47.856 --> 00:49:57.443


I got to tell you that kind of tracks with what like a new, like the new Xbox, like the high end and super juiced up Xbox would probably be right around that.00:49:57.463 --> 00:49:58.326


I would expect.00:49:58.326 --> 00:50:02.275


So, wow, okay, so there you go.00:50:02.275 --> 00:50:10.789


I mean, you can get a system probably for like 399 bucks 586, that's crazy, an increase of 386 dollars over 40 years.00:50:10.789 --> 00:50:13.898


Yeah, we all will buy anything.00:50:13.898 --> 00:50:15.219


So here's a question.00:50:15.219 --> 00:50:29.592


Okay, that I when did upright like arcade games start to be manufactured like in mass, where you would have an arcade like at the mall?00:50:30.356 --> 00:50:32.353


Oh, like where the first ones could be.00:50:33.117 --> 00:50:34.141


So there's a Netflix.00:50:34.514 --> 00:50:35.981


How early were those manufactured?00:50:46.295 --> 00:50:46.635


There's a.00:50:46.635 --> 00:50:47.496


Netflix special.00:50:47.496 --> 00:50:47.757


I should.00:50:47.757 --> 00:51:08.422


I'll look it up, but there is a Netflix special that is all about the video games and specifically about Pac-Man and like where those all came from and you know when they started and basically like the hoopla around all of that, but wild, like so early 70ss I want to say, is when you started seeing like the big games, right yeah, producer tim's pulling up information for us.00:51:08.643 --> 00:51:08.943


Cool.00:51:08.943 --> 00:51:14.822


So it says 1971, the first arcade game oh, you just left what I was reading.00:51:14.822 --> 00:51:21.364


Computer space was created by nolan bushnell and ted dabney, the founders of Atari.00:51:21.364 --> 00:51:25.585


The company followed on its success the next year with Pong.00:51:25.585 --> 00:51:27.679


So is that Upright?00:51:27.679 --> 00:51:31.463


Okay, the Upright arcade game in 71.00:51:31.463 --> 00:51:34.405


So they kind of developed at the same time.00:51:34.405 --> 00:51:39.085


I wondered if it was like a chicken or an egg, like one came first and then they created the other one.00:51:39.085 --> 00:51:47.817


So it sounds like, if anything, these were sort of simultaneous, like the development technology was happening at similar times you got the big.00:51:47.938 --> 00:51:56.367


You got the big ones at the arcade, and then they were at the same time trying to like how can you smoosh this down into something that you can have in your own house?00:51:56.527 --> 00:52:04.570


I think a lot of the upright arcade games are kind of the descendants of the carnival games and things like that Sure.00:52:04.570 --> 00:52:09.365


That, like you, would walk up stand up to pinball things like this.00:52:09.365 --> 00:52:10.108


It would be like pinball.00:52:10.474 --> 00:52:18.400


But I'm talking about in terms of video game development, did one come before the other and it sounds like they were simultaneous.00:52:19.264 --> 00:52:23.561


Yeah, yeah, so the Netflix show show if you're interested is called high score.00:52:23.561 --> 00:52:34.681


Oh nice, and it came out in 2020, so it's a docuseries that traces the history of classic video games, featuring insights from the innovators who brought these worlds and characters to life.00:52:34.681 --> 00:52:38.476


That's sweet, so yeah if you're interested in that it's uh it is pretty cool.00:52:39.538 --> 00:52:47.867


Uh, the source that we were pulling our timeline from yes, because we were quoting some information and we found that on kind of an interesting website.00:52:48.454 --> 00:53:01.780


So the website that we're getting our information from, with the kind of the timeline of these different video game systems, you can find that on Long Island, retro Gaming, there's an expo.00:53:01.780 --> 00:53:12.780


Actually it looks like it's august 8th through the 10th in of 2025 and it looks like a blast, like just a bunch of people hanging out playing video games.00:53:12.800 --> 00:53:16.916


Like playing old video games and new video games and an arcade game.00:53:16.936 --> 00:53:18.900


There's a little cosplay, oh check o check it out Oregon.00:53:18.900 --> 00:53:19.481


Trail.00:53:19.481 --> 00:53:24.338


Oh my God, we should probably talk about Oregon Trail and how it changed our entire lives.00:53:24.338 --> 00:53:25.402


Well, let's go through this.00:53:25.402 --> 00:53:27.958


Let's go through the rest of this timeline really fast.00:53:27.978 --> 00:53:28.181


For sure.00:53:28.201 --> 00:53:35.121


Because then 85 also saw Tiger Electronics created the first LCD handheld games, uh-huh.00:53:35.121 --> 00:53:36.322


So that's where you got.00:53:36.362 --> 00:53:43.103


like those, the sports games, right, like the football game and the baseball game and everything that you would have in your hand.00:53:43.103 --> 00:53:44.009


We had one.00:53:44.009 --> 00:53:50.411


It was like green and the football players were just like little red dots and they were like yep, I totally remember that.00:53:50.490 --> 00:53:52.396


Yes, yeah, so that was.00:53:52.396 --> 00:53:55.161


Uh, they also had a gi joe and a teenage mutant, ninja turtles.00:53:55.161 --> 00:54:00.208


Um, street fighter, turtles, street Fighter, amazing, yeah.00:54:00.208 --> 00:54:05.547


So some cool games, and then 86, you get the Sega Master System.00:54:05.547 --> 00:54:06.617


So then you get the.00:54:06.617 --> 00:54:17.005


You know, now Sega's like hey, don't forget us, and they jump in with their system, not the Genesis right, but the Sega Master System.00:54:17.005 --> 00:54:23.360


And then in 86, you get the other amazing Atari game.00:54:23.360 --> 00:54:23.822


You get the.00:54:23.914 --> 00:54:25.583


Atari 7800.00:54:26.815 --> 00:54:35.480


So Centipede, pole Position 2, dig Dug and the godfather of games, the creme de la creme.00:54:35.480 --> 00:54:38.458


Galaga, Galaga, you were a Galaga girl.00:54:38.478 --> 00:54:39.788


I freaking love Galaga, I would take a giant stand-up Galaga, galaga.00:54:39.807 --> 00:54:40.251


You were a Galaga girl.00:54:40.271 --> 00:54:40.815


I freaking love Galaga.00:54:40.815 --> 00:54:47.670


I would take a giant stand-up Galaga game in my living room and be quite happy, thank you very much Any day.00:54:47.670 --> 00:54:48.253


Any day.00:54:48.253 --> 00:55:03.617


In fact, Jeff, my husband and I actually talked about instead of getting a dining room table, which we desperately need, we thought maybe we just get one of those games that you would play at Pizza Hut, right when you could like sit and play.00:55:03.617 --> 00:55:07.806


Centipede or Galaga and like just make that our dining room table.00:55:07.985 --> 00:55:08.527


Absolutely.00:55:08.527 --> 00:55:09.369


I think you should do it.00:55:09.494 --> 00:55:09.876


What if they?00:55:09.936 --> 00:55:14.503


make one for four people, and then you could even play some of the four person games that came later.00:55:14.523 --> 00:55:15.505


That would be cool.00:55:15.505 --> 00:55:16.327


That would be cool.00:55:16.347 --> 00:55:17.208


Really cool.00:55:22.215 --> 00:55:23.978


So what was your first game system as a young person?00:55:23.978 --> 00:55:24.858


I think my first one.00:55:24.858 --> 00:55:27.483


Well, so my dad had an odyssey.00:55:27.483 --> 00:55:28.905


Oh wow, cool.00:55:28.905 --> 00:55:43.628


So after divorce he got an odyssey and then somebody broke into his apartment and they stole it and that was a big sad day day um, I want to say our first one at home was the was the atari 7800.00:55:44.090 --> 00:55:55.836


Okay, I thought, I don't think we, I know well, maybe it was the nintendo, the nes and I can't remember, but I wanted I, I feel like it was the 7800.00:55:55.836 --> 00:55:57.721


Um, how about?00:55:57.740 --> 00:56:16.541


you, I, we had the 2600 okay, 2600 the original nice and I remember getting that because we had space invaders and my mom, she loved video games, she loved computers and technology and she played space invaders probably for 24 hours.00:56:16.541 --> 00:56:20.648


I mean it insane, we didn't get to play.00:56:20.648 --> 00:56:24.197


The video games were for adults, not for children.00:56:24.197 --> 00:56:31.657


You like, maybe got some time and I love that Space Invaders was the big one, uh-huh, asteroids.00:56:31.759 --> 00:56:32.559


I remember that.00:56:32.559 --> 00:56:40.641


And then my next big memory of video games was I don't know what system it was on the original Pitfall.00:56:40.641 --> 00:56:42.807


Was that on Atari?00:56:42.807 --> 00:56:57.487


It was Atari, I think it was Atari, and my brother was young he's probably six or seven, okay and won the Pitfall game, like made it all the way through, finished it.00:56:57.487 --> 00:57:09.266


You would take a picture, a Polaroid picture, of him standing next to the screen with his high score, uh-huh, and we sent it, mailed it off, so that he could get the patch.00:57:09.266 --> 00:57:14.931


Oh, that's so cool Because they would mail back a patch, if you like beat a certain high score and finished a game.00:57:14.931 --> 00:57:15.675


I didn't know that.00:57:15.675 --> 00:57:24.260


We would use the old fashioned mail with like stamps and things and we would write on envelopes and we sent this Polaroid picture in of him.00:57:24.902 --> 00:57:28.007


I love that With the highest score on the game, it was cool, they mailed back Patch.00:57:28.355 --> 00:57:29.599


I wonder if he still has the vest.00:57:29.599 --> 00:57:31.005


I don't know, I'll have to ask him.00:57:31.855 --> 00:57:33.201


We weren't like our family.00:57:33.201 --> 00:57:50.972


We had the very first Macintosh computer, oh right, on don't know like two and a half feet tall and weighed roughly the same as a Volkswagen and came in a cloth bag to unzip it.00:57:50.972 --> 00:57:58.324


So my mom got the very first Apple Macintosh computer and it had a screen that was like this big.00:57:58.324 --> 00:58:04.385


Yeah, and we played solitaire on that thing every, every day.00:58:04.385 --> 00:58:11.163


It was just like on the dining room table, much to my grandmother's chagrin and just sat there and you would just play solitaire.00:58:11.563 --> 00:58:12.065


I don't know that.00:58:12.065 --> 00:58:16.170


I don't know that it did anything else I don't know did you did with it.00:58:16.170 --> 00:58:17.155


I don't know what I just said.00:58:17.596 --> 00:58:26.693


I I don't think we did anything with it other than play solitaire because was it a word processor, sure would you have been able to type, I think.00:58:26.693 --> 00:58:27.978


I mean it had a keyboard it had.00:58:27.998 --> 00:58:30.547


In fact it had a curly like q cord.00:58:30.547 --> 00:58:31.853


That okay you know.00:58:31.853 --> 00:58:36.300


So it was right there right on don't know, only ever played solitaire on it.00:58:36.340 --> 00:58:37.001


That's all that matters.00:58:37.021 --> 00:58:37.922


But that was our gaming.00:58:38.322 --> 00:58:41.027


That was pretty sad.00:58:41.027 --> 00:58:43.070


So those are.00:58:43.070 --> 00:58:46.320


We kind of had our home console games.00:58:46.320 --> 00:58:47.922


Those are early memories of that.00:58:47.922 --> 00:58:50.527


What about arcade games?00:58:50.527 --> 00:58:53.001


I was doing the whole chicken and egg thing like which came first.00:58:53.001 --> 00:58:54.704


Did you go to the arcade?00:58:54.985 --> 00:58:56.898


as a young person, yeah, and like when, what?00:58:56.918 --> 00:59:02.789


was that what was your arcade era about Definitely the same era of just going to the mall.00:59:02.789 --> 00:59:14.695


Okay, there were a couple of different malls that have different arcades and of course all had different games, you know, but then this was like pre-dance dance revolution kind of thing.00:59:14.695 --> 00:59:18.239


It was just rows and rows of stand-up.00:59:19.322 --> 00:59:31.980


Centipede Burger-man, miss pac-man, you know, gallia, thank, you very much and these are all like 16 bit games, right, pretty pretty much, yeah, pretty early on, at least early on.00:59:32.079 --> 00:59:33.748


Yeah, they would get a little trickier.00:59:33.748 --> 00:59:35.235


You'd have some that were a little fancier.00:59:35.235 --> 00:59:39.847


Do you remember when, um, oh shoot, what was the one called the dragons?00:59:39.847 --> 00:59:42.313


Dragons quest, dragons eight?00:59:42.313 --> 00:59:54.878


It was dragons quest, like I'm looking at producer tim, but the one that was like the most advanced graphics, um, and it had like a night that.00:59:54.878 --> 00:59:57.733


No, it was a stand up art, it was a video game.00:59:57.733 --> 01:00:02.242


That, when Dragon's Lair Dragon's Lair oh yes, freaking A man.01:00:02.349 --> 01:00:05.440


That one the most frustrating game ever.01:00:05.440 --> 01:00:08.679


Everybody spent at least $200 trying to just get out of the castle.01:00:08.679 --> 01:00:11.418


Nobody ever did it.01:00:11.458 --> 01:00:13.815


I do remember that, but that was like the next.01:00:13.815 --> 01:00:14.998


That was the next phase.01:00:15.059 --> 01:00:22.675


Yes, when they started getting way advanced yes, agreed that was a good development there super beautiful to look at, impossible to play.01:00:22.675 --> 01:00:23.677


I remember this.01:00:23.677 --> 01:00:27.148


I bet nobody's ever finished it I would love to know.01:00:27.188 --> 01:00:28.090


That would be awesome.01:00:28.952 --> 01:00:36.396


But yeah, so we should mostly like mostly the 16 bit okay so yeah, I remember like playing frogger.01:00:36.617 --> 01:00:38.889


my mom mom loved Balloon man, do you remember?01:00:38.909 --> 01:00:39.090


this game?01:00:39.110 --> 01:00:43.838


Oh, I don't remember Balloon man it was a guy like on a unicycle, like a clown.01:00:43.838 --> 01:00:44.179


Balloon.01:00:44.199 --> 01:00:44.360


Man.01:00:44.440 --> 01:00:49.619


Okay, and he would just like ride back and forth and the goal was for him to catch balloons on top of his head.01:00:49.619 --> 01:01:03.797


Okay, and then there, center console like centipede had that balloon man was also a ball in the center console.01:01:03.797 --> 01:01:05.000


It was definitely in the eighties.01:01:05.000 --> 01:01:10.936


Yep, there you go, balloon man, and definitely at showbiz pizza.01:01:11.557 --> 01:01:39.632


Oh, I remember showbiziz, and that was back when a youth children's pizza establishment had a lot of entertainment for adults right it was an arcade keep them busy and there were kid games, but I remember like it was mostly the parents I mean the kids played, but like anybody was there for skeeball fuck, yes, skeeball we have to go play some.01:01:39.693 --> 01:01:40.476


Yes, let's do that.01:01:40.476 --> 01:01:41.699


I love that'd be super fun.01:01:41.699 --> 01:01:56.233


So much I do too, and again, very competitive with that oh so and then there's that whole like the world changed right and the video games suddenly had seats to them do you remember when that like kind of happened too, like you got the star wars games.01:01:56.233 --> 01:02:05.512


I think there was an indiana jones game okay that you sat down in um, yeah, or, and then later jurassic park.01:02:05.512 --> 01:02:09.902


There was like a jurassic park game where you were in a jeep sure so that's.01:02:10.001 --> 01:02:24.271


This is an interesting part of the video game journey, because when video games started at the very beginning, like the whole star wars franchise, didn't exist yet right so there weren't necessarily video games based on movies.01:02:24.271 --> 01:02:51.619


So I'm kind of curious about like the crossover, like when somebody was like oh look, you know, I mean star wars, obvious entry point, lots of things to fly light sure all the things, but that had to open up a whole new era of video game development I'm sure, because now you had the marketing aspect to it right like a whole branding piece, that on another layer to what they were doing, because before that you could do defender, yeah, and you could have defender and defender was just defender right.01:02:51.739 --> 01:02:59.583


But then now you've got like a right, like a star wars tie, fighting, shooting, which would have been drastically different.01:03:01.251 --> 01:03:03.927


Our brains have been through a lot.01:03:03.927 --> 01:03:13.005


They have, when you think about marketing and the development of marketing and how branding basically I don't want to say totally came into existence.01:03:13.005 --> 01:03:17.340


This is a little bit of Gen X exceptionalism, because we only know what we know, we know what we know.01:03:17.340 --> 01:03:26.123


But this whole thing developed like sheets, action figures video games clothes Like this was our childhood.01:03:26.750 --> 01:03:32.356


You can kind of start blaming it on Disney a little bit right, Because like I remember as a little little kid having.01:03:32.376 --> 01:03:33.338


Bambi sheets.01:03:33.338 --> 01:03:35.523


Okay, right on, yeah for sure.01:03:35.690 --> 01:03:40.393


So like that kind of stuff branded Well and even Holly Hobby, but those were.01:03:40.554 --> 01:03:44.356


I remember them being popular in middle school and Holly Hobby is much older than the 80s.01:03:44.356 --> 01:03:49.159


Well, and probably all right, I'm going to de-center us.01:03:49.159 --> 01:03:58.739


There was like I mean, you had Coca-Cola, davy Crockett, that was like you know, there was that marketing, like there was Davy Crockett wallpaper and the hat like the old Wild West stories.01:03:58.739 --> 01:04:02.706


But I would say certainly in the 80s shit blew up.01:04:02.829 --> 01:04:06.320


Yeah, the wheels fell off the bus and yeah, it went crazy.01:04:06.320 --> 01:04:10.701


Agreed, because you know video games around movies.01:04:11.931 --> 01:04:14.981


This story is brutal the development of the Atari.01:04:14.981 --> 01:04:20.213


What producer Tim is showing us right now is the Atari ET video game.01:04:20.936 --> 01:04:25.244


And I think this was on a show that we watched the development of this game.01:04:25.244 --> 01:04:38.021


They were pushing so hard to get this game out to coincide with the movie, to get the Christmas sales, and so they were working 24 seven like around the clock.01:04:38.021 --> 01:04:43.900


I had that game To get this game out and it was like the most expensive and the biggest flop.01:04:43.900 --> 01:04:45.530


Is that true, am I?01:04:45.530 --> 01:04:48.740


But this game tanked so hard.01:04:49.650 --> 01:05:05.311


Well, if I recall, it was pretty impossible to play and I know you were on a bicycle and there was a flower involved and I just I'm like trying to remember a little bit of this, but I do remember playing it yeah, but it was pretty brutal.01:05:05.431 --> 01:05:07.155


I mean it was unlike any other.01:05:07.155 --> 01:05:21.496


It was the height of like kind of commercialism and pushing a product to come out with a movie well, the developers probably only had you know this tiny little window right, because the movie gets into into production.01:05:22.539 --> 01:05:29.838


And you I mean, like I think about the, the movies or the games that I play now, like all of those assassin creed games, they take years.01:05:29.838 --> 01:05:42.744


Yes, years and years and years to put out, and if you're trying to back in the way, old ancient days, even with the 16 bit, right, you only had a tiny little window to get this shit built.01:05:42.744 --> 01:05:47.918


Yes, and then it also still somehow had to have some sort of theme to the movie.01:05:48.117 --> 01:05:54.717


Right, like it was supposed to tie in and you should care about it, and it should feel like an extension of the film and game.01:05:54.757 --> 01:06:06.028


Development up until that point had taken decades, right, well, and I think, if memory serves like the developers hadn't seen the movie yet, because the movie wasn't done, there was no screen.01:06:06.050 --> 01:06:07.916


Right If they're trying to get it out at the same time.01:06:08.150 --> 01:06:13.702


So they were like getting like photos of the production, artwork and stuff.01:06:13.869 --> 01:06:20.974


And they're not going to give them the whole script and they're not going to you know, because if any of that gets out, that's like just terrible for a movie.01:06:23.139 --> 01:06:23.702


That's wild.01:06:23.702 --> 01:06:27.574


Yeah, so I kind of missed.01:06:27.574 --> 01:06:31.375


I know the next development was like the Game Boy and that kind of handheld.01:06:31.394 --> 01:06:33.695


And that sort of went over my head.01:06:34.530 --> 01:06:37.050


Not like it was too hard, but I just was moving on to other things over my head.01:06:37.050 --> 01:06:38.121


Yeah, not like it was too hard, but I just was moving on to other things.01:06:38.065 --> 01:06:39.291


Yeah, I went off into college.01:06:39.291 --> 01:06:40.233


I remember the.01:06:40.233 --> 01:06:46.777


I think the end for me, I mean the break for me, because I'm back into it, but the I want to.01:06:46.777 --> 01:06:47.057


Oops.01:06:47.057 --> 01:07:10.240


I want to say that in junior high and my freshman year of high school we had at-putt in our like right down the street from us oh, okay, right and of course that's miniature golf for anybody who doesn't have putt-putts or didn't have putt-putts, um, but they also had an arcade that was next to the putt-putt.01:07:10.581 --> 01:07:27.228


Nice, and you'd go in and you could get your, get your ball in your, in your and your stick and go play putt-putt, or you could hang out in the arcade, okay, and my friends and I would go every, every, every Saturday night and play video games.01:07:27.588 --> 01:07:27.809


Nice.01:07:28.331 --> 01:07:32.742


And we were a pretty decent, like normal group of kids.01:07:32.742 --> 01:07:35.559


We weren't terrible troublemakers or anything like that.01:07:35.559 --> 01:07:36.891


We weren't trying to burn the place down.01:07:36.891 --> 01:07:50.875


Not trying to burn, but we just would go in and hang out and play video games okay and we got to be good friends with the police officer who was there just to keep people from having fights right and he got tokens for free.01:07:50.875 --> 01:07:59.786


So in the back of his police cruiser he had buckets of tokens from Putt-Putt.01:08:00.469 --> 01:08:12.498


And he would hand us, like giant, like tumblers, cups full of tokens every time we'd come in, not for everybody, but just for my little crew, and so we would sit and play for hours for free.01:08:12.498 --> 01:08:14.742


That's awesome, it was so great we played Gauntlet.01:08:14.742 --> 01:08:16.796


We played the shit out of Gauntlet.01:08:16.796 --> 01:08:17.738


Remember that one?01:08:17.738 --> 01:08:21.210


No, I mean, that's freaking Dungeons and Dragons, right there.01:08:21.210 --> 01:08:22.615


Show me what it looked like.01:08:22.615 --> 01:08:26.621


Gauntlet had a warrior, it had a Valkyrie.01:08:27.631 --> 01:08:28.895


Oh, sweet An elf.01:08:29.476 --> 01:08:30.460


It had a wizard.01:08:30.460 --> 01:08:32.074


It had.01:08:33.011 --> 01:08:34.317


Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.01:08:37.909 --> 01:08:42.957


And then you got, like you know, if you were about to die it'd be like valkyrie is about to die.01:08:42.978 --> 01:08:53.240


Warrior needs food, so yes yes, so there was a place that was by the house a few years ago and they had this in it and their arcade.01:08:53.240 --> 01:09:03.123


Their uprights didn't always work, but a girlfriend of mine and I were there one evening and we played the shit out of this and we laughed a lot at it because it was really funny.01:09:03.184 --> 01:09:04.045


It's so fun.01:09:04.409 --> 01:09:06.297


I don't even know how we ended up there that night.01:09:07.329 --> 01:09:14.122


There's nothing more frustrating than when you go and you like nowadays and you put a quarter in and like one of the characters doesn't work.01:09:14.122 --> 01:09:17.167


Oh, it's just like yes, absolutely, I just it's just like yes.01:09:17.769 --> 01:09:18.189


Absolutely.01:09:18.189 --> 01:09:19.494


I just want to play with my buddies.01:09:19.494 --> 01:09:20.278


Those games are great.01:09:20.278 --> 01:09:24.296


The other game we played there was a Michael Jackson video game.01:09:25.038 --> 01:09:26.001


That was called Moonwalker.01:09:26.041 --> 01:09:32.360


Talk about branding, I think, and it was also an early and we were just like what.01:09:32.360 --> 01:09:33.655


I did not remember this.01:09:34.170 --> 01:09:35.570


I didn't remember a Michael Jackson one.01:09:35.570 --> 01:09:36.631


I remember Michael Jackson.01:09:36.692 --> 01:09:37.351


Super weird.01:09:37.432 --> 01:09:37.872


Here it is.01:09:37.872 --> 01:09:41.555


Yes, oh, my goodness, do you make him dance.01:09:41.855 --> 01:09:43.917


Yes, and he has like powers.01:09:43.917 --> 01:09:47.840


Yes, we played this a lot, but this is I played it as an adult.01:09:47.840 --> 01:09:49.121


I didn't know it exists.01:09:49.121 --> 01:09:52.104


Okay, it was a Sega Genesis game.01:09:52.104 --> 01:09:55.126


It's kind of magnificent.01:09:55.126 --> 01:09:56.988


It's just so surreal and weird.01:09:57.850 --> 01:09:58.828


That's so 80s, I can't even stand it.01:09:58.930 --> 01:10:08.930


That was really pretty fun and we have a couple of arcades here in the city of Indianapolis retro arcades that you can go to and play many of these games.01:10:08.930 --> 01:10:17.663


I think you and I need to go do that, because the one downtown also has skeeball, yes, so we should go do that, and they have a gauntlet game oh wait.01:10:17.684 --> 01:10:24.734


Yeah, I posted from that last year because we got to go as part of gen con we got in there for that event and they have a skee-ball upstairs.01:10:24.734 --> 01:10:32.137


That was super fun so yeah, maybe we can get some like little mics and we'll just like narrate ourselves playing that'd be fun, okay.01:10:32.559 --> 01:10:36.512


question if you go back in time, yes, walk into an arcade.01:10:36.512 --> 01:10:38.438


Okay, you have a handful of quarters.01:10:38.438 --> 01:10:39.860


You can play any game you want.01:10:41.751 --> 01:10:42.771


Which one do you pick?01:10:42.771 --> 01:10:45.856


I have to go back in olden days brain.01:10:45.856 --> 01:10:47.961


I probably would have played.01:10:47.961 --> 01:10:48.981


It was Pac-Man.01:10:48.981 --> 01:10:50.203


I played a lot of Pac-Man.01:10:50.224 --> 01:10:50.564


Pac-Man.01:10:51.451 --> 01:10:51.770


Yeah.01:10:52.072 --> 01:10:56.180


Now, did you prefer Pac-Man over Ms Pac-Man or did you like Ms Pac-Man better?01:10:57.081 --> 01:10:57.762


I like the original.01:10:57.762 --> 01:10:58.743


Okay, I played.01:10:58.743 --> 01:11:06.759


I was an equal opportunity Pac person as Pac people go, I really enjoyed the original Pac-Man.01:11:06.759 --> 01:11:11.862


This takes me back to the Pac-Man Christmas special that you didn't know existed.01:11:11.930 --> 01:11:12.752


I didn't know it existed.01:11:12.792 --> 01:11:17.136


We talked about that that was pretty funny, but Pac-Man probably.01:11:17.136 --> 01:11:19.077


So what would you play?01:11:19.077 --> 01:11:22.159


I feel like I know, but I don't know if you go back to the beginning.01:11:22.771 --> 01:11:24.518


It would have to be Galaga.01:11:24.578 --> 01:11:24.779


Okay.01:11:25.810 --> 01:11:29.225


And that's partly because I played it so much that I got the pattern down.01:11:29.688 --> 01:11:31.496


Oh, right on, and then it was almost like cheating, right.01:11:31.590 --> 01:11:38.083


Yes, because after a while you're like I played so many games of it that I know exactly when the next round is.01:11:38.083 --> 01:11:42.377


I know where, that you know where the ship's coming down, I know when it's going to drop the little missile.01:11:42.557 --> 01:11:44.542


Yes, you know, I know when the alien's coming.01:11:44.542 --> 01:11:45.389


That was part of the skill of it.01:11:45.389 --> 01:11:50.912


Yeah, it was the pattern recognition and the development of like.01:11:50.912 --> 01:11:54.115


I mean that's how you got good Right At video games.01:11:54.296 --> 01:11:55.636


Yeah, oh, look at that.01:11:56.217 --> 01:12:05.145


Oh, there's a little Galaga guy, there's a little alien that's going to take my ship and Galaga came out post Space Invaders and post.01:12:05.145 --> 01:12:07.969


Was it Mission Command or Missile Command?01:12:07.988 --> 01:12:08.389


Missile Command.01:12:08.389 --> 01:12:08.850


It was an AT&T game.01:12:08.850 --> 01:12:10.953


Oh, I hated Missile Command.01:12:10.953 --> 01:12:12.756


I hated that one, my Atlanta Atari game.01:12:13.076 --> 01:12:17.342


I didn't like that one at all, but these were precursors to this.01:12:17.623 --> 01:12:20.139


Yes, galaga was like a better version.01:12:20.139 --> 01:12:20.930


Yeah, it's a little more fancy.01:12:20.930 --> 01:12:24.899


They had, like the ships were a little more detailed and stuff like that.01:12:24.899 --> 01:12:28.497


So I need to go to video games.01:12:28.716 --> 01:12:29.097


I'd be a good time.01:12:29.097 --> 01:12:29.920


I'm glad we have them.01:12:29.920 --> 01:12:30.801


I like to play some video games.01:12:30.801 --> 01:12:31.563


I like to play them.01:12:34.690 --> 01:12:36.176


They are not just for little boys.01:12:40.569 --> 01:12:41.853


No, um, they are not just for little boys.01:12:41.853 --> 01:12:44.899


No, they are not just for little kids, no, they are for old people too video games are for grown ups.01:12:44.918 --> 01:12:45.820


Embrace your video game.01:12:45.820 --> 01:12:58.573


If you are looking for a way just to uh, de-stress, I strongly recommend, highly recommend, and that's not just phone games which are fine right other place, but we're just like touching a screen with your finger.01:12:58.592 --> 01:13:07.877


Yep Like get on a nice console game, hold a controller, go to the arcade, meet some people, look around, touch grass.01:13:08.251 --> 01:13:14.733


Touch grass or hide in your basement and play Assassin's Creed until the world heals itself.01:13:14.733 --> 01:13:16.171


Go to France.01:13:16.171 --> 01:13:21.132


Go to France in your, your mind or on your video game this has been fun.01:13:21.474 --> 01:13:22.194


That's been fun.01:13:22.194 --> 01:13:24.779


You have been listening to gen x.01:13:24.779 --> 01:13:26.503


Women are sick of this shit.01:13:26.503 --> 01:13:31.435


Hey megan, hey leslie, what do people do if they want to find us?01:13:31.856 --> 01:13:38.364


well, we have a website that people can find us on, and that is genxwomenpodcom.01:13:38.364 --> 01:13:42.118


We also have a Facebook page.01:13:42.118 --> 01:13:44.859


We have an Instagram account as well.01:13:44.859 --> 01:13:51.182


We have a YouTube account where we put YouTube shorts and other little tidbits up there.01:13:51.182 --> 01:13:52.877


We have a TikTok account.01:13:52.877 --> 01:13:55.279


I don't talk the dick or tick the tock.01:13:55.279 --> 01:13:56.484


You don't tick the tock, I do not.01:13:56.484 --> 01:13:58.476


I barely talk the tick, but I did put a TikTok up.01:13:58.476 --> 01:13:58.944


We're explaining TikTok account.01:13:58.944 --> 01:13:59.337


I don't talk the dick or tick the tock.01:13:59.337 --> 01:13:59.671


You don't tick the tock, I do not.01:13:59.671 --> 01:14:00.493


I barely talk the tick, but I did put a TikTok up.01:14:00.649 --> 01:14:03.037


We're explaining the internet to people again.01:14:03.377 --> 01:14:04.381


That's okay though it's great.01:14:04.529 --> 01:14:05.908


We need to know how the internet works.01:14:06.970 --> 01:14:08.015


Can people buy merch?01:14:08.015 --> 01:14:09.158


They absolutely can.01:14:09.158 --> 01:14:16.684


We have a merch store on the website itself, and we also have an Etsy store too, so that was just pretty easy to find you.01:14:16.684 --> 01:14:19.795


It's just Gen X women on Etsy.01:14:20.555 --> 01:14:25.043


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Batman.01:15:10.755 --> 01:15:13.259


That'd be cool, let's get a bat phone.01:15:13.259 --> 01:15:15.042


I think that's it.01:15:15.042 --> 01:15:16.243


I think you're right.