Turn the Paige Podcast

51: Basic Millennial

• Tajuana Paige & Sheree Paige-Barber • Episode 51

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The library is quiet, our coffees are cooling, and we’re laughing about whether “elder” or “mature” millennial is the better title—because we sit on opposite ends of the 1981–1996 line and see the world from both sides. From a quick rose‑bud‑thorn check‑in to the sound of dial‑up ringing in our heads, this conversation maps the millennial story with heart: nostalgia that makes you grin, work realities that make you nod, and small joys that keep us going.

We unpack what it meant to come of age with answering machines, flip phones, T9 texting, and AIM away messages—then trace how that toolkit shaped today’s priorities: meaning over titles, flexibility over facetime, friendships that hold when budgets don’t. We wander through Blockbuster aisles and smartboard calibrations, heavy textbooks wrapped in grocery bags, MapQuest printouts, riding shotgun, and the ritual of buying a CD on a Tuesday just to read the liner notes in the parking lot. Music stores, iPods, LimeWire mistakes, and the mixtapes that spoke for us all become markers of a generation that learned patience, curation, and craft before everything was instant.

Between the laughs, we face the present: burnout, rising costs, family logistics, and the stubborn hope that work can be both sustainable and meaningful. We shout out Gen Z for pushing mental health forward and compare early‑ and late‑millennial lenses on trying, pivoting, and refusing to settle. If you love 90s and early‑2000s nostalgia, care about making adult life gentler, and believe community spaces like libraries still matter, you’ll feel right at home with us.

Press play, share this with a friend who still remembers their MySpace Top 8, and then tell us your core millennial memory. If the conversation made you smile or think, subscribe, leave a quick review, and send this to someone who needs a little nostalgia today.

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Welcome to Turn the Page Podcast.

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Sisters, best friends, and brunch enthusiasts.

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With relatable episodes that feel like you're chatting with two of your closest friends or sisters. Join us as we turn the page to different topics about losing yourself in motherhood, adulthood, anyhood.

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And finding yourself again through meaningful friendships, shameless piles of unread library books, and endless Amazon package deliveries.

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Real, honest, and a little bit chaotic. We talk about it all. So grab your favorite drink, put the kids to bed, lace up your sneaks or whatever you need to do, and join us. We can't wait to connect with you. This is your other co-host, Tawana Page.

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And we are coming to you live from a local library making use of our beloved quiet spaces and community resources.

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We just had lunch. Yes. I might move this closer so I can make sure my voice is picked up. I promise you it did. Okay. But it always picks you up louder anyway. Excuse me? It does. Okay. Um Rosebud Thorn.

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Oh, I didn't think any. Oh, that's fine. Through. Oh. Um. I guess a rose is like having a few hours to do this because B is home. He's not usually home on the weekends. Correct. So that was nice. Um. Well, tomorrow's my anniversary. It is one year. Yeah, so I'll probably be re-watching videos and stuff. Wedding anniversary.

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Yes, wedding anniversary. So it's official. Um, yeah, apparently the first ten years don't count.

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Yeah. But um, yeah, I guess just grateful for support and loved ones and family and everybody rallying. It was a great day. Uh Thorne. I'm tired. Yeah. Yeah.

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That's really it. Go ahead there. Um, yeah. Rose, yes, that we were able to do this, which is really amazing. Thanks to our supportive partners for allowing this to happen because otherwise the kids would be right here. We wouldn't be able to do this. Um a bud. I haven't been working out like I had been in the past. I'm trying to get back into that, but also trying to like reorganize some things in my life, i.e., the basement where the bike is. So I don't have to look at the mess while I'm working out. Um, yeah, just trying to get some things in order with that. The thorn. I'm just tired too. And it's just this whole like Monday to Friday thing, and only having the weekend to do things, and like, yeah, my kids are in like sports right now, which is great. Soccer, and then swim on Sundays, and then we have piano on Thursday, so it's a lot. Huh? Stop clapping. Sorry, she told me I stopped clapping. Um, so that's a lot, but this is what we did growing up, so kudos to our parents for dealing with this. I'm dealing, but like going through it anyway. Yeah, we are here, we're gonna talk about being a millennial as two millennials. But it's interesting because we are seven and a half years apart and we are on one side of the millennial and on the other side. Right, two different sides. Yes. So let me shoot some facts out to you guys. I'm a basic millennial. Excuse me? You are an elder millennial. No, no, no. Majure. Mature millennial. What do you mean basic? I don't know. Like, what's the word for like a younger millennial? A millennial? Great. So I'm a basic millennial. What is basic? As opposed to a mature millennial. There's no other specifier. Anyway, guys, so millennials are gen Y, but we refer to ourselves as millennials. We are born between the years of 1981 and 1996. Or sorry, 1996. I am 86 and you are 94. So again, we are on two separate ends of the line here. Yeah. But we seem to mesh pretty well. Yeah. Um, okay, so current ages it says in 2025 is 29 to 44.

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Oh wow.

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I know that's a huge gap. It's 15 years. Yeah. Is that how each generation is? I think so. Okay, I don't know who came up with that. But so we are characterized by its fluency with technology, strong educational attainment, a preference for experience over material possessions, and a desire for meaningful work. They came of age during the rise of the internet and social media, but significantly shaped their views and behaviors. I will say that is true. I am a hardcore fan of the 90s RB. Yeah. Love it so much. And I also grew up with dial up internet. Yeah. Um, because that's amazing. Um, we came out with cell phones being new, blackberries, Nokia's, the chocolate, razor, razor. The first flip phone, the things that go. Not the first camera phone, I meant. What are those things that what's the phone called that like you slide it up? Sidekick? Yeah, this or the edge. I don't know what that is. So we came up with that. We came up with answer actual answering machines, like the actual like box. Yeah. Caller IDs. Mm-hmm. Just some guys. I could talk about being a millennial all day long. Yeah. I love it. Past or present, though. Well, present we'll be going through a lot, but past, I live in the past so much because I just miss the 90s. Yeah. In the early 2000s. And music was just better. It's definitely different now. For sure. Yeah. Um, I am blessed that we grew up when we did. I feel like we are the last generation that grew up going outside.

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Yeah. I mean, I feel like I see it a little bit, but it's definitely like the um.

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I know. It's like I thought that would be closed off. Yeah, I don't know if she can hear us. Um It's like the secondary choice. Or like if the electronics are taken or not available. Um, but yeah, I had all that stuff, like the razor scooter. Oh yes. And the hula hoops, and the razor would take. Yeah, I said that already. You said razor scooter.

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I know, but I said razor phone marriage. Oh, right, right, right. Um our dad would take us like roller skating around the neighborhood and bikes and stuff.

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So why such a millennial thing to do? Yeah. Um, we would go to the park, and then let's see. While often perceived as job hoppers, family remains a high priority for many millennials.

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I can see that.

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I don't know why that's listed as like it's listed as a f as under family oriented. Okay. Um, okay. We seek meaningful work. Millennials desire work that aligns with their passions and provides more than just justify more than just financial compensation.

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Yeah, so people aren't staying at jobs for decades even though they ate it.

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Yes, we like to be rewarded for our work in affirm words of affirmation. Also financially of obviously because we need to live. Yeah. But um, I do seek meaningful work and relationships a lot. Yeah. Um this generation prioritizes spending on memorable experiences such as travel over accumulating material goods.

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Yeah, I guess so. I mean, yeah, I guess. I feel like you hear more about like travel and stuff now, but I feel like you it's probably also just more easily accessible because of social media and people posting and stuff, but I do see a lot of like families traveling together. Okay. Um and influencer type stuff like that.

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So I can see it. So another societal and societal impact, largest living generation. Millennials have surpassed a baby boomers, it's the largest adult generation in the US, giving them considerable consumer and economic power. Yeah. Um, and we are the so millennials usually, well, like our experience, we are the children of baby boomers. Yeah. Um, we're shaped by economic recessions. Many millennials entered adulthood during economic downturns, which influenced their financial decisions and approach to adulthood. I mean, yeah. Yeah. The housing market is trash.

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Groceries are absolutely ridiculously expensive. Like the cost of living. Um honestly being an adult, I would say is like harder right now than it seems like it ever has been.

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Oh, here's a big one. Some generational differences, flexibility and multitasking. Yeah. As already mentioned, the millennial generation is able to accept different cultures. Hence, flexibility means that millennials are able to work with new people, places, and situations. All they do that they do not expect to change, they are ready to accommodate to new things in people. Um, let's see. Some challenges, recessions, pandemics, natural disasters, and skyrocketing home prices. Um, here's some characteristics to be known. Let's see. We're competent with technology. Yeah. Um, we are foodies. They love podcasts. Okay. Um, we're competitive. Sure. We're avid savers. Uh to put a pause on that one. Um we're cautious about our personal data. What? Cautious about our personal data. Oh. Since we're influential in the workplace, which I could see that. Yeah. Um, they're interested in fashion and luxury. Um, we use social media for networking. Sure. Because it's accessible. Yeah. We are aiming to be more healthy. Yeah. And then, well, I would say the next generation after us, the Gen Z, um, they are they have a high focus on mental health. Yeah. Like I feel like millennials started the conversation and Gen Z are bringing it home. Yes. They're definitely allowed about it. Yes, which is fantastic. Yeah. Um let's see. I will say for millennials, a career frustration is burnout and disillusionment with work. Well, contrasting it with Gen Z's approach to prioritizing mental health over job security.

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Yeah. I don't know. I feel like some of the language that they use is like jaw popper sounds like a negative thing, but it also sounds like people are just not um what's the word? Happy? Sucking it up.

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Yeah.

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Just like there are other places that I can go, and that's fine.

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Yes. And I feel like we millennials like to try things. Yeah. And we don't mind being like, oh, if I try this and it doesn't work, like that's fine. Yeah. Like we're all about experimenting at least. I can see that. What are some things you missed from the 90s in the early 2000s? Like that are different now, or just Yeah, because I mean a lot of things aren't really around anymore. I'm not really like anything that I miss, but I guess like memories probably aim and like I aming people and leaving away messages, and I it felt easier to well, I think it was also just the proximity, but it felt easier to keep in touch with your friends because it's just like you would log on to AIM and they'd be right there. Yeah. Um movies, like the rocks of that stage. Unmatched, and have yet to be beaten. Um, probably shows too. Yes, the TV.

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Um and like not being an adult. I mean, I feel like that's why we like nostalgia so much because we have been given the short end of the stick in terms of adulthood.

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Yeah.

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I don't want to hear anything about like us not taking responsibility and maybe going to live at home and being job bullshit.

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Like, life is hard right now. Time Jira Top right now, yeah. Yeah, and I feel like maybe it always has been, but for some reason, especially like as soon as we became the adults and the ones like in charge, like everything just went to shit. Yeah. So thanks, boomers. Just kidding. Right. We love you. Um, no, those are really good points. I would say the TV was better. I don't really I don't watch TV. Everything just feels like repeats now and reruns, like with movies, especially. And I noticed a lot, um, they're remaking a lot of old movies, which people Yeah, that's what I mean. Like people aren't they have no original ideas anymore. Yeah. Um, like, no, like keep the Lion King, the Lion King. Yeah. Um I do miss like VHS. I went from Bluegray was a thing. Um, I've talked about this a bunch, but like T VR. Yes. I've talked about this a bunch growing up. Um, our dad is really into sports, he could like every sport growing up, but growing up, no matter what time of year it was, January through December, we would have a sport, some sport on TV. Yeah. It doesn't matter what it was. Um, of course, there's the big ones like football, basketball, baseball. But there was like later in life, there was golf, and there's, I'm sure there was tennis, and like just any sport you can think of, it was on TV. Yeah, we was watching. So that and then just going to like sports practice, just even though it was like after school, like it still felt like maybe because we were the kids, like we were tired, like not as tired as like parents were. Yeah. It just felt like doable. I will say one thing that we had that I don't hear nowadays.

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Like when I ask kids if they had homework, they look at me like I'm crazy. I feel like we would go to school and then come home and have like an hour to maybe homework at homework.

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And they told us at the beginning. Well, I feel like that makes sense for the younger kids because it's like implementing like skills that they need, but I'm talking about like middle and high school. They don't have homework? No. We used to have book reports that they do in school, and if they don't finish it, they have to take it home. Everything is done on their school provided device. No, we didn't have devices. We books that we had to buy. Where we used to buy where we used to get school books from. No, they would give them to us, but we would bring them home and have to wrap them ourselves with the brown paper or get the stretchy book covers. Yeah. And you would see in the front, like who had the book before you the year before. And also, guys, I think millennials have back problems because those books were so heavy. Yeah, they were. And it was the textbook and the bind, like we would have to carry everything around. Now they just bring their little laptop to class. And then like at the end of the year, your brown paper bag was no more. Yeah. Or maybe mid-year. There's definitely the way that people are good at gift wrapping. I feel like I'm almost good at you would have to like cut it out and like fold it and cut it so and then you could decorate the front. We didn't have any electronic anything. We had. Do you remember? Oh my gosh, what's going on with that? Okay. What is the name of that thing? It like was a light that shined on like a square device. A projector. Oh. Was it a projector? And there'd be a screen and whatever was on the device would be on would show up on the screen. Yeah. It's not caught up, but you mean yeah. Is that we still have those? Do they use them? Brandon has one. Did he use it? Let me see. What would he use it for? He uses No, it's not, it's not that one. It's the other one. I know what you're talking about though. Because you would turn the light off and it would be like a clear paper that they would write with dry erased background under. It would show up on like the pull the screen down. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I don't know what it was called. Oh, what is that? Towards the end of my school though, they would have what was it? The Stanley boards? Is that what they were called? What is that? Um you would have to they would have to calibrate it and like click every corner of the screen, and you could write right on it. Was that called?

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Stanley board?

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Stanley board. Or maybe not Stanley. Oh. School board that needed calibration. I don't know. What was that thing called?

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Smartboard, I guess. Oh, smartboard? Okay. Um. Yeah, and then same thing, like the camera would put everything up on that, and they would just they would have a pen that was specific to that.

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Of course, though, growing up it was like dry erased. The nasty ass chalkboard. Oh my gosh, guys. Still the sound of nails on a chalkboard makes me cringe to this day. Yeah. And there'd be dust everywhere, chalk dust. Um when you were talking about the how we didn't have electronics, we would have computer class. Yes. Or we'd go to the library and have the big Apple computers that had the colors. Like we big, yeah. Yes. We used to have we grew up with computer class, and I know our parents grew up with like typing class was a lot of typing class. I did too. We did, but it was it wasn't like it was just like a part of that class. Like we learned the type, but we also like did stuff with a computer. But I don't have to look at the keyboard anymore to know where the letters are. Yeah, it would like test your speed. I think computer class started in fifth grade for us. Um I'm so shy. Yeah, because I don't remember it before Cryford because we would have it um I like remember the room. I see it in my head. At Hartford? Yes, yeah, yeah. It was like in that back hall before you get to the music. But two rooms of comp desktops. Yeah. It was like we would play um Oregon Trail. Yes. I don't know if we did that in school. We did it at home. No, I did it in school. Did you? But what was the other one? Amazon Trail?

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No.

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We did that at home too. Oh, what is Amazon Trail? It's like the same thing, but like in the Amazon. Oh. An Amazon Rain First. Okay. Oh, what was that? Oh, we used to. Okay, so our dad, we used to play Duck Hunt. Oh yeah. Super Mario Brothers. Um. What? Nintendo 64. Yes. Do you remember library days? It used to be called Media Day. No. I think maybe by that time they just called it computer class for me. No, but like when we would have library, like a specialist, we would have library and they would call it Media Day. Oh. No, I would just remember going to the library after elementary. Yes, Nathaniel. When did we stop checking out books in school? I don't know. Because we obviously had library a library in high school. Yeah, but it was more of like an as-needed basis or like to do a project or something. We'd have it as part of a special?

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Not as no, I guess they replaced it with computer class. Do you remember the game Snood? Did you ever play that? Yeah. Like the little faces and you had to aim and get three of them. Yeah.

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I remember the library at Lenape. Yeah, I do too. Well, it was, yeah. Was there a library in Harrington? And Hartford. I don't know. Okay. Um, do you remember Angry Birds and Tetris? Yes, I do. Um else? There's like so many things. Um, do you remember when audiobooks used to be like on a CD you would people old people would listen to in their car?

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Yeah, I was just looking at them over there. I was also just thinking, because I know we talked about this for maybe like a 40th birthday for you, like a 90s party, and I was saying to um everyone come dressed in like colorful tracksuits, and then we have lunchables, and you said something, what was it, beanies and weenies or something?

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Wieners and beans. Oh, it's like it's the Chef Boy RD ones, but it had like a purple top.

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Yeah, I don't remember what you call it.

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Okay, so I'm gonna spit off some things to you while you're looking stuff up. 30 Things that's pre-millennial. Okay, Hilary Duff and her flip phone. This is the picture. Oh, Cinderella story. Um, dial up internet. Mm-hmm. Um, burn oh, burn CDs for friends. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Guys, my car does not have a CD player. Um, I don't I don't know the last year of cars they made that had CD players. Yeah. But Summer Mix 1999. I had an entire like catalog of burned CDs. Love my CD catalog that you would put in the visor on your car. Yeah, on the side. Having a CD case was like the thing to have. Yes. Um, and we used to use Bear Share and Limewire. Sorry guys. Yeah. But we all did. Um, MySpace Top 8. Yes. Um, Nokia 3310. Look. Oh, I didn't have that. Um, Tamagotchis. Oh, yeah, I did have that. And Furby's. Yes. Blockbuster. Yeah. R A P truly. Beepers and pagers. We didn't have them, but like we knew what they were. Yeah. The dance maps from the Macarena. Oh gosh, yeah. Um, VHS tapes. The no cell phone rules in class. Do you did you guys have that? I mean, probably, yeah. Chalkboard. How much does that bring you back and all the stuff on the wall? Ugh. Oh. It's talking right now. Aim. Yes. Burnt popcorn in the microwave. Check this out. Ew. Making MySpace layouts. Coating.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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The first coding. Razor scooters. Yep. Phone cards.

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Do you remember those? No. So you um they used to like charge you um for like long distance calls. So people would use prepaid phone cards. Oh. Um, psychogenesis and super nintendo. Napster and LimeWire. Yes. Texting in T9. Oh gosh. Um, skipping commercials with DVR. I would just like to say they could never nowadays text in T9. Oh, the kids today could never survive as a millennial with the stuff that we did. Carrying disposable cameras. I can't guys, guys. Can I just say on the last day of school, I would take a camera, disposable camera. And every year at the last day of school, my mom would take me to Walmart and I would drop off my camera and have the films developed. Oh yeah. Yes. And then do you remember digital cameras? I do. Um, the flip foam. Um, wait.

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Oh shit.

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What was it called? The what was it called? Like when we would go on road trips before we had a Garmin. MapQuest, we would have to print out the directions on the map quest.

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Yes. And the passenger would have to read them all. So some like so just the room. Not more accents than there should have been. Yeah. Because if you didn't have a passenger, you'd still get somewhere. You had to like read it yourself or like commit it to memory before you left the house. Yeah. Frosted tips. Oh yeah. Justin Triblink put that on the spot for us. Furby. Pager code. Oh god. Then you have to go to your nearest payphone. Really? Yeah. If someone paid you, you have to go to because you the pager is more so just like a heads up, like someone needs to like it was like an in-between thing, so you would have to go to the payphone to call them. Oh. Yeah. So burning mixes for every mood. Walkman and disc man. Oh lord. Do you remember your um the CD player protocol would skip? Yeah. And you'd have to take the CD out and clean it with rubbing almost or your shirt. Mm-hmm. And sometimes if I know you don't like running, but like whenever I would run with it, it would skip because it would be. Oh yeah. Yeah. Um, what else? The fear of missing out. I didn't know if FOMO came up in the back then.

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Are they I don't know.

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Is it just talking about it says general FOMO on aim? Yeah. Um the pog craze. Do you remember what's that? You don't remember the pogs? The circles? No. Yes. And the you would trade them on the playground and like at school. No, you know what? We had hit clips, hit clips. Who? And then the slammers for the silver bones, they were like the best thing to get. Hit clips were like these little like 30-second music clips that you would put in this tiny boom box. Is it like Vine? No, it's like um, it would be like in sync or I don't remember that. Britney Spear. You could get them at McDonald's and you're happy me. This is a good one. No social media pressure because we didn't well, aim wasn't really social media because you weren't posting pictures. The only pressure then was MySpace top eight. And like dropping someone to number seven. Yeah. And it being the end of the world. Oh, and here, the rise of reality TV. Look, our favorite. The real world. Oh. What is that? Oh, the hills. Yes. Yeah. Oh guys, we love it so much. We miss it. Um, I don't remember the hit clips. They were so cool. Did you guys were you on was your generation? Yeah, same generation. Were your people like L Bean people?

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Yeah, we would get the monograms? Or the initial backpacks?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Um that's all I remember. What were our lunch boxes like? Were they brown bag, or did we have to get like a did you have like a special lunchbox? I feel like it was insulated at that point. But you know what also we didn't have growing up and we survived? We didn't carry water bottles with us. Yeah, we would just risk our lives drinking the water fountain. Exactly. Um, what else? Um just everything. Yeah. MP3 players. Yeah. Um crazy time. iPod, like the original iPod. Oh my gosh, those things were so small. They really were. And then remember the really chunky ones, the clunky ones? Yeah. Oh, what was that one called? Because there's iPod Nano. Yes. And then we used to have to so for Christmas, a lot of our Christmas gifts used to be the iTunes the iTunes gift cards. Yeah. Because I think CDs were like$2. Because if you just so no CDs were expensive. But if we went to Tunes, which I lost going to Tunes, then CDs were two dollars.

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Guys, CDs are also a thing for me. I used to they used to drop on Tuesdays.

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Oh. We would go to I think that's like the new release date, like in the in the entertainment world. Like for books too. Um, Toons. Oh my god, what is the name of the other um music store? Oh, the chunky one was the iPod Classic. Music stores. Sam Goody. And um XYE. Yes, that's what it is. Oh, yeah. And then Borders used to have a music section. Oh yeah. So it would literally like go there, whatever my um my dad, our dad would um take it, go to Borders. He would get like um ex dummies or like books or whatever. Like not X dummies, but like computers for dummies. Oh, yeah, yeah. So he would get that, he would read it. And then I go to the music section and get like a CD. And then I would loved because you so they had like I think they had sample they had the sample ones playing, like if they had like um like a CD player with the sample with a they would have a sample out. Okay, yeah. Oh yeah, yeah. And then like I would buy the CD and be like 20 bucks or whatever, or it'd be on sale. Yeah. And then you buy it. I couldn't wait to get to the car and open it and read the booklet in the left because it's like the lyrics, like the bios. And their little like pictures and loved that. Or on iTunes, you can just buy a song, which I think used to not be expensive, but then they start going up to like 99 cents, and they were just like, it's so much cheaper, quote unquote, to buy the album. Yeah. An artist would do like a little tease, they would just drop a song or two on iTunes. Yeah. Because it wouldn't be the whole album yet. Um, do you remember Beanie Babies? Do I? Yes. I listen, you have a collection, but my absolute favorite one, Sneaky, he was like a little leopard.

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I think either we I have the same birthday as him or our cousin did. And she was like, Oh my gosh, let me take him to school for like show and tell on the first day. And she lost him. Yes.

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She lost him. We love you, babe. I was so sad. Do you remember each pretty baby had a birthday and they had like a little bio? Yes. And it was oh my gosh. Do you remember um Chia Pets? Yeah. And do you remember? I don't know if we ever did this in school, but I used to see on like TV shows, like in health class in like middle school, it was like whenever your week wants to take home, like a baby doll, it was like a baby.

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I don't think I ever did that.

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We didn't either. They didn't have that at our school, but it was like it would like obviously be like birth control. That or like an egg. Yes. Yeah. Yes. Or yeah, we would do the science projects where you would have to figure out how to make a parachute for an egg and let it land and not crack. I was gonna ask, did you guys ever do science experiments where you had to like bring stuff home and it would like grow or like no, but I want to know, do they still dissect creatures? Can I just tell you? Eighth grade would dissect a frog. Yeah. A frog, and I think was it a cow heart? One of their four hearts? Or the four chambers of the floor? What's funny? I still have that smell. I can still smell the formaldehyde. No, I can still smell the dissecting of the frog. I smell the chemicals. And you just knew it was like it was like leading updates. You're gonna be dissecting a frog. But also, guys, while fiance, um, we saw a bird, and I asked her if she did an autopsy or necrepsy. I think I forget what it's called for animals. Absolutely not. Um, but I still have that smell in my head. Um The Scholastic Book Fair. Yes, um, RJ has that now. And I was like, I asked your mom, I was like, Do you remember those days? They would send to school like$5 because my mom was like$20. Do you remember this golf game? Did you ever play this? No. Oh my god. I played on the Wii. Um, and then wait, something else just popped up too. This clock that we would use. Which one? In class. Did you ever play? I do remember that one in class, yeah.

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Wow. Oh, yeah. Elementary school. What do I remember for elementary school?

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I remember in high school. What were your favorite lunch days when we would buy lunch? Mine was, I think, Tuesdays where it was like deli day. Me and my best friend would do, we would love deli day, and we get a snapple.

SPEAKER_01:

I feel like I would always get my lunch packed, and then on Friday I would get pizza. Was it pizza? Yeah. What else did they do?

SPEAKER_04:

Remember those nasty milk cartons that you'd have to fold it back and then pop it out. I never drank. I know, but like you would see chocolate, or they would come with orange juice as another option. Um do you remember they used to, although we mostly packed our lunch, but like on the special days we would like do um we have to bring cash to buy lunch. They used to send home like the lunch calendar and you would hang it on the refrigerator. Yeah. Yeah. Did we did they call them specials back then or were they called periods? Well, I think second period. But I think they were I think they were specials, like art, music. Yes. Well, we had gym everywhere. What was music class for us? It wasn't singing.

SPEAKER_01:

Was it like instruments that no, it was just music, but I think What did we do? If you had like I had band. Oh. But I can't remember if that was after school. You were in band? Yeah. I played the flute in fifth and sixth grade, and I was also in the choir in fifth and sixth grade.

SPEAKER_04:

What was that? It was music. Oh, I had wood shop in eighth grade in home. I didn't have oh no, I didn't have that in eighth grade, but I I think I had the option for they called it cooking at that point. It wasn't home, but it was either that or um personal finance. And I took personal finance. I took a business law class in ninth grade. Oh, that's cool. Do you remember we used to have drivers out in the trailers? Yeah, sophomore year. Yes. I'm gonna see if our high school has the teachers' names on there. Oh, here we go. Oh my gosh. Guys, we are on our high school's website.

SPEAKER_02:

Do they have the teachers' names on here?

SPEAKER_01:

So excuse me, social studies.

SPEAKER_04:

Oh.

SPEAKER_02:

We have a 90 96.2 graduation rate.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01:

I can't remember. That's annoying. Wait, is this him? I don't know.

SPEAKER_02:

Do they have the teachers' names on here?

SPEAKER_00:

Staff director. Let's save anyone that remember is still there.

SPEAKER_04:

AP World History. Oh yes, who was that? I can't remember his name. Were you an AP World History? I think so. What made it AP? Um, I don't know. Probably just more work.

SPEAKER_02:

Um my gosh.

SPEAKER_04:

This is crazy because if a lot of people that we went to school with, you know, um stayed in the area, they may become like teachers and stuff.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. That's right.

SPEAKER_04:

I was oh yes. Oh my god. Oh, I literally feel like I went to school with her. I recognize that last name. I do too. Or maybe she was like a year ahead of me. Yeah. Yes! Sure, it was her. Oh yeah, I didn't have her. Yes. I took Spanish. Oh my gosh. Did you go to school with her? No. Oh, there's an L in there. We have to There's an L in there. Right? Me. The girl that you know? No. Okay. I don't know that person. Guys, we are just we're loving this. We looked at the time and thanks for sticking around with us. Hope you felt a little bit of nostalgia as well. Yeah. And like, listen, review, and subscribe. Yes. Alright, guys, we'll talk to you soon. Bye.

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Bye. Alright, everyone. This was another episode of Turn the Page Podcast. Thanks for hanging out.

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Don't forget to like, listen, and subscribe. And also don't forget to leave a review, please, and let us know what you thought about today's episode and all the other episodes. Thanks, guys. Talk to you soon. Bye.

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