S1 Ep79: Nostalgia and its Surprising Benefits for the Family.

Dad.

All right. Good morning, good afternoon, and good day to our dad timeout show listeners around the world, welcome to the dad Timeout Show. We're going to switch things up. The guys are already around the corner. Surprise, surprise.

The crickets started early. Those are real crickets, everyone.

They are.

They are real crickets.

Oh, quicker than that.

We do have a soundboard. Where's just four dads with twelve kids between us? And odly enough, we all work in the entertainment industry, which may or may not be weird. It's a place to put your feet up or down. Or if you're exercising or driving or skateboarding or kite surfing or hiking or moonwalking or trick or treating or Halloween decorating or anything like that, come join us. If you could, like, subscribe or leave a review on the Apple or wherever, we'd be forever grateful and please add us on the gram where we are most active X, whatever that means. And the Book of Faces. In tonight's show, of course, the dads will kick off with a little catch up, a little chatter, chatter, and then a little bit of nostalgia will take over as they have eighty s, ninety s. Nostalgic parent tweets tonight. And then in smart articles by smart people, brought to you by Chris Chai, the dads will discuss an article called Six Ways to tap into nostalgia and why you should. And as much as we talk about it on the show regularly, there's got to be a through line of how it benefits parents and kids and all that good stuff. And then the dads take a quiz on Eighty S and ninety s, where obviously, you can play at home for some huge, huge prizes. Kidding. No prizes. And finally, they'll talk about things that make them smile. Speaking of things that make me smile. Hello, sir. What's your name?

Landon.

Landon, you have a lot of time on your hands this week, so you've come up with an excellent dad joke. Can you please share it with us?

Yeah, I have. What do you call a belt made of watches.

What do you call a belt made of watches?

A waste of time.

I'm glad we get to laugh at it.

We're never here.

The joke.

I just hit the wrong sound cue. Landon, you got crickets? That was actually a really good one. All right, land man. I'll go let you back in the side. Have some pizza. Relax. The dads are already around the corner, so we'll just continue the show.

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Timeout show, and we'll continue on with the show. How you guys doing tonight? Ben seems a little mopey. Some of us are okay.

I'm moping. I perk up quick with your wife's Margaritas in my blood, so it's all right.

How do you know it's a Margarita I'm drinking?

I think it's something else. Well, I think you called something else.

Well, your cups are obviously branded with Broadway shows. Except mine. I pulled out the other end of the thing, and I got a stranger things experience.

It's like a captain badge.

I think it's nice that we've been having the Goridas lately because I think that it's a long way around of honoring our friend Jimmy Buffett.

Yeah, I told you guys last time I was drinking a Marguerite when I found out.

Yeah, well, I mean, I say this. That's true, too. Let's paint the picture really quickly for our non Californians. It was 96 degrees again today, and Phoenix and San Antonio again, we apologize, because we know that that is your everyday average. But I have been sweltering. The nighttimes are nice. Yeah.

But right now, the valley nights are fun. It feels like a valley night. I mean, toasty.

It's not normal people seeing all of.

Our bare legs here.

Give me the fall, dude.

Yeah.

We've never seen each other's legs. All four shorted up.

I don't really want to unpack that one, but the word picture. Well, all right, so we got a pretty fun show tonight. I think there's so much going on in the world right now. I think there needs to be distraction and there needs to be chatter other than what's happening around us, because we are all part of that every single day. So when Chris threw the article at us, I thought this might be a really nice time to kind of get into things that make us smile regularly and things that made us smile from our teenage years. Our. Whatever. I'll start off with things that make me smile before I get in there, because, of course, we have to shout out our amazing interactions on the Gram at OkSMom podcast. Thank you, as always, for being awesome. PG ish parenting is a good friend, and her show's taking off. She's having Michelle Borba, who's a very renowned teen expert, wrote a book called Thrivers. Wonderful, wonderful Source. But, yeah, anyway, this is a good get. Dog named Stella. If you're on the gram, you know, dog named Stella and they were on our gram drive along, drive along. Really cool product. I met this guy at Mom 2.0 Summit. He makes educational cards that you bring in the car and then you can learn. While we do that all the time. We do trivia stuff all the time. Laura Harrison Mays, Ellie Nicole's Norris, Liz Gummner, Super awesome dadding Sarah La Mommy blogger Marlon Gutierrez, Matthew Kreckler, otherwise known as Girl Dad Nation, the Essential calendar, Brie Pearl, dad Home Lawn. The list goes on and on, and we're very lucky about that. So they're all gram friends, and we are again, very active on the gram. So a lot of things to talk about here, but in an early jump on things that make me happy. Have you noticed anything different on this muggy California night in the backyard of something that's here that hasn't been. Mark. Good one. That's a good start. That's a good start.

I noticed, oh, the dream catcher.

The children and I did a little fall decorating. There's something that's very large and right in front of you that was not here the last few podcasts.

There's always something, though. We're both always bringing out something.

Well, is it the umbrella?

Yes, Mark.

Oh, yeah, that looks new.

That's always been there. That's a new one.

Tonight is the night of Rogue SouNd effects because I don't have the list of what they are.

Elephants and stuff.

Okay, so yes, this is the new umbrella, but it's not just any umbrella, of course, because of the Instagram.

It's umbrella, isn't it?

I think I see the little.

You see it?

I see it.

Ready? Three, count with me. Three, two, one.

Nothing happens. People came on inside like a little like a UFO.

So, listeners, as opposed to your ordinary table, outdoor umbrella, lawn umbrella that we've all gotten used to over the past 60, 70, 9100 years. This has, on each rib of the umbrella structure, it has mini lights and there's a switch that you can flick up and on, on the pole. And it's powered by solar. Come on. LED lights.

Look at that.

This literally just arrived today and I was so excited to get it up and running before tonight's recording.

It's a gear geek, dude.

It's a solar umbrella, people. I am eco friendly and in the shade at the same time every week.

There's something new.

All right, so other than that, I'm reading this fabulous book, by the way, I'm in a book club, National Book club. You guys are more than welcome to Come join. It's all dads. And I kind of fell into it through a big network that I'm in, National, at Home Dads Network, and this guy, Kyle Denny runs it. They do one book a month, and then they all get on Zoom, and they kind of have fun and discuss it. They get on, like, every two weeks. I'll give you guys the info if you're even vaguely interested. But I am. And the book we are reading is right in line with tonight. I don't have the book out here, but it's called the Impossible Fortress, and it's all about these kids in the have a caper, and all the references are there. And it's early computer programming. The game is called the Impossible Fortress. There's a little love story. There's a little, like, stand by me action going on. I highly recommend that. So that book has made me, early on, happy in the show, and then, of course, if you're paying attention or not, and it's hard to avoid me when I just text bomb you all Day long. I did go to the great state of Wisconsin last weekend. Jealous.

I know. It looks like you had fun.

A lot of cheese pictures, lots of don't.

They don't mess with it's serious.

They do not.

It seems like to me, like, well, you think, like, oh, Dutch people all drink Heineken or, why do we have to leave America? Okay. No, there's this misnomer that the people from there are all about it. But you're saying that the Wisconsinian.

Did you drink any beers? What I want to know, did you have any beers?

Finish up on the cheese. Come on, man.

Well, you got to have beers.

I had learned there's several things that are. But first of all, let me just say this. Milwaukee, if we have any listeners out there from that area, your city is so. I knew it would be cool, but I didn't know how cool it would be, really. The arts, the culture, the air, the cleanliness.

Their baseball team is the Brewers. I mean, come on.

The music, the downtown, so walkable, but yet it feels like a real downtown. There's a river that goes through it. You can jump in a kayak or pull your boat up to your office, and then you get out on the lake, which is Lake Michigan, and it was fall leaves and all the good stuff. And then we jotted off to Madison, University of Wisconsin, shout out to the badgers, even though they lost to the University of Iowa Hawkeyes. What an experience that was. A game day in Madison. Big time is in my top five now. And I've been to about 25, 30 easily away places to see them. But, yeah, Wisconsin Milwaukee. Highly recommend. I even said to my wife, I'm like, this was just me and my buddy. But I said, we need to go back as a family, because I think the kids would absolutely love Milwaukee. You wouldn't think it.

No.

Yeah. No. But the food scene is phenomenal. And then there's all the traditional Wisconsin really fun and cool stuff. All the bars, like the pubs everywhere. The fish fry is a real thing. The beers, of course, are everywhere. We stayed on our last night. We stayed in the Paps Blue Ribbon original Factory.

Nice.

They corded out. All the giant vats are still in there. All the original stained glass, all the etching, all the stone. And then they just got to hotel rooms around the outside. But even the rooms, like the door to the bedroom, has a see through beer. And the fizzy went up and down as you open the door. Yeah. So anyway, that's on Brewers Hill, which is where Schmidt Schlitz, Paps, like, all these old school, big American brands. Budweiser is obviously down in St. Louis, but most of the. In the history channel I remember watching, there's a great story of how the beer brands came around the food that conquered America. Anyway, I just alienated the other 49 states.

Yes, well, their tourism campaigns aren't exactly out there, so. You did good.

We should pitch the great city of Milwaukee.

You just did.

The public market. The.

Kids. We're going to Milwaukee.

I don't eat a lot of meat, and I rarely drink beer, but did you eat a brat? I did. I ate a brat at the public market. I don't know if you've ever been to Seattle's, but they don't have the throwing fish.

No bun, right?

Very comparable.

Just the wiener and a napkin.

You could do it either way you want. But the ball game, they literally only had brats, hot dogs, popcorn. I don't even think they sold beer at the stadium. But, no, the campus was lit, let me just put it that way. But the stadium was kind of dry. But it was incredibly Midwest polite. But the school spirit's off the charts. And, of course, when they go to the fourth quarter and they do jump around, it's absolutely. It's worth every single penny. All right. I'm so sorry that our time allotment. I don't know what is excited about it. Seems like I'm overexcited every week about something random.

That means you're doing it right, baby.

Yeah. And then we'll talk about you guys next episode. Let me tell you a little bit more about me before we move on. Coming up next, parent tweets of the week. Nostalgia.

Time down for the streets of the week.

All right, I know we don't even have to pipe in the crickets tonighT. They're already here, and I don't know where they came from.

A million of them.

I don't feel like they were here when I first moved in or have lived here. And now maybe somebody just dumped a jar of crickets once and then they started having little.

It's cyclical. It actually is cyclical because really, Mark, yes. We had a whole bunch of plants in front of our house. It's weather based and it's happened to be. Go ahead.

Let's see what sound effect, Mark.

Whatever.

I don't care. I'm used to being bullied.

Mark.

And you know what?

All right, so what are the bugs that come from the underground?

Cicadas.

Cicadas. They're not cicadas out there. No, they're crickets. All right, so first tweet is from at. Mommy underscore cusses. Mommy cusses.

Sure she does.

Yeah. Mommy cusses for sure. Okay. These are eighty s and ninety s nostalgia tweets. Things I know where every single item in my house is. What? Disney Princess. I'd be. Lyrics to 90s RMB, useless movie quotes, things. I do not know why he came into this room. Get a tattoo of that. And I'm getting super bad at that.

I'm getting bad.

Oh, my gosh.

It really is. I'm actually, like. I'm doing word puzzles and such to start sharpening. I will 3 seconds. And I won't even remember where I just put my glasses that I. Yeah, they're on your know, and I air tagged a bunch of stuff. I got those little apple air tags.

Don't do that. That's actually going to atrophy you even.

Dumbing you down, dude?

Start putting.

I have one in all the hackers out there. I have one in my wallet. I have one on my regular keys. I have one on the barn keys. And then my team that I work for, they laugh at me because they can never find me. So I actually have one on my credential. So if I set my credential down in a dressing room, I can find it and then get to where I need to be.

Our kids aren't going to be able to find the bathroom without Google Maps.

I think there's a difference between that and then it saves me so much time trying to find the keys in a house of five people and two pets.

Put it in the same place every time.

No, it doesn't work.

Do you guys have a keyboard?

People don't.

I have. Everything goes in the same place every time.

The savages in my house do not care. But don't you have a key spot? You touch my stuff, doesn't talk. They will put a backpack on it. They will put a scarf, they'll put a bag, and then it'll jerk it off.

Not in my bedroom, you won't.

Anyway.

All right, here we go. This is from Kevin Farzod. Oh. Only 90s kids will remember this. Air quotes enjoy something without documenting it on social media. Guilty. Guilty.

I'm guilty. I'm not.

Especially when I go on adventures, because I do. Like, I'll take pictures all day because I love photography, but then I do a photo dump when I get laid in my bed, and I'm just like, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. Sure do. But they're all stories, and I don't.

Think you're still enjoying it. It became an obligation to me because all of my socials were attached to my business pursuits or artistic pursuits, and it wore the heck out of me. And I haven't posted. I posted one time in two years, and it was when Jimmy Buffett died. That's real.

Well, unfortunately, I do social media for an ad agency. I do it for an elementary school. I do it for a club. I do it for the podcast. And then I have my own private.

Do you enjoy it?

I do also a job at that point, though.

Well, that's sort of. Yeah.

You're not doing it for. Just to do it naturally and organically, it becomes a task.

I think there's times when you just have to go through a moment and not photograph it. Not sure.

Be present or don't tell Def Leppard because of my bad memory. I need to do the post so that, like, a year later, it's like, remember? And you're like, oh, yeah, that's totally.

Two things on do. I do like that. I like the pop ups eight years ago.

Eight years ago.

Look at your baby. And then I fire it out to all the relatives. Yeah, I like that part. I'm not going to lie. All right, so this is from at wow. Flashback. Remember Netflix before streaming, when you could only pick up three DVDs at a time?

I thought it was one. And they mailed it to you, and you had to mail it back even.

Before that, you could get three of them at.

Okay. I never paid for that one. It was like, $2 more, so I didn't do it. Jeez.

So you were that guy even back then?

Yup. Man, Ben, three movies. Who has time for that?

Who knew Reed Hastings would turn that thing around into owning half the world?

Return them when you want with Netflix.

All right. We have talked about this before at Dan Regan says parents today. Text me when you get there. Text me the names of the kids or you were there. Text me when you're coming home. Parents in the 80s. Bye.

My parents didn't even say, yeah, I.

Was going to say, you like duck and roll out of your car, though.

Street lights came on. It's time to go home.

I like that.

It was funny. I think I was telling my daughters, my oldest daughter's just getting into. They have homecoming this week, and there's a party afterwards, and she hasn't gone to a lot of those types of things so far, and she dabbled here and there, but this was, like, the first real attached to homecoming kind of a thing. So, of course I'm in Milwaukee or wherever. What part of Wisconsin? I was eating cheese somewhere. And so I'm getting the text, what do you think? What do you think? What do you think? But then it was funny, because then when I got home, I was telling my wife, I says, we were all very self regulating back when I was a teen, you kind of went out and did whatever between seven and ten. Seven and 1030, my group, because most of our curfews were 1130 at the latest. We all meet at the pizzeria, no matter what party you were at or what game you were at or whatever, and then you meet at this place called. Well, it doesn't matter, but it was a pizzeria, and then we'd all go home from there. But I don't know if that happens anymore. Like, do kids meet there? Do they do that?

What do they do?

They're online in discord or something like that.

They're all sitting at the park on their phones.

But the crazy part was, I remember when one party would break up, word of mouth would move so fast amongst people there. There were no phones. Somehow we all head to the next spot and then the next. You know what I mean? How did party words get out?

Our kids are going to be just different creatures. That's all there.

Oh, of course. And it's just times are changing, and you got to roll with the change. As REO Speed wagon once said, he's.

On an Ario Speedwoman.

Love REO Speed. All right, this is from at mean to myself. Oh, we got to speed these up. This is a good handle, though. At mean to myself. My mom and dad were perfect parents back in the 80s. They smoked, let me roam the neighborhood starting at age seven, and never once helped me with my homework.

Amen.

Yeah, sounds about right.

Yeah, I think the cigarettes. Yeah, I think I was in there. I think I was in there. All right, this is our final one, and then we're going to move on to this tremendous article. I love nostalgia says last weekend my kids asked me what it was like growing up in the 80s. So I took their phones and tablets off them, locked them outside, and told them not to come back until the street lights turned on. See how that works, kids?

Yeah.

And life was a charm. All right, coming up next, an article from Time magazine, health and psychology, six ways to tap into nostalgia and why you should.

Coming up next.

All right, this is smart articles by smart people. The author is Angela. H-A-U-P-T. So I'm going to think that's maybe, maybe not. The article is called Six Ways to tap into nostalgia. Why you should when people walk into Carrie Peele's retro toy store in Albuquerque, New Mexico, their eyes light up. Wooden spinning tops, yoyos, trolls, rainbow lava lamp, scratch and sniff stickers. It's like time travel unlocks. Some visitors make a beeline for the games and puzzles. Eager to relieve their glory days, I sell a ton of jacks to grandparents. I always joke that I should have an over 50 league because every single grandma tells me they were the best jacks or best at Jacks. Grandfathers in particular, enjoy bringing up old marble related now it whittles down to the parents. Indulging in this sort of nostalgia offers a host of well being benefits, experts say. But that hasn't always been clear. The concept has a complicated past. Nostalgia was coined in the 16 hundreds by a Swiss medical student to describe homesickness among soldiers serving in the European war and the longing of returning to one's native land. So there's a whole etymology of the word and all that stuff. But what I immediately liked about it was, first of all, that we talk about it all the time, and now I find it really fun with my family, totally to get in the groove of we're watching. Who said we were addicted to stranger things? Which is set in the was like, oh, that's really what malls were like back then. That's really what the stores looked like. You could go into the gap and you could see this, a whole wall of corduroy pants. And then there'd be a space port and you'd play in the arcade and you meet all. But I love explaining that to them. And now, even though American malls are kind of fading, but they're sort of coming back in the same time, they're becoming hip amongst the younger. Yeah. So hopefully really right along that line. I picked up the New York Times this weekend and to complement that first part of the article, and then we can start getting into the six reasons why. I'll just read out of the gate. It's a Friday night in 2006. The bagel bites are defrosting in the oven and a case of Capri Suns is chilling in the fridge. You turn on the TV in the living room, click your way to the Disney Channel and prepare to sing both the Troy and Gabriella parts in high school musical flash forward. And it's 2023. The living room is now a bar. Capri Suns have turned into gin and tonics and you're on the dance floor with dozens of other 20 and 30 somethings singing along to that. So Ravens theme song. I love Disney Channel. It's very nostalgic, Leslie Epps, 25, said at a recent party fueled by 2000s tween culture at Webster hall concert venue in Manhattan. We want to enjoy our youth in a way, and this is the way to do it. And it's kind of a school dance for adults, representing a less complicated time and a time of childhood innocence when the Hannah Montana, Jonas Brothers, Cheetah Girls and Selena Gomez ruled the clock all the time, right? So like, I think each generation is going to have their comfort zone. What I find it interesting as a parent is when you have cross currents and they really enjoy the things that you enjoyed. We can go around and if you have any examples recently, we can do that. I obviously just gave you guys stranger things and now my kids are, well, they've always kind of had an ear for my music, only because I play it all the time and it's pretty good. So that's always enjoyable.

I think the cycle is sped up, right? I didn't identify with my parents stuff at all, but definitely our kids. Like, if you walk around our town, the kids are dressing straight ninety s. It is a snapshot of the high school. In my town, the kids are dressing exactly the same.

I loved my parents stuff. I'm super nostalgic about Sinatra and Loungey, kind of like, but it wasn't in.

With your age group. My point is the things that were in with my kids. Teenagers actually wearing nirvana shirts. The grunge culture, they don't know.

The song is definitely.

Grunge is back full in effect, which is weird.

And it's funny because that was part of my 20s.

So my point is the cycles. I'm happy my daughter likes Foo fighters.

Well, yeah, I think fashion cycles definitely come full circle weird, right? Yeah, because you run out of ideas, right? Like, how far can you go? Bell bottoms, plaid, wide collars, all that stuff. Semi coming back can actually tell a lot when you go to Vegas because all the 20 to are trying too hard, go overboard on what's kind of hip and cool. I don't know. I was thinking about all this. There's a number one thing here that they recommend, if you want to. Again, I'm merging this more into the family zoNe, but it's watching old movies. And so my wife was out. I forget what my oldest daughter was. My youngest daughter was on a sleepover, I believe.

Oh, no.

She was on a Girl Scout camping trip. And I said, hey, you're old enough. Let's binge watch some Adam Sandler movies.

Yeah.

And, like, we started with Happy Gilmore and then went on, you know what? It just. I was never a huge fan, per se, but it was fun. And here we were on the couch like cross generations. He's easily one of the biggest comedic stars of my generation, or at least my older generation. You could go to the sand lot. You could go to ET. You could go to any of the ones that we loved as kids. And now that they're enjoying them, it's kind of fun.

Yeah, we're just doing the same thing. Like, we're reliving sort of my childhood favorite movies. And I think in the article, it kind of just highlights all of these different genres and different mediums. But, like the first one, watching movies together, we spend most of the time watching the newest, latest releases. But every now and then I could rope my kid into watching the wedding Singer. We just watched that this past weekend, and I'm just trying to get her to watch Dead Poets Society and all these movies that were really impactful to me when I was a kid.

They fight you for like five minutes. So I said, you guys, give it five minutes. And if you want to turn it off, we will.

We put those movies, Peewee's big adventure.

That should have never existed, to be honest.

That guy.

Oh, my gosh. I'm sorry. That guy freaks me out still.

Okay, moving right along.

Think about it.

Think about how weird Christmas time it's white Christmas and the Red nosed Reindeer, Charlie Brown.

And these are all like, I'm going the other direction. Oh, what? No. Now that we're very age appropriate, house, and we've got three different ages, but now my oldest is she's watching some kind of wonderful ferris Bueller's Day off. Weird science.

That's a great movie.

She's loving all the Bill and Ted's excellent adventures, and I'm really enjoying.

Only the best movies survive. Right? Like the junk of it.

Great.

That's what I mean. We can bring any movie we bring to them from our time, obviously only the ones that were like, the cream of the crop.

Yeah, well, there's only so many we can all see together, like with the age differences in our house. But now that my guy and I can slink back here to the barn and we can watch something together. Yeah, because Bear is still fourth grade, so we are still watching. By the way, though, as controversial as they are, behind the scenes, Disney sitcoms, Nickelodeon Sitcoms, I could watch them. They're just a comfort zone for me. It's like a TV dinner in front of me. It's a slow digestible. It just takes the world away. And I'm like, oh, no, she broke the ice cream machine. How's she going to explain that? Because I saw that wore my daughter had a graduating presentation at her school, and I wore a camp Kiki waka.

Awesome.

Remember Kiki Waka? Kikiwaka from Bazaar Vark.

I think it was.

But anyway, like, her whole class was like, thought I was the coolest dude because I had a camp Kiki Waka shirt on.

That's pretty funny. That is pretty funny.

But, yeah, it can buffer brain health by triggering the release of a feel good hormone, dopamine. I mean, that's the scientific fact behind nostalgic movies. Like, when you see it when you're flicking channels and you're like, wait a minute, is that Herbie? What's the one I always get sucked into?

That's not.

Parent trap.

Parent trap.

Parent trap. Oh, man.

Original Haley Mills.

They've done it like nine times.

No, I'm talking more like, if you're doing a flip through, I will always stop on the Godfather. And I'm like, oh, the Godfather's on.

I got Josh, Anchor, Goodfellas.

I got to watch this again.

Force Gump. That's another one you got to stop on.

When do you guys watch movies? That's what I'm so confused about. I don't know. When do you guys watch movies I.

Don'T have whenever we can.

I know, but I wrote them down.

This is parsed over years, Ben. This didn't happen last week.

I know, but you have all these great. I always think about you, MK. When I'm about to watch something, I'm like, it seems like MK does this all the time. I wonder how he does, like, a binge. I've never done that in my life, but I would love to. Sounds fun.

All right, I will take time. My wife knows this. My go to is not going out with the guys. It's not golf, it's not poker night. It's not bar this, bar that. It's going to the movie.

Well, there's your problem.

Yeah.

I'm making a bar joke. I'm making a drink.

People are laughing, Ben.

It's funny. It's funny. You know, I go to the bar too much.

Say, like, hey, it's family movie night. Every Sunday night or every other Sunday night. Then it's a ritual. And then at least your kids will begrudgingly, like, drag themselves, hey, it's family movie night. And then, like you said, after three minutes, they're know.

That's another proven thing. Traditions amongst families are incredibly healthy.

We try and pull it off on.

More you have, the better everything. Know, it could be Ben cooking chili when the kids get home. It doesn't matter what the tradition is from sledding in Alameda. All right, so number is I'm going to read the research first, and then I'll tell you what the thing was. Some research shines light on the idea of food nostalgia. One study, for example, found that people seek out comfort food that reminds them of their past when they experience feelings of isolation. Scents in particular, maybe a roast dinner or cookies in the oven can evoke nostalgia while also increasing self esteem, optimism, and feelings, a meaning of life. So eat up. And if you have trouble recreating old staples, there's always the Betty Crocker cookbook. I'm not lying. I put carrot. Not physical carrots, but I put carrots out all over about. So Milwaukee. Great example. I really never had a Milwaukee level brat. So I'm like, I cannot wait. And I did research. I'm like, I'm going to search this out. Where to go? You go to yelp? You go to. Go to. Where do you go to? The Philly cheesesteaks are. And that's my personal one. Like, I can't wait to get home. The first thing I do in Philly is like, boom.

That makes sense.

But, yeah, there's actually scientific stuff around it, too. And with a family, for me, it's enjoyable. What foods did you eat as a kid that your kids now like?

Pac man soup, spam spaghetti.

That's like, the number one thing that's asked for. Like, they get back from camp, they want me to make spaghetti.

That was the thing that came to mind to me, was like, oh, man, all the sodium nitrates we consumed in the 80s because we didn't know how bad it was, right?

Bam, here we go. My kids love.

Well, listen, everybody, we're agrarian by nature.

Brownies.

Come on, man. I'm sorry. Am I peeing on the party?

A million things that hit that button.

Los Pericos burritos.

Man, my kids will get back from a plane trip, and the first place we'll hit is Los Precos. Why? Just because it's comfort food. It gives us a happy.

And they know you there, right?

That too. I agree with that. Because when we go on a family trip, we have a Chinese place here in town called Lee's, and everybody will have a vote and everybody's lease. Lee's.

Boom.

And then you're just sitting there in a pile of MSG and sodium nitrates, and we're just swimming in it. We just swim in it. Yeah, but it is fun. Well, what's fun, too, is bringing that generational recipe around again. Right? So something that you had as a kid, and now you're teaching your kids how to make it, and that continues on, too. And my grandma, she did the old school handwritten note cards. My wife's grandmother, my wife's mother, they all have the handwritten note cards, and you pull them out. It tastes the same with the little tabs. Yeah. Even on Christmas morning, we do this thing called Icebox Pie. I think it's called pie. Whatever. No. Anyway, again, nostalgia cards, all flowery.

My mom had the index card, and it had a bunch of food on it.

Nostalgic.

Oh, you mean actually goop?

Yeah, my mom's little case with all the index cards on it. And she would be cooking, and it had 30 year old grease on it.

Vanilla stains on the cookie.

Oh, good. And she'd break it out every time. It's like, don't you have a memorized by now, Mom?

And then all of a sudden, like, a little bag of marijuana is behind. Well, she was in the 60s. Wow. Yeah. That was a curveball. Sorry. All right, so the next one is. These are basically just semi suggestions, but again, I think we all do this and we've all talked about it so much. Creating playlists. Research suggests that people prefer music that was popular in their teens and 20s. Songs before or after they had time in their lives. Spend part of your day listening to whatever gets you grooving, or better yet, religious notes. Make a playlist of your favorites. It's example. Something requires a little. Okay, this one.

It's tough.

Yeah. I listen to so much music and I enjoy discovering mountains of music. Still. Nothing makes me happy, however, than a music store or a music shopping experience. So don't know where to go much with that.

I would say if you really want to do it, get into vinyl. It's an investment, but we're into it. And I got all the really cool old stuff. Very good. Rebuild a whole pioneer system. And I taught my kids to drop the needle. They fight over who gets to pick the record and that's really been awesome.

Yeah, I'm getting there. I'm in the baby steps of that.

I think, for the article point and then relating it to parenting. I think it's just like a great way to connect with your kids, especially if they have the natural instinct or the natural affinity to 80s music and stuff like that. It seems like a lot of our kids do. And my kid totally is into 80s for some reason. This wasn't even my doing or me forcing it on her somehow. It's like the cool thing. Her favorite band is like Tears for fears, and so I'm leaning into it. So, like you're saying. I bought her a little record player off Amazon, a little cheapy, and got her a couple. I got a thriller. I got her Bob Marley, and then the sound on that sucks.

What brand did you get?

It was like a little cheapy. So then I found this, like, Bluetooth adapter that allows her to plug her air pods.

Okay, see, now we're.

No, but still hearing.

No, you're not.

The warmth.

Hearing the warmth of vinyl is.

No, you need.

I'm sorry.

It's better than the little tinny speaker that came on the little Bluetooth.

Vinyl is an oxymoron to your point, though.

Sorry.

I took my daughter to see, she's 13. She saw love and rockets and Tear this year. And then my eight year old was wanting to go to shows and he wanted to go see tears or fears. So it's like music just plays in the house and they gravitate to what they like.

Totally.

I'm playing all sorts of stuff, like.

The car rides and stuff, singing along.

I want them to have a broad base of music. Likes.

Yeah.

New and old.

Yeah, I do the same thing. I mean, I have nothing to add, really. I play random music all the time, and it's whatever's in my ear worm that day.

But your kids are getting pumped to go see Springsteen.

It could be Chris Sableton. It could be Kansas, it could be Selena Gomez.

But you're getting them pumped to go see shows, and that's what brings. That's more.

Well, there's nothing like live music, for sure.

No. But I will encourage one thing. I think I said it years ago. The album, the power of the album, is something I'm fearing our kids are losing. And so try to play them full albums, because I've released a bunch of them, and there's so much thought goes into trackless that it's an experience. Right. An album. And so, of course, the artists think so much about it, they never meant for you to hear one song. We think about the order and how they all go together, and listening to an album is an experience. So definitely don't just get into.

Oh, isn't that cute? They're fist bumps.

We just fist bumps.

We missed the Fist bump.

They're fist bump work, man.

Putting the track listing for an album together is awful.

Anyway, play your kids enough, right?

Heck, yeah.

Make them listen album.

Yes.

Play them Blondie's greatest.

This song Sucks.

It's because it's a filler.

Kids, shut up and find the other.

Day, dire straits, making movies.

A lot of fillers. Yeah.

Okay, number four, visit your local library again for nostalgia. But again, what I'm finding now is that my kids are pretty voracious readers. The boys reading no country for old Men, which is really fun to discuss.

Jeez.

I said, when you're done, we can watch the movie. Oh, wow, sugar. Maybe eventually we had to take the Band Aid and just rip it off.

Really?

Because, yeah, they're reading. Well in school, they're reading to kill a Mockingbird, but they asked them to do, like, an ancillary book, and he really enjoyed the book prior to no country, forget what it was. But anyway, and then my oldest, obviously, they're reading their prescribed readings, too. And now we're discussing all that stuff. I'm like, oh, my gosh, I read that when I. And here's what mean, they're all the classics that kind of get dole. They're not banned, but they're not canceled. Yeah. There's a side note, anyway, there's a podcast called. And I'm not going to go there, so library books, Mad Libs, Mr. Toad's big adventure, even the kid books. I had a lot of fun. Frog and Toad.

No, that was another, again, giving connection points for the kids and for us. And connecting to my youth was all of the books that I loved as a kid, and I randomly just saved them. Throughout my. Through adulthood and my childhood books, I had crates of these old dog eared books, Judy Bloom and Beverly Cleary and all these. And I had this romantic idea of reading them to my kids someday and never happened. No, it did. Eventually, I read these all to my kids, and they loved them just as much as I did. And it was really cool to just kind of read about Peter Hatcher and Fudge and all of the Judy Bloom universe and just brought me back to my childhood. But also connecting and having my kid go through the same experience as I did when they were my age is just like, so cool. And again, sharing that nostalgia with my kid was just like a bonding moment where you feel like, oh, I get why you're so messed up, or where you come from kind of thing.

My kid's catcher in the Rye.

Yeah, catcher in the Rye.

So good. Although I could have been Holden Caulfield. You totally not the great Gatsby, mind you.

Holden Caulfield.

Yeah. I mean, it's a great point because especially in the kid zone, too, when you're reading books that were classics to you and now you're reading them to them, Winnie the Pooh never gets old. All the good stuff, Dr. Seuss. All right, in the interest of time, we'll just shoot down to number five. Start a collection. Medina often advises people to start collecting things the earlier in life, the better. The way it comes down to you to retire. You'll have a bunch of objects that can fill a room with I don't know what that means, and then just go sit as if it were a hot tub. For the mind, objects can uniquely help conjure the past. Plus, collecting is active and social. You might find yourself combing through antique shops or flea markets or interacting with those you encounter along the way. It's all common sense stuff. I collected baseball cards, albums. I had hundreds of albums.

Yeah, but albums are for a reason, not just to collect dust.

It's all for a reason.

Is it?

Yeah.

You have them on a record player is really why you buy them, Ben.

You don't just really, but you to listen to them. Like, what do you.

We stared until the sun, until our eyes burned, and we liked know.

That's actually the logical way to think about collection until you have the sheer amount of.

I hate clutter.

I have like bobbleheads galore and I've always thought about having a wall of bubble heads and now they're all in boxes. I have like a zillion of them.

I see the value. I hate clutter. So I should check out because Ben.

So what do you think? Your kids. Ben's obviously aren't allowed to collect, right? No, he hates clutter.

Hate it.

Mine, however, are allowed to collect. I'm just thinking, like, in 20 years, what will they come to look for the box up in the garage and be Like. So they do Funko Pops. They love the Funko Pops. They love play bills from shows. That's easy.

Yeah.

Sorry.

Yeah.

You checked out budy.

Tickets were things you do.

Concert tickets were huge.

And like, sporting events, I have niner games, Raider games. I have a huge collection of stubs from all sorts. And now that they don't come in stubs anymore, I'll still print my ticket stub. Well, if it's a QR code. I went to see Radiohead and it was literally a QR code. I'm like, I don't get it.

Well, no, so that's funny you say that, because when we went to see the swizzle, they had digital tickets as well. So I went to a company online. They created a mimic of the actual ticket. Like, same section, same ticket that would have been printed out if they did paper. It is what it is.

I think it's a fun memory of what you did.

Oh, that's a good one. Yeah, for sure. But I'm curious to see what else they will collect. I mean, my littlest obviously collects seashells and rocks and trolls and stuffies. Lot of rocks. But yeah, it's all about that. Then the final one is write your memories down. Share them with. Know. I have a blog that I write stories out just because I know I'll forget them eventually. And I wanted the kids to have a permanent record of, ah, what was going on when I got Michael Jordan's autograph or with this or that or whatever. So I do try to do that. But again, you run out of clock when you're parenting and running around in modern day and all that stuff. But they say it's very good for you. There's nothing wrong, he says, with passing hours yakking about the good old days.

Absolutely.

And my kids, I think they like the stories. As long as I remember that, I probably have told them the story seven or eight times and they try and pull out of the outside. All right. Well, that is a very good article. That was definitely nostalgic. Six ways to tap into nostalgia and why you should. Don't be afraid to collect or other things. Coming up next, we'll do a very fast moving quiz of nostalgia. Parent quiz of the weEk.

Here we go.

It's quiz time. Parent quiz, quiz, quiz quiz quiz quiz.

All right, we'll start in the. Then we'll climb into the 90s because our listeners, that's their demographic and a little bit of the 2000s. Here's question number one. Which actor was originally cast to play Marty McFly?

Michael.

Eric Stoltz.

Was it Eric Stoltz or John Cusack?

Eric Stoltz.

I think it was John Cusack.

I'm going to say Cusack.

It's Eric Stoltz with him. Yes.

What else is he?

Mask. And.

Yeah.

Remember he was Rocky.

He was in some kind of wonderful.

Kind of wonderful.

Okay, question number two. What year was the album Purple Rain released?

82.

82. I'm going 82.

Give us the numbers.

Okay.

1986 or 19? 84.

84. Just because of what he said.

1984.

Yes, that's right.

Okay, question. Next question. What's the total number of dots in the Pacman Maze? 244 or 196?

I like 196 because it seems computery.

No, it does. Well, that's the wrong answer. It's 244.

It does.

Wait, should be every single board. Is that what it says?

If you ever play Pacman, it's got the same little.

Oh, dude, it was my go to first date. If a girl doesn't like playing Miss.

Pac man, then she get a machine for your house.

No, I do have one, but the sit down one was at a pizzeria. That's what I mean. We'd go do the sit down one and get a slice. And if she wasn't.

They still have one of those at Castro Valley?

My dad bought one. Pretty. Pretty dope.

That's your, like, marriage test.

Okay, next question. In the Breakfast Club, which song plays during the opening and closing credits? Should be a no brainer, but you never know where the brain.

Forget about me. No, that's not.

Oh, come on. Come on. Hold on. Don't say it.

That's simple minds. Don't you forget about me. Yes, I know the band.

Good job.

I know the song Simple Minds. Don't you forget. Did you know that song Judd Nelson does the Hand?

It was actually written for another band. It was written for another band. And they actually gave it to simple minds.

You're lying.

They messed up.

Look it up.

Just kidding.

I don't know, but knowledge by Mark. What is the name of the dog in the sitcom Punky Brewster? Brandon or Charlie?

Charlie.

Charlie is correct.

Oh, Charlie isn't Brandon.

Okay, here we go again in 16 candles. What kind of car does Jake Ryan's father drive?

It's a convertible.

It was a convertible.

It was a convertible.

Somebody kissed somebody in the back of it.

No talk about what happens.

I'm just trying to remember it.

Was it a red Porsche or a RollsRoyce?

Red Porsche.

Red Porsche.

Incorrect all around.

No way.

Jake Ryan pulls up at the Red Porsche at the end of the movie to pick up Molly Ringlock from the wedding. But the Rolls Royce was taken from the family house.

Yes.

All right, next question. Who plays Ducky in Pretty and Pink? Is it Matthew Broderick or John Crier?

John Crier.

Cryer.

That's pretty easy if you know the movie. It is John Cryer. Matthew Broderick, obviously. And of course, played one of the greatest roles of all time. Ferris. Not war grains.

Glory.

Ferris Bueller's Day off. All right, Chris, this one's for you. How many Star wars films were released in the 80s?

I'm going to say three.

Two or three?

Two.

Return of the Jedi came out in 1990. What was it?

80.

And I'm going to say three.

Correct number is two. Sorry about that one. Sorry about that.

Matter. It really doesn't matter. No question matters less. They're here. It's great.

All right, one final question, and then we'll move on to the 90s. What year did the sitcom growing Pains debut on television?

86.

The Siever Family, so good sees 1980. 619.

80.

419. 85.

85.

Sure.

Yeah. It was Springsteen. Madonna. It was 1985.

Wonder where Mallory is right now.

All right, we're jumping up. Her brother Jason Bateman is not only in Ozark, but has a fantastic podcast called Smartless with Will Arnett and Sean Hayes. Very enjoyable. I highly recommend it. All right, what was the name of Corey's best friend on Boy Meets World? Sean or Eric?

Eric. Don't even know what it is.

This is the 90s too.

Oh, is that the one?

Sean, I was watching Yom TV wraps.

I have a YomTV Raps jacket in the house.

I got the T shirt for under your jacket.

No, mine's for real, though. I got it from the show. You got it from the show? You know Ted Demi? I used to hang out with Method Man.

I thought you meant something else.

Go ahead. The Spice Girls was an iconic pop group made of how many singers?

Five.

Four. Or five.

Oh five.

Scary Spice. Forget scary.

Oh, my gosh. I photographed.

How could you forget scary Spice? Name the Five Spice Girls.

Sporty, posh. Posh.

Happy.

Happy.

Doc. Jumpy.

Grumpy.

Dokie.

I don't know, man. Whatever.

Easy.

Was it five or four?

Dopey. This handheld digital pet was one of the most popular toy fads of the late 90s.

Tamagotchi.

Webkins or Tamagotchi?

Tamagotchi.

That's pretty easy.

Where was I? I don't know any of these.

I have about six old Tamagotchis in, like, a bag.

Here's a good one. And it leans on last week's episode where I broke down the notebook. Also, he's positioning himself. Deadpool is in this one, so he's got to think twice. Who is not a member of the Mickey Mouse Club? This could be like a multi level one because everybody was in that thing. Ryan Gosling or Ryan Reynolds, who was not in the Mickey Mouse Club?

I want to see Reynolds.

I'm going Reynolds.

Gosling is a mouse catite.

It looks so similar. I get them mixed up in my brain.

Gosling was indeed in the Mickey Mouse Club.

That's right.

Ryan Reynolds was up in Canada hanging out.

Gosling was kicking it with JT and Britney Spears.

All right, which controversial soft drink was released in 1992 and rejected by the public?

New Coke.

Crystal Pepsi or Clear Pepsi? Clear Crystal Pepsi or Clear Pepsi?

I remember Clear Pepsi, though. Crystal Pepsi.

Yeah.

Your memory is much better than mine. Let's go with cricks.

It was Crystal Pepsi, but it was clear.

It was like a seven up, basically.

Cola. Got it without the caramel color.

Do you guys ever have Aspen?

I remember that.

Clearly Canadian.

The Apple.

So New York Seltzer.

Remember those?

Clearly Canadian.

Yeah.

Oh, remember orbits?

Oh, yeah.

With the little balls in that.

The first, like Boba tea, I think.

Yeah, it was really gross. I remember having one. It was like sludge. What are these things?

Little sludgy finish.

Remember Snappo had the flavors fire, water, earth.

No.

Okay, who played Tom Hanks's love interest in Forrest Gump? Was it Meg Ryan or. No more impersonations, please.

They're illegal.

Yes, Robin Wright is the correct answer. Whitney Houston's powerful rendition of I Will always love you topped the charts in 1992. If there it was featured in what?

The Bodyguard.

Kevin Cost. Kevin Costner.

The bodyguard is correct. Final question. And no answers that could be construed as dirty. What was the name of Ross's pet monkey in the sitcom friend?

It was Marcel.

Marcel Marcel.

It was Marcel, man.

Marcel or Maurice?

Marcel.

Marcel, I think. Right?

Yeah, maybe it was Maurice.

I couldn't stand his character. Not Marcel, Russ.

It was Marcel. It was Marcel. And finally, since the exterior was shot in San Francisco in Full House, what color was the exterior of the original house?

Beige.

It's a painted ladies. Which one?

It was a painted ladies. Right?

The yellow one.

Lord knows. Let's say yellow. I don't know.

Light purple or off white?

Off white.

In the painted Ladies.

Well, they probably want to say purple is more interesting.

Okay, I'm going purple.

Wild guess.

Purple is more interesting, but the color is off white. Jesse.

Dang it. I knew it.

Yeah.

Fun fact.

Gosh, should brought it out. I once babysat. Well, sort of babysat for the Olsens.

Really?

They were older. It was Lizzie, the older.

This is on the cruise.

The younger daughter, Elizabeth Olsen, who went on to be Wanda in Wandavision, amongst many other roles. Great family. And then finally, these isn't questions, but cures to every sickness I had as a kid. Campbell's chicken soup, Canada Dry ginger ale, Vick's Vapor, Vick's vaporub. Saltines.

Dude in there.

And television.

Heck yes.

Do you still do that? I still do that with my kids.

Yeah.

What I like still that is the sucretes. I eat them like candy.

One final thought was, back in our days, we ate ice cream out of toilet paper rolls and didn't complain. Push up.

Sorry. I needed some context there. That's funny.

Then one final, final pudding pops.

Where'd they go?

I feel sorry for Netflix era kids. They'll never know the high stakes adrenaline of running to the bathroom, fridge, bedroom in a single commercial break.

Oh, yeah.

With the beckoning call of a sibling, screaming, it's on. And you, hurtling over time, totally bounce on the sofa. All right, that will wrap up our nostalgia show. Thanks for bringing that article, and Chris, that was a lot of fun. All right, coming up next, things that make us smile.

Ready? Again.

All right. Well, it is a balmy evening, but it does make me smile that it's so nice outside. A lot to be grateful about. A lot to smile about. A lot to be thankful for at this time in the show. Of course. You guys, all four of you in the house. Ben's got a sporting event tonight. I've got to go pick up a kid in high school. Never thought I'd say that. I got to go pick up my child in high school, but I'm grateful for that. Okay, so things that make me happy usually goes back to my family, my oldest is in Godspell, which comes out in a couple of weeks, and I can't wait to see her in God spell like you saw earlier. My main man is off screens for a few days, so it's nice to hang out with him and not have any competition. We think we're going to go. We have a very competitive putt putt rivalry, so we're going to hit that up. And I'm taking my youngest one to the eras movie in Alameda, actually on Saturday.

Oh, is that happening?

So I'm excited to see the errors movie because I've heard great things. And then my wife's heading out to have a girls weekend, so I wish her safety and fun. And of course, I always have to thank the great state of Wisconsin. All right, let's go to Ben because he likes being put on the spot.

Right out of the know. I am deducing my smiley things during the show. We got this bunny. Have I messaged our bunny, Chester? I never thought I would love a bunny in all my days. This thing is hilarious. My wife and I will have coffee and just watch this bunny. And it's so cathartic. He's funny if you don't give him enough attention. Quick story. I was trying to read some my bills the other day. I'm like, jester, get off my bills. And he did a twirl pee. He peed on my papers. And then I'm like, jester. And I picked up the papers to wipe off the pee and he jumped on my coffee cup and pooped in my coffee cup.

Oh, my gosh.

He is hilarious.

This is like a TV show.

This is my mini Loppier bunny. So anyway, we sit and watch this bunny in the morning and he's really funny and that makes me smile. Nice Chester in the sunshine.

I like that. It makes a nice picture. I see you with the bunny.

With the bunny. I never thought floating in your coffee. Poop in the coffee.

You never know. I mean, it could be the next best thing, right? We're going to.

Oh, my God.

Didn't they already have coffee? That comes from like a rare coffee that comes from bird poop. No.

The animal eat.

No, I was going to say, you knew I was giving you a chance. Now look what you did. Now he's not going to explain. He was going to tell the truth.

Yeah, he was. Coffee and I just.

Coffee. Mark, tell it.

Break. Tell it.

I appreciate the poop and the coffee.

I think that's. It was really funny. He's a funny bunny. And it's a lot of fun.

Get a bunny. All right.

You know what makes me smile are you guys. But I've been watching a lot of movies with my little kid, or little kid. She's 14 now, but once a week we've been watching all these pepperoni movies from my. So we watch ET, we watch Deadpool Society, wedding singer and all these. And she's digging them and spending.

Do you ever get blindsided by cussing or sex scenes that you didn't know.

Were we have a different sensibility? Like, back then, a lot of things kind of slipped through that.

I'm like, whoa, whoa.

It's actually shocking because.

Shocking.

It's hard to watch shows sometimes. And now you're like, going, wow, that rating is a little. So common sense media is a really helpful thing. Common sense is like making sure you're.

Still safe because I don't know it. You put the movie in and it kind of tells you, common sense media.

It's both parents and critics. They give you all the lowdown, and then you can decide if the show is. We talked about it before.

Saves a lot of awkward moments.

Super saves on awkward moments. And then next week is Family Week at UCLA. So all of the families are coming down. Another trip down. So I'm super looking forward to that.

More Disney time.

More Disney time.

You're not going to Disney again.

We're never getting tickets again.

Are we going to try to dip.

Out your daughter's in.

And then I got an electric skateboard, man, because my knees are bad and so pumping on the thing, it was really hard.

I think this is more dangerous, Chris. I gotta say, dude, this is just.

He's wearing bright red vans.

You push the little throttle and then.

I know. And you go much faster than you did before.

Do you wear a helmet? And knee pads and arms and elbow.

I'm not actually buff. It's got built in pads.

Okay. So you put that on like a leather.

I want to make sure you're wearing safety equipment.

This is safety.

I'm getting.

I'm going to get a helmet next. But anyway, that makes me smile, y'all.

Mark, Halloween's on the way, man.

My house, Super Bowl.

No, it's true. My family was talking about having a Halloween party, and then we were like, not going to have a Halloween party. And then all of a sudden, everybody's like, we're having a Halloween party. So now we're trying to pull off a Halloween party.

Yes. Like, pull it off.

Quick, quick time. So that's what I've been doing. I've been decorating my house and my wife. Like, I think I'm going to move out until it's done because I don't want to live in a haunted house. But.

Halloween, do you have, like, a punch bowl that has fog coming over the edges and then you'll answer the door in character?

I don't, but I'll do a walk through of my place and sent you guys if you want.

None of us have an invite.

I had a friend of mine text me today.

Notice, like, I'll do a walk through and video it for you guys, but.

You'Re not covered if you guys want to come over. I'll message you guys later. You guys are welcome.

Wow. We're on the B list.

No.

Anyway, I'll talk about it later.

We didn't make the H list off air.

I love my kids. I love my wife. My wife's a boss lady. She's kicking a** at work. So I'm happy. Life's good.

Awesome.

I love Ben.

Me, too. Thanks.

All right, well, last but not least, we will thank our listeners.

Thank you.

Thank you.

We have some random countries, and they just keep coming in. And it makes. Every time I see an India or a Singapore, Scotland or Singapore, New Zealand. How do they even.

Do we have any cosmic.

I have no idea. How fun. Anyway, all right. We are the dad timeout show, and we are out of here.

Love you.

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