Danielle Fishel (2:26)
Call it what it is. With Jessica Capshaw and Camille Luddington. An iHeartRadio podcast. Well, hello, hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of Short and Sweet. Today I am flying solo. Just Jessica or Jess for laughs. Or what's another J situation we could come up with? See, that's where I really miss the jelly to my peanut butter, because she would have come up with that third thing, and I was just left hanging with my own self. This is going to be an episode about nostalgia. We're going to talk about things that used to be normal, maybe a decade ago, maybe two decades ago, or back in the day that would be extremely weird. Or stick out to us here in 2025. I actually want to do a. Since we're. Since we're doing it a little differently, I want to go a little differently. I want to do in reverse order. Let's hear from the crew first, and then I will share some thoughts of my own. Taylor wrote in having to watch all your favorite shows at specific times each week, I remember this. I remember tuning in and, like, racing to get places so that you could be in position. And you also needed to make sure that you had your beverage of choice or your snack of choice at the ready because you couldn't pause it and you couldn't leave in the middle of it. So you had to wait for commercial breaks, too, to, like, you know, go get anything or use the restroom or all that stuff. So, Taylor, I understand that, Paula, waiting for your parents to get off the Internet to make a phone call from a landline. Do we even have landlines anymore? And the answer is no. I'm always surprised when I go to a hotel and they have actual phones. And then I. But I'm also sort of disoriented because I'm like, well, who do I text? Like, I'm sure if you don't have a phone, I got to have some way of getting a hold of you, but I don't. I'm left hanging. Emma wrote in printing directions off Google Maps when driving in your car. Okay, Emma, I see. I see that. And I raised you. Having a Thomas guide in your car, usually situated. It was so big. It was this giant map situation that had many, many, many pages. And it was. It had an index so that you could find the place that you were looking for. But then there were. It was. There were, like, bar graphs and you had to look for which quadrant each thing was in. It was very, very complicated. And definitely not something that you should ever do while operating a vehicle. So you would have to plot your route before you got in the car. Let's just say that we are blessed now. Raymond said, using Google instead of chat GPT. I get that. I get that. I mean, I still use both, but I get that. Julia said, paying with just coins. You know, I am irritated by coins now. I actually don't even know what to do with them. I try. I find them to be annoying when I get them. Um, but I know that they're valuable and so I don't want to get rid of them. But at the same time, I don't know what to do with them. And so then they just end up in my life in like a cup holder, a pocket, a tray, something like that. But yeah, yeah, I remember when you used to just pay with coins. Angela said, making a Facebook photo album or writing on your friend's Facebook wall. I never had a Facebook. I never had a Facebook page. There were. I remember there were lots of fake ones. And I remember calling my lawyer because I was like, there's someone saying that they're me, but they're not me and what should I do? And there were so many of them. As soon as you get one taken down, another one would just pop up. So I just. I just opted out of the whole thing. Ruby said, running to the toilet during commercial breaks. You can just press pause now. What did I just say? I just said, that's exactly right. You would have to wait till the commercial breaks to go to the bathroom. But now you can go whenever you want. Jen said, I did this layering tank tops. Why did we wear five on top of each other? I don't know. I don't know. It was a trend. And here's the thing that I can tell you, Jen, it'll be back again. I don't know when and I don't know why, but it will return. I promise you this. Katie said, having to buy a new CD instead of streaming it. Yeah, I remember CD buying. Yeah. I mean, I even remember when they came in these extra large paper containers. It was like you would go to the CD store and it would just be huge. And, like, half of it didn't even have anything in it, so it didn't even make sense. And then it graduated to just being like a tiny little paper sleeve over the actual cd. And then I thought I was really in the money when we would burn our own custom CDs. Um, and then again, now CDs are like a punishment. When I find them, I'm like, what do I do with this? Where would I even play it? Ashley said, doing homework with books and a dictionary. You don't still do homework with books in a dictionary. I guess you don't write your computer and everything's inside of it. 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