Episode 35 In With The Old, Out With The New

We have an Evergreen just for you! This week's episode the guys are talking about old trends making a comeback. R.J. and Fred go topic by topic talking about vinyls, drive in movies, and much more. They also talk about some nostalgia from their own lives that fits right in. Lastly the guys take a stab at this week's wildcard. It's simple yet thought provoking. What do we wish that we would get asked about?

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SPEAKER_01 0:15

Hello and welcome to This Is Today Show. I'm your host, RJ Golf, and I'm Fred Graham. Thank you once again for tuning in to another episode. Our show is also on video. You can find our videos on Rumble and on YouTube. Our podcasts can be found on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and also on iHeartRadio. If you like our show, we would ask that you subscribe, follow, and also write us a wonderful five-star review. We do have a few ways for you to interact with us. You can email our show at this is the day show at gmail.com. You can look us up on X by searching for at This Is The Day Show without the W. And you can look us up on Facebook as well. Search for This Is The Day Show. Our podcast providers have given us some new features. If you'd like, you can text our show. Select the episode that you're about to listen to, look on the top of the episode, and it will say send us fan mail. Click on that link to send us a message, and now you can send us a talk back, voice message, whatever you want to call it, and we can reply to your messages now. Feel free to send us any questions, feedback, or interest that you may have for us. Thank you for the continued promotion and support for our show. And a rocky start, but nonetheless, here we go. We got this, dude. So and let's put in a bright color, evergreen. Happy Evergreen. This episode, I'm not gonna ask you how your week is, because we don't care, right? Because it's evergreen. Whenever, however, it was a great week. It would be really awesome if every time I do this, I can evergreen on the screen. I don't know how to do that yet. Yeah. And then you could just wipe it away. Yes, anyways.

SPEAKER_00 2:17

So we are doing an evergreen episode. Um what's the main topic, Mr. Fred? It's gonna be what did I call this? Evergreen. Um kind of just uh a I'll call it a callback, uh, kind of going back to old things, I guess. I don't know. You know, I thought that's a good way to summarize it. So I put based on emerging trends, lifestyle shifts, and recent data, Americans are returning to several pre-pandemic, maybe that's what they call it, uh, nostalgic, nostalgic, um, and in-person activities. Um here recently. These are the top ten uh things that Americans are starting to do and do again. I can't criticize. I I was butchering the intro. That's it happens, man. Yeah. Um first thing is is people are wow, that was a lot of issue right there. Uh, people are prioritizing in-person socializing um and events. Uh, after years of digital interaction, uh, you think about even during the pandemic, just Zoom calls and all this stuff where you're camping out in your basement and interacting with TV screens. Uh, it says that Americans are packing stadiums, attending live concerts, and filling performing arts centers to seek human connection. So I feel like a lot of people have this longing to speak to people. Um I don't know. I don't know if it's because I'm getting older, but like I don't really like using the phone as much. Like, I'm just kind of like, I'd rather just talk to you. Like, don't need to do all this digital customer service stuff. Just just let me talk to a person to try to figure this out.

SPEAKER_01 4:25

Like instead of instead of all the chat stuff that you have to do now or um your support, so you have to email somebody, you can't call somebody direct. Yeah. Well, neither it's pretty annoying.

SPEAKER_00 4:37

Yeah, and it's it's funny because you rumble. It's it's funny because um I used to think it was like, man, those older guys just don't know technology. I'm I'm now at the point where I'm like, I just don't want to waste the brain cells to have to try to figure out these hoops that they're wanting me to jump through. And like, I don't want to remember another password login information. Like, just let me talk to you. Your job is customer service for this company.

SPEAKER_01 5:11

Like, I'm also looking at you, Apple Podcasts. Let's just archive my show.

SPEAKER_00 5:17

Let's just get my analytics, let's just get rid of the AI aspect that's gonna talk to me before you talk to me because they're gonna get it all frustrated with me because I'm frustrated with them, knowing they're not a real person. Just let's cut out that middle knot person.

SPEAKER_01 5:35

And and with that being said, looking at you, Amazon, every time I have to check into your stinking place, I can't understand what's going on. And I get denied every single time I go there because it's a guy that's calling me through a box who doesn't listen to me, and then um I can't understand him, so it doesn't go well. And then guess what I do? I still drive onto your lot, Amazon, and then talk to a normal person and get put in the door. Yeah, you're wasting my time in theirs. Yeah, you wasted your money.

SPEAKER_00 6:07

So, and I know like the callback kind of, you know, like you think of like I feel like a lot of people now, and maybe it's just hitting my social platforms where like you remember like Halo parties, dude? Land parties, yeah, man, those were the best. Where it was like you're all playing the same game, but you're all in the same house, and you're literally split screening it, if not four people. Yeah, dude. Like, I meant bring back screen peeking, dude. But um, I've seen a lot of things like that, and then like I'll have you know, like, hey, what were you like in the 90s, or like, hey, what was the 90s like? What was school lunch like? And it's like a lot of people are wanting that's that's people are wanting that to be part of um kind of their present, you know, and I think a lot of that's also because a lot of people that grew up in that time are now having kids and they want to pass those memories on and share that with their children, you know, um instead of just the digital, like like we're kind of uh a unique generation. I think it's considered millennials. Um I think it's 81 is when the millennial starts, but half of it is like pre-internet really, and then now that the latter part has become like obviously the digital age that we live in. So it's like you know what it's like to grab an encyclopedia, and then you also know what it's like just to ask, you know, chat uh AI what what something is, but I don't know. I I kind of find myself like, man, I'd just rather go talk to them than like I I I want I don't know. Yet at the same time, I am very content with just chilling at my house. I don't have to go out all the time, but yes, I'd love to stay home.

SPEAKER_01 8:08

So you want to do every other one? Let's do it, bud. Yeah, so the second one is taking domestic road trips and regional travel. So domestic travel has boomed, exceeding pre-pandemic levels, with a strong focus on exploring local landscapes, small towns, and national parks, particularly through inland road trips, even a trend in using printed directions and paper maps rather than GPS or directions from their phones. So, yes, it seems like it's just like a copy and paste from the 90s. Yeah, which is pretty cool. Um, because how many kids would even be able to function with a map? Like a fold of map? Yeah, not too many. Like, I know for me, with my job and have to deliver it to houses, like that would be I don't know how they used to do it back in the day.

SPEAKER_00 8:57

I think houses would be really hard on a paper map. But like the hardest thing is I I feel like this is one area that like I really taught my kids and they do pretty well with because I learned in construction cardinal directions are like so helpful because go left, go right. Well, am I facing north or am I facing south? Because my left and right are gonna be opposite if I'm you know, so obviously when you have a paper map, it's not gonna automatically go where you're at. You gotta you gotta know where north is, which typically is up on the paper, but it could be your left, so you're looking at the map like this. But um, did you know that map quest is actually coming back? Like they're making a comeback, dude.

SPEAKER_01 9:45

But it's digital, it's not yes, and do you want to know why I know this? Why are you using map quest? Our company has bought their GPS system through them. Do they use Tom Tong?

SPEAKER_00 10:03

It is negative five stars. It's because you're supposed to print them out and then I just did you ever use MapQuest?

SPEAKER_01 10:13

Uh very little. Oh, okay. But um Yeah, dude. Because I was in that weird stage where all the GPS stuff through Google was coming out when I could drive on my own. Yeah. So I like it was like starting as MapQuest and then it was like fading into like 18s and 19s, and it was just off my phone.

SPEAKER_00 10:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:33

But um yeah, so bad.

SPEAKER_00 10:37

It's so bad. But a lot of people are taking small trown, like there's a lot of people who love a very popular tulip destination in our state. Um, I met so many people that are like, oh, I love that place. And I'm like, what? I remember getting pulled out of school to go there, and I was like, Why am I here? You know? But we drove out in the middle of nowhere to look at flowers.

SPEAKER_01 11:04

My wife wants to go to that place, and I've been wanting to take her for like the past few years, and we haven't been able to. Yeah. Mother's Day is next week. Yeah, is that sorry.

SPEAKER_00 11:14

Oh, nope, we're in the magical land. Evergreen. Maybe uh that festival, I think, is the week after Mother's Day. So if you go, like Mother's Day is the ideal time.

SPEAKER_01 11:28

But the week after Mother's Day is when we'll have the Evergreen and we'll be on our trip.

SPEAKER_00 11:35

But yeah, that's uh that's kind of that because you don't want to go during that festival because it's really packed out. If you can go the week before, the tulips are still well bloomed and everything. Next week we don't have time. Yeah, no, I yeah, yeah. It dude, it's amazing how it like kind of just sneaks up on you like time flies, but yeah. So people people are are just kind of taking drives. I don't know if you we we used to take drives, man, a little bit. You and me a little bit at destinations, but we just kind of cruise, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:08

Me and my family, not so much. I don't feel like we have to have a purpose because I mean now all I do is drive, so I don't I don't want to drive. And my wife terrifies me.

SPEAKER_00 12:18

Uh oh. Anyway, number three, engaging in nostalgia nostalgic wow, I read that way wrong. Nostalgic hobbies like vinyls puzzles and crafts. Activities like listening to vinyl records, doing jigsaw puzzles, and knitting or crocheting have made a massive comeback, fueled by a desire for non-screen tactical activities.

SPEAKER_01 12:47

I know personally I had when I had more money and uh when I had a working record player, I liked collecting vinyl. Yeah. Um, like listen to them, but with the family, it's just not doable. I would used to play some video games and listen to some vinyls while I was doing it, and I enjoyed that. I know my wife, my wife does puzzles with the kiddos every so often, and then my wife has recently um maybe it's knitting, it's the little circle thing, and then you poke through and like you make like embroidering like you're you're stitching, you're kind of sewing with the needle and thread.

SPEAKER_00 13:29

Yeah. Alright, like knitting, I and it's a little poofy. Yeah, that's I don't know. I think that's I think that's embroidering because you're like like if you have a logo on your shirt, it's the stitch. Yes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:44

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 13:44

Um I always thought that was cross stitching. I don't know if that's what it's called or not. And then like knitting and crocheting, one takes one stick, one takes two sticks. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 13:55

I think I did crocheting in third grade with Mrs. Hemping. She was not very nice, but that was that was interesting to learn.

SPEAKER_00 14:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:05

It was on our last day of school, and that's all we did.

SPEAKER_00 14:08

I made a pencil bag when I was in sixth grade. And uh it said, What's up, Doc? But um I do like crafts would be like I'm learning how to whittle, which is it's pretty, pretty fun. Um a little more stressful than I thought it would be because somehow in my head I was like, Oh, I don't have a you know, almost two-year-old running around the house that's gonna get into everything. Like, this is a peaceful activity, you know. Like, I got my oldest, I got my oldest, he's like, I'll whittle with you, you know, just taking her little pocket knife and taking bark off branches, but um, yeah, so like we got our Christmas tree chopped up, and I'm letting that season or whatever, and then I'll whittle like an ornament, so it'd be pretty cool. But my wife wants me to either find or build a puzzle table, which like we've done a couple puzzles as a family with the older kids, uh, the two olders, we lost a lot of pieces, and yeah, we're not there yet. A lot of that, I think I really do think a lot of it is timing, you know. That generation that grew up, like I said, is now they're having children that are older to where they can kind of do some of these things, like, hey, this is we we had somebody in our family, not like my household, but in my family that was like, Hey, you want to go to South Dakota? And I was like, No, like, no, then I have no idea like why would you want to go? He's like, Right Mount Rushmore, and I'm like, No, like that sounds horrible. Like, I'll go look at real mountains. I'll go look at real mountains, you know. Like, are we passing through South Dakota to get somewhere cool? Like, not climate-wise, but destination cool, but I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 16:11

Yeah, I think I would at least like to see him once, but I think I've been to South Dakota. Was that where that one missionary was at? We were in or a Dakota. We've been in South Dakota.

SPEAKER_00 16:20

Yeah, no desire to be in Dakota's ever. I've been in both, and they're I feel like that's one of those places like if I had to move out there, you'd have to pay me really good money to move out there. Like, here's a free house. I'm not gonna try to go outside because it is so windy all the time. Well, and it like their actual temp is like just silly. Like negative, negative, negative 20, negative 40. I think it's gotten in one of the Dakotas. I'm like, no. I'm good.

SPEAKER_01 16:55

Um, number four, returning to physical media. So frustrated with the limitations of streaming services, more Americans are buying vinyl CDs and DVDs, leading to resurgence in physical media and collecting. This is a big one for me. I mean, this isn't something new for me, but I've always tried to have physical because I just know for example, if you buy video games online, you don't actually own the game, you just own the right to play that at that certain time, and they can pull it whenever they want to from it. So anything that you do, that's what's gonna happen. So I've always tried to have my physical DVDs of the house, like my favorite show, The Office, no surprise, um, just stuff like that. Because I even thought about what happens if the Wi-Fi goes down, like I have something to do, or um video games. If I get bored with them and I don't want any more, I can make my money back. Right. Um yeah, so I've I've always loved having physical media rather than downloading it from the space, the server that I'm paying extra.

SPEAKER_00 18:05

The data centers, the good old data centers, yeah. But I know um like this is actually becoming more of a problematic. Like, I I think Americans are getting more fed up with the whole, you know, cut the cord on cable, stream this, and now it's like sports are just getting like if you want to watch that was the one.

SPEAKER_01 18:27

That's what I was gonna talk about with baseball from a prior episode. Yeah. Was with me loving the game, but the blackouts everywhere, and then like you're saying, you have to have this um animal that's very flamboyant to watch some of the um the games, the games, and then you have to get on something else and well like YouTube, YouTube.

SPEAKER_00 18:51

I heard is the most friendly, like you can get the most for your your bank, but like I'm just gonna drop it, I'm just gonna drop it. Like, the Big Ten network drives me crazy because they float around like YouTube will have some Big Ten games, but then it's like the Big Ten network's like, oh no, we we're taking that and you're not watching it. And it's like and then they go on the big flamboyant one, yep, yep, and it's it's just like even like NFL. I remember you used to be able to watch a regular season pretty much on basic TV. You could catch games. Now it's like, oh, you want to watch that playoff game? Yeah, oh you better go get the flamboyant animal. And I only know that because that was the first time that the Detroit Lions, whom I happen to like, made it to the place or playoffs. So I was like, Oh yeah, we're gonna free trial that buddy. So then, you know, and that's the thing is uh I heard all these statistics, man, and it makes me sick. Like that company, the flamboyant animal, paid uh a hundred and ten million dollars to have that game, and they made well over that because people signed up and they just left it. And I guarantee you, half the people don't even know that they have a scripture subscription to that, yeah, and it's just but it's like to watch a game, you gotta figure out okay, in my area, is that game even available? Okay, if it is, what streaming device do I have to get? It's like man, and then all the ads. So my kids are very much against ads. Like, well, we do this thing where it's like, what's your favorite ad? And I was like, that's a really weird question. And then one of my kids is like, skip ad. That's my favorite question. My favorite ad.

SPEAKER_01 20:43

It's so, it's so ridiculous how advertisements, dude. Oh, you're gonna get me on something. Our local big 50 watt,000 Bluetorch station. It's like six minutes of actual show and then six minutes of ads.

SPEAKER_00 21:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:00

Three minutes of actual show, then six minutes of ads, and then we gotta listen to this guy talk about the big egg show or the farm show. Like, I'm just trying to figure out what's going on with Iowa and make corn down three cents and a quarter. We got time for that, but love that guy. Anyway, so yeah, no, that's that's cool.

SPEAKER_00 21:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:22

What about number five, bud?

SPEAKER_00 21:24

Oh, is that me? It sure is. Visiting physical bookstores and retail spaces. Physical retail is seeing a comeback with bookstores, notably, I'm just gonna say it, Barnes and Noble, and bouche boutique shops, however you say that, thriving as people crave in person shopping experience. Hard copies of books are up 65%. Age groups 16 to 24 prefer physical books by 70%. And I put, I wonder if we are going to see more people using physical copies. Of like dictionary and encyclopedia. And the reason why is because yes, we have all this, like uh we're in the digital age, so I can I can access all this information, but especially like with AI. I don't know if I was talking to you about this, but like AI like makes me believe nothing. Like, I can read a legit article, but if I see this video, I'm just like, no, I don't I don't know if I believe any of those right now. Like, came off the same like website, so I I don't know. So it's like I kind of miss the whole like okay, I grabbed this encyclopedia, this thing is facts, you know, 100%, and I can just open it. But so I wonder if like that's gonna be more because like I feel like this digital age, everybody like almost dove in all the way, and now we're like trying to come up for a fresh breath of air, you know, like yeah, like I'll I'll do digital stuff, but like I kind of like holding a book in my hand that I read, you know, not necessarily uh digital book, but like a physical, you know. Um Amazon's great, right? I can buy stuff, whatever I want, and get shipped to my house, but it has problems. But it's like but like let's go, I don't know, to Shields or Bass Pro or wherever, yeah, and physically go there. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 23:40

Yes, I'm always in support of that. Get away from Amazon. Shop local. Just the way they treat people there, that's all I'm gonna say. Just the way they treat people. That that turned me off right away. Alright, number six, going to drive-in theaters. What was considered a dying nostalgic relic has experienced a major resurre resurgence, providing a safe, experimental alternative to traditional indoor cinemas? That would be really fun.

SPEAKER_00 24:09

They have them at the parks. It's like a free, it's not obviously drive-in, but it's a free movie night.

SPEAKER_01 24:16

Uh do you remember uh the guy I used to call Bear at a job that we used to work at? The warehouse? Uh I know the warehouse. Big Asian guy? Oh, yes, yes. Funny story, his name was not Bear. For some reason I thought it was. I remember why I remember why you thought that, yes. But uh he really nice guy, and uh he would actually put up a projector and he'd show movies for like all the kids around the neighborhood to just come and chill and watch. I thought that was that was pretty cool.

SPEAKER_00 24:50

Yeah, he had children too, so it wasn't like he was.

SPEAKER_01 24:53

He's not the creepy weird guy with free candy on his minivan.

SPEAKER_00 24:56

He was no, he did not drive a minivan. Nope. He was uh he was a good guy. I remember him. Um uh yeah, they do that like at the parks. They'll kind of the same idea, put up a sheet and uh projector, and you know, like little kid movies, and um it's like movie night at the park, is what they call it. So I don't know, it's kind of a cool and then obviously there's I think that one yeah, there's one where my parents live. Yeah, I think that one's still active, but yeah, it's I don't know the game if had the time. That's the in the uh oh babysitter for it. I just know that like going to the actual movie theater, it's so loud. And like can't hear what they're saying. I watch movies with subtitles, man.

SPEAKER_01 25:49

I'm that guy, and it's a lot of it had Have you watched it there with the subtitles? No, nothing. Do you know how they do it? No. Alright, so it's like a cup holder and it's a little stick, and then it comes out and it's like a little captioning thing. So you have to it's like a flower almost, like in a way. You have to read it that way, yeah. You do you have to ask for those? How do you get that? Yeah, I asked. Have you done this? You've done this?

SPEAKER_00 26:11

What?

SPEAKER_01 26:11

It was um was it 1917? It was one of the war movies that came out maybe in the past like eight years. Was it somewhere local you watched? Maybe Dunkirk, maybe it was Dunkirk, and it was, I think it's Copper Creek.

SPEAKER_00 26:28

Huh.

SPEAKER_01 26:28

Maybe I didn't even know that was an option. I think part of it was gonna be in German or something.

SPEAKER_00 26:33

Because I was totally like, Where's the subtitle? Like the first time we went back to the theater, I was like, Where's the subtitles? Like, because I just you know TV, I'll watch it with when you have infants, you're like, hey, don't you wake up that kid? So you're reading the movie counts as reading the book, dude. It's two for one, you know. But but it uh yeah, I was just like, dude, this movie is so loud. I think we like I know for a fact, like we went and watched the Mario movie, like number one. I was like, this movie's really loud, and I'm like, I got little kids. I'm like, you think they're okay? Like, but yeah, yeah, yeah. So I I think that's I mean, it's cool. We uh I saw the whole projector and playing video games like old school Mario and stuff, like on out that's that's cool stuff. So um, is this me?

SPEAKER_01 27:31

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_00 27:32

Playing tabletop and niche games, uh, like they give the example of Dungeons and Dragons has been really uh really grown lately, which it it really has. It really has um transforming into mainstream phenomenon, and there's a renewed interest in classic arcade games. Um I also think like even lawn games, especially getting more into summer, um, do we construction dudes are like really crazy over bags? Like, yeah, I don't understand the fascination. Yeah, I I don't washers was a game for a bit. Yeah. Well, and it's like my kids um like they're learning chess, which I'm I love that. That's like one of those like I'm so happy moments, but they have we bought stress-free chest stress-free chess, yes, um, which is a good way to learn because you learn how the all the pieces move and stuff, but then I mean it turns into my oldest and I are just playing chess, which is really fun. But also, like I love being able to play like classic arcades. I still like that, you know.

SPEAKER_01 28:54

I'd love to yeah, go in there with the joysticks and play the old uh Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games, the old Simpsons one, the old fighting one, Tekken probably Tekken, yeah, yeah, man. Dude, I remember shooting games, House of Dead Slam of the Past, man. Me and Daniel, we blew through we each had gotten 20 bucks to go to the arcade for a teen activity, and we went and just blew the whole 20, but we beat it. We beat the whole thing. There you go, dude.

SPEAKER_00 29:22

But mission of that's all hey, you just I I think every kid that's a millennial at least has blown 20 bucks in an arcade. Oh, I've done that, but on one game, yeah. Look, if you're gonna look, you're just not a quitter, alright? You're just not a quitter. Not that day because I had the money.

SPEAKER_01 29:43

Yeah, yeah. Fun fact, mom, I know you're listening or watching. My goal is to one day, I've been looking them up. There is a video game that is near and dear to her and mine heart, and it's kind of like based off a Starsky and Hutch type thing. You're in a car, yes, and you both can shoot. You got little uh Uzies? Yes, dude, James and I would play that game all the time. Me and her would play that in the arcade when I was super little. Yeah. I've been looking to see if there's like maybe one day when I have a really good tax return and I have nothing to do in my house, like hooking that up for me and my mom, but uh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:23

Yeah, we played one game. It's whatever the brothers' names are. But yeah, the uh the one that I loved was it's uh it's a shooter, but you'd step on this pedal and that would advance you, and then you'd back off. Like the time crisis? Yeah, that's what it was. Yes, dude, dropped so much money on that game, but it was a fun one. So then the shooter one that you're in the area 51. Yes, yeah. Yep, yep. Fun games, but laser tag too is uh like fun fact, I was actually in a little laser tag league at LaserX when I was a kid. My name was well, I can't say my name for your copyright and trademark. But no, I had a sweet name, I'll tell you off there. But uh I was I was pretty good, man. And then now my kids are getting to where they they get a play, and I don't go easy on them, dude. No, like I wouldn't. It's laser tag. You're gonna learn that when it's in here, don't play. Guess what?

SPEAKER_01 31:28

I got the butt of my gun. Can use that too. Melee! Anyway. Next one is wearing vintage and retro fashion. Thrifting and incorporating retro fashion items, such as bell bottoms and fanny packs, into modern wardrobes has become a popular, sustainable fashion trend. I'm sorry, dude. A fanny pack will never stuck in the 90s.

SPEAKER_00 31:54

No, people are trying to rock it, dude.

SPEAKER_01 31:56

I know they are, but it's just not gonna be not funny.

SPEAKER_00 31:59

It's just like, just stop. Just but like, just get a satchel. It's not a purse, it's a satchel.

unknown 32:06

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_00 32:07

Uh do you remember those Jenko jeans? Those are coming back with the huge pockets, dude. Yeah, man. Yeah, yeah. It's not dude. Alright. There's this I know a guy that uh has it's I'm gonna call it a stasch. Hold a saschel for for my mental to be like, he's like this purse, yeah. Yeah, he just dude, he loves it too. He just like, man, this dude's so cool. Of like, oh my word, dude, you're rocking a purse. Oh no. He's like, Yeah, man, check out my stash hole. And he's like, I'm just like, every time I hear that word, I think, no man, they're tough. Indiana Jones says That's exactly what I think about. No. Um all right, number nine. Yes, sir. Using older older technology, Polaroids and digital cameras, um, as a reaction to obnoxious smartphone photography. Is that the word obnoxious? Yeah, ubidoquis. Ubidicous, wow, yeah, that was not even close. I don't know what I was thinking, but people are returning to instant print, Polaroid cameras, and early 2000s style digital cameras for nostalgical. No my goodness. Nostalgia no nostalgic physical memories. I can't even right now, buddy. I know, it's okay. Two of my daughters have digital cameras, so my wife has an Instaprint, and then she likes those. A lot of their friends have those instaprints and they love it. I remember the uh commercial from those where it's like take a picture. No, not the Polaroid, but Polaroid is that's what my wife's shot. She got the Polaroid Polaroid picture.

SPEAKER_01 34:05

But yeah, cool. I mean, I had much other physical copies than the how many gigs that are stored on my computer that I'm never gonna get off.

SPEAKER_00 34:14

Never like that's the thing, too, is it's like, yeah, that's cool. Like digital camera, you would actually print out the pictures and do on your phone.

SPEAKER_01 34:23

You might no, it just sits on my external hard drive if I can get it there.

SPEAKER_00 34:28

Might mark it up and send it to somebody else or something. I mean, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:33

Number 10, prioritizing real fitness classes. So while home workouts remain popular, Americans are returning to in-person high-energy group fitness, including a resurgence in step, aerobics, and dance workouts. Like a pony becoming mighty with Richard Simmons, bud.

SPEAKER_00 34:53

Richard Simmons. Yes. Sweat into the oldies.

SPEAKER_01 34:58

Yeah. Do you got you got anything you want to add to that? Are you good? No, I mean, I I do at-home workouts, so um I just don't want to drive, man. Like, and then paying the extra money to go somewhere. But I mean, good on you.

SPEAKER_00 35:18

I I don't I like working out with other people as far as like there was a time when my older brother and I would work out. Like he'd come to the house and work out with me. And like that was probably the most routine that I had. But like to join a gym, I have a gym at home, you know what I mean? So it's just like if I'm not gonna do it at home, am I really gonna do it there? And it's like, well, you'd spend the money. I've heard the arguments for it, I've even made the arguments for it, but I'm also like, yeah, but I can take that money and do something else with it, but right.

SPEAKER_01 35:54

Um, I think I think a lot of people because we'll see it, people make the um New Year's resolutions and then just fail at them, you know. Um you know, so trying to go to a gym and stuff and then eventually like just not going at all. And then you have the people like you have it at your house, and then it's just it's just gotta be a switch. And the best way I can say it's gotta be a switch kind of like um if you're gonna quit something you weren't supposed to be doing. So if you're quitting like smoking or quitting drinking, something that just really has a grip on you, it's just literally just you have to make that conscious decision and just do it. And um yeah, because I've been doing it since the beginning of the year. I see a little bit of difference, but like for how little of a difference for how much effort and time you put into it, it's just it's like, man, I want to just sleep and eat a bag of chips, man.

SPEAKER_00 36:55

Yeah, it's dude, it's yeah, it's a lot, and I want to get to where I lift like I was in high school/slash college. I mean, I didn't really lift in college like I would when I came home and stuff, but like I don't know. High school, I was like, oh man, I still got that dream. I'm gonna be in the football leagues and you know, play college football, blah blah blah. But so I was actually like actively trying to get swole, you know. But now I'm like, dude, I just want to lose weight. So but we're getting old. Yeah. Uh number 11 is performing their own minor vehicle maintenance and repairs DIYs to save money as vehicle ownership cost rises. I think a lot of this also was due to the high interest rates. They've come down a little bit, but I mean, just vehicle price in general is ridiculous. As a rise in retail, oh look at that. As a rise in retail sales of DIY car products with high income households and younger drivers aged 18 to 44 driving this trend. 29% of consumers have switched from professional service to DIY oil changes, specifically to cut cut cut costs. Thank you. You're welcome. A study noted that over 40% of car owners are likely to attempt to fix issues themselves, according to Simple Tire.

SPEAKER_01 38:26

Well, when your oil changes cost 80 bucks and you can just do it for yourself for like 40, yeah. 80 bucks is a cheap oil change, dude. It's retarded. Like oil changes, like, come on. Like my grandma could do an oil change. There's no specialty in doing that. You're gonna charge me that much money for it. Like, that is just ridiculous.

SPEAKER_00 38:48

That's because they offer you a water or a coffee, dude.

SPEAKER_01 38:51

And all I'm literally gonna do is just give you the oil change. I won't even check your fluids, that'll be extra and grease up your dude. I remember when all that used to be standard, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 39:01

Like, what in the world, man? I just I can't believe that.

SPEAKER_01 39:05

Yeah, but I'll do my like so I'll do my camry, I'll do as much maintenance as I can on my camera with my hands, but then when it comes to Nancy's car, um I have to take it into the shop because I have a warranty on it. Right. That doesn't pay out. Nope.

SPEAKER_00 39:21

Um, I know brakes and rotors. Oh my word, the upcharge of labor on those. Yeah. Just ridiculous.

SPEAKER_01 39:31

Yeah, I got wrenched pretty good probably about five years ago on the Camry. Yeah. Yeah. My dad's like, yeah, don't do that next time.

SPEAKER_00 39:42

But I think YouTube has definitely helped a lot of this too because I'll I'll even the diagnosed a problem. Like, I'm like, hey, what's going on? This my vehicle is doing this. What does this mean? And then some dude on YouTube's like, I man, I'm down here, my name's Ricky, and I'm just gonna show you what's wrong with this little toy holder right here. And it's like, it goes.

SPEAKER_01 40:02

Is he part of the Bobby family? Ricky Bobby. Yes, yes. Oh, that's awesome. But yes, that's I mean, that's what I would do. Cause and the other hard part is just finding a local, reliable, decent shop. Yes, where you feel like you're not getting ripped off and somebody you can actually talk to and take care of your issues. And I feel like we have a pretty good one up here with the horse made out of tires. Yeah, I feel like that's a pretty good place.

SPEAKER_00 40:35

Yeah, I don't think I know it changed ownership a few years ago, like probably honestly, like a decade ago.

SPEAKER_01 40:41

I feel like I haven't had issues with them, they've always treated me fairly. So and lastly, gardening. 60% of Gen Z reported spending more on gardening in 24, while millennials represent nearly a third of all gardeners. A big reason is the rising food costs. Forty-three percent of Americans are now growing some of their own food. A 17-year high. Non-traditional methods such as vertical gardening. I hate that we always have to put special like names on stuff now. Like, do we have to call it vertical gardening? Can we just like call it gardening?

SPEAKER_00 41:20

I mean I mean, I know it's supposed to be there yeah, it's they try to name it that way because I'm sorry, I'll get off. Yeah. Like you're different loc uh.

SPEAKER_01 41:33

You're trying to maximize a small area like it's saying, so you're vertical gardening.

SPEAKER_00 41:37

Just you're just gardening. Who cares? It's gardening. You can call it urban gardening if you want. I don't I don't know. It's gardening.

SPEAKER_01 41:44

Gardening's gardening, dude. With an annual growth rate of about 8%. No dig methods and organic gardening, water-wise gardening, drought tolerant plants, and exerscaping. Gardening is increasingly recognized as therapeutic calming activity that requires sorry, that provides a sense of control. Gardens are being designed as social gathering spots, featuring fire pits and in some cases being used in healthcare for healing. Millennials continue to drive the houseplant market with 70% identifying as plant parents. So yeah, I'm not I'm I'm done with that part. I'm not gonna comment on that. Are you guys ever gonna do a garden? No. No, too much upkeep. And I think for where I'm at, not gonna work out well.

SPEAKER_00 42:33

We uh we're obviously we're gonna try. Um I just listened to like a homesteading podcast that had an episode on gardening, and it talked about like setting aside a garden, specifically like that's your kids' garden, like they can do whatever they want with it and they want to play in it, just dig holes, great. If not, like they tell you what seeds they want, they plant them where they want, and they take care of it, you know? And uh like with the whole food cost and all that stuff, like it's put a lot of pressure. Like my wife just said this to me the other day. The way the lady on the podcast said it was like take every garden and just say it's my practice garden. And my wife was like, Oh, that's such like just relieves so much pressure because I'm just practicing. And I'm like, I guess I didn't know, like, like there's a little bit, I have a little bit of pressure because I'm like, I most of the stuff that grows in our yard, like I don't get to eat because my kids, which I'm I'm so thankful. Like, we had little cherry tomatoes. That cherry tomato tree didn't or bush didn't have a chance, dude. Every time the kids would see one, it wouldn't be it wouldn't be red, like it would be like greenish still, and I'm like, yeah, that's not and I'm like, guys, you gotta let it actually grow. Row, you know, but um, so the same thing happened with my raspberries, they were just popping. Oh, the raspberries are so good, dad. And I'm like, I didn't, I don't I don't know, I don't know what they taste like. So um, but like we uh accidentally planted a whole bunch of beans, like my oldest just threw them in a bucket and then they sprouted. So I was like, oh that's cool, but and then I tried to transport them into like the garden bed, and they were like, no, we're not having it. So when I tried to garden, it didn't work, but yeah, so we're gonna try um and see, but it's more of kind of getting there's a lot of things that we buy like that have gone up, like we we use onions a lot and then garlic and stuff like that, and just like the prices. I'm like literally could grow this in a window, like a piece of garlic in a window bay or whatever, but I think that's considered a vertical garden. I don't know, but it's just I don't know, it's one of those things where as a kid my grandpa had a garden, and like I love doing that. Like tomatoes was the biggest thing. We'd literally, like, my kids popped cherry tomatoes. I would just take a real tomato and just eat it.

SPEAKER_01 45:20

So when you asked about a garden, how many of the things do you think I'd actually eat out of the garden? That's the real question. Well, here's the thing because my thing is it would be trees instead, more likely pears, apples. I would maybe eat raspberries, right? Strawberries? Sure. Maybe your kids? Blueberry.

SPEAKER_00 45:39

All my all this stuff would be for my kids. Yeah, but if I didn't some it'd be like peppers. See, and like that's the crazy thing, too, is like cat uh my oldest and I want to do like peppers and spices, herbs and stuff like that. So where I'm like, because I'm like, we could do that, it's not hard, we just don't do that, and that's that's when it comes down to it, and you say it like that, you're like, man, I could, I probably should. Plus, I like I want to do more salsa, like make my own and stuff, cuz I'm pretty good at it, man. So but yeah, tomatoes for like salsa and stuff, and onions and all that, pepper, spices.

SPEAKER_01 46:23

But and on that note, let's jump onto the wild card, shall we? Yeah, let's do it. Let's do that.

SPEAKER_00 46:33

I mean, is it my son loves my kids, I should say, because we they were listening and uh Dad put them on the podcast. I'll put it on. I was like, oh no, this week's episode of the wild card. They're like, ah they love it, they just laugh the whole time. It's pretty awesome. Yeah to where they didn't even hear the wildcard question.

SPEAKER_01 46:52

That's good. That's good. So you have to tell them to look on YouTube now because I've I've switched. When we go from us talking, then we transfer into the wild card, there's a transition, is what they call it. It looks like little cards that flip now.

SPEAKER_00 47:09

Nice.

SPEAKER_01 47:09

So so and welcome to this week's segment of the wild card.

SPEAKER_00 47:20

This week's wild card for the evergreen is uh what is something that you wished more people would ask you about?

SPEAKER_01 47:32

This is a tough one, dude, because like I wish more people would ask me about my faith, maybe, or about God. Um wish more people would ask me about this podcast. Um maybe my family? I love talking about my family. Um but I mean overall, like I'm just kind of a truck driver. I don't feel like I have anything fun outside of, you know, I I would love to talk about my faith, my family, and that's maybe video games, I guess, but yeah, I I'm sorry, it's a really good thing. No, like I'm I'm trying to think like intellectually, like I'm I'm not that I'm not that guy, pal.

SPEAKER_00 48:21

No, no, I I'm trying to think of like what what I wish somebody would ask me about. I don't know. Most people, how's your day? No, not that. Uh there's sometimes I'm like, ah, just don't, please. Uh I don't want to. Yeah. Um I wish people would ask me about I don't know. I I enjoy talking about things like um are things that interest me, you know, but um a lot of people ask me about like, why you have five kids, you know, how do you do that or whatever, but make that work because then they find out that my wife stays home and they're like, we could never do that. But as far as stuff I enjoy talking about, like I I don't know. I feel like I'm the guy right now where I'm trying to learn from people, like I'm trying to learn how to actually do better at fishing to where my son will hopefully like it because we went and caught nothing, didn't even get bites, dude. It was pretty bad. But um we also bought dead worms, so that didn't help. So we're using fake bait, which I have no idea how to do. But I I don't know, man. I like talking about like my interests are I like football. Um sounds so cliche. Um I I'm trying to read more, so I try to get people. I don't know. I don't try to get people to talk to me about that, but it'd be nice.

SPEAKER_01 50:01

Ask me how I got these scars. Oh you can just I don't know, it just popped in.

SPEAKER_00 50:07

Yeah, please add.

SPEAKER_01 50:08

Sorry, I'm sure we were all dying for that input, but no, like um, I don't know, man.

SPEAKER_00 50:13

I I don't watch a lot of movies, I don't watch a lot of TV shows. Ask me about what I do for fun, I guess.

SPEAKER_01 50:25

Be nice. Okay, cool. Well, thank you once again for listening to our show. Don't forget to stay. Thank you.