Things We Don't Miss About The 80s and 90s

Smoking in restaurants is one of many things on this list.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
We are light fmcubby and Christine in the morning. You know,
we love nostalgia around here, and after all our music
variety from the eighties through today, we got that here. Yeah,
But I want to talk about instead of the things
we loved about the eighties and nineties. Can you tell
me something you don't miss from the eighties and nineties?
Think about that, something you don't miss from the eighties

(00:20):
and nineties. Give us a text at four four three
sixty three. For example, long distance phone calls. Do you
remember talking to somebody far away and wondering, boy, how
much is this gonna cost?

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Yeah, and trying to cut it short? Yeah, just in case.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
I used to call my mom when I lived in
Texas and she lived in Virginia. I would only call
on Sunday because it was the lower rates. That was
a big deal. Remember that, Kristin, You don't remember that well.
I remember being threatened, but don't don't make a phone
call that's far away? Yes, yeah right. Not having GPS,
oh yeah, worse. We can't live without GPS now, not anymore.

(00:57):
And I had written directions that I would save, like
what is your memory of directions? Christine?

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah? Of friends giving you directions of my dad getting
out maps when we traveled would be mapped out in
a book from like Triple A or something.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
My dad yelled at me because I couldn't fold the
map back into the Glovear.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Oh, we could. Only dads could do that.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
And then Kristin we were saying, even map Quest, yes,
we were the map Quest generation.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Yeah, but that also required you to be prepared. Yes, absolutely,
you couldn't use map Quest on the.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Road, right, No, you had to print out before you
got printed it out, be prepared for it, prepared for everybody.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
The back seat had like fifty pages of paper, yes, right,
be there forever other things on a list. What we
found is dial up internet, something we don't miss from
that decade. You hear that sound, of course, and you
think nineties, but we don't miss it at all. Cigarette
smoke everywhere. If you're a smoker, love you, I get it,
you know, but it really was everywhere.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
It was everywhere, Yes, you know it was.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
My I mean, it was restaurants, it was airplane, it
was buses. It was literally everywhere. And to tell the truth,
when I smell like smoke, like a second hand smoke,
I hate they say it.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
I kind of like it, Oh, you like it?

Speaker 1 (02:09):
It's nostalgic, like I don't want to sit there and
breathe it, right, but it brings me back memories of, like,
I don't know, an old smoky restaurant. I don't know, right,
what do you think, Christine?

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, I'm with you. I mean I'm looking through some
suggestions here. Pantyhose, who stop wearing pantyhose?

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Oh that's okay, you know what. I don't wear them,
but you know, I don't see anything wrong with it
when a lady wears it.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
You know, stockings were verboat and stockings were way out
for the longest time. Have they made a little bit
of a comeback? I thought they did. Yeah, I thought
so they did. Shoulder pads are on this list too, Yeah,
those those can go bye bye.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah. You know what shoulder pads like the eighties? Yeah,
the big one and guys would wear them too.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
Right, Yeah, but those came back for a bit in dresses,
they did. They had them moment recently, but I think
I think they were like a little more scaled down. Yeah,
well definitely.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah. Did you ladies ever use aquinet?

Speaker 2 (03:07):
No?

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Okay, no, what about a manual roll up and down
window in the car. No, we don't miss those at all,
do we?

Speaker 2 (03:14):
No, not so much, right, No, that part I don't miss.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah, well I'd love to hear from you. What's that, Kristen?
Having to get photos processed out a shop without CEO.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
You didn't know what you had until they were printed, right.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
We lived as It was very exciting to get it right. Yeah,
to pick them up and you go in the car
in the parking lot and look at all the pictures
and they were all blurry, every single one. All right?
Text us it four four three six three something you
don't miss from the eighties and nineties.