Ep. 35: Are 90s Babies the Drunkest Generation?
Shout Out to the 95s
We got the last real version of childhood. Playing outside. Actually talking to people. Being bored and having to do something about it.
Then the internet showed up right as we hit high school, which is the exact age where you have zero judgment and nobody supervising you. Best childhood, worst possible timing.
Honesty Box Is Why Nobody Our Age Has Confidence
People ask why women our age are insecure. Honesty Box. Anonymous messages, no moderation, no rules, and no adult anywhere near it.
You think you got bullied on the internet? It was a bathroom wall with a login screen. And we all went back the next day and refreshed it.
We Uploaded the Entire Camera Roll
Digital camera, full memory card, straight to Facebook. Every photo. Nothing removed, nothing edited, no filter, just the whole album for the entire school to look through.
Nobody was curating anything because there was nothing to curate for. We didn't know we were building an archive. We thought we were just showing people the party.
We Were Twelve and Every Song Was About Getting Wasted
When we got to high school, Paris, Lindsay and Britney were out partying and In Touch Weekly was reporting on it at the grocery store checkout. LMFAO dropped Party Rock Anthem. Akon, Rihanna, Pitbull, every single one of them singing about tequila.
We were twelve. Then Project X came out our senior year. Getting messed up wasn't something you did on a weekend, it was the entire personality. That was living.
There Was No Such Thing as Aesthetic
Nobody used that word. It didn't exist. The closest thing we had was Tumblr, which was all dark, eerie, underground party energy, and Myspace, where one of us learned actual HTML so she could put glitter stickers on her profile.
There was no pressure for any of it to look a certain way, because there was nothing to compare it to. You just posted.
Logging Out Just to Log Back In
You'd get home, sign into MSN, and wait for your crush to come online. Then you'd log out and log back in so it would pop up on their screen and say you were there.
That was the entire communication strategy. Twelve steps of effort for one notification. And it worked.
Black Eyeliner, Top and Bottom, and No Lips
The look was liner all the way around, lashes as big as physically possible, and concealer on the mouth. Not gloss. Concealer. We erased our own lips on purpose and went to school like that.
Add a brow dip applied with zero restraint, side bangs, jet black hair. One of us went through a tub of Dream Mousse a month.
The Choker Gave One of Us Actual Claustrophobia
Every girl had one. Every colour, every material, stacked with a low cut bodysuit and the little zigzag straps.
One of us wore one and had what she's now fairly confident was her first ever anxiety attack. I literally can't breathe. She never wore one again. The other one still thinks they look sick.
"Let Me Be So For Real When I Say They Drank Rat Poison"
Four Loko was sold in stores. A guy would offer to grab you a cocktail and come back with one, which was functionally a drugging. One of us nearly lost a scholarship over it.
This generation won't drink a coffee because they read something about the beans. We were drinking that on a Tuesday and going to class. Respectfully, we are warriors.
2016 Looked Like a Filter and That's How It Felt
There's a filter from that era, pink and green and blue, and every photo from 2014 to 2016 has it on. That isn't just how the photos looked. That's how life actually felt at the time.
We have maybe two selfies from that entire stretch without something over them. If you asked us what we looked like in 2016, we couldn't tell you. We only know the Snapchat version.
Nobody Told Us the Internet Was a Place to Make Money
We were making videos that would be TikToks now. Vine was right there. We had the friends, the chaos, all of it, and then we all collectively stopped and went to university because that's what we were told to do.
In the exact window we stopped, eight year olds were becoming YouTube famous and making millions. Our parents pushed the degree, we took on the debt, and the internet turned into an economy while we were in class. That's where we got scammed.
All We Know Is Crisis
Line it up. Alive for 9/11. Watched 2008 take affordable housing off the table before we were old enough to want it. COVID at 25. Then another war, then another collapse, and at this point one drops and we go oh, another one.
So the music turned into everything's ruined, let's party, and we didn't clock it as a response to anything. We thought that was just how growing up went. It wasn't. That's why our livers are the way they are.
Would You Go Back for a Weekend?
Both of us said yes immediately, then both of us hedged. Not as who we are now. As who we were then, with that group of people, for two days, once a year.
Because you can't recreate it and you can't join it late. If you weren't there, you don't get to put it on now like it's a costume. Go put on Party Rock Anthem instead.
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(0:00) What's the generation now? Alpha. Al? Be so for real. They're more like beta.
(0:09) No, they're not. I feel like the Gen Z's were the ones that were like... Beta. I was going to say (0:14) gay.
Generation gay, literally. Oh, wait, no. Generation G. Gen G. Okay, anyway.
Gay? I mean, (0:24) no, there's a lot of gay people in our generation. They're in every generation, but... They're just (0:29) lit. I just feel like some generations are definitely gayer than others.
They're the fun (0:33) gays, okay? The fun gays. Not the like crying in the street gay. They're the like, okay, (0:38) yeah, we have sex with the same sex.
What of it? I feel like bad for Gen Z, because I'm like, (0:42) they're not all... I feel like they're not all bad, you know? But there was ones that represented (0:47) them so poorly. Oh, like all... Yeah, I'm not a fan. So we were 95s, which is the best year.
(0:53) The best fucking year, period. That's it. That's the episode.
No argument. Shout out to the 95s, (1:01) everyone can fuck off. Everyone else can fuck themselves.
I identify as a millennial, (1:06) and you identify as a millennial, even though we were both born in the same year, okay? (1:12) Listen, I was supposed to be a 94. I was two weeks too late. Yeah, fair enough.
So maybe (1:17) that's why you are more like millennial-leaning than I am. I feel like that six months really (1:23) made a difference. It does make a huge difference, although I do feel like I pick up on Gen Z (1:28) random traits, and you're like, what is wrong with you? And I'm like, six, seven, I don't know.
(1:34) I think that's alpha. Oh my god, I'm so young. Yes, you are.
It's true, but I actually do think (1:43) it was the best, yet the most fucked with generation. Yeah, we were alive for 9-11. (1:50) So if you're not alive for 9-11, I don't even consider you a person.
It's kind of weird. I'm (1:55) like, you didn't experience 9-11, even though we didn't experience it, but we did. I was living in (2:00) Moscow at the time.
Oh my god, and they were like, yay, I'm down with America. No, I don't think so, (2:07) but wow, it's kind of fucked up. There were so many ways that we were fucked with as a generation (2:12) that it's hard to maybe sometimes see the positives for some people, because I feel like (2:16) we missed the boat on so many things on either side, you know what I mean? On the one side, (2:22) we missed the opportunity to have affordable housing, and I'm saying this so casually.
(2:28) Throwback to 08. And then COVID hit, right, when we were in our mid-20s. Yeah, I just turned 25 (2:35) when that happened.
Literally life after COVID is just not the same. Also, when we got into high (2:41) school is when social media came out. Just started.
But social media, when it came out, was (2:47) not what we know social media to be today. It was a free-for-all. Yeah, it was like an unhinged, (2:55) crazy... Like, you think you got bullied on the internet? No.
Oh my god. Like bathroom wall, (3:01) like holy shit. People are like, why don't you have confidence? Or why are you insecure? (3:06) Because honesty box.
Honesty box, oh my god. If you remember honesty box, let us know if anything (3:13) was written about you, because that was bad. We had digital cameras, and we would upload the entire (3:19) camera roll onto Facebook.
Unfiltered. No filter, didn't take anything out, just sent it. I don't (3:27) want to think about it.
Yeah, so then they say like, you know, millennials are the drunkest (3:30) generation. Oh, correct. But like, I will say, of course we are.
When we got into high school is (3:37) when Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears were out partying, and In Touch Weekly was fucking (3:44) reporting on it at the grocery store. Oh yeah. LMFAO was like fucking dropping.
Party rocking. (3:50) Party rock anthem shots. We were like 12 listening to like Pitbull, like every song ever by Pitbull.
(3:58) Akon, fucking Rihanna. And they were all just like, tequila, tequila. Get wasted.
Fucking party. We're (4:07) fucking 12. Yeah, and then Project X. That was iconic.
Did that come out in 2012 or 13? (4:14) I feel like it was 2012, but I could be so wrong. It was like, we graduated in 2013, so it was like (4:18) senior year high school. We're just like, oh fuck yeah.
That was just, life was all about getting (4:24) drunk. Getting fucked up. That's life.
That's living. There was no like social media pressure to (4:30) have any aesthetic. We didn't even know what aesthetic was.
No, there was no such thing as (4:35) the word aesthetic. I don't even remember that word. The only thing that I feel like was aesthetic for us was (4:41) Tumblr.
Oh yeah, baby. Like the dark, eerie party fucking underground vibes, okay? And then, I can't. (4:49) Yeah, and learning HTML so I could put glittery fucking stickers onto my Myspace account.
(4:57) This is why, okay, because you were like a bit more techie. Always. I've never.
Since I was a kid. Never. (5:02) I hacked a girl on Neopets at age 11.
I love that for you. Oh my god, like Club Penguin. (5:09) I'm just remembering all these things.
I love Club Penguin. Like, we went home and we'd log into like, (5:14) MSN. And it's like available.
BRB. Bubble, squiggly line. Bubble, bubble, capital letter, (5:22) Madison and Anastasia.
Bubble, squiggly line. Who's online right now? Oh my god, who's online right now? (5:29) Like, I didn't have a phone until grade nine, which is crazy. And it was like a Nokia, okay? I know you (5:35) always had a phone.
K, you're up. But I had a phone in grade one. Yeah, I mean, that makes sense.
(5:42) You guys were so ahead of the times. I think that's why I was so like into technology. Back in the day, I just remember (5:47) logging in and like waiting for my crush to come on MSN and it's like, that's how you communicate.
(5:51) Just so I could log out and log back in to be like, I'm back. Online. Yeah, because it pops up.
It's like, (5:57) Anastasia's online. It's like, oh, fuck yeah. Yeah, I did that too.
I would like, wow, that was such a game. (6:03) Yes, we did play games. But we also talked to people.
Yeah, like physically. Yes, but also like (6:10) texting was such a fun thing. Teen I was the shit.
It took effort to message. Yeah. Yeah.
And then like (6:17) makeup got crazy. Like mid high school, I would say. What was your favorite makeup look? I mean, (6:22) it's not that it's my favorite, but it's what, what was the look for you? Oh my god.
The look for me was (6:29) black eyeliner, top and bottom, right? And like getting my lashes as big as I could possibly get (6:37) them. Like caterpillar lashes. And cover up on my lips.
Tea though. Everyone, you know that? Like, (6:45) what was it that like makeup forever? The dream puffy. Dream puff fucking dream girl.
What the (6:50) fuck was it called? You know, you know. Dream. It was cover girl, like dream mousse.
Dream mousse. (6:55) And it was literally like the most puffy. I went through one in like a month.
Yeah. And it was just (6:59) like cake. Oh yeah.
Oh yeah. No gloss. It's like, you don't have lips.
Yeah. No, no lips for no reason. (7:07) And then, um, I don't really remember.
I feel like I wasn't really good at eyebrows, so I don't know (7:11) what the deal was. Let me tell you. Anastasia fucking brow dip forever.
And I would like block (7:18) and it was like actually, you know, crazy. But the top and bottom liner was like an absolute must. (7:24) Yeah.
Fucking side bangs. Like crazy. And Snapchat.
Snapchat came out at the end of high school. (7:31) Yeah. Grade like 11, 12.
And that was probably the first closest thing to what we have today. (7:38) True. Up until that point, social media was like just a different experience.
Like, I mean, (7:43) it's something that feels like no one will ever experience this again. No, because it was so (7:48) new. It was like crazy.
The ultimate freedom of speech platform. I just remember like there was (7:55) so many like crazy things that you just got away with because it was just so brand new and there (8:00) was no rules. And we were all making like YouTube videos like what you would consider today to be (8:06) like TikToks.
We should have all been. Vine. Oh my God.
Vine. Bring back Vine. Fuck TikTok.
Like (8:12) Vine was the shit. I miss it. Vine was probably the first platform where you could become an (8:17) influencer, but influencers didn't exist back then.
No. There was no such thing as an influencer. (8:22) YouTubers.
But I feel like that was that was starting to become a thing. Yeah. Because it was (8:26) like, oh, do you know this guy on Vine or girl on Vine that's making these funny fucking.
Yeah. (8:29) Whatever. And then Vine died.
Was it Ted or whatever? Ted. Ted Ned. (8:36) Some dude on fucking Vine.
He was so famous. The only guy I remember on Vine is the brown (8:44) dude from Canada. Oh, do you know who I'm talking about? He would always make like his dad (8:50) and white girl like parodies.
Anyway, it was he was so funny. Oh, (8:55) Jagmeet. Well, Jaspreet.
I shouldn't I sound so fucking racist. Jagmeet. (9:03) I remember like Russell Peters shouted him out at one of his shows.
(9:06) You know, it was probably a Jagmeet. I wish I knew the real name. Okay.
Anyway. Yeah, (9:12) I feel like we're fucking. I mean, I think we're on topic, but I just don't know where it's going.
(9:16) This was supposed to be a this or that game. Okay. It's like One Direction or Five Seconds (9:21) of Summer.
Ew. Who the fuck is Five Seconds of Summer? I know them, but I'm like, oh, do you? (9:26) I don't even know who that is. Okay, we're going to the next one.
I feel like that's so funny. (9:30) Yeah. Katy Perry or Lady Gaga.
That is so difficult. I feel like that is so easy. Lady (9:35) Gaga.
What? Back in the day, I was so. Are you fucking kidding me? I was so. Lady Gaga was (9:40) iconic.
Katy Perry was my first concert ever. The meat dress. Oh, the meat dress.
I mean, (9:45) yeah, she is way more iconic. And her music was way better and is still way better. I don't know, (9:49) I'm sorry.
Literally, California Girl, that was my first concert ever. (9:54) I can't believe you are signing with Justin Trudeau's fucking girlfriend that (9:59) allegedly went to space. No, she floated around in a fake inner tube.
Okay, on to the next one. (10:08) Okay, I just have to say. What? I do think we're dead inside.
(10:13) Okay, well. And we're playing this or that. (10:17) Anyways, Katy Perry, sorry.
Okay, on to the next one. Drake or The Weeknd? The Weeknd. Yeah, (10:23) obviously.
The fuck? Are you fucking kidding me? That is a crazy. No, it's crazy. But I don't know.
(10:29) Hey, hear me out. 2013, Take Care album. That shit.
The Weeknd wrote it. I know, (10:36) but that lit my shit on fire. I didn't even know The Weeknd existed then.
Yeah, well, (10:40) that's your fault. I know. So, Taylor's Red or Taylor's 1989? Okay, we both hate Taylor Swift, (10:48) so this is just not even a question.
Okay, Bieber's My World or Bieber's Purpose? My World. (10:53) My World 2.0, actually. I have no idea.
Purpose is when he gets a little bit more like Jaquieva's (10:58) Bieber. This is actually kind of hard. Lord Royals or Lana Del Rey's Summertime Sadness? (11:04) Lord Royals for that era.
Oh, that's such a good song. It just slaps. No, I agree, (11:08) but I fucking love Lana Del Rey, and I would almost pick her all day, but that song, (11:15) Royals are so fucking good.
Yeah, that's like peak millennial. Nikki or Kesha? Oh, (11:20) fuck. Kesha, for the generation.
I fucked with Kesha hard. I really did. I like Nikki, but like, (11:30) no, Kesha, that was my fucking bitch for a minute.
Oh, fuck. I think I might pick Nikki. (11:38) Kesha originated TikTok, I have to say.
TikTok on the clock. Okay, round two, bitch. We're gonna (11:45) go into songs that we played until they were legally dead, and I think we talk about this (11:49) all the time, how we'll beat a dead horse with a song.
Okay, Somebody That I Used To Know or (11:57) Call Me Baby. What's Call Me Baby? So, Call Me Maybe. Oh, I don't like either one of those songs.
(12:03) Are you kidding me? I feel like Somebody That I Used To Know was beat to death. Oh, (12:08) it's beat to death. Yeah, so like this is a horse beating or whatever.
What do you think? Which song (12:13) do you think? If we're talking beating a horse. Okay, songs that we played until they were like (12:18) beat. I mean, I didn't, but our generation did.
Yes, so think about a generation. Somebody That (12:22) I Used To Know. Somebody That I Used To Know, actually, I was like, oh, I'm gonna kill myself.
(12:26) Play that one more time. Okay, Party Rock Anthem or Sexy And I Know It. Party Rock Anthem.
(12:33) Sexy And I Know It. I mean, they're fucking equal. Like, they're literally the same font.
(12:37) I was gonna say different fonts. But Party Rock, I totally agree. Yeah, iconic song.
I actually (12:42) listened to it this morning. Really? Yeah, because I was trying to like get into the mood for this (12:45) episode. Oh, yeah.
And I went on Spotify and I was like 2010 like bangers and the first song on (12:51) the list was Party Rock Anthem. I fucking love it. And I was like, of course it is.
Of course it is. (12:55) Okay, Thrift Shop or Gangnam Style. I want to say Gangnam Style because it was just global as fuck.
(13:01) I feel like it changed the world. I mean, they both were. Gangnam Style was crazy.
Very memorable. (13:07) Okay, We Are Young. We Are Young and Oh, Hey.
I don't know. What the fuck is that? Hey. Oh.
(13:18) Holy fuck. I don't even know. Am I right? I don't know.
But I recognize whatever you're (13:23) doing. And I don't know if it's a real thing. We are young.
Is that? Oh, no. I don't know. (13:30) Yeah, fuck that.
Okay, Uptown Funk or Happy. Ew. Ew.
I know. I hate them both. These two songs (13:39) are so bad.
Both of them. Horrible. They should have never.
Why the fuck? I like fully think (13:44) it's a conspiracy that both of these two songs were on the top 40. Happy was like my walk-up (13:50) song for a season. Isn't that insane? What does that mean? Sorry, I forgot you're not a sports (13:56) girl.
So a walk-up song is when you're like walking up to the plate to bat. You chose that? (14:01) I chose Happy because it was poppin'. Yeah, there was a period of time when we just weren't that (14:07) close.
And I feel like you made some really bad decisions because I wasn't in your life. (14:11) Listen, I was in New York listening to Take Care and walking up to Happy. And you're like, (14:16) come back.
And saying dada. And your kicks is fire, yo. I did.
Oh, my God. Oh, my God. (14:24) That was 2013, okay.
I don't know what I was doing, but it wasn't that. (14:30) Oh, Hotline Bling or Sorry. Oh, I'm always gonna choose Hotline Bling because I just (14:36) fuck with Drake.
And like he was just iconic. So I have to go with that. But I mean, Sorry is an (14:42) iconic song also.
It's true. I feel like you'd probably go with Sorry. Oh, I'd go with Sorry (14:46) all day.
Because I love your beebs. Yeah. If I were to ask you who is your favorite artist of (14:51) the 2010s? The Weeknd.
The Weeknd. The Weeknd is my favorite artist of my life. Yeah, of life.
(14:59) Of life. Literally. It was literally Britney Spears from the time I was like six years old (15:03) until The Weeknd dropped the trilogy.
And then it was The Weeknd for the rest of time. (15:09) That's fair. And in between there was a couple others.
What about you? Bieber. Yeah. Like (15:14) iconic.
Addicted. Before then, literally like early 2000s leading up to then probably like (15:21) Jonas Brothers. I was gonna say.
I knew it was the Jonas Brothers. You know, you saw my room. I (15:25) had a stencil, like JB stencil.
And you were the only one. My fucking not the only one. I promise (15:31) you.
Let's get into EDM, bitch. EDM. Avicii Levels or Swedish House Mafia, Don't You Worry Child? (15:38) Oh, Swedish House Mafia.
It's so hard because I love them. But Avicii, it's just like iconic. (15:44) They're so good.
Don't you worry. You know, never mind. Avicii.
Levels? Avicii Levels. (15:50) Yeah, I feel like that was on repeat. I don't know.
But I feel like I have to go with Swedish (15:56) House Mafia. It's hard. Skrillex or Deadmau5? Deadmau5.
Yeah, Deadmau5. I didn't really give (16:01) a fuck about Skrillex that much. I think I've seen Deadmau5 live more than any other artist.
(16:05) That's crazy. I haven't even fucking seen him live. What? No.
Are you sure? Yeah. I feel like (16:10) you've gone with me at one point in time. I think you were tripping.
Calvin Harris or Zedd? Calvin (16:16) Harris. Yeah, I agree. Definitely.
Yeah. When I met you in the cellar. Iconic.
That was the first (16:23) song I ever played on Spotify. Are you serious? Yeah. I don't even remember the first song.
(16:28) Can you look it up? Yeah, yeah. It came up because you know how Spotify did their like (16:32) 20-year anniversary, I think. Oh, okay.
Fuck, I want to know. Music Festival or House Party? (16:36) House Party. Oh, that era? At that point in time, it was definitely Music Festival for me.
(16:41) I feel like that's when I did like all my raving. Oh my god, I was House Party Central. I mean, (16:46) I love both, but like Music Festival.
We wanted to like recreate fucking. (16:55) We wanted to create, recreate like Project X hard and we never could because it just gets (17:01) copped out all the time. But Flower Crown or Neon Tank with a slogan on it? Oh, I was definitely (17:07) the Neon Tank with a slogan.
I didn't really go to festivals, but I did the Neon. I remember the (17:12) Snapchat filters with the flowers. Oh, yeah, I did that too.
Yeah, right. What was your favorite (17:16) Snapchat filter? Definitely like the little animals. Dog.
It wasn't the dog for me, but it (17:21) was like they had these little like bears and shit. Oh, you did. You did like the panda and (17:27) the white bear.
Oh, I fucked with the little bears. I fucked with the dog. I was basic as hell.
(17:32) Iconic. Well, iconic, but also like I just really followed the trend. Like I didn't have personality.
(17:37) I loved the little like butterflies. Oh, there was a really good butterfly one. The like gold (17:41) ones? Yes.
Those ones? Okay, but it was because the filter was so good. It made your eyes and (17:46) eyebrows fucking pop. I literally have that saved to this day because I look like a fucking elf.
(17:51) Yeah, it's crazy because at the time it felt like it wasn't like that out there, but when you look (17:56) back at these photos, it's like, oh my God. First of all, I probably have like two selfies that (18:02) are normal and not with a fucking filter on them. I don't know what I looked like because they're (18:06) all filtered.
They're all snapchat filters. These days I'm like, congrats, you get the real me. (18:11) That's crazy.
Back then could never. Vodka Red Bull or Jagerbomb? Jagerbomb. (18:17) I know.
Vomit. Now I would die. Back then would have been Vodka Red Bull for me though, but I (18:22) can't stand fucking Red Bull.
I prefer to shut, just get her done and keep going. Okay, so I (18:27) think the one trend of that era that I never got behind was definitely the choker. Oh my God, (18:31) I was all about the choker.
Oh yeah, you and every bitch was like that. I actually think the first time I (18:36) ever got anxiety was from wearing a choker. I was like, oh my God, I literally feel like I can't (18:42) breathe.
I kind of still low-key fuck with a choker, but I just feel like it's... I think they look (18:47) sick. I just was not a fan personally with it on me. I did it like once or twice randomly.
You got (18:53) claustrophobia. I literally, I got claustrophobic from the fucking choker. Like I couldn't do it (18:57) anymore.
I just, yeah, but I did fuck with like the low-cut bodysuits with like the, you know, (19:03) like the zigzag fucking like. Oh yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about. I didn't have a bodysuit, (19:08) but I had like every color of dress with the fucking zigzaggy.
Oh yeah, ate that shit up. (19:14) Red, black, whatever. Oh yeah, you had every color.
I fucking loved those things. Oh my God. It's crazy (19:20) because I don't even own a single one now.
No, because they're fucking gross. A memorabilia. (19:25) A relic.
It should have gone in the memory box, truly. All your chokers, memory box. You were, (19:31) you wore a lot of cool chokers though, actually.
I think so. You were really, like any photo I have, (19:37) I'm like, I feel like we need to insert a photo where I'm like, I clearly don't fuck with chokers, (19:40) but it's bodysuit central and you're like choker and like eyeliner. Yeah, eyeliner and black hair.
(19:47) Black hair and no lips. Blue black, like jet black. No lips.
Yeah, covered up lips. Hell (19:53) no. YOLO or swag? YOLO was my shit.
YOLO was my shit. YOLO was everyone's shit. Are you getting (19:59) YOLO? Still the shit.
I love YOLO. I never say it anymore. I actually should start saying it.
We (20:04) should start saying it again. The only loved ones. We say it, we don't abbreviate.
Do we say it? I (20:09) don't even think we say it anymore. I just think like, no, we just literally say fuck it. It's (20:14) the same.
It's like the adult YOLO. Just fuck it. Because I'm just like, whatever, like send it, (20:18) send it.
Yeah. We got to bring YOLO back. Totally.
On fleek. On fleek. On fleek or bae.
Bae all day. (20:28) Are you kidding? Everyone was bae. Everyone was bae.
I literally had people on my phone as like, (20:33) A bae bae. A bae bae. Straight up, I would do that.
I would text that. Ew, I would D9. A bae bae.
(20:40) That's fucking gross. But also, yeah, I would have people like Anastasia bae, like in my phone. (20:46) I can't even or literally dying.
I can't even. I say I can't even still. I'm literally dying (20:52) too, though.
We say literally so much. I think it's a generational thing. It has to be because (20:58) who, like, I don't know.
I'm literally dying. I can't even. I feel like literally gives away (21:02) the fact that we're like millennials and not Gen Z. I listen to everyone talk and I'm like, (21:06) it is just me, eh? Oh, it's just me, eh? Yeah, you're also Canadian.
I said squad all the time. (21:18) Me and my fucking squad. My clique.
My clique. Ain't nobody fucking with my clique. (21:25) Yeah, exactly.
Turnt or lit? Oh, I said turnt a lot. But lit lives on. Iconic.
I say lit to this (21:32) day. Like I'm getting lit. Yeah.
Like right now, like I'm going to refill. I still say lit. Yeah.
(21:37) Why do you think we're the drunkest generation? I think because it was just like such a thing to (21:43) do. Like it was such a vibe. Like it was in the music.
It was on music videos. It was on TV. (21:47) Like Jersey Shore was popping off.
They were just wasted all day, every day. And so it was just (21:53) that was the culture. That was Bible.
Project X. Like literally it was just. The culture was (21:58) turned the fuck up. The culture was turned up.
Yeah. The financial crisis had happened. Yeah.
(22:03) And then I feel like music took this turn of just like, everything's fucked so let's party. Yeah. (22:08) And like let's numb out.
We were just growing up. So we didn't really know. We just, this was (22:13) the norm.
Yeah. Why do you think we're the drunkest generation? It was definitely the music. (22:18) Definitely.
We were so unaware of the fact that this isn't just your normal upbringing. We just, (22:25) it was completely fucked up. I think we all grew up and realized, oh, it really is that fucked.
And (22:30) like, what are we going to do about it? I guess we're just going to like go out for dinner and (22:33) drink all the time and party because we can't fix it. Yeah. I don't know.
I think it was just (22:37) the culture of just partying. It was cool to put out this footage of you just getting fucking crazy (22:42) and doing the craziest shit. And then I think social media evolved into this new thing where (22:46) people became like influencers and people started to make money.
And then all of a sudden aesthetic (22:50) became important because it was like, how do you stand out from the norm? You like make it so your (22:55) life looks more perfect or more like vibey than someone else's. And then I think Gen Z moved into (23:02) this generation of like clean girl versus like a fucking mess party girl. And then now I'm hearing (23:08) like, oh, the, you know, the party girl, like the clean girls out and party girls in.
And I saw (23:14) someone's comment online and it literally said like, my culture is not your costume. And I was (23:19) like, that's so real. It's true.
Get the fuck out of here. Yeah. You guys don't even know what the (23:22) fuck you're talking about.
You can't become that now. If you don't know this music, if you didn't live this time, (23:28) if you didn't actually balls to the walls, like every almost day. This is our core.
This is, (23:35) this is our life. This is our life. This is our culture.
No, this is actually our culture and you (23:39) should not appropriate it. Yeah. That's really fucking annoying.
Yeah. When I see people like (23:45) trying to do that now, I'm just like, you don't even know. I'm like, you can't become a party girl (23:48) now.
Now that you've been clean girl through your twenties and you're going to be all young (23:52) and fucking hot forever because you didn't ruin your body with alcohol. This is my thing. But (23:56) my favorite thing online, well, it's rage bait for me, but like Gen Zers or Alpha, whatever the fuck (24:01) will be like this vintage.
And I'm like, vintage. And it's 2018. We wore 10 years ago.
(24:08) And it's like, you know, that like, oh my God, it was like the army camo, like a jacket with like (24:14) a lanyard. Oh, oh, ate that shit up every time. Camo was in too.
Camo was so fucking in. Yeah. (24:21) That's when leggings started to become pants.
Jeggings, leggings. I never really wore leggings. (24:27) I always wore jeans.
Oh, they were like just becoming a thing. You still don't really wear, (24:32) like it's rare. You'll sit in the house comfy in jeans.
I'll wear cargo pants, but I won't wear (24:36) leggings. I don't know why. You always threw me off with that.
Leggings were just like the gym (24:40) in my head, you know, to, yeah. The athleisure, like athletic wear becoming like fashion was also (24:48) a part of our generation. Totally.
Which is crazy. Hoodies and leggings. All the time.
Yeah. With (24:52) Uggs. Yeah.
God, never wore Uggs either. I loved an Ugg. Oh my God.
Boots with the fur. Exactly. (24:59) Like Four Loko is the only one we haven't discussed.
Oh my God. Well, I don't want to (25:03) talk about Four Loko like ever again. Fair enough.
You know what? You almost went to jail (25:06) for that. You actually almost lost your scholarship over this drink. I did.
And I shouldn't sue Four (25:12) Loko. I think people have sued Four Loko because it was fully like illegal. It was rat poison.
(25:18) Okay. Like, you know what's crazy is men telling you like, it's just like, I'll just get us a (25:22) cocktail and it's a Four fucking Loko. Yeah.
As if they're not drugging me. Yeah. Like that was (25:28) fucking crazy.
It's crazy they sold that shit in the stores. It's funny because this generation (25:32) would get a bacon, egg, and cheese Four Loko. Don't be drinking Starbucks or McDonald's because (25:37) the beans are toxic.
Like bro. Let me be so for real when I say they drank rat poison. The fact (25:44) that I survived the shit that we were drinking back in fucking 2016.
Disgusting. Like actually (25:49) we're fucking warriors I will say. 2014 to 16 was fucking peak.
Like I felt euphoric all the time. (25:58) I think my liver was invincible. It still is, but I think it was very much invincible.
Like the (26:04) photos and videos you guys see of 2016 with like that filter. Yeah. Like that's how life felt.
(26:10) That's how it looked like, you know, when it's like looking through rose glasses. That's how we (26:14) saw the world. Yeah, exactly.
In that filter. What was that filter called? I see it and I'm like (26:19) 2016. Yes.
Period. I'm sorry. It's like pink kind of but green.
Oh yeah. Fucking blue. I don't know.
(26:25) All I hear in the background is like deep in my bones I can feel you. (26:31) Yes. Would you go back in time to just like relive a weekend in that life? Oh fuck yeah.
(26:36) Like once a year. What if you went back and it was like not how you remembered? Okay I don't know (26:42) how many of you are from BC but it's like going back to science world after you already went to (26:46) elementary school. Yeah.
And it's like this sucks. Yeah. I do think though no going back to 2016 (26:53) would be fucking iconic.
I just don't know if me now could keep up with it but if I could go back (26:58) and like be me then and do a weekend. Yeah. I think I would do it once a year.
I wish I could (27:04) just experience partying with everybody that I partied with at that time again just to like (27:09) relive it. I know. It was fucking iconic.
Zillennial that cusp is perfect. Being able to (27:15) have like that core childhood 90s kid childhood. Totally.
Whilst also being like engulfed in the (27:21) technology when it was on the up. Yeah. At like a good age.
Yeah. We weren't like too young per (27:26) se. The only thing we missed out on is the opportunity to be famous fucking.
We didn't (27:31) miss out. We just didn't jump on it. We were dumb.
Like we should. I know you guys are watching now (27:36) we're going to get famous from this it's fine. But we could have been there already.
I'm like (27:41) we were the Tana's. The hardest part about it is we were doing all this shit and then I feel like (27:47) all of us collectively kind of stopped and in the time frame that we stopped all these like (27:51) eight year olds were becoming YouTube famous and making millions of dollars filming videos and we (27:55) were like that's a joke right. Like we all went to university and like that's where we got scammed (28:01) where it's like we were told there was like the internet was just a fun place.
It wasn't a place (28:05) to make money. Yeah. And then all of a sudden the world changed and people were making a shit ton (28:10) of money on the internet.
Yeah. Like wait a second like why didn't we do that. The generation after (28:14) I feel like their parents were a lot more like do what you want.
Let's see what happens. All right. (28:20) I'm hearing things about YouTube.
Yeah exactly. I literally my mom like sent me a link like I (28:25) remember like 10 years ago or something and it was like this person is making millions of dollars on (28:30) YouTube filming videos and I was like like she was like you know. Why don't you get on it.
Like (28:34) what are you doing. And I'm like well you guys totally pushed a different narrative. Yeah exactly (28:39) like I had to go to university.
This was okay for me to even try. I would say like millennials (28:44) millennials like both of us got really pushed the boomers like you know you have to go to school (28:49) to like to make it. Yeah.
And we got scammed big time. We spent a lot of money to get like basic (28:56) jobs and not afford housing. And that's why we are the drunkest generation because of our (29:01) upbringing and then the downfall of it.
And the one thing we forgot to mention is all of the wars (29:07) that we've been alive. Oh there's been a lot. Yeah.
There's been quite a few. Yeah. And we're (29:12) like oh another one.
Like at this point it's a joke where we're like oh another war. Oh another (29:17) fucking economic collapse. Yeah.
Yeah. All we know is crisis. All we know is crisis and that's why (29:24) our livers are stronger.
I hope it was nostalgic for you to listen to this episode. Hopefully some (29:29) of the things that we talked about brought back like amazing memories or crazy memories and (29:34) nothing will ever slap like a 2016 era. Yeah it's cool to look back on.
And I think when we were (29:38) growing up it was always like oh my god like our parents got to grow up in the 80s like that must (29:42) have been so insane and so lit and like we never got to like see or experience that. But then you (29:47) look back at what we got to experience and it's like actually that's pretty sick like in comparison (29:51) to you know I can't imagine being a kid younger than us growing up with social media and all the (29:57) pressures that came with that once it evolved.
