SPEAKER_01 0:01

Hi, Meredith. Hi, Kimberly. Welcome back to another episode. Oh, sorry. What? Go. I was just gonna say I feel like I haven't seen you in a long time. I haven't seen you in a long time. But you look really beautiful today. Thank you so much. So do you. Your face looks like you look like you've had a facial or something. You got like the clearest fucking skin I've ever seen. It's that 1080p camera. Which is not, yeah. It's the lighting. Ah, yes, that'll do it. I think that's what is doing it for me. I just I waxed my eyebrows and my upper lip earlier. And so I was like, okay, well, now I have to put on makeup to hide my redness. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I wouldn't have known, but now I do.

SPEAKER_00 0:51

Fuck yeah.

SPEAKER_01 0:52

That's okay. Now everyone knows. The joys of mildly thriving. Uh, I'm struggling. This is the joys of procrastinating. You think like, you know, I'm not a hundred percent this day, so let's do it another day. And then it gets down to the day that you have to do it. And I'm like, God damn it, I want to crawl into a hole and die. But I'm good. I have caffeine, letting me pretend that I'm fine. Feel sorry for me. No, I've been shitting my brains out since uh coming back from the cruise. And I got like it's been like a roller coaster, so I like got somewhat back to normal. And then I think I got cocky and thought, like, I can eat whatever I want. And I made myself a really nice burger yesterday, thinking like, I'll be fine. Nah. Nah. Okay, so let's recap. So last weekend you went on like a f four-night cruise from like San Diego to Mexico, and on the last night, I ate a questionable lobster roll. And um, the next morning, I was shitting my brains out, and we still had a full day. Um, but the guy and I were gonna go like see his family, and I was gonna see his dog, and we got back to the hotel, and I was like, um, would it stay here? Would it be okay if we just like took a quick nap at like three o'clock and I had a flight at 6 a.m. and then I woke up at 8 p.m. and was like shitting like every hour on the hour, and it wasn't like it wasn't just like my tummy's upset. I was having like cramps and like sweating, and I was like, uh I was just relieved that I wasn't throwing up, so it is what it is, but I was nervous about getting on the plane. I was just like, I just want to get this day over with. So it was just like, uh, this is fun. And then yeah, had diarrhea on the plane, and so that's what I've been dealing with. Did you shit your pants? I didn't. I didn't. I know. I wanted to tell you the story because I was like, man, this is probably as close as I've ever come because this was like, if any any movement happened, if I pretended to fart. Do you even thought about farting? Yes, I I would have been done. It was I was working them muscles. And uh yeah, good times. So, anyways, my trip was good. Other than that, uh, at least it was on the last day. Yeah. Met some of Boat Guy's friends. They were all fucking wonderful. Lovely. Um, how has your time been while I was gone? What have you been doing? I know you're hanging out with one of our friends. I cried a lot while you were gone. I'm just kidding. Oh, because I was gone? Yeah. Oh, I knew it. Glad someone loves me. Oh, I did just get back from the movies and we went to Project Hail Mary. I knew it. Everyone's been seeing that. Uh, my coworkers said it was great. My brother texted me yesterday and said it was great. And if my brother's texting me unprompted, that means it was good. So yeah. It was really good. I heard lots of people talk about the uh the book and I was gonna listen to the audiobook, and then I heard it was coming out as a movie, and that I usually then want to watch the movie first and then read the book. Yep. Because I have a better chance of liking the movie if I watch it and then read the book. Because if I read the book first, I'm usually disappointed in the movie. Yes. That was a lot of words to say that, but yeah. All right. Well, do we want to get into our topic for today? Okay. Let's make a podcast. Yes! Let's make a podcast. Don't hit me in the head with the basketball. That's a fine reference, everyone. Yes. I was like, wait, what? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I want everybody to come on a journey with me today. Oh, we're gonna take a trip down memory lane. Um, your girl loves nostalgia. I don't know if I say that right. Kind of like you say mantra. What are we talking about? We're going on a journey. I'm getting there. Do I need to eat some mushrooms? Maybe. We might cry. You don't know. Oh I'm I'm PMSing. This topic was actually my mother's idea. Oh, okay. Uh the suggestion was how your music taste is shaped. So, what influences you to have the music? I definitely think that my music taste is shaped like a circle. Oh, yeah. No, I think it's shaped like a flat line. Because I don't think you have any music taste. I've never, I've never heard you tell me about a song that you like. Uh another reason for this topic, because I'm really gonna try to pull it out of you. Because like you were the one that told me before the camp concert that you're like, I don't really listen to music. I was like, what? Are you okay? Like, I go through moods, but like I can't imagine a world where I'm not listening to music. And I have so many positive and not so positive memories tied to songs, and that's what we're gonna talk about today. You ready? I'm I'm ready. I've got my tissue and I've got water. Let's do an exercise, okay?

unknown 6:30

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 6:31

Okay. Close your eyes. Think of, I don't know, senior year of high school. Or prom or homecoming. That boy that you liked, or girl, whatever floats your boat. Uh and you know, maybe you guys dance together. Uh is there a song playing that you vividly remember? Or, you know, the first time you ever kissed a boy or girl again. So if we're going for the specific prom, I'm pretty sure it was Rihanna. Nice. I think it was Ponda Replay came out or something like that. Okay. Sounds like the appropriate time. Early 2000s. I I feel like if I hear the song, then I can recall the memory, but I can't recall the memory and then the song. I okay, that's fair. I will say I have been keeping track since I came up with this topic, since my mother came up with this topic. Uh, I have been keeping, I like wrote out an outline, and then I have written down more songs uh because I've heard them and been like, oh shit, yeah, this makes me think of this thing. So it's actually really funny that we're doing this because last night Josh started playing uh like an early 2000s playlist, and he was like, I want to see if any of these songs like bring up memories for you, and I want you to like tell me what they are. And I was like, Him and I'm gonna be the same way. And Soldier Boys uh crank that came on, and I was like, that reminds me of my sophomore year of college and Halloween. We all dressed up as Jem. I'm gonna do a quick Google search while you continue talking. And I was actually hanging out with like my roommates, and then there was this guy that I met in that year, and he was his dad and my dad grew up across the street from each other, and they were like friends growing up. And I'm I like I didn't know this person existed, but then I met him when I was in college, and it happened that our parents grew up across the street from each other. I mean, it was Idaho, so like not that shocking, but what a weird memory to have associated with uh soldier boy song. Oh, wow. You're judgy. Yeah, yeah. No, it needs to be romantic. What kind of fucking weird shit is that? No, I'm just kidding. It can it can be whatever you want. Also, what the fuck is this? Um, it's gem. Jem. Okay. If no, it's gem. Uh I've never heard and or seen this ever. Oh, maybe it's just an Idaho thing. 1985 to 1988. Well, that's because it stopped playing before I was born. But me too. Same. I don't know how I knew about it, honestly. Anyways, uh, I would love to hear feedback from anyone. Uh there are two people I'm specifically talking to who almost always give me feedback. Have you ever heard of Jim? I need somebody to be on my side. I wasn't judging you for not having heard about it. Okay. You're just a better person than me. It's fine. I okay. You don't judge anybody. I mean, I do. Just not obviously. It's not fun if you don't play along. It's not fun if you don't react. God damn it. Yeah. Uh okay. So before I start giving any of like my specific memories, of which there are many. Okay. Uh, what do you remember your parents listening to or your grandparents? Like, what did you grow up like listening to in the car? Because that was that was what we did a lot. Uh and I have a lot of specific memories of being in the car with my parents and grandparents. And my mom would listen to the same CDs on repeat, which is probably where I get it from. But um your turn. Sorry. So my dad liked music and he would listen to music. My mother's like I am now, where like if I'm in the car with someone, I may not want to listen to music because we're probably going to talk and having the noise of the music. Like, I want to keep it like low. Um, because I'm like a little old lady, I guess. But go on. Tell me I'm perfect. You are, you're perfect. And I was just I was having flashbacks of us driving in the car because I have videos of us singing 80s rock tunes at the top of our lungs on the way back from Seattle. But most of the time I think people are like you, especially like friends going out somewhere, especially if we're like driving to Seattle. That's like a what 45-minute drive. So we're all talking. We're not listening to music. Yeah. So yeah. Um, but I grew up listening to classic rock and Jimmy Buffett. Same. So a lot of 90s country too, because that's what my grandparents listened to. We Texas, sorry. Yeah. I my grandparents, uh, Lawrence Welk was was really was really popular. Like did he hang out with Jim? No. Lawrence Welk was a variety show. Oh, okay on PBS. Oh, PBS is a a recurring theme in in our conversations. I got a lovely voice note from Kimberly not too long ago about a PBS show, and one day I'm gonna make a voice note compilation of all the things she sends me when she's high. Yeah. You're welcome. Oh, that's I'm absolutely thanking you. It makes my day every time. Because I don't like audio messages, because I like to be able to see. See it and then stew on it, and I'm like, okay, when do I have the mental capacity to reply to this? You are the only person that I get an audio message from, and I'm like, this is because I wait until I have a very profound thought to share that is worth taking up time. It's like that the vine of the kid with like the space in the background. It's like, do you ever have a dream and you just and um and um I actually don't know what mine I'm talking about, but maybe it's not a vine, but I someone out there knows what I'm talking about. I'm sure someone does. Okay. Anyway, Jim does. Fucking Jim. Lawrence Welk was a talk show. This was a radio talk show. It was like a variety, um, like a variety show for like old music.

unknown 13:22

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 13:23

And I think that they would just have like guests come on. I don't know. We all exited the building, like as soon as this came on, everyone would kind of like scatter. It's like my grandparents' way of like getting everything. They knew, yeah. My so uh dad's parents listened to country exclusively and like old country or 90s-ish, and then because it was the fucking 90s. So new country at the time, yeah. Uh old country and then nine new country. Uh and then my mom's parents silence or elevator music or NPR. Oh, yeah. Well, I don't yeah, I don't think that they listened to NPR. My parents would sometimes want to listen to like news radio in in the car. Like we'd be on like a long trip and they'd listen to NPR, and I'd just be like, just like let me out now. Yeah. Back then it was like, please kill me. And then I remember the first time I got in the car with my brother in like his mid-20s, and he had NPR on on the way to work. And I was like, What? He's like, fuck are you? It's like I I I like I like this. Like, okay, well, good thing your hair is graying early because you're really fitting the fit in the mold. Uh when I first moved to Seattle, I didn't really have a way to like play music. So um my ex had this like clock radio, but it only got one AM station, and that was Como. Como news radio. And so that's just what I listened to because like I wanted to listen to something while I was getting ready. And I learned 1995. It was like 2009, 2010. This went on for like oh, okay. This was like pre, yeah. Yeah, it was pre. I mean, Spotify had come out, but like I don't know that I had like an iPod. Oh, 2009 would have been like my sophomore year of college. So yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:33

So okay.

SPEAKER_01 15:36

Well, okay, wait. So Dad listened to Jimmy Buffett and Country. No, I'm sorry, classic. There was no country. Yeah, classic rock. No country. Classic rock. Well, Jimmy Buffett. Well, and John Pine. Great choice. I didn't find out about John Pryne until like five years ago, which is really sad. Very dead. Yeah. He is dead. So we also listened to classic rock. That's what a lot of my mom listened to. Um we had some albums on repeat. Uh Fleawood Mac's Greatest Hits. One of the Sting albums we listen to a lot. We listened to a lot of Dave Matthews. Um there was a specific song that I remember listening to that I don't know that anybody else knows about, but I know every single word. And it always takes me back to writing to school or home with my mom. Um, it's called House on Pooh Corner by Kenny Loggins. Never heard of it. And it's about Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin, and it's the cutest, it's the cutest song. Actually, I may have heard that. But I encourage since we can't play music, I encourage you to look it up after this. But it uh I every time I think of it, I would have to intentionally listen to it because it doesn't ever just accidentally come on anywhere if he listens to that fucking song. But it does make me smile and makes me think of my mom. Um I think the song that reminds me of my mom the most is Our House by Crosby Steele Snash and Young. I think it's those four. Oh wait, I can't sing it even. You can sing it.

SPEAKER_02 17:15

Our house is a very, very, very fun house.

SPEAKER_01 17:20

Oh, that is not the one I was thinking of.

SPEAKER_02 17:21

Two cats in the yard. Vibe used to be so hard. Now everything is easy. No. Nope.

SPEAKER_01 17:30

I don't have nothing. Oh, okay. Uh yeah. We used to sing, we used to listen to that tape. Um, and then we also had a tape of Steve Miller, the Steve Miller band.

SPEAKER_02 17:41

Ah, yes.

SPEAKER_01 17:43

So yeah. Nice. Ooh, another song popped into my head. John Denver. Mm-hmm. Oh. Rocky Mountain. Colorado. I remember moving to Colorado. Actually, I remember visiting Colorado for the first time as a kid before we even before my mom even considered moving. And we listened to uh John Denver on the drive up. Nice. Oh, but you just unlocked a memory for me. Woo! Look at us go. Uh, the Lion King soundtrack. Oh. I'm pretty sure we listened to that tape uh when my mom drove us from Idaho to Arizona uh one summer to like go visit my grandma. You unlocked a memory in me. Look at us. Uh that movie came out when I was five. Oh. That is the first movie I remember watching, really. Um, and I my mom said I would watch it on repeat, but it's because I loved those songs so much. I remember singing the uh my favorite one was the I Just Can't Wait to Be King. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Um, the first song I remember learning though, not learning, but have like an actual memory of, is my dad and mom used to play Mysterious Ways by U2, and I would like dance around the living room when I was little. Um I also I don't remember this, but my mom said she used to sing James Taylor to me. And so I did I also grew up listening to a lot of James Taylor, so Fire and Rain, very sad song. Um, let's see. Oh yeah. Uh Alanis Morissette, Jagged Little Pill. My mom listened to that album on repeat when I was little, and I know I remember getting in trouble for watching the music videos because my mom was like so anti-music video. And I remember I was like watching the music video for one of those songs where she like multiplies in the car. Never isn't it never mind. Isn't it ironic without the song? Probably probably. I don't I don't know if I've ever seen the music video, but I I remember listening to it and it having cuss words in it. Um I know. Judas Judas, no. There so there's like specific bands that always make me think of my dad too, because like we didn't just listen to classic rock, we listened to like 90s alt rock. Uh every time I hear the goo-goo dolls, it makes me think of him. Matchbox 20. Oh, I love them. They they had that one song that I just like I don't know. Sorry. I like Matchbox 20. I thought that was. It was that bad that you don't even remember it. Okay. Was the one it was on the soundtrack for that movie, Angels. Oh, City of Angels. Yeah, see? Um I think it's name. It's actually one of my favorite ones. Oh, maybe it's slide. Maybe it's Iris. Actually, I think it's Iris. I don't know. I don't remember, but it maybe it was just like overplayed to the point where it was like, this song would not have bothered me, but the fact that I heard it 200 times in a month probably ruined it for me. That's fair. Uh I remember Roxanne being on in the car. Right! Me too. When my dad would pick me up from daycare. And like later on, now I'm like, whoa. I did not realize what Roxanne was up to. Oh, yes. She was Yeah, she was working. She's she was putting on that red light, you know? Yeah. Making some money. Hmm. What do I have? What do I have here? I just wrote down all of these like memories that came up, like specific moments tied to specific songs. The first boy I ever kissed, like really like make out kissed, you know? uh was in high school, uh freshman year, summer pool party. And I was like, I mean, I wasn't hideous, but I was awkward and still growing into myself. Body shape, questionable. Braces braces on some fucked up same. Um and I had like just learned how to put on makeup, my you know, I was like learning to do my hair. So I was there were some so you were orange. Yes, for sure. I lived in Texas at the time. Uh because I feel like all of us in our generation we like started with blue eyeshadow and uh white eyeliner. White eyeliner and then foundation that was like orange because we didn't have YouTube tutorials to teach us how to do our makeup. We were using cosmopolitan like art drawings. I had the Clinique compact like oh wow this type of um makeup doesn't exist anymore. Uh it was just like it came with a little sponge and it wasn't liquid it wasn't powder it was like creamy juice. Yeah and you just like dip it in there and cake it on and for the record I had that type of makeup because I started putting on makeup and bless my dad's heart he was a like not a single dad but my parents were divorced and so when I lived with him it was like you know puberty time and he sees me trying to put on makeup so he owned a business in the mall and he was like hey can I take you to Dillard's one day and we'll go to the makeup counter and they'll teach you how to put on makeup and then we'll buy some real makeup and I was just like horrified at the time. Oh no yeah looking back I was like oh my God that's like the sweetest thing ever. He's just trying to make sure that I'm doing it right. But like at the time he was like my God you're orange. Yeah but at the time I was like hew no I don't want my dad to take me to get makeup I don't want somebody to show we went but I was just like embarrassed at the time and then yeah now it's like a very fond memory. But okay let's pretend it's 2003 four 2004 uh I'm at a pool party with all of my friends okay a very splish splash around yes a very cute boy who I thought I had no business talking to me very cute popular boy we we did the pool party and then everybody's hanging out afterwards watching a movie and he asks to sit by me and then we make out I was it was the at the time it was like the highlight of my fucking life I thought yeah I was like best day ever. How was this person interested in me? And then so because my parents were divorced it's summertime and so I had to go home to visit my mom for the summer so I wasn't gonna get to hang out with him all summer and the big song at the time was um Ocean Avenue by Yellow Card and he there's a place off Ocean Avenue where I used to sit and talk with you. We were both 16 and it felt so right. This feels like very age appropriate for you. It was at that time yeah it was and so uh I remember us listening to it and um me being like because I went over to his house after that too like we hung out one on one. I know it was a big deal because I know because I was like well we have to just soak in all this time together because um I'm leaving for the summer and so we listened to that song at his house and I was like I love the song so he burned me the yellow card CD I know true love. I know so now every time that song comes on I think of Jordan Jordan yeah and Jordan I don't even think we're like Facebook friends. I wonder what happened to him. I hope he's okay. I hope you're okay Jordan thanks for being my first kiss so that was first kiss first kiss story um songs that make me think of my dad sad songs unfortunately okay cool no no no no well okay there's a song uh got my tissue I'm glad you're prepared there's this song called yesterday by the band Atmosphere and it's about uh reminiscing about his dad and thinking that he saw him on the street um but but he's like he's going through all of these memories of his dad and you don't know that it's his dad it's his dad he's just like oh I thought I saw you yesterday and at the end he's like but it wasn't you because you passed away so I remember listening sorry spoiler alert for anybody who's never heard that song uh and the weird part is I remember listening to it with my dad like and him and I having a discussion about my like you know when my grandpa passes away and then he ended up passing away before my grandpa. But uh again a lot of memories tied to being in the car with my parents and listening to music it was always a big thing. And every time the song Simple Man by Leonard Skinnard came on my dad would tell me or my brother or both like I don't care what happens I don't care what you do with me but when I die you better play this song at my funeral. And I know and so like you know when everything happens so suddenly it's like oh I don't I don't know what the fuck we do. But I do know that we will have simple man I have one I have one certain thing. There's one request and uh his friend Scott who used to work with him is actually like a musician and he was there and he played the song and it was so good and now I hardly it's probably doing him an injustice but I hardly ever intentionally listen to that song because it makes me cry every time but it will occasionally come on in public and just like suck it up I know. Yeah so that's my sad song story. Yeah I could I I could list a bunch of other random songs that make me think of random things but you know it's interesting to me though that you were able to like do you do you recall the memory and then the song or do you hear the song and then recall the memory it's usually the song and then the memory but there are just certain songs that are so ingrained that I can think of the memory and then the song um because when I wrote the outline I wasn't listening to any music and there were multiple songs that I came up with without having to listen to it. So um some that I wrote down uh Where is the Love by Black Eyed Peas. My dad we listened to like the Ryan Secrets top 40 a lot in the car and I remember singing it when it came on because it's a it's a pretty fast like lyrical song. It's like a lot of lyrics in it. And so we would like my dad actually really liked the song so every time I came on it was like my mission to remember all of the lyrics and sing the whole thing. So I remember that song. Two Princes by Spin Doctors is one of the first songs I ever remember just learning the words to as a kid. It was like right after we had moved to Colorado and my parents divorced I don't know I have a specific memory tied to like being in my room in the house and listening to that song. My boyfriend in high school made me uh burn me a CD with a bunch of songs that we liked and every time I think of the song Thug's mansion by Tupac I know he I haven't heard that song in a long time. It's such a good song uh I'm I'm adding that to a you're welcome yeah that he I he showed me that song and I was like I love this song and so he burned me a CD and it had that song on it and so every time I think of that song I think of him. Maddie if you're listening tell tell Tim I said that uh see oh so there was so one two step by Ciara there was like a dance to it at the time and my friends and I like tried to learn the dance and then do it at homecoming so I I think of that song. That's like our version of TikTok. Yeah TikTok dances we were cool guys so cool. Um this is gonna be so stupid do you remember Mambo number five? Oh that reminds me of being in the in seventh grade and being in the bus stop I it reminds me of being in the car with my mom and my best friend at the time whose name was Monica because her one of the names that he says in the song is Monica. Uh Monica, I hope you're doing well I miss you. Um see I remember being in college when the first Lady Gaga album came out and I remember that that was just Guy Jesse and we went to I think we went to a drag show really yeah in Idaho so wow I was drinking jungle juice in someone's kitchen and it in college and be like what the fuck is this song? I think it was poker face and then I I knew after that I knew every song wasn't her first one just Dance probably I think the first one I heard was poker face uh those are those are the specific memories I have I just so now my music taste is just fuck all like I it's whatever makes me feel good in the moment and I actually enjoy singing a lot and so me too I usually gravitate towards songs that I like enjoy singing out loud. One of my favorites is um summertime in the 509 you should uh add that to your Spotify Spotify playlist I can't wait for the record I was being serious no I am I love singing this song and I like know all they because he mentions otters in it and make you sing me whatever this fucking song is can't wait. It was like a local song I was gonna say I know nine is an area code here so yeah and I remember recording it on my tape player because I just like I kept hearing this song on the radio and I loved it and like of course you can't buy their I don't know CD or tape or whatever. And I remember recording it onto a tape and then a few years ago I remembered like just had this like random memory and I was like I have to find it and I found it on Spotify and um they probably have like 5,000 listens and probably uh 4,900 are me. Wow oh okay so that reminds me uh my mom used to bitch so much about how growing up they never had the lyrics to any song. So if you didn't know the lyrics you're just fucking singing it wrong. Yeah and there were a lot of funny stories of incorrect lyrics and so it was like a big deal when like my generation had CDs and the little pamphlet had the lyrics inside but not every one of them did so you'd get pissed when it didn't and now I could just fucking Google it in two seconds. Yeah. So I listened to a lot of Jaw Rule in high school like my brother bought me the Jaw Rule albums I think I had all so much about you. For the record I've been in this woman's car no less than 50 times. Well maybe not have I been in your car that many times whatever. I've hung out with you a lot and the amount of times we've listened to music together is very few but it's always some sort of like coffee shop mix of shit that I've never heard of. And actually there's a couple songs that I have saved because I heard them in your car and I was like yeah this is really good. You're welcome the song Bedroom by Litany was probably one of my top five songs last year because of you. Um musical connoisseur yeah and other than that it was us singing classic rock on the way back from Seattle so where is this Kimberly um she uh well she is here and she I listen to that kind of music when I work out oh okay but I wouldn't like I don't have it on an like I don't make playlists I mean I don't any more so I have like I have my liked songs and then I have a playlist I have like this is a reminder Alexa stop I have like I have like my liked songs and that's kind of it. Alexa stop she's reminding me that I need to work out and take my vitamins yeah you do I know actually I took all my vitamins today and I worked out today look at me go look at me go uh I pretty much now that Spotify exists and I've had a premium account for God knows how long uh I just listen to the like songs list most of the time or I will curate a playlist like based on a song. Um boat guy and I have a shared playlist that we add songs to I know I Josh and I have a shared playlist but I don't think I've ever added a song to it. He adds stuff to it and it's cute. Uh I think I don't think we've added anything at all but I don't know if he added me to the playlist so I don't know if I actually have access he's like he's like we're gonna do this thing. Um I'm gonna do this thing. I'm gonna tell you about it. Okay, so this topic yeah um is interesting because when we were growing up we very much had monoculture which is like everyone's kind of watching the same movies and the same TV shows and the same news and the same music like you're hearing it on the radio, right? It was the top 40. That was what we knew existed. Right. Whereas like now everyone is kind of off in their own little silo and you have your niche and like the yeah the amount of artists that I've discovered on discovered or that people have shown me on uh Spotify in the last year or so that like I don't know some of them only have like a hundred thousand listeners and I'm just like this is the best shit I've ever heard. I I couldn't have even imagined that to be possible 10 years ago. Yeah it it wasn't this will be the last thing I talk about because we are getting into an extended timeframe. Um and I'm never gonna go to sleep if I don't start editing this episode. Uh one of my favorite questions that I asked Boat Guy when we were getting to know each other um I mean you do that like anyways when you start talking to someone for the first time. People questions when you first meet them. Yes but we were long distance so shut the fuck up this was like weeks in but we're long distance so it was a lot of like I don't know 20 questions over the phone and just like okay uh so we did have like a banter of like oh I thought of another question and I was really proud of this question because I came up with it on my own. Tell us the question. Shut up I'm getting to the point I there's a I have to have a 10 minute backstory to explain how I got there and it's just gonna take longer if you keep stopping me. Everybody always shut the fuck up you bitch everyone asks each other like what's your favorite song what type of music do you listen to and I go through phases of music and you know what I call hyperfixation songs where I'll listen to them a nauseum because they give me that much needed dopamine hit and then I'll get tired of it and I will move on to the next um however there are a handful of songs that if they come up on my um playlist in Shuffle or if I listen to them at any point they come up on the radio I won't skip them. Like and I I skip a lot of songs I have to be in the mood for certain songs but there are just some songs it doesn't matter my mood whatever I won't skip them. And so I was like tell me what are the top five songs you don't skip when they come on and uh I would like to share mine. Okay tell me um night moves by Bob Seeger probably one of my favorite songs of all it is a great one anything takes you back to that first love feeling anyway night moves oh god nostalgia it hurts such a bitch I do love that song though thank god um yesterday by Atmosphere uh so yesterday so that's Hillary Haley Hillary Duff oh I don't know never mind we're wearing it uh The Way You Make Me Feel by Michael Jackson how do I make you feel Meredith tingly all over is that supposed to happen yeah I have that should I talk to my doctor about that? I am gonna see them diarrhea tingling okay wait my friend makes it tingly like maybe you should talk to your friend about that okay I'm at three um it's my eczema sorry I'm sorry what the fuck is wrong with us uh sweet lovin' by Sagala yeah and Bryn Christopher uh please look that song up at it what was it it's called Sweet Lovin' by Nick Lovin' yeah it's like an EDM hip pop song I listened to the original mix or the radio edit original mix okay done um and well clearly it wasn't that good of a song because I can't think of the fifth song right now. You didn't write them down yeah but they're in this is maybe the best feature that uh Apple came up with was searching your text messages. Okay how did I forget this one? Uh oh I actually confused that song with another song. Anyways uh In Color by Jamie Johnson. Just such a beautifully written song so good. Okay I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna look it up. In Color. There's there he she Jamie is uh and an honorable mention is Born Ready by Disco Fries another really upbeat uh EDM song that's just like no matter what my mood is I'm like uh yeah this feels good so yeah next time you're on a first date mix it up don't say what's your favorite song you're welcome what are your top five unskipped songs yes okay I'll I'll keep that in mind for my next first date thank you like I can't think of any sh oh god no you're gonna think of at least one right now before we go summertime in the 509 obviously I very I love that song I fucking love it you're gonna love it you're gonna listen to it okay as soon as we as soon as we get off and you're gonna be like wow this my life has changed for the better yeah and you're gonna be like and you're you're gonna want to go to Spokane because they make so many references about Spokane things like going and getting a bulletproof tattoo or uh Gonzaga or Gonzaga I don't know I was gonna say we have got I don't know that the Pacific Northwest has an accent but if it does you are it the what Gonzaga is my mantra that's Gonzaga is my mantra don't make fun of me. I'm I'm not because I'm sure that there are some things that I I do the same. Anyways I could talk about this forever but we're it's time to go to bed. So uh okay well on that note if you've made it this far into this podcast I think that you probably have some kind of nostalgia feel so like send us A text with a song that we have to listen to because it hits you in the feels every time. You can send us a text, you can send us a message on Instagram. Mm-hmm. I think we I think we have TikTok and the facey pages, whatever Kimberly's monitoring these days. I don't I don't know our TikTok. God damn it. Remember, kids, that mildly thriving is thriving. Hey!