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What things are we most nostalgic about from the 1990s?

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Should parents limit how much their children

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are using technologies like iPads and video

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games? Should schools have

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required education about moderating your use

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of social media? What

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technologies have been most life-changing for us

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in the last 30 years? Has

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technology made our lives better or worse?

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Ah yeah, global citizen, this is Ethan

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from RealLife English, where every single week

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it is our mission to take you

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beyond the classroom to speak English confidently

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and naturally, to connect to the world, and

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to actually use your English as the doorway

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to living your greatest life.

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Alright, Ksenia, so I

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have what I believe will be a

0:58

very relevant game to kick us off.

1:00

It'll really put you to the test

1:03

about your knowledge about the 1990s. Since

1:05

both of us grew up in the 1990s, I thought that

1:07

this could be fun. And we grew

1:10

up in different corners of the world, so let's see if

1:12

we had the same influences growing

1:14

up. Okay, let's see. The game is

1:16

called What's That? So

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I'm going to be sharing with you images

1:21

and for each of them, you just have to

1:23

say what's that? And I may

1:26

describe for some of them, since some people are just with audio, before

1:29

you say I may try to describe

1:31

the picture if it seems necessary. Alright,

1:33

Ksenia, what's that? Okay,

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it seems like it's a floppy disk, isn't it?

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Yeah, surprised you even know the

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term there. Jordy and I were talking about

1:42

this other day because it's interesting that the

1:44

save icon on digital things

1:46

like Microsoft Word is still from this,

1:48

this floppy disk, which is

1:50

what was before we

1:53

had like CDs that we would burn

1:55

things onto, we would store or I

1:57

guess now we'd use like a pen drive, right? We would store

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We're on one of these. Weird. Floppy.

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this is our them. You know, something

2:04

sloppy by the way. I. Didn't know

2:06

floppy? Maybe it's just like

2:08

not very reliable those table

2:10

I don't know that's flaky

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like a okay. Flaky is the

2:15

person who's not reliable. Decay. And

2:17

what a sloppy Sloppy. It is

2:19

something that's. Not. Rigid. So

2:21

if you seek a for example

2:23

it it flops. it's okay. like

2:25

this if your last. Said

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it's a little bit like I'm labeled. Maybe I

2:30

was thinking the right direction that? yeah. Had k

2:32

not stable. The that you may think of

2:34

a bunny rabbit that has like floppy ears the

2:36

one the go down of sticking straight up. And

2:39

k we didn't use it for quite long.

2:41

So right side like at least need was

2:43

like a very. Super short period with

2:45

a sloppy idea who that in the

2:47

nineties. But I the

2:50

fire mind the from remember those from my

2:52

childhood. Okay so this fall. any

2:54

remember how you call this like a

2:56

pages? Would you call it a pager?

2:58

Yes. And. Pager is the formal

3:00

name so we're looking at advice here for

3:02

those are you listening that has to have

3:05

very small screen and some ones and it

3:07

has like a a message and the time

3:09

and date and we also we call this

3:11

more informally a beeper at an old I

3:13

remember that episode of the Ran there were

3:15

Ross gets a beeper so that his ex

3:18

wife and let him know and the baby's

3:20

coming and he was. It's I've never used

3:22

it. Did you have it in your family?

3:24

at any one? using male feminists. Non.

3:26

Was important enough. I guess there are

3:28

people who. Are

3:30

doctors, they're very popular for doctors and

3:33

simple as if you had them you

3:35

were can set up camp and all

3:37

that we're looking. So again, for

3:39

those of you listening to us,

3:42

it's like a flat fee toy

3:44

with pointy ears. Really

3:46

eat plenty eyes and I think slight

3:48

I think it's like on a d

3:51

Now that's what I was that he

3:53

thought yes I don't remember the name

3:55

of this toy and I haven't played.

3:58

That. This one. did you I have any of

4:00

those? I had one. I begged my

4:02

parents to get me one because it was all

4:04

the rage when I was a kid during

4:06

one year. So what's the name? It's

4:09

called a Furby. Furby, no. And it

4:11

was a, I think it was an

4:13

alien was what they said it was, but it was

4:15

a robot. So it would talk to you and it

4:17

would tell you things like, you know, I'm

4:19

hungry. A relay. There were all

4:21

these rumors even that came about that they were, you

4:24

know, trying to kill children or something like they're very

4:27

crazy things. But it was a huge cultural

4:29

phenomenon for like a year in the States.

4:31

Okay. I think maybe I saw it

4:33

somewhere, but no, I didn't

4:35

have it. How about these? We're

4:38

looking at a cartoon here and

4:41

it's these little blue characters. Okay.

4:43

Those are Smurfs. I know those.

4:45

I think we had even the

4:48

comic books with Smurfs. So

4:51

I know them. Yeah. I think they did

4:53

a reboot. I don't know if Mira has watched it. Maybe

4:56

she watched. She's already at

4:58

that age where sometimes she

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watches something without me that

5:03

I didn't have time to catch up. And what

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are they called in Ukrainian? Do you

5:07

remember them? Yeah, we call them

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Smurfiki. Smurfiki. It was close because

5:12

in different languages, I found that they can

5:14

be so different. Like in Spanish, it's pitiful.

5:17

Oh, what does it mean pitiful? For what word

5:19

does it come? I don't know. We

5:21

have Humbert and Mate who are native speakers here. I

5:23

don't know if they know if it

5:25

has some origin. Smurf is

5:28

just like a weird word. It doesn't mean anything.

5:30

It doesn't mean anything, right? I just wanted to ask

5:32

you like what does it mean Smurf? So

5:35

it's just like a made up word. Yeah. Yeah,

5:38

exactly. Okay. Who's that? We're

5:40

looking at a woman in a red shell. Okay.

5:43

I don't know what's going

5:45

on. We're connected somehow in

5:47

the universe. Just yesterday, for

5:49

whatever reason, I

5:51

was reminding my partner and I

5:53

asked him, can you guess this

5:55

song from the first two or

5:57

three notes? Melody.

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So of course this is Britney Spears. She was

6:05

all the rage when I was a teenager. And

6:07

I had a friend who was just like, you

6:09

know, totally into her, like

6:11

with all those posters and the

6:14

songs. Yeah. Super fan. And the first notes was

6:16

it was a business song. Dan,

6:19

Dan, Dan. Yeah, of course. And

6:22

then this scene from this school, she's bored.

6:26

She was a superstar. And then she,

6:28

she fell pretty hard, unfortunately. All right.

6:31

Another one. I'm not sure if you'll have it.

6:34

What's that? We're seeing like a hedgehog, but it's

6:36

a, what is this material called? Terracotta maybe like

6:38

what potted plants are made out of. And then out

6:41

of the top of it, instead of having fur

6:43

or quills that a hedgehog would have, it has

6:46

small green plants growing out of its back. Okay.

6:49

So we didn't have them

6:52

like hedgehogs. What we had

6:54

is like a round ball

6:56

with the same

6:58

material and it would have

7:01

weed grains, so

7:04

it wouldn't look so curly. Like here, it

7:06

would like just like a weed, you know,

7:08

the grass, like a straight grass. And

7:10

yeah, we had it. And it is just so much fun to

7:12

see it growing. Yeah. How

7:15

would you call it? Do you know the name of it? This

7:17

is called a chia pet and

7:19

it was a big

7:22

thing. So they had them with all, this was, I

7:24

think like the classic one, the

7:26

hedgehog, but they had them with all sorts

7:28

of different shapes. They did one when there

7:30

was the elections in 2008, I guess with

7:32

Obama. They

7:34

had an Obama chia pet, for example.

7:36

Really? So yeah. Did you see

7:39

that? The commercials were very typical. It'd be like ch-ch-chia.

7:43

Chia pet. Was like the, what's

7:45

it called? The jingle at the beginning. Is

7:47

it called chia because of the seeds?

7:50

Yeah. I think it's the same seeds that now

7:52

it's like a superfood, right? Yeah. Yeah, exactly.

7:55

So we see here kids having

7:57

fun with some thing, which looks

7:59

like in. inflatable mattress, but

8:01

it's not, I suppose. And I don't know

8:03

what it is, Ethan, what it is. It's

8:06

a long plastic mat

8:09

that has a, it's not actually inflatable. You hook

8:11

it up to a hose, to a garden hose

8:13

that you use for watering the plants. And

8:16

then it has little holes in it, so it

8:18

gets completely wet. And then kids

8:21

would run and jump, chest

8:24

first and slide down it. And

8:27

it's called a slip and slide. Just

8:29

be so much fun, Mira would love it.

8:31

No, we didn't have anything like that, never

8:33

saw that. So this was huge in the 90s, but

8:37

to say it's huge, meaning it was very popular.

8:40

It's made a comeback because my nephews have one

8:42

now. Just a couple more, what's

8:44

that? Okay, I

8:47

know what it is. Never played,

8:49

I don't think anyone in my

8:51

class had it. How would you call

8:54

it? We called it Tamagotchi. Yeah,

8:56

it's the same name as the brand, maybe

8:58

from Japan, these were all the rage as

9:00

well for a while, but they would always

9:02

die. It was very sad. A

9:04

humbird sang in Spanish

9:06

is called Mascotica. Mascotica, okay,

9:09

so like a little pet. You

9:13

guys have like a local version. All right, so

9:15

the last one, Who Are They? Okay,

9:17

these are Spice Girls. Nice.

9:20

Yay. I wasn't sure if they were as popular in

9:22

Ukraine as they were in the States. They were,

9:24

they were. What was the most

9:26

popular song, let me remember? If you wanna

9:29

be my lover, you gotta get with my

9:31

friend. Yeah, I think this one, I think

9:33

they said, mhmm. And

9:35

then I think they split up and

9:38

some of girls, you know,

9:40

started solo careers or something. Victoria

9:43

Beckham became, well, now she's, I don't

9:45

know what her maiden name before she

9:47

got married was, but she's married to

9:49

David Beckham. The fun fact about them,

9:51

they all had these nicknames, right?

9:55

There was Sporty Spice, Ginger

9:57

Spice, Scary Spice, and. Did

10:01

you have your favorite one? My favorite when I

10:03

was six, my favorite was Baby Spice. Baby

10:06

Spice, of course. I

10:10

think I liked Victoria, but

10:12

also this sporty one was

10:14

so unusual to see like

10:16

a sporty woman in the pop

10:18

band. Sporty girl in the 90s. Sporty girl in

10:20

the 90s in the pop band. I

10:22

think I... You might call it

10:25

Tom Boy. Have you heard that term? No.

10:27

What does it mean? I don't

10:29

know if this is offensive nowadays actually, but

10:31

we would use it when I was younger. It

10:34

would be a girl who dressed like and maybe

10:36

acted a bit like a boy. They

10:38

didn't wear the typical pink

10:40

dresses and skirts and things like

10:42

this. They would maybe dress more

10:45

sporty like she would or comfortable. Tom

10:47

Boy. When I was six, they

10:49

were really, really big. And even like Posh

10:51

Spice, I don't know if I knew when

10:54

I was six what Posh means. Posh, of

10:56

course, is British English. It's basically a person

10:58

who likes expensive things or might be very

11:00

fashionable. Yeah. Thank

11:02

you so much for taking me back

11:05

into our 90s, into our childhood. A

11:08

blast from the past, right? Yeah.

11:10

A blast from the past. And I think you

11:12

did quite well. You got like seven out of nine.

11:14

So I thought it might be less. So it's interesting

11:16

to see that there was so much in common. And

11:19

by the way, because I know we use some really

11:21

nice expressions here to talk about things that were from

11:24

the 90s and so on. Like we said, that it's

11:26

a blast from the past or that something was all

11:28

the rage. So for those

11:30

of you that want to actually be able to

11:32

use these expressions yourself when you get in a

11:34

conversation with someone or just to understand them when

11:36

you're watching your favorite series, then

11:38

you should definitely listen to this podcast over

11:40

on the RealLife English app because we give

11:43

you vocabulary flashcards for every single lesson for

11:45

the most important words and expressions so that

11:47

you will never forget them. They'll be right

11:49

on the tip of your tongue any time

11:51

you get into a conversation with someone. And

11:53

because any of us talk about the 90s, it really

11:56

gets me thinking because any time I spend

11:58

time with my nephews, One

12:00

thing that I notice is that they are

12:02

growing up so much differently than

12:05

I did. And it's just not

12:08

that long. It's like 30 years, even

12:10

less than 30 years of difference between me and

12:12

them. And one place

12:14

where I've observed this, something is actually, it bothers

12:17

me a little bit seeing this because when we

12:19

got to eat, and like last

12:21

year with the entire family, with Jordy, with

12:23

my parents, my brother and sister-in-law and their

12:25

two kids and my nephews, we went to

12:28

Mexico and we were in

12:30

an all-inclusive, so we were eating

12:32

out every meal together there at the

12:34

resorts together. And the kids were always

12:36

with their iPads, with their

12:39

iPads or with Nintendo. Because

12:41

otherwise, if they don't

12:43

have a device in front of them, they go

12:45

kinda crazy, no one can enjoy their

12:48

meal or anything. When I

12:50

was a kid though, something in

12:52

fact that was kind of fun, I don't know if

12:54

you had this in the Ukraine, is

12:57

that restaurants, their kids menus,

13:00

a lot of restaurants, not every single one, but a lot

13:02

of them would actually be with

13:04

a picture that you would color

13:06

in, so they would give you crayons and that would keep you

13:08

occupied. Or otherwise, you just had

13:10

to talk to the adults. It

13:13

allowed you to work on your socialization and

13:15

so on as a kid. So

13:17

I want to ask you as I'm thinking about

13:19

this, do you feel that all

13:21

this technology that we have nowadays, has our life

13:24

gotten better or worse because of it? Okay,

13:26

that's a difficult and tricky

13:29

question, Ethan. First, let

13:31

me tell you that I feel you about

13:33

the gadgets at the table. So

13:35

I'm that strict mom that doesn't allow

13:37

that. It doesn't happen in

13:39

our home. Like I mean, every time

13:42

we sit at dinner or lunch, okay,

13:45

we don't take our phones with us.

13:48

Kids and adults. Kids and adults.

13:50

It's more difficult for adults. Sometimes we

13:53

really want to check something up. But

13:56

my dad's actually worse than my nephews

13:58

even with having his phone. the table.

14:00

I can totally relate. I always like

14:02

you know reprimand my partner like saying

14:04

like, hey, just put down the phone

14:06

we're eating here. And you're not showing

14:09

good example to Mira. And

14:11

Mira when she eats alone, for example, sometimes

14:14

she asked to give her her tablet

14:16

because she says like, I'm just mommy,

14:18

I feel bored. Let me watch the

14:20

movie, you know, cartoons. If

14:22

weighing all the pros and cons, I

14:26

think we'll have an opportunity to

14:28

discuss some of these during today's

14:30

podcast. But if taking into consideration

14:32

everything that technology is bringing,

14:34

I think it outweighs the drawbacks,

14:37

the downsides. So I would say

14:39

it does make our

14:41

lives better. But we should be careful

14:43

and we should be you know, aware

14:45

of so many things now. I do

14:48

want to ask you about some of

14:50

the words before I comment on what

14:52

you just said. So you use some

14:54

really nice vocabulary, advanced vocabulary here. And

14:56

people can also get the vocabulary flashcards

14:58

over in the app, of course. But

15:00

just now you said that there's drawbacks

15:02

and downsides, which mean the same

15:05

thing. They're both really nice advanced terms. What does that

15:07

mean? This is something

15:09

negative, so negative sides, you know, maybe

15:11

the most common phrase is pros and

15:13

cons. So pros, something

15:15

positive cons, something negative. And

15:18

you said gadgets, which is

15:20

just technology devices, right? And

15:22

you reprimand your partner doesn't

15:24

mean to reprimand someone. It's

15:27

just like, you know, I think people watching it's

15:29

like this. When

15:32

you wag your finger. Yeah, it's like,

15:35

join, join their

15:37

attention to something that I think

15:40

is wrong. Something like that. You could

15:42

also say scold. Scold. Oh, it's

15:44

another good word, scolding. So

15:47

what it made me think you said that

15:49

Mira often if she's eating alone, she asked

15:51

to watch something. I did have this when

15:53

I was a kid, because I remember very

15:55

clearly Sunday morning cartoons. Sunday morning

15:57

is the best morning of the week for watching cartoons.

15:59

I watch Scooby-Doo or

16:02

the Looney Tunes. Smurfs, I think I watch sometimes,

16:04

I don't think I particularly liked it, but we

16:06

saw that earlier. And I remember I would make

16:09

my bowl of cereal and go sit on the

16:11

floor in front of the TV, wouldn't use the

16:13

sofa and watch. But the

16:16

thing that's changed, so if we're

16:18

looking at maybe a downside for

16:20

kids, they just have this unlimited

16:22

plethora, huge quantity at their

16:24

disposal of tons

16:26

and tons and tons of kid series that they

16:28

can watch on Netflix, on Disney Plus, on all

16:30

these other streaming platforms, right? I

16:32

don't know even how you deal with that with Mira. Well,

16:36

so first of all, I think

16:38

it comes from the family. When I was a

16:40

kid, again, just the same

16:42

way as it is now for Mira, we

16:45

were not eating in front of TVs. We

16:47

didn't have a TV in our kitchen, which

16:50

sometimes is common right now. Yeah, I don't

16:52

know if you had a TV set in

16:54

your kitchen, we didn't have. So

16:57

having meals was always without a TV

16:59

set. Of course, we didn't have any

17:01

gadgets back then, but we

17:03

would go and have our cup of

17:05

tea with the series

17:07

or with the movie. So it was

17:10

like a dessert. So you would

17:12

be allowed to have a dessert, have some tea in

17:14

front of the TV. Yeah.

17:16

So it was a reward or

17:18

something or special. You could think

17:20

so, you could think so, yeah. But

17:24

I would agree with you with something that you

17:26

said at the very beginning that back then, we

17:29

had so many more opportunities

17:31

for socializing, for talking to each other.

17:33

It's something that I try to

17:36

cultivate right now when we are

17:38

having our meals together with our

17:40

family. Mira comes back from school

17:42

late, so we don't have lunch

17:44

together, but we do have dinner together. And

17:46

every time we have dinner, this

17:49

is the time for me to ask how her day was,

17:53

what was the most interesting part of

17:55

her day at school, what she learned

17:57

new, right? So we're exchanging like the...

18:00

news from the day in that

18:02

time. So imagine having

18:04

this, like a conversation with the

18:06

family and just everyone checking their

18:08

phones. And he used a nice

18:10

word here, the placera, yeah, something,

18:12

a huge amount of something. At

18:14

their disposal, you said that kids

18:17

have so much things at their disposal.

18:19

So many cartoons, great choice, that they

18:22

have access to it, right? With Netflix.

18:24

Again, you know what's interesting? I see

18:27

more benefits here than the

18:29

negative sides, the downsides to it.

18:31

Because right now, when she

18:33

sees some movie, a

18:35

trailer from Netflix, you want to watch.

18:38

And now she figures out that there

18:40

is no Ukrainian dubbing, but she really

18:42

want to watch it, she still watches

18:45

it and it is in English. So

18:47

it's so cool, you know, that she

18:49

exposes herself to English. You

18:51

said downside, so the opposite would be upside.

18:54

My nephews don't have that upside of

18:57

watching some series. I told even

18:59

my brother when they were young, he said, you should

19:02

have them watch all their TV in Spanish because then

19:04

at least they'll be able to understand it really well,

19:06

but they never got in the habit of that, unfortunately.

19:08

I imagine it must be hard as a parent as

19:10

well, because in the end

19:12

too, you could be that really strict parent who says,

19:15

you know, only 30 minutes

19:17

of a series a day or only watching TV

19:19

on the weekends. No

19:21

iPad, no video games, so on. But

19:25

I think the thing is difficult when they go to school and when they make

19:27

friends and so on, maybe they go

19:29

over to a friend's house and their friend has

19:31

completely different rules and it's difficult, right? We'd say

19:33

like keeping up with the Joneses, sort

19:36

of when there's like a neighborly

19:38

competition, when you're trying to, maybe

19:40

this is a bit different, but it's almost

19:43

for kids keeping up with the Joneses looks

19:45

like, you know, oh, my

19:47

friend next door has this video game,

19:49

how come I can't have it? Or he gets to

19:51

watch TV series while he's having lunch, how come I

19:53

can't? Right? You're continuously dealing with that

19:56

as a parent. Sounds familiar. It

19:59

sounds like a challenge nowadays. is because there's just

20:01

so much more of this, right, at

20:03

their disposal again. Oh, it's an end

20:05

for our English learners. Could you please define one

20:07

more time this phrase you use, like keeping up

20:09

with the Joneses? Yeah, so I

20:12

sort of described what it was like for

20:14

kids. This generally applies more to when we're

20:16

trying to compete sort of a friendly way

20:18

with the neighbor. So your neighbor gets a

20:21

really nice car and you have to get

20:23

a really nice car to compete or how

20:25

people, for example, the green lawns, the

20:28

grass that people have in front of their houses is

20:30

very American, I believe. You don't

20:32

want to have brown grass because it'll

20:34

look bad compared to the neighbors. So there's

20:37

things like this, or Christmas decorations, Halloween decorations.

20:39

There is always this part of healthy

20:43

competition. I hope it

20:45

stays healthy. Healthy competition. I

20:48

think there's some movies that they play with

20:50

that, right, where it becomes unhealthy. Okay,

20:52

and by the way, we talked here

20:54

about Netflix. I remember,

20:57

like, of course we didn't have

20:59

Netflix in our childhood, right? He said, I

21:01

don't know about the states. He would tell

21:03

me. I would be interesting if there was

21:05

any streaming or I don't know, probably there

21:08

was like a channel

21:10

for kids. I don't

21:12

know. Where cartoons would just run

21:14

all day long. Cartoon

21:16

Network. Did you have that

21:18

one? No, we didn't. Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon

21:21

and Disney Channel, those were the big

21:23

ones for kids. I

21:26

had the number on the remote memorized

21:28

for those channels. Okay,

21:31

so I think we had some, okay,

21:33

so there was time of day for

21:36

several kids' movies or

21:41

cartoons in the row. So

21:43

basically when you come from

21:45

school and have your lunch, after that,

21:47

that was exactly that time when you would

21:49

have like four or five cartoons in a

21:51

row on a certain channel. I

21:54

don't believe, maybe we did have it. Honestly, I

21:56

don't believe if we had just, you

21:58

know, specialized channels for cartoons. running

22:00

all day long. Yeah, I don't remember

22:02

it. But coming if like not talking

22:04

about like childhood childhood, my teenage

22:07

years, for example, you know what I did it

22:09

I'm curious to hear if you did the same,

22:11

maybe not here in Ukraine.

22:13

So we would buy local newspaper,

22:15

just like with some news and

22:18

advertisements, you know, and every newspaper

22:20

had the schedule of TV programs

22:22

for the whole week. So

22:25

what I would do, I would take a pencil

22:28

at the start of the week, and I would would

22:31

highlight everything I would want to watch during the week.

22:33

So I would made my own schedule

22:36

for watching movies for watching shows. How

22:38

about you anything like that? There

22:41

was TV Guide when I was a

22:43

kid. And it was very similar

22:45

that it was this magazine sort of thing that

22:47

you get every month, maybe that had all the

22:49

programming for the different channels. I don't remember using

22:51

that when I was a kid, but my parents

22:53

did. And then when I

22:56

was a teenager, I don't remember exactly when this

22:58

happened. But there was something in the states that

23:00

became very famous. called TiVo, which

23:02

would allow you to record different

23:04

TV programs. And so

23:07

I would do that, you know, I would go

23:09

through and record all episodes of the programs that

23:11

I like to watch. And then, you know, they

23:13

were there when I wanted them. And

23:16

streaming really is what trumped that

23:19

ultimately, because, well, my parents,

23:21

I think still have this. But I think

23:23

young people nowadays, we only watch on

23:25

different platforms mostly. You

23:28

use the word I don't think I know

23:30

it. You said that this this recording thing,

23:34

trumped? Streaming?

23:37

Streaming trumped the recording.

23:39

So Trump, I believe

23:41

comes from not the president. Sounds

23:43

like that. It comes

23:46

from card games,

23:48

I believe, where if a card trumps another

23:50

card, it means it is more

23:52

powerful, or it beats that card. Okay. So

23:54

using it figuratively here, it's basically saying that,

23:57

you know, it was superior to. to

24:00

the previous technology that we had with TiVo

24:02

where we could record programs. Okay.

24:05

So it like took it over maybe. Can

24:08

you say so? Like streaming platforms

24:10

took over those recordings. I

24:13

wanted to just briefly segue

24:15

into the history of Netflix, because

24:18

I think most people from who didn't live

24:21

in the States, they might not have

24:23

witnessed this phenomenon of how they

24:26

just think of Netflix as a streaming platform.

24:28

But it really started out as a DVD

24:30

by mail service, which

24:33

was really revolutionary because I grew

24:35

up with Blockbuster that

24:37

at first they had the VHS

24:40

and Blockbuster was kind of shady, meaning

24:42

that they did things that weren't so

24:44

ethical. Like if you were

24:46

one day late, they would charge you these

24:48

absurd fees. It's like a renting

24:50

company. You would go there. You

24:52

would come to them and rent

24:55

a cassette. A VHS. Blockbuster

24:57

was the most famous one by far and

25:00

they don't exist anymore. And I

25:02

think that that's good because they weren't the

25:04

most ethical or creating the most value for

25:06

their customers sort of company. But

25:08

they would charge you, for example, if you didn't

25:10

rewind the VHS. Oh, really? The

25:13

early days. Yeah. You returned it

25:15

unrewinded. So you'd be there with a pencil.

25:18

I don't know if you remember this, like

25:21

screwing a pencil into the back of the

25:23

VHS to rewind them. Yeah,

25:25

I remember that. Yeah, I would mostly

25:27

do it with cassettes though with the

25:30

audio cassette. So when Netflix came about,

25:32

it was amazing because, first of all,

25:34

you didn't have to go to the

25:37

Blockbuster or to the physical rental

25:39

store. They would just mail you

25:41

the DVD. You never had

25:43

this problem of, oh, it's not available. That's another

25:45

thing I remember is when that hit movie first

25:47

came out, it would be

25:50

sold out. You wouldn't be able to get it until

25:52

the next week. So you could pretty much always get

25:54

the DVDs that you wanted when you wanted them. And

25:57

I remember the really cool thing. You

25:59

had a list. on the Netflix website of

26:01

the next ones that you wanted to see. So

26:03

for some reason, you know, one of

26:05

the movies that you want to

26:07

see wasn't available, they would send you the next one in

26:09

your list and so on. And then

26:11

what they did was they wanted to start

26:13

a streaming service. So they offered it for

26:15

free. They said, you know, someone is

26:18

getting to be used by mail now we

26:20

have the streaming service. But series of movies on

26:22

there weren't very good. I remember the early days.

26:24

But then they started getting it was

26:26

actually really interesting. It was a podcast

26:29

that took different companies that had like

26:31

competition, you know, to see who

26:33

would win out in their category.

26:35

And it was Netflix versus Blockbuster

26:37

versus Warner Brothers. And

26:40

so this is where I also heard a

26:42

lot about these things. They they started to

26:45

introduce the streaming service and then eventually they

26:47

had good things on there. So that's how

26:49

we started getting so used to watching things

26:51

online. That's so interesting. I wonder

26:53

why streaming came to us so late,

26:55

because what you were talking

26:57

about, like you were you

26:59

were telling about Blockbusters, we

27:02

did have rental houses

27:04

like that. They didn't have the

27:06

name Blockbuster. I don't remember if

27:09

they ever had any name. But

27:11

yeah, we would go and rent

27:13

our video cassettes there. But then

27:15

it stopped. The compact disc took

27:18

over, but no streaming

27:20

services. You mentioned earlier about how,

27:22

you know, it's great for Mida when

27:24

she sees the previews for this for

27:26

a new series on Netflix or something

27:28

like that. But I think on the

27:30

other hand from that, especially now that

27:33

there's Disney Plus on the scene, HBO

27:35

Max, Apple TV Plus, right.

27:37

So we have all these different

27:39

platforms now that have all all

27:41

of them are investing hugely and

27:43

creating different series, different movies. So

27:45

there's really this analysis process of

27:48

what to watch. Like Jordy and I, we keep a

27:50

list of series. And oftentimes we have to just discard

27:52

things that we want to see, but

27:54

we don't want to see them so bad because it's

27:56

way too many to watch otherwise. Right. You

27:58

know, we don't have so much time. And honestly, sometimes

28:00

I find myself thinking, should

28:02

I pause my Netflix subscription?

28:04

Because I just don't get to

28:07

watch anything there. About

28:09

Mira? Well, again, I

28:12

don't think if I'm that strict,

28:15

mom, but I can't say

28:17

that she watches too much. She

28:20

runs her tablet. I don't like

28:22

her using TikTok. I would rather

28:24

her watching Netflix movies really instead

28:26

of TikTok. She doesn't get so

28:28

much time for that. And when

28:31

she's on her weekends or spring

28:33

break is coming, right? So I

28:35

expect her to watch more, but

28:37

then I'm more soft

28:39

and let her do that. You know

28:41

what? What is interesting? Another, let

28:44

me throw back this question to you. And

28:46

what do you think about it? Because

28:49

that's something I asked my brother when

28:51

preparing for this podcast, what he thinks

28:53

was better back then. And

28:56

one of the things he mentioned is

28:59

that he feels right now that

29:01

back then we had better choices

29:03

in terms of we

29:06

were choosing what to watch. And

29:08

right now, and you also said

29:10

this, yeah, those streaming platforms recommend

29:12

us what to watch. What

29:15

is your take on this? The biggest upside is

29:17

not having to deal with advertisements. But

29:21

I feel we still are pretty, we're

29:23

still pretty deliberate with the series that we choose

29:25

to watch because again, we have a list and

29:27

we keep on there which platform the series we

29:30

want to watch are. So usually I'll discover these

29:32

via YouTube just by watching the trailers, not

29:35

actually from the homepage of Netflix or something like

29:37

that. Like it's very rare I would start watching

29:39

a series because Netflix recommended it to me. So

29:42

maybe it's just that I have a different way to go about it. But

29:44

we will, like you said, should I unsubscribe from

29:47

Netflix? This is what we do is we subscribe

29:49

for a month to a service. We watch the series that

29:51

we want there. Maybe if we

29:54

don't finish them, we pay for another month or another month. But

29:56

then once we finish them, we unsubscribe from

29:58

that. subscribe to the next one. So

30:01

we won't just, we're not loyal to any of them. We

30:03

just go to the one that has the most series at

30:06

the moment that we want to watch. Interesting.

30:08

That's what I can recommend to you. I've

30:10

never done this. The thing is with Ukraine,

30:12

still not all these string platforms are available

30:15

here. Like for example, with Disney Plus, I

30:17

was considering subscribing to it because of

30:20

Mira, but it's not available

30:22

in Ukraine. So sad. Yeah.

30:25

You brought up TikTok. I think that that's another thing

30:27

that I would say was better back in the day

30:30

was not having any social networks. Do

30:32

you think it was better not

30:34

having social networks? So

30:37

when we first started

30:39

using Facebook, it actually was

30:41

really nice because you know, you would keep up with your

30:43

friends, you would see what they're up to. When

30:46

you traveled, for example, you could see where people were. But

30:48

the thing is that these algorithms have gotten

30:50

so powerful that they just have us

30:53

as a hostage. They have our attention hostage.

30:56

And it causes, I think

30:59

we talked about this actually last week, but it

31:01

causes all these different mental problems like anxiety,

31:04

depression. So I think

31:07

that life was a bit

31:09

better before them. You can use these tools.

31:11

They're all tools, right? But the problem is

31:13

that most people don't

31:16

have so much control over the use of it.

31:18

They're not really deliberate about their use of it,

31:20

which is probably everything we're talking about. And

31:23

TikTok in particular, and this whole

31:26

trend towards short content,

31:28

it's really messing with people's ability to pay

31:30

attention to things with their attention span. And

31:32

this is something that I worry about. If

31:34

I had kids, I would really worry about

31:37

this because if you

31:39

want to be successful in anything, it's like really

31:41

important that you're able to focus and you're able

31:43

to go deep on something. And

31:45

I would just worry like when my nephews are

31:47

out there, are they gonna have this capacity to

31:49

really focus and go deep on

31:51

things? With these new technologies,

31:54

and like you said, these are really

31:56

deep psychological problems that may appear, I

31:59

believe it's... time for our educational

32:01

systems to come up with some

32:03

solutions. Like, for example, they have

32:05

so many theoretical classes at school

32:07

and nothing practical that

32:09

would really help kids

32:12

navigate this modern life. So

32:14

probably it's time to introduce

32:16

some class like that,

32:18

how help you benefit from

32:21

social media and protect yourself

32:23

from negative effects it

32:25

brings. Right. That would be interesting.

32:28

My only concern there would be that kids don't

32:30

tend to listen to authority. I guess it depends

32:32

on their age, but I can just imagine being

32:34

a teenager and your teacher telling you and rolling

32:37

your eyes and saying, yeah, whatever, man, and

32:39

going ahead anyway, or

32:42

even being even more motivated to

32:44

use it. I think you

32:46

should be wise, you should be smart, you

32:48

should be smart and choose

32:50

the right age. Because I remember

32:52

when Mita just started school, the

32:54

first two years, her teacher was

32:57

the real authority for her. She

32:59

would just come home and would

33:01

tell me, like, you know, our

33:03

teacher said this, you know, our

33:05

teacher said that. And she was

33:07

truly believing every word her teacher

33:09

was saying to them. So

33:11

I think that's exactly the right time for them

33:14

to hear some words from the teacher,

33:16

social media and everything in TikTok. But

33:19

right now, yeah, for

33:22

their teenager. Exactly. Exactly.

33:24

I did. Anyway, we covered

33:28

videos, movies, TikTok. Let's talk about

33:30

music. I remember you were talking

33:32

about recording the TV shows you

33:34

wanted to watch. That wasn't the

33:37

case for me. We didn't have

33:39

that video recorder. We

33:41

just had that video player where

33:43

you could just watch movies, but not record them.

33:46

But I did record music.

33:49

So when I was like short for money, short

33:52

on money, what's the right way?

33:54

Short for money. Short on

33:56

money when you're strapped for cash. Yeah, I

33:58

start for cash. I would be listening to

34:00

our radio station, Ukrainian radio station, and I

34:03

would just try and

34:06

catch my favorite song. So

34:08

for that you would need always to have an

34:10

empty cassette in your recorder, in your player,

34:13

so that when your favorite song starts, you

34:16

just push record and you have it.

34:18

So we would create, you know, mixed tapes, I

34:21

think that's the term for it. You

34:23

know, we would create a record. So

34:25

we would create, you know, mixed

34:28

tapes, I think that's the term for

34:30

it. Yeah. Mixed tapes, mixed tapes. Yeah.

34:32

Okay. And then again, healthy competition or

34:34

exchange with your friends, uh,

34:37

with those mixed tapes. What was

34:39

it similar for you? I don't remember

34:41

ever doing this with tapes,

34:43

but it was even considered

34:45

a romantic gesture in the

34:48

States, in the American culture, at least, that you would make

34:50

a mixed tape for someone with songs that

34:52

make you think about that person. But

34:54

that's so much effort. What I remember was

34:57

when Napster became really big and other services

34:59

like this where you could legally download songs

35:01

and it took an eternity. It took you

35:03

like, you know, an hour to download one

35:05

song, which would take you five

35:08

seconds. Never used that. So I've never

35:10

heard about it. I think Piracy was driving

35:12

here in Ukraine. So I would download all

35:14

my songs for free, to be honest. Yeah.

35:18

Yeah. It was that kind of thing that illegally

35:20

downloading the songs or movies or so

35:22

on. But it used to be

35:24

something very slow. I didn't

35:26

do that. Like I kind of came in. Well,

35:29

I don't know if I never did that, but in general, I

35:31

kind of came in to start listening

35:33

to music more when iTunes started getting big. So

35:36

you would buy them for a dollar each. I

35:38

didn't have an allowance, but you know, maybe birthday

35:40

money and stuff, or people would give you an

35:42

iTunes gift card and use that

35:44

to buy the songs that I wanted. And then

35:46

I would burn a CD. We called this like

35:48

burning a CD. So if you have, yeah, that

35:50

you would put a blank CD into the drive.

35:53

And then you could create a mixed

35:55

CD, I guess, instead of a

35:58

mixed tape. I

36:00

would give this sometimes as like a present to a friend or

36:02

I'd make one for my mom with like songs I was listening

36:04

to so she could see what's hip. Oh,

36:06

so interesting. I've never done anything

36:08

like that. So sweet. Like,

36:10

I mean, like sharing with mom

36:13

or friends as a gesture, right?

36:16

But let me, let me ask

36:18

you, what was it perceived as

36:20

a romantic gesture? And

36:23

also why is it called like a

36:25

mix tape? Mix tape. Is it like,

36:27

by the way, spelled as a one word? Mix

36:29

tape. Yeah, I believe so. It's a

36:32

tape because the cassette is also called the tape. You

36:34

call the player, for example, a tape player. And

36:37

that probably comes from the, remember it's

36:39

black or brown, the actual like plastic

36:42

thing that went inside of the

36:45

VHSs and the cassettes that

36:47

was called tape. So the short name

36:49

became tape for those and a mix tape because it's

36:51

a mix of songs on a tape, right? It was

36:54

romantic because you had to go through all the efforts,

36:56

like you were saying to hit record

36:58

right when that song came on or I don't know

37:00

how people did this. I think it's like you would

37:02

maybe record it on like your Walkman

37:04

or something, you know, when I was like

37:07

playing on a CD

37:09

or a tape that you had from your house and you

37:11

would mix different songs together that made you think of that

37:13

person. So you can think that that's very romantic if you're

37:15

listening to a tape and it's like, oh,

37:18

he played, you know, this song makes him think

37:20

of me. We would

37:22

follow the playlist nowadays, right? We

37:24

would create playlist for traveling, playlist

37:26

for working out, playlist. I don't

37:28

know. Would you present a playlist

37:30

as a romantic gesture nowadays? Maybe

37:33

you could like share a, you know,

37:35

if you're trying to swoon someone or trying

37:37

to do the swoon. What is the word?

37:41

If you're trying to woo someone, that's to woo

37:43

someone and they would swoon. Yeah. If

37:45

you're trying to explain the both words to

37:49

woo someone and to swoon. Okay.

37:51

If you woo someone, you're trying to show

37:53

them your romantic interest and get them to

37:55

be interested in you. It sounds like very

37:57

old fashioned. And if you swoon. It's

38:00

like when you're listening to

38:02

that mixed paper, you're like, oh, you know,

38:04

okay, you melt down, you're melting down. Well,

38:08

that'd be a bit different if you have a meltdown, you're,

38:12

you go crazy or you burn out. Yeah, that's another,

38:14

you have a melt. So you cannot say

38:16

that you melt, you melt, just you melt.

38:18

Okay. That's an interesting, let's

38:20

give a short lesson to our language

38:23

nerds here. So if you say I'm

38:25

melting, it's this spooning

38:27

thing. It's like something made you

38:29

say, ah, but

38:33

if you melt, have a meltdown,

38:36

that's the collocation to have a meltdown. You

38:38

are very stressed. You're nervous. You are

38:40

angry. You could even go crazy,

38:43

right? You end up in the nut house in

38:45

the psychological ward. Oh, so

38:47

seriously. That'd be very

38:49

serious. Yeah. But I

38:52

would say, cause then if we're talking about,

38:54

has technology made our life better, Spotify has

38:56

hands down made my life so much better.

38:58

I couldn't live without Spotify. I

39:01

started listening to it in

39:03

the early days and then I took a break from it

39:05

because just the ads and everything. And

39:08

then somehow I came back to it. And then I remember

39:10

it was in the early days of real life English and

39:12

we were working on a launch, launching a new product, I

39:14

believe. So I was working a lot and

39:16

I was listening to music while I was working. And it's just

39:18

like, I got sick of the ads. They're like, oh, three months

39:21

trial for free. I was like, oh,

39:23

I'm going to do that. So like throughout the launch,

39:25

I'll not have to listen to these annoying ads. Okay.

39:28

But of course then I was screwed because I couldn't

39:30

go back to listening with the ads. Here I

39:32

see the difference between us. So I

39:34

hear you are that type

39:36

of person who can combine work and

39:39

listen to music in the background, right?

39:42

I need it. You need it. You

39:45

can't work without it. I need water and

39:47

music. I see. I

39:50

think most of people are like

39:52

that. And I'm somehow, I

39:54

don't know if it comes back to my

39:56

childhood. Maybe it was too silent in my

39:58

house or something. I

40:02

don't know why, but I am

40:04

getting so much distracted by

40:07

music. So

40:09

when I work on

40:11

some projects, I don't listen to music.

40:13

I cannot. I'm getting distracted. I

40:16

think it's different levels of sensitivity. Maybe it's

40:18

similar to like the introvert extrovert that

40:20

they say that actually has

40:22

to do with the question of sensitivity, like how

40:24

sensitive you are to social interaction. Maybe

40:27

it's similar. I had a friend in

40:30

college who could be studying

40:32

or working on a paper or whatever

40:34

with the TV on and actually preferred that. I

40:37

preferred to have the TV on. I couldn't do that.

40:39

Like I'd be way too tempted. Whatever is on, even

40:41

if it's not something I like, I'd be way too

40:43

tempted to be looking up and seeing

40:45

what's on the TV. It reminds

40:47

me of my dad. Like he cannot

40:49

fall asleep without TV

40:52

or without news. And

40:54

I would never fall asleep if anything

40:56

would be in the background. Like, you know, talking.

40:59

And it's better for your sleep because all that light

41:02

going into your eyes right before your sleeping doesn't help

41:04

with your restfulness. Let

41:06

me ask our viewers and

41:08

our listeners about their style

41:10

of working or studying. Do

41:13

they combine it with the music? Guys share

41:15

with us in the comments. Send us an

41:17

email at hello at realliveglobal.com.

41:20

We've been talking about this

41:22

question. I don't know if you've

41:24

come to a consensus, Cassenia, about

41:26

whether we're better off now with

41:28

all the technology or not. I think we

41:30

could have another whole podcast discussing other things.

41:33

But I'm also really curious to hear your

41:35

guys' opinions, either based on what we've been

41:37

talking about or even just your general intuition

41:39

as far as whether life is better now

41:41

or when you're younger. I feel like I

41:44

can't just give a clear answer. Like, yes, life was

41:46

better before life is better now because it depends what

41:48

we talk about. Right. And I feel

41:50

like a very old man. If I'm like, life

41:52

was so much better in my day, you

41:54

know, as a grandfather. But

41:56

You could also comment that down

41:59

on. The new to let us know.

42:01

Said. Better It. Before technology or

42:03

with naji with your general opinion. For

42:06

me it's totally likes more

42:08

positive thing. maybe it's related

42:10

he a small childhood trauma

42:12

or something. Anyway I was

42:14

not that young. Say that

42:16

we share this little story

42:18

with you say that was

42:20

my first trip abroad. I

42:22

was a teenager may be

42:24

around twelve may be and

42:26

I went to the Czech

42:28

Republic for Christmas holidays. It

42:31

was like an organized to

42:33

war from our Cd. The

42:35

group of kids. Different age and

42:37

one of far friends of a

42:39

family was working as a tour

42:41

guides say. my parents you know

42:43

took the risk t sent me

42:45

at with that group back in

42:47

the day we didn't have mobile

42:49

phones so there was no connection

42:51

and I spend the whole week

42:53

there for the very first time

42:55

in a for a century. Before

42:57

that I had never lasts my.

43:00

Calendar, my house, my mum, rice

43:02

and wheat. I didn't have any

43:04

connection with them but that wasn't

43:07

the worst thing they were seen.

43:09

came when we were coming back

43:11

and since how the. Plans.

43:14

Changed for whatever reason for not coming back

43:16

to my city. So we were. Coming.

43:18

Back by train to

43:20

the nearest city. Say

43:23

and I think my parents got

43:25

the news the scores they were

43:28

expecting me but there was some

43:30

delay and by the time when

43:32

I was is that train station

43:35

together with the group everyone was

43:37

already taken like picked up by

43:39

their parents. I stayed alone

43:42

with couple of adult. From. Our

43:44

group. And we were waiting for

43:46

my parents and they were not coming. No

43:48

mobile phones We couldn't. You. Know

43:50

her. Get the news, Are

43:52

they coming soon or not anything

43:54

happens, say days People just afraid

43:56

to give me a right to

43:58

our city because. They weren't coming back

44:01

and will take us home with them.

44:03

I remember it like right now my

44:05

mom he says he and like she's

44:07

honey a hoax you saw finally came

44:09

back and like and hugging her bag

44:11

and I'm asking like a where's dad

44:14

and here comes the moment and see

44:16

like there is a boat of awkward

44:18

silence and she's like. She

44:20

went to pick you up that you

44:22

know it's not wish you were not

44:25

with them like said and I sat

44:27

it's it's share and I cried I

44:29

cried because I felt ashamed or so

44:31

sorry for my dad said I imagine

44:34

him looking for me and me not

44:36

being there that I really cried say

44:38

i wish I had a mobile phone

44:40

back found in that situation. In a

44:42

new just a given a sunset. Or

44:45

member sometimes when the parents relates to pick me

44:47

up. At wasn't that bad but

44:49

a do remember sometimes where's it Would have been

44:51

really helpful if they could have called me or

44:53

called someone else says you know mama we'll be

44:55

there and by minutes. Yeah and right

44:57

now Need A is always in touch with

44:59

me because you know We bought her the

45:01

smart watch sale with call. Her sorry go

45:03

I. Hate it when it runs out of

45:06

battery. That

45:08

exists as a sturdier and yeah and

45:10

like is amazing how many things we

45:13

have just on this device that's in

45:15

the nineties were different things the camera

45:17

them or is that is a phone

45:19

by like of we don't really think

45:21

of this is being a phone primarily

45:23

anymore we're talking about with Jordy for

45:25

example. like the mass. Than. That

45:27

the masses like the handy thing right? If

45:29

you're in another city and your last and

45:31

you can just open and you can figure

45:33

out where to go. Yeah and I remember

45:35

when I was growing up we had my

45:37

parents had the map the United States and

45:39

of the south with your I'd say that

45:41

they get out like this and receives league.

45:43

my mom trying to navigate like winter in

45:45

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45:47

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45:49

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47:09

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47:11

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47:13

let us know if you'd like us to

47:15

do a part to on the subject. So

47:17

we did a brainstorm of what was different

47:19

when we were kids in the nineties. From

47:21

now on I know I have a long

47:23

list of things I didn't talk about. Some

47:26

tier one of the things I was impressed

47:28

about those how many similarities their work and

47:30

I was expecting there may be to be

47:32

more differences between our childhoods in between Ukraine

47:34

in the Us, but it seems like there

47:36

was already quite a bit of globalization. That

47:38

brought us very similar technologies and or the you

47:40

don't have a furby. The

47:42

I say the survey data. What's.

47:46

Your What Are you digging this week to any.

47:48

Yes, It isn't. let me share

47:50

it with you. I'm not a

47:52

big fan of rom coms. The

47:54

feast was a real delight for

47:56

my eyes because it had like

47:58

picture ask. Less. Jade says Ireland

48:01

I didn't know if you saw the

48:03

preview unless six or not. Bad. Couple.

48:05

Days ago, few days ago I

48:07

watched this new that sucks movie

48:10

Irish Wish Lindsay Lohan have you

48:12

heard of it? I did

48:14

see something about of a thing on you tube.

48:17

But was it any good? Her. One of

48:19

the movies that is not

48:21

so sophisticated. Tardis: The Colts

48:23

Complex plaudits. just like a

48:25

classical rom com. Ah

48:28

and would just. Made

48:31

me stay watch

48:33

this movie is this

48:35

incredible Irish. Landscape

48:37

Yeah they would show the cliffs

48:40

the smaller Muller so it's spelled

48:42

like M O H E R

48:44

That what I learned is the

48:46

Harrys Frenzy she would be the

48:48

cliffs a smaller and they are

48:51

very same as because they were

48:53

portrayed like in several movies harry

48:55

Potter included so you might have

48:57

seen them. So they have a

48:59

photoshoot phase in those Greece or

49:02

in the background and add another

49:04

one. That's. What I wanted

49:06

to ask you actually and plenty

49:08

of here Ireland what associations the

49:10

have in your head? Oh. Guinness.

49:15

Seems. Like

49:18

precautions. Delivery guys?

49:20

Yeah, The chlorine shamrocks,

49:22

exactly. Color green like there

49:24

were just like this as a.

49:27

Sumptuous, Shades of green

49:29

of like oh hints of green

49:31

man the shamrock I did saying

49:33

they showed it in the movie

49:36

but that's the first associations with

49:38

me. I know this like three

49:40

at Clapper that's what you see

49:42

you and he here but Ireland's

49:44

or went there was like advertisement

49:46

campaign or something. ladies islands which

49:48

most often see these some plans

49:50

right a shamrock and that I

49:52

did a loud the Us but

49:55

in my cat's head ah if

49:57

you. Sound. As for

49:59

li. Glover in you

50:01

were. Supposed to make a wish because

50:03

it is considered a lucky plaza isn't the

50:05

same in America is. Is imagine of. You're supposed

50:07

to make a wish, but it's cancer. Good luck So

50:10

it's like you should picket. You should keep up with

50:12

you because it's it's good. but. Since. You

50:14

eat it. I don't think

50:16

you should eat at a suicide note. So

50:18

we went as far as either yes, doesn't

50:20

make sure. It seems like didn't. Have

50:25

had their like it's days we

50:27

that's that. Anyway so the movies

50:29

Cold Irish, wish and maybe there

50:31

is this you know connection to

50:33

the sad lucky to our that

50:35

I didn't know five that Lizzi

50:37

Law hence character she makes the

50:40

wish teases be getting married to

50:42

that guys said of her best

50:44

friend and the lease actually comes

50:46

true. Then turns out that that's

50:48

not what she really wanted and

50:50

there is a very funny space.

50:52

and from the movie seats. And

50:55

runs back to these magic tree magic

50:57

bench where she made at least and

50:59

she says oh i need to I

51:01

wish my wish. That

51:04

I found. It's a hilarious and need

51:06

to unleash my wish. And by the

51:08

way, in case, leisurely to law has

51:10

she has she's an American actress way,

51:12

but she has Irish ancestry. Zone.

51:15

The red headed I learned this

51:17

new words for the color of

51:19

her hair. It's not just read,

51:21

it's all burn his side and

51:23

reddish brown cel then auburn. While

51:26

mine's pretty quick, Today. Center

51:28

So I have a piece of

51:30

technology that I'm diggin' muscle. I

51:32

got a new a treadmill that

51:35

goes under the desk in fact

51:37

I think be called are Walking

51:39

pad this is another name they

51:41

saw because a treadmill tends to

51:43

be to run on and. Exactly.

51:45

I wanted him out of the treadmill After

51:47

your death? Rate is usually they have

51:50

like a big part in the france and

51:52

things on the side that the my grab

51:54

on to. I guess if you were to

51:56

start falling or sound like this and this

51:58

is just like the flap parts underneath so

52:00

it has a bit smaller and everything is

52:02

just for walking. So the great thing about

52:04

this is. That. I. Don't

52:07

know you've heard. People. Say this, that.

52:10

Sitting is the new smoking with or something is

52:12

under something like a thing that comes from a

52:14

even that Chanel like the little black dress the

52:16

people say like blue as the new black or

52:19

this year yellow is the new black. You know

52:21

whatever is in fashion you hear people say to

52:23

like sitting as a new smoking. Sitting.

52:25

As in his have an accident. Surrey. Work

52:27

Exactly. So many of us. Myself

52:30

included of course. like work in front of computer

52:32

all day. This is great because it helps me

52:34

to. I. Can works and be

52:37

walking at the same time so it helps me

52:39

to take a break because it was something I

52:41

was trying to. Get. More stepson

52:43

during the day is like very important for your

52:45

health but it's just with their it very difficult

52:47

for me to prioritize into my day and this

52:49

is a way that can kill two birds with

52:51

one stone by doing it while I'm working some

52:53

able to her and I'm already finding like it

52:56

really helps because if I'm just sitting for a

52:58

long time I start to kind of my energy

53:00

goes down and so I've noticed that it helps

53:02

me to keep Myers. Yep so for other people

53:04

have sedentary job like you can send you I

53:06

would have a familiar than and he wanted wouldn't

53:08

think. That but I still can't

53:10

Said. Takes three

53:13

like you. you are not because when

53:15

you first told about the threat mail

53:17

a score as a match and that

53:19

from the gym stand when you said

53:22

that this is something smaller going under

53:24

your desk I imagined you're sitting and

53:26

go away. But that's not how it

53:29

how it has, it's a sick. But

53:31

I think is actually my day sitting in

53:33

your feet looking for the. That's

53:36

what I had and they add the that I

53:38

thought it would. It. Would be

53:40

ridiculous. To. Say on picnics I. Was. Like

53:43

we were talking about music that you

53:45

are listening to music while working. so

53:47

I wasn't thinking to myself. When the

53:49

music style changes, when it becomes faster,

53:51

do. you the he said to

53:53

you start then again much faster

53:56

yeah i am this this desk

53:58

axiomatic it's gotta motors I can

54:00

lift it and lower it. So when I

54:02

do the treadmill, I lift it up. So

54:05

it's my screen is at eye level standing

54:07

and I'm on the treadmill,

54:09

obviously. I'm waiting for our

54:11

next one-on-one meeting with you. You

54:14

will be watching and talking. I'm not crazy enough

54:16

to do it during meetings because I'm just seeing

54:18

you like bobbing, you know, my head going up

54:20

and down. But that's

54:22

funny. But I'm glad you're enjoying it,

54:24

but trying to picture how you're working

54:26

and walking. Great. Kaseya. Well,

54:29

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54:49

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54:51

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54:53

is far greater. As wishing today, even

54:55

the technology that we grew up with in the 90s

54:58

was so similar. So one, two,

55:00

three. Oh,

55:03

yeah.