Well, hey guys, how's it going? I'm doing great. How are you? I'm doing okay. I'm Clarissa. I'm Courtney. And this is 30 Dirty and Dying, your favorite millennial podcast, or I don't know, it really should be, guys. We work so hard. Clarissa works so hard for you guys. Courtney works hard too. In different ways. Yeah, we do different things for the podcast. And speaking of, we're working hard on almost ending the season. We've got one more week of episodes, guys. That's wild.
This is the pregame to the finale. So, you know, grab your calcium supplements. Oh, I was going like, grab your four locos, guys. No, don't do that. Don't do that. Yeah, they're not good anymore without the caffeine. Are they not? Anyways, we've got this episode and then next week is our season finale. And I'm excited for our season finale because Courtney has worked really hard on that. Yeah. So that's coming next week. We've got a really exciting thing planned that encompasses
some of our favorite things. And this is the season favorite things. These are a few of my favorite things. That's the song we've been fucking blaring all season. When the dog bites, when the bees sting, when I'm feeling sad. The hills are alive. With the sound of 30 Dirty and Dying. Bam. Look at us. Look at us. So this is our season of favorite things, and we're closing it out with our favorite things. And one of our favorite
things to do, obviously, is Back in Time. So what if we had a whole episode of just Back in Time? That's what we're doing today, guys. Oh my god! Spoiler alert. No, we love Back in Time. Back in Time is honestly one of the things that
started the podcast. When we were talking about what we might do for a podcast, we were like, what if we went... back in time and revisited it started with our cringe social media because we've just got an abundance of it oh yeah uh and then it expanded into all millennial nostalgia and it's one of our favorite parts of doing the show i mean i love it i've learned a lot me too it helps reawaken our memories it helps teach us things that we might not have known that just
weren't in our atmosphere especially me because i don't know history oh god don't call it history it is don't call it shut up yesterday's history it's not my favorite thing That's not my favorite thing, that it's history. Don't say that. So we're going to do an ultimate trip back in time this week. And it's going to be for the entirety of the early 2000s. And what I defined that as just for, I don't know. Pre -2010. I did 2000 to 2005 -ish, actually. Oh, okay. I was thinking
2009. Yeah, that's normally what I think of it as well, but I just thought to give us a little bit more parameter so it wouldn't get too overwhelming. Too buck wild? Too much favorite thing. I thought I should limit us. We do good with limitations. So I gave us from 00 to 05. Okay. So really just that Y2K sweet spot. So we're going to talk about
a lot of things to do with 2000. through 2005 the early 2000s our memories um have i talked about when i talked to my therapist about my issues with throwing up yeah um it's at the end of a recent episode so recently okay we threw it in at the end okay well i just had another okay hold the phone guys another one of our favorite things courtney's therapy tales so i i went in there right so i was like did you figure out how to fix me I'm officially stealing that whenever
I go back to therapy. Hey, did you figure out how to fix me, Dr. Brenda? And she said that a good way to help you get over phobias is exposure therapy. I was like, I'm not throwing up. And she was like, well, there's like levels of it.
I'm not just going to be like, throw up. bulimia be bulimic and her her example was a uh a patient who um is afraid of ladybugs okay i'm like weird but okay hey but i mean i'm weird too so freak it's fine i get you i'm a dude he's a dude she's a dude we're all dudes yeah how the exposure therapy works for that is like the first thing you do is imagine a ladybug and then you would draw a ladybug And then you would be in a room with a ladybug. Okay. I hate to cut you off here.
How the fuck are you going to do this with vomit? I was like, am I going to draw throw up? What do you mean? I didn't do exposure therapy ever, but I don't know how that would work with. It's such an interesting phobia slash obsession. I think it's an obsession more than it's a... Maybe, so she, we had like talked about it a little bit more than the last time. She was just like, what about throwing up do you not like? Yeah. And I'm like, that's a good question. All of
it. I've tried to ask you that like 40 times. You've never given me a straight answer. I have no real answer. No. So... We fear the unknown. Fear the unknown. And the unknown at this point, throw up. And I told her, I was like, the majority of the childhood that I actually do remember involves me throwing up. Those are the memories I remember. I think we're getting somewhere deep and dark. I've not been doing great with my mental
health recently. And some of it is my own shit and my own, like... I was in, like, a depressive episode for a couple weeks, and then I started to come out of it, and then I got overwhelmed with feeling again, and then my OCD was like, hey, remember me? So I started obsessing over a few things. Last night was rough, I'm not gonna lie to you. So it's just been a... But some of it is the world, because as soon as I pick my head up out of, like, I've been in a depressive
episode from my own devices, I'm like, oh. Yeah. Combo. So where's the reprieve? Right here. Yeah, guys, this is your reprieve. This is your reprieve. We're going to take an extended trip back in time because everything sucks. All right. All that to say everything sucks. So we're taking an extended trip back to the 2000s. But before we do that, we have to do the prologue. The other back in time. Yeah, the real. The pre -2000s
back in time. Well, if we're going to do an ultimate trip back in time to Y2K, we would be remiss if we didn't visit, make a little pit stop. And party like it's 1999. Obviously, this was right before the world was supposed to end. So, a lot was going on. People were having fun. People were getting ready for the end. I think this is the only, well, not the only, but maybe the first time in our lives, at least in mine, I'll
speak for myself, I guess. that I can recall there being, like, a real doomsday situation. Like, I remember there being that, like... Like, my parents didn't think the world was gonna end. No. But I remember just in general... Because, you know, at that age, I was, like, kind of getting hip. Like, oh, there's a society out there. You were five. Yeah. Well, I was five, and also I was... I grew up in a kind of isolated place before this. So around 99, I was kind of, like,
around more people, and... Getting a feel for the world around me. Bummer. But I remember there being this air of, like, doomsday prepper vibes for the first time maybe ever. I just, the only thing I remember was, which I've said before every time that we've done 99, Grandma made us turn all of the electronics off. Yeah. Well, they had the sticker, which is on our collage this week. What are you gonna do? But no, so 99, the world was gonna end. The millennium was
coming. I think the promise of the future, if it came, I expected there to be a lot more silver. Interesting. Every time there was anything futuristic. I almost said the Flintstones. Wrong one. No. That's the opposite. Yeah. The Jetsons. Yes. Yes. Or, like, I mean, think about it. There was all those videos from, like, Britney Spears and Sink, whoever. There's all this chrome and these weird outfits and a bunch of fucking lasers. And I really... I expected more of that, and
I'm disappointed in us as a society. I expected flying cars. I didn't even want that. I just want silver puffer vests. On the reg. I was gonna say, you can wear silver puffer vests. I understand that, but I want them to be readily available. I want them to be - Readily available. Available. I want them to be everywhere. They had them at Target, like, not too long ago. I know, but, like, you have to wait for them to be like, oh, we're dropping a silver NSYNC fuck -me -up collection.
Can't it just be the everyday collection? I kind of want our merch to be the Silver Fuck Me Up. We'll do it. I don't know when, but one of the rounds of merch we do will be the Silver Fuck Me Up collection. So get ready for that. But no, I just, there was a lot of the futuristic idea and that was reflected in kind of everything that I can remember from music, movies, TV, like, it was sort of everywhere. Speaking of music, movies, TV. Digimon. Digimon. Digital monsters.
Digimon are our champions. Change into digital champions to save the digital world. Oh yeah. Courage the Cowardly Dog. And that was a mindfuck and a half. That was a lot. It was a lot. I really enjoyed it. That should have been my parents' first sign that perhaps something was amok. Amok, amok, amok. The Law and Order SVU came out. You know, I never realized I recently tried to watch the whole thing. So I started from the top. I did not realize that Mayhem was in it. The guy
who's Mayhem on the Allstate commercials? Yeah. He's in the first season. Who is he? He's like, I don't know. He's just like a cop. I don't know any of their names. Wait, which? You said Law & Order? SVU. Okay, yeah. I watched. Yeah. Man. Back in the day. But yeah. But no, so he was there before Ice -T. Oh. So he's, I don't, I think he was only in the first season. Hmm. But I could be wrong on that. Bluetooth was introduced. It revolutionized wireless communication by allowing
devices to connect without cables. Huh. That's all it says. Interesting. Napster? Well, yeah. I think in like 98 to 99, so probably in between.
That's when we got the, the Mac. book that had the thing on the back oh well no the macbook that was the clamshell yeah and then also the desktop that had the back that was colors yeah and like transparency kind of the i think the desktop might have come out in the earlier night but it was still going but the the laptop 98 or 99 i feel like so that was what you were seeing everywhere which we did not have mac money we know No, the first time I think I saw one was
on Lizzie McGuire. And I was like, this is banging. Where can we get one of those? And we didn't get a computer for a couple more years. The Wi -Fi Standard was released. What is that? The 802 .11b Wi -Fi Standard. Making wireless internet more accessible and setting the stage for the connected world we live in today. Invader Zim.
Dragon Tales. it's almost time for dragon tales come along take my hand let's all go to dragon land house hunters started house hunters really yeah i have a great if anybody wants it um drinking game that i used to play in college for house hunters and i've played it since but but it'll fuck you up so you need to be ready and have some water obviously bet drinks on which house they pick okay that's pretty standard but also When they do their little intro thing and they're
like, this is my... You pick a thing that they say that is their non -negotiable or what they really want. Because if you notice... Open concept. Yeah. They'll repeat that same shit constantly. So you pick a phrase. You each pick your own phrase. Or you can do different rounds where each person picks a phrase based on the episode. And every time you hear them say that phrase, you have to drink. Jeez. Yeah. Fight Club came out. First rule, Fight Club. Don't talk about
Fight Club. Second rule, don't talk about Fight Club. And there's some more. 10 Things I Hate About You came out. Also, The Matrix. That just reminded me of Miley Cyrus. The 7 Things I Hate About You. Fair. Yeah. Yeah. And The Sixth Sense. You love me, you like her. You make me laugh, you make me cry. I don't know what you decide to buy. See, now that I'm associating the song with The Sixth Sense. Because I just said The
Sixth Sense also came out. Yeah. So now I'm thinking of ghosts singing that song with that little boy. And that would be chilling. I see Hannah Montana. Wait a minute. The little boy is Haley Joel Osment. Emily Osment is in Hannah Montana, right? Look what we just did. Look what we just did. A cursed full circle. I really loved The Sixth Sense. I watched it way too early. I was very afraid that there were dead people everywhere. There are. Yeah. That's what made it scary. I
realized I was right. Speaking of. Oh, God. You're going to love this. I don't know that I am. So, you know how in my odd childhood where we would go to Dairy Queen and then the cemetery? I didn't know that about the outings. So, Dad would take Sissy and I to Dairy Queen. Okay. And then we would go to the cemetery. He would give us coins. He would give us a coin and we would have to find a headstone. With the date on that coin. Anyway, so now we associate ice cream with cemeteries.
Duh. So the moral of the story is on Sunday, I was out with my friend Amanda and Mike. And we got ice cream and I was like, man, I just really want to go to the cemetery now. And then the next day on Monday, Sissy texted me and she was like, we're getting ice cream. I think we're going to go to the cemetery like day right after each other, right? Like we have not talked about this. I think we should. And with songs. What do you think? Anyways, let's go out with the
Billboard Hot Hits of 1999. Number one was Believe by Cher on the Billboard. Do you believe in love after love? A lot of these songs came out in 98, but I guess they were just so good. Baby One More Time. That album came out. You know, the one where she's coming out of the crystal bead curtain. Yes. That's the album. I had it on cassette. Nice. Yeah. That whole album came out and Baby One More Time was the lead single. My loneliness is killing me and I, I must confess,
I still believe. I want it that way. Tell me why ain't nothing. I don't know the rest. About a heartache. Tell me why ain't nothing. Now, if it was playing. I could go for it. I could go full balls to the wall. Slide by the Goo Goo Dolls was still topping the charts. Destiny's Child, the album Writings on the Wall came out. Say my name, say my name. When no one is around you, say baby I love you. That's all I got. You not playing games. Something like that. It's
something game, right? Yeah, it's gotta be game. I think so. But anyways, yeah, that album came out. There were still four of them. Every Morning by Sugar Ray. Every morning. Corner of my four -post bed. Mambo No. 5. A little bit of Monica in my life. A little bit of Erica on my side. A little bit of Rita's all I need. I didn't know this. Is there a Mambo No. 6? I don't know that.
the instrumental mambo jazz dance song the instrumental version is like from the 50s and then lubega nothing makes me want to leave 1999 more than that you're listening to 30 dirty and dying if you're in your late 20s and your early 30s and don't quite feel like an adult but you certainly don't feel like a kid anymore you may have found the right podcast Every week we wade through our own existential crisis and figure out what life is supposed to look like on this side of
30 and relive some of our favorite memories from years gone by. We'd love to have you along for the ride, so make sure you follow and find us on social media at 30dirtyanddying to keep up with what we're doing next. So let's get into the 2000s. Let's get into the early 2000s. So we just kind of want an episode where we just talk about our favorite things and our favorite memories about the 2000s. So I do have some cards here just to help us conversationally. Okay.
But I feel like these are just conversation starters. Okay. So just topics and we can talk about whatever they bring up for us. Perfect. I love that. So I'll let you pick something first. Players. So I want to say, do you remember those bracelets that like hurt your hair, like pulled your hair so bad? The, what did they say? Italian charm bracelets? Yes. Yes. Do you see that they're back? No. I saw them. Yes. They're back, baby. And I started wearing mine because I kept it.
I mean, I'm sure mine is somewhere. My mom probably has it. No, I had one. I hated it. But speaking of, I had my favorite piece of jewelry was from Claire's. And it was an OG charm bracelet, if you will. Okay. And they had this thing for a while. I haven't been able to find pictures, so I don't know if it just wasn't that popular or people didn't like. Because there wasn't anything special about it other than just being a charm bracelet. But you could buy your little charms
at Claire's. And I mean, mine was probably 15 pounds by the time I was done with it. Before Pandora did their thing? Yeah, this was like early 2000s. I was in probably elementary school. But is it similar to that of a Pandora bracelet? Is that what you're talking about? No, no, no. It was literally like an old school charm bracelet. Like just a silver bracelet and like a little necklace clip and then just like a dangly charm. Okay. And I lived for that thing, and I would
go and pick out charms all the time. I'm trying to remember the charms I had. I had a basketball. Love that. Because that was, I loved basketball. I had a soccer ball. Okay. I decided I wanted to play soccer because I played it at recess a few times, and then I quit before the first
day was over. my mom was very mad she bought me a lot of equipment i did play soccer for a whole season i didn't i played it for a whole 30 minutes um i loved the snacks after practice i didn't get that far i was like i need to leave um so i had a soccer ball i had a it was a big duck but it was like glittery and i i fucking loved that um i had i think a guitar on there teardrops on my guitar yeah you know um i had it was i think i had a dog maybe a cat also a
frog that was similar to i just liked the charms like some of them were about my personality or whatever well what personality do you have as a kid that small you know you're just making it up you're figuring it out i just really they were glittery and they were like kind of oddly colorful like everything was at that point in time and it was like every single little you know, chain link all around the bracelet by the
time I was done had a charm on it. Like, I was jacked with my charm bracelet from Claire's. I love that for you. That was one of my favorite things that I remember ever getting from Claire's. I liked collecting the whatever we said it was. The Italian charm bracelet. The little square. So, like, I wore it recently, so I think I remember all of them. I had a K, because duh. Duh. And I had everything symmetrical, so I had to have two hearts. And then I had, because those were
the end caps. Oh. With the two hearts. Okay. So it had to be like symmetrical. That makes sense. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I had a cross because Jesus. Oh, yeah. He was part of it. You remember those? I feel Jesus in this Claire's today. Remember those like weird monkeys that everyone loved like back in the early 2000s? Are you talking about Bobby Jack? Yeah. Yes. Do not call him weird. I had a Bobby Jack monkey. Love it. I had a cat. Of course, duh. I think I had a soccer
ball because I played soccer. Nice. Your symmetrical thing, you would have hated my charm bracelet. It was type B personified. It was a fucking mess. That just goes to show how OCD I was before I even knew. See, I was OCD as a child, but not in that way. I didn't need it. And I'm still not. I don't need everything to be perfectly ordered or perfectly symmetrical. I think I had to buy them in, like, twos because I couldn't have an uneven amount on each side between. The
hearts. Yeah, no, that was not my, that was, that was not my plight. It wasn't. Because I am kind of like chaos in a bottle, but there are things that I need order on and it doesn't make any sense because it's obsessive and compulsive. So yeah, that was one thing. I had most of my shit was from Claire's though. Yeah, I feel like I had a lot of stuff. I had a lot of those, you remember the picture frames they would sell? Oh yeah. And I had several. I had one that was
like BFFs with my frenemy. I had a frenemy in elementary school. Okay. We'll call her Kathy. She was a bitch. But she invited me to everything and wanted to be my friend. And I kind of wanted to be her friend, but we had those frames, and she was the picture in that frame. And we had matching, because you had to have the matching frames. Duh. The bracelets. I'm sure I had a BFF bracelet with her. I had a BFF necklace with
one of my friends. That was Spongebob. Okay, I had a BFF necklace with actually probably who my best friend was. I'll call her Mary. But we did not get it from Claire's. We got it from a Christian bookstore that my mom stopped at when she had stayed the night and we were taking her home and my mom had to stop and pick up an order. So we saw this best friend charm and it was just a heart that went together. And I think there was a small cross on it, but yeah, I had
that. I had, um, a bunch of the, I had a bunch of basketball shit. Cause you remember the sports stuff was like, there was basketball, there was baseball, there was soccer, there was even, uh, there was cheerleading for sure. And there was something like of every single item for that sport, like with all the fur and the glitter and the neon that you could imagine. And I had all the basketball shit. So I had a couple of
frames and things like that. I think my glasses case, which was covered in green fur, and said, like, basketball babe, was from Claire's. I'm almost positive. I got my ears pierced at Claire's. Me too! And then they immediately got infected. I got two holes pierced at Claire's. Never had my ears pierced since. I don't wear earrings. I have three holes in each ear. Nope, just the one that I hear out of. I still want to get my nose pierced. I always wanted my belly button
pierced, but I'm like, but I'm fat. Yeah, I didn't want to do that. And I don't think I should do that. I did have a few pairs of earrings from Claire's. Oh, I had like a majority, 99 % of my jewelry came from Claire's. I had like the studs that they put in there, which I think were just, I think they were my birthstone. I don't know. And then I had like a big plasticky red and white guitar. And then I had, like, dangly little glittery cats. I love that. And, you know,
then there was too much pus. But, yeah, I never, I did get my ears pierced at Claire's. I had that formative experience, but I just, I never went back. Now we just need to get a lobotomy from Claire's. Yeah, I'm ready for that. Fuck me up. Yeah, Claire's, if you're listening, start giving out lobotomies. Please. We'll be the first ones lined up. Absolutely. The last thing I remember having, I'm trying to think of, like, Things that I had. Well, I'm telling you, there's one
thing that I never wanted. Okay, tell me that. I'll talk in a second. Tell me what it is. Do you remember those, like, round, spiky things? I had a pair. But my ears, they grew over. Yeah. So I couldn't use them. I think I might have gotten a necklace or a bracelet that I thought they were bitchin'. They were so hardcore. I was like, this is so dumb. I got a lot of that kind of stuff from Claire's. But the one thing I remember using a lot, I had a miniature backpack.
from Claire's, and it had, it was Tootsie Roll. It was light blue. It was beautiful. I loved Claire's. I would go to Claire's right now if I could be guaranteed that they had all that stuff from, like, when we were there. I mean, it doesn't look any different, but it's just like, I don't want to go in there and be disappointed. You know what I mean? We'll do a Claire's haul. Toys and Games. I'm trying to think. My sister and I played The Fuck out of... Excellent inflection.
Out of Super Mario Brothers 3. Okay. On Super Nintendo. Okay. And Donkey Kong Country 2. Yes. She, we had like a book of all of the levels. Okay. For Donkey Kong. You told me this story, but go ahead. It's been a long, long time. My sister got so pissed. She could not beat the level King Zing Sting. Okay. She ripped the book in half. Because she was like, she just ripped it. I can see it. We taped it back together. But King Zing Sting just never was the same again.
Fucks up. Oh. Yeah, see, okay, so video games, like, I had a PlayStation 2, but I think I got more into it a little bit later. But I was, I mean, I was all about my Game Boy Color. Oh, fuck me up. My Game Boy Color was like... Attached to me at all times. Purple. I had a teal one. Mine was the see -through purple. I'm so jealous of you. I wanted that one. I also wanted the yellow one that had Pikachu all over it. I wanted that one very bad. So I had a teal one. And I'm
trying to think. My favorite games around that time were... I had the Aladdin game. And I liked that one a lot. I had a Harvest Moon game. It was mid. Uh, it's nothing close to Harvest Moon 64, which is the best game ever made of all time for anything. I want to, I'm going to Google like popular games. Cause like, I know I'm going to be missing some. Yeah. Cause I, obviously Mario Donkey Kong, like those were like two games.
Yeah. See, those were never my thing, but like I had a Powerpuff Girls game, uh, where it was a, the focus of it was him taking over and Bubbles was the main character. And I loved that one. That was one I played constantly. Also, I had the Pokemon pinball that had the battery in the back. No shit! Yeah, that buzzed when you got the - yeah. Oh, I fucked that one up. I had a Lizzie McGuire game, but that one was for my Game Boy Advance SP, which was the Flippy. Yeah.
So, I'm not sure. So we definitely had Super Mario Land 2. Okay. I had a SpongeBob game. I did not. But that's fun. I think I had a Pokemon game, but I was never really super into Pokemon. Oh, I loved Pokemon. Like, we collected Pokemon cards, but I never played, like, Pokemon games. I did the cards. Now, I didn't do enough of the games that I, like, kept going, but I had the Pokemon pinball game, and I think I had... I think I had one more, but I can't remember right
now what it was. I had the Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone game. Yes! Yeah. Remember how the little blobs? Okay, so I had the Harry Potter... No, it wasn't the Sorcerer's Stone one. Okay, mine was definitely Sorcerer's Stone because Fluffy. The three -headed dog, I remember that part. And I remember where you get into the actual little levels. Like, the devil's snare and the key. Like, I remember how to win those. It's muscle memory, baby. I could do that right now.
So I know mine was Sorcerer's Stone. Mine was... You sure it wasn't Chamber of Secrets? I don't think it was on... I think it was on the Game Boy Advance SP. Oh, okay. Then that could have been more of them. Yeah. Yeah, I'm, like, specifically looking at color ones. Yeah, because mine looked like that. It might have been the Goblet of Fire. Okay. Yeah, that would be more, like, timeline -wise. Yeah, I think it was the Goblet of Fire. Yeah, because I remember begging my grandma to
get it from Costco. Oh, shit. Because I was at Costco with her, and I was like, Harry Potter, please. Guardium Leviosa. Not Leviosa. We also, back in the, this was probably more 90s, but my sister and I played it forever. We also played NASCAR 98. Okay. Often way past 98. Yeah. Um, we played, it was destruction Derby. Yeah. Um, we played like a racing game. We played a lot of racing games. Okay. Well, those were popular. I mean, yeah. And then, um, we played on super
Nintendo. We played, uh, bass fishing. And then I also had a, uh, Goofy game. Okay. I don't remember any part of it. I just remember it being Goofy. Gotcha. I just found one on this little website I found. Diva Stars, Mall Mania. You dressed them up and shit. I had this game and I completely forgot about it until right now. Good times. I also played computer games. I dabbled in Sims. Alright. Barbie Magic Hairstyler, Obvi, Putt -Putt's Big Adventure, Freddy Fish, and the Case
of the Missing Kelp Seed. Yeah. I re -bought them. See, I had this Powerpuff Girls game, Battle Him, and then I think I also had the battle for Townsville, which was Buttercup. I feel like I might have had something like that. Buttercup was on the front of that one. I never had the one that Blossom was on the front of, because fuck Blossom. Um, not video games, I guess. I'm trying to think. I had a lot of, I was a Barbie bitch. Oh, we were Barbie bitches. That was also
the 90s for me. It was more 90s than 1000s for me. But I still had some in the early -ish 2000s. I had that happy family Barbie, the pregnant one with the magnet. I had the whole family, the whole happy. Um, because I had a weird phase where I was kind of like obsessed and low -key mortified, I think, with the concept of pregnancy and childbirth as a kid. That's weird. Yeah,
I know. Um, I just, I think I learned about it kind of way too early, and it, like, fascinated me, like a car crash you can't look away from. Um, so I, when they came out with that doll, it was right around the time that that was happening. So my parents got me that doll. Um, so I had that one. I had that Barbie whose waist bended. Oh, yeah. The jewel one. I also had one that had a raft. It was a sponge. Um, and she had on, like, a swimming suit, but if... It changed
colors when it got wet. Oh, cool. So I remember getting those, and that was in the... I had a Barbie where their hair... I think it was a mermaid Barbie. I had that one. I also had a Barbie who's... I think I might have gotten this one in the 90s, but I continued to play with it. She had, like, joints. Like, her elbows bent, her knees bent. Which was not... Obviously, most of the Barbies didn't do that. And her leg came off. So I came up with an entire story that she was an amputee.
Her name was Vicky. Vicky the amputee. Yep. I had a whole story about how she lost her leg. I think it was a... My leg! I think it was war. I think I made it war. Was it nom? I don't know. She might have been. I was a weird fucking kid. It might have been that. But I just remember that she had that. I'm trying to think of the other Barbie. We had the RV. Okay. We had the boat that made smoothies. I did not have that
boat. We had, like, one of the... dream houses yeah i had the victorian one so we had the one that it was like it opened around okay and they it was four sections like one was outside one was the kitchen one was the like bedroom okay i did get in the probably in the 2000 maybe like 99 but they came out with a little boom box and it actually picked up radio frequency um but it was an apartment And if you opened it up, it was an apartment. And I had that. That's cool.
I think we also had, like, a pink Jeep. Barbie Jeep. I had a couple of the cars. I also had the Barbie where they did a partnership with Volkswagen. And she had a Beetle. Also did you? Yeah. Hers was yellow. Mine was silver years later. Silver and gold. Silver. In the future. Um, other games. I had a bunch of real friends and shit like that, too. We feel like in the thousands. We just kept playing with what we had. That's fair. The less I played with toys,
and the more I just played computer games. Same. Those very early 2000s, I was still definitely playing with toys, but I can't guarantee when I got everything. It was probably in the 90s that I got that stuff. Razor Scooter. Oh, I had one of those. Released in 2000. I fucked with a Razor Scooter. It fucked with me. It fucked me up. Bop It, but that was 90s. I had the other... They came out with a couple of those, right? Because I had... Yeah, so they had the OG Bop
It, Twist It, Pull It. Yeah. And then they made it into a Flick It. I had the Flick It one too, I think. Yeah, they had the Flick It. So, you know, you just gotta flick the bean. Gross. Why would you ruin that for me? Dance Dance Revolution. Something that I know you fucked with. What? Hit Clips. I absolutely fucking loved Hit Clips. I live for Hit Clips. My favorite one was Pink. There you go. I also had, like, NSYNC and Britney Spears, obviously. Yeah. I never had the little
boombox, though. I just had the basic bitch one. That's all I needed. That's all I needed. Pillow Pets came out in 2003. I had a Pillow Pet. I think it was a dolphin. I didn't get a Pillow Pet until I was, like, with Mike. Oh. Because they still are a thing. I just put it on my bed. I was old enough that it wasn't something I was playing with, but I wanted it for the aesthetics. Yeah, I mean, Furby was 98, so that extended into the early 2000s. I had a Furby. Silly Bands?
I fucked with Silly Bands. No, that wasn't my thing. I had a few board games I really liked, and one that I know I got in the 2000s was Kerplunk. I heard of that, yeah. Yeah, it's stupid. Dude, you build this, it's like Jenga, but dumb as hell. You build this big tube, it always comes apart because it's made out of cheap -ass plastic, and you put sticks in it, and then there's marbles, and you pull out the sticks to try and not let the marbles fall down. Dumb as hell. I also had
the Y2K -ish version of Mystery Date. And, uh, Fib Finder. Did you play Fib Finder? No. Bro, Fib Finder was the best. This was the best sleepover game of all time. It was like this purple glittery remote thing. Okay. And you would ask questions and you would hit the button when you answered, like you both hit the button at the same time, and it would buzz and light up and tell you if you were lying or not. I love this game. I really loved FemFinder. Oh, I forgot about FemFinder.
See, this is why we do this. Hey. Thanks for listening to 30 Dirty and Dying, the show for millennials by millennials. We get real about chronic illness, burnout, nostalgia, and why we aren't exactly thriving. If that sounds like you, join us every Thursday for new episodes. Now, back to the show. 2000's going on the computer. Going on the computer. Okay. I mean, we touched on it. So, like, Sims. I mean, I guess, like, if we're going up to 2005. Yeah, because that
would really be when I could. Yeah, I suppose so. Not for me, but it was definitely there. Yeah, so I was, I mean, YouTube was happening. YouTube started in 2005. Yeah, so I guess, I don't know when Numa Numa happened, but I was all about that. Yeah. So, like, we didn't get a computer until, like, the tail end of this, like, probably 2004, 2005, maybe somewhere in there. And it was a desktop down in the basement.
I do remember, to bring it full circle, I had a mouse pad from Claire's that was a big, it was neon, it was huge, pink, and it had a basketball on it, probably said basketball babe, and it had a little wrist thing that was filled with glitter water. So, there's that. But yeah, I remember going, my main memories of going on the computer during this time. Pinball. The pinball game, the Galactic Pinball. Also, Minesweeper, which I never figured out what I was fucking
doing. So, I didn't figure out Minesweeper until recently. I never have. But I got it now. So, like, the numbers are the squares away from the mine. Oh. I just clickety -click -clicked. Yeah, so did I. And I never won. No. No, I played Solitaire. But my favorite part was when they would all... jump and make that, and I would sit and wait for it to be, like, the perfect one. And that
would take up a lot of time. Because you had to do stuff that wasn't just internet, because I wanted to be on the computer, I loved it, but you couldn't be on the internet. Because it, uh... The phone line. The phone line. Yeah, dial -up. Yeah. So, Grandma gave me an hour. Ooh. Fancy. That I could be on the internet, and that's when I did all my Myspace stuff. I... Dolls. Yep. I played with dolls. Not, I played with the Z. Yeah, but with the Z. D -O -L -L -Z. Yep.
I created my little dowels. Yep. What else? Live journal. I didn't really do that, but yes, aware. I spent, if I'm talking about this period of time, this is probably when I was mostly on, you remember the Disney Channel website and all the games, like the Lizzie McGuire game, where you would do the nails, Miranda's Nail Salon. And Lizzie's outfit. Lilo and Stitch, the sandwich. The sandwich game. Fuck me up. Loved it. There was an Even Stevens game, wasn't there? Yeah,
there was. What was it? I don't remember. I really remember the Bueno Nacho game. I was going to say Kim Possible. The Bueno Nacho game. I wanted to eat that cheese sauce so badly. And then the Suite Life of Zack and Cody, where you went into the different... hotel hallways. Yes. Remember? AmandaPlease .com. I think it's still active. I did go on Nickelodeon some. Teen Nick. Yep. I would do. And then Postopia, which was a community created by Post Cereal. Oh, you've talked about
it before. Well, I mostly talk about Millsbury. That's the one I was spending most of my time on. But Postopia had a few games that I liked. It wasn't as expansive as Millsbury. It wasn't like a whole fucking community. But the games on post -op were okay. You know what I did a lot of? Addictinggames .com. Oh, hell yeah. That was a little later for me, though. What else? Neopets. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Neopets was a big one. Were you the Club Penguin or not? I didn't do
Club Penguin. Neither did I. No, that wasn't my thing. Honestly, I spent a lot of my time on Microsoft Paint. Yeah, I did a lot of paint. The spray paint can was really neat. Oh, yes. I love the spray paint. I love the spray paint. That kept me occupied for hours. Truly. That purple place, which was the other game, you didn't need the internet for it. And it was like, there were these little houses. I know one was you made cakes. And you had to match the cake. And
it had eyes. I don't know. I remember doing that. Something you could do without being on the internet. Yeah, we had a lot of little games. Non -internet games that we played. Which I had already mentioned for the... Games and toys. Yeah. I played the chess and checkers and stuff like that. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And backgammon. All right. Want to do one more? Yeah. 2005 music memories. Burn me down. Oh, yeah. Burning. Burning CDs. Yeah.
I remember my first burned. mix cd sissy made it for me okay there was okay so like i definitely had some eminem in there yeah and then it went from like eminem to um oh what was that band it was like there were no words it was just music bond and then i really liked the song from lassie and then i had um a song from uh um fiddler on the roof Wow. I was so proud of that mix. This is really something. This was 100 % on. Nope. I have something I can relate it to a little
bit. I'm going to add this to my liked music on Spotify. Because I've got to go back to it. I'm going to blast it. There was... Well, I'm just going to read what they are. An all -female Chinese musical group called 12 Girls Band. I saw them on an infomercial, I think. Okay. And where they were selling their greatest hit CD called Freedom. Greatest hits. And this came out in 2004. And I fucking begged for this CD. And I got it. And it was pretty much all instrumental
except for some choral -type music. And I sent you... Played us a snippet. Although I can't find the greatest hit CD anywhere, like the album, but I can find the songs. Because I went down a rabbit hole looking for them a couple months ago, actually. But it came out in 2004, so it's live. Two CDs, no skips, swear to God. I jammed the fuck out of that CD set. So I had that one. I had a CD case that was also a basketball from Claire's. Of course. And I had a CD tower. Duh.
From Walmart. I'm trying to remember what was on it. Well, I had Hilary Duff's Metamorphosis album. Of course. I had the Spirit Stallion and the Cimarron soundtrack, which I played the shit out of. Because you love that horse. I love the music that that horse runs to. What was that
one that was... Was it Aaron Carter's that was... red and yellow and you know i'm talking about the cd was like a spiral yes and it was red and then yellow and reddit you know this i can see the cd i don't think that was aaron carter was it not because i had his cd i think i had that the red yellow red and yellow yeah but what's who was it red and yellow spiral because i had aaron's party come get it i had this album because i remember the cover in the case no you're right
is it this one Yeah. As Aaron Carter. That's the next one. Oh, Aaron. Which I had this one too. I remember the cover now. Aaron. Oh, Aaron. What are we going to do with you? I had those both. And I remember that CD because of the colors. The fact that you remember that that's Aaron Carter. I just was trying to think of who else it could be. Yeah. I also had, and I played this one until it went out, was the autobiography
album by Ashley Simpson. And I remember the CD and then it was black and it had like scrawled, uh, all the track listings on the actual CD. I really fucked that one up. I had a lot of the now. Oh, I had a couple of those. Do you know they're still making them? Yeah. It's like 206 or something now. Crazy. I also had, um, the radio Disney greatest hits and it had like some of the cheat girls on it. And then it had that
song. hey juliet i think you're fine you really blow my mind maybe someday you and me can run away i love that one and then 18s i want to see if i can find that radio disney cd because um kelly clarkson yeah i think i had at least this one yeah i had so metamorphosis that one i had some of these but at that point in time The Disney Mambo No. 5 was on this. I'll Be Your Everything by Youngstown. Reflection, Christina Aguilera from Mulan was on this one. True to Your Heart
by 98 Degrees from Mulan. Okay, Volume 4 had like 3LW on it and the Baja Men. and A -Teens, Backstreet Boys, Aaron Carter, 2002, which one? 2002, this one had the Elementi, and A -Teens did a cover of Can't Help Falling In Love, and it was very poppy and horrible, but I liked it then. And also that song, Pop, by NSYNC. Dirty Pop. Yep. Now it's a good time, now it's a different
time than we knew. I listened to this, this is the one I listened to until it, like, wore out, because it had... 3LW, which was most of the... Oh, it was like the Cheetah Girls before the Cheetah Girls happened. Play Has Gone Play. And then a version of God Bless the USA. Kids in America. We're the kids in America. Whoa! I had the Backstreet Boys Black and Blue cassette. I had Britney Spears. I had so many in sync, I can't even tell you. And then Nellyville. Nelly's
debut album. Or I think it was his debut. I don't know. Whatever one was out around that time that had hot in here on it. And pimp juice. I remember that one. We really shouldn't have been listening to that song. Well, whatever. Yeah, I mean, I had Radio Disney and Disney Jams, and then I also had pimp juice. A well -rounded childhood, truly. Well, me. Learned in the 2000s how to spell because of bananas and... Independent. I thought you meant you hadn't known how to read
yet. Oh, no, because I was music. I thought you were also going to say. This shit is bananas. B -A -N -A -N -A -S. I thought you were going to say learn to play the recorder. Oh, yeah. Because it's fucking insane. I was in recorder karate. Yeah, I had the little strings they tie on the end of the recorder. Yes, I had like seventh degree black belt. Hell yeah. I was real good with that recorder. Yep, I could hot cross buns with the best of them. We had a whole concert.
You know, we might have, I think I might have blocked it out. I don't think, I never got a black belt. I didn't learn the black belt song. I think I got up to like brown, maybe. Now in real karate, I got to brown belt. Oh, I didn't do karate. I played basketball. Like I said, I ate shit at soccer for a minute. I was a majorette. I marched in parades. Nice. And twirled a baton for a big portion of that part of my childhood. hated every second of it, really. Yeah. But I
could spin that thing. Spin that thing. I was pretty okay with spinning that thing. I learned how to do it with a cast on. Wow. Brittle bones. Yeah, just glass bones and paper skin. But yeah, those were some of our memories from the early 2000s. I had fun just chit -chatting through back in time. Yeah, just yapping. Yeah, if you guys want us to do this again next season for another era, maybe the later 2000s or the early 2010s or... Late 90s. I don't know. We could
do this again. Yeah. Pretty easy. And I had a lot of fun doing it. Easy peasy lemon squeezy. Hell yeah. If you want more ultimate trips back in time next season. Because this is the first time I've done an ultimate trip back in time. Yeah, but we've been talking about doing it since the very beginning. But we just, you know, we're always going to be evolving as long as we're doing the podcast. So we're open to hearing what you want us to do. Who knows? We might just do
it. Maybe. Maybe. Make sure you listen to next week's season finale. And, you know... We're just taking a little summer break. We gotta take a little summer break, you know? We've had a great Season 7, a great season of Favorite Things, and we're gonna finish strong. And we want you there with us. And you can stick with us even while we're on break, and we'll tell you how to do that and where to look for us and all that stuff. We might have some bonus content coming
your way, so... Oh my! We'll fill you in. But thank you guys so much for listening. Do we have anything else we want to end with, Courtney? I don't think so. No? No. Okay, well, I guess... We'll see you next week. Yeah. Bye, guys. Bye! I like to throw up outside.