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SieMak Podcasts
Welcome to SieMak Podcasts. A family of podcasts of different sorts for different tastes.
Ancasts - brings two long time friends, Anthony & Andrew, that want to get into your head. Tony and Prof. Drew talk about everything from their kids, tech, pop culture, sports....really everything. It's like sitting with them in a room, a car, a pub. You'll find yourself wanting to hang out with them all the time. This is your opportunity to hang with them once a week. Do it.
Cause I Wanna Know - brings stories of people. In depth conversations that peel back what makes them tick and what has inspired them and moved them in the direction that they have forged.
Generation (XZ) Pop - is a father & daughter, Tony & Makayla, that talks all things pop culture from a perspective of Generation X and Z.
The Shellee & Kelly Podcast - brings another duo. The ladies talk wine, their book club for two, tv shows and much more.
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GPOP Ep. 1 - Emotional Beats of Pop Culture: Makayla & Tony's Top Five Movies & Music Artists
These are the stories that reveal how films and music weave into the fabric of our lives. We celebrate the shared joy of those go-to films that feel like home and discuss how we bravely navigate social anxieties to engage with our favorite artists.
To round out our inaugural journey, we get candid about our digital habits and the blend of control and guilt they bring into our lives. Lent isn't just a season—it's a metaphor for the self-control we grapple with year-round, extending beyond religious boundaries. Join us as we open the pages of our family's pop culture scrapbook and offer a heartfelt discussion that extends an invitation into our world of generational pop. We're here to share, laugh, and maybe even shed a tear as we traverse the emotional beats of entertainment that grows alongside us.
Hey, welcome to the first, the very first episode of Generation Pop. I'm Tony.
Speaker 1:I'm.
Speaker 2:Michaela. Yeah yeah, michaela is my daughter and she is 23. So if you see our logo, it'll be Generation Pop and it has a big X and a Z in it because I am Gen X.
Speaker 1:And I am Gen Z.
Speaker 2:Perfect. So we love, we love pop culture, and sometimes we see it in a different way, right, yeah, and a lot of times we see it in the same way. Yeah, there's a lot of things that we like that are the same and blah, blah, blah. So those podcasts will be. You'll be able to find it in my other podcast feed, so that podcast is called because I want to know, so type that into a podcast search. If you don't listen to it already, you can listen to that podcast. It's more serious interviews with people that I'm connected with or get connected with. In that feed you'll see a podcast called G-pop and that will be me and Michaela and I'm kind of following the model that Dax Shepard is doing with armchair expert, and he's got like five, six, seven different podcasts under that one feed, so it's just labeled what it is. I think Joe Rogan actually does that too with his UFC fights. So, anyways, so this is our very first step, so we're very excited, right.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:All right. So to get to know us a little bit, we talked about going through our top five movies and top five music artists, and I'm sure we'll have other lists too, right as we go.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Like TV shows maybe we'll touch on, or the way we watch TV is a little bit different from each other, so anyways. So I'm going to let you talk a little bit. Which one do you want to go over first? You have a list.
Speaker 1:I do.
Speaker 2:I do not have a list.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I have it right now and he has nothing.
Speaker 2:Right, and I'm probably the one that should have a list.
Speaker 1:We can start with top five artists.
Speaker 2:Okay, do you just want to go one, one, two, two, three, three. So we name our first one. That's not at the same time, but back and forth, instead of just going through the entire list.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay, so do we want to rank them? I don't know if I want to rank them Are you just want to do, are yours right?
Speaker 1:Kind of in order yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay, all right, so why don't we go from five to one, I guess Okay.
Speaker 1:And bonus question with it. Have you seen this person in concert before?
Speaker 2:Okay, all right.
Speaker 1:Okay, so my number five, starting strong, is Steven Sanchez.
Speaker 2:Okay, okay, okay. Why is your number five?
Speaker 1:Cause it's a little unexpected. Why, how so?
Speaker 2:Well, I mean it's. I guess it's your top five. I just know you love him to death right now, but I guess, there's other singers that you've grown up with probably that rank higher?
Speaker 1:Yeah, they do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I guess that makes sense.
Speaker 1:I have always wanted, I've always loved that sound of music, but I've always wanted the old style, the album that he has out now. Yeah, but I've wanted something that I can relate to more and have it be more current, Like that has always been a thing for me. And then when I heard one of his songs, like I was like in the beginning or in the middle of COVID.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah on TikTok, right yeah on TikTok. And.
Speaker 1:I instantly like, fell in love with this song, and I would like play the clip over and over again until he released this song just so I could hear it again. And, yeah, I just really appreciate his style and his sound and he sticks to it and he doesn't really go, he doesn't stray away from that and I really appreciate that about him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the other artists this isn't on my list but it reminded me the other artists. That's like. That is Leve, which they actually did a duet. What I like about her is that she's kind of old school, like right now this is his sound. He'll probably do because he because this album is kind of a sixties ish, fifties vibe, but the album is like a story, like when we went to the concert and like he kind of told a story like a through line throughout the concert. So it'll be.
Speaker 2:I'm curious to see if he changes it up again or if he sticks with that sound or if he will have a more modern sound. It's kind of a modern, old sound, kind of like Bruno Mars has that kind of throwback but it's modern anyways. But Leve is kind of very kind of old school jazz. But what I like about her unlike Michael Buble amazing artist, he often sings just standards that have been around for decades and what she did, like Steven, is has that old time jazz sound but it's all current lyrics, like it's all written by her, which I really like because that like she's you know, creating, you know new standards. So I appreciate the I appreciate about that, about both of them, how they're like have these old sounds, but they're writing new material for it and new melodies and all of that. It just has this sound.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I'm like I'm sure I could have gone back and tried to find something from that era but it but I knew I could never really relate to it the way I can with how Steven Sanchez writes for it.
Speaker 2:What do you think that? Is it the? Is it the lyrics?
Speaker 1:specifically. I think so Well the sound or just, was it the just?
Speaker 2:is it the time just being locked in your head? Maybe I?
Speaker 1:think so Maybe.
Speaker 2:And he's just current.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, he's just current. Like I've always kind of wanted someone like around my age that can write can do that kind of music. Yeah, Cause I really like the sound. But I want to, I want to be here for it when it's released.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I get that. Yeah, yeah, I get that, I would say. To get back to our list, number five I think would have to be Mark Cohn. I was introduced to him by some friends in, I think, 1991. These girls I was hanging out with before I started going out with your mom. It was a really good group of friends and they're like hey, tony, listen to this.
Speaker 2:It was true companion was the first song that I heard by him and I've been listening to him ever since and I think about I remember it's so weird I remember where I was sitting in this friend's house and we're in the chair Like I could picture the whole thing where I heard true companion for the first time and he's kind of um. He wrote in saying um, walking in Memphis, and that's probably his most famous song that everybody would know, um, and that was released in 91. And I think that he won best new artist in 91, uh, a Grammy, so um. And then he has probably I don't know six or seven albums or something, but I've seen him. Are we talking about the concerts? If we've done that, are we doing that after?
Speaker 1:we can do that after we talk about the artist.
Speaker 2:So I would say he's my number five. He's like he's he's up there, but he's he's number five.
Speaker 1:Okay, and have we seen either of the these artists and, if so, how many times?
Speaker 2:Oh gosh, okay, okay, you're number four.
Speaker 1:Oh no, my, my number five.
Speaker 2:Oh, what about your number five?
Speaker 1:If I've seen him in concert.
Speaker 2:Oh, after we've hit them. Yeah, okay, I thought you're met after the list, okay, okay. So what now?
Speaker 1:So I have seen Steven twice.
Speaker 2:So have I, oh yeah, both times.
Speaker 1:We saw him in March last year, and then, on my birthday last year too, met him a couple times.
Speaker 2:Yeah, do you want to talk about that at all? I would say that that's okay.
Speaker 1:I'll make the podcast longer. Um yeah, so we were waiting in line, for it was like the early entry ticket, right?
Speaker 2:Cause there wasn't really a VIP.
Speaker 1:It was just like an early entry or early access to the venue.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was the main line that we were waiting. We were waiting with everybody in the main line outside of the building.
Speaker 1:Yeah, um, and then I was confused about how the whole thing worked, so I just wanted to figure it out. I kept going back and forth between our spot and the, where the security guards were to keep asking them questions, cause no one was telling us anything, and I hate not knowing when it comes to cause or stuff Cause.
Speaker 2:we don't want to miss anything. No, don't want to not know something.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Miss it.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So I go up there. I'm like kind of just waiting, and then everyone in line behind me just starts freaking out. I'm like turned to the audit, to the fans. I'm like what is going on? And then I looked down the sidewalk and he's just at the corner just standing there with, I think he was Opener, right yeah.
Speaker 1:He was with his opener, yeah, um, and so I kind of stood there and I looked back at the people. And then I looked back at Stephen. I was like I'm going to go. So I walked up to him and I started talking to him like I knew the guy. And it was a really quick and short interaction, um, because he was kind of in a rush and people were getting a little pushy. So I was like, okay, it's my time to leave. So I went back to line, um, and just kind of let's back up one little bit.
Speaker 2:You're talking to security. Everybody was freaking out. You turned around and then, and then, uh, you turned back around to all of us and did like a peace sign, I think, like I'm doing this and you do. Then you just walked over like you were a boss about it and then you then walked over to him and just started shooting the shit real quick, and so we're all freaking out the lines freaking out me and your mom and Sierra is freaking out. It was, uh, it was pretty funny, because you can be a little timid in some situations, but at concerts, when it comes to concerts and meeting artists.
Speaker 1:It's like completely different Cause when I met um when I met some comedians a couple of years ago with one of my friends I like completely froze I didn't. I hardly said anything to them.
Speaker 1:I'm pretty sure I told one of them that his jacket was soft and that was about it. Um, and then after that I was telling my friend, I was like I I feel like I just missed out on something. I'm like, and I kind of had a moment where I was like I cannot do that anymore, like I need to grab myself when this is happening and to not completely blank out on everything, like I need to be able to talk to these people. So after that I kind of was able to put that into practice with some other experiences that I've had with meeting people and it just got a lot easier. And it's just it's so easy for me to talk to them. It's easier to talk to them than like regular people.
Speaker 2:Right, right, yeah, you're super confident. And then we figured out the line and got in there and it's been fun being able to, because you guys, you and Sierra, go to a crap ton of concerts like a lot of indie artists, like a lot and even big.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm pretty sure someone that we go to church with even said that every time she goes on Instagram or we post about being somewhere but it's been fun for me and your mom.
Speaker 2:Uh, it's been the four of us. Josh went with us, kara's husband did he go with us in March, I feel, or was it just before it?
Speaker 1:was just the four of us. He went with us to Billy Eilish. Oh, that's right so uh, not, never see yeah.
Speaker 2:So it's been fun sharing that. The both times that you've seen him with you guys, we've been able to go with you. I don't know if that'll continue to happen, but it was kind of you know, especially the difference, because the first time we saw him is in a smaller venue and we were up above on the balcony it was the fullest I've ever seen that venue.
Speaker 1:It was crazy yeah.
Speaker 2:And it was young and old people, because of that old sound, and he's clean, and he's clean, cut, he's, you know, he's very affable, nice kid, really nice kid. And then, of course, the second experience in Seattle was just, you know, we were up at the gate, we were one person away from the fence.
Speaker 2:And if some stupid girl wasn't in a wheelchair, we would have been up at the wall. Oh my gosh, I'm just kidding. Well she was. She slowed everything down. She slowed our laying down what they should have done. She's not a stupid girl, I take that back. But what they should have done was put her out first and put her where she could be, and then and then let the.
Speaker 1:you know the crowd go in because because I could imagine that would be kind of scary for her too, like all these people running past her.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Because we were behind her and she probably feeling the pressure like they should have done what they do with all people that are handicapped and let them, like, find their spot. That would have been the split. So it was more of the workers that were stupid, not her. Yeah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1:I apologize. That's awful.
Speaker 2:Okay, mark Cohn concerts I have been. I don't even know how many I've gone to him, because he's he always comes to Portland. He's a smaller artist, so the tickets are only like 30 or $40. And I've gone with so many different people. I've gone with an old friend of mine, brian. I've gone with my mom ones.
Speaker 1:Um.
Speaker 2:I've gone, probably Sierra the most. Um, and I've probably gone out, I'll say more than 10. I would say probably around 15 times over the last 15 or 20 years. Cause, like this year, he's going down to Salem and I don't want to, I don't want to, I don't want to do it because it's like light and Salem's kind of far.
Speaker 2:So Salem Oregon, uh, and it's like an eight o'clock show so I don't want to do that. So it kind of sucks that he's not coming to Portland. See, always goes through the Aladdin, uh so concert venue, um so but I've been to him. I would say 15, give or take one or two, so he by far the most, cause he's just, he's cheap and he comes over here.
Speaker 2:So, smaller, smaller artists, so it's always a smaller crowd and all of that. So I've seen him once at the zoo. He came with Melissa at Thridge, I think, I believe no idea who that is. Yeah, she's an older, older artist like. I Don't know if she was in the 80s, but definitely the early 90s.
Speaker 1:But Okay, your number four my number four is Gracie Abrams. Okay, I Can't remember when I started listening to her, maybe in In 2019 maybe, which is when she released her first two songs, and she's getting bigger. It's crazy like following these smaller artists and seeing them become as big as they are, so fast yeah especially with her and Steven. They've kind of just it's been yeah they vase brand new.
Speaker 2:She started kind of in the middle of cova, covid and and she just want to Grammy this year.
Speaker 1:Gracie was nominated, yeah.
Speaker 2:I was. No, she wasn't in the same one, she was like new.
Speaker 1:No, yeah, she was best new artist I think who won the best new artist? I think it was I.
Speaker 2:Can't remember.
Speaker 1:Vanessa Monae. Is that her first name?
Speaker 2:I think Victoria.
Speaker 1:Victoria Monae. Yeah, I knew it was a V. Yeah.
Speaker 2:My number four. I know my top three, so number four is kind of tough. I'll throw in my this could be removable and not in a bat. I mean he's in my top, I'm putting him on my top five but lack of thinking of anybody else, I would put one Christian artist, steven Curtis Chapman, because he was really influential for me when I Want me, because I grew up Catholic, then they'd go to church for a couple years and then I started going to church and Discovered him and I had never really discovered Christian music Really before him and it was back then like 91 92.
Speaker 2:He had the great adventure and it was a great album, his biggest probably. And so when I discovered him Because I'd never heard Christian music like that before, like modern Christian music like you know, it's like kind of poppy, you know Christian music. So I got his older albums I think he had two or three older albums before, I think two before the great adventure and then a bunch his later stuff over the last couple years have started kind of sounding like pumped out Christian music from Nashville or pumped out country music from Nashville, which I don't like, and he writes all of his own stuff but it's just not hooky like it used to be. So I would say early to early 90s to early 2000s. Steven Curtis Chapman I'll put up there because he was really influential in my when I really became a Christian and stuff. So and I have seen him, I Want to say two or three times in concert I'd say I've seen Gracie Twice, I believe, yeah, twice, and the second time I was alone.
Speaker 1:Which was oh yeah a little Scary, but I had you drive me, so that helped a lot.
Speaker 2:Yeah, is that the one where I fell asleep? Yes and I got trouble. Yeah, I was at McMinnons Just hanging out and the guy I was like out, out I was probably snoring. I'm gonna think about it cuz I was out, cuz he was at my table saying sir, so and he kept getting louder. I'm like oh boy, I was out. Yeah, a little trouble, because they don't want like transients and they're just sleeping. But yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, this venue is a McMinnons, which is a pub restaurant, and at this particular location there's a concert venue, the crystal ballroom, and parents can wait in there, and you can, I think you can watch the Concert cuz we've cuz you know me and also a friend of mine to a concert there before and they had like the screens up.
Speaker 1:Yeah and they showed the concert, which is pretty cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I just sat there for a couple hours and it was kind of late, so I kind of fell asleep. So Grace is your number four and you've seen her twice.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:I would say Stephen Curtis is mine. So what's your? Who's your number three?
Speaker 1:The top three get a little tricky because they're all about the same Level to me, but this list makes sense and I think it'll make sense once I say it. My number three is Louie Tomlinson. Okay, he was in one direction when I first discovered him. I think it was 2011 that me and Sierra started listening to them, and I remember she showed me a picture of all of them together and she's like which one do you think is the cutest? And then I saw him. I was like that's it.
Speaker 2:That's, that's my guy, that's it since then, yeah ever since then.
Speaker 1:I yeah, I am his number one supporter. He's my everything. I love that man.
Speaker 2:Well, and that's so. 2011, that's like the the next. Well, my top two are when I heard I was about your age, then you were born in 2000. So you were like 11, 12, 11, yeah, cuz, yeah. So my top two were around Around that same age for me. So when we're probably the most Influenced, you know, that's like like our formidable age, so that 10, that nine probably to 12 or 13 is where that kind of stuff is just baked in.
Speaker 2:That's like who we, you know, go to so it makes it makes sense that you're still a fan of his and it's cool that he's still putting out solo stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I'm it's just been so cool like Seeing him, you know, put out his first solo album, which was it was good, but you could kind of tell and he admits this himself too is that you can kind of tell he was kind of reaching for Numbers and getting on the radio and like not really, and he was also still trying to find Himself too, because he was kind of blindsided by the breakup. So he was kind of in a weird headspace. But once he I Think he kind of he took a while from Releasing music and you can really tell in this newest album that he finally found his sound and it was. It was really refreshing knowing what his sound should be and him doing it and genuinely enjoying it and and just being really secure in it and and his fans and everything. So it's been really refreshing and really kind of rewarding seeing him and His journey, like knowing where it was supposed to go and then it goes that way.
Speaker 2:So yeah, yeah, I like that insight. So number three for me, I would have to say, is Harry Connick Jr and I was introduced to him in the late 80s, I think, maybe nine, oh yeah, maybe 89, 90. It was another set of friends. The these friends knew the other friends that introduced me to Mark Cohn, but they Again, I remember the first time I heard it we were just hanging out and he had just done the soundtrack to when Harry met Sally. That movie had come out and I was a little young for that movie when it came out, which I believe was 89, because it was kind of adult theme. But it's one of me and your mom's favorite movies.
Speaker 1:We love that movie. I wouldn't mind watching it again because it's been a while and I don't remember a ton from it. I think it was too young to understand it.
Speaker 2:Oh, you haven't watched. It read like recently super recently.
Speaker 1:I'd really be happy to, we'd be happy to watch.
Speaker 2:That's such a great movie. But he was the main, you know, he. He didn't do anything original but it was all covers of old standards. And so that's when I was introduced to him by by other friends and and I was singing in the high school in the well, no, I Was in the choir in school and then I sang in a vocal jazz group, it at Clark, and so I would sing him a lot and I kind of sounded Similar to him.
Speaker 2:You know, like that's kind of like my Genre, that I'm really good at the crew or buble, harry Connick Jr, frank Sinatra that's where, like my voice really fits, like Probably the genre that I sing, probably the best. And so, yeah, I started listening to him more and then obviously has a ton of albums out in their big band and so he would do some covers and then he would write new Big band jazz stuff. And then we got to see him. I've seen him in concert probably three or four times and the most recent was Christmas before last, where we all went and saw him with some friends, his Christmas.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, it's Christmas, remember, yeah, it was in.
Speaker 2:December and it was. It was Christmas Eve, which was really cool. Was it Christmas Eve Eve? No, no, it was Friday before Christmas. Christmas was on Sunday and we had a really bad ice storm and but we made it over there the concert went on and it was full, it was dangerous, but yeah, and we got over there and back home fine.
Speaker 1:I think he even said that he was surprised anyone showed up. He's like I expected to be like there's a lot of people.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, we didn't care, everybody went and yeah. So that's the latest time I've seen him and he still sounds great and it was fun getting to experience that with you guys. You and Sierra Me and Mama, I believe, had seen him in the past. I saw him once by myself in probably 90, the fall or late summer of 91. I saw him when he came out with Blue Light, red Light, which is a great album, and then I hadn't seen him for a while. So it was good to see him at Christmas time. But I think I've seen him. I want to say three times I think.
Speaker 1:I've seen Louis IV. I believe the first time was the last tour they did as a group, one direction. That was the first time. That was in 2015,. I believe summer. Yeah, because they split in November. I believe I could be completely messing this up, but I think I'm right. So yeah, I saw him when they came to Seattle and then for his first album he did two nights in Portland. I had only planned to go to one. And then my friend was like we need to go to the other one.
Speaker 1:And I'm like are you crazy? How are we supposed to get these tickets? I got my night two ticket on Seat Geek and I was like this price is ridiculous, but at the time I was working a full-time job and. I was able to do it. I was just anxious about going, having to drive myself in Portland.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because I took you to that one the first night and I hung out with them.
Speaker 1:The second one, you were like you're on your own which is probably a good thing, but I was like I will do anything for this man that even if that means driving in Portland. So I did it. I think it was one of the first times I drove in Portland, not on my own, and so it was scary but it was worth it. He seemed he was very energetic that night and it was like one of the more iconic concerts that he's had that first tour.
Speaker 2:Cool.
Speaker 1:And then I saw him with the same friend and Sierra last year during the summer in the.
Speaker 2:Edgefield. Yeah, it was Edgefield.
Speaker 1:And that venue was perfect.
Speaker 2:I've never been there.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh it had everything and it was so calm there.
Speaker 2:I've always wanted to hear. I've always wanted to see Chris Isaac there. He always went there. He never went to. He's the guy that's saying wicked games. He was in a couple of movies a long time ago. That album came out in 1987, I believe his first album or one of his first albums. Mama never really liked him but he always came to. She just didn't like that style of music but he always just came to Edgefield and. I never got a chance to see him. Tickets were always kind of a little too pricey.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Edgefield is so nice and I don't think he tours anymore.
Speaker 2:I don't think.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was perfect. They had a whole area for just porta potties, which it's an outdoor venue, so it's going to have that, but there was a whole section for it, and then they had a couple of food stands, so we didn't have to worry about getting dinner on time or getting dinner and them being there on time. It's a whole thing that me and Sierra have to figure out before concerts. Right right, but that place it was just all, of it was just there.
Speaker 1:And then they had little picnic tables in the shade that you could just sit at and the doors open soon enough to where you can kind of take your time with everything on top of there being two openers, I think. And then there was a huge field that people were kind of putting their spots out or were just hanging out. We had seats in the general admission section so we weren't stressed about where we were going to be, so that was a huge relief. So we kind of just ran around in the field and just hung out during the openers and then we made our way to our spots right before he came on. It was a lot of fun. And then we waited way too long after the concert to see if he was going to come out, because he had been doing that. But once he hit Vancouver and Seattle and Portland those three shows he did not come out at and then, right after our show he came out and started meeting people.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's a bummer.
Speaker 1:So that was kind of annoying. But I mean, he seemed a little off that day. But my friend was like well, she's like we'll meet him soon. I know it, this just isn't our time. Michael I bet her because I need to meet him.
Speaker 2:I don't know what I'd do. You don't know what you do. No, I know I'd like everyone else.
Speaker 1:I'm like I totally got this for him. I have no idea, and that says a lot of.
Speaker 2:you know how I am at concerts, right, yeah? Yeah, that's a dear different person at the concerts. Okay, so who is your number two? My?
Speaker 1:number two is Grayson Chance another one that I listened to.
Speaker 2:Wow, that's surprising.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he, I think I started listening to him before I started listening to One Direction, so kind of.
Speaker 2:Was he a YouTuber? No, baby like like Bieber, or what?
Speaker 1:No, he well he maybe cause he performed on Ellen.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's right, that's right. He, yeah she, he was kind of this. Oh yeah, he was on YouTube and she saw yeah.
Speaker 1:So he was on YouTube and then she saw him and then he, like, performed on her show and everything.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Just completely blew up. Yeah, I'm pretty sure pretty quickly after that he was signed onto some record deal, had no control over everything, obviously, cause he's like 11 or 12 at the time, so he did, and he just didn't know what he was doing. So that whole time was kind of rough.
Speaker 2:Yeah, cause he got it was kind of messy with Ellen too, right yeah.
Speaker 1:They. Yeah, she definitely was not the kindest to him.
Speaker 2:That was kind of her rep towards the end of the year. Yeah, you know there were a lot of and I think I briefly talked to him about that before too.
Speaker 1:I met him twice. I met and saw him twice. We, me and Sierra, try to do VIP for him, vip me and Greets as much as we can with him, cause we both grew up listening to him. So, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:My number two would have to be Prince. He's fantastic. I mean, he's Prince Sucked when he died. I got to see him once, though probably 10, 15 years ago, I don't even remember when he passed away but I got to see him at the moda and he's he's saying all of his hits. So it was one of those concerts and he was amazing Me and this guy that I worked with, which is still bizarre that I even went to a concert with this guy. Yeah, um, so weird, but um, but we were on the floor, it was a great concert, it was fun. I wish the only thing that I wish that would have been different is if I would, I had more friends that I could have. You know, a friend that I could have gone with, but is what it is? So, but, but I got to see him. So, and I don't. There's not a whole lot of explanation for him. It's Prince.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I mean, that's all you need to know. It's Prince.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, I just grew up singing his stuff and singing that falsetto and uh and he was like 19. Purple rain came out in 83, 84. So I was right at that 11, 12 year old, you know that age. So, um, so, yeah, he's it for me. So, uh, so who's your number one?
Speaker 1:My number one is uh, I don't even know who.
Speaker 2:I don't even know what your number one?
Speaker 1:I've kind of been surprised.
Speaker 2:I mean, I know you've liked all these artists but, we're ranking them, so I'm kind of surprised by some of the rankings, cause.
Speaker 1:I mean I have periods of time where I don't listen to these artists but they are still like especially because I grew up listening to my top three like they're always going to be my top three Like that's never.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, same.
Speaker 1:Um, so, for my number one is not in Alex Wolf.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay.
Speaker 1:Cause they're. They're some other artists that me and Sierra grew up like, literally grew up with pretty much, and then now they're primarily acting, yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean they're doing some touring and stuff, yeah they're doing.
Speaker 1:They did a really, really small tour in January, but, yeah, they're doing a lot of movies. It was interesting seeing Alex Wolfen, oppenheimer and I think I even remember thinking it was a little strange seeing Alex and Josh Peck in the same frame and Oppenheimer Cause both of them were on Nickelodeon so and I watched both of them growing up. So I'm like this is crazy and it's a big movie, so it was like it was a little weird, but I was like good for them Um.
Speaker 2:I mean that's kind of part of the reason why you saw it right. I mean you did the whole. Barb and Hymer with your friend Tilly, but in her husband, but um. But you see a lot of movies that I would see because of the young actors that they're in them, that are in them, because typically there's some movies that you go see that you may not see, unless there's these younger actors that you've grown up with or really like. So I like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I went and saw Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk because Harry wasn't Like.
Speaker 2:if Harry wasn't in it, I would not have had any interest in seeing it, but it's a really good movie.
Speaker 1:But I would not have seen it if he wasn't in it. I wanna try to be better at watching movies that I wouldn't normally go for, though I think that would be interesting to do.
Speaker 2:Well, it just kind of broadens your mind and you're so into movies and how they're made and the whole process. It would be good for you to kind of broaden your you know, the yes, so I've told you that I want to. If they come back here, I wanna go see them with you guys.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we have not seen them live. It's been a thing like me and Sierra are kind of annoyed with them at this point. Cause they just the way they tease is it's frustrating like, but I it's not a knock on them.
Speaker 2:It works for them clearly.
Speaker 1:But it just gets annoying when you followed these guys pretty much your whole life and you're just waiting and they just keep saying like, oh, we're gonna do this soon.
Speaker 2:And then it's like two years later they do the smallest tour ever in January.
Speaker 1:But we're still hopeful that they'll get here soon and we will be right in the front and we will meet them and we will always be there to support them, even though we're extremely annoyed with them right now.
Speaker 2:Right, that's funny but.
Speaker 1:I mean, I guess it does make sense though, cause they're both in movies.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're like big movies, Like I really and I think Alex has directed one or two before too Cause they've been performing. I mean, if anybody that listens to this, not everybody's gonna know, but they were like what was the show called it?
Speaker 1:was called uh Naked Brothers.
Speaker 2:Band yeah, naked Brothers Band. It was produced and they were like small kids, they were like kids and thank God.
Speaker 1:it was like produced by their mom and it was like a family thing. So Schneider was never involved in anything with them. Thank God it was healthy, so it was right before he kind of started working there. You know that guy.
Speaker 2:That guy I was. I've just been reading kind of getting sidetracked, but that's okay. I read about that guy recently with going court and all of that.
Speaker 2:That guy was in a show that me and your mom watched as an actor called Head of the Class and there was an old show called WKRP in Cincinnati. I think that was a show and he was at. The teacher was a. This was back early 80s Early I don't think it touched the 70s, it might, but early early 80s, like 81, 82. Wkrp and one of the like. He was kind of a stoner DJ in the show and then he later, a couple of years later, he was in the sitcom called Head of the Class and he was the teacher. Well, one of the students was. His name is Dan Schneider.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Was Dan Schneider, and so when I saw the article it was just this week I was like, oh crap, I didn't even know he was the Nickelodeon guy, and then he was there for 20 years, but he started.
Speaker 2:He ran victorious, like he ran all of these big shows and but you didn't know that he was an actor. Yeah, I had no idea. I just got home as a creep. That was too many kids. Yeah, he was a student in that. In that sitcom back in the, I mean me and your mom watched and I think it was Shelly. Yeah, it was probably so. It had to been like early 90s that it was on.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You can look it up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think. I think people are just now kind of. I mean not just now, but it's like more public instead of people trying to make it public. It's more public now Cause a lot of people have been able to step up and share their stories, which is really. Yeah, actually, which is really nice to see, or is it a different guy that you're thinking of?
Speaker 2:No, it's the same guy. It was just earlier. So there it was five seasons. And when was the fifth season? Yeah, it started in 1986 and ended in 1991 with a different teacher. Is an English teacher or an English actor that took over? But yeah, if you look at the cast, it's Dan. Yeah, dan Schneider. He was Dennis Blundin in the show, and the guy that I was talking about was Howard Hessman. He was in a show called. That's why.
Speaker 2:I love about the, the, the. The fun thing to to talk about this podcast is this. The whole idea, is this exactly our exchange, because you know, dan, as this creep that was a showrunner and creator for 20 years for Lincoln Lodian. I had no idea, but you didn't know he was an actor in the early 80s, mid 80s, in the sitcom with this actor that I grew up with in this other show. That was like early 80s, so that's that's kind of fun.
Speaker 2:Anyways, so Naked Brothers Band, but it's the two guys. That is your number one.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Alex and.
Speaker 1:Nat and Alex.
Speaker 2:Yeah, nat and Alex, nat and Alex, yeah. So my number one, I'd have to say, is George Michael. So he was with Wham when I was in probably 1984. So I was in the seventh grade and and then he went out on his own and did faith and that was in 1987, I think I believe it was 1987. Yeah, because I remember I started high school back here in Vancouver and our principal did. We'd had these big assemblies it was probably during homecoming week, you know where you do the dress up and you do you know spirit week and all of that. And so it was one of those kind of assemblies and our principal came out in lip sync to faith. It was crazy. Everybody went nuts because he's came out and he did a whole thing. It was pretty cool. But I've loved George Michael. He is one that I never got to see live. Two friends of ours, chris and Grant, got to see him.
Speaker 2:I think up in Vancouver. If I'm not mistaken, before he did a big world tour. I never got to see him. He was doing this symphony.
Speaker 1:Did he come anywhere near here besides Canada? Was that like the closest he was?
Speaker 2:I think that was probably yeah, because he was English, you know and so I think he performed over there more.
Speaker 2:He did live here for a while but I believe died in England, I believe. But so he was doing this big symphony tour in England and Europe and all of his old stuff and standards he was doing with the symphony. I think the album is called Symphynica or something like that, and I was one of his last albums and he was going to go on a world tour doing that and I was looking forward to that and then he got sick and then he just kind of had to stop and then he passed away a couple of years later. So I never got to see him live, but his voice is just like butter. It's so smooth and so crisp and I love his music and so I think he's.
Speaker 2:Him and Prince are really kind of 1A, 1b probably for me, but he's got he's number one. I've always loved him. He's great so and he had some troubling times and people can look up some of the things that he got in trouble for is not terribly healthy living, but he's definitely my favorite, my favorite artist, and sadly again, I never got to see him. I think he was the only one right.
Speaker 2:That I didn't get to see live. I think so.
Speaker 1:And now, now, like sir, the only ones that I haven't seen live in there are number one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, hopefully they don't die before you could see it. That's what I'm thinking. I better see them.
Speaker 1:They're still really young guys.
Speaker 2:And they're pretty healthy, right. So yeah, so yeah. So those are our favorite artists. They're top five. I would say who are you listening to right now? Who's on? Who's on repeats or heavy listens on your streaming?
Speaker 1:Right now Gracie Abrams, because I'm going to be learning one of her songs on my guitar soon.
Speaker 2:Cool. Um that's cool.
Speaker 1:And then another artist. She's really really small artist. Another one from TikTok. Um, I want to make sure I get her name right, even though I think I am right. Um, yeah, Sydney Ross Mitchell. Oh, love her.
Speaker 2:Oh, she's so good you have to when we're back on TikTok. Well, you'll have to send her to me. Um, I so Leve is on my rotation right now when I just need, because I'm really into just chill music. So a lot of times I'll listen to like an acoustic playlist that Apple puts together, curates, you know, kind of like I'm always looking for calm playlist, so it could be kind of new agey that you would hear.
Speaker 1:You might like Sydney Ross Mitchell. Maybe her music is pretty chill. You may have sent me. You may have sent me. I think I did. You may have sent me. Yeah, I think I did send you some, but did you listen to it?
Speaker 2:I believe so, but it was a while ago, yeah, um, but Leve is like, all of her stuff is real chill and uh, and I love jazz and it's the kind of jazz that I like and it's clever lyrics she does, you know, I mean, she's 20 something year old, uh, gal. So I don't necessarily relate to all the lyrics, but but her music background.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, and it's very, very clever lyrics and um, so I I have her on repeat if I just want something with a little life but kind of mellow. And then probably who I'm probably listening to the most and I have been probably for like the last year or two is Corey Asbury.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, and he's a Christian artist, but a very. I like kind of a chill.
Speaker 2:I like how he does music, because it's not that like I don't know, it's not like that, yeah, but basically like like he writes about real pain and getting through it.
Speaker 1:And I really appreciate his style and his writing.
Speaker 2:The first line of one of the albums that, to give people an idea, um, he wrote this out this song called kind Corey has been looking it up really quick. The first, so this is the first three lines of kind. Sometimes marriages don't work first line of the song and sometimes babies die those first two lines. Sometimes rehab turns to relapse and you're just left asking why. So that's kind of lyrics that he writes like real raw, emotional. He's like like he's. This is going to sound really weird, but he's my kind of Christian guy.
Speaker 2:You know, if you follow him on TikTok he's really funny and kind of makes fun of Christian culture sometimes and kind of makes fun of himself and I love that that kind of person. That's just kind of not everything is so serious, but his music can be serious and very reflective and um and painful but also joyous and all of that he's. He's a real dude and and I really like him and, like you said, it doesn't sound like typical churned out Nashville Christian music. Really they're just churning it out.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Cause he hasn't put out. He just came out with his current album um just recently, I think, in the fall, and it was his first album in like I think, two years, I think. But he's the guy that's saying reckless love and a lot of churches had a problem because they don't think God's love is reckless and that it's just people that don't get. It's really silly.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And um, and he stands by the song which I really like and appreciate. So anyways, so that's who, that's my rotation and our top five.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So okay, so on to movies.
Speaker 1:Movies yes, Okay. Okay.
Speaker 2:So we're doing top five.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then what did you call it earlier? Like the kind of movie that we just put on.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, um, while I just like in our bubble but it's really not bubble movies, because they're not really it's just what? What did we call it when we were on?
Speaker 1:our I said honorable mention.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but like uh, we kind of had a phrase for it Like you just background just to watchable, like if it's on a Saturday afternoon or if you don't have anything else to watch, you'll put it in or now on streaming. Um, you'll just kind of watch it. It's just like, uh, you know, go back, kind of movie.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:A go back movie, I guess we can call it.
Speaker 1:So should we do that first, or Uh sure, okay. So my, I guess my movie that I go back to is bottoms. It recently came out last year.
Speaker 2:It's really funny, it's a really good you and I went and saw that.
Speaker 1:Yes, it was really funny. I saw it. It was really good. Three times in a meter.
Speaker 2:I'm a little disappointed because I was the second. That because there was a movie that we saw in Canada that was kind of a similar feel.
Speaker 1:Good boys, all good boys. And well, we like one of my top four memories for sure. I love that movie.
Speaker 2:We'll save this for another episode. Maybe you and I will talk about, um, our, um, our whole episode of uh, um, what's called that? We always watch, Uh, the growing up movies.
Speaker 1:Oh, coming of age movies. Coming of age movies, yeah, growing up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I can remember the phrase. Yeah, we love coming of age movies.
Speaker 1:That's kind of our thing and chose to.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's kind of what we're into Um, but no, you went and saw it with your friend and then we would yeah. And then you went and saw it with Sierra, right, no, I so.
Speaker 1:I saw it with one of my best friends.
Speaker 2:because we sorted, we sorted each other, we would see it together, because it's definitely a movie we'd see together, right.
Speaker 1:Um, and then I saw it with you, and then I saw it with um, another friend of mine, and her husband, um, and that was really fun.
Speaker 2:And then it is a good go back movie. I haven't seen it since the theater but it it's really funny and then I watched it with Sierra when I was able to buy it.
Speaker 1:I bought it like the day I was able to.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:Cause I just wanted to have it Um and I definitely have gone back to it a lot Like if I'm just wanting something in the background, but I want it to be a movie. I definitely put that one on Um and it's funny every single time Like it never. It never gets old for me.
Speaker 2:Mines, kind of uh, I don't know if it's weird, but it's um, it's not probably the best of this genre or of this character, but it's Clive or a stars, clive Owen, uh, king Arthur and um, it's just, for some reason it's not in my top five, certainly, but it's definitely and I haven't watched it for a while. I would, I would like to, but it's, that's my like. Go back movie Like I remember when we lived at our old house. I would be like folding clothes downstairs and I would pop that in because it's it was just like a great go back movie.
Speaker 2:And it's certainly not.
Speaker 1:You know that's not my top five but it's, but I love going back to it and that's kind of that's what bottoms is for me, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2:So what's your? Or should I start with the top five? Um this time. Yeah, since you started, yeah.
Speaker 1:So you're, you're fifth, okay.
Speaker 2:Okay, uh, I'm I would have to say I'm trying to think of three and four. I have my top two in my head.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this one was a little, this one was tricky, for sure.
Speaker 2:I know one, I think I know two. I'm a little stuck on three and four, but I would have to say my top. My fifth one is probably Top Gun. Not the greatest movie ever written or made, but a great summer popcorn movie which Tom Cruise does really well at, and that again was during my formative years. It came out in 1986. So I was 13.
Speaker 2:I had the VHS and I would come home when it came out, and maybe late 86. Yeah, cause we had moved back here in 87, the summer of 87. So like 86, 87, every time I would come home from school I would get a bowl of ice cream and I would just sit and watch it every day until my parents came home every day for a while. And then I swore I was gonna be a pilot In the Air Force, not the Navy, but I swore I was gonna be a pilot and I never even came close to that. But I would say that would be. I would say probably five, four and three are probably gonna be interchangeable. Top two is probably locked in. My number one is definitely locked in.
Speaker 1:I think my top three are locked in, like my artists. I think my last two are kind of my last two are kind of up in the air but my top three, are it, I think?
Speaker 2:I'm struggling with four and three, so do your five, do your fifth.
Speaker 1:My five is Moonrise Kingdom. That also came out in my very formative years, I believe.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 1:Did we see that one in the theater?
Speaker 2:I think, we, I think so I think you, me and Ciara did.
Speaker 1:My mom wanted nothing to do with it.
Speaker 2:Right, this is not her kind of genre.
Speaker 1:I do really enjoy Wes Anderson's movies because I don't think a lot of people kind of focus on the I don't wanna call it the aesthetics that he does.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But just the clean look that he does with the color and framing and all of that, and camera movements even, is very unique and very personal to him. So like you can tell, it's a Wes Anderson film if you see it, yeah, yeah. And yeah, I just love the dialogue in that movie and their delivery and their lines is so funny. But yeah, Moonrise.
Speaker 2:Kingdom is number five. Let me see.
Speaker 1:Do you have a number four?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm just kind of looking at movies up in the 90s. I'd have to say I'll do number four. I'll do Shawshank Redemption. I just saw that but it kind of helped me remember that it was there.
Speaker 1:Shawshank Redemption is really really good, it's just a superb perfect movie.
Speaker 2:Perfect great story. Yeah, it's just a perfect movie. It's so well done so I would have to say I'll put that at number four.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So what's your? Did you say your number four? No, you just said your number five. No, I just said my five.
Speaker 1:So my number four is Stand by Me. I do catch myself going back and watching that a lot. It's another one that never gets old for me. I do really like stories that involve groups of friends as you could probably tell as I go down my list even more.
Speaker 1:But yeah, I don't know what about it that I really like. I know it's a classic and I know you guys grew up watching it too. I think I know Mama did. At least she grew up watching that movie and then you guys kind of showed me at an early age and I loved it. Yeah, it's a great, great movie.
Speaker 2:So what's number was it? That was number four. That was four. Yeah, okay, so number three, I'll say let me go back here. I'll say number three is Silence of the Lambs. That's another perfectly made movie that came out in 1991. Yeah, I mean, if you haven't seen that, you gotta see. It's classic creepy. But so so well done, so well acted, yeah. So yeah, my number, my two and one are locked in.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is, yeah, my number three. Is it Chapter Two? Okay, yeah, I have seen that movie so many times. I'm pretty sure it's one of the movies that, if I'm bored at work, I can watch in my head.
Speaker 2:That's funny, that's hilarious.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I really appreciated how they did those movies because I did watch the original one Felt like it was like four hours long. It was so hard to watch. But what I really appreciated about how they did those movies is that they didn't stray too far away from the original movie, Like it was all fairly similar but it was just updated. Yeah, updated.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because I think that was a TV show like a made for TV movie and which Stephen King has done a lot of. So you didn't get the and it was really old, so the special effects were kind of, but sometimes those old.
Speaker 1:The whole thing was rough too, but they stayed really close to the original story and I think even Stephen King was pretty involved in the production of that as well. I mean he was in it, he was in the movie but, he was like actively on set. Yeah, yeah, the cast was great in that, but it was casted so well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so that is your number two or three, my number three.
Speaker 1:And I'd say my favorite genre is horror and I have favorite horror movies, but I see that as its own separate list because that is my favorite genre, like I have my favorite movies and everything, but that is like a whole thing in itself. I love horror movies.
Speaker 2:Yes, I do, I do. Okay, I'll have to say my number two is seven, and again another Morgan Freeman movie Brad Pitt was really good in. It came out 95, which was the year that me and your mom got married, and so we watched it and the ending I remember sitting in the theater and it. I don't know if you're I can't remember if we went and saw it together. I can't remember, but I'll still watch it. The ending kind of rocked my world.
Speaker 1:It still does. I don't want to either, even though you should have seen it by now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't want to mess it up for anybody that hasn't seen it, but you must, you never spoil seven. Yeah, so, but it affected me. It was probably one of the only movies that like got in me and like got my head in and I think it was partially because me and your mom just got married that year when it came out.
Speaker 2:And so it was like I wouldn't say it freaked me out, but it definitely like one of the like I said, one of the only movies that have like gotten my soul was like holy shit. Like what, what?
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it was so good. You don't spoil seven watch it Right?
Speaker 2:Yeah, watch it if you have it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, pray on it, but it does that every time you watch it, you just feel the same thing that you felt the first time, which is what a good movie does. Is he just react the same way you do, as he did the first time.
Speaker 2:The only other movie I wouldn't say it moved me to the same degree, but one of the only movies that made me cry was my Girl With Macaulay. Culkin and Anna Pakwin.
Speaker 1:Oh, you might have to look that up. I don't think I've seen you don't you're not sure you've seen that I? Don't know.
Speaker 2:Ooh, that's a great. It's a coming of age movie.
Speaker 1:I don't know if I want to see it, though, cause I know enough about it. I don't know. I get weird about emotional movies like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, anna Klumsky yeah, and Macaulay Culkin and Dan Ekroyd.
Speaker 1:Cause I just know it's like Great cast. Really sad, right, it's not the one that was like really.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was. Yeah, it was sad. It made me cry. Yeah, it touched me, it affected me like seven, but it it made me cry. That was like one of the only movies that made me cry. Yeah, I get choked up a lot. I was watching something at work on my iPad and I'm like and I don't know, if it was a commercial or it was something and I'm like getting choked up. I'm like I find myself getting choked up at the weirdest things, okay so.
Speaker 1:I find myself doing like that feeling too. Me and my friend are currently rewatching Glee together. This is our second time we've watched it together. Right, but about my?
Speaker 2:20th time watching it. Yeah, literally.
Speaker 1:Anyways, cause I remember I grew up watching it and I just, it was just constant, yeah that and new girl Like.
Speaker 2:I grew up on that. Like that's crazy, it's so bad, like I remember like binging those shows like older and I'm like why yeah? Bad. I'm like, how did I?
Speaker 1:watch these Like they're not bad, but like being the age I was, but being the age that I was.
Speaker 2:I'm like why did they let me sit in the room with them and watch them? Mulan Rouge is like our family movie and modern family, too, was always on.
Speaker 1:It was those three TV shows that I grew up watching.
Speaker 2:I love those.
Speaker 1:TV shows now and I'm so happy that I was able to experience that growing up. But it's also like why did you let me watch?
Speaker 2:them. That's so funny that you're glad that that happened. I get that, and it's probably something that we should have monitored, but everything just went over my head, yeah true.
Speaker 1:So cause I don't understand anything, so I don't think it affected me at all, but you know, growing up and rewatching all three of those shows. I'm like, oh my God, what am I thinking?
Speaker 2:Yeah, Mulan Rouge is the same. I mean, Mulan Rouge came out in like 2000-ish and you were watching that literally when you were a baby yes, Like you, were one or two.
Speaker 1:I was like one years old.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and we absolutely love that's definitely our family movie. We just saw it last year in Portland, the Broadway show oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think it was last year.
Speaker 2:So it's definitely our thing. So what number are we on? You said you're number two, right?
Speaker 1:I was on number three. We're going to number two.
Speaker 2:Oh, we're going to no. Number two is seven for me, so you're on number two.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I'm on number two. My number two is the outsiders.
Speaker 2:Oh, wow. So what is your number one? I don't know, I know. Do you want to sell an experience from the outsiders?
Speaker 1:Yeah, so in seventh grade which I think is pretty typical for every child in that age we watched or we read it in class, because I think the author was 15 or 16 when she wrote it and when it was published. And it's another story about, like a group of friends that grew up in a really rough area and it's just kind of following their life and everything. And, yeah, I remember we read it. I was really into it, I loved it, right when we started reading it, which me and my mom talked about kind of fairly recently, about like why did I connect with it so much I was like.
Speaker 1:I honestly have no idea, but I did.
Speaker 2:Right, yeah, sometimes that's just the way it works.
Speaker 1:But it was also just really fun how my teacher taught us it and read through it. Cause we were talking about, like the language that they used back then and how they use different words for different things.
Speaker 2:It's good that you had that experience. On top of liking it, you're having that experience with your teacher, cause that can be really fun.
Speaker 1:And you could tell that she was enjoying the discussion too, and she was really enjoying teaching it also yeah. I love that and then, yeah, I just grew up loving that movie. And then was it 2022?
Speaker 2:I want to say yeah, it was still COVID, right? Didn't you guys have to wear?
Speaker 1:did you have to wear a mask? No, late 22 probably. I need to back check myself on this. Yeah, it was on my mom's birthday, actually on 2022. Ralph Macchio, which was he, was one of my favorite characters in the movie. He was doing like a book tour about, you know, like doing Karate Kid and doing what he's doing now. He was doing a book tour and he came to Seattle and me and my mom I mean we all kind of watched. We all watched Cobra Kai, but everyone kind of I think UNCR kind of just stopped watching it and then me and my mom just kind of stuck with it because Karate Kid is her childhood too.
Speaker 1:And I liked the Karate Kid movies.
Speaker 2:Which came out in 1984, I believe, and I also just love Ralph Macchio.
Speaker 1:Cause he was one of my favorite characters in the outsiders. So he went on a book tour. He came to Seattle. We went on my mom's birthday to see him and we did like they had like some kind of me and greet thing. I don't know if I would call it a me and greet cause it was so quick. Basically, everyone was had to get in a line and we had like two seconds to take a picture with him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it was still kind of COVID-ish because, well, maybe not, you just couldn't get real close to him. It was kind of like you're like three or four feet away from him.
Speaker 1:Which I understand being in his position.
Speaker 2:It was kind of late, covid, so I think they're just trying to be safe and I'll live that.
Speaker 1:And the way they organize a whole thing was a mess and I'm like I put me in control for two minutes and I can get this shit together.
Speaker 2:It's making so much better.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was like driving me nuts, but anyways, I have an outsider's movie poster that I got at the last blockbuster in Bend Oregon. It was like one of the last movie posters that they had and I remember Sierra and my friend Ava were like, oh my gosh, mac, you have to get this.
Speaker 2:You have to get this. I was like of course.
Speaker 1:So I brought the poster with me, hoping he would be able to sign it. But they were being really adamant about him not signing anything. They're like he's not signing anything, you're taking the picture and you're leaving, basically, and it's like, okay, whatever. And so I went up to him and I showed it to him. He's like, oh, my gosh, that's so cool. And then he was like telling me he was like, okay, well, we can hold this together.
Speaker 2:Like I'll hold this side of the corner and I'll hold this corner. I was like perfect, that's perfect yeah.
Speaker 1:And then he held it with me and then, as I was leaving, he said stay, Gold Pony girl, Cause I was so caught off guard. I was like you too, and it was just. It was just. It was so crazy.
Speaker 2:When you told me that I got emotional. I cried.
Speaker 1:I'm almost getting emotional right now thinking about it, because there could not have been a more, a sweeter comment to make? No, I have. I mean you always said since then, and will always say, that is the sweetest thing anybody has ever said to me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like.
Speaker 1:I'm a little choked up right now thinking about it. Every time you tell this story like I get emotional. Yeah.
Speaker 2:It's the absolute sweetest.
Speaker 1:And it was great because my mom heard it. And so she was like oh, she was like freaking out for me. And then she had to like take her picture, and then we were like running out, I was like I need to leave. I hate it. And then, like as we were, walking back to the car I was like I'm gonna cry, I'm gonna cry. And then mom was like it's okay.
Speaker 2:And then I did yeah, I was like I can't believe he said that to me.
Speaker 1:I love that so much. If anybody knows me as well like knows me enough, that movie is I don't. I can't even like it's just everything to me almost.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and the fact that I like so like, what is your number one, geez? Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1:So like going from reading it in seventh grade loving his character specifically, and Matt Dylan's character.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:Those two being my favorite watching the movie, still having them be my favorite watching Karate Kid and then watching Cobra Kai and then having him say that to me specifically, that's what's so emotional.
Speaker 1:It was crazy, yes. And then I think after I think a little bit after we met him, me and my mom were watching a video of him, like breaking down his most iconic movies and like his roles and everything, and then they played that clip of him saying telling Pony Boy to stay gold, mm-hmm. And that was after all of that, and I was like that is insane, like seeing him be in that movie saying that, and then knowing he said that to me, right, it's crazy. Yeah, it's so good Like I can't even, like I can't wrap my head around it.
Speaker 2:It's so good. I know it's so good. It's so overwhelming. Yeah, it's so amazing, and I'm it didn't even happen to me but it's, I guess, as a dad and knowing how you, like, you just walk through that whole thing and him saying that is just, it's just amazing, like you, can't say anything better.
Speaker 1:No, and it's like what happened with Steven Sanchez on my birthday. Yeah, we didn't get to touch on that, but after the show we waited outside because I really wanted to meet him Right, and we waited a little bit. I mean, no, we didn't wait too long.
Speaker 2:No, it wasn't too long.
Speaker 1:It wasn't too long, it was just really cold.
Speaker 2:I was kind of like let's go, and your mom's like, no, I'm here, I'm with you. Yeah, so I went to the Bronco and changed to my more comfortable shoes and coat and then I was good and he brought our jackets and we were totally fine waiting. Yeah, and he really didn't take that long. No, Because he ran by the door, he was coaxed out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he was, because everyone was like it's cold outside, like please come meet us.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:We'll leave. They're like please come meet us. So he gives and he kind of he runs out finally and then, like this, it's just a huge crowd of people and he meets a couple people first, and then this girl that I was talking to there she like kind of pushed me forward because she knew, like she knew it was my birthday.
Speaker 2:She knew I really wanted him to.
Speaker 1:Oh, I also caught a set list so she knew I really wanted him to sign that and like I was telling my family, like up until then I was like I just want him to sing happy birthday to me, right, like that's all I want and then. I can leave. And then the girl that I was talking to there, she like pushed me up, she's like go, go, go, and then yeah, it's just some rando girl.
Speaker 2:That was sweet as can be.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So he's saying happy birthday to another girl.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it wasn't even her birthday. Yeah, wasn't even her birthday, and I was so mad.
Speaker 2:And the face that you made. When you look back, we have it all on video. It is hilarious. It was so mad, and then I think that's when she really pushed you up there yeah. And we were like birthday.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And he was like, and he asked me he was like when is your birthday?
Speaker 1:I said it's today, like we just talked like two hours ago.
Speaker 2:Like.
Speaker 1:I just told you two hours ago, yeah. So then he liked this whole thing. He like danced with me saying happy birthday, yeah, and the video is so funny.
Speaker 2:And this is another emotional moment where your sister's recording it and she is I'm going to get choked up again, frick, she is giggling just through the whole thing and she yells Mac and and then she goes oh, there you go. It's like this weird minute soda accent. We were laughing about that for so long. But I? And then there's this trend on TikTok where, like this specific song, you know it was like a whole trend and I put it behind this song and and I had enough volume of you and everybody's singing and Sierra and every time I'm telling you, every time I watch it I get emotional.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because she is so genuinely happy for you that you're experiencing this thing and I love that so much. It was amazing Like these. I mean you've we've had some amazing interactions.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, I can't, yeah.
Speaker 2:Fantastic family memories.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So good.
Speaker 1:Like, even just like, it's so perfect yeah.
Speaker 2:Like you can't get more perfect. Yeah, like he just grabbed you and he's got his arm around you and it's so good it's crazy it's so good, so good.
Speaker 1:All right, it's yeah Crazy experiencing those things.
Speaker 2:Okay, so are you done with your number two? We have not.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:So, number one, I'll do my number one. My number one is Gladiator.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And it's another one that I can go back to. It's a go back movie for me. The story is amazing. It's just perfect. Another just movie that is perfect. And they're coming out with a second one and I think they're really trying to do it right. It's the same director and some of the characters I don't know if they're the same people grown up because Gladiator came out, I think, around 2000 ish, and. But I'm looking forward to it because I think it's James Cameron, I believe, and he, he, yeah, 2000 and it won best actor, best picture. Is it James Cameron?
Speaker 1:It says Ridley Scott.
Speaker 2:Ridley Scott. Yeah, and it was in 2000. Yeah yeah, james Cameron. He's another amazing. So Gladiator two comes out, and Ridley Scott is directing that too.
Speaker 2:He's old as shit, but he's directing it, so I think it will be good. It won't be like it. They took him 24 years to make this sequel and some of the characters are the same but older, and so I I want to believe that he's going to make it the way you'd want it to be made. You know what I'm saying? Like because it's a serious movie and it's it's kind of like Top Gun 2, where there was a lot of flashbacks and stuff like that from Top Gun, a lot of the same themes, but it was just a perfect summer popcorn movie that Tom Cruise does so well, and I'm really hoping that Gladiator 2 is similar to that, where they just make it the right way, with the same seriousness and just a continuation, and I think with Ridley Scott he'll do that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so yeah, it's tricky. Doing it in sequels, yeah, and doing it the right way.
Speaker 2:You know where the story just continues, but it doesn't make it cheesy or campy, it's just a continuation of the story Like I want it to be, like they purposely waited 25 years to make the second one. You know what I'm saying Like they've done movies like that, where there's one movie in particular where it was like and I don't know if you've ever seen or heard about this, but they took 10 years to make it. So the kid that was in it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's boyhood. Yeah, yeah, I haven't seen. I want to see it, but I do remember they took that many years, a long time. They got him every phase of life through the summer or the more prominent years I think through all the summers, which is yeah, which is a really cool concept.
Speaker 2:But that's like, you know who's the actor in that? I can't remember. He's an old school actor too. But you know, it's like keeping those people together and I don't think the kid that was in it was acting very much, and so you just have to bring all these people back together and that's. That would be tough, that's like kind of what they did with the newest insidious movie.
Speaker 1:I looked at the cast I still haven't seen. I need to see it, I need to rewatch all those movies. But I looked at the cast and they kept all of the original people, like even the original kid that was in the first movie, which I really appreciate because it's like with that kind of thing. You either get them all or you don't, and you don't make it.
Speaker 1:Right, right Like that's kind of how I see it. When people either want to remake or do a sequel to something like, get the original people or don't do it at all.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I feel the same. Yeah, but so gladiators, my number one. I can go back to that one all the time too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what's your number one? My number one is Mulan Rouge.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, so it's the family movie yeah, the family movie yeah. That's probably in my top 10.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. But, gorgeous movie.
Speaker 2:Oh God, beautiful Just being able to watch it on our TV with the lights and stuff and the music is amazing. You know it's another just you know perfect movie. Just it's so good. Yeah, everybody that was in it is great.
Speaker 1:Pretty sure it was the first movie I've ever seen.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, for sure, yeah yeah. Next to Fox and the Hound.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're a great lineup One when you first saw it.
Speaker 2:One or two, yeah, we would have it on with our friends.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But yeah, so that's our top five artists and top five movies. Yeah, so is there anything else you want to add to that? We should probably wrap up for our first episode. Are you happy with the first episode?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, are you.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because I liked the side comments on all the stories.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, yeah, I have a lot of stories about concert experiences a lot, so that would be fun to touch on soon too. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, definitely one of our. I think the coming of age movies is a good and TV shows, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah so okay, yeah, I think I'm good.
Speaker 2:You're good, yeah, okay, well, thanks, come back and listen to us. You can find us on our Instagram generation pop. I'll probably post. I'd like to Mikaela to post like pop culture stuff, pop culture news and you know whatever. But remember this podcast will be in the same feed as because I want to know. So just typing because I want to know, and Spotify or Apple or whatever podcast app, and look for G pop and we're trying to figure out how often we want to do these, but look for G pop and you'll know it's me and Mikaela doing yeah.
Speaker 1:Our podcast. I don't know if we touched on it a whole lot, but our pop culture news may or may not be pretty sparse because we oh yeah, yeah, you might want to touch on that.
Speaker 2:At least for the next 35 days yeah.
Speaker 1:We're fasting Twitter and TikTok right now for Lent.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, so we started this at a great time. Yeah, so perfect. So I'm we both are giving up TikTok because we watch it obsessively. Yeah, I gave up Facebook and Twitter. I still have Instagram for podcast stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And, but I deleted them off my phone.
Speaker 1:You just moved them off your home screen. Yeah, they're off my home screen because I don't want them to deactivate my accounts.
Speaker 2:Yeah, your conscious won't let you watch them. My guilt would not let me, because I know if I break that streak. I feel like I failed and I can't. I just can't.
Speaker 1:I need them there's no starting over for me, so I do have the control and the guilt to not do it.
Speaker 2:It's funny that you have the guilt, because Lent is kind of typically known as a Catholic thing and the joke is there's a lot of Catholic guilt that people carry around Catholic and you've never been Catholic, so it's kind of funny. I did, I grew up Catholic. I just needed to delete them off my phone and my phone did say that my use was down 9% from last week, so it's pretty about that Screen time was up 11%.
Speaker 2:I don't even know I don't either. Okay, well, thanks everybody for listening. I hope you enjoyed it and I hope you come back and listen to our next episode. Okay, see you, mac.
Speaker 1:See you.
Speaker 2:All right.
