1 00:00:05,240 --> 00:00:07,800 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Anny and Samantha and welcome to Steph. 2 00:00:07,880 --> 00:00:18,960 Speaker 1: I ever told you protection of I Heart Radio. So 3 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 1: today I don't think we should do you a question 4 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:23,280 Speaker 1: because I got a lot of ground to cover. We're 5 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:28,360 Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna get real, real into the weeds on 6 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:33,080 Speaker 1: some memories that we've had growing up about board games, 7 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:38,279 Speaker 1: specifically geared towards girls. Yes, and that's when we were 8 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:40,640 Speaker 1: restarting and looking through everything. I am. I have a 9 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:42,840 Speaker 1: lot of remorse of not having these games. Of course, 10 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:44,960 Speaker 1: I had a little house fire when I was growing up, 11 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:47,160 Speaker 1: so I lost a lot of my games. But I'm like, man, 12 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:50,120 Speaker 1: these are worth some money. I really wish I had 13 00:00:50,159 --> 00:00:54,360 Speaker 1: these games. Yes, Yes, and shout out to the website 14 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:58,080 Speaker 1: board Game Geeks, who is helpful for me and researching this. 15 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:00,760 Speaker 1: But they had great pictures of some of these games, 16 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:03,000 Speaker 1: but they didn't have one of the one of the 17 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:04,680 Speaker 1: ones I'm going to talk about something like, I need 18 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:06,280 Speaker 1: to I still have it. I need to go home, 19 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:10,240 Speaker 1: take some good pictures, upload them. You know, we really 20 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:11,960 Speaker 1: do need to be played. Just playing these all these 21 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:14,959 Speaker 1: old games. I would love to. I would absolutely love 22 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:18,960 Speaker 1: to shout out to Blair Erskin who actually did this 23 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:22,640 Speaker 1: entire column about all of the board games and how 24 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:25,640 Speaker 1: it was so bad at one point in time, and 25 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:29,240 Speaker 1: it was it was kind of like, uh, can we 26 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:33,040 Speaker 1: talk about these games and how awful these are for 27 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:36,240 Speaker 1: girls in general? So shout out to our skins to 28 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:39,480 Speaker 1: go back and remember all of those things, including all 29 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:43,480 Speaker 1: the stereotypes. And we have talked about topics around this 30 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:45,440 Speaker 1: a lot, like we talked briefly about Old Maid. I 31 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:47,400 Speaker 1: don't think we ever did a full thing on it. 32 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:50,440 Speaker 1: We've talked about stuff for Jetto which you can play online. 33 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:52,840 Speaker 1: It's free, and I still think we should play Samantha, 34 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:56,280 Speaker 1: I'm ready. We talked about the rebrand of Monopoly Mrs 35 00:01:56,280 --> 00:01:58,680 Speaker 1: Monopoly and how people hated it, whether or not that 36 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:03,240 Speaker 1: was a good thing her And in the passing ten 37 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:06,040 Speaker 1: episodes on women in board games and women in board 38 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:09,560 Speaker 1: game design, so check those out if you're interested. I 39 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:11,880 Speaker 1: did want to say I feel like, I know we 40 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 1: always say this, but I think we could do a 41 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:17,440 Speaker 1: whole episode because researching this, I found the nine seven 42 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:21,120 Speaker 1: cover of Battleship, the board game that depicts presumably a 43 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:24,680 Speaker 1: father and some just having a grand old time playing 44 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:28,840 Speaker 1: the game while in the background, you can see the 45 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 1: mother and daughter doing dishes, and they have these huge 46 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:37,680 Speaker 1: smiles on their faces as if like they're watching the 47 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:39,800 Speaker 1: father and son played the game, like oh look how 48 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:43,480 Speaker 1: much fun they're having, right, of course, and it's battleship, 49 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 1: so obviously if it's about war or any of those things, 50 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 1: it's gonna be men. I I definitely have a picture 51 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:50,959 Speaker 1: in my head too, of and I can't. I don't 52 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:53,360 Speaker 1: know if there's life but the old school games, where 53 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:56,120 Speaker 1: is this supposed to be the whole family for some reason? 54 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:59,000 Speaker 1: Typically the mother is behind either the father or the 55 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 1: son with her hands on their shoulders or serving them popcorns, 56 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:05,400 Speaker 1: like I'll remember this picture specifically, So it's supposed to 57 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:08,200 Speaker 1: like give you the feeling that's a family game night. 58 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 1: But yet she's still kind of on the outskirts of 59 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:13,200 Speaker 1: whether or not she plays a game. And I grew 60 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:15,560 Speaker 1: up in a family that did not play games, so 61 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:19,080 Speaker 1: a lot of my tales have me playing by myself. 62 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:22,520 Speaker 1: Don't start with me. But also the fact that my 63 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:24,680 Speaker 1: brother and I were very competitive and didn't get along 64 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:27,560 Speaker 1: so well. We were very like Vickery, So my father 65 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 1: would threatened to throw away these games or burn the game. 66 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:34,400 Speaker 1: So yeah, I got contentious. So family game that was 67 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:36,520 Speaker 1: not a thing for us. So maybe that's why I 68 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 1: saw those pictures on likal. That's so nice. I wish 69 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 1: my mother would sit with me and make me popcorn. 70 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:45,280 Speaker 1: I guess we loved our board games in our family, 71 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 1: but it reached a point where the dreaded video games 72 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:52,119 Speaker 1: like overtook so we really only played as I got 73 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 1: older if the power went out, And that was one 74 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:55,480 Speaker 1: of the reasons I actually really loved it when the 75 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:58,320 Speaker 1: power went out as a kid. Yeah, like you get 76 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:00,640 Speaker 1: those like candles out, you cook the over a fire, 77 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:02,800 Speaker 1: and we would play board games and I really really 78 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:04,960 Speaker 1: enjoyed it. You know what, I think I do have that. 79 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 1: So the big storm, it was it of ninety two, 80 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:10,640 Speaker 1: the winter storm when our power went out. We all 81 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:13,480 Speaker 1: had to be in my parents bedroom because it had 82 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 1: a fireplace so we can also enclose all of the 83 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 1: spaces and we would play card games. Yeah, that was 84 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:22,920 Speaker 1: a good memory for me. Yeah, I mean that's one 85 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:26,000 Speaker 1: thing kind of like what you were saying, Samantha, where 86 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:29,160 Speaker 1: you know the competitiveness, and then in my case, when 87 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:32,760 Speaker 1: we played board games with the entire family, we never 88 00:04:32,839 --> 00:04:37,360 Speaker 1: played my quote girly games never right, So we usually 89 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:40,120 Speaker 1: played like Monopoly, which I never want, even though I 90 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:46,280 Speaker 1: cheated multiple times. Are like guests who are are cheetah Monopoly. 91 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 1: That's the whole different story. But bank okay, I got you, 92 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:55,920 Speaker 1: know I got you. Now I know this. We will 93 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:58,760 Speaker 1: not you will never be the banker in this in 94 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:00,840 Speaker 1: any of the case, which, by the wait, So we 95 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:03,640 Speaker 1: actually played life because you know, I had been reminiscing 96 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:07,200 Speaker 1: about the old school game and the traditions of what 97 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 1: that game was. It's very heteronormative in every sense. And 98 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:14,479 Speaker 1: I remember, of course with any game, I think you 99 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:17,280 Speaker 1: have your own traditions, uh, and you make up you're 100 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 1: kind of your own things. And then when I played 101 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:22,040 Speaker 1: I've talked about this before, my sister would make us 102 00:05:22,279 --> 00:05:26,359 Speaker 1: name the husband, oh yeah, or the or this or 103 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 1: the wife, and of course it was again very heteronormative 104 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:31,760 Speaker 1: ideas I have named the kids and then all of 105 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:33,320 Speaker 1: these other things. So I was kind of trying to 106 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:36,480 Speaker 1: embarrass you into telling them your crush or whatever whatnot. 107 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 1: As well as this game is nonsensical in itself, the 108 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 1: whole you get twins, you don't get twins. You get 109 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:45,120 Speaker 1: money for this, you get a heritage, maybe you go 110 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:47,719 Speaker 1: to college. Maybe you don't like all those things. But 111 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:50,040 Speaker 1: you and I played, and you got really mad about this. 112 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:54,520 Speaker 1: But because of these bad things that happened to you 113 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:58,560 Speaker 1: in life quote quote unquote yes, yes, So Samantha and 114 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 1: I tried to We decided to revisit it because we 115 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:05,320 Speaker 1: were both curious. We played it as children, and we 116 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:08,760 Speaker 1: were curious if it was really sexist, like we remembered 117 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:12,960 Speaker 1: it was heteronormative, but we wanted to know, like is 118 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:15,839 Speaker 1: it super sexist and we're just not remembering that. But 119 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:19,039 Speaker 1: we played an updated version where you can get pets, 120 00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:23,920 Speaker 1: and so you can, you can, I can, but you 121 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:28,599 Speaker 1: have to yes. And I was infuriated that I had 122 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:31,599 Speaker 1: no choice but to get a pet, and not only 123 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:35,440 Speaker 1: that I had so many children, none of which I wanted, 124 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 1: by the way, that I had to buy a second card. 125 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:44,840 Speaker 1: I had like I had cars, carloads of children and 126 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:47,280 Speaker 1: a pet that I had to pay for, none of 127 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 1: which were wanted, other that I had a choice in. 128 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:51,360 Speaker 1: And I'm still I'm getting mad about it, as we 129 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:53,800 Speaker 1: may are. I love it. I think one of the 130 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 1: best parts that I gain was you have that route. 131 00:06:56,560 --> 00:06:58,800 Speaker 1: Do you want to start a family? Do you want 132 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:00,640 Speaker 1: to just advance in your career here? And you were 133 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:03,440 Speaker 1: like in the family, absolutely not, and you ended up 134 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:09,440 Speaker 1: having like eight kids, Like congrats. Yeah, I landed on 135 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:13,160 Speaker 1: pretty much every space where it's like, surprise you had 136 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:17,880 Speaker 1: rous You're like, first of all, I can't be surprised. 137 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:20,840 Speaker 1: Me and my wife did not plan for this. Yes, 138 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:22,800 Speaker 1: I also had a wife. I was trying to get 139 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:28,080 Speaker 1: outside of the heteronormative game play, so it was a 140 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:33,360 Speaker 1: real surprise. It was a surprise. Yes, Uh, I'd be 141 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:38,040 Speaker 1: interested to revisit it again, but I'm still mad about it, 142 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:40,080 Speaker 1: so I don't know. I do get really I also 143 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 1: get really competitive, and I was not happy about the 144 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:46,920 Speaker 1: whole thing. Perhaps in the future I did want to 145 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:49,160 Speaker 1: talk about I I learned a couple of things when 146 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:51,040 Speaker 1: I was researching this, because we're gonna be pretty brief 147 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 1: in our reviews, but I found that there's a game 148 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:56,640 Speaker 1: from nineteen seventy one called Sexism, where the goal was 149 00:07:56,680 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 1: to get out of the dollhouse um and move into 150 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:02,680 Speaker 1: the White House, and it was meant to be a 151 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:06,960 Speaker 1: really humorous look at the women's liberation movement. You would 152 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:10,000 Speaker 1: draw these personality cards that say things like go back 153 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:12,920 Speaker 1: two steps. Because you're a woman, you just as well 154 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:15,520 Speaker 1: get used to this, while a man might draw a 155 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:18,200 Speaker 1: card that says, I stauntily defend motherhood God in country. 156 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:21,400 Speaker 1: I'm against giving more money to a d C A 157 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:24,640 Speaker 1: two dependent children for each child. I'm against abortions. I'm 158 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:26,840 Speaker 1: against women earning as much as men. I'm against paying 159 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:29,560 Speaker 1: taxes for free child care centers. Go ahead, three steps? 160 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:35,000 Speaker 1: Um yeah. Yeah. The cards are really like cutting because 161 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:38,560 Speaker 1: of how much they still are relevant but funny, and 162 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:40,400 Speaker 1: you can find them online. It's hard to find a game, 163 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:43,480 Speaker 1: but you can still find pictures of the cards. And 164 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:47,200 Speaker 1: then on the opposite side of that. A couple of 165 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:51,120 Speaker 1: years ago, Kristen the past host and creator of the 166 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:53,520 Speaker 1: show and Now I'm Ladylike and I we made this 167 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:57,240 Speaker 1: video at MOTA, which is this modern art museum in Atlanta, 168 00:08:57,440 --> 00:08:59,680 Speaker 1: and it was about women in gaming, and it had 169 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:03,640 Speaker 1: this board game exhibit of sexist games, and there was 170 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:05,199 Speaker 1: one that really stuck out to me. It was from 171 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:07,880 Speaker 1: ninety six and it was called what Shall I Be? 172 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:12,280 Speaker 1: The Exciting Game of Career Girls, and the goal of 173 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:15,439 Speaker 1: the game was to be the first to become a 174 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:21,960 Speaker 1: career girl. The careers in question we're teacher, ballet dancer, model, actress, 175 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:25,920 Speaker 1: airline hostess, and nurse of course, of course, And you 176 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:28,800 Speaker 1: would draw these heart shaped cards that might say something 177 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:32,680 Speaker 1: like you are overweight, bad for airline hostess, ballet dance 178 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:37,439 Speaker 1: and model. Wow, that's a real card. O theres said 179 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:40,240 Speaker 1: things like you are pretty, you are emotional, you have 180 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:42,839 Speaker 1: a nice smile, your makeup is too sloppy, you are 181 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:45,760 Speaker 1: a slow thinker, which, by the way, was bad for 182 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:49,520 Speaker 1: airline hostess and nurse and nobody else. I guess, um, 183 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:54,439 Speaker 1: And you think you get too excited. You can find 184 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:56,400 Speaker 1: some of the cars for this online as well, if 185 00:09:56,440 --> 00:09:59,280 Speaker 1: you want to be offended and laugh. There was a 186 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:02,199 Speaker 1: second up they did addition, where you could be things 187 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:08,360 Speaker 1: like surgeon, jockey, astronaut, news commentator, theater director, and lawyer. 188 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:10,520 Speaker 1: I couldn't find any of the personality cards for that 189 00:10:10,559 --> 00:10:12,040 Speaker 1: one though, so I don't know if they were better. 190 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:16,000 Speaker 1: And then there was a boy's addition. The professions open 191 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:21,520 Speaker 1: to them were statesman, scientist, athlete, doctor, engineer, at astronauts, 192 00:10:21,559 --> 00:10:24,600 Speaker 1: so kind of different. Well, obviously only a man could 193 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:28,320 Speaker 1: be a scientist, a doctor. Recent engineer or an astronaut. 194 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:30,840 Speaker 1: I need to see their personality cards so badly, but 195 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:32,840 Speaker 1: I could not find them anywhere. But I can't imagine 196 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:36,520 Speaker 1: there's one that's like, you are overweight bad for Wow. 197 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:40,760 Speaker 1: Can you imagine just the eating disorders that were created 198 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:45,160 Speaker 1: from a game alone? I can't be this well, which 199 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:48,440 Speaker 1: we always hear anyways, it was part of the media anyway. 200 00:10:48,679 --> 00:10:51,600 Speaker 1: I saw a tweet just recently about how apparently the 201 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:54,760 Speaker 1: TikTok generation saying that they, you know, feel like social 202 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:57,440 Speaker 1: media and all that has made them really self conscious 203 00:10:57,480 --> 00:11:01,360 Speaker 1: and having like body dysmorphia and someone's which to yo 204 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:03,880 Speaker 1: were the millennials in the eighties. We all got out 205 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:07,400 Speaker 1: eating disorders from TV. It's not anything new, And not 206 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:09,960 Speaker 1: to say the pressure is not higher, but the less 207 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 1: level of acceptance of body image in this period of 208 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:17,199 Speaker 1: time so different. I mean, in a game about careers 209 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:19,920 Speaker 1: you could have that you're playing as a child, you 210 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:24,400 Speaker 1: can't have this career if you're chubby, And those are 211 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:27,360 Speaker 1: only your six options. So that's a third of your option, 212 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:32,000 Speaker 1: that's your options out rude, Yes, But okay, let's talk 213 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:36,000 Speaker 1: about some of our more personal experiences. And I'll start 214 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:41,720 Speaker 1: because I also have an embarrassing memory of playing a 215 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:45,319 Speaker 1: board game by myself. So when I was in middle school, 216 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:49,760 Speaker 1: unbeknownst to me, my mom had invited some of the 217 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:53,240 Speaker 1: popular girls over, like girls I would have never imagined 218 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:58,440 Speaker 1: would be entering my house over, and they walked in 219 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:03,559 Speaker 1: on me playing the board game Polly Pocket by myself. 220 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:07,320 Speaker 1: How did your mother an who the popular kids were, 221 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:10,600 Speaker 1: b had their number to invite them over. There's so 222 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:12,800 Speaker 1: many questions. My mother would not go to this level, 223 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:16,599 Speaker 1: so I'm very confused by this whole gesture. I was 224 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:19,600 Speaker 1: really confused to my mom was like she volunteered a 225 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:22,080 Speaker 1: lot at the elementary school. I'm not sure she knew 226 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:25,240 Speaker 1: they were popular so much as she just knew their 227 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:29,400 Speaker 1: moms and we were friends at one time. I was 228 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:32,520 Speaker 1: I think until third grade, I was really good friends 229 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:34,679 Speaker 1: with most of the popular girls. And then third grade 230 00:12:34,679 --> 00:12:37,240 Speaker 1: came and it was like weird to be friends with 231 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 1: a smart kid. Not that they weren't smart, but I 232 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:42,480 Speaker 1: was like the one that was like the kid really 233 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:44,960 Speaker 1: reading all the time and stuff like that. So they 234 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:49,439 Speaker 1: walked in on me playing it. I in my head 235 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:52,600 Speaker 1: I'd handled it really well, and I told them I 236 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:55,480 Speaker 1: was trying to learn the rules before I played it 237 00:12:55,520 --> 00:12:59,640 Speaker 1: with somebody there. I'm not sure that they believed it, 238 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:02,079 Speaker 1: and untill high school they would they would bring it up. 239 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:07,640 Speaker 1: And it's especially ironic because the aim of this game 240 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:10,199 Speaker 1: is to buy presents for your friends and stuff and 241 00:13:10,240 --> 00:13:16,360 Speaker 1: get invited to things. Yes, the game play is basically 242 00:13:16,679 --> 00:13:19,880 Speaker 1: it's really simple. You roll and move and you are 243 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:22,520 Speaker 1: trying to get these invitations to a birthday party. There 244 00:13:22,559 --> 00:13:25,679 Speaker 1: are four possible invitations. Once you've got an invitation, you 245 00:13:25,679 --> 00:13:28,200 Speaker 1: had to go buy a gift delivered to the party, 246 00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:31,480 Speaker 1: and you get a balloon for your efforts. You'd attached 247 00:13:31,559 --> 00:13:34,600 Speaker 1: that to your car figuring, and then the first person 248 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:37,160 Speaker 1: who gets all four balloons and gets home first wins. 249 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:42,400 Speaker 1: There were four exclusive Pollypocket characters included. I'm pretty sure 250 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:45,160 Speaker 1: that's why I wanted it. It was very pretty and colorful. 251 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:47,080 Speaker 1: I don't think I ever played it with another soul, 252 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:50,319 Speaker 1: which is again quite funny, but I mean the message 253 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:54,040 Speaker 1: of that game is pretty much like be popular? Are you? 254 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:58,720 Speaker 1: The commercials I do remember of Polypockets, you're supposed to 255 00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:01,080 Speaker 1: have collections of them. They come with different sets of 256 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:04,439 Speaker 1: things I remember correctly, And it's always to have a party, right, 257 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:06,960 Speaker 1: They always end up having a party at someone's whatever 258 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:10,079 Speaker 1: pocket house it is, So I would guess the game 259 00:14:10,080 --> 00:14:13,080 Speaker 1: would be similar to that. And when I was researching this, 260 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:15,960 Speaker 1: I did come across several games where it seems like 261 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:20,120 Speaker 1: popularity was how you won you had really popular in 262 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:25,600 Speaker 1: school or something. Yeah, obviously. Yeah. So one of my 263 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:27,880 Speaker 1: favorite memories one of my favorite games growing up with 264 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:31,160 Speaker 1: Mall Madness, which apparently still around and as in fact, 265 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:32,960 Speaker 1: I think it was like the second or third edition 266 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:37,840 Speaker 1: finally had a male picture included on the cover. So 267 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:40,120 Speaker 1: typically it was all just these girls just looking really 268 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:44,040 Speaker 1: happy talking about going shopping, and I really liked it. 269 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:46,400 Speaker 1: I got my brother to play with me one time 270 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:49,480 Speaker 1: because he loved the effect of putting the credit card 271 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:52,200 Speaker 1: and it talks to you. You put it into the 272 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:55,440 Speaker 1: little machine and it says charge it you bought the 273 00:14:55,520 --> 00:14:59,080 Speaker 1: blah blah blah. So the game is set up like 274 00:14:59,160 --> 00:15:02,240 Speaker 1: it is a two story mall and you go into 275 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:05,360 Speaker 1: these different stores. I think it's a pretty popular game people. 276 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:08,080 Speaker 1: Well back then, it was one of the few games 277 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:10,080 Speaker 1: that I actually owned, because I didn't own a lot 278 00:15:10,120 --> 00:15:12,760 Speaker 1: of games. Typically I would go play all of these 279 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:16,120 Speaker 1: really girly games with my friends. So this is one 280 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:18,080 Speaker 1: that I actually did own. I did get play to 281 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:19,320 Speaker 1: people to play with me, Like I said, I got 282 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:21,480 Speaker 1: my brother to actually play with me once. But this 283 00:15:21,520 --> 00:15:23,920 Speaker 1: is also one of the games I played by myself 284 00:15:25,040 --> 00:15:29,560 Speaker 1: a lot. So there's that we're coming out in terms 285 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:31,320 Speaker 1: of that real like, you know, what if you got 286 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:34,760 Speaker 1: to play a game by yourself, why not? But there 287 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:37,000 Speaker 1: are very like a lot of stores in here, and 288 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:38,560 Speaker 1: I just wanted to name a few of the stores 289 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:40,680 Speaker 1: that you could go to. It's pretty funny. It's like 290 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:45,240 Speaker 1: I am the initials coughing drug store, cork it over 291 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:49,480 Speaker 1: kitchen store, Made in the Shade sunglasses, which I was like, yeah, 292 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:53,760 Speaker 1: two left feet shoes, suits me fine men's shop from 293 00:15:53,760 --> 00:15:56,400 Speaker 1: the fashion boutique. So like you could go on and 294 00:15:56,440 --> 00:15:59,000 Speaker 1: there's definitely a lot more stores in there. And the 295 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:01,120 Speaker 1: whole objective of the game is you have to be 296 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:03,760 Speaker 1: the first person to get all six items, and I 297 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:06,840 Speaker 1: forgot this part. I just remember the machine honestly all 298 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:09,560 Speaker 1: six items on their list and make it to their 299 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:13,320 Speaker 1: respective parking spots, which is the or a final destination. 300 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:16,080 Speaker 1: Apparently I don't know that might be a version of that, 301 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:19,280 Speaker 1: and whoever gets to all of this done wins, And 302 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:22,280 Speaker 1: I just remember, like, wow, this is such a very 303 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:27,000 Speaker 1: capitalistic Yeah. Also, the idea of having a credit card 304 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:30,920 Speaker 1: was such a novel um rich person idea that it 305 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:35,880 Speaker 1: was hilarious. Also, you may have an exotic parrot as 306 00:16:35,920 --> 00:16:37,720 Speaker 1: one of your things to buy on the list, just 307 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:40,920 Speaker 1: so you know. And this is one of those games. 308 00:16:40,920 --> 00:16:43,080 Speaker 1: That's where I take a hundred and fifty dollars now 309 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:46,200 Speaker 1: if you have it in good shape. Yeah, of course, 310 00:16:46,280 --> 00:16:48,480 Speaker 1: like I said, there's still newer editions, but the old 311 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:51,640 Speaker 1: school vintage. And I guess since it was in nineteen 312 00:16:52,320 --> 00:17:03,280 Speaker 1: nine nine, it's thirty years old. Yeah wow wow. So okay, uh, 313 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:05,679 Speaker 1: there was already math involved with this credit card, so 314 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:07,920 Speaker 1: you did have to have cash, so they gave you 315 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:09,720 Speaker 1: a hundred and fifty at the beginning of it. You 316 00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:11,440 Speaker 1: do have a banker, which you will never be able. 317 00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:13,879 Speaker 1: You will never be the banker. So you have to 318 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:15,679 Speaker 1: be able to pay off your credit card and you 319 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:18,600 Speaker 1: have to go the ANTM and you do get declined. 320 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:23,600 Speaker 1: We'll get declined. Oh no, yeah, Well that's I mean, 321 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:26,000 Speaker 1: that's interesting because that I mean, a message from that 322 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:28,639 Speaker 1: would be that women are kind of shopoholics, and this 323 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:34,040 Speaker 1: is important INLD where we belong. They win is they 324 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:38,760 Speaker 1: can buy these things yea clearance, typically on clearance, like 325 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:42,000 Speaker 1: you have to. They love doing the little like throughout 326 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:43,720 Speaker 1: they'll tell you if the store has a clearance, So 327 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:46,080 Speaker 1: you're trying to get to that store to get your 328 00:17:46,119 --> 00:17:49,880 Speaker 1: object first. Oh yeah, okay. Also, that's a place called 329 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:54,800 Speaker 1: aunt Chby's Pizza Aunt Chovies. I gotta look at pictures 330 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:58,200 Speaker 1: of this, I really do. Um. Well, the next entry 331 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:01,080 Speaker 1: on my list is quite short because apparently no one 332 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:03,600 Speaker 1: knows about it but me. I have no idea, but 333 00:18:03,760 --> 00:18:09,520 Speaker 1: this Barbie Butterfly Princess. This might be the least popular 334 00:18:09,560 --> 00:18:14,080 Speaker 1: of many Barbie based board games because I couldn't find it, 335 00:18:14,119 --> 00:18:16,160 Speaker 1: and all these other board games were coming up, including 336 00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:20,400 Speaker 1: a nineteen sixty Queen of prom Barbie game, um, which 337 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:23,080 Speaker 1: I'm really intrigued about now, where apparently to win you 338 00:18:23,080 --> 00:18:26,280 Speaker 1: have to have a steady boyfriend. Oh that's the game 339 00:18:26,359 --> 00:18:30,760 Speaker 1: throughout a lot of these games. Oh no, um, so no, 340 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:33,720 Speaker 1: this this game was a game where the goal was 341 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:37,639 Speaker 1: to collect three butterflies to win. There was this wand 342 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:40,320 Speaker 1: spinner that when you spun it. It made the wings 343 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:45,040 Speaker 1: of the butterflies flutter, and it came with four Barbie figures, 344 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:47,720 Speaker 1: and you could also wear the butterflies rings. I know 345 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:50,120 Speaker 1: it's kind of hard to visualize, but there are magnets 346 00:18:50,119 --> 00:18:54,280 Speaker 1: in the wand in the butterfly wings and you would 347 00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:55,800 Speaker 1: just put them in the garden, but you would pull 348 00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:57,679 Speaker 1: them out and they were rings. And that's why I 349 00:18:57,680 --> 00:19:00,879 Speaker 1: wanted it, I think because of the toys and the rings. Um, 350 00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:02,919 Speaker 1: so it seems like I just wanted tories. Again. I 351 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:05,320 Speaker 1: don't think anyone in my life ever played that with me, 352 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:07,400 Speaker 1: but I would just spin it and be like, oh, 353 00:19:07,440 --> 00:19:12,119 Speaker 1: pretty pretty. Yeah, So that's it for that one. I 354 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:17,879 Speaker 1: guess it was teaching me, like if you still I 355 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:21,080 Speaker 1: have both of these still, okay, Just as a reminder, 356 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:23,800 Speaker 1: I feel like we need to find that game and 357 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:26,480 Speaker 1: this game that I'm talking about, which is Girl Talk, 358 00:19:26,720 --> 00:19:29,440 Speaker 1: which is a series of games, and I think many 359 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:32,960 Speaker 1: people will remember this actually was created by Catherine Rondo, 360 00:19:33,359 --> 00:19:36,880 Speaker 1: so it was created by a woman in the early nineties. However, 361 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,879 Speaker 1: there are three specific renditions that I'm thinking of, and 362 00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:42,040 Speaker 1: I've played all three of them. These are the games 363 00:19:42,040 --> 00:19:45,159 Speaker 1: that I've never owned myself, but my friends had and 364 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:47,480 Speaker 1: so especially one friend that I had that I would 365 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:50,120 Speaker 1: spend pretty much the entire summer with her and then 366 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:53,359 Speaker 1: like we would play these games. So the first edition was, 367 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:55,800 Speaker 1: of course the Truth or Dare, which is the original 368 00:19:55,920 --> 00:19:57,760 Speaker 1: is exactly what you think it is. It is a 369 00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:02,800 Speaker 1: Truth or Dare. So it's all these things and the 370 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:07,719 Speaker 1: commercial go check out this commercial because it's quite hilarious. 371 00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:10,240 Speaker 1: You have all of these girls sitting and talking about it, 372 00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:13,760 Speaker 1: but in between the clips of them taking turns doing things, 373 00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:17,639 Speaker 1: you have a guy stepping in and talking about these girls, 374 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:19,760 Speaker 1: like once that's so and so doesn't kiss and tell? 375 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:21,480 Speaker 1: And then she really, you know, that's part of the 376 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:24,040 Speaker 1: truth about your first kiss. And then some of the 377 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:28,280 Speaker 1: just like so is those not silly like other girls 378 00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:31,679 Speaker 1: just like this, and before she does whatever the dare is, 379 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:34,440 Speaker 1: and then another one it's like so and so is sophisticated. 380 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:36,719 Speaker 1: By the way, we're talking about middle school girls here, 381 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:39,280 Speaker 1: by the way, So this is quite hilarious. So these 382 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:43,320 Speaker 1: commercials are just even better because they're definitely got the 383 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:46,760 Speaker 1: wonderful eighties here, do you know, the winds, the girls, 384 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:51,199 Speaker 1: the bangs, everything, and uh so the whole point of 385 00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:53,840 Speaker 1: the game is you have to win all of these 386 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:56,720 Speaker 1: random points from getting random cards by doing all of 387 00:20:56,760 --> 00:20:59,919 Speaker 1: these different things, and if you refuse to do something, 388 00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:02,760 Speaker 1: you have to put a ZiT sticker on your face. 389 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:05,720 Speaker 1: So it's just literally a red dut sticker that you 390 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:08,480 Speaker 1: put on your face to show that you refuse to 391 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:11,040 Speaker 1: do it. And the person who wins, of course, so 392 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:14,320 Speaker 1: you have to collect. At the beginning, you get a 393 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:17,159 Speaker 1: top secret fortune card that you can't show anybody from 394 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:20,119 Speaker 1: each of the categories, and according to one of the instructions, 395 00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:22,560 Speaker 1: you get an extra treat if you win. As a winner, 396 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:24,960 Speaker 1: you get the chance to take a fantasy trip into 397 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:28,160 Speaker 1: a future and reach a special girl talk future and 398 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:32,320 Speaker 1: one of the uh one of them, it literally is 399 00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:35,280 Speaker 1: like a fortune cookie. This is one from the child category. 400 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:37,959 Speaker 1: It says you will give birth to an identical twins 401 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:41,359 Speaker 1: five days after your twenty third birthday, so that's one. 402 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:44,880 Speaker 1: Um one of the other other marriage ones, you will 403 00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:48,160 Speaker 1: marry a man with the same initials as your favorite uncle. 404 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:53,640 Speaker 1: Oh god, it is a very freaking specific. So it's 405 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:58,840 Speaker 1: kind of like you're kind of like, wait, I wonder 406 00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:01,800 Speaker 1: and I really wish I to remember any of these 407 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:03,840 Speaker 1: sportsnes and that I would have had to see if 408 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:05,199 Speaker 1: any of these came to Of course, we've got that 409 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:07,720 Speaker 1: twenty three year old thing and I'm like, you a liar. 410 00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:10,679 Speaker 1: You're a real big liar. And then you have the 411 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:14,239 Speaker 1: dateline version, which this commercial is just as bad, and 412 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:18,440 Speaker 1: it is stereotype of a stereotype of a stereotype. Essentially, 413 00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:23,480 Speaker 1: you have people, uh, I mean, we got a Brad 414 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:27,679 Speaker 1: who apparently one of his likes maybe something along the 415 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:31,000 Speaker 1: lines of doesn't like double dates but love soccer. Like 416 00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:34,600 Speaker 1: all of these random things. You also had the Nerd. 417 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:38,720 Speaker 1: They were titled the Nerd, the Hunk, the jock, and 418 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:40,520 Speaker 1: you had to pair them with the right people and 419 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:42,800 Speaker 1: you would put like the two pictures of the people 420 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:46,560 Speaker 1: and see if their match. It was hilarious. I also 421 00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:51,359 Speaker 1: have Secret Diary, and I'm not I can't quite remember 422 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:55,440 Speaker 1: everything from Secret Diaries. I do remember. So you get 423 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:59,400 Speaker 1: a book. Do you remember those friends Only book did 424 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:03,399 Speaker 1: you ever have growing up? It's like Hello, Kitty, Friends 425 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:05,840 Speaker 1: Forever book and friends Only book and it would be 426 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:08,359 Speaker 1: like questions you're supposed to write. I have some I 427 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:10,480 Speaker 1: need to find them as stickers in there. All of 428 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:12,280 Speaker 1: these things and your questions about you write about your 429 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:14,600 Speaker 1: own future, and then you write you ask your friends 430 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:18,000 Speaker 1: to fill out pages. Well, it's similar to that you 431 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:20,000 Speaker 1: have an entry in a journal in a book and 432 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:23,040 Speaker 1: it tells you. So one example, Peter took me on 433 00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:25,800 Speaker 1: a bike ride to the pool. He was so embarrassed 434 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:27,560 Speaker 1: when his chain fell off. I put it on for 435 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:30,359 Speaker 1: him in only two minutes. But the question is, and 436 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:32,320 Speaker 1: you have to answer this, is are you afraid of 437 00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:38,399 Speaker 1: showing up a guy? Yeah? Yeah, so it's kind of 438 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:41,800 Speaker 1: like all of these super you're not supposed to be 439 00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:45,360 Speaker 1: that strong Girlly had to get a boyfriend type of conversation. 440 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:49,399 Speaker 1: And I can't remember the objective of this game. I 441 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:52,639 Speaker 1: just remember going through and writing all these confidential things 442 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:57,199 Speaker 1: that made no sense to me obviously then, but I 443 00:23:57,240 --> 00:23:59,200 Speaker 1: just thought it was hilarious. Yeah. I'm trying to figure 444 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:00,960 Speaker 1: out how you would win this one. I guess it 445 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:04,399 Speaker 1: would be you get the dude in the end. The 446 00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:07,880 Speaker 1: detail for this game says the game of sharing secrets 447 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:14,000 Speaker 1: and surprises. Yeah. I don't like that at all, you know, 448 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:19,520 Speaker 1: like nervous as you should. I feel like these games 449 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:22,480 Speaker 1: and I really would like to replay some of those 450 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:25,480 Speaker 1: just for the memories and being so fascinated because also 451 00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:27,920 Speaker 1: these were all rich kid games to me, so as 452 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:30,040 Speaker 1: a person who did not have these games a I 453 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:32,879 Speaker 1: only had a brother. Again, I played by myself often. 454 00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:35,240 Speaker 1: These were not the games that I would get, and 455 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:37,360 Speaker 1: they were really expensive, if I remember, I would say, 456 00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:40,639 Speaker 1: they like thirty bucks a pop and back then holy crap. 457 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:44,520 Speaker 1: And I just I was like, oh, yeah, I want 458 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:46,400 Speaker 1: to fin in be cool with my girls, and this 459 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:48,720 Speaker 1: is what we would do trying to figure out who 460 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:51,200 Speaker 1: likes us. And I remember going through these cards because oh, 461 00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:53,359 Speaker 1: you have to go through the calendar, that's what it is. 462 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:55,480 Speaker 1: You have to collect all of these boys from each 463 00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:59,320 Speaker 1: calendar date or months, um and get all twelve I think. 464 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:01,800 Speaker 1: And I remember we would go through these cards and 465 00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:03,399 Speaker 1: pick and choose who we would date and who we 466 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:06,880 Speaker 1: wouldn't date, who was our type, and then make fun 467 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:11,439 Speaker 1: of the other if we didn't like their choices. Obviously obviously, 468 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:14,159 Speaker 1: but speaking of the boyfriend's thing that you were talking about, 469 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:17,120 Speaker 1: just a kind of like honorable mentions of the game 470 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:20,240 Speaker 1: Sweet Valley High, which I did find as well. It's 471 00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:22,280 Speaker 1: also worth a pretty good amount of money and it's 472 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:25,080 Speaker 1: based on the book series. I don't know if you've 473 00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:27,200 Speaker 1: ever played it, but the whole objective of this game 474 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:29,119 Speaker 1: is to find their three items. So you had to 475 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:31,440 Speaker 1: get something from the locker, something that has something to 476 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:35,359 Speaker 1: do with their personality, something else, get a chaperone, and 477 00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:40,400 Speaker 1: your correct boyfriend. And it's kind of like memory plus 478 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:43,480 Speaker 1: teenage angst, Like you just have all these things. And 479 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:46,080 Speaker 1: I just remember my mother would not let me read 480 00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:48,760 Speaker 1: Sweet Valley High when I was younger because it was 481 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:54,200 Speaker 1: too risque. They had boyfriends and made out and skipped school. 482 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:58,600 Speaker 1: Oh and yes, I played this one by myself, but 483 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:01,840 Speaker 1: there's a chaperone. No, that's what I thought too, because 484 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:04,560 Speaker 1: in The Babysitters Club, which is also a game, it 485 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:06,800 Speaker 1: was like what would you do? Plus a truth or 486 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:09,399 Speaker 1: dare You had to find your boyfriend and that one too, 487 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:13,840 Speaker 1: I think. But they also had cards that you had 488 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:16,160 Speaker 1: to answer questions off and you would roll the die 489 00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:18,160 Speaker 1: and it could be something else, them as what would 490 00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:20,680 Speaker 1: you do? So, pretend that you're trolling a baton while 491 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:22,600 Speaker 1: leading a marching band, so you have to do that 492 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:26,400 Speaker 1: to get this card. You have to answer specific questions 493 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:29,520 Speaker 1: about the show or a book. So you have to know. 494 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:32,560 Speaker 1: And there are like hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of books, 495 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:36,520 Speaker 1: so you better be a die hard fan. And then 496 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:39,000 Speaker 1: another one is this the kids your babysitting you want 497 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,280 Speaker 1: to play Marching Band, but they don't have any instruments. 498 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:45,120 Speaker 1: What do you give them to use? Oh, yeah, this 499 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:47,119 Speaker 1: is how you play the game. I guess it's a 500 00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:49,680 Speaker 1: little better than the other ones where it's just find 501 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:52,080 Speaker 1: your boyfriend and see if they'll date you. Yeah, this 502 00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:55,080 Speaker 1: is really interesting. I don't think I've ever played games 503 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:58,919 Speaker 1: like that, so it's been interesting hearing about this. And 504 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:03,199 Speaker 1: it is also, oh yeah, pretty not great message to 505 00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:06,560 Speaker 1: send two young girls on top of like all the 506 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:09,560 Speaker 1: movies they're watching at that age a lot of times, 507 00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:13,080 Speaker 1: which is changing. But yeah, if it's like your goal 508 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:16,960 Speaker 1: in life is to find the perfect match and then 509 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:19,959 Speaker 1: you've won and that's it, and hope they don't reject you, 510 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,520 Speaker 1: because they can reject you on the games, gosh, oh 511 00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:26,840 Speaker 1: my gosh, and then you'll be happily washing dishes in 512 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:30,480 Speaker 1: the background while they play board games without you. A 513 00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:33,800 Speaker 1: little more competitive thought provoking about to say these aren't 514 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:37,280 Speaker 1: thought provoking, because I mean questions about you know, while 515 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:39,840 Speaker 1: your babysitting truck Fibers delivered twelve live chickens to the 516 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:44,560 Speaker 1: front door. He won't take them back. What do you do? Well, now, 517 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:47,000 Speaker 1: I'm going to be thinking about that all day. What 518 00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:50,080 Speaker 1: would I do wild chickens showed up at my house 519 00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:54,560 Speaker 1: whiles babysitting the twelve? Yeah, and I would be I 520 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:58,879 Speaker 1: would have questions, why are they? That's a great question. Yeah. 521 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:01,000 Speaker 1: I hope we can hut of these down and maybe 522 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:02,960 Speaker 1: play them. I didn't want to shut out. I know 523 00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:04,399 Speaker 1: we didn't talk about it, but I've talked to my 524 00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:06,920 Speaker 1: mom before about the dating game. She played that as 525 00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:10,399 Speaker 1: a child, and I remember her telling me about it. 526 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:12,720 Speaker 1: I think I was in high school or maybe college, 527 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:19,520 Speaker 1: and I was looking at her like what I want 528 00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:22,080 Speaker 1: to say? My sister may have had a version of that, 529 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:24,399 Speaker 1: because it seems so familiar that I feel like I 530 00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:27,800 Speaker 1: may have actually played that with my sister not knowing 531 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:32,800 Speaker 1: what was happening. It was pretty popular, so highly likely 532 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:39,760 Speaker 1: or at least somewhat likely likely. Yeah, well, listeners, if 533 00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:44,520 Speaker 1: we miss any games, this has really been a blast, Lane. Yes, yes, 534 00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:47,520 Speaker 1: we would love to talk about them. Please send those 535 00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:52,560 Speaker 1: any pictures or some games from your past. You can 536 00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:55,040 Speaker 1: email those two us at Stuff Media, mom Stuff at 537 00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:56,840 Speaker 1: I Hurt Me and dot com. You can find us 538 00:28:56,840 --> 00:28:58,880 Speaker 1: on Twitter at mom Stuff podcast or on Instagram at 539 00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:01,000 Speaker 1: Stuff I've Never Told You. Thanks as always to our 540 00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:04,920 Speaker 1: super producer Christina. Thank you, Christina, and thanks to you 541 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:07,520 Speaker 1: for listening. 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