Speaker 1: Hey, guys, Welcome to Tommy Talk, and today's topic is
Speaker 1: why we need to have a summer like the nineties.
Speaker 1: All right, y'all, if you keep up with trends, you
Speaker 1: probably know the nineties vibes have been brought back by
Speaker 1: younger generations, which I don't hate. I don't hate it.
Speaker 1: I think everybody's craving simpler times in nostalgia and love story,
Speaker 1: which was that Ryan Murphy show, which was just brilliant.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I was addicted to that show. It
Speaker 1: really made people want to either explore what the nineties
Speaker 1: culture was like or revisit the nineties because we were
Speaker 1: looking at all the fashion and the music and I
Speaker 1: don't know, just the innocence of a time period that
Speaker 1: you don't quite feel we have in this day and age.
Speaker 1: And I think there's many reasons why, but we're all
Speaker 1: kind of craving it, even generations that didn't grow up
Speaker 1: in the nineties or experience that are like I want
Speaker 1: to recreate that, which is so so cool. So I
Speaker 1: decided we need to have a summer like the nineties.
Speaker 1: And I think it's because a lot of people are
Speaker 1: isolated more and more because of screen time. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'll say it until I have no voice. It's definitely
Speaker 1: something that makes us feel like we're losing that connection
Speaker 1: and innocence. It does. It causes loneliness and sadness and
Speaker 1: everything that the summer should not be. Okay, summer to
Speaker 1: me is coming together. It's making memories when the weather's
Speaker 1: gorgeous out and your kids are off of school, and
Speaker 1: your friends maybe have summer Fridays, which means more time
Speaker 1: to make those memories. So we really need to be
Speaker 1: enjoying this season. And all I'm saying is we need
Speaker 1: to have a ninety summer because of all these reasons.
Speaker 1: I returned to simpler times, but also, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: really really fun times. Oh my god, now I'm just
Speaker 1: kind of eighty ding and I'm remembering using disposable cameras
Speaker 1: and oh I love that, developing my film and spending
Speaker 1: the afternoon at my local public pool. I can smell
Speaker 1: the chlorine because there was so much in it, probably
Speaker 1: because everybody was being in it, but I remember the
Speaker 1: smell of that chlorine and having like a clogged deer
Speaker 1: after swimming all day and getting the Italian ice down
Speaker 1: the little hill. You know. Oh, it just makes you smile.
Speaker 1: I remember riding my bike until the street lights turned on.
Speaker 1: I mean, these were core core memories. Fireflies Remember fireflies?
Speaker 1: Do they still exist or were the only thing when
Speaker 1: we were growing up? I remember trying to catch fireflies. Ah,
Speaker 1: such innocence, such a good time. But anyway, I'm digressing.
Speaker 1: Here is how we can have a ninety summer, because
Speaker 1: this is what we really need to get into. And
Speaker 1: I think they're very easy, simple ways for us to
Speaker 1: bring back such fun time. So number one and I
Speaker 1: gotta get it out of the way. We need to
Speaker 1: trade screen time. We need to trade a screen time
Speaker 1: for outdoor time. It's the most important, y'all. I know,
Speaker 1: don't hate me because you love your phone. But let's
Speaker 1: make it in a nineties way. Right, Let's rollerblade around
Speaker 1: your neighborhood or in your favorite park. Remember how much
Speaker 1: fun that was? Oh my god, I loved it. I
Speaker 1: rather do that than scroll on a gorgeous day. I
Speaker 1: want to be in nature, I really really do. I
Speaker 1: think it's important to revisit some old favorites and introduce
Speaker 1: your kids and friends to it, right, Like skip it?
Speaker 1: Remember skip it? I loved it? Oh my god, you
Speaker 1: know what. I loved a pogo stick. I died for
Speaker 1: a pogo stick. It was so epic. And on a
Speaker 1: really hot day, why not break out in oscillating sprinkle?
Speaker 1: Are you know one of those that moves back and
Speaker 1: forth and kind of shoots water all over or set
Speaker 1: up a slip in slide? Do you remember slip and slide?
Speaker 1: Those were so much fun. Put it right on your lawn,
Speaker 1: cool off during a heat wave. I mentioned biking, like
Speaker 1: bike all around. Use things like sidewalk chalk. I still
Speaker 1: see it actually here in New York, Like a lot
Speaker 1: of schools will go outside in front of their school
Speaker 1: and use sidewalk chalk, and it makes me smile thinking
Speaker 1: of growing up using it. I had so much fun
Speaker 1: with that, and I would do it for hours, and
Speaker 1: it's a way to stay outside and really connect with
Speaker 1: nature and put the phone down, which I think is
Speaker 1: so important, and make hopscotch. I loved to goet hopscotch board.
Speaker 1: I loved a water balloon fight outside, absolutely loved it
Speaker 1: camping in the backyard. I mean like, I would do
Speaker 1: it for like two hours, maybe make some watch a movie,
Speaker 1: and then I'm not sleeping outside. But if that's your thing,
Speaker 1: go for it, Like maybe I should. That might be
Speaker 1: a very grounding thing, but like, go put it up
Speaker 1: a tent in your backyard, Like how fun is that?
Speaker 1: A block party? Coordinating with your neighbors, Like for all
Speaker 1: my suburban folks, that's always fun. And I mean, you've
Speaker 1: got to find that ice cream truck, Like what are
Speaker 1: you doing if you're not getting an ice cream bar?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I loved the strawberry shortcake ice cream bar.
Speaker 1: Do you remember that? It was so good? I would
Speaker 1: either do that or a chip witch, which oh I loved.
Speaker 1: I loved so much. I don't want to know what
Speaker 1: the ingredients are, but it was so good. So anyway,
Speaker 1: this first category is going outside and putting the phone
Speaker 1: down number one, first and foremost. Now on the hot
Speaker 1: days or when you're ready for a little inside fun,
Speaker 1: you can still swap out that screen time for a
Speaker 1: lot of different things. Okay, dust off your old Sega
Speaker 1: or Super Nintendo or Nintendo and have some game time.
Speaker 1: It's so bonding. It encourages community. I just visited my
Speaker 1: nephew and and they have a Mario Kart, a new
Speaker 1: updated Mario Kart, which took me a minute to get
Speaker 1: used to. But I had so much fun. I could
Speaker 1: have played that literally for hours with my nephew. It
Speaker 1: brought me right back and he was so good. And
Speaker 1: it's just fun to do it with friends or people
Speaker 1: you love. It lets you escape to a different world,
Speaker 1: which I think is so much fun. Or you can
Speaker 1: have a movie night with some of your favorite rom
Speaker 1: coms or nineties or early two thousands movies, and if
Speaker 1: you really want to be on theme, find it the
Speaker 1: VHS tape or okay, maybe a DVD if you want
Speaker 1: to be a little more modern and watch it old school.
Speaker 1: It's it's pretty cool. Gen Z's getting into those again,
Speaker 1: believe it or not. How much fun is that for
Speaker 1: feeling like we're back in the nineties and companies are
Speaker 1: making like you know, old school radios and DVD players
Speaker 1: and TVs again with VHS like it's all coming back,
Speaker 1: which is so cool. Also, if you're indoors, play those
Speaker 1: favorite board games and crafts. Remember making friendship bracelets growing up.
Speaker 1: I know Taylor Swift and the Swifties kind of reclaimed that,
Speaker 1: but that was a thing like growing up with string
Speaker 1: and b It was like a thing we did. Or
Speaker 1: playing games like Clue or Risk, Monopoly? Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I love Jenga? What else? Did I love? Hungry? Hungry? Hippo?
Speaker 1: Mouse Trap, dream Phone? Guess who? Like all those? There's
Speaker 1: so many good games. Even a good old old fashioned
Speaker 1: trivia night is so much fun. I just did that
Speaker 1: in Italy with my family and it was a blast.
Speaker 1: And let's see what else can you do in a
Speaker 1: heat wave indoors? Oh, of course, go to the mall.
Speaker 1: Go to the mall if you haven't been in a while,
Speaker 1: make a day of it. Malls are gaining a lot
Speaker 1: of popularity again thanks to gen Z as well. So
Speaker 1: go in and go to a movie theater if they
Speaker 1: have a movie theater, especially on a rainy day. I
Speaker 1: love a movie theater in the summer. There's something about
Speaker 1: the real, crisp cold air conditioning and being in a
Speaker 1: dark space in a heat wave. I don't know, just
Speaker 1: a movie in the summer. To me, I think I
Speaker 1: watched the most movies in a theater in the summer.
Speaker 1: There's something about it. I love, probably because it makes
Speaker 1: me feel like a kid again, going to see a
Speaker 1: movie in my local theater on a hot summer day. Okay,
Speaker 1: what else we do? We did indoor fun, we did
Speaker 1: outdoor fun. How to have a ninety summer Have a sleepover,
Speaker 1: even if you're in different rooms and you're an adult
Speaker 1: and a friend comes, it's just fun. Like have your
Speaker 1: best friend visit, stay up all night and invite them
Speaker 1: in instead of a hotel, like lay around eating delicious
Speaker 1: food and laughing and gossiping and catching up. It's the best.
Speaker 1: It's so nineties. It's so innocent and fun. My cousin Joey,
Speaker 1: lives in Toronto and I literally count down and crave
Speaker 1: the days when he can come stay with me in
Speaker 1: New York City. I pull out our couch. It's in
Speaker 1: a queen size bed. I set it up for him,
Speaker 1: and it's just so fun to like watch movies and
Speaker 1: eat food and which usually is Tai food. And yes,
Speaker 1: we'll go out and about and do stuff, but like,
Speaker 1: I love our time indoor together. It's just so much fun.
Speaker 1: What else, Oh, a polaroid camera, guys, or a disposable
Speaker 1: camera and take pics all summer if you buy one
Speaker 1: of those are not expensive, take your pictures and at
Speaker 1: the end of summer you can develop it all and
Speaker 1: put everything in a photo book and be surprised at
Speaker 1: what you took. It's kind of like the anti instant
Speaker 1: gratification of taking a picture on your phone. And yes,
Speaker 1: you can still do that, but if you want to
Speaker 1: have some fun or just have something to look forward
Speaker 1: to at the end of your summer, it might be
Speaker 1: really cool to buy one of those and then do
Speaker 1: it at the end and reminiscent reflect on all your memories.
Speaker 1: It's a little bit more of that, like like anticipation
Speaker 1: of what's to come, which I think is a really
Speaker 1: cool feeling, and we don't always feel that anymore. We
Speaker 1: just don't. It's it's something I really want to do.
Speaker 1: I'm I just got really really inspired to do that.
Speaker 1: I think that's a neat thing, especially if you're traveling,
Speaker 1: to take a disposable camera with you and see what
Speaker 1: you get at the end of the trip or the
Speaker 1: end of your summer. So how to have a ninety summer?
Speaker 1: These are always to enjoy it. I think it's fun
Speaker 1: to get the family involved, get your kids involved, get
Speaker 1: your friends involved, and again, at the core, it's all
Speaker 1: about connection and going back to simpler times. And I
Speaker 1: wanted to make this episode because I'm constantly craving that,
Speaker 1: and I'm constantly trying to remind myself a waste to
Speaker 1: stay grounded and present and enjoy the moments more with
Speaker 1: about worrying about everything else around me, And these are
Speaker 1: great ways to do that. These are really great ways.
Speaker 1: I also think that it brings a lot of joy
Speaker 1: when you can create memories, like summer doesn't always have
Speaker 1: to be about booking expensive trips and traveling across the world.
Speaker 1: That's that's not what it's always about. You can do
Speaker 1: things that fill your soul and build community and build
Speaker 1: memories that don't have to cost a lot, and that
Speaker 1: you don't really need to leave your neighborhood if you're
Speaker 1: not able to or you don't want to. There's so
Speaker 1: many ways to really do that. Like I said, when
Speaker 1: I went to my sisters and I was playing Mario Kart,
Speaker 1: it just I literally was like, I want to buy one,
Speaker 1: but then I'm afraid if I buy one, I'll always
Speaker 1: be on it because I love it so much, so
Speaker 1: I'd have to really set boundaries and rules. But it
Speaker 1: made me, It made me really happy, and I was thinking,
Speaker 1: why why did I enjoy this so much? And I
Speaker 1: think it was just returning back to that really innocent time.
Speaker 1: So I don't know about you, but this all sounds
Speaker 1: like one kick ass summer because it just feels simpler
Speaker 1: and it really focuses on getting out and making the
Speaker 1: most of these summer months. And I mentioned how hard
Speaker 1: I'm smiling. I'm still smiling so hard talking about all
Speaker 1: of this because it is such a joyful, joyful thing
Speaker 1: to do and experience all these things I mentioned. So
Speaker 1: let's make this a great summer. We all deserve it.
Speaker 1: I want you guys to let me know in the
Speaker 1: comment section if you're going to have a ninety summer,
Speaker 1: and how you're going to have a ninety summer, and
Speaker 1: what your favorite things to do in the nineties and
Speaker 1: early two thousands were in the summertime. And I hope
Speaker 1: this just got your juices flowing on ways that you
Speaker 1: can incorporate some more simplistic but also really fun things
Speaker 1: and routines and games and you know, activities into what
Speaker 1: is always a very busy summer. And that's the last
Speaker 1: thing I want to say, is between all of the
Speaker 1: summer things, if you're a parent, you have camps, you
Speaker 1: have travel, you have playdates, you have sports. All of
Speaker 1: that makes a very busy summer. If you're not a parent,
Speaker 1: you have the busyness of work. You have engagement parties,
Speaker 1: you have baby showers, you have weddings. You know, there's
Speaker 1: just life. Life is lifing. So if you can take
Speaker 1: moments of peace and calm and quiet and fun and
Speaker 1: enjoy yourself through doing some of these things that bring
Speaker 1: you back to really fun and happy times, Chef's kiss.
Speaker 1: I think we all deserve that. We all deserve that.
Speaker 1: So I don't know about you. I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: ready to go. Grab my light washed acid jeans that
Speaker 1: yes I just bought, and some high top sneakers, maybe
Speaker 1: like a tank top and a wide brim cap, and
Speaker 1: go out in the city and have a great summer day.
Speaker 1: Like I feel ready for it. I got a dressed
Speaker 1: the part to feel like I'm having a ninety summer.
Speaker 1: Let's go. Let's go. Here's wishing you all a great summer,
Speaker 1: Happy summer season, baby, Let's have some fun. I've never
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