Season 18 Preview: Shaun Cassidy, Jane Fonada, Footloose, and MORE
Carolyn Cochrane 0:00
It will be unlike any other season opener we have ever had. We are thrilled to share that one of our favorite guests will be returning, 11 year old Carolyn can hardly believe she is saying this.
Unknown Speaker 0:20
Don't get
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happy. Bring it will make you happy.
Kristin Nilsen 0:30
Welcome to the pop culture Preservation Society, the podcast for people born in the big wheel generation who know the best way to be kind is to Rewind.
Carolyn Cochrane 0:39
We believe our Gen X childhoods gave us unforgettable songs, stories, characters and images, and if we don't talk about them, they'll disappear, like Marshall will and Holly on a routine expedition,
Michelle Newman 0:50
and today, we're gearing up to save another entire season of Gen X moments and memories by giving you a Sneak peek into our upcoming season 18 episodes. I'm Carolyn, I'm Kristin, and I'm Michelle, and we are your pop culture preservationists. And
Michelle Newman 1:39
welcome back everyone to a brand new season of pop culture Preservation Society, season 18. Oh my gosh, confetti cannons, where we're continuing to save all those pop culture nuggets from the era before algorithms, influencers and needing a password to even exist in this world, right? Like, I don't think you I don't think you exist. If you don't have a password, change it. Don't make me change it. Never remember. Do you guys also have, you know, Brian and I have, like, last pass and things where you should put your passwords in, but we always forget to put a password in it when we change it. So we're always like, do you have the password for Hulu or whatever? And then I'm like, is it in your last pass? No, absolutely, of course not. No, my last task has like eight passwords in it. Well, today, we're hopping in our giant PCPs hot air balloon and giving you a preview of the conversations coming at you starting next week, little nod to the yes preview episode
Kristin Nilsen 2:45
the past. Yeah, that's ABC. I know now I know because you know how I know that that's ABC.
Carolyn Cochrane 2:49
Yes, we know how. You know. Oh, you do. How can you tell us every time Are you, are you gonna say because Phoebe's in the balloon, yes,
Kristin Nilsen 2:58
and I feel like I've never said that in my Oh, my fear that I'm recycling my stories. You Are
Michelle Newman 3:09
we, are we all are. But also, think about it. When we started this podcast, we were five years younger. I think you get exponentially older as you get older, do you know what I mean, five is now,
Carolyn Cochrane 3:26
like two days ago, I just put that into Google and just said, basically, I didn't say, Do you exponentially age? But I just feel like, once I turned 60, my brain, it's just a different brain. It is literally different than it was when I was 59 and I think 100% slowly becoming that so. And it said it agreed with me. The Google
Kristin Nilsen 3:49
said, Carolyn, yeah, right. Carolyn, Mike actually said, like, he will he I was starting to tell him a story. He's like, Kristen, you just told me that? Yeah, I said, when he said, like this morning. So it's not even like last year. This morning, I'm like, I have no memory of that at all.
Carolyn Cochrane 4:05
Welcome to the club, yeah. Except I did remember Phoebe, I guess, yeah, we're a little
Michelle Newman 4:09
different, though, because these conversations are keeping our synapses firing right. So that's right. There is science behind that as well.
Kristin Nilsen 4:16
It's always exciting to pick topics for a new season. Everyone always asks us, what happens when you run out of topics? I'm sorry, that's just not gonna happen. It's just never gonna happen. We have one big doc where we dump all of our ideas and your ideas too, listener ideas go in this doc too. And when it's time to plan for a season of episodes, we go back to that Doc and we see what is speaking to us in that moment. It's literally a feel thing like, what are you feeling? And we always try to balance the season so you get a little bit of everything. We're never going to have 10 back to back episodes about TV shows. We're trying to capture our whole pop culture experience, not just one corner of it. And oftentimes we do that, like I said by feel, we need music episodes. We need. You know, we haven't talked about X for a while, you guys, but this time, I took a look back at all of our episodes, and I realized that they kind of fall into definite categories. So why not just make a list of those categories, and then as we create an episode, we fill in the blank, voila, instant season, right? So here are the categories. It's not like, it's not, like It's Rocket Science or anything. You're going to be like, yeah, Kristen, we you don't have to point that out, figure that out. But it's fun. It was a fun discovery for us. So here are the episode categories that we try to represent in each season. In general, we have movies, TV, shows, music, something that is crowd sourced. So a question that we go to our listeners and follow followers and ask them to give us information that we will relay in an episode. We have deep dives about, you know, one particular performer. We like to do countdowns, the top 10x a book or a book club. We don't do those as often, but we're trying to do more. And then sometimes we do games. And then lastly, the catch all is phenomenons, phenomenon, you know? So like games, toys, fashion, like all the things that swept through the culture kind of fall into this category. So that's, that's how we put together season 18,
Carolyn Cochrane 6:19
yeah, I'm excited when you presented that to us. I think that works really well, and we'll have you all listeners. Guess which as Never mind. Okay, I'm sticking to get it. You'll get it when you hear them. So are you guys ready to relive some of the moments that raised us and that still live rent free in our brains? Because buckle up. Here's what we've got coming for this season.
Unknown Speaker 7:00
At CBS,
Michelle Newman 7:05
you guys, I'm so excited that we are finally doing this episode, and we're going to be talking about Ariel and Rin and rusty and Willard and that small town, Beaumont and their ban on dancing. Boo. That's right, we're gonna be talking about Footloose. But even better, we're gonna incorporate and focus on the incredible music from the 1984 movie soundtrack into our conversation. Let's hear it for the boy, one of my very favorite songs of the 80s, one of my very favorite songs also to work out to, like, just grab some five pound weights and just dance around your room. And that is a great four minute workshop right now, Holding Out for a Hero, dancing in the sheets hurts so good. And, of course, Footloose, yeah, of course, of course, right? That was a top movie of my youth, for sure. I love it so much. I'm so excited to talk about the it's kind of going to be, like, focused on the songs and the scenes, because you'll be listening. We don't need to do a whole recap for you, you know, the movie, but you know, we're going to be able to really, when we're talking about the songs and the scenes, I think we're going to really be able to talk about character in there, and, of course, plot like what's happening. But, you know, we know a little bit more now from one of our just recent PCPs lights about how music really does drive a plot and how it's very intentional. So I think that's going to be really interesting to really take a look at. Why are these songs where they are in the movie?
Carolyn Cochrane 8:37
Yeah, I'm really excited. Because, unlike many of our listeners and you, Michelle, I have not seen the movie in its entirety. I'm embarrassed to say
Kristin Nilsen 8:46
I love it when that happens. This will be my
Carolyn Cochrane 8:49
first view. And also, I never knew, until we said we were going to do this episode, that all those songs you mentioned, I know the words to all those songs, but I didn't know they were all from Footloose. I just thought some of them were just, you know, a hit by some artist. So I that just kind of blew me away. So I'm interested to see where those songs fit into the movie and what the scenes are, because, of course, I created my own scenes in my head for some of those songs because I didn't have that reference point. So it'll be fun for me, and I'll probably have some real epiphanies.
Michelle Newman 9:21
Yeah, we're gonna love it and go and get the Footloose soundtrack on vinyl, because there's nothing like Just hearing that scratch, you know, putting it down and just hearing it. Or I probably had the cassette. Was eight. I had the cassette, I'm sure. But so, oh yeah, go get a cassette. Oh, we should get cassette players. That would be fun.
Kristin Nilsen 9:39
I I'm sure we'll talk about this in the episode, but I'm excited to dig into this, because it's coming at the same time that we're realizing that movies and shows don't really have music anymore, and that right there is a topic of discussion. And so when something does nowadays, when something does have music in it, people get so excited because it just doesn't. Happen anymore. It doesn't happen for a variety of reasons, which we'll talk about later, I'm sure. Yeah.
Kristin Nilsen 10:15
Okay, so back in, this is funny. I in my notes I have back in episode number sign we devoted, I never felt in the number so back in episode number sign, we devoted a whole episode to K tel records. You know, those, those compilation albums that you saw advertised on TV with names like full tilt and high energy. And that last episode was inspired by one of the only things that I collect, and that is K tel records. I don't, I don't need all of the K tel records, so don't send them to me or anything. I just need the ones that I like, because I really do listen to them and they're and they're one reason that I like to listen to them is that they're such time capsules of our childhood, so such very specific time capsules, because they weren't just on our turntables, as you know, they were also on our TVs with the advertisements. And they had these albums, had the just the songs of the moment, not just songs of the 70s, not even songs of the late 70s, but songs of 1975 and 1976 and maybe even the first half of 1977 and the last half of 1977 so it's like listening to the radio at a very specific moment in time. So it's way better than listening to 70s on seven. And although we've already devoted an episode to kto records in general, we are big fans of taking something and then going deeper. We have our topic now, let's take it a little bit deeper. This is why we'll never run out of topics. And so we're going to do a deep dive on 1k tel record in particular. I am not going to tell you which one, because it's the album that I've seen people get emotional about. It's the most recognizable one by far. It's the one you are most likely to have had, just based on my own very unscientific observation. And we're going to go song by song through that album and tell you the stories that go along with them. Maybe they'll be personal stories from us, or maybe they're back stories for the songs, or behind the scenes info. Maybe they're just feelings. Who knows, we've all chosen our favorite songs from the album. We claimed the ones that were most important to us, and we'll just see how it shakes out. I love I love hearing what K tel albums people had when they were kids.
Michelle Newman 12:30
I also love K tel albums, because, yes, they're a time capsule of our childhood, but almost all of them are just bonkers compilation Yes, yes. Like that's what's so fun about it. I have a couple that I didn't save any like, I know you did, Kristin, but since I've been since we started this podcast and I started re building up my, you know, vinyl record collection. I probably have four or five, and I love putting them on and not looking first at what songs coming next, because sometimes you're like, what the and it's so fun and funny because you recognize the song. But there's so it's like every genre of song. I mean, you can go from easy listening to a metal like a hard rock song, you know, to an instrumental like, you don't know
Kristin Nilsen 13:21
this would be another dinner party question. You know, which K 12 album? Yeah, did you have any k tel albums when you're a kid?
Carolyn Cochrane 13:27
And you know what's also interesting? I would bet you that a lot of people would say I'm not sure of the title, but they can describe what the cover looks like. Yes, that art was iconic on those covers. That's what I think one of the first two skirt dude moments I had was maybe that when we were doing some of that K tel research, or maybe I was at your house, but it was just like the minute I saw the cover. It was just kind of time machine. And so, like you said about that, the ads, I mean when you think about K tel in a hole and encompassing whatever. And when you think of it as in its entirety, yes, it's the record and the individual songs. But again, and we probably talked about this in that episode, it was the infomercials, it was the artwork on those album covers. It was everything. So, yeah, you can
Michelle Newman 14:20
just see that like you're watching the TV screen. In my mind right now, I can just see the titles of the song. That was the best graphic. Yeah, it's like the end of a movie.
Kristin Nilsen 14:33
Yeah, it's like credit. And each song, you get, each song for like,
Carolyn Cochrane 14:36
five seconds, yes, so it's not and we, yeah, we talked about that. That was so interesting. And also wasn't that back when they would like, when they told you the price, and there was the thing like cod, like you could pay for stuff with cod. And I remember when I first asked, like, my mom, what is that? That's cash on delivery. And I was thinking, like, they would come and give it to you, and you hadn't even paid for it yet, give it to the postman in this and then the postman. He collected and you had cash. She did. I don't, I don't remember ever doing anything that was
Kristin Nilsen 15:05
cod, but I never did either. So the little, the little
Carolyn Cochrane 15:09
male, are male carriers. Like, do they have to make change?
Kristin Nilsen 15:12
Whatever form does that take? Like, do you just hand a $5 bill? Postal man and he and he's, like, over to K tel right?
Carolyn Cochrane 15:20
I don't know anyone knows what is we've got to
Kristin Nilsen 15:23
find somebody who worked at K tel back in the Yeah, I know there's somebody out there. For sure. There's sure.
Carolyn Cochrane 15:28
I'm sure. Well, I'm particularly excited for the episode where we will be pulling on our spandex and lacing up our Reebok high tops, because we are devoting an entire episode to the Gen X exercise fads that we loved, think, Jane Fonda, Richard Simmons, that thigh master. We will talk about how fitness became something that you watched on TV, that you tried in your living room, you talked about at school. I mean, we were absorbing this right alongside music videos, sitcoms. This was a part of our media scape, really, yeah, and those the trends really mattered, like what we were wearing, and it was also kind of our intro into fitness, right? As kind of this 100 next level thing, and body image and motivation, what that looked like, and fashion, yes, for sure. I mean the fashion that transcended, I mean, we were like athleisure before athleisure was a thing. That's right, when you think about it, what we got we wore to sure I would
Michelle Newman 16:29
have worn my what I wore to aerobics. Out
Carolyn Cochrane 16:34
your leg warmers, I bet
Kristin Nilsen 16:35
you were so fashion that you wore to aerobics. Well, right? You had
Carolyn Cochrane 16:39
fashion to aerobics. And I think there were some things that transcended, like, you would, you might go out, like, with your leg warmers, or, yeah, you know, stuff like that. I don't
Michelle Newman 16:48
know that's gonna be a really fun one to talk about, because, I mean, just, and just go watch, you know, 10 minutes of a Jane funda workout on YouTube, which there's probably all of them are on there. And it is. It's just delightful, you know, I'll just sit on my couch with, you know, a bowl of chips and a glass of wine and watch Jane Fonda work. I didn't even watch,
Carolyn Cochrane 17:08
like, my initial Jane Fonda experience my freshman dorm room, my roommate had the album. It was like, just a record that you put on, so there's no video to go with it. It was a record. I was
Kristin Nilsen 17:22
a record, yes, because I was gonna say we could in an alternative title for this episode. Could be workout tape revolution, because this was when the workout tape became the thing in everybody's dorm room. But I wonder if she was the first workout record like she did, she
Carolyn Cochrane 17:38
started, open the door, started maybe I really do well, we'll
Michelle Newman 17:41
research that and find out. And let's not do the episode right now answer those questions in
Carolyn Cochrane 17:51
my in my dorm room on the hard floor, and she's like, just describing to you what to be doing, because obviously you don't have a visual. I think there was, it was maybe a gatefold. So there was maybe some actual, like some drawing
Michelle Newman 18:03
one of those booklets inside. There was one. For a long time at this thrift store I go to to find books for my little free library. And I, I came so close to buying it, just because of the cover. I should have seen if inside there was a booklet, because maybe, you know, it was like an instructional booklet where it showed her doing all of that Shane would know. Shane has all of them. Of course, yes, of course. He would
Speaker 1 18:27
arch up, egging on your legs, stretch your chin out in front of you, and Little pulses stretching your buttocks to the ceiling.
Michelle Newman 18:35
Well, this next episode is something we've talked around for years. In previous conversations, we would say things like, we should make a busy board with Gen X sounds trademark, you know, or something like that. So this season, we're starting a new ongoing segment, and we're calling it the Gen X museum. And our first installment or section or floor of the museum, if you will, will be the aromas of the Gen X era.
Kristin Nilsen 19:01
It is distinctly, distinctly Gen X, yeah.
Michelle Newman 19:05
And at future seasons, we'll do more museums. It could be sounds or whatever. So yeah,
Carolyn Cochrane 19:10
that would be really fun. And I really wish there was smell of vision or something now, because that would make it even more exciting. And I'm just thinking about the sounds. One Did you guys have a radio station that had any had a contest where they'd make a sound that you didn't know what it was, and then you call in and if you got it right, that won the prize. No, that sounds really fun, though it was. And I just remember, and it would be like, people would call in and it would be wrong, like, it could go all day. They'd make this sound in the morning. And I just loved it. And I just remember, like, we would talk about it, like, did you hear the, I can't remember the radio station, but the blah, blah, blah sound. What was that? You know? What do you think it could be? And we would all be, like, trying to come up with ideas anyway.
Kristin Nilsen 19:51
It was really fun. I want to do it and just do a sound and see if you can weigh in, although in comments. It kind of sucks, because if people gave the right, well, right? Sharing comments. Everybody sees it, yeah, okay, whatever, we are going to be revealing something huge that could only come as a result of having a podcast about Gen X pop culture for five years, and that is a top 10 List of the biggest Gen X moments of all time, as determined by us. That's right, nobody else. It's our podcast, just us. But after five years of researching and asking questions and posting social media comments, reading social media comments, etc, we believe we are qualified to make this assessment. What moments left the biggest impressions on all of us as a generation? And you may have already some of you have have already seen this list because it was revealed when we appeared on the Jason show. The Jason show is a local pop culture daytime talk show that does air in like 40 something cities around the nation. Yeah. And so when it was our fifth anniversary, rolling around this November. We were like, Hey, Jason, we have this list that we think you might be interested in. And he was like, Yes, bring me the list. So, so we did. We brought that list, we revealed it on the Jason show. But of course, when you're on when you're on TV, you have mere seconds to communicate what you want to communicate to people. So we had 10 Gen X moments, big, big things that affected all of us. Now we would like to tease that out into an entire episode when we can actually give you much more information about why we chose the things that we did and why they were important. It was so fun putting this list together. We took it very, very seriously, but I also think this would make a great party game there. Everybody gets together, and let's make a list of the biggest, top top, the top 10 Gen X moments of all time. There were so many things in our childhood that really, really colored our worlds in enormous way, whether it was music or movies or whatever our I think our pop culture grabbed us a lot harder by the lapels than things do today. You couldn't escape things the way you can now. Big songs were big and big movies were inescapable because you had commercials and radio and billboards and magazines and even fashion that advertised what you should see or listen to. You're like, look what I'm listening to. Look what's on my T shirt. See what's on my T shirt. I saw jaws. Look what's on my lunch box. I love Hardy Boys. Oh, look what's on my pajamas. Like it was everywhere. Things were inescapable, and people knew what you liked based on what you carried and wore and talked about and listened to out loud. So like I said, if you watch the Jason show, you already know what sits in the number one spot, but maybe you forgot, yeah. And for those of you who live outside of those 40 cities where you can watch the Jason show, we just didn't think it was fair that you were living without this information. So you're welcome.
Carolyn Cochrane 22:55
You're welcome. Yes, for sure, and it will be fun to get to talk about them in a little bit more detail with each other. And yes, you know, get into it a little bit. Yes, there are some interest.
Michelle Newman 23:05
Some of the Yeah, some of them have already been entire episodes, and some of them are going to be an episode this season, and some of them will be an episode in future seasons.
Kristin Nilsen 23:15
All of them are ripe for their own episode. Every single thing on that list is right for its own episode.
Speaker 2 23:22
I can I have to, I can do anything.
Carolyn Cochrane 23:34
But I can't wait for this next episode that I'm going to tell you about because we are finally, finally going to get to shine a spotlight on Helen ready, and I am so ready to do that seriously. We had planned on that episode, but it's really going to happen this time, and because I'm going to personally make sure of it,
Michelle Newman 23:55
I just love Can I just say real quick? Good gosh, I know we've all said this many, many times in the past five years, but I am so grateful that I sit here with you two who are as excited to talk about Helen right as I am and Well, I think Carolyn might be the most I'm excited, but I think my excitement probably pales just a smidge. But our listeners, those of you listening that are excited right now, we feel you, and you're our people. And if you're right now, going, hell and ready, you know what? We'll change your mind. We're gonna change your mind if you're right now, going, I don't even know if I could name a Helen ready song or, Oh, Ellen Helen ready that sounds pretty square. Well, you
Carolyn Cochrane 24:38
might remember that I shared my love for the song Delta dawn in our story songs episode, and that is, I think one of the reasons I do love Helen reddy so much is because she was such a great storyteller the way she sang these songs live in my DNA, like we have said before, my parents own the albums These songs were on the radio. I. Absorb them, and so I'm excited to dive a little bit more into her just catalog of songs, and her as an individual and as a singer and kind of a trailblazer in a way that we needed, I think, at the time, in terms of some of her feminist work and her iconic I am woman, so we'll talk all about that, and I will maybe, maybe not, but probably belt out every word to keep on singing. Don't stop singing. You're going to be a star someday. You're going to make a lot of people happy when they come to hear you play.
Unknown Speaker 25:36
You've all been warned. I can't wait
Kristin Nilsen 25:38
tambourine right now. She's doing air tambourine. I'm
Michelle Newman 25:41
really excited for that episode, because I know, I know, you know a lot of her songs. I don't know as many. Probably, I think I'm going to be surprised, like, also, I'm just, I don't know really anything about her, so I'm excited. Yeah, it's
Kristin Nilsen 25:54
going to be one of those episodes where you go, that was Helen ready? Oh, my God, that was Helen.
Carolyn Cochrane 25:58
Yes, I had some of those moments. I can't wait for this episode, because I had some of those moments today, and I was like, Oh my gosh, no wonder that. I'll just leave it there. Yeah. And there's
Kristin Nilsen 26:10
one big one that somebody somebody mentioned Helen ready in a past episode. And then I'm not gonna say what this listener sent to me, but she just sent me a DM that said, oh yeah. And remember this, and I who Skir do? No, I had not remembered that. And you're all going to do the same thing. You're all going to be hoosker Dude by that one thing that I'm not going to tell you what she said,
Michelle Newman 26:31
Okay, tune in, everybody. Tune in. Okay. Here's my teaser for this next one. See if you can guess the topic, riding in the cart with no seat belts, and climbing over the bench seats from front to back and back to front and front to back as the car is moving down the street the highway, riding in the open bed of a pickup truck, flying down the highway at 60 miles an hour, sending us out to play until the street lights came on with no idea where we were and No way to find us, having us mix their drinks in the car, we'll save that for the pot for the episode. Yes, if you've guessed cautionary Gen X parenting stories, you are correct. Ding, ding, ding, and we're hoping many of you share these cautionary tales with us via speak pipe on our website, so we can just play your story on the episode, and you can start leaving those now. You can go to our website@poppreservationists.com that's poppreservationists plural.com, and I think there's like a contact tab up at the top, or something like that. And if you hit it, you'll see a big red button that says, leave us a voicemail or speak pipe. You have 90 seconds
Carolyn Cochrane 27:47
anonymous too. You don't have to tell us your name if you're going to tell us some really, oh, yeah, I don't know. You're going to tattle on your mom. Yeah, we'll
Michelle Newman 27:56
put your voice through one of those mixers. Yeah.
Michelle Newman 28:04
Don't know clothes on. All three of us have them, and you all have shared them with us over the years. So we're finally gonna do an episode where that's all it is. It is just these hilarious, awful and like I keep I use the word cautionary, because that's what they are. It was a different time. Y'all, it's a different time of parenting, and it was a different time of being kids.
Kristin Nilsen 28:29
So a different it was a different time. So these are stories of, I was gonna say good parents gone wrong. That's not it. It's like good parents neglectful era, right? No, we're not. We're not ragging on our parents. This was the way we all grew up. Our parents were good people, and so please don't send
Speaker 3 28:45
us like your stories of abuse or something like those are bad parents.
Kristin Nilsen 28:50
We want good parents neglectful era, because that could get a little it could get very dark, very quick.
Michelle Newman 28:55
Yeah, we don't want those for your therapist. I have a T shirt that I wear that says Gen X raised on hose water and neglect. That's kind of what it is. You know, your parents are like, you're thirsty. There's a hose. You know, don't burn your mouth the first time. That'll be fun. There was no hydration in the 70s. No, no kidding, I don't think I had, I don't, I didn't probably have a glass of water for like, eight years, no
Carolyn Cochrane 29:23
crazy Michelle, when you were first, we're talking about this episode, and you said, you know, we're climbing back and forth over the seats, and we're not wearing our seat belt. I also am realizing that, you know, up until what, the mid 70s, the speed limit was really high, like it was only because of the fuel, whatever shortage that we brought down the speed limit to 55 before that, it was probably like 75 that we were going back and forth over the seats and who knows, you were probably in the back of that pickup truck. Who knows, going 80 who easily,
Kristin Nilsen 29:54
easily. They're like, hold on. You guys
Michelle Newman 29:57
were like, daring each other things like, oh. Okay, now you stand up in the back of the pickup truck and flying down a West Texas Highway.
Kristin Nilsen 30:06
I am I'm still petrified. My child is an adult, and I'm still like, Don't go too close to the water. Why didn't they have any
Carolyn Cochrane 30:15
grow up to be the scared parents if the pendulum swung? Yeah, exactly. Because I don't even think I was scared in the moment, maybe a little bit as I got a little older. But, you know, like you said, Michelle, it was just like, I dare you to whatever, stand up. If we saw any kid doing that, I'd be flagging over some mom right now. Like, get over there. Be calling
Kristin Nilsen 30:35
nine months. We think
Michelle Newman 30:36
about it all the time. You know, there's a lot of houses that are always being built and, you know, around in the neighborhood, and, you know, why? Why was it okay to just be like, for my sister and I, like, just played in houses under construction all the time, and my mom knew it, and we were, you know, probably wearing flip flops, and there's exposed nails everywhere.
Carolyn Cochrane 30:56
Now, yes, no railing underneath. Just that
Kristin Nilsen 31:01
little yeah, there's no floor up there, right? You're gonna go the stairs, but there's no floor. Just go up there.
Michelle Newman 31:07
20 years ago, if I would have found out my kids were playing in a house under construction, I'd have lost my shit.
Kristin Nilsen 31:13
Oh, my god, yeah, uh huh.
Carolyn Cochrane 31:16
All right, as we say, not as we did.
Kristin Nilsen 31:18
That's right, yeah, good parents, neglectful era. I'm sure there are some hilarious stories out there. Okay, next we're going to be having a little episode called little quiz on the prairie. Ah, how much little house trivia lives in your brain, right? We have done several episodes on Little House on the Prairie. This is a well that will never run dry. I am a sucker for those magazines at the grocery store checkout that are there, you know, like, one offs devoted to one single thing, like soup or right weeknight
Carolyn Cochrane 31:49
meals, and they cost 2499 Yeah, they're 1299,
Kristin Nilsen 31:52
they're not 349 I
Carolyn Cochrane 31:54
don't think anything's 340 No, there's
Michelle Newman 31:58
so I really like, like, I Have the happy days one, I have the Willy Wonka one, and they're 1499 but it's because I feel like it's a little book. It's, you know, some good entertainment.
Kristin Nilsen 32:09
So of course, when I saw the Little House on the Prairie one, you knew I was gonna buy that. Yeah. And as I'm paging through it, I'm like, I did not know that. I did not know that. I wonder if Carolyn Michelle know that. And so I thought, let's make this a game. We're gonna make it a game. We went to test our little house chops. How much do we know about Walnut Grove? Are we good enough to be Walnut Grove residents like Doc baker or miss Beadle, or are we just passing through town, like Willis from different strokes, or that angry clown who raped Sylvia. So I know this episode will be random. It'll be totally random and educational. Yes, there were a lot of people on that show, and there were a lot of stories, way too many stories for such a small town. And let's just see how much we know, how much we can remember. I think it's gonna I
Carolyn Cochrane 33:03
think that's gonna be really fun. I'm excited about that. And I'm excited because I don't know if you guys saw this, but my little heart went up, pitter patter, because Melissa Gilbert posted, I think it was last week that so she was doing that play pen pals. Are you familiar with that? Which, like, you know, two women who are reading letters back and forth, and in the audience that for this particular performance was Melissa Sue Anderson, and they met up after, and Melissa Gilbert's caption about the photo was beautiful. And it was like, the past is the past kind of a thing. I'm not going
Michelle Newman 33:40
to do it. Yeah, it was like they laughed, they cried, they mended fences, and they've just decided now that they're too important in each other's lives, their family. She says, yeah. She said, Melissa is the only other person who went through what I went through. And so we have just decided we're moving forward. So she doesn't go into anything about their what their rift was about, but she said they've just decided now. And also, don't forget, Betty Buckley randomly was also fun, but Melissa Gilbert was like, she couldn't believe that Betty Buckley came and saw her play. And we'll share that in the Weekly Reader, either this week or the week we do the the other one, yeah, yeah, that little house episode, probably a little house episode, because we can talk about it.
Carolyn Cochrane 34:26
Well, I actually commented, I don't know if you saw this, Michelle, but I comment very sweet, PCs, basically, like, you know, our Gen X hearts were just all a flutter for this photo, because we've got Laura and Mary and Abby Bradford all like, Oh, it's
Kristin Nilsen 34:39
so much. It's too much. Yeah, well, I think this little house, little quiz on the prairie is gonna be really fun, because it turns out there are so many factoids. So you guys, I'm scoring with factoids. I'm not sure that there will be winning in this game. Yeah, there will be learning
Michelle Newman 34:58
and discussion and discussion. And that's what it's all about, even if we don't know we're gonna know something around it absolutely. So it's gonna be a fun it's gonna be a fun conversation, because we're gonna be able to recall things we do remember, even if we don't remember the particular question you're asking us. Chris, well, and there's so
Kristin Nilsen 35:15
much backstory, there's so many people in that show, that it just lends itself to having so so many backstory.
Carolyn Cochrane 35:22
Stories. Yeah, they're all they were all people too. They weren't just thought Baker and yep, you know so that, yeah, that'll be interesting. You'll be smarter and wiser after that episode.
Carolyn Cochrane 35:39
Okay, we're gonna take a deep breath and we're going to have a drumroll, because I want to share how we are going to be kicking off season 18. It will be unlike any other season opener we have ever had. We are thrilled to share that one of our favorite guests will be returning. 11 year old Carolyn can hardly believe she is saying this, but Sean Cassidy will be returning to the PCPs hot seat
Michelle Newman 36:08
next week. Yes, confetti, confetti.
Carolyn Cochrane 36:12
There's not enough confetti. We are so excited to have this second level discussion, because we've gotten a lot of that other stuff out of the way, which was all great, and we learned a lot, but now we know more, and we can go a little bit deeper and talk about his latest tour, which we have. We're so lucky to be a part of. I was able to go twice and really talk about some of the then and now of his career. I really want to ask him, kind of like us, you know, he took this chance in his, you know, later in life, to do this thing that he didn't know what was going to happen. Was it going to be a flop? Are people going to just say, look, or were they surprisingly good? Some of you will get what I did there. But I want to ask him what his feelings were when this opportunity and when it was, you know, starting to kind of think, well, should I do this tour thing again? Because it's scary, but I think he'll have some life lessons for us to
Kristin Nilsen 37:07
he always does. That's why bringing him back is so exciting, because the wisdom that this man has is, again, surprisingly good. This teen idol, Hardy boy, could come into our future in our 50s, and be like our Guru is so, so interesting. He just is so incredibly thoughtful and has such profound things to say that you'll be able to take with you into your everyday life.
Michelle Newman 37:33
He's he's definitely a role model for many people for what he's done with his life and his career. And again, I've said it many times, but so just so kind and generous. We're really excited to give you all another conversation with him, so you can see that too, because my first crush is
Speaker 2 38:02
you and
Kristin Nilsen 38:11
so we hope this gets you excited for what we have in store for you in the next few months, we officially start recording today. This is day one of our recording season. We don't even know what these episodes hold yet, so we are as excited as you are, and that also means we get to see each other again after a few weeks apart. It will be very intense quality time. That's true, and thank God. It's like, you know, this podcast is about things like little house and not like world affairs or something. No one could survive that kind of intensity. At least our intensity is super, super fun. So thank you so much for listening today, and we will see you next week for episode one of season 18.
Michelle Newman 38:49
So excited. But before we go, if this show feels like hanging out with friends who remember mix tapes the mall MTV and you want to help keep these memories flowing. You can support us on Patreon. Depending on your level of support, subscribers get bonus content, sneak peeks of episodes behind the scenes, moments zoom, happy hours with us, what and even little goodie packages mailed directly to you. Patreon is a great way to support the show. Keep the Gen X flame alive and keep us truckin and you can subscribe for a month or more, and if you subscribe for a year, you get a really great discount. Just check out our Patreon page to find out about that. But if a monthly subscription isn't for you, but you'd still like to help us keep the mics on, you can give a one time donation on our website@poppreservationists.com and to check us out on Patreon, go to patreon.com and then up in that little search bubble box, just type in pop culture Preservation Society.
Kristin Nilsen 39:50
And just so you know, I know we've told you this before, but this is our only means of support. A lot of that money goes to covering our expenses, and if there's anything left over, then we get a few pennies.
Carolyn Cochrane 40:00
Okay, sometimes we are a total grassroots production. That is why your help listeners is so significant in helping us keep this party going. And one of the easiest and most important ways that you can help us is to rate and review us. So if you dig what we're doing, you can slide over to your favorite podcast app and leave us a five star review, and maybe jot a few lines about how great we are. It's like you're giving us a standing ovation, and we really, really love standing ovation. We do.
Kristin Nilsen 40:29
Yeah, thank you for that standing ovation. In the meantime, let's raise our glasses for a toast courtesy of Jack and Janet and Chrissy in their apartment on San Monica Boulevard, two good times, two.
Carolyn Cochrane 40:40
Happy Days to Little House on the Prairie. Cheers. Cheers to
Kristin Nilsen 40:45
season 18. Here we go. The information, opinions and comments expressed on the pop culture Preservation Society podcast belongs solely to Carolyn the crushologist and hello Newman. And are in no way representative of our employers or affiliates. And though we truly believe we are always right, there is always a first time the PCPs is written, produced and recorded in Minneapolis, Minnesota, home of the fictional wjm studios and our beloved Mary Richards, Nanu. Nanu, keep on truckin and May the Force Be With You. You.
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