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#295: Millennial Time Capsule

April 13, 2026 · 53 min

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This week we're entering a world in which there are no iPhones, no internet, no apps, no online shopping, no social media no steaming and no smart tech of any kind. Yes: We're traveling to a land where you get advice from magazines, information from encylopedias and to speak to someone you must pick up the phone and dial numbers.

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Things we miss:

  • magazines (specifically at Borders bookstore)
  • malls in the 1900s
  • AOL chat
  • maps
  • phone books
  • phone calls on land lines
  • listening to an album start to finish on the day it came out
  • scheduling your entire life around your favorite tv show
  • no one being about to reach you
  • Toys R Us (is an amazon childhood)
  • computer lab

GUILTY PLEASURE TREASURE

Elsie: Traitors

Emma: Little Debbie Cosmic Brownies

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