- (FBE) So today, you're gonna be reacting to various things
from the day you were born. - No [bleep].
Okay.
- No way. I've always wanted to do one,
'cause I don't-- it's really cool.
Oh, I'm excited.
- I love this. I haven't ever done this.
I'm so happy to do this.
- It should be interesting. I mean, the actual day
I was born, I don't remember much.
- (FBE) To start, we have the top song from the week
you were born to play for you.
- Dope. Okay, cool.
♪ Dale a tu cuerpo alegría Macarena ♪
- Ah, ♪ cuerpo es pa' darle alegría y cosa buena ♪
♪ Dale a tu cuerpo alegría Macarena ♪
♪ Hey Macarena ♪ Dude, this makes me so happy.
I love that this was the song that was popping
because this still is an anthem. If you are at a party
and you want people to dance, play the Macarena
and you got everybody on the dance floor.
I definitely remember this one growing up.
My grandma has a-- she owned a beauty salon
and I remember I had to have been six
or something like that and they were teaching me
how to do the Macarena in the salon.
♪ (Latin music) ♪
- I love Latin rhythms. That's--
wow. Yep, I am familiar
with that song actually. I just love Latin rhythm,
so I was a huge fan of Gloria Estefan,
Miami Sound Machine when they came on the scene
and yeah, I just-- it's great music
to move your body to.
♪ As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death ♪
♪ I take a look at my life and realize there's nothing left ♪
- This is Gangster Paradise, right? I don't know who this is by.
I'm surprised it was rap. I thought it would have been
a pop song of some sort. I guess I didn't know
how big of a song this was back in the day.
Maybe would have expected some Tupac or something.
- I love Peggy Lee.
♪ My pocket needs some money so I can go into town ♪
- My dad went to high school with her.
He was in the same grade as her brother
and then she was a couple years behind.
♪ Mañana ♪ - Oh, that's a good one.
That's a good one. That sorta sums up my life.
Mañana. ♪ Mañana is good enough for me ♪
That's a cool song, 'cause she's so cool.
- (FBE) Up next, we actually have a trailer to show you
of the biggest movie released the week you were born.
- Oh my gosh, movie released the week I was born.
I feel like it's a Disney movie.
- Well I know film noir was real big back then,
but I don't know if that was the biggest film
of the year was film noir.
♪ (dramatic music) ♪
- Not as a Stranger. One of the greatest
pictures of all time. I like the way they put that.
Some of the most memorable love scenes ever filmed.
Yeah, there weren't many memorable ones
up until that point or you wouldn't call them
love scenes in today's world. Produced by Stanley Kramer.
Directed by Stanley Kramer, wow.
Interesting. It definitely has that whole
feel of that time period.
- Universal. - (man 1) A very important
commodity in business. - (man 2) Mr. Cullin,
I trust this guy with my life.
- That's Adam Sandler. - (narrator) They were partners.
- (man 3) Uh oh, we got company.
- (man 2) Smooth and easy. - Oh my gosh, he was so little.
- (man 4) You have the right to remain silent.
- (man 2) How can you do this to me?
- Yeet. Wow, this looks--
oh my God, oh my God.
- (narrator) Bulletproof. - I've never even heard
of this movie, I think. That's interesting.
- (man) Apollo 13 flight controllers.
- Ooh, Apollo 13.
- (man) Houston, we have a problem.
- This is a classic. This is a great movie.
- (man) We don't have that much time.
- I think I've-- I also think I've only
seen it once and it was in school,
but I remember really liking it.
I dig the movie more than the song,
but pretty solid two choices.
- (woman) You're not going now.
It's my birthday. You promised.
- (man) I promised? I promised what?
- (woman) You know, Marcus. You promised last year.
- They're husband and wife in real life.
Florence Eldridge and Frederic March
were married for years and years.
He was one of the great actors of all time
and worked right up until he couldn't work anymore.
I have no idea what that's called.
I've never seen it. - (FBE) It's called
Another Part of the Forest. - Oh, that was a big play
first on Broadway and then they made it
into a film, okay.
- (FBE) So next up, we're gonna have you guess
the prices for certain items on the day you were born.
- Okay, cool.
- Okay, the Price is Right.
- (FBE) So first up is gas prices.
The current cost of gas in the US averages $2.49.
- I'm sorry. I live in L.A.
What?
- (FBE) How expensive do you think it was the day you were born?
- I'm gonna guess $0.14 a gallon.
- $0.37. I think it was that cheap back then.
- Even when I started driving, you could get gas
for 25 or 35 cents a gallon when I was a kid.
$0.08 just for the hell of it.
- The average when I was born, I'm gonna say was $1.19.
- (FBE) So when you were born, the actual price of gas was...
- Oh wow. More than I thought, wow,
'cause it stayed pretty stable 'cause I do remember
seeing $0.29 and $0.35 on signs.
I'd be doing a lot more weekend trips if it
was $0.29 a gallon.
- Oh, I was way off. Wishful thinking, I guess.
- $0.26 and it had to be, 'cause they drove those
big old cars that got two miles to the gallon.
- $1.23, not bad. I was literally in the middle.
Not bad. If you find a pump today
that was at $1.23, you'd never be able
to get to it because there would be people
literally waiting in line for hours to get to that.
- (FBE) So next up is the average price
of a movie ticket. - Oh, okay.
Now that was still cheap when I'd go to matinees
on Saturdays.
- (FBE) The current average price in the US is actually $9.03.
- Okay, I don't go to the movies,
but I feel like last time I went to the movies,
it was 13.
- (FBE) How expensive do you think it was
when you were born? - $0.25.
- $5.
- $4.50.
- I'm guessing it was maybe 35, 40 cents.
- (FBE) It was actually... - Oh, pretty close.
You can't take a girl to [bleep] dinner and a movie.
You're spending $1000. 4.35 is much more reasonable.
- I'm getting really close to these. I said 4.50, 4.42.
8 cents off. It's reasonable, I feel like
I see it. I'm not surprised.
- Oh, it was 40. Oh well, that's still a deal.
You could sit and watch a movie multiple times.
You saw usually just one movie but you could sit there
and watch it three times if you wanted to
without being pushed out of the theater,
so my parents would just drop me off and I'd stay there
all afternoon.
- $0.50, okay not too far off. We did the drive-in a lot as a kid.
We lived down the street from a drive-in.
The line of cars was down our street just to get in
to the drive-in when it opened.
It was a whole different-- yeah, it was good times.
It's just a shame that the drive-ins have gone away.
Yeah, it's not as comfortable. You can't sell as much stuff,
'cause you gotta walk to the snack bar and stuff,
but it was kinda fun just to be with your family
in your car.
- (FBE) So next, we're gonna have you guess the median cost
of a home in the US. The current median
in the US is $318,600. - It's obscene.
- That house does not look like it only cost $318,000.
That looks like a two and a half million dollar house here in L.A.
In 24 years, I think going up a third is reasonable.
- (FBE) So how expensive do you think it was
when you were born? - When I was born,
I feel like that's gonna be cheaper than half.
I'm gonna go with it was really low and I'm gonna say
around $100,000.
- I'm gonna say $200,000.
- I know what year they bought the first house
and I remember them saying that they paid $14,000 for it.
- (FBE) Who? - My parents.
He bought the house in 1948.
- I'm trying to remember what my parents paid.
I'm thinking they paid somewhere between
eight and twelve thousand dollars, so I'm gonna guess
the median was probably around--
let's go with 10,000.
- (FBE) All right, let's see. - Okay, I was a little off.
A couple thousand.
- Damn, that [bleep] was cheap. That's pretty crazy.
That's not a lot of money. Not that I [bleep] have
$131,000 to spend on a house.
- Wow, well making as far as average,
so 14,000 makes sense, 'cause it's just 1400 square feet.
It's a little, tiny California bungalow kinda house.
So $14,000 considering now that some of them out there
are worth almost a million.
- 17,500. Okay, they cheaped out on me
with that first home. All righty then.
Well, we weren't exactly living in Beverly Hills.
It's just sad, 'cause of the dream. You have to move to
a lot of times places you don't wanna live
in weather conditions you don't wanna live in
just to be able to afford a house.
If you wanna raise a family a lot of times that means
moving away from family just to be able to afford a home.
- (FBE) So finally, we showed you multiple mediums that allow
us to look back into our past. What are some of your favorite
ways to capture what life was like growing up
for you personally? - Well I'm really big into
photography and videography. I love to take photos
and capture the moment. I think it's gonna be crazy
for our kids and future generations to see exactly how we looked
growing up in these high definition photos
and videos.
- My mom had a lot of homemade videos.
My mom was like a vlogger. She had a whole bunch
of these little videos and then just pictures.
We took a lot of them, so it was really--
I feel like having all that just keeps it safe.
- We used to ride out bikes eight miles to a friend's house
when we were 12 years old and no one worried.
We didn't have helmets on. We were going down main streets.
No one worried about your kid getting kidnapped
and all that stuff. Not that it wasn't happening,
but it wasn't in your face because of media
and now there is so much anxiety because of media
and wanting to look a certain way
and wanting to be this or wanting to be that.
We didn't have that. We didn't care.
Our entertainers were on the seven stations we had
on television and we listened to our sports on radio,
or I did, and listened to news on radio,
but they're just-- it was so much simpler.
- I had a lovely childhood. Most all of us that were born
in our area of the world back then, we had
what we called the last innocent childhood
where you didn't have to worry about your kids.
Everyone on the block knew everybody
and I like the fact there was less technology
in a lot of ways. It was quieter,
life moves slower, it was pleasant.
It was a very pleasant youth and childhood,
but to have those conveniences now, all the technology
with the phones and the computers
and everything. I never thought I'd say this
but I would be miserable without them.
- Hey guys, Vartuhi here, producer at FBE.
Thank you so much for watching this episode.
Make sure to check out more episodes like this one
across all generations. Link down in the description below.
Bye, guys.
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