- (FBE) Today, you're gonna be reacting to a few different things
all from the day you were born. - Oh, the day I was born! Okay.
- Whoa! My birthday's on Halloween, which is a weird day,
because so many weird things happen on Halloween.
So, it's gonna be exciting. - (FBE) First, for the elders,
we'll play you the number one song
on the charts from the year you were born.
And for the adults, we have the number one song
from the week you were born to play for you.
- Okay. That's an interesting episode. I really like this.
It's like walking in the past.
- ♪ Hi there, Tex, watcha you say? ♪ - No, I don't--
- ♪ Step aside, partner ♪ ♪ It's my day ♪
- Don't know this song. - ♪ Bend an ear
and listen to my... ♪ - See, this is actually
before I grew up. This song was when I was...
a zero. - ♪ Is that the Chattanooga
choo-choo? ♪ - Oh, "Chattanooga Choo-Choo."
Yeah, I just didn't know the intro.
But I couldn't tell you who is singing it.
This was during the big band era.
But I didn't really grow up in the that era.
But that was when I was born: 1941.
- ♪ You love a woman ♪ ♪ Tell her that she's really... ♪
- I don't know this song. Wow.
Wow, the video quality is not good.
- ♪ ...really ever loved a woman ♪ - Oh! I actually--
I think I've heard that song before.
I just realized I've heard that song before,
the very last line.
- ♪ Couldn't let go ♪ - Who? What?
Is this T.I.? - ♪ I had to decide I was thinking ♪
- What? This is so weird. Okay, yeah, I could've guessed R&B,
but I don't even know who this is.
- ♪ You probably think that something is wrong ♪
- Oh, no. We were just not doing it right in 1998, man.
What is this?! (sighs) I'm sad, dude.
I was expecting some good song,
but I didn't even know who this was.
- (Artie) Our own version of Cole Porter's "Begin the Beguine."
- Ahh. Okay. This I know. (laughs)
God, they all look so young. They're not virtual. They're real.
They're not virtual reality. They're not even in technicolor.
♪ (big band music) ♪ - (chuckles) Okay. I know that.
You know what? I was born in Yugoslavia.
What they were playing in Belgrade, Yugoslavia the day I was born,
I bet you don't know either.
- (FBE) Next, we're gonna show you the trailer
from the biggest movie released the week you were born.
- Okay. Wow! I feel like in the '90s,
like, "Space Jam" was made.
- I can think of actors maybe, something like with Jean Harlow,
something like that.
- (Jack) Have you ever seen a vampire?
- What? - (Jack) They're not romantic.
Forget whatever you've seen in the movies.
They don't turn into bats. - I mean, it kind of makes sense.
Halloween, like... it has to be a scary movie.
But who the hell are these guys?
- (Jan) Jack Crow. - (man) Jack, he's right behind us!
- Jack Crow? Who the hell is that?
- (Jan) You can't kill me.
- That's the worst acting I've ever seen.
I'm glad I wasn't around for that.
♪ (big brass music) ♪ - "You're in the army now."
You're behind the-- see, they're preparing the country.
This is Abbott and Costello, a couple of real doofuses
in my opinion. These guys were real comedians,
but they're real slapstick. Their famous bit was "Who's On First?"
And there's the Andrews Sisters,
singers for the big bands and so forth.
- ♪ And keep your country rolling... ♪ - Yeah, whatever.
"Buck Privates," I missed that one.
I wouldn't go across the street to see that.
They were continuously famous as I was growing up.
That wasn't... you know, that wasn't their last movie or anything.
- "You can't take it with you." ♪ (somber music) ♪
Oh, wow. Oh! Jimmy Stewart. (chuckles)
June Allyson?
But that is-- oh my god, is that a young Jimmy Stewart?
- (Tony) You know, every time I think how lucky I am...
- I don't think I've ever seen it, you know that?
No, that's not June Allyson. Who is that?
- (Alice) You're not really going to scream.
- (Tony) It's in my stomach right now.
- She sure looks familiar. - (Tony) Going up and up
and up and up. It's all over my body. - Oops. (laughs)
- (Tony) I can't hold it any longer. here it goes!
- (Alice) Oh, NOOOOO! - (women gasp)
(silence)
- I've never seen it.
I didn't go to the movies when I was born, obviously.
By the time I went to the movies, Jean Arthur was not around. (chuckles)
- (voice-over) For 100 years... - Is this... "Frankenstein"?
No. - (child) Wow.
- (gasps) Is this "The Addams Family?"
No, it's not.
This is "Casper"!
It's "Casper"! I cannot-- oh my god!
I LOVE "Casper"!
- (voice-over) Life at Whipstaff... - (sighs)
- (Casper) Can I keep you? - This is so amazing.
I miss-- I can't-- I miss these times. Wow.
It reminds me of just drinking hot chocolate
with my sister when it's really cold,
and we'll watch "horror" films. We thought this was a horror film.
- (FBE) So next up, we've got a little game
that we feel is another great representation of the times.
- Okay. - (FBE) We're going to have you guess
the prices for certain items on the day you were born
compared to now. - Oh, okay. Yeah, inflation.
I love it. - This is gonna blow my mind.
- (FBE) First up is gas prices. The current cost of gas in the US
averages 2.49 per gallon. - Oh, no.
- Bull. That's not true. I live in California.
It's 3.49, if anything.
- (FBE) What do you think the number was on the day
that you were born? - Dude, 1998, 20 years ago?
Probably $1.50.
- It was really cheap. 20 cents.
- I'm just gonna take a guess and say 50 cents.
- 15 cents, 20 cents. That would be the prices in '41.
- (FBE) The actual price was... - 10 cents.
It was even cheaper than that!
- When I went to high school in the late '50s,
gasoline was 29 cents, 28, 27, you know.
If it was more than that, we would go to the next place.
- $1.15. It's like NOTHING for a gallon of gas. Wow.
I wanna live during this time.
- I pay, like, $60 to fill up right now.
Ahh, dude, to have that slashed in half, livin' the dream.
- (FBE) Next up is the average price of a movie ticket.
Currently, in the US, that averages around 9.27.
- Dang. - (FBE) How expensive do you think
it was when you were born? - Oh, that was peanuts.
Maybe a quarter a ticket. - I'ma go 2.50.
- Back then it was, like, $3.00 to go see a movie.
- You realize I didn't grow up here, so I'm giving you a wild guess.
So, I would say 30 cents.
- (FBE) The actual price was... - 4.35! I'd be down to go see a movie
for less than $5.00. - 4.69, that's still a lot cheaper
considering that you still had to buy snacks and stuff like that.
- I assumed when I was older, like 15, 16, 17, dating,
it's probably, you know, 50 cents, 75, I don't know.
- 20-- I was close. Can you imagine going to the movies
and 25 cents? But I don't know how much
money I would be making, so maybe it wouldn't be that cheap.
- (FBE) Next up, we have the median cost of a home
in the United States. - 328,000? It just--
I think these prices right here go to show how crappy California is.
- (FBE) With that in mind, what do you think it was
on the day you were born? - 10,000.
- $2,500. - $70,000!
- Like 150?
- (FBE) The actual price for this one was...
- I was too high up. 3,900.
- Okay, well, whatever. I didn't buy many houses
when I was a zygote. I couldn't have imagined back then
it going up to be what it is now.
- Oh, I was wrong! (claps) I feel like I have
the wrong idea of the past. - 30 off. That's not bad.
Dude, 182,000 for a house? That's definitely a steal,
because now you're paying, like, 600, 700 for an average house.
- (FBE) So finally, to end this episode,
you'll be looking at the New York Times
that has been scanned digitally, where you can look
at the full newspaper and click on any article
that has been archived over the years.
And you'll get a chance to see what was happening in the world
the day you were born. - (softly) Wow.
This is so cool. - It wasn't a good time.
It was just before the Second World War.
Where I was, we were getting worried
about the Germans invading.
- Okay, so what's going on? "Judge dismisses two more members
of Simpson jury." Is that OJ Simpson?!
OJ Simpson jury was happening when I was born?
Dang! "Early hurricane strikes
Florida's coast, but fizzles."
I honestly feel like my birth maybe triggered this hurricane.
Earth knew I was about to be born. It was like, "Ooh, yeah!
Welcome Jeannie with a hurricane."
- "Hitler's speech at Eger. Hitler's speech today
in the main public square in Eger just after this town
had been annexed by German forces follows."
Oh, boy. That already started, huh?
'Cause that's why we had to escape.
He was not officially an enemy yet, was he?
Some people even liked him, I think. Scary.
- "Hitler gives Yugoslavs his terms." In other words, he wants the part
of Yugoslavia where the Germans lived called Sudetenland.
So, he marched in there and basically took over Yugoslavia.
This movie had a lot in it. Strong women, the South, slavery,
the word "damn," which actually broke down some barriers.
So, it was a real changer for a changing society and so forth.
Another one of my favorite movies came out about that same time,
"Casablanca." People today still watch that movie.
- Not... big, important things were going on on Halloween in 1998.
Really basic stuff. I was expecting murders
or something cool. Oh, "The Vatican is investigating
the Inquisition in secret." That's some tea.
"CIA said to reject bomb suspect's bid to be spy.
A former sergeant in the United States Army,
who is now being held in connection with the terrorist campaign
of Osama Bin Laden was rejected in the 1990s when he offered himself
to the CIA as a spy, officials said today."
Three years seems like a lot of time, but so many things can happen
and so many mindsets can change in three years that...
Literally, 9/11 happened three years after this.
That's insane.
- (FBE) So finally, we showed you multiple mediums that, you know,
allowed us to take a look at the past.
But for you personally, what are some of your favorite ways
to capture what life was like for you growing up?
- I took a lot of pictures.
I definitely was-- I got camera--
I was awarded the camera hog award in high school.
- Stories. People giving me stories, reading stories, talking to people
who were alive then. It tells you who you are today.
- I think it's the people that I did things with.
I think that was the most memorable way for me to capture
and hold on to memories is the people that I grew up with
and the things we did. Things have changed so much
from 20 years ago to now.
It doesn't even seem like a long time, but it is, dude!
20 years? I'm old. That's crazy.
- Hey, guys. Ethan here from FBE. Thank you so much
for watching this episode. Now, what other Reactceptions
would you like to see our reactors try in the future?
You gotta let us know in your comments below. Bye, guys!