♪ (upbeat techno intro) ♪
- (React) What decade comes to mind when someone says "the good old days"?
- The '80s. - The good old days.
I would say it's the early 2000 era. I wasn't even alive back then,
but I know that was the prime days. - Some good old days weren't good
for other groups of people, but I feel like it really depends
on who you're talking too. - I don't know. I think it's fun
to see how we evolved in a-- kind of how technology
and all that plays a part in it.
- (React) What age would you consider to be old?
- To be old, I think 47. You get wrinkles and gray hairs.
I think I wanna stay a kid forever. - I would say when they turn 80.
I wouldn't be like, "Oh my god. You're old."
I would just say, "Okay, grandpa," you know?
I definitely feel like calling someone old
is the worst compliment. Not "You're ugly,"
not "you're fat." "You're old" is just really bad.
- (React) We are showing you videos from years and decades
before you were born to find out if you can identify these blasts
from the past. - Oh, okay. Sweet. I'm excited!
Ooh! Fun! - I'm Nick Brosco on behalf
of Expert Village, and in this segment...
- The graphics suck! (laughs) - (Nick) Now, let's say I wanted
to burn all these tracks to a CD that I could listen to in my car
or play in a regular CD player. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna click
one of the tracks, any one, and then push Ctrl + A,
which will select all the tracks. Then I'm gonna click and hold and drag
over to this left column over here. - Gosh, remember those binders
of the CD sheets?
- (Nick) ...bottom-most item, which says "Burn a CD."
And I'm gonna release. Please note that you have to have
a CD burner in your computer to burn a CD,
but I'm gonna go ahead and put a blank CD in my CD drive.
Once I've inserted a blank CD... - I feel like this is a lot.
Like, compare that to now. - (Nick) Go ahead to the bottom
and click on the blue button that says "Burn disc."
- (React) Have you ever owned or used a CD player?
Do you know how to use one? - Of course.
Who doesn't know how to use a CD player?
- My older cousin would do it all the time.
I don't think I have the computer for it,
but I remember her binder was like Mom's CD or Dad's.
Like, you flip through it. She burned so many.
- I don't even know what burning a CD is.
What is that?
So, you guys didn't just have Spotify, where you can just click
on a... no? - I feel like that gives
the same energy as having to wait for the radio to play
a certain song, so you can get your voicemail.
I've heard about that. - Now, we could just go
in stores and say, "Can you just put this on a CD?"
or "Can you just make this as a wallpaper?"
I think it'd be very boring. I'd waste my precious fingers
and probably do it wrong. And I don't wanna mess up
these dimples I have right here. - If you have a phone,
and you have Apple Music, and you can save it and stuff,
I feel like it's kind of similar. You have it on your phone.
But then again, you know, phones get lost and stuff like that.
But, I mean, so do CDs, so...
- (interviewer) You were regular guys. Now, everywhere you go,
you're being mobbed. People are screaming.
- ♪ Bye, bye, bye ♪ Right?
♪ Baby, bye, bye, bye ♪ ♪ Bye, bye ♪
I don't know. That's their song, right?
- (Joey) I mean, it's very flattering that people come up to us
and ask for autographs. - The hair!
- (interviewer) Do people recognize you just down...
- Love that. - (Justin) Yeah, they recognize us
pretty much everywhere. I recall my Christmas vacation,
I went skiing and I had goggles, snow cap, jacket up to here.
I guess all that you could see was my mask and still got recognized.
- Justin Timberlake reminds me of a TikTok boy, 100%.
- (Justin) We just get recognized pretty much wherever we go.
- I know that feeling. Sometimes, I see a person,
and they're like, "Are you Noelle Louie?"
I'm like, "Yes. Who's asking?" - (React) Okay, so you know
who that band is. - I don't know the name!
Okay, hold on. Let me think. ♪ Bye, bye, bye ♪
♪ Bye, bye ♪ ♪ (hums) ♪
Uh... ♪ And there ain't no lie ♪
♪ Baby, bye, bye, bye ♪ ♪ Bye, bye ♪
- Isn't-- okay, I don't wanna butcher the name, but isn't it NSYNC?
- (React) Can you name the members of NSYNC?
- No. No. (laughs) Justin Timberlake.
- Okay, we have Lance Bass, (ding)
Justin Timberlake, (ding)
Joey Fatone. (ding)
There's an A, right? There's-- no?
- (React) There's another J, JC Chavez.
- JC. And then... - (React) And then Chris Kirkpatrick.
- Oh, I wouldn't have gotten Chris. - (React) What do you think
about their fashion? Are they wearing the kinds of clothes
that you or your friends would wear today?
- Honestly, yeah. That's the fit right there.
Good stuff. - I think this is new pretty much,
because the rings, the exact same-- I wear rings, and I know people
with hairstyles like that. I sometimes wear hairstyles old too.
- I feel like fashion is always recycled,
and I think a lot of people are kind of in the '90s,
like the Y2K type things. - I feel like clothes,
as they become less binary, everyone just gets to look
a lot cooler, so yeah. I like how that can adjust to now
when more people can just wear what they love and not be as judged.
- (narrator) The season actually begins in March,
but there was a time this day marks the true spring awakening.
- Oh, this is giving me midsummer energy.
Midsummer energy! Oh my gosh. This--
- (narrator) Maybe you even danced around one.
The tradition spans centuries and continents with its origins
as varied as the costumes. - I've seen this, but I don't know
what it is. - (narrator) The maypole even did
a cameo on the lawn of the White House.
- (woman) Keep going. - (narrator) These days,
it's a faded custom. But in a few places
across the country, there are signs of a comeback.
In fact, it... - The flower crowns.
I'm getting flashbacks! I'm getting flashbacks
from that movie. - (React) Are you familiar
with the tradition of wrapping the maypole?
- No. And I'm happy I am. It doesn't look very fun.
Woo, yeah, let's go wrap a stick! Yeah!
- Yes. And I did not-- I did not-- I thought
it wasn't that fun. I mean, it was cool,
but I did not find it amusing. We got to choose our colors.
It was kind of like-- it wasn't like a flag,
but we got to choose our colors, so I did pink, of course.
- (React) So, for context, wrapping of the maypole
originally began in Europe. It was a ritual
that celebrated fertility, but once it made its way
to the United States, elementary-aged kids in the '70s,
'80s, and in the '90s would wrap the maypole at school
to celebrate the beginning of spring. - That's fun! I feel like
that's kind of fun. I love that. I love the flower crowns
and all that stuff. And I guess that back then,
it wasn't like a-- you know, really like a--
you know, like a cultish thing. But now, whenever I see
something like that, I think of midsummer,
and then I think of cults, and then I think
of all this type of stuff. - Oh yeah.
Oh yeah. - ♪ You're the challenge
of a lifetime ♪
- Ohhh yeah! - Oh, wait! I think I remember these.
- ♪ You're the one I have to beat ♪ ♪ One of us must face the beat ♪
- ♪ Victory will be so sweet ♪ ♪ Simon ♪
♪ You're the challenge of a lifetime ♪ - I don't really know what's going on.
- (kids cheering) - Wow. That looked horrible.
The graphics on that looked not good at all.
- I don't really know what was-- like, he was tapping it,
and he was like, "I'm gonna beat you,"
but I don't know what was really going on. (laughs)
- I have a Simon! And it gets annoying,
because when you quit, it still starts talking.
So, that's why I feel the pain. - (React) Okay, so you're familiar
with Simon, that game. You know, as you know,
it's a memory game. It was really popular in the '80s
and in the '90s. And as you said,
that electronic device, it prompts you with tones
and sequences that you have to repeat from memory.
It becomes more difficult. And then, as it becomes faster,
and you can't keep up, then you lose.
It does sound like a fun game, doesn't it?
Yes, I would still love to play it.
- (React) Well, today is your lucky day,
because we dug up a Simon game... - No way.
- (React) ...from the FBE vault to test your speed and memory
on this old school game. - No way! Okay.
(starting tones chime)
- (React) Okay, let's see what you got.
- Okay. I feel like I'm gonna embarrass myself. Oh!
(tones chiming)
(buzzer) - Ahhh, no!
(tones chiming) (buzzer)
- (React) Do you think kids should play these kinds
of games more often? - If they wanna get anxiety
from-- no, I lost! - Okay, okay.
Green, red. It stopped after red.
(tones chiming)
(buzzer) Ah!
- (React) What's the most difficult part that you remember
about playing Simon? - Probably getting it--
when it would go faster, probably just having my brain
split in two to get the colors. I feel like a lot of people
have short-term memory with being on the computer.
I'm one of them. But just being on the computer
and the phone all the time, I feel like our memories
are compromised a little bit. So, I feel like this would help.
- (React) Which one of these should be left in the past?
- Definitely that tutorial on how to do that burn a disc thing.
No! (chuckles) That was horrible.
- One thing we should have again today would probably
be, I think, more maypole.
More maypole and more Simon.
- I feel like things are a lot easier for us,
and we have just more options for everything.
We don't have to burn a CD, but we get to choose,
like, oh, do I wanna use Spotify? Do I wanna use Apple Music?
SoundCloud? We just have a lot more stuff available to us.
- We are living in the modern day now. We don't wrap sticks around--
we don't wrap string around the whatever pole that was.
We don't have pet rocks. We have VR that could take us
into another plane of existence.
- Thanks for watching this episode of React.
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Let us know in the comments. - Thanks for watching!
See you next time. Peace. - Hey, guys! It's Sierra,
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