Episode 0: Hey Young World

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Hi, thanks for tuning in to Ruining Your Childhood - The Pitfalls of Nostalgia. My name is Colin. Sometimes I go by other names. David Caress. Feral Williams. Hash Adams is probably what I'm most commonly known as. Once upon a time as The Hashtronaut. I used to make music. I stopped and now I am trying something new... Makin' a podcast! Located out here in Portland, Oregon. I have two co hosts, sometimes three that you will hear frequently alongside myself. We have Rob Van Winkle, aka Araless, as many know him in the Seattle music scene. He is one part of the Black Magic Noize crew. Another part of that Black Magic Noize crew is MadShroom MC. Our good buddy just relocated out to Brooklyn, New York. So we have a little bit of east coast in us too. This is a nationwide podcast. The rarest of the members is a man known as Vaughnilla. Vaughn is a good man. He is a cook, he is from Seattle, Washington. He also is in the Black Magic Noize. I am the only person not in the Black Magic Noize. I might have to talk to them about that. But that being said, I don't really make music anymore. Vaughn: fantastic cook. You will hear his voice periodically, as well.

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What is it about? Why are you listening? Why are you going to listen? Why are you NOT going to listen? All of these things, you're probably wondering as you are listening. Ruining Your Childhood is about a plethora of different things, we have a lot of different things that are on the docket. Essentially, the reason that I wanted to make this podcast was I was kind of lonely, but I'm not gonna lie. And I thought about the concept of recording some of the phone calls that I was having with a couple of my friends. And I just missed the organic banter that you have with a friend that it doesn't matter how long it's been since you've seen them, but it's like you didn't miss a beat. I sincerely hope that all of you have friendships like that, that you have experienced throughout your life and that you get to continue to experience. I moved to Portland, Oregon from Bellingham, Washington, which is where I grew up. I came here largely because of money. I knew I wanted to leave Bellingham and I did not have enough money to move to Seattle, which is where a lot of my friends were at the time besides Bellingham, of course, but I felt I had felt a kind of strangling sensation by being in Bellingham, I knew I needed to get out. It was a very hard decision. I struggled with it for multiple years, because I had so many good friendships and still have so many good friendships there. Of course, through a lot of those away just by you know, not being in the same vicinity, one of the psychological effects of proximity is likeness, which means that we are friends with the people that we are around. So essentially, you move, you know, a couple 100 miles away, and you don't see a lot of those same people thus, you're not in their thoughts. Maybe you are but you know, just it's not easy for people to pick up the phone these days, even though they're on it all the time. So, but what is it about? Let's go back to that question.

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I have been getting into the field of psychology for the last couple years. I am currently studying to get either a media psychology degree or a sports psychology degree. I've been debating about that for a while. I like to explore these psychological concepts that exist in gray areas and don't really have right or wrong answers more often than not, and if they do actually have right answers, which a lot of times they do. It is very well thought out and it is provable. The concept that I enjoy the most is nostalgia. It is something that I knew right away, that is a very powerful concept for me. You know, I know, organic and or natural foods are much better, but I still crave Little Caesars, McDonald's and Papa Murphy's every single day. And that's because I was raised on it. So it's like, even though my gut hurts, and I could be pooping fire, or I could be vomiting, it's that feeling of being eight years old again, when everything was okay. And it's that feeling that I go back to that's what I want to go back to somewhere like, you know, part of the reason that you get the nostalgia from those foods is the consistency. I worked in the food industry for almost 15 years. And I've always said, consistency is the most important factor to bring customers back, if you can remind them of that time when everything was happier, or maybe it wasn't happy. But you know, it's just a good, good meal. That's a very powerful thing.

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So nostalgia is one of those concepts that exists in an area that there are not a lot of right or wrong answers. But a lot of things happen because of nostalgia, and I want to explore that more. It's not just nostalgia that I want to talk about, though, I want to talk about things like the moral breaking points, which actually nostalgia is the cause of at some point and when I mean, the breaking points. I mean, it's like where morals shift where something is so good that you don't, you don't really care about the negatives attached to it anymore. The perfect example for that is Chick fil A, a lot of people say you know, I represent an ally to the LGBTQ community. However, Chick fil A is really good. And those peach milkshakes, holy shit, right? So then you have a person that has these two different thought processes, this cognitive dissonance going on in their head. And I like to call it the breaking point, as well as other nostalgic concepts. You know, we like to talk about old fast food items as I've told you my love of fast food and the reasons for that, and various media breakdowns. You know, we ask can good artists make bad art, can can bad artists make good art? I will say it here in the intro. I love the Lord of the Rings as a story. I think the movies were absolute garbage. We will talk about that a lot throughout the seasons. We like to do deep dives into songs, songs that you might not understand. You might be like, What was that song about? You know, you think thinking about it a long time back in the day. Misunderstood lyrics back before the internet. You know, listening to a song on the radio, you didn't really know what it was saying. And then you just kind of made stuff up. Yeah, things like that.

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We rank insults, insults that don't have swear words. We rank hold music. Kevin is going to be giving us his food highlights from New York. You might be asking yourself, when can I hear these new podcast episodes? Well, we will be releasing an episode every Sunday at midnight. Eastern Standard Time. That is 9pm West Coast time Saturday, and you will be able to hear the newest episode. We got a couple episodes coming out here. Soon, you'll be able to hear us on Spotify, Apple and anywhere that you listen to your podcasts. You can follow us on Twitter. Follow us @nostalgiapit that is @nostalgiapit. You can follow me @the hashtronaut. You could follow Rob @araless and you can follow Mad Shroom @madshroomMC. I want to thank you for tuning in and giving us a chance. There's so much entertainment out in the world. And this is gonna be really fun. The first few episodes, the audio quality isn't as great and as the episodes will progress, the audio quality will get better. Please like I said Follow us on twitter give us any opinions. Anything that you have to say if you want to chime in about your opinion about my hot takes. Please do. I am all for a good debate. If you want to make fun of me. That's understandable. I understand that probably 95% of the people in the world hate me. And you know, that is what it is. But that's not why you're here. You're here because you're confused and you clicked on the wrong podcast, but get excited because Ruining Your Childhood - The Pitfalls of Nostalgia is coming soon to your audio waves every Sunday midnight Eastern Standard Time.