Millennial Moodboard

Oh Blockbuster, you beautiful blue and yellow staple of our childhood weekends! Strolling through those dirtily-carpeted aisles, fighting over movie choices with your family, wishing the completely checked-out teen cashier thought you were cool. If you miss the cleaning feeling of popping open a new VHS or the panic of returning it on time to skip the late fees, tune into this episode. Reminisce with us about the weekend event of renting physical media from Blockbuster, gone too soon due to the petty squabbles of CEOs making terrible decisions, but never forgotten!
Honorable mentions include Gone with the Wind, John Mayer (ew), Discovery Zone, classic commercials, the Oregon Trail, and more!
What are your favorite memories of renting videos? Comment on our posts or DM us at @MillennialMoodboardPod or email us at millennialmoodboardpodcast@gmail.com!
Links to videos we watched:
Blockbuster Video - The Perfect Video Store 1992
Blockbuster Video - Carl + Ray Commercial 2002 w Jim Belushi James Woods
Blockbuster Video - Until The Bitter End Commercial
This episode was researched, written, and hosted by Jasmine Ellis, Valerie Tosi, and Pallavi Gunalan. New episodes every Monday!
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Remember the suspense, excitement, and energy of READING as a kid? What about shopping with friends and classmates DURING school? If you love budgeting and gel pens, you were a fan of the life-altering Scholastic Book Fairs brought directly to your elementary school library. Learn about the meteoric rise of the Scholastic Book Fair, how the company branched out internationally and into education, and reminisce on your favorite authors and series that shaped the most formative years in your bibliophilic development. This episode features special guest Dr. (and Adjunct Professor!) Amy Silverberg, who received her PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from USC, and also happens to be an excellent stand-up comedian!
Here’s the team’s assigned summer reading list to stimulate the mind of your inner child featuring our most beloved books and authors:
Amy: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, The Boxcar Children, Nancy Drew, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. Curious George, A Wrinkle in Time, CS Lewis’ The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe series, Babysitters Club (shout-out to diabetic Stacey), Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, The Secret Garden, The Giving Tree, The Berenstain Bears
Pallavi: Clifford, The Pokey Little Puppy (amongst other Golden Books), Bunnicula, Ramona The Pest, The Lord of the Ring Series, Sweet Valley High, Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, The Secret Seven, The Famous Five, Ella Enchanted, Tuck Everlasting, A Wrinkle in Time, Roald Dahl, Shel Silverstein, Goose Bumps, The Boxcar Children, Sideways Stories from a Wayside School, Where the Wild Things Are, The Secret Garden, The Giver
Valerie: Where The Red Fern Grows, A Ring Of Endless Light, A Prayer For Owen Meany, Bridge To Terabithia, The Babysitters Club, The Boxcar Children, Sweet Valley High, Goosebumps, The Face On The Milk Carton, Both Sides Of Time, Summer Of My German Soldier, Sideways Stories From Wayside School, Lord Of The Flies, Tuck Everlasting, Sarah, Plain And Tall, Fear Street, Jane Eyre, The Adventures Of The Bailey School Kids (Vampires Don’t Wear Polka Dots), Watership Down
Jasmine: American Girl books (especially Addy & Molly), Magic Attic Club, Baby Sitters Club, Junie B Jones, Roald Dahl (especially The Witches and Matilda), Cheetah Girls by Deborah Gregory, The Princess Diaries series, Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging, Stargirl, Rainbow Boys
What were your faves from the book fair? Comment on our posts or DM us at @MillennialMoodboardPod or email us at millennialmoodboardpodcast@gmail.com!
This episode was researched, written, and hosted by Jasmine Ellis, Valerie Tosi, and Pallavi Gunalan. New episodes every Monday!
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Get some alone time in your family’s computer room and dust the cobwebs off that username, we’re logging in to AIM (aka American Online Instant Messenger): millennials’ first taste of the internet as social media! Do you remember the dulcet dial up tones? The yearning and the sneaking around? The (alarmingly dangerous in retrospect) chat rooms? Tune into this episode to learn about the rise (and fall) of AIM and how it changed the way we all communicate in the internet era.
Honorable mentions of this episode: Gray hairs, Jessica Simpson heels, Jewel, millennial meet cutes, internet abbreviations, the sexual tension of Facebook poking, https://smarterchild.chat/ (you’ll definitely want to explore this), and more.
What was your old username? DM us on socials at @MillennialMoodboardPod or email us at millennialmoodboardpodcast@gmail.com!
This episode was researched, written, and hosted by Jasmine Ellis, Valerie Tosi, and Pallavi Gunalan. New episodes every Monday!
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Follow the show on social media: @MillennialMoodboardPod
Watch the episodes and subscribe here: / @millennialmoodboardpod
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See Valerie on tour: https://valerietosi.com/
See Pallavi on tour: https://www.pallavigunalan.com/
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Cozy up on the big orange couch, fellow millennials, cause this week we're yapping about SNICK: Nickelodeon's sacred two-hour block of perfection programming that still holds up today. Between Clarissa Explains It All, Are You Afraid of the Dark, All That, Kenan & Kel, and more, SNICK gave us sketch comedy, spooky campfire stories, weird crushes, and enough tween chaos to make us feel like we had plans. Jump in to hear what shows defined the era, why it went away, and how a programming block somehow became a core memory for all of us.
PS: Sorry not sorry about the runaway train roasting our amazing producer, Kyle.
Honorable mentions of this episode: Mandatory naps, Heated Rivalry, VHS tapes, Slime ingredients, smoking indoors, Goosebumps, clown propaganda, Dora the Explorer, dope theme songs, Duolingo, and more.
What was your favorite show on SNICK? DM us on socials at @MillennialMoodboardPod or email us at millennialmoodboardpodcast@gmail.com!Links to videos we watched:
SNICK Opening 1993
SNICK Or Treat - Bumpers from October 1993
This episode was researched, written, and hosted by Jasmine Ellis, Valerie Tosi, and Pallavi Gunalan. New episodes every Monday!
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Remember waiting 47 minutes for a mislabeled MP3 to download while accidentally committing music piracy on the family Dell? This week, we’re getting into the rise and fall of Napster, the file-sharing free-for-all that terrified the music industry, pissed off Metallica, and changed the way we listen to music forever.
Honorable mentions of this episode: Silicon Valley, Limewire, Boston, Spice Girls, Dr. Dre, anti-piracy commercials, Facebook, iTunes, Fyre Festival, Boy Meets World, jewel toned CD cases, and more.
What albums did you illegally download back in the day? DM us on socials at @MillennialMoodboardPod or email us at millennialmoodboardpodcast@gmail.com!
This episode was researched, written, and hosted by Jasmine Ellis, Valerie Tosi, and Pallavi Gunalan. New episodes every Monday!
Join our Patreon: / millennialmoodboardpod
Follow the show on social media: @MillennialMoodboardPod
Watch the episodes and subscribe here: / @millennialmoodboardpod
See Jasmine on tour: https://jasmineelliscomedy.com/
See Valerie on tour: https://valerietosi.com/
See Pallavi on tour: https://www.pallavigunalan.com/
Follow Jasmine on social media: @jasmineelliscomedy
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Before teen dramas were full of 28-year-olds playing sophomores, there was Degrassi: the Canadian after-school fever dream that gave millennials pregnancy scares, school shootings, eating disorders, instant-message scandals, and Drake in a wheelchair. This week, your hosts get into some of the show's insane plots, how they scarred us in the name of life lessons, and why Canada somehow understood American teen anxiety better than anyone.
Honorable mentions of this episode: Vampire Diaries, Buffy, Mall tours, message boards, Halloween specials, Euphoria, whale tales, Taking Back Sunday, Pluto TV, acid rain, and more.
Did you watch Degrassi? We’re dying to know your thoughts and fave episodes. DM us on socials at @MillennialMoodboardPod or email us at millennialmoodboardpodcast@gmail.com!
This episode was researched, written, and hosted by Jasmine Ellis, Valerie Tosi, and Pallavi Gunalan. New episodes every Monday!
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Panic! At the turn of the century (and the millennium). Nothing like the fear of global power outages and the threat of an accidental nuclear missile launch to put a damper on your NYE plans. This week we get into what the hell caused the Y2K panic, just how extra people were, and what ultimately happened when the clock struck midnight on January 1st, 2000.
Honorable mentions of this episode: Life Alert, Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special, Bat Boy, Skip-It, Little Debbie snacks Can’t Hardly Wait, Bubbletape, and more.
Millennials, where were you on December 31st 1999? Did you throw caution to the wind and party anyway, or did you hunker down and try not to sob into your Surge? DM us on socials at @MillennialMoodboardPod or email us atmillennialmoodboardpodcast@gmail.com and give us the tea!
This episode was researched, written, and hosted by Jasmine Ellis, Valerie Tosi, and Pallavi Gunalan. New episodes every Monday!
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2000s Fashion: wtf were we thinking?? From ripped jeans to accessories, your hosts go over all the classic 2000s fashion trends and their formative first fit of school memories.
Honorable mentions of this episode: Lizzie McGuire, Destiny's Child, Cheetah Girls, Britney Spears, and more.
Millennials, got your own 2000s fashion fails and fearlessness? We wanna hear all about it! DM us on socials at @MillennialMoodboardPod or email us at millennialmoodboardpodcast@gmail.com!
This episode was researched, written, and hosted by Jasmine Ellis, Valerie Tosi, and Pallavi Gunalan. New episodes every Monday!
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Follow the show on social media: @MillennialMoodboardPod
Watch the episodes and subscribe here: / @millennialmoodboardpod
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See Valerie on tour: https://valerietosi.com/
See Pallavi on tour: https://www.pallavigunalan.com/
Follow Jasmine on social media: @jasmineelliscomedy
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Welcome to the very first episode of Millennial Moodboard! We don’t waste any time diving into one of the most memorable moments of our Millennial culture: Spring Break, baby! Your hosts Jasmine, Valerie, and Pallavi discuss the absolutely wild time when MTV’s Spring Break and BET’s Spring Bling reigned supreme.
Spring break programming tapped into a huge millennial fantasy: beaches, celebrities, live performances, reality TV tie-ins, VJs, wacky contests, and the illusion that regular ‘ol people could be discovered by showing up in the right bikini at the right beach. Now, we have TikTok for that, and we gotta be honest, it does not hit the same.
Honorable mentions of this episode: early 2000s reality TV, Carson Daly, TRL, America’s Next Top Model, Parental Control, Next, Road Rules, Degrassi, Drake, Girls Gone Wild, Operation Repo, millennial drinking culture, pre-smartphone life, and lots more!
Millennials, got your own Spring Break stories? We wanna hear ‘em! DM us on socials at @MillennialMoodboardPod or email us at millennialmoodboardpodcast@gmail.com!
This episode was researched, written, and hosted by Jasmine Ellis, Valerie Tosi, and Pallavi Gunalan. New episodes every Monday!
Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Millennialmoodboardpod
Follow the show on social media: @MillennialMoodboardPod
Watch the episodes and subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/@MillennialMoodboard
See Jasmine on tour: https://jasmineelliscomedy.com/
See Valerie on tour: https://valerietosi.com/
See Pallavi on tour: https://www.pallavigunalan.com/
 
Follow Jasmine on social media: @jasmineelliscomedy
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Welcome to Millennial Moodboard, the newest podcast and brainchild of comedians Jasmine Ellis, Valerie Tosi, and Pallavi Gunalan. The show combines nostalgia with introspection as the hosts bring you pop culture with a millennial spin.
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