At what point will our children refer to 2020 as the 20s?
But at some point I'm going to guess that our ancestors, if somebody was living in the year, let's say somebody was born in 70, 1880, and they live well into the 1900. At some point they must have had that same question running through their head. Right? I mean, if suddenly it's you're referring to the 70s, you're talking about 1870
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:12
And then you could look at the road map of Elon Musk and say, well, soon we'll have flying suits and everything feels so strange. So the nostalgia of talking about a decade is so weird now, because back in other day, I think decades really were slow moving. And now everything can happen in a decade, like inventions can change lives. In the same decade that wars broke out and there was famine, there was a pandemic
Deborah, good morning. I just noticed you left a response to my question. Thank you so much. Yeah, it is interesting. You said it so incredibly well. And there's something about don't know if it's a state of mind. Today is my birthday. Today. I'm 49, and I don't know if it's a state of mind, of being in a certain place in a certain time
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:34
Happy birthday to you? Happy birthday to you? Happy birthday, dear Joe, happy birthday to you see, that's why this is a cool app. I agree with you everything you said. Yes. Yes, yes. I love the legacy part that we can continue to hear ourselves in sort of an audio Journal. And to your point, about the Ten? S and the 20s or the 2000s, I agree with you
Gail O'Sullivan
@gnossos · 1:47
Hello, Deborah and Joe and anyone else who hears this. I've enjoyed your conversation so far about the odds. That's what I was hoping we'd call them the 2000s, the Tens. Maybe we'd call them the teens. And here we are in the 20s. I think people are going to call it the 20s immediately. I don't think we're going to get too many years away from the 20s or even in the middle of them without wanting to call them that
Deborah from Jersey. So I'm playing the piano with my right hand. I'm gonna hold the phone in my left hand. I've never done this before quite like this. I'm gonna sing a song from the Boss since he you from Jersey. You're inspired in this. I don't like Bruce Springsteen, but this one song he wrote is a masterpiece, and I love it
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:38
I've been meaning to do it. A small cast called that Voice, and that's I'm doing it tomorrow, and we're just going to sing. That's all we're going to do. No talking. Just singing. I was awesome. Wow. Thank you. Thank you
Allan Matthes
@AllanMatthes · 2:53
I listened to 60s on six on series XM and 70s on seven on series XM. And those are feeling times more than just individual years. So I kind of think that the decades start counting once you've gotten kind of your feet wet in the century and like, it's shorthand, it's kind of blocking it into eight groups. Twentys, thirtys, fortys, fiftys, sixtys, seventys and 80s and 90s, and then you start over and you're kind of getting your bearings on the century
I'm young enough yet old enough that when I watch something from the 70s, if I'm watching a rerun of Barretta or the streets of San Francisco or The Incredible Hulk, there's a feeling to those shows that brings me back to being a kid. I remember what those cars looked like. I remember the simplicity of the way people were and how social was really the interaction between people. I also grew up in Italy in the late 70s to mid 80s and Italy
Allan Matthes
@AllanMatthes · 4:32
There was a lot of just year to year going that we were getting into the new century, and I would think probably other people 100 years ago had other same kind of fogginess, except like the Wright brothers, that kind of marked out the beginning of that century, which resulted in a lot of that technology going into World War One. When I was born and 50. It was right before the Korean War was started and the whole nuclear threat was on already
Aside from kind of one off here's a Championship that was won. Here's a crash real estate stock market crash here's, the towers falling. But again, I couldn't tell you the difference between 2008 and 2012. At least that's me. And I know I'm sorry. I keep on saying the same thing over and over, but yeah, interesting stuff. Yeah, I've grown up in the 50s
Allan Matthes
@AllanMatthes · 4:57
Gas was way under $0.50 a gallon, not until the 70s to go up to one dollars. And that was a real strain on everybody because they weren't used to that. So a lot of big cars, I didn't drive anything until I was actually in College when I was student teaching in 71. It was good. I mean, he had the terror of the world threat, but everybody had to believe that God was going to get us through it