#295: Millennial Time Capsule
A Beautiful Mess Podcast
Elsie Larson and Emma Chapman
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
This week we're entering a world in which there are no iPhones, no internet, no apps, no online shopping, no social media no steaming and no smart tech of any kind. Yes: We're traveling to a land where you get advice from magazines, information from encylopedias and to speak to someone you must pick up the phone and dial numbers.
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Things we miss:
- magazines (specifically at Borders bookstore)
- malls in the 1900s
- AOL chat
- maps
- phone books
- phone calls on land lines
- listening to an album start to finish on the day it came out
- scheduling your entire life around your favorite tv show
- no one being about to reach you
- Toys R Us (is an amazon childhood)
- computer lab
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The Beautiful Mess podcast, your cozy comfort listen. I'm your host Elsie Larson, |
| 0:10.1 | and I'm your host, Emma Chathman. This week, we're entering a world with no iPhones, no internet, |
| 0:15.5 | no apps, no online shopping, no social media or streaming, and no smart tech of any kind. Yes, we're traveling to a world where you get advice from magazines, information from encyclopedias, and to speak to someone, you have to pick up a phone and dial actual numbers. So this is our millennial time capsule episode, |
| 0:42.4 | everything that will die with millennials. Yes. Release your inhibitions, feel the rain on your skin. |
| 0:49.6 | Yeah. And if all the things we just said sound like so old to you, like a time before when you were born, |
| 0:56.3 | you are probably some of our youngest listeners because this is all stuff that's just normal |
| 1:00.2 | from our childhood. |
| 1:01.5 | Welcome. |
| 1:02.1 | Welcome. |
| 1:03.1 | We're your aunties. |
| 1:04.5 | Gather around. |
| 1:05.4 | Welcome youngsters. |
| 1:06.1 | We have stories from the 1900s to share. |
| 1:09.5 | I just went prom dress shopping with my little niece, and I was trying to describe to her, I will more in this episode, but the 1990s mall and how vastly superior it was. |
| 1:21.1 | It really was. |
| 1:22.6 | And it's so annoying when old people, like us, say that the past was better, right? |
| 1:27.4 | But then you become one of those old people, and you're like, ah, but it was. |
| 1:31.8 | I don't necessarily think the past is better, but I think that these, so we made a list of 10 things. |
| 1:37.8 | Not everything. That we have nostalgia for that we miss from the 1900s. I love saying 1900s. Let's say that as many times in the |
| 1:46.0 | 1900s. It's just so funny. And, you know, these are memories that millennial people are the |
| 1:52.8 | last living people. We will be the last living people on this planet who have these specific |
| 1:57.4 | memories. So I think they're special. And I would like to somehow enter this |
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