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Dolls of Our Lives

The One Where We Got Tamagotchi Pets

Dolls of Our Lives

Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney

Society & Culture, History

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

For this episode, Mary and Allison bravely took on a pair of brand-new Tamagotchi digital pets. It's true what folks say: the days are long, but the Tamagotchi years go very fast (especially when you hit the reset button). Learn about the origins of digital pets and hear our cautionary tales about the care and keeping of virtual creatures, including Neopets.

 

Original air date: August 23, 2023

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0:00.0

Welcome everyone to Dawes of Our Lives. This is the show where we're reliving the American Girl series book by book.

0:17.0

Except here on Patreon or we take your suggestions and our own and cover things we think live within the world of our show. Now Allison

0:26.2

before we get into this week's topic which we're really you know we can't

0:31.7

wait to get to we do need to just like prepare yourselves everyone this is sad moment we need to have a moment

0:38.0

of in memorial for five individuals that have mattered to us that have passed.

0:45.7

Can we read some names off?

0:47.3

Allison, do you wanna, if you're prepared,

0:49.5

if you're open to it?

0:50.9

Yeah, so Tina, Uma, Alberto, and Victoria are my four. And I just had one who was named

0:59.2

super needy, Tamagachi, Mahoney Newman. Oh!

1:03.9

You know, it's hard to say their name out loud

1:07.2

because they've passed, they're dead.

1:10.2

And some might say it my hands.

1:12.2

Legislatively, we hope that's not how that works out, but, you know, of course we're just, we want to have a moment of silence for our tomagoches who didn't make it to today's recording date. We truly in my case we hardly knew you.

1:27.6

I will say so we're gonna chart our journeys with taking care of tomagogy creatures. I'm going to say creatures. This was a

1:35.6

Patreon request and I will say I don't think that a Patreon topic we've covered

1:41.7

has made me laugh or cause me to do as much work as this

1:46.2

episode. I think that's fair and I should say I also went on the journey of

1:50.4

neopets and my neopet is named on a newman 87 and they're thriving they're fine and I'll get

1:58.0

into that at the end but like that was a completely different and some would say

2:02.1

less traumatic journey but yeah I have not felt as crazed as you know bargaining with higher power laughing these instructions which we'll get into are insane. It's been wild. It's been quite quite a period of time here.

2:19.3

Let's kind of put this in like a pet landscape for you as a person did you have I'm going to say

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