Jul 31, 2026 · 1 hr 15 min · 15 segments
Nostalgia! Why does it make us sad? Is nostalgia dangerous? Julie takes the girls through the history of the actual word nostalgia and how drastically it's meaning has changed since 1688. Ashley and…
Julie RosingHost
Joel WachowskiGuest
Ashley Brooke RobertsHost
Ed LarsonHostAmber NelsonHost
Woo! Yay! Very trendy word, right? So companies use it to sell us retro cassette players, but its origins had a very different meaning, which I found very fascinating as I was diving into it.
And talking to you guys, you know, Ashley just brought up her own feelings of nostalgia that I was like, oh, this is like deeper than this is deeper than like pop sockets and, you know, McDonald's toys.
At times I enjoy, but I'm very suspicious of collective nostalgia because I feel like society gets things wrong a lot.
Oh, like the Mandela effect? More like the Lost Cause, like romanticizing the past.
Like how the Lost Cause looks back at the pre-Civil War and they go, oh, the Confederates were noble men and women.
And it's not the word nostalgia because we weren't allowed around during pre-Civil War, unless we're all vampires, let me know.
Woo! Yay! Very trendy word, right? So companies use it to sell us retro cassette players, but its origins had a very different meaning, which I found very fascinating as I was diving into it.
And talking to you guys, you know, Ashley just brought up her own feelings of nostalgia that I was like, oh, this is like deeper than this is deeper than like pop sockets and, you know, McDonald's toys.
At times I enjoy, but I'm very suspicious of collective nostalgia because I feel like society gets things wrong a lot.
Oh, like the Mandela effect? More like the Lost Cause, like romanticizing the past.
Like how the Lost Cause looks back at the pre-Civil War and they go, oh, the Confederates were noble men and women.
And it's not the word nostalgia because we weren't allowed around during pre-Civil War, unless we're all vampires, let me know.
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