♪ (rock intro) ♪
- (FBE) So, Carson,
what do you remember
from the day you were born?
- Uh, uh, well, I was born.
- (FBE) Well, today,
we're gonna take a look at just that.
- Me being born?! (laughs)
That's weird.
- (FBE) We're gonna show you
some of the highlights
from that special day,
and we'll see what you think.
- That's interesting.
We've done this before with years,
you know, but it'll be interesting
to see what kind of things
happened around the world maybe
on that specific day.
- (FBE) To start, we're gonna
show you trailer
from the biggest movie release
the week you were born.
- Oh, my. Okay.
Ooh, is it a film noir?
That was kind of big back then.
- Mm, maybe a Disney movie. Who knows?
'95, maybe Lion King?
♪ (triumphant music) ♪
- It was a Disney movie!
- (sergeant) Yes, sir.
- (gasps) Toy Story. That's right.
- (sergeant) We are code red.
Recon plan Charlie: Execute!
- You know, just a few weeks ago,
I was watching the Toy Story films,
and boy, does the animation
of one not hold up.
But for the time,
this was insane, I'm sure.
- (voice-over) Walt Disney
Pictures presents...
The adventure takes off
when toys come to life.
- (Buzz) To infinity and beyond!
- (voice-over) Toy Story.
- Wow, that logo even looks weird.
I never thought about
what the Toy Story trailer was,
you know? And that was probably teased
all throughout the year I was born
until finally...
That's insane, man.
That's crazy.
♪ (ethereal music) ♪
- Hey. Is that--
no, that's not Shia. Wait, what--
"Do extraordinary things."
Is this Pearl--
no, this isn't Pearl Harbor.
I recognize him.
Is that Matthew McConaughey?
- (Coonan) The S-33 will rendezvous
with the U-boat, posing as the German
resupply sub.
- This doesn't-- I'm not gonna lie.
This doesn't look great,
but it does-- I'm seeing a bunch
of familiar faces.
- (voice-over) But just when
they thought the mission was over...
- They were wrong!
- (voice-over) ...their ride home.
Trapped in an enemy submarine...
- (Tyler) I need speed!
- (Klough) Everything's in German!
- (man) I can't equalize the tubes!
- I can't read! I can't read!
♪ (dramatic music) ♪
(in low pitch) Join us
on this action-packed adventure
on I Can't Read.
- (voice-over) U-571.
- Never heard
of that movie in my life.
I've seen a lot of older movies,
especially in the 2000 era.
I have a lot
of favorite submarine ones
in particular.
Crimson Tide is my personal favorite
or Red October.
Compared to those,
don't look anywhere near as good.
♪ (dramatic music) ♪
- Anna Karenina.
Oh, that's a tear-jerker.
Vivian Leigh.
Boy, kind of disappointing
to be only
in black and white, huh?
The thing is, they were
doing colored movies.
It's just black and white
was cheaper.
I mean, 1939, Gone With the Wind.
That was in color.
I'm getting the whole movie! (laughs)
This is the way to watch it.
The abbreviated version.
Oh, see. This is near the end.
Oh, and she just can't--
I have seen that movie.
Not when it came out.
I don't think the Russian dramas
would go very well.
It's kind of plodding,
and I think we're more
into things being quick.
And certainly,
we would want color.
- (voice-over) If you liked
what Donald Sutherland
and Elliott Gould did
to the United States Army
in M*A*S*H...
- It was a movie before it was a show?
Movie called S*P*Y*S.
Is that how you spell spies?
I don't think
that's correct spelling.
Oh my gosh. Oh!
I'm pretty sure my dad
had a suit very similar.
The music is just so strange.
- (voice-over) Deadly
in hand-to-hand combat.
- That's not appropriate.
That's when cars were made
out of metal.
♪ (lighthearted music) ♪
Twentieth Century Fox.
They still around. Okay. That's good.
Oh, my. I see myself
maybe watching 10, 15 minutes
and then deciding
it's probably not for me.
- (FBE) So, now,
we're actually gonna show you
the top song from the week
you were born.
- Ooh.
- Music, I feel like maybe I might
enjoy a little bit more.
- (FBE) Unfortunately, we may have
to swap out the audio
for our audience,
but you still get to hear a snippet.
- Right, right. I'll let you know
what song it is.
- (chuckles) Oh, my.
It kind of sounds
like a country song.
That was the top song
the week I was born.
I hope the rest of the year
got better.
- I have no idea what this is.
I have none.
Santana? Have I heard of that?
He does sound familiar,
but it's not coming to mind.
I still think people
probably listen to it.
I just have never heard of it.
- Whitney Houston! Okay.
The '90s were all about
the R&B hits, dude.
It was all about
the slow jams, you know?
Very rarely do we get
any sort of R&B jams
like this anymore, you know?
There are those artists
that are doing it
and trying to breathe R&B revival.
- I mean, I have heard
this song many, many times.
My family members kinda got stuck
in that kind of era.
We know these songs
not because I was turning up
the radio at two years old.
That's why my kids know the '80s,
'cause, you know, I love that music.
They weren't deciding to listen to it
just like I wasn't deciding
to listen to this.
But it just becomes part of you.
- (FBE) Next up, we're gonna have you
guess the prices of certain items
on the day you were born
compared to what they are now.
- Oh, no.
This is an inflation thing, dude.
I don't even understand
how inflation works.
- I was pretty bomb
at the Price is Right,
but this was before my time
or era where I would've known.
I'm gonna try to remember
what my parents complained about.
- The first up we have is gas prices.
The current cost of gas in the US
is the average of $2.47.
- That's the average?
I wanna live wherever
the average is, bro.
Price of gas was so cheap
in the '90s, dude.
Let's do $1.30.
- Well, since I wasn't driving
until decades later,
nine cents a gallon.
- I'm gonna say it was,
like, 68 cents.
- Let's go $1.
Let's go $1.56.
- (FBE) It was actually...
- Oh! Really?
In the '60s,
when I started driving,
gas was 29 cents a gallon.
That's why I went so low.
- Ha! I was five off!
You know, it's like a birthday gift,
'cause I was almost right.
- Those were the days.
Ah. Dude, imagine driving a car
in '95, dude?
Could you imagine filling up on $15?
- I thought I was being so cheap!
I'm like, oh my god.
They're gonna be like,
"Girl, calm down. When was that?"
(gasps) Really?!
Well, now I know why
my parents have a heart attack
when they have to fill their tank!
- You hear these prices from this year,
and you go, "Oh my god!"
But what you have to remember
is that a teacher was maybe
making $300 a year.
So, you have to not be
as impressed as you initially are.
- (FBE) So, up next,
you'll be taking a guess
at the median cost
of a home in the US.
The current median in the US
is $226,800.
How expensive do you think it was
on the day you were born?
- I'm thinking it's like half of that.
I'm gonna say 100,000.
- Let's go with 7,300.
- 116,400.
- I remember my grandmother saying
that they bought their house
for, like, less than the price
of what they were selling cars for.
35,000?
- (FBE) The average cost of a house
on the day you were born was...
- Okay. So, a little--
I under-balled it.
Houses have doubled since then.
That's why it's so damn hard
for us to get homes.
- That is obviously way cheaper,
and that looks way nicer.
And especially,
I wish it was like that
in California where I live,
which is still double.
- Ooh! That's not bad.
I remember my parents got a house,
and I remember them complaining
about how expensive it was.
- Oh my god.
That kind of makes me
sick a little bit.
My kids, unless they win the lottery
or something
or unless all four of them
go in on one house,
they can't afford a house.
And they work very hard.
You know, full-ti--
and it just doesn't seem like
something they can even strive for,
so they don't!
They have no interest.
They're like, "Why?
We can't afford it."
And it's just so sad.
- (FBE) Finally, we're gonna
have you guess the average price
of a movie ticket.
- Oh.
- (FBE) Today, it is $9.37.
- I wanna go wherever tickets
are that much.
Dude, I remember $6
was the average ticket price.
You know what I'm saying?
I'ma say 5.5-- 5--
uh, ah, 5.30.
5.50, final answer.
- I'm going to guess...
chu, chu, chu, chu, chu...
75 cents.
- I'm gonna say, like, 45 cents?
- I remember my brothers
talking about this
the other day actually.
I think it was around $4?
- (FBE) Actual cost was...
- Oh! Wow. Even better.
I remember watching a lot
of movies at the drive-in.
It was kind of exciting.
And you put this--
you know, you got the speaker,
and you pulled the speaker up,
and you stuck it on your window.
- My parents definitely
took us to drive-ins,
'cause that was just more affordable.
For all of us, you only had to pay,
for, like, per vehicle.
1.89? I can't even imagine.
I would go to the movies every day
if that was the cost.
- I think one of the big reasons
why people are like, "Eh,
maybe we should do something else"
at the movies is because
tickets are so high.
So, you end up wanting
to have a cheap night out,
and you end up spending $50
on concessions and tickets.
- (FBE) To end this episode,
you'll be taking a look
at a cover of a Times magazine
that came out around your birthday.
- Oh! That's cool.
Am I in it? No?
Okay, probably not.
- (FBE) So, here's what
the front page looked like.
- Mm. "How to Save the Earth
and the heroes for the planet
who are making it happen."
Yes! (claps)
- Toscanini. Okay.
What was he conducting
at that point in time?
I think he was conducting
the Philharmonic, yeah.
But I'm not sure.
I think I remember seeing him
on television.
- "Is Bosnia Worth Dying For?
US Army Trooper Andrew F. Hawley
training in Germany for deployment
as a peacekeeper."
- "Nixon's Trip."
Gotta be before
his little, (clicks tongue)
you know, situation.
He's smiling there and everything.
You better soak in
the happiness now, sir.
- (FBE) Featured on the cover
is US Army Trooper Andrew F. Hawley,
who became a peacekeeper.
- Hmm.
Usually, Time recognizes
really big milestones
in what's happening
around the time.
- I learned a lot.
I learned that
April 26th is Earth Day.
But hey, now you know
my birthday's April 26.
My Venmo link will be down below.
Give me lots of goodies.
- When I was growing up,
I had no clue, zero clue.
I knew who the president was,
'cause, you know, they kinda
teach it to you in school.
If grownups started talking about it
around the table or whatever,
I remember the older gen being like,
"You know what? The kids are here.
Let's wait until they're"--
they'd kick us out.
It probably wasn't the best idea
for the grownups not to
let the kids know what was going on,
so I tried to with mine,
and now they've kind of taken over.
The roles are reversed,
'cause I'm just over it.
So, now the kids are like,
"Mom, did you hear about this?"
And I'm like, "Oh, god.
Just give me the highlights.
I can't take much more."
- (FBE) Finally, after showing you
multiple mediums that allowed us
to take a look back into your past,
for you personally, what's one
of the earliest memories
in your life that you remember?
- What do I remember?
You ever remember being a baby?
'Cause I think I low-key remember
being a baby and just--
and being in a baby swing.
- I remember something happening
between my brother and sister and me.
I don't know
what it was that happened.
But all I can remember is my mother
turning to me and going,
"Oh, Libby,
I'm so disappointed."
(chuckles)
- I wanna say when I was
about three, I was a flower girl,
so it was very hyped.
And I remember, 'cause I was
so scared to do it.
I was only three years old.
And I remember practicing
and practicing and practicing.
So, when the day came,
I was doing the flower petal thing,
and then I ran out of flower petals
like halfway down the aisle.
And I just stopped.
I just stopped walking.
And I'm like, "I don't know
what to do after this."
My older cousins and stuff
were like gathering them
behind me and then put them back
in the basket for me,
and then I just kept going
like if they unpaused me
or something.
That's the earliest memory
that I have.
- Hey, everyone.
Lauren, producer here at FBE.
Thank you all so much
for watching this video.
And if you want to see
more episodes like this
across all the generations,
we have plenty of them.
So, make sure you
check 'em out with the links
down in the description. Bye!
