- Are you kidding me?!
"Africa"? I love this song!
I couldn't have asked
for a better song
to be representing me
and when I was born.
Thank you, Toto,
for everything you've done. (chuckles)
♪ (rock intro) ♪
- (FBE) So, what do you remember
about the day you were born?
- Not a whole lot. (laughs)
I know I was there,
but I wasn't there. (laughs)
- (FBE) We're gonna take a trip
down memory lane and show you
some things that were going on
on that special day.
- On that day?
- (FBE) On the day you were born.
- What?! Okay, let's do it.
I'm so excited.
- (FBE) So, to start off,
we're gonna show you a trailer
of the biggest movie release
the week you were born.
- Okay.
- I hope it's a movie I know.
Otherwise, this is gonna be
really disappointing. (chuckles)
- (Cole) You know
the accident up there?
- (Lynn) Yeah.
- (Cole) A lady, she broke her neck.
- (Lynn) Oh my god.
Where is she?
- Wait. This--
the week I was born?
(heart beating)
- (Cole whispers) I see dead people
walking around.
- (chuckles) I always felt
like this whole movie,
like, his throat was hurt,
'cause he's just whispering.
(laughs)
- (woman) Look out!
- Four stars. Wow.
- (Malcolm whispers)
I'm working on it.
- (whispers) "I'm working..."
(laughs) Wow.
That's actually kind of cool,
'cause horror is my favorite genre,
so I feel it's-- you know what?
It kind of fits my birthday week.
- (voice-over) Sarah...
- (gasps) Really? Whaaat?
- (voice-over) They're taking a vow...
- (woman) If you change your mind
at the altar, just pass out.
- (voice-over) ...to live together
in perfect harmony.
- How cute. Oh my gosh.
(chuckles) Wait,
that's so crazy.
Wait, I wanna go back
and rewatch this.
This is so funny.
I love it.
- (voice-over) Ashton Kutcher.
- (Tom) I just need to talk...
- Back when romcoms were actually
funny and romantic. (chuckles)
- (voice-over) Just Married.
- Wow. That's insane! I feel old.
That's not even possible,
and I feel old.
♪ (dramatic music) ♪
- "Most daring film of the year."
Okay.
Hey! One of my favorite people.
Bela Lugosi.
Wow! "World shocked by sex change."
- (voice-over) He learned
that foreign doctors
were doing marvelous work
with a sex change,
man to woman...
- Well...
"Sizzling." (laughs)
So, they're making it very salacious.
You know, it's like, ah,
this is something shocking,
and you know, you can't believe this,
and what terrible things
must be going on
in the minds of people.
"Hush-hush subject."
Setting the mindset
for this being something
that isn't out in the open
even though they're making a movie.
"Glen or Glenda."
You mean we haven't gotten ourselves
straightened out
on this subject in 67 years?
You know, it's like...
really? (chuckles)
- Oh my god. I love this already
just because of the quality.
Hit the VCR.
I think there's a problem.
Oh, there we go.
What is happening right now?
(laughs)
James Woods!
Man!
- (voice-over) He has been exposed
to videodrome.
- How old is he?
He looks a little older in this.
- (voice-over) Soon, his visions
will coalesce and become
uncontrollable flesh.
- What is happening?
I wanna know how many people
watched this trailer and were like,
"Oh, I have to see this.
This is so good."
- (voice-over) Videodrome...
- Videodrome.
- (voice-over) ...Deborah Harry
and James Woods, a shocking new vision
from the creator of Scanners
coming to soon to a theater near you.
- (laughs) What?
- (voice-over) ...Universal Pictures.
- Oh, Universal. I mean,
it was a big studio.
That reminded me of Poltergeist.
See-- especially with all
the TV screens and the fuzz--
whatever. I mean, I hated
those movies, so I never
watched them anyways,
but that seems kind of like
it fits in with that era.
- (FBE) Now we're actually
gonna show you the top song
of the week you were born.
- Okay, I'm excited.
- It was that last year in the '90s,
so hopefully it's something good.
- No way!
This is the best!
And it's my song, guys.
It's my song. (laughs)
Are you kidding me? "Africa"?
I love this song.
I couldn't have asked
for a better song
to be representing me
and when I was born.
Thank you, Toto,
for everything you've done.
(chuckles)
- Christina?! I love
Christina Aguilera. (gasps)
Wow. That was when I was born?!
That's so weird.
I don't know why I felt like that
was a little bit after I was born.
It's a timeless song.
It's one that everyone knows,
especially all the ladies.
We love it.
- (chuckles) Whose version was this?
- (FBE) That was actually
Jimmy Boyd's version.
- Okay. I remember
that song quite well.
And I mean, when I say "quite well,"
I remember the song sound.
And it wasn't something
that I played much,
but I do remember hearing it.
- What? This was 16 years ago?
I'm 17. This was 17 years ago?
What? That's so crazy.
Number one song of the week.
Wow. Eminem knew. He was like,
"Oh, I gotta make a song for Rachel,
so when she's on Teens React
17 years from now,
we could play my iconic song."
This is so cool! I love this.
Let's keep doing it.
- (FBE) Up next, you're gonna guess
prices of certain items
on the day you were born
compared to the prices
that they are now.
- Oh, gosh. Okay.
- The Price Is Right.
Oh my gosh.
Have you seen that show? Ah! Okay.
♪ (Price Is Right theme) ♪
- (FBE) First up is gas prices.
- Okay.
- (FBE) The current cost
of gas is 2.47.
- Okay. I know that now
it is a lot higher
than what it used to be,
'cause my dad was like,
(Indian accent) "Oh, back in the day,
you know, it used to be way cheaper."
- I remember even
when I was a teenager
when I first started driving,
there was times that you could
get gas for, like, 99 cents a gallon.
I mean, I'm not that old people.
Like, come on. (chuckles)
- (FBE) How expensive do you think
it was when you were born?
- 19 cents.
- You know, I'll go
with a safe $2.
- 75 cents a gallon.
- Okay, if it's 2.47 now,
like cheap. It was cheap.
Under a dollar, I'd say,
so like 80 cents.
- (FBE) So, the cost of gas
when you were born
was actually...
- $1.17? That's so low!
That almost hurts my feelings.
(laughs)
- It hasn't gone up as much
as I thought it would have
or, you know, fluctuated until--
I feel like in the last couple years,
we've really seen a spike in it.
- All right. Okay.
It's not 80 cents, but okay.
You know, that's a warm up actually.
I'm not showing you
my complete abilities yet.
- 27, okay.
I look at the price of cars
and the price of gas,
it wasn't such a major expense
in your household as it is now.
It's just uncanny how large
of a segment of your income
is dedicated to that.
- (FBE) So, next up,
you'll take a guess on the median cost
of a home in the US.
- Oh. Boy, this has skyrocketed.
- (FBE) The current median
in the US right now is $226,800.
- Okay.
- (FBE) How expensive do you think
it was on the day you were born?
- I'm gonna go with--
I'm gonna go 150.
- 150. I'm really bad
at things like this.
I'm not sure how much houses
are supposed to cost. (laughs)
- 180K.
- Post war, there was a lot
of discounting of properties,
so the GIs and families could get 'em.
Maybe around 6,000.
- (FBE) Let's see what it was.
- Stop it! (chuckles)
73,800.
That's insane. Wow!
(air horn blaring)
You know who did that?
I did that. Wow!
- 154. Okay. Okay!
I just feel like the market
does this a lot, so it's hard
to predict things like that.
It's hard to predict
what it's gonna be like
in the next 10 years. So...
- The way they were financed then
and the way that people
bought these houses
was a lot different,
and you didn't have to have
such, again, a large amount
of your income set on that cost.
- (FBE) So finally, you're
gonna have to take a guess
at the average price
of a movie ticket.
- Oh, gosh.
- (FBE) The average cost in the US
for a movie ticket today is 9.37.
How much do you think it was
on the day you were born?
- On the day I was born...
Okay 6... 87.
- Maybe a dime.
- Let's go 5.75.
- Gosh. I feel like
they were super cheap back then.
I'm going Price Is Right.
$1, Bob! Or Drew, whichever one
you are today. (chuckles)
♪ (Price Is Right theme) ♪
- (FBE) All right.
Let's take a look at what it was.
- Damn! Even cheaper?
(softly) Dang.
- 48? Hm.
- Oh! Okay,
it's a little more expensive
than I thought. (chuckles)
When I was a kid growing up,
you could find theaters
that were playing--
it was like dollar matinees,
you know, or those cheap movies
during the day.
- What?! Oh my gosh!
I'm surprise I even got
the first number right.
I don't really care about the cents.
I don't really go out to watch movies.
I just kinda stay at home,
so I am surprised.
- (FBE) To end this episode,
you'll be taking a look at a cover
of Time Magazine that came out
around your birthday,
so you can take a look at what
big story was being talked about
around that time.
- Oh, okay. Cool!
- "How mind can heal your body.
New ways to beat the blues
The link between mental
and physical health.
Is happiness your genes?"
Well, say, like the 2000s until now,
they really started pushing
to talk about, you know,
"We could talk about your mental.
We could talk about depression,"
so I could totally see
why this was kind of wearing
back in the day,
but now this is why
we are so comfortable
talking about it.
- Hm. Okay. I guess I would
have to be intrigued enough
to read what the heck
they meant by that.
- (FBE) So, this man
on the front, on the cover,
his name is Francis Henry Taylor.
Taylor was a distinguished
museum director and curator
heading the Metropolitan Museum
of Art for 15 years,
beginning in 1940.
- What I like about it
is that it does point to a person
that has actually done something.
I think a lot of times now,
especially in music and entertainment,
we get a lot of people that wind up
getting a lot of attention
for doing practically nothing.
- The Blair Witch Project. Okay.
So, there's a horror theme going on,
which I like, you know,
and it explains a lot about me.
It's just one of those movies
that it was the way they did it
was so different from every other type
of horror movie or movie in general
that it kind of made a big wave.
- Okay, so we have
"ABC's gigantic gamble.
Robert Mitchum in The Winds of War."
I've seen Robert Mitchum
in movies and stuff,
but I've never heard
of The Winds of War.
- (FBE) On February 6, 1983,
the day you were born actually,
ABC premiered a $40 million
six part miniseries,
which, at the time,
was considered a huge gamble
by many people,
called The Winds of War.
The miniseries actually
takes place from 1939 to 1941
and much of the story within the show
is devoted to telling
major global events
of this period in time,
including Hitler
and his German general staff.
- It's funny that you give me
that des-- I wanna watch it now.
That's a really cool time
to look back,
and I love watching stuff about that.
It's so cool.
So, that's kind of--
it already kind of fits.
That's kind of weird. (chuckles)
- (FBE) So finally, Mikaela,
after showing you multiple mediums
that allowed us to take a look back
into your past, what's one
of the earliest memories
you had in your life?
- I think pop culture,
my first memory was--
I was like three or four
and I went to go see
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron,
(laughs) the animated horse movie.
And that just was one of those things
that helped shape my childhood.
- The earliest was my mother
found two tricks to keep me relaxed
and sleeping when I was a child.
And one of them was to fold up
a newspaper to a space
that I could hold it,
and she would put it in front of me.
I'd grab it and hold it,
and stare it,
and just start at all the stuff.
The other was is that she had
an old record player that was
on the headboard,
and she would put a stack
of records on there
and said it was almost
like clicking a switch.
I'd put the song on,
and you'd stay there.
- This is gonna sound
really gross and weird,
but it's like the only thing
that I could think of
of when I was super, super young,
like I remember being in a playpen,
like holding onto the edge,
kind of barely standing, you know,
and I have weird memories
of me crying,
because it felt like
I had pooped my pants.
- Me, my dad, and my mom,
we all went to a hotel together
to stay overnight.
Me and my dad were in the lobby,
and we were playing
with a red ball.
I was looking for the red ball,
and my dad turned away.
And I saw the emergency
fire hazard alarm.
And I thought that was the red ball,
and I hit it.
And then, everyone was so bitter.
This one lady, she was looking at me.
She was like, "Ah, I was sleeping!"
I was like, "I'm so sorry."
That's the earliest memory
I have of my childhood,
me scaring a whole hotel of people
at three in the morning,
and it was a sight to see.
- Hey, everybody.
Lauren, producer here at FBE.
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