The Phonebox Podcast With Emma Conway - Emma Answers Your BURNING 90's Questions!

Episode Date: August 26, 2024

Who is answering YOUR burning 90s questions in this special edition of The Phonebox Podcast? Emma that's who! She chats about the rubbish she ate at school, her fashion faux pas and what she was up to in 1993. Thanks to all those who sent questions in. You are "da bomb".For more of me follow @brummymummyof2 on Instagram, YouTube, Facebook and TikTok and follow the @phoneboxpodcast account on Instagram for polls and nostalgic fun.If you have any guest suggestions, topics you would like me to cover email [e-mail] and be sure to tag so I can see where you are listening!#90s #90smusic #90stv #1993 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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How the devil are you? I hope you are enjoying a nice relaxing day off work. Or maybe you're listening to it later in the week. Or maybe you're not even listening to it around a bank holiday. Whatever you're doing, I hope you're having a wonderful, peaceful time. I am in the thick of summer holidays. We've got about a week and a half left till the kids go back. My daughter is starting year nine and my son is starting year seven.

This is so distressing. I don't know how I'm going to, I don't know how I'm going to cope with two kids in secondary school, man. How has this happened? And also if you do follow me on social media over on Brummie Mummy of Two, you'll know I started off this summer holiday by having a heart procedure, which was all very dramatic, but that seems to have kind of settled down. Definitely follow me over on Brummie Mummy of Two for updates, hopefully of work we won't have found out just yet. But yeah, that was an interesting and unusual way to start the summer holiday. But we took to the phone box podcast and asked you lot to ask me some 90s questions. So I'm going to do a little

solo episode today. I haven't looked at the questions, but I'm going to give you some shout outs and answer them. Hopefully there's nothing too rude in here. You never know, do you? Okay. The first question from Mr. Oh, is it Mysterious21? Hello, Mysterious21. Who is the best famous person you have ever met okay so if you don't know in the 90s your girl was going all over the shop she was traveling the country up and down here and there from margate to huddersfield and she was meeting all of the 90s boy bands she was meeting worlds apart backstreet boys e17 pj and dun. When I say she, I hope you all know I mean me. I'm talking in a third person like Craig David. They were all lovely. I never met, I never met a mean one actually. They're all really, really nice. But an experience that I

had a couple of years ago was I went to New York. This is nothing to do with the 90s. This is just to do with nice people. I went New York um with my family and we watched the off-broadway production of A Little Shop of Horrors which was fantastic and it had uh Maud Apatow in it and it was just brilliant just before the show started the whole row in front of us was completely empty and I was like weird and me and my daughter were talking like oh could you imagine like if Tom Holland walked in and sat down just as the show was starting you know that kind of thing uh just before the show started some girls sat down I looked at the girl and I thought oh my gosh that

Maude Apatow's sister because I know the Apatows they were in um the film This Is 40 as the two little girls next to her looked looked, my daughter looked, we looked at each other. It was Olivia Rodrigo. It was my girl's ultimate idol, Olivia Rodrigo, sat literally in the seat in front of my husband. And we sat there and Erin was like, I really want a photo with her. And I know that you know what the celebs at the cinema not the cinema sorry the celebs at the theatre she's on and I was saying look she's here just having a nice peaceful time I don't really think we should bother her it's just nice that we saw her that's really really nice but anyway I went to the toilet who was by me Olivia Rodrigo

and I said hello I've come from England. In fact, I went like this, hello, I went a little bit like, hello, my name is Emma and I've come all the way from England. And it would be a marvellous, a marvellous treat for my daughter to say hello to you, if that would be so kind. I'm sat behind you. And I bent over like, what's her face from, what's that? Mrs. Aprons or aprons or mrs overalls you know when she's bent over and she said yeah that's fine of course so in when we're back to her seats i said i've spoke to her and we went and said and this is my daughter and she was lovely couldn't have been any lovelier she was so nice she's like where are you from have you been here before oh it's so

lovely to meet you so i'm gonna say olivia rodrigo she was so so nice not 90s but just a nice person okay from jrennyren55 hello lovely what did you collect as a child i collected erasers keyrings and mini pens of course you collected erasers every person in the 90s collected erasers, keyrings and mini pens. Of course you collected erasers. Every person in the 90s collected erasers. Do you know what? Take me to a shop now and I see a little bag of erasers in a shape of some sort of like a fruit. Yes, I want it. I know upstairs I've got a bag of erasers that look like llamas of all different shapes and colours. We all collected erasers. One thing that I really, really liked to collect was, I don't remember the brand, please, if you remember it, let me know. They were tiny little figurines of like little teddies or little bunnies

or they were gorgeous and they were only a few pounds and I used to get the bus with my sister and our friend Louise and we'd go to Sutton Coalfield and get off and go and get these tiny little ceramic figures so I collected them and I'm sure they're probably in a box somewhere at my mum's house but I just can't recall what they were called, but they were just gorgeous. From Tootsie82, did you ever have any pen pals in the 90s? Yeah, of course I had pen pals in the 90s. Hundreds. Hundreds of them. In fact, I still know some of them today. Nicola, if you're listening, from Northampton. Mia from London.

Her mum worked at Wembley. Mia's mum worked at Wembley. So we got front row tickets to see Take That. What are you talking about, man? How exciting is that? I had hundreds of pen pals all over the country. There was a girl called Steph. I think she was from Sunderland. And I took, I used to use friendship books and make, you know, where you really dangerously just send your address to a thousand strangers. Loads of pen pals. I loved it. I loved writing letters. And it's kind of weird, like, that one day we all just kind of stopped writing letters to our pen pals, didn't

we? It was just like, I wonder what happened. I wonder if maybe I discovered boys and I was just like, I can't be bothered with these pen pals now but yeah I had loads of pen pals okay um from Lottie Lou what was your favorite 90s outfit it's FanDuel Casino's exclusive live dealer studio has your chance at the number one feeling winning which beats even the 27th best feeling saying I I do. Who wants this last parachute? I do. Enjoy the number one feeling, winning, in an exciting live dealer studio, exclusively on FanDuel Casino, where winning is undefeated. 19 plus and physically located in Ontario.

Gambling problem? Call 1-866-531-2600 or visit connectsontario.ca. Please play responsibly. I'm going to go with two actually. I'm going to go with the one where I was 14 would have been baggy jeans, would have been boots with a wooden, would have been some sort of long sleeve t-shirt with a necklace, which was very inappropriate and we wouldn't wear today like like a Navajo Indian necklace around your neck very cultural appropriation middle part in long hair bomber jacket that's what I would have worn day in day out that outfit boots with the wooden bomber jacket

inappropriate necklace long t-shirt or maybe I might have had a check shirt around my waist. That was probably my outfit from 14, 15 and 16. Oh, of course, with a stussy hat, with a stussy hat. But my outfits when I turned 18, so that was still in the 90s, but I was a bit older, I would probably gone for like a mini skirt. Do you remember they used to have mini skirts maybe with like a bit of metal on the front almost like a fake belt and then like a backless top with no bra could never be me today because my bits would be dragging on the floor would never be me but yeah that's what I used to wear and maybe with some sort of like heel uh but I was either yeah in a bomber jacket or when i was older i was in a backless top i tell you what i did do don't tell the police i often used to go to top shop right buy an outfit keep the tag on it wear it on a night out next day go back exchange it get my money back what the heck man what the heck that's naughty i used to do that all the time so i'd

be going a night out and people you got your tags on i'd be like you just leave it because i was intending on taking that back that is what i was doing in the 90s okay from sarah lou f hello what was your favorite 90s meal we gotta go mcdonald's don't we we gotta go a classy mcdonald's and not only that a mcdonald's at a party and yes my friends i had a mcdonald's birthday party but that probably would have been in the 80s yeah where you went round and you had strangers take you into a into a flipping freezer you were going in a freezer with all the food health and safety in 2024 could never you would never be allowed oh do you know what just let really grubby eight-year-olds in your freezer with you with your nuggets go and do that but yeah loved a happy meal i loved um i loved those meals in fact did

they even have happy maybe they didn't even have happy meals. I just loved a McDonald's. I loved it when you could enter the competition to get the free McDonald's and you'd scratch it off and oh, lovely. I love McDonald's. And if we're going just 90s food, you cannot beat a French bread pizza. I stand by that today if i went to a restaurant and it was the fanciest restaurant on the world in the world and it had item number 10 french bread pizza from bird's eye or whatever brand it was yeah i'm having that absolutely loved it um what was the best fashion purchase of the 80s 90s and that is for mama of two boys. Hello, lovely. It's got to be, I went to a vintage shop in Moseley. Maybe it was King Heath. It was one of those two. Moseley or King's Heath. I went to a vintage shop and I found some baby blue

Adidas tracksuit bottoms. Yes, please. It was given Mel C. It was given All Saints. It was given slightly flammable material, but that was one of my favourite fashion items. And I reckon if I kept those that my daughter, my teenager might wear them. I feel like they may even have had some sort of zip on the side at the bottom loved them and also my mum bought me some in my head they were real Air Jordans maybe they weren't because I remember oh my god I've got I feel like they had a thing that you squeeze at the top that did something to the shoe but I remember I pulled on the tongues because you had the tongues out at the top that did something to the shoe but I remember I pulled on the tongues because you had the tongues out at the top and they both came off in my hand now I'm sure that Michael Jordan that wouldn't happen with his trainers I don't think I don't think that would have been a thing

would it but yeah no I love those trainers and I loved the baby blue. Also, notable mention to my 21st birthday, I know that's not teenage years, but it was still in the 90s, purple satin two-piece suit, sorry, from with a wonder bra that had a, um, diamante clasp in the middle. And I wore that with really high black high heels and short hair, like the short, like I was thought I looked like Cameron Diaz in, um, I thought I looked like Cameron Diaz in the film, is it Life Less Ordinary with Ewan McGregor? And I look like, is it Kim or is it Aggie? I look like one of them instead. But yeah, oh, they were cracking purchases. Okay, what was your fave 80s snack?

No longer with us, sweet and savoury. ZoeS81 underscore, ooh. Now I love a Tutti Frutti and I think the tutti fruttis have gone and then they did tutti fruttis but a mint flavour. Please can you let me know what they were called? Well, they're called minty winties. I loved a tutti frutti. Um, I don't think they do those anymore. What else would I have loved? I mean, mean i think do they still do french bread pizza they've got to haven't they i just love the fact that in the um in the 80s it's so different from parenting now like i want to drink have a ribena full fat sugar rot your teeth have a ribena your fizzy pop will be full fat coke I love all that I miss those days

you coming home from school bag of tootie pooties I tell you what I haven't had in years and I loved it kaylai do you remember kaylai do I sound really bummer when I say kaylai kaylai like my there's a little bit of spit I loved kayla and when we um i went to king edward's school in handsworth and there was a news agent on the corner corner called remeshan sons not sure if it's still there every morning before school i'd go and get myself a bag of kalei a bag of kalei healthy eating what is she what you spent you did you have a nice school dinner today yeah mom she didn't know i was having a bag of cali and also in the 90s if you lived in birmingham we went

through a spate of having a lot of bomb scares um it was just all the time endless people phoning up the school saying there was a bomb in the school we'd have to go and stand on the field oh it's just never ending and i remember going on that field and I remember thinking I got a bag of in my desk because we had the desks that you lifted up we didn't have a locker you just kept all your books and everything in a desk that lift could you imagine the kids these days a desk that lifted up you kept your books in you get your pants case everything was kept in your desk in your film trim and I was thinking I got a bag of calo what if they think it's a bomb what if they go into the school and they're like oh they think it's a bomb? What if they go into the school and they're like, oh my gosh, it's a bomb. And it's not a bomb, it's a bag of K-Li

from a Messiansons. Those are the foods that I miss. And now I've said the word K-Li so often, it's lost all meaning. Okay. What did you most often do for lunch at high school? So we didn't call it high school. We called it secondary school, um, home, packed lunch, canteen shops, right? Well, obviously I was, I was having my K-Li from Remeshen Sons. Um, I don't know, maybe there was a period of time where I might've had sandwiches. I can't quite remember, but I'm telling you now, your girl didn't eat a healthy, not a healthy piece of food past this human's lips from the age of 11 to 18, because I was addicted to chocolate hedgehogs. Yes, chocolate hedgehogs. Does anybody remember them? They were like cornflake cakes in like, obviously scooped out with an ice cream scoop and chocolate,

chocolate hedgehogs. So I would have three of them for my lunch. Three of them for my lunch. Sometimes I may treat myself to a burger and they were the plainest, driest burgers, there was no, there was no relish or salad, it was just like bun, burger, bun, and the top of the bun was like real like, almost chalky, a chalky burger bun, or chocolate hedgehogs, or another cake I really liked, please let somebody remember this, it's like the bottom was like, um, oh, it was like the bottom of a cake, not a cake, do you know what I mean, oh, how do I describe it, like the bottom of a fl flan and then you had a layer of jam and then you had cornflakes because this is what all puddings in the 90s were based on cornflakes but they were

like they'd been like dipped in i don't know like syrup oh if some um guys if steven If some, um, guys, if Stephen, if Stephen came up and knocked on the door and he had a French bed pizza with a chalky burger bun and one of those cakes, I would cry. And you know what he needs to top it off with? Did any of you remember, do you only have a click machine in your school and you get like a soup for 15p you'd have a soup for 15p and the bottom was just sediment just said soup sediment i would cry with happiness if that was brought to my bed that would be like my happiest day ever also at my school um they wouldn't let us have a can machine. So, you know, your Fanta's, your Sprites, probably your Tab. I don't know if there was Diet Coke existed then. You had all them stuff in the can machine. Our headmistress after a day removed the can machine because we went feral. We went feral. They were probably standing in the dinner hall going, nobody's buying

chalky buns today. No, because we were off our tits on full fat Coke and Fanta and what's Tango. We were probably Tango slapping each other in the playground. So she's like, no girls, you're not allowed cans of pop anymore. You're not responsible enough for that. Okay. This is from, oh, that question was from Natalie underscore Havelin. No, number nine. Do you remember the clothing brand Troop? This is from Claire Devlin five. I had a shell-like tracksuit and a pair of trainers. Troop. Guys, any of you remember that? Message me you do i'm gonna look troop 90s let's see if i remember it now if it was expensive no i wouldn't have done because i was just re-wearing stuff from um i was just re-wearing stuff from topshop. The world of trip. Now, this is why I wouldn't have

had it. Legendary hip hop clothing. Emma was not, Emma then and now was not known for being a legendary hip hop fan. So I don't remember it, but it looks nice. Let me know if anybody of you, it looks like it's given, um, uh, push, it's given salt and pepper, uh, and maybe a little bit of fresh Prince, the stuff I'm looking at. No, I don't remember it. However, no, these trainers in the nineties, 89, 99. No, I was having knockoff Air Jordans that the tongues were coming off of me my hand so I was not having it having them okay the final question this is from Sophie Lou W hello Sophie love to hear any memories you have of like 1993 specifically as that was the year she was born well 1993 I was 13 and I was at secondary school and this was, this would have been peak Emma Loving Tate, that wouldn't it? No, 1992, no, 1993 I was 15, this would have been peak,

this would have been Emma in the peak boy band era of her life. The walls were covered in men. Her pencil case had that, you know, that little TT sign over and over and over and over again. If I had a forever friends tint, it might have, it would have been scratched in with a compass. I probably tried to use a compass and a pencil to give myself a little bit of tattoo at some time. So yeah, I was a real nerd. I, no boys, actual real life boys would have spoken to me. I, you know, very middle of the road at school. I was kind of like the funny girl in, in the gang at school. I wasn't like, you know, I wasn't pretty. I was kind of like the funny girl in in the gang at school I wasn't like you know I wasn't pretty uh I was walking around in a bomber jacket and boots with woods in but I was having so much

fun outside of school so outside of school I was hanging out with friends that I've met through boy bands we would have been traveling up and down the country despite only being 15. We once went to London to try and find Tate that rehearsing and it was an absolute farce. And it was just real, real happy, happy times. And I'm so lucky that I'm still friends with a lot of the girls that I used to do that with. So Sheila is my daughter's godmother. And then my friends, Melissa Melissa and Rachel who I used to go and follow boy bands with they're actually coming to visit us next week with their kids um my friend Lindsay so my friend Lindsay lived down the road and she loved Mark and I think her sister Claire loved Howard you couldn't love the same person could you as your mate you couldn't do that because that was cost even then even in the years of teen years you knew girl code um and i just was having a right

old good time outside of school having hijinks and adventures tape i was obsessed for a period of time with phoning radio djs and i'm sorry to any, Simon Davis from BRMB, I apologise. Who was the other one? The other one actually turns up on the real life news now. Oh my gosh, what was his name? Chris, Chris something or other. Sorry, at BuzzFM, I'd be phoning the DJs to try and win stuff continuously. I was forever winning CDs. Not CDs, because would we have had CDs then? Like seven inches, like five star albums. And they'd be like, hello, it's Emma. Please can I request Snow by Informa? Who for? Myself. Because like, you know, I'm literally in my bedroom by myself. And it'd be like, yeah, it's like, you know, I'm literally in my bedroom by myself. And it'd be

like, yeah, it's like, you know, this is, Emma's been on the phone again, requesting Snow by Informer again. And imagine my joy that one year, every year we used to have a sixth form review at our school where the sixth formers would put a show for the whole school. It's probably like a, you know, a, they're leaving like a nice thing to do, the DJ turned up, Simon Davis DJ turned up to the school, and how the hell did that, I don't know, I don't even know how they got him there, I don't know what happened, but he was there, I was screaming my heart out, it was as if, it was as if, like, flipping, bros had turned up themselves, I was so excited um so that's what i was doing just nerding out hanging out with my mates listening to music dressing like a boy wondering why nobody fancied

me um but also not talking to any real life human boy going to lots of sleepovers we did a lot of sleepovers in the 90s let me know if you lot did loads of sleepovers. We did a lot of sleepovers in the 90s. Let me know if you lot did loads of sleepovers. The sleepovers still happen today, but I mean, in the 90s, your mum and dad weren't worried about whose house you were sleeping at. Well, I'm off to go sleep at Lucy's house. Lovely. Have a nice time. It's just like that. So that's what I was doing in 1993. This is what I was doing. I I love the 90s I love this podcast um we've got another fab episode next week with Ruth Crilly who's like an OG YouTuber she does beauty and stuff online and she's got a book coming out so I've got a great episode coming for you next week

but really as far as I can you know as I'm concerned September is a fresh start I would love you to message me any guest suggestions. I will put it on my Instagram as well. Any guest suggestions, anybody you'd like to hear from. Is there any returning guests? My children really want to do an episode where I try and explain 90s things to them. Would you like to listen to that? I really want to kind of like push the podcast further further it's something I really like to do and it is difficult you know in the world of podcasts it's a lot of famous people with wonderful studios and you know super fancy and I'm currently sat in tracksuit bottoms and a

Taylor Swift t-shirt in my bedroom while my kids are downstairs watching Disney videos um so I'm really gonna you know I'm really you know what I'm really gonna go for it that's that's my plan I would love to know what you love about the podcast so I can expand on that and um I love you lots guys please do go and follow me on BrommerMove2 to see what I'm up to on this bank holiday um phone box podcast there will definitely be some sort of poll or things that you can you know take part with and don't forget you can always leave a review and on Spotify you can you know take part with and don't forget you can always leave a review and on spotify you can leave a comment and i can reply to your comment

on spotify so that'd be really fun and you know we don't want anything other than five star reviews here guys let's be honest leave me a review on spotify leave me a review wherever you can i'd love that five stars it helps more people find the podcast. I hope you've enjoyed this little cute, cosy bank holiday special. Thanks so much if you sent a question in. I hope you enjoyed your shout out and maybe I'll do more along the way

or maybe I'll do more solo episodes focusing on certain parts of the 90s like shows or music or whatever. Right guys, I love you lot. Enjoy your day and I will speak to you soon see you next week for another episode bye guys fanduel casinos exclusive live dealer studio has your chance at the number one feeling winning which beats even the 27th best feeling, saying I do. Who wants this last parachute?

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