the zurkie show - you can’t feel nostalgia without pain

Episode Date: January 6, 2025

memories build nostalgia, but as we grow older, we experience more pain and confusion than we do moments of pure magic. let's carve out our own nostalgia this year. https://linktr.ee/thezurkieshow

Nostalgia is one of those emotions I thought I understood until the other day I was walking down the street and I got a whiff of fresh cut grass. For a split second, I was thrown back into 2016 on a Tuesday where I had a travel soccer game. I could feel the polyester of my jersey. I could feel sun beaming down on my face. I could feel my teammate yelling. at me being like past the ball zirky a split second and it was gone i blinked it was gone but i felt it it wasn't one of those things where i saw you know a club penguin or a wepkins photo on on a internet archive page and i was like oh you know it was a a memory i i triggered a memory

that i didn't even i did i knew i had but i didn't know It weighed on me that much. It's a similar feeling to when I see somebody in real life where the Fila Stompers, the pinnacle of high school was every girl at my high school had Fila Stompers. These small things, these small memories, they make up nostalgia. And no matter what anyone's going to tell you, you cannot, you cannot describe it. You have to live through it. You have to live through it.

In a day and age where nostalgia is something that is now sold to us, it is something that is now romanticized, the truth is you had to be there. You had to be there. You had to be there. You had to be on the playground when you were trading silly bands with your class enemy because you wanted to get the one that looked like a Minecraft creeper. You had to be there when you begged your parents to get you a club penguin subscription

so you could have more than one puffle. You had to be there when Brockhampton had a chokehold on your high school friend group and every time you would go to a Brockhampton concert, you would make 10 to 20 friends automatically because you all liked the saturation albums. You had to be there. You had to be there. But I don't want to be there anymore. I don't.

That's the past. 2018 was 20 years ago. Feel old yet? Not really. But I don't want to be there. Because I'm in 2025. And it's now. And yes, these emotions and these feelings are so tied to this period in time.

But it was best. served at that time. I can't relate to those emotions anymore because that isn't my reality. That isn't our reality. We don't live that anymore. And I think that we forget the beauty of nostalgia is living through it. That's the beauty of nostalgia. It's not that, oh, this is going to be nostalgic. No, no, it's the emotions that you have tied to these things. These arbitrary things, sometimes they're material, sometimes their experiences, but these things, these events, it's the way in which we individually reacted and interacted with these things that give us that nostalgia. The feeling that I get when I see someone wearing a dead mouse hoodie

which is like rare. That is like finding diamonds in early Minecraft. It is very rare, but when I do see it, I'm thrown into my childhood bedroom in a house that no longer I have access to is long gone. And I feel my fingertips hitting my keyboard,

running around in my house that I built in Minecraft on a server with my friends, listening to ghost and stuff. That is what I feel it. I feel the headphones sitting on my ears. And it's beautiful. It's beautiful. But that trigger is not the same for somebody else.

Maybe the nostalgia somebody else gets from that hoodie is an album that Dead Mouse made being the soundtrack to their summer. For me, geez, I mean, my entire high school was school. by Brock Hampton. It was. I can't sit here and act too cool for school. No, the saturation albums. That is, that's what scored my high school experience. It was blaring boogie on the way to school at 8 a.m. which is insane. And I was like, this is the coolest thing ever. It's never too early to plan your summer story in Europe with WestJet from rolling countryside to cobblestone streets. Begin your next chapter. Book your seat at WestJet.

or call your travel agent Westjet where your story takes off and that emotion will forever be the coolest thing ever have I grown out some of the songs yeah of course naturally you grow out of clothing when you grow you're not wearing your you know your children's place jeans are you no that's not how it works but we make our own nostalgia we make our own nostalgia and it is very important that we pay attention to the details that matter that matter right because it makes you smile and it makes you appreciative of the present now i i i try to remember as much as i can i try to pay attention to as much as i can in terms of events in terms of daily things that i interact with right now i i live in austin texas i moved here in in august

and this period of my life will one day be nostalgic. It will. It will be a moment in time that I lived through and I had emotions tied to. And now with my prior experience and knowing how this will feel in the future, I do everything in my power to enjoy it. To enjoy it because I'll tell you one thing, man, I have regrets. And some of the nostalgia hits that I get from college,

from hearing songs that I used to listen to on campus in Athens in Georgia, man, they are intertwined with feelings of regret. Dang, why didn't I blank? You don't want to be like that. You don't want your feelings of nostalgia to be wrapped like a pig in a blanket. with feelings of, why didn't I do that? No.

No. And nostalgia and regret? They tiptoe a fine line. There's a fine line. Because with a lot of nostalgia comes this feeling of gratitude and being grateful and appreciative. With feelings of regret,

it comes with a lot of sadness and sorrow, if I'm completely honest, and realizing and reflecting on things that you didn't know at the time, and you will have both. You won't live a life that is completely full of no regrets. You will always have regrets, but it's about minimizing the amount of regrets that you have. And making sure the regrets that you have are really small. I wish I went to that restaurant before it closed down, but it's not a big deal because I lived a great life. I don't know. That sounds like a good time.

But you had to be there. You had to be there. I feel as if now nostalgia is really a product. It's sold to us through t-shirts, hoodies, Y2K. And it's cool. But that's not the, that's not the thing. thing. It will never be the thing, man. You can put on silly bands in 2025 as many as you want. You can dick out your whole arm with silly bands. It won't change the importance and the time and

place that that had. It won't. You can't. You can't recreate it. You can't. You can get close. You can bring that style justice. You can make people be like, that's really cool. You can replicate a certain time frame. You can draw inspiration. But you can't recreate it. You can't. I don't think so. It will always feel different. The 2014 World Cup will always feel different than the 2022 World Cup. And both of them, arguably, are some of the best World Cups of all time. In football history, in soccer history, the best. But they feel different. Both of them. They feel different. There were different narratives. There were different emotions. There were different stakes. And each one is beautiful. And it deserves

its own respect. And each one, you had to be there. You had to experience it. You had to be waking up early in the United States to watch the first games in Qatar. You had to be be glued to your television when Brazil fumbled against the then-to-be world champions Germany. You had to be there. You had to see, for your own eyes, the clutch that was Hamas Rodriguez. He was him. But all of these things, you know, in the future, I can tell somebody. I can tell my kid.

I can tell, you know, when some young and calls me unk and asks me about it, I can tell them, but you had to be there. You won't understand it. We won't understand it. We'll never understand what it was like to live through the 90s because we did not live through the 90s. We will never understand what it was like to live through the 2000s. We can try to imagine what it looked like, but we will never get it. We will never understand it because what we are going through right now, that's that's that. This is our time for nostalgia. This is our time to live through it and take the best that we can from it. And I get it. I get it.

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Save the everyday with Amazon. We live in a tough world. We have overcooked it in certain aspects. We have. I'm not saying that that's not true. But I'm saying that this is, this is it. This is, this is the reality. so it's now about what do we want to do in it how do we want to interact with it so that it can feel as special

as those younger days felt to us what can we do what can we create what can we make to inspire the next what can we do what can we do right now that will make our future generations when They're growing up say, you had to be there. Because a lot of things for us feel hopeless. They do. Brough, I get it. Life is hard. Life is hard.

It is not easy. It is not Webkins anymore. It is not soccer practice and go home and eat a cheeseburger anymore. You have things you have to do. You have expectations you have to meet. It's hard. But there's beauty in the hardships. Those same hardships are things that make us go.

You had to be there. Because when we looked at the things that brought us so much joy when we were kids, we looked with a lens that was unfiltered. It was stock. it was unshaped. It was just magical. Everything was magical. And when you keep growing up

and you keep seeing things and you see the true nature of life and that life doesn't give a sigma sometimes, it will just smack you in the face until you get up. That is it. There's no nostalgia in that, but those hardships are worth

the nostalgia. They're worth the good things that come out of it. They're worth striving for. And I guess what I'm trying to say is you got to live your present so that you'll have more things of nostalgia in the future. You've got to live your present with your friends doing things that you can do, that you can afford to do, because it takes time and money. I get it. You got to do the things that you know in the future you will look back on and you will get transported back to and smile.

Because what is the point of a life of just suffering? We have to make our own fun. As kids, that's what we did. We made our own fun all the time. We used our imagination. We found things to do. We had to. and guess what it's kind of what you have to do as an adult you have to you have to make your own fun you have to make your own nostalgia you have to make your own moments that in the future when somebody asks you about you say you had to be there you had to that's what it's about in my opinion that's what it's about that's what i live for i keep a journal and i write about every single day. I try to. Do I do it? No, not always. I've been kind of bad recently. It happens. But I try to think how can I live a life worth writing about? What can I do on the smallest scale that can make it maybe a little bit more nostalgic, that can make it feel a little

bit good in the future? Is there a place I want to go in the city that I live in that I haven't been to before? Of course. But I haven't even given myself the time to think about it. All right, well, let me think about it. Is there something I want to do? I've wanted to ride a horse since I was a kid. I've never ridden a horse. I have a motivation to make it happen. And who knows? Maybe the smell of a horse will bring me nostalgia in the future that will say, huh, I remember my first time riding a horse at the age of 23. And I hated it. I don't want to do it ever again. but it was fun. It was fun. But I'm never riding a horse again. But you won't know and you won't do that if you don't find those ways to make nostalgia happen for yourself. And you find the things that in the

future you think you'll be happy that you did. I'm so happy. I spent the time that I spent on that Minecraft server with my friends from ages 8 to 13. I am thrilled with myself. We made some insane core memories. I loved every second of it. I loved every second of listening to Skrillix and playing FIFA. I loved every single second of it.

I loved every single second of building my Lego sets that I got for Christmas. Every single second. How do we treat our adult lives the same? Because we have more responsibilities. We have more things we have to do. But Zirky Show, it's our life.

We got to make it filled with nostalgia. So in the future, when someone calls us Unk, and they ask, what was 2025 like? You can say, you had to be there, Zerky Show. I love you so much. I love you so much. I'm going to say it again, because I don't think you heard me the first time. The OGs already know, but we are in unprecedented times.

I don't know what's going to happen. But what I do know is the Zirky Show is the same everywhere you go. So if you want to tap in, you can tap in the Zirky Show. You can watch it, you can stream it, whatever you want. Also, do you have someone you love your Bro Ski, your broet, who is a fan of the Zirky Show? And you want to send him a happy birthday message. You want to get him a piece of advice, or you want some advice yourself. Well, guess what?

The Zirky Show is now on Cameo. So if you want to tap in, tap in. But just know, this is still everyday bro. I'm here for you. Always. Do the things that keep you grounded and that you enjoy. And remember, your time is so valuable, so spend it. Wisely Zerky Show.

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