WRFH/Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM - This, That and the Other: Nostalgic Moments of Our Childhood

Episode Date: March 23, 2026

Chloe and Adi take a trip down memory lane, sharing some of their favorite childhood memories and hoping for the long-awaited return of Rainbow Loom. They also chat about their upcoming Spring Break trip to Arizona and what they’re most excited about.

Welcome to This, That and the Other, on Radio Freehillsdale 101.7 FM, where we chat about literally everything, from movies to healthy recipes to the hottest of tapes, starring Addie Seism and Chloe Pierce. Today is Friday the 13th. So we are going to talk about super spooky, scary things, like our childhood. Chloe and I have really recently. been talking about nostalgic eras and obviously that would be our childhood and everything that we used to do and maybe making them come back you know bringing things back around oh yeah to the good old days when life was good seasonal depression didn't exist yeah so true everything was great exactly i'm gonna start us off strong with the rainbow loom yeah that thing was awesome yeah i mean hours of your day

could be spent productively making bracelets for a business rather than scrolling doomlessly on TikTok. Dude, I learned how to make so many cool things with that. Oh. I will never forget, oh, my friend had the rainbow loom and I was like, this is the coolest thing I have ever seen. I literally did not shut up about it for the next. No, my parents probably hated me until I got the rainbow loom.

I remember walking into Michaels. like the craft store. Every aisle, I was like, where's this rainbow loom? I have to have it. And then for the next like three years what I'd get for Christmas or like in my stocking would always just be these like random colored like bands. Yeah. Yeah.

And now that I like don't obviously use it anymore. The other day, the way that I literally thought about this the other day, the other day is I saw my mom with a little hair tie in her hair and it was one of the rainbow loom like bands because they are just kind of like hair bands yeah look at that you have a customer still exactly dual use yeah exactly you know what else was kind of like that um silly bands yes because they were kind of just like a hair tie for our our younger crowd let's break it down for them yeah basically it was these rubber bands super thin rubber bands there were all these different colors and when you'd like set it on a table it would form into a shape so it kind of

It could be like, it could be from a guitar to a giraffe. It could be anything. And they were so awesome. They were so silly. We, my siblings, we used to literally sit down and we would do like trades and barters for them. Oh, yeah. It'd be like five bad silly bands for this one super duper cool silly band for something. I'm like, wow. Yes. I don't know why. We had it figured out. Yeah. And they used to have a little. them in the prize boxes too. Oh yeah. Or like at the dentist's office. Yeah, no, exactly. Also, the dentist, whoopee cushions. Did your dentist? No. Oh, mine had like the most awesome.

It would always be a whoopee cushion. And you know, my brother Andrew, he ate that up. It was so funny. Loki whoopie cushions, though. We need a, that's going to be our next break. We're going to get you Hillsdale people. Whoopi cushions are so simple. They're hilarious. They're the simplest trick in the book, but yeah, get like the most laugh. We're 1,000% going and getting some. We just slip that, John, right under someone who's about to enjoy their lunch at the bone. You got the whole crew laughing at them. I'm pointing and laughing at that.

That's funny. Yeah, watch your back, people. Yeah, watch your back. We're coming. Oh, gosh. Five-year-old humor. All right, what else we got? Okay, well, I didn't originally have this one written down, but.

The silly bands for some reason made me think of, do you remember in grade school when you would tie a hair tie around your massive t-shirt? Oh. And then it would be like this weird like tail and then some people like tuck it in. I have pictures of me up on grandparents' day with my shirt like that on stage. Oh, yeah. Why did I do that? I don't know. And I, why would we make it so formed to our bodies but then like the sleeves were massive?

Yeah. It looked horrible. Yeah. Who let me buy like a triple XL t-shirt when I'm a little string bean in first grade? Fashion was, yeah, that's embarrassing. But remember those scholastic book fairs? Oh, yes. Those things were so awesome.

Did you ever get the invisible pen rather than the books? But seriously, though. I think so. Is that the invisible ink? Or yes. Yeah, yeah. And then, yeah. And then you have to shine the light.

on it to see the message. Okay, I don't know if my parents would fund me for that, but I definitely know my friends had it and we would, I would like to partake in their activities. Yeah. See, I got book money and I did what I wanted. It wasn't that spent on book money. No, it was not. It was spent on massive erasers and invisible places were so cool, though. Or like those, we had these like shops that would kind of come in like during Christmas time and you would like buy your family gifts with money that your family gave you. So really. That's really cute.

You never had anything? It would be like, world's best dad on like an eraser or a mug. And then you get it and be like wrap it. This is for my dad. No. What I used to do is I used to re-gift my stuff. But I was like, obviously very young.

That's even better. Like first and second grade, like I remember one time I gave Sophia something she gave to me. And it was like a half view. It was like perfume or something. Her fault. She shouldn't have given it to you. She's not known. Yeah. Or, oh, this one, I'm not going to say that. I'll tell you later. No, when we're on this topic, I remember specifically, I was thinking about this the other day. You know how like your parents or your grandparents would send you like cards with money in them? Yeah. Well, for some reason I wrote my dad a card and I wanted to put money in it for him. because that's what, you know, my grandparents did. So I was trying to figure out, like, what to give him.

I'm like five and I have no money. I literally remember putting a quarter in the envelope. I thought a dollar was too much. I was like, no, I can't spend that much. So I gave him a quarter. And he was like, oh, why don't you go put this back in your piggy bank? And I was like, yes, a win-win. I look good and I get my quarter.

It's probably like, wow, you find this on the floor? So I thought I was paying bills, but... Dude. I remember that. That's awesome. Dude, this is so funny, because that makes me think of a story. Tell it. That's not really anything like that, but...

That's fine. Just tell it. When we were younger, this one's not going to make you laugh as much as that one made me laugh. But Andrew used to, like, turn his... room into a nightclub. Not actually, but like we would, well, yeah. But he had one of those like Nerf basketball hoops. Oh yeah. And then he had like a really nice speaker and he would make Sophia and I pay to get into his room. Yeah. We have to pay to request a song and pay to shoot a basketball. He was rolling and dope. No, seriously. And then I got so in like I'm pretty sure we had to pay to like

sit down on his bed. Like, it was ridiculous. It got so bad that Sophie and I tithe on him and he had to get, I'm pretty sure he ended up giving us bag way more money than we actually gave him. What a business theme though. It was so funny. Like, every time we think about that, I'm like, oh, that was so good. That is hilarious.

Yeah, he was making the big bucks off of us. Two pennies per night. Yeah, exactly. We used to have those Nerf baskets, too. I feel like they always came out during Christmas break and we'd have like a, what? What are you laughing at? I can just imagine your dad opening that. I know.

And like one side of the envelope's way heavier because it just is weighed down by one freaking quarter. So awesome. It's like he knew what was he was opening before he even had to open it. He probably thought it was like a rock. Better. Yeah. A quarter. Oh, you know what's weird? I was thinking about this.

Our kids are not going to know what pennies are. Okay, is that real? Yeah, they're not accepting them. They're done producing them. And then, like, if you go to the grocery store and you, they'll give you, that says like you have three cents back, they'll give you a nickel. What? Yeah. So if my bill is like 52 cents, am I expected to give a nickel?

I have no idea. I don't pay bills. That's so stupid. Isn't that? I just think that's so odd. Like, I get it. I think there's a use for a penny. Yeah. I mean, I get the reason, like, we were spending three pennies to make one penny.

So, like, well, then just don't do that. Yeah, well, yeah. Make them out of paper. Everybody in politics, listen up. Listen to Chloe. Yeah. Don't do that. Make them out of something else that's cheaper.

I want my pennies, bro. But the thing is to me is, is like, once. you stop producing something like the two dollar well never mind that's a bad example because the two dollar bill is only worth two dollars but i was going to say like doesn't that make it more like expensive because it's rare and like people find value and rare things and but also you can't like with a two dollar bill you could just do use two one dollar bills but there's nothing you can do to make up two pennies when there's no two pennies yeah i get that you see my love thank you You thought I was going to be weird with that.

Yes. But yeah, I don't know. I think that's weird. So I guess I'm just going to keep my pennies for my kids. That is so. Oh, wait. This is really random. Because I was thinking about collecting pennies, how we used to do that for

fundraisers for something. But the freaking box tabs or the can, like, tabs. Did you ever collect those for school? No, we collected apple seeds and box stamps. Wait, that's what I'm talking about. box stamps. Oh, yeah. So I got distracted by something else. So I don't know how much time. I think I called it something else. But then we did the Coke like tab things too. I'm not sure how that like translated to money for the school. Oh yeah. I forgot about that. But for some reason I just remember always wanting to

turn those in and then like getting scissors out and chopping holes in all of our pancake boxes and everything to get the little box tab out. Wait, yes. But now that I'm like thinking about it, how did that? translate to fundraising. I don't know. I'm still thinking about pennies, honestly. I used six yesterday. You kind of look like a penny today. I do, kind of.

I'm wearing brown. And your headphones are brown. Oh, yeah. And you're tan. Oh, thanks. Speaking of tan. I'm like a penny. We're headed to Arizona here.

Yes. Let's freaking get it. I'm so excited. It's going to be so good. I've been waiting for this. Literally, I need to stop saying, It's fine. On Monday.

I, no, Sunday. It doesn't matter. I was so excited thinking about spring break that I like couldn't fall asleep. It's like when you're a little kid and you know that you have a big trip the next day or Christmas is the next day. I literally felt like that. I was sitting there and I was thinking about all the songs I was going to put on our playlist. And I was thinking about us driving down the interstate with windows down. I was I thinking that exact thing.

What song were you blasting? when you were thinking of it. I don't know. I hope we say the same one. What were you? I wasn't, I don't know if I was really thinking of it. You know that song that's like,

um, I loki don't really like this type of music, but it's like country pop and it's like, girl, let's go push them. Oh wait, can I sing on this? Yeah.

I did not own the rights to the song. I did. They do not copyright. But anyways, that's a song that was playing in my head. Oh, really? Because I've been playing it. And everyone's like,

this is actually kind of good. Is that on your country playlist? On my Arizona-bound country playlist, yes. Okay, good, because I didn't put that on any of my playlist. I was more thinking of the, like... That's what I want when, like, we're hiking and things like that, or, like, sunrise, sunset. Because I feel like that fits the vibe, your playlist. No, well, yes, but I made two.

One of them is, like, old throwback, like, or pop. Or just, like, like, summertime songs. Like, think... I was more thinking, like, talk. tongue tied. I don't know what that is. I'll play for you later. Or like, take me to your best friend's house. Mm-mm-mm-mm this round a bad. Oh, yeah. That's what I was thinking of when I'm like ruling down the interstate interstate. Interstate with my best friends. We're in Arizona. Okay, no, I like that too. I got my what looked like. Oh, yeah, I got to remember to pack my sunglasses.

Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah. Chloe is very official. She made a full itinerary for. us and what? No, you finish. Sorry, I'll say it after. Full itinerary marking out all the days, all the hikes, all the destinations, food stops, and then everything we need to pack. So she's taking good care of her little children. Yes. No, I, this morning, I got an email about our Lower Antelope Canyon tour, and it just made

me so excited. This is an email. I don't really know what it says. It's just confirming that we bought. Yeah. It's just telling us like, arrive 45 minutes before. But our hike is going to be an hour and a half. Perfect. I think I'm the most excited for that hike. Me too. Although I'm really excited for Sedona too because everybody says that place is absolutely gorgeous. It is. The Devil's Bridge was so fun when I went. Is that what we're doing? Yeah, we're doing that on the second day. But we also get to do a lot of like the water stuff, like sliding rock I've heard is awesome. Oh, yay. Like, Yowell told me, which he's my brother-in-law.

Shout out. Yes. That he thinks we're going to end up having to, like, cut something out on Sedona, day two, because he thinks we're going to end up staying there, like, a lot longer than we budgeted in. So I was like, well, great. We've planned for too much, which is good. So. Yeah, I'd rather have too much than just be standing around.

Yeah. But I'm also, honestly, I really am excited for it all because the Grand Canyon hike, we should be able to see the Colorado River when we're all the way down. And the pictures looked so pretty. And I'm like, dang, I don't know if they did some mad editing skills. I'm sure they did. But the colors just, like, looked so cool. I'm so excited.

I can't wait to tell you guys all our stories about it. Yes. But with our Arizona trip, Addy and I wanted to see if we are on the same wavelength when it comes to our trip. So we're going to play this little game. I'm not really sure what the name of it is called, but basically... Three, two, one. Yeah, three, two, one, you say a word, and you get three tries to try to say the same word. Is there like a category that we're starting off with, or how does that work?

I don't know. Let's just see where the wind takes us. Okay. Let's start with any Arizona word. I got it. Maybe, yeah. Maybe first round doesn't care. count because then we kind of see where each other's at. And then from there, we'll do three.

Okay. All right. All right. I've never been to Arizona. So this is going to be possibly a stigma. But it's okay. Okay. I think we got this first. All right. Let's go. This one's really simple. Three, two, one. Desert. The word in between that. No, we got it. Just think of. No. Three, two, one. Rocks. Dang it. My bad. Okay.

Uh, I don't have one. What'd you say? Hot? Hot rocks. Okay. Uh. Okay, whatever. Three, two, one.

Hiking. Uh. I was thinking like snakes like, like, yeah, hot rocks. Okay. Three, two, one. Lizard. Okay. Okay, so I fear that was three.

Okay. We are really good at this game. Okay, let's try again. Okay. New, like, first word and everything? Yeah, new first word. Okay. Three, do you have one?

Yeah. Okay. Three, two, one. Gray list. Three, two, one. Mice on it. Okay. What?

How do you have one already from that and three? Oh, she's not ready yet. I'm not ready either. Hiking in miles on it, but you can't say... Okay. Three, two, one. Cedona. All right, one more.

Three, two, one. Venus. Okay, we suck. Okay, well... Let's try one more time. Okay, one more. Should we set a category? Yeah, maybe, because I feel lost.

Let's go. Desert animals. Okay, yeah. I feel like we've already said all of what the things. things we're doing so that okay three hey oh wait i don't even have one two what scorpion oh i should have said scorpion but then how do we find what's in between a snake and a scorpion or do we just keep guessing it an animal i guess we just hope i don't even know what other oh i got another one have i said it already no oh brick it's small and it's cute okay i got it three two one

Prairie dog. Small and cute. Yeah. Okay. Well, we were feeling confident about this game. We thought we were going to nail it, but. Let's just, ready? Three, two, one.

Lizard. Yes, let's go. Now we can end it on a win. Yeah, that was rough. All right, Addie, you want to sum us up for the day? Yes. Somehow we talked about everything and nothing. I don't really know what to say that we talked about because we started by talking about

nostalgic things of our childhood, but we escalated pretty fast. Let us know what your childhood favorites are. Yeah, we're going to Arizona on Monday, and we'll be there for a week with our other friend. And I think we're going to have a guest star next week. We might bring her on so that we can share all of our stories, because I'm sure there's going to be a ton. and I'm sure you guys are just going to be dying to hear about them. I'm really scared. I have to drive and I don't want to die.

Yeah, I do not want to drive, so. Yeah, well, me and Josie, hopefully. I hope Josie will help me because... I'd rather, like, I'd rather do the highway driving and you'd rather do, like, the inner city driving. Yeah. So... Great.

Well, we'll figure that. Yeah, anyways. Right for our safety. Yeah, for real. We might. Thank you guys for joining us on Radio Free Hillsdale 101. I'm a man.