Back to School with Gabe Henry
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Why does the back‑to‑school season feel like a nostalgic ritual?
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Welcome to You're Wrong About, the podcast where much as we regret to speak of it, it is back to school season. And with us today is Gabe Henry. Gabe, how are you doing in this season when all the Target entrances smell like crayon wax?
I'm doing okay. I mean, for me, this time of year is bittersweet because, I mean, I love summer, but I really love fall.
I
mean, like I'm a sucker for fall. You know, the apple picking and all the pumpkin shtick.
Yeah, those apples won't pick themselves. I mean, they will eventually, but then it's harder to eat them.
But I mean, this time of year, even though I haven't been in school in a long time, this time of year still brings back these old feelings of being a kid and starting school again and the end of summer vacation and knowing I'll be going back to a life of homework and tests and all that old sense of dread. I mean, it's amazing how your body remembers the school calendar.
Yes. I associate it with like a feeling of like both great dread and also great sort of anticipation of like, this is really going to be the year that I get it together.
Yeah, there's a similar to New Year's Eve. There's that sense of dread, maybe a sense of like a little regret. Any kind of new year turning over gives you a little bit of hope, a little bit of dread. But I think with back to school, there's a sense of I can really start a new identity this year because I haven't seen these people in a few months and I can get a whole new wardrobe.
Yeah, you can have that summer transformation.
Yeah, I actually remember being a kid and browsing the shelves in some pharmacy and looking at the binders and thinking, should I be a red binder guy this year? Or should I be a blue binder guy again? I mean, what does this binder say about me? What did you go with? I wish I remembered. I do remember clearly picking out the pencil case that zips all the way around and being very proud of that choice.
Well, blue is really timeless and classic, you know, but yeah, these things are important. Yeah, school supplies being like such a fraught thing too, right? Where it was like a way of defining yourself that was also dependent on your parents' ability and willingness to spend money on them or to attempt to get something trendy and therefore probably annoying. Yeah.
Right. I mean, if you get the knockoff Lisa Frank folders, what are people going to think?
God, I miss Lisa Frank. Lisa Frank was like an acid trip.
Baby's first acid trip.
Yeah. It's just like all these little cultural artifacts and remnants are just so... Like, does Kenzie know about Ann Getty's? Do they know that at a certain time, the like... woman who was going to be okay would potentially have a big coffee table book of newborn babies arranged in giant conch shells and surrounded by flowers and stuff there was just like sleeping i feel like you know
i'm gonna go out on a limb and say no they don't know what you're talking
about Yeah, you would like, for example, you would get three sleeping little babies and you would dress them up as peas and put them in pea pods or you would put a little little hat on a little baby to make it look like a stamen and put it put the baby inside a giant fake poppy. And this was like, I can't, these were huge. And they, and let me say something else that is going to surprise you. If you don't know what I'm talking about, they weren't considered tacky. These were, I feel like these were considered to be maybe not like, you know, art or anything, but like a very normal middle brow, nice, normal lady thing to have.
Yeah.
We were like, ah, babies inside flowers. I don't know. That's neither here nor there. I guess to say that culture changes a lot and has these surprising little wrinkles that, you know, then time marches on and you don't hear a lot of references to. And I feel like, I guess, that's kind of your beat over here. And you're going to tell us today about back to school season and like how and when we started doing this.
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