Talks in Class

We have a special guest for today's episode, Jenna's husband, Joe, a movie-loving elder millennial who grew up with a special appreciation of horror movies. Jenna and Joe team up to count down their top 5 Halloween season movies from their childhoods, ranging from classic monster movies to '80s and '90s horror favorites.

Jenna takes us back to the '90s and early 2000s to talk about some of the most popular foods and snacks we loved as kids. From sugary drinks to the best after-school snacks to candy disguised as kids' cereals, she reminisces on some of the best, the worst, and the weirdest, and also shares a "what I ate in a day" from the early 2000s.

Continuing on our theme of early-school-year topics, this week Jenna discusses one of the most exciting weeks of the entire school year: Homecoming week. She shares some of her high school's homecoming traditions, some favorite homecoming memories, and of course, reminisces on her favorite HoCo dance looks.

We're heading back to the pre-digital age to talk about Jenna's favorite physical medium: magazines. Jenna discusses the importance of magazines as entertainment and a source of information, from fashion trends to beauty tips to relationship advice, in the days before everything was online. She talks about some of her favorite magazines and shares specific issues that stand out in her memory.

This week, Jenna looks back on the excitement (and sometimes horror) of school picture day, from the pressure of picking the perfect outfit, to the struggle of taking a decent picture when the pictures happened to be right after recess, to the excitement of taking her senior pictures in the mid-2000s. She talks about some of her worst school pictures, her best outfits, and counts down the top 5 most popular senior photo poses from 2005.

Nothing says '90s nostalgia quite like reminiscing on some of the most beloved toys millennials loved during childhood. In this episode, Jenna looks back on some of the most fun, most confusing, most bizarre, and most dangerous toys we had as kids in the '90s.

Welcome back to Talks in Class! In the first episode back after her summer vacation, Jenna talks about the excitement of back to school in the late '90s and early 2000s. From Lisa Frank folders, to back to school shopping trips, to picking out your best outfit for the first day of school, she reminisces on some of her favorite late-summer traditions from her childhood, tweens, and teen years.

This week we look back at pop culture, fashion, and of course, iconic reality TV in the early 2010s. Jenna talks about the changing fashion trends and cultural attitudes in the late 2000s and early 2010s and the impact Jersey Shore had on had on her and her college-age friends when it premiered in late 2009. She reminisces on some of her favorite memories of watching the show and counts down her top 5 favorite Jersey Shore memories.

We're reliving some of Jenna's least favorite memories this week as we talk all about the activities, the embarrassment, and the smells of gym class in the '90s. Jenna talks about some of her favorite (and least favorite) activities from gym class in elementary and middle school, and reminisces on some of the funnier things we were forced to do as part of physical education, from line dancing to running the mile in laps around the stuff school gymnasium.

With summer in full swing, we're taking it back to the late '90s and early 2000s to talk about summer vacation. In this episode, Jenna reminisces on how she spent her time once school was out, from hanging out with her cool babysitters in the '90s to riding her bike everywhere in the early 2000s, and she counts down her top 5 favorite Y2K-era fashion statements.