I've noticed something about us as a society.
We really know how to ruin a good thing.
Yeah, we do. And we do it time and time again.
We take something good and we completely obliterate the culture around it.
And we completely sell it out.
And we make it so corporate that it's unbearable.
We really know how to ruin a good thing.
Stick with me here.
I'll give you an example, okay?
The Stanley Cup. The culture around the Stanley Cup is a catastrophe.
For one, it's become sort of a trend to collect every single color.
Now, the beauty of the Stanley Cup is that it's incredibly durable and will last you a very long time.
So you really only need, at max, two or three of them.
I have three of them.
but we really only need one because it's such a good cup but it's become a trend to collect every single color.
Fine, that's a hobby for some people.
Who am I to judge? And that's great for the company.
You know, they're probably very happy about this.
However, a lot of people are posting videos about their Stanley Cup hauls and the new Stanley Cup colors that they got and people are waiting outside of a Target because there's a new Stanley Cup drop at Target starting at 6am.
And it's starting to be something that people judge, right?
People are judging people who participate in the hype of Stanley Cup.
It's starting to make the news.
And now the culture around the Stanley Cup has sort of been ruined because every time you walk around with your Stanley Cup, there's a chance that people are perceiving you like you're a Stanley Cup collecting freak.
I'm not saying that's right or wrong.
I'm just saying that that's the truth.
I also think the Stanley Cup has an interesting symbolism.
And I don't know exactly how it happened, how closely it relates to the Stanley Cup collectors, but I feel like Stanley Cups have become sort of associated with a level of chuginess in the way that we absolutely couldn't stand the Ugg boots.
immediately after Ugg boots were trendy in the early 2010s or it was actually mid 2010s or early to mid 2010s.
We all hated Ugg boots for a few years, thought they were absolutely hideous because they were so basic for a few years there.
It's like the same thing with the Stanley Cup.
It's become like a chuggy cup.
It's not cool to have that cup.
It's sort of Karen coated.
It's sort of it's just a mess.
The culture around the Stanley Cup has been ruined.
And I think it's unfair.
I think it's a shame because I think the Stanley cup is an incredible cup.
I have three of them and I use them all constantly.
They're all constantly in rotation.
I have two different types of beverages.
I put in two out of the three of the Stanley cups.
I always have sparkling water with apple cider vinegar in one because that's a drink that I like to drink.
It's weird, but it's tasty to me and it, I feel like makes my tummy happy, but I don't know.
And there's definitely no science backing that up because I've Googled it.
And then I also have another one filled with electrolytes because I love hot yoga and I'm constantly dehydrated.
And then I have a third that is there for emergencies for if one of them's in the dishwasher or for my loved ones when they come over to my house and want a big jug of a liquid.
Because you'd be shocked at how often people want that when they come to my house.
Yeah, I could make you a glass of water in a glass or I could make you a glass of water in a Stanley cup and you could stay a while.
You know what I'm saying?
I love the Stanley Cup and the culture around it has been absolutely ruined.
And that's the whole point of this episode.
We ruin everything.
We ruin everything.
And Stanley Cups are not the only victim of our wrath as a society.
I have a list of approximately 20 things that actually are good, like genuinely good things, at least in my opinion, that have been completely destroyed by us.
We've ruined these things.
We've ruined the culture around them.
We've ruined the magic.
And today I want to go through that list of things that I think have been ruined by us.
And I want to remind all of you and even myself that these things are great and that it's our fault for ruining them.
But what's sort of beautiful is that we can also fix them.
We can bring them back.
We can fix the reputation of these things.
We can fix the culture around these things if we work together.
Without further ado, let's begin.
Obviously, Stanley Cup was number one.
What's number two? Band tees.
Okay. Hear me out. Band tees, like wearing a Beatles t -shirt, wearing an ACDC t -shirt, wearing a Guns N' Roses t -shirt.
I don't know who's wearing a Guns N' Roses t -shirt who actually likes Guns N' Roses.
I don't know if that person exists, but you get the idea, okay?
I bet a lot of you are listening to me and thinking, Emma thinks the band tee has been ruined because it's become a trend to just wear a band tee and not necessarily care about the band that you're wearing the t -shirt for.
That's part of it. Don't get me wrong.
That is part of it.
And we'll get to that later.
I think the worst thing that's happened to band tees is their presence in fast fashion sorts of stores, okay?
Band tees available at Forever 21 or at H &M or on fast fashion websites or at Brandy Melville.
I think that taking band tees and pumping them out to the masses, I think it ruined the culture around the band tee and I think it's because number one the way that they've created band tees in mass is all wrong number one they took like top rock bands in like I don't know what the 70s and 80s like Guns N' Roses and Led Zeppelin and ACDC and and the Beatles and I guess Beatles or like whatever earlier, but anyway.
And they take these like same like 10 bands and they slap the logo on a t -shirt and then like somehow rip it up a little bit or put it on like a faded t -shirt.
And then also people were just buying them because they were like, this is a cool design on a t -shirt, which I can't blame people for.
