If it happened in the last 20 years, I've probably not any awareness. I can't identify most pop music. I know I've heard them, but no idea who wrote/sang it. Sports? lost touch. TV? No TV for 17 years. Haven't missed a sitcom.

But I do remember Monk, American Experience, Roadshow.

Jerry Garcia? I thought he was the ice cream guy.

True Dough

(27,434 posts)

13. I believe the "ice cream guy"

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Thu May 28, 2026, 08:50 PM

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is Cherry Garcia (by Ben and Jerry's).

WestMichRad

(3,444 posts)

6. Lots.

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Thu May 28, 2026, 08:04 PM

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I’m blissfully unaware of a great deal of pop culture. And I don’t regret it at all.

BluesRunTheGame

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7. How could you "not know" who Jerry Garcia was?

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Thu May 28, 2026, 08:09 PM

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That’s mind boggling.

They even named an ice cream flavor after the guy!

milestogo

(23,241 posts)

8. I was familiar with the ice cream.

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Thu May 28, 2026, 08:10 PM

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I just assumed that the guy was named after the ice cream

Skittles

(173,226 posts)

9. I never understood the popularity of The Grateful Dead

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Thu May 28, 2026, 08:13 PM

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but yeah I had "heard" of him

Maninacan

(355 posts)

11. Sports figures

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Thu May 28, 2026, 08:17 PM

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Golfers, coaches. football. I never followed any of it. I am familiar with most musicians 60s to 80s.

milestogo

(23,241 posts)

12. The night John Lennon was shot I waited up for my roommate

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Thu May 28, 2026, 08:29 PM

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to come home so I could tell her. Her response: "He was one of the Beatles, wasn't he?"

This made it a compound trauma.

True Dough

(27,434 posts)

14. I think the right thing to do in that situation

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Thu May 28, 2026, 08:51 PM

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is Let it Be.

milestogo

(23,241 posts)

15. ...

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True Dough

(27,434 posts)

17. HELP!

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Thu May 28, 2026, 09:34 PM

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We Can Work It Out!

JoseBalow

(9,801 posts)

18. Too soon

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Thu May 28, 2026, 09:37 PM

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3catwoman3

(29,892 posts)

16. I had a subscription to People magazine for many years. I stopped it...

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Thu May 28, 2026, 09:23 PM

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...when I realized I had no idea who most of the people in it were.

Marthe48

(23,555 posts)

19. Every day, my friend, every day

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u4ic

(17,147 posts)

20. I have no idea who's got their 15 minutes of fame

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Thu May 28, 2026, 09:55 PM

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Don't follow celebrities and sports figures. Never heard of Charlie Kirk before he died as well.

mwmisses4289

(4,853 posts)

22. Pretty much any celebrity after about 1990.

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Fri May 29, 2026, 08:17 AM

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Like the...Karshians? Kardassians (aren't they an alien race on Star Trek)? The only celebrities I am currently aware of right now are the voice actors and singers of Kpop Demon Hunters, and only because that has become one of my favorite movies.

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