Latest / The Cubby and Christine Morning Show / Here's How Much A VCR Will Cost You Now
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Are impromptu survey here on LIGHTFM with Kebby and Christine
- 0:03Speaker 1: Do you currently have a working VCR in your home?
- 0:07Speaker 1: If you do or if you don't? Answer either way
- 0:11Speaker 1: at four four three six three on text. We bring
- 0:13Speaker 1: this up because your sister in law, barber Yes, Barbera
- 0:17Speaker 1: would like a VCR because she gave one away, which
- 0:21Speaker 1: she can't.
- 0:21Speaker 2: She didn't know what she did, you, Nope, she didn't
- 0:23Speaker 2: realize quite what she did. So yes, she has a
- 0:26Speaker 2: stack of videotapes and was asking me how we can
- 0:31Speaker 2: now watch them, and I said, well you're VCR and
- 0:33Speaker 2: she goes, oh, I gave that away years ago. And
- 0:35Speaker 2: I was like, wait, wait you gave away the VCR. Yeah,
- 0:39Speaker 2: Like so how did you expect to watch the tapes? Well,
- 0:42Speaker 2: we'll buy a new one.
- 0:43Speaker 3: Ah. She's like, that's where we have a problem.
- 0:45Speaker 2: She's like, turntables. You can buy turntables. I'm like, yes,
- 0:49Speaker 2: you can buy turntables. No, you cannot buy VCRs now correct,
- 0:54Speaker 2: So Kebby, I'm looking this up. The last VCR was
- 0:58Speaker 2: built in July of two thousand sixteen, on.
- 1:01Speaker 1: Almost ten years and then they manufactured by brand new VCR.
- 1:05Speaker 2: Shut production down, so now the only way to get
- 1:07Speaker 2: them garage sales, eBay, thrift thrift stores where I think
- 1:12Speaker 2: she gave hers. I think she gave hers to it, and.
- 1:14Speaker 3: Now she wants it back, and now she wants Barbara
- 1:17Speaker 3: wants it.
- 1:20Speaker 2: That's good shape to bye bye.
- 1:21Speaker 1: Yeah, well we touched on this about a month ago, Kristin.
- 1:24Speaker 1: You still have a functioning VCR.
- 1:25Speaker 4: Yes, it's it's plugged into the basement. It's one of
- 1:27Speaker 4: those like VCR DVD ones, but we have probably two
- 1:32Speaker 4: or three, like just normal VC.
- 1:34Speaker 3: And when would you use it? When do you use it?
- 1:36Speaker 2: Oh?
- 1:37Speaker 4: Gosh, we have it in a bit, but we do.
- 1:39Speaker 4: We still have the Disney like the Clamshell VHS's and
- 1:42Speaker 4: we show the kids those movies and you know, at
- 1:45Speaker 4: some point they're like, yeah, we just put on Disney Plus.
- 1:47Speaker 3: But right, that's much easier, right, much easier, much clearer. Yeah,
- 1:53Speaker 3: So should we make this like a mission to try
- 1:55Speaker 3: to get barbed? Uh? You know, look, she can't get
- 1:58Speaker 3: You're right, she can't get a new VC.
- 2:00Speaker 2: I think we're honestly, I think we're okay.
- 2:02Speaker 3: I want to help her. I feel bad.
- 2:03Speaker 2: I wonder if like there's any family stuff on there
- 2:06Speaker 2: I think it's just like her. You know, she loves
- 2:08Speaker 2: old movies and she's got a collection, which you know,
- 2:12Speaker 2: now we have to find streaming for her, like we
- 2:15Speaker 2: kind of have to search for stuff. But it's just
- 2:17Speaker 2: interesting to hear. Yeah, who still has one? And is
- 2:21Speaker 2: it working?
- 2:22Speaker 3: Is it working? Is it blinking twelve o'clock right now? Yeah?
- 2:25Speaker 3: Hit us up on text at four four three six three. Oh,
- 2:28Speaker 3: we got a text.
- 2:28Speaker 4: We got a couple of them.
- 2:29Speaker 3: There are a lot of people that still have VCRs. Yes, yes,
- 2:33Speaker 3: I don't see the text reads on well.
- 2:35Speaker 4: Seven three to two says yes for my wedding video
- 2:38Speaker 4: and kids videos. But I have to transfer them. I know.
- 2:41Speaker 4: I'm procrastinating.
- 2:42Speaker 3: Yeah, bit, you might want to do that soon.
- 2:44Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh. Six three one says we have three. I
- 2:48Speaker 2: should give them Barber's.
- 2:50Speaker 3: Phone.
- 2:51Speaker 2: I know. Eight I've working VCR and a DVD. Look
- 2:55Speaker 2: at this.
- 2:55Speaker 3: I love this. Actually eight six two I.
- 2:57Speaker 2: Have one I ordered from Walmart dot com about a
- 2:59Speaker 2: year ago. Two one hundred dollars one hundred dollars.
- 3:01Speaker 3: They're going back up because I have to.
- 3:04Speaker 2: Look into this now.
- 3:06Speaker 3: A lot of money.
- 3:07Speaker 1: We first got our maybe eighty three eighty four. I
- 3:09Speaker 1: remember they're like five six hundred bucks.
- 3:11Speaker 2: Oh, that was a big, big deal.
- 3:13Speaker 1: And they went down to like eighty four dollars at
- 3:15Speaker 1: the time, and now they're going back up because they're
- 3:16Speaker 1: hard to find.
- 3:17Speaker 4: They found one brand new Walmart dot Com one hundred
- 3:20Speaker 4: and sixty nine ninety nine.
- 3:22Speaker 3: You're on Walmart right now.
- 3:23Speaker 2: Yeah, Barbara, I apologize. I'm making a public apology. I
- 3:28Speaker 2: thought they were gone.
- 3:29Speaker 3: No, I've read that. I read the story you read
- 3:31Speaker 3: twenty sixteen.
- 3:32Speaker 4: I lied. It says pre owned Okay for one hundred
- 3:36Speaker 4: and seventy dollars.
- 3:37Speaker 3: Though it should be seventy four, not one hundred and
- 3:39Speaker 3: seventy four.
- 3:40Speaker 2: Yes, she gave hers over to a Salvation Army.
- 3:44Speaker 3: Well, you know, go there for a movie night. That's
- 3:47Speaker 3: nice lightn