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These Luxury Items From 20 Years Ago Are Worthless Now · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw out some things. Can you tell me
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  Speaker 1: what's in common?
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  Speaker 2: A portable GPS, plasma TV, digital cameras, Palm pilot, blackberries,
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  Speaker 2: TV o iPods? What is this referring to? Those are
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  Speaker 2: things that were considered luxury items twenty years ago that
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  Speaker 2: are basically worthless today.
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  Speaker 1: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: I thought you were going to say things in my
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  Speaker 3: storage unit. They don't know how to dispose of the.
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  Speaker 1: Well be Yeah, but yeah, portable GPS? Do we need
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  Speaker 1: that anymore? No?
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  Speaker 3: No, but I remember that being such a big deal.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. How about map quest?
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, before you leave, that's right.
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  Speaker 1: I think Garman came along.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Oh my goodness.
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  Speaker 2: And can we talk about plasma TVs? Did you have
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  Speaker 2: to have one like I did?
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  Speaker 1: I had one.
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  Speaker 2: It weighed a ton, It was very expensive, right, you
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  Speaker 2: thought it was gonna be here forever?
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  Speaker 3: No, because I remember at the time, Covey there were
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  Speaker 3: plasma TVs and there were HDTVs, and and there was
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  Speaker 3: the debate like one of them was going to go
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  Speaker 3: on and one of them wasn't. I vaguely remember that
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  Speaker 3: HDTVs went on.
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  Speaker 1: It was like pick a lane, which one in here?
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  Speaker 3: Yep? And you're right, So it was the HDTVs that
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  Speaker 3: lived on.
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  Speaker 1: And then the LCDs came out and the led not
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  Speaker 1: the LEDs.
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  Speaker 3: Those are lights, but those are the light bulbs and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I thought plasma would be here forever. But
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  Speaker 2: if you look back at it too, the screens would
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  Speaker 2: burn out.
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  Speaker 3: Remember, Oh no, I never had one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah that's right. Yeah they weren't. They weren't that great.
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  Speaker 1: But you thought you had to.
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  Speaker 3: Have one like it says it was a luxury item
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  Speaker 3: twenty years ago. iPods.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, look who you told me twenty years ago
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  Speaker 2: that everything would be in our phones, including ten thousand songs.
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  Speaker 3: I'd be like, no, and but a gazillion pictures because
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  Speaker 3: I had the digital cameras.
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  Speaker 2: I did too, Yep, But you know what, what do
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  Speaker 2: you do with all those small discs? Remember the little
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  Speaker 2: things you had to put in? Yeah, these really thin
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  Speaker 2: disc that's a problem with those digital cameras. I feel
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  Speaker 2: like i'd have I know where the digital cameras are,
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  Speaker 2: and with those small plant I have no idea.
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  Speaker 3: Oh boy, I lost a lot of stuff. The six
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  Speaker 3: CD changer in your car, that was a luxury.
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  Speaker 1: Funny, Christine, I had one, and I on you.
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  Speaker 2: I had one in the back of my car, and
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  Speaker 2: I remember it was like a weekly thing I would do.
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  Speaker 1: I would go to the back of the car.
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  Speaker 3: You have to load it.
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  Speaker 2: Just update it, you too, Joshua Tree again, all right,
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  Speaker 2: you'd like get out of the car.
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  Speaker 1: It was a big deal to mix it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that is a big deal.
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  Speaker 1: Tv O. I had to have TV. Oh wow, right,
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  Speaker 1: had I'm getting rid of this VCR.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, and I dig moving on? What else it
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  Speaker 3: says palm pilot blackberries.
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  Speaker 2: My brother in law was a huge Palm Pilot guy
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  Speaker 2: and he got me into it. And it was missing
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  Speaker 2: one thing.
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  Speaker 1: What's that The internet would never connected exactly. You had
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  Speaker 1: to plug it in your computer to.
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  Speaker 3: Update digital photo frames. They're done HD DVD players. For
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  Speaker 3: the most part, that's done unless you don't have a
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  Speaker 3: smart TV. Right, so you still need.
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  Speaker 2: It if you want to add to the list, text
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  Speaker 2: us at four four, three six three. What is a
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  Speaker 2: luxury item from twenty years ago that's basically worthless today.
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  Speaker 1: Remember when we would do these lists maybe ten years ago,
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  Speaker 1: and then a walkman would be on there. Now. Oh yes,
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  Speaker 1: it's so old, it's changes. It's not even in the
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  Speaker 1: twenty year window. Anymore.
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  Speaker 3: I know I'm watching that series. It's on FX and
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  Speaker 3: it's on Hulu, and it's about Carolyn Bassett and John F.
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  Speaker 3: Kennedy Junior. And they do a really beautiful job of
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  Speaker 3: capturing New York in the nineties. Yes, I love it,
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  Speaker 3: making me very nostalgic. I love everything just look pretty.
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  Speaker 3: But I know it's rose colored glasses. But yeah, you
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  Speaker 3: see those kind of things because they're trying to keep
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  Speaker 3: it very authentic.
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  Speaker 1: So well, we have music from the nineties coming up.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I'll take it like the nineties.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and what do you have coming up in the news?
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  Speaker 3: Well, let's check out the headlines. And when you go
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  Speaker 3: for takeout, do you have to tip? You know, they
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  Speaker 3: flipped the little thing around, haven't Are we supposed to tip?
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  Speaker 1: We chat about that next.
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  Speaker 2: Cobby and Christine back in a moment on what was
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  Speaker 2: six point seven light at them