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Hold Please...The 80s Are on the Line · Children of the 80s

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  Speaker 1: Children of the Eighties is brought to you by Q
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to Children of the Eighties. I am one
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  Speaker 2: of your hosts, Jim, and I am joined as always
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  Speaker 2: by the lady who thought her parachute pants would never
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  Speaker 2: go out of style. It's my co host, Lindsay.
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  Speaker 1: I still wear them around the house.
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  Speaker 2: You do. They're comfy, they are, but they make a
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  Speaker 2: loud sound. They kind of swish.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, especially because I'm voluptuous. So when you're voluptuous,
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  Speaker 1: they this is the sound they make your any.
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  Speaker 2: I believe that's the first time the word voluptuous has
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  Speaker 2: been used on this podcast.
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  Speaker 1: I have a question for you that I was literally
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  Speaker 1: just thinking about before we hit record. Okay, do you
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  Speaker 1: think I'm getting quirkier with age or less quirky with it? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, quirkier for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Have we not just had some of the most random
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  Speaker 1: conversations in the past hour.
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  Speaker 2: You are so strange. I know that had you been
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  Speaker 2: this strange when I met you, I'm not sure how
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  Speaker 2: I would have.
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  Speaker 1: Felt, I know, But you know what we have fun,
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  Speaker 1: don't we.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, I've grown in my tolerance for your quirkiness,
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  Speaker 2: so you've matured.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm aging like fine wine.
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  Speaker 2: I am aging like cheese a tire on a Nascar
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  Speaker 2: very quickly losing your treads, losing my treads. It's not good.
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  Speaker 1: So we're at a really strange place in our marriage
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  Speaker 1: and in our lives. And Emmy has gotten to the
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  Speaker 1: point where she is gone more than she's home. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: And so I mean that's great, it's good. It's just
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  Speaker 1: it's a new era for us. But we're also now
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  Speaker 1: like it's a good thing we like each other because
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  Speaker 1: suddenly we're alone a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Speak for yourself. Although I do hear in my head
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  Speaker 2: when she's gone, I think we're alone now, do you?
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  Speaker 2: There doesn't seem to be anyone around.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: I think it means that we've done a good job
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  Speaker 2: preparing her to, you know, fly away from the nest
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  Speaker 2: at some point, because she doesn't mind being away from
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  Speaker 2: the nest for long periods of time.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, well, she she's definitely checking out the world,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm proud of her and excited for her. But
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  Speaker 1: it's just an interesting place to be. Well, because now
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  Speaker 1: we're suddenly here with a whole lot of time on
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  Speaker 1: our hands. And I had planned a trip to Mexico,
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  Speaker 1: but I guess I'm going to need to cancel that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you should probably stay away from that country for
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  Speaker 2: the time being.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, we might have a little getaway, just the two of.
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  Speaker 2: Us, get away to heaven because we wouldn't be coming back.
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  Speaker 1: Be you and the cartel.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, no, thank you. I saw enough breaking bad to
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  Speaker 2: know that I don't really want to mess with the cartel.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, so we won't go to Mexico. But anyways, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm sure other people listening have probably been here already,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe a few people aren't quite here yet. But
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  Speaker 1: it's just it's different. Wasn't quite ready, But it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: matter if I'm ready or not.
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  Speaker 2: She's ready, right, No, did it really? Your life is
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  Speaker 2: over now? Basically? I mean, you have no say so?
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah, it was like my
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  Speaker 1: life is overhit. I'm sacrificing myself for her. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I would.
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  Speaker 2: That's what you do for children, right.
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  Speaker 1: I know, I know, so listen. I got so many
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  Speaker 1: complaints about the Valentine's Day episode and the horrible songs
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  Speaker 1: that you picked. And then Aunt Jean, who is now
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  Speaker 1: she against the honor of being my Saragate mom now
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  Speaker 1: that my mom's not here. She said it's a good
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  Speaker 1: thing that she loves us because she survived the Valentine's
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  Speaker 1: Day episode and then last week's episode of the actors
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  Speaker 1: who turned into musicians, and she didn't like those songs either.
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  Speaker 1: She said, it's a good thing she loves us, or
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  Speaker 1: she would have you know, she could checked that out. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so I thought we needed to do something other than
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  Speaker 1: music this week.
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  Speaker 2: I hope that the rest of our audience doesn't feel
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  Speaker 2: like that.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: I hope others didn't check out after two weeks of
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  Speaker 2: bad music.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: Actually I take that. No, the first week wasn't bad music.
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  Speaker 2: It had a couple of bad songs, but it had
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  Speaker 2: a lot of good songs. You're not going to get
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  Speaker 2: much better than waiting for a start of Fall.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's true. Had a few hidden gims.
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  Speaker 2: I guess I'm a hidden Jim.
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  Speaker 1: You're not hidden in that blues jersey. I can see
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  Speaker 1: a loud and clear.
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  Speaker 2: Gotta represent even if they stink. There you go. So
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  Speaker 2: it is a strange time podcast wise, and life Wise
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  Speaker 2: and all that fun stuff. And we had planned to
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  Speaker 2: pump out like seventeen podcasts today and this is probably
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  Speaker 2: the one and only that we're doing.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, are you surprised, No, I don't know. Something
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  Speaker 1: happens on Sunday afternoons where my brain just goes to mush.
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  Speaker 2: You go into a coma, I do, and rightfully so
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  Speaker 2: you know at some point you need to rest and
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  Speaker 2: recharge for the new week. We were yesterday, We were
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  Speaker 2: guests on Matt Cook's show, Spinning the Wheel podcast all
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  Speaker 2: about George Michael. Yes, you were really worried going into that.
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  Speaker 1: My exact words to you and then to Matt was
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  Speaker 1: everything I know about George Michael I could put on
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  Speaker 1: a postage stamp.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, but we made it through. I think it's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be a good episode, and I think folks should go
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  Speaker 2: check that out.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the thing. I actually think it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a really good episode. And I can sometimes be a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of a tough critic, just on myself, but
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  Speaker 1: I think it came together really well. And I always
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  Speaker 1: enjoy our conversations with Matt because he keeps it real
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  Speaker 1: and I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and of course he'll be back on our show
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  Speaker 2: for this theme song NCAA style tournament that we're going
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  Speaker 2: to be doing in March, and always fun to have
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  Speaker 2: him on as well as well as the other guests
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  Speaker 2: that will that took part in it last year will
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  Speaker 2: be back this year. Plus we're adding a new one,
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  Speaker 2: so should be fun.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be good.
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  Speaker 2: We've got a lot of stuff coming up where we're
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  Speaker 2: just like every day we're doing something in the podcast world.
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  Speaker 1: See, I needed to today to get ready.
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  Speaker 2: I know, So yeah, take your get ready pill. That's
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  Speaker 2: all I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. So this is where I think I'm
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  Speaker 1: at in the whole menopause journey. I'm so exhausted that
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  Speaker 1: I went to a place that might have been legit,
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  Speaker 1: it might not have been legit. I didn't really know
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  Speaker 1: and I didn't care. And they gave me an IV
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  Speaker 1: allegedly of vitamins and minerals that my body needed, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm hoping it'll give me a boost to help me
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  Speaker 1: get through all of this.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I know when I came home on Friday, you
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  Speaker 2: said that you had a nice boost of energy.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I came out of the room after they gave
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  Speaker 1: me the IV, talking like ninety miles an hour about
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  Speaker 1: just I had more energy than I knew what to
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  Speaker 1: do with. And I think they were so taken aback
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  Speaker 1: by that that they asked me if I would just
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  Speaker 1: stop and write a review for and I was like, whoa.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I stayed quite at that height, but
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  Speaker 1: I do think it gave me a little nudge.
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  Speaker 2: But you think that's gone. Now do you think you
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  Speaker 2: need an IV every day?
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  Speaker 1: Possibly every day, which I don't think financially we could
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  Speaker 1: do that.
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  Speaker 2: But it was a little expensive. I was a little
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  Speaker 2: taken aback when you told me how much it costs.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I would like you to have more energy. I'd
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  Speaker 2: just like you to have cheaper energy.
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  Speaker 1: I know, well listen me too, but nothing these days
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  Speaker 1: seems to be cheap.
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  Speaker 2: I don't need you going and getting Doc Brown's plutonium
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  Speaker 2: to have your energy.
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  Speaker 1: That could have been what it was. I mean, it
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  Speaker 1: looked reputable, but I'm like they're putting a needle in
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  Speaker 1: my arm. I didn't care. I was like, whatever it is, cocaine, fine.
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  Speaker 2: Well you not fine. You do lots of research on
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  Speaker 2: places to look at their ratings and their reviews and
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  Speaker 2: everything else they got.
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  Speaker 1: Oh and I did for this place and they had
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  Speaker 1: a perfect five point zero. But again, if everybody is
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  Speaker 1: as exhausted as I am, and we're going in and
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  Speaker 1: they're giving us pesticides, I mean, as long as it's
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  Speaker 1: giving us energy, aren't we going to give them a
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  Speaker 1: five point zero?
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  Speaker 2: Could it be the placebo effect?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe? Why? Possibly?
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  Speaker 2: Could it be the Mandela effect?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe? I mean they were wearing Fruit of the Loom outfits.
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  Speaker 2: Is this where I go? Were they really?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: You serious, clerk?
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  Speaker 1: Are you serious?
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  Speaker 2: Clerk? All right? Well I got nothing after that, Like
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  Speaker 2: you start talking about minno pause and my my brain
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  Speaker 2: checks out. I don't know where to go from there.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm just gonna stay silent because I feel like
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  Speaker 2: mino pause was named pause, that men should pause because
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  Speaker 2: oh my gosh, they're going crazy.
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  Speaker 1: So this is the guy back when I was pregnant
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  Speaker 1: with Emmy and we were getting to the point of
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  Speaker 1: like taking the classes and we start talking about the
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  Speaker 1: birthing plan, and he was the guy that said I'll
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  Speaker 1: be in the waiting room with the cigars. Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like, I don't think that's how it works anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Unfortunately, so anything it.
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  Speaker 1: Is not anything female related. Jim just automatically shuts down,
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  Speaker 1: checks out, doesn't listen, doesn't see, doesn't hear, doesn't.
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  Speaker 2: Know, see no evil, hear, no evil speak.
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  Speaker 1: No, you forced me. The other day I had to
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  Speaker 1: go talk to Emmy about a menopause issue and she
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  Speaker 1: was traumatized.
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  Speaker 2: Better her than I.
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  Speaker 1: She was like, I don't think I should be talking.
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  Speaker 2: About this, better than I. That's all I'm saying. Put
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  Speaker 2: down your arrows, quit slinging them at me, And I
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  Speaker 2: guess let's get to the podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, what are we doing today? Do you have something prepared?
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  Speaker 2: I don't. I'm hoping you.
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  Speaker 1: Don't anything over here?
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  Speaker 2: All right, well let's go anyway.
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  Speaker 1: This is a podcast that looks back on the decade
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  Speaker 1: of the nineteen eighties. We talk about things that were
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  Speaker 1: important to us as children and what we look back
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  Speaker 1: on with fond memories as adults. Ultimately, this is a
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  Speaker 1: nostalgia podcast.
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  Speaker 2: And this is the point where I usually speak and
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  Speaker 2: tell you what our episode's going to be about. But
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  Speaker 2: I have no clue. This is one of those Lindsey
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  Speaker 2: centric episodes where I've been given zero information and I
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  Speaker 2: am just put here to react, I guess to run
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  Speaker 2: the road caster to yeah, to run the sound. That's
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  Speaker 2: what I'm here for.
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  Speaker 1: This is about the only episode that I have ever
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  Speaker 1: said yeah I got this when I really didn't. Uh oh,
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  Speaker 1: So here we go. I had this idea that we
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  Speaker 1: should take a few minutes and we should talk about
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  Speaker 1: things from the nineteen eighties that were so prevalent and
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  Speaker 1: so normal and so part of our everyday lives that
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  Speaker 1: it never crossed our mind that those things would ever
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  Speaker 1: be obsolete. Yet here we are in the year twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six, and they're not a thing anymore. They don't
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  Speaker 1: even exist.
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  Speaker 2: Are you talking like parachute pants?
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  Speaker 1: Well, we're a kind of I hadn't really thought about fashion,
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  Speaker 1: because fashion to me changes so quickly anyway, right, But
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's an example. Sure, why not, I'll allow it.
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  Speaker 1: But I wrote a few down o, some kind of obvious,
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  Speaker 1: some maybe not quite so oftous. Sure, okay, payphones?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, payphones out on the road right where
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  Speaker 2: you going? You stick in your quarter and apparently it
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  Speaker 2: was a dime back in the day, and then it
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  Speaker 2: was a quarter when we were kids. Well, I'll tell
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  Speaker 2: you what I used to do I used to walk
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  Speaker 2: by payphones and reach in and see if somebody had
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  Speaker 2: mistakenly left chained.
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  Speaker 1: I did too.
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  Speaker 2: I've got a couple of pac Band games out of that.
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  Speaker 1: That's awesome. You can always find them at the entrance
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  Speaker 1: or an exit of a store, you know, Kmart, the mall.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you'd just find it randomly out on the street somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: That's true. I think that was probably more so in
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  Speaker 1: a in a city setting, which I didn't grow up in.
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  Speaker 1: But I've seen that on TV, so I can understand
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  Speaker 1: that that might have been a thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So you know you've seen my house, right, I
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  Speaker 2: lived on just a little avenue, and then you'd walk
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  Speaker 2: down to the end of the block, and that road
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  Speaker 2: was a little bit busier, right, because that's just a
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  Speaker 2: busier road that leads to all the different little avenues
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  Speaker 2: around my house. And I would make a left and
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  Speaker 2: up there was where my sisters took dance. There was
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  Speaker 2: a dance studio up there, but that was also where
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  Speaker 2: the local pac Man machine was. That's where I played
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  Speaker 2: most of my pac Man So as I'm walking that way,
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  Speaker 2: there's a payphone just randomly sitting out not right like
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  Speaker 2: right outside the building right, but away from the building
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  Speaker 2: in its own place, like in between a house and
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  Speaker 2: the dance studio. There's just this random pay phone, and
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  Speaker 2: every single time I walked by, reach in see if
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  Speaker 2: I got me a quarter.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes you did.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think twice in.
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  Speaker 1: My life I did got lucky.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, it was just randomly there. Like if you
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  Speaker 2: were driving or if your car broke down or whatever,
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  Speaker 2: you could walk to that payphone, putting your quarter and
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  Speaker 2: make a phone call.
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  Speaker 1: Well that also then necessitated. Is that a word that
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  Speaker 1: you had to have change with you?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and change is kind of a thing of the.
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  Speaker 1: Past, it really is, right, But do you remember little
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  Speaker 1: old men used to jingle when they walked because they
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  Speaker 1: played with the change in their pocket.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, probably because they were keeping it there for
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  Speaker 2: a payphone call, for an emergency payphone call. So did
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  Speaker 2: you ever call collect from one of those payphones?
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  Speaker 1: So that's what I was going to bring up. When
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  Speaker 1: we used to go on vacation, about halfway through the trip,
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  Speaker 1: I would get to where I was missing Papa and
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  Speaker 1: Nanny and I would want to call home and tell
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  Speaker 1: them that I missed them or whatever them about my trip.
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  Speaker 1: And but yet talking to the telephone operator because you
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  Speaker 1: spoke to a live person.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Stressed me out. And my mom would be like, listen,
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  Speaker 1: if you want to do this, then you're going to
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  Speaker 1: need to learn to speak to the telephone operator and
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  Speaker 1: tell her what you're wanting. And the whole thing was
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  Speaker 1: so overwhelming. I remember one time working up my nerve
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  Speaker 1: that I would do this, and she put the call
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  Speaker 1: through and pap All picked up and answered the phone
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  Speaker 1: and she said, well, you accept a collect call from
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  Speaker 1: Lindsey Helton And he said no and hung up. He
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  Speaker 1: was like, why are you calling me from Florida. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to pay for that call. He was like,
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  Speaker 1: don't be wasting my money calling me from Florida. I'll
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  Speaker 1: see you when you get home.
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  Speaker 2: I thought for sure, if he would accept it for anybody,
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  Speaker 2: it would be for you. But apparently I was wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of operators, are there even telephone operators anymore?
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  Speaker 1: Like if we told Emmy this, she would look at
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  Speaker 1: us like we had lost our minds. Right, But if
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  Speaker 1: we were out of town and I wanted to call home,
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  Speaker 1: I had to what dial zero and you get an
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  Speaker 1: operator and you would tell the operator who you were
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  Speaker 1: wanting to call. And what your name was and what
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  Speaker 1: their name was, and then she would call and she
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  Speaker 1: would speak to them. It was a huge ridiculous process.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, speaking to the operator. You would have to speak
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  Speaker 2: to them and I wouldn't really know what to say, right,
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  Speaker 2: And I'm assuming that you didn't know. No, I got
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  Speaker 2: nervous what to say either, right, Yeah, I got super
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  Speaker 2: nervous about it. Well, this is what we should have said, operator, Well,
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  Speaker 2: could you help me?
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  Speaker 1: Please? Come? Right?
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  Speaker 2: Isn't that something that we should have said.
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  Speaker 1: I love that Emmy would not even know what that
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  Speaker 1: reference was.
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  Speaker 2: No, she would, She would have no clue. We actually
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  Speaker 2: showed her a phone booth that in the UK down
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  Speaker 2: at Epcot. Yeah, and I think she understood the purpose
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  Speaker 2: of it, but I think to her that was in
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  Speaker 2: some magical fantasy.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and you know that's where Superman used to change Superman.
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  Speaker 1: Where does he change clothes? Now? We don't even know. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so that leads me to something else, okay, busy signals?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, yes, I mean I don't think that
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  Speaker 1: really even exists anymore, right.
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  Speaker 2: Right, No, And you remember how frustrating it was when
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: you were trying to call somebody and their phone was busy, yes,
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: and it might be busy for Howard.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: I know, it was so frustrating.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: So my grandma she could talk an ear off.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: That's a grandma thing.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, she could just literally talk an ear off. So
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: I may want to call and talk to her, and
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: her phone's busy, and so then, you know, little kids,
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: they're not very patient. So then I felt I waited
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: like an hour, which was probably like three and a
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: half minutes. Yeah right, And I called again and it
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: was busy, And then I'd wait another three minutes and
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: call again. It was busy. And by this time, I'm like,
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: she was picking up the phone to call me because
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: who's more important than me? And she tripped and fell
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: and banged her head and her phones off the hook,
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: and that's why, and we need to go over there,
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: just see, to just go over there and check on her. Well,
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: it turns out that she was talking to you know,
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: one of her sons or one of her friends or
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: whatever for an hour and a half to say, yeah, well,
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: she always had things to say, and so yeah, busy signals.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: That's something that I totally totally forgot about.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Right right, isn't that funny?
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Man? That used to drive me nuts.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: Okay, I got something else for you. What's that cigarette
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: vending machines?
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: You still might be able to find those in a
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: bowling alley, but they're not nearly as prevalent as they
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: used to be.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: They were everywhere when we were going.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Were in bowling alleys, they were in restaurants.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: And you could anybody could buy a pack.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Of cigarette red baseball games. Oh yeah, no. My mom
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: would send me in to buy a buy a pack
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: of cigarettes, like I was like ten years old, and
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: I'd be like, can I have a pack of Virginia
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: Slim one hundred lights?
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: And did the person give you any crap about it?
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Like they didn't care.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: They were like here, here you go go.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Uh, you know, smoke them if you got them.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: That's crazy to me, But yeah, you could go just
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: amount anywhere, put some money in and get you a
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: pack of cigarettes. Now, I don't know that it. Did
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: kids ever buy the cigarettes? I have no idea.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: I guarantee the teenagers did.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: It. Seems like in hindsight that was a horrible idea.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: It was a horrible idea. But you know, and you
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: also overpaid for them, right because they might be they
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: might be a bucket like that local gas station, but
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: at that that cigarette machine is going to be two bucks,
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: right right, And so they're looking for the people that
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: are desperate, which.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Then leads me, Okay, talking about cigarette machines leads me
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: to something else. Smoking and non smoking sections at restaurants.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: They still have that in some places. Probably in Missouri
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: do that. I'm sure that they do.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: So. Immy got back from Paris a couple of days
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: ago and I said to her, what does Paris smell like?
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: And she said, everybody smokes in Paris. It smelt like
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: cigarette smoke.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Well, that's funny. So we always chose, well, it depended
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: who we were going with, right, If we're going with
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: my mom, we always chose the smoking section.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah. My dad smoked like a house on fire, so
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: we always said in the smoking section.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah. But if we said in the non smoking section,
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: it wasn't like it was a walled off room. It
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: was just this section of the restaurant. And there might
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: be this little tiny like half wall half wall on
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: your booth, which is really only about it two feet
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: maybe at but probably a foot, and the person right
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: next to you was smoking in the smoking stone right now,
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: you're still gathering. And to me, there's nothing I can't
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: stand more than trying to eat and smelling cigarette smoke.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Here's the thing I think, because I grew up everybody
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: in my life smoked cigarette smoke to this day does
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: not bother me. It does me, I know, And it's
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: so funny from the former smoker that it bothers you.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: But but yeah, everybody smoked in the eighties.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Everybody.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Everybody.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: I mean, so people would go walking into Kmart smoking, right,
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: they're just puffing away. I don't know where they're flicking
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: their ashes. I guess on the floor.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Pregnant women smoke.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: They smoked on airplanes.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: That's insane to me.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: They smoked on airplanes. So not only are you in
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: the big giant metal tube of death.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Yes, right, but you're also with getting long cancer with
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: a small little fire going in your Yes.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Movie theaters, yep. Smoke. Restaurants, smoke, office buildings. People would
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: be working in the office smoking. Yes.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: I don't understand that. No.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: And eventually they were like, Okay, you got to go
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: outside to smoke, Like, no smoking inside. You gotta go
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: outside to smoke. But I remember in around college I
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: worked at an office depot, right, and this dude comes
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: in trying to hide a cigarette, but he's smoking when
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: there's no smoke in a in a building. Yeah, it's
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: obvious when someone comes in.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: With a lit cigarette, it sticks out like a.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Purple thumb. And I'd be like, sir, there's no smoking
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: in here. And he just didn't even pay any attention
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: to me.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: So, my mom, do.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: You know what I did? Kick them in the crutch?
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: I was like, I'm sorry. I thought you were there
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: with your story. Were you not done? So my mom,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: speaking of men a pause, I know, since it doesn't
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: make you uncomfortable or anything, that my mom had a
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: hysterectomy when I was in la second grade. So when
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: would that have been eighty seven ish, eighty six or
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: eighty seven? Well, back then you stayed in the hospital
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: like a week, right, my dad smoked in the hospital room. Yes, yeah,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: in her hospital room because insane my grandmother, so my
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: mom's mom came home from the hospital pitching a fit
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: that my dad had been smoking in my mom's hospital
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: right after her surgery. But can you.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Imagine no, no, I mean yeah, that that has flown
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: out the window.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Yes, oh yeah, listen, that's one of the good things
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: that yes, that we've miss six has brought us, certainly, Okay,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: not everything is worse than twenty twenty six.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: And it was nineteen eighties, and that includes smoking sections,
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: smoking and buildings, the office, airplanes came art whatever.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: I got one more thing for he related to cigarettes, okay,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: the built in cigarette lighters and cars.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, yes, that's where I stick my change. Wait,
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: not anymore.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Not.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: I was like an out not in this car. No,
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: but in the last car that I had, I think
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: they probably had like a built in cigarette lighter.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: You remember the smell, of course, the smell of the
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: lighter itself.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: Yes, when you pushed it. Oh, you're talking about the lighter.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: I thought you're talking about the ash trays.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: No, the lighter. Do you remember the cigarette lighters?
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: Yes, I remember the cigarette lighters and the ash trays
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: inside the car.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: So when you pushed in the cigarette lighter to heat up,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: it had a definite smell.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Yes, and then it turned orange yes, and it was
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: hotter than boiling water.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Did you ever have an intrusive thought that you wanted
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: to touch it? Because I did, No, I knew better.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: I had probably been burned as a kid by touching
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: a stove or whatever, and so I knew not to
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: I knew that I did not want to get burned.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: I remember saying something to my mom when I was
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: little about like wanting to touch it, and she was like, yeah,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: do it and find out the.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: Most around and find out right.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: So it was it's interesting how much of our lives
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: just revolved around smoking.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: Yes, that's so weird. So remember remember like in the
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: in the car, if you were in the back seat
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: on the on the front seats, on the back of
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: the front seat, you pull out, you pull out the
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: little astra, right, so people in the back could just
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: ash there.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I don't understand it.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: I mean, and we wonder why this country has like asthma, cancer, yeah,
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: emphysemab all that stuff. Yeah.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Okay, So all of this brought me to thinking about
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: the malls of the nineteen eighties. Oh yeah, because an
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: in side mall, at least in the metro Atlanta area
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: is not something that we have a whole lot of anymore.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: And the ones that are laughter like ghost Town, Yeah yeah,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: they're just basically riding out their lease, yes, and making
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: plans on you know, it's gonna be bull dozed and
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: turned into something else.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Right, We walked through one of those not too long ago,
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: and we saw tumbleweeds rolling through.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: But the mall was central to a kid slash teenager's
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: life back in the nineteen Yes, that's where it all
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: went down.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: Yes, you had your arcades there right, like a Laddin's
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: castle where you just walked into a room and there
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: was all this beautiful noise and sounds and lights, and
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: it was like a little piece of heaven.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: So I got a little something for you. You ready,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: I'm ready. In the nineteen eighty, the mall wasn't just
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: a place to shop. It was where life quietly unfolded.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: On any given afternoon, Teenagers wandered its chiled corridors without
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: a plan, doing laps past record stores and clothing racks,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: hoping to run into someone familiar. The air smelled lights, pizza, sugar,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: and freedom, and time seemed to slow down under those
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: fluorescent lights and potted palms. You didn't need money or
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: even a destination. You just needed to be there. The
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: mall gave us a rare kind of independence, a shared,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: unsupervised space where friendships formed, crushes were spotted from across
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: the atrium, and growing up happened one escalator ride at
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: a time. Long before phones told us where to go
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: or who we were, the mall gave us room to
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: figure it all out together. Did you write that, Yeah,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: that's a You should be a poet, you know. I
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: fancy myself a writer.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, though, that was really good to me. Sugar, that's
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: what the mall smells like, more so than even pizza sugar.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: It was just a mixture of smell. Yeah.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: I guess if you walk through the food court, you're
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: probably going to smell pizza, right, But anywhere else, I
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: felt like it just always smelled like sugar.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Listen, that's not a bad smell. There was a time
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: when if you wanted to see your friends, you didn't
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: text them, you didn't email them, you didn't DM them.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: You went to the mall. Yeah, Like, that's where you went.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: You knew they were there. You would find them there.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: You just showed up and you would run into somebody there.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Whether it was a friend, it was a crush, it
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: was an enemy. You would find somebody at the mall. Right,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: So I want to talk a little bit more about
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: the mall culture of the nineteen eighties.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: Ooh, I like.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Because that is what I feel like. We lost it,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: slipped through our fingers and we didn't even realize it
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: was leaving until it was already gone.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Comment, Ca, let's go to Is that what you said
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: to your friends?
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Yes, let's go to the mall today. I was always
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: up for a trip to the mall. Yeah, okay, the
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: mall was our social media feed before social media even existed.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I can see that. What are some of
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: the stores that you remember always going to in the
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: in the mall in the in the eighties.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Okay, So my family lived.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: For Sears, Your family lived for Sears, Sears or Bust. Okay,
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: we we did Sears, Jenny.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: JC Penny locally. I think this was a regional store.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: We had riches, which was a step up from Sears
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: and JC Pitt.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we did not. We did not have riches.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: What about Mervins? Did you guys have a Mervan? You
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: did not have a mrrh Yes? What was your nicer store?
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: Then? I'm trying to think of what it was. Now
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: why am I not coming to I want to say
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: it begins with a D. But all I want to
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: say is deer Bergs, and that's a grocery store. Dillards, Dillard's.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Did you have a Dillards? We did, We had a Dillards.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and those were those were nice stores. Yeah, okay,
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: let's talk about so those were what do they call
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: those the anchors?
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, those were like the anchors. Yeah, they were at
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: like the corners of the mall or something like.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about what was inside.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: We would always get all when we got when we
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: got in high school, and we would roll through Dillard's
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: or J. C. Penny or whatever. We would walk by
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: the cologne section where they had the free colone out
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: and spray.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you gotta spray yourself down so you smelled good
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: for the lady. Okay, So what about Benaton? Did you
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: ever see a Benaton store?
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: I know I saw a Benaton store, but I have
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: no idea what it was.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Benetton was colorful clothing that was just yep. So eighties yep,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: the gap of course. What about Chess King?
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: I don't remember Chess King.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: What about did you have an a spree store?
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: We did have a spree store.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Okay, you have a stride right store for your shoes.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Maybe we had a lot of foot lockers. Okay, foot locker,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: we can do that.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: What about Sam Goodie, Yes, record store, baby, Sam Goodie.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Camelot Music, yep, power records, power records, yesday. Speaking of
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: something inside of a mall that is one hundred percent
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: obsolete now, even if you can go find a mall somewhere.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: You went into one of those music stores and they
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: had a music listening station and you would put on
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: the big headphones. Yep. I don't remember how you picked
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: out what you wanted to listen to, but you could
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: stand there and get a snippet of the song. Do
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: you remember this was absolutely who disinfected those headphones?
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: Nobody, which is why we all have your infections.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Now. What about B Dalton?
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, B Dalton books? Baby? Did you have probably
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: where I bought my first book? Was B Dalton?
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Really? What about uh KB toys?
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: We had KB?
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Okay? Now what about Spencer's.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: Of course every mall has a Spencer's.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Why did Spencers have a twenty one in older section?
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Because there were some things in Spencer's that little
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: kids shouldn't be seen.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: I mean that I learned some things in Spencer's. Yes,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: But then it also made me think I shouldn't let
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: my mom go in there because she didn't know those things.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: I didn't want to be embarrassed. Yes, yeah, So for
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: the girls or the ladies, we had Claire's, uh huh.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: And we had of course, there was always the jewelry store,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: like a K Jeweler's or a Zal's. You always had
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: to pass by the jewelry store.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: About radio shack we had there was there was always
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: a radio shack, and.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Then a couple of like not branded stores. But you
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: always had the hair salon. You always had the photo
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: studio where they would do like the glamor glammer shots. Yes,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: you always had a shoe repair shop.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah I never understood that, but yeah I do.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Well, do you never got your shoes repair?
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: No?
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Really? Oh okay, so yeah, Just does any of that
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: bring back any memory?
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: Oh for sure? For sure. Do you remember Marshall Fields?
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: Marshall Fields?
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: That name was he on How I Met your Mother?
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: No, he was not with the Robin Smarkles and How
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: I Met your mother?
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: What? What? What is a Marshall Fields?
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: It was written in cursive and it was green and
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: it said Marshall Fields and it was an upscale department store.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: So the ones that we just named, or even if
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: it's not one that we've named, what store would teenage
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: Jim go into if he was cruising the mall.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: Uh, We're probably going into foot locker, okay, because they
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: had more than just shoes, right.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: Was Champs sporting goods in there, so we're probably We're
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: probably going into sporting goods stores because that's where you
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: got your umbros Yeah, well yes, or your you know
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: hats yep, right though. There was a place called lids
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: Z that did nothing but hats, so we're probably going there.
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: We're going to some kind of music store, whether it's
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: Sam Goody or whether it's music Land.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: I think we had more music Lands than Sam Goodi's.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: But that was good. That was good. There was a
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: place called Tape World where they sold cassettes. Yes, uh,
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: we would go there. Of course we'd hit the food court.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: So the mall is where young Jim discovered Chick fil
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: A because we didn't have any Chick fil As in Missouri. Yeah, uh,
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Saborrow Yeah, because we didn't have that New York style
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: pizza where Michael Scott can go into the city and
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: get a slice.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: So this might surprise you. We had to go to
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: the mall to get Chick fil A when I was
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: growing up. Really we didn't. They didn't have standalone Chick
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: fil A's when I was growing up. It was like, yeah,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: you had to go into the mall to get your
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: Chick fil a and it. Boy, it was just better
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: back then. I don't know why.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because they cook things in unhealthy oil back then,
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: that's why.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: But the food court it deserves its own I think
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: moment here in our conversation section, no matter what drew
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: you into the mall, you were always going to have
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: your time in the food court. Oh absolutely, So you
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: named Sparrow chick fil A? What I Panda Express Andanda Express.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: What about the Great American Cookie Company?
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: Yes, the Great American Cookie Company.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Every time I went to the mall, I had to
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: get a cookie from the Great American Cookie Company. Basking Robins.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: You could probably get some ice cream. There was gonna be,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: no doubt, a store where you could buy something on
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: a stick.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, hot dog on a stick.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Hot dog on a stick. Something was going to be
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: sold on a stick.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: What about the Great Steak and Potato Company.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: Yes, I hadn't thought about that in a million years.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: Did you ever eat there? I did not, but that
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: must have been for our parents. They also had rax
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: roast beef okay, which there's only a couple of racks
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: left in the nation now I think they're in Kentucky. Wow.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: But we used to have those in Saint Louis And
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: next time we were in Kentucky, I think I want
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: to try and find a rax.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: What about in Nathan's famous hot Dogs?
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yep, they had that.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: And then we got to the point where there would
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: be a euro gyro a yeah, a euro Those started
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: appearing in the food court. But that was like if
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: you thought you were something, that's then you started getting
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: the euros.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: So you said, Missus Fields, was that part of the
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: food court or was that part? Was that just somewhere else?
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: So it was a great American cookie company.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: It would be like at the food court, but it
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: would be like right on the outside of the food Okay,
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: what about the places where there was just like random
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: food places like Orange Julius that earn in the food court,
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: but it would be near kind of well maybe not.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: So it wasn't part of the food court. And here's
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: why the.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: Food Corners downstairs. The cookie stand is upstairs. It's not
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: like we're talking quantum physics here. The cookie I love that.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Did you ever get an orange Julius?
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Oh than I did, think I ever did. How'd they
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: stay in business then?
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: I don't know, But I mean, obviously people were buying them,
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: but it just wasn't me.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: So for a lot of us, the food court at
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: the mall was the first place we ordered food without
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: our parents. You would it was not unusual to split
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: a meal, or split an order of fries, or to
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: share a soda. But that level of independence that you had.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: What about Kenny Rogers Roasters.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: I we had one of those right down the street
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: from my house when I was growing up.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: We did not they were only in the mall. Of
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: course that was probably that was probably more early nineties
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: than eighties.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: But if you had to build the perfect nineteen eighties
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: food court, tell me what the three for sure restaurants
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: would be.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: Oh, it's going to be a Chick fil A okay,
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: so borrow okay, and the Great Steak and Potato Company.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: Okay, so it's going to be Chick fil A sborrow, No,
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: the Great Cookie Company.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: No, the Great Steak and Potato, the cookie company.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: What's it called, the American Cookie The American Cookie Company,
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: Great American, the Great American Cookie Company. And I'll give
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: you the steak and Potato just because that does bring
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: back some But I think we need something on a stick.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna do the stick.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: You're gonna do hot dog, gonna stick the stick food,
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: the stick food. You're not going to do the gyros.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: No gyros. I've never had a gyro in my life.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to start at forty six.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, you're only forty six, I know, right,
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: Oh goodness.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: I know. I'm a good bit younger than you. Don't
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: forget that. What about Pretzels at Wetzels Pretzels at Wetzels.
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: Wetzels was a pretzel company.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: So I liked Anti Ann's pretzels.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: Well you should have had Wetzels Pretzels.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: Does Wetzel still have pretzels?
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: Yes, Wetzels has pretzels.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness.
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: But you know they also had like TCB y there
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: in the right, the country's best yogurt. Yes, they always
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: had some Chinese food. It wasn't always Panda Express or
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: maybe there was Panda Express, but then there was like
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: another Chinese place there that you weren't really sure if
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: they were serving real authentic Chinese food or they were
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: serving cat Okay, what about caramel corn? You remember that?
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: Oh? Yes, I could go for some good caramel corn
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: right now. So I asked our listeners on social media
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: if they had any stories. I didn't get a ton
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: of feedback, but let me read you what I got. Here.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: We go, so Brandon Williams. Back in the day where
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: I lived in Rocky Mountain, North Carolina, we had two malls,
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Terrytown and Golden East. You know there were You always
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: had at least two malls. Oh yeah, and you had
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: your preference on which one you wanted to go to.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: Terrytown is no longer here, But I remember the electric
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: train that cost fifty cents for about a ten minute ride.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: I remember the electric train. I didn't ever ride it, though.
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: You have to realize I didn't start going to the
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: mall until I was like a teenager. I didn't do
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: it like as a little kid. My parents weren't out
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: shopping at the mall.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: And then he said he would then go and blow
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: five dollars in quarters in the arcade.
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: See, I am jealous of that because I never got
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: to do that.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: So Sean Nihoff said, I used to run off and
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: hide in the department stores, and my little brother would
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: think I got kidnapped. It was cruel, but I got
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: to kick out of it.
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: That's great. That's great.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: So on a given week, sixteen seventeen year old gym,
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: how often did he go to the mall.
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: Friday and Saturday nights? Because we were cruising for one, Oh, yeah,
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: you go, we were cruising, and then we would well,
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: we would probably go into the mall at first, right
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: to do whatever by by whatever kasingles that we wanted,
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: certainly spray on some cologne and then they'll look at
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: the foot locker or the champs, and then we were
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: back out to the car, you know, cruising around until
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: they finally made a no cruising ordinance at the mall. Yes,
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: because it was just it was out of control.
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it became a whole big old thing. I know
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: it did here as well.
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: Our favorite thing maybe that happened at the mall though,
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: and it happened pre Wayne's world. Remember in Wayne's World,
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: when Wayne's ex girlfriend is riding the bike and she's
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: like Hi, Wayne, Hi, and then she hits the car
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: and goes flying off. So we are walking at the mall,
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: three of us and this girl who's driving. There's these
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: two girls, ones in the passenger seat, ones in the
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: driver's seat. Well, I guess the one in the driver's
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: seat wanted to get my friend's attention. So she's basically
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: like calling him. She's like Hi Wayne, Wayne, and boom
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: she crashes into the car in front of her.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: Oh no, and then let's.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: Out a squeal and we just all start cracking up,
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: dying last.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: Oh my god.
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: And so when Wayne's World comes out and they do that,
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: we just like lost it. We just it'suse. We have
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: lived that in real life. Yes, and so yeah, it
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: was hilarious. I mean the thing in Wayne's World isn't
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: that funny?
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: People might laugh, but we we were on the floor
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: because we had lived it.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: So just think about the different things that we talked
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: about that are obsolete now. The cigarette machines.
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: The phone booths, busy signals.
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: I was going to say, you could find all of
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: those things at them all. Yes, what about a paper box?
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: Remember you could go you could buy a paper in
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: the paper box.
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: Yes, you could buy a paper in the paer box
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: and if you wanted to, you could rip them off
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: because you could put in the twenty five cents or
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: fifty cents and it wasn't pull all the.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: Papers out of the I don't know what you're going
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: to do with, you know, a whole stack of papers,
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: but you could.
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: Kids that were hustlers would would sell them for you know,
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: they'd pay their fifty cents and then sell them for
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: a quarter and wow, make some money. But of course
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: they're ripping off the paper. The poor paper got th right.
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: So I wasn't one of those kids. By the way,
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: I was never a hustler, so.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: Oh, I know.
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: The only thing I hustled on was the baseball field. Yeah,
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: those were I forgot about the papers, but yeah, those
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: those were great times. You could just boom walk in.
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: I don't know why you wouldn't just go to your
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: local quick trip and get a paper instead of find
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: a paper machine on the street and get one.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but it was a thing.
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: It was a thing.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: So there's one more thing before we wrap up than
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: I want to talk about what you would have absolutely
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: had to have had this if you were going to
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: be cruising the mall, mote a beeper a lot, communicate with.
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: Guy paper Die die.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: You got to call that number. Yes, did you have
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: a beeper? Oh?
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: Of course did you?
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: Who paid for it?
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: I guess I did.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: That's crazy. I never had a beeper. There are memes
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: on social media now that joke about gen xers could
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: take back the world by writing a message like somehow
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: it's like writing incursive only having the cars with the
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: stick shift. Yeah, yeah, manual, only having a manual car
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: and a rotary phone, and we could take back the world.
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: And if we had threw in a beeper, communicated by beepers,
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: absolutely they would have no idea what to do with those.
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: I still had a beeper in the nineties, what because
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: I could not afford a cell phone plan because they
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: were still really expensive in the night's right, And so
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: I had a beeper. And I remember I was working
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: at office depot and it was like the last day
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: of the season, and my buddy would text me when
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: Mark McGuire would hit a home run, right, because all
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: you could do was put in numbers, right, So he
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: put in sixty eight, yeah, and then sixty nine and
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: then seventy and I knew Mark McGuire had finished the
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: season with seventy home runs.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: Awesome, but see, I mean that's just something. When was
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: the last time you thought about that?
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: Right now?
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, ain't that crazy?
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: And when it happened, isn't that crazy?
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: And you could look down at that little screen.
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: Because I'm like, who's buzzing me? And they know I'm
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: at work. I look and I see seventy and I'm.
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: Like, oh yeah, and that cool. Yeah, those were the
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: good old days.
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: They were the good old days. I liked it better
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: when you couldn't get a hold of somebody at will.
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: I know, it was just it was better. We were happier.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: But it's like, okay, so you had a beeper, you
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: paged somebody and then they called you, and then you
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: talked my phone. People don't do that.
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: No, I don't even do that anymore.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: I let my birth mom get on our plan to
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: have a phone. Because she did that, you had no
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: way to contact her. But I told her when I
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: when I shipped her the phone, I said, do not
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: call me, only text.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: I won't answer only text.
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: I answer the phone call. I answer the phone for
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: three people in my life. Yeah, you my dad, Jason Colvin.
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: I thought you were gonna say the CFO of your company.
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: No, uh, Jason will call me like if he's like driving,
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: you know from URK, you know, if he wants to
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: say something, he will call me. Or if he wants
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: me to join Real Quick or see if I can
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: join Real Quick an episode of his, he will call me.
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: And so those are really the only three people that
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: I answer the phone for.
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: Do you have his pat number?
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: I do not have his pager number, but I do
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: have his smart phone cell phone.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay.
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: But yeah, other than that, I don't talk on the phone.
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: I mean I only answer the phone.
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: I hate talking on the phone. Isn't that just so.
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: It's weird because you'd think, as children of the eighties,
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: we would like talking on the phone because we had
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: corded phones. Speaking of stuff that don't exist anymore, we
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: had corded phones at.
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: Home, absolutely with those long cords.
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: Well, you'd hope it had a long court because if
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: I had a short cord, you were stuck there talking
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: in front of everybody.
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: Everybody got tires with conversation.
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: But then we'd get the long cords, and I'd grab
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: the phone from the kitchen and I'd wrap it around
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: and go into a bedroom. And it wasn't my bedroom anymore,
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: because my bedroom was downstairs, was like my sister's bedroom.
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: And I'd wrap it and go in there and shut
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: the door and lay on her bed and talk on
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: the phone.
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: Isn't that awesome?
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: Something else that you know probably exists, but not too
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: many people use as a home phone anymore.
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: Oh right, Yeah, we don't have a home phone.
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: Right, And if you do have a home phone, it's
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: most likely it's cordless. It's not corded, right, it's going
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: to be internet based. What about the the circular the
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: rotary dials that you had to dial and if.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: You messed up one of those last numbers, Oh, it
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: was it was goad to start over.
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: Maddening really, So my grandma had a rotary. My grandmother
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: did two and it was maddening because I'd be trying.
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: You know, kids are in patient, right, So I'd be
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: trying to dial fast and I'd I'd either not make
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: it all the way around, or I'd accidentally go in
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: the wrong one, and and I'm like, oh gosh, I'm
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: gonna start all over, to start all over, and then
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: the anger came in. It's like four two six and
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: it made that little yes. Yes, did you ever speaking
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: of busy signals, did you ever do an emergency breakthrough
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: on someone that had a busy signal?
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: What?
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you could never heard of this. Like you could
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: do an emergent. You could call the operator and be like,
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: I need to do an emergency breakthrough on their on
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: their phone because it's been busy for an hour and
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: a half. I've never been the operator would interrupt their
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: phone call?
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: Are you serious?
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: Yes? It was like call waiting before call waiting.
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: That's insane, right, So you could be like, I think
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: my grandma is dead on the floor. Will you please
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: see if you can interrupt this phone call to see
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: if she's really tall? Yes?
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, So before we go, I know, I
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: know you had it wrapped up here, but I'm going
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: back to the phone things because you said beepers and
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: that got me on cell phones and then that got
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: me on real phones again. What about calling for the
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: time and temperature?
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I love to do that. I like
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: to do it just because it made me feel grown up.
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: Right, So you could call for the time and temperature,
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: and so you could do that. But now it's here
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: on our cell phones, so we don't ever have to
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: do that again. But there was also we discovered when
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: we were teenagers that there was a local like a
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: local number where you could dial and get like sports scores.
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: No way, Yeah, so we would dial that. It would
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: be like the Cubs beat the Mets today four to
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: three and eleven innings, and you know, the Los Angeles
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: Lakers beat the Sacramento Kings in overtime.
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: I have never heard that.
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: Yes, so we could. We could do that when you know,
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: before there was twenty four hour news, twenty four hour sports.
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: It was just you know, that just blows my mind.
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: I know it was crazy, but it was it was
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: so much fun. I missed those times.
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: I do too.
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: I would like to go back and uh and do
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: that because I feel like if if we had had
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: cell phones in the nineteen eighties, Daniel some wouldn't have
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: got beat up so much.
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: I know, I know we would have called.
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: I would have called his mom and if she could
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: have got that car rolling downhill by herself.
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: She would have been there in a heartbeat.
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: And jumped it she'd have been there in her old beat.
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  Speaker 1: Those were the good old days.
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  Speaker 2: They were. Well, this was a lot of fun. Thanks
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  Speaker 2: for bringing back I tried, and I hope the old memories.
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  Speaker 1: I hope people have enjoyed it. That's my favorite part
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  Speaker 1: about what we do here on Children of the Eighties
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  Speaker 1: is just the the warm fuzzies that it can bring
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  Speaker 1: when you start talking about the things from from the eighties.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you know what we should name this episode
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  Speaker 2: because you probably wouldn't named it like Forgotten Things from
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: the eighties, right right, but we should.
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  Speaker 1: Name it mixed a lot communic.
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  Speaker 2: Beepers. We should name it beepers. Let's do it.
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  Speaker 1: What you got you want to talk about? Before we
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: wrap this bad boy.
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  Speaker 2: Up, I just want to say that if you haven't
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  Speaker 2: checked us out, go check us out on Patreon. We
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: will have another episode coming out this week. This week,
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: we're gonna get our act together and we're gonna get
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: it done, y'all. And you know, there's good community over there.
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: People are participating in polls and chats and and everything
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: else I put out there the other day. You know,
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: if you if you could only pick five songs from
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: the eighties, what would they be and people were like,
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: are you insane? It's impossible, and I'm like, it is impossible,
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: but just name the first five that come off your head,
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  Speaker 2: and so they did. We had good conversations about it.
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: Of course, everybody picked good songs and so what.
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  Speaker 1: You you have told me numerous times the difference between
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: what we do here and what we're doing there is there.
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: I can be unhinged, I cannot be unhinged. And I
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: have thought, and I have thought, and I have thought,
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: and I have an unhinged story for Patreon this month.
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: Oh you do. I thought you were already unhinged.
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  Speaker 1: I know, but that's why. Do you know how hard
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: I've had to work to come up with something that
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: makes me more unhinged than I am here. But I've
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: done it, and so I can't wait to share it.
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, go check that out. We're on Patreon. I mean,
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: That may have just scared people away.
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: Wait, I mean it could have, but I may have.
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: You know, you did the old radio teaser right like
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: I know people are like, Ooh, I wonder what that's
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: going to be. I may have to uh go check
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: it out, Go check it out and jump in.
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: So You can find us on all the socials. We
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: are on Facebook, Twitter, oops not Twitter X and Instagram
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: Jim what's our handle?
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: At Children of Underscore Eighties. You can also reach us
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: by email Children of the nineteen Eighties at gmail dot com.
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: We'd love to hear from you. Yes, if you haven't already,
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: go ahead and click either that subscribe or follow button
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: on whatever app you find us on, so you're guaranteed
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: to never miss an episode of our nostalgia based memories
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: where we go back to the greatest decade and talk
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: about our childhood memories.
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  Speaker 1: And most importantly, we would be ever indebted to you
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: if you would tell someone absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: But until next time, I'm Jim.
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: And I'm Lindsay and we are Children of the Eighties.
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: See you next Wednesday.