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Forgotten products of the past · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Greeting salitations. Welcome my friends to another edition of The
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  Speaker 1: Power Hour on six ten double the ETV, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: Chuck Douglas. You know who you are, and we take
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  Speaker 1: it from there. We get one hour together, which means
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  Speaker 1: I talk really fast and you what you must listen
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  Speaker 1: even faster my number eight two one nine eight eighty
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  Speaker 1: six eight two one WTV and and I'll be calling
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  Speaker 1: on you. I think here just momentarily to help me
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  Speaker 1: with the programming decision, just so you know, because I'm
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  Speaker 1: I'm unsure and I need I may need some guidance.
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  Speaker 1: So I wanted to tell you, first of all, another
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  Speaker 1: celebrity passing today, and this one by today's standards, I
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  Speaker 1: guess kind of obscure, but from the sixties into early
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  Speaker 1: seventies he was. He was kind of a hit maker.
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  Speaker 1: At eighty two years of age. Lou Christine, the guy
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  Speaker 1: who brought us lightning strikes in nineteen sixty five. Baby,
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  Speaker 1: it's hard to settle time a month for you. Just
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  Speaker 1: stick in the now part. Every boy, once a girl.
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  Speaker 1: He Captruss to the very kind of operatic baby rowdy. Yep,
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  Speaker 1: here we go, imitate Frankie Valley Now Lou Christie passing
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  Speaker 1: at eighty two years of age after what they describe
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  Speaker 1: as a brief illness, performed all the way up until
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, was still doing it and was most
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  Speaker 1: recently doing a podcast, kind of a memorabilia podcast or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: And again, you know, he had he had several hits.
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  Speaker 1: Lightning Strikes was the biggest one in sixty five and
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  Speaker 1: U seventy four. I believe it was for the last hit.
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  Speaker 1: That was the last time he was on the charts,
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  Speaker 1: and that was Oh my gosh, hang on a second.
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  Speaker 1: I had that in front of me a moment ago,
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  Speaker 1: because I don't remember the song myself. Two Faces have
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  Speaker 1: I the Gypsy cried. That was in sixty three Lightning Strikes,
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  Speaker 1: with sixty five Gonna Make You Mine in sixty nine
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  Speaker 1: Beyond the Blue Horizon There We Go, which was in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy four, only made the Hot one hundred chart
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  Speaker 1: at number eighty and then it dropped off, So there
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  Speaker 1: you go. I have said before those falsettos. The Beg's
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  Speaker 1: didn't introduce the falsetto. They were big, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: fifties do op groups and the sixties on into the
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  Speaker 1: sixties I cringe every time I see one of the
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  Speaker 1: legends of that genre of music that constantly post on
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  Speaker 1: Facebook and Instagram of Frankie Valley, because the Four Seasons
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  Speaker 1: are still performing and Frankie is, uh, he's lip syncing everything.
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  Speaker 1: I mean he's he's not actually singing. He stands there
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  Speaker 1: with the microphone, almost zombie like, and it makes me
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  Speaker 1: very sad to see it. And I guess, you know,
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  Speaker 1: lou Christy had that same sound and lightning strikes, and
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  Speaker 1: that made me think of Frankie Valley. And there are
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  Speaker 1: those that can keep on rocking, as we have seen
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  Speaker 1: with you know, all kinds of groups. Right now, we
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  Speaker 1: always talk about Jagger and the Stones and Rod Stewart
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  Speaker 1: who looked great at the AMAS and then canceled every
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  Speaker 1: concert after, which scares me because Rod Stewart is he's
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  Speaker 1: eighty years old. He skipped on the stage, he looked great,
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  Speaker 1: and then he canceled shows that he was supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be get in Las Vegas at the first of the
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  Speaker 1: month due to an illness. I don't know what that
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  Speaker 1: illness is. But we keep we keep losing those people
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  Speaker 1: that got played on the radio for I mean ten
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  Speaker 1: fifteen years after the song came out, you just couldn't
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  Speaker 1: get away from it. And when k Tel Records was
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  Speaker 1: out there doing those compilation records, you remember kateel Zachi.
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  Speaker 1: Oh enough for Katel, I know, I am not they
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  Speaker 1: would have, you know, they'd sell an album and it
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  Speaker 1: would be like the Greatest Hits of nineteen eighty one,
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  Speaker 1: and they'd have all kinds of different artists. Usually it
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  Speaker 1: was a male order thing by Katel, by male order,
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  Speaker 1: back when we still had cod collect on delivery, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you can get it on album, cassette or eight track tape,
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  Speaker 1: and and uh, the music was just played forever. It
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  Speaker 1: lasted forever. I don't know anybody's going to be playing
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  Speaker 1: anything from Cowboy Carter in five years, but.
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  Speaker 2: But I know we had That's what I call music
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  Speaker 2: volume one, two, three, four, five, Yeah, a million, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because the songs were just so enduring and the
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  Speaker 1: performers were so enduring, in fact, enduring performer. The person
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  Speaker 1: that I have on Facebook that actually uh noted Lou
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  Speaker 1: Christie's passing was Fabian. Are you familiar with Fabian? Probably now?
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  Speaker 1: He was a fifties guy. His big turn Melose term
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  Speaker 1: Alosa say Italian boy from Philadelphia, and so was Lou Christie.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, lou Christie was his performing name. His
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  Speaker 1: name at birth was Luji Alfredo Giovanni Sacco. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: don't blame him for going with Lou Christie, but I
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  Speaker 1: just I don't know. Every time we lose another one,
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  Speaker 1: I just I feel a little bigger hole opening up
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  Speaker 1: because the stuff today I just don't see. I don't
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  Speaker 1: see being out there fifteen twenty years from now, still
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  Speaker 1: being played, still being recognized, and as strong as some
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  Speaker 1: of these older acts seen today, and as much as
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  Speaker 1: every time your kid buys a new video game, there's
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  Speaker 1: an ACDC song in there, and Brian Johnson is he's
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  Speaker 1: going well, you know, he's the voice is still there
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  Speaker 1: and you'll want him to last forever, but they're not
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  Speaker 1: going to. And it's just I don't know. It's kind
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  Speaker 1: of sad when you you sit and actually think about
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  Speaker 1: the passage of time. But I'm I'm glad that he
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  Speaker 1: stopped performing and it's going to be remembered as a legend,
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  Speaker 1: as opposed to Frankie Valley, who, just like I said
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  Speaker 1: with Joe Biden, if you love this guy, stop him,
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  Speaker 1: stop him. Just let let him. Let him go down
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  Speaker 1: in history as one of the greats. Don't don't keep
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  Speaker 1: sending him out there for this Dog and Pony Show
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  Speaker 1: where he's more of a comic strip than he is
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  Speaker 1: the performer that that everybody knew and loved, and he was.
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  Speaker 1: He was truly legendary, from the falsetto stuff with the
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  Speaker 1: Four Seasons to things like my eyes adored you or
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  Speaker 1: swearing to God, Frankie Valley was amazing, and it makes
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  Speaker 1: me very sad to see where he is now. The
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  Speaker 1: programming thing is, Zach, I'm gonna ask you to help
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  Speaker 1: me because I can go one of two ways with
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  Speaker 1: our hour today. I can go I can go frivolous
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  Speaker 1: and goofy, or I can go serious and newsy. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure which because I'm I'm I feel so
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  Speaker 1: blasted good today that I could go either way, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't know which way I want to go. So
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  Speaker 1: what do you want to do? You want to go serious,
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  Speaker 1: you want to go fun? Fun? Okay, then we'll go fun.
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  Speaker 1: I like fun funds good. We talked about toilet paper
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  Speaker 1: with Mark. It's important and he asked me. He Mark,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, if you weren't listening to to the
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  Speaker 1: Blazer Show this afternoon. We were talking about toilet paper,
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  Speaker 1: whether it should go over or under, and I stand
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  Speaker 1: by my choice. Toilet paper goes over, and if you disagree,
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  Speaker 1: you're wrong. I pick So So what is it? How
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  Speaker 1: do you pick neither?
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  Speaker 2: The beday?
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  Speaker 1: See, that's for fringe people and weird people. No, I
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  Speaker 1: don't want if I don't have to go, I don't
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  Speaker 1: want anything squirting me in that. No, No, I'm sorry, No,
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  Speaker 1: I just know. No. You don't have one of those,
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  Speaker 1: do you? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't have one.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, multiple ones? Oh my gosh, that's just so weird.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, when you get used to it.
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  Speaker 1: No, do you actually? No?
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  Speaker 2: Multiple be days. I'm kind of a connoisseur. I won't
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  Speaker 2: stay in a hotel day.
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  Speaker 1: That's just freaky. I'm sorry, man, that is freaky stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Toilet paper goes over? Be days or for weirdos. I
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  Speaker 1: stand by my thoughts on that. Mark asked me though,
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  Speaker 1: while we were talking about He asked me if if
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  Speaker 1: I remembered SERTs. I think SERTs are still around, aren't they.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I used to eat SERTs all the
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  Speaker 2: time when I was a kid. We used to stop
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  Speaker 2: at a convenience store and get them before we went
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  Speaker 2: to church, and I would always get like the orange kine.
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  Speaker 1: Because SERTs were two to two mints in one. That
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  Speaker 1: was their their slogan for a long time. But it
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  Speaker 1: got me to think it and I asked him, do
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  Speaker 1: you remember Vela mints? Because the eighties we had all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of weird stuff that everybody was flocking to the
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  Speaker 1: store to buy. That is no longer there. Even the seventies,
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  Speaker 1: there were some products out there, but mints, Susie Chaffee
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  Speaker 1: or Susie chapstick. I think didn't she do commercials for elements?
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  Speaker 1: If I'm not mistaken, But that new Velaments took the
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  Speaker 1: sugar out. You can really taste the mint. They were
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  Speaker 1: sugar free mints, that's all they were.
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  Speaker 2: SERTs are no longer available since twenty eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: Really, yeah, they stopped. So that's why all these people
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  Speaker 1: have stinky breath now. It's because there's no SERTs out there.
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  Speaker 1: But life Savers are still around. Live Savers a part
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  Speaker 1: of Livy. But Velaments I had all kinds of elements.
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  Speaker 1: Do you remember Chelsea a soda pop called Chelsea. No,
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  Speaker 1: don't just pour a soft drink peel a Chelsea. It
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  Speaker 1: was in a green bottle with I believe it was
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  Speaker 1: silver foil on top. It was made to look like
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  Speaker 1: the michelob beer bottle of the ades.
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking at the cans look like beer can.
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  Speaker 1: It was made by ennheuser Busch and it was supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be soda pop and I used to drink them
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  Speaker 1: on my paper route and they found that it actually
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  Speaker 1: had like one point five percent alcohol or something, so
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  Speaker 1: annheuser Busch was forced to take it off the market.
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  Speaker 1: They started calling it baby beer and and and it
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  Speaker 1: went away quickly. But they don't just pull them as
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  Speaker 1: drink peel uh Chelsea. And it wasn't that good. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know why I drank it, except the advertising was powerful, right.
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  Speaker 2: Did that? I mean you couldn't get drunk off, that,
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  Speaker 2: could you.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I was like thirteen years old and
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  Speaker 1: I drank several of them and my papers got delivered
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  Speaker 1: really fast. So well, I'm not sure micro shakes something
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  Speaker 1: else from the eighties. Do you remember micro shakes? No,
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  Speaker 1: they were here's what they.
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  Speaker 2: Born in eighty one. I don't remember all.
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  Speaker 1: The Okay, so that's my gosh, eighty one of your child.
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  Speaker 1: I was already a decrepit old guy in eighty one.
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  Speaker 1: The micro shakes were ice. They were they were milkshakes
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  Speaker 1: that you put in the Microway, okay, this was so stupid,
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  Speaker 1: but we went we went out and bottom they were
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  Speaker 1: just really hard frozen. Okay, so when you put them
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  Speaker 1: in the microwave, all it did was unfreezing enough to
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  Speaker 1: where you could stir them up, and they were actually
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  Speaker 1: milk shaky as opposed to brick hard. That's what micro
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  Speaker 1: shakes were, and we flocked to buy micro shakes. There
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  Speaker 1: was a soft drink called Help Help Help, the Real
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  Speaker 1: Fruit drink, red and purple and orange and pink. It
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  Speaker 1: was like a Fago type soft drink and it only
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  Speaker 1: lasted I think probably a year, maybe a year and
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  Speaker 1: a half on the market. It went away.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how Fago lasts.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's like occasionally I like it occasionally.
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  Speaker 2: Macro real quick to The micro shakes were the good.
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  Speaker 1: No, not really, they were. They they were kind of
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  Speaker 1: like they were kind of like Frosty's, but not as uh,
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  Speaker 1: not as flavorful as a frosty, but the cup was
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  Speaker 1: about the same size as a regular size frosty, and
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  Speaker 1: once you put them in the microwave for sixty seconds,
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  Speaker 1: you could stir them up because they were now no
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  Speaker 1: longer you know, brick hard, and stir them up to
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  Speaker 1: kind of a frosty consistency. But there was nothing scientific
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  Speaker 1: about them at all, but we flocked to buy microshakes.
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  Speaker 1: Max Headroom on television. Have you ever heard of Max
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  Speaker 1: Headroom y?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that was the guy who they interfered in the
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  Speaker 2: signal in Chicago or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and they said that he was entirely computer generated.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't. It was an actor and all they were
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  Speaker 1: doing was digitizing this recorded actor. And you've seen him.
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  Speaker 1: He's on Star Trek the Next Generation. He was. He
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  Speaker 1: did several TV shows as he was an actor. But
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  Speaker 1: they had America believing Max Headroom was computer generated to
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  Speaker 1: the point where not only was he a spokesperson for
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  Speaker 1: PEPSI No, it was coke. I think I think he
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  Speaker 1: was spokes Maybe it was diet coke, but anyway, he
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  Speaker 1: was doing commercials for a soda pop and ABC Network
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  Speaker 1: gave him his own television show. Max's Headroom had a
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  Speaker 1: television show, The fictional character that wasn't really fictional.
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  Speaker 2: What what was it about?
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  Speaker 1: I forget it was the eighties. I don't remember much
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  Speaker 1: about details. I just remember I had a good time.
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  Speaker 1: But then again, we talked earlier about you resembling the
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  Speaker 1: Gico Caveman. Do you remember the Gico Caveman got their
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  Speaker 1: own TV show on ABC? I did did not last
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  Speaker 1: that long, not what seven episodes or something like that.
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  Speaker 2: Commercials were funny, but they tried to stretch that into
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  Speaker 2: a half hour.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't work anyway. So if is that told me I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to be fun and frivolous today, what else, Especially
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  Speaker 1: if it's from the seventies and eighties, a period where
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  Speaker 1: I grew up. The stuff you flocked to the store,
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  Speaker 1: You thought, Oh, this is the greatst invention ever, It's
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  Speaker 1: the greatest food product ever. It's the greatest mood rings.
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  Speaker 1: Just so much stuff we fell, the crap that we
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  Speaker 1: fell for that is still a fond memory. I just
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, I just feel like talking about that