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Encore: Who Wears Short Shorts? · Children of the 80s

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to our latest episode of Children of the Eighties.
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  Speaker 1: I am Lindsay and with me is my husband's slash
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  Speaker 1: co host, Jim. I've decided to hire you for the
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  Speaker 1: part for season two.
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  Speaker 2: I get the whole season.
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  Speaker 1: You get the whole season.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a contract, yes, so you can't fire me. Do
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  Speaker 2: I have a non compete?
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  Speaker 1: You have a non compete?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so if you do fire me, then I'm then
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  Speaker 2: you have to pay me for the year. But I
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  Speaker 2: can't be on the year. Correct, Okay, just a one
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  Speaker 2: year contract?
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you're year to year.
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  Speaker 2: I'm year to year all right. Yes, I feel like
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  Speaker 2: a baseball player before free agency, before the players Union
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  Speaker 2: one year contracts. Baby.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, tell me what kind of feedback did you get
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  Speaker 1: from last week's episode? Zero?
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  Speaker 2: None, So usually what.
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  Speaker 1: I say when you ask me. Nothing. No one said anything.
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  Speaker 1: It was a horrible weet.
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  Speaker 2: No, it was funny. So one of our longtime listeners
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  Speaker 2: reached out to me and said, hey, was your podcast
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  Speaker 2: or was the episode really only about songs that had
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  Speaker 2: summer in the title, because I'm assuming not because you
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  Speaker 2: had Journey as the number one song. And then he said,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I think you know like vacation and holiday
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  Speaker 2: would have been great additions to your episode, and I
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  Speaker 2: told him, actually, yes, it did have to have summer
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  Speaker 2: in the title, but we broke the rules for Journey. However,
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  Speaker 2: we are doing a podcast that will actually air next
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  Speaker 2: week after this about summer themed songs, and vacation and
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  Speaker 2: Holiday are actually on that list already, so.
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  Speaker 1: They so they will, they will make it into some
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  Speaker 1: list this summer. They just didn't make it into last week.
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  Speaker 2: Well because last week's they they didn't have the name,
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  Speaker 2: you know, summer in the name of those songs.
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  Speaker 1: So I wanted to talk a little bit more about
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  Speaker 1: John Cafferty and my obsession with.
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  Speaker 2: Eddie and the Cruisers and the Cruisers. Okay, hit me
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  Speaker 2: with it.
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  Speaker 1: Do you remember when Eddie and the Cruisers two came
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  Speaker 1: out vaguely? Well, you never saw Eddie and the Cruisers one.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I saw portions of it. It was one of
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  Speaker 2: those movies that was always, and I mean always on cable,
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  Speaker 2: but it always seemed to be on cable during the
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  Speaker 2: day in the summer, whenever I'd be running in and out.
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  Speaker 2: So my house was the central house for the kids
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  Speaker 2: in the neighborhood to come play wiffleball. So we had
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  Speaker 2: a wiffleball stadium in our backyard, and it was probably
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  Speaker 2: the central house because my dad was the only one
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  Speaker 2: that didn't care about messing up his grass because the
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  Speaker 2: other kid.
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  Speaker 1: Had bigger fish to fry.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they had one or two kids, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and their dads could holler at him to keep off
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  Speaker 2: the grass. My dad was pretty realistic. We had five kids,
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  Speaker 2: although one of them was probably too little to be
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  Speaker 2: outside playing, but four kids outside playing, there was no
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  Speaker 2: way he was going to have a nice long So
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  Speaker 2: therefore it was allowed for all the kids in the
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  Speaker 2: neighborhood to come over and play whiffle ball in our backyard,
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  Speaker 2: or football or soccer, but pretty much in the summer,
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  Speaker 2: whiffle ball. And so I would come in to grab
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  Speaker 2: a drink, go to the bathroom, whatever, and Eddie the
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  Speaker 2: Cruisers would be on and I might watch, you know,
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  Speaker 2: two minutes of it, but then I'm hustling back outside.
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  Speaker 1: So okay, So that reminds me of something else. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: Eddie and the Cruisers was always on one of the
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  Speaker 1: cable channels. Do you know what other movie was also
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  Speaker 1: always on one of the cable channels. The Natural Can't
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  Speaker 1: Buy Me Love? Okay, that's not where I was going though.
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  Speaker 1: Flowers in the Attic. Did you ever see that movie?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, that was traumatizing again another situation where
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  Speaker 1: why in the world did anyone let me watch that movie?
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  Speaker 1: But I don't remember specifics. I'm too scarred to remember
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  Speaker 1: the specifics. But a mom or a step mom had
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  Speaker 1: these children and she hated them, so she locked them
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  Speaker 1: in the attic and she would beat them with a belt.
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  Speaker 1: It was just a terrible, terrible movie. I watched it
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  Speaker 1: multiple times as a small child.
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  Speaker 2: Why would you watch it multiple times?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, so who knows? But yeah I did,
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  Speaker 1: and it was very scarring. Anyways, getting back to Eddie
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  Speaker 1: and the Cruisers. So I heard Eddie and the Cruisers
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  Speaker 1: two was coming out after my obsession with the original, right,
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  Speaker 1: I high tailed it to the video story. Is that
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  Speaker 1: video store?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: It was a video store, so we didn't have this
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  Speaker 1: was before we had like the Blockbuster. We just had
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  Speaker 1: a little locally owned video store. Did you have one
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  Speaker 1: in your town?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we had several. We you know, depending on which
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  Speaker 2: way you wanted to go. You could go north and
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  Speaker 2: get one. You could go south and get one, you
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  Speaker 2: could go west and get one. But yeah, it was
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  Speaker 2: long before Blockbuster hit.
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  Speaker 1: So after we stopped getting our movies at Kroger because
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  Speaker 1: you could originally rent them along with a vc R
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  Speaker 1: at Kroger. Then a little mom and pop video store
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  Speaker 1: opened up. So ran up there, went up to the
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  Speaker 1: guy at the counter and said, because you know, if
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  Speaker 1: a popular movie was about to come out, they would
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  Speaker 1: start a list. So first person on the list got
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  Speaker 1: the first phone call and they would hold a movie
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  Speaker 1: for you.
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  Speaker 2: Right because they only they only had like two or
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  Speaker 2: three copies tops. They weren't like blockbusters, no.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, they had a couple. So if you were
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  Speaker 1: really wanting to see Batman, you better get in there
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  Speaker 1: and get that on your on the top of the list.
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  Speaker 1: So I went in there, I tailed it up to
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  Speaker 1: the counter and told the probably high school stoner behind
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  Speaker 1: the counter I wanted to get my name on the
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  Speaker 1: list for Eddie and the Cruisers two because I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to be the first one to get that copy when
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  Speaker 1: it came in. He just looked at me and he
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  Speaker 1: was like, I don't think it's gonna be a problem.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think you'll have trouble getting it, and I
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  Speaker 1: just stood there and stared at him, like, where's the paper?
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  Speaker 1: And Pen put my name on the day list. We
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  Speaker 1: kind of had like a stare off for a few minutes,
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  Speaker 1: and then he realized he wasn't gonna win that one.
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  Speaker 2: Did you hear the good the band the ugly music?
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  Speaker 1: Yes? So he got his paper and Pen started his
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  Speaker 1: Eddie and the Cruisers two list, and I believe my
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  Speaker 1: name was the only one on there. But I got
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  Speaker 1: that phone call. I was so excited.
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  Speaker 2: You were the So you did get a phone call.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, they called me, which we were in there weekly,
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  Speaker 1: So you.
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  Speaker 2: Were the John Hancock of Eddie Eddie exactly.
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  Speaker 1: But then I also remember being kind of disappointed by
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  Speaker 1: Eddie and the Cruisers two.
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  Speaker 2: You weren't the only one. I can guarantee that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I was so disappointed. But also probably the scariest
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  Speaker 1: thing I ever saw in a movie as a small
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  Speaker 1: child was at the end of Eddie and the Cruisers.
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  Speaker 1: Don't I with your eyelids heavy over there?
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  Speaker 5: You not a.
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  Speaker 1: At the end of Eddie and the Cruisers spoiler alert?
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  Speaker 1: Should I give the ending?
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  Speaker 2: I mean no, but sure if people haven't seen it
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  Speaker 2: by now I can't help them. But I am also
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  Speaker 2: one of those people that haven't seen it by now.
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  Speaker 2: But i'd be a hypocrite if I was like, no,
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  Speaker 2: don't tell me, but then you can tell a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of other people that haven't seen it.
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  Speaker 1: So spoiler alert, fast forward. You know, thirty seconds if
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  Speaker 1: you don't don't want to know what happens. He goes
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  Speaker 1: off a bridge in his car into somebody of water
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  Speaker 1: and allegedly drowns. Is how the movie ends. And then
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  Speaker 1: after the credits, if you set and watched the credits,
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  Speaker 1: then would be this creepy picture of this old old
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  Speaker 1: man sea or something like. He had long, scraggly gray
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  Speaker 1: hair and a long white beard and just very ghost
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  Speaker 1: and creepy like, and he was like staring at you
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  Speaker 1: from the bottom of the ocean. And that scared the
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  Speaker 1: heck out of me as a kid.
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  Speaker 2: So his hair continued to grow. I know it made
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  Speaker 2: no sense, and he didn't shave while he was underneath
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  Speaker 2: water dead after he was dead.
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  Speaker 1: I know it made no sense, but that scared me
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  Speaker 1: way more than large Marge.
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  Speaker 2: How old were you?
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  Speaker 1: Probably nine?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I was gonna say what scared me more than
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  Speaker 2: just about anything when I was like sick five, five
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  Speaker 2: or six was a kiss in the Phantom of the
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  Speaker 2: Park where the members of Kiss were in a park
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  Speaker 2: and there was some kind of phantom in there or
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  Speaker 2: some kind of monster or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Was this a cartoon?
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  Speaker 2: No, this was like a made for I think it
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  Speaker 2: was a made for TV movie. And one of the
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  Speaker 2: Kiss members like got like grabbed from behind him pulled
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  Speaker 2: through something. And as a kid, that just scared the
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  Speaker 2: living with.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus, I mean, Gene Simmons still scares me, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: almost forty five.
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  Speaker 2: She Kiss didn't scare me, but the phantom who was
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  Speaker 2: who was attacking them dead? And it's probably I promise
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  Speaker 2: you if you went back and watched it now, it's
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  Speaker 2: probably one of the five worst movies ever.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I'm sure, I mean, but number one is probably
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  Speaker 1: Andy and the Cruisers.
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  Speaker 2: No, the worst movie ever?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely too. Definitely. A little ten year old Lens
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  Speaker 1: was pretty disappointed in Eddie and the Cruisers two.
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  Speaker 2: Again, she wasn't the only A lot of two's shouldn't
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  Speaker 2: have been made. I know, just nave something at one.
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  Speaker 2: But I know anyway, why don't we tell the folks
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  Speaker 2: what our podcast is about you want me to We'll
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  Speaker 2: let you do the honors. You do that, okay. So,
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  Speaker 2: if you are a returning listener, thanks for joining us again.
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  Speaker 2: And if you are a new listener, we want you
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  Speaker 2: to know that this is a podcast that looks back
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  Speaker 2: on the decade of the nineteen eighties. We talk about
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  Speaker 2: things that were important to us as children and what
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  Speaker 2: we look back on on fond memories as adults. Ultimately,
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  Speaker 2: this is a nostalgia podcast. So my co host, Holly Hobbitt,
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  Speaker 2: why don't you tell the folks today what we are
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  Speaker 2: getting nostalgic about.
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  Speaker 1: So today is somewhat of a part two from an
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  Speaker 1: episode that we did what a couple of months ago,
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  Speaker 1: popular and long lasting commercials from the nineteen eighties.
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  Speaker 2: Right, and why do you think that commercials from the
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  Speaker 2: nineteen eighties stuck with us so much? Not just us,
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  Speaker 2: not just you and I, but well, first of them,
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  Speaker 2: it's everybody.
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  Speaker 1: We were forced to watch commercials growing up in the eighties.
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  Speaker 2: No TiVo.
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  Speaker 1: There was no TiVo, no apps, no internet, nothing, so
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  Speaker 1: we had no choice. We were either running to the
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  Speaker 1: bathroom going to grab a snack, or you were just
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  Speaker 1: sitting and watching the commercials. There were fewer channels, so
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  Speaker 1: I feel like then there were fewer commercials, right.
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  Speaker 2: Which is why I think we can do an episode
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  Speaker 2: on commercials. I think forty years from now, I highly
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  Speaker 2: doubt that people will be doing episodes on twenty twenty commercials.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, absolutely, because.
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  Speaker 2: Not everybody's watching the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: And I think they had really good jingles.
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  Speaker 2: They did, they did, They hired the pros for the jingles.
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  Speaker 1: So there you go, just three, three reasons why I
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  Speaker 1: believe not really.
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  Speaker 2: A part two though, just more of a more of
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  Speaker 2: another Yeah, yeah, because there probably is going to be another.
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  Speaker 1: One somewhere down the road.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, just a shout out to a podcast. Buddy.
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  Speaker 2: James from Bad Movies Rules actually reached out to me
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  Speaker 2: a few weeks ago and was like, hey, you guys
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  Speaker 2: should do an episode on commercials. That would be great.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, well, we we did one, but we
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  Speaker 2: actually are have another one. So here you go, James.
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  Speaker 1: So here you go. James love the name.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah you do love that name, don't you?
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  Speaker 1: Yes? I do? Okay, you ready to jump right on in.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go. This is your show. So you are driving,
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  Speaker 2: this is.
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  Speaker 6: The micro machine. Man presenting the most midge miniature motiiccative
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  Speaker 6: of Michael Machine. These one hesdramatic details, trifictuent decison pag
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  Speaker 6: jobs plus incredible microL machine pocket place that says a
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  Speaker 6: police station, fire station, restaurant, service station and more. Perfect
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  Speaker 6: pocket portable to take any place. And there are many
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  Speaker 6: miniature places that's to play with that. Each one comes
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  Speaker 6: with its own special edition michel machine. Be a call
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  Speaker 6: on fun fantastic features that' mi reculous. Raise the bolt,
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  Speaker 6: fit the airport, marina, man in the gun, turn at
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  Speaker 6: the armybies, clean your car at the car wash, raise
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  Speaker 6: the tulbrid These place that's fit together the form of
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  Speaker 6: micromachine world, micro machine poet place that flich a mendacy.
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  Speaker 6: Tiny's so perfectly precise. So doesn't we detailed Joe want
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  Speaker 6: to pocket the mall micro machines, the micro machine pocker
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  Speaker 6: place that's hold simply from glub. The smaller they are,
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  Speaker 6: the better they.
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  Speaker 2: Are from glub.
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  Speaker 1: Can you can you talk that fast?
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  Speaker 2: I can so if folks want to hear me talk
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  Speaker 2: that fast, listen to our podcast and put it on
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  Speaker 2: one and a half time speed or maybe two time speed,
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  Speaker 2: and I will talk just as fast as the micromachines
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  Speaker 2: guy just talked.
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  Speaker 1: So he's also known as motor mouth. Do you like that?
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  Speaker 2: Didn't he also do like a FedEx commercial in the eighties.
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  Speaker 1: So sometimes he's also known as motor mouth John Muschita,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's how you say his name, or sometimes
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  Speaker 1: they just call him that fast talking guy. But so
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  Speaker 1: other than the micro machines commercial, which he did, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, over one hundred different versions of the micro
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  Speaker 1: machines commercial. Really he was also the FedEx guy, but
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  Speaker 1: he was doing FedEx commercials when it was still Federal Express.
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  Speaker 2: So he would say Federal Express.
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  Speaker 1: I think. So they always ended I don't remember this,
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  Speaker 1: which you know, I guess as a little kid, maybe
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  Speaker 1: just didn't stand out to me. But he always ended
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  Speaker 1: the commercial with if it doesn't say micro machines, it's
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  Speaker 1: not the real thing.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I think I do remember that. Yes, yes, I
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  Speaker 2: don't think I owned any micro machines.
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  Speaker 1: If I'm being no, I don't think I did either.
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  Speaker 1: So they were only about an inch and a half long.
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  Speaker 1: They were made by Galube, which was a family owned company.
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  Speaker 1: The cars were usually sold in a four pack of
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  Speaker 1: related vehicles. I didn't realize. Now this is not nineteen eighties,
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  Speaker 1: this is on end too, nineteen ninety. But the cars
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  Speaker 1: that Kevin puts out on home alone for the robbers
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  Speaker 1: to step on, those were those.
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  Speaker 2: Are micro machines. Yep, interesting because I would have thought
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  Speaker 2: that they would have been. I would. I guess smaller
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  Speaker 2: ones might hurt more. I don't know, so I would
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  Speaker 2: figure hot wheels might roll better.
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  Speaker 1: Well, listen to this to say that the toy did
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  Speaker 1: well as an understatement, because listen, while the quantifying data
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  Speaker 1: is hard to come by, it's commonly cited that at
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  Speaker 1: the peak of their rain in the nineteen eighties, micro
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  Speaker 1: machines sold in greater quantities than hot wheels, matchbox cars,
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  Speaker 1: and major rettes combined.
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  Speaker 2: I can tell you that they did not sell better
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  Speaker 2: than hot wheels or matchbox cars. In my household. What
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  Speaker 2: we had hot wheels, we had my matchbox cars. We
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  Speaker 2: did not have micro machines.
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  Speaker 1: So I was a hot wheels girl because you could
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  Speaker 1: go to Kmart. That's where my mom went. And did
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  Speaker 1: know if it was more than groceries right or less
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  Speaker 1: than the mall, it was Kmart. Yes, you could get
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  Speaker 1: a hot wheels car at kmart. I don't know for what,
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  Speaker 1: but pretty cheap, and so that would make me happy.
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  Speaker 1: So I had lots and lots and lots of hot wheels.
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  Speaker 2: We had, Yes, we had kmart. We went to kmart
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  Speaker 2: a lot of venture. Did you have venture?
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  Speaker 1: No, we didn't have venture.
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  Speaker 2: So venture was like kind of like target. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: think we had ventures. So we go to kmart maybe venture,
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  Speaker 2: maybe target, but yeah, we were getting hot wheels there.
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  Speaker 2: We were not getting micro machines.
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  Speaker 1: Don't think I ever owned a micro machine.
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  Speaker 2: So jo, I owned a microwave.
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  Speaker 1: Guess what? Just still do so. John Muschieena for a
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  Speaker 1: while held the record in the Guinness Book of World
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  Speaker 1: Records as the fastest talking man. But can you believe
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  Speaker 1: that he lost that title and allegedly there's someone talking
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  Speaker 1: faster than him. I can't believe, really, Like I guess
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  Speaker 1: because I'm Southern, I am a slow talk Yes you are.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's nothing wrong with that, but yes, you're Southern.
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  Speaker 1: People in the south talk slow, and not imagine.
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  Speaker 2: People in the country sometimes talk slower too, And so
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  Speaker 2: you kind of got a double.
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  Speaker 1: Dose because I'm southern country.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because you grew up in the country, in the
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  Speaker 2: South to.
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  Speaker 1: Say the Tory range to wells an understatement. While the
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  Speaker 1: quantifying data it's hard to come by, it is commonly.
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  Speaker 1: So I did at the beak of their reign. How
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  Speaker 1: was that?
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  Speaker 2: That was pretty good? That was my micro machine s.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thank you, very good.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: The only thing I could do that fast. Will start
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: reading off all the movies that I've got here on
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: our movie.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Shehelf, Oh, okay, you ready to move on to the
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: next one.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: Move on to the next one.
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: Nowhere, sure shine were short, short.
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: Shin sure sharks near leads, legs smoother, longer than shaving
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: the cotton rudge on both legs. Proved it the near
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: legh h short ye there with baby oil, there with
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: ello vera and knew na're roland for bikiniaria and underarming.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: So that had to be early eighties, right, Yes, it
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: was early eighties. So I still remember that jingle so
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: well that the other day you had bought emmy something
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: from Amazon. She was looking for these butterfly shorts.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, that are all the rage, and she.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Tried them on and I was like, immediately started singing
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: that song who were And I'm like, no, you got
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: to send those back and get her a longer pair. Yeah,
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: but I did. I started singing, who wear shorts?
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Shit? So did you know that was actually that was
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: an actual song in the late fifties.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: No, I did not.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Yes, it was an actual song called short Shorts by
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: the Royal Teens.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: No, I didn't know that.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I had no idea.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Did they say, did they say nare? Did they tell?
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Did they tell the folks to nare with their short shorts?
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: But do you remember the actual Nair commercial with the
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: ladies sitting like in a soda shop and they turn
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: around on their barstool and they start doing like this
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: rockettes thing, but they're sitting down.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: I remember the rockets thing.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I bet you do. I been a little boy
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: seeing them legs.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: No, I didn't know what any of that meant. I
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: mean that you're talking like nineteen eighty nineteen eighty one.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: I didn't know what any of that meant. I didn't
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: know what nare meant, like, I didn't realize I think
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: that ladies even shaved their legs.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: So the initial ad of the initial nare ad won
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: a cleo?
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: What's a clio?
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Cleo is the commercial version of an emmy really yeah,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: or a grammy okay. Yeah. So I'll let me tell
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: you one thing about nare and I'm not like, I
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: don't want to pick on them specifically. That stuff stinks, Yes, stinks.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: So I'm just like, just just shave it off and
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: get it done. Don't sit in that stench while it's
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: like basically eroding the hair off your body.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: I would think that that wouldn't be good for your body.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: There's gotta be some kind of chemical it is.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is a chemical.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: And putting chemicals on your bodies.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Never good age, No, never, never never. But again, it's
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: just very distinctive. If you've ever had like growing up,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: if you ever had like a mom and that was her,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: go to that smell. You smell that again. Boy, you're
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: not gonna forget what that is.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: I still like the jingle whether or not you should
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: be putting chemicals on your body that may poison you
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: for life. Probably that's probably why it killed the hair.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: It wasn't because it you know, it was better than shaven.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: It just killed it because it was poisoned.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: It just killed it. Well, it definitely it comes back.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: It wilted like pepe lew walked by totally.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: That's what it. That's the whole science behind there you go.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: They should have called it pepe lapew, But then it
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: wouldn't have gone as well with the song.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: No, it wouldn't have Oh so.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Okay, and I don't dare wear short shorts.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: By the way, Oh thank you.
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: The eighties basketball seasons are over, you know that.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: We we've talked about this recently, the eighties dads and
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: they're short short. Yes, what in the world.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Sports coaches, basketball players look at John what John Stockton wore? Goes,
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: go back and watch John Stockton play in the late
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: eighties and early nineties. His shorts. I wouldn't let any
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: wear those shorts.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: So he had tidy Whitey's on or something because something
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: was keeping it all in place, I guess.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: But yeah, it's just too short.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: What you yourself, but it won't be bare that job
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: Ris loved.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: I want to say that that's one of the greatest
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: jingles of all time, but I think we're kind of
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: hitting that with all of these commercials and with what
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: we hit last time. But that is certainly one of
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: the happiest jingles all to this.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Okay, that's so funny that you would say that, because
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: I never would have thought that. But the jingle was
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: sighted in a study by University of Cincinnati as one
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: of the top ten earworms of all time.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Except for to Andy Bernard because he thought it was
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: break me off a piece of that fancy feast.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: I was gonna that's in my notes.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: Have you seen my seen your notes?
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: I was going to ask you if you remembered that.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Of course, everybody knows it's a kit Cat bar, except
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: for Andy Bernard. Yes, oh so. Before the classic American
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: version of give Me a Break was used in the
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: mid eighties, they briefly kit Cat briefly had a short
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: lived slogan of taste so good you'll roar.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: I remember that, you do. I totally remember that. Yes,
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: taste so good you'll roar. The Gimme a break is
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: way more.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: The kid commercial, most known from this slogan involves a
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: young man biting into one of the KitKat bars in
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: a grocery store and roaring like a lion so loudly
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: the whole store shakes, violently, knocking items off the shelves.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: Yes, I don't remember that, remember that, but I think
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: it's all forgotten. With the gimme a break. In fact,
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: I bet there are people out there that we'll remember
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: that after hearing this, but probably didn't remember it before.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: I mean I didn't. You would have said, what's the
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: commercial for KitKat? I would have said, give me a break,
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: not Nel Carter, but break me off a piece of
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: that kit Cat bar.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: So the BBC revealed the kit Cat filling was revealed
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: to be or at least contained.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Crack, crushed up Kitkats, crushed up kit cats. I it
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: may be crushed up kit cats, it may be crack,
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: it may be heroin. All I know is it's delicious
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: and you can't stop it, just like they make the
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: mini ones, now right, there's just one or two. You
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: can't just eat one or no.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: No, okay, So they make lots and lots of different flavors.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, just give me the original chocolate. I've tasted
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: the white chocolate, the strawberry, the mint, whatever.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Have you tasted the lemon?
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: No?
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: And I don't want to.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna get some different flavors so we can try.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Point No, that's unnecessary in a waste of money.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: So I think, initially as a child, my favorite candy
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: bar was The Three Musketeers, okay, but then it quickly
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: changed a KitKat.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's something about I don't know that it's I
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: don't know that Kitkat's my favorite. But Kitkat's one of
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: those so you know, they got the minis now, and
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: that's really I don't know anybody that eats like a
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: full size candy bar anymore. I mean I would's, but
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: the minis, you know, they get passed around for Halloween
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: or whatever. You know, I can eat a mini Milky
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: Way or a mini Snickers or something like that and
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: just be done. A mini Twigs and Twigs might be
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: my favorite candy bar.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Twicks is good.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: But I'll eat a mini kit Cat and that's not enough,
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: and I'll need some more. I'll eat a mini kit
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Cat and that's not enough, so I'll eat some more. Like.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: For whatever reason, kitkats are so addictive.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: They are addictive.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: It must be the crunch or something. Yeah, there's heroin
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: in there.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Probably, Well that is funny. I did not remember that
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: tastes so good you'll ar is a word I can't release.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: No, you said it great this time?
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: A good job.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: I think it was one of our first or second podcasts.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: You had me say no, you had me say rural
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: for you, but you may have had me say ror
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: for you as well.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: But are you r a l I cannot say.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: You just said or perfectly. So we're moving on to
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: the next one.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: Annoyed hate hot quality pizza. He loves to make you
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: a hot pizza ice coil called Domino's Pizza and Alloyd
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: they we keep the cold out and all the quality in.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: So when you want quality pizza, hot and delicious, Dominoes
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: Pizza delivers one cold does it all?
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: What was that?
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: He blows nose?
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: I loved the Nooid you did. Yes, I thought that
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: that commercial, that advertising campaign was so genius.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: So now I don't know what I thought about it
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: as a kid. But now I look at Thenoid and
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: I don't understand what is he.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: I don't know. He's like a mix between a whammy
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: from Press Your Luck and like a fraggle or something.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: And I think he's part rabbit because he has rabbit
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: ears and he has buck teeth.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: He sounds like a bunch of umpires.
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: So Thenoid hates pizza and makes it his life's mission
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: to ruin pizzas, often in different ways like he wants
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: to make them cold, he's smashing them, rendering them otherwise inedible. However,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: he's never able to successfully do this to Domino's pizzas well.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: See that. You know why he can't do that because
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: to me, Domino's pizzas are inedible anyway.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So, now growing up, because we lived out in
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: the country, uh huh, we finally get our first shopping center,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: which was a huge deal. It had an Ekerts. Next
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: to the Ekerts was the video store when Dixie was
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: the grocery store that anchored the whole thing, and then
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: on the other end was a Domino's Pizza and that
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: was a huge deal because up until that point you
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: could go eat at a pizza hut, which we did.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: I've talked about that we would do because of book
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: it and everything. Sometimes we would go on a Friday night.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: But that was huge to be able to have it delivered.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Yes, and thirty minutes or less by.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Because we only had one car and my dad worked
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: a lot and he worked a lot of hours, so
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: sometimes we didn't have access to a car, and to
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: be able to order a pizza and have it delivered,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: that was like living large.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, and we probably as kids didn't know good
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: pizza from crap pizza.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: No, I had no idea, but.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: So we probably loved Dominoes. But I remember, as I
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: got older in high school, had a couple of buddies
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: Wou'd always hang out with. One buddy always wanted to
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: eat Dominoes and I'm like, dude, that's nasty.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: It's not good.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: Like We've got to get Pizza Hut. And that was
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: before Papa John's came to town. Yep, So I was
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: a Pizza Hut guy or and I think I've mentioned
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: this before, which by the way, we're going to mention
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: merch again with to eat the Crust shirts that we
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: have on our merchandise store. But we would get Little
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: Caesars because it was two for one, right, pizza pizza,
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: and that's when my dad would yell at us to
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: eat the crust.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: I had forgotten about the nooid until we watched The
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Goldbergs and they actually do an episode where Barry gets
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: a job at a pizza place and they talk about
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: the noid.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, so I will say that thenoid got me
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: interested in Domino's pizza and made me want Domino's pizza
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: as a kid. That's why I think it was genius advertising.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: I think as a child, I was a little confused, like,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: does the nooid work for Dominoes? Is he for Dominoes?
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Is he against Dominoes?
• 30:23
  Speaker 7: Like?
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: You know, again, I was a simpleton, but I didn't
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: quite understand what his purpose was. And I feel like,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: if you have to explain it, it's probably not working.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. I just thought he was a
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: funny character, so I was like, okay, so he's some Dominoes.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: In nineteen eighty eight, a Saturday morning cartoon series called
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Thenoids was planned by CBS. It was ultimately, though canceled,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: amid complaints that it was merely an advertising ploy and
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: not really a show for children, who.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Complained if it was, if it never got off the
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: groun day they come.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: You know how they are?
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: I know how they are. Yes, I don't really care
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: for they.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: So would you have watched it?
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: Maybe? What did you say? Nineteen eighty eight?
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, nineteen eighty eight.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: I was getting about to the point that cartoons were
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: pretty much over. I might catch like some of my favorites,
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: but I wasn't sitting in front of the TV all
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: morning in nineteen eighty eight watching cartoons.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: I can promise you that well I was.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: This is my mom.
• 31:31
  Speaker 7: And if everything I say about the four wheel drive
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: Isuzu Trooper two isn't true, may you be struck by lightning.
• 31:38
  Speaker 7: It can carry a symphony orchest drug for every book
• 31:42
  Speaker 7: in the Library of Congress. And the nice part is
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: the Trooper two starts at just ten dollars in eighty cents.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, my mom's word on it. So I totally remember
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Joe issusan do you? And I thought Joe Isuzu was
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: hilarious and then he was that guy on Empty Nest
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: Empty Nest? Yes, yes, But I thought Joe Asuzu was hilarious.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: But I wonder what adults thought of him, because I'm
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: assuming that kids weren't the target audience for Asuzu's right, right.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: So, Joe Asuzu was a character played by David Leisure.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: But is it lessur or is it leisure?
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: I mean I call him leisure suit Larry Leisure Larry.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So because of his Joe Asuzu character, that's how
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: he ultimately got cast on Empty Nest?
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Yes?
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: So was he not an actor before that?
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: It was but just small parts, nothing, nothing that had
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: really like taken off for him.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I remember seeing Empty Nest and going, oh,
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: Joe Asuzu's in it, this is gonna be funny.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: I know me too. I loved his character, Yes, even
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: though there were a lot of like in the windows
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: and stuff with him. Charlie, Yes, good job, he was
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: a pilot.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: I can remember that Joe Asuzu's name was Charlie on
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: Empty Nest. But when I get into work tomorrow, people
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: are going to be like, would you do this week?
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: And I'll be like, I don't know. I guess I
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: had a good week, and I can't remember.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: We were cleaning up the garage just a couple of
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: hours ago and I couldn't come up with the word
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: dust pan, and I was like, can you go get
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: the Scooper? You know, the metal Scooper.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: Old age is cruel. That's why we do this podcast
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: so we feel like we have a memory.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Yes, So Joe Asuzu boasted ridiculous things that were completely unbelievable,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: like cars that cost ten dollars and eighty cents. He
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: had moved over the decimal point. The commercial that we
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: just listened to lightning would strike every time he lied.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: So did you hear in the back?
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: I did, Yes, there was. I don't think I realized
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: that until now.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: But some of the things that he talked about, cars
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: that could drive up mountains or get three hundred miles
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: to the gallon. And I guess he ended every commercial
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: with you have my word on.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: It was his word, his bond.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Of course, the brand voice would counter each of
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Joe's claims with statements that appeared on the screen, such
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: as he's lying, and generally disputing any claims that Joe made. Okay,
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: So did you know John Lovett's was originally the firms
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: the ad firm's first choice for the role.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: Now, he would have been perfect for me. No, I know, right,
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: but we may have never heard of leisure suit Larry R.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: I know John Lovetz takes that role. But yes, Lovetts
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: would have been perfect, perfect for that.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: I love John Lovett, Yes, but listen. So Asusan's popularity
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: had a troubling consequence, and I'm talking about Joe Asuzu's
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: popularity after the nineteen eighty six spurt in sales, which
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: they are the Asuzu company originally saw from the from
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: the ads that they did. The company then, for nineteen
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: eighty seven sold roughly the same amount of vehicles in
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: the first half of the year that they had the
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: year before. So both Asuzu and the advertising industry experts
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: expressed concern that Issuzu was such an entertaining persona that
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: people were actually paying more attention to him and less
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: attention to the product that he was selling.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: That was the problem with Spuds.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: McKenzie, Yeah, exactly. So everybody from the eighties remembers Joe Asuzu,
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: but nobody was going out buying the cars.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: Asuzu is no longer around, is it? Has it gone
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: the way of the dots?
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: And well in the it's no longer around in the US.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: So Asuzu sold seven thousand cars in the year two
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: thousand and seven in the US and stop selling cars
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: in the US altogether in two thousand and nine.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: So and that interesting.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: I've been gone for fifteen years.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: And you hadn't even missed them.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: I hadn't. I never owned it in Asuzu, and I
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: don't know of anybody who did own an Asuzu, probably
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: because you have to slow down in order to say
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: the word issuzu.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, right, Asuzu, Asuzu, Asuzu.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: I am going to start a campaign to bring back
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: the asuzu and bring back the Dotson and bring back
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: the Grimlin.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: I used to work for somebody and he had a
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: little asuzu and he called it the suki.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: The suki.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he'd be like, oh, I got to go home
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: and like.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: Sop so fuckuk that Uh that sounds disturbing. It does.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: And he still has it. I mean, I don't know.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: I don't keep in touch with him, but I'm pretty
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: sure knowing him, he still has it. Strange, Yeah, he was.
• 37:25
  Speaker 8: California Raisins from the California signs.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: Better than what I got. So I would like to
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: point out that you know that you're a child of
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: the eighties, if you know I heard it through the
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: grapevine from the California Raisins over Marvin Gaye or CCR.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Right, I know, I am, And that is.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: Where, maybe not that I first heard it, but possibly
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: where I first heard it. But as soon as that
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: started playing, I'm like, holy cow, she pulled the California Raisins.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: By the way, folks, I didn't know what she was pulling.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: She did this all on her own.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, we didn't talk about it.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: I was like, she pulled the California raisins and I
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: remember this, and I actually liked that version better than
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: I like CCRs or Marvin Gaye's version.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: I remember thinking as a child because these commercials were
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: advertising the California raisin industry, and I remember thinking, as
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: a child, why did that industry need advertisements?
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: I was wondering that too. I've never understood the fruit advertisement. Yeah,
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: I mean either avocados from Mexico.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Avocado's from Mexico.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: Although that's a that's a catchy jingle, Yeah it is,
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: But bananas shaquiita bananas. Remember that was a thing. The
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: only fruit advertising that I've ever needed in my life
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: is fruit.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: Of the Loom, which, speaking of, they should have been
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: on here. Do you remember in the commercials? Oh yeah,
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: dressed up to me, We're dressed up as these fruit.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: To me, that commercial is a better medium for video
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: than audio. Yeah, you're right, but yes, I love those
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: commercials as a kid. Absolutely.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: I remember the grapes.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: The grape for sure, maybe a tomato or an apple.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: It would have been an apple apple anyway, having a
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: tomato is a fruit's way too controversial.
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: You would get some argument whether raisins need to be
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: advertised or not. The California raisins are an icon of
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: the eighties.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: So they were introduced or the ad was introduced in
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty four and just absolutely took off. And it
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: kind of came about the ad agency. The guy sitting
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: sitting around the table was basically like threw his hands
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: up in the air and was like, I don't know
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: what else to do, Like, what do you want to
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: animate some raisins and have them sing and dance to
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: I heard it through the grapevine, and everybody else at
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: the table went, heck, yeah, that's it.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: You are going to be president of this company someday. Son.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: Listen to this. Though, the cost to develop the first
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: animated thirty second commercial was three hundred thousand dollars.
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: No way, whoa, that's some coin back in nineteen eighty four,
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: did they? I mean three hundred thousand dollars? Do you
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: know how many raisins you have to sell them?
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: Make up? There's a whole lot of rains?
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: Are you telling me people weren't buying raisins before the cast?
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: Did the California Raisins make the sale of raisins grow well?
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: But so listen to what they what the Raisins went
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: on and did.
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: Was this for sun made raisins or just any raisins?
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: For it was for the California raisin industry, okay, So no,
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: it was not for a specific company.
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: So the Raisins became celebrities overnight, with their first commercial
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: debut in nineteen eighty six, sending them to the top
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: of Adweek's Top ten list. They won multiple awards over
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: the the next two three four years for their different
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: commercials that they did. And then they went on and
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: they created merchandise. Merch Did you ever have I did?
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: I should still have them somewhere. The little hard plastic
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: standable raisins.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I or anyone else in my
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: family had those, but I seem to remember somebody having
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: a shirt, a California Raisin shirt.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: So the little posable figuring are not posable because they
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: were a hard plastic but stand they stood up. That
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: came through campaign with Hearty's. Hardy's was promoting their cinnamon
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: and raisin biscuit, So you oh, oh, don't knock it
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: till you tried it.
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: I could see if it was like a cinnamon and
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: raisin like Danish sh so good.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: It's speaking of crack okay anyway. So many of the
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: items created for the campaign have become part of the
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: permanent collection at the Smithsonian Institute.
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: Do you think they put those California raisins in the
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: two scoops of Kellogg's raisin Bran?
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: Yep. You could get lunchboxes, clothing, posters, bed sheets, even
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: Halloween costumes. They did a comic book series and actually
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: ended up in nineteen eighty nine. They did a TV
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: special called Meet the Raisins. Uh. For a very very
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: short time in nineteen eighty nine, maybe the first part
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: of ninety they had their own Saturday morning cartoon series.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: I think I remember that son didn't last too long.
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: Not a lot of cartoons did in the eighties, let's
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: be honest.
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: So there you go. That Wasnia raisins interesting. They did
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: wonders for the raisin industry.
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: Apparently, so apparently people started going out and going you
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: know what, I never thought about eating raisins before, but
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: I'm going to go out and purchase a bunch of them.
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: Now because those singing dance and fools are funny.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: They see, here's my issue with raisins. They look like
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: little hard, dried up bugs. Yes, that's they don't look
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: like the little cute little well swamp care in the commercial.
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: And dried fruit is higher in sugar and less in water. Anyway,
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: Well there you go. You know, it's almost like candy. Yeah,
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: I mean I liked raisins as a little tyke, but
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: I don't really eat raisins.
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: If I'm going to have something like that, I'll have grapes.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. In school, did they ever make you
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: eat bugs on a log?
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: So traumatizing, Yes I would. I would basically break down
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: and start crying over it. Really, yes, because I hated
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: celery and I didn't I didn't eat things where like
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: foods were combined.
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know too many kids that like combined foods.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: And it became such an issue because we went through
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: a time in kindergartener first grade where we were trying
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: new foods every week, and my mom had to write
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: like a little note, you know, to like, please excuse
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: little Lens from eating this nonsense because it's upsetting her too. Badly.
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: I see why they would do that, But you know,
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: kids are kids, and kids are gonna eat like the
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: same three things over and over and over again. Like
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: I've never known a kid that's like, oh yeah, let
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: me try these eighty seven different things that you're trying
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: to get me to try.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: Well, so that's one thing Emmy is has, Like she's
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: the exact opposite of me as a child, because she
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: has always been willing to try things right, and she
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: will branch out and try things that you would think
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: like a kid wouldn't try. And she may not like it,
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: and that's fine, but she'll try and she'll have a
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: good attitude about it. Little Lens when she went off
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: to kindergarten, Little Lens ate two things, maybe three things?
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: What was that?
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: Bugles?
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: Bugles? I still to this day bugles are dasty to me.
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: Little debbies.
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, who doesn't like little debbies?
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: I saved the best for last.
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: Do you know what I'm going to say, Vanessa Williams.
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: Mayonnaise sandwiches, Now, that's disgusting. That's all I would eat.
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: That is disgusting. And there is nothing in there that
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: you mentioned that had any nutrition at all.
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, we've already talked about that's why I've
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: got food issues now. But little Lens lived off of
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: mayonnaise sandwiches.
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: Well, if you know they say you are what you eat.
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: When I was little, I would have had two names. Yeah,
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: peanut butter and jelly, because that's all I ate is saying.
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: Right, Okay, So why is peanut butter and jelly acceptable
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: and mayonnaise is not?
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: Because peanut butter has protein in it. Okay, peanut butter
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: is a superfood.
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: I can't argue with you on that. What about just
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: a jelly sandwich? Would you eat just a jelly sand No?
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: I would, Okay, so you would judge that I would.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: We need to wrap this episode up because I'm now
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: craving a mayonnaise.
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: I think we've got a couple more commercials to go
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: before we wrap it up.
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: That's actually it, is it?
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah? I saved the best for last.
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: That was six.
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what we have. That's what we did.
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: I thought we were doing eight.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: We did six. Okay. So Jim mentioned a few minutes
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: ago our merch check check out our merch. The best
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: way to find it. You can go into the notes
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: on each episode wherever you listen to our episode and
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: go to episode notes and that'll take you click a
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: link there that'll take you straight to the merchandise that
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: we offer.
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: We got some good stuff.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: We get the eat the crust, T shirt, coffee cup,
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: all sorts of different options, magnet, YEP sticker, yep pencils,
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: no pencils. So we're done, that's what you're saying, because
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: you went straight from California Raisins to talking about our merch. Yeah,
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: the California Raisins mayonnaise sandwich is merch. We're done.
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: Well, folks, we go apparently fell off a cliff.
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: All right, off a cliff. This has been a fantastic episode.
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: No, this has been a great episode. But it just
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: came to a hard stop. There was no like slowdown
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: or anything. It was just like we're cruising along and
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: one hundred miles an hour and then all of a sudden,
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: we either hit a wall or we slammed on our
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: brakes and through the listeners out the window.
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: I did the best I could with the six.
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: But no, this was a lot of fun. I had
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: fun going back down memory lanes. I'm assuming that you
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: have some more idea commercials for us. We don't have
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: time to get to today, but we'll get to in
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: a future episode.
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: Fair Bounty the quicker Picker Upper.
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: I do remember Bounty the quicker Picker Upper. All right,
• 48:54
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• 49:23
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• 49:28
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• 49:35
  Speaker 1: We've got some really good music episodes coming up this
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: summer that you've tentatively.
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: Titled Yes Yes, So next week.
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: The Summer Concert Series.
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the Summer Concert Series. And next week we've got
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: another Summer Concert Series episode coming up, and that's going
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: to be we're going to be counting down our top
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: ten summer themed songs, not songs with Summer and the
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: title summer themed song. We got other episodes on the way.
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: We'll be counting down the top ten Summer hits of
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: nineteen eighty nine is voted on by our audience. Nineteen
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: eighty nine was the year we picked. I've been working
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: on that for a couple of weeks. That's a lot
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: of work, but I'm having a blast doing that. And
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: we've got some movies coming up.
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: We've got somebody that was very important to you in
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: the eighties. Their birthday is coming up soon, and we're
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: going to be talking about that person's movies. We got
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: a bunch of good ideas coming up. I was also
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: given an idea today on Twitter, saying, Hey, I've got
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: an idea for you, and I like and I love
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: this idea. So I'm just gonna throw it out here
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: to you now and see what you think. Songs that
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: you hated in the eighties that you actually like today.
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's a good one.
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: So I think that's something that we can run with.
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: And I don't know if I can, if I have
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: enough that I can come up with myself. But I
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: may ask for yeah out to people. Yeah, I may
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: ask for help from folks. Songs that you hated in
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: the eighties that you actually like today, I too immediately
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: came into my mind, but then that was pretty much
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: all that came into my mind.
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to think about that myself.
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a it's a.
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: I like it though somebody had their thinking cap on.
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: Absolutely So again, like we said last week, if you
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: have ideas for the show, reach out to us. We'll
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: we'll consider it, and most likely we'll do it because you.
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: Know, why not?
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: Why not?
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, until next time. I am Lindsay and
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: I'm Jim, and we are children of the eighties.