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It's the "good ol' days" until you're inconvenienced · Johnjay & Rich On Demand

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  Speaker 1: BuzzFeed did an article on old school struggles that would
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  Speaker 1: break people today Peyton gen Z Coyle, millennial. I want
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  Speaker 1: to know these things. I think this A couple of
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  Speaker 1: these would break Peyton.
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited to hear because there's a lot of things
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  Speaker 2: that would break me.
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  Speaker 1: Like what what do you think would break you there?
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  Speaker 2: I mean an old school thing having to dial up
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  Speaker 2: my internet or like or having to like use one
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  Speaker 2: of one of those things where you have to like
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  Speaker 2: put your finger in and spin the phone. Oh please
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  Speaker 2: T nine texting.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if I could ever.
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  Speaker 2: Do that again.
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  Speaker 1: You're talking about a rotary phone. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: on this list that our phone related. For example, just
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  Speaker 1: waiting by the phone for a call. If you're expecting
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  Speaker 1: a call from someone. Back in the day, you had
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  Speaker 1: to stay near the family phone all night and hope
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  Speaker 1: it would ventually ring. Unless someone had to dial up internet,
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  Speaker 1: you'd be screwed, because right you remember that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I also told I told my kids about this
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  Speaker 4: as I was back in the day, the phone of
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  Speaker 4: ring and you would not know who was calling me,
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  Speaker 4: So I just had to pick up who is it?
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  Speaker 3: And it's like if you wanted to call somebody, you'd
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  Speaker 3: have to know their number by heart or look it
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  Speaker 3: up in a phone book.
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  Speaker 1: Here's another one. If you were driving you had to
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  Speaker 1: hunt down a payphone. You need to call someone away
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  Speaker 1: from home, better find a payphone. Make sure you have
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  Speaker 1: the right coins in your pocket.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would not want to do that. What about
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  Speaker 3: this peyton? When you're driving somewhere far away, you'd have
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  Speaker 3: to get out an actual map. Could you work a
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  Speaker 3: map right now? No?
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  Speaker 2: I do know how to work map quests though, but.
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  Speaker 3: That's still online. That's that's basically would.
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  Speaker 1: Be able to read a map on that list? Is
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  Speaker 1: this before smartphones? If you wanted to remember something, you
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  Speaker 1: had to write it down, recipes, directions, everything, So you
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  Speaker 1: had to write everything down by hand, Like I remember
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  Speaker 1: you give some direction, you'd be like, and you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: see this yellow car in a driveway? Make you turn there?
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  Speaker 1: Researching at the library, if you didn't know the answer
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  Speaker 1: to something, you better find an encyclopedia.
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  Speaker 2: Encyclopedia.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know about this one, but Richie grew up
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  Speaker 1: like this, I think finding out about snow days. This
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  Speaker 1: was long before apps and text alert. Students had to
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  Speaker 1: listen to the radio or TV to watch to see
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  Speaker 1: if your school would scroll by.
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  Speaker 3: That's true, And I went to Saint Sabina, which is,
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  Speaker 3: you know, not towards the front of the alphabet, so
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  Speaker 3: you have to listen, like hundreds of other schools before
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  Speaker 3: you'd find out if you were, you know, going to
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  Speaker 3: school or not.
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  Speaker 1: Oh what about this sharing a phone? Do you know
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  Speaker 1: several houses used to be able to just share the
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  Speaker 1: same phone line. Someone was on the line, you'd pick
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  Speaker 1: it up and you could hear someone talking. Oh sorry, Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I would be able to survive that
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  Speaker 2: because I feel like there would be a lot of
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  Speaker 2: sibling eaves dropping.
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  Speaker 3: It's so fun.
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  Speaker 4: You're like, you know, any times, like your sister's on
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  Speaker 4: the phone with their boyfriend, you'd be like listening and then.
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  Speaker 1: You heard like.
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  Speaker 3: Child.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, using a manual typewriter, if you made one mistake
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  Speaker 1: on a school paper, mean it could mean retyping an
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  Speaker 1: entire page.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that would suck.
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  Speaker 1: Old school struggles that would break people today. There's quite
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  Speaker 1: a few