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Maine Vintage Toys · Newsradio WGAN

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  Speaking of fun, Jesse Fairbanks, the best hour, the
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  best hour, certainly the best 20 minutes while Jesse Fairbanks is
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  here. We always think that every week
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  and I appreciate him being here. Jesse, by the way, walked in
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  today wearing shorts because, well, let's see, May 7th.
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  Why not? Is it warm out?
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  I, I when I left this morning, it was, it was not warm.
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  So you're just, you're just, do you have Tivas on too or no
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  Tivas sandals? No tivas all.
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  Right, well, he's, he's trying to think warm, ladies and
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  gentlemen. He's trying to think spring for
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  real. So join him.
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  Where are those cargo shorts? Dust them off from the 1990s.
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  All right, well, it's always a pleasure to have Jesse in, of
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  course, for Maine Vintage Toys, which is at 650 Main St. in
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  South Portland. He should visit it every single
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  day and buy a whole bunch of stuff while you're there.
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  How are things going in the store right now?
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  Busy. I was starting to see tourists
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  come in, which is great. Yeah.
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  Yeah, a lot. Of see, Jesse likes the
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  tourists. I do.
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  I know many people in Maine are like, oh, it's tourist season.
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  Yeah, I like to see 'cause we get a lot of repeat customers
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  since we open, so we get to see them once or twice a year, which
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  is really cool too. So you kind of, you know, like
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  long. So regular tourists.
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  Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Yeah.
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  It's cool to catch up with them and see them come in and how
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  their year or you know, six months have been cause some come
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  twice a year so it's kind of cool.
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  Indeed well this is the time when they start to trickle up so
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  not surprised you're starting to see some anything that that
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  you're sort of hearing and seeing out there.
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  I know you've been talking about cards being particularly popular
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  recently still strong. I still.
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  Strong as ever yeah, seeing still seeing a lot of vintage
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  video game stuff, which is cool. We always enjoy that lot of, you
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  know, a Nintendo Super Nintendo N64, a lot of handhelds.
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  Which is what are you allowed to consider vintage?
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  How far, how far in the past do I have to reach?
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  Like is a PlayStation 2 like, you know what I mean?
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  Like how well? I mean basically they consider
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  vintage about 2025 year mark OK for.
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  So we gotta go back to. It's very fluid with, yeah, with
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  generational vintage, I call it. So for me, like a vintage
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  console would be Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Yeah, I let PS1, you
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  know, PlayStation One kind of come into that.
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  But some people might consider see those.
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  Are like 40 years old. Yeah, I know.
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  I'm not sure that it really counts as vintage anymore.
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  I mean. It's antique.
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  Exactly right. It's like a historical remnant
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  of a time long gone. You're like an ancient Egypt,
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  Egyptian hieroglyphics or something.
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  Well, anyway, Jesse joins us every week as we, of course,
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  talk about what's going on in his store.
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  Of course. But we also do some trivia for
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  you, the listening audience, to get your brains turning this
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  morning. And I do love a good bit of
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  trivia. So you know if you are the
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  caller who calls in to win the you get the question right.
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  You get a Main Vintage Toys T-shirt by stopping by 650 Main
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  St. and saying hello to Jesse in person.
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  He'll get you some swag and that will be your victorious reward
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  for getting the trivia right. 879-9426 is the phone number.
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  So what is the trivia on this Thursday all?
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  Right. This 1987 toy line and
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  television series allowed kids to interact with their TV using
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  toy vehicles and weapons that could actually shoot targets on
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  the screen. Wait, what?
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  What year? 1987. 87.
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  This was one of my favorite favorite toys.
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  Of 1987 allows you to interact with a show?
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  Yep. By shooting stuff, yeah.
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  Interested during the show? Was the light gun from Nintendo
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  involved in this at all? That was probably the precursor,
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  the light gun, 'cause they had their own separate vehicles and
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  jets and stuff like that. 879-9426 If you think you know
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  the answer to this question, call us now.
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  I would love to actually. I don't have no, I have no idea.
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  You, I'm sure maybe I'll recognize it when somebody
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  answers it, right? But you got me on this one,
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  that's for sure. You ever see how the light gun
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  works, by the way? Yeah, 'cause it stops the TV,
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  right? Did you ever notice when you
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  shot it that like it there was a blink on the screen or whatever
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  and that was them. It was kind of their cheating
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  way of pausing and stopping it and then the light gun like
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  looks at the pixels on the screen I guess.
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  Well, it leaves one like bright pixel.
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  And if you're aimed at that bright pixel, it it's a it's.
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  A very creative way of doing that.
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  I I never, I thought it was magic.
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  I thought it was. I thought it was Wizards.
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  This one was super cool because it would it would shoot kind of
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  back at you because it had like a little thing that would shoot
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  laser back at you and if your jet was hit, you would get so
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  many points and then you lost so many points it would actually
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  eject your figure out of the the jet which.
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  Was kind of cool, very interesting.
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  Well, you, I think you've stumped the people out out there
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  in radio land here, 879-9426. Read the question one more time
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  so people can once again ruminate on it and definitely
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  not cheat and Google it. Definitely don't do that.
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  What's the trivia? This 1987 toy line and
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  television series allowed kids to interact with their TV using
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  toy vehicles and weapons that could actually shoot targets on
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  the screen. And this was actually the first
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  TV series to use CGI characters in live action scenes.
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  Really cost over $1,000,000 an episode, which is crazy. 1887
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  need your calculator? What was that in today's?
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  Money $1,000,000 you said that would that would probably be
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  like $7,000,000 or it'd be a lot.
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  So did you have to buy separate equipment to do this?
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  You did, yeah. OK, so if you wanted to
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  participate, you had to go buy something, whatever that
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  something perhaps might be. 879-9426 If you know the answer
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  to this trivia question, I think we might have our first victim
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  coming up here in a second. Hopefully I stumped them.
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  Well, you might. I mean, that doesn't mean it's
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  right just 'cause somebody's in the in the pipeline.
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  Let's see if Dave knows. Dave, what's your answer?
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  I feel like it's something like Captain Power.
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  Got it. Yeah, Captain Power.
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  Captain Power. Yep, Captain Power, that was it.
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  Soldiers of future. Soldier.
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  Oh, that sounds a little bit. More to.
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  It. Yeah, my kid and I got those.
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  He was like 5 years old when that came out.
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  And yeah. Wasn't that so fun?
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  That was so cool. It was.
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  It was very. Yeah, I thought that was like,
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  the future is here. This.
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  This will be every TV show in just a couple of years, right?
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. My son Troy, he, he loved that
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  show. So yeah, it was good, but I.
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  OK, Captain Power, but it's in what I knew.
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  Captain Power in the Soldiers of the Future.
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  That's amazing, yeah. So does that mean that we were
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  the soldiers of the future like it was, you know, if you're
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  participating in the. Story.
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  It took place in 2137. 2137, yeah, alright.
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  Just around the corner. Yeah.
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  All right. Well, Dave, you got it, man.
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  You're my you're, you're, you're, you're my savior here.
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  Because I'm not sure anybody else was going to get.
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  I had. Absolutely.
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  No idea, do you remember it now? I mean, I remember the name, but
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  I couldn't probably place, you know, if I I'd have to look it
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  up and see if I could place. And thanks for the call, Dave.
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  Make sure you stop by 650 Main St.
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  Get up your get your swag, get your T-shirt.
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  I'm not sure I could remember. I certainly don't remember like
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  the characters or the look of it unless I Google and then maybe
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  if I Google it I'll probably the.
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  Soldiers of the future. 21. 47. The Legacy 40 of.
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  The Metal Wars when man fought machine and machines won.
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  Bio Dreads. Monstrous creations that hunt
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  down human survivors. Bio dreads, digitize them.
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  Digitize them. Yeah.
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  Center of the bio dread empire. Oh my God.
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  The fortress of Lord Dread. Well.
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  It only lasted one season because of the high cost and the
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  intense content for a kids show dealing with subjects like
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  digitizing humans, which would be what AI right now I guess.
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  So is that like, is that like turning like a a human being
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  into a robot or is that like downloading their brains or
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  something? What is that?
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  I'm going to have to go check that back out again. 1987 See
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  that's I think the reason I didn't know that is I was 6 that
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  year. So, and I had was that on like
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  NBC or like, was that on a regular station or was that
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  cable perhaps somewhere? I think it was on a regular
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  regular. Station.
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  I watched Sesame Street when I was like 6 years old.
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  I did not watch a lot of TV so I must have missed that.
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  I was watching 321 contact I loved.
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  That show, I can still do the song, man.
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  Yeah, there was 21 contact. It's the season or whatever,
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  whatever the words. Were.
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  I missed that. That's a good.
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  That was a good show. 321 contact, wasn't it?
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  Yes, it was. It was part of that block.
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  They had three. It was 321 contact.
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  The one that had like math net and stuff on it or was that the
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  other one? I'm not sure what was the one
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  where the guy wore the body suit.
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  Oh yeah. What was the name of that?
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  There were there were like 2 shows like that and I'm trying
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  the other one. I feel like it was right around
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  that. Same.
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  I don't know if it was on the same channel or what, but.
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  I feel like 321 Contact was like the smarter of the two of them,
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  like they were, they were actually trying to make you like
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  learn things like math. I think the other one was more
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  little entertainment or whatever.
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  I'm thinking the one, the math net one I always liked though,
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  'cause it was, it was Dragnet, but it was math net.
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  So there were cops, but they didn't have guns.
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  They had calculators and they always solved problems with
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  math. And then they had, do you
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  remember? Do you remember Math Man?
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  Math Man was Pac-Man. Yeah, it was another skit.
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  It was the same show. This is another skit that they
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  did in it. And Math Man would have to like,
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  you know, go around just like Pac-Man did to, like, eat
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  numbers or something like that. But then he would come to an
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  equation. It's like 7 + 11 equals 18.
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  And if he, you know, he ate it, then he's, he survives and he
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  keeps going or whatever. But if he got it wrong, then all
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  the ghosts or whatever would start chasing him.
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  That's good. That's a good time.
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  I'm going to have to download a bunch of YouTube 32.
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  One dude I've I've looked for some of this stuff before and
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  that stuff is on YouTube. Like they have those old
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  episodes for any show you can think of or kicking around there
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  if you want to check them out you.
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  Can find where in the world is Carmen San Diego that's.
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  Another good one. That's a little 90s though.
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  There he is, math man, Math man, Math man.
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  That's beautiful. I think so.
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  Oh, it was an equation. Like, is this right or wrong?
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  And then he had to run away, and it was like a little storm.
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  It was like a little tornado or something that was chasing him.
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  Around I remember the math net thing, but I don't remember that
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  part. Yeah, What was Danny?
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  Does it say what show that was on the say what show Math Man
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  was on 'cause it was the same. It was definitely the same one
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  as as as Math Net. I thought I might have been
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  three to one contact, but I'm just, I don't know.
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  I'm ruminating. He's looking, he's Googling,
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  he's seeing how fast he can find it.
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  Probably not fast enough. Maybe maybe when we come back,
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  Danny might have the answer to that question.
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  Well, Jesse, as I always appreciate you being here.
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  We unfortunately are out of time, so we do have to stop
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  there. So let's take a quick break
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  here. Make sure you stop by 650 Main
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  St. in South Portland and visit Maine Vintage Toys, especially
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  if you're Dave and you just won the T-shirt from the trivia
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  contest. Let's head into The Newsroom,
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  though, and get an update from Jason Taylor.
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  Some of these questions have been very stumping the audience.
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  It takes forever, so that's interesting.
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  Square one TV. Square one TV I.
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  Don't remember. That Yep, that was the other
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  show. Remember the math net?
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  Though Yep, that was it was on square, square one.
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  That was the one. All right, Jason, now I've done
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  it. So please take over, take the
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  baton and.