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Older tech and pizza hut · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: One of my colleagues, Mike Islands in the studio. That's
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  Speaker 1: why I'm doing like that because I'm a little outbreath
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  Speaker 1: because he and I were talking. Mike is like the
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  Speaker 1: only person aside from maybe Mike McCoy in this building
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  Speaker 1: who has this ridiculous brain like I do when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to never forgetting stuff and getting really frustrated. And
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  Speaker 1: so we were talking over what Blazer and I were
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  Speaker 1: just talking over, which was a name for that industrial
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  Speaker 1: type music, the Paul Hardcastle craft works. I throw Art
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  Speaker 1: of Noise into that category two. And Mike agrees with me.
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  Speaker 1: You say there was, there was, but neither one of
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  Speaker 1: us can remember what it was. And he's, yeah, he
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  Speaker 1: used it when he was on their So that's look
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  Speaker 1: this up. You have to bail me out of this
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  Speaker 1: because I've got to know what it was, all right.
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  Speaker 1: Zach and I also were talking out front about Pizza
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  Speaker 1: Hut again, because that's something else Blazer and I were
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  Speaker 1: talking about, and the the Preazzo. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you remember, that was my favorite pizza hut thing back
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  Speaker 1: back in the day, as they say, back in the eighties,
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  Speaker 1: do you recall the Priazzo? It was like a pie crust.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't the pan pizza crust that they have now
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  Speaker 1: that's all fluffy that has you know, fluffy crusting in
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  Speaker 1: a little topic. It was a deep pie crust and
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  Speaker 1: they like just dump the cheese and onions and sausage
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  Speaker 1: and pepperonis and stuff in there, and you would slice
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  Speaker 1: it and it would be like a piece of apple pie,
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  Speaker 1: except it was pizza stuff. It was the most that
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  Speaker 1: was the Priazzo Roma, the Priazzo Varona, and the Priazzo
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  Speaker 1: with Tariyano. I think they were and loved those. So
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  Speaker 1: while we were talking about the pizza huts earlier, in
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  Speaker 1: the fact that they're closing down, I guess two hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifty of them around the country, so very few
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  Speaker 1: of them left. But if you have one, if you
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  Speaker 1: have one of the formerly red Summer still red, the
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  Speaker 1: one and Grove Cities red, or the one I guess
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  Speaker 1: up in Sunbury is black has a black roof on
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  Speaker 1: it now. But if you still have one, just treat
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  Speaker 1: yourself and go in and relive that you never got
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  Speaker 1: to do that, did you, Zach. You never got to
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  Speaker 1: enjoy that, like going into a pizza hut. Yeah, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: did they still have that when you were going?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, every time we played, not every time, but
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  Speaker 2: a lot of times, like after baseball or a football game,
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  Speaker 2: we would go to Pizza.
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  Speaker 1: Hut so and you were you said you were a
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  Speaker 1: big fan. Yeah, yeah, you are still today.
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  Speaker 2: I don't I don't know how to answer that, because
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  Speaker 2: they when we order it, or when somebody orders it,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't taste the same to me.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not saying it's different. I just from it. When
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  Speaker 3: I was a kid, it was the best thing ever.
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  Speaker 2: But as an adult, I just don't know if I
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  Speaker 2: like the same things because there was a long time
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  Speaker 2: span between when I ate it.
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  Speaker 3: When as a kid and then an adult.
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  Speaker 1: The crust used to be more oily, for lack of
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  Speaker 1: a better word, it was almost buttery than it is today,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm assuming that's because you know, everything's more health conscious.
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  Speaker 1: McDonald's fries were probably the first to jump off that cliff.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I missed the most about the crust is
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  Speaker 1: just not the same toppings pretty much the same. The
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  Speaker 1: we are also talking that, we talk a lot during
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  Speaker 1: the breaks, also talking about overall my beloved West Side.
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  Speaker 1: There was a place it's gone now it was called Mothers. Mothers.
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  Speaker 1: The pizza was good. It wasn't the best pizza on
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  Speaker 1: the planet. It was good. But here's what made mother
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  Speaker 1: stand out. They had a lunch buffet, a pizza buffet.
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  Speaker 1: At lunch. Man, you could what was that like four
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  Speaker 1: ninety nine or something, go in there and you could man,
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  Speaker 1: I ate eighty dollars worth of you know, I'd walk
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  Speaker 1: in the door and they just everybody got sad because
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  Speaker 1: it's all We're about to lose some money because I
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  Speaker 1: would go and you could kill that pizza buffet and
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  Speaker 1: I missed that. The last time we had a pizza
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  Speaker 1: buffet in the city was CC's and they they still
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  Speaker 1: have a few locations in the country, but none here
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  Speaker 1: in Central Ohio that I know of. Did you ever
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  Speaker 1: go to CC's.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, there was one in Kentucky right by where
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  Speaker 3: I lived.
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  Speaker 1: Actually, we had one in Hilliard, and uh.
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  Speaker 3: It was okay, I didn't really it was okay.
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  Speaker 1: It was I mean, it wasn't the great, greatest pizza,
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  Speaker 1: but again, you could just stuff yourself with pizza. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm in there and I got the family with me,
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  Speaker 1: and I just I just took a big mouthful about
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  Speaker 1: just at that point, two guys walk over here, you
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  Speaker 1: chuck douglass. Oh no, man, no, because you got a
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  Speaker 1: face full of pizza, you can't answer the question and
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  Speaker 1: you have to nod your head while you're trying to
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  Speaker 1: swallow the pizza. And the internet changed everything because people
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  Speaker 1: knew what you looked like.
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  Speaker 3: Pretty much normal interaction, pretty much.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm like that all the time. Anyway. I'm just saying,
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  Speaker 1: all right, so with a show that is that, Thank you, Michael.
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  Speaker 1: If you find that that the thing, the descriptive I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking for, please do I appreciate it. No updates in
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  Speaker 1: the last hour. By the way, what what.
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  Speaker 3: Were you gonna say?
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  Speaker 1: No, it wasn't avant gard a, No, it wasn't new wave.
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  Speaker 1: That devo was more of a new wave thing, trash music, keyboard,
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  Speaker 1: what do you call it, the key tar.
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  Speaker 3: The keiza, the key talk.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah that was cool man, Yeah, okay, the devo and
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  Speaker 1: and uh oh who else got thrown at? Gary Newman
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  Speaker 1: was a new wave guy here man, my uh I
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  Speaker 1: feel safest of all.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know any other song other from that, dude.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody cared about any other song that was a cool song. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was Pyramid Power. Do you remember the album?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely not, but I remember the song.
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  Speaker 1: Pyramid Power, Pyramid Power.
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  Speaker 3: How many copies of that?
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea. I still have one, that's all
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  Speaker 1: I know. I have got so many vinyls from from
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  Speaker 1: over my uh my years of playing music that it's
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of scary and uh, every single one of them.
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  Speaker 1: You can pull it out, I will look at the
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  Speaker 1: cover and I'll have some story to tell you. It's
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  Speaker 1: just And that was the beauty of the beauty of
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  Speaker 1: the era. Man, everything everything meant something, even stupid stuff
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  Speaker 1: meant something. And these days you're like, man, nothing means anything.
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  Speaker 1: It's all disposable. Everything has really seriously TVs used to
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  Speaker 1: have a TV repair man come to your house. Now
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  Speaker 1: your TV goes out, you just throw it away, get
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  Speaker 1: an own. Everything's disposable. Microwave goes out. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: microwaves were invented during my lifetime, which is really scary.
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  Speaker 1: A mana, this is this is again the American consumer.
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  Speaker 1: They love, they love words. A Mana didn't have a microwave.
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  Speaker 1: A Mana had the radar range. That doesn't the a
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  Speaker 1: mana radar range if it doesn't say a mana. It's
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  Speaker 1: not a radar range.
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  Speaker 3: That doesn't sound healthy at all.
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  Speaker 1: It's sold them. That's we'll see. That was the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: It was radioactivity, but they were selling it as a plus,
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  Speaker 1: so you know, don't worry about the burritos glowing. It's
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  Speaker 1: a radar range.
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  Speaker 3: Suggests came.
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  Speaker 1: And it was. That was a new invention back then.
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  Speaker 1: Stuff that you take for granted. That's always been. This
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  Speaker 1: is weird, man, because I remember the beginnings of it.
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  Speaker 1: We have already the compact disc has come and gone. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was. It's you know, can you even still buy
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  Speaker 1: CDs anywhere?
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  Speaker 4: I haven't.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't shopped for music and so long.
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you what.
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  Speaker 2: When I've been to Target, they sell some CDs. They
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  Speaker 2: saw more vinyl stuff now really, yeah, because everybody releases
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  Speaker 2: their stuff on vinyl.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they charge you what for it?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know too much.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 3: It's not the old So we.
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  Speaker 1: Used to go to Buzzards, Naster, you know, and wherever
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  Speaker 1: you got your records, and it was fine ninety nine
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  Speaker 1: for an album.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not that cheap.
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  Speaker 1: No, I know it's not. They're charging you more because
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  Speaker 1: it's Fatty f A d d Y Fatty. But Compact
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  Speaker 1: disc came out and everybody thought, oh, this is amazing.
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  Speaker 1: And now compact disc or dinosaurs, everybody's downloading them instead.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, I don't what comes after downloading. Can you
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  Speaker 1: imagine the next technology? You know, there's going to be
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  Speaker 1: something else.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't have a great mind for that.
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  Speaker 2: I I used to download songs off the internet and
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  Speaker 2: put them on CDs, but we didn't have a way
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  Speaker 2: to play MP three's on something portable. You'd have to
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  Speaker 2: put them on a CD and then take the CD
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  Speaker 2: and put it in your car.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I used to take I used to take my
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  Speaker 4: tape recorder, my cashette recorder and shit it on the
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  Speaker 4: table next to the radio, and when I heard my
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  Speaker 4: show come on the radio, I had to get to
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  Speaker 4: record and play button in just the right time to
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  Speaker 4: get all the song on there.
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  Speaker 3: I did that too, with a cassette.
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  Speaker 1: Uh you did that, See that was way past your time.
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  Speaker 3: I did that.
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  Speaker 2: CDs were kind of expensive when they when I was
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  Speaker 2: a kid, like it was if if you wanted one song,
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  Speaker 2: you could just record it off the radio. But at
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  Speaker 2: the time there were people like you when a song
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  Speaker 2: came on that were like blah blah blah blah blah
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  Speaker 2: blah blah.
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  Speaker 3: I hit the posts and I'm like, I can't hear
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  Speaker 3: the ard.
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  Speaker 1: I know, don't you. That's yeah, yeah, the great American DJ.
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  Speaker 1: We made you miserable. But hey, it's it's an art.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's uh. But the thing, Yeah, you had to
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  Speaker 1: know like this, as soon as you heard the note,
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  Speaker 1: the first note, the first beat, you had to hit
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  Speaker 1: that record and play button on your cassette player to record,
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  Speaker 1: and you had the you know, the cassette was right
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  Speaker 1: up against the radio, so you get the best possible
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  Speaker 1: sound on your Circhron sixty cassette. And it was it
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  Speaker 1: was so primitive by today's standards.
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  Speaker 3: Do you remember the tapes.
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  Speaker 2: There was cassette tapes that if it was like something
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  Speaker 2: you didn't listen to it anymore, not a blank tape,
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  Speaker 2: but you could record over it like a cassette tape
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  Speaker 2: you bought by putting tape.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, just cover the hole at the top.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I thought I was like advanced genius when
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  Speaker 2: we figured that out.
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  Speaker 1: And you had different kinds of tape too, Like the
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  Speaker 1: surtrins were your basic tape. You could get you could
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  Speaker 1: get metal tapes which had little fragments of you know,
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  Speaker 1: metallic fragments inside the tape, which allegedly helped with the
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  Speaker 1: magnetic heads. As far as recording and playing back, that
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  Speaker 1: were all caught in maxl was a big tape manufacturer
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  Speaker 1: and ampecs and it's just it's it's amazing what I've
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  Speaker 1: seen come and go when it comes to technology, And
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  Speaker 1: I do, honestly feel I feel ancient when I think
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  Speaker 1: about the stuff we used to we used to do
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  Speaker 1: and thought it was so you know, go back and
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  Speaker 1: watch nineteen eighty four's War Games with the monochrome monitor,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, hell he would you like to play
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  Speaker 1: a game that was that was techno serious back then?
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  Speaker 3: Man?
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  Speaker 2: Being like, I'm fancy because I had a portable Sony
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  Speaker 2: CD player.
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  Speaker 3: Ooh, Now if you walk too much or moved it,
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  Speaker 3: it would skip, couldn't jar it? Yeah yeah, but you
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  Speaker 3: didn't have to like rewind or fast forward.
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  Speaker 2: You could hit next and it would play the next song, yes,
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  Speaker 2: instead of a cassette.
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  Speaker 3: And to me, that was time.
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  Speaker 1: See I was in I came about in the world
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  Speaker 1: of eight tracks. We're right in the middle of the song,
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  Speaker 1: you it would it would fade out, So your listeners
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  Speaker 1: do do do Do Do Do Do Do do do do. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you had to go through that. If the song was
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  Speaker 1: longer than you know, the tape gat it sounded great.
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  Speaker 1: It was a nice thick tape, but they could only
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  Speaker 1: fit so much tape inside the cartridge and so so
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  Speaker 1: you had to go through that little change. We thought
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  Speaker 1: that was cool. We were at the top of our
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  Speaker 1: technological form. Then came micro shakes. Milkshakes you put in
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  Speaker 1: your radar range. Oh my gosh, I hold it. My