Part 2 of Video Rentals in the '80s

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get started. Hello, how are
you? It's just me? That's right

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out of the Schotzenegas here the Beatle
movie star. I was the same,

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it says a bodybuilder, Remember like
I'm out and Conan and verty handsome and

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the ladies world me. How are
you? Wait a minute? If you

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are on the Schwartzenega, who am
I? Because I'm John Kimpbell, the

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detective turned teacher. I'm leaving in
a story of Oregon where I helped many

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many of the children come out of
live gol. I don't like the children.

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They're the COVID run It's just me, the running man. And remember

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everybody with exercise, you don't get
your card. You six feet apart and

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you're running. Wait a second,
you sound very familiar. Where are you

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from, because I am from Austria. I am from Austria. To know

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I used to be a bodybuilder.
No, you are not. You are

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lying. You are lying like a
liar. Shut your face. I'll place

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you. My best friend is look
for it. No, get down the

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bitch. Let me ask you a
question. How many repetitions can you do

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of squats a day? I've rapped
seven times twelve, seven hundred and forty

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pounds. I do eight hundred and
forty pounds. You do not do it

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und forty pounds? Yes I do. You are a little girly man.

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Don't tell you already know I squat
a helicopter full of immigrants. I can

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run miles and save people's lives,
fire, burning building. I didn't going

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to talk to you. I want
to talk to those idiots. I don't

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know what happened. The drive's got
crossed. This is nineteen eighty four or

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what. I don't know what year
you come from, but I'm calling from

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nineteen eighty something. I am calling
you from nineteen eighty two. It's a

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great year. It's some of the
best blindless laden eighty two. What the

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stand? What do you know about
wine? All you know about wine is

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er You're nothing but a whiny baby. You know what I'm going to punish

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you. I'm going to pick up
my white laras h iron, get you

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over the head, and then you
will know a wine. Damn you,

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You're It's okay because I'm beautiful and
I'm wanted. Well, I want to

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apologize said that though of your out
of beauty. Speaking of beauty, I

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am beautiful myself. I think golden
locks, these golden locks, and I

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am harless from the chest, I'm
halllessed. From the legs. This massive

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quads the size of little babies.
I have two babies for eggs. I

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don't like babies. My teeth are
as big as a horses cheeth, and

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they're a beautiful white. I could
look at myself when I brushed my teeth

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and right my own teeth. You
understand me. Down, that's a big

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teeth. Do you want to see
me move my packs? No, beautiful,

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you want you want to send nipples
bounce like creek clacks. Remember the

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creek cracks? I remember the click
clacks? You know what I got the

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click clack for you between the legs. You know what, I'm going to

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be running for for the governor here
in a Storia or California or wherever they

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left me. Who knows hell I
might even It doesn't need you. It's

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already full of gas and pollution.
They don't need you putting your bullshit all

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over there. You know all the
Hollywood. It's my town. You know,

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you don't know nothing. I'm going
to take you now, right back

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back where you belong. I want
you to go kiss Ronald Reagan's but get

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out. I'm going to be the
governator and i will tell you what it's

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late. I'm taking you back with
me to my would my town, back

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to the eight Save me back.
We have a great show for you today

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as we continue the tour of the
eighties video rental Age. Don't go anywhere,

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as Tiscano and Chang will be right
back. You're listening to Back to

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the Eighties. Welcome back to Back
to the Eighties Chang. Here of Tiscano

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and Chang, and we are going
to dive head first into our topic.

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Now, Tiscano, I'm going to
give you one of my most favorites maries

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of going into a movie rental store. I'm not going to give you the

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name because I don't remember. It
was a long time ago, and I

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recall going in and yes, we
had him at a guest Conan was on

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the screen, Conan the Barbarian.
And I went in me and well,

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I wasn't with my missus at that
time. This was prior to the missus,

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but I went in. I was
solo at the time, as a

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matter of fact. As a matter
of fact, this was nineteen eighty seven,

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so this is pre missus Chang.
But this is when I had already

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had my daughter and I had no
life because I was not allowed to go

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anywhere because I had custody of the
kid. So I went in and I

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rented Conan, and it was on
the screen in there, and I remember

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going to the counter and asking for
Conan because they had the case in the

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back. That's remember when they would
put the plastic case in the back,

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But the movie was not in there. Yeah, so you had to ask

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for the movie. So I was
getting the movie and I was in line,

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and I was intrigued with the movie
as I was watching Conan. I

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remember going in there and just smelling
popcorn. And so I walked out of

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there with a Conan movie. Okay, I walked out with two posters,

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and I paid two dollars a piece
for those posters. I walked out with

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no three bags of popcorn? Are
you getting this? Two? Who are

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the large bars of kit kat?
Wait a second, Now, this is

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all for yourself and by yourself.
This is just this is for me.

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No one was coming to my house. We just talk about having the munchies.

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Oh, you telling me about it. Then, as I was leading,

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I went into the liquor store that
was right next to it. Now,

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at this time, Chang didn't partake
in drinking, had given up drinking.

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So I immediately went to the box
and I got myself a six pack

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of fresh, icy cold Coca Cola. Oh okay, so you got a

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six pack of coke? Yes,
and a bag of Doritos and some nacho

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cheese. Yes. That was probably
one of my most favorite times of going

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into a movie store because I was
all alone and I could pig out,

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and I could watch Conan with my
shirt off, and I felt really really,

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really really special. Now, did
they have bags big enough to load

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up everything that you bought? Well, you see here, I had to

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at the at the movie store.
That's when I was getting paper bags.

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So they put all my paper,
my popcorn in one paper bag. They

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put my movies and my poster,
my two posts in another bag, and

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then I just carried the two giant
sized bars of kit kat out in my

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back pocket, put them in my
vehicle. Then I went to the liquor

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store, got me that Coca cola, got me some doritos and nachos.

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I was done with all my snacks
by the time Conan was over. Oh

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my god. Yes, but now
you said that was nineteen eighty seven.

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Yeah, I think you know by
nineteen eighty seven, and this is like

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a medium would you say this is
like a medium sized store. Was it

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as big as like a blockbuster?
I don't think it was as big as

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a blockbuster, right, No,
it's probably it was half the size of

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a blockbuster. Now, the funny
thing half of it was, you know,

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family oriented movies, action movies,
and then a very small portion they

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had the inevitable red curtains and you
could go, oh yes, yes,

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Now before you went through there there
was a guy sitting on a little school

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in front of the red curtains and
you had to show him your ID before

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you could go in there. You
guys had a little bouncer outside of the

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red curtains. Yeah, but he
looked like a little school nerd, you

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know what I mean. He looked
like he used to whack off all the

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time. So what was he going
to do to me? I would have

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just knocked him over, but I
didn't go in there. No. It's

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funny because I don't really recall too
many stores where I lived that had actual

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popcorn, like made popcorn, popcorn
in a bag, yes, or candy,

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you know, some candy, not
that much. But I remember these

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little, small, small mom and
pop video places where it like, for

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example, they were called Video Plus
or Raheim's Video, And I remember there

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were always being in a hurry for
you to get your movie and get the

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heck out, buddy. How can
I help you, buddy, Hu,

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hurry it up. I've got lots
of people coming in like close at nine.

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It was just fantastic. And you
know what though, by the following

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year, by eighty eight, by
running May eighty eight, the number of

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video specialty stores like the ones that
we're talking about, they were around twenty

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five thousand and forty five thousand.
Other places like that, for example,

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in malls, in grocery stores.
You remember grocery stores also rented videos.

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Yes, I remember that seven Eleven's
rented movies. Even the public library rented

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videos. There was a couple of
liquor stores in Pico Rivera when I resided

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there in eighty seven that used to
sell a handful of movies, and then

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of course they had their dirty movies
also. And another thing that I remember

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there was sometimes a long line for
was to rent video equipment. I didn't

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know there was so many people that
rented video equipment like VCRs, And you

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remember the VCRs that they rented were
humongous. You needed two people to carry

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them out of the freaking door.
Some video shops also had adult only sections

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like you, like you mentioned with
the X rated videos. It's funny because

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I think most of these places had
more crappy movies than really really good ones,

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because the good ones they had like
a copy each. This was in

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the beginning before like let's say,
before Blockbuster, but they had like one

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copy each of the brand new releases. And then if you didn't make it

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there on time, like as soon
as the store opened, you'd be out

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of luck. You'd get stuck with
like a movie called Mephisto or something like

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that. Oh yeah, I remember
the day when they would tell you,

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oh, we're out of that right
now, but go ahead and leave us

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your phone number, give you a
call when it's in, you know what

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I mean. Then the very next
evening they would call you, and then

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you have to run down there and
grab it, and you know, and

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then you had to make sure you
brought it back right after so they can

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go ahead and rent it out to
the next cat. I mean, it

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was crazy back then. It goes
to show you and tell you how quickly

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the movie rental business grew with such
big places like Blockbuster, because now we

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had unlimited practically some of the top
movies that were coming out. I mean

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sometimes you had at least ten to
fifteen, maybe twenty copies of a certain

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movie. And then, of course, you know what. I used to

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trip out of these movie stores.
They would face the shows, remember with

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all the great movies, you know
what, and that had the brightest light.

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So you get back then and then
you're looking, well, man,

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I've already seen this and seeing that, seeing that, oh, they're out

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of that, and then a couple
of rolls down or all the crappy movies.

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And also, I don't know if
you remember this, remember that some

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video stores in some areas, like
let's say you had three video stores around

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your neighborhood. Usually we had the
habit of getting a video membership from each

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one, and there was always that
one that was smaller than all of them,

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that was the most expensive one.
Come on, your selection is crap

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and you're charging five ninety nine a
movie. You remember when you would go

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get your membership and they were giving
paper cards out and they would punch it,

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and then after that all those slots
were punched out, you got a

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free movie. Yes, I hated
when I would get a free movie and

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the day I went all the movies, they're sucked. I hated when they

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punched every single one. I knew
that I was going to rent the tenth

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one or the twentieth one or whatever
it was, and I couldn't find that

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little card anymore. Oh yeah,
you know what I hated when some guys

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were cross sided and they would like
punch right in the middle and you're like,

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oh man, now my cards all
dilapidated. It's going to rip there

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in my wallet. I'm never going
to get credit for a free movie.

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Yeah, gass Yeah. And sometimes
they'd ask you, you know, did

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you did you punch a hole through
it? Because that's not us no.

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Oh yeah. Do you remember how
some of the punchers they use were little

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hearts, little stars, little triangles. It was almost like every video store

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had a different type of whole puncher, so it would signify who they were,

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Like you were going to take your
video card and go to another place.

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Come on. It's like people that
mark their drugs, yeah, with

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a little design so they know who
the who the seller the dealer is.

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Oh my goodness, yeah, I
see that a lot on cop shows.

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Oh look at there's a little c
right there, and that's from Google.

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Right there, that's his cocaine all
though. Yeah, yeah, it was

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crazy. Yeah. Now do you
remember going to the movie rental store and

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having to wait in like huge lines, and then while you're waiting, you're

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in a certain aisle and then you
see something that catches your eye, but

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you really don't want to walk all
the way back and put one of the

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movies that are in your handback,
so you can get that one. So

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you just throw that one somewhere and
then act like nothing ever happened, right

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right, Or the times that you
wanted a movie but for some reason you

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didn't have enough money for whatever the
reason, Because I remember me as a

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little kid, it would happen like
in the early eighties, eighty one,

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eighty two, and I wanted a
movie, just didn't quite have enough,

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So I'd grabbed the movie right,
and I'd hide it behind some other cheesy

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movie way on the bottom shelf.
And then I said, okay, as

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soon as I come back, I
know that it's going to be here.

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And then you come back and they
had and it's gone. It was gone.

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I remember that crap. Do you
ever remember going into some movie houses

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brow and they would alphabetize it with
my actor yes, And that almost like

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a music store, you know what
I mean. You're going there, Oh

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my god, look at all these
movies by Schwartz, and then you're oh,

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all these movies right here by Joh. Yeah. You'd go into the

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store and say do you have any
movies from Sylvester Stallone? And they go,

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yeah, go to the s section. You know, there's Stallone movies

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right there. Yeah, that was
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when movie how movie rental houses were
similar to libraries, because I mean,

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I'm not I'm gonna tell you straight
up. There was times I thought I

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was in there for hours just gazing
at all these movies, trying to make

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a decision and then trying to choreograph
my movie rental experience, and so I

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can be on the same vibe while
I'm watching all these movies, either on

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the weekend or on a Saturday night. You know, I want to go

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all action, all scary. Sometimes
I wanted to go all soft porn,

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but usually I only did that if
I knew a girl was coming, because

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that looks pretty weird when you're getting
soft porn by yourself. And tell me

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if this never happened to you,
But no matter what was going on in

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your life, as soon as you
walked in through the doors at the video

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rental place, all your problems stayed
outside, because now your main concern,

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your main worry, your main challenge, the only worry in the entire world

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was what was good to see for
that evening. Yes, finding the perfect

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movie for your mood, and that
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Yeah, I mean it was you
know what, it kind of movie

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rental kind of killed the drive in
because now you were able to stay home,

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watch a movie, a couple of
movies, have more people over and

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not getting in trouble and not have
that crappy pizza that you used to get

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into drivers. You could just stay
at home. That's true, and in

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turn, it's what happened to movie
rentals with streaming, which okay, look,

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let me get that one out of
the way, just to give everybody

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listening my personal opinion on it.
Of course, movie streaming is convenient.

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Convenience is the name of the game
at the end of the day, right,

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just like downloading music nowadays pretty much
music and everything else, it's only

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because of convenience. But I tell
you, I would prefer a million times

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more going to a video place and
renting a movie because there is something palpable

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that you get. It's in your
hands. There is an experience that is

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involved, there is getting out of
your car, there is interacting with people.

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I was just going to mention that
interacting with people. I remember sometimes

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I pick a movie out and I'm
sure this happened to you, and then

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somebody right in the same as would
be like, oh, that's a good

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movie, or don't get that movie, and then you would carry on a

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little conversation and get the bio on
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not. Sometimes you would be like, wow, you check it out anyway,

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and then you're at home and you
watch the movie, and then you're

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talking to yourself, going, man, a lady was right, this movie

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is stupid. I just wasted dollar. Fifteen ninety, remember there was a

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show called Cisco and Niebert. Now, Cisco and Niebert were the movie critics

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of Hollywood. The most recognized ones
are the most popular ones. They had

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a TV show right here's I hated
that because every single time a movie came

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on that they thought was the worst
movie in the world, I thought it

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was the greatest. And whenever they
thought something was the greatest, I thought

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it was the worst. I'm Roger
Ebert, film critic of the Chicago Sun

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Times, and I'm Jean Cisco,
film critic of the Chicago Tribune. In

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addition to Turk one eighty two will
also be reviewing Blood Simple, a highly

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touted, very violent new film from
a first time director. Will also be

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reviewing Mischief, a teenage comedy about
a tough kid and an innocent kid.

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But first Roger begins with the film
with a strange title, Vision Quest.

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The title of the movie, vision
Quest, comes from an Indian notion of

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a young man going off alone and
a quest for his personal vision. In

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this movie, though, instead of
going off into the desert or up on

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to the top of a mountain,
the movie's hero goes in quest of a

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couple of goals closer to home,
sex with a slightly older woman that he

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loves, and a victory over the
meanest and most ferocious wrestler in the state

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of Washington. Yes, yes,
oh my god, I remember that.

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I remember Siskel and Ebert gave a
rating to American Werewolf in London and they

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said it was ridiculous, cheesy,
and I really thoroughly love the hell of

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it. Oh I love that movie. Did they give it like two thumbs

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down? Yeah? Oh? You
remember them when they would give you your

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their thumbs down. Good God.
I would see those guys on TV and

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I used to say, man,
if I had a million dollars, I

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would kick the TV said, and
every time I see these two bone heads

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on here. I hated those It
was hilarious. I'm gonna give it one

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thumb down. Well, let's just
give it two thumbs down. Oh yeah,

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it's the most hilarious thing in the
world. It was. It sadly

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though, I believe Ebert passed away
with answer cancer or tongue cancer. I

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think, yeah, you know,
very sad. All due respects to both

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of them, but I don't believe
either one of them are around anymore.

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So I can say this, I
hated it both. You know what,

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it would be funny if tuscoonto Win
Chang start doing our own type of movie

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review. You know what, that
is the very next thing on our list,

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because the world needs to hear our
opinions on movies. I agree with

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you. I mean, if you
can get a Boobs as president, as

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in number forty five, then you
can have Tuscontwin Chang deep movie critics.

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I mean, what the heck?
I think you know that's gonna be a

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good show, one of our shows. Let's pick three movies from the eighties,

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we'll both watch them, we'll critique
them, and that'll be a segment

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on one of our shows. So
let's take a quick break when we come

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back here and back to the eighties. Working to continue our chat on movie

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renting in the nineteen eighties. Don't
go away, you're listening to back to

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the eighties. It certainly is a
big bund to hit, a very big

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fun, big jaffe. It's a
very big, fluffy fun. Why's the

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beef? Some hamburger places give you
a lot less beef on a lot of

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bun. Where's the beef? At
Wendy's? We have a hamburger we modestly

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call the single, and Wendy's single
has more beef than the whopper or Big

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Mack, Like Gwendy'd you get more
bean and less bun? Hey, I

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don't think you want something better?
Your Windy is kind of people. Hey,

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some of you remember the eighties five
right? Well? It lives loud

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and proud. On back to the
eighties with my pals to Scotto and Chay,

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back to the eighties radio. This
is the kind from just Kando,

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Win Chang. Oh, we're talking
about video renting in the nineteen eighties.

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Remember the experiences, Remember the smells, Remember the site, Remember the long

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lines, Remember the fun and the
excitement it was to rent that video that

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you were looking forward to. Scene
and remember the disappointment when you couldn't find

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it in the aisles. So one
of the greatest feelings in the world was

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going to that video place and finding
the movie that you wanted. And in

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addition to that, you go up
to check out and the clerk says,

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I'm going to recommend you another one. And he'll say, remember that movie

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that just came out. Guess what, we just got it out back.

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Let me go get it for you. And it's a movie that had it

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was still brand new. He unpacked
it, he took the plastic off of

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it, and you were the very
first one to get that rent. You

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remember back then, the plastic was
easy to take off of a brand new

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movie. Nowadays it's like you gotta
get a freaking blowtorch. You got you

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gotta get a survival NiFe from Rambo
to open up some of these packages.

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Now, yeah, do you remember
sometimes you would watch your movie and then

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you would forget you how to take
it back, So you jump in the

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car and you jam your ass down
there, and then they closed early,

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and now you have a day chart. I remember the first window where you

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could drop your movies through the window
if they weren't open, you go to

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return your movies. You let's say
you got three or four movies, because

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it was just a great weekend and
you had a great time. Everybody watched

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all the movies. You guys just
had a great time. And you're there

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standing in line. You finally get
there, they're opening the videos. Everything's

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good, and then that third movie, it's not there. You brought the

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box with one of your home movies. The last thing that was in your

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VCR was a home movie. You
put it inside the video and then you

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took the video from the from the
case and they want it, but you

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didn't take it out of the VCR. Yes, And then you would get

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that phone call, har do you
have bail juice? That's right? Oh

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well, yes, I forgot I
have my movie. Yes, you and

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that girl are very flexible. But
we're gonna go ahead and hold this as

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a counter and you can talk to
Gary and then just give the movie back

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to Gary, and we'll go ahead
and give you your movie and we'll credit

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you a little bit. You can
get a free movie. It was such

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a great time that we had.
And then there was an interesting thing that

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occurred when you had friends that were
techies, right or that at least they

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thought there were techies. They said, well, I'll bring my video cassette

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recorder. We'll put it next to
your video cassette recorder, and we'll just

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copy the movie. I've got a
blank cassette, we'll put that in.

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We'll do the connections in the back, and we'll record from one video to

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the next. Oh, yes,
I remember those days, pirating days.

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Yes, And then they caught on
and then they added something to the to

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the film, to the tape where
you couldn't do that anymore. I believe

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back then when it was when we
were using the VCR, they broke the

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tabs. Remember, Yeah, there
was two little plastic black tabs or whatever

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color the box that they gave to
you that the movie was on. And

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they would have those tabs and they
would be off, so you couldn't tape.

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Yeah, and so you couldn't record
over them as well. I remember

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one time at now this didn't didn't
happen to my birthday party, but there

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was a next door neighbor's birthday party
where they rented the cartoon Batman, And

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so they opened the case. It
said Batman on the little sticker on on

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the front and they left all thirteen
or fourteen little eight year olds to watch

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the cartoon of Batman, and then
all of a sudden, the birthday girl

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goes to the parents saying, that's
not Batman on the screen and they are

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showing their naked parts. Well,
it turned out that somebody had recorded born

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over the Batman cartoon. Oh man, Yeah, do you have your copies?

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It wasn't that wasn't me. Oh
do you remember sometimes you go down

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there, you read a movie,
and then you get back home and it's

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all twisted up yeah and that,
and you're like, and you know they're

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gonna blame you because you know,
nobody really checked out that video before you

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checked it out, so you're going
to get the blame. And then they're

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charging like one hundred and five dollars
for a movie, and you're like,

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it was like that when I got
it. It was like that when I

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got it. No, it wasn't
me. It was the One Armed Man.

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All right, I can fast.
Yeah, And I'm glad that.

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I tell you. What are they
gonna do to me? Such? Yeah,

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I used to open up there's a
little a little button on the side

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of the yes and you could open
up that plat and then you could flip

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over the little lid, that little
flap so you can see, and sometimes

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the tape would be wrinkled, yes, like like somebody would was chewing on

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it. Yes, I would,
you know, that's funny. I was

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just gonna say that to you because
I remember doing that. Then I was

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gonna say, do you remember opening
it up and it had creases in it?

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And you're like, something of a
bitch. It's not a cassette.

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I can't even fix it with a
pencil, exactly exactly. I used to

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do that a lot when I was
in the video store because I didn't want

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to get raped and the blame for
me breaking a stupid video when I know

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I didn't, so I was I
was always like the video rat, I

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would, you know, flip that
flip and if the video was screwed up,

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I would take it with a box
and go complain to the guy at

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the counter, excuse me, excuse
me. Oh hey, you guys have

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this over there and this is all
creased like that. You know you might

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want to take that out the show. And the guy looks at you like,

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yeah, man, I know you
just did it, and you got

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long here instead yeah, that's probably
freaking criminal, bro. And just beat

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it, man, You just take
a poster and just beat it. Now.

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Jump over to nineteen eighty eight ish
nineteen eighty nine when the company the

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competitor of Blockbuster came along, and
that was Hollywood Video. I'm not sure

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if Hollywood Video existed all over the
United States. I'm assuming they did because

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they were just a big chain as
well, and they work as a competition.

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But you know what, I gotta
be honest. Sometimes there was a

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point where Blockbuster became just so big
it got expensive, and Hollywood Video would

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would rent the movies cheaper, and
it seemed like they had the same thing.

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Yeah, sometimes you got two for
the price of one rentals, right,

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you know. And the great thing
I think that Hollywood Video started doing

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in the beginning was movies that were
already past their time, or they were

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rented too many times, or they
were older, they put them in a

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big bin and they would sell them. Of course they weren't cheap, but

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they you know, eight ninety nine, nine ninety nine, and now you

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had the opportunity to buy the movie
and keep it for yourself. That was

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always fun to go to the movie
rental stores and get used movies because you

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can get a killer deal. Nowadays
you get to use movies. But you

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can't do that anymore. If you're
gonna get a movie, you're gonna have

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00:28:03.200 --> 00:28:06.680
to go down to Walmart or Target. And they got that big bin of

409
00:28:06.799 --> 00:28:10.279
DVD movies and pretty much all of
them suck, you know many, but

410
00:28:10.279 --> 00:28:11.960
they're selling like five for five dollars. Like, hey, I can get

411
00:28:11.960 --> 00:28:15.359
five crappy movies for five bucks.
What a deal? Yeah, it's it's

412
00:28:15.440 --> 00:28:19.680
you know what. I really it
brings me a lot of sadness to know

413
00:28:19.720 --> 00:28:26.079
what happened to the video rental experience
that we had. And do you remember

414
00:28:26.480 --> 00:28:30.480
at malls they had a place called
Suncoast Video, Yes, where they usually

415
00:28:30.519 --> 00:28:36.079
Suncost Video was. I mean it
was like buying merchandise at a at a

416
00:28:36.160 --> 00:28:40.759
stadium. It was always higher priced, but it was so so nice to

417
00:28:40.759 --> 00:28:44.000
go inside a Suncost Video. They
had everything. I think there was one

418
00:28:44.039 --> 00:28:47.119
in the Lapwente mall. Yeah,
I think they had one in every single

419
00:28:47.160 --> 00:28:49.200
mall here in southern California. I
think every single mall had. Yeah,

420
00:28:49.319 --> 00:28:56.119
some of the shopping squares. Also, Suncoast Video was so popular and one

421
00:28:56.119 --> 00:28:59.759
of the things that made them so
so popular is that they had titles that

422
00:28:59.799 --> 00:29:03.920
they didn't have it at video rental
places, so the really obscure titles.

423
00:29:03.079 --> 00:29:07.359
I used to go to Cerrito's Mall, a Lot, Lakewood Mall, Braya

424
00:29:07.480 --> 00:29:12.480
Mall, and I usually found out
that their prices were pretty expensive for the

425
00:29:12.519 --> 00:29:17.240
most part. But like I said, everybody went there because they had the

426
00:29:17.319 --> 00:29:21.279
more obscure titles and titles that they
couldn't get into anywhere else. Yeah,

427
00:29:21.319 --> 00:29:26.079
I remember going to I believe it
was Video Rama on Pique Rivetta, Awful

428
00:29:26.200 --> 00:29:30.720
Passings and Slawson. Oh my gosh, I remember Video Rama. You know,

429
00:29:30.839 --> 00:29:33.920
that place was really really huge.
Man. It was a It was

430
00:29:33.960 --> 00:29:36.960
owned by a couple of Middle Eastern
guys and they used to get with some

431
00:29:37.000 --> 00:29:40.160
really good deals and they always had
top notch movies. You know. They

432
00:29:40.799 --> 00:29:42.640
had this thing policy on the door, if you get a movie that doesn't

433
00:29:42.680 --> 00:29:45.920
work, bring it right back to
and will that you were in two for

434
00:29:47.000 --> 00:29:48.920
the cost of the movie that you
were in. I mean, these guys

435
00:29:48.920 --> 00:29:52.759
were really good. Video Rama was
a really really big place, and I

436
00:29:52.799 --> 00:29:57.920
remember they had a whole room of
pornography, not just behind curtains there was

437
00:29:57.960 --> 00:30:03.160
an actual door that you could go
to, and then they had their own

438
00:30:03.200 --> 00:30:06.599
counter and a register so you could
pay separately. In that way, you

439
00:30:06.640 --> 00:30:08.759
don't have to go into the main
room. Was a you know other people

440
00:30:08.799 --> 00:30:11.880
that are not renting porno, so
they can all see you, like that

441
00:30:11.920 --> 00:30:15.160
guy's going to do with Yeah?
Now, didn't they have a sign on

442
00:30:15.200 --> 00:30:18.599
the door that said either like twenty
one and over or something, or eighteen

443
00:30:18.640 --> 00:30:21.519
and over or something like, yeah
it was. I believe back then it

444
00:30:21.599 --> 00:30:25.960
was eighteen and over. I believe
they were right by seventy eleven and later

445
00:30:26.039 --> 00:30:29.359
in time. I remember before I
left Stand of a Spring, a people

446
00:30:29.400 --> 00:30:33.319
of ever, they closed down and
opened a strip club there. Convenient I

447
00:30:33.400 --> 00:30:38.559
fancied both establishments. If you just
joined us here, I'm back to the

448
00:30:38.599 --> 00:30:44.039
eighties radio. We were talking about
renting videos back in the nineteen eighties and

449
00:30:44.279 --> 00:30:47.640
the experience it was, and the
fund that we had, and sometimes the

450
00:30:47.680 --> 00:30:52.279
disappointments, and sometimes we would get
if you had to go to a video

451
00:30:52.440 --> 00:30:56.960
place that was far and you got
there they had promised they were going to

452
00:30:56.079 --> 00:31:02.839
hold the movie, and you get
there and they and some other person at

453
00:31:02.839 --> 00:31:06.319
the registry gave your movie away.
Remember that? Yeah, yes, I

454
00:31:06.400 --> 00:31:08.559
remember that. Well, the little
tab must have fallen off. I didn't.

455
00:31:08.680 --> 00:31:11.839
I didn't see your name on it. I'm sorry. You know,

456
00:31:11.880 --> 00:31:14.440
there's got to be something else you
want to run? Yeah, and you're

457
00:31:14.519 --> 00:31:18.319
just talking on your back, you
stupid bozo jackass. I'm sorry. I

458
00:31:18.319 --> 00:31:19.519
did put a post a note,
as you can see here, it's in

459
00:31:19.559 --> 00:31:23.279
my hand. But somebody, you
know, somebody else must have checked it

460
00:31:23.279 --> 00:31:27.759
out. Now do you remember going
into Hollywood Video and looking at the carpet

461
00:31:27.799 --> 00:31:32.279
and it was all movie reels?
Yeah? I loved it. Like I

462
00:31:32.279 --> 00:31:36.759
said, I think I loved Hollywood
Video more than Blockbuster, maybe because it

463
00:31:36.799 --> 00:31:41.279
was cheaper, a little bit cheaper, and I thought it had more stuff.

464
00:31:41.319 --> 00:31:44.599
But maybe that was just my imagination. Maybe it didn't. It was

465
00:31:44.680 --> 00:31:48.440
kind of like the rivalry between Costco
and Sam's kind of like that. I

466
00:31:48.519 --> 00:31:53.599
agree with you. I preferred Hollywood
Video over Blockbuster because I for a while,

467
00:31:53.680 --> 00:31:56.759
when my girls were all ottle,
and this was the later eighties,

468
00:31:57.920 --> 00:32:00.799
my garage was not a garage.
It was my man cave and it was

469
00:32:00.839 --> 00:32:05.839
my kid cave and where I had
the kids. I used to buy movie

470
00:32:05.839 --> 00:32:10.559
posters like Crazy Bro and all the
walls had rock and Roll posters, rock

471
00:32:10.599 --> 00:32:16.400
and Roll pictures, and the whole
ceiling was covered in movie posters. And

472
00:32:16.440 --> 00:32:22.039
then on my kids section of my
two car garage, where the kids stuff

473
00:32:22.119 --> 00:32:23.880
was, I had these cubbies I
built and I made them, and I

474
00:32:23.920 --> 00:32:29.039
put a bunch of movie posters of
kid movies, and I had a carpet

475
00:32:29.079 --> 00:32:35.079
there. I had a small TV. I had a video player right there,

476
00:32:35.400 --> 00:32:37.839
so the neighborhood kids could hang out
with my kids and hang out in

477
00:32:37.880 --> 00:32:40.559
the garage and watch it. And
just Christmas lighted it up and it was

478
00:32:40.599 --> 00:32:44.839
almost like you were at at a
movie rental store when you would go into

479
00:32:44.839 --> 00:32:46.759
my garage when my girls were a
little back and down. You So,

480
00:32:46.799 --> 00:32:51.039
what happened to what happened to all
your videos? I mean you obviously I

481
00:32:51.039 --> 00:32:52.960
don't think you have them anymore?
Right, No, No, the wife

482
00:32:53.000 --> 00:32:58.799
has at cleaned house once CDs came
out, so she totally cleared out all

483
00:32:58.799 --> 00:33:01.319
the VHS tapes. Had we started
selling them off the yard sales, you

484
00:33:01.319 --> 00:33:07.799
know, giving them away, selling
my people just because with our beneath us

485
00:33:07.160 --> 00:33:13.640
oh VHS, No we have we
have DVD now, you know, somewhat

486
00:33:13.799 --> 00:33:17.160
similar to my wife getting rid of
all my cassettes. Cassettes. Yeah,

487
00:33:17.240 --> 00:33:22.680
yeah, Well, before you know, we're talking about Hollywood Video. Hollywood

488
00:33:22.759 --> 00:33:27.799
Video came into existence in nineteen eighty
eight, and of course it's direct competitor

489
00:33:27.960 --> 00:33:30.720
was Blockbuster Video. Yes, and
then in two thousand and five, fast

490
00:33:30.759 --> 00:33:35.240
forward to two thousand and five,
it was purchased by a place called the

491
00:33:35.319 --> 00:33:39.720
Movie Gallery. And then of course
in two thousand and ten it closed its

492
00:33:39.720 --> 00:33:46.279
doors chapter seven bankruptcy, and I
guess the headquarters were in Oregon, which,

493
00:33:46.359 --> 00:33:52.319
conveniently enough is the same place where
the last Blockbuster video is that.

494
00:33:52.640 --> 00:33:55.599
Now I'm gonna go on a limb
here. I don't know if anybody remembers

495
00:33:55.599 --> 00:34:00.559
going to Tower Records, yeah,
Hollywood, California, or you go to

496
00:34:01.039 --> 00:34:08.400
Amba and Amba Record House. You
could purchase movies back then, and you

497
00:34:08.440 --> 00:34:15.320
can rent to own every now and
then. That was another experience, I

498
00:34:15.360 --> 00:34:17.320
mean, because you had one whole
section with movies up on top, and

499
00:34:17.360 --> 00:34:22.599
then you had the whole entire store
that was all music. So there was

500
00:34:22.039 --> 00:34:28.320
there was quite a bit of nostalgia
and some of these uh locations that you

501
00:34:28.320 --> 00:34:30.599
could either go get a movie,
rent it, buy it and have at

502
00:34:30.639 --> 00:34:35.400
it with what you wanted. It
was. It was odd because I remember

503
00:34:35.400 --> 00:34:40.119
going to Tower Records and instead of
renting, I would buy a grip of

504
00:34:40.239 --> 00:34:45.760
movies and just you just add them
to your your library, and then before

505
00:34:45.760 --> 00:34:49.199
you know it, you got more
videos than you do furniture. Yeah.

506
00:34:49.239 --> 00:34:52.679
Now it's funny because I at one
point was able to have a little over

507
00:34:52.760 --> 00:34:58.159
two hundred and thirty movies on vhs. Wow. But the reason for that

508
00:34:58.360 --> 00:35:04.519
was you had because well no,
it's so we had tons of magazines.

509
00:35:04.559 --> 00:35:08.039
I had tons of magazines on you
know, Motor Trend and Car and Driver

510
00:35:08.119 --> 00:35:12.280
and all that when I was a
team, and some other ones you know

511
00:35:12.519 --> 00:35:19.760
that had the inserts inside to either
subscribe to get that particular magazine or for

512
00:35:20.000 --> 00:35:24.119
other stuff. And one of those
other things in there was Columbia House,

513
00:35:24.480 --> 00:35:28.920
you know where you get ten CDs
or i'm sorry, ten cassettes for a

514
00:35:28.920 --> 00:35:31.719
penny. Well, they also did
movies on video and you would get like

515
00:35:31.880 --> 00:35:37.119
five movies for a nickel or something
like that, or for a dollar.

516
00:35:37.719 --> 00:35:42.920
Well. I subscribed under so many
names for that that I eventually made a

517
00:35:42.920 --> 00:35:49.079
collection of over two hundred movies.
Man, that's insane. How many magazines.

518
00:35:49.079 --> 00:35:52.400
Did you have thousands? No,
No, just just a few.

519
00:35:52.519 --> 00:35:54.719
But I knew, I knew what
to do. I filled out the little

520
00:35:54.719 --> 00:36:00.400
card with a different name, and
I ended up getting a bunch of movies.

521
00:36:00.360 --> 00:36:02.559
That's nice. The stupid thing I
did was, of course, I

522
00:36:02.599 --> 00:36:07.519
would put the same address so that
my home would get tons of bills,

523
00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:10.199
you know, and my parents would
always find out what was going on.

524
00:36:12.199 --> 00:36:15.679
And you know, you never paid, no, of course not. And

525
00:36:15.719 --> 00:36:17.679
then they went they went out of
business because they screwed a lot of people.

526
00:36:17.719 --> 00:36:22.159
They sent everybody to collection. Yeah, I remember getting screwing them out

527
00:36:22.199 --> 00:36:28.519
of cassettes and music back then.
Do you remember going to the movie house

528
00:36:28.760 --> 00:36:34.960
and meeting somebody in there that you
ended up going to their pad and watching

529
00:36:34.960 --> 00:36:37.519
the movie that experienced ever happening.
Yes, Once in a while, Yeah,

530
00:36:37.519 --> 00:36:42.400
I would meet somebody in the aisles
and we'd hit it off, and

531
00:36:42.760 --> 00:36:46.000
next thing you know is we're at
each other's homes and it'd go from there.

532
00:36:46.199 --> 00:36:50.199
It would be kind of like hanging
out at the mall. So it

533
00:36:50.480 --> 00:36:53.079
was. It was a fun time. I recall sometimes when I had nothing

534
00:36:53.119 --> 00:37:00.400
to do on a weekend or something, I would befriend the video store for

535
00:37:00.599 --> 00:37:02.920
the guys worked in there, and
I would hang out with them and watch

536
00:37:04.000 --> 00:37:07.239
movies right there where their customers are
in there. And I'd performed from this

537
00:37:07.400 --> 00:37:10.440
before I was even doing stand up
comedy. I would just hang out in

538
00:37:10.480 --> 00:37:14.920
there and I would just dazzle everybody. I would do impressions of people that

539
00:37:14.960 --> 00:37:16.760
were on TV screen, or I
would just hang out and watch movies for

540
00:37:16.840 --> 00:37:20.840
free. Yeah, that was crazy. I love the fact that they all

541
00:37:20.880 --> 00:37:23.559
had the screens on and they had
a movie at some point. Yes,

542
00:37:23.639 --> 00:37:28.199
I was all excited when they had
a scary movie on and I thought,

543
00:37:28.199 --> 00:37:30.159
Oh, this isn't a big deal. And then you'd take that scary movie

544
00:37:30.159 --> 00:37:34.960
home. I couldn't watched it because
then I'd be too scared because now I

545
00:37:35.000 --> 00:37:38.039
was alone watching it. You know
what would another great experience talking about watching

546
00:37:38.079 --> 00:37:42.960
the movies there, because they had
surround sound. In a lot of movie

547
00:37:42.960 --> 00:37:46.000
houses, Oh, so the movie
sounded as loud and as bold as you

548
00:37:46.039 --> 00:37:50.480
were if you were going into a
movie house. Yeah, I forgot about

549
00:37:50.519 --> 00:37:54.039
that, and then that just added
that added to the experience. When you

550
00:37:54.039 --> 00:37:58.480
went to go rent a movie when
it was in surround sound, you could

551
00:37:58.519 --> 00:38:01.039
hear that movie. A lot of
times. I think they did that because

552
00:38:01.039 --> 00:38:06.800
that'll captivate you to get that movie
rented. Many I would be listening and

553
00:38:06.880 --> 00:38:09.960
watching a little increments of the movie
that the guys had there, or the

554
00:38:09.960 --> 00:38:13.760
gal would be playing, and I
would be like, I'm gonna rent that

555
00:38:13.800 --> 00:38:15.719
movie, and I'd go put my
crab back and go look for that movie.

556
00:38:15.920 --> 00:38:21.000
Sure, And then I would try
to copy the same sound. And

557
00:38:21.119 --> 00:38:25.320
this was obviously before I knew anything
about surround sound, but I remember I

558
00:38:25.320 --> 00:38:28.800
would try to copy it. So
I had this ghetto blaster that I was

559
00:38:28.840 --> 00:38:32.760
given for my birthday. Do you
remember this type of ghetto blaster that the

560
00:38:32.960 --> 00:38:37.440
speakers separated. Oh, yes,
so you would. You would just slide

561
00:38:37.440 --> 00:38:40.920
the speakers upward and they would separate
them, and they had the long chord

562
00:38:42.039 --> 00:38:44.159
and that you would roll up in
the back of the speaker. I had

563
00:38:44.159 --> 00:38:46.719
one of those in my bedroom.
Nice. Yeah, So I would connect

564
00:38:46.760 --> 00:38:52.559
the speakers directly into I don't you
know what, I don't now that I

565
00:38:52.599 --> 00:38:54.840
think about it, I don't even
remember how I connected it. But I

566
00:38:54.920 --> 00:38:58.559
used to get the sound from the
speakers. Now. Back then, remember

567
00:38:58.679 --> 00:39:01.559
it was a little male and that
you could plug in and similar to like

568
00:39:01.559 --> 00:39:06.880
we plug in headphones or some other
type of accord to our cell phones,

569
00:39:07.639 --> 00:39:10.760
you know, the little round uh
connector yeah, like a like a little

570
00:39:10.840 --> 00:39:15.840
jack from the headphones, maybe like
from yes and yeah, because I remember

571
00:39:16.559 --> 00:39:21.400
I could hook up extra speakers to
my television as long as I had that

572
00:39:21.440 --> 00:39:23.760
connection. Yeah, now that I
think about it, I don't remember how

573
00:39:23.800 --> 00:39:29.119
I did it, but I managed
to connect the speakers and they must have

574
00:39:29.119 --> 00:39:30.840
sounded like, you know, glorious
to me at the time, and now

575
00:39:30.880 --> 00:39:36.880
that I know better, it's probably
crap. But yeah, we would try

576
00:39:36.880 --> 00:39:40.239
to emulate what we heard and what
we saw. And I always remember that.

577
00:39:40.360 --> 00:39:44.880
I used to tell all my friends, one day, I'm going to

578
00:39:44.960 --> 00:39:47.519
be the owner of a video store. That's what I want to do with

579
00:39:47.559 --> 00:39:55.079
my life. I want to own
video store. Aim High. This is

580
00:39:55.119 --> 00:39:59.280
back to the eighties. Let's take
a little break. When we come back,

581
00:39:59.440 --> 00:40:04.239
we've got changries and the talk continues
of video rentals in the eighties.

582
00:40:04.360 --> 00:40:13.360
Don't go away. You're listening to
back to the eighties. Welcome to Blockbuster

583
00:40:13.519 --> 00:40:17.480
Video. Blockbuster Video gives you over
ten thousand videos to choose from in over

584
00:40:17.639 --> 00:40:22.920
thirty different categories and With our new
Blockbuster Movie Previews video, you can sample

585
00:40:22.960 --> 00:40:30.119
the excitement of up to fifty Blockbuster
videos at a time, absolutely free while

586
00:40:30.199 --> 00:40:35.159
viewing at home. Just use the
rental reminder card we've included with the Previews

587
00:40:35.159 --> 00:40:38.360
cassette to list the movies you want
to rent and their categories. Keep it

588
00:40:38.400 --> 00:40:43.760
in your wallet next to your Blockbuster
membership card. Then the next time you're

589
00:40:43.800 --> 00:40:47.360
at Blockbuster Video, the movies you've
listed will be easy to remember and find.

590
00:40:49.239 --> 00:40:52.360
Just check the movies off as you
rent them. It's Blockbuster Videos way

591
00:40:52.400 --> 00:40:57.880
of making it simple and convenient for
you to be selective in choosing movies for

592
00:40:57.960 --> 00:41:08.159
your entire family. That Blockbuster Video
sneak you into the movies. And Now

593
00:41:08.519 --> 00:41:19.440
Back to the eighties with Toscato and
Chang. Welcome to Back to the Eighties

594
00:41:19.519 --> 00:41:22.320
Radio. I'm Toscano from Toscato and
Chang. Now is the time of the

595
00:41:22.320 --> 00:41:27.800
show where we talk about what made
us angry back in the eighties, and

596
00:41:27.960 --> 00:41:34.599
in honor of the most wondrous chang
we now call them Changres. So Chang

597
00:41:35.639 --> 00:41:38.239
kick it off. What made you
changry back in the eighties? Do you

598
00:41:38.239 --> 00:41:43.239
know what got me changling back in
the eighties about movie rentals, a membership.

599
00:41:43.400 --> 00:41:46.519
You know what got me chingery back
in the eighties, late fees and

600
00:41:47.440 --> 00:41:52.000
no rewind fees. You know what
you used to get me changling back in

601
00:41:52.039 --> 00:41:55.480
the eighties when I had to go
rent a movie, renting the movie and

602
00:41:55.480 --> 00:41:59.639
then hoping there'd be a You know
what gets me changry from back in the

603
00:41:59.679 --> 00:42:04.960
eighties renting videos? Renting a video
and when you get home it's the wrong

604
00:42:05.400 --> 00:42:09.039
cartridge that got me changry. You
know what you used to get me changry

605
00:42:09.079 --> 00:42:12.880
back in the eighties when I had
to rent a movie, when the movie

606
00:42:12.920 --> 00:42:15.960
was all jacked up and you had
to take the blame for it. Oh

607
00:42:15.039 --> 00:42:19.159
yeah, and at the beginning,
many remember those outrageous prices. They'd want

608
00:42:19.159 --> 00:42:23.599
to charge you sixty five fifty dollars
for a movie that was wild. Sixty

609
00:42:23.639 --> 00:42:28.119
five dollars for a movie and I
didn't even know. And that, ladies

610
00:42:28.119 --> 00:42:32.079
and gentlemen, has been this week's
changers. Yes, if you have something

611
00:42:32.119 --> 00:42:36.760
that made you angry back in the
nineteen eighties and you'd like to have us

612
00:42:36.760 --> 00:42:39.039
share it, go ahead and write
to us through our Facebook page, and

613
00:42:39.119 --> 00:42:49.079
will be more than glad to read
your Changrey next week. Michael, Creature

614
00:42:49.159 --> 00:42:55.400
of the Night. Back to the
eighties, Thanks for jading us here and

615
00:42:55.639 --> 00:43:00.239
back to the eighties. We are
talking about video rentals in the nineteen eighties

616
00:43:00.280 --> 00:43:06.239
and our experiences, everybody's experiences,
all the things that we used to see,

617
00:43:06.559 --> 00:43:09.119
the times we had to wait in
line, and some of the products

618
00:43:09.119 --> 00:43:15.280
that we bought inside the stores that
frankly they would sell and we didn't even

619
00:43:15.320 --> 00:43:19.800
need. And sometimes we'd buy them
because it was there in the aisle and

620
00:43:19.880 --> 00:43:23.519
it was just we were caught up
in the moment. For example, do

621
00:43:23.559 --> 00:43:29.920
you remember they used to sell video
rewinders? Yes, I remember those little

622
00:43:29.960 --> 00:43:35.000
apparatus. Do you remember when some
video stores sold movie toys. I also

623
00:43:35.079 --> 00:43:39.199
remember them selling their own products.
For example, Hollywood Video and Blockbuster used

624
00:43:39.239 --> 00:43:44.800
to sell sunglasses. What a sunglasses
have to do with you know? But

625
00:43:44.840 --> 00:43:47.199
they just had the stamp of Blockbuster
Video on the side, and oh,

626
00:43:47.320 --> 00:43:51.719
I need to hell this, this
is the most awesome wayfarer glass. So

627
00:43:51.760 --> 00:43:53.800
when you would go in there and
you buy that plastic packet, I'd say,

628
00:43:53.840 --> 00:43:57.880
like, I think there was six
boxes for your movies in there,

629
00:43:57.880 --> 00:44:01.960
and it all stated Hollywood Video or
or block Buster. They were all just

630
00:44:02.079 --> 00:44:07.840
clear plastic boxes for your movie.
And some some some places they sold the

631
00:44:07.880 --> 00:44:10.159
brown ones or the black ones.
And you know what I mean, you

632
00:44:10.199 --> 00:44:14.320
can write. You could put your
like, your own title in there and

633
00:44:14.320 --> 00:44:17.079
then slide it in that little plastic
envelope. And man, I remember that

634
00:44:17.159 --> 00:44:21.119
then it had the decals that they
would sell with it. That way you

635
00:44:21.119 --> 00:44:23.159
could put them right there on the
side. That way you can library order

636
00:44:23.199 --> 00:44:25.960
them and you could see exactly what. Oh man, you just reminded me.

637
00:44:27.000 --> 00:44:30.159
Those brown ones and the black ones
sucked because they never closed rests.

638
00:44:30.639 --> 00:44:34.199
They sucked. And then the clear
ones, remember if you left them in

639
00:44:34.239 --> 00:44:37.880
the car, they would warp it. I can't put my movie and I

640
00:44:37.880 --> 00:44:39.719
god damn thing because and did you
ever close the moving you because you were

641
00:44:39.760 --> 00:44:45.079
going too fast and you caught the
skin below your thumb. You caught the

642
00:44:45.079 --> 00:44:50.440
skin right there. I remember breaking
a nail and I don't have long nails

643
00:44:50.719 --> 00:44:53.760
trying to open up some of those
movie boxes. You broke a nail.

644
00:44:54.000 --> 00:44:59.760
What the heck? It was my
cocaine nail? What do you that little

645
00:44:59.760 --> 00:45:06.920
p what this country, You've got
to make the money first. Then when

646
00:45:07.000 --> 00:45:09.519
you get the money you get the
fower, then you get a power,

647
00:45:10.280 --> 00:45:17.480
then you get the work. Oh, the good old days of renting videos

648
00:45:17.480 --> 00:45:21.079
in the eighties. Yes, man, there's nothing like it. I you

649
00:45:21.119 --> 00:45:23.079
know what, I get a little
giddy when I have to go to h

650
00:45:23.599 --> 00:45:27.920
to the red box every now and
then. It's it's kind of like,

651
00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:30.639
you know, you get that little
lump in your throat, like, yeah,

652
00:45:30.679 --> 00:45:31.760
man, I want to see what
they got, and then you know,

653
00:45:31.840 --> 00:45:35.199
you skimmed through the whole thing.
You're like, wow, I only

654
00:45:35.239 --> 00:45:39.000
saw like fifty movies on this thing. Man, there was nothing, and

655
00:45:39.000 --> 00:45:45.039
we're disappointed. Yes, you know, I can't believe what they have done

656
00:45:45.039 --> 00:45:49.119
to us, and I say all
of us, because they've accustomed to us

657
00:45:49.199 --> 00:45:54.840
to being so um impatient, and
this whole convenience thing has gone out of

658
00:45:54.880 --> 00:45:59.920
control. Now I'm gonna I'm gonna
go out of a limb here. I

659
00:46:00.199 --> 00:46:05.599
thought movie theaters were never going to
go out of existence, but during COVID,

660
00:46:06.360 --> 00:46:09.480
we saw what happened with movie theaters. Yeah, you know, I

661
00:46:09.599 --> 00:46:14.079
have a server. I've got a
buddy of mine who lets me borrow his

662
00:46:14.159 --> 00:46:21.800
server. I've got access to over
four thousand movies directly from my TV and

663
00:46:21.800 --> 00:46:25.480
it's and it's cool because you see
all the covers from it's like like going

664
00:46:25.480 --> 00:46:30.320
to a video store, but it's
from the convenience of our own home.

665
00:46:30.199 --> 00:46:35.199
And you would think that that is
cool. And it is if you've never

666
00:46:35.199 --> 00:46:38.039
seen that before, Okay, it
is. It is really really cool to

667
00:46:38.159 --> 00:46:43.440
have that at at your fingertips.
It's you just search with your remote,

668
00:46:43.920 --> 00:46:46.400
find the movie you want to see, and just press enter and bam.

669
00:46:46.400 --> 00:46:51.679
And the coolest thing is that I
get new releases, like the movies that

670
00:46:51.679 --> 00:46:57.400
are right now at the theater.
I already have them, so it's okay

671
00:46:57.519 --> 00:47:02.760
because I have them. Yeah,
but it takes all the fun of going

672
00:47:02.840 --> 00:47:07.480
to the movies. That whole movie
experience has gone snappy little vixen to have

673
00:47:07.679 --> 00:47:14.519
that. No, it's it's just
it's just not not cool anymore. No

674
00:47:14.679 --> 00:47:20.119
it can. And I hate that
because I tell my kids, my sixteen

675
00:47:20.199 --> 00:47:23.039
and my seventeen year old, I
tell them both, you know what this

676
00:47:23.119 --> 00:47:29.239
is not. This isn't fun.
This isn't one going to to check out

677
00:47:29.280 --> 00:47:31.760
that movie they've been looking forward to. Scene was all about. There is

678
00:47:31.800 --> 00:47:37.159
nothing fun about this. There's just
you know, and and new kids,

679
00:47:37.920 --> 00:47:40.920
even children four or five six years
old, they get the remote, they

680
00:47:40.920 --> 00:47:45.400
go to Netflix or whatever service Hulu, and they choose their movies. And

681
00:47:45.440 --> 00:47:50.159
that's you know, that's the new
age, I guess, and that's how

682
00:47:50.159 --> 00:47:53.000
they're going to grow up. They're
not going to know anything about our experiences.

683
00:47:53.920 --> 00:47:58.679
That's why we're here, that's why
we do what we do. And

684
00:47:58.800 --> 00:48:00.800
you know what, I'm a guess
some a little bit, not a little

685
00:48:00.800 --> 00:48:05.880
bit. I'm pretty lucky. First
of all, I am old as dirt

686
00:48:05.960 --> 00:48:10.000
and sand. But my daughters,
well, the three elders, who are

687
00:48:10.199 --> 00:48:15.119
ranged from thirty six thirty five down
to thirty four and a half, they

688
00:48:15.199 --> 00:48:20.239
got to capture that experience of going
with me and mom to the movie rental

689
00:48:20.320 --> 00:48:24.800
stores and getting popcorn, and by
then they were selling ice creams and you

690
00:48:24.840 --> 00:48:30.800
know, you could buy sunglasses,
you could buy freaking jump ropes from them.

691
00:48:30.920 --> 00:48:32.880
I mean, there was so much
paraphernalia that they sold them. And

692
00:48:34.119 --> 00:48:38.400
not only did they sell posters,
sometimes they sold little stickers, like I

693
00:48:38.400 --> 00:48:43.760
said, toys. So I'm very
very glad to know that my children,

694
00:48:43.840 --> 00:48:46.880
the three of my children, not
my youngest of course, got that experience

695
00:48:46.960 --> 00:48:51.920
that I did, and they got
to feel what it was like to rent

696
00:48:51.960 --> 00:48:55.480
a movie on Saturday, go home, munch it up with mom and dad,

697
00:48:55.519 --> 00:49:00.239
and just put movies in and that's
the whole night. You know,

698
00:49:00.719 --> 00:49:04.159
invite some of their little friends over
and have a little sleepovers and you know,

699
00:49:04.280 --> 00:49:07.119
build little tents in the living room
and just sit there, me and

700
00:49:07.159 --> 00:49:12.079
my chicken and watch movies with the
kids. That is definitely one experience I

701
00:49:12.119 --> 00:49:15.760
truly miss and that I will probably
never forget. And I'm not gonna I'm

702
00:49:15.800 --> 00:49:17.880
gonna go on a limb here and
sound like a big woos but when I

703
00:49:17.880 --> 00:49:21.239
think about it, it brings tears
to my eyes. You know, I

704
00:49:21.960 --> 00:49:24.159
miss that family time, especially now
that my kids are all, you know,

705
00:49:24.199 --> 00:49:29.840
growing gone and married, and it's
a it's a shame that your boys

706
00:49:29.840 --> 00:49:32.679
didn't get to experience it. But
I know you and your wife you probably

707
00:49:32.719 --> 00:49:36.920
have similar things like that. But
the movie house experience is gone, but

708
00:49:37.000 --> 00:49:40.480
you get to have some of those
incredible family times, and the movie rental

709
00:49:40.599 --> 00:49:45.679
company will always hold special in our
hearts. I think for those of us

710
00:49:45.719 --> 00:49:51.079
from the eighties that could remember and
capture of that moment in time like I

711
00:49:51.119 --> 00:49:53.280
just spoke of, right, and
that's what one of the things that we

712
00:49:53.360 --> 00:49:58.800
try to do here is keep the
memories alive and if possible, even in

713
00:49:58.840 --> 00:50:00.239
your own home, to keep the
those things alive. Now, I know

714
00:50:00.280 --> 00:50:04.440
it's you know, for the majority
of the people, they're they're like,

715
00:50:05.000 --> 00:50:07.400
you know what, I'm just glad
I don't have to buy all those bulky

716
00:50:07.480 --> 00:50:14.039
DVDs or bulky vhs and and the
DVDs and the cassettes and the records.

717
00:50:14.360 --> 00:50:20.000
And I understand that. But for
the few out there that want to keep

718
00:50:20.199 --> 00:50:23.360
that nostalgia alive, you know,
you know, they're like you and me.

719
00:50:23.719 --> 00:50:28.320
I've got a cassette player, We've
got a VCR. We've got some

720
00:50:28.400 --> 00:50:30.199
movies, not a lot, but
we've got some. We don't do it

721
00:50:30.239 --> 00:50:35.199
because the quality was better. We
do it because there was an experience behind

722
00:50:35.280 --> 00:50:39.719
it. And it's still okay to
sit put a movie into that VCR and

723
00:50:39.880 --> 00:50:44.880
watch it as we did. I've
gone to some yard sales and garage sales,

724
00:50:45.119 --> 00:50:49.519
and I'm not gonna lie. I've
purchased a couple of old VHS movies

725
00:50:49.559 --> 00:50:52.639
because I still do have a player, and uh, you know, I

726
00:50:52.679 --> 00:50:55.039
get it for nostalgia. And you
know, one of these days when my

727
00:50:55.079 --> 00:51:00.559
wife but lets me put that back
on the TV. I'm going to enjoy

728
00:51:00.599 --> 00:51:05.360
some of these movies, you know, because there is no experience like that.

729
00:51:05.440 --> 00:51:09.320
By the way, if you are
listening and you find a garage sale.

730
00:51:09.760 --> 00:51:13.079
Now, I don't know if outside
of the United States, if they

731
00:51:13.079 --> 00:51:16.920
allow people to sell their own things
outside their home. Like here in the

732
00:51:17.039 --> 00:51:22.559
United States, we have what's called
garage sales where we'll sell all of our

733
00:51:22.679 --> 00:51:28.480
unused or unwanted items and we just
give them away as cheap as possible because

734
00:51:28.480 --> 00:51:30.360
we just want to get rid of
them. But if you get a chance,

735
00:51:30.599 --> 00:51:36.199
go around your neighborhoods and see if
people are selling a VCR that works.

736
00:51:36.599 --> 00:51:38.039
I mean sometimes it's a gamble.
Some things they're selling it because it

737
00:51:38.079 --> 00:51:44.519
doesn't work. But you may find
something that really does work, and it's

738
00:51:44.559 --> 00:51:51.039
a it's a great opportunity to maintain
the eighties alive. Do you remember when

739
00:51:51.800 --> 00:51:55.679
VCR started evolving. So they were
this big, humongous thing where a cartridge

740
00:51:55.719 --> 00:52:00.000
would open from the top you'd press
the button, and the buttons were heavy

741
00:52:00.000 --> 00:52:05.760
to press, and then they got
reduced in size, they become more modern,

742
00:52:05.800 --> 00:52:14.519
they become digital. With that horrible
twelve o'clock little flashing sign that nobody

743
00:52:14.639 --> 00:52:17.880
seemed to work or nobody seemed to
know how to put the right time in

744
00:52:17.920 --> 00:52:22.239
it. And it was flashing twelve
o'clock all the time, and that's all

745
00:52:22.239 --> 00:52:25.119
you would see. You would become
infixiated with just twelve o'clock. Feve o'clock

746
00:52:25.360 --> 00:52:32.079
clock. And then I believe Sony. I believe Sony. I may be

747
00:52:32.119 --> 00:52:36.519
wrong. If you guys know out
there the correct answer to go ahead and

748
00:52:36.559 --> 00:52:40.039
let us know. But I believe
it was Sony that came out with VCR

749
00:52:40.239 --> 00:52:49.119
Plus and it was a better quality
of a player where kind of like a

750
00:52:49.239 --> 00:52:53.239
high definition in comparison. It wasn't
high deaf, but it was it was

751
00:52:53.320 --> 00:52:55.480
sort of like that. So the
quality was a little bit better, and

752
00:52:55.519 --> 00:52:59.360
it played your movies a little bit
better, and you could tell the difference.

753
00:52:59.639 --> 00:53:04.239
Yeah, Now do you remember one
of the number one problems that people

754
00:53:04.280 --> 00:53:07.400
had with their VCRs breaking Remember that
huge rubber band that was in there.

755
00:53:07.880 --> 00:53:10.440
When that was snapping, you would
not be able to play your movies.

756
00:53:10.440 --> 00:53:14.519
And a lot of people would just
throw that thing in the garbage. And

757
00:53:14.599 --> 00:53:16.360
it was such an easy fix.
It was such an easy fix. I

758
00:53:16.440 --> 00:53:21.159
was just gonna say that's such an
easy fix. Yeah, it's it's funny

759
00:53:21.199 --> 00:53:23.840
because a lot of a lot of
people didn't want to figure it out.

760
00:53:24.039 --> 00:53:27.920
They just thought it was too much, you know that. Sometimes you would

761
00:53:27.920 --> 00:53:30.559
have friends that would just countlessly go
rent a machine because they were too damn

762
00:53:30.679 --> 00:53:36.039
lazy to open up their own machine
and see what the problem was, or

763
00:53:36.159 --> 00:53:40.280
take it to somebody to get it
fixed. Now, remember VCR repair shops

764
00:53:40.320 --> 00:53:45.280
were huge back then. Oh that
was another thing that was in style.

765
00:53:45.639 --> 00:53:51.320
Yes, VCR repair shops because c
VCRs were expensive, and it's not like

766
00:53:51.360 --> 00:53:52.639
you could say, well, I'll
just get rid of it and get another,

767
00:53:52.800 --> 00:53:58.079
we didn't have that luxury. No, So you'd find a local VCR

768
00:53:58.199 --> 00:54:01.440
repair and send it there. Remember
I remember on a couple of occasions I

769
00:54:01.480 --> 00:54:05.480
would check a VCR in and they
couldn't fix it, But I would buy

770
00:54:05.480 --> 00:54:07.239
a used one off of them,
take it home, slap it on boom

771
00:54:07.320 --> 00:54:13.000
movie time movie maybe just as good. Yeah. By the way, I

772
00:54:13.119 --> 00:54:15.679
mentioned, if you see a VCR
at a garage sale, buy it,

773
00:54:16.239 --> 00:54:21.360
because if you buy one from Amazon
or eBay, check this out. If

774
00:54:21.360 --> 00:54:24.599
you're if you're searching for a new
VHS recorder, and what I mean new,

775
00:54:24.639 --> 00:54:28.519
I mean old that's new, that
was just old, never opened,

776
00:54:29.239 --> 00:54:32.480
or it's been refurbished to almost new. They're about five to seven hundred dollars.

777
00:54:32.519 --> 00:54:36.400
By the way, Yeah, yeah, you got that right, brother.

778
00:54:36.920 --> 00:54:40.599
Very expensive. Reminds me of the
eighties. Yes, everything was expensive

779
00:54:40.599 --> 00:54:45.400
in the eighties, except I think
what gas was cheaper than we're getting rain

780
00:54:45.480 --> 00:54:51.159
for here in the in the state
of California. Thank you for Governor Newsom.

781
00:54:51.280 --> 00:54:55.519
You hand some about four dollars more
expensive, I tell you, man,

782
00:54:55.920 --> 00:55:00.599
gas I believe in Los Angeles is
almost five dollars. Yeah, almost

783
00:55:00.639 --> 00:55:04.880
five bucks. Yeah, the eighties. And and I know some people go,

784
00:55:04.880 --> 00:55:07.320
oh yeah, but we still made
three twenty five an hour or three

785
00:55:07.360 --> 00:55:10.920
fifteen. And yet still we had
more money than we do now, exactly,

786
00:55:10.960 --> 00:55:14.440
my brother. And we didn't have
Joe Biden as president, No we

787
00:55:14.519 --> 00:55:21.440
didn't. We had another old white
guy. This has been back to the

788
00:55:21.480 --> 00:55:24.800
eighties radio. We were talking about
video rentals in the eighties. There's so

789
00:55:24.880 --> 00:55:29.280
much we could have continued talking about. And there's so many more memories that

790
00:55:29.360 --> 00:55:34.000
we probably missed because we're just old, or because we just ran out of

791
00:55:34.039 --> 00:55:37.159
time. But on behalf on behalf
of the skyne. Thank you guys for

792
00:55:37.280 --> 00:55:42.880
joining us on another weekly show of
Back to the Eighties Radio. And I

793
00:55:42.920 --> 00:55:45.960
want to remind you guys to tune
over to our Facebook page, drop us

794
00:55:45.960 --> 00:55:50.119
a line or two of the what
are the topics that you would like to

795
00:55:50.159 --> 00:55:52.320
listen to? Are discussed here and
Back to the Eighties Radio. We'd be

796
00:55:52.320 --> 00:55:57.079
more than glad to read your name
to give you a shout out. And

797
00:55:57.159 --> 00:55:59.519
speaking of shout outs, before we
go, I do want to give a

798
00:55:59.519 --> 00:56:04.239
special out on to all the new
countries that are listening to us. We

799
00:56:04.440 --> 00:56:07.119
just got an addition, so we're
about it. One hundred and twenty countries

800
00:56:07.159 --> 00:56:12.079
around the world that are listening to
us. And of course we are here

801
00:56:12.119 --> 00:56:16.000
for you guys. Thank you for
loaning us your ears on this day,

802
00:56:16.119 --> 00:56:21.599
so you guys are awesome. It's
the reason why we're here. And also

803
00:56:21.719 --> 00:56:28.800
reminding you guys that we are in
the works of developing an all eighties radio

804
00:56:29.039 --> 00:56:32.880
station. And when I mean radio
station, I mean music. If you

805
00:56:32.960 --> 00:56:37.199
love eighties music, no one,
no one in this world will have more

806
00:56:37.280 --> 00:56:42.159
hits than we will. That's why
we call it k It's ninety two fun,

807
00:56:42.559 --> 00:56:46.239
that's right, and Also the jocks, the DJs that will be with

808
00:56:46.360 --> 00:56:51.760
us is going to be like you're
traveling through time. It will be like

809
00:56:52.000 --> 00:56:55.960
going to the eighties and listening to
FM radio. So keep us in mind

810
00:56:57.039 --> 00:57:00.519
because k Hits ninety two five online
and around the world is coming soon.

811
00:57:01.199 --> 00:57:07.360
We are shooting for July fourth,
so keep that on your calendar and get

812
00:57:07.400 --> 00:57:12.000
ready four k hits ninety two five
and back to the eighties. So I'm

813
00:57:12.159 --> 00:57:14.719
on behalf of Tiscanna Win Chang.
I want to wish you guys a great

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week, a happy week, a
safe week, and don't forget to tell

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your loved ones that you love them. Take care and we'll see your next

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Friday. Chang here before I release
you to another chang testic week, and

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I want you to all remember that
you are all special, all of you.

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I want to give a shout out
to all of our seven hundred and

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thirty six plus followers on our back
to the Eighties group Tiscoto. You see

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that number is growing. Oh yes, our group, yes, so I

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want to that's different. That's different
than the than the Facebook page where we

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have over eight thousand, right,
And also to everybody hitting us on social

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media. The Chang ye Oh boy
is going to be popping music on our

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Facebook page. So get a hold
of me, or get a hold of

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to Scott and get ahold of us
and tell us what you want to what

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you would like to hear, and
I'll put the legendary Chang in my caption

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just for you. Remember, everybody, stay lifted and gifted. Tomorrow is

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not promised. We are one race, the human race. So asta la

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vista asta manana ari ali us and
to all my home means in the value or