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Comically Speaking!
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Ben from Toronto starts the morning with a comic book memory then Josh and Tyler jump right in to discuss their favourite comic books and which is the better universe, DC or Marvel. You'll have to listen to find out! Did you have a favourite comic book series as a kid? Then we wrap up the morning testing Tyler's memory from one of his favourite female band comics, that's right, Josie and the Pussycats!
Don't forget if you are at the Toronto Comic Con March 14th, drop by the Canadian Podcast Awards table in the Community zone to meet Josh IN PERSON! He'll have some games, some vintage comic prizes and maybe some swag!
https://fanexpohq.com/comicontoronto/community-zone/ for details
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Introduction and Childhood Love for The Flash
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My favorite comic book um from when I was really little was The Flash. And one of the things I liked about it the most was I liked his costume. It was red with ah yellow bits on it.
00:00:12
Speaker
But the biggest deal was the the kind of the pseudo fake science that they um they had in the in the comics um where there were all sorts of extra sort of things. It wasn't always just about him running fast. It was all these extra things that they could that he could do.
00:00:29
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with super speed. um And those were really fun, the ah like running on water. and I like the fact that it made me think about, even if they were not real, ah they made me it it made me think about things differently so that if you're if your frame of reference changed, things wouldn't necessarily be the same as as you thought.
00:00:51
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And then, of course, the the other most important thing was the the ability to be almost anywhere in an instant and access spaces and see things that most people couldn't, ah wouldn't be able to.
Introduction to Yabba Zonker Zoinks Podcast
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um And like any superpower, one of the coolest things is always because is being able to do something that you do being able to do something that only you could do and nobody else could do and having a leg up on people that way was pretty awesome welcome to yap a zonker zoinks the saturday morning podcast where your host josh downing that's me will yap with guests about their awesome gen x childhood you know in front of the tv in pajamas eating bowls of crunchy sugar I'm a Gen Xer, toy collector, theater creator. Well, and now I'm a podcast host with a series on pop culture stuff from the 70s and 80s, like cartoons and toys and TV shows. So if you remember the Jetsons or HR Puffin stuff, or even the Groovy Ghoulies, well, you're on the right channel. So put on your fluffy slippers and your cowboy pajamas and join us on a Saturday morning ride through our childhood.
00:02:03
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So welcome back listeners. It is bright and early on a Saturday morning.
Exploring Gen X Culture and Comics
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I know it doesn't feel like it. It feels like late on a Sunday night, but that's all the magic of podcasting.
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So my name is Josh Downing. I am your host of Yabba Zonker Zawinks, the Saturday morning experience. um this is the This is the season where we're really talking about that, you know old Gen X stuff that we grew up with.
00:02:26
Speaker
And I am here today, as always, with my buddy Tyler. Hi, Josh. And we are going to talk about the literature of art of our Gen X generation, and that would be comics.
00:02:41
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Very highbrow stuff. Very highbrow and lots of eyebrows. and Really, you know, we're just going to sort of go little bit, you know, sort loose and fun on this one. I don't really have a specific agenda.
00:02:54
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I do have a game, so don't worry. I always have a fun game for Tyler to play. blue I ah just thought you know it'd be really cool because comics were a part of my growing up and not as much as a lot of people I know.
Tyler's Comic Book Memories
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So I wasn't like super comic nerd. I wasn't like, no, I'm a Marvel guy. I'm a DC guy and that's all there is to it. I didn't even know there was a difference. Oh, I'm not liking where this is going. feel like I could have right at the beginning.
00:03:27
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But yeah, so go ahead. What was your experience, Tyler? Okay, so I've mentioned before that, you know, pop culture was all I cared about when I was a little kid. So the fact that you could go to the store and buy comic books of things that were on TV was the only way to keep those shows alive.
00:03:46
Speaker
during the week and um when i was a kid like i'm talking i'm three maybe um i got a quarter every week for my allowance and ah my dad and i after saturday morning cartoons we would go down to this tobacco shop which is still there on lawrence uh just east of warden and i want to go in i'm i'm worried it'll break my heart but we would go there and of course the store smelled of tobacco. So to me, like associate that with comic books, um but they always had this gigantic, well, I guess it wasn't, but to me it was display where you could see the titles of like a hundred comics all at once.
00:04:34
Speaker
And I would have that order in my hand and comics were a quarter at that time. So I'd be buying either Gold Key Scooby-Doo or Archie, Josie and the Pussycats. um And there was just no shortage of color, color and excitement, you know, and there was a Max Milk brand.
00:04:54
Speaker
closer to our house where they had the spinning rack of comics but they would have those you know those packs of three go and you could see the one and on either side but you know what was in the middle and my dad would come home like on a Friday night and say Tyler I was looking at this bag at Max Milk and in the middle I think it's the Chang clan or I think it's Funky Phantom and we would go the next day and I'm like but this is three times the price right but the only way to get that comic and I would just be so happy like just literally you know bonkers happy because these are the characters i love and here they are in front of me in print and i swear that's how i learned to read at a young age was just desperate you know just to just to go beyond the pictures you know
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that's That's so awesome.
Archie Comics and Family Travels
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I have those those um like convenience store memories as well. But I think the only thing that I ever... You're mine, correct. Yeah, totally. I was there for the tobacco.
00:05:54
Speaker
um and his i was six. Yeah. No, I i remember i remember that the store and I remember the rack with the magazines, but I was interested in like the balsa wood airplanes or the little. Yeah. those envelopes yes yeah yeah Yeah. Yeah. And they were like 39 cents or something.
00:06:16
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You don't need to be eaten because they have fine gifts at the smoke shop.
00:06:22
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Yeah, but you get more expensive ones at Eaton's. and Yeah, that's true. Or Kmart. I think most of my comics came from Kmart. Yeah, because I remember Kmart had them at the checkout.
00:06:34
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That's what I was going to say. i was thinking, you know what, all my all my um comics came from the checkout. And I think for the most part, I had less comics and more of those little Archie digests.
00:06:48
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I had a ton of those.
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And my and Tyler's dog has decided that he's very excited about this topic. Oh my gosh.
00:07:02
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Sorry, everybody. He's going to town here. Yeah. He's okay. He's like, yeah, no, I want something right now. i'm sure Josh will edit this out. Yes. Okay. Okay.
00:07:14
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Okay. So, so, so, so my, my comic, my comic memories for the most part were um getting those Archie digests because we, we traveled a lot when I was a kid.
00:07:28
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Right. In the car. And so my parents were like, I got to keep these kids quiet. So here's your coloring books and your comic books. So I always had my stack of Archie digests and we would sit in the back of the camper and I would just read Archie comics and just laugh my head off.
00:07:45
Speaker
the whole trip. I worshipped those Digests when I was a kid because they were all reprints of the 50s and 60s. So they were all high fashion. They were all exciting to me because you know it was all the band stories. So they were always touring. They were always playing clubs.
00:08:02
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They were always in the studio. i'm like, oh, this is the life. you know yes or I remember there was one particular... like i'm I'm a major Dan DiCarlo fan.
00:08:13
Speaker
His artwork for Archie was just... For me, it was just... There'll never be another one like him. But anyway, there was one episode where Miss Grundy is upset because Veronica's fashions are, you know, are disrupting everybody. And every magazine cover that Miss Grundy would pull up, Veronica was already wearing it.
00:08:32
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yeah You know, and it was done so well and it was done so funny. Of course, he could draw fashion just bang on. And it was just one of those digest stories where I'm just like, these kids just have the best life.
00:08:44
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They do. That was so awesome. yeah i i mean I didn't really have that differentiator, but I just knew that I loved and loved those comics. and i i loved the like i said Like you, i loved the style and the art and the characters. and they were just They were so much fun to to hang out with.
00:09:04
Speaker
And they they weren't corny stories. like they were There was a maturity to them. You know what i mean? They weren't like funny animal comics. No. were kids living life. Yeah.
00:09:15
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They were kids. like they were They were teens. Yeah. you know Doing teen stuff, right? And that was what was so cool about it. Because it it was aspirational, right? I wanted to be an Archie
Teenage Years and Archie Lifestyle
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with a jalopy.
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My favorite was there's one story where they're playing a show somewhere and it's late at night after the show and they can't get home because the van's broken down and they're having to lug all their gear through this city at night where there's like no lights on, place is dead.
00:09:45
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you know, they finally just find a phone booth just so they can call somebody. And I was just like drooling. I'm like, oh I want that. I want to be stranded. Yeah. They would go to these clubs, you know, with all these go-go girls dancing in cages, you know, and i and I'm just like, and you're 17, you know, and I lived that at 17, you know, but I'm just like,
00:10:09
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oh I'm surprised so much of that was allowed. There was so much skin, you know, so many mature topics, you know. Anyway, was a wonderful time and they were incredible stories. And the digests of the 70s were so great because of all those and 60s reprints.
00:10:31
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So now that i think about it, we actually kind of did live our our Archie lives in the 80s. Well, yeah, that's just it, right? Like we're lucky that we're the generation where, you know, by the time you hit 13, you were in the clubs yeah and kids, kids today just don't have that life. Right.
00:10:51
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But yeah, I'm very happy and very pleased with my teenage years. And yeah, they rivaled the Archies. You know, I didn't have a band. I didn't have a dune buggy, but I did everything that I possibly could to have fun.
00:11:02
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because Because my friends back in the 80s, just out of high school, they had bands. So I used to go hang out with them and we'd go to Love Affair and listen to our friends band play. And it was it was really cool. So we really grew up Archies. That's that's really awesome.
00:11:18
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Yeah. And then it would be ah few, not a few years later, I guess when you're a kid, it seems like forever. The Super Friends TV show, they put out a comic book and that got me hooked on superhero comics.
00:11:32
Speaker
a Even though I was so disappointed, wasn't a monthly issue, but you know month after month, just bad art, just bad art. And I'd be so upset each time a new issue came out, but that's what got me started. and then my uncle, who wasn't that much older than me, maybe 10 years,
00:11:48
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ah He came to stay and I inherited his comic collection when I was like six. Nice. Huge 60s collection. So he had like number one X-Men, number one Submariner, number one Fantastic Four. Like he had all this stuff, right?
00:12:05
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And... I got hooked on Fantastic Four. I couldn't believe how incredible that book was, very much of its time.
00:12:17
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um And i i remember going to the store and being thrilled because they were still making Fantastic Four comics in the And i remember seeing one particular issue at Kmart, that's where all this is coming from,
00:12:32
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um And being like, oh, I didn't know Kmart sold comics. So now here's another place to start checking out, you know. But yeah, the Teen Titans of the 60s, I saw them in ads in my uncle's comics.
00:12:45
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And so because of his collection, Fantastic Four and Teen Titans became the two comics I cared about so much when I was a kid. And then I hit puberty, sold my uncle's collection, sold my collection. and It's all going on.
00:13:01
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. That's a, that's a tough one too. I didn't, I didn't really value or hang on to comics out of all the things that hung on to. Like I hung on to my second wind car, but I didn't hang on to any comics, but I don't think I really had, I didn't have a lot or a collection of comics either.
00:13:20
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I used to go to the Pickering flea market and there was a guy there selling old comics and he had them bagged and boarded, which I'd never seen in my life. And this is in the old Sheridan Mall of the 70s.
00:13:33
Speaker
And like old comics were 60 cents. Wow. Wow. That's so expensive. And it's so old and it's so mint. And I'm like, wow, you mean people keep this stuff? Like I kept mine mint, of course. But, you know, it was like, wow, you can shop on a Sunday at a flea market and buy comics.
00:13:50
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So that kind of, before I got rid of everything, kind of...
Catching Up on Old Comics
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you know, reignited. And I did buy a lot of comics to sort of trying to catch up on old issues.
00:14:01
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um But of course today that all that stuff would be worth millions. And I do collect some still today, like a couple of titles. It's not much. um But as a kid, just incredible entertainment. And when they were jumbo or giant size,
00:14:20
Speaker
you know, double-sized issues of Justice League of America, I'd be like, it's going to take me a month to read this, you know, and all for 40 cents, you know? So, yeah, they were they were just, they were great. There was so much entertainment value, you know, and it certainly doesn't hit me today if I buy a new comic, but when I was a kid, it was incredible.
00:14:41
Speaker
Yeah, I... You know, so the whole sort of DC Marvel thing, I didn't understand that there was two different universes. You can beat me up later, but I didn't really get that as a kid.
00:14:54
Speaker
All I knew was that I loved Superman, Batman and Green Lantern. Yeah. so you're on the good side. yeah oh well yeah school you You could say, yes i but want to go guy When it comes to Marvel, i I don't care for Marvel, but of course, Fantastic Four get a pass.
00:15:09
Speaker
and then But I'm a DC guy all the way. Those heroes are so iconic. i just melt. Yeah, no, I totally get it. Because those, i mean, those are also the the cartoons we watch on Saturday as well, right? Super Friends.
00:15:22
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Yep, yep. Right? So that's that's who it was to me. That's who comics were. But i I also got a lot of my comics from, like, the the newspapers. My dad got the newspapers, so I would always read the strips. Yeah.
00:15:36
Speaker
And here's a funny little story. When I became a Star Wars nut, and that's ah another episode, um I also had a paper route at the time. So I had, it and I also was a paper shack manager. So I think I was 12.
00:15:52
Speaker
12 or 13 and I was a paper shack manager and I would sit there and read all the papers and go through all the funnies and read the Saturday funnies and loved them and laughed and thought they were amazing.
00:16:04
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But I started to collect the star Wars strips. Oh yeah. From the newspapers. So there was always a couple of extra papers. So I would just take one of the extra papers and then just cut out the strip and I just kept them all in a little book.
00:16:17
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I still have that book. No way, really. Yeah, I still have it. It's not complete. And that, of course, drives me crazy. But I it's it's got a long chunk of the Star Wars newspaper strip.
00:16:34
Speaker
Were they black and white? Yeah. yeah Yeah. They were just the black and white strips, just the little ones, like the three, four panel ones. so Jack Kirby did strips of the black hole for quite a while.
00:16:47
Speaker
No way. Yeah. Yeah. Overseas. And then I think it was something, something like Italy or something just kept going with it, you know, pretty amazing, you know, because comic strips in the newspapers were a big deal, right?
00:16:59
Speaker
o Yeah, it was, that was serious stuff. And like, for me, that was a, that was a constant feed of that sort of comic book, you know, storyline. And I loved that they were, they were ongoing stories, um,
00:17:11
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Well, yeah, you had to know what Ziggy was up to. Right.
Cultural References in The Jetsons
00:17:14
Speaker
And Family Circus. Like, seriously, Sally spilled something. no. And Honey and Lois and Beetle Bailey.
00:17:22
Speaker
And Blondie. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And Peanuts. I just read yesterday, the day before, that the Jetsons was based on Blondie. I did not know Oh, no way. Yeah. Which was based Honeymooners.
00:17:36
Speaker
Yeah. jetsons is Which is based on the Flintstones. Yeah. I'm like, what Which was based on the Brady Bunch. yeah Yeah. No way. Of course they were. And Top Cat was based on Sergeant Bilko.
00:17:49
Speaker
No way. I get it when you when you're told that, but I would never have guessed the Jetsons was based on Blondie. And why, when it's just a family anyway, would it be based on anything? you know But anyway, yeah, i didn't know that. And wasn't it all based on Wait Till Your Father Gets Home?
00:18:07
Speaker
I just got that remastered Blu-ray collection of Wait Till Your Father Gets Home. i way i only watched one episode, and it was one of the later ones. um And sorry for this long-winded, but it's kind of interesting.
00:18:21
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I found out that the second half of the the run was animated in Canada, and they animated it, they filmed it in the wrong size.
00:18:33
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so the masters are gone and they were also not saved properly because they were never filmed at the correct size that's a bad term but anyway the point is they were able to remaster season one beautifully and the canadian season looks like oh
00:18:54
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that just makes us look bad. Yeah, yeah. So anyway, because I'm watching a later episode, I just wanted to watch one. i thought, well, this doesn't really look very good. I'm like, well, now I know why. yeah oh that's too bad.
Selling Comic Collections: Treasure vs. Market Value
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That's sad story.
00:19:12
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Yes, it is a sad story. do you Do you have a ah favorite comic? Yeah. Well, it's funny you should say because The ones that I've kept, I almost have the complete run of the Scooby-Doo Gold Key from the early 70s. Nice.
00:19:31
Speaker
And I almost have a complete run of Josie from the 60s, 102. ah hundred and two almost have all of them. And i I feel it's maybe time to get rid of them, um which is...
00:19:47
Speaker
a bizarre thought, but I've been thinking about it this year. And I'm also thinking about, well, what if I get them graded? you know what I mean? Because I think like mine are super mint and that's rare.
00:19:59
Speaker
You know what I mean? And when I see like Scooby-Doo number one, you know, in like a 1.0 condition selling for 600 us, I'm like, what would you get for a 10 out of 10? You know? So anyway, i I'm not thinking about the money, but I'm just thinking,
00:20:15
Speaker
You know you can't take it with you. And they're just in boxes. I don't even get to see them. And I love those covers. I worship them. But then if I get them graded, I'll never get to read them. I'm not reading them anyway. So it's all very strange, right? But I don't i don't have a huge collection.
00:20:32
Speaker
But what I do have is the stuff I care about. I've meaning to sort of revisit it and just see exactly what I have. but ah do I have a favorite? I probably do. I'm just not ready for the question.
00:20:45
Speaker
i don't have an answer for that. I probably do, but I don't. Okay. So I think that, uh, I had a favorite when I was a kid. I say kid, but I was already getting older by this point.
00:20:57
Speaker
um i My sister randomly bought me a Star Wars comic. And I can't tell you what what issue it was. But I just remember thinking on the cover that Luke was pretty muscly.
00:21:10
Speaker
Yeah, it was a strange art. Yeah, that art style was a little odd, but yeah but the comic itself was good, and and I enjoyed the story. And I kept out that copy for quite some time until I think it started to fall apart.
00:21:23
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Because, of course, I didn't bag and board it because I was not a collector. But it it was a special one for me because it was Star Wars, and it was the only one I ever had for some unknown weird weird reason.
00:21:35
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But also because it was a gift, and and I just i really enjoyed the the story. Mm-hmm. I'm thinking one ah one of the ones that I treasured for the same reason when I was a kid was a Josie comic. ah I believe it was called The Mummy's Kiss or The Mummy's Tomb, probably The Mummy's Kiss.
00:21:51
Speaker
And even though the artist on the cover wasn't a favorite, it was a cool cover. And it was just like, I just loved it so much. It just fell apart. you know yeah like You know, you couldn't possibly manhandle it anymore, you know?
00:22:05
Speaker
So probably that one means a lot. Well, I mean, they weren't made to be collected. No, that's true. They're made on like the pulpiest pulp of toilet paper that you can get.
00:22:17
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yeah Right. So, yeah, no, they were never really, it's amazing that some of them survived. It's amazing how things come up like, oh, here's an Action Comics number one, you know, at auction and it's an eight out of ten.
00:22:30
Speaker
I'm like, what are you talking about? Like, where was it? It's never seen oxygen yeah in its life. So one last thing I want to kind of talk about comics.
Nostalgia for Comic Book Ads
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And I think this was probably my favorite part of comics. Are you reading a High Lowest comic right now? Is that why you're laughing so much?
00:22:46
Speaker
No, i'm I'm actually filling out my form for my prizes and cash. oh Make money. Win prizes. My free sales kit.
00:22:57
Speaker
Like, seriously, I wanted to sell all these things. Well, actually, I wanted to buy them all. But like airplanes and walkie-talkies and Polaroid cameras. Yeah. Like, seriously, a guitar? fishing rod and reel? Wait, where's that?
00:23:13
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It should be there. There's a train set and a telescope. These were all the things that I wanted as a Of course there'd be a telescope. Yeah. Yeah. You can go to Driscoll's for that.
00:23:24
Speaker
Oh my God. Or Jaeger's. that There's a toy helicopter. Like one of those cocks. You know, the ones that had like real gas engines. Yep. I had one of those gas engine airplanes.
00:23:35
Speaker
It was on a string. So all you did was just like spin around and it would just yeah fly in a circle around you. yeah And I could never get that thing off the ground. it's Hours of frustration. and Seriously. And we would rebuild the engine 20 times and the gas would just drip out. But anyways, that's a whole other sad story.
00:23:52
Speaker
And you couldn't take anything back back in those days. There was no such thing. Enjoy. 10-speed bike. Like seriously, I wanted to sign up and sell these things. because I get prizes. What were you selling seeds or greeting cards or what was I think that one, it doesn't say, i think that those are the things you're selling and then you make a commission. Oh, wow.
00:24:12
Speaker
On the back is the cell seeds. Look at these teens on the top. With their groovy hair. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They look like, um, Greg Brady.
00:24:23
Speaker
They're stoners. Yeah. Um, Caesar, Valerie and Curtis, they are all top sellers of American seeds. Yeah, they are.
00:24:34
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Right. And I'm like, I could sell seeds. And get my picture on the back of a comic with my full name. But then I could get a croquet set or a sleeping bag. Yeah.
00:24:46
Speaker
Yes, this the sleeping bag. Was it the sleeping bag that has that weird squared off? No, this one didn't. No, or this was just a plane radio. You know, the ball radio with the chain.
00:24:56
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ah No, this was just a regular transition transistor radio, but there's also a paperable portable yeah no yes on here cassette rub clear portable typewriter.
00:25:09
Speaker
Oh my gosh. And a tennis racket. There's a tennis racket. Of course there'd be a tennis racket. Badminton set, instant load camera. like seriously Seriously, I wanted to do these things these so badly. These are archery set.
00:25:23
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. These are the things that we had to do because we didn't have the internet. We had to actually do stuff. Seriously, it it was great stuff, too. I wonder how many kids got taken by those things.
00:25:36
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Probably millions.
00:25:39
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Seriously. it's kind of like It's kind of like the Timu of today. yeah. yeah ah But that stuff never really sparked my imagination, but I read it all. Like I read those ads, you know, cause I was like, I was like, well, what would i want? What would I want? You know? Right. Oh, I was constantly picking things out.
00:25:58
Speaker
you know This is. so Go ahead. Sorry. They would have those record club ads in the comments too. It's like, I can get Alice Cooper and bread and America Crazy. And sea monkeys had crowns. Oh yeah. Remember sea monkeys?
00:26:17
Speaker
Yeah. They were always on the back of the comics and the army men, the army men were always on the back. Yes, they were there too. um Oh, oh, and those, we're probably going over time here, but those those Disney figures, you know all the ones I'm talking about? They were solid colors. Yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah About eight inches. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There was green and pink and orange. and Yes.
00:26:39
Speaker
I totally remember those. They were always on the back. and I don't know where you would buy those. like like We had a couple, but they would have probably just been given to us from somebody. I remember the bowling alley when I was a kid had them. And I'm like, but where did they come from? Where are you buying these? I don't get it.
Collectible Disney Figures
00:26:54
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Did you all sell seeds? Yes, we sold seeds.
00:27:00
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I'm not going to say what kind of seeds because they're illegal in most countries. by yeah I wouldn't even know what to call those Disney things to go and look them up on eBay. But I guess if you just put in pink goofy, maybe it would come out. Yeah. Pink ah ah plastic sculptures, plastic figures.
00:27:17
Speaker
Green Donald. Yeah. Fluorescent green Donald. They were really cool. They were cool. Okay. So we're going to play a really fast game here to wrap up our day today.
00:27:30
Speaker
And I'm going to look up those Disney toys. i Yes, buy some. So I'm holding a stack of Josie and the Pussycats comics from 75, 76. Not the best years. No. these were no So what I did was i just I found some interesting storylines in there, and i'm goingnna I'm going to test Tyler's trivia memory and see if he remembers some things about the stories.
00:27:55
Speaker
Uh-oh. Okay. So writing in Josie and the Pussycats number 86 from December, 1975, the story was called toot, toot, tootsie.
00:28:08
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How much does melody sell her flute for? Oh, don't even remember that one. She was a percussionist. Well, no. Well, she was a percussionist. going to like wind instruments, which family of, of ah instruments does that belong to? Anyway.
00:28:24
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Uh, it doesn't matter because I probably hated the issue and hated that story. And I'll say a dollar 80. a No, you are so wrong. Of course. So she, somebody convinced her to, to get this free flute. And I think she's getting like free lessons or something. And apparently she's really bad at it.
00:28:42
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Of course. So, um, somebody, somebody sent her somewhere and, and, uh, They convinced her, that somebody convinced her to sell them the instrument because she had these special lips that couldn't be ruined by an instrument.
00:28:58
Speaker
So she gladly sold her flute. She sold her flute to Alex's dad for a hundred dollars. Oh, that was smart. Right? Mr. Cabot.
00:29:08
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Yes. Well, he had the money because they're filthy rich in these comics. Yeah. They were, they were more rich than the lodges. Yeah. Yeah. They were crazy rich. One of the funny things about the, the Archie comics is I was always like, wow, they're all only children like me. the Brothers and sisters. You know what I mean? They're all every single one of them.
00:29:28
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Only child. Oh my God. Yeah. That's hilarious. You're right. That's an anomaly. All right. So number 87, February, 1976. Why is Josie leaving the pussy cats?
00:29:39
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why is josie leaving the pussy cat
00:29:46
Speaker
To go solo? that doesn't sound right. Wouldn't be for school. ah she having some kind of panic attack?
00:29:57
Speaker
Why would she be leaving? if they were if they were If they were older issues, i would I would know these answers. Totally. But did she break her hand? like I don't know.
00:30:11
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No. So the the trick of this one is she's not leaving the pussycats. She's just going away for the weekend. But Melody didn't tell somebody the whole story. They just said, did you hear that she's leaving? she leave on a train?
00:30:27
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didn't she leave on a train I don't even think she left. she just It was just basically ah everybody's like, why are you leaving us? And she's like, I'm just going away for the weekend. Like, seriously. That's funny.
00:30:39
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So here's here's your bonus for that question. but Did I already who said it? No, I didn't say Yes, you did. oh did i Melody started the fall story.
00:30:49
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Yes. Yes. That was supposed to be your bonus points. and I finally got one. Good. Ah, phew. I'm so smart. Last one. Okay. Number 91, September 76. The story is called Wheels of Fortune. Okay.
00:31:05
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What does Alex accidentally buy Alan for his birthday? if it's an accident, then it must be something decent. a platform disco shoes.
00:31:18
Speaker
No, you already had those. Alan doesn't need anything except his black cutoff t-shirt. That's correct. Maybe be a comb. what did he Oh, a car. a car.
00:31:29
Speaker
Yes. Yes, it was a car. You got it um It's a guess, but it had to be something where he would sell for buying it. So, so so For your bonus, what did Josie buy him?
00:31:42
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A pick for his guitar. No. So this whole story because... thought I had that right. Okay. I know. She bought him a model car. Oh. And so everybody's like, oh, let's get him a model car. So everybody went to buy him a model car, including um
00:32:03
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Alexandra.
Josie and the Pussycats Comic Storyline
00:32:04
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Yeah. Yeah. And so Alex asks her, well, what did you get him? And she goes, oh, I got him this, you know, blah, blah, blah car. 76 Corvette. Right. And so, yeah. And so he basically said, well, I can buy him a better car. So he went out and bought him an actual Venus XF12, whatever that is. Hard to get in Riverdale. Oh, no, they weren't in Riverdale. Sorry.
00:32:25
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Midvale. So they're they're all standing there with their little model car boxes. And he's so excited because he's actually sitting in a Venus XF12. So funny. Gosh, Alex. Right?
00:32:39
Speaker
Josie, hop in. Exactly. Right. And they both drive away from Alex and Alex and Kendra. The end. Yeah. So that was, that was a fun little comic journey.
00:32:51
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um ah hope you enjoyed that. did. Yeah. Good. Awesome. Now you're going to go dig out your comics and, and dream over them one more time. I have a bunch of other comics here around here somewhere, but I haven't even looked at them.
00:33:06
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But nothing special or nothing nothing fancy, just some ones with some cool characters that I liked. But that was pretty much it. Well, thank you, everyone, for listening. Thank you for for joining us one more time. We really appreciate it.
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00:33:20
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00:33:46
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My pleasure, Josh. Thank you. And we just, we have these great conversations. And so it's fun to be able share them with you. So have a great Yabba Zonker Zoinks Saturday, and we will see you next week.
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00:34:27
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