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Well, we've done it again. Recorded our mindless rambles about the good ole' days. It starts with what we were doing on August 31, 1984 and ended with how much money we'd have if we sold all our best Gen X memorabilia. It's not as much as you'd think. But if you remember grecian tone phones, Sony boomboxes or the Atari 2600 game, Lost Luggage then this one is for you.
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Introduction and Apology
00:00:00
Speaker
Hey listeners, welcome back to Yabba Zonker Zoinks. This is your host Josh and I'm really excited to be here and today I have with me my best buddy Tyler. Hello Josh, hello everyone.
00:00:12
Speaker
Hello, hello. So and I know i went i have to apologize once again, i did miss an episode this week um and i I want to be clever and I want to say funny things like, you know, it's been preempted by, you know, sport game, but i I get so busy with like real life stuff and then I'm like, ah, I missed it. It's too late. So Just going to catch up and just keep moving on.
00:00:34
Speaker
That's all you can do. That's all you can do, right? That's all you can do. So um before we jump into today's exciting topic. um Which I'm dying to hear what it is.
00:00:47
Speaker
Yeah, and I can tell what the thing about jumping. No, no jumping.
MuchMusic Memories and Impact
00:00:51
Speaker
ah So my first question for you is where were you? Uh-oh. when much music aired its first episode.
00:00:59
Speaker
ah Oh my gosh. That would have been, it's August 31st, 1984.
00:01:11
Speaker
Well, so you were still a kid. You were still in diapers. we Well, I was 14 in a couple of months. I remember it. Well, I remember that horrible animation that launched it.
00:01:23
Speaker
yeah Okay, so are you asking me where I was or what I thought of at all? Well, let's start with where were you? Did you watch it? Did you watch the first episode?
00:01:36
Speaker
I believe I did. I believe I did. Yeah. Yeah. It's funny because I had like a hand-me-down color TV that was pretty big and it was in my closet. So I remember sitting watching it like with my closet doors open and it's inside the closet.
00:01:54
Speaker
Um, And yeah, I, I just, I just remember like after, after seeing that it repeated, you know, it wasn't 24 hours. Um, I was kind of like, uh, that's, that's, I mean, of course it was, but you know what I mean? When you're a kid, it's like, wow, 24 hours.
00:02:10
Speaker
Um, and the hosts were not great. was kind of oh dear, here we go. You know, uh, 24 hours of dire straights and Tina Turner.
00:02:22
Speaker
you know um But thankfully, you know people like Christopher Ward were there to you know bring some of the independent and alternative stuff around. So there was a balance, and it certainly got better as it went along.
00:02:37
Speaker
And I will say, if it wasn't for much music, I wouldn't have met Transmission Vamp. I wouldn't have met Voice of the Beehive. So it's kind of like they certainly had as many...
00:02:50
Speaker
guests in as possible the funny thing is when i look back on it i don't remember how i would find out that they were going to be there but somehow i did and i would burn it down to queen street and hang out with them in the lobby so i totally am so appreciative of that you know but man there was some brutal hosts and some brutal programs oh yeah and You know, those horrible game shows and, you know, but yeah, I just read a week ago that they have a YouTube channel now.
00:03:26
Speaker
Oh yeah, no, that's cool. Playing old interviews, which is cool. Yeah. But so few of them were good at actually doing interviews. So I don't know. ah Forgive me. I feel bad for putting it down.
00:03:36
Speaker
Um, you asked me where I was, that was, where were
Explaining MuchMusic to International Listeners
00:03:40
Speaker
you? Yeah, yeah no, it's okay. I must've been in my bedroom yeah watching it. I remember my mom had to have a special, um,
00:03:49
Speaker
thing for me to watch it on TV. What are they called? don't know. Antenna? No, not a cable box. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There was a special box. Yeah. You know, just so that I could watch that one station. Oh yeah. Cause it wasn't, it wasn't just, yeah, it wasn't a cable channel yet. Yeah. I think it was part of one of the like super packages. i don't know. I don't know. But, um, I, I thought it was also really great how the world truly was watching the the whole city TV thing at that time, you know, when he was on Queen East, not Queen West.
00:04:24
Speaker
And, you know, then when it did move over and the world literally came to Toronto to see, you know, what's, what's all this noise that's going on down there. And they're doing all this weird programming and it's out on the street or it's against the window and it's all live and there's no studio. They're just sitting at desks and,
00:04:40
Speaker
You know, so I was pretty proud of that. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, that was pretty cool that, you know, that was something new that people wanted to come and see, you know. So, you know, I'm sure behind the scenes there was incredible people working there.
00:04:54
Speaker
Oh, absolutely. Yeah. There was a huge amount of talent, obviously. Actually, sorry. ahead. I do have a funny story, though. Okay. we'll We'll get to your story in one second.
00:05:05
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm sorry. You go ahead. No, what I was just going to say was ah for those listeners who are not in Canada, and apparently half my listeners are not from Canada, which is just really bizarre and weird.
00:05:16
Speaker
But for those of you who are not from Canada and may not know, MuchMusic was the Canadian version of mtv And it was sure was very Canadian, lots of Canadian talent.
MuchMusic Launch Trivia: First Band Played
00:05:32
Speaker
Um, it, it launched in 1984, August 31st. And I'm going to give Tyler a bonus question if he can answer what was the first band that was played on that episode?
00:05:46
Speaker
Um, did they do what mtv did or did they did do something different no they did their own thing but remember canadian content was a canadian artist yes i can only guess it was brian adams no no it was not it was rush with it yes really yes oh that's funny Yes. Wow. Okay.
00:06:11
Speaker
I would never have guessed that. No, is that weird? I wouldn't have guessed that either. And I don't remember that. And the the first ah the first VJs were Christopher Ward and JD Roberts. Yeah.
00:06:22
Speaker
Yeah. So that makes sense. And the thing of it is, like we had the new music, which was an incredible weekly program. Yeah. Yeah. You know, like like it was the internet, you know what I mean, in the late 70s, early 80s. And you know To kind of go from that to kind of dumb it down to MuchMusic, it was like, ah did you ever watch Music Plus?
00:06:46
Speaker
Did you get that on the West Coast? I don't know if we did. It was so much better. Was it really? No, I think we got that. They would play all the bands that MuchMusic would never play. you know and it was I would just sit there and just watch it. Of course. ruling I'm like, oh my gosh, you guys are playing everything.
00:07:03
Speaker
But Montreal. Yeah. Cheers. All right. We're going to be back in one second. Hey, don't turn that channel. You've reached Yabba Zucka Zoinks, the Saturday morning podcast where your host, Josh Downing, that's me, will take you on a trip through a Gen X Saturday morning of cereal, toys, cartoons, and so much more. So grab your honeycombs and your favorite Micronaut and sit back and enjoy.
00:07:32
Speaker
Okay, listeners. So I popped the first question here and it was, where were you when MuchMusic aired its first episode? Okay, today you have a story and then I'll tell my story. Okay, forgive me for more stories, but it just, I was trying to think about what else did I meet because of MuchMusic, right? Oh, that's cool.
00:07:48
Speaker
And I don't know if you'll remember this story because we were actually sharing an apartment at the time, but I was home because I just had five wisdom teeth out and My mom is a major Cher fan and I was watching much music live and it was like call in now and you can win tickets to be, you know, in the studio when they interview Cher.
00:08:13
Speaker
So I'm like, oh, well, I'll try. Right. The, the, the skill testing question was ridiculous, but anyway, I got it. We got in. So I don't remember how long it took me. It was like a week or two later.
00:08:25
Speaker
And this was when she was huge with the Believe single. And so we go down to MuchMusic and we're in a lineup and it's a mix of people, a mix of ages.
00:08:37
Speaker
And there's a lot of press there and they're going up and down the the row and asking people questions. And they interviewed my mom and her story wound up in the Toronto Star, which is really cool. Awesome. Won't get into that here.
00:08:48
Speaker
But anyway, the punchline is they bring us into the studio. And they don't allow you to sit or stand wherever you want. They're positioning us.
00:09:00
Speaker
And I'm watching what's going on and I'm like, Wow. Anybody who's older than 15 is being shoved off away from the cameras and like up against the wall. Right. And I knew my mom hadn't noticed yet. Right. Yeah. And then when you watch the interview, it just looks like she's surrounded by like 15 year olds.
00:09:19
Speaker
Of course she was. And you can't, yeah. And you can't see that anybody, you know, a week older than that is like outer frame pushed aside. I'm like, wow, that is hilarious.
00:09:30
Speaker
And the thing of it is that it almost kind of looked silly. watching it later you know that it's just children quote unquote you know sitting at her feet you know what i mean doesn't matter it was an incredible experience for my mom and i was very happy that you know i was able to do that but that was another much music thing you know so it's like well thank you much music he thank you for the much that's right but very much lee So where were
1984 Toronto Adventure and Launch Experience
00:09:54
Speaker
you, Josh? OK, so yeah this is this is kind of interesting because I'm from the West Coast.
00:10:00
Speaker
That is interesting. I'm I'm from Vancouver and 84 was the year that I graduated from high school. And my first big adventure was um my parents said, what? Here's here's your grad gift options.
00:10:16
Speaker
And they said, you know, you can take some luggage. it was kind of like, you know, being on a game show. You can take some luggage so like that and cash so you can take a trip or you can have a pinto wagon. Wow. And I'm like, oh, do I want the pinto wagon? That was my car, Pinto the Wonder Horse.
00:10:32
Speaker
Go for the pinball machine. I didn't get a pinball machine. I took the cash and the luggage because my two best friends, right? My two best friends were in Toronto.
00:10:43
Speaker
thought your two best friends were cash and luggage. They were until, well, that was my new best friend. um So i I'm like, no, I'm going to go visit my friends in Toronto because I had heard like only amazing things about Toronto and how cool it was.
00:10:58
Speaker
So I got my plane ticket and ah flew to Toronto first time, ah visited my friends, and then I still had a few days left. And so I was hanging around and it turned out that one of my high school friends had moved to Toronto that earlier that year as well.
00:11:16
Speaker
So I rang her up and she's like, oh my God, let's go hang out. So we hung out. We had great time. So I'll play. um And then we were hanging out back at her house and she's like, oh my God, much music starts tonight.
00:11:27
Speaker
I'm like, are you kidding me? Oh my God, what is that? That's really weird. That's cool. And we sat there, I guess, i think we were sitting on the floor, but we sat on the floor and we watched the first episode of much music. Yeah.
00:11:40
Speaker
So I was in Toronto. Yeah. That's too funny. Which is where MuchMusic was born. So that's really cool.
Nostalgia: Old Technology and Childhood Memories
00:11:47
Speaker
That is cool. That's really cool. Yeah. And that was that was also my first adventure in Toronto.
00:11:52
Speaker
And when you phoned your friend, you didn't have to put the area code first. There there was no such thing as an area code. You called her from a phone booth. Yes, you went to the phone booth with your quarter because by that time it was 25 cents. Yes, but no name for the area code.
00:12:08
Speaker
Yeah. So that it's funny because that's not even really what i I wanted to talk about in this episode, but it kind of worked out kind of well because I really want to talk about some of the stuff that we used to have, like some of the equipment and things like phones.
00:12:25
Speaker
Right. And the whole much music thing was kind of like, oh, hey, you know what? I forgot about much music. And everybody's been talking right now about the the anniversary of MTV because that that just happened recently, too.
00:12:37
Speaker
Really? What year was that? I think it might have. I don't remember exactly the year. Yeah, it might have been the year before, but it was around the same time. OK, so yeah. Oh, 84.
00:12:50
Speaker
Yeah. Somewhere around there anyways. But yeah, so it's it's weird because we know as as Gen Xers and people from our our generation, like 70s, 80s and 90s, that we didn't have home computers. We didn't have cell phones. Oh,
00:13:05
Speaker
the one of the most exciting things that happened in my house was when we got ah touch tone phones. Oh, yes. Right. Yeah. yeah And so there's people out there who are probably like, what the heck is a touch tone phone?
00:13:18
Speaker
And its it meant that you could have a button, not a dial. That was the dial. was damn Right. And you had to spin that dial for every number you were dialing.
00:13:29
Speaker
Thank gosh you didn't have to add the area code. Seriously. Seriously. Still now. It used to bug me in in old movies and TV shows when they would just dial that phone so quickly. I'm like, no, no, yeah no yeah no, no. You'd still be dialing.
00:13:44
Speaker
No, you that's just a Viewmaster on a box. That's not a phone. It takes forever, especially if there's any nines. Yeah, exactly. Even the ones, though, took forever to go back. It's like click, click.
00:13:59
Speaker
just yeah Yeah, no, it's a signal the other end. And then I was ah i was excited too, because i got my my own phone extension. So remember, I had my room was in our garage, not a garage attached to the house. It's at the back of the yard. It's a separate building.
00:14:17
Speaker
So it was a big deal when they wired up my garage room with an extension. No, that's awesome. So I had my own phone and it was an electric blue banana phone with touchstones. That's so funny that you say the banana because that's what i was picturing.
00:14:34
Speaker
Because remember the Bell stores that were in the malls? And it's like, look, we're unveiling the new phones for the eighty s And there'd be like two of them, one in brown, one in yellow.
00:14:44
Speaker
Mm, those are the best. Yeah, it goes with your kitchen decor. the future is here. Yeah, we are. One of our house phones actually was attached to the wall. Yeah, we had that, which was a big deal. Then it had like the crazy long cord so you could walk far, you know, yeah, and talk at the same time. No way. no way.
00:15:05
Speaker
My mom was so excited because she spent ah fortune on monthly fees to rent the that that Grecian temple phone. What's that? Oh my God. It was, the base was probably like nine by, by eight by four. And then it had a phone on top of it and it all had this sort of Grecian vase,
00:15:30
Speaker
ah three-dimensional kind of carvings around the base. And then it had this great big shiny gold receiver hook and then a great big sort of ye olde Greek phone because they had phones back then. It totally. Yeah.
00:15:48
Speaker
yeah And then it had sort of a cup, like a 19 or sort like an eighteen hundreds phone. yeah And it was all done in like ivory and pale Grecian blue.
00:15:59
Speaker
Wow. And weighed 61 pounds. It did. This thing was massive. So funny. And the only reason we got rid of it, because every time my dad would answer the phone, he would smack that cup into his chin. oh man. It would be like, oh, and then there'd be lots of swearing. And then the person on the other end would be like, um, I'll come back later. Yeah.
00:16:21
Speaker
Like when you say the cup, you mean the thing of that like operators have? Yeah. no was Yeah. It was just, instead of just being a flat, it would curved up. So would sit under your mouth.
00:16:33
Speaker
That's so funny. Yeah. Really bizarre. My mom loved that phone. ah Right. Yeah. No, dad wouldn't have it. Had to go. Yeah. So then we just got a basic phone with just some little square keypads that you could beep.
00:16:47
Speaker
But yeah, that was that was a big deal in our house. Yeah, that was a big deal. Like the phone was a big deal. yeah because that was how you that's how you communicated with everybody. Like, I just think it's funny how years later the phone is everything.
00:17:00
Speaker
And if you had said to us in 1984, you know, it's not going to be the wristwatch like you've been seeing science movies. It's going to be your phone. What? That makes no sense.
00:17:11
Speaker
And then I got the wristwatch anyways. ah Yeah, yeah, exactly. Because I couldn't resist. Yeah. Did you, did you have, um, and like an Atari system? I think you had a Coleco vision. didn't ecovision Yeah. And I worshiped it.
00:17:26
Speaker
Yeah. Like I couldn't believe I had it. Like it was a gift. It was a Christmas gift. Couldn't wait to set it up. And we had a bar in the basement and my dad set it up so that the,
00:17:38
Speaker
I could play it sitting at the bar. in Nice. With a drink. yeah yeah, exactly. With your kid martini. Yep. And the TV was like behind the bar, just like in a real bar. Yeah. And I would play it there. And I loved it. Like, I never got bored of it.
00:17:52
Speaker
i I loved it so much because I appreciated what it was. you know, like the graphics were incredible. The play was great. I loved all the games that I had. you know, i just, it was just one of those things where it wasn't like, oh, he never played with it.
00:18:07
Speaker
You it's like oh, hell no. I he played with it all the time. who So yeah, yeah. My my best friend of the time, he had the Atari. Yeah. we'd We'd played on that. But I remember the first time i played Pong.
00:18:20
Speaker
And I was like, right you can play this whenever you want in your house? Yes. was blown away, blown away. I'm like, you must be millionaires because I don't know what it Oh, it was so it was so magic.
00:18:34
Speaker
Oh my gosh, it was incredible. So magic. I just couldn't believe that you were playing something on the television. Yeah, yeah. Like not just watching TV, but yeah you're playing a game.
00:18:46
Speaker
But where you had to have that little switch. that would connect to the wires in the back of your TV and you'd have to switch it to game or switch it back to TV. Okay. That was important back then. You know what else was important? Radio shack because yes they had every little converter that you could possibly think of. It's like, hi, I want to hook my laser disc player up to my toaster, but also my car.
00:19:09
Speaker
You know, like, oh, we've got that converter. Great. Yeah. Do you want a blue one or a black one? Exactly. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. yeah I remember that I think I'd mentioned in earlier episodes that we did a lot of our shopping down in the States because we were down in Bellingham a lot.
00:19:27
Speaker
Yeah. And we were shopping and I want to say we were at Jaeger's or Kmart. Can't remember which one, but there was an Atari 2600 had just come out. There's a big deal set up in the store. And I was just like begging for one. I believe that.
00:19:46
Speaker
And I don't know how my parents turned around and justified buying this thing, but they did. They bought an Atari 2600. We took it back to our trailer in our little campsite, hooked it up to a little tiny TV, and i that was it. I was hooked.
00:20:03
Speaker
yeah My little ADHD brain went, ah, so this is going to be the rest of my life. And sure enough, it was. what was yeah What was the one game that everybody always talks about?
00:20:17
Speaker
It's like a running game. I want to call it Hangman, but I got the wrong name. You're like swinging over alligators and stuff. Oh, yeah. What was that? the one that everybody loved.
00:20:29
Speaker
And I can't think of what it was called. I had it for a second. My brain was like, that's... It has a weird name. Something Man, because everything was... I think it was like, I don't know, like Sidefall or Quick Fall or Quick Death or something. I don't know. Yeah, you know the one i mean, right? I totally do. It was clo had little snakes, little pixel snakes.
00:20:51
Speaker
Whenever I think of Atari, I think of that game because that's the one that everybody seems to be the most nostalgic about. You know what my favorite game was? was called... Yeah, on the 2600. was called... Math Time.
00:21:05
Speaker
it was called math time No, that would have been the worst game ever. It was called I want to say it was called Airport and had nothing to do with the awesome movies. Airport. Seven. idea game We all know how Concord.
00:21:21
Speaker
yeah No, but what it was, it was just i it this game made me laugh my brains out. It was basically an airport and it was the luggage carousel.
00:21:33
Speaker
Seriously, that's what you're playing luggage carousel. Oh, my gosh. And the plane would come in, you'd see the little plane of the background and it would land and then it would fly away again. and then you'd see all the luggage coming down a little thing, a little conveyor.
00:21:46
Speaker
And then the luggage would start to come down the conveyor slide, you know, those sliding things. yeah But then the luggage would pop open. I've had that happen to me. Came down the chute and boom, it exploded.
00:21:59
Speaker
ah So that was the inspiration for this game. and you had to run back and forth and catch all of the stuff that fell out of the luggage. my gosh. And it would be little bras and little pants, little shirts, little ties.
00:22:13
Speaker
little tie know It was a little bra. It was so hilarious. And I just, this game would make me laugh and I'd be trying to catch little bras and pants and sliding back and forth.
00:22:25
Speaker
So bizarre. What a weird little game. But you know, I loved that game. That is funny. Isn't that great? There's little bags of drugs. It's totally, look but that was the bonus bag. That is so funny. Yeah.
00:22:41
Speaker
Wow. Isn't that funny? I guess airport sounds better than like carousel. Yeah, that would have been a dumb name. Nobody would have bought that. They call it bra capture. Yeah.
00:22:53
Speaker
No. And of course, there was no other levels. It just got faster. Of course. Right. right And then, you know, it's just raining like little bras all over the place. I'm like, that's so hilarious. Such a fun game.
00:23:04
Speaker
That's funny. So that was my my Atari 2600. And then, of course, once I moved out on my own and I was making my own money, I bought myself a Nintendo system and then it turned into a Super Nintendo. And then I was like, I was hooked.
Evolution of Video Games
00:23:18
Speaker
Sega, Sega Genesis, Sega CD. I had every system. You did. You did. I had everything. literally had them all. Yeah. Yeah. Right up to right now, I have a PS5. And I'm like, oh, do I do a PS6? I don't know. Like, I'm so old. Maybe I should just, you know, find a real hobby.
00:23:37
Speaker
I just remember ah when Josh and i first met and he had all these game systems. I wasn't a gamer. Like, I loved... going to the arcade when I was a kid. Yeah.
00:23:49
Speaker
Like I'm talking video games. Um, but by the time I hit 13, it was like, it just switched off. Right. We won't get into that, but anyway, um, um my point oh yeah well right so you had all these systems and i was like okay so then i started looking at games and i was like look at all these cool licensed games and and we bought a couple and they would be really bad and i'd be like i don't understand why is this game so bad and you would say well a lot of them are i'm like no i don't get it why is it so bad he said well they would just rush it to market and it's just a bad it's just a bad game
00:24:22
Speaker
I'm like, but it was $100. Yes. I'm looking at you, Jetsons, for the Nintendo system. I'm like, these are horrible games. Yeah. I had no idea that like there was bad games. I just thought everything was great and everything, you know, you just choose whatever game you want, but they're all good.
00:24:42
Speaker
I had no idea. But remember that one time when we played, what was it called? Donkey Kong Country? Yep. Donkey Kong Country. To the To the end.
00:24:54
Speaker
Yeah. that That game just about killed me. I've never done that in my life before or after. And we did it. Yeah. Yeah. We did it. We finished the Those mining cars. Oh my gosh. Just the stress.
00:25:08
Speaker
seriously but that was an excellent game yeah it was it was actually really good yeah and if you wanted to you could actually play it through to the end which we did and you know it felt like you know accomplished something and boy did we ever but yeah we had so many bananas exactly so many monkey deaths yeah anyway but that game just also i i think i still had the scar tissue on my fingers from the paddles that was just that it was brutal oh my gosh and it must be a joke now like you could probably would just play that game on your watch yeah totally in two seconds but back then all that new technology and graphics
00:25:52
Speaker
I just I remember when Super Mario World first came out and it was mind blowing, like just how beautiful this game was. But there was one level, I think it was called the Butter Bridge. That was where I gave up. I'm like, I'm done.
00:26:09
Speaker
I'm done. I'm never going to play this game again. and how did they get the name? Because it was these slippery posts that would just go up and down. oh But your character slid right off them. So you had to kind of time it so that your character would kind of slide bounce across the screen. yeah I'm like, I can't do this. this is It's impossible. This game is is just absolutely a piece of garbage, and I'm not going to play it.
00:26:32
Speaker
And then you do that, and you're up against some boss. Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally. like And then you die, and you have to do it over again. i'm like, no, no. Yeah, I don't think that. ah don't I assume games are still sort of played the same way. but there's they're They're so good now because the graphics are just they're so intense.
00:26:52
Speaker
right they're just They're beautiful to look at. um But it's very different. like i can play Like if I'm playing Diablo 4 and my character dies, it just resurrects me in another room. And I go back and I just keep doing it.
00:27:07
Speaker
it's not the same kind of intensity yeah there's a little bit more wiggle room to you know move your character or you know go back and do the level at ah at a higher you know strength or whatever okay i'm not feeling so stressed now yeah no it's way better so much more fun okay so back to the technology that we had had a mouse record player when i was cool when it said hi kids Every time you turned it on?
00:27:36
Speaker
and played the No, just there was a sticker on it. I thought it actually said, hi, kids. And his arm you know with the glove was the... Yes. You know what? I think we had one of those, too.
00:27:46
Speaker
It probably didn't work, but we still had one. Oh, my God. oh yeah Mine worked. Yeah. yeah um Yeah. The phone was a big deal. TV was a big deal. The knobs broke on our TVs, so we were always using pliers to change the channel. Yeah.
00:28:00
Speaker
until we got the converter, which was a big deal. That was a big deal. Was yours the the the one that had like 26 or like 18 little clickers?
00:28:12
Speaker
No, everybody had that one. Ours ours went like to left to right. Yeah. Oh, and it had a slider? Yeah. Everybody else had that. No. Yeah. Ours split from, and the funny thing is the little slider thing, of course, was always breaking off. and Of course.
00:28:27
Speaker
ah Of course. You probably stepped on it yesterday. Yeah, it was like a little Lego piece. um But yeah, was that all the tech that was in the house back then? Other than the microwave?
00:28:39
Speaker
ah Yeah, we didn't have a microwave. Oh, actually, no. Did we? Yeah, we had probably had one at some point. Ours was like massive and weighed a ton. yeah ours was big too and yes also weighed a ton and we probably all got irradiated yeah that's so funny um what did you listen to music on did did you have like a boom box did you i got the hand-me-down stereos so i was lucky so my dad had a really nice um the component system nice handed down to me and then for grade eight graduation they gave me boombox and ah turntable that were connected together right you just run the course yeah so i was really happy because that was actually mine you know no more days right so i was really happy about that and then i guess by the time i was an older teenager then i had like the techniques systems
00:29:35
Speaker
you know, stacked like crazy in the glass cabinet. Love that. Oh yeah. Glass cabinet. And it's so funny because you see those pictures all the time or it's like, yeah,
Vintage Stereo Systems and DIY Speakers
00:29:43
Speaker
it's rocked. I'm like, it did rock.
00:29:45
Speaker
It did. All those lights and all those components and all those wires, you know, and look how big my speaker is. It's as tall as me. Yeah. yeah Yeah. I i remember was visiting some family friends and they were total hippies and And course, so they had like tons of records and great big massive ah sound system.
00:30:08
Speaker
And the guy built his own speakers. Oh, yeah. And they had colored flashing lights that flashed in time to the music. Yeah. They used to have those at all the stereo stores like for quite a while. Yeah. Yeah. So funny.
00:30:24
Speaker
And these speakers were three feet tall from the discotheque. Yeah, totally. And the party continues. And she takes off her like, you know, swing and beaded, leather ah you know, leather vest. Crochet.
00:30:37
Speaker
Oh yeah, that too. She had a crocheted top on. And he puts on the Mac Davis. And the rest is history. Totally. Are those lights coming from the speakers? Yeah.
00:30:50
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. It's totally tripping. It's so funny. Yeah. so i i started with lot of radios. I had a lot of radios when I was a kid. Transistor radio. Transistor radios, ah little red one that I carried around. remember listening to ABBA on that thing all the time. Was it AM or FM?
00:31:10
Speaker
Yes. i think I think the original one was in AM. And then I moved up to FM. And then I told you about the great big giant radio headset that I had. was a yellow...
00:31:23
Speaker
with These things were like the size of a brick. And they had antennas. They had to pull up so you could get the signal. And I would try to you know do my paper route on my bike with these things, but they were so heavy, my head kept falling off.
00:31:37
Speaker
It was just crazy. And I could never get any station. Ride like this so that your head all bent. Oh my gosh, that's so funny. um But yeah, anything to to listen to some music would be great. And then i finally finally worked my way up to a Walkman.
00:31:52
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. It's funny you say that because I remember when I bought my first Walkman, it was kind of like with my first paycheck kind of story. know And I just worshipped it. remember when Sony, everything was yellow. Do you remember that?
00:32:06
Speaker
Yes. All the Sony tech, all the boom boxes and all the Walkmans were all that yellow sport. Yes. It was pretty cool. You had the yellow sport little boom box. Yeah, I did. the Longest time. i remember that.
00:32:17
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. That was so it looked sporty. We had this beautiful, I don't know whose it was, it was for sure going back a couple of generations, we had inherited somebody's stereo, which was a cabinet.
00:32:33
Speaker
to me, of course, it was 10 feet tall, but it was maybe like five feet tall. And it was this sort of wine burgundy color. And you opened it up and inside the turntable and all the parts of the record player were white.
00:32:46
Speaker
I was fascinated by it It was just beautiful. It wasn't Art Deco, but it seemed like it came from the 40s maybe. And just the colors were just so unique. you know And my dad had all these 78s.
00:32:58
Speaker
you know, all this colored vinyl, you know, Lone Ranger and Peter Pan and all these, you know, I wish he'd had the the Headless Horseman Disney 78. um But yeah, just there was a smell to it And I just I love that thing. And I don't even know what happened to it. Just one day it was gone. Maybe they sold it.
00:33:18
Speaker
that was a beautiful piece yeah no kidding we had that you know that that eight track plunger player it was the square and it had a plunger on top so you know eight tracking on the side and it had like a bubble on the front like the trouble game you know oh my goodness no like don't order and like computer font right you go trunk track one trunk track two I loved that thing, except it would always play two songs. of one yeah once i was just going to say One song a little louder than the other. And like, Oh, but I, I didn't care. I loved it.
00:33:55
Speaker
i would go through my dad's eight tracks. i'm like, what have we got here? What have we got? You know, That is so funny. ah So for those who don't know, an eight track was a ah ah tape device. It was a big block. It was probably the size of like six iPhones all stacked together, like iPhone Pro Plus stacked together. And it had ah a tape inside, like a cassette tape.
00:34:21
Speaker
And these things were huge. And you had to could chunk them into your device. Now, my dad installed an 8-track in his truck. Oh, yeah, can you imagine, like, where you'd have to store?
00:34:33
Speaker
can only take, like, three tapes with you. It's like, well, we can take your mom or your tapes. so funny. We can take the American Graffiti soundtrack, which is two 8-tracks, I'm assuming it was.
00:34:46
Speaker
you know or you know that's so funny it's like why are we burning up so much gas heavy too many cards so heavy so so funny i remember my dad had a favorite a track and it was mexican the sound of mexican guitars oh yeah and it was just instrumental mexican guitar playing and that's all it was that was his favorite one so you'd always be guaranteed it would be sitting in in the deck that is so funny yeah so funny so that was before cassettes cassettes were like magic because oh my god there's like a quarter the size of this super eight yeah right ah and they still cost a hundred dollars sorry what are you saying i hated cassettes i hated eight tracks it just had to be vinyl
00:35:33
Speaker
you know, yeah big, beautiful vinyl until CDs came along and it was like, well, that was yeah more practical, but yes, you know, but yeah, no, I couldn't stay every now and then my dad would buy me a tape. I'm like, what were you thinking? I don't want the cassettes.
00:35:45
Speaker
Yeah. See, I loved cassettes because I could take it with me. I could put it in my walk. get ah yeah I'd rather make cassettes. I would make my own all the time. I'd make my own little mixes. I'd put it my record on the needle.
00:35:57
Speaker
I had a, I had a system that would record from my, my directly from my, ah my record player. I knew I back then I knew how to put like all these systems together.
00:36:08
Speaker
you know what mean? I'm like, I know what cables you need. I know what you want to do. Oh, you want the sound to come out of your TV. You want to yeah this or that or, and now I don't know how to do anything. No, moving at all you don't have to though.
00:36:20
Speaker
Now you just say, Hey, play this. Yeah, i guess so. But right yeah. Yeah. But I couldn't put anything together today.
Polaroid Cameras and Instant Photo Excitement
00:36:29
Speaker
Did, uh, did your family have cameras in the house?
00:36:33
Speaker
Yes. I'm trying to remember. I used to love playing with them because there was there like back then everything was so unique and every month things change so drastically, you know, like it's like first it's a square. now it's more of a box. Now it's kind of a semicircle. you know what I mean? that It wasn't just like fits in your pocket flat device.
00:36:55
Speaker
Yes. Just, you know, whatever. but back then it was like ah every shape and size yeah constantly coming at you. You know, and remember how like some like this would drop off or it would open this way or you know what I mean?
00:37:09
Speaker
Just fascinating. And then when we got a Polaroid, that's when everything changed. Yeah. Actually, there's a funny story because we were in a Zellers and somebody with a Polaroid who worked there snapped a picture of my mom and then showed her the picture. And that was the way to sell the product. Yes. All right. She has the most startled look on her face. It's hilarious. It's pretty funny.
00:37:32
Speaker
But yeah, so we had a Polaroid and that that literally changed everything. yeah you know Yeah. Yeah. For your pictures, you know. No, but seriously. i i think I told this story in our in one of our first episodes where I went into Kmart.
00:37:46
Speaker
I was just a kid. um But I had my paper out, so I had paper out money. And when I went into Kmart just to kind of look around at stuff, I was by myself.
00:37:58
Speaker
And they did the same thing. There was this display and a great big this big black you know panel with the Polaroid ah rainbow dots on it. And this person said, Hey, can I take your picture? And I said, Yeah. So I'm wearing this t-shirt where it's like it had this graphic of a guy with a gas mask cooking on a barbecue grill. I don't know.
00:38:21
Speaker
That's just what we were. And he took picture of me and handed it to me. And I'm like, the picture's already developed. And I broke right there. Like, it was like, ding. I had to have this.
00:38:34
Speaker
And I'm like, it's $79. Oh, God. Deluxe kit. Oh, God. With a carrying case and two packs of film. so So I bounced to check at Kmart so that I could have this.
00:38:50
Speaker
amazing piece of technology still have it it's on my desk cool but yeah that that was my story i did go in and pay the the bounce check because back then bouncing a check was just delaying it a couple days until you could put your paper route money in your bank account right that's so funny so that's all it was so i went and i paid my check and paid my i think it was a three dollar fine back then not 30 like it is now What was the name of the actor who was promoting it? it was the Rockford Files guy, but what was his name?
00:39:21
Speaker
um So anytime ask my brain a name, it doesn't know. it just goes blank. like name Jim Yeah, it was just Jim Rockford. That's who it was. But remember, he was I think he was the first one to endorse it, but I can't think of that guy's name.
00:39:37
Speaker
I think, um ah what's her name? Hemingway was also one of the spokespeople for Polaroid. Really? Yeah. Well. Muriel. Like, imagine the money they made. oh my goodness.
00:39:49
Speaker
Yeah. Everybody had one, quote unquote, right? Yeah. They were amazing. It's so funny because just yesterday i was in Marshall and I saw this cool looking box on the shelf. So I picked it up and I'm like, oh, this is the new, new smart Polaroid camera.
00:40:06
Speaker
and of course I want it. Of course. Because of course my ADHD brain is like, well, you have to have everything. So you wrote a check. I wrote a check and bounced a check. Don't tell them Marshalls hasn't processed it yet.
00:40:19
Speaker
ah No. i like Thank you, Mr. We'll see you next week at the check return. we'll see you next week at the check return It's just past lightweight. Totally. It's past notions and like and the fur department.
00:40:39
Speaker
Oh, but on the eighth floor. But if you get to the coffee shop, you've gone You've gone too far. but Oh, man. No, I resisted the urge. I do have a small Polaroid collection because when I was a kid, of course, that that camera triggered all kinds of, you know, dream fantasies of I was going to be like a movie maker and a photographer. Of course.
00:41:03
Speaker
So it was, it was very cool. But then i couldn't afford the film. Yeah. Yeah. You know, it's just, it was crazy expensive. I still can't. That's probably why I don't have one now is because it's really expensive.
00:41:15
Speaker
Do you remember that? Do you remember the Pokemon film that I bought? yeah Yes. With the Pokemon camera. So all your pictures would have little Pokemon on it. Yes.
00:41:26
Speaker
It was the worst quality. Oh, terrible. Like terrible, terrible. The Pokemon part was okay. But anything you took a picture of was no like a dark. No, yes. You know? Yeah. And I think it was I think the camera only only operated if you used a flash.
00:41:43
Speaker
Yeah. so Everything was like totally because it had to have enough light to get through the filters so that the Pokemon would show up in the frame. Was it a special camera? i thought it was just special film.
00:41:54
Speaker
No, it was a special camera because it was built in frame. It was a yellow. it was like Pikachu. I just remember the the pictures because I took it to work at my new job 25 years ago and took some pictures. Everybody said, we want to see the pictures. I'm like, no, they're so bad.
00:42:08
Speaker
And they would be like, no, you got to show us. No, they're so bad. You don't understand. like These are horrible photos. Everybody looks terrible. like No, you will never see these photos. funny All right, let's post them.
00:42:20
Speaker
Yeah, right on. Let's find them and scan them and post them. I need a scanner. And it's so funny because somebody threw one out on my street. And I'm like, it was probably me. I want a scanner.
00:42:33
Speaker
Anyway. I think I finally got rid of my last scanner not too long ago. i had a killer one at work that was huge. So if you want to scan and an album cover, you could. yeah It was like a 14 by 14 and it was great. And it just, yeah you know, eventually it just couldn't keep up with the tech.
00:42:48
Speaker
And was like, oh, I got to let this thing go. i love it. Yeah, that i had I had a really big one. I had one that I used to scan negatives all the time. yeah Because I did shoot a ton of film all through high school and you know all through my early 20s, and 90s.
00:43:05
Speaker
I shot like you know roll after roll after film. And I still have probably most of the negatives of everything I ever shot. But now I don't even have to scan them. I have an app on my phone now that I can just hold them up to a light and just, you know, my phone will take a picture of it.
00:43:21
Speaker
It's so funny to think like, you know, not that long ago, it's like, okay, i have to pack my cell phone. i have to pack my digital camera. have to pack my iPod, you know, and that was the future, you know?
00:43:35
Speaker
Yeah, I was really excited about the whole iPod thing. Well, sure. they Another revolution. Mm-hmm. Yeah, it totally was. I went through iPods like crazy. Crazy.
00:43:47
Speaker
Crazy. Well, that was an awesome little journey.
Influence of Advertisements on Polaroid Popularity
00:43:51
Speaker
It was a journey. And it was a not even Journey the Band. Consumers Distributing made a lot of money off us.
00:43:58
Speaker
They sure did. And the Kodak. Kodak. The little yellow building in the parking lot. Yes. Oh, yeah. The little the photo mats until until Polaroid put them under.
00:44:11
Speaker
Yes, exactly. And then Polaroid went under shortly after that. And then it was resurrected. And now it's Jim Rockford didn't didn't cut it. He wanted too much money. Was the name Gardner? what was that guy's name?
00:44:24
Speaker
Not Gardner. You're so James Garner. Thank you. There we go, James Garner. That was for you. Yeah, we don't Google anything during this show. No, no, no. no no We don't want to be live. want You don't want to hear us sitting here Googling.
00:44:40
Speaker
it would just be so much fun for a listener. All giggles, no Googles. Yeah, totally. all right. Well, hey.
00:44:52
Speaker
We haven't done this one for a while.
Gen X Collectibles Game: Keep, Toss, Sell
00:44:54
Speaker
We're going to play Keep, Toss, or Sell. Oh, okay. Oh, Tyler's like, what the hell is that? Well, I'm on a real talk streak right now. so Totally. This is awesome.
00:45:06
Speaker
um So i'm i'm goingnna I'm going to say, i looked up some, what are some top Gen X toy type collectibles? What are things that people in our generation, like what are they paying big bucks for?
00:45:21
Speaker
So I'm going to tell you what the item is. And then you can tell me if you're going to keep it. Toss it because you're like, whatever, or sell it. Okay. And then I'll tell you what it's worth.
00:45:33
Speaker
Oh, okay. Okay. you ready? So the first one is a it's a Hot Wheels car, 1971 purple Oldsmobile.
00:45:44
Speaker
Well, if it's Hot Wheels, I'll probably sell it. Yeah. Okay. Good. Good choice because you know why. i'll give you an applause for that. Because it's purple and it's 1971.
00:45:57
Speaker
it's It's approximate value do you want to guess? three thousand $3,000. Higher. $3,001. This could take while. $12,000. Oh, my gosh.
00:46:08
Speaker
And that's okay. I thought the beach...
00:46:12
Speaker
twelve grand oh my gosh and that's okay i thought the beach you know the beach bus i don't know if but that's what it's called it's the pink beach bus it is their number one like most expensive impossible to find thing and i think it's a 60s car or 60s yeah so i didn't know they had others that can Yeah, there's there's quite a few.
00:46:34
Speaker
I found a site that has a whole list of here's you know some of the the the top valued Hot Wheels going right now. Wow. um And this was just one of them I picked out of the list because it was 12 grand. Well, if I pawned it, they would probably give me $3,000. Is that what I said? Not even. They'd probably give you like $40 because they'd have no idea what it was you had.
00:46:57
Speaker
all right. Here's your next one. All right. It's a comic book. It's called The Amazing Spider-Man number 300. of You must be choosing this for a reason. and no I'll say sell.
00:47:11
Speaker
No. Are you going to sell that one? Sure. and Okay. It's Spider-Man. I want Yeah, it's it's a good it's a good choice to sell. It's worth about $2,700. Well, that's all right.
00:47:21
Speaker
Yeah, it's not bad for a comic book. That'll buy me some more stuff I don't need. Yeah, totally. so you can buy some more comic books. Yeah, exactly. Okay, so we just talked about cameras. So cameras have some collectability.
00:47:33
Speaker
I've got some old cameras. They're worth like five bucks. um But this one here is the Canon AE-1 from 1976. Keep toss or sell.
00:47:44
Speaker
What makes that one Yeah. It was a Canon's first SLR. So that's a single lens reflex camera that was made um outside of their ah professional line. So they were trying to make it for sort of an everyday user.
00:48:00
Speaker
Okay. Okay. Well, I'm an idiot. Maybe I should keep it. there You should probably keep it. Well, okay. The thing of it is, look up everything before I get rid of it to see if it has value. So I'm probably not the best to play this game, but I will just say sell it because I assume you're going to tell me it's worth big bucks.
00:48:21
Speaker
Not as big as a Hot Wheels. ok it certainly it's It's got a price of about $250 right now. so ok all right I think it's because there was a lot of them available.
00:48:31
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah. so So they're collectible. I mean, that's that's decent for a really old camera. And they probably it's probably still in really good shape. So wait, what year was that again?
00:48:44
Speaker
1976. And that's really old. That is freaking ancient. Oh, dear. But I was only seven. And it was the bicentennial in America.
00:48:56
Speaker
I was 10. I was 10 back then. Okay. A Star Wars Subway vintage original movie poster from 77.
00:49:08
Speaker
You don't mean... oh I was going to say you don't mean... Subway, not the sandwich. Right, exactly. there was There was movie posters in the subway back then. That's pretty cool. Yeah. Well, it's Star Wars. It's worth a billion, right?
00:49:21
Speaker
So what what is the value of that thing? Oh, sorry. Sell. yeah so You're going to sell. Yeah, you can sell because it'd be a down payment on a small shack somewhere. Planetoid.
00:49:32
Speaker
Yes. um We'll give you a little bit of applause there. Good choice. Everybody, thank you. uh approximately 83 000 wow ya'll that yeah yeah wow as much as i would love to have that poster because it's freaking beautiful that's a lot of money is it any different to like is it the standard poster of the time no because it's it's a it's a portrait version yeah it wasn't the sorry not portrait it's landscape not a not a portrait so it didn't look like the the standard movie poster
00:50:09
Speaker
It was a little bit longer. So everything was just in a different place. So it's it's actually really quite unique. That's pretty cool. Yeah. Subway shaped. So yeah, kind of like a subway.
00:50:19
Speaker
Not the sandwich. Yeah. Yeah. Not the sponsor. But Subway, if you do want to sponsor the show, i'm bu call me. Call me? Just call me. I can't afford to eat there.
00:50:32
Speaker
$83,000. Yeah, really? If you sell your poster, you can afford to eat there. With extra cheese, it's $83,000. Yeah. Okay, i got a couple more here for you. Okay. A Jaws original movie poster from 1975. Hello.
00:50:48
Speaker
Keep it or sell it. oh Actually, isn't that is not funny? yeah it should be frame it or sell it yeah totally okay so so is that back when we were still folding posters because i really can't stand those folded posters yeah yeah i'm this one is probably folded yeah i guess it was probably sent to the movie theater in a box so So like folded posters, of course, I don't like them when they're framed and I can't afford to get them flattened. You know that ever restored or process. and all that Just mind blowing what they do. Right. So bit of a Jaws tangent here. Okay.
00:51:27
Speaker
So I will sell it only because it's. food Oh, okay. That's interesting. That's an interesting choice. How much is that little sharky worth?
00:51:38
Speaker
ah You could probably get about $33,000 for that. starts do yeah That's awesome. i'll take that Folded shark poster. I can't believe how much money I've made in the past five minutes.
00:51:52
Speaker
yeah You're totally rich. You can almost afford somebody's garage. There's nothing in my house because I've sold it all. yeah Exactly. Last one from 2004, there was a series of Batman action figures.
00:52:07
Speaker
And this one particular figure was called attack armor. Does that ring a bell? What's the year? 2004. I'm like, did I have it?
00:52:18
Speaker
um Well, I assume these were something that you're talking about it. What, what series was it? Does it say like, i It did, and I don't think I remember looking at That's not here, I don't think, right? No.
00:52:33
Speaker
i Was it animated? 2004? don't know. It might have been from one of the animated series. um Remember my Robin Dragster that was worth $8?
00:52:45
Speaker
Yeah. um Okay. ah Well, I'll sell it. Okay. How much am I getting, please? Okay. So the story behind this one was that need the money. I don't need the money. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Go ahead.
00:52:59
Speaker
The reason why people want this one is because when it came out, nobody wanted it. ah Yes. So, of course, it did its thing. It disappeared. Like, who knows where they went? And now people want it.
00:53:11
Speaker
So they're worth like $200 to $400, depending on the condition. Oh, okay. So it's not bad for a carded action figure. Yeah. It's amazing how that happens, where these figures that nobody wants...
00:53:23
Speaker
I don't know where they go. like I don't know if they get donated, like, you know, and then all of a sudden they're worth huge bucks. Well, nobody bought it and all the completeness wanted, you know? Yeah.
00:53:34
Speaker
I mean, I see these things sometimes hit, hit the thrift stores, right? All sudden there's just a stack of, you know, some, some character that I'm like, Oh, I remember that show. It was kind of a bomb, right? Right.
00:53:46
Speaker
Earthworm Jim. Oh yeah. Speaking of earthworms, maybe they're worth something. I don't know. Yeah, probably totally. All right. Well, then that's all I got for you today. That was That was fun.
00:54:00
Speaker
ah was fun reminiscing about our crazy devices that we used to have when we all the devices were brown. Yes. And now everything's all just in one slab that we carry around in our pocket.
00:54:11
Speaker
Yep. Right? That we pay thousands of dollars for. Yep. And I need new one.
Fan Expo and Canadian Podcast Award
00:54:18
Speaker
So listeners, um before I before you send you on your way today, i just want to let you know that August 21st is the start of Fan Expo. Did I say that right?
00:54:30
Speaker
Everything you said was correct.
00:54:34
Speaker
So guess what? I'm going to be at Fan Expo at a table. It is the Canadian Podcast Award table. It's in the community area. I'll have more details and I'll be posting it on my social media, but I'm going to be there live. It's the Thursday night.
00:54:50
Speaker
ah It's going to be in the sort of early evening. So if you're going to Fan Expo, and you're going to be there on the thursday come check out the ken the ken podcaster award table i'm going to be there promoting this podcast um i bring my games i've got some games i've got some fun prizes uh you can you know play i think i'm gonna bring barrel of monkeys and i've got a fun uh fun trivia type game that i'm gonna play so you can win some stuff but come say hi come tell me something tell me story or you know give me some things that we can talk about on the show but uh
00:55:23
Speaker
Fan Expo in Toronto. I will be there Thursday, August 21st in the evening. Go look up their site. You can see it on the ah the community table.
00:55:34
Speaker
North Building, do you know? I'm going to say yes, but I think that it's the, it's the big first big building that's on, uh, right on the main street. North building. Yeah. Yeah. North building.
00:55:45
Speaker
That's where it was last time. Cause I was at the, uh, the comic con version. Right. That's where all the celebrities are at North building. Yes. Yes. So I'm the celebrity. So I'm going be there, but it's at the Canadian podcast award table in the community zone. So please come by and say hi And, uh, that's all I've got.
00:56:05
Speaker
Anything for you, Tyler? Nope. I, I've been chatting this whole time with an incredibly sore throat. a Don't do it. All right. Well, yeah. Yeah. It's been great.
00:56:18
Speaker
Had a lot of fun. Don't forget to subscribe, check out social media, go to speak pipe, check out my link there and you can, you can send me a message or just send me a message on Instagram. That seems to be the most popular place. But other than that, have an awesome Saturday and we will see you soon.
Conclusion and Listener Engagement
00:56:34
Speaker
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00:56:55
Speaker
I'd love to hear about your favorite Gen X Saturday morning memory, maybe a favorite toy or the cereal you just couldn't wait to tear into. Until then, have a Yabba Zonker Zoinks day, and I'll be back bright and early next Saturday morning.