UNFIT FOR RADIO with JAYKERS
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“Three Seasons Deep”
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EP.37: Three Seasons Deep (Season 3 Premiere)
Season 3 has officially arrived!
Unfit For Radio with JAYKERS returns with another unpredictable, laugh-out-loud episode packed with hilarious stories, spontaneous conversations, and the authentic chemistry that has become the heart of the show.
In Episode 37, “Three Seasons Deep,” JAYKERS reunites with longtime co-hosts RAY and STEPHANIE to kick off a brand-new season by doing what they do best sharing unforgettable stories, trading jokes, and letting the conversation go wherever it leads.
The episode begins with an absurd cold open before the crew reflects on the incredible journey that has brought the podcast into its third season. What started as an independent comedy podcast has now reached listeners on all 6 inhabited continents, been downloaded in more than 50 countries, and enjoyed in over 180 U.S. cities. Every listener, review, and shared episode has helped make this journey possible, and we’re incredibly thankful for the UFR community.
From there, the conversation takes on a life of its own. The crew swaps funny stories, shares plenty of laughs, and embraces the kind of natural, unscripted conversations that have become a signature of Unfit For Radio. One of the episode’s highlights comes when RAY debuts a collection of original limericks, including one written especially for JAYKERS, while STEPHANIE gives her first impressions after trying Crumbl’s Tajín Cookie for the very first time offering a quick, honest unexpected review as she enjoys it during the episode.
Whether you’ve been listening since Episode 1 or this is your first time discovering Unfit For Radio with JAYKERS, welcome! We’re excited to have you along for another season filled with comedy, friendship, authentic conversations, and unforgettable moments.
In This Episode
- The official Season 3 premiere
- JAYKERS, RAY, and STEPHANIE reunited
- Hilarious stories and unscripted conversations
- Plenty of jokes, laughs, and off-the-wall moments
- RAY’s original limericks, including one written for JAYKERS
- STEPHANIE’s first taste and review of Crumbl’s Tajín Cookie
- Personality-driven storytelling and authentic chemistry
- The start of another unforgettable season of UFR
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Ray, do you know how a medium you know you know how a medium can talk to the dead, you know, the ones that passed away? Yeah, I know some of them can do that. So if a medium can do all of that, could you imagine what a large can do?
SPEAKER_01Oh my goodness in charge. They can probably raise people from the dead. Oh biggie size.
SPEAKER_02I'll get a route 44. Oh. Welcome to Unfit for Radio with Jakers. That's me. We're officially three seasons deep, and what a ride it's been. We want to sincerely thank everyone who's tuned in, supported the show, and came along for the journey. Season three is here. And while we've covered a lot of ground, there's still so much more ahead. More laughs, more stories, more unforgettable moments. So settle in and enjoy the ride because we're just getting warmed up.
SPEAKER_01And I am Ray. That's right, folks. The senior star of UFR is back for season three. I figured that after two seasons, they'd finally replace me with somebody younger and cheaper, but apparently the budget committee said no, so here we are. Let's get this thing started.
SPEAKER_02But before we get things underway, we need to welcome back someone who uh knows all my flaws, all my bad habits, and somehow agreed to marry me. My beautiful wife, Stephanie. Welcome back to UFR.
SPEAKER_03Well, thank you. You know, it's great to be back. And for the record, agreed might be a strong word, but I think I just got used to the chaos. And I love you. So there's that. But I can't believe we're already kicking off season three, my goodness. Congratulations to both of you. And to thank I want to thank everyone who's been listening, who keeps listening, supporting, and laughing along with us. We are excited. I'm excited to be here and ready to see what kind of trouble we can get into. This isn't.
SPEAKER_02See, that's exactly why I introduced her last. She helps us not sound so crazy. Helps us not sound crazy.
SPEAKER_01That's a pretty tall order.
SPEAKER_03Trust me, I'm trying.
unknownMy best.
SPEAKER_02And right there, that's why we keep bringing her back.
SPEAKER_01Let's go. In past episodes, you have said that you were blonde and dyslexic. Blonde, Polish, and dyslexic. Yes.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, we can't can't forget the Polish.
SPEAKER_01Well, I can't tell a Polish joke, but I can tell the blonde joke and a dyslexic joke. So are you ready? Why Polish might be a little offensive, huh?
SPEAKER_02Yes. Okay. Let's do the blonde. And this won't be offensive to you. Let's not offend the blonde, the dyslexic. Okay. Okay.
SPEAKER_01A blonde man named Jakers is in the bathroom, and his wife shouts, Did you find the shampoo? He answered, Yes, but I'm not sure what to do. It's for dry hair. And I just wet mine. Does that sound like you? Oh no. Oh, okay. Not at all. Okay. Something you totally do. Okay, here's another one. I'm not sure this was the best one, but this is what I found. People have told me that your dyslexia would hold you back and you'd never be any good at poetry. But they couldn't have been more wrong. I heard you made two jugs in a vase.
unknownWhat?
SPEAKER_01Two jugs in a vase. Yeah, see, you were so dyslexic you got poetry mixed up with pottery. Oh yeah. See, so I've got some more things about me if you'd like to be interested. Sharing is caring, I guess. Oh, sharing is caring. I remember that from school. Oh. We used to share that.
SPEAKER_02You blew the dust off of that memory?
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Wow.
SPEAKER_01Here, I got some stuff here that you that you never heard about me, I don't think, that I ever shared these stories.
SPEAKER_03You're really going to town on that cookie, aren't you? I grumbled because I dropped a piece. Oh, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Okay, so uh cookie survey. This is the first time you had a tahine cookie from Crumble. How do you like it?
SPEAKER_03It's sweet and a little like um I don't want to say citrusy, but it has that tang. Because they give you this like tahine drizzle to put on top. So that like really perks up your saladry glands, but then you get this hint of sweetness in it and a little bit of that tahine spice. It's really good.
SPEAKER_02All right.
SPEAKER_03I'm enjoying it.
SPEAKER_02I'm glad we heard.
SPEAKER_03We definitely missed a piece.
SPEAKER_02All right, Ray. Hit us with some facts. Go ahead. Hit us with some rain. Oh facts.
SPEAKER_01Okay. These these might some of these might kind of blow your mind. You ready? Yes. Okay. Did you know that I took a lie detector test once?
SPEAKER_02Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_01Did you pass? Yes. I I took it for an it was an appointment when I s when I worked for the um um furniture store that I worked for. They had to lie detector everybody. It wasn't the Department of Homeland Security? No, it wasn't that. And um, so everybody had to take a lie detector test to pass, and I did. So I don't know why they I guess they were looking for people that might steal stuff. I don't know.
SPEAKER_02So you actually had to take a lie detector test for a job?
SPEAKER_01To get a job, yeah. That was the only time that happened.
SPEAKER_02Did you end up getting the job?
SPEAKER_01Yes, I did.
SPEAKER_02I guess you passed the test. I did.
SPEAKER_01I passed the test. Wow.
SPEAKER_02Do they uh do they give you like a copy of of the results afterwards?
SPEAKER_01No, no, they just no, I never I never heard I passed, but since they hired me, I figured I did. Oh, okay. Okay, here's a story. I I may have told you once. Of a lovely lady? No.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_01Do you know that one time in downtown in the city of Scottsdale, I had this city of uh I had uh Scottsdale police point guns at me. What? I did. Is this about that warrant? No. This is this is a true story, and it didn't hit the the the seriousness of it didn't hit me till years later when I thought about it. I was like, oh, I could have died. But I I didn't it unfortunately I didn't know think about it at the time. I I worked downtown uh off of Fifth Avenue in downtown Scottsdale, and I had a summer job delivering lunches to businesses in the area. When they called in, we we were just a delivery place, we didn't have any eat in, or you know, or people didn't come and carry out. I I delivered.
SPEAKER_02You're the Uber guy.
SPEAKER_01I'm an Uber guy, yeah. And um, so I was coming out of our our little hole in the wall that we had there, and I had some lunches stacked up in the foam containers and was going out. And as I was going out through through the little plaza area, uh two policemen came in from two different uh entrances and they were pointing guns at me. And I just I just stopped.
SPEAKER_02What did you do?
SPEAKER_01I just stopped and um I didn't know what to do. And I should have what I should have done was put the lunches down on the ground, put my hands up, but I didn't because I I didn't know what to do. So I just after a while, I just started slowly walking toward them and they let me exit and leave. And I when I came back, I found out what had happened. Um next door to us was a jewelry store, and the lady that was uh at the desk there, she had accidentally passed pressed the panic button. Oh and so they they were looking for somebody to uh that had robbed the jewelry store and there was no such person. So that's that's what happened.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, they didn't know what they're showing up to, and you're just standing there.
SPEAKER_01I'm just standing there and I didn't know what was going on, and yeah, so that was uh I that really happened. That could have been a different situation. Here's another story that I don't think I ever told you. Do you know that one time when Linda and I went to California, we lined up for the Johnny Carson show? No way. Did you make it? Yes, and that that's a story in and of itself. Um, I forget how this worked, but uh, I guess you line up and you get a number or something. I don't remember. And then we went across the street and had dinner at a Mexican restaurant. We came back and lined up again. And we were standing there, and um, they were letting the people in, and we were moving along. And um I was in front of Linda and they stopped the line right right at me. They stopped the line right at me. And and they let him in, and then he turned and asked me, he said, How many in your party? I said, Two. He said, Okay, so they went on. We were the last two in. We got the very two last seats at the very upper upper corner. Yes, we were the last two in. And we we saw the show live, and it was it was wonderful to see them. Who was the guest? Alan Arkin. And I mean, he's everybody's gonna say, Who's Alan Arkin? I guess he's a comedian, but um um, yeah, so he was You remember the episode and everything?
SPEAKER_02Like you could probably go and look it up on YouTube.
SPEAKER_01No, I tried to look it up, but I couldn't find it. I wanted to find it so I could let our listeners know what episode that was, but I couldn't find it. Interesting. But so we were the last ones in. And and the interesting another interesting part was that um when they take a break, you watch the commercials on the on the screens overhead, yeah, and they run them through at fast speed. And they the national commercials, they run them through and put them on the on the tape, and then and then they come back.
SPEAKER_02That's interesting. That's really fascinating.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it was it was interesting to see uh a that's the only live TV show we we ever saw, but it was fun to be the last two let in. It's like, oh no. So um yeah.
SPEAKER_02Uh Johnny Carson, huh?
SPEAKER_01Oh, I have another police story.
SPEAKER_02Uh oh.
SPEAKER_01Yes.
SPEAKER_02You always running in with the law.
SPEAKER_01I know. When I was in college, I cleaned office buildings in Scotts, downtown Scottsdale at night. And uh this one particular night, and I was I'd been there for months, maybe even years, and um I had pulled my car out and was driving down the street, and policeman turned his light on. So I stopped, pulled over to the side. Oh boy, and um I he asked me to get out of the car. So I got out of the car and was standing there, and he kind of gave a little search. Did you consent? I don't know. He got out of the car, though. Anyway, so he was he said there had been a there had been an attempted burglary at the at the uh one of the offices where I had just pulled out from. So was that with me? He said it looked like he said it looked like uh one of the doors had been jimmied. And I just I didn't say anything. And he was digging around in my car. And guess what he found in the backseat of my car? He found a giant screwdriver. And the reason I had a giant screwdriver in my backseat.
SPEAKER_02So it was actually yours.
SPEAKER_01He didn't it was actually mine, no, okay, because my uncle and I had gone out to Apache Junction in the desert, and we used uh my brother's metal detector, and we were looking for things, and we were using the the uh the screwdriver to dig it up, and I told him that story. And um, I'm not sure he believed me, but he did. And um the funny thing was, and I wish I had remembered it, that was my my row of buildings, and I did almost every building on the and I had a key to every building there, so why do I have to break in when I had a key to the building? So, but I forgot that I had them, and I had this big lip ro ring of keys on me. And anyway, he anyway, he let me go, and that was that was that. But that was um he thought I was a burglary suspect. Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_03You fit the description? What's that? He said you fit the description.
SPEAKER_01No, he didn't, they didn't have a description, they just saw me pull away from the building, and he, I guess he had looked at a lock or something, anyway. Wow. Um, do you know that I have been in a fallout shelter? What is a fallout shelter? It's like a bomb shelter. Yeah, it's like a bomb shelter back in back in the 60s. Um I I was uh at my former church, I had a one of the audio, well, he was one of the tech guys that was that worked with me sometimes, and he lived in uh the Arcadia district. And um, I was over at his house and we were talking, and he said, Hey, you know we got a bomb shelter in the backyard? You do. So he took me out and we went in there and I saw it, and it was very small, and I'm glad I don't have to live down in there. And so I actually saw a bomb. They didn't build it, it was in the house when they bought it. But um, it was out in the backyard, and it was a 60s bomb shelter, and I'd never seen one before. And that's the only one I've ever been to.
SPEAKER_03In certain places, they have a lot of a yeah. You said you said that's here. Certain parts of the country they have like a lot of arcade. Arcadia, Arcadia District.
SPEAKER_01Uh huh, that was here. That's crazy. And I have another story about Vincent Price.
SPEAKER_03He's the one that that did the uh the Michael Jackson thriller. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Uh back in the place back in Oh him. Yeah. Back in the 60s.
SPEAKER_02That guy. Yeah, that guy tells the story. Yeah, at the end. I know what you mean.
SPEAKER_01Back in the 60s, there was a friend of one of my siblings came to the door and was saying, Hey, did you know Vincent Price is down at the motel down on the corner and he's making a uh a commercial? I didn't know. So I ran down there. We were only two streets away, so I ran down there and stood and watched while they Vincent Price was standing there, and they were making a uh commercial for that, for that um little motel that was down there on the corner, and I got to watch it and make it holy key. That's pretty cool. Yeah, that was that was cool to see that.
SPEAKER_02Did you get a meeting or get an autograph or anything like that?
SPEAKER_01No, no, I just stayed back out of the way, made sure I didn't interfere with anything, and I just stood there and watched. Oh, and um, yeah, that was uh I'd never seen anything like that before in my life. Uh it's not as you know, it wouldn't be as exciting now, but that was the first time, and you know, so that was fun.
SPEAKER_02What was it a thriller?
SPEAKER_01Oh, that was a good joke. Yes, it was a thriller in a way. Yes, it was. It was sorry, yeah. He's got an iconic voice. This is a this is another true story that I don't think I ever told you about. Um back in the 80s. 80s, it had to be the 80s. Uh when I was working at my other church, there was a uh guy there that attended church, and he was he worked for well, he he did uh movie work around town sometimes. And he was a uh a PA, which is a um production assistant? Yes, thank you. Production assistant on a movie. And he was not a doctor. He was a production assistant on the movie uh Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, which they made here. And um Metro Center. So he was interested. He was that no longer exists. That no longer exists. Right. And he was um interested in doing movies and all, and he was involved with that, and he knew I was I did audio, and he signed me up to do audio for a Western movie that was supposed to have been done on the west side of the valley or something somewhere. And I was all signed up to do audio for that, be the recorder, and then another young man they had in the church was going to be my boom man and hold the mic and on the stick and everything. Okay. Well, about two days before um it we we were scheduled to be there, they canceled the movie and I never got to work there, but it would have been it would have been a good experience. I didn't, I had no experience doing that. And and he thought I was good enough that I could go in and do that. And um anyway, so that was it would have been terrifying because I didn't know what I was doing, but you know, I do know audio, so hey, you got through episode one and you're terrified you didn't know what you were doing. That's true. So those are some interesting um things that I have. Interesting things about me.
SPEAKER_02So hey, Ray. What did you know the Kool-Aid man? You know the Kool-Aid man? Yeah, I know the Kool-Aid man. Do you know he used to play baseball? He he used to be on a baseball team. What? He did, he looked a little fat. He no, he was the pitcher.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah, I yeah, I okay, good. I see that. Oh, that's a good one. I should have seen that one coming.
SPEAKER_02So I was driving the other day with my wife, and I noticed she likes to sing when I drive, you know. But only when I'm backing up in reverse. Why? I don't know. So does that make her my backup singer?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah. No? Yeah, that's good.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01No, I like that one. That was a good one. So why can't mermaids graduate? Mermaids can't graduate. Wait, they didn't go to school? Because her grades were under the sea. Or under sea.
SPEAKER_02Oh, under the sea. I like that one. Under sea. Under a sea? Yeah. Okay, I'll cross that one off the list too.
SPEAKER_01No, I like that one. There's a story that goes with I hope I got everything.
SPEAKER_02There's a story of the lovely lady who is bringing up three very ugly girls. Oh, wait, I mean, very lovely girls. I don't know the song.
SPEAKER_01Apparently. Anyway, um I got some stuff to share, and there's a story that goes with it.
SPEAKER_02Okay, well.
SPEAKER_01Okay. About four or five years ago, I was um reading a book on limp with limericks. You know, it was just limericks. So what's a limerick? A limerick.
SPEAKER_02We had that in a former I know, but for the people that's just tuning in for season three, a limerick.
SPEAKER_01A limerick is one, two, three, four, five. Is a is a little poem of five lines. The first two lines rhyme, the second two lines rhyme, and the and the last one rhymes with the first two. Oh, sweet. True. And it's usually a funny little story. Did you look up the definition over there? Uh um, yeah, I did. Exactly five line, five lines long.
SPEAKER_00Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_01All right. So I was reading those, and uh, after I was reading those, I said to myself, I can do that. What did yourself say? Self said, Yes, go ahead and write some limericks. So self did. Self sat down and got some uh three by five index cards, and I wrote some limericks. And for the first time ever, these are going to be published on the radio live for our audience.
SPEAKER_02Is this self-help?
SPEAKER_01Yes, self-help. And uh some of these, especially the last two, I read to my wife, and she just about fell out of her chair. She just thought those were the funniest ones she ever heard.
SPEAKER_02And so um I'm glad she didn't fall out of your chair, out of her chair. You wouldn't need to.
SPEAKER_01I'd have to I know I'd have to call her. I'd have a hard time trying to pick her up, right?
SPEAKER_02She's falling and I can't get her. Right.
SPEAKER_01Well, that happened once, but that's another story. Okay, here we go. Here we go. There was a young lady with dough, meaning money. Okay, not not not pizza kind. There was a young lady with dough who was looking around for a bow, you know, boyfriend. When the boy answered yes, she was in a fine mess, because she thought that for sure he'd say no.
SPEAKER_03Oh, that was cute.
SPEAKER_01She asked the wrong one. Or the right one. There once was a man with a beard whom folks thought exceedingly weird. What made him what made them say that was the Larn George cat that made him a home in the beard?
SPEAKER_02What do you have car Garfield?
SPEAKER_01I guess so. I like that one. There once was a fellow from France who bought him a new pair of pants. They didn't quite fit as he started to sit, so he stood and did a fine dance.
SPEAKER_02I'm glad they didn't split. Yeah, I'm glad they didn't split.
SPEAKER_01There once was a young man named Scott who thought he was terribly hot. When soon to his eyes came quite a surprise when he looked in a mirror. He's not. Nope.
unknownOh no.
SPEAKER_01There was a young fellow named Mark who cooked a filet from a shark. His lamp wouldn't work because of a quirk, so he ate his fine meal in the dark. That one was alright.
SPEAKER_03Go ahead, Ray.
SPEAKER_02Your facial expression was better than the joke, sorry.
SPEAKER_01Oh, sorry. We didn't get to the good ones yet. Um this one I didn't bring along. I'd have to try and do this one from memory.
SPEAKER_02Oh boy.
SPEAKER_01It was too good he left it at home. Okay.
SPEAKER_02There once the memory or the joke.
SPEAKER_01Go ahead, Ray. Sorry. There once was a fine-looking cop whose hair on his head was a mop. When it fell in his eyes, it was such a disguise that he kept the mop up on his top.
SPEAKER_03Awww.
SPEAKER_01Not bad. Okay. There once was a fellow quite mellow who found him a banana quite yellow. He put it away to eat it someday, and six months later it's mellow. That's funny. That goes with our banana story.
SPEAKER_00Chiquita.
SPEAKER_01There once was a very fat cat who was sitting alone on a mat. He put on his tie, then started to sigh, saying, Now all that I need is a hat. All right. Okay. Now you always have to I always have to have bathroom humor. So I did I wrote one about bathroom.
unknownOh my god.
SPEAKER_00Oh boy.
SPEAKER_02Cue the toilet sound.
SPEAKER_01Flush flush the toilet. The bathroom's a wonderful place. You can shave or put on your face. You can pee or go poo, but whatever you do, go out there and join the rat race.
SPEAKER_02That's a morning routine.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02So inspirational.
SPEAKER_01Okay, now this one I wrote about me. True story. True story. I wrote this about me.
SPEAKER_02Is it about your knee?
SPEAKER_01No.
SPEAKER_02I see where you're going there. This one is about me.
SPEAKER_01And you will understand it, but I don't know if all of our listeners will, so I may have to explain it when I get done and then read it again. Our listeners are smart. I know.
SPEAKER_02Underestimate them.
SPEAKER_01Okay, you ready? Yes. Okay. I told this one to Linda this morning. This first time she'd heard it, and she thought it was hilarious. So I hope you do too. There was a fellow named Ray who went to the altar to pray. With all of his might, he prayed for some light. One one fell from the bay and hit Ray. A light fell. From the lighting bay. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02That's funny. That is pretty funny. You actually made that?
SPEAKER_01I actually wrote that.
SPEAKER_02That was really good. That's a good one. That's an original.
SPEAKER_01And uh, yeah, all of these I wrote. Um and um that reminds me that I I that would never happen on my watch because I always clamped all my clamps down very tight, and I always had a safety cable on them so they wouldn't fall.
SPEAKER_02Oh, but I've been up there on the catwalk with you, man. It's been yeah, it's pretty dangerous up there.
SPEAKER_01Some of the walks it is 60 feet in the air, and you can fall asleep.
SPEAKER_02I remember though, we we were in that one catwalk um a while back, and they had it nice up there. They had the big, huge, wide one and the stairs that went up there. Yeah, where was that? We were someplace. Yeah, that was somewhere else. But uh, I'll tell you where offline. Um yeah, we uh we went there and they had so much room in that catwalk, it was like six feet wide. They had cables stacked up and the way it needs to be. Oh, I felt safe up there, but we went in some of those old ones because it was newly built, and those old ones, it's like if you sneeze, you could end up going over the little road. Oh, absolutely, yeah. Oh man, like don't lose consciousness at all while you're up there. Yeah, and I I love heights. Like, I went skydiving, but some of those cat walks are I don't think they were really made to be catwalks.
SPEAKER_01No, some of them I don't think they were. Yeah. Now, those were easier to write because they had some rhyming words I could work with. This one's about you. Oh I can't wait to hear this. Oh no, this one's about you, and it's hard to find words that rhyme with Jacer's. So I make the air. Did you just say Jake? No, I couldn't because that that didn't make I could have, but I didn't. He wanted to make it more original. I wanted to make it more original. Yeah, look at him. So are you ready for this one? No, it's difficult. It just you're either going to laugh or you're gonna throw something at me, or I don't know what you're gonna do.
SPEAKER_02I got a pencil right here. Hopefully, it makes it through the soundproof class. Okay, ready?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. She might laugh more than you, I don't know. There was a young fellow named Jakers who wanted to play for the Lakers. He was great when he started, but then when he farted, he sent the whole team to their maker.
SPEAKER_03I like it. That was great. I like it.
SPEAKER_02You should do this more often, Ray.
SPEAKER_01Well, these are pretty easy for me to write. So I can sit down and I can sit down and write them by the school.
SPEAKER_02I'll send them all to their maker. I need a Librick for me. I will send them all to their maker. He'll work on it.
SPEAKER_01So that was I might need a copy of that. So those were some of my things that I was excited to share on on our new episode, our new season.
SPEAKER_02New season, new chapter, new things, new everything. It's great.
SPEAKER_01I can't believe it. Last time I think what one of the recently I talked about 1942, and you got all excited because you always thought that was the year I was born, 1942.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, because you always talk about it. That's like your favorite year, but like I said, I hired a private investigator to give me the real official documents on okay.
SPEAKER_01Ray. And I was born back in the 1800s, wasn't I?
SPEAKER_02No, I actually have your exact date. We can tell it. No, we're not gonna tell it. Sure, because you know that I know now.
SPEAKER_01I'm older than dirt, but you know that I know I know. I accidentally know that he knows that he knows. I accidentally sent you that in an email, and I'm so embarrassed.
SPEAKER_02You want to shut me up.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, oh well. I have a paper here labeled 1964. And it tells about some things that happened in 1964. Oh, that's where my mom's born. That was long before you were born, so you probably don't remember any of this stuff.
SPEAKER_02My mother-in-law was born there.
SPEAKER_01Your mother-in-law?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, 64. Wow. I got a mother-in-law, you know.
SPEAKER_01And she was too young to remember this. Oh, she was born in 1964, probably. Yeah. Wow. Are you ready for some pieces of information from 1964? Hit it. Yeah, on January 11th of that year, the Surgeon General reports for the first time that smoking cigarettes may be hazardous to your health.
SPEAKER_02No way.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, people didn't know that until then. Isn't that funny?
SPEAKER_02Oh boy.
SPEAKER_01On April 4th, the Fab 4 claimed the top five spots on the Billboard Hot 100. Can't buy me love, twist and shout. She loves you. I want to hold your hand, and please please me. They had the top. That's the Beatles. Top five. Yes, the Beatles.
SPEAKER_02Their songs were so simple.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I like their music. Some people did. On April 25, I'm sorry, April 17, the Ford Mustang rolls onto the market and gas was 25 cents a gallon. Oh gosh. Yes, I I remember those days. 25 cents.
unknown25.
SPEAKER_01I remember. I know that was fun.
SPEAKER_02Like I said, I think the lowest memory I remember gas ever being is 99 cents a gallon.
SPEAKER_01Dollar fifteen. I'd even go for that.
SPEAKER_02Dollar fifteen for you? It's because you're in California. They had higher prices.
SPEAKER_01On December 10th, Martin Luther King Jr. accepts the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway. So that's what those are some of the things that happened in 1964. Was there a bell there or was there no bell? It was no bell. Okay. It was a no-bell.
SPEAKER_03I'd like to see what happened in 1984.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah, we should look at 1984 and see what happened because somebody in this room was born then. Yeah, that was a year before me. Oh, you oh yeah, you're 85, huh?
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Stephanie was 1984. Oh, she's robbing the cradle over there. Oh my goodness. Yeah. I don't know if it's legal. Are you are you allowed to marry somebody a year younger than you?
SPEAKER_03On February 28th, Michael Jackson won eight awards at the 26th Grammy Awards show. Eight. Eight of them. No way. That's what it says. Wow. They've been struck by a smooth criminal. And then uh on June 25th, Prince released Purple Rain.
SPEAKER_02Purple Rain.
SPEAKER_03That's why I like that album so much.
SPEAKER_02I love that. I do. It came out when I did. I just think it sucks that they had beef with each other. I think it would have been cool if they were. They put the beef aside like Tupac and Boogie. But whatever.
SPEAKER_03Speaking of Alex Trebek, we were talking about him earlier. Yeah, we thought he died. First syndicated version of Jeopardy aired September 10th.
SPEAKER_02Oh, Alex Trebek. Wow. Yeah, Alex Trebek died. We thought Pat Sajak died. And Pat Sajak died.
SPEAKER_03Poor him, he's still alive.
SPEAKER_02We we killed him. In our birthday conversation. We were like, yeah, he's dead. And then Ray's like, he ain't dead. That would have made news. Like, didn't it? No, we were wrong. Pat Sajak is alive. I just was like, he died, that's why Ryan Seacrest took over, but apparently that's not true. You gotta do your research, people. You can't just think a thought that think that it's factual.
SPEAKER_01Right, you gotta make sure you gotta make sure before you pronounce something like that.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. In 1984, the cost of a 30-second Super Bowl ad was guess how much? 10,000. Two three hundred and sixty-eight thousand. Ooh, at that time. Oh, that was a lot.
SPEAKER_02That was a lot. That's hot. Oh, thank you. I would not put a UFR commercial for a half a million dollars during the Super Bowl side.
SPEAKER_03No.
SPEAKER_02You have to find it somewhere else.
SPEAKER_03Highest grossing movies, which uh are some of my favorites. Beverly Hills Cop, Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones, and the Temple of Doom, which I think is by far the best Indiana Jones. Was that the first one? No. Oh. It was one after. Oh.
SPEAKER_02The second one?
SPEAKER_03The Temple of Doom.
SPEAKER_02Was uh Harrison Ford in both of them? Yeah, of course. Yeah. I was just asking, why are you gonna give me a dirty look and make me feel dumb? Yikes. Last time I asked a question.
SPEAKER_01I think I only saw the first one. I don't think I saw anything after that. I don't remember what I saw. Obviously.
SPEAKER_02I don't remember yesterday sometimes.
SPEAKER_01Well, you didn't remember earlier today where you put your phone, so I guess I'm not surprised.
SPEAKER_02I was running late earlier. I couldn't believe it. The first time I think I've ever ran late for one of these recordings, and I was worried I had Ray's waiting for me, and I'm like, oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_01Well, you had a busy morning, so that's only a form of person. It's not your fault.
SPEAKER_02My kids weren't feeling good. My wife wasn't necessarily feeling good. She's been battling it with the kids, and then I had other priorities going on too, and then I was trying to get to the thing, and then yeah, it was just I made it to the studio to meet you.
SPEAKER_01Yes, you did, thank you.
SPEAKER_02But hey, Ray, do you know the difference between a camera and a sock?
SPEAKER_01What? A camera and a sock? No, I don't.
SPEAKER_02Well, it's real easy because a camera takes photos and a sock takes five toes.
SPEAKER_01Photos in fact. That's good. I I did not know how those were related. I'll have to think of that every time I put my socks on now. That's funny. Oh, I got a question for you. Talking about socks.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01When you put your shoes and socks on, do you put your socks on one at a time and then your shoes, or do you put a sock and a shoe and a sock and a shoe?
SPEAKER_02That's pretty good. Um, real answer? Real answer is I put a sock and a shoe and a sock and a shoe. Really? That's what I do. I'm dealing with one foot. Why am I gonna put this foot up twice to deal with it?
SPEAKER_01Right.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that's what I'm doing. Just get over with. I guess I'm the only oddball here.
SPEAKER_02My foot is up here, and I don't know if it's my arthritis, my old guy syndrome, or what, but if my foot is up here, I ain't wasting time. Why am I gonna put it down just to lift it back up in a second?
SPEAKER_03I don't know. I put on both socks and then I put on both shoes, but I notice that whatever sock I put on first is the shoe that I'll put on first. So if I put it on my right sock first, and then my left sock, and then I put on my right shoe and then my left shoe.
SPEAKER_01You got balance issue. I always I always do my left foot first. What do you do first? Your left foot or your right foot?
SPEAKER_02See, I or do I do my left foot and I don't think I have a preference on what foot I do first, but I do have a preference on I have to put the sock and then the shoe and then the sock and then the shoe. Okay. And then I think that it's just a smart, not only is it like smarter for less movement, but I think it's smarter, like, okay, say your house is on fire or whatever. Oh, okay. And you don't have a whole lot of time. At least for me, I got one foot that I can I could be I hop outside. I can hop around in the sun, in the snow, in the hundred degree, thousand degree, whatever outside throws at me, rocks, whatever. I'll at least have one good foot to stand on. You always have one good foot to stand on.
SPEAKER_03At least I could use both my feet on. You're gonna be soggy footed.
SPEAKER_02It don't matter, they'll be covered. Covered by what? Socks. Yeah, I'm not a barefoot type of guy, so I mean ugh. You're gonna have one barefoot? I'm gonna be aha. I'm not gonna have no bare feet. I'm gonna be like one of those flamingos over there. Be standing on one foot.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I'm gonna be taking you off and you're gonna be still hopping behind me.
SPEAKER_02I don't care. At least I'll have one good foot. Your feet's gonna look ragged. I'll have to take a pedicure afterwards. Okay. What?
SPEAKER_01I'll make you do it. I was gonna ask you another question.
SPEAKER_02Before we do, we'll get into that. But before we do, have you ever noticed how our because we were just talking about our toes and whatnot? Do you ever notice how our fingers have tips? Yes. But we don't have toe tips. We have fingertips without toe tips? Yeah, which we don't have to have. Our toes don't have tips.
SPEAKER_01We don't have toe tips.
SPEAKER_02But we tip, but we tiptoe. Yeah, we have tip toe. We tiptoe, but we don't have toe tips.
SPEAKER_03Oh, that's funny. Killing you over there. That's funny. I'm gonna have to take a body break. That's funny. I never thought of that.
SPEAKER_01You and the rest of our audience. Oh, that's hilarious. That's hilarious.
SPEAKER_03I want I'm gonna hold off though, because I really gotta find out what this personal question is. Personal question. Go ahead.
SPEAKER_01I don't know if I dare ask. We'll probably have to edit this part of it. The mic's all yours. Go ahead. We'll have to edit this part. No, go ahead. Go ahead. You started it. You brought it up. What do you put on first, your underwear or your socks? Underwear?
SPEAKER_02Is that a dyslexic hand question? No. Okay, because somebody asked me one time, made me a dyslexic. They were like, I don't know how to properly word this with being as clean as possible because it's a family show, guys. But they basically asked me, do I use you know toilet paper before the big event? Since I'm dyslexic. Kind of. And I'm like, bro, it doesn't work like that. Like, I'm not dyslexic to the maximum. Like it, I don't use toilet paper before the big event. No. That's funny.
SPEAKER_01I never heard anybody mention that before. Yeah, and I was trying to keep it clean for a moment. Yeah, you did. You did. That was nice. Okay. But yeah. Okay. Never mind.
SPEAKER_02What else you got, Ray?
SPEAKER_01Oh, I got you know, I always have stuff.
SPEAKER_02Well, share the stuff.
SPEAKER_01I got a couple lucky finds. Ooh.
SPEAKER_02Is this almost like that uh that that uh dresser that lady got at a garage sale for like 20 bucks, and then she ended up selling it for like a half a mil.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Oh my gosh, I want to hear about these.
SPEAKER_01I like these. This one is called Grandma's Garbage. The find was an old painting. And where it was found was at Grandma's house. Of course. In 1964, a Connecticut woman happened to be visiting her grandparents' house on a day when they were throwing out some old junk. She saw an old painting she liked, and her grandparents let her have it. She hung it over her bed where it stayed for the next 25 years. 25 years. In 1989, the woman took the painting into an art appraiser to see if it was worth anything. The appraiser offered her $1,000 for it. She refused. A little while later, he called and offered her $100,000.
SPEAKER_02Well, that's a big difference. What happened?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Now she was suspicious.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, somebody's lying.
SPEAKER_01And contacted an auction house. It turned out to be a rare work by the 19th century artist Martin Johnson Head, H-E-A-D-E. The painting sold at auction a few months later for $1.1 million. And it was going out in the trash. Grandma didn't even know she she had it. Million dollars.
SPEAKER_03Well, it makes me wonder if it would have been if it would have cost or been worth that much when grandma had it, or was it only worth that much because it had been after 25 years of the granddaughter having it?
SPEAKER_02Oh yeah. Was it already a priceless painting? I think it was already a priceless painting. Yeah, something like that.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so the value went up. Because it was probably not worth much when grandma got it.
SPEAKER_02No, that's crazy.
SPEAKER_01Crazy. I got another one. All right. Well, don't hold out. This is called What a Doll. It's about an old doll. Oh once again, on a garbage heap in Bochum, Germany. Five-year-old Nicole Olsen found the doll in some trash. Her mother was about to throw it away when she discovered a cache of diamonds inside. Estimated value, $72,000. The mother took the diamonds to the police who told her no one had reported them missing and let her keep them. Wow, good find. That's cool. How come I never find stuff like that? Are you ever looking for stuff like that? No.
SPEAKER_02Do you go to garage sales and stuff?
SPEAKER_01No. Well, I went to one garage sale, but I don't go to those.
SPEAKER_03This is why people have a hard time getting rid of stuff.
SPEAKER_02My mom used to always take me to garage sales. My mom, my grandma, my great grandma, they would always do a lady thing and I'd be stuck in the backseat.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Well and uh yeah, there would be times where you'd be f you can find some cool stuff at a garage sale, and then there's other times where it's just junk.
SPEAKER_01It's just junk. A lot of it is from what I see driving by, but I I don't very often.
SPEAKER_02Then you hear like these people that they they find like this watch at Goodwill, and they buy the watch on, you know, the penny day or the Saturday discount or whatever day it is. They take that same watch to some jeweler and it ends up being like a million dollar or a hundred thousand dollar watch. And I'm like, what? How do you find a Rolex at Goodwill?
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Somebody else's trash or somebody else's treasure.
SPEAKER_01I never find good stuff like that.
SPEAKER_02And somebody's getting fired because if that went through Goodwill and they let that slip and they couldn't auction that off for more money like they do with the other higher end stuff, yeah. Somebody's getting fired. Somebody got fired.
SPEAKER_01You'd think so.
SPEAKER_02I think so. My goodness.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Here's another one. This is an animated cartoon film made in 1922. All right. Mickey Mouse. In a you're close. In a film rental library in London, England. It's where it was found. In the mid-70s, film collector David Wyatt paid two pounds, which was about $3 at the time, for a seven-minute-long black and white silent cartoon entitled Grandma Steps Out. Twenty years later, Wyatt showed the film to Russell Merritt, a film scholar working on a book called Walt in Wonderland, The Silent Films of Walt Disney. Merritt recognized Grandma Stamps Out as the only known copy of Little Red Riding Hood, Disney's first film, and one of the first American Film Institute's 10 most wanted lost films. Disney drew the film when he was 21-year-old commercial artist in Kansas City. Six years later, he finished Steamboat Willie, his first Mickey Mouse cartoon.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Wyatt's copy may have been a bootleg, which explains the new title, but it's still the only copy of a film that for decades was assumed to be lost forever.
SPEAKER_02No way.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Can you imagine? Super cool. The very first Disney film, and you found it. That's historic. Yeah, that's what I thought. A masterpiece.
SPEAKER_02So uh you guys were talking uh last episode, uh, etc., about the first movie that was made in color, Stephanie asked you. Yes. And I think it was The Wizard of Oz, wasn't it? Wasn't the first one?
SPEAKER_01That's what I thought. Not sure.
SPEAKER_02Wizard of Oz was because you guys asked that question, but then you got carried away talking about the Technicolor stuff and all the other technocolor and audio and yeah, and so I I thought that I recently heard or whatnot, that the actual first original color movie was Wizard of Oz.
SPEAKER_01It could have been, but it doesn't seem to hit me that way.
SPEAKER_03The first color feature film was The Miracle. Oh, what year? 1912.
SPEAKER_01Oh my goodness, way back in Silent Days.
SPEAKER_03The first natural color feature was The Toll of the Sea, 1922. Oh wow.
SPEAKER_01Oh, I think the first ones were hand colored. You had to go.
SPEAKER_03The first hand colored film was Animaton. Annabelle's Serpent Annabelle's Serpent Dance 1895. 1895. But the first full color feature film was Becky Sharp. 1935. You should remember that, right?
SPEAKER_01I don't I should remember that.
SPEAKER_03Wildly famous 1939 Swiss of Oz was not the first color movie, but it popularized the perfected the new three-strip technicolor process.
SPEAKER_02Oh, the technicolor process that Ray was talking about. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03I would I thought it was really cool though how they did it all in black and white in the beginning and then like brought out the color, which was kind of cool. It was very fascinating to see the two like at the same time.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, how they merged it. Now, when I grew up, we only had a black and white TV. So when we saw it on TV once a year, we didn't know there was color in the middle because we only had black and white TV. So when I saw it for the first time on, you know, on a color TV, it's like, oh, I didn't know there was color in the middle. It really surprised me.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, the fur there was like that uh two-strip process, I think, that gave it like that that sepia look or whatnot. And then there's that three-strip process, which is the technicolor. Yeah. Gave it that very vibrant.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but they have to yeah, they film it separate and put it together. I didn't really understand. I still don't understand it how they did it separate and then put it together, but that's how they did it in the olden days.
SPEAKER_02And then when TV officially went to color, it was like they all flipped the switch at the same time. It was like a big historical process, remember? Remember? Yeah. You don't remember that? I remember seeing some sort I mean, I don't remember it firsthand, but I remember seeing some sort of program they were talking about.
SPEAKER_01Oh, okay. That'd be interesting.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, you know, I'd be watching them history programs. I know. All those old folk shows, I guess.
SPEAKER_03Most people thought it was like God with a wind. Or the Wizard of Oz.
SPEAKER_02Wizard of the House.
SPEAKER_01Oh. We're off to see the wizard. You want you want to hear about a dumb crook? I always have dumb crook stories. I like these. I like to watch the box TV too. Well, yeah. Remember we we heard the story earlier about the the crook that put the scotch tape over the lens so that Okay, this is all he was like a teenager and he put clear tape over the camera and then rob his till. Okay, this one's almost as good. Ding dong. In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. MacArthur Wheeler, 46, was sentenced to 24 years in prison in Pittsburgh last month. A conviction made possible by clear photography from the bank surveillance camera. Wheeler and his partner did not wear masks and in fact were not concerned about the camera at all. Because they had rubbed lemon juice all over their faces beforehand, believing the substance would blur their on-camera images. It blur their eyeballs. Ding dongs. Or their brains. Isn't that stupid? That's just as good as putting clear tape over the camera.
SPEAKER_02I mean, even if you put whipped cream over your face, they're still gonna be able to identify you.
SPEAKER_01You look like uh Mrs. Delfire.
SPEAKER_03Hello.
SPEAKER_01Okay, here's another dumb robber, okay? San Francisco, California. Talk about dumb. Here's a butte. A would-be San Francisco bank robber recently cased two different banks. He even picked up a deposit slip at one of them. But his carefully planned robbery began to fall apart when he presented a holdup note written on the Bank of America deposit slip to a teller at Wells Fargo.
SPEAKER_03He went to the wrong bank.
SPEAKER_01Sorry, this is a Bank of America slip. We can't honor this. Why don't you try them? They're just down the street. So off he went to try his luck at the other bank. Oh my gosh. The teller called the cops who happily greeted the would-be robber a few minutes later with open arms as he walked in the door. He was stupid enough to believe that. Well, he got a referral and he went off. What a dick dog.
SPEAKER_00Oh good.
SPEAKER_01I I don't know how people make it that far in life when they're that stupid.
SPEAKER_03They don't make it very far. Apparently, he went to jail.
SPEAKER_01They couldn't. They couldn't make it very far. Here's one. Vernon, British Columbia. Raymond Cuthbert entered a drugstore in Vernon and announced that he and his partner would be back in half an hour to rob the place. Employees called the Royal Canadian Mounted Police who arrested Cuthbert and Robert Fimster when they returned as promised. Come on.
SPEAKER_03That is terrible. He kept his word. Yeah, he did.
SPEAKER_02Who would honestly?
SPEAKER_03Well, what how but he okay? So they didn't prove that he actually did anything. He made a made a statement. Right. He said he was gonna do what he was gonna do and he showed up.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_03But did he actually like steal anything? Did if I put a a a candy bar in my pocket while I'm in the store and then take it out and and get ready to pay for it, but I don't actually pay for it yet, and I haven't left the store. Am I actually did I steal the candy?
SPEAKER_02No, you didn't steal it. It doesn't matter until you walk out the door officially, apparently.
SPEAKER_03So did they let him rob the store and then like let him walk out?
SPEAKER_01No, it sounds like they caught him just before he's he did that. So how was he guilty? That's what I want to know. Yeah, I don't know. Oh, here's one. Oh, this is sad. This is a sad one. Oh, am I gonna cry? Terry no, Terry Johnson had no trouble identifying the two men who burglarized her Chicago apartment at 2 30 a.m. on August 17, 1981.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_01All she had to do was write down the number of the police badge one of them was wearing and the identity number on the fender of their squad car. Uh wait, what? What? Yes, the two officers, Stephen Webster, 33, and Tyrone Pickens 32, had actually committed the crime in full uniform while on duty using police department. Oh my gosh. What? Now you'd think they would have been a little smarter than that.
SPEAKER_03Apparently not. I don't know how they got hired. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Oh no.
SPEAKER_03No comment. I don't uh yeah.
SPEAKER_01I got one more for you.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_02Maybe I'll comment that one.
SPEAKER_01This is Wandsworth, England. On July 20th, 1979, an armed robber dashed into a little grocery store and told the proprietor, Give me the money from your tailor, I will shoot. The owner was perplexed. Where's your gun? He asked. There was an awkward silence. Then the robber replied that he didn't actually have a gun, but the owner, but if the owner gave him any trouble, he'd go out and get one and come back. What?
SPEAKER_02He called his bluff and they still double dashed.
SPEAKER_01After a moment, the crook quietly left. Because he didn't really have a gun. Oh my gosh. It said it's not so common.
SPEAKER_02Triple dumb.
SPEAKER_01Oh, remember uh when we had um Michael on here and we talked about the Chikina Banana Girl?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, episode 33.
SPEAKER_01Yes. I have a story here about the Sunmade Raisin Girl that you see on the package of Sunmade Raisin.
SPEAKER_03Oh, Sun Made. I have some of those in my pantry. Aren't they from California?
SPEAKER_01Those are from California. California raisins.
SPEAKER_03I remember the California Raisins commercial. Remember those? Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Love those commercials. Singing and dancing raisins, yeah.
SPEAKER_02My wife is a California uh California. She's a raisin? No, I wasn't gonna say that. Oh I was gonna say California in California. California in California. Oh, we don't know how to say that. She ain't a raisin, that's messed up. Okay.
SPEAKER_01Sorry. Oh, you're good. Do you want to hear how the sun-made raisin girl came about? I'll tell you. Yeah, okay. Is it bitter? I don't know. The sun-bonneted woman who smiles on every box of sun-made raisins was a real person, writes Victoria in Audacity magazine. Her name was Lorraine Colette, and in 1915, that's how long ago she was, she was sitting in her front yard letting her hair dry before participating in Fresno's first raisin day parade. Wow.
SPEAKER_02There's a connection.
SPEAKER_01A sun-made executive was passing by and was struck by the sight. He had a photographer come take her picture, then had artist Fanny Scafford paint the picture from it. All Colette made from it was $15.
SPEAKER_03Oh boy.
SPEAKER_01A modeling fee and a bit part of a 1936 film called Trail of the Lonesome Pine. The original bonnet is now in the Smithsonian. I would want a royalty. I think she should get a royalty on every package that was. They were pop star when I was growing up. Oh yeah, they still are.
SPEAKER_02You still get it, those little boxes. You get them in your lunch. Yeah. Yeah, but kids don't eat that stuff no more. Well, yeah, but what's about a bipatry? No, they don't. Are they expired? No. Raisins don't expire. Kids don't eat that stuff no more.
SPEAKER_01No, raisins don't expire. I've got some in my cupboard that I've had a while. They've got a little hard, but they don't expire.
SPEAKER_03You guys are weird. Put them in your oatmeal cookie.
SPEAKER_01Okay, I'll give you a choice. We can talk about Snapcrackle and Pop. We can talk about Mr. Peanut, McGruff the Crime Dog, or Tony the Tiger. How about all of them?
SPEAKER_02Let's do the crumb dog first. That sounds funny.
SPEAKER_01The crime dog? Okay.
SPEAKER_03Uh what uh uh what was the other one?
SPEAKER_02Krusty the Peanut. Uh Mr.
SPEAKER_03Peanut. Mr. Peanut. I want to hear about Mr. Peanut. Oh, you said Krusty. The class the clown.
SPEAKER_01That was Krusty the Clown on that show that I never watched. The Simpsons. I've never seen that show.
SPEAKER_02We're so unpredictable. Even the Simpsons can't touch us.
SPEAKER_01Hey, that's a good slogan for our show.
SPEAKER_02I already said that one time. Oh. Go back.
SPEAKER_01Okay, never mind. It's in the histories. Okay. This is McGruff the crime dog.
SPEAKER_03Oh, that's no, that's the other guy. Only you could fight forest fires. That's Smokey Bear. Yeah, Smokey the Bear.
SPEAKER_02Only you can prevent forest for the five.
SPEAKER_03What was the what was the slogan? What was the McGruff slogan? Was there a slogan? Oh, uh, let's see if it has here.
SPEAKER_01I don't see the slogan. How did I look at this?
SPEAKER_03I gotta know. It's gonna bother me.
SPEAKER_01I'll read this. Okay, you go ahead. In the late 70s, the ad council made a deal with the US U.S. Justice Department to create an anti-crime ad campaign. Their first task, invent a spokes character like Smokey, to deliver the message in commercials. Ad man, Jack Kyle, began riding with the New York police to get ideas. He remembers. We weren't getting anywhere. Then one day I was flying home from the West Coast. I was trying to think of a slogan. Crunch time, stomp on crime. And I was thinking of animal symbols, growling at crime, roaring at crime. But which animal? The designated critter had to be trustworthy, honorable, and brave. Then I thought, you can't crunch crime or defeat it altogether, but you can't snap at it, nibble at it, take a bite out of crime. That's the slogan. And the animal that takes a bite out of crime is a dog. Yeah, so that's how they that's how they got that.
SPEAKER_03Yep.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03And it was to take a bite out of crime. They don't have that anymore. They don't I haven't seen him. No, they also don't do the DARE program anymore.
SPEAKER_02No, I don't that I heard was a scheme. I heard something recently about that, about how the Dare program was almost like one of those pyramid schemes, and it was trying to get this is all alleged. I don't know for sure. But uh alleged? Yeah, alleged. But apparently it was like one officer would have to get another officer in, and every time another officer gets in, then you would go up and like make something else and in profit or whatnot. And then the more schools that you get in, that blah, blah, blah. It was almost like a pyramid scheme. It was um it was there was some corruption stuff going on behind it. And there's more. You can look into it yourself. It's all alleged.
SPEAKER_01No, I had not heard that. But I was disappointed when I heard that there had disappeared because I ran into it in schools, and I thought, that's a good program. Keep the kids off drugs. Yeah. Oh well.
SPEAKER_02It had its ups and downs. It's hey, it had its highs and lows. Oh, yeah. Just say no to drugs, kids. It did. It had its highs and lows.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that's something.
SPEAKER_03That was their slogan. Just say no. Yeah, I guess that was kind of their the original jar program is no longer available.
SPEAKER_01Unfortunately, I still do something. I don't know what they do, but something. But you know. Mr. Peanut, Amadeo Obeci. What? Yeah. Is he Italian?
SPEAKER_03What? Yeah, a little bit.
SPEAKER_01Amadeo Obici, O-B-I-C-I, founded the Planters Nut and Chocolate Company in 1906 in Wilkesbury, Pennsylvania. Roasted and salted peanuts were still new to most Americans, and the company was an immediate success. As it got bigger, Obedici decided he needed a logo. In 1916, he sponsored a contest to find one. The winner was a 13-year-old Antonio Gentile from Seffolk, Virginia, who submitted a drawing of a little peanut person and got $5 for it. A commercial artist took Gentile sketch, added a hat, cane, and monocle to land a touch of class to the lowly legume, and Mr. Peanut was born. He made his debut in 1918. So the little kid only got five dollars for it. That's another one where he got cheated. He should have gotten a lot of money all these years.
SPEAKER_02No way. I heard uh I don't know the name of the song right off the top of my head. Stephanie, do you know it? Dave Ramsey uses it. It ha it has the saxophone in it.
SPEAKER_03It's called Baker Street. By who? Jerry Rafferty.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, the violinist or whatever. The not violinist. The saxophonist. The person singing the pipes. Playing the pipes. They only got 20 bucks for that. They they didn't know it was supposed to be uh a big hit song. Well, that's too bad.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that's uh a little crazy.
SPEAKER_02Look me up on that, somebody.
SPEAKER_01What else? It's like the girl we we talked about earlier that made the Nike swoop and she only got like three dollars for it and never got any more else after that. Yeah, she sure did. My goodness. Swoop, there it is. So interesting.
SPEAKER_03Just make sure you patent everything, you guys.
SPEAKER_01Yes.
SPEAKER_03Even my children? You never know what they're gonna become famous.
SPEAKER_02I gotta patent children.
SPEAKER_01They might be cloned or something. You don't know. Oh man, patent pending. Yeah. Have to have a big stamp on your forehead.
SPEAKER_03What else did you have, Ray? You were gonna tell me something else. I went back into uh Mr. Pete.
SPEAKER_01Back in uh when Michael was here, I talked about 20 things kids today don't recognize. We got down to the first six.
SPEAKER_03Did you mention cursive? I don't remember. I think I mention who cursive.
SPEAKER_02Oh you're a teacher and you don't even know what cursive is? You're scaring me.
SPEAKER_01Well, yeah, kids don't recognize that and they're not learning it, so they can't read it. So that's still a secret language. He knows what a Rolodex is. I remember that. Yeah, Rolodex, yeah.
SPEAKER_02His dad had you had your dad had one of those, right? My dad had one, but we weren't talking about my dad for that one. We were talking about my dad for the uh blueprint tool thingy that I still don't know what that is. But Ray pronounced the Rolo, he pronounced it Rolodex.
SPEAKER_01I know it's Rolodex. I know I said it wrong, and I I apologize. I just thought it was funny. Number seven, a wired video game control. That's they all used to plug in. Oh, yeah. They used to plug it in.
SPEAKER_03I mean, it's just like the telephone. And you had the the wire that you tripped over and had to make sure that the cord was super long so it would reach all the places of the house.
SPEAKER_01Yep. And uh cassette tapes. Because today, if you gave them a cassette tape, they wouldn't know what to do with it. They wouldn't know how to play. If they if they could even find a player.
SPEAKER_03I used to I used to be able to record over the cassette. Oh yeah.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_03Like, you know, I used to off the radio.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I used to record like my favorite shows off the radio, like with 3M.
SPEAKER_03The cassette tape never really had on it what it actually said. It was like something old that I didn't really care to listen to.
SPEAKER_01Oh yeah, you didn't want, yeah. Something else kids today don't know, and maybe you don't even know is the library card catalog.
SPEAKER_02I think I heard of this when you uh explain it.
SPEAKER_01Well, used to be when you went to the library, you they didn't have computers to look up stuff. You had to go to the drawer alphabetically and look up the title of the book. There's a name for that. What is that called? It's a card catalog. That's that's what they call it. And it was a drawer. Then you then the bigger the library, the the more the drawers, and it would cover, you know, big area, and you go pull it out and you'd look for it and look for your book. Look for the book, and then it'll tell you where to write down the number and see where where it is in the library.
SPEAKER_03It also helps you figure out where to put the books when you're putting them back. Right. I remember when food stamps were actually stamps.
SPEAKER_02Oh, I've seen it. Yeah, I've seen those.
SPEAKER_03Like uh they look like dollar bills.
SPEAKER_02A friend of ours uh growing up had them, and uh I remember looking at his book, and it'd be like it looked it looked like actual like fake almost monopoly dollars, like you would say like ten dollars, twenty dollars.
SPEAKER_01I've seen people in the grocery store do it, they pull it out of the little book.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, they're actually stamps, yeah. And now it's on this little episode.
SPEAKER_03Well, the thing is you wouldn't get no change back, you know, you'd have to use whatever was on there.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, but that's why you would always try to maximize it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. If you're using a $20 one, you've got to make sure you use $20.
SPEAKER_01All $20 worth, yeah. Wow. Something else people don't have anymore is a CD storage binder. I've got some because I used steering.
SPEAKER_03You used to be able to like people would drive in the car with the with the binder like on their I've got it.
SPEAKER_02Here, pick one out. Oh, while they're driving on their steering wheel. And then if you're really fancy, you had the six-disc changer in the trunk.
SPEAKER_03Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02But your system couldn't be too powerful because if your system was too powerful, I would make it skip. It'd make your CD skip. Yeah, it would. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03I remember that. Oh man. I used to have the uh the the discs on the binder, uh the uh visor, sorry. Oh the visor holder. I had to brought out the visor so I could just pull them out. They slide in, slide out, and the scratch CDs up.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I had those with a head behind the yeah, we still use these until the uh CD player in our in our uh SUV went out, and so we can't play them there anymore.
SPEAKER_03I have CDs still. Me and my friends at a box silver, but I still have them.
SPEAKER_02Me and my friend when we were 15, 16, we put so with our CDs and everything, we put black lights up in our car. We put uh yeah, we put this fog machine up in there. Oh, cool. So safe. Probably not legal at all. Oh, I'm sure. But what we would do is we weren't we were at the time we were good kids. So we weren't smoking or nothing like that. But we would pull up to like a red light and then have the windows up and then turn the fog machine on. Oh, you guys were nuts. Oh my gosh. And then as soon as somebody started looking, we'll roll down the windows. Oh, the fog comes out. It was all fog. Oh it was all fog. You guys. Yeah, we were we were showy. That's funny. We knew how to do it though.
SPEAKER_03Pretty cool.
SPEAKER_02Nowadays, these kids just they drive around. Uh each one of them have a cell phone glued to their nose and they think they're doing big things.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, what do they know?
SPEAKER_02They don't know how they don't know.
SPEAKER_03That'd be cool at the car show. Have the fall fog roll out.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Number 11, phone books.
SPEAKER_03Oh, I used to sit on those.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Because you're short.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, kids would sit on those. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02She has a real estate issued ID that says that she's only three feet tall.
SPEAKER_03It was a misprint, but yes. Technically a 5'1.
SPEAKER_01Well, I'm sorry about that.
SPEAKER_03My uh ID said 3-1. Well, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Were you in the Wizard of Oz as a munchkin? Hello? She had a miracle she grew up after that. Yeah, she did. That was something, wasn't it? That was what I altered it. Something else you may not have ever seen was the TB Guide magazine. Oh, I used to love to get those. Did you have those?
SPEAKER_02I liked them back when they were in black and white. And then they came into color like somewhere in the 90s or the early 2000s. They started printing them in color. But I liked them when they were in black and white because I thought they were more interesting. When they started coming in color, they started becoming more like a magazine-ish type thing. And I just didn't like that. But yeah, that shows how old I am.
SPEAKER_01Then then uh we started getting the guide on our cable, and so we stopped taking the magazine, and then it went out.
SPEAKER_02What I really liked was when the cable first sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off stuff, but when the cable first came out, they used to have this thing called a D VR, and you could actually record all of your shows and stuff like that live from the TV. So you don't need your VCR. And nowadays they don't have any of that, they don't have the picture in pictures, they don't have the D VRs. They took away all these functions from us. And now we're supposed to go to Hulu or wherever else and wait 24 hours to the next day. And I just I don't know. I liked it back in the day where we had the power. You want to record.
SPEAKER_03You could still do a D VR, you just have to pay for it.
SPEAKER_02You gotta go and buy your own D VR and I don't know.
SPEAKER_03And buy the cable where you could do that.
SPEAKER_02I know, but back in the day it was free. It came with us.
SPEAKER_03We have free TV now. We just pay for our subscription.
SPEAKER_02It'd be like us getting it'd be like us getting caller ID for free, and then ten years down the road from now, they're gonna try and charge us a subscription for that. Yeah, true. It's like, wait a minute. We were just we had collar ID for free forever. Why do we need to pay for it now? Anyways, sorry.
SPEAKER_01Wow, excuse me. You went on a rant.
SPEAKER_02Oh, sorry.
SPEAKER_01That's okay.
SPEAKER_02Might be getting hungry.
SPEAKER_01That's okay. You're hangry. Isn't that a word now? Hangry. Um, number 13, a rotary phone. Did you ever use one of those?
SPEAKER_02I did. Yeah, I I did.
SPEAKER_01It was annoying because you gotta go. Yeah, it takes a long time to dial a number.
SPEAKER_03That's like I wish the kids uh could understand what it's like, you know, to text like how you text, right? Yeah. Old school, you have to do something. It takes a long time. She was admiring the texting on your own. I haven't done that because I haven't done that forever. You have to say hello, you'd have to hit like seven, and then two twice to, you know, or two three times to get to the E, and you know, six, three more times.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, he's over there texting.
SPEAKER_03It's like worse code. It's like it's all one word and he typed in the whole alphabet already. Yeah, it would be like two, two, three, three, three, one, one.
SPEAKER_01Well, well, the hard some of the words are hard, like on the the MNO. If I wanted to write Monday, I've got to type it in, wait for it to clear, then the O, and then I gotta do the N, and it takes takes a while.
SPEAKER_02Or you could just get a smartphone.
SPEAKER_01No, I'm not getting a smartphone.
SPEAKER_03I thought if you hit the I thought if you hit the space button, it it likes it like adds it for you.
SPEAKER_01No.
SPEAKER_03He don't have a phone like that. There's a little, I think what are the pound keys or whatever, just like a it's a space button. It would be the space.
SPEAKER_02His phone is similar to a two-way page.
SPEAKER_03I had one of those phones before. I know how to use it.
SPEAKER_02That thing is shh.
SPEAKER_01Anyway, I like my I like my my flip phone.
SPEAKER_02I do like it. I'm hoping by the end of season three, he's he's he's a smartphone.
SPEAKER_01He's converted smartphone or well, we'll see. Um, I got a great article. I hope I brought it. Maybe we should stop this, save this for another time. And I got a great article. Let's see if I can find it. Let's see if I can find it.
SPEAKER_02His desk over there looks like somebody who's controlling the uh nuclear war station, and he's like, I don't know if I brought the paper. Oh, really? That is that's Homer Simpson. I'm like, you got you got every paper in the world over there. What are you talking about? You didn't bring the paper.
SPEAKER_01I don't oh, I don't have the paper I wanted. Darn. No way. Yeah, you think I have everything. Are you sure? I'm sure. But I do have this one.
SPEAKER_02What's this one?
SPEAKER_01What's this one? Science shows that seeds can hear the rain sounds and even grow faster due to the sound waves. Seeds like plant seeds? Plant seeds. That when the rain natural rain falls, they can hear that and they grow. So what scientists did was that they planted some seeds and just played the recording of rain falling and they grew better.
SPEAKER_03No, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yes, yeah. There's an article here about that.
SPEAKER_03That's equivalent to the water water being positive if you talk to it nicely, and water being going black if you talk to it negatively.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I heard that. What? Or if you play like classical music to plants, it they tend to respond. But yeah, I heard that. If you uh say nice things to water and then you freeze it, the the images of the water is very beautiful and pretty. They're clear, it's really clear. But if you say like horrible or mean or or evil things to the water uh before you freeze it, it uh tends to be like ugly and horrible and cloudy and nasty and cloudy.
SPEAKER_03Well, you know, water's a living thing. We all like to be talked to nicely. And they say speak life.
SPEAKER_02So I think so much is in our tongue that we just we're are unaware of how gifted and powerful our tongue is.
SPEAKER_03Does this mean that that if I get like water from like the ocean and I talk to it nicely, I can make clerically purified water drinking? I wonder. Oh, right. I have to say, I really enjoy uh all your all your well well well researched stories.
SPEAKER_01Well, I'm always on the lookout for stuff because now that I got a podcast, I'm always on the lookout for interesting things that um maybe people have not heard or or Hey keep us in the know. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Ray and I have become writers.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. He became a writer. He really did. And now I'm now that I'm into limericks, I I might have to write a few more. I don't know. We'll see. We're producers over here. Yeah, we're producers.
SPEAKER_03You have to make them like like everybody gets their own Liberic.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03That'd be kind of like a lot of things.
SPEAKER_01I tried to work with you, but but but but uh you it was hard to rhyme with staff, so I have to work on that some more.
SPEAKER_03You don't even have to put the name in, you can just tell me it's for me. No, I have to put the name in there. No.
SPEAKER_01I have to put your name in there. But maybe I can work without it and tell you it's about you. Okay. We'll see.
SPEAKER_03I'll be waiting.
SPEAKER_01Okay. My article was called Dinks and Sinks. What? D-I-N-K-S and S-I-N-K-S-DINK. Okay. Is this because you want a new kitchen sink? No, it had nothing to do with my new kitchen sink. Double income no kids and single income no kids. That's what they were talking about. Dinks and sinks. Dinks and sinks, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Oh okay Oh, I get it. It's an acronym.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's an acronym.
SPEAKER_03Double income no kids. Single income no kids.
SPEAKER_01And and single income no kids. Because in the olden days everybody, you know, people were sinks. Because the dad could go out and make the money and earn it for everybody, and now you take two and two and more to make that.
SPEAKER_02Split the family up.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. But that's with people with no kids, you know. And uh and anyway, so and people today aren't having their kids like they should, except you guys are. And um double appreciated. Double income with kids. Yeah, I know, but that's that doesn't that doesn't make a good uh thing.
SPEAKER_03Okay, go ahead.
SPEAKER_01That's all. That's all there is to it. I uh I I don't have the article to read you anything, but that's just I saw that and I thought, oh, that's interesting because I never heard of a sync before like that.
SPEAKER_02That's all there is to it, folks.
SPEAKER_01That's all there is to it, folks. Yeah, you're right. And just like that, folks, episode 37, three seasons deep, is officially in the books or in the computer. Thanks uh for joining us as we kick off season three. We've already got some great conversations, special guests, and a few surprises waiting in the wings. So you'll definitely want to stick around. We'll be back next week with another episode of Unfit for Radio.
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