Of What Remains With Jeremy Vickers

THIS SATURDAY MORNING:

 OF WHAT REMAINS — with Jeremy Vickers on 92.7FM WOBM

A brand-new show built from a familiar voice.

Of What Remains returns — reformatted, reimagined, and finally set free to go wherever the conversation leads.

Hosted by Jeremy Vickers, this new version of Of What Remains is a wide-ranging, unscripted journey through the things that made us… and the things that changed us. From growing up in the 1980s to surviving the chaos of the modern world, from pop culture to personal stories, forgotten history to everyday absurdity — nothing is off the table.

Some days it’s reflective.

Some days it’s funny.

Some days it’s raw, weird, nostalgic, or unexpectedly deep.

But it’s always real.

This isn’t a nostalgia show.

This isn’t a news show.

This is a conversation about what’s left after time moves on.

Memories. Culture. Stories. Laughter. Regret. Curiosity.

The strange, messy, beautiful pile of things that remain.

Of What Remains with Jeremy Vickers —

Because the past never really goes away…

and the present keeps giving us new stories to tell.

Transcript

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Hey everybody, it's your uh friend Jeremy, and this is another episode of What Remains. Uh yeah, so I hope everybody is going to have a lovely Easter today. Um we are. We're gonna go to spend some time with family, and uh I'm as I'm sure you know you guys are too. It's beautiful weather for a Saturday. Now, Sunday, I don't know what. Uh I haven't seen the weather report, but uh for those of you listening on 92.7wobm tomorrow morning, that's Sunday from 6 to 7, uh on your way to church or wherever, uh, happy Easter. Yeah. Have a happy Easter, guys. Uh, your old pal Jeremy loves you and wishes you a safe one. So, first off, let's get to my uh sponsor for my show. It's of course the incomparable Dr. Gabriel Jasper and the Jasper Spine Institute. That's that's the big uh that's the big show. Um, if you're suffering from pain, you don't need to. 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Um our parents are our patients love him because they see the they see something being done. You know, and I feel like I feel like that you don't get that a lot with other uh medical, you know, like other pain doctor places. Uh you never feel like anything's getting done. But with Dr. Gabriel Jasper, he can fix you. He can fix that. And uh, and he will just give it, just give them a call today. I'll put the phone number up on the screen for those of you watching the stream on Saturdays. You can see it. Uh it is uh 732-262-0700. If you want to make an appointment to the Jasper Spy Institute, that's 732-262-0700. And they're located on 74 Brick Boulevard, New Jersey, 08723. And um if you want more information about Dr. Gabriel Jasper and the amazing things he can do, uh, please go to jaspermd.com. Okay. All right, guys. So um, yeah, I it's been uh it's it's been a week or two, I'll tell you that. Uh my last week show was dedicated to my wife, really, because I love her and she does everything. And um a lot of times, you know, the uh the the working mother, the working wife do so much more than the husband or the father. And we don't see it a lot of it. A lot of it's done on the down low, maybe before we even wake up, maybe you know, while you're preoccupied doing something else. But um, I don't know. Make every day mom's day or wife's day, you know. Treat your wife like she's an angel every single day because she does everything. You wouldn't have socks if it wasn't for her. So, yeah, that was last week's show. This week's show we're gonna be we're gonna be talking about some back to 80s stuff, uh Generation X stuff. Uh and uh maybe we're gonna talk about I when I was a kid growing up, uh, I thought we were knights, you know, me and the other kids. I mean, I dealt with dragons, uh, like, you know, I mean, kids do uh fight their own dragons, you know. Uh later in life we call it uh beasts to bear, but they're still dragons. And uh the kids are or the at least the kids back in my day, we had to just deal with it. There wasn't like mollycoddling or anything like they do today with kids. Oh, you precious thing. No child left behind. Yeah, we we were left behind and we just had to deal with it. Uh, that was it. Um, and uh so yeah, we had to slay our dragons uh if we were even gonna survive. Uh so let's see. We got um latchkey kids. We were all latchkey kids, right? Those of you that don't know understand what that means uh for the younger kids. It's uh it's that you would come home and your parents weren't there, and that you would have a key, maybe it was tied around uh you know, a shoelace and you wore it around your neck, and you'd come home, you'd let yourself in. Um, and then you had you were responsible for yourself until someone came home. And uh that's that's really what a latchkey kid is. But we we were all that, I guess. Um had that that rule of uh being home before dark. Uh because there was no you didn't track kids, right? My son, I can go on Life 360 and poof, there he is, right there at Harvard. Uh, and I know what building he's in. I know exactly what he's doing. And it's proof of life, is what it is. I used to be um, you know, standoffish about apps like this. Uh yeah, you might anybody know where I was. I come from a time where we didn't have cell phones or even beepers then. And when you left the house, you were unattainable. And that was a privilege that we gave away too easily, I think, when we when we got into the uh iPhones and the uh, you know, it wasn't enough just to be able to talk to somebody. You had to be able to take a picture of yourself, and you had to uh be able to play a game that was more complicated than Snake. Remember Snake on the Mo uh Motorola, I think it was. I love that game. I I would I would play it. Uh but you had to you had to survive when you were a kid. And there was a lot of stuff that got in your way bullies. Uh some some some of you bad parents and abuse of homes. Uh and that's that's gotta be the worst, I think. And your only escape was outside, maybe at your friend's house, maybe all the misadventures you got into, and then finally you got home at night before dark. And you would have to deal with your parents. And and that was the that was the tough thing, maybe for many of you. We rode our bikes everywhere, like I said, no GPS. You know what we do? We would drink from a hose. All right, so now they're you know, we're we're all concerned about what what goes into our bodies now and all that. We were drinking like lead, and we were drinking all this stuff that could kill you like at an early age, but we persevered, you know. We we we we drank it up. Hey, all right, you know, this is the 80s, and we just don't give a shit, you know. Uh we we've really become soft people, haven't we? You know, like with our playables and um freaking kale. Uh we've become so soft. That's that's a great term for soft people. Uh like a soft drink. You know, nothing exciting in it, just some bubbles, and that's it, you know. That's that's what people are today. Just soft. We lived with hand-me-down clothes. Uh, I was the oldest brother, so my brother got stuck with all my old shit. But um and parents didn't hover around you like they do today. You know, every three seconds. Where is he? Where is he? Yeah, they didn't care, our parents. They wanted us out the door as soon as freaking possible when we woke up in the morning. They wanted their time, we wanted our time, and we all got it. And I think I think it was I think it was our generation that created this soft generation. That's what it should really be called, generation soft, or you know, just soft generation. Um, millennials, and I know a lot of you are gonna get triggered by that, but you just didn't know. If you got like uh something breaks in your house, or or you know, you either throw it out or you gotta call someone to come in and fix it, we would just fix it. You have these skills, but no one ever told you to that you can use them. For some reason, we never needed to be told, we just uh did what needed to be done, and that was it. And if it took if it took more than one of us to figure it out, we put our heads together. But yeah, the world's world's a different place. Back then we were living through the cold war. Um we saw the challenger disaster, the space shuttle that blew up. Um I remember seeing that. I was standing outside the uh teacher's break room and they were watching it on the TV, and I was cry I was peeking through the crack when I saw it happen. Uh the fall of the Berlin Wall. A lot of this stuff went past us unseen, you know. I mean, I remember like like President Ronald Reagan was our president for the entire decade of the 80s. So that's like eight years, two terms. Um and he was like the first impression I was able to do when I was a kid. Well, you know, and I I can't do it now. Um I'm terrible with impressions now, but um, and and my family were Democrats. Okay, so I in I inherited democra, you know, being a de a Democrat, being uh a liberal, I suppose. And uh it gives me the shivers, just saying that. Uh so all I knew was what my family were saying about Ronald Reagan, and they would joke at joke and make uh make fun of him. Uh and it wasn't until I'm you know now I'm a man that I started looking into this president, and I feel he was one of the best we ever had. Uh I think I think by you know, our standards for today is we're looking for a man like Ronald Reagan. If you listen to his speeches, your jaw will drop. Or these stories he would tell. And they were just wonderful. He was a wholesome president, um, and that's why his his picture is is prominently positioned in the Oval Office because of the incredible president that he was. So we had that during the 80s. Cable TV came into uh into you know onto our TVs and uh more channels. Before that, we had 13 channels, 13. That was it. And uh if there was nothing on, then there was nothing on, and that was that. Then we get cable channels, and then we have so many channels with so much stuff on, but there was still nothing to see, you know. You had all these channels, and there's nothing to watch. But let's say this uh on a on an early Saturday morning, we would get up though, us kids, and we would go down and we'd be the first at the television in the morning before even breakfast, our pajamas are still on, and we curl up on the floor, and we watch Saturday morning cartoons. And I don't know if you guys felt the same way about Saturday morning cartoons as I did and my friends. Um that was like, you know, you know, you have you know how you get like a sitcom and everybody talks about it at the water cooler at work or whatever. Maybe it was Seinfeld or Friends or something. Did you watch last night's episode? That's how we were with Saturday morning cartoons. Like, did you watch Super Friends? You know, and there were so many great ones, crazy cartoons that many of you may not even be aware of. Uh but like we had basic ones. Um, Richie Rich. Richie Rich was great. Uh, but they had the Richie Rich Scooby-Doo show. So it was like, I guess they were shorter episodes, uh, or maybe they were just back to back. So it was an hour long, Richie Rich and Scooby-Doo. Then Scooby uh went to Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo, and a bunch of other things, you know. But uh some of the wild ones, like the Fawns and the Happy Days gang. Uh they turned they turned uh Happy Days into a cartoon um with the Fonz. Did did he actually play? Oh yeah. And Henry Winkler voiced the Fonz in this cartoon. So if you're if you're a big fan of the Fonz, and I am, I I got a Fonz action, uh Fonzi action figure, and you press the button on his back, and his uh his hands come up and and he gives you two thumbs up. Hey, you know, uh correct the mundo. And Fonz and the Happy Days gang. And I I know I don't know if it was in every episode, but uh I remember this one episode where yeah, yeah, no, no, no, no. So Happy Days uh sitcom or sorry, happy days cartoon blending time travel adventure with comedy for Saturday morning audiences. So it had two seasons, 24 episodes total, and it was hysterical. It was like, you know, the fans through time, which was great. And not to be left out, there was also Laverne and Shirley, and uh the cartoon on Saturday mornings was Laverne and Shirley in the army, and they had episodes with interesting names like Invasion of the Boobies, the Booby Hatchers. I'd love to see that Naval Fluff. Uh but yeah, that was they're two weird shows. We had Tom and Jerry, uh Heathcliff. Do you guys remember Heathcliff? The little uh orange alley cat uh with attitude. Uh because that was big in when we were kids. Everybody had to have attitude, every character had an attitude. Um the Bugs Bunny Roadrunner show. Wow, that was something. That was one you don't you didn't miss. It was uh I loved the Roadrunner uh shorts with Wiley Coyote and the Roadrunner. That was fantastic. Uh Flintstone Funnies. Uh The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle and Jekyll. Wow, does anybody remember Heckle and Jekyll? These two um oh what kind of birds were they? Uh they could talk, obviously, you know, but like the I used to know what that what species of bird it was. It was a mocking bird type of thing. Um Heckle and Jekyll, they were the best. And Mighty Mouse. I love Mighty Mouse, like a bolt from the blue with a heart that's true. Uh we had Godzilla, a cartoon of Godzilla, which was crazy. It was weird. It was it wasn't really what you today would hope for, but you all knew uh Popeye Hour. Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids. Maybe the Cosby Kids part isn't in favor nowadays, but Fat Albert, he was the jam back then. Tarzan and the Super Seven. Uh Thundar the Barbarian. This was the show, man. This was like a post, post, post-apocalyptic world. I mean, the moon had shattered, and you get this barbarian with a laser sword, and uh this big like Chewbacca type of thing. And let's see, we'll see what their names were. Thundar. And uh yeah, there was sorcery. There Ukla. Ukla the mock. That was the the like the um Chewbacca-e type guy. Uh so you had Thundar, the heroic barbarian, and you had Princess Ariel. And uh yeah, the name of Thundar's sword was called the Sunstore, uh, the Sun Sword. And they had a bad guy, but I can't seem to find where his name is. But that was that was great, and you know what, there's no reason. Reason why they can't reintroduce a lot of these cartoons to a new audience of children today. You know? I mean Spider Woman. Seriously? That was a oh, it was very short-lived. Um 16 episodes. 1979 to 1980. That's crazy. I may have seen one of one of those episodes. I don't know. And the Smurfs. Oh, like it was their toys were so great. They were like just little tiny PVC characters, but um, you know, they had so many different ones. The Smurfs, I think, originated in um uh excuse me. They originated, I think, in like Germany or Austria or something like that. And um, if you could get some of them, I would love. They had like a they they had the Smurf Village as well. That was like size appropriate to those little those little ones that you could collect. And um, you could play out you could play out the Smurfs. Because that's what we did. A lot of these cartoons were also like gimmicks for uh toy companies, you know, to to produce toys that um like He-Man. He Man. He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. That toy line, I had everything. My mother was part, my mother, I don't know, through her work, she got um like a free pass to go to the uh Mattel warehouse where everything was just marked down a cost. And uh and I got everything for Christmas on, you know, I didn't get a lot during the year, but Christmas time was absolutely amazing. Waking up in the morning. Well, I I woke up at like you know um 11:59. One o'clock, two o'clock, three o'clock. I couldn't sleep, and somehow they were able to get into my bedroom and uh, you know, Santa, I mean, and put down uh a big bag of toys in my room, uh that and then more under the tree, a bigger bag under the tree. But um, all these toys were uh a possible thing to end up. Like I had this incredible Hulk dog. I want to get another one. I have a huge toy collection, massive toy collection from you know, toys uh from back in the day, many of which were on these Saturday morning cartoons. And uh, so you know, Generation Xers who who got Saturday morning cartoons, the good thing about us is we got to experience them twice, once when they were live on TV, because there was no there was no um, you know, you couldn't record them. I mean, you could record them, but the you you there was no digital copy. So if you missed it, you missed it. And so you had to be down Saturday mornings to watch this stuff. Uh I lived through Pac-Man Mania. Uh, or Pac-Man fever, I should say, too. Pac-Man fever. Uh the Rubik's Cube exploded, and everybody went nuts about the Rubik's Cube. Now they're going through it again, and there's like speed challenges and stuff like that. Uh it's amazing. Mr. T. The cartoon. I know I don't know if he he never got acting, he never got like uh toys on his own. I do have all of the A-Team toys, though. So I have him as B.A. Barackas. Um, and I have all the other guys, even Amy, who was uh the female uh reporter. Uh, and I have a couple of the bad guys as well. They're just called bad guys, they didn't really have names. Um, but Mr. T was on for three seasons, 30 episodes of Mr. T. Each episode follows Mr. T and his diverse group of teenage gymnasts as they travel to competitions and become entangled in mysteries or crimes. Mr. T uses strength and wisdom to help the team solve problems while important imparting moral guidance. What a man, Mr. T. Uh, they also had Mr. T Serial, I think that was based on this uh cartoon. The Littles, Shirt Tales, remember that? Monchi Cheese. Uh my wife had a Manchi Chi. I know that. She always tells me. Uh Dungeons and Dragons. What an amazing cartoon that was. Oh my goodness. I think they made a movie uh with with uh those same characters back. Uh, if you're interested. Snorks was good. If you liked the Smurfs, you would love the Snorks. They were the Smurfs, but underwater. Um a couple cartoons based on the uh video games of the time. We had Dragon's Lair, uh, Dragon's Lair, Pole Position, the cartoon. Yeah, you wouldn't think it would be possible to just you know make a cartoon out of the pole position video game, but they did. And uh it only had 13 episodes, but in 1984. But uh, and I never watched it. I mean it was mostly made up. Okay, there were some open-wheel racing cars, uh, but the wuzzles. Jesus, what's the wuzzles? Oh, I remember these things, yeah. They were like animals that were crossbred, so interspecial interspecies uh erotica was a very real thing on Saturday morning. So I'm looking at right now a lion who is part lion, part bumblebee. Yeah. And then there's an elephant, or no, or is that a hippo? Yeah, a hippo crossed with a bunny rabbit, uh, a purple elephant, a chimpanzee with a horn for a nose. It was crazy. These guys were were smoking some heavy reefer when they were uh creating that one. Pryor's place. Is this Richard Pryor? Yeah, it was. This was wow, this was a live action show. They had animated sequences, yeah. There was only 13 episodes in 1984. Um, but it was it was a format, it was supposed to be similar to uh fat Albert and the Cosby kids, but it was Richard Pryor, and uh and he was in it, man. He was, you know, that was I I'd be interested in actually seeing that. Uh, because I didn't see it when it was uh an actual thing. So we have uh Muppet Babies. Who doesn't he didn't like those guys, huh? The 13 ghosts of Scooby-Doo. This was a great cartoon. It had Vincent Price as kind of their mentor who and supposedly um they they accidentally opened this chest that trapped 13 ghosts, and um so then it was Shaggy, Scooby, and Daphne. Only Shaggy finally changes his uh t-shirt and now it's red instead of green. And I guess this was during the time when Velma and Fred went off on a romantic tryst because they weren't in it. And uh and a couple years back, they actually made a final episode cartoon movie that you know end caps the TV series from the 80s, the cartoon series from the 80s, which I thought was cool. I like when they do that. They don't I like when they don't have to mess around with reboots and they just give you a continuation. And if you want to if you want to know about what happened before, you're gonna have to look for that show and watch it. It only had one season, too, uh 13 episodes, but it was great. And um, yeah, well, it was one of my favorites anyway. Yogi's treasure hunt. You always watch Yogi Bear. Uh hey boo-boo. Um The New Adventures of Scooby-Doo Mysteries. Pound Puppies. Pound Puppies was a great show. They they didn't look like the pound puppies you would buy in the store, and they've tried to uh make like new modern versions of cartoons called pound puppies, but they just didn't work, you know. You always go back to the original, like even with DuckTales, DuckTales was one of the best cartoons ever made, the original DuckTales. Uh, it had everything. And like it was it was just amazing. So then they bring it back. Disney, you know, Disney's like, oh yeah, we're gonna bring it back, but we're gonna change the animation completely, and that's what really puts me off of it. I can't watch it because it's it just doesn't look like the other duck tales. If you're going to continue on, why would you make them look like they were like um what are those plastic things? Uh pop figures, right? They have the their heads are have that kind of shape to it. Make them what they look like. Ah, but they don't do that. These kids get off my lawn. Uh Foofer. The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. I did watch that actually. I liked Winnie the Pooh as a kid. I did. Alf Tales. Alf got his own TV or his own Saturday morning cartoon. Um so did John Candy. And you get a little to this. Okay. So John Candy gets uh a uh cartoon made after him. It's called Camp Candy, and he actually gets three seasons, and John Candy voices himself in the cartoon. So for John Candy fans, and I'm one of them, uh that would be a great one to check out. Uh She Ra and He-Man. Yeah, we I talked about He-Man a little bit. I have so many toys of He-Man. I still do. I have like a whole uh complete Snake Mountain with the original box. Um, I have a lot of figures, but see, time was not uh you know, gentle with with some of these toys. The rubber that they were that was made to use them have has broken down over time. So depending upon how they were stored, they could be completely rotted and the legs will just come off, you know. There are ways of fixing it, correcting it, but um, it's sad. It's sad that a lot of these toys are uh uh depreciating, you know. Uh and and every day that passes, uh you know, toys, these older toys, these classic toys, are just harder to find. Um in the way, in the you know, maybe in the capacity that you're looking for. Then there was Thundercats, Thunder, Thunder, Thundercats! Ho yeah, the uh the Sword of Omens. Give me sight beyond sight. Thundercats, transformers. Wow, I have like literally hundreds of transformers in my collection. Uh my entire my entire collection is up in the attic right now because the dust was killing me. Um, so they're all nicely stored up in my attic, but I hate that. And I thought and I'm actually seriously thinking of letting it letting it go because um if they can't be enjoyed by someone, um, I shouldn't have them. That's what I'm thinking. But uh G.I. Joe, a real American hero. I mean, this is a cartoon where like a wrestler, Sgt. Slaughter, became a main character of G.I. Joe, and he's still he's still a main character. Um, you'll see him pop up in the cartoons, in the comic books, in the card games. Um, and uh and there would be like live cuts with uh Sergeant Pepper, maybe at the end, when G.I. Joe's would give you that more you know, moral lesson. Um, and knowing is half the battle, they would say. G.I. Joe. But uh, and Gem, Gem and the holograms. They tried to make a movie of that, I think, in the 90s, uh, or maybe maybe it was uh early 2000s, but um it didn't work. It didn't work. Uh Gem and the holograms and their and their uh evil the evil band that was always after them, the misfits. Uh we are the misfits, our songs are better. We are the misfits, and we're gonna get her. I can't remember, I remember all that stuff. Rainbow bright. I mean, if you were a kid and you just loved you loved rainbows, you loved colorful things, this was something you could collect. There was a whole line of dolls, uh, all kinds of different ones. You know, you had there was a a character, a boy character called Red Butler. There was an orange character called La La Orange, Canary Yellow, Patio Green, Indigo, uh, Shy Violet. So there, I guess they were all named after the colors that uh they are Buddy Blue, and then of course Rainbow Bright. And Rainbow Bright had this like white ball of fur with like antennas, legs, and arms, and a quasi-human face, which to me is the stuff of nightmares, but um that was that was her little pet thing. Um so these are basically the toy-driven um cartoons like My Little Pony. My little pony went nuts uh in recent years. Uh guys got into it like grown-ass men are collecting little My Little Ponies. Um I don't get it. But I do have, I think, I think I have two My Little Ponies in my collection. You have to have one if you're collecting toys, you know. Uh Visionaries, Knights. Let me let me check my time. Oh, good. I got tons of time. Okay. Um the Visionaries, Knights of Ma of the Magical Light. Uh the they had a toy line, and what made them unique was on their chests there was a hologram um you know, sticker thing. And if you depending on how you twisted it around, the hologram would change shape, you know. And it was, I think it was uh their spirit animals or something. And uh each one had a different one. But the problem with those stickers is over time the holograms faded. And so again, depending upon how they were stored, uh you're gonna find a lot of these that are just they're just they're not what they were. They probably would need replacement stickers, and you can get all this stuff, but then you're throwing more money into like uh action figure, and it's nuts. This is the this is the uh the issues a toy collector goes through. Uh, the adventures of the galaxy rangers. You know, I never got into that. Uh there was just so many to get into, but Bravestar. No, Bravestar, I did get into. Um, I actually have a complete Bravestar and a complete Tex Hex with their hats. Because those hats were loose, they they came off. And all these little weapons and all of that. I mean, they got lost over the years, but if you could get them, it's awesome. So here they didn't muck around with seasons, they just tell you there were 65 episodes between 87 and 88. Uh, and I I believe they had a pilot movie as well, um, of uh Bravestar. And he was like a Native American on a on a planet in the future, and uh they were you know, there was these crystals that everybody wanted, and Tex Hex was like this like living dead uh bad cowboy guy. Um Bravestar had a horse that could transform into a biped with muscles. Like that's the the crazy imagination of the 80s. Uh the planet they lived on was New Texas. Uh Bravestar Dawn draws. Wait, Bravestar draws a Native American inspired mysticism giving the Martial or yeah, the Marshall animal-based powers. Yeah, that was the cool thing about uh Bravestar. Like whenever there was a a need, he could call on the powers of an animal, like um strength of the bear, bear, bear, bear, and he would have mighty strength, you know, speed of the puma, puma. Um eyes of the hawk. Oh, come up. It was cool. So you have these toys, and you're a kid, and you're playing with them, and you're screaming this stuff out, and all of a sudden your toy has super sight, and you can check out what Tex Hex is doing over yonder. Uh and it was good times, though. Good times. Uh, yeah, uh, there was a Bravestar movie. Yeah, it was right. But um well, that's what toy. I mean, toy companies just wanted you to create something they can make toys out of. And that's what it was back then. Like, you know, uh like He-Man and the Masters of the Universe is nothing like the little comic books that came with the action figures. Uh, if you if you read those comics and then watched the cartoon, you wouldn't understand what the hell's going on. Like He-Man's uh origin stories uh are completely different in the cut little tiny mini comics that came with every action figure. Uh so a toy that you know, like the toy line asked a company, I think it was Filmation. And Filmation is like, yeah, yeah, we can make it because it was it was actually pretty cheap back then to get a cartoon. series produced and they would just ask for a a bunch of episodes for a season and then they'll they would start producing the the cartoons because um you know this was going to be on saturday morning on a on a prime slot and uh it's also where we discovered the real ghostbusters now i have so many of these toys i have like a so many ghosts all original ones you know um i even have the the one that i have from when i was a kid i still have it uh one uh Winston Zedmore uh which is cool I was telling Ernie Hudson about this uh uh several years ago uh he was at his first Comic Con and uh and I think it was my first Comic Con. And whatever happened um like I had a booth there and everything but um uh he and I uh got waiting uh next to the anecto one the actual car and Ernie Hudson's dressed up like a Ghostbuster it was like a dream come true and I got to spend like a half an hour with him we were just bullshitting and having having a laugh and he was telling me how it's his first time at a Comic Con and all that um when I told when I tell you a terrifically nice guy he was to me at any rate uh at that moment and um I have the entire I have the huge uh firehouse playset I have the Ecto one car I have a a Volkswagen Beetle haunted Ghostbuster car and I have like this little one chair mini helicopter uh so you got ecto one two and three and um and a whole buttload of ghosts that you needed um so then uh oh yeah the ones that kind of this was late 80s okay early 90s teenage mutant ninja turtles completely blew things blew cartoons off the map uh cartoons I think then were starting to move into afternoons right after school too so it wasn't just saturday morning and uh you would see a lot of teenage mutant ninja turtles there was Dennis the Menace uh there was the adventures of Raggedy Ann and Andy I thought I don't know I watched a couple of those uh it was short-lived um 13 episodes only in 1988 but uh I always wanted a uh a Raggedy Ann and Andy you know that you guys know the um conjuring movies you know Annabelle and all that you know that's one it's all based off of uh true uh supposedly accounts and the Annabelle doll was actually a raggedy Anne Annabelle so I found at this um oh where the frick were we I don't know I think we were on our way to Elizabeth Pennsylvania for like a Kenobles uh trip and on the way there we saw on the side of the road um of this farm area you know they had like vegetables and such we saw so I was I I was big into yard sales then because I was toy collecting and I saw her this big raggedy and doll it was exactly like the one that's in the cabinet at the at the Warren's house house uh from the from the conjuring movies Annabelle and I saw it and I said oh I want I need my own Annabelle and I have it I have her and I used to terrorize Maggie with that um I would crack a door and leave her up and up on top balanced so when Maggie opens the door Annabelle would drop down because Maggie Maggie didn't want her in the house she used to go to these movies with me and uh because we love go we love seeing horror movies together uh and it would just scare the shit out of her um yeah so that was Raggedy Ann um there was other shows like Bionic 6 Cops uh oh centurions centurions were these guys there was three of them a blue an orange and a green one okay and they had holes all over their body little you know stuff to peg things onto and they would get beamed down from a satellite um equipment that they you would snap onto them so like the the blue guy was a uh a pilot so he would get like wings that you can snap onto his body um missiles other other like flying type uh equipment but finding all those pieces uh I have a centurion I think I have a couple pieces for him that's it uh and you know I think around the time I got him I was kind of like transitioning from because COVID just started and I was transitioning from uh um toy collecting into collecting board games which I currently do and uh nothing not like not like Monopoly or anything like good tabletop games good games um now I'm mostly a solo player because my kid grew up but uh but yeah so I didn't really click collect any of the pieces for this my Centurion I wish I I wish I did but uh so next one Defenders of the Earth this was a great show for me I was a big Flash Gordon fan even as a kid uh sometimes on Sundays uh they would play these old movies old serials so like I grew up watching Tarzan I watched all the Tarzan movies I couldn't get enough and uh some of them were naughty like the underwater scenes like you're seeing naked people uh swimming around and I'm a kid on a Sunday morning you know uh there used to be this re I don't know if any of you remember this but for some reason they would they would put like a they would block out people's eyes for whatever reason I don't know if it's because they were dead or what I'm gonna have to research that because it just popped into my head and I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have to figure that out maybe we'll talk about that another time. But Defenders of the Earth you had um Mandrake the magician uh you had you know a bunch of kids obviously um Lothar was this like I think it was like a muscular uh black guy you know and then you had Flash Gordon obviously uh and who doesn't like flash Gordon seriously and then you had the Phantom the ghost who walks uh and I loved him as superheroes go you know I mean he was great he had such great backstory origin stories um like you name it so like as a kid you you soaked up lore you know like you loved it if there was more backstory you could play that out you know with your toys I wish I I wish I had some of the uh defenders of the earth stuff but I think a lot of it was again made with flimsy plastic so it's it's it's hard uh inhumanoids those were huge toys I have one but they're very expensive to get to get and find uh oh Jace and the wheeled warriors this was a great toy line uh the the vehicles you could break down into pieces and then mix match uh or mishmash whatever uh them together and create completely different vehicles and there was one good side obviously and a bad one uh 65 episodes of Jace and the wheeled warriors and there was these like little flat green brains in the enemy side vehicles that were controlling them they were called monster mines uh mutant plant based creatures created through a failed experiment and they so what happens they they they build cars and and attack people with them um yeah so jason the wheel warriors wheeled warriors toys would be great thank you please uh there was mask um this was like you know transformers was huge and everybody wanted something that transformed into something else so that you'd have vehicles that could transform into something uh a base that could transform into something you know and each of the mask guys could would wear a different mask that would give them different powers and such so you could have the same character but different masks for him that you would snap over their heads and and such police academy became uh a cartoon um and I think like Winslow was it Winslow the guy who does all the voices I met him once um I had gotten this uh you know how like in the police academy scenes he would do the he would do that bit where he would speak like he was in a an old kung fu movie or China you know like a karate movie and um there would be subtitles he did this great performance like that anyway um he would wear this bandana um similar to like karate kids bandana bandana well I found one on eBay and I bought it and it came to me and I went to a convention uh where you know I was wearing a police academy shirt um he was there and uh uh where was his name the guy played Mahoney it's crazy I follow him on on uh twitter but I I I keep forgetting his name uh Gutenberg Steve Gutenberg yeah and uh he's a germaphobe I think uh he was really covered up when uh during that it could have been just because of the you know uh COVID had been uh a couple years back and so he was being uh cautious but follow his tick tock it's so good it's so like up you know it makes you feel good you know he talks about just like the pleasures of everyday world and stuff and I really like it uh there was other I'm gonna let me see what time we got oh yeah I'm gonna be closing up soon so there was ghostbusters uh which was not the same as the real Ghostbusters these they called the original Ghostbusters and it was just weird it was like uh there was a gorilla and these two guys and uh and a car that could change into anything um it was a ghost also and I so wanted that car I wanted to collect these figures but I never got to um yeah so we had Captain N, the game master that's when Nintendo was flying uh Chippendale Rescue Rangers that was another hot one that went alongside DuckTales uh the Super Mario Brothers Super Show that was great uh you had um was that Captain Lou Albano from WWF uh he played Mario and it was good it was good um Pac-Man had a cartoon old video game guy you know uh and there was so much more but saturday mornings are were something that could never happen again uh there's with with everything streaming and there's uh cartoon networks and there's this and that saturday morning cartoons made cartoons special for children and uh it's I think that's just a lesson we have to learn when we create too much sometimes having just a little is enough to make your day if uh if you don't overindulge and uh and that's that's kind of where we are as a people we we have five second attention spans uh from the videos we swipe up and swipe up on you know Instagram or TikTok or whatever but anyway I love you guys I will see you again next week I hope everybody has a a brilliant Easter uh and in the meantime please be kind be tolerant and be resilient for me okay I love each and every one of you be safe and happy new year all right I'll see you next time because this is of what remains of me. Take care guys