Da Latchkey Kids

"The door to the 4th floor is open!" In this inaugural episode of Da Kids from the 4th Floor podcast, hosts B MAD and Christina dive into their childhood experiences as latchkey kids growing up in Brooklyn. They explore the nostalgia of the 80s and 90s, discussing favorite snacks, cartoons, and the impact of childhood programming on their lives. 

The conversation flows naturally from their personal stories to broader themes of nostalgia and the shared experiences of their generation.

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Transcript

The Door on the 4th Floor Is Open

SPEAKER_01 0:02

Peace. Welcome to the kids from the Fourth Floor Podcast. It's your boy B Mac. And I'm Christina. And welcome to our podcast show. Kicking it off. It's our first episode. You know, it's been a long time coming. Something we've been trying to do for a long time, man. Got my big sis Chris. You know what I mean? Two kids from Brooklyn, two latchkey kids, you know, setting it off, man. And it just feels so good to finally do this, Chris. How you feeling? I'm feeling like finally, like we.

SPEAKER_04 0:34

Because we always talked about this. We always talked about those times, those, those times back in the 80s when we were just kids and carefree and loving it. But but before we go, before we go further, let's talk about what we're wearing. Let me see. Let me see what you got on there.

SPEAKER_03 0:56

Man, hold baby. Reasonable die.

SPEAKER_01 0:59

Reasonable down. I got what? Biggie.

SPEAKER_04 1:02

Big Biggie.

SPEAKER_01 1:03

King of New York. We have the represents Brooklyn's real Brooklyn right here.

SPEAKER_04 1:07

Representing Brooklyn, representing B Chape to the fullest.

SPEAKER_01 1:11

And this was not planned. I threw this on. Crystal big. It was it was supposed to happen. It was like it was it was perfect. We're in sync. We here, buddy. We here. We cootie live. You know what I mean? So yeah, man, finally, man. I just I'm so happy we're doing this. You know, just happy to see what you're doing. You're you you're the you're the media queen now. You and my brother-in-law, Eddie. Y'all doing y'all thing. Lit 106, slash house media. Yeah, man. Doing it right. So kicking it out.

SPEAKER_04 1:51

We're trying, doing a little something, something. But yeah, I mean, this was this was something we always talked about. Uh, you know, just having like this throw by podcast. There's a lot of millennials, uh older millennials rather, and Gen Xers out there that could totally relate to a lot of these topics. I don't care where you're from, Brooklyn, Midwest, Cali, uh, the South DMV area, whatever, it's gonna resonate. It's gonna resonate. So we're doing this for you. We're doing this for that generation.

unknown 2:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 2:27

So if you were if you were born in like late, late, late 70s into what, like late 80s, early 90s, early 90s, around that time. So this is for you. This is for you. Uh, we're brother and sister. Um we used to call ourselves ABC. I'm the oldest. Brandon is the second to the youngest, one of the youngest. And um, and then it was our our middle brother. Well, he's older than you, his middle for me. Uh Tony, rest in peace. Uh, so we used to call ourselves ABC. And so that was for our our our initials of our first names. And we were just always those kids from the fourth floor. We lived on the fourth floor in Brooklyn, and um I guess you could say it was kind of like a browstone in a way. It was a four-story family building.

SPEAKER_00 3:28

Family building, yep.

SPEAKER_04 3:30

Yeah, we had family on just about all levels, such for the third floor. And uh, we were on the top floor. We had our neighbors next door, they were like family.

SPEAKER_00 3:42

Yep.

SPEAKER_04 3:42

Uh, right next door. Still, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:45

It's crazy.

SPEAKER_04 3:46

So, like a lot of these memories that we're gonna be talking about on this podcast have them in it, you know, or lots of other special guests we'll be bringing on to share with you our uh our memories from back then. And a lot of them really, a lot of them have to do with TV shows, movies, cartoons, uh commercials, even. Yep. Uh clothes, toys, snacks, toys, snacks, sneakers, candy.

SPEAKER_00 4:18

Oh, man.

SPEAKER_04 4:20

So this is that's what this podcast is for. So, or who is for. So, so anything you want to add before we get into our

Latchkey Kids Love Letter

SPEAKER_04 4:29

topic of the week?

SPEAKER_01 4:30

Yeah, I mean, you kind of touched on it, you know, basically what we're gonna be getting into. This is this is our love letter to that era. This is our love letter to the same people that this resonates to. It's a love letter to ourselves. We've been talking about this forever, man. Every time me and Chris get on the phone, we always go into something from our childhood, ABC. Antonio, Brandon, and Chris. Like just having us together in that time period, all the movies and TV shows that we enjoyed and loved, all the moments, like that was us, man. And that's in our it's in our DNA. It kind of made us the way we are now, how we view the world now, and how Chris is doing the things she's doing now. There's a lot of those things that influence this part of our DNA, man. And um, yeah, it just feels good. Like just the feeling, that chemical reaction when you go back, you think about the nostalgic things that made us feel good, you know, especially with everything going on in the world right now, reflecting and going back to things when it was a simpler time. You know, this is this is this is for that, man. It's a feel-good show. You know what I mean? No, no, no bad vibes, no good vibes, good vibes.

SPEAKER_04 5:39

This is where you come. You come here, you want the nostalgia feel feels to feel good.

SPEAKER_03 5:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 5:46

All of that. So we definitely gonna make you laugh. You're definitely gonna do a lot of, oh, I remember, oh yeah, I remember that. I remember that. So next week's episode is about lash key kids. Because that's who that's what we were. We were lash key kids. They were that was big in the 80s and uh early 90s. So, you know, kids are still lash key kids, but they don't probably don't call themselves that anymore.

SPEAKER_03 6:13

No.

SPEAKER_04 6:14

But back then, it was big because a lot of mothers they were returning to work. A lot of them were stay-at-home moms, a lot of moms going back to work in the late 80s, early 90s. It was also during the time where there was a big like Wall Street um, you know, stock market crash and stuff. A lot of a lot of companies were impacted. So a lot of women were going back into the workforce, you know, um, during that time. So what you saw was, you know, a lot of us kids having to adjust to that. And so you had to get the responsibility of getting your first key, right? So that's a rite of passage. Yeah. So I was the oldest, so I got the key, right? So only one of us got the key at that time. At that time, and so I was the one with the key. I had the responsibility of coming home first, getting unlocked the door, letting you guys in.

SPEAKER_00 7:17

Oh man, I forgot about that.

SPEAKER_04 7:19

Yeah, I forgot about that. Remember, we lived on the fourth floor, so there was no elevator, only steps.

unknown 7:26

Nope.

SPEAKER_04 7:26

And so by the top floor.

SPEAKER_03 7:28

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 7:29

So we I would get home first, and then wait for you guys to come home. My elementary school was directly across the street, so it was like diagonally across from. So it wasn't a far walk or any was just cool. And then you guys would come home. I think you were taking out like a van from Catholic school.

SPEAKER_01 7:50

Yes. Like, yeah. We used to take, yeah, me and me and Tony, Antonio, we used to take a van to our Catholic school. And uh shouts to Mr. Beckles, man, Trinidadian bus driver, cool guy, man. He um, yeah, he used to drop us off, pick us up, you know, during a certain period of time when I was a little younger. You know, before we was able to walk home from school, you know, because our school wasn't that far, but it was it was it was a few it was a few blocks away. But uh at that time we were too young to be walking home by ourselves. So yeah, we took the bus in. But yeah.

SPEAKER_04 8:23

Yeah. So y'all would get home, and then what most kids do, take off the book bag, and then what do you do? Get a snack. Get a snack. Yeah, so sometimes we get the snack from the corner store, so around the corner, bodega corner store. And so what was your go-to after school

From the Corner Store to the 4th Floor

SPEAKER_04 8:48

snack?

SPEAKER_01 8:48

What would you be? Man, I I had I had a few, but the one I can recall is Chico Sticks. And I I got I definitely got that from you. That's that's without a doubt. I remember used to get the bigger. That's my favorite. Yeah, I used to get the bag of Chico sticks. So I, you know, it was passed down to me. So I like the Chico sticks. That was something I would get. And um then um I also love the uh was it super bubble.

SPEAKER_04 9:13

I would get the you know, the insert that I'm gonna insert some pictures.

SPEAKER_01 9:17

Oh, shoot. All right.

SPEAKER_04 9:19

Some pictures of those, you know. So if you have those in your region, uh you're gonna get to see what it looks like. But the other cool thing, Brandon, be mad, my bad.

SPEAKER_01 9:30

Same thing, same thing. It's cool.

SPEAKER_04 9:32

You family is you can get it at far below. Like they have a whole section of nostalgic throwback candies from back then, the Chico Sticks, Lemon Heads, Boston baked beans, uh Boston baked beans, why? Raffi Chaffees, which are my favorite. That's watermelon.

SPEAKER_01 9:58

I mean, no, not the watermelon, the sour apple.

SPEAKER_04 10:01

Sour app. Alright, so mine, I like my very favorite, and very not everyone likes this flavor, but apparently Eddie doesn't like it, but I love it. Banana. I like it.

SPEAKER_01 10:11

I knew you were gonna say banana. I hate Eddie hates it too.

SPEAKER_04 10:17

Eddie hates it.

SPEAKER_01 10:18

If I were trick-or-treating.

SPEAKER_04 10:20

What's funny is my sister. She loves banana too. We found out you love banana.

SPEAKER_01 10:29

So you're both cycles.

SPEAKER_04 10:34

But I like grape. Grape cherry, yeah, cherry, banana, and blue raspberry. I think they have like a blue raspberry. I like the apple. I like the green apple too.

SPEAKER_01 10:45

Yeah, that that's our apple, man. That's that was that and uh of course the cherry, those are my go-to's. I do go to Fabalo just for those.

SPEAKER_04 10:53

Just for that. Just for that, just for that. Yeah, so that's the candy, but then I would eat, I think my go-to was oh, yeah. Definitely bag of chips. Like wise chips.

SPEAKER_00 11:10

The wise owl, the wise chips. That is real throwback.

SPEAKER_04 11:18

That was big in New York. Wives chips, and this is this was something. Not everybody liked these, not everybody liked these, but New York deli uh chips.

SPEAKER_01 11:28

The purple bag of chips.

SPEAKER_04 11:31

Yeah, I'm about to.

SPEAKER_01 11:33

Forgot about that, man. I didn't like those until I got older. I didn't appreciate it as a kid.

SPEAKER_04 11:40

I when I was dead, I liked them because I went on the school trip. We gotta remember the school trips. Gotta take those snacks on the school trip. We're gonna get we're gonna have another episode about school trips.

SPEAKER_01 11:52

Yeah, just just on snacks and that whole the routine, man, all of that, man. A dollar got you, a dollar was your savior.

SPEAKER_04 11:59

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 12:00

A dollar got you the four, it got you the four food groups. But that's that's yeah, that's another part.

SPEAKER_04 12:04

Oh, that's the whole another corner store bodega favorites, you know. Ah, I love it, I love it.

SPEAKER_03 12:12

Um quarter waters.

SPEAKER_04 12:14

Oh my god. Sunflower seeds of core, keep a giving sunflower season.

SPEAKER_01 12:22

Yup. Oh man.

SPEAKER_04 12:24

Um so yeah, so I I definitely had that. Definitely had had a bag of chips, uh, double dogs was one of my favorites. And Twinkies. Twinkies, Double Dogs, yeah. I think those are, but then when I became a teenager, I know we going, we're supposed to be in the last key era, but you know, you know, this is like my go-to snack, and it's kind of crazy combination, but it was Cheetos Paws and Sour Power.

SPEAKER_01 13:00

Wait, yeah, I remember. I remember I remember that error for you. Yes, I remember. See, these things were passed down to us, like we were getting these things from you. So eventually they were your loves, they became my loves. So, you know, so it was a hand-me-down, like clothes.

SPEAKER_04 13:17

So you know, I was so don't ask me why, how I put that combination together, but I just love that.

SPEAKER_01 13:27

Wait, before you continue. And I know we get off track because this is this is fun. But yo, the the pickle in the pouch. The pickle in the pouch. I hated that. But y'all loved it. You know? Who loves it? I thought you used to get it all the time. I think it was it might have been our cousin Renee.

SPEAKER_04 13:52

It was Renee. Mostly. Mostly.

SPEAKER_01 13:55

Y'all saw our cousin.

SPEAKER_04 13:57

Yeah, shout out to our cousin Renee. There was there was a once in a blue moon, I might get one. Once in a blue moon. I do like pickles to this day. Eddie likes the the big deli jar pickles.

SPEAKER_03 14:09

Yeah. Yep.

SPEAKER_04 14:09

You know, those because that's what it was back then. They used to have which is wild.

SPEAKER_01 14:15

No. That could have been hygienic. Because you know that those those pickles are sitting in there all damn year, like, yo, I don't know, bro. Who's buying this? Who's buying this? So I don't know, man. I don't know how legit or how good they were.

SPEAKER_04 14:30

Or even, or even, yo, which is well, I don't know. It's a New York thing, but you know, just getting just getting sandwiches from the corner store. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 14:42

Oh, getting a hero. Getting that hero. Getting a hero with the chips and uh in a uh a 50 cent soda. That was a school trip. That was a school trip. Uh that was a school trip go to, yep. Go to.

SPEAKER_04 14:55

Oh, you gotta school trip. Ah, you gotta go get the sandwich. And if you didn't have it, then it was like, oh, why you don't have man, man, man. But uh oh, alright. So yeah. Snacks.

SPEAKER_01 15:10

Yeah, snacks is that's that's a whole episode in itself, man. Oh man, we gotta have fun with that one.

SPEAKER_04 15:16

So you get the snacks after school, then after you eat your snack, or while you're eating your snack, you're watching cartoons. After school after school cartoons.

SPEAKER_00 15:30

Facts.

SPEAKER_04 15:31

So what was your go-to cartoon?

SPEAKER_01 15:35

I mean, at this time, you know, last key era. So this for me it was like the late 80s, early 90s. Uh coming home from school. You know, Disney had that cartoon lineup, Disney in the afternoon. And they had a few joints. They had uh they had DuckTales, which I love to this day.

SPEAKER_03 15:53

Uh DuckTales.

SPEAKER_01 15:55

Tailspin. It's like a spin off of Jungle Book. Um, what else? I think it was Gum. I think it was Gummy Bears. And it was it was something else too, but I forgot. But Fox also had a lineup of kids' cart afternoon cartoons, and I think they kind of took over. But uh my favorite out of all of them had to be Batman the animated series. And it it in New York, in New York City, it came on Fox 5, and it came on like 4.30. It ended the cartoon lineup for the afternoon. And it was like, it was so the timing and the placement of when it came on was perfect, especially for the fall, when the fall cartoon lineup came out when we went back to school. Because it came on at 4.30, and right as it ended, like 5 o'clock, it was getting dark outside. And this the cartoon itself is dark and airy. And I think it was no cartoon like that at the time for us on TV. It was just so mature, it was dark, it was airy, and it just kind of blended with the timing for me. So it was nostalgic for me. That just that whole feel. I was thinking back to it. But yeah, man. Batman Animated Series, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 17:07

Yeah, I think I like uh definitely a lot of DuckTales after school. Uh I know our brother was into Thundercats.

SPEAKER_01 17:17

Like that was a yeah, Tony loves.

SPEAKER_04 17:20

Thundercats, Heeman, She-Ra, uh Oh, yeah, Sheah, those were big after school. Um dang. It was one more like a venture. What's the what's the what's the Chippendale ventures or something?

SPEAKER_01 17:37

Rescue Rescue Rangers, rescue rangers. That's what it was. That's the one I left off. Yep.

SPEAKER_04 17:42

Yeah, rescue rangers. Oh, another one they used to. I don't know. This might have been like early, early 80s, uh Spectre Gadget. Spectre Gadget.

SPEAKER_01 17:56

We always be in Spector Gadget, man.

SPEAKER_04 17:59

Specter Gadget, Teenage Meer and Ninja Turtles.

SPEAKER_01 18:04

That was like Teenage Weir and Ninja Turtles. Yeah, that was definitely that was that was my era for real. The action figures. And that came on, that actually came on, if I'm not mistaken, it came on in the morning time. I remember getting ready for school, seeing Ninja Turtles on.

SPEAKER_04 18:21

It was both. It would come on both.

SPEAKER_01 18:25

Oh, all right.

SPEAKER_04 18:27

Let's get into the morning cartoons. Because really, because that was a part of the routine, right? So as last key kids, you get ready in the morning, right? And then as you're getting ready, this cartoons on for me, because a lot of those cartoons are like some throwbacks, or they were newer cartoons, they had a mixture, depending on what channel you're looking at. In New York, we had WPIX 11. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_03 18:52

Yep.

SPEAKER_04 18:52

And so that had a lot of cartoons, and channel nine had a lot of cartoons in the morning. I know 11 had Jim.

SPEAKER_03 19:04

Yeah, Jim. Yep. Jim used to come in the morning.

SPEAKER_04 19:10

Uh, and then they used to have the throwbacks on on channel nine that we had, or Fox. It was out of Fox or Channel 9.

SPEAKER_01 19:17

It might have been channel nine. Channel 9 did have a lineup too in the morning. They definitely had that in the morning.

SPEAKER_04 19:23

They had Gumby. Gumby was on.

SPEAKER_01 19:27

They used to put Gumby was my joint. Yeah, yeah, you nailed it. Yep, I forgot about that. Goo. Goo was his sister. Yeah. Pokey. I forgot. What was the name of the yellow one?

SPEAKER_04 19:43

It was the it was the Pokey, prickle and you.

SPEAKER_01 19:46

Prickle, prickle. He was definitely prickly. Yeah, he was an angry, he was like that angry old man spirit. That's crazy. He was like a dragon or something. He was like a he was like a dinosaur or something like that, right? He had spikes on his tail.

SPEAKER_04 20:00

Alright, we're gonna insert that right here. Uh yeah, so Gummy.

SPEAKER_01 20:06

Gumby. Oh man.

SPEAKER_04 20:08

Gumby. Uh, oh gosh, yo. Yo, yo, yo. But this might have been uh this might have been Saturday morning too. But I know they used to play this in the mornings too and afternoon sometimes. Muppet babies. They would put the reruns on.

SPEAKER_01 20:27

I'm mad I ain't say it. I'm mad I ain't say it before you did. Damn, man. Yes, Muppet Babies was the truth, man. You know what I'm I'm which is crazy about it now, Muppet Babies, they can't put it on. You can't, you will never see it on streaming or on reruns. There's a reason for that. The reason why they don't you don't find it on streaming or they don't have any syndication anymore, because remember, Muppet Babies, they will feed off of a lot of movies and television that was coming on at the time. They played a lot of clips from those movies and TV shows. So a lot of the copyrights don't allow for Muppet Babies to be shown or on stream no more because it's a lot of money that they pay out. Because they used to have they had an Indiana Jones episode, they had a Star Wars episode, and I don't believe I know Disney owns a lot of Jim Henson's work, but a lot of those clips cost a lot of money to re-air. So that's why we don't see Muppet Babies no more. They did make a new version, but it's not what it was. So yeah, that's why we don't see it no more, man. But that was that was definitely one of our favorites.

SPEAKER_04 21:36

Wow, I didn't know that. That's good. Why you dropped something on me?

SPEAKER_01 21:40

We're dropping jewels over here.

SPEAKER_04 21:45

Yeah. Oh, wow. Wow, it took me back. Okay, so alright, so you we would watch the cartoons, then um, you know, I think I think that was really the biggest part was like just hanging out, eating your favorite snack. Uh what else? What else was it about the last key kid experience?

SPEAKER_01 22:13

Oh man. Uh for me, it was just us being in the house and uh uh our parents not being there and just you know getting that snack, putting on your cartoon, and then you know, trying to do your homework. Trying to be home. Trying to do your homework while you're watching your favorite cartoons, and then before you know it, it's like five o'clock, and you're like, oh snap, I've still got work to do. But yo man, it was just they knew what they they knew exactly what they were doing when they aired these these lineups. It was a distraction. It was a big distraction, man. But it got us through. It got us through, man, until your parents got home.

SPEAKER_04 22:53

So yeah. But I think you know the big part, and you know, we we touched on this earlier. A big part is just the nostalgia of of it all. You know, just having that that it's kind of like comfort food, you know, when you go back and you start reminiscing, thinking about those nostalgia, because you know, we can go on and on. That's why we have a whole podcast series. Because I started thinking real quick, I'm gonna put this bug in your ear. Uh-oh. Garbage pill kids. So we definitely gotta get into that in the episode. So stay tuned for that.

SPEAKER_01 23:30

Yep, yep. Nice. That's a nice, that's a nice plug. Nice, nice teaser. Nice teaser.

SPEAKER_04 23:37

Yo, that was crazy time back then. But yeah, but so, you know, it's the whole nostalgia of it all, and then it helps you just kind of go back to a time when things were easier for you as a person, right? We didn't have responsibilities, no bills. You know, your most important thing you were looking forward to was that snack, and I can't wait to go home and watch this my favorite show or whatever.

SPEAKER_01 24:03

That was that was the holy grill. It's like getting that afternoon snack, watching your favorite cartoons, man.

SPEAKER_04 24:11

And yeah, wait a minute, you forgot something.

SPEAKER_01 24:15

What's that?

SPEAKER_04 24:16

You forgot something. After

Kids Game Shows and Childhood Memories

SPEAKER_04 24:18

they had those cartoons on, uh they started showing these kind of uh game shows for kids.

SPEAKER_01 24:27

So they would show you know what about the it's the game show that started off all the kids' game shows, man. Different for us is Double Dare. Are you talking about Double Dare?

SPEAKER_03 24:41

Double Dare.

SPEAKER_01 24:43

Mark Summers. Mark Summers raised a generation of kids. Double Deer raised us. We wanted to be on Double Deer so bad. Some black kids being on Double Dare was a treat.

SPEAKER_04 24:58

If Sunhouse Media gets an opportunity to produce.

SPEAKER_01 25:02

Yo.

SPEAKER_04 25:03

Yeah, I'm bringing back Double Deer.

SPEAKER_01 25:05

Gotta bring it back. And it yo, they they did, they bring it back a few years ago.

unknown 25:10

They did?

SPEAKER_01 25:11

They did. They did Nickelodeon did bring it back.

SPEAKER_04 25:14

Shout out to Nickelodeon. We can do something with y'all, some collab. Like old get the get the millennial Gen X or the man in a double dare episode.

SPEAKER_01 25:26

Yo. I could imagine insurance policy on that, though. Like, alright, you're you're you're in your 40s now. We don't know uh if you're up to the city. No, no, no, they got a tailor. They that's true, they did.

SPEAKER_04 25:46

Remember they had parents with the kids?

SPEAKER_01 25:48

But man, they weren't doing half the things those kids were doing on there, man. Riding a bike, tricycle, and all that, and going into the mouth and with the slime and getting the flag and all. Man, I don't know if I'm ready for that right now, man. I gotta get back and shake it.

SPEAKER_04 26:03

Nah, yeah. No, it has to be it has to be a modified version of that. But uh double. Yeah, and then you had the other show was fun house.

SPEAKER_01 26:14

Fun house.

SPEAKER_04 26:14

Yo, fun house.

SPEAKER_01 26:16

Fun house and fun house came on in the morning.

SPEAKER_04 26:21

It used to come on the afternoon.

SPEAKER_01 26:23

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 26:24

Yeah, and put it on in the morning. Yeah, yeah. Funhouse. Okay. Right now is on the tip of my tongue, man.

SPEAKER_01 26:36

Double dare funhouse.

SPEAKER_04 26:38

There was one more that used to come on. But yeah, but that it was a whole like, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

SPEAKER_01 26:49

Oh, wait, here we go.

SPEAKER_04 26:51

I'm trying to remember.

SPEAKER_01 26:53

Yo, drop the bomb, man.

SPEAKER_04 26:56

It was a fox show. It was a fox show. The dude Mary Mario. What was his name?

SPEAKER_01 27:04

Oh, oh, oh, Captain Lou?

unknown 27:07

No.

SPEAKER_04 27:09

He was fucking he ended up being on uh Sex in the City as an adult. Uh wait, I'm about to look him up on IMPG. This is real time, folks.

SPEAKER_01 27:19

Like this is Yeah, we in real time here, man. So we're on the fly. This ain't this ain't it ain't scripted. It's not oh man. I'm trying to think.

SPEAKER_04 27:27

You got me. I'm I'm No, I I think it was a I don't know if it was a New York show only. It was like Ah, I'm about to tell you.

SPEAKER_01 27:38

Oh man.

SPEAKER_04 27:39

And he had a cat on there.

SPEAKER_01 27:40

DJ Cat show. Was it DJ Cat show? The DJ Cat show was the Fox lineup. It was the puppet cat. And it was the girl host. Okay. And it started, I think I believe it started from Canada. Then Fox incorporated it to the afternoon lineup.

SPEAKER_04 27:57

Okay. Okay. Maybe it was that. Yeah, it was definitely that. But then it was, I'm about to tell you, brain now. It was Mario. Mario Canton was the host of this show. It was in the 80s. I want to say honestly want to say it was a New York show back then.

SPEAKER_01 28:25

Oh good. Oh good in the hood. Oh man. And it was like those? Those shows? Steam pipe. Steam pipe alley. It popped right up when I uh looked at it. Yo.

SPEAKER_04 28:47

Steam Pipe Alley. I don't know if that was just.

SPEAKER_01 28:50

It was Sundays. It came on Sundays.

SPEAKER_04 28:53

It was nah. Nah. It was during the day. It was during the week too. They might have moved it to Sundays. Yeah, it was based out of it It was based out of Secaucus in Jersey.

SPEAKER_01 29:05

I forgot. Was that so? Did they come on Channel 9? Because I know Channel 9 was. Yeah, that was where they broadcasted from Seacaucus. Yeah. Oh man, I forgot all about that, man. See? That you unlocked a memory. Yo, God, I forgot about Steamp Alley. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_04 29:25

I'm gonna have to see if they have like oh episodes or something. It felt like it felt like it was like a little, like, almost like a little variety show or something.

SPEAKER_01 29:35

Right. Oh man. Yeah, you took it back. That you were you digging in the crates for that one because y'all, I lost all memory of Steamp Alley. Yeah. And I forgot, and I forget because I know Mario Mario can't tell me he's a comedian. He I forgot all about that, man.

SPEAKER_04 29:55

Yeah. And I guess this is just from like the Tri State area.

SPEAKER_01 30:00

Yeah, it has to be.

SPEAKER_04 30:05

Sorry guys.

SPEAKER_01 30:05

Sorry. Sorry. You'd be alright. You're learning here. You're learning here from the kids from the 4-4.

SPEAKER_04 30:12

This is from the kids from the 4-4. Yeah, it was um, yep, yep. It was it was channel nine, steam pipe. It was like a kid's like talk show kind of reality

Afterschool Specials

SPEAKER_04 30:29

type. Not reality, yeah, talk show, like a talk show variety show.

SPEAKER_01 30:34

Oh, maybe that. Okay, you you hit something too just now. That itself, a lot of the program that we had as kids, like Teen Summit and the ABC after school specials, all those things that we had, yo.

SPEAKER_04 30:51

Yo, okay, let's get into that. Yes. ABC after school special. They also had a version of that for CBS.

SPEAKER_01 31:00

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 31:01

Uh CBS had one.

SPEAKER_01 31:05

Man, dig in the crates. Digging the crates.

SPEAKER_04 31:12

This is not scripted, y'all.

SPEAKER_01 31:14

Man, on the fly. Oh my gosh. Yeah, man. It was just a lot of programming catering to giving us some awareness and education. Especially in the 80s, man. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_03 31:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:30

On into the 90s. They they really drilled into our heads. A lot of this stuff wasn't named. It was called CBS School Break Special. CBS School Break Special. And I remember the logo coming on, they had a music with it. Yo.

SPEAKER_04 31:47

Yeah. After school specials were uh ABC. After school. It was always usually like a lesson and uh something for you to learn and Degrassi High.

SPEAKER_00 32:03

Degrassi, yep.

SPEAKER_04 32:04

Degrassi Junior High, Degrassi High. Those were also after school. As I got older. Started watching that. Ramona Beezes.

SPEAKER_01 32:14

Oh wow, Ramona and Bees. I remember that. Yep.

SPEAKER_04 32:17

And some of those were like from Canada.

SPEAKER_01 32:19

Mm-hmm. Yeah, like Degrassi. I know we know Degrassi's from Canada.

SPEAKER_04 32:24

Mm-hmm. Like Ryan. I wish Ryan was on there.

SPEAKER_01 32:28

One of those Ryan's was on there. Goslin? Not Goslin. He was on the Mickey Mouse Club.

SPEAKER_04 32:36

Uh, mince, mint mobile guy.

SPEAKER_01 32:39

Oh, oh, oh, um. My man Deadpool. Uh Ryan Reynolds. Ryan Reynolds.

SPEAKER_04 32:49

Ryan Reynolds.

SPEAKER_01 32:50

Wow. I forgot. Wow, I didn't know that. Oh man.

SPEAKER_04 32:53

Yeah, I want to say he was from He's from Canada.

SPEAKER_01 32:56

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 32:57

Yep.

SPEAKER_04 32:58

Yep. Yep. Degrassi. Yep. He was from Degrassi. They had another show called 15. That was like a spin-off or something. Yeah, but it was yep, 15 series. Yeah, it was 15 series, Degrassi High and uh Degrassi Jr. High. So yeah, those

The Impact of Childhood Programming

SPEAKER_04 33:25

man. Yeah, but yeah, but I think all of that is like you said, is really a big part of who we are. You know, it's funny though, because a lot of even Eddie, my husband, a lot of those things we remember. You know, as we get older and it it becomes a part of even, you know, the content that we have now that we talk about, that we end up uh referencing or remembering, and you know, so it doesn't it doesn't leave us. So I think that's a big part of why, you know, we wanted to talk about this and have the opportunity to reminisce with each other, but then also to bring that nostalgic feeling back to our audience and you know, folks listening and watching us. So yeah, I mean that's it in a nutshell, I would say. Do you what are some final words that you wanna talk about? I know, I know we also were supposed to speak on our playroom.

SPEAKER_01 34:28

Playroom. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_04 34:30

So I think that's gonna have to be our next episode. We're gonna have to.

SPEAKER_01 34:34

Okay. Another another another

Episode Two Teaser

SPEAKER_01 34:36

teaser. Yeah, the playroom. Yeah, that's that's definitely episode for us. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 34:40

That's that's that's episode two. Okay, so stay tuned for that, folks. Uh, yeah, because we got

Closing | Outro: Putting the latch back

SPEAKER_04 34:47

deep. We got deep into the nostalgia of it all. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:53

Right? We gave we gave a good uh uh good introduction to you know the things that uh that we're nostalgic about, just that whole latch key era. Um yeah, I mean, of course the movies and TVs, and we could all that's a long list of that. We'll all always get into that. But um, yeah, man, I think we touched, I think we uh we set it off proper. Yeah. I would say so.

SPEAKER_04 35:15

Yeah, so definitely if you enjoyed our show, please like, follow, subscribe, share this podcast. We appreciate you listening in. You can also listen to my radio show, uh Lounge with Christina and Eddie every Sunday on Lit106. That's available on Odyssey, Apple Music, uh, Autolis, and any Amazon Echo device. So make sure you tune in for that. And uh also B Mad is a special contributor on there. So uh you'll have him dropping in once in a while to speak on a few segments. Yep. And and then, yeah, and then follow us, follow us on where can we follow you, BMAD?

SPEAKER_01 36:06

Uh, you can follow me on Twitter at BMAD730 on Twitter. Uh, you can also uh N on IG at BMAD730. So yeah, you can find me there. You know I'm at hip-hop, sports, nostalgic things. Yeah, I'm there.

SPEAKER_04 36:21

And then I'm at the the Christina Sludge on IG and at Sledge House Media on IG. Uh yeah, and just tap into us, talk to us on there. Uh, yeah, and then you know, we'll be back with another episode. So you want to close us out, B man?

SPEAKER_01 36:43

Yeah, man. I'm gonna close it out. I just want to say thank y'all for swinging through to the crib. You know, the the door on the fourth floor is always open. And uh, yeah, till next time, man. Peace of love, family.