The Glow of the 80s

Today, we are going back to the 80s. Close your eyes, and you’re already there. The burn of a metal seatbelt buckle on a summer afternoon. The sound of a Nintendo gun clicking at a TV screen. 

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SPEAKER_03 0:14

Welcome to the Cashley Show. We are Kevin and Ashley. We started this podcast after recent tragedies to take a break from negativity and discover the good news happening all around us. Today we are doing the glow of the 80s. We can't stop looking back.

SPEAKER_00 0:30

Is that from a song? We can't stop looking. Like we can't. It's gotta be an 80s song.

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I'm gonna save the movies and TV till the end because I movies and TVs from the 80s?

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Okay.

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We may not get to it.

SPEAKER_00 0:45

Oh.

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There's a lot of stuff.

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You can't tell me about it and then say we're not gonna get to it.

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We'll see. There's something about the 1980s that just won't stay in the past. Even now, the era keeps showing up in our music, movies, fashion, and social media. It was so vivid that it almost refuses to become history. The eighties had a style of its own: neon colors, big hair, shoulder pads, and acid wash denim. So I'm just gonna list stuff.

SPEAKER_00 1:14

Okay. Yeah, and I'm just I'm trying to think of because the eighties, I was still pretty little when the eighties ended.

SPEAKER_03 1:20

You'll remember a lot of this stuff. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:22

Yeah, well, like I'm sure some of it, even though it was 80s like bled over into the 90s.

SPEAKER_03 1:26

Yeah, I remember my mom wearing shoulder pads and the acid wash denim.

SPEAKER_00 1:29

Yeah, like I remember shoulder pads in like women's business suits and stuff, or like different things like that, where they they look like Captain Crunch. Yeah with their big old big old shoulder pads. Got football practice after this?

unknown 1:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:43

I used to have the bangs that went like up.

SPEAKER_00 1:47

Oh.

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Real big.

SPEAKER_00 1:48

Yeah, okay. Nice. Good for you. Like almost like windblown.

SPEAKER_03 1:54

Yeah. I'll have to see if I can find a picture of it. First up we have Rainbow Bright. Um I mean, I I remember Rainbow Bright, but like I wasn't uh Me or my sister had a doll of her, just a small doll, I believe. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:09

And like a lunch pill? Did you do a lunch pill? Rainbow Bright lunch pill?

SPEAKER_03 2:12

I don't I only remember eating school lunch. I don't know. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_00 2:18

I'm sorry that I opened up this wound.

SPEAKER_03 2:21

School lunch was good when we were kids. They had good food.

unknown 2:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:25

The peanut butter bars I make. That's like the school lunch ladies. When they used to make food and not just give you pre-packaged warmed-up items like they do now. You're welcome. Your Mongolian dinner was pretty good tonight, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_00 2:39

It was good. That was never anything I got at school, that's for sure.

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Alright, next is the Smurfs. Oh, I love the Smurfs. I love the Smurfs too. It was a good show.

SPEAKER_00 2:49

Papa Smurf. It was almost like the the Dwarves, right? Like they all have those kind of names.

SPEAKER_03 2:54

Yeah. And the girl there was only one girl. Blonde girl in the whole. Blonde-haired girl.

SPEAKER_00 2:59

What was her name? This is very so sad. So misogynistic that we don't remember. There was one girl and we can't remember the one girl's name.

SPEAKER_03 3:09

Yeah, so I haven't watched Smurfs for a long time.

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Girly Smurf.

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Guess I'll have to look it up.

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Blonde Smurf. Daisy. Sarah. Slippy, Slappy, Samsonite.

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Smurfette. I was way off. It's so obvious. Smurf it.

SPEAKER_00 3:24

She doesn't even really get her own name. Her name is what they all are.

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Female Smurf.

SPEAKER_00 3:30

Yep. That's basically what it was. Everyone gets names, and you are Girl Smurf. Nice. Oh.

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The next one is Care Bears.

SPEAKER_00 3:39

Oh. Care Bears were the best.

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I had a sunshine one. Sunshine belly one.

SPEAKER_00 3:44

Yeah, I don't. I had a care bear. I don't remember what one it was though.

SPEAKER_03 3:47

I remember my sister had a blue one, but I don't remember what it was.

SPEAKER_00 3:50

I want to say mine was blue as well.

SPEAKER_03 3:53

We'll have to look into what your guys' blue smurfs were.

SPEAKER_00 3:55

Yeah, I wonder if there's some blue smurfs. Blue care bears? Can't get off topic. Stuck on them smurfs.

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There's a lot to go through here.

SPEAKER_00 4:04

Bear smurf.

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Next up, this is actually a TV show, but I have it here because it was also You said we were gonna wait till the end. Well I know, but this also had like stuffed animals. So it's Alf.

SPEAKER_00 4:14

Oh. Yeah. There was a lot of like puppeteering back in those days. I guess if you don't have computers to do that stuff, you have to have puppets. Yep. That makes sense, I guess. Looking back.

SPEAKER_03 4:28

The next one is Wait. Oh, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_00 4:30

I guess should we wait to the end to talk about shows? Like, I don't even know what Alf was about. He was some alien who ate cats.

SPEAKER_03 4:37

Like lived with the fam with a family.

SPEAKER_00 4:39

Yeah, I don't know this story at all or the plot of Did you ever watch Alf? Not really. Like I I know enough about it to I can recognize Alf. And like probably some of the people that were on the show, if you show me their pictures, and that he liked to eat cats. Like he was always trying to eat the family cat or something like that. Other than that, no, I don't know anything about Alf. Right, like Alf is like alien life force form or something like that.

SPEAKER_03 5:10

It's funny, discover isn't that the last name of Foolhouse people?

SPEAKER_00 5:14

Oh yeah. I think Tanner's like second after Smith, though, probably. So don't get too excited.

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The Tanners discover the alien in their garage, dubbing him Alf for alien life form.

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Okay.

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Alright, next up we have Garfield. Well, he was a cartoon. I actually put this on here because there used to be a Garfield-shaped phone that you could have like on your counter. Do you remember that? We never had it, but I remember like commercials for it.

SPEAKER_00 5:43

I do remember all the Garfields with the suction cups and people's windows, right? Like the back of station wagons and vans.

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Just this is the Garfield phone. So it's just like him. You pick up his back and talk on the phone.

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You rip his back off and talk to it. Things were a little different. Yep.

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Next we have my buddy.

SPEAKER_00 6:05

Oh yeah. And kid's sister.

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I was trying to think, was it kid's sister? Little sister? But you're right, kid sister.

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My buddy girl version. That's what they called it. Just like the Smurfs. Still. Yep. My buddy. My buddy.

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My buddy and me.

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Wherever he goes, I go. Or is it the other way? Wherever I go, he goes.

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A little bit of the jingle. The next is the optic flower lamp that we had talked about in a previous episode.

SPEAKER_00 6:37

Oh yeah. Yeah, the fiber optic one. Yep. Those are cool. Still cool. Just like lava lamps.

SPEAKER_03 6:42

I wish my mom still had hers. I'm sure it broke them. The next one is on Halloween. You didn't wear a costume. You wore a plastic smock with a character face on your chest and the vinyl mask with tiny eye holes that fogged up when you would breathe. Do you remember those?

SPEAKER_00 6:58

Yeah, everyone was freaky looking.

SPEAKER_03 6:59

I know I had the little I had a care a care bear one. I don't know. I think it was a care bear one. I remember that. Did you have one of those?

SPEAKER_00 7:07

I don't remember what they were.

SPEAKER_03 7:08

But you did have some.

SPEAKER_00 7:10

Yeah, well like not very many. Maybe only like once or twice. Like I think I think we had a lot of homemade Halloween costumes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 7:21

We when we lived in our previous house, there was a lady that went to our church and she would make up the funny costumes. One time her son was identity theft and he just had like all these names like taped to a shirt.

SPEAKER_00 7:36

Oh nice.

SPEAKER_03 7:37

Some like that, I think, is so creative.

SPEAKER_00 7:40

Clever.

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Alright, do you want to do snacks or do you want to do music? Snacks. Snacks. We have big league chew that came in the foil pouch like real chewing tobacco.

SPEAKER_00 7:50

Yeah. They like the way they targeted kids. I mean, I guess maybe they still do that, but like the candy cigarettes and candy chew. Although I did always want big league chew. I didn't even play baseball.

SPEAKER_03 8:04

But it was just like the shredded, it was like shredded um bubble tape.

SPEAKER_00 8:07

Shredded bubblegum, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 8:09

Next one is the jello pudding pops. I don't know if they still do those, but I uh I've always loved jello pudding and a pop. Great. Next one, it is still around, but pop rocks. That's where I always wanted to get as a kid.

SPEAKER_00 8:24

Yep. Still are. Yeah. I still like pop rocks.

SPEAKER_03 8:27

The next one is the hostess pudding pies. Do you remember? Oh yeah. They don't do those anymore. Do they not? His host hostess went bankrupt, didn't they? And maybe someone bought him out?

SPEAKER_00 8:40

Yes, like Bimbo, Bumbo.

SPEAKER_03 8:42

But then they did like fruit. I don't remember them doing pudding anymore.

SPEAKER_00 8:47

Oh.

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But I don't know. Maybe they didn't. I don't know. The next one is s the slice soda. Remember that?

SPEAKER_00 8:54

No. I don't think I oh wait, is it orange? Okay, yeah, I do. It's kind of like Sunkissed. Yeah.

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The next one is high C.

SPEAKER_00 9:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 9:02

Cool. The next one is fruit wrinkles.

SPEAKER_00 9:05

I don't know what this is, and that sounds disgusting. I don't want to eat that. This is like green eggs and ham. I don't want to eat that here nor there nor anywhere. You keep your fruit fruit wrinkles to yourself.

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You might remember them.

SPEAKER_00 9:20

We'll just be easier for me to look them up on my phone. I'm a little worried to search for fruit wrinkles.

SPEAKER_03 9:26

Put fruit wrinkles, fruit snacks.

SPEAKER_00 9:29

Like little nibs. Why are they called wrinkles?

SPEAKER_03 9:32

Because they look like wrinkled fruit.

SPEAKER_00 9:35

No, they don't. They look like little nibs.

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I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 9:39

But they're called like the licorice nibs. It says fruit wrinkles, chewy fruit snacks. Strawberry.

SPEAKER_00 9:45

Well, yeah, no, I see them. And they're all like in the shapes of fruit, also, it looks like. Fruit wrinkles is a terrible name. And that's why they went out of ism.

SPEAKER_03 9:56

They were good though.

SPEAKER_00 9:57

Their little ad even says, think twice. Get fruit wrinkles. No. If I think about this at all, I'm not getting it.

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Alright, the next one is squeeze it. Remember those?

SPEAKER_00 10:08

Oh yeah. They're still around, right? I'm pretty sure.

SPEAKER_03 10:11

I know we used to get them for our kids when they were young, but Yeah, I think they're still around.

SPEAKER_00 10:15

The next one is because they only cost like 10 cents to make because it's cheap plastic and water with yeah. Blue dye, and like not even the current blue dye. It's like blue dye from the 90s or 80s still.

SPEAKER_03 10:27

Toxic blue dye?

SPEAKER_00 10:28

Yeah, the more cancerous stuff.

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The next one is Dr. Pepper Gum.

SPEAKER_00 10:33

I have zero memory of this.

SPEAKER_03 10:35

They had like I want to say seven up too.

SPEAKER_00 10:38

So did it just taste like it as all, or did it like kind of like pop rocks like in your mouth?

SPEAKER_03 10:42

It's like the hapa bubba.

SPEAKER_00 10:44

Yeah, no, I'm looking at it now. Oh, that looks disgusting. This is worse than fruit wrinkles. Look at that. That's disgusting. This looks like you found it in in the gutter, like pulled it out of the drain.

unknown 11:00

I'm not putting that in my mouth.

SPEAKER_00 11:04

Give me a fruit wrinkle. Gotta get this Dr. Pepper gum taste out of my mouth.

SPEAKER_03 11:07

The next one is cherry sours.

SPEAKER_00 11:09

Oh, I remember these. Yeah. Kind of like lemon heads, but cherry flavored basically. Yeah. I don't think I like them.

SPEAKER_03 11:17

I don't think I did either. The next one is chiclets.

SPEAKER_00 11:21

This is gum, right? Yeah. Like little white square gum or something. Is this uh yeah? Oh yeah, they come in a bunch of colors. Okay. Yeah, I do remember these.

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The next one is bottle caps.

SPEAKER_00 11:33

Yep, I ate those two.

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They were terrible. Remember, you get those a lot trick-or-treating.

SPEAKER_00 11:40

Yeah, yeah. In the 80s there was lots of not great candy.

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Next one is the bubble jug.

SPEAKER_00 11:47

Bubble jug?

SPEAKER_03 11:48

Yeah. It's just like a tiny little jug. Had probably the same shredded that was in the the big leaf.

SPEAKER_00 11:53

Yeah, this looks like it comes in like a legit like bubble, like the big thing you buy of like bubbles.

SPEAKER_03 11:59

Yeah. But it's just tiny. Yeah. And it's you could just like take the lid off and pour some in your mouth.

SPEAKER_00 12:05

This is all the when they were making the bubble tape. This was all the stuff that got cut and scraped off and fell on the floor of the factory. They just put it into these jugs and then sold it.

SPEAKER_03 12:18

Do you remember the bubblegum cigars? They would when like someone had a girl or a boy baby, they would bring them like the blue were the pink bubblegum cigars.

SPEAKER_00 12:28

Yeah, like I said, all the targeting towards children for oh yeah, okay, yeah. No, I do remember these. But I remember them being disgusting.

SPEAKER_03 12:36

Oh yeah, they were just cool because they were like ah pink and blue.

SPEAKER_00 12:41

But then yeah, they were just yeah, disgusting, terrible candy.

SPEAKER_03 12:45

You want to look this the next one up? It's garbage can dash dy. Garbage candy. These candies were shaped like things you'd find in the garbage can, like fish bones, old shoes, dog bones, soda bottles, and apple course. And apple course.

SPEAKER_00 13:05

That's that's fun. Yeah. I'll have some candy from the garbage, please, and make it look like the garbage. I mean, I guess that's like a fun little idea.

SPEAKER_03 13:16

Yeah. It came in a little garbage can.

SPEAKER_00 13:19

Yeah. Little garbage can. Garbage-shaped candy that you can eat.

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Just little hard candies.

SPEAKER_00 13:26

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 13:28

The next one is the Ghostbusters Slimer Gum that came in like a toothpaste tube.

SPEAKER_00 13:34

Ugh. Well, candy in the 80s was disgusting. Disgusting looking, disgusting tasting. Ugh. So glad that I was only a small child in the 80s and didn't know any better.

SPEAKER_03 13:46

I know they still have Nest Quick now, but there was a lot of commercials with that cartoon rabbit that's on it.

SPEAKER_00 13:52

Oh, vaguely. He's kind of like the Trix rabbit, but a little bit different. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 13:56

Alright, that is it. So for snacks. Snacks.

SPEAKER_00 14:00

And those are that was all gross. Almost all of that was disgusting.

SPEAKER_03 14:04

We got all the garbage candy. Kids nowadays, kids, good stuff.

SPEAKER_00 14:08

Yeah, they do. There's so much.

SPEAKER_03 14:09

I have sit ubu sit. Good dog. That was on full house. That's from the 80s. I remember on full house. But yeah, it was from the 80s. VHS tapes had a slightly blurry picture.

SPEAKER_00 14:23

I remember VHS. I had no idea what tracking was, and I still don't. I just know you had to push the buttons to get it to like line up and not the lines. Like the yeah, the lines going through. And like it was just guessing. Like you push the one side, like tracking would go like left or right or up or down or whatever. You'd push one, and if it got worse, then you just push the other one until and it would get better.

unknown 14:46

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 14:46

The next one is the Snoopy Snow Cone Maker.

SPEAKER_00 14:50

I never had this. I've I've heard of it, and obviously I know what a snow cone maker is, but I don't know if I ever saw a Snoopy one.

SPEAKER_03 14:56

They did have it in a house, like Snoopy's dog house, and then it just you put the ice in and and it just came straight out of this little thing, like boop.

SPEAKER_01 15:06

Like that.

SPEAKER_03 15:06

Yeah. Well, mine was different, but yeah, like that. The next one is cars had ashtrays in the doors and cigarette lighters that glowed orange and popped out when they were ready.

SPEAKER_00 15:17

Yeah. Just cigarette ashtrays like down like in the middle console and then on the doors. The little armrest are you pop it. Yep.

SPEAKER_03 15:27

Yep, and the metal seatbelt buckles that got so hot in the sun they would burn you. The green plastic baskets, strawberries used to come in.

SPEAKER_00 15:40

Oh yeah. Now they're just in the clear plastic landfill stuff. Yeah, that's too bad.

SPEAKER_03 15:46

The garbage pail tri kids trading cards.

SPEAKER_00 15:50

Never had them.

SPEAKER_03 15:50

Me neither, but we see them at a store.

SPEAKER_00 15:54

Oh yeah, like yeah, hobby and stuff stores. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 15:58

Alright, next one. The next one is Baskin Robins. So used the 31 flavor.

SPEAKER_00 16:09

I don't think I remember that. From Baskin Robins? Yeah. Okay. That's fun.

SPEAKER_03 16:14

Yeah. I don't know if you gotta choose the team or what, but yeah. I remember them being there. I don't know if I ever got one, but I remember them being there. And then the McDonald's Happy Mill toys. Oh yeah. I mean they still have those, but it they didn't.

SPEAKER_00 16:28

Totally different. Yeah, it doesn't hit like it did in the 80s and 90s.

SPEAKER_03 16:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:32

Yeah. I remember the this would have been the 90s, I guess. Maybe. When was Little Mermaid?

SPEAKER_03 16:37

I think it was the early 90s.

SPEAKER_00 16:38

Was it? Yeah. Because I remember getting all those toys and like playing in the bathtub with them, right? Because that's what Little Mermaid was all about.

SPEAKER_03 16:47

Yeah. And you had to go every week to get the new one, the new toy. Yeah. The cool toys were the McDonald's toys. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:55

McDonald's had that figured out.

SPEAKER_03 16:56

And our neighbor gives away some of those for Halloween, some old ones. Yeah. It's kind of fun. Alright. The clapper. Let's let you turn on and off your lamp by clapping your hands.

SPEAKER_00 17:08

So cool.

SPEAKER_03 17:09

Yeah. The Tootsie Roll Pop Owl, patiently counting licks before he bit through the whole sucker.

SPEAKER_00 17:17

Yeah, that commercial. How many licks?

SPEAKER_03 17:20

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 17:21

Um one, two, right? Yep. You even threw in the little psales. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 17:31

The hot metal sides.

SPEAKER_00 17:32

Yeah. Just like the seatbelts.

SPEAKER_03 17:35

Yeah, the the big toys made of wood.

SPEAKER_00 17:38

Oh yeah. Ours was made of wood at school.

SPEAKER_03 17:40

And then we had like the the metal spiderweb chain that you climb up.

SPEAKER_00 17:44

Yep. We played on hot metal and splintery wood as children.

SPEAKER_03 17:48

Someone was playing tag and I got pushed. Like there's a space in between where you walk and where you get into the chain thing. And I got pushed down and I got my armpits scraped from that wood as I fell. That's why they don't have stuff like that anymore. Easily to fall down those things.

SPEAKER_00 18:05

It was like the probably the last generation that was like physically tough as kids. Like we played on hot metal, splintery wood, and our candy was cigar and tobacco chew. Jeez. And garbage candy.

SPEAKER_03 18:22

Garbage candy. The next one is smoking indoors was allowed.

SPEAKER_00 18:26

Because you're smoking in your car with your children who probably weren't even buckled in. Just standing in the front seat.

SPEAKER_03 18:32

You never buckled your seatbelt as a child. It's still obviously hard for me to do it as an adult.

SPEAKER_00 18:38

Yeah, that's true, huh? You still haven't grown out of that. I do remember driving from like California to Idaho, like sleeping, not only not buckled, but we have this like big van. And it had like a step going down, like to get out. So you had the floor, and then it had a step. And then it had a double door, like but not like a sliding door, right? Like a double door, like French doors, I guess, for a house. Like a French doors. And I remember sleeping in the step. Like so I have the door, the double doors that go to the outside, and I'm in this like groove, like the where the step is, right? It's only I don't know, eight inches, ten inches wide. And I'm like sleeping in there with a pillow and a blanket.

SPEAKER_03 19:15

And like you're lucky that lock was secure.

SPEAKER_00 19:18

I don't even know if it was. It was the door just shut. I don't even think it was locked. It was just shut.

SPEAKER_03 19:23

Jeez. You could have died.

SPEAKER_00 19:24

Yeah. Made it though. Yeah, you did. Here I am.

SPEAKER_03 19:28

Next one I have is Atari.

SPEAKER_00 19:30

We never had an Atari. Never even had a Nintendo.

SPEAKER_03 19:33

We didn't either. My uncle had an Atari. That's my memory of Atari. And his Stu? Yeah, and his kids are younger than me. So I'm assuming it was his.

SPEAKER_00 19:42

Yeah, right. Oh, I'm sure.

SPEAKER_03 19:44

Next I have swatches.

SPEAKER_00 19:46

I don't what is a swatch?

SPEAKER_03 19:48

They're just different watches that you could like pull out the little face of the watch and put in, put onto a different color band or watch so it can match your outfit. Oh, nice.

SPEAKER_00 20:00

That's fun.

SPEAKER_03 20:01

Next one is Fanny Packs.

SPEAKER_00 20:04

Still around today.

SPEAKER_03 20:05

Yeah. The typewriter. I had to use this.

SPEAKER_00 20:08

Yeah, I remember using a typewriter, not only like a typewriter to type, like, but then putting whiteout for the mistakes, right? Like, dang, you gotta like white it out, and then you gotta like do the thing to like pull it back and like and like put it in all of its.

SPEAKER_03 20:22

And you have to make sure it's in the right spot again.

SPEAKER_00 20:24

Yeah, and you start typing and you're in the wrong spot. And then you gotta like white out your whiteout and your other. This is terrible.

SPEAKER_03 20:32

Doing your book reports with encyclopedias.

SPEAKER_00 20:36

Oh yeah. Yeah. The Britannica. Yep.

SPEAKER_03 20:39

Waterbeds.

SPEAKER_00 20:41

My parents had a waterbed. Yeah. I think everyone's parents did. Like that was the thing. I don't know why.

SPEAKER_03 20:47

It's terrible to try to get out of.

SPEAKER_00 20:49

Well, yeah, I think it was awful for your back.

SPEAKER_03 20:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:52

Sleeping on water. Like that's not supportive.

SPEAKER_03 20:54

Can you imagine like every time I move at night? Like you waking up moving everything.

SPEAKER_00 21:00

Like, go downstairs.

SPEAKER_03 21:02

Go to another waterbed.

SPEAKER_00 21:04

Yeah. And I I think maybe I told you this. Like our our parent my parents' heater broke in the waterbed one time. And like, so the water was like legit like 70 degrees or something, like very cold. So like put down blankets and stuff on top of the waterbed. So you slept on top of blankets on top of cold water. This is terrible. This is awful. And I think it got a hole in it.

SPEAKER_01 21:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:26

And now like it's leaking water all over. Like this is just such an awful idea. Which I'm sure is why they're not around anymore.

SPEAKER_03 21:33

Probably. Mood rings were a big thing.

SPEAKER_00 21:35

Oh, I still like mood rings.

SPEAKER_03 21:37

Do you?

SPEAKER_00 21:38

I do.

SPEAKER_03 21:38

That's funny.

SPEAKER_00 21:39

Just the idea behind it. Like it knows what moods you're in based off of. I don't even know what.

SPEAKER_03 21:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:45

Your temperature?

SPEAKER_03 21:46

Yeah. Is that how it works? Like based off of the finger. Temperature of your finger?

SPEAKER_00 21:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 21:49

That's funny. The rabbit ear antennas.

SPEAKER_00 21:53

Yeah, for TV.

SPEAKER_03 21:55

The drive in movie speakers.

SPEAKER_00 21:57

Oh yeah, hanging on like the car. Windows and they were horrible.

SPEAKER_03 22:02

Like the sound was always awful.

SPEAKER_00 22:04

Yeah. I wonder when did they shift from that to doing like over the radio? Because that's really all I remember. Like I didn't remember those speakers until you said that. I always just remember you turn your car to whatever station for whatever screen you're watching.

SPEAKER_03 22:18

I don't remember when they changed it. The Domino's Noid.

SPEAKER_00 22:23

Was it like the weird guy that was like their Yeah, kind of like a rabbity thing? Yeah. I've I vaguely remember that. Wasn't he kind of freaky looking and a little bit evil?

SPEAKER_03 22:32

Yeah, he was like red. It was like in a red rabbit suit kind of. Did we just pull it up?

SPEAKER_00 22:37

So Trix did the rabbit and then Nesquick and then Dominoes, and everyone was trying to get in on that. Yeah, I I vaguely remember him and remember being like, he is weird.

SPEAKER_03 22:46

Avoid the noid. Alright. Next we have the snow on the TV.

SPEAKER_00 22:54

Oh yeah. Yeah. The snow on the TV and like scrambled channels, all that stuff. I remember what like we talked about this in like the 90s episode. Like I remember Disney used to like unscramble the channel for like a week or two every year. Yeah. And I remember watching the Disney Channel scramble. There's no no sound. The pictures all scrambled, but still the lines scrolling up through. Yep. Still watching it.

SPEAKER_03 23:21

Yep. Those famous red cups at Pizza Hut.

SPEAKER_00 23:24

Oh yeah, they're like kind of see-through. Yeah. We should get some of those.

SPEAKER_03 23:29

Do you remember did you guys do book it?

unknown 23:31

I don't think so.

SPEAKER_03 23:32

You need to read so much, and then you got like a free personal pizza at Pizza Hut.

SPEAKER_00 23:37

Oh, I don't think so.

SPEAKER_03 23:38

You had like a pen, I think. And you had like stars you got put on it, and then once your stars were filled up, then you got a little coupon for free personal pizza or something like that. I don't know. Guess California wasn't a business pizza hut. Get kids to read.

SPEAKER_00 23:56

None of that business.

SPEAKER_03 23:58

Next one is when you go to people's houses and they have like a bowl of nuts with the nutcracker in the middle, just like snack. It's out.

SPEAKER_00 24:06

Right? Like all these nuts that you have to crush up by myself. Yeah, I'm like, thanks. I guess. I'll be over here doing a bunch of work while I'm visiting your house.

SPEAKER_03 24:16

The next one is the Reader's Digest magazine. Yeah, I loved that.

SPEAKER_00 24:20

The because it always had like Laughter's the Best Medicine quote. Like there was like a couple things. Laughter's best medicine. There was like an army one. It was like a military, that was kind of the same type of thing. But it was like military stories, and then something else. Yeah. That's all that I ever read as a kid from Eater's Digest.

SPEAKER_03 24:39

Only that. The rotary phones. My grandparents had one. I don't remember having one as a kid, but maybe we had one for a while, I remember it.

SPEAKER_00 24:47

Had a big huge long cord. Like probably 20 feet long.

SPEAKER_03 24:51

When sodas were connected by plastic rings, get like a six pack. You just hold it up so it's a big thing.

SPEAKER_00 24:58

The ones that like killed all the turtles that you had to cut? Okay, yeah, I remember those.

SPEAKER_03 25:02

They didn't they didn't kill turtles here.

SPEAKER_00 25:04

Back when soda came in six packs. Now they just come in like twelve. You drink a lot more soda nowadays.

SPEAKER_03 25:10

Maybe you can't get a six pack of like the mini ones with the rings on them still. Maybe.

SPEAKER_00 25:16

Because we only want to kill small turtles.

SPEAKER_03 25:20

The next one is crash test dummies. Yeah. Those commercials. Yep.

SPEAKER_00 25:25

Yep. To try and get you to wear your seatbelt. Stop sleeping on the floor of the car.

SPEAKER_03 25:31

The pink hair curlers. Did your sisters have those?

SPEAKER_00 25:35

I don't know, maybe.

SPEAKER_03 25:36

Wash your hair and it's all wet, and then my mom would put the hair in curlers, and then you have to sleep on it, which was horrible. Terrible is sleeping. And then you take it out in the morning when it's dry, and then your hair is curly.

SPEAKER_00 25:48

Okay. It was awful. Yeah, it sounds awful.

SPEAKER_03 25:51

I I don't know if your sisters used to have like sticker earrings.

SPEAKER_00 25:54

Like instead of having earrings, you just put a sticker on your earlobe?

SPEAKER_03 25:57

Yeah, so it's like a design, like they'll be like matching ones, like two diamonds, two pink diamonds, two purple diamonds. I mean, I don't remember those at all. Did you guys ever have this picture, the orange pitcher that's like the Oh yeah, and that you had to push down the button on top to like let the pressure so you could like pull it off?

SPEAKER_00 26:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 26:19

What was that? Tupperware, probably. Made it.

SPEAKER_00 26:23

I have no idea who made it. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 26:24

And these beach chairs with like Yeah, the strands are with like plastics. Yeah, and your foot always went through them. Yeah, but always felt like that.

SPEAKER_00 26:32

Yeah, they were always getting, yeah. We we took them to the ocean one time, and I remember like my dad was being my dad. Yeah, and he was like out in there, like sitting as the tide was coming in. Yeah, like sitting in the sand there, and like they'd come and like he'd let it like like run him over and everything. And then like it finally, you know, would knock him over or do whatever, and the chair got sucked out in the ocean. It was like you could see it in the waves, like like coming crashing back in and stuff, but we couldn't get the chair, like the ocean the ocean would suck it back out and like up in the waves, and like now we're worried that like this chairs like smashing down, so people are playing in the waves. There's like this metal chair.

SPEAKER_03 27:09

I don't know how we could sit in the waves like that because I feel like it collapses, like the slightest move.

SPEAKER_00 27:16

Right, and I'm sure that's why like I don't remember how long he was in the in there for, but yeah, that's what he was doing for fun.

SPEAKER_03 27:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:22

He was probably actually younger than I am right now.

SPEAKER_03 27:26

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_00 27:27

I'm guessing. If it would have been in the eighties, yeah, he probably was younger than I am right now.

SPEAKER_03 27:34

So maybe he's just being silly like you.

SPEAKER_00 27:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 27:37

Yeah. Yeah. So next we have up is toys. First toy is cabbage patch kids.

SPEAKER_00 27:44

Never actually had one. I think my sisters did though.

SPEAKER_03 27:47

I had them. They always smelled so good. Like a baby. Yeah, this one's the Fisher Price playset. Do you remember this?

SPEAKER_00 27:55

The barn?

SPEAKER_03 27:55

Yeah, like there's the barn, and then there's like the little parking garage thing, and you there's an elevator to go up.

SPEAKER_01 28:01

Oh yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 28:02

Those were great. And then had these weird little people in their weird little cars.

SPEAKER_00 28:07

Yeah, don't they still have something like that now, though? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 28:10

They're they're completely different though.

SPEAKER_00 28:12

Right. They look more like people and they're more accurate now.

SPEAKER_03 28:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:16

Yeah. Manufacturing's come a long way.

SPEAKER_03 28:19

Couche balls, they still have those.

SPEAKER_00 28:21

Yeah, still got those.

SPEAKER_03 28:23

Pac-Man was big back then.

SPEAKER_00 28:25

Yeah. I don't know if I ever really played Pac-Man. I mean, like I've played it, but not in any sort of earnest.

SPEAKER_03 28:31

Yeah, I liked Pac-Man.

SPEAKER_00 28:32

Even as a kid. As a kid, I played like going back to like probably not Pizza Hut, like round table pizza. We had a round table pizza and they had like video games. They had arcade inside the pizza place. And there was the one like you could be the truck or like cars on like a on tracks, and there was like four steering wheels. Do you remember that? And like you're like everyone could drive and you're just driving around this track together. That was my favorite as a kid. That was fun.

SPEAKER_03 28:57

I think Pizza Hut used to have video games and too.

SPEAKER_00 29:00

I think that was a pretty normal thing.

SPEAKER_03 29:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:01

Little restaurant, and you have a little section for kids to play video games. Not kids. Like I'm adults were in there too.

SPEAKER_03 29:07

Yeah, yeah. Polypockets.

SPEAKER_00 29:09

Again, never had them myself.

unknown 29:11

I loved polypockets.

SPEAKER_03 29:13

Those were the best. Those Fisher Price skates that you strapped onto your shoes. Learn how to skate.

SPEAKER_00 29:22

They didn't actually really roll.

SPEAKER_03 29:24

No, they were terrible.

SPEAKER_00 29:25

At all.

SPEAKER_03 29:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:26

There was like no bearings. It was just plastic on plastic, trying to roll with all your weight on it.

SPEAKER_03 29:30

Yeah. Oh, we have glow worms.

SPEAKER_00 29:33

I don't know what that is.

SPEAKER_03 29:34

It's like a little doll. It was like a caterpillar, but its face w would glow. I'll show you how that.

SPEAKER_00 29:40

And this was fun?

SPEAKER_03 29:41

Oh. Well, you didn't play with it. It was like more like a thing you went to sleep with.

SPEAKER_00 29:47

Oh.

SPEAKER_03 29:48

Well, I don't know. I guess you could play with it. But it's just like this little worm thing.

SPEAKER_00 29:51

It's kind of scary.

SPEAKER_03 29:54

Its face would light up. You'd snuggle it when you were scared at night.

SPEAKER_00 29:57

I'd be scared of the glow worm. There's a giant worm that glows in my room at night while I'm all by myself.

SPEAKER_03 30:03

The pound puppies.

SPEAKER_00 30:05

Okay. I don't know if I remember much about them, but like I now that you say it.

SPEAKER_03 30:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:11

Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 30:12

Teddy Ruxpin?

SPEAKER_00 30:14

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 30:15

He was creepy. For sure.

SPEAKER_00 30:17

Yeah. Like one of the first talking stuffed animals.

SPEAKER_03 30:20

Yeah, his his torso was m basically hard plastic covered with a shirt. Next one is micro machines.

SPEAKER_00 30:29

Oh. Love these.

SPEAKER_03 30:31

Yeah, you did.

SPEAKER_00 30:32

Yeah. David and I used to have the military micro machines. Yeah. Yep.

SPEAKER_03 30:36

I think my brother even had some. He's a bit younger than us. But I remember him having one of them at least.

SPEAKER_00 30:42

Yeah, they were way fun. I would I would break leaves and do things to like earn money to go buy those. And I think they were like they were like $1.25 for a pack of them.

SPEAKER_03 30:51

And they're crazy expensive to get now. Yeah. Alright, just a couple more. We have strawberry shortcake dolls. Never had one. They smelled like whatever flavor that person's name was. What? It's like strawberry shortcake, so she smelled strawberry-ish. Okay. There's like lemon meringue.

SPEAKER_00 31:10

That was her name?

SPEAKER_03 31:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:12

And she smelled like a lemon or like lemon meringue pie?

SPEAKER_03 31:15

I'm sure she smelled like lemon meringue pie, but lemon cleaner. As much as you could possibly get a dog smell like that.

SPEAKER_00 31:22

Right, that's why I say lemon cleaner. That's seems like that's the only smell you can get lemon.

SPEAKER_03 31:27

Yeah. Stretch Armstrong.

SPEAKER_00 31:29

Yeah. Again, I don't think I ever had one.

SPEAKER_03 31:31

My brother had one. You could stretch pretty far. It was cool. The California Raisins.

SPEAKER_00 31:37

Yeah, I remember them.

SPEAKER_03 31:39

We had some of those figures.

SPEAKER_00 31:41

Yeah, I don't think we ever did. I remember them and I remember the commercials. And it was they were just mascots for raisins, right? To try and get you to be raisins.

SPEAKER_03 31:49

Well there there was a yeah, and there was a cartoon of them.

SPEAKER_00 31:52

What was the cartoon about?

SPEAKER_03 31:54

The California raisins.

SPEAKER_00 31:56

What did they do?

SPEAKER_03 31:56

Well, I don't know. Played instruments, and I don't really remember. I don't have a deep memory of it. I just remember seeing it.

SPEAKER_00 32:04

No, that's fine.

SPEAKER_03 32:07

And the last one I have is Gumby and Pokey.

SPEAKER_00 32:10

Is Pokey like his horse? Okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 32:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:14

What what was Gumby? Like what and what was the show about? Like Alf and the California Raisins and Gumby. Like what is all this madness? And eating garbage candy. What was the 80s actually? Now that we've done this episode, this sounds like a terrible decade. This sounds awful.

SPEAKER_03 32:32

This is why we played outside all the time. Had our own imaginations.

SPEAKER_00 32:36

Then had to sleep with a glowing worm while we smoked our cigarette candy to help put us to bed.

SPEAKER_03 32:45

Alright, I won't do the TV shows and music and movies because we're already oh, I do have to mention.

SPEAKER_00 32:50

Didn't we do the TV shows?

SPEAKER_03 32:53

I just did a couple. I did forget to mention my brother-in-law told me that I forgot to do Jaboz jeans.

SPEAKER_00 32:59

Jabot's Jabo's Ginko?

SPEAKER_03 33:02

No, I'm pretty sure it was Jaboz.

SPEAKER_00 33:04

Jabot's? I don't know. Jaboz. They were in the 90s?

SPEAKER_03 33:06

Yeah, they were the expensive jeans. We never had them. But uh they were always like everyone wanted those, but we never got them because they were expensive. So there you go. Jaboz jeans. For those who had them. It was not me.

SPEAKER_00 33:21

Are you gonna say his name? You give him a shout-out?

SPEAKER_03 33:24

Alright, there's your Jaboz jeans, Johnny.

SPEAKER_00 33:27

There you go.

SPEAKER_03 33:28

And hello, Daphne. I know you're listening with your dad. Alright, do you have anything else?

SPEAKER_00 33:33

From the 80s?

SPEAKER_03 33:34

I know this was a harder one for you because you were young. But uh I was young too. But I have more of a memory of things about the eighties than you, I think.

SPEAKER_00 33:44

Why?

SPEAKER_03 33:45

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 33:47

I'm trying to think of like the eighties. Where's the beef? Is that like a Wendy's commercial? It's like an old A.

SPEAKER_03 34:17

I think it was just beef. I don't think it was Wendy's, was it?

SPEAKER_00 34:21

I don't know. I I thought it was Wendy's because they were like saying the the other burger places don't put enough hamburger or enough meat in their burgers or something. Yeah, right. She was like, oh, she's like, where's the beef? Is that from the 80s too?

SPEAKER_03 34:34

Catchphrase in the United States and Canada introduced as a slogan for fast food chain Wendy's in 1984.

SPEAKER_00 34:42

Dang.

SPEAKER_03 34:43

The 80s endure because they remind us that style can be joyful and that sometimes the best thing a decade can do is refuse to be forgotten. Remember, even a small act of kindness can be someone's beacon in their darkest moment. Choose kindness every day. Reach out to someone today. You have the power to change a life. Be the signal of hope this world needs.