Chuck Norris Legacy: Action Jeans to Walker Texas Ranger | Raised On Rewind

Relive the grit of the 80s & 90s. From Chuck Norris Action Jeans to dangerous toys, we’re rewinding to the era of survival.

Welcome to the maiden voyage of Raised on Rewind. In this premiere episode, we bridge the gap between Gen X and Millennial culture, diving deep into the legend of the late Chuck Norris. We explore his transition from a South Korea-based Air Force policeman to a martial arts icon and Hollywood action hero.

But it’s not just about the movies; we’re hitting the "Curiosity Gap" of the 1980s, discussing everything from Action Jeans and Total Gym infomercials with Christie Brinkley to the sheer "buffoonery" of classic cinema like Caddyshack and Weird Science. We also get raw about growing up in an era of dangerous toys (lawn darts, anyone?), lead paint, and the "chaos" that defined our youth. Whether you’re here for the retro tech, the sneaker talk, or just to hear two guys "walk it off," this is your home for unfiltered nostalgia.

Timestamps: 

00:00 The "Raised on Rewind" Maiden Voyage
02:15 Survival of the Fittest: Gen X vs. Gen Z
04:30 The Chuck Norris Myth: Real Name & Origins
06:45 Mastering Tang Soo Do in South Korea
08:15 Hollywood Jump-off: Bruce Lee & The Prime Era
11:00 Cold War Grit: Why We Needed Action Heroes
13:45 The Death of "Buffoonery" in Modern TV
15:30 Bootleg Voltron & Metal Transformers
17:45 Dangerous Toys: Lawn Darts & Tetanus Bracelets
21:30 Late Night Legends: Christie Brinkley & Total Gym
24:00 The $5,000 Action Jean: Vintage Denim Lore
27:15 Wax Packs & Pink Gum: The Baseball Card Hustle
31:00 The $1,000 Knife Set: Door-to-Door Cutco Stories
34:45 80s Movie Hall of Fame: Airplane to Caddyshack
39:00 Mel Brooks, Three Amigos, & "The Era of Freedom"
42:15 TV Evangelists & Prosperity Church Memories
47:00 How I Almost Burnt Down the House (Literally)
50:00 The Final Rewind: Leave Your Favorite 80s Movie

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

But we're going back. Like literally, we're taking it back. Way back. Way back. We're rewinding. Way back. Get your pencil and start uh turning the turning the tape. Welcome into uh Raised on Rewind. This is what episode one. So it's our maiden voyage. I know, right?

SPEAKER_01 0:18

Going back. This is this is this has been a fun, interesting journey. How we end up here from politics, sneakers, chatting on a daily basis, anti-Semitism, all types of stuff. And we're here. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 0:33

I think that sums up our generation as a whole. It's just a lot of craziness and uh survival. Exactly. Pure survival.

SPEAKER_01 0:44

So, yes, we are talking we are a millennial and a gen Xer talking about things from our youth in this stage. Yes. You know, as we both uh you're in your 50s, right? Yes. Thanks for reminding everybody. Yes. I'm gonna be 47 in a couple of few months in June, and you are already in your 50s. So um early 50s. Yeah. I hope to make it to my early 50s.

SPEAKER_00 1:17

Um it's gonna happen. I I know it is because this podcast can't stop, so you have to make it.

SPEAKER_01 1:24

I mean, yeah, if you're alive, it won't stop. It's not gonna stop if you're alive. Uh yeah, I may not be a couple more years. I think you've been through the the the ringer already with uh things you've done to your body. I'm still in the process of destroying mine. But that's what happens when you come from our generation. All the cocaine and the crack and the marijuana. We grew up on all the drugs, all the cool drugs that came from the earth. These uh other millennials, well, well, millennial, what are these Gen Z's and all that stuff? All they do is pop pills that are made in labs, or if they really want to get fucked up, it comes from China.

SPEAKER_00 2:01

I mean, there was Quaaludes. Quaaludes were pretty good. What's that? I was on the tail end of that. I heard what it was. That's a pivot. Yeah, it was good, good stuff, man. Back in the, I mean, that was more, I think, in the 70s, I think, quaaludes, and I think they went away maybe in the late 70s, early 80s. Probably have to fact check. But yeah, quaaludes were good. You used to be able to get them, they were called Black Beauties. Oh, okay. I think in the early 2000s or late 90s, but uh I remember fifty. I forget a yeah, I forget a lot of that those years to say the least.

SPEAKER_01 2:37

Well, well, these years are uh here. It's just um there's a lot of cool stuff that we did in our generation, you know. Um, and this is a podcast that pays homage to that in our own creative way.

SPEAKER_00 2:52

So today, yes, and and and speaking of homage, right? We lost a great one recently. A great one, and a cultural icon for our generation, probably the biggest meme ever created, like super meme. He was a super meme, was he? Not a superman, he was a super, yeah. Man, Chuck Norris, like literally, you could make a meme about Chuck Norris about anything, like Chuck the jokes, the one-liners. I mean, come on. And he was after school the the thing to watch. If you weren't, you know, you kind of got past a point of cartoons, yeah. So you were looking for something else.

SPEAKER_01 3:37

And so wait, what did you watch from Chuck Norris after school? Because this is you're you're you're in that generation that kind of was consuming a lot more of his stuff because I don't know why, because I I'm I'm I'm only familiar more with the Texas Ranger stuff, but I did a lot of research. I could go all the way back to 1965 when oh no, 1940. I know when he was born.

SPEAKER_00 3:59

So in the in the 70s and 80s, he was like the leading action hero, right? Like there was tons of action movies with him. I think you had uh what were the movies? You had like um Lone Wolf McQuaid, the whole missing in action series. Like that's where I started to recognize Chuck Norris as Chuck Norris. Like the missing in action series, try and go back and watch them today, and it's just not not good, but it has a nest no, it has a nostalgic feel, and then you know, from 93 on, you had Texas Ranger, like Walker Texas Ranger. So that's huge. I mean, those years because you were past the cartoon era, and so you you kind of needed something that was I got into a bit of information that's kind of cool about Chuck Norris.

SPEAKER_01 4:52

You know what his actual name was, like his birth name? I don't Carlos. Shut up, really? Yes, Carlos. He was born Carlos Norris, yeah. Yeah, he was born on March 10th, 1940. Uh one day after Biggie Smalls got shot. But you know, Biggie Smalls got shot in 1997 on March 9th, but that's the only date I could correlate it with. So I know there's something on March 10th that happened, and later, if anybody's out there in the comments or whatever, let us know. I keep I I don't I can't remember off the top of my head, but I know something happened on March 10th besides him being born. Um he was part of the Air Force too. He joined the Air Force on his 18th birthday, yep, and became a policeman in the uh yeah, he he he was prepping for a career in law enforcement. He wanted to be a police officer, right, when he left the service. And um when he this is how we got into martial arts. This is so cool. I took notes, people. While he was in South Korea, um stationed there, he learned the martial arts from patrolling the streets. And it was one of the things that he got into was trying, you know, he had to break up fights and stuff. So they they they had the army base, and the locals probably you know pick a fight with a with a Marines or army guy, and he he was like patrolling and had to break those things up because he was you know like um part of the security over there. Um he learned martial arts from these different, I don't want to say dojos or whatever, but uh but he he learned it by watching a bunch of uh people doing it out there, and he learned a um a method called Tang Sudu, and he mastered that, became a black belt, and progressed on to you know other things. And then by the time he got back into the States, he opened up a dojo, he learned all the karate and everything, and he became started his own martial arts too.

SPEAKER_00 6:53

Yep, so it was uh Chun Kuk Do, I think it was called how you pronounce it Chun Kuk Do Chuk Do.

SPEAKER_01 7:01

Yep, yep, that's later on. Yep, yeah, but is that after he got he broke into the movies?

SPEAKER_00 7:06

Uh no, so that was in the 60s, that was before the movies. So that's when he started his professional martial arts career and you know started winning championships in the 60s. So there was a big push, and in the 70s, I think that's when he started to break through. He met Bruce Lee and he starred in Way of the Dragon, very accomplished, yes. Yes, so I think that's really what got him his jump off in Hollywood was really around the meeting of Bruce Lee, and then you know, taking that martial arts act aspect and bringing it into that action hero era, and around the time you were born was when he actually broke into a full-time movie guy.

SPEAKER_01 7:50

So you got to experience really like the prime of his movie-making career and enjoy growing up. Did you ever go to the theater and watch any of his movies?

SPEAKER_00 8:00

I I think I saw one of them once, like one in the series, but I I don't remember. I would I didn't I went to the movies a lot, but not to see Chuck Nars. I think he was more for TV for me.

SPEAKER_01 8:13

Yeah, me too. Well, yeah, I grew up in the era where his stuff was on, you know, like Saturday afternoon movies, like not necessarily blended in with the with the kung fu flicks, but like as a feature, you know, like uh one of you know when they premiered movies this before cable people, like uh no, there was no HBO at this time, but P well there was, but you know, people weren't like paying. I didn't have cable until 1992, and that's a whole other story. But uh yeah, they they used to you know show these movies at night, and it'd be like, you know, uh one of these old Bruce Lee movies or whatever, or one of these Chuck Norris movies, or uh um uh uh Clint Eastwood movie, you know what I mean? What's the other guy with the uh with the mustache? Um mustache. Mustache man Magnum with the big gun. Oh Magnum PI? No, yeah, not well not that's a TV show, but the um Tom Sallick? No, no, no, dude with uh with the with the with the mustache with the doesn't help. He has a gun.

SPEAKER_00 9:17

Mustache and a gun. Wow. Yes, if anyone's listening to this, chime in. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 9:22

Musta and a gun. Yo, man, you know what I'm talking about. Dude, dude used to be like an action star. He was one of the big ones. Oh, uh Charles Bronson. Charles Bronson, yes, Charles Bronson. He people I mean, we're we we I think so, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:39

I mean, yeah, he passed in 2003. You also have Clint Eastwood, I mean, Dirty Harry. My dad and I used to watch Dirty Harry. Those movies, like, I prefer Dirty Harry over Chuck Norris, but Dirty Harry was just a badass.

SPEAKER_01 9:54

That era of movies, I just thought about this, was where the Wild West movies converged with like the street culture of the time, right? Like the gangs in the streets with the tight jeans and the jean vest or the leather vest fighting. These guys were either the guys in the gangs or fighting against the gangs. Remember, they used to have those random fights of walking down the street, the guy snatches a lady's purse, and then and then you know, stop, and then and the guy would stop. He wouldn't keep running, he'd stop. And then they just beat each, you know, he beat his ass, and then the purse is flying everywhere. And it's you know, the young old school fighting scenes like that from that era, man, or just you know, and then the Kung Fu Flicks, we could have a whole other episode about those, the way those things were orchestrated, but um, those guys used to do those things, and then the big ass guns that made no sense.

SPEAKER_00 10:43

Like 44 Magnum just shooting it with one hand. It was very, but you gotta remember, like back then was the cold war era, so like every there was the toughness, there was a grit because we were all afraid of nuclear war, and it was during this time of you know instability, the wall was still up in Berlin or Germany. So there was a lot of like everyone was looking for a tough ass hero. Yeah, you could wrap him behind, yeah. Like that's Rambo, Dirty Harry, Chuck Norris, Charles Bronson, uh Steven Segal's on the fence of that.

SPEAKER_01 11:18

I think he came to I mean he was in the more in the 90s. He's kind of yeah, him and his Krav Maga or whatever. Yeah, but uh yeah, Charles Bronson, all those guys used to have like this thing about my dad. Used to love watching those movies, and they were very, you know, just great actors and a great time to be alive if you get to enjoy those types of that type of creative because it was very, very, very, very tough for us to kind of live in the reality of the time, I think. Well, I was a kid, so the most part. You were almost a teenager, right?

SPEAKER_00 11:53

Or or I know, like in the 90s, I was I was going to college, late 90s. Oh, you was in the college. That late 90s, yeah, and so was I.

SPEAKER_01 12:01

I was going, but you're you're a few years old. But it either way, like, we're talking like 80s, maybe the late 80s, right? Uh you know, very impressionable youth and things back then. Like, I think the only thing you know, that we didn't have like porn ready ready available to us or things like that. Like, like now kids have so much access to this stuff that they can't appreciate good, like buffoonish behavior on a TV, you know, like or in a movie. Like, it's not they'll get that in a in a in a in a uh TikTok clip or a skit that you know, like a Hannah Stocking clip or something like that that they would do now. Like these guys or King Bosch, you know, like these people who do these dumb skits on Instagram. Like now they can only consume those things. There used to be movies just just full of this buffooner, and it was the best, like Porkies and Revenge of the Nerds, and you know, even even the buffoonery did seeped into real movies, like like the like these fun movies, you know, Chuck Norris would be doing outlandish, like 360 kicks in the air, and you know, even Bruce Lee, all that stuff. It was fun, it was a fun time, you know. But um, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:12

The writing was was different, also. You you had to use a bit of imagination and just the creativity felt different, and now you know people I can just speak just from raising my own kids, they watch TV differently than we did, right? So it's now it's YouTube and scrolling on social media. I my youngest, he never sits in front, like I think hasn't sat in front of the TV in five years, like literally never watches TV. So it's it's just different. I mean, I was raised on TV. I don't know about you, but man, I was planted in front of that TV all the time just because you know there was not if I wasn't outside, I was inside watching TV.

SPEAKER_01 13:59

So yeah, yeah, same. Yeah, for the most part. Yeah, I consumed a lot more TV back then. Now it's like it's totally different. I I just I I consume more by you know, I obviously scrolling up and down that timeline, but also just via YouTube in in tranches of specific information. And I I fall into these things, like one one three or four month period, uh it'll all be like sneaker content, or it'll only be tech content. I'm right now my tech content thing, but I'm just but all of that like comes in different back then. You'd had to like you had to Saturday morning cartoons, right? Saturday afternoon kung fu flicks dubbed over. Um uh during the weekdays after school, it would be like PBS. Uh I would watch PBS after I'd watch my afternoon thing. So because I'd catch like um not really.

SPEAKER_00 14:53

Oh, yeah. I mean back in the yeah, you had He-Man, yeah, He-Man, you had uh Thundercats, you had um what was the other big cartoon back then? Those type of cartoon, Voltron, yeah. You started to get the Asian influence coming in, right? With with more of the anime. I don't want to call it the anime. Oh yeah, I loved GoBots.

SPEAKER_01 15:15

Bootleg Transformers, man. Like I remember if you got a GoBot, you were just like not the guy. I remember like I remember getting my first Transformer set, and it was the aluminum one. My mom went all the way into Manhattan. She bought a bootleg one, by the way, that for me. She bought it at some Korean or Chinese thing. It was made out of metal, though. Because they had the they had the plastic one that you get like a Toys R Us. You go to like the nicer stores like K, not KB, um it was like Kitty City by me. Yeah, but the the metal ones were more in the um I don't know. Did you have a Voltron set?

SPEAKER_00 15:54

I didn't have a Voltron set, but I did have Transformers.

SPEAKER_01 15:58

I'm sorry, not okay. Voltron, Transformers, yeah. The Voltron was the what was it? Thundercats. Oh no, Voltron.

SPEAKER_00 16:05

Voltron was Voltron took all the five things and then turned into the one big robot with the sword. Yep, yep. That's what turned them into Voltron.

SPEAKER_01 16:12

They were all they were all like tigers and cats and shit, right? Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_00 16:16

Yes, yeah. Voltron, I I have to say, like that that takes me back to grade school when I was a little kid. But we used to play Voltron. Well, maybe that, yeah, because I was in the eight eighties.

SPEAKER_01 16:28

We used to play Voltron.

SPEAKER_02 16:30

So really because I remember 86, 87.

SPEAKER_01 16:34

That's my earliest memory of toys, of having toys and stuff like that. But I remember my mom getting me a metal Voltron set, and it and it didn't the paint chipped off, and I probably got lead poison, could have got lead poisoning for it, but the paint was chipping off of it, and I used to play with that shit all the time, like deconstruct it, reconstruct it. It was so cool, and it was really heavy, and like if and it had like the fangs. Remember the the the cats and fangs? Because it was like the cat with the helmet. Oh man, man, I remember someone stabbing myself with those teeth on those things because they were all made out of metal. Like there was no remember like cap guns and all that shit. You could have a finger or a face, guns, geez, bro.

SPEAKER_00 17:10

I haven't thought with the red circle.

SPEAKER_01 17:12

I remember the kids like blowing up stuff, like you know, fireworks are accessible.

SPEAKER_00 17:15

We can get them in the shape. We had BB guns, yeah. BB guns, all that shit. Yeah, like the pump action 10 pump BB gun. I shot my friend in the head with one of those. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_01 17:25

I'm surprised you're not in jail.

SPEAKER_00 17:28

It did it just broke skin, but it didn't really do all that much. We used to play with gunpowder. Like, I had friends that were well, that's what tap guns were. Those little things like real black powder for black powder guns. Like my friend was his parents were into the Civil War reenactment stuff, so he always had black powder around, and we go sneak into his office and steal the black powder and just make the dumbest stuff, like literally these little bombs, or just you know, packing it in. So I just crazy, absolute insanity. I mean, the toys we grew up with, think about it, they were all dangerous. Do you remember lawn darts? You probably don't remember that. They were these huge darts with these long metal like uh points on them, and you would throw them in the lawn. Like if you got hit by one of those, it was it was literally inflicting major damage. Like just crazy to think that these toys existed and the clackers. Do you remember that it was like the two two balls on the strings, and you would go that and it would clack. I mean, those were dangerous. Snap bracelets.

SPEAKER_01 18:37

You remember snap bracelets? Yeah, snap bracelets, sharp piece of metal covered with some like nylon. Yo, yo, I remember when those things started to wear off, you could literally slit your wrist with them. They were that sharp when the metal got exposed. Because I remember that because they were so cheap. Like you go to get get them for like like like 25 cents and you slap it on your wrist, and after a while they start ripping. I remember I cut myself a few times with those things, man. And it wasn't no, bro, this is like some like the metal would rust. So you get you could get tetanus, you get all types of fucking diseases. We grew up in an era, man, that was just so fucking cool, like you know, bodily harm and all that shit was just we just walk it off. We walk it off. These kids are so soft now, man.

SPEAKER_00 19:15

They just but these cultural icons, like Chuck Norris, right? In the 2000s, he had that resurgence of because of the internet memes. Where's the case? Yeah, see, I didn't miss that. I missed the whole meme culture around him. I like literally if I don't know, I remember a big nerd, but he he reignited as a pop cultural icon, and I have to give him credit, he embraced it and literally leaned in and had excuse me, a lot of fun with it. So I it's it's interesting to see how he was able to appeal to an entirely new generation. Um, and it wasn't for his movies, right? Like, no, no one was going back being like, oh yeah, that Chuck Norris movie was great, or let me re watch reruns of Walker Texas Ranger.

SPEAKER_01 20:03

That's what got me. I've watched Walker Texas Ranger, but I don't remember. I mean, I've watched random episodes, it was entertaining. The thing that got me as I did research for this episode was like, I'm not a Chuck Norris fan. I really didn't understand like his cultural impact. Um, past you know, him being in a couple of Bruce Lee movies, which I wasn't I never watched Bruce Lee movies unless it was I never watched Bruce Lee. I don't know, but it's um his his cultural impact to me wasn't really there from a personal standpoint. So when I did the research and I found out how interesting he actually was, like the life that he led, up you know, from the up until the day he died, pretty much. He's he he was a very interesting character, and we could talk about his politics, you could talk about his personal life, his the people he knew, the people he he and engaged with. It's it's crazy. It's uh the man was very intriguing.

SPEAKER_00 20:53

Anyone around our age, I I I'll speak for myself. The thing that stuck out for me the most for a very specific reason was late at night, the total body gym would come on, and you'd see Chuck Norris and Christy Brinkley. All I needed was Christy Brinkley working up a sweat on that machine and her like leotard and the game over, man. I was I was good for the night. I would work myself to sleep. TMI.

SPEAKER_01 21:21

TMI.

SPEAKER_00 21:23

Yo, everyone is right there. As soon as I said it, everyone's right there. That's male. Well, I mean, I doesn't have to be male, but we didn't have you didn't have the scrambled porn on the cable box, I guess. I did, but this was unscrambled, and I you know, Christy was was, you know, supermodel. Oh talking supermodel back in the day. And we're working out on that total body gym.

SPEAKER_01 21:49

Let me look at this. Christy Brinkley. Okay, she's 72 years old. Total gym. Total gym. I'm pulling I just pulled her out. She don't look bad for her age, Christy Brinkley. I'm gonna look up these total gyms. So she had to be what in her late 30s when this I think so she I mean she was oh wow oh yeah her she was ours yeah sexy as hell yeah I mean uh oh wow yeah take it back in the day like you know what I mean like I'm not it's clearly not up to the standards of of highly sexualized content today but she ain't no Sophie Rain lesser clippers they're not hard enough no ain't no Sophie ads on this shit I don't know you're probably logged into the wrong account I am I don't know oh yeah she um she's older here but yeah I'm gonna put the sound on I don't want to get copywritten and just her it was when she would do the legs this is legs I mean for a little bird yeah she's gotta be no she's in her fifties here she's definitely in her fifties here you gotta go way back I mean this is like total gym man she still look good though and when you're a teenager like this was this was something whoa there you go see like getting all kinds of ideas right now you are not me I'm just like I don't I don't watch my grandma working out but you could you couldn't turn on the TV past like 1130 at night without the the total gym infomercials being on and where that's I mean infomercials just geez they ruled the roost late at night so speaking of like I was thinking of uh there was a couple more things about Chuck Norris since his um you know he had a a jeans line that he came out with that uh I didn't know that action jeans yeah uh I'll pull this up because it's interesting how this actually worked um he yeah so he partnered with a company that made denim um and the thing was like in his movies he always rip his jeans because they weren't like good enough to you know because you know back in that era you wear tighter jeans right uh and he he partnered with this company to make what's called the action jean which is crazy let me show you this I never knew this the action jean yeah the action jeans so yeah they would be these jeans where he was able to do the kicks and everything and let me see look at that so he was able to do all the kicks and all that stuff and they'd have different sizes look at this see this is how this is how you know our generation or we're fat folks now these pants went only up to a 42 okay now at my biggest back in 2000 early 2000s I was a 42 I mean jeans like I'm probably like suits I'm bigger because you have to put it above your waist so you I could put jeans under my gut now and I'm a 36 38 around there so I probably really am a 42 if it put over my belly but the the only pants only went up to a 42 back then and uh but I guess if you're an athletic dude for 29 bucks too that's actually pretty expensive.

SPEAKER_00 25:14

If you're athletic and you're size 42 that you're that's you're a big dude.

SPEAKER_01 25:20

Yeah he's a sumo wrestler style yeah those are athletic motherfuckers and then they had the boy sizes and men sizes but yeah he would be kicking ass in these jeans and and they um in the aftermarket because you know I had to do my research and figure out like what are they reselling for pair of these goes for some cake oh it's it's almost up there with that that that vintage Japanese denim type of shit yeah dang yeah yeah it's like four or five grand for a pair if you have them because that a lot of them a lot of people didn't you know people didn't think about saving this shit you know it's not the same type of culture you gotta understand people like in in our day when we were younger and the adults or the people with like money and collected stuff they only cared about shit like what like baseball cards maybe like baseball collecting just became a thing back then. You know people didn't think about collecting stuff unless it was bigger things like cars or stat you know like art and statues that it was and it was more for affluent people and then when regular people just started saving bullshit like comic books and baseball cards and all that it became a thing like a culture thing. You know remember old X-Men comics I used to collect those yeah I never collected comic books I was never a comic I collected baseball cards and baseball card collecting uh I you know I remember it in the 70s we used to flip baseball cards flip for them so now these kids like lock them up in fucking plastic and shit and they oh they can no don't get a fingerprint on it and I'm gonna the back that you were just you wanted that frickin' you know stale ass piece of gum and you unrack the tops pack man you like that smell that powder on that pink piece of gum oh man man I love that shit and then you didn't care like you could have the Mark Maguire rookie card or the Ricky Henderson right on top of that shit would be that piece of gum and it would leave a fucking it would leave a stain on it because the sugar like especially if you were in a in the summertime when you bought a pack of a wax pack of remember they're in a wax pack remember that yeah so the wax would start to melt and fuck up the cardboard on the baseball card. So every card that was in the outer outer edge or the outside that was right above where they they sealed it would be fucked up. You'd have a stain on the back of it or the gum you know they put the gum right in the middle of the card so if it was warm out if the gum was moist still or got moist it would leave a stain on both on two different cards. Now imagine if you got a rookie card or whatever it'd be fucked up. And that's why that era even though they I remember collecting back then a bunch of cards um they they mass produced baseball cards I think from like 19 like the 80s all the way up to like the mid-2000s maybe I mean I mean I'm sorry the mid-20 the mid yeah like 2005 maybe and then they started saying okay we've got to make things limited you know and and and and start you know less but um that whole era there's so many of those cards on the market because people like myself kept them in gem mint condition put them into plastic and did all that shit they ain't worth shit now and like the the bigger stars maybe you know like but um you could still you could get though that era of cars because there's so many good condition ones are decent conditioned ones out there uh for good money um nowadays you know they have the limited editions you get one of ones all that type of shit people you know jump off a cliff to get these um but yeah that that I mean but it was such a great time because you cherished like those cars like you said you flipped them with your friends yeah man and you used to go to the like 7 Eleven and pick up a pack right like you you didn't have to go how much were they like a dollar or a quarter like a dollar ninety nine cents I mean something how the convenience store was just it was Wonderland like literally you could have your your mom or dad send you into the convenience store to pick up a pack of cigarettes you know my dad's in the car yeah he needs a pack of smokes and they would give it to you like yeah no it was a good trust to give a shit you know my dad used to get stuff um for free like from the convenience store by our house and we lived in Queens and he'd just come in and pay his little tab you know because he used to always buy lottery tickets every day and we come in there and want a bag of chips or something because it was like a quarter you get a bag of chips remember dipsy doodles like the the free those things dipsy doodles or dipsy doodles I think they're called dipsy doodles the the the corn chip it was a corn chip I don't remember those actually you don't remember dipsy doodles maybe it's like a like it's an East Coasty right that might be a New York thing you grew up in Philly bro you should know this I think they're still around but it was like a I don't remember I I just looked it up I don't remember those they were they look like sun chips yeah they're they were the saltiest fucking chip ever they were wise as the answer to Frito lays they were so salty but they were like yeah they look like sun chips I think um yeah sun chips is maybe a baby well wise potato chips do you still make wise potato they get bought up they still around wise yeah I think so yeah I guess they still do make dipsy doodles but they are fucking salty I remember eating them shits man you said love me a dipsydoodle you know you know get the sodium content back I don't think they had the nutritional value on anything back then well I honestly think sodium was better back then like the sugar was better back then the sodium was probably better it was probably you know less hard I don't know what kind of sodium they put in this shit but nowadays man you eat it was it corn syrup sodium I don't know but uh like the corn syrup sodium now you're making up your own chemicals it's there were so many things back then and as we talk I mean I know we're supposed to be focusing on Chuck Norris but Chuck Norris is tied to so many things like dipsydoodles and baseball cards and just good memories of a great time in our history and if you if you if you go back to kind of the Chuck Norris thing that late night TV there was like a whole movement right you had you had fitness and you had cutlery so you were either chopping something in the kitchen or you were working out yeah cut so you cup co knives oh man every year I had a friend of mine that would walk around the neighborhood trying to sell those frickin' cutcoat knives my wife sold them door to door door to door yo anybody paying a thousand dollars and they were thousand dollars back then people okay a thousand dollars for knives now think about this and you get remember they put you on the payment plan or you get this COD and and I ne obviously you never got a pair of cuckoo knives but there are better knives out there and cuckoo's pretty good the lifetime warranty and all that shit but at the end of the day man there's better knives those Japanese knives are better but cuckoo is yeah and then you you had the ginsu movement right it would cut through the can you be able to cut through rock and still slice a tomato wow yeah because I remember the the um encyclopedia Britannica what was the other one the the the one with all the picture ones I know Britannica had more words had words and pictures what was that what was the picture one oh man I think it was a world something encyclopedia I'm looking it up now encyclopedias are still in print um world book the world book that was the one with all the pictures I used to love those they come out every year with a new one uh yeah the world book encyclopedia yeah they still do that this year is the 250th anniversary of the US and they got a bunch of flags on it that's kind of fire I might pick this up wear this in my supreme flag um it's crazy oh 1300 bucks yeah man they charge an arm and a leg for this shit I didn't know it was that exactly they used to be like 400 bucks or something like really expensive 1300 though that's yeah but they used to have pictures I used to read these cover to cover in the library like I just go play with the thing reading is fundamental people I I don't know kids consume things differently now so I would assume they read still right at least the smart ones I would hope I honestly I I hope people still read I mean it's it's such an important part of comprehension and learning and communication and you know pretty much survival you'd be surprised my friend like people nothing surprises me anymore some of the um most successful people can't Floyd Mayweather can't read yeah but I'm not going to Floyd Mayweather for stock advice right like I'm not I'm not looking to to have like deep deep conversation about world events I mean he might be smart about world events he might be smart who knows but I guarantee but you have to read I mean yeah you should everyone should learn to read R.

SPEAKER_00 34:18

Kelly couldn't read ever like he still can't read I don't think he can read maybe you can teach himself in prison.

SPEAKER_01 34:26

Well that's the 90s we're not talking about the 90s we're talking about Chuck Norris in the 80s and 70s whatever the fuck there's a lot to to go off of there.

SPEAKER_00 34:33

But uh but there's that was an era of action heroes though I think we grew up with with some very influential tough I I want to say men because you didn't see very many female action heroes.

SPEAKER_01 34:46

I mean there was Wonder Woman but she was kind of lame you're crazy like a Carter man who's easy on the little outfit see you looking at it from that perspective I'm looking at it like was you kicking some ass so she kicked some ass so wait okay so there was Christopher Reeves Superman that was in the 80s right um uh late 70s I think the first Superman came okay 79 I think right maybe 798 yeah um little Splash Gordon I remember that that was sort of a um Rocky I mean Rocky nah maybe no yeah Rocky came out in 79 80 what was a girl here I don't remember this movie Legend of Billy Jean's that oh I love that movie she got topless in that movie this guy remembers all the dumb oh that movie was on TV all the time Legend of Billy Jean yeah because she had a Fenitar song in there oh man I don't rem I remember this movie but I don't rem I don't I remember the wetsuit top yeah she cut the sleeves off and wore the wetsuit top the joint right here that shit right here the green that was bad those were yeah she was and she cut she had long hair in the beginning and then she cut all her hair off and she was like all badass.

SPEAKER_00 36:08

So Howard the Duck too remember how never yeah I remember that I didn't love Howard the Duck I I know I understand the the cultural aspect of it but I just didn't wasn't that the first inner species sex scene he had like sex with a girl like a human woman in the movie it wasn't I you know that movie just duckman didn't duck man you got weird you got weird science right with yo weird science yo I gotta go yo I had the biggest crush on on her when when they yo see one thing about 80s movies yo they were borderline like X rated yeah like everything except the penetration I remember when didn't they they made her in the thing and she came out naked and they did the slow-mo thing I remember oh yeah vividly like she was all like wet and shit and they slow-mo it all the way down you saw everything like it was crazy this as long as you didn't they changed the rules though but now I mean by then I was watching my own you know adult content uh so it didn't matter like it didn't matter I saw other women in the in in the boat but still it was it was super risque back then and and even was it just the language yeah I I think so like I it may have not been deemed that way but we were I was exposed to all that at such a young age it just it became normal like I I was talking was I talking the other day to on the other podcast about like my dad would sit in the barber chair reading playboys and we'd be sitting right next to him I cut all of that out bro you didn't even notice I cut that all out oh so this is a little sketch but yeah I mean I feel like we grew up uh around that type of content an awful lot I mean those movies were so great though like Real Genius you remember real genius with Val Kilmer oh man no I know I think so classic classic movie so and I go back and I'll watch some of these because Catherine hasn't seen a lot of the kind of old movies that I grew up in and I'll or grew up with and I'll go back and make her watch some of them like Dr. Detroit do you remember Dr. Detroit with Dan Aykroyd Cannonball Run yep with Dom Deluise Big Trouble in little little Chinatown or something yeah that was good so just Jake Steed stuff Jake Steed was a porn star wasn't he was he?

SPEAKER_01 38:31

Yeah that was a Jake it was a black guy you probably didn't watch black porn at all yeah this is Jake Steed yeah this is this is this is an action movie though like this guy I don't even know what that is he doesn't look black no but this is the movie that's where you got the name from the porn got the name from here I actually don't remember that movie at all neither do I but it's a classic according to this 1986 yeah yeah what other what other movies like you also had you know the the Monty Python era Mel Brooks you know and back Space Balls Space Bowls wasn't space bowls in the 90s 90s but I'm going back further like older Mel Brooks like history of the world blazing saddles like blazing saddles is one of the best what's three amigos was that um that wasn't that was the 80s no I'm just saying I'm just asking when it was Dan Ackroyd uh Dan Aykroyd uh Steve Martin and Martin Short not Dan Aykroyd Chevy Chase Chevy Chase 1986 interesting how that cultural appropriate you know so you know the term cultural appropriation is only like more current it was it was Martin Short by the way um yeah Martin Short Chevy Chase I think he said Dan Aykroyd or I said Dan Ackroyd you said Dan Aykroyd I'm sorry I'm wrong you're right but he was in that movie wasn't he he had to be no I don't think he was or was he was one of the doctors because then they did an homage I think to to spies like us so there was a scene that crossed over in three amigos from spies like us when it was like doctor doctor doctor doctor oh no he wasn't in this movie RP the um John Lovitz though he was in there did he die John Lovitz he's been dead bro really he died I might be wrong I might be wrong I mean do you you got her although he's still alive yeah I was gonna say I don't remember hearing about that but I'll go with it no what's his name die the the um belushy uh Jim and yeah Jim Johnson I I get them confused sometimes but the the one one scene that really sticks out like airplane was such a great movie but when her boobs came flying out when the plane was going down I mean come on back in the 80s oh airplane you don't remember the movie I remember airplane at the revisit but I don't remember that scene I wasn't so focused on titties back then well clearly I have a problem I was I don't know you had a problem I think you're just a healthy young man who had a high libido at that time I was a little I was overweight when I was a kid so I probably didn't have like the sex drive of a regular does weight have to do with does it dog we peak I think when I you know I was in my my no I'm you know I'm not peaking anymore but I think when I was in my uh early 20s I I peaked you know maybe not early 20s maybe no late 20s but those movies I think they they maybe increased the libido I mean you had some great other movies but you know Caddyshack coming to America I just I made Catherine watch coming to America the other day she never seen coming to America she saw never never sat the whole way through but she's not she doesn't really love like she's not into pop culture in that way it's it's bizarre she was just raised very different so yeah I get that she's a little you know Southern Baptist man they they got their own they have a different culture though you should just say like how how was it watching early Joe Lolstein or you know Jimmy Jimmy Wayne Swagger yeah the the the guy on TV she probably know all about that shit yeah all that shit Jim Baker ask her about them Southern Baptist churches on TV or actually that would be a fun topic of conversation for a future episode talking about all the TV evangelists that we grew up with.

SPEAKER_00 42:37

Yeah oh man like when Tammy Faye was crying when they got you know charged with what was it racketeering or or embezzling embezzlement I mean that was just prosperity church TV yeah we need to start a prosperity church get some bread I could I could preach I could preach preach on I could I could spread the word but I wouldn't make any money because I would actually speak the truth um but yeah Caddyshack another great great movie's great Bill Murray I mean yeah come on Chevy Chase although I didn't love Caddyshack too but Rodney no Caddyshack too that's my favorite Caddyshack.

SPEAKER_01 43:22

Yeah you're crazy the first one's better I think I I appreciated it more because I actually watched it all the way through and I would there's funny moments in it for me especially with that little beaver or whatever when he was fucking with everybody I love that groundhog groundhog no it was a beaver it was like a beaver dude was it was it the groundhog or a squirrel you don't get beavers necessarily on the golf course whatever animal it was the chipmunk guinea pig whatever it was that motherfucker was hilarious man the way he was fucking with them with the balls and everything man oh yeah and then the random Mel Mel Bricks's character in there was hilarious too I think

SPEAKER_00 44:00

It wasn't Mel Brooks. It was Jackie Gleason. Jackie. No, Jackie. I know who you're talking about.

SPEAKER_01 44:07

Red dude with the red curly hair. Red hair. No, but Mel Brooks was in that movie. I don't know who he was. I'm looking it up. I know, but yeah, this guy was the main character. The um the older um Jackie Mason. Jackie Mason, yeah. Yep. Yep, you're right. But he was not, but Mel Brooks wasn't in it. Okay, I was wrong. Jackie Mason was in it. Yeah, he's hilarious. Is he still alive? No. Jonathan Silverfield. Oh, he played the caddy. Jonathan Silverman was a caddy.

SPEAKER_00 44:38

But you can't compare. I mean, Rodney Dangerfield is just amazing. Come on.

SPEAKER_01 44:43

Oh, Robert Stack was in it. Oh my god. He played the uh the um bad guy golfer. Randy Quaid. Randy Quaid was hilarious in that movie too.

unknown 44:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 44:54

I'm watching Cadddy Shack tonight. I'm gonna watch that shit tonight.

SPEAKER_00 44:57

You should totally watch it.

SPEAKER_01 45:00

I would love old Hollywood, man. Like, this is the era of like when you could do whatever the fuck you wanted, bro. Shit.

SPEAKER_00 45:08

We just grew up on great. I mean, think about the cultural movies that that literally inspired our generation. You have Back to the Future, Aliens, like when Sigourney Weaver was, you know, sexier, maybe. There we go.

SPEAKER_01 45:23

Sexier, maybe Predator came out.

SPEAKER_00 45:29

And Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day. Molly Ringwold, man.

SPEAKER_01 45:35

Did you like Molly Ringwold?

SPEAKER_00 45:36

I'm not, I wasn't I wasn't like, but I I I liked the uh what was her name? The the weirdo, where she would shake her hair out. Ugh. Yeah, yeah. I was more into that.

SPEAKER_01 45:46

I forgot her name, but you know, I know what you're talking about. She was in um that movie.

SPEAKER_00 45:51

Oh, Stand By Me, Dead Poet Society.

SPEAKER_01 45:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 45:57

And then Ghostbusters. Allie Sheedy. Allie Sheedy.

SPEAKER_01 46:01

Thank you. Allie Sheety. Molly Ringworld. I wasn't really big on Molly Ringworld. Allie Sheedy was all right. But did she ever like have like a role where she actually looked good in it?

SPEAKER_00 46:10

Allie Sheedy or Bobby.

SPEAKER_01 46:12

She's a good-looking woman, but I'm saying she always played like a shit.

SPEAKER_00 46:16

I think she was in short circuit, wasn't she? I'm looking here. My brain is so broken. If I just pulled that reference out of my ass, that was that's gonna be maybe she was, maybe she wasn't.

SPEAKER_01 46:25

Let me see her just film out. Yeah, she was in short circuit.

SPEAKER_00 46:28

I love it. Look at me. Short circuit one. Yeah, yeah. She was in fear.

SPEAKER_01 46:33

Holy shit.

SPEAKER_00 46:34

I think she's she's been a working actor.

SPEAKER_01 46:37

Elmo's Fire. That was the first uh such what's her name. And the other one.

SPEAKER_00 46:43

Um uh Demi Moore.

SPEAKER_01 46:45

Demi Moore, yeah. That's the movie where she was like tonguing, like there was a promo or some shit. She's with some little boy, and she was tonguing down some 12-year-old, and they have that old that floats around the internet every couple of years saying she's in the pedophile ring.

SPEAKER_00 46:59

But that also started the whole like it blew up the trend of taking what was it, hairspray with a lighter and going, I don't know if you remember that scene.

SPEAKER_01 47:07

I almost burnt down my house with that shit. Remember you talking about burning down a house? That almost happened to me. I I I was I sprayed a mattress in our garage. I was against the wall with that shit. And it the mattress started going on fire and was against the wall. I ran inside, threw water on it, and then I I patted it down with my body. I was like, the wall was starting, it didn't, the wall didn't catch fire, but it was starting to, you know, the mattress was burning, and I was like, holy shit! And I just it didn't catch. I could have burnt down my whole house, but I threw water on it.

SPEAKER_00 47:36

Crazy.

SPEAKER_01 47:37

And then it it and I put it out with my hands and shit. I was so freaked out. And then I covered it up with a sheet. This is what happened. So it burned, right? And I I it was like up against so I covered it up with a sheet and cleaned up the mess. And for weeks and months, I don't know what happened, but one day my dad's moving shit around in the garage and saw that shit, a big ass hole and burned a hole in this mattress. I remember I didn't catch a beating for it. I my parents weren't like that, but I was scared to death. My dad like looked at me, what'd you do? You could have burnt out the house. What the fuck is wrong with you? Blah blah blah. He never cursed, but you know what I mean.

SPEAKER_00 48:12

It was just yo, bedding goes ignites, it's like an accelerator. I've never witnessed fire spread like in better. Like when I sleep my house burnt down, like that shit was it was insane how quickly the fire just infiltrated every single square inch of the room with all the bedding and curtains.

SPEAKER_01 48:33

Yeah, because it's dry, it's very dry.

SPEAKER_00 48:36

Yeah, well, I think it's also got back then they made mattresses that you know were not flame retardant, let's put it that way. Or mattressable.

SPEAKER_01 48:47

I I would assume so.

SPEAKER_00 48:49

I don't know, but I would assume they have better yeah, better materials that don't necessarily test that out.

SPEAKER_01 48:55

I'm gonna see if I'm gonna put some some flame to mattress later.

SPEAKER_00 48:58

See what I screw that burning a after my house burnt down. Never again, man. That's one of the worst things to live through.

SPEAKER_01 49:06

I know what you're saying. It sucks. Yeah, it does, man. Anyway, let's wrap it up because Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris. Yeah, Chuck Norris. What a great legacy and brought back many memories of the youth. But so check back with us next week as we talk more about. I mean, this is the first episode. We're just trying to figure out things, but uh, this was a great talk about Chuck and his history. Leave us some comments about Chuck in the com in the in the comment section.

SPEAKER_00 49:33

Your favorite Chuck Norris movie, and let us know your favorite 80s movie. Your favorite movie.

SPEAKER_01 49:43

We we can't remember everything that we did. We were so like it was the 80s people, a lot of cocaine, a lot of weed, a lot of uppers and downers. So, you know, when I was like eight years old, man, I was strung out. So I don't remember a lot from that era. I don't, not the 80s at least. The 90s, a little more. I was a little straight edge in the 90s, you know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_00 50:04

Well, I'll I'll fill in the 80s, you fill in the late 90s, because that that was my era of you know, fuzzy brain. So we can absolutely figure out I was in college, man. Figure out the lane. Yeah, 90s, bro. Yeah, I went straight edge in the nineties, late nineties. So sober up. Sober up sober up.

SPEAKER_01 50:26

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