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Ladies and gentlemen , boys and girls , he

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, they them . Did I get every pronoun

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talking about James Banks , the third

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tuned , we will be back right

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Yeah .

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Go go go .

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So I didn't , quite frankly , tell

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people what we were going to talk about today

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. Oh yeah , whoops , this

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is all new . So today

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, jim , we are going to talk about something

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that you and I know very well , being

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that we are similar in age You're

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just two years behind me , we

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were grew up in the eighties and

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we're going to tell some things that

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we know

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and we loved , and

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we just want to give you guys a little

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taste of it . What do you think ?

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That sounds good .

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So growing up in the eighties I think they classified

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an eighties kid being between 77

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and 83, . 84

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is like your core , you

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know , and I'm like whatever core

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. I moved to Lake Station in

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83 . And

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from there it

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was a whole different world , straight out of Gary

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.

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Oh my gosh .

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Yeah , that's what I'm saying . But , jim

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, let me start it off growing up in the eighties . One

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thing that that I

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had to have in the eighties was

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a swatch watch , because it was

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cool , remember . I mean and

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for those that don't know what a swatch watch was

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, it's like a watch

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or a color and you could change the face plate colors

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on it and you'd

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wear something new every day . It came in like

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multiple colors , like blue , red

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, pink . I never wore that

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, but it came in like all

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these colors and like all

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the cool kids had one , and I think

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by the time I got mine , the

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fad was already over . And

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I was so cool , no more .

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I remember having one , but it was after

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a while , like it was , like you said , it was going

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around because your parents didn't buy anything right away

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for you .

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No , no , no . There was one

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thing that they did buy for me on day

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one , but we'll talk about that

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in a second , because it's like one of my

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most like , like

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, cherished , cherished

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moments . You know , it really like brought

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a tear to my eye , it really made my heart

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grow three sizes bigger , you

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know , on that Christmas day . But

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what do you remember in

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the eighties , man Eighties ?

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was you wanting ? You wanting

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stuff because everything was bright

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colors , toys , everything

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was just popping , like the kids say popping . The

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video games were just starting to change

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from Atari to

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Nintendo , that that turn right

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there , and you had toy

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toys with He-Man and GI Joe , and

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then all these other toys started launching and every kid's like oh , my God

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, I want that , I want that , I want that . And your parents were

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like no , you don't , no , you don't

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. And looking back , the

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prices were like two dollars , three dollars

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for an action figure . And your parents were like

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so stubborn . They were like no , no . And

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we were like what are you ? You look back and you're like

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why didn't they buy me more ? You know what the heck ?

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Right , right , you know I think that's why

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I still buy toys to this day , because

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I buy myself stuff that my parents

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couldn't afford back in the day . Yeah , you

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know , like me and Sean

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, we buy GI Joe's . You know I

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love GI Joe , always have , because

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it is one of the reasons why I joined the army

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, you know , because I wanted to go

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Joe . But toys

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, you know , I went to Ventures . I

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remember it was either Ventures

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or Toys or Us that I bought my GI Joe's

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from , or an occasional Kmart

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or Zaire . Yeah , they were

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267 for

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GI Joe back then . Nowadays

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, because I buy them regularly

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, they're 24.99

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. And I'm like , yeah

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, I'm sure the figure is a little bit more detailed

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, the figure is a little bit bigger , but

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wow , back then those were

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cool man .

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I $20 you can get a . You

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can get a vehicle back then for $20 .

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I mean yeah man , you could buy the Cobra

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Trouble Bubble . You know like they fly

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around in man . You

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mentioned video games and we

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used to have an Odyssey and I still have

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mine it's . It's the

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very first game on . It was Pong , and

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the control , the controllers , were built

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into the console so you had to , like , hold

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the console and and go back and forth and

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then they had a shooting game that I realized

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as a teenager . I

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didn't even need to aim at the screen , I

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just pulled the trigger and it shoots a little square , like

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bleeping around , like Pong , you know . And

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then from there it moved into the

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Atari 2600 , which was huge

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and amazing . There was like

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a supercomputer , a computer , and the thing is

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, every now and then I'll play

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an Atari game from back in the day that

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I never beat , and I find out that

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I could beat games nowadays but I can't

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beat them games still , and it's

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all you know like pitfall . I

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can't beat that and all you do is jump around

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, jump snakes , jump scorpion , swing

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, cross caverns . And

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my game that haunts me still

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to this day man is Indiana

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Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark

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. That game bothers

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me because I never beat like past

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the third screen .

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I don't remember playing that game .

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Yeah , it's like .

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I remember some others .

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Yeah , you like Indiana Jones , of course

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, and you go down and

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you put a little like bomb next to the

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screen in the corner and then

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the bomb blows up and it creates a

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like a cavern and

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a secret door and then

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Indiana Jones walks through your TV and

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he goes this was .

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This was a tarry .

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Yeah , it was like a little stick figure , like pitfall

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.

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Oh yeah . Well , the one thing about the 80s

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or the Atari was

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the like one

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here . Here's MASH .

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Oh yeah , yeah , that's cool .

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But I mean the the box art

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that would have . It would look like like the

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70s , those vans

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that would have like the dragon and like mountains

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and people shooting and stuff

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, or like real fancy . They would go all

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in on that box design . And then you get

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it and it's little stick figures

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or little blobs or little squares and you're like

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what is this ? I mean you're trying

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to figure it out Like I don't know what this is because

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it's a square in a circle and that

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was crazy .

8:08

And then he had games . Like they buried this game

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in the desert but ET , yeah

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, you had to eat the Reese's pieces and

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like it was kind of like Pac man slash

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Mousetrap .

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Well , that game was when you fell in the hole

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. You would all of a sudden just fall

8:22

in a hole right away and you try to get out

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, and then you just keep falling , you try to get out and keep

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falling and you go on for like an hour

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like that , just screaming at the screen .

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Yeah , but it was cool .

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Yeah , because it's all you had .

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And then from there they copied games like

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Popeye when he'd go around

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the ship . Try to save olive oil Mousetrap

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was the same way , burger

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time was the same way . We had to go

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across and like and like , lay

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the leaf , the .

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Smurfs , you yeah

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, the Smurfs you would go across the screen and jump

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over a fence and jump over like steps

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and the next screen you're just jumping over a river

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and it's just nonstop . You're just jumping

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, jumping , like what is the point of this game ? You're

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on 20 levels here . Just keep jumping .

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Right and the screen all looks the same in the program

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. So like , what are we doing ? Yeah

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, did you ever wonder why Smurfette

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is the only female of like

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100 guys ?

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I heard a theory of that I couldn't remember . I

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can't remember the theory now , but someone had to

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explain why that was . I'm going to have to look it up .

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I had the hillbilly girl .

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she came like later on in the seasons

9:26

but oh , later , and they'd have little

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little baby Smurfs and stuff .

9:30

Yeah , where'd they come from . You know

9:32

, like Smurfette popped them out .

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If you accept the yeah , if

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you accept the fact that Smurfette's the only female

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and none of them are getting busy with her , then

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all of a sudden you have these babies when . Who

9:43

was getting busy and how come no one else is getting busy

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with Smurfette ?

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Right , or were they ? Hefty was always

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on that .

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I don't know . I see was Gargamel in on this

9:51

. What's going on ?

9:52

Could have been as real . Oh , this

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is how much the 80s mean . We can

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name off 80s cartoon characters

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, like like we were just watching them

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on TV , but real fast . Yeah

10:03

, I'm like all over the place when I think

10:05

of the 80s because , man , there was so many good memories

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and some bad memories . But

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going back to video games after

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, after Atari and Atari

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7800 and

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Coleco vision and

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the Commodore 64 , because

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they all , I mean , what kind of controllers

10:24

, a number pad , come on .

10:26

That was aggravated .

10:27

You ever play the handheld electronics

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art baseball game . It's

10:32

like it looks like a baseball field and

10:35

it like the little light bleeps out

10:37

and you know yeah , they would just have lights and stuff

10:39

. Yeah , like I'm looking for as

10:41

I want to play it . And then the cool

10:43

one was the head to head one

10:46

, where you hold one side

10:48

and whoever you're playing plays on the other

10:50

side , like the football , yes , football

10:52

and basketball , yeah , those

10:54

are good man .

10:55

But my cousins , my older cousins . They

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had the football and the baseball , All those ones

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that you go , the handheld ones , and they were

11:02

played that all the time when I go to their house .

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Nice , nice . This brings me

11:07

the next thing is that

11:09

cherish moment , man , from

11:11

after all that Nintendo came out . My

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dad was laid off , my mom didn't work . I

11:16

want that Nintendo so bad because I wanted

11:18

Robbie , the robot who played who played

11:21

.

11:21

Oh yeah , that little .

11:23

Yeah , yeah , he had the dry . And

11:25

he moved it and and all that , and

11:27

my dad really busted his

11:30

ass on the side . Jobs , man , they

11:32

get me that . You know I never thought

11:34

I'd get that , but I remember opening

11:36

it up at Christmas time , man , and crying , you know , because

11:39

I'm like , yeah , yeah , I knew how much

11:41

mom and dad struggled , man , and

11:43

and back then that was like $389

11:47

.

11:48

You know crazy .

11:49

Yeah , and I still got Robbie the robot

11:52

somewhere at my parents' house , you

11:54

know , in the dry room .

11:55

You didn't . And the thing is , you didn't

11:57

care what games they got you , as long as it was a game

11:59

.

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Right , right and , man

12:02

, I think from there that's

12:04

why my love of

12:06

video games really started

12:09

, you know . And

12:11

then the wrestling game pro wrestling came

12:13

out for Nintendo and I loved it

12:15

. And then from Nintendo

12:17

came PlayStation and that

12:19

started down the road . And then

12:22

from PlayStation came the Xbox

12:24

or Sega came . It was Sega then , then PlayStation

12:26

, it was the Sega

12:28

Master System , then the Sega Genesis

12:31

, then the Sega CD , which we

12:33

just all went crazy , Right right . Everybody's

12:36

just throwing random games at you

12:38

. That used to play in the arcade

12:40

, which is another thing , man going

12:43

to the mall and playing the arcades yeah

12:45

, we had a lands castle

12:48

in the South Lake Mall . Yeah , and

12:50

it was great , because I used to like steal from that

12:52

guy too , because I'd always be like I

12:54

ate my corner , you know , and the guy yeah

12:56

, you could lie , you could lie your way .

12:58

All like that yeah .

12:59

And he's like , oh , hold on , and then he find

13:01

out how he resets it and you just watch him

13:03

and then you reset it you yourself

13:05

. You didn't , you know keep . You pushed a button in the back

13:07

and you were in another

13:09

great thing was pizza

13:12

had had that little tabletop game .

13:14

Yeah . Yeah , and they had pro wrestling

13:16

at the one by my house in Hobart

13:18

. Really , yeah . And I just remember my brother

13:20

and I was like let's play this play . And

13:23

he's like no , so you could play one side if , and you could sit

13:25

there while your mom's ordering

13:27

and the pizza is being made and stuff , and then she's screaming

13:29

. She's screaming to come and eat . You're like hold on , hold

13:31

on . And you're like you're not going to get no pizza

13:33

and it's like , oh please .

13:35

It's like I just put 75 cents and

13:37

mom , I got to beat .

13:39

I got to beat the Amazon Hold on I got to beat

13:41

Starman .

13:44

Speaking of that man , like my wife , she loves

13:46

Miss Pac-Man , but she don't like the standup

13:48

console . She likes the cocktail

13:51

table , like yeah . So I ended

13:53

up buying her one one year for Christmas

13:55

. Awesome , so every night not every night , that would

13:57

be a lie I'll

13:59

play Miss Pac-Man and I can't even beat one

14:01

level of Pac-Man dude . And

14:04

then I'll play Galica one and two .

14:06

Well , Miss Pac-Man was the one that they

14:09

. That's what that was supposed to be Pac-Man two

14:11

was like a whole document , a

14:13

documentary on that . These guys hacked . They

14:15

were hacking games like that

14:17

and because they hacked it and got sued

14:19

, they ended up working for the people

14:22

that made it and they took their idea and

14:24

made Pac-Man two or something like that . I can't remember

14:26

.

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Well , that's pretty cool .

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Did you ever watch that documentary Nintendo

14:31

quest ?

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No , I didn't see that .

14:33

It's on Netflix . I believe it's

14:35

about this . It's Canadian

14:37

guys .

14:38

Yeah , all right , man yeah .

14:41

One guy challenges his friend they were talking about like

14:43

Nintendo and they were one challenge

14:46

his friend to buy every single Nintendo game

14:48

ever made six hundred and eighty six

14:50

or something , and he had one month to

14:52

do it and he had to

14:54

spend . He couldn't use the internet , he couldn't

14:56

you , he had to call people or travel and get

14:58

the games .

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And did he do it ?

15:01

I don't want to spoil it .

15:04

I don't have any .

15:05

Oh , I'll see if I could find it on something else

15:07

for you to watch . I could , like

15:10

I used to they show his

15:12

on the book , they show the most valuable

15:14

ones or the ones he wants most , and then they

15:16

show him going to different video

15:18

game places and like I'll take that that and

15:20

then negotiating with people and it's pretty

15:22

cool . It got me in the mood . I'm like man . I want

15:24

to collect all the games too .

15:26

And how many Atari games do you have ?

15:29

No , not Atari , Nintendo oh .

15:30

OK , OK , OK . What was your favorite

15:33

Nintendo game ?

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God I don't know . I love so many

15:37

.

15:37

I love by Billy .

15:39

Yeah .

15:39

I like that . I like Commandos . That

15:42

was a good game .

15:43

Well , legend of Zelda was awesome

15:46

too . I mean , I remember

15:48

like a summer me and my brother would play . Not

15:51

, we wouldn't even go outside nonstop when we got

15:53

it , like trying to get down in the under , the

15:55

different underworlds and stuff and just trying to beat

15:58

that , like every time .

15:59

Find the hidden rocks and slide them out of the way

16:02

. And then he had the sword that shoots all the way

16:04

across the street . Yeah

16:06

, man , oh yeah . And then that

16:08

was good stuff , man , and

16:10

not only , not only Mario was

16:12

good too , which one I

16:17

love Donkey Kong .

16:20

Donkey . Oh , did the Donkey Kong

16:22

one .

16:23

Yeah , was that Nintendo or was that

16:25

Atari ?

16:26

It was arcade first , and then it

16:28

was Atari , and then they brought

16:30

it to Nintendo .

16:32

And then Donkey Kong Jr .

16:34

Yeah , tecmo Super Bowl

16:36

was awesome .

16:37

Oh dude , everybody wanted to be Bo Jackson

16:40

.

16:41

We had to make rules with my cousins . Nobody

16:43

could be Bo Jackson and stuff , because everybody would just be

16:45

going crazy .

16:46

When I was in my army , we used to have tournaments and

16:48

everybody wanted to be Bo .

16:50

Or if you played Lawrence

16:52

Taylor or Mike Singletary , they

16:55

would just go across the like . They would jump

16:57

up and then go across the top and just get the quarterback

16:59

like a lightning every time .

17:01

Now , if you go from like that

17:04

football game to like Madden

17:07

24 , holy

17:09

cow , dude , what a difference . But

17:11

I would still rather kind of play

17:13

Madden or , uh

17:16

, tecmo Bowl .

17:19

I like Tecmo Bowl because they only

17:21

had four plays two passing and two running

17:23

and it was like your

17:25

odds of like getting against

17:27

somebody , they have one in four chance you're going

17:29

to pick that play . But then when it became like

17:31

they only went to eight plays

17:34

and then it went like all now with

17:36

like different toggles and stuff . I'm

17:39

like yeah , I like the back when

17:41

it was basic but just four plays and you

17:43

had to . You had to figure out which one .

17:46

And uh , if you have an Android

17:48

phone , they have like a Tecmo Bowl

17:50

football game for free .

17:53

And all they do .

17:54

And man , it's pretty dang amazing man

17:56

, it like , really like

17:58

, brings it back to you . I

18:00

mean they don't have Bo Jackson , but Another

18:04

was Metroid .

18:05

I'd get lost playing like in their planets

18:07

and the different levels . I'm like God , it would

18:09

just be so crazy . I'm like . I

18:11

think that like introduced when

18:14

they later came out with like open world concept

18:16

where you can travel anywhere in a game , I always

18:18

thought Metroid and Zelda were like it's

18:20

a world you could just go in , a planet , you could

18:22

just go anywhere .

18:24

Yeah , like Star Fox . Yeah , you

18:27

know , you fly all around .

18:29

And then Mike Tyson's punch out was probably

18:32

one of my favorites too .

18:34

Good dude when you were little Joe , and

18:37

I got a story for that one . Yeah

18:39

, go ahead .

18:40

Sorry to interrupt . No , you're not . When

18:42

I was playing it I got the code from somebody

18:44

, the code for Mike to fight Mike Tyson

18:47

. And so

18:49

me and my cousin he

18:51

was like a couple years , he's a couple years younger than

18:53

me we went to his older brother . He was

18:56

in Manchester College and

18:58

we went to play . And all

19:01

of a sudden we went down there and I'm playing Mike Tyson

19:04

in a dorm room and I

19:06

was , and then everybody's like he's going to play

19:08

Mike Tyson , he's going to beat Mike Tyson , and everybody also

19:10

the whole dorm came into this room and

19:13

I'm playing , I'm fighting , I'm fighting and he's like he's going

19:15

to get him this time . And finally I

19:17

beat Mike Tyson in Manchester College

19:19

. The whole place was screaming like they like

19:21

you won the Super Bowl or something , and

19:24

they were running down the halls calling

19:27

on a phone . I don't believe . This kid just beat Mike Tyson and

19:29

stuff . And I was like yeah , I'm

19:31

the greatest and it's like no .

19:33

Yeah , I kind of skipped everybody .

19:35

Yeah .

19:36

You know , when you speak of codes , you think

19:38

of the ultimate one , the up

19:41

up , down down , left right , left right , b A start

19:43

that gave you 30

19:45

lives on Contra , or ?

19:47

100 .

19:49

And Contra was awesome , especially

19:51

when you got the spread gun in

19:53

.

19:53

Oh yeah , just like the whole screen . It's just taking

19:56

everybody out .

19:56

You just lay down on the ground and just

19:58

take out the guns , the people , whatever's

20:01

in front of you . You take it out . That

20:03

was a fun and I think that was one of the first

20:06

like two-player

20:08

team game .

20:11

Yeah . And I think

20:13

it was around there yeah .

20:15

How about how revolutionary Pitfighter

20:19

was ? Remember that , where you could choose

20:21

, it looked like real

20:23

people on a video game screen

20:25

. It had a chick and

20:28

it had like a wrestler and

20:30

a bodybuilder

20:33

, I do believe .

20:35

Oh , that was Super Nintendo right .

20:38

Was it Super Nintendo , I know it started

20:40

out on an arcade .

20:42

Yeah , that was arcade first .

20:43

yeah , yeah , and I whisked a lot

20:46

of money , or .

20:48

The crowd was like shadowy and you're like like

20:50

staying in there .

20:53

Or one game that I found so hard , but

20:55

it was so amazing so I didn't care

20:57

it was . It was one of the higher price games

20:59

back in the day Dragon Slayer .

21:02

Oh yeah .

21:03

I mean , it looked like a cartoon , it

21:05

did .

21:06

I remember going past an arcade , too like

21:08

that , and I was like what the heck , is this a movie ? What is this

21:10

A cartoon ?

21:11

Yeah , that . And Space Ace

21:13

and Dragon Slayer 2 was

21:16

like amazing

21:18

, you know , just

21:21

like yeah , I used to . As soon as my parents would say

21:23

we're going to Century Mall , they had

21:25

an arcade there . They didn't even have a name on it , I

21:27

think it was like Goldmine or something . And

21:30

then , you know , South Lake Mall

21:32

. My parents would just leave

21:34

me at a Lance Castle . Here's eight bucks . Ooh

21:37

, eight bucks . That's a lot of games , you

21:39

know .

21:40

Now parents , we would kill to give our kids

21:42

eight bucks and then be happy .

21:44

Right , right , you know you still come out

21:47

with like money because you didn't

21:49

spend it all , you know .

21:50

You're getting your kid a 20 now and they're just like this OK

21:52

, what else am I going to get ? What else you got for ?

21:54

me Right , right , that's don't even cover like a drink

21:57

nowadays .

21:58

You know what else we should do for speaking of money

22:00

. You know what else we should do .

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without Scott Powers pointing

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at you or Scott Powers and Lynn

22:53

Marie . They make like a microphone

22:56

and it's got the Powers Point podcast

22:58

as a stand . It's

23:01

pretty cool . I only put my

23:03

sticker on me because people

23:06

say that's Powers car . It's

23:10

the only one that has a 12 by 12 sticker

23:12

on the back of it .

23:14

Hey , who hit that little kid ? Hey that Powers

23:16

car , hit that kid .

23:17

I don't know , that's some shady

23:20

looking stuff . But

23:23

, talking during the commercial break

23:25

, we both decided with

23:28

the 80s it didn't

23:30

plan on sticking

23:32

on one subject for too long , like

23:34

we did , so we're

23:37

going to bring it back . We're going to talk

23:39

about different influences that were

23:41

brought upon us in the 80s

23:44

, like today was video games . We

23:46

could do cartoons next week , or

23:48

we could do toys

23:51

or , like you said , the TV show

23:53

. Yes , man yes , and

23:55

we want to go where everybody knows our name

23:58

. It

24:01

was such a good era that it's

24:03

going to take a long time to get through this one

24:06

, so we're going

24:08

to bring it back .

24:08

We could even have one that we could have one that we

24:10

just complain about certain things in the 80s

24:12

. That's a complaining 80s one .

24:14

Oh , there's plenty of that too , I

24:17

think in the agenda book there's like four

24:19

or five pages of complaints , mostly

24:21

on me , but

24:24

right now we are going to bring back a

24:27

fan favorite Headline

24:30

news . I got some headlines , Jim . I want

24:32

to read you . I want

24:34

to read you . I thought you were about to headbutt me there .

24:36

No , I don't understand . I thought I said

24:38

on something I didn't know .

24:40

Ok , I got some headlines for you and

24:42

, like I've told people , wait , what's the thing called again

24:44

. Headline news News

24:47

news news . Man

24:52

, I love the special effects in this place

24:54

. It's great . So

24:58

the whole ordeal with this is for

25:00

the new listeners is . I

25:02

don't like taking my time and going through a newspaper

25:05

. I read what's most important

25:07

. I read the headline . The headline should

25:09

tell you everything .

25:11

Our time is very precious .

25:12

Right , and nowadays we have to kind of like

25:14

compress it and and

25:18

take it in for what it is .

25:20

Okay .

25:20

So you ready .

25:21

I'm ready , hit me with it .

25:23

Headlines one Iraqi

25:25

head seeks arms .

25:29

Wow , iraqi head seeks arms .

25:32

Well , do you get

25:35

that ?

25:37

Uh yeah , those big heads walking around

25:39

half his life like I don't , I wish I

25:41

had arms . You know what ? I'm going to go look for him . And

25:43

then he just goes and looks for arms .

25:45

It could be where bobbleheads came from .

25:49

Or did it get blown off in something you know , an accident

25:52

or a war or something ?

25:53

Oh yeah , you could be walking around like you

25:56

know , like a pencil .

26:00

The head of an Iraqi military

26:02

or something is looking for weapons or something

26:04

. That's what it really needs .

26:06

Yes , yes , there we go .

26:08

But they got to get . They got to get that click and that you

26:10

to read it or something .

26:11

I read one for Lynn

26:13

and literally took her like five minutes

26:16

to get it .

26:17

You should have started playing like a Jeopardy

26:19

music or a tick tock or a chicken .

26:21

Right , right , or put like a

26:23

time watch sound behind it . Anyways

26:28

, next one man enraged cow

26:30

, injures farmer with axe .

26:34

Oh boss , he's had enough , that's it .

26:36

Hey , they burned down Chicago . Let's

26:38

take out the farmer with the axe .

26:42

He said if that son of a gun fricking comes

26:44

up with those cold fingers and tries milk

26:46

, you know what that's it . And he , like , grabs the axe .

26:50

That would suck , dude . Being a cow and having so

26:52

many grab your yeah , it's really

26:54

ridiculous .

26:55

You're like I found this great patch of grass . It's

26:57

so fricking , what the what , the hell's going

26:59

on and then , like all of

27:01

a sudden this guy's making himself comfortable

27:04

next to me with a stool and going

27:06

to town . That's he . Get him for me , get

27:08

that axe , that's it .

27:12

How about this one man , teacher

27:15

strike , idle kids

27:17

.

27:19

Idle kid . Well , I

27:22

think that's where if one of you get punished

27:24

, the others do so . If she , if she

27:26

hits the bad kids , guess what ? I got to hit

27:28

everybody , so I got to strike

27:30

you .

27:31

Yeah , nowadays everybody has to

27:33

get a little piece of the action , and

27:36

what is it ?

27:37

Teach a village or something ? Or how about

27:40

hit a , beat a village ? I don't know . Whatever

27:43

works , dude , All right man

27:45

Mine is wait hold

27:47

on the way these kids talk to some of the teachers

27:49

nowadays and even the parents . It's like wow

27:52

.

27:53

And you know we're going to talk about that too

27:55

. Like these another time

27:57

, yeah , Another time when kids feel

28:00

like they are adults . I'm

28:03

sure between Caroline and Jimmy we

28:06

got stories . So we'll save that for

28:08

Len also and we'll

28:11

bring that up later . I'm making a note of it . How

28:14

about this one ? Miners refuse

28:16

to work after death .

28:20

Wow , oh

28:24

man , that got me speechless . Their miners refused

28:27

to work . After death , they said you

28:29

know , you know what ? You're going to kill us anyway

28:31

with this , with our lungs , in that , I

28:34

am not going to be here working after you

28:37

kill me and I die here .

28:38

Right , I don't want to call along tonight , or

28:41

black .

28:42

My grandpa and his

28:44

family down in Kentucky

28:47

. They all had . They all worked in mines too back in the

28:49

day .

28:49

I mean , that is a crazy job , man

28:51

Going down underground

28:54

. You never know if something's going to like collapse

28:57

.

28:57

You're all . You're all bug-eyed , Like where's that bird ? That

28:59

bird's still okay . Okay , we're good .

29:01

I want to keep an eye on that bird . People don't

29:03

understand that either . There's if the bird

29:06

fricking dies . That means there's no oxygen

29:08

. Yeah , Down there , which means

29:10

get out .

29:12

Not to mention you think you know

29:14

I've been in a basement , or you go down lower

29:17

and in a under nobody's

29:19

going down , nowhere . No , not that

29:21

.

29:21

Okay .

29:22

Like in a apartment or a building

29:24

or something you go , but those guys are like miles

29:27

down and you just thinking , when

29:29

you're down there , probably all that up there how

29:32

much earth can just like squash

29:34

you in a second .

29:36

Yeah , that's crazy .

29:37

It is .

29:39

How about this one , manstruck

29:42

by late lightning , faces

29:45

battery charges ?

29:49

That's shocking , I'll tell you that much . That's oh

29:53

, oh oh

29:55

. I

29:58

didn't know that they charge you for it . Did he become

30:00

the battery or are they going

30:02

out ? How would they charge

30:04

you ?

30:05

I've been sitting there thinking about that and

30:07

I'm like how is

30:09

this like ? Did

30:12

he I don't know man , did

30:14

he ? Did he like get struck

30:16

by lightning is supercharged ? He runs

30:18

into like a Walgreens man and ruins all

30:20

the batteries because he's grabbing them off the

30:22

shelf .

30:23

I need to use your bathroom . I gotta go . Bad , real bad oh man

30:25

and all of a sudden , they're like hey

30:27

hitting

30:31

the lightning rod in the bathroom .

30:36

Oh , anyways . Okay

30:38

, last one for for this week . For headlines

30:41

Local high school dropouts

30:43

cut in half .

30:46

Dang , that's . That's severe

30:48

punishment for dropping out of school . I tell you that much

30:50

yeah .

30:52

Come on , makes you think about it .

30:54

Any of you other ones you're going to stay in school or this is going

30:56

to happen to you Like , cut him in half

30:58

, jesus . How

31:01

the school is this .

31:02

Right , Right . I'm like what are they using ?

31:04

I wonder if they're ditching school . I

31:06

saw us all Today

31:10

in what today in Woods class we're going to be cutting

31:12

Billy in half . Billy wanted to quit but we

31:14

caught him in here . He's got to pay the pot

31:16

price now . Count

31:22

the rings . All your classmates count the rings

31:24

on him .

31:25

I'll tell you how old he is .

31:28

What a school .

31:30

Right and again . That concludes our

31:32

headline news for this week .

31:35

All right News news

31:38

.

31:41

Now , another fan favorite of

31:43

ours is facts . People come

31:45

to show not only the last gym , but

31:48

to learn something .

31:50

So that is what the internet is for .

31:53

How about this ? All clocks in

31:55

the movie Pulp Fiction are set to 420

31:58

. I did not notice

32:00

that every clock , even as

32:02

little stop as watch . His

32:05

father gave him this on 420

32:07

.

32:08

Wow .

32:09

Even when the Gooch is walking through the room

32:11

. 420 on the

32:13

wall .

32:15

So who was , who was who did that ? Were they high

32:17

?

32:19

Yeah , I don't have a clue . Oh , that's

32:21

weird .

32:22

Well , it's probably just a little . See if anyone notices

32:24

kind of thing .

32:25

Kind of like an Easter egg . Yeah , why

32:28

do they call that Easter eggs ?

32:30

It was probably I'm going to guess the first

32:32

thing that

32:34

maybe it was an Easter movie , that they first did that

32:36

on , like one of those biblical movies back in the

32:38

day .

32:39

It could be . It could be as a Moses

32:42

or someone

32:44

like put something there .

32:45

To like I put something on set , did you

32:47

see it ? And then someone else like what ? Well

32:50

, you know , it's like one of those Easter eggs

32:52

you got to find it .

32:54

Could be Now this one

32:56

. It baffles me . Oh , ma'am

33:00

, it's

33:02

almost .

33:03

It's almost .

33:04

There's two hundred ninety three ways

33:06

to make change for a dollar .

33:11

Well , yeah , if you , if you figure in

33:13

pennies and then

33:15

he's going to do any sort of penny

33:17

in nickels and yeah , dimes , I think

33:19

, with that many pennies and stuff . Yeah , and

33:22

yeah , you could probably do that .

33:24

Two hundred and I did not raise .

33:26

I didn't know , was that money ?

33:28

That's why I'm baffled . Wow , how

33:33

about this ? Speaking of money , a

33:35

dime has one hundred and eighteen

33:38

ridges on its edge .

33:41

And who's sit there and count that ?

33:44

And the reason why they do that is to

33:46

let you know it's not counterfeit and

33:48

like you said , like you said

33:50

how did they ? I

33:53

know they got to use a magnifying glass , but who

33:55

really is going to sit and count one hundred

33:57

and eighteen ? Like ? Oh , shut

33:59

up , you know ?

34:00

like and there's got to be someone at the end , like

34:03

when they were going on the assembly line or printing

34:05

. Someone counts , there's

34:07

only a hundred and fourteen , you idiot . The

34:10

whole batch is ruined , you're fired

34:12

.

34:12

Do it again . Like

34:15

whose idea was that ? Ok

34:18

, here

34:20

is the last fact

34:22

of the day . The dot

34:24

over the small letter , I

34:27

Do you know that has a name

34:29

.

34:31

Uh , frenchy .

34:33

Tittle .

34:34

Tittle .

34:35

TITTLE , not

34:41

Tittle .

34:44

So what's the bottom half , called the I , and then the

34:46

top of the Tittle ?

34:48

Got me man . All I know is

34:51

the dot . I don't have the bottom half . Tittle

34:54

, tittle and Lego

34:57

. I don't know .

34:59

I want to see someone bring that up

35:01

in conversation next , like , teacher

35:04

or no , it's your go . You failed why you

35:06

didn't put a Tittle on what

35:10

.

35:10

Go home and figure it out . But

35:14

that concludes the facts for today . All

35:17

right , that concludes our eighties talk . That

35:19

concludes our headline news . That

35:21

only leaves me with October

35:25

28th Griffiths

35:27

, indiana Mega

35:29

Clash six . The matches that

35:31

have been announced so far is the

35:34

challenger , dave Allen , who won

35:36

on the ropes , is

35:38

going to go against the heavyweight champion

35:41

, lewis Rojas , for the title

35:43

. And man , I was at the butcher

35:45

shop yesterday and it

35:48

was a mix . I'm telling you this . Butcher

35:50

shops on like any other , because they

35:52

are wrestling fans there . Oh

35:54

, like when I got fired last year at under

35:57

the lights one , they legit , when

35:59

I walked in , handed me an application .

36:02

So I thought you thought you were there to buy some

36:04

pigs heads or something .

36:05

Oh no , I was in there , I'm going

36:07

to make a good stew .

36:09

Glad you use .

36:13

But ? But they talked to me yesterday . They

36:16

said they really All

36:19

but the Latino guy that was working

36:21

. They all hate Lewis

36:23

Rojas , wow . And

36:26

so they want Dave Allen to win

36:28

this title because he deserves it

36:30

. He's beaten cancer .

36:32

Yeah .

36:33

Can he beat Lewis Rojas ? Is Lewis

36:35

Rojas tougher than cancer ?

36:38

Well , I don't know , lewis

36:41

Rojas is pretty tough , but

36:43

I did see Dave Allen beat up Santa Claus

36:46

once , many years ago .

36:47

Oh man , I wasn't there for that , so

36:49

that'll be a good one .

36:52

He's willing to do that to Santa Claus , I Rojas

36:54

might be in trouble . I don't know .

36:56

And then the other matches for the tag team

36:58

championships . You have DND Versus

37:02

Rancid Rack

37:05

and

37:08

Richie Rothschild yeah , so

37:11

I was thinking about this

37:13

match right now . That's why I slowed down

37:15

on the names . You know , this

37:17

is going to be a crazy match

37:19

too , because all four of them are

37:23

, let me just say , Rack

37:25

and Rothschild . They

37:28

get under your skin and make

37:30

you like lose your

37:32

thought and in everything you

37:34

thought you were going to do can be thrown out the

37:36

window , because these guys are like wilderness

37:39

people . You know like they're . They're a heavy

37:41

you in the chess game , you know

37:43

, by like six moves .

37:45

Yeah , because D&D

37:47

wants it real bad . They're like

37:49

going crazy wanting it . But

37:52

the problem is Rothschild

37:54

and Rancid . They don't have to win the

37:56

match , they can

37:58

just get disqualified or you

38:00

know . They don't have to beat D&D . D&d

38:03

has to beat them for the titles and there's psychological

38:05

. You can use that in a match .

38:07

And that's what happened with

38:10

when soldiers

38:12

of fortune went against Rothschild

38:14

and that , and I picked up Rack

38:17

and he tagged Rothschild

38:20

over my shoulder and I didn't know it and

38:22

I slammed Rack down and went for the pin

38:24

, but Richie jumped off

38:26

the ring and counted himself out , yeah

38:29

, and so you know , we're sitting there pinning

38:31

them and it didn't matter , because

38:33

they outsmarted us .

38:35

Yeah , I mean D&D is really going

38:37

to have to keep their their eyes and their

38:39

ring psychology minds going that

38:42

match , because if they don't get , I mean

38:44

they're pretty off the wall

38:46

hair brain and I don't know about the smell

38:48

too much . But they need to really focus

38:50

if they're going to want to win those titles .

38:53

And again , that is a Griffith

38:55

in the Anna at St Mary's , Hilderbrand

38:58

tall . It

39:00

is the biggest show backbreaker has

39:02

every year . People love

39:04

it . Every seat's a good

39:06

seat and if

39:09

you're an adult , $10 , it's only $10

39:11

.

39:12

That's easy , yeah , and the

39:14

kids are going to ask for more money anyway that day , so

39:16

you can just hold a site $10

39:18

and go or take them . What the heck ?

39:21

And if you , your kid will be happy

39:23

because Toyman Tim will be out there selling toys

39:26

, yield House of Toys .

39:29

And then you've got concessions and it's

39:31

only like $1.50 for a hot dog , you

39:34

know , and or a pops , only like a buck , it's

39:37

not going to kill your , your pocketbook , like you said

39:39

last week you could go there and

39:41

take out some rage and some anger

39:44

and scream it whoever you want to the in the ring , and

39:47

the kids can just act all crazy and get

39:49

all you know , wear themselves out , and then

39:51

you'd have a peaceful night's sleep .

39:54

And you're not going to be there till

39:56

10 , 11 o'clock at night because the show starts

39:59

at six , which is an hour earlier

40:01

than most of the time and most wrestling

40:03

companies in the area , and

40:05

you're going to be out there probably by no

40:08

later than 828 30 , I imagine

40:10

.

40:12

It's a nice fun time .

40:13

It is , and if you've never gone to a wrestling

40:16

show , give it a try , try

40:18

it out . You know , and

40:20

the thing I like about watching wrestling

40:22

independence as a as

40:25

a spectator is

40:27

none of them guys

40:29

have been to the top like

40:31

WW or TKL , whatever they

40:33

call their selves . Now , yeah , and

40:36

they do things that

40:38

you've never seen on TV . You

40:40

know they could . It could be stupid , it

40:42

could be funny , you know . You never

40:44

know what you're going to see .

40:46

And not to mention when

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those guys get big and popular

40:51

on the big federations , you're

40:53

going to be able to say I saw them when they were doing

40:55

it , when they were still coming up in the indies

40:57

.

40:58

And speaking of big in the indies

41:01

you broke last week

41:03

, you broke big

41:05

news Really . You did

41:07

, oh yeah , I did . You said

41:10

that there's going to be a CM

41:12

.

41:13

A wrestler with initial CM .

41:15

He's going to be at the show . I knew it . So

41:19

that's , that's our backbreaker

41:22

talk . So , again , check them out $10

41:25

a ticket and I think it's only $5 for

41:27

kids seven and under , which is still a good

41:29

deal . And they got merchandise there and

41:31

if you like a wrestler , you know , and you want your

41:33

picture taken with them , they'll be more

41:36

than happy to take it with you . Exactly At

41:38

intermission . The shirts , even the

41:40

merchandise is is you're not going

41:42

to WWE and spending $30

41:45

on a really cheap t-shirt

41:47

that's going to fade away ? Yeah , I mean , you're

41:50

going to spend between 10 and 15 bucks

41:52

, I imagine , on one of your favorite

41:54

wrestlers t-shirts . They have autographed

41:56

pictures . They'll take pictures

41:58

with you . They'll come to your house

42:00

and have a birthday party , if you want . Well

42:03

, I know Scott Powers will Well

42:05

depends on what you're making

42:08

. Yeah , yeah , so go check them

42:10

out and again

42:13

. James , I really appreciate you

42:15

being on with us again , no problem , and

42:17

you seem more

42:20

comfortable as each week goes by .

42:22

There'll be a jump , a shark moment when I just

42:24

start going crazy and I'm really hysterical

42:27

. But it ain't there yet .

42:29

And you know , when you do that I'll

42:31

be taken back and I'll sit and sit back and

42:34

enjoy it and just let you go , man , because I've

42:36

seen another thing about those .

42:38

I've seen how you work , man .

42:41

I've seen you at your best and I keep telling people

42:43

just stay tuned , man , because

42:45

you have not hit your

42:47

peak yet . You know , and we'll get it .

42:49

We'll get it . What to get ? An anger episode coming

42:51

real soon .

42:53

I know one person that can help do that If

42:55

we ever bring back Latino crazy . Oh yes

42:58

, it's been eight

43:00

years since I've seen him and I don't know how long that mustache

43:03

has gotten lately . Oh my .

43:05

Is he ? Was he deported ? How did COVID

43:08

hit him ? I don't know .

43:09

Right , right . So hopefully , hopefully

43:11

we can get some answers with him one day .

43:15

I'll have to bring a Latino crazy sighting

43:17

next week and see if I could find him .

43:19

That'd be amazing actually

43:21

, because fire

43:23

pros , greatest commentators and

43:26

YouTube and yeah

43:29

. But I'm glad you're here , man , I'm

43:32

glad everybody .

43:33

Wait , wait . This wouldn't be , this wouldn't be a PowerPoint podcast

43:35

if we didn't talk and say something

43:37

for our foreign listeners

43:39

. How you doing , Norway , yeah .

43:43

And Germany and Denmark

43:45

and Australia . We're

43:48

like popping . All these countries are popping

43:50

in and take shoutouts

43:52

Hi Scotland . Why not , man ? You

43:54

know hello world . We

43:57

do have one person in Nigeria that listens to us too . Don't

44:01

have a clue how he gets the Wi-Fi , but I ain't asking

44:04

James

44:07

, do you have any quotes ?

44:09

Yes , I do . Today's quote is

44:11

this episode Open your

44:13

mind before your mouth , man

44:15

, that's a powerful statement , yeah .

44:19

You know , like think of what you're saying before

44:21

you say it .

44:24

Because I mean you want to just blur it out and say it , but just think first

44:26

, Open your mind and bite your tongue . Yeah .

44:31

So again , everybody , thank you for

44:33

tuning in this week . We hope you enjoyed it , hope

44:36

you had a laugh or two . Well , I

44:38

hope you didn't have more than three , but if you

44:40

did , it's forgiving . We will be back next week

44:42

and

44:47

, as usual , I'd like to end the song

44:50

with our show , with the show of the song . Yeah , you know

44:52

, so we're old .

44:56

Let us have it from James

44:58

and myself .

45:00

We really appreciate it . Have a

45:02

good week . We'll talk to you later , Later

45:04

.