Most Nostalgic Sounds

A new survey asked people 30+ years old, what are some of the most iconic noises from their childhood that younger generations will probably NEVER hear…And we're going to play you the top  sounds!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
If you're thirty years or older, you can probably hear
the classic screeching dial up internet sound just playing in
your head. Oh yeah, or.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
When you get the busy tone you're like, Mom, get
off the phone.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Immediately you'll be transported back to a time filled with
the Smashing Pumpkins and Blockbuster Video. Yes, working Jeffrey in
the morning, but nowadays the Smashing Pumpkins are playing live
inside that last Blockbuster Video store because that's the only
venue that they can book anymore. It's still a sweet venue.
Things have changed, and if you're younger than thirty, all

(00:38):
of what I just said probably means absolutely nothing to you, right.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Alexis, Yes, give it toilet he go.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
The reason I bring it up is because millennials, gen xers,
and boomers have been surveyed about the top nostalgic sounds
from their childhood that younger generations like Alexis have never
heard before. Oh my, oh my gosh, she.

Speaker 4 (01:01):
Just heard something similar to this. Somebody posted like nineties
night sounds and it was all like Nickelodeon intros.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
And stuff that we well, we're gonna play some of
those old school sounds right now and see which one
Alexis recognizes knows about or if she's never even heard
of it before.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
I love when we do segments that make me feel older.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
Yeah, some of us are gonna go, I've never heard
that before.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Now, Alexis, this is the sound of an old dot
matrix printer.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Oh man, oh man, that's my happy Birthday banner I'm
printing out.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah, yeah, does that sound familiar at all?

Speaker 2 (01:41):
That's what I thought a fact machine was sound like. No, no,
And it had like circles on the side of the
paper that you had to rip off and you had
to get them in line with the little circle, and
all the paper was connected. So every banner you ever
made was on adot. Man, you made that many banners? Yeah,
out of banner.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
You could ever imagine? It took like five days for
one docum.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
You know what, though, more reliable than anything we have
in this offense.

Speaker 4 (02:10):
Honestly, they're keep going.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Not sure if Alexis has ever actually heard the sound
of somebody using chalk to write on.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
A chalkboard before.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
I don't want to hear that.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
It's not nails, it's just the sound of the chalk.
Let's hear what that sounds like. Oh, yeah, it super relaxing.
Alexis familiar.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah, I've heard that.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
They make you right stuff that makes sense.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
It is weird. There's not one chalkboard in my kids
elementary school.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
People going to be cute now, And if you're just
joining us, there's a survey which just came out about
the most nostalgic sounds from childhood that a lot of
young people under age thirty have probably never heard before,
which is you just.

Speaker 4 (02:55):
Made a good point. The chalkboard thing is like annoying,
but now people do it like a cute niche for
their own.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
Day vintage.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
One sound that you may have never heard before is
the voice of a radio legend, smooth sounding, always calm
under pressure, the host of America's top forty casey case
of Oh yeah, he was iconic back in the day.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Did I remember seeing him through a studio door one
time when I was in La we were doing a
radio thing.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
I'm like, yeah, a starstruck. Oh my gosh, is that
right before the restraining order? But yeah, let's listen.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
Will begin this Sunday afternoon at one right here on
the radio station you grew up with music radio one,
three eight, Oh, what the hell's the last hour. We
got another hour to do that. We're almost finished.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
That definitely didn't go to air. Yeah yeah, yeah, that
sounds like that was that was That was him in
real life, not him in radio wave.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah, kids, Alexis, I'm assuming you've never heard of that
guy before.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
No sounds annoying.

Speaker 4 (04:10):
Now, next thing you're gonna talk about.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
The Lilac.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
Was just about clips.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
That's the next sound. Moving on. I don't think it
needs any introduction. I'm just gonna play it, but I'm
curious if gen z ors have ever heard it before.
If you like to make a call, please hang up
and try again. If you need help, hang up and
then dial your operator.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
You ever get that bounce back an operator, but phone
bounce backs if you're trying to call customer.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
Service, This specific one is like infamous.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
I mean, I've not a service number, but not that one.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
That one.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
I will I miss being able to dial zero and
just talk to somebody. You remember there was a number
you could call just ask for the time.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
You know, brook, you're making number that you call and it.

Speaker 4 (05:03):
Gave you the time, But your parents gave you like
your grandpa's number.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
You can think about it. We didn't have the internet
to tell us what time it is, and so in
order to get all of your clocks right at home,
you had to call the number and figure out what
time it was.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
No, this is super depressing. What's your number?

Speaker 4 (05:21):
We had sun dives?

Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yeah, what's the number to call to tell people that
they love you? What was that one?

Speaker 2 (05:26):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
Oh, you didn't use that one.

Speaker 4 (05:29):
She was blocked from that one.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
Next one, one of the top sounds most people remember,
especially if you're over forty, is the ch chunk sound
of a manual credit card machine.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
They used to have a like you would put the
card down and then they had a piece of paper
and they would run this thing over the top of
it and it would print itself into the piece of paper.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
Here it is.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
Oh yeah, yep, that's it.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
Chat right over the lid. We won't have time to
play them. Also, they also mentioned the sound of a
floppy disk writing and it can yeah, oh my god,
the sound of a TV dial switching.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
Our TV was broken, so you had to turn it
with plyers. It really sucks.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
And finally, the number one nostalgic sound gen Z's probably
never heard before, has to do with the famous slogan
be kind please rewind. Oh yeah, the sound of a
VHS tape being rewound to the beginning there it is.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
That's it? Oh that.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
I don't know if you guys really whoop. They would sell
separate machines just to rewind your tape. You could get
a fast one.

Speaker 4 (06:36):
I used to work at Blockbuster and we had a
giant rewind machine that would do it in two seconds,
and it was such a huge flex if anybody was like, oh, yeah,
I have one of those in my house. You watch
a lot of movies.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
He love to rewind.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
Yeah, those are the nostalgic sounds from back in the day.
That's why gen Z never hears anymore. What nostalgic sounds
did we miss? Text him in seven eighty five nine
two your phone TAP's coming

Speaker 2 (06:57):
Up next, brooking Jeffrey in the morning.