Friday 4: Things Lost to Time You Miss the Most

Episode Transcript

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Friday four time. Matt case ismy producer, and Matt, you had
an idea for this one? Whatwas it? The idea? Here?
I did, and I can't rememberwhere this idea came from. Oh it
was the Randy Travis conversation. Yeah, the artificial intelligence to make new music
with guys who can't sing anymore.Yeah, And like, technology has given
us a lot, but it's takensome things away too, And that's what
I wanted to focus on. Ithought to pass it along to you.

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Why don't we focus on the thingsthat technology has kind of taken away that
we missed the most, The thingsthat have been left as artifacts of the
times. You know, they haveto be technology related. It doesn't happen.
Here's how I phrase it. Topfour things lost to time you missed
the most. So maybe it isa literal piece of technology, or maybe
it's just an experience that you don'tget anymore because of the world we live

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in now. Okay, fire awaymy four number one. Going to your
local movie rental place to pick outa movie. I had this on mine
too, Okay, I just whengrowing up in York, Nebraska, it
was Nebraska Land video shouts out toa wonderful place that isn't around anymore.
They had such a deep cut oflike VHS's and movies you'd never see anywhere
else. Either that or going toa blockbuster once I moved here to Omaha,

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just that experience. You had toreally think about what you wanted to
take home. And there's just somethingkind of if you don't if you didn't
get to experience it, you don'tunderstand. But it was something kind of
magical about it and kind of exciting, and just just the the blue carpet
of the blockbuster, the smell ofthe place, you know everything about it.
Number two is polaroid cameras and orthe fun of taking photos and being

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surprised by what you get. Mmm. There's nothing like taking a polaroid camera
and then kind of you know,taking it out and doing the whole like
floppy thing that's supposed to make itgo faster, but I don't think it
really does. And then set oreven having a camera that you take care
of and then you send in thefilm and you get them back and you're
like, oh my gosh, thereyou go. It's just that sort of

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And there's another This is a bitof a theme in my next one as
well. Delayed gratification can be sosatisfying sometimes. Number three lack of constant
and instant communication. The other day, I was just thinking about this.
I was driving to work and theperson in front of me, as this
happens so often, was texting ontheir phone. Didn't see the light turned

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green, And you know, you'resitting there, and if you're like me,
and you're generally a polite person,but you know, everybody has their
limits, You're like, Okay,when do I honk? I'm gonna give
them a chance, give them achance, all right, I'm honking.
You know. This is one ofthose though that I was just thinking about
that. I was like, youknow, how did we survive twenty years
ago without needing to send that worktext before we got to work? How

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did we do it? Folks?How did we survive? We found a
way, right, we managed,We found a way to survive without having
everybody's information and contacts right at ourdisposal every single second. And so I
just think that I miss that timewhere we could have a little bit more
peace of mind and weren't so incrediblyconnected constantly. Okay, And then the
last one, Number four is themixtape or the mix seed. Oh that's

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a good one. Yeah, Ijust I loved doing this for friends or
maybe it was a labor of loveand you really felt like you had done
something when you made like a tensong CD yeah for somebody and gave it
to them. Nothing more to saythat I care about you than a good
mixtape. Absolutely, I love that, so quick refresh. What's the four

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going to Blockbuster or your local movierental place to pick out the movie?
Polaroid cameras and or the fun oftaking photos and being surprised by what you
get. Number three just generally thelack of constant instant communication that we now
have that we used to not.And number four the art of creating the
mixtape or CD for your friend orloved one. Okay, I'll give you

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my four and then you can chimein as well. At four h two,
five, five, eight to eleventen or Friday four Things of the
past that were lost to time forone reason or another that you miss the
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news radio eleve kfab our Friday four? Today? Is how did you phrase

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it? It is. Let meget back there. Top four things lost
to time you missed the most.So maybe it's typewriters, the VHS system.
Maybe it's the whole horse and buggyif you go back that far.
Yeah, okay, so in yourfour, we're my four. We're going
to your local movie rental place topick out the movie. Number two,

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the fun of taking photos and beingsurprised by what you get. Number three
the lack of constant and instant communication, having to wait until you get home
to check your messages and having towait to get to work to check your
messages. And sure yeah, nothaving this basically anti smartphone right yeah,
anti smartphone propaganda here and what likeactually being able to go when the light

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is green. I missed that too, it's a side effect. Yeah.
At number four is the mixtape Ireally enjoyed as one of my favorite things
to do in high school, whetherit was a friend or a loved one,
just making a mixed making sure thatwhat I like to do is make
sure the songs flowed well together sothey had like the same beat timing,
and just also like getting into theweeds sometimes of like what song goes with

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the next song? Really well,maybe it's a meaning you want to convey
if it's a lady, or maybeit's you know, just like it's your
buddy and you're like, oh,he's really gonna love these two songs back
to back. It's gonna get himjacked, you know, so that kind
of stuff. All right, allright, good list. Thanks, here's
mine number one, horseback riding toget from point A to point B.
M. You know, you knowwhat, I had this day dream when

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I was a kid. I waslike fifth or sixth grade, and for
some reason, I just couldn't getrid of it in my brain. I
just wish that there was like anold western area nearby where I was living,
and I could hang out with myfriends, but we instead of like
riding our bikes, we were ridingour horses into like this old western town.
Hmmm. Now, obviously not everycity had like the old Western town

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vibe, but you go back intoyou know, Colonial Williamsburg and a lot
of those seventeen hundreds places, andit was somewhat similar, just maybe different
aesthetics. But you had to ridea horse or get in your horse and
buggy. But I am partial toI had to ride my horse. I
wear my cowboy hat, I warmy vest, I wear my what do
they call those chaps? I thinkthey're actually pronounced shaps, but yeah,

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oh yeah, well whatever that andyour spurs and your boots, and you
get your loyal steed and you andyour horse. Just you know, your
horse is your best friend, andyou ride your horse all over the place.
And yeah, I think I wouldhave really enjoyed that number two kids
playing baseball every day during the summer, and it didn't even have to be

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like Little League. You know theSandlot, you watch the Sandlot. Yeah,
I mean that. I feel like, isn't that far away from like
a group of friends that live inthe same neighborhood just playing pick up baseball
all summer long? Been there,done that, you know what I mean?
Absolutely, And I'll be honest withyou, Matt, I really,
really, really wish I lived inan area where that happened, because I
would have thrived in that environment,just like hanging out with friends and playing

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low pressure baseball. You would haveloved the neighborhood in York, Nebraska I
grew up in. Yeah, Ihad a cold a second. I had
a few friends that would come over, but we really didn't have a place
to play good baseball. We reallyjust rode bikes, right, it was
bike riding. Yeah. Number three, Big eighties hair, Big eighties hair.

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Why did we lose Big eighties hair? I tell you what. Chicks
from Vixen super hot Okay, chicksthat had the Big eighties hair for any
reason that were going to like ratconcerts that MTV was like profiling because they
were in love with Stephen Pearcy HotOkay, big eighties hair. Also dudes
with big eighties hair, you know, Michael David Coverdale from White Snake,

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you know, like he has awesomehair. John bon Jovi, the guys
from def Leppard as the eighties wereon that late eighties big hair. I'm
telling you what, there is absolutelynothing about it that we shouldn't have lost.
That we lost being a proper countrywhen we stopped. There's a remember

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American Gladiators, the TV show.Absolutely yeah, Okay, So there was
a chick on that named I thinkher name was Ice Ice. Yeah,
it was Ice Ice. I'm notreal attracted to like the big buff look,
because obviously I'm not. I'm theopposite. But she's like big in
buff and she had the Big Eightieshair, like the first few seasons of
that show, and dude, ohshe's so hot. I'm so attracted to

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her because of the hair. Andthen by the time we got into the
nineties, she started just like wearingstraight, normal looking hair because that's what
the that's what we stopped making Bigeighties hair. And darn it, she's
just not as hot. Ah,you know what I mean, Like big
eighties hair. We lost ourselves.Lastly, my fourth one going to Family

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Video or Blockbuster, or there wasanother place called video city in my I
think it was called video City inmy hometown where you would go and they
had all the lineup of all thevideotapes and even games that you could rent.
I loved having on a PlayStation one, I could rent a video game,
yes, And I would spend somuch time in there because I have
a hard time making those kinds ofdecisions. My dad would probably be like,

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all right, you can get twomovies or you can get one game
to rent for a few days,and man, I'd sit there and I'd
just be like, I'd be soexcited to take those movies home. And
then you can also like buy somecandy and popcorn on your way out,
like the real buttered movie style popcornYEP kids that are just streaming like yeah,
okay, all that stuff. Well, what if you rented a movie

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that you hadn't seen before and itstinks in the first fifteen minutes. Nowadays
you can just like flip it offand try something else. But you were
You were locked in because you investedthe time to go get it, and
you invested the money to rent it, And that changes everything in the way
that I think you operate with thisstuff. Back in the days, when
that happens and you're with your buddies, you just sit around and make fun

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of it for the the rest ofa couple hours and maybe you have a
good time of it. Yeah,well, anyway, that's my list.
Riding horses to get from point Ato point V on horseback, more specifically,
kids playing baseball every day during thesummer, like the Sandlot, big
eighties hair and videotape rental stores andthe experience of going there. And it's
alongside one of that Matt hat youcan call us with your Friday Four things

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