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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Chuck Douglas to the power our sixten double UTV and
the stuff we flocked to the stores for ever flocked
to the TV for, like Max herew I had to
have had to use it and it's gone now, and
you're sitting back wondering why why did we Why did
we have to have microwavable milk shame but velaments which
(00:22):
I liked, sugar free breath mints but gone. I'm sure
there's some of those things too that you actually fell
in love with and you you bought all the time,
and you're thinking, Okay, yeah, I'm not richly sure. I'm
not sure why I was doing that eight two one
night at eight six eight two one wtv N. It
fell on and off your radar, John, you're on six
TENU WUTVN.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yeah, Chuck calling in about why we needed that stuff
was because it was.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
The eighties and I graduated in nineteen eighty and if
we grew up in the eighties, you can't remember most
of anything back then, So.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
We just did whatever was out there.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
It was a grand and wonderful decade full of useless,
frivolous things and uh and an enthusiasm for life that
I wish we would see matched today.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Oh, bring it back. I remember the little Kings jumping
in the cars, iving out in the country, cop pooney over, Hey,
you got beer in the car. Yeah, let me drink
one with you or they pour it out.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Little King's cream.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Ale Yes, I have sleutely three two and six beers.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Yeah, oh my gosh. And remember you remember John the
Schlitz Molt Liquor Bull in the China Shop, going through
the china shop busting everything up and Billy D. Williams
being all suave and cool of that was. Those were
great commercials.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Those are you know what? Like I said, if you
remember more than two or three years of the eighties,
you didn't grow up in the ages.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Well, yeah, it gets it gets kind of foggy after well,
I got you eight two one night at eighty six
eight two WTV. And the Bull as well as Spuds Mackenzie.
That was another thing. And what was Spuds Mackenzie was
Budweiser and Alex remember Alex, Alex was the stros dog, ok,
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and he they were playing poker and he sent Alex
to the kitchen to get him a beer and he
hears the beer open. Here's the beer poor and then
he hears Alex had better be your water you're drinking
Alex was the stros dog A two y w TV.
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Speaker 4 (02:36):
Well, I also remember when I was Bush used to
have goolicking girls on posters. But you don't have that
anymore either.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
No, well that's that's that's not allowed.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Yeah. Well, well I've been driving across the country just
a truck and listen to my c W McCall and Convoy.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
We got un beautiful site.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
I'm still I'm still mad as Zach for his blasphemous
comments about that Beyond the Beyonce Country has tunes there
last week.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
So now which one? Which one more different? Is it
Convoy or is it Teddy Bear? Which one? Which one one?
Do you turn up when it comes on?
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Convoy? Obviously? I mean that was that was that was
back in the seventies.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
I don't know that that Teddy Bear song was a
heart jerker man, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yeah, yeah, but I was. I think it's the Oklahoma area.
I saw they were selling arsty cola, and I'm like,
I didn't know that would I'd kind of come back.
I always thought it was gone, but I saw them.
They were selling selling art cola. And I also like
the regional drinks. I do get Zach's a La every
once in a while when I'm in Kentucky. But but
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there's the one in southern Ohio.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
I think it's double double cola, right, no ski? Oh yeah,
the Kentucky Headhunters exactly.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
So so I used to go down to Jackson when
I used to work locally in Ohio. I used to
go to Jackson. There's a place, this whole ski down there.
I'd buy myself some ski. When I came back, saw.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Burner fries and a bottle of ski. Bring it on
around for the baby and me. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
And then the other one was I'm in an international
harvester club, and there's a there's a woman author. I'm
her first name is Sarah, but she wrote a book
on the international refrigerators. And she was given a presentation
in Nebraska and she had Wurners cream cream cream ale
with the cream pie.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Yes, and so you had people from all.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
The country like, what's the burners and she sas, it's
a Mischian drink, it's a ginger ale. And I told her,
I said, there's a couple of rest stops up there
in the Iaight, Ohio Turnpike that sells burners. Would you
always give me a burner?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I like their their their ginger ale. But I'll tell
you what I missed. The Werner's cream soda that used
to be some great stuff. It was, Uh, it was
very sugary, but ooh, I liked it a two. I
w t V and Doug, you're on six ten WTV
and high.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
So I'm trying to side whether or not my micro
shakes are being bad mouthed, because.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
That's how I feel.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
It's like one step below messing with my kids. I
literally used to eat those for dinner.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
You know it wasn't that now. If you didn't microwave it,
it was a brick and you had to scrape off
the top of it. It took you know, an hour
to be able to get a spoon in it. But yeah,
I actually thought it. It was right up there with
uh with uh what did you compare it to Wendy's?
Speaker 6 (05:35):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
It was it was like a Wendy's frosty once you microwaved.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
It very much, so very much, And I thought it
was right there with it.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
The thing of it where we thought we were so
gullible that we thought it was some scientific advancement. It
was just flash frozen ice cream that you put in
the microwave enough to meld it to stir it.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Yeah, still tasty.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
I thought it was okay. Favors.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
They got vanilla, chocolate, vanilla. The vanilla wasn't something that
you know, you really wanted to eat that. That was
like plaster thought, But the chocolate was okay.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Yeah, it wasn't too bad. It wasn't too bad. I
appreciate you, Doug. I gotta let you know. National Weather Service,
it's just now coming across here, issued a severe thunderstorm
warning for Champagne, Ohio, and Union beginning at six forty
three pm, so right now, ending at eight thirteen pm,
that weather's supposed to roll through. So do be careful
out there, and if you're like me, just trying to
get home before it all hits eight to one, nine,
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eight eighty six, Carolyn, you are on six ten douled UTV.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Hi.
Speaker 7 (06:35):
I was remembering body on tap shampoo.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Clean clean, I mean really clean, Carolyne, I miss it too.
I remember it was a it was a beer shampoo.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
She mentioned that on the fish said it looked like
a beer body.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
It contained beer. And the girl was taking a shower
and she goes, when I use Body on Tap, my
hair feels clean, clean, I mean really clean. Were you
a were you a kind of sewer? Body on Tap?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Well?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
It was.
Speaker 7 (07:06):
The advertising was great. It made you know, eight great
girls want to buy Body on top shampoo.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Yes, yes, now back in that era, Carolyn, Are are
you an eighties kid too?
Speaker 7 (07:18):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
When it came to your cosmetics, what was your fragrance
or a couple of fragrances of choice?
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (07:25):
So, musk fragrances were really popular.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
And then were you were you a Cody or were
you a Cody or a Jo Vanne musk person?
Speaker 7 (07:36):
And then what was the baby soft?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Baby loves baby Soft? Yes, I like that, and I
liked Avon had one that the teenage girls used to
wear called Babe. You remember that. I loved Babe. Oh
my gosh, I am not old enough to remember this
much crap we put our money into. But yeah, we
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spent a lot of And as a guy, even I
had long hair, so I mean I was I was
using my v dow sessoonon my hair and uh, I
was a cody musk guy. And for some reason, the
late night commercials for candies shoes? Do you we got candies? Candies?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
I want?
Speaker 7 (08:23):
John wore candy shoes in the Grease movie.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Were those candies? I didn't know. I never I never
got past those black the pants, Yes, I never got
past the pants. I didn't see your feet. I'm sorry.
Oh my gosh, Carolyn, thank you very much. I appreciate
the call a two one double TV at a two one,
I bet you even you have something to remember that
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puts a smile on your face. Dana, you're on six
ten DOUBLETVN I go to him and he's not there. Really,
he was just calling about better ammunition prices in the eighties. Anyway.
So you you are young, you were born in eighty one,
let's say the nineties. Is there anything from the early
(09:10):
nineties when you were just kind of coming into you know,
puberty years and buying your style in your hair and
picking your colognes and all that kind of stuff, anything
that you absolutely in love with.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
Squeeze its crystal PEPSI.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
I know crystal PEPSI was was I don't even know
why they tried that.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
I loved it.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
What did it taste like pepsi? Then? What was the point?
Speaker 6 (09:33):
I don't know. I thought psychologically it tasted different. I don't,
I don't, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I don't got it And we ran to McDonald's remember
the mc dlt I do remember that, which they had
the lettuce and tomatoes on one side and the hot
burger was on the other side of the thing. The
burger was never that hot, separating it. We felt like
we were conducting some super scientific experiment. It was nothing except,
you know, more styrofoam in the landfill. I got some I.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
Got somebody who messaged me this, and I've never heard
of this. What pepsi am?
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Pepsi am? I've not heard of that either.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
It's apparently it came out in eighty nine, lasted a
few months.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Was it coffee pepsi?
Speaker 6 (10:14):
No, it was you're supposed to drink it in the morning.
It had twenty eight percent more caffeine than normal.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Well, I had joke Cola for that I didn't need. Yeah,
twice the caffeine and more sugar than you've ever wanted
in a soda. Pope joke. Yes, it was wonderful. It
was wonderful. See yeah, Oh Honeycomb cereal. Do they still
make Honeycomb? I don't know. Honeycomb's big Yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
I was a big Kicks guy. Do they make that?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
I think Kicks is still around, okay? Or we are
the freakies. We are the Freaky's. This is a freaky tree.
There was a cereal called Freaki's. Hold on.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Here's what.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
Colgate Kitchen, the toothpaste. They made a lasagna frozen lasagna No.
Eighteen eighty two lasted a couple of months, and
Speaker 1 (11:02):
I'm surprised it made it a couple of months.