November 30, 2025 • 20 mins
Mindy and Boots take a trip down memory lane with callers!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's so much fun. A couple of weeks ago when
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we were asking all of you the listeners to kind
of go back in time and tell us things that
you missed that are no longer here, and a lot
of you guys brought up restaurants and stores and things
like that. So it got us thinking about just growing
up in the seventies in the eighties, what life was
like back then. And Boots and I are basically the
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same age, and I would say I wouldn't have traded
and I would think that you would say the same thing.
And we grew up different ways for sure, but I
wouldn't trade my childhood for when we grew up for anything.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Social media it's not going away, but it's killed everything.
It really has. It's everyone. I'm glued to my social media. TikTok.
I love TikTok. I'm addicted to TikTok.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
And I can see some funny things on there.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah, you watched some of stuff and with a new
the fancy fake video with ia or whatever they're calling it.
I get off on some of them. Where the day, Yeah,
did you see the one where the deer The deer
walks up to the tree stands, smacks a guy upside
the head, knock them out and drags him and berries egos.
How that you think that.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
With cats with I mean, it is so hysterical, but
it has definitely changed our life. And if you look
up the easy if you think about the simple way
you grew up and things that we didn't have. But
yet life was so much more simple and we were
outside so much more so Instagram have created these things
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or to take kids of today but make them look
like they were in the seventies and eighties.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
First, I want you guys to listen to I want
you to listen to this one. It's from the seventies.
We'll start with the seventies and what life was like
back then and call us up and tell us how
you think times have changed and which way you would
rather have grown up then or now. So go ahead
and play that, kyleen the seventies.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I bet you wouldn't last an afternoon back then.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Growing up in the.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Seventies was chaos in the best way. We didn't meet
fancy entertainment. We had start sunshine and imagination. I promise
you wouldn't survive a morning we woke up ate cereal
with enough sugar to stun a horse and ran outside
like we were avoiding taxes.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Back in the.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Nineteen seventies, getting in trouble didn't mean losing your phone.
It meant your mom yelling your full name and Natea's
coming out like it was a TV show.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
We didn't need entertainment.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
We had sticks, mud and absolutely zero supervision, peak childhood,
no Google, just parents saying look it up and tossing
us a dictionary big enough to break toes. Want music,
Hope your final didn't melt in the sun or your
sibling didn't accidentally.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Sit on it.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Hydration warm garden hose water with worm vintage flavor.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
We were built different.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
And fell off your bike, you stood up, checked if
anyone saw and lied.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I'm fine.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Parents didn't track us. They just yelled be home by dark,
and somehow we survived us. So tell me, could you
survive the seventies or would you tap out before lunchtime?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Six one four eight two one nine eight eighty six
six one four eight to one nine eight eighty six?
What did you say about the garden hose?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Garden hoers? We had to wait, turn it on, wait
for the white worms. To get sprayed out of it
before you drink out of it.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Or we would always look for cobwebs to see if
a spider was curling.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yeah, we turn it on full blast. Wait wait wait
wait wait, and then take a drink. Yeah, and once
why you get a worm, but you spit it out.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
And now today people are like, what you actually drank
from the garden hose? We did all the time.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
You imagine showing up with a helmet on on your bicycle.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Oh no, we know.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
We would have wore helmet if one of my buddies.
And this was bullying nowadays, but back then this was
being boys. If you would have rolled up on your
BMX bike from JC Pennies with a helmet on, we hadn't.
We'd have tied you to a tree and knocked you silly.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
We never wore helmets either. We didn't honestly, when when
when our parents, I would say this, when our parents
brought us home home from the hospital, we weren't probably
even in a car seat. We probably rode home in
mom's arms. Well, there's no airbags to kill you, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
We hadn't brought plenty of brothers and sisters, so one
loss wasn't a big deal back then because if families
had a bunch of extra kids to just throw one
into the car, so boots.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Would you have rather grown up when we did?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Or today? Because I think of how easy life is
now with social media, with technology, things are so easy.
But is easy better?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
No, it's making we got to now. I will say
this younger generation, I think we have some studs and
stud ads coming up. I think they've watched.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
The the lower millennials because they're just so a safe
place and this and that and my pronouns and all
the garbage we've witnessed for the last fifteen years.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I think everybody's over it. I really do know'st there's
still a segment of idiots, but I think I think
most people were over it. It's like whatever. I don't
think a guy ten years ago you could go to
a social thing and say my daughter is a cat.
You'd be like, oh, that's beautiful you and I would.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
We have a litter box for her, Yeah, will help
you out.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Nowadays, it'd be like, have you got them help yet?
How stupid are they? What did you smoke dope when
she was in the womb?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I just can't believe how different things are from back
then to today. And you know, I don't think. I
don't personally. I don't feel like I'm that old. It
doesn't feel like it should be that much of a
difference because youth wasn't that long ago for us, but
apparently it was because things are so different. I think
my number one complaint is when you go to a
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grocery store or in different restaurants or a convenience store
and you're dealing with someone who's checking you out and
they barely talk to you, They barely look at you
in the eye, don't and that's not good. I mean,
if you come across an teenager or even someone in
their twenties and they can engage in a great conversation
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with you and look you in the eye. That's what's
missing today because everybody's looking down at their cell phones
or their laptops or the computers. And I don't like that.
I think that's one of the biggest harms technologists.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Now.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
I completely agree. And I don't have kids that I
have nieces and nephews, my cousin's kids that I call
my nieces and nephews, and I make them all put
their phones away.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yeah, I can't.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
And I grew up kind of in the cusp of
I was right in between you were.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
You're a tweener.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Yeah, well I grew up in the eighties, so and
your mom and dad were different.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
They're great people, but they they were very great role models. Yes,
you had awesome role.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
Models, absolutely absolutely, but we didn't have that. I think
Facebook came into play. Yes, my freshman year of college
is when.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yeah, you missed we got Facebook?
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Well what you just played that sound from the seventies
and the girl said, we didn't have Google. Mom and
dad threw us a dictionary. Well, you know what, we
also have Cyclopedia Encyclopedia.
Speaker 6 (06:54):
Panic the guy, come, we have dicyclopedias from those inside silipedias. Yes,
we had a huge computer cabinet, which is as fine.
My dad's listening right now, so he's going to be laughing. Right,
we had the big like computer cabinet where you had
you know, the whole Staga monitor and all that.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
And then your dad's so old that the encyclopedia's had
the wrong country's name because they've changed since he was young.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
Well, you know, it's so funny.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
So we're like, what do you do with that.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
You remember, it's like when the doors opened and then
pulled the desk, scout and this and that. Dad turned
it into we call it the learning center. And he
puts all his bourbon in there, okay, And so we
put the fold down where you used to put your
pad and your mouse and all that, and we just
make a little bar out of.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
It in the living room. But we repurposed you nex
one four eight two one nine eight eight six six
one four eight two one nine eight eighty six. Would
you have rather grown up in those seventies and eighties
decades or would you rather grow up now or have kids?
Would you rather had kids back then or have kids now?
Let's go to the phone lines? Are six ten WTVN
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phone lines? Who's on that boot?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Scoopy? What's up? Scoops?
Speaker 7 (08:00):
Hey? Guys? Have you thanksgiving?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Those?
Speaker 7 (08:04):
I would like to be back in the old days
because you knew your neighbors, everybody spoke English. You walked
every place, so there was no organized sports. You just
grabbed a baseball bat and your second base with a
pizza box. You couldn't watch a high state on TV
because they weren't on TV. He had listened to them
in the radio and maybe get a thirty minute recap
on channel thirty four ten o'clock. If he had a
rabbit ears and only had three stations of TV. If
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you want a turn channel, he had to get off
your butt and go chort channel by yourself. So those
are the great days, you know, actually talk to people.
So that's those are the con No apps.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I hate apps. If one more person says you need
an app, I've got four pages on my phone of apps.
And guess what, I don't know any of the passwords
that save your pass.
Speaker 7 (08:46):
No, I have no apps.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
I don't I don't even know what. I'm so tired
of an app. Okay, wait, don't you know I wish
I had my remember the little check but the little
savings books we had at the bank. Yeah, you went
in and missus Thomas. I'd go to her all because
of my mom's and she would stamp my eighty five
dollars and twenty three cents I had in there, and
she would stamp.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
It has that same amount today.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Yeah, I still I got eighty four dollars right now.
But I just it was so much simpler, and I
know technology, it's gonna get worse where it gets better.
It really is. I mean, we got we don't people.
We don't teach people how to drive anymore. We put
more air bags and more cameras and more lane changers.
That's why people can't drive, because we expect the car
to do everything right, and the car shouldn't do You
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should drive the car.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
The car shouldn't drive you a lot of things. Do
you ever even steer for you?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Rather seventy grand a cheap car now is forty I mean,
there's no affordable cars anymore unless you buy in the car.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
It's so different. And then you were you wonder about
like growing up, I used to love the Jetsons, Love
the Jetsons. Think that was a great imitation that I
like that. But now like we're mighty, we're worked on
close to living like the Jetsons. Let's go to Andrew
and then we're gonna go to break and then we'll
take more of your phone calls. Andrew, what do you
think lie was better back then or now? Thanks Goo
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for calling in.
Speaker 8 (10:04):
Well, except for all with Indian boots, life was better
than so. No, But growing up in the seventies I
spent half the seventies into the early eighties. As a
kid in Phoenix, Arizona, happiest time ever. During the summer.
You would get up in the morning for a weekdays summer,
you would go out and ride your bike with your friends.
You'd come back when you check in every once in
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a while with the folks. But you would spend all
day with your friends who's riding bikes and doing whatever
you did, and nobody worried. You didn't have to like
be checked up, you know, and this is Phoenix. But
it was calm back then. Yeah, but then you mentioned
you mentioned the gents, the jets and Saturday morning cartoons.
It was it was. It was a staple. You get
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up Saturdays, you watch your cartoons. Sunday mornings, you get
up your family, you go to church and then have
a lunch with it. It was just so much more simple.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I knew it, so did you.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
You talked about biking and you used to wear a helmet.
Speaker 8 (11:00):
We did not war a helmet. We this is when
the TV show Chips came out. So we had our
little neighborhood bike patrols there on Phoenix streets. So we'd
ride in Paris. We'd split up and I never got
to be paunch. But the one thing too, is you
remember back when you had the bicycles, and they had
them white poles that looked like the antennas that if
you're a cool kid, they'd have a little flag up top.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Yea, yeah, I know what you mean.
Speaker 8 (11:23):
Yeah, So the the you know, the paunches and sergeant
coutures they had those. My parents won't spurts for it.
But still going to break here.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
But thank you so much for calling and keep the
calls coming. Was life better back then or now? Six
one four, eight, two, one nine, eight eighty six.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Before we go to break. We didn't shoot each other.
We bloodied each other's nose. There was a rule if
you cried or bled, the fight was over. He didn't
go home and get your uncle's gun and come shoot
up the school. That's another thing. And we never did, never,
ever ever braw Many boots on his radio six ten WTVN.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Growing up in the seventies and eighties, and how different
life was back then, so different compared today, And would
you rather have grown up then or now? Or even
being a parent, would you rather have your kids have
grown up back then or now? What do you say, Christy, well,
I have to.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Say it's a blend of both. Immediately, when you talked
about the old days, I was thinking about payphones. That's
how we made calls. How the hell did we get
around without directions? I mean, you know, we went from
no directions to map quests which you had the print out,
to now you have gts is on everything.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
And yeah, but then the technology I was going to say,
a lot of that technology does dumm you down, because
that technology does the work for you. When we used
to have to do the work ourselves and we were
smarter because of it, we had to be.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Yeah, I mean, but you know, and and the thing
I love I miss when you talked about customer service
is remember the gas stations were an intendant. You could
pull up and have someone pump your gas and check
your well.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
I worked at a gas station.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
That I love that if I talked to everybody, everybody.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Yeah, And then the other thing I just wanted to
mention because it's funny the whole drinking out of a hose.
I think that's the only time I drank water. Everyone
tells you drink half you're weight and water.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Well, what the what did we do a little white
worm get in your mouth there?
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Why don't you spit it out? Water?
Speaker 4 (13:30):
That good that we didn't need to drink much because
I drink a lot of water now and the doctor
still says I need to drink more. So what did
we do?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Maybe you need to get a hose and drink hose
water again, Christy. I used to love frogs and toads,
and I used to collect toads and I keep them
in my windowsill.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
My granddaughter has bait pet toads.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
I love them. I did.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
They didn't give you words of them.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
That's another that's a I never got worse, and I
picked up toads and frogs all the time.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
But Christy, we're going young kids just they just don't understand.
I mean, they say, how did you make it without
a cell phone? How did you make it without me?
I don't really know, but we look at us. I
think we turned out pronger and better than than the
generation I don't know a safe.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Oh, totally agree, That's what I'm saying. I would I
would rather. In fact, my kids are twenties, they're twenty
four and twenty three. And when we when Randy and
I talked to them, about how life was back then.
They really wish that they were around then.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
That's fun Now that's funny you say that. They'll put
this in perspective because I'm a car guy. So if
you look at the cars, the cars that we rode
in compared to the cars our parents rode in. I mean,
my dad used to take three extra when he was
in Fort Stot, Georgia in the Army. He would have
a blowout ninety percent of the time because tires were
not good back then, so he always had extra tires
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in the back of his trunk and when he have
a blowout, he'd pull over and he would change the
tire on the rim on the side of the road.
Four people would see the serviceman pull and help him. Nowadays,
if a tire goes down ten PSI's we freak out.
So times have got a lot of things are better.
But I will say this, I picture you know. I'm
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close to my brothers and my family like your family.
So if we're out stacking wood and I'm ten years
old and I look at my dad and say, Dad,
I think I'm a girl, he'd have hit me in
then you know what's I'd have went to my knees
in pain. My brothers would have giggled. He'd be what
are you now, boy? And I'll get up and stack
the wood. You're no girl. That's the difference between now
and then.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
When you were talking about having a blowout on the
side of the road or something like that, I thought
you were going to go with the direction of back.
Then somebody, if not multiple people would pull over and help.
You know, when we were young, right, That's what I'm
saying today. I just don't think people are willing to
pull over and help somebody, help a stranger.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
But a nice month a nineteen forty eight Ford with
biased ply tires that you buy at the junk yard
for two dollars because that's all you can afford. Now,
you just go get your credit card out, you buy
twelve hundred dollars with tires, and you have the guy
put it on simplicity.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
It's yes. So there's one more piece of sound. We
listened to that montage video montage of the seventies. I
want you to listen to this one from the eighties.
See if you agree or disagree. Go ahead, kyleen play
that one. Dude. It's the eighties. Do you have any
idea how tough we were.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
We could remember all our friends and family's phone numbers.
Our memory was on point.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
We'd jump into.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
The back of station wagons no seat belts, and our
parents didn't even care because they knew.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
How to drive.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
We used to look up movie show times in the
newspaper or call the movie phone to get the theater listed.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Yes, we asked to flip through the TV guide to see.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
What was coming on next.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
So true.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
The dessert ice cream we used to have was wrapped
in a cardboard tube, and honestly, the taste of the
cardboard was more memorable than the ice cream itself. We'd
buy a piece of gum for a penny and it
might not even be fresh, but that was no big deal.
We used payphones and phone booths to call our parents
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and get a ride home. Would you give up twenty
twenty five to go back to the eighties?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Would you?
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Boots?
Speaker 2 (17:21):
I wish I could go back in the fifties. I
didn't grow up. Then if I had a choice, I
could go back to the fifties. You weren't even I
know well forgetting time machine. I want to graduate high
school in nineteen fifty two. I want to. I would
probably get I would have probably got drafted like my father.
I would have got out. I'd have started at the mill.
I'd have saved enough to get a fifty seven convertible
and i'd still be driving it today.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
You know, as strongly as you feel about our armed forces,
I'm surprised you didn't enlist.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Well I did. I did join the Air Force, and
I did and I never went because they changed my contract.
I they have a test that you take, and I
wanted to be a jet engine mechanic and they changed
it on me. And my dad got upset and we
went to the recruiter. He says, well, you either take
it or you're not going. So I didn't go. I
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wanted to join the Air Force.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
I could see that.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
I just always kind of keep out one on myself.
But since we talked about it. But I wanted to
be an engine mechanic and it was full and there
was and back then there was no war, there was
no and I'm glad I didn't go now, but I
wish I would have. But then, you know whatever, Yeah,
if they would have let me do my contract, I
probably would have made a career out of it.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
You know, as we have these conversations what life was
like back then and how much we love looking back
at it, think about where we're going to be twenty
twenty five years from now, and if people will say, oh,
life was so much different back then as is as
in now.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Kyliene, when you're our age, you're not forty yet, right, No,
you're thirty eight.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
I got a few months March.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Yep, when you're fifty seven. I've seen so much change
in twenty years that I can't imagine what it's going
to be like in twenty years.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
That's my point.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
It's scary to think about, honestly.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
I mean, are we going to be star Treks?
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Are we going to be Jutson's when with the Jetsons?
I can't remember.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
I should look that up because that was like but
when they progressed, they said they were progressing to a certain.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Oh, they traveled by air if you want me, spaceship
got in spaceships and.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
That's how I would try to have a driving car
back to the future. I'm like a driving car okay,
you know, sorry, a flying cars the line flying car
would be amazing.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
What's the movement though? So people can't drive on pavement.
Can you imagine people not having roads to follow? I
don't know how we have air collisions all the time.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
So we're going to kind of stick with this theme
for Rivia because we're going to talk about commercials, but
not just commercials. They're commercials from the past. But these
are so easy. I'm sure you will know these slogans.
We don't know if Jill's going to call in or not.
Jill has been our roofing ch but here's the deal.
Last week when she called in crystal clear, we could
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hear her perfectly. She was great, and then as soon
as we got someone else who she was going to
go up again then to start crackling in. So Jill's like,
I'm not doing this ever again. Jill, if you want
to try it one more time, try it otherwise. We're
going to have two new Rivia players. So if you
want to play, have some fun. Boots has lots of
things he can give away to you. And again, there
are old commercials that I can almost guarantee you'll guess
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it like that six one four eight, two one nine
eight eight six six one four eight two one nine
eight eight six Please call up and play reveal. Let's
have some fun.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
We're all mini boots on whose radio six ten WTVN
It's so much fun. A couple of weeks ago when
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we were asking all of you the listeners to kind
of go back in time and tell us things that
you missed that are no longer here, and a lot
of you guys brought up restaurants and stores and things
like that. So it got us thinking about just growing
up in the seventies in the eighties, what life was
like back then. And Boots and I are basically the
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same age, and I would say I wouldn't have traded
and I would think that you would say the same thing.
And we grew up different ways for sure, but I
wouldn't trade my childhood for when we grew up for anything.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Social media it's not going away, but it's killed everything.
It really has. It's everyone. I'm glued to my social media. TikTok.
I love TikTok. I'm addicted to TikTok.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
And I can see some funny things on there.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah, you watched some of stuff and with a new
the fancy fake video with ia or whatever they're calling it.
I get off on some of them. Where the day, Yeah,
did you see the one where the deer The deer
walks up to the tree stands, smacks a guy upside
the head, knock them out and drags him and berries egos.
How that you think that.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
With cats with I mean, it is so hysterical, but
it has definitely changed our life. And if you look
up the easy if you think about the simple way
you grew up and things that we didn't have. But
yet life was so much more simple and we were
outside so much more so Instagram have created these things
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or to take kids of today but make them look
like they were in the seventies and eighties.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
First, I want you guys to listen to I want
you to listen to this one. It's from the seventies.
We'll start with the seventies and what life was like
back then and call us up and tell us how
you think times have changed and which way you would
rather have grown up then or now. So go ahead
and play that, kyleen the seventies.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I bet you wouldn't last an afternoon back then.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Growing up in the.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Seventies was chaos in the best way. We didn't meet
fancy entertainment. We had start sunshine and imagination. I promise
you wouldn't survive a morning we woke up ate cereal
with enough sugar to stun a horse and ran outside
like we were avoiding taxes.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Back in the.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Nineteen seventies, getting in trouble didn't mean losing your phone.
It meant your mom yelling your full name and Natea's
coming out like it was a TV show.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
We didn't need entertainment.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
We had sticks, mud and absolutely zero supervision, peak childhood,
no Google, just parents saying look it up and tossing
us a dictionary big enough to break toes. Want music,
Hope your final didn't melt in the sun or your
sibling didn't accidentally.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Sit on it.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Hydration warm garden hose water with worm vintage flavor.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
We were built different.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
And fell off your bike, you stood up, checked if
anyone saw and lied.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I'm fine.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Parents didn't track us. They just yelled be home by dark,
and somehow we survived us. So tell me, could you
survive the seventies or would you tap out before lunchtime?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Six one four eight two one nine eight eighty six
six one four eight to one nine eight eighty six?
What did you say about the garden hose?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Garden hoers? We had to wait, turn it on, wait
for the white worms. To get sprayed out of it
before you drink out of it.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Or we would always look for cobwebs to see if
a spider was curling.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yeah, we turn it on full blast. Wait wait wait
wait wait, and then take a drink. Yeah, and once
why you get a worm, but you spit it out.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
And now today people are like, what you actually drank
from the garden hose? We did all the time.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
You imagine showing up with a helmet on on your bicycle.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Oh no, we know.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
We would have wore helmet if one of my buddies.
And this was bullying nowadays, but back then this was
being boys. If you would have rolled up on your
BMX bike from JC Pennies with a helmet on, we hadn't.
We'd have tied you to a tree and knocked you silly.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
We never wore helmets either. We didn't honestly, when when
when our parents, I would say this, when our parents
brought us home home from the hospital, we weren't probably
even in a car seat. We probably rode home in
mom's arms. Well, there's no airbags to kill you, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
We hadn't brought plenty of brothers and sisters, so one
loss wasn't a big deal back then because if families
had a bunch of extra kids to just throw one
into the car, so boots.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Would you have rather grown up when we did?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Or today? Because I think of how easy life is
now with social media, with technology, things are so easy.
But is easy better?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
No, it's making we got to now. I will say
this younger generation, I think we have some studs and
stud ads coming up. I think they've watched.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
The the lower millennials because they're just so a safe
place and this and that and my pronouns and all
the garbage we've witnessed for the last fifteen years.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I think everybody's over it. I really do know'st there's
still a segment of idiots, but I think I think
most people were over it. It's like whatever. I don't
think a guy ten years ago you could go to
a social thing and say my daughter is a cat.
You'd be like, oh, that's beautiful you and I would.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
We have a litter box for her, Yeah, will help
you out.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Nowadays, it'd be like, have you got them help yet?
How stupid are they? What did you smoke dope when
she was in the womb?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I just can't believe how different things are from back
then to today. And you know, I don't think. I
don't personally. I don't feel like I'm that old. It
doesn't feel like it should be that much of a
difference because youth wasn't that long ago for us, but
apparently it was because things are so different. I think
my number one complaint is when you go to a
(05:35):
grocery store or in different restaurants or a convenience store
and you're dealing with someone who's checking you out and
they barely talk to you, They barely look at you
in the eye, don't and that's not good. I mean,
if you come across an teenager or even someone in
their twenties and they can engage in a great conversation
(05:56):
with you and look you in the eye. That's what's
missing today because everybody's looking down at their cell phones
or their laptops or the computers. And I don't like that.
I think that's one of the biggest harms technologists.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Now.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
I completely agree. And I don't have kids that I
have nieces and nephews, my cousin's kids that I call
my nieces and nephews, and I make them all put
their phones away.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yeah, I can't.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
And I grew up kind of in the cusp of
I was right in between you were.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
You're a tweener.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Yeah, well I grew up in the eighties, so and
your mom and dad were different.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
They're great people, but they they were very great role models. Yes,
you had awesome role.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
Models, absolutely absolutely, but we didn't have that. I think
Facebook came into play. Yes, my freshman year of college
is when.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yeah, you missed we got Facebook?
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Well what you just played that sound from the seventies
and the girl said, we didn't have Google. Mom and
dad threw us a dictionary. Well, you know what, we
also have Cyclopedia Encyclopedia.
Speaker 6 (06:54):
Panic the guy, come, we have dicyclopedias from those inside silipedias. Yes,
we had a huge computer cabinet, which is as fine.
My dad's listening right now, so he's going to be laughing. Right,
we had the big like computer cabinet where you had
you know, the whole Staga monitor and all that.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
And then your dad's so old that the encyclopedia's had
the wrong country's name because they've changed since he was young.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
Well, you know, it's so funny.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
So we're like, what do you do with that.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
You remember, it's like when the doors opened and then
pulled the desk, scout and this and that. Dad turned
it into we call it the learning center. And he
puts all his bourbon in there, okay, And so we
put the fold down where you used to put your
pad and your mouse and all that, and we just
make a little bar out of.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
It in the living room. But we repurposed you nex
one four eight two one nine eight eight six six
one four eight two one nine eight eighty six. Would
you have rather grown up in those seventies and eighties
decades or would you rather grow up now or have kids?
Would you rather had kids back then or have kids now?
Let's go to the phone lines? Are six ten WTVN
(07:56):
phone lines? Who's on that boot?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Scoopy? What's up? Scoops?
Speaker 7 (08:00):
Hey? Guys? Have you thanksgiving?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Those?
Speaker 7 (08:04):
I would like to be back in the old days
because you knew your neighbors, everybody spoke English. You walked
every place, so there was no organized sports. You just
grabbed a baseball bat and your second base with a
pizza box. You couldn't watch a high state on TV
because they weren't on TV. He had listened to them
in the radio and maybe get a thirty minute recap
on channel thirty four ten o'clock. If he had a
rabbit ears and only had three stations of TV. If
(08:26):
you want a turn channel, he had to get off
your butt and go chort channel by yourself. So those
are the great days, you know, actually talk to people.
So that's those are the con No apps.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I hate apps. If one more person says you need
an app, I've got four pages on my phone of apps.
And guess what, I don't know any of the passwords
that save your pass.
Speaker 7 (08:46):
No, I have no apps.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
I don't I don't even know what. I'm so tired
of an app. Okay, wait, don't you know I wish
I had my remember the little check but the little
savings books we had at the bank. Yeah, you went
in and missus Thomas. I'd go to her all because
of my mom's and she would stamp my eighty five
dollars and twenty three cents I had in there, and
she would stamp.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
It has that same amount today.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Yeah, I still I got eighty four dollars right now.
But I just it was so much simpler, and I
know technology, it's gonna get worse where it gets better.
It really is. I mean, we got we don't people.
We don't teach people how to drive anymore. We put
more air bags and more cameras and more lane changers.
That's why people can't drive, because we expect the car
to do everything right, and the car shouldn't do You
(09:28):
should drive the car.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
The car shouldn't drive you a lot of things. Do
you ever even steer for you?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Rather seventy grand a cheap car now is forty I mean,
there's no affordable cars anymore unless you buy in the car.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
It's so different. And then you were you wonder about
like growing up, I used to love the Jetsons, Love
the Jetsons. Think that was a great imitation that I
like that. But now like we're mighty, we're worked on
close to living like the Jetsons. Let's go to Andrew
and then we're gonna go to break and then we'll
take more of your phone calls. Andrew, what do you
think lie was better back then or now? Thanks Goo
(10:02):
for calling in.
Speaker 8 (10:04):
Well, except for all with Indian boots, life was better
than so. No, But growing up in the seventies I
spent half the seventies into the early eighties. As a
kid in Phoenix, Arizona, happiest time ever. During the summer.
You would get up in the morning for a weekdays summer,
you would go out and ride your bike with your friends.
You'd come back when you check in every once in
(10:25):
a while with the folks. But you would spend all
day with your friends who's riding bikes and doing whatever
you did, and nobody worried. You didn't have to like
be checked up, you know, and this is Phoenix. But
it was calm back then. Yeah, but then you mentioned
you mentioned the gents, the jets and Saturday morning cartoons.
It was it was. It was a staple. You get
(10:46):
up Saturdays, you watch your cartoons. Sunday mornings, you get
up your family, you go to church and then have
a lunch with it. It was just so much more simple.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I knew it, so did you.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
You talked about biking and you used to wear a helmet.
Speaker 8 (11:00):
We did not war a helmet. We this is when
the TV show Chips came out. So we had our
little neighborhood bike patrols there on Phoenix streets. So we'd
ride in Paris. We'd split up and I never got
to be paunch. But the one thing too, is you
remember back when you had the bicycles, and they had
them white poles that looked like the antennas that if
you're a cool kid, they'd have a little flag up top.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Yea, yeah, I know what you mean.
Speaker 8 (11:23):
Yeah, So the the you know, the paunches and sergeant
coutures they had those. My parents won't spurts for it.
But still going to break here.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
But thank you so much for calling and keep the
calls coming. Was life better back then or now? Six
one four, eight, two, one nine, eight eighty six.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Before we go to break. We didn't shoot each other.
We bloodied each other's nose. There was a rule if
you cried or bled, the fight was over. He didn't
go home and get your uncle's gun and come shoot
up the school. That's another thing. And we never did, never,
ever ever braw Many boots on his radio six ten WTVN.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Growing up in the seventies and eighties, and how different
life was back then, so different compared today, And would
you rather have grown up then or now? Or even
being a parent, would you rather have your kids have
grown up back then or now? What do you say, Christy, well,
I have to.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Say it's a blend of both. Immediately, when you talked
about the old days, I was thinking about payphones. That's
how we made calls. How the hell did we get
around without directions? I mean, you know, we went from
no directions to map quests which you had the print out,
to now you have gts is on everything.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
And yeah, but then the technology I was going to say,
a lot of that technology does dumm you down, because
that technology does the work for you. When we used
to have to do the work ourselves and we were
smarter because of it, we had to be.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Yeah, I mean, but you know, and and the thing
I love I miss when you talked about customer service
is remember the gas stations were an intendant. You could
pull up and have someone pump your gas and check
your well.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
I worked at a gas station.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
That I love that if I talked to everybody, everybody.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Yeah, And then the other thing I just wanted to
mention because it's funny the whole drinking out of a hose.
I think that's the only time I drank water. Everyone
tells you drink half you're weight and water.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Well, what the what did we do a little white
worm get in your mouth there?
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Why don't you spit it out? Water?
Speaker 4 (13:30):
That good that we didn't need to drink much because
I drink a lot of water now and the doctor
still says I need to drink more. So what did
we do?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Maybe you need to get a hose and drink hose
water again, Christy. I used to love frogs and toads,
and I used to collect toads and I keep them
in my windowsill.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
My granddaughter has bait pet toads.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
I love them. I did.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
They didn't give you words of them.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
That's another that's a I never got worse, and I
picked up toads and frogs all the time.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
But Christy, we're going young kids just they just don't understand.
I mean, they say, how did you make it without
a cell phone? How did you make it without me?
I don't really know, but we look at us. I
think we turned out pronger and better than than the
generation I don't know a safe.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Oh, totally agree, That's what I'm saying. I would I
would rather. In fact, my kids are twenties, they're twenty
four and twenty three. And when we when Randy and
I talked to them, about how life was back then.
They really wish that they were around then.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
That's fun Now that's funny you say that. They'll put
this in perspective because I'm a car guy. So if
you look at the cars, the cars that we rode
in compared to the cars our parents rode in. I mean,
my dad used to take three extra when he was
in Fort Stot, Georgia in the Army. He would have
a blowout ninety percent of the time because tires were
not good back then, so he always had extra tires
(14:49):
in the back of his trunk and when he have
a blowout, he'd pull over and he would change the
tire on the rim on the side of the road.
Four people would see the serviceman pull and help him. Nowadays,
if a tire goes down ten PSI's we freak out.
So times have got a lot of things are better.
But I will say this, I picture you know. I'm
(15:12):
close to my brothers and my family like your family.
So if we're out stacking wood and I'm ten years
old and I look at my dad and say, Dad,
I think I'm a girl, he'd have hit me in
then you know what's I'd have went to my knees
in pain. My brothers would have giggled. He'd be what
are you now, boy? And I'll get up and stack
the wood. You're no girl. That's the difference between now
and then.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
When you were talking about having a blowout on the
side of the road or something like that, I thought
you were going to go with the direction of back.
Then somebody, if not multiple people would pull over and help.
You know, when we were young, right, That's what I'm
saying today. I just don't think people are willing to
pull over and help somebody, help a stranger.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
But a nice month a nineteen forty eight Ford with
biased ply tires that you buy at the junk yard
for two dollars because that's all you can afford. Now,
you just go get your credit card out, you buy
twelve hundred dollars with tires, and you have the guy
put it on simplicity.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
It's yes. So there's one more piece of sound. We
listened to that montage video montage of the seventies. I
want you to listen to this one from the eighties.
See if you agree or disagree. Go ahead, kyleen play
that one. Dude. It's the eighties. Do you have any
idea how tough we were.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
We could remember all our friends and family's phone numbers.
Our memory was on point.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
We'd jump into.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
The back of station wagons no seat belts, and our
parents didn't even care because they knew.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
How to drive.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
We used to look up movie show times in the
newspaper or call the movie phone to get the theater listed.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Yes, we asked to flip through the TV guide to see.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
What was coming on next.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
So true.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
The dessert ice cream we used to have was wrapped
in a cardboard tube, and honestly, the taste of the
cardboard was more memorable than the ice cream itself. We'd
buy a piece of gum for a penny and it
might not even be fresh, but that was no big deal.
We used payphones and phone booths to call our parents
(17:10):
and get a ride home. Would you give up twenty
twenty five to go back to the eighties?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Would you?
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Boots?
Speaker 2 (17:21):
I wish I could go back in the fifties. I
didn't grow up. Then if I had a choice, I
could go back to the fifties. You weren't even I
know well forgetting time machine. I want to graduate high
school in nineteen fifty two. I want to. I would
probably get I would have probably got drafted like my father.
I would have got out. I'd have started at the mill.
I'd have saved enough to get a fifty seven convertible
and i'd still be driving it today.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
You know, as strongly as you feel about our armed forces,
I'm surprised you didn't enlist.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Well I did. I did join the Air Force, and
I did and I never went because they changed my contract.
I they have a test that you take, and I
wanted to be a jet engine mechanic and they changed
it on me. And my dad got upset and we
went to the recruiter. He says, well, you either take
it or you're not going. So I didn't go. I
(18:06):
wanted to join the Air Force.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
I could see that.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
I just always kind of keep out one on myself.
But since we talked about it. But I wanted to
be an engine mechanic and it was full and there
was and back then there was no war, there was
no and I'm glad I didn't go now, but I
wish I would have. But then, you know whatever, Yeah,
if they would have let me do my contract, I
probably would have made a career out of it.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
You know, as we have these conversations what life was
like back then and how much we love looking back
at it, think about where we're going to be twenty
twenty five years from now, and if people will say, oh,
life was so much different back then as is as
in now.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Kyliene, when you're our age, you're not forty yet, right, No,
you're thirty eight.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
I got a few months March.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Yep, when you're fifty seven. I've seen so much change
in twenty years that I can't imagine what it's going
to be like in twenty years.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
That's my point.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
It's scary to think about, honestly.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
I mean, are we going to be star Treks?
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Are we going to be Jutson's when with the Jetsons?
I can't remember.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
I should look that up because that was like but
when they progressed, they said they were progressing to a certain.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Oh, they traveled by air if you want me, spaceship
got in spaceships and.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
That's how I would try to have a driving car
back to the future. I'm like a driving car okay,
you know, sorry, a flying cars the line flying car
would be amazing.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
What's the movement though? So people can't drive on pavement.
Can you imagine people not having roads to follow? I
don't know how we have air collisions all the time.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
So we're going to kind of stick with this theme
for Rivia because we're going to talk about commercials, but
not just commercials. They're commercials from the past. But these
are so easy. I'm sure you will know these slogans.
We don't know if Jill's going to call in or not.
Jill has been our roofing ch but here's the deal.
Last week when she called in crystal clear, we could
(19:55):
hear her perfectly. She was great, and then as soon
as we got someone else who she was going to
go up again then to start crackling in. So Jill's like,
I'm not doing this ever again. Jill, if you want
to try it one more time, try it otherwise. We're
going to have two new Rivia players. So if you
want to play, have some fun. Boots has lots of
things he can give away to you. And again, there
are old commercials that I can almost guarantee you'll guess
(20:17):
it like that six one four eight, two one nine
eight eight six six one four eight two one nine
eight eight six Please call up and play reveal. Let's
have some fun.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
We're all mini boots on whose radio six ten WTVN
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