Episode 20: The Strangest Things

In this episode Greg, Jan and Janalyn discuss Stranger Things now that it's over. Didn't watch it? Well that doesn't matter, because this is a spoiler-free episode, and it's not really even ABOUT the series, it's about all the 80's things the series revolved around and how much they got right about the decade. Even if you never plan on watching the series, give this one a listen, you'll be glad you did..

#strangerthings #80s#nostalgia

Episode Transcript

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Kick this butt like 2 minutes. I watch pro wrestling, ladies.
Oh hey, hey, welcome to another edition of the Pixel People pod.
I'm Greg. Say hey, Jim.
Hey, Jan. And we have Jamlin say hello,
Jamlin, hello. So tonight's episode I've
entitled Strangest Things. But here I'm going to give a
preface on this before we get even into anything on this.

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It's going to be sort of Stranger Things themed.
However, there'll be no spoilers.
And it's really not about that. It's more about the TV show
Stranger Things and how the 80s played into that being set in
the 80s and how how it holds up now.
It's like almost like a history event for people with and stuff
that now people. That's what javelins here,

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because stuff that went on therenow that we don't even think
about now. So if that makes sense, but
you'll find out when we get to it.
But anyway, before that, as always, we have Here we go.

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Hit us with that news, Jan. January 12th, 1980, Yes, it is
Rupert Holmes song Escape the Pina Colada song Oh Lord
returned to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
And when I read that I was like wait, returned.
So it was the number song, number one song in America

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entering 1980. It topped the charts twice from
December 22nd to January 4th, and then it topped the charts
again January 12th through 18th.Yeah, my buddy Mike, I'm going
to make sure he's listening to this because he has a running
gag about that. So gentlemen, we're getting
feedback on your phone, man. He has a running joke for 20

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years now on that, on that song and Rupert Holmes.
So he has to be listening to this.
So Mike, that was for you. That's a good song.
I liked it. It's so catchy.
Yeah, wasn't he? What's his name again?
Rupert Holmes. Wasn't he the one that did into
the night too? No, that's Benny.
Benny Mordones Yeah, yeah, yeah.I think Rupert Holmes had
another hit though. I don't know, maybe it'll show
up on another gnarly news. Yeah, next week it'll be errors

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and emissions. Jenlyn, you ever heard that
song? Singapore.
The Pina Colada song. It's actually the name of it.
Escape. Yeah, Escape.
That's right. Yeah, we'll play it for you.
You've probably heard it because.
Tell her some of the. Lyrics.
Yeah, if you like pina coladas and get caught.
Yeah, honey. OK, everybody's had to heard
that song at least once. I don't think anybody knows the
actual name of it is escape though.

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Yeah, it's everybody just calls it the Pina Colada song.
January 12th, 1980, Bob Dylan kicked off the second leg of his
Gospel Tour. Yes, you heard me right.
Gospel Tour. Yeah, I had to look that up.
I thought I was reading something wrong.
You was we questioned that before, but I was like, I do
remember he did do a gospel album.
He did 79 concerts between 79 and 80.

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Yeah. He convert like you said he
converted. Right January 12th, 1980, the
Bee Gees went to number one withtheir double album Bee Gees
Greatest. The album was their third
consecutive chart Topper. And it's probably their last
two, I bet. Because that was right.
The tail in the disco they unfairly got.
Well, not unfairly. They they grasped, they took the

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disco and ran with it. But they were like a Beatles
band before disco. But here was what was so neat
about this album going to numberone.
There wasn't a new single on thealbum and it still went to #1.
It's the greatest hits album, right?
Right. Yeah, yeah.
They they, I don't know, Disco made them big, but it also
killed him. January 12th, 1980 Bryan Adams

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released his first self-titled album.
I did not realize that was 1980.I thought it was later in the
80s. Well he probably didn't get big
till earlier like a couple yearslater right though?
And I doubt he had many hits on his first album, did he?
I don't know how I'm going to look that up.
January 12th, 1981 Dynasty debuted on ABC.
Yeah, see, that was an ABC show and we were Acbs family.

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We were watching Dallas and all that stuff.
We were watching Dynasty on. Friday you never watched.
Dynasty. No, never watched Dynasty.
Never went back and wanted to watch any no.
I didn't. I've rewatched Dallas twice
since in there like all 12 seasons or?
You should give Dynasty a try. You should give Dallas try.
We should start it over. I don't do SOAP operas.
It's not a soap opera, it's a drama.
It's a soap opera. We're watching Dallas one day.

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All right, if I'm watching Dallas, then you're watching
gentlemen watch that show that your mom and auntie watch all
the time. Oh, the ER show?
No idea. The hospital show.
The. Hospital show Grey's Anatomy.
I know. Grey's Anatomy.
We're not watching Dallas now. OK, January 12th, 1981, Hall and
Oates released Kiss on My List, the third single from their

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night studio album Voices. Yeah, that's a great song.
You know that song, don't you, Jamma?
I think so. Well.
Her dad's a Hall and Oates fan. Yeah, you probably know all the
Hall and Oates songs. We've played them for you.
January 12th, 1981 The White House, it's reported, expanded
its record library to include albums by Bob Dylan, Kiss and
the Sex Pistols. Well, I know the Sex Pistol

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album because they only put one record out.
Never mind the bullocks. Here's the Sex Pistols, that's
the only album they ever put out.
I wonder what the Kiss album was?
I don't know you. Don't have to look that up.
I'm curious what Kiss albums putin the probably Destroyer.
January 12th, 1982 Ronnie Milsaprecorded his song Inside.
That's a good song. You're serious, wife.

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Oh my gosh. It's the third single as well as
the title track from his 82 album.
It was the 21st number one hit for him.
Yeah, he had a lot of hits stillalive and kicking too.
I would like to go see Ronnie Milsap if you tour, but I don't
think he tours anymore. He's like 83.
One day, gentlemen, all your bands you love, now you're going
to be saying I wouldn't mind. I haven't seen them again, but
they're 80. Yeah, probably that's.

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All on my bands are 70 and 80. By the end of 1982, Ronnie
Milsap song Inside was the 35th most popular song for that for
that year. Country or overall?
Overall. OK, yeah, back then country
songs with chart on like the well, I guess they do now too.
Yeah, they do. But back then you had rock, pop

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and country like every now and then.
But now it's just pop and country and rock doesn't chart
anymore sadly. January 12th, 1982 The Death of
Captain Marvel, the very first Marvel Comics graphic novel, hit
stores. They just did a Captain Marvel
Marvel movie a couple years ago and it kind of bombed.
They didn't do a sequel. November 12th, 1982, Madness

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released their single Our House Oh.
Such a messy song, you know that?
Yeah. So madness.
That's a good band name too. I know it is a good band name.
January 12th, 1984, Billy Idol released his single Rebel Yell.
I love that song. Do you know the story behind
this song? No, I do not.
I'm going to tell you some Rolling Stones trivia that you

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probably didn't know. If you get into it, I probably
know it, but go ahead. I'm going to try anyway.
Billy Idol got the title for this song from the Rebel Yell
Brand Bourbon Whiskey. Yeah, I've heard of that.
So you remember the VH1 storytellers?
Yeah, he was on that. And he explained that he was in
an event at Ron Woods Place in New York City where Wood and

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fellow Rolling Stones member Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
were all taking swigs of Rebel Yell straight from the bottle.
And it gave Idol the idea to I didn't know.
That that's, I didn't know that.That's Billy Idol history,
though. But it involved the stones, and
I can't believe you don't know that I don't.
Think they even make Rebel Yell anymore to look that up.

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Now I got to buy a bottle of Rebel Yell.
It's good enough for. More than you can cry.
More and more and more, yeah. January 12th, 1984, though,
Eurythmics released a single Here Comes the Rain again.
I can just hear it in my head. I can too.
That Andy Linux in that her. Name.
Yeah. Remember I told you that's the
last song that Roadside Islands my band ever played live?
Yeah, I. Remember that.

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There's a good story behind thatone day I'll tell on the
podcast. For another day, yeah.
January 12th, 1985. Eddie Rabbit's The Best Year of
My Life became the 12th number one single of his career.
Don't think I know that one. I just know his.
Well, I mean I. Guess I played it and then I
remembered it. So if you play.
It I don't remember it, here's alot of those songs I don't know
the name of. He had a lot of hits.

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Yeah, Jimmy, you should listen to some Eddie Rabbit. 2TS.
You'd know it if you heard it. You know, you've probably heard
a couple of songs, all these songs that these people are
talking about, like you don't know their names, but you've
heard play between all your family members over the years
where you'd be like, I have heard that song.
Yeah, yeah. I'll test you this weekend.
I'll play you some of these and you'll be like, I know.
That I'm gonna play you some offof this list channel yeah, and

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you're gonna be Oh yeah, I remember that.
Song, but not during the podcastbecause I can't afford to pay
the licensing so. Maybe we'll just home one of
them. Yeah.
January 12th, 1986 The Bears shut out the Rams 24 to nothing
to punch their ticket to Super Bowl 20.
Yeah, what was that dominating Bears team?

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What Super Bowl are we going to be on in February?
Lord, I don't even know, it's 50something.
Yeah, this was 20. Yeah, dominating team.
The best defense may be in NFL history.
That team, that team gave us theSuper Bowl Shuffle.
Yes. Another great song January 12th,
1987 The morning program, which centered on entertainment and

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service info, launched on CBS. It was hosted by actress
Mariette Hartley, news anchor Roland Smith and comedian Bob
Saget. It.
Was called the morning program. The morning program, it only
lasted nine months. I'll start say it.
I was thinking that's not the name of their morning show.
It lasted nine months and then of course we know Saget went on

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become to have bigger success onFull House.
Yeah, You just retired last year.
Bob Saget. Bob Saget I.
Thought Bob Saget. No.
That Bob Saget, I thought she was talking about Pat Sajak.
I was CBS. I was talking to Pat Sajak.
Yeah, you're right. OK, Bob.
Saget that's what made this so crazy.

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How did I get those, Bob? Saget, I think you're.
Crazy crazy with Pat Sajak on the morning show.
I want to How did I get them to mixed up?
Oh well, I'll leave this in. I'll leave my ears in.
Genuine Jalen Bob Saget was the dad on Full House, the original.
And a filthy comedian. So could you imagine him being a

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anchor for a Morning News show? Yeah, but could you imagine,
could you imagine him being the dirtiest comedian you've ever
heard in your life, where he cussed so bad that they wouldn't
allow underage people in? He used to do it.
Start up. I want to see him.
He used I want. To see him being that kind of
person. He used to start his comedy
shows off was like, if you're here to see the guy from Full
House, well, bleepity, bleep, bleep.

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That's not what you're saying. Yeah, he was a dirty comedian.
He was funny as I'll get out, but he was not that guy.
He wasn't a nice, wholesome dad.From No, he was not.
January 12th, 1987, Deep Purple released the House of Blue
Light. Not one of their better albums.
No, but still newsworthy. Yeah, still there because it's
Deep Purple, Yeah. George Strait's 7th studio

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album, Oceanfront Property, was released January 12th. 1971.
The album was a major success. Even I know that, and I don't
know really any George Strait. It earned 2 times multi platinum
certification, the first album ever to debut at #1 on the
Billboard Top Country Album chart and on the Billboard Top

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100. In 2006, it was ranked #5 on
CMT's list of the 40 Greatest Albums in Country Music.
Yeah, I've never even listened that album, but I know it's big
because that's his album I hear about.
January 12th, 1988 The Beach Boys performed at the Orange
Bowl as part of a celebrated to commemorate the launch of the

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Florida Lottery. Pretty neat.
I'm not going to Rick roll you, but January 12th, 1988 Together
Forever by Rick Astley, the fourth single from his debut
album Whenever You Need Somebody, debuted.
He's a good guy, good time. He's still good too.
I've seen stuff for him in the last couple of years and he

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still sings great. Looks like he always did.
He powered through, you know, and plus he rickrolls everybody.
So he does. Yeah.
I get rickrolled at least once aweek now.
Yep, it's a fun life. Born January 12th, 1988.
Actor, singer and podcaster Andrew Lawrence.
Either of you know who he is. No, I do not.
He started in show business at age 3.

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He made his professional acting debut in three episodes of the
TV series Blossom. Oh, that's Joey Lawrence's
little brother. Yes, as little doodle Joey.
Yeah. Blossom also featured Andrew's
oldest brother, Joey Lawrence. Whoa.
Yeah, I hate that I watch Blossom though.

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He was actually in a lot of stuff.
He was in Brotherly Love. He was in the Disney's animated
TV series Recess. He was in ABC Family series
Melissa and Joey. Do you know any of these shows
Gemma? No.
Well, I watched a lot of these with your mom so.
She don't know who Joey Lawrenceis.
In, he was also a TV actor doing.

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Obviously, he just. I mean like TV series.
I don't know how to. Everything you just said was ATV
series. Well, no, a lot of this was like
Disney stuff. I mean like.
You mean like real TV, not Disney?
Network. Network.
Is what I'm trying to say so he was on bones the closer CSI New
York Hawaii 5 O NCIS Los. Angeles.

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I imagine all these were like 1 offs.
Yeah, he just did one or two show episodes.
I think Bones he did one episode, not sure about the
others. Currently he does a podcast
called Brotherly Love. Well, his podcast stinks.
We have to get a give a shout. Out to five other podcast
people. You can't be friends with other
podcasters. They're still in our listeners.

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Well, I want to be friends with Andrew Lawrence.
OK, All right. We'll invite him onto the
podcast one time, talk about his80s in Blossom, right?
Yeah, I think that would be a great episode.
I'll have our representatives reach out to his representatives
and see if he'll come on the pod.
January 12th, 1989 Roxette released the single The Look
Yeah from the album Look Sharp. Yep, that's another one that

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gentlemen don't know by the name, but I bet if you played.
Before not bet if we play it, yeah, she will know it it.
It was originally a hit in Roxette's native Sweden and
became an international hit whenan American exchange student
returned from Sweden and urged the Minneapolis radio station
KDWB to play the song. And even though it hadn't yet

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been released in the US, the song spread and people were
making copies of the cassette. And that's how it got big in the
US. It became it eventually became
number one in Australia and Japan and the US.
Cool. And there you have Jans Gnarly
news. Oh, gnarly.
OK. And so gentlemen, Jim, before we

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get into the main topic of this podcast, we're going to play a
quick game called. What did that Cost?
In the Oh my gosh, things cost less.
What did this cost? Give us your guess.
It's only one item and it's tiedin with tonight's episode
because in the TV show StrangersThings in season 4 they are out

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in California for some stuff. No spoilers.
And they were new character you see on season 4 and he works at
a pizza shop. Isn't it surfer boy pizza?
I know the name of it. That sounds right.
Yeah, and when the Stranger Things finale was on the other
week, Jan found out that Walmartwas selling Surfer Boy Pizza,
frozen pizzas, and we looked at every Walmart within like 50

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miles. We just want to buy some and fix
them up that night and they wereall sold out.
So when I was thinking about this episode the other day, I
thought, I'm going to do a pizza.
What did this cost? So I found a 1985 Pizza Hut
menu, so I went with a Pizza Hut.
So a large Supreme pizza in 2025from Pizza Hut. 2025.

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Yes, now in now. Currently if you went to Pizza
Hut and got a large Supreme pizza, at least around here,
it's $22.00. Holy cow.
That's actually less than I thought it would be for Supreme.
That's that's pretty cheap for compared to like a good pizza
place. If you go to Tony's Pizza here
in Hickory and get a large Supreme, it'd be 3039 dollars,

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something like that. What did, what do you think a
large Supreme pizza Pizza Hut cost in 1985?
And I'll let Jamlin guess first.$8. $8 you locking that in?
Yeah, OK, Jen, what do you? Think I'm going with 1050.
OK are you locking that in? Yep.
OK this is straight from a PizzaHut actual menu from 1985 that

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someone had. I found it online on Reddit.
A large Supreme Pizza 1985 pizzathat cost $10.70.
Oh, score. Oh wow, you are close.
Yeah, well, you were actually closer than I thought you would
get because you're 14, you have no concept of what stuff cost
right now. So I mean.
Yeah, I mean stuff you'd like, but you know, you really don't

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know what things. You're not going out and buying
a pizza, your dad or your mom's buying a pizza or we're buying
it. But for you to even guess $8,
that's pretty good. I'm going to give you some
credit on that. So good job.
So that's the only one we're doing this week, but I thought
we'd run that in. Even though I went as close as a
quarter off, He's 27. Jalen gets all the credit.

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Yeah, adjust it for. So anyway, that brings us to our
topic, which is this one's sort of a threw together episode this
week. He's like, what are we going to
do on? We decided to do on this because
we're not going to give away spoilers.
We could do another episode. Maybe we'll do a special edition
sometime, if this one does all right about the whole idea of
Stranger Things and. But we all watched the season

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finale. Series finale?
Yeah, together. Yeah.
New Year's Eve, right? Me, Greg, Jalen and Dylan.
Dylan, our friend Dylan. Yeah, and we all absolutely
loved it, right? Which made us think, OK, why did
we love this so much? Right.
So Jalen, what did you get out of Stranger Things?
What what made you love that show so much?
I don't even know you, just thisis really good and it was always

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exciting and there's always something happening.
Yeah, and you like the characters too.
You always, you always identify with characters a lot.
So she also told me when the show ended that she really liked
the 80s nostalgia that came withit.
Which is what we're going to talk about a lot on this
episode. I liked it just because Jana
tried to get me to watch this show for and I was like, I don't
want to watch that. And then finally we started

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watching it, me and my daughter.Cassie started watching the
first season when it came out. Yeah, that's 2015. 2015.
And we would hotspot my cell phone to get the Internet at my
old house. To be able.
To log into Netflix and watch it, it was.
It was hard to even get to watchit, but we did.
We watched that first season andwe both loved it, but then we

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just quit watching it after thatand I well it's because they
took like 2. Years between every season.
I mean, I'm surprised it stayed as big all the way to the end
just because they took 10 years to tell five seasons worth of
television. That's rare.
You don't see that very well. Kirby enthusiasm.
But he could. It's not really a running story,
his individual episodes. So.
But that took 20 something yearsto get like 12 seasons out of.

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Yeah. When he started watching.
Of course. I'm hooked right from the start
because of the 80's, the feel ofthe 80s.
They did the 80s feel so right in that show that anybody, if
you'd say what was it like beinga kid in the 80s, I'm like,
well, watch Stranger Things at least the first couple of
seasons, especially that episodewhere they go to the mall is
like, so. Throwback ish to the if you want
to see what a mall was like whenpeople actually love to go out

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and shop and not just spend their money on Amazon like I do
now, that mall and all of a sudden it was very.
Realistic the stores in it the the food court when.
You go in the mall now, you're like, hey, you know, look, it's
a hot hat in the mall. But you know, you remember that
scene in Stranger Things that episode, and then that's how it
was when we were growing up. If you think if you're in the

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mall here in Hickory right now and you go to anything, man,
it's crowded today. Multiply that by like 50.
It's like so much. It used to be you couldn't find
a parking space sometimes there.The only thing that was.
Off on the mall for me. They seem to be a little younger
in that mall. I was probably 131415.
Yeah, before I I'd say 1415, mainly before I started going to

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the mall. Well, they were 13. 14 When they
were going to the mall on that show, I thought they were
younger than. That no, they were.
They were starting to date. You remember That was his
girlfriend. They were like 1314.
Yeah. No, I mean, I not even just
going to the mall and hanging out.
I'm talking about just going, you know, with the parents and
taking this. Let's see, I didn't do that
with. My parents, yeah.
Well, you. Also, even if you did, you
wouldn't have got the full experience because you would
have been to the Shelby, NC mall.

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And that's not, I mean, that's one thing.
I'm not knocking on Shelby. I'm still mall.
Right. But you know.
Even though now comparing that to what Valley Hills Mall used
to be, the Valley Hills was our mall in Hickory, NC, still is.
But it was it was the biggest thing I thought I ever saw.
So, you know, I went to the mallin the early 90s in in Atlanta
and was like, holy crap. And then, you know, yeah, the

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Valley Hills Mall was nothing. I think I went to the mall in
Charlotte one time, too. It had an ice skating rink in
it. And that's how big this is.
Eastland. Eastland or East?
Ridge. So.
One of them's in Gastonia. Which one's that?
I think that's East Ridge. I don't know, but the one in
Charlotte had a an ice skating rink and at one point was like
wow, but but Jamlin, you got you.

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Got to think back then, there were no cell phones, So if you
wanted to hang out and talk to your friends, you had to find a
place like that to go hang out and talk.
You weren't going to sit at homeand talk on cell phones.
I mean, you could talk on the phone, but your parents would
fuss at you because you're tyingup the one and only phone line
that the whole family used. And so and my mom and dad.

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Were too cheap to pay for call waiting when that came around.
So if somebody tried to call us and and somebody's on the line,
you just get a busy signal and then later on the call waiting
came about her be like you're talking to somebody to hear your
phone clicking like hang on and you hit the button you're like
hello and it's your friend caller saying we're like hang
on. I got to get off the other line.

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You know, you could disrupt the end to the line.
But even that right there, gentlemen never know.
Well, she knows phones because we've got one down here in the
basement a little. But you know, phones are home.
Phones are dead. Now, that brings me into
something, though, in that show that was unrealistic.
Not unrealistic, not very realistic, but to move along the

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plot, I didn't lynch thinking about it.
They all had those walkie talkies.
I had walkie talkies like that. We had walkie-talkie.
There's big ones like there you pull the big antenna out.
We had those because my grandfather, after my
grandmother died, sold his farm and moved in into a trailer at
the end of our driveway to be close to our family.
And he kept his old line, which was from another same area code

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back back then Jelling back backin the 80s and 70s and stuff
like that. If you called somebody that was
on a different, like I guess he was on the Lincoln County line,
it was long distance. You could be living next door to
somebody. But if they were on like the
different county line, you had to pay to call them and it would
be expensive. So my grandfather had his, he
lived like 1/2 mile up the road from us and he had his old

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number, which was a long distance number.
And so when he moved, he had to keep his phone number because
it's when he had for like 40 years.
He wasn't going to get rid of it.
So they put that phone number inat the end of our driveway,
which is walking 2/10 not well. That's where my parents were
maybe 110th from a mile to his house at the end of our driveway
was long distance. So if my if my mom had to call

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my grandfather, he had to call her or something just to call
and talk for a couple minutes was a couple bucks.
So he went out and bought these same walkie talkies like they
used in Stranger Things and he gave her one.
He had one and he had to put like 12 AA batteries and it took
tons of batteries. And when he wanted to talk to
her, we had a signal in her house.

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Do not answer the phone until after the third ring.
So the signal was he would call mom or we call him, let it ring
twice and hang up. So if you're sitting there and
the phone rings twice and then it stops ringing, you know
that's grandpa turn to walkie-talkie.
And we had a set channel. I can't remember what it was.
He'd be like, hey, over. He'd be like, hey, how's it
going over? And we talked to him over the

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walkie-talkie. I figured out a way to beat.
The system, yeah. And it was those walkie talkies.
But I laughed a lot in that Stranger Things because they
would be all the way. Well, I mean, they're in another
dimension at some point here. And they got their walkie
talkies. Co yeah, there, Yeah.
I hear you. It's like those things would
pick up maybe 2 miles. They're supposed to, they were
supposed to pick up like 5 miles, but they wouldn't.

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And I would say, you know, now that walkie talkies are like
obsolete, but we have walkie talkies.
We have smaller ones now, but wetook them to the beach couple
months ago and gave 1 to Janlon and Jessa to keep in their car
so we could talk back and forth and we never did.
I think we got out of signal really fast, didn't we,
gentlemen? Yeah, yeah.
Even though we had cell phones, I thought it'd still be cool to

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talk on a walkie talkies, but wenever did.
Yeah, cell phones. Have ruined the walkie-talkie
idea, but that's a little. Like I say, that was a little
bit of unbelievability and if that's a word in Stranger Things
because those things would not pick up that far.
The only thing they did show is non spoiler here is in the final
episode where? What's his name?

(25:53):
Gentleman knows all the names. Dustin.
Dustin. Did.
You watch the same show. We watched, I don't remember.
Names you know that when Dustin broke his walkie-talkie and the
the antennas broke off and he's like, and it's real staticky
then that that was a thing when you'd break an antenna off
something you'd be like, Oh my God, when you had like a little
radio, you had to pull the antenna up to pick up a radio
station and I remember dropping my Radio One time and breaking

(26:14):
the antenna off. I'm like, no, but well, another
thing that. Was pretty much unrealistic.
Was how long the batteries lasted on these walking?
Yeah. And on the cassette.
Tapes that that they were the cassette player that they you'll
never. Know your generation will never
know this fear except when it comes to remote controls in the
house but you know, you listen to you listen to all your music

(26:36):
on your phone and all that stuffnow and hey, my battery's on a
load let me plug it in and recharge it if you had
rechargeable batteries in the 80s, you're rich and.
You had to have a special. Charger for them and they were
way more expensive than regular batteries.
And so, you know, you listen to your Walkman or your radio or
something and, and the battery started to go down.
It was the worst fee in the world.

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It's like, oh God, my radio's dying.
And you, you're just out of if, if you had one, you could plug
in. Yeah, you plug it in your room
or something, but you couldn't take it with.
You want to go outside and play something?
Bring your radio. I'm a batteries are dead.
I can't talk. And back then, those radios did
not run on double and AAA batteries.
They're running on D&C batteries, which are big, old,
huge batteries. And it seemed.

(27:17):
Like they did not last but for an hour.
So when Stranger Things several times use cassette tapes and
cassette players in in their series there, there was one time
I was screaming at the TV screenbecause it seemed like they had
been playing that cassette player for two or three hours

(27:37):
and I'm screaming, the battery'sgoing to die.
The battery's going to die. So that that was kind of
unrealistic to me and. In the 80s gel and two year
stature is at least as far as being a guy was one of the
things that showed how cooler you were than everybody else was
how big your radio was compared to someone else's radio.
So I had a, we call them boom boxes back then.

(27:58):
And I had one that was like 2 speakers and two, two cassette
players on it. So you can record a cassette to
cassette and it was all right. It was like it was big, but it
wasn't My friend Jamie, he had one that was like 2 feet tall, 2
feet wide. It was huge.
It had, I mean it had a graphic equalizer on it.

(28:19):
It was massive. That thing was huge.
It was like a suitcase and that thing took like 1212 D batteries
in it and you'd we put that he'dbring it over sometimes people
playing basketball, we might getan hour into it and you hear the
tape start slowing down. You're like, Oh no, because the
batteries are going dead. And he's like, I just put some
in the other day, but those big radios just suck the power out

(28:39):
of your batteries. Yeah, and it.
Was so funny to me. Sitting here right now is us
talking about this being unrealistic battery use and
Stranger things, but we're not concerned.
Learned about them fighting beings from Yeah going to
another. Dimension.
The upside. That's not.
Unrealistic. The battery power in the
cassette player. That's what's unrealistic.
So another thing in. There that I noticed I kind of

(29:02):
laughed at is everybody had thisbig, huge flashlight.
You got a flashlight? Yeah.
And they would run on D&C batteries too.
These kids and stranger. Things had a lot of batteries.
Yeah, these are the rich. Kids, but everybody back in the
day you had to have have A at least a couple big time
flashlights in your house. Talon, do you own the?
Flashlight. Yeah.

(29:22):
Where's it at? The laundry room.
You. Actually interesting.
Yeah, we have like one or two. We have a lot.
Really. That's that's amazing because
now people, everybody just grabstheir cell phone and that's what
I thought. Jalen was going to say yeah, I.
Figured you was going to say your phone.
You couldn't go any. I mean, back then you had to go
outside, dig around for a flashlight.
And every, every Christmas, probably in the 90s, my

(29:44):
grandmother, my mom or somebody,they'd get a deal like some
cheap, like small flashlights, you know, and it'd be my
stocking like, oh, flashlight. And I had tons of like little
flashlights and stuff. And you just wait.
I'm going. To buy you a flashlight for your
birthday, but. You know, that's something you
couldn't live without back then.And now it's like, hey, I got my
phone and oh, my flashlights going dead.
Let me just plug it into the wall here because it's my phone.

(30:07):
The phone has taken over so muchstuff that used to be, you know,
it's it's amazing. I know there's somewhere if I
went online and looked right nowall the stuff that the phones
replace, it's insane. Like camcorder, radio, phone
book, you know, television, sometimes calendars, yeah,
clocks, alarm clocks, you know, it's crazy something I.

(30:27):
Did love about Stranger Things was how they kind of got the
essence of growing up in a smalltown?
Yeah, because I know I lived in the country, but we got to go
ride our bikes to town. And when I say town, my town was
1 stoplight, but it was still a town.
Yeah, I see. I never.
Got the experience that Greg never got.

(30:49):
To do that I was only like. 12 miles from where Jane grew up.
We only, we grew up 12 miles apart, but she lived a whole
different life than I did because we I lived on a major
highway. You were not riding your bike
anywhere except up and down the driveway.
Their bikes were. Everything in this show, and to
me at that age, my bicycle was everything too.
I mean, we rode. I would say it was not

(31:09):
unreasonable for us in one day to ride 10 or 15 miles and our
parents not even know where we were.
We could stay gone half a day and everything was fine.
We were just riding our bikes all through town, through the
countryside. Gentlemen, have you ever even.
Owned a bike. Yeah.
Well, I don't know. I've never seen you ride it.
If just thinking right now in the area where you live, if down

(31:32):
that hill down below your house,if like a friend of yours moved
in down there and put a house, you wouldn't ride your bike to
it. You just jump on your golf cart
ride down there now, Right. Nobody had golf carts in the
80s. That's what I'm saying.
All right. Our bicycles were everything
where I grew up. Yeah, I remember.
Asking for a BMX bike and I finally got it when I was like
12 or something that was to me that was like getting like a
brand new Mustang or something to me that was but even then

(31:55):
you. Didn't get to experience it like
I did because we had highways that we really but we.
Had 80 acres of land right here and we, me and my brother would
cut like trails through the woods and ride it all.
I mean, we had fun on our bikes,you know, It was different,
different but different kind of fun.
Yeah. We made our own trails and
roads, you know, we used to rideour.
Bikes and go to some of the bridges around town and just

(32:18):
play under the bridges and kids today will not know what that's
like Well yeah did you ever get to play under a bridge Oh God
done Jalen have you ever played under a bridge no it's.
The most awesome. Thing we're going to take you
Saturday. Jalen, we're all going to play
under a bridge. Thank you.
Have you ever played in the road?
I've done that. I did that too.

(32:39):
We used to ride our bikes and lay in the road on the summer
night. Laying in the middle of the road
was the most awesome feeling. The feeling of the asphalt under
you on a warm summer night. I I just can't describe it.
Yeah, we didn't get. To, you know, ride our bikes
around town. But we did some crazy stuff like
that. But the theme?
Showing all that bike riding. Just it was.

(33:01):
It just brought it all back to me on a bicycle.
Yeah, you hear that? Gemma.
But not only were we riding these bikes everywhere, back and
forth to town and on these Backcountry roads and
everything, we were doing it with no helmet, no knee pads, no
elbow pads, no cell phones in case we got hurt going, going.
Kind of deep here that people would get lost on people.

(33:22):
But I got to ask Jalen, Can you imagine getting on a bike now at
Nanny and Paul's and riding all the way to the Dollar General in
Boston? It's not that far.
Yeah, but can. You imagine doing I think like
if. Me and the triplets did it.
I could easily do it. I did.
It alone some, not a lot. Would you trust people?
On those roads, I mean, I don't trust other people now.

(33:42):
It's not that I couldn't think you couldn't do it.
It'd be like I wouldn't trust other people not to hit you.
People, they can hit me. They'll bounce off of her, yeah.
But yeah, Jan did. That all the time, and I can't
imagine that now. I couldn't imagine it doing it
back then. But you know, like I say, I rode
through the woods, so I was probably even more dangerous
than you was some of it. We were carrying an axe or
hatchet around, cutting trees down and jumping stuff.

(34:04):
And, you know, I remember getting knocked unconscious one
time playing bike chicken with my friend Jamie out here in the
driveway. It was like, you know, it's I
was probably more dangerous thanyou were.
Yeah. OK.
And we were doing all this bicycle riding in short shorts
like they showed on the show. Gentlemen, what do you think
about the shorts? Like when they had PE and stuff
for who the girls are, the guys both.

(34:25):
I mean, I know you said you really liked one of those PE
scenes or Jim, we call it PE back then PE.
Physical education, What do you call it now is?
It still PE Yeah, it's. Either PE or gym, it doesn't
really matter. It's like the same thing.
Yeah, those. Short shorts, you were talking
about if you watch old NBA stuffin the early 80s where Magic
versus Bird and all that stuff, they were all wearing these

(34:47):
short shorts. You look at them now, you're
like, that is so cringe. I know they're almost naked
looking, they're so short. And then I think it was Jordan's
the one that started wearing thebaggy shorts and everybody
started copying Jordan and they,and now they're down to their.
Knees. Yeah, they look better.
In the baggy shorts though, oh everything.
Looks better than short shorts. Yeah.
I showed Greg a picture of me last night in my short shorts.

(35:07):
Yeah, but it probably didn't help that in the 80s I was
already almost 6 feet tall and short shorts were even shorter
on me. Yeah.
I didn't mind it, though. I will throw something in on the
Stranger Things stuff that there's a character in the final
season called Derek. Derek's his name.
He's a he's a fat kid, chubby kid with a lunch box.

(35:27):
And and I've laughed at him because he's he's the humor for
the final season. He's hilarious.
Dip blank Derek. But later on they tell him
you're not a dip. You're you're delightful Derek.
And he's I am. I'm delightful, but he wears
this multi colored sweater looking shirt thing.
It's like green, red, blue. I had one of those somewhere

(35:50):
there's a picture of me wearing it.
It was a sweater. I wore it like for two winters
straight and I had lunch boxes so and I was chubby so and I was
a smart aleck. So he's my favorite character.
If anybody watches that, that's kind of what I was growing up.
Another great thing they did in Stranger Things was the use of
Winona Ryder. Yeah, Winona Ryder was huge in

(36:12):
the 80s. Yeah, and for them?
To. Put somebody from the 80s in the
show just made it epic. Along with who?
Was her fiance. Yeah.
Jalen. From the Goonies I could tell
you his. Name any other time his dad was
Gomez and Addams family and I could tell you if I heard his

(36:33):
last name I could tell you his name but I just saw him.
Like yesterday cuz he hosts somekind of like awards thing, yeah.
And I saw him, his name. But using.
Her pulling her into this made it feel even more like the 80s
to us that lived in the only thing that could have made it.
Even more 80s was if it had beenMolly Ringwald.

(36:53):
I would have liked that better, but I had a bigger crush on
Molly Ringwald than I did one ona rider in the 80s.
But yeah, that's about the only other bigger name I can think of
from the 80s that could have played that right.
Would have been. Yeah, she was.
Perfect for this role. Yeah.
Perfect. Yeah.
That was good casting. And I'm glad that she was like,
it's sad you got to say this, but I'm glad that she's embraced
her age and not had a whole bunch of plastic surgery and

(37:15):
tried to stay young. She's aged.
Normal. Yeah, let's not forget.
Their use of 80s icon Linda Hamilton, who played Sarah
Connor in the Terminator movies back in the 80s Yeah, she was
the. Bad guy in this one.
Which or was she? You're assuming she was she was
the bad guy. Spoilers.
So yeah, that was we said no. Spoilers going into this.

(37:37):
Yeah, that was a nice. Touch something else?
That this show brought back to me as I watched it.
I can't remember which season itwas, maybe 3, but it brought
back the Cold War paranoia. Oh yeah, see Jalen you'll Jalen
will never hopefully have to. We live the entire. 80s Jalen in
called the Cold War because we weren't actually fighting a war,

(37:59):
but it was the threat of it throughout the 80s US and
Russia, the USSR and we lived like in constant fear up until
maybe the late OK, I'll say thisin the early 80s up to probably
like 8687 when it kind of died down.
Well, we live for like the first5-6 years 80s thinking we're
going to die in a nuclear war. We're it's just a matter of time

(38:20):
who starts it us or Russia. And when it does we're just
going to be zapped and burned alive and it's going to happen.
Yeah, it's a real fear and. The way this show brought that
fear that we had in the 80s intothis show that's based in the
80s, yeah, that whole season. Two, and you know, stuff with
the Russians and all that stuff,gentlemen, that was real.
That was that was real as soon as you said that.

(38:42):
I was thinking, oh wait, that's why the Russians were involved.
Yes, yes. That was what we lived in fear
of. Younger viewers will not get
that, but us as kids of the 80s,it instantly sparked something,
a memory in my mind of how afraid we were that Russia was
going to attack us. Yeah, yeah.
And then just we just like waited it out and we we beat

(39:04):
them. They sort of ran out of money
and start falling apart and we outspent them and they were
always behind us. Anyway, there we had the Lord
behind us and they had godless commie Russians this show.
Also brought back good use of things from the 80s that aren't
around anymore. I'm going to name three of them.
OK, well, one of them probably is still around, but not as much

(39:28):
video stores. Yeah, they were just.
Starting up in the mid 80s. Skating rinks.
They're still not around, still one in Hickory, but.
Yeah, see, I never. And arcades, Arcades.
Oh no, arcades were the coolest thing.
Yeah, I mean, you even know you had a video game like an Atari
or Nintendo at your house, you still went and put money in at

(39:49):
the arcade in the mall because they had the big fun games.
You know, it was like, that was where I go hang out.
I went to the arcade. In the mall, but I didn't play
games because I'm not coordinated.
But I just went to hang out and watch other people.
Well, I wasn't that good at the.Games, I mean, it's such a.
Hangout place? Yeah, and I mean, the mall was a
hangout place, but then you had the arcade inside the mall,
which was an even bigger hangout.

(40:10):
That's why I want to take you. To the casino sometime just to
walk you because that's like a anice feel of what it was back
then the century overload with all the sounds and lights and
everything going on that's that's what a casino is now and
I wish. Like Jamlin's age could
experience what it's like to go into a video store and stand
there and walk down the aisles and look at all the titles and

(40:33):
flip it over if you want to watch if you.
Want to watch a movie? Let's say you had a movie like
you really wanted to see. So what?
What's your favorite movie? Mean Girls.
Let's see these Mean Girls that's.
Definitely not my favorite. OK, what's?
Your favorite movie then? I don't know Well, I'm saying
it's Mean Girls. So let's say it's a Friday night
and you and your friends are saying hey, let's have a

(40:53):
sleepover and let's watch Mean Girls.
So your mom put you on the car and you went up to the video
store in the car with no. Seat belt, right?
You drove. Up there, seatbelts weren't a
lot. Back then, I'm going to.
Church it up and say you're going to Blockbuster.
Not even a family. When I say you're going to the
fancy Blockbuster, you're going to Blockbuster.
And they have like 20 copies of Mean Girls there because it's
just hit videos. They have 1000, 1000 movies in

(41:13):
there, but there's 20 copies of Mean Girls in there.
And you go over to get one and it's the box cover right there.
And you go to grab it and you realize you look behind it, the
the VHS or whatever is not behind it because somebody's
already rented it. So you go through all 20 of them
and guess what? People have already rented all
20 copies. So you're like, well, what are
we going to watch now? So you spend the next 2025

(41:35):
minutes walking to the video store going, how about this one?
How about this one? You pick a random movie.
Looks good from the box cup. You look at the box cover and
you grab it, you take it home and that's the movie you watch
that night. You have no choice because you
know you picked what was there. But sometimes you go up and I
would ask the blockbuster guy sometimes be like, has anybody
turned this one in? And he has the ones he's not put

(41:57):
back on the shelf yet. And if he's nice enough, he
would look through and going, oh, here it is.
Somebody turned it in. Let me check it back in.
But you had to watch whatever was there.
You couldn't like, you know, howmany times have we sit here at
the house and wanted to watch a movie and it's like, let me flip
through here and then you watch the.
Trailer and then you maybe go toanother website and sometimes
reviews on it, sometimes having too.

(42:19):
Many choices is not good and especially true I think now when
it comes to streaming because the ability to watch any movie
takes a lot of the fun out of it.
That's why me and Jan started watching a lot of 80s Movies Now
on Tubi that's these these B rated 80 movies.
We've watched some pretty good movies last couple weeks and
we've never heard of them till Jan Did them on Jan's and early
news and they're pretty good. Entertaining sometimes.
Sometimes, not all the time. Something else I think.

(42:40):
Go ahead. Watching like or like getting
like a surprise movie would be fun though it it's.
Especially for like a. Sleepover, you know?
Yeah. It's like, let's just go see
what we're going to be watching tonight.
Surprise, you never know. That's what you need to do.
If you're how to sleep or you know, pick a movie you need to
go like it'll it'll help by likeI say, Toby, the free streaming
thing. I love Toby so.

(43:01):
Much Toby has so much. Stuff that's the stuff that
these other big ones like HBO and stuff I have will never
carry because they're like we don't need this crap on here.
So that's why that's why we found these B rated movies in
there and I I we've watched moreToby than we have every
streaming service now that thereis literally everyone but stars
and we don't even watch them from movies.
We go to free Toby. So yeah, it it was fun back then

(43:24):
too. You'd find a movie you'd be
like, hey, this has got Stallonein it and never heard of that
one. We'd just rent it and watch it.
That that just find a movie, like, OK, I'll watch this one.
That was fun. That's miss too.
Just like as much as I love having every album ever made at
my fingertips on Spotify, it wasa lot more fun, I think, trying
to look up, look up new music and going in the music store.

(43:45):
In the mall, Yeah. Epic somebody.
Like you should try that one. That's a good band.
Oh, OK, maybe I will. Well.
That's going to bring me to another point, OK.
Most houses. Today, modern homes.
Yeah. Our house.
Jalen, your house. What color are the walls?
Neutral color. Neutral.
Bright spray. White cream, yeah.

(44:07):
Think back to most of the colorsof the walls and Stranger Things
in the houses. Mostly wallpapered, no wallpaper
and brown. Yeah.
And I'm like, yeah, they got that right.
Yeah, that's. That's one thing that I'm glads
went away is wallpaper. Wallpaper is gaudy.
I I get why it was cool back then, but I can't imagine

(44:29):
there's any kind of market for wallpaper now.
I think I think it. Was cute but like.
I wouldn't want it all around myroom.
I'd have like 1 like accent wallyeah of it we had that's.
All my bedroom was Scotty's bedroom had one wall of
wallpaper so side that the bed was on and his was like sports

(44:50):
stuff like basketball, football,that stuff.
And mine had one wall of wallpaper and it was race cars,
but not like NASCAR's like IndyCar stuff.
Generic. This one of these little kids,
mom put them up, mom and dad putthem up.
But mine had race cars and he said sports, you know, it had
one accent wall and that was it.And I don't, and I think the

(45:11):
only thing that was wallpapered in our entire house besides
those two walls was when you walk down the basement, the
walls. And if you've seen my parents
gym, they've tore it all down. Yeah, it was wallpaper.
It looked better wallpaper than torn down.
But you can't paint it because you need a ladder.
And every time I see their. Basement door open.
I want to go paint their walls down there.
They will do that for them sometime.

(45:31):
Would they let me? Yeah, they would.
But yeah, the use of the brown walls and then the wallpaper was
pretty spot on because I mean, that was just huge in the 80s.
I meant to. Look up a statistic too.
I was kind of wondering what percentage of new homes built
over the last 20 years in America have basements in them
compared to what was built in the 80s.
I think the setup. Of the basement at Mikes house

(45:55):
yeah, the setup of the basement was pretty much spot on you know
I. Wanted a basement and put it in
my house, but you know John, youdon't have a basement.
Of course I kind of talked to your mom out of put one in it,
but I think she still resents. You for that?
Yeah, I know. I think.
A lot of new houses now aren't built with basements in them,
though. I don't I don't think people
care about those as much as theyused to.
Plus the cost. They're not cost efficient to

(46:17):
put into a house, but I'm glad Idid.
But we wouldn't have the pixel underground if I had to put a
basement in this house, but we wouldn't have this podcast.
This podcast is all because I put a basement in the house,
right? And.
One other thing that that this show brought up to me that I
don't know if anybody else has picked up on this or not, but
the The Rock'n'roll guy, what was his name?
Eddie. Eddie.

(46:37):
Eddie. Oh, I loved Eddie.
Yes, me too. But.
Back in our day in high school, if you were a rock and roller,
you were almost considered a devil worshipper.
Yeah. And in this show, they were
doing the same thing. Yeah.
They. Were I'm like they have.
Got this. I don't remember any.
Dungeons and Dragons people in my I don't either.
But I remember the rock'n'roll people were seen as negative

(47:01):
because I was a rock'n'roll person.
But I, you know, I went to church every Sunday and I was
not a devil worshipper, but I got clumped into that group kind
of because of my choice of music.
And they did that in this show. Yeah.
We. We.
Those those different some of the rock and rollers I remember
in school you just thought him as stoners and stuff.
Yeah, but I don't know if anybody else.

(47:23):
Even thought of that, you know, I talked about it the other.
Week about the the guy that cameto my church and spoke to us
about the devil and rock music and all that stuff and I just
laughed at it because it was so much beat.
Even me who was I wasn't the guywearing the Jean jacket with the
patches all over, you know, and and with the long hair.
But even I knew it was BS what he was saying about every rock

(47:45):
bands dev worshippers and and I'm the furthest.
Thing from a devil devil worshipper.
There could ever be, but you wouldn't have.
Wanted your kids? Most people would not want their
kids hanging out with an Eddie back.
No, they wouldn't. I mean, they nailed his part.
They nailed the portrayal of howhe was looked at.
Yeah, they they got all those. It was.
It was like I say that show was really well made.

(48:06):
It's anybody that's child 80s I think should go and while trying
to talk buddy Chris you know Co host Chris here to watch it but
Jalen at. Any point while watching this,
did you think, wow, these kids have been out in the woods for a
day and their parents aren't coming to check on them?
Or these kids have been going from home on their bicycles for

(48:28):
half a day and their parents aren't coming to check on them
because some of the. Characters, yeah, because like,
some of the characters you like saw their parents one time and
then they're just gone for months and you don't see the
parents again, but that. Wasn't unusual in our day.
I mean, we saw our parents everyday, but in summertime when

(48:48):
school was out, we would get up,eat breakfast, go outside, and
we would be gone all day. Our parents not knowing where we
were, well, they knew the vicinity of where we were.
I wasn't like. That but our neighbors Jamie and
Stevie, who were Jamie was one year older than me, Stevie was
one year younger than me. He was a year older than my
brother Scotty. So we were all within like 3

(49:09):
years of each other. We would take off and go down
the Creek here behind our house and play down there all day.
And you know, Mom wouldn't take nothing of it.
She's here down at the Creek. I could not imagine.
Could you imagine sitting in Jalen?
And Jessa down to the Creek. Yeah, come back in six hours.
No, I would not trust even on myown land like that.
I would not trust them to go down there when I was 10. 11-12

(49:31):
years old, I would be gone half the day and let me tell you what
I was doing. I wasn't doing anything bad.
Well, maybe I was trespassing, but a lot of times I was in the
old homes around our country area Trespasser.
Just. Going in these old abandoned
houses and stuff. And so watching Stranger Things

(49:53):
just brought all that back to methe way they were, the way they
were going in, in and out of thewoods and, you know, abandoned
places and stuff like that. Because we really did that in
the 80s. Or I did, I don't think,
gentleman. Misses that though I don't think
he'd miss taking off. And you just won't be left alone
anyway, right? You don't.
You don't miss not going out with your buddies and hanging

(50:15):
out riding bikes all day. I can't imagine you're doing
that. Some of my friends, yeah.
Yeah. You got your own little they
would. They would not.
You will. You wouldn't last half.
An hour bicycle. Kids today wouldn't.
Last an hour on a bicycle, not half a day like I did.
But yeah, it All in all the portrayal of the 80s, I mean,

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aside from the Demogorgons and the Upside Down and stuff from
another dimension, aside from that, it was a excellent
portrayal of the 80s, I think, and I'm trying.
To think of any other TV show that we could watch that set
back in the 80s that would give you that feel.
And I don't think there is anything.
Even Cobra Kai is set now. Cobra Kai is set.

(51:00):
Now, but they played old music which we.
Like Cobra Kai is a great one too if you're a child of the 80s
to watch, especially if you watch The Karate Kid movies
again. But it's a different feel.
Which brings me to another. Point.
Also the music that they chose in Stranger Things, Yeah.
Yeah, was spot on. Most of the time and the whole.
Scene where that has master of public Metallica is awesome, but

(51:23):
nobody no no kids in the 80s there for this.
Hardcore Stoner metal guys knew who Metallica was at that time.
I guess that was just about right then.
So any other points? That you want to bring up Jalen,
that you liked about it or that you questioned about the 80s or
anything like that, are you going to miss it?
No. Did.
Yeah. Did.
You say? That the 12th next week they're

(51:43):
putting out another episode about the Yeah, it's.
Not an episode, I mean, it's a documentary.
It's a documentary. Yeah, Yeah, we've already
talked. About that, yeah, we're going to
watch. That for sure.
So we were talking about that inthe.
Kitchen while you were sitting on the room well.
You missed our whole. Conversation last night.
Well, I guess that about wraps. This one up, but I hope people
listen even if they didn't watchStranger Things because this was

(52:06):
more an episode about the 80s with a Stranger Things twist.
Yeah, I don't. Think we spoiled anything?
No, we didn't spoil. Anything except for that one.
Goonies guy that We can't think of his name.
Yeah, yeah. What, Austin?
It's something Austin still can't think of his name.
It's Austin. One of us should have.
Googled it, it's something Austin Sean.
Sean Austin See. Yep, very good.
Very. Good.
I thought it was Aston. Aston, yeah.

(52:28):
Austin Aston. Sean Aston, Yeah.
Yeah, his dad was Gomez on The Addams Family.
All right, well, that's going towrap it up.
Janna, we thank you for being onthis week.
Sorry you didn't get to. Experience the 80s, yeah.
Yeah, I wish I did. Yeah.
Well, maybe one day Doc Brown will actually invent that time
machine and we can all go back and experience it.
So one day all. Right.

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Jellen, see you later, Jen. Bye.
Shine on the. Pixel People.