Episode 24: What did this cost?

In this episode Greg and Jan are joined by Janalyn to go over our usual 80s topics then we hit Janalyn with "What did this cost? "getting a 14 year old's take on what items cost in 1985 vs what they cost in 2025..check it out! #80s #nostalgia #80skids #retro

Episode Transcript

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Hello everyone, welcome to another edition of the Pixel
People pod. This will be dropping the dad to
the Super Bowl. So how about that Patriots win
and or that Seahawks win? We'll never know.
Well, we will actually. We might do something in this
podcast. We have Piper the pixel people
pup down here, and we might let her pick and see who she's going

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to choose to win the Super Bowl.That was Jan's idea.
So where you go? What do you think about that,
Jan? What Paul will Piper pick?
I don't have an opinion. Yeah, OK.
What do you think I? Didn't care less about the Super
Bowl. She just wants the food, yeah.
Yeah. OK.
All right. Well, before we do that, we have
Jan's Nightly News. It's with that news, Jan.

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Here's your February 9th, 1980 something Jan's gnarly news.
February 9th, 1980 Von Scott wasin his very last concert with
ACDC. He was found dead 10 days later.
Really. Do you know who what Jalen you
wear ACDC shirts? You know who ACDC is, right?
Did you know they had two lead singers?

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They had three actually, but they had one singer and he died
in 1980. And then Bron Johnson took over
and did Back in Black and Shook Me all that long and all that
stuff, you know? So they had the Highway to Hell
album came out with Bron Scott in like 79 and it was just
great. Every song on it's great.
Then he died, they get that new singer and it came out with the

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Back in Black album and every song on it's great.
It's like. They could do no wrong.
Yeah, they could do no wrong at that point.
They were putting out some serious great stuff, so.
And who was the 3rd singer I think.
It was Rod Evans, wasn't it? I don't know.
No, Rod Evans was the Deep Purple.
God, I can't remember. It's Evans or something.
We're. Going to have to look that up.
Do it for next week in errors and corrections.
February 9th 1980 A new group was introduced to America from

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Australia Air Supply. I'm all out of love.
I can't live without. You, their debut song, was lost
in love. It's the only song I know by the
I'm A Lot of Love. I remember that was big, but I
bet you jam you never heard Air Supply.
I can tell you that right now. I think if I played her in Air
Supply I. Doubt it.
I doubt it. Taking love out of nothing at

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all. I don't know that song.
Oh, I know. Never mind, I know I'm all out
of love. That's it.
So. All right, February 9th, 1980,
the Oak Ridge Boys topped the Billboard Country chart for the
second time in their career withLeaving Louisiana in the Broad
daylight. I don't know, almost had to sing

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it while I was saying it. I don't know that one really.
Greg, I've got to play you some songs after this show.
I can't believe I'm singing it in my head right now.
Great song. February 9th, 1981, Fifteen year
old Brooke Shields became the youngest person ever to grace
the cover of Time magazine. She was big back then.

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Jalen, do you know who Brooke Shields is?
Yeah. How do you know?
I'm curious how you know who Brooke Shields is?
I don't know, I just know. Well, did you ever see the
middle? The TV show?
The middle? No.
OK, never mind. I told her the other night she
needs to start watching that. You need to watch that show.
You'd like it. Well, I watched it when I'm at
your house, Yeah. She's the white trash neighbor
that lives down the road from but she was big in the 80s.

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She was into everything. She was big and everything.
She's like the IT girl for a long time.
She was February 9th, 1981. Phil Collins Face Value was
released. That album had In the Air
Tonight and I missed again, and that's probably the only two
good songs on that album. I missed again.
It's the Best Song on that album.
In the Air Tonight is the Best Song on.
That album, we were going to do what I was going to say.

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Was I will arm wrestling you forthat?
I'm going to out myself here. We were going to do that as our
next album review for February because I was looking up what
albums came out in February and I saw that when I thought,
that's a big album, let's do it.So then I ordered them on eBay,
got an old cassette he's going to do some promo stuff for.
And Jan and I were looking at itand Jan was like, why did you

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pick that album? I said, there's a lot of hits on
this. So we still listen to it and
there's really not a lot of hitson.
There's like two or three songs you ever heard on it.
And then Jan goes, why didn't you do his other album that No
Jacket required it. And I was like, because that it
didn't come out February, that looked, it did come out in
February. So we switched now and we're
doing no jacket required, only Phil Collins album which had a
lot of lot of hits on it. I don't understand why face

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value sold so many copies. Because Genesis was huge.
Then they just hit it big with him again as their singer and,
you know, and, but. That's a terrible album.
It's got. 22 good songs. Yeah, but it had more singles on
it that came out. You just didn't like them.
I guess not. Yeah.
February 9th, 1983, Little Red Corvette by Prince was released.

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Well, that's a good song. That was the second single from
1999. Yeah.
And at that point, it was Prince's highest charting and
his first reach to the top ten in the US.
Oh yeah, speaking at #6 on the Billboard.
High. Good album, great song by the
way. I know Jenlyn knows that song.
Yeah, I know that. I've played you that song

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several times. February 9th, 1983, The fifth
wife of Jerry Lee Lewis, Sean Michelle Stevens, was found dead
at their Mississippi home. He killed her.
Did you read up in? There.
Yeah, I did. They had only been married three
months. Yeah, he killed her by the way,
people. And he married again in 1984, a

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year later, Yeah. A lot of crooked cops up there
covered up for him and I listened to a podcast and read a
book on this stuff and he killedthat woman.
A lot of his wives had peculiar death, yeah.
Yeah, he had a couple kills to his, you know, they ain't call
him the killer for no reason. Yeah, Look it up.
Look it up. It's.
Yeah. He he he was not a good human

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being. There's the dog barking.
So just so you know, we're not lying about the dog down here.
You hurt her. Should we go check and make sure
we're not being? Wrong.
February 9th, 1983, Toto released Africa.
I love that song to this day. It went on to win Song of the
Year. I know Jayla knows that song,
right? Yep.
February 9th, 1984, the Scorpions released their single

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Rock You like a Hurricane? Don't.
Don't do you know we have a no Scorpions role on this podcast?
I forgot it just for a moment. Why?
Because I listen to Sirius, Sirius radio and I listen to
like 4 channels in there. Classic Rewind, Classic Vinyl,
Hair Nation, which is 80s hair metal, and Ozzy's Boneyard,

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which is like Hard Rock and heavy metal and everyone in
their channels has to play at least one Scorpion song every
hour and it's so annoying. And it's usually Rock You like a
hurricane. And they're not a hair metal
band. They came out in the 60s.
And so it's like, why are they on the hair metal channel?
But they throw one in there? It's drives me crazy.

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So, you know, they consider themout there with Bon Jovi.
And it's like, no, it's not. No, not the same.
Same caliber. February 9th, 1985 Madonna's
Like a Virgin hit #1 on the Award 2. 100 That's a great
song. That was her first chart topping
album, You. Ever heard that song Jalen?
No. Oh man, were we not playing some
Madonna last night, huh. Jalen, you or Jess up play some

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Madonna for me last night. Oh yeah.
Material Girl, that's what it was.
That's what Jessa was playing. An 8 year old I think.
Jenna would like some Madonna. You probably like her hits.
What the? Play you like Madonna.
February 9th, 1985 Mick Jagger'ssingle Just Another Night was
released in the US. Yeah, that was his solo.

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I'm not offended his solo. Work.
That was the first single from his debut album, She's The Boss
in 85. That kind of, he thought he was
going to be this bit. I mean, I'm the big Stones fan,
you know, he thought he's going to be this big huge star solo.
And him and Keith were fighting in the early 80s and stuff, and
the Stones sort of broke up and he put out that record thinking

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he's going to like, you know, sell millions of copies.
And he toured and sold out everywhere.
But, you know, the people to seethe singer of the Stones, they
didn't really care about his solo music.
So the only thing that probably got saved the Stones back then
was around 8788, Keith puts out his first solo record and it's
like a hit. And it gets like a plus ratings
everywhere. And people's like, this is

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brilliant. And I think that kind of shamed
make a little bit. And he's like, so they kind of
made-up and got back together. That's when they start torn
again in 89. But yeah, his solo stuff never
hit big. One of the songs on this album
was he was accused of copyright infringement.
Just Another Night by Patrick Alley, a Jamaican reggae singer

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from New York. Yeah, that makes sense.
Cause, but the six member jury ruled in Mick Jagger's favor.
But yeah, he he never hit it. He he tries to unrolling Stone
himself when he puts out solo records and tries to be hip and
whatever's cool then. And it just, it don't work.
Keith, when he puts his solo records out, people love them.

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They get great reviews because he plays Keith music and that's
what people want to hear. Just give me the rolling.
Stuff the expensive winos. Solo stuff.
Keith's band, the expensive winos, they're awesome.
February 9th, 1985 Foreigners song Waiting for a Girl Like You
is number one for the second week.
Love that song, can't say more than that.

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I'm just wondering if Jamlin knows that song.
Yeah. It was a very popular song.
Your your generation challenge like appreciates good classic
rock, right? Like they're coming back around,
huh? I don't know, I think they do.
I think your generations come back around and like a lot of
old rock'n'roll and stuff like that, that like the generation
before you didn't appreciate. It surprises me how much older

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stuff. Well, and it shouldn't surprise
me because I they've grown up listening to it from me and
their grandpa and sometimes their mom and dad and their
auntie. But we were playing a game last
night where we played the first 3 or 4 seconds of a song and
then they had to guess what songwas being played.
And I was playing some old 80s music and they were getting it

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right. So they they knew a lot of the
older stuff that's. Good.
February 9th, 1987, the final episode of Gung Ho aired on ABC.
It's based on the 1986 film starring Michael Keaton.
Keaton yeah, which I haven't seen that movie in a long time,
but I need to put it on our listbecause I liked it when I saw
it. I just circled it so we can

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remember to watch it. Gung ho Yeah, it's.
What a name is it Auto The Japanese people coming in
automating their auto stuff If Iremember and I think he led a a
walk out with the union or has something like something to do
with the cars and stuff. Greg, you can tell me on this
next one if if this record has changed any, OK?
February 9th, 1987 Bill Elliott made history.

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He set the Daytona track record with a 210.364.
Mile per hour? No.
No. It's not been broken.
No, and I'm pretty sure he holdsthe Talladega record to it.
Like 212. No, because what year was that?
87. Yeah, by 89 they put restrictor
plates on them because they weregoing in there because they were
getting too fast and that's why they don't hit 200 hardly

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anymore. Every time they creep back up to
almost 200 miles an hour now, couple years ago, they're up
back up to like 204205. NASCAR just puts a bigger
restrictor plate on them and slows them back down like 180
and then they slowly. Creep back.
Yeah, but if they, I would love to see what speeds they'd be
doing now, you know, in those cars because, I mean, they were
getting up there. It's wild to watch.

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Or how they were figuring out tocheat.
Yeah. Oh yeah.
Yeah. February 9th, 1987, REO
Speedwagon released their 12th studio album, Life as We Know
It. Do you remember that one?
No, I was never. Been it's life as we don't know.
Yeah, I was never. Are you a Speedwagon fan?
Maybe the hits, but that's aboutit.
Let's see. People online say it's a shame

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they're not the Rock or Hall of Fame, but I'm like really?
I think Oreo speedwags like one of those very good bands, not
that Great Hall of Fame bands. But then I did see you looking
at some statistics other week. They have a diamond selling
record. One of their albums are sold
over 10 million copies. I think they have more hits than
you. Yeah, probably.
But still, would you put them upthere with the Stones and all

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The Beatles and all these bands as far as would you put them
with Foreigner? Because I think even Foreigner
had way more hits than they did so.
Now you make me want to look it up, see who had.
We're going to go head to head with Foreigner, bar foreigner
against Arias all. Right, Allen, it's up to you.
This Aria Speedwagon deserve to go in the Hall of Fame.
Who? What?

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Next. Born February 9th, 1987.
Actor Michael Jordan. Not the basketball player, the
actor, right? He was in Creed and Black
Panther, yeah. He's good.
He's really good in Creed and Black Panther, but he's really
good as Creed in Creed so. As Creed in Creed, yeah.

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Yeah, it's Apollo Creed's son. Released February 9th, 1988.
Sister. Sister.
Yeah, I actually watched that show.
This was a horror movie. Oh, there wasn't.
He didn't watch this it. Was a TV show there?
Was a TV show too. This was a horror movie.
OK. I think we need to watch it.
It's American Southern Gothic, psychological horror.

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Say that five times fast. It starred Eric Stoltz, Jennifer
Jason Lee, Judith Ivy. Does that refresh your memory?
No, but it probably interested Eric Stoltz because he's a
method actor and he probably went nuts to film it.
So it'd be interesting to see what he did.
Well, I'm circling that one so we can.
We'll put that on our watch list.
So Eric Stoltz could have been filming back-to-back back to the

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future two and three at that point, but instead he was doing
a horror movie called Sister Sister because his method acting
got him thrown off Back to the future.
That's that's that's how you explain that movie.
Yeah. That had to aid at him.
I. Know.
Oh, you know it. He would never say that.
Be like, well, you know, it's hot, but what do you think about
that, Jalen? If you were like, you're, you
know, I don't think I ever showed you that.

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But you know, Michael J Fox was Marty McFly and Back to the
Future. Well Eric Stoltz was actually
played that character in a film for like a month and 1/2 as him
as Marty. And they filmed like half the
movie and realized he's not working and fired him and begged
Michael J Fox to come. And there's footage and scenes
all over the Internet of lost footage of Eric Stoltz in the

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exact same scenes, like a different actor doing the
scenes. That's wild to see.
But wouldn't that eat away at you, though, if you were like,
you know, you lost that? And then that became one of the
biggest franchises ever. And you're like, yeah.
Yeah. Yeah, he would upset me, yeah.
February 9th, 1989, Tim Conway got his Hollywood star.
He's best known for his roles inMchale's Navy and The Carol

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Burnett Show. And Dorf, come on, He was Dorf
on golf. I got to show you some of that
channeling. We got that.
We're going to introduce you to Dorf.
Yeah, I think she would laugh. Yeah, you would laugh.
I think Jam, your sister Jessa, would really laugh at that too.
I'm writing it down so you remember to show her.
Tim Conway, one of the funniest human beings?
A lot. He is one of my absolute

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favorite comedian. Yeah, he was on one of the radio
shows I listen to. It might have been Opie and
Anthony or something back beforehe died, like a year before he
died. And he was just as funny.
He was cracking him up. And they're like that guy was
sharp even to up to the end. So, yeah, he's, oh, gentlemen,
you know who he is. Remember I showed you the other

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year the Carol Burnett show where they were doing the
dentist where he was. He was sticking himself on the
needle. Yeah, that that was Tim Conway.
He was the the dentist. He's hilarious.
And there you have Jan's gnarly news.
Oh, gnarly. All right, before we get into

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the second part of this podcast,we give you a break this week
from movie and music talk. So we decided to do a quick
special of what did this cost? So.
In the 80s things cost less. What did this cost?
Give us your guess. All right, so gentlemen, you're

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on here this week because it is a what did this cost special.
I'm going to give you an item from 1985.
I'm going to give you the price of it now, what it costs now.
And I want to say you've done this before.
So and we'll let Jen guess on these two, but we just want to
see how close you get to some ofthese.
I tailored these, I tailored a couple of these to you because

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it's, I was trying to think of, and what would gentlemen even
know about some of these things?You know, you're still at a
point where your parents buy youmost of your stuff, but you know
what stuff costs? So here we go.
And 2025, a McDonald's Happy Meal costs on average $6.50 for
a Happy Meal in 1985. What do you think it cost?

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6650 now, so 40 years ago. There should be like multiple
choice. Nope, we need a guess.
That's the fun part of it. 650 now.
I'm say OK 350. 350 huh? I'm going with 425 really.
Yeah, $1.50. $1.50. What?

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Yes. That's crazy.
You could have had almost 4 happy meals then for what 1 cost
now and had a better toy in it too.
This was 1985. 198540 years ago.I just split it in the middle of
the decade. 40 years ago. That's so, yeah.
And you realize that we were 14.Yeah.

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And we're talking to a 14 year old in our podcast.
Yeah, OK. There you go.
OK, here's a good one. A girl's bicycle.
So gentlemen, if we went out andbought you a bicycle right now,
on average? Which we won't because she told
me she doesn't want one. Well, you got a golf cart and a
go Kart. Why would you want a bicycle
now? So back then a standard girls

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bike, just, you know, a decent one.
Not a swim I would say, but decent bike.
Who must mess that up? I got him right now.
It would cost you 160 bucks for a decent girls bike.
What do you think it cost 40 years ago?
$50. 50 bucks OK. I'm going. $7100.

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Really. It actually hasn't gone up as
much as I expected. Matter of fact, they've probably
held steady. If you're going to look at, you
know, that one shocked me and when we bought Jessa and JC's
bikes this year, I was thinking they're not as expensive as I
thought they would be. All right, really low because of
the Happy Meal. Yeah, well.

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Yeah, he tricked us, I think. I got a wide diverse selection
of items here. So we got like 15 items.
So all right, a Toyota Corolla, a standard Toyota Corolla car
right now with like the standardCorolla with not tons of options
on stuff will cost you $25,000. What do you think the same car

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cost you 40 years ago, $25,000. Now the longer silence means the
more I have to edit so. 15,000. 15,000.
I'm going with 11,000. 8000 Wow,you could have got a brand new
Corolla in 1985 for $8000 and now it's $25,000.

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Car prices, car prices. I mean I know everything has to
go up because salaries went up, wages have gone up, but car
prices are kind of going insane.You know I mean me and Jan have
seen that looking at buying carsin last year.
So car prices are insane. So here's a good one.
A candy bar. A candy bar now.

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Run you. I'm going to do a range.
I set a price but I'm going to do a range from what convenience
stores the vending machines on stuff cost.
What kind of candy bar? Any candy bar, a basic Snickers,
Reese's, Kit Kat. Every reason I say Kit Kat, but
I changed it to candy bar will cost you now between 2:25 and
2:50. So let's say Kit Kat Jalen.

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You want a Kit Kat, it cost you now 225 in a convenience store,
250. If you buy one 225, you buy 2
for the price you know. So what do you think you paid
for 140 years ago? $0.80.
OK, what do you think? I'm going $0.75. 40 cent wow

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Wow. When I started in vending in
1996, candy bars were $0.60 and you could get a can of Coke for
35 or $0.40 from our machines. So when you were on your break
in 1996 and went to our vending machines, you could have got a
Snickers and a Coke for a dollar.
And now those drinks are $2.00 abottle and the candy bars are

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$2.00 each. So and our canned drinks are a
dollar now. So even if you decide I want to
can drink in a, in a candy bar, it's going to cost you over
$3.00. So it's tripled in price.
Candy bars are only going up. I mean, like, chocolate stuff is
really getting expensive. So which brings me to I just
gave this away and I'm going to do it anyway because you
probably won't pay attention, OK?

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Let's see how well Jamlin was paying attention.
A can of soda cost $0.85 to a dollar.
Now what did it cost them? Yeah, I was not paying
attention. I'm scrolling on TikTok.
Scrolling on TikTok, at least $0.35.
I'll tell you. OK?
All right, I threw this one in here just for you gentlemen.

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Converse Chuck Taylor shoes which you wear.
Not 2025. They cost $60.00 a pair, one
that it cost in 1985. 2530. 25 to 30 jam, what do you say?
I'm going 20. $25 gentlemen got one right.

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Good on you. Ding Ding, Ding, Ding.
Tell us what she won. I remember thinking back then my
buddy Michael wore Chuck Taylor's all the time back then.
He had like 6 or 7 pairs of he would mismatch color sometimes.
But I remember back now, but they were not, I had a pair and
I don't think they're not comfortable.
I remember thinking them that $25.00 is too much for the
shoes. And now they're 60, which I

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guess that's not as huge as a markup as compared to other
stuff, but you know, Yeah. Well, OK, let's go back to
McDonald's here. This one's kind of a tricky
thing because I looked up a hamburger meal at McDonald's.
So a hamburger meal in 1985 at McDonald's was a small
hamburger, a French fry, and a soda.

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So I saw what it cost in 1985 start start pricing it in 2025,
and it turns out they don't evenmake a hamburger meal anymore.
I guess because nobody orders just a plain hamburger and a
small fry to drink, so they don't even offer a hamburger
meal anymore. So a hamburger at McDonald's, a
plain hamburger at McDonald's that is a small burger with no

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cheese, just ketchup, mustard and a pickle is $1.99.
So what did a meal of the small hamburger, fry and soda cost 40
years ago? Probably around the same price.
What? Do you think Jay?
So Jalen thinks $1.99. Yeah, I'm going with 225.
Dollar 49 God, 40 years ago you could get the the burger, fries

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and a drink for $0.50 less of what the burger costs.
You know, the fast food stuff has gone up a lot over the last
five years. So and I don't think it's much
inflation. I just think they jacked it up
when COVID hit, they start jacking up the prices everything
and they didn't come back. No, you know.
It'll probably never come back down.
Yeah. All right, Jalen, here's your
good one. Because you're going to have to
know this. Well, you don't have to know it,

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but you're going to be looking at this a lot in the next couple
years. A gallon of gas, so A.
A gallon this is this is national average a gallon of
like 87 octane regular gas rightnow is $3.10 a gallon on
average. When I look this up, what do you

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think it was in 1985? A.
Dollar 50. OK.
What do you think, Jim? Well, that's around the time,
let's see, we would have been 14, so 87, that's when we were
driving. But I can remember paying like
89 and $0.99 that's. What you're going to say $1.20?

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But yeah, when we were in high school our senior year, it was
like 8990 cent. It dropped down some.
It was, I had it made Jamma, think about this.
When I my senior in high school I worked at Subbies and I
delivered pizzas and I got paid like 375 an hour and my boss
gave me a dollar for every delivery I made plus I got to
keep my tips. But I could go to work with no

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money in my pocket, make like 6 or 7 deliveries, have no gas in
my Volkswagen and leave and go home that night and it punched
in for like 4 or five hours at 375 an hour.
But I left at like 30 bucks in my pocket in full tank of gas
because of people tipping good on my deliveries back then I
made good money. I probably made probably if you

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adjust for inflation, more moneypart time in 1989 that I do now
is full time per if you did adjusted for inflation, that was
a great job. Pizza delivery jobs a good job
for a high schooler. Back then it was.
Yeah, back I. Doubt it is now.
Yeah, All right, I'll throw you A twist. 50 inch television on
average a 4K 50 is television now.

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What size is her TV in her living room right now?
Around 5055 S. Around your size now, gentlemen.
Yeah, with TV in your living room, OK.
Those on average now a 4K are about $375.
What do you think that cost in 1985?
Wait, how much did you say 3? $175. 2:30.

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OK, I'm not even gonna ask Jan this because she she probably
knows the gimmick, so. You know, Jim, I remember they
were giant back then. Yeah, they were called rear
projection TV's in jail and theywere huge.
The TV like you had on your wall, came on wheels back then.
The speakers was as big as the TV and you had to roll it in.
It took them like a whole cornerof your room.

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Yeah, it was nothing like they are now, Yeah.
And their average cost back then, I'm going to tell you it
was $1300. Really.
Yeah. Electronics have gone down.
It's so weird because my dad like 88 or 89, I remember our
television blew up and he went to Caldwell TV Appliance here in
Hickory and came back and said Igot us a good TV.

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He got us this 27 inch like Sonyor something and that was a huge
TV back then. I was like wow, this is awesome,
this huge 27 inch television andnow we have 150 inch theater
screen down here in the basementthat cost basically the same
price as that 27 inch television.
It's crazy how that stuff has gone down, electronics.

(27:30):
But here's the here's the problem though.
Back then, three years into thattelevision, something happened
to it. You caught ATV repair guy, he
came in, put $50.00 worth into it and he fixed it.
Now your $400.00 television, if something goes wrong with it,
you throw it out and buy another$400.00 television.
So price has gone down, but Reliabilities has really gone
down. Because we're a throwaway

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society now. Exactly.
But I'm down with the TV prices going.
I mean, we went through Sam's Club the other week and there
was 100 inch TV in there for like 900 something dollars.
I'm like, Oh my God, I'm wantingours in our bedroom to blow up
so I can put 100 inch televisionin there.
I. Remember the early 90s is when I
got my first rear projection TVIdon't know how many inches it

(28:11):
was, but it was one of those mammoth Oh yeah TV's and I
remember it being $1500. Yeah.
All right, gentlemen, this one you might not get, but I don't
throw it out there anyway. Men's or women's?
I'd say Levi 5 O1 jeans. Ever heard of those five O 1
jeans? That's Levi's like signature
brand of blue jeans. Like the hipster jeans?

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Do they still sell those? Yeah, they're still like the
biggest jeans. Now they cost you $100 a pair.
Just guess what a pair of men's jeans would cost back then?
$10. What do you think?
I'm going to go with 20. $25.00 so but now see you're not off
that much yelling because probably back then a non parent

(28:57):
like a Wrangler or something like that probably were 10-15
bucks. Jordash.
Jordash would have been 30 or 40bucks.
They've been older than Levi probably, don't you think?
I don't know about. That and to turn it full circle,
who was the spokesperson for Jordash in the 80s?
Was it not Brooke? Shields.
Yeah, there you go. Here's here's another one,
gentlemen. Let's see how how good you get

(29:18):
this. There's, I've got 2 more left
and you won't know these, but I'm going to put them out there
anyway because originally it's supposed to be you and your dad
on here. But so I threw a couple for a
guy on here. But now I named this Van Halen
vinyl album. But it could be any vinyl record
that you bought, you know, like we had down here vinyl records
in 1985, not in 2025, a few years ago.
Let's say my Van Halen record brand new on vinyl.

(29:41):
It'll cost you $30. What do you think a record cost
in 1985? Back when you had to buy your
music, you didn't stream it off your.
I don't know if it would be moreexpensive or cheaper.
I know that's the question now this is vinyl we're talking.

(30:01):
Well, I guess it would work either way.
Any kind of physical thing rightnow, even if you bought a CD.
So 30 bucks now let. Me say 20. $8.
Really. Yes, but that was a lot of money
back then though. Yeah, it was.
You had to save up, buy you a record.
There's there's a middle ground of all this stuff too, because

(30:22):
you hear the musicians now say we we don't make any money off
our streaming now, which is truebecause I pay you like 2020
something dollars a month for a family plan on Spotify.
But I don't buy like 3 or 4 out.I used to buy 3 or 4 albums a
month with my money and that would have been, you know, 30
something dollars. And that could be a whole

(30:43):
episode too on, you know. But the problem back then
Gentlemen is a lot of bands would pump out a record and it
have like two or three great songs on it.
And the rest was filler, but didn't matter because they were,
they go in their studio and they'd be like, all right, let's
get your hits out here. And then the rest would be
garbage and you'd have to go outand buy the $8 record for those
3 songs. And that's where streaming's

(31:04):
come in now where you can't you,you can't put garbage on a
record anymore because people just skip over it on streaming.
But anyway, that'll be for another episode.
So let's go down to our last, our last item here.
This be nothing you might have to worry about in a couple
years, or at least your dad will.
For you, a car battery, this will say big one.

(31:24):
So right now I wouldn't say on average, but it's around average
what it's cost me. I've bought 3 batteries in the
last year and a half. Took Lindsay to get one for her
truck, and then we put one in mytruck.
In the Kia here. No.
No. In the tracks.
Yeah. So 4 batteries I've bought in
the last year, year and a half, on average, $200 for a battery,

(31:45):
for a car battery. And it'll last you five years.
So what do you think? If I went 1985 and wanted to get
the battery for my Volkswagen, what do you think it would have
cost me? 100 bucks, $40?
What batteries have gone up insane?
I remember in the 80s or in the 90s, late 90s, I think I went to

(32:06):
go buy a battery. It might have been, no, it's
early 2000s. Look at about a body for our
Taurus and he was like $85 and Ihad bought a battery in years.
Like, are you kidding me? This is insane.
Then I didn't buy another battery for years.
And then when I went to buy thatbattery, it was like $200 for a
car battery now. Well, they go even higher than

(32:26):
that. Yeah, I got the middle of the.
Yeah, I said I want them. You want a good one or a minute?
I said I'll take the middle of the road. 1.
I want to be about 200. I'm like, Oh my God.
Oh yeah, generally go ahead and start planning your your after
school job now because it costs a lot to drive a car as a
teenager now. So your G wagon is going to cost
a lot of money to put gas and batteries in.

(32:46):
I can remember complaining when gas did start going over a
dollar back in the 80s. Where is $1.25.
If you look at everything in here, the gas really hasn't gone
up as I mean it goes up high, then it drops, it goes up high
and it drops, but compared to what everything else has gone
up, it still gets back down to low $2.00 and it's like, you
know, that's 25, that's 35 yearswhen it was like a dollar.

(33:09):
So it really people griping about gas prices, you know, it's
one of those things where you got to look at it.
As far as everything else goes, it's not that high compared to
other stuff. And I can go without McDonald's
for the rest of my life, so I don't have to worry about those
prices. Yeah.
OK, miss Chicken Mcnugget. You still want you some Chicken
Mcnuggets? Here I can do without it.

(33:29):
Yeah, next time we roll out of aconcert at 10:00 at night and I
suggest a cone from McDonald's. Let's hear about that.
So So gentlemen, what do you think about a lot?
You think you got to get like bea rich person now to become an
adult? You got start saving your 25,000
for your Toyota Corolla so. I don't want a Toyota Corolla.

(33:52):
What is it you want now? You backed off the G wagon,
right? No.
You're not getting AG Wagon. Not from your parents anyway.
We. Don't know that.
Well, that'll do it for this week's episode.
Like I say, I want to do 1A little off from music movies
because we've got 2 music ones coming up in a row and a movie 1
after that. So I'll go ahead And when we

(34:12):
said the next was going to be onPhil Collins, no jacket
required. But the one after that, it's
going to be the best ballads of the 1980s.
So that's going to be a good one.
I don't know if it's going to bethe if we're going to pull it
and do the best ballads of the 80s or if we're going to do you,
me and Chris will pick our like,you know, five favorite ballads
and they're not that way. But either way, it's going to be

(34:34):
on the. The Battle of the Ballad.
The Battle of the ballad. Yeah.
And then we'll do a movie review.
Another one. Well, Jalen, we appreciate you
calling in tonight. It's always a pleasure.
And we will talk to you later on.
Bye, Jennifer. Bye.
Bye. All right, Jim.
All right, Greg, your left hand stands for the Patriots.
Yeah, your right hand stands forthe Seahawks.

(34:57):
Yeah, put them in front of Piper.
Get. Back.
Get back. And see which one she picks.
Get back. She went for the left hand.
All right, Piper picked the lefthand.
That means she picked the Patriots to win the Super.
Bowl Interesting so. Good job.
We'll know this after when this airs, you'll know if we've got
the Wonder Dog or not here picking picking games.

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Anyway, that'll do it for this week, Jan.
Shine on the pixel, people.