November 12, 2025 • 39 mins
"The door to the 4th floor is open!" In this inaugural episode of Da Kids from the 4th Floor podcast, hosts B MAD and Christina dive into their childhood experiences as latchkey kids growing up in Brooklyn. They explore the nostalgia of the 80s and 90s, discussing favorite snacks, cartoons, and the impact of childhood programming on their lives.
The conversation flows naturally from their personal stories to broader themes of nostalgia and the shared experiences of their generation.
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SPEAKER_01 (01:32):
Peace.
Welcome to the kids from theFourth Floor Podcast.
It's your boy B Mac.
And I'm Christina.
And welcome to our podcast show.
Kicking it off.
It's our first episode.
You know, it's been a long timecoming.
Something we've been trying todo for a long time, man.
Got my big sis Chris.
You know what I mean?
(01:52):
Two kids from Brooklyn, twolatchkey kids, you know, setting
it off, man.
And it just feels so good tofinally do this, Chris.
How you feeling?
I'm feeling like finally, likewe.
SPEAKER_04 (02:04):
Because we always talked about this.
We always talked about thosetimes, those, those times back
in the 80s when we were justkids and carefree and loving it.
But but before we go, before wego further, let's talk about
what we're wearing.
Let me see.
Let me see what you got onthere.
SPEAKER_03 (02:26):
Man, hold baby.
Reasonable die.
SPEAKER_01 (02:29):
Reasonable down.
I got what?
Biggie.
SPEAKER_04 (02:32):
Big Biggie.
SPEAKER_01 (02:33):
King of New York.
We have the representsBrooklyn's real Brooklyn right
here.
SPEAKER_04 (02:37):
Representing Brooklyn, representing B Chape
to the fullest.
SPEAKER_01 (02:41):
And this was not planned.
I threw this on.
Crystal big.
It was it was supposed tohappen.
It was like it was it wasperfect.
We're in sync.
We here, buddy.
We here.
We cootie live.
You know what I mean?
So yeah, man, finally, man.
(03:02):
I just I'm so happy we're doingthis.
You know, just happy to see whatyou're doing.
You're you you're the you're themedia queen now.
You and my brother-in-law,Eddie.
Y'all doing y'all thing.
Lit 106, slash house media.
Yeah, man.
Doing it right.
So kicking it out.
SPEAKER_04 (03:21):
We're trying, doing a little something, something.
But yeah, I mean, this was thiswas something we always talked
about.
Uh, you know, just having likethis throw by podcast.
There's a lot of millennials, uholder millennials rather, and
Gen Xers out there that couldtotally relate to a lot of these
topics.
(03:41):
I don't care where you're from,Brooklyn, Midwest, Cali, uh, the
South DMV area, whatever, it'sgonna resonate.
It's gonna resonate.
So we're doing this for you.
We're doing this for thatgeneration.
unknown (03:56):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (03:56):
So if you were if you were born in like late,
late, late 70s into what, likelate 80s, early 90s, early 90s,
around that time.
So this is for you.
This is for you.
Uh, we're brother and sister.
Um we used to call ourselvesABC.
(04:17):
I'm the oldest.
Brandon is the second to theyoungest, one of the youngest.
And um, and then it was our ourmiddle brother.
Well, he's older than you, hismiddle for me.
Uh Tony, rest in peace.
Uh, so we used to call ourselvesABC.
(04:38):
And so that was for our our ourinitials of our first names.
And we were just always thosekids from the fourth floor.
We lived on the fourth floor inBrooklyn, and um I guess you
could say it was kind of like abrowstone in a way.
It was a four-story familybuilding.
SPEAKER_00 (04:58):
Family building, yep.
SPEAKER_04 (04:59):
Yeah, we had family on just about all levels, such
for the third floor.
And uh, we were on the topfloor.
We had our neighbors next door,they were like family.
SPEAKER_00 (05:11):
Yep.
SPEAKER_04 (05:12):
Uh, right next door.
Still, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (05:15):
It's crazy.
SPEAKER_04 (05:16):
So, like a lot of these memories that we're gonna
be talking about on this podcasthave them in it, you know, or
lots of other special guestswe'll be bringing on to share
with you our uh our memoriesfrom back then.
And a lot of them really, a lotof them have to do with TV
shows, movies, cartoons, uhcommercials, even.
(05:41):
Yep.
Uh clothes, toys, snacks, toys,snacks, sneakers, candy.
SPEAKER_00 (05:48):
Oh, man.
SPEAKER_04 (05:50):
So this is that's what this podcast is for.
So, or who is for.
So, so anything you want to addbefore we get into our topic of
the week?
SPEAKER_01 (06:00):
Yeah, I mean, you kind of touched on it, you know,
basically what we're gonna begetting into.
This is this is our love letterto that era.
This is our love letter to thesame people that this resonates
to.
It's a love letter to ourselves.
We've been talking about thisforever, man.
Every time me and Chris get onthe phone, we always go into
something from our childhood,ABC.
Antonio, Brandon, and Chris.
(06:22):
Like just having us together inthat time period, all the movies
and TV shows that we enjoyed andloved, all the moments, like
that was us, man.
And that's in our it's in ourDNA.
It kind of made us the way weare now, how we view the world
now, and how Chris is doing thethings she's doing now.
There's a lot of those thingsthat influence this part of our
(06:43):
DNA, man.
And um, yeah, it just feelsgood.
Like just the feeling, thatchemical reaction when you go
back, you think about thenostalgic things that made us
feel good, you know, especiallywith everything going on in the
world right now, reflecting andgoing back to things when it was
a simpler time.
You know, this is this is thisis for that, man.
(07:03):
It's a feel-good show.
You know what I mean?
No, no, no bad vibes, no goodvibes, good vibes.
SPEAKER_04 (07:09):
This is where you come.
You come here, you want thenostalgia feel feels to feel
good.
SPEAKER_03 (07:15):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (07:16):
All of that.
So we definitely gonna make youlaugh.
You're definitely gonna do a lotof, oh, I remember, oh yeah, I
remember that.
I remember that.
So next week's episode is aboutlash key kids.
Because that's who that's whatwe were.
We were lash key kids.
They were that was big in the80s and uh early 90s.
(07:38):
So, you know, kids are stilllash key kids, but they don't
probably don't call themselvesthat anymore.
SPEAKER_03 (07:43):
No.
SPEAKER_04 (07:44):
But back then, it was big because a lot of mothers
they were returning to work.
A lot of them were stay-at-homemoms, a lot of moms going back
to work in the late 80s, early90s.
It was also during the timewhere there was a big like Wall
Street um, you know, stockmarket crash and stuff.
A lot of a lot of companies wereimpacted.
(08:06):
So a lot of women were goingback into the workforce, you
know, um, during that time.
So what you saw was, you know, alot of us kids having to adjust
to that.
And so you had to get theresponsibility of getting your
first key, right?
So that's a rite of passage.
(08:30):
Yeah.
So I was the oldest, so I gotthe key, right?
So only one of us got the key atthat time.
At that time, and so I was theone with the key.
I had the responsibility ofcoming home first, getting
unlocked the door, letting youguys in.
SPEAKER_00 (08:47):
Oh man, I forgot about that.
SPEAKER_04 (08:48):
Yeah, I forgot about that.
Remember, we lived on the fourthfloor, so there was no elevator,
only steps.
unknown (08:55):
Nope.
SPEAKER_04 (08:56):
And so by the top floor.
SPEAKER_03 (08:58):
Oh my god.
SPEAKER_04 (08:59):
So we I would get home first, and then wait for
you guys to come home.
My elementary school wasdirectly across the street, so
it was like diagonally acrossfrom.
So it wasn't a far walk or anywas just cool.
And then you guys would comehome.
I think you were taking out likea van from Catholic school.
SPEAKER_01 (09:20):
Yes.
Like, yeah.
We used to take, yeah, me and meand Tony, Antonio, we used to
take a van to our Catholicschool.
And uh shouts to Mr.
Beckles, man, Trinidadian busdriver, cool guy, man.
He um, yeah, he used to drop usoff, pick us up, you know,
during a certain period of timewhen I was a little younger.
You know, before we was able towalk home from school, you know,
(09:42):
because our school wasn't thatfar, but it was it was it was a
few it was a few blocks away.
But uh at that time we were tooyoung to be walking home by
ourselves.
So yeah, we took the bus in.
But yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (09:53):
Yeah.
So y'all would get home, andthen what most kids do, take off
the book bag, and then what doyou do?
Get a snack.
Get a snack.
Yeah, so sometimes we get thesnack from the corner store, so
around the corner, bodega cornerstore.
(10:14):
And so what was your go-to afterschool snack?
SPEAKER_01 (10:18):
What would you be?
Man, I I had I had a few, butthe one I can recall is Chico
Sticks.
And I I got I definitely gotthat from you.
That's that's without a doubt.
I remember used to get thebigger.
That's my favorite.
Yeah, I used to get the bag ofChico sticks.
So I, you know, it was passeddown to me.
So I like the Chico sticks.
That was something I would get.
And um then um I also love theuh was it super bubble.
SPEAKER_04 (10:43):
I would get the you know, the insert that I'm gonna
insert some pictures.
SPEAKER_01 (10:47):
Oh, shoot.
All right.
SPEAKER_04 (10:49):
Some pictures of those, you know.
So if you have those in yourregion, uh you're gonna get to
see what it looks like.
But the other cool thing,Brandon, be mad, my bad.
SPEAKER_01 (11:00):
Same thing, same thing.
It's cool.
SPEAKER_04 (11:02):
You family is you can get it at far below.
Like they have a whole sectionof nostalgic throwback candies
from back then, the ChicoSticks, Lemon Heads, Boston
baked beans, uh Boston bakedbeans, why?
(11:22):
Raffi Chaffees, which are myfavorite.
That's watermelon.
SPEAKER_01 (11:28):
I mean, no, not the watermelon, the sour apple.
SPEAKER_04 (11:30):
Sour app.
Alright, so mine, I like my veryfavorite, and very not everyone
likes this flavor, butapparently Eddie doesn't like
it, but I love it.
Banana.
I like it.
SPEAKER_01 (11:41):
I knew you were gonna say banana.
I hate Eddie hates it too.
SPEAKER_04 (11:47):
Eddie hates it.
SPEAKER_01 (11:48):
If I were trick-or-treating.
SPEAKER_04 (11:50):
What's funny is my sister.
She loves banana too.
We found out you love banana.
SPEAKER_01 (11:58):
So you're both cycles.
SPEAKER_04 (12:04):
But I like grape.
Grape cherry, yeah, cherry,banana, and blue raspberry.
I think they have like a blueraspberry.
I like the apple.
I like the green apple too.
SPEAKER_01 (12:15):
Yeah, that that's our apple, man.
That's that was that and uh ofcourse the cherry, those are my
go-to's.
I do go to Fabalo just forthose.
SPEAKER_04 (12:23):
Just for that.
Just for that, just for that.
Yeah, so that's the candy, butthen I would eat, I think my
go-to was oh, yeah.
Definitely bag of chips.
Like wise chips.
SPEAKER_00 (12:39):
The wise owl, the wise chips.
That is real throwback.
SPEAKER_04 (12:47):
That was big in New York.
Wives chips, and this is thiswas something.
Not everybody liked these, noteverybody liked these, but New
York deli uh chips.
SPEAKER_01 (12:58):
The purple bag of chips.
SPEAKER_04 (13:01):
Yeah, I'm about to.
SPEAKER_01 (13:02):
Forgot about that, man.
I didn't like those until I gotolder.
I didn't appreciate it as a kid.
SPEAKER_04 (13:10):
I when I was dead, I liked them because I went on the
school trip.
We gotta remember the schooltrips.
Gotta take those snacks on theschool trip.
We're gonna get we're gonna haveanother episode about school
trips.
SPEAKER_01 (13:21):
Yeah, just just on snacks and that whole the
routine, man, all of that, man.
A dollar got you, a dollar wasyour savior.
SPEAKER_04 (13:29):
Oh my god.
SPEAKER_01 (13:30):
A dollar got you the four, it got you the four food
groups.
But that's that's yeah, that'sanother part.
SPEAKER_04 (13:34):
Oh, that's the whole another corner store bodega
favorites, you know.
Ah, I love it, I love it.
SPEAKER_03 (13:42):
Um quarter waters.
SPEAKER_04 (13:44):
Oh my god.
Sunflower seeds of core, keep agiving sunflower season.
SPEAKER_01 (13:52):
Yup.
Oh man.
SPEAKER_04 (13:54):
Um so yeah, so I I definitely had that.
Definitely had had a bag ofchips, uh, double dogs was one
of my favorites.
And Twinkies.
Twinkies, Double Dogs, yeah.
I think those are, but then whenI became a teenager, I know we
going, we're supposed to be inthe last key era, but you know,
(14:17):
you know, this is like my go-tosnack, and it's kind of crazy
combination, but it was CheetosPaws and Sour Power.
SPEAKER_01 (14:29):
Wait, yeah, I remember.
I remember I remember that errorfor you.
Yes, I remember.
See, these things were passeddown to us, like we were getting
these things from you.
So eventually they were yourloves, they became my loves.
So, you know, so it was ahand-me-down, like clothes.
SPEAKER_04 (14:46):
So you know, I was so don't ask me why, how I put
that combination together, but Ijust love that.
SPEAKER_01 (14:57):
Wait, before you continue.
And I know we get off trackbecause this is this is fun.
But yo, the the pickle in thepouch.
The pickle in the pouch.
I hated that.
But y'all loved it.
You know?
(15:17):
Who loves it?
I thought you used to get it allthe time.
I think it was it might havebeen our cousin Renee.
SPEAKER_04 (15:22):
It was Renee.
Mostly.
Mostly.
SPEAKER_01 (15:25):
Y'all saw our cousin.
SPEAKER_04 (15:27):
Yeah, shout out to our cousin Renee.
There was there was a once in ablue moon, I might get one.
Once in a blue moon.
I do like pickles to this day.
Eddie likes the the big deli jarpickles.
SPEAKER_03 (15:38):
Yeah.
Yep.
SPEAKER_04 (15:39):
You know, those because that's what it was back
then.
They used to have which is wild.
SPEAKER_01 (15:45):
No.
That could have been hygienic.
Because you know that thosethose pickles are sitting in
there all damn year, like, yo, Idon't know, bro.
Who's buying this?
Who's buying this?
So I don't know, man.
I don't know how legit or howgood they were.
SPEAKER_04 (16:00):
Or even, or even, yo, which is well, I don't know.
It's a New York thing, but youknow, just getting just getting
sandwiches from the cornerstore.
I don't know.
SPEAKER_01 (16:12):
Oh, getting a hero.
Getting that hero.
Getting a hero with the chipsand uh in a uh a 50 cent soda.
That was a school trip.
That was a school trip.
Uh that was a school trip go to,yep.
Go to.
SPEAKER_04 (16:25):
Oh, you gotta school trip.
Ah, you gotta go get thesandwich.
And if you didn't have it, thenit was like, oh, why you don't
have man, man, man.
But uh oh, alright.
So yeah.
Snacks.
SPEAKER_01 (16:40):
Yeah, snacks is that's that's a whole episode in
itself, man.
Oh man, we gotta have fun withthat one.
SPEAKER_04 (16:46):
So you get the snacks after school, then after
you eat your snack, or whileyou're eating your snack, you're
watching cartoons.
After school after schoolcartoons.
SPEAKER_00 (16:59):
Facts.
SPEAKER_04 (17:01):
So what was your go-to cartoon?
SPEAKER_01 (17:05):
I mean, at this time, you know, last key era.
So this for me it was like thelate 80s, early 90s.
Uh coming home from school.
You know, Disney had thatcartoon lineup, Disney in the
afternoon.
And they had a few joints.
They had uh they had DuckTales,which I love to this day.
SPEAKER_03 (17:23):
Uh DuckTales.
SPEAKER_01 (17:24):
Tailspin.
It's like a spin off of JungleBook.
Um, what else?
I think it was Gum.
I think it was Gummy Bears.
And it was it was something elsetoo, but I forgot.
But Fox also had a lineup ofkids' cart afternoon cartoons,
and I think they kind of tookover.
But uh my favorite out of all ofthem had to be Batman the
(17:47):
animated series.
And it it in New York, in NewYork City, it came on Fox 5, and
it came on like 4.30.
It ended the cartoon lineup forthe afternoon.
And it was like, it was so thetiming and the placement of when
it came on was perfect,especially for the fall, when
the fall cartoon lineup came outwhen we went back to school.
(18:09):
Because it came on at 4.30, andright as it ended, like 5
o'clock, it was getting darkoutside.
And this the cartoon itself isdark and airy.
And I think it was no cartoonlike that at the time for us on
TV.
It was just so mature, it wasdark, it was airy, and it just
kind of blended with the timingfor me.
(18:29):
So it was nostalgic for me.
That just that whole feel.
I was thinking back to it.
But yeah, man.
Batman Animated Series, yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (18:37):
Yeah, I think I like uh definitely a lot of DuckTales
after school.
Uh I know our brother was intoThundercats.
SPEAKER_01 (18:47):
Like that was a yeah, Tony loves.
SPEAKER_04 (18:50):
Thundercats, Heeman, She-Ra, uh Oh, yeah, Sheah,
those were big after school.
Um dang.
It was one more like a venture.
What's the what's the what's theChippendale ventures or
something?
SPEAKER_01 (19:07):
Rescue Rescue Rangers, rescue rangers.
That's what it was.
That's the one I left off.
Yep.
SPEAKER_04 (19:12):
Yeah, rescue rangers.
Oh, another one they used to.
I don't know.
This might have been like early,early 80s, uh Spectre Gadget.
Spectre Gadget.
SPEAKER_01 (19:25):
We always be in Spector Gadget, man.
SPEAKER_04 (19:29):
Specter Gadget, Teenage Meer and Ninja Turtles.
SPEAKER_01 (19:34):
That was like Teenage Weir and Ninja Turtles.
Yeah, that was definitely thatwas that was my era for real.
The action figures.
And that came on, that actuallycame on, if I'm not mistaken, it
came on in the morning time.
I remember getting ready forschool, seeing Ninja Turtles on.
SPEAKER_04 (19:51):
It was both.
It would come on both.
SPEAKER_01 (19:55):
Oh, all right.
SPEAKER_04 (19:57):
Let's get into the morning cartoons.
Because really, because that wasa part of the routine, right?
So as last key kids, you getready in the morning, right?
And then as you're gettingready, this cartoons on for me,
because a lot of those cartoonsare like some throwbacks, or
they were newer cartoons, theyhad a mixture, depending on what
(20:17):
channel you're looking at.
In New York, we had WPIX 11.
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_03 (20:22):
Yep.
SPEAKER_04 (20:22):
And so that had a lot of cartoons, and channel
nine had a lot of cartoons inthe morning.
I know 11 had Jim.
SPEAKER_03 (20:34):
Yeah, Jim.
Yep.
Jim used to come in the morning.
SPEAKER_04 (20:39):
Uh, and then they used to have the throwbacks on
on channel nine that we had, orFox.
It was out of Fox or Channel 9.
SPEAKER_01 (20:47):
It might have been channel nine.
Channel 9 did have a lineup tooin the morning.
They definitely had that in themorning.
SPEAKER_04 (20:52):
They had Gumby.
Gumby was on.
SPEAKER_01 (20:57):
They used to put Gumby was my joint.
Yeah, yeah, you nailed it.
Yep, I forgot about that.
Goo.
Goo was his sister.
Yeah.
Pokey.
I forgot.
What was the name of the yellowone?
SPEAKER_04 (21:13):
It was the it was the Pokey, prickle and you.
SPEAKER_01 (21:16):
Prickle, prickle.
He was definitely prickly.
Yeah, he was an angry, he waslike that angry old man spirit.
That's crazy.
He was like a dragon orsomething.
He was like a he was like adinosaur or something like that,
right?
He had spikes on his tail.
SPEAKER_04 (21:29):
Alright, we're gonna insert that right here.
Uh yeah, so Gummy.
SPEAKER_01 (21:36):
Gumby.
Oh man.
SPEAKER_04 (21:37):
Gumby.
Uh, oh gosh, yo.
Yo, yo, yo.
But this might have been uh thismight have been Saturday morning
too.
But I know they used to playthis in the mornings too and
afternoon sometimes.
Muppet babies.
They would put the reruns on.
SPEAKER_01 (21:57):
I'm mad I ain't say it.
I'm mad I ain't say it beforeyou did.
Damn, man.
Yes, Muppet Babies was thetruth, man.
You know what I'm I'm which iscrazy about it now, Muppet
Babies, they can't put it on.
You can't, you will never see iton streaming or on reruns.
There's a reason for that.
(22:19):
The reason why they don't youdon't find it on streaming or
they don't have any syndicationanymore, because remember,
Muppet Babies, they will feedoff of a lot of movies and
television that was coming on atthe time.
They played a lot of clips fromthose movies and TV shows.
So a lot of the copyrights don'tallow for Muppet Babies to be
(22:39):
shown or on stream no morebecause it's a lot of money that
they pay out.
Because they used to have theyhad an Indiana Jones episode,
they had a Star Wars episode,and I don't believe I know
Disney owns a lot of JimHenson's work, but a lot of
those clips cost a lot of moneyto re-air.
So that's why we don't seeMuppet Babies no more.
They did make a new version, butit's not what it was.
(23:01):
So yeah, that's why we don't seeit no more, man.
But that was that was definitelyone of our favorites.
SPEAKER_04 (23:06):
Wow, I didn't know that.
That's good.
Why you dropped something on me?
SPEAKER_01 (23:10):
We're dropping jewels over here.
SPEAKER_04 (23:15):
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
Wow, it took me back.
Okay, so alright, so you wewould watch the cartoons, then
um, you know, I think I thinkthat was really the biggest part
was like just hanging out,eating your favorite snack.
(23:37):
Uh what else?
What else was it about the lastkey kid experience?
SPEAKER_01 (23:43):
Oh man.
Uh for me, it was just us beingin the house and uh uh our
parents not being there and justyou know getting that snack,
putting on your cartoon, andthen you know, trying to do your
homework.
Trying to be home.
Trying to do your homework whileyou're watching your favorite
cartoons, and then before youknow it, it's like five o'clock,
(24:05):
and you're like, oh snap, I'vestill got work to do.
But yo man, it was just theyknew what they they knew exactly
what they were doing when theyaired these these lineups.
It was a distraction.
It was a big distraction, man.
But it got us through.
It got us through, man, untilyour parents got home.
SPEAKER_04 (24:23):
So yeah.
But I think you know the bigpart, and you know, we we
touched on this earlier.
A big part is just the nostalgiaof of it all.
You know, just having that thatit's kind of like comfort food,
you know, when you go back andyou start reminiscing, thinking
about those nostalgia, becauseyou know, we can go on and on.
(24:45):
That's why we have a wholepodcast series.
Because I started thinking realquick, I'm gonna put this bug in
your ear.
Uh-oh.
Garbage pill kids.
So we definitely gotta get intothat in the episode.
So stay tuned for that.
SPEAKER_01 (24:59):
Yep, yep.
Nice.
That's a nice, that's a niceplug.
Nice, nice teaser.
Nice teaser.
SPEAKER_04 (25:07):
Yo, that was crazy time back then.
But yeah, but so, you know, it'sthe whole nostalgia of it all,
and then it helps you just kindof go back to a time when things
were easier for you as a person,right?
We didn't have responsibilities,no bills.
You know, your most importantthing you were looking forward
to was that snack, and I can'twait to go home and watch this
(25:31):
my favorite show or whatever.
SPEAKER_01 (25:33):
That was that was the holy grill.
It's like getting that afternoonsnack, watching your favorite
cartoons, man.
SPEAKER_04 (25:40):
And yeah, wait a minute, you forgot something.
SPEAKER_01 (25:45):
What's that?
SPEAKER_04 (25:46):
You forgot something.
After they had those cartoonson, uh they started showing
these kind of uh game shows forkids.
SPEAKER_01 (25:57):
So they would show you know what about the it's the
game show that started off allthe kids' game shows, man.
Different for us is Double Dare.
Are you talking about DoubleDare?
SPEAKER_03 (26:11):
Double Dare.
SPEAKER_01 (26:13):
Mark Summers.
Mark Summers raised a generationof kids.
Double Deer raised us.
We wanted to be on Double Deerso bad.
Some black kids being on DoubleDare was a treat.
SPEAKER_04 (26:28):
If Sunhouse Media gets an opportunity to produce.
SPEAKER_01 (26:32):
Yo.
SPEAKER_04 (26:33):
Yeah, I'm bringing back Double Deer.
SPEAKER_01 (26:35):
Gotta bring it back.
And it yo, they they did, theybring it back a few years ago.
unknown (26:40):
They did?
SPEAKER_01 (26:41):
They did.
They did Nickelodeon did bringit back.
SPEAKER_04 (26:44):
Shout out to Nickelodeon.
We can do something with y'all,some collab.
Like old get the get themillennial Gen X or the man in a
double dare episode.
SPEAKER_01 (26:56):
Yo.
I could imagine insurance policyon that, though.
Like, alright, you're you'reyou're in your 40s now.
We don't know uh if you're up tothe city.
No, no, no, they got a tailor.
They that's true, they did.
SPEAKER_04 (27:16):
Remember they had parents with the kids?
SPEAKER_01 (27:18):
But man, they weren't doing half the things
those kids were doing on there,man.
Riding a bike, tricycle, and allthat, and going into the mouth
and with the slime and gettingthe flag and all.
Man, I don't know if I'm readyfor that right now, man.
I gotta get back and shake it.
SPEAKER_04 (27:33):
Nah, yeah.
No, it has to be it has to be amodified version of that.
But uh double.
Yeah, and then you had the othershow was fun house.
SPEAKER_01 (27:43):
Fun house.
SPEAKER_04 (27:44):
Yo, fun house.
SPEAKER_01 (27:46):
Fun house and fun house came on in the morning.
SPEAKER_04 (27:50):
It used to come on the afternoon.
SPEAKER_01 (27:53):
Okay.
SPEAKER_04 (27:54):
Yeah, and put it on in the morning.
Yeah, yeah.
Funhouse.
Okay.
Right now is on the tip of mytongue, man.
SPEAKER_01 (28:06):
Double dare funhouse.
SPEAKER_04 (28:08):
There was one more that used to come on.
But yeah, but that it was awhole like, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
oh.
SPEAKER_01 (28:19):
Oh, wait, here we go.
SPEAKER_04 (28:21):
I'm trying to remember.
SPEAKER_01 (28:22):
Yo, drop the bomb, man.
SPEAKER_04 (28:26):
It was a fox show.
It was a fox show.
The dude Mary Mario.
What was his name?
SPEAKER_01 (28:34):
Oh, oh, oh, Captain Lou?
unknown (28:37):
No.
SPEAKER_04 (28:39):
He was fucking he ended up being on uh Sex in the
City as an adult.
Uh wait, I'm about to look himup on IMPG.
This is real time, folks.
SPEAKER_01 (28:49):
Like this is Yeah, we in real time here, man.
So we're on the fly.
This ain't this ain't it ain'tscripted.
It's not oh man.
I'm trying to think.
SPEAKER_04 (28:57):
You got me.
I'm I'm No, I I think it was a Idon't know if it was a New York
show only.
It was like Ah, I'm about totell you.
SPEAKER_01 (29:08):
Oh man.
SPEAKER_04 (29:09):
And he had a cat on there.
SPEAKER_01 (29:10):
DJ Cat show.
Was it DJ Cat show?
The DJ Cat show was the Foxlineup.
It was the puppet cat.
And it was the girl host.
Okay.
And it started, I think Ibelieve it started from Canada.
Then Fox incorporated it to theafternoon lineup.
SPEAKER_04 (29:27):
Okay.
Okay.
Maybe it was that.
Yeah, it was definitely that.
But then it was, I'm about totell you, brain now.
It was Mario.
Mario Canton was the host ofthis show.
It was in the 80s.
(29:49):
I want to say honestly want tosay it was a New York show back
then.
SPEAKER_01 (29:55):
Oh good.
Oh good in the hood.
Oh man.
And it was like those?
Those shows?
Steam pipe.
Steam pipe alley.
It popped right up when I uhlooked at it.
(30:15):
Yo.
SPEAKER_04 (30:17):
Steam Pipe Alley.
I don't know if that was just.
SPEAKER_01 (30:20):
It was Sundays.
It came on Sundays.
SPEAKER_04 (30:23):
It was nah.
Nah.
It was during the day.
It was during the week too.
They might have moved it toSundays.
Yeah, it was based out of it Itwas based out of Secaucus in
Jersey.
SPEAKER_01 (30:35):
I forgot.
Was that so?
Did they come on Channel 9?
Because I know Channel 9 was.
Yeah, that was where theybroadcasted from Seacaucus.
Yeah.
Oh man, I forgot all about that,man.
See?
That you unlocked a memory.
Yo, God, I forgot about SteampAlley.
That's crazy.
SPEAKER_04 (30:54):
I'm gonna have to see if they have like oh
episodes or something.
It felt like it felt like it waslike a little, like, almost like
a little variety show orsomething.
SPEAKER_01 (31:05):
Right.
Oh man.
Yeah, you took it back.
That you were you digging in thecrates for that one because
y'all, I lost all memory ofSteamp Alley.
Yeah.
And I forgot, and I forgetbecause I know Mario Mario can't
tell me he's a comedian.
He I forgot all about that, man.
SPEAKER_04 (31:25):
Yeah.
And I guess this is just fromlike the Tri State area.
SPEAKER_01 (31:30):
Yeah, it has to be.
SPEAKER_04 (31:34):
Sorry guys.
SPEAKER_01 (31:35):
Sorry.
Sorry.
You'd be alright.
You're learning here.
You're learning here from thekids from the 4-4.
SPEAKER_04 (31:42):
This is from the kids from the 4-4.
Yeah, it was um, yep, yep.
It was it was channel nine,steam pipe.
It was like a kid's like talkshow kind of reality type.
Not reality, yeah, talk show,like a talk show variety show.
SPEAKER_01 (32:04):
Oh, maybe that.
Okay, you you hit something toojust now.
That itself, a lot of theprogram that we had as kids,
like Teen Summit and the ABCafter school specials, all those
things that we had, yo.
SPEAKER_04 (32:21):
Yo, okay, let's get into that.
Yes.
ABC after school special.
They also had a version of thatfor CBS.
SPEAKER_01 (32:30):
Yes.
SPEAKER_04 (32:31):
Uh CBS had one.
SPEAKER_01 (32:35):
Man, dig in the crates.
Digging the crates.
SPEAKER_04 (32:41):
This is not scripted, y'all.
SPEAKER_01 (32:44):
Man, on the fly.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah, man.
It was just a lot of programmingcatering to giving us some
awareness and education.
Especially in the 80s, man.
Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_03 (32:59):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (33:00):
On into the 90s.
They they really drilled intoour heads.
A lot of this stuff wasn'tnamed.
It was called CBS School BreakSpecial.
CBS School Break Special.
And I remember the logo comingon, they had a music with it.
Yo.
SPEAKER_04 (33:16):
Yeah.
After school specials were uhABC.
After school.
It was always usually like alesson and uh something for you
to learn and Degrassi High.
SPEAKER_00 (33:32):
Degrassi, yep.
SPEAKER_04 (33:34):
Degrassi Junior High, Degrassi High.
Those were also after school.
As I got older.
Started watching that.
Ramona Beezes.
SPEAKER_01 (33:44):
Oh wow, Ramona and Bees.
I remember that.
Yep.
SPEAKER_04 (33:47):
And some of those were like from Canada.
SPEAKER_01 (33:49):
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, like Degrassi.
I know we know Degrassi's fromCanada.
SPEAKER_04 (33:53):
Mm-hmm.
Like Ryan.
I wish Ryan was on there.
SPEAKER_01 (33:58):
One of those Ryan's was on there.
Goslin?
Not Goslin.
He was on the Mickey Mouse Club.
SPEAKER_04 (34:06):
Uh, mince, mint mobile guy.
SPEAKER_01 (34:09):
Oh, oh, oh, um.
My man Deadpool.
Uh Ryan Reynolds.
Ryan Reynolds.
SPEAKER_04 (34:18):
Ryan Reynolds.
SPEAKER_01 (34:20):
Wow.
I forgot.
Wow, I didn't know that.
Oh man.
SPEAKER_04 (34:23):
Yeah, I want to say he was from He's from Canada.
SPEAKER_01 (34:26):
Yep.
SPEAKER_03 (34:27):
Yep.
SPEAKER_04 (34:28):
Yep.
Yep.
Degrassi.
Yep.
He was from Degrassi.
They had another show called 15.
That was like a spin-off orsomething.
Yeah, but it was yep, 15 series.
Yeah, it was 15 series, DegrassiHigh and uh Degrassi Jr.
(34:50):
High.
So yeah, those man.
Yeah, but yeah, but I think allof that is like you said, is
really a big part of who we are.
You know, it's funny though,because a lot of even Eddie, my
husband, a lot of those thingswe remember.
(35:11):
You know, as we get older and itit becomes a part of even, you
know, the content that we havenow that we talk about, that we
end up uh referencing orremembering, and you know, so it
doesn't it doesn't leave us.
So I think that's a big part ofwhy, you know, we wanted to talk
about this and have theopportunity to reminisce with
(35:32):
each other, but then also tobring that nostalgic feeling
back to our audience and youknow, folks listening and
watching us.
So yeah, I mean that's it in anutshell, I would say.
Do you what are some final wordsthat you wanna talk about?
I know, I know we also weresupposed to speak on our
(35:57):
playroom.
SPEAKER_01 (35:58):
Playroom.
Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_04 (36:00):
So I think that's gonna have to be our next
episode.
We're gonna have to.
SPEAKER_01 (36:04):
Okay.
Another another another teaser.
Yeah, the playroom.
Yeah, that's that's definitelyepisode for us.
Okay.
SPEAKER_04 (36:10):
That's that's that's episode two.
Okay, so stay tuned for that,folks.
Uh, yeah, because we got deep.
We got deep into the nostalgiaof it all.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (36:23):
Right?
We gave we gave a good uh uhgood introduction to you know
the things that uh that we'renostalgic about, just that whole
latch key era.
Um yeah, I mean, of course themovies and TVs, and we could all
that's a long list of that.
We'll all always get into that.
But um, yeah, man, I think wetouched, I think we uh we set it
off proper.
Yeah.
(36:44):
I would say so.
SPEAKER_04 (36:45):
Yeah, so definitely if you enjoyed our show, please
like, follow, subscribe, sharethis podcast.
We appreciate you listening in.
You can also listen to my radioshow, uh Lounge with Christina
and Eddie every Sunday onLit106.
(37:05):
That's available on Odyssey,Apple Music, uh, Autolis, and
any Amazon Echo device.
So make sure you tune in forthat.
And uh also B Mad is a specialcontributor on there.
So uh you'll have him droppingin once in a while to speak on a
(37:28):
few segments.
Yep.
And and then, yeah, and thenfollow us, follow us on where
can we follow you, BMAD?
SPEAKER_01 (37:35):
Uh, you can follow me on Twitter at BMAD730 on
Twitter.
Uh, you can also uh N on IG atBMAD730.
So yeah, you can find me there.
You know I'm at hip-hop, sports,nostalgic things.
Yeah, I'm there.
SPEAKER_04 (37:50):
And then I'm at the the Christina Sludge on IG and
at Sledge House Media on IG.
Uh yeah, and just tap into us,talk to us on there.
Uh, yeah, and then you know,we'll be back with another
episode.
So you want to close us out, Bman?
SPEAKER_01 (38:13):
Yeah, man.
I'm gonna close it out.
I just want to say thank y'allfor swinging through to the
crib.
You know, the the door on thefourth floor is always open.
And uh, yeah, till next time,man.
Peace of love, family.
Peace.
Welcome to the kids from theFourth Floor Podcast.
It's your boy B Mac.
And I'm Christina.
And welcome to our podcast show.
Kicking it off.
It's our first episode.
You know, it's been a long timecoming.
Something we've been trying todo for a long time, man.
Got my big sis Chris.
You know what I mean?
(01:52):
Two kids from Brooklyn, twolatchkey kids, you know, setting
it off, man.
And it just feels so good tofinally do this, Chris.
How you feeling?
I'm feeling like finally, likewe.
SPEAKER_04 (02:04):
Because we always talked about this.
We always talked about thosetimes, those, those times back
in the 80s when we were justkids and carefree and loving it.
But but before we go, before wego further, let's talk about
what we're wearing.
Let me see.
Let me see what you got onthere.
SPEAKER_03 (02:26):
Man, hold baby.
Reasonable die.
SPEAKER_01 (02:29):
Reasonable down.
I got what?
Biggie.
SPEAKER_04 (02:32):
Big Biggie.
SPEAKER_01 (02:33):
King of New York.
We have the representsBrooklyn's real Brooklyn right
here.
SPEAKER_04 (02:37):
Representing Brooklyn, representing B Chape
to the fullest.
SPEAKER_01 (02:41):
And this was not planned.
I threw this on.
Crystal big.
It was it was supposed tohappen.
It was like it was it wasperfect.
We're in sync.
We here, buddy.
We here.
We cootie live.
You know what I mean?
So yeah, man, finally, man.
(03:02):
I just I'm so happy we're doingthis.
You know, just happy to see whatyou're doing.
You're you you're the you're themedia queen now.
You and my brother-in-law,Eddie.
Y'all doing y'all thing.
Lit 106, slash house media.
Yeah, man.
Doing it right.
So kicking it out.
SPEAKER_04 (03:21):
We're trying, doing a little something, something.
But yeah, I mean, this was thiswas something we always talked
about.
Uh, you know, just having likethis throw by podcast.
There's a lot of millennials, uholder millennials rather, and
Gen Xers out there that couldtotally relate to a lot of these
topics.
(03:41):
I don't care where you're from,Brooklyn, Midwest, Cali, uh, the
South DMV area, whatever, it'sgonna resonate.
It's gonna resonate.
So we're doing this for you.
We're doing this for thatgeneration.
unknown (03:56):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (03:56):
So if you were if you were born in like late,
late, late 70s into what, likelate 80s, early 90s, early 90s,
around that time.
So this is for you.
This is for you.
Uh, we're brother and sister.
Um we used to call ourselvesABC.
(04:17):
I'm the oldest.
Brandon is the second to theyoungest, one of the youngest.
And um, and then it was our ourmiddle brother.
Well, he's older than you, hismiddle for me.
Uh Tony, rest in peace.
Uh, so we used to call ourselvesABC.
(04:38):
And so that was for our our ourinitials of our first names.
And we were just always thosekids from the fourth floor.
We lived on the fourth floor inBrooklyn, and um I guess you
could say it was kind of like abrowstone in a way.
It was a four-story familybuilding.
SPEAKER_00 (04:58):
Family building, yep.
SPEAKER_04 (04:59):
Yeah, we had family on just about all levels, such
for the third floor.
And uh, we were on the topfloor.
We had our neighbors next door,they were like family.
SPEAKER_00 (05:11):
Yep.
SPEAKER_04 (05:12):
Uh, right next door.
Still, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (05:15):
It's crazy.
SPEAKER_04 (05:16):
So, like a lot of these memories that we're gonna
be talking about on this podcasthave them in it, you know, or
lots of other special guestswe'll be bringing on to share
with you our uh our memoriesfrom back then.
And a lot of them really, a lotof them have to do with TV
shows, movies, cartoons, uhcommercials, even.
(05:41):
Yep.
Uh clothes, toys, snacks, toys,snacks, sneakers, candy.
SPEAKER_00 (05:48):
Oh, man.
SPEAKER_04 (05:50):
So this is that's what this podcast is for.
So, or who is for.
So, so anything you want to addbefore we get into our topic of
the week?
SPEAKER_01 (06:00):
Yeah, I mean, you kind of touched on it, you know,
basically what we're gonna begetting into.
This is this is our love letterto that era.
This is our love letter to thesame people that this resonates
to.
It's a love letter to ourselves.
We've been talking about thisforever, man.
Every time me and Chris get onthe phone, we always go into
something from our childhood,ABC.
Antonio, Brandon, and Chris.
(06:22):
Like just having us together inthat time period, all the movies
and TV shows that we enjoyed andloved, all the moments, like
that was us, man.
And that's in our it's in ourDNA.
It kind of made us the way weare now, how we view the world
now, and how Chris is doing thethings she's doing now.
There's a lot of those thingsthat influence this part of our
(06:43):
DNA, man.
And um, yeah, it just feelsgood.
Like just the feeling, thatchemical reaction when you go
back, you think about thenostalgic things that made us
feel good, you know, especiallywith everything going on in the
world right now, reflecting andgoing back to things when it was
a simpler time.
You know, this is this is thisis for that, man.
(07:03):
It's a feel-good show.
You know what I mean?
No, no, no bad vibes, no goodvibes, good vibes.
SPEAKER_04 (07:09):
This is where you come.
You come here, you want thenostalgia feel feels to feel
good.
SPEAKER_03 (07:15):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (07:16):
All of that.
So we definitely gonna make youlaugh.
You're definitely gonna do a lotof, oh, I remember, oh yeah, I
remember that.
I remember that.
So next week's episode is aboutlash key kids.
Because that's who that's whatwe were.
We were lash key kids.
They were that was big in the80s and uh early 90s.
(07:38):
So, you know, kids are stilllash key kids, but they don't
probably don't call themselvesthat anymore.
SPEAKER_03 (07:43):
No.
SPEAKER_04 (07:44):
But back then, it was big because a lot of mothers
they were returning to work.
A lot of them were stay-at-homemoms, a lot of moms going back
to work in the late 80s, early90s.
It was also during the timewhere there was a big like Wall
Street um, you know, stockmarket crash and stuff.
A lot of a lot of companies wereimpacted.
(08:06):
So a lot of women were goingback into the workforce, you
know, um, during that time.
So what you saw was, you know, alot of us kids having to adjust
to that.
And so you had to get theresponsibility of getting your
first key, right?
So that's a rite of passage.
(08:30):
Yeah.
So I was the oldest, so I gotthe key, right?
So only one of us got the key atthat time.
At that time, and so I was theone with the key.
I had the responsibility ofcoming home first, getting
unlocked the door, letting youguys in.
SPEAKER_00 (08:47):
Oh man, I forgot about that.
SPEAKER_04 (08:48):
Yeah, I forgot about that.
Remember, we lived on the fourthfloor, so there was no elevator,
only steps.
unknown (08:55):
Nope.
SPEAKER_04 (08:56):
And so by the top floor.
SPEAKER_03 (08:58):
Oh my god.
SPEAKER_04 (08:59):
So we I would get home first, and then wait for
you guys to come home.
My elementary school wasdirectly across the street, so
it was like diagonally acrossfrom.
So it wasn't a far walk or anywas just cool.
And then you guys would comehome.
I think you were taking out likea van from Catholic school.
SPEAKER_01 (09:20):
Yes.
Like, yeah.
We used to take, yeah, me and meand Tony, Antonio, we used to
take a van to our Catholicschool.
And uh shouts to Mr.
Beckles, man, Trinidadian busdriver, cool guy, man.
He um, yeah, he used to drop usoff, pick us up, you know,
during a certain period of timewhen I was a little younger.
You know, before we was able towalk home from school, you know,
(09:42):
because our school wasn't thatfar, but it was it was it was a
few it was a few blocks away.
But uh at that time we were tooyoung to be walking home by
ourselves.
So yeah, we took the bus in.
But yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (09:53):
Yeah.
So y'all would get home, andthen what most kids do, take off
the book bag, and then what doyou do?
Get a snack.
Get a snack.
Yeah, so sometimes we get thesnack from the corner store, so
around the corner, bodega cornerstore.
(10:14):
And so what was your go-to afterschool snack?
SPEAKER_01 (10:18):
What would you be?
Man, I I had I had a few, butthe one I can recall is Chico
Sticks.
And I I got I definitely gotthat from you.
That's that's without a doubt.
I remember used to get thebigger.
That's my favorite.
Yeah, I used to get the bag ofChico sticks.
So I, you know, it was passeddown to me.
So I like the Chico sticks.
That was something I would get.
And um then um I also love theuh was it super bubble.
SPEAKER_04 (10:43):
I would get the you know, the insert that I'm gonna
insert some pictures.
SPEAKER_01 (10:47):
Oh, shoot.
All right.
SPEAKER_04 (10:49):
Some pictures of those, you know.
So if you have those in yourregion, uh you're gonna get to
see what it looks like.
But the other cool thing,Brandon, be mad, my bad.
SPEAKER_01 (11:00):
Same thing, same thing.
It's cool.
SPEAKER_04 (11:02):
You family is you can get it at far below.
Like they have a whole sectionof nostalgic throwback candies
from back then, the ChicoSticks, Lemon Heads, Boston
baked beans, uh Boston bakedbeans, why?
(11:22):
Raffi Chaffees, which are myfavorite.
That's watermelon.
SPEAKER_01 (11:28):
I mean, no, not the watermelon, the sour apple.
SPEAKER_04 (11:30):
Sour app.
Alright, so mine, I like my veryfavorite, and very not everyone
likes this flavor, butapparently Eddie doesn't like
it, but I love it.
Banana.
I like it.
SPEAKER_01 (11:41):
I knew you were gonna say banana.
I hate Eddie hates it too.
SPEAKER_04 (11:47):
Eddie hates it.
SPEAKER_01 (11:48):
If I were trick-or-treating.
SPEAKER_04 (11:50):
What's funny is my sister.
She loves banana too.
We found out you love banana.
SPEAKER_01 (11:58):
So you're both cycles.
SPEAKER_04 (12:04):
But I like grape.
Grape cherry, yeah, cherry,banana, and blue raspberry.
I think they have like a blueraspberry.
I like the apple.
I like the green apple too.
SPEAKER_01 (12:15):
Yeah, that that's our apple, man.
That's that was that and uh ofcourse the cherry, those are my
go-to's.
I do go to Fabalo just forthose.
SPEAKER_04 (12:23):
Just for that.
Just for that, just for that.
Yeah, so that's the candy, butthen I would eat, I think my
go-to was oh, yeah.
Definitely bag of chips.
Like wise chips.
SPEAKER_00 (12:39):
The wise owl, the wise chips.
That is real throwback.
SPEAKER_04 (12:47):
That was big in New York.
Wives chips, and this is thiswas something.
Not everybody liked these, noteverybody liked these, but New
York deli uh chips.
SPEAKER_01 (12:58):
The purple bag of chips.
SPEAKER_04 (13:01):
Yeah, I'm about to.
SPEAKER_01 (13:02):
Forgot about that, man.
I didn't like those until I gotolder.
I didn't appreciate it as a kid.
SPEAKER_04 (13:10):
I when I was dead, I liked them because I went on the
school trip.
We gotta remember the schooltrips.
Gotta take those snacks on theschool trip.
We're gonna get we're gonna haveanother episode about school
trips.
SPEAKER_01 (13:21):
Yeah, just just on snacks and that whole the
routine, man, all of that, man.
A dollar got you, a dollar wasyour savior.
SPEAKER_04 (13:29):
Oh my god.
SPEAKER_01 (13:30):
A dollar got you the four, it got you the four food
groups.
But that's that's yeah, that'sanother part.
SPEAKER_04 (13:34):
Oh, that's the whole another corner store bodega
favorites, you know.
Ah, I love it, I love it.
SPEAKER_03 (13:42):
Um quarter waters.
SPEAKER_04 (13:44):
Oh my god.
Sunflower seeds of core, keep agiving sunflower season.
SPEAKER_01 (13:52):
Yup.
Oh man.
SPEAKER_04 (13:54):
Um so yeah, so I I definitely had that.
Definitely had had a bag ofchips, uh, double dogs was one
of my favorites.
And Twinkies.
Twinkies, Double Dogs, yeah.
I think those are, but then whenI became a teenager, I know we
going, we're supposed to be inthe last key era, but you know,
(14:17):
you know, this is like my go-tosnack, and it's kind of crazy
combination, but it was CheetosPaws and Sour Power.
SPEAKER_01 (14:29):
Wait, yeah, I remember.
I remember I remember that errorfor you.
Yes, I remember.
See, these things were passeddown to us, like we were getting
these things from you.
So eventually they were yourloves, they became my loves.
So, you know, so it was ahand-me-down, like clothes.
SPEAKER_04 (14:46):
So you know, I was so don't ask me why, how I put
that combination together, but Ijust love that.
SPEAKER_01 (14:57):
Wait, before you continue.
And I know we get off trackbecause this is this is fun.
But yo, the the pickle in thepouch.
The pickle in the pouch.
I hated that.
But y'all loved it.
You know?
(15:17):
Who loves it?
I thought you used to get it allthe time.
I think it was it might havebeen our cousin Renee.
SPEAKER_04 (15:22):
It was Renee.
Mostly.
Mostly.
SPEAKER_01 (15:25):
Y'all saw our cousin.
SPEAKER_04 (15:27):
Yeah, shout out to our cousin Renee.
There was there was a once in ablue moon, I might get one.
Once in a blue moon.
I do like pickles to this day.
Eddie likes the the big deli jarpickles.
SPEAKER_03 (15:38):
Yeah.
Yep.
SPEAKER_04 (15:39):
You know, those because that's what it was back
then.
They used to have which is wild.
SPEAKER_01 (15:45):
No.
That could have been hygienic.
Because you know that thosethose pickles are sitting in
there all damn year, like, yo, Idon't know, bro.
Who's buying this?
Who's buying this?
So I don't know, man.
I don't know how legit or howgood they were.
SPEAKER_04 (16:00):
Or even, or even, yo, which is well, I don't know.
It's a New York thing, but youknow, just getting just getting
sandwiches from the cornerstore.
I don't know.
SPEAKER_01 (16:12):
Oh, getting a hero.
Getting that hero.
Getting a hero with the chipsand uh in a uh a 50 cent soda.
That was a school trip.
That was a school trip.
Uh that was a school trip go to,yep.
Go to.
SPEAKER_04 (16:25):
Oh, you gotta school trip.
Ah, you gotta go get thesandwich.
And if you didn't have it, thenit was like, oh, why you don't
have man, man, man.
But uh oh, alright.
So yeah.
Snacks.
SPEAKER_01 (16:40):
Yeah, snacks is that's that's a whole episode in
itself, man.
Oh man, we gotta have fun withthat one.
SPEAKER_04 (16:46):
So you get the snacks after school, then after
you eat your snack, or whileyou're eating your snack, you're
watching cartoons.
After school after schoolcartoons.
SPEAKER_00 (16:59):
Facts.
SPEAKER_04 (17:01):
So what was your go-to cartoon?
SPEAKER_01 (17:05):
I mean, at this time, you know, last key era.
So this for me it was like thelate 80s, early 90s.
Uh coming home from school.
You know, Disney had thatcartoon lineup, Disney in the
afternoon.
And they had a few joints.
They had uh they had DuckTales,which I love to this day.
SPEAKER_03 (17:23):
Uh DuckTales.
SPEAKER_01 (17:24):
Tailspin.
It's like a spin off of JungleBook.
Um, what else?
I think it was Gum.
I think it was Gummy Bears.
And it was it was something elsetoo, but I forgot.
But Fox also had a lineup ofkids' cart afternoon cartoons,
and I think they kind of tookover.
But uh my favorite out of all ofthem had to be Batman the
(17:47):
animated series.
And it it in New York, in NewYork City, it came on Fox 5, and
it came on like 4.30.
It ended the cartoon lineup forthe afternoon.
And it was like, it was so thetiming and the placement of when
it came on was perfect,especially for the fall, when
the fall cartoon lineup came outwhen we went back to school.
(18:09):
Because it came on at 4.30, andright as it ended, like 5
o'clock, it was getting darkoutside.
And this the cartoon itself isdark and airy.
And I think it was no cartoonlike that at the time for us on
TV.
It was just so mature, it wasdark, it was airy, and it just
kind of blended with the timingfor me.
(18:29):
So it was nostalgic for me.
That just that whole feel.
I was thinking back to it.
But yeah, man.
Batman Animated Series, yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (18:37):
Yeah, I think I like uh definitely a lot of DuckTales
after school.
Uh I know our brother was intoThundercats.
SPEAKER_01 (18:47):
Like that was a yeah, Tony loves.
SPEAKER_04 (18:50):
Thundercats, Heeman, She-Ra, uh Oh, yeah, Sheah,
those were big after school.
Um dang.
It was one more like a venture.
What's the what's the what's theChippendale ventures or
something?
SPEAKER_01 (19:07):
Rescue Rescue Rangers, rescue rangers.
That's what it was.
That's the one I left off.
Yep.
SPEAKER_04 (19:12):
Yeah, rescue rangers.
Oh, another one they used to.
I don't know.
This might have been like early,early 80s, uh Spectre Gadget.
Spectre Gadget.
SPEAKER_01 (19:25):
We always be in Spector Gadget, man.
SPEAKER_04 (19:29):
Specter Gadget, Teenage Meer and Ninja Turtles.
SPEAKER_01 (19:34):
That was like Teenage Weir and Ninja Turtles.
Yeah, that was definitely thatwas that was my era for real.
The action figures.
And that came on, that actuallycame on, if I'm not mistaken, it
came on in the morning time.
I remember getting ready forschool, seeing Ninja Turtles on.
SPEAKER_04 (19:51):
It was both.
It would come on both.
SPEAKER_01 (19:55):
Oh, all right.
SPEAKER_04 (19:57):
Let's get into the morning cartoons.
Because really, because that wasa part of the routine, right?
So as last key kids, you getready in the morning, right?
And then as you're gettingready, this cartoons on for me,
because a lot of those cartoonsare like some throwbacks, or
they were newer cartoons, theyhad a mixture, depending on what
(20:17):
channel you're looking at.
In New York, we had WPIX 11.
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_03 (20:22):
Yep.
SPEAKER_04 (20:22):
And so that had a lot of cartoons, and channel
nine had a lot of cartoons inthe morning.
I know 11 had Jim.
SPEAKER_03 (20:34):
Yeah, Jim.
Yep.
Jim used to come in the morning.
SPEAKER_04 (20:39):
Uh, and then they used to have the throwbacks on
on channel nine that we had, orFox.
It was out of Fox or Channel 9.
SPEAKER_01 (20:47):
It might have been channel nine.
Channel 9 did have a lineup tooin the morning.
They definitely had that in themorning.
SPEAKER_04 (20:52):
They had Gumby.
Gumby was on.
SPEAKER_01 (20:57):
They used to put Gumby was my joint.
Yeah, yeah, you nailed it.
Yep, I forgot about that.
Goo.
Goo was his sister.
Yeah.
Pokey.
I forgot.
What was the name of the yellowone?
SPEAKER_04 (21:13):
It was the it was the Pokey, prickle and you.
SPEAKER_01 (21:16):
Prickle, prickle.
He was definitely prickly.
Yeah, he was an angry, he waslike that angry old man spirit.
That's crazy.
He was like a dragon orsomething.
He was like a he was like adinosaur or something like that,
right?
He had spikes on his tail.
SPEAKER_04 (21:29):
Alright, we're gonna insert that right here.
Uh yeah, so Gummy.
SPEAKER_01 (21:36):
Gumby.
Oh man.
SPEAKER_04 (21:37):
Gumby.
Uh, oh gosh, yo.
Yo, yo, yo.
But this might have been uh thismight have been Saturday morning
too.
But I know they used to playthis in the mornings too and
afternoon sometimes.
Muppet babies.
They would put the reruns on.
SPEAKER_01 (21:57):
I'm mad I ain't say it.
I'm mad I ain't say it beforeyou did.
Damn, man.
Yes, Muppet Babies was thetruth, man.
You know what I'm I'm which iscrazy about it now, Muppet
Babies, they can't put it on.
You can't, you will never see iton streaming or on reruns.
There's a reason for that.
(22:19):
The reason why they don't youdon't find it on streaming or
they don't have any syndicationanymore, because remember,
Muppet Babies, they will feedoff of a lot of movies and
television that was coming on atthe time.
They played a lot of clips fromthose movies and TV shows.
So a lot of the copyrights don'tallow for Muppet Babies to be
(22:39):
shown or on stream no morebecause it's a lot of money that
they pay out.
Because they used to have theyhad an Indiana Jones episode,
they had a Star Wars episode,and I don't believe I know
Disney owns a lot of JimHenson's work, but a lot of
those clips cost a lot of moneyto re-air.
So that's why we don't seeMuppet Babies no more.
They did make a new version, butit's not what it was.
(23:01):
So yeah, that's why we don't seeit no more, man.
But that was that was definitelyone of our favorites.
SPEAKER_04 (23:06):
Wow, I didn't know that.
That's good.
Why you dropped something on me?
SPEAKER_01 (23:10):
We're dropping jewels over here.
SPEAKER_04 (23:15):
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
Wow, it took me back.
Okay, so alright, so you wewould watch the cartoons, then
um, you know, I think I thinkthat was really the biggest part
was like just hanging out,eating your favorite snack.
(23:37):
Uh what else?
What else was it about the lastkey kid experience?
SPEAKER_01 (23:43):
Oh man.
Uh for me, it was just us beingin the house and uh uh our
parents not being there and justyou know getting that snack,
putting on your cartoon, andthen you know, trying to do your
homework.
Trying to be home.
Trying to do your homework whileyou're watching your favorite
cartoons, and then before youknow it, it's like five o'clock,
(24:05):
and you're like, oh snap, I'vestill got work to do.
But yo man, it was just theyknew what they they knew exactly
what they were doing when theyaired these these lineups.
It was a distraction.
It was a big distraction, man.
But it got us through.
It got us through, man, untilyour parents got home.
SPEAKER_04 (24:23):
So yeah.
But I think you know the bigpart, and you know, we we
touched on this earlier.
A big part is just the nostalgiaof of it all.
You know, just having that thatit's kind of like comfort food,
you know, when you go back andyou start reminiscing, thinking
about those nostalgia, becauseyou know, we can go on and on.
(24:45):
That's why we have a wholepodcast series.
Because I started thinking realquick, I'm gonna put this bug in
your ear.
Uh-oh.
Garbage pill kids.
So we definitely gotta get intothat in the episode.
So stay tuned for that.
SPEAKER_01 (24:59):
Yep, yep.
Nice.
That's a nice, that's a niceplug.
Nice, nice teaser.
Nice teaser.
SPEAKER_04 (25:07):
Yo, that was crazy time back then.
But yeah, but so, you know, it'sthe whole nostalgia of it all,
and then it helps you just kindof go back to a time when things
were easier for you as a person,right?
We didn't have responsibilities,no bills.
You know, your most importantthing you were looking forward
to was that snack, and I can'twait to go home and watch this
(25:31):
my favorite show or whatever.
SPEAKER_01 (25:33):
That was that was the holy grill.
It's like getting that afternoonsnack, watching your favorite
cartoons, man.
SPEAKER_04 (25:40):
And yeah, wait a minute, you forgot something.
SPEAKER_01 (25:45):
What's that?
SPEAKER_04 (25:46):
You forgot something.
After they had those cartoonson, uh they started showing
these kind of uh game shows forkids.
SPEAKER_01 (25:57):
So they would show you know what about the it's the
game show that started off allthe kids' game shows, man.
Different for us is Double Dare.
Are you talking about DoubleDare?
SPEAKER_03 (26:11):
Double Dare.
SPEAKER_01 (26:13):
Mark Summers.
Mark Summers raised a generationof kids.
Double Deer raised us.
We wanted to be on Double Deerso bad.
Some black kids being on DoubleDare was a treat.
SPEAKER_04 (26:28):
If Sunhouse Media gets an opportunity to produce.
SPEAKER_01 (26:32):
Yo.
SPEAKER_04 (26:33):
Yeah, I'm bringing back Double Deer.
SPEAKER_01 (26:35):
Gotta bring it back.
And it yo, they they did, theybring it back a few years ago.
unknown (26:40):
They did?
SPEAKER_01 (26:41):
They did.
They did Nickelodeon did bringit back.
SPEAKER_04 (26:44):
Shout out to Nickelodeon.
We can do something with y'all,some collab.
Like old get the get themillennial Gen X or the man in a
double dare episode.
SPEAKER_01 (26:56):
Yo.
I could imagine insurance policyon that, though.
Like, alright, you're you'reyou're in your 40s now.
We don't know uh if you're up tothe city.
No, no, no, they got a tailor.
They that's true, they did.
SPEAKER_04 (27:16):
Remember they had parents with the kids?
SPEAKER_01 (27:18):
But man, they weren't doing half the things
those kids were doing on there,man.
Riding a bike, tricycle, and allthat, and going into the mouth
and with the slime and gettingthe flag and all.
Man, I don't know if I'm readyfor that right now, man.
I gotta get back and shake it.
SPEAKER_04 (27:33):
Nah, yeah.
No, it has to be it has to be amodified version of that.
But uh double.
Yeah, and then you had the othershow was fun house.
SPEAKER_01 (27:43):
Fun house.
SPEAKER_04 (27:44):
Yo, fun house.
SPEAKER_01 (27:46):
Fun house and fun house came on in the morning.
SPEAKER_04 (27:50):
It used to come on the afternoon.
SPEAKER_01 (27:53):
Okay.
SPEAKER_04 (27:54):
Yeah, and put it on in the morning.
Yeah, yeah.
Funhouse.
Okay.
Right now is on the tip of mytongue, man.
SPEAKER_01 (28:06):
Double dare funhouse.
SPEAKER_04 (28:08):
There was one more that used to come on.
But yeah, but that it was awhole like, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
oh.
SPEAKER_01 (28:19):
Oh, wait, here we go.
SPEAKER_04 (28:21):
I'm trying to remember.
SPEAKER_01 (28:22):
Yo, drop the bomb, man.
SPEAKER_04 (28:26):
It was a fox show.
It was a fox show.
The dude Mary Mario.
What was his name?
SPEAKER_01 (28:34):
Oh, oh, oh, Captain Lou?
unknown (28:37):
No.
SPEAKER_04 (28:39):
He was fucking he ended up being on uh Sex in the
City as an adult.
Uh wait, I'm about to look himup on IMPG.
This is real time, folks.
SPEAKER_01 (28:49):
Like this is Yeah, we in real time here, man.
So we're on the fly.
This ain't this ain't it ain'tscripted.
It's not oh man.
I'm trying to think.
SPEAKER_04 (28:57):
You got me.
I'm I'm No, I I think it was a Idon't know if it was a New York
show only.
It was like Ah, I'm about totell you.
SPEAKER_01 (29:08):
Oh man.
SPEAKER_04 (29:09):
And he had a cat on there.
SPEAKER_01 (29:10):
DJ Cat show.
Was it DJ Cat show?
The DJ Cat show was the Foxlineup.
It was the puppet cat.
And it was the girl host.
Okay.
And it started, I think Ibelieve it started from Canada.
Then Fox incorporated it to theafternoon lineup.
SPEAKER_04 (29:27):
Okay.
Okay.
Maybe it was that.
Yeah, it was definitely that.
But then it was, I'm about totell you, brain now.
It was Mario.
Mario Canton was the host ofthis show.
It was in the 80s.
(29:49):
I want to say honestly want tosay it was a New York show back
then.
SPEAKER_01 (29:55):
Oh good.
Oh good in the hood.
Oh man.
And it was like those?
Those shows?
Steam pipe.
Steam pipe alley.
It popped right up when I uhlooked at it.
(30:15):
Yo.
SPEAKER_04 (30:17):
Steam Pipe Alley.
I don't know if that was just.
SPEAKER_01 (30:20):
It was Sundays.
It came on Sundays.
SPEAKER_04 (30:23):
It was nah.
Nah.
It was during the day.
It was during the week too.
They might have moved it toSundays.
Yeah, it was based out of it Itwas based out of Secaucus in
Jersey.
SPEAKER_01 (30:35):
I forgot.
Was that so?
Did they come on Channel 9?
Because I know Channel 9 was.
Yeah, that was where theybroadcasted from Seacaucus.
Yeah.
Oh man, I forgot all about that,man.
See?
That you unlocked a memory.
Yo, God, I forgot about SteampAlley.
That's crazy.
SPEAKER_04 (30:54):
I'm gonna have to see if they have like oh
episodes or something.
It felt like it felt like it waslike a little, like, almost like
a little variety show orsomething.
SPEAKER_01 (31:05):
Right.
Oh man.
Yeah, you took it back.
That you were you digging in thecrates for that one because
y'all, I lost all memory ofSteamp Alley.
Yeah.
And I forgot, and I forgetbecause I know Mario Mario can't
tell me he's a comedian.
He I forgot all about that, man.
SPEAKER_04 (31:25):
Yeah.
And I guess this is just fromlike the Tri State area.
SPEAKER_01 (31:30):
Yeah, it has to be.
SPEAKER_04 (31:34):
Sorry guys.
SPEAKER_01 (31:35):
Sorry.
Sorry.
You'd be alright.
You're learning here.
You're learning here from thekids from the 4-4.
SPEAKER_04 (31:42):
This is from the kids from the 4-4.
Yeah, it was um, yep, yep.
It was it was channel nine,steam pipe.
It was like a kid's like talkshow kind of reality type.
Not reality, yeah, talk show,like a talk show variety show.
SPEAKER_01 (32:04):
Oh, maybe that.
Okay, you you hit something toojust now.
That itself, a lot of theprogram that we had as kids,
like Teen Summit and the ABCafter school specials, all those
things that we had, yo.
SPEAKER_04 (32:21):
Yo, okay, let's get into that.
Yes.
ABC after school special.
They also had a version of thatfor CBS.
SPEAKER_01 (32:30):
Yes.
SPEAKER_04 (32:31):
Uh CBS had one.
SPEAKER_01 (32:35):
Man, dig in the crates.
Digging the crates.
SPEAKER_04 (32:41):
This is not scripted, y'all.
SPEAKER_01 (32:44):
Man, on the fly.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah, man.
It was just a lot of programmingcatering to giving us some
awareness and education.
Especially in the 80s, man.
Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_03 (32:59):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (33:00):
On into the 90s.
They they really drilled intoour heads.
A lot of this stuff wasn'tnamed.
It was called CBS School BreakSpecial.
CBS School Break Special.
And I remember the logo comingon, they had a music with it.
Yo.
SPEAKER_04 (33:16):
Yeah.
After school specials were uhABC.
After school.
It was always usually like alesson and uh something for you
to learn and Degrassi High.
SPEAKER_00 (33:32):
Degrassi, yep.
SPEAKER_04 (33:34):
Degrassi Junior High, Degrassi High.
Those were also after school.
As I got older.
Started watching that.
Ramona Beezes.
SPEAKER_01 (33:44):
Oh wow, Ramona and Bees.
I remember that.
Yep.
SPEAKER_04 (33:47):
And some of those were like from Canada.
SPEAKER_01 (33:49):
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, like Degrassi.
I know we know Degrassi's fromCanada.
SPEAKER_04 (33:53):
Mm-hmm.
Like Ryan.
I wish Ryan was on there.
SPEAKER_01 (33:58):
One of those Ryan's was on there.
Goslin?
Not Goslin.
He was on the Mickey Mouse Club.
SPEAKER_04 (34:06):
Uh, mince, mint mobile guy.
SPEAKER_01 (34:09):
Oh, oh, oh, um.
My man Deadpool.
Uh Ryan Reynolds.
Ryan Reynolds.
SPEAKER_04 (34:18):
Ryan Reynolds.
SPEAKER_01 (34:20):
Wow.
I forgot.
Wow, I didn't know that.
Oh man.
SPEAKER_04 (34:23):
Yeah, I want to say he was from He's from Canada.
SPEAKER_01 (34:26):
Yep.
SPEAKER_03 (34:27):
Yep.
SPEAKER_04 (34:28):
Yep.
Yep.
Degrassi.
Yep.
He was from Degrassi.
They had another show called 15.
That was like a spin-off orsomething.
Yeah, but it was yep, 15 series.
Yeah, it was 15 series, DegrassiHigh and uh Degrassi Jr.
(34:50):
High.
So yeah, those man.
Yeah, but yeah, but I think allof that is like you said, is
really a big part of who we are.
You know, it's funny though,because a lot of even Eddie, my
husband, a lot of those thingswe remember.
(35:11):
You know, as we get older and itit becomes a part of even, you
know, the content that we havenow that we talk about, that we
end up uh referencing orremembering, and you know, so it
doesn't it doesn't leave us.
So I think that's a big part ofwhy, you know, we wanted to talk
about this and have theopportunity to reminisce with
(35:32):
each other, but then also tobring that nostalgic feeling
back to our audience and youknow, folks listening and
watching us.
So yeah, I mean that's it in anutshell, I would say.
Do you what are some final wordsthat you wanna talk about?
I know, I know we also weresupposed to speak on our
(35:57):
playroom.
SPEAKER_01 (35:58):
Playroom.
Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_04 (36:00):
So I think that's gonna have to be our next
episode.
We're gonna have to.
SPEAKER_01 (36:04):
Okay.
Another another another teaser.
Yeah, the playroom.
Yeah, that's that's definitelyepisode for us.
Okay.
SPEAKER_04 (36:10):
That's that's that's episode two.
Okay, so stay tuned for that,folks.
Uh, yeah, because we got deep.
We got deep into the nostalgiaof it all.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (36:23):
Right?
We gave we gave a good uh uhgood introduction to you know
the things that uh that we'renostalgic about, just that whole
latch key era.
Um yeah, I mean, of course themovies and TVs, and we could all
that's a long list of that.
We'll all always get into that.
But um, yeah, man, I think wetouched, I think we uh we set it
off proper.
Yeah.
(36:44):
I would say so.
SPEAKER_04 (36:45):
Yeah, so definitely if you enjoyed our show, please
like, follow, subscribe, sharethis podcast.
We appreciate you listening in.
You can also listen to my radioshow, uh Lounge with Christina
and Eddie every Sunday onLit106.
(37:05):
That's available on Odyssey,Apple Music, uh, Autolis, and
any Amazon Echo device.
So make sure you tune in forthat.
And uh also B Mad is a specialcontributor on there.
So uh you'll have him droppingin once in a while to speak on a
(37:28):
few segments.
Yep.
And and then, yeah, and thenfollow us, follow us on where
can we follow you, BMAD?
SPEAKER_01 (37:35):
Uh, you can follow me on Twitter at BMAD730 on
Twitter.
Uh, you can also uh N on IG atBMAD730.
So yeah, you can find me there.
You know I'm at hip-hop, sports,nostalgic things.
Yeah, I'm there.
SPEAKER_04 (37:50):
And then I'm at the the Christina Sludge on IG and
at Sledge House Media on IG.
Uh yeah, and just tap into us,talk to us on there.
Uh, yeah, and then you know,we'll be back with another
episode.
So you want to close us out, Bman?
SPEAKER_01 (38:13):
Yeah, man.
I'm gonna close it out.
I just want to say thank y'allfor swinging through to the
crib.
You know, the the door on thefourth floor is always open.
And uh, yeah, till next time,man.
Peace of love, family.
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