The return of Me v. AI Top 5. Some of the cutting-edge technology from the 1960s. Fun times playing Vegas Dream for the NES.
Episode 179 packs so much nostalgia that it might end up spilling over the sides.
It begins with a trip back over half a century. Long before smartphones, 8K televisions, and 3D printing technology was far different. We take a look back to the 1960s to some of the technology that was cutting edge at the time. You might be surprised at what was on the world's radar back then.
Vegas Dream for the Nintendo Entertainment System might not have been a runaway hit but it was a lot of kids introduction into the glitzy world of casinos. For me, the game reminds me of my Nana. For the rest of you, it might be a mash-up of high rollers, robbers, and falling chandeliers?
It is the return of Me v. AI Top 5. I battle it out with ChatGPT over the best 1990s television show themes. For the first time, there is an actual AI superstar to read out ChatGPT's answers, although not the one I intended.
There is also a brand new This Week In History and Time Capsule centered around Ozzy Osbourne and his infamous 'bat incident.'
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Speaker 02 (00:00):
Hello world, and welcome to the In My Footsteps
podcast.
I am Christopher Setterlund,coming to you from the vacation
destination known as Cape Cod,Massachusetts.
This is episode 179.
We are heading down the road toepisode 200.
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We are loaded, ready to go withnostalgia.
We're going to kick it off witha look back at what was
considered the cutting edgetechnology of the 1960s.
We're going to go way, way backin the day and talk about a
game that is near and dear to myheart.
That is the game Vegas Dreamfor the Nintendo Entertainment
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System.
There's going to be a brand newTop 5, the return of me versus
AI Top 5 as we debate and dobattle about 1990s television
show themes, what were the best.
And there'll be a brand newThis Week in History and Time
Capsule looking back at theinfamous moment that Ozzy
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Osbourne bit the head off of alive bat.
All of that is coming up rightnow on episode 179 of the In My
Footsteps podcast.
Oh, it's time to crack openanother one, another episode of
the podcast.
Ah, there we go.
It's energy drink.
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Relax.
There's so much coming up thisweek.
I'm so excited about this show.
I always say that and I shouldsay that, but no, it's true.
I hope that wherever you are,you're having a great day, a
great week, staying warm if it'scold where you are.
We've had temperatures hoveringin the teens this week, which
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it's terrible, but you know,it's winter.
It makes you appreciate spring.
I can't start off this podcastwithout thanking my Patreon
subscribers.
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Crystal.
Thank you all so much for beingmy supporters.
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Quite literally putting yourmoney where your mouth is to
support my content.
My evergreen dream of being aself-sustaining, self-employed
content creator.
There's going to be some funthings coming up in my world
over the next few months.
including my very first filmrole.
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I've got a part in FrankDurant's upcoming horror film.
So in the coming weeks andmonths, you'll be hearing a lot
about the process of filming,getting into character, I guess,
learning scripts, and how theprocess goes.
I'll also be doing severalvideo podcasts, videos on
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YouTube, interviewing Frank.
We're meant to actually go outto Race Point Lighthouse in
Provincetown in March.
So I'll be interviewing himthen.
I'll be interviewing peoplefrom the actual film.
I might even be doing somebehind the scenes filming.
I recently got a new iPhone,the iPhone 16.
It's got some excellent camerafeatures.
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So I'm hoping to do some ofthat as well.
So those of you that follow meon YouTube, you'll be able to
see these videos.
I mean, they won't be soon.
They'll be March, April.
But it's going to be a lot offun stuff, a lot of new ground
I'm going to be covering in mylife, in the videos.
So stay tuned for all of that.
As I go on with this podcast,I'm now in the fifth year or
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heading towards the fifthanniversary.
I'm always on the lookout forpodcasts.
New subjects to talk about.
Like I said, I started doingmore 1960s content because I
realized that it's a large partof you out there are born, were
growing up in that time period.
And I've been coming up withnew segments.
Like I said, me versus AI topfive is coming back this week.
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But another subject I wanted tostart to cover was the new
technology, the cutting edgetechnology from different
decades, right?
Bring back some memories forthose of us that grew up then.
Make the younger generationshake their heads at what we
considered cutting edge.
And so that's what we're goingto do now.
We're going to kick off episode179 of the podcast by looking
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at the cutting edge technologyof the 1960s.
So let's jump into that.
Technology is always evolving.
When you think about what wehave today that is considered
commonplace, that kids that arein their teens now have never
known life without, things likethe internet, smartphones,
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super-duper high-quality videogames, medical advancements.
For me, as a person that'sstaring down 50 in a few years
that was a child of the 80s, Ilove all the stuff that we have.
I couldn't imagine not havingmy smartphone.
even though I grew up in the80s where we had landlines and
corded phones.
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The ever-changing technology,just overall thinking about it,
it made me want to do thesesegments where we pick a decade,
this one being the 1960s, andtalk about what was the new
technology for those of you thatgrew up then.
What I'm going to do with thissegment is kind of do a
run-through of a lot ofdifferent technology that came
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about in the 1960s, As time goeson, I might do deeper dives
into the creations of some ofthese.
And if any of them, if you wantme to do a deeper dive, just
let me know.
But enough of the setup.
Let's get into the actualsegment.
Technology that came around inthe 1960s.
I mean, the biggest one, thefirst one I thought of was space
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exploration.
In the early 1960s, PresidentJohn F.
Kennedy said the goal was toput a man on the moon by the end
of the 1960s.
And that happened.
Back then, you know, satelliteswere brand new, communication
satellites like Telstarrevolutionized global
communication.
The big thing was NASA and theApollo program.
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In this day and age, the 2020s,all the talk is about going to
Mars, trying to colonize Mars.
Back in the 1960s, it was justtrying to get a vehicle that
could get you to the moonwithout being destroyed in the
Earth's atmosphere.
It all culminated in the Apollo11 mission, July 1969, one
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small step for man and one giantleap for mankind.
Computers were actually aroundin the 1960s.
They were gigantic.
They were the size of a room.
The development of integratedcircuits by Jack Kilby and
Robert Noyce in the late 50scame into broader use in the
60s, which led to smaller, morepowerful computers.
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And when I say smaller and morepowerful, your smartphone that
you probably have near you, youmight be listening to me on,
probably has double, triple, atleast the power of the best
computer from the 1960s.
I'm probably selling it wayshort.
And in with computers,mainframe computers, IBM System
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360 series, that was asignificant step forward in
computer architecture.
I laugh about the power ofcomputers and how big they were
back then, but everything had tostart somewhere.
I guarantee you that 20 years,30 years from now, the younger
generation is going to look backat people like me that are 80
years old then and say, I can'tbelieve you actually lived in a
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time where you had to hold yourphone in your hand.
It wasn't just implanted in achip in your brain.
The 1960s also saw thewidespread adoption of color
televisions.
The CBS show The Big Record wasthe first show ever to be
broadcast in color for an entireseason.
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That was 1957-58.
I would say even through themid-1970s, there was still a
good portion of people that hadblack and white televisions.
I think when I was a kid, myNina and grandpa, I'm pretty
sure they had a small black andwhite TV in their dining room.
But those were for, you know,if you're sitting out there
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cooking or something, you have atiny TV.
When you see the HD, thequality of flat screen smart TVs
today, it's hard to imagine atime where it was the giant CRT
tube TVs that were black andwhite with the dial on the TV
where you only had a fewchannels.
That's some of you listeningout there probably are very
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familiar with that.
It took until 1972 for colortelevisions to outsell black and
white televisions.
And interestingly, the last TVshow to be broadcast fully in
black and white was the firstseason of Mr.
Rogers' Neighborhood in 1968.
I have mentioned smartphonesseveral times in this segment
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already.
In the 1960s, you started toget the implementation of
touch-tone telephones.
This is where you had buttonsyou would press down to dial a
number instead of rotary dialtelephones.
But they were brand new, sorotary telephones were still
going strong in the 1980s.
I remember my Nana having one.
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And it was always fun dialingpeople's numbers that had zeros
and nines in it.
The big sweeping motion ofhaving to dial the number.
Touchtone phones were firstmade available in 1963, and it
took until the early 1980s forrotary telephones to no longer
be made new ones.
But boy, I can even rememberwhen I was...
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a kid, a teenager, touch-tonephones that still had the cord.
So if you wanted to talk tosomeone, you had to try to go
around the corner and hide fromyour siblings.
Another major innovation in the1960s in technology was the
ARPANET.
And this was the precursor tothe modern internet.
So any of you that are on yourphone, on Wi-Fi, listening to
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this podcast now, thattechnology dates back to 1969.
It was created by the UnitedStates Department of Defense
Advanced Research ProjectsAgency.
That was the ARPA ARPANET.
Of course, it took almost 30years for the internet to become
more available in households.
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But it's amazing to think over50 years ago was when they
started that technology.
In transportation, you had thefirst supersonic flights.
The Concorde, which was asupersonic passenger airliner,
was developed in the 60s, thoughit didn't enter service until
the 70s, but the technology wasthere.
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In 1996, the Concorde jet flewfrom New York to London in just
under three hours.
It's amazing because me on CapeCod where I'm at, I think it
would take me about three hoursto drive from here to just
across the main border.
And in that same time, youcould have flown across the
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Atlantic.
You also had more innovationsin automobiles.
Features like the seatbeltbecame more common.
So they weren't invented in the60s.
They just became more widelyused.
Although there weren't laws forthem until the 80s.
I remember as a kid in the 80s,you didn't have to wear your
seatbelt.
We used to all ride in the backof my stepdad's pickup truck or
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way in the back of the stationwagon, five or six of us kids
just sitting there.
One creation that came aroundin the 1960s that I'm sure a lot
of you have used in the lastfew days was the first ATM
machine.
ATM, automated teller machine.
The first one was installed byBarclays Bank in London in 1967.
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Ah yes, an invention forintroverts that don't want to go
into the bank and ask theteller for $5.
Do those of you out thereremember that when you could get
$5 out of the ATM?
I think you can still get tens,but $5?
It's like not even worth goinginto the bank.
I was looking it up out ofcuriosity.
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The latest numbers I could findwere September 2023.
In the United States alone,there are somewhere between 520
and 540,000 ATM machines.
Just don't use the standaloneones in convenience stores where
you put your card in and itcharges you like $5 just to take
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out $5.
In the 60s, there was early AIresearch with the development of
early algorithms.
The first AI program such asELISA, which was an early
natural language processingprogram.
This is relevant today with theadvancements of AI.
Those of you that listen tothis podcast, you see my cover
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art for each episode over thelast year or so.
Those are AI created images.
Of course, the AI fear wasfirst really put out there in
the zeitgeist of America with1968's 2001 A Space Odyssey and
HAL, the space computer.
And it's going to be relevantin a few minutes when I do me
versus AI top five again.
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You had the first floppy diskfor digital storage developed by
IBM in 1967.
These were the ones that werereally flat, like a few sheets
of paper, thickness probablylike four inches wide with the
hole in the middle.
Those of you that were kids ofthe 80s like me, you remember
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those.
Later on, they developed thedifferent floppy disks that were
smaller, kind of square inshape.
I have a bunch of those thathave things on it from college.
And if I want to look at thoseprograms, I have to get an
adapter for my laptop.
I can't even put a floppy diskin this.
In fact, my current laptopdoesn't even have a CD drive in
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it.
I would have to buy a CD drive.
Speaking of that, I also haveold audio cassettes from 30 plus
years ago.
I'd have to buy an audiocassette adapter as well.
In the mid-60s was when the8-track tape technology came
about.
This was the first reallyportable way to listen to music.
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You couldn't really take vinylalbums out.
I mean, you could take them tosomeone's house that had a
record player, but you couldn'treally have a record player in
your car.
I mean, you thought the old CDDiscman skipped a lot.
You imagine trying to playrecords in your car in the 60s?
Did any of you out there have8-track tapes?
If you look on eBay, some ofthem are kind of valuable.
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Not really, but I can remembercars I was in in the early 80s
still having 8-track decks inthere.
There's a whole bunch moretechnology that came about in
the 60s.
Some of it's not asinteresting, though.
At least to me.
Military technology, chemicalengineering, microelectronics,
superconductivity.
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These things that I wasn'tfiguring they wouldn't translate
well to a podcast.
Because it's meant to be funnostalgia.
There you have it, though.
A lot of the technology thatcame around in the 60s.
Those of you that grew up backthen, do you remember first
seeing some of these things?
8-tracks, floppy disks, thefirst ATMs, or getting your
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first color TV?
In the future, I'll bedefinitely doing segments on
70s, 80s, 90s tech.
So don't worry, you younger GenXers and millennials.
I'll be feeding your childhoodnostalgia in a little while as
well.
This week in history, we aregoing back 43 years ago to
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January 20th, 1982 and theinfamous incident where Ozzy
Osbourne bit the head off of alive bat on stage.
How could I not talk aboutthis?
In the pantheon of rock androll legends, there are few
stories that are as shocking orenduring as the tale of Ozzy
biting the head off a live baton stage.
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This happened during a concertat the Veterans Memorial
Auditorium in Des Moines, Iowa,and it's become a defining
moment in Ozzy's career.
I think even younger peoplethat don't know much about Ozzy
know this story.
So according to Ozzy himselfand multiple accounts, the
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concert was a part of his Diaryof a Madman tour, and during the
performance, a fan threw a livebat on stage.
Ozzy thought it was a rubbertoy, or at least that's what he
says, and he picked it up andbit its head off.
Ozzy said that the reality ofthe situation hit him when he
felt the bat's warm blood in hismouth.
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In a state of shock and horror,Osbourne was immediately rushed
to the hospital because he hadto get rabies shots.
Back in episode 165, I told astory about the brief time that
my family had a pet bat, andonce it was found out that we
had it, they had to come andtest it for rabies, which
basically meant killing it.
Ozzy ended up being fine, butthe incident sparked outrage
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among animal rights activistsand the general public, with
many condemning him for whatthey saw as a cruel and
senseless act.
Ozzy himself...
ever since then has repeatedlystated that he didn't realize
the bat was real and alive.
That didn't stop thecontroversy from adding fuel to
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his already controversial image,enhanced his reputation as a
rock star who pushed theboundaries of acceptable
behavior.
Of course, with this story,there are myths versus reality
issues.
Some people claim the bat wasalready dead when thrown on
stage, while others insist itwas alive.
But regardless of thespecifics, the incident has been
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immortalized in pop culture.
I mean, that's why I'm talkingabout it now.
Even though Ozzy says that hethought it was a fake bat, he
often references the story ininterviews and even uses a bat
logo on some of his merchandise.
More than 40 years later, thebat incident has had a lasting
impact on Ozzy's career.
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cementing his status as alegendary and controversial
figure in rock music.
It's also contributed to thebroader narrative of the
excesses and extremes of therock and roll lifestyle.
Ozzy is hardly the only rockstar to have crazy stories in
their histories.
I mean, just look up MotleyCrue.
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Despite the initial backlash,Ozzy's embraced the incident as
part of his persona.
It's more than just a bizarrefootnote in rock history.
For Ozzy Osbourne, itrepresents a moment of shocking
spontaneity that's become anintegral part of his legacy.
And that infamous incident ofOzzy Osbourne biting the head
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off of a live bat on stageoccurred 43 years ago this week
in history.
Oh, here we go.
I'm going to bite the head offof a new time capsule.
We're going to stick with thesame day.
So as Ozzy was biting the headoff a bat on January 20th, 1982,
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what was going on in the worldof pop culture back then?
Let's find out.
The number one song wasPhysical by Olivia Newton-John.
This is a song that has thevery well-known video where
Olivia Newton-John kind of shedher good girl image.
This was off of her albumPhysical.
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The song spent 10 straightweeks at number one, which at
the time tied for the longestconsecutive time for a song to
be number one on the BillboardHot 100.
Interestingly, the song wasoffered to Tina Turner first,
who turned it down.
and Olivia Newton-John's albumphysical has sold more than 10
million copies worldwide sinceits release.
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The number one TV show wasSuper Bowl XVI.
This was a game between the SanFrancisco 49ers and the
Cincinnati Bengals.
The 49ers won 26-21, and itmarked the first time since
Super Bowl III that both teamsin the Super Bowl were there for
the first time.
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If you were curious, the costof a 30-second ad in the Super
Bowl in 1982 was about $324,000.
Compared to now, so 2024, thecost of a 30-second ad was $7
million.
It always ends up being worthit, though, as the Super Bowl is
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typically the most watchedtelevision show of the year,
with last year's Super Bowlaveraging over 123 million
viewers across all platforms.
The number one movie was OnGolden Pond, and you could get
into the theater with a ticketcosting $2.94.
This is a drama starring HenryFonda and Katharine Hepburn
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about an old married couple thatspend their summers on Golden
Pond, and this time they arevisited by their daughter,
played by Jane Fonda, her newfiancé, and his teenage son.
The movie was nominated for 10Academy Awards.
It's 91% fresh on RottenTomatoes and is widely
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considered today to be at leastone of the greatest films of the
1980s, if not of all time.
And if you were around backthen, January 20th, 1982, maybe
you were looking to get someportraits of your kids done at a
local retail store, departmentstore.
Oh, you're in luck.
I found something great foryou.
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There's a portrait package atBradley's.
If you put a 95 cent depositdown on your portrait package,
you get to take home a littlestuffed animal for your child.
Hopefully you don't have morethan one child because there's a
fight waiting to happen.
There are 24 portraits in thisportrait package.
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two 8x10s, three 5x7s, etc.,and probably some kind of fun
background to make your kid looklike they're either at a ski
lodge or something like that.
I know I have ones of me likethat.
The whole portrait packagecosts $12.95, and it's available
at all Bradley's except for theones on Cape Cod.
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I'm looking at the ad.
I don't see any from down here,so thanks a lot, Bradley's.
That'll wrap up another timecapsule, a brand new This Week
in History.
Now it's time for the return ofme versus AI top five,
including finally for the firsttime, real AI voices to voice
their own top five.
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So get ready for thatexcitement.
Oh boy, you feel the excitementin the air.
Me versus AI top five returns.
This time I'm going to actuallyhave AI to give its own top
five to you.
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Not me reading their words.
I think about this every time Ido this segment.
that I should have actual AIvoice.
And then when it comes to editthe podcast, I get lazy and I'm
like, I'll just leave in myvoice reading it.
That's fine.
But it defeats the purpose ofhaving AI's results.
For this top five, we're goingto be looking at 1990s TV show
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themes.
Our picks for our favorites forthe best.
Mine will be obvious.
They're my picks.
What I did was I went toChatGPT and I typed in what are
the five best television showthemes of the 1990s and explain
why you choose them.
In case you're wondering whereI got the AI information from.
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I was a bit surprised becauseasking for the best TV show
themes, it's kind of subjective.
So I thought that ChatGPT wouldbe like, well, I can't give you
those because it's subjective.
But no, they gave me theirfive.
With these, with the Me vs.
AI, there will be no honorablementions because there's two
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different top five lists.
But they will be in noparticular order, at least mine.
I don't know if AI went inorder.
I didn't ask them.
So let's dive right into thetop five.
We're going to do mine first,and I will give you my five and
why I chose them.
So I'll kick off my top five1990s TV show themes with number
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one, Beverly Hills 90210.
The original version of thiswas on for 10 seasons, 1990 to
2000, so it's literally on forthe entire 90s.
Those of you that watched, youcan hear the theme song in your
head with all the different...
Pictures of the people thatwere the stars.
Shannon Doherty, JasonPriestley, Jenny Garth.
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For me, this is one of thedefining shows and songs of the
90s.
No words to it, but they didn'tneed words.
It got you right into the vibe.
And it was actually the firstone I thought of when it came to
90s TV show themes.
Number two is Friends.
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I'll Be There For You by theRembrandts.
The show was on from 1994 to2004, and the theme song, I'll
Be There For You, topped off atnumber 17 on the Billboard Hot
100.
I didn't know that the themesong for the pilot episode of
Friends was Shiny Happy Peopleby R.E.M., and that the creators
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of the show actually wantedeither that song or a new song
by Michael Stipe from R.E.M.
as the theme, but he turned itdown and that's how I'll Be
There For You came about.
This is another quintessential90s show.
Six friends that live in NewYork and their escapades.
It's right up there withSimpson, Seinfeld, as far as
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quotable episodes.
And there were 236 episodes ofFriends.
So that's a lot of times thatthat Rembrandt song got played.
Number three is South Park.
Yes, South Park came out in1997.
Going Down to South Park byPrimus.
This song definitely capturedthe vibe of this animated show
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with all of the kids singingparts, including Kenny's part
where it's muffled and you hadto figure out what he said, but
it's something dirty.
The story is that Trey Parkerand Matt Stone, the creators of
the show, went to Primus andlead singer Les Claypool and
offered $74 and a copy of theiroriginal video, The Spirit of
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Christmas, that inspired SouthPark for them to record the
song.
And I mean, they did.
And South Park is still goingon.
It's in its 26th season, whichI mean, if you had told me that
when it first came out, thatSouth Park would end up being on
into the 2020s, I probablywouldn't have believed you.
Number four is The X-Files.
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This is way more spooky withthat kind of electronic keyboard
in there, the whistling soundsof the keyboard, the sci-fi
show, Agents Mulder and Scullyand their adventures.
The theme was done by a mannamed Mark Snow.
And as soon as you hear thefirst few notes of it, you know
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the song even if you didn'twatch the X-Files.
The original X-Files came on in1993 and was on for nine
seasons and 202 episodes.
I remember this being a verybig talking point freshman year
of high school, especially withmy friend John.
And finally, for me, numberfive on my top five 1990s TV
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show themes is The Fresh Princeof Bel-Air.
Will Smith, a.k.a.
the Fresh Prince, and his rapabout how he ended up living in
Bel-Air.
This show was on for sixseasons and 148 episodes between
1990 and 96.
It capitalized on thepopularity of the Fresh Prince
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kind of persona when Will Smithwas a rapper, DJ, Jazzy Jeff,
and the Fresh Prince.
I'm old enough to remember whenthat's what Will Smith was
known for.
Not TV, not an actor, but arapper with DJ Jazzy Jeff.
And I bet those of you thatgrew up in the 90s, you know all
the lyrics to this song still.
You can probably see it in yourhead.
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So there's my top five.
Now I'd like to introduce myguest AI speaker.
the one and only MS-DOS legend,Dr.
Spezo.
Dr.
Spezo, give me ChatGPT's topfive favorite TV show themes of
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the 1990s.
Speaker 00 (29:35):
Sorry, Dr.
Spatso couldn't be here today.
This is Bonze Buddy and I willbe reading his picks.
Selecting the five besttelevision show themes from the
1990s involves considering theircultural impact, memorability,
and how well they set the tonefor their respective shows.
Here's a breakdown of the topfive and why they stand out.
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Number one.
Friends.
I'll Be There For You by TheRembrandts.
This theme became synonymouswith a spirit of friendship and
togetherness that the showembodies.
Its catchy tune and upbeatlyrics make it instantly
recognizable and beloved by fansacross generations.
Number 2, The Fresh Prince ofBel-Air.
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Yo home to Bel-Air, by DJ JazzyJeff and the Fresh Prince.
The rap-style theme songperfectly encapsulates the
show's humor and charm, tellingthe backstory of the main
character in a fun and engagingway.
It's a song many can stillrecite word for word.
Number 3, The X-Files.
Theme by Mark Snow.
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This haunted, eerie themeperfectly sets the tone for a
show centered around mystery andthe paranormal.
Its minimalist, yet spookymelody became iconic, often
associated with suspense andintrigue.
How am I doing so far?
Dr.
Spatso says you weren'toffering him enough money for
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him to come on your show.
He said next time, don't try topay him an expired Blockbuster
video gift certificates.
What?
Speaker 02 (31:10):
That's not
Speaker 00 (31:10):
true.
Well,
Speaker 02 (31:12):
I'm definitely not paying you as much as I would
have, Spatso.
Speaker 00 (31:16):
Yeah, yeah, the check better clear.
Anyway, on we go.
Number four.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer?
Seen by Nerf Herder.
The rock-infused theme capturesthe blend of teenage drama and
supernatural action that definesthis show.
It's energetic and edgy, muchlike the show's protagonist and
storyline.
Which Aussie did you likebetter?
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Christy Swanson or SarahMichelle Gellar?
Ooh, that's an interestingquestion.
I think I'd like...
Who cares?
I'm not getting paid by thehour.
Let's wrap this up.
Okay, number five on mine, Imean Dr.
Spatso's, top five 1990stelevision show themes is,
Seinfeld.
Themed by Jonathan Wolff.
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The quirky, taste-driven thememirrors the show's unique brand
of humor and observationalcomedy.
Its simple, yet distinctiverhythm makes it a standout,
perfectly matching the offbeatnature of the series.
Speaker 02 (32:15):
Nice.
Good job, Banzai Buddy.
Don't worry.
The check will be in the mailfor you, I promise.
Oh, I totally
Speaker 00 (32:23):
believe you.
But just in case I had one ofmy goons take the air out of
your tires, I will mail it backto you once the check clears.
Speaker 02 (32:33):
Wait, you're going to mail the air to my tires back
to me?
How do you even do that?
Speaker 00 (32:39):
Relax, kid.
Thanks for having me on yourshow.
I would have you on mine, butyou know I don't want to.
See ya, Proust!
Speaker 02 (32:48):
ChadGBT's top five is not that much different from
mine, although Buffy the VampireSlayer, I wouldn't have seen
that coming.
Who do you think won me versusAI top five?
I'm always going to pick me,although I can't blame you if
you enjoyed Bonsai Buddy as asubstitute for Dr.
Spezo.
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And if you enjoyed this withthe actual AI voice, I'll make
sure to keep that as part ofthis when I bring back me versus
AI top five sometime in thenear future.
I think there are some bits ofnostalgia that are more
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meaningful to people because ofthe impact it had on their
childhood or positive memoriesfrom it.
You could think of any terribleTV show, movie, commercial,
video game, and I guarantee youthere are people out there that
think it's the greatest thingever because of their positive
reaction or it had something todo with their life, their
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childhood.
What I'm going to talk abouthere is a video game that wasn't
the biggest or best game, butmy memories of it give it more
of an elevated status in my lifeas far as nostalgia goes.
And I was...
Looking for a way to get itinto the podcast.
So what I'm going to do is do adeep dive into a game for the
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Nintendo Entertainment Systemcalled Vegas Dream.
For some of you that grew up inthe 1980s, early 90s, the game
might sound familiar.
For me, I think the reason whyit stands out so much is A,
because when it came out, myUncle Eric and Aunt Emma lived
in Las Vegas.
And I also think it's because Ihave so many positive memories
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of my Nana playing it and herreaction to things in the game.
Vegas Dream was released in1988.
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It's a gambling simulation,obviously, mixed with
storytelling.
It's part of a surge in thepopularity of simulation and
strategy games in the late1980s.
And Vegas was the capital ofgambling in the country and
still is.
So why not make a game basedaround it?
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As far as I could see, this wasthe first gambling video game
based in Las Vegas.
This game came out in 1988.
The next year, there wasalready another game for
Nintendo called Casino Kid, alsobased in Vegas.
This game, Vegas Dream, wasdeveloped by HAL Laboratory and
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published by HAL America, and itcarved a niche for itself,
providing a blend of traditionalcasino games with unexpected
narrative events.
That's where my Nana's reactionwould come in.
HAL Laboratory was a Japanesevideo game developer known for
innovative approaches to gaming.
They would later gain fame forcreating the Kirby series and
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collaborating on Super SmashBros.
The idea of Vegas Dream was tocreate a game that captured the
allure of Las Vegas while alsomaking it accessible and
engaging for a home consoleaudience.
In the late 80s, you wouldthink of Gamers as kids that
were my age, early teens, youknow, late teens.
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So I believe Nintendo, theywere trying to create games that
would bring in the olderaudience.
Why not?
They were the ones that had theactual money.
Also keep in mind that if yougo and look this game up,
naturally it's not going to lookas good as games that are out
now.
There were challenges increating a visually appealing
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and interactive gamblingenvironment with technological
limitations of the Nintendo.
I am sure there are averageteenagers, early 20s people out
there now that could createtheir own version of this game
that would be better than theone that was made.
But, you know, you deal withwhat you've got for technology.
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It's better than the 60s techthat I talked about earlier.
There were a lot of the typicalgambling games, slot machines,
blackjack, roulette, keno.
They made it very easy,user-friendly, so that someone
like me, who was 11 years oldwhen it came out, I didn't have
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to know how to play blackjack toactually do it.
I mean, hell, when I moved toVegas, I still didn't know how
to play blackjack or roulette,and I went into casinos and blew
all my money.
It turns out I didn't learnfrom Vegas Dream.
Vegas Dream had two differentgame modes.
There was one that wasstoryline mode, where things
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could happen to you.
There was another one that wasjust gambling only.
You go in and just play Kenoforever.
Naturally, as a kid, I wantedto play the storyline mode.
Gambling, I didn't care aboutthat.
I wanted to see what thingswould happen to me.
So you could play one of thefour different casino games,
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slots, blackjack, roulette,keno, and then things would
happen.
The game starts with you flyinginto Vegas.
You've got $700 to spend ongambling with the hopes of
making it big.
You are warned right away towatch out for con men and con
women.
There's one scenario whereyou're gambling and a woman
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comes up to you, wants to joinyou, and if you say yes, you
talk at the bar.
And what ends up happening iseither she's really in love with
you and the casino donates$5,000 to your bankroll, or if
it's not real, she swindles youand robs you of some of your
money.
You get a woman that claims tobe a waitress that spills a
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drink on you and offers to cleanyour jacket.
And she's either a thief thatsteals half your money or she's
a real waitress and you get yourcoat back and extra money.
There are other ones wherepeople at the casino will tell
you someone's waiting for youdownstairs or you get an old man
that wants to buy you a drink.
You can get married on it too.
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If you play as a woman, you canmarry Mr.
James.
If you play as a man, it's MissSophie.
Those were always funny.
That's where my Nana would comein.
We'd be playing either I'd playor she'd play or someone in the
family.
And we'd be watching and you'dhave people showing up, buy you
a drink or want to sit with you.
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And it's like a choose your ownadventure.
And if you got robbed, I couldhear my Nana laughing.
Some of my favorites weren'tstuff with people.
It was accidents that wouldhappen to you.
You'd have it where you'd drinkand fall down the stairs.
Or my favorite thing was achandelier would fall on your
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head.
It's like, what kind of casinois this?
I still remember that.
The first time that I wasplaying or watching someone play
and they had a chandelier fallon their head and my Nana was in
tears laughing.
I think eventually you wouldrun through all the storylines.
Most games have a shelf lifewhere then you need something
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different.
What was neat about Vegas Dreamwas they actually had a
password system.
So you could save yourprogress, return to the game.
And naturally, those of us thatgrew up on Nintendo, there were
cheat codes you could put infor passwords to give yourself
more money.
Like you'd get $700.
There were passwords to giveyou $1,000, $2,000.
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The end goal of Vegas Dream wasto get to $10 million.
And then, if you get there, itcuts to an end scene of you in
your pool with servants aroundyou.
I never came close to getting$10 million.
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I typically would bust outpretty quickly, being 11, 12
years old, trying to play this.
It matched my real life ofliving in Vegas.
Overdraw my bank account andlose all my money on roulette.
Another big fun part of VegasDream was the gambling with no
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consequences in real life.
You know, if you play rouletteor slots and you lose all your
money, whatever, it's fine.
You either spend a coupledollars to rent the game or you
bought it for, I don't know ifit would have been $30.
is definitely different thanthe reality of gambling.
Vegas Dream wasn't a massivehit.
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It didn't change the world asfar as video games went.
But it was successful enoughthat they created a sequel
called Vegas Stakes that cameout for the Super Nintendo in
1993.
This game is very similar.
You start off with $1,000 witha goal of winning $10,000,000.
They got the same games,similar storylines.
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You have friends with you thatplay, although they released a
version on the Super Game Boy.
And on that one, you don't haveyour friends with you.
I said at the beginning of thissegment that this game, you
know, the graphics, thegameplay, it's nothing earth
shattering now.
At the time, it was great, thedifferent storylines, being able
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to get married or robbed orfall down the stairs repeatedly.
It sounds like Chevy Chase inVegas Vacation.
For me, though, like I said,Vegas Dream holds a much deeper
meaning in my life because ofthe fact that I played it with
my nana who was in her 60s atthe time.
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And I can still hear herlaughing about getting hit with
a chandelier or getting robbedor falling down the stairs.
I can't remember how many timeswe rented the game.
And I can't remember if we hadto rent the actual Nintendo
console with it.
Because that was another thingyou could do.
Besides going to the videorental store, which is an
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archaic saying now.
But you could actually rent theNintendo system.
I think you had to put down adeposit for what the machine
would cost.
Naturally, if you returned itunharmed, you'd get the money
back, but that was a risk youtook.
So we probably went to VideoGalaxy or Entertainment Stop or
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Hollywood Video or BlockbusterVideo or whichever ones we had
around us on the middle of CapeCod back then and got Vegas
Dream and just laughed.
You out there must have videogames like that or movies or TV
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shows that aren't that popular,but they hold a special place in
your heart for the meaningoutside of it, the people that
watched it with you or played itwith you.
So yeah, that's the story ofVegas Dream for Nintendo,
avoiding the chandeliers andfalling down the stairs and
getting robbed.
It definitely did a good job ofpreparing me for actual life in
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Vegas, which...
was pretty similar, except forfalling down the stairs a lot.
But until next time, that isgoing to wrap up episode 179 of
the In My Footsteps podcast.
Thank you all so much fortuning in, wherever you're from.
I know I've got a lot oflisteners from New England, a
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lot from the United States, allacross the country, and all
around the world.
I'm so appreciative of those ofyou that don't live in my neck
of the woods.
that tune into this show.
Nostalgia is a powerful thing,and it never goes away.
It just keeps growing.
Every day that goes by, everyyear that goes by, it brings
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more into what's considerednostalgia.
20 years ago, I consider thatnostalgia, and that's 2005.
And I'll keep the buffet openas far as nostalgia goes.
Next week will be episode 180.
We are quickly rocketingtowards 200, which I think will
hit sometime in the late spring.
I'll have to think of somethingspecial for that episode.
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It can't be just another one.
It's not every day that you hita round number like that.
I figured I would get to 100episodes of the podcast, no
problem.
200 was a bit of a stretch, butI always have new things I'm
finding out to put on the show.
the cutting edge technologysegment earlier, I just thought
of that a few weeks ago.
(46:06):
I said, hey, why don't I dothat?
When I say it's like a buffet,I'm continually looking through
the catalog to find more itemsto put in my steam tables.
If you enjoy my content, if youwant to support my journey of
trying to be a self-employedcontent creator, you can support
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I'm making more in the way ofsubscriber-specific content, but
I'm also doing a lot more onthe free tier, things that will
get people to just go over andsee what my work's all about
because I understand that mostpeople don't know who I am.
(46:49):
So if you hear me saying, youknow, support me on Patreon,
part with your hard-earnedmoney, you might want to see a
little sample of what I'm doing.
You can also buy me a coffee.
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So I can use that to go buy acouple of sticks of gum.
It doesn't cost anything toshare my content though.
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I appreciate that as much asanything.
Those of you that see my workon social media, whether it's
Instagram and my Instagramstories, or threads, or blue
sky, or TikTok, or my Facebookfan page, and share it with
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I've always got new things I'mworking on or trying to get put
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Speaking of a combination ofboth, check out the Webcam
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That's a video version of theInitial Impressions 2.0 blog.
I speak about my week that was,which is usually filled with
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(47:57):
seems to chronicle it and shareit so you all can laugh.
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because my newer logo is veryretro 80s look.
(48:40):
It looks better on a t-shirt ora bumper sticker.
but I am not a web designer.
So that's why it's taking me alot longer to create it because
I want it to be launched and begood instead of half launched,
like going into a mall whereonly five of the stores are open
and all the rest of those cagesover empty storefronts.
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But you won't have to waituntil spring for the next
episode of the podcast.
It's one week away and it's theperfect length for you to Put
on headphones and go for a walkoutside.
Bundle up if it's cold, but getthat vitamin D.
We're all getting deficient init as it's in the teens and 20s
(49:21):
here on Cape Cod.
I don't want to be outsidemuch, but I try to force myself
at least to shoot the sunset orsomething.
So until next time, folks,remember.
In this life, don't walk inanyone else's footsteps.
Create your own path and enjoyevery moment you can on this
journey we call life because younever know what tomorrow
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brings.
This has been the In MyFootsteps podcast.
I am Christopher Setterlund,but you already knew that.
And I'll talk to you all againsoon.
Hello world, and welcome to the In My Footsteps
podcast.
I am Christopher Setterlund,coming to you from the vacation
destination known as Cape Cod,Massachusetts.
This is episode 179.
We are heading down the road toepisode 200.
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We are loaded, ready to go withnostalgia.
We're going to kick it off witha look back at what was
considered the cutting edgetechnology of the 1960s.
We're going to go way, way backin the day and talk about a
game that is near and dear to myheart.
That is the game Vegas Dreamfor the Nintendo Entertainment
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System.
There's going to be a brand newTop 5, the return of me versus
AI Top 5 as we debate and dobattle about 1990s television
show themes, what were the best.
And there'll be a brand newThis Week in History and Time
Capsule looking back at theinfamous moment that Ozzy
(01:04):
Osbourne bit the head off of alive bat.
All of that is coming up rightnow on episode 179 of the In My
Footsteps podcast.
Oh, it's time to crack openanother one, another episode of
the podcast.
Ah, there we go.
It's energy drink.
(01:25):
Relax.
There's so much coming up thisweek.
I'm so excited about this show.
I always say that and I shouldsay that, but no, it's true.
I hope that wherever you are,you're having a great day, a
great week, staying warm if it'scold where you are.
We've had temperatures hoveringin the teens this week, which
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it's terrible, but you know,it's winter.
It makes you appreciate spring.
I can't start off this podcastwithout thanking my Patreon
subscribers.
Lori, Mary Lou, Ashley, Kevin,Leo, Marguerite, Neglectoid,
Crystal.
Thank you all so much for beingmy supporters.
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Quite literally putting yourmoney where your mouth is to
support my content.
My evergreen dream of being aself-sustaining, self-employed
content creator.
There's going to be some funthings coming up in my world
over the next few months.
including my very first filmrole.
(02:26):
I've got a part in FrankDurant's upcoming horror film.
So in the coming weeks andmonths, you'll be hearing a lot
about the process of filming,getting into character, I guess,
learning scripts, and how theprocess goes.
I'll also be doing severalvideo podcasts, videos on
(02:47):
YouTube, interviewing Frank.
We're meant to actually go outto Race Point Lighthouse in
Provincetown in March.
So I'll be interviewing himthen.
I'll be interviewing peoplefrom the actual film.
I might even be doing somebehind the scenes filming.
I recently got a new iPhone,the iPhone 16.
It's got some excellent camerafeatures.
(03:09):
So I'm hoping to do some ofthat as well.
So those of you that follow meon YouTube, you'll be able to
see these videos.
I mean, they won't be soon.
They'll be March, April.
But it's going to be a lot offun stuff, a lot of new ground
I'm going to be covering in mylife, in the videos.
So stay tuned for all of that.
As I go on with this podcast,I'm now in the fifth year or
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heading towards the fifthanniversary.
I'm always on the lookout forpodcasts.
New subjects to talk about.
Like I said, I started doingmore 1960s content because I
realized that it's a large partof you out there are born, were
growing up in that time period.
And I've been coming up withnew segments.
Like I said, me versus AI topfive is coming back this week.
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But another subject I wanted tostart to cover was the new
technology, the cutting edgetechnology from different
decades, right?
Bring back some memories forthose of us that grew up then.
Make the younger generationshake their heads at what we
considered cutting edge.
And so that's what we're goingto do now.
We're going to kick off episode179 of the podcast by looking
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at the cutting edge technologyof the 1960s.
So let's jump into that.
Technology is always evolving.
When you think about what wehave today that is considered
commonplace, that kids that arein their teens now have never
known life without, things likethe internet, smartphones,
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super-duper high-quality videogames, medical advancements.
For me, as a person that'sstaring down 50 in a few years
that was a child of the 80s, Ilove all the stuff that we have.
I couldn't imagine not havingmy smartphone.
even though I grew up in the80s where we had landlines and
corded phones.
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The ever-changing technology,just overall thinking about it,
it made me want to do thesesegments where we pick a decade,
this one being the 1960s, andtalk about what was the new
technology for those of you thatgrew up then.
What I'm going to do with thissegment is kind of do a
run-through of a lot ofdifferent technology that came
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about in the 1960s, As time goeson, I might do deeper dives
into the creations of some ofthese.
And if any of them, if you wantme to do a deeper dive, just
let me know.
But enough of the setup.
Let's get into the actualsegment.
Technology that came around inthe 1960s.
I mean, the biggest one, thefirst one I thought of was space
(05:48):
exploration.
In the early 1960s, PresidentJohn F.
Kennedy said the goal was toput a man on the moon by the end
of the 1960s.
And that happened.
Back then, you know, satelliteswere brand new, communication
satellites like Telstarrevolutionized global
communication.
The big thing was NASA and theApollo program.
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In this day and age, the 2020s,all the talk is about going to
Mars, trying to colonize Mars.
Back in the 1960s, it was justtrying to get a vehicle that
could get you to the moonwithout being destroyed in the
Earth's atmosphere.
It all culminated in the Apollo11 mission, July 1969, one
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small step for man and one giantleap for mankind.
Computers were actually aroundin the 1960s.
They were gigantic.
They were the size of a room.
The development of integratedcircuits by Jack Kilby and
Robert Noyce in the late 50scame into broader use in the
60s, which led to smaller, morepowerful computers.
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And when I say smaller and morepowerful, your smartphone that
you probably have near you, youmight be listening to me on,
probably has double, triple, atleast the power of the best
computer from the 1960s.
I'm probably selling it wayshort.
And in with computers,mainframe computers, IBM System
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360 series, that was asignificant step forward in
computer architecture.
I laugh about the power ofcomputers and how big they were
back then, but everything had tostart somewhere.
I guarantee you that 20 years,30 years from now, the younger
generation is going to look backat people like me that are 80
years old then and say, I can'tbelieve you actually lived in a
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time where you had to hold yourphone in your hand.
It wasn't just implanted in achip in your brain.
The 1960s also saw thewidespread adoption of color
televisions.
The CBS show The Big Record wasthe first show ever to be
broadcast in color for an entireseason.
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That was 1957-58.
I would say even through themid-1970s, there was still a
good portion of people that hadblack and white televisions.
I think when I was a kid, myNina and grandpa, I'm pretty
sure they had a small black andwhite TV in their dining room.
But those were for, you know,if you're sitting out there
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cooking or something, you have atiny TV.
When you see the HD, thequality of flat screen smart TVs
today, it's hard to imagine atime where it was the giant CRT
tube TVs that were black andwhite with the dial on the TV
where you only had a fewchannels.
That's some of you listeningout there probably are very
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familiar with that.
It took until 1972 for colortelevisions to outsell black and
white televisions.
And interestingly, the last TVshow to be broadcast fully in
black and white was the firstseason of Mr.
Rogers' Neighborhood in 1968.
I have mentioned smartphonesseveral times in this segment
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already.
In the 1960s, you started toget the implementation of
touch-tone telephones.
This is where you had buttonsyou would press down to dial a
number instead of rotary dialtelephones.
But they were brand new, sorotary telephones were still
going strong in the 1980s.
I remember my Nana having one.
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And it was always fun dialingpeople's numbers that had zeros
and nines in it.
The big sweeping motion ofhaving to dial the number.
Touchtone phones were firstmade available in 1963, and it
took until the early 1980s forrotary telephones to no longer
be made new ones.
But boy, I can even rememberwhen I was...
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a kid, a teenager, touch-tonephones that still had the cord.
So if you wanted to talk tosomeone, you had to try to go
around the corner and hide fromyour siblings.
Another major innovation in the1960s in technology was the
ARPANET.
And this was the precursor tothe modern internet.
So any of you that are on yourphone, on Wi-Fi, listening to
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this podcast now, thattechnology dates back to 1969.
It was created by the UnitedStates Department of Defense
Advanced Research ProjectsAgency.
That was the ARPA ARPANET.
Of course, it took almost 30years for the internet to become
more available in households.
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But it's amazing to think over50 years ago was when they
started that technology.
In transportation, you had thefirst supersonic flights.
The Concorde, which was asupersonic passenger airliner,
was developed in the 60s, thoughit didn't enter service until
the 70s, but the technology wasthere.
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In 1996, the Concorde jet flewfrom New York to London in just
under three hours.
It's amazing because me on CapeCod where I'm at, I think it
would take me about three hoursto drive from here to just
across the main border.
And in that same time, youcould have flown across the
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Atlantic.
You also had more innovationsin automobiles.
Features like the seatbeltbecame more common.
So they weren't invented in the60s.
They just became more widelyused.
Although there weren't laws forthem until the 80s.
I remember as a kid in the 80s,you didn't have to wear your
seatbelt.
We used to all ride in the backof my stepdad's pickup truck or
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way in the back of the stationwagon, five or six of us kids
just sitting there.
One creation that came aroundin the 1960s that I'm sure a lot
of you have used in the lastfew days was the first ATM
machine.
ATM, automated teller machine.
The first one was installed byBarclays Bank in London in 1967.
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Ah yes, an invention forintroverts that don't want to go
into the bank and ask theteller for $5.
Do those of you out thereremember that when you could get
$5 out of the ATM?
I think you can still get tens,but $5?
It's like not even worth goinginto the bank.
I was looking it up out ofcuriosity.
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The latest numbers I could findwere September 2023.
In the United States alone,there are somewhere between 520
and 540,000 ATM machines.
Just don't use the standaloneones in convenience stores where
you put your card in and itcharges you like $5 just to take
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out $5.
In the 60s, there was early AIresearch with the development of
early algorithms.
The first AI program such asELISA, which was an early
natural language processingprogram.
This is relevant today with theadvancements of AI.
Those of you that listen tothis podcast, you see my cover
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art for each episode over thelast year or so.
Those are AI created images.
Of course, the AI fear wasfirst really put out there in
the zeitgeist of America with1968's 2001 A Space Odyssey and
HAL, the space computer.
And it's going to be relevantin a few minutes when I do me
versus AI top five again.
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You had the first floppy diskfor digital storage developed by
IBM in 1967.
These were the ones that werereally flat, like a few sheets
of paper, thickness probablylike four inches wide with the
hole in the middle.
Those of you that were kids ofthe 80s like me, you remember
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those.
Later on, they developed thedifferent floppy disks that were
smaller, kind of square inshape.
I have a bunch of those thathave things on it from college.
And if I want to look at thoseprograms, I have to get an
adapter for my laptop.
I can't even put a floppy diskin this.
In fact, my current laptopdoesn't even have a CD drive in
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it.
I would have to buy a CD drive.
Speaking of that, I also haveold audio cassettes from 30 plus
years ago.
I'd have to buy an audiocassette adapter as well.
In the mid-60s was when the8-track tape technology came
about.
This was the first reallyportable way to listen to music.
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You couldn't really take vinylalbums out.
I mean, you could take them tosomeone's house that had a
record player, but you couldn'treally have a record player in
your car.
I mean, you thought the old CDDiscman skipped a lot.
You imagine trying to playrecords in your car in the 60s?
Did any of you out there have8-track tapes?
If you look on eBay, some ofthem are kind of valuable.
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Not really, but I can remembercars I was in in the early 80s
still having 8-track decks inthere.
There's a whole bunch moretechnology that came about in
the 60s.
Some of it's not asinteresting, though.
At least to me.
Military technology, chemicalengineering, microelectronics,
superconductivity.
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These things that I wasn'tfiguring they wouldn't translate
well to a podcast.
Because it's meant to be funnostalgia.
There you have it, though.
A lot of the technology thatcame around in the 60s.
Those of you that grew up backthen, do you remember first
seeing some of these things?
8-tracks, floppy disks, thefirst ATMs, or getting your
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first color TV?
In the future, I'll bedefinitely doing segments on
70s, 80s, 90s tech.
So don't worry, you younger GenXers and millennials.
I'll be feeding your childhoodnostalgia in a little while as
well.
This week in history, we aregoing back 43 years ago to
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January 20th, 1982 and theinfamous incident where Ozzy
Osbourne bit the head off of alive bat on stage.
How could I not talk aboutthis?
In the pantheon of rock androll legends, there are few
stories that are as shocking orenduring as the tale of Ozzy
biting the head off a live baton stage.
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This happened during a concertat the Veterans Memorial
Auditorium in Des Moines, Iowa,and it's become a defining
moment in Ozzy's career.
I think even younger peoplethat don't know much about Ozzy
know this story.
So according to Ozzy himselfand multiple accounts, the
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concert was a part of his Diaryof a Madman tour, and during the
performance, a fan threw a livebat on stage.
Ozzy thought it was a rubbertoy, or at least that's what he
says, and he picked it up andbit its head off.
Ozzy said that the reality ofthe situation hit him when he
felt the bat's warm blood in hismouth.
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In a state of shock and horror,Osbourne was immediately rushed
to the hospital because he hadto get rabies shots.
Back in episode 165, I told astory about the brief time that
my family had a pet bat, andonce it was found out that we
had it, they had to come andtest it for rabies, which
basically meant killing it.
Ozzy ended up being fine, butthe incident sparked outrage
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among animal rights activistsand the general public, with
many condemning him for whatthey saw as a cruel and
senseless act.
Ozzy himself...
ever since then has repeatedlystated that he didn't realize
the bat was real and alive.
That didn't stop thecontroversy from adding fuel to
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his already controversial image,enhanced his reputation as a
rock star who pushed theboundaries of acceptable
behavior.
Of course, with this story,there are myths versus reality
issues.
Some people claim the bat wasalready dead when thrown on
stage, while others insist itwas alive.
But regardless of thespecifics, the incident has been
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immortalized in pop culture.
I mean, that's why I'm talkingabout it now.
Even though Ozzy says that hethought it was a fake bat, he
often references the story ininterviews and even uses a bat
logo on some of his merchandise.
More than 40 years later, thebat incident has had a lasting
impact on Ozzy's career.
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cementing his status as alegendary and controversial
figure in rock music.
It's also contributed to thebroader narrative of the
excesses and extremes of therock and roll lifestyle.
Ozzy is hardly the only rockstar to have crazy stories in
their histories.
I mean, just look up MotleyCrue.
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Despite the initial backlash,Ozzy's embraced the incident as
part of his persona.
It's more than just a bizarrefootnote in rock history.
For Ozzy Osbourne, itrepresents a moment of shocking
spontaneity that's become anintegral part of his legacy.
And that infamous incident ofOzzy Osbourne biting the head
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off of a live bat on stageoccurred 43 years ago this week
in history.
Oh, here we go.
I'm going to bite the head offof a new time capsule.
We're going to stick with thesame day.
So as Ozzy was biting the headoff a bat on January 20th, 1982,
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what was going on in the worldof pop culture back then?
Let's find out.
The number one song wasPhysical by Olivia Newton-John.
This is a song that has thevery well-known video where
Olivia Newton-John kind of shedher good girl image.
This was off of her albumPhysical.
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The song spent 10 straightweeks at number one, which at
the time tied for the longestconsecutive time for a song to
be number one on the BillboardHot 100.
Interestingly, the song wasoffered to Tina Turner first,
who turned it down.
and Olivia Newton-John's albumphysical has sold more than 10
million copies worldwide sinceits release.
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The number one TV show wasSuper Bowl XVI.
This was a game between the SanFrancisco 49ers and the
Cincinnati Bengals.
The 49ers won 26-21, and itmarked the first time since
Super Bowl III that both teamsin the Super Bowl were there for
the first time.
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If you were curious, the costof a 30-second ad in the Super
Bowl in 1982 was about $324,000.
Compared to now, so 2024, thecost of a 30-second ad was $7
million.
It always ends up being worthit, though, as the Super Bowl is
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typically the most watchedtelevision show of the year,
with last year's Super Bowlaveraging over 123 million
viewers across all platforms.
The number one movie was OnGolden Pond, and you could get
into the theater with a ticketcosting $2.94.
This is a drama starring HenryFonda and Katharine Hepburn
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about an old married couple thatspend their summers on Golden
Pond, and this time they arevisited by their daughter,
played by Jane Fonda, her newfiancé, and his teenage son.
The movie was nominated for 10Academy Awards.
It's 91% fresh on RottenTomatoes and is widely
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considered today to be at leastone of the greatest films of the
1980s, if not of all time.
And if you were around backthen, January 20th, 1982, maybe
you were looking to get someportraits of your kids done at a
local retail store, departmentstore.
Oh, you're in luck.
I found something great foryou.
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There's a portrait package atBradley's.
If you put a 95 cent depositdown on your portrait package,
you get to take home a littlestuffed animal for your child.
Hopefully you don't have morethan one child because there's a
fight waiting to happen.
There are 24 portraits in thisportrait package.
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two 8x10s, three 5x7s, etc.,and probably some kind of fun
background to make your kid looklike they're either at a ski
lodge or something like that.
I know I have ones of me likethat.
The whole portrait packagecosts $12.95, and it's available
at all Bradley's except for theones on Cape Cod.
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I'm looking at the ad.
I don't see any from down here,so thanks a lot, Bradley's.
That'll wrap up another timecapsule, a brand new This Week
in History.
Now it's time for the return ofme versus AI top five,
including finally for the firsttime, real AI voices to voice
their own top five.
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So get ready for thatexcitement.
Oh boy, you feel the excitementin the air.
Me versus AI top five returns.
This time I'm going to actuallyhave AI to give its own top
five to you.
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Not me reading their words.
I think about this every time Ido this segment.
that I should have actual AIvoice.
And then when it comes to editthe podcast, I get lazy and I'm
like, I'll just leave in myvoice reading it.
That's fine.
But it defeats the purpose ofhaving AI's results.
For this top five, we're goingto be looking at 1990s TV show
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themes.
Our picks for our favorites forthe best.
Mine will be obvious.
They're my picks.
What I did was I went toChatGPT and I typed in what are
the five best television showthemes of the 1990s and explain
why you choose them.
In case you're wondering whereI got the AI information from.
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I was a bit surprised becauseasking for the best TV show
themes, it's kind of subjective.
So I thought that ChatGPT wouldbe like, well, I can't give you
those because it's subjective.
But no, they gave me theirfive.
With these, with the Me vs.
AI, there will be no honorablementions because there's two
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different top five lists.
But they will be in noparticular order, at least mine.
I don't know if AI went inorder.
I didn't ask them.
So let's dive right into thetop five.
We're going to do mine first,and I will give you my five and
why I chose them.
So I'll kick off my top five1990s TV show themes with number
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one, Beverly Hills 90210.
The original version of thiswas on for 10 seasons, 1990 to
2000, so it's literally on forthe entire 90s.
Those of you that watched, youcan hear the theme song in your
head with all the different...
Pictures of the people thatwere the stars.
Shannon Doherty, JasonPriestley, Jenny Garth.
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For me, this is one of thedefining shows and songs of the
90s.
No words to it, but they didn'tneed words.
It got you right into the vibe.
And it was actually the firstone I thought of when it came to
90s TV show themes.
Number two is Friends.
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I'll Be There For You by theRembrandts.
The show was on from 1994 to2004, and the theme song, I'll
Be There For You, topped off atnumber 17 on the Billboard Hot
100.
I didn't know that the themesong for the pilot episode of
Friends was Shiny Happy Peopleby R.E.M., and that the creators
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of the show actually wantedeither that song or a new song
by Michael Stipe from R.E.M.
as the theme, but he turned itdown and that's how I'll Be
There For You came about.
This is another quintessential90s show.
Six friends that live in NewYork and their escapades.
It's right up there withSimpson, Seinfeld, as far as
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quotable episodes.
And there were 236 episodes ofFriends.
So that's a lot of times thatthat Rembrandt song got played.
Number three is South Park.
Yes, South Park came out in1997.
Going Down to South Park byPrimus.
This song definitely capturedthe vibe of this animated show
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with all of the kids singingparts, including Kenny's part
where it's muffled and you hadto figure out what he said, but
it's something dirty.
The story is that Trey Parkerand Matt Stone, the creators of
the show, went to Primus andlead singer Les Claypool and
offered $74 and a copy of theiroriginal video, The Spirit of
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Christmas, that inspired SouthPark for them to record the
song.
And I mean, they did.
And South Park is still goingon.
It's in its 26th season, whichI mean, if you had told me that
when it first came out, thatSouth Park would end up being on
into the 2020s, I probablywouldn't have believed you.
Number four is The X-Files.
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This is way more spooky withthat kind of electronic keyboard
in there, the whistling soundsof the keyboard, the sci-fi
show, Agents Mulder and Scullyand their adventures.
The theme was done by a mannamed Mark Snow.
And as soon as you hear thefirst few notes of it, you know
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the song even if you didn'twatch the X-Files.
The original X-Files came on in1993 and was on for nine
seasons and 202 episodes.
I remember this being a verybig talking point freshman year
of high school, especially withmy friend John.
And finally, for me, numberfive on my top five 1990s TV
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show themes is The Fresh Princeof Bel-Air.
Will Smith, a.k.a.
the Fresh Prince, and his rapabout how he ended up living in
Bel-Air.
This show was on for sixseasons and 148 episodes between
1990 and 96.
It capitalized on thepopularity of the Fresh Prince
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kind of persona when Will Smithwas a rapper, DJ, Jazzy Jeff,
and the Fresh Prince.
I'm old enough to remember whenthat's what Will Smith was
known for.
Not TV, not an actor, but arapper with DJ Jazzy Jeff.
And I bet those of you thatgrew up in the 90s, you know all
the lyrics to this song still.
You can probably see it in yourhead.
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So there's my top five.
Now I'd like to introduce myguest AI speaker.
the one and only MS-DOS legend,Dr.
Spezo.
Dr.
Spezo, give me ChatGPT's topfive favorite TV show themes of
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the 1990s.
Speaker 00 (29:35):
Sorry, Dr.
Spatso couldn't be here today.
This is Bonze Buddy and I willbe reading his picks.
Selecting the five besttelevision show themes from the
1990s involves considering theircultural impact, memorability,
and how well they set the tonefor their respective shows.
Here's a breakdown of the topfive and why they stand out.
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Number one.
Friends.
I'll Be There For You by TheRembrandts.
This theme became synonymouswith a spirit of friendship and
togetherness that the showembodies.
Its catchy tune and upbeatlyrics make it instantly
recognizable and beloved by fansacross generations.
Number 2, The Fresh Prince ofBel-Air.
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Yo home to Bel-Air, by DJ JazzyJeff and the Fresh Prince.
The rap-style theme songperfectly encapsulates the
show's humor and charm, tellingthe backstory of the main
character in a fun and engagingway.
It's a song many can stillrecite word for word.
Number 3, The X-Files.
Theme by Mark Snow.
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This haunted, eerie themeperfectly sets the tone for a
show centered around mystery andthe paranormal.
Its minimalist, yet spookymelody became iconic, often
associated with suspense andintrigue.
How am I doing so far?
Dr.
Spatso says you weren'toffering him enough money for
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him to come on your show.
He said next time, don't try topay him an expired Blockbuster
video gift certificates.
What?
Speaker 02 (31:10):
That's not
Speaker 00 (31:10):
true.
Well,
Speaker 02 (31:12):
I'm definitely not paying you as much as I would
have, Spatso.
Speaker 00 (31:16):
Yeah, yeah, the check better clear.
Anyway, on we go.
Number four.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer?
Seen by Nerf Herder.
The rock-infused theme capturesthe blend of teenage drama and
supernatural action that definesthis show.
It's energetic and edgy, muchlike the show's protagonist and
storyline.
Which Aussie did you likebetter?
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Christy Swanson or SarahMichelle Gellar?
Ooh, that's an interestingquestion.
I think I'd like...
Who cares?
I'm not getting paid by thehour.
Let's wrap this up.
Okay, number five on mine, Imean Dr.
Spatso's, top five 1990stelevision show themes is,
Seinfeld.
Themed by Jonathan Wolff.
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The quirky, taste-driven thememirrors the show's unique brand
of humor and observationalcomedy.
Its simple, yet distinctiverhythm makes it a standout,
perfectly matching the offbeatnature of the series.
Speaker 02 (32:15):
Nice.
Good job, Banzai Buddy.
Don't worry.
The check will be in the mailfor you, I promise.
Oh, I totally
Speaker 00 (32:23):
believe you.
But just in case I had one ofmy goons take the air out of
your tires, I will mail it backto you once the check clears.
Speaker 02 (32:33):
Wait, you're going to mail the air to my tires back
to me?
How do you even do that?
Speaker 00 (32:39):
Relax, kid.
Thanks for having me on yourshow.
I would have you on mine, butyou know I don't want to.
See ya, Proust!
Speaker 02 (32:48):
ChadGBT's top five is not that much different from
mine, although Buffy the VampireSlayer, I wouldn't have seen
that coming.
Who do you think won me versusAI top five?
I'm always going to pick me,although I can't blame you if
you enjoyed Bonsai Buddy as asubstitute for Dr.
Spezo.
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And if you enjoyed this withthe actual AI voice, I'll make
sure to keep that as part ofthis when I bring back me versus
AI top five sometime in thenear future.
I think there are some bits ofnostalgia that are more
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meaningful to people because ofthe impact it had on their
childhood or positive memoriesfrom it.
You could think of any terribleTV show, movie, commercial,
video game, and I guarantee youthere are people out there that
think it's the greatest thingever because of their positive
reaction or it had something todo with their life, their
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childhood.
What I'm going to talk abouthere is a video game that wasn't
the biggest or best game, butmy memories of it give it more
of an elevated status in my lifeas far as nostalgia goes.
And I was...
Looking for a way to get itinto the podcast.
So what I'm going to do is do adeep dive into a game for the
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Nintendo Entertainment Systemcalled Vegas Dream.
For some of you that grew up inthe 1980s, early 90s, the game
might sound familiar.
For me, I think the reason whyit stands out so much is A,
because when it came out, myUncle Eric and Aunt Emma lived
in Las Vegas.
And I also think it's because Ihave so many positive memories
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of my Nana playing it and herreaction to things in the game.
Vegas Dream was released in1988.
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It's a gambling simulation,obviously, mixed with
storytelling.
It's part of a surge in thepopularity of simulation and
strategy games in the late1980s.
And Vegas was the capital ofgambling in the country and
still is.
So why not make a game basedaround it?
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As far as I could see, this wasthe first gambling video game
based in Las Vegas.
This game came out in 1988.
The next year, there wasalready another game for
Nintendo called Casino Kid, alsobased in Vegas.
This game, Vegas Dream, wasdeveloped by HAL Laboratory and
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published by HAL America, and itcarved a niche for itself,
providing a blend of traditionalcasino games with unexpected
narrative events.
That's where my Nana's reactionwould come in.
HAL Laboratory was a Japanesevideo game developer known for
innovative approaches to gaming.
They would later gain fame forcreating the Kirby series and
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collaborating on Super SmashBros.
The idea of Vegas Dream was tocreate a game that captured the
allure of Las Vegas while alsomaking it accessible and
engaging for a home consoleaudience.
In the late 80s, you wouldthink of Gamers as kids that
were my age, early teens, youknow, late teens.
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So I believe Nintendo, theywere trying to create games that
would bring in the olderaudience.
Why not?
They were the ones that had theactual money.
Also keep in mind that if yougo and look this game up,
naturally it's not going to lookas good as games that are out
now.
There were challenges increating a visually appealing
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and interactive gamblingenvironment with technological
limitations of the Nintendo.
I am sure there are averageteenagers, early 20s people out
there now that could createtheir own version of this game
that would be better than theone that was made.
But, you know, you deal withwhat you've got for technology.
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It's better than the 60s techthat I talked about earlier.
There were a lot of the typicalgambling games, slot machines,
blackjack, roulette, keno.
They made it very easy,user-friendly, so that someone
like me, who was 11 years oldwhen it came out, I didn't have
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to know how to play blackjack toactually do it.
I mean, hell, when I moved toVegas, I still didn't know how
to play blackjack or roulette,and I went into casinos and blew
all my money.
It turns out I didn't learnfrom Vegas Dream.
Vegas Dream had two differentgame modes.
There was one that wasstoryline mode, where things
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could happen to you.
There was another one that wasjust gambling only.
You go in and just play Kenoforever.
Naturally, as a kid, I wantedto play the storyline mode.
Gambling, I didn't care aboutthat.
I wanted to see what thingswould happen to me.
So you could play one of thefour different casino games,
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slots, blackjack, roulette,keno, and then things would
happen.
The game starts with you flyinginto Vegas.
You've got $700 to spend ongambling with the hopes of
making it big.
You are warned right away towatch out for con men and con
women.
There's one scenario whereyou're gambling and a woman
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comes up to you, wants to joinyou, and if you say yes, you
talk at the bar.
And what ends up happening iseither she's really in love with
you and the casino donates$5,000 to your bankroll, or if
it's not real, she swindles youand robs you of some of your
money.
You get a woman that claims tobe a waitress that spills a
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drink on you and offers to cleanyour jacket.
And she's either a thief thatsteals half your money or she's
a real waitress and you get yourcoat back and extra money.
There are other ones wherepeople at the casino will tell
you someone's waiting for youdownstairs or you get an old man
that wants to buy you a drink.
You can get married on it too.
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If you play as a woman, you canmarry Mr.
James.
If you play as a man, it's MissSophie.
Those were always funny.
That's where my Nana would comein.
We'd be playing either I'd playor she'd play or someone in the
family.
And we'd be watching and you'dhave people showing up, buy you
a drink or want to sit with you.
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And it's like a choose your ownadventure.
And if you got robbed, I couldhear my Nana laughing.
Some of my favorites weren'tstuff with people.
It was accidents that wouldhappen to you.
You'd have it where you'd drinkand fall down the stairs.
Or my favorite thing was achandelier would fall on your
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head.
It's like, what kind of casinois this?
I still remember that.
The first time that I wasplaying or watching someone play
and they had a chandelier fallon their head and my Nana was in
tears laughing.
I think eventually you wouldrun through all the storylines.
Most games have a shelf lifewhere then you need something
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different.
What was neat about Vegas Dreamwas they actually had a
password system.
So you could save yourprogress, return to the game.
And naturally, those of us thatgrew up on Nintendo, there were
cheat codes you could put infor passwords to give yourself
more money.
Like you'd get $700.
There were passwords to giveyou $1,000, $2,000.
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The end goal of Vegas Dream wasto get to $10 million.
And then, if you get there, itcuts to an end scene of you in
your pool with servants aroundyou.
I never came close to getting$10 million.
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I typically would bust outpretty quickly, being 11, 12
years old, trying to play this.
It matched my real life ofliving in Vegas.
Overdraw my bank account andlose all my money on roulette.
Another big fun part of VegasDream was the gambling with no
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consequences in real life.
You know, if you play rouletteor slots and you lose all your
money, whatever, it's fine.
You either spend a coupledollars to rent the game or you
bought it for, I don't know ifit would have been $30.
is definitely different thanthe reality of gambling.
Vegas Dream wasn't a massivehit.
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It didn't change the world asfar as video games went.
But it was successful enoughthat they created a sequel
called Vegas Stakes that cameout for the Super Nintendo in
1993.
This game is very similar.
You start off with $1,000 witha goal of winning $10,000,000.
They got the same games,similar storylines.
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You have friends with you thatplay, although they released a
version on the Super Game Boy.
And on that one, you don't haveyour friends with you.
I said at the beginning of thissegment that this game, you
know, the graphics, thegameplay, it's nothing earth
shattering now.
At the time, it was great, thedifferent storylines, being able
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to get married or robbed orfall down the stairs repeatedly.
It sounds like Chevy Chase inVegas Vacation.
For me, though, like I said,Vegas Dream holds a much deeper
meaning in my life because ofthe fact that I played it with
my nana who was in her 60s atthe time.
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And I can still hear herlaughing about getting hit with
a chandelier or getting robbedor falling down the stairs.
I can't remember how many timeswe rented the game.
And I can't remember if we hadto rent the actual Nintendo
console with it.
Because that was another thingyou could do.
Besides going to the videorental store, which is an
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archaic saying now.
But you could actually rent theNintendo system.
I think you had to put down adeposit for what the machine
would cost.
Naturally, if you returned itunharmed, you'd get the money
back, but that was a risk youtook.
So we probably went to VideoGalaxy or Entertainment Stop or
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Hollywood Video or BlockbusterVideo or whichever ones we had
around us on the middle of CapeCod back then and got Vegas
Dream and just laughed.
You out there must have videogames like that or movies or TV
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shows that aren't that popular,but they hold a special place in
your heart for the meaningoutside of it, the people that
watched it with you or played itwith you.
So yeah, that's the story ofVegas Dream for Nintendo,
avoiding the chandeliers andfalling down the stairs and
getting robbed.
It definitely did a good job ofpreparing me for actual life in
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Vegas, which...
was pretty similar, except forfalling down the stairs a lot.
But until next time, that isgoing to wrap up episode 179 of
the In My Footsteps podcast.
Thank you all so much fortuning in, wherever you're from.
I know I've got a lot oflisteners from New England, a
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lot from the United States, allacross the country, and all
around the world.
I'm so appreciative of those ofyou that don't live in my neck
of the woods.
that tune into this show.
Nostalgia is a powerful thing,and it never goes away.
It just keeps growing.
Every day that goes by, everyyear that goes by, it brings
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more into what's considerednostalgia.
20 years ago, I consider thatnostalgia, and that's 2005.
And I'll keep the buffet openas far as nostalgia goes.
Next week will be episode 180.
We are quickly rocketingtowards 200, which I think will
hit sometime in the late spring.
I'll have to think of somethingspecial for that episode.
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It can't be just another one.
It's not every day that you hita round number like that.
I figured I would get to 100episodes of the podcast, no
problem.
200 was a bit of a stretch, butI always have new things I'm
finding out to put on the show.
the cutting edge technologysegment earlier, I just thought
of that a few weeks ago.
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I said, hey, why don't I dothat?
When I say it's like a buffet,I'm continually looking through
the catalog to find more itemsto put in my steam tables.
If you enjoy my content, if youwant to support my journey of
trying to be a self-employedcontent creator, you can support
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me on Patreon, $5 a month.
gets you access to bonuspodcast episodes.
I'm making more in the way ofsubscriber-specific content, but
I'm also doing a lot more onthe free tier, things that will
get people to just go over andsee what my work's all about
because I understand that mostpeople don't know who I am.
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So if you hear me saying, youknow, support me on Patreon,
part with your hard-earnedmoney, you might want to see a
little sample of what I'm doing.
You can also buy me a coffee.
I think those you can do aslittle as a dollar.
So I can use that to go buy acouple of sticks of gum.
It doesn't cost anything toshare my content though.
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I appreciate that as much asanything.
Those of you that see my workon social media, whether it's
Instagram and my Instagramstories, or threads, or blue
sky, or TikTok, or my Facebookfan page, and share it with
others and get others to comeinto the fold.
I've always got new things I'mworking on or trying to get put
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up either on YouTube or blogs.
Speaking of a combination ofboth, check out the Webcam
Weekly Wrap-Up Podcast.
That's a video version of theInitial Impressions 2.0 blog.
I speak about my week that was,which is usually filled with
random foolishness.
I'm sure everyone's life hasit, but I'm the only one that
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seems to chronicle it and shareit so you all can laugh.
If you're interested in any ofmy nine books, visit my website,
ChristopherSetterlin.com.
Created, updated by my oldestfriend, Barry.
Be on the lookout probablyearly in the spring when I
launch theInMyFootstepsPodcast.com.
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I bought the domain nameprobably the beginning of last
year with the idea of creating acatch-all homepage with all the
archives of the episodes, allthe links to everything I've
ever shared on any episode,probably some type of merch
because my newer logo is veryretro 80s look.
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It looks better on a t-shirt ora bumper sticker.
but I am not a web designer.
So that's why it's taking me alot longer to create it because
I want it to be launched and begood instead of half launched,
like going into a mall whereonly five of the stores are open
and all the rest of those cagesover empty storefronts.
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But you won't have to waituntil spring for the next
episode of the podcast.
It's one week away and it's theperfect length for you to Put
on headphones and go for a walkoutside.
Bundle up if it's cold, but getthat vitamin D.
We're all getting deficient init as it's in the teens and 20s
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here on Cape Cod.
I don't want to be outsidemuch, but I try to force myself
at least to shoot the sunset orsomething.
So until next time, folks,remember.
In this life, don't walk inanyone else's footsteps.
Create your own path and enjoyevery moment you can on this
journey we call life because younever know what tomorrow
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brings.
This has been the In MyFootsteps podcast.
I am Christopher Setterlund,but you already knew that.
And I'll talk to you all againsoon.
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