Episode 185 helps March roar in with a blast of nostalgia, from '90s party vibes to long-lost professions!
🎬 House Party Turns 35! – One of the best teen comedies of the ‘90s is officially middle-aged. We’re throwing it back to Kid ‘n Play, Martin Lawrence, Tisha Campbell, legendary dance moves, and quotable lines. Plus, I’ll share a personal house party story that could’ve been its own movie.
🥖 Poppin’ Fresh: The Doughboy & His Lost Restaurant – He’s been giggling his way through Pillsbury ads for 60+ years, but did you know Poppin’ Fresh once had his own restaurant? We uncover the surprising history of Poppin’ Fresh Pies—and what happened to it.
🛠️ Jobs That Time Forgot – Ever applied to be a lector? A scissors grinder? No? That’s because these jobs disappeared long ago. This week’s Top 5 spotlights careers from a century ago that no longer exist—some of which were way cooler than they sound.
🏀 This Week in History & Time Capsule – The night Wilt Chamberlain did the unthinkable and scored 100 points in a single basketball game.
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Speaker 00 (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, and this is
episode 185.
March has arrived.
Is it coming in like a lion?
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I don't know.
Maybe you'll be roaring withlaughter from the nostalgia on
this podcast.
We're going to kick it off witha look back 35 years at one of
my favorite movies from mychildhood, House Party and its
35th anniversary.
We're going to go way, way backin the day and take a deep dive
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into Poppin' Fresh, thePillsbury Doughboy, including
when he had a restaurant namedafter him.
There'll be a brand new topfive that are the top five
obsolete jobs that were populara century ago.
You won't find any of these onan Indeed application resume.
And there'll be a brand newThis Week in History and Time
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capsule looking back at thefamous game where Wilt
Chamberlain scored 100 points.
All of that is coming up rightnow on episode 185 of the In My
Footsteps podcast.
So what are we going to talkabout this week?
About the fact that I don'thave kids, but I sure as hell
have dad jokes that are justfilled with cheese.
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Roaring with laughter.
That was a pretty good one.
Welcome in, everybody, to thepodcast.
Thank you for tuning in.
Spring is on the horizon.
I hope wherever you are, it'sgetting warmer.
I've noticed it on Cape Cod.
Ooh, man.
Upper 40s.
It's like being in a tropicalisland.
I will say, this winter was...
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deceptively bad.
Like we didn't get a lot ofsnow on Cape Cod, but it felt
like the weather was cold enoughand dreary enough.
I didn't really get outsidethat much.
For example, last week I wentfor a long walk because you've
got to walk before I can run formy next race.
Anyway, I did just over fivemiles and my legs were really
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sore.
And the reason why was becauseit was the longest I had walked
in two and a half months sincethe first week of December.
And I didn't think it had beenthat long, but there you go.
Winter got his claws into me.
But we're thawing out.
I can't start off the podcastwithout thanking my Patreon
subscribers.
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Lori, Mary Lou, Ashley, Kevin,Leo, Marguerite, Neglectoid,
Crystal, and Matt.
Thank you all so much for beingmy biggest fans, biggest
backers.
I hope you enjoyed the newmonthly bonus episode over on
Patreon, as well as the firstWithout a Map livestream from
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four years ago that I remasteredand put up there.
That's going to be somethingI'll probably do one of those a
month, likely in the middle ofthe month.
So you start off with a newbonus episode of the podcast,
and then the middle of the monthyou get a remastered
livestream.
I mentioned a minute ago, goingon a long walk.
Sometimes I get my best ideasfor the podcast or content in
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general when I'm wandering outon the bike trails.
And one I was so excited about,I have to tell you about before
we even get started.
What I'm going to do in thefuture is podcast episodes that
are going to be just a singleyear.
So it'd be the same format thatI do.
But for example, it would besay 1975.
So everything would be fromthat year.
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And as we go, it's going to be,it could be any year from 1960
to 2005.
Those won't be all the time,but it popped in my head.
I said, oh, that's such a goodidea.
So be on the lookout for those.
Another idea from my brain.
Also, by the time you listen tothis podcast, I will likely
have filmed my second of threescenes for the indie horror film
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that Frank Durant is producingthat I have a small part in
playing myself, the podcaster.
I filmed the first scene, andthe director, the main man on
the film that Frank has kind ofput in charge, he liked my work,
so I was thrilled.
Because I've never done realacting.
So the fact that he liked itgave me confidence, so...
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I'll be filming my second ofthree scenes probably before
this podcast goes live.
Maybe when I film all thescenes and the movie is
released, maybe I'll have ahouse party to celebrate.
Probably not.
But what we can do is segueinto one of my favorite movies
ever, which is celebrating its35th anniversary this week.
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The Kid and Play special houseparty.
Oh, I can't wait to talk aboutthis.
So let's just get into it rightnow.
Sometimes I get lucky withfinding content for the podcast,
my timing.
So going back a few weeks ago,I was on YouTube just surfing
around, and I had a videorecommended for me.
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And it said, mini house partyreunion as kid from Kid and Play
surprised Tisha Campbell on atalk show.
Naturally, I watched it.
I love Tisha Campbell.
I had a crush on her in theearly 90s.
And I remembered how much Ilove the movie House Party.
So the first thing I did afterI watched the video was I went
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online to see when itsanniversary was because I knew
it was from 1990.
And to my surprise, pleasantsurprise, it was released March
9th, 1990.
So I immediately went into myfuture podcast list and I found
the episode that wouldcorrespond with that week.
And I said, oh, we're talkingabout House Party's 35th
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anniversary.
Those of you that know me,obviously you know I grew up on
Cape Cod, you may be surprisedto find that House Party is one
of my favorite movies ever.
A big reason why hip-hopculture was such a big part of
my life in the late 80s throughthe early to mid 90s was because
of one of my closest friendsnamed Hassan.
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He moved into the neighborhoodnot far from me, probably when
we were 11, maybe 12 years old.
It was after fifth grade goinginto sixth grade.
And what I loved about Hasan,and still do to this day, is
that he didn't push himself asfar as what he liked on me.
He just introduced it.
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It was kind of like, if youlike what I like, great.
If not, I'm not going to forceyou.
I'm not going to change who Iam.
We both had a love ofbasketball, so I think that
connected us.
And we started playing musicoutside of my house when we
played basketball.
He introduced me to a lot ofgreat hip-hop from the late 80s.
Public Enemy, Heavy D and theBoys, Slick Rick, Eric B and
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Rakem, Wu-Tang Clan, KRS-One.
I could just keep naming them,but you get the point.
And even though the music waswritten more for an
African-American audience...
Describing their culture andissues they dealt with in
society, I loved the music ingeneral.
Hasan and I were super tightthrough middle school to the
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beginning of high school.
We drifted apart a little,mainly because I wasn't good at
basketball, so he played on theschool teams all through high
school, and so his friends werethe players on the team with
him.
But we reconnected years later.
I just saw him only a fewmonths ago.
He came down to Cape Cod fromBoston to see my mother for her
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birthday.
That should tell you all youneed to know about the kind of
man Hassan is.
There you go, Hassan.
If you listen to this, boy, doI pump you up.
But it's all true.
So now we get to House Party.
This movie came out.
I didn't know who Kid and Playwere.
But in the early 90s, hip-hopculture was making its way from
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the streets to the big screen,bringing with it fresh
storytelling and the music andthe style.
And House Party was one of thefilms that captured that energy,
humor, and excitement.
The movie House Party wasoriginally conceived as an
independent short film bydirector Reginald Hudlin.
It won accolades at theSundance Film Festival, which I
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did not know.
But this short film caught theattention of New Line Cinema,
and they saw the potential for afeature-length adaptation.
The studio took a chance on theproject, allowing Hudlin to
expand on his vision and turn itinto one of the most beloved
teen comedies of the 90s.
When you get down to it, thefilm's premise is simple.
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A high school student namedKid, played by Christopher Reed
of Kid and Play, sneaks out ofhis house to attend a wild party
thrown by his best friend Play,Christopher Martin.
And along the way, heencounters bullies, he has a
strict father, and there'splenty of comedic mishaps.
And even if you're not AfricanAmerican, if you don't live in
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the city or the suburbs, ifyou're a rural 12-year-old white
kid from Cape Cod, you couldrelate to this type of story.
I was only a few years awayfrom wishing I could go to
actual house parties like that.
And I will share a little bitof my first house party
experience at the end of thissegment.
Sorry, Hassan.
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At the heart of house party isthe chemistry between kid and
play.
They're a hip hop duo.
They have albums out, but youcan tell that they're friends
and you can tell they enjoyworking together.
Kid had the iconic high topfade where they would call him a
racer head.
The people that didn't likehim.
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And he would have to deal withthe bullies Stab, Peewee, and
Zilla.
They are actually anotherhip-hop group called Full Force.
Fun facts about Full Force.
Boy, there's a lot of Fs.
Not only is their song Ain't MyType of Hype, which is in the
house party, like in the middleof it, there's the iconic dance
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scene.
That's them.
They helped to discover the R&Bgroup of the mid-80s, Lisa Lisa
and Cult Jam.
They had songs, Lost inEmotion, Head to Toe, I Wonder
If I Take You Home.
But this is the one that youmay have to pull over and be
shocked.
Full force, they actually sangbackup on a Bob Dylan album.
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The song I could find is calledDeath Is Not The End, and it's
off of Dylan's album Down in theGroove from 1988.
So when you talk about oddmusical collaborations, which
may end up being a top five atsome point, Full Force and Bob
Dylan might be at the top.
For me, besides the comedy andlots of swears in this movie,
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the music was really what madeit stand out.
I love that song, Ain't My Typeof Hype.
I have it on my phone, on myplaylist.
There's also an excellent songby Luther Vandross.
The song is called Bad BoyHavin' a Party.
And for those of you that knowthe movie, it's playing when
Kidd sneaks out of his window togo to play his party.
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His adventure from sneaking outof his house to get to the
party, just the people he sees,he ends up at a party where it's
a lot of rich, older people,and the guy who's the DJ is
George Clinton.
He hops someone's fence toescape from the bullies, and
he's watching this big, big fatguy have sex with a woman super
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loud.
Mind you, I was 12 years oldwhen I first saw this, so this
was a lot of eye-opening stufffor me.
Of course, you had TishaCampbell as Sydney, who ends up
being kids' love interest, andA.J.
Johnson as Shireen, who kind ofplays, for lack of a better
term, plays play.
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You had Martin Lawrence inprobably one of his earliest
roles as Bilal, who always hadthe bad breath.
The girls would say he haddragon breath.
Perhaps the biggest highlightof the movie is Robin Harris as
Kid's father.
He is so funny and so quickwith his jokes and insults.
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I especially cracked up when heshowed up at the house party
and he was yelling about publicenema.
Who the hell's public enema,anyway?
Oh man, he was so funny.
So it was sad that by the timeI saw this movie, he had already
passed away.
He died of a heart attack ninedays after the movie was
released.
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House Party had a budget of$2.5 million and made more than
$26 million upon its release.
It's also 94% fresh on RottenTomatoes, which really made me
feel good because I loved thismovie since I was a kid.
So to know that The vast, vastmajority of people like it who
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have seen it.
That made me feel like I hadgood taste.
House Party had a big culturalsignificance.
With its success, it opened thedoor for other
African-American-led movies likeFriday or Barbershop.
Kid and Play even had asemi-hit song not long after
this movie called Ain't GonnaHurt Nobody, which was pretty
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good.
And there were sequels, HouseParty 2, where a kid goes to
college.
That one was good.
House Party 3, I have neverseen because Tisha Campbell was
in it for about three seconds.
So I said, that's probably notgood.
And the movie still holds up tothis day.
35 years later, I could watchit and probably will watch it
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tonight after recording thepodcast.
But I laugh at all the jokes.
I love all the music.
And it brings me back to beingin sixth grade.
I highly recommend you checkout House Party at least once if
you haven't seen it.
But I did promise a few minutesago the story of my first house
party.
Freshman year of high school.
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I was 15 years old.
I'm not going to name any othernames, but I will say I was
there with Hasan.
We got invited to a kid'shouse.
His parents were away.
I don't remember offhand howmany of us were there because
we're going back to 1993.
It could have been 6, 8, 10.
I don't know.
There was some booze there.
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I know I at least had one.
I can't speak for Hassan.
I don't want to get him introuble.
We were freshman boys in highschool, so naturally the cops
got called because we were loudand rowdy and probably outside
somewhat.
One thing I can remember aboutthis party before we had to flee
when the cops showed up, wasone of the kids trying to rinse
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his mouth out with scope so thathis parents wouldn't smell the
alcohol.
And he accidentally swallowedsome and ended up throwing up
everywhere.
But during his throwing up, hewas celebrating like he had just
scored a touchdown.
Man.
So Hasan and I took off intothe surrounding neighborhood.
And it was sort of like houseparty.
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We were going through yards,hiding, going under people's
windows.
Because we were in a...
residential neighborhood, butwe weren't exactly sure where we
were.
We ended up finding our way toRoute 28, which is the main road
on Cape Cod.
It goes all the way fromFalmouth up to Provincetown.
We found ourselves a payphone.
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Yes, that's the period of timewe're talking about.
We had to call probably mymother to come and pick us up in
the blue station wagon.
I don't remember if any of thekids at the party got nabbed by
the cops.
I know Hasan and I were like,we're gone as soon as we saw the
lights.
It was like, it was every manfor himself, but he and I were,
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we were a team.
So it was like, I wasn't goingto leave him.
He wouldn't leave me.
Now I do remember some of thepeople that were at this party.
So if any of you are listening,feel free to reach out and
laugh a little bit about that.
But there's a bit of the storyof my first house party.
as we celebrate the 35thanniversary of House Party, one
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of my favorite movies ever.
And yes, I'll probably bewatching it tonight, but I will
not be mimicking any dancemoves.
I don't know if my old bonescan handle it anymore.
This week in history, we aregoing back 63 years ago to March
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2nd, 1962 and the famousbasketball game where Wilt
Chamberlain scored 100 points.
I have said since my childhoodand will continue to say that
Michael Jordan is the greatestbasketball player ever.
But if you out there want tochallenge me and say Wilt
Chamberlain was better, this isthe Exhibit A that you could use
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against me.
Michael Jordan, at his best,scored 69 points as a career
high, whereas on March 2, 1962,Wilt Chamberlain scored 100
points.
For those who don't know whoWilt Chamberlain was, he was a
7-foot-1-inch center.
He entered the NBA in 1959 andwas a revelation.
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He came in along with BillRussell, and it was this big man
with athleticism, scoringability, rebounding prowess.
He was virtually unstoppable.
He averaged 50 points a game inone season.
Just think about that.
It's like he had more 50-pointgames in one season than the
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average 500 NBA players havecombined in their careers.
So this game was between thePhiladelphia Warriors, now
Golden State Warriors, whichWilt Chamberlain played for, and
the New York Knicks.
This was held at the HersheySports Arena.
There were fewer than 4,000fans in attendance.
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And what's crazy is the gamewasn't televised.
So there's no visual evidenceof this game, except for the
famous picture of Wilt with thepiece of paper that says 100 on
it.
Chamberlain started off with 23points in the first quarter and
18 in the second so he had 41points in the first half by the
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end of the third quarter he had69 points which is Michael
Jordan's career high so he hadit in three quarters then in the
fourth quarter Wilt Chamberlainsurged past the all-time record
for points in a game that was78 which he also set And by this
point in the fourth quarter,the people that were there knew
something special was going on.
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So it was insanity.
He finally hit the basket thatgave him 100 points and the
crowd went nuts.
So in the game, the Warriorswon 169 to 147.
Wilt Chamberlain finished with100 points on 36 of 63 shooting
from the field, 28 of 32 fromthe free throw line.
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Oh, and he also had 25 reboundsin the game too.
Wilt Chamberlain has the recordfor most 70-plus point games
with five in his career.
Wilt Chamberlain also holds theNBA record with 118 50-plus
point games, just to give youthat stat.
Yes, Michael Jordan is second.
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How many 50-plus point gamesdid he have in his career?
31.
This game by Wilt Chamberlainchanged how the NBA was played.
It fueled discussions aboutrule changes to contain dominant
big men.
The NBA would later widen thelane and implement rules to
limit offensive advantages forplayers of Wilt Chamberlain's
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caliber.
So think about that.
They changed the rules of thegame because he was too
dominant.
And in the more than sixdecades since this game, nobody
has come close to replicatingWilt Chamberlain's feat.
The closest was Kobe Bryant,who scored 81 points in a game
in 2006.
That's what's crazy is thatKobe Bryant, one of the best
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players ever, on his best night,still couldn't come within 19
points of Wilt Chamberlain'sbest.
And Michael Jordan, who I stillthink is the best player ever,
on his best night was 31 pointsshort of Wilt Chamberlain.
Wow, it's unreal.
And that 100-point game...
by the all-time legend WiltChamberlain occurred 63 years
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ago this week in history.
We'll keep the good timesrolling with a brand new time
capsule.
We're going to stick to thatsame day.
So Wilt Chamberlain is scoring100 points in Hershey,
Pennsylvania on March 2nd, 1962.
What was going on in the worldof pop culture back then?
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Let's find out.
The number one song was Duke ofEarl by Gene Chandler.
This song has a beginning thatlikely most of you can hear in
your head right now.
The song was released as asingle by Chandler, and it spent
three weeks at number one,easily being his greatest song
of his career.
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It's obvious that Chandler knewthis was his biggest song,
because only a few months later,he released a sequel song
called Walk On with the Duke.
It did not do as well, toppingthe chart at number 91.
The number one movie was ThePremature Burial, and you could
get into the theater with aticket costing 70 cents.
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This was a horror mystery moviebased on an Edgar Allan Poe
story about an Englishman who isobsessed with the fear of being
buried alive.
It's 56% fresh on RottenTomatoes, so it's hovering right
below fresh.
I couldn't find how much thebudget was for this movie, but
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its box office take of betweenone and one and a half million
has it classified as aquote-unquote moneymaker.
So take that as you will.
The number one TV show wasWagon Train.
This is a western about a wagontrain and their adventures
heading from Missouri West toCalifornia.
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The show was on for eightseasons and 284 episodes between
1957 and 1965.
It's also known for having alot of very famous guest stars
throughout the years, includingErnest Borgnine, Lon Chaney,
Betty Davis, Dennis Hopper,Leonard Nimoy, Leslie Nielsen,
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and Ronald Reagan.
And if you were around backthen, March 2nd, 1962, You had
to go to the store, getsomething from the grocery
store.
Well, if you were a youngmother going to the A&P with
your kids, you're in luckbecause they've got plaid stamps
you can collect to get greatprizes and gifts for your kids.
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There's little things like babydolls and kids' seats.
There's bigger things like filmprojectors, toaster ovens, and
phonographs.
So make sure to go to A&P.
Buy lots of stuff and get yourbooks of plaid stamps and get
yourself a nice new coffee makeror phonograph using those
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stamps.
That wraps up another timecapsule, another This Week in
History.
Naturally, you need money to goto the store and buy things at
A&P.
Well, unfortunately, A&P's notaround today anymore, and
neither are these jobs.
As we look back at the top fiveobsolete jobs from a century
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ago, Coming up now.
Anybody of you out therelooking for a new job, you're on
Indeed, you're on ZipRecruiter.
I have some sad news for youbecause all of these jobs I'm
about to share with you, youwill not find openings for.
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What we're going to look at isthe top five obsolete jobs from
a century ago.
This one I had to do some bitof research on, especially to
fill out a top five andhonorable mentions, looking at
jobs that were maybe not themost popular, but that were
around in the 1920s and seewhich of those are just nowhere
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to be found today.
It was interesting to look upwhat the most popular jobs were
from the 1920s.
A lot of them were working inmills or on farms.
Because you got to remember inthe 1920s, I mean, radio had
just come out.
So there wasn't anything forradio or radio repair.
There was no TV.
There sure as hell wasn't anyinternet.
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There were no jobs asinfluencers on social media back
in the 1920s.
But what there were, were somethat were very obvious that they
would have been popular at thetime.
And then there were some othersthat I didn't know existed.
And we're going to run thegamut.
We're going to go through allof it right now.
So as with most of these topfives, there are some honorable
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mentions.
They are in no particularorder.
And if your resume includes anyof these jobs, you may be super
duper old.
And if you are super duper oldand listening to this podcast,
thank you so much for tuning in.
And I hope I didn't offend you.
Honorable mentions for theobsolete jobs from a century ago
include pin setters.
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These are the people that wouldreset the bowling pins in a
bowling alley.
Naturally, that has beenautomated for quite a long time.
Another honorable mention waselevator operator.
These are the people that wouldliterally be in charge of the
elevator.
You step in, you tell them thefloor, they would send you up.
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You'd be in there with thiselevator operator.
Again, this has been automatedfor decades.
Another honorable mention waswas lector.
It is not some super villain.
A lector was somebody thatwould read to people that were
working in a mill or a factory.
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They were the entertainmentbefore radio or internet.
So you'd have someone readingyou a story while you worked or
the newspaper or something,whatever.
Another honorable mention wassoda jerk.
No, not a bad person thatpoured drinks for you.
This was in the old-timeygeneral stores, drug stores.
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You'd saddle up to the bar orthe counter and the person would
make you a drink, usuallysomething sweet.
These people might still bearound, a handful of them, in
the places that are meant to bevintage.
I know not too far from me onCape Cod, there's a place called
Hallett's General Store.
It's been around since the1880s.
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I haven't been in there since Iwas a kid, but they may have a
soda jerk there.
And the last honorable mentionis projectionist.
These are the people that wouldset up the motion picture reels
of film so you could watch themovies in the theater.
With movies now being mainlydigital and it's all automated
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at the theaters, having someonesitting up there running the
projector isn't really necessaryanymore.
So those are the honorablementions.
Were you familiar with any ofthose?
I figure elevator, operator,pin setter, soda jerk.
You probably heard of those.
And some of you might have beenprojectionists.
It wasn't that long ago thatthat went out of style.
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Oh, but get ready.
In the actual top five, I doubtany of you have had these jobs.
We'll start it off with numberone, ice cutters.
Those of you that...
are familiar with the ThreeStooges.
You may remember there's anepisode where they are ice
delivery men.
They show up with theirrefrigerated truck and the
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people would yell to them,Iceman, give me whatever amount
of ice.
And they would have to chop upthe bits, bring it in.
Because back then, yourrefrigerator, you had something
called an icebox.
And you would literally put icein it and it would slowly melt,
but it would keep your foodcool for, I don't know, several
days a week.
So just like back then when youhad milkmen deliver your milk,
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you had an iceman deliver yourice.
As electric refrigerators andfreezers became more common in
the 40s and 50s, ice cuttersweren't necessary anymore.
They all went to become thesculptors you see in the parks
in the winter that use chainsawsto make swans out of big blocks
of ice.
Number two is physiognomist.
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This is one of the craziestones from this list.
A physiognomist is a person whosupposedly can judge your
character based on your face,your facial expressions, your
facial features.
It's like walking into anoffice and the person looks at
you and says, I know you're ajerk based on your cheekbones.
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Like, really?
This was a real job.
Obviously, this kind of a jobis complete garbage.
You can't judge a person basedon their outward appearance.
I mean, you could tell someoneis overweight or older or skinny
based on what you see, but thatdoesn't make them bad or evil
or prone to being a thief or anyof that crap that this job
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seems to be able to predict.
I also couldn't find if you hadto go to college back in the
20s to become a physiognomist.
Like they would have someonewalk in front of the class and
that's your final project is tojudge who they are based on
looking at them.
God, get out of here.
We go from stupidly absurd to ajob that was actually hugely
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popular back then.
And that's number three,switchboard operator.
Way back then, the first halfof the 20th century, probably up
through the 50s and 60s, therewere actually people that would
connect your phone call.
You dial the operator, tellthem who to connect you to, and
that's what they would do.
That's how you would getthrough to people.
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It wasn't as simple as justdialing the phone.
It was dialing operator andsaying, connect me to so-and-so
or their phone number, KL573,and you'd connect them, and
that's great.
So many movies and short films,comedies in the 20s, 30s, and
40s.
There's lots of scenes withswitchboard operators in them.
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Judging by how popular this jobwas back then, it must have
been one of those that thepeople that did it as a job
probably couldn't have imaginedthere would have come a day that
it was obsolete.
I think that's the thing with alot of technological advances,
like whatever's popular eventoday in the 2020s.
There may come a time 20, 30,40 years from now that it's not
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there anymore.
Number four is caddy butcher.
Yes, you've heard of a regularbutcher.
They are still around today.
But a caddy butcher specializedin horse meat.
This job was popular up throughthe 1940s, especially in the US
and in the UK.
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Horse meat was cheaper thantypical beef.
These guys hung around theracetrack, waited for the loser,
and shoved him in theslaughterhouse.
It's not that easy.
It's amazing to think now, ifyou think about eating horse
meat, it's like, oh man, really?
You don't do that.
But a hundred years ago, it wascommon.
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And so much so that caddybutcher was a popular
occupation, especially in theareas of the country where horse
meat was more readily consumed.
I don't know where that wouldbe, but it had to be a lot of
places for this to be a job.
And finally, number five on thelist of top five obsolete jobs
from a century ago is scissorsgrinder.
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It's literally what it says.
Someone that would come to yourhouse and sharpen your
scissors, your knives, anythingelse that you had.
Mainly because this was a timewhere if your scissors got dull,
most people couldn't afford togo out and buy a new pair.
Or if your knives got dull, youmade do with what you had.
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So here came this job wheresomeone would come and knock on
your door and sharpen yourscissors.
Over the decades, the rise ofhome sharpening equipment grew,
and with an increase inaffordability of scissors and
knives and anything else youneeded sharpening, axes,
whatever, that made it where youdidn't need someone coming to
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your house.
You imagine how busy you wouldhave been in the 20s, having
Milkman, Iceman, ScissorGrinder, they all show up on the
same day.
Like you're just trying to siton the porch and read.
You got all these peopleshowing up doing stuff like
that.
But there you have it.
Five obsolete jobs from acentury ago and some honorable
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mentions.
You will not find these onanyone's resume, on Indeed, on
ZipRecruiter, on your LinkedInprofile.
And if you want the job of mostfamous doughboy, that is taken.
So let's do a deep dive intothe story of Poppin' Fresh
coming up right now.
Oh, man.
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15-year-old me is so exciteddoing a podcast segment talking
about Poppin' Fresh, a.k.a.
the Pillsbury Doughboy.
But it actually came to myattention last week when doing
the defunct casual dining chainsegment, the top five.
It was when doing the researchabout steak and ale that I
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realized that they were at onepoint owned by Pillsbury.
And I went down the rabbithole, and that's where I was
looking at it, and I saw thatthey had a place at one point, a
restaurant chain called Poppin'Fresh Pies.
So it was destiny.
I said, I need to do a segmentabout Poppin' Fresh, the
Pillsbury Doughboy, and Poppin'Fresh Pies, the restaurant.
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Well, believe me, this segmentis going to be filled with
clips, starting with this sound.
Yes, the Poppin' Fresh noisewhen you poke his stomach.
When I was a kid growing up inthe 1980s, there were some
mascots that were in commercialsthat really spoke to me.
It's like I wanted them to betoys that I could play with.
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Poppin' Fresh was one.
Snuggles the Bear was another.
The Helping Hand from HamburgerHelper.
And I will say when I got alittle bit older, I did have a
Snuggles Bear and a Poppin'Fresh.
I think I had three of them.
Man, I guess I was like reallyfanboying out for Poppin' Fresh.
Man, there's something toadmit.
(35:15):
But leave me alone.
Poppin' Fresh is 60 years oldnow.
He was created in 1965 by theLeo Burnett Advertising Agency
to promote Pillsbury'srefrigerated dough products.
Little did they know at thetime, the soft, doughy exterior,
the infectious giggle, thatPoppin' Fresh would influence
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pop culture.
Speaker 05 (35:40):
The
Speaker 00 (35:55):
actual idea for Poppin' Fresh came from Rudy
Purrs, a copywriter at theagency who envisioned a
friendly, animated characterthat would pop out of a can of
dough.
At the beginning, Poppin' Freshwas more stop-motion animation.
Pillsbury embraced the conceptand they ran with it.
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The character would have beenharder to make at the beginning
with a clay model animated frameby frame.
The commercials, though,starting in the late 60s, early
70s, all kids liked Poppin'Fresh.
He was friendly.
little tiny dough boy with thechef hat on.
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No, he didn't wear any clothes.
He was just dough.
And he would be there asparents and kids were making
crescent rolls or regular rollsor whatever else Pillsbury
products you had.
He'd be friendly explaining whythey were good.
And then for some reason at theend of the commercials, the
children felt the need toassault him by gouging at his
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stomach.
That giggle that Poppin' Freshdid, that's what he's probably
known for the most.
There were also the Poppin'Fresh Dough jingle.
Yeah, that one.
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That's a big staple of mychildhood, that Poppin' Fresh
Dough song.
The original voice of Poppin'Fresh, and I think through...
All of my childhood was a mannamed Paul Freese, and he was
the one he voiced characterslike Boris Badenoff from Rocky
and Bullwinkle.
He also did voice for theWonderful World of Disney shows.
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He was Inspector Fenwick fromDudley Do-Right.
He played Santa Claus in theFrosty the Snowman animated film
in the late 1960s.
That one is still on TV a lotto this day.
Andy was also the voice of JohnLennon and George Harrison in
the Beatles animated series in1965.
Sadly, Freeze died in 1986 atthe age of 66 from an overdose
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of pain medication.
And after that, Poppin' Freshwas voiced by different people,
most specifically Jeff Bergman,who voiced him from 1986 to
2014.
So...
A lot of you out there thatgrew up with Poppin' Fresh in
the 90s and 2000s, that's theguy who did The Voice.
Speaker 02 (38:31):
So Poppin'
Speaker 00 (38:46):
Fresh was born 60 years ago in 1965.
Only a couple of years latercomes the part that shocked me
when I was doing my research onlast week's show.
In December 1969, the PillsburyCorporation bought a restaurant
called Mrs.
C's, which was a singlestandalone location in Des
Moines, Iowa.
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Pillsbury changed the name fromMrs.
C's to Poppin' Fresh Pies, andthen started to open more
locations, making it a chain.
Speaker 01 (39:16):
What happens when you bring home a poppin' fresh
pie?
No wonder people love poppin'fresh pies.
We make them fresh daily withjust one thing in mind.
Speaker 00 (39:31):
Poppin' Fresh Pies was a family-style restaurant,
but they specialized inhome-style pies and baked goods
and capitalizing on Pillsbury'sreputation for quality baking.
So think of it like any othercasual dining chain, like the
ones I was talking about lastweek.
They were very similar to that.
Even though they were calledPoppin' Fresh Pies, they didn't
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feature the Doughboy front andcenter, which I was kind of sad.
When I was looking at theirlogos, it was mainly an apple
that said Poppin' Fresh Pies inthe middle of it.
From what I could find throughmy research, Poppin' Fresh Pies
was mainly a Midwest location.
You know, since the originalMrs.
C's they bought was in Iowa.
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It's Iowa, Illinois.
And throughout the 70s, theyslowly started expanding out.
They even reached California.
As they expanded, they expandedthe menu.
It was classic American comfortfood.
And they had their share ofcommercials.
Speaker 03 (40:31):
It seems that no matter how delicious we make our
food at Poppin' Fresh, somepeople just can't wait to get to
our pies.
Poppin' Fresh Restaurants.
Speaker 00 (40:44):
What I could find, and I can't find the timing of
it, but at its peak, Poppin'Fresh Pies had about 500
locations, which that comes backto how did I not know about
this place until last week?
In 1983...
Pillsbury sold Poppin' FreshPies chain to Vicorp, which was
a parent company of Village Inn.
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Following that acquisition, allPoppin' Fresh Pies were
rebranded as Baker's Square, andthey are still in operation to
this day.
It hasn't been all sunshine andrainbows, though, for Baker's
Square.
Going from that peak of about500 restaurants, they have
slowly been declining over thelast 15 years.
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including its parent companyfiling for bankruptcy at the
beginning of 2020.
As far as I can see today, itlooks like there may be less
than 20 Baker's Squarerestaurants left, with some of
their pies being sold throughanother restaurant chain called
Famous Dave's.
Have any of you out there goneto Baker's Square or Famous
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Dave's and had any poppin' freshpies?
So Poppin' Fresh Pies wentaway, but Poppin' Fresh, the
man, the legendary dough boy,stuck around.
You couldn't have grown up inthe last 50 years and not have
seen one Poppin' Freshcommercial.
Speaker 04 (42:07):
It's me! Here's a rap that you should know, made
with Pillsbury Crescent Rolls.
Just wrap a wiener filled withcheese, make it up, and sure to
please.
The Doughboy Rap!
Speaker 00 (42:22):
or seen him in newspaper ads, or face on
merchandise from kitchenware tostuffed toys like I had.
It's easy to see why they keptpopping fresh around when little
kids are watching and they seethis four-inch tall dough boy
with a squeaky high voice andlaughing when you poke his
stomach.
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You want your parents to go buythe crescent roll so you can
see the package with his face onit.
Like I said, I had threedifferent poppin' fresh toys.
So I had one that was akeychain for my first car.
So I had this probably threeinch long poppin' fresh
keychain, which probably wasn'ttoo safe when driving because
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that thing would swing around.
I had a larger stuffed one,which I think I still have in my
mom's basement.
He was stuffed in his body andhis head was harder.
And I also had more of aplastic one that you could bend,
and that was the one that myfriends and I used in a skit
once with my camcorder, where itwas a commercial shoot with
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Poppin' Fresh, but nothing wentright, so with every take he
would get more angry, and hissqueaky voice turned into a real
deep, angry yell, and he wouldyell at the staff.
I wanted to do a sequel skitwhere he went on a rampage and
killed all of us, but that neverended up getting made.
I went looking and couldn'tfind any Poppin' Fresh board
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game or video game.
So sadly, there's nothing likethat where you can have them go
on adventures.
So 60 years in, Poppin' Freshis one of the most famous
product mascots ever.
He started off as just thisclever marketing idea and
expanded into the restaurantworld, hundreds of TV
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commercials.
And every time I see one ofthose old commercials, it just
brings me back the warm, fuzzynostalgia of being a kid.
And I figure as long asPillsbury continues to bake,
Poppin' Fresh will likelycontinue to pop up and delight
generations to come.
But until next time, that'sgoing to wrap up episode 185 of
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Truly one of my favorite peoplein the world.
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To have people that are in yourcorner and supportive, it
really does a lot.
Next week on the podcast, youwill get the time capsule
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that was going on.
And speaking of that, next weekis episode 186.
We're going to be looking atjust what in the world a B-movie
is, kind of an overview.
We're going to have a newdedication to the craft segment,
photography segment, a famoustrip to Nantucket with my buddy
(47:09):
Steve.
Lots of fun and laughs there.
And there'll be a brand new topfive that are the
quintessential 80s songs.
Like these songs or videos,when you see them, it screams
80s to you.
So all that's coming up nextweek on episode 186 of the
podcast.
Now we're into March.
We're getting closer to spring.
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Hopefully the weather's goingto start to warm up some.
Things will start to bloom.
So make sure you take advantageof that.
Get outside.
Enjoy that vitamin D.
As it's warmer, you can gofurther away.
Go further into the woods ordown the beach to just get into
your own head.
Solitude.
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Enjoy yourself.
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Go and get lost and just enjoywhat's out there.
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Fill your day with nostalgia,the good old days.
I feel like a fine connoisseurof nostalgia.
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In this life, don't walk inanyone else's footsteps.
Create your own path and enjoyevery moment you can on this
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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, and this is
episode 185.
March has arrived.
Is it coming in like a lion?
(00:21):
I don't know.
Maybe you'll be roaring withlaughter from the nostalgia on
this podcast.
We're going to kick it off witha look back 35 years at one of
my favorite movies from mychildhood, House Party and its
35th anniversary.
We're going to go way, way backin the day and take a deep dive
(00:42):
into Poppin' Fresh, thePillsbury Doughboy, including
when he had a restaurant namedafter him.
There'll be a brand new topfive that are the top five
obsolete jobs that were populara century ago.
You won't find any of these onan Indeed application resume.
And there'll be a brand newThis Week in History and Time
(01:03):
capsule looking back at thefamous game where Wilt
Chamberlain scored 100 points.
All of that is coming up rightnow on episode 185 of the In My
Footsteps podcast.
So what are we going to talkabout this week?
About the fact that I don'thave kids, but I sure as hell
have dad jokes that are justfilled with cheese.
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Roaring with laughter.
That was a pretty good one.
Welcome in, everybody, to thepodcast.
Thank you for tuning in.
Spring is on the horizon.
I hope wherever you are, it'sgetting warmer.
I've noticed it on Cape Cod.
Ooh, man.
Upper 40s.
It's like being in a tropicalisland.
I will say, this winter was...
(01:48):
deceptively bad.
Like we didn't get a lot ofsnow on Cape Cod, but it felt
like the weather was cold enoughand dreary enough.
I didn't really get outsidethat much.
For example, last week I wentfor a long walk because you've
got to walk before I can run formy next race.
Anyway, I did just over fivemiles and my legs were really
(02:10):
sore.
And the reason why was becauseit was the longest I had walked
in two and a half months sincethe first week of December.
And I didn't think it had beenthat long, but there you go.
Winter got his claws into me.
But we're thawing out.
I can't start off the podcastwithout thanking my Patreon
subscribers.
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Crystal, and Matt.
Thank you all so much for beingmy biggest fans, biggest
backers.
I hope you enjoyed the newmonthly bonus episode over on
Patreon, as well as the firstWithout a Map livestream from
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four years ago that I remasteredand put up there.
That's going to be somethingI'll probably do one of those a
month, likely in the middle ofthe month.
So you start off with a newbonus episode of the podcast,
and then the middle of the monthyou get a remastered
livestream.
I mentioned a minute ago, goingon a long walk.
Sometimes I get my best ideasfor the podcast or content in
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general when I'm wandering outon the bike trails.
And one I was so excited about,I have to tell you about before
we even get started.
What I'm going to do in thefuture is podcast episodes that
are going to be just a singleyear.
So it'd be the same format thatI do.
But for example, it would besay 1975.
So everything would be fromthat year.
(03:40):
And as we go, it's going to be,it could be any year from 1960
to 2005.
Those won't be all the time,but it popped in my head.
I said, oh, that's such a goodidea.
So be on the lookout for those.
Another idea from my brain.
Also, by the time you listen tothis podcast, I will likely
have filmed my second of threescenes for the indie horror film
(04:05):
that Frank Durant is producingthat I have a small part in
playing myself, the podcaster.
I filmed the first scene, andthe director, the main man on
the film that Frank has kind ofput in charge, he liked my work,
so I was thrilled.
Because I've never done realacting.
So the fact that he liked itgave me confidence, so...
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I'll be filming my second ofthree scenes probably before
this podcast goes live.
Maybe when I film all thescenes and the movie is
released, maybe I'll have ahouse party to celebrate.
Probably not.
But what we can do is segueinto one of my favorite movies
ever, which is celebrating its35th anniversary this week.
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The Kid and Play special houseparty.
Oh, I can't wait to talk aboutthis.
So let's just get into it rightnow.
Sometimes I get lucky withfinding content for the podcast,
my timing.
So going back a few weeks ago,I was on YouTube just surfing
around, and I had a videorecommended for me.
(05:09):
And it said, mini house partyreunion as kid from Kid and Play
surprised Tisha Campbell on atalk show.
Naturally, I watched it.
I love Tisha Campbell.
I had a crush on her in theearly 90s.
And I remembered how much Ilove the movie House Party.
So the first thing I did afterI watched the video was I went
(05:30):
online to see when itsanniversary was because I knew
it was from 1990.
And to my surprise, pleasantsurprise, it was released March
9th, 1990.
So I immediately went into myfuture podcast list and I found
the episode that wouldcorrespond with that week.
And I said, oh, we're talkingabout House Party's 35th
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anniversary.
Those of you that know me,obviously you know I grew up on
Cape Cod, you may be surprisedto find that House Party is one
of my favorite movies ever.
A big reason why hip-hopculture was such a big part of
my life in the late 80s throughthe early to mid 90s was because
of one of my closest friendsnamed Hassan.
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He moved into the neighborhoodnot far from me, probably when
we were 11, maybe 12 years old.
It was after fifth grade goinginto sixth grade.
And what I loved about Hasan,and still do to this day, is
that he didn't push himself asfar as what he liked on me.
He just introduced it.
(06:33):
It was kind of like, if youlike what I like, great.
If not, I'm not going to forceyou.
I'm not going to change who Iam.
We both had a love ofbasketball, so I think that
connected us.
And we started playing musicoutside of my house when we
played basketball.
He introduced me to a lot ofgreat hip-hop from the late 80s.
Public Enemy, Heavy D and theBoys, Slick Rick, Eric B and
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Rakem, Wu-Tang Clan, KRS-One.
I could just keep naming them,but you get the point.
And even though the music waswritten more for an
African-American audience...
Describing their culture andissues they dealt with in
society, I loved the music ingeneral.
Hasan and I were super tightthrough middle school to the
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beginning of high school.
We drifted apart a little,mainly because I wasn't good at
basketball, so he played on theschool teams all through high
school, and so his friends werethe players on the team with
him.
But we reconnected years later.
I just saw him only a fewmonths ago.
He came down to Cape Cod fromBoston to see my mother for her
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birthday.
That should tell you all youneed to know about the kind of
man Hassan is.
There you go, Hassan.
If you listen to this, boy, doI pump you up.
But it's all true.
So now we get to House Party.
This movie came out.
I didn't know who Kid and Playwere.
But in the early 90s, hip-hopculture was making its way from
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the streets to the big screen,bringing with it fresh
storytelling and the music andthe style.
And House Party was one of thefilms that captured that energy,
humor, and excitement.
The movie House Party wasoriginally conceived as an
independent short film bydirector Reginald Hudlin.
It won accolades at theSundance Film Festival, which I
(08:24):
did not know.
But this short film caught theattention of New Line Cinema,
and they saw the potential for afeature-length adaptation.
The studio took a chance on theproject, allowing Hudlin to
expand on his vision and turn itinto one of the most beloved
teen comedies of the 90s.
When you get down to it, thefilm's premise is simple.
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A high school student namedKid, played by Christopher Reed
of Kid and Play, sneaks out ofhis house to attend a wild party
thrown by his best friend Play,Christopher Martin.
And along the way, heencounters bullies, he has a
strict father, and there'splenty of comedic mishaps.
And even if you're not AfricanAmerican, if you don't live in
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the city or the suburbs, ifyou're a rural 12-year-old white
kid from Cape Cod, you couldrelate to this type of story.
I was only a few years awayfrom wishing I could go to
actual house parties like that.
And I will share a little bitof my first house party
experience at the end of thissegment.
Sorry, Hassan.
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At the heart of house party isthe chemistry between kid and
play.
They're a hip hop duo.
They have albums out, but youcan tell that they're friends
and you can tell they enjoyworking together.
Kid had the iconic high topfade where they would call him a
racer head.
The people that didn't likehim.
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And he would have to deal withthe bullies Stab, Peewee, and
Zilla.
They are actually anotherhip-hop group called Full Force.
Fun facts about Full Force.
Boy, there's a lot of Fs.
Not only is their song Ain't MyType of Hype, which is in the
house party, like in the middleof it, there's the iconic dance
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scene.
That's them.
They helped to discover the R&Bgroup of the mid-80s, Lisa Lisa
and Cult Jam.
They had songs, Lost inEmotion, Head to Toe, I Wonder
If I Take You Home.
But this is the one that youmay have to pull over and be
shocked.
Full force, they actually sangbackup on a Bob Dylan album.
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The song I could find is calledDeath Is Not The End, and it's
off of Dylan's album Down in theGroove from 1988.
So when you talk about oddmusical collaborations, which
may end up being a top five atsome point, Full Force and Bob
Dylan might be at the top.
For me, besides the comedy andlots of swears in this movie,
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the music was really what madeit stand out.
I love that song, Ain't My Typeof Hype.
I have it on my phone, on myplaylist.
There's also an excellent songby Luther Vandross.
The song is called Bad BoyHavin' a Party.
And for those of you that knowthe movie, it's playing when
Kidd sneaks out of his window togo to play his party.
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His adventure from sneaking outof his house to get to the
party, just the people he sees,he ends up at a party where it's
a lot of rich, older people,and the guy who's the DJ is
George Clinton.
He hops someone's fence toescape from the bullies, and
he's watching this big, big fatguy have sex with a woman super
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loud.
Mind you, I was 12 years oldwhen I first saw this, so this
was a lot of eye-opening stufffor me.
Of course, you had TishaCampbell as Sydney, who ends up
being kids' love interest, andA.J.
Johnson as Shireen, who kind ofplays, for lack of a better
term, plays play.
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You had Martin Lawrence inprobably one of his earliest
roles as Bilal, who always hadthe bad breath.
The girls would say he haddragon breath.
Perhaps the biggest highlightof the movie is Robin Harris as
Kid's father.
He is so funny and so quickwith his jokes and insults.
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I especially cracked up when heshowed up at the house party
and he was yelling about publicenema.
Who the hell's public enema,anyway?
Oh man, he was so funny.
So it was sad that by the timeI saw this movie, he had already
passed away.
He died of a heart attack ninedays after the movie was
released.
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House Party had a budget of$2.5 million and made more than
$26 million upon its release.
It's also 94% fresh on RottenTomatoes, which really made me
feel good because I loved thismovie since I was a kid.
So to know that The vast, vastmajority of people like it who
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have seen it.
That made me feel like I hadgood taste.
House Party had a big culturalsignificance.
With its success, it opened thedoor for other
African-American-led movies likeFriday or Barbershop.
Kid and Play even had asemi-hit song not long after
this movie called Ain't GonnaHurt Nobody, which was pretty
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good.
And there were sequels, HouseParty 2, where a kid goes to
college.
That one was good.
House Party 3, I have neverseen because Tisha Campbell was
in it for about three seconds.
So I said, that's probably notgood.
And the movie still holds up tothis day.
35 years later, I could watchit and probably will watch it
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tonight after recording thepodcast.
But I laugh at all the jokes.
I love all the music.
And it brings me back to beingin sixth grade.
I highly recommend you checkout House Party at least once if
you haven't seen it.
But I did promise a few minutesago the story of my first house
party.
Freshman year of high school.
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I was 15 years old.
I'm not going to name any othernames, but I will say I was
there with Hasan.
We got invited to a kid'shouse.
His parents were away.
I don't remember offhand howmany of us were there because
we're going back to 1993.
It could have been 6, 8, 10.
I don't know.
There was some booze there.
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I know I at least had one.
I can't speak for Hassan.
I don't want to get him introuble.
We were freshman boys in highschool, so naturally the cops
got called because we were loudand rowdy and probably outside
somewhat.
One thing I can remember aboutthis party before we had to flee
when the cops showed up, wasone of the kids trying to rinse
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his mouth out with scope so thathis parents wouldn't smell the
alcohol.
And he accidentally swallowedsome and ended up throwing up
everywhere.
But during his throwing up, hewas celebrating like he had just
scored a touchdown.
Man.
So Hasan and I took off intothe surrounding neighborhood.
And it was sort of like houseparty.
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We were going through yards,hiding, going under people's
windows.
Because we were in a...
residential neighborhood, butwe weren't exactly sure where we
were.
We ended up finding our way toRoute 28, which is the main road
on Cape Cod.
It goes all the way fromFalmouth up to Provincetown.
We found ourselves a payphone.
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Yes, that's the period of timewe're talking about.
We had to call probably mymother to come and pick us up in
the blue station wagon.
I don't remember if any of thekids at the party got nabbed by
the cops.
I know Hasan and I were like,we're gone as soon as we saw the
lights.
It was like, it was every manfor himself, but he and I were,
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we were a team.
So it was like, I wasn't goingto leave him.
He wouldn't leave me.
Now I do remember some of thepeople that were at this party.
So if any of you are listening,feel free to reach out and
laugh a little bit about that.
But there's a bit of the storyof my first house party.
as we celebrate the 35thanniversary of House Party, one
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of my favorite movies ever.
And yes, I'll probably bewatching it tonight, but I will
not be mimicking any dancemoves.
I don't know if my old bonescan handle it anymore.
This week in history, we aregoing back 63 years ago to March
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2nd, 1962 and the famousbasketball game where Wilt
Chamberlain scored 100 points.
I have said since my childhoodand will continue to say that
Michael Jordan is the greatestbasketball player ever.
But if you out there want tochallenge me and say Wilt
Chamberlain was better, this isthe Exhibit A that you could use
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against me.
Michael Jordan, at his best,scored 69 points as a career
high, whereas on March 2, 1962,Wilt Chamberlain scored 100
points.
For those who don't know whoWilt Chamberlain was, he was a
7-foot-1-inch center.
He entered the NBA in 1959 andwas a revelation.
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He came in along with BillRussell, and it was this big man
with athleticism, scoringability, rebounding prowess.
He was virtually unstoppable.
He averaged 50 points a game inone season.
Just think about that.
It's like he had more 50-pointgames in one season than the
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average 500 NBA players havecombined in their careers.
So this game was between thePhiladelphia Warriors, now
Golden State Warriors, whichWilt Chamberlain played for, and
the New York Knicks.
This was held at the HersheySports Arena.
There were fewer than 4,000fans in attendance.
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And what's crazy is the gamewasn't televised.
So there's no visual evidenceof this game, except for the
famous picture of Wilt with thepiece of paper that says 100 on
it.
Chamberlain started off with 23points in the first quarter and
18 in the second so he had 41points in the first half by the
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end of the third quarter he had69 points which is Michael
Jordan's career high so he hadit in three quarters then in the
fourth quarter Wilt Chamberlainsurged past the all-time record
for points in a game that was78 which he also set And by this
point in the fourth quarter,the people that were there knew
something special was going on.
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So it was insanity.
He finally hit the basket thatgave him 100 points and the
crowd went nuts.
So in the game, the Warriorswon 169 to 147.
Wilt Chamberlain finished with100 points on 36 of 63 shooting
from the field, 28 of 32 fromthe free throw line.
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Oh, and he also had 25 reboundsin the game too.
Wilt Chamberlain has the recordfor most 70-plus point games
with five in his career.
Wilt Chamberlain also holds theNBA record with 118 50-plus
point games, just to give youthat stat.
Yes, Michael Jordan is second.
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How many 50-plus point gamesdid he have in his career?
31.
This game by Wilt Chamberlainchanged how the NBA was played.
It fueled discussions aboutrule changes to contain dominant
big men.
The NBA would later widen thelane and implement rules to
limit offensive advantages forplayers of Wilt Chamberlain's
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caliber.
So think about that.
They changed the rules of thegame because he was too
dominant.
And in the more than sixdecades since this game, nobody
has come close to replicatingWilt Chamberlain's feat.
The closest was Kobe Bryant,who scored 81 points in a game
in 2006.
That's what's crazy is thatKobe Bryant, one of the best
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players ever, on his best night,still couldn't come within 19
points of Wilt Chamberlain'sbest.
And Michael Jordan, who I stillthink is the best player ever,
on his best night was 31 pointsshort of Wilt Chamberlain.
Wow, it's unreal.
And that 100-point game...
by the all-time legend WiltChamberlain occurred 63 years
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ago this week in history.
We'll keep the good timesrolling with a brand new time
capsule.
We're going to stick to thatsame day.
So Wilt Chamberlain is scoring100 points in Hershey,
Pennsylvania on March 2nd, 1962.
What was going on in the worldof pop culture back then?
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Let's find out.
The number one song was Duke ofEarl by Gene Chandler.
This song has a beginning thatlikely most of you can hear in
your head right now.
The song was released as asingle by Chandler, and it spent
three weeks at number one,easily being his greatest song
of his career.
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It's obvious that Chandler knewthis was his biggest song,
because only a few months later,he released a sequel song
called Walk On with the Duke.
It did not do as well, toppingthe chart at number 91.
The number one movie was ThePremature Burial, and you could
get into the theater with aticket costing 70 cents.
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This was a horror mystery moviebased on an Edgar Allan Poe
story about an Englishman who isobsessed with the fear of being
buried alive.
It's 56% fresh on RottenTomatoes, so it's hovering right
below fresh.
I couldn't find how much thebudget was for this movie, but
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its box office take of betweenone and one and a half million
has it classified as aquote-unquote moneymaker.
So take that as you will.
The number one TV show wasWagon Train.
This is a western about a wagontrain and their adventures
heading from Missouri West toCalifornia.
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The show was on for eightseasons and 284 episodes between
1957 and 1965.
It's also known for having alot of very famous guest stars
throughout the years, includingErnest Borgnine, Lon Chaney,
Betty Davis, Dennis Hopper,Leonard Nimoy, Leslie Nielsen,
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and Ronald Reagan.
And if you were around backthen, March 2nd, 1962, You had
to go to the store, getsomething from the grocery
store.
Well, if you were a youngmother going to the A&P with
your kids, you're in luckbecause they've got plaid stamps
you can collect to get greatprizes and gifts for your kids.
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There's little things like babydolls and kids' seats.
There's bigger things like filmprojectors, toaster ovens, and
phonographs.
So make sure to go to A&P.
Buy lots of stuff and get yourbooks of plaid stamps and get
yourself a nice new coffee makeror phonograph using those
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stamps.
That wraps up another timecapsule, another This Week in
History.
Naturally, you need money to goto the store and buy things at
A&P.
Well, unfortunately, A&P's notaround today anymore, and
neither are these jobs.
As we look back at the top fiveobsolete jobs from a century
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ago, Coming up now.
Anybody of you out therelooking for a new job, you're on
Indeed, you're on ZipRecruiter.
I have some sad news for youbecause all of these jobs I'm
about to share with you, youwill not find openings for.
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What we're going to look at isthe top five obsolete jobs from
a century ago.
This one I had to do some bitof research on, especially to
fill out a top five andhonorable mentions, looking at
jobs that were maybe not themost popular, but that were
around in the 1920s and seewhich of those are just nowhere
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to be found today.
It was interesting to look upwhat the most popular jobs were
from the 1920s.
A lot of them were working inmills or on farms.
Because you got to remember inthe 1920s, I mean, radio had
just come out.
So there wasn't anything forradio or radio repair.
There was no TV.
There sure as hell wasn't anyinternet.
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There were no jobs asinfluencers on social media back
in the 1920s.
But what there were, were somethat were very obvious that they
would have been popular at thetime.
And then there were some othersthat I didn't know existed.
And we're going to run thegamut.
We're going to go through allof it right now.
So as with most of these topfives, there are some honorable
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mentions.
They are in no particularorder.
And if your resume includes anyof these jobs, you may be super
duper old.
And if you are super duper oldand listening to this podcast,
thank you so much for tuning in.
And I hope I didn't offend you.
Honorable mentions for theobsolete jobs from a century ago
include pin setters.
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These are the people that wouldreset the bowling pins in a
bowling alley.
Naturally, that has beenautomated for quite a long time.
Another honorable mention waselevator operator.
These are the people that wouldliterally be in charge of the
elevator.
You step in, you tell them thefloor, they would send you up.
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You'd be in there with thiselevator operator.
Again, this has been automatedfor decades.
Another honorable mention waswas lector.
It is not some super villain.
A lector was somebody thatwould read to people that were
working in a mill or a factory.
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They were the entertainmentbefore radio or internet.
So you'd have someone readingyou a story while you worked or
the newspaper or something,whatever.
Another honorable mention wassoda jerk.
No, not a bad person thatpoured drinks for you.
This was in the old-timeygeneral stores, drug stores.
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You'd saddle up to the bar orthe counter and the person would
make you a drink, usuallysomething sweet.
These people might still bearound, a handful of them, in
the places that are meant to bevintage.
I know not too far from me onCape Cod, there's a place called
Hallett's General Store.
It's been around since the1880s.
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I haven't been in there since Iwas a kid, but they may have a
soda jerk there.
And the last honorable mentionis projectionist.
These are the people that wouldset up the motion picture reels
of film so you could watch themovies in the theater.
With movies now being mainlydigital and it's all automated
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at the theaters, having someonesitting up there running the
projector isn't really necessaryanymore.
So those are the honorablementions.
Were you familiar with any ofthose?
I figure elevator, operator,pin setter, soda jerk.
You probably heard of those.
And some of you might have beenprojectionists.
It wasn't that long ago thatthat went out of style.
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Oh, but get ready.
In the actual top five, I doubtany of you have had these jobs.
We'll start it off with numberone, ice cutters.
Those of you that...
are familiar with the ThreeStooges.
You may remember there's anepisode where they are ice
delivery men.
They show up with theirrefrigerated truck and the
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people would yell to them,Iceman, give me whatever amount
of ice.
And they would have to chop upthe bits, bring it in.
Because back then, yourrefrigerator, you had something
called an icebox.
And you would literally put icein it and it would slowly melt,
but it would keep your foodcool for, I don't know, several
days a week.
So just like back then when youhad milkmen deliver your milk,
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you had an iceman deliver yourice.
As electric refrigerators andfreezers became more common in
the 40s and 50s, ice cuttersweren't necessary anymore.
They all went to become thesculptors you see in the parks
in the winter that use chainsawsto make swans out of big blocks
of ice.
Number two is physiognomist.
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This is one of the craziestones from this list.
A physiognomist is a person whosupposedly can judge your
character based on your face,your facial expressions, your
facial features.
It's like walking into anoffice and the person looks at
you and says, I know you're ajerk based on your cheekbones.
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Like, really?
This was a real job.
Obviously, this kind of a jobis complete garbage.
You can't judge a person basedon their outward appearance.
I mean, you could tell someoneis overweight or older or skinny
based on what you see, but thatdoesn't make them bad or evil
or prone to being a thief or anyof that crap that this job
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seems to be able to predict.
I also couldn't find if you hadto go to college back in the
20s to become a physiognomist.
Like they would have someonewalk in front of the class and
that's your final project is tojudge who they are based on
looking at them.
God, get out of here.
We go from stupidly absurd to ajob that was actually hugely
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popular back then.
And that's number three,switchboard operator.
Way back then, the first halfof the 20th century, probably up
through the 50s and 60s, therewere actually people that would
connect your phone call.
You dial the operator, tellthem who to connect you to, and
that's what they would do.
That's how you would getthrough to people.
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It wasn't as simple as justdialing the phone.
It was dialing operator andsaying, connect me to so-and-so
or their phone number, KL573,and you'd connect them, and
that's great.
So many movies and short films,comedies in the 20s, 30s, and
40s.
There's lots of scenes withswitchboard operators in them.
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Judging by how popular this jobwas back then, it must have
been one of those that thepeople that did it as a job
probably couldn't have imaginedthere would have come a day that
it was obsolete.
I think that's the thing with alot of technological advances,
like whatever's popular eventoday in the 2020s.
There may come a time 20, 30,40 years from now that it's not
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there anymore.
Number four is caddy butcher.
Yes, you've heard of a regularbutcher.
They are still around today.
But a caddy butcher specializedin horse meat.
This job was popular up throughthe 1940s, especially in the US
and in the UK.
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Horse meat was cheaper thantypical beef.
These guys hung around theracetrack, waited for the loser,
and shoved him in theslaughterhouse.
It's not that easy.
It's amazing to think now, ifyou think about eating horse
meat, it's like, oh man, really?
You don't do that.
But a hundred years ago, it wascommon.
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And so much so that caddybutcher was a popular
occupation, especially in theareas of the country where horse
meat was more readily consumed.
I don't know where that wouldbe, but it had to be a lot of
places for this to be a job.
And finally, number five on thelist of top five obsolete jobs
from a century ago is scissorsgrinder.
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It's literally what it says.
Someone that would come to yourhouse and sharpen your
scissors, your knives, anythingelse that you had.
Mainly because this was a timewhere if your scissors got dull,
most people couldn't afford togo out and buy a new pair.
Or if your knives got dull, youmade do with what you had.
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So here came this job wheresomeone would come and knock on
your door and sharpen yourscissors.
Over the decades, the rise ofhome sharpening equipment grew,
and with an increase inaffordability of scissors and
knives and anything else youneeded sharpening, axes,
whatever, that made it where youdidn't need someone coming to
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your house.
You imagine how busy you wouldhave been in the 20s, having
Milkman, Iceman, ScissorGrinder, they all show up on the
same day.
Like you're just trying to siton the porch and read.
You got all these peopleshowing up doing stuff like
that.
But there you have it.
Five obsolete jobs from acentury ago and some honorable
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mentions.
You will not find these onanyone's resume, on Indeed, on
ZipRecruiter, on your LinkedInprofile.
And if you want the job of mostfamous doughboy, that is taken.
So let's do a deep dive intothe story of Poppin' Fresh
coming up right now.
Oh, man.
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15-year-old me is so exciteddoing a podcast segment talking
about Poppin' Fresh, a.k.a.
the Pillsbury Doughboy.
But it actually came to myattention last week when doing
the defunct casual dining chainsegment, the top five.
It was when doing the researchabout steak and ale that I
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realized that they were at onepoint owned by Pillsbury.
And I went down the rabbithole, and that's where I was
looking at it, and I saw thatthey had a place at one point, a
restaurant chain called Poppin'Fresh Pies.
So it was destiny.
I said, I need to do a segmentabout Poppin' Fresh, the
Pillsbury Doughboy, and Poppin'Fresh Pies, the restaurant.
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Well, believe me, this segmentis going to be filled with
clips, starting with this sound.
Yes, the Poppin' Fresh noisewhen you poke his stomach.
When I was a kid growing up inthe 1980s, there were some
mascots that were in commercialsthat really spoke to me.
It's like I wanted them to betoys that I could play with.
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Poppin' Fresh was one.
Snuggles the Bear was another.
The Helping Hand from HamburgerHelper.
And I will say when I got alittle bit older, I did have a
Snuggles Bear and a Poppin'Fresh.
I think I had three of them.
Man, I guess I was like reallyfanboying out for Poppin' Fresh.
Man, there's something toadmit.
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But leave me alone.
Poppin' Fresh is 60 years oldnow.
He was created in 1965 by theLeo Burnett Advertising Agency
to promote Pillsbury'srefrigerated dough products.
Little did they know at thetime, the soft, doughy exterior,
the infectious giggle, thatPoppin' Fresh would influence
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pop culture.
Speaker 05 (35:40):
The
Speaker 00 (35:55):
actual idea for Poppin' Fresh came from Rudy
Purrs, a copywriter at theagency who envisioned a
friendly, animated characterthat would pop out of a can of
dough.
At the beginning, Poppin' Freshwas more stop-motion animation.
Pillsbury embraced the conceptand they ran with it.
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The character would have beenharder to make at the beginning
with a clay model animated frameby frame.
The commercials, though,starting in the late 60s, early
70s, all kids liked Poppin'Fresh.
He was friendly.
little tiny dough boy with thechef hat on.
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No, he didn't wear any clothes.
He was just dough.
And he would be there asparents and kids were making
crescent rolls or regular rollsor whatever else Pillsbury
products you had.
He'd be friendly explaining whythey were good.
And then for some reason at theend of the commercials, the
children felt the need toassault him by gouging at his
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stomach.
That giggle that Poppin' Freshdid, that's what he's probably
known for the most.
There were also the Poppin'Fresh Dough jingle.
Yeah, that one.
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That's a big staple of mychildhood, that Poppin' Fresh
Dough song.
The original voice of Poppin'Fresh, and I think through...
All of my childhood was a mannamed Paul Freese, and he was
the one he voiced characterslike Boris Badenoff from Rocky
and Bullwinkle.
He also did voice for theWonderful World of Disney shows.
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He was Inspector Fenwick fromDudley Do-Right.
He played Santa Claus in theFrosty the Snowman animated film
in the late 1960s.
That one is still on TV a lotto this day.
Andy was also the voice of JohnLennon and George Harrison in
the Beatles animated series in1965.
Sadly, Freeze died in 1986 atthe age of 66 from an overdose
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of pain medication.
And after that, Poppin' Freshwas voiced by different people,
most specifically Jeff Bergman,who voiced him from 1986 to
2014.
So...
A lot of you out there thatgrew up with Poppin' Fresh in
the 90s and 2000s, that's theguy who did The Voice.
Speaker 02 (38:31):
So Poppin'
Speaker 00 (38:46):
Fresh was born 60 years ago in 1965.
Only a couple of years latercomes the part that shocked me
when I was doing my research onlast week's show.
In December 1969, the PillsburyCorporation bought a restaurant
called Mrs.
C's, which was a singlestandalone location in Des
Moines, Iowa.
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Pillsbury changed the name fromMrs.
C's to Poppin' Fresh Pies, andthen started to open more
locations, making it a chain.
Speaker 01 (39:16):
What happens when you bring home a poppin' fresh
pie?
No wonder people love poppin'fresh pies.
We make them fresh daily withjust one thing in mind.
Speaker 00 (39:31):
Poppin' Fresh Pies was a family-style restaurant,
but they specialized inhome-style pies and baked goods
and capitalizing on Pillsbury'sreputation for quality baking.
So think of it like any othercasual dining chain, like the
ones I was talking about lastweek.
They were very similar to that.
Even though they were calledPoppin' Fresh Pies, they didn't
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feature the Doughboy front andcenter, which I was kind of sad.
When I was looking at theirlogos, it was mainly an apple
that said Poppin' Fresh Pies inthe middle of it.
From what I could find throughmy research, Poppin' Fresh Pies
was mainly a Midwest location.
You know, since the originalMrs.
C's they bought was in Iowa.
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It's Iowa, Illinois.
And throughout the 70s, theyslowly started expanding out.
They even reached California.
As they expanded, they expandedthe menu.
It was classic American comfortfood.
And they had their share ofcommercials.
Speaker 03 (40:31):
It seems that no matter how delicious we make our
food at Poppin' Fresh, somepeople just can't wait to get to
our pies.
Poppin' Fresh Restaurants.
Speaker 00 (40:44):
What I could find, and I can't find the timing of
it, but at its peak, Poppin'Fresh Pies had about 500
locations, which that comes backto how did I not know about
this place until last week?
In 1983...
Pillsbury sold Poppin' FreshPies chain to Vicorp, which was
a parent company of Village Inn.
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Following that acquisition, allPoppin' Fresh Pies were
rebranded as Baker's Square, andthey are still in operation to
this day.
It hasn't been all sunshine andrainbows, though, for Baker's
Square.
Going from that peak of about500 restaurants, they have
slowly been declining over thelast 15 years.
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including its parent companyfiling for bankruptcy at the
beginning of 2020.
As far as I can see today, itlooks like there may be less
than 20 Baker's Squarerestaurants left, with some of
their pies being sold throughanother restaurant chain called
Famous Dave's.
Have any of you out there goneto Baker's Square or Famous
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Dave's and had any poppin' freshpies?
So Poppin' Fresh Pies wentaway, but Poppin' Fresh, the
man, the legendary dough boy,stuck around.
You couldn't have grown up inthe last 50 years and not have
seen one Poppin' Freshcommercial.
Speaker 04 (42:07):
It's me! Here's a rap that you should know, made
with Pillsbury Crescent Rolls.
Just wrap a wiener filled withcheese, make it up, and sure to
please.
The Doughboy Rap!
Speaker 00 (42:22):
or seen him in newspaper ads, or face on
merchandise from kitchenware tostuffed toys like I had.
It's easy to see why they keptpopping fresh around when little
kids are watching and they seethis four-inch tall dough boy
with a squeaky high voice andlaughing when you poke his
stomach.
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You want your parents to go buythe crescent roll so you can
see the package with his face onit.
Like I said, I had threedifferent poppin' fresh toys.
So I had one that was akeychain for my first car.
So I had this probably threeinch long poppin' fresh
keychain, which probably wasn'ttoo safe when driving because
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that thing would swing around.
I had a larger stuffed one,which I think I still have in my
mom's basement.
He was stuffed in his body andhis head was harder.
And I also had more of aplastic one that you could bend,
and that was the one that myfriends and I used in a skit
once with my camcorder, where itwas a commercial shoot with
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Poppin' Fresh, but nothing wentright, so with every take he
would get more angry, and hissqueaky voice turned into a real
deep, angry yell, and he wouldyell at the staff.
I wanted to do a sequel skitwhere he went on a rampage and
killed all of us, but that neverended up getting made.
I went looking and couldn'tfind any Poppin' Fresh board
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game or video game.
So sadly, there's nothing likethat where you can have them go
on adventures.
So 60 years in, Poppin' Freshis one of the most famous
product mascots ever.
He started off as just thisclever marketing idea and
expanded into the restaurantworld, hundreds of TV
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commercials.
And every time I see one ofthose old commercials, it just
brings me back the warm, fuzzynostalgia of being a kid.
And I figure as long asPillsbury continues to bake,
Poppin' Fresh will likelycontinue to pop up and delight
generations to come.
But until next time, that'sgoing to wrap up episode 185 of
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the In My Footsteps podcast.
Thank you for listening.
Thank you for making it all theway to the end.
Hopefully you've had your fillof nostalgia for the day.
If you like my content, you canbecome a subscriber on Patreon
for $5 a month, bonus podcastepisodes, other special features
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including now the remasteredlive streams.
You can also support me bybuying me a coffee.
That's, you know, one-timethings as low as a dollar, which
won't buy me a coffee, butstill.
Check out my Etsy storefeaturing my New England
photography.
I'm really trying to starthyping that up.
I add new photos every week.
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I've got hundreds, thousands ofphotos from over the years.
Lots of them will makeexcellent portraits in your
house.
So go and check it out.
The link is in the descriptionof the podcast.
But you can also support me andsupport my work by sharing it,
spreading it around, word ofmouth.
That's really the best way tosupport content creators is to
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bring more eyes to their work,ears to their work.
And I got lots of work.
I have hundreds of videos onYouTube, so you can go subscribe
to my channel there.
I've got hundreds of blogs.
You can go and just read them.
You don't need to subscribe.
You can follow me all oversocial media.
I'm on Instagram, Threads, BlueSky.
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I've got a Facebook fan pagefor the podcast.
I sometimes do TikTok videos,but there's no dancing or
foolishness like that.
It's centered around thepodcast or it's scenes from Cape
Cod.
Special birthday shout out afew days early to my friend and
Patreon subscriber, Crystal.
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Truly one of my favorite peoplein the world.
She's family.
She's always supportive of meand my work, which is really so
helpful on the days when I'mdoing so much work and I'm
wondering if it's making adifference.
To have people that are in yourcorner and supportive, it
really does a lot.
Next week on the podcast, youwill get the time capsule
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section, your birth date, soyou'll get to know everything
that was going on.
And speaking of that, next weekis episode 186.
We're going to be looking atjust what in the world a B-movie
is, kind of an overview.
We're going to have a newdedication to the craft segment,
photography segment, a famoustrip to Nantucket with my buddy
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Steve.
Lots of fun and laughs there.
And there'll be a brand new topfive that are the
quintessential 80s songs.
Like these songs or videos,when you see them, it screams
80s to you.
So all that's coming up nextweek on episode 186 of the
podcast.
Now we're into March.
We're getting closer to spring.
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Hopefully the weather's goingto start to warm up some.
Things will start to bloom.
So make sure you take advantageof that.
Get outside.
Enjoy that vitamin D.
As it's warmer, you can gofurther away.
Go further into the woods ordown the beach to just get into
your own head.
Solitude.
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Enjoy yourself.
That's one of my favoritethings to do.
Go and get lost and just enjoywhat's out there.
And you can always take thispodcast with you.
I try to make it, you know,less than an hour.
Perfect time for a walk.
Fill your day with nostalgia,the good old days.
I feel like a fine connoisseurof nostalgia.
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And I share it with all of youweekly, hoping that if you need
an escape for a little while,you get it.
And 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
brings.
Thank you all again for tuningin.
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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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