Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod -15th December, 2025

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod; Gen Alpha will never know the struggle of this...

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
From the Zidium Podcast Network. It's Fleechborn and Hayley's It's
a little bit of Pod.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Welcome to a little bit of Pod. I was recently asked,
there's actually been a couple of incidents lately where I've
had to explain the technology of our ancient forefathers. Oh
you just mean our childhood yep, and only two thousands.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
My children asked me what I meant by wind down
the window? Well, and said wind down the window? I said,
do you want to wind that well? No? I actually
said can you wind that window up? And she's like,
it's why do we say wind They've never experienced an
actual manual wind down windows. Like, guess it's that's true.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Like your cars when they were babies all had electric windows,
and most cars for the last twenty years have And my.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Land Rovers, my old sixty seven land Rovers windows slide.
Oh yeah, okay, they were pre they predate the old
wind up or it was too hard a technology for
Landrover to put in cars. Yeah, and so they slide.
So they've never actually had that wind down the window
or jumped into a car where someone's like that put
that window down because it doesn't go back up. Oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
Also, it's kind of like with phones. How when we
mind the phone, we've got the two ends and they
mind it like they're holding an iPhone.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
But if we were to do.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
A funny skit in our improv group that we have,
we haven't really talked about that very much, but you
still kind of have that thing to be like wind
down the window, you know, I mean, like, hey, how
are you.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
The other thing was we're at my parents place and
I found old cassettes because my parents, which.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
By the way, I'm coming back in like I it's
not gonna last.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
See it's my last.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
CDs could make a big hold CDs, so I can
give them another red hot. Those are a bloody nice
space of tacks.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Our tapes are annoying because you'd have to listen to
if you wanted one song on the album rewind.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
And some of those tape players didn't have a rewind.
They only had a fast forward because they only had
the motor and then they could go forward, so you'd
have to flip it over and go forward as a
way of reversing. Anyway, I found them and I was like,
oh my god, Like they were labeled mixtapes that said
things like slow jams hip and I was like wow,
and the girls were like playing them for us, and
I was like, okay, I don't know how we don't

(02:07):
have the technology.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Oh yeah, because who has a cassette player anymore unless
your parents have an old.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
So I found one in the garage, but it had
been so long the motor that turned the tape had seized.
Yeah it was, so I had took it apart and
had a little fiddle and blew a little bit of sea,
our sea in there to get the get the little
motor to go, and then I could fast forward it
and I was like click, and I played it simply.
You know what I needed? I needed a tape head cleaner,
remember a tape head cleaner. Wild After a while of

(02:36):
running a magnetic tape strip, it would just get dust
and stuff on the little thing that read the magnetic
writing on it, So you'd need to run a tape
cleaners through to clean all the parts. And it just
looked like a cassette except the tape was like cleaning strip.
And so yeah, I didn't have one of those cleaners.
So we listened to a very very very muffled version
of Now I potato's fly like a bird. Like a bird?

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Was that on slow jams. She's had a rough year,
Remember she said she's.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Even rougher on this because it was like that.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
So according to the British Phonographic Industry, in twenty twenty two,
and this is even in twenty twenty two, cassette sales
in the UK reached the highest level since two thousand
and three. And there's a similar trend in the United States,
where cassette sales were up two hundred and four percent.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Even when something's like three a year, it's easy to go.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yeah, I mean that US is a total of sixty
three thousand units.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Oh Jesus, okay, I wasn't exact sixty three. I mean
I saw the other day. I think it was real groovy.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
I was online looking for something and I saw, like
on the online store, like a three pack of cassettes.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
I was like, what the fuck? What twenty twenty five? Like,
this is nuts?

Speaker 3 (03:52):
Is it going to be that thing where like, you
know a lot of people collect records but they don't
have a record player. Maybe they're just cassettes, but they
won't have a way of But it's just.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
It's like how the City Walkman's became cool with gin
Z as well. They just like they see something and
they're like, well that's retro. We can make that call again.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah, Ye're crazy.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
Game.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
It's no, it's not good. Don't do it. It's nostalgia.
It's roasted in to nostalgia.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
And imagine when they experienced the first time when the
bluddy tape gets caught.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
Yeah you can hear it chewing it.