70s Christmas Gifts That Weren’t Toys

Do you remember what your parents received for Christmas? Here's our best memories of 70s Christmas gifts that weren't toys.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, bussheads, Welcome to the Seventies Buzz Podcast. I'm Curtis Tucker.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
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Sorry, but however, you have dial it's not in terms
of this time. Somebody answer that phone and quit playing
with the pinball machine?

Speaker 4 (01:11):
Please, what's going on, mister Wheeler?

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Ah, just checking here, so hey dude or evening? Okay,
yeah I did that.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Hey everybody, Welcome to another exciting episode of the Seventies
Buzz Podcast.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
Five eight oh five four.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
One three, eight oh five or buzz buzzedmedia dot com
Merry Christmas and Happy holidays.

Speaker 4 (01:40):
Oh that seats.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Oh the city council meeting just screwed everything up. So
we're like an hour and a half late recording. I
was gonna turn on Christmas music in the background since
everybody could hear the crickets. I thought, well, why should
we hit pause and go turn I should be playing.
It's too late now, it's let's get going.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
It's not only after do this at any certain time.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Well, I need to be in there soon because somebody's birthday.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
So oh that's right.

Speaker 4 (02:05):
So that's anyway.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Uh, they've called, they've called, Hey, Dave, what's up?

Speaker 2 (02:15):
What's buzzing? That's you? But them he was talking about
asked about fruitcakes, and you said, you've I don't know
if that I've ever tried fruitcake.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
I have tried fruitcake, and it's not that I don't
like it. It's just I, you know, it's just not something.
You know, there's lots of stuff that I don't not like,
but I don't eat. So it's just one of those
things that I don't eat. If somebody offered me a
slice of fruitcake, I probably eat it.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
It looks to me like you got to have a
big glass of milk right there with you.

Speaker 4 (02:47):
Yeah, I would, Yeah, I would think so.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
But and some of them are so different that it
kind of maybe depends on the one that you're trying.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
And then they weigh like ten pounds. Yeah, and they
and they never go bad.

Speaker 4 (02:59):
Now I don't like the one.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
Do all fruitcakes have alcohol in them? Or just idea
some of them, because I don't think I've had the
ones that taste like alcohol.

Speaker 4 (03:08):
I think I've just had the regular.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
I didn't even know they had some with alcohol.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
I think they have some soaked in alcohol.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
From what I I'm not a big fruitcake try fruitcakes?
You guys let us know, do you guys? I guess
that was kind of Dave's question is do we eat fruitcake?

Speaker 4 (03:27):
Do you guys eat fruitcake? And he imaged and now
I know he's a lover of eggnog. I'm not a
big I am not a lover of egnog. I will
not even get near egnog.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
It's it's a little thick, just like I don't know.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah, So two questions for you guys, Do you guys
eat fruitcake?

Speaker 4 (03:45):
And do you drink the egg if not.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
And I actually asked the eggnog question on enid Buzz
like maybe two nights ago, so I'll have to go
look at what the response was on there.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
Okay, cool. All the gretzm and stuff is pretty.

Speaker 4 (03:58):
Much well, hang on a day. You've also talked about
ribbon candy. Yeah, that a lot of them.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
You'd get the surprise piece of candy that had the
creamfield center, which I still like those. And then he
also liked me likes the spearmint. It's just like there's
not enough spearmint stuff out there.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
No, I agree, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (04:17):
I like spearmint, so yeah. And then Gretchen called.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
Gretchen called, that's mostly all radio. Although she was assuming
this episode was going to be Rob Reiner, but it's not.

Speaker 4 (04:29):
It's not Rob Reiner.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
We were trying to squeeze two holiday episodes in before Christmas,
and that's one reason it's not Rob Reiner.

Speaker 4 (04:39):
So we'll get to that after the New Year. That
was Gretchen.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
And then Julie, Julie's in a Christmas card, sent us
a Christmas card.

Speaker 4 (04:48):
Appreciate that, Julie from Bristow. And then I wanted to
clear up something real quick.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
At the end of last week's live episode, you and
I were kind of trying to figure out if seven
eleven's had icys because everybody was talking about them having slurpies.

Speaker 4 (05:06):
So we looked up.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
We googled that after we hung up the phone, and yes,
seven eleven actually started out with icys and then I
think went to slurpies. But a lot of them did
have icis in the beginning and hours in Enid had.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
Icy so apparently they still do because they had they
had icys at Walmart apparently. Well yeah, I know, yeah,
but they're icies not slurpies.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
Well but I think seven eleven may have gone to
slurpeesh heart is still icy, but I think seven eleven, okay,
they have gone to anyway, our seven eleven did have ice. Yes,
So Jeffrey emailed. He said, hollo, Jeffrey, here only nine
more days until Christmas. Woo who I bought my mom

(05:54):
seven presents.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
Dang good Sun.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
You've got some coin there, buddy, he says. I hope
she likes them. I bought a new teapot for meself.
My old one was rusting, rusted, teapot there, buddy. Yeah,
that's not good, he says, I need my tea next week.
I love the way people that live across upon call
vacation holiday. He says, next week, My holiday starts until January,

(06:22):
and then he says until eight January, and thirty one
January is my birthday.

Speaker 4 (06:27):
Again, I'm getting old. I can't think of how old
Jeffrey is, but I know he's not that old.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
No, what is u Lot's favorite tea? Mine is Walter's
Bay from Sri Lanka. But I only drink iced tea.
I don't drink hot tea. And it says I bought
Christmas tea box from Dammon Freers.

Speaker 4 (06:53):
I recommend that one.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
And then he sent me some pictures of the tea
and his little teddy bear who's called Aapi e ap
Appy aap ap ap Maybe ap was damaged, so me
mum mended him. I can't sleep without him. I got
him from my oohmah grandma when I was new born

(07:15):
in my crib, so it's the same age as me.
I'll send pictures, and he did send pictures and it
is a cute little bear. Oh man, So yeah, And
then Jim Hammond from Utah emailed.

Speaker 4 (07:28):
He said, all, Jim, so, and this is another I had.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
No idea you guys were doing this, But Jim said,
all this month I have listened to your Christmas themed episodes.
I will agree your holiday themed shows bring out all
of the nostalgia of the holidays and traditions.

Speaker 4 (07:42):
In the nineteen seventies.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
Here in Salt Lake, we have a local radio station
that broadcasts commercial free one hundred hours of Christmas each year.
In the seventies, we knew Christmas had officially arrived when
that came on. And here in Oklahoma, we have a
jewelry store Gift and when their commercials came out, that's.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
When we give the gift.

Speaker 4 (08:03):
You know, Christmas started.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
People have been complaining that they haven't seen the commercial
on TV.

Speaker 4 (08:13):
Have you. I don't watch enough four or five and
nine to see it. Uh, he says.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
There is a Christmas cartoon that my sister and I
watched that premiered in nineteen seventy eight called Raggedy Ann
and Andy in the Great.

Speaker 4 (08:28):
Santa Claus Caper. Do you remember? I don't remember that
one either. Chuck Jones wrote and directed it. I know
it had aired every year for about a decade or.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
So on CBS. But by seventy eight, I think we'd
kind of quit watching Lord No, but you know the
new I was so into the old Christmas specials.

Speaker 4 (08:48):
Those were really the only ones I tried to catch.
He says, happy you have holidays, Jim Hammond.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
He says, ps, Yes, Virginia, the seventies were the greatest
decade known to MANIM appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
Hey, we got that in there, didn't he have trucks?

Speaker 1 (09:03):
Well, and I was about to say so, tonight's episode
is we've done an episode on Christmas toys, and tonight's
more of an episode of Christmas gifts, like maybe what
you got your parents or what your parents gave each
other or grandparents and all that. Yeah, And I know
there were some cool gifts in the sixties, not a

(09:24):
single cool gift in the eighties.

Speaker 4 (09:26):
But the coolest gifts were in the seventies.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
And why did that, mister Wheeler, Well, because that was
the greatest dick in ultimam. Yes, it was. So.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
For all you people that listen to our Christmas episodes
during the holidays, here's a new one for you.

Speaker 4 (09:47):
Before we get into the actual gifts.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
And I know I've probably mentioned this before, but just
wanted to reiterate the fact that any gift you got
from my grandma was wrapped in for you.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
Like aluminum foil.

Speaker 4 (10:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
I look at that now, and I think, you know
that actually was kind of genius because you don't really
have to tape it or do you already use it? I
think yeah, I think at the end of the morning,
it was.

Speaker 4 (10:16):
Like, everybody buy yours foil over.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
There, and then she'd take it home, and I guarante
she probably got the ironing board out, probably ironed it
and straightened it back out and used it the next year.

Speaker 4 (10:26):
Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
Probably so, But yeah, Grandma's uh, and you always knew
what gift under.

Speaker 4 (10:31):
The tree was from Grandma. It was wrapped in foil.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
But I get that now that we're getting older, I
hate wrapping presents.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
Now.

Speaker 4 (10:40):
If you if you look at my.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
Presence that I give in the bag, they're either in
a bag or they're in a box that's that's already
pre made that you just put the lid on.

Speaker 4 (10:52):
I don't. I might wrap maybe two or three.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
Gifts, I'm not wrapping a single one. I'm sticking money
in a car for the sixth Grande Kids well five,
Bella did get presents, but Bailey Carly Carly rap those
for me and picked him out.

Speaker 4 (11:08):
Oh sweet.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
So I have no idea what I bought Bella. She
told me, but I can't remember.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
Yeah, okay, so real quick. Do you remember any actual
presence that you gave your parents in the seventies?

Speaker 2 (11:24):
Not my parents. I remember a president I gave my brother. Ah,
I don't know why I remember it, and I bought
it at Evans really believe it or not. Yeah, it
was a shower massager. Oh really, he was so hard
to buy four because he had everything and he would
you know, he made good money where he's working in
and you know, he just had everything he wanted, especially

(11:46):
in the later seventies. But that's the only thing I
can remember buying anybody.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
Yeah, I can't remember, but of course we were young
enough that we didn't usually have much money, right. I
do rememb remember using and I've talked about it, is
using a bunch of green stamps for a blue manicure set.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
I was gonna steal one.

Speaker 4 (12:09):
Yeah, I mean, that's.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
Like the only I think, that's the only present I
remember in the seventies giving my mom. And then I
do remember making ash trays, you know, like I was
always an art class and we'd do pottery and stuff,
and so I'd make ash trays and bowls and I'd
give those to her, I know, sometimes for Christmas because
she was a chainsmoker. I mean, you know, so there

(12:33):
had to be an ash tray in every room in
the house and so, uh we could our house couldn't
have enough ash.

Speaker 4 (12:39):
Trays back in the day.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
Yeah, this was disgusting.

Speaker 4 (12:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
So yeah, that and other than that, I don't remember
ever getting Connie anything. But of course I didn't have
any money to buy anybody anything.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
I guess Mom just took us to the store and
said this is going to be from you. I think
that's what it was like here, this is what you
guys sister. You know.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
Yeah, I don't think my my mom basically got presents
for us and you know, not each other. You know,
she didn't like buy one for Connie and say it
was for me. So only presents came from her or
Santa Claus and then you know, Grandma and other people
would give.

Speaker 4 (13:17):
Us their presence.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
So yeah, it was just so yeah, I can't even
I don't think I remember ever picking out or helping
get Connie anything. But I don't think she ever got
me anything either, So fair's fair.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
Well that got me.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
So I remember in the seventies, smells, colognes, perfumes were
huge gifts.

Speaker 4 (13:42):
Charlie. Do you remember, like there was a couple of
years there were and.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
I, okay, that's funny. I do remember buying my mom, Charlie.
So I but it must have been late late seventies when.

Speaker 4 (13:54):
I had a job.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
And yeah, I do remember buying my mom, Charlie, because
it was like the perfume.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
I remember those commercials.

Speaker 4 (14:04):
There was one called an a n a I s
A n a I s a nissa nice.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
I don't remember that one.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
And then opium were kind of the big, big perfumes.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
I just remember Hi Karate in old English.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
I got I was gonna say, there high karate, brute Polo.

Speaker 4 (14:23):
And somebody got me Jovonne Musk at some point in
the seventies.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
And what about Avon Remember all the cool bottle collectible bottles,
the collectible models.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
Yeah, I forgot about those. Change.

Speaker 1 (14:41):
Yeah, I think I had like autumn, somebody gave me
their collection and and they had, you know, they every
bottle had like a quarter of the cologne and stuff
still and it it was. It was gnarly smelling stuff.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
I still have Draquard Noir from wasn't the seventies, but
it would have been Which wife would that have been?
Probably two number two?

Speaker 4 (15:08):
So it was a late eighties.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yeah, I don't think it's any good.

Speaker 4 (15:13):
You never know.

Speaker 1 (15:15):
Revlon Intimate and I'm not I don't, you know, being
a dude, I'm not sure what that was Max Factor
Garden of Christmas Treasures. Now some of the girls may
remember these. I don't remember that one either. And then
Love Cosmetics Owed to Love. I think that was something
a husband bought the wife for Christmas to get her

(15:36):
in the mood.

Speaker 2 (15:40):
I remember. I remember people getting and giving like bubble
bass stuff.

Speaker 4 (15:46):
Yeah, and that was before.

Speaker 1 (15:50):
Bad.

Speaker 4 (15:51):
But what's that store in the mall, that bath, bed,
bath and beyond. Yeah, but there's one in the mall
bath Pathworks something like that bath anyway.

Speaker 1 (16:02):
Yeah, so it was before that, so yeah, you had
to it seems like the marts would have prepackaged bubble
baths and.

Speaker 4 (16:11):
Stuff like that. What about scratchy socks?

Speaker 2 (16:14):
I never had scratchy.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
So I didn't either, but I ran across a lot
of forums online that were talked about they always everybody
got scratchy socks.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
Yeah, I saw that they.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
Must have been wool or something, oh, or really cheap
material to make them scratchy. Platform shoes were shoes.

Speaker 4 (16:34):
Kind of a big gift.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
Boots. I remember my sister's getting. I think Cindy got
the thigh high Go Go boots.

Speaker 1 (16:43):
I think I kind of remember Connie getting a pair
of boots for Christmas.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
Yeah, it was a big deal.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
Personalized satin jackets with names or patches, and not even
just satin but denim. I remember I got a Dallas
Cowboy football jacket that had like the plastic sleeves. You
know that the body was material, but the sleeves were plastic.
And then Mom sewed a.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
Patch on it this said Kurt, so like you were
a cowboy. There was a cowboy Dallas Cowboy football play.
I can't even read what that. Oh, I see, sometimes
my writing gets a little scratchy. Candy chocolates, Oh.

Speaker 1 (17:27):
Yeah, lots of chocolates, chocolate turtle chocolates with the pecans
and caramel caramel candy, caramel candy. Oh yeah, that was
kind of big. And then I think we talked about
but that was more for uh. Here was a big one.

Speaker 4 (17:41):
Brons Cherry cordials.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
Oh, every kid would pop one of those in their
mouth and then that cherry fluid would just ruin the
whole chocolate.

Speaker 2 (17:56):
Yeah, yeah, number four like those I could I couldn't
even eat a whole one. They're so sweet.

Speaker 4 (18:03):
Yeah. I was never never a big fan either.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
I don't know what. Did they give me a headache
thinking about it?

Speaker 4 (18:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (18:11):
You know one thing that I had forgotten about that
I remember doing this research.

Speaker 4 (18:16):
Popcorn tins.

Speaker 1 (18:18):
Oh yeah, I mean every Christmas, somebody got a popcorn tin.

Speaker 2 (18:22):
Yeah, with the three different flavors.

Speaker 4 (18:24):
Yeah, three different flavors and some.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
Scene on the outside of a horse going through a
little town or so.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
You had the regular the caramel, caramel and cheese cheesey.
Of course the car went like that. That was the
first one to go.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
I like mixing them a little bit, a handful of caramel,
a little bit of somebody was it. Kurt Ternary might
have messaged me and said, he says caramel.

Speaker 4 (18:51):
Yeah, I just thrown that out there.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
I don't know why, because it's a botant.

Speaker 4 (18:56):
I'm just throwing it out there. Yeah, what about do
you remember gene It's called Ditto's.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
No.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
I guess that was kind of a big deal with
the girls, is getting a pair of Ditto gens.

Speaker 4 (19:06):
I do really remember them either. I mean I.

Speaker 2 (19:08):
Remember getting bell bottom bel bottoms and some end quarter rays.
Quarters are big.

Speaker 4 (19:18):
Hey, look what I got on? I know he's working,
got my quarter ice on right now.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
I noticed that I was. I wanted to reach over
and touch. Yeah, the fat girls.

Speaker 4 (19:34):
You can't say that on air. I guess you just did.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
This is just dude, my mom like getting gloves.

Speaker 1 (19:44):
The isoton Oh yeah, yeah, I think I got a Yeah,
I got a pair of Isotona were kind of cool.
They have the huh like kind of a what something
on that like a stripe a stripe on the top,
and like after a week it would start peeling off.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yeah. Yeah, but they were cool when they were a new. Yeah,
I got a pair of moms. Someone made me a
shadow box of mom stuff. I don't know. You may
have seen it's got a pair of gloves or Yeah, that's.

Speaker 4 (20:08):
A big deal. And this for ladies in the seventies. Yeah,
what about eight there was eight track tapes.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
Oh yeah, music, all kinds of music.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
And then yeah, the middle of it turned to cassettes
and there was vinyl. My first, my first vinyl album
I've talked about it was The Clowns and my mom
got me that for Christmas and somebody famous, some actor
was in the Clowns and it's k l ow Ns

(20:39):
the Clowns. There's some famous actor that was in that group. Anyway,
that was my first.

Speaker 4 (20:45):
So I got a vinyl album and my mom didn't
know anything. I guess about music because.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
I talk about a random album to get me when
you got you know.

Speaker 4 (20:56):
Pink Floyd and Eagles.

Speaker 1 (20:59):
Yeah, and she's getting me The Clowns. But it was
probably pretty early seventies CB radios. There was a time
period in there where people were getting CB radios for Christmas.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
Yeah, in nineteen seventy is.

Speaker 1 (21:16):
That when the class Now, I'm sure she got it
for me in like seventy two or seventy three, had
probably sat in the record bin for two or three
years before she.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
Steve Williams, Jake Glitterman, Craig Great, Melvin Seal.

Speaker 4 (21:37):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 4 (21:38):
There's a famous actor or maybe a famous actor is
the one that put the group together.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
Anyway, I'll look that up.

Speaker 4 (21:49):
Super eight home movie camera.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
Oh yeah, and then they had unwrap it and start
filming right there at Christmas.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
Open me first.

Speaker 1 (21:56):
Yeah, And that's that's one thing I don't have, the
super eight movies.

Speaker 4 (22:03):
My mom had a not a super eight.

Speaker 1 (22:05):
My mom had an eight millimeter camera. And I don't
I'm trying to think. I don't think. I I don't
remember ever seeing a Christmas video. I mean she videoed
us over in Turkey and going to grease.

Speaker 4 (22:22):
And stuff like. I don't know that she ever filmed.
I wonder if she got it. And then they got.

Speaker 1 (22:31):
Divorced before the next Christmas and she just I don't know.

Speaker 4 (22:37):
I don't know why she never figurda.

Speaker 1 (22:40):
No way, I've got it. I've actually got it. Mom
had it. But I just don't know that she ever
unless those her reels of filmer somewhere.

Speaker 4 (22:49):
We haven't found them yet.

Speaker 2 (22:51):
You got a projector we got.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
One of those editing She bought one of those little
editing things.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
So I used to.

Speaker 1 (22:57):
Watch all my all the eight millimeters or yeah, the
eight millimeter on that thing.

Speaker 4 (23:01):
Oh cool, yeah, cool, go ahead, posters. Oh yeah, posters.

Speaker 1 (23:09):
Well, of course, I got that very famous.

Speaker 4 (23:13):
Fair poster which you loom moved. Yeah, I'm still I'm
really I'm rearranging the studio so it's a little more
podcast friendly. Yes, it is giving us. I'm kind of
cleaning it up a little bit. But I've got our little.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
Homage to the seventies. So everything you guys have been
sending us is in this one spot now that we
can keep an eye on it. I got the surfboard
hanging from the ceiling trying to make and then we've
got our bushead radio huge sign behind us now. And
Christopher Todd.

Speaker 4 (23:48):
Message the other day and asked if the brick wall
was real.

Speaker 1 (23:52):
Oh yeah, very real, and so I thought, well, let's
expose the brick wall a little more.

Speaker 4 (23:56):
So we've got a little more brick wall exposure behind us,
and so the next live you guys will see all
the new changes there you go.

Speaker 1 (24:04):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (24:05):
VCRs Yeah, those were super expensive too. They yeah, I
mean they were like.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
What was it, what was the thing that came out
before VCRs and Beta. It's like the movies were on
like a big vinyl laser disc.

Speaker 4 (24:20):
Laser disc.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
Yeah, they were so they were that was a minute.
They were around for a.

Speaker 4 (24:25):
Not very long. Yeah. You couldn't record.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
On them, you could just play display them.

Speaker 2 (24:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
Yeah, but boy, VCRs when they came out, they were
a hot, hot ticket item.

Speaker 4 (24:37):
Color TVs.

Speaker 2 (24:39):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 4 (24:39):
I mean even into the I bet late nineties, early nineties,
late nineties, every house you went into there was still
like one black and white TV in some room bedroom.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
I remember at Jim and Betty's house in their kitchen
there was a black and white TV about that big
and everybody sat there and watched all.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
The time and not go to the big room.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
Yeah with a big yeah. So but yeah, but everybody
getting I remember mom, So that was a Christmas present
that Mom got us.

Speaker 4 (25:11):
That wasn't a toy. She got us little black and
white TVs. Me and Connie for our rooms. They were,
you know, pretty.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
Cheesy, you know, deep, but you know we had a
little TV in our room.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
Yeah. Remember the little radios that were bulls.

Speaker 4 (25:26):
I didn't ever have one of those.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
And they came like blue, red, green, yellow, white, had
it and they had a chain. They kind of looked
like a death star. Ah, you don't remember those. I
don't remember those Oh, let's see if I'm finely.

Speaker 1 (25:49):
Did anybody's parents have a tinsil like that shiny tinsil
Christmas tree?

Speaker 2 (25:57):
Ah? You don't remember those?

Speaker 1 (25:59):
I remember it now, but I don't. I don't know
anybody that did. You did, I don't remember anybody that
ever had one.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
Okay, always had the cool stuff. But it doesn't look
like a death star.

Speaker 4 (26:09):
Yeah it is a death star? Is that not where
they got I don't know the idea for the death star?
Maybe I guarantee you that's where they got it.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
You know what's his face? George is like, I don't
know where, I know the shape, but I've got this idea.
Then one day he's looking at the old stuff.

Speaker 4 (26:25):
Okay go yeah, uh okay, back to tinsil. The silver
tinsel trees sometimes you get parents would get the color wheel.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
Oh yeah, that's rotated behind.

Speaker 1 (26:35):
Rotated and change it from blue to red, yellow to green.

Speaker 4 (26:40):
I guess that was kind of a big deal. I don't.
We never had a silver tinsil Christmas tree.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
We've always had a real one.

Speaker 4 (26:48):
I was gonna say, my mom, as as far as
the seventies, we never had an artificial tree. We always
had a real tree.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
Yeah, I didn't tell. Well, it's been a while.

Speaker 4 (27:01):
Sleds. Sleds were kind of big to get, you know,
for grown ups and kids.

Speaker 2 (27:07):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, because it was the time of
year usually.

Speaker 4 (27:13):
Yeah, in Oklahoma, some years it would snow, some years
it wouldn't snow.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
I mean still not even here. It is nine days
to Christmas and it's still not winter.

Speaker 4 (27:21):
I know, I still fall, but you know what happens.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
And I know what's today? Today's sixteenth. Well, my birthdays
on Saturday. So usually right around my.

Speaker 4 (27:30):
Birthday days gets the shortest day of the year, and
then the days start getting longer. I can't wait for
that day all the way to June twenty first Advent calendars.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
I never got those. Well you opened a.

Speaker 1 (27:46):
Yeah, we never did either, But that seems like that
was on a lot of people's gifts that their families
would get.

Speaker 4 (27:52):
Advent calendars.

Speaker 2 (27:54):
Lava lamps.

Speaker 1 (27:55):
I had that on my Yeah, lava lamps. Parents, would
you know they they groovy? Parents had lava lamps.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
Oh yeah, mine did.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
And shag carpet and waterbeds and waters are so cool. Yeah,
nothing says seventies like a lava lamp and a water bed.

Speaker 4 (28:14):
Oh uh, now this one.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
I hadn't really realized you've heard of Holly Hobby, but
I guess women in the seventies collected Holly Hobby figurines, calendars,
and sent out Holly Hobby cards. It was almost like
Holly Hobby was more popular.

Speaker 4 (28:33):
With moms than kids at one point.

Speaker 2 (28:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (28:36):
It was kind of a big, big deal.

Speaker 2 (28:38):
Yeah, yeah, collectible thing, yeah, yep.

Speaker 4 (28:42):
And I always remember.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
Under a tree, usually not wrapped, there would be a
nutcracker bowl with a nutcracker like with a ribbon around it.
And I guess that was because, hey, take the ribbon
off and fill it up so we could start cracking
some nuts. But do you remember in the seventies, every house,
especially during the holidays, had like a nutcracker.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
I don't remember having a nutcracker.

Speaker 1 (29:09):
You guys never had a nutcracker. You never had like
a wooden bowl that was full of pecns.

Speaker 2 (29:13):
Oh yeah, but oh, I thought you meant like the Soldier. No, yeah,
nutcracker like metal yeah? Metal? Oh yeah, yeah yeah yeah
it had the little poky thing at the end, yeah
that you dug the dug the meat out. Yeah yeah, yeah,
did have those. That was more a Grandma's or ma'ma
daddy hangs out. Uh, purses used to like getting purses.

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She collected these. Uh do you remember the purses that
she had with the wooden ones and they were like weaved.
Oh yeah, I had to handle it.

Speaker 4 (29:45):
Looked almost like something uh Dorothy would carry on.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
Yeah, exactly, and it had to had the hinge to it. Yeah. Yeah.
Her favorite one was one that had a penny on
it that was like lacquered on.

Speaker 4 (29:56):
Uh huh.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
And she said that she cracked her up. She'd be
at work and she'd ball time.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
Watchny too, funny, it's a penny, Come on, that's funny.
I do remember those, Yeah, I don't my mom. I
don't think my mom ever had any of those.

Speaker 2 (30:11):
They were at Lambert's. Oh really yeah, and they had
like a montage.

Speaker 4 (30:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
It had like I think the one one with a
penny had like a downtown scene and they had different stores.

Speaker 4 (30:23):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
Someone painted on there must have been a local. I
was gonna say it had to be handmade locally or something.
It's that thing's floating around somewhere not here. I'm looking
around like I could be here.

Speaker 4 (30:32):
Well, you never know, look over there.

Speaker 2 (30:35):
It's not here.

Speaker 4 (30:37):
Uh, ladies magazines.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
Ladies monthly magazines were big, like Better Homes and Garden.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
Yeah, you give or you could give subscriptions.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
Yeah basically yeah, yeah, or you know, for my mom.
I would not doubt that I did not give my
mom a TV.

Speaker 4 (30:51):
Guide subscription at one time or another.

Speaker 1 (30:53):
Remember we used to have to sell magazines in junior high.
I wonder if I ever signed my mom up for
TV Guide.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
Yeah, and always felt weird. I never liked doing that crap.

Speaker 4 (31:03):
Oh I hated it.

Speaker 1 (31:03):
But if you if you only sold this many, you'd
get to go see the John Wayne movie on Thursday.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
That was pretty cool.

Speaker 4 (31:12):
Yeah, because it got out of.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
Class so it was worth Yeah, it was which one?

Speaker 4 (31:16):
Was it?

Speaker 2 (31:17):
Which movie? It wasn't Clintalk.

Speaker 4 (31:19):
No, it's like Rio Bravo, which is a really good
movie something like that. I get, but I just yeah,
I remember it being a John Wayne movie.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
Hand made macro May gifts. I think my grandma made
some als. I think everybody, every all the grown ups
got like al Macromay.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
Yeah we were. We had that Macromay phase, making potholders
that hung and plant holders. Yeah. Yeah, I put down
verses twice fon dupots.

Speaker 4 (31:54):
That's on my list too, yeap, von dupots were big.
I don't ever remember doing My mom never did fondue.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
I don't sounds good.

Speaker 1 (32:01):
I don't know that I ever did fondue. Maybe maybe
once at a party, a church party.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
Oh yeah, but it was cheese.

Speaker 4 (32:11):
Yeah, and so well I've done chocolate, but.

Speaker 2 (32:13):
Oh like a chocolate fountain almost. Yeah, and it was
it was a.

Speaker 1 (32:17):
Youth party, so you think it would have been chocolate,
but I think it was cheese, and so I didn't
really part to take not much of a cheese eater.

Speaker 4 (32:26):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
Did you ever get or get or give a hot
air corn popper popcorn popper?

Speaker 1 (32:32):
No, but that was on my list too that when
those things first came out, that was a big item.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
Oh yeah, we had one. It was cool because it
had a little reservoir. You put some it's like half
a stick of buttery in or whatever, and it's it
got hot, melted the popcorn to pop out and get
drizzled and butter. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
I think we went straight from Jiffy pop to microwave
and didn't didn't do any of the middle stuff.

Speaker 2 (32:55):
Oh god, I remember getting a microwave oh yeah, you
know what. That may have been Christmas present. I think
my parents got on.

Speaker 4 (33:02):
I bet a lot of people got microwaves for Christmas.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (33:06):
I was gonna say. They were big and heavy.

Speaker 2 (33:09):
God it took and we didn't have much counter space.

Speaker 4 (33:11):
Yeah, those dudes were big back then.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
Candles were Oh yeah, I bet I bought my mom
a dozen candles probably.

Speaker 2 (33:19):
Yeah. No, Uh, digital watches those were pretty cool.

Speaker 4 (33:25):
Digital watches were big, even just regular watches.

Speaker 1 (33:27):
I think I got a that was one of my
gifts was a Timex. I remember getting a Timex watch
one Christmas.

Speaker 2 (33:34):
Did you ever have the watch with the calculator? No?
Justin wresos today every day, every day he has several
of them. I think their vintage. Huh.

Speaker 4 (33:42):
I bet they're worth I read some article today on
stuff that's vintage, and that was on. There was those
old digital watches.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (33:52):
We always had somebody in the family crochet house slippers
for every not only the kids, but every adults. So
every every family member got crocheted slippers.

Speaker 4 (34:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
I remember my I don't know what to call him exactly, cousin,
Tom Whittaker. He got into crocheting and he crocheted me
a pair of yarn slippers that looked like Converse tennis shoes.
I mean they were high top, so they came up
higher than normal, and they had the little circle where

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the Converse was, and they had he had tied a
lace on him, so they literally looked like almost looked
like a pair of Converse. I think I may have
them somewhere in a box somewhere, of course you do,
of course I do.

Speaker 4 (34:42):
Well, you can still wear them.

Speaker 1 (34:44):
I mean, hey, I'll have to dig those out and
show them on the next Live because those were from
the seventies.

Speaker 2 (34:52):
Did you McDonald gift cards or certificates? Yeah, remember, not
much give cards, but remember they had the Yeah they
were certificates, yeah, certificates, Yeah, yeah, I do remember. People
would put them in stockings and stuff. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
Handmade potholders, oh yeah, oh yeah, I'm not sure what
that what that was called.

Speaker 2 (35:18):
There was like a yeah, the weaving thing.

Speaker 4 (35:20):
Yeah, there was a.

Speaker 1 (35:21):
Plastic thing with the little hooks, and you know, I
think I bet I made my mom half a dozen potholders.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
And then when you got done, you you hooked one
end through the other. Yeah, and then I always couldn't
forget how to do the very end. When you got
to the end, I think I think it always came
undone came unraveled. Uh. One year, my dad got my
mom a vacuum cleaner.

Speaker 4 (35:44):
Uh yeah, every now and then you can get away
with that.

Speaker 2 (35:47):
It was a nice one too. It was a Kirby. Oh.
It was a high dollar sucker. And I thought, oh, Dad, oh, Dad,
you're gonna be in trouble. But I guess, well, that's
that's funny.

Speaker 1 (35:57):
You say that because you know, Denise was asking me
for one more Christmas present and I was looking around.
You know how it's gotten really flat right there on
my shag carpet. I thought, I need like a vacuum
really good, and I was gonna put that on my list.
Somebody get me a really good sucking vacuum just to
leave out here, so I could keep that shaggy.

Speaker 4 (36:18):
Oh instead of flat.

Speaker 1 (36:20):
But that's funny because I, yeah, I'd like a vacuum
cleaner out here.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
You got a shot back.

Speaker 1 (36:26):
It needs to be like super strong, But yeah, I
think we've got a shot back around somewhere.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
I remember the Kirby had a thing for shag carpet.
An attachment. You Oh, really that's what I need, and
it would it was like a like a rake.

Speaker 4 (36:39):
Oh that's what I need.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
Yeah, good luck, fine one I know, or I'm gonna
have to get a new shag rug because it's getting
pretty flat.

Speaker 2 (36:48):
You weren't that guy out man?

Speaker 4 (36:50):
Yeah, uh, here's one for you.

Speaker 1 (36:54):
Hickory Farm Smoked meats and cheese.

Speaker 2 (36:56):
Oh yeah, yeah, I love getting that. I always gave him.
I never got him. Yeah, I don't know who I'd
give them to.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
Grand It seems like grandparents were the ones that always
received that. And then when my mom became a grandma,
we would go to the mall to get Herhickory Farm
smoked meats and cheeses and.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
She loved it. Oh yeah. Electric shavers, oh yeah, electric
shavers and along with the electric shaver, the hot lather machine.
Oh yeah, you put your shaving cream in there and
it would heat it up.

Speaker 1 (37:29):
Who remembers the Norelko Christmas commercial when Santa Claus comes
riding over the snow on his NoREL coo.

Speaker 2 (37:38):
Trying to how's that song? How'd that music go?

Speaker 4 (37:40):
I don't know, I just remember the commercial being really cool.

Speaker 2 (37:44):
Yeah, because there's like Noel and norelco Man.

Speaker 4 (37:49):
Yeah, I don't know. Uh, why do I have Christmas
ceramic Christmas tree?

Speaker 1 (37:54):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (37:55):
Remember the little it was like a what's that a foot?

Speaker 1 (38:00):
Yeah, ceramic Christmas tree and they had little lights poking
out and you'd plug it in.

Speaker 4 (38:05):
Yeah, those were kind of big. It seems like you
go to everybody's house and they'd have one of those.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
In the seventies, jewelry like mood drinks, oh yeah, and
necklaces and stuff.

Speaker 4 (38:18):
Big polaroid cameras.

Speaker 2 (38:19):
Polaroid camera was on the list as soon as those
came out.

Speaker 1 (38:22):
Yeah, I bet there was probably a year or two
where those may have been the Other than toys, those
of me have been the highest given out gifts.

Speaker 2 (38:33):
Jewelry boxes, Oh yeah. Girls would get jewelry boxes.

Speaker 1 (38:37):
Yeah, moms would get jewelry boxes.

Speaker 2 (38:41):
I don't know why they need a new jewelry box
every year.

Speaker 1 (38:43):
But I would not be surprised if I didn't get
my mom a jewelry box with green stamps at one time. Uh.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
Yeah, it cracks me up. I was lighting this list
and I was like, oh, I remember the green stamps
and I had a space, so I was like, I'm
gonna beat Curtis to it, but I couldn't remember what
they call it is nanny manicure, fingernail Truman.

Speaker 4 (39:02):
Kid, it was baby blue. I mean I remember, like
like it was yesterday.

Speaker 2 (39:11):
Calculators, calculators, Oh.

Speaker 1 (39:13):
Yeah, Texas Instruments came out with kind of oh they're
mine right there. Radio shack with the in front of
the bubblegum machine. Yeah, I got my little radio shack
that's from the seventies.

Speaker 2 (39:25):
Yeah yeah, and you put certain numbers in and turn
it upside down and it's spell the word.

Speaker 4 (39:29):
Oil boob hell.

Speaker 2 (39:32):
I think that was. It was a oh shell and
then you can do shell oil. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (39:39):
The things that we could do back in the savings,
you know, I was just thinking about this tonight. There
was this period of time, like eighties, nineties, two thousands,
where the seventies didn't seem that different.

Speaker 4 (39:57):
It just it just kind of seemed like it was
the seventies, you know.

Speaker 1 (40:03):
But now now you think about the seventies and it's
like it's like in the seventies when we thought about
people in the twenties, I mean the technology and the
songs and the I mean, the things that I think
about now from the seventies seem so old.

Speaker 2 (40:23):
Yeah, seventies wasn't thirty years ago, I know, but ago.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
Yeah, But for so long there it just seemed like,
oh that was you know, just yeah, twenty years ago.

Speaker 4 (40:33):
And now it just seems like the seventies.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
Were well even today, like the music still relevant. But
at the same point in the seventies to the twenties,
we didn't listen to the twenties. Well, my dad did
twenties music or the thirties music.

Speaker 1 (40:49):
But what's speaking of the music from the seventies is
so weird is that there are groups and songs that
kids or teenagers today.

Speaker 2 (40:59):
Have never heard of. Oh yeah, I see that.

Speaker 4 (41:01):
And then on TikTok they have watched somebody listen to
Boston Long Time for the first time, and.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
You're like, they called what do they call those?

Speaker 4 (41:11):
I don't know. They're cool though, because people are like
what Wow. It's like we're sitting here, We're like, how
could you not have ever heard Boston?

Speaker 2 (41:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (41:20):
I mean, I just it just boggles my It's like
every year it gets worse and worse, and we're and.

Speaker 1 (41:26):
You know, and I was thinking about our TVs. We
drove by on the way home from Callahan's. You could
see somebody watching TV through their window and it was
a flat screen. You could tell it was up.

Speaker 2 (41:37):
On over here on Johnson, probably those apartments.

Speaker 4 (41:40):
I saw it too, exactly. Yeah, I saw it, and
I thought and I when I saw that, I thought God.

Speaker 1 (41:46):
In the seventies, we had these big, chunky TVs that
stuck out like.

Speaker 4 (41:51):
Three foot from that on the floor and sat on
the floor.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
In the early seventies.

Speaker 1 (41:56):
Yeah, and yeah, and I'm like that, I can't even
those aren't even. You don't even see him hardly in
antique stores anymore.

Speaker 4 (42:04):
No, that's crazy.

Speaker 2 (42:07):
I remember our first TV. He was black and white,
and brother and I were watching Star Trek and my
feet were underneath the TV and I was doing this,
you know, I have my head on my shoulder, on
my arm and laying on my side and he was
laying on his opposite side. And we had a bonding moment.
And then he would beat me up.

Speaker 4 (42:26):
Stick in a closet.

Speaker 2 (42:28):
Yeah, no kidding. The spiders are coming to get you.
The spiders are coming. Yeah. He was brutal to the sisters.
Do give you the pink belly treatment?

Speaker 1 (42:37):
Now, what would you guys do? When brother was still alive.
Did you guys were open Christmas morning people?

Speaker 2 (42:44):
Right?

Speaker 4 (42:45):
Yeah? So we were to Stayton was an open Christmas
Eve person. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:51):
I didn't want. I didn't want. I might ask if
we could do one, and they always said no. Yeah,
but I yeah, those people that did to all their
presents on Christmas, Little Santa and him come here.

Speaker 1 (43:01):
That's what I always said, how can But I think
you know what I think they did was I think
I think they opened presents Christmas. Even then Santa's present
was there Christmas morning, so there was still a surprise
and it was still here's something I was gonna and
I think i've I'm sure I've talked about this before.
Is I remember in the seventies as a kid, Connie

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always unwrapping every present.

Speaker 4 (43:26):
Mom rapped well, Mom was at work just to know
what she was getting. That's so terrible, I know, but
she did it like every year.

Speaker 2 (43:34):
She's never got caught. Mom never figured it out.

Speaker 1 (43:36):
No, because you know you can you can peel that
tape off pretty yeah, pretty good, and just just open
it up enough.

Speaker 4 (43:43):
That you can catch whatever the gift is, and then
she'd tape it back up.

Speaker 2 (43:46):
We got to get her on the show with these days. Yeah,
I'll mean people here talk about about her all the time.

Speaker 4 (43:54):
Books, she was all right, she was a handful.

Speaker 2 (43:59):
Let's just say that.

Speaker 4 (44:02):
Uh, cassette cassette radio cassette players.

Speaker 2 (44:05):
Yeah, yeah, they were big. U See what I talked about. Clothes, Man,
I thought I had a lot.

Speaker 4 (44:13):
We're going through these, No, we got We've gotten through
quite a quite a.

Speaker 2 (44:16):
Few coffee mugs. Maybe I remember.

Speaker 4 (44:19):
I guess people got coffee, you know, my and that
maybe why I don't drink coffee. I'm sure it is.
My mom didn't drink coffee.

Speaker 2 (44:26):
Oh my folks did.

Speaker 1 (44:27):
Yeah, I was never around. Although my mom smoked and
I don't smoke, so I don't know there's correlation. But yeah,
we never had coffee around the house. So I just
never was a coffee person.

Speaker 2 (44:37):
Yeah, it tastes nasty, but it tastes nasty, And yeah,
my dad would drink it in the summer on the roof.

Speaker 4 (44:43):
A lot of people drink all the time.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
He also wore long sleeve shirts on the roof in
the summer. That makes sense, So now I think about it.

Speaker 4 (44:52):
Yeah, it's yeah, it's funny how some of the things
we thought our parents did were a little weird. Yeah,
like want like wanting to go to bed, naps and.

Speaker 2 (45:05):
Naps are so good. Uh get games?

Speaker 4 (45:10):
Oh yeah, games.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
It seems like like the parents end up getting like
yacht Si and those type of games.

Speaker 4 (45:19):
What was the one we play now and we go
to the Petty John's Who I think that was? Wasn't
that aggravation back in the seventies.

Speaker 2 (45:29):
Yeah, it's very similar.

Speaker 1 (45:30):
Yeah something They're all kind of in that same marble
around the track genre. Yeah, uh did I think I'm
getting close? I had roller skates just because the disco
era a lot of a lot of hip. If your
parents had a lava lamp and a waterbed, they probably

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had roller skates.

Speaker 2 (45:52):
And if your dad wore leisure shoes with those white shoes,
you've got step brother somewhere exactly.

Speaker 4 (46:00):
You don't know about it.

Speaker 2 (46:00):
You got a half brother. My half brother.

Speaker 4 (46:02):
Don't ever do the twenty three and me, you may
be surprised.

Speaker 2 (46:09):
Yeah. I had books and food and that's what I
was my list.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:13):
Food, like well, I guess we talk we covered food
like with the smoke cows stuff. Yeah I was, but
yeah that's my list.

Speaker 4 (46:23):
Yeah, so you guys, let us know.

Speaker 2 (46:26):
Oh Walart, I had Walart too, Yeah, Walart.

Speaker 4 (46:29):
Yeah, I would paint things at school for my mom.

Speaker 1 (46:36):
Yeah, you guys, let us know if we've forgotten, if
you remember something big in the seventies, it was a
big Christmas present. There wasn't a toy, not a toy.
Not a toy because almost every list you look online,
it's all toys.

Speaker 4 (46:50):
Yeah, so coming up with this, you know, there.

Speaker 1 (46:54):
Wasn't like a definitive list out there, not really, so
I need to I got to find some time. And
I think I'm gonna get one of those AI wearables,
and so as we're doing these episodes, which is too
late now I'm four hundred episodes behind. But if I
wear that, it will send me the what you call it,

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printed out episode and then I can make blog posts
of that. So it would be nice, although mine's kind
of typed out right now. I just have to have
find the time to put it online. We'll try to
get all these lists because there's not a lot of
these seventies lists out there.

Speaker 4 (47:33):
We're the we're the ones making them right by ally
uh and then.

Speaker 1 (47:38):
Real quick, well we got we are we got a
few seconds here I got another me and the person
with the love boat podcast. Oh yeah, I have been
going back and forth and she keeps changing things because
those holidays and.

Speaker 2 (47:57):
Them. Where's that at?

Speaker 4 (48:01):
Hopefully I can find in time?

Speaker 2 (48:04):
Well, so here we go.

Speaker 1 (48:07):
Now I haven't read this, let's see. Hi, Curtis, sounds great.
Do you have an estimated timeline for when your spot
will be ready? Our office will be closed December twenty
second through January second, so having everything set up before
then would be ideal, though if that isn't feasible, let
me know. Additionally, do you have a sense of when

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our spot will begin running on the seventies Buzz?

Speaker 4 (48:35):
We got to record it first, and will it be
possible to share download numbers once the run is complete?

Speaker 2 (48:41):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (48:42):
Okay, so basically what we're going to do is each
record spots and play them on the other persons show.
So you and me are going to do like a
thirty second spot talking about our show, and they're going
to play it during their show, okay, and then they're
going to send us a thirty second spot and we're going.

Speaker 2 (49:03):
To play it.

Speaker 1 (49:04):
Oh cool and yeah, So so you and I need
to listen, come up with a thirty second spot about
don't we got one already? Pretty much That's pretty much
what I was thinking about doing was just clipping our
intro and but I thought, I don't know, we might
want to freshen it up or something. But so anyway,
so if you guys had forgotten, there is a new

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love Boat podcast with three members of the cast, and
they're wanting to get it promoted a little more.

Speaker 4 (49:37):
And so we're going to trade spots.

Speaker 2 (49:39):
Okay, they're not going to be on our show. We're
not going to be on that show.

Speaker 1 (49:41):
There won't be any live Nope, it'll just be trading spot.
That's why I say it's kind of it keeps evolving
because she's got so much going on and blah blah blah.

Speaker 2 (49:51):
No that's cool. I mean we could also do that
with other seventies.

Speaker 1 (49:54):
Yeah, if you, if you somebody out there listening has
a I don't no podcast about it doesn't necessarily necessarily
have to be about the seventies. It could be about
old cars or just vintage nostalgia, anything like that.

Speaker 4 (50:10):
And you guys think it might be a good fit.
Let's uh exchange promos for podcasts.

Speaker 1 (50:19):
Yeah, so let us know five eighth five for one
three eighth five or buzz buzzedmedia dot.

Speaker 4 (50:24):
Com dot com. Okay, you guys, uh.

Speaker 1 (50:29):
We got one more episode before Christmas. But still merry Christmas,
Happy holidays. Hope you guys got all your Christmas shopping done?
Anything else before we get out of here.

Speaker 4 (50:43):
I don't think so, okay, we're gonna get out of here,
I'll poop. I haven't turned it off yet.

Speaker 2 (50:51):
I was gonna, well, we'll try to remember next week
to play Christopher Todd's Christmas song. Do you have it right?
Set out? Well, let's play it. We got time. Here
we go.

Speaker 4 (51:01):
You guys ready for this? The sound quality. He's just
gonna hold the phone up to the microphone.

Speaker 2 (51:05):
So that's is this new version? Right?

Speaker 4 (51:11):
Yeah, it's hilarious. This is like the Motown version.

Speaker 2 (51:17):
It's hilarious. I got stuck.

Speaker 4 (51:23):
I got no legs on the trees.

Speaker 2 (51:26):
Jumper.

Speaker 4 (51:29):
Yeah, we should have plugged it in.

Speaker 2 (51:31):
No gift for me, I've gotten no Christmas spirit and
the neighbors me.

Speaker 1 (51:40):
Because it's fine all his egg.

Speaker 2 (51:44):
And he passed out in.

Speaker 4 (51:46):
Plugged the whole thing in.

Speaker 2 (51:47):
Next week. Yeah, okay, I'll just give you a sample
a little sneak prev there.

Speaker 1 (51:53):
Next week we will actually plug it into the mixer,
so it'll be because Christopher Dodd would probably appreciate a
a good version, a good quality version.

Speaker 4 (52:02):
So we'll do that anyway, there's your little hint.

Speaker 1 (52:06):
Just just search for Christopher Todd Davis music on almost
any music app and you'll probably find that song or
some of his other song that's called the Naughty List.

Speaker 2 (52:19):
The List.

Speaker 4 (52:19):
It's a great song.

Speaker 1 (52:20):
And he's been using AI to motown some of his songs,
and I think that's the he's motown that went up
a little bit.

Speaker 4 (52:28):
So okay, now we're

Speaker 2 (52:29):
Gonna get out of here.