Ep.32 - 90's Toys

Chris and Ricky dive down the rabbit hole of some of their favorite toys from the 90's.

Episode Transcript

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Oh home, sweethemes Srick eight.We're back. We did we did it.
We're here, we're in the office. It's about time. We have
the camera set up, we havemicrophones in hand, and we're wearing we're
both wearing our white and kicks todaytoo, because we're in spring session.
That's well, I'll wear them theonly kicks I have. They are in

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session always always. It's been thatlong, that long as we've gone from
what was it was it still winter? The white cast? The wife cast?
Happened? Was that? Um,well, I don't know. We
got Katie and I got violently illfollowing that Podcastfully we did not so we
didn't catch it from you, thankfully, I don't know. Sometime in February,

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March February, it was January.Oh man, it's been long enough.
That's all it's all to say aboutthat. It's it's been a wow.
It's been some weird corter to showfrom my office. Yeah, what
a great band. It's been awow. Everything just turns into a bad
Scott staff though he does. That'syeah, that's staying. He doesn't sound

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like Scott, sir. I'm sorry. We talking about today though, not
that we're not talking about music though, when you're not talking about although we
will have another music. We finallydid something right. I think we started
making a list of what our episodesshould be coming forward. Here are you
telling me production value? Yeah?Yeah, we're gonna have some prep finally,

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Yes, we have a list.We're just gonna not gonna just get
you know, by by the seatof our pants. Were actually gonna have
a list of upcoming episodes. Wherecan I still fly by the seat of
our past? Yeah? Yeah,that's what we do. Yeah, that's
what makes this show great. Yes, but now we just have a little
less fly. Yeah. Although I'mlooking pretty fly today with mine. All

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the girlies say you're pretty fly ora white guy? I look like that?
What's that? What's that game?Again? You don't know? Jack?
From here? Up? I thinkit's from here anyway. I would
move the camera to make it work, but no, I'll do it cut.
We'll do it in post. Yeah, I don't know if that's gonna
we'll do it live. We won'tdo it live. We can't reference that
video. I Can'tno, bell O'Reilly? So what's great? So what's what's

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man? Well? I will saythis, um, let's see. The
last episode we did was The Wifecast Um. There were some really one
in particular Lancaster person, my brotherin law Dan, who thought and they
are not kind enough to the GreatCounty of Lancaster, which we offended somebody.

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Is that what we do? Yeah, we're offenders. We were that.
We were We talked about Lancas forretirement place. It was it was
a number one, I think itwas on the list, but number two.
He thought we were just a littlebit harsh, a little bit harsh
on the Amish. And it iswhat it is is he is he amish.
He's not amish. Oh you're fromLancaster, you must be amish,

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you must be amish. He's gota beard though, right, he does
have a beard. Okay, Uli, he's got a nice, pretty,
pretty sizable beard. Uh, wellhe did. I don't know what it's
that currently. I don't know.I'll see him, you'll see him soon,
see him in tomorrow. Cool tomorrow. FAM's coming up today on four
twenty, we're gonna be talking about. No, we're not gonna but today

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is my son's first birthday. Oh, happy birthday, Calvin. Oh yeah,
Calvin's Numero uno. So family arecoming up from Pennsylvania to celebrate,
celebrate him. It's a big it'sa big, big deal, big accomplishment.
He had survived one. You canmake it through year one, you
can make it through anything. He'sdone good. Um, but that's not

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what we're not here to talk about, Calvin. What really prompted this episode
was, Um, some friends gavegave Lily some toys. Lily is my
five year old. If you don'tknow, if you're new to the show,
Lily is my five year old.And one of the toys that was
given to Lily was a light bright. And now this is not the this

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is not the light bright that Iremember. It's a lot more compact youth.
Yea, it runs on battery,it's mobile, it's everything anywhere,
which you don't really want to makelight bright mobile picture those little that's still
the same attack. Yeah, you'regonna drop those little things everywhere. Um,
but she got a light bright.So that got me thinking about my

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wife and I were just talking tothe kitchen. I'm like, remember our
light brights. I mean they werehuge. You had to plug them in,
and to plug them in, therewas no Yeah, you had to
be stationary in one area where itcould reach the plug, you know.
Yeah, but it came with likethese construction paper type templates with the shape
that you wanted to make, andyou kept them. Um, and when
they were new, you actually hadlittle x's to punch them through, and

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then after that you just had tomake sure you hit the right bullet hole
if you wanted to make the shapeagain. Yeah, I remember them.
They were like a black right.Did it fit perfectly in it? Yep?
It had the little circles to pushthem through. Yeah, I remember
those. The Magic of Colored Light? Does that the turn on the Magic

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of Colored Light? Oh yeah,yeah, Okay, I don't remember the
light bright ingle, but yeah,um yeah, so everybody had those.
Really. Now, getting toys thatare nostalgic to me made me think we
should talk about nostalgic toys on theshow. Yeah, because we were though
we were both worn in the eighties, we are really I mean, you

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had more time in the eighties thanI did. Um, but we're really
kids of the nineties. Yeah.And the nineties was a great nineties,
strong, absolutely great nineties, thebest era of television aside from Breaking Bad
being in the two thousands. Butwhen I think of children's programming. The
nineties owned it, the nineties ownedtoys. Um, so we're gonna talk

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some some some nineties toys. Game. Um, we can't wait, game
game, Chris's game. So nowwe have we have our own list of
things that we just were spit bawlinggoing down memory lane. Um. But
we also have a couple of articlesonline that we're gonna reference. Um from
a site called retro dodo and thenanother not so popular site but maybe it's

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it's called BuzzFeed. I don't know, maybe you've heard. It'll never catch
on there. The better list isactually on retro dodo though. Yeah,
I feel like they they captured moreof the nail days. So we're gonna
just talk about some of those toys, and we're gonna we're gonna hit toys
that we wish we had but didn'thave. Yeah, which as we just

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get to them, we could justmention. Yeah. Absolutely, Um,
so I guess we should just shouldwe start off with the first one on
on the retro good list. Yeah, this one was huge. UM,
I'll share my staking comeback too.I think you're gonna see some of the
things I buy online, apparently becausegetting very targeted ads on this blog.
UM bought some splitters from Arii onAmazon, but the first one, the

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Tomagotchichi Tamagotchi Tomagotchi, seemed like thecoolest thing. They were cool and I
don't know why they were cool,like you just keep this little thing alive.
See. I never had one,though, but it was always It
started. I think it started outwith the girls having them, and they
were like, oh, they hadtheir little pets, yeah, and stuff
and and babies, and then allof a sudden, it's like, guys

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started like, it's actually pretty cool. I want to get one of these.
And I had a friend who hadone. Everybody had that. Did
you have that friend? Everybody hadthat one friend that was probably the richest
kid in your grade, right,and he had everything, always had the
cool stuff and all the cool stuffbefore anybody else did. Yes, absolutely
at the standard for like this iswhat you should get if you want to
be cool. Yeah, there's yeah, and he had You are so right,

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you are so right. I can'tthink of who that kid is,
but for me it was his namewas Blake Boffman. Yeah, with Blake,
Blake would have Yeah, he hadeverything. He was cool. He
I feel like I had a friend. I think my friend Gregor Raldi had
everything. Um, he wasn't anonly child, but he just had good
stuff. Yeah he had what hehad a race car bed. Oh yeah,

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you know what I mean. Like, if you have a race car
bed, you're probably gonna have agood childhood. You have satisfied child Tommigotchi
the thing I remember Tomagotchi, notme playing with it, but that they
got banned in my elementary school becausegirls were getting in fights over them.
Gosh, over these silly little electronicdigital eggs eggs. Yes true. So

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oh, I just realized I've hadit on the Tamagotchi screen the whole time.
That's right. And this is thisis why I shouldn't try and do
video stuff, because it just fails. So that's Tamagotchie. Here's another one.
We'll just keep going on here becausethis is a big one. Beanie
Babies. Beanie Baby, I rememberwhen those were were big and people were

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collecting them like nuts. I neverreally got into him. I wasn't really
much of a stuffed animal kind ofperson, but I had a lot of
friends who love those things. Ihad quite a few beanie babies, did
you. I even had like thebeanie baby holder that you would put it
in like the little like display casefor my special ones. I don't remember
we still have them, Well,we do have. I do have beanie
babies. My daughter has them now. And what's the first thing she did?

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What did you do? Ripped offthe tags because she hates tags.
Take the tags off. I'm like, literally, you don't take the beanie
baby tag off? Yeah, that'sjust now what you do? Um if
they collect they made it like twentyyears with the tags on. You had
them for a week and they ohthey're not new ones you they were yours?
Yes? Oh man, yeah,that's they're worthless now. They didn't

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have much value anyway, we shotwe gotta go antiques roadshow around here and
see what kind of Yeah, mybeanie babies probably aren't the probably aren't the
ones making it on that. Everybodysaid, I don't know why beanie babies
were so yeah, what made themso popular? Why did we care?
I don't know, because they were, I guess because anything that if you
make it for a little while andthen you cut productions, say we're discontinuing

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this particular one. Then all ofa sudden, people are like, oh,
it's like the last of the last. That means there's a limited supply
of them. They're not gonna justkeep churning them out, so all of
a sudden it becomes oh, Iwant I wanted that one, but he
can't buy it now, but youhave it. Yeah, But it was
like but they were even popular beforethey were limited edition runs. I feel
like like probably cultures weird, Likejust all of a sudden, it's like

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this is gonna be popular and people, we're gonna love it. That's before
influencers too. It's the regular peopleare the ones set the standard for things.
Yeah, nothing's like anyone was aninfluencer. That's true. How do
it was the original? We don'tknow who was the og original. I
don't know who knows. But thisis another. This is another one we
had. My brother had this one. I didn't have it. Stretch arm

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strong. Um it's probably not abetter picture. That's that's what they got.
But um it looked a little bitdifferent than that it had. I
think you wore like a red suitif I remember correct. They they had
multiples. Definitely a cartoon I thinkof it didn't they for a little while.
Oh maybe because they always made cartoonsto push toys. Of course,
that's true. I learned that onthe toys that made us like, oh,

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the show existed because of the toy, not the toy existed because of
the show. Oh yeah, thetoy companies owned my mind. But yeah,
so I think this is the firstiteration of stretch stretch armstrong, just
like a dude and under your pants. Yeah that you stretch out. Um,

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But there was there was like RickFlair a little bit in that picture.
Whoa, whoa. I follow thisis I know, it's a side
note. I follow an account onInstagram called no Context rick Flair, and
so basically it just puts like thiseveryday scenario and then a video clip of
Rick Flair being Rick Flair, whichis just ridiculous, over the top,
like charismatic. It was excitable,excited about something. It's a great account.

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No context you get you got tolook it up. It's great.
Yeah, stretch Armstrong was fun.I don't know what. Literally, the
only appeal is stretch his arms asfar as you can. Right. That
was a while though. Yeah,that just ends up in the bottom of
the toy box exactly. Um,so many toys in that way. Uh,
polypockets on the list. I'm notgoing to talk about that because I

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didn't play with Polypoeis Blake had POGs? I guess of course Blaken. Okay,
can we look at this? Lookat this ad gedius tool taking us
by store A. Yeah, Ilove ads on the internet. Um,

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but POGs. I know almost everybodyhad POGs. I knew no one who
played POGs. Right. It wasa collector's item and you tried to I
guess if I remember correctly, youwould just stack them up somehow or put
them together, and then you havewhat were they what were the really heavy

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ones called the slammers. Slammers,You had the slammer and these were all
made of like essentially just cardboard.H Yes, they were cheap, in
fact, cheaply made. I endedup. One of the toys I had
as a kid was a make yourown pog O thing. Yeah. So
it had like a sticky like youit had pre kind of cut out POGs
or something you could stick like somethingfrom a magazine or a picture on it,

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and then the machine would stamp itdown and basically cut you out.
A custom pog. Yeah, soyou make your own. You had that,
I had it, oh man,yeah, it was pretty cool.
Um. Another set of POGs thathad, which I was my favorite set
was it had just like a MichaelJordan collection. So I had like this
silver slammer with the two three onit and then just images of him dunking

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sweet which it was just cool.Yeah, yeah, it wasn't cool.
I don't know. But but thewhole, the whole premise of the game
was you put them in and thenyou would throw the slammer down and whatever
fell outside or you knocked over somethinglike that, you got to keep.
I don't even know. I think, I don't know. And then that's
how you would somehow get other people'sbecause this is like, you know,

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it's not it's they're not cards,and you weren't trading them, but you
had to play this game. Peoplepeople would trade them. They would trade
them, that's true, but youhad but the right way to do it
was you played this by throwing theslammer down and somehow kind of like marbles,
like hitting marbles outside a certain area, and then you got to keep
it. So they didn't they didn'tknow, but they were they were they

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were really big for like a monththat scenes they slightly long the year or
something. I also had these POGswith like bad um ah, like weird
humor on them. There's was oneabout like a guy taking the crap on
him or something, wasn't it Okay, I didn't have that one. The
guy's like like look like they werelike it was like, uh, I

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don't know and now I can't.Right, they were human. I had
like little jokes on it, like, uh, something in the sun Dried
Kid instead of like the sun DanceKid, so uh Buffalo Bill and the
Sundance Kid was like barbecued Bill andthe sun Dried Kid like something stupid.
Yeah, ridiculous on it. Anyway, let us progress because the nineties had

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much far better things to offer thanthe than the pugs. But POGs were
good. Um, what are yougetting? I'm sure, I'm just I'm
just trying to get just like thisis Oh you gotta get talk about these
ones. We'll talk about these littlethese little ones sponsored by Teamable. Um,
this is before the movies, beforethe movies, which thankfully they changed

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the look for the movie. Probablyimagine if they were just naked trolls.
Skin tone, naked kids with colorfulhair. Oh, but trolls have existed
for a really long time. Yeah, because I remember when I was a
kid having trolls, and then mymother let me play with like her old

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trolls house or something that she stillhad from a kid. I didn't know
it was like a little suitcase thing. I think it was, unless I
always just played with it as that, right, I wasn't that, but
I think it was. I thinkthey go way back. But they had
and they had different sizes. Theyhad like the mini ones that were really
small. Then they had the normalsize ones that were you know, couple

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maybe four inches. Then they hadthe ones that were really big. Oh
I never had those. I hadthe I guess the mid size, Yeah,
the midsize, standard size, Yeah, the standard size, and they
asked. And even the standard sizedones they had a little um some of
them had a little gem in thebelly. But I'm saying these ones are
though missing. Yeah, when Iwas a kid, the most relevant thing
was not only the hair, butto have the belly button. Yeah,

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the belly button gem in it orsomething like that. But yeah, these
ones they're lacking. These are justpurely naked with big hair. Yeah,
but I don't just like trying tomess with the hair and make it do
different. They like staying up tothe left, or like trying to part
part it or even some I thinksome girls even remember um that had them
would try to braid them or somethinglike that. Really. Yeah, I

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did have it. Mine came witha brush, but I don't think it
ever. I never used it.But after the Trolls movie came out,
they didn't try to like make Yeah, it's not like they have a Patrols
toys like this. I'd like theyhad little tiny ones. My daughter had
some of them, but they neverthey didn't. They didn't go back to
come back to this mode, evenin a colorful way. Um, okay,

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this this is one of those gamesI always wanted but never had.
This track game maustrap. We playedthis one for hours. This always seemed
it was so much the coolest game. I think it's just a commercial.
Yeah, I think the appeal ofit, um is it's almost like the

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opening of Peewee's Big Adventure. Yes, when he has the whole in the
breakfast. The breakfast like, that'swhat it reminded me of. Yes,
something you can make with any rectorset um because you had this ball to
drop down. Yeah, you'd firethe person I guess and yeah, and
it would he would go into thatlittle tub here. Yep. Yeah,

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this whole chain reaction. It wasfun. And I don't even know how
the game is actually I'm seeing aroundthe outside there's places to move. I
don't know how this game. Well, the first time you get it.
First time you get it, obviouslyyou play the links candy, you would
play by the rules where you're buildingit as you go along. But then
but then after that, like you'vedone it once or twice, you're like,

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oh, we're just gonna build itbecause it was more fun just to
build it and just to keep thatwas the appeal. Why should go through
all emotions? Yeah, so thatwas that's that's that's a great board game.
Man. I still want I lookat this and I go, we
should get mouse Trap. Now Ihave the power to just go get mouse
Trap. Yeah you can, oh, e Bay, that's right. Um,

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I'm Ferbie's on the list. I'mnot talking about Ferbie. Should we
talk about other board games? Furbi'sdumb um, yeah, just in here.
Yeah, what do we have becausewe st it down. So we
talked about that was one of them. Were like, that was a great
game. Um, mouse trap operationwhich is coming back the full force.
I'm the doctor for you, Doctorfor you. That was a great game.

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That's that's back again. One ofthe most difficult games too, especially
what was the one that was thehardest one in that one the butterfly.
Would you say, what game areyou talking? Oh? Oh, operation
um, because that was the oneget around a funny bone. It was
very narrow. Yeah, I remembergetting the bread out of the stomach.
Wasn't that called the bread bask?Yeah, the bread basket that don't break?

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The ice remember that don't break?Now? What did you do?
You wet a paper towel, putit on it, and then just stacked
marbles on it till it broke.No, it was just like it was
just essentially they look like ice cubes. That's that one. And yeah,
and and what you did it wasalmost like like a janga kind of game
where you just instead of removing theuh, you know, the piece from

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the tower, instead, this wasyou're knocking out a piece of the ice
around this person that's on it.I'm thinking of a different one then Oh,
because yeah, because why don't youknow what you're talking? Yeah,
and you you had a little hammerand you hit it out, hit that
little piece off, and it wouldstill remain and then eventually, you know,
somebody would hit it and the wholething would just collapse and you would
lose. Oh, I was thinkingof the game. I remember that one

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A tall, I don't know.It sits up off the table a little
bit, and you'd put something onit, a weekend piece of paper,
I think, with water, andthen you would go and you'd have all
these marbles on it. Eventual whoevermade them fall through the paper lost.
I don't remember that game. Idon't remember what it's called now, but
that would be a fun one.Um this one here, I found this.
I just saw this at Target.I always thought this game was awesome.

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Crocodile Dentist. Yes I never hadthis one, but this was a
cool game too. Had a timeron it. Right, look at this
tagline. You're the croc doc inthis game of daffy dentistry. Crocodile Dentist.
And I think if you pulled thewrong tooth, his mouth snap shut
or something. So it's kind ofkind of one of those games. Milton

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proudly made some of the best games. Oh they were good, they were
good. Yeah, he just fourand up like Hungry, Hungry hippo.
Remember that that was a great game. I never had that one. Oh,
we had the game. That wasa lot of fun to play.
These games didn't take a lot ofnot a lot of brain power, which
is a lot of fun. Itwas just you know, take something out
of here or get or collect asmany marbles as you can. So it

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was very simple, straightforward, alot of fun. There were a lot
of options for those games in thenineties. Exactly know what And I don't
know if this game originated in thenineties. But a game that's fun in
our house now is Pop the Pig. Oh, yes, I love Did
that exist when we were kids,I don't think so. Yeah, you're
you basically you're inserting your hamburgers intothis pig's mouth, you pop its head,

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and then then all of a suddenit explodes. Then then you lose,
and it's it's a fun game.I like that game. We got
that. I think we play whoeverpops the pig is actually the winner winner.
I don't know what the Royal State. I forget. All I know
is it's got a number eight oneach of the hamburgers. Yes for how
many? Yeah? Uh yeah.And Lily just always wants to be the

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one who pops the pig, ofcourse, and every kid devastated. Let
me talk about Lily's devastation for asecond. No, would be devastated.
So for Easter, she's five,right, you said she's five. For
Easter, we did a Easter egghunt and the Easter eggs had little prepackaged
prizes in them, and one ofthe prizes was a tiny little yo yo

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and she actually got I think twoof them, and then they were tangled
together and not worth untangling. Theywere not good yo yos right as far
as yo yo's go. They wereprobably some of the worst yo yos she
could ever use. And they weresitting on our kitchen table one night,
and as is our nightly tradition,Lily doesn't want to get ready for bed,

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and she gets very distracted at bedtime, and so she had the yo
yos. I'm like, give methe yo yos. And then I was
going to do this no matter what, but at that moment, I just
put him in the garbage because ifwe were done, they were useless.
Yoyo. I just saw you doingit. Oh, she saw me.
She was stopped gutting her tracks,and she was very sad getting ready for
bed. And then she goes inthe bedroom to talk to mommy. And

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she hadn't said anything to me.She didn't freak out, she didn't break
down, but she goes in thebedroom and she starts breaking down to mommy
about these yoyos and the statement shemade three times, not only them,
but also when I was putting herdown for bed, she would get sad
about the yoyos. Did she go, I just can't stop thinking about them.

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I just can't stop thinking about theyo yos. And then it's like
we both we both laugh at itbecause it was so dramatic over the worst
toy that was ruined and unplayable.Did she get upset when you were laughing
about it too? I tried tohide that. I really did the hard

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part when you're you can't help it. It was just it's such a passion.
I just can't stop thinking about it. Lily, you had the yoyos
for less than twenty four hours.You never used them. They were terrible.
They were. They were bad,bunched up. My plan wasn't to
throw them out as a punishment.It was just like, okay, we're
done with these. Yeah we hadthem. Yeah, so that was that

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was funny. That's another nostalgic toyayo yo. Oh. Yeah, yoyos
were huge when I was a kid. Yeah, me too. And also
the yo yo balls. Remember theyoyo balls where he didn't have to have
any skill whatsoever. Yeah, youcould just like throw it around it and
always come back. Oh terrible,terrible. I had a yoyo with the
sleeper. Oh Yomega Yomega fire ball. Oh you remember the name? Oh
yeah, it was good. Whowho made those? Remember the smoke Oh

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Yomega? Remember the Smothers brothers?Is that the name of them? I
know who? Yeah. They alwayshad a guy on it that was a
yoyo expert. So whenever they woulddo like their comedy bit or whatever,
they always have a time where theywould show a yo yo like presentation.
And this guy was unbelievable, Ithink, and I think, um,
yeah, he had one of thosebrands. You know, he was always

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peddling. You know who has someyoyo skills. You know that a guy
Elijah were running ran into a Starbucksthe other day, came to our church.
Yeah. Um, he's just superinto yo yoing. Really, he's
a good yoyo. I didn't knowthat. Yeah, I would. I
would plug his Instagram people, butI don't remember it. With your competitions,
yeah, yeah, petitions, Ithink. Uh. I went to

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school a guy named Mike Phillips incollege. I think he yo yoed really
back in the day. And she'samazing what people can do with that thing.
Yeah. I was just happy tobe able to do like Rock the
Cradle. Yeah, me too.I couldn't like, oh I got the
triangle and the things moving, Yes, I could just I could just do
the sleeper. That's about all Icould do, and I felt pretty good.
Um, all right, let's let'skeep moving down the list here.
Oh man, they're not showing youthe cool, they're showing you the average.

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But super soakers those are awesome,Like there were squirt super Soaker fifty
was the original I think that was. It was in that color. I
don't know if that's the same size, but yeah, I mean great,
you pump it, you pump it? Yes, Shoot someone with a beam
that was a game changer when hehad when he had you didn't have a
pool growing up, which I neverdid, and you wanted to have and

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you didn't want to just run throughthe sprinklers because that was kind of like
boring when you get to a certainage. But if you had like a
super soaker, my my, awesome. My cousin, my cousins, the
person who always had My cousin Jimmyalways had the cool stuff only childs and
Jimmy cousin Jimmy both I had twoonly child cousins who always had great things.

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My cousin Larry always had the mostup to date game system. My
cousin Jimmy Hassell had those but alsohad great toys. And he had a
collection of super Soakers, the XPinto the thousands, which basically meant you
were going to get a wells whenyou got shot with it. Yeah.
Remember I remember at some point myparents have to say, um, don't
hit each other in the heads withthat, you know what I mean?

(27:37):
Or in the ear because remember thatyou see I think it was Oh,
it would always be like, yeah, you guys can use these ones,
and it's like this version of thesuper that'd be while he comes out with
the one that has like three tankson it. I had the two pumps
and the things you didn't handle waslike a hose, you know what it
was like the XP five thou wasunder something had a backpack, didn't the

(28:03):
back I don't. I think you'reright, but I don't know that I
saw that one they got. Theygot out a hand after a while.
They were unbelievable. Did they exist? Can you get a supersoker anymore?
I don't see them as stores.I mean I haven't looked when I go
to Target or you know, Walmart, I don't see. I don't see
them that. If I did,I'd be like, I'm getting one of
these. And see. That's whythe nineties were good, because you could
get toys that potentially hurt you andwe all turned out. Okay, we

(28:26):
did tougher because of it, exactly. Oh Man, super Soakers Supersoakers were
so much fun, so much.That was a blast. And the game
the indoor nobody wanted but everybody got. Yes, right, yes, that's
right. This is a game thatwas the parents stock. You know those

(28:48):
memes that's like, Mom, canI get a game? Boy, while
we have game Boy at home,right, and then they show you game
Boy at home. That's the Tigerhandheld computer game. Everybody started out,
I'm lad him for Super Nintendo,but you haven't. Awful parents understand that
I had Mortal Kombat on that littleTiger handheld game. And look how ridiculous

(29:12):
they look now if you think aboutit nowadays. Can you imagine like one
it did one thing. Yeah,it played that game and it could only
go left or right or you pushtwo buttons. Look at this one,
pick slash carpet and here's lamp.I had Batman one. They were so

(29:34):
customized, but they were. Therewere games though, that my parents can
play. Like my dad got tothe point he was playing those and we
would go back and forth and saywho could get past level seven? You
know what I mean? And hewould somehow do it right. But then
once we got into real video games, he's like, I'm not playing these.
I can't play these games. SoI'm gonna go ahead and say these
Tiger handheld games, um, whichare unique. You buy it, you

(29:57):
get that one thing. There's allso the comparable like music, oh man,
peace check these out. That's right. Hit clips I didn't even remember
this until until you reminded me,or I really remember. I totally forgot
about it. I remember seeing it'sright here, I remember seeing the end
sync one on the aisle. Now, back then, I couldn't openly say
I liked end sync because that wouldlabel me poorly. But now I openly

(30:21):
say, and sync is awesome.Would that be a a guilty pleasure?
End sync? I don't should haveabout sync end sync. Um, that's
one of the ones coming up we'regonna do Guilty Pleasure Part two. Yeah,
a guilty pleasure, I guess,is anything that you listen to right
that you're like, I don't wantsomebody hear me listening exactly guilty pleasure song?

(30:44):
Now, whether society like people likego, yeah you just listened to
Bye Bye Bye? Who cares?Right? But like now they're like nobody
anybody seeing me sing to this?You know what? Yeah, while in
my car, just down I song. I learned at some point in life
to just embrace wholessness, right,and it's freeing. Yeah, no,

(31:07):
don't care, no apologies. Sois anything truly a guilty pleasure for me?
I don't know. Maybe maybe itstill is, but these, Yeah,
I think one song. Yeah,you're just buying a song. Who
is Hoku? I don't remember.I don't know. Um, yeah,
I'm trying to think, oh thisis uh that ninety eight degree? No,

(31:30):
who is that? I can't tell? Soil decision. I don't even
know that. I don't know.Yeah, eighteens ridiculous. But yeah,
it's just funny the way technology isprogressed so quickly, because like, like
we went from having these Tiger handheldgames, so like now you can get

(31:52):
a handheld game that has all theregular Nintendo games or any games on it.
It's like, oh, yeah,unbelievable. Yeah, a game system
like the switch where you can essentiallyswitch from doing it. I'm gonna play
a handheld out No, I'm playedup on my TV now, right,
you know what I mean? Itused to be one or the other,
and now it's it's they found away to combine them together. Man.

(32:15):
But I will say I'm glad thatI experienced those games. Oh yeah,
me too. It helps you toreally appreciate what you got nowadays with you
know, oh you got you gottamention these. I'm these these these were
the pinnacle of the toy collection inthe early night, and those were the
exact ones that we that we had. Those are the originals and they were

(32:37):
so well made, so good.The only reason I don't have them now
days because I threw them away.It's not because they actually wore out.
Like you couldn't wear out. Youcouldn't wear out toys back then, teenage
ninja turtles. My brother still hasall our turtle toys. Really, he's
got him and he lets his kidsplay with them because we played with them,
we didn't collect them. Yeah.Same my brother in law, Kevin,
he collects them. He collects toys, toy so he probably don't take

(32:58):
him out he's dating in the boxesor any like that. No, I
mean I guess, um, Iguess he has some um that he would
take out and let people play with. But yeah, he gets like the
new, up to date turtle toysand stuff. But yeah, these were
great. The belts came off,yes, yep, Um, you always
lost and this this picture actually thisshows it well, you always lost.

(33:20):
Um. Michelangelo's nun chucks are raftsize because they were they were too small.
And this this, this, thisis everyone's toy collection. Yeah,
you had his staff and you hadLeonardo Donatello staff and Leonardo's sword. Um.
Yeah, but what they call themthough, they didn't call them swords
katanas katanas. Yes, but thenun chucks were gone and the size were

(33:42):
gone in like a week. Wehad which was a pretty cool. Um
um. Addition to the collection waswe actually had the sewer. Oh did
you really? So you had liketheir living room and then you could catch
these little pipes and have them gothrough sewer pipes. Cool. We never
had anything like that. I thinkI had. I had who were the
to the two Bebop and rock steadrock Steady I had. We had the

(34:04):
two villains and Crane was the brainright. I think we had kran Krang.
We had Krang, but he andhe had he had to go inside
of another like he yeah, insideof a character. I forget that so
he could control it or forget.Yes, we didn't have any of the
like other cool like the like yousaid, the sewer or anything like that.

(34:27):
We had that. We had.You remember the rat King King,
So we had the rat Kings likedevice that he wrote on in the sewers.
Yeah, we had a lot ofgreat turtle toys. We had the
turtle bus um which folded down likewith his big fly bus. That was
really cool. Oh yeah, ohman, volkwagon wasn't it essentially was a

(34:49):
VW kind It was a little Theone we had was a little different.
It was like a turtle van.We had a turtle van, that's what
it was. It was like amixture of the astro van and a volks
It's like a weird mix of both. It was cool. Um, but
we had a turtle. No,we did have a bus too. I
don't know you have turtles had somany iterations. I don't remember if we

(35:10):
had a splinter. I don't thinkwe had splinter. We must have,
I don't know. We also hadlike the movie version of the toys.
Oh, they weren't hard plastic likethese ones. They had like a rubbery
texture to them. He could popthe arms and the head off and everything.
I didn't know that. But theywere a totally different feel. But
they looked like the movie turtles,which are always a little weird. Think

(35:30):
they've ruined the turtles with the newiterations. Well this is just me being
old, right, Yeah, Iguess so I would say yeah, because
I'm like, I guess that's howevery every parent is, you know,
as they get older and they theygo through things and something that then they
recycle something that's been around since theirchildhood. They're like, oh, it
was the originals always better. Yeah, you know what I mean, so

(35:52):
but not as good. But Ithink there has been too many adaptations of
the turns and the new one's comingup to with Seth Rogan's pop. You
know who ruined the turtles, Um, Michael Bay the Michael Bay Turtles.
Yes, I didn't need that.That guy specializes in destroying childhood memories.
Transformers, Ninja Turtles, right,because Transformers, that's it. We'll just

(36:15):
move over to that toy. BecauseTurtles and Transformers were the two. I
feel like that were the coolest.They were toy to have. The og
Transformer toys. Where my cousin Jimmyhad a ton, I only had like
two. I think I had whowas the who's the main one, the
the big semi truck, Optimist Pro, optimiust Prime. Everybody had Optimist Prime,

(36:39):
and I think we had one ortwo other ones that were still little
bit smaller. But yeah, wewe weren't big into them, but every
kid had. They were cool toys, especially um, you had. They
were well made. Yeah. Someof there, Mike, they were jet
uh. Some of them were metal, like the Optimist Prime wasn't just plastic

(37:00):
was like there was a mixture ofboth. Yeah. Yeah back then the
substantial Yes, yeah, there werea good quality toy that would would stand
the test of time. Yeah.Yeah. He had a ton of them.
Um, and in that same Iguess it would just keep pushing forward.
Here's a toy that I don't thinkI had a single one of but
I always wanted was the g I. Joe Action figure, Like oh yeah,

(37:20):
the tall like the decently sized almostdoll. Yeah, but you don't
call it a doll. Yeah theywere that's right. It was a boy
toy. Actually that sounds bad.It's a boys it's a boy's toy.
Yeah. Um, we had wehad too. I had one of my
brother had one. We got him. I think we got him for Christmas.
One year I didn't have any.Yeah, I had the Cobra Commando

(37:42):
with the Ninja and and the thing. It was cool because his um,
his mask came off here like andand and then the in the show,
he never saw him that his maskon or like, so the first thing
we was taken off to see whathe looked like underneath, and then when
he take it take it off.Underneath he's got one of those he's got
like a he's got you see hishair in his eyes, but he's got
a mask over his face, likea cowboy mask kind of thing. Oh

(38:05):
so you still you still can't seewhat. I always thought the coolest looking
one was the like the Arctic Gijo. Yeah, with all the white.
Yeah, it's so cool. Thosewere cool. That's so cool. I
I liked that look so much thateven when I was playing Golden Eye sixty
four, like, I just likedplaying the um the level called surface where

(38:27):
you're in the snow, because theyhad soldiers that looked like that. I
still thought, look cool, right, it's just a cool look. It
is a very cool look. Theywere barbies for boys. Yeah, that's
really gi Joe was essentially was Imean, and I had to I had
We only had one of each ofthose big ones, but before that we
were really big into the just theregular acts of figures like the Originals.
I remember the first time they Isaw them and I knew what they were,

(38:51):
and I had to explain to myparents for Christmas that year that I
wanted Gi Joe's, but I didn'twant to make sure they didn't think I
meant the army men, the Greenarmy men, So I said, I
wanted the Jos that the arms moveup and down and around, and they're
like, okay, the feet,the feet aren't so sealed in place exactly,
you could actually move them around.Oh. We spent hours playing with
g I Joes. Those were suchgreat toys, you know, rubbing that

(39:15):
one in Yeah, oh you neverhad I'm sorry, sorry, We spent
hours playing with those. Amazing.We had the Gee two where it had
the gun on it where you couldput somebody up there and it was it
was it was really cool. Ohyeah, everybody had switching to this one,
the most ridiculous. The Velcrow Tossand catch. And if you're listening

(39:37):
to this on audio, you knowwhat I'm talking about. Yeah, this
little plastic thing that could fall apartat the drop of a hat. The
velcrow that, no matter what ageyou were, seemed too small for your
hand or too giant. There wasnever a happy medium. Uh. And
it was red or it was greenand pink. Oh yeah, it was
always always it was green and pink, and you know what if if the

(40:00):
if it ever got wet where yougot dirt on it, it's done.
They always can't, yeah, becauseyou're always dropping it because it doesn't catch
perfectly every single time. You hadto like fob it, yeah, kind
of catch it gracefully, like likeoh, catch it like yeah, exactly.
And then if you're like any othersmall child and you go, let's

(40:20):
y'all fast, we can throw it, and then you throw it too hard,
it would hit the cardboard backing andthen the thing would pop apart.
They left with this plastic backing onyour hand while the cardboard and the velcro
lay on the ground, you know. And it's essentially what do they do
with all them? Because they theymust have just turned those into dog toys
because those those look essentially like theballs that you would throw for dogs to

(40:40):
catch. Yeah, are they likego fetch? And he absolutely does.
I just like that. Why dideverybody have this? Though, Like every
parent in the nineties was like,my kid's gonna love this. I think
it was a lot of grandparents too, Like grandparents would get that, like
we got those from our grandparents,but I don't remember what we got yet
or like, but I don't rememberhate it, But looking back, I
go, what a yeah, mahtoy it was just not give me,

(41:06):
give me a ball in a ina mitt and he's through. You know,
the crow toss and catch didn't evenreally have a game a name.
No, yeah, exactly. Everybodyknows what you're talking about when you when
you when you mentioned them, orshow them sc scrolling scrolling through the list,
because some of these things, maybefor different people, these bring up

(41:30):
different, uh memories. Some ofthese I don't remember. You didn't remember
this one. I'll just mention itbecause I thought it was awesome. Remember
it. Biker Mice from Mars.I thought was so cool. It was
a show that I liked, whichI'm one hundred percent believed that that show
must have come from the toys.Not the opposite, Um, biker mice
from Mars. It were street Sharks, which you didn't remember, but I

(41:52):
had a street Shark and they wereawesome. Um okay, oh yeah take
here, let's take a little stophere. Yeah. Those are great remote
control cars. They were all overthe place. They they were so good.
And this one in particular, theTycho Rebound, was sweet because it
could flip over and you could justkeep driving the other Yeah, the other

(42:15):
direction it would I think it wasblue on one side and it's probably red
on the back and show it inthe picture as well. But yeah,
I remember that seeing that commercial.That was the coolest thing. Like everybody's
jaw dropped and they saw that.You can keep playing with it. You
don't have to like it knocked likeother ones knock over, you gotta go
over, you gotta pick it up, put it back on it Like that
one. You could just you could. It was there's no stopping it.

(42:37):
It was so much time. Inever had one spell RC. But we
know what we did have. Wehad the coolest um, the coolest remote
control car because it was one thatyou had a glove. You put a
glove on and it had the remoteon the back essentially and you would just
use your hand to guide it soforward, minute would go forward, backward,
go back, left and right,and then it had this little button

(42:59):
in your palm that you push thatbutton and it would turn on turbo mode
and it would go faster and thatthing. But the thing ran out of
batteries in like twenty minutes. Everyremote control card. Oh yeah, yeah,
you could not have extended fun.Yeah, it would just okay,
tend to go inside and charge itand do something else. It's the opposite
of how batteries worked now, likeyou can quick charge something and then use

(43:19):
it for an hour or more whateverit is, depending on what you're charging.
Then it was this is gonna takeall day to charge and you're gonna
get twenty minutes out of it,and so true. And everything was like
out of the box when you boughtit, like charge before first use,
like every kids four hours before Icould play with this. Yeah, and
if the battery in the car didn'tdie, then the battery and the controller

(43:40):
oh yeah yeah, and it tookand yeah, the controller battery was took
like six least of the one Iknew on the back of it too,
like six double as you're like youand you're ruined it in twenty minutes,
and you're like, I think weeven had the knockoff version of the Tycho
Rebound, which no, maybe itwas Techo. I don't know. I
feel like I remember it taking likeD batteries Oh yeah, yeah that you

(44:01):
had to replace. You wasn't evennecessarily a rechargeable type deal. Um,
my dad had a remote control carthat I'm not sure where he got it,
but that thing could fly but hadlike a ten minute years time.
Yeah, and interble batteries back thenwere terrible like they are and they are
compared to right, because if youcharged it before it was dead, then

(44:21):
you actually lost battery power or somethingridiculous. Yeah, they didn't They didn't
keep. They didn't keep very long. So we always end up just getting
regular. Well, one of thethings that we kind of already talked about
it, but we talked a littlebit about UM board games. One of
the board games that I wanted andI never got. I think you,
I think you agree with this wasUM Crossfire. Remember Crossfire, Crossfire you

(44:45):
get caught up in the crossfire.Yeah, oh that was a great commercial.
I never forget that that commercial.Just it Crossfires seem like this is
the game that's gonna make you justown the universe exactly. It's the battle
to end all battles. I lovethe the key peak. Kids are flying

(45:07):
in on the ulver boards, everyone'sgathered around the crossfire. It's like,
yeah, it's almost like a battleto the death, you know what I
mean? This is this was areal deal. Oh man, it was
so good. I'm I'm this thisis a commercial worth bringing up. Yeah,
if you, in fact you postedit recently, that's what made me
think of it. I think,Yeah, I think a lot of this

(45:29):
is being fueled with the fact thatI started following another Instagram account or also
on Facebook nostalgia video. It's astore um nostalgia video and they post all
these things from the nineties, anduh I saw, yeah the crossfire video.
All right, so yeah, relivethis moment maybe for the first time.

(45:51):
If you've never seen it. It'sawesome crossfire yeah fire, my goodness.
I thought there were other people around. Maybe there's a look at the

(46:12):
lightning so cool. Now. Ithink my nan had this at her house,
so I got to play it.Good, But I never owned the
Oh yeah, there's all the people. Look at that pixelization such a such
a o goodness you got you actuallyget the chance to play it. I
don't think I ever if I rememberquickly, I don't think I even got
a chance to play it. Itdefinitely. I mean, it was kind

(46:34):
of fun because you're shooting. That'sanother game at the nineties. This this
gun shoots hard metal balls, rightyou could never do that nowadays, Like
if you detach the gun, I'mpretty sure you could launch metal balls at
someone. And yeah, but likeif somebody trying to swallow those little balls
like oh I mean dude, yeah, I mean that'd be problematic. Um,
but they were they had some weightto them. And then you're you're
basically just trying to knock the metalballs with plastic shapes into your opponent's goal.

(47:00):
Yeah, and you do it byshooting this thing. Yeah, they
that isn't The commercial makes it lookso much cooler than it actually is,
right, it's all it's all essentiallydoing just trying to knock this this little
piece of into the other person's yeahgoal, essentially. Yeah, but it
looks so cool. It was,Yeah, it was it was cool.

(47:20):
I mean it wasn't the worst game, right, right, but yeah,
it certainly not the it was mademuch more of Yeah. Yeah, but
commercials back then so well done,sold toys, I would say better than
today. But literally every commercial thatpops on my daughter's like, I want
that for my birthday, like yourbirthdays, I'd a year awaiting, right,
Okay, I want that for Iwant that for Christmas? Wow?

(47:43):
I see if you can never tellyou what you're getting for Christmas. I
don't know what Sam is going tobring, um so, but it's these
commercials now they're not even good andsay kids see them and they go,
I want it, I want it, I want it. Like but back
then, like you felt like,if I get this, playtime is going
to be revolutionized forever. Yeah,the last thing you'll ever want. I

(48:07):
promise, if you just get methis, I'll never want anything else the
rest of my life. Like okay, last man, and I you say
that, and I'm like, it'sso true. Kids are so silly.
But that was us. That wastrue. It was us, that was
our mindset. Um man. I'msure there's a lot more to get to,
but we were We're going on fortyeight minutes here. Yeah, I

(48:28):
got mentioned this though. I don'tknow if this is should be the grand
finale, but it's gonna be.It's it's gonna be. We can always
do part due if we want.Um. But Nickelodeon, ghack. That
defined a generation. I think justNickelodeon in general, Like anything that came
out of Nickelodeon that they put theirname on was instantaneous hit. It was

(48:49):
especially that because slime, remember slime, like if you get slimed in that.
It started with double Dare and thenit got into the other show with
Summer Sanders that they did. Itwas a slummer. Sander was um,
figure it out, figure it out, and then would get slimed different like
every once in a while we didn'tand it would just come down on somebody
randomly. We didn't talk about thisin the Nickelodeon show, I'm pretty sure,
which is unbelievable. I was leftoff SpongeBob SquarePants from that, which,

(49:13):
of course, and I guess that. Let me know, that's something
else we're gonna talk about that wecan't do Nickelodeon part two. That's ridiculous.
So yeah, so any any anythingNickelodeon. So so there was that
Jack, which was like slime kindof um, it was slimy. But

(49:34):
they also had floam, Yes,I remember flowing floam was even cooler than
ghack. But that was Nickelodeon.Oh, I thought so maybe it was
I thought for something. I thoughtit was maybe I'm a different company.
But oh flo They made floam shoestoo, didn't they? What? Oh
you remember you remember those shoes?Uh? Maybe Floam wasn't Nickelodeon. I

(49:58):
don't. I don't think it was. I could be wrong, though.
Maybe they put their name on iteventually later on. Yeah, who knows.
But remember those shoes that girls wore. Jellies, Yes, jellies,
Oh so ugly. Why didn't evencall them jellies? I don't know,
but they actually called jellies like youthought they were. They were so weird,
looking like those clear plastic sandal thatprobably just destroyed their feet, glitters

(50:20):
in it and think in it sometimes. I look at that now and I
just go, that is just sosweat factory. That was the Croc before
the Croc, and they would wearthat in the playground. Oh yeah,
terrible. I'm so glad we didn'thave to wear this. Yeah, but
gack, I mean that was coolbecause you can make it fart fart noises
with it. You push into thecorner that was slime before, like slime

(50:43):
now where you make your own slime. Oh yeah, oh you know what
one. I feel like we needto talk about it. This is how
I'm gonna be. You gotta getit in. This is this is gonna
be lost forever. This episode.I know, I know this is probably
this is also probably not a grandconclusion. But as as a kid,
as a sports, just the vortex, the nerve vortex. It make you

(51:06):
feel like you have to You didn'thave to worry about spiral because every time
I threw it spiral exactly. Iwas so bad at throwing a football that
the vortex was so much fun.And then I had like that that whistle.
Yes, oh it's so cool.He could hear you go for a
long pass and everybody could be anybodycould be a QB. You'd throw it

(51:28):
at your friend not paying attention topop them in the head, but it
didn't hurt because it was nerve,right exactly. Nerve was so good back
then. Yeah, we could.We could talk about that too, because
nerve still exists now and they haveall these mechanized things. Yes, but
you had there was the cousin Jimmyagain had the three ball blaster that rotated
and shot the fairly hard foam ballsat you. Yeah, and then I

(51:53):
also had a at like a bowand arrow with the big dart shot one
giant was fun. It was sogood. Um, we could we could
talk about this for for hours,for days and hours. Um, nostalgia
is fun, but unfortunately, cometo our conclusions, it has to come

(52:15):
to an end. Yeah, must, So what we would like you to
do is if we forgot something,we want to know about it because we
want to live in the nostalgia.Yeah, we love it. That's our
favorite thing, a society's favorite thing. That's why we will never have a
new movie come out ever again.Um. Super Mario Brothers movie was a

(52:36):
nostalgia fest that was great. Um, well done. So if there's a
toy that we we forgot about thatyou're like, how did you forget this?
Let us know, Um somewhere,we're on social media at the lunch
Be Pod on Instagram. Yeah,you can find us on on YouTube or
YouTube channel also at lunch Be Podand uh yeah, hit us up,

(52:59):
let us know. Um. We'reglad we could be back. It was
fun with you back. Yes,and we'll be back again soon. Thank
you for tuning in promise to thelunch Break Podcast