December 2, 2025 • 24 mins
What is the one gift that you really wanted, but never got?
Maurice and Kafi go down memory lane and share gifts that they wanted as kids, but never got. Was it a classic toy or an expensive high-end, named-brand item? Listen to find out and then share your gift ideas.
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Maurice and Kafi go down memory lane and share gifts that they wanted as kids, but never got. Was it a classic toy or an expensive high-end, named-brand item? Listen to find out and then share your gift ideas.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Let's come about loving them and the way of God,
intend life experience shawful times.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Hello everybody, Hey everyone here, everyone.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I hope that your holiday season is great.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Yes, I hope it's going well. I hope you had
a great whatever you're celebrating.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Yes, it doesn't matter what the season is. We just
we just hope that your holiday season is is enjoyable
or has been enjoyable.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
And because to be honest, there's always a holidays somewhere.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Every day is a holiday.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Pretty much, so especially when.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
You listen to us here.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Yeah, pretty much. Also.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
You know, one of the things I did realize as
I've been doing some research the National Calendar Day website
whatever that is, there's literally a holiday or a special
day three hundred.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
And sixty eight days a year.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Sixty eight.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Oh most definitely, because they is beyond leap year times too,
Like it's.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
A whole lot going on.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
When I watched the news in the morning, the one
of the newscasters has a list of what all the
crazy days are. That's why I said to you the
other day, I was like, let's you like, where are
we going to have for dinner? And I was like, well,
it's national such and such day, that's what we're going
to have.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Yeah, because you said something about I think it was
chicken or I don't know what it was, but whatever,
whatever it was, I thought like, well, if it was
that type of day, then why why or somebody should
have it for free, right, that's what we're.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Going to do.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
We did that one year when it was like National
Cheese Steak Day. One of our local cheese steak places
for those that are in the area, they had discounts.
I think we got a half off and we did
go out and get some shee sticks. But I didn't
do the research on the whatever meal it was for
that particular day, so sorry, Oh yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Don't remember what it was. Yeah, it wasn't that deep.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
It wasn't that deep. But we're talking about about the holidays.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
You know that the idea for today is what.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
What's something that you wanted as a child, Maurice that
you didn't get you still wanted today that I didn't get.
You did not get it as a child, but you
still want it today.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
So at what age just as.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
A child something that you wanted it as you know, So.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
One of the things, because I think you know off
off microphone. We had talked about. You had mentioned maybe
something that might have been forbidden or something like that.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Right, And so one of the things that I wanted.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
That I did not get until I was older, maybe
teenage wise, but I didn't. I still didn't get it
to the extent I really wanted it to be, which
were collecting garbage pay kid cards?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Wow, Okay, I didn't know that. That's different.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah. I had one of some garbage pay kid cards.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
And you have a few, right. No, in your collection,
your cards not.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Garbage pail kids.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Yeah, it's just all baseball cards and football cards and
some other stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
But is no garbage pail kids?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
So is that a collection you would want to start?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
No?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
But I said, what's something you would want to have now?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Okay, what would I want to have now?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah? Something that you just get as a child that
you want you would still want now.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I gotta think about that. Oh you know what it is?
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Uh? There there is one thing that I always wanted,
and I get variations of it, but I still haven't
gotten it yet. So, just like anyone else, I was
into night writer, okay, and night Writer had uh And
my cousin Howard, he had the Night Writer car that
(04:24):
had the the lights and everything, and it was big
enough for Michael Knight that you know, he was eleven
inch you know, g I Joe action figure type dude
that was able.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
To fit in the car. And that was like.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
The funniest, dumbest thing to have this big car jumping
up in the like, if I remember correctly, the kit
itself was almost the size of a Barbie car, you.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Know, so so you're trying to put eleven inch same
size as a Barbie in it.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
So yeah, so I think, if I'm not mistaken, our
cousin who had Barbie stuff or some girl cousin or
whatever it was, you know, kind of able to play
with those type of things at the same time, each
type thing. So of course, you know, all the boys
was trying to be Michael Knight, you know whatever is
(05:19):
because we ain't nobody trying to be kind and a
Barbie Beatle or Barbie you know mystery machine or something
like that, you know, so because it wasn't you know,
the black car actually, you know what that's funny, the
black car with the black realms, like everybody that life.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Still is on him.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
But but yeah, I think that's what it is, you
know that I get, like I said, I get different
variations of it because back then and you don't think
about it until like now, how how much those vehicles
probably influenced what you do now? Like I said, that
whole black car, black rim thing, like, now, nobody, I
(06:02):
don't think anyone wants to Ghostbuster's.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Car, like that's that's a that's a little extra.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
You know, but maybe eight the eighteen van could be
a little iffy in today's you know, space, I think
nostalgia wise, people are like, oh wow, eighteen. But on
the other hand, like, oh wow, you know so you.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Know so like was a challenger or charger for the
Duke's ahead, like you know, so all those some things.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Right right, you know, so so you know, so I
would say the night Rider toy itself. Now do I
want the Firebird or whatever it was? You know, I
think it was a Firebird.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
So whatever the car that it was, do I want
the car real life wise?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
No, but because I don't like T tops like that.
But but overall, you know, I'm not sure if kit
was a T top or if car was T top.
I can't remember which one it was. But regardless that
wasn't me per se, but I always liked the toy
(07:13):
I like the lights, you know, all that type of stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
You know.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
I think some of the cars today, even with the
underground lights, you know, like certain things kind of give
you that impression.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
So I would probably say that.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Because when I think about transformers, you know, I've gotten
some of them over the years. Again, it might not
be the exact same ones that the g ones that
we had back then, but you know, some of those
have been coming out, so I've been collecting some of those.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Otherwise, that's about it.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Any of the video games that you know, I want
it as a kid, been able to get at some
point in time or receive some point in time. Sneakers
like you know, I'm trying to just trying.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Everything else that you kind of wanted as a child,
you have been able to check off your form of it, right.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
So I would probably say that specific thing that you know,
so so the kit car or garbage pail kids type stuff,
So that type of thing.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
I would say for me, as like you said, childhood
Christmasy type thing. One thing that I wanted as a
child that I never received as a child or even
looked into as an adult because I didn't think about
it until we had this conversation. Was a real Barbie
dream house? Like, yeah, just didn't have one.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
What what just what is the a real Barbie?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
It was made by Barbie Mattel, not made by you know,
the off brands or anything like that. So I wanted
one of those. My cousin had that I didn't, you know,
had a bunch of dials, had a bunch of clothes,
you know a lot of other things Barbie but didn't
have like Barbie furniture or Barbie dream house. I had
(09:07):
a Barbie carr, had a Barbie Mini van, a lot
of other things. I think I had a Barbie bathtub.
You pressed the buttons and bubbles would come out, like
you know, there were little things that I had or
had a shower to it, and you know, really dumb stuff.
But so yeah, I think, you know, childhood wise, that
was one of the things that I wanted teenager wise,
(09:31):
I wanted a life size video game. A friend of
my mom's had i think a Mispac Man or whatever
in their dining room. Yes, I kind of wanted that,
or a pinball machine. But you know, like, okay, it's
on video but it's not the same. I used to
get a kick out of it that I didn't have
(09:51):
to put quarters in it when we go visit and
I get to sit down and play video game over
and over and over again. So those are the two
things so that I could think of that were like
toy wise, that I thought of as a young child
and then as a teenager, and then I guess teenager
to young adult is just traveling. I've always like looked
(10:14):
at different movies and TV shows and just like, wow,
I want to go there. So I'm still haven't traveled
outside of the United States. So one day, when I
grow up, I'll go off this land of ours.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
So one of the things that you know I have
to say about traveling, I do and I don't to
some degree.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
I e hy, we have probably haven't done that together,
if you will.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Now let's be honest though, I mean, have I been
out of the country.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
I have, But the.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Only thing I can say has only been but Canada.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
But some people say, well, us do outside of the.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Country exactly, you know, twice.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
But then there's some people that would say it's only
in ground to you know, so you're still in a continent,
right now you have been to more cities in the
country than I have. I haven't been on the West
coast yet. Okay, where you've been more than once?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
West Coast once more than once? No, you keep thinking
that I went on that second trip. I didn't go. Well,
he went to California.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Do you go to Arizona or it's.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Not the West coast, it's not the it's.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Not the south.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
It was the southwest, southwest, like.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
And I went to New Mexico.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
New Mexico. Okay, maybe that's more south.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Issue, right, I didn't go to Arizona. I thought you
went to Arizona, Las CRUs, New Mexico.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Okay, I'm sorry, that's just the way you said it.
Like I just like, I don't know why they just
prop he.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Been to Michigan and to but you've been to more.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Maybe you have no come on, I think just before
and you've been anyway.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
But see the video game thing.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
See right now, we don't have enough space, but I
sure enough would get the you know, the one up
video game that we would have had that by now.
I've been looking at it for this year. I've been
looking at it. Just it is little, Yeah, I want
the Atade.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
I want the actual arcade version.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Yes, so, but.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Then the but see when when you saying something about
the Barbie dream house. Right, yes, we bought our daughter
a house.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Yes, but it wasn't Barbie. It was no, it was wood.
I want the plastic Barbie's plastic. Hers was wood.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
And you know, next year, maybe next.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Year you get I have no Barbies.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
There's no point in it. That dream has dreams. That
dream is gone.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Nobody said you can't don't want it.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
You can still get it, though, see that Michael Knight
car I probably can't get.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
You do have a smaller one.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
I mean, have a vert. But it's not that.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
I understand. It's not that and get that.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
You can still get the bubble the bubble tub. You
can still get that, right, I can't get the Michael Knight. Now,
could I look it up on eBay? Maybe maybe somebody would.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Have it for Maybe your cousin still has it.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
I doubt it.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
So maybe it's still in the basement somewhere.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I doubt it.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
What am I gonna do? I'm gonna you'll do good
for those of you who who may know who my
cousin may be. You know, he is stationed in the
Armed forces right now, he's all the way on a
whole nother seboard, right and so I could ask him, like, yo, dude,
you still got you know, X, Y and Z in
your basement in your mom house.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
He might say, hmm, let me find out. You could
call her, and you know, she's not going down in
the basement. She might have done inventory of news. She
might call a neighbor and call a friend and say, hey,
go and look and see. Who knows, or your cousin
might be like, you know what, miss the next boy,
I think it's still down there.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
I think he probably got rid of it.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
He might be sitting in his room.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
He might be sitting in his room well right now.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Might not with his room he's in right now, but
bedroom at home. Who knows.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
But well, I know that those are some of the
things that that I wanted as a kid.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
That one. You know, could I find garbagepel kids now? Probably?
Could you get what I mean? But I have zero
interest in collecting that.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
And the Michael Knight, like I said, transformers, even with
video games, like I said, some.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Type of form of it.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
So I mean I'm with you, though I would love
to have the actual arcade and we you know, and
we will sit here and look at it. For those
of you who don't know, that's part of our pastime.
We look at YouTube and look at people do remodels
and all that type of stuff and how they have
game rooms. I'm like, oh, but see the problem is,
(15:24):
See here's our dilemma. In order for us to have
every single thing we want in our house, we have
to be a billionaire because we need to have a
crochet room. We need to have a cricket room, we
need to have a game room.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
We need to have called.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
A craft room. You have one craft room and you
can figure out all that other stuff. You have one
game room and you can figure out all of that stuff.
We don't need to have five pinball machines and twenty
five arcade games.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Well, just like you want a life size what pac.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Man or don't know, I just want to size game.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
I want a real life size driving game where the
car moves or the motorcycle moves or something like I want.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
And you think you would never get a chance to
play it because your kids would be on it all
the time. Every time we go to the arcade, that's
what they spend all of their money in on. And
because they get in it, they get.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
On it whatever they need to get a job.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
We'll just have to rig it so they have to
pay and we can get it for free.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
So here's the problem with it, right, So I could
probably figure it out, you know, just from a computer perspective.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Well, I do have someone else as too, right, we
do have as somebody else that's into that who might
be able to do even better. So being all sign.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Everybody, we'll be able to open it up and use
their quarters.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Yeah, I mean sorry, would have to have the key, yeah,
you know, the tokens or something, you know, and you know,
somebody could be like, hey, how come you always on Well,
you just don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
I mean, I got the coin with the rope on it.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
I remember that back in the day. I never did
that in the arcade though, but in other places. But yeah, arcade.
I wonder why they all went away?
Speaker 3 (17:21):
What arcades? Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
I think because of video games themselves, home.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Like home video. But I guess even with movies, like
the movies were.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
More because even like all right, so let's just use
movies for an example. I'm quicker for us to buy
it and watch it at home than I am for
us to go see it in the theater. And the
reason being, like I was talking to you know, Mike
for Neighbors podcasts, you know, shameless blood that about going
(18:01):
to the movies.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Yes, you know.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
And so when you have to spend twenty twenty five
dollars a person to go to the movies, you know,
versus spending twenty five dollars on the movie itself, wash
it at home.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
But there's all these hacks now that you can like, Hey, I'm.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Nobody doing all that. Nobody.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
I'm a student, and I can get a discount. Hey
I'm on Amazon. I get the Amazon discount.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Nobody doing all that. Well, okay, I ain't doing all that.
I'm doing it.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Legitly, it's not it's not saying it's not legit.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Yeah, I'm not. I mean, I just for me it
just I know.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Never mind, this guy won't even use a coupine, like
just like, just take the coupone. It'll be free. No, no, baitey,
I pay fifteen dollars when you could just take the coupon.
It's one piece of paper. They'll give it to you,
give it to the cashier and this item will be free. No,
I'll be back. Just take it, just take it.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
I took the stupid cubon. I took it.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Yeah did it work?
Speaker 3 (19:01):
It worked, and so.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Will somebody's text. But I just I don't know. I mean,
there's I guess with the movies, the screen, the nostalgia
of what's going on with everybody at the same time.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
You know, you know, with the other part of going
to the movies, though, I guess because again age right, you.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Know, do I really feel like looking at a really
really big, big, big, big big big screen.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Sometimes it feels like it felt that way because we
were you know, you had the regular movie screen. And
then eventually I had gone to the Imax. We're going IMAX,
and I was like Imax, and then you know, we was.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Doing IMAX and headache.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
That's what I'm saying. Like, after a while, I was like,
oh wow, like that's not good.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
And then I don't like three d get married, and
I don't like IMAX and.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
So, and then the other part was why pay twenty
five dollars for someone? All they gonna do is go
to sleep?
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Intent So I don't want to pay for somebody to sleep,
somebody to take a nap. We can just sit at
home and enjoy it. Also, the other seventy five dollars
that we didn't spend, we can't have our own steak.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
We can have money, you know, we.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Ain't gotta eat just popcorn, and we can have all
of it, you know. And so when you think about
being budget friendly, I eat coupon, right, yes, you know,
so how many things are naturals can we eat? How
much soda can we drink?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
You know, bathroom right? Put the movie on polls, right,
I understand. And again tying back to video games and arcades, like,
so why did they go away? So I think it's
just no.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
I think I think it's the same idea video games
and stuff, I e. Movies, They were not just costly.
But you know, if you think about all the negative
stuff that might have gone on in those places, hygiene
stuff and like, you know, if you think about stuff
(21:20):
like COVID, Like you can't have an arcade with the
idea of COVID.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Yeah, that's hard.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Everybody's gonna wear gloves, mintons, you know, has matt suits
to play an arcade game.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
That's not easy to do, you know.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
So yeah, so I think, you know, if you have
an arcade, that's I mean even and think about like
this too, when you think about bowling or skating and
things like that.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
You know, so.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
They don't seem like they are as popular, especially as
we when we were kids, right, you know, because everybody
I'll see that goes skating right now is our age,
No one's I don't see anyone's.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Kids because everything has changed for them. So, yeah, they
just don't go outside, right, So they're not going bowling,
they're not that's outside. They're not going roller skating, that's outside.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
They're not going outside.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
They're not going outside. Yeah, they'd rather talk to their
friends via their phone and FaceTime text each other and
that's it. That's their life, right right, so we know
it firsthand. That's what goes on in our house.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Pretty much pretty much. So you know, so share with us.
You know what you're.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
A gift that you wanted as a child that.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
You never received, you know that you might still want
to get.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Yeah, you know you always wanted that can go hat.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
You know that that ropodope chain, you know them show
top Adidas.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
You know you know what I also wanted to Oh
my a t I sweatsuit.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Oh you always wanted one of those?
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Yeah, actually I think they're coming.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Back to Yeah, I've seen them, but yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Just can't see my big rubber dub dub and right
now so.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Shiny.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Yeah, I don't want to be shiny suit man, so.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Okay, but uh but yeah, you know, so let us
know what your thoughts.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Are and continue to have a great holiday.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Right and uh, we shall see you in Mayana, Mayana.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
What we shall see you soon, talk to you later.
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Hello everybody, Hey everyone here, everyone.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I hope that your holiday season is great.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Yes, I hope it's going well. I hope you had
a great whatever you're celebrating.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Yes, it doesn't matter what the season is. We just
we just hope that your holiday season is is enjoyable
or has been enjoyable.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
And because to be honest, there's always a holidays somewhere.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Every day is a holiday.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Pretty much, so especially when.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
You listen to us here.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Yeah, pretty much. Also.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
You know, one of the things I did realize as
I've been doing some research the National Calendar Day website
whatever that is, there's literally a holiday or a special
day three hundred.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
And sixty eight days a year.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Sixty eight.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Oh most definitely, because they is beyond leap year times too,
Like it's.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
A whole lot going on.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
When I watched the news in the morning, the one
of the newscasters has a list of what all the
crazy days are. That's why I said to you the
other day, I was like, let's you like, where are
we going to have for dinner? And I was like, well,
it's national such and such day, that's what we're going
to have.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Yeah, because you said something about I think it was
chicken or I don't know what it was, but whatever,
whatever it was, I thought like, well, if it was
that type of day, then why why or somebody should
have it for free, right, that's what we're.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Going to do.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
We did that one year when it was like National
Cheese Steak Day. One of our local cheese steak places
for those that are in the area, they had discounts.
I think we got a half off and we did
go out and get some shee sticks. But I didn't
do the research on the whatever meal it was for
that particular day, so sorry, Oh yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Don't remember what it was. Yeah, it wasn't that deep.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
It wasn't that deep. But we're talking about about the holidays.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
You know that the idea for today is what.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
What's something that you wanted as a child, Maurice that
you didn't get you still wanted today that I didn't get.
You did not get it as a child, but you
still want it today.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
So at what age just as.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
A child something that you wanted it as you know, So.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
One of the things, because I think you know off
off microphone. We had talked about. You had mentioned maybe
something that might have been forbidden or something like that.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Right, And so one of the things that I wanted.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
That I did not get until I was older, maybe
teenage wise, but I didn't. I still didn't get it
to the extent I really wanted it to be, which
were collecting garbage pay kid cards?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Wow, Okay, I didn't know that. That's different.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah. I had one of some garbage pay kid cards.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
And you have a few, right. No, in your collection,
your cards not.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Garbage pail kids.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Yeah, it's just all baseball cards and football cards and
some other stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
But is no garbage pail kids?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
So is that a collection you would want to start?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
No?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
But I said, what's something you would want to have now?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Okay, what would I want to have now?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah? Something that you just get as a child that
you want you would still want now.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I gotta think about that. Oh you know what it is?
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Uh? There there is one thing that I always wanted,
and I get variations of it, but I still haven't
gotten it yet. So, just like anyone else, I was
into night writer, okay, and night Writer had uh And
my cousin Howard, he had the Night Writer car that
(04:24):
had the the lights and everything, and it was big
enough for Michael Knight that you know, he was eleven
inch you know, g I Joe action figure type dude
that was able.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
To fit in the car. And that was like.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
The funniest, dumbest thing to have this big car jumping
up in the like, if I remember correctly, the kit
itself was almost the size of a Barbie car, you.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Know, so so you're trying to put eleven inch same
size as a Barbie in it.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
So yeah, so I think, if I'm not mistaken, our
cousin who had Barbie stuff or some girl cousin or
whatever it was, you know, kind of able to play
with those type of things at the same time, each
type thing. So of course, you know, all the boys
was trying to be Michael Knight, you know whatever is
(05:19):
because we ain't nobody trying to be kind and a
Barbie Beatle or Barbie you know mystery machine or something
like that, you know, so because it wasn't you know,
the black car actually, you know what that's funny, the
black car with the black realms, like everybody that life.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Still is on him.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
But but yeah, I think that's what it is, you
know that I get, like I said, I get different
variations of it because back then and you don't think
about it until like now, how how much those vehicles
probably influenced what you do now? Like I said, that
whole black car, black rim thing, like, now, nobody, I
(06:02):
don't think anyone wants to Ghostbuster's.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Car, like that's that's a that's a little extra.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
You know, but maybe eight the eighteen van could be
a little iffy in today's you know, space, I think
nostalgia wise, people are like, oh wow, eighteen. But on
the other hand, like, oh wow, you know so you.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Know so like was a challenger or charger for the
Duke's ahead, like you know, so all those some things.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Right right, you know, so so you know, so I
would say the night Rider toy itself. Now do I
want the Firebird or whatever it was? You know, I
think it was a Firebird.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
So whatever the car that it was, do I want
the car real life wise?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
No, but because I don't like T tops like that.
But but overall, you know, I'm not sure if kit
was a T top or if car was T top.
I can't remember which one it was. But regardless that
wasn't me per se, but I always liked the toy
(07:13):
I like the lights, you know, all that type of stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
You know.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
I think some of the cars today, even with the
underground lights, you know, like certain things kind of give
you that impression.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
So I would probably say that.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Because when I think about transformers, you know, I've gotten
some of them over the years. Again, it might not
be the exact same ones that the g ones that
we had back then, but you know, some of those
have been coming out, so I've been collecting some of those.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Otherwise, that's about it.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Any of the video games that you know, I want
it as a kid, been able to get at some
point in time or receive some point in time. Sneakers
like you know, I'm trying to just trying.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Everything else that you kind of wanted as a child,
you have been able to check off your form of it, right.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
So I would probably say that specific thing that you know,
so so the kit car or garbage pail kids type stuff,
So that type of thing.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
I would say for me, as like you said, childhood
Christmasy type thing. One thing that I wanted as a
child that I never received as a child or even
looked into as an adult because I didn't think about
it until we had this conversation. Was a real Barbie
dream house? Like, yeah, just didn't have one.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
What what just what is the a real Barbie?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
It was made by Barbie Mattel, not made by you know,
the off brands or anything like that. So I wanted
one of those. My cousin had that I didn't, you know,
had a bunch of dials, had a bunch of clothes,
you know a lot of other things Barbie but didn't
have like Barbie furniture or Barbie dream house. I had
(09:07):
a Barbie carr, had a Barbie Mini van, a lot
of other things. I think I had a Barbie bathtub.
You pressed the buttons and bubbles would come out, like
you know, there were little things that I had or
had a shower to it, and you know, really dumb stuff.
But so yeah, I think, you know, childhood wise, that
was one of the things that I wanted teenager wise,
(09:31):
I wanted a life size video game. A friend of
my mom's had i think a Mispac Man or whatever
in their dining room. Yes, I kind of wanted that,
or a pinball machine. But you know, like, okay, it's
on video but it's not the same. I used to
get a kick out of it that I didn't have
(09:51):
to put quarters in it when we go visit and
I get to sit down and play video game over
and over and over again. So those are the two
things so that I could think of that were like
toy wise, that I thought of as a young child
and then as a teenager, and then I guess teenager
to young adult is just traveling. I've always like looked
(10:14):
at different movies and TV shows and just like, wow,
I want to go there. So I'm still haven't traveled
outside of the United States. So one day, when I
grow up, I'll go off this land of ours.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
So one of the things that you know I have
to say about traveling, I do and I don't to
some degree.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
I e hy, we have probably haven't done that together,
if you will.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Now let's be honest though, I mean, have I been
out of the country.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
I have, But the.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Only thing I can say has only been but Canada.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
But some people say, well, us do outside of the.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Country exactly, you know, twice.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
But then there's some people that would say it's only
in ground to you know, so you're still in a continent,
right now you have been to more cities in the
country than I have. I haven't been on the West
coast yet. Okay, where you've been more than once?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
West Coast once more than once? No, you keep thinking
that I went on that second trip. I didn't go. Well,
he went to California.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Do you go to Arizona or it's.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Not the West coast, it's not the it's.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Not the south.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
It was the southwest, southwest, like.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
And I went to New Mexico.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
New Mexico. Okay, maybe that's more south.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Issue, right, I didn't go to Arizona. I thought you
went to Arizona, Las CRUs, New Mexico.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Okay, I'm sorry, that's just the way you said it.
Like I just like, I don't know why they just
prop he.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Been to Michigan and to but you've been to more.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Maybe you have no come on, I think just before
and you've been anyway.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
But see the video game thing.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
See right now, we don't have enough space, but I
sure enough would get the you know, the one up
video game that we would have had that by now.
I've been looking at it for this year. I've been
looking at it. Just it is little, Yeah, I want
the Atade.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
I want the actual arcade version.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Yes, so, but.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Then the but see when when you saying something about
the Barbie dream house. Right, yes, we bought our daughter
a house.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Yes, but it wasn't Barbie. It was no, it was wood.
I want the plastic Barbie's plastic. Hers was wood.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
And you know, next year, maybe next.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Year you get I have no Barbies.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
There's no point in it. That dream has dreams. That
dream is gone.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Nobody said you can't don't want it.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
You can still get it, though, see that Michael Knight
car I probably can't get.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
You do have a smaller one.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
I mean, have a vert. But it's not that.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
I understand. It's not that and get that.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
You can still get the bubble the bubble tub. You
can still get that, right, I can't get the Michael Knight. Now,
could I look it up on eBay? Maybe maybe somebody would.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Have it for Maybe your cousin still has it.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
I doubt it.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
So maybe it's still in the basement somewhere.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I doubt it.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
What am I gonna do? I'm gonna you'll do good
for those of you who who may know who my
cousin may be. You know, he is stationed in the
Armed forces right now, he's all the way on a
whole nother seboard, right and so I could ask him, like, yo, dude,
you still got you know, X, Y and Z in
your basement in your mom house.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
He might say, hmm, let me find out. You could
call her, and you know, she's not going down in
the basement. She might have done inventory of news. She
might call a neighbor and call a friend and say, hey,
go and look and see. Who knows, or your cousin
might be like, you know what, miss the next boy,
I think it's still down there.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
I think he probably got rid of it.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
He might be sitting in his room.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
He might be sitting in his room well right now.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Might not with his room he's in right now, but
bedroom at home. Who knows.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
But well, I know that those are some of the
things that that I wanted as a kid.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
That one. You know, could I find garbagepel kids now? Probably?
Could you get what I mean? But I have zero
interest in collecting that.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
And the Michael Knight, like I said, transformers, even with
video games, like I said, some.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Type of form of it.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
So I mean I'm with you, though I would love
to have the actual arcade and we you know, and
we will sit here and look at it. For those
of you who don't know, that's part of our pastime.
We look at YouTube and look at people do remodels
and all that type of stuff and how they have
game rooms. I'm like, oh, but see the problem is,
(15:24):
See here's our dilemma. In order for us to have
every single thing we want in our house, we have
to be a billionaire because we need to have a
crochet room. We need to have a cricket room, we
need to have a game room.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
We need to have called.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
A craft room. You have one craft room and you
can figure out all that other stuff. You have one
game room and you can figure out all of that stuff.
We don't need to have five pinball machines and twenty
five arcade games.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Well, just like you want a life size what pac.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Man or don't know, I just want to size game.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
I want a real life size driving game where the
car moves or the motorcycle moves or something like I want.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
And you think you would never get a chance to
play it because your kids would be on it all
the time. Every time we go to the arcade, that's
what they spend all of their money in on. And
because they get in it, they get.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
On it whatever they need to get a job.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
We'll just have to rig it so they have to
pay and we can get it for free.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
So here's the problem with it, right, So I could
probably figure it out, you know, just from a computer perspective.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Well, I do have someone else as too, right, we
do have as somebody else that's into that who might
be able to do even better. So being all sign.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Everybody, we'll be able to open it up and use
their quarters.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Yeah, I mean sorry, would have to have the key, yeah,
you know, the tokens or something, you know, and you know,
somebody could be like, hey, how come you always on Well,
you just don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
I mean, I got the coin with the rope on it.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
I remember that back in the day. I never did
that in the arcade though, but in other places. But yeah, arcade.
I wonder why they all went away?
Speaker 3 (17:21):
What arcades? Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
I think because of video games themselves, home.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Like home video. But I guess even with movies, like
the movies were.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
More because even like all right, so let's just use
movies for an example. I'm quicker for us to buy
it and watch it at home than I am for
us to go see it in the theater. And the
reason being, like I was talking to you know, Mike
for Neighbors podcasts, you know, shameless blood that about going
(18:01):
to the movies.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Yes, you know.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
And so when you have to spend twenty twenty five
dollars a person to go to the movies, you know,
versus spending twenty five dollars on the movie itself, wash
it at home.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
But there's all these hacks now that you can like, Hey, I'm.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Nobody doing all that. Nobody.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
I'm a student, and I can get a discount. Hey
I'm on Amazon. I get the Amazon discount.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Nobody doing all that. Well, okay, I ain't doing all that.
I'm doing it.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Legitly, it's not it's not saying it's not legit.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Yeah, I'm not. I mean, I just for me it
just I know.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Never mind, this guy won't even use a coupine, like
just like, just take the coupone. It'll be free. No, no, baitey,
I pay fifteen dollars when you could just take the coupon.
It's one piece of paper. They'll give it to you,
give it to the cashier and this item will be free. No,
I'll be back. Just take it, just take it.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
I took the stupid cubon. I took it.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Yeah did it work?
Speaker 3 (19:01):
It worked, and so.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Will somebody's text. But I just I don't know. I mean,
there's I guess with the movies, the screen, the nostalgia
of what's going on with everybody at the same time.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
You know, you know, with the other part of going
to the movies, though, I guess because again age right, you.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Know, do I really feel like looking at a really
really big, big, big, big big big screen.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Sometimes it feels like it felt that way because we
were you know, you had the regular movie screen. And
then eventually I had gone to the Imax. We're going IMAX,
and I was like Imax, and then you know, we was.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Doing IMAX and headache.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
That's what I'm saying. Like, after a while, I was like,
oh wow, like that's not good.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
And then I don't like three d get married, and
I don't like IMAX and.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
So, and then the other part was why pay twenty
five dollars for someone? All they gonna do is go
to sleep?
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Intent So I don't want to pay for somebody to sleep,
somebody to take a nap. We can just sit at
home and enjoy it. Also, the other seventy five dollars
that we didn't spend, we can't have our own steak.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
We can have money, you know, we.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Ain't gotta eat just popcorn, and we can have all
of it, you know. And so when you think about
being budget friendly, I eat coupon, right, yes, you know,
so how many things are naturals can we eat? How
much soda can we drink?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
You know, bathroom right? Put the movie on polls, right,
I understand. And again tying back to video games and arcades, like,
so why did they go away? So I think it's
just no.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
I think I think it's the same idea video games
and stuff, I e. Movies, They were not just costly.
But you know, if you think about all the negative
stuff that might have gone on in those places, hygiene
stuff and like, you know, if you think about stuff
(21:20):
like COVID, Like you can't have an arcade with the
idea of COVID.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Yeah, that's hard.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Everybody's gonna wear gloves, mintons, you know, has matt suits
to play an arcade game.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
That's not easy to do, you know.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
So yeah, so I think, you know, if you have
an arcade, that's I mean even and think about like
this too, when you think about bowling or skating and
things like that.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
You know, so.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
They don't seem like they are as popular, especially as
we when we were kids, right, you know, because everybody
I'll see that goes skating right now is our age,
No one's I don't see anyone's.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Kids because everything has changed for them. So, yeah, they
just don't go outside, right, So they're not going bowling,
they're not that's outside. They're not going roller skating, that's outside.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
They're not going outside.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
They're not going outside. Yeah, they'd rather talk to their
friends via their phone and FaceTime text each other and
that's it. That's their life, right right, so we know
it firsthand. That's what goes on in our house.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Pretty much pretty much. So you know, so share with us.
You know what you're.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
A gift that you wanted as a child that.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
You never received, you know that you might still want
to get.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Yeah, you know you always wanted that can go hat.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
You know that that ropodope chain, you know them show
top Adidas.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
You know you know what I also wanted to Oh
my a t I sweatsuit.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Oh you always wanted one of those?
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Yeah, actually I think they're coming.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Back to Yeah, I've seen them, but yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Just can't see my big rubber dub dub and right
now so.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Shiny.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Yeah, I don't want to be shiny suit man, so.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Okay, but uh but yeah, you know, so let us
know what your thoughts.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Are and continue to have a great holiday.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Right and uh, we shall see you in Mayana, Mayana.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
What we shall see you soon, talk to you later.
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