Obsolete Objects Part 2

[00:00:07] Malorie Mackey: Hello, hello. Hello, everyone. Welcome back to Weird World Adventures, the podcast. I'm your host, Mallory. [00:00:13] Michael Maldonado: And I'm your host, Michael. [00:00:14] Malorie Mackey: And we're here to show you just how weird this world of ours really is. [00:00:18] Michael Maldonado: Are you here? [00:00:19] Malorie Mackey: I'm not here. I'm very angry. I'm really, really angry right now. Premiere Pro just crashed my entire drive on an export in media encoder for absolutely no reason at all. [00:00:31] Michael Maldonado: It's fine. It was only a 5 terabyte external [00:00:35] Malorie Mackey: hard drive, which is now dead. It's like just software though. It just like corrupted it. Like, how can Premiere do that? It's not the first time. It's like corrupted things for me before. It makes me so angry. Yeah. [00:00:57] Michael Maldonado: Oh, well. [00:00:58] Malorie Mackey: Kind of focus the rage into obsolete items. [00:01:01] Michael Maldonado: Oh, this is gonna be an angry podcast. [00:01:03] Malorie Mackey: An angry podcast. I'm gonna be so angry about everything. Yeah. Well, season two is out and I'm angry about it. Yeah. Herobrorld Adventure season two is out. You can watch it now on Prime Video and you can hopefully watch it soon on Roku. We're still waiting for it to upload on Roku, but it is on Prime Video. You should definitely check it out. And we just saw that it looks like it might be coming to Apple tv. [00:01:35] Michael Maldonado: It's exciting. [00:01:36] Malorie Mackey: It's really exciting. Right now they're making the listings for all of the English speaking international markets for it for Apple tv, which is great. It's sprinkled around in a few places, so make sure you keep your eye out. But obviously it's home is Amazon Prime Video, so make sure you check it out on Prime. [00:01:57] Michael Maldonado: Yay. [00:01:58] Malorie Mackey: Yay. We're really excited about that. So, yes, the show is out there [00:02:04] Michael Maldonado: and second edition of your book is done. Check that out. [00:02:08] Malorie Mackey: Yes. Wanderlust how to Make Money While Traveling is out the second edition. So be sure to find that on Amazon. It's in Kindle Unlimited now, so if you are a big Kindle reader can read it for free. [00:02:23] Michael Maldonado: And it's an audiobook now too. [00:02:24] Malorie Mackey: It's also an audiobook. It's in like the little. The Audible subscription too, so has a lot of fun ways to get it and listen to it. And yeah, make sure you guys check that out. Yeah, we just got off the crazy of four books in the last year and Weird World finishing up. But now it's. Now it's done. It's done. [00:02:47] Michael Maldonado: Minus the hard drive crash. [00:02:48] Malorie Mackey: Minus the hard drive crash. And all the fix that that's gonna take tomorrow. Other than that, it's done. [00:02:54] Michael Maldonado: That's great. [00:02:55] Malorie Mackey: It's great. And we can move forward. So we did a podcast a while back on obsolete objects, and apparently that's a really popular topic. [00:03:08] Michael Maldonado: It's fun. [00:03:09] Malorie Mackey: And people have then come forward, your mom included. [00:03:12] Michael Maldonado: My mom included. [00:03:13] Malorie Mackey: Here's a bunch of things that are also obsolete. So we have a bunch of new, fun, obsolete items that people have brought to us after that last podcast. Who knew? Who knew? That's where the excitement was. [00:03:25] Michael Maldonado: Oh, yeah. [00:03:26] Malorie Mackey: Obsolete Objects, part two. [00:03:30] Michael Maldonado: Part two. [00:03:32] Malorie Mackey: Some of these, I think, are questionable, though. [00:03:35] Michael Maldonado: Well, let's discuss. Yeah, I don't have the list. [00:03:37] Malorie Mackey: I have the list. First one is a Rolodex. I still have a Rolodex. Granted, I will say it's, like, mostly just in your phone now, but I feel like if you have a hard separation of work and life and you don't have a work phone. [00:03:52] Michael Maldonado: Mm. [00:03:53] Malorie Mackey: You would still have a Rolodex. [00:03:55] Michael Maldonado: I don't think I've ever had a Rolodex. [00:03:57] Malorie Mackey: That's fair. [00:03:58] Michael Maldonado: Like, at any point for any reason. [00:04:01] Malorie Mackey: Well, I have one now, and it was kind of your suggestion because I get all those business cards for work from, like. [00:04:06] Michael Maldonado: Is that what you're calling your Rolodex? [00:04:08] Malorie Mackey: Yeah, that's a Rolodex. Is it? Yeah, the thing that has, like, the Alphabet and you stick the business card in. Yeah. [00:04:13] Michael Maldonado: Okay. I thought you just had, like, a bucket that you were keeping all the cards in. [00:04:17] Malorie Mackey: No. [00:04:17] Michael Maldonado: Okay. [00:04:18] Malorie Mackey: Well, I mean, I guess. Did Rolodex just have. No, they had the person's name and number and info. It's the same kind of thing. [00:04:23] Michael Maldonado: You roll, right? [00:04:24] Malorie Mackey: Yeah, I would roll through. [00:04:25] Michael Maldonado: Okay. [00:04:26] Malorie Mackey: Yours rolls, mine rolls. [00:04:27] Michael Maldonado: Oh, okay. [00:04:28] Malorie Mackey: Yeah, we just put the business cards in there. Okay. [00:04:30] Michael Maldonado: I guess it's, like, kind of not obsolete, then. [00:04:34] Malorie Mackey: I guess if it was just, like, not the business card and the info. It's the same information, though, so I don't know. [00:04:39] Michael Maldonado: I don't know. Questionable. Questionably obsolete. I never had one, though. [00:04:43] Malorie Mackey: You never had one? The. The next one. I also have questions about the phone booth. There's still phone booths out there. Gimmicky phone books. [00:04:54] Michael Maldonado: Yeah, but not for their function. [00:04:57] Malorie Mackey: I think some of them function okay, [00:05:00] Michael Maldonado: but, I mean, [00:05:02] Malorie Mackey: they're obviously the same [00:05:03] Michael Maldonado: way that we talked about typewriters last time, Right? There's still typewriters in existence, but it's not like anyone would, like, I better write my book on this typewriter. [00:05:11] Malorie Mackey: Right. That's fair. Okay. Yeah, but, like, no one's going to [00:05:15] Michael Maldonado: a phone Booth to make a phone call. Right. [00:05:17] Malorie Mackey: I definitely saw a phone booth in Buenos Aires. But, I mean, I guess. I guess you're not really. Well, they might even. [00:05:26] Michael Maldonado: Cell phone. Who the hell is going into a phone booth? [00:05:29] Malorie Mackey: Maybe it serves the purposes like the emergency phones in Vegas and the desert on the side of the road when you're like, oh, no, my phone died, and I need an emergency phone. [00:05:38] Michael Maldonado: Do they have this? [00:05:39] Malorie Mackey: Yeah. When you drive, like, in the middle of nowhere, desert between, like, LA and Vegas. least that. Every X amount of miles. [00:05:47] Michael Maldonado: Yeah. How far apart are they? [00:05:48] Malorie Mackey: I don't know, but there's. There's an emergency phone. [00:05:51] Michael Maldonado: What would be, like, the furthest you could be from one? You know, you, like, broke down the [00:05:55] Malorie Mackey: middle of two emergency phones? [00:06:03] Michael Maldonado: Yeah. Phone. Yeah. I don't. I don't know. I don't. [00:06:08] Malorie Mackey: Let's see. How far apart are they? Emergency help points, such as blue light phones on campus or in parking garages are often spaced within line of sight, typically in 100 yards. Yeah, but that's not the Vegas ones. I need the. Those. [00:06:23] Michael Maldonado: I remember those on in college. [00:06:28] Malorie Mackey: Now I need to see. Let's see, emergency phones. I swear I used to pass by them all the time. [00:06:42] Michael Maldonado: They're obsolete. [00:06:43] Malorie Mackey: I'm gonna have to. [00:06:44] Michael Maldonado: There's no more words. [00:06:45] Malorie Mackey: I know. I'm gonna have to get back to you. I don't know how far apart they are, okay. It's clutch. I'm sure everybody will know how far apart they are. [00:06:53] Michael Maldonado: Be on the edges of their seats waiting for that update. [00:06:55] Malorie Mackey: I know how far apart they are. [00:06:57] Michael Maldonado: Okay. Fombos just seem like they're for nostalgia. [00:07:03] Malorie Mackey: Yeah. I'll give you nostalgia. Like, they're like good decoration at Epcot, [00:07:08] Michael Maldonado: but, I mean, a lot of this stuff would be. Right. [00:07:09] Malorie Mackey: Yeah. Good decoration at Epcot. True international calling cards. [00:07:18] Michael Maldonado: Well, yeah. Everyone has a cell phone, right? [00:07:19] Malorie Mackey: Well, I will say, as someone that travels a lot. [00:07:24] Michael Maldonado: Well, do you. [00:07:26] Malorie Mackey: Phone plans are weird. Like, when I was with Verizon originally, which I am again now. Like, it's kind of different. You could add on, like, I'm gonna be traveling 10 days. I'm gonna add on international for 10 days. Like, $10 a day. I'm gonna pay a hundred extra dollars and add on the trip onto my account. That's. It used to be like that, and then I think it moved now into, like, with my plan, I get X amount of travel days a year that just, like, build up, and eventually you just have so many. You know, it just doesn't matter. Right? Which is great. But when I had Sprint, I think before it was bought by AT&T, or might have been when it was bought by AT&T, I was in Germany and I couldn't get anyone to give me any international service of any kind. I tried to add it beforehand and they said, no, you have to go. And when you get there we're gonna send you a text and you just say yes, I wanna add this onto my plan once you're in the region. [00:08:23] Michael Maldonado: What? [00:08:24] Malorie Mackey: It didn't work? [00:08:25] Michael Maldonado: Yeah, of course not, of course not. [00:08:27] Malorie Mackey: I never had it working the entire time. [00:08:30] Michael Maldonado: But there's so many app based things now, right? So if you had WI fi, this is moot, right? [00:08:38] Malorie Mackey: Well, if you have WI Fi, it's moot, but if you're using your GPS to like get around like there were, there were, there were instances in which it was very unfortunate. [00:08:48] Michael Maldonado: But you're not using an international calling card. [00:08:50] Malorie Mackey: No, that's. No, no, no, that's absolutely. I'm saying, I was just saying international travel has not gotten it down yet. But the calling card is gone. Yes, but it's still not intuitive. [00:09:04] Michael Maldonado: Okay, well that's fair. [00:09:07] Malorie Mackey: Yeah, it's still question. [00:09:08] Michael Maldonado: I'll be honest, I'm still on my parents plan. You don't even know, so I really don't even know. I'm assuming somebody gets the bill. It's just not me. [00:09:19] Malorie Mackey: The. The bunny ears. [00:09:20] Michael Maldonado: Antennas on it on TVs. [00:09:22] Malorie Mackey: Yeah, that's dead. [00:09:24] Michael Maldonado: Oh, well, yeah, I mean those are, those are like vacuum tube TVs, right? Yeah, those haven't been around for a long time. Those weren't even, those were obsolete. When I was, before I was born, right. [00:09:38] Malorie Mackey: I had one, my dad had one. He kept onto that tv. I mean, to be fair, he just kept onto that TV way longer than he should have. [00:09:47] Michael Maldonado: Yeah, but they were already old TVs. [00:09:50] Malorie Mackey: Yeah, it was already an old TV. I've seen them. [00:09:52] Michael Maldonado: But it's not like, it's not like you would go out and get a TV in the 80s and would have the bunny ears, right? That's like the 50s and 60s, right? [00:09:59] Malorie Mackey: No, it was like the 80s, was it? We had a TV growing up that still had one. It wasn't new, but it wasn't like that old. It was not that old. And as a fun story, when my parents first separated, or like ish, my dad lived in this condo and I was like 5, 6, maybe 4, 5, 6, 7 when he lived there. [00:10:22] Michael Maldonado: Okay. [00:10:23] Malorie Mackey: And somewhere in that time frame he would go out on A lot of dates, like on the weekend. And he would leave me and my sister. And my sister was a teenager and super angsty and like did not want anything to do with me. And the rule was, I don't blame her. She got to be downstairs with the TV that had cable and I had to be upstairs with the TV that didn't have cable. [00:10:41] Michael Maldonado: With the bunny ear too. [00:10:42] Malorie Mackey: With the bunny ear. Didn't have cable. Right. [00:10:43] Michael Maldonado: So what would you do with it? [00:10:46] Malorie Mackey: Well, I watched Walker Texas Ranger. Nice. That was what I did. [00:10:49] Michael Maldonado: Nice. [00:10:50] Malorie Mackey: The only thing I could find that was on that I would like enjoy watching was Walker Texas Ranger. So I'm like six years old. The word enjoy as a six year old, it was fascinating. I watched that show all the time. [00:11:05] Michael Maldonado: He died. [00:11:06] Malorie Mackey: I know. That's why it came to mind. [00:11:09] Michael Maldonado: It like ruins all the Chuck Norris jokes. Like he's supposed to be invulnerable and now he's dead. [00:11:15] Malorie Mackey: So sad. I really, I really loved Chuck Norris. When I was like six, I'd watch Walker Texas Ranger upstairs every night. [00:11:23] Michael Maldonado: What a childhood. [00:11:24] Malorie Mackey: I know. There was also. [00:11:26] Michael Maldonado: So Chuck Norris was your babysitter. [00:11:28] Malorie Mackey: Yeah, exactly. [00:11:28] Michael Maldonado: While your dad's out dating. [00:11:30] Malorie Mackey: Exactly. And there was like a weird vent on the bottom. It was like on the upstairs floor. [00:11:37] Michael Maldonado: Okay. [00:11:38] Malorie Mackey: That just looked down into the downstairs. Like it wasn't a real vent. Right. It was just like, just a hole. A hole. But it was like a vent hole. And a vent hole. [00:11:46] Michael Maldonado: Okay. [00:11:46] Malorie Mackey: And I could look down and see my sister downstairs. [00:11:48] Michael Maldonado: Yeah. [00:11:49] Malorie Mackey: And I used to like take pennies and try to like drop them on her head. Cuz I was really angry that she had me upstairs. [00:11:55] Michael Maldonado: I don't know why she don't want to hang out with you. [00:11:57] Malorie Mackey: She did way worse to me. [00:12:01] Michael Maldonado: So did I. It's fine. [00:12:03] Malorie Mackey: Well, this one must be good. Yeah, you did. This one must be good because I don't even know what it is. A AAA triptych book. It says AAA mapped out your specific route and tourist hotspots. [00:12:15] Michael Maldonado: Oh God. I don't remember that either. [00:12:18] Malorie Mackey: AAA guidebook. [00:12:19] Michael Maldonado: I'm sure my parents used. I remember having a guidebook. [00:12:21] Malorie Mackey: Still use maps? [00:12:22] Michael Maldonado: Oh, my dad still uses maps. Definitely still has maps. He'll argue with the gps. Maybe if it's super local you might know like a slightly quicker way. You know some bad things, but the [00:12:37] Malorie Mackey: GPS can tell you that's faster. [00:12:39] Michael Maldonado: But always. But when you're just traveling, it's always. I mean, of course it's right. It has every like. Yeah, of course. Of Course it knows better than you. [00:12:46] Malorie Mackey: It even has traffic patterns. [00:12:47] Michael Maldonado: Right. It even knows. Right. And he got. He was arguing with it. Coming home from West Virginia. My whole family went out there for a friend's wedding. And I had to work the next day. So, like, he was driving, and I was like, I'm going to sleep because I get early and I wake up and I, like, look at my phone. I don't know, like 10pm I was like, we must be almost home. We should have been just about home. And I look outside and it's like, Lewis County. I'm like, well, that doesn't sound like anywhere near home. [00:13:23] Malorie Mackey: Like, what are you talking about? [00:13:24] Michael Maldonado: Where are we? And because he had argued with the gps, he took us five or six hours out of the way. We like, instead of, like, cutting across West Virginia into, like, western Virginia, we went, like, all the way south through West Virginia and then, like, all the way west. Instead of, like, a diagonal, we did, like, vertically down, horizontally, over. We didn't get home for like, three in the morning. I was so unhappy. [00:13:50] Malorie Mackey: My God. [00:13:53] Michael Maldonado: Because I think I had made a stink going there about him arguing with the gps. Like, it's better than. You just stop arguing with it. [00:14:00] Malorie Mackey: Yeah. [00:14:02] Michael Maldonado: And then, like. [00:14:03] Malorie Mackey: Right. [00:14:03] Michael Maldonado: And then that happened. I was like, well, well. And here we are five hours out of the way in Lewis County, Virginia. [00:14:12] Malorie Mackey: They do the same thing when we go up north, and they, like, refuse to take 95. But I will say. [00:14:18] Michael Maldonado: I will say 95 sucks. [00:14:20] Malorie Mackey: I. I have never. It has never taken. In the last. The last three years being here, I've driven up to New York maybe like seven or eight times. Right. It has never taken me more than six hours. Usually it's like five and a half. I time it well, but it's really not a problem. Right. If we went that way with your parents, it would take 10. [00:14:40] Michael Maldonado: Oh, it routinely takes 10. [00:14:42] Malorie Mackey: Routinely takes 10. I don't know how they do it. [00:14:46] Michael Maldonado: They're using their AAA Triptych book, apparently. [00:14:50] Malorie Mackey: Yeah. [00:14:51] Michael Maldonado: Obsolete. Adds an extra five hours to your trip. [00:14:54] Malorie Mackey: Exactly. Right. The next one's pretty gross. [00:15:00] Michael Maldonado: Handkerchiefs. Yeah. Those have always been gross. Right. [00:15:02] Malorie Mackey: I don't see any situation where those are ever not gross. [00:15:07] Michael Maldonado: Right. Well, I mean, you're just re. It's just a tissue that you're reading. It's just a snot rag. [00:15:14] Malorie Mackey: And they try to make it cute. Like, I don't know. I always think of 101 Dalmatians. Do you remember anything about the beginning of it at all? [00:15:21] Michael Maldonado: No. [00:15:22] Malorie Mackey: When, like, Roger Meets Anita. [00:15:23] Michael Maldonado: I don't know those names. [00:15:24] Malorie Mackey: Roger's the guy who owns Pongo. Anita's the girl. [00:15:29] Michael Maldonado: Okay. [00:15:30] Malorie Mackey: Perdita, the dogs. Right? And, like, I kind of forgot there [00:15:33] Michael Maldonado: were people in it. I thought I was just about. [00:15:35] Malorie Mackey: Oh, no, there's people in it. And they're like. He sees them like, Pongo sees them, like, walking. Like Anita walking Perdita in the beginning. And they're going to the park, and he wants to meet her because he thinks she's sexy. Dalmatian. [00:15:49] Michael Maldonado: Yeah. [00:15:50] Malorie Mackey: So he, like, gets his guy. Like, he gets Roger to, like, walk him to the park, right? And he, like, tries to get them to, like, you know, stay. And he, like, ties his leash around him and they all fall in the water. [00:16:01] Michael Maldonado: Okay. [00:16:02] Malorie Mackey: I've never seen it. And he, like, pulls out, like, she pulls out her handkerchief and it's all ruined. And she's like, you can have mine. And it's all. And I'm like, who? I mean, I remember watching this as a kid being like, who uses a handkerchief? [00:16:13] Michael Maldonado: So if I had a handkerchief, would you use it? [00:16:16] Malorie Mackey: No. [00:16:16] Michael Maldonado: Would you accept my snot rag if it was cleaned? Well, no. [00:16:20] Malorie Mackey: Then, no. I think the idea is it's supposed to be clean. Like, oh, you can have this. It's clean. You can use it. [00:16:27] Michael Maldonado: But as soon as it's used, it's not clean. [00:16:29] Malorie Mackey: I agree. It's weird. And I feel like people used them long after they were no longer acceptable. And we definitely had tissues. Yeah. [00:16:39] Michael Maldonado: I mean, I guess if you don't have tissues yet, it's better than nothing. Nothing. [00:16:44] Malorie Mackey: Maybe. But we definitely had tissues when people were using handkerchiefs. And, like, now they're kind of, like, used for style. [00:16:51] Michael Maldonado: Sometimes they're just like a show. Like a thing you would put in, like, a show jacket, right? [00:16:56] Malorie Mackey: Yeah, definitely. [00:16:57] Michael Maldonado: It's not usable. [00:16:58] Malorie Mackey: No, it's not usable. It became, like, a fashion thing. But. [00:17:01] Michael Maldonado: But, like, yeah, check out my snot rag. [00:17:04] Malorie Mackey: But, like, it was in everything we watched as kids. I just remember being so confused by it. [00:17:10] Michael Maldonado: We're going to the Explorers Club Gala. [00:17:12] Malorie Mackey: Yes. [00:17:12] Michael Maldonado: Next week. [00:17:13] Malorie Mackey: Yes. [00:17:14] Michael Maldonado: Get me a snot rag for it. [00:17:15] Malorie Mackey: For style, I'll get you a stylish snack. Perfect. [00:17:19] Michael Maldonado: I'm gonna use it. [00:17:20] Malorie Mackey: Ready to hand it to somebody? [00:17:21] Michael Maldonado: Oh, yeah. [00:17:22] Malorie Mackey: I'll be handed to somebody. Yeah. [00:17:26] Michael Maldonado: Yeah. Okay. It's grace, obsolete and gross. [00:17:31] Malorie Mackey: Fountain pens. I mean, we still have fountain pens, right? [00:17:33] Michael Maldonado: Like, the ones you have to dip. [00:17:36] Malorie Mackey: Is that. That's, I think, even older than a fountain pen. [00:17:39] Michael Maldonado: What's that called? A well, like, we had, like, a well of ink. [00:17:42] Malorie Mackey: Yeah, like a well of ink well. [00:17:46] Michael Maldonado: I mean. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's not. We're not Ebony's or Scrooge here. [00:17:51] Malorie Mackey: I mean, fountain pens are all over. Like, look, you can buy a whole bunch of them everywhere. So they're. They're cool. That's another thing. That's cool. [00:17:58] Michael Maldonado: Yeah, they're. They're a style thing. Right. [00:17:59] Malorie Mackey: You don't need them anymore. [00:18:01] Michael Maldonado: Okay, that's fair. [00:18:01] Malorie Mackey: But yeah, it has the oil, the ink well. 41 1. You didn't know that? [00:18:10] Michael Maldonado: I didn't know that one, but 41 1, I guess. [00:18:12] Malorie Mackey: Well, you would dial 411 to get information on something. It would. Like a dictionary. Like, I don't want to. I don't want to go open up the dictionary. I need someone to tell me what it was. Like Google before Google, and it's gone now. But the interesting thing is it's still part of, like, vernacular. It's like slang. Right. You say, what's the 41 1? [00:18:31] Michael Maldonado: Yeah. I guess I didn't know that's where that was from. I've heard the slang. [00:18:34] Malorie Mackey: Yeah. So what's the 411 came from? You dial 41 1. [00:18:39] Michael Maldonado: Yeah. [00:18:40] Malorie Mackey: To find. [00:18:40] Michael Maldonado: I wonder how many people know that. That say it. [00:18:43] Malorie Mackey: I don't. I say, I. I know that, but I don't know. I wonder. I don't know. I feel like I never called. [00:18:52] Michael Maldonado: The next time I hear someone say, I'm gonna ask them if they know what it means. [00:18:55] Malorie Mackey: I'm curious. [00:18:56] Michael Maldonado: Yeah. [00:18:57] Malorie Mackey: I don't think I was ever old enough to call 411, but I remember my parents calling 411. [00:19:04] Michael Maldonado: Okay. [00:19:06] Malorie Mackey: And then. And then zero for the operator that I did know. [00:19:09] Michael Maldonado: Yeah. [00:19:11] Malorie Mackey: Yeah. Well, yeah, but people, I guess, don't do that anymore. Well, back in the day, it connected you, like, without having to have someone's phone number. Right. It was like, I need to talk to this person. And it was like a situation. And then we all had phone numbers. [00:19:25] Michael Maldonado: Yeah. Were there just that few phones? Like, how would that even work? [00:19:29] Malorie Mackey: I mean, I guess so. Right. The phone has evolved. We just had an article about that on Mallory's adventures. [00:19:34] Michael Maldonado: I just scheduled about the evolution of the phone. [00:19:37] Malorie Mackey: Yeah. Starting with Alexander Graham Bell. [00:19:40] Michael Maldonado: Ahoy hoi. [00:19:41] Malorie Mackey: Evolution. Ahoihoi. [00:19:42] Michael Maldonado: Did you put that in there? [00:19:42] Malorie Mackey: I don't. I didn't. I gotta go back and add the ahoehoy. [00:19:45] Michael Maldonado: That's what he wanted it to. That's how he thought we should answer the phone. And quite Frankly, I agree. [00:19:50] Malorie Mackey: Ahoy. [00:19:51] Michael Maldonado: Ahoy. Missed opportunity. Think how much better our world would be if that's how we answered the phone. [00:20:00] Malorie Mackey: Ahoy. Hoi. [00:20:00] Michael Maldonado: Ahoy. Hoi. [00:20:02] Malorie Mackey: Ahoy. Hoy. [00:20:04] Michael Maldonado: Yeah, I'm with Alexander on that one. [00:20:06] Malorie Mackey: Ahoy is a way people say hi. [00:20:10] Michael Maldonado: Cat says that I have said ahoy. Ahoy. [00:20:14] Malorie Mackey: Okay, that's there. But yeah, yeah, I did dial the operator before it became, when we were kids, something where you would call and ask for to be connected to someone. [00:20:31] Michael Maldonado: I will occasionally call the hospital operator, like when I'm at work to get to a specific floor if I don't have the number to it. It's zero. [00:20:40] Malorie Mackey: Yes. [00:20:42] Michael Maldonado: I mean, it's in a local. It's like a local intranet type, you know, it's a hospital operator connecting. [00:20:48] Malorie Mackey: Well, it would be a local operator. [00:20:49] Michael Maldonado: The fifth floor or whatever. [00:20:51] Malorie Mackey: Yeah. Like when we were in Brandermill, you could call the operator and you could call it. So there's just someone, like, you could call the operator in the region that you'd say, can you connect me to my local hospital or can you. And they would. And my. This room is like, how many do [00:21:04] Michael Maldonado: you think there were sitting around, like, answering that? [00:21:06] Malorie Mackey: A lot. Probably dozens of. I mean, hundreds of people just sitting [00:21:11] Michael Maldonado: in, like, a box somewhere. [00:21:12] Malorie Mackey: Yeah. And they lost their jobs. [00:21:14] Michael Maldonado: I've never met one of these people, though. Like, who. [00:21:16] Malorie Mackey: They all lost their jobs when the operators were obsolete. The Internet made them kind of obsolete. [00:21:25] Michael Maldonado: Yeah. [00:21:25] Malorie Mackey: Same thing with 41 1. My. I. The operator ruined Santa Claus for me because, oh, wow. My. My aunt lied to me and Brett, my cousin, and said, like, oh, Santa Claus called on the phone. You have to, like. Like, she, like, told a Santa Claus call. [00:21:45] Michael Maldonado: You star sick. Denying that bitch. [00:21:47] Malorie Mackey: Well, then I asked her, well, how did you get Santa Claus to call? And she said, oh, I just called the operator, and they gave me Santa's number with what she said to me. So then I tried to call the operator to get Santa's number, and I probably made some woman's day, you know, just, can I get Santa Claus number? And she's like, oh, I don't have that number. I'm sorry. And I was like, my aunt lied to me. And then I just started spiraling. [00:22:10] Michael Maldonado: Yeah. Oh, sweetie, Santa's not real. Have a nice day. [00:22:20] Malorie Mackey: I like. Your mom explains phone number. 0 was answered by an operator who provided you with phone numbers. Very articulate. Very good. Very good. [00:22:30] Michael Maldonado: Thanks, Mom. [00:22:33] Malorie Mackey: Oh, this is good. The popcorn cookers before microwaves were like a frying pan. That you stuck over the stovetop covered in foil. I remember you can still get them. [00:22:42] Michael Maldonado: You can still get. They're like one time usable. Right. Like, you buy them as that and they like go. But yeah, I think my grandparents had one. I've definitely seen it somewhere. [00:22:52] Malorie Mackey: I've definitely. I've used one. [00:22:54] Michael Maldonado: I believe I've used the, like, the disposable. The disposables. Yeah. [00:23:01] Malorie Mackey: Jiffy Pop, a brand like above cooked over the stove. So you have the Jiffy Pop, there's a popcorn cooker, and then there's the Jiffy Pop version. [00:23:11] Michael Maldonado: But that's like the temporary. Like the one top the disposal. Yeah, that's still around. [00:23:15] Malorie Mackey: Yeah. [00:23:16] Michael Maldonado: I don't know if it's Jiffy Pop, but it's. They still have the, like, one time use bags. [00:23:22] Malorie Mackey: Yeah, yeah. [00:23:22] Michael Maldonado: That are shaped like a pan that you put over. Yeah, yeah. Okay. [00:23:26] Malorie Mackey: Yeah. I feel like a lot of these items, like Gen Z would know what they were, though. Like, they would know the Rolodex, the phone booth. They might not understand an international calling card, but I feel like everyone knows what the bunny ears are on the antennas because it's a joke on. They, like, survive through media. Right. But maybe not. I have to. To ask Taylor about some of these. [00:23:48] Michael Maldonado: Yes. Your sister. [00:23:50] Malorie Mackey: The AAA trip book. No. Handkerchiefs. Yes. [00:23:55] Michael Maldonado: Well, yeah, but that's because they're. Some of these are. They're still around. They're just not used as, like, their function. [00:24:02] Malorie Mackey: The popcorn stuff. This one, I disagree with ashtrays. People still use ashtrays, but I agree. They used to be everywhere. [00:24:11] Michael Maldonado: They were everywhere. [00:24:12] Malorie Mackey: Everywhere. [00:24:13] Michael Maldonado: Everywhere, yes. Now it's like. I mean, where was the last place you saw one? [00:24:17] Malorie Mackey: Well, you're not allowed to smoke out. [00:24:18] Michael Maldonado: I know. That's what I'm saying. [00:24:19] Malorie Mackey: Yeah. [00:24:19] Michael Maldonado: So, like, nowhere, Right. [00:24:21] Malorie Mackey: Oh, I know where I've seen them. [00:24:22] Michael Maldonado: Where? [00:24:23] Malorie Mackey: At Moniz. You see them at cigar lounges. [00:24:27] Michael Maldonado: That's true. [00:24:27] Malorie Mackey: But that's made for you to go smoke. [00:24:32] Michael Maldonado: It's made for that reason. [00:24:33] Malorie Mackey: I remember when they banned smoking in restaurants. It was when I was in college. I was working at Shoney's when they, like, finally. Well, there was a smoking section when I worked at Shoney's in high school and into college. And I love this. First of all, nobody wanted the smoking section. And I was like, well, I'll take the whole smoking section. And they tip so much better. I would make way more money than everybody else work in the smoking section. [00:25:02] Michael Maldonado: And it's just cost you a few years off your Life in cancer. Right. Secondhand smoke. [00:25:06] Malorie Mackey: Cancer. [00:25:06] Michael Maldonado: Worth it. [00:25:07] Malorie Mackey: Definitely worth it. [00:25:09] Michael Maldonado: Thanks Jennies. [00:25:10] Malorie Mackey: But yeah, your mom said they had everyday and special for company. [00:25:15] Michael Maldonado: For company. [00:25:16] Malorie Mackey: Ashtrays. The really nice ashtrays. Well, yeah. Cause everybody smoked in the 60s. People smoked in hospitals in the 60s. [00:25:25] Michael Maldonado: Yeah. The good old days. [00:25:27] Malorie Mackey: Everywhere. [00:25:28] Michael Maldonado: The good old days. No wonder medicine went to the. Went to shit. [00:25:34] Malorie Mackey: It's also funny because yeah, everywhere had a smoking section and a not smoking section. Everywhere. And you would have to say that. I remember. I don't know if Taylor would know that to be honest. Like I think Jinzi wouldn't know that. Yeah, just like I want the non smoking section or the smoking section and you had to like tell them which section you wanted to be seated in every time you went to a restaurant. Yeah, I remember. Yeah, that definitely doesn't happen anymore. [00:26:00] Michael Maldonado: No, it's all. Yeah, there's no smoking at all. [00:26:02] Malorie Mackey: Yeah. And yeah, they had ashtray. I can still remember what those like public ashtrays looked like too. Right? Like the black cheap plastic with the little divots. Yeah, the little divots. Yep. I have no idea what this is. S and H green stamps that you redeemed for items. [00:26:22] Michael Maldonado: Oh geez. I don't know that. [00:26:24] Malorie Mackey: I don't know that either in the world. [00:26:28] Michael Maldonado: Very obsolete. [00:26:29] Malorie Mackey: Very obsolete. [00:26:31] Michael Maldonado: S and H green stamps. [00:26:34] Malorie Mackey: S and H green stamps were a popular 20th century loyalty program peaking in the 60s where shoppers collected adhesive stamps from retailers, primarily in supermarkets and gas stations to paste in books and redeem for household goods. Never heard of that before. Ever. Grocery stores and gas stations purchased stamps from Sperry and Hutchinson and gave them to customers based on the total purchase amount. [00:27:02] Michael Maldonado: Weird. [00:27:03] Malorie Mackey: One stamp per 10 cents or 10 stamps per dollar and you could redeem them for stuff. Shoppers would lick and stick the stamps in a 24 page booklet. A full book typically held 1200 stamps. [00:27:18] Michael Maldonado: What would you get for 1200 stamps? [00:27:20] Malorie Mackey: Filled books were traded in for merchandise at S and H redemption centers or via the IdeaBook catalog. [00:27:29] Michael Maldonado: I want to know what you could get. [00:27:31] Malorie Mackey: It said it was like a pre Internet retailer offering with huge variety of things, often called a wish book. And it included. Here you go. Household furniture and linens, large and small appliances like toasters and lamps. [00:27:45] Michael Maldonado: Okay. [00:27:46] Malorie Mackey: Sports equipment, toys and bicycles and china and tableware. [00:27:52] Michael Maldonado: Interesting. [00:27:53] Malorie Mackey: The program's popularity faded by the 1980s as consumers favored credit card rewards and other loyalty programs. [00:28:00] Michael Maldonado: Credit cards killed it. [00:28:01] Malorie Mackey: Wow. [00:28:01] Michael Maldonado: Yeah, I guess that makes sense. [00:28:03] Malorie Mackey: It moved to a digital model. SNH greenpoints in the late 1990s. [00:28:09] Michael Maldonado: I don't remember that either. [00:28:10] Malorie Mackey: While physical stores closed, the company still exists. [00:28:14] Michael Maldonado: Really? [00:28:14] Malorie Mackey: And it has occasionally revived its brand with incentives like the Route 66 Centennial Project. [00:28:21] Michael Maldonado: Weird. [00:28:21] Malorie Mackey: Old, unused physical stamps are still considered valid for redemption for digital green points by the company. [00:28:28] Michael Maldonado: Wow. [00:28:29] Malorie Mackey: Today, old stamp booklets and memorabilia are popular items sold on ebay. [00:28:34] Michael Maldonado: Wow. I'm gonna buy some on ebay and redeem it for, like, a toaster. [00:28:39] Malorie Mackey: I need a new toaster. I want this. [00:28:43] Michael Maldonado: I wonder if there's any, like. I wonder, like, how much they are on ebay. [00:28:47] Malorie Mackey: I know. Now, I just. [00:28:48] Michael Maldonado: Is there, like, the opportunity for some arbitrage there? Like, you can get the stamp books cheaper than the item would cost and buy the stamp books. You know, like, I'm gonna spend $20. I'm gonna get $20 with these stamp books and then trade them in for a $30 toaster. Maybe, like, maybe just there hasn't been enough people around to equalize the market. [00:29:08] Malorie Mackey: You gotta check it out. [00:29:09] Michael Maldonado: There might be an opportunity for some arbitrage there. [00:29:12] Malorie Mackey: Oh, my God. [00:29:13] Michael Maldonado: I'm gonna be an SNH Green stamp millionaire. Yeah. [00:29:20] Malorie Mackey: Oh, man. Good stuff. Good stuff. Well, well, well. Speaking of, I don't remember if we talked about this last time, but I have to bring it up now that we talked about the stamps. I know we've personally talked about it, but I don't know if we talked about it on the podcast. [00:29:36] Michael Maldonado: Okay. [00:29:36] Malorie Mackey: The little coupon machines at the grocery [00:29:38] Michael Maldonado: store, like, you pull out. [00:29:41] Malorie Mackey: Yes. [00:29:42] Michael Maldonado: Oh, yeah. [00:29:42] Malorie Mackey: Gen Z would never know what those were. You'd pull them out and then you'd wait, and then it would, like, bzzz. They'd come back out. Right. Like, man, that was how I used to be entertained at the grocery store. [00:29:53] Michael Maldonado: I feel like that was their primary function. Definitely not being used as coupons. [00:29:58] Malorie Mackey: Definitely. [00:29:58] Michael Maldonado: They are to entertain your little shitty kid who needs something to do while you grocery shop. [00:30:03] Malorie Mackey: Definitely. I would run down those aisles and [00:30:07] Michael Maldonado: I would just have dozens, you know, dozens and dozens and dozens of them. [00:30:09] Malorie Mackey: Yes. [00:30:11] Michael Maldonado: Right. [00:30:11] Malorie Mackey: That was, like, what made going to the grocery store with mom tolerable. Yeah, exactly. [00:30:17] Michael Maldonado: Definitely. [00:30:17] Malorie Mackey: Definitely. And I guarantee you, like, Taylor's generation, Gen Z would have no idea what that was. That is completely outdated and gone. [00:30:28] Michael Maldonado: Yeah, I guess that's true. [00:30:29] Malorie Mackey: There's, like, nothing like that anymore. Just, like, those S and H Green stamps, they still exist, apparently, but no one knows what they are. [00:30:39] Michael Maldonado: That's why I'm saying I think there's gonna be a market for them there. An Untapped market. [00:30:45] Malorie Mackey: Oh, good stuff. Well, that was fun. All right, I'm only semi angry now. [00:30:53] Michael Maldonado: Yeah, well, I'm gonna go to bed. [00:30:54] Malorie Mackey: The amount of time I wasted, and [00:30:56] Michael Maldonado: you get to go ahead and fix your drive. It's fine. The season's available. Please watch it. [00:31:06] Malorie Mackey: Yeah. [00:31:06] Michael Maldonado: We would love your positive reviews. [00:31:09] Malorie Mackey: Yes, please. If you like the podcast, everybody, please leave us a review here. Wherever you podcast, wherever you listen to the podcast, please leave us a review and let people know how you like the podcast. [00:31:24] Michael Maldonado: And if you don't like it, don't leave it. Right. And feel free to email us your constructive criticism directly. [00:31:35] Malorie Mackey: And if you do watch Weird World Adventures on Amazon prime or down the line here on Apple TV or wherever you watch it, which, to be honest, now, if you go into the smart tv, you can just type in Weird World Adventures and it tells you where you can watch it. So you can do that. If you don't know how to find things, that's great. Do that. And please give us your positive, wonderful, happy reviews on Weird world Adventure Season 2. [00:32:00] Michael Maldonado: And if you don't have a smart TV, yes, you can collect some SNH green stamps. And I think if you get enough of them, you can go ahead and turn those in for a smart tv. [00:32:10] Malorie Mackey: The next episode, we're gonna follow up and let you know how many the smart TV cost. [00:32:14] Michael Maldonado: I wonder how many it would be. [00:32:15] Malorie Mackey: I know. And how far apart those Vegas phones are. [00:32:19] Michael Maldonado: Okay, yeah, these are really important questions. [00:32:24] Malorie Mackey: Please also, if you have read any of our books, including Wanderlust, how to Make Money While Traveling, please go onto Amazon and also leave us reviews there. The reviews really help, especially with Weird World right now on IMDb, IMDb is the big one. If you have an Amazon account, that means you have an IMDb account. And if you can go onto IMDb and give us your stars and let people know what you think of the show, that would be amazing. [00:32:51] Michael Maldonado: It helps it get picked up. [00:32:53] Malorie Mackey: It helps it gets picked up in distribution. Also, right now, it's listed in the US at least for purchase on Prime. But if we want to get us over into the free zones on other networks, which is the goal, so everyone can watch it for free, we can get those stars on IMDb and that will help with distribution. [00:33:11] Michael Maldonado: Yes. [00:33:11] Malorie Mackey: Yay. Well, thank you guys so much for tuning in. Today was only semi angry. I held my. Held it together. [00:33:18] Michael Maldonado: You're looking more angry now, though, now that you're feeling good. [00:33:21] Malorie Mackey: I had to go back. [00:33:23] Michael Maldonado: I have to live with it. Oh, no. [00:33:27] Malorie Mackey: Until next time. [00:33:28] Michael Maldonado: Everybody stay weird and angry. Don't do that.