Obsolete Objects Part 2

[00:00:07] Speaker A: Hello, hello. Hello, everyone. Welcome back to Weird World Adventures, the podcast. I'm your host, Mallory. [00:00:13] Speaker B: And I'm your host, Michael. [00:00:14] Speaker A: And we're here to show you just how weird this world of ours really is. [00:00:18] Speaker B: Are you here? [00:00:19] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: It's fine. It was only a 5 terabyte external [00:00:35] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: Oh, well. [00:00:58] Speaker A: Kind of focus the rage into obsolete items. [00:01:01] Speaker B: Oh, this is gonna be an angry podcast. [00:01:03] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: It's exciting. [00:01:36] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: Yay. [00:01:58] Speaker A: Yay. We're really excited about that. So, yes, the show is out there [00:02:04] Speaker B: and second edition of your book is done. Check that out. [00:02:08] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: And it's an audiobook now too. [00:02:24] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: Minus the hard drive crash. [00:02:48] Speaker A: Minus the hard drive crash. And all the fix that that's gonna take tomorrow. Other than that, it's done. [00:02:54] Speaker B: That's great. [00:02:55] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: It's fun. [00:03:09] Speaker A: And people have then come forward, your mom included. [00:03:12] Speaker B: My mom included. [00:03:13] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:03:26] Speaker A: Obsolete Objects, part two. [00:03:30] Speaker B: Part two. [00:03:32] Speaker A: Some of these, I think, are questionable, though. [00:03:35] Speaker B: Well, let's discuss. Yeah, I don't have the list. [00:03:37] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: Mm. [00:03:53] Speaker A: You would still have a Rolodex. [00:03:55] Speaker B: I don't think I've ever had a Rolodex. [00:03:57] Speaker A: That's fair. [00:03:58] Speaker B: Like, at any point for any reason. [00:04:01] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: Is that what you're calling your Rolodex? [00:04:08] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: Okay. I thought you just had, like, a bucket that you were keeping all the cards in. [00:04:17] Speaker A: No. [00:04:17] Speaker B: Okay. [00:04:18] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: You roll, right? [00:04:24] Speaker A: Yeah, I would roll through. [00:04:25] Speaker B: Okay. [00:04:26] Speaker A: Yours rolls, mine rolls. [00:04:27] Speaker B: Oh, okay. [00:04:28] Speaker A: Yeah, we just put the business cards in there. Okay. [00:04:30] Speaker B: I guess it's, like, kind of not obsolete, then. [00:04:34] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: I don't know. Questionable. Questionably obsolete. I never had one, though. [00:04:43] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: Yeah, but not for their function. [00:04:57] Speaker A: I think some of them function okay, [00:05:00] Speaker B: but, I mean, [00:05:02] Speaker A: they're obviously the same [00:05:03] Speaker B: 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] Speaker A: Right. That's fair. Okay. Yeah, but, like, no one's going to [00:05:15] Speaker B: a phone Booth to make a phone call. Right. [00:05:17] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: Cell phone. Who the hell is going into a phone booth? [00:05:29] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: Do they have this? [00:05:39] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: Yeah. How far apart are they? [00:05:48] Speaker A: I don't know, but there's. There's an emergency phone. [00:05:51] Speaker B: What would be, like, the furthest you could be from one? You know, you, like, broke down the [00:05:55] Speaker A: middle of two emergency phones? [00:06:03] Speaker B: Yeah. Phone. Yeah. I don't. I don't know. I don't. [00:06:08] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: I remember those on in college. [00:06:28] Speaker A: Now I need to see. Let's see, emergency phones. I swear I used to pass by them all the time. [00:06:42] Speaker B: They're obsolete. [00:06:43] Speaker A: I'm gonna have to. [00:06:44] Speaker B: There's no more words. [00:06:45] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: Be on the edges of their seats waiting for that update. [00:06:55] Speaker A: I know how far apart they are. [00:06:57] Speaker B: Okay. Fombos just seem like they're for nostalgia. [00:07:03] Speaker A: Yeah. I'll give you nostalgia. Like, they're like good decoration at Epcot, [00:07:08] Speaker B: but, I mean, a lot of this stuff would be. Right. [00:07:09] Speaker A: Yeah. Good decoration at Epcot. True international calling cards. [00:07:18] Speaker B: Well, yeah. Everyone has a cell phone, right? [00:07:19] Speaker A: Well, I will say, as someone that travels a lot. [00:07:24] Speaker B: Well, do you. [00:07:26] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: What? [00:08:24] Speaker A: It didn't work? [00:08:25] Speaker B: Yeah, of course not, of course not. [00:08:27] Speaker A: I never had it working the entire time. [00:08:30] Speaker B: But there's so many app based things now, right? So if you had WI fi, this is moot, right? [00:08:38] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: But you're not using an international calling card. [00:08:50] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: Okay, well that's fair. [00:09:07] Speaker A: Yeah, it's still question. [00:09:08] Speaker B: 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] Speaker A: The. The bunny ears. [00:09:20] Speaker B: Antennas on it on TVs. [00:09:22] Speaker A: Yeah, that's dead. [00:09:24] Speaker B: 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] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: Yeah, but they were already old TVs. [00:09:50] Speaker A: Yeah, it was already an old TV. I've seen them. [00:09:52] Speaker B: 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] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: Okay. [00:10:23] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: With the bunny ear too. [00:10:42] Speaker A: With the bunny ear. Didn't have cable. Right. [00:10:43] Speaker B: So what would you do with it? [00:10:46] Speaker A: Well, I watched Walker Texas Ranger. Nice. That was what I did. [00:10:49] Speaker B: Nice. [00:10:50] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: He died. [00:11:06] Speaker A: I know. That's why it came to mind. [00:11:09] Speaker B: It like ruins all the Chuck Norris jokes. Like he's supposed to be invulnerable and now he's dead. [00:11:15] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: What a childhood. [00:11:24] Speaker A: I know. There was also. [00:11:26] Speaker B: So Chuck Norris was your babysitter. [00:11:28] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. [00:11:28] Speaker B: While your dad's out dating. [00:11:30] Speaker A: Exactly. And there was like a weird vent on the bottom. It was like on the upstairs floor. [00:11:37] Speaker B: Okay. [00:11:38] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: Okay. [00:11:46] Speaker A: And I could look down and see my sister downstairs. [00:11:48] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:11:49] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: I don't know why she don't want to hang out with you. [00:11:57] Speaker A: She did way worse to me. [00:12:01] Speaker B: So did I. It's fine. [00:12:03] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: Oh God. I don't remember that either. [00:12:18] Speaker A: AAA guidebook. [00:12:19] Speaker B: I'm sure my parents used. I remember having a guidebook. [00:12:21] Speaker A: Still use maps? [00:12:22] Speaker B: 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] Speaker A: GPS can tell you that's faster. [00:12:39] Speaker B: 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] Speaker A: It even has traffic patterns. [00:12:47] Speaker B: 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] Speaker A: Like, what are you talking about? [00:13:24] Speaker B: 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] Speaker A: My God. [00:13:53] Speaker B: 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] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:14:02] Speaker B: And then, like. [00:14:03] Speaker A: Right. [00:14:03] Speaker B: 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] Speaker A: They do the same thing when we go up north, and they, like, refuse to take 95. But I will say. [00:14:18] Speaker B: I will say 95 sucks. [00:14:20] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: Oh, it routinely takes 10. [00:14:42] Speaker A: Routinely takes 10. I don't know how they do it. [00:14:46] Speaker B: They're using their AAA Triptych book, apparently. [00:14:50] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:14:51] Speaker B: Obsolete. Adds an extra five hours to your trip. [00:14:54] Speaker A: Exactly. Right. The next one's pretty gross. [00:15:00] Speaker B: Handkerchiefs. Yeah. Those have always been gross. Right. [00:15:02] Speaker A: I don't see any situation where those are ever not gross. [00:15:07] Speaker B: 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] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: No. [00:15:22] Speaker A: When, like, Roger Meets Anita. [00:15:23] Speaker B: I don't know those names. [00:15:24] Speaker A: Roger's the guy who owns Pongo. Anita's the girl. [00:15:29] Speaker B: Okay. [00:15:30] Speaker A: Perdita, the dogs. Right? And, like, I kind of forgot there [00:15:33] Speaker B: were people in it. I thought I was just about. [00:15:35] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:15:50] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: Okay. [00:16:02] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: So if I had a handkerchief, would you use it? [00:16:16] Speaker A: No. [00:16:16] Speaker B: Would you accept my snot rag if it was cleaned? Well, no. [00:16:20] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: But as soon as it's used, it's not clean. [00:16:29] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: I mean, I guess if you don't have tissues yet, it's better than nothing. Nothing. [00:16:44] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: Sometimes they're just like a show. Like a thing you would put in, like, a show jacket, right? [00:16:56] Speaker A: Yeah, definitely. [00:16:57] Speaker B: It's not usable. [00:16:58] Speaker A: No, it's not usable. It became, like, a fashion thing. But. [00:17:01] Speaker B: But, like, yeah, check out my snot rag. [00:17:04] Speaker A: But, like, it was in everything we watched as kids. I just remember being so confused by it. [00:17:10] Speaker B: We're going to the Explorers Club Gala. [00:17:12] Speaker A: Yes. [00:17:12] Speaker B: Next week. [00:17:13] Speaker A: Yes. [00:17:14] Speaker B: Get me a snot rag for it. [00:17:15] Speaker A: For style, I'll get you a stylish snack. Perfect. [00:17:19] Speaker B: I'm gonna use it. [00:17:20] Speaker A: Ready to hand it to somebody? [00:17:21] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:17:22] Speaker A: I'll be handed to somebody. Yeah. [00:17:26] Speaker B: Yeah. Okay. It's grace, obsolete and gross. [00:17:31] Speaker A: Fountain pens. I mean, we still have fountain pens, right? [00:17:33] Speaker B: Like, the ones you have to dip. [00:17:36] Speaker A: Is that. That's, I think, even older than a fountain pen. [00:17:39] Speaker B: What's that called? A well, like, we had, like, a well of ink. [00:17:42] Speaker A: Yeah, like a well of ink well. [00:17:46] Speaker B: I mean. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's not. We're not Ebony's or Scrooge here. [00:17:51] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: Yeah, they're. They're a style thing. Right. [00:17:59] Speaker A: You don't need them anymore. [00:18:01] Speaker B: Okay, that's fair. [00:18:01] Speaker A: But yeah, it has the oil, the ink well. 41 1. You didn't know that? [00:18:10] Speaker B: I didn't know that one, but 41 1, I guess. [00:18:12] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: Yeah. I guess I didn't know that's where that was from. I've heard the slang. [00:18:34] Speaker A: Yeah. So what's the 411 came from? You dial 41 1. [00:18:39] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:18:40] Speaker A: To find. [00:18:40] Speaker B: I wonder how many people know that. That say it. [00:18:43] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: The next time I hear someone say, I'm gonna ask them if they know what it means. [00:18:55] Speaker A: I'm curious. [00:18:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:18:57] Speaker A: I don't think I was ever old enough to call 411, but I remember my parents calling 411. [00:19:04] Speaker B: Okay. [00:19:06] Speaker A: And then. And then zero for the operator that I did know. [00:19:09] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:19:11] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: Yeah. Were there just that few phones? Like, how would that even work? [00:19:29] Speaker A: I mean, I guess so. Right. The phone has evolved. We just had an article about that on Mallory's adventures. [00:19:34] Speaker B: I just scheduled about the evolution of the phone. [00:19:37] Speaker A: Yeah. Starting with Alexander Graham Bell. [00:19:40] Speaker B: Ahoy hoi. [00:19:41] Speaker A: Evolution. Ahoihoi. [00:19:42] Speaker B: Did you put that in there? [00:19:42] Speaker A: I don't. I didn't. I gotta go back and add the ahoehoy. [00:19:45] Speaker B: 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] Speaker A: Ahoy. [00:19:51] Speaker B: Ahoy. Missed opportunity. Think how much better our world would be if that's how we answered the phone. [00:20:00] Speaker A: Ahoy. Hoi. [00:20:00] Speaker B: Ahoy. Hoi. [00:20:02] Speaker A: Ahoy. Hoy. [00:20:04] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm with Alexander on that one. [00:20:06] Speaker A: Ahoy is a way people say hi. [00:20:10] Speaker B: Cat says that I have said ahoy. Ahoy. [00:20:14] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: 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] Speaker A: Yes. [00:20:42] Speaker B: 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] Speaker A: Well, it would be a local operator. [00:20:49] Speaker B: The fifth floor or whatever. [00:20:51] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: you think there were sitting around, like, answering that? [00:21:06] Speaker A: A lot. Probably dozens of. I mean, hundreds of people just sitting [00:21:11] Speaker B: in, like, a box somewhere. [00:21:12] Speaker A: Yeah. And they lost their jobs. [00:21:14] Speaker B: I've never met one of these people, though. Like, who. [00:21:16] Speaker A: They all lost their jobs when the operators were obsolete. The Internet made them kind of obsolete. [00:21:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:21:25] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: You star sick. Denying that bitch. [00:21:47] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, sweetie, Santa's not real. Have a nice day. [00:22:20] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: Thanks, Mom. [00:22:33] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: 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] Speaker A: I've definitely. I've used one. [00:22:54] Speaker B: I believe I've used the, like, the disposable. The disposables. Yeah. [00:23:01] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: But that's like the temporary. Like the one top the disposal. Yeah, that's still around. [00:23:15] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:23:16] Speaker B: I don't know if it's Jiffy Pop, but it's. They still have the, like, one time use bags. [00:23:22] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:23:22] Speaker B: That are shaped like a pan that you put over. Yeah, yeah. Okay. [00:23:26] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: Yes. Your sister. [00:23:50] Speaker A: The AAA trip book. No. Handkerchiefs. Yes. [00:23:55] Speaker B: 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] Speaker A: The popcorn stuff. This one, I disagree with ashtrays. People still use ashtrays, but I agree. They used to be everywhere. [00:24:11] Speaker B: They were everywhere. [00:24:12] Speaker A: Everywhere. [00:24:13] Speaker B: Everywhere, yes. Now it's like. I mean, where was the last place you saw one? [00:24:17] Speaker A: Well, you're not allowed to smoke out. [00:24:18] Speaker B: I know. That's what I'm saying. [00:24:19] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:24:19] Speaker B: So, like, nowhere, Right. [00:24:21] Speaker A: Oh, I know where I've seen them. [00:24:22] Speaker B: Where? [00:24:23] Speaker A: At Moniz. You see them at cigar lounges. [00:24:27] Speaker B: That's true. [00:24:27] Speaker A: But that's made for you to go smoke. [00:24:32] Speaker B: It's made for that reason. [00:24:33] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: And it's just cost you a few years off your Life in cancer. Right. Secondhand smoke. [00:25:06] Speaker A: Cancer. [00:25:06] Speaker B: Worth it. [00:25:07] Speaker A: Definitely worth it. [00:25:09] Speaker B: Thanks Jennies. [00:25:10] Speaker A: But yeah, your mom said they had everyday and special for company. [00:25:15] Speaker B: For company. [00:25:16] Speaker A: Ashtrays. The really nice ashtrays. Well, yeah. Cause everybody smoked in the 60s. People smoked in hospitals in the 60s. [00:25:25] Speaker B: Yeah. The good old days. [00:25:27] Speaker A: Everywhere. [00:25:28] Speaker B: The good old days. No wonder medicine went to the. Went to shit. [00:25:34] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: No, it's all. Yeah, there's no smoking at all. [00:26:02] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: Oh geez. I don't know that. [00:26:24] Speaker A: I don't know that either in the world. [00:26:28] Speaker B: Very obsolete. [00:26:29] Speaker A: Very obsolete. [00:26:31] Speaker B: S and H green stamps. [00:26:34] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: Weird. [00:27:03] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: What would you get for 1200 stamps? [00:27:20] Speaker A: Filled books were traded in for merchandise at S and H redemption centers or via the IdeaBook catalog. [00:27:29] Speaker B: I want to know what you could get. [00:27:31] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: Okay. [00:27:46] Speaker A: Sports equipment, toys and bicycles and china and tableware. [00:27:52] Speaker B: Interesting. [00:27:53] Speaker A: The program's popularity faded by the 1980s as consumers favored credit card rewards and other loyalty programs. [00:28:00] Speaker B: Credit cards killed it. [00:28:01] Speaker A: Wow. [00:28:01] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess that makes sense. [00:28:03] Speaker A: It moved to a digital model. SNH greenpoints in the late 1990s. [00:28:09] Speaker B: I don't remember that either. [00:28:10] Speaker A: While physical stores closed, the company still exists. [00:28:14] Speaker B: Really? [00:28:14] Speaker A: And it has occasionally revived its brand with incentives like the Route 66 Centennial Project. [00:28:21] Speaker B: Weird. [00:28:21] Speaker A: Old, unused physical stamps are still considered valid for redemption for digital green points by the company. [00:28:28] Speaker B: Wow. [00:28:29] Speaker A: Today, old stamp booklets and memorabilia are popular items sold on ebay. [00:28:34] Speaker B: Wow. I'm gonna buy some on ebay and redeem it for, like, a toaster. [00:28:39] Speaker A: I need a new toaster. I want this. [00:28:43] Speaker B: I wonder if there's any, like. I wonder, like, how much they are on ebay. [00:28:47] Speaker A: I know. Now, I just. [00:28:48] Speaker B: 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] Speaker A: You gotta check it out. [00:29:09] Speaker B: There might be an opportunity for some arbitrage there. [00:29:12] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:29:13] Speaker B: I'm gonna be an SNH Green stamp millionaire. Yeah. [00:29:20] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: Okay. [00:29:36] Speaker A: The little coupon machines at the grocery [00:29:38] Speaker B: store, like, you pull out. [00:29:41] Speaker A: Yes. [00:29:42] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:29:42] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: I feel like that was their primary function. Definitely not being used as coupons. [00:29:58] Speaker A: Definitely. [00:29:58] Speaker B: They are to entertain your little shitty kid who needs something to do while you grocery shop. [00:30:03] Speaker A: Definitely. I would run down those aisles and [00:30:07] Speaker B: I would just have dozens, you know, dozens and dozens and dozens of them. [00:30:09] Speaker A: Yes. [00:30:11] Speaker B: Right. [00:30:11] Speaker A: That was, like, what made going to the grocery store with mom tolerable. Yeah, exactly. [00:30:17] Speaker B: Definitely. [00:30:17] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess that's true. [00:30:29] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: That's why I'm saying I think there's gonna be a market for them there. An Untapped market. [00:30:45] Speaker A: Oh, good stuff. Well, that was fun. All right, I'm only semi angry now. [00:30:53] Speaker B: Yeah, well, I'm gonna go to bed. [00:30:54] Speaker A: The amount of time I wasted, and [00:30:56] Speaker B: you get to go ahead and fix your drive. It's fine. The season's available. Please watch it. [00:31:06] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:31:06] Speaker B: We would love your positive reviews. [00:31:09] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: 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] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: 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] Speaker A: The next episode, we're gonna follow up and let you know how many the smart TV cost. [00:32:14] Speaker B: I wonder how many it would be. [00:32:15] Speaker A: I know. And how far apart those Vegas phones are. [00:32:19] Speaker B: Okay, yeah, these are really important questions. [00:32:24] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: It helps it get picked up. [00:32:53] Speaker A: 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] Speaker B: Yes. [00:33:11] Speaker A: Yay. Well, thank you guys so much for tuning in. Today was only semi angry. I held my. Held it together. [00:33:18] Speaker B: You're looking more angry now, though, now that you're feeling good. [00:33:21] Speaker A: I had to go back. [00:33:23] Speaker B: I have to live with it. Oh, no. [00:33:27] Speaker A: Until next time. [00:33:28] Speaker B: Everybody stay weird and angry. Don't do that.