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The Toys that Made US - Haven Exchange #67

August 17, 2022 Haven Exchange Season 1 Episode 67
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The Toys that Made US - Haven Exchange #67
Aug 17, 2022 Season 1 Episode 67
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Do kids these days have it way better in the toys they have available? Tough to answer, because anyone who grew up in the 90's sure could argue we still had it pretty good! Even though most of our toys were severely limited in play time or retained any sort of value after so long. But hey we loved em! Tune in as we look back at some of the toy commercials we grew up watching and exchange our memories on our favorites and the ones we just never got...

What childhood toy was your favorite growing up? Let us know! 

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Do kids these days have it way better in the toys they have available? Tough to answer, because anyone who grew up in the 90's sure could argue we still had it pretty good! Even though most of our toys were severely limited in play time or retained any sort of value after so long. But hey we loved em! Tune in as we look back at some of the toy commercials we grew up watching and exchange our memories on our favorites and the ones we just never got...

What childhood toy was your favorite growing up? Let us know! 

  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 
Thank you to all of our Patreon supporters! <3
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-Marlon

Support the Show.

Unknown:

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Genesis:

welcome to The Haven exchange podcast number 67. And we have a brand new episode for you this week. And today we are bringing you back to our childhood days and reliving our memories of all the toys we grew up playing with, and all the ones we wish we had. And I hope you get the nostalgic tingles along with us or if you were born past 2000 And you can see what we had to go through. But anyways, if you would like to further support the show beyond your weekly tuning ins, then be sure to head on over to patreon.com/haven exchange to subscribe and directly support the show. Alright, make sure your Tamagotchi is fun because it's time to bopping and skipping. This is even exchange number 67 the toys that made us is the Haven exchange any great that one I don't remember. I'm

Sage:

telling you. Oh mama, tell my mom I'm gonna call your mom call my mom. You so bad. You so bad. You just mad that you want my dad to step down?

Genesis:

How does that dance go?

Sage:

You did the whole music video.

Genesis:

I'm gonna have to look this one up. Hey, did

Rick:

you guys see the picture of the new Addams Family from Netflix? Oh, Wednesday. Yeah, dog Catherine Zeta Jones. My guy.

Sage:

Nope. I'm sorry. Christina Ricci I going?

Genesis:

Like kind of brought her back. Right? She ain't doing nothing these days. Although she's probably

Sage:

she don't know. She don't a lot of indie stuff.

Rick:

Okay, you gotta be old though.

Sage:

She's still looking at him. Yeah, she

Genesis:

was definitely a crush of mine growing up with Kimberly.

Sage:

I couldn't tell. And to be fair, I wasn't looking as a kid. But I guess I think it was Adams family too. They had to start taping down her boobs because they got super big. I don't know where.

Genesis:

Jesus. I went on my very first date as a little tiny taken to see that movie in the theater with my neighbor, Emma Hershberger.

Sage:

I'm sorry, that was her last name. But is that a Jewish last name?

Genesis:

It sounds like it.

Sage:

But doesn't that go against your ideology?

Genesis:

That's not my ideology at all. I have no problems with Jewish people. Just Nick Kroll and his stupid face.

Rick:

And everyone who shares his religion

Genesis:

Oh God that's that's not true. That's I don't get what did this evening. You watch fucking your mom's house way too much.

Sage:

Is that on? Pornhub? Your mom's house? Whoa. I mean, why the house?

Rick:

A lot. First of all, it's a good show. Okay. Second of all, you should just stop saying foul shit.

Genesis:

I would argue that you say way more follow suit than

Rick:

I did. And not true at all. Yeah, I don't say anything. I'm just

Genesis:

as if there's like a chicken living in your mouth. That's how much foulness is in your mouth. Get it? Okay.

Sage:

It took me a hot little thing. I was like, Okay.

Genesis:

I just came up with that too. That's how good I am. Oh, look at you.

Sage:

To be fair, nobody said it was a good comment.

Rick:

Yeah.

Genesis:

I mean, it sounded like a prop. Didn't it? I took it as that and my reality will now observe it as such. You Just foreign

Rick:

oil was it. Oh, that wasn't you? That wasn't real.

Sage:

That shifted in my chair. Oh

Genesis:

you got bubble guts.

Sage:

I need to tighten up this arm.

Rick:

Yeah, it's a now okay. Funny thing you brought up bubble goods. The next topic should be crazy shit stories.

Genesis:

I don't know if I want to go down that route.

Rick:

I know you have some water.

Genesis:

You want to do a whole story about poo?

Rick:

I just want to hear your story. I know you know, I got some I got

Sage:

I don't have any. I haven't shaved your pants. No, never. No number. You drink you don't have that one tells you I used to practice holding my

Genesis:

Yeah, but like practice means you probably failed a couple times you're no no go from like practice to perfect and one session.

Rick:

Now he's probably one of those guys. It's like I'm in perfect sync with my body. I know how to control my I don't even fart in my clothes.

Sage:

Never had it never had answered it. Not

Rick:

not not even a little slippage. Not 12 years old. You just you're running to get home from the bus and

Sage:

I lived across the street.

Genesis:

I was the last stop on the bus man. There was a lot of close calls and some calls that were taken.

Rick:

Did you ever have an accident where you blame someone else? No, I definitely did see.

Sage:

I've never had an accident because I had a mental block which were taking a shit in public. So I would only shit at my house.

Genesis:

I didn't do but that's what led to a lot of these problems.

Rick:

Did you? Did you think you could get crabs on public toilet seats? Do you remember when that was a thing? People actually thought you can get crabs from toilet seats.

Sage:

To be honest, I didn't get over that whole mental block until I started working at at&t.

Genesis:

It took me a while to get over that to

Rick:

try my hardest not use public toilets. I mean whatever but

Sage:

not now. Oh yeah, dude, I'm using public toilets left and right. Yeah, he's

Genesis:

got crabs, especially

Sage:

if I could if I could almost exclusively take dumps at work I would

Genesis:

shut down the company time right yeah

Rick:

I mean, I get it though. You got to do what you got to do.

Genesis:

portable potty that he brings everywhere but will a day Hiccup and,

Sage:

but it has to be like the actual isolated bathroom. I'm not it can't be like an open bathroom with stalls and

Genesis:

shit. I don't do like the dueling farts like on Family Guy.

Sage:

I can't I can't take you know when somebody's sitting right next to me also taking shit.

Genesis:

This smells just come by into like some regular explosion.

Rick:

Well, at the shop, there's two bathrooms and you know, they're separate bathrooms. So it's just the one toilet seat in there. It's always around the same time period where if you go in the shop between maybe 12 And two, the bathrooms are always locked down for the two hours. There's always someone in those bathroom for two hours.

Genesis:

Two hours to

Sage:

question. Have you ever went into what like you really had to take your shit so you went into one but somebody's just walking out? And you hit that wall to fuck like nah, wait.

Genesis:

No. Something built into us that like we can't smell our own. But you could like somebody else's is just fucking

Rick:

rose Nika smell mine if his gnarly enough. Yeah, for sure.

Sage:

About the smell was like okay, do we just touching all this shit? His answers just hear a lot of things into it. And I'm just like, Nah,

Rick:

like, have you guys ever had one where just you could feel in your stomach that you just know it's gonna be death when it comes out. I know you I know. You have just shut the fuck up. Craig this is what you say. Because I didn't know you

Genesis:

know what I don't preemptively know that it's gonna be a fucking disaster.

Rick:

No, I I know when I use I can feel it in my stomach that the toilet is gonna be black when I'm done. I haven't done that in years. But yeah, when I was

Genesis:

in my early 20s Let spec blood splatter expert but for poo dude in

Rick:

my early 20 like 2122 There were days where I thought for sure I needed to go in with a Bible. And just like pray over the

Genesis:

toilet seat like all you all you eat is Fig Newtons and oatmeal raisin cookies.

Rick:

A Oh, I got my oldest to like oatmeal raisin cookie.

Genesis:

He's called DCFS Yay.

Rick:

Now we just got to work on violet. Anyways.

Sage:

Almost 10 minutes

Genesis:

that's true. This is not the pool episode.

Rick:

How do we organically move into the topic? I was thinking like maybe someone will just say something that I can.

Genesis:

I mean, I can't like I actually have something to talk about about bringing it up in a little bit. But first, what were the Haven exchange podcast? My name is Genesis one of the girls here bringing you weekly shenanigans. What do I got? What's me tonight?

Rick:

Yo, what's going on everybody? He's cool. Blue Ranger Ranger. That's funny.

Genesis:

He's my number two.

Rick:

Oh, my goodness. I don't I don't want that to be associated with the

Sage:

wrong and racist. Whites.

Rick:

Yeah, I'm your little brown kid. Is that what you're trying to say?

Genesis:

I wish I would have thought of that. That's pretty good. That's a gold nugget. You did there. Yeah. Oh, my goodness. Who else we got

Sage:

the only sensible person on here? Yeah, okay.

Genesis:

He's got a fucking monk like sphincter. What the hell does that mean? It means you like Oh that would mean it's super clean, which probably it is. I'm going to assume as such at least,

Rick:

you know, nevermind. No. Yeah.

Genesis:

That was that was that was that. Going? Anyways, today, we got a fun little episode here. I wanted to take us back down a little nostalgia trip and go over, you know, some of the toys that made us as we grew up as kids, Rick, you have children, a lot of our friends are starting to have kids. And I'm hearing a lot of these stories of like what your kids are playing with. Rick, you told me the other day, how your daughter was on a walkie talkie with a friend left block, right? Yeah,

Rick:

yeah, they got a couple of walkie talkies and they're just having a good time with it. But I think that is largely inspired by Stranger Things. I think that's where they got the initial idea from are they plotting your demise? They might be very welcoming very well no, because the code is the one that uses the walkie and she I don't think whatever hurt me violent is the one that I'm almost positive is going to be a little Jeffrey Dahmer when she's older. You know, I mean, that's

Genesis:

on record. So the as we edit that, this is going to be part of the Netflix documentary I killed my dad was coming. They just zoom in on her face and this Okay, anyways, so that got me thinking because I was like, that's super cool. I wish I would have had that, you know, as a kid. You know, I grew up we had like the three kind of blocks in the middle of nowhere. And we're friends across all three streets. And that would have been cool to have like little walkie talkie, you know, before we got cell phones and shit. But like kids these days, they have it pretty good. And so it got me thinking, you know, what did we grow up on and what was our toys? And so I wanted to go over and let's just take a trip back. Look at some old toy commercials. See what we played with C woods. You know, we wanted but never got, you know, there's so many things that came out in specific. I mean, we grew up in the 90s early 2000s I guess we were we could have been still playing with toys. But was your guys's childhood filled with lots of toys? Was this something that was a part of your thing as every other kid?

Sage:

I had dirt.

Rick:

I mean yeah, I had toys growing up but I more had action figures. Goku action figures Megaman she like

Genesis:

oh, yeah, Mega Man.

Rick:

Yeah, Mega Man and not zeros, Proto Man. Action Figures. And that was just And did you mon figures to

Sage:

be honest. I honestly really didn't have any toys growing up. Because I was never in the house.

Rick:

Or Huckleberry Finn over here. I refuse to believe that you didn't have

Sage:

no, that's it. I didn't really I mean, I had like a supersoaker here and there. That was about it. I was out. I was always out of

Genesis:

the house. For Christmas.

Sage:

I got fucking Hooked on Phonics one year that pissed me off not in

Rick:

the list of trauma for this

Sage:

keyboard and mostly video

Genesis:

Game ship and close them so me too. Yeah,

Sage:

I constantly got video game stuff. I've always been again.

Rick:

Were you asking for toys for Christmas? Or were you asking it for video games they were giving you what you were asking for.

Sage:

Yeah, most mostly video games stuff. If anything, the only toy that I've maybe asked for for Christmas and still never got mom is I forget the name of those things. It was like creepy crawlers. Yeah, the little

Genesis:

sir,

Rick:

I remember when my parents bought me the Voltron action figures where you know the separate lines that connected into one.

Genesis:

Now I was gonna say the theme song within I was singing a different No,

Sage:

I just remember I take that back. I also never get the fucking Dragonzord flute. Oh,

Genesis:

I had one of those. Did you? Yeah, I don't think at it at a thrift store.

Rick:

I don't think I ever had one.

Genesis:

I'm not gonna lie. stolen from me.

Sage:

If I find it nasty.

Genesis:

Yeah, put it on a fuck. Like mantle. No.

Rick:

Walk around my house, isn't it? I actually had the Red Rangers dragon Megazord thing until my cousin decided to steal it one day. And this was back when we lived in the heights and that asshole lived in Nebraska. So he stolen went back to Nebraska. Chris, if you're listening to this, I haven't forgotten. It's still back. I'm still super busy.

Genesis:

You were the youngest right? No,

Rick:

I was the middle child. I had a sister two years younger.

Genesis:

Oh, your brother was older. Yeah,

Rick:

my brother. He was the one that was really into toys. And he was super into Star Wars. I remember this dickhead had a giant Millennium Falcon toy. And he was adamant about not never letting me touch it. And then when I heard that asshole was joining the army, I was like, Yeah, you fucked up. Now. I'm playing with this shit all day. And you the pieces of shit took it with him. I mean, this thing was huge.

Genesis:

And but it's worth money. I think he

Rick:

said he lost it or something. I think he said he didn't have I know he didn't have it anymore.

Sage:

I remember the one thing I really wanted. I don't know if y'all remember this. So it was a controller designed for fighting games. So it was like a little circle that laid on the ground. And you were like in the middle of it. And if you like punch for your character punch. And if you punch back or kick back your character kicked into like

Genesis:

that, like the NES trackpad kinda. No, no, no, you're mad? No, because it

Sage:

was like like, it was like lasers or lights or whatever that bounced off the bounce off the ceiling. So you have to like break. Break that connection.

Genesis:

Oh, I see what you're saying. No, I don't think Wait a minute. I don't know. Like if you're just implanting the memory. No, no, no, actually remember? remembering it. I

Sage:

remember this stupid thing I can't remember name of.

Genesis:

Yeah, that's I don't know. Oh, man. That kind of sounds familiar when you explain it that way. I don't think I've ever had one though. But I know I'm pretty sure I've seen a commercial for it. And that's the thing to say is that because you grew up on like cartoons at least so you probably would be familiar with a lot of these commercials. We're gonna be looking at least I would hope so. Cuz you watch Saturday morning cartoons, right? Yeah.

Sage:

The Hammerhead show.

Genesis:

Like pick a wide gamut of commercials stuff that I remembered and stuff that were just on Saturday, like top lists and with the host that maybe you guys knew him, but so yeah, we'll see where this kind of takes us trip down memory lane. And for anybody that was born in like 2005 and listening to this, sorry, we're gonna be old folks today.

Rick:

You know? Yeah, we gotta be old sometime. You know, although I would like to record this show. I'm younger than YouTube.

Genesis:

It was. Yeah, so some of the early 90s

Rick:

still younger though. Do you have stuff from the 70s? You

Genesis:

know, I just took it from the toys that made us

Sage:

go outside and pick up a Rhino Rack was the fact that that actually took off is ridiculous.

Genesis:

That is genius. How's it genius? The guide sold a fucking rock. That's genius. And it worked.

Sage:

is a genius or people just stupid.

Genesis:

I mean, he can make arguments on either side.

Rick:

Yeah, you could definitely

Genesis:

well, starting this up

Rick:

on a bad start. I don't know what the fuck this is.

Genesis:

So I got the video playing. They can see this but you guys will just be able to hear it. All our listeners here. Here We go

Sage:

I forgot about this stupid day

Genesis:

trying to get a handle on the general wacky array from hurtle remember that thing,

Sage:

right? Do you remember it? I think like a cousin or mine or something, had it, but I remember playing with it.

Genesis:

Yeah, for sure. These are at least still exists to this day, by the way. And this was definitely something I had as a kid. So for those that are listening didn't recognize that this was basically a motorized ball. It had little pegs around it and it just fucking like, just moved around the floor. How exciting. Is this shit that I'm talking about? The kids these days don't not know the toys that we had as a kid. We had a fucking little motorized ball that rumbled across the ground. Found it. You have one?

Sage:

No, no, no, no. The thing I was talking about a founding is called the Sega activator.

Genesis:

The Sega activate. Oh, so specifically for the Sega

Sage:

Yeah, and they got voted one of the worst controllers of all time. So maybe it's good. I didn't get it. Maybe.

Genesis:

Let's see. Oh, this looks like the modern day like VR trackpads they're like you see concept art.

Sage:

Yeah, I used to want to use these all the time. I want to I wanted to show that.

Genesis:

But you never had it. Nope. And I would like to find one of these. I don't think this was not what I was thinking of at all. So like I didn't even know this existed. That's pretty sick.

Rick:

A month ago on eBay right now. Who's selling this? Uh huh. There is one person only selling there's one guy. He was $120 with $70 shipping. That's not bad. I'd buy it 200 I wouldn't have picked it.

Sage:

I mean, then you got to turn around and buy something things

Rick:

it comes with the original box. It does come with my The next item on the list here. I had this and I fucking love these things. You got

Sage:

to rub it in after I just said I've never

Genesis:

I'm glad I didn't jump on that train because I too really loved this one right here. You can leave it

Unknown:

on so creeping and crawling it's the creepy crawlers to create a creepy

Rick:

with that you can turn. Yeah, they did.

Genesis:

I mean, this is just one of the many like creepy crawlers was a brand that spanned much of my childhood.

Sage:

They cartoon.

Genesis:

Oh, do they remember that?

Rick:

There's actually a fair amount of creepy crawlers still available to purchase on eBay. expensive at all.

Genesis:

As many birthday parties you go to are you? Are you seeing somebody? Because like, I don't think you would buy creepy collars for your kids. But maybe for like birthday parties. Are you seeing these things when you're in? Shit? There's not even Toys R Us is where do you go to buy

Sage:

iPad?

Rick:

When we go to kids birthday parties, it's nothing but girls. My family has been taken over by URLs. So in my family, it's just Barbies and stuff like that. I don't I don't see anything like this.

Sage:

My sister had like the Barbie Dream House. I destroyed it.

Genesis:

I don't blame you.

Rick:

I don't I feel like it just so I'm sure she's the one that threw the brick at you right? Yep. Okay, yeah, so she it should be on site with her for the rest of your life.

Genesis:

But this is the creepy crawlers. This is exactly what I was gonna say when you know connection to the poo topic. It was that like a lot of the toys in the 90s were just all about like being gross and gross and people out a lot of the commercials are roasting out formal functions or your parents and farts and burps and puke and slime. And on the girls side of thing. It was just all about like what dollars and sleepovers taking care of dollars. Going to the mall. There was a board game about going to the mall. It's on my list. It's All right, we'll get to it. And you probably remember the commercials so a lot of the ones that I pulled from some of these was just mainly because I remember the song The jingle was so fucking catchy. I mean, we all remember greevey gras.

Sage:

Let's meet let's be honest, after the 90s we're gonna add companies just that care. Because now you can just add companies jingles in the 90s and can't TV intros slept for no goddamn reason.

Genesis:

There's the show on Netflix the toys that made us I would definitely recommend checking that out as well because they go into a lot about where these toys originated from and like the connection between the cartoons and like, what their strategies were going into some of the I feel

Sage:

like I feel like we're gonna put a ban on certain things because as much as he brings up Kojima, you bring up this damn Netflix show. Almost every fucking

Genesis:

mean just. Well, there's two series there's the movies that made us that's the one I've talked about mostly. And then there's the toys that made us just go watch it. Don't you? Even like the Barbie episode you didn't fuck with Barbies, but I was intrigued watching a Barbie episode on how the BBS came out a little bit

Rick:

was not expected man

Genesis:

I'll take it I'll take that one because last episode I think I called you a bitch. So we're even now you guys remember this

Unknown:

sometime in the future? The ultimate

Sage:

This is a perfect example of the things aren't going hard for no reason if you've played this game never once has it felt like that

Genesis:

super underwhelming but this is one of the hottest fucking commercials of my childhood.

Sage:

Like it just it just went hard for no reason.

Genesis:

So this was just like a two player board game basically like a pinball battle against each

Unknown:

Krause five

Sage:

and it's not even crossfire that using the word wrong. We mean crossfire let's say that the Crossfire is the firefight

Genesis:

I never thought of it that way. That's hilarious. Did you have a crossfire?

Sage:

No, I played it at friend's house but I've never had one. So man same

Rick:

here I don't think I ever actually had one. I but I do vaguely remember playing it with friends I mean it's so long ago dude I barely remember before I had kids I don't life is a blur past 10 years awesome. I hate you so much. I hate you so

Genesis:

that was the thing too with a lot of these toys It was like they were fun for the first time and and so there was no longevity to a lot of these things a lot of you bulked up your toy room All right, our next one up pull you guys have to remember this. In general this it was hard to find a commercial for this but I really wanted to find something to showcase this part of at least my life and I'm guessing a lot of you as well.

Unknown:

Number one best selling author are L Stein wants to give you lots and lots of Goosebumps in three different books series. Forced goosebumps with the terror began on screens go on forever and ever. Then give yourself goosebumps where you choose from 20 Different scary endings. And don't forget goosebumps presents books based on the Goosebumps TV show with creepy color photos inside less than scholastic. Scholastic

Sage:

talking about toys and you brought up books.

Genesis:

I like you didn't fuck with goosebump books.

Sage:

I did read goosebump books but I enjoyed the show more. And as I got older fear Street was well what? Three more?

Genesis:

Were well album or were out well before the TV show. Right? Wasn't like not

Sage:

not that far out.

Genesis:

For sure. Yeah.

Sage:

Yeah. You get that in the early 90s. They used to work people like runaway slaves. See you laugh. I didn't know I didn't realize this. But if you really think about it, let's take power insurance it. You know how now we have a new episode every week of a show that we like Yeah, back then there was a new episode every day when we got home from school.

Genesis:

That's yeah, that's true.

Sage:

That first season was like 100 and some buggin episodes.

Genesis:

Didn't they just have to dub over a bunch that came from overseas?

Sage:

They use these a lot. They use a lot of the similar scenes, but the scenes, but that was only when they were like, in uniform when they weren't in uniform. They had to act those scenes.

Rick:

Dude, looking at this list of the top 12 Goosebumps books. Yeah, there's so many here that are bring it back memory, dude. I rattle them off, dude. Okay, number one is the cuckoo clock of doom. Yes. The Curse of the mummy's tomb? Okay, it goes next door. Yeah. The Haunted car. Yeah, the Haunted Mask? Yeah, let's go the Haunted Mask. This cover art I do. In my memory. I'll tell NASM giving me

Sage:

like, you remember the haunted mass movie? No,

Rick:

I don't really remember the movie. It was a

Sage:

Fox made for TV that was back when they were doing because they did the Haunted Mask and the one with the ventriloquist. They did go for those.

Rick:

This is number 11. But it should be in the top three fucking say cheese and that

Genesis:

was remembering these titles? I feel you

Rick:

hate of the living dummy. Yeah, that's the one that's the one one day at Harley.

Sage:

Yeah, one day.

Genesis:

I can remember laying in my front room underneath the nightstand table where the light lamp was on top of because I was just like my little spot. You know the fucking feetsies kicking in the air and just dive into this world.

Sage:

One day heartland. The movie was on TV. I think like six years ago, I watched it.

Genesis:

Did you guys have in school where they gave you like this checklist of books. And you would bring it home you would check off books that you would order basically like a Girl Scout Cookie kind of thing. And your parents will give you money to go in and then they would you would buy the books from the school basically. Did you guys have that?

Sage:

Not a checklist. It was more of a we got points for reading books. Yeah, that's the reason I really started reading fear streets. Because by that point, I wasn't really into reading anymore. But fear street pulled me back in I remember I stayed up super late till like two in the morning, started the book and finished the book the same day.

Genesis:

So were those just from the school library kind of thing then?

Sage:

Yeah. From school library. Okay,

Genesis:

and they sold us the fuck.

Sage:

They weren't trying to make a dime of like fish treat is goosebumps just for older kids. Same same writer, same everything.

Genesis:

I still need to watch that Netflix show.

Rick:

I went on eBay because dude, I think Dakota is really into scary stuff and horrible. Do I think I might get her a collection of these books.

Genesis:

That's a good. Yeah, I mean, is that not something she would or either of them would be aware of right now? Is this not in like kids?

Rick:

It's not really worlds? No, not really. In the game? Yeah, it really is. Because the books aren't I mean, dude, they're really not expensive. Like I can get the Haunted Mask for five bucks.

Genesis:

Yeah, like 30 pages, right? Yes. Small.

Rick:

Yes. Super small books. Probably no more than 50 pages. Welcome to dead house, dude. Yeah, the whole school. Like it.

Genesis:

You wrote some bringing up books like, so far this gives me the most feels

Rick:

so many good books. Egg monsters from Mars.

Genesis:

Ah, do you remember that? What do

Rick:

vampire breath reader beware. Do

Sage:

you get a question in one on one gotta go? Actually no, because we're all gonna say the same. We're all gonna say the same thing. One gotta go. Goosebumps Eerie Indiana. Or are you afraid of the dark?

Rick:

Oh shit. Okay,

Genesis:

only one's gonna go yeah

Sage:

Yeah, everybody's gonna

Genesis:

fucking Deanna.

Rick:

The Dark is legendary. Yeah. Oh, and I think that's on one of the streaming platforms.

Sage:

It was. It was on YouTube. like seven years ago. They got the rights to it for like six months, and they had every episode.

Rick:

Dude, are you afraid of the dark was crazy good.

Sage:

If you go back and watch it, it's so many mega stars all today that are in that we're in it.

Rick:

I think I remember seeing an episode when when it was on YouTube. And I think I saw Jessica Alba. Like, what are you doing here?

Sage:

I submit this to NGOs.

Rick:

Don't go asleep. There are so many dude the blahblah

Sage:

goosebumps was the shit.

Genesis:

Do you think like first editions I live

Rick:

in? Okay, I'm sorry, dude. I love the vibe a bunch of

Genesis:

like are these these can't be rare. These are hard to find to find like D so copy. Like if I set up a library and like a study room or something. I want a shelf of goosebump books on that.

Sage:

I'm sorry. Monster blood was great. Yeah. But as many goosebumps books and or episodes that I enjoyed. Are you afraid of the tale of the ghastly gardener? Hands out?

Genesis:

Yeah, but there's something about the books themselves though. Like, like, I can remember the covers through thinly line narratives of what they actually were about. Like, I don't remember much of him. I just kind of remember him. Yeah, I was on a TV show.

Sage:

I remember TV show. I used to watch a TV show every every Tuesday or something like that. No, it was every Wednesday every Wednesday. But are you afraid to tell ghastly Brenner? That was back when I was still kind of afraid of clowns. Only kinda

Rick:

do. I'm looking at so many books, Night of the Living dummy three. I remember looking at that picture for days. And I would like to point out that it is a miracle. I got to read these books, considering how Oh yeah, I remember having these and not being afraid to have in the house or anything like that. And I think she didn't care because I think she didn't have a problem with scary shit. It was just when it was overly demonic. Right right. But there's like demons and evil is in the title.

Genesis:

Look at the cover of that book. Nine living dummy. No, I

Rick:

mean, she probably did but no, it's just weird dummies.

Sage:

Okay, because it was geared towards kids like it was dark, but it wasn't you know, super dark.

Rick:

The horror, right? Yep, Jelly Joe. Dude, I remember

Genesis:

I had a ventriloquist doll that looks that is almost identical

Rick:

ventriloquist let's say cheese and die again. Okay, I has

Genesis:

a doll that look just like that motherfucker. Your skin. I would keep it in the trunk. Like I couldn't even like have it out

Sage:

in the trunk. Like of the car. Okay. Oh, that's okay. Strong. Okay, I'm making sure how old were you?

Genesis:

Probably like 14 Maybe

Rick:

the memories of reading these books is hit me hard dude. I'm not the bio fucking autonomies

Sage:

he's in. He's gonna start reading like this shit stupid.

Rick:

I want to start reading I will read them first before I get into the code.

Genesis:

I'm gonna slowly give her her Yeah, well, you should read them together. That'd be cute. You know? Yeah, that's actually

Rick:

that's actually not a bad look at this guy. Help me father.

Genesis:

I'm gonna be a good daddy.

Rick:

He's made it You didn't have to say Daddy You can just say daddy. Daddy just anyway, what's the next one Father?

Genesis:

Here's the next one guys remember this

Sage:

the craziest of you remember it?

Unknown:

Nickelodeon flow comes in six colors each sold separately clumps shape are sold separately from Mattel

Sage:

what came up first and didn't didn't sell for more. GECK is one of them. They were just like this one.

Genesis:

If I had to guess I would say flown came out first. Even though they're both supported by Nickelodeon. I feel like GAC wasn't an initial thing on Nickelodeon feel like that was midway through my Nickelodeon experiences but I don't know that for sure. phloem so phloem and for those that don't know, almost like this weird Styrofoam me wasn't really gel it was what it was like wasn't didn't have like a Styrofoam ish texture to like bumpy texture that you could like mold into a bunch of different shapes and do weird things with it. And if I remember that should never expired. I remember like going bad,

Sage:

like cancer that you could play with.

Genesis:

It was like cancer you could play with Yeah, I'm pretty sure it cause cancer is no way. No way didn't. Like, well, how do you know if cancer feels like? Yeah, I mean, I'm sure there was some of these toys probably had some chemicals out of them or something that weren't Good for us.

Rick:

What do you eat? Ice Cream Bar? Look at this guy shoving the whole thing. But yes, I did have foam. I don't think I ever really kind of got too crazy with any of the what do they call it now slime? Like yeah, I never really got too much into that stuff. I definitely had flown though. I just I don't think I care for too long about it.

Genesis:

This feels like something that probably still exist I don't see this like going away if this could span multiple generations.

Rick:

Yeah, it they probably have it the same thing. It's probably just not call flowing anymore.

Sage:

See, I think the reason I didn't have most of this stuff because I was too caught up in my own work. I wasn't an average kid. I was a kid that would have probably grown up today. But back then, because I remember that was all about video games. Watching, you know, are you afraid to like Saturday? I make like snake like that. But then after that I wouldn't sleep to back then I still wouldn't go to bed till like two three in the morning. And at 10 o'clock on Fridays 10 to 11 here would show enemy and out before anybody really knew what it was. So I just stay up watching anime all night.

Genesis:

Do even though we was being broadcast like that, was there anime toys that you could get not over

Sage:

here now. Anime from the early 90s is very brutal. Like it's a lot of blood a lot of gore a lot a lot of sex and shit like that? Was a dubbed given them. Yeah, back then. Channel 11 That's why it took forever to come over. But yeah, I wouldn't really play with toys like that. I just wasn't.

Genesis:

I feel like you missed out.

Sage:

My Mortal Kombat and stuff. I was happy.

Genesis:

Video games I well, I mean, I agree. Yeah, video games are also a major part of all of our childhoods, you know, but I I mean, toys played a big role too, as well, especially, you know, the action figures. I don't think I always felt like I wasn't playing with them properly. Like, I always had this thing in my head. Like I should be playing out these fantasy battles that you see on the commercials where they're like, battling them. And it was like, I never really did any of that I didn't have these stories set. For my human characters. I'm like, T M and T,

Sage:

which is ridiculous considering how much you like d&d.

Genesis:

I know. Right? Yeah. Let's see. I don't play d&d with figurines either.

Sage:

The No, I'm just talking about like d&d majority of time you're making up the story.

Genesis:

Right, right, right. Yeah, no, that's why I always felt like I didn't quite get it. But I love the toys themselves. I like looking at them and playing with them in a different way. That's not a bad yeah, that's terrible. And moving on to the next one. I think this commercial is kind of dogshit but hopefully it gets the point.

Sage:

There is no real real point. What no real point for potlucks none whatsoever

Rick:

Yeah, you can stop the commercial and nobody gives a shit while

Genesis:

pots. Collect Boggs

Rick:

I had a few but I def because he's right. There's literally no purpose of them. Other than just, they're there. Yeah.

Genesis:

Well, there was a game too. It was a game but I agree because I didn't know that there was a game until like I ran into like the fucking pug kids

Sage:

when you go to I went to my books

Genesis:

you didn't you don't you? Oh my mercy in the pod kids that had those like fucking big they had like five tubes of just their Pogs

Sage:

I grew up in the hood. We didn't have parks.

Genesis:

I'm sorry. I didn't have a whole lot either, though. I think I thought it was cooler than it was actually to have them. And I don't remember how they were sold. Like did you buy them in a like a singles

Sage:

or you're asking the uninitiated over here?

Genesis:

Yeah, we're not pug people but it was such a big fat though.

Sage:

I remember. I remember seeing it a lot but never Yeah, never was like

Genesis:

it was like trying to check this collectible fantasy. Yeah, is

Sage:

trading cars and everything was really big back then. Right. You kind of branch into that world.

Genesis:

That's true. Which I never really got. Well, no, I did. I did get into that a little bit. Even baseball cards to get into the sport.

Sage:

I still got a shit ton of basketball cards. Yeah. Probably made

Genesis:

a resurgence. I feel like people are collecting this shit now.

Sage:

They got a couple of Jordan cards. I might look and see about selling sometime soon.

Genesis:

You Yeah, might as well. Especially. Well, that sheds back hot right now.

Rick:

Oh yeah. You can sack up All day, that bump on a pillow blown. Put your hand in sweat get ready

Unknown:

to go like soccer. Soccer months and bomb trucks and boots. Soccer bumper was more fun than the qualifying side big time toys.

Genesis:

Like less cringe

Sage:

it's pointed out point out the fact there was no black kids in it for a reason

Rick:

I love soccer rockers and I want the record to show that the reason why I liked them so much is because it was the only excuse I could have for beating the show on my sister. As long as I had those on know as well

Genesis:

find up her socks.

Sage:

I feel like you're a bad parent if you bought those Oh for your kid. Because you're literally just saying hey, we're gonna fight. Yeah,

Genesis:

I mean, but the idea you know, bullies you move they're gonna fight and wrestle and play you know, that's an assault more fun than a pillow.

Sage:

But you just heard him like, you know, he got him

Genesis:

he's He's a psychopath we've already kind of established that.

Rick:

Dude, I will look because I think everyone who got these probably have boys right all boys that played with them.

Genesis:

Right? Yeah, I mean, I would assume my brother at

Rick:

the time I got these I would have been 1112 and my brother was fucking 2122 I'm not fighting that asshole with these. So the only thing I could do was fight my sister. years younger than me. She and I were the same height. Well, I've always been talking to her but we were around the same height in age and we thought it was fine.

Genesis:

I haven't maybe I'm stretching here but sage Hear me out. You might you might be on board with this. We see soccer bopper poppers, right like fistfights. And then what do we evolve into? Nerf guns.

Rick:

Go after we have

Sage:

Nerf guns existed.

Genesis:

I'm not saying I have the timeline in front of me. I'm building my own timeline here.

Rick:

Before we go any further. I need you to click on that banned soccer bopper commercial. What the fuck that how did they ban a soccer ball?

Sage:

Clearly, apparently, those are adults

Rick:

because they completely caught my band. What do you mean?

Genesis:

Zoo books?

Rick:

I had those. No, I didn't have those. But yeah, those

Sage:

clearly reading is your fun.

Rick:

You gotta do what you got to do.

Sage:

Not fuck going outside and playing sports or riding by my friends. I'm gonna see him read the zoo book. Look at his camel.

Genesis:

Yep. And you know, you read them when you come in for the night after Dindin

Sage:

can go back out watch TV play video games.

Genesis:

But we had one TV.

Rick:

You only have one TV in the house.

Genesis:

Yeah, for a long time. I mean, eventually we got our own TVs. But for a while there when I hear you

Sage:

guys sit down and watch Perry Mason with your mum.

Rick:

Andy Griffith Show I often realize how super privileged we were as kids. Because I mean, we've never had less than like four TVs now. We all had our own bedroom pool in the backyard. The tree for Christmas oil. Huge. And we each had like tended 15 gifts a piece. When we were kids. My parents were the shit, man. I mean, they

Genesis:

got hooked up on Christmas. But like the big extravagant stuff that wasn't a part of it. But I was outside a lot building forts riding bikes auto ship,

Rick:

but I bet you if I go back and ask my mom about those days when I was a kid, she'd be like, oh, man, we were living paycheck to paycheck.

Sage:

I had the same I think like 12 inch TV. From the time I was like nine until I think I was in seventh grade. Black and white. No, it was color. Seven. I only remember because I remember one year I got a Sega Saturn for Christmas. And I just don't know. I love my son and

Genesis:

fucky No, I mean yes played on that TV.

Sage:

I stopped that because it came with Sega Saturn sticker so I stuck the sticker on the side of the TV and mother fucker was there for years.

Rick:

I never got the Sega Saturn super

Genesis:

salty about that. Yeah, I never got it either. And so way later on I started collecting them.

Sage:

So you that's why I'm weird because I never had a PlayStation. I went Sega Saturn in 64x Xbox. No, I got Saturn in 64 Dreamcast Xbox.

Rick:

Was he again? This is my privilege talking growing up. I always had the major three right. Sega Nintendo. When the time

Sage:

Yeah, I was lucky to get one you know?

Rick:

I always had when I mean ever since the PlayStation I always had both and then when x Xbox came I always had all three, but I skipped the Saturn and went to the Dreamcast. Like I completely skip to Saturn. Yeah, and I remember being heartbroken too because Nights into Dreams

Sage:

was I fucking bought to do this.

Rick:

I used to break my neck at Walmart at those kiosks when you had to fucking tilt your entire head back. I wanted that game so bad and just never got a Saturn

Genesis:

in the Saturn, isn't it one of the most expensive retail consoles to ever come out with it that could just be pulled out of my house. But I That sounds familiar to me thinking of the Saturday. I don't

Sage:

know that they had one of the best marketing's ever not here in America. The Japanese marketing for the second Saturday. I was gonna say because the thing did. They do? Well, they had their own like little mascot for he was great. He had a theme song say guitar sounds you know? Yeah, it's fucking hilarious if you ever watched

Genesis:

that on Channel 11 tunes or you saw that? No,

Sage:

no, dude, I didn't see the commercials until I got older. When I saw commercials, I was like, I wish I wouldn't see me it's such a good thing. They're all on YouTube. Everyone look them up the dope

Genesis:

I'm gonna definitely check that out.

Rick:

Which again next for us don't do this don't play this really?

Sage:

Cool. You

Unknown:

my baby are gone and she loves cherries from her job. She knows

Genesis:

the only reason I want to hear you explain this because I remember this commercial I remember those little tiny fucking plastic dots when I don't even know what kind of baby food that was intended to be for the baby. But I remember seeing that thinking like how weird is this fucking toy? And I remember the jingle to that was a baby are all gone baby What was it? Really say? My baby out yeah baby. Oh

Sage:

really? At the bottom? Is

Genesis:

Baby All Gone Baby. Yeah, let's see. How would I know all right there it says well, my Baby All Gone My Baby All Gone. Yeah okay.

Sage:

I was waiting for this

Unknown:

got more fun from the creators of squiggle with writers and

Sage:

writers.

Genesis:

I don't know what the fuck that was.

Sage:

I always want shoes.

Genesis:

I never had these either. I wanted them so bad.

Rick:

Definitely had these use none of them. I definitely have these and I used to play with them so much. And then I think I fucking brother. So.

Sage:

Yeah, having all the systems

Genesis:

lawyer and a radiologist. No, no,

Rick:

my mom used to work for the IRS. And my dad worked.

Sage:

She was embezzling guy getting paid.

Rick:

And then my dad actually my dad used to work for the Tinley Park mental hospital that's down the street from our job that's abandoned now. He used to work there. But do my best. And my fucking brother put his feet in these in the little straps snapped that that like, because

Sage:

they did have a weight limit then. Oh, yeah. Um,

Rick:

I mean, he's been you know, but it was definitely for kids. And I don't know if you can see from this picture but where the foot goes in this these elastic straps that kind of hold it in place. That's what allows you to do the bouncing in and yeah, those snapped and I never got a new pair anything I had. Maybe two days three days.

Genesis:

You can have fun with just one

Rick:

with just one foot. Not Well, no. Both like the whole Oh, both.

Sage:

Moon shoes. I remember begging my dad for a yo yo

Rick:

I definitely do. If we do I don't they're still though, I get it. Every time

Genesis:

I follow the instructions on those was so challenging to just do a fucking walk the dog.

Sage:

I used to do all types of tricks when I walked the dog to the fucking pyramid when that pyramid the triangle were pinned on them. Cinema room just do tricks all day.

Genesis:

Those were they as fun as they look right now. And it's commercial because like, I still have these,

Rick:

you know, they are kind of fun, actually. But you felt weird walking on them? Because, I mean, obviously, the heavier you are, the more you kind of sink down into the base area there.

Genesis:

Did you go to school in these walking? Are you just like jump and play?

Rick:

No, you could jump and play but I mean that you could walk in them to realistically. Okay, I mean, you could you probably It probably says on the box. Don't walk in these. There'll be an asshole.

Genesis:

Am I really want to

Rick:

move. You should get these and where I'm on stream.

Genesis:

They're breaking like immediately. There's no way

Sage:

I'm pretty sure they don't come in that size. If you order Moon shoes in a size 12 You're on somebody's list.

Rick:

Yeah, you're on. You're on the list somewhere for sure.

Genesis:

Me too tiny trampolines. I'll make it work.

Rick:

Did you guys have trembling? Did you play with trampolines?

Sage:

And if you don't go to the next goddamn thing?

Rick:

No, I didn't have a trampoline. But I had a friend who did.

Genesis:

But did you guys have trampoline way later? Yeah,

Rick:

do Tripoli's awesome.

Genesis:

Ever dangerous.

Rick:

No, do do I got a child story about that. But that's another topic. We'll we'll do our stories later.

Genesis:

Okay plan that annoys

Unknown:

me back to bed for you. Remember it?

Rick:

I definitely remember this. Oh, man.

Genesis:

I know the commercial but man, I cannot remember if I had this or not. I don't. Yeah, I don't know. But I remember this fucking commercial like back in my hand.

Rick:

I don't think I have this. I do remember the commercial though.

Genesis:

It was when I was like searching up a lot of these. I would never in a million years have remembered don't like Daddy until I heard the song and I was like, holy shit. This brings back memories of just the commercial. Not even the fucking game. Don't wait, daddy. Costs I imagined this isn't on the shelves right now. Probably not.

Rick:

No, no.

Sage:

No, I mean, it could be I mean, it's a board game board games

Rick:

is possible.

Genesis:

Right? This was Hasbro to

Rick:

you. Don't let me and I'm gonna go. No, absolutely not.

Sage:

The way that your child who was asked Jeeves

Rick:

that's pretty good. That is pretty good. Wait a minute. Amazon has it available? Like I knew Yeah. 1999 Wow. Amazon

Genesis:

so you had to sneak in what it what did it what I just now I forgot what the commercial what they were doing in it.

Unknown:

We tried to sneak it in the kitchen without daddy noise. It could be back to

Rick:

bed for you. I mean that. It's literally the exact same box. Now they added a little border now that says take time to play. Like is there any diversity on it? That's funny. No, no, not at all. I mean, they're still the same kid same dad on the picture. This is blowing my mind and this is actually still available. It's a

Sage:

board game. The cost to make them isn't high. Not yet. There's

Genesis:

like $1.50 to

Rick:

make all the cardboard and the little pieces right I like five bucks at the most celebrate is just like us on a podcast talking about a problem

Genesis:

that's the problem when you're an adult and you having this style to trips I mean, you got money to actually buy the shit the dumb shit.

Rick:

Yeah, I just added it to the cart I mean, the kids I have kids though, so I have an excuse.

Genesis:

Here's the one that you mentioned earlier sage

Unknown:

small madness. Tracking that really talks fail at the Fashion Boutique. All the fun of a shopping spree with mall madness. You get it all a bank account and your own credit card. At the sunglass man It's really tough to win by everything on your list and be first out of them on

Sage:

let's just use the force me to play this stupid game

Rick:

It says there was like oh we're going to the mall beach

Genesis:

break my my Barbie mansion

Rick:

going to the mall

Genesis:

I mean this kind of dates itself to because this came out when malls were fucking huge like the peak enough to make a board game about the experience

Sage:

that theme so it was kind of weak though oh everybody

Rick:

yeah

Sage:

go to do

Unknown:

today

Genesis:

did they do day

Sage:

that's the weekly how much other reference

Genesis:

there you go Rick was clueless or a little bit

Rick:

yeah had no idea what we're doing but I definitely remember this but I know we didn't have it I feel like I remember this commercial

Genesis:

but ya know i What did you even do sage they announced sales and yeah don't don't

Sage:

don't even ask

Rick:

PTSD

Sage:

that gives me PTSD that fucking second video is gonna be PTSD dream foamboard

Rick:

or beans and it's like oh you you were going shopping Oh remember this

Unknown:

guys get clues figure out which guy really likes you he's not wearing a hat. Bye guys what'd he say by secret not at the beach See you later guys my electronic talking phone

Genesis:

we have this for like boys

Sage:

remember the day after a way that bucks happiest day of my life

Genesis:

can you imagine if that was my if they had like a version for boys like It's like girls talking to you like that? It'd be like it's like the gateway to sex phone lines right?

Sage:

That's pretty much that way.

Genesis:

Jesus man Yeah, the toys were very different that were four little boys and little girls.

Sage:

Oh fucking

Unknown:

great American to Dad is brought to you by turn on the magic of colored lights light bright from Doulton.

Sage:

I like the way he said color lights might make a face do

Unknown:

glow at night. Just pop in the colored pegs and follow the pattern that allows you to make beautiful pictures with light bright or create your favorite characters with like bright refills like Disney's Beauty and the Beast, tailspin and The Little Mermaid magic of shining light bright from Milton Bradley

Genesis:

again like rights though, man I love I love my fucking life. Right? Yeah.

Sage:

Your book reading? Yeah.

Genesis:

Well, it allowed me to express some creativeness you know? You didn't have one.

Sage:

I'm pretty sure did. I remember messing with one? Actually. I don't remember if I actually have an old one. Yeah, I think maybe my school we had one.

Genesis:

Oh, interesting. But yeah, I see over here. This is all this is from the 70s This wasn't the span multiple generations. Are you seeing this? Today? are like your kids. Right? There's something that's still exist for them.

Rick:

We decided the girls said

Genesis:

what happened? Ask them if they know what a light bright is right now.

Rick:

Okay, hang on. Mute.

Genesis:

Why did you mute?

Rick:

Won't because I had to yell across the apartment.

Sage:

A little. I got a question for you. Ladies

Rick:

question asked you. Do you to know what a light bright is? No, no. That's not a thing. That's not a thing. Sure it is. Yeah, it's a thing. It's a thing. It was a thing when I was your age? At least I think so. Here this is what it is. Oh, the things on where do you see Stranger Things? Stranger Things?

Genesis:

The best answer

Rick:

was I love you.

Sage:

Thank you Oh no yeah

Rick:

yeah they they went to go get Portilla and they got me yeah, they got

Sage:

Thank You for Yeah.

Rick:

But I definitely had a light bright growing up.

Sage:

I appreciate it. I had two or three you

Rick:

know, just the one Mr. One,

Genesis:

it was like a pattern right and you follow the like, it was like a color by numbers kind of thing. Was that because it was like the black paper right and you punctured the hole and then it was just like a flat light behind it. That lit up. I'm trying to remember how it worked.

Rick:

I don't actually if my memory serves me correctly, I think it came with like little light bulbs, not like bowls but you know, like a like Christmas light. Where it's like the little bulb that you think you just connect it in to the slots.

Genesis:

So there's like holes behind it like that they plugged into Yeah, you

Rick:

know when you see the commercial the 1970s light bright commercial. Yeah, topless.

Sage:

He was trying his best not to say colored

Rick:

I think this will show Yeah, it's like little things that you connect in.

Genesis:

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Okay.

Sage:

Okay, seeing it this close. Yeah, definitely. This is school. Don't think I had one at home though.

Genesis:

See, I remember sheets that I hoped through like, maybe that was accessories to it or something because like you've seen in the other commercial they have Disney shit. If there's no way some kids just making that you know, like, I swear I had like templates that I was I would poke through and then it was like a one and done thing.

Rick:

You honestly it probably was something like that. I think a majority of the time when I played with it it was just random putting shit places.

Genesis:

boobs on there

Rick:

for your for sure. But you know I think you're right I think there was like a little pad or something you would put over it to design specific things.

Genesis:

Yeah, cuz I swear I swear we got this from the thrift store as well and like you get it and like all all the templates were already like bunkered through so you couldn't like do anything. See my half torn.

Sage:

This has nothing to do with this. But this is reminding me of what me and my friends used to do when I was a kid. Because you remember Christmas lights? And they don't have this problem anymore. But if one bulb went out, they all stopped working.

Genesis:

Yeah, that's still a problem.

Sage:

So we around Christmas time we would go outside and just randomly undo one random fucking bulb on somebody scripts. Christmas lights. Just the

Genesis:

dirty. The lights. Dirty. I never even thought about that mean a prank you could do on somebody. That's funny. That's so horrible. So dirty. Like that's the outside lights. That's like fucking 10,000 lights.

Sage:

You gotta go out there, bitches.

Rick:

Oh, man. My dad still goes out there and puts Christmas lights on the front of the house. My dad so like it's a bad thing. No, my dad is the the Christmas guy. My mom is the Grinch. My mom is the one that's like alright, Christmas lights and go up Christmas Eve. They gotta come down after the day after. Right? My dad is like no, we'll put it up after Thanksgiving. Take it down middle of February. So she's

Sage:

middle of February.

Rick:

I think if anything I actually think the lights are still up. They just aren't plugged in

Sage:

don't you got a Christmas tree still up in your house right now? Yes,

Rick:

yeah, you take a ship. It's August 16 Sir.

Genesis:

Like I don't think you're ready when it comes back

Rick:

around the stick up. aren't you moving soon?

Genesis:

Are you going to take it down to move? Yeah, of course. Move it fully loaded everything. It's one of those kit things where it looks like one piece your monster. I mean, I like Christmas.

Rick:

Oh, oh, I remember this

Unknown:

place here.

Sage:

I totally expected to actually control Oh, yeah. You make them

Unknown:

bite. You make them fight. They kick some serious sharks

Rick:

actually, I think they did actually have toys of these right?

Genesis:

Yeah, they had the actual action figures. This one is the robbery like hand puppets that they have which I had I had both sets, but I fucking Have the hand puppets.

Rick:

Yeah, yeah, I had some of these as well. And

Sage:

definitely say here, just keep going.

Rick:

You didn't want you didn't play with you didn't have them. Oh, man.

Sage:

Did you watch the show? Yeah, watch the show.

Genesis:

Okay. Let's see. He was just like, oh, I want the toys. This one was probably specifically a show that was made to sell toys. It has to be

Rick:

Yeah, yeah, I I'm trying to remember if I had the actual actual figures. I think I did.

Sage:

This came out around the same time it's like Biker Mice from Mars. And um, oh, yeah.

Rick:

Biker Mice from Mars.

Sage:

Boys. Space Cowboys have moved mountain or some shit like that. That doesn't sound familiar. If you see a picture of it. It'll come flashing back to you.

Genesis:

The Hammerhead shark. I was fascinated by that animal in general as a kid. I always thought that was the coolest shark ever. And then that tied in with street sharks was fucking so cool to have the toys

Sage:

is cowboys and move mesa. That's what it was.

Genesis:

Now remember that.

Rick:

Okay, you said Biker Mice from Mars. Right back in and there's a there's a character this it just popped up in my head. I don't remember it. But it was I think it was a mouse. Right? It was green. And he was like a space thing or something like that. Was that the same? He had like buck teeth.

Sage:

They're doing anything else?

Rick:

Yeah, it's gonna drive me Fuck yeah, I think he was a mile or he might have been a fucking rabbit

Genesis:

Yeah, that was the toy right there.

Rick:

Oh, you just say I found it. Bucky O'Hare

Genesis:

Bucky O'Hare

Rick:

it was I thought it was a mouse

Sage:

What the hell is this of course is back on me.

Rick:

Of course. Yeah. Do Bucky oh hey was dope

Genesis:

Oh yeah, remember this guy? His picture I don't think I know what content this was.

Sage:

I think it was your Code Wars yet never heard

Rick:

Yeah, I was I was a comic book. First it looks like and then it spawned off into games and TV shows.

Sage:

That I'm looking at these extra figures these are kind of terrifying action figures. Do

Genesis:

you hear Yeah,

Rick:

dude kids toys for fucking often I mean a lot of it she just get like this bulky Oh hair too, to fucking

Unknown:

walk your hair on the floors. The toilet Air Marshal has ordered his storm toys.

Rick:

I hit that exactly what he had

Unknown:

on boy genius willing to

Genesis:

block hair blue. Hi, boy.

Unknown:

New Bucky. Bigger sold separately. I'm not

Genesis:

so little frog size like fire though. I would have one of those.

Rick:

Dude, I had that exact one where he had like those massive feet. Yeah, he's like, his arms were just permanently stuck out in like a weird position. Man to me, I'm going down memory lane.

Genesis:

That's the whole point of this.

Rick:

Man extra finger. I might actually, dude, I've been thinking about it. It's gonna ruin any sort of relationship. But I'm thinking about rebuilding the collection.

Genesis:

I can see it. Yeah, I mean, you'd have to be pretty particular on like, how you, you know, set it up, because there's just so many

Rick:

now but here's the problem. Okay, because as we know, with all my collecting, I collect things to actually play them. Right. So if I collect toys, and I go back to my childhood, and like do stories with the toys. I used to actually do pretty good stories do

Genesis:

maybe you should hold off on doing this thing because when I've been some troubled waters, how how so I don't I don't know. I just feel like that's the start of a terrifying thriller. Director fucking USA

Rick:

now that could end me up on a list somewhere.

Sage:

Your real life Lars and the real girl

Rick:

home Why did my child's gonna be on Making a Murderer and I'm gonna end up on I don't even want to

Genesis:

say it. Nevermind. Well, your dad has experience with these kinds of things. What was his profession?

Rick:

Yeah, yeah, I got you but Whoa, hold on. Amazon has the Megazord with the five dinosaurs for $45

Genesis:

kit they send that link to your cousin Add

Rick:

to Cart right no no that so only he sold the dragon he didn't steal the whole thing.

Genesis:

Yeah, time that's passed like you're owed compensation interest

Sage:

Dragonzord was this thing by itself?

Rick:

Yeah, it was. It was the dragons or was there was a dragon right

Sage:

now if you're talking about the mega dragons or we're both of them combined together then you need to down have some words

Rick:

like oh, we need to talk. And like now if you I because I actually tried to look up the Megazord or not Megazord Voltron. If you tried to buy the Voltron tigers. They only have like the plastic version. Right? We're all the beasts were plastic, but I had the actual metal. Where you could kill somebody like

Genesis:

when toys are made with real materials,

Rick:

dude, I fucking dude.

Sage:

Why does this sound familiar?

Rick:

I'm about to fucking buy a bunch of shit.

Sage:

Under the chicken limbo. Oh, that's why

Unknown:

she tells you without the chicken,

Sage:

but if you do not even try chicken we talk about how racism commercials go on. Chicken limbo. And he's Jamaican. Why?

Genesis:

Well, that's where Limbo comes from,

Sage:

does it? Yeah.

Genesis:

I don't know. I'm just basing that off of Futurama with

Sage:

chicken. Not a black kid and say going to Jamaica. What is what is what is Limbo originally?

Genesis:

Oh shit. What was his name? The accountant in Futurama? Okay, but Jamaican guy. He was the limbo champion.

Sage:

Okay, so it did start in the Caribbean. But the way it started, I'm still I'm still going with racist. Then again started among African slaves who transported to the Caribbean on crowded ships. So yeah, there'll be a play in limbo for fun. They were playing level for life.

Genesis:

They weren't confident they weren't in competitions, right? You get to survive if you can go under the stick. The lowest. But the question is, did you have chicken limbo?

Sage:

No. No, I did not have chicken.

Genesis:

It's I had morals. It's not a commercial knew right away. What the man was doing. He

Sage:

was bashing from fucking Little Mermaid.

Genesis:

I feel like I had this one. I can't remember. I remember this commercial. Again. Like I remember that tune that jingle. Everything about this game, but I must have I think I played this at a friend's house. I don't remember actually having this myself.

Sage:

I'm noticing a recurring theme because I don't think we saw commercial they had any children of color whatsoever yet.

Genesis:

Yeah. Unfortunately. See, here's another one. Yeah. I remember

Unknown:

the names and games. Sharon passed me on when they asked me which that you I love the best matches because I'm the original. I love new machine and come on nice and clean. Doodle there comes in one of four different colors with washable doodle pens and tattoos. Each pair sold separately.

Genesis:

Do you remember the doodle there?

Rick:

I do. But I don't think I had one. Shot No. Yeah.

Genesis:

Yeah, I was like jealous that this was like something I wanted so much. But it was like clearly not marketed for me. But I really wanted one. It's like just a cool product. You get to draw and doodle all over your little teddy bear thing and watch it.

Sage:

Yeah, I never liked drawing so it was never appealed to me.

Genesis:

Yeah, the commercial that's I mean, that tracks kind of fire right? Because I'm I mean, it's clearly a copy of

Sage:

these greaser music. Yeah.

Genesis:

Oh, there was that song because I'm gonna I'm gonna And yeah, dude, it's such a ripoff of something else.

Sage:

You thought it was gonna be in the comics.

Genesis:

Okay that was a mistake for batteries not included

Unknown:

my name is

Sage:

maybe this is why my parents bought me this black kid

Unknown:

illustrated books and cassette from worlds of wonder,

Sage:

dude, I love my teddy bear. My Teddy rough skin me. I remember when my mom threw it away I was super pissed. Granted she throw it away right at two broken legs and broken arm. But it was still good. I still rocked with a stiff snuggle

Genesis:

it too hard.

Sage:

Oh, no, I don't remember how I used to sleep.

Genesis:

Yeah. So how did you actually because I never had one of these and I really wanted one. I feel like this was one of those like rich people toys. So like in the commercial there showcase like they're having a conversation together. But that couldn't have worked like that, right?

Sage:

It had you didn't see they put a little cassette tape in the back.

Genesis:

It's like he had to like pretend that you were talking while he was having open ended conversations.

Sage:

It would like read books and stuff depending on the cassette tape.

Genesis:

Oh, read you books. Yeah. Oh, man. See, I wish I had one of these. I suppose you didn't have one, Rick?

Rick:

No, I'm really trying to wrack your brain here.

Genesis:

I don't think I

Sage:

remember the Teddy Rubashkin when his parents paid to have somebody come over and read him a book every night.

Genesis:

You had real bears.

Rick:

No, my one of my parents read me books.

Genesis:

Do you remember that Howie Mandel movie show where he was raised by wolves? I can now I'm drawing a blank on the name of the no like one of his first movies. Great movie ahead. Christopher Lloyd and Howie Mandel. He fell off like his wagon as a baby and he was right waves walk like a man that's what it's called. Well played that song. So he should I do this movie. This movie is fantastic. So he gets found later on by some lady who's studying wolves, right and realize like he's part of this family that's super wealthy and rich, but he's all grown up and he was raised by wolves. So he acts like a wolf

Sage:

87

Genesis:

I remember he goes to the mall for the first time and he's interacts with a Teddy Ruxpin doll and it was and I really want this thing

Sage:

Oh, I forget this will be Robert Downey Jr. was in this Yes he was.

Genesis:

Oh wow. I don't remember that. Completely forgot

Sage:

about this movie. Oh, here's the scene where he talks about Teddy Ruxpin

Genesis:

Yeah Here comes young he looks

Unknown:

Hello my name is Teddy Ruxpin. Bobo Yes, let's go on an adventure together. Yes

Rick:

I'll wait till Mommy, can I Oh, sweetheart, we really can't afford that right.

Genesis:

rich person toy

Sage:

how's that risk person Tory? If this wasn't the 80s for what she's wearing? That's considered drip. She got fucking her

Rick:

the perm because I was gonna say look, no disrespect to how even though right? Looks like a child person.

Genesis:

Maybe person a baby person?

Rick:

Yeah, like, first of all. I'm gonna be honest. I didn't know he was in it in anything before. America's Got Talent or whatever.

Genesis:

I'm like, where I came from. Well, I

Rick:

don't know. I didn't know who he was before that.

Genesis:

I don't know. Have you never seen little monsters? Little Monsters? Yeah.

Rick:

No, I don't think so. I didn't sound familiar. Okay,

Genesis:

A movie with a cartoon growing up Bobby's World. World. Yeah.

Rick:

What's he, Bobby? Or was she

Sage:

most of the voices?

Rick:

Oh shit I didn't know. Well now hold on Cartoon that's a little different I would I know. Yeah, yeah, I mean now little monsters though I'm looking at it I did not see this this doesn't even I mean it looks kind of familiar but

Genesis:

we're not surprised yeah

Rick:

yeah look at the way you touch it a little boy yeah it looks like a fucking

Sage:

weird it's not just any little boys Fred Savage

Rick:

oh no I get it

Genesis:

thought this was right well monsters

Sage:

that will be still good

Unknown:

yeah

Rick:

I see they did a 2019 remake was not a remake it's just a different movie with the same title

Genesis:

now is that the one with Halle Berry?

Rick:

No Lupita Nihongo

Sage:

Oh 20 Yes and then do with that?

Rick:

No no no no not even remotely connected. I have added way too much to my Amazon cart.

Genesis:

But going keep going.

Rick:

I guess I stumbled on Did you Montoya oh yeah Ken Ward Raimondo they got a blurred remark.

Genesis:

I tried to leave out ones that span so far like Power Rangers Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Digimap like I tried to leave out stuff that were not specific to a single toy because to remember like every single commercial I feel like some of these one off things would spawn more memories. You know what I mean? Like this next one here. This goes apart with all like boys like gross things

Unknown:

this dusty, old noxious bolding retching sickening

Sage:

This isn't even like a creative toy technology and shit.

Genesis:

Just yeah, just telling them to go shop in you know, take care of babies indoctrination at its finest right there. And we're getting stuck in things that throw up more balls. I remember waterfalls. I remember shit. What were those other? It was like the Cabbage Patch Kids but it was all the Garbage Pail Kids. Yeah, that's it. Yeah.

Sage:

I don't I never collected those but that was one of my favorite movies growing up

Genesis:

did you guys have any blurb balls?

Rick:

No, no, I don't even remember these to be honest.

Genesis:

I feel like these had a ton of different knockoff style things where it was just like a thing that shot something out like how you see like shooting stuff

Sage:

either. Super hard to make.

Rick:

I mean one thing I know one thing I see a lot of tabs you got open for this topic. And yeah, if I don't see one specific toy, I'm gonna riot

Genesis:

maybe not. I mean, did this fucking lead 1015 years worth of toys?

Rick:

If you went off of the jingle and whether or not you remember the jingle for these, then yeah, it's probably not up there.

Genesis:

Well, hold it and we'll see. That help. I know. You're proud. Yay.

Sage:

These things ruin Gotcha. fish sticks.

Unknown:

Are you hungry? By all means? I took like care about changing some water. So Tamagotchi can pause. I think Barstow Tomodachi, the original Virtual Reality pet care determines the pets you get for Bandai.

Genesis:

at all time a god she

Sage:

hated those damn things so much.

Rick:

I loved loved Tamagotchi.

Sage:

Everybody in seventh grade had one of the modifiers

Genesis:

and had multiple.

Rick:

Yeah. No, I only had the one growing up. But I loved it dude.

Genesis:

Did you ever get it all the way to like it's full adult stage? No, no, I don't remember doing that either achieving that?

Rick:

No. And you know, this was very short lived because I think when I got this it was very close to when I got Pokemon Red. for the Gameboy he was very close to then so I graduated to gameboy color with polka read and I just stopped with Tomodachi all together

Genesis:

clearly a better experience.

Rick:

Yeah, yeah. And I mean, it's kind of the same thing.

Sage:

Cheese. other reason that we got dijamin

Rick:

Yeah, I would not be surprised. That was a direct influence.

Genesis:

I mean, I figured Did you mind came from Pokeyman though?

Rick:

Well, it could be both. It could be the battling aspects of Pokemon. raising them aspects from Tommy. Yeah,

Sage:

cuz as you remember, did you on device that they use looked an awful lot like a Tamagotchi?

Genesis:

Yeah. Right. So you never had one sage knew? No. You stayed away from this fad? Because like what year did the Tamagotchi come out?

Sage:

9697 9697.

Genesis:

Wow. And you knew that even then that you were like, Nah, that's not for me. Yeah. I don't want to take care of

Sage:

it's gonna be a no for me.

Genesis:

Right. You didn't have a dog? Right. So like, I would have thought you would have been excited to have some sort of pet.

Sage:

No, not it's not a digital pet. That's gonna bother me. Can't do anything actual fun with it. No,

Rick:

no, I'm good. I'm good.

Sage:

There's got about batteries to keep you alive alive.

Genesis:

I don't remember ever have fun to change out the battery though. It was like a watch battery. And that's why

Sage:

you never got to the end.

Rick:

Got a good point.

Genesis:

I had a keychain with like five of these motherfuckers. And what's the next one here as well? To me

Sage:

again? Are you a virgin?

Genesis:

With this commercial?

Rick:

I have one of these two

Unknown:

Madonna's how hungry?

Genesis:

Oh, my God.

Unknown:

If you want your kid to grow bigger, you got to figure out how to

Sage:

dance and dangerously close they're all

Unknown:

sold separately. Gotta love them.

Rick:

I can you go back to the picture of a steel shot of all of them together? Yeah. What was like all? Yeah, that right there where it's all six of them in a row. Okay.

Sage:

He just No, he's just trying to get back to that one part.

Rick:

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I want to see all six of them to get Yeah, there we go. I'm trying to think which one that I have? I think

Genesis:

you're talking about the girls. Girls. Actually, boy, I thought you're gonna point out diversity. Oh, do

Sage:

you tell me again how you reverse

Genesis:

the electronics dude,

Rick:

I'm almost positive. I had baby T Rex. Because I think Lee had microchips. Of course you did. I had baby T Rex. Yeah, mine was read. Do this. That Giga pets.

Genesis:

I kind of remembered the T Rex too, because I remember the T Rex pooping? Mm hmm. Oh, yeah. Don't. When did these come out? These had have been after Tamagotchi. Right? Because I remember for sure having these on the same keychain as my time I got cheese Shut up sage.

Rick:

I know one thing directly still available. Out here.

Genesis:

Add them to the shopping cart. Get your daughter's a couple of days.

Sage:

They don't generally like an app on your fucking phone.

Rick:

The app, it says they came on 97.

Genesis:

And he's Oh So Tom, I got and he said Tom I gotcha was 9697. Right. Yeah, something

Sage:

like that. It wasn't hard to jump on a fat.

Rick:

I mean, no, I really want to you see how it is now where everything gets copied. Tell all Hill

Sage:

plot. It's true. That's around 9796. As far as kids toys, they were following Japan's lead for the most part.

Genesis:

Yeah, we've seen a lot of electronics come into play towards early 2000s

Rick:

Tamagotchis are still available on Amazon 20 bucks. Again, that has to be an app.

Genesis:

Yeah, but there's something special about the physical. You mean?

Sage:

You get the app. Your phone starts vibrating.

Genesis:

Oh look up that app tonight. In the meantime, all I'm looking at right now.

Rick:

But I had previously limited

Genesis:

I get to grow an apple tree. There you go.

Rick:

Your dog there is a my Tamagotchi forever app. Tamagotchi on yet all kinds of shit.

Sage:

Yeah Giga pets AR on on App Store.

Genesis:

Like it's not gonna be the same.

Sage:

How was it not the same as me.

Genesis:

I will tell I will explain it to you like this. So if I have the physical thing, there's a certain level of expectations when I'm going to get out of this little dingy kid's toy. If it's an app, I'm gonna have a bit much higher expectations for what I will be able to experience and do on it.

Sage:

The app is going to be better if anything because in color with modern graphics, you're looking at a fucking two bit S.

Genesis:

Black grass green, and black dots. Yeah. Well, right don't shoot in my Wheaties okay?

Sage:

I'm just saying if you're gonna waste your money on this when there's an app that does it better. Okay. pay

Unknown:

to play a game that's really challenging. Like what? Yeah, you easy habit you might want to get your hands on. You're not gonna stop fast talking electronic bucket batteries.

Sage:

Never heard about it. My cousin used to have one of these played all the time.

Genesis:

It was a fire toy. Yeah. Yeah, so that's, that's the old toy.

Sage:

Simon. And I used to destroy that thing. But as a kid, I found it easier for me to remember numbers than colors. And I still do that now. So like, if it's like something that I gotta remember, that's color coded. I'll assign a number to it. And then I just remember the numbers like alright, 16541 Yes, you're like that.

Genesis:

That's like, right brain bias.

Sage:

Okay, I don't know what the fuck that means.

Genesis:

left sides like the artsy shit right sides more computational

Sage:

is always is always made way more sense to me like that, you know?

Genesis:

Yeah, no, I totally get that. That's just laid things out for a lot of people. That makes sense to me. But what I mean the Bop It would have been like physical action. So you probably would have did well at the bar, but as well,

Sage:

I probably still would have broken down in numbers.

Genesis:

Yeah. 123 or something? Yeah. Yeah. They had a fucking hit little rhythm to it to Bop it. Pull it sorted. Simon.

Sage:

Simon had some. When you get Simon going to be going like,

Genesis:

Simon was 70s sci fi tunes to it had its own sort of retro feeling to it that it's pretty cool.

Sage:

It was called Simon right.

Genesis:

Yeah, well, Simon had it was like the circular pad and it had the four colors. You'd had to repeat the the the pattern.

Sage:

I remember what it did. I'm just wondering if we got the name right.

Genesis:

It was definitely Simon. I think they came out with another one in the 90s like super assignment or something had eight pads to it. It was in like dongles or something like that.

Sage:

Yeah, it was kind of slimy. I'm looking at it right now. Amazon 34 And

Genesis:

I think there's a they consider that

Sage:

a board game.

Genesis:

I guess because there's like a win and a lose. It's a game. Did you have a bid Rick?

Rick:

I did. I did actually have a bot but we had assignment to assign was the Simon Says right

Genesis:

now to people. You had the game.

Rick:

Yeah, yes. Yes. No. But yes, I did have a bob it it was one of those things where it died out pretty quick. Oh, really? Yeah. It was fine for like 20 minutes and then the kind of just tossed it back in the toy box.

Genesis:

I think definitely got any you know, all that's what I was gonna say. Because this commercial reminded me. The batteries not included tagline that was on most of these. You don't see that anymore? Well, at least. I mean, probably on the kids commercials. I guess there's probably still toys that say that. But that's something that rings as nostalgia to me is the batteries not included thing? You ever get toys on Christmas and your parents forgot to get batteries for the shit?

Rick:

No, no, no, I've never had that issue. You know? Motherfucker. I mean, it's just, you know, I'm lucky. I have parents who read directions when they said Batteries not included. What

Genesis:

are you trying to say by saying that

Rick:

I'm just saying if I look, if you buy something for a child, or if you buy something in just take two seconds to read the box that What's your bottom? It says on their batteries not included. You know?

Genesis:

Is this a problem you run into getting toys for your kids? No. Or is this all like USB charged devices now?

Rick:

No, I mean for them when they get stuff it usually will say one of the other batteries not included and I make sure I buy the battery. Because I you know,

Genesis:

I shut the fuck up. I

Rick:

was saying like, I don't know that's a bad excuse.

Sage:

So many batteries in his house growing up that he never even saw the batteries not included movie.

Genesis:

They're on his mom's nightstand. Oh,

Rick:

well, you know, there were times where we didn't have entries and my dad will tell you war stories of how he'd go down into his basement. And the batteries were missing out over the TV remote. He just couldn't find batteries.

Genesis:

I've definitely done that to my parents of stealing the milk batteries.

Rick:

i You can hear my my dad had a powerful voice where you could hear him on the second floor debate

Unknown:

where the batteries

Genesis:

took the batteries out. You just hear bopping? Twins.

Sage:

necessities, you brought up batteries and remotes. I just just bought back a trauma. I'm curious, Jan if this happened to you? You know what? You growing up in a white family? Okay. Have you ever been just chilling in your room? And then your mom calls you to her room to hand her the remote that's two feet away.

Genesis:

I feel like that has happened to me. I can't recall like a specific memory. But that sounds so familiar.

Rick:

Know what, I'm convinced that a lot of you parents out there we're just psychologically torturing you all. Neither of my parents never did anything like that. If they called me it was because they actually needed to talk to me about something or I was getting my ass beat for something like that.

Genesis:

They had the help to deliver everything for them. No, no. Oh my goodness.

Sage:

She called me to get Hannah remote this two feet away. Or she would call me into the room like hey, give me a cup of pot like

Genesis:

that I've definitely experienced I can recall memories specifically for that too. I bet your mom calls you now to drive over there. I would not be surprised. This happened.

Rick:

She's gonna call him tomorrow. Hey, can you come over real quick? I need your help with something. You walk in the door remotes like five feet away.

Sage:

They tried to get me to go out there to set up a fucking fire stick who had a smart team

Rick:

hilarious Call Larry.

Genesis:

I've already told you this

Rick:

thing now I mean you have an idea where I live and how far of a drive it is. I'm tired of going out there if I have to set up one more fucking fire stick like I told my dad just buy a smart TV man

Genesis:

we should all have smart TVs now by now.

Rick:

Yeah cheap exactly. I mean you can get I have all smart TVs like come on

Genesis:

double the price of a fire stick and boom you got like a decent Smart TV

Rick:

yeah you can get

Sage:

there they're so cheap it's like when all the cell phone companies are switching over from you know the cell phones that we knew to the smart cell phones they were like Look it's a free upgrade just get a new phone

Genesis:

well we have to go along with Bob it we've got kids come to you with just

Unknown:

screaming and what's the very best thing very best score

Sage:

they were tricking us into being working out

Genesis:

this was probably a godsend for parents across America.

Sage:

The very best thing of all that was the best thing but okay

Genesis:

that's the marketing bullet point. If there's a counter on it they honestly could have just removed the counter and we would have been fine with the just fucking skip it

Sage:

wouldn't have noticed at all.

Rick:

I wonder how many parents were like alright, you can play but you got to do 100 skip and go out I definitely had one of these grown up Yes. Loved it does not surprise me. Yeah. Loved every second I had one of these two stages.

Sage:

Yeah, one in like every color though.

Genesis:

The gold plated one

Sage:

with my J's

Rick:

I've never owned a pair of Jordans ever. But I know me and my sister had one. I think hers was pink and I think I had a blue logical. Well blue is my favorite color. So okay, my dad may try everything. He was blue.

Genesis:

In the pink one

Rick:

year, although now boy. Yeah, yeah.

Genesis:

You have to see if this is something that still exists. Would your kids be interested in a toy like this an active toy?

Rick:

My youngest maybe? Yeah. I'm looking at it on Amazon and they have similar concept ones but they're not exactly the same Tiger scaping. Yeah IBDP toys skip it ankle toy. And it's it looks the same. It's just this instead of it being a ball on the end, it's kind of like a disk.

Genesis:

probably safer. These things fucking The thing was heavy that little ball. You can take somebody's ankles out with that

Sage:

for sure. Yeah, we'll just some babies. Yeah, I

Rick:

don't remember ever like fucking myself up with it. I actually hurt myself a lot with scooters more than anything. Oh yeah, the razors. Razor. Yeah, had a razor

Genesis:

that came out one like we came in a little bit of money. So like, my mom got us all razors when those came out. That was glorious Christmas.

Sage:

I can't talk I had a dope ass BMX bike. So yeah, dude,

Rick:

I had a mongoose that was

Sage:

Chrome and go mongoose with rims and forego pegs on it. I had a yellow mongoose had the Gyrator on the front so I could spend the fucking handlebars all the way around.

Rick:

I had a fuck you in advance. But I had

Sage:

a I had a Rolls Royce.

Rick:

No. I had a red white and blue Mako

Genesis:

patriots.

Rick:

Patriots is dude. Yeah, red, white and blue. And then I had a four black pegs.

Genesis:

The pegs are Game Changer chalk in

Rick:

a dude. So many times friends would hop on the back. Basketball quarters home

Genesis:

once last time you guys actually rode a bike not like an exercise bike, but like a bike a real bike

Sage:

years and years.

Rick:

I actually just bought a bike. Did you write it? Yeah, like three months ago?

Genesis:

Yeah. Does it just come? Is that saying true? It's like riding a bike?

Rick:

Yeah, yeah, it came back. I mean, immediately, the first time I got on it, and I mean decades, you know,

Sage:

I don't know if I could see a rat with no hands. No.

Rick:

I would never do that.

Genesis:

Make sense?

Rick:

No, but it's actually a mongoose. Hmm, it was it's black and yellow. I just bought two months, two or three months ago back

Genesis:

in yellow, black and yellow, black and yellow

Rick:

students. or ride a bike? Yeah, yeah. I mean, you should they're great for just getting some exercise. Sure.

Sage:

Um, be 30 some years old on a BMX bike.

Rick:

Your neck it's not it's not a BMX bike. Mine is more of like a mountain bike it's shit yeah,

Genesis:

I wouldn't get a BMX I would get a mountain bike for sure. No I haven't No You gotta fucking pedal.

Rick:

It was it was another brand though of BMX bike that I because I had not seen it. But yeah, have loosened a huffy

Sage:

when I got that. Super pimped out mongoose I would wash it like it was a car.

Rick:

Yeah, man, you know, you gotta you gotta take care of the baby. You know,

Genesis:

where you actually traveling far like, did you have distance to go with it?

Rick:

I did. Yeah. But I live down the street, maybe two blocks from rich east and we used to me and my friends used to ride our bikes over to COys son shop or whatever. By the train tracks between Richmond Park and Matson. And there's like a pathway into the forest. There were someone built like a dirt ramp. And we would be talking about

Sage:

the fairness of a road maybe to Seaton prairie familiar

Genesis:

scene in Prairie. Oh, yeah,

Sage:

that's gate. Hmm,

Rick:

okay. Okay. Yeah, do we use the random all the time?

Genesis:

We drill we ride our bikes to school a few times where we would go from like the house governors all the way to like we're south.

Sage:

So you know when I was in Dalton different story, I ride my bike to fucking Riverdale. The thorn that was all over the fucking place. Yeah,

Genesis:

but you had a decent fucking lock setup.

Sage:

We'd be like, shit Wait 1012 D

Rick:

we used to ride our bikes everywhere and I think the furthest I'd ever gone to was when we lived near rich east we drove our bike or we rode our bikes to the mall what was it Lincoln Mall? Yeah, that's probably the furthest Hi everyone

Genesis:

all Lincoln Mall? Yeah.

Rick:

I missed that mall. They had to disband.

Unknown:

You new Pucci reacts to patch sounds in line tell

Sage:

me how much you liked each other

Rick:

interacting he comes with his own separately Batteries not included. I didn't have I didn't have it. I think I vaguely remember that being somewhere. I think my cousin had one but No, I never had one of these.

Sage:

Anything I've ever seen this into right now.

Genesis:

Oh really? Really? I think this was either like very early 2000s I don't think this is 90s though. I remember having one of these in the getting bored with it pretty quick. Like because that's all it did it just fucking like pump the ground like it didn't

Rick:

it didn't do shit said it came out in 1983 83 No, yeah. Pucci from Mattel 1983

Genesis:

Wow, okay. Oh wait, hold

Rick:

on hold on. No nevermind Pucci but it's not it's a pretty sure had different it's like yeah, it's like

Unknown:

Okay girls

Rick:

cut Boy Yeah, the

Genesis:

Fuji electronic dog Tilly this says 99 on the YouTube video

Rick:

No, you know on here on Wikipedia it says 2000 April 1 Two data.

Genesis:

Okay. Yeah, no, it was because like, I mean that technology we weren't seeing that like mid 90s came

Rick:

in 20 as $25

Sage:

but was there a counter on it? Right

Rick:

dude if being comes up one more damn time Yeah, you got it that's the one that I was gonna talk I was gonna say Stop stop evildoers.

Unknown:

Yes, Stretch Armstrong now stretching fun farther than ever before. He bends he stretches even ties and knots but always returns to his original shape. How does he do that? He's been doing that since he was a good Stretch Armstrong.

Sage:

Pointless?

Rick:

Dude, I had a Stretch Armstrong and I loved the shit out of this.

Genesis:

This toy was looking great to

Sage:

play with it at school or friends that I don't think ever.

Rick:

Oh my goodness. I didn't even make a whole Cogan variation

Genesis:

of this. Ah, yeah, kinda remember. Yeah, like a wrestling line that says Oh, Colgan?

Sage:

Yeah,

Rick:

I count that. But dude, I played with that Stretch Armstrong for so long until I hit the age where I was more curious about what was inside than

Genesis:

I definitely took mine because like mine I got all I remember this guy to mine came from a thrift store as well. So like he wasn't brand new. He was a little pre stretched. So he wasn't he didn't go back to his original. Yeah. He's definitely seen some shit and I Oh, yeah, I remember like pulling his arm off and like the goo that came out. Like that tan translucent like kind of translucent

Sage:

goo in there. Yeah,

Genesis:

it was like again, like a glue. Boo.

Rick:

Yeah, it was weird. It was cool though.

Genesis:

So I don't even know what I did with it. I think I just stretched it right yeah

Rick:

it's super boring. Yeah, when you think about it now Oh, cool. Is geeking stretch

Genesis:

Great. Hours later, like just

Sage:

minutes later

Genesis:

Now you fucked would stretch I was wrong.

Sage:

Cartoon. Yes, there was one

Genesis:

okay. I was trying to remember I was like I saw there was a cartoon. But although that actor in the commercial he looked familiar to maybe I'm just remembering the commercial itself, but that guy looked familiar as was there a live action?

Sage:

I don't think there's a lot of action. Okay. Know what would have made it dope though

Genesis:

that's where they went wrong. Oh, I

Rick:

just think of all the his billing that was just there on the video. You're showing the right guy. I had him too. Yeah, I

Genesis:

had this guy too. Oh, vacuum vac man. Home,

Rick:

man.

Genesis:

What else did you do with that little vacuum? Nothing really?

Unknown:

Nothing. All right. All right. Remember

Rick:

this guy, his red guy. His. His skin was different from Stretch Armstrong, right? He hit like, you could feel like little tiny bones.

Genesis:

When you vacuum them up, it sucked in. And so like he was like this textured material across his body. If you ever have like a, like a Jane Armstrong, or some female alternative name or market that Oh, remember to Stretch Armstrong was a generational twist. That was something that existed a long time ago. I've had to have like originated in the 70s to write

Sage:

like pet rocks and sea monkeys. Chia, some of you that weren't brought in a Chia the other day and I was like

Genesis:

I always wanted one of those. It's like, a character's hair or skin.

Sage:

But it doesn't happen overnight. It takes weeks.

Genesis:

Now fucking Karen's just drink the stuff.

Rick:

He says in 1994. Disney was actually writing several scripts for a movie about Stretch Armstrong. I bet

Genesis:

that will come out in our lifetime. Oh, that's

Rick:

the script that they went with cast Tim Allen at Stretch Armstrong.

Genesis:

Oh, wow. So you can kind of see that.

Sage:

DC is again a DC. Yes, DC they already got to a character cutter last man. They don't need to stretch out.

Rick:

So check this out. They also consider Danny DeVito. But it said he said he refused to do the film if they made any jokes about his height.

Genesis:

That's funny. I definitely can't picture Danny DeVito as Stretch Armstrong.

Rick:

They try says they tried to redo another movie in 2008 that fell through and then they tried to do another one and 2014. So they just want

Sage:

to lose money? Because nobody's going to watch it.

Genesis:

I don't know if that would be tempted.

Rick:

Yeah. As of 21. To watch. Yeah. As of 2013. Several production studios started. They had scheduled to start filming. But both Studios decided to stop and work on other projects.

Genesis:

Did you say when it came out originally the Stretch Armstrong toy?

Sage:

I mean, we got Mr. Fantastic. We don't

Genesis:

know. But there's I mean, very different. It was not

Rick:

the cartoon you're talking about. It says they had a Netflix cartoon. In 2017. No, yeah. It's called Stretch Armstrong and the flex fighters.

Genesis:

I yeah, I don't I swear that wasn't my childhood though. Yeah,

Rick:

no. 2017

Sage:

There was a cartoon from like the 90s or 80s.

Rick:

Maybe it was a guest star. Keith David was in this. Jesus, Steven neum was in it. Felicia Day it was a lot of decent names and yeah. Wil Wheaton. All the way they did two seasons. The first season was 2017 and then the second season was September 2018.

Genesis:

So that's probably still on there

Sage:

is one cartoon from the 90s

Genesis:

was Mandela it's got to be a Mandela. That certain turned down a couple of weeks ago and now they fucking took that cartoon away from us and put it into 2017 All right, almost done here. Do you guys remember this?

Unknown:

balls have evolved over time but now comes down farther flying football in history.

Rick:

King a yeah,

Unknown:

this is the vortex and I'm gonna throw the vortex farther than any football in history

Genesis:

can la

Unknown:

the farthest flying football in history Oh you portrait now the vortex

Rick:

with its coos Yeah,

Genesis:

how long was the one I had?

Rick:

I definitely had. Yeah, one of those.

Genesis:

I think was so much fun,

Rick:

dude. Sodo tearing their hair that whistling sound? Squirrel Yes.

Genesis:

I would buy one of those now that I feel like that would be fun to play catch what? Oh, for sure. Yeah. Man, John Elway. He was the celebrity during the 90s. Oh, yeah, he was uh,

Rick:

I mean, you know, definitely considered one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time.

Genesis:

He was involved in a lot of I feel like a lot of Nickelodeon shit was me. Like I seen him on I don't know, maybe not now I don't trust my memory at all.

Rick:

No, I think you're right. I think he was involved with Nickelodeon a lot. Because I

Genesis:

didn't know fucking football back then. But I knew John Elway

Sage:

fucking they had scrubbed me so

Genesis:

I'm not sure he's already I picked this one specifically for you sage because I figured at least this was sports related that you might have really been down with the vortex

Sage:

yeah football I used to play football is my day you send it back and play catch and shoot off time with the vortex or with the actual football but I didn't have I didn't have I didn't have vortex

Genesis:

Okay. Back here I wouldn't holler

Sage:

backyard wouldn't big enough to fucking throw a vortex.

Genesis:

Yeah, you know, now that you mentioned that that was like a problem. Like I always wanted to push it to its limit. But I never had the space to actually launch it. We had one field that had no house on it. You could get some good distance that we used to play football on together. Remember the old house that open plot of land that was right across the street? Even that wasn't even big enough. That was about two acres worth or something but it never felt like it was enough. Cross Street Yeah, yeah. That's where we just played the football matches on there. He used to call me the train.

Sage:

Little train that could I mean, what do you

Genesis:

actually don't well, this one here. That was the last one I had but nerve weapons

Sage:

are the time to choose the I still love but they're they're so much better now.

Genesis:

I know I'm so jealous of what nerf is today for a very good hiding place.

Sage:

I have an automatic Nerf gun that takes like 70 batteries.

Genesis:

Damn, you better go to Rick's house

Sage:

thing I know right? He loved batteries they got nerve snipers. They got nerve pro series that only they only dropped like a small limited release of because they have whole Nerf gun competitions and shit.

Genesis:

Am the site that's alive and thriving right now. So yeah, they get up there and price. It same thing on the waterside too. It's super soakers Right? Like even those today look amazing.

Sage:

Okay. Last time I even held a Super Soaker. Yeah, same remember I had like little backpack Super Sunday. That was fine.

Genesis:

Oh, that was the rich kid that had that.

Rick:

Not and I didn't ever had she like Yeah, I did.

Sage:

I did not have a pool. I had a was a sprinkler did water.

Unknown:

Slide didn't have

Rick:

to slip sighs we're dope. I like how when you type slip, the slip knot was all in this.

Unknown:

Okay, everybody, come outside. Ready for a wild ride.

Sage:

You can put it on your lawn. Turn the water on then you run

Unknown:

on the plane when the screen goes all the way comes with plastic slide and fasteners from whammo.

Sage:

whammo last time. I was on a slip inside it was seven years ago.

Genesis:

Damn, that's pretty recent slide.

Sage:

It was all a bunch of adults, we set up some slipping sides. And at the end, we had a table and we were doing slipping slacks Lipica. Oh,

Genesis:

that sounds fun. So if what at what point? Did you like was it if you'd lost? Yeah.

Sage:

Yeah. All right. Yeah, we were on teams. So your team had to slip and slide back and forth and get your cup flipped on for the other team.

Genesis:

That sounds like so much fun.

Rick:

That does sound like

Genesis:

I almost died on a slip and slide. Of course you did. Because I set it up and like So one side is textured to hit like to stick on the ground so you don't fly with it. And I had it backwards or upside down and I ran to go jump on it and fucking just plopped right under the ground. I coughed up blood. I thought I was done

Rick:

you coughed up blood

Sage:

from a slip and Hi

Genesis:

Joe I fucking Tywin for it

Rick:

I feel like there's more YOUR FAULT than the slides

Genesis:

blame on that I just went up and down did not slide there was no slips no slides there was just fall water on first. No, I think it was actually in the snow. I was trying it out on the snow thinking back in but it was a million times my fault.

Sage:

Yeah, so when in your 20s that this happened?

Genesis:

No, I think I was 15 Damn Yeah, still a little older than you probably admitting to and I was alone I wasn't even what wait till nobody

Rick:

didn't have it that time where you did not who plays on the slip and slide

Sage:

that went in your bank by yourself like it happened but nobody ever has to know

Genesis:

you know I just feel comfortable enough to expose this thing and the memories were just kind of coming as I was telling the story and I didn't have time to edit it myself I don't even think I told anybody it because I was in so much pain but I was also embarrassed so like I didn't even tell my mom I was like coughing up blood from it

Sage:

had you died no worse way type of story

Rick:

right what would they tell about your tragic demise like what would they say? Just you know how

Genesis:

to flip no that was not the way that I wanted to go. That was rough. Yeah, I can feel that right now. Like the memory pain

Sage:

can slip inside. Yeah.

Genesis:

So that was all the toy commercials I had lined up for us is there any last minute ones that you sparked that you want to throw in there real quick?

Sage:

I had this once way when I was a kid. I think it was called alcohol

Genesis:

there was one I was trying to find it was this it was like creepy crawlies that you would you could make the things to eat. And remember like there was like a liquid that you could drink to but it was this whole like kit. Yeah, I

Sage:

remember what you're talking about. I don't remember the name of it. I couldn't

Genesis:

find it. It was like almost like an easy bake oven for boys but it was like mad scientists like experiment shit that you did as well. Which do you remember the metal fucking creepy crawlies like you like and like it made the cat like the diecast creepy crawlies I swear it was a creepy crawly brand I mean that should that's probably too dangerous for kids.

Sage:

Do what the hell was it? You got me wondering now

Genesis:

so you might have had that you think I remember seen it I

Sage:

don't know if I had it though. The dangerous I think thing makers what you're thinking of in your maker with the metal. I see. Yeah. If the maker right yeah.

Genesis:

Oh, yeah. The creepy collars thing maker said this is exactly it.

Sage:

And the first caption says dangerously hot

Genesis:

LinkedIn 50s makeup this could have been a thrift store pickup.

Unknown:

And the electric plug. Right in the shower. Holy shit. Go.

Genesis:

You can tell them there. Looks like that was the plastic one but

Rick:

that voice do that sound like okay, it's it's another your mom's house thing. Oh, that sounds like it has.

Genesis:

It could have been.

Rick:

No, not that it has not been an ad. Oh,

Sage:

here it is. Dr. Dreadfuls Food Lab.

Genesis:

Dr. Dreadfuls. Oh, wait a minute. Yes, the fucking skeleton skull. That's it. This is it.

Unknown:

Dr. Dre. And this is the Dr. Gribble bootleg makes lots of gross things in the new week in the new month. A tasty tarantula you can make and now magic powder stir and the doctor drip of food led mix boosts things again and again

Genesis:

that thing the potion that you made I can still remember the that taste it was gross but it was so cool. It fucking bubbled. Yeah like this like this. This is a little head over here just bubbling over like the red potion. That was fire. Oh,

Sage:

you can buy one right now.$150 But the candy mixes expired. No shit.

Genesis:

I mean, you won't die right?

Sage:

It was expired when you bought the motherfucker. Let's be

Rick:

there. Oh, I there's no way I would ever eat shit like that. Like you buy some expired candy from like 40 years ago. Are you out of your mind?

Genesis:

For Halloween? Once I moved back, we're just gonna make for Dr. Dreadful foods.

Sage:

They have a new version of it called Incredible Edibles.

Genesis:

Maybe we'll go with that one since it's probably safe. That one's 30 bucks. And cheaper too. So I like that idea.

Rick:

So anyway, I just thought about it when you move out this way. We can do a live recording most drunk or on edibles. Do a whole topic on edibles. Sure. While on it I feel like you're

Genesis:

the one that's going to be taking the risk because you're not tolerant to that kind of stuff

Rick:

all known do Yeah, and that'll be maybe I'll save myself for that'd be my first time

Genesis:

in sage

Rick:

No, that's definitely gonna have but I'm curious as to how I'm gonna be might be dropping in bombs and shit. I don't know.

Sage:

I will 500

Genesis:

There we go. Little walk down the path of the toys that made us I don't know I love going back and seeing some of this old shit. You know, the old TV jingles are just that stuff brings you back brings you back to the simpler times back in my day. And now Rick's gonna be broke from buying re buying all this shit again. But I am curious though, if you do end up getting them goosebump books or any of these things? I want to know how they react to the toys from our childhood. You know?

Sage:

I don't have kids so I can't chime in on that. Yeah.

Rick:

Okay, yeah, I already bought three of the Goosebumps books nice. And then I am thinking about getting not Bob it but skip it. Yeah, thinking about getting

Sage:

scared

Genesis:

seeing that as I'm like closing out the show. NEW

Rick:

NEW NEW NEW NEW

Genesis:

It was perfect timing right there.

Sage:

Maybe we should just hit fucking button

Genesis:

Well, thanks everybody tuning in for another episode. If you'd like this episode, we can always do a part two to something like this because there's plenty of toys to go around. Stick around for next week for a brand new episode all new shenanigans only on the Haven exchange podcast. Tune in to see if we've kicked off Rick yet.

Rick:

Maybe you're the one talking about this is the Haven exchange.