Episode #10 - Camera Flashback Fun and Childhood Shenanigans

Remember the days when big hair and neon colors ruled the world? Buckle up for a nostalgic ride as we take you back to the 80s, an era filled with quirky charms and unforgettable memories. We'll revisit the carefree times of bouncing around in the back of station wagons, making spontaneous Dairy Queen runs, and navigating the simple joys of pay phones and outdoor play. From the frustration of tangled cassette tapes to the vibrant fashion trends that defined our youth, this episode captures it all. We also touch on the societal shifts and how our perspectives have evolved, offering a thoughtful reflection on the passage of time.

As we wrap up this nostalgic journey, we share a heartwarming moment about reconnecting with someone from my childhood through a Facebook comment. It brought back hilarious memories of being the reckless "Scotty" who was always on the verge of another bruise or broken arm. It's incredibly touching to know that people from my past are tuning in. A special thank you goes out to a wonderful neighbor lady whose name we keep under wraps to protect her privacy. So, join us as we reminisce and laugh about the good old days, all while holding a firm stance on the importance of privacy.

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Chapters

• 0:01 Nostalgic Reflections on 80s Culture
• 7:21 Thank You for Listening

Transcript

ScottyDontX: 0:01

I do not believe in the no-win scenario. Thank you for pushing play on the latest episode of the Scotty Don't X podcast. Today is episode 10, and I found some old pictures. So the 80s, right Back when film cameras and printed pictures was normal. So hair was bigger, jeans were tighter and music videos told us stories that didn't make any sense, loved them anyway. Mtv was music television, not rehashed and grounded in nothing. Reality shows. It was a different world back then and we did things that would get us grounded, arrested or just plain laughed at today Because our friends and family witnessed the stupidity in real time.

ScottyDontX: 0:56

Not like today, with people live streaming video or posting a video and pictures on the internet For likes and, in way too many cases, getting arrested for making everyone witness the stupidity. Okay, so remember the station wagons with the rear-facing seats. How many people remember bouncing around in the back of that with no seat belt? That's a bit before my time. With no seatbelts that was a bit before my time. But loading kids in the back of the pickup truck was just fine. If a parent was wonderful enough to call a Dairy Queen run gosh, darn right, you piled in the back of that truck because you wanted to go. So if you were lucky enough to get to the mall, your parents gave you a quarter and told you go ahead and call if you need anything, because there were pay phones available and usually a bank of four to eight of them. Now kids would say, on the ask to call voice you buy me the new iFruit 17 with five-dimensional cameras and built-in AI Instagram filters and maybe I'll call you. They'll text you every hour so that you, as a helicopter parent, won't send out a search party, but voice calls. Nah, that's not happening. Nah, that's not happening. And the nice thing about pay phones is you could call home or you could prank some random number and have a conversation with someone, and maybe you make a new friend, maybe you make a new enemy, but $0.25 was the going rate for phone calls as well as video games. So pick your entertainment.

ScottyDontX: 2:45

Or if you were a super dork, like I was at Covington Junior High and you'd seen the movie War Games but you didn't have a computer, you might be making reservations on Pan Am Airlines to go to Paris. Yeah Well, reservations. Just said you wanted to spawn on it, didn't need to pull out money and pay for it. What a dork. And how about we could go outside for the whole day if we weren't cold to go outside for the whole day. No one freaked out, keeped on sun up to sundown with the instructions come home when the streetlights turned on. So we were always looking for that one streetlight with the broken bulb.

ScottyDontX: 3:33

That only played out once and then you got a physical collision with your butt, usually by hand, maybe by a piece of wood. So you'd come home in dirt scrapes, possibly a bee sting. Those are the marks of a good day, kiddo Nowadays. Yeah, you've got your hand sanitizer. And who wants to get dirty while they're toting their iPhone 13 or X or whatever it is? I'm an Android person and they're wanting to maybe do pranks, acting like they're keying the car or peeing on tires with a water bottle. Yeah, that's just annoying. That's not good dirt-covered fun Jumping bikes, breaking your front tooth out.

ScottyDontX: 4:29

So remember the drinking. No, the other drinking. We had Tang tang and we had kool-aid and, you know, sugary water in neon colors. Our cereal, if we got the fancy dancy kind, was health food because it said fortified on the box. But it turned your milk into maybe a rainbow at first and moved it towards this gray milk-flavored, barely fruit-flavored sludge.

ScottyDontX: 5:02

So back on the music. People had cassette tapes If you wanted your music for free there was no plain Instagram clips to listen to portions of it you had a cassette you taped from the radio if you wanted it for free. And if you bought cassettes you could buy album length or cassette singles. And if you wanted to go back on a song you just heard, you'd rewind, guessing where you'd come out, and it was audio roulette. Also, heaven forbid, your tape got caught in there when you pulled it out and you'd pull out the rest of it and then it would be time for your pencil-based repairs, winding that tape back in there.

ScottyDontX: 5:53

So, all right, let's take a look at fashion. There was lots of neon, everything. There were parachute pants Back when breakdancing made the mainstream, yet was not an Olympic event. Come to think of it, it's no longer an Olympic event. So we saw how well that worked. I mean, if you were to step directly from the 80s to nowadays, you'd be looking like some kind of alien invasion laser tag gone wrong. Except for the ripped jeans those are making a comeback. Which, gee, we'd have those to hand me down. They were already ripped and got thrown out. I know that one of the memories and it's only stuck in there from 80s TV was Bill Cosby, who his daughter, who was getting ripped pants, says what happened to your pants, and he was a little bit verfluffled that she said she paid extra to have them distressed and ripped. Well, speaking about 80s to today, guess what? Bill Cosby's no longer running in the running, rather for Father of the Year. Things change. The only constant is change and well, we've changed your life.

ScottyDontX: 7:21

You made it to the end of the podcast. Thank you for sticking around. Thank you to those who are listening. I even got a Facebook comment from somebody who knew me as a little little kid and said I'd know that voice anywhere, which is a good thing, because my name wasn't Scotty Don't X when I was running around. If there was a Scotty Don't, it was Scotty don't do that or Scotty, stop it, you'll hurt yourself. Yeah, I've collected a few bumps bruises. You'll hurt yourself. Yeah, I've collected a few bumps, bruises, broken arms from back in the day. But it's nice to know that people from way way back are listening. Thank you very much. Nice, wonderful neighbor lady whose name I'm not going to give out because well then they might be recruited for all of the other podcasts and on that note, we pull the ripcord. I do not believe in an open scenario.