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Old Electronics and Old Memories

Mar 16, 202410 min
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James talks about the "old" days of listening to the radio and playing 8 track tapes and how that nostalgia hits you in your 50s.

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Electronics. I'm sure now, folks, I am showing this on the video version. I always posting pictures on my social media as you can see what I'm talking about. My house. We want to go to James Lot Junior where you follow me. But also at the end of the show, I'm going to show these also. But this is a walkman see through walk. I was thinking about this as I'm older. This is fifty plus of course from James Lott Jnr. You know, as we get older, I get

a little nostalgic for the old days. And I didn't experiment last night. So I don't have oh that's nice night text on me. So I didn't. So I don't have a car anymore. So I don't have a car where I can I listen serve radio or nothing. And a lot of my friends who have cars literally goes to the radio. Isn't either Pandora or Spotify or serious they have they have satellite or whatever service. And I was like,

think, what to stay with that going. I remember listening to the radio growing up, and your radio was big for me, and I was on the radio back in the day and all stuff, and so I said, okay, it was late last night and I was reading and I was just kind of relaxing. I sat'ma turn on the radio. Now I have you can't see it here, it's way over there. It's like right that thing there that's actually the receiver for radio, and those are the chief speakers.

And I'm cleaning up my house when that's like stuff everywhere. I'm doing the house. But I that has actually works plugged in. I have a lot of leg trys that are pluged in. I have an eight track player that's plugged in and works. I have a laser displayer. I have a VCR and DVD. I have all the old tricks, walk bins, disbands, whatever. I have all that stuff that works. So I played vinyl, I play cassettes, I play tapes, I play albums and like CDs

all this stuff. And but anyway, so I've been going shopping with a friend of mine the last few months to all these records. We were visiting all these records, actual record stores in southern California, and it's been a lot of fun. It's been a lot of fun. Places like Atomic Records or sound Station Records here in Westchester. There's all these places. We just going everywhere doing this stuff. It's a lot of fun. And because I have stuff that works, I literally can buy any piece of media and it

would work for me. But it's a lot of nostalgia. My friend and I are looking for all music, not new music, but all music on these platforms, trying to build up our our music libraries again. And oh and so I said last night, I'm gonna listen to the radio. It's nighttime. So that's fine because I remember telling a story on another show about we come to La. You're coming on this show. I can't remember this, this series can't remember we come to La my friends show, I come

down. We conserved radio all the way down. But then we would listen to the radio here on that plane. We come to my house. I didn't live here yet, but I come to the house and I would go there, turn it on, and then a thing called Disco Saturday Night on K one on four, KP one on four, and we turn on get Ready with disco music. We get ready to get nap eat whatever, and then go out. Oh my god. So the first step was, Okay, I'm gonna go listen to the radio. I don't know what stations are

on anymore. I really don't. That's the first thing. I used to know every station. It was well here in California, kiss FM, kd A Y Power one oh six ninety eight point one, Carrits one on one, Like I knew all the mighty six ninety ninety three. So I think it's five. I mean I knew all I knew all of them. I knew all of them one on three point one. K i QQ always says,

well, of course things have changed since then. There are a few that Paraosic is still there, and Kissing Fred was still there and cares when I want to still there, But all the rest I have no idea. And I was trying to find back well back in the day is how old I am. Back in the day. He used to have a New Age station. I'd like listen to something solid it's nighttime, or I was trying to find a jazz station. I had no I mean, I was going up and down the aisle. I'm like, I don't know whereas what I

found a jazz station. But I want to say, it's like ninety something. There's that dead end of the dial. And I later played it and it was funny. There's a lot less commercials. I know it's in the old days. It was very much just played and the jay would come on and said that was so and so and so and so a few commercials played. It was kind of nice. It was like it might be the old days. Listen to the radio, just like listen to the radio on and

wait for that sonic one. You're like, I didn't. I didn't pick one because I could have picked cares one on one because they'll play songs that I know, but I think it kissing all them. They have songs I don't even know what they are anymore. I was like, that's another thing too. As we get older, it's like, wow, there's this point where you just age out, and it's okay to age out. It is,

but I try to still stay a little hip with it. I might be just saying that makes me not hip or with it, but I like to I like to sometimes hear what's going on. I used to go to YouTube. We're talking to young kids, you no tell me, and occasionally there's a song or two that's that's out there. I like this new but it's just like just to take it back to the old memories and I'm happy

that I have all these electronics that still work. It's very cool. There are some things that were only released on cassette or on album, or on a track or on you know. It's a certain things, a certain things. So it's very It's very because I can actually have them with my collections. If you guys are asking for me, I'm mainly trying to build up. We rebuild up my print collection Michael Michael Jackson Jackson's collection or don a

collection. We're spreensing collection. I have certain collections of people I like. I had a lot of stuff, lost stuff on fire, lost stuff and moves. So now I'm trying to regain it. Sold a few things back in the day when I need money, so I'm trying to get it all back. And so it's been going. I've been going on memorying a lot. And my birthday's two months from now, and I'm talking about reflecting on that too. Always it's your birthday makes you reflect on things too, So

it's kind of like all that together. It's like, oh, and I have all this stuff mixed with this. I'm like, I'm talking to you on here my iPod, but I have all the I have, like I have like the updated stuff. MyPhone has stuff on it. It's a it's a trip. It's just it's really it's a trip. And uh, I have all the new technology with the Aldaur DVR that kind of stuff, but I do have the old technology and I like it. I have regular Beats

headphones. I shouldn't say anything doing there. They were expensive, regular, but they're like headphones. I had the Bluetooth headphones too. I don't earbuds all that kind of stuff, so I aftually had phones. So I'm old school on that too. And it's just it's it's it's part nostalgia, part holding on to the younger years. And my mom was still into her audio books, like literally the cassettes or the DVDs, and they had a car

that played cassettes and they would play the cassettes. Me, it's kind of cool, actually, it's kind of it's really, I don't think it's going on. And it's been fun going to these record stores and seeing people as long as stelling to time machines. Yet you're in today's time. A lot of kids are younger and their stuff, and they're really enjoying vinyl. They're really enjoying the cassettes, and I said, there's the whole is a documentary

called Cassette. I think I saw an HBO maxay thing came right. You look at them, try to find it. But it's about the rebirth of cassettes. The cassettes, I mean, they're not the most they're portable, but they're not the most parents to other stuff, vinyls big and bulky, we big and stuff. But it's it's people think it's better and not vinyls are you know for years it's been going on. It's it's like if it's not these mediums are done as much as we advance. People also like nostallgia.

I guess that's what it is, and it's up to us older folks and so the younger ones who are influenced by as you, I guess, participate in that. So it's just it's like, she smile. I actually have not listened to the sheds I bought it. I put batteries in it. I should listen to it at some points and put it in bay and see what it sounds like. I ice to walk around the walk man. When I was in high school, I had a starny walkman, so I

guess I should do it and see what it feels like. And that's one actually has a radio on it. I'm like again, I'm like, what, Oh, that's so funny. I love it. Anyway, do you have anything like that? It's the charger for you. That's you know, you're trying to keep hold onto you. I don't collect a lot of stuff, but like I said, electronics, they still work. I keep them. They don't work and get rid of them, but they still work. I keep them, and I and I try to use sometimes I'm I use

my DVD sometimes my tapes and my my my tapes. I watch stuff on there. Chief sometimes not everything is out on prints. Some things are out of print, some things have not been transferred over into later versions. So there's so much you can't find online, really can't. But I als also another thing to you before I let you guys go. The other thing is I've been going online to eBay and to declutter and to all these places that

actually you can find. I was on line on ig and there's a song I never heard before by an artist I like, and I went to eBay there was so I was selling it and I bought it. So it's coming, it's heading to me, so I'm like, it's just kind of it's a whole. I love it. It's just I love it. If I go back. I don't want to go back in time, but I like some of the stuff back in time as much as we advance and like stuff. I'm Jameson Junior. It's fifty Bluss. I'm fifty Bluss. Talk to you next time.

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