Oh home, sweethemes Srick eight. We're back. We did we did it. We're here, we're in the office. It's about time. We have the camera set up, we have microphones in hand, and we're wearing we're both wearing our white and kicks today too, because we're in spring session. That's well, I'll wear them the only kicks I have. They are in session always always. It's been that long, that long as we've gone from what was it was it still winter? The white cast? The wife cast?
Happened? Was that? Um, well, I don't know. We got Katie and I got violently ill following that Podcastfully we did not so we didn't catch it from you, thankfully, I don't know. Sometime in February, March February, it was January. Oh man, it's been long enough. That's all it's all to say about that. It's it's been a wow. It's been some weird corter to show from my office. Yeah, what a great band. It's been a wow. Everything just turns into a bad
Scott staff though he does. That's yeah, that's staying. He doesn't sound like Scott, sir. I'm sorry. We talking about today though, not that we're not talking about music though, when you're not talking about although we will have another music. We finally did something right. I think we started making a list of what our episodes should be coming forward. Here are you telling me production value? Yeah? Yeah, we're gonna have some prep finally,
Yes, we have a list. We're just gonna not gonna just get you know, by by the seat of our pants. Were actually gonna have a list of upcoming episodes. Where can I still fly by the seat of our past? Yeah? Yeah, that's what we do. Yeah, that's what makes this show great. Yes, but now we just have a little less fly. Yeah. Although I'm looking pretty fly today with mine. All the girlies say you're pretty fly or a white guy? I look like that? What's that? What's that game? Again? You don't know? Jack?
From here? Up? I think it's from here anyway. I would move the camera to make it work, but no, I'll do it cut. We'll do it in post. Yeah, I don't know if that's gonna we'll do it live. We won't do it live. We can't reference that video. I Can'tno, bell O'Reilly? So what's great? So what's what's man? Well? I will say this, um, let's see. The
last episode we did was The Wife cast Um. There were some really one in particular Lancaster person, my brother in law Dan, who thought and they are not kind enough to the Great County of Lancaster, which we offended somebody. Is that what we do? Yeah, we're offenders. We were that. We were We talked about Lancas for retirement place. It was it was a number one, I think it was on the list, but number two. He thought we were just a little bit harsh, a little bit harsh
on the Amish. And it is what it is is he is he amish. He's not amish. Oh you're from Lancaster, you must be amish, you must be amish. He's got a beard though, right, he does have a beard. Okay, Uli, he's got a nice, pretty, pretty sizable beard. Uh, well he did. I don't know what it's that currently. I don't know. I'll see him, you'll see him soon, see him in tomorrow. Cool tomorrow. FAM's coming up today on four twenty, we're gonna be talking about. No, we're not gonna but today
is my son's first birthday. Oh, happy birthday, Calvin. Oh yeah, Calvin's Numero uno. So family are coming up from Pennsylvania to celebrate, celebrate him. It's a big it's a big, big deal, big accomplishment. He had survived one. You can make it through year one, you can make it through anything. He's done good. Um, but that's not what we're not here to talk about, Calvin. What really prompted this episode was, Um, some friends gave gave Lily some toys. Lily is my
five year old. If you don't know, if you're new to the show, Lily is my five year old. And one of the toys that was given to Lily was a light bright. And now this is not the this is not the light bright that I remember. It's a lot more compact youth. Yea, it runs on battery, it's mobile, it's everything anywhere, which you don't really want to make light bright mobile picture those little that's still the same attack. Yeah, you're gonna drop those little things everywhere. Um,
but she got a light bright. So that got me thinking about my wife and I were just talking to the kitchen. I'm like, remember our light brights. I mean they were huge. You had to plug them in, and to plug them in, there was no Yeah, you had to be stationary in one area where it could reach the plug, you know. Yeah, but it came with like these construction paper type templates with the shape
that you wanted to make, and you kept them. Um, and when they were new, you actually had little x's to punch them through, and then after that you just had to make sure you hit the right bullet hole if you wanted to make the shape again. Yeah, I remember them. They were like a black right. Did it fit perfectly in it? Yep? It had the little circles to push them through. Yeah, I remember those. The Magic of Colored Light? Does that the turn on the Magic
of Colored Light? Oh yeah, yeah, Okay, I don't remember the light bright ingle, but yeah, um yeah, so everybody had those. Really. Now, getting toys that are nostalgic to me made me think we should talk about nostalgic toys on the show. Yeah, because we were though we were both worn in the eighties, we are really I mean, you had more time in the eighties than I did. Um, but we're really
kids of the nineties. Yeah. And the nineties was a great nineties, strong, absolutely great nineties, the best era of television aside from Breaking Bad being in the two thousands. But when I think of children's programming. The nineties owned it, the nineties owned toys. Um, so we're gonna talk some some some nineties toys. Game. Um, we can't wait, game game, Chris's game. So now we have we have our own list of things that we just were spit bawling going down memory lane. Um. But
we also have a couple of articles online that we're gonna reference. Um from a site called retro dodo and then another not so popular site but maybe it's it's called BuzzFeed. I don't know, maybe you've heard. It'll never catch on there. The better list is actually on retro dodo though. Yeah, I feel like they they captured more of the nail days. So we're gonna just talk about some of those toys, and we're gonna we're gonna hit toys that we wish we had but didn't have. Yeah, which as we just
get to them, we could just mention. Yeah. Absolutely, Um, so I guess we should just should we start off with the first one on on the retro good list. Yeah, this one was huge. UM, I'll share my staking comeback too. I think you're gonna see some of the things I buy online, apparently because getting very targeted ads on this blog. UM bought some splitters from Arii on Amazon, but the first one, the
Tomagotchichi Tamagotchi Tomagotchi, seemed like the coolest thing. They were cool and I don't know why they were cool, like you just keep this little thing alive. See. I never had one, though, but it was always It started. I think it started out with the girls having them, and they were like, oh, they had their little pets, yeah, and stuff and and babies, and then all of a sudden, it's like, guys started like, it's actually pretty cool. I want to get one of these.
And I had a friend who had one. Everybody had that. Did you have that friend? Everybody had that one friend that was probably the richest kid in your grade, right, and he had everything, always had the cool stuff and all the cool stuff before anybody else did. Yes, absolutely at the standard for like this is what you should get if you want to be cool. Yeah, there's yeah, and he had You are so right, you are so right. I can't think of who that kid is,
but for me it was his name was Blake Boffman. Yeah, with Blake, Blake would have Yeah, he had everything. He was cool. He I feel like I had a friend. I think my friend Gregor Raldi had everything. Um, he wasn't an only child, but he just had good stuff. Yeah he had what he had a race car bed. Oh yeah, you know what I mean. Like, if you have a race car
bed, you're probably gonna have a good childhood. You have satisfied child Tommigotchi the thing I remember Tomagotchi, not me playing with it, but that they got banned in my elementary school because girls were getting in fights over them. Gosh, over these silly little electronic digital eggs eggs. Yes true. So oh, I just realized I've had it on the Tamagotchi screen the whole time. That's right. And this is this is why I shouldn't try and do
video stuff, because it just fails. So that's Tamagotchie. Here's another one. We'll just keep going on here because this is a big one. Beanie Babies. Beanie Baby, I remember when those were were big and people were collecting them like nuts. I never really got into him. I wasn't really much of a stuffed animal kind of person, but I had a lot of friends who love those things. I had quite a few beanie babies, did you. I even had like the beanie baby holder that you would put it
in like the little like display case for my special ones. I don't remember we still have them, Well, we do have. I do have beanie babies. My daughter has them now. And what's the first thing she did? What did you do? Ripped off the tags because she hates tags. Take the tags off. I'm like, literally, you don't take the beanie baby tag off? Yeah, that's just now what you do? Um if
they collect they made it like twenty years with the tags on. You had them for a week and they oh they're not new ones you they were yours? Yes? Oh man, yeah, that's they're worthless now. They didn't have much value anyway, we shot we gotta go antiques roadshow around here and see what kind of Yeah, my beanie babies probably aren't the probably aren't the ones making it on that. Everybody said, I don't know why beanie babies were so yeah, what made them so popular? Why did we care?
I don't know, because they were, I guess because anything that if you make it for a little while and then you cut productions, say we're discontinuing this particular one. Then all of a sudden, people are like, oh, it's like the last of the last. That means there's a limited supply of them. They're not gonna just keep churning them out, so all of a sudden it becomes oh, I want I wanted that one, but he can't buy it now, but you have it. Yeah, But it was
like but they were even popular before they were limited edition runs. I feel like like probably cultures weird, Like just all of a sudden, it's like this is gonna be popular and people, we're gonna love it. That's before influencers too. It's the regular people are the ones set the standard for things. Yeah, nothing's like anyone was an influencer. That's true. How do it was the original? We don't know who was the og original. I don't know who knows. But this is another. This is another one we
had. My brother had this one. I didn't have it. Stretch arm strong. Um it's probably not a better picture. That's that's what they got. But um it looked a little bit different than that it had. I think you wore like a red suit if I remember correct. They they had multiples. Definitely a cartoon I think of it didn't they for a little while. Oh maybe because they always made cartoons to push toys. Of course,
that's true. I learned that on the toys that made us like, oh, the show existed because of the toy, not the toy existed because of the show. Oh yeah, the toy companies owned my mind. But yeah, so I think this is the first iteration of stretch stretch armstrong, just like a dude and under your pants. Yeah that you stretch out. Um, But there was there was like Rick Flair a little bit in that picture. Whoa, whoa. I follow this is I know, it's a side
note. I follow an account on Instagram called no Context rick Flair, and so basically it just puts like this everyday scenario and then a video clip of Rick Flair being Rick Flair, which is just ridiculous, over the top, like charismatic. It was excitable, excited about something. It's a great account. No context you get you got to look it up. It's great. Yeah, stretch Armstrong was fun. I don't know what. Literally, the only appeal is stretch his arms as far as you can. Right. That
was a while though. Yeah, that just ends up in the bottom of the toy box exactly. Um, so many toys in that way. Uh, polypockets on the list. I'm not going to talk about that because I didn't play with Polypoeis Blake had POGs? I guess of course Blaken. Okay, can we look at this? Look at this ad gedius tool taking us by store A. Yeah, I love ads on the internet. Um, but POGs. I know almost everybody had POGs. I knew no one who
played POGs. Right. It was a collector's item and you tried to I guess if I remember correctly, you would just stack them up somehow or put them together, and then you have what were they what were the really heavy ones called the slammers. Slammers, You had the slammer and these were all made of like essentially just cardboard. H Yes, they were cheap, in fact, cheaply made. I ended up. One of the toys I had
as a kid was a make your own pog O thing. Yeah. So it had like a sticky like you it had pre kind of cut out POGs or something you could stick like something from a magazine or a picture on it, and then the machine would stamp it down and basically cut you out. A custom pog. Yeah, so you make your own. You had that, I had it, oh man, yeah, it was pretty cool. Um. Another set of POGs that had, which I was my favorite set
was it had just like a Michael Jordan collection. So I had like this silver slammer with the two three on it and then just images of him dunking sweet which it was just cool. Yeah, yeah, it wasn't cool. I don't know. But but the whole, the whole premise of the game was you put them in and then you would throw the slammer down and whatever fell outside or you knocked over something like that, you got to keep.
I don't even know. I think, I don't know. And then that's how you would somehow get other people's because this is like, you know, it's not it's they're not cards, and you weren't trading them, but you had to play this game. People people would trade them. They would trade them, that's true, but you had but the right way to do it was you played this by throwing the slammer down and somehow kind of like marbles, like hitting marbles outside a certain area, and then you got to keep
it. So they didn't they didn't know, but they were they were they were really big for like a month that scenes they slightly long the year or something. I also had these POGs with like bad um ah, like weird humor on them. There's was one about like a guy taking the crap on him or something, wasn't it Okay, I didn't have that one. The guy's like like look like they were like it was like, uh, I
don't know and now I can't. Right, they were human. I had like little jokes on it, like, uh, something in the sun Dried Kid instead of like the sun Dance Kid, so uh Buffalo Bill and the Sundance Kid was like barbecued Bill and the sun Dried Kid like something stupid. Yeah, ridiculous on it. Anyway, let us progress because the nineties had much far better things to offer than the than the pugs. But POGs were
good. Um, what are you getting? I'm sure, I'm just I'm just trying to get just like this is Oh you gotta get talk about these ones. We'll talk about these little these little ones sponsored by Teamable. Um, this is before the movies, before the movies, which thankfully they changed the look for the movie. Probably imagine if they were just naked trolls. Skin tone, naked kids with colorful hair. Oh, but trolls have existed
for a really long time. Yeah, because I remember when I was a kid having trolls, and then my mother let me play with like her old trolls house or something that she still had from a kid. I didn't know it was like a little suitcase thing. I think it was, unless I always just played with it as that, right, I wasn't that, but I think it was. I think they go way back. But they had and they had different sizes. They had like the mini ones that were really
small. Then they had the normal size ones that were you know, couple maybe four inches. Then they had the ones that were really big. Oh I never had those. I had the I guess the mid size, Yeah, the midsize, standard size, Yeah, the standard size, and they asked. And even the standard sized ones they had a little um some of them had a little gem in the belly. But I'm saying these ones are though missing. Yeah, when I was a kid, the most relevant thing
was not only the hair, but to have the belly button. Yeah, the belly button gem in it or something like that. But yeah, these ones they're lacking. These are just purely naked with big hair. Yeah, but I don't just like trying to mess with the hair and make it do different. They like staying up to the left, or like trying to part part it or even some I think some girls even remember um that had them would try to braid them or something like that. Really. Yeah, I
did have it. Mine came with a brush, but I don't think it ever. I never used it. But after the Trolls movie came out, they didn't try to like make Yeah, it's not like they have a Patrols toys like this. I'd like they had little tiny ones. My daughter had some of them, but they never they didn't. They didn't go back to come back to this mode, even in a colorful way. Um, okay, this this is one of those games I always wanted but never had.
This track game maustrap. We played this one for hours. This always seemed it was so much the coolest game. I think it's just a commercial. Yeah, I think the appeal of it, um is it's almost like the opening of Peewee's Big Adventure. Yes, when he has the whole in the breakfast. The breakfast like, that's what it reminded me of. Yes, something you can make with any rector set um because you had this ball to drop down. Yeah, you'd fire the person I guess and yeah, and
it would he would go into that little tub here. Yep. Yeah, this whole chain reaction. It was fun. And I don't even know how the game is actually I'm seeing around the outside there's places to move. I don't know how this game. Well, the first time you get it. First time you get it, obviously you play the links candy, you would
play by the rules where you're building it as you go along. But then but then after that, like you've done it once or twice, you're like, oh, we're just gonna build it because it was more fun just to build it and just to keep that was the appeal. Why should go through all emotions? Yeah, so that was that's that's that's a great board game. Man. I still want I look at this and I go, we should get mouse Trap. Now I have the power to just go get mouse
Trap. Yeah you can, oh, e Bay, that's right. Um, I'm Ferbie's on the list. I'm not talking about Ferbie. Should we talk about other board games? Furbi's dumb um, yeah, just in here. Yeah, what do we have because we st it down. So we talked about that was one of them. Were like, that was a great game. Um, mouse trap operation which is coming back the full force. I'm the doctor for you, Doctor for you. That was a great game.
That's that's back again. One of the most difficult games too, especially what was the one that was the hardest one in that one the butterfly. Would you say, what game are you talking? Oh? Oh, operation um, because that was the one get around a funny bone. It was very narrow. Yeah, I remember getting the bread out of the stomach. Wasn't that called the bread bask? Yeah, the bread basket that don't break? The ice remember that don't break? Now? What did you do?
You wet a paper towel, put it on it, and then just stacked marbles on it till it broke. No, it was just like it was just essentially they look like ice cubes. That's that one. And yeah, and and what you did it was almost like like a janga kind of game where you just instead of removing the uh, you know, the piece from the tower, instead, this was you're knocking out a piece of the ice around this person that's on it. I'm thinking of a different one then Oh,
because yeah, because why don't you know what you're talking? Yeah, and you you had a little hammer and you hit it out, hit that little piece off, and it would still remain and then eventually, you know, somebody would hit it and the whole thing would just collapse and you would lose. Oh, I was thinking of the game. I remember that one
A tall, I don't know. It sits up off the table a little bit, and you'd put something on it, a weekend piece of paper, I think, with water, and then you would go and you'd have all these marbles on it. Eventual whoever made them fall through the paper lost. I don't remember that game. I don't remember what it's called now, but that would be a fun one. Um this one here, I found this. I just saw this at Target. I always thought this game was awesome.
Crocodile Dentist. Yes I never had this one, but this was a cool game too. Had a timer on it. Right, look at this tagline. You're the croc doc in this game of daffy dentistry. Crocodile Dentist. And I think if you pulled the wrong tooth, his mouth snap shut or something. So it's kind of kind of one of those games. Milton proudly made some of the best games. Oh they were good, they were good. Yeah, he just four and up like Hungry, Hungry hippo.
Remember that that was a great game. I never had that one. Oh, we had the game. That was a lot of fun to play. These games didn't take a lot of not a lot of brain power, which is a lot of fun. It was just you know, take something out of here or get or collect as many marbles as you can. So it was very simple, straightforward, a lot of fun. There were a lot of options for those games in the nineties. Exactly know what And I don't
know if this game originated in the nineties. But a game that's fun in our house now is Pop the Pig. Oh, yes, I love Did that exist when we were kids, I don't think so. Yeah, you're you basically you're inserting your hamburgers into this pig's mouth, you pop its head, and then then all of a sudden it explodes. Then then you lose, and it's it's a fun game. I like that game. We got that. I think we play whoever pops the pig is actually the winner winner.
I don't know what the Royal State. I forget. All I know is it's got a number eight on each of the hamburgers. Yes for how many? Yeah? Uh yeah. And Lily just always wants to be the one who pops the pig, of course, and every kid devastated. Let me talk about Lily's devastation for a second. No, would be devastated.
So for Easter, she's five, right, you said she's five. For Easter, we did a Easter egg hunt and the Easter eggs had little prepackaged prizes in them, and one of the prizes was a tiny little yo yo and she actually got I think two of them, and then they were tangled together and not worth untangling. They were not good yo yos right as far as yo yo's go. They were probably some of the worst yo yos she
could ever use. And they were sitting on our kitchen table one night, and as is our nightly tradition, Lily doesn't want to get ready for bed, and she gets very distracted at bedtime, and so she had the yo yos. I'm like, give me the yo yos. And then I was going to do this no matter what, but at that moment, I just put him in the garbage because if we were done, they were useless. Yoyo. I just saw you doing it. Oh, she saw me.
She was stopped gutting her tracks, and she was very sad getting ready for bed. And then she goes in the bedroom to talk to mommy. And she hadn't said anything to me. She didn't freak out, she didn't break down, but she goes in the bedroom and she starts breaking down to mommy about these yoyos and the statement she made three times, not only them, but also when I was putting her down for bed, she would get sad about the yoyos. Did she go, I just can't stop thinking about them.
I just can't stop thinking about the yo yos. And then it's like we both we both laugh at it because it was so dramatic over the worst toy that was ruined and unplayable. Did she get upset when you were laughing about it too? I tried to hide that. I really did the hard part when you're you can't help it. It was just it's such a passion. I just can't stop thinking about it. Lily, you had the yoyos for less than twenty four hours. You never used them. They were terrible.
They were. They were bad, bunched up. My plan wasn't to throw them out as a punishment. It was just like, okay, we're done with these. Yeah we had them. Yeah, so that was that was funny. That's another nostalgic toya yo yo. Oh. Yeah, yoyos were huge when I was a kid. Yeah, me too. And also the yo yo balls. Remember the yoyo balls where he didn't have to have any skill whatsoever. Yeah, you could just like throw it around it and always come back. Oh terrible, terrible. I had a yoyo with the
sleeper. Oh Yomega Yomega fire ball. Oh you remember the name? Oh yeah, it was good. Who who made those? Remember the smoke Oh Yomega? Remember the Smothers brothers? Is that the name of them? I know who? Yeah. They always had a guy on it that was a yoyo expert. So whenever they would do like their comedy bit or whatever, they always have a time where they would show a yo yo like presentation. And this guy was unbelievable, I think, and I think, um,
yeah, he had one of those brands. You know, he was always peddling. You know who has some yoyo skills. You know that a guy Elijah were running ran into a Starbucks the other day, came to our church. Yeah. Um, he's just super into yo yoing. Really, he's a good yoyo. I didn't know that. Yeah, I would. I would plug his Instagram people, but I don't remember it. With your competitions, yeah, yeah, petitions, I think. Uh. I went to
school a guy named Mike Phillips in college. I think he yo yoed really back in the day. And she's amazing what people can do with that thing. Yeah. I was just happy to be able to do like Rock the Cradle. Yeah, me too. I couldn't like, oh I got the triangle and the things moving, Yes, I could just I could just do the sleeper. That's about all I could do, and I felt pretty good. Um, all right, let's let's keep moving down the list here.
Oh man, they're not showing you the cool, they're showing you the average. But super soakers those are awesome, Like there were squirt super Soaker fifty was the original I think that was. It was in that color. I don't know if that's the same size, but yeah, I mean great,
you pump it, you pump it? Yes, Shoot someone with a beam that was a game changer when he had when he had you didn't have a pool growing up, which I never did, and you wanted to have and you didn't want to just run through the sprinklers because that was kind of like boring when you get to a certain age. But if you had like a
super soaker, my my, awesome. My cousin, my cousins, the person who always had My cousin Jimmy always had the cool stuff only childs and Jimmy cousin Jimmy both I had two only child cousins who always had great things. My cousin Larry always had the most up to date game system. My cousin Jimmy Hassell had those but also had great toys. And he had a collection of super Soakers, the XP into the thousands, which basically meant you were going to get a wells when you got shot with it. Yeah.
Remember I remember at some point my parents have to say, um, don't hit each other in the heads with that, you know what I mean? Or in the ear because remember that you see I think it was Oh, it would always be like, yeah, you guys can use these ones, and it's like this version of the super that'd be while he comes out with
the one that has like three tanks on it. I had the two pumps and the things you didn't handle was like a hose, you know what it was like the XP five thou was under something had a backpack, didn't the back I don't. I think you're right, but I don't know that I saw that one they got. They got out a hand after a while. They were unbelievable. Did they exist? Can you get a supersoker anymore? I don't see them as stores. I mean I haven't looked when I go
to Target or you know, Walmart, I don't see. I don't see them that. If I did, I'd be like, I'm getting one of these. And see. That's why the nineties were good, because you could get toys that potentially hurt you and we all turned out. Okay, we did tougher because of it, exactly. Oh Man, super Soakers Supersoakers were so much fun, so much. That was a blast. And the game the indoor nobody wanted but everybody got. Yes, right, yes, that's
right. This is a game that was the parents stock. You know those memes that's like, Mom, can I get a game? Boy, while we have game Boy at home, right, and then they show you game Boy at home. That's the Tiger handheld computer game. Everybody started out, I'm lad him for Super Nintendo, but you haven't. Awful parents understand that I had Mortal Kombat on that little Tiger handheld game. And look how ridiculous they look now if you think about it nowadays. Can you imagine like one
it did one thing. Yeah, it played that game and it could only go left or right or you push two buttons. Look at this one, pick slash carpet and here's lamp. I had Batman one. They were so customized, but they were. There were games though, that my parents can play. Like my dad got to the point he was playing those and we would go back and forth and say who could get past level seven? You
know what I mean? And he would somehow do it right. But then once we got into real video games, he's like, I'm not playing these. I can't play these games. So I'm gonna go ahead and say these Tiger handheld games, um, which are unique. You buy it, you get that one thing. There's all so the comparable like music, oh man, peace check these out. That's right. Hit clips I didn't even remember this until until you reminded me, or I really remember. I totally forgot
about it. I remember seeing it's right here, I remember seeing the end sync one on the aisle. Now, back then, I couldn't openly say I liked end sync because that would label me poorly. But now I openly say, and sync is awesome. Would that be a a guilty pleasure? End sync? I don't should have about sync end sync. Um, that's
one of the ones coming up we're gonna do Guilty Pleasure Part two. Yeah, a guilty pleasure, I guess, is anything that you listen to right that you're like, I don't want somebody hear me listening exactly guilty pleasure song? Now, whether society like people like go, yeah you just listened to Bye Bye Bye? Who cares? Right? But like now they're like nobody anybody seeing me sing to this? You know what? Yeah, while in my car, just down I song. I learned at some point in life
to just embrace wholessness, right, and it's freeing. Yeah, no, don't care, no apologies. So is anything truly a guilty pleasure for me? I don't know. Maybe maybe it still is, but these, Yeah, I think one song. Yeah, you're just buying a song. Who is Hoku? I don't remember. I don't know. Um, yeah, I'm trying to think, oh this is uh that ninety eight degree? No, who is that? I can't tell? Soil decision. I don't even
know that. I don't know. Yeah, eighteens ridiculous. But yeah, it's just funny the way technology is progressed so quickly, because like, like we went from having these Tiger handheld games, so like now you can get a handheld game that has all the regular Nintendo games or any games on it. It's like, oh, yeah, unbelievable. Yeah, a game system like the switch where you can essentially switch from doing it. I'm gonna play a handheld out No, I'm played up on my TV now, right,
you know what I mean? It used to be one or the other, and now it's it's they found a way to combine them together. Man. But I will say I'm glad that I experienced those games. Oh yeah, me too. It helps you to really appreciate what you got nowadays with you know, oh you got you gotta mention these. I'm these these these were the pinnacle of the toy collection in the early night, and those were the exact ones that we that we had. Those are the originals and they were
so well made, so good. The only reason I don't have them now days because I threw them away. It's not because they actually wore out. Like you couldn't wear out. You couldn't wear out toys back then, teenage ninja turtles. My brother still has all our turtle toys. Really, he's got him and he lets his kids play with them because we played with them, we didn't collect them. Yeah. Same my brother in law, Kevin, he collects them. He collects toys, toy so he probably don't take
him out he's dating in the boxes or any like that. No, I mean I guess, um, I guess he has some um that he would take out and let people play with. But yeah, he gets like the new, up to date turtle toys and stuff. But yeah, these were great. The belts came off, yes, yep, Um, you always lost and this this picture actually this shows it well, you always lost. Um. Michelangelo's nun chucks are raft size because they were they were too small.
And this this, this, this is everyone's toy collection. Yeah, you had his staff and you had Leonardo Donatello staff and Leonardo's sword. Um. Yeah, but what they call them though, they didn't call them swords katanas katanas. Yes, but the nun chucks were gone and the size were gone in like a week. We had which was a pretty cool. Um um. Addition to the collection was we actually had the sewer. Oh did you really? So you had like their living room and then you could catch
these little pipes and have them go through sewer pipes. Cool. We never had anything like that. I think I had. I had who were the to the two Bebop and rock stead rock Steady I had. We had the two villains and Crane was the brain right. I think we had kran Krang. We had Krang, but he and he had he had to go inside of another like he yeah, inside of a character. I forget that so
he could control it or forget. Yes, we didn't have any of the like other cool like the like you said, the sewer or anything like that. We had that. We had. You remember the rat King King, So we had the rat Kings like device that he wrote on in the sewers. Yeah, we had a lot of great turtle toys. We had the turtle bus um which folded down like with his big fly bus. That was
really cool. Oh yeah, oh man, volkwagon wasn't it essentially was a VW kind It was a little The one we had was a little different. It was like a turtle van. We had a turtle van, that's what it was. It was like a mixture of the astro van and a volks It's like a weird mix of both. It was cool. Um, but we had a turtle. No, we did have a bus too. I don't know you have turtles had so many iterations. I don't remember if we had a splinter. I don't think we had splinter. We must have,
I don't know. We also had like the movie version of the toys. Oh, they weren't hard plastic like these ones. They had like a rubbery texture to them. He could pop the arms and the head off and everything. I didn't know that. But they were a totally different feel. But they looked like the movie turtles, which are always a little weird. Think
they've ruined the turtles with the new iterations. Well this is just me being old, right, Yeah, I guess so I would say yeah, because I'm like, I guess that's how every every parent is, you know, as they get older and they they go through things and something that then they recycle something that's been around since their childhood. They're like, oh, it was the originals always better. Yeah, you know what I mean, so
but not as good. But I think there has been too many adaptations of the turns and the new one's coming up to with Seth Rogan's pop. You know who ruined the turtles, Um, Michael Bay the Michael Bay Turtles. Yes, I didn't need that. That guy specializes in destroying childhood memories. Transformers, Ninja Turtles, right, because Transformers, that's it. We'll just move over to that toy. Because Turtles and Transformers were the two. I feel like that were the coolest. They were toy to have. The og
Transformer toys. Where my cousin Jimmy had a ton, I only had like two. I think I had who was the who's the main one, the the big semi truck, Optimist Pro, optimiust Prime. Everybody had Optimist Prime, and I think we had one or two other ones that were still little bit smaller. But yeah, we we weren't big into them, but every kid had. They were cool toys, especially um, you had. They were well made. Yeah. Some of there, Mike, they were jet
uh. Some of them were metal, like the Optimist Prime wasn't just plastic was like there was a mixture of both. Yeah. Yeah back then the substantial Yes, yeah, there were a good quality toy that would would stand the test of time. Yeah. Yeah. He had a ton of them. Um, and in that same I guess it would just keep pushing forward. Here's a toy that I don't think I had a single one of but I always wanted was the g I. Joe Action figure, Like oh yeah,
the tall like the decently sized almost doll. Yeah, but you don't call it a doll. Yeah they were that's right. It was a boy toy. Actually that sounds bad. It's a boys it's a boy's toy. Yeah. Um, we had we had too. I had one of my brother had one. We got him. I think we got him for Christmas. One year I didn't have any. Yeah, I had the Cobra Commando
with the Ninja and and the thing. It was cool because his um, his mask came off here like and and and then the in the show, he never saw him that his mask on or like, so the first thing we was taken off to see what he looked like underneath, and then when he take it take it off. Underneath he's got one of those he's got like a he's got you see his hair in his eyes, but he's got a mask over his face, like a cowboy mask kind of thing. Oh
so you still you still can't see what. I always thought the coolest looking one was the like the Arctic Gijo. Yeah, with all the white. Yeah, it's so cool. Those were cool. That's so cool. I I liked that look so much that even when I was playing Golden Eye sixty four, like, I just liked playing the um the level called surface where you're in the snow, because they had soldiers that looked like that. I still thought, look cool, right, it's just a cool look. It
is a very cool look. They were barbies for boys. Yeah, that's really gi Joe was essentially was I mean, and I had to I had We only had one of each of those big ones, but before that we were really big into the just the regular acts of figures like the Originals.
I remember the first time they I saw them and I knew what they were, and I had to explain to my parents for Christmas that year that I wanted Gi Joe's, but I didn't want to make sure they didn't think I meant the army men, the Green army men, So I said, I wanted the Jos that the arms move up and down and around, and they're like, okay, the feet, the feet aren't so sealed in place exactly, you could actually move them around. Oh. We spent hours playing with
g I Joes. Those were such great toys, you know, rubbing that one in Yeah, oh you never had I'm sorry, sorry, We spent hours playing with those. Amazing. We had the Gee two where it had the gun on it where you could put somebody up there and it was it was it was really cool. Oh yeah, everybody had switching to this one, the most ridiculous. The Velcrow Toss and catch. And if you're listening to this on audio, you know what I'm talking about. Yeah, this
little plastic thing that could fall apart at the drop of a hat. The velcrow that, no matter what age you were, seemed too small for your hand or too giant. There was never a happy medium. Uh. And it was red or it was green and pink. Oh yeah, it was always always it was green and pink, and you know what if if the if it ever got wet where you got dirt on it, it's done. They always can't, yeah, because you're always dropping it because it doesn't catch
perfectly every single time. You had to like fob it, yeah, kind of catch it gracefully, like like oh, catch it like yeah, exactly. And then if you're like any other small child and you go, let's y'all fast, we can throw it, and then you throw it too hard, it would hit the cardboard backing and then the thing would pop apart. They left with this plastic backing on your hand while the cardboard and the velcro lay on the ground, you know. And it's essentially what do they do
with all them? Because they they must have just turned those into dog toys because those those look essentially like the balls that you would throw for dogs to catch. Yeah, are they like go fetch? And he absolutely does. I just like that. Why did everybody have this? Though, Like every
parent in the nineties was like, my kid's gonna love this. I think it was a lot of grandparents too, Like grandparents would get that, like we got those from our grandparents, but I don't remember what we got yet or like, but I don't remember hate it, But looking back, I go, what a yeah, mah toy it was just not give me, give me a ball in a in a mitt and he's through. You know, the crow toss and catch didn't even really have a game a name.
No, yeah, exactly. Everybody knows what you're talking about when you when you when you mentioned them, or show them sc scrolling scrolling through the list, because some of these things, maybe for different people, these bring up different, uh memories. Some of these I don't remember. You didn't remember this one. I'll just mention it because I thought it was awesome. Remember
it. Biker Mice from Mars. I thought was so cool. It was a show that I liked, which I'm one hundred percent believed that that show must have come from the toys. Not the opposite, Um, biker mice from Mars. It were street Sharks, which you didn't remember, but I had a street Shark and they were awesome. Um okay, oh yeah take here, let's take a little stop here. Yeah. Those are great remote control cars. They were all over the place. They they were so good.
And this one in particular, the Tycho Rebound, was sweet because it could flip over and you could just keep driving the other Yeah, the other direction it would I think it was blue on one side and it's probably red on the back and show it in the picture as well. But yeah, I remember that seeing that commercial. That was the coolest thing. Like everybody's
jaw dropped and they saw that. You can keep playing with it. You don't have to like it knocked like other ones knock over, you gotta go over, you gotta pick it up, put it back on it Like that one. You could just you could. It was there's no stopping it. It was so much time. I never had one spell RC. But we know what we did have. We had the coolest um, the coolest remote
control car because it was one that you had a glove. You put a glove on and it had the remote on the back essentially and you would just use your hand to guide it so forward, minute would go forward, backward, go back, left and right, and then it had this little button in your palm that you push that button and it would turn on turbo mode and it would go faster and that thing. But the thing ran out of batteries in like twenty minutes. Every remote control card. Oh yeah, yeah,
you could not have extended fun. Yeah, it would just okay, tend to go inside and charge it and do something else. It's the opposite of how batteries worked now, like you can quick charge something and then use it for an hour or more whatever it is, depending on what you're charging. Then it was this is gonna take all day to charge and you're gonna get twenty minutes out of it, and so true. And everything was like out of the box when you bought it, like charge before first use,
like every kids four hours before I could play with this. Yeah, and if the battery in the car didn't die, then the battery and the controller oh yeah yeah, and it took and yeah, the controller battery was took like six least of the one I knew on the back of it too, like six double as you're like you and you're ruined it in twenty minutes, and you're like, I think we even had the knockoff version of the Tycho
Rebound, which no, maybe it was Techo. I don't know. I feel like I remember it taking like D batteries Oh yeah, yeah that you had to replace. You wasn't even necessarily a rechargeable type deal. Um, my dad had a remote control car that I'm not sure where he got it, but that thing could fly but had like a ten minute years time. Yeah, and interble batteries back then were terrible like they are and they are compared to right, because if you charged it before it was dead, then
you actually lost battery power or something ridiculous. Yeah, they didn't They didn't keep. They didn't keep very long. So we always end up just getting regular. Well, one of the things that we kind of already talked about it, but we talked a little bit about UM board games. One of the board games that I wanted and I never got. I think you, I think you agree with this was UM Crossfire. Remember Crossfire, Crossfire you get caught up in the crossfire. Yeah, oh that was a great commercial.
I never forget that that commercial. Just it Crossfires seem like this is the game that's gonna make you just own the universe exactly. It's the battle to end all battles. I love the the key peak. Kids are flying in on the ulver boards, everyone's gathered around the crossfire. It's like, yeah, it's almost like a battle to the death, you know what I mean? This is this was a real deal. Oh man, it was
so good. I'm I'm this this is a commercial worth bringing up. Yeah, if you, in fact you posted it recently, that's what made me think of it. I think, Yeah, I think a lot of this is being fueled with the fact that I started following another Instagram account or also on Facebook nostalgia video. It's a store um nostalgia video and they post all these things from the nineties, and uh I saw, yeah the crossfire video. All right, so yeah, relive this moment maybe for the first time.
If you've never seen it. It's awesome crossfire yeah fire, my goodness. I thought there were other people around. Maybe there's a look at the lightning so cool. Now. I think my nan had this at her house, so I got to play it. Good, But I never owned the Oh yeah, there's all the people. Look at that pixelization such a such a o goodness you got you actually get the chance to play it. I don't think I ever if I remember quickly, I don't think I even got
a chance to play it. It definitely. I mean, it was kind of fun because you're shooting. That's another game at the nineties. This this gun shoots hard metal balls, right you could never do that nowadays, Like if you detach the gun, I'm pretty sure you could launch metal balls at someone. And yeah, but like if somebody trying to swallow those little balls like oh I mean dude, yeah, I mean that'd be problematic. Um,
but they were they had some weight to them. And then you're you're basically just trying to knock the metal balls with plastic shapes into your opponent's goal. Yeah, and you do it by shooting this thing. Yeah, they that isn't The commercial makes it look so much cooler than it actually is, right, it's all it's all essentially doing just trying to knock this this little piece of into the other person's yeah goal, essentially. Yeah, but it looks so cool. It was, Yeah, it was it was cool.
I mean it wasn't the worst game, right, right, but yeah, it certainly not the it was made much more of Yeah. Yeah, but commercials back then so well done, sold toys, I would say better than today. But literally every commercial that pops on my daughter's like, I want that for my birthday, like your birthdays, I'd a year awaiting, right, Okay, I want that for I want that for Christmas? Wow?
I see if you can never tell you what you're getting for Christmas. I don't know what Sam is going to bring, um so, but it's these commercials now they're not even good and say kids see them and they go, I want it, I want it, I want it. Like but back then, like you felt like, if I get this, playtime is going to be revolutionized forever. Yeah, the last thing you'll ever want. I promise, if you just get me this, I'll never want anything else the rest of my life. Like okay, last man, and I you say
that, and I'm like, it's so true. Kids are so silly. But that was us. That was true. It was us, that was our mindset. Um man. I'm sure there's a lot more to get to, but we were We're going on forty eight minutes here. Yeah, I got mentioned this though. I don't know if this is should be the grand finale, but it's gonna be. It's it's gonna be. We can always do part due if we want. Um. But Nickelodeon, ghack. That defined a generation. I think just Nickelodeon in general, Like anything that came
out of Nickelodeon that they put their name on was instantaneous hit. It was especially that because slime, remember slime, like if you get slimed in that. It started with double Dare and then it got into the other show with Summer Sanders that they did. It was a slummer. Sander was um, figure it out, figure it out, and then would get slimed different like every once in a while we didn't and it would just come down on somebody
randomly. We didn't talk about this in the Nickelodeon show, I'm pretty sure, which is unbelievable. I was left off SpongeBob SquarePants from that, which, of course, and I guess that. Let me know, that's something else we're gonna talk about that we can't do Nickelodeon part two. That's ridiculous. So yeah, so any any anything Nickelodeon. So so there was that Jack, which was like slime kind of um, it was slimy. But they also had floam, Yes, I remember flowing floam was even cooler than
ghack. But that was Nickelodeon. Oh, I thought so maybe it was I thought for something. I thought it was maybe I'm a different company. But oh flo They made floam shoes too, didn't they? What? Oh you remember you remember those shoes? Uh? Maybe Floam wasn't Nickelodeon. I don't. I don't think it was. I could be wrong, though. Maybe they put their name on it eventually later on. Yeah, who knows. But remember those shoes that girls wore. Jellies, Yes, jellies,
Oh so ugly. Why didn't even call them jellies? I don't know, but they actually called jellies like you thought they were. They were so weird, looking like those clear plastic sandal that probably just destroyed their feet, glitters in it and think in it sometimes. I look at that now and I just go, that is just so sweat factory. That was the Croc before the Croc, and they would wear that in the playground. Oh yeah,
terrible. I'm so glad we didn't have to wear this. Yeah, but gack, I mean that was cool because you can make it fart fart noises with it. You push into the corner that was slime before, like slime now where you make your own slime. Oh yeah, oh you know what one. I feel like we need to talk about it. This is how I'm gonna be. You gotta get it in. This is this is gonna be lost forever. This episode. I know, I know this is probably this is also probably not a grand conclusion. But as as a kid,
as a sports, just the vortex, the nerve vortex. It make you feel like you have to You didn't have to worry about spiral because every time I threw it spiral exactly. I was so bad at throwing a football that the vortex was so much fun. And then I had like that that whistle. Yes, oh it's so cool. He could hear you go for a long pass and everybody could be anybody could be a QB. You'd throw it at your friend not paying attention to pop them in the head, but it
didn't hurt because it was nerve, right exactly. Nerve was so good back then. Yeah, we could. We could talk about that too, because nerve still exists now and they have all these mechanized things. Yes, but you had there was the cousin Jimmy again had the three ball blaster that rotated and shot the fairly hard foam balls at you. Yeah, and then I also had a at like a bow and arrow with the big dart shot one giant was fun. It was so good. Um, we could we could
talk about this for for hours, for days and hours. Um, nostalgia is fun, but unfortunately, come to our conclusions, it has to come to an end. Yeah, must, So what we would like you to do is if we forgot something, we want to know about it because we want to live in the nostalgia. Yeah, we love it. That's our favorite thing, a society's favorite thing. That's why we will never have a new movie come out ever again. Um. Super Mario Brothers movie was a
nostalgia fest that was great. Um, well done. So if there's a toy that we we forgot about that you're like, how did you forget this? Let us know, Um somewhere, we're on social media at the lunch Be Pod on Instagram. Yeah, you can find us on on YouTube or YouTube channel also at lunch Be Pod and uh yeah, hit us up, let us know. Um. We're glad we could be back. It was fun with you back. Yes, and we'll be back again soon. Thank you for tuning in promise to the lunch Break Podcast