Episode 96
Episode 96: 🎄 Episode 96: Big Wheels to Big Meals—Our Favorite Childhood Toys & Texoma Christmas Joys!
🎄 Christmas is coming, and we're ready to leave 2024 behind! The crew dives into:
- 🗳️ Post-election relief, and why folks still seem a bit anxious.
- 🌟 Fantasy of Lights on the Midwestern State University campus—support this Texoma treasure!
- 🌮 Local spotlight: El Mexicano Buffet! Owned by the awesome Cantu family. (Mike loves his tacos breakfast, lunch, and dinner!)
- đź’– Hospice of Wichita Falls crushed their Tree of Lights goal, with Ben Franklin Elementary stepping up big time!
- ⚖️ Daniel Penny case verdict discussion—justice served or controversy stirred?
- 🎲 Nostalgia Alert! Hosts share their favorite childhood toys (Millennium Falcon, Vertibird, Big Wheels, oh my!)
✨ Special shout-outs to our local legends:
- 🌮 El Mexicano Buffet (I-44 and Missile Road)
- 🍠Lollie and Pops Sweet Shop
- 🏍️ Eddie Hill’s Fun Cycles
- 🍎 MacTech Solutions
🔗 Visit our website: 🎧 Get It Right Texoma
❤️ Huge thanks to our sponsors:
- 🍎 MacTech Solutions
- 🏍️ Eddie Hill’s Fun Cycles
- 🍠Lollie and Pops Sweet Shop
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đź“Ť Mentioned in this Episode:
- Mike Hendren
- Terry McAdams
- Trey Sralla
- El Mexicano Restaurant
- Hospice of Wichita Falls
- Ben Franklin Elementary
- Midwestern State University
Transcript
You make this rather snappy, won't you?
Speaker B: y heavy thinking to do before: Speaker B:Hey, welcome to another episode of Get It Right Texoma with the Trio.
Speaker B:I'm Mike Hendren.
Speaker B:This is Terry McAdams.
Speaker B:That's Trey Sorala.
Speaker B:Glad to have you here with us.
Speaker B:We are fast approaching Christmas.
Speaker B:We are days away now.
Speaker B:Barreling it down at it's full steam ahead here.
Speaker B:Does it feel like 20, 24 should be over already?
Speaker A:Whether he feels like it is, it is here.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker B:Some of us are ready for it to be over.
Speaker A:I am too.
Speaker A:We.
Speaker A:It's been.
Speaker A:This has not been a great year from a business standpoint.
Speaker A:No, it's.
Speaker A:It's been so up and down and unpredictable and all that with the election.
Speaker A:I'm glad the election's over.
Speaker A:Let's get going and everybody can now focus on getting back to business.
Speaker B:Yeah, a lot of things have been a bit of a dumpster fire for the last, I don't know, four years.
Speaker B:You know, it's just been kind of wild and woolly.
Speaker A:Well, part of it, I think is this election cycle.
Speaker A:So long.
Speaker B:Oh yeah.
Speaker A:It was the longest, longest election cycle in our, in modern history.
Speaker A:And so it just, it just one of those deals.
Speaker A:It's like, glad it's over with and let's move on and get after it.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And I think we're, we're kind of at a point where everybody's just ready to see what the next chapter is going to hold.
Speaker A:Yeah, we're poised for it, but it seems like people are still, still nervous.
Speaker A:I don't understand.
Speaker A:I really thought once the election was over that things.
Speaker A:I thought, everybody take a deep breath.
Speaker A:No matter who won.
Speaker A:Just, just.
Speaker A:Okay, election's over now.
Speaker A:And it didn't seem that way.
Speaker A:It seems like I was way wrong on, on the.
Speaker A:I thought, well, lecture will be over and people just get back to normal.
Speaker A:And that hadn't seemed like it's happened.
Speaker B:Not yet.
Speaker B:We'll, we'll see.
Speaker B:We'll see what the next 30, 60 days holds anyway, for sure.
Speaker B:Well, welcome again to the show.
Speaker B:We appreciate it.
Speaker B:Be sure to visit our website, get it right texoma.com and our Facebook page and be sure to like and share our Facebook page and be sure to subscribe to us on YouTube if you're watching.
Speaker B:Obviously you're seeing this on YouTube, especially this one.
Speaker C:If you are listening, flip over and find the YouTube version because you'll, I think you'll enjoy it by Watching.
Speaker B:We're going to talk a little bit about some of our favorite toys growing up as children.
Speaker B:The stuff we have.
Speaker C:Politics, crap out of the dining.
Speaker A:Yeah, there you go.
Speaker C:Have some fun.
Speaker B:We got.
Speaker B:The Fantasy of Lights is still going on through the 26th, 6pm to 10pm nightly through the 26th.
Speaker B:And again, I want to stress, because I was out collecting money a few nights ago for Fantasy of Lights, by the way, had three limos come through the line that night.
Speaker B:Three limos.
Speaker C:They tipped well.
Speaker B:Two did.
Speaker B:The other one just kind of went, hey.
Speaker B:And went on.
Speaker B:But anyway, what are you going to do?
Speaker B:But again, this thing is 100% funded by private donations.
Speaker B:And I had this conversation with a couple of different people who still didn't know, didn't understand.
Speaker B:Now, in their defense, both of these people were new to the area.
Speaker B:They're not from here, and this is not something that they've seen and experienced before.
Speaker B:So I educated them a little bit about what it's all about and how it's operating.
Speaker B:This thing is 100% funded by private donations.
Speaker B:So these are.
Speaker B:These are your displays, Texoma.
Speaker B:These belong to you.
Speaker B:You gotta.
Speaker B:You gotta help us support this.
Speaker B:So please, if you can contribute when you go by, you know, you can drop some money in the.
Speaker B:In the boot or scan the QR code on any one of the signs that you'll see scattered all throughout the displays.
Speaker B:Or there's also boxes where you can drop some cash in if you want to do that too.
Speaker B:Any way you want to do it.
Speaker A:But please, by the way, if the box.
Speaker A:If you walk by and you see a box, it looks like an official box, that's fine.
Speaker A:If you see an old cardboard cutout box that says Xmas on it, probably don't drop the money in that one.
Speaker A:It could be some grifter and some.
Speaker B:No, don't do that.
Speaker C:They're hacking it, man.
Speaker C:You never know.
Speaker B:And, and we do have security out there, you know, watching things, keeping an eye on things.
Speaker B:And MSU police do a good job of keeping an eye on things.
Speaker B:And, and I gotta say, we, you know, the public, 99.8% of the public is very respectful of the displays.
Speaker A:Most people are good people.
Speaker A:Just in general.
Speaker A:Most people are good people.
Speaker A:It is a very small population of the people that are complete in our.
Speaker A:In our society, and they, they cause a lot of chaos.
Speaker C:Most people are good most of the time.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:Most of the time.
Speaker A:So anyhow, Fantasy of Lights on the.
Speaker A:The 26th, the campus of Midwestern State University Right there along.
Speaker B:Easy to find.
Speaker B:You cannot miss it.
Speaker B:Let's talk a little bit about our local restaurant Focus this week.
Speaker B:Each episode we try to focus on a locally owned restaurant in our area.
Speaker B:And this week we're going to talk about one that.
Speaker B:I'm not sure how long they've been around.
Speaker B:Their original location has been.
Speaker B:It was a different brand of Mexican restaurant before it was there.
Speaker B:They've been out on the expressway on I44 at Missile Road for several years now.
Speaker A:I'm gonna say 20 years.
Speaker B:Probably 20 years.
Speaker B:El Mexicano.
Speaker B:The Cantu family owns this and Cantu Catering.
Speaker B:At one time.
Speaker B:I know they had the, they had the food service contract at Fort Sill and a couple of other military bases, but they opened El Meakan.
Speaker B:I remember El Meicano being around probably when we were in high school.
Speaker A:Oh, well, I know that we had some people, a guy we went to high school with, his parents were the mariachis Bear.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:So, yeah, I think, I think they were.
Speaker A:I think they've been around since the early 80s or the late 70s.
Speaker B:Yeah, probably so.
Speaker B:Probably so.
Speaker B:But really good.
Speaker B:It's.
Speaker B:It's a buffet style restaurant is what it is.
Speaker B:And you know, it's one of those.
Speaker B:You go in, you pay one price and then you eat until you can't eat anymore, I guess, you know, if that's what you want to do.
Speaker A:And it's a Mexican, obviously, El Mexicano.
Speaker A:It is a Mexican restaurant.
Speaker B:It is, it is.
Speaker A:But they have a wide variety of different kinds of foods and dishes and enchiladas and tacos and fajitas and all kinds of stuff.
Speaker A:They're burritos.
Speaker A:I mean, make your own and all that sort of thing.
Speaker B:Yeah, I'm all about the make your own taco thing because I love me some tacos.
Speaker A:Oh, I'm a taco fiend.
Speaker B:Yeah, I can eat tacos.
Speaker B:Breakfast, lunch, dinner.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker B:Three, four times a week.
Speaker B:I don't care.
Speaker B:It's.
Speaker B:It's good.
Speaker C:Well, kind of hard to beat when I was active duty.
Speaker C:I mean, it was the place to go for.
Speaker C:Because it was close to the base.
Speaker C:Fairly close at the time.
Speaker C:Not, not necessarily when it moved out on the freeway, but right there at Maureen, it wasn't too far to go.
Speaker B:But you know, it's 10th and Beverly.
Speaker C:Beverly.
Speaker C:I'm sorry.
Speaker C:Right there near Seymour Highway.
Speaker C:And anyway, we'd go there a lot for squadron functions.
Speaker C:You know, somebody's going away or whatever.
Speaker C:So it, it was, it's a pretty, it's a.
Speaker A:And it was a big building.
Speaker A:It is now, too, but it was a.
Speaker A:It's a large building.
Speaker A:So you.
Speaker A:You had.
Speaker A:You could go in and put 15 people at a table or 20 people at a table or whatever.
Speaker C:And I think.
Speaker C:Don't they own that building?
Speaker C:That.
Speaker C:That.
Speaker B:I believe they do own that whole complex, yes.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker B:They own all that where they are now.
Speaker A:So it's on I44, the corner of I44.
Speaker A:Missile Road.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And El Mihondo.
Speaker A:So go check them out.
Speaker A:There's locally owned and operated.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:And it's a.
Speaker A:It's a wide variety.
Speaker A:The nice thing about buffets, I mean, you got to be careful that you don't just cram yourself and feel horrible.
Speaker A:But the nice thing about a buffet is you can have a taco and a burrito and, you know, you could go through and you could have a little bit of everything and get you a complete full meal.
Speaker A:Meal and.
Speaker A:But just not load up on one thing.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:So, yeah, it's good stuff.
Speaker B:So anyway, we.
Speaker B:We applaud them, and I got to figure out how long they've been around.
Speaker B:I think you're right.
Speaker B:I think it probably has been late 70s, early 80s, long time somewhere in there.
Speaker B:So anyway, Hospice of Wichita Falls just had their Tree of Lights campaign.
Speaker B:They just wrapped it up.
Speaker B:They raised well over $300,000.
Speaker B:I think the goal was 300,000 this year.
Speaker B:I think they overshot that goal.
Speaker B:But the really cool little tidbit in all this is Ben Franklin elementary raised over $11,000.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Pretty interesting.
Speaker B:Over $11,000 from an elementary school.
Speaker B:And every year, the schools, the Wichita Falls schools, will all take some part in fundraising for hospice.
Speaker B:And every year, somebody really, really stands out.
Speaker B:I don't know if this is the first year in elementary school, has gone that big, but this is probably one of the biggest in the history of this.
Speaker A:Seems like a lot.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:I don't know for sure, but.
Speaker A:But, you know, the nice thing about.
Speaker A:Or the interesting about a hospice is it touches everybody just about at some point.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker A:I mean, whether you're going to need hospice care, somebody in your immediate family is going to need hospice care.
Speaker A:Your friend, a relative, a distant relative, somebody.
Speaker A:There's a lot of.
Speaker A:There's a lot of need in our community for hospice care.
Speaker A:And it's not just the patient itself, it's the extended family.
Speaker B:That's right.
Speaker A:So they do so much for everybody.
Speaker A:So it's great to support them.
Speaker A:And it's great that the Christmas tree, Tree of Lights campaign was going on, of course, Mike was very involved for many, many years in the radio day.
Speaker B:Many years.
Speaker A:Yeah, they still do that.
Speaker A:And it was a very successful thing once again.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Well, so probably not quite as successful because you weren't there, but it's.
Speaker A:It was successful.
Speaker B:They could have done a little better if I'd have been around.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Wasn't my choice.
Speaker C:Well, as long as they don't hire you.
Speaker C:What, as an employee.
Speaker B:Yeah, I don't want to do that.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:I just want to point that out.
Speaker C:He volunteer.
Speaker C:He.
Speaker C:Man, he's awesome.
Speaker C:But you know, for some reason, Merry.
Speaker B:Christmas star going to starve to death over here.
Speaker B:Anyway, next year will actually mark their 40th anniversary.
Speaker B:25 will be 40 years of hospice.
Speaker B:Wichita Falls.
Speaker A:So that's good.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Move on here.
Speaker B:Before we get into our Christmas toy list, let's clear a couple of.
Speaker B:Well, it's this.
Speaker B:This one thing.
Speaker B:Daniel, Penny, if you've been following this case at all, this guy was found not guilty.
Speaker B:And a lot of people are applauding this decision and a lot of people are screaming at the top of their lives.
Speaker A:I don't think a lot of people are screaming.
Speaker A:I think there's a few people that are allowed.
Speaker A:I agree.
Speaker A:There's people that are.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:But I think most people are applauding this decision because most people that are rational people.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:When you.
Speaker A:When you look at Daniel Penney and some of this evidence that has come out and watch his interviews with the police, to think that this guy thought, I'm gonna go kill somebody today.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:You'd be ridiculous to think that.
Speaker A:To think that this guy had any malice in his heart or the way he did things.
Speaker B:Exactly.
Speaker A:No, this was a stand up guy.
Speaker A:And by the way, this is the kind of person that we would all like to be and make sure we hope we are.
Speaker A:You never know till you're.
Speaker A:You're in that position.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:Or if you had a loved one on that train, you would hope that somebody there would be willing to do this.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker A:And he was drugged to the mud.
Speaker A:And then you have your.
Speaker A:You have the like the Black Lives Matter guy standing out there screaming, we're going to protest and all that.
Speaker A:And nobody's protesting.
Speaker A:You know why?
Speaker A:Because everybody realizes.
Speaker A:Not everybody.
Speaker A:Most people realize that this was a justifiable thing.
Speaker A:Is it sad and tragic that the guy died?
Speaker A:Yes, it is.
Speaker A:But quite frankly, you go in there and you start a fight, you kind of get what you get.
Speaker B:Y.
Speaker A:That's my theory about everything.
Speaker A:And that's Been my theory for years.
Speaker A:If you don't start.
Speaker A:No, there won't be no.
Speaker A:But if you decide to pick it right 100%, you pick it, you get what you get.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:And there's no evidence.
Speaker A:There was obviously no evidence.
Speaker A:And I don't think anybody who's reasonable thinks that Daniel Penny wanted to kill that person.
Speaker A:He wanted to sub.
Speaker A:Subdue that guy.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And quite frankly, it wasn't Daniel Penny doing it on his own.
Speaker A:If you look around, there was a whole bunch of people around and it wasn't a whole bunch of white men with MAGA hats on.
Speaker A:It was different races, different ethnicity and all that.
Speaker A:And it was all about, we're on this together.
Speaker A:And there's a guy who's a.
Speaker A:Who is a.
Speaker A:What we all consider to be a threat.
Speaker A:And we're going to work to try to neutralize that threat.
Speaker B:I think society in general has had enough of this crap.
Speaker A:A complete asshole.
Speaker B:They've just.
Speaker B:People have just had enough.
Speaker B:They've just had enough.
Speaker B:And when someone steps up and especially in defense of someone else or other individual or group of people trying to save a group of people from the malice of some jackass over here, people have just had enough.
Speaker B:They really have fed up.
Speaker B:And that's one of the reasons why I think you're right.
Speaker B:You've got this small little.
Speaker B:The usual little cabal of people that are making noise about it, that are screaming about it.
Speaker B:They want to try to stir something up.
Speaker B:But that group is shrinking in number, I think.
Speaker A:Well, absolutely.
Speaker A:And way shrinking in influence.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah.
Speaker A:Here's the thing though.
Speaker A:Daniel Penny probably would have been no build in almost any city in America.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Seriously, even.
Speaker A:Even maybe Chicago, I don't know.
Speaker A:But I would hope he would be no build any city in Texas.
Speaker A:And you know, New York.
Speaker A:He probably wasn't.
Speaker A:He was probably going to go through this la, he might have gone through this.
Speaker A:San Francisco, he might have gone through this.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker A:But most places he would have been, they would have investigated in a thorough investigation, talked to everybody.
Speaker A:And no build the guy.
Speaker A:The grand jury would have.
Speaker A:Right, but in New York.
Speaker A:Yeah, you have this overzealous prosecutor.
Speaker C:Well, but the prosecutor shouldn't theoretically have any influence over that directly because that's why you have the grand jury.
Speaker A:Yeah, but.
Speaker A:Well, the prosecutor would have never should have never could have never taken prosecution.
Speaker A:Probably would have never even gone to.
Speaker C:Well, that may be.
Speaker C:But if it did go to the grand jury, though, now it's supposed to be an independent.
Speaker C:Look at it.
Speaker C:But it is a liberal city and it's what you get at that brings.
Speaker B:Up an interesting point.
Speaker B:Look at how.
Speaker B:Look at the overall influence of a district attorney in a place like, say, Wichita Falls, where we are, or even a place like Dallas versus a Chicago or a New York.
Speaker B:They seem to.
Speaker B:And maybe it's just because of the scope and the press that they get.
Speaker B:Maybe it just.
Speaker B:Maybe there's a perception that they have more influence, But I think they do.
Speaker B:I think they exert a lot more political influence in those larger cities.
Speaker B:And maybe part of it is because of the press they get.
Speaker B:Maybe that's why they're able to do that.
Speaker A:Could be.
Speaker B:But I think they do exert a lot more political influence unjustly.
Speaker B:So they just shouldn't do it.
Speaker B:But they do.
Speaker A:Well, that's that.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:The politics should not factor into the justice system.
Speaker B:No.
Speaker A:Ever on either side.
Speaker A:And everybody's wrong who does it.
Speaker B:No.
Speaker C:Well, we see it all the time.
Speaker C:I mean.
Speaker B:Well.
Speaker C:Well, you know, we've seen a huge amount of.
Speaker B:We've all seen the statue of lady justice blindfolded with the scales of justice.
Speaker B:It's like that doesn't.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:It's like it doesn't matter anymore.
Speaker A:But part of the problem, too, is there are a lot of politics.
Speaker A:A lot of the district attorneys and stuff like this are elected officials.
Speaker A:So therefore we're almost.
Speaker A:Our system is almost encouraging them to have to be.
Speaker A:Have some sort of politics involved, so.
Speaker A:Because.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker C:In a political way.
Speaker A:Right, exactly.
Speaker C:But the downside to that is it's like in Texas we have judges that are voted in, not appointed.
Speaker A:Almost every state does.
Speaker A:Yeah, lots of states.
Speaker C:Lots of them do, but I think many.
Speaker C:But at whatever level.
Speaker C:I'm just saying.
Speaker A:I don't.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker C:Obviously state.
Speaker C:But.
Speaker C:But at least at various levels, though, at the federal level.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker C:They're appointed.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker C:And at the state level.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:I mean.
Speaker A:And I think those judges.
Speaker A:I think that should be apolitical once again.
Speaker A:I think the.
Speaker A:I think that everything below state level should be apolitical.
Speaker A:County, city, school district should know.
Speaker A:Should have no political affiliation.
Speaker A:In other words, not Democrat, Republican or anything like that.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:I don't think they should be primary.
Speaker A:I think everybody who wants to go, go for that election goes for that election.
Speaker A:It's on election day.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:It's like our.
Speaker C:Like the mayor here in Wichita Falls.
Speaker C:They do not declare.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:Well, yeah, Right now it's.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:Right now it's city and school Board does not, but county does.
Speaker A:I think county should be stripped away from political parties.
Speaker A:And then I also think outside of legislation, I think at the state level, they should be.
Speaker A:There should be no political affiliation.
Speaker A:The AG Commissioner, the, you know, like governor, lieutenant governor and legislators, I'm okay with them having political affiliations.
Speaker A:But like, like I said, the AG Commissioner, the railroad commissioner, the state judges, those people should not.
Speaker A:It should not be Democrat, Republican next to their name.
Speaker C:Well, but let me throw this out.
Speaker C:Just.
Speaker C:But you're going to hide it then.
Speaker C:I mean, at least they're being full disclosure.
Speaker A:No, but I also think you open it up, though, because they're getting money, they're getting the backing of a political campaign.
Speaker A:They're running a.
Speaker A:They're running a primary, getting back.
Speaker C:So there's an official channel by which you get supported by.
Speaker A:Whereas, Whereas, whereas if you had no political affiliation, the three of us could say, hey, I want to run for a state judge or whatever it is.
Speaker A:Because those jobs are not inherently.
Speaker A:They're not political.
Speaker B:Right there.
Speaker A:They should not be.
Speaker B:So if you remove the, if you remove the party affiliation, you do, at least in theory, remove a lot of the political influence that the money would inject.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Fundraising.
Speaker A:Well, it's just, it's just like the mayor, say, the city of Wichita Falls.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:You know, you could have three or four people run for a city council seat.
Speaker A:Well, I'll tell you, four people you don't have to have because there's no primary to do.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:This is the part.
Speaker A:I mean, this is the seat.
Speaker B:We're recording this show on December 18th.
Speaker B:As of today, as far as I know, we.
Speaker B:Sweet.
Speaker B:We still.
Speaker B:Because you brought this up.
Speaker B:This is a great, great segue in here, Mayor.
Speaker B:The city council, city council at large position is still undecided.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker C:How many status.
Speaker A:Well, waiting on absentee ballots and stuff like that.
Speaker B:What I read yesterday was there were 12,000 mail in ballots that they were waiting on.
Speaker C:12,000.
Speaker B:I think that's the number I saw was 12,000.
Speaker C:Wait a minute.
Speaker C:There's only 16.
Speaker C:The official, unofficial, whatever.
Speaker B:Maybe it was 12.
Speaker B: Maybe it's: Speaker C:Yeah, maybe it's 12 even.
Speaker C:That's a lot.
Speaker B:I thought it was 12,000, but it could have been.
Speaker A:I'd be surprised it was 12.
Speaker C: No, but a: Speaker B:Maybe.
Speaker C: Maybe: Speaker C:They were 45 votes.
Speaker B:Maybe it's.
Speaker B: Maybe it's: Speaker C:That sounds a lot.
Speaker B:But they're still waiting on this number of mail in ballots.
Speaker B:Now here's what I want.
Speaker B:The damn election now was what, five days ago?
Speaker B:Why are we still.
Speaker B:If the ballots weren't there on.
Speaker B:I'm sorry.
Speaker B:If they were not there on election day, we're done.
Speaker A:We've said that a million times.
Speaker B:We're done.
Speaker B:But, but anyway.
Speaker B:But that's a really good example.
Speaker B:You've got two candidates there.
Speaker B:One who fundraised, as most politicians do, raised quite a bit of cash, bought signs, bought political ads, set up a website, did all this.
Speaker B:And another candidate who spent almost nothing, spent less than $1,000 in total throughout his entire campaign.
Speaker B:And as of election night, 45 votes separated him.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah, 45 votes.
Speaker B:Difference between.
Speaker B:Incredibly close.
Speaker B: So it is: Speaker B:I said 12,000.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker B:I'm so used to the big Federal numbers.
Speaker B: It's: Speaker B:So by the time you see this, this is probably already decided.
Speaker B:But you've got these two candidates that, you know, one spent lots of money, one spent almost no money, and they don't declare a party affiliation at this level.
Speaker B:There's no Republican, Democrat.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker B:You know, competition there and there.
Speaker B:45 votes separate them.
Speaker B:It's crazy.
Speaker B:It's wild, guys.
Speaker B:It really is.
Speaker B:So anyway, but we'll.
Speaker B:We'll see how this plays out.
Speaker B:Let's move on to our.
Speaker B:We.
Speaker B:We did this on radio together for years and years and years and several years.
Speaker B:Anyway, our favorite Christmas toys.
Speaker B:What did we enjoy when we were growing up?
Speaker B:What was on our wish list?
Speaker B:Yep, some of these.
Speaker B:We've probably had some of.
Speaker B:Some of these we might not have.
Speaker A:Might have wanted.
Speaker B:I got.
Speaker B:I got a big one in here that I always want, I didn't get.
Speaker B:And I'm so tempted now as an adult to buy one just to say, I've got one.
Speaker C:Anyway, hey, hit the number four over there, the slider.
Speaker C:Because.
Speaker C:Just for a little background, because we got some sound on some of these, you know.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker C:So I don't know how, you know, adjust this.
Speaker C:The sound as necessary.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker C:You're the engineer here.
Speaker B:All right, so what are we starting with here?
Speaker C:What's our first?
Speaker A:Not driving a train.
Speaker C:Oh, hey, you know, hey, my dad was, you know.
Speaker C:But anyway, so Mattel had a toy that I really enjoyed that kind of got me all excited about learning how to fly.
Speaker C:Although I didn't become a pilot.
Speaker C:But, you know, hey.
Speaker C:But I ended up in the Air Force and I Stayed at a motel.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Best Western.
Speaker A:Holiday Inn.
Speaker C:Holiday Inn.
Speaker A:Holiday Inn last night.
Speaker C:There we go.
Speaker C:Anyway, but Mattel had what's called the Vertibird.
Speaker B:Okay, I do remember the Vertibird.
Speaker C:There were various.
Speaker C:There were several versions of it.
Speaker C:But the initial version was this little controller, a little mechanical cable link that went to this.
Speaker C:This, this hub and it spun around and went in circles and you, you tilted it basically at all the controls.
Speaker C:And here's the commercial.
Speaker A:I had a.
Speaker A:I had a verti bird.
Speaker C:Yeah, so.
Speaker B:So here we go.
Speaker B:This is the Vertie birdie.
Speaker C:The verti bird.
Speaker A:The ver.
Speaker C:And hopefully it stays on this time.
Speaker C:So.
Speaker C:Yeah, batter's not included.
Speaker C:Remember, on everything.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Your piloting skills.
Speaker C:I love this.
Speaker C:Then they had a ship version of it, too.
Speaker B:Unbelievable.
Speaker A:I don't think mine had the astronaut.
Speaker A:I don't remember what mine had.
Speaker A:Mine had like a pack.
Speaker A:I thought it had a package or something.
Speaker C:Well, it had a ship version of.
Speaker C:It was like the Styrofoam ship, so.
Speaker C:All right, next one.
Speaker C:All right.
Speaker C:All right, so we're back.
Speaker C:Okay, so this is Hot Wheel Sizzlers.
Speaker C:These are the battery operated versions.
Speaker C:Gas tank.
Speaker C:And they went in the Hot Wheels tracks.
Speaker C:You didn't have to have the little spinning machine in the middle that had the right.
Speaker C:You know, so.
Speaker C:But.
Speaker C:Yeah, so it just.
Speaker C:Right inside and right on.
Speaker C:Yeah, they, they plugged in, had like a audio jack kind of thing.
Speaker A:It was the first electric car.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:I wonder if Elon Musk had one of these.
Speaker C:All right.
Speaker C:Motor built right inside.
Speaker C:All right, so there and then.
Speaker C:Okay, now this is on the same note on, on the Hot Wheels sizzlers, but this is the fat track.
Speaker C:Well, someday.
Speaker C:Oh, hang on.
Speaker A:Yeah, I was gonna say it.
Speaker C:Here we go there.
Speaker C:Here we go.
Speaker C:This isn't a commercial, but, but the.
Speaker C:Yeah, this is.
Speaker C:It had the, the gas, the juice machine in the middle there.
Speaker C:And that would go.
Speaker C:And that's a fat track.
Speaker C:Man, that was cool.
Speaker C:Yep.
Speaker C:And they go and go.
Speaker A:By the way, if you've ever been to Daytona Speedway.
Speaker C:I've never been to Daytona.
Speaker A:It's unbelievable, the banking.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:When you're down on the speedway and you look up, it's.
Speaker A:It's almost.
Speaker A:It's not vertical, but it, it almost looks like it's vertical.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:But I'd say if you try to walk up the.
Speaker A:The embankment and it turns, you can't.
Speaker A:You're crawling by the time you get up there, because it's just the ground comes up, it's so Steep.
Speaker A:Those guys are driving 200 miles an hour on that.
Speaker C:Like that.
Speaker C:Well, I would sit down as a kid, we would be laying put.
Speaker C:I mean, our face would be right there.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker C:You know, just look at it.
Speaker C:So anyway.
Speaker C:All right, let's move on to the next one here.
Speaker A:Did you.
Speaker A:Did you notice what song, what music that was?
Speaker B:Oh, that was Hawaii.
Speaker B:Hopefully YouTube doesn't.
Speaker C:Well, but it's already shut.
Speaker C:It's already played on this one, so hopefully not.
Speaker C:But anyway, so Mattel also had this cool thing called the spin welder.
Speaker C:I loved this.
Speaker A:I don't remember that.
Speaker C:Oh, yeah, it was a friction.
Speaker C:You welded.
Speaker A:Welded with plastic.
Speaker C:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker C:A riveting gun.
Speaker C:Oh, I mean.
Speaker C:I mean, think about mechanically.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah.
Speaker C:It's like a rector set, but in a different way.
Speaker B:A race car factory comes with.
Speaker A:Wow.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:So that's pretty cool.
Speaker A:That is neat.
Speaker A:No, I didn't have that.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker C:And of course, you know, the classic.
Speaker A:Slinky, I didn't have a staircase.
Speaker C:Well, we.
Speaker C:Yeah, well, we can play with it.
Speaker C:We did at some of our apartments I lived in with my mom.
Speaker A:Slinky.
Speaker A:Slinky would get.
Speaker A:Got old to me in about two seconds.
Speaker A:And then I'd end up trying to snap it around.
Speaker C:You don't need a stair and get.
Speaker A:It to where it's twisted and.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker C:Oh, yeah.
Speaker C:Well, yeah, once they get you throwing in a tool.
Speaker A:Look at that.
Speaker A:Look at that wallpaper there.
Speaker A:Wow.
Speaker C:Okay, so that's that.
Speaker C:All right, next light bright.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah.
Speaker C:There we go.
Speaker A:Which is, you think about.
Speaker A:It was pretty ingenious.
Speaker A:It's very basic, but it turned out to be almost high tech because it was just a light bulb with some clear or some colored pieces of plastic.
Speaker C:But Bugs Bunny right there.
Speaker C:And Warner Brothers, but yeah, now they.
Speaker C:I think they have an LED version of it now.
Speaker A:They do.
Speaker B:They do, yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:All right, now this is.
Speaker C:You talk about this, Mike, because this is yours.
Speaker B:This was a dream toy for me that I never got.
Speaker B:I had the jet, but I did not have the aircraft carrier.
Speaker A:That aircraft carry looks large.
Speaker B:It was huge.
Speaker A:Look at, look.
Speaker A:Yeah, look at the size of the kids.
Speaker C:I mean, battery is not included.
Speaker B:And I don't know what this toy cost back in the day.
Speaker B:I'm sure it was a very, very expensive toy for its time.
Speaker B:And adjusted for inflation today, the USS Flag, that GI Joe aircraft carries probably thousand dollars or so, adjusted for inflation.
Speaker B:But that was kind of a dream toy.
Speaker B:I never got that one.
Speaker B:And I've often thought as an adult I could pull this off now.
Speaker C:Yeah, that's right, man.
Speaker C:We gotta find it.
Speaker A:Well, where would you put it?
Speaker B:Exactly.
Speaker B:That'd be my thing.
Speaker C:Right here.
Speaker C:Come bring it here.
Speaker C:We can play with it.
Speaker C:Yeah, we have a huge table here.
Speaker C:We could play with it.
Speaker C:All right.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker B:I'm afraid Richie will try to ride on it.
Speaker C:Well, yeah, so.
Speaker C:All right, next one.
Speaker C:I think all three have this one.
Speaker A:I did have the motorcycle.
Speaker A:I didn't have the truck, but I had the motorcycle with the ramp.
Speaker B:I had the motorcycle with the thing.
Speaker B:You pull it off and.
Speaker C:Yeah, I had the van.
Speaker C:This.
Speaker A:Oh, you did have this.
Speaker C:I have the van.
Speaker A:You're rich.
Speaker C:Oh, whatever.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Now, was it the one where you.
Speaker A:Where you stuck the thing in the.
Speaker A:The.
Speaker C:No, no, this is not.
Speaker C:Now, I don't remember that.
Speaker A:I don't either.
Speaker C:That's a whole nother thing.
Speaker C:No, the.
Speaker C:No, you're talking about the sst.
Speaker C:This is how.
Speaker A:Oh, one of those.
Speaker C:This cranked, and it had a gyroscopic kind of thing in it, similar to that.
Speaker C:But the SSTs, I think it was.
Speaker C:Had the single wheel in the middle, and you pulled the zip line thing.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Oh, this is.
Speaker C:That was overseas.
Speaker C:Oh, okay.
Speaker C:So there's the next one.
Speaker C:All right.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah, this is another one that I had.
Speaker B:This was.
Speaker B:I.
Speaker B:I was.
Speaker B:I had a fascination with electric trains growing up, and I had three or four, and this was one of my favorites.
Speaker C:Tyco.
Speaker B:The Pipeline Express.
Speaker B:From Tyco.
Speaker B:I'm gonna crank that volume up.
Speaker A:Hard.
Speaker A:Working long.
Speaker A:Ha.
Speaker B:Loaded.
Speaker A:Gotta get it going.
Speaker A:Gotta get those pipes there.
Speaker A:And go back for more with the Pipeline, See if they made this commercial now.
Speaker A:They talk about how the feeling.
Speaker A:How it makes you feel and stuff.
Speaker B:Well, it made me feel great.
Speaker B:I had my two favorite trains to play with.
Speaker B:I had.
Speaker B:I had this one, and then I had another one that was.
Speaker B:It was the Silver Streak.
Speaker C:Yes.
Speaker B:If you remember, there was a movie.
Speaker B:A movie with Gene Wilder and.
Speaker A:Oh, what.
Speaker B:What's black comedian?
Speaker B:Not Eddie Murphy.
Speaker A:Oh, I know.
Speaker A:You said.
Speaker A:You said Eddie Murphy, and now I got Eddie Murphy in the head.
Speaker A:I know.
Speaker A:Richard Pryor.
Speaker B:Richard Pryor.
Speaker B:Thank you.
Speaker B:And they.
Speaker B:They made this movie called the Silver Straight, and they came out with this train set that was modeled after the train in the.
Speaker B:In the film.
Speaker B:And I had that one.
Speaker B:And I.
Speaker B:Man, I tell you what.
Speaker B:I would give anything to have.
Speaker B:I just didn't.
Speaker B:When I.
Speaker B:When we were growing up, no one ever said to us, hey, hang on to those toys, because they're Going to be vintage one day.
Speaker A:No, no, it was a.
Speaker B:Worth a fortune.
Speaker B:It was a toy.
Speaker B:You played with it.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:You played with it, moved on.
Speaker B:And if it broke, it malfunctioned, you threw it away or you gave it away or whatever, you know, And.
Speaker B:And I don't know whatever happened to mine, but they're gone now.
Speaker B:And I really wish I'd held onto them.
Speaker B:I really do.
Speaker B:I.
Speaker B:Not just for the value of it, but the sentiment.
Speaker B:Sentimental value.
Speaker B:Not just the monetary value, but the sentimental value, you know, I mean, it was.
Speaker B:They were.
Speaker B:And things were just built different back then, man.
Speaker A:Oh, sure.
Speaker B:Every.
Speaker B:Every toy, now that we buy our grandkids, everything feels so cheap and.
Speaker A:Well, it is.
Speaker C:It's throwaway.
Speaker B:It's.
Speaker B:It's.
Speaker B:It's all disposable stuff, you know, and it just feels so cheap.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker B:And I feel like there was some real quality in this stuff back in the day.
Speaker C:Well, now I had a thought and I just did.
Speaker C:Flew the.
Speaker C:Oh, I know what it was.
Speaker C:Silver Streak.
Speaker C:Huh?
Speaker C:Silver Streak was a rated horror movie.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker C:Interesting.
Speaker C:They made a toy.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:And I'm not at least rated R.
Speaker C:Because it was pretty.
Speaker B:I'm not sure if my family had understood that, that I would have got that train for Christmas.
Speaker B:I'm just saying.
Speaker C:All right, next.
Speaker C:What do we got here?
Speaker B:Let's see.
Speaker C:This is.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker C:The Millennium Falcon.
Speaker C:Oh, you have to keep that one up.
Speaker C:Okay, so.
Speaker C:All right, here it is.
Speaker A:Yeah, that was.
Speaker A:That was one of my toys that I had.
Speaker A:That was.
Speaker A:That was probably one of the biggest.
Speaker A:Biggest toys I had.
Speaker A:I had a lot of little Star wars characters, action figures.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And they were sold, and it had.
Speaker C:To open up right at the top to get them in there.
Speaker C:Of course, they're.
Speaker C:Some of them, the size of the characters are so much larger than in scale.
Speaker B:I had.
Speaker B:I had this exact one myself.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:All right.
Speaker B:You know, and then.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And then we got to be teenagers, and all of a sudden we're too cool.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah.
Speaker A:That was kid stuff.
Speaker B:That was a child's toy.
Speaker C:Now we're getting over here with Trey's picks, and.
Speaker C:Okay, this was Merlin.
Speaker A:Where's Merlin?
Speaker A:Where did it go?
Speaker B:Oh, wow.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:Merlin was neat.
Speaker A:It was.
Speaker A:It was a good memory game.
Speaker B:Yeah, I had.
Speaker B:I had one of these.
Speaker C:And you remember it's a pattern or what?
Speaker A:Yeah, it was a pattern thing.
Speaker C:Okay, so that's cool.
Speaker C:Yeah, I had.
Speaker C:I don't know if I actually.
Speaker C:I try.
Speaker C:Remember if I actually had one?
Speaker C:You know, my friends.
Speaker B:I'll tell you what I think was a cooler memory.
Speaker B:You remember Simon?
Speaker C:Yeah, Simon.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:You had the four.
Speaker C:Incredibly frustrating.
Speaker C:Yes.
Speaker B:Oh yes.
Speaker A:Merlin was the same thing.
Speaker A:But I thought Merlin was more, was harder than Simon because it had a lot more.
Speaker A:Simon just had four thingies.
Speaker A:This had a lot more.
Speaker C:Oh yeah.
Speaker B:With Simon it was more about speed.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker B:Because it would get progressively faster.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:As the pattern.
Speaker B:As you would go through the patterns, it progressively faster.
Speaker B:So it's a little more challenging in terms of that.
Speaker B:But Merlin made you think.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker B:It was a thinking toy.
Speaker B:You had to.
Speaker B:You had to actually put some real.
Speaker A:It was thought it was an educational type.
Speaker B:It was very educational.
Speaker C:All right, so here's.
Speaker A:Rather than compare personal computers ourselves, this is like when I got a little older.
Speaker C:But this is actually preferred to Commodore 64.
Speaker A:Then we asked the IBM and it.
Speaker B:Picked the Commodore 64.
Speaker A:Then the Radio Shack chose the Commodore 64.
Speaker A:That's what we like about our competition.
Speaker A:They're so honest.
Speaker A:The Commodore 64, what nobody else can give you at twice the price.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker A:I had a Commodore 64 that was.
Speaker B:A 64k of memory.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker A:And then.
Speaker A:And then at one point I got a.
Speaker A:Upgraded to a one.
Speaker A:A Commodore 128.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:But if you had.
Speaker A:The nice thing about it was if you had a tv, you could just hook it up to your tv.
Speaker A:So you really just need the keyboard.
Speaker A:And the disk drive had.
Speaker A:Had the.
Speaker A:Was it five and a quarter floppy, the black floppy disk.
Speaker C:Well, cassette tape even before that.
Speaker C:Yeah, I remember those went straight to the floppies.
Speaker A:I went to the floppies.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:You know, the cassette tapes were a little earlier.
Speaker B:To me, the computer side of this, that's the most mind blowing thing.
Speaker B:When you think about what our computers were capable of 30 years ago, 40.
Speaker C:Years ago, this is even more powerful.
Speaker A:Oh my goodness.
Speaker B:Yeah, we went to the moon with the equivalent of a TI Calcul.
Speaker B:You've got more computing power in your iPhone today.
Speaker C:The calculator app is more complicated than the spaceshot was.
Speaker B:It's just amazing the technology.
Speaker B:Now you can buy like Terry, this is a MacBook Pro you're using here.
Speaker B:You can buy a MacBook Pro, put all the bells and whistles on it.
Speaker B:You're going to spend probably what?
Speaker C:Oh, well, you can spend.
Speaker C:If you're needing a good video editing workstation, you're going to look at 4,000, but somewhere between 2,500 and spend $4,000 depending on what you do, how much storage and all that.
Speaker B:And I remember computers costing $4,000.
Speaker A:25.
Speaker A:30 years ago, a Windows 95 computer knockoff.
Speaker A:Not an IBM, but a knockoff clone Windows 95 computer was 25 to 3,000.
Speaker C:Well, right, but in those days, that number.
Speaker C:And with inflation, that number is even more value.
Speaker C:And then we're getting.
Speaker C:The computer's still about the same price range.
Speaker C:I mean, that we've actually kind of dropped.
Speaker A:But you've gotten a lot more.
Speaker C:Oh, yeah.
Speaker C:A lot more for your money.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah, you're.
Speaker B:Well, everything's gotten smaller and lighter and faster and more powerful and.
Speaker B:And now what you've got in, like.
Speaker B:Like I said, what you got in the iPhone is.
Speaker B:Is light years ahead of anything you had in a.
Speaker B:In the most expensive computer you could buy 30 years ago.
Speaker A:Well, that was kind of like little towards my later Christmas stuff.
Speaker A:That was.
Speaker A:I was probably in junior high when I got them.
Speaker C:Number 64.
Speaker C:Okay, now this.
Speaker C:This isn't we.
Speaker C:This was a generic thing, but I found a video that's kind of interesting.
Speaker C:It's a.
Speaker C: I guess, apparently from the: Speaker C:So this is a little girl that's out of Dallas.
Speaker C:Women's liberation is fine.
Speaker C:Little girl boxing.
Speaker A:One of my favorite toys was.
Speaker A:I had a.
Speaker A:I got boxing gloves for Christmas one year, a boxing glove set with a headgear and boxing glove set.
Speaker A:I wasn't a little girl.
Speaker A:Right, But.
Speaker C:Well, yeah, but.
Speaker A:But anyhow.
Speaker A:But to me, that was one of my favorite because, I mean, that put me in that mindset of combat sports and boxing and I love boxing and combat sports and stuff like that.
Speaker C:Sorry.
Speaker C:Okay, so here's another one that you really were big.
Speaker C:Now look at the person that's behind this.
Speaker C:Shoots away is so much fun.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:This one can die.
Speaker C:Look through this viewfinder, Pilot the plane over a target and drop an air rescue parachute.
Speaker C:Shoots away.
Speaker C:Shoots away.
Speaker A:Okay, Dick, we got it.
Speaker A:Shoots away, Shoots away.
Speaker A:The air rescue target game.
Speaker C:Shoots away.
Speaker C:Shoots away.
Speaker C:He keeps playing.
Speaker A:Dick, can we go home now?
Speaker A:That was.
Speaker A:Why, Gabriel, that was high tech stuff.
Speaker A:I mean, the mechanic had levers, you had a viewfinder.
Speaker A:It was high tech stuff.
Speaker C:All right, now this one.
Speaker C:Now this one we just happened to notice, but big wheel, man.
Speaker A:Did we all have big wheels.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah.
Speaker A:Oh, speed to burn.
Speaker C:My half brother Tracy had a green machine based on similar idea.
Speaker C:Except for the wheel in the back.
Speaker C:Turn the front, you pedal handy saddlebag breaking, winning, spinning.
Speaker A:Yeah, that was it.
Speaker A:You see how many times you can spin out big wheel by marks.
Speaker A:It can take it.
Speaker C:I didn't I didn't realize.
Speaker C:I don't remember that company.
Speaker B:Mark's toy company was huge for many, many years.
Speaker B:And I know some of their stuff, some of their more vintage toys.
Speaker B:Mark's toys are worth a lot of money now.
Speaker B:I don't imagine the big wheel would fall into that category, but I'm talking about some of their smaller, older toys.
Speaker B:I think they go back to like the 20s, 30s.
Speaker A:I think you're right.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:And so you get some of their more vintage stuff and it apparently it's got a.
Speaker A:Worth quite a bit.
Speaker B:Pretty good price tag on it.
Speaker C:All right, well so then the last one.
Speaker C:And this is a classic.
Speaker B:Oh yeah.
Speaker C:And you know, let's play here.
Speaker C:Let's.
Speaker C:It's.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker A:Rector set, new Erector is here.
Speaker A:The incredible construction toy.
Speaker A:Your kids have been waiting.
Speaker A:I had one of those.
Speaker C:Of course this.
Speaker C:This existed even tired us.
Speaker C:Oh yeah.
Speaker C:I don't know how far back it goes.
Speaker C:This is a more high tech.
Speaker A:But this is one of my favorite toys that I had because you can build all kinds of stuff.
Speaker C:Oh yeah.
Speaker A:And your kids command their toys.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:This is.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:This is advanced director from Gabriel.
Speaker C:Incredible.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B: But: Speaker C:But now.
Speaker C:Okay, so let's just do a quick rundown like Lincoln Logs along kind of the same that you build stuff.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:Remember the green.
Speaker C:The.
Speaker C:The slats for the roof and.
Speaker C:And each of the Lincoln Logs and the.
Speaker C:All of that.
Speaker C:What other things?
Speaker C:Just.
Speaker A:Well, I had a Tron.
Speaker A:I had a little Tron game that was my first.
Speaker A:My first.
Speaker C:Oh yes.
Speaker A:Video game.
Speaker A:And when Tron came out probably in the early 80s or late 70s when that I had that.
Speaker A:And then of course we are about shoots away and all that sort.
Speaker A:The one thing I really wanted that I never got was a battle rock.
Speaker A:I had a neighbor down the street.
Speaker A:So the little green army men, everybody had their own arm.
Speaker A:Little army men.
Speaker A:And what we would do is we' we lay it out and you would set up a thing and then you'd throw rocks and try to.
Speaker A:That was your competition.
Speaker A:You'd set up all your army men and then you would throw rocks at the other people's army man and try to kill their army men.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker A:And so whoever killed all the other army men won as long as you had some left.
Speaker C:So bring and switch it over.
Speaker A:This is basically.
Speaker A:It was just a big.
Speaker A:It was just a big plastic piece here.
Speaker A:You put army men all over it.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker C:And then you can look at them.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker C:I'm see you and, well, like, so.
Speaker A:That was the biggest thing.
Speaker A:We would set it out.
Speaker A:It's like, okay, you would have 50, I'd have 50.
Speaker A:We'd set them all out.
Speaker A:And then you get your rock and you throw rocks and you try to kill the other guy's army men.
Speaker A:So the snipers were the hardest because you had to hit the sniper.
Speaker A:Flip them over.
Speaker B:Yeah, well, you know, of course, we all had Hot Wheels cars and stuff like that and all the GI Joe action figures and the Star wars action figures and all that.
Speaker B:One of my favorite toys, though, growing up is it was.
Speaker B:It was a toy rifle and it was modeled after an M16 rifle.
Speaker B:It had this, this slide that you pull back.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:And you pull the trigger and it just do the rat.
Speaker B:A tat.
Speaker B:Tat thing, you know, until it ran out and you pull it back again like you're reloading.
Speaker B:And that was just the coolest toy gun.
Speaker C:Did not have the orange tip on it.
Speaker B:No, it did not have the orange tip on it.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:So.
Speaker B:But it was the coolest toy gun I ever had.
Speaker B:It was just.
Speaker B:That was that.
Speaker B:I.
Speaker B:I liked that more than my first BB gun.
Speaker C:Yeah, shoot.
Speaker A:Yeah, well, yeah, the BB gun was kind of clock fire.
Speaker B:We all had red riders.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:This was Rat attack.
Speaker C:I don't know if I had a red Rider, but I saw.
Speaker C:Oh, yeah, I had BB guns.
Speaker C:And we, we had the hand actually had a pellet gun, a pump pellet gun.
Speaker C:We had a handheld BB gun that we would shoot each other with and sting.
Speaker B:Oh, I'll tell you, the one that got me in trouble was my first CO2 pistol.
Speaker C:Oh, damn.
Speaker B:Things hurt.
Speaker C:Oh, yeah, they hurt if they don't penetrate.
Speaker B:Yeah, I took out a window with one and quite by accident, I wasn't deliberately trying to break the window.
Speaker B:I was trying to shoot somebody.
Speaker B:But trying to shoot a dude.
Speaker A:I got a window instead.
Speaker B:Well, we were playing cowboys and Indians, I understand, with our BB guns.
Speaker B:And I had one that was CO pistol, that was CO2 powered.
Speaker A:Damn.
Speaker C:So you had.
Speaker C:I'm sure you had goggles on glasses.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:When you red.
Speaker B:I didn't own a bike helmet as a child.
Speaker A:And, and, and remember the pump.
Speaker A:When you had to pump anything, you.
Speaker A:You just see, you try to pump that thing as.
Speaker A:You'd pump it like eight times.
Speaker C:My dad would.
Speaker C:And then it.
Speaker A:And then, you know, he snap it in and get that one.
Speaker A:Boom, man.
Speaker A:Anyhow.
Speaker B:Oh, but that's that CO2 pistol that got me in trouble.
Speaker B:That was fun, though.
Speaker B:It was fun, though.
Speaker C:You know.
Speaker C:Did you actually have lawn darts?
Speaker B:I don't, I didn't.
Speaker B:I had a cousin who had a set of lawn darts.
Speaker A:Yeah, I don't think, I don't think we had lawn dart.
Speaker B:He's.
Speaker B:He's older than me.
Speaker B:And of course, lawn darts, I guess we're kind of a thing in the late 60s, early 70s.
Speaker C:And then they got banned eventually, but then, you know, but they were, they were.
Speaker C:They stopped selling them a lot of the places.
Speaker C:But they, they had the warnings on them at first and then that apparently.
Speaker B:But I do remember watching them.
Speaker B:Watching them play with them.
Speaker B:I didn't, but I remember watching them play with them.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:And even then I, I think I probably thought, that looks kind of dangerous.
Speaker B:I'll throw this 14 pound projectile in the air that could stab me to death.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:The fun thing about it was you'd throw stuff up like that and you'd stand, see how long.
Speaker A:Who would chicken out first to get out from under.
Speaker C:All right, well, let me tell you this.
Speaker C:I may have told you all this story before, but I have told necessarily the audience, but a friend of mine and I.
Speaker C:It's probably in the, like in October, November, time frame is at the afternoon after school a little bit.
Speaker C:It wasn't all that windy because if we had done this, we would have known where the arrows went.
Speaker C:But.
Speaker C:But we were shooting the arrows straight up and, you know, it was towards the end of the day and we'd watch them and.
Speaker C:And oh, wow.
Speaker C:And then shoot another one up and.
Speaker C:And we're doing this for a little while and then totally lost the last one.
Speaker C:And so we stood there and we kind of did this and I was like right behind him.
Speaker C:And we're standing there and within a few seconds we hear.
Speaker C:And it landed that far, for those on the radio, is 4 inches or so from his foot.
Speaker A:Oh, wow.
Speaker C:So needless to say, that was the end of that play time.
Speaker B:There's a scene, there's a film, Adam Sandler movie called Grownups where they're playing that game.
Speaker B:These, these guys, they all get together for the.
Speaker B:Their.
Speaker B:One of their basketball coach died and they all get together for his funeral at this, this like, you know, cabin or whatever, and they're out there playing that game with the arrows, you know, and I think it's Rob Schneider takes an arrow in the foot because he, he, you know, everybody else ran except him.
Speaker B:And he stood there and it went right through his foot.
Speaker A:It's happened.
Speaker C:That was close.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah.
Speaker A:He almost happened to Terry.
Speaker B:So apparently so but yeah but lon darts I had that accomplishment.
Speaker C:I was looking out for me and my friend.
Speaker B:But you know and that maybe we should maybe we should do maybe next year also do one on the on the most dangerous toys ever created.
Speaker B:That's funny stuff.
Speaker B:Well guys, thank you for being with us.
Speaker A:Merry Christmas.
Speaker B:Merry Christmas to all of you and Happy New Year.
Speaker B:We don't see you before the new year starts.
Speaker B:We'll probably be back with I know we've got one more episode to put in the can for this year.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And Arnold will be with us tomorrow is we're going to record it.
Speaker A:I don't know when it'll post.
Speaker B:She'll be our guest episode.
Speaker B:You'll probably see that after the Christmas holiday and then we'll see you again in the new year.
Speaker B:But Merry Christmas and Happy New year to you.
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Speaker A:We do.
Speaker A:We have, we have some, we have a few Go Karts that are on sale.
Speaker A:We've got a very few four wheeler kids four wheelers that are left.
Speaker A:But then also there's people that are buying not only Christmas gifts or buying stuff for the end of the year equipment to get on their taxes.
Speaker B:That's right.
Speaker A:It's a great idea to come get a then be for Christmas.
Speaker A:Like say it could be for your taxes.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:So if you, if you need a tag and we'll say if you did a new computer for your business, you know you want that tax deduction for the end of the year.
Speaker B:You just got to get it purchased before or by December and I can.
Speaker C:Order it and you.
Speaker C:As long as you paid for it.
Speaker A:As long as you pay for it.
Speaker B:Right, right.
Speaker B:As long you pay for it within this calendar year you can use it as a tax deduction.
Speaker B:See.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:Very good.
Speaker B:Here we are.
Speaker B:We're trying to help you guys that's right.
Speaker A:But we're not, but we're not tax attorneys.
Speaker C:We need, we're not tax, we're not providing tax advice.
Speaker A:We cannot give tax advice.
Speaker B:No, but, but still, you know, we've all done it, right?
Speaker B:That tax deduction, you know, we've all done it.
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