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S3 E6 - 1974
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Ahhh... back to the 70's! Joanne's favorite time, j/k. She is not a fan. On the show this week we talk about Tornados, Icons, Leisure, Pop Culture, Movies, Food, and our new segment Wanted Dead or Alive. We also do some "Was it Before or After" 1974 trivia.
1974. Alright, so we are on Tornado Watch tonight. Joanne is in Texas and they are under a tornado watch, or is it a warning? Watch a warning.
SPEAKER_00Which one is worse? I can watch. It's not that one.
SPEAKER_01It's the warning. It's the warning. Right.
SPEAKER_00But this is how I know how bad the storms are going to be by the cat.
SPEAKER_01So your cat goes and hides?
SPEAKER_00Yeah. So uh cat's putting my food in the street. Stalking live cat food in the water. Texie would go up the stairs. And depending upon what level he settled on, that was how bad the storm was gonna be. So it was like a two-level storm or a four-level storm. Okay. So then Jasper started, he loved Texi. He started following Texi's lead. So he started doing that. He I don't think he likes to sit on our stairs now because they're wood, not nice carpet. So now he's come and he's sat on my feet and he has never ever done this before.
SPEAKER_03Oh wow.
SPEAKER_00So it could be a bad one.
SPEAKER_03Well, when he moves to the basement shelter, that's probably an indication.
SPEAKER_00Guess what? I'm so stupid. I moved to Texas and you don't have a shelter.
SPEAKER_01Then they build them into the ground. You can't go to the basement of the Alamo and find Pee-wee's bike. Wouldn't it be right there?
SPEAKER_00Maybe I should.
SPEAKER_01Do you know people still show up to the Alamo asking to see the basement? Yeah, just because of Pee Wee's Yeah, because of Pee Wee Herman. I believe it.
SPEAKER_00Like why would they lie about that? Right. Right.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_01It's in the movies. So we could win a Webby tonight if Joanne gets swept away in a storm.
SPEAKER_03Oh my goodness.
SPEAKER_01So definitely get away from the story. If you just swept away a tornado. Live tornado. Well, it is a w a war on the podcast.
SPEAKER_00Maybe also what's what's the the Pulitzer?
SPEAKER_01Oh, really?
SPEAKER_00We could win a Pulitzer. For journalism. For journalism.
SPEAKER_01There you go. Reporting. For broadcasting the. Like I said, get Jim Cantoria in there.
SPEAKER_00Keep thinking big.
SPEAKER_03Jim Cantoria. I love him so much. Why does he have to put himself in so much? Why do any of them?
SPEAKER_01Why do any news channels have to put their reporters in danger?
SPEAKER_03Or we can see it if you just put a damn camera.
SPEAKER_01We got it. We don't need to be in the middle of someone's lives at danger, like that person in the cameraman at danger. You know, yeah. We got it. We know shit's gone south.
SPEAKER_03Now they're putting them in cars and driving them around the highway. Oh, I saw that. Did you see the last storm? Yeah, like Channel 9. Oh, these roads are a little slushy. And they're driving. They're actual drivers.
SPEAKER_01We're out on the roads, and you can see out the back of the road.
SPEAKER_03You can see on uh 495 is a little slushy, and you may want to take it a little slow on the bridges.
SPEAKER_01Again, don't you're out in it.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, we don't need to be putting more people in harm as well. The plowman and the police could let you know those stories.
SPEAKER_00On the ground reporting.
SPEAKER_03Let's put more people in danger. That's all.
SPEAKER_01So, Joanne, when is your warning over? Your warning.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, 10 30. 10 30. So we are in the thick of it. This is exciting. I'm looking like a reporting from Fredericksburg, Texas. The sky is an interesting mix of gray, puffy clouds, very dark blue strata clouds, and the sun is setting. So some of the clouds are also pink. Oh, isn't that pretty? Pick a picture. Yes, but looking to the south, the clouds are uh ominous orange and yellow.
SPEAKER_01Spooky. It's almost like we got Joanne. Thanks, Joanne. We'll check back in later. Hopefully you're now Dave with the news.
SPEAKER_03I do have corrections. Oh, we did have some corrections, yes. Now I know we don't do this normally anymore, but there were a couple that totally kind of made me crazy. Okay. This one was the poor paranormal activity one. We didn't know how much that made that they actually spent to make this one. Can you have a guess on how much it's a hundred thousand? Um Joanne, you have a guess on how much they spent on it. Spent to make it. It's a horror movie. And their return. Yeah. So they spent over a hundred million. It made 193 million. It almost made 200 million.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03So that is a good return on investment, I can tell you.
SPEAKER_01Now there's like four, there's like four or five of them now.
SPEAKER_03It now is, and I I think they have a little more budget now. Um, but yeah, the first first one was basically just security camp footage from a ring camera in the bedroom.
SPEAKER_04Right.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, and they just kind of were acting out like on the bed, and then they had like a sheet. Acting out on the bed. Well, okay, so they'd be asleep where spirits things happen to them. Yeah, the paranormal stuff. And the a sheet would move or uh a door would shut and they'd freak out and it'd all be in uh night vision, basically, in the camera. You never it wasn't like horror jump sc uh scares or anything like that. It was just the ominous uh things just might happen to you uh in the dark.
SPEAKER_01So I had one then, and we'll go back to yours because I think you had another one, Dave. Mine was I made a comment that George Clooney was got nominated or for an Oscar or whatever for Nixon Frost, and it wasn't Nixon Frost, that was Ron Howard, which we then said later.
SPEAKER_04Right.
SPEAKER_01I had I had my movies confused because George Clooney got nominated for what was the one Hello, Good Night, and Bid Farewell or something like that.
SPEAKER_03The Walter Cronkite kind of reporter guy. So yeah. That's what I was thinking. Yeah, the evening reporting guy.
SPEAKER_01And I'm like, wait, I watched Frost Nixon. But yeah, then George Clooney, so maybe Joanne, you can search that what that actually was called, the George Clooney movie. But he got nominated. I think he acted and directed it.
SPEAKER_02Oh, okay. So he's a good one.
SPEAKER_01But it was yeah, it was like good afternoon, good night, and something or something like that. So you don't have another one. No, that was the only one I did. Did you have any corrections, Joanne? Anything you heard last week that just irked you? Push your little bitch. That's good.
SPEAKER_00That's good to know. Good night and good luck. Thanks.
SPEAKER_01Good night and good luck. What year was that, do you know?
SPEAKER_002005.
SPEAKER_01Oh, okay. So why were we even talking about that? 2009. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Way off.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Five-year buffer.
SPEAKER_03Yes, yes. Yes. Let's try to keep it in the let's try to keep it within a certain uh range of the year, please. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Okay. So my first topic of 1974 was oh, and by the way, I'm uh sorry, back before we get to 1974, I'm I just started season three of Tulsa King. Oh, yeah. The season two cliffhanger, oh my god. I was just like into three. So you just immediately jumped in the middle of the thing. I just went straight into three, and I was like, all right, cool. Well that's good that you have that ability. Right. So it was just like, oh my god, they killed him. Oh yeah. Nobody's safe on the show if you watch it. No one is safe.
SPEAKER_03And I think that's with any show anymore. I think you you almost have to hold that in because they just don't care.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Like they'll just throw those twists in.
SPEAKER_01Right. Anyway, so that's my Tulsa King update. I should be done with that by next week.
SPEAKER_03So No, I finished Landman. So keep us posted.
SPEAKER_01You finished, oh yeah, you finished Landman. Yeah, the car crash. Oh my God. That was amazing. Like when he's like, He's like, Jesus God. Yeah, he's like, God, what are you gonna throw me next? And then like, you know, a tire blows out on a car and then an accident right in front of it. Pretty good. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Now I don't need to watch it. No. You've already you're already got a little bit more.
SPEAKER_03It's just one scene. No, that's the whole movie. That's the whole show. It builds up to this car is that the two seasons came to right there. That's it. To that car accident. All you need to know.
SPEAKER_01That's just one scene. All you need to know. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_01Okay. So back back to the 70s, Joanne's favorite genre.
SPEAKER_03She loves the 70s. In 1974. But you know you only have eight more of those.
SPEAKER_01I know, because we've knocked we're knocking two out. We got two out already. Yes. So in 1974, it was dominated by home home centric activities. Oh. With forty-six percent of people just wanting to stay home and watch TV. Okay. Do you know why though?
SPEAKER_03I know why. Because the 70s TV shows? No, because the 70s was the energy crisis and people couldn't drive. There was gas issues. The gas shortages and everything were in that time frame. It was right in there though. It was in the middle of all of that. And we I remember the odd evens. Do you remember that?
SPEAKER_00Oh my gosh, yes.
SPEAKER_03The where you would have to get gas only if your inspection sticker was odd or even. Oh, I do, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Oh no, I thought it was your license plate.
SPEAKER_03No, no, because well, no, I think it was the inspection stickers where um it showed the month, you know. Yeah, right. We're able to use that.
SPEAKER_00Yes. We had to wake up uh some ungodly hour. My mom put us in the back of the pinto. The pinto, lovely. We had a pinto also. It was blue. It must have been though, like 78 or something. Yeah, it would have been in that. Yeah, it would have been later.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_00So we'll get to that. But we she put us in the car really early in the morning with blankets, sleeping bags, pillows, and then we would drive up to Oakden Shopping Center to wait in line at the shell station for hours.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah. It was a good line. Right. Good line.
SPEAKER_00It's yeah, it probably still only costs like 50 cents a gallon, but yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_01It was definitely under it was definitely under a dollar. Yeah, but I mean but the shortages were the problem. Yeah, and just not enough. Yeah, the air runs could run out. So other favorites uh pastimes, reading, 14% of people like to stay home and read. Wow, and then 12% liked dining out.
SPEAKER_00So yeah. We never used to dine out.
SPEAKER_01So it also was the year that marked the rise of disco. Of course. And the polyester leisure suits.
SPEAKER_00Oh gosh. So you're telling me this 1974 is what started my hatred.
SPEAKER_01Exactly.
SPEAKER_00The 70s.
SPEAKER_01The height of it, wasn't it? Polyester leisure suits. Yes.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Which that was I listened to a lot of uh disco songs. You did? Yeah. No, in my rotation, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Oh, disco. Oh yeah, definitely. I was never a lover or a hater of disco. I mean, I you know, I love the Bee Gees. I mean, they were technically disco. Oh, yeah. Um the whole staying alive thing. And yeah, ABBA ABBA I can take in little doses. I can't just put on an ABBA record. But if they pop on, you might yeah, I won't change the channel. Right, right, right. You know, I'll I'll be like, oh, okay.
SPEAKER_02Well, it's ABBA.
SPEAKER_01Right. Uh a lot of people were playing staying at home playing board games and card games, like Scrabble. Scrabble was huge. And you know, any sort of card card game like peanut or cribbage. Yeah, exactly. Cribbage. Right. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, stuff like that. Where you have multiple people in it. Um the leisure suit came out, uh like I said, and it came out with its wide collars. Nice. Which was like the shoulder pads of the 80s, the wide collars of the 70s.
SPEAKER_03So the one thing that I remember is that my parents went to a Halloween costume, and my mom and dad were dressed up in 70s outfits, and I and I have I have I remember the picture they took. It was a Polaroid picture of him in the leisure suit and the flared-out collar.
SPEAKER_01Nice.
SPEAKER_03Uh the shirt underneath was one of those pla uh uh paisley. It's hard to say, uh Paisley ones, and it was red and everything. And the uh I think the outfit was like a greenish color. It was very scary. But he also had the hat and kind of looked like the pimp, and my mom looked like the hooker. And I was like, wow, that's interesting. In the picture, it kind of looked like that. But they were kind of doing the leisure suit and disco thing, right? But you just called your mom said she looked like a hooker. Yes, and this will be wonderful to hear the next Monday when I get that call. Exactly.
SPEAKER_04Uh, when she straight when the correction look like a hooker.
SPEAKER_03The correction next correction for the next pro cast will be very fun. Very fun.
SPEAKER_01Actually, maybe we can get a voice note from your mom. I might have to record that one little voice note though. Yeah, let's record that one. Nancy, how do you feel about that?
SPEAKER_03Yes, we might have to have her. Your son just called you once a week. Yes, that'll be good. Yes. And in rebuttal, yes. That's a good one. But I do remember that one picture and it it had that whole uh disco-y uh kind of feel.
SPEAKER_01Gotcha. Sweet. So and on TV, people were watching uh All in the Family. Though that 49% of people that were staying home. Were doing the family thing? And no, I'm just saying that that was part of the leisure stuff. And then uh hobbies included sewing. Oh. Yeah, and working working on homework. They had to do their disco activity. And listening to records was quite common. Really? Okay. Yep. LPs, huh? Yep. So and then the other leisure activities, going to movies or the theater. Which still is a big thing. Still is a big thing, but uh back then. Yeah, it was packed. But you know, in the 70s, when movies were released, they would stay in the theaters for like a year. Oh gosh.
SPEAKER_03Like their rotation was okay. So you didn't have the mega theater, right? You only had two or three screens maybe. Yes, um, at at best. Single or two screens. Yeah, and there there wasn't the mass of people either. So you still had small audiences. So they had to run for a while.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03And by putting them on celluloid, I mean.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. And so we'll get into movies in in my next segment. We'll talk more about that. So that's nice.
SPEAKER_03Oh, the ones that are out then.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, the ones that were out in the middle of the 19th century.
SPEAKER_00Super deeper.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I know there's some good ones too. All right, Doyen, hit me with your icons.
SPEAKER_00Icons.
SPEAKER_01Icons.
SPEAKER_00Okay, so we haven't done this one yet.
SPEAKER_01So this would be interesting on your take. Because we don't know how, yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00You stole my thunder a little bit with ABBA, talking about ABBA.
SPEAKER_01Oh, well, we really didn't.
SPEAKER_00But that's okay. Um, this is a throwback to two weeks ago.
SPEAKER_01As long as we didn't steal your tornado, because that's gonna give us away. Is it there yet? Is it there? Update.
SPEAKER_00We just had a huge thunder, and the cat wasn't run to the shelter yet, though. Um throwback to 1971, 1974 was actually the year that Richard Nixon designed so the design. So the Watergate scandal, you know, all the Watergate players. Right, yeah. That was 1974. Um, Muhammad Ali and George Foreman with the rumble in the jungle.
SPEAKER_01Yep, I was gonna mention that, but uh, yep.
SPEAKER_00Diane von Furstenberg, fashion icon, because she designed her rap dress in 1974, which people still wear to this day. That's how much of an icon she is.
SPEAKER_0350 years later, to rap design something so iconic that it would be still alive today as a feature, meaning it hadn't like gone the way of uh bell bottoms or anything like that. They're still utilizing it as a uh as a feature for dressers. That's really cool, actually.
SPEAKER_00And through the decades, you know, it's changed style, you know, patterns and fabrics. You know, back in the day it had the big collars, obviously. But the classic style, you you just can't go wrong with that.
SPEAKER_03Nice. Nope.
SPEAKER_00Um David Bowie kind of was our our music icon, if you will. Yep, he was along with Cher. Along with Cher.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah, Cher, of course. Cher Long Solo.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_01After Sonny and Cher. Right.
SPEAKER_00After Sonny and Cher. And Farah Fawcett, huge icon of movies, baby. Television poster.
SPEAKER_01The red bathing suit. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00So she I would say maybe of all of them, she's like the biggest icon out of 74 of that year.
SPEAKER_01Out of 74.
SPEAKER_00For everybody, right? Like everybody knew her, oh yeah. Could identify with her in some way, even if it was just like, oh my gosh, I want to be her, or what, you know, whatever. I think she was she was huge.
unknownYep.
SPEAKER_00Those are my icons. Sweet.
SPEAKER_01So, Dave, talk to us about some pop culture. Okay, so this is a super fast episode, too, by the way. Well, what we're gonna be done with just in 10 minutes.
SPEAKER_03I have a lot of stuff.
SPEAKER_01So we have to get it in before Joanne gets swept away. Yeah, right. Yes, we gotta hurry before she blows away.
SPEAKER_03Yes, and then we're and then she's a recording for Ma's. That's perfect. Yeah. Um, so the I had the TV premieres were the six million dollar man, uh, Happy Days, uh, Planet of the Apes at Barney Miller. Those were all started in 74. The Godfather, which we mentioned in the last episode, uh uh the broadcast on TV was the first time. It was heavily edited, of course, uh, for content and length. Um, Hank Aaron breaks the Babe Ruth home run record uh at 715. Um, The Dark Side of the Moon was released, um, Pink Floyd uh became number one. Uh Kiss, uh the band Kiss uh started their first national tour uh in the midst of all the all the disco starting and everything, which was part of uh, I don't know if you remember this, but where it was a promotion uh where there was a confliction of of all the disco sucks kind of thing. Yeah, that was in Cleveland in Cleveland. Yeah. Yeah. And it uh KISS was a lot of uh brought a lot of that to it. Um, but uh KISS was known for their elaborate makeup, costumes, and theatrical performances. Their concert represented the evolution of that type of genre of rock concert, uh, where you actually were there to see a spectacle as opposed to being uh just hearing music.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_00Do you know what I saw the other day? It was this video was the downfall of Kiss, and it was the one where they didn't wear their makeup. Oh, really? When they did Animal.
SPEAKER_01Was that I Was Made for Love and You?
SPEAKER_00Uh uh Maybe.
SPEAKER_03Maybe.
SPEAKER_00It was in the 80s.
SPEAKER_03And that was their video where they took their makeup off.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that was like that was it. We did not need to see that.
SPEAKER_03Made for Loving You, baby. I kind of liked that one. That was pretty good. Yeah, there were a couple off the animal album that was pretty good. Yeah. Um, but that also set the stage for Glam Rock and Arena Rock because they actually were selling out huge arenas uh once they started. Oh, all the spitting blood and the flames and uh yeah, all the fireworks and everything. I went to one concert uh that was KISS and that was kind of an afterthought. Like I the guy had an extra ticket and I just went. I didn't have any reason to see KISS because I didn't have a lot in my background that was KISS. I had old KISS, but not any of the new stuff. But yeah, it is the even then, which was in the 90s when that was in, um the show was that the reunion tour?
SPEAKER_01I think it was kind of gone. Yeah, yeah. And it went on for three years.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it was kind of a long little have to make the money when you can make it. I mean, if Gene Simmons taught us anything. Um but um yeah, make it while you can. Um but yeah, and and but yeah, the spectacle of it all, it it's just a different show than anything I've been to. Right. I mean, and I went to Queensweg when they did the whole um Oh yeah. Uh oh God, um uh Minecrime when they did Mine Crime. Oh, operation. They did the whole Mine Crime, yeah, and they did the whole show in the middle of the concert, and then they had their new stuff on both ends. But yeah. Um uh one of the 20th century's most significant archaeological finds was in 1974. Uh, do you have any idea an archaeological find might be odd no none none at all? King Tut, King Tut. Nice try. Uh, this would have been the terracotta army found in uh China, and basically this represented the uh army that was gonna travel with the first emperor into the afterlife. And it was pristine, just everything about them were just all cut into terracotta, and they were so lifelike. That's what impressed everything. And it was everything that would have been in an army. So it was soldiers, horses, carriages, everything, uh armor, armory, everything. Um, and it was uh underscoring the universal guest uh quest, sorry, the quest for immortality and the power of legacy. So the Chinese culture came out in all this and became a big thing, which actually travel all that art and of of Chinese culture traveled to different museums as a associated with that. Right.
SPEAKER_00I I wanted to see them. They were here or in Virginia at some point. I totally miss seeing them.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, they had some traveling right now.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. The traveling show. Yeah, yeah. Well, they had when the King Tut did the traveling thing. Well, that 1980 or something like that. Yeah, that was kind of crazy.
SPEAKER_03And then we did it in Philadelphia when we went into Philadelphia and got to see it. So it was an interesting.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, my mom took took us and I just remember, yeah, waiting in line forever and then uh us walking by it going, Oh, okay, it looks just like the pictures. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03I mean, right.
SPEAKER_01Did we have to wait for like six hours for this? Yeah, the whole thing.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, you want to see it in in real life. I guess I also had uh the launch of the Rubik's Cube. Oh, yeah. Which is still today kind of a big ass thing. Um it was first introduced in Hungary. Uh it marked the certificate moment in puzzles and pop culture. Uh since then, uh 350 million have been made. Wow. Do you know the six colors that are on a Rubik's Cube? Red, blue, green, yellow, and white.
SPEAKER_01You know, and orange. Yep, and orange. You got them all.
SPEAKER_03That's good. Um, do you know how many possible configurations there are?
SPEAKER_01Six billion.
SPEAKER_03It's like a billion. 43 quintillion. Because there's uh it's nine by nine, or it's uh yeah, nine by nine cube.
SPEAKER_00Nine by nine by nine by nine by nine. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03So you've got, yeah, that uh multiplied whatever. Um there was a um uh contest that comes out of this called speed cubing, not to be confused with gleaming the cube. Um the World Cubing Association was established associated with that, and a robot was programmed to generate the world record, a Guinness World Record, of 0.38 seconds to solving the cube, whereas the human record is 4.34 seconds.
SPEAKER_01I was about to say, well, isn't it? Yeah, it's like it's crazy it's yeah, it's like ridiculous.
SPEAKER_03But I'm telling you, well, you could program it and then you know it would just take the amount of a super computer to try to put it all together.
SPEAKER_01So just a couple years ago, since we've been here, um, my wife wanted to be able to solve a Rubik's Cube. So she would like watched, you know, videos on how you know the patterns and the whole, you know, all all the stuff like that. And she got to the point where she could like solve a Rubik's Cube in like a minute.
SPEAKER_03Oh, really?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Jeez. Like consistently. Like you could mix it up. I would mix it up based on it. And like a minute later, she was like, okay, there you go, done. Oh my goodness. And she could do it in a m like a minute, a minute, minute and a half in that range.
SPEAKER_03But she'd beat the record.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. No, it's 4.34. Yeah, 4.3.
SPEAKER_03She should go for 4.34.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Get that down. She's a minute. She's got a little bit of work to do.
SPEAKER_01She she was just happy that, you know, she could remember the steps and the process and the pattern and the to be able to just, yeah, and make it like muscle memory and just do it.
SPEAKER_03And so quick ones. Uh the UPC universal uh product code was created. That's the barcodes on all products. Hello Kitty character was first introduced. Um and the birth of the hip-hop culture, which would include the four pillars of hip-hop DJing, MCing, breakdancing, and graffiti art. Yep. You know, the four pillars. The four pillars. You know, you know. Graffiti art. Uh yeah. The fact that I had to look that all up is just crazy.
SPEAKER_01When you said the UPC, the barcode thing, I actually watched a video last night about um the expiration dates on groceries and perishable items and how basically they're meaningless because they're they're not government mandated. No. The FDA does not say you have to put an expiration date on there. The reason in the it was in the mid-late 70s, they started putting best buy or use buy dates on stuff so that the clerks in the grocery stores could rotate out the product and put the stuff with the you know, all the stuff in the front and this you know, the new stuff in the back. Right. And so that they would have could rotate the stock and they would know how long the stuff had been there. Okay. And it has nothing to do with it going bad or expiring, or like they said, you know, the way it's new milk went bad is you opened it up and if it smelled and was punched you in the face, you knew it was bad. Your bread. The way you knew your bread went bad is because it grew mold. Exactly. Or got stiff, yeah. Yeah. But now they put you know the used by our best buy dates on all this stuff that and you know, even like canned foods and stuff, they said that stuff will last forever.
SPEAKER_03Because there's no air getting into it. Right.
SPEAKER_01Once it's sealed, it's sealed. Unless it's a dentist, but still put a date on it.
SPEAKER_03Of course.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. So basically how all the expiration dates on food and you know stuff like that is just meaningless.
SPEAKER_03And is there anything okay? I know you just said that about the dates. Is there anything that if you saw the date at a certain thing, you couldn't even try to eat it?
SPEAKER_01I used to be that way with milk. Yeah. Um, like if it was like the next day, I'd be like, oh, I can't drink that. And now I'm just like, eh, it's fine.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Really, really any kind of dairy products or eggs.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Right.
SPEAKER_00Anything more and they said poisoning.
SPEAKER_01They said even with like yogurt, like once the dates passed, it's still good. Right. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00This is what my mother says. Hi, mom. My mother's been listening especially to the 70s.
SPEAKER_04Right.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_00She always says that. And my husband too. This is what Mark does. I don't think he's listening. He shakes his milk every day. And he says by shaking it, it does something with molecules. I don't know. Right. So that he keeps milk like two weeks beyond. Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_03You know why? I I nothing I know. It regenerates itself.
SPEAKER_00Is that true? No.
SPEAKER_03No.
SPEAKER_00Okay. Because I I I I never know. I never know. But it's just disgusting.
SPEAKER_03I would think if you could drink it, you drink it. I mean, it's not. I mean, uh Lisa has that kind of issue, my wife. She has those types of food issues where if a deli meat is past a day past the date that's on it. It's fine. As long as it's not smelling. No, there's a whole thing cheese, sour cream, cream cheese, anything that does have the date. She lives by that date.
SPEAKER_01Oh. It's all fake with this. It's all fake. It was all meant for stalkers to do that.
SPEAKER_03If I could scrape off the date, I think we'd have a lot more food. But yeah, we get to be I would be thinner because I wouldn't have to eat it all before it goes bad. Right. Just stuffing it down. Yeah. Yes. But yeah, we do, we kind of, yeah. The dates are always kind of an issue. Cool.
unknownCool.
SPEAKER_03So is that all your pop culture? I had one more, but it's over. No, hit us. Hit us. Okay. The Cleveland Indians had the worst sports promotion. I don't know if you heard about this. They decided to do 10 cent beer night. Oh, wow.
SPEAKER_00So why is that bad?
SPEAKER_03Because it resulted in two riotous crowds and they had to cancel the game. They had to forfeit the game. Because people were so drunk. Because people can't moderate themselves. And having 10 cent beer meant I could two-fist it as much as possible. But in 1974, 10-cent beer. You wouldn't even need a dollar, for goodness sake. I mean, good lord. It's nine innings. So you gotta think that they went half. Well, you've got to buy a hot dog too. Well, that's true. You don't want to do that on an empty stomach.
SPEAKER_01And hot dogs were like 50 cents. Of course. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03So you had that dog money though.
SPEAKER_01Six beers.
SPEAKER_03You're all set for a dollar. Do your math better, please. 50 cent hot dog. Five beers. Five beers.
SPEAKER_00Five beers.
SPEAKER_03That was a correction at one time. Exactly. Please do your math.
SPEAKER_01Yes. Perfect. Sorry, for about a dollar.
SPEAKER_03For almost a dollar.
SPEAKER_01For a little over a dollar, you could get a hot dog and six beers.
unknownMy gosh.
SPEAKER_01Okay, so my movies is my second topic for 1974. Perfect. I love movies. Any guesses on the top movies. 74, Jaws. No. Jaws wasn't until 76.
SPEAKER_00Godfather 2.
SPEAKER_01No. No.
SPEAKER_03Although I think they started shooting shooting Godfather 2 in 74. No, I think I read that in my in my uh pop culture.
SPEAKER_01As soon as I tell you that this was the number one movie, you're gonna say, are you shitting me?
SPEAKER_03Oh no.
SPEAKER_01$119 million. Wow. The Mel Brooks classic Blazing Saddles.
SPEAKER_00I believe it because Mark and his parents used to watch that together.
SPEAKER_02Oh really?
SPEAKER_03Yes, I love that one.
SPEAKER_00Which shocked the heck out of me.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, because there's so many racial jokes in it and uh and sex jokes and shocked. I loved it. That was a good movie. Shocked.
SPEAKER_01So the number two movie of the year was The Towering Inferno. Oh, of course. Disaster movies. That was the culmination.
SPEAKER_03That was the height of disaster movies.
SPEAKER_01Disaster movies because also uh Earthquake came out that year. And that was like how much? 79 million. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00So I think I've just figured out why I'm afraid of fire.
SPEAKER_01Because of Towering Inventory.
SPEAKER_00I think so.
SPEAKER_01You watched it when you were at four years old. Yeah, that would scar me too.
SPEAKER_00And I watched We Side in Adventure.
SPEAKER_01Oh yeah, totally. I remember the episode. So when I was eight, I accidentally watched a Clockwork Orange and was basically fucked up so bad after that. I would get so terrified, I would change the channel because it was on HBO and it was like late at night, and you know, my parents are in bed. Of course. What is this? And like I would get so freaked out because it was so violent, I would like turn the channel until I could like breathe and settle down again. Like, okay, now go back and let's watch more. But it was so quirky too because of how the mind tricks. And then when I watched it later on as an adult and understood film in Stanley Kubrick and how he uh like I watch it and I'm just like, it's brilliant. I mean, right. Such a fantastic film.
SPEAKER_04But not for eight-year-olds.
SPEAKER_01Not for an eight-year-old. They do not recommend funny things at eight-year-old sneaky.
SPEAKER_03My daughter was watching over my show. Well, she I brought um her to uh the television to watch Pirates of the Caribbean, where they turned into uh zombie skeletons, when the moons out. So yeah, that didn't go over well. Uh, that was the first one. The first one is when uh they had the coins and they had the they were cursed. It was the cursed gold. Yeah, and they turned into zombie pirates. Yeah, she was very young. She was probably seven or eight, yeah. She was young, yeah. So that was probably not my best parenting uh advice.
SPEAKER_01The other other big movie that year, uh Herbie Rides Again. Oh, my favorite.
SPEAKER_03Oh, Herbie.
SPEAKER_01And then also they had Deathwish, Longest Yard, Bingey. Binge. Yeah, yeah. Binge did just a little bit better than Herbie Rides Again. That's Entertainment, The Conversation, which I don't know what that was, and then The Great Gatsby.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, The Great Gatsby. I saw that one because we had mentioned that before.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03As remakes in our trivia or 101.
SPEAKER_01Right. And then back to the end of the day. The Oscar movies that year, the nominations, um, hold on, I have a ch it was the 46th Academy Awards in 1974. So these were movies from 1973 that in 1974 got the you any guesses on on this? The best actor category could have been any one of these people. It was Jack Lemon, Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, and Robert Redford. Any one of them could have won the Oscar for that. Right. That is like a tough group. That really is. But the winner was Jack Lemon for Save Save the Tiger, which I never saw.
SPEAKER_02I never saw that one.
SPEAKER_01I never saw it. But yeah, Brando was up for Last Tango in Paris, Jack Nicholson, The Last Detail, Al Pacino for Serpico, Serpico, and uh Robert Redford for The Sting.
SPEAKER_03Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_01So um supporting actors, John Houseman, uh Randy Quaid for The Last Detail.
SPEAKER_02Oh, wow.
SPEAKER_01Wow, how they had to be super. He must have been super young. Seriously, was he super. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02He had to have been a good thing.
SPEAKER_01Um, yeah, the winner was John Houseman for The Paper Chase that year. For Best Supporting for Actress, uh, Glenda Jackson won for A Touch of Class, which I don't know, but also nominated Ellen Burston, Marsha Mason, Barbara Streisand for The Way We Were, and Joanne Woodward for uh Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams. Right. So Randy Quayne is 75.
SPEAKER_03He's 75 now. Okay. Oh wow. He wouldn't have been too much of a baby, but he would have been in his 20s.
SPEAKER_00So he's he's 20 or older than us. Yeah. So he would have been like 20. 20 something. Yeah, 20.
SPEAKER_01Late 20s, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Cray Cray.
SPEAKER_01So Best Actress in a supporting role went to Tatum O'Neill for Paper Moon.
SPEAKER_00I was gonna say that.
SPEAKER_01Yep, because and she was at that at that time the youngest uh actress to win. Is that right? Wow. Tatum O'Neill. So uh and then the big movies that year were I'm scrolling, getting to them. The Sting was on there. Oh yeah, because the Sting won for Best Picture. Right. So Sting, uh American Graffiti. Right, yeah, yeah. Um Cries and Whispers, I don't know that. Uh The Exorcist. The Exorcist was surprisingly on the list several times for different categories, especially in the effects and makeup and costumes.
SPEAKER_00That came out in 73.
SPEAKER_01Yes. Okay, and then A Touch of Class was the other one for Best Picture, but the Sting one for yeah. Also, uh George Lucas did get a nomination for best director for uh American Graffiti. So nice, yeah.
SPEAKER_00And that was pre-Star Wars, is that correct?
SPEAKER_01Correct, because Harrison Ford was in American Graffiti, and then he cast him in Star Wars as Han Solo because of his performance in American Graffiti, which is very small. It's he's not like the leading man because he had a very small role in American graffiti. Yeah, he was one of the drivers. Yeah, yeah, he was out cruising.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, and that's all it was.
SPEAKER_01Yep. Okay, food news. Sweet. What do we got in food news?
SPEAKER_00I thought I would share some prices with you.
SPEAKER_03Oh, it's 74 prices. Oh, this ought to be good.
SPEAKER_00How things have changed.
SPEAKER_03Oh my goodness, this ought to be good.
SPEAKER_00So I just I went grocery shopping today and I noticed my eggs were like $283.
SPEAKER_01Yes. Remember when they were $12?
SPEAKER_00$78. Oh my god. In 1970. For a dozen, not just individually. For a dozen. My goodness.
SPEAKER_01You can't even get a Cadbury cream egg for $78. Not at all. You can't get any.
SPEAKER_00No.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Um, bread was 35 cents per loaf. I don't really buy bread, but I'm thinking like the last time we did is probably like three something. Does that sound right?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, like three or three. Four, depending upon which. Something like that. Yeah, let's go with that. Yeah, sounds good.
SPEAKER_00Now, here's the kicker bacon, a dollar thirty-two a pound.
SPEAKER_01How much is it now?
SPEAKER_03It's like twelve, thirteen dollars.
SPEAKER_00Oh, no way. No.
SPEAKER_03I have no clue.
SPEAKER_00I think it's like four or five, but it was up to like eight dollars here. Really in the bad times. You guys are in the bad times when we're in the bacon country. But you know what? I bet we're not. We're in cattle country. I bet we're not in the city. So bacon's still a still a thing. Um, milk was a dollar fifty-seven a gallon. I think maybe it's doubled.
SPEAKER_01I want to say it's yeah, like three something a gallon. $3.50. If you go to a convenience store or a gas station, they charge you five bucks. But at the store, I think it's yeah, like $3.50-ish.
SPEAKER_00All in all, like uh 50 years and we've gone up what like one and a half ish times. That doesn't seem too bad.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it doesn't seem too bad on milk. That seems like milk was quite pricey in 1974. Right. Right. I wonder what was going on. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Dig into that.
SPEAKER_01Wow.
SPEAKER_00Um Yeah, there should be a show about that. There should be a show about that.
SPEAKER_02You should have a podcast that does that, yeah. Right. That dives into past times and exactly.
SPEAKER_01So something defect in this one is the bleach. Sorry, my Napoleon dynamite milk.
SPEAKER_00Reading this list, I was like, uh, this is my family. Hi, Mom.
SPEAKER_03Really? 74. Stroganoff. Oh, right on the table. Isn't that right? Yep.
SPEAKER_00Liver and onions, my mom fixed for my dad every once in a while. Did you eat those?
SPEAKER_01I would never eat it.
SPEAKER_00I don't think I could.
SPEAKER_03Oh my God, that smell. You can taste it. Oh my god. Yes. Okay. When you have those types of memories, are you smelling it now? Yeah. You kind of know. Totally. It's so weird that there's certain things like that.
SPEAKER_01Sauerkraut does that to me. I just my sister used to fry tofu, and that smell as that same is just nauseating. Liver and onions. Woof. Liver and onions. Yep. My mom and dad used to have that. They would have their special dinner when they would have that because we would me and my sister were definitely eating something out of it. Yeah, but what would you be able to do? Did you make your own? No, my mom would make us something different.
SPEAKER_00Like chickens or something.
SPEAKER_01It didn't matter because the smell was so overwhelming. It wouldn't matter what you were eating. It masked. I don't remember what we ate. I just know it wasn't liver and onion. That's funny.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Wow. No, I had to eat what was put on the table. I didn't get a choice. I was an only child, so there wasn't you didn't get to play that game. That's true. She didn't have time to cook. Yeah. You got what you got. I just uh whatever I found on the ground or in my life.
SPEAKER_01Mom was making a dime.
SPEAKER_03I was that's what got me independent, is I made food for myself. So yes, I did my own laundry too and uh and made my own bed. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00There was only four.
SPEAKER_03Vacuumed and cleaned. Yeah, at four. You had to, or you didn't eat.
SPEAKER_00Did did you guys ever have American chopped suey?
SPEAKER_01No. No. I didn't know there was a lot of things.
SPEAKER_00I hear about it, and it was one of the more popular things. I never had it. I don't even know what it is.
SPEAKER_03You're gonna do you don't know what the recipe was?
SPEAKER_00No.
SPEAKER_03Oh, I'm sure we can find it on the internet. I am doing that right now. Chopped suey, huh?
SPEAKER_01American chops.
SPEAKER_00For snacks, did you guys? This was a huge snack in my house, stuffed celery. And it was either stuffed. Peanut butter or cream cheese or peanut butter. And you could have ants on a log or you could have a big big big bag on it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I remember that from uh channel 20. That just sounds gross.
SPEAKER_00That was 1974. Uh granola became mainstream. And I the I'm telling you, reading this list, I was having flashbacks like you wouldn't believe. I remember the day my mother tried to make us eat homemade granola. Oh we thought it was the most disgusting thing. Right. And now I mean now I've got it.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, the power bars are now DIY.
SPEAKER_00She put wheat germ in it. And I think that it was the smell of that and the fact that it was called germ. Yes. We didn't want to get it.
SPEAKER_01That's like mean sour cream. You can't. If it was just called white cream floof, white cream floof. I was having a problem, but it's called sour cream. Salt sour cream. Germs and cream. Sour cream. That's so mad. Now Joanne can relate. She gets it. There you go. She gets it. It's all about that.
SPEAKER_00And um uh for entertaining, fondue was the thing. Yes. Have you guys been to melting pot?
SPEAKER_03No. Uh I can't get myself to do that. Melting pots. Yeah. The melting pot? Yeah. Only because, okay, so it's a giant pot, which you don't know where it came from. You don't know if they used the cheese from the last people that were there. Oh, I don't know. But when they cut everything, it sounds like Lisa talking. It's kind of that. But you almost really have a few things.
SPEAKER_00It's not a big pot.
SPEAKER_03It's not. It's not like a fountain in the middle of the restaurant, and everybody just walks up with their skin. Yes.
SPEAKER_00No, everybody, you have your own table and you have like a flat grill.
SPEAKER_03Uh-huh. And then the the that's probably why we don't do it, is because you have to cook your own crap at a restaurant.
SPEAKER_00Oh, you do have to cook.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. So that's kind of take the point of not going to a restaurant.
SPEAKER_00But it's so amazing.
SPEAKER_01I think years ago, like when my wife and I got married, one of our wedding presents, someone got uh gave us like a gift card for melting pot. And we never went.
SPEAKER_03Oh you just let it go.
SPEAKER_01Well, it there's not one near us. I hope that person isn't listening right now. Oh, I'm sure they're not. I'm sure they're not.
SPEAKER_03Okay, so do you want to hear the recipe for American chops soup? Oh, yeah, yeah. It is basically beefaroni. It's macaroni and cheese. Or it's macaroni, cheese, beef, uh, uh ground beef, and a savory tomato based sauce.
SPEAKER_01Huh.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. That's that's chili mac. It started oh no, no, no. Chili Mac's completely different because there's no chili and beans in this. Like it's not a chili seasoning with beans in it. It's totally different than the chili mac because chili mac is basically the macaroni and cheese with chili added into it. So the chili part, it's a little different. Yes, it is kind of the same ingredients, except the chili seasoning isn't in this one. Gotcha. So basically, I'm sure this was on a budget because it started in New England and it moved through the other parts of the U.S. I gotcha. So it's basically American goulash, is what that's saying here.
SPEAKER_00Which you could put anything in the case. American goulash.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I mean, you can put anything in it. Oh, macaroni.
SPEAKER_00It's a regular chop suey.
SPEAKER_03Oh, I don't even know.
SPEAKER_01I don't know either. Did you have any more Joanne than any three? That's enough. That was it. Okay. That's enough.
SPEAKER_03Yes.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so we're getting to those points.
SPEAKER_03Chopsui is completely different. Yeah. It's a it's a dish of meat and eggs stir-fried with bean sprouts, cabbage, and celery. So it's not even close. Why do you even call it chopsue? That's exciting.
SPEAKER_01It's American chops. That's true. We're Americans.
SPEAKER_03We're appropriating something that's named that way. It's not even close.
SPEAKER_00Maybe it was spaghetti with carrots, you know, something like the American version of the Chinese vegetables or something, you know.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I guess. I don't know.
SPEAKER_00You learn something new every day, kids.
SPEAKER_01Maybe has the tornado passed yet? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Update the lightning just got really bad. Oh no.
SPEAKER_03We're not hearing it over the microphone. That's amazing. Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Oh, wow.
SPEAKER_03I'll have to go back and listen to that. Huge thunder.
SPEAKER_00Maybe.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, you can just dial it up. Dial it up a little. Oh, can you hear that? Yes. No. No, I didn't hear it. That's it. Wait, everybody listen. Everybody's going to go back to the back.
SPEAKER_01I think that's my air conditioner.
SPEAKER_00Right now, that was a big rumble that was like.
SPEAKER_01I didn't hear it. No, we don't hear it anyway.
SPEAKER_00And lightning. Okay.
SPEAKER_01Oh, the lightning we aren't going to hear. Just to let you know.
SPEAKER_00Unless it hits my trees. That's true.
SPEAKER_01That's true. Yeah, you hear the crack. Okay, Dave, let's go to Wanted Dead or Alive. Wanted Dead or Alive. Our new segment of Born and Gone.
SPEAKER_03Wanted Dead or Alive. Basically is People Who Lived and then People Who Died. So our born in 74s were Derek Jeter, Nelly. Yeah, uh Alanis Morissette, Amy Adams, Jenna Fisher, Leonardo DiCaprio, which I seem to think always makes an appearance in our show. Exactly. Right?
SPEAKER_01At some point, Leonardo DiCaprio is now just remember when we had that Dave Batista era? Yes. It was always a Dave Batista thing. This is just now the season three, it's Leonardo DiCaprio. Well, you kind of have to. I mean, we gotta evolve.
SPEAKER_03Has he won an Oscar? Leonardo or Batista.
SPEAKER_01No, I know I know Batista has not won an Oscar. Did you see that crappy movie he just did on on Prime?
SPEAKER_03It was not that good.
SPEAKER_02Was that the one with um with Samoa, Momoa?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, Mamoa, Jason Momoa. Jason Samoa. Jason Samoan. Yeah. Oh my god. What a piece of shit that movie was. It was not very good. Did he?
SPEAKER_00I think he just won for the Bear movie.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, the Revelet. Oh. Oh, that was another correction. The departed was the part of her trying to get some rat and the He was a police informant. Departed and they tried to get him home. That was the departed. That was the departed. Dale Earnhardt Jr. for our racing fans. Christian Bale, Sarah Poulson, Steve O. Steve O. Steve gotta love that. Yep. Classic. He's an icon. He's an icon, right? He might move we should have moved him up. I mean, come on.
SPEAKER_01That should have been on the icons.
SPEAKER_03Right. Eva Mande, uh Eva Mande Eva Mandel. Mandez. Mandez. Uh Hillary Swank, Jimmy Fallon, uh, Joaquin Phoenix, Little Kim. Little Kim. Uh Seth Green. And then I had a Trifecta here. Uh, if you can't guess uh who the trifectas are a part of, uh, these three are put together, uh Lark Voorhees, Mark Paul Gossler, and Tiffany Amber Thiessen. Come save by the bell. Saved by the bell, all three. So that was kind of cool. Um, yeah. There we go. Cool. And then um I have a who died. Yeah, so I have a bit somber. Uh uh, yeah. So we had uh a lot of people that left us that are very famous. Um Agnes Moorhead, uh, who was the Bewitched Mom. Yeah, the mom from Bewitched. Uh Cass Elliott, uh Mama Cass. Mama Cas, Mama Cass. Yes, from the Mamas and Papas, Mamas and Papas. Yeah. Um Ed Sullivan, um, Oscar Schindler. Uh and yes, it was him. Yes. Uh Jack Benny, uh, and Klein, uh fashion uh when we were talking about the dress. Anne Klein started her uh fashion her and that's still today, so that's a that's a big one. Um Bud Abbott from Abbott and Costello. Oh comedy pairs. Uh Tex Ritter, the country singer. Well, I'm getting really sad now. And Edward Platt, uh the chief. He played the chief in Get Smart.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. So I do have a couple of notary ones here that I want to talk about. Uh Tim Horton. Uh-huh. He passed in 74. He was the Canadian ice hockey player for the Toronto Maple Leafs and winning four Stanley Cups. He also started the entire restaurants. They're not just gas stations. Yeah. Uh and they started in 1964. They fo originally focused on hamburgers and transitioned to donuts and coffee. They became the largest Canadian quick service chain. Yep. And as of 2023, they have 5,700 stores across 14 countries.
SPEAKER_01I hear they have really great bear claws too.
SPEAKER_03You do? I've heard that. And um and uh and to note, uh, Stan Mikita was the makeup one in Wayne's world, which was what they did. Right, which I loved. I thought that was so cool that they did that. And the cruelers were at the Stan Mikita's. Right. Yep. Um, we also lost Duke Ellington, uh. American jazz band leader, composer, and pianist. Uh take the A-train, and it doesn't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing. Uh he left the impact on the American music, had a job in his youth selling peanuts at baseball games. Always thought that was kind of cool. And he started the piano at seven and composed over a thousand songs. That's crazy. That is kind of crazy. You almost have to think if you're that uh musically inclined, what you can come up with, and you come up with that. Like that's like, oh my gosh. Like, I don't think I've I don't think I've had a thousand ideas.
SPEAKER_01So I I used to be a traveling musician during that whole thing. And I went back at one point and counted how many songs I had written. And came up with? And I yes, all on my own. Two thousand. No. Oh, it was like fifty songs.
SPEAKER_03Oh, well, that's impressive. I I would have to say, creatively speaking, is very uh uh amazing.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. So I the there were all yeah, different songs, different ideas, different. And it was, yeah, I had written like 50 songs and I was like, oh wow, okay, I I I did something okay. Yeah. What was that?
SPEAKER_00You were prolific.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah. Yeah, right. I thought you said I was on Ozempic. I was like, what? Well, what do you know? Because you're on Ozempic. It's Ozempic. That's creative juices going. Yes. Oh my god.
SPEAKER_0350 whole songs. 50 songs. Um, and and Charles Lindbergh. Now, Charles Lindbergh is famously known for his first solo nonstop transatlantic flight, um, which went from um our east coast to England. Yep. Or France. France, it was France. Um now that's the big thing. He got his start being a daredevil stunt pilot and was doing barnstorming through the American Heartlands. That's crazy. And and that's how he got so good at flying, and then also was doing a lot of innovations in flight, but he wasn't the first of others that had made that crossing because other people had done it in dirigibles and also in multiple stages, like they would land somewhere. But his was completely nonstop and solo. So he did it all alone. Um, now he did also help the seeds for the space program, where he got he was working with uh Robert Goddard, who was the father of modern rocketry, and advanced those with his uh expertise in flight. But he that's not all he did. He was so mechanically inclined that he also worked with French surgeon Alex Carel to pre and worked on what was called a perfusion pump. And that led to the first artificial heart. And the thing that he had his hands and those types of things being what he is, the overlaps are amazing. Right. And everybody just thinks like, oh, he's the guy that flew for Oh, he flew. Yeah, he's a good flyer, and oh yeah, and and his baby was kidnapped because that was also the Lambert baby. But yeah, and then then that type of famous thing. But he has hands, you know, when you're innovative like that, the creativeness apart like that is just amazing to me to think that there are people that can overlap like that. And wasn't there a movie? No, you know what? That was the aviator, and that was oh, that was Leonardo DiCaprio. That was Leo DiCaprio. Oh, oh, oh it was Leonardo DiCaprio, okay, okay.
SPEAKER_01Exactly.
SPEAKER_03Amazing.
SPEAKER_01We'll try to get through an episode without saying Leo DiCaprio. No, I don't think we can. I don't think we can. We're in the 70s next week. Next the Oscars are the Sunday, so next week we're gonna be talking about the Oscars and he's nominated. And so we'll bring him again. Yes. Yes.
SPEAKER_04Okay.
SPEAKER_01Dang it. Next week will not be a Leo free week.
SPEAKER_03Sorry if you if you don't like Leo DiCaprio.
SPEAKER_01Exactly. Because we love him. Oh my god, obviously.
SPEAKER_03But we've moved from Batista to You know, I didn't like him.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Originally? From what? When he was like what was he was a kid actor on Growing Pains?
SPEAKER_00In Titanic.
SPEAKER_01Oh, in Titanic.
SPEAKER_00I was just I was not a fan of him or her or Titanic. We'll discuss it in 1997.
SPEAKER_01Was it love? Yeah, 1997 we'll discuss Titanic. It was love. You hated it.
SPEAKER_02You hated love.
SPEAKER_03That was all it was.
SPEAKER_01All right, Dave, you said you had some trivia questions that were before and after is before and after.
SPEAKER_03You need to actually figure out if this item was either created and or um invented before or after 1974. Okay. Now, pop rocks was an example of 1974. No, it's it's an example. It was on 1974. Okay. I thought that was early 80s.
SPEAKER_00Before, after, or in.
SPEAKER_03No, but this one's just before and after now. I was just giving you an example of 74 was pop rocks. So kind of baseline it for you there.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_03Okay. Yep. Okay, here we go. Bubblishous bubblegum. Before or after. After. It is after. Cool. 1977. Oh wow.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_03Here we go. Marshmallow Peeps.
SPEAKER_00After.
SPEAKER_03Before. It is before 1954. I was like, 1954? Really? I was some of these are just like, it's kind of weird. Okay. This one's kind of got a a a crux in it. Sugar-free Jell-O. After. It is after. 1984. The original, like a regular Jell O 1897. Wow. Right? So weird. That's weird. Okay, this was an invention, the Lolo Ball. And I'll explain what it is. Please do. It is a rubber ball locked in a plastic platform. It's a toy. And it kind of looked like Saturn. And what you would do is you would bounce on it like a pogo stick. Okay. Before or after 1974? Before.
SPEAKER_04Before.
SPEAKER_03It is before. 1969. But you know why? Because we didn't care about child safety when we created toys. Obviously, we did not, there were no straps, strings. It didn't attach to your foot. You had to squeeze the ball while you were standing on it. And you had to freaking get on this thing, and it was just a rubber ball. So yeah, think um precursor to um the segue. Yeah. Where it's just there's no controls at all. It's just bouncing around. Um okay. The first video game console. Before.
SPEAKER_01We talked about this.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, before we know. No, oh, console. The console itself.
SPEAKER_01So the Odyssey wasn't before then?
SPEAKER_03The Magnavox Odyssey was the first at 72. Yeah. So it was before.
SPEAKER_01I'm crushing this. Yeah. Watch, I'll get the next one wrong. Or is there a next one?
SPEAKER_03There, I've got I got at least another eight. Oh my god.
SPEAKER_01Let's do just like another three. Okay. Pick the three best. Cup noodles.
SPEAKER_03After. Before. It is before 1973. This was weird because I thought it was called cup o noodles. Yeah. Am I not thinking that right? Is cup o' noodles something different? No. I looked at the thing.
SPEAKER_00No, well, the thing. In the UK, it's called cup noodles. Yeah. And I was looking at the pictures they had of it and it was just cup noodles.
SPEAKER_03I thought it was cup o noodles.
SPEAKER_00Weird. It's one of those Mandela facts.
SPEAKER_03Exactly. Exactly.
SPEAKER_01It's much better than like the old pizza in a cup guy. Right. Okay, uh, Big Mac.
SPEAKER_03Before.
SPEAKER_01After.
SPEAKER_03It is before Mr. Perfect. 1968. Um just a couple more. Yeah, two more. Over Redenbacher popcorn. Before.
SPEAKER_00After.
SPEAKER_03It is before 1970. And Slurpees. Ooh. I'm gonna go after.
SPEAKER_01It's before.
SPEAKER_031967.
SPEAKER_00Which I thought was kind of weird. I suck at that.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03I think I only got two wrong. Yeah, you did. That was a good one.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you're doing great.
SPEAKER_03Yes. That's awesome. Nice. I had one. It was blue MMs, which I thought was an interesting one. Do you remember that one? Yeah. 1995. They held a contest to pick the new color from pink, purple, or blue. And it was blue. And blue won, if you didn't know. Um, and uh it took 10 million votes to come up with blue.
SPEAKER_04Nice.
SPEAKER_03Wow. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01How many votes was it for the wizards?
SPEAKER_03The wizards? Uh seven. Two. I think it was seven.
SPEAKER_01Yes, it was total of seven. Yes. The Washington Wizards, not very much. The Washington Wizards. The Washington Bulls.
SPEAKER_03Definitely, yes.
SPEAKER_01Oh my gosh. Cool. Okay, do you have one more?
SPEAKER_03Oh, oh my God, do we have one more? Of course I do. Okay, one more. Um Goldfish Crackers. Ooh. Uh before. Joanne, you have a vote? Before or after 19? After. It's before. Yes. But the before was a little weird. 1962.
SPEAKER_04Yes.
SPEAKER_03Yes. I was like, how marketable would that have been in 62? I don't know. Kids will eat anything. That's true too. But were they buying it? Were kids buying I'm sorry, were parents buying that for kids to just have them in the car and have them lose them underneath the seats all the time. It's just how it came about.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I think so too. You're right. All right. Crazy. Okay, are we ready to get out of this decade? Where we're going to spin?
SPEAKER_03Oh, yes. Oh, Jesus. You should have had me have bring that up early because now I'm still behind. I know, because now Dave's got to be on his phone and he's got to pull it up and open the app to spin the wheel up. And then I gotta turn my app, my volume up.
SPEAKER_01There we go. Oh, we're spinning.
SPEAKER_03Ooh. 1999. Oh, nice.
SPEAKER_01Finally out of the 70s. So yes. 1999. 1999. So much happening.
SPEAKER_04Don't ruin it over.
SPEAKER_01Okay, okay, okay, okay. Yes, I might have pop culture. Yeah, we might have some good stuff for the next next uh 99. 99. I remember it very well.
SPEAKER_00So yeah, it's easier to remember these days. Yes.
SPEAKER_01Sorta, but yes. Cool. All right. I'll see you guys next week. Yep, definitely.
SPEAKER_00Supa dupa.
SPEAKER_01All right, bye.
SPEAKER_00TTOA.
SPEAKER_01Bye.