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what pagers are. 00:02:21.680 --> 00:02:24.479 Actually, pagers came out long before I was born. 00:02:24.719 --> 00:02:28.479 They actually were invented back in or conceptualized back in the late 40s. 00:02:28.639 --> 00:02:31.439 It was a way to get quick messages to and from one place to another. 00:02:31.759 --> 00:02:35.360 I think they were calling it telegraph or telemachine or telescomet or other. 00:02:36.240 --> 00:02:40.800 Wikipedia, you'll be glad to dump a bunch of long-term information into it. 00:02:40.960 --> 00:02:44.400 But yeah, they actually were invented a long time before the 1970. 00:02:44.479 --> 00:02:50.560 However, they started becoming popularized and used by emergency transmission type things. 00:02:58.080 --> 00:02:58.240 Yeah. 00:02:58.479 --> 00:03:00.080 To get to and from one place or another. 00:03:00.159 --> 00:03:01.919 That's our Motorola kind of made its thing. 00:03:02.080 --> 00:03:06.879 In fact, they show a picture of one on the Wikipedia page I looked it up because I was kind of curious about the history. 00:03:06.960 --> 00:03:11.840 And the Page Boy, which came out, the Page Boy 2 came out in 1970. 00:03:11.919 --> 00:03:18.879 And it's a pretty big, well, for compared to what pagers would become, it's a pretty big stick with a teeny tiny little display. 00:03:19.039 --> 00:03:19.840 But it was cool. 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:22.159 You know, it gives you a quick bit of information. 00:03:22.319 --> 00:03:31.840 For the most part, pagers in my time were a quick way to get somebody else's number on a box so you would know, oh, I need to call this person. 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:37.199 And I think my first oh, and I should probably describe they looked like little oh, they're about the size of a deck of cards. 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:37.520 Okay. 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:41.039 By description, with like a little clip so you can put it in your pocket and holds. 00:03:41.199 --> 00:03:47.840 And there's like a little, usually a graphic display on the top where the deck of cards would be, like you would look down at the the cards itself. 00:03:47.919 --> 00:03:52.400 I think later versions had full like two and three line displays along the side of it. 00:03:52.560 --> 00:04:01.840 But yeah, that that was what a pager was as far as like it would give you quick numbered information because all people could do is punch in well, and originally you could you had to rotary dial. 00:04:01.919 --> 00:04:03.680 I don't think we've talked about rotary dials very much. 00:04:03.759 --> 00:04:04.800 So I don't think we have. 00:04:05.039 --> 00:04:06.800 We have that's a fun one. 00:04:08.240 --> 00:04:16.560 Just the same, you would punch in a number, and then the number would go to whoever you sent it to, and they would know to call you as soon as they got to a phone because nobody had cell phones. 00:04:16.720 --> 00:04:18.319 It's the reason why you needed these things. 00:04:18.480 --> 00:04:18.879 Yes. 00:04:19.040

--> 00:04:26.879 And there were people who had cell phones, because I know you've seen every 80s movie with somebody holding a giant like the landline, or are you talking about the brick with the antenna? 00:04:27.279 --> 00:04:32.000 I'm talking about the brick, the brick with the antenna, the giant, like vanilla colored brick. 00:04:32.160 --> 00:04:32.639 Yes. 00:04:32.879 --> 00:04:38.319 It was like, I'm cool, I can talk as if I were waving hands through the air. 00:04:38.639 --> 00:04:39.519 It's amazing. 00:04:39.839 --> 00:04:41.759 You weren't connected to a cord, it was exciting. 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:43.279 Yeah, so powerful. 00:04:43.519 --> 00:04:46.399 And before that, it was like in a briefcase and yeah, cell phones. 00:04:46.560 --> 00:04:48.399 But pagers are kind of in a different category. 00:04:48.480 --> 00:05:01.680 They were a way to quickly relay information, and they were most commonly given to doctors because they were like, hey, you need to call this number to get information about what you need to go do, emergency surgeries, emergency calls, basically. 00:05:01.920 --> 00:05:06.959 And then I think probably more commonly by the time the 90s rolled around, drug dealers. 00:05:07.360 --> 00:05:08.000 What? 00:05:08.720 --> 00:05:09.199 How? 00:05:09.439 --> 00:05:10.319 Because you could buy one. 00:05:10.399 --> 00:05:11.120 I had a pager. 00:05:11.199 --> 00:05:12.000 I don't know why I had one. 00:05:12.399 --> 00:05:12.959 Drug deals? 00:05:13.199 --> 00:05:14.079 I should have. 00:05:14.240 --> 00:05:15.600 I felt like I needed one. 00:05:15.839 --> 00:05:24.480 I think I would have been doing a lot better if I was doing like selling drugs, because then I would be making much better money than I'm making working on computers, which does not do well. 00:05:24.720 --> 00:05:26.000 But that's beside the point. 00:05:26.160 --> 00:05:27.279 Don't do drugs, kids. 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:28.560 It's fine. 00:05:29.920 --> 00:05:32.079 But you need a pager to do drugs, apparently. 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:38.240 Yeah, you'd get the notice of like where to go and where to drop, and you know, they'd use coding systems to do this. 00:05:38.399 --> 00:05:41.279 And I did get a couple looks when I had a pager. 00:05:41.360 --> 00:05:43.360 It's like, what are you what are you doing, man? 00:05:43.839 --> 00:05:49.040 But it became sort of a sign of it was like almost a piece of jewelry people would wear. 00:05:49.199 --> 00:05:50.560 Like, look, I got a pager. 00:05:50.639 --> 00:05:51.439 I'm important. 00:05:51.839 --> 00:06:00.879 Because in the 80s it was way more common to be a doctor or a lawyer or somebody who you have to get an emergency call and you have to go call somebody right away. 00:06:01.040 --> 00:06:08.639 So only important people had pagers, which probably because of previous decades where they were only used by emergency personnel. 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:10.800 They were immediately getting calls and calling back in. 00:06:10.879 --> 00:06:11.040 Yeah. 00:06:11.199 --> 00:06:20.480 But they were big blocky things, and they basically died off right around 2000 or so because cell phones came into play right around that time, and nobody needed them anymore. 00:06:20.879 --> 00:06:21.040 Yeah. 00:06:21.279 --> 00:06:24.720 It was just kind of a like, why would I page you when I can just text you? 00:06:24.879 --> 00:06:28.079 Because texting came in uh probably like a year or two right after that. 00:06:28.240 --> 00:06:28.879 That's quick. 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:34.560 So you never had a life where you had to worry about getting a page to do your drug deal. 00:06:34.800 --> 00:06:35.279 Uh-huh. 00:06:36.639 --> 00:06:44.000 So pages initially started out, you would just get the message of the number to call back, and then it moved into like written messages. 00:06:44.319 --> 00:06:52.240 Uh it slowly became like the person's name and what the phone number it was calling from and what they typed in if it was a code or something. 00:06:52.480 --> 00:06:57.759 Because you would typically type in like you know, your phone number and 911 right after, so they know it's very important. 00:06:58.720 --> 00:06:59.600 Which is kind of dumb. 00:06:59.839 --> 00:07:01.120 How many characters would you have? 00:07:01.360 --> 00:07:02.560 Uh, I think about 14. 00:07:02.959 --> 00:07:03.439 Oh, okay. 00:07:03.680 --> 00:07:07.920 Maybe a little more, but it it's not a very big display, so it can only fit so much on it. 00:07:08.079 --> 00:07:10.560 I think the bigger displays, the ones that are like three lines. 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:10.959 Yeah. 00:07:11.199 --> 00:07:13.199 Like two or three lines, they would scroll. 00:07:13.279 --> 00:07:17.680 But the original one was like basically as much as a calculator would hold, I think. 00:07:17.920 --> 00:07:18.560 Oh, jeez. 00:07:18.800 --> 00:07:19.759 So it wasn't a lot. 00:07:19.920 --> 00:07:20.240 Yeah. 00:07:20.560 --> 00:07:22.560 But I think I got in trouble. 00:07:22.639 --> 00:07:24.079 Oh no, I got in trouble a little bit. 00:07:24.160 --> 00:07:27.199 I didn't get in big trouble, but I felt really bad about it afterwards. 00:07:27.360 --> 00:07:30.000 I found a pager number by accident. 00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:33.279 Like, yeah, I just accidentally fumbled into it dialing one time. 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:33.600 Uh-huh. 00:07:33.759 --> 00:07:36.000 And it's like, enter number now. 00:07:36.240 --> 00:07:38.160 And I was like, what happened? 00:07:38.319 --> 00:07:40.079 Did I just get into NORAD? 00:07:40.319 --> 00:07:40.879 I don't know. 00:07:41.439 --> 00:07:44.800 So I just started pushing random numbers and seeing what would happen. 00:07:44.959 --> 00:07:49.279 And eventually, one of the time I'd call it back and I'd call it back and I'd call it back. 00:07:49.439 --> 00:07:52.480 And eventually I I typed in my home number. 00:07:52.560 --> 00:07:56.959 And of course, I immediately got a call from a

very angry man and said, Who is this? 00:07:57.120 --> 00:07:58.399 Have you been paging me? 00:07:58.879 --> 00:07:59.759 Oh, geez. 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:03.839 And as an honest young man, I said, Nope, and hung up. 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:04.319 Nice. 00:08:05.839 --> 00:08:06.639 Classic. 00:08:06.879 --> 00:08:08.800 And then I just stopped calling. 00:08:08.959 --> 00:08:11.360 Because I'm like, okay, that's not NORAD. 00:08:11.519 --> 00:08:12.319 It's not cool. 00:08:12.720 --> 00:08:14.319 It's a mad guy. 00:08:14.879 --> 00:08:15.439 Wow. 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:17.040 When what how old are you? 00:08:17.279 --> 00:08:19.680 I was probably like uh nine or ten. 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:24.160 It was when I was curious enough and didn't realize you could get in trouble doing something dumb. 00:08:24.319 --> 00:08:25.519 Who was who would have thought? 00:08:27.759 --> 00:08:29.839 Man, that's ridiculousness. 00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:33.679 Oh, like nobody's ever made a funny call or done something. 00:08:34.399 --> 00:08:36.960 No, I am an upstanding citizen, father. 00:08:37.519 --> 00:08:38.720 Of course you are. 00:08:41.039 --> 00:08:51.279 I was just always curious about pagers because I saw them in Grays and I saw them in Friends, and they were like, oh, the sparkly pager. 00:08:51.360 --> 00:08:52.080 It's so fancy. 00:08:52.159 --> 00:08:54.080 And I'm like, dude, you have a phone. 00:08:54.240 --> 00:08:54.960 Use your phone. 00:08:55.200 --> 00:08:55.519 Yeah. 00:08:55.759 --> 00:09:04.080 I kind of wonder because I've still seen, I mean, there's certain ones like you go to restaurants and they have like a pager version where they're like, here, take this and come back when it goes off. 00:09:04.240 --> 00:09:06.000 You know, you get a buzzy sound or whatever. 00:09:06.240 --> 00:09:08.000 You know, like, oh, our table's ready. 00:09:08.159 --> 00:09:09.360 That's a pager too. 00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:17.360 I presume hospitals still do it so you can know which room to go to, but they could just as easily text you, but maybe they're not allowed to have their phones. 00:09:17.759 --> 00:09:19.600 I think they've got new light systems. 00:09:19.759 --> 00:09:26.559 If a call if someone's pressing a call button, there's a little room a light outside of their room that'll light up and it'll blow up. 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:28.639 Well, yeah, but not every doctor's staring at the hall. 00:09:29.039 --> 00:09:30.480 Well, it'll make a sound too. 00:09:30.799 --> 00:09:35.120 Yeah, but no, it's more like when you get a because you could be anywhere and hospitals are giant. 00:09:35.360 --> 00:09:35.759 That's true. 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:39.279 So you you get a page and like, oh, I gotta go to this room and check out so-and-so. 00:09:39.519 --> 00:09:39.600 Yeah. 00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:40.240 That sort of thing. 00:09:40.559 --> 00:09:44.720 I don't I've seen them like you like you said, I've seen them in Grays and I've seen them in scrubs. 00:09:44.960 --> 00:09:50.320 So that's why I think they may still be in use to a certain degree and in emergency services. 00:09:50.480 --> 00:09:53.759 But I really bet nowadays it's probably straight to your phone. 00:09:54.080 --> 00:09:54.720 Probably. 00:09:54.960 --> 00:10:03.039 I guess now it's different for you because you don't have phone and pager anymore, and now you just have two phones because you have work phone and you have personal phone. 00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:04.720 Well, that's because I'm stupid. 00:10:04.960 --> 00:10:06.159 How does that make you stupid? 00:10:06.480 --> 00:10:09.200 Because I couldn't just put them together and just have phone. 00:10:09.279 --> 00:10:14.559 But I've got to I feel like I have to keep them separate, and also because I have an Android and an iPhone. 00:10:14.799 --> 00:10:20.080 Dealing with the computer world, I get a lot of questions from people like, Well, I have an iPhone and it does this, I have an Android and it does this. 00:10:20.320 --> 00:10:24.960 Like, well, let me see what mine's doing, and I can compare and contrast, even though I don't work on phones. 00:10:25.120 --> 00:10:28.000 But anything with a computer in it, everybody feels like I work on. 00:10:28.080 --> 00:10:29.039 So why not? 00:10:30.080 --> 00:10:35.679 And it's somewhat helpful to have two phones for that sense, but otherwise, it's dumb to have two phones. 00:10:35.759 --> 00:10:37.519 Just have one phone, you'll be happier. 00:10:38.159 --> 00:10:40.639 In fact, if you could have no phones, that'd be the best. 00:10:40.960 --> 00:10:43.200 What you just want an implant in your eye? 00:10:43.440 --> 00:10:44.879 Uh no, just zero phones. 00:10:44.960 --> 00:10:46.799 I'd rather no communication whatsoever. 00:10:47.120 --> 00:10:54.960 I think the the natural progression for anybody in IT is to work for years in IT and then go own a chicken farm. 00:10:56.080 --> 00:10:57.039 It's the next thing to do. 00:10:57.360 --> 00:10:58.320 Or in your case, llamas. 00:10:58.639 --> 00:11:04.639 Raise, yeah, raise llamas, raise alpacas, sheep, and have no technology. 00:11:05.039 --> 00:11:07.600 No technology, zero technology. 00:11:08.639 --> 00:11:10.399 You wouldn't even want light bulbs. 00:11:10.639 --> 00:11:11.600 I'm I'm very tempted. 00:11:11.759 --> 00:11:12.960 Amish would be a way to go. 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:14.799 And you know, you get that cool straw hat. 00:11:14.960 --> 00:11:15.360 Oh my gosh. 00:11:15.600 --> 00:11:16.960 So that's gotta be cool. 00:11:17.600 --> 00:11:18.240 Terrible. 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:18.720 What? 00:11:19.039 --> 00:11:19.440 Terrible. 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:23.279 It's a nice quiet life, and you know they got some great blankets, so there you go. 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:24.879 Because of the llamas? 00:11:25.360 --> 00:11:26.080 Well, yeah. 00:11:27.120 --> 00:11:28.320 That's ridiculous. 00:11:28.559 --> 00:11:28.960 I don't know. 00:11:29.120 --> 00:11:34.799 I feel like

it's different now because so many people have their preferred methods of communicating. 00:11:35.039 --> 00:11:44.480 Because I have some friends that will only talk to me on Snapchat, or I'll have friends that'll only talk to me if they call or they'll text, or I have some friends that just FaceTime. 00:11:44.799 --> 00:11:45.039 What? 00:11:45.120 --> 00:11:46.879 Yeah, they use your phone like a phone? 00:11:46.960 --> 00:11:47.039 Yeah. 00:11:47.440 --> 00:11:48.480 Barbarians. 00:11:50.399 --> 00:11:52.000 I mean, I have a preference too. 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:55.279 I mean, I prefer to FaceTime the people that I want to talk to. 00:11:55.440 --> 00:11:59.279 If I don't really want to talk to you, or if I know you're busy, I'll probably text. 00:11:59.600 --> 00:12:01.039 You almost always text, though. 00:12:01.279 --> 00:12:03.759 I text you because I know you're busy all the time. 00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:04.960 I can't call you. 00:12:05.279 --> 00:12:10.720 It's only irksome when people call me on my work line, because then I'm usually agitated immediately. 00:12:11.840 --> 00:12:12.480 Like, what? 00:12:12.799 --> 00:12:13.279 What? 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:16.720 Are you on fire? 00:12:17.039 --> 00:12:18.559 No, I just want to say hi. 00:12:20.639 --> 00:12:22.000 There's just no sense of calm for me. 00:12:22.320 --> 00:12:23.440 And see, that's why I text. 00:12:25.279 --> 00:12:26.320 I appreciate that. 00:12:26.639 --> 00:12:32.240 And see, I can talk to mom for hours and hours because she'll be bored and we'll just be doing our errands together. 00:12:32.320 --> 00:12:35.679 So I FaceTime so that I can see what she's doing and she can see what I'm doing. 00:12:35.919 --> 00:12:38.399 Yeah, FaceTime's kind of a silly one to me, it seems like. 00:12:38.480 --> 00:12:41.759 But I always thought that was funny in the old 1970s shows. 00:12:41.840 --> 00:12:46.240 You'd see like, oh, it's the future, and we can see each other on this teletube thing. 00:12:46.879 --> 00:12:48.799 Like, cool, but what's the point? 00:12:48.960 --> 00:12:50.240 Like, you know what they look like. 00:12:50.639 --> 00:12:53.600 So yeah, but I can see them, but you know what they look like. 00:12:54.240 --> 00:12:57.679 Why what what's the benefit of the future where you see their face? 00:12:58.159 --> 00:13:05.840 Well, you can know if someone's tired or if someone's actually busy doing something or I hope people would be honest enough and say, you know what, I'm really tired. 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:07.360 I should go to bed, so I'll talk to you later. 00:13:07.519 --> 00:13:09.039 Like, oh, okay, thanks. 00:13:10.240 --> 00:13:11.200 That's how that works. 00:13:11.440 --> 00:13:11.759 I don't know. 00:13:12.159 --> 00:13:14.320 Communication is a two-way street. 00:13:15.039 --> 00:13:23.200 I've been tempted to go back because they brought the flip phone back, and I've been tempted to get a flip phone, but the only thing that's keeping me from doing it

is I love FaceTime so much. 00:13:23.519 --> 00:13:25.200 Well you'd have to go to Android to do the flip phone. 00:13:25.600 --> 00:13:29.200 I know, but I'd be fine without the games or anything else. 00:13:29.360 --> 00:13:31.120 Like I just I need FaceTime. 00:13:31.759 --> 00:13:32.399 I need it. 00:13:32.720 --> 00:13:33.279 I need it. 00:13:34.159 --> 00:13:35.679 You have to live by people's faces. 00:13:36.159 --> 00:13:37.679 I like seeing people's faces. 00:13:38.080 --> 00:13:38.399 Uh-huh. 00:13:39.279 --> 00:13:42.879 Pretty sure Google has a like uh hangouts or something like that. 00:13:43.360 --> 00:13:46.879 But then I'd have to tell everyone to get that, and it's so much effort. 00:13:50.480 --> 00:13:52.240 Oh, technology's such a chore. 00:13:52.480 --> 00:13:52.879 It is. 00:13:52.960 --> 00:13:54.480 It's why it's evolving so fast. 00:13:54.960 --> 00:13:57.600 You can enjoy your time with me on the alpaca farm. 00:13:58.480 --> 00:13:59.120 Yes. 00:13:59.360 --> 00:14:01.279 But then we can't do this podcast anymore. 00:14:01.759 --> 00:14:04.240 I could probably figure out a way to do it on a ham radio or something. 00:14:04.480 --> 00:14:06.320 Oh my gosh, that's embarrassing. 00:14:09.200 --> 00:14:11.200 That's terrible. 00:14:11.919 --> 00:14:14.480 We do have uh we have we have fan mail. 00:14:14.639 --> 00:14:18.879 And I we found this out like about about a year ago, we got our first one. 00:14:19.120 --> 00:14:22.879 And I didn't mention anything at the time because it's sort of weird. 00:14:23.120 --> 00:14:24.480 Because we didn't get it like normal. 00:14:24.639 --> 00:14:27.200 We actually have a mailbox, uh an email. 00:14:27.279 --> 00:14:31.440 Uh it's on it's mail at what you missedpodcast.com. 00:14:31.679 --> 00:14:31.919 Yes. 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:33.120 Yeah, so we do have a fan. 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:33.679 Well, two. 00:14:34.080 --> 00:14:34.559 At least one. 00:14:34.799 --> 00:14:35.840 If you're counting family. 00:14:36.960 --> 00:14:40.960 If not, if we're not counting family and we're just counting random people, that means we have one fan. 00:14:41.279 --> 00:14:41.840 I don't know. 00:14:43.120 --> 00:14:48.639 One person for sure who has hunted us down and told us we were wrong. 00:14:48.879 --> 00:14:51.519 Or well, well, yeah, you kind of are the history guy. 00:14:51.679 --> 00:14:53.519 I can't really be told I'm wrong because I'm just opinion. 00:14:53.919 --> 00:14:57.840 See, to be fair, I'm going I am going off opinion because I was there. 00:14:58.000 --> 00:15:03.600 And half the time you're the one who corrects me because you do the research and then come back and say, wait a minute, doesn't this happen this way? 00:15:03.840 --> 00:15:04.720 Like, well, yeah, I guess it's a good thing. 00:15:04.879 --> 00:15:05.919 It's a healthy blend. 00:15:06.399 --> 00:15:07.200 We're scientists. 00:15:07.360 --> 00:15:07.679 Yeah, yeah. 00:15:08.000 --> 00:15:09.039 Not historians. 00:15:09.279 --> 00:15:11.440 I don't know if we're scientists either. 00:15:12.960 --> 00:15:14.639 We're comedians, not historians. 00:15:16.399 --> 00:15:18.000 We laugh a lot, which is terrible. 00:15:18.240 --> 00:15:20.960 There's so many sad, sad stories we have to tell. 00:15:21.200 --> 00:15:27.360 I I'm surprised we get through as many laughs as we get when these terrible because the problem is history is never fun. 00:15:27.600 --> 00:15:27.919 Yeah. 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:31.039 I think that's just part of part of dealing with trauma. 00:15:31.120 --> 00:15:32.080 That's our coping mechanism. 00:15:32.320 --> 00:15:35.039 I mean, pagers pagers is almost tragic. 00:15:35.200 --> 00:15:36.639 Like, what's the point of pagers? 00:15:36.720 --> 00:15:38.399 They they like existed and then they were gone. 00:15:38.639 --> 00:15:41.039 Well, pagers probably paved the way for texting. 00:15:41.279 --> 00:15:41.600 Yeah. 00:15:41.759 --> 00:15:44.559 Well, anyway, this is I really don't have a name. 00:15:44.720 --> 00:15:46.080 It's somebody in Pennsylvania. 00:15:46.240 --> 00:15:46.559 Yes. 00:15:46.799 --> 00:15:48.639 And the last number is 13. 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:52.080 Or B with a special break in it. 00:15:53.759 --> 00:15:54.879 Or it's 13. 00:15:56.000 --> 00:15:59.759 I think it's because their phone is connected and it's the last four decades. 00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:00.639 Yeah, most likely. 00:16:01.039 --> 00:16:07.440 And they just reply to it and it comes straight to BuzzSprout, which we is where we feed in the the podcast to when it goes out. 00:16:07.600 --> 00:16:13.679 For those who want to know the details about what we do and how we do it, BuzzSprout just handles the the handoff and it goes out. 00:16:13.759 --> 00:16:22.639 I I made a email for us, which is mail at what you missed when you didn't exist.com, or I think I think the easier one is what you missed. 00:16:22.879 --> 00:16:27.679 Mail at what you missedpodcast.com, which is probably easier to type and put together. 00:16:34.320 --> 00:16:36.960 But 13 texted us oh a long time ago. 00:16:37.679 --> 00:16:38.159 Fantastic. 00:16:38.240 --> 00:16:40.799 Uh the podcast fantastic might be overselling it. 00:16:41.039 --> 00:16:44.320 Well, you said it like it was in all caps and exclamation point. 00:16:44.639 --> 00:16:45.919 This was all lowercase. 00:16:46.159 --> 00:16:46.879 It's all lowercase. 00:16:46.960 --> 00:16:48.799 So this pot this podcast is fantastic. 00:16:48.960 --> 00:16:50.480 Is that pretty close to what I should be saying? 00:16:50.639 --> 00:16:50.879 Okay. 00:16:51.039 --> 00:16:52.559 That's probably more accurate then. 00:16:54.159 --> 00:16:57.679 Uh binge listening, dad 57, daughter 30. 00:16:57.840 --> 00:16:58.480 Oh my god. 00:16:58.559 --> 00:17:00.480 How tired am I gonna be at 57? 00:17:00.559 --> 00:17:02.399 And this was a year ago, so he's 58 now. 00:17:02.480 --> 00:17:03.759 And I already know I'm 55. 00:17:03.840 -->

00:17:05.119 I'm gonna be so tired. 00:17:05.759 --> 00:17:08.160 Uh keep up the fun and intelligence discussion. 00:17:08.319 --> 00:17:10.160 Well, the fun part for sure. 00:17:10.559 --> 00:17:12.480 I yeah, I don't know about intelligent. 00:17:12.640 --> 00:17:13.440 We try our best. 00:17:13.759 --> 00:17:14.720 We definitely try. 00:17:14.799 --> 00:17:18.720 We we throw our hats at it, and sometimes we almost get an idea. 00:17:19.519 --> 00:17:23.440 Although I will admit the second one threw me for a loop, and you had to correct me on this one. 00:17:23.519 --> 00:17:27.759 The W Y-M-W-Y-D-E exclamation, exclamation. 00:17:27.920 --> 00:17:30.240 And I was like, Woma, Woma Wadi? 00:17:30.880 --> 00:17:31.920 Woma witty? 00:17:32.079 --> 00:17:32.480 What is it? 00:17:32.640 --> 00:17:34.559 Is this some kind of trendy thing I missed? 00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:38.240 But what you what you missed when you didn't explain is the letters. 00:17:38.400 --> 00:17:39.599 Is the letters. 00:17:39.839 --> 00:17:41.119 So Woma Witty. 00:17:41.519 --> 00:17:42.000 Yeah. 00:17:43.119 --> 00:17:49.759 Writing in the back seat, sand seat belt with three smokers and driver saying, Well, I have the window cracked. 00:17:49.839 --> 00:17:52.480 But talking about, I'm sure this was the smoking episode. 00:17:52.960 --> 00:17:53.279 Yes. 00:17:53.599 --> 00:17:55.519 And yeah, yeah, I've been there. 00:17:55.680 --> 00:18:00.400 My dad was a pretty chronic smoker, and my grandparents and just about everybody when I was a kid. 00:18:00.799 --> 00:18:02.799 So don't know why I don't smoke. 00:18:03.039 --> 00:18:03.599 I should. 00:18:03.920 --> 00:18:04.799 So much cooler. 00:18:04.960 --> 00:18:06.799 I look way cooler when I'm smoking. 00:18:07.599 --> 00:18:07.920 Okay. 00:18:08.319 --> 00:18:10.640 I'm sure your lungs thank you for that. 00:18:11.119 --> 00:18:12.400 Uh probably so. 00:18:12.640 --> 00:18:13.839 I really enjoy your program. 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:15.359 Great memories, thank you. 00:18:15.599 --> 00:18:19.440 Um I don't know what episode that would have been referenced to. 00:18:20.480 --> 00:18:28.480 It's the same day as the when we were talking about the computers or not computers, the the calculator, the TRS-80. 00:18:28.720 --> 00:18:41.440 Oh, right, because he follows up with The Are Wrong! No, he actually says something like, So I too had a TRS-80 color computer, Coco, and have to say it was not made by Texas Instruments. 00:18:41.599 --> 00:18:45.680 TI made the TI99 slash four, which he totally right. 00:18:45.839 --> 00:18:48.240 Well, I'm saying he could be his daughter. 00:18:48.480 --> 00:18:49.039 13. 00:18:49.200 --> 00:18:52.319 13 said this, which you could order in parts and build it yourself. 00:18:52.400 --> 00:19:00.799 The TRS-80 was made by Tandy Radio Shack, which is a show we need to talk about because you don't even know what a Radio Shack is, though I think there was a Radio Shack. 00:19:01.119 --> 00:19:02.559

I think Radio Shack existed. 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:07.680 Yeah, there was Radio Shack in town up until probably like 10 years ago. 00:19:07.839 --> 00:19:09.119 Oh, probably eight years ago. 00:19:09.359 --> 00:19:09.599 Yeah. 00:19:09.759 --> 00:19:16.079 Still, it is quite the memory of going to a Radio Shack and buying your transistors and microchips and building little fun things. 00:19:16.640 --> 00:19:17.759 So nerdy, dude. 00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:19.519 Oh, shut up. 00:19:20.160 --> 00:19:21.200 What do you know? 00:19:21.440 --> 00:19:26.160 You and your stupid future where they just hand you a slab and text you whenever you want. 00:19:26.400 --> 00:19:27.279 Yeah, it's a brick. 00:19:29.279 --> 00:19:31.200 A titanium brick. 00:19:33.039 --> 00:19:35.920 And the most recent was just listen to the space shuttle episode. 00:19:36.000 --> 00:19:41.279 I hesitated because it was so depressing to see live, which, yeah, it kind of sucked. 00:19:41.359 --> 00:19:42.400 Uh, both times. 00:19:42.559 --> 00:19:45.599 Really, because it's kind of sad that it happened twice at all. 00:19:45.839 --> 00:19:46.559 Hard to believe. 00:19:46.720 --> 00:19:46.880 Yeah. 00:19:47.119 --> 00:19:50.880 But it does show like it's not absolutely nothing's absolutely safe. 00:19:51.039 --> 00:19:52.880 It's another episode where like, I don't know. 00:19:53.039 --> 00:19:57.279 Every time we record it and I go back and listen, like, how do we laugh so much at this terrible thing? 00:19:57.440 --> 00:20:00.799 Again, it's not yeah, we're broken. 00:20:02.880 --> 00:20:06.160 Uh you mixed up the cause of the challenger and the endeavor explosion. 00:20:06.319 --> 00:20:11.359 Challenger was caused by a failing seal in one rocket booster that let hot gas burn into the shuttle. 00:20:11.440 --> 00:20:18.880 I have boycotted Morton Salt ever since, as it was the Morton Thiocol company who didn't prevent the problem. 00:20:19.119 --> 00:20:19.440 Huh. 00:20:19.599 --> 00:20:20.559 Now that I didn't know. 00:20:20.799 --> 00:20:21.200 That's cool. 00:20:21.359 --> 00:20:21.599 Yeah. 00:20:21.759 --> 00:20:22.880 Knowledge being dropped there. 00:20:23.039 --> 00:20:26.640 I love your show, and the conversation about this was great to hear. 00:20:26.880 --> 00:20:27.119 Cool. 00:20:27.279 --> 00:20:30.400 I just I was glad to throw it out there for Lucy because she didn't know what I was talking about. 00:20:30.640 --> 00:20:46.720 You know, I think I think inspiration-wise for the show, not to pat myself on the back, but no, no, when we started doing the John Lithgow Palooza book thing when you were a kid, because I was baffled how you were you were probably six, I think, when we started doing that. 00:20:46.880 --> 00:20:51.759 And I was I was absolutely astonished you didn't know who Robin Hood was. 00:20:52.000 --> 00:20:53.680 I knew who Robin Hood was. 00:20:54.160 --> 00:20:54.799 Not at the time. 00:20:54.880 --> 00:20:55.440 You had no idea. 00:20:55.680 --> 00:20:57.759 Well that we watched Robin Hood, the Disney one? 00:20:58.000 --> 00:21:02.720 Yeah, but you still didn't realize like I grew I grew up with Errol Flynn Robin Hood. 00:21:02.799 --> 00:21:10.160 Well, it's a mythical story, I guess, but it's still a story that has like relevance and importance, and everybody wants to rob from the rich. 00:21:11.039 --> 00:21:14.079 But but still, it's something that like, how did you miss that? 00:21:14.160 --> 00:21:15.039 How did I miss that? 00:21:15.119 --> 00:21:17.119 How did I not do the thing I was supposed to do? 00:21:17.279 --> 00:21:20.000 So I'm just catching up on all that stuff I need to tell you about. 00:21:21.440 --> 00:21:23.440 You know, all that stuff when you didn't exist. 00:21:24.880 --> 00:21:29.599 But still, it's it that's probably more the inspiration for the show than anything, I think. 00:21:30.079 --> 00:21:31.680 Maybe maybe we're just bored. 00:21:31.920 --> 00:21:32.880 Maybe a mix of both. 00:21:33.279 --> 00:21:33.599 Could be. 00:21:34.240 --> 00:21:35.279 You like telling stories? 00:21:35.440 --> 00:21:36.079 I like listening. 00:21:38.480 --> 00:21:40.400 Yeah, but now you're a teacher and you have to tell stories. 00:21:40.880 --> 00:21:44.880 Oh, I know, and I have to tell these kids what they missed when they didn't exist. 00:21:45.519 --> 00:21:46.160 I know. 00:21:46.480 --> 00:21:55.680 And you gotta see, you all you have to do is is watch eighties teacher movies, and you realize if you can just rap to them, then it will get into Oh my gosh. 00:21:55.759 --> 00:21:57.359 That's a different episode. 00:21:57.920 --> 00:21:59.039 Different episode. 00:21:59.279 --> 00:22:04.160 We so Gotta talk about 1980s teaching movies, but that's a whole thing. 00:22:04.480 --> 00:22:07.119 There's probably whole episodes we could talk about each one individually. 00:22:07.359 --> 00:22:07.839 Probably. 00:22:08.079 --> 00:22:08.400 Probably. 00:22:08.799 --> 00:22:10.079 But thank you, number 13. 00:22:10.799 --> 00:22:12.720 Dad from Fort Wash, Pennsylvania. 00:22:14.640 --> 00:22:15.519 Shout out. 00:22:15.759 --> 00:22:17.039 Or daughter, we don't know. 00:22:17.279 --> 00:22:18.240 It's dad with daughter. 00:22:18.559 --> 00:22:19.359 You did say dad first. 00:22:19.440 --> 00:22:19.519 Yes. 00:22:19.680 --> 00:22:20.079 Yeah, dad with the bigger. 00:22:20.160 --> 00:22:21.440 And then it's daughter, so it's probably the dude. 00:22:21.599 --> 00:22:25.200 Telling the memories about the calculator and then seeing it live. 00:22:25.279 --> 00:22:26.640 The daughter wouldn't have seen it live. 00:22:26.880 --> 00:22:27.440 Come on, dad. 00:22:28.480 --> 00:22:31.759 Okay, your your detective skills have proven helpful there. 00:22:34.960 --> 00:22:40.880 But it's always exciting to see new stuff and feel free to comment any time you want. 00:22:40.960 --> 00:22:46.480 Um definitely my memory's not a hundred percent, and I do rely on it a lot, which is scary.

00:22:49.119 --> 00:22:49.599 True. 00:22:49.759 --> 00:22:52.559 It is a mix of facts plus opinions. 00:22:54.079 --> 00:22:56.960 Well, facts and it's stuff that happened. 00:22:57.039 --> 00:22:58.160 It's really stuff that happened. 00:22:58.240 --> 00:23:00.079 It's hard to believe it happened sometimes. 00:23:00.319 --> 00:23:02.480 Sometimes I look back and like, wait a minute, we did that? 00:23:02.559 --> 00:23:04.400 That was in that was in my lifetime? 00:23:04.640 --> 00:23:05.440 Holy crap. 00:23:05.759 --> 00:23:07.839 Man, you just didn't even live in the world, dude. 00:23:08.000 --> 00:23:10.559 Well, it's just something you kind of presume we talk. 00:23:10.799 --> 00:23:14.000 I mean, there's so many things to talk about, so many more things to talk about. 00:23:14.160 --> 00:23:18.799 I keep thinking every time like we hit on a major one, like the challenger was a big deal. 00:23:19.039 --> 00:23:23.599 I'm like, okay, now there's probably nothing else to talk about, like so many things. 00:23:24.480 --> 00:23:28.160 I I just like we I think we listed like six things when we were at the wedding. 00:23:28.400 --> 00:23:29.680 Just talking about this, that, and the other. 00:23:29.759 --> 00:23:31.759 And like, oh yeah, there's that, there's that, there's that. 00:23:31.920 --> 00:23:34.319 Your mom was the one who's like, it's pagers, pagers are the thing. 00:23:34.559 --> 00:23:39.279 Like, wow, we had a dog on mom, dude. 00:23:39.759 --> 00:23:44.000 No, it's just that like pagers aren't exactly a robust subject. 00:23:44.079 --> 00:23:48.799 It's just more like, hey, you remember when dial was the thing you had to use to do the phone thing? 00:23:48.880 --> 00:23:54.640 It's like that's probably a 10-minute conversation, which granted most of our podcasts are 10-minute conversations, but we stretch it. 00:23:55.119 --> 00:23:56.000 Beef it up a bit. 00:23:56.240 --> 00:24:00.640 We try to try to make it at least a little bit fun for just a few minutes more. 00:24:00.799 --> 00:24:02.640 But I I hate to drag on something. 00:24:02.720 --> 00:24:03.920 I could never do this for like an hour. 00:24:04.160 --> 00:24:04.720 That'd be crazy. 00:24:04.880 --> 00:24:13.440 I mean, yeah, I'm sure if I had full-blown historians on, because every time we've had a historian on, it's great, and it's really, really helpful to get the exact information put in. 00:24:13.759 --> 00:24:18.640 Man, they just unload well, it's all the facts and all the things. 00:24:18.880 --> 00:24:20.079 Yeah, I know, I know. 00:24:20.319 --> 00:24:24.400 We're not real historians, we can't really we can tell the history from what we know. 00:24:24.640 --> 00:24:25.920 Yeah, from perspective. 00:24:26.160 --> 00:24:31.200 And that's probably a good point of it too, is your perspective adds the the insight of what were you thinking? 00:24:31.839 --> 00:24:33.759 Oh, we were just doing what we do. 00:24:34.240 --> 00:24:35.519 That's that's true. 00:24:35.839 --> 00:24:37.359 Yeah, we're doing a thing. 00:24:38.319 --> 00:24:40.160 But just like normal, we're always doing a thing. 00:24:40.640 --> 00:24:44.559 But shout out to dad from Fort Wash, Pennsylvania. 00:24:44.960 --> 00:24:52.240 And if you want to give us more messages and more fan mail from anybody, mail at what you misspodcast.com. 00:24:52.559 --> 00:24:55.119 Yeah, or however he's doing it, it's gotta be true. 00:24:55.759 --> 00:24:58.960 Or he's just texting, maybe he's just shouting at somebody and they're just like, okay, I'll tell them. 00:24:59.359 --> 00:25:00.799 That's terrible. 00:25:01.599 --> 00:25:03.759 I I wonder because I don't even know how it works. 00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:04.720 Like, okay, great. 00:25:04.799 --> 00:25:05.279 We got information. 00:25:08.319 --> 00:25:14.160 I I just put the podcast in and it does all that automated stuff for me, so I don't have to think about it. 00:25:14.319 --> 00:25:20.319 We do the recording and I edit it so it's not like us sounding as stupid as we kind of do sometimes. 00:25:21.119 --> 00:25:22.319 But yeah, that's fine. 00:25:22.480 --> 00:25:24.480 And it's good to hear from it's good to hear from you on it. 00:25:24.640 --> 00:25:25.440 Really, it really is. 00:25:25.519 --> 00:25:27.119 I hope you and your daughter are having fun with it. 00:25:27.200 --> 00:25:29.039 And to be quite honest, I can say this. 00:25:29.119 --> 00:25:40.559 Uh one time I was listening to the show with my other I have two sons also, and I was driving home and he started complaining to me in the podcast on the radio in the car. 00:25:41.839 --> 00:25:44.960 Like, you know, I'm the guy who's in that thing, right? 00:25:45.839 --> 00:25:47.519 Yeah, but he doesn't know what he's talking about. 00:25:47.680 --> 00:25:49.039 You know it's me. 00:25:50.160 --> 00:25:52.960 So it's really just a conversation starter, if anything. 00:25:53.119 --> 00:25:59.279 Because he was, I think it was he was complaining about the oh, the soda, the the cola war was like one of the first ones. 00:25:59.759 --> 00:26:00.480 Like, that's not right. 00:26:00.559 --> 00:26:01.440 It's this, this, and this. 00:26:01.599 --> 00:26:03.359 Like, I don't know what you want to do. 00:26:03.519 --> 00:26:04.640 Sorry, I missed it. 00:26:05.200 --> 00:26:08.240 Uh you should do a show with them, it'll be fun. 00:26:08.480 --> 00:26:12.799 I will, I will probably I was tempted to this time around just because if we're cutting it close. 00:26:12.960 --> 00:26:14.559 We can't we're really cutting it close. 00:26:14.640 --> 00:26:16.400 This is probably the closest to a live show they're cutting. 00:26:16.640 --> 00:26:17.039 I know. 00:26:17.519 --> 00:26:19.200 Dun dun dun anyway. 00:26:19.359 --> 00:26:21.119 But uh thanks for thanks for writing in. 00:26:21.200 --> 00:26:24.160 Feel free to write anytime you want to, and anybody else feel free as well. 00:26:24.240 --> 00:26:28.640 If you have a subject idea you'd love to have us cover, I will try my best. 00:26:28.720 --> 00:26:34.079 I can't promise I can't not laugh at stuff because honestly, it's embarrassing sometimes. 00:26:34.480 --> 00:26:36.240 That's true, and that's okay. 00:26:36.480 --> 00:26:39.519 But for what you missed when you didn't exist, thanks for the memories. 00:26:39.759 --> 00:26:43.119 Thanks for the memories, even though they weren't so great. 00:26:43.279 --> 00:26:45.279 I can't say any more it's copyrighted. 00:26:45.599 --> 00:26:46.640 Oh, it's a song. 00:26:47.279 --> 00:26:49.119 Okay, I thought she was bringing stuff up.