1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:04,760 Speaker 1: From the Zidium Podcast Network. It's Fleechborn and Hayley's It's 2 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:05,720 Speaker 1: a little bit of Pod. 3 00:00:06,880 --> 00:00:10,479 Speaker 2: Welcome to a little bit of Pod. I was recently asked, 4 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:12,720 Speaker 2: there's actually been a couple of incidents lately where I've 5 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:16,920 Speaker 2: had to explain the technology of our ancient forefathers. Oh 6 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:21,919 Speaker 2: you just mean our childhood yep, and only two thousands. 7 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:22,240 Speaker 1: Uh. 8 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:25,239 Speaker 2: My children asked me what I meant by wind down 9 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:28,840 Speaker 2: the window? Well, and said wind down the window? I said, 10 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:30,240 Speaker 2: do you want to wind that well? No? I actually 11 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:32,879 Speaker 2: said can you wind that window up? And she's like, 12 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:35,680 Speaker 2: it's why do we say wind They've never experienced an 13 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:38,960 Speaker 2: actual manual wind down windows. Like, guess it's that's true. 14 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:42,879 Speaker 1: Like your cars when they were babies all had electric windows, 15 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:46,360 Speaker 1: and most cars for the last twenty years have And my. 16 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:50,239 Speaker 2: Land Rovers, my old sixty seven land Rovers windows slide. 17 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:53,480 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, okay, they were pre they predate the old 18 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 2: wind up or it was too hard a technology for 19 00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 2: Landrover to put in cars. Yeah, and so they slide. 20 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:01,120 Speaker 2: So they've never actually had that wind down the window 21 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:02,800 Speaker 2: or jumped into a car where someone's like that put 22 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:05,920 Speaker 2: that window down because it doesn't go back up. Oh yeah. 23 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 3: Also, it's kind of like with phones. How when we 24 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:11,200 Speaker 3: mind the phone, we've got the two ends and they 25 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:13,440 Speaker 3: mind it like they're holding an iPhone. 26 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:14,840 Speaker 2: But if we were to do. 27 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:17,679 Speaker 3: A funny skit in our improv group that we have, 28 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 3: we haven't really talked about that very much, but you 29 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 3: still kind of have that thing to be like wind 30 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:23,640 Speaker 3: down the window, you know, I mean, like, hey, how 31 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 3: are you. 32 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:26,240 Speaker 2: The other thing was we're at my parents place and 33 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 2: I found old cassettes because my parents, which. 34 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:31,360 Speaker 1: By the way, I'm coming back in like I it's 35 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:32,000 Speaker 1: not gonna last. 36 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:33,160 Speaker 3: See it's my last. 37 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:36,120 Speaker 2: CDs could make a big hold CDs, so I can 38 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:38,320 Speaker 2: give them another red hot. Those are a bloody nice 39 00:01:38,319 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 2: space of tacks. 40 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:41,240 Speaker 1: Our tapes are annoying because you'd have to listen to 41 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:46,759 Speaker 1: if you wanted one song on the album rewind. 42 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:47,040 Speaker 2: And some of those tape players didn't have a rewind. 43 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:48,640 Speaker 2: They only had a fast forward because they only had 44 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:50,400 Speaker 2: the motor and then they could go forward, so you'd 45 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:51,920 Speaker 2: have to flip it over and go forward as a 46 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:54,640 Speaker 2: way of reversing. Anyway, I found them and I was like, 47 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:57,559 Speaker 2: oh my god, Like they were labeled mixtapes that said 48 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:02,120 Speaker 2: things like slow jams hip and I was like wow, 49 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 2: and the girls were like playing them for us, and 50 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:07,680 Speaker 2: I was like, okay, I don't know how we don't 51 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:08,600 Speaker 2: have the technology. 52 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,560 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, because who has a cassette player anymore unless 53 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:12,840 Speaker 1: your parents have an old. 54 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:15,200 Speaker 2: So I found one in the garage, but it had 55 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:18,240 Speaker 2: been so long the motor that turned the tape had seized. 56 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 2: Yeah it was, so I had took it apart and 57 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 2: had a little fiddle and blew a little bit of sea, 58 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:25,240 Speaker 2: our sea in there to get the get the little 59 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:27,120 Speaker 2: motor to go, and then I could fast forward it 60 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:29,679 Speaker 2: and I was like click, and I played it simply. 61 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:31,960 Speaker 2: You know what I needed? I needed a tape head cleaner, 62 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:36,560 Speaker 2: remember a tape head cleaner. Wild After a while of 63 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 2: running a magnetic tape strip, it would just get dust 64 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:42,520 Speaker 2: and stuff on the little thing that read the magnetic 65 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:44,119 Speaker 2: writing on it, So you'd need to run a tape 66 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 2: cleaners through to clean all the parts. And it just 67 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:48,480 Speaker 2: looked like a cassette except the tape was like cleaning strip. 68 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:51,760 Speaker 2: And so yeah, I didn't have one of those cleaners. 69 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:54,880 Speaker 2: So we listened to a very very very muffled version 70 00:02:54,919 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 2: of Now I potato's fly like a bird. Like a bird? 71 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:03,240 Speaker 1: Was that on slow jams. She's had a rough year, 72 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:05,160 Speaker 1: Remember she said she's. 73 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 2: Even rougher on this because it was like that. 74 00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:15,400 Speaker 1: So according to the British Phonographic Industry, in twenty twenty two, 75 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:18,280 Speaker 1: and this is even in twenty twenty two, cassette sales 76 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:20,880 Speaker 1: in the UK reached the highest level since two thousand 77 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:24,440 Speaker 1: and three. And there's a similar trend in the United States, 78 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:28,040 Speaker 1: where cassette sales were up two hundred and four percent. 79 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:32,200 Speaker 2: Even when something's like three a year, it's easy to go. 80 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:35,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that US is a total of sixty 81 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:36,120 Speaker 1: three thousand units. 82 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:39,440 Speaker 2: Oh Jesus, okay, I wasn't exact sixty three. I mean 83 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:41,320 Speaker 2: I saw the other day. I think it was real groovy. 84 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:44,240 Speaker 1: I was online looking for something and I saw, like 85 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:47,920 Speaker 1: on the online store, like a three pack of cassettes. 86 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:51,280 Speaker 2: I was like, what the fuck? What twenty twenty five? Like, 87 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:52,080 Speaker 2: this is nuts? 88 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 3: Is it going to be that thing where like, you 89 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:55,480 Speaker 3: know a lot of people collect records but they don't 90 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:58,200 Speaker 3: have a record player. Maybe they're just cassettes, but they 91 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 3: won't have a way of But it's just. 92 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:03,080 Speaker 1: It's like how the City Walkman's became cool with gin 93 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:05,480 Speaker 1: Z as well. They just like they see something and 94 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:07,640 Speaker 1: they're like, well that's retro. We can make that call again. 95 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:08,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, Ye're crazy. 96 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:08,880 Speaker 1: Game. 97 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 2: It's no, it's not good. Don't do it. It's nostalgia. 98 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:15,120 Speaker 2: It's roasted in to nostalgia. 99 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:17,480 Speaker 3: And imagine when they experienced the first time when the 100 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:21,040 Speaker 3: bluddy tape gets caught. 101 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:23,600 Speaker 2: Yeah you can hear it chewing it.