do you recall the glory days of VHS I do I’m Rob Scallon and I’m Tamara Lin from Chicago Illinois let’s talk about that good mythical morning sorry guys link is not here this morning last minute he got a callback for an audition that he did for NCIS as a lab tech apparently his audition went really well you got a callback so I think he’s gonna get the part and I’m gonna be doing the episode solo April Fool April Fool I’m here I was into the table ha ha ha ha gotcha huh that was exhilarating link well it’s not you in April Fool’s that was yesterday I know but we don’t do a show on Sunday so we had to do April Fool’s on April 2nd but we still didn’t get yeah you can see the top of my head kid yeah I hope not really would have ruined it yeah if you had been able to this episode is brought to you by the YouTube collection on DVD you may have seen the product launch yesterday YouTube’s making big news they are releasing all of their videos even new ones as it being created on DVD they can be delivered to your home if you sign up on the website and you may have seen the promo video yesterday because we were in it but did you know that we also wrote and directed the video fill out the comment form and place it in one of the self-addressed stamped envelopes don’t forget to throw in a green thumbs up or red thumbs down YouTube approached Justin asked us to make the video to promote the YouTube collection but all this interaction with DVDs we started talking about just the transition from VHS to DVD this kind of thing and it got us thinking about well even before DV did the transition from DVD to the internet video was kind of like the transition from VHS to DVD but there was a time before VHS yeah the transition from nothing to VHS I remember you know back when I was a kid when we were kids you had some options for entertainment they were pretty much you can watch television at your home or you could go to a movie theater to watch a movie and then one day my dad said hey guys we can do this thing where we can watch a movie in the house no stinking way like it’s called it slow down say that again we can watch the movie and in the house it’s a thing called a VCR now at first you know you you didn’t purchase a VCR because they cost too much money you would actually go to the video store and rent the VCR and we went to this our families went to the same video store coats family video which was the only video store that I knew of in Harney County or at least the closest one to right there wasn’t one in Lillington even though coats was smaller you would go to Kody got one first you would go to coats and you would dad would get him again first of all he would go by himself I remember the first couple of years he would just go off by himself because it was like I’m not gonna mess with having it get everybody’s input I’m just gonna go and I’m gonna get whatever they got so you could come back with a huge box that had a huge VCR at it mm-hmm and then and then he would have the tapes and the tapes came in these very very large plastic sleeves oh yeah um well I’ll go ahead and show you guys I know some of you yes is already blowing your minds now let me show you this is a VHS tape it actually has magnetic ID tape in it that spins on two wheels that isn’t crow and this one happens to be mr. T’s be somebody which is just so happens to be the most amazing VHS tape in the history of VHS tapes it’s like 60 minutes of inspirational mr. T power if you need to pick me up and good mythical morning is not doing it for you watch mr. keys be somebody hey you you woulda teeth come here come over here that’s better now I can see you you know me of course you do that’s because I’m famous you can be famous but where we go dad would bring back the huge VCR and a couple of videos and then a couple years later he let us go with him to the store and by this time you probably had purchased we have you purchased a VCR a two or three years into the process he’s like I’m going I’m getting a VCR and then it was like mind-blowing cuz it was at any time we wanted to go to the video store get a video we could put it in there we could watch it well it was a whole there was a whole outing associated with it you know going to the VCR store and the VHS rental place became an adventure and entertainment in and of itself and I remember you go in there they’d have the shelves and a coach family video it was like all homemade the guy made everything themselves all the shelves but the VHS tapes were sent to him he did not make those did not but there would be only one even new releases there will be one of them one so it would it would be I remember you know Batman with Michael Keaton will come out on VHS and you’d want that thing and you I don’t know you call you call ahead because it was one copy and you can keep it for seven days the jinkins have it it’ll be in it on Monday right and they would they would say that they would say well you wait three days and then you can get it well the funny thing is is I remember the day that we went to coats family video and they had two copies of a few movies I was like dad look they have two copies this must be a really popular flick let’s rent both of them just just so we can still save it we’re the only people in like a three County radiator we just watching Batman I should have rented both of them and then we should have summed up rented to the Jenkins we’re cheaper right why not for cheaper that won’t work nothing he printed from home I was with you I was like right yeah we’re thinking with our like first-grade brains that we actually let’s give the Jenkins a deal hahaha the first ones free well I but I think what you would gain is you would gain power there’s like power being brokered here oh I’m giving you a deal but you owe me Subba rent for less yeah what a business model that’s why we’re internet comedians and we don’t have some thriving business home video business which I’m sure we would have loved today we’re in a small room with a card table speaking with you all right I remember that the Disney VHS tapes they you know they always tried to outdo everybody so their tape boxes would be bigger oh yeah and they would be white and really puffy I remember that the cases themselves will be puffy like if a kid would spike it like a football vinyl and yeah kind of yeah it’s like it had like some kind of patent leather kind of a sensation to it but then the world changed because blockbuster came along in coats family video hung on started going downhill I mean they hung on for years and we would still go just I almost just out of spite you know we would go and we would go in there we would get the the one of two copies of Rocky five and we would watch it we would enjoy it and now yeah and then I would go down the street to my mom would always go rent the video and then we walk down the street to cokes party beverage which was the convenience store where they didn’t sell gas and but and they didn’t rent videos either but they sold party beverages which we didn’t purchase any of those that’s like alcohol or beer I’m just now realizing what a party beverages right I never knew what codes party beverage was I just thought it was just like a plate well I just thought it was a place you go after you’re in a video have a party it’s like I’m going to have a party in average having kids up celebrate imma get a beverage but not a party they celebrate that we got the only copy of Batman I would get the footlong hotdogs so even to this day whenever I see a VHS tape I taste a hotdog you crave a hotdog I know I actually tasted fine hmm more people more really something this year yeah how about it Jimmy you see you should use your typical and not lose it tell us how the Jimmy anger use it but don’t lose it and now we’re coming to the end of another era because blockbuster itself is shutting down everywhere you know just right down the road here in Sherman Oaks they’ve got the big sign that says on the blockbuster it says going out of business or this location close yeah this location only just this location yeah right every blockbuster everywhere is going out of business what why would they put up this it might as well just put us this on all blockbusters are going out of business do you still rent videos from Blockbuster now here’s what you’re saying I can read your comments right now you’re saying Netflix or Redbox red box is still a powerhouse I don’t know how it’s happened but red boxes temp is very temporary but yeah it’s it’s a short time span people are gonna be talking do you remember this red box outside of the grocery store it was like it was like like a convenience machine you know like a vending machine and it had DVDs in it yeah I’m serious do you use the red box ever I haven’t used it since I’ve been in California but yeah I used to use it because with Netflix at least what I have you’ve got the videos that you want right then that you don’t have they don’t put them on this when you want it right now you’re willing to pay for it they only put it on this they only put it on disk and so you have to wait for it like I want to watch this movie right now it’s a movie I just thought of I’m gonna go to the red box and get it so that’s why they need to get past the whole dis thing and it just needs to be if you want to watch a movie you should be able to pay to watch it instantly well then moving on that’s why Amazon is with and that’s what I don’t do red box I do Amazon I pay $4 which is it’s not red box as a dollar I pay four times that just to sit down and click and there it is right there but it always works and it works better than Netflix I’ve been using it a lot to the Google TV it costs a lot more Amazon if now correct me if I’m wrong but you can rent our documentary I’m just thinking of this looking for miss Locklear for two dollars on Amazon so if you want to watch that you can search your Amazon you can search red box but you won’t fight it you can also go to Coates family video but you’re just gonna find some dude who set up weights in a pool table and I think that like he has his friends over video store anymore is what you’re saying yeah that’s exactly what I’m saying man I’m saying it’s not a video store anymore do you recall when you used to rent VCRs are you that old are you as old as we are I hope not all right listen this episode I pity the fool who didn’t watch all the way to this episode because they’re about to miss what’s gonna happen right now you can get a lot of these lately link link falls asleep why don’t you be mr. t and I’m gonna fall asleep now I apologize for link he has a condition called narcolepsy which means it any moment he can fall asleep what do you mean I don’t even know what it it just happens sporadically it’s a condition that he’s dealing with this listen don’t laugh this is not funny this what are they laughing about I mean I mean a lot of people’s nothing to laugh a lot of people deal with this are you talking about it’s not a laughing matter I mean this is a real condition that a lot of people have there’s like conventions and there’s treatments that you can go and you can get into a serious accident I mean what if he was driving in this happen I’m serious what what I’m serious too I haven’t been sleeping what was that doing I was nothing I was talking that’s all do not laugh at him that would be exploiting him because of a condition that he cannot control you people what watch mr. t don’t break that don’t break I’ll see you tomorrow well like a nigger – you gotta be here see this isn’t lame convenient