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The Mens Room Daily Podcast

10 Old School Struggles Kids Today Won't Understand

The Mens Room Daily Podcast

Audacy

Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:00.0

And that's the beauty of technology. I feel like the foundation of technology is to make people's lives easier, to supposed to, to, you know, take away some of the struggles that we have, but unfortunately as technology advances, there's some struggles that we've fought through that the next generation doesn't get to and in fact there's an entire list.

0:17.0

10 old school struggles today's kids will never understand. Back in my day, if you wanted to let that saucy minks, no she made your pants feel funny, you'd make her a mixed tape.

0:43.0

You damn kids in your technology, call it a playlist today. Well good for you. You know good lazy to thumb texting monsters.

0:58.0

You ever make a mixed tape for myself? I made one for a check. Didn't work, but I didn't. I made a mixed CD. Oh, okay. Did it work? No, yeah. It's amazing.

1:10.0

I made one. I gave it to her. I definitely like we made a ton of mixed like CDs. Sure, right?

1:16.0

But man, I can't remember. I made one specifically for a girl. Yeah, I made one for a girl. She's like, dude, I really like songs. I don't like you.

1:23.0

You have great taste in music. You suck as a human. I'm like, okay. I missed tape. Some losers made it, but I love it. I remember my brother, some chick made one for him and they've been married for 30 years.

1:33.0

Yeah, she made a mixed tape. You should have put corrosion, a conformity on that. Damn it.

1:39.0

So these are old school struggles. Today's kids will never understand. Recording TV shows with VCRs. I can remember doing it like one time in my life.

1:47.0

And I think that's when lost was on. We got to tape it. Father in law still doesn't. But I also remember when you couldn't do that. Right.

1:54.0

You know, like if you missed the show, you just didn't see it. Yeah, well on demand. Of course I can use it. And the biggest crime was taping over something that someone had.

2:02.0

Oh, my God. But I had watched it, but you didn't know. My old man had a collection of all these VHS tapes work because he had HBO.

2:10.0

And back then, HBO had a lot of really, really good. They had the latest movies out of the theater on the on the screen.

2:16.0

Right. They got the first. Right. Yeah. And he figured out how to hook up the VCR. And so we had a whole bunch of movies.

2:22.0

So two or three on a tape. Yeah sports. Yeah. I mean, it's like specific super balls. I can't believe you taped over that. Oh, God. Yeah.

2:30.0

By told you me, my buddy, Bernie, we used to, we used to tape Seinfeld so we could watch him again. There you go.

2:36.0

And you still watch them now. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Do you guys remember the old way to fix video games if they weren't working quite well?

2:42.0

That's exactly right. Blowing on that video game cartridge. And they all told you the same thing. Don't do it. It's actually worse for it.

2:48.0

But the dog gun thing works by now. It works. Right. Yeah. You got to blow on it. And then for the original Nintendo, you had to kind of press it in and out a few times.

2:56.0

Yeah. You ever had the one where you kind of had to gently put it in at a certain angle. And that's the only way that it would work.

3:00.0

You got to know which cartridges. Like, don't put that one in straight. Oh, yeah. Angle this one. That one goes straight.

3:06.0

Mm-hmm. And it was a testament to how good the game was. If the cartridge was F'd, that was a fun game to play. That's a good point. You wore it now.

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