#184: The Last Days of Summer and Back to School

KnockBack: The Retro and Nostalgia Podcast

Last Stand Media & Studio71

Society & Culture, Leisure, History

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2021

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

The summer is all fun and games, but 'back to school' always looms on the horizon. The further we get into the dog days, the closer we get to the next grade, and it's those weeks -- usually in August, but sometimes in July or stretching into September -- that are our focus during this episode. What was our routine? Were we excited to go clothes shopping? To get school supplies? To find out who our teachers are? Or did we dread returning to the classroom, and do everything we could to avoid the harsh reality of childhood education? People were usually one way or the other, and sometimes they vacillated between the two. As for us? Well... let's just say we really loved our Star Wars and GI Joe lunchboxes, and begin there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Knockback, the retro and nostalgia podcast is brought to you by Well You.
0:04.2	If you want to learn how to support our show, go to patreon.com slash last stand media.
0:14.0	Greetings and salutations. Welcome back to Knockback.
0:16.4	My name is Colin Moriardium.
0:17.8	I'm joined as always by my brother, Dagon pencil,
0:20.7	buy-in Moriardium. I can only imagine the pencil,
0:24.0	buy-in sprees used to go on as a child.
0:26.9	My colored pencils and my...
0:29.2	Good to see you today, Dagon. How are you?
0:31.0	Good to see you. It just occurred to me.
0:32.9	I should have brought you an apple.
0:35.2	You know, missed opportunity next time.
0:37.9	Next time. Why do you say what?
0:38.9	I don't understand.
0:39.6	Today's topic. You know that old school,
0:41.5	like little house and the prairie thing,
0:43.6	that even our generations didn't get,
0:45.6	you know, that was already up or gone.
0:47.7	Like, that was already a bygone thing.
0:50.0	Yeah, what was that all about?
0:51.2	Like putting an apple on the desk of the...
0:53.7	I do remember us getting gifts for like the bus driver.
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