Everybody wanted to look fly.

People were wearing Adidas and kazels and kangels and

and everybody had a watch on.

You know, I think watches back in those days was super important.

What kind of watch you were wearing?

You know, said what kind of person you were. The Hey everybody. I'm your host Stephen Pulverin and this is Hodincky Radio.

It's 80's week here at Hodincky which means that all week we're going to be bringing

you stories, videos, and yes podcasts related to watch culture in the 1980s, which maybe is the most

underappreciated decade in watches.

First up, we've got a conversation with our own Logan Baker about one of the weirdest watches in the 1980s,

the Tiso Rock Watch.

It's exactly what it sounds like.

It's a watch made out of a piece of rock, but it's a whole lot more than that, and Logan gets into why this tiny little

strange piece of herology tells us a ton about what was going on in Switzerland and the

watch world during this important decade.

After that, our senior vice president of content, Nick Marino, makes his first

Hodinke radio appearance, interviewing photographer Jeanette Beckman.

Beckman photographed the 70s British punk scene and then moved to New York

and spent most of the 80s shooting the early hip-hop scene including a ton of

household names like L.O. Kooljay, Salt and Peppa, Flava Flav and a ton more. She focused on documenting the culture,

style, and fashion of the era, and kind of unbeknownst to her at the time, that included watches.

And Nick really opens her eyes to the ways in which her photographs

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