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this episode of retronauts whichever episode of retronauts this may happen to be I'm Jerry Parrish that at least is a constant and so too is the constant

to my right.

Hey, it's Bob Mackie and I rewind all my tapes in a thing shaped like a Corvette.

Yes, that as as you should a red Corvette. Oh wow. Yeah, red Corvette. It's actually very little.

You're the Prince of video tapes was was printing me about a VHS taper wonder. Oh my god. He was ahead of his time. Right.

He was he was way on top of things he was a visionary man. It's really sad that we missed him and in addition to the constant we have the variable.

James Aldwood and this podcast requires a hundred dollars a deposit. Wow. Well back in the old days. Yeah.

All right. So yes, it's true. There's no escaping it. We're talking about video stores and we've been making VHS references because that kind of is how old we are.

But in truth, we're going to be talking about video stores Vsev the relationship to video games.

And this was a request by James who is kind enough to help host us Bob and I while we are here in sunny Tokyo, Japan.

So many two hot Tokyo Japan is actually very hazy right now. Yeah, I've been enjoying it. Yes, that's someone does.

James James is putting me up and I've been a perfect gentleman the entire time.

I'm glad you haven't taken advantage of him. I've only taken advantage of his nice shower.

We just don't take that. That's actually weird. Oh wait, no. Scratch that. He's a very nice shower.

So I'm saying I'm glad I'm glad to hear that. We just don't take advantage of him. I wouldn't be by my way.

We've only met. Yeah, anyway, this is already going in weird places. But yes, James actually why don't you tell us why you wanted to talk about this particular topic?

Well, video stores are kind of important for me. My family has been in the video business pretty much since 1983.

My father opened a video store in my hometown of Toledo, Ohio.

Back in 1983, Sites and Sounds home video. And we had that from 1983 until 1997 when we sold out to the man to Blockbuster and got out.

And how did that go for Blockbuster? It went really bad because it turns out Blockbuster was not a good business.

Yeah, they did everything wrong. They did. I did, I did rent from them for a while.

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