VHS tapes known for being movies.

Famous for being 90s, 1990s.

Nobody thinks much about them, so let's have some fun.

Let's find out why VHS tapes are secretly incredibly fascinating. Hey, hey, hey,

Hey there, folks, welcome to a whole new podcast episode, a podcast all about why being alive is more interesting than people think it is.

My name's Alex Schmidt and I'm not alone because I'm joined by my co-host Katie Golden.

Katie!

Yes.

What is your relationship to or opinion of VHS tapes?

The smell of a hot one, like you put it in the VHS player, the deck, and you take it out

after watching Disney's Robin Hood with the foxes and the bears.

And you've watched that so many times and you take the tape out.

And it's still warm and you can smell that magnetic tape.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Man, such good memories.

There's something very, it engages all your senses, the clickety clack when you shove it in there, the sound of it rewinding and the way, like,

a Pavlovian response I would have to that of being excited to see a movie.

You'd of course have, like, there'd be a part of it, because you play

it so much, you kind of damage the tape a little bit, so there's like one part

of it that has a little bit of a fuzzy disturbance in the

movie, but you're so used to it that part of the whole experience at that point.

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