Rewinding to the 80s

0:00Hey, Bay Area, good morning. Coffee, please. Wake up with Sarah and Vinnie. This is amazing. Every morning on Alice, 97-3. These are some things that were totally normal if you were a kid in the 80s. Oh. And the number one thing on the list, totally normal in the 80s, that would seem weird today. This is a good one, especially for right after it breaks the gap. That's why I like it. I thought that being bored, boredom was a right of passage when when we were young. That's why I played with weebles. If you didn't say, I'm bored to your parents at least 10 times a week, you weren't a kid in the 80s. The truth is they'll still say it now, but they have access to way more stuff, way more. And that actually brings up a question that I have for Bob. Bob, let me ask you a question. When you were young before you got your phone, did your mom ever let you use her phone to text your friends?

1:00Not to text my friends, because by the time texting really took off, I had a phone. Okay. But I did use it to play Snake too. Snake too? Yeah, that's what it's called. Version Snake too. Okay. Now, my oldest daughter will say, Mom, can I use your phone to text my friend, and her mom will hand her the phone, and she texts her friends from her mom's phone. That's like the way that she can make plans for whatever thing they're doing. So she texts the friend's mom, and then it's the one. Is it easier? Is it? No, this is Isla. This is Isla. Because you stopped the texting that she was, she had her own phone. No, she had an iPod and was going crazy with it and had it have it ripped from her. But so she's a lot, she will use her mom. And I don't know if other moms are out there right now saying, yeah, that's what we do. Or if other moms are like, I would never give my kid my phone. I don't want them to see the pictures,

2:00or I don't want them to see my tax, or whatever, or the possibility that they could do something to your workmates. Or they could take money out of your bank account. And there's that too. We can do all that stuff on our phones now. Being bored, these are normal things in the 80s that would be so weird today, smoking inside like everywhere. Yeah. I mean, people smoke. Let me ask you a question. You were a smoker. I also was a smoker. Did you ever smoke in your own bed? Yes. I never did that. I just didn't, you know what? I didn't give myself over to smoking. I was addicted and absolutely smoked. There's no, I smoked a pack of day and that's some. I started to sleep smoking. The cigarette fell on the blanket on top of me and lit on fire. That was on a couch though, not in bed, but still. No, I never was in my own bed with a siggy. I just didn't think that that was, I thought it was gross.

3:01Like, I can't remember specifically being in bed with a cigarette, but I wouldn't put it past me. I know a lot of people that who smoked that did it in their, like I did it in the car. That was the only place that I would do that. I didn't do it in my house, in my room, in my bed, never. But everything, it's funny how it takes not having the smell of smoke around you at all times, which is how life was, to notice the smell of smoke. Like, when I moved to California in 1997, I had been here for however long. I actually was like, I'm the only person here that smokes. So I quit and I wasn't smoking. And John and I went home like, I don't know, later that year and I walked into a restaurant and went, oh my God. And it's a restaurant. Like, because it was completely indoor, smoking in public places was completely banned in California. So I never smelled it anymore. I couldn't, I'm like, oh my, and they're like, oh, do you want the smoking section or the non-smoking?

4:02I'm like, it seems like you only have a smoking section. Well, you realize that stuff flows. Places of smokes. Same thing with planes. Nice try with the whole, you can smoke here, not here. Even that is a fairly recent end. I mean, 90s at some point, right? Well, that's 30 years. Is it really, isn't it? Sure. 2026. 96, 26, incredible, incredible. These are things that were totally normal in the 80s. You turned on your TV and you started watching something. Like, you had three channels. There was no point in looking up the TV guide or in this case, they're talking about how we have to pick a service, get signed into it, and then find your, and then look around on Netflix or Amazon or Disney or Apple or... Even TV guide was a very helpful little resource because you'd have to plan out, mom, on Monday at eight o'clock,

5:05I got to watch the Brady Bunch. So don't, you can't watch anything but that time. And they say here, people watch TV in real time then. So there was no random viewing times and there was a community, like it was a community event when certain big shows were on, whether that was the season finale or just the random episode that everyone talked about, whether it's Melrose Place or whatever else. It had to be caught up on it. I mean, it really wasn't even until probably the late 80s that we started being able to videotape what was on TV without being there watching it. You could sit, remember that trying to set the timer and your VCR to tape the thing and... Oh no, the TV was on the run channel. Competing for your lungs with cigarettes was all that hairspray. Oh yes. On the list of things from the 80s that were totally normal. Your bathroom would get shlack. It'd have a stickiness everywhere. And the hair is like you'd lose hair

6:05and it would be stuck on the floor. You'd have to mop your bathroom. Yeah, you guys put a hole in the Ozeon layer with that crop. Ridiculous. They say that's... They say that's fixed now though. It is. I heard it closed. All right. Wake up with Sarah and Vinnie. They're great. They're awesome every morning. Every morning on Ellis 973.