You've got half a chance of taking something home if you hit up enough thrift stores but the roadside antique and consignment type places are brutally expensive no matter where you go...a swamp meet might be better but I have terrible luck at the antique places...antique stores are fine if you want to fritter some time away and take a stroll into yesteryear but not take anything home. Oh and the legendarily coked-up Wings Hauser clip and the end was a treat!

@OddityArchive

Ай бұрын

This episode was a bit of an anomaly. Most of them are at Savers/Goodwill, etc.

Whenever I see the Cannon films logo on any DVD/VHS out in the wild I immediately buy it because I know I'm guaranteed a good time.

8:07 I was pleasantly surprised when I learned the voice of Fat Tony was a very avid shooter.

@pacmancdi

Ай бұрын

Surprised to see Wilma from Buck Rogers, Stringfellow Hawke from Airwolf and Sheba from Battlestar Galactica on there. That tape is quite a star studded affair!

Commodore computer stuff doesn't show up in the wild in this day and age anymore because Commodore used gold contacts on the motherboard so scrappers rip them apart and destroy them.

9:56 Never seen a York Peppermint Pattie dispenser. It's a "Series 2000" so they may be from the current century.

@ebbamb

Ай бұрын

I've looked into them before, and they do still make the patties that are meant to stock the dispenser, and some places (though it's fairly rare now) do keep the machines in use. There's a chance those patties were still in date.

Retail cliches when you start finding Halloween and Christmas decorations at stores in July

Now that you have a tape on hunting wild turkeys, you now have a candidate for a proper Thanksgiving episode this year

7:00 I have that All Star Cartoons: Bugs Bunny VHS tape!

@MrJohndoakes

Ай бұрын

How garbage is it?

Those Looney Tunes coffins. I have both of those. There was a Taz one as well I never managed to get. I want to say he was Dracula. They were Russel Strover branded Halloween candy containers. You got one or two small chocolate caramel bars in them Anyway, you opened it up, and it made that standard "wooooowoooooo" flying saucer/ghost noise that the cheapest Halloween decorations usually made. Anyway, I think us up here could use that How to Hunt Wild Turkeys video. They tend to run amok over here and often can wander into towns. They're supposedly very aggressive though the couple encounters I had with them, they just minded their business if you left them alone.

@OddityArchive

Ай бұрын

What a wasted opportunity for a Daffy Duck “that’s despicable!” sound byte.

My mom had that Emerson tape deck. We used it more for the radio than playing tapes.

I was just recently in Western SD, where it rained like in AZ at one point (the sky was actually clear along with the rain), but otherwise it was beautiful the whole weekend, even creeping into the 90s. Meanwhile, Sioux Falls was flooded. Also, my grandmother had the Husker Du game, and my brother liked the underground punk band that took its name from the game.

Talk about overpriced. Good episode and you made it home before the deluge.

Am I the only one who laughed out loud at the Edith Prickley lamp shade?

@footwork216

Ай бұрын

No, that was hilarious. The Al Jolson skull joke cracked me up too, as well as a few others. Ben was "on" even more than usual in this one.

7:02 I think I remember seeing an all star cartoons public domain vhs tape Not the bugs bunny one, but I remember seeing the popeye one with the Aladdin episode and I don’t scare on the tape at school

3:11 Of course, it was Prince Albert, not Sir Albert in a can.

1:22 Archive Thrifting After Dark

Happy Independence Day! Take care Ben and everybody!

Pffft 💦 and⚡fine being together in the same area. It's not like anything dangerous could happen when they com "💥".

2:24 Holy Sh🤬, was that a real bear's head??!?

@OddityArchive

Ай бұрын

Yes.

Thrifty!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wings Hauser... if you watched late movies on WABC in New York in the late 90s, you'd probably see nearly every bad film he was ever in! I did like the bonus VIDEO UPDATE tags at 6:43!

10:58 Blame it on the rain... yeah, yeah.

In Australia anything Commodore 64 sells for a lot of money.

I was going to ask if you want to trade bad weather, but I don't think anyone wants triple digits weather.

@OddityArchive

Ай бұрын

If the air is good and dry, I won’t turn it down.

Judging by the numbers on the price tags, these antique shops appear to run under a consignment model. Each of those tag numbers are assigned to an individual who has brought stuff to sell there, either on a shelf or in a rented out booth. There is a thrift shop in my town that operates in a similar manner, so some retro tech goodies can range from very affordable to horrendously overpriced. So it's not always the fault of the store itself for the high prices. I did see a price on one of those Sony HF cassettes, which were $4.99 per tape! At that same price I was able to get a grab bag of several blank audio and video tapes at Savers one year! Having said that, how much were those blank VHS tapes at I-29 Antiques? Some of them looked rather recent, circa late 2000s/early 2010s.

3:12 And curse Sir Walter Raleigh He was such a stupid git

9:37 Techmoan will be reviewing that Emerson dual cassette deck unit, if he hasn't already. Loves that peak 80s design. Edit to add, the Charlie Weaver toy takes two C or D flashlight batteries, had one years ago. He shakes the martini, pours, drinks as his cheeks glow red while a smacking lips type action makes a creepy sound.