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#40 - Video Store Memories


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Step into the Penny Men’s time machine and prepare to wander the sacred aisles of VHS heaven! Mammoth Video, Video to Go, Blockbuster, Family Video — the smell of popcorn, the hum of fluorescent lights, pinball machines chiming in the corner, and that glorious click when you popped a tape into the VCR!


We’re talking:

  • $100 Disney “classics” locked in glass cases
  • Goosebumps spines glowing slime-green
  • Nickelodeon tapes blazing neon orange
  • Punky Brewster pink
  • And that one mystery black clamshell you weren’t supposed to rent!

This is the thrill of discovery, the agony of rewinding, the joy of walking out with Mega Man X, Thumb Wars, or Hot Lead and Cold Feet starring Don Knotts!


We reminisce about:

  • Leonard Maltin’s movie guides
  • Tim Conway’s alarm-clock guns
  • The Banana Splits haunting your dreams
  • Infomercials you couldn’t unsee,
  • And those random demo SNES stations that made you forget what you came in for!

It’s aisles of dusty treasures, foreign films with no subtitles, forgotten Saturday morning cartoon tapes, and the mystery of “what happens next?” in that movie you never got to finish!


From obscure gems to childhood staples, from rewinding fines to accidental obsessions, Ben, Greg, and Tom relive the chaos, the smell, the sounds, and the pure magic of video stores — before streaming murdered the art of accidental discovery and replaced it with “Recommended for You” purgatory!


Grab your quarters, dodge the gumball machine, and let’s rent something weird!

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