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This is a special show where we get into some of our favorite 1980s Super Bowl Commercial, well one from the 1970s too.

Frequency 13s top 4 Super Bowl Commercials!

Mean Joe Green

Apple 1984

Where’s the Beef

Bud Bowl I

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Did you think Capri Sun was a space food? I did, but the truth is even more interesting.

Everyone loves twinkies, I think they are as close to a universal truck stop desert as any. Admittedly they are long in the tooth, but they too have an interesting story to tell.

Did you play Simon, the electronic game as a kid? Even if you didn’t have one, I suspect you at least knew someone who did? Am I right?

I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I enjoyed making it!

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The 4077th still brings fond memories and the characters are near and dear to our hearts all these years later. We’ll talk about this amazing show and some interesting M*A*S*H Trivia.

With the Super Bowl coming up it’s time to start thinking about snacks! What better snack then Doritos, and what a wild ride we have been on with Doritos. A true GenX snack by the way, they were born in 1964!

Deely Bobbers one of the true tragedies of the 80s but a part of the Pop Culture compendium of our time.

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Space Pens and Electronic Football have to have something in common, well not directly, but the miniaturization of things going into space was certainly driving innovation in electronics and other stuff in the 1970s and 1980s.  This episode looks at the earliest of handheld video games, Fisher Space Pens, and even a refreshing Slice with 10% real juice.

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Happy New Year! Xers, maybe I didn't party like it's 1999, (I hope you did!) But I was able to put together a great show for you.

We hear about my resolutions, and why you should set some resolutions for 2021.

You'll be sparked to life by memories of 1980s fitness fads.

My Iphone has replaced and improved so many things that I can't begin to count but one of those things specifically was a glimpse into the future in the 1980s and frankly still seems futuristic today, I can't wait to share it.

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This is the year-end holiday episode and the season closer.  Frequency 13 will be back to ring in the New Year in 2021 with some format tweaks and new segments.  Tonight we get into the memory wars of the 1980s Kodak vs. Polaroid.  Different, but both formats were essential to our holidays, so what happened? Tune in to find out.  Also, I finally get around to talking Hotwheels.  Before you start playing this episode, I recommend you make sure you have a handful of Tina's frozen Burritos ready to go.  I dare say they were way better than the crappy hot pockets our kids had to suffer through!  An 80s holiday episode would not be complete without a frank and relevant discussion of Radio Shack, the little shop that couldn't make it over the hill, but one we loved dearly in the 80s.

Have a wonderful holiday season and we will see you next year!!!

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JC Penney wasn't the first to the game with a Wish Book, but they were my favorite!  There are so many places to find scans of the original JC Penney Wish Books so I know there are a lot of us that love them.

Disc Cameras were introduced by Kodak in 1982.  They were innovators, and I liken them to the Apple of the day (Yes I am aware that Apple was around back then, but they weren't the innovators then that Kodak was)  So why did the photos not have the quality that would have made the amazing little disc camera work?? Listen to find out!

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This week we take a deep dive in to the Public Library.  The library was the Internet of our youth.  A window to the world, where we could get lost in the stacks, and the best part it was/is free to all.  Like a bicycle it provided liberation and a chance to form our own opinions and views of the world around us.  And if you were like me a chance to practice your spycraft!  

We wax nostalgic on this show, it is what it is about of course, and I hope you had a great library experience, some of us are in love with the library for very unique reasons, it was my window into a world that was yet to be explored a world that existed outside of our little valley.  Like television, but it was on demand, I didn't have to wait for a documentary to show up on television, I could find what I wanted to learn today.  There at the library my love of learning was sparked, and the flame still burns today.

So which Halloween Candy was you favorite, no cheating, it has to be something you would cherish in your pillowcase full of goodies, what was the one candy that you would do your best to hoard away but the truth was that it was gone by November 1s, only to be left with Sweet Tarts and gum.  

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The Frequency 13 Halloween Spooktackular!  Yeah that's cheezy even for us!   

What did didn't love the burnin Key Cars?  They really were fast and a thing of beauty!  Interesting story of how they ended up in the hands of Matchbox while we were racing them across the kitchen floor.

Which of the Ben Cooper costumes did you wear? Head down below and click the link to our brand new facebook group and tell us.  If you don't know who Ben Cooper was don't worry neither did I, but now I know more then I realized was possible, and I'll share the highlights on this episode.

Remember the Friday Night At the Movies, movie?  NBC ran it, all the networks actually did the same thing, but NBC started Monday Night at the Movies and by 1980 when they realized that Friday was the kiss of death for TV series they switched it to Friday.  Do you remember any of the featured films on Friday night?  I didn't, but I found one that is very fitting for the show,  

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The Space Shuttle Enterprise was not originally called Enterprise, find out what it was originally named, and why the President Ford changed the name to Enterprise.

Can you imaging taping a penny to a piece of paper, licking stamps to make your music selection, then mailing the whole thing in and 6-8 weeks later you get a package full of your favorite cassettes?  Of course not, if a song takes more then a couple seconds to load we move on!  Not in the 80s we didn't we waited.  Interestingly there was not a "loading problem" during our time things happened instantly,  Even though we were waiting for our show or song to come on the radio while we put up with commercials, we still could at least know our device was working, and didn't have to figure out if the "wifi was down" or better yet "wtf is wrong with the Wifi??"

Finally racing at 800 scale miles per hour was a perfect stuck in the house activity and if you had a couple friends over it could be very competitive.  If you had a dad that was a hobbyist your house was the place to go for scale racing action.

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