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What a wild week at Frequency 13, we have a new sponsor, the Mustang Motel on Route 9, SpaceX, in partnership with NASA launched the Dragon Manned Space mission on May 30, 2020.  Thirty-nine years ago, NASA launched the first Space Shuttle, and for Generation X, it was a big deal!  Even MTV thought so, and they were the guidebook for cool at the time.

In 1978 Hershey's introduced the Whatchamacallit.

Do you have any idea how many names they had brainstormed before landing on Whatchamacallit?  Don't worry; you will, after this episode.

What year was your favorite last day of school?  I'll share mine, hint: it wasn't 5th grade!

Please don't blow up the planet!  We don't need Charlton Heston pounding sand in our future!

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-1

https://www.wired.com/2011/06/st-spaceshuttle-timeline/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whatchamacallit_(candy)

https://www.hersheys.com/en_us/our-brands/whatchamacallit.html

https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Deep_Space_Homer

The Huffy Corporation, bicycles for the masses.  These are often our first bikes so let's take a deep dive into the companies history at least up until the early 1980s.  We will even get a chance to lust after the Huffy Pro Thunder and learn that the delicious Pepsi Light contains caffeine.

Did the Pepsi Challenge Bottle Cap contest destroy Generation X?  Is that why we our generation is known for apathy?

If you are going on a bike tour and think you need to prove something or spend a lot of money run over to Cycleblaze.com and look for Jeff Teel.  Read his travel journal on the Montgomery Ward (Huffy) Single Speed and let me know if you still need that brand new $3,000.00 Surly, or Trek, or fill in the blank.  Jeff Teel is the penultimate eco warrior and never once calls attention to himself for his eco friendly ways.

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 History of Huffy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huffy

Jeff Teel Bicycle Journal - https://www.cycleblaze.com/profile/map330/

The Pepsi Challenge - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepsi_Challenge#cite_note-7

Remember the oily chain on your bike?  Maybe you remember the rusty chain on your bicycle that broke and left you to walk it home.  It was worse than a flat tire!  

I just gave myself a haircut, and it made me think of the old K-Tel Haircut Magician; it looked so handy and still does today.  If you have ever given yourself a haircut, you know what I'm talking 'bout.

This week's Simpsons trivia gives us a sense of the entrepreneurial spirit of Homer J. Simpson when he goes into the grease business in Season 10, Episode 1.  

The Yo Ball, the Glowing Yo Ball, was a must-have toy by Knots inc. in 1980.  If you ever tried to do tricks with a regular yoyo as a kid, the idea of a magical Yo Ball that would always come back really spoke your language.  Later they were sold as the YoYo Ball and were almost banned from the shelves after some unfortunate deaths attributed to them. 

The best snack in the 1970s was the Zinger by Dolly Madison;  The company that sponsored the Peanuts cartoons that would come on in prime time.  The Zinger was the best, I preferred the chocolate version, but the golden cake version was good too.  

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The neighborhood 7-eleven was the place to get out of a hot Utah sun for a few minutes, and after mowing lawns with your push mower, you could get a delicious Red Slurpee with the funny straw with the spoon on the bottom.

Can you still get straws for your Slurpee?

The 1979 Pinewood Derby was my rookie year; we don't talk about it, but 1980 was my year, and even with a bit of lead on my fingers and likely digested. It was a great derby, the kind of derby that legends are born.

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The new show on EPIX called War of the Worlds is a decent take on the old H.G. Wells classic, and worth a look for the Sci-Fi crowd. The Sony Walkman and the Japanese copy cats of the 80s were the iPod of today and changed the world for the better. Can you guess which cassette I wore out on my old Panasonic RX-1950? Don't worry; I tell all! 

Special guest Austin Plett is on, and we compare and contrast our experiences as children on our bikes, and the importance of the bicycle as s mechanism of freedom. 

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EPIX War of the Worlds

First Walkman $200, 1979  

Panasonic RX-1950 1982 - $175 

First and Foremost thanks to our sponsor Chesterfield Manufacturing, tell 'em Frequency 13 sent you.  

This episode is going to be the best yet! You're gonna love it

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The March of Dimes Walk-A-Thon

The Hot wheels Cars required to enjoy television

Space Dust Candy

Scooby Doo scariest show on TV!

To start us out I have a really special treat, but first a word from our sponsor Chesterfield Manufacturing

Chesterfield is knocking it out of the park!  Alright turn up your Walkman, because Tonight here to talk about Rotten Tomatoes number one Sci Fi movie ever, ET, is my personal friend Billy Shear, who has a pulse on pop culture from the 1980s.  He has a degree in Journalism, travels the world, and loves to tell people he has a cat.  From the Mile Hi City the Host of the brilliant and amazing podcast Conversation Ex Nihilo– Billy tell us about the new Podcast before we get into some Serious E.T. banter

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Get your Pop-Tarts ready; we have a lot to cover in this episode.  Lawrence Welk comes up, and the memory of the beautiful Larry Pino and his fantastic conservatories in Utah.  Space Food Sticks by Pilsbury invented under government contract.  Gayla Kite bat eyes aren't bloodshot; the red lines spell Gayla.  How high can you fly a Gayla Bat?  Simpson's trivia, and Tracer guns, and a few more stories from the lost generation, Gen-X.

Larry Pino

Pop-Tart Commercial

Gayla Kite Blog

Pillsbury Space Food Sticks

Tracer Guns

Jason discusses some of the key points of the 70s.  A new Simpsons Trivia Question from Season 9 EP 6 (Ugh I misspoke in the episode)  

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