5:00 - One time around 2015 I found a sealed pack of MAD Magazine playing cards at Goodwill. I didn't read the package, I just picked it up as soon as I saw Alfred E. Neuman. But when I got it home and opened it, it wasn't playing cards. It was candy. Kind of like Nerds. From the 90's. A mix of rainbow and brown sugary rot mixed with rough chunks flowed onto my desk and was pure stank. I now always carefully examine what I'm buying at thrift stores.
I own the Ronco knives and yes they do get rust spots on them. I bought them over 20 years ago from tv believe it or not and their customer service was non existent. That was the only thing I ever bought on tv.
tempted to look up see if any of those radio drama recordings made it to youtube just out of curiosity... had to laugh at the fishing game though complete with 'do not disturb' sign, god how tacky LOL... right into the thomas kinkaide story. so much weird and crazy stuff that pops up at goodwills and other thrift stores it's always neat to see! definitely curious to see the LEGO mindstorms stuff, for sure.
I once found a podcast version of the Adventure! radio show, which condensed books and short stories into radio dramas. Good stories, but the audio quality was terrible, so I unsubbed.
One of the reasons why you see at lot of those old time radio shows on cassette was due to the fact that the first generation of reproduction 30's type radios all had cassette players in them.
My 19 yr old son is into all things vintage tech, music, etc. We found him the Old Time Radio cassettes a few years back at a local Hope Chest Thrift Store. He's listened to a few of them and enjoyed the shows. He'll even pop a tape in when he's playing video games as a background noise. 🤣 I think we paid $2 for it on sale.
The vanity mirrors from the 80s and 90s are still the best. They still work, you may just have to replace the light. A lot of beauty schools still endorse them.
I should probably take my old clock radio in to Goodwill soon. It did AM/FM, weather band, CD (can't remember if also mp3 on CD), and VHF television audio-only. Used it as my actual wake-up machine, waking up to the morning news show on channel 3, right up until the changeover to digital TV happened, at which point all it picks up is the looping placeholder recording saying how channel 3's programming is now only available digitally (which of course the clock radio doesn't get). Towards the end I got a bunch of those ambient audio CDs to fall asleep to: bubbling stream, desert wind, train ride, ocean sailboat, thunderstorm, etc. Most of which I found at Goodwill, ironically enough.
I used to have that exact Old Time Radio cassette set as a kid!! I discovered old time radio by accident because a local radio station aired radio dramas on weekend evenings, and eventually got the cassette tapes as a gift. I miss that set, honestly wish I still had it. :)
We had a similar program where I lived as a kid. I don’t remember much of it, save for they aired a show and kept in the breaking news that Stalin had died. I didn’t get then why that announcer sounded so happy.
If anyone else is vaguely interested in a vcr, check on Craigslist for those CRT TVs with the built in vcr dvd combo. It comes in super handy for old school media and it works great for older video game consoles which I'm a fan of.
I had one until I upgraded my CRT to a little Sony Trinitron I found at an antique mall. The most fun I had with it was making my own bootlegs for myself using my Pi since it could actually record the AV input.
@@piratebear3126 I see. I would imagine watching old school horror movies on VHS would be a better experience. I watched the original texas chainsaw massacre on some streaming service and it wasn't the same.
I've got that exact same JVC VCR model. I have recently been digitizing old VHS tapes with it, works great still. By the way, I've never even been to Arizona but I've probably watched nearly all of your videos plus many on the RA2 channel. I really enjoy your presentation style and retro influences on your videos. Keep up the excellent work!
3:09 I honestly would love to own that. I listen to OTR pretty often and it would be really fun to listen to it on cassette with a radio and actually listen to it coming from a radio....
I used to get that Highlights Top Secret pack in the mail, I was too young to remember how much they were, but I do remember having a lot of fun with them. They also sold a large "kit" with a bunch of those hidden pictures in it. If I remember correctly, they came once every 3 months, and I would have them finished before the day was up; the most disappointing thing was the wait for the next ones.
Microprose made starship troopers terran ascendancy which you can pick up for free online jsut search around and get the relevant patches for it, theres a game patch and an nvidia patch
I am jealous of your Goodwills having VCRs. Pretty sure the main one I go to either doesn't take them or throws them away. Just have to keep an eye out at the local thrift store I go to in the meantime so I can watch the dead mall doc as intended. I also remember seeing the Mindstorm Legos as a kid, but they were pretty expensive. Not that Legos aren't expensive in general, but they stood out to me for the price even as a kid.
My local Goodwills tend to have the VCRs, but they do sort and ship some items elsewhere so they can sell. Like vintage Pyrex, used to be able to find the good pieces, but now they sort it and ship it to sell online, or to the $$$ areas to sell at a higher mark up. If you thrift a lot you can learn what locations sell more of a certain type of thing. Everyone in awhile you'll find a Goodwill in the middle of nowhere that just doesn't care and it has ALL the goodies.
@@fawncappitelli4297 yep, another relatively close (but still a bit far to get to regularly) Goodwill to me actually puts things on the shelf. Mainly they have a massive video game section where they’re priced $6 each. The closest one to me I’m pretty sure eBays most everything. They don’t even have cases up front since they know nothing worth going in them is staying in the store.
I played that Star Trek game in my early 20s. It's a lot of fun if you have a bunch of friends and you get drunk together before playing. We played a star trek drinking game before we played the board game so even non-trekkies were having fun.
I had a friend give me a toilet golf game before. But the box wasn’t as nice as that fishing game lol. It was pre smart phone era tho so makes sense that it existed
A little tardy to the party, but all that old-time radio on cassette might have something to do with the fandom being one of the earliest tape trading cultures that didn't follow the Grateful Dead. There are still some of them who swear they can thread a reel-to-reel machine with their eyes closed.
the only reason other than possibly the price i wouldn't get that Old time radio collection (I listened to old time radio back when i was a teenager and still listen to it, to this day) would be the fact that I ... dont think i have a casette player that still works
The Family Game Pack in the beginning was real, the case was probably used at some sort of rental store. Lol, I could smell the Aquanet when you showed that light up mirror. I actually like those plates, nice 70s terra color. That's an older model sun bed too.
I was really hoping you'd get the farting monkey that was in the box. I remember my aunt got a very similar makeup mirror one christmas. must have been in the mid to late 70's and she used that thing until she died in 2015. that desk is absolutely stunning. I love mid century modern furniture
I found it funny right after the first part ended and you said let's move to the next store I got a ad for bashas so I was like " ah next store is a super market seems random but ok".
When you were showing off the DS games, underneath were PC games and I noticed my favorite game: Rollercoaster Tycoon! Hope you’ve gotten a chance to play it someday! It’s on Steam now
I think I made a big mistake watching the part about the farting monkeys while I was eating dinner. Either way, well done with the thrifting videos again. Maybe more than a year ago, I found a SHARP brand VCR from 1995 at Goodwill that cost ten bucks. For a VCR that's two years older than me, it was in immaculate working condition. Unfortunately, it didn't come with the remote, but that's fine. At least I got a smokin' deal on it..
While that Vision Command was a nice find, especially for that price, I do have a little bit of bad news for you, that's actually an expansion set for the Lego Mindstorms Robotics Invention System (specifically 1.5 at release but should work with 1.0 and 2.0, 2.0 might be recommended since the IR tower to program the RCX is USB rather than serial if I remember correctly) and usually with the instructions in those the builds require pieces that came in that set (and also you wouldn't have the main programable piece or the motors or sensors), the software should be able to work but I don't know for sure if everything will really be usable. As for the camera I never had this expansion pack myself, but I did have the Lego Studios set that came with that exact same "Lego Cam" that came with Vision Command in a different colored shell, it's a reshelled Logitech Quickcam from around 2000 (At least that's the year both sets came out) and the video quality isn't that good but for a late 90s webcam the quality is passable enough, especially if you adjust the focus by spinning the little wheel on the front around the lens
Those Six Star knives, hilariously oversold with the requisite audience fakery were made famous by a meme-worthy infomercial. It's up here on YT and is worth an ironic view.
Discs can be silver, and still bootlegged. Back in the 2000's, that's how all bootlegs were manufactured in Asia. I had copies from Pakistan as well as China.
well iam not old, but iam still using cassettes still, why, because most of the local stuff i grew up wtih, was never digitalized at all, so most of that stuff, goes for around 100$ or more for a single cassette, even when i was a kid, they were rare and after the hed libery, decided to throw most of the stuff, instead of selling it, make it even more rare. iam 35 btw
5:14 that 2001 calendar is reuseable in the years 2029, 2035, 2046, 2057, 2063, 2074, 2085, and 2091 in case you want to grab it.
5:00 - One time around 2015 I found a sealed pack of MAD Magazine playing cards at Goodwill. I didn't read the package, I just picked it up as soon as I saw Alfred E. Neuman. But when I got it home and opened it, it wasn't playing cards. It was candy. Kind of like Nerds. From the 90's. A mix of rainbow and brown sugary rot mixed with rough chunks flowed onto my desk and was pure stank. I now always carefully examine what I'm buying at thrift stores.
My parents have that 2001 mug 😂 I wonder if the coffee is somewhere in their house.
I think you might incur the wrath of the gods by not purchasing the farting monkey after running into it twice
that 2001gift set is the ultimate White Elephant gift 5:15
Come for the thrifting, stay for the pissing painter.
I own the Ronco knives and yes they do get rust spots on them. I bought them over 20 years ago from tv believe it or not and their customer service was non existent. That was the only thing I ever bought on tv.
tempted to look up see if any of those radio drama recordings made it to youtube just out of curiosity... had to laugh at the fishing game though complete with 'do not disturb' sign, god how tacky LOL... right into the thomas kinkaide story. so much weird and crazy stuff that pops up at goodwills and other thrift stores it's always neat to see! definitely curious to see the LEGO mindstorms stuff, for sure.
I wonder if there's a radio drama podcast out there
I once found a podcast version of the Adventure! radio show, which condensed books and short stories into radio dramas. Good stories, but the audio quality was terrible, so I unsubbed.
Yeah that was quite a find if you could play them.
toilet fishing must be the other version of that toilet golf thing they sell at Spencer Gifts
One of the reasons why you see at lot of those old time radio shows on cassette was due to the fact that the first generation of reproduction 30's type radios all had cassette players in them.
5:21 You mean the coffee outlasted the store that it was sold from. I think the coffee might still be good if it was sealed.
My 19 yr old son is into all things vintage tech, music, etc. We found him the Old Time Radio cassettes a few years back at a local Hope Chest Thrift Store. He's listened to a few of them and enjoyed the shows. He'll even pop a tape in when he's playing video games as a background noise. 🤣 I think we paid $2 for it on sale.
The vanity mirrors from the 80s and 90s are still the best. They still work, you may just have to replace the light. A lot of beauty schools still endorse them.
Farting Monkeys & a Tanning Bed. Erik, your videos are always entertaining. :p
I should probably take my old clock radio in to Goodwill soon. It did AM/FM, weather band, CD (can't remember if also mp3 on CD), and VHF television audio-only. Used it as my actual wake-up machine, waking up to the morning news show on channel 3, right up until the changeover to digital TV happened, at which point all it picks up is the looping placeholder recording saying how channel 3's programming is now only available digitally (which of course the clock radio doesn't get).
Towards the end I got a bunch of those ambient audio CDs to fall asleep to: bubbling stream, desert wind, train ride, ocean sailboat, thunderstorm, etc. Most of which I found at Goodwill, ironically enough.
I used to have that exact Old Time Radio cassette set as a kid!! I discovered old time radio by accident because a local radio station aired radio dramas on weekend evenings, and eventually got the cassette tapes as a gift. I miss that set, honestly wish I still had it. :)
We had a similar program where I lived as a kid. I don’t remember much of it, save for they aired a show and kept in the breaking news that Stalin had died. I didn’t get then why that announcer sounded so happy.
You tube has lots of the old time radio shows and there are free apps with the radio shows
I hope you were able to go to Big Surf closing sale . It's finally close since being opened in 1969.
You two make a great couple! Keep doing what you do. I love the thrift store videos~
Neither of us is gay.
If anyone else is vaguely interested in a vcr, check on Craigslist for those CRT TVs with the built in vcr dvd combo. It comes in super handy for old school media and it works great for older video game consoles which I'm a fan of.
I had one until I upgraded my CRT to a little Sony Trinitron I found at an antique mall. The most fun I had with it was making my own bootlegs for myself using my Pi since it could actually record the AV input.
@@piratebear3126 so you recorded VHS tapes to a hard drive?
@@briangriffith4574 opposite. Put digital videos on tape for maximum aesthetic and physical media satisfaction.
@@piratebear3126 I see. I would imagine watching old school horror movies on VHS would be a better experience. I watched the original texas chainsaw massacre on some streaming service and it wasn't the same.
I remember messing about with Lego Mindstorms on a school trip to Legoland. 😄👌
I wish I would have though of that!
Oh man I remember playing that Star Trek game at a friends house when I was little. Hadn’t thought about it since.
Thrifting Time is Always The Best Time.
Really enjoy the thrifting. The crazy stuff you see only at those stores! Hope there will be more vids.
A tanning bed how interesting. I work in goodwill never seen that one before
Oddest thing I ever seen at a Goodwill was a Unicycle for 20 bucks and its something I wish I would have got just to have it.
Watching your work on your channel always makes me happy! Thanks so much! 👍👍👍
I had that Star Trek interactive game as a kid. It's a cool idea for its time. Great video!
I never saw a pull my finger game but growing up I had a dad and some uncles that would hold out their finger and let it rip. 😁👍
I've got that exact same JVC VCR model. I have recently been digitizing old VHS tapes with it, works great still. By the way, I've never even been to Arizona but I've probably watched nearly all of your videos plus many on the RA2 channel. I really enjoy your presentation style and retro influences on your videos. Keep up the excellent work!
While watching old movies I often wonder what happened to the actors or the sets and end up passively watching as I search it all up
Woah Mindstorm! I remember seeing that in Lego Catalogues back in the day
I love how the Pull My Finger has the same font as the 80s TMNT logo.
3:09 I honestly would love to own that. I listen to OTR pretty often and it would be really fun to listen to it on cassette with a radio and actually listen to it coming from a radio....
Ew, I Hope Those Farting Monkeys Do Not Stink
I just emptied 6 totes full of nic nacs. I was looking at the prices from the GW years ago and thinking about how much they would charge today.
I still have a VHS with VHS tapes
I used to get that Highlights Top Secret pack in the mail, I was too young to remember how much they were, but I do remember having a lot of fun with them. They also sold a large "kit" with a bunch of those hidden pictures in it. If I remember correctly, they came once every 3 months, and I would have them finished before the day was up; the most disappointing thing was the wait for the next ones.
7:45 That is the exact same desk that came in my graduate student office at my university. I’ve always wondered how old it is
that was fun...thrifting without leaving home! thanx for sharing ♥
My grandparents had that same wooden Nordic Track until their house flooded in 2016! Love the vids, keep them coming! XXX
Microprose made starship troopers terran ascendancy which you can pick up for free online jsut search around and get the relevant patches for it, theres a game patch and an nvidia patch
I am jealous of your Goodwills having VCRs. Pretty sure the main one I go to either doesn't take them or throws them away. Just have to keep an eye out at the local thrift store I go to in the meantime so I can watch the dead mall doc as intended.
I also remember seeing the Mindstorm Legos as a kid, but they were pretty expensive. Not that Legos aren't expensive in general, but they stood out to me for the price even as a kid.
My local Goodwills tend to have the VCRs, but they do sort and ship some items elsewhere so they can sell. Like vintage Pyrex, used to be able to find the good pieces, but now they sort it and ship it to sell online, or to the $$$ areas to sell at a higher mark up. If you thrift a lot you can learn what locations sell more of a certain type of thing. Everyone in awhile you'll find a Goodwill in the middle of nowhere that just doesn't care and it has ALL the goodies.
@@fawncappitelli4297 yep, another relatively close (but still a bit far to get to regularly) Goodwill to me actually puts things on the shelf. Mainly they have a massive video game section where they’re priced $6 each.
The closest one to me I’m pretty sure eBays most everything. They don’t even have cases up front since they know nothing worth going in them is staying in the store.
I played that Star Trek game in my early 20s. It's a lot of fun if you have a bunch of friends and you get drunk together before playing. We played a star trek drinking game before we played the board game so even non-trekkies were having fun.
I had a friend give me a toilet golf game before. But the box wasn’t as nice as that fishing game lol. It was pre smart phone era tho so makes sense that it existed
Omg I forgot about those Top Secret things! I had SO MANY.
I love the background music in your videos, gives me a fun and chill vibe
A little tardy to the party, but all that old-time radio on cassette might have something to do with the fandom being one of the earliest tape trading cultures that didn't follow the Grateful Dead. There are still some of them who swear they can thread a reel-to-reel machine with their eyes closed.
the only reason other than possibly the price i wouldn't get that Old time radio collection (I listened to old time radio back when i was a teenager and still listen to it, to this day) would be the fact that I ... dont think i have a casette player that still works
and to be fair you can have FAR MORE than what you could even fit on all those tapes ... on a flash drive and space left over on the drive too
The Family Game Pack in the beginning was real, the case was probably used at some sort of rental store. Lol, I could smell the Aquanet when you showed that light up mirror. I actually like those plates, nice 70s terra color. That's an older model sun bed too.
How fun! How are your mall plant clippings doing? 🌱
Love your content especially the thrifting ones, please keep them coming!!
That desk is seriously cool...
It's not Gowron, but the same actor, worth watching if you're a Star Trek fan.
It's always fun to find weird, and old stuff. And who doesn't love a farting monkey?
Send the coffee to Ashens lmfao
YES!
Great video always enjoy them!
i want that investigator's desk!
the top secret was 19.99 a month and it was basicly a where in the world is carmen sandiego style mystery game
falcon 4 with the manual is an amazing find !
I was really hoping you'd get the farting monkey that was in the box. I remember my aunt got a very similar makeup mirror one christmas. must have been in the mid to late 70's and she used that thing until she died in 2015. that desk is absolutely stunning. I love mid century modern furniture
Tell Mark that some of the old vintage German beer steins if you hold up to the light and look inside the bottom there maybe a naked lady there!
I found it funny right after the first part ended and you said let's move to the next store I got a ad for bashas so I was like " ah next store is a super market seems random but ok".
OMG I remember my grandparents had a NordioTrack
A Goodwill sponsorship? That would actually be cool for a sponsorship.
1) I think I had that VCR. 2) My mom had a mirror like that.
This Goodwill is a lot bigger than the one I work at, but wow it's got some cool stuff!
When you were showing off the DS games, underneath were PC games and I noticed my favorite game: Rollercoaster Tycoon! Hope you’ve gotten a chance to play it someday! It’s on Steam now
I would love that desk
I think I made a big mistake watching the part about the farting monkeys while I was eating dinner. Either way, well done with the thrifting videos again. Maybe more than a year ago, I found a SHARP brand VCR from 1995 at Goodwill that cost ten bucks. For a VCR that's two years older than me, it was in immaculate working condition. Unfortunately, it didn't come with the remote, but that's fine. At least I got a smokin' deal on it..
Toilet fishing? Looks like something that would come out of a South Park episode. Promoted by none other than Mr Hankey himself.
These videos are always interesting. Never know what you will come across!
i think the people who do twitch actually keep the CD versions of old radio shows because they stream old radio shows on twitch
5:01 that is literally a 'dated' product. 😁
How much did you pay for the framed Bieber poster?
Lol!
While that Vision Command was a nice find, especially for that price, I do have a little bit of bad news for you, that's actually an expansion set for the Lego Mindstorms Robotics Invention System (specifically 1.5 at release but should work with 1.0 and 2.0, 2.0 might be recommended since the IR tower to program the RCX is USB rather than serial if I remember correctly) and usually with the instructions in those the builds require pieces that came in that set (and also you wouldn't have the main programable piece or the motors or sensors), the software should be able to work but I don't know for sure if everything will really be usable.
As for the camera I never had this expansion pack myself, but I did have the Lego Studios set that came with that exact same "Lego Cam" that came with Vision Command in a different colored shell, it's a reshelled Logitech Quickcam from around 2000 (At least that's the year both sets came out) and the video quality isn't that good but for a late 90s webcam the quality is passable enough, especially if you adjust the focus by spinning the little wheel on the front around the lens
I would love to have a boxed copy of falcon 4 with the manual for that cheap.
It can't get better than farting monkeys.
Tanning bed would be sweet for the home
If coffee from 21yrs ago won't wake you up, nothing will.
Thomas Kincade was something you couldn’t escape from in the 90’s. Turns out he’s a pretty nasty guy.
I like his art
at first glance, I thought the title was farting time lol
More videos dam it, we need more videos! 😊
The Star Trek VCR Board Game?
EXPERIENCE BIJ!
Those Six Star knives, hilariously oversold with the requisite audience fakery were made famous by a meme-worthy infomercial. It's up here on YT and is worth an ironic view.
2:28 not real wood?? My whole world is shattered! How can I trust anything ever again? 😂
You can even tell from a distance that its not real wood lol.
lol... i have that exact VCR model
Unfortunately I don’t have time to play this Lego Star Wars game because……. My time………….is. Taken……….up…..from playing Pokémon? Alrighty.
Do unboxing of the falcon
At 3:50. What is that song? From a game? Reminds me of something! Is it a Theme Hospital OST?
I wanna circuit bend that monkey sooo bad... I wish it worked independently of the "game" hahahaha
I would love to know what it would sound like with dying batteries!
There... was a third Luxor?!?!
Hey Erik, have you ever went thrifting at yard sales in high end neighborhoods? I heard you can find some really nice stuff cheap in those yard sales.
0:32 DEMONETIZED!! :O
This Lego Mindstorms Vision Command commercial is pretty great: ruclips.net/video/gA-zX3Tcjh0/видео.html
Discs can be silver, and still bootlegged. Back in the 2000's, that's how all bootlegs were manufactured in Asia. I had copies from Pakistan as well as China.
These videos aren't nearly long enough!
Thomas Kink-ade
Well cds were still pretty expensive for awhile
well iam not old, but iam still using cassettes still, why, because most of the local stuff i grew up wtih, was never digitalized at all, so most of that stuff, goes for around 100$ or more for a single cassette, even when i was a kid, they were rare and after the hed libery, decided to throw most of the stuff, instead of selling it, make it even more rare. iam 35 btw
Lego. Not legos!!! lol
I know. I'm 40 years old and grew up calling them "legos". Everyone called them that back then. Old habits die hard 🙂
@@RetailArchaeology same.
Same, over 40 and grew up calling them legos as with other kids. I have heard kids of today calling them legos too.
Because ebay prices are totally legit!
They are if you look at sold listings. Sold listings are a pretty good indicator of what people are paying for things.
My mom was a huge fan of Thomas Kinkade's art. Should I tell her about what I learned about him in this video!?!!?!?!?!