Hi, Brit. 61 yr old "boomer" here. Everything he said was true--and more. The wood burning kit had a cord that was about 2 ft long, which meant you were likely to be using it close to the drapes. The lawn darts were large darts with plastic fins and METAL POINTS! The kit also came with 2 plastic circles and the object of the game was to place the circles about 20 feet apart and try to toss the darts to land inside the circle. Lawn darts are now ILLEGAL. The chemistry sets he talks about sometimes included actual liquid mercury. Some science kits included a working geiger counter and radioactive materials! Growing up in the 60s & 70s wasn't for the weak or faint of heart, but it was a blast (sometimes literally)! Love the channel.
Was never rich enough for those toys, just played in the roadside drainage ditch with my GIJoes having them battle around a dam made of sticks and pebbles.
Lawn darts, wood burning kit, chemistry set, telescope (that just made you want to get on the roof), three wheeler, then dad came home with a six wheeler (helicopter controls) and mom was pissed. That led to a four wheeler and a dirt bike, shooting lessons, and go check who that is on our property at night…don’t forget the gun. I loved growing up in the south, the best place for a girl in the 80s and 90s.
Growing up in the south was the best, we were never inside. Playing in the woods a ton, stepping on snakes, swimming in ponds (who knows what was in there), you would just throw in some big rocks to try to scare the snakes out. BB gun fights, bottle rocket fights (Nothing like having one blow up under your armpit!). Running through fields with mean bulls just because you were young and had no fear...nothing was off limits!
So true, but not just the south. I grew up with all that stuff and an aunt who was a chemist too. Tullytown PA. Worked on my uncle's farm (near Great Adventure NJ)and driving a tractor down the road when i was 12 to get to the next field.
I was born in 81, just turned 43 on the 9th of December. It's true what they say, kids growing up in the 60's, 70's, and 80's were and are built different than today's generation. We played with Steel Tonka Trucks, rode our bikes all over the place, played and wrestled around outside in the yard and at the playgrounds. rode around in the back of pickup trucks. if you fell down and scraped your knee or elbow etc., you just got up and continued playing, no matter how much blood there happened to be lol! We got spanked in public and nobody called the police on our parents. if you acted a fool, you got disciplined, in front of people or not. We learned respect and how to behave when we were out and about with our parents. Technology and social media have not only made kids today lazier and more entitled, but also soft as a pillow. My mom always said that there is a clear difference between Discipline and Abuse. Once parents lost the ability to parent, once everything was considered abuse, Kids started running the house and becoming entitled rude turds.
@johnfrankart702 one thing you won't have to worry about with today's kids. No more fun or learning. Probably why everything is going AI. Yes we had it made my kids have it a little harder but not by much. They didn't roam around the streets. But again we never got home until 11pm week nights and depending on games on the weekend it varied. All 3 kids played baseball softball soccer volleyball on 3 teams a season. So practices started around 4pm and didn't end until 1030pm. 2 of the 3 played in college the 3rd one wanted to try rugby on the 1st practice she tripped on the dummy and broke her arm just above the elbow. It took 1 month to get the surgery and she was out a month after that. We pulled her from college for medical reasons. She didn't return she was caught up playing her music and other facets of life.
Clackers. 2 glass balls on a string with a handle in the middle. You were supposed to bounce them off each other to make a clacking sound. But most of us used them as Bolos and throw them like the traditional Goucho weapon.
9:47 This story always reminds me of a story my father told me years ago. When he was about fourteen in the late seventies, he, my grandparents and my uncle all travelled from their home in Athens, Alabama to Tuscaloosa, Alabama. To give you an idea of how far that is, Athens is about thirty miles west of Huntsville, Alabama and about twenty miles from the Tennessee state line. It was around ninety miles north of Birmingham, Alabama which itself is about sixty miles northeast of Tuscaloosa. All told that’s a journey of just over one hundred and fifty miles. Back then, that journey took about two maybe three hours. And the only vehicle they had that could make the journey was a Toyota Hilux N30 that only had two seats. Of course, my grandparents sat in the front, while my dad and my uncle, who was nine, laid on a pair of army cots in the truck bed the entire trip. 😊
In the '70s we had a full sized station wagon. Mom used to carry a long handled fly swatter so she could reach my brother and I from the front seat when we needed an attitude adjustment.
I was born in 81' as the middle child with 2 sisters. Jeff is retelling my childhood. Parents' arm was the seat belt (mom confirmed it wasn't effective..lol), wood burning kit (a pen that the tip heats up and you draw on the wood using a shading technique), BB guns (at 9 years old), Barbies everywhere!!!
I knew Jeff's old manager, and had the pleasure of meeting Jeff. Ron White was there too. Spent a few hours hanging out before their show New Year's Eve 1998 in Vegas. Class act!
65 YO here. My sister threw a lawn dart clean through her foot. The chemistry sets had some serious chemicals and solutions in them, too - if you got the good ones. I remember wearing my Klick-Klacks out to the point where the cord broke and one of the glass balls shattered a window, very narrowly missing that same sister in the process. What's more - the playgrounds were all concrete and metal. The teeter-totters were long and could get some serious air, so we would naturally jump off when we were at the bottom to watch the panic and horror of the other person's fall. I sent my best friend to the ER at least once after a battle with homemade shuriken's (we made them from lead strips we found in a metal shop's dumpster). Some of the dare's we had back then were legitimately called danger-dares, and often involved bicycle runs of ever-increasing risks. We also got extra points for climbing higher than anyone else on the water towers or jumping farther down from a bridge (while the others watched the drivers freak out about how far down it looked). Survival was more of a feature than a goal. Wacky times.
The early lawn darts had a 4 to 6 inch spike at the weighted end. The blunt ones would just give you a concussion. The ones with the spike could kill you.
I remember lawn darts and the ball with the paddle, I love Jeff and I think kids are more spoiled today and realized what their parents went through great reaction as always Brit keep up the awesome work
7:51 - I'm a 90's baby, and I used to stand in the seat next to my parents as they drove our old truck. Even through town. This was before seatbelt laws. I did it because I felt super uncomfortable sitting down and not being able to see over the dash and see where we were going.. With how stern my dad is, I'm kinda surprised that he let me do it.
Electric wood burning tools were invented in the early 1900s. My brother and I had them when we were kids in the 50s. They are still sold in art supply stores.
I remember the Ford LTD Station Wagon my pops had for our family (parents and 5 kids) my brother Jeff and I were loaded in the back. When we went to the cottage we were loaded between the luggage and the back window. Guess we were the rear air bags to protect the luggage from a rear end collision or a barrier before to protect the luggage if there was a front end collision. In the 60s, as i kid, i remember the doctor walking into the exam room smoking a cigarette. 60s and 70s a different time, but an awesome one.
Brought up in the suburbs of Jersey. I had the chem set and the wood burner. The chem set I mess with at random because I didn't bother learning anything about chemicals... and never really did... and the wood burner I used a little on wood (it was for arts and crafts), but mostly used it on plastic, mainly for soda bottle planters.
Jeff didn't even mention the playground equipment back in those days. The metal slide that was 100 degrees and we would go down them wearing shorts. The merry go round which doubled as a human catapult if you got it going fast enough. Homemade ramps for our bicycles, football in the streets. Those were the days.
I can identify with this. Any 5 year old knows more about smart phones than I do. But what really gets me is that today kids are not expected to take responsibility for anything until they are 30. And a lot of them still act like kids when they are 30. When I was a kid we were expected to be responsible for everything we did. And we had the greatest incentives to act responsibly. Not just that you would be punished for acting like an idiot either. The more responsible you acted, the more you were trusted and the more freedom you were given. And we knew that if we abused that trust, that all that freedom was gone, and it would be a tall hill to climb to get it back. So just like Jeff said, we were trusted with all manner of potentially dangerous things. Wood burning kits, lawn darts, horse shoes, BB guns, bow & arrow, even real guns. In a lot of ways, we were more "grown up" at age 12 back then than a lot of people are in their 20s today.
I remember standing on the front seat. Dad & his Friend Jim were passing a beer back and forth. I would take a sip as it went by. I remember when PC first came out. The lawn darts were called Jarts. Kids did get the stuck in their head. They were quickly band.
As a kid (I'm 66), when my dad headed to the store for something. he'd always ask if we wanted him to pick us up a toy. My brother and I would shout at the same time ... NOOOOOO!!!!!!! My dad only believed in one toy. We called it the Flyback Paddle. That's the paddle Jeff was talking about with the rubberband and ball. It was also the thing dad would use to spank us when the rubber band broke. If we were lucky, he'd remove the staple that held the rubber band onto the paddle. And believe me when I say he broke more than one on our behinds. I think I still have the last one he got somewhere around the house.
I also was given a wood burning kit. It's like a metal pen with replaceable tips that you plug into an outlet which makes the tip burn red hot. The kit also came with small thin pieces of wood with faint ink patterns on some and blanks on others. You then would use the pen to burn the wood into an artistic design. I was too impatient to wait for a tip to cool off and replace it with either a thin or slanted tip, and just used the same one. It always ended up looking like a charred shapeless blob.
I used to have a pair of Clackers. Two clear hard plastic balls about the size of golf balls, connected by a string with a loop in the middle. You'd put your finger in the loop and bob them up and down until they started clacking against each other, bouncing further and further apart. They would eventually go so fast, it looked like each one was doing a full circle, but in opposite directions. In reality, each one was doing a half circle, going up and clacking against the other, then going down and clacking against the other. It was that era's version of the fidget spinner, except sometimes the balls would apparently chip or explode (or at least knock you in the head if you clacked it too close). Of course, these tales of explosions were only told as hearsay, with no one of us actually knowing anyone it had happened to. Most of us believed it was an urban legend told by the adults who were driven crazy from the monotonous, unending clacking.
When he mentioned GI Joe, he was talking about the pre 1980s 12 inch version, which came out in the 1960s and continued to be improved upon through the 1970s, by adding such enhancements as Kung-fu grip and a macho beard.
I remember when lawn darts became illegal if they had the point on the end. I still have a set, we rode in the truck camper, sat in the back of the station wagon cause the seat faced backwards and we never wore helmets. It's amazing that I've lived for 60 years. 😂😂😂
9:33 Try back in the days when hard drives were a luxury. I remember booting the computer off a 720kb 5.25" floppy disk with MS DOS on it. You would be lucky to fit your docx book report on a disk of that capacity today. Man, im old..😂
I grew up around only girl cousins (as a boy). this is so true. Can’t tell you how many times I was made to watch Bring It On in my life Aw you got a little mommas boy on your hands
Thank you Britt for sharing your laughter with us! 😂 They had big cars with big (for a kid) interiors! When I was 16, I had a 78' Chevy Nova and if you left the hatch open, you could hunt from the front seat out the back! 🤣 Merry Christmas Britt! 🌲⛄🎁
@brittreacts Yeppers! 🤣 My grandpa had this old 60's Chevy Impala station wagon and the dogs and I used to lay down in the back! Nice and snug in winter! 😁
We had lawn darts when we were pre-teenagers (they were also called Jarts). We didn't toss them into the circle like we were supposed to. My brother and I would throw them into the air and see who was bravest by waiting until the last minute before getting out of the way. Luckily, we didn't kill ourselves. I also had a wood burning kit and a chemistry set.
We had a tip for the soldering iron that you could use as a wood burning tool. I remember using to for marking crafts you made so you knew whose was whose, etc.
Let's not forget about "Clackers". My favorite toy as a kid until I got distracted and hit myself with it. Also, lots of finger, hand and arm burns on the Easy Bake Oven.
Here's another joke/story for you... a lady had been talking with her mom about her gynecologist appointment, and asked when was the last time she had a pap smear. Her mom told her it had been years, afterall, she was way past menopause, she didn't think she needed one. Well, since it had been such a long time, she convinced her mom to get a pap smear, she would set up the appointment for her, have her spend the night at her (the daughter) place, then the following day they would go to the appointment, go shopping, lunch, spend the day together, so her mom agreed. The day before the appointment, mom got settled in her room after dinner and talking with her daughter. The next morning she got up and took her shower to get ready for the appointment. She arrives at the doctor's office, and gets prepped for the pap smear, lying there waiting for the doctor. He comes in, introduces himself and he asks the basic questions of course and sits at the end of the table. He smiles and says " MY... AREN'T WE FANCY TODAY", he does the pap smear and heads out of the room. She got dressed, and then she and her daughter were heading out of the parking lot. She had quite the stunned look on her face, sitting there quietly, so her daughter asked if she was okay. Her mom proceeded to tell her what the doctor said "MY, AREN'T WE FANCY TODAY"... she asked, what does that even mean?!! Her daughter thought for a moment and asked her. " Well... what did you do when you got ready for your appointment mom? Well, I took my shower, and I though since I was going to see the gynecologist, I should use the feminine deodorant spray you had on your bathroom counter. Her daughter looked puzzled... "mom... I don't even have or use feminine deodorant spray!!" Her mom said "well, yes you do, it's the pink spray can on the counter that has a gold lid!" Her daughter thinks for a moment and busts out laughing as she is parking the car before going into the store. She puts her car in park, looks over at her mom and said "Mom... that wasn't feminine deodorant spray... that was GOLD GLITTER HAIR SPRAY!!!!" LOL!! Can you imagine the doctor telling that story to other gynecologists??!! 😊😊😊
yeah, back in the 70's, I think half the country had station wagons and us kids couldn't wait for the dads to drive, LOL. Wood burning kit, metal rod that heats up and write into the wood. The lawn darts everyone had, no matter where you lived.
14:35 I was expecting you to say that your mother's right arm was your seat belt. Whenever she makes a turn, out comes her arm to prevent you from falling over. 😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣
Our two girls are the only girls in our family since 1920. I was so glad for that, cause of the stories of my husband and his brothers, our nephews and my father-in-law. Lol
We didn't have television remote in the 70s as a kid . I was the remote and a antenna adjuster. . There was no seatbelt laws either. But my mothers arm was our seatbelt as we ride around in here ford pinto with the gas tank in the very small back seat 😮😂
My middle son was VERY attached to his mommy when he was little. It litterally took three teachers to pry him off of her everyday for his first year of school. He is 20 now. He still loves his Mama, but she will tell you.... you will miss those days.
12:28 "Like Branding?" Actually, Britt, a wood burning kit, was similar to a soldering iron, and you'd used it to do little artwork things on scrap pieces of wood
My kids made beautiful artwork with their wood burning kits. The most dangerous toy was clackers! They were so dangerous that the company dumped them in the ocean.
One of my brothers got a chemistry set as a kid and proceeded to blow up the bathroom. All smoke and a loud boom, but it was a while before we could use it again.
Lawn darts I really liked. I thinks it came with 2 hula hoop looking circles to play like horse shoes or corn hole. Get the darts in the circles. Or we just used hulahoops on our own I don't remember. But yes they were heavy stuck in ground about 4 inches 😅. I remember me and my brothers/friends would throw them up and everyone would have to run to avoid them......for fun😮
Lawn darts - Imagine a 12 pound dartboard dart (with a sharp point). You tossed the dart across the yard and tried to land it in a small circle. Like Jeff said, you could take down an elk with one of those things and kids were throwing them at each other. Oh, such fun!
I'm about 1 to 2 years older than yourself it seems and In middle school I was having to figure out on my own how to get an office computer to launch PC games.through the DOS menu. Though I didn't have my own PC until my Sophomore year of HS.
With a wood burning kit, you would draw your picture on the wood, then use the hot rod to burn the wood following the lines you drew on the wood... not the safest toy unless you had a really artistic boy who was responsible enough to remember to unplug it before they set it down on a table.... in many cases kids would eventually catch the table and whole house on fire... the last time I saw one of those, my son received one for Christmas from his Grandparents.... about 25 years ago. He never had any interest in it, I think we sold it at a yard sale years later. 😊😊😊
I had wood burning kit, lawn darts, bebe gun and chemistry set in the 90s, didn't get in trouble with any of them but we did cause a lot of damage with the home made flamethrower aerosol cans and egging the neighbors bull
Here is something fun about my family, my daughter was the first girl to be born to our family in over 150 years and the first grandchild on her mom’s side, so needless to say spoiled is a understatement
My dad was one of 15, basically half boys, half girls. Between him and his brothers, only my dad had a son, me, and for 30+ years I was the only one of like 40 total cousins that could carry on the name. Finally, one of my uncles had a son, and the pressure was taken off me. Which is good, I guess, cause I never had kids to carry on the name.
Britt you are a smart beautiful women with a sense of humor...many of these traits are lacking in people today. I also love your song reviews on Elvis...Having an older sister a numerous older female cousins,grew up listening to him and saw him in Niagara Falls NY in 1975. Love most music, But Elvis was the best!
I was messing with woord burners in like 6th grade and if you loved being in the ffa you learn things like your got s pocket knife your got bottle rockers you got cigs, im like 5 when i crossed traffic to buy fireworks being able to play with fire works at 5 your about that life you darn 90s kids
I've lived in NY, Long Island my whole life (still do) and even my northern ass once got a wood burning kit as a gift. it was so you can draw on wood. ages 4 and up I remember the box said. FOUR.... and up. smh lol
We had lawn darts too. My best friend took a trip to the hospital bcuz one of the darts went through the top of his foot. It reminded me of Jesus being nailed to the cross.
colds or any sickness i have had do not faze me that much unless they cause me to throw up which is rare, if i do end up throwing up i go into a shut down mode, no emotion needed.
There is one real issue (For Men) if you have daughters - and a wife. The first twelve or so years are okay, but after that somehow every female in the house have their periods link up until they all happen at once. - Or a week of Typhoid, as I like to call it.
True story my little brother threw a dart board dart up in the air and watched it come back down and hit him square in the eye 😂. It stuck up in the white of his eye the doctor said if it had hit the iris he would have been blind in that eye.
Nothing worse than a "man cold"! My son was so different than my daughter growing up. They both played with barbies, he just ripped their heads off! Now they are adults, and I love them both to the moon!
Please also show this video: Jeff Foxworthy with Alan Jackson - Redneck Games(Video). Jeff and Alan Jackson(Country Music Singer) made this Hilarious music video together🤭.
In my husbands family they only had boys for five generations,we have one child,a daughter! His younger brother has one child a girl and neither one cares that their last name will not carry on! They were over the moon with their baby girls!
Does anyone remember what year it was when cereals stopped putting prizes in the box? I remember when Cheerios had a campign when they put a one dollar bill in a million boxes. They went flying off the shelves.
Hi, Brit. 61 yr old "boomer" here. Everything he said was true--and more. The wood burning kit had a cord that was about 2 ft long, which meant you were likely to be using it close to the drapes. The lawn darts were large darts with plastic fins and METAL POINTS! The kit also came with 2 plastic circles and the object of the game was to place the circles about 20 feet apart and try to toss the darts to land inside the circle. Lawn darts are now ILLEGAL. The chemistry sets he talks about sometimes included actual liquid mercury. Some science kits included a working geiger counter and radioactive materials!
Growing up in the 60s & 70s wasn't for the weak or faint of heart, but it was a blast (sometimes literally)! Love the channel.
And the slip and slides rocked too! It's why we are the indestructible generation.
I loved lawn darts! dad always had a rule that everyone stayed on one end while the darts were thrown the other way. Similar to playing horseshoes.
Was never rich enough for those toys, just played in the roadside drainage ditch with my GIJoes having them battle around a dam made of sticks and pebbles.
We used to play with the mercury when a thermometer broke !!!
@arlenefisher1164 I have a container with mercury in it for refilling an old brass plum bob.
Lawn darts, wood burning kit, chemistry set, telescope (that just made you want to get on the roof), three wheeler, then dad came home with a six wheeler (helicopter controls) and mom was pissed. That led to a four wheeler and a dirt bike, shooting lessons, and go check who that is on our property at night…don’t forget the gun. I loved growing up in the south, the best place for a girl in the 80s and 90s.
South? I had all that stuff growing up in Alberta... never had to go check on the property though, it was just other kids raiding gardens.
@pudlmaker checking the property means poachers hunting at night risking cattle and us. I grew up on 100 acres in Arkansas, lol, neighbors 😂
Growing up in the south was the best, we were never inside. Playing in the woods a ton, stepping on snakes, swimming in ponds (who knows what was in there), you would just throw in some big rocks to try to scare the snakes out. BB gun fights, bottle rocket fights (Nothing like having one blow up under your armpit!). Running through fields with mean bulls just because you were young and had no fear...nothing was off limits!
So true, but not just the south. I grew up with all that stuff and an aunt who was a chemist too. Tullytown PA. Worked on my uncle's farm (near Great Adventure NJ)and driving a tractor down the road when i was 12 to get to the next field.
@@KAP814 Ya, you are right. 100 acres to go get a carrot seems unpractical. We only had 5 acres.
I was born in 81, just turned 43 on the 9th of December. It's true what they say, kids growing up in the 60's, 70's, and 80's were and are built different than today's generation. We played with Steel Tonka Trucks, rode our bikes all over the place, played and wrestled around outside in the yard and at the playgrounds. rode around in the back of pickup trucks. if you fell down and scraped your knee or elbow etc., you just got up and continued playing, no matter how much blood there happened to be lol! We got spanked in public and nobody called the police on our parents. if you acted a fool, you got disciplined, in front of people or not. We learned respect and how to behave when we were out and about with our parents. Technology and social media have not only made kids today lazier and more entitled, but also soft as a pillow. My mom always said that there is a clear difference between Discipline and Abuse. Once parents lost the ability to parent, once everything was considered abuse, Kids started running the house and becoming entitled rude turds.
Man I forgot about those old, bad-ass steel Tonka trucks. Top notch.
@johnfrankart702 one thing you won't have to worry about with today's kids. No more fun or learning. Probably why everything is going AI. Yes we had it made my kids have it a little harder but not by much. They didn't roam around the streets. But again we never got home until 11pm week nights and depending on games on the weekend it varied. All 3 kids played baseball softball soccer volleyball on 3 teams a season. So practices started around 4pm and didn't end until 1030pm. 2 of the 3 played in college the 3rd one wanted to try rugby on the 1st practice she tripped on the dummy and broke her arm just above the elbow. It took 1 month to get the surgery and she was out a month after that. We pulled her from college for medical reasons. She didn't return she was caught up playing her music and other facets of life.
Yep the good old days. I remember playing with the lawn darts, slingshots, bb gun, building wood cabins in trees.
Clackers. 2 glass balls on a string with a handle in the middle. You were supposed to bounce them off each other to make a clacking sound. But most of us used them as Bolos and throw them like the traditional Goucho weapon.
we had awesome dirt claud fights as a 10 year old, and even better bb gun fights at 13......kids today will never understand.
9:47 This story always reminds me of a story my father told me years ago. When he was about fourteen in the late seventies, he, my grandparents and my uncle all travelled from their home in Athens, Alabama to Tuscaloosa, Alabama. To give you an idea of how far that is, Athens is about thirty miles west of Huntsville, Alabama and about twenty miles from the Tennessee state line. It was around ninety miles north of Birmingham, Alabama which itself is about sixty miles northeast of Tuscaloosa. All told that’s a journey of just over one hundred and fifty miles. Back then, that journey took about two maybe three hours. And the only vehicle they had that could make the journey was a Toyota Hilux N30 that only had two seats. Of course, my grandparents sat in the front, while my dad and my uncle, who was nine, laid on a pair of army cots in the truck bed the entire trip. 😊
In the '70s we had a full sized station wagon. Mom used to carry a long handled fly swatter so she could reach my brother and I from the front seat when we needed an attitude adjustment.
Glad that your mom didn't tell my mom that trick!
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I was born in 81' as the middle child with 2 sisters. Jeff is retelling my childhood.
Parents' arm was the seat belt (mom confirmed it wasn't effective..lol), wood burning kit (a pen that the tip heats up and you draw on the wood using a shading technique), BB guns (at 9 years old), Barbies everywhere!!!
I knew Jeff's old manager, and had the pleasure of meeting Jeff. Ron White was there too. Spent a few hours hanging out before their show New Year's Eve 1998 in Vegas. Class act!
That’s awesome I bet they’re really nice guys
65 YO here. My sister threw a lawn dart clean through her foot. The chemistry sets had some serious chemicals and solutions in them, too - if you got the good ones. I remember wearing my Klick-Klacks out to the point where the cord broke and one of the glass balls shattered a window, very narrowly missing that same sister in the process. What's more - the playgrounds were all concrete and metal. The teeter-totters were long and could get some serious air, so we would naturally jump off when we were at the bottom to watch the panic and horror of the other person's fall. I sent my best friend to the ER at least once after a battle with homemade shuriken's (we made them from lead strips we found in a metal shop's dumpster). Some of the dare's we had back then were legitimately called danger-dares, and often involved bicycle runs of ever-increasing risks. We also got extra points for climbing higher than anyone else on the water towers or jumping farther down from a bridge (while the others watched the drivers freak out about how far down it looked). Survival was more of a feature than a goal.
Wacky times.
Lawn darts, kid-size zip-lines with no pads or helmets, wood burning pens, colored-glass cutting art kits and more. Kids today are too soft. 😂
Lawn darts, two plastic circles and two sets of 4 giant blunt darts you threw up in the air and try landing in the circles.
The early lawn darts had a 4 to 6 inch spike at the weighted end. The blunt ones would just give you a concussion. The ones with the spike could kill you.
His bit on the Olympics in Atlanta is good along with "The Clampets Go To Maui"
I’ll check it out
I remember lawn darts and the ball with the paddle, I love Jeff and I think kids are more spoiled today and realized what their parents went through great reaction as always Brit keep up the awesome work
7:51 - I'm a 90's baby, and I used to stand in the seat next to my parents as they drove our old truck. Even through town. This was before seatbelt laws.
I did it because I felt super uncomfortable sitting down and not being able to see over the dash and see where we were going.. With how stern my dad is, I'm kinda surprised that he let me do it.
80's i can remember sitting on my dad's lap and steering the truck with the slide in camper down 75 to Florida for Christmas 😅
The wood burning kit was from back in the 60s-70s
Designed so a person could scorch patterns into wood for hobbycrafts.
Electric wood burning tools were invented in the early 1900s. My brother and I had them when we were kids in the 50s. They are still sold in art supply stores.
Hey Brit, everything he said is 100% true! I am a 55 yo Gen Xer and we raised ourselves and were feral!
I remember the Ford LTD Station Wagon my pops had for our family (parents and 5 kids) my brother Jeff and I were loaded in the back. When we went to the cottage we were loaded between the luggage and the back window. Guess we were the rear air bags to protect the luggage from a rear end collision or a barrier before to protect the luggage if there was a front end collision. In the 60s, as i kid, i remember the doctor walking into the exam room smoking a cigarette. 60s and 70s a different time, but an awesome one.
I remember getting a jack knife for Christmas, riding in the back of the station wagon with my cousin, splitting firewood with an axe
Brought up in the suburbs of Jersey. I had the chem set and the wood burner. The chem set I mess with at random because I didn't bother learning anything about chemicals... and never really did... and the wood burner I used a little on wood (it was for arts and crafts), but mostly used it on plastic, mainly for soda bottle planters.
Jeff didn't even mention the playground equipment back in those days. The metal slide that was 100 degrees and we would go down them wearing shorts. The merry go round which doubled as a human catapult if you got it going fast enough. Homemade ramps for our bicycles, football in the streets. Those were the days.
I can identify with this. Any 5 year old knows more about smart phones than I do.
But what really gets me is that today kids are not expected to take responsibility for anything until they are 30. And a lot of them still act like kids when they are 30.
When I was a kid we were expected to be responsible for everything we did. And we had the greatest incentives to act responsibly. Not just that you would be punished for acting like an idiot either. The more responsible you acted, the more you were trusted and the more freedom you were given. And we knew that if we abused that trust, that all that freedom was gone, and it would be a tall hill to climb to get it back.
So just like Jeff said, we were trusted with all manner of potentially dangerous things. Wood burning kits, lawn darts, horse shoes, BB guns, bow & arrow, even real guns.
In a lot of ways, we were more "grown up" at age 12 back then than a lot of people are in their 20s today.
I remember standing on the front seat. Dad & his Friend Jim were passing a beer back and forth. I would take a sip as it went by. I remember when PC first came out. The lawn darts were called Jarts. Kids did get the stuck in their head. They were quickly band.
As a kid (I'm 66), when my dad headed to the store for something. he'd always ask if we wanted him to pick us up a toy. My brother and I would shout at the same time ... NOOOOOO!!!!!!! My dad only believed in one toy. We called it the Flyback Paddle. That's the paddle Jeff was talking about with the rubberband and ball. It was also the thing dad would use to spank us when the rubber band broke. If we were lucky, he'd remove the staple that held the rubber band onto the paddle. And believe me when I say he broke more than one on our behinds. I think I still have the last one he got somewhere around the house.
Britt , you have to realize that one boys are born. We spend the next 67 years trying to get back to the place where we came from LMAO.
I also was given a wood burning kit. It's like a metal pen with replaceable tips that you plug into an outlet which makes the tip burn red hot. The kit also came with small thin pieces of wood with faint ink patterns on some and blanks on others. You then would use the pen to burn the wood into an artistic design. I was too impatient to wait for a tip to cool off and replace it with either a thin or slanted tip, and just used the same one. It always ended up looking like a charred shapeless blob.
Embrace that Britt, when he gets older, that goes away and you will miss it to no end
I used to have a pair of Clackers. Two clear hard plastic balls about the size of golf balls, connected by a string with a loop in the middle. You'd put your finger in the loop and bob them up and down until they started clacking against each other, bouncing further and further apart. They would eventually go so fast, it looked like each one was doing a full circle, but in opposite directions. In reality, each one was doing a half circle, going up and clacking against the other, then going down and clacking against the other. It was that era's version of the fidget spinner, except sometimes the balls would apparently chip or explode (or at least knock you in the head if you clacked it too close). Of course, these tales of explosions were only told as hearsay, with no one of us actually knowing anyone it had happened to. Most of us believed it was an urban legend told by the adults who were driven crazy from the monotonous, unending clacking.
I absolutely love Jeff Foxworthy. He could be funny and keep it family friendly.
So true
I had both a wood burning kit and long darts growing up. I miss those days.
When he mentioned GI Joe, he was talking about the pre 1980s 12 inch version, which came out in the 1960s and continued to be improved upon through the 1970s, by adding such enhancements as Kung-fu grip and a macho beard.
I remember when lawn darts became illegal if they had the point on the end. I still have a set, we rode in the truck camper, sat in the back of the station wagon cause the seat faced backwards and we never wore helmets. It's amazing that I've lived for 60 years. 😂😂😂
I remember playing with those deadly lawn darts 😅. Thankfully me and my friends survived!!
9:33 Try back in the days when hard drives were a luxury. I remember booting the computer off a 720kb 5.25" floppy disk with MS DOS on it. You would be lucky to fit your docx book report on a disk of that capacity today.
Man, im old..😂
I grew up around only girl cousins (as a boy). this is so true. Can’t tell you how many times I was made to watch Bring It On in my life
Aw you got a little mommas boy on your hands
Thank you Britt for sharing your laughter with us! 😂 They had big cars with big (for a kid) interiors! When I was 16, I had a 78' Chevy Nova and if you left the hatch open, you could hunt from the front seat out the back! 🤣 Merry Christmas Britt! 🌲⛄🎁
Oh wow!
@brittreacts Yeppers! 🤣 My grandpa had this old 60's Chevy Impala station wagon and the dogs and I used to lay down in the back! Nice and snug in winter! 😁
We had lawn darts when we were pre-teenagers (they were also called Jarts). We didn't toss them into the circle like we were supposed to. My brother and I would throw them into the air and see who was bravest by waiting until the last minute before getting out of the way. Luckily, we didn't kill ourselves. I also had a wood burning kit and a chemistry set.
He was born in Atlanta and grew up in Hapeville. Hapeville had signed post that states "Home of Jeff Foxworthy"
We had a tip for the soldering iron that you could use as a wood burning tool. I remember using to for marking crafts you made so you knew whose was whose, etc.
Merry Christmas Britt and happy New Year to you and your family you deserve all the best
Let's not forget about "Clackers". My favorite toy as a kid until I got distracted and hit myself with it. Also, lots of finger, hand and arm burns on the Easy Bake Oven.
Ralph Naider has really helped comedians with content. He's the guy responsible for car seats and seatbelts.
🤣I was 36yrs old when he did this!! All is true 😆Gonna be 60 March 1st!!
I had two of them wood burning kit, and many of types of lawn darts and bb guns, and all that, yep 👍😆
we didnt have seat belts, when i was a kid. cause it was always hope in the back bed and hold on. back when driving a stick shift was a thing
My first car was a stick!
Here's another joke/story for you... a lady had been talking with her mom about her gynecologist appointment, and asked when was the last time she had a pap smear. Her mom told her it had been years, afterall, she was way past menopause, she didn't think she needed one.
Well, since it had been such a long time, she convinced her mom to get a pap smear, she would set up the appointment for her, have her spend the night at her (the daughter) place, then the following day they would go to the appointment, go shopping, lunch, spend the day together, so her mom agreed.
The day before the appointment, mom got settled in her room after dinner and talking with her daughter. The next morning she got up and took her shower to get ready for the appointment. She arrives at the doctor's office, and gets prepped for the pap smear, lying there waiting for the doctor. He comes in, introduces himself and he asks the basic questions of course and sits at the end of the table. He smiles and says " MY... AREN'T WE FANCY TODAY", he does the pap smear and heads out of the room. She got dressed, and then she and her daughter were heading out of the parking lot. She had quite the stunned look on her face, sitting there quietly, so her daughter asked if she was okay. Her mom proceeded to tell her what the doctor said "MY, AREN'T WE FANCY TODAY"... she asked, what does that even mean?!!
Her daughter thought for a moment and asked her. " Well... what did you do when you got ready for your appointment mom? Well, I took my shower, and I though since I was going to see the gynecologist, I should use the feminine deodorant spray you had on your bathroom counter. Her daughter looked puzzled... "mom... I don't even have or use feminine deodorant spray!!" Her mom said "well, yes you do, it's the pink spray can on the counter that has a gold lid!" Her daughter thinks for a moment and busts out laughing as she is parking the car before going into the store. She puts her car in park, looks over at her mom and said "Mom... that wasn't feminine deodorant spray... that was GOLD GLITTER HAIR SPRAY!!!!"
LOL!! Can you imagine the doctor telling that story to other gynecologists??!! 😊😊😊
LOL🤣
yeah, back in the 70's, I think half the country had station wagons and us kids couldn't wait for the dads to drive, LOL. Wood burning kit, metal rod that heats up and write into the wood. The lawn darts everyone had, no matter where you lived.
14:35 I was expecting you to say that your mother's right arm was your seat belt. Whenever she makes a turn, out comes her arm to prevent you from falling over. 😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣
Our two girls are the only girls in our family since 1920. I was so glad for that, cause of the stories of my husband and his brothers, our nephews and my father-in-law. Lol
I played with all of those dangerous toys growing up. I'm so old that the first family car I remember didn't even come with seat belts.
He's from Carrolton/Villa Rica GA! It's closer to Alabama then Atlanta. My parents lived a few miles from him, and he was just a regular guy in town.
I got a wood burning kit on my 8th bday. Also got the lawn darts, slingshots, bb gun, etc.
We didn't have television remote in the 70s as a kid . I was the remote and a antenna adjuster. .
There was no seatbelt laws either. But my mothers arm was our seatbelt as we ride around in here ford pinto with the gas tank in the very small back seat 😮😂
My middle son was VERY attached to his mommy when he was little. It litterally took three teachers to pry him off of her everyday for his first year of school. He is 20 now. He still loves his Mama, but she will tell you.... you will miss those days.
Wood Burning Kit.
It comes with an electric device similar to a soldering iron and some wood.
You use it to draw/etch images into wood.
You know what they say about us. Spend 9 months trying to get out. The rest of our lives trying to get back in. 😂
Woodburning, aka pyrography, is a legit art form. I use one of those pens to sign some of my craft projects.
5:32 it's not that we can't handle having a cold. It's just that we want you to comfort us. It's that simple
12:28
"Like Branding?"
Actually, Britt, a wood burning kit, was similar to a soldering iron, and you'd used it to do little artwork things on scrap pieces of wood
You are so funny ! I love it ❤
Thank you!! 😁
Fire reaction girl 🔥
Our lawn dart was the original ones with the sharp point, before they changed them to plastic round tips to prevent injury.
I had a wood burning kit too. Yes, it's kind of like a cross between a branding iron and a soldering iron
My kids made beautiful artwork with their wood burning kits. The most dangerous toy was clackers! They were so dangerous that the company dumped them in the ocean.
One of my brothers got a chemistry set as a kid and proceeded to blow up the bathroom. All smoke and a loud boom, but it was a while before we could use it again.
OMG! Britt, beautiful as ever! Jeff is funny as fxxk!❤
50’s I had wood burning kit. A lead melting set to make lead soldiers and a chemistry set.
Lawn Darts: _still_ the most dangerous toy ever marketed to children.
Lawn darts I really liked. I thinks it came with 2 hula hoop looking circles to play like horse shoes or corn hole. Get the darts in the circles. Or we just used hulahoops on our own I don't remember. But yes they were heavy stuck in ground about 4 inches 😅. I remember me and my brothers/friends would throw them up and everyone would have to run to avoid them......for fun😮
Lawn darts - Imagine a 12 pound dartboard dart (with a sharp point). You tossed the dart across the yard and tried to land it in a small circle. Like Jeff said, you could take down an elk with one of those things and kids were throwing them at each other. Oh, such fun!
Don't forget the girls with their EZ Bake Ovens. The boys didn't have a monopoly on risky/dangerous playthings.
lol back in the late 90's I was doing technical support for AOL dialup.
I remember us having a mini bike when I was 8 or 9 and yes i grew up in the South. Louisiana to be exact
I'm about 1 to 2 years older than yourself it seems and In middle school I was having to figure out on my own how to get an office computer to launch PC games.through the DOS menu. Though I didn't have my own PC until my Sophomore year of HS.
With a wood burning kit, you would draw your picture on the wood, then use the hot rod to burn the wood following the lines you drew on the wood... not the safest toy unless you had a really artistic boy who was responsible enough to remember to unplug it before they set it down on a table.... in many cases kids would eventually catch the table and whole house on fire... the last time I saw one of those, my son received one for Christmas from his Grandparents.... about 25 years ago. He never had any interest in it, I think we sold it at a yard sale years later. 😊😊😊
I had wood burning kit, lawn darts, bebe gun and chemistry set in the 90s, didn't get in trouble with any of them but we did cause a lot of damage with the home made flamethrower aerosol cans and egging the neighbors bull
He was born in Atlanta, when I lived there he was in Smyrna.
Me too!!! I went to Campbell high school!
Wow!
Here is something fun about my family, my daughter was the first girl to be born to our family in over 150 years and the first grandchild on her mom’s side, so needless to say spoiled is a understatement
I seen him in person in Atlanta years ago.
My dad was one of 15, basically half boys, half girls. Between him and his brothers, only my dad had a son, me, and for 30+ years I was the only one of like 40 total cousins that could carry on the name. Finally, one of my uncles had a son, and the pressure was taken off me. Which is good, I guess, cause I never had kids to carry on the name.
Britt you are a smart beautiful women with a sense of humor...many of these traits are lacking in people today. I also love your song reviews on Elvis...Having an older sister a numerous older female cousins,grew up listening to him and saw him in Niagara Falls NY in 1975. Love most music, But Elvis was the best!
I literally got a tree stump, a hammer, and a box of nails for Christmas when I was 6.
Me and my 3 older brothers would ride in the back of the pickup truck on the highway going 60 MPH
Wood burning kit was like a pen you could draw on wood with. It burned the wood. Think of a soldering iron. I had one and loved it.
Thanks for the info
If a man says he's sick... He's fine.
If a man says he's fine... He's sick.
If a man gets really, really, quiet... He's hurt bad.
I was messing with woord burners in like 6th grade and if you loved being in the ffa you learn things like your got s pocket knife your got bottle rockers you got cigs, im like 5 when i crossed traffic to buy fireworks being able to play with fire works at 5 your about that life you darn 90s kids
I've lived in NY, Long Island my whole life (still do) and even my northern ass once got a wood burning kit as a gift. it was so you can draw on wood. ages 4 and up I remember the box said. FOUR.... and up. smh lol
We had lawn darts too. My best friend took a trip to the hospital bcuz one of the darts went through the top of his foot. It reminded me of Jesus being nailed to the cross.
Most boys are clingy with their mothers when they are little, but it doesn't last long. Enjoy it while you can.
colds or any sickness i have had do not faze me that much unless they cause me to throw up which is rare, if i do end up throwing up i go into a shut down mode, no emotion needed.
12:29 - My mother and brother got me my first wood burning kit for my birthday 2 months ago.. I'm not a child though. Lol
There is one real issue (For Men) if you have daughters - and a wife.
The first twelve or so years are okay, but after that somehow every female in the house have their periods link up until they all happen at once. - Or a week of Typhoid, as I like to call it.
True story my little brother threw a dart board dart up in the air and watched it come back down and hit him square in the eye 😂. It stuck up in the white of his eye the doctor said if it had hit the iris he would have been blind in that eye.
I was an only child stood behind my dad driving down the highway and covered his eyes, and said Guess who dad.
I did that, and my mom did, too, when she was a kid.
@@katrinaprescott5911 😂 I think we all did!
When I was a kid, 6 or 7, if we were on a short trip, in the car, I would crawl up into the back window of that 1960 Mercury.
Nothing worse than a "man cold"! My son was so different than my daughter growing up. They both played with barbies, he just ripped their heads off! Now they are adults, and I love them both to the moon!
I remember wanting a wood burning kit when I was a kid, but never got one.
Please also show this video: Jeff Foxworthy with Alan Jackson - Redneck Games(Video). Jeff and Alan Jackson(Country Music Singer) made this Hilarious music video together🤭.
In my husbands family they only had boys for five generations,we have one child,a daughter! His younger brother has one child a girl and neither one cares that their last name will not carry on! They were over the moon with their baby girls!
Does anyone remember what year it was when cereals stopped putting prizes in the box? I remember when Cheerios had a campign when they put a one dollar bill in a million boxes. They went flying off the shelves.