The Don Rosen Show (Hour 2)

Presidents, they've all aged while in office, right?

They age while in office because the job is so stressful that it affects you physically.

We've seen it.

Obama, first two years, President Obama went totally gray.

His face started drooping.

Got all drooping in the face.

I don't know what's up.

I was like, is that Karim Abdul Jamar?

George W. Bush, he shrunk four inches.

And what boy he was looking like, gollum from the Lord of the Rings.

Ah, my precious.

Bill Clinton, he grew that bulb on the tip of his nose.

Bill Clinton looked like the man on the operation board.

We go round to that song.

Robert Knight had the first hit in the late 60s, maybe early 70s, in Carl Carlton of this

version in the late 70s.

And then we had Gloria A. Stephon had an emerging new song too.

Look at Doop for another one.

Today, WRJM Radio, hometown radio refreshed a civic media station.

I'm Don Rosen.

I want to thank you for joining us here on this Tuesday morning, get confused.

Confused very easily.

We're going to talk videos now, and not only DVDs, Blu-rays, and 4Ks, we're going back

with laser discs.

And also, oh my goodness, VHS, you don't have any beta, do you?

We do.

Oh, you do?

I have tons of beta.

Kenny Williams is here.

And the name of the video store is Yippee-ki-yay, mother video.

Okay, there you go.

Playoff, feed, die hard.

Yeah.

Virtual Islam, Port Bruce, well, it's today.

Oh, I feel terrible for the guy.

He looks great, but he's got so much that he can't even speak anymore.

He lost his power of speech.

Yeah, he doesn't look good in a lot of things.

Yeah, that's too bad.

Boom, we're all going to get old when we can tell you.

So when did...

Now, if you talk to young people today, there's a video.

What are you talking about?

We stream now.

What are you talking about?

Video, DVDs.

Oh, yeah, my grandfather had one of those.

At one time, there were thousands of blockbusters all over the world.

I remember back in the 80s, every corner had a video store, a mom and a pop blockbuster.

Yeah, a planted video.

They're all gone with the exception of you guys.

Are you the last one in Racine?

For sure.

There's another rental place in the Wisconsin Dells area, but she has a theater attached

to the same place.

But she doesn't have a lot of rentals.

I was about to say, yeah, there's one in South Africa, we remember, if you want to rent

a video.

Go down to that.

So why?

Why do you think...

By the way, where is it, first of all?

It's at 2210 Rapid Stripes inside the Midwest Market.

Yeah, it's right, of course, more like high school.

What made you do it?

Desires and just not a place to get the stuff that I want.

I know I'm not alone.

It's been proven in the last almost year.

Is that how long you've been in business for?

Yeah, about a year.

Okay.

Now, you and your wife and your kids run it.

Yep.

All the time.

Yeah.

And you have VHS, now beta, laser disk of tons of laser disk.

De...

I know.

I brought one in here to show you.

DVDs, Blu-rays and 4Ks, I noticed some 4Ks in there as well.

Now, the latest thing is 4K because that's supposed to be the highest quality you can get.

4K.

It's Blu-ray, then comes DVD, then comes laser disk, then comes VHS and beta after that.

I had tons of beta.

I still do.

I have been boxes in my basement, all my VHS and beta, and I put them in hard shell cases

so they wouldn't get ruined.

Yeah, they stay dry, and they'll play well when they stay like that.

Yeah.

And some of them are so collectible.

I was telling you, I have one that's autographed by Tom Lawflin, the four pack of the...

Billy Joel, Billy Billy Joel, Billy Jack movies, and him and his wife Dolores Taylor

who appeared with them in those movies, they autographed it.

So I have that, and that's a collectible, and I'm going to show you two other collectibles

in just a moment I have here.

So you have tons of laser disks, for people who don't know what laser disks are, because

they were pretty short-lived.

First they had needle vision.

Remember that from RCA?

And we have some of those too.

We have the needle vision.

Yeah, we have.

I don't have work in player, but I probably have 300 disks.

Of needle vision.

Yeah.

Now this RCA put these out, and they had a special player.

This was right after VHS.

Yeah, so like they didn't call it needle vision, so like the vision, but they ran basically

like a needle, like a record player, like an album would run, it didn't last long.

No, no.

It's kind of like a floppy disk in some ways.

It slides into the player, and then it takes the disk out, and you pull the plastic piece

out, and the disk stays in the player.

Then I went to the consumer electronic show in the 80s, and they put on display for

the first time laser disks, and I went to McCormick, Placen, Chicago, and I said, wow,

I couldn't believe the quality.

And they also had them display the widescreen TVs then, which nobody had at that time.

They were like $2,000 if you wanted one.

And so the laser disk, I said, oh, I'm going to have that.

So I got a laser disk player, but I had the one where you had to flip over the disk,

half way through, you had to open the door, turn it over like a record album, and then

I got another one where it did it electronically.

So when you're watching the movie, it flipped it, but you still had that blank, and you can

hear it, and then it flipped over, I did it automatically.

I love laser disk, because you had commentaries on there for the first time, where VHS and

beta.

Behind the scenes things.

Yeah, you could write, you had all these extras on there that the other ones didn't

have.

And then came DVDs and wiped everything off the shelves, VHS beta, selective, I call

needle vision, selective vision, laser, everything was gone, DVDs came up, and you have to admit,

it's a great invention.

It's a tiny thing, the size of a CD, and it can carry like a whole box of them on your

arm.

They don't weigh a lot.

No, no, like the tape.

So the laser disk.

Right.

And they didn't, they didn't get destroyed as much as VHS tapes did, you know, you used

to track them.

Remember that phrase tracking is the track, but DVDs for something brand new, and they

were wonderful.

And then came Blu-ray.

And then Blu-rays gave birth to four Ks.

You still have a lot of people coming in for VHS and beta.

Every week, not so much in the beta, you get a special request for that.

We have a Star Wars beta tape that someone's going to drive quite a bit ways to pay for

this weekend.

But that's about it, unless it's something special for beta, then they really don't seek

that one out.

But the VHS there here, every weekend, we sell hundreds of them every weekend.

I was going to toss mine in the garbage pile.

I was thinking of cleaning out the house, and because I don't know how many years I have

left, but you know, I don't want to leave it to my son to do it.

So I thought I'd clean out the house and I was going to throw them in the garbage, and

I was telling a neighbor of mine, he said, well, just sell them even for a bucket piece,

at least put it out there.

And I was ready to do that, and it was a rainy weekend, so I didn't do it that weekend.

And then I didn't do it after at all.

I wanted to keep them.

I felt bad.

I collected them all for years and years and years, and now I'm not going to throw them

out.

I felt bad.

So I didn't do it.

That was the weekend, I threw my 45 RPM records in the garbage boxes and boxes of 45s.

It's regret it forever.

Well, and I felt bad because when the garbage man came, I saw them all fly out of the

garbage, fell into his truck, and I just cried.

It was like when I had to get rid of my comearrow, I cried when they towed it away.

I was, you know, not working anymore, and I cried.

And so I can't bring myself to get rid of it.

But there is one I would definitely not get rid of, and I'll show you what it is.

My cousin is a big fan of the Beatles.

He would say, he would cover the White House for Fox, James Rosen for years.

And one day he told me, he said, you're a fan of the Beatles because I saw something

in eBay.

You might like.

And it was this.

It was Let It Be in the original box from a company called Magnetic Home Video, which

was the four run into CBS Fox video.

And they used to release all the MGM and United Artist movies.

And here it is.

The original Let It Be in the original box, Yoko put an end to this.

That's a nice shape, too.

Yeah.

It's a wonderful shape.

And I keep it preserved at home.

I don't let it out of the house rarely, except for today.

This was the fourth movie The Beatles made.

It was their concert, film, their rooftop concert they had.

And they put it out.

And this was the beginning of VHS and beta, Magnetic Home Video.

And they played fast and loose with putting music on video, and they didn't have the rights

to the music.

And Yoko Onu, who watched out for John Lennon's interest because he was gone at this point,

said, uh-uh.

You ain't putting that out.

I'm not giving you any authority.

So they pulled it.

So whatever was made and printed was out there.

They can't take them back.

Now you can find Let It Be on DVD today, but it's not an authorized copy.

I think we're going to talk about bootlegs in a minute.

I don't think it's bootleg, but it's pretty close to it because we know that Yoko still

didn't give her permission to have this music released.

Tape transfer, probably.

And I will tell you that if she did, you'd find a major label releasing it because this

is.

Yeah.

The original United Artists logo on it has got the magnetic home video logo before

CBS Fox.

And this is in mint condition.

Now what I did was I made a DVD copy of it just in case something happened to it.

Plus, I don't like putting this in the VHS player and don't risk it if you don't have

to.

Yeah.

So I made a VHS.

I ran it once.

I made a DVD of it.

And if I want to watch it, I watch that.

But yeah, I'll let you touch it.

Now the label is, yeah, see the labels off there.

So you got to be careful.

I didn't want to re-glue it.

And it says CBS Fox.

Yeah.

Right.

Right.

It says CBS Fox.

But it was magnetic home video.

And they still had the box is printed.

But that's got to be it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I love that.

That's my personal favorite.

And my son said to me, I don't care about any other videos.

Leave that one to me.

And I said, you have it.

Just 70 in the tape.

I was trying to see the movie came out in 1970.

Yeah.

That was the, I saw that in the theaters.

My mom and dad took me and we expected a beetle movie in 1970.

And they were not expecting an hour and a half concert of rooftop.

And it was kind of really crazily put together.

And there were people asking for their money back in the theater

because they expected like a hard day's night

help, something like that.

There wasn't.

But in this movie, you can see Yoko breaking up the Beatles.

You can see they're doing a session.

And Yoko was talking to John in his ear

and then reciting it back to Paul.

Now they're going to change the song around.

And Paul is getting aggravated.

You can see it.

He's just, because Yoko is now, you know,

what was Lenin McCartney making music for all those years.

Now you got Yoko putting her two cents in.

You ever hear Yoko sing?

Oh, it's like a screech.

Anyway, so it's the breakup of the Beatles.

It's on film.

Let it be.

That's my favorite.

OK.

You got to touch it once.

That's it.

It's 719.

We're talking to Candy Williams from listening

to the video story again.

Yippee-kai, mother of video.

There you go.

I want to make sure I say it right.

I'm away.

I'll write home every day.

And I'll send all my love into you.

I'll pretend that I'm missing the lips I'm missing.

And hope that my dreams will come true.

And then while I'm away.

I'll write home every day.

And I'll send all my love into you.

All my love into you.

I will send to you.

All my love into you.

Speaking about the Beatles.

First song they play on the Ed Sullivan Show.

And they came to America.

All my love into you.

Candy Williams is here.

And I get to be very careful when I say the name of your

video story.

Yippee-kai, mother of video.

Yes.

And they're right up at Aurora High School.

It's just stopping there some time.

If you like VHS movies, beta, laser discs.

I would see...

And I see young people and they're all the time going

to the laser discs when I go in there.

The age of the customers is pretty crazy.

We get a lot of Carthage College kids.

We had one kid.

Blue's name is Dale.

They were coming for a vintage movie night for VHS.

They left with a laser disc player.

And they've been back every other week since.

Well, I get two laser disc players.

They're in the basement.

I should take them out and give them a run every once in a while.

Because I have a record player that doesn't work anymore.

I was a relatively new record player.

We got a brand new record player right here.

I don't think he's ever been used.

We just got it.

Now, I'm going to give you...

Show you one of my laser discs.

I have a couple of hundred laser discs at home.

A lot of them are collectibles.

Because they were limited edition ones.

But this one...

Oh, something just fell.

Something fell.

What else?

There's some headphones fell.

This is...

They shoot horses don't they?

This was a big academy award winning movie back in 1969, starring Jane Fonda, Susanne York,

Michael Sarasana.

I think Gig Young won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for this movie.

It was directed by Sydney Pollock.

And there's this autograph.

I got an autograph copy.

He's no longer with us.

So that makes it more valuable.

But you can send away for it for a little extra.

It's just a card he signed so they glue it to the thing.

And it's glued on there permanently.

But this is the full box set.

They did a lot of box sets with laser discs.

And this was one of them.

I have the sound of music.

A five disc set of laser discs.

Five discs.

Ways a ton.

Yeah, it does weigh a ton.

I got the Clint Eastwood trilogy, the Italian-Western trilogy, all in a box set like this.

But I'll let you hold this.

Don't touch the autograph.

So that's Sydney Pollock.

He directed a ton of movies.

He actually appeared in the movie Tootsie with Dustin Hoffman.

But he directed a ton of great movies.

Oh, absolutely.

Absolutely.

And so...

21, 21, 12, 25 hundred?

Yep.

That's it.

And when they're gone, they're gone.

So I don't know.

I'm sure people who had this bought it, held on to it.

But it was always one of my favorites.

So then the movie was excellent too.

I didn't know if you ever saw it before.

No, I haven't actually.

Not too many.

I haven't.

It was a big Oscar-winning movie.

It was up for a best picture of the year too.

It was very big.

So if you had to guess, do more people come in for DVD, beta, blu-ray, 4K, or they come in for the VHS and laser discs?

Because I see the people roaming around that place.

And it's very crowded.

It's not like a blockbuster.

It's thin aisles with a lot of videos that are still not in order yet.

But your wife is...

Concently.

Concently putting the name is Heidi.

Concently putting them in order.

And by the way, your son resurfaced one of my Seinfeld DVDs.

Yeah.

Beautiful.

Yeah, beautiful.

That's his responsibility.

How do you do that?

A machine that's in the back when we bought it.

And there's a couple of pads if they're a little rougher or just need a cleaning.

Just a buffing circle spinner thing.

I don't know.

No.

Because it came in a bad packaging.

There was every Seinfeld DVD in one bottle.

And they put it in an envelope.

And there's a glue in the envelopes.

And they get it ruined it.

But now that we got it, that's fine and everything else.

So when people are coming in looking for VHS, old movies...

Well, they're on current movies.

And by the way, I got a trivia question for you in a moment.

What are they looking for?

These are looking for collectibles just saying, oh, I haven't seen that movie in a long time.

Let me go buy it.

That and a lot of dollars...

We have a dollar bin where we have six dollar bins.

We have a couple of thousand tapes in them.

I saw those.

Those are dollar?

Yeah, yeah.

And anyone that buys a VCR from us gets ten tapes out of the dollar bin for free.

Now, can you buy new VCRs anymore?

I think they're mostly refurbished.

I clean them and refurbish them before they go out.

Because I have a couple at home.

I have a beta machine.

My first beta machine I bought from my boss for 300 dollars before VHS.

So I bought that.

And then I bought a super, not a super beta, beta high-fi machine, which I was afraid to bring

it in the house because I spent a lot of money on it.

But it was the sound was spectacular on the beta high-fi machines.

Then I bought a VHS and I have a couple of...

My beta machines didn't work anymore.

So I went on eBay several years ago and I bought one of beta machine.

I got to have it because all my daughters growing up movies are on beta.

And I'm sure I can get them transferred.

I do that too.

Yeah, so I got them on beta.

So I still have that machine.

I got a couple of VHS machines.

If I see one at a like a garage sale or something, I'll take it up for five bucks or whatever.

It's worth it just to have one laying around.

The ones I'm worried about are the DVD and Blu-ray machines.

Because I have two DVD machines and one Blu-ray.

And I always want to get it back up because I have so many of these movies on Blu-ray.

If something happens to this one, I've got to make sure I have it.

Now, they still sell new ones.

Yeah. Yeah, those are easy.

Yeah, you can still get them at Best Buy and so forth.

But so, what do you find your machines from?

Do you have garage sales?

Or, yes, a lot of stripped in or I'm going to buy collections from people.

You know, you get their machines too.

Now, these are not all your movies in the story.

I know you had to clean out your closet and get those out of them.

A lot of them work.

Anyone who knows me knows this has always been a hoarding problem in my house.

And that's great.

Now, you are going to get some background on you.

Well, let's see here.

We have time.

Yeah, we have a little time left.

You've always been loving a movie, is right?

Ever since I was a little kid, yeah.

Me too.

I can remember every movie I went to.

And every theater I've seen a dad.

I can too.

Yeah, I can name every movie.

Now, we went to a lot of times.

We're growing up in New York.

We went to a lot of the big theaters and times where to see movies.

But I can remember every theater I went to.

I can remember my first movie.

It was at the Shirley Drive in Long Island.

It was Tammy in the Bachelor.

And I don't know why I remember that because I must have been a little kid.

But I just remember this stuff.

I've trouble reminding my remembering my daughter's birthday.

But I can remember every movie.

I remember where I rented things.

So the first video store I went to was called the video station.

It was in Milwaukee.

And two guys ran it.

And they had beta and VHS until they had.

And I remember renting the movies five dollars a night.

But you know, that was expensive.

But that's what you had a rent.

Five dollars a night.

Then one block away.

This was on Silver Spring.

Right off Silver Spring in Milwaukee.

A blockbuster opened up and did them in.

They killed everybody.

Yeah.

Blockbuster came in and it's ironic because there are no more blockbusters anymore.

Except one.

Yeah.

In Bend, Oregon.

Yeah.

The last blockbuster in the world.

And they do it.

They do more than the style of business because people want to go in there.

Sure.

But you know, everybody remembers the blockbuster stores.

Then there was something called Planet Video.

Remember Planet Video?

They were much better in blockbuster, my opinion.

Blockbuster regulated what people watched.

Places like Planet Video in the mountain pop stores.

Bought a more diverse section on movies.

And also there was family video, which just recently closed up about a year or so ago.

I love them.

Yeah.

Family video was great too.

But you know, they saw the writing on the wall.

And that was it.

You didn't obviously see the writing.

You missed that part.

Yeah.

I came back after it was written.

That's the reason.

Kenny Williams is here from UPKIA Mother Video.

That makes sense.

That's right.

That's right.

It's 729 at WRG and stay right where you are.

We're looking for some sunshine today.

Beautiful day with the hide here.

49 tomorrow, partly sunny with the hide here.

43.

Stay right where you are.

It is the evening of the day.

I sit and watch the children play.

I sit and watch the tears go down.

I love the fact that the Rolling Stones have been there.

He's 80 years old, Mick Jacker is going on tour, sponsored by AARP.

When the Rolling Stones first started back in the 60s, everything they'd, first of all,

still be around today performing, but sponsored by AARP, the American Association of Retired

People.

At 735 at WRG and Radio, I'm Don Rosen.

I want to thank you for joining us here on this Tuesday.

Morning.

We're talking videos.

Kenny Williams is here, but from UPKIA Mother Video, I'm so careful on how to say that.

Now, when you've been with movies all your life, how'd you get started in the movie?

You've been with PBS, you worked for, right?

Yeah, a long time ago.

I went to a film school through MATC because you can work at a television station at the same time,

and you work on shows.

Is there something I always want to do?

I dreamed about it a little kid.

But you're not in that business anymore?

Construction pays more.

Yeah.

Go with the money as far as the money.

But you also said you filmed some things, including one that was pretty outrageous.

Well, it was an unfortunate incident where someone passed away after a fight that we were shooting

for a TV show we were doing.

This was martial arts.

Yeah, like mixed martial arts.

Yeah, this wasn't a violent, you know, on the street act.

No, no.

Part of eternity.

Yeah, it was a controlled thing.

It was just a series of accidents that led to it.

You know, people get hurt in those martial arts things.

You're hitting people, you know.

Sometimes, I mean, no matter how controlled or safe that it could be or how professional

I've entered, it was ran like.

So you actually filmed when he got killed?

No, it was later.

He passed away a couple hours later.

From the, uh, what you filmed.

Yeah.

But you said you destroyed it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know, the internet's a terrible thing.

You can crop up, yeah.

And my kids are pretty little.

And all I could think of was, you know, someone watched that, you know, or popped up years

later as my kid.

I wouldn't want that.

Yeah, I feel bad now.

Yeah, I feel bad on shows like Dateline when they relive all these killings in 2020.

And the family members have to relive that every time it's on TV and reruns.

And, you know, I know my brother's wife was murdered.

And thank goodness it's not anywhere where people can see it.

By wife found the cold case file on internet from Chicago police department.

Look, he's still looking for the murderer of, of Dale.

And, um, you know, that's a horrible thing to have to see and relive every single time.

I'm glad you did it.

I'm glad you did.

You did a good thing there.

Not everyone was happy when I did that.

Do you have collectibles?

Well, here's what they think.

You know, you have to live with yourself.

Do you have collectibles that you have that you would never put up for sale?

Probably.

All right, give us some.

Well, what do you have that you think you're going to that you wouldn't part with?

I have a Jim Cameron signed Terminator arm.

Oh, there was like a 700 of them, 750.

Now, is this just a replica?

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But it's pretty cool prop.

I mean, I've had a long time.

I'd be back in Terminator.

One of my favorites.

So would you get that from?

Did you see him sign it?

I know.

eBay.

See, that's the thing with signatures.

You're never 100% sure.

My brother.

I hope so.

Yeah, my brother dealt in the beer can industry selling cans and so forth.

And he was at all these shows.

You're never quite sure if these signatures are real or not.

Now, when I bought the Billy Jack stuff, I bought it from his website, Tom Loughlin.

So I know it was real because it was his website.

And I don't think he would forge it.

Love those movies.

Well, the Billy Jack films.

Yeah.

Born losers.

He wasn't even the star of it.

It was, uh, was it not Jane?

I can't think of the actress.

He's an older actress, but she was in there.

But he was Billy Jack, but it was, he looked different.

He had a different cowboy hat.

He had a cowboy hat on.

He's still fine in his character.

And that was a driving movie.

Born losers.

Yeah.

Every of the story with Billy Jack, when it got released by Warner Brothers, they put it

on a double bill with THX 1138.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And it bombed.

And he sued Warner Brothers because they gave it just a lousy release.

And he won.

And they had to re-release it.

And it became one of the biggest films Warner Brothers had in 1971.

They like traveled around with film prints.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It became an interesting story, guys.

It became a huge hit.

Have you ever seen a movie film?

Yeah.

Yeah.

What did you see film?

I worked on a few, few indie movies here and there.

Did you see a big title being filmed?

Uh, I'm public enemies a little bit.

Oh, of the Johnny Depp movie.

Yeah.

That was filmed up in Northern Wisconsin.

Yeah.

Like Manitosh Waters area.

Manitosh Waters.

Yeah.

I was just working on something else real small.

And we bounced over there for a day or two.

Yeah.

A little bohemia.

They filmed it at the original site there where John Dillinger had his.

So here's the big movie I saw being filmed.

And as soon as I say some of this, you might recognize it.

I was on, uh, it's when I lived in New York.

I was in Central Park West up by Columbus Circle.

And if you know where that place is.

Anyway, it's up Upper East Upper West side of Manhattan.

And I'm sitting on a bench waiting for someone there had to go into an office for something.

I'm sitting there waiting.

And I see all these banners across Central Park West Columbus Circle.

And I see cameras around.

Oh, they're filming a political commercial was 1975.

The election was coming up.

And there was a banner palentine for president.

And I said, palentine.

I don't know who's he running for president.

I'm just sitting there and you see this stuff all the time in New York, you know, cameras around.

And I'm paying no attention.

They're rolling the cameras and everything.

And I had to leave and I walked away about six months later, seven months later.

I'm watching the review on TV of this movie and there's palentine for president.

They said, palentine for president.

And when I say, I know I've seen that before.

I can't picture where I've seen it.

But I've seen it.

It was taxi driver with Robert Caniro.

That's where you had the Mohawk.

And it was going to assassinate Palentine.

But Robert Caniro was not a star at that time.

And there also in that scene was simple shepherd and Albert Brooks.

They were all there.

Yeah.

But I didn't know where they were and you see the stuff all the time.

The only other one I saw who was going to get filmed.

I was taking my sister-in-law to a Broadway musical.

And we got out at night.

And with these giant moving van trucks parked up and down 43rd Street.

And I looked inside and it's a movie production company.

So I know he didn't, there was a guy sitting there guarding it.

And I said, what are you doing here?

He said that we're filming a movie.

I said, really?

Anything big?

Any big stars?

He goes, no, they're the Miss Meryl Streep.

I said, Meryl Streep's going to be here.

She goes, oh, no, she's not in this scene.

I forget the young actress who was in this scene.

And you'll know her as soon as I say her name.

I said, what's the name of the movie?

He goes, the devil wears Prada.

Oh, sure.

And I didn't know what Prada was.

I said, is it a horror movie?

He goes, no.

It's about a woman who runs a fashion company.

And I said, oh, it's about seven, eight months went by and I saw the movie.

It was the scene where I can't forget her name.

She was the one that was most around life.

And half the way.

She's in Times Square.

And she's meeting her father.

And Meryl Streep is calling from some island that's under a horror game.

Watchers on the, but that was the scene they filmed.

They had about six or seven moving bands full of equipment.

And all these people and the scene lasted for less than a minute on screen.

Yeah.

That's why it's so expensive to make a movie.

I mean, they do all that stuff.

The only other movies I saw being filmed, I was when I went to Universal Studios.

We took the tour in 1983 and saw a streets of fire.

I love that.

Like anything went all day.

A little sucker for her.

Yeah.

We saw that being, it was filmed and it was a, it was a, it was a subway scene.

No, it's an L train scene.

But it was built under this giant tarp or something and you were able to,

they took the tram through the, you saw it.

The other movie I saw being filmed, they wouldn't tell us the name of it.

They told us the fake name.

But after the tour was over, they said novelty of the real name.

Back to the future too.

It was filming.

It was right there in the square with the library.

Remember that big library scene in the first one when, you know,

they had to hook the electric, you know, the electric thing up to the library.

That was the same building used them to kill a mockingbird.

That was the courthouse also when they said a lot of stuff.

Yeah.

So that was the scene we went through and you could see all the stuff was kind of super.

You know, futuristic.

And he said, yeah, it's, it's back to the future too.

And they were filming three at the same time.

But two was right there.

Anyway, so those are the only, I think the only movies I saw filmed.

Yeah.

So that was it.

That's my big movie career out in Hollywood.

Have you ever seen, you know, you're a young guy.

Have you ever seen any cinema movies?

Not in theaters, you know, DVD.

Yeah.

I have the Blu-rays to all the cinema films.

Yeah.

The Blu-ray and DVDs to all the travel logs they made.

Now, I don't think I saw any travel logs in the movie theaters.

But I did see a lot of the big cinema films at the cinema theater in New York.

So we took a 2001 space Odyssey in cinema.

It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world.

But these were the single lens cinema films.

If you saw the travel box, he used three projectors to project it onto this giant screen with

six track stereo sound, which was unheard of at the time.

And it's, I still think going to the theater is the best experience for a movie.

Absolutely.

I mean, if you want to collect the film fine, you can collect it and watch it anytime you want

to on home video.

But to experience it, you got to go to a movie theater.

Especially as Marcus has possible.

Yeah, Marcus has these ultra screens.

If you go to an ultra screen.

Oh, yeah.

I didn't do that wraparound screen yet, though.

I'm a meaning to.

Oh, well.

Yeah, they have the wraparound.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

When I went to the cinema theaters in New York, they had 150 degree curved to the screens.

It was huge, especially in 2001, a space Odyssey.

I mean, it was amazing what they were doing with that.

And so Grand Prix in cinema.

We saw a cartoon.

The greatest story ever told the Hallelujah Trail.

All these big cinema films.

Do you have any 3D movies?

Sure.

Yeah, quite a few.

I'm sure.

Yeah.

I have a bunch of them.

The last one I got, only because it was in the cheap bin and I bought it was the polar

express in 3D.

Oh, yeah.

Now, it's not as good as when you go to the movie theaters to watch it, because you're using

the red and blue things where now they don't do that.

They have a, like a grayish, so it looks good.

We saw the movie Gravity in 3D with Sandra Bullock, you ever seen it?

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's the movie.

Yeah.

I said, Mom, you got to see this movie.

And when the tools are floating away from her, they're floating in the theater, it's the

best 3D I've ever seen in my life.

And my mother is reaching up to grab my mom, stop that, you're thinking people nervous.

And she's grand to grab it in the air.

That's how good the 3D was.

Yeah.

You look at some of the early 3D films that were terrible, but that was good.

And I have a couple at home.

The polar express, I have in 3D.

Some of them work really well.

And I have an adult film in 3D.

The only thing I got it was stores going out of business and I said, and it's

an adult film in 3D.

I can't believe it.

It's on VHS.

I don't even know where it is today.

I think I threw it out.

But yeah, it was a nice fad for a while, but you know, they still make them.

Comes and goes.

I did see a movie in 360.

It was at the World's Fair in 1964 and I'll show you a picture of it in just a second.

We take the break.

It was at the cinema, I'm up a million.

And the entire ceiling inside was a movie.

And when they ran it fast, you felt like you were flying through the air.

It is easier.

What it did was make you feel like you're in a rocket ship blasting off.

And that was the whole purpose of it to the moon and beyond.

You held on to your seat.

They don't do this stuff anymore in theaters, but you held on to your seat.

And you were afraid to let go of it because you thought you were flying through the air.

That's how good this was.

It's called to the moon and beyond and it lasted for two years and then they get rid

of it.

The only other ones, William Castle, familiar with his movies.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, William Castle.

He was a real schlock guy.

He made a lot of like 13 ghosts and I'm a sidle, but he was a big producer of Rosemary's

Baby.

That's his big movie in Macabre and he made the tingler.

The tingler, what he did was he had theaters hook up little electronic buzzers to the seats.

And when Vincent Price was on the screen and said the tingler is loose in this theater,

he used to hit the electric button and juice the seats.

Could you imagine doing that today?

Could you imagine the lawsuits putting an electric shock through the seats?

They only did it with select seats in the theaters and they'd shock and people would scream

because you're getting up with jolt of electricity in your metal seat and they did that and

he did a bunch of others too with the house on Haunted Hill.

He actually had a skeleton fly on wires through the theater, which was, you know, kids were

trying to tear it down and throw things at it, but he always had these gimmicks in the

theaters.

That was fun.

They make it fun.

Why not?

Yeah, they don't do that anymore.

You don't have the tingler, do you?

No.

It's on DVD.

Yeah.

I know we have house on Haunted Hill.

Yeah, I guess house on Haunted Hill.

I'm not sure where the tingler is in there or not.

Yeah.

Well, he's great.

I know you have a whole big scary section, horror section.

Yeah, the wife curiates that one.

Yeah.

They're all good.

They're not, you know, slasher movies per se, but they're good scary ones from the 60s,

70s.

We get a pretty wide section.

There's 8,000 horror movies per se, and a lot more to come as our space gets larger.

Right around April 1st, we should be moving in.

We'll have about three times the square footage, so we'll be able to put out a lot more

movies.

Stay right where you're going to move.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, it can't wait forever.

Even though it's a bit too late, it's still a little late.

Yeah, I'm not sure.

Yeah.

I'm not sure.

Yeah.

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I'm not sure.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm not sure.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

I'm not sure.

Yeah.

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Yeah.

There's being so many classic etc.

Yeah.

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Well, right ROOM, really good for every release.

I'm not sure.

Yeah.

Hopefully in more quantities of these movie curtain waves that individual

is

Yeah.

First song ever played on the radio.

There it is.

Hope it's not the last song.

I'm going to get a call.

This is over.

Kenny Williams is here.

We're talking videos, DVDs, Blu-rays, beta, laser discs, everything.

So everybody's claiming that DVD is dead.

These are the same people that claimed the radio was dead.

You know, when TV came around in the 1940s.

So you don't feel as dead though.

I said all the time.

I said the video star is not dead.

It's just changing.

It's not necessarily about new releases anymore.

It's about the curation of the old or discovery of stuff that you didn't know existed.

So streaming became big during COVID because people couldn't leave the house.

So they said, well, we've got to sign up for this.

And they're signing up for this, this, this, this, this.

And there's a funny radio commercial, the TV commercial.

And it says we have too many streaming services.

So we have to make some cuts.

Grandma's got to go.

Yeah.

Sure.

And so they said, well, if we sign up for Macs, we get all this stuff.

So there were so many actually Paramount Plus and one other we're combining now.

Paramount Plus and Peacock Plus are combining.

We have to watch commercials.

Yeah.

Well, yeah.

So here's what happened with me.

I didn't sign up for any streaming services because I like to rent movies.

And I signed up with Netflix DVD service a couple of years ago.

Netflix started out.

Before Netflix was on stream, they had, they, they rented DVDs.

That's how I mail.

Yeah.

That's how Netflix got started.

And I, I went with that.

I loved it.

Then one day I get a note, I said, we're ending.

Well, I said, I got one more $30 gift certificate for the Netflix and I use it.

Nope.

But you have another two months to go.

Can I use it?

Nope.

No, we're not accepting any more Netflix, you know, those little cards you buy at the supermarket

for Netflix credit.

Oh, sure.

They said, nope, can't use it.

That's what I'm going to do with it.

I don't know.

Sign up for Netflix.

And so I, I used it to get the Netflix service and I watched one thing on the Netflix service.