ROCK 108 Morning Show - Things That Used To Mean You Were Rich

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What are some things that used to mean you were upper class, but now maybe not so much and an example might be a 35-inch television or

Carpet and Bathroom.

Are

you kidding me?

I remember.

Oh my

God.

I am old enough to remember having a color TV made you upper class.

I used to go to friends houses so I could see color TV because my dad resisted.

Oh no.

This TV is fine.

We don't need a color TV.

This one works fine.

And you only had one TV in the house in those days.

And it was like a 20 inch screen.

And it was black and white.

And the remote control were the kids.

Yeah.

Would you and your brother like just consistently, you know, poke and prod and say, Hey, what about a color TV?

You know, they've got it.

They've got it.

Yes.

And the thing that finally threw it over was when my, my cousins lived across the street and

they

got a color TV.

And that's like, that's when it, when it happened, it's like, Oh, your brother can buy a color TV, but you can't.

My first vivid memory of what I saw in color on TV that made me go, wow.

And I still remember it to this day.

Okay.

Batman.

Oh, yes.

Batman.

So like that's purple.

His suit is dark purple.

Really?

Wow.

Look at the colors

on this thing.

We had like a 14 inch zenith that was black and white when I was growing up.

And I used to watch Batman in black and white.

And then

It was a while before we got a color TV, and that was 1984.

Really?

We were not... You had a black and white TV?

Yes.

I even had one when I was living here... gosh, when I was eight?

Oh my god.

I used to watch the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in black and white on Fox Television.

You poor kid.

Wallpaper.

Wallpaper is coming back.

Yeah.

I do watch a fair amount of Home and Garden television.

And they are now using wallpaper again, selectively.

They're not like wallpaper in whole rooms, but they'll do, you know, one wall with wallpaper.

And I know you're a big radio star in big markets like Baltimore, New York.

Did you ever have a water bed?

No, my brother did,

though.

Oh, really?

Yeah, my brother

did.

And I was staying over his house once.

And he was, I think he went on a trip or something.

So I said, I'm going to try it.

I'm going to try it.

OK.

It was the most ridiculous thing I've ever.

Tried you can't get into them.

You can't get out of them Rolling over on it is very difficult because people tend to toss and turn during the nicer and his ended up spring in a leak.

Oh,

no I Remember trying out one friend had one of course they had some money

and getting stuck in between the, trying to get out.

And you're like, your arm is stuck on the one side.

And that, that was no good.

I can't imagine now at this

age, trying to get in and out of the water, but I'll probably get down to never get up.

There was something in the nineties when I was growing up.

This would have probably been like fifth or sixth grade, 91, 92.

And it might just have been a Midwest thing, but there was obviously the jabo genes, right?

That you would roll.

Right.

Appropriately.

But the other thing in the Midwest that showed that she had some money, some clout, Zubas.

What is it?

Zubas.

No idea.

It was a basically a sweat pant that was created by a hawk and animal of Legion of Doom wrestling team, right?

Okay.

But they were based out of Minneapolis and they created this pant that had the little zebra stripes on them.

Zubas.

Zebra stripe.

If you remember the Super Bowl that featured the bills versus the

the redskins inside the metrodome in Minneapolis.

A lot of people had Zubas on in the Bill's colors, red, white, and blue, and the little zebra stripes.

Why does that say upper crust?

Because the cost of getting Zubas at the time, you know, 60, 80 bucks a pair.

You would pair that with your Reebok pump shoes and or LA gear pumps.

Okay.

On the clothing level.

the kids that always had polo shirts with the polo logo on it.

That was

like,

okay, they're from a fairly up family right there.

He has polo shirt with the polo logo.

What do you guys think?

Three, one, nine, three, six, four, five, three, six, nine, two, three, four, five, three, six, nine.

Something that may have made you feel like you were rich before.

Molly Shaco says, my mom used to work at the sewing factory that made the Zubas.

Yes.