For those of you who don't know, Tom Papa's journey to L.A. was so successful, he's been reduced to working as a writer for Minnesota Public Radio's "A Prairie Home Companion."
The Johnny Seven gun looks like the greatest war toy of all time. My much older cousin Frankie had one and wouldnt let any of his grubby little cousins anywhere near it.
My parents wouldnt buy me guns ( though we were all hunters and I had a actual 4/10) so wemade guns at the neighbors woodshop. She was kinda pissed when she saw me lumping an M60A replica down the road! lol
i was later on (early 2000s) and by then there were a lot of hand-me-down rambo guns and spray painted water pistols wed loan out. sticks were grenades or swords back then.
I had a black uzi water gun that took 4 AA batteries. The magazine held the water and it would recoil as you shot it. I'd be so dead if I walked outside with that damn thing.
I'm very jealous. We live out in the country and because the guns were so plastic and all bright colors we hated them as kids. We found sticks that looked like rifles and played with them around the house a car drove by a road 100yrds away and a cop pulled in saying it looked like kids had rifle's. We got grounded and introuble nothing other than us getting our ass whooped by our dad but still I doubt toys like this would be terrible for kids
Tom Papa doesn't seem to bother me as much as everyone else. He's not hilarious by any measure, but he does add a little to the conversation. If Ant is the chocolate and Jim is the strawberry, then Papa would just be the plain old vanilla in the neopolitan ice cream. And Opie is the freezer burned lima bean ice cream.
Opie is the Chinese food you forgot you we're saving in your mini fridge when you went on vacation and didn't realize you had plugged into a splitter that you turned off to save power. Every time you return to that room, you know that the stink will still be lingering and there's not shit you can do about it.
Time waster isn't exactly a tone anyone wants to see in a comedy radio show. Wouldn't you rather just have chocolate and strawberry if that's what you like?
Love the "Midnight Cowboy" references that started @ 00:50! I must be getting old because I had to explain the jokes to a dozen co workers when this was new :-)
These toy guns would have been about $20-$40 today, if they cost $2-3 in the 50s. I swear these things would be $60 today though if they were being sold. Toys have gotten so expensive.
that last pistol, according to the inflation calculator, would be 60 bucks. Also these were probably catalog prices, store buying was always more expensive.
Not sure what year this was but Ant saying there aren't any toy guns anymore, hell we used to play war with airsoft guns around town in 2000 and they looked very real.
same, but he raises a great point. I was growing up then, and I remember distinctly a sort of end to it all. I was just out of suburbia, so it probably was already gone in the cities and suburbs, but sometime around 2007 either it all suddenly felt less "real" or the stuff they were putting in stores really did change. my friends and I all ww2-gulf war-style action figures, and wed have gay little war scenarios with them at each others houses, and then a rule was broken somewhere because then it wasnt just moms who were against it, a few dads started getting anti-gun toys. A few guys weren't allowed to hang out with kids whos parents let them play with gun toys, and at first they said it was bullying because the kids felt left out but that fell through because if a guy had a second gun, hed always loan his least favorite to the guy who had none. Wed run through the woods shooting at each other, and it was amazing to see the ages of toy guns coming together: rambo machine guns dollar store "cowboy" pistols, airsoft M16s, plastic tommy guns and that one asshole who brought his older brothers paintball grenade... its stupid nostalgia talking, and i don't think its just "i got too old to stop playing" that makes me think it went away, we stopped when we were still young enough, its just parents were trying to guilt each other or cause trouble to seem morally superior. It didnt matter if their sheltered kid gets popcorn lung by age 16, after years of being forced on ritalin, as long as he wasnt the good guy in his own cowboy/army fantasy story. funny enough i always enjoyed playing the villain, and i was really on point with the props. when we played "swat" i was always the drug lord with a baggy of sugar, or in mafia games id play the dumb goon or the crooked cop.... how fucking gay. I was too old however around 2012, when hunger games came out, and i think that was the death knell of kids playing war. a few companies tried to get girls involved in the fun of "playing war" while boosting their egos to think they were invincible. Im sure a couple girls running around with fake bows got pelted with a stick "grenade" and cried to their parents were already pressured to shut everything down. by 2015 any younger relatives or family friends had toys of things that lacked any reference to firearms, and if they came over they were alarmed to see a real metal capgun 6-shooter that i had when i was younger than they were. its as if it was a real gun.
Shit, i realize after watching this clip i had the gun at 26:50... It was a hand-me-down from my father, and it was probably my grandfathers because he was a kid back then.
Here’s the Fronzie commercial Jim was actually talking about. It was the one for just the figure. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-m_ruSCznix4.html
18:33 You wanna talk about adverse effects on kids, all that Elsa-Gate stuff that was happening on RU-vid (that the website allowed) is gonna have some long term effects on all the infants & toddlers who watched that BS.
@@buzzytrombone4353 for the fact of how blatant it was but whichever humans working at RU-vid couldn't outright say "this is sick" & started manually removing content. No, instead they let algorithms mess with channels that were posting innocent & harmless content for kids & affected monetizing videos & posting for EVERYONE. It's a shame :/
@@PauloHernandezXD I think that the worst offender for it was this series of channels that was based on girls being placed in scenarios that you would see in some shitty Disney channel sitcoms. They were run by a man named Ian Rylett and he was arrested in 2018 for child abuse, which by that point, the channels were all demonetized and removed from the platform.
Mark Winberry ya I dunno I tried researching one sight said they made the plastic parts one sight said what u stated , you serve ? if so thank you for your service
abc345ful they were so junky the guys couldn't wait to ditch em for an ak. A little sand and water they were done. That's how they got the Mattel joke. Your welcome.
“It has an effect” you don’t know shit. Played with toy guns my whole life and never have hurt a fly. I’m not even really interested in guns at all. Crazy people are crazy. Toy guns have nothing to do with it
It's a pretty well know fact that the design, production, marketing and sales of toy guns was almost a direct result of the Korean war and multiplied exponentially during the Vietnam war. They were intentionally designed to make kids familiar with weapons as early as possible, thus making it far easier to entice them to enlist in the military. Pretty awful shit if you ask me.
@Irina 1. "School shootings" pre-Columbine were not like those today. They include anyone that fires a single shot on school grounds as a "shooting". Also, the vast, vast majority of shootings where people were actually targetted were perpetrated by adults (including school staff and other adults in the area, and less so students) The point was that kids were less likely to be weak maladjusted cowards who just shot other kids when they couldn't hack it in social groups. Your point about serial killers is moot, he was referring to kids. 2. Vague, stupid platitude that means nothing. 3. A complete non-point. He said that kids are not treated or raised properly in general, not that he specifically did so. 4. "The world is doing better *than ever" is just another vague platitude that can't be proven or disproven. It would depend on what you mean, and exactly how it's better. It is better in terms of advanced technology and standards of living I guess, but there's definitely a problem with gen Y and Z that is existential. In a world where communication is so improved and easier, young people feel more and more isolated and alienated and still become antisocial, and in extreme cases, mass murderers. It's not "better than ever" all around, in some places it's actually worse.
yeah? but what happened? the US was more opposed to war then than it is now. Ive heard so many people say the USA should nuke isis or whatever shithole of the week the news is peddling, as an actual, non-joking solution to what to them seems like an unsolvable problem. Capguns aside, shit like the "tommy burp" or "seven steven" (or whatever the fuck it was called) don't act like guns at all. and it hardly helps that during vietnam the guns being sold were wild west-themed. a bunch of 6-shooter and lever-action armed toddlers wont grow up knowing how to field strip an m16, or keep an accurate grouping with an m60. especially when commercials showed hyperactive spray-and-pray to be the fun way to play. Kids are curious about life, and they find death and pregnancy to be really cool, and companies who want to make money will sell boys toy guns and to girls they sell baby dolls. plus in the wake of ww2, most people had a heroic father, uncle, or grandfather who "beat the nazis/japs" sure its racially incentive to simply those people into that category, but back then it was a lot worse when the Japanese butchered manchuria, or when the nazis exterminated massive populations of central and eastern Europe... but the irony was perhaps lost when considering what the USA did to the natives when they made those 6-shooter, lever-action guns to "win the west"... but that's what Hollywood was making back then, so companies wanted to make a buck (or four) on some dopey kid who wanted to be like roy rogers.
toys used to be bad ass. No wonder we got these generations of fruits who dress up as furries plying with ponies being totally confused even what gender they are.