TalKing of the Hill - Hank's Dirty Laundry
Added 2022-05-16 04:01:01 +0000 UTCThis month, we take a walk down memory lane with an episode focused on pre-digital porn, video rental stores, and a world before the post-911 surveillance state! When Hank's credit score gets mistakenly dinged by a computer error, he makes it his mission to fight the system—which involves learning a lot about pornography. Listen in to learn how Hank solves his legal woes, and why a Toblerone paired with a dirt bike makes the perfect birthday gift!
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My favorite 90s porno memory is when my friends and I found some adult magazines in the orchard next to our houses and made a porno tree by putting individual pages on each of the branches and yes, I still have the printed out photos to prove it.
littleterr0r
2022-05-27 08:07:33 +0000 UTCGreat episode. I lived in Humboldt County for a while, they still had a couple of rental places that had decent selections. By the time I left there was only one though. I still remember being blown away when my friend told me that there was a local rental store that wasnt a block buster and that they had a sectioned off place for adult videos.
FootFungus
2022-05-20 23:17:37 +0000 UTCCredit card interest rates are a steal compared to the new way to get people in the cycle of debt: payday loan companies! In fact here in Ontario they are required to post a sign outlining the cost of borrowing $100 all in(interest and fees) and included in the disclosure is a statement saying fees and interest on credit card cash advances are often way, way cheaper.
Alex Forsyth
2022-05-19 00:36:03 +0000 UTCI went into an adult bookstore a few years ago (I went in to get directions on how to get away from there!) and I was shocked to discover they still rent porn. This was in an area with easy access to broadband internet (or even 4/5G cell phone data) so there's plenty of ways to access internet porn. I assume that the customers skewed older and male but plenty of elderly people are on the internet these days. Are they keeping their business afloat by renting to luddites?
PurpleComet
2022-05-18 19:11:31 +0000 UTCAs for cashier stuff: I worked the register at a cafe (sold prepackaged food and made hot food too) during college and we didn’t have a delete button so the computer literally won’t let us remove an item once it gets rung up.
Andrew Wiley
2022-05-17 17:47:12 +0000 UTCAs a kid I rented games from Blockbuster all the time. I think twice we got blamed for not returning a game. Both times they found the games on the shelf. I guess someone didn’t bother checking it back in and just put it back on the shelf.
Andrew Wiley
2022-05-17 17:44:42 +0000 UTCI only minored in Sexy Stories. - Bob
Talking Simpsons
2022-05-17 17:11:11 +0000 UTCWait! About Shaun Cashman, he DID come back for 1 episode of The Simpsons. He directed "The Tale Of Two Springfields" in Season 12. One funny anecdote about Shaun Cashman, he makes an on-screen appearance in the indie horror-comedy "Psychos in Love" as a boom mic operator in a meta moment in the film. Saw a screening of the film in 2019 and got really confused when I saw his name in the credits.
Daran
2022-05-17 16:35:39 +0000 UTCWatching Hank intersect with a world that confuses or horrifies him is never not funny. Transporting my mind back to the 90s and pornography also made me realize or generation (I'm around Bob and Hank's age) might be the last that has a sort of nostalgia for how pornography was consumed and discovered. I was one of those kids that found "Woods Porn," and the dumb thing about it was it was hidden in a Game Boy carrying case. Who is not going to notice a Game Boy case in the woods? We thought we might have found a video game device, but instead we found smut (and we're not unhappy about that). Though come to think of it, it was discovered in the woods between my best friend's house and an elementary school, so maybe we were supposed to find it and it was placed there by some creep? At any rate, it was a chore to come by pornography at a young age when now I'm guessing every kid is finding it pretty easily once they learn it exists and they have unsupervised access to a phone or PC. I just hope when the day comes for my kids they have sense enough not steal my credit card or charge things to a phone plan. Credit card and identity theft in general is such a hassle to deal with. I got an email last week from my bank saying they were alerted by a merchant that my card information may have been compromised so I'll be getting a new one any day now. My reward for the inconvenience of having to redo all of my auto-charges for that card is nothing. They don't even say what merchant it was so I can't even avoid them in the future if it was something I use regularly. I suppose that's to encourage self-reporting, but makes it no less frustrating. It's become ordinary though as I think this is the third time since the pandemic that something like that has happened. On one of those occasions I noticed fraudulent charges and when I went to the bank the guy who helped me out said that's basically all he does all day now because the theft is so prevalent. And it's usually through hacking, or skimming, but you get the occasional elderly person who voluntarily gives their info out to bad faith actors.
Joe Hodgson
2022-05-17 16:31:49 +0000 UTCSo Bob's first exposure to pornography was via sexy stories... Come to think of it, what's your master's degree in again Bob? 🤔 I'm sensing a connection... 😏
Andrew O.
2022-05-17 16:21:09 +0000 UTCThis was one of the most fun episodes I can remember. Thanks guys! Loved the show and the personal anecdotes! Even though there was a lot of porn talk. The "Re-Tales" were simply delightful. Really brought me back.
Joey Joe Joe Shabadoo
2022-05-17 15:28:59 +0000 UTCthat reminds me: i need to get that "I HEART CHARLIE SHEEN" tattoo on my ass
Jeremy-Alice
2022-05-17 14:02:26 +0000 UTCI will never, ever tire of your retail stories. Keep em’ comin’! In this episode in particular, I loved all of Henry’s inside info about what it was like to be behind the counter of a video store. I would one-hundred-percent listen to an entire episode of those stories. On a related note, I really wanted to thank you both for the super-kind comments and well wishes when you read my comment on the last “Talk To The Audience?!” about my husband and I getting laid off on account of online media platforms being terrible. It really made me smile, and also, I am happy to report that my husband is once again gainfully employed by a different (independent! For now!) media platform, and I am currently working as a part time adjunct professor (technically “adjunct instructor,” but the University says I don’t have to correct the kids if they call me “professor,” and I won’t). So we’re doin’ okay!
Kat Heagberg
2022-05-17 01:32:40 +0000 UTC
