Chapter 1: What nostalgic memories do the hosts share about video stores?
Big show, G-Lane. Yeah, big Wednesday. Thank Christ for State of Origin tonight. And we're going to talk to big Carl Tiley from the TAB about what we can punt on, given no one's really got any vested interests. And if they do, they just make it up. There's going to be a State of O in my house tonight. Boys?
Chapter 2: What impact does Will Jordan's injury have on the Crusaders and All Blacks?
No, I'm not picking that up. Am I right, boys?
Chapter 3: What are the implications of Rob Penny leaving the Crusaders?
I'm not picking that up. I'm not picking that up. And then we're going to watch some footy. Looking forward to it. Good God. Hey, top of the show today. We've got an interesting topic of conversation to have since it's a busy sports day or whatever. No, it's the Sporting Sahara yet again today. Do you remember video stores?
Chapter 4: How do the hosts preview Game 1 of the State of Origin?
Yeah, of course they do. Did you ever? United Video, Video Easy. Yeah, what other ones were there?
Chapter 5: What feedback do listeners provide in the 'Yours Please' segment?
Joe reminded me this morning of a Channel X. Channel X, yeah. Was that the green one? No, that's Video Easy, the green one, I think. No, Video Easy was blue, or Video Keezy. United Video, which was that kind of blue and yellow. That was blue, yellow, and red. Yeah. And then Blockbuster, but that didn't really loom too large compared to the others, I think.
Chapter 6: What humorous anecdotes do the hosts share about their past experiences?
I was doing some research last night for some reason. Don't ask me why I went down a hole. Video Easy was the biggest one that we had in NZ, 170 stores. The two most popular DVDs ever rented out in New Zealand were? Titanic. Not a bad shout. Avatar, same director. Oh, yeah. And the other one was? Star Wars.
Chapter 7: How do the hosts discuss the evolution of rugby and sports culture?
It was Boy. Boy? Yeah, obviously in New Zealand. But do you remember when Boy came out? Yeah, it was very funny.
Chapter 8: What are the betting opportunities discussed for the State of Origin?
It was everywhere. It was funny. Was it pre-internet, Boy? Roy Wills. No, it was in the 2000s. No, but you know what I mean, pre-social media. Yeah, it was pre-social media. Just on the cusp of Facebook and that kind of stuff. I remember, I'll never forget United Video in Hamilton East. Here we go. And we sent our mate Blackie in to get a, Michael Black was his name. What was his name?
Michael Black was his name, okay, before he jumped to conclusion. It was 1994. I love it how you can't have, like, jump on any sort of, like, potential racism. It's like so hypocritical of you. We've got some making up to do. Blackie, his name is Michael Black. Anyway, Blackie, we sent him in to get a video of ill repute. Yeah.
And you've got to go up and you've got to give your password to the people behind the bench. So first of all, you've got to go up with a a video of ill repute to the desk and automatically you're being judged. Yeah. And we had a video card between quite a few of us, kind of teenagers, late teenagers. Password was ballbag69. Yeah, nice. And so poor Blackie, he lost the draw.
He drew the short straw and he said, okay, I'll go in. What's the password? Like ballbag69. Yeah. And so poor Blackie had to go in and get out some horrific ā Porn. Yeah, it reminds me of the Welsh story. And then they said password and he was ballbag69 and they were like, massive creep. So they made $800,000 in 2002 Video Easy just from late fees alone.
And that was only their, that was only their, don't ask me why I was down this hill. That was only 10% of their gross margins. They were making so much money Video Easy in New Zealand. But shit, the bottom fell out of it. It certainly did. And it fell out quick. Yeah, absolutely did. They were given the opportunity to buy Netflix. I think people probably know this.
Well, Netflix, I used Netflix when I was at university because Netflix was a great service in which you, it was a subscription in which they'd send you three or four DVDs a month. And then they'd give you the envelope which you'd send them back. Yeah. So little chance of getting late fees or whatever. You send it back and they send you three or four more movies.
Yeah, Blockbuster offered to buy them and then they said, sorry Joe, we'll just get off this tangent in just a moment. But then they offered to buy them and then Blockbuster tried to do the same thing, but they offered only 50% of the service. They'd send you the DVDs and then you'd have to drop them back off from one of those. Do you remember those little library slots? Yes.
Drop your library books out, then you could do that. But it just wasn't as successful and then they asked Phil out of that and then Netflix obviously were pretty quick to take it digital. But sorry Joe. I don't think it was called Netflix in New Zealand. It was called some other... I'm pretty sure it was Netflix. It was a New Zealand company. A few people gave it a go. Signed up to it as well.
And you could pay... The more you paid was the more DVDs you could have out at a time. Yeah. And you could keep them for as long as you wanted. I'm sure it was Netflix. It was called like Ghost... Post... Yeah, something else. There's still a DVD store in Devonport. The dry cleaners down there has branched out. And I walked past the other day at about 7 o'clock on a Friday.
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