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Joe & Mike: Father and Son Video Store Memories
Rental Return: Tales From the Video Store - April 05, 2024 17:03 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWe close out season 4 with a first for Rental Return as we interview a father and son who both worked at video rental stores. Joe shares amazing stories about his time as the general manager of Canadian chain, The Video Movie Place from 1984-1988, while Mike reveals how much the busines...
Lee
Rental Return: Tales From the Video Store - March 15, 2024 15:39 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsLee joins us to recount his experience working at multiple Movie Gallery stores throughout the state of Iowa. Hear tales of getting peed on while dressed up as The Grinch for in-store events, destroying video store shelves with Spider-Man style shenanigans and so much more! Follow @TRN...
David
Rental Return: Tales From the Video Store - March 07, 2024 14:08 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsDavid joins us to tell the fascinating tale of working in a privately owned video rental store in Wisconsin from it's opening day in 1999 to it's abrupt closing 8 years later. Plus learn about the documentary he created during the store's final year. Get more details about the doc here ...
Dalibor
Rental Return: Tales From the Video Store - February 29, 2024 15:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsDalibor joins us to share stories of working at Blockbuster Video in the early 2000's during the transition from VHS to DVD to streaming, explains how he became the top seller of upgraded memberships and more. Follow @TRNsocial on X, Instagram, and Facebook for more including visuals f...
Rob's Video Rental Tales From Down Under
Rental Return: Tales From the Video Store - February 20, 2024 17:45 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsRob joins us to share his tales of the first video rental store in Australia, founded by his father in 1980. Lines out the door, Mickey Mouse costumes, gangsters, illegal porn and more! We've never heard wild stories like these before. Press Play now for one of kind stories from Down Un...
Danielle
Rental Return: Tales From the Video Store - February 08, 2024 13:35 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsDanielle from the No More Late Fees podcast shares her experience working at 4 different Blockbuster Video locations in Florida during the early 2000's, breaks down the daily grind and you won't believe the story she shares at the end about an incident in the video game section. Follo...
Dirk Marshall
Rental Return: Tales From the Video Store - February 01, 2024 15:30 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsDirk Marshall from the VH-US podcast share his fantastic stories about growing up in a mom & pop video rental store during the 80's and 90's. Discover all the awesome promotional items he brought home as a kid, what he did with movie screener tapes, the terrifying tale of cockroaches in...
Season 4 Kickoff!
Rental Return: Tales From the Video Store - January 29, 2024 14:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsRental Return is back for Season 4! In this kickoff episode, Adam and Chad Young (Horror Movie BBQ) introduce the new season of interviews with former video rental store employees, explore a long closed video rental store through instagram, talk about favorite childhood VHS tapes and re...
Season 3 Rewind
Rental Return: Tales From the Video Store - April 25, 2023 10:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWith Season 3 of Rental Return in the books, Adam (@Hojukoolander) and Jason (@RD80s) bookend the season by reflecting on what they learned through the experiences shared by the Video Heroes. They discuss some of the most interesting stories, things they did not know about the video sto...
Landall Goolsby
Rental Return: Tales From the Video Store - April 06, 2023 10:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsSeason 3 of Rental Return - Tales From the Video Store concludes with an interview of Landall Goolsby (@iamlandall) who owned his a video store, Landall's Box Office, up through 2019. He also worked at several stores in the New Mexico area which he started working at 13. Randall talks a...
Russ Burlingame
Rental Return: Tales From the Video Store - March 31, 2023 10:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsSeason 3 of Rental Return - Tales From the Video Store continues with an interview of Russ Burlingame (@RussBurlingame) who worked at Emerald City Video and just about every chain video store during the 2000s in the Syracuse area. Russ talks about the difference between working at a "Mo...
Michael May
Rental Return: Tales From the Video Store - March 23, 2023 10:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsSeason 3 of Rental Return - Tales From the Video Store continues with an interview of Michael May (@MichaelMayComix) who worked for a "Mom and Pop" store called Adventureland Video (later changed to Aardvark Video) in the late 80s in Tallahassee, Florida. Listen as he shares his early m...
Andy Serwin
Rental Return: Tales From the Video Store - March 16, 2023 10:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsSeason 3 of Rental Return - Tales From the Video Store continues with an interview of Andy Serwin who worked for a "Mom and Pop" store called The Video Hut in the late 80s in rural Pennsylvania. Listen as he shares his memories of working at the store and the family atmosphere it had wh...
Michael Labbe
Rental Return: Tales From the Video Store - March 09, 2023 11:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsSeason 3 of Rental Return - Tales From the Video Store continues with an interview of Michael Labbe (@Superstarml) who worked for Movie Gallery in Augusta, ME in the late '90s to early 2000s. Listen as he shares his memories of working at the store, what he did in a typical week, and pe...
Landon
Rental Return: Tales From the Video Store - March 02, 2023 11:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsSeason 3 of Rental Return - Tales From the Video Store kicks off with an interview of Landon (@HOC_STUDIOS) who grew up in a family-owned store in the early to mid '90s. Listen as he shares his memories of the store his mother ran for several years including her trips to the VHS warehou...
Season 3 Preview
Rental Return: Tales From the Video Store - February 27, 2023 11:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsAdam, Chad, and Jason host a preview episode for Season 3 of the Rental Return podcast series. First, the hosts comment on the recent representation of rental stores on Netflix including Blockbuster and That 90s Show. Then the trio share recent VHS finds in thrift stores and on eBay. Th...
Season 3 Trailer
Rental Return: Tales From the Video Store - February 19, 2023 15:04 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsGet ready for Season 3 of Rental Return as we introduce our Video Heroes! Thanks to our monthly supporters Chad Droze Ken Spaulding Karen Flieger Tim Heasley Jeff Sheldon ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Season 2 Rewind
Rental Return: Tales From the Video Store - March 04, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWith Season 2 of Rental Return in the books, Adam (@Hojukoolander), Chad (@HorrorMovieBBQ), and Jason (@RD80s) bookend the season by reflecting on what they learned through the experiences shared by the Video Heroes. They discuss some of the crazier stories, things they did not know abo...
S2: Pushing Stop
Rental Return: Tales From the Video Store - February 18, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsSeason 2 of Rental Return - Tales From the Video Store comes to a close with "Pushing Stop." This episode features the final days of video stores from the perspective of our Video Heroes. You'll hear how DVD, Blu-Ray, and Netflix affected the operation of their stores. Then, listen how ...
S2: Secrets of the Staff
Rental Return: Tales From the Video Store - January 28, 2022 10:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsSeason 2 of Rental Return - Tales From the Video Store continues with "Secrets of the Staff." This episode features some wild stories of staff shenanigans during and after business hours. Here Brandon tell about an epic pen-throwing war that occurred after hours one night that ended wit...
S2: Video Land Maniacs
Rental Return: Tales From the Video Store - January 14, 2022 10:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsSeason 2 of Rental Return - Tales From the Video Store continues with "Video Land Maniacs." This episode is all about the craziest customer interactions our Video Heroes had to deal with as well as regular customers that were quirky or they tried to avoid. Billy tells about the time Que...
Interview with Ira Belfer of Captain Video
Rental Return: Tales From the Video Store - January 07, 2022 10:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsDuring the Rental Return Season 2 Preview episode, several video rental themed newspaper articles from the '80s were discussed which included the small chain of California based stores called Captain Video. A quick google search by Adam found one still in existence and planned a trip to...
S2: Rewind the Grind
Rental Return: Tales From the Video Store - December 30, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsSeason 2 of Rental Return - Tales From the Video Store continues with "Rewind the Grind!" In Episode 2, we asked our Video Heroes why they were motivated to work at a video store and how they got the job. Now in Episode 3, we get more into their daily routines at the store like what wer...
S2: Pushing Play
Rental Return: Tales From the Video Store - December 17, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsSeason 2 of Rental Return - Tales From the Video Store continues with "Pushing Play!" In Episode 1, we introduced our Video Heroes including their first experiences with renting VHS tapes and what their local video stores were like. Now in Episode 2, you'll get a deeper knowledge of why...
S2: Meet the Heroes
Rental Return: Tales From the Video Store - November 19, 2021 10:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsSeason 2 of Rental Return - Tales From the Video Store has begun! We hope you enjoyed our preview episode featuring Adam, Chad, and Jason, but now it's time to give our Video Heroes the spotlight in Episode 1 of Rental Return. Episode 1 "Meet the Heroes" will be your introduction to th...
Season 2 Preview Episode
Rental Return: Tales From the Video Store - November 02, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsAdam, Chad, and Jason host a preview episode for Season 2 of the Rental Return podcast series. First, the host share three of their latest VHS finds. Next, they discuss the skyrocketing market for VHS tapes and the insane prices common tapes that are sealed or graded are fetching today....
Season 1 Rewind
Rental Return: Tales From the Video Store - April 22, 2021 13:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWith Season 1 of Rental Return in the books, Adam (@Hojukoolander), Chad (@HorrorMovieBBQ), and Jason (@RD80s) bookend the season by reflecting on what they learned through the experiences shared by the Video Heroes. They all pick some of their favorite stories that were heard during th...
Rewind: Season 1
Rental Return: Tales From the Video Store - April 22, 2021 13:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWith Season 1 of Rental Return in the books, Adam (@Hojukoolander), Chad (@HorrorMovieBBQ), and Jason (@RD80s) bookend the season by reflecting on what they learned through the experiences shared by the Video Heroes. They all pick some of their favorite stories that were heard during the...
S1: Pushing Stop
Rental Return: Tales From the Video Store - April 08, 2021 12:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThe first season of Rental Return - Tales From the Video Store comes to an end! In Episode 5, you heard our Video Heroes talk about some drama that happened at the store and some promotional items they got to keep. Now it's time to wrap up their memories by "Pushing Stop." In Episode 6...
S1: Secrets of the Staff
Rental Return: Tales From the Video Store - March 25, 2021 12:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThe first season of Rental Return - Tales From the Video Store continues! In Episode 4, you heard some of the crazy experiences our Video Heroes had while they were employed at the store and some of their unusual customers. Now it's time to hear the "Secrets of the Staff." In Episode 5...
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