Pet Rock

It's more unique than getting a card in the mail or getting something, so this was [laughs] kind of an interesting one, too.

Do you remember My Pet Rock?

I never had a pet rock, but I do- I know of the pet rocks, and it's one of those that just makes you slap your head and say, like, "Well, why didn't I think of that?"

So then My Pet Rock went on to make, like, millions of dollars, and this is the same thing.

I was curious 'cause when I was looking at revenue numbers, I couldn't find, like, more recent revenue numbers for this potato store here.

Yeah.

Um, Exxon Valdez oil spill, that was a big deal at the time.

Also, you know what was invented in 1989, Dave? Pet Rock.

Nope.

Something you're using right now, Dave.

And I told Red I don't wanna bring this up because if I do, this is all anybody's gonna wanna talk about, and I really think we're headed to war.

Um, but my list was gotta have the Farrah Fawcett poster, gotta have a pet rock, gotta have a lava lamp, gotta have a square foot of shag carpeting.

Then Red came up with a perfect one.

You gotta have Bruce Jenner on the Wheaties box.

I'm gonna make our official list.

Mad Magazine, Bruce Jenner on the cover of Wheaties, 'cause explain that.

Uh, you gotta have Farrah Fawcett's poster, a Pet Rock, a square foot of shag carpeting or toilet seat cover, [chuckles] a lava lamp.

It's the Hollendale Time Capsule event coming up tomorrow in the Mississippi Delta, where they're gonna unveil the time capsule they buried in 1976, as well as bury one in 2026, so that somebody fifty years from now can see what craziness we were living.

Mm-hmm.

"It's a Pet Rock." Uh...

[laughs]

One of those, like, silverware things.

So, Katie, you're serving, so go ahead and serve that thing.

Pet rock.

The skip it.

Rock'em sock'em robots.

Tell me why I need another Pet Rock.

Tell me why I got that Alphalarm clock.

Tell me why I bid on Shatner's old toupee that had it on eBay.

I put it here.

You remember pet rocks?

It was a little bit before my time.

Yeah.

Yeah, he became a millionaire.

And, uh, I remember, uh, the Christmas holiday season of 1975.

Pet rocks were all the rage.

And then you move into the 1970s with crazy paving.

...

I mean, this is all just, essentially these are all just new Pet Rocks.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That guy downstairs.

Pet Rock, maybe.

That guy downstairs with all the cables.

I reckon he could live in here.