- Why is it so hard to turn on?
There's no button.
- Eject? (squealing)
♪ (upbeat intro) ♪
- (FBE) So today's episode is sponsored by
the new Showtime series Black Monday, and they wanted FBE
to find out how well teens know technology
that was popular or invented in the '80s,
which is when the show takes place. - Oh, that's so dope.
- I'm gonna do so bad at this but it should be fun.
- Like that Mac I did.
That looked like that was in the '50s.
(device humming loudly) [Bleep]!
- (FBE) That was '90s. This is '80s.
- That's older than that? Oh, god.
- (FBE) Black Monday is a comedic satire about
the worst stock market crash in history.
It's produced by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg
and starring Don Cheadle, Andrew Rannells, and Regina Hall.
It's a story about how a group of outsiders
took on the old boys club of Wall Street
and ended up crashing the world's largest financial system,
a Lamborghini, and the glass ceiling.
- Wow, that's wild.
- What a great cast, though. I love Regina Hall.
- I love Seth Rogen, so I will be watching.
- (FBE) We will be bringing out '80s tech for you
to check out and see if you know it.
If you know the specific name of the product, close enough,
you get a point.
Three of the five appear in the show, so we'll show you the scene
they are in.
We'll see who gets the most points by the end.
Ready? - Cool.
I'm ready for this. Let's do it.
- Now that it's a competition, I'm gonna be reaching back
to 20 years before I was born and see if I can put
all this together.
♪ (quirky interlude) ♪
- (FBE) What is this? - Is this, like... is this the radio?
- What is this? Its so large.
- This looks like a stereo.
- This looks like a radio or something that you-- ooh!
Oh, just kidding. Just kidding.
Video cassette recorder.
- It's like a kind of VCR/DVD player.
I just know these as cassettes.
I don't really know them as any other name.
- This one's a VCR, yes? Okay.
- I believe this is a VHS player for video tapes.
I used to watch a bunch of Christmas movies on VHS tapes
back in the day.
- Push down. No.
- This is different. Uh, okay, let's see.
Eject? (squealing)
Okay, that did something.
- Now, which way?
- Do I just push it back down? I don't want to break it.
We got it!
- It pops right in there and we're gonna watch a movie.
- (FBE) This is a VCR, which you used to play VHS tapes.
- VHS! I've never actually seen this stuff and used it before.
- I know what a VCR is. (laughing)
I have movies on VCR.
I've just never seen one this bulky, though.
- Now we have DVD players-- or just Netflix.
- Honestly, I think the older technology,
it's more fun. Like, doing this, watch.
That's fun!
- (FBE) Now we're going to show you a clip
of it being used in the show. - On here?
- (FBE) No. - One day!
♪ (campy '80s music) ♪
- Oh, the way that it's paused.
- (Monroe) It is my 39th birthday and that is what I want.
- (man) No problemo. I'll get a B cup down here
by 9:45 or now, if Dawn is willing-- - There's a lot of people in this.
- (Dawn) I'm really surprised a lady's man such as yourself
doesn't know his cups. These are C's, baby.
- Ah, I love her!
- (Dawn) These are B's. - Aaah! (laughing)
- This is funny.
- This really is Seth Rogen. (laughing)
- Old office banter back in the day.
- She's a very strong female, working in, you know,
a place with all males and she's just killing it.
She's wearing the pants. Yeah, I love it.
♪ (quirky interlude) ♪
- (FBE) So do you know what this '80s tech is?
- Oh, this is a beauty I've never seen in real life.
- It's a phone!
- Oh, man. It has an antenna.
I'm guessing this is a home phone?
- It's a home phone, yes, so it's like-- this is a mobile phone?
- A home phone.
No? No, because home phones are connected to the wall.
- This seems like a cell phone.
- This heavy two and a half pounder brick is a cell phone.
- Instead of having an iPhone, this is like, "Hit me up on my brick!"
- You'd just punch in your little number that you knew
and then I'm assuming send.
- (FBE) So this is a mobile phone. - This is a mobile phone?
Was it one of the first mobile phones?
- Can we just look at how much this has changed?
- I just want to know-- that's why I can't wait to see the clip.
\Where do you store-- where do you store this?
- (man) Look, you can have your pick of the top shots, all right?
- I like their style in the show.
- (man) Technology, we're on the cutting edge.
- "Cutting edge." - (man) From mobile phones
as small as toasters, to computers-- - Oh, there's his phone.
- I see the phone!
- (man) Huh, consider it a gift.
- It looks like a walkie talkie.
- (man) Let these animals fight over the scraps.
(elevator dings)
I'll show you what the world looks like.
- Oh, man. That's a whole gift.
That's like a luxury.
- He was just carrying it. (laughing)
He literally was walking around, carrying it,
but I love the guy's face.
That's how we feel now when your parents get you
the iPhone 10.
- I feel like this show's definitely centered around
its technology.
Like when he said, "We're on the cutting edge of technology,"
that was the cutting edge of technology!
You feel like you're in the '80s, just by looking at it.
♪ (quirky interlude) ♪
- (FBE) And here's the next '80s tech. Know what it is?
- Ooh! This looks like a children's toy.
- What is this? Is it a calculator?
- I've never even heard of it.
"Speak and spell."
- "Speak and spell."
Oh, Texas Instruments. They make calculators.
I honestly do not know what the hell this is.
- This reminds me of the Toy Story thing,
where it's just got the guy, "Ha. Ha."
- We've got some letters. But it's not like a keyboard.
They're in actual alphabetical order, so that's kinda interesting.
- I think this was a device for kids to maybe learn how to read and write.
- On. (device blipping)
Wait, that's so funny.
- It's teaching me how to spell?
- (device) Spell "extra." - Oh!
- (device) E-X-T-R-A. - "Extra."
This is extra.
- (FBE) This is a Speak & Spell and it's an educational toy
used to help kids learn how to spell.
- So they literally-- it does its job.
- Oh, I could play with this all day.
Wait, hold on.
- (device) F-B-E. - "FBE."
♪ (quirky interlude) ♪
- (FBE) Okay, so you know what this '80s tech is?
- This thing is huge.
I think I might have done a Kids React to something like this.
- Holy cow! This is huge.
- Man, this thing is ancient. I'm sorry.
It's massive.
- This looks like a square disk of some sort,
so I'm assuming it works the same as a CD.
- I don't really know what this is.
I thought this was a DVD case.
Is it the hard drive?
- Let's turn it on. What does this do?
No? Okay.
There's a little sun emoji thing.
- Why is it so hard to turn on? There's no button.
Is it on the side?
Oh, my gosh!
(computer booting up) - I hear it.
She's a loud one.
- Oh, there it is. There she is.
- I feel like Fallout 4 because Fallout 4,
they had the classic computers like this.
- (FBE) So do you know it, including the brand name?
- Is this a PC? Like a personal computer?
- This is a computer. (laughing)
- This is a computer, I think.
- It's an IBM personal computer?
- IBM computer, I think.
- (FBE) This is an IBM PC 5150 and a floppy disk.
The floppy disk was used to save information.
You might recognize it as the save icon in Microsoft Word.
- Oh! (laughing) It's all coming together now.
- Whoa, I didn't know this was where it came from.
- (FBE) So let's show you a clip of it being used in the show.
- All right.
- There we go! Floppy disk.
- They just do it so fast!
- (coworker) 10 G's my good [bleep] here goes bust in an hour!
- (all coworkers clamoring)
- Wow, that actually made me want to watch it
because that was actually pretty funny.
- All the technology that they use is way bulkier.
I'm intrigued. I want to watch that show.
♪ (quirky interlude) ♪
- (humming inquisitively)
Is this in Guardians of the Galaxy?
- It's like a little radio, right?
- Hey! We've got a Walkman.
- Is this a Walkman? I think so.
This is a portable MP3 player.
- Oh! I did a Kids React to this.
I know what it idoes.
(tapping Walkman)
This is the Walkman.
- I first saw this on Everybody Hate's Chris.
- This is the piece of technology that makes me think '80s.
- These are thin! Skinny legend.
Oh, this is actually the most difficult one.
Uh... is there an "on" button?
High/low... damn it. How do you turn it on?
- "Play," right there. Ooh.
It's my jam. It's just static.
- (FBE) This is a Sony Walkman.
You'd pop a cassette tape in it and listen to the latest jams
on the go. - Wow.
I've never actually seen one before.
- I would still use one of these to this day
because I like the way it looks.
- That's so fun, like, how far things have evolved from that
because really it was this to the MP3 to the iPod,
and then it was like, hey, let's make it into a phone.
It really evolved from that.
♪ (quirky interlude) ♪
- Thank you, Black Monday, for sponsoring this episode.
Because of the support from them, we are able to bring you
content every day.
I got to watch the premier episode and it was so hilarious,
so check it out January 20th on Showtime. Bye!