♪ (upbeat rock intro) ♪
- Okay, I like this commercial. (laughs)
It's kinda chaotic though.
- That's a radio? Oh, I've seen one of those.
You push in a CD and then it plays.
- The music in the background is just so...
- (React) What do they seem to be doing with this thing?
- They seem to be like listening.
- They just keep showing totally different things each time.
- Sony.
- They showed like 100 different things.
- (React) These are all different types of CD players.
Have you seen one of these before?
- No.
- Yes I have. - (React) Okay.
- We have some like DVD players, but I assume this plays music,
or TV shows that you can't see.
- (React) Have you ever used a CD before?
- All the time.
- (React) Yeah, what do you use them for?
- Listening to stories and music.
- (React) So the first ever portable CD player,
it came out in 1984,
and it cost $300 when it first came out.
- Wow.
- (React) So go ahead, power it up.
- Okay, but how do you?
- (React) That's a good question, what do you think?
- I think I pressed a button.
- (React) Okay, what did you press?
- Oh. - (React) Oh.
- (slowed) Oh.
- Is there a different way to open this, like a button?
- I feel like I'm breaking it each time I open it.
- (React) So there is an eject button, it's the button all the way,
it's the button all the way on the right.
- Oh.
- (React) Do you know which one is the eject button?
Well, he figured it out.
- None of the buttons open it!
Maybe they do if you press all of them!
- (child) Hello?
- There's nothing on here, what does it?
- (React) Now this was before the days of Bluetooth,
it also does not have a speaker on it.
- You have to use headphones? - (React) Mm-hmm.
- Those are like my school headphones. This is what our school gives us.
- (React) So these headphones actually came with the CD player.
- Hmm.
- There's nothing in here. We need some music.
- (React) Right on, you sure do!
- Kick up the party, yo!
- (React) Try not to touch the bottom of it, okay?
There you go.
- Which way is down? Oh, here.
- (React) Mm-hmm. - Memorex, interesting.
- (React) So this is different from a DVD.
- Oh!
- (React) Do you know what a CD stands for?
- Is it choreography device?
- Crazy dance?
- (React) That's a really good guess.
- I've learned about it, I know what it is,
I'm just blanking out.
- (React) It stands for compact disc,
but it became a really popular way to listen to music on the go.
- Like when you're doing your homework?
- (React) Before this, people used to have to
listen to music on a cassette tape, have you ever heard of that.
- No, but it sounds interesting.
- It's like this little thing,
and it plays music with these two little circles in the middle.
- Yes, you press the button, and you record yourself.
- (React) That's the thing, yep.
What differences do you notice between this and the CD?
- That one is like a rectangle, and this one's like a circle.
- Cassette player were bigger and boxier and heavy.
This is more lightweight, and it's round.
- (React) It's easier to carry around. - (laughs) Yeah.
- (React) And it kind of led to the boom in portable music,
because you could play it with this here CD player.
- Yeah.
- (React) Alright so go ahead and put that back in the CD player.
Now what do you think you do?
- Close it.
- Which button?
It's not playing!
- I'm pressing the play button, I know what a play button looks like,
so I'm pressing it. - (React) Mm-hmm.
- It's playing, but I don't hear music.
- It has to restart each time?
- (React) They're very touchy.
They don't always work exactly right,
so you might have to play with it a little bit
to get it to work, but go ahead.
- I'm just going to click every single button on here
and see if they do anything.
- (React) Check the volume, make sure the volume.
(Callie laughs)
♪ (upbeat music) ♪ - Ooh.
It's echo-y.
- (React) What are you hearing?
- Nothing...
♪ (upbeat music) ♪
- (React) Oh, there it is.
In the fountain, splash around. (laughs)
I assume it's working.
- It's working!
- (React) Is it too loud?
- Yeah, how do I turn...
- (React) You can turn it down on the side.
There's a little dial, turn it down.
There you go. - Ah, much better.
- (React) See those little numbers in there?
What do you think those numbers mean?
- Which station it's on.
- The first one's like the minutes.
- (React) Do you see the bigger number?
- Yeah, the bigger number?
- (React) Yeah, what do you think that means?
- There's a two?
- (React) That's the track number.
- Oh! - (React) Mm-hmm.
- The second song?
- (React) It's the second song on there.
When you got a CD, it would come in a case like this.
- Oh yeah, I've seen those.
- (React) Mm-hmm, so if you wanted to listen to a certain song,
you would have to go to the case, figure out what number the song is,
and then skip to that number on the CD,
and that's how you'd listen to a specific song.
Isn't that crazy? - Yeah.
- (React) It was so much work.
- So grateful that we have Spotify and Apple Music.
- (React) The other thing about this was
you can obviously only listen to one artist at a time
unless you burned your own CD, do you know what that means?
- Like burning it? Like with a lighter?
- I assume like burn it so that song is out,
and then like add a new song?
- It's like a blank piece of paper,
and then you like write it on here?
- (React) Mm-hmm, yep, I mean pretty much.
You're very close.
So basically, you would have to buy a blank CD
and then you could put it in your computer,
and you could load your own songs onto that CD.
- I have seen that before.
- Yeah, that makes more sense than actually burning it.
- (React) If you didn't burn your own CDs,
you could only carry one around with you at a time, unless...
- You had a bag full of them.
- Ooh!
- Oh my God.
It's a CD case!
- We have something just like this, it looks just like this in our car.
- (React) So these CDs and this case,
you know Nicole, right? - Yeah.
- (React) These are hers from a long time ago.
These are her actual CDs.
- Well, Nicole.
- Well, what did she listen to? - (React) Let's find out!
- Don't tell her that I'm sneaking around.
- (React) Yeah, she brought it in so that you guys could see.
- She likes Puppy Mix?
- Sasha's Puppy Mix CD. (laughs) What kind of name is that?
- (React) I don't know, we should ask Nicole.
- To be honest, I wouldn't mind this,
as long as I had a bag.
Do they have like a hook on your pants,
so you could just carry it on your pants?
Or do you just put it on your wrist?
- (React) Yeah, there you go. - And then I do this.
(hums) (React laughs)
- (React) One of the biggest issues people had with this
is that it's kinda hard to move around with.
It was pretty compact, but like if you wanted
to carry this around, what would you do?
- Most people would be smart and put it in their bag,
but I would probably just let it dangle. (laughs)
- (React) Try dancing with it, go like this, dance around.
- There ain't no...
It just stopped.
- (React) What happens?
- It gets more static.
- It stops completely.
So you do not wanna go on a run with this thing.
- (React) Yeah.
(Austin hums) (React laughs)
- Ooh.
- (React) Why do you think it stops?
- Because probably when I yank it around everywhere,
it kinda like, the WiFi doesn't really connect.
- (React) This doesn't connect to WiFi.
- It doesn't? - (React) Nope!
WiFi didn't even exist when these came out.
- Oh.
- (React) So that's called skipping. Do you know what that means?
- So if I shake it, it skips to the next song?
- (React) What's happening when you move it around like that,
the disc is basically coming off the track,
so there's nothing for you to listen to.
(laughs)
- Oopsie! (laughs)
- It only works if I'm staying still.
- (React) Exactly.
How do you listen to music today?
- I just go like something on Pandora or Spotify.
- Sometimes on my phone.
- Computers and phones.
- (React) Before iPods or iPhones,
or before you could look up songs on YouTube or Spotify,
listening to CDs and listening to the radio
were pretty much the only ways to listen to music.
So would you like listening to music like this?
- I got tons of pros and cons, but I still would think
I would rather use more present technology.
- It's a big brick that you have to carry around,
and it just stops playing music.
- I actually kinda like it, I would actually use that.
I mean, it's not that much different.
- (React) So what's something you can't do with this?
- Oh, it's not like a DVD player. - (React) Mm-hmm.
- Where you could see things. - (React) Mm-hmm.
- One thing this doesn't have, which I do prefer,
it does not have ads.
- It's kind of fun to play with.
On a phone, you just type on the screen,
but here you could actually press buttons.
- (React) Do you like the CD player?
- Yes, it's very interesting.
- (React) But you'll stick with present day technology?
- Yes. - (React) Yeah, right.
- Very much so.
- Thanks for watching this episode.
- What other technology should we react to?
- Let us know in the comments!
- Thanks for watching, bye!
- Bye!
- Goodbye.
- I need like a gimbal for this, so it's not scratching.
(hums) (React laughs)
Ooh, oh no, I gotta change it.
- (React) Oh, you gotta change the song.