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Video Rental Stores

Rental Return Podcast
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Rental Return S2 EP7: Season 2 Rewind

Jason Gross

With 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 CONTINUE READING…

Rental Return Podcast
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Rental Return S2 EP6: Pushing Stop

TRN Staff

Season 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 CONTINUE READING…

Rental Return Podcast
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Rental Return S2 EP5: Secrets of the Staff

Jason Gross

Season 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 CONTINUE READING…

Rental Return Podcast
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Rental Return S2 EP4: Video Land Maniacs

Jason Gross

Season 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 CONTINUE READING…

Rental Return Podcast
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Rental Return S2 Bonus: Interview with Ira Belfer of Captain Video

Jason Gross

Season 2 of Rental Return – Tales From the Video Store continues with a bonus episode! During the Season 2 Preview episode, several video rental themed newspaper articles from the ’80s were discussed by Adam, Chad, and CONTINUE READING…

Captain Video
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Rental Return: Adam Visits Captain Video

Jason Gross

Adam Pope, creator and interviewer for the Rental Return podcast, recently visited the Captain Video rental store in San Mateo, CA. During the Rental Return Season 2 Preview episode, several video rental themed newspaper articles CONTINUE READING…

Rental Return Podcast
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Rental Return S2 EP3: Rewind the Grind

Jason Gross

Season 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 CONTINUE READING…

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Rental Return S2 EP2: Pushing Play

Jason Gross

Season 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 CONTINUE READING…

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Rental Return S2 EP1: Meet the Heroes

Jason Gross

Season 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 CONTINUE READING…

'80s

Video Rental Store History Through Early 1980s Newspapers

Jason Gross

Season 2 of the Rental Return podcast recently launched with a Preview Episode hosted by Adam, Chad, and myself. In case you haven’t listened, Rental Return’s tagline is “Tales From the Video Store” which alludes CONTINUE READING…

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