With Season 3 of Rental Return in the books, host Adam and producer Jason bookend the season by reflecting on what they learned through the experiences shared by the Video Heroes. They discuss some of CONTINUE READING…
Season 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 CONTINUE READING…
Season 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 CONTINUE READING…
Season 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 CONTINUE READING…
Season 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. CONTINUE READING…
Season 3 of Rental Return – Tales From the Video Store returns with an interview of Michael Labbe (@Superstarml) who worked for Movie Gallery in Augusta, ME from the late ’90s to early 2000s. Listen as he CONTINUE READING…
Season 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 CONTINUE READING…
Adam, 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 CONTINUE READING…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Season 2 of Rental Return is here! Adam, Chad, and Jason host a special Season 2 preview episode of the Rental Return podcast series. First, the host share three of their latest VHS finds. Next, CONTINUE READING…
Extra! Extra! I’m still digging through old newspapers! Recently, I pulled several newspaper ads for Hills Department Store and now I’m ready share more ads from a different type of store. Video rental stores have CONTINUE READING…
It’s time to Rewind Season 1 of Rental Return! Adam (@Hojukoolander), Chad (@HorrorMovieBBQ), and Jason (@RD80s) bookend the first season of video store tales by reflecting on what they learned through the experiences shared by CONTINUE READING…
The 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 CONTINUE READING…
The 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 CONTINUE READING…
The first season of Rental Return – Tales From the Video Store continues! In Episode 3, you got hear about the daily grind of our Video Heroes and some of the things they didn’t anticipate while working CONTINUE READING…
The first season of Rental Return – Tales From the Video Store continues! In Episode 2, you got a deeper knowledge of why our Heroes wanted to work at a video rental store, what their training process CONTINUE READING…
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