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Rental Return S2 EP7: Season 2 Rewind

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

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Rental Return S2 EP6: Pushing Stop

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

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Rental Return S2 EP5: Secrets of the Staff

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

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Rental Return S2 EP4: Video Land Maniacs

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

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Rental Return: Adam Visits Captain Video

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

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Rental Return S2 EP3: Rewind the Grind

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

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Rental Return S2 EP2: Pushing Play

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

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Rental Return S2 EP1: Meet the Heroes

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

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Video Rental Store Ads from 1980s Newspapers

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

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Rental Return: Season 1 Rewind

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

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Rental Return S1 EP6: Pushing Stop

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