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The Duke boys

It won't be long before my nephew @mrbonkers is in town and I'm really looking forward to it; because he lives 4,000km away we spend so little time together making those few occasions we do so important. The last time I saw him was a couple years ago and this time, because he's six and a half years old, it'll be a completely different experience - it's going to be so great!

We've been discussing on video chats what we're going to do and have a decent list which would probably take a month to get through but with only a week we have to hone it down to the most important, valuable and appropriate things. It may be very hot here too so that will mean some things can't happen and others can; we'll have a good time no matter what though.

I asked him last week if there was something he wanted to add to the list and he said, "yep, we should watch the Duke boys."

He's referring to the TV show called Dukes of Hazzard which was made between 1979-1985 revolving around a couple cousins, Bo and Luke Duke, who always seemed to find themselves in the thick of some plot which was often initiated by Boss Hogg and his Sherriff Roscoe Coltrane. If you've not seen it you'll have to watch it to understand.

Below is a link to Internet Archive and all the season one episodes.

Dukes of Hazzard episodes season 1 - Internet Archive

A short clip of one of many car chases. You can see why a young boy might like the show.

Dukes of Hazzard car chase - YouTube

Back in 1979 I was nine and used to watch the show a lot, and loved it: Car chases, jumps, explosions and Daisy Duke in dem shorts!

These days it's all re-runs of course and comes via pay TV, which is what I'll be watching it on with my nephew or via the link above, but my nephew loves it as much as I did and on our video chats animatedly tells me what's happening on the episodes he's just watched. All I have to say is, "what are those Duke boys up to lately," and I get a full explanation of what's up. I love how excited he gets, it reminds me of me as a younger chap.

Anyway, @mrbonkers wants to watch some episodes with me and I think it's an awesome idea. It'll bring me back to my youth (that bastard thing bloody left me a long time ago) and will be a nice way to connect with my nephew with something that's relevant to both of us.

I wonder, is there anything you do, listen to or watch that connects you to your younger days, prior to being 15 years old? If there is and you want to share what it is and why please do so below.

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@duskobgd(75)· 579d
As you mentioned, watching some of the movies I watched as a kid can bring me back to that time. As well as reading some books, which were compulsory in primary and secondary school, and which I only liked in later years.

A couple of months ago, I watched "The Goonies(1985)" one of my favorite movies I watched as a kid. That movie reminds me of one summer, when we sneaked into the movie theater and watched this movie several times.
@grindle(79)· 579d
How about The Man from U.N.C.L.E., loved that programme I was always Illya Kuryakin and my mate was Napoleon Solo, we used to make the small radios out of blocks of wood and keep them in discarded fag packets. Happy Fucking Days.

Hope you have a good time with your @mrbonkers
@avdesing(80)· 579d
I used to watch that series! That one and the fox and so many others .... I loved for example files or X files, I was super but super fan of that series and every time I remember it takes me to that time, I love to investigate, I always liked it!!!
@enraizar(71)· 579d
Hi @, I've seen a few minutes of a whole chapter and I'm sure you're going to have a great time with your nephew watching of Hazzard. I'm also sure your nephew will have a great time. I hope you enjoy the time you are going to share very much.

As for the question, what still connects me to my youth is music. Next month I'm going to see a live band that disappeared in 1983 and decades later reunited. I'm really looking forward to seeing those “old guys” on stage.
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@ryivhnn(73)· 579d
"Duke boys" lol that kid is way too freaking cute XD

Only thing I can think of off the top of my head right now is a lot of the music we listen to (including Eldest who has inherited our interesting tastes in music), as a lot of the music J and I listen to is stuff my dad listened to while I was growing up. There's probably a tonne of other little things that I'll remember as they come up now XD
@fieryfootprints(75)· 579d

I wonder, is there anything you do, listen to or watch that connects you to your younger days, prior to being 15 years old?

I believe that I was watching basketball with my dad before I was 15 year old. Also I started watching anime in particular dragon ball/dragon ball z and samurai X as a kid. These days I don't watch them always but sometimes I still watch some reaction to dragon ball or samurai X. I still remember that sometimes I was rushing to get back from school soon enough to watch samurai X.
@zakludick(75)· 579d
@clairemobey and I have been steadily going through many older series that were good with our kids.

Then people visit us and make some joke and turn to our kids and say "You probably don't know who that is." and they get to find out that the kids do indeed know who they are talking about.!

Some newer series smattered in there as well... its been fun.

Another thing I do from my yester-year is load up some emulators and play some of the old but awesome Nintendo games. There are some of those games that never age for me!
@chinito(74)· 579d
Aloha galen.. I'm asking you why do you keep on downvoting my posts still.. I use only original pics or snapshots of my pc, which i always say the source of where I got them, and I write a quality (original content) post that I draft myself, without any outside help. Is there some sort of thing that is lacking or too much of in my posts? I routinely have seen many hivers who still copy/paste, use AI, or post like 50 words to a post. I also use only the communities I am familiar with.

I am just an unemployed disabled guy and have been on this chain since 2017 trying to produce consistent, and good stuff. I have already satisfied hivewatchers, but for some reason you continue to downvote me. I'm sorry if I have offended you in some way. Please re-consider persisting with the downvotes, or just tell me how I can get better.. that would also be much appreciated. Mahalo,

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@owasco(73)· 579d
Now that I live in my hometown, there are lots of things that connect me to my 15 year old self. 16 rather,when I could drive, and the only thing there was to do was to drive around the beautiful hills, park on a rural road, and take a hike into the woods. I don't often do the hiking anymore, but I do still drive around in the hills a lot, and remember, or try to anyway, where the attractions were: the ice mines, bud hill, the bradley gardens, a bridge to nowhere, an old house to explore. Small town highlights. And there were those high school boyfriends! yum. Good times, nice memories.
@bozz(83)· 579d
My grandma used to love the Dukes of Hazzard. They have a museum called Cooters Garage in Nashville that our friends visited when we all went a couple of years ago. Sadly, the Dukes got cancelled here and you can't find them on many channels anymore.
@coloneljethro(77)· 579d
Just the good ol' boys, never meaning no harm... At one point I had the lyrics to the theme song memorized. So at what age are you going to start teaching the boy how to get away from the cops?

Never really watched much television growing up, we discovered Bo and Luke when we were on vacation at a place with cable TV. I do still play the Nintendo I got when I was little, because Tetris never gets old. Does that count?
@jacey.boldart(73)· 579d
Does that make you (a much younger version) of Uncle Jesse?? Don't be bringing out no moonshine now.

We used to love that show. A lot of reruns of many shows we loved back in the day look a little cheesy now (affectionately).... but when they came out back then, nothing else like them had ever been seen before. Those were the days !
@deirdyweirdy(72)· 579d
It'd have to be Star Trek and the smell of whiskey that transport me back to my childhood years. Great to see young bonkers enjoying wholesome stuff like Dukes of Hazard. They just don't make them like they used to.

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