My Crazy Obsession

[rp2813]

I noticed that the narration went with the blanket term of "one of a kind" for every washer you own after you had mentioned the single washer in your collection that could claim that status.

 

I wasn't surprised by the hype and twisting of truth.  These days, broadcast news is guilty of the same thing, so it wasn't unexpected coming from a TLC show where, as you stated, the focus is on the people more than any specific items in their collections. 

 

1,200 miles?  Yeah, maybe after a decent amount of coordinating and planning, but not on a whim after Saturday breakfast, and I presume that's round trip, not one way.  They appeal to the lowest common denominator in their viewing audience who believe every skewed thing their televisions tell them.

 

You guys presented very well in spite of their efforts.

 

[mickeyd]

In Canton, where our TV star's romance began

This wonderful surprise came from Mike (chestermikeuk) in today's email. What a treat. Mike, Pete, Mike, Fred & Robert.

 

[whirlaway]

Not Long Enough!!!!!!!

It was done well! But it just didnt last long enough.Thats a lot of work,just keeping everything clean.There is so much more than collecting washing machines in that house.The colors so nice,its like going in the Wizard of Oz from black and white to Technicolor.I live alone and its a steady job just keeping up a house.Is that a 1957 RCA color set you have? I have a 56 ctc5 model.Really Nice!!! Bobby

 

[joefuss1984]

space alien?

What was the space alien small tv looking thing?  I think it was silver and sat on top of another television.  It looked really cool!

 

[firedome]

Only saw the trailer

and that was on retrorenovation.com, since we're one of the 3 households in the Western World who've never had cable TV... so is there some way to see the whole program on YouTube or somewhere? The trailer was absolutely totally great!!

With so many people watching TLC I wonder if this will up the prices on Craigslist?

 

[Unimatic1140]

With so many people watching TLC I wonder if this will up the prices on Craigslist?

 

I doubt it because they never mentioned any fact that there is anyone out there besides me who collects washers.  I told them specifically that $125 for a vintage washers was more than the average of the price of vintage machines.  I told them the average is around $75.  Of course unfortunately they didn't present it this way, but again nothing was mentioned about a group of people who buy these machines.  I also suspect that TLC's audience is not the kind of people who generally will have this kind of older stuff anyway.  From what I can tell from googling around, TLC base seems to be younger women in the 20-40 age range.

 

[Unimatic1140]

Looks like someone uploaded the show to YouTube...

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[joelippard]

How cool is that!

I'm glad you found this and shared it Robert.  I enjoyed being able to watch it, but definetly caught up on some of their skewing of the facts.

 

[qualin]

Well, you guys didn't come off as being TOO crazy...

It's probably a good thing they didn't know about me back in the early 2000's...

I used to have a large vintage computer collection. Anything from 1978 straight through to 1982 was pretty much on shelves in my living room. I think at one point in time I think I was up to about 28 computers...

I had vintage IBM and Compaq machines and even oddball Digital 286/386 machines. I had to draw the line when someone offered me a DEC PDP-11/70. I just got rid of an older Decwriter III not that long ago.

Sadly, my love of vintage computers has seriously diminished and most of the stuff I've had either went to the scrap heap or it ended up on EBay.

Now, most of the machines I have are not collectable at all.

You have an amazing collection Robert.. I envy it!

 

[petek]

geeze Mickey,  we looked good for 29 and holding next to the youngsters

 

[foraloysius]

I think it came out great, apart from some manipulating from their side. Never mind that! It's a great document!

I saved the video to my harddrive btw.

 

[easyspindry]

Hey Robert & Fred . . .

. . . Thanks bunches for putting the video of My Crazy Obsession on the AW site. I have just watched it and thoroughly enjoyed it. You both look great and all your machines are star quality.

Thank you for sharing the film as I was unable to watch when it was on TV.

Jerry Gay

 

[searsbest]

My crazy obsession

Video was great guys! thanks for sharing!

 

[mrboilwash]

I was so hoping I could watch it on Youtube someday. Somebody must have heard my prayers.
Great video, I like the embracement at the end of the show, that is so likeable !

 

[a440]

Thanks to the person that uploaded this to Youtube! I am so happy I was able to see it before TLC find out!!!
Robert and Fred this was great! You guys really are so natural! I really enjoyed your segment!
Brent

 

[vivalalavatrice]

Compliments!!!!

Indeed proud of you!!
A really PROMPT in washing machine world!!
Diomede

 

[sudsmaster]

I saved the video to my harddrive btw.

Louis,

How were you able to save the youtube video to your hard drive?

Never mind, I figured it out...

[this post was last edited: 4/1/2012-10:07]

 

[sudsmaster]

"I'm glad you found this and shared it"

"Thanks bunches for putting the video of My Crazy Obsession on the AW site."

You're more than welcome!

 

[foraloysius]

Great you figured it out. I don't know how you did it, but I use Google Chrome and Real Player for downloading Youtube videos. If you have the lastest version of Real Player, Google Chrome shows a download button above the video. I was quite surprised when the button turned up after installing Real Player.

 

[sudsmaster]

I used saveyoutube.com. Worked like a charm.

For the past week I scoured youtube for a copy of the "My Crazy Obsession" washer video. Lots of links that didn't work. Finally a good one was posted and I uploaded the link and the embedded video over on the green forum. Robert was kind enough to take the link over to here so more people could access it.

For those who have not yet seen the video, it might be a good idea to hurry. It probably will not be allowed to stay up on Youtube much longer.