Kicker - Be kind and rewind

NICK EICHER, HOST: Remember Blockbuster Video? There’s only one of these that’s still going—up in Oregon—but believe or not, you can still get a Blockbuster VHS tape—or DVD—in something like 50 different places around the country.

Because they’re giving them away.

Apparently some folks are nostalgic for that hands- on experience of movies at home, as opposed to mere streaming. So they’ve created a network of “FREE BLOCKBUSTER” boxes.

Jim Toscano put one of those boxes on a sidewalk in Detroit, as he explains to television station WJBK:

TOSCANO: The “take a book, leave a book?” - this is” take a film, leave a film.” It’s been great. It’s been pretty nuts. This past week it’s been filled and emptied probably five times already.

He repurposed another sort of blast from the past—an old newspaper box, cleaned it up, painted it blue and put the Blockbuster logo on it.

REICHARD: Just remember: be kind, rewind!

EICHER: It’s The World and Everything in It.

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