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9-3: Ryan Reynolds Is Bagging On 1980's Nostalgia And He Needs To Shut Up · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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  Speaker 1: I talk a ton about celebrities or talk, you know,
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  Speaker 1: about a statement a celebrity made too much on the
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  Speaker 1: Wicked Radio live stream and podcast, as you know by now.
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  Speaker 1: But this time I think we have to because I
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  Speaker 1: think we finally figured it out. At least I did.
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  Speaker 1: Why celebrities, once they become successful, say such stupid things
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  Speaker 1: about so many different areas of life. Nobody in their life,
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  Speaker 1: once they become successful... is there around them that has
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  Speaker 1: the guts or the balls to tell them, hey, you
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  Speaker 1: sound stupid right now. Just stop talking. You sound stupid.
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  Speaker 1: Like your friend would. Like if you're in a group
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  Speaker 1: of friends, no matter who you are, you're just a
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  Speaker 1: normal everyday Joe or, you know, person, your friends would say,
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  Speaker 1: you sound so stupid right now. What is wrong with you?
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  Speaker 1: Case in point, Ryan Reynolds.
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  Speaker 2: I like Ryan Reynolds.
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  Speaker 1: He's a pretty funny actor. He's kind of goofy, whatever.
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  Speaker 1: That's fine. He's got a new show on Apple TV
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  Speaker 1: that's out. And for some totally random reason, he has
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  Speaker 1: decided to bag on 1980s nostalgia. We're having a moment
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  Speaker 1: right now, like people in their 50s like me. We're
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  Speaker 1: enjoying our 1980s nostalgia while we can. We're looking back,
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  Speaker 1: looking at the good stuff, the cool things, our youth,
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  Speaker 1: our teenage years, and we're saying, that was awesome. There
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  Speaker 1: were some great things about the 80s. Even if you
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  Speaker 1: didn't enjoy it at the time, those are my teenage years.
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  Speaker 1: But we're looking back right now and enjoying it. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Reynolds. Let us freaking enjoy our 1980s nostalgia. Somebody
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  Speaker 1: needs to tell him to shut up. But nobody's in
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  Speaker 1: his life there to tell him to shut up because
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  Speaker 1: he's a multimillionaire at this point and they're all afraid
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  Speaker 1: of losing their jobs. That's why. We'll get into it.
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  Speaker 1: I guess the lead-in is this because he's on the
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  Speaker 1: red carpet and he decided to bag on the 80s.
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  Speaker 1: Because the show is related to that. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get into it. But anyway, thanks for being here.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate it so much to livestream for Wicked Radio at
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  Speaker 1: and then the replay of everything there. Audio podcast, complete show,
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  Speaker 1: uploaded very shortly after the live stream, which is just
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  Speaker 1: a couple of minutes after, but let's get right into it.
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  Speaker 1: So this is the red carpet event that happened. I
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  Speaker 1: think it was just yesterday, in fact. This is why
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  Speaker 1: everybody's like rebelling against it. People like me, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: in my 50s mostly, who lived their teenage years through
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  Speaker 1: the 1980s. I was born in 70s, so for me from,
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  Speaker 1: you know, 10 to 20, that was my, those were
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  Speaker 1: my teenage years in the 80s. Does everybody enjoy their
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  Speaker 1: teenage years? Some people do. I didn't. I thought it
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  Speaker 1: was rough. But still, it was in the 80s. And
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  Speaker 1: you have to look back and enjoy this kind of thing.
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  Speaker 1: Enjoy the 80s nostalgia while we can. Because you know
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  Speaker 1: what's coming? That's going away pretty soon. Because now, the
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  Speaker 1: people who had that era of life in the 90s,
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  Speaker 1: they're having their nostalgic era right now. You know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying? Because they are the ultimate consumers. And we're
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  Speaker 1: getting phased out. So let us enjoy it now. This
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  Speaker 1: is why, like with the 90s people, this is why
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  Speaker 1: Universal Studios is focusing on things like the 90s Nintendo
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  Speaker 1: World and all that other stuff, because that was their era.
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  Speaker 1: And they'll get to enjoy that. They'll get to enjoy
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  Speaker 1: the 90s. But we had the 80s. Let us enjoy it.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what happened. Here's where the lead in. So Ryan
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  Speaker 1: Reynolds has a new show coming out on Apple TV,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, called Mayday. Here's the plot. A U.S. Navy
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  Speaker 1: pilot befriends, I guess he gets shot down, but he
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  Speaker 1: befriends an ex-KGB guy who loves the 80s, the Russian guy.
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  Speaker 1: He's obsessed with it. So I guess that was the
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  Speaker 1: lead-in to the question and why he was even talking
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  Speaker 1: about the 80s in the first place on the red
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  Speaker 1: carpet for this show called Mayday. Will I watch it? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: probably will anyway. But anyways, they asked him about the 80s,
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  Speaker 1: and he had this to say. Let's take it into pieces.
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  Speaker 1: Let's take it bit by bit now and try to
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  Speaker 1: ask ourselves, what the hell era did you live through?
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  Speaker 1: Here he is.
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  Speaker 2: When you get far enough away from a time period
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  Speaker 2: that's quite distinct, I think there's always a lovely feeling
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  Speaker 2: associated with it. It's almost like you pave over all
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  Speaker 2: the trauma with like puppy dogs and ice cream. And
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  Speaker 2: the 80s was a brutal, brutal time for me.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, see, this is the part about what I mean
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  Speaker 1: when I said there in the intro. This is where, like,
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  Speaker 1: if it was just regular Ryan Reynolds guy with a job,
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  Speaker 1: his friends would say, what the hell are you talking about?
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  Speaker 1: Shut up. Watch the game. Shut up. Nobody's in his
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  Speaker 1: life to do that now, right? There's no, like, there's
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  Speaker 1: no limits. And you can apply that to all the celebrities.
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  Speaker 1: There's no filter anymore where people say, No, just no.
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  Speaker 1: Stop talking. Shut up. You sound stupid. He needs somebody
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  Speaker 1: like that. But instead, he gets amplified. He's on the
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  Speaker 1: red carpet. Somebody sticks a microphone in his face from Variety.
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  Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, this thing goes viral
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  Speaker 1: for what he's saying here. And by the way, before
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  Speaker 1: he goes on any further, when he says, 80s were,
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  Speaker 1: it was a brutal era. It was just brutal. First
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  Speaker 1: of all, Ryan Reynolds was born in 1976. So he
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  Speaker 1: was four when the 80s started. So that means the
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  Speaker 1: entire decade until we got into the 90s, he was
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  Speaker 1: 4 to 14. Again, what 80s did you live through?
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  Speaker 1: Here he is again.
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  Speaker 2: It's a f * * * ing mess. People forget
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  Speaker 2: that it was a tremendous strife, sociopolitical tensions everywhere. We're
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  Speaker 2: still pretty fresh off a Cuban Missile Crisis, which is
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  Speaker 2: only 15, 20 years before. So it's a tumultuous period.
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  Speaker 2: But you look back at it now and you're like,
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  Speaker 2: oh yeah, Top Gun, cocaine. Like, no, it was like
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  Speaker 2: a really scary.
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  Speaker 1: Cuban missile crisis was 1962. It's a 1980. You're fresh off.
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  Speaker 1: But he's right. Okay. Right. He makes a point here
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  Speaker 1: where he's talking about where we look back and we
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  Speaker 1: look at it with rose colored glasses, which I think
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  Speaker 1: was what he was trying to get to. Does that happen?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Does it happen to the extent that he's talking about?
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  Speaker 2: No. You know, I think when you look back at
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  Speaker 2: 2026 and this era, I think you're going to like
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  Speaker 2: pick on the big ticket items that don't really didn't
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  Speaker 2: really leave the footprint culturally that you would think it
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  Speaker 2: would like I don't know so much of the aughts
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  Speaker 2: were like like a mix of all the decades previous
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  Speaker 2: whereas the decades previous were their own thing.
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  Speaker 1: All right there I think he has a point because
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  Speaker 1: we actually do do that now with all these areas
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  Speaker 1: everybody has the time we're living in now or at
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  Speaker 1: least maybe the 10 years prior was kind of like
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  Speaker 1: a kind of like a big mashup of all the
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  Speaker 1: previous eras right like the 80s were distinct the 90s
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  Speaker 1: were distinct I think he's right about that and that's
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  Speaker 1: fine again What's so bad about going back in time
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  Speaker 1: and trying to figure out what was great about something?
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  Speaker 1: To be positive about something. To take the positive out
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  Speaker 1: of it. Were there plenty of bad things that happened
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  Speaker 1: in the 80s? Oh, God, yes. But there's something about,
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  Speaker 1: and again, this goes back to, there's nobody in his
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  Speaker 1: life that actually puts a restrictor plate on what he's
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  Speaker 1: actually saying to tell him he's stupid. Because they're all
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  Speaker 1: afraid to, and a big, big successful celebrity like that,
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  Speaker 1: who does have a lot of power in Hollywood and
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  Speaker 1: has a voice. There's nobody there that has the balls
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  Speaker 1: to tell him, you sound stupid, shut up. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what it is, and that's why we have this. Because
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  Speaker 1: he's surrounded by people who are just, as we know,
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  Speaker 1: the mindset of most people in entertainment and media industry.
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  Speaker 1: We know what they're like. They are of the far-off-the-edge
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  Speaker 1: kind of left mindset. You know what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 1: They're basically miserable. They look back in time at nostalgia,
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  Speaker 1: and they hate it. They look at their current situation,
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  Speaker 1: and they hate it. They look at the future, and
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  Speaker 1: they're negative about that, too. They're just, at their core,
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  Speaker 1: absolute miserable people. This is why the people who run
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  Speaker 1: most mass media and most entertainment, this is why you
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  Speaker 1: get that kind of product. You just do. And he's
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  Speaker 1: surrounded by that. Again, he's in that bubble. So, of course,
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  Speaker 1: somebody like that would look back at the 80s and say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: that was just terrible. First of all, Ryan, you were
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  Speaker 1: a child, okay? We weren't fresh off the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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  Speaker 1: That was in 1962, okay? I don't know what era
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  Speaker 1: you're talking about, but there's something about that where they
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  Speaker 1: have to look back and be miserable. So was it– yes,
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  Speaker 1: were there bad things in the 1980s? You could cherry-pick
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  Speaker 1: every single era of any point in time, and, of course,
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  Speaker 1: you could focus on that. It's where your mind goes, right? 1980s, Chernobyl,
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  Speaker 1: Challenger disaster, AIDS crisis, other things– Find them. You can
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  Speaker 1: look back, and if that's where your mind goes, that's
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  Speaker 1: what you want to think about. Here were some other
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  Speaker 1: great things that happened in the 80s, though. This is
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  Speaker 1: where most normal people would look back. This is why
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  Speaker 1: this rose-colored glasses concept he's talking about is important. There
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  Speaker 1: was the renewed sense of optimism and patriotism in this
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  Speaker 1: country that hadn't been seen in years since, starting in 1980,
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  Speaker 1: which led to, and this was a big part of
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  Speaker 1: it too, has he forgotten 1980 Miracle on Ice? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: it was just a hockey game. That's what he would
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  Speaker 1: tell you. No, it wasn't. It was a big rallying cry,
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  Speaker 1: and it was a big patriotic moment for our country.
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  Speaker 1: That happened in the 80s too. There was a resurgence
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  Speaker 1: of wealth in the 80s. Don't forget we were coming
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  Speaker 1: out of the late 1970s where there was a housing
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  Speaker 1: crisis and a gas crisis and an energy crisis and
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  Speaker 1: an Iranian hostage crisis coming out of that. That pretty
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  Speaker 1: much got fixed in the 80s. There was a resurgence
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  Speaker 1: of wealth, the likes of which we hadn't seen in
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  Speaker 1: a long time. Live aid happened in the 1980s, which
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  Speaker 1: was at the time, the most successful music benefit concert
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  Speaker 1: in two cities, in two continents, excuse me, that had
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  Speaker 1: ever been seen at that time. The fall of the
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  Speaker 1: Soviet Union happened for the most part in the 1980s.
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  Speaker 1: Remember Reagan, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall? That was
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  Speaker 1: a pretty big win for America. That's something that Ryan
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  Speaker 1: Reynolds isn't focusing on. See where I'm going here? You
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  Speaker 1: can look back at any era, including this one, and
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  Speaker 1: you can cherry pick all the good or all the bad.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't it better to be positive and patriotic about this stuff?
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  Speaker 1: What are awesome things happened in the 80s that he's
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  Speaker 1: completely misdiagnosing here in his little red carpet analysis of
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  Speaker 1: the 1980s? How about MTV? And you're thinking now MTV
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  Speaker 1: turned into a mess. And that was in the 90s
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  Speaker 1: where it was all just reality shows. It brought us
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  Speaker 1: the real world. Remember that? Which many people will tell
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  Speaker 1: you that was the fall of modern day society. But still,
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  Speaker 1: before all that happened, when MTV was actually playing music videos,
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  Speaker 1: completely changed not only the entertainment and music industry, it
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  Speaker 1: changed mass media and how things were done. Movies. Let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about 1980s movies. If you're like me and you
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  Speaker 1: really appreciate cheesy comedies, and we had a whole bunch
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  Speaker 1: of them in the 1980s, That's when they came out,
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  Speaker 1: and they were huge. All the Back to the Future movies,
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  Speaker 1: those weren't cheesy. All the stupid teenage California beach movies,
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  Speaker 1: those were cheesy, but those were awesome too. But all
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  Speaker 1: the John Hughes comedies that happened, you know, like 16
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  Speaker 1: Candles and Home Alone and all that stuff, that happened
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  Speaker 1: in the 80s too. Ryan Reynolds isn't talking about that,
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  Speaker 1: but you'd think a guy that makes his money off
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  Speaker 1: movies and TV... Would figure that out. All the TV
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  Speaker 1: shows that were absolutely huge in the 1980s as well
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  Speaker 1: were those must-see TV. Remember that? You ever harken back
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  Speaker 1: to the days if you're in your 50s like me
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  Speaker 1: where it's like you had to be in front of
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  Speaker 1: a TV on a Thursday night at 8 o'clock or
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  Speaker 1: you missed it? Now it's like everything's so on-demand and
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  Speaker 1: so easy that there's no real sense of urgency to
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  Speaker 1: watch a TV like his brand-new show on Apple TV.
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  Speaker 1: 80s fashion. Was it loud? Was it horrifying?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it was.
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  Speaker 1: But you look back and it was still just fun.
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  Speaker 1: It's like people who study fashion, and there are those
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  Speaker 1: people will tell you, there's a direct connection between what
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  Speaker 1: people looked like and the attitude of society at the time.
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  Speaker 1: It's like the 80s were bright and loud and colorful,
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  Speaker 1: really loud, and obnoxious and big because people were feeling
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  Speaker 1: big and optimistic and hopeful. This is what a guy
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  Speaker 1: like Ryan Reynolds completely missed because I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: 80s he was living through. It's true. Look back in
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  Speaker 1: the 1920s when before the Great Depression, when people were, like,
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  Speaker 1: happy and there were flappers and they were, you know,
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  Speaker 1: wearing fancy things, it reflects the sign of the times. So, again,
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  Speaker 1: he completely missed the boat. So, you know, it's important
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  Speaker 1: to look back and have nostalgia for these certain times.
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  Speaker 1: It's important to look back in this. It does make
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  Speaker 1: a point on this. I don't know how they're going
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  Speaker 1: to look back at this era, and I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what these kids are going to see, but I really
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  Speaker 1: do hope they look back and they find the positive
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  Speaker 1: things that are going on right now because it's all
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  Speaker 1: just a different mindset. You can choose to be miserable
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  Speaker 1: like him and most people in Hollywood, or you can
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  Speaker 1: choose to be optimistic and cherry pick the good things
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  Speaker 1: that actually happen. But he's right about this. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how we're going to look back at this era.
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  Speaker 1: What are we going to say?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I wonder what it's going to be.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be like, oh, the COVID era or something.
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  Speaker 2: I have no idea.
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  Speaker 1: No, you're probably right. It'll be rose colored glasses. Of course.
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  Speaker 2: We are living in the frigging salad days right now.
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  Speaker 1: We just don't know it. Which is weird to me
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  Speaker 1: that he says that because he makes a good point.
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  Speaker 1: We are living in the salad days right now. We
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  Speaker 1: just don't know it. After bagging on the 80s and
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  Speaker 1: pointing out all the bad stuff that actually happened, he
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  Speaker 1: turns around at the very end of the red carpet
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  Speaker 1: interview and he says, we're living in the salad days,
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  Speaker 1: meaning great times, we just don't know it. He kind
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  Speaker 1: of just disproved the whole argument he just made about
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  Speaker 1: bagging on the 1980s nostalgia. Go back and pick on
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  Speaker 1: the good stuff because there were a bunch of great things.
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  Speaker 1: Bad things too, of course, any era is like that,
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  Speaker 1: but man, But I'll go back to my original point.
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  Speaker 1: This is what sealed it for me. I think we
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  Speaker 1: finally figured out celebrities and why they say such dumb things.
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  Speaker 1: There's nobody in their inner circle, even outer circle, like
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  Speaker 1: the media people like Variety that interview him, that tell him,
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  Speaker 1: you sound really dumb. Like, can you imagine how the
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  Speaker 1: Variety interviewer was? Ryan Reynolds starts packing on the 80s,
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  Speaker 1: and the interviewer goes, no, that's stupid. You're making a
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  Speaker 1: dumb point right now. He wouldn't be invited to the 1980s.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, any 1980s red carpet interviews anymore. Do you
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  Speaker 1: know that much anyway? But anyway, look back in your time,
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  Speaker 1: whenever it is, whether it was the 90s, now, 70s,
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  Speaker 1: or 80s like me, which is probably your era too.
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  Speaker 1: Look back at the good stuff because you probably didn't
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  Speaker 1: realize it at the time. Don't listen to people like
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Reynolds. All right. It's almost Friday. We're almost into
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for doing it. You have been. I appreciate it
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  Speaker 1: so much. Make it a wicked awesome Thursday. Enjoy your era.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let anybody bag on your nostalgia. We'll talk to
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  Speaker 1: you tomorrow.