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80s Pop Music: The Battle for the Greatest Year-#23 Songs · Children of the 80s

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  Speaker 1: Children of the 80s is brought to you by Q106. 5
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  Speaker 1: download the app. Welcome back to Children of the 80s.
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  Speaker 1: I am Lindsay, and with me today, my partner, Jim Butler,
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  Speaker 1: the man who sometimes will vacuum, but he never sweeps.
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  Speaker 2: I do not sweep, actually. I will vacuum sometimes, but no,
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  Speaker 2: I don't sweep.
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  Speaker 3: Nope, you're not a sweeper.
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm a swifter. Sometimes I'll swift.
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  Speaker 1: I always feel like.
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  Speaker 3: A swiffer is the... Oh, is that.
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  Speaker 2: A swiffer, not a swifter?
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  Speaker 3: It's a Swiffer.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: It's the easy way out.
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  Speaker 2: The easy way out of mopping? Of cleaning.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But so you vacuum, right?
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  Speaker 3: That's the real deal.
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  Speaker 2: Right. But then sometimes the vacuum doesn't get off like
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  Speaker 2: spills and stuff. So you got to swift fit or
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  Speaker 2: mop it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm all for the old mop. like alice used in
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  Speaker 1: mel's diner really.
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  Speaker 2: Like the you dip it into the bucket of water
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  Speaker 2: old time mop you dip it into the bucket of
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  Speaker 2: water and then you and then you mop yeah you
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  Speaker 2: know what i'm all for that too it was when
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  Speaker 2: you brought home a swiffer that changed my life because
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  Speaker 2: then i didn't feel like i needed to break out
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  Speaker 2: the The pine saw in the bucket anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, you know that's what Alice went home smelling like.
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  Speaker 2: Well, here's the deal, though. You probably made the wise
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  Speaker 2: decision by getting the Swiffer for me because there's about
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  Speaker 2: a 35% chance that I knock over that whole bucket
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  Speaker 2: and then flood our floor.
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  Speaker 3: That's dangerous.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think that's why you got the Swiffer, isn't it?
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  Speaker 1: So, not to change the subject, but sometimes it needs changing.
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  Speaker 1: Did you hear who passed away today?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, gosh. Who?
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  Speaker 1: Susan St.
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  Speaker 3: James from Kate and Allie.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. She passed away today. She was 80.
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: I loved Kate and Allie. I know we've talked about
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  Speaker 1: that before. My mom liked that show, so therefore I
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  Speaker 1: did too. Yeah. You know, I think that the way
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  Speaker 1: they portrayed their characters, they didn't think that they had
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  Speaker 1: the perfect life, but I think that.
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  Speaker 3: They probably did.
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  Speaker 2: You think they did?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Two best friends living together.
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  Speaker 2: With kids?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It don't get no better than that.
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  Speaker 2: Ain't got no man dragging them down.
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  Speaker 1: Ain't got no man refusing to mop.
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  Speaker 2: Did they ever date other men on the show?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, they were always dating.
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  Speaker 2: They were always dating, but they just weren't.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: She passed away from pancreatic cancer.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, gosh. I know what that's like. I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what it's like to pass away from pancreatic cancer,
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  Speaker 2: but my Meemaw did that. So that's awful.
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  Speaker 3: That's sad. I'm sorry for her and her family. I'm
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  Speaker 3: sorry for Meemaw.
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  Speaker 1: Boy, we're just bringing them all the way down.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's what we do.
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  Speaker 1: Macmillan and wife.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: That was, uh, it says for 1971, she signed on
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  Speaker 1: to McMillan and wife.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Yeah. That was a show in the seventies.
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  Speaker 1: What did she do other than, uh, Kate and Allie
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  Speaker 1: that we would be familiar with?
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  Speaker 2: Was she in, uh, McMillan and wife?
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  Speaker 3: I think she might've been.
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  Speaker 1: It says that in 1981, she hosted Saturday night live.
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  Speaker 2: I believe that. I mean, she was a, A television star.
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  Speaker 1: She was married to Dick, is it Ebersole?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Dick Ebersole was in charge of Saturday Night Live.
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  Speaker 2: I believe after Lorne left for a while, and Dick
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  Speaker 2: Ebersole took over, so that would make sense that his
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  Speaker 2: wife would be host of Saturday Night Live.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's how they met. They met when she hosted.
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  Speaker 1: They married 42 days after meeting.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Went on to have three children together.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they married in 1981. You know, and on Wikipedia,
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  Speaker 2: if you ever look on Wikipedia that says spouses, it'll
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  Speaker 2: tell you married, divorced, married, divorced, and then married. And
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  Speaker 2: if there is no divorce year, that means, you know.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't divorce.
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  Speaker 3: Well, wow. That was a.
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  Speaker 2: So 45 years.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they married after 42 days. They were married
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  Speaker 1: for 45 years.
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  Speaker 2: Guess who her niece is. Hmm.
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  Speaker 4: Who?
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  Speaker 2: Krista Miller. Scrubs. Really?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 1: I thought Krista Miller was the lady they tried to
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  Speaker 1: execute in Tennessee and she didn't die. And I was like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I had to brag it on that.
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  Speaker 2: No, Krista Miller, Dr. Perry Cox's wife. Yeah. Oh, that's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. So also here it says that Dick and some
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  Speaker 1: of their kids were in a plane crash and one
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  Speaker 1: of the sons died.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I remember hearing about that too.
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  Speaker 1: That's awful. But just imagine as a parent, like that
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  Speaker 1: you survived. That's just crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Crazy and sad. Very, very sad. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I have a short story to tell you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I like short stories.
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  Speaker 1: And I just want to get your opinion on it
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  Speaker 1: and just see how you think we would have handled
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  Speaker 1: this same situation.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So, Somebody that I work with, her husband, I think
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  Speaker 1: he works for ESPN, but he travels a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Lucky him.
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  Speaker 1: And he traveled, he left Friday to go somewhere.
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  Speaker 3: Where would he have been going?
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  Speaker 2: A college football stadium somewhere in the southeast.
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  Speaker 3: Lexington?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he could have went to Lexington.
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  Speaker 3: So this is something he does like weekly almost.
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  Speaker 2: Correct.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: He's always traveling. This is not a once in a
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  Speaker 1: blue moon type thing. So he drove to the And
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  Speaker 1: when he pulled in to the parking lot, the bus
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  Speaker 1: was already there. So he felt very rushed getting out.
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  Speaker 1: So he grabbed his stuff, ran to get to the bus.
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  Speaker 1: He did not realize it until he got to the airport.
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  Speaker 1: He had left his phone in his car. And he
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  Speaker 1: didn't have time to get back on the bus, go
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  Speaker 1: back to the park and ride, turn around, go back.
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  Speaker 3: There was no time for that.
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  Speaker 1: So he left Friday without his cell phone.
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  Speaker 2: And he couldn't even, like, call his wife or text
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  Speaker 2: his wife to tell her that, hey, I left my
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  Speaker 2: cell phone, go pick it up.
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  Speaker 1: So he was to come back Sunday night. And he,
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  Speaker 1: once he gets there, he claims two different occasions. It
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  Speaker 1: crossed his mind, hey, I need to borrow so-and-so's phone
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  Speaker 1: and call my wife, let her know I'm okay and
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  Speaker 1: let her know what happened. But he didn't. So all weekend...
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  Speaker 1: She was probably worried about him. She was worried about him.
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  Speaker 1: Their children started to worry about him.
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  Speaker 2: Because they're calling him and he's not answering. Yes, but
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  Speaker 2: the phone... And that's how datelines start.
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  Speaker 1: The phone eventually stopped ringing and just went straight to voicemail.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: And so they had a time in their head like 9.30.
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  Speaker 1: If he's not home by 9.30... They're going to go
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  Speaker 1: to the park and ride and peek in because they've
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  Speaker 1: decided he's in his car dead.
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  Speaker 3: He came in the house about 8.30. And then.
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  Speaker 2: I bet he got an earful.
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  Speaker 3: You know he did.
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  Speaker 5: But.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine if that was you?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh. You would have driven or flown up
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  Speaker 2: to Lexington or whatever. I told her that. You would
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  Speaker 2: have packed Emmy up, made her miss school.
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  Speaker 1: Of course.
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  Speaker 2: And driven up to Lexington or, you know, I believe
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  Speaker 2: he had a game in Dublin, Ireland last year. You
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  Speaker 2: would have driven over to Dublin.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: And went on the search for me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I said to her, there's no scenario where I
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  Speaker 1: don't hop in my car and go to whatever town
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  Speaker 1: you're in.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: To figure out what's going on.
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  Speaker 1: So then that also led me to think about back
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  Speaker 1: in the 80s and have cell phones. There's a chance
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  Speaker 1: you took when you left home in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes. You left. If you were going on a
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  Speaker 2: business trip... You may get a phone call. You may
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  Speaker 2: not get a phone call. But then, you know, they
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  Speaker 2: just came home at the end of the week or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: It's like Thunderdome.
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  Speaker 1: I guess she brought up, well, you could have called
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  Speaker 1: from the hotel. And he said, because ESPN pays for
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  Speaker 1: his hotels. And he said, no, I couldn't do that because...
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't do that because it would have been a
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  Speaker 1: long distance call and they would have charged ESPN for
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  Speaker 1: my call and I would have gotten in trouble.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think that's a thing anymore, is it?
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  Speaker 2: It might be from a hotel. I bet it is
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  Speaker 2: from a hotel.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you think so?
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  Speaker 2: From landlines? Because at that.
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  Speaker 1: Point I was like, dude is stuck in another decade.
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  Speaker 2: That's hilarious.
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  Speaker 1: Because I didn't even think that was a thing anymore.
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  Speaker 2: No, I bet landlines, they still do it. I bet
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  Speaker 2: you have to have, you have to pay for it,
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  Speaker 2: pay something extra. And you know, the hotel ain't paying
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  Speaker 2: something extra for it.
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  Speaker 1: So I saw her in the middle of this.
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  Speaker 3: Weekend, right?
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  Speaker 1: The weekend time period where she would have been not
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  Speaker 1: knowing where he was or what was going on.
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  Speaker 3: She did not mention it.
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  Speaker 1: Now, if that had have been me and you and
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  Speaker 1: she had have walked up to me, I would have
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  Speaker 1: been like, I can't find Jim.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, you would have.
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  Speaker 3: I can't find him. I don't know what's going on.
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  Speaker 2: That would have been the first thing. I think he's dead.
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  Speaker 2: That would have been the first thing. She could have
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  Speaker 2: come up and said, my whole family was killed in
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  Speaker 2: some kind of meteor accident. And your thing wouldn't have been.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Your thing would have been. I can't find Jim.
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  Speaker 3: I can't find Jim. I think he's dead.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Again. you have watched too many a Dateline or
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  Speaker 2: an Unsolved Mysteries or a 2020.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. So anyways, I don't, I mean, it was normal
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  Speaker 1: in the 80s. We didn't realize we were living wild
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  Speaker 1: and crazy out there in the Wild West.
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  Speaker 3: It just, that's just how life was.
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  Speaker 1: But now it feels like maybe you're walking around without
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  Speaker 1: your pants on if you don't have your phone.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no, it does, because that's why I always, every
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  Speaker 2: time I stand up, if I'm going, leaving for the
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  Speaker 2: house or leaving my car, I always stand up and
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  Speaker 2: pat my pockets to make sure, A, I have my wallet,
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  Speaker 2: and B, I have my cell phone.
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  Speaker 1: What do you do?
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  Speaker 2: Pat my pockets.
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  Speaker 3: Pat my pockets.
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  Speaker 1: You got to go patch pockets.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I got to pat my pockets. Keys, cell phone, wallet.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we go even a step farther, and, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I track you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just thought when she was telling that story,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, this is a story I got
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  Speaker 1: to bring up.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, for sure. So when you track me, when you
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  Speaker 2: call me and ask where I'm at, are you just
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  Speaker 2: like setting me up? Are you just seeing if I'll
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  Speaker 2: tell you the truth?
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  Speaker 1: So this morning I called you and said, hey, where
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  Speaker 1: are you? And you were like sitting in the car
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  Speaker 1: listening to, in the driveway, listening to a podcast. It's
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  Speaker 1: cold outside. I don't want to get out of the car.
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  Speaker 1: I knew where you were.
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  Speaker 2: Then why did you call me and ask?
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  Speaker 3: Just seemed like the right thing to do.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to see if a woman answered. Hello?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. I brought a woman back to our driveway as
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  Speaker 2: you're in the house, you know, at eight o'clock in
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  Speaker 2: the morning, could be coming out at any moment to
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  Speaker 2: go to work.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I brought a woman back to the house
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  Speaker 2: in my car.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness gracious. So I also, I am a
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  Speaker 1: nut job. I also sent you a picture today of
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  Speaker 1: friends of yours who are now friends of ours. Today
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  Speaker 1: is their 35th wedding anniversary. Does that sound right?
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  Speaker 3: 25th.
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  Speaker 2: 25th.
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  Speaker 1: Their 25th wedding anniversary.
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  Speaker 2: Because they did not get married at 17. But they
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  Speaker 2: met 35-ish years ago. I want to say they probably
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  Speaker 2: met in 1988.
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  Speaker 1: So she had posted on Facebook a picture of them
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  Speaker 1: the day they met.
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  Speaker 2: That was the day they met?
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  Speaker 1: That was the day they met. And you could tell
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  Speaker 1: it was the late 80s.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Because her bangs were big. The hair was big. You
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  Speaker 1: could just kind of tell by the style. But you
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  Speaker 1: and I had a brief conversation about how....
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  Speaker 3: What's the right, how old the pictures look.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. They, they look faded. Like remember back in the
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  Speaker 2: day when our parents would pull out pictures from like the,
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  Speaker 2: the late sixties or early seventies with their color photos
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  Speaker 2: and it would just look old and dated.
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  Speaker 3: What is the sepia? Is that the name of the word?
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  Speaker 1: The word when the pictures get, have that kind of
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  Speaker 1: that weird faded tint.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. You're making up words now or I
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  Speaker 2: am not that smart. Um, And track record says you're
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  Speaker 2: making up words. Probably. But yeah, that's what it looked like.
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  Speaker 3: But it doesn't feel like that long ago, does it?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 3: But that picture don't lie.
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  Speaker 2: Feels like yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: That picture don't lie, Jim.
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  Speaker 1: But the 90s feel that way, too. You see pictures
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  Speaker 1: from the 90s. And it's like, oh, that's a very
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  Speaker 1: dated hairstyle or outfit or whatever. But the 90s don't
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  Speaker 1: feel like that long ago. It's like, oh, I remember
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  Speaker 1: that day.
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  Speaker 3: That wasn't that long ago.
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  Speaker 2: So, 1990 is further away from today than 1980 was
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  Speaker 2: from the end of World War II.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh. Why'd you have to go bring up
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  Speaker 3: the Great Depression?
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  Speaker 2: No, there was no Great Depression at the end of
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  Speaker 2: World War II, unless I'm giving you the Great Depression
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  Speaker 2: right now telling you how far away 1990 was.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I think you might be.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's... We're old and we ain't getting any younger.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know why you got to be bringing, bringing
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  Speaker 3: us down.
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  Speaker 2: And most of our listeners, y'all are probably old too,
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  Speaker 2: but we appreciate you.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be old together. Yes. We can reminisce together.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Did you get any feedback from last week's
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  Speaker 2: episode about the scary themes?
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  Speaker 1: So I got a couple of people agreeing with me on,
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  Speaker 1: on which one I thought was the scariest theme. And
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  Speaker 1: so as always, they backed me up. So we know
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  Speaker 1: I'm right.
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  Speaker 4: Awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Well, our buddy, Chris Lee, uh, reached out, said we
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  Speaker 2: had some great ideas for those themes. And most, most
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  Speaker 2: of them he has on a theme playlist to scare
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  Speaker 2: the kiddos on, uh, When they come trick-or-treating.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: But he said there were some that he didn't have
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  Speaker 2: that he thought he's going to add this year.
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  Speaker 3: That's awesome. Are you going to do that this year?
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  Speaker 2: That makes me happy. No, it's pitch dark in our neighborhood.
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  Speaker 2: We don't do Halloween.
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  Speaker 1: You're not going to set up on the front stoop
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  Speaker 1: and play the scary music?
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  Speaker 2: I thought about opening up the garage and setting out
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  Speaker 2: in the driveway.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know how expensive Halloween candy is this year?
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  Speaker 2: Is it super expensive?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It's gone up a ton. And guess what?
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 3: It ain't sellin'..
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 3: No, people don't have money for.
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  Speaker 2: To give away?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, money for trivial things like candy. I mean, people
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  Speaker 1: are struggling to pay their utility bills.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry about that. Well, it's... I went off the rails
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  Speaker 3: a little bit.
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• 16:31
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• 16:33
  Speaker 1: Speaking of the olden days... People are going to start
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: giving out apples again.
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, they may. And then there may be razor
• 16:41
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• 17:38
  Speaker 3: I don't know. We're so all over the place tonight.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: Am I?
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: I think you are. Okay.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: This is a podcast that looks back on the decade
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: of the 1980s. We talk about things that were important
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: to us as children and what we look back on
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: with fond memories as adults. Ultimately, this is a nostalgia podcast.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: Yes. And before we get to that, I have one
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: cleanup item. I got an email from our buddy Andrew
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Bradford over in Vienna, and he had listened to our
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: episode from a few years back when we gave what
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: we did on typical Halloween. And he was like, Hey,
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: I noticed that you did not bring up Halloween parties
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: at school. So I can only assume that you guys
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: didn't like those. And I was like, uh, no, we did.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: I guess we just didn't bring them up. So what
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: do you remember from Halloween?
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Halloween parties at school oh my goodness i've always loved
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: halloween it's one of my favorite if not my favorite
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: holiday is it a real holiday i don't know i
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: don't know it should be anyways but the school halloween
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: parties were the best yes and i always dressed up
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: like the witch.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: You knew that you weren't gonna have to work for
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: an hour or two yep i mean and as a
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: kid an hour is like It may as well be
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: all day.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, might as well be.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: And you were going to get to bring your outfit.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: You were going to get to wear your Halloween outfit.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: I was always the witch.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Now, most of the time I was like Superman or
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: the Incredible Hulk with those uncomfortable plastic masks there. And
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: you know what I'm thinking now? At the beginning of
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: the original Halloween in 1963, you see Michael Myers there
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: hacking up his sister. And uh he comes back out
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: and his parents removed the mask from him it was
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: probably the mask that drove him insane you couldn't breathe
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: you couldn't breathe out of those masks you couldn't hardly
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: see out of those masks he was probably honestly he
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: was probably hungry and he's trying to slice up a
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: watermelon oh and instead he ended up getting his sister
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: a watermelon and they said yes a watermelon so instead
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: he ends up getting his sister because he can't see
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: any and then and then eventually when they removed the
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: mask from them they're like what have you done and
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: he's like i don't know i thought i was carving
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: up a watermelon and we realized watermelons bled so bad
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: on this knife and that's what drove him insane and
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: turned him into evil you're crazy.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: So my parents only bought me like one real costume
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: that one time, and then I just used it year
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: after year after year.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Now, I thought you dressed up as Smurfette one year.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: So I remember being Strawberry Shortcake. Was I Smurfette?
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Your mom had blue paint, and I thought she said
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: that you were Smurfette, remember, because she hoarded it all.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: And then wanted to save it when we moved in.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: And we were like, we're throwing this crap away.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Oh, no. That's the makeup she put on me when
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: I was, what, four months old? And she made me
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: into a clown.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: No, that was that makeup. And I told her it
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: probably had lead in it. And she got really offended.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: But it probably did.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: No, I know.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: You know it did.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: That was perfectly good makeup from 1980. And this was,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: what year was this? Like, 2020, and I was throwing
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: it away, and she was so offended. But yeah, they
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: bought me that witch's outfit, you know, with the witch's hat.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: The pointy?
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: The pointy hat. Well, I was already a giant anyways.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: And then they put the pointed hat on me. I
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: looked like I was going to, like, fee-fi-fo-fum all the
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: other kids in my class.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: So I need to know, was it really a witch's hat,
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: or was it a dunce cap?
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Jim.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: You're sleeping on the couch. You didn't have to go
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: to the corner and wear that cap, did you?
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: No, that explains a lot.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: It really does. But yeah, I mean, but you look
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: forward to it, right? They would announce, they'd be like
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Halloween party coming up next Friday, right? Right before Halloween.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: And you would be like, okay, I got to get
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: my costume. I got to bring my trick or treat
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: bag because I'm going to be getting goodies. And then
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: we're just going to, everybody's going to be all dressed up.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: And then we're going to throw a party and we're
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: going to get cake and candy and cookies. Yeah.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: And they would play, you know, I don't know what
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: kind of little spooky music they would play in the
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: background while we had our little party, but it was
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: something that just, yeah, it was, it was like magical.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: You know, it was that, that for that hour, nothing
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: else in the world matters.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Exactly. And I would say that more than half of
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: my elementary school experience was pre-Thriller. So they weren't playing Thriller.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: They were probably playing Monster Mash.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: I think they would definitely have done that.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: And we might even would have colored.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Oh, for sure.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: Like a jack-o'-lantern, like a color with crayons type of thing.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: I'm glad you brought that up. That unlocked a memory
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: for me.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: Oh, really?
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: So there was a kid and. I don't know if
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: he belonged to a religious cult or not, but, and
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: we didn't know this about him, but when Halloween came around,
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: he was basically like, it's against my religion to celebrate Halloween.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: Was he part of your grandpa's cult?
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe. And so the teacher was trying
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: to get him to participate. And he was like, no,
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: I can't participate. And she was like, here, just color
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: this apple. And he was just steadfast. He was like, no,
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: I'm not coloring that apple. And so she went over
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: and got another teacher to bring her over to try
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: to convince him to color this apple. And he was like, no.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: And it was almost like they were tag teaming on
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: the poor kid. And he was just crying, basically saying,
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: I can't participate while the teachers are yelling at him.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: And.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: I get what they were saying. Hey, this is an apple.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: It doesn't have anything to do with Halloween. But his
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: parents told him he couldn't do anything with Halloween. So
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: he was basically like, no, I'm not going to do it.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Was your friend Michael Myers? Is this what sent him
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: over the edge?
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: You know, now that I come to think about it,
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure his last name was Myers.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: There you go. Because who does that? The kid once,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: maybe twice, says, No, I don't celebrate Halloween. Let it be. Right.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, they were. I mean, basically, they were just
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: trying to force them to celebrate. I'm like, let him
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: sit over in the corner with the dunce cap. Like,
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: he probably would have rather done that than be berated
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: by two teachers who were making him go against his
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: parents' wishes. Because, you know, when you're in fifth grade,
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: you like, for the most part, most kids are living
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: the straight and narrow and doing everything their parents say.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: That's crazy.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: And that's something that would have only have happened in
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: the 80s.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Oh, for sure. No respect for religious freedom back then,
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: I can tell you that.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: Today they'd be fired.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Oh, there would be a lawsuit. Yeah, for sure. 100%
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: be a lawsuit. We weren't as litigious back in the
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: 80s as we are nowadays. But yeah, you unlock the
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: memory for me. I'd forgotten all about that.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: That's crazy.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't think he was around long, probably because he...
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Ran out to his cult school after the parents, the
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: teachers tried to make him participate in the paganism.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: Little Mikey.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: Little Mikey. Little Mikey Myers. All right. Well, I guess
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: that covers that. Okay.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: Are we ready to call it a night?
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: We are not ready to call it a night. Oh,
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: I thought we were done. We've got to get to
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: our episode. But first.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: I know because I'm middle-aged man.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Little H-Man. Little H-Man.
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: He has powers and knowledge that are far beyond younger men.
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: Little H-Man. Caught between 40 and 55. Accruing more interest
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: yet losing his sex drive.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: Developing skills and a gut. Little H-Man. Are you ready
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: for another nomination for middle-aged man?
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: I was going to say, is this man or woman?
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: Are you ready for another nomination for middle-aged woman?
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: Yes, I'm ready.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: I have one for each.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: No way.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: I do. Okay. All right. So you are going to
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: decide once and for all, whether this man is in
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: the middle-aged man hall of fame or banished forever.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: Here's what I'm going to do. I'm just going to go.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: I'm just like, bam.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: I'm not going to think about it or wait. I'm
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: just going to go bam.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: Master of the creature feature, Vincent Price.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: He's in.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: All right. And then, well, congratulations, Mr. Vincent Price. That
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: was nominated by our Patreon or Sean, who apparently I'm
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: an idiot because not only is there a Patreon or Sean,
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: But he is fellow podcast member, Sean, who is co-host
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: of the Dibs podcast, which I have been a guest on.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Oh, and you didn't put two and two together.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: And two together. I didn't know Sean's last name. He
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: had reached out and we had talked to quite a bit.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: And then he invited me on the show and I
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: was on there and they've got, listen, folks, if you like, uh,
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: people picking, picking stuff, you know, pop culture stuff, movies, music, actors,
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: whatever for Gen X, this is the podcast for you is, uh,
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: Sean and his buddy, Rod go back and forth picking stuff. They,
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: picked their favorite horror movies from 70 to 85. And
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: then they went back and did their favorite horror movies
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: from like 50 to 70 or 55 to 70 or
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: something like that. So, uh, that's probably why he nominated
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Vincent price because he had watched some movies or at
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: least done some research on some Vincent price movies from
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: the fifties.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: I got, I got one thing to say to you.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: Who's wearing the dunce cap now?
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: Not you.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: You are, because you didn't realize Sean from Patreon was
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: also Sean from the Dibs podcast.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: That is correct. You are right. I am wearing the
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: dunce cap.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: Next nominee, female. One Miss Anne B. Davis, possibly better
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: known as Alice the Maid from the Brady Bunch.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Oh, she's in.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: Because we need somebody to keep it clean.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Yes. Yes, we do. We need to keep the Hall
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: of Fame clean. And if anybody's going to keep the
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Hall of Fame clean, it is Alice.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: You know it.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: That was nominated by yours truly.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: You?
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: I did.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: Good job.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: All right. Great job by you. Okay. Now we get
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: to the meat of the episode, which is what?
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Today, we are doing another music episode. And we are ranking.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: the number 23 songs of the year from each year
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: of the 80s, as voted on by our Patreon members.
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: Thank you for helping me out with that.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. So when you looked at this list, before we
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: get into anything, without giving anything away, when you just
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: looked at the totality of the list, what did you think?
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: So you had told me originally, before I even looked at,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: the list that it was so hard to rank these
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: and it was overwhelming and you didn't know how you
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: were going to do it. And you were like, you
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: just wait. You're going to have the hardest time. I
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: just went bam, bam, bam, bam, bam.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: But that's how you live your life, wouldn't you say?
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: Pretty much.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: So I think there are some fan- songs on this list.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: There are some dogs on this list.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: So, I got the majority of the feedback that I
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: got from the folks that voted was this was very
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: tough to pick. So, it wasn't just me. It's the consensus.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: That this was very tough to pick.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Okay, well.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: So, alright, here we go. This was the song that
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: finished number 10 in our rankings.
• 30:31
  Speaker 6: It's deep in my mind and locked away.
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: But then most of all I do love you.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: Still It sounded like old Lionel there needed a lozenge
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: there at the end.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, his voice sounded like he was fighting off some
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: allergies like we are.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: Exactly. So that is still by the Commodores. Sounds just
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: like the Commodores and a lot of Lionel Richie stuff.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, does it sound just like the Commodores
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: because it is the Commodores?
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: I'm so confused.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: I guess so. It's a slow kind of piano song
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: sung by the great Lionel Richie.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: So that came in at number 10?
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: That came in at number 10.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: What's wrong with people?
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: That's Lionel.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: I know that's Lionel. So I'm a little surprised that
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: it came in at number 10. A little disappointed that
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: it came in at number 10. But truth be known,
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: I did vote it as number 9. Just because I
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: felt like this was a great list.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah. No, it is a very good list. Where did
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: I have it?
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: You had it at 7. Yeah.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Because I love Lionel.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: So this song is from 1980. It finishes 10th. It
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: finishes with 105 points, barely behind numbers nine and eight.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: The best vote that it got was it was ranked
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: number three by our longest listener, Iron Jawed Angel.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, so that's a little high to me, but
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: I can absolutely see why she did that.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: But the following people gave it tens. Brad.
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: Oh, Brad.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: John Middleton.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Oh, John.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: Eric Shores.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Eric.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: And Jason the Showstopper.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: What's wrong with you guys?
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: So they gave it 10s, and that's where it sits
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: at number 10 with 105. Our next, number 9, at
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: 102 points. So barely.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: Only three points off.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: Barely beat it.
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: The gods may throw a dice Their minds as cold
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: as ice And someone way down.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Here Okay, so that is The Winner Takes It All
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: by ABBA.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: Correct.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: Now, I had never heard that song.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: You'd never heard it?
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Not until I was looking at my list that I
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: had to rank. And I'm like, I don't think I
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: know that one. So I went to YouTube to listen
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: to it. And someone I know, someone in this household.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: Not me.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: Has heard of this song and has some strong feelings
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: about it.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: Actually, I have. That could be me. Yes.
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: So can I bring in someone?
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: For just a second? Yes.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: I have heard of this song and I do have
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: strong feelings about it. But. But.
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: Um.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: I'm not the person you were talking about.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Okay, so Emmy was in the room with me when
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: I was listening to The Winner Takes It All. And
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: she's like, that's my favorite song. And she said, yeah,
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: I listened to it this morning when I was getting
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: ready for school. Emmy, my dear.
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: Hello.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: Hi.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: So how did you ever discover this song?
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: Well, I love the song Dancing Queen.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: And so I just remember.
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: I was just looking through like their Spotify profile and
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: I just found this song and I was like, Hmm,
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: this seems like a cool song. And I like fell
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: in love with like the piano in it and just
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: the whole tune of the song.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: And the, the female singing. I mean, she's got a
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: fantastic voice.
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: She does.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: That's one thing that I love about Emmy. She doesn't
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: just say, okay, I like dancing queen. That's ABBA. And
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: I leave it there. She goes on a mission to
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: find other songs.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: No, absolutely. I love that about her too. Like you said,
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: she's on a mission to, Which is more than I
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: can say that I was at 12 years old or
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: even at 40 years old. Oh, for sure.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: So, and then what the irony of it's on this list.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: I have to rank it. I listened to it. She's
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: in the room. She loves it.
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: She's like, oh, I listened to that this morning.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's pretty cool.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: Good job, kiddo.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Keep up your good taste of music.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: Yes, indeed. Okay. That's it.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: You can go now.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: She's like, can I go?
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: Bye.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, she loves that song.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: That blew my mind.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: I do not.
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: Tell, where'd you put it?
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: I put it at number 10.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: Where did I put it?
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: Nine.
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: I may have put it at nine just because by
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: that point she had expressed how much she loved it.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: And so I kind of felt bad.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would have ranked it number 10 right in
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: front of her and then looked at her and laughed.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: Because that's what I do. Listen, people love ABBA. ABBA
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: was offered a billion dollars to get back together. I
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: don't get it. I mean, Dancing Queen, okay. I've listened
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: to a lot of other ABBA. Uh-uh.
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: Not your thing.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: Not my thing. Okay. Not my thing. So I ranked
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: it at 10. You ranked it at nine. The highest
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: ranking that it got. Once again, iron jawed angel ranked
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: it as number one.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: What?
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: Number one.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Iron jawed angel. My goodness.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: She would get along with Emmy.
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, she would.
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: Let me, where did Eric put it?
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: Uh, Eric put it as number six. Okay. So, so
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: iron jawed angel had the best ranking. The worst ranking,
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: obviously me at 10, so you can't get any worse
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: than that. But Julie Middleton, Matt Cook, Matt Suter, and
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: Sean from the Dibs podcast all ranked it at number 10. Wow.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: So that finishes at 102 points. That song is from 1981.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: So 80 and 81 once again pulling up the rear
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: at 10 and 9.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: Not good.
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: You ready to move on to our number eight song?
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: Bring it on.
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: Science Science Science Science Science Science.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: Science. Science. So that is She Blinded Me With Science
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: by Thomas Dolby. It is a classic one-hit wonder from
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: the 80s, from 1983. This is not a real song.
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: It's not a song to take seriously.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: So here's why I like it. I mean, listen, and
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: when I say I like it, I ranked it as
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: the eighth song, which is exactly where it's at, right?
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: But this is a fantastic list. I like it because
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: it's a one hit wonder. It's weird. That's totally 80s.
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: But when we used to go play team trivia back
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: in the day, whenever the category was science and the
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: guy would be like science, the whole crowd would go science.
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: Oh, that's funny.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Well, OK, I can see if you've got some kind
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: of like funny little memory to go with it. But
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: to me, it's just the song that kids would listen
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: to at Halloween.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it doesn't belong in any kind of anals of time.
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: Anals.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: You said that on purpose. You know, it's anals.
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: So I ranked it as a you ranked it as 10.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: That's right. So you gave it its worst ranking. along
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: with my brother Mike. Mike also ranked it at 10,
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: and my brother Matt ranked it at 10. So you're
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: in line with my bros there. The best ranking that
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: it got was a number four by Julie Middleton.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: Okay, Julie, maybe she was feeling the Halloween spirit.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: So still had 105 songs, or points. The winner takes
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: it all, had 102, and she blinded me with Science Hacker.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: 101 okay so they are the clear like bottom feeders
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: there and then our next group is all the way
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: down to 80 our next song which is number seven
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: but Anything else to say about Thomas Dolby and She
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: Blinded Me with Science?
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't think so.
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: Again, I think when you're talking one hit wonders of
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: the 80s, this song goes on the list. I don't
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: say it goes in the top 10 or even the
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: top 25, but it goes on the list.
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: It does.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: All right. So here is our number seven song, as
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: I mentioned, with 80 points.
• 40:08
  Speaker 6: You could have a bunch of car bumping. This amusement
• 40:16
  Speaker 6: never ends. I want to be your sledgehammer. Why don't
• 40:23
  Speaker 6: you call my name?
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: Oh, let me be your sledgehammer.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: So you know what song that is.
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: That is Sledgehammer, Peter Gabriel.
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: Yes, and that is our number seven song, which is
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: ironic because that's exactly what I ranked it at number seven. Okay.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: You ranked it at six.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you and I are right there. We're thinking
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: alike on this one. It's a good song.
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is a good song. I mean, again, I
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: ranked it a seven because I think this list is
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: so fantastic.
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: Because it gets hard from here on out.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: But he has a phenomenal voice.
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: He does. He does, for sure. So, the best ranking
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: that this got was Brad and Julie Middleton. Both ranked
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: it at number three.
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: Okay. Wow.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: The worst ranking that it got, Iron Jawed Angel's getting
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: a lot of attention on this.
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: She ranked it as the 10th best song on this list.
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: Whoa!
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: Iron! No!
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: Her 10th best song. So... Again, number seven. This is
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: from 1986, and it finished with 80 points. So countdown,
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: still 1980 with 105. The winner takes it all, 1981, 102.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: She Blinded Me With Science, 101, 1983. And Sledgehammer, 80, 1986.
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: Care to give a guess what the next song is?
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: I think it's maybe by Vehicle? You would have thought so.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: Am I wrong? There's some controversy.
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: Oh, no.
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: Because we had a couple of votes come in, a
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: couple of mail-in votes come in after election night, and
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: so it's caused all kinds of controversy on CNN and
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: Fox News. Here is our number six song.
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: I just break down and cry because I'd rather be hoping.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: All my love for you.
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: Come on now.
• 42:46
  Speaker 6: You used to tell me we'd run away together.
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: I love that song. I love her voice.
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: I love everything about her.
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: I ranked it as number three on my list. You
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: ranked it as number four on your list. So we're
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: right there again. The best ranking was our buddy Matt Cook,
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: who ranked it as his best song. Wow.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: Okay, that surprises me a little bit.
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: The worst ranking is a number nine.
• 43:25
  Speaker 6: Whoa.
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: Matt Suter.
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: Matt.
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: Now, he did on his thing say he loved the song.
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: He was like, I love this song. He just liked
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: the other songs better. He didn't put it down. He
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: didn't say it was bad. He said it was a
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: beautiful song, but he just liked the other ones better.
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: But those two rankings bumped Whitney down from what would
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: have been number three down to number six.
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: Jeez Louise.
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: So Whitney had 68 points, and that is from 1985.
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: I am not comfortable with putting Whitney in any countdown
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: lower than number five.
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: Like it feels disrespectful.
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: It is extremely disrespectful. I agree. All right. So those
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: last mail-in votes, they also, they bumped this song down
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: more than they bumped Whitney down. This song was going
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: to be either two or three, and now it is
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: at number five.
• 44:25
  Speaker 4: I love it.
• 44:35
  Speaker 6: And you won't save me anymore.
• 44:38
  Speaker 4: I'm praying to God you'll give me one more chance. Girl,
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: I'll be there for you. These five words I swear
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: to you.
• 44:50
  Speaker 6: When you breathe, I.
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: Want to be the air for you. I'll be there
• 44:55
  Speaker 4: for you.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: Jim, you've lost me. I know.
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: I think I might be done.
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: So this ended up with 61 points. This is Bon Jovi.
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: I'll be there for you from 1989. I ranked this
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: as number two. You ranked it as number one. Number one.
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: You know who else ranked it as number one?
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: Who?
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: My brother, Matt, my brother, Mike, and Jason, the showstopper. Okay.
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: So you and Matt and Mike, you guys, you guys
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: are going to have some things to talk about over
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: Thanksgiving break.
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: We're going to have a good Thanksgiving.
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: The lowest that it got. So you can blame.
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: I'm looking for somebody to blame.
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: You can blame Patreon or Julie Middleton.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: Julie.
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: Who ranked it at number nine.
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: Whoa.
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: Apparently John's never there for her or he's there for
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: her too much and she just got sick of it.
• 45:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: So, John, you've got to straighten that out, buddy, because
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: you ranked this as a number four. Your better half
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: ranked it as a nine.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: I wonder if there's some kind of story there.
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: There may be, but I will say our two mail-in
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: ballots at the end both ranked it as eight, and
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: that's why it bumped it down.
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, clearly then they need to not count.
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: What would it have been if we didn't count those?
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: If you didn't count those and you didn't count everything else...
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: It would have, well, it would have finished higher than
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: the next two. So it would have been number three.
• 46:31
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: I'm much more comfortable with that.
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: Would have been number three. Okay. All right.
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: I mean, that just, I mean, I don't know what
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: to say. That's a good song.
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: It is a good song. It's a fantastic song. It's
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: off his album, New Jersey, 1989. I'll be there for
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: you when you breathe. I want to be the air
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: for you. I'd live and I'd die for you. I'd
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: steal the sun from the sky for you.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's some young love right there.
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: Words can't say what love can do. I mean, that's
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: some poetry.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: I would not want to be the air you breathe.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: And I'm not giving you the air I'm breathing.
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: All right. Here is our number four song.
• 47:19
  Speaker 4: The one. That is....
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: Gee, I wonder. Is it Shake It Up?
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: It is by... The Cars. It is Shake It Up
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: by The Cars. That's a fun song.
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: I'm not a Cars fan.
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: I know you're not. But they have some good music.
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: And this is one of their good songs. However, I
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: did rank it as the number six song on my list.
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: You ranked it as the number eight song. song on your.
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: List i don't like the cars i'm sorry so.
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: When i originally looked over this list before listening i
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: did have this ranked at number eight um and then
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: i listened and i'm like nope it's better than she
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: blinded me with science and it's better than sledgehammer.
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: So they are just a little too what's the.
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: Word new wavy Probably.
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's not a word I would use, but yeah,
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: that sums it up in an adult way.
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: They're kind of new wave rock, though, as opposed to
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: like new wave pop. I really enjoy the Cars. They're
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: one of my, I don't want to say like one
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: of my top 10 favorite bands, but they're probably my
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: top 25 favorite bands. I really like their sound. I
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: really like their songs. It's fun, kind of fun music
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: to dance to and to kind of rock out to
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: at the same time and shake it up. I mean,
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: it's probably not even my top five car songs, but
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: it's a good song. So do you want to know
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: highest or lowest ranking first on that?
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: Highest.
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: Highest ranking was number one by Eric Shores. Eric.
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: And by Matt Suter. Okay. One of our male inbound.
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: Lowest ranking was number eight by you and Matt Cook.
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: Matt Cook. We often think alike.
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: You do. So shake it up. So I mentioned Bon
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: Jovi had 61 points. Shake it up had 60. Okay.
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: So it's close. It's 1982. 60 points, barely beat out
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: Bon Jovi, but I will say the last two main
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: votes cost Bon Jovi 16 points, while it only cost
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: Shake It Up four points. Otherwise, it kind of would
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: have been a blowout the other way. All right. Number three.
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: I think we all like this song.
• 49:59
  Speaker 4: I find....
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: Robert Palmer, to be simply irresistible.
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: Do you now? You know, he's dead.
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, a lot of people are dead. Boy, he
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: had some sex appeal.
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: Powerhouse voice. Oh, yeah. Great video.
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: I watched the video the other day, though, and it
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: lingered too long on the dancers' bums and chests.
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's MTV in 1988.
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: And so I was a little disappointed.
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: I don't remember having noticed that before.
• 51:01
  Speaker 4: MTV in 1988.
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: And I was like, come on, guys. All the girls
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: dressed the same.
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: Let's don't.
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: Hair pulled back.
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: Makeup on. So I ranked this song as number four.
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: You ranked it as number three. It finished at number three.
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: It is from 1988. And it ended up with 58 points.
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: So just barely ahead of Shake It Up and I'll
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: Be There For You.
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: I love this song.
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: Why did he always wear a suit?
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: Because he was a classy man. I mean, he was
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: a classy man. All right. Highest or lowest first?
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: Highest.
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: The highest ranking that it got was number two. And
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: that is Eric Shores and Matt Cook both ranked this
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: song as their number two song. The lowest ranking was
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: number eight by Mr. John Middleton. Wow.
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: So I don't know if he's not a fan or
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: if he just found this list to be that tough.
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: Number eight, for the most part, that song sat in
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: the middle, anywhere between three and six.
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: You should go as Robert Palmer for Halloween and I'll
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: be one of the backup dancers.
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: Okay, let's do it. All right. So we've got two
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: more years left. We've got 1984 and we've got 1987.
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: Who's going to finish number two? Who's going to finish
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: number one? If you had to guess, guess the year
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: without the song. Which year do you think is going
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: to finish number one?
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: What are my choices?
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: 84 and 87.
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: 87.
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: You think 87 is going to finish number one?
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: All right. Here is our number two song.
• 52:38
  Speaker 4: But you know that there's nowhere that I'd rather be
• 52:42
  Speaker 4: than with you here today.
• 52:44
  Speaker 6: Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
• 52:48
  Speaker 4: Hold me now. that is hold me now by the
• 52:58
  Speaker 4: thompson twins 1981 1984 1984.
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: I love how you said it was such confidence. Right
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: after I told you it was 84 or 87.
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: I know, I know, I know.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: That tells you how my short-term memory is.
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: That is one of the most 80-sounding songs there is.
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, I agree.
• 53:40
  Speaker 3: There's something about it, though, that's just.
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: Perfect? Yeah, kind of. Then why'd you rank it number five?
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: Because there were a lot of better songs. I mean,
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: there were a lot of really good ones on here.
• 53:52
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: So I ranked this number one.
• 53:54
  Speaker 4: What?
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: Above Bon Jovi? Yes.
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: This is my favorite song on this list.
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: I don't even know who you are anymore.
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: This is my favorite song on the list. And a
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: lot of people, it wasn't maybe their favorite song, but
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: a lot of people agree with me because it got
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: a lot of number twos. It did get another number one,
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: our buddy Sean from the Dibs podcast. He also ranked
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: it at number one with one of those last call-in votes.
• 54:18
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: This finished with 47 points. So nine points ahead of
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: Simply Irresistible. Highest rankings, like I said, me and Sean.
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: Lowest ranking actually was, again, Miss Ironshot Angel, who ranked
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: this at nine.
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: What?
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: She ranked it at nine. Showstopper and Matt Cook, seven, six.
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: Everybody else, top three.
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: I feel like I need some context to some of
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: these rankings.
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, people like what they like. I mean,
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: I think you're going to be shocked at number one.
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, you're not going to be shocked what's number one,
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: but you're going to be shocked at what I voted it. Okay. So...
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: There we go. 1984 is number two. That means 1987
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: is number one. And here is the 23rd best song
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: from 1987.
• 55:56
  Speaker 3: It doesn't get a whole lot better than.
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: That so tell me what that.
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: Is that is I still haven't found what I'm looking
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: for you too that is correct I have found what
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: I'm looking for have you.
• 56:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're sitting over in the corner with your Dunn's
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: hat on.
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: Oh, for sure. For sure. So, yeah, 1987. I still
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: haven't found what I'm looking for. U2, this finishes with
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: 33 points. So it wasn't even really close. 33 points.
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: Hold Me Now had 47 points. It was almost as
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: big as a blowout of Africa over Heaven by Bryan Adams,
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: which was 21 to 46 points.
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: So when U2 was at the top, there was nothing better. Yeah?
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm. Okay. I was not a huge, huge U2 fan
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: in 1987.
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: Now, what year was that that Apple Music gave us
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: their album, whether we wanted it or not?
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: Oh, gosh.
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: And we still can't get it.
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: Off of our playlist?
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: Still can't get it off, yeah.
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: They had fallen by that point in time.
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: Agreed.
• 57:04
  Speaker 3: Back in the late 80s, there was nothing better.
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: Nothing better.
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: So this was on Joshua Tree.
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
• 57:13
  Speaker 3: U2, Rattle and Hum was after Joshua Tree?
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the next year, 88. Wow.
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 57:20
  Speaker 3: I had it flipped in my mind. Okay.
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: Yep. So that song, like I said, finished with 33 points.
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: I ranked it at five. You ranked it at two.
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: It got a bunch of number two rankings, but it
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: got three number one rankings, Brad, Julie, and John Middleton.
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: All ranked it at number one.
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: I mean, for me, if Bon Jovi hadn't have been there,
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: you two was a shoo-in. Yes.
• 57:48
  Speaker 3: With Robert Palmer coming in close behind.
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: So, I mean, again, for me, one through five, really
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: could have been in any order for me.
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: So it was, it was, it's nothing against you too.
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: I am not YouTube's lowest ranking. My brother, Mike actually
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: ranked it at six.
• 58:09
  Speaker 4: Oh, wow.
• 58:10
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: But with that being said, he ranked it at six.
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: I ranked it at five. Everybody else had it one,
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: two or three. Yeah. Like it's, it's the clear winner
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: for this month. So our countdown goes 1980 still. 1981,
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: the winner takes it all. 1983, she blinded me with science. 1986, sledgehammer. 1985,
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: saving all my love for you. 1989, I'll be there
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: for you. 1982, shake it up. 1988, simply irresistible. 1984,
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: hold me now. And 1987, I still haven't found what
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: I'm looking for by you two. What do you think?
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: Do you think the voters got it right?
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: I think I would, if this was a playlist, I
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: would listen to it in my car.
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so too. The only thing that you
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: really disagreed with was Shake It Up because you had
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: it at eight. instead of four. And then you had
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: saving all my love for you at four instead of six,
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: which really isn't really that far off. So everything else
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: you were kind of like right in range. So I
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: think you probably find this list pleasing the way it
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: turned out.
• 59:26
  Speaker 3: Absolutely. Absolutely.
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: So that wraps it up. So you like this list?
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: I like this list. I think everybody liked this list.
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: Everybody thought it was hard to vote for except for you.
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: Apparently you didn't feel it was hard to vote for.
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: Well, again, as you pointed out, that is kind of
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: how I live my life.
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: By the seat of your pants.
• 59:42
  Speaker 3: Sort of.
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: All right. Swinging from the heels, as they like to say.
• 59:45
  Speaker 3: There you go. Hanging upside down.
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: All right. Well, I swear I can't be serious with
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: you sometimes. That wraps up this show. Let us know
• 59:59
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• 59:59
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