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Who Won the Year? 1980-1983 · Children of the 80s

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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to Children of the 80s. I am one
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  Speaker 2: of your hosts, Jim, and I am joined by the
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  Speaker 2: It's my co-host, Lindsay.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I'm not gonna lie. I saw an article somewhere
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  Speaker 1: online the other day about that show, and there was
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  Speaker 1: a cast photo, and even I had to stop and
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  Speaker 1: take a minute and go....
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  Speaker 2: What was wrong with me?
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  Speaker 1: What was I thinking?
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  Speaker 2: Is it because he rolled his cigarettes up in his.
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  Speaker 1: He probably looked like a bad boy.
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  Speaker 2: In his sleeves like your dad did.
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  Speaker 1: My dad did not do that.
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  Speaker 2: Your dad didn't do that? No. I mean, your dad
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  Speaker 2: smoked Winstons with the best of them.
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  Speaker 1: Kent Threes until they stopped making them or he couldn't
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  Speaker 1: get them in our area any longer.
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  Speaker 2: And then when I met him, it was Winstons.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, correct.
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  Speaker 2: So.
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  Speaker 1: But maybe he did. I'm sure to some extent he
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  Speaker 1: reminded me of my dad, right? With the white undershirt
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  Speaker 1: my dad wore his white undershirt.
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  Speaker 2: Did Schneider have tattoos on his arms? And so did
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  Speaker 2: your dad.
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  Speaker 1: Very, very, very good point.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I am very observant. I could be a detective.
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  Speaker 1: No, you could not, sweet thing.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm very observant.
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  Speaker 1: You're very observant of yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, extremely. Observant of myself and observant of unimportant pop culture,
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  Speaker 2: irrelevant stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Now, truer words have never been spoken there.
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  Speaker 2: But if it comes to, did you feed the cat?
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  Speaker 2: Did you take care of the bills?
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  Speaker 1: Did you put the trash down by the road?
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  Speaker 2: Did you put the trash down by the road? Have
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  Speaker 2: you made your follow-up appointment with your cancer doctor?
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  Speaker 1: If I have to ask you that one more time,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. My head's going to explode.
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  Speaker 2: That's stuff I forget about.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I know. I know. I know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm highly focused on irrelevant 80s trivia.
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  Speaker 1: But you can tell us everything about the year 1983.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, not everything. Well, I mean, more than I could. Well,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to talk a little bit about 1983 today.
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  Speaker 1: I got something for you real quick.
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  Speaker 3: No, no.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not trying to get to the show. I'm just
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  Speaker 2: letting folks know a little teaser. We're going to talk
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  Speaker 2: about 1983 a little bit. I know.
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  Speaker 1: I know. I've got something.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: For people that heard us talking last.
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  Speaker 1: Week, About how much I despise this song.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yet it was played on the TV show on Hulu
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  Speaker 1: called Paradise. And then you heard me singing it in
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  Speaker 1: the kitchen. I wanted them to hear it in case
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  Speaker 1: they didn't watch the show to hear how unsettling the
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  Speaker 1: song is. The version.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: That let's see.
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  Speaker 2: I was enjoying that actually.
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  Speaker 1: It's Joiner Cat vs. Cat.
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  Speaker 2: That sounds like a made-up TV show from the late.
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  Speaker 1: 80s or early 90s. Joiner is in all caps, comma,
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  Speaker 1: Cat vs. Cat.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. I don't understand people nowadays.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that sounds like a woman that's unwell.
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  Speaker 2: You know what that is? That is the song that
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  Speaker 2: a female serial killer... plays as she's getting ready to
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  Speaker 2: dismember her male victim.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that should worry you. I'm feeling better today, by
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  Speaker 1: the way.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, good. Good. That makes me feel safer.
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  Speaker 1: I know, right? You can close both your eyes now
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  Speaker 1: when you sleep. Got my cup of coffee. It's 722
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  Speaker 1: in the evening, and I've got my cup of black
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  Speaker 1: coffee over here. How do you think this is going
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  Speaker 1: to work for me?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like it doesn't matter. You will
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  Speaker 2: still be asleep by 930 hard, and there will be
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  Speaker 2: no waking you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I've got my.
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  Speaker 2: This coffee is just to get you through this podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Yep. You are very right. So listen, I got bigger issues.
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  Speaker 1: Bigger fish to fry.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Than my midlife crisis.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. I don't know how there's anything bigger, but okay.
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  Speaker 1: I went down a rabbit hole. I can't say unintentionally
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  Speaker 1: because I think it kind of was intentional on conspiracies.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of sleeping with one eye open.
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  Speaker 2: Here we go.
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  Speaker 3: Listen.
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  Speaker 2: Listen. That's what the conspiracy folks want you to be.
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  Speaker 2: They want you to be scared.
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  Speaker 1: And here's what I'm telling you. Who was it back
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  Speaker 1: in the 90s? Was it Rush Limbaugh that talked about
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  Speaker 1: he was doing his radio show live from deep in
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  Speaker 1: a bunker somewhere? That's me now.
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  Speaker 2: I have no idea what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to need you to get me a bunker.
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  Speaker 2: A bunker.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I need a bunker because I'm scared.
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  Speaker 2: Well, listen. I don't know. I don't even know what
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  Speaker 2: to say to that. Like, there's no reason to be scared.
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  Speaker 2: That's what these people's jobs are to do is to.
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  Speaker 1: To scare you. Yeah. Like.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I don't even pay attention to it. It's
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  Speaker 2: just all just noise. Noise, noise, noise.
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  Speaker 1: One thing that I figured out, though.
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  Speaker 2: I do like a good conspiracy theory, though. They're interesting
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  Speaker 2: to listen to.
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  Speaker 1: If you start questioning one thing, what I've realized, then
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  Speaker 1: you start questioning everything.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, my grandma was a big conspiracy theorist.
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  Speaker 2: You know, she grew up during the Great Depression, right?
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  Speaker 2: And then World War II and then the Kennedy assassination.
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  Speaker 2: So she didn't trust the government one bit. She was
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  Speaker 2: always wanting the outsider to win. She was a Ross
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  Speaker 2: Perot voter.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I love that.
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  Speaker 2: Which is so funny to me.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, I got a story for you. This ties back
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  Speaker 1: into the 80s. Because didn't Ross Perot run in the 80s?
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  Speaker 2: He did not.
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  Speaker 1: When did Ross Perot run?
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  Speaker 2: 92 and 96.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, darn.
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  Speaker 1: Well, can I not share my story?
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  Speaker 2: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: So one Christmas, my mom found an elf at a
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  Speaker 1: shop that she thought looked like Ross Perot, only it
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  Speaker 1: was an elf Ross Perot, and she bought one for everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody got a Ross Perot elf for Christmas that year.
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  Speaker 2: Did they laugh or did they like it or were
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  Speaker 2: they like, what the heck is this?
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  Speaker 1: Probably a mixture, but my mom got a great kick
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  Speaker 1: out of it.
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  Speaker 2: That's funny. It was her own private little joke to herself.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she enjoyed it.
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  Speaker 2: That's fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: So no bunker.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I need to get you reading some
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  Speaker 2: dystopian novels.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: Or watching some more dystopian television shows like Paradise.
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  Speaker 1: Gosh, that's what started all of this.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 1: That it all goes back to.
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  Speaker 2: Now you got to go read George Orwell's 1984.
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  Speaker 1: No, I should probably retire. Do you know what I
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  Speaker 1: heard somebody say today? Being a conspiracy theorist, that term,
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  Speaker 1: when JFK was assassinated, it was the first time that
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  Speaker 1: that term was used against people who questioned what should
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  Speaker 1: have been the norm.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the obvious is that saying Lee Harvey Oswald did
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  Speaker 2: it and acted it alone is a conspiracy. Because there's
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  Speaker 2: no way. I actually watched Jesse the Body Ventura, who
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  Speaker 2: was a sniper in... Mm-hmm. Vietnam.
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  Speaker 1: And he couldn't make the shot.
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  Speaker 2: He couldn't make the shot. He couldn't make all three.
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  Speaker 1: Was that in the 80s? I'm trying to tie it
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  Speaker 1: in for us, Jim.
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  Speaker 2: No, this was in like the 2000s.
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  Speaker 1: How do we tie it all together?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, speaking of independent people, Jesse the Body Ventura, governor
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  Speaker 2: of Minnesota, right? He wasn't a politician either, and he
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  Speaker 2: ran for governor, and he won.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm sure my grandma would have been happy about that, too.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Anyways, that's what I got for you.
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  Speaker 2: You know what you need to do? You need to
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  Speaker 2: wear one of those tinfoil hats. That way they can't
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  Speaker 2: get to you. They can't get to your brain.
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  Speaker 1: They can't read my brain if I've got the tinfoil
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  Speaker 1: hat on.
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  Speaker 2: Correct.
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  Speaker 1: If you come downstairs tomorrow morning and there are glasses
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  Speaker 1: of water set up everywhere.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 2: Here we go with signs.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I love that movie. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It was a fun movie. It was a fun movie.
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  Speaker 2: Good Halloween movie. Yes, it was. Um, We're getting into
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  Speaker 2: the Halloween season. It's dropped. The temperature's dropped fairly substantially
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  Speaker 2: here in the ATL, and it's actually comfortable to go
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  Speaker 2: outside and walk around and move.
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  Speaker 1: I'm hoping, I mean, gosh, I almost don't want to
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  Speaker 1: say this. I'm hoping that the worst of my asthma
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  Speaker 1: is behind me. You like the cooler weather.
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  Speaker 2: Your lungs like the cooler weather. My lungs like the
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  Speaker 2: cooler weather. So we may have to go to Colorado
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  Speaker 2: or something.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I guess I just didn't know. I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: educated enough. But I used to think I could use
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  Speaker 1: my asthma as a reason to get you to move
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  Speaker 1: to a tropical place. To live.
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  Speaker 2: You don't think it's hot in a tropical place?
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  Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. But at the time, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: realize what the heat and humidity did to my lungs. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to have to entice you to go to
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  Speaker 1: a cold, snowy place.
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  Speaker 2: No, because it's still going to be humid. You're still
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  Speaker 2: going to have the humidity. Do you think it'll be
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  Speaker 2: better just because it's cold?
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  Speaker 1: Where do I go live?
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  Speaker 2: So, you pull a dock holiday and you go live
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  Speaker 2: in Tombstone, Arizona. And you let me draw down on people.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh. There's another... Reason why maybe I just
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  Speaker 1: need a bunker.
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  Speaker 2: Arizona, New Mexico.
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  Speaker 1: There you go, Art Bell Land.
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  Speaker 2: Utah.
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 2: Nevada, somewhere where it's just dry. It's a dry heat
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  Speaker 2: where it's 150 degrees outside.
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  Speaker 1: I'd be out on the roof of my house every
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  Speaker 1: evening looking for UFOs.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, you are one insane person. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I got nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Because I've taken you so far off course.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, so completely far off course.
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  Speaker 1: Because when we hit record, we had a very strategic plan, but.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't tell you that I was going to go
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  Speaker 1: south with the whole conspiracy theories.
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  Speaker 2: No, you did not.
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  Speaker 1: No, I do that on purpose. I don't tell you
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  Speaker 1: really what I'm going to talk about.
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  Speaker 2: So I will say that I do like those conspiracy
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  Speaker 2: theory shows that they have. I love those because it's
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  Speaker 2: so interesting. That doesn't mean I believe them, but I
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  Speaker 2: love them. They're fantastic. Yes, I agree.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes it's just fun to watch.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely. So I'm not against listening to conspiracy theories,
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  Speaker 2: but when it's... It's when you start believing crazy things
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  Speaker 2: like we didn't go to the moon. That's when I've
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  Speaker 2: got a problem. I can't help them. Like it makes
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  Speaker 2: zero sense.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my. But yes, again, this, you know, whose fault
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  Speaker 1: this is.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's my brother, Matt.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Well, Matt is a conspiracy theorist. This all
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  Speaker 1: comes back to Brad. Why are you blaming it on
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  Speaker 1: poor Brad? Brad made me watch Paradise, and Paradise got
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  Speaker 1: me in this weird, I'm having this existential crisis.
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  Speaker 2: Well, first off, it's called existential. Existential. Secondly, Brad did
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  Speaker 2: not make us watch it. In fact, Brad warned you
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  Speaker 2: that it would be a somewhat, I don't want, he
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  Speaker 2: didn't say dark subject, but you know, not a light
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  Speaker 2: subject for sure. So we can't blame it on poor Brad.
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  Speaker 1: Let me clarify something. Brad is one of my favorite
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  Speaker 1: people in all of podcast land.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I know he is.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, but I give, I do give him some grief
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  Speaker 1: and I don't want him to think I don't like him.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. You just like gifts better.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe just kidding, Brad.
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  Speaker 2: Oh boy. We've gone off the rails folks. I have
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  Speaker 2: no idea what's going on here. I'm going to try
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  Speaker 2: and get us back on track. This always puts us
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  Speaker 2: in the right frame of mind.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of little ghosties, this is a podcast that looks
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  Speaker 1: back on the decade of the 1980s. We talk about
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  Speaker 1: things that were important to us as children and and
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  Speaker 1: what we look back on with fond memories as adults. Ultimately,
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  Speaker 1: this is a nostalgia podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and today we're getting nostalgia. We're going to go
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  Speaker 2: back to the early 80s, but before we do that,
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  Speaker 2: I want to know if you have any cleanup items.
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  Speaker 2: Did you get any feedback from last episode from any folks?
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  Speaker 1: There's a conversation that's been going on on Patreon that
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  Speaker 1: I want to touch on for just a second.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 1: So CP, one of our Patreoners wanted my take on
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  Speaker 1: Stevie B. Right. I love Stevie B.
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  Speaker 2: You and CP are about the only ones and Stevie
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  Speaker 2: B's mom. So there's three of you.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, CP, Stevie B's mom, myself. We're all going to
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  Speaker 1: be in that bunker. Um, What was the name of
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  Speaker 1: that song?
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  Speaker 2: Because I Love You or The Postman.
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  Speaker 1: Because I love you.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, you're scaring off the listeners now. Or it's called
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  Speaker 2: The Postman song.
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  Speaker 1: I love that song. That just takes me back to
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  Speaker 1: a simpler time and place.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah. So I want to say that I was,
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  Speaker 2: so that was 1990. So I was either a sophomore
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  Speaker 2: or going into my junior year, but I want to
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  Speaker 2: say I was probably a sophomore, depending on when it hit.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it hit late. I mean, yeah, I liked it
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  Speaker 2: back then. I listen to it now and I cringe. Like,
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  Speaker 2: it's horrible. Yeah, it's awful.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 1: I don't see that at all.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's bad.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well, anyways, I was so glad that CP mentioned. Specifically,
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  Speaker 1: he wanted to know my thoughts on Stevie B.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Because that brought that song back to my memory and
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  Speaker 1: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, we're kind of doing our podcast. our
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  Speaker 2: Patreon stuff on 1980 10. And that was a number
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  Speaker 2: one song from 1980 10.
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  Speaker 1: Do you see who commented who also likes Stevie B
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  Speaker 1: who Brad?
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  Speaker 2: No, he did not.
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  Speaker 1: I picked Stevie B. If you like that song, maybe
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  Speaker 1: you'll like our show.
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  Speaker 2: Brad picked Stevie B because he didn't really have much
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  Speaker 2: of a choice when he got down to it. But
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  Speaker 2: I would recommend going and listening to Brad show. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: Brad show Brad, along with some miscommunication with my other friends,
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  Speaker 2: kind of spawned this idea that I have for today.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, what we're going to do today?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. But before we do that....
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  Speaker 1: I know because I'm Middle-Aged Man.
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  Speaker 3: Little-Aged Man.
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  Speaker 1: Little-Aged Man. He has powers and knowledge that are far
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  Speaker 1: beyond younger than middle-aged man.
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  Speaker 2: Caught between 40 and 55, accruing more interest yet losing
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  Speaker 2: his sex drive, developing skills and a gut.
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  Speaker 1: Middle-aged man.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so are you ready for this?
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  Speaker 1: I'm ready.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like this might be a shoo-in, but I've
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  Speaker 2: got some pictures in case you need to see them.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So, I'm going to nominate this person for Middle-Aged Man
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  Speaker 2: Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 1: Are you nominating him?
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  Speaker 2: Well, no. I mean, I'm going to.
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  Speaker 1: Passing along the nomination.
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  Speaker 2: Pass along the nomination to you. And you're going to
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  Speaker 2: choose whether or not they get in or get banished forever.
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  Speaker 2: No looking back on it like you want to do
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  Speaker 2: with Larry David. Okay. Okay. So, yeah, our nominee is
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  Speaker 2: the one, the only former five-time heavyweight champion of the world,
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  Speaker 2: Macho Man Randy Savage.
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  Speaker 1: See, I knew instantly where this was going.
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  Speaker 2: There's pictures with his ages right there. Here's my thing.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think he and Hulk can get along well
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  Speaker 1: enough to be in there together. Do you think that
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  Speaker 1: if I let the macho man in, that he and
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  Speaker 1: Hulk Hogan can make up?
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: We were the mega powers at once. We can get
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: it back again.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: So you've provided me some good pictures. When I realized
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: who you were going to be nominating, I was a
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: little unsure. But these pictures you've shown me, Of him
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: at age 24, 31, 37, and 48. He's in. Oh, yeah.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: That was a nomination by our buddy, Derek, with the
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Canadian movie crew.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Oh, awesome.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: He's also the one who nominated the Hulkster. So he's
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: a big wrestling fan and also has two nominations in
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: to our middle-aged man hall of fame that have been accepted.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: So thank you, Derek, for that. Now, are you ready
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: to hear what we're going to do today? Yes. So
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: I was listening to the pop culture yearbook podcast and
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: they were talking about back to the future. and Teen
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Wolf and Michael J. Fox. And they were talking about
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: how 1985 was a huge year for him because he
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: was in those movies plus Family Ties was like the
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: number two rated TV show for that year. And so
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: that got me thinking, okay, so it sounds to me
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: without digging in too much that Michael J. Fox won
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: the year of 1985. So then I started thinking, who
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: won the year for each year of the 1980s and
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: so what I would like to propose to you is
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: that we start this as maybe a series and we
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: will do maybe four three and three years on podcasts
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: okay Or maybe we'll do four and six, depending on
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: how long this lasts. It really depends on timing and
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: all that. But I thought about this year we start
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: at 80 and go through 83. What do you think?
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, let's do it.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: Do you like that idea?
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Today we're doing 80 to 83?
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Correct.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: And what I've done here is I have given like
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: five candidates for each year, except for one year, because
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: there's really only two candidates today.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: But I've given four or five for each year. And
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: then I've given a rundown of why they should be considered.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: And then we can talk about it and then pick.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: What do you think?
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Are we both picking?
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Either you can pick or we both can pick. Totally
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: up to you.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: I got it.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Or we can at least debate it.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: I'm ready. Let's do it.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: All right. So for 1980, our first candidate is one Mr.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Alan Alda. So he was the star of MASH. And
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: MASH finished third. in the Nielsen ratings for the 1979-1980
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: season as well as the 80-81 season. So you have
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: to realize that back in the day there was no cable,
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: so there were only three stations on. So MASH was huge,
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: along with other television shows. But that is why Alan
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Alda got my nomination there. All right. Number two. Larry Hagman,
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: star of Dallas.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: That's a no-brainer.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Okay, Dallas finished fourth in the Nielsen ratings. for the
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: 79-80 season and first in the 80-81 season with a 34.5 rating.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Only two other shows got into the 30s in the 1980s.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: And from March 21st, 1980 to November 21st, 1980, all
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: of America was asking the question, who shot.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: J.R.? Yeah, everyone talked about it. Right?
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: And that was for eight months. Okay, our next one
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: may surprise you a little bit. Our next nominee is
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: one Ms. or Mrs., depending on how you want to
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: call her, Goldie Hawn.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Now, explain that one to me.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: So, Goldie Hawn was the star of the movie Private Benjamin.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Private Benjamin was the sixth highest grossing movie in 1980,
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: and it actually held the number one movie spot for
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: eight consecutive weeks during the year. She also starred in
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: a movie called Seems Like Old Times with Chevy Chase,
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: which grossed $ 44 million, which was a lot back in 1980.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: So Goldie Hawn, big star in 1980. Had the number
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: one movie for eight weeks.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Okay. Is that it for 1980?
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: No, I've got two more.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: Okay. Sorry.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: I'm just getting excited. Are you?
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: All right. Our next nominee is Richard Pryor. Richard Pryor.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: was the star of Stir Crazy and obviously a comedian.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Stir Crazy was the third highest grossing movie of 1980.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: It held the number one movie spot for three weeks,
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: which is less than Goldie Hawn, but he also starred
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: in the comedies Holy Moses as well as In God
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: We Trust. And then, besides those three movies, he also
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: set himself on fire while freebasing cocaine.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: No, that's insane. He wasn't on stage when he did that.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: No, he was at his house. He was at his house.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: He was freebasing cocaine. He spilt some rum or something
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: on him and then got set on fire and took
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: off running down the street. That's on fire. All right.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: And then our fifth nominee is one Mr. Burt Reynolds,
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: star of Smokey and the Bandit Part Two, which was
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: the eighth highest grossing movie of 1980. And it held
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: the number one movie spot for four weeks. And he
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: also starred in a movie called Rough Cut.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: So, with that being said, you've got Alan Alda, Larry Hagman,
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Goldie Hawn, Richard Pryor, Burt Reynolds. Who wins 1980?
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Larry Hagman.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: Larry Hagman. Tell me why.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: He wears a 10-gallon hat.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: That's not a reason to pick somebody.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: All women love a man in a 10-gallon hat.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: I find that... To probably not be true and possibly
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: be preposterous.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Do you own a 10-gallon hat?
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: I do not.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Maybe you should.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: Well, maybe I'll get one now.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: No, seriously. When you think back on the days of Dallas,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: I've said this before on the show. I'd never seen...
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: a TV show before Dallas or after Dallas where my
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: grandmother had to call my mom when the show went
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: off to discuss what she had just seen on the show.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: Like, she had to recap it. Like, she had to
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: talk through it like it was, like, more than her
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: little brain could handle on its own and she needed
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: somebody to bounce the ideas off of or something. Like,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: to me, that right there says something about the.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Iconicness is that a word sure.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: Of dallas if it's not we'll just make it up
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: here on children of the.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: 80s and larry hagman played the best bad guy.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: He did he really did i was thinking when you
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: said i haven't seen a show since then i would
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: say the last show that you had to talk about
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: the next day that i recall that we would talk
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: about the next day at work was lost Really?
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: See, I never watched Lost.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so Lost would come on, and everybody would talk
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: about it the next day at work, trying to figure out, like,
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: what's going on here. Uh-huh, right. Where are they at?
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: Kind of thing. But that was it.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: You think about 1980.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: No cable.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Was 46 years ago. Yep. And we still make the reference,
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: who shot J.R.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: I know, because it was that big.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: We don't ever talk about who shot Snyder, right?
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Because nobody shot Snyder.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Who slammed the door in Snyder's face? Everyone. We don't
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: ever talk about that. But we talk about who shot J.R.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: And just how that was next level. Okay.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: So I'm going to tend to agree with you here.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: I will say. Okay.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: I guess I'm not going to speak.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: I will say Burt Reynolds is a close second.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: So may I speak now? All right. So I tend
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: to agree with you here. I think because we've got
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: America talking for eight months about who shot J.R., I
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: think Larry Hagman probably wins this. But I don't agree
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: that Burt Reynolds is probably number two. Although I would
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: say if you go from like 76, 77 to about 82,
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Burt Reynolds is probably the guy.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: There's no one bigger than Burt Reynolds.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: But if we're talking about just one specific year, I'm
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: going to go Larry Hagman one, but I'm going to
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: go Richard Pryor two. Because I knew who Richard Pryor
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: was more than I knew who Burt Reynolds.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Was at six years old. That's probably where you grew up.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Don't you think?
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, maybe. I mean, I knew
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: who Burt Reynolds was.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: East St. Louis versus the R-U-R-A-L of the South.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: I didn't grow up in East St. Louis.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Our idol was Mr.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Burt Reynolds. Well, yeah, because he starred in Deliverance, which
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: is something that happens on a daily basis here in
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: the South.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: But I will say that, like, we knew who Richard
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Pryor was. And I knew who Burt Reynolds was. But
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: I wasn't exactly sitting down to watch Smokey and the
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Bandit Part 2 at six years old, where I would
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: sit down to watch Stir Crazy if allowed. It's six
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: years old, but I probably wasn't allowed. I'm guessing it
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: was probably rated R.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: That just almost blows my mind. Because... We would sit
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: down and watch Smokey and the Bandit.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I watched the original Smokey and the Bandit
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: all the time. But Smokey 2, no, I didn't. Although
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: it was pretty good. All right, so we're both going
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: with Larry Hagman, and then we disagree on the number two.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: You say Burt, I say Richard Pryor. Although I do
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: remember Goldie Hawn being huge in 1980.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Well, that made me think about when you talked about
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Goldie Hawn, what was the TV show that you referenced
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: or the movie that you referenced she did?
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: Private Benjamin.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Well, didn't they make a TV show out of that?
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: They did, yes.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: How come we have never talked about this? How come
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: I have not thought of this TV show since 1985
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: until this moment right here, right now?
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Because it wasn't a popular TV show. And Goldie Hawn
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: wasn't the star.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: I know she wasn't. Do we even know who the
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: star was?
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: I bet we do.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: That is insane, though. My mind is blown.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: That you hadn't thought about it until now?
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because doing this podcast now for four seasons, you
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: would have thought at some point my little pea brain
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: would have remembered that I liked that TV show when
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: I was a kid.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: You probably did like that TV show when you were
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: a kid.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: I absolutely loved.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: It so here's the deal eileen brennan reprised her role
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: from the movie in the television show yes um you
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: know who eileen brennan.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Is she was the real gruff older.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah and she didn't she kind of don't Right. She
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: was in a lot of television shows, single episodes, sometimes
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: double or triple episodes. But back in the day, she
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: was in, obviously, Private Benjamin. She was in Clue. She
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: played Mrs. Peacock in Clue. She played Miss Piper in
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: Babes in Toyland. So she was one of those actresses
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: that people would recognize.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: She had that face.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: Yes, for sure. So she was in that. Lorna Patterson
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: played Private Benjamin.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Lorna Patterson.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: Lorna Patterson. She was born in 1956. She was not
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: in a lot of stuff. So she was in an
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: episode of Lou Grant. She played the role of Randy
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: in Airplane. And then just episodes here and there. Episode Hotel,
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: episode Murder, She Wrote. Not a big star, which is
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: surprising that she got the main cast in Private Benjamin,
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: the main character. She was in the television show Good
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: Time Girls. Do you remember that? That was in 1980. No,
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: I don't. I don't remember that either. I wonder if
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: anybody else does.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: She's 70.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: So guess what?
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: What?
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: There's going to be somebody that you know. Hal Williams
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: was in Private Benjamin, the television show. And you know
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: him from Samford and Son.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Of course, I love Hal. He passed away over the summer.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: Yes, he played Lester Jenkins in 227. That's where most
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: of us probably know him from. But he was also
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: in five episodes of Samford and Son as Officer Schmitty.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Barry on the Goldbergs thought Jim was short for Jimothy.
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: Yes, I have been called Jimothy before.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: Do you know Hal is short for something?
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is. What? Harold.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: No, sir.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: Yes, it is.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: No, sir.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: Maybe not this Hal, but most Hals are short for Harold.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: It is short for Halroy. Halroy. Hal Roy, Candace Williams.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: That is different, but most people named Harold go by Hal. Well,
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: I don't want to say most people named Harold go
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: by Hal, but most people who go by Hal, typically
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: their name is Harold.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Do you know that most people with the name Hal
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Roy go by Hal?
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm sure that they do.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Are you regretting letting me have that second cup of coffee?
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: I really am. I really am. You know what's scary?
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: We got to record a Patreon after this. I know.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: I hope you don't let that one go off the rails.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: You know what happened? I'll crash in a minute.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. We need to keep this train moving.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: 1981.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: Candidates. Alan Alda, star of MASH.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: Again?
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: Again. So MASH finished third. But he's more qualified this
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: year than he was in 80. So MASH finished third
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: in the Nielsen ratings for 80 and 81 and seventh
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: for 81, 82. But he also wrote and starred in
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: the movie The Four Seasons. The show that we like
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: on Netflix is based off of that movie. Four Seasons
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: was also the ninth highest grossing movie in 1981. Oh,
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: it was? And it held the number one movie spot
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: for one week during 1981. Okay. So Alan Alda is
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: the candidate. Larry Hagman. Star of Dallas again.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: This doesn't seem fair.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: Just because you win a year doesn't mean you retire
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: and quit. People like to go back to back. All right.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Larry Hagman, Star of Dallas. Dallas finished first in the
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: Nielsen ratings in 80 and 81 and first in 81,
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: 82 with a 34 and a half rating. He also
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: starred in five episodes of Knotts Landing as J.R. Ewing.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: There was that crossover there.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: He was in the satirical black comedy film called S.O.B.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: No idea what that stands for. And then also starred
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: in a 1981 Swedish comedy film called I Am Blushing,
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: where he played a fictionalized version of himself.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: Really.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: Okay. This is all stuff I did not know. C.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: Our third nominee, Harrison Ford. star of Raiders of the
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: Lost Ark, which is the highest grossing movie of 1981.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: It held the number one movie spot for eight weeks
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: and it became one. And he became one of the
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: most iconic movie characters of all time, but that's all
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: he did in 1981. But is it big enough?
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: Our next one, Dolly Parton. She is the star of
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: nine to five and a singer. So Here's the deal.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: 9 to 5 was the second highest grossing movie of 1980.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: But it actually made most of its money in 1981
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: as the movie was released on December 19th of 1980.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: And it held the number one movie spot for the
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: first three weeks of 9 to 5. The song was
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: a number one hit on both the Billboard and country
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: charts in 1981. nine to five. The song was the
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: ninth best song of 1981, according to the billboard year
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: end hot 100. And she also had a song on
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: the year end country chart at number 15 called, but
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: you know, I love you.
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: So there's Dolly's candidacy. And finally, a repeat offender from 1980, Mr.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: Burt Reynolds star of the cannonball run. He, uh, which
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: was the sixth highest grossing movie of 1981, uh, He
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: also starred in Paternity, which grossed $ 18. 8 million. And he
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: also starred and directed in Sharky's Machine, which grossed $ 35. 6 million. Okay.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: So you've got something to think about. These are all
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: really good candidates, better candidates than 1980.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: I think that my answer here is going to surprise you.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: I'm going with Alan Alda.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, that does surprise me.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: Because I... I don't get the appeal of MASH, and
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: I've given it lots of chances.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: You have.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: But I do understand that MASH was a hugely popular show,
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: probably because people had no other choice but to watch it.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: And therefore, he was hugely popular. And so I think
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: he deserves this number one spot.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: Okay. My choice would be Dolly.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, my choice would be Dolly. I mean, that movie
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: was huge. The song was huge. The song was on
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: all the time. She just kind of dominated 1981. My
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: choice would be Dolly. But it could have been Burt Reynolds.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: Burt Reynolds could have easily won 80 and 81.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: You can never go wrong with Dolly. Right.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: Are you surprised that I went Dolly?
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: I think it's like you and I switched.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm surprised that you didn't go Dolly.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: I know. Because I really felt like The M.A.S.H. thing,
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: like I had to recognize it at some point.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: Now ask me, I would rather watch Raiders of the
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: Lost Ark and Cannonball Run over anything else on this list.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: But Cannonball Run's classic. Oh my gosh, it's so funny.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: I love it. All right. Moving on to 1982. Okay.
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: All right. 1982 only has two candidates.
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: Oh, wow.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: Because they're both so huge.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: That's controversial in and of itself.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: Nobody else could compete. Okay. So our number one candidate
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: is Mr. Steven Spielberg. He's the director and producer of E.T.,
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: which is the number one movie of 1982. And it's
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: also the highest grossing movie of the 1980s period when
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: adjusted for inflation. All right. He also wrote and produced Poltergeist. Now,
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: Poltergeist was the eighth highest grossing grossing movie of 1982.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: And he was smart enough to turn the directing over
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: to Toby Hooper, who was a horror director, which made
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: the movie scarier. Steven Spielberg wrote the sweet part about
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: the family and the love of the family, but allowed
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: Toby Hooper to direct the scary parts about that, which
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: made it just absolutely horrifying for us children of the 80s.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: And it really is one of the more iconic films
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: of the 80s. And after watching that geek year 1982 thing,
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: I kind of want to watch Poltergeist again. Oh, yeah, no. Yeah,
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: I think you're going to watch it.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. All right.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: And then our second candidate, the only person that could
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: possibly compete with Steven Spielberg in 1982 is one Mr.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: Sylvester Stallone.
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: Oh, wow.
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: So he wrote, directed, and starred in Rocky III. Now,
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: Rocky III is the fourth highest grossing movie of 1982.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: So it's in between E.T. and Poltergeist. It was the
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: number one movie for Memorial Weekend of 1982. And it
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: was the highest Memorial Day weekend of all time from
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: 1982 and prior. It's been beat since then.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: Rocky III was Clubber Lang.
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: Yes. Rocky III was Clubber Lang. And Hulk. Hogan. All right.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: And then secondly, so Rocky III wasn't the only thing
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: he did because that wouldn't qualify him to have a
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: chance against Steven Spielberg. But he also wrote and starred
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: in First Blood, which introduced us to the character John Rambo.
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: It actually held the number one movie spot for three weeks.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: So Rocky III only held it for one week. First
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: Blood held it for three weeks. And I know you
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: haven't seen it. And if you went back, you'd probably
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: be bored. No, not Rambo. First Blood.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: I thought I had.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: It's from 1982. It looks really old and really dated.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: I saw the one where you get to see his
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: little butt.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: Oh, you did with Brian Dennehy?
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they were like spraying him down.
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Did you see the whole movie or just
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: that part?
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: No, I saw the whole movie.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: Oh, you did? Yes. Oh, okay. Yes.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Do you like how I'm doing?
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I do. I like how you're shaking. That's a
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: really good movie. Like, it's not, it's not a.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: It gave little lens an eyeful.
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: It's, it's not, it's not the cartoon character that Rambo
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: would become later on in the decade.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: No, it was.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: This is actually a well-acted.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: Really good movie.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: Correct.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: A really good story.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: He wasn't like a cartoon character. Correct. Is that what
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: you just said? Did I just repeat what you said?
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: I believe you did.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: That's okay.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: We'll cut that.
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: You have been paying attention to me all night.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: I have done nothing but pay attention all night.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: All right. So I don't think anybody else from 1982
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: could compete with that.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: Well, this one's easy. Sylvester Stallone.
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: Over E.T., the biggest movie of the 80s.
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Rocky and Rambo together. How could you pick anything but
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: Sylvester Stallone when you're referencing those two movies and those
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: two characters? That's the 80s right there. Yeah.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: You have a point. I feel like Steven Spielberg was
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: also the 80s.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: I don't disagree.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: You know, he was the biggest movie of the 1980s.
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: Bigger than Star Wars, bigger than Indiana Jones.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: I hear you.
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: So I think it's a tough call, but I can't
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: get mad at the Sylvester Stallone pick. All right. So
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: that moves us to the last year for this episode.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: I feel like we're going to have a lot of
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: people upset.
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sure we are. I'm sure we are, but
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: you know what we can do? We can do another
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: episode of 84 through 89, or we can do 84
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: through 86 and then 87 through 89.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: Depending on how much material I can come up with.
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: All right. Here's your 1983 candidates. You ready? Only four
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: of them this time. And I feel like it's really
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: a race between two, but I nominated four. First one,
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: Larry Hagman. Dallas is still the number one show on
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: TV in 82, 83 and 83, 84. Number two, Tom Selleck.
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: He's got the number three show on TV in 82
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: and 83 and the number five in 83 to 84.
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: And he also in 83 got his first major starring
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: role in the movie High Road to China, which grossed $ 28. 4 million.
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: I've never heard of that.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: I haven't either, but after reading the synopsis of it,
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: I think I'd like to see it.
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: All right. I don't think either of those two stand
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: a chance, though.
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: Uh-oh. Who is it?
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: Our third nominee is Mr. T.
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: He's the star of The A-Team, which is the number
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: three show in 83-84. He was in DC Cab. He
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: hosted Saturday Night Live.
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: He played himself on an episode of Different Strokes, on
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: an episode of Alvin and the Chipmunks, and for our
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: Canadian friends, on an episode of Bizarre-y. He also launched
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: his cartoon in 1983. Now, it seems like Mr. T's
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: probably a shoe-in for that win. But I think we've
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: got a candidate that matches up right with him. And
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: that is one, Mr. Eddie Murphy.
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: Oh, wow.
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: So Eddie Murphy starred in Trading Places, which is the
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: number four grossing movie of the year in 1983. He
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: was absolutely the most popular cast member on Saturday Night
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: Live at this time. And the only reason why it survived,
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: it should have tanked, but Eddie Murphy saved it. And
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: he actually, he's the only one, I think, Maybe they've
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: changed it. Maybe they've done it since then. But he's
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: actually hosted Saturday Night Live while being a cast member. Oh, really?
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: That's how good he was. This year, he would also
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: host the 14th Annual NAACP Awards. And he also hosted
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: the Primetime Emmy Awards in 1983. And finally, he had
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: his stand-up special, Delirious, which was on HBO all the time.
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: and was huge and kind of shocked the world at
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: how funny he was. And people talked about it like
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: nonstop and still talk about it to this day. So
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: to me, Larry Hagman and Tom Selleck get the boot.
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: They get the thanks for coming. Thanks for playing. No, no.
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: And it's between Mr. T and Eddie Murphy.
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: Not so quick.
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: Mr.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: T gets the number one spot hands down because, well,
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: he's Mr. T. But the runner up for me, is
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: mr mustache.
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: That's only because you're in love with him eddie murphy
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: had a way bigger.
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: Year tom selick magnum pi was he was like he
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: was iconic he was essentially um the hawaii version of
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: oh no i lost my train of thought I was
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: going to try to say he was the Hawaii version
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: of Michael J. Fox. Yes. I mean, I was going
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: to try to make some weird correlation, but I just
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: feel like it was. How could you not his mustache
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: in his hairy chest in his car?
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: It doesn't mean he won the year. That doesn't mean
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: he won the year. He was on a TV show
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: and played a movie that nobody saw or heard of.
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: So you're picking Mr. T.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: I'm picking Mr. T.
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: I'm having trouble between Mr. T and Eddie Murphy.
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: For your number one.
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think I'm going to go Mr. T just
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: because I think Eddie Murphy is going to win again
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: later on. Oh, really? Yeah.
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's I think this is another
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: example of just we grew up watching different things.
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: I mean, I didn't grow up watching Eddie Murphy, but
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: I certainly knew who he was. I mean, my parents,
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: there's no way my parents were going to let me
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: watch delirious, but you know, and I don't think they
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: would have let me watch trading places either, but I
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: watched SNL and he was hilarious. And then he was all,
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: he was just everywhere. I don't know, Mr. T or
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: Eddie Murphy. It's really close. I guess I'll side with Mr.
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: T just because I feel like maybe he did. more
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: with less. Yeah. But yeah, I'm going to give it
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: to Mr. T because not only did he host Saturday
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: Night Live and star on a television show and a
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: movie and was a guest star in a couple of
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: television shows, but he launched a cartoon in 1983. And
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: I think that's the one thing that maybe puts him
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: right ahead of Eddie Murphy as the winner of 1983.
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: I agree.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: So what'd you think? What do you think of this idea?
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: This is fun. I didn't think you could come up
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: with a new twist on ways to compare or pit
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: different years against each other. And here you have, you've
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: done it again.
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: Oh, I've got more.
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you do.
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: I've got more. I got more ideas. What do you
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: think about comparing like Sly's 1980s to Arnold's 1980s?
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: That would be fun.
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: Right? So we can do things like that. I'm thinking.
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: But we got to get some more ladies in here.
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: We do. But the ladies weren't really kicking butt in
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: the 80s. Well, except for Dolly. I did pick Dolly.
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: You're the one who gave up on the ladies.
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I can't argue with you on that one.
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: I went with Dolly. So that wraps up our first episode.
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: We're not going to do this again next week. I
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: don't think. Are we?
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: No.
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: Okay. I didn't think so. But we want to hear
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: from you all. Did we get it right? Did we?
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: Did we get it wrong? Did we leave any deserving
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: candidates off? Was there somebody that should have been nominated?
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: I'm sure somebody can probably come up with something that's
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: better than what I came up with. But what do
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: you think?
• 48:30
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• 48:32
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• 48:38
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• 48:41
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• 48:46
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• 48:50
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• 48:54
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• 48:59
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• 49:12
  Speaker 3: Soundtrack