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80s Deaths · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We got a question for American Mama's. Dear Mama's eighties
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  Speaker 1: kids took a hit last week with the death of
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  Speaker 1: three icons. What makes eighties celebrities so different from today's. Well,
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  Speaker 1: let's ask American Mama's and joining us now our American
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  Speaker 1: Mama's Terry Neediville and Kimberly Burlison, and boy, it was
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  Speaker 1: a rough week last week. Ozzy Osbourne certainly passing away,
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  Speaker 1: Hulk Hogan passing away, and then from the Yeah, Malcolm
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  Speaker 1: mm Warner from The Cosby Show, Uh, he passed away too,
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, kind of you know, for for gen X kids,
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  Speaker 1: for for eighties kids, that was.
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  Speaker 2: That was right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, and you can actually add in some nineties
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  Speaker 1: kids on some of that too, because of obviously we
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  Speaker 1: know Ozzie's Family and the reality show there that.
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  Speaker 3: Was like the first reality show I ever watched. They
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  Speaker 3: must have been like.
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  Speaker 1: One of the first. See I always whenever I think
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  Speaker 1: of the Ozzie Show, I think of weird Al Yankovic
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  Speaker 1: doing a spoof on Eminem's Lose Yourself where he goes
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  Speaker 1: yo Ozzie's Family show. That's profanity and that's and he
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  Speaker 1: moved on. But anyway, that's always stuck in my head.
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  Speaker 1: That's just a little glimpse. Yeah, So what was y'all's
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  Speaker 1: reaction last week?
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  Speaker 2: I was kind of sad.
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  Speaker 3: I was sad about Ozzie. But you know what's so
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  Speaker 3: funny is I think he's seventy five. He died at
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  Speaker 3: seventy five or seventy six, yes, seventy six. I think
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  Speaker 3: I thought he's been seventy five for twenty years. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you know what I mean. I just have always felt
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  Speaker 3: like he was on his last leg, Like it always
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  Speaker 3: seemed like it was close. It was close. It was close.
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  Speaker 3: So after he died, after that huge concert that he
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  Speaker 3: put on, I thought it was kind of like a
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  Speaker 3: poetic justice.
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  Speaker 1: It was just like a Now that's what I focused on.
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  Speaker 1: My daughter sent me a text saying Ozzy Osbourne's died
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  Speaker 1: in big old frownie sat eyes and I said, look,
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  Speaker 1: the very last thing he did, he did a concert
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  Speaker 1: with a whole bunch of rock gods and legends and
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  Speaker 1: all that raised one hundred and ninety million dollars for
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  Speaker 1: Parkinson's Research and Children's Hospitals in Birmingham, England. If you
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  Speaker 1: go out and your last, your last thing that you
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  Speaker 1: do is to raise one hundred and ninety million dollars
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  Speaker 1: for charity. That's pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, And he saw his daughter get engaged. Yeah that's
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  Speaker 3: I thought that was cool, like a way to go out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I was thinking about all three of
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  Speaker 2: them and what separates the eighties in the nineties, Like
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  Speaker 2: you said, we felt invested in these people like Hulk
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  Speaker 2: Hogan came and he brought this new life to the
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  Speaker 2: the ww.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah ww F at the time and then became WWE
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  Speaker 1: later on.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the boys had that whole Hulk Hogan told
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  Speaker 2: of that, But you know I was. I was telling
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  Speaker 2: my kids one day, this generation, you have these one
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  Speaker 2: hit wonders, a lot of people that are discovered online,
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  Speaker 2: like if you turn on regular radio or regular music
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  Speaker 2: from today. I don't know how of these people. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what they look like. I don't know I
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  Speaker 2: can't tell you what other songs they sing. I can't
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  Speaker 2: tell you where they're from. We grew up in the
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  Speaker 2: MTV era and the Cosby Show also, this whole era.
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  Speaker 2: We were all in it together. Everybody knew who the
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  Speaker 2: Cosbies were and the family ties. Yeah, Domino's piece of
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  Speaker 2: the third seven o'clock, and then everybody knew who Hulk
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  Speaker 2: Hogan was, and we knew the you know, triumphs and
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  Speaker 2: the trials and all of that, and everybody knew. We
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  Speaker 2: were on that Ausie train where he went from like
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  Speaker 2: you thought he was going to hell to this saint,
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  Speaker 2: not saint, but somebody that raised millions and millions of
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  Speaker 2: dollars for something that for churity, Yes, and so we
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  Speaker 2: were invested. We knew, we knew the band members. I
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  Speaker 2: mean even in the seventies, we knew the names of
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  Speaker 2: the band members, where they were from, how their band formed,
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  Speaker 2: we knew how they came together. We could picture the videos.
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  Speaker 2: Nowadays we don't know, I don't know, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: who these people are.
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  Speaker 1: So is part of that because in the certainly the seventies,
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  Speaker 1: eighties and even into the nineties somewhat, there were three
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  Speaker 1: TV channels, Yes, that's right, right, even even when you
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  Speaker 1: had cable, Yeah, you still you didn't have the big
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  Speaker 1: breakthrough hits until really the you know, the two thousands
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  Speaker 1: on cable or at least the late nineties you really had.
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  Speaker 1: There were there were three channels and MTV, right, and
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  Speaker 1: you knew who Hulk Hogan was because of you know,
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  Speaker 1: he was on wrestling. You knew Malcolm Jamal Warner because
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  Speaker 1: he was on Cosby, You knew Ozzy because he was
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  Speaker 1: on the radio, and there were only a couple of
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  Speaker 1: radio stations. He was on the heavy metal station, right,
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  Speaker 1: And and now you know it's it's that whole of
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  Speaker 1: fifteen minutes of fame. Everybody everybody's famous, right, which means
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  Speaker 1: nobody's famous.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, exactly exactly. And we felt so invested. And if
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  Speaker 2: you see, like they showed clips of like Hulk Hogan
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  Speaker 2: at these cons you know these conventions, right, and these
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  Speaker 2: kids from this era that have seen those old clips
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  Speaker 2: that would walk up to him and you know, take
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  Speaker 2: to start chearing their shirt and he would get in
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  Speaker 2: there with them. And somebody sent me the last video
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  Speaker 2: that Malcolm Jamal Warner did and it was just beautiful,
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  Speaker 2: just be a light in this world type of video.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he was just it was that precious. And
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  Speaker 2: then Ozzy Osbourne and of course their love story. Talk
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  Speaker 2: about a love story that when I tell you, they
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  Speaker 2: went through everything a couple could go through, and it
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  Speaker 2: was out in the open, and yet love always won.
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  Speaker 2: They always came back to each other. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what he said. The greatest thing he ever did was Mary.
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  Speaker 1: Her She made the choice right to come back out.
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  Speaker 3: And so you know, you're right.
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  Speaker 2: It's whatever. They showed that on those three channels plus
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  Speaker 2: MTV and they you know, Cosby Show was the number
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  Speaker 2: one show and it was kind of a show that
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  Speaker 2: we all felt like we could relate to. Yeah, yes,
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  Speaker 2: so it was quite a hit. You're kind of like
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  Speaker 2: there was somebody else. I wasn't a fan, but it
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  Speaker 2: was a trumpet player that Chuck Man Jenny Yes, and
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  Speaker 2: everybody was like, man, what is happening right now? You know,
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  Speaker 2: it did feel like an end of an era with
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  Speaker 2: these three guys.
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  Speaker 1: of Kimberly Brothers and thank you so much.