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Guess the Theme: Musical Playlist · Children of the 80s

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  Speaker 1: Children of the Eighties is brought to you by Q
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  Speaker 1: or download the app Welcome back to Children of the Eighties.
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  Speaker 1: I am Lindsey and with me today is the Caped
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  Speaker 1: Crusader Captain Kidney.
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  Speaker 2: Caped Crusader Butlers back in the podcast house. Why did
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  Speaker 2: you give me Batman's nickname? I don't know, but Caped
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  Speaker 2: Crusader Captain Kidney. It's all a sound.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why. That's why your cape has a k
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  Speaker 1: on it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh it does? Yes, Oh, okay, not a ck like
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  Speaker 2: Calvin Kleink. People would confuse that with Calvin Klein.
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  Speaker 1: Then they would start calling you Calvin.
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  Speaker 2: That would be weird, like like Leah Thompson.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, my favorite actress.
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  Speaker 2: I'm back back for good. Never to leave this microphone again.
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  Speaker 1: How do you feel.
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  Speaker 2: I feel fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: I know you look fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: I feel fantastic. It's hard to believe that three weeks
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  Speaker 2: ago they cut my kidney out. It's really it really
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  Speaker 2: is hard to believe.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this has been nothing short of pretty much a
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  Speaker 1: miracle in the fact that your recovery has just been
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  Speaker 1: textbook perfect.
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  Speaker 2: I expected to be like lying around in bed like
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  Speaker 2: fifteen sixteen hours a day and really fatigued and kind
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  Speaker 2: of in pain still at this point, and I'm not.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I get a little fatigued, right, So if
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  Speaker 2: I sleep for eleven hours at night, then I'm good.
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  Speaker 2: But if I sleep for like eight hours at night,
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  Speaker 2: than usually I need a nap sometime during the day.
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  Speaker 2: But other than that, I'm good. And that's not a
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  Speaker 2: whole lot of different than before I had the surgery.
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  Speaker 1: You've got a definite pep in your staff that you
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  Speaker 1: had lost I honestly think for quite some time prior
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  Speaker 1: to the surgery, even before we knew something was going on.
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  Speaker 1: And you have that back.
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  Speaker 2: I have that the pep.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you got that light back in your eyes, and
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  Speaker 1: it's it's real. It's really good to see.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm not sick anymore.
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  Speaker 1: So that might be why absolutely so so so so
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  Speaker 1: happy that everything has gone as well as it has.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm shocked. If and I am a I am
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  Speaker 2: a cynical man. So if I was on the other
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  Speaker 2: end and heard somebody talking like this, I'd be like
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  Speaker 2: they had nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Wrong with them, right, No, right, right?
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  Speaker 2: But because I'm so cynical, but I really did have
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  Speaker 2: my kidney cut up, like oh he.
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  Speaker 1: Was obviously you being over dramatic. Now it was. It
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  Speaker 1: was an extremely large tumor. And promise you he had
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  Speaker 1: the tumor and the kidney removed both of them, and
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  Speaker 1: has he has the scar?
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  Speaker 2: I prove it, yes I do. It's a very big scar.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm not going to show you.
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  Speaker 1: So the only thing here it might affect your beach
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  Speaker 1: body this summer.
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  Speaker 2: It may Yeah. I wasn't planning on going to the
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  Speaker 2: beach though, so it really doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, there you go. Then it all's well. That ends well.
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  Speaker 1: So I got to I got something we need to
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  Speaker 1: talk about.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you do? Okay, what do you get?
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  Speaker 1: So our children are fighting?
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  Speaker 2: Our children are fighting? Yes, I thought we only had
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  Speaker 2: one child.
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  Speaker 1: We have Emmy who's twelve.
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  Speaker 2: Right, that's the only child I know of that we have.
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  Speaker 1: And we have Gary Busey who is four ish maybe
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  Speaker 1: five ish, and they are fighting right now.
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  Speaker 2: He's not a child, He's a cat.
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  Speaker 1: He's my child, and I have the ultra sound to
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  Speaker 1: prove it. A cat, a cat, He is a child.
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  Speaker 1: He is a cat child. But Anyways, we could argue
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  Speaker 1: about this all night.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we really could. I big boring radio.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I get the final say because I have the
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  Speaker 1: ultra sound to prove that he's my child. Anyways, Emmy's
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  Speaker 1: grandmother has been here for two weeks visiting, and she
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  Speaker 1: came originally to take care of you, and she'd, thank goodness,
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  Speaker 1: didn't really need to do much of that. So we've
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  Speaker 1: had a good visit with her, and she bought Emmy
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  Speaker 1: a harmonica. She did, and Emmy has set right to
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  Speaker 1: playing Billy Joel. But Gary Busey hates it.
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  Speaker 2: He does hate it. She's trying to figure out piano
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  Speaker 2: man on her own without looking at anything on the internet,
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  Speaker 2: and she's figured out most of it already, which is
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  Speaker 2: blows my mind. But yes, the cat hates it.
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  Speaker 1: So they are downstairs right now. I can hear them.
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  Speaker 1: I'm hoping it doesn't come through the microphones. I can
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  Speaker 1: hear her play the piano the harmonica, and then I
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  Speaker 1: hear Gary whaling at her.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and he just ran across the piano keys.
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  Speaker 1: He did, and we definitely we heard that because he's
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  Speaker 1: done that before, so we know what that sounds like.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, our children in her fighting. And I had
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  Speaker 1: no idea, Jim, that you were going to give me
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  Speaker 1: the miniature piano man. That's what our love made.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you had to go and make it weird, didn't you.
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  Speaker 2: You just can't help yourself.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's what I do.
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  Speaker 2: Well, she's not a miniature piano man because she's a
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  Speaker 2: she she's.
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  Speaker 1: A twelve year old girl. Do you know? Okay, who
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  Speaker 1: was it?
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  Speaker 2: Could be the piano girl maybe.
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  Speaker 1: Okay was it? Who was it? From the nineties?
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  Speaker 2: Big old fat man, Big old fat man? What are
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  Speaker 2: you doing over there?
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  Speaker 1: I lost my mind? What was the band? He was
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  Speaker 1: the lead singer and he had that little harmonica holder
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  Speaker 1: around his neck.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you're talking about Blues Traveler?
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  Speaker 3: Is that?
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: What song did they do?
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  Speaker 2: Hook and run Around?
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  Speaker 1: And yes, that's who I'm talking about?
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  Speaker 2: Mountains Win again And that's what she needs now. Oh
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  Speaker 2: she needs a big old fat man to play the
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  Speaker 2: harmonica with her.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, she needs that holder so she can play the
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  Speaker 1: piano and then play the harmonica right and then so
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  Speaker 1: she's not having to like pick it up and said it.
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  Speaker 2: You know what, I'm sitting here, you know, I'm happy
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  Speaker 2: that she's learning. Billy Joel, and then I told her,
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  Speaker 2: after this, we'll have to get her a different harmonica
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  Speaker 2: so she can play Tom Petty's Mary Jane's Last Dance. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: but I didn't even think about Blues Traveler. She can
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  Speaker 2: also play Blues Traveler. Yes, that's that's some cool stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So but anyway, well, anyway.
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  Speaker 1: I had a little plastic harmonica when I was a
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  Speaker 1: little girl, and it was like, this is all I
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  Speaker 1: could do with it?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, why do you sound like a zebra in heat?
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  Speaker 1: Exactly? And she opened it. Memo gave it to her.
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  Speaker 1: She opened it, she looked at it. She was super
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  Speaker 1: happy and excited, right, all the emotions. And then she
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  Speaker 1: picked it up and literally started playing piano.
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  Speaker 2: Man, I know, like she like she knew all along.
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  Speaker 2: But she's been practicing with the harmonica over somewhere else.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I was over here for five six years.
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  Speaker 2: Oh lord, I've had.
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  Speaker 1: Too much coffee.
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  Speaker 2: I think you have.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I have, and it's not even good. I keep
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  Speaker 1: messing it up.
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  Speaker 2: Oh gosh, this is I think we're in for an
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  Speaker 2: interesting episode here, folks. Lindsey has lost her mind. She's
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  Speaker 2: hopped up on caffeine yep, and apparently she likes to
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  Speaker 2: make Zebra and the Heat releases and talk about what
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  Speaker 2: her love made.
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  Speaker 1: A little piano girl.
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  Speaker 2: Oh Lord, anything else before we get to me?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you know, just think Dave and Brad one more time.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, thank you fellas for filling in for
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  Speaker 2: each of us. Dave, thank you for filling in for Lindsey. No, Dave,
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  Speaker 2: I mean Dave, thank you for filling in for me. Brad,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for filling in for Lindsey. And we really
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  Speaker 2: appreciate it. You guys came through when we need you
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  Speaker 2: just so appreciate that. I guess we're not going to
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  Speaker 2: talk about those episodes. I did get a ton of
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  Speaker 2: feedback on Mel and Schneider.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I got no I got something to say. I
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  Speaker 1: do have something to say about Mel. You showed me
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  Speaker 1: a picture that I think one of our listeners may
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  Speaker 1: be sent to you or tagged you in on X.
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  Speaker 1: Was that actor played in an episode of love Boat?
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  Speaker 2: I think he probably played in several episodes of love Boat.
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  Speaker 1: And sent me like a screenshot of him in love Boat.
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  Speaker 2: He was handsome, if you say so.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so I get the tight dirty T shirt and
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  Speaker 1: the weird lil stocking cap kind of strange, I get that.
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  Speaker 1: But in the Love Boat then he was a handsome man.
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  Speaker 1: Did he have a Hawaiian shirt on or something? He
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  Speaker 1: had some It was like Paisley. It was very seventies, yes,
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  Speaker 1: oh for sure. But he was a good looking guy.
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  Speaker 2: Uh if you say so.
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  Speaker 1: So I got nothing to say about Schneider.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, well then are you ready to get
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  Speaker 2: to today's episode? Okay, here we go.
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  Speaker 1: This is a podcast that looks back on the decade
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  Speaker 1: of the nineteen eighties. We talk about things that were
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  Speaker 1: important to us as children and what we look back
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  Speaker 1: on with fond memories as adults. Ultimately, this is a
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  Speaker 1: nostalgia podcast.
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  Speaker 2: And a few things bring back nostalgia, like music, and we're
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  Speaker 2: doing a music episode today. It's been a while since
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  Speaker 2: we've done a music episode. But before we get to that,
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  Speaker 2: I've got a little something for you.
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  Speaker 5: I know, because i'm middle aged man.
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  Speaker 2: In that's right. A few months ago we started our
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  Speaker 2: Middle aged Man Hall of Fame. Included in that Hall
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  Speaker 2: of Fame or Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Wolford Brimley, Richard Mulligan,
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  Speaker 2: Casey casem They've all been elected I've got another nomination today.
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  Speaker 1: Oh you do, and I won't know that.
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  Speaker 2: I want to know if you will agree to You
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  Speaker 2: get to decide. I always get to decide. But I'm
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  Speaker 2: for the folks that may not have heard an episode
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  Speaker 2: like this before. You get to decide whether or not
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  Speaker 2: this person gets into the Middle Aged Man Hall of
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  Speaker 2: Fame or forever gets banished, locked out, never in there.
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  Speaker 2: So are you ready for me to nominate this person
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  Speaker 2: that I think might be eligible for the Middle Aged
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  Speaker 2: Man Hall of Fame?
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  Speaker 1: I got a question, Yes, did you come up with
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  Speaker 1: this person or did someone nominate that?
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  Speaker 2: I came up with this person myself. Okay, I'm ready,
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  Speaker 2: all right. Today's nominee is the comedic genius mister Tim Conway.
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  Speaker 2: I love him, Conway, I know you do. Do you
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  Speaker 2: ever recall seeing him as a young man.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the thing. I remember seeing him look younger, but
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  Speaker 1: he still look like a middle aged man.
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  Speaker 2: Correct, that's what I saw too, right, So I.
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  Speaker 1: Saw him look younger, I saw him look older both ways.
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  Speaker 1: He looked like a middle aged man. He should be
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  Speaker 1: the poster child for the Middle Aged Man Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 2: So you are saying he is in allow it. Congratulations
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  Speaker 2: to mister Tim Conway for making our middle aged man
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  Speaker 2: Hall of Fame. Now I don't necessarily agree that he
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  Speaker 2: should be the poster child. I'm thinking Wolford Brimley. Well,
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  Speaker 2: it's probably the poster child. But with that being said,
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  Speaker 2: Tim Conway is in and he wouldn't be a bad
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  Speaker 2: poster child for that.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like he would do it justice.
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  Speaker 2: I do too, So yay, we've got another one. I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna have to add him to the list. Now.
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  Speaker 1: I loved Tim Conway. All the characters he played on
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  Speaker 1: the Carol Burnett Show were just fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: You Okay, over there, it's raining raining coffee as you
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  Speaker 2: use your hands to talk while you've got a mug
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  Speaker 2: of coffee in your hands, and it goes flying all
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  Speaker 2: over your computer, spills, possibly ruins. It could even knock
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  Speaker 2: us off the air and we have no clue.
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  Speaker 1: Well, if we go off the air, that's one.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's fantastic, all right. As I mentioned, today's episode
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  Speaker 2: is another music episode. This was my idea.
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  Speaker 1: So I have no idea what we're doing.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know we're doing a music episode. You know
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  Speaker 2: the song because I've got them listed there on your
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  Speaker 2: little sheet there. But all of these songs have something
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  Speaker 2: in common, so I have not told you the theme.
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  Speaker 2: So as you're looking at this list, do you see
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  Speaker 2: anything in common with these eleven songs that I have
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  Speaker 2: chosen for today.
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  Speaker 1: Man, about the time I think I see a theme,
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  Speaker 1: then the next one blows that theme out, so.
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  Speaker 2: It blows your idea out of the water.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So I originally was thinking something about hurt and
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  Speaker 1: pain and being in a bad place.
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  Speaker 2: Nope, that ain't it.
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  Speaker 1: But then one comes along and I'm like, no, that's
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  Speaker 1: not it, And then I'm like, just being at the
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  Speaker 1: end of your rope. No, I don't. I have no idea.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, well that's good. Maybe you will get it by
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  Speaker 2: the time we listen to all these songs as we
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  Speaker 2: play them, and maybe you'll get it, and maybe you won't.
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  Speaker 2: But what I will say is the first person that
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  Speaker 2: reaches out to us on social media that gets the
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  Speaker 2: theme song correctly, we will send what do you want
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  Speaker 2: to send him? A sticker or button?
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  Speaker 1: A sticker.
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  Speaker 2: We will send you a sticker, a Children of the
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  Speaker 2: eighty sticker, not a scratch and sniff or anything like that.
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  Speaker 2: We're not that high brain now.
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  Speaker 1: That would be cool if we had those. Yeah, I've
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  Speaker 1: got one on the back of my laptop, not that
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  Speaker 1: I would expect someone else to do that, but you
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  Speaker 1: can also put them on your water bottles, right, water bottles,
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  Speaker 1: put anywhere you wanted.
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  Speaker 2: To crapper keepers.
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  Speaker 1: Oh absolutely?
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  Speaker 2: All right, Well, do you have anything else? As you
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  Speaker 2: look at this list? Are you just ready to get
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  Speaker 2: to it? I'm ready to All right, let's go. All right.
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  Speaker 2: I've chosen eleven songs for this list. We're gonna go
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  Speaker 2: through them from eleven to one. It's not necessarily in
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  Speaker 2: rank of like favorite songs or anything. But I did
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  Speaker 2: wanna because the eleven song isn't the eleventh best song
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  Speaker 2: on here. It might be the second best song on here,
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  Speaker 2: the first best song on here. But I wanted to bookend.
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to book in the eleven and one with
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  Speaker 2: something similar. So that's what I did. Here is our
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  Speaker 2: number eleven song for this week.
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  Speaker 5: So good.
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  Speaker 1: It's a shame I don't like that song, right, So
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  Speaker 1: that has hurt?
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  Speaker 2: So good by John Cougar Mellencamp. Yes, this song debuted
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  Speaker 2: in the top forty on May twenty second, nineteen eighty two.
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  Speaker 2: It was on the chart for twenty two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: It peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot one
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  Speaker 2: hundred for four weeks. It's a shame that this did
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  Speaker 2: not hit number one. Do you know what song held
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  Speaker 2: it off? I have no clue. I have the Tiger
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  Speaker 2: By Survivor held this song off. Oh wow for number one. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: the song did hit number one on the rock charts,
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  Speaker 2: and it finished nineteen eighty two as the eighth biggest
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  Speaker 2: song in the land. And it's also number one oh
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  Speaker 2: four on your Favorite chart, the all time Billboard Hot
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  Speaker 2: one hundred chart, number one oh.
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  Speaker 1: Four, one oh four out of how many number.
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  Speaker 2: I think they rank about five hundred or so, But
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  Speaker 2: this is number one on four all time.
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  Speaker 1: I love me some John Cougar Mellencamp. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: we talk about him enough on this podcast.
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  Speaker 6: We do not.
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  Speaker 1: I would love to change that as we head into
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  Speaker 1: season four soon. Yes, maybe we could mix it up
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, talk about him some more. How do
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  Speaker 1: you feel about this song coming out in nineteen eighty two?
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  Speaker 1: Do you think this is Does this sound like the
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  Speaker 1: early eighties to you?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 1: Do you think he do you think he brought in
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  Speaker 1: a change?
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  Speaker 2: I think I think this is timeless. I think that
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  Speaker 2: song's timeless. Wow, I don't think of this being nineteen
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  Speaker 2: eighty two. I think of it as being timeless. Yeah. Now,
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  Speaker 2: there are some other songs that I think of of
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  Speaker 2: his that are nineteen eighty two, for sure, no doubt.
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  Speaker 2: But I just feel like this is this is timeless.
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  Speaker 2: It is one of my favorite songs of the eighties.
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  Speaker 2: It's probably my second favorite song by him. And there
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  Speaker 2: you know, I just love it.
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  Speaker 1: I love it so at this point in my life,
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  Speaker 1: there there aren't too many artists that would get me
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  Speaker 1: out into the black for a concert. He could still
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  Speaker 1: do it.
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  Speaker 2: I believe he's coming on August first to our local
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  Speaker 2: theater right here about what eight miles away, ten miles away?
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  Speaker 1: Something else you want to tell me.
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  Speaker 2: No, I haven't gotten tickets. I haven't gotten tickets, but
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  Speaker 2: he is coming, so if you want to go see them, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I love get some bonuses at work or something because
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  Speaker 2: we don't have the money. Yeah, So anything else to
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  Speaker 2: say about mister Mellenhamp.
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  Speaker 1: I think we need to put him in bubble wrap
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  Speaker 1: and do all we can to keep him safe.
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  Speaker 2: So I am putting him in the top ten of
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: male artists of the eighties, and he might even be
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: on the mount Rushmore. Oh, if he's the male artist.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: Of five, then I would say your list isn't valid.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Well, we got MJ and Prince and then after that,
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think there's there's some certainly some discussions
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: maybe Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel Elton, John John Cougar, Mellen Cane.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Starts getting complicated, Phil.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Collins, Yeah, it does. It starts getting complicated.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: We have to include Phil Collins because he'll he'll.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: He'll be upset. Yeah, he'll be hurt. Right. Okay, Well
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: that's all I've got to say about that. So that
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: was a good one. We're gonna go on to our
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: number ten song. Now, let's see if you start to
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: recognize any theme here between hurts so good in this one.
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: Time, damn stolid around stop top Hawk.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Why don't you tell the folks what that is?
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: That is Freeze Frame by the Jane Giles Band.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: That is Freeze Frame by the Jay Guyles Band. Fun song, right,
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: it's a real fun song.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: I got a little distracted because my brain was working
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: overtime trying to figure out the correlation. So, oh, okay,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: so I'm sorry. I felt a little off my game
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: anything that something popped through my head.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: But I don't you're not ready to I don't not
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: ready to make a guess.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I'm happy to look like a fool
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: and throw out my guess, but I don't think it's correct.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Okay, what is your guest?
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Are these all songs that played in episodes of The Goldbergs?
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: But that is a good guess. Not half bad though, Yeah, yeah, no,
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: that's a that's a fair guess.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Okay, let me tell you a little bit about freeze Frame.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: So it debuted in the top forty on March sixth,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty two. Okay, it's another eighty two song.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: It was another eighty two song where.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: It's sat on the chart for twelve weeks. Peaked at
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: number four on the Billboard Hot one hundred. It finished
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty two as the forty ninth biggest song.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: What do you think about that song? I like it.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: It's a fun song. I don't really think it's a
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: staple of the eighties or a classic, but it's a
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: fun song.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: So to me, this sounds like kind of like a
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: pop rock from the early nineteen eighties from nineteen eighty two.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: It sounds much more nineteen eighty two than Hurts so good.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Yes, I would agree with I would agree with that.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: So Jay Giles Band, Freeze Frame, Love Stinks, and of
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: course Centerfold was their big, big one, But they were
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: a fun band in nineteen eighty two, right, which.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: I think is really important. I think that was a
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: big part of the eighties. Not it wasn't all of
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: the eighties, but it was a good segment of the eighties.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: So I love that.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: So yeah, fun song, Jay Giles Band, Freeze Frame, nineteen
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: eighty two. So you may be thinking, hey, the theme
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: is songs from nineteen eighty two, Well this next one
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: may blow that theory out of the water, because I
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Got a half.
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: I Got a hell.
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: Baby.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: I love that song.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: That is Faith by George Michael and that song definitely
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: is not a nineteen eighty two song.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: It's not.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: This song debuted in the top forty on October thirty first,
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: nineteen eighty seven, Halloween of nineteen eighty seven. It was
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: on the chart for fifteen weeks. It peaked at number
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: one on the Billboard Hot one hundred for four weeks.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: It was number one in five other countries, and it
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: was the number one song of the year in nineteen
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: eighty eight. It's also the number one hundred and fiftieth
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: song on the All Time Billboard chart. So it's interesting
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: to me that this peaked at number one on the
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: Hot one hundred for four weeks. John Cougar Mellencamp peaked
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: at number two for four weeks, yet it ranks higher
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: on the All Time Billboard chart. I think it has
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: something to do with how long they were in the
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: on the chart where this was fifteen weeks and It
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Hurts So Good was twenty two weeks, so that may
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: have had something to do with that. So you love
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: this song.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: I love this song. Have you ever thought about their
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: songs where you wish you could go back and hear
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: it for the first time again? This is one of
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: those songs for me.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah. This was obviously his breakaway, his debut album after
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: breaking away from William. This was I, you know, his
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: number one hit. The album was huge, the song was huge.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: George Michael was huge in nineteen eighty seven and nineteen
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: eighty eight, and this is just one of those songs
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: that kind of takes you back there and makes you happy.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: What do you think?
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I'm not happy about right now?
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: What's that?
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Trying to figure out what this list is all about?
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: All right, well, let's move on to our next song
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: and see if you get it yet.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: What I like about you? Romantics?
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Yes, the romantics. When I like about you, just romantic,
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Just romantics. Not the romantics. They're like eagles.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're just romantic, are you sure? Debuted in the
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Hot one hundred in nineteen seventy nine, but was still
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: there when nineteen eighty rolled around.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Oh that's why it makes the loost, so it had.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Some lasting power. It did peaked at number forty nine
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: on the Billboard Hot one hundred. It did not make
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: the year end Hot one hundred. Now I'm assuming that's
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: because it was in that weird and between time.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: Well, it only peaked at number forty nine too, so
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: it's not gonna it's a good.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Song, though I feel like forty nine is actually low.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: I feel like it is very low too.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Yes, it ended up a number two hit in Australia,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: and that's the highest ranking it made in any country.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, good song. Poison would cover it many many
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: years later.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, which one? Who did it better?
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: Oh? Romantics? But you know I love Poison, but Romantics
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: did it better. It's the original. It's more fun, I want.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: I don't want to say it's more upbeat because Poison
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: didn't really change it around. They just kind of played
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: it as they played it. And when you do that,
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: then the original is almost always better. Right. But yeah,
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: fun song. So we've played four songs so far. Have
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: you figured out any kind of theme anything that these
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: songs have in common? So far? I think they're all guys.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: They are There are no women, right, so far? They
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: are all guys. There are no women so far. There's
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: not gonna be any women. Oh but that is not
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: the theme and it's not even a clue. All right,
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: You ready to move on to number seven?
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Yes? I am ready.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: I love the sel rain on my Face, rain on
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: my lad hell, moon shell.
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: Showers, Watch on My Casual, A way up too, goes
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: on love.
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: Any nice lover, any nice will love rainy.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: NIGHTE that is I Love a Rainy Night by Eddie
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: Rabbit two b's and two t's, also two d's in
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: his name.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: This song debuted in the top forty on December sixth,
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: nineteen eighty. It was on the chart for eighteen weeks,
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: and it peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: one hundred for two weeks. It was also number one
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: on the Adult Contemporary chart for three weeks, as well
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: as the country chart. So this one hit number one
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: all over the place. It also finished nineteen eighty one
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: as the eighth biggest song in the land, number four
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: hundred and seventy four on the Billboard All Time Chart.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: So I had a thought while this one was playing
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: that you have picked out all the songs that I
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: have randomly told you over the last four years I
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: don't like, when in reality it was just a mood
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: I was in. Except I would never, no matter what
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: kind of mood I was in, I would never say
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: I didn't like any John Cougar Mellencamp song, but that
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: I could see that maybe you might catch me in
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: a weird mood on these others. And I know for sure,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Eddie Rabbit, you know I'm not an Eddie Rabbit fan
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: at all. So is that what this is?
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: This?
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: No, this is not a songs that annoy you or
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: that you said that you don't like.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: Because sometimes I'll be like, oh, I don't like that,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: and really it's just I'm in an irritable mood.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: Yes, And then later on you'll admit that you do
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: like this.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: I'll be like, oh, that's my favorite song of all time, and.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: Then we fight over it. So you do like this
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: song though.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: No, I don't like this.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: You don't like the song.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: No, I don't like you like that. I don't like
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Eddie Rabbit.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: But you cannot like someone and still like a song
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: by them I don't like. I don't know. I'm trying
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: to think. I can't think of something that I don't
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: the group I don't like, but I like a song
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: by the group. Just because you don't like the group
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: or the artist doesn't mean that you have to hate
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: everything that they do. Is that what you think that
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: it has to be? It's all or nothing?
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Like Milli Vanilli, I feel that way about Eddie Rabbit.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. Okay, Well, this is a fantastic song.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: It reminds me of being a little kid. Came out
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: when I was like seven years old.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: We see, that's why you think it's a fantastic song.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: You know, I thought it was a fantastic song when
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: I was seven.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna say you associated with being a
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: little kid, and it brings back, you know, this nostalgia
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: for you, which is fantastic. That's what we're all about.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: But it doesn't do that for me.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I'm gonna say that if I had never
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: heard this song and somebody played this song, I would
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: say this is an awesome song. You know why? Because
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: it is. And that man had a head of hair
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: like no one I've ever seen before.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: All right, but didn't he have a forehead like John Mellencamp.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: No, he did not, because his hair was so long
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: it covered it up. So still nothing so far. I mean,
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: you've had some guesses, but they're incorrect. So all right,
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: are you ready for number six?
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: Where if you've been hiding out the sash until you
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: spend a night upon it. Everybody's talking about the new
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: South fun eybody. Still, what's the matter with the calm man?
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: You tell that it's a style?
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: All right?
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: What song is that?
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Well that's mister piano man himself, Billy Joel. It's still
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: rock and roll to me, yes, mister Billy Joel. Billy
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: Joel So debuted in the top forty on May twenty fourth,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty, right at the beginning of the decade, where
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: it sat on the chart for nineteen weeks.
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: Seems a little.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Short to me.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: I don't know, you know what, most of our songs
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: you typically sit on there for about thirteen weeks without
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: a quarter of the year. Nineteen weeks is you know?
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: It's pretty long.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: It peaked at number one on Billboard Hot one hundred
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: for two weeks, and it finished nineteen eighty as the
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: ninth biggest song of the year. Oh my gosh, it
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: landed at number three hundred and three on the Billboard
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: All Time Chart. This was the Piano Man's eleventh top
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: forty hit on his way to thirty three career wise,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: and his first number one.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: Yes, it's hard to believe that Piano Man didn't hit
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: number one, isn't it, because by far his most popular song. Yeah,
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: but this was his first number one hid in the
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: eighties obviously, and this would be a huge song for
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: nineteen eighty. This song is also famous worldwide, famous for
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: it being the first song that I ever sang at karaoke.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: Oh really, it's worldwide famous because of that.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: And how did you do?
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: Uh? I think I did Okay, considering I was nervous
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: in my teeth were chattering.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: How many people were there? Probably about thirty year to forty,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: So I got something for you. Billy Joel's ten year
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: old daughter just graduated from elementary school.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: The dude's seventy eight years old.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yep.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't want to have a kid at fifty, and
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: he had one at sixty eight.
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: Yep.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: He probably got all kinds of helpers.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: He doesn't have to we Well, yeah, I'm sure the
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: mama is like thirty or something.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: Well yeah, so yeah, that's insane, right, that's insane. All right?
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: Any guesses get as to what the theme is on
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: these songs, No, okay, I'm gonna tell you that when
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: when the songs are playing, listen to the songs closely.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: Here is our number five.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: You got in a week nd to Ride.
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: The Book and Shit Rock.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: That is Rock with You by the King of Pop
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: Michael Jackson. And this song debuted in the top forty
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: on November twenty fourth, nineteen seventy nine, but it was
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: on the chart for nineteen weeks, which again it was
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: a long time. It peaked at number one on the
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: Billboard Hot One hundred for four weeks, and it was
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: number one on the R and B chart for six weeks.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: It finished nineteen eighty as the fourth biggest song. This
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: is from his Off the Wall album. We still got
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: a little bit of a disco sound there. What are
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: you thinking about that song?
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: This is hard for me to wrap my brain around
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: because this song came out when I was like maybe
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: five months old.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: Uh huh.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: And I just don't think about Michael Jackson already having
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: a hit song when I had just barely been born, right,
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: So that's crazy to me. I see, I think this
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: song is timeless. Yeah, you talk about was it our
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: first song we did with John Mountain?
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: I heard so good?
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you thought that was timeless. This one kind of
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: feels timeless to me.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: Okay, I mean it's it's got the disco sound, but yeah,
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: so good.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: But it's not like obnoxious or it's not cliche. I
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: mean it's to me, it's it's a really really good song.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: So so you like that song. Would you say that
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: out of all the songs we've listened to so far,
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: this is your favorite? No, that would be mister John Cooper.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: It it will always be John.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: But you really like this song. Yes, and it's MJ
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: pre thriller, so it's fun stuff. So yeah, you got
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: anything else about that song you want to say? I
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: love the video. It's so nineteen seventy nine ish.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: I don't know the video.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just you know, flashing disco ball lights and
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: him kind of dancing. Oh really, it's so seventy nine
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: is and I think it's like this kind of weird
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: like a light greenish disco ball lights flashing.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: So does he?
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: I think we got some stop motion action.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: He still looks like a young Michael Jackson.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, he was what twenty ish?
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so so he hadn't started changing yet.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: Correct. All right, still nothing on the theme. Huh. That
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: one may have like completely thrown you.
• 37:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: I just part of me is, well, see, I don't
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: know because you got Michael Jackson, you've got Billy Joel,
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: You've got John Cougar, Mellen Camp, and you got George Michael.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: So I'm like, okay, these could all be on the
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Mount Rushmore Mount Rushmore of eighties male singers. But then
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Jay Giles band right, and I'm just like, no, I
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: don't know.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: Okay, Well we'll move on to our number.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: No, what I was going to say, they all had
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: good hair, but Billy Joel, I don't think he ever
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: had much hair.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: Yes he did, he did, Yeah he did, But no,
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: it has nothing to do with their hair. All right,
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: here's No. Four six.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: And that's a good song.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: Yes, So that is under Pressure by Queen with David Bowie.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: It debuted in the top forty on December fifth, nineteen
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: eighty one. It was on the chart only for eight weeks,
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: and it only peaked at number twenty nine on the
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: Billboard Hot one hundred. Obviously didn't finish on the year
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: end chart because of that low peak. Although this song
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: wasn't that big here in the United States, it was
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: big in other countries. The top ten hit in fifteen
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: other countries, and it hit the top in the UK,
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: in Canada, UH, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. Luxembourg, Luxembourg. That
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: might be our first mention of Luxembourg on this podcast.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: But it's a shame that it didn't hit here. And
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: here's what's funny. It's probably more famous here in the
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: States for being what Vanilla Ice sampled for ice Ice Baby.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: You need you need to back that truck up because
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: I don't want Vanilla ICE's nasty name in the same
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: sentence as.
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: Queen, but he he did, he did take from this,
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: and I believe he was sued. He tried to claim
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: it was different because he said that, uh, this song
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: just went dun dodd d and his went dundun d d.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: Because you know, that's a huge difference.
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: Huge.
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: But what I'm gonna say is somewhat controversial. So I
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: I don't believe. I had heard this song in the eighties,
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: and then I heard Ice Ice Baby, which we all
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: loved in nineteen ninety, and then they would they started
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: playing this song again. And I didn't necessarily like it
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: then because I was all into the Vanilla Ice in
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: the rap. But now I hear this song and I
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: absolutely love it. It is phenomenal, to the point that
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: sometimes when I listened to it, I might say that
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: this is my favorite song on this whole list, right,
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: and we're talking about a list with John Cougar Mellencamp,
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: But this song is fantastic, just absolutely fantastic.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: Well, I think there's some prejudice that comes into play
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: here for me, because I wouldn't have been exposed to Queen,
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: right because Freddie Mercury would have been what have made
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: some people in my life uncomfortable? Right, So therefore I
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: wouldn't have had the chance to have ever even known
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: who Queen was. So yeah, I agree, Ice ized Baby
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: with Vanilla Eyes would have been my first exposure to this,
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: So I would have felt the same way, right, But
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: I was wrong, Oh as was I. But yeah, in
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: the early well in eighty one, I would have been
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: way too young. I would have had no clue. But
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: even you know, I don't know, eighty five, eighty six,
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: eighty seven, no money in my house would have been
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: listening to Queen, and that's too bad.
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: Well, by the time eighty five, eighty six, eighty seven
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: rolled up, you know, they weren't throwing out big radio
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: hits anymore. You know, they were still doing studio albums,
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: but a lot of their radio hits were in the
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: seventies and then early eighties. My first introduction to Queen
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: was another one Bites the Dust. But with that being said,
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: the song is fantastic. Even though I don't have real
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: nostalgia about it, I still just I still just love it. Yeah,
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: all right, any idea yet?
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: So I feel like there's there's got to be a
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: correlation with It's not the singer, it's not so the art.
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: I don't think it has anything to do with the
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: artist or even like the genre. I think it has
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: something to do with the actual music.
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: Okay, well, and.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: That and I'm strictly going on that because I know
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: you and I'm trying to think like you.
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, Well, I'm glad you're trying to think like me.
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: If you thought like me more often than than this
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: household would rent a lot smoother, you know what. All right,
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: let's get to number three.
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: I'm ready, same day, Ready, Say, I'm ready, sayday, I'm
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: ready say.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: And that is centerfield John Fogerty.
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: Yes, great baseball song.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: Put me in coach, I'm ready to play today. How
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: did I do?
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: You did real well? Over there, my.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: Arm fat flapping as I'm like way too into my clapping.
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: This song never debuted in the top forty. What the heck?
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: That's because it peaked at number forty four on the
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: Billboard Hot one hundred in nineteen eighty five. I don't
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: know it did get all the way up to number
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: four on the Billboard Top Tracks. And although the song
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: never hit the top forty. The album, also named Centerfield,
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: would top the Billboard two hundred album charts in nineteen
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: eighty five.
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: So I remember as a kid, this wasn't played on
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: radio a ton no, but when it was I got
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: super excited because it was about baseball.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: Well, little Lenz didn't think this was a song that
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: played on the radio. I thought this was just a
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: song you heard of ballgames.
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: Yes, no, it was the song that played on yeah.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so it probably would have freaked me out. I'm
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: i'd have heard it on the radio.
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: I wonder when he wrote this if he thought that
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: it would be played in pretty much all the baseball
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: stadiums going forward. I doubt that he did. I think
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: he just wanted to. I think he just wanted to
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: make a song about his love, which was baseball.
• 44:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously I have no idea, but I don't
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think he did.
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: And we and we've talked about this song on this
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: podcast before, so I don't want to get too into it.
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: But the round and third and headed for home as
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: a brown eyed handsome he always said he pictured that
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: man as being Jackie Robinson. Oh wow, so I always
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: kind of thought that was cool. And of course he
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: mentions Willie Mays and Joe DiMaggio and Ty Cobb, all
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: you know, the Mount Rushmore of center fielders in Major
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: League Baseball history. So I thought that was pretty cool.
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: He probably would have mentioned King Griffy Junior had he
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: not made this song four years before Junior would debut
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: in the major leagues. All right, anything yet?
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: I got it? You got it?
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: I got it?
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: Well, well, why don't you tell me what it is?
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: But we'll bleep it if you're right, so we don't
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: screw it up for the audience.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: That is correct?
• 45:49
  Speaker 6: Why right?
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: Well, great job, you got it. So I wonder if
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: our audience has picked up on it yet. I guess
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: we'll find out when somebody hits us up on social media.
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: But great job. Of course we bleeped that out so
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: we didn't give it away.
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: Listen if I can figure it out. I'm pretty sure
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: we got some listeners that were way ahead on me.
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: So I need to know when did you figure it out?
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: Was it that song that you figured out or were
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: you on to it before that.
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: Shong I started? So I Love a Rainy Night. I
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: noticed something but then Billy Joel I was like, no,
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: I must be wrong. Michael Jackson rock with you. I
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: was still like, oh, I must totally be wrong. And
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: then the under pressure brought it back okay, and then
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: Centerfield sold me on it.
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: Okay. Well, good job. I know you were a little
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: nervous about if you were gonna look like a fool.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: Look like a fool.
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: All right, here's our number two song in case nobody's
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: got it yet. That is Private Eyed by your favorite
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: band of all time, Daryl Hall and John Oates. This
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: song debuted in the top forty on September twelfth, nineteen
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: eighty one. It was on the chart for seventeen weeks,
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: and it peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: one hundred for three weeks. This is actually their third
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: overall number one, and it's the second of the decade
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: of the eighties. The other two songs that hit before
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: this one were Rich Girl and Kiss on My List. Wow.
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: This finished nineteen eighty two as the forty fourth biggest song,
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: which is kind of shocking, but I think it's because
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: it split time on the charts between eighty one and
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: eighty two, and so it ended up landing lower in
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: eighty two than it should have. It's probably a top
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: fifteen song in eighty two if it starts on the
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: charts in like December instead of September. So what do
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: you got to say about Private Eyes?
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: I don't have anything to say about Private Eyes. You
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: know how I feel about Hall and No.
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: But I thought you'd liked that this song.
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: I just want to open on that.
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: No, we can't nope it on back. This is a
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: great song. It reminds me of the Cardinals winning the
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: World Series in nineteen eighty two, because this song was
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: still popular then and even though it wasn't in the
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: top forty anymore. But I remember after the World Series
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: win on the news they were doing like a breakdown
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: of the season, and this was one of the songs
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: that they played. I don't know why.
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: Maybe I was gonna say why, It makes no sure.
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: But it's that's what it reminds me of. So we
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: did go see a Hall of Notes tribute band last week.
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because you tricked me into going. I thought it
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: was like some kind of big band and music. And
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: we get there and Emmy was like he he he,
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: I know something you don't know, and I was like, what.
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: She really said that? Yeah, that's hilarious. Did she tell you?
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: She was like, I'm not supposed to tell you, but
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: this is a Hall of Notes tribute.
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: I'm not supposed to tell you, but I'm going to
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: tell you anyway exactly. Oh my goodness, that's hilarious. All Right,
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: you already got uh, you know what the theme is,
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: so I'm not gonna have to ask you again. Let's
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: just move on to our number one song again.
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: Let's do it, He.
• 49:36
  Speaker 7: Says, Benny, you ain't miss Jackson. Long after the dre
• 49:46
  Speaker 7: of living in gone?
• 49:50
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, after.
• 49:55
  Speaker 7: Them of living is gone.
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: That is Jack and Diane by my favorite John Cougar Mellencamp.
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: Book ended, book ended, ended, book.
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: Ended, It did what's your problem? Man? All right, go
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: ahead with check night.
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: It debuted in the top forty on August seventh, nineteen
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: eighty two, to another eighty two song.
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: Okay and unlike hurts So good, this song does sound
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: like nineteen eighty two to me.
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: It was on the charts for sixteen weeks. It peaked
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: at number one on Billboard Hot one hundred, where it
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: stayed for four weeks. It finished eighty two as the
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: seventh biggest song.
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: Okay, So before you go any further, so it finished
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: eighty two was the seventh biggest song, and hurts so
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: good finished eighty two is the eighth biggest song. So
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: John Cougar Mellencamp had back to back seven and eight songs.
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: And if Casey Caseum is doing his year end countdown,
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: he's playing John Cougar Mellencamp back to back in the
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: top ten. That's pretty cool, isn't it?
• 51:08
  Speaker 4: So?
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: To me?
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: This song is Americana. It's like Norman Rockwell painted Americana.
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: John Cougar Mellencamp sings Americana. Especially when it comes to
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: this song.
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: One hundred percent, I can close my eyes and it
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: can transport me to a time and place that I
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: long to go back to.
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, one hundred percent. You just think of uh,
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: Middle America right when you hear John Cougar mellencampe Yes,
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: So I love this song. All right, you already got
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: the theme. You know what the theme is. Where we're
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: waiting to see if other folks figure it out.
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: I say, are when are we announcing?
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: We will announce it next week. Oh okay, So if
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: you hadn't got it. I was gonna make you wait
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: until next week for me to tell you, but since
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: you figured it out, obviously you don't have to wait
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: till next week. But yeah, I want people to social media.
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: I get it.
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: So first person that social media hits us up on
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: social media will throw you a sticker, a children of
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: the eighties sticker. All right, So what'd you think about
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: the list overall, not just the theme? Well, first off,
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: what did you think about theme? Do you think it
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: was a cool theme, A good idea?
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: It's very Jims.
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: Okay, very gym esque, something that you would have never
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: thought of.
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: No, I would have never have come up with this.
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: My only issue is there were no ladies.
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: There were no ladies, and I hate that.
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: But other than that, it was a very diverse group.
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: I think it's a great representation of the decade.
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: Would this be a good playlist?
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: Yes? I hope that you make it into one.
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: Should I make it into a playlist and you put
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: it in the show notes?
• 52:43
  Speaker 5: Yes?
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: Okay, so that's what we'll do, folks. I'll have the
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: playlist a Spotify playlist in the show notes when we
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: released this episode. But you know we're near the end,
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: so you know what I gotta do, right, not a
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: lot more gim esque stuff. So we had eleven songs total,
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: but it only covered five years. Lots of early eighties
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: on this list. Nineteen eighty is actually the most represented
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: year from this list with four songs. Eighty two then
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: had three, eighty one with two, and then one each
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: for eighty five and eighty seven. So nineteen eighty doesn't
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: get a whole lot of love on this show from
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: us because A, you were like a year old halfway
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: through the year, and B the music just it's either
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: hit or miss. Yes, in nineteen eighty, but we hit
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: with four songs here. From nineteen eighty, we had six
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: songs on this list that peaked at number one, spending
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: a total of nineteen weeks at the top, and we
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: also had six year end top ten hits. What do
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: you think about that? It's pretty good, pretty good coverage
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: of big hits in the early eighties, right.
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: I think so. And I think it's also kind of
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: jem esque that what did you say four of the
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: songs came from nineteen eighty Because I think you would
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: lean into that a little bit more if I went
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: along with it.
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: Well, there are you know, there's certain songs from nineteen
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: eighty that I remember hearing on the radio that would
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: bring back the start. But it's not like I was
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: listening to the music myself in nineteen eighty. It was
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: only what was on the car radio, or maybe if
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: my dad was playing the radio at home while fixing
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: on the house on a Saturday or a Sunday, right,
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: But other than that, you know, there was no MTV
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: in nineteen eighty. I was six years old, so I
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: wasn't going out and buying my own music at that point,
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: so it was just kind of like what you heard
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: on the car. So I think you know a lot
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: of kids from the eighties they associate certain songs with
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: good feelings of being with their parents in the car
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: versus as they got older, maybe around ten eleven twelve,
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: and they started listening to their own stuff. We can
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: associate really early stuff with our parents and it kind
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: of brings back some good feet absolutely.
• 55:02
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• 55:20
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