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80s Pop Music: The Battle for the Greatest Year-#24 Songs · Children of the 80s

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  Speaker 1: Children of the 80s is brought to you by Q106. 5
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  Speaker 1: I am Lindsay, and with me today is my co-host,
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  Speaker 1: some might say partner in crime, Mr. Jim Butler, who
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  Speaker 1: never knows when he's gonna say or do something that
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  Speaker 1: makes me cry.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, truer words have never been spoken.
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  Speaker 1: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. So wait, our
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  Speaker 1: openings are kind of supposed to be funny. This one
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  Speaker 1: just actually just fell flat because it was true.
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  Speaker 2: It was the truth. I can say, man, that French
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  Speaker 2: toast I had from the restaurant was bad. And the
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  Speaker 2: next thing I know, I'm getting tears.
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  Speaker 1: That's a lie. That is a lie from the pits
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  Speaker 1: of hell.
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  Speaker 2: Because it could be because you can somehow relate that
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  Speaker 2: to how one time maybe you overcooked dinner or something.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Not that you've ever overcooked dinner.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: Every time I have ever cooked dinner in the 15
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  Speaker 1: years of marriage, which hasn't been that many times, it
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  Speaker 1: has always been perfect.
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  Speaker 2: It's been about 15 times.
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  Speaker 1: So I was actually going somewhere with my opening.
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  Speaker 2: But then you got lost?
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  Speaker 1: No, I haven't gotten lost at all. Are you lost?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I am. I have no idea where you're going.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to say, do you know where I'm
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  Speaker 1: headed with this? You forced me out of my happy
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  Speaker 1: place and my safe space. And you said you were
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  Speaker 1: sick and tired of watching true crime documentaries on TV
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  Speaker 1: at night. And so you made me watch quote unquote
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  Speaker 1: real TV. And I did nothing but sob for two seasons.
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  Speaker 1: And I just wanted to talk about that for a second.
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  Speaker 1: But also I'm tying it all into the 80s.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So what you are talking about, and A, I didn't
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  Speaker 2: say that I never wanted to watch true crime again.
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  Speaker 1: You said you were tired of it and we needed
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  Speaker 1: a break and you insisted on watching this. Now you
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  Speaker 1: give me crap because I tell you I can't watch
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  Speaker 1: serious dramas because you're like, well, you watch true crime
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  Speaker 1: and it's no big deal. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: So A, like, You know, it's summertime and 2020 and
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  Speaker 2: Dateline have taken a break.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So there's nothing on there. B, I still don't understand
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  Speaker 2: why you cry at fake stuff, but don't cry at
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  Speaker 2: the real stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So he comes in one day and he says, oh,
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  Speaker 1: Jason Colvin says.
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  Speaker 2: No, it was Brad. Oh, Brad.
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  Speaker 1: Brad? This is Brad's fault?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Brad, I thought you knew me better. that we should
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  Speaker 1: watch a show on Hulu called Paradise. Let me tell you, folks,
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  Speaker 1: I was not in Paradise watching that show. At times
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  Speaker 1: we had to stop and I had to take a break.
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  Speaker 1: Times that I sobbed so hard I was embarrassed.
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  Speaker 2: Does this have anything to do with your daughter turning
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  Speaker 2: 13 and you starting the whole menopause thing.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Do either of those two things factor into you crying
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  Speaker 2: during Paradise?
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  Speaker 1: I do think I'm having a little bit of a
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  Speaker 1: midlife crisis.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you think?
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  Speaker 1: Because I'm feeling very restless and a little unhappy in
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  Speaker 1: several different areas of my life and I'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: decide am I going to shave my head and just
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  Speaker 1: buy a car and ride off into the sunset am
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  Speaker 1: i gonna quit my job and get a tattoo.
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  Speaker 2: You're gonna do neither of those things what am i gonna.
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  Speaker 1: Do okay but so anyways we watched there's two seasons
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  Speaker 1: out right now of a show called paradise you've been
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  Speaker 1: warned if you watch it you've been.
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  Speaker 2: Warned with the best actor on tv.
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  Speaker 1: I mean the most handsome actor.
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  Speaker 2: He's the best actor on tv For.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever reason, I cannot think of his name off the
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  Speaker 1: top of my head.
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  Speaker 2: Sterling K. K.
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  Speaker 1: Brown.
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  Speaker 2: Gotta make sure you have the K in there to
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  Speaker 2: keep him away from the other Sterling Browns.
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  Speaker 1: Very nice looking man. And it is a great show,
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  Speaker 1: but you've been warned it's emotional. Now, without giving anything away,
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  Speaker 1: one of the characters is obsessed with 80s music. So
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  Speaker 1: 80s songs, oftentimes... It's the soundtrack for whatever's going on
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  Speaker 1: in the show.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: But it's not the traditional way we would know the song.
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  Speaker 1: It's not the original singer. They take it and they
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  Speaker 1: twist the song and they alter it just enough that
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  Speaker 1: it sounds like a completely different song, except you can
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  Speaker 1: tell it's a song that you know.
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  Speaker 2: So Lindsay hates the song Another Day in Paradise by
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  Speaker 2: Phil Collins.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't just hate it.
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  Speaker 5: I have.
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  Speaker 1: I have a physical reaction to that song to the
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  Speaker 1: point that Jim knows we can't talk about it on
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  Speaker 1: the podcast. We cannot listen to it anywhere in the
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  Speaker 1: realm of my life. It is a no-go for me.
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  Speaker 2: Yet, put a female singing it, strip away all the
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  Speaker 2: music and just her and the hyena, and Lindsay falls
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  Speaker 2: in love with it.
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  Speaker 1: Was I in the kitchen the other day? He hears
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  Speaker 1: me in the kitchen.
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  Speaker 2: Singing that song.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And did you quickly pack a bag and head on out?
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  Speaker 2: I was wondering.
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  Speaker 1: Did you nope it on back?
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  Speaker 2: What was going on? I feared a Lizzie Borden situation.
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  Speaker 2: Because I know that you despise that song. And to
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  Speaker 2: hear you singing that song makes me feel like.
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  Speaker 1: The hair on the back of your neck.
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  Speaker 2: The hair on the back of my neck stands up.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like Carol Ann who just touched the television.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my goodness. Watch the show, but take a listen
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  Speaker 1: to the songs and the music that they're playing in
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  Speaker 1: the background.
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  Speaker 2: Really good music.
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  Speaker 1: It's actually really good. I kind of wanted to hate
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  Speaker 1: the way they were changing it up, and I don't.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's because we're older. I feel like if
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  Speaker 2: we had heard these in our 20s or 30s, we
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  Speaker 2: may have hated it. But now that we're older.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I just told you I'm having a.
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  Speaker 2: Now that you're approaching 50. bad aerial.
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  Speaker 1: I did cut off all my hair.
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  Speaker 2: You did not. You did not cut off all your hair.
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  Speaker 2: You got a haircut. I got a sassy bob. It's
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  Speaker 2: about shoulder length, which is perfect for you. And I
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  Speaker 2: enjoy that length. Do not go all Sinead O'Connor on me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking at some.
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  Speaker 2: Or quit your job and get a tattoo. Neither of
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  Speaker 2: those things are acceptable. So, I want to say thank
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  Speaker 2: you to our new Patreon members.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe, could they send help?
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Matt Suter and Sean Tindall, or Tindall, I'm not sure
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  Speaker 2: how to pronounce it, Sean, let me know, just joined
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  Speaker 2: our Patreon and then immediately got in for the voting
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  Speaker 2: for our episode today. So that was pretty awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. They got in right at the
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  Speaker 1: right time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so thank you both very much for joining. We're
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  Speaker 2: so appreciative. But going back to our opening, we... or I,
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  Speaker 2: and you somewhat off and on last night, watched a
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  Speaker 2: documentary on Tubi that was actually recommended to me by
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  Speaker 2: another podcast friend, Dave, from totally 80s and 90s recall,
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  Speaker 2: called The Greatest Geek Year Ever, 1982. And it was
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  Speaker 2: all about the movies from 1982, which took me back
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  Speaker 2: to being a kid, right? Because we got HBO around...
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  Speaker 2: late 82 or early 83. So all of these movies
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  Speaker 2: or most of these movies would be on HBO and
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  Speaker 2: I would catch most of them, not all of them,
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  Speaker 2: but most of them, some of them over and over
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  Speaker 2: and over again. And it got me thinking just how
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  Speaker 2: great of a year of 1982 was for movies. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And so I'm thinking about doing an episode on that
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  Speaker 2: next week. Or maybe in two weeks.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see.
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  Speaker 1: So we're not going to dive into what you watched
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  Speaker 1: and what you thought about it because you might be
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  Speaker 1: going to do a show.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm thinking about doing a show. I just want
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  Speaker 2: to know at the times that you were looking at
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  Speaker 2: it because you didn't watch it all the way through
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  Speaker 2: or anything. But what did you think about some of
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  Speaker 2: the movies without giving away anything? What did you think
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  Speaker 2: about some of the movies they were putting up there?
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  Speaker 1: Most of them I had not heard of. There definitely
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  Speaker 1: seemed like there was a reoccurring theme. In fact, I
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  Speaker 1: thought that maybe there was like a specific genre of
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  Speaker 1: movies that that documentary was shooting for.
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  Speaker 2: No, I think what you saw was when they were
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  Speaker 2: in a specific genre of movie, they covered several genres, right?
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  Speaker 2: So they'd do one, and then they'd talk about four
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  Speaker 2: or five movies, and then they'd do another one, and
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  Speaker 2: they'd talk about four or five movies. Well, that would
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  Speaker 2: explain it. I think you probably woke up, what, during
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  Speaker 2: the horror movies?
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  Speaker 1: It was like the... I wouldn't say horror, but horror, horror, horror, horror.
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  Speaker 2: The horror. The horror.
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  Speaker 3: The horror.
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  Speaker 2: It's the horror.
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  Speaker 1: But, you know, one thing I did enjoy, the really
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  Speaker 1: cool tidbits of behind the scenes knowledge that came up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Things that I'd never heard before. What about you?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: No, I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it immensely. I had
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  Speaker 2: no idea that it was going to be longer than
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  Speaker 2: Gone with the Wind.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it was like three and a half, four hours.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I enjoyed it, and it's given me an
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  Speaker 2: idea for an episode, and I think we may have
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  Speaker 2: to cover that next week.
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  Speaker 1: Awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Or in two weeks or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Awesome.
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  Speaker 2: If you have... Any ideas for next week?
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Have you covered everything here?
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  Speaker 1: I think so.
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  Speaker 2: All right. You ready to get to today's episode?
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  Speaker 1: Yep. This is a podcast that looks back on the
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  Speaker 1: decade of the 1980s. We talk about things that were
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  Speaker 1: important to us as children and And what we look
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  Speaker 1: back on with fond memories as adults. Ultimately, this is
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  Speaker 1: a nostalgia podcast.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. And nothing sparks nostalgia like what? Music. That's right.
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  Speaker 2: We've got a music episode. But before we get to
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  Speaker 2: the subject today.
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  Speaker 1: I know because I'm middle-aged man.
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  Speaker 3: Little H-Man Little H-Man He has powers and knowledge that
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  Speaker 3: are far beyond younger than Little H-Man Caught between 40
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  Speaker 3: and 55 Accruing more interest yet losing his sex drive
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  Speaker 3: Developing skills and a.
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  Speaker 2: Gut Our nominee for middle-aged man today is probably more
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  Speaker 2: popular for his stuff in the nineties than in the eighties.
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  Speaker 2: But in the nineties, he just blew up, but he
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  Speaker 2: was around in the eighties.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: But in the nineties, he just blew up because of
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  Speaker 2: his talk show. And we, Have a middle-aged man nominee
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  Speaker 2: today that you need to vote on. One Mr. Jerry Springer.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's a good one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I kind of thought so. So if you go
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  Speaker 2: back to his time.
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  Speaker 1: I'm thinking about him.
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  Speaker 2: His time as a Cincinnati mayor. Cincinnati, as my grandma
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  Speaker 2: would pronounce it.
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  Speaker 1: And that was before his talk show, correct?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Do you have a picture of what he looked
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  Speaker 1: like during his time as mayor?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: We visited Cincinnati over the summer and absolutely loved it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I love the Queen City.
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  Speaker 1: I would consider living there if for whatever reason we
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  Speaker 1: had to leave the ATL.
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  Speaker 2: It would be tough for me to live in a
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  Speaker 2: town where, you know, it's not the Cardinals, but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I guess I could.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, you're living in a town right now
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  Speaker 1: that's not the Cardinals.
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  Speaker 2: No, not really. This is kind of a Cardinal town.
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  Speaker 1: Only in your head. So do you have a picture
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  Speaker 1: or not?
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  Speaker 2: Here you go. That's pre-mayor.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, he's in. He's in.
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  Speaker 2: So 1974. So Jerry Springer is in the Middle Ages.
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  Speaker 2: I dropped the gavel. He's in.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, congratulations to Mr. Talk Show host himself, Jerry Springer.
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  Speaker 2: But that nomination comes from my brother, Matt.
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  Speaker 1: Matt's always got a nomination.
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  Speaker 2: He does. He does. He would love to just make
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  Speaker 2: a job of giving me middle-aged man nominations. But we'll
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  Speaker 2: take it because he's one of our Patreoners.
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  Speaker 1: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: All right. So, as previously mentioned, this is a music episode.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know what we're doing today?
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  Speaker 1: No. I have no notes over here. I know that.
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  Speaker 2: I have no notes over here either.
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  Speaker 1: Who's running the show?
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  Speaker 2: You know, sometimes you never know. I think we've all
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  Speaker 2: gone to crazy town at some point or another. But
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  Speaker 2: we are continuing. Trying to determine what is the best
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  Speaker 2: year for pop music in the 80s. You remember last
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  Speaker 2: month we did the number 25 songs of the year.
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  Speaker 2: This month we're doing the number 24 songs of the year.
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  Speaker 2: And we're counting them down from 10 to 1 as
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  Speaker 2: voted on by our Patreon members. Okay. So do you
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  Speaker 2: remember last time, number 25, the number one song was
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  Speaker 2: Like a Prayer by Madonna as voted on. And so
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  Speaker 2: 1989 jumped out to the lead. 1983 was next and
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  Speaker 2: bringing up the rear was 1980. So let's see if
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  Speaker 2: any of that switches around this month.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go.
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  Speaker 2: So you ready? I'm ready. Remember you, we, we are
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  Speaker 2: ranking these songs one through 10. Okay. We had 13
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  Speaker 2: people voting, 13 Patreon members, which is more than last time,
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  Speaker 2: which is fantastic. I think we only had 10 last time.
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  Speaker 2: We got 13. So the worst, the most amount of
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  Speaker 2: points you can get, which is the worst, would be 130.
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  Speaker 2: The best you could get would be 13. That's if
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  Speaker 2: everybody voted at number one. So we're counting them down
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  Speaker 2: 10 to one. And we will start with our number 10,
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  Speaker 2: unless you've got anything to say. When you looked at
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  Speaker 2: this list, before we get started, when you looked at
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  Speaker 2: this list, what did you think overall of the list?
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  Speaker 1: So I thought we had some great songs, and then
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  Speaker 1: we jumped off the cliff, and we have some horrible songs.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Well, I can't wait to hear what you thought
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  Speaker 2: was great and what you thought was horrible as we
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  Speaker 2: jump through here. And, of course, I'll give my opinion.
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  Speaker 2: Then we'll talk about how the voting went. Sounds good.
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  Speaker 1: Let's do it.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Well, here is our number 10 song.
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  Speaker 4: Just the way you want me to, baby.
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  Speaker 5: But I'm ready to learn.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I'm ready to learn.
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  Speaker 2: To fall in love.
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  Speaker 6: To fall in love. To fall in love with you.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so I'm watching you as this song's playing. You're
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  Speaker 2: kind of grooving like you're dancing to it, but you
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  Speaker 2: are making the ugliest face I've ever seen you make
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  Speaker 2: in my life.
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  Speaker 1: Because I feel like that's a dad and daughter singing.
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  Speaker 2: So that is Yes, I'm Ready.
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  Speaker 1: Ooh, that's even worse.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 1: No, I can't. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 4: Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.
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  Speaker 2: And that is by Terry Desario and KC.
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  Speaker 6: Desario.
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  Speaker 2: Desario.
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  Speaker 1: Clearly.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I was making a reference like it was father-daughter.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Oh, okay. Do you know who the KC
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  Speaker 2: is in this Terry Desario and KC?
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  Speaker 1: The Sunshine Band KC?
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  Speaker 2: That is correct. This is the Sunshine Band KC.
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  Speaker 1: Was this at the end of their career?
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  Speaker 2: Close to it, but they would have another number one
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  Speaker 2: hit after this.
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  Speaker 1: That's shocking.
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  Speaker 2: But this wasn't KC and the Sunshine Band. This was
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  Speaker 2: him breaking off and doing this duet with Terry Desario.
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  Speaker 1: You know why?
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  Speaker 2: Because the Sunshine Band was like, oh, hell no.
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  Speaker 1: You know the members were like, oh, no, dude, no,
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  Speaker 1: don't do it. And for whatever reason, he was hell-bent.
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  Speaker 2: So, this song is from 1980.
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  Speaker 1: It should have stayed in 1980.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it has, which I'm pretty sure is why it
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  Speaker 2: is the number 10 ranked song on this list. It actually,
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  Speaker 2: remember I told you 130 points is the most points
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  Speaker 2: you can have? This ended with 118.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: So.
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  Speaker 2: Almost, well, yeah, basically everybody but two people rated it
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  Speaker 2: a nine or a ten. That's bad. You rated it
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  Speaker 2: a ten.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: I rated it a nine.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: John Middleton has the highest ranking on this with a seven.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: John, I need an explanation, and I need it quickly.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: I mean, but nobody ranked it higher than seven. It's
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: got a seven. It's got an eight. And it's got
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: nothing but nines and tens after that. I mean, it's
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: pretty bad.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: What do you think of a song where it's like
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: a duet and they're like echoing each other?
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think that's a thing back in the
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: late 70s and early 80s, right?
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: It just made it all worse to me.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Are you ready? Yes, I'm ready. Are you ready? Yes,
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: I'm ready. So you're okay if you never, ever hear
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: that song again.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: You hated it that bad. Yes, I did. You ranked
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: it 10. I ranked it nine. All right. Yeah, John,
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: I don't agree with your seven, but hey, it's your vote.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: It's your choice.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: Okay. John's wife is Julie, right? They should sing that
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: as a duet.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Oh, karaoke.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: I need.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: That is brilliant. John and Julie, we need a video
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: of you two singing that karaoke as a duet. I
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: need Julie to play the part of Terry. And I
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: need John to play the part of Casey. Oh, you
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: know what? You can switch it up. And Julie, you
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: can be Casey. And John, you can be Terry. Whatever
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: you want to do.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Whatever floats your boat.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: That would be awesome. I can guarantee you one thing
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: you won't see on YouTube. And that's me and Lindsay
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: doing that song as a duet.
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: Nope.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: We're banned from karaoke.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Indeed. All right. So our number nine did not fare
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: a whole lot better. It ended up with 100 points. Okay.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: And we've discussed this song before on this show, and
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: you didn't like it then, but you rated it a
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: lot higher than I thought you were going to. So
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: here we go.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: Outro Music.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: That's Stars on 45.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: That is the Stars on 45 medley by Stars on 45.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Like I said, ended with 100 points. You ranked it
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: a number seven, which I'm surprised. I thought you hated
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: this song.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: I do hate this song. But, okay, wait, no. I
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: wouldn't say that I hate this song. I just don't
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: think that it should be a real credible song.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Like, because other people did all the work, and then
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: they just, like, compiled it all into one song, I
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: don't think that that's fair.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: And so I don't quite understand that, and it certainly
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: shouldn't have charted. But that just goes to show how
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: terrible some of the other songs were. The fact that
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: I ranked other songs lower than that.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Well, after listening to this again, now, and in fairness,
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: I did rank this as the worst song on the list.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: You did?
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: I did.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: I did.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Julie did. John did. The Showstopper did. Matt Cook did.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: My brother Mike did. So we all ranked it as
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: a 10.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: But I just.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: But it's not as bad as what I had remembered.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: It's not good, but it's somewhat... It can be... You
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: can kind of bob your head to it. It can
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: be a little bit of a bop.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: The songs that they put in this... Medley, they're fantastic songs.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: They're all the 60s hits.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Let's clarify. I mean, quite honestly, it might be the
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: best song on the list. I just don't approve how
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: they went about doing it. Okay.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: So I do have to call out two people for
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: ranking this song as the highest. So I told you
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: all the people that had tens, right? So now I'm
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: going to give you two people that had it at
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: number two.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Whoa.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Our friend Eric Shores, the author. And one of our
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: most supportive listeners, Iron Jawed Angel. She ranked that as
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: number two. Now, remember, I think if I'm not mistaken,
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: I think I've heard her say that she graduated like,
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: I don't know, eight, nine years before me. So this
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: would have been probably like right in her wheelhouse, like
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: high school. So that might explain why. But yeah, they
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: both had it ranked as number two.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: So I bet I know why Eric ranked it number two.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: He had older parents. So I bet the songs in
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: this song were songs that he heard his parents listening
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: to when he was growing up.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: No.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: No. I can tell you that is not true because
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: he said that his parents were like greatest generation. He
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: was the youngest of like five or seven or something
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: like that. And his parents were greatest generation and they
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: were listening to like Lawrence Welk and stuff like that.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: So I think, you know, this was probably right around
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: the time. Let's see. So this is 82. So I'm
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: like eight, nine. So he's probably like 12 ish when
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: this song came out and you know that when, when
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: you're 12, 13, those songs are super duper important to you.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: So that would be, That would be my guess.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: But yeah, that finished with 100 points. That's our number
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: nine song. That's from 1981. So right now, we've got
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: 80 is 10 and 81 is 9. It's not looking
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: good for the older years, and it doesn't really get
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: any better when we move on to our number eight song.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: So let it rip, so let it rip, child, let
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: it rip, let it rip, child, come on.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: Let it rip.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: So that is Let It Whip by the Daz Band
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: from 1982.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Where did they get Let It Whip from any of that?
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: That's exactly what they're saying. Let It Whip. Yes, so
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Let It Whip.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: He sings very staccato. I don't like that.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Is that why you rated the song a number nine?
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: So you and John and my brother Matt and my
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: brother Mike all rated it as number nine. So I'm
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: going to say this is the most polarizing song. song
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: of the bunch because people either rated it in the
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: top three or rated it in the bottom three.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: In the top three?
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: Yes. So I love this song. I rated this as
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: number three.
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: What?
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: I rated Let It Whip by the Daz Band as
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: number three. Eric Shores rated it as number three. Iron
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: John Angel rated it as number one.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Iron John Angel.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: So this song finished with 89 points. So you got
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: to tell me why you hate this song. This is
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: still kind of like Earth, Wind & Fire-ish or Cool
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: & The Gang-ish, you know, late disco, like disco train
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: to hang on. And it's kind of funky and I
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: kind of like it. So why do you hate it
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: so much?
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: It absolutely sounds like disco, but I don't like the
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: way he's singing, really choppy. I don't like that. You're
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: into grooving, love your body language.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: Like that? Yeah.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: Well, I like the groove. I think it's funky. So
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: I rated it a number three. But this finished at
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: 89 points. Like I said, it's our number eight song
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: from the year 1982. So we've gone 80, 81, 82.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: I'm not liking the way it's looking.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Can we get to some better music?
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Is the next song going to be from 83? I
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: don't know. That is the question.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: You tell me.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Well, I'll let Mr. George Michael tell you.
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: Oh.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: So who is that?
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: That's George Michael.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: And what is that song?
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: My mama won't let me say it.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: That is I want your sex. Oh, no, no, no.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: George Michael.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: And that I can't. No, I can't.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: So let's talk about this song.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Let's say we did.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: Casey Kasem never would. So this song is from 1987.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: I think it may have been the first hit released
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: from his album Faith, which is one of the biggest
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: albums of the 80s. So if you had asked me
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: when this started, before I got any votes, I would
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: have said this is probably going to end up as
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: like a third. It ended up as seventh. I was
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: shocked at the number of really high votes it got.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: So I ranked it as eighth. You ranked it as eighth. Um,
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: it has a number one. Do you want to guess
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: who ranked at number one?
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: Matt cook.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah. The guy who did a George Michael podcast.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Um, so you talk about polarizing songs, let it whip
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: with polarizing. So it was this, so it was a one, um,
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: our newest member, Sean Tindall, uh, ranked it as a two,
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: but then it had a 10 or, or, or other
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: new member, Matt Suter ranked it as a 10. Um,
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: So it's either top three or bottom three, four, and
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: then it does have one in the middle, the showstopper.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Jason ranked it as number five. So I wondered why
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: it got such a low ranking from so many people.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: And what's great is our buddy Eric Shores, he's a writer, right?
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: He's got a book. He's got another book that's coming
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: out that we're actually a part of. But he always
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: gives a reason for his ranking. So he emails me.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Oh, I love that.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he emails me and then gives a reason for
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: his rankings because he's not necessarily ranking them by his favorites,
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: but he's ranking them. He's got a reason for why
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: he's ranking them the way that they are, which I love.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: And he basically said, you know, I told him I
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: loved it. And he was like, listen, you got to
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: have a system where it's just complete chaos.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: I love that.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: So here is what he said about George Michael. He said,
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: and I always wondered, like, I liked the song, but
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: I didn't like the song. And I always wondered why.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: And he put it perfectly, so eloquently that I couldn't
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: say this, but this is exactly how I felt. He said,
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: I want your sex is one of those songs that
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: I really like the melody, but the lyrics leave me cold.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: The title is crass. And in the era of AIDS,
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: this song seemed reckless and insensitive. So it gets my number.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: nine i'm sure i'll be the lowest score of this
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: song um and eric no you weren't you were the
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: second lowest score but uh everything he said is exactly
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: how i feel the melody of the song is awesome
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: i agree with that um the the lyrics and the
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: title you know is crass And I feel like if
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: George Michael had just changed it to be I Want
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: Your Love.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Totally different song.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: I think this is up there fighting for number one
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: this week.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Totally different song. I would agree with you on that.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: It does make you wonder, you know, with Eric pointing
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: out the AIDS epidemic and his... George Michael's choice of
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: words used in the title of this song, it does
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: kind of make you wonder what he was thinking. Now,
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: my gut, my initial instinct says he did that to
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: grab people's attention. Right. And to maybe kind of make
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: people talk, shock people a little bit. But considering what
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: we were dealing with back in the.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: 80s, Yeah, it was new and it was a death sentence.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Maybe, you know, that wasn't the best thing. I don't know.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would agree. I would agree with Eric and
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: I never put it in the context of AIDS. But yeah,
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: the title is crass. Yeah, I think it is reckless
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: and insensitive. And so that's why I got my eighth ranking.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: And yours, apparently. Again, the melody is fantastic and it's
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: a shame. But that's all I have to say about that.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: All right, our number six song. I bet you can't
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: guess what it is.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Come on, baby, I.
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: Forgot to let you know.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: So speaking of 80s disco era bands that kept going
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: in the 80s and actually lasted a lot longer than
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: everybody else, that is Coolin' the Gang with Joanna.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: I got something I need to admit to.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: What's that?
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: I did not know this song.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: You did not know this song?
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Until I listened to the songs to rank them.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: Okay. Well, I feel like you ranked it too low.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: What did I rank it as?
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: You ranked it as a number six. Yep, yep.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: No, I stand by that.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: So I ranked it. I have it as the highest
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: ranking of all of the people voting. And that is
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: number two. I love this song in 1984.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: You ranked it number two?
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: It is my second favorite song on this list.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: And that's intense. I have to disagree with that. Sounds
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: like a grocery store song.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: It is not a grocery store song. It is a
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: love song to his girlfriend, Joanna, because he loves her.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: I mean, he can love her at Kroger. It sounds
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: like a grocery store song.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: He can love her at Kroger. All right, so I
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: have it as the highest ranking. The lowest ranking is
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: John Middleton and my brother Matt, who both ranked it
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: as an eight. I'm going to pawn that off, and
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: your ranking off is just being young and not respecting
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: Kool and the gang. Because they are very cool.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: They can be a cool gang. That song was just okay.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: That song was awesome. Okay, so what I didn't do
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: was name the total points for each. So I know
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: I did Yes, I'm Ready at 118 and Stars on
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: 45 was 100. The Daz Band was 89. George Michael
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: was 73. And Cool and the Gang comes just ahead
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: of it at 72.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: So that is our sixth-ranked song from 1984.
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: Are you ready to go to our fifth-ranked song?
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: I am ready.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: Our fifth-ranked song. If you don't know by now, this
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: song is from 1989. If you.
• 33:51
  Speaker 6: Don't know me by now, you will never, never, never
• 33:59
  Speaker 6: know me.
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: All the things.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: That we've been through, you should understand.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: All right, so why don't you tell the folks what
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: that song is?
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: That is If You Don't Know Me By Now by
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Simply Red.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: Yes, and that is our fifth ranked song of this countdown,
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: which is funny because there are one, two, three, four
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: people that nailed that ranking. That would be me at five,
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: Julie Middleton, John Middleton, and my brother Matt. We all
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: nailed it at number five. You and one of our
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: newest members, Matt Suter, actually gave it the highest ranking,
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: this song the highest ranking, at number three. And then
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: our buddy Brad from Pop Culture Yearbook gave it its
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: lowest ranking at number ten.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Brad.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: And he said ick.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: Brad.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: Or yuck, one of the two. I don't remember. Either
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: said ick or yuck to Simply Red.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: I would stand up and slow dance right now with
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: you to that song.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: I would not. Mainly because we're in the middle of
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: a podcast.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: Well, would you like to afterwards?
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: Maybe. Don't give me that look. So what do you think?
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously you love this song.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: I absolutely love this song. It just takes me back
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: to a time. When life was a whole lot more
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: innocent and love was a whole lot more innocent. And,
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: or at least I thought it was.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: And.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: It gives me the warm.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: The warm fuzzies, as you like to say.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: I started to say the warm feelies.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: The warm feelies.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: I don't have the feelies because you won't come over here.
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: No.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: But I do have the fuzzies. I've got to stay
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: here at my microphone and continue to run this podcast. Otherwise,
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: it turns into chaos. Yeah. And we can't have chaos.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: So this.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: This is our fifth-ranked song from 1989. It ended up
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: with 70 points. So this one and Kool and the
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: Gang and George Michael, they were all really close within
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: each other. They could have went anywhere, but this one
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: stays at five. You know what? I also nailed the
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: number four song with my number four ranking. I'm pretty
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: good at this.
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: I'll never find another girl like you For happy endings.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: So I bet you know.
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: What that song is, don't you?
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: This is Sarah by Starship.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: And you love this song so much.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: I love it so much.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: That you gave it its highest ranking at number two.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: As I previously mentioned, I ranked it at number four,
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: which is where it falls on our countdown. Wow. So
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: talk about this song. Tell me what you love about
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: this song. What year was this? This is 1986.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: That's what I thought. So 1986, I've probably gotten my
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: first boom box. You know, the ones they came in purple, pink,
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: lime green, the neon.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: The smaller ones or the big ones?
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: The big one, like this.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: I don't consider that big, but okay.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: I mean, we're also not on video, so we're totally
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: alienating our listeners right now. So I would have just
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: been figuring out what I liked because I just finally
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: had access to a radio that I could switch the
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: dials on my own. And this was played all the time.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: And something about it, it was just unique enough that
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: it jumped out at little lens. And I loved it.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a good song. I enjoyed it. You know,
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: Starship made a big comeback around 1985 with We Built
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: This City and then this song, which would chart in
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: 86 and then go on in 87 to do Nothing's
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: Gonna Stop Us Now from the mannequin band. Movie. Good song.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: I liked it. I ranked it four.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: I think for a short time, I sort of wish
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: my name had been Sarah.
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: Really?
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: Because of this song? Yeah. You know, there's a storm
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: brewing in her eyes. That would be appropriate for you.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: There's always a storm brewing in your eyes.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: That's true.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: And you never know what's going to set that storm off.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: All right, so you ranked it as two, which is
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: the best ranking that it got. The worst ranking that
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: it got, you and her are off kilter. This one,
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: Iron Jawed Angel rated it number 10. Oh, no. She
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: apparently does not like the song Sarah. You at 10,
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: to her at 10, the people that nailed the ranking
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: at number four are me, John Middleton, Eric Shores, and
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: Jason the Showstopper. We all had that ranked as number four.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: All right, our number three song is something that you
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: should probably, maybe you might want to hold on to.
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: Hold on to the night. Hold on to the memories.
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: And I wish that I could give you something more.
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: That I could be yours.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: All right. You know who that is, don't you?
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: That's Hold On To The Night, Mr. Richard Marks.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: That is correct.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: Has there ever been any artist more 80s than Richard Marks?
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: Um.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sure our audience can tell us if
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: there has been, but he's certainly one of them. So
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: hold on to the Knights finished number three. As I mentioned,
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: it's from 1988. It finished with 60 points. I've neglected
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: to tell you that Sarah finished with 66 points. So
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: this one's 60. I ranked it as a seven, which
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: is the highest ranking it got me and Eric Shores.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: Ranked it, that's the highest ranking it got at seven.
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: You ranked it at four.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: I'm actually a little surprised by that.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: Matt Cook gave this song its best ranking, which is
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: number two, which again, isn't surprising considering that he got
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: Richard Marks on his show as a guest. So he
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: had the highest ranking at two, or the lowest ranking,
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: I guess the best ranking. I had the worst ranking
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: at seven, along with Eric. One person nailed it at
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: number three, and that was the showstopper again. Boy, he
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: is just all over it. He's gotten four so far
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: that he hit on the money. So there you go.
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: Any other thoughts on Mr. Richard Marks? I have a
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: feeling that this probably isn't the last time we see
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: here or hear from him in 1988.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sure it's not.
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: So it should be interesting to see if he can
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: get higher than number three or lower than number three.
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: On his other songs. All right, our number two song
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: is sure to cause some controversy. Here it is.
• 41:51
  Speaker 6: Baby, you're all that I want When you're lying here
• 41:57
  Speaker 6: in my arms I'm finding it hard to.
• 42:01
  Speaker 5: Believe We're in heaven And love is all that I
• 42:08
  Speaker 5: need And I found it there in.
• 42:12
  Speaker 6: Your heart.
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: Quit looking at me like that. It's embarrassing. So, who
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: is that?
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: I'm all choked up over here.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: You are.
• 42:36
  Speaker 6: Mr.
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: Brian Adams, this song is heaven.
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: I find it hard to believe that this song is
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: our number two song. I love this song!
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: I love it.
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: If you love it, why did you rank it number five?
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: Because there were some other good ones that kind of
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: fought for a higher position.
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so when we get finished, I want to talk
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: about that.
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: This is Heaven by Bryan Adams, as you mentioned. This
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: is from 1985. It finishes with 46 points, so it's
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: ahead of Richard Marks at number three. I ranked it
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: as the sixth best song on this list. You ranked
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: it as the fifth best song on this list defend yourself.
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: What do you mean why do i need to defend
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: myself i discovered brian adams in my teen years so
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: it was more of the 90s when i discovered him
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: and i discovered him because i had a crush on
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: a boy who loved brian adams so i thought much
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: like i thought with chicago if i learn everything about
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: brian adams i'll win the boy over i didn't But
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: I discovered a love for Bryan Adams. Okay.
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: I like the song, too. I think you're right. There's
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: a bunch of songs in the middle that could have
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: really gone either way.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Maybe even, like, depending on my mood the day
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: I ranked them, there's a couple that could have gone
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: one up or one down. Right.
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: So after three for me, four through seven could have
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: gone anyway.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: But I ranked it as number six. this did get
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: some number one votes. I'm sure you're not surprised by that.
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: Julie Middleton ranked it as the best song. My brother,
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: Matt ranked it as the best song. The showstopper ranked
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: it as the best song. The worst ranking that it
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: got was eight from both Eric shores and iron jawed
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: angel who seemed to be paired up with just about
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: everything that they're picking this week. Um, they've been very
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: close with a lot of stuff. So they both ranked
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: this as number eight. It did finish with 46 points. It, uh, those,
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: Those people with eight, Matt Cook with five, you with five,
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: me with six. Everybody else won two or three. So
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: very popular song here. But now we get to our
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: number one song on this countdown. And let me tell you, folks,
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: this was a blowout. I'm not sure we're going to
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: have many more blowouts like we had with this. Thirteen
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: is the best that you can score. And this one
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: scored twenty one. So you know that it got a
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: lot of first place votes. Nothing too low. Here is
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: our top number 24 song of this countdown.
• 45:22
  Speaker 6: Frightened of this thing that I've become. There's nothing that
• 45:35
  Speaker 6: a hundred men or more could ever do. I guess
• 45:38
  Speaker 6: the rain's down in Africa.
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: We're gonna take some time to do the things we
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: never did.
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: All right, why don't you tell the folks what that is?
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, folks, if you don't know what that song is,
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: please send us an email at And we will send
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: you a tack hammer that you can hit yourself over
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: the head with.
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: That is Africa by Toto.
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: Toto. And Toto too? That is one of the best
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: songs of the 80s. It is our number one song.
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: As I mentioned, it had 21 total points. It's from
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: the year 1983. Fantastic year for music. You look like
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: you were getting ready to say something.
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: So I agree. I don't disagree. My question is, is
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: it one of the best songs from the 80s because
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: it was one of the most unique songs of the 80s?
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, absolutely. It's brilliant. The way they laid all
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: the tracks down and everything, it's brilliant. If you want
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: to know more about that, go listen to our buddies
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: at the Surely You Can't Be Serious podcast where they
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: talked about the Toto 4 album and this song and
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: how They came up with it, how they laid the
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: tracks down, the drums, everything. They really get into it,
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: and they really tell you a lot more than I
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: could ever tell you about. And it's just genius what
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: they did. Toto did not expect this to be a hit.
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: They were shocked when it was a hit.
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: Oh, wow.
• 47:12
  Speaker 4: Really?
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: I don't think any of them really liked it except
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: for the person who wrote it, which is just insane
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: to me. So this song got eight... Number one votes
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: on our countdown.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: It got eight number ones.
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: I voted at number one.
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: I voted at number one as well, along with Brad,
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: John Middleton, Eric Shores, my brother Mike, Matt Suter, and
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: Sean Tindall, our two news Patreon members, both voted at
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: number one. It got three number two votes, Julie Middleton,
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: my brother Matt, and Jason the Showstopper. It got a
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: number three with Iron John Angel, and Matt Cook votes
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: it the lowest at number four.
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: Matt.
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: And when he texted me with his voting, I texted
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: him back and I said, you know that you're the
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: only dope that has this outside your top three, right?
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: And he said, yes, overrated song.
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: Oh, no, Matt.
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he is incorrect, but that's okay. But, yeah, like
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: I said, blowout, 21 points. Bryan Adams was closest with 46.
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: I mean, the gap between them is more points than
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: what Toto even had. So what do you think? I mean,
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: obviously you think it should be the number one song.
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: That's how you voted it.
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: I agree. Hands down. It was, that was easy for
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: me when I saw that one, when I first perused
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: the list and I saw Africa, I was like, Oh,
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: number one, easy. Now let me just fill in the blanks.
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: So I knew exactly what was number one and exactly
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: what was number nine and 10.
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: And then I had to go from there.
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: And so, so let's talk about this. So you've got heaven,
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: hold on to the nights, Sarah, If You Don't Know
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: Me By Now and Joanna, all slow, love, mushy kind
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: of songs. And I feel like those songs kind of
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: are all voted on mostly in the middle. And just
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: depending on what people voted on that day, anywhere from
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: like two to seven. And based on any other day,
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: it may have been voted on. Those things could have
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: been flip-flopped, right?
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: Right, absolutely.
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: And perhaps Sarah or Simply Red could have been number
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: two and Heaven could have been number five. Absolutely. We
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: don't know. But yeah, I mean, I feel like those
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: were the soft, mushy songs. And then you had the
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: rest that were just kind of obvious where they should go.
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: But I do have a problem. With Africa being the
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: number 24 song of the year in 1983.
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: That's surprising because I think it's one of the best songs.
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: Of the 80s. Period, yeah. So for sure it's one
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: of the best songs of 1983. I think it was
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: probably released in 82, so it lost some points to 82. Okay.
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: So I'm sure if we added the 82 points to it,
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: it might be higher than what it finished. But yeah,
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: I would for sure vote Africa in the top 10
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: of the 80s. At the lowest for the entire decade,
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: it would be at number 24, at the lowest. But
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: it certainly shouldn't be number 24 for the year.
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, nope, nope.
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: All right, so here's what we have, folks. Number one,
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: Africa by Toto, 1983. Number two, Heaven by Bryan Adams, 1985.
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: Hold On to the Nights, Richard Marks, 1988. Sarah Starship, 1986.
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: If You Don't Know Me by Now, Simply Red, 1989. Joanna,
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: Cool in the Gang, 1984. I Want Your Sex, George Michael, 1987.
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: Let It Whip, Daz Band, 1982. Stars on 45 Medley,
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: Stars on 45, 1981. And Yes, I'm Ready by Terry
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: Desario and the KC, not the Sunshine Band, just KC, 1980.
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the Sunshine Band.
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: Is our number 10 song.
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: They didn't want to have anything to do with that.
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: They knew. They knew, so... Right now, 1980 is not
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: looking good. They have two number 10 finishes. And then
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: it just kind of bounces around from there. 1989 had
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: our number one. 1983 had our number one this week.
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: 1983 was number two last week. So 1983 starting out
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: strong here. 1980 starting out weak. And then we'll get
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: to it some more as we get going down. But
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: I mean, listen. Everybody that is voting is telling me
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: how much fun they're having doing this.
• 51:43
  Speaker 4: Oh, good.
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: I love that.
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: So I love it, too. And I'm going to keep
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: it going because they're having fun. I'm having fun. I
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: don't know if you ever have fun with anything, but
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: that's okay.
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: I have fun shopping.
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: Yes, you do. So I think you're having fun doing
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: this as well.
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: So yeah, a lot of fun. If you want to join,
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: you can join our Patreon for free, but if you
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: want to get in on the voting for as little
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: as $ 5 a month, which as I said last week,
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: is less than a Starbucks, right?
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: Pretty much.
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: For a month, right?
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: In this day and age.
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: If you're getting Starbucks five times a week, one week
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: of the month, get it four times and pay us
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: five bucks, you can get in to join. But yeah,
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: we've got all kinds of tiers, all kinds of different
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: things for those levels of those tiers that you get
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: back from us, and We're happy to have you. We
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: just love the community. And thank you again, Matt and Sean,
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: for being our latest.
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: You can also find us on all the socials. We
• 52:43
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• 52:49
  Speaker 2: Yes, you can reach us also on email at childrenofthe1980s
• 52:52
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• 52:56
  Speaker 1: Well, it seems like this is a wrap.
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: This has been a lot of fun. And come back
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: next week and see what we're doing. And we will
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: have another countdown next month. Until then, I'm Jim.
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: And I'm Lindsay. And we are Children of the 80s.
• 53:14
  Speaker 5: See you next Wednesday.